Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 162, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1931 — Page 9

NOV. 16, 1931.

GENERAL MATO FIGHT JAPANESE 'TO LAST DITCH’ Chinese Leader Denies Aid by Russia; Wants Only League Help. BY FREDERICK KUH 1 Prm Staff C.orri'soondrnt < World copyright. 1931. by the Uattcd tress. All right, reserved; reproduction prohibited.) TSITSIHAR. Manchuria, Nov. 16. Ma Chan-Shan, mysterious and powerful commander of the Chinese army in northern Manchuria, went out to assume personal direction of warfare against the Japanese today, with a declaration that he would fight until the last man had fallen. Wrapped in a great, fur-collared military cloak. General Ma received me at his headquarters and outlined his policies a few minutes before he departed on a dash to the scene of battle on the Nonni sector, a few miles south of Anganchl. As I talked with this short, slender military leader, whose stubborn opposition to the Japanese has led to grave complications in Manchuria, he constantly was receiving reports of the fighting thirty miles away. Despite the gravity of the military situation, General Ma spoke with fatalistic calm as he drove home these points: May Bring Bombing That. Japan is beginning a “great offensive” which may result in the bombing of Tsitsihar. That the Chinese “are not, strong enough to fight, but we must hold our ground until death.” That the Chinese have not been aided and do not want the aid of Boviet Russia. That the Chinese want the League of Nations to intervene. He indignantly repudiated the repeated charges that his forces have received aid from Soviet Russia, or that he was assisted in his bold defiance of .Japan, by anything o iler than patriotic appeals from his people. At Anganchi I was meh by Paul Lew, General Ma s secretary. He is a youth of 24, who speaks excellent English, and who worships the Chinese commander.

Like Roller Coaster Wr pulled out of Anganchi on General Ma's special train with all the thrills of an amusement park; roller coaster, and dashed up and down the hills. When a kimono-clad servant took away our lamp, to kindle a Are in the car's "kitchen” and brew us tea, we were plunged in complete darkness. It was a bumpy and an eerie ride. Much of the time we passed through wooded lanes where the tree branches were so close they swept the windows of the train, giving us the sensation of crackling machine guns. Awaiting our arrival was the outgoing Japanese consul, Yaouchi Shimidzu, who was surrounded by ten of his subordinates and representatives of the agency for the south Manchuria railroad. He was planning to leave for Anganchi and thence for Harbin. Despite the dramatic scene, made more impressive .by its' military phases, for soldiers were everywhere, the crowds peered at the departing Japanese more With an attitude of curiosity than hostility. Intends to Return Tn a hasty conversation, Consul Shimidzu said he intended to return to Tsitsihar as soon as the situation had been clarified. He added that, so far as he was able to observe, General Ma had received no aid from the Soviets. On the way to Mas headquarters, ns we passed through squalid, dimly lighted streets, Paul Lew explained something of General Ma’s present situation. The soldiers in Ma's army are paid only the equivalent of one American dollar a month for their services, but boast of their loyalty to the commrnder. Regarding the talk of Soviet assistance, Lew cited the Dutch consul at Harbin. Vander Hoeven. as declaring after a visit to Tsitshihar Saturday that, he had failed to find any basis for the allegations, and said this confirmed the findings of American, British and other officials who had made similar investigations at Tsitsihar and the Nonni river zone. Feet Are Slippered General Ma, when I met hifn. shook hands with a formal bow, and sat down on a sofa beside the table. He was dressed for the front, in uniform and great fur-collared coat, but his feet were slippered, awaiting the heavy military boots that, a few minutes later, were to complete his costume. Ma is 46 years old. short and slender. He wears a thin, drooping moustache, and his head is closely shaven. Gesticulating, as he offered me refreshments and helped himself, he explained at once that his army of .15,000 men is receiving absolutely no assistance from any foreign power. ' We want the aid of the League of Nations, but not that of the Russians. If we receive the league's aid, that may prevent a Japanese victory. Casualties at 400 ‘‘Our casualties? More than 700— 400 killed and 300 wounded. I can not say whether a bombardment of Tsitsiher is impending, but I am convinced we face a major offensive immediately, and I believe Consul Shimidzu departed in anticipation of it. "Replying to today’s ultimatum, urging me to resign.” he said. "I have asked the Japanese whether they want the Chinese or the Japanese to run the Heilungkiang provincial government, and I inquired who would assume the power In Tsitsihar if I should go.” Throughout my interview there was no atmosphere of haste in General Ma*s attitude, although I knew he was anxious to plunge into his war business again and that, as soon as I had gone, he would pull on his boots and leave for the front, thirty miles away. 9,000 Favor Faymcnt By Time* Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 16. Petitions requesting immediate payment of war veterans’ compensation certificates were presented at a meeting of the Veterans of Foreign Wars here. The petitions bore the signatures of 9,000 persons.

