Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1931 — Page 8

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—The New Russia-No. 6 NEITHER SHAPES NOR MODES CAN BOTHERJUSSIA Soviet Women Don’t Care Whether They Are Fat or Thin. BY JULIA BLANSHARD Staff Writer for NEA Service and The Time*. Sent to Soviet Ru*ia Especially fpr This Series •Coovrizht. 1931. NEA Service. Inc.) If you lived in Russia— What the well-dressed woman Is wearing n Paris, now she fixes her hair and mak®s up her face would make little difltn<snce to you. You can wear anything you have. Everybody does. Moscow has no fashion seasons and only two kinds of clothes—clothes for hot weather and clothes for cold. Frost came one night late in September and Miss Sophiana, a neighbor who the day before had gone picniclftng with us, dressed in her sleeveless white dress and no hat, stopped in to see me. She looked like an utter stranger, dressed in a tall, black astrakhan cap, long, worn fur coait and high shoes. This is her September-to-May costume. She has no in-between things. If you lived in Russia, you would not care whether you are fat or thin. Nowhere in Russia do you see a smartly dressed group of women. Once a year the foreign office gives a formal reception when every one invited has to appear in evening attire. The conglomeration of old and new styles makes it safe for you to wear any color, any length, any lines, any style. Blouses Are Missing Russia has no fashion magazines nor are there any style or beauty articles in the daily papers. No store advertises clothes. Radio hours for women never touch anything as inconsequential as personal appearance. They explain Russia’s economic aims, her need for more co-opera-tive kitchens to release home women for industry, or give the latest figures on production from the Stalingrad tractor plant, which thrills all Russia. Gay, embroidered peasant blouses, traditionally Russia, are missing from the Russian scene. I had been there a whole, month before I saw one. Mikitina, a Ukranian girl student at a college near Moscow, wore it 3 s she sat the y studying. We stopped the car and approached. “See if she will trade that blouse for something,” I requested the correspondent with me. He told Mikitina that the American woman admired her blouse. And the Trade Is Made I raised my white dress and showed her an apricot colored slip with lace edging. She registered impiediate interest and when I suggested adding silk stockings, it was a bargain. We went into her dormitory, and while eighteen girls watched the trade, I peeled oil my dress and gave Mikitina the slip and stockings and she took off her blouse and gave it to me. Russian women always would prefer goods in trade, rather than rubles. There is an actual scarcity of practically every kind of apparel and material. Their rubles can buy little. A gift or trade of foreign clothing is so welcomed. Probably you would not wear silk stockings if you lived in Russia today. Fond of Any “Silk” Most women wear the Sovietmade, rather sleazy cotton ones, usually light gray, beige or dead white, or the heavy-ribbed black ones. They don’t know the difference between the cheap rayon and the full-fashioned silk product. But they are fond of any “silk." Rayon hosiery costs about $9 a pair. ■You can’t buy full-fashioned silk ones for any price. Rayon bloomers are the newest addition to the Russian wardrobe. Many peasants are discovering that they are the perfect gift to take home to their sweetheaits. Berets are fast supplanting the great national headgear, the kerchief. You will see gaudy rayon -berets and some worsted ones that the Soviet government is manufacturing now. But it is the foreign berets that the Russian women like. Progress Over 1925 Everybody in Moscow seemed to have shoes this summer, which jneans progress over 1925. Then it was no oddity for me to see * group of cheery Komsomol Kills, dressed in printed calico dresses, their heads bound up in red kerchiefs and their feet and legs bare. Many girls wore sneakers this summer or comfortable oxfords. s . However. It will surprise you to see how much a sturdy Russian girl likes dainty, higli-heeled, impractical slippers. Communist leaders’ wives dress no differently from the rest. When vou see a woman on the street, there is no way of telling from her costume, whether she is Stalin’s wife, a postoffice employe* or Sascha, the maid. There is no such thing as keeping up with the Joneses ’ in Russia. There aren’t any Joneses. Competition between women over , th( F personal appearance would be considered by everybody as bourgeois. Men Wear Blouses If you were a nxn in Russia you would wear a blouse. Russian men uinformly look more becomingly dressed than women. The Russian blouse is a flattering costume, whether decorated with hand-embroidery for its stand-up collar, its left side closing and belt or whether manufactured out of plain chambray or sateen. An enormous number of men wear them, and caps with visors that the government manufactures. You may be surprised to see how large a percentage of Russian men are clean-shaven. Few have long beards. The new Soviet-made safety blades may mean even fewer in the future. You see increasing numbers of Russian women with curled bobs, manicured fingernails, rouged lips Even the village girls are beginning to use lipstick. NEXT: Shopping in Russia. . . n hey deliver nothing, even a grand fpi&no, if you are able to buy one. *

