Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 234, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1932 — Page 12

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GOST PREVENTS FAMILIES FROM OWNING HOMES Building Industry Suffers From Keeping Prices in Clouds. Thl It the sixth and last of a series of article* on hoaxing condition* in this country It I* published by permission of Fortune Macaxine. In preceding articles a sharp and vivid picture of housing conditions in this country has been drawn. A question that logically occurs to the reader, and one* that should be answered, is what is to be done about it? The housing problem is, in part, a social problem, and must wait for its solution until the social conhas been so thoroughly outraged that action will be taken. However, the problem is industrial as well as social. In that aspect it is, if less familiar, equally pressing. Housing is the one field where private enterprise and individual initiative have notoriously failed. Builders Are Blamed The social enhusiast, faced with the collapse of cheap housing in America and the failure of American builders to do anything about it, might be inspired to a blanket indictment of the building industry. Hi might declare that when an industry dealing in a fundamental commodity for which there is a constant real demand confesses that it is unable to supply any part of the market but the richest third, and that the other two-thirds must satisfy themselves with a secondhand, resold product even though that product is in such condition as to endanger the health of the buyer and his wife and his children —it admits industrial bankruptcy. When it adds that it is suffering from over-production within the limits of the market it has been able to reach, it confesses intellectual bankruptcy as well. If such a situation, our enthusiast might argue, existed in the automobile industry—if, for example, no car sold for less than SI,OOO and two-thirds of the population were unable to buy—the fact would be serious enough.

Prices Arc High But people can live without cars. And broken-down cars do not breed tubercle bacilli and idiots and gangsters and social unrest. It is when such a failure takes place in the building industry that the entire community is, or should be, aroused. What has happened in the market for American housing may be described as follows: One-third of American families have incomes not to exceed $1,200; one-third have incomes from $1,200 to $2,000; onethird have incomes above $2,000. It is a proven rule that no family should attempt to buy a house costing more than twice its annual income, and that no family of limited income should pay more than 20 per cent of its income in rent. Families in the lowest third, therefore, can not buy houses costing more than $2,400 nor pay more than $240 a year in rent. Families in the middle third can not buy houses costing more than $4,000 nor pay more than S4OO a year in rent. But the average cost of sin-gle-family dwellings built in eightyfive American cities in 1929 was $4 902 exclusive of land, and the soiling price of these same dwellings was certainly 30 per cent higher. Market Limited This was average cost. The low price for a single-family dwelling with the land under it in a builtup dstirtc (i. e.. a district such as the average industrial worker must inhabit) was probably not much under $4,500. That means neither the lowest third nor the middle third of American incomes could buy it or rent it. What this means in terms of living was shown above. What it meant to the building industry is roughly—1. The industry depends on the richest third of the population for its market and has sold that marKot 2. The Industry has failed to reach a market which, exclusive of families living on farms, amounts to 14.500,000 or 15,000,000 families. 3. If the industry could build a good house to sell at $4,800, it would add 60 per cent to its small-house sales in its present market. 4. If the industry could build a good house to sell at $3,600. it would double its post-war residential output, which in '‘normal’’ years has amounted to $3,000,000,000, and invade the new market. What all this means to industry as a whole will be evident when the key position of the building trades is realized. The building industry is the market for the major part of the nation’s output of lumber, stone, brick, paper, paint and glass. It is the second largest purchaser of steel. It creates an almost immediate demand for furniture, carpets, furnaces, household goods, etc. The End *

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HOLLYWOOD IDEAS BACK OF THIS MOVIE Many Highlights in Stage Play of ‘Strictly Dishonorable’ Have Been Left Out of the Photoplay Version. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN ONE’S verdict, of the movie version of “Strictly Dishonorable” will depend a great deal upon whether the individual has seen the stage play. Having seen the stage version several times, my idea of the movie may be entirely different from one who has seen only the movie. Have been told on reliable authority that Will Hays was not in favor of a movie being made of this play because of the nature and the purpose of the bedroom scene. Hollywood’s vacuum cleaner, if one exists, was put to work on the script and even the business in the bedroom scenes have been so modified that they become pointless and out of step with

the original idea of the play. In other words you have a pretty much cleaned up “Strictly Dishonorable.” This Hollywood treatment of this play to make it as lily white as possible results in a stilted and uncertain performance on the part of Sidney Fox as the southern girl who wanted to be naughty with an Italian grand opera singer for

one night, on the part of Paul Lukas as the tern peramental singer and Lewis Stone as the whisky drinking judge. There is abundant pr 9 o f that the director has attempted to straddle the fence and not lean too heavily on either side. Although Lewis Stone gives a

