Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1931 — Page 6

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FEAR 450 MAY HAVE PERISHED IN SEATRAGEDY Taunted, Captain Took Ship Into Teeth of Gale, Inquiry Shows. By United Press SAINT NAZAIRE, France. June 16.—Taunts by passengers that he was a “fresh water sailor’’ angered the captain of the pleasure boat Saint Philibert into taking his ship to sea on its last fatal voyage, inquiry into the disaster revealed today. Excursionists whom Captain Olive had taken to the island of Noir-Moutier, in the Bay of Biscay, for a day’s outing pressed the captain to risk the return to Nantes up the Loire river, it was said. Against his better judgment, survivors of Sunday’s disaster said in the inquiry today, the captain consented and put to sea with his barometers showing him a storm of hurricane intensity was brewing. It sank the boat with all on board and all but seven perished. The captain, on the bridge, went down with his ship. Estimate of the total dead remained uncertain today, but authorities said as many as 450 may have been lost. In 36 Feet of Water The Saint Philbert was found lying in thirty-six feet of water on a rock shelf, and divers prepared to remove the bodies. They estimated 100 still were imprisoned in cabins. Most of the victims were workers from Nantes. The bodies recovered were taken to the Duchess Anne’s castle at Nantes, including eleven victims from the same family. They will be given a mass burial, probably Wednesday. Government experts sought to place the responsibility for the disaster, particularly trying to determine whether the boat was overloaded.. Rescue workers, searching the storm-swept sea from the air, in boats and in divers’ cumbersome uniforms beneath the waves, brought scores of bodies ashore, where hysterical relatives awaited their return 120 Bodies Recovered They have recovered approximately 120 bodies, many of which were trapped in the cabins. The rescue work had to be stopped temporarily during the night, due to heavy seas, but was resumed today. The government took an active hand in seeking to bring relief to the families of victims. Nearly 100 families lost relatives In the disaster, described as the worst maritime catastrophere in recent French history. It was learned that about fifty small children were on board for whom no tickets had been required—and that they were not counted in the original estimates at the steamship offices, which said 467 persons had sailed on the excursion down the bay. Between 80 and 100 passengers stayed at Noir-Moutier, refusing to go back on the St. Philibert, due to the storm—a premonition which saved their lives.

DEMOCRATIC LEADERS INVITED BY EDITORS Smith, Raskob. Shouse, Micliclson Sought for Gary Meeting. Invitations to attend the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association midsummer meeting at Gary June 25, 26 and 27 were sent today to Alfred E. Smith, 1928 candidat-e for president; Jouett Shouse, national committee chairman; John J, Raskob, former national committee head; and Charles Michelson, publicity man for the national committee, by Claude G. Brodhecker, president of the association, “It particularly is desired that they attend the dinner Friday night, June 26 when Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois will make the principal address,” Brodhecker declared. ASK TO ABANDON LINE Marion-Bluff ton Traction Losing Money, I. S. C. Declares. Petition to abandon the interurban line between Marion and Bluffton on the grounds that it is losing money steadily was filed today with the public service commission by the Indiana Service Corporation. The line goes through Liberty Center, Warren and Van Burenand began losing in 1926. The loss in 1930 totaled $24,000, according to the petition. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a.m.: North-northeast wind 7 miles an hour; temperature, 72; barometric presure 38.03 at sea level; ceiling scattered clouds, unlimited; visibility, 10 miles; field good. 'Flies Out’ Storm • By United }*res TRENTON, N. J., June 16.—With only on occasional flash of lightning for illumination Pilot Johnny Wilson of Transcontinental Air Transport brought his tri-motored plane to a safe landing on Mercer field when an electrical storm made further flying impossible. Fog Delays Ocean Hop By United Press NEW YORK. June 16.—A heavy fog which overhung this region today delayed the scheduled departure of Miss Ruth Nichols, on the first leg of an attempted trans-At-lantic flight. It was uncertain whether she would try to leave later in the day. Amelia Off to Texas By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY. June 16. Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam took off from the Curtiss-Wright airport here today in her autogiro for Wichita Falls. Tex. Prom Wichita Falls. Mrs. Putnam will contniue to Abilene, Tex., to resume her transcontinental flight, she said. She came here late Monday from Enid, Okla.. and stopped overnight for motor adjustments. Approve Bonds’ Advertisement Preliminary order permitting Monroe township. Madison county, to advertise the sale of $24,000 bonds to defray the cost of the C. H. •flmith road was issued today by the Mate tax board.