BELIEVE IT or NOT

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s ‘’Believe It Or Not,” which appeared in Tuesday’s Times: When a Team Was “Given” a Touchdown—On Oct. 26, 1929, a play was enacted in the Wash-ington-Oregon game at Seattle which recalled the famous Roy Riegels’ reverse run in 1928. With Oregon backed up against their own goal line and a touchdown in sight for the Washington Huskies in the second period, Bobby Robinson, Oregon half back, intercepted a Washington

‘PRIVATE LIVES’ TO OPEN ON THURSDAY Edith Taliaferro and Donald Brian Have the Leads in Noel Coward’s Comedy About Married Life. THE second act of Noel Coward’s “Private Lives,” a comedy in which Edith Taliaferro and Donald Brian, two of Broadway’s leading players, are co-starred, and which will open Thursday for three days at English’s, is, perhaps, one of the most unusual ever staged. With the exception of a few brief seconds at the conclusion of the act, Miss Taliaferro and Brian hold the stage through its entirety. Through the march of the years Coward has won distinction as a writer because of his daring and originality in his plays. “The Vortex” is an example in point, if one is necessary. But to permit a second act, regarded by most producers as the most

crucial in a play’s success, to devolve into a veritable duologue is tempting the fates a bit too strenuously. Yet Coward, by his trenchant and witty pen, has turned the trick neatly and with much good humor. Although unmarried, Noel Coward knows married life from keen observation. He has, therefore, transplanted a situation to the thea-

DEMOCRATS TO HAVE OWN CONGRESS PLAN ‘No Blanket Indorsement for Hoover,’ Pat Harrison \Varns. By Scripps-Hotoard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Democrats will have a definite legislative program, intended to improve economic and social conditions, ready when congress convenes, Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, predicted today.

With control of the house apparently assured and control of the senate problematical, the Democrats will be prepared to justify the confidence of voters. Harrison said. “We are going to have our own program,” he decl a r e and. “It is certain the Democrats will not indorse the program in ati-

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vance of knowing what it is. There will be no commitments made. Naturally there may be some specific matters in the President’s program which we can indorse and go along with, but there will be no blanket indorsement for Hoover’s policies.” Opening of the oyster season, with the coming of the “R” months, offers employment to about 40,000 men.

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pass on his 5-yard line and was s.way in a flash. As he neared the Washington 30-yard line, far ahead of his opponents, Westerweller, Washington substitute, flung off his blanket, tore into the field and brought down the fleetfooted Robinson. However, the touchdown was conceded to the Oregon Webfooters even before the referee had time to make a decision. Recited the Lord’s Prayer One Million Times—ln July, 1911, the German goVfernment dispatched the cruiser Panther to Agidar,

ter which is not only new, but has injected a refreshing viewpoint which carries the auditor racily from one mood to another. The duologue, because of a succession of dramatic and serio-comic situations, becomes a play unto itself and rises to farcical heights before the curtain descends. u tt Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Platinum Blonde” at the Indiana, “Once a Lady” at the Circle, “Five Star Final” at the Ohio, “The Unholy Garden” at the Palace, “The Mad Genius” at the Apollo, and Nan Halperin at the Lyric.

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Morocco, and almost precipitated a world war then and there. To avert the threatening conflagration Martin Dupin, a shoemaker of Lille, France, vowed that he would recite the Paster Noster (Lord’s Prayer) a million times to induce a providential aversion of the menaces of war. He took 321 days to fulfill his vow, or at the rate of about 3,000 a day. When he finished the Italian guns were thundering before Rhodes in the Italo-Turkish war of 1912. Thursday: “The Man Who Can’t Get Out of His House.”

Order Restrains Union By United Press SULLIVAN, Ind., Nov. 11.—A restraining order " preventing the United Mine Workers of America from interfering with operation of the Ebbw Vale mine here is in effect here today. A hearing for a permanent injunction against the union will be held in Indianapolis before Federal Judge Thomas Slick Saturday. Pole-Vaulter Injured By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 11.—Doland Johnson, 12, is a patient in a hospital suffering from a fractured leg received in a pole-vaulting accident.

