Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 126, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1931 — Page 5

OCT. 5, 1931

COUZENS JEERS NATION'S RICH AS ‘GLUTTONS' Wealthy Piling Up Funds at Expense of Poor, Senator Charges. Following it (he ffrond of two exelu*ife Interviews with Inlted State* Senator Jimei Coniens of Miehiran. The first was published Frldav in The Times. BY JOSEPH F. lIEARST United I‘ress Staff Correspondent (Convrlrht. 1931. nv The Timesi BIRMINGHAM, Mich., Oct. 5. The nation's wealthy, particularly those industrialists whose employes are out of work and facing months of privation and need, must come forward with immediate aid, or conditions this winter will oe far worse than a year ago, Senator James Couzens believes. Couzens, wealthiest member of the senate, has set an example for other men of means by pledging $1,000,000 to the Detroit relief fund on the condition $9,000,000 be raised through subscription. "I am not much in Detroit, but J know the suffering that is going on there, and 1 realize it is going to be greater than ever this winter. None of the thousands out of work there has any moral claim on me for aid, because I am out of industry, but there are others in Detroit, and in every big city to whom they may look for aid. Should Take Stock "There arc employers who should t-ike stock of their obligations to the men they onde employed, and through whose skill and labor they probably acquired their wealth.” Couzens said the government could not pay a dole without a constitutional amendment, but that it could pass legislation to aid the states in relief work, possibly through a dollar-matching program. "But so far, the state governments, wtih the exception of New York, have done nothing. No special sessions of the legislature have been called to map out ways and means of meeting this crisis, and unless individual men of wealth step forward I see no solution for the problem. Claims Issue Ignored "I tear the men in power have decided on a policy of 'muddlin’ through. They seem content to stand by, whistle to keep up their courage, and await the lifting of the depression. Then they will say: ‘See, we came through in fine shape, and without having to resort to any of „hose fanatical schemes offered for relief.’

•'But they won't take into consideration the million or so whose deaths may have been hastened by lack of proper food, ‘ exposure in cold rooms and need of warm clothes,” he charged. “And what of the needy children of today? Undernourished, sickly and ill. Into what sort of young men and women will they develop? Our public health service :n Washington stated that reduced rations have improved health generally. Perhaps this is true of adults, but it surely isn’t of children, and of babies nursed by ill-fed mothers. There is more to this question than dollars. It is a matter of humanitarianism.” Boon to the Rich The depression has, in a manner, been a boon to the rich, the senator said. The expression “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” is a truism and not a demogogic statement, he declared. “The dollar today is worth more than formerly, and because it will buy more, wage cuts are ordered. Biit these same owners who cut wages collect debts at the face value for which they were contracted, thus making additional gains.” Couzens suggested a broadening of the tax base and a return of the gift tax as means of raising funds to aid in relief work. Certain commodities also might be taxed as is tobacco, and an increase in the income tax also would aid. he said.

AUTO RESPONSIBILITY LAW GAINS IN FAVOR Driver Statute Enacted by 18 States, 4 Canada Provinces. Eighteen states and four Canadian provinces have adopted driver responsibility laws, similar to the one effective in Indiana, Oct. 1, it was announced today by Todd Stoops, secretary and treasurer of the Hoosier Motor Club. The motor clubs affiliated with the American Automobile Association have fostered this legislation. Stoops declared. The twenty-two states and provinces are as follows: Indiana. Maryland. Delaware. Nebraska. New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island. Vermont. South Dakota, Wisconsin. Connecticut. lowa. Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina and California; Ontario. New Brunswick. Prince Edward Island and Manitoba in Canada. WEALTHY WIDOW I DIES Mrs. Henry Clay Frick. 72, Wife of Late Steel Magnate. BEERLY, Mass., Oct. s.—Funeral services will be held today for Mrs. Henry Clay Frick, 72, of Pittsburgh, widow of the multimillionaire steel magnate, who died at her Prides Crossing summer home Sunday. The Rev. Neilson Poe Carey, rector of St. John’s Episcopal church, will officiate. Later the body will be taken in the private car Westmoreland to Pittsburgh, where further services will be held Wednesday, with burial in the family lot at Homewood cemetery. Mrs.' Frick was the former Adelaide H. Childs of Pittsburgh. ‘Y’ GYM TO BE OPENED Five Classes Will Be Available for Members of Central. Begininng this week, five athletic classes will be open to members of the Y. M. C. A. Special quarters have been provided for each group. Instructors appointed by R. L. Konecke, director of physical education at the “Y,” are Stephen Geisler, weight lifting: Robert Goodwin, swimming; R L. Hiatt, boxing; Jack Scott, wrestling, and Veldon Montgomery, tumbling.

