Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1932 — Page 9

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MELLON TAKES HALFWAY STAND ON WAR DEBTS Envoy to Disappoint Those Who Demand Every Cent and Cancellationists. America’* national lonc-trrm debt amunt* to *m* SI2.fMM.ftoo.MM). KuroDC’a war debt* to her total about 511.000.000.000. or nearly enough to par them off. Rot will r.orono oar? Mane aar no. Hero to *i; aeennd of three article* on the aubject. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrippa-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, March 30.—1f Great Britain or Europe believes Andrew W. Mellon, our new ambassador to the court of St. James, intends to start a move for war debts cancellation when he reaches London, a rude awakening is certain. If congress, on the other hand, believes he will follow its lead and demand "the last red cent,” whether or no, in accordance with existing agreements, it, too, is doomed tc disappointment. First of these categorical statements is made upon authority of both the White House and the department of state. The second is based upon the expressed view of Ambassador Mellon himself. While Mellon, as officially stated, will not take the initiative, there is reason to believe if and when there is anew debt deal—and there almost certainly will be one before the year is out—he will recommend revision on a basis of the individual nation’s capacity to pay. Wants Just Settlement “Frankly,” he has said. "I know of no fairer formula than capacity to pay. “To ask a debtor nation to pay substantially less than it is able to without undue burden on its people, is to do an injustice to our own taxpayers. To ask a foreign debtor to pay more than its capacity is to be guilty of an act of injustice such as I am sure can not be charged against us.” This was the formula he used in negotiating debt settlements with Britain, France, Italy, Belgium and the other allied powers. Britain was let off for about 80 cents on the dollar, France 50 cents, Italy 26 cents, and so on. When President John Grier Hibben and the 116 professors of Princeton took him to task for this inequality of treatment, Mellon, then secretary of the treasury, retorted with heat. Maps His Formula “Apparently,’’ he said, “you would have all debtors treated on an equality. Does this mean that the Italian settlement should be raised to a point where it would correspond to the British—which, of course, would impose a burden impossible of performance by Italy? “Or do you propose that the British be reduced to 50 per cent and the Italian raised to 50 per cent—which would make an easy settlement for Britain and a still impossible settlement for Italy? “Or do you propose that the British settlement shall be brought down to the Italian 26 per cent — thus imposing no real burden on England at all?” Here, all mapped out and diagrammed, is the Mellon formula, if, when he gets to London the war debts question comes up again—unless, of course, he has not performed a recent, complete, and unchronicled somersault. Mellon, however, as chief negotiator of the debt settlements, apparently did not regard them necessarily as the law of the Mcdes and Persians. Fair Balance Struck "No one can insure the future," he told the cancellationists of 1927. But, given normal conditions, he believed the settlements struck a just balance as between the American taxpayer and our w’ar-time allies. "With peace, and development of trade internally and externally,” he said, the settlements should not prove a burden too heavy to bear in the future. At any rate, he said, “a fair trial now’ can be had, not in theory, but in practice—the apparent inference being that if things did not work out as expected, or if conditions changed, something could be done about it when the time came. Now, five years later, the former secretary of the treasury is ambassador to Great Britain, leading exponent of cancellation or revision. The “normal conditions” of which he spoke no longer prevail. The "development of trade" at home and between nations listed by him as essential to the proper working of the settlements has not been realized. Far from it. Instead of progressing, it has suffered a record slump. Peace Broken Down And worlu peace, another vital element if the debt deals w’ere to stand, has broken down. There have, been wars and rumors of wars —foreign, civil and revolutionary—almost literally by the dozen. Beyond question the world faces a sadly altered situation. Economically, it has gone from bad to worse since the capacity of the various nations *o pay was gauged. So Ambassador Mellon will reach his post just about in time to feel the full force of Europe’s rising clamor for revision. Obviously, therefore, his stand will be watched'with interest. Next—How Congress Stands on War Debts. COUPLES GIVEN START BY MARRYING MAYOR. All Are Presented with Rolling Pin, Several Dollars. By United Frcs PAULSBORO, N. J„ March 30. Every couple made man and wife by James A. Wert, mayor of Paulsboro. start their married life with a rolling pin, a few silver dollars and a combination can opener, bottle opener and corkscrew. The mayor in performing the ceremony and presenting the gifts explains the rolling pins to the bride are to be used as "discretion’’ to insure “connubial bliss," while the silver dollars are to start a bank account.