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good performance of the judge, he doesn’t appeal to me as the type who would live over an Italian speakeasy and then go to the bench and send the bootleggers to prison. You probably will like the judge because Stone is playing the role. For the most part I found the work of Miss Fox very colorless and she failed to lift many of the scenes to the realm of high comedy. Even her southern accent did not ring true to me. George Meeker was Henry from West Orange, N. J., on the stage, but he seems not to be able to shake off certain influences of the movie director. In other words, he didn’t get as much -out of the part in the movie as on the stage. I may and am probably all wrong on this one. Be your own judge, as usual. I wanted “Strictly Dishonorable’’ brought to the screen as it was in the stage play. That is, if it was necessary to bring it to the screen at all. And some of the action drags badly in the first part. Now at the Apollo. tt tt tt CONCERNING “THE HATCHET MAN” The story of “The Hatchet Man” is an ugly one and the movie naturallly i s ugly. I can get no thrill in seeing a hatchet man of a Chinese tong bury his hatchet in the skull of an

enemy who has been ordered on the spot by the executive committee of a rival tong. I get no thrill, but only a sick feeling in seeing the body of a man stuck to a wall by the means of a hatchet hurled by the hatchet man. Edward G. Robinson is the hatchet man, and he certainly could

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not give me the impression that it was justice to throw the hatchet. To me this is pretty far fetched melodrama and is not to my way of thinking even mildly effective theater. The story is ugly, and so are most of the characters. Even Loretta gave me the chills when he was carrying on an affair with a modern Chinese youth, played wery sickly by Leslie Fenton. A lot of money has been spent on production, but the story is so ugly that the effect has been lost. To me, “The Hatchet Man” is one of the most ugly and unpleasant stories I have ever seen on the stage or screen. I recommend it to no one. Will Hays should get a look at this one. Have your own idea. I have mine. Now at the Indiana. tt tt tt ROBERT MONTGOMERY BECOMES GREAT LOVER It seems that the directors have decided to make Robert Montgomery the great lover.

That was my thought after seeing Montgomery and Madge Evans in “Lovers Courageous.” M o ntgomery is cast as a young Englishman who just seems not to be able to find his place in the world. He drifts from one job in one part of the world to another job, finally landing in southern Africa as a tobacco salesman

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with a yen to write a play. He then

falls in love with the daughter of a British admiral, sweetly played by Miss Evans. Some of the love scenes are mentally beautiful. The work of this couple is of the highest type, and you agree that even the differences in their social positions should not prevent them from going to the altar. They march to the altar and face poverty and the social ban until circumstances force Mongomery to send his wife back to her haughty but comfortable family. % Os course the play turns out to be a hit and the two love birds are united again. This is what I call sweet entertainment or what love birds may suffer just for love. It is good date night entertainment. Now at the Palace. tt jt tt SOUTH DAKOTA AND BROADWAY MEET In “Two Kinds of Women” made from the stage play “This Is New York,” a pretty, good and clean girl from South Dakota (played by Miriam Hopkins) goes to New YorK with her dad, who is a senator, for the purpose of hearing dad debate the question, “Is New York Really America?” While dad is being very proper, daughter meets a son of a rich

man and a waster (played by Phillips Holmes in a sort of “An American Tragedy” manner) in a speakeasy. Rich man’s son goes wild over the look the South Dakota’s senators eyes and wants to up and marry the girl. There is one slight reason why he can’t. He is already married. That is, one night he got on a ter-