FINE TUNES FOUND IN TIBBETT MOVIE t* George Bancroft Becomes a Ship Builder in ‘Rich Man’s Folly’ Now on the Indiana Theater Screen. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN THERE surely are some rtiighty soothing and whistling tunes in Lawrence Tibbett s latest movie contribution, “The Cuban Love Song.” Here is a sort of a singing “Bird of Paradise" set in Cuba with the love interest between a marine, played by Tibbett, and a Cuban beauty, played by Lupe Velez. This one is rich in melodies that will stick to your memory such as the main love song and the ever-haunting "Peanut Vender” done with a sort of a rumba movement —and what a movement—Miss Velez

puts into this dance. Tibbett is in splendid singing voice during the entire picture and he acts likfe he loved the play. He

is acting better today than ever. Os course since coming to the screen, he never has had any trouble in getting his voice over. Although “The Cuban Love Song” is slightly drawn out as to story, yet you can forgive that because Tibbett is doing a lot of warbling this time. And Miss Velez finds time to do some “singing” too. Her

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accent is very pleasing and she makes a cute little heroine, who loved a Yankee marine only to find that he must go to war, leaving her with an empty heart, but with the knowledge that she is going to be the mother of an illegal child. The ending of this story is very wet “handkerchiefy” and very sentimental, out it gets over. Oh, there is some good comedy here because Jimmy “Schnozzle” Durante and Ernest Torrence are teamed up together as a funmaking team. From a singing and acting standpoint, Tibbett has never been seen to better advantage. And guess who are on the same movie bill with Tibbett. None other than Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy in a burlesque on “Beau Geste,” called "Beau Hunks.” “I don’t know who is “Beau” and who is “Hunk,” but here is the most comical vehicle these two have, had since they got mixed up in the same Pullman berth as musicians. Remember that one? The audience likes the scene where Mr. Hardy lovingly and kindly pats and treats the feet of Mr. Laurel, thinking they are his own tired “dogs.” Quite a show, I am telling you, at the Palace this week.

BANCROFT BUILDS SHIPS THIS TIME The director of "Rich Man's Folly” has attempted to make a serious picture having as its theme the utter selfishness of a shipbuilder to his business and his desire to have a son. This desire to have a son on the part of this selfish man gives Dawn

O’Day a chance to do some of the most natural bro-ken-hearted acting I have ever witnessed upon the talking screen. She puts over the idea es her dismal life in the big house as she realizes that she is an unwanted child on the part of her father (Bancroft). Where this child received her abil-

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it.y to portray such heartrending emotion is a mystery to me. But it is great work. Watch her in the death-bed scene with her mother. Here is great natural acting. There is another child actor that registers in this movie and that is David Durand as the youthful Brock. Frances Dee as the grown up Anne does some impressive and effective work showing that she is growing rapidly in her art. Here is a sad picture with Bancroft attempting to give an impressive performance of a very unsympathetic role. The climax of the story when Bancroft wrecks his own ship building yards to clear his selfish conscience is too far fetched and unrealistic. Robert Ames comes on and off in many scenes in a sort of a male Pollyanna role. Ben Bard is the central figure of the Fanchon and Marco idea on the stage. This unit runs more to comedy with a good burlesque on "gals” who entertained us years and years ago. Now at the Indiana. n o tt HERE IS A WOMAN WHO INVITES A PAST I have always felt that “The Yellow Ticket” would be made as a talker. It was quite successful on the stage with Florence Reed as the Jewish girl who stamps herself as

a bad woman morally and commercially so she can go to the bedside of her dying father when the czar ordered no passports to men and women of a certain race. This girl was pure and good of heart but the terrible system of the czar as revealed by the yellow passport system, made an outcast and a bird of prey out of a beautiful