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HOLLYWOOD. March 30 Rudy Vallee is coming back to make another picture, so the wise ones say. His first and only didn't click, but now they’re looking for singers again and he probably will get another chance. Two pictures in production which are causing plenty of talk around Hollywood are “Thunder Below" and "Horse Feathers."

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What would the florists do if it wasn’t for romance? Billie Dove back from a three months’ vacation in New York, Palm Beach and Havana. And bringing a swell coat of tan with her. George Raft standing in front of the Brown Derby, toying with a coin. Wonder if he acquired the habit while playing in “Scarface,” or if he did it in the film because it already was a habit. M-G-M wants a girl who looks like Garbo to play opposite Clark Gable in his next film. Who wouldn't? tt tt tt Blows to Polo POLO, the latest rage for Hollywood, received two sad blows when Reginald Denny decided to quit the game after taking a spill and when Clark Gable acceded to the wishes of his bosses and gave it up. M-G-M officials were afraid Clark would get stepped on or something. STONE PUTS ZIPPER ON BIG BANANA

Comedian’s Daughter Paula, Roy Royston, Lotti Loder and Billy Taylor Give Youthful Performances. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN FRED STONE has an “invention” in his show. “Smiling Faces,” which probably made Ed Wynn green with envy when he found It out. During the course of Stone’s new show, he calmly takes out a banana, pulls down two or three zippers, takes a bite and then draws the zippers back in original position. Stone then calmly puts the banana back into his pocket and the banana is ready for another lunch time. Really this is a good idea in these days.

I am just trying to tell you that Fred Stone is still handing out his

own clean fun like he has been doing for so many years on the stage. Years have left their mark, but Stone is still a great stage institution. And that he will be as long as he cares to stay on the stage. Stone still docs his famous cane dance and has a lood novelty dance number when he turns bootblack

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and blacks shoes in rhythm. In the last two years, his daughters, Paula and Dorothy have demanded attention. This season in "Smiling Faces,” Stone has the services of Paula only. Here is a gay and fine girl, who actually loves the stage and she shows it when she dances and sings. She has youth and that youth is being trained in the language of the stage, meaning song and dance. She is able to catch the look in her father’s eye, as well as the nod of his head and his funny little walk. Here is no stationary stone, but a Stone that will advance on the stage. Miss Stone has the dancing and singing assistance of Roy Royston and Billy Taylor and for a long time these three virtually carry thi burden of the show on their shoulders. Lotti Loder as the dresser to Paula, who is a movie star in the story of the play, is a good and resourceful comic. Hope Emerson has two pecentric song numbers which she puts over in fine individual style. Several of the dances make beautiful pictures and both the girls and the men dance well. They have youth and that,helps. There are at least three highly tuneful numbers in the score. Here is another healthful family buy in the American theater. At English's this afternoon and night. a a a Other theaters today offer: "The Lost Squadron” at the Circle; "Impatient Maiden" at the Apollo; Ted Lewis at the Indiana; "Uncle Tom’s Cabin” at Keith's; Mary Ann Jackson at the Lyric: "Arsene Lupin” at the Palace, and burlesque at the Mutual. Josef Chemiavsky and his orchestia plays tonight at the Indiana roof. a a a Neighborhood theaters tonight offer; "Mata Hari” at the Irving; “Lovers Courgeous” at the Hollywood and Emerson; “Heaven on Earth” at the Hamilton; “My Sin” at the Mecca; "The Guardsman” at the Stratford and "The Tip Off” at the Daisy. CLUB TO HEAR OXNAM De Fauw President Will Speak Before Chicago Kiwanians. Bit United Prrtg CHICAGO, March 30.—Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, president of De Pauw university, is scheduled to address the Chicago Kiwanis Club Thursday on "The Challenge of the Manchurian Situation to American Citizens." That is the anniversary of the first treaty between the United States and Japan, signed in 1854. The address will be broadcast over Station WGN. Dr. Oxnam recently returned from the Orient.

