Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 176, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1931 — Page 5

DEC. 2, 1931.

Profiteering, No. 3 board frowns ON M'GOWAN'S WAR VOTE IDEA Admiral’s Referendum Plan Given Little Support by Commission. BY RUTH FINNEY Times SUIT Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Could a referendum on war be made to work In this country? Would it insure peace? What about wars of defense? What about the time element? Would our past wars have been declared if there had been a requirement for refercndums? Admiral Samuel McGow-an, retired, .'•ponsored the referendum plan before the war policies commission at its hearings last spring, but in spite of his enthusiasm there is little prospect his plan will be Included in the commission's recommendations. McGowan admitted all wars are called wars of defense, and that there would be a tendency to dispense with the referendum on this pretext, but argued that the President should have power to decide whether or not a vote should be taken. He argued also that a referendum could be held in twenty-four hours with the help of the radio. Get Variety of Answers While McGowan stressed his plan ns a peace measure, he admitted under questioning that he thought the people would have voted for every war in which the United States has engaged so far. After McGowan's testimony, the commission showed considerable interest in asking witnesses whether they thought the public would have voted for participation in the World war, the Spanish war, and the Mexican war. They got a variety of answers, most of them to the effect that war would have been approved in every case. Representative Ross Collins observed: "Most of the people of the United States do not want you to prohibit war,” but his remark was received with considerable display of indignation. The most serious objection to the referendum was raised by Newton D. Baker, former war secretary. "Imagine the wa* party sending out its orators to recite the grievances we have had at the hands of Nation A,” he said, "whipping the public feelings to a frenzy because of outrages perpetrated upon us; and the other side trying to minimize with soft words; imagine the feeling that would be injected—people would be called cowards on one side and war horses on the other. “Unhealthy State of Mind” "I think it is easy to see that this would be a very unhealthy state of public mind for the nation that might have to go to war the next minute.” Baker had no recommendations in regard to war policies except to give the war secretary greater powrrs. He told the commission that he does not believe in the militarization of industry, but explained that while mobilization “is inevitably going to be done by civilians, the ease and fluency of their contact with the dominant need is such that they quite likely, in a war of long duration, will be militarized in order to make it a uniform scheme.” In regard to preventing war. Baker said: "I have spent my own life, since 1921. all of its leisure and with all the strength that I have, trying to think of ways to prevent war.” He was asked if he had discovered a way. "Oh, yes; but I can not persuade

PLENTY OF PARKING SPACE NORTH - SIDE j EAST"SIDE STRATFORD e inth " ■■ ■ 1 1 ■ TO SINGAPORE” lflth and College. “NOVELTY” Country Store Night JOHN BOLES. LOIS WILSON in SEED namramiMMM Family Night. 10c T 4020 E. New York npMMHH[| Noble at Mass. A LLEANOK BOARDMAN in ■ 11*#-* WM. FARNI’M In M WOMEN LOVE ONCE" •Ten Mc'lTS IN A BARROOM” L Family Night 10c A.”- 1 ” I *-?- 0 * u u 'n r M ipwyißri tMIYMAI *• *- ; USE 32, E - H.II ■ • A 188 S Kl. IIAKU BARTHELMESS in VICTOR McLAGLEN in "WICKED” I "THE LAST FLIGHT" Family Night Comedy rtiyiv ■ 2S5i station liAUiUUkI s,w e< Wash■*J II -Plw II VICTOR McLAGLEN in "WICKED” in "SKYLINE” Bargain Night r — mmm —- WILL ROGERS in ■■■■■MMNlMpil VICTOR "YOUNG AS YOU FEEL." Comedy UlUllQaililLu McLAGLEN CUCD Cft N 4630 E. 10th in • WICKED.” Comedy E Isl Ell W U II Comedy _ JACK HOLT in "DIRIGIBLE” 2F:I IJil at Fountain So. Omega Phi Delta Night l,#, INA CLAIRE in WEST SIDE "REBOUND.” Comedy nrTTTmm 1129 S. Meridian 2MO W. Mich. "*"™"™JANETGAYNOR in MAE CLARK in "WATERLOO BRIDGE” "DADDY LONG LEGS." Comedy Special Gift Night rniffl'] 2203 Shelby fc Vs? fc j W WILLIAM HAINES in CLARK GABLE in "GET RICH QUICK WALLINGFORD” I "SUSAN LENOX” Family Night " AMUSEMENTS ~~~~~ SPECIAL LATE SHOWS TONIGHT starting 9:30 HT77T f f.] B 10 PEOPLB ON THE STACK LAST 3 DATS I T. AH R Y RICH ■ A * TrU ® a iHE > M.w' OVC(I Ones and His MERRY GANG ■ mm M 14—RIG ACTS —14 Sf g W ftC i I I hr*, of Fun. Music, Song and W tMMP Akw Dance THE Inwaml hill K 1 1 1111 1 L H TO HAPPINESS IP On the Screen f ■ With % I “USCS of the iSS 1 I r.Vr'io I I RIO GRANDE" sSS I DUNN EILERS I f with 0% g MAE MARSH ■ JOHN MACK BROWN OH NEXT FRIDAY | DOROTHY BURGESS j J “FRANKENSTEIN” ya|y(QE3 l|| fl|WH! | y c Th# Man Who Made a Morator 1 LYRIC—Next Saturda^^S^M