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character. She fought and even murdered to protect her honor, and she won. I was much more interested in the cast than the story because I am very familiar with this story on the stage, in printed form and on the screen. Lionel Barrymore gives a splendid savage and repulsive portrayal of the Russian autocract who was the head of the yellow ticket system. Here is great and powerful acting in a role that is very unpleasant. Barrymore again is the great actor cn the screen. Was greatly Impressed with the intelligent emotional acting of Elissa Landi as the girl who acquires a terrible reputation for a good reason. Am just getting so that I am in-

terested in Miss Landi. Haven’t been so much impressed before. My fault probably. “The Yellow Ticket" has been magnificently acted, photographed and directed, but it is unpleasant about three quarters of its length. Now’ at the Apollo. a a a CONCERNING “THE BELOVED BACHELOR” I am quite sure that there are certain people on the screen that you just don’t like and don’t care to see for no particular reason. Well, I am going to admit right at the start of my opinion of “The

Beloved Bachelor” that I do not care for Paul Lukas whether he is playing a “beloved” role or not. His accented dialect is more irritating to me than ever. It must be my nerves, but nevertheless his acting did nothing toward making him one of my favorites. He is cast as a great c o m mercial

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sculptor, who fails to see that a good German woman loves him and that a ritzy society dame with good looks is only playing him for a sap. A terrible tragedy removes the German woman from the story, but leaving the sculptor with her daughter by a former marriage. The story thep settles down to the efforts of Betty, the adopted daughter of the sculptor, to compel him to treat her as an honorable competitor for his heart and his hand in marriage instead of being considered just as a child. ' Some of the scenes are very moonlight and there is a lot of sentimental hokum all dressed up in the right brand of sugar. The women chief in support of Lukas are Dorothy Jordan and Vivienne Osborne. And Charlie Ruggles is very much present. You probably will rave over this Pollyanna story. And I hope you do if you want to. Now at the Circle. Other theaters today offer Clyde Cook and Johnny Perkins at the Lyric and “Platinum Blonde” at the Ohio. Wednesday afternoon at English’s Channing Pollock, author of “The House Beautiful,” which was a Broadway hit last season and which comes here Thanksgiving day night, will give a free lecture. He wili talk about his own play under the title of “The Theater.”

WIDOW OF 3-TERM CITY MAYOR DIES

Mineral services Scheduled for Mrs. C. S. Denny at Home. \ Funeral services were to be held at 2 today for Mrs. Caleb *S. Denny, 76, widow of a former mayor of Indianapolis, who died Friday in Philadelphia after a long illness. Services at the home of a son, George L. Denny, 4456 Park avenue, were to be conducted by the Rev. Thomas R. White, First Presbyterian church assistant pastor. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Denny was born and spent her entire life here. For the last few years she had divided her tttne at the home of the son here and at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Horace F. Nixon, in a Philadelphia suburb, where she died. Her husband was mayor three 'erms, 1886 and 1887, 1888 and 1889 and in 1893 and 1894. Services for Dr. W. A. Ocker, 61, of 29 Hampton drive, Indianapolis schools physical education director., who died while at work Friday, were to be held at 3:30 today in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. _Last rites for Mrs. Kate J. Budd, 75, of 3245 Kenwood avenue, who died Friday, were to be held at 2 today in the Hisey & Titus mortuary, with burial Tuesday in South Bend. Elmer Stephens, 70. real estate dealer here twelve years, died Saturday at his home, 424 North Walcott street. Services were held at 11 today in the Stiiesvi’le Christian

CONQUESTS of COKETTE smoking chimney signifies Waste in fuel and heat; \ \ llgflfjjEfe Burn smokele-s Coke—economize, W Kee P home surroundings neat. I rj sjV-' I Our Coke is now made dustless, too! f|fj||r Th<> dread of days of yore—cl ° f ‘racking dust U p on your shoe, ■f Y'N-\ ’ e'er more.