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rible gin drunk and woke up next morning with a wife and a no account gold digger who is hooked up with a blackmailer. The wife falls out of her apartment and Holmes is suspicioned for the murder of his wife. Love wins and the guy who really caused her to fall out of the window is discovered. And so Dakota and Broadway live happily ever after. The acting is not exceptional. It is just another story of this age of highball drinking in fine apartments in New York these days. Now at the Circle. Indianapolis theaters today offer. ‘‘The Samel Through the Needle’s Eye” at the Civic; Charles King at the Lyric; “The High Rollers” at the Mutual, and, “In Old Kentucky” at English’s. tt tt tt Neighborhood theaters tonight offer: “Frankenstein” at the Mecca, and the Talbott; “Delicious,” at the Terminal; “Ridin’ for Justice” at the Alamo; “Way Back Home” at the Irving; Rainbow Trail” at the Hollywood; “Possessed” at the Garfield; “Private Lives” at the Tacoma; “Palmy Days” at the Belmont; ‘Sooky” at the Hamilton; “The Champ” at the Orpheum; “Grief Street” at the Roxy; “Shot Gun Pass” at the Capitol, and, ‘Platinum Blonde” at the Stratford. The cotton, Florida and Rocky Mountain rats are native to America, but the common brown and black house rats came to America from Europe with the early colonists. Both species are believed to be natives of China.

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NEW YORK MOB CHIEF SLAIN AS GUARDDESERTS Vincent Coll ‘Rubbed Out’ by Machine Gunner as He Telephones. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. B.— Vincent Coll, 23-year-old baby-faced gang leader reported to have a $50,000 price on his head, was shot and killed today, apparently put on the spot by his own bodyguard. The killer trapped Coll in a drug store telephone booth. He raised

a sub-machine gun and fired. Bullets ripped through the thin wood and glass partition of the booth. Coll slumped to the floor, dead. The killing bore evidence that gangster enemies determined to rub out the young racketeer and had trailed him. carefully.

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When Coll entered the London Chemists drug store shortly after 1 a. m. he was accompanied by a bodyguard. Witnesses said Coll had been telephoning about ten minutes when the killer entered. The bodyguard walked out. The killer turned to customers and clerks in the store. “Keep cool and keep out of the way,” he ordered. “You’ll be all right.” Then he leveled his gun at the phone booth and fired. An examination of Coil’s body showed three bullets in his head and three in his chest near the heart. His nose had been shot off. He carried no revolver. In his pocket was sllO in cash, and the picture of a woman. The killing ended a crime career brief iven for a gangster. Coil’s notoriety lasted less than a year. He first sprang into prominence last summer when gangsters killed a child in Harlem, while shooting at a rival. Originally a henchman of Arthur (Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer, Bronx beer baron, Coll broke away and began a bloody feud with Schultz which resulted in numerous killings.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen beloner to: James R. Whitcomb. Vernon. Ind.. Chevrolet coach. 272-860 (1931). from Market and Alabama streets. David Wilson. Morristown. Ind.. GrahamPaiae coupe. 258-999 (1932). from in front of 1233 North State street. Theodore Kraft. Mavwood. Ind.. Oakland sedan, from 418 North Capitol avenue. Louis Miles. 1006 South Mount street. Plymouth coupe, from 865 South Addison avenue. Hush Whitlev. 1051 West Michigan street. Studebaker tourine. from in front of 1051 West Michiaan street. O. F. Rybolt. 4225 Baltimore avenue. Buick sedan. 20.000. from narkina lot near Union Station. Katheryn Currv. Greenfield. Ind.. Dodae coupe, from rear of 1142 North Pennsylvania street. Edaar Johnson. 156 West Sixteenth street. Nash coupe, from West and Twelfth streets.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belona to: Arnold Terrv. 1160 Udell street. Oakland sedan, found at 300 South Delaware street.

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“Long green'* shown in the hands of Charles Brown of Columbus, is gaining popularity here as filler for pipes, due to Brown's frequent “promotion” visits to the city.