LUNT, FONTANNE TO MAKE FILM DEBUT “The Guardsmen” With the Two Theater Guild Stars Playing Their Original Roles Is Booked at the Palace. ALFRED Lunt and Lyr.n Fontanne. the ace stars of the New York Theater Guild, will make their local movie debut Saturday at the Palace in “The Guardsman.” These luminaries passed creditably through their baptism of fire, cinematically speaking—handling with ease the lines of "The Guardsman ' whicn served them well on the stage as one of the first great box-office hits of the Theater Guild. The situation, that of a man making love to his own wife, is, of course, broadly farcical. Lunt's change in appearance from the actor eo the guardsman is perfeci—even to the guttural voice of the Russian

Cossack lover. Miss Fontanne is cast as the wife. One is still left guessing at the finish whether or not she recognized her husband through the whiskers of the Cossack. Molpar's lines, with additions by Ernest Vajda and Claudine West, are snappy. Maude Elurne, always capable character player, is ' Manja," while Zasu Pitts is the maid. It is her first long feature since she recently became a Hal Roach comedy star. Roland Young has the role of the critic who watches with amusement the disguises of his friend, the actor. Sidney Franklin directed the production. Short films comprising the balance of the program will include a Fisherman's Paradise entitled "Sharks and Sword Fish,” the latest issue of the Hearst Metrotone News, a Flip the Frog cartoon and a James Fitzpatrick Traveltalk.

my fellow citizens it is right,” he answered. It was Representative F. H. La Guardia who brought forward a plan for government seizure of all industries and government rationing of all citizens in time of war. “If we are going to take the profits out of war we must be ruthless about it,” he said. "You can not stop to worry about dividends or the stock ticker, or whether one is going to suffer more than the other, because that is inevitable. "The first speech I made after the war, before I got out of uniform, I was urging a national policy to take the profits out of war. I received a note from the chairman of the meeting: 'Please cut that out. Tell them about your bombing and aviation.’ “The first war appropriation bill called up for record vote was a bill authorizing payments to contrac-

MO I lON I'll Tl JCLS I STARTING ■ SATURDAY 1 TWO FAMOUS STAGE STARS. MAKE 2 THEIR SCREEN DEBUT j§ ALFRED LUNT 1 & LYNN FONTANNE! ' to FERENC MOtNAR'S 9 I Molnar’s gayest, naughtiest A comedy comes now as the Jp talkie debut of these aristo- & crats of the stage. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Plrtnrp*

Neighborhood houses today offer: "Skyline” at the Dream, "Wicked” at the Irving, "Daddy Long Legs” at the Roosevelt, "Seed” at the Stratford, "Young As You Feel” at the Hamilton, “Wicked” at the Talbot, "Dirigible” at the Emerson, “Ten Nights in a Barroom" at the Mecca, "Get Rich Quick Wallingford” at the Orpheum, "Sob Sister” at the Belmont, "Women Love Once” at the Tuxedo, “Road to Singapore” at the Rivoli, "Get Rich Quick Wallingford” at the Garfield. "The Last Flight” at the Tacoma, "Rebound” at the Granada, and “Wicked” at the Fountain Square. a a u Indianapolis theaters today offer: "Over the Hill” at the Apollo, Larry Rich at the Lyric, "Touchdown” at the Circle, "Rich Man’s Folly” at the Ohio. ‘The Champ' at the Palace, and Ruth Roland at the Indiana.