| HOLLYWOOD t | SJSS GOSSIP ! i 1 Intimate Glimpses and Inside Stuff on the Movie Colony . . .

Tallulah Bankhead, who hardly has lived up to the great things expected of her, is starred in the first. . . . The Four Marx Brothers are i "Horse Feathers" and publicity men promise us that it’s their funniest comedy. * tt 10 Days, 10 Chapters MONAEI LINDLEY, new Mack Sennett “find," spending her time between pictures writing a novel. And completing ten chapters in as many days. It looks as though this young lady is going places in the picture racket. Her first job was emitting off-stage screams. . . . And in her next film she was the leading lady. Joan Blondell taking diving lessoas from Georgia Coleman, national women’s diving champion. And in this weather, Joe E. Brown autographing baseballs. Ramon Novarro going into a florist shop. Wonder if that means more roses for Garbo?

! A ftGUK ~A~oar 8Y BRUCE CATTON BEFORE Donald Henderson Clark wrote “The Chastity of Gloria Boyd,” he must have read most of the newspaper clippings about the tragic Starr Faithfull case and decided, “What ho! Somebody could write a best-seller about this sort of thing.” That, at any rate, is the impression you gain from his novel. The Starr Faithfull case wasn’t exactly pleasant reading, and neither is the book. It deals with a girl who get away in life to a very bad start. Her mother wasn’t quite all she might have been, her favorite uncle was worse, her older sister was on the streets, and her brothers were the sort who ought to be sandbagged quietly and dropped into a crack in some glacier. Gloria Boyd, the girl in question, turns out to be about what you might expect. Her adventures take on a certain sameness, after a time, and 'when you get to the end of the book Mr. Clarke destroys whatever credibility his tale may have had by conducting the lady into holy matrimony and insisting that in spite of everything she had retained, somehow, an innate purity and fineness. "The Chastity of Gloria Boyd,” in other words, is phony. It is published by the Vanguard Press, and retails at $2. FA I LURE - ’TO EN FORCE AIR LAW PROTESTED Pilots Lacking U. S. Licenses Are Reported Flocking to State. Airplanes and pilots lacking department of commerce licenses, who have been "chased out of other states," are flocking to Indiana, due to failure to enforce a 1929 state law requiring such licenses, Governor Harry G.. Leslie and other state officials were told today by Joe T. Shumate, a department inspector, Shumate was in the Governor’s office with Grover C. Garrott, state police chief; Captain Rex Risher of the police; Walker Winslow, representing the Indiana Aircraft Trade Association, and a delegation from Ft. Wayne, for a conference on eni forcement of the 1929 statute. V. F. Funk, deputy attorney-gen- ! eral, holds state police are without authority to enforce the aircraft law r . He maintains such officers are I police only in name, and in reality are deputies of the secretary of j state and without authority except on state roads.

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RICH TEXAS OIL MAYOR BRANDSj WEALTHJUTILEJ You Can’t Enjoy Yourself When You’re Rich, He Tells New Yorker. BY H. ALLEN MITH United Pres* Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. March 30.—J. Malcolm Crim, millionaire mayor of Kilgore, Tex., settled himself into an easy chair at the Hotel New Yorker today and delivered himself of a lecture on the futility of being wealthy. “I’m having fun,” he said, “while I’m ip New York. But it won’t last long. You can’t enjoy yourself when you get rich. Look at me.” Crim, in his own words, was “just a poor country boy,” until December, 1930, when they struck oil on his mother’s farm. Now he has so much money that he can’t keep track of it. Everybody Wants Cash “One day they put a picture of me in the papers, after the well came in,” he said, “and I’m still getting letters. Every mortgage in the world was being foreclosed. People wrote me even from Russia that their mortgages were being foreclosed and would I please give them a little dough.” Crim was elected mayor of Kilgore a year ago when the town was in- | corporated. Prior to his acquisition of wealth, he ran a general store. “I sold everything,” he said, “from cradles to coffins.” “i never went in for politics,” he explained. “I never even heard of this fellow Garner, till lately. But I took the job as mayor because the town was getting overrun with the wrong kind of people. I took a census in January and there were ' 800 people in town. I took another , one in March and there were 15,000 people there. Big Potato in Little Field “We didn’t have any streets worth mentioning, no water, no sewer system, no nothing. Some of those streets were so bad a snake couldn’t j crawl on them.” Crim said he has no desire to ! leave Kilgore and live in New York, or any other big city. “I'd rather be a big potato in a little field, rather than a little ; potato in a big field,” he said. “And j while you’re at it you can put in the paper that I’m the only guy j that ever came out of Texas that j wasn’t a cowboy. High-heeled boots hurt my feet.”

REFORMATORY TERMS HALT FAMILY FEUD Three Brothers Are Sentenced After Trial in Salem. By Times Speciel SALEM, Ind., March 30.—The feud between the Gibson and Spurlock families ended here Tuesday when the three Gibson brothers, Gilfred, Alonzo and Dan, pleaded guilty to entering a house to commit a felony and were given reformatory sentences of one to ten years each by Judge W. W. Hottel. The brothers stormed the jail here in December, 1930, in an effort to kidnap John and Pleas Spurlock, who had killed their father, Patton Gibson. A gun fight at the jail ended in the death of their brother Otis, and failure to capture the Spurlocks. The Spurlock brothers were r#mvicted in connection with the slaying of the elder Gibson and were sentenced two to twenty-one years in prison. The sentence was appealed. At trials of the brothers, they denied the feud originated in the hills of Tennessee. They claimed the dispute between the families was over a liquor deal. Fascist Foe Dies in Exile PARIS, Italian Socialist and most formidable foe of the Mussolini regime, died in exile here early today. Turati formerly was editor of the newspaper Auanti.

AMUSEMENTS I Vi:l H2Sa ann Y JACKSON Our Rant: Movi Kid—ln Yerson LEW POLLACK REVUE LANDER BROTHERS Other Star Attractions SALLY EL SPENCER EILERS BREN DEL TRACT “DISORDERLY CONDUCT” With DICKIE MOORE Meet them IN PERSON SATURDAY VICTOR McLAGLEN of ‘'WHAT PRICE GLOBV” Fame and CHARLES JUDELS Funny, French Movie Comedian BERKELL PLAYERS In a Sumptuous KeviFal of “UNCLE TOM’S CABIN” | MATINEE WED.. THCBti.. SAT. | Nights. 60c, 35c. Mats., 35c, Me Next Week—“lPa • Wise CHII4"

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BY BEN STERN NOW is the time when organized minorities swing into action with their slates of recommended primary candidates. Two outstanding yet different types of such groups are the Indiana Anti-Saloon League and the Workers’ Nonpartisan Political Action League. In the past, the Anti-Saloon League has slated any one giving lip service to its cause, no matter how greatly the candidate violates in private the laws he publicly professes to admire. Asa whole, the voting public, so long led astray and beguiled into following false prophets by the leaders of the dry league, has begun to distrust its recommendations and as a result that group will cut very little ice in this year s primary. To be plain about it—an AntiSaloon league indorsement is the greatest handicap a candidate can have in this state this year. tt tt u ( The nonpartisan outfit has, in the main, made judicious selections, although errors have been made once or twice. Yet the percentage of mistakes is so small that its recommendations almost universally are respected. The group has been an outstanding force for social legislation. Legislative candidates on its recommended lists have hewed to the line and a check of their records in the 1931 session of the legislature reveals that they voted for the old age pensions, the tax on corporate and personal incomes, fought for more stringent control of utilities and on the whole favored liberal and enlightened legislation. The Nonpartisan League already has appointed the committee to make this year’s selections. tt tt tt Thousands of citizens will follow its recommendations, and if care is not observed this organization is likely to fall into the general disrepute of the Anti-Saloon League. For, after all, the nonpartisan league primarily was formed by union organizations to further their own legislation. Like many a professed dry candidate, many an aspirant pledges himself to vote for labor-favored bills and then is free to introduce as many “milking” and “shakedown” measures as desired. The Workers’ Nonpartisan League, if it desires to enjoy the respect and attention accorded its recommendations at present, must make the distinction between those who advocate labor and social legislation as a matter of principle and those who pledge adherence to the cause merely through opportunism and ambition. And this Is the year in which great care must be exercised. Hoarded Bills Buy Baby Bonds By United Press EMPORIA, Kan., March 30.—'The anti-hoarding campaign is working. More than $1,200 in old large sized bills, many of them yellow backs, have been used here in purchasing "baby bonds.’’

AMUSEMENTS ENGLISH—LAST TIMEI TODAY MAT. * NITE GK FRED fWSTONE PppILINiFACB; VJp7?*ANEW MUSfCAL OONEDf j R PAULA STONE j and Glamorous Cos. of 15. Eve*. 75c to SB.OO. Wed. mn Mat., Best Seats HON.,TOES.,WED., APR. 11 -12-13 Direct From Chicago Greatest Colored Show of All Time! A Symnhony of Blue Notes and Black Rhythm I 50c to $2.50 j 50c to $1.50 | MOTION PICTURES I NIGHT Bal- Or- Main I PRICES eooy Floor <***l | a jj Easter Week Program UH LEW MAE AYRES—CLARKE I "IMPATIENT I MAIDEN" with UNA MERKEL Reckless. Daring Lovers —ADDED—BENNY MEROFF In “It’s m Panic”

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YOUTH'S DEATH MAKES YEAR'S . AUTO TOLL 23 James W. Henthorn, 19, Is Latest Traffic Victim; Driver Arrested. Marion county’s traffic toll for the year stood at twenty-three with death Tuesday of James W. Henthorn, 19. of 651 North Hamilton avenue, in an auto mishap in the 1600 block Nowland avenue. Eight other motorists were injured in traffic crashes Tuesday night, according to police. Henthorn was riding in a car driven by Herbert Koehler, 18, of R. R. 12, Box 32-C. Police were told that Koehler was driving at high speed and attempted to turn as he approached a bridge at Pogue’s run. The car skidded nearly

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two hundred feet and overturned. Henthom’s skull was fractured and hi* chest crushed. He died within a few minutes. Serious Charges Filed Koehler was charged with speeding. reckless driving and involuntary manslaughter. Henthorn is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. R. Henthorn; four sisters and two brothers. Arrangements for the funeral have not been made. When an automobile in which they were riding collided with another car at Twenty-eighth street and Indianapolis avenue, Tuesday afternoon, three persons were injured. none seriously. Muncie Girls Hurt They are Dr. P. W. McCarty, 53; his wife, 50, and Miss Sarah Fairhurst, 85. all of 1926 West Washington street. Dr. McCarty treated his wife and Miss Fairhurst. Two persons were injured in an auto crash at Raymond street and Sherman drive. They are Miss Katherine Keelv, 17. of Muncie, and Miss Dorothea Harris, 27, also of Muncie. Minor bruises and lacerations were incurred by three occupants

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of a car in a collision at Wright and Orange streets. The Injured were Garland Herring. 34, of 1519 Wright street; his wife, Florida, 33, and a son, Robert. 7.

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