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RACHMANINOFF THRILLS LARGE CITY AUDIENCE Famed Musician Generous With Encores: Chopin Group Featured. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN SERGEI RACHMANINOFF was in a quiet and melodious ballade program mood yesterday afternoon during his recital at English's. The tw’o Brahms’ ballades had that quiet and beautiful charm, as

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did the haunting B of Liszt and the peaceful Chopin ballade. • The first group paved and made possible 'the continuance of the soothing mood of the Chopin group which followed the intermission. It was while playing the vigorous Liszt's “Rhapsodie Espagnole” that we felt the powerful Rachmaninoff of another mood. His

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Chopin was really golden in style and tone. His Chopin did not want to make me dream, but rather to become combative for more of the same thing. And the audience must have felt the same, because this great man received yesterday the biggest and' the raost spontaneous ovation that he has ever received in this city. He wisely refrained from encores until he had completed his program. And his first encore number was the one that audiences always insist upon. And the house went wild when he struck the chords which indicated that he was going to play this favorite. Rachmaninoff was more than gracious in the number of encores, he was bountiful. I was interested in the man. He smiled time arid time again as he recognized the warmth and sincerity of the ovation of the audience. And he found time to linger back stage and shake hands with students of music and even to sign some of their programs. Once again Mrs. Nancy Martens has given Indianapolis a great musical experience. There seems to be no box office depression when Rachmaninoff is around.

APPEAL COSTS REPAID Stale Gets $398.65 Rebate in Chain Store Tax Case. Budget of the attorney-general’s office is richer today by $398.50. This sum was returned by check from the federal district court here. The money had been posted to perfect appeal of the chain store tax case, which the state won in the United States supreme court. Ogden Will Speak By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Nov. 16. James M. Ogden, attorney-general of Indiana, has accepted an invitation to come to address members of Friends churches of Hamilton county here, Dec. 13, on “Temperance and Law Enforcement.”

church. He spent most of his life near Stilesville. Services for Nathan F. Burnett, 52. of 848 South Sheffield avenue, who died Friday, were to be held at 2 today in the home, with burial in Washington Park cemetery. Mr. Burnett and his son. Jesse P. Burnett, operated a grocery at 2200 West McCarty street. Illness of one year proved fatal to Joseph E. Andrews, 60, of 3730 Park avenue, Saturday. Services will be held at the home at 2 Tuesday, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Andrews had been a salesman for E. C. Atkins & Cos. twenty-five years. He came here from Wilmington, Del. Last rites for Jacob J. Kramer, 81. resident of Indianapolis sixtytwo years, who died Friday at his heme, 6054 East * Washigton street, were to be held at 2 today in the first Evangelical church, with burial in Crown hill cemetery. He was a blacksmith on East Market street forty years. Mrs. Anna Coli ns, 70, of 307 East Washington street, saw tester at the E. C. Atkins & Cos. plant, died Saturday after am illness of six weeks Services will be held in the f J. C. Wilson mortuary at 2 Tuesday afternoon, with burial in Greenwood. School to Be Rebuilt By Times Special BOfeTON, Ind., Nov. 16.—The Boston school, which recently was badly damaged by a cyclone, will be rebuilt. The probable cost was not estimated by Trustee Thomas Daugherty, but he said insurance of SIO,OOO would not completely cover it.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Saturday’s Times: Leo De Korn, Endurance Golfer —Leo De Korn, a member of the Purchase Country Club, Purchase, N. Y„ has staged three golf endurances contests in an attempt to set a world’s record. On June 27, 1930, he played 141 holes on the Purchase course without a stop, covering forty-five miles in seven and one-half hours. On July 29, 1930, he played 200 holes