CANTOR STARTS NEW FAD IN HIS MOVIE If You Hear Any One Make a Noise Like a Duck, Then Blame Eddie for the Commotion. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN IF you meet one of your friends and all of a sudden he puckers up his mouth and makes a noise like the “put-put" of a duck, blame Eddie Cantor and not your friend's mental condition. Eddie, in “Balmy Days,” his latest contribution to the talking and singing screen, puckers up his mouth many times to give the “duck" noise to members of the cast. You recall how everybody was using “regusted” one radio season? Well, they are going to make duck noises this season if I am not all wrong.

It is funny how a fad can start. Remember 'the Valentino haircut and pants? That was a fad. Wait

until Eddie Cantor’s duck sound becomes a national fad. We will all have to duck for cover. No so bad, I admit.) Don’t ask me if “Palmy Days” is as good as -Whoopee.” The reason is that they are different types of entertainment. “Palmy Days” is not, a musical comedy.. It Is a comedy with music and some splen-

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did group dancing by a bunch of mighty good-looking girls. Yes, Eddie sings both in white and blackface and the song I like best is a little nifty naughty about Eddie being glad because his gal said “Yes, Yes, Instead of No, No.” The very long-legged Charlotte Greenwood blurts out in song near the beginning of the picture, and this permits the introduction of a snappy dance pattern. There is a story, a melodramatic background to "Palmy Days.” Eddie starts out as the "hidden spirit” in the kitchen of a fake fortune teller and later on an economy expert in a big bakery. Crooks try to get the "dough” (joke No. 2. Don't blame me) in the bakery and Eddie spoils their plans, not the dough. (Just too much for one day.) You are going to like this carefree Eddie Cantor in ‘“Palmy Days.” It is mighty comfortable if not elaborate entertainment. “Palmy Days” will do no harm to Cantor’s reputation as a comic or as a singer. Can I say more? Now at the Palace. HERE IS ANOTHER *SEX THING IN HOT TROPICS My verdict of “The Road to other one of those sex triangles located in the hot tropics where sex is supposed to go haywire after one has baked in the sun for a few weeks. And sex does go haywire in “The Road i,o Singapore,” which is just

another badly chosen staring vehicle for William Powell. I will be glad when somebo and y finds o r selects a story worthy the talents of this man. In this movie he is just the rotter who ruins women’s reputations to the extent that his own exclusive club in the tropics posts his name as an undesirable. W e

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have nad so much of this sex triangle stuff in the tropics and this formula is just the same unconvincing stuff, but better acted this time by Powell as the “rat,” Doris Kenyon as the wife who falls for William instead of her hubby (a terribly dumb and conceited doctor played by Louis Calhren (just the right choice). Near gunplay, near murder and then the ending. Please page an author for Mr. William Powell. The photography, direction anh sound are all right but that does not make a story. Now at the Apollo. tt a it GETTING ANOTHER IMPRESSION OF BANKHEAD I am afraid that Tallulah Bankhead is too tremendously dramatic in nature to do the trivial and little things that she is called

to do on the screen. Had the thought that Bankhead (the great on the London stage) should not be wasted upon such little stunts of acting as getting out of an auto, walking up a lane to a house or even opening a dobr when she could so tremendously murder a man, go on trial, kill her bad and rotten personality, take anew name and start all

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over again, get into high society and then become engaged to a rich society man of fine standing. You really feel that Miss Bankhead has just been waiting for the big scene in “My Sin” when she tells her fu-. ture husband that she was a rotter years ago in Panama and that she had been tried for murder and acquitted by the genius and understanding of a drunken lawyer. She is tremendous in the big moments and so ordinary in the common place moments. On the stage she is spared for the big moment; on the talking screen she has to do everything. On the whole, Miss Bankhead

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sfiows up to better movie advantage in her second movie than her first. She is a little more sure of herself and the camera has caught the right “face angle,” this time when that was faulty in her first picture. And yet I have the feeling that she should not be called upon to do the very little things but saved for the grand dramatic “bust.” And that defect may number her days on the screen. Nazimova failed for that very reason—the little moments were so weak in comparsion to the big moment. The really big thing of “My Sin” is the work of Fredric March as the lawyer, who goes rotten in Panama, but finds himself in time to save himself and make a lady out of the woman charged with the murder of a man. There is going to be a mixed verdict on “My Sin.” As far as I am concerned, I am neutral. Cast your own vote or stay on the fence with me. Now at the Indiana. # tt tt KID LIFE IS ACTED ONCE MORE Am still in doubt whether ■ children will get more enjoyment out of “Penrod and Sam” than adults. As the Booth Tarkington story is brought to the talking screen, the

appeal is rather general although the appeal in the book was more adult. Luckily Leon Janney is Penrod, Junior Coghlan is Sam and Margaret Marquis is the little heart breaker who causes Penrod and Sam to turn pugilists instead of good friends. I am rather content to say that the