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INDICT POWERS ON CHARGE OF SLAYING FIVE Grand Jury Votes Murder True Bills; Death of Greek Held Suicide. By United Press CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Nov. 11. —Stamtias Sfikas, missing friend of Harry F. Powers, indicted Tuesday on five charges of first degree murder, was a suicide and not a victim of the alleged Bluebeard slayer, police said today. A coroner’s verdict, however, has not been returned in the investigation, which followed discovery of Sfikas’ body late Tuesday. Powers was named in true bills returned by a Harrison county grand j iry in the cases of Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher; her three children, Greta, 14; Harry, 12, and Annabelle, 9, all of Park Ridge 111., and Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke, Worcester, Mass. Sfikas’ disappearance last July first was linked with the Powers’ case when members of Greek societies to which he belonged raised funds to investigate the case shortly after Powers’ arrest. No further searen for bodies is contemplated by officers as result of discovery of Sfikas’ body, police said. A revolver with one bullet discharged lay near the body and there was a bullet wound in the head. Only a few of Hie ninety-four witnesses to be summoned in the case appeared before the grand jury. These included local officers. Powers was not called. District Attorney Will E. Morris said Powers probably will be tried first on the charge of killing Mrs. Lemke. In event he escapes the death penalty in this case, he will be tried on the other murder charges, Morris said. All five of the victims were slain in Powers’ Quiet Dell garage, several of them on improvised gallows, police assert. The bodies were buried in a small drainage ditch near the garage where police discovered them shortly after Powers’ arrest here last Aug. 27. No indication was given as to when Powers will be returned here for trial, expected to be held late in November or early December.

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ONLY A WOMAN can really know, the anguish, the heart-sick futility, the deep love of this girl who takes a Yellow Ticket as a passport of freedom, and finds herself enslaved to it forever . . . Only women can fully appreciate the romance which grew from this ugly menace into a thing of beauty. EVERY WOMAN \7ill appreciate the tremendous soul stirring drama . . . the human and magnificent performance of LIONEL BARRYMORE Star of “Guilty Hands” and “A Free Soul” —AND—ELISSA LANDI —IN— . The YELLOW TICKET with LAWRENCE OLIVER Powerful in plot . . . Sweeping in action . . . Touching in revelation. Women will shed a tear in sympathy . . . Men will cheer her victory. Coming Friday cfQlpxoilJl® ■■■■■■■

Kidnaped; Free

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Alexander Berg, wealthy St. Louisan, freed by kidnapers. ORPHANS’ HOME BOARD, OFFICERS RE-ELECTED Mrs. £harles A. Gerard Remains Institution’s President. Officers and advisory board members of the Indianapolis Orphans' home, 4107 East Washington street, were announced today following their re-election Tuesday. Officers are: Mrs. Charles A. Gerard, president: Mrs. Almus G. Ruddell. first vice-president: Mrs. Thomas R. Kacklev. second vice-president: Mrs. Mansur B. Oakes, third vice-presi-dent: Miss Flora J. Ketcham. recording secretary; Mrs. Linnaeus C. Boyd, corresponding secretary, and Miss Gertrude Taggart, treasurer. 0 Advisory board members include: Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Dr. Charles P. Emerson. Harold B. West, Joseph E. Reagan. James A. Stuart. Clarence F. Merrell, F. E. Glass. Meredith Nicholson. Henry S. Bennett and the Rev. George Arthur Frantz.

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SEIZE SUSPECTS IN KIDNAPINGS Lawyer, Ex-Convict Held* After Berg Release. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Nov. 11.—Police, determined to end the wave of kidnapings, of which Alexander Berg, wealthy fur dealer, was the fifteenth victim in two years, seized a lawyer and an ex-convict today, a few hours after Berg was freed by his abductors. Paul A. Richards, 30, a criminal lawyer, and Michael Cutter, exconvict, were booked as “suspected of kidnaping." Their wives also were questioned. Berg, resting in his hotel suite, where his wife had been near a nervous breakdown since he was

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kidnaped last Friday, said he had been treated well, could not identify his abductors “because they taped dark glasses over my eyes and kept me in a dark room,” and denied that a ransom had been paid. In a statement given out by the family on his return, John Rogers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, was with giving the information that led to Berg’s release.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Clinton Clark. 925 West Thirtieth street. Buick coach. 731-652. from in front of* 925 West Thirtieth street. W. J. Jennings. 2966 Central avenue. Ford truck. T-5418. from in front of 1041 West Vermont street.

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Stolen automobiles recovered bv police belong to: J. L. Benedict. 2920 Washington boulevard. Chevrolet coach, found at 29 North Alabama street. Willvs-Knight coupe. 741-404. automobile* wrecked in a ditch near Fairmount Glass Company.