HERE IS THE ART OF AN OLD WOMAN Belle Bennett Has Done Some Fine Things on Talking Screen as Well as Hokum on the Talking Stage. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN THERE is a chance with those people who act in pictures to get very near to them. The chance is there with Belle Bennett. Up to this time I have not met her. As to her act, there is a lot of bunk. Some of it goes. And a bunch of it does not> go. She does one of those old lady things that has the sob stuff. The act is as ancient as the hills. But this woman and this ancient dope holds those who are present. She honks the horn and gets a lot of response from it. Ancient stuff. But she knows the value of the very ancient stuff that makes a sob sketch.

Bright auto. Net so bright lines, a very ancient idea. Then she comes very modern. Belle Bennett as she is supposed to look in private life. , The effect was grand. All the grand doll rags. Then her talk. Sounded like a poem that has very much contact with the audience. Must tell you about a thing. Had a private screening on “Stepping Out.” Took my hound dog to that screening. That dog can not understand a word. This picture has Charlotte Greenwood. And that Is very much right. Even when she takes the hokum dip in the bath tub. Hero is a conversation picture that has the talk. Smart and nasty. Long legs on the part of Greenwood w r hen she takes the plunge. If I were giving stars, this one would have four barks. (My dog talking). Ar.d that is not a joke. Now at the Lyric. THIS IS A COMEDY ON VIEW In speaking of “Nancy’s Private Affairs,” I am not so hot the way it was acted. Frances Dale as Nancy Gibson fails to get the farce of this play at times. Her first entrance is very much the freak idea of fun. So much over the mark in makeup and conception that it is overdrawn. Then when she gets on the fine glads—she is still too much overdrawn. Donald Woods is the patent leather type of hero that even a movie director would not tolerate. The playwTight forgets his characters on the stage. Look at the first act and see the people who just sit around. Take another look at the second act and see what Yvonne Stebbins has to suffer by not talking and just sitting. Darn few lines she has. Frances Busby is just as much in this picture as if she had never done the part. She has a chance to give this play something and she fails. In fact to me “Nancy’s Private Affair” is just a mess. Even the lights on a certain spot in the first act was terrible. Also, might tell you that the flying bats have been killed. (Unless they have children.) Have your own idea about “Nancy’s Private Affair.” To me it is bad. Now at English’s. Other theaters today offer: ’’Daddy Longlegs” at the Apollo “Never the Twain Shall Meet” at the Pal-

CHURCH RIOTS THREATEN SPAIN Ouster of Primate Leads to Disturbances. By United Press MADRID, June 16.—The republican regime faced the threat of serious disorders in strong Catholic sections of Spain today as a result of the deportation cf Pedro, Cardinal Segura, primate of Spain. Cardinal Segura was hurried out of the country only a few days after his return from Rome, where he reported to Pope Pius XI on recent anti-religious riots in Spain. The primate's deportation was accompanied by disturbances in which one person was killed and forty injured. Cardinal Segura,, whose pastoral letter and other declarations urging Catholics to take an active part in the forthcoming national elections were considered hostile by the government, began his journey into exile from Guadalajara. His deportation again aroused the religious question, one of the most complex faced by the government. Pope Sends Protest By United Press VATICAN CITY, June 16.—The pope directed the papal nuncio at Madrid today to protest to the Spanish government against the expulsion of Cardinal Segura, primate of Spain. RAILWAY MAIL GROUP VOTES ON OFFICERS Banquet and Dance to Be Held Tonight; Tour on Program. Members of the fifth division of the Railway Mail Association from chapters in Indiana. Ohio and Kentucky counted ballots for officers today as the beginning session of the Severin. A banquet and dance will be held tonight with B. G. Burris as toastmaster. A. A. Fischer of Washington. D. C., Will be principal speaker. Ladies’ auxiliary will be guests of the Indianapolis branch Tuesday and Wednesday on a tour of the city and a visit to the Real Silk Hosiery Mills. Thieves Get R : ngs, Check Theft of rings valued at $95 and a check for $32.50 from her residence was reported to police today by Mrs. Nora Anderson, Apartment 32, the Lexington.