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whoie family should see this one and see it together. The director has surrounded Janney and Coghlan with a mighty human bunch of just everyday youngsters. And that is the secret of Tarkington—he draws just that sort of children. You will find the sissy boy, the bully, the sweet faced little girl, a troublesome sister, a very understanding school teacher (played so nicely by Elizabeth Patterson) and others to pester and torment Penrod, one of the most human and natural characters ever drawn by an author and placed upon the screen. Janney is just the right choice. He is the boy that Tarkington had in mind. That I am sure. You will howl when Penrod reads his sister's love note in school as his essay. You will scream when they initiate the school sissy into the “In-or-In” lodge, and, you will look for your handkerchief, if you have time, when Penrod’s dog is killed by an automobile. Here is one of the cleanest stories ever brought to the screen, here are few grand and glorious movies for children. And this is one of the mighty few. Take that boy and girl of yours to see “Penrod and Sam,” now at the Circle. tt tt tt Other theaters today offer: “Arizona.” at the Lyric; “Broadminded,” at the Irvington theater; “Salvation Nell,” at the Ohio, and burlesque at the Mutual. STANDS FALL; FIVE HURT Girl Suffers Back Injuries as Football Bleachers Collapse. Five persons including a pupil of Southport high school sustained minor injuries Saturday night when a section of the bleachers at Ca-thedral-Southport football game at Indiana Central college collapsed. More than 100 persons were seated in the sections when the bleachers fell. Miss Dorothy Phillips, of near Southport, suffered back injuries. The others .were cut and bruised.

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LINDY. ANNE TO FIX PLANE AND CONTINUE HOP American Air Aces Will Arrive at Shanghai on Wednseday. B;/ United Press SHANGHAI. China, Oct. 5. Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, undaunted by the spectacular airplane crash that at 100 miles an hour into the mudof Yangtze river, were on their way to Shanghai today aboard the British airplane carrier Hermes, determined to continue their vacation flight. The Hermes, with Lindbergh’s damaged monoplane aboard, was due in Shanghai today from Hankow, but reported by radio that it would not arrive off Woosung until late Tuesday, tl will prooceed to Shanghai, fifteen miles up the river, Wednesday. Native workmen at the China National Airways plant are awaiting the arrival of the fleet black monoplane to start repairs. Examination of the ship indicated that the wing and fuselage, damaged when it shot into the river during a take-off, can be repaired without difficulty. Leading Shanghai officials, none of whom has met America’s “Lone Eagle” and his wife, will greet the Hermes and escort the visitors into the city. The Linudberghs will reside at the apartment of Nelson T. Johnson, American consul-general, who now' is in Peiping, during their stay here.

WIFE'S CHARGE FAILSINCOURT Evidence Insufficient in Husband’s “Hotel Arrest.” Dismissal of charges against E. C. Piercy, Indianapolis business man, arrested a week ago with a woman described as his secretary in a Bloomington <lnd.) hotel, the latest chapter in 'a limited divorce action brought by his wife, Mrs. Inez B. Piercy, 4166 Guilford avenue. Picrcy was arrested with Mrs. Goldie Bush Van Horn on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. Piercy, who says Mrs. Van Horn is her husband’s secretary. At the same time, Bloomington police held Thomas Bush, said to be Mrs. Van Horn’s brother, and Alice Smithson. The two couples were freed when a Bloomington court held that evidence was insufficient to convict them. In the separate maintenance suit of Mrs. Piercy on file in superior court here, she asks $35,000 alimony and charges that Piercy's salary is SSOO a month. On July 3 the court ordered Piercy to pay S2OO a month until the case is tried. Mrs. Piercy's petition named Mrs. Van Horn as the third party in the triangle and charged that Piercy had threatened to leave home and marry his secretary. JUDGE BAKER TO SPEAK Criminal Court Jurist to Address Medical Society Tuesday. First of a series of three talks on “Crime” will be given by Judge Frank P. Baker of Criminal court at the meeting, Tuesday night of the Indianapolis Medical Society at the Athenaeum. At metings Oct. 13 and Oct. 20 social and medical problems will be presented by well-know ? n speakers. AD DECISION IMPENDING Restaurant Association to Vote on Nation-Wide Campaign. By United Press BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 5.—A decision on a national co-operative advertising campaign was expected during the thirteenth annual convention of the National Restaurant Association which opens today. Vote on the proposed program will not be taken until Wednesday, but before then, several speakers are scheduled to discuss it before the 3,000 delegates. President A. H. Buck of Chicago, a former advertising man, is among them.