“Thirty hands for a dollar,” is the cry from house-to-house in the southern portion of Indianapolis these days. But there’s nothing Frankensteinish about these hands. No ghoul marches from door to door. The hands are “hands of to-

1931 RAINFALL BELOWNORMAL Records Show Dry Year in Wake of 1930. P.y Science Service WASHINGTON, Feb. B.— Another dry year followed the greatest drought in the history of the United States, for statistics of the United States weather bureau here which just have been tabulated show that only six states had more than normal rainfall during 1931. Most of the dry states, however, were not nearly so dry as during the preceding year, said J. B. Kincer, chief of the division of agricultural meterology of the weather bureau. Least rain fell in the southeastern and north Rocky Mountain states. The principal agricultural states had nearly normal rainfall. The states which had more than

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bacco” being sold by Charles Brown of Columbus. Due to the depression, “longgreen” has come into its own as filler for pipes. The “baccy” “hands” in Brown’s hands in the photo were grown on his farm. He sells an auto load a week to city smokers.

normal rainfall are: Washington, 122 per cent of normal; Arizona, 140 per cent; New Mexico, 121 per cent; lowa, 110 per cent; Illinois, 104 per cent, and Missouri, 102 per cent. Rainfall in the greater part of the country just was a few per cent below normal. The dryest states during 1931 were Montana, 65 per cent of normal rainfall; Utah, 72 per cent; South Dakota, 72 per cent; Wyoming, 79 per cent; Georgia, 74 per cent; South Carolina, 78 per cent, and New Jersey, 79 per cent. This was thq dryest year of record in Montana, South Dakota and Georgia. Postoffice Burns By United Press PATOKA, Ind., Feb. B.— Fir e destroyed the local postoffice and three other buildings last night, doing several thousand dollars damage. The fire is believed to have originated in the postoffice basement.

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20,000,000 MEN ASKED TO HELP HOARDING DRIVE Hoover Confers With Knox on Plans to Start Prosperity Move. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—Mobilization of 20,000,000 men for a national drive against hoarding was unfinished business at the White House today. President Hoover called in his drive director. Colonel Frank Knox, energetic newspaper publisher, to start the ball rolling. Knox is to have complete charge of the movement. Vast facilities of the administration will be placed at his command, the White House has indicated. Groundwork for the movement was laid Saturday at the conference of sixty civic leaders. They pledged the support of 20,000,000 members of organizations they represented. Knox was unable to be present at that meeting, so no details of the campaign were agreed upon. Hoover, President Charles G. Dawes, of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and acting secretary of treasury Ogden Mills

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SOUTH SIDE I dll'L Comedy Janet Gavnor and Charles Farrell in “DELICIOUS’* <*t Fountain Su. mHMUAMkHMHHM Jackie Cooper in “SUOKY” 2203 bhelby Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in “POSSESSED” NORTH SIDE ■■■■■■■■■■■[l at Mass. BaiAsSaseßmaUMi Boris Korloff in “FRANKENSTEIN” PfWNnjOTVVJI 1503 Roosevelt Are. UkaUlHaia Two Features “RAINBOW TRAIL” with Geo. O’Brien and John Boles in “GOOD SPORT.” *•* h gCn 1 afll I Jwl > ■ and College Jean Barlow and Robert Williams in “PLATINUM BLOND” Comedy and Novelty i mSSSmmmm Tamo* at 22nd■laOSiheMUi Two Great Features “FRANKENSTEIN” and ‘ FLYING HIGH” ,

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believe the campaign should be organized along the same lines as war-time campaigns to “buy bonds’’ and "save sugar.” Undoubtedly money will be needed for the work. Private contributions may be sought. Most of those who enlist will be asked to volunteer their services. Knox has given no indication of the line he intends to pursue. In accepting the job, he told the President headquarters of the drive might be established in Chicago instead of Washington. He is publisher of the Chicago Daily News. Co-operation of all newspapers probably will be sougnt as one of the first steps to assure the widest publicity. Whether billboard advertising, radio broadcasting and house-to-house canvasses are to play a part is a decision which rests with Knox.

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EAST SIDE ■■■■■■■■■l 2116 10th St. IHAaalSmaM Jackie Cooper in “SOOKY” IPPIPPM BMhbhßhJmß Seth Parker in “WAY BACK HOME” 1 RnTainl 4020 F. New York Bert Lahr and Charlotte Greenwood in “FLYING HIGH” *442 E. Wash H Robt. Montgomery and Norma 'hearer in "PRIVATE LIVES.” 3155 Janet Gavnor and Charles Farrell in “DELICIOUS.” WEST SIDE W. Wash, and EHEZH I. “PALMY DAYS”