Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1932 — Page 7

MARCH Ifi, 1932

LIBERIA IS SENT WARNING NOTE IN SLAVE QUIZ Two European Powers Join U. S. in Protest on Negro Peonage. BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Pres# Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 16.—The state department, the United Pres3 learned today, has made strong representations to the Liberian government against mistreatment of natives who revealed slavery conditions in tl\e Negro republic. Great Britain and another unnamed European power joined the United States in protesting. The American note was delivered to the government of President Barclay by the United States legation in Monrovia March 7, it was learned. The protests followed reports that Barclay’s frontier force has been committing depredations on the Kru tribe of natives. Members of this band gave a League of Nations investigation committee, sent to Liberia recently, information about slavery conditions. In return, the natives were promised protection and immunity. Dispatch of this new note recalled the vigorous protest the state department filed with the African republic in 1930. It then charged, on the basis of a League of Nations report, that former President King and Vice-President Yancy had sanctioned virtual slavery, despite their previous promise to stamp it ont. Only a few weeks later the league made public a report on Liberian slavery that shocked the world. It told of helpless blacks being shipped as slaves to the penal colony at Fernando Po. It told of road laborers being beaten brutally and having their necks crushed under heavy baskets of stone. It told of children being offered as "pawns” for debts. EXHIBIT CLAY FIGURES Work Modeled and Glazed by Tech Pupils on Display This Week. # A group of clay figures, heads and animals, modeled, fired and glazed by students in advanced drawing II is bein* exhibited at Technical high school this week. Those who have pieces in the display are: Elizabeth Thompson, Alice Bell, Marie Leuth, Richard Davenport, Pauline Dingle, Evangtine Bowman, Roger Hooker, Robert Behr, Loy Baxter, Georgia Paedrick and Gail Martin. Miss Ruth Dunwoody is the instructor of the class.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobile* reported to police as stolen belong to: John Fa a sen 2738 North Talbot street. Bulck sedan. 53-674, from 2738 North Talbot street. Cecil T. Dav. 659 West Thirtieth street. Chevrolet roune. 60-718. from 950 North California street. Edward H. Tavlor. 3251 North Meridian street. Buick coune, 101-540, from 4629 School street. Roscoe Collins. 3433 East Tenth street. Plymouth sedan, from Westfield and Washington boulevards. BACK HOME AGAIN Stolen automobiles recovered bv police, belona t,o: Carson L. Emmons, 1702 North Alabama street. Ford sedan, found at Fall Creek boulevard and Paris avenue. Bowman Keene. 30. North Audubon road. Ford coupe, found at St. Clair and Clifton streets. Thieves Flee Stolen Auto Two Negro auto thieves who leaped from a stolen auto as a police squad pursued them early today near Twelfth and West streets, are sought on felony charges. The men jumped from the moving auto and fled. The care smashed into a utility pole.

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CIVIC PRESENTS A TROUBLESOME PLAY Judith Lowry, Hale Mac Keen, Mary Allen and Ruth Hayes Play the Chief Roles in ‘The Sacred Flame.’ BY WALTER D. HICKMAN IT is my opinion that "The Sacred Fiame,” by W. Somerset Maugham, is a troublesome play. * It is troublesome to me because of its subject matter and the fact that a mother kills her own son who was crippled for life in an airplane accident. The reason for the act is that the mother did not want her invalid son’s day dreajn about the goodness of bis wife to be shattered. The wife had cheated with the brother of her own husband to the degree that she no longer loved her husband, but only had pity for

him. Maugham attempts to make the mother, played by Judith Lowry, an extreme modern person whose ideas of morals, purity, happiness and murder are very conflicting. The play has plenty of talk, too much so for a good play, and even the solution of the problem left me still troubled. Even the good work of Mrs. Lowry and the careful work of Mary Allen as Nurse Wayland did not relieve me of my troubled conception or reception of this play. To me the play is unpleasant theater and according to my rules of review is a poor play. I know that there is a vast difference of opinion regarding the literary worth of this Maugham play. This difference of opinion has been found in other cities where it has been presented. Mrs. Lowry played this role in Chicago for many weeks. Hale Mac Keen, the director, appears as the invalid husband in the first act and does a convincing piece of work. Ruth Hayes as Stella, the wife, did not convince me that the character was capable of receiving a great love and then throwing it away. Os course Mrs. Lowry has a big scene in the last act when she admits, not confesses, that she gave the overdose of sleeping powder to her son for the reason that she did not want her son to destroy his lovely dream about his wife. Sherwood Blue, Jane Sky, David Milligan and David Clarke are others in the cast. The set and the lights are right. Have your own opinion regarding the merits and the wiseness of the Civic Theater in presenting "The Sacred Flame.” Personally I