tors for loss of profits where the contracts had been canceled because of the war's end. "The files of every congressman will show letters urging that bill's passage and complaining against the abrupt termination of hostilities. . . . We had not yet even started to get our wounded men "back from Europe, yet that bill actually was presented and passed.” Crash Fatal to Ex-Publisher By United Press MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 2.—A. D. Robinson, 57, of Hollywood, Fla., retired publisher of the Evening Record, Ravenna, 0., was injured fatally here Monday night when a truck he was driving, crashed into a telephone pole.

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WESTERN DRY CZAR RESIGNS JOBHURRIEDLY Vivian Quits Before Quiz by Woodcock Can Be Completed. By United Press DENVER, Dec. 2.—Colonel Amos W. W. Woodcock’s investigation of federal prohibition enforcement in the Rocky mountain region today had resulted m appointment of a new district administrator. John F. Vivian, administrator in this area for eight years, resigned Tuesday as Woodcock, national ad- j ministrator, investigated charges ! Vivian had borrowed large sums of money from his subordinates. Woodcock immediately announced the appointment of Carl Jackson, administrator at Seattle, Wash., to succeed him. The action brought an end to the turmoil that has stirred the department here, since the slaying of Melford Smith, 20-year-old truck driver, by Henry Dierks, one of Vivian's agents. Smith was killed in a scufflle over possession of three ounces of wine. The killing was widely protested, and Vivian’s action in keeping the agent despite repeated charges of brutality against him, drew criticism. Woodcock suspended Dierks, after an investigation, and declared the killing “stupid and brutal.” Vivian was charged with having negotiated a $4,000 loan from Dierks shortly before the agent was hired. Further investigation brought charges the administrator borrowed from other members of his department, and Woodcock made a hur- ; ried. trip to investiate the case.

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CIRCLE TO ACCEPT FOOD FOR TICKETS

Children Will See Dix Film With Gifts for City’s Unemployed. Opportunity was announced today for every boy and girl in the city to see an exciting picture in one of the city's finest downtown theaters, and at the same time help to relieve suffering among the needy of Indianapolis. Every boy and girl in this section will be admitted to see Richard Dix in "Secret Service” at the Circle Friday night and Saturday afternoon for one can of food. Donations will be distributed among the city's destitute. Shirley Grey and Gavin Gordon appear with Dix in "Secret Service,” and a program of talking short films and comedies completes the program. The food is Being collected by The Indianapolis Times and SkourasPublix theaters, in an attempt to

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help the Salvation Army alleviate suffering among hungry of this city. B. V. Sturdivant, zone manager of the Skouras-Publix organization, was eager to co-operate in view of the successful canned goods show held last year in conjunction with The Times and the Salvation Army. "We don't care what kind of food is brought,” explained Adjutant Arthur V. Cass of the Salvation Army, “so long as it is- in cans. It doesn't matter whether it is a can of beans, peas, soup coffee or what not. However, we are making a strong plea for glass jars of prej served foods from your own homeprepared stock.” The canned food will serve as admission for children starting at 6 Friday evening and will continue to be.accepted through the next days matinee until 6 Saturday evening. Sturdivant asks that the cans and jars be brought unwrapped to facilitate delivery to the doorman and to prevent an unsightly litter of paper and waste at the theater front.

BOOST ECHO SUES Shortridge Pupils Urged to Buy Christmas Edition. Drive for subscriptions to the twentieth annual Christmas edition of the Shortridge Daily Echo was inaugurated Tuesday by William N. Otto, head of the Shortridge EngAMUSEMENTS ENGLISH Matinee Sat. Nte:a. so t ss.oo BEST SEATS SAT. MAT. sl^ Others, 50c, 75c ■ $ WALKER 1 WHITESIDE In a New Modern Play 1 “SURF” A SENSATIONAL STORI © OF SOUTHERN SEAS

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lish department and managing editor of the paper, i Orders for the paper will be taken ■ in the homeroom assemblies Thursday morning by agents of the Echo, i Cost of the special edition is 15 ! cents. Last year 2.100 subscriptions were taken. tSssft' V ifjj l Xfjl A Wis