COUNTY WARDS TO SEE CIRCUS Keith’s Chosen for Event Dec. 25, 26 and 27. With charitable organizations of all descriptions pledged to care for the physical well being of orphaned and destitute children of the county, Sheriff Charles L. Sumner and his deputies are making elaborate plans for a circus and toyland festival to be held Dec. 25, 26 and 27 in the B. F. Keith theater. “A real circus for inmates of the orphans’ homes of the county, the county infirmary and other charitable institutions will help to make

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in fifteen hours, covering fiftytwo miles. To better this record, De Korn played 246 holes on June 22, 1931, in twenty-one hours, going the distance of seventy miles. His average for the 590 holes was 99 strokes a round, and the total time forty-three and one-half hours. The Crooked House —On the estate of Earl Dudley, Himley, England, there is a very curious habitation known as the “Crooked

it a happy Christmas,” the sheriff declared. “Blocks 6f tickets will be sold to those able to purchase them and then be distributed to the poor children of the city. “All profit v/ill be turned over to the city and county employe’s relief fund which maintains the' soup kitchen at 227 East Maryland street. Arrangements have been made with professional acts employed during the circus season by Hagenbeck & Wallace, Sells-Floto, Ringling Brothers, 101 Ranch and others to donate their services. Headquarters of the circus have been opened in the Aetna Trust building for the ticket sales campaign. Man, 83, Jailed KNOX, Ind., Nov. 16.—J. R. Miller, 83, Medaryville, is a prisoner in the Starke county jail here awaiting trial on a charge of violating the dry law.

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House,” now used as a sightseeing attraction. It is altogether out of the perpendicular, part of the wall being buried in thq, ground as a result of mining operations, which have honeycombed the understratum. It is as difficut to walk steadily through the halls and doorways as to pace the deck of a vessel in a rolling sea. The inside presents many optical illusions, and clocks, shelves, and tables all appear to be crooked though they actually are straight. But the greatest atraction is rolling marble over a leaning table, where the marble seems to roll uphill. Tuesday —“A Mountain That Thunders.”

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BANDITS FLEE WITH CASH IN SIX STICKUPS One Holdup Man Is Routed When Grocer Runs for His Gun. Six holdups in which bandit* reaped a total of SIBB in cash, and another w’hich was frustrated when a grocer ran for a gun, were being investigated today by police. When a Negro bandit attempted to pull a revolver from a paper sack in the holdup of a Standard grocery at 930 West Michigan street, Saturday night, Walter Fitch, 36, of 417 Limestone avenue, manager, ran to the rear of the store for his ftwn gun, and the bandit fled. Binding and gagging Clayton Swicegood. 32, of 1444 West Ohio street, a “kidnaper” bandit robbed him of $lB and left him lying in the Nickel Plate Railroad building at Washington and Noble streets. Swicegood told police the gunman accosted him as he w r as walking near the court house and asked him if he “wanted a good job." Swicegood said he answered “yes.” The bandit then told Swicegood to come to his office, where he tied his hands and feet, placed the gag in his mouth and rifled his pockets. Two Negro bandits, one of whom was masked, held up William Titus, 1631 West Market street, attendant at a Gaseteria filling station in the 700 block White River boulevard, robbing him of sls. F. A. Newby, 1470 North Pennsylvania street, was robbed of sl7 by a Negro bandit who threatened him with a gun as he parked his car in a garage in the rear of his home Sunday night, police were informed. Two bandits escaped with a watch and $25 after holding up Kenneth Stamm, attendant at a Lincol filling station at 2919 English avenue, Sul day night, police were told. While cleaning his automobile in a garage at his home Sunday afternoon, Lawrence Rosemeyer, 2833 Central avenue, w’as robbed of $lO3 by two bandits. Entering a Supreme Oil Company filling station at Indiana avenue and Tenth street Sunday night, a Negro bandit greeted Charles K. Bailey, 1111 North New Jersey street, attendant, with the command, “Well, let's have it.” The gunman took Bailey's money changer and $lO in cash, police were informed.

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