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VERONAL FOUND IN AUTOPSY OF SLAINJEAUTY Starr Faithfull’s Fall Is Laid to Lure of ‘Ether Jags.’ (Continued from Page 1) have a most marvelous new Packard. Wh°n vou rome over, bring it along. If Mr. S. was better looking, 1 wcuiq neap coals of fire on his head by asking him to dinner at the Commodore. He looks exactly like a match before it’s lit. X. X. X. “About my amours, I have none at present, as I am going through a

very platonic phase starting after my row with D. B. The last I saw of him I told him he looked like a plump bird with big. wondering eyes. lam having him to dinner tonight and afterward drive in his new car. “My other loves (this word is ringed around like a sun) are away. D. D. is too fragile to appeal to me. R. H„ the artist, was a bit too rough. When a person is beastly, I get that way myself, and the result was too damn noisy, so that the landlord complained. . . . “The English look upon the Americans as being crude, loud, and with horrible accents.” Here she relates that the word “bloody” to an Englishman is comparable to profanity to the American, and continues: “A man named Lord Brendon wanted me to go to Budapest (how in hell do you spell it?), also. D. B. begs I got to live with him in anew flat. As I told you, I have become very platonic. It is a great state to be in.” Starr is revealed as sometimes

extravagant and calling on her parents for extra allotments when abroad. But when the discussion is over she cables to her mother. “Are you mad—are you mad at me, dear? Sorry.” Mr. and Mrs. Faithfull told the United Press that the Wednesday before her disappearance Starr had told them of meeting three men, whose names she gave as Jack Greenaway, believed to be an actor; Bruce Winston and a Mr. Green. Mrs. Faithfull thought perhaps she had confused Green with Greenaway, but Starr insisted that there had been three men. The next day .Starr told her mother that she met the men in a club on West Forty-fifth street and that she had an engagement with them for Friday. She asked her mother to Join them on the latter occasion, but Mrs. Faithfull said she was unable to accompany ner daughter on that day. It was on Friday that Starr left her home for the last time.

FOUR CHILDREN HURT BY AUTOS Three Are Run Down by Cars in City Streets. Four children suffered injuries late Monday in a series of Indianapolis auto accidents. Running behind a street car, James Cole, 10, 3437 College avenue, was struck by an auto driven by Dr. L. E. Grant, 1214 East Fortysixth street. The boy suffered cuts and bruises and was treated by a physician. The accident occurred in front of the child’s home. Breaking away from her mother, Kathleen Rothwell, 3, of 412 West McCrty street sustained a broken right leg when she ran in front of

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an auto. The child was taken to city hospital. Riding in an auto that was struck by another at Pleasant Run boulevard and west drive, Garfield pack, Margaret Miller. 5. of 1554 Hoefgen street, suffered face cuts. She was treated at city hospital. Bruises were suffered by Lilly Matouk, 8. of 2904 North Oiney street, when she ran into the path of a truck near her home. LINDY GETS DEGREE By United Pres* PRINCETON, N. J„ June 16. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, former Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war, were among the seven recipients of honorary degrees from Princeton university at the 184th annual commencement exercises today. Willa Cather, Pulitzer prize novelist, also received a degree from John Grier Hibben, president of the university.