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WILLY nilly, Governor Harry G. Leslie is going to be con- | fronted with the specter of a special session of the general' assembly within a few weeks. Dodge and duck as he may, he either will have to call together : the legislators to pass remedial tax ! legislation or be prepared to carry the load of criticism and blame, for the straits in which the small home owner and farmer find themselves. Demand of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan for a special session was but the opening gun in the campaign. Petitions demanding the general assembly be convened have been circulated among the county units of the state Farm Bureau Federation and reports are that hundreds of farmers are signing the circulars. Not only the farmers, but the small home owners in the industrial cities are re-echoing the .cry of Sullivan that the present property tax is “a gradual but sure confiscation of real estate.”

Leslie is to be placed in a position where he must face the demands and act upon them. Naturally, the Governor does not care to call together the legislators. He has had two lucky breaks in that despite threats of what they were going to do to him, the assembly adjourned without injuring him in any way. Then, too, he feels that if the call is issued for a one or two-day session, when they do meet the members will run away with it and it may last thirty or forty days. On one hand is the group demanding passage of an income tax measure. There are members who want it on personal incomes and others who desire to include corporations. Then there is still another group which does not approve of the income tax, but would like to pass a luxury tax bill to cover tobacco and tobacco products, automobiles, jewelry and amusements. tt u That Leslie distrusts the general assembly is seen by his statement at the Republican editorial meeting at Nashville Friday night. Referring only indirectly to the movement for a special session, he declared: “Just as long as you continue to select legislative candidates by the primary method, you are going to be ruled by an organzied minority.” The Governor should know all about “organized minorities,” for, running fifth in the primary, he became the nominee for Governor only when such a group, led by a woman waving a flag in the back of the hall, stampeded the 1928 convention. That group was composed of the members of an organization at which the finger of scorn has been pointed most. Whether he likes it or not, the Governor will have to give serious consideration to the question of a special session.

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BABY KILLERS NABBED IN RAID, POLICE CLAIM T 4 in New York Beer Gang Rounded Up With Youthful Leader. . By United Press NEW YORK. Oct. s.—Vincent Coll and most of his Bronx-Harlem beer gang, whose warfare with rivals is blamed by police for the killing and wounding of innocent children, have been rounded up in one big series of raids. Ten men and four women, in addition to the 22-year-old "baby face” gang leader, were arrested by

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police Sunday, half of them here I and half in Avrill ’’ark. a village ! ten miles from Troy, where the gang : had a “hideout.” Two of the men have been identified, police said, as the “trigger men” whose poor aim, while they were gunning for Anthony Trobino, resulted in the killing of 5-year-old Michael Vengalli in Harlem’s “Little Italy,” and the wounding of five of his little playmates. Trobino escaped injury. The youthfu Coll, sought by detectives ever since the “baby killing,” had dyed his wavy brown hair black, grown a mustache, which he also dyed, and wore hornrimmed glasses to disguise his appearance. He stepped from his suite in the Cornish Arms hotel into the presence of waiting detectives, after the arrest of several members of his gang had uncovered a trail that led to his door. When he saw the men he knew he was caught. The others arrested here were Dominick (Tuffy) Odierno, Vincent

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Deluccia. Pasquayle Del Greco. Mike Basile, alias Mike Oach. and two women, Betty White and Lottie Kreisberger. The remaining five men and two women, and the 13-year-old son of one, were arrested In Avrill Park, where police also seized the gang arsenal, consisting of revolvers, shotguns, rifles and several hundred rounds of ammunition. They were: Mrs. Joseph Redden, Coil's sister; her husband, their 13-year-old son. Joseph Redden Jr.; James Deluccia, his wife: James Odrianni, Frank Facchiano and William King. Robbery Accused Freed Bn Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Oct. s.—Frank Lockwood, charged with complicity in the “framed" kidnaping and robbery of a W. A. McNaughton store messenger here in 1930, was acquitted by a Delaware circuit court jury Friday night. More than $7,000 was stolen from the store.