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think it will add nothing to the season. It is playing to capacity at the Civic Theater this week. a a a Ethel Barrymore and her company opens tonight at English's in "The School for Scandal.” Other theaters today offer: "Dancers in the Dark” at the Circle, 'Broken Lullaby’’ at the Indiana, "Business and Pleasure” at the Apollo, ‘‘Sky Devils” at the Palace, “Toe Ninth Guest” at Keith’s, "The Expert” at the Lyric, and burlesque at the Mutual. ana Neighborhood theaters tonight offer: "Delicious” at the Hamilton and Emerson, ‘‘Are These Are Children?” at the Irving. "Ladies of the Big House” at the Garfield, “Over the Hill” at the Stratford, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow” at the Daisy, “Union Depot” at the Hollywood, “Murder at Midnight” at the Belmont, and “His Woman” at the Mecca. THEFT LOOT_AT S2OO Autos and Apartments are Ransacked by Thieves. Loot valued at nearly S2OO was obtained by thieves who ransacked autos and apartments Tuesday, police said today. Thefts were reported by the following: Jessie Phillips, 1920 East Washington street, S4O; Cecil Bair, 1211 Sturm avenue, $42; Richard Lillard, 343 West Thirty-ninth street, S4O, and Cecil T. Day, 659 West Thirtieth street, SSO.

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FIGHT FEDERAL GASSALE TAX Indiana Petroleum Group Is Against Plan. Campaign to prevent a gas tax increase and to defeat the federal plan of placing a 4-cent tax on oil has been launched by the Indiana Petroleum Association, listing more than 300 members in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, Max L. Wickersham, executive secretary, announced today. Protest petitions, declaring the proposed new tax threatens the existence of oil and gas manufacturers and dealers, have been circulated among 300,000 motorists in the state, according to Wickersham. “The power to stop this constantly growing mania of the lawmaker to use the oil industry and its customers to finance the state and federal government only can be stopped by a vigorous protest from the constituency of voting power of the ultimate consumer. “If these tax burdens increase on the motorist, the sale of gasoline will be cut materially and the automobile industry will lose sales of many cars. Sale of tires will be decreased and all industries allied with automotive manufacture and use will lose heavily.”

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BY' BEN STERN THREE interesting congressional battles loom for the primary May 3 and give the only touch of color to an otherwise dull event. The two best stand-up and slambang affairs will be in the new Ninth, where two Democratic congressmen, thrown into the same district by the 1931 redistricting act and representing divergent schools of thought, will vie; and in the new Sixth, where two Republicans will contest. Seven aspirants are seeking the Democratic nomination in the new Fourth; and five avowedly are against continuance of prohibition; one is a dry, and the Seventh will abide by the platform adopted by the national convention. To discilss as fully as possible the. contests in the three districts and analyze the points of difference of the candidates, this column will be divided into two sections. a a a Today’s is devoted to the new Ninth, where Eugene Crowe of Bedford, a tyro at the congressional end of politics, although he has served as city, county and district chairman, has as his adversary, Harry Canfield of Batesville, veteran of five congresses and a similar number of primary and election battles. This is Crowe’s first term and he performed the unexpected when he defeated the tried and trained James W. Dunbar of New Albany in the 1930 election. The fact,

however, that the margin of victory was only 162 votes, may react against the Bedford man. Both men represent entirely different schools of social and economic thought. Crowe Is a liberal, although he has not announced on prohibition, but is opposed to the sales tax, wants federal backing of banking to insure deposits, immediate relief for the unemployed, and would curtail public utility domination. MM* Canfield is conservative and for years has been one of the ringtailed leaders of the monkey hguse. Asa member of the ways and means committee, he partly is responsible for conception of the sales tax monstrosity, which makes the burden heavier on working and middle class citizens and enables the higher bracket incomes to escape as lightly and easily as possible. Crowe is expected to take the field agairist Canfield with the sales tax and liberal legislation as an issue, thus putting the senior congressman on the defensive. We'll look at the picture in the Fourth and Sixth districts Thursday. Robbed of SB4O at Worship By llnilcd Print WASHINGTON. March 16.—Mrs. Faith Stanley of Hyattslille informed police she was robbed of SB4O while worshiping irt a highclass local church.

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