Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 294, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1932 — Page 14

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MASSIE FACES LONG GRILLING IN HONOR CASE 'Trigger Man’ in Slaying of Hawaiian to Undergo New Ordeal Today. BY DAN CAMPBELL t nlted Prm Staff Corrctptndcnt HONOLULU, April 18.—Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie, who admitted he "held the gun" when Joe Kahahawai was shot to death, faced anew ordeal on the witness stand today, as prosecutors sought to undermine his testimony on the theory that he was shielding his three codefendants. With two skilled alienists watching his every move in anticipation of testifying as to his sanity on the fatal morning. Lieutenant Massie steadfastly maintained he ‘‘remembered nothing” after the native is asserted to have confessed attacking blue-eyed Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie. Frankly distrustful of the young, Kentuckian’s story. Prosecutor John C. Kelley indicated he was ready to hold Massie for several days if necessary to get the “real story.” Darrow's 75th Birthday But under the protective wing of Clarence Darrow, chief defense counsel, Massie’s testimony likely will disclose little more than happened in the cottage of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Grace Bell Fortescue. Darrow, celebrating his 75th birthday today, served as an able buffer for the bitter shafts directed at Massie by the prosecutor. Kelley hinted his cross-examina-tion will attempt to bring out the part in the drama played by Mrs. Fortescue and two navy enlisted men, A. O. Jones and E. J. Lord, on trial with Massie. Massie made an unforgettable impression on the courtroom as he related his version of the slaying to a “melting pot” jury of mixed whites and browns. He denied intention to kill Kahahawai, and said he sought only to obtain a confession that the native participated in the attack on Mrs. Massie. Held Gun to Frighten Him “After a jury disagreed in the trial of Kahahawai and four others on the attack charges, vile rumors circulated about my wife,” the white-faced young lieutenant said. “An attorney advised me the only way I could quiet these rumors was to get a confession from one of the defendants. My wife repeatedly had told me how' she begged Kahahawai for mercy, and in return he broke her jaw.” He confided with Mrs. Fortescue and got Lord, a husky young boxer, and Jones, his trainer, to help, Massie said. They intercepted Kahahawai when he made a bail report at this old courthouse, and drove him to Mrs. Fortescue’s cottage. “I held a gun in my hand to frighten him,” Massie said. “We had Jones and Lord stationed outside the house. I charged Kahahaw'ai with the attack, but he denied it. Mrs. Fortescue said, ‘He w'on’t talk, let us carry out our other plans.’ “I told Kahahawai, ‘lf you w'on’t talk you will get what Ida got’.” He was referring to Horace Ida, another attack defendant, who was mobbed and beaten a few days before. Doesn't Remember Killing “Suddenly Kahahawai said, ‘Yes, w r e done it.’ ” Massie paused for a moment, his head bowed. A dropping pin could have been heard in the stifling courtroom as judge and jury awaited his next revelation. Darrow', master showman of this Island tragedy, gazed thoughtfully out of the window'. “I don’t remember what happened next,” Massie continued. “When Kahahaw'ai told me that, I saw my wife’s bruised and bloody face before my eyes. “The next thing I knew, I was being taken to the police station.” Massie offered no explanation of the bloodstains found in Mrs. Fortescue’s disheveled house, or how these two and Lord w’ere found in an automobile speeding toward Koko Head W'ith Kahahawai’s canvas wrapped body. The native had been shot through the heart with a single bullet. Around his neck was a piece of rope.

MOTHERS’ CHORUSES TO GIVE OPERETTA Schools Group Annual Meeting Scheduled Tuesday. “Se-A-Wa-Na.” an operetta, presented by the mothers choruses of schools No. 58 ahd 62. will feature the annual meeting of the Federation of Mothers Choruses Tuesday in Broadway M. E. church. The meeting will open at 10 with a business session. A luncheon will follow at 12:30. From 1:30 to 2 Miss Grace Black will give an organ recital. The musical production will be presented at 2. Mrs. Maude Moudy, principal of school No. 58. and president of the federation, will preside. Mrs. Juliet Shaw will be in charge of the presentation of the operetta. COUNCIL MEETING SET International Relations Group to Gather May 12, 13 and 14. Annual conference of the Indiana Council of International Relations will be held May 12. 13 and 14 in the Claypool. The meeting will be held in cooperation with the Indiana Collegiate International Relations Clubs and will be sponsored by the Carnegie endowment for international peace. Dr. Andrew W. Cordier will be director.

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OUR OWN SPEEDWAY GOES HOLLYWOOD James Cagney This Time Becomes a Race Driver Who Sees His Younger Brother Become the Big Shot. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN THE Indianapolis Speedway again has gone Hollywood in “The Crowd Roars,” but the direction and sense of realistic values are great improvement over a picture called “Speedway.” The more I think about “The Crowd Roars,” I think that the actors as well as the director are getting to see th e racing game through the eyes of the real race driver. The most foolishly presented character on the stage and screen has been the newspaper reporter and next to him the race driver. Those oi us who actually know the Speedway track and the driver know that we have a real blending of honest comedy as well as honest tragedy.

The director has tried to recognize that fact in “The Crowd Roars.” At least one exciting spill has been rigged up for the big thrill near the end of the picture. At times we have the real Speedway in action and then the director lets her slip and the whole yarn goes Hollywood with a bang. At one time when the race is supposed to be done in the spring, the sides of

the track are lined with snow, the :rees are bare and so are the grandstands. ’ Minor as these things seem more people have spoken to me about these little irregularities than they have about the scenes which are corking fine entertainment. James Cagney is cast as the race track driver who

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discovers that his younger brother, played so sympathetically by Eric Linden Cagney breaks away from his girl friend and threat her “rotten,” because he doesn’t want his brother to know that such things go on, at least in story books. Then, when the brother s'parts playing around with a pretty wise dame, big brother becomes hostile and the battle of the brothers is on. And it is a battle of destruction on the track as well as in the flat. And the ending is a comedy one which jumps so suddenly in an ambulance which was supposed to leave the Indianapolis Speedway for a local hospital when the sky line is not that of Indianapolis. My, my, my! But—the thrills are there and there is a lot of honest acting. Harry Hartz, Lou Schneider, Billy Arnold and other real race drivers are there. Now at the Apollo. a a * LOOKING AT “BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK” Sometimes ago. Ivor Novello wrote a nifty for the stage and named it “The Truth Game.” Now it has been brought to the talking screen as a movie vehicle for

Robert Montgomery. It is still a nifty, but the director has made the mistake in dragging out the story too long. A little judicial cutting in some scenes would speed up the yarn and do wonders with it. Montgomery is cast as Max, too good looking and too lazy to work. C. Aubrey Smith is his father and he is too aristo-

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cratic and too lazy to earn his living J by the sweat of his brow. So he places his son on the matrimonial block and Junior always falls for a pair of light feminine blue eyes with an empty pocketbook instead of a lot of cash. Some of the conversational batbattles between Smith and Montgomery are quite nifty. Especially when poor papa was too busy studying to attend to business. Papa was reading a naughy French magazine, a close cousin to the French picture postal card. The two leading women are rather strange to me. Heather Thatcher wears a monocle and dresses mannish. Nora Gregor has a strange brand of charm. Both probably will have to wait until further notice before I can pass a verdict on them. Here is a lot of gay and nice nonsense acted in nifty dress suit fashion by Robert Montgomery, who knows how to wear such things even while crawling on his knees in his girl friend’s bedroom. Now at the Palace. u n n WHEELER, WOOLSEY AND MITZI ARE WINNERS The movie people have taken “Girl Crazy," which seemed to be quite a musical comedy hit on 1 Broadway, but not so successful in stage form elsewhere, and have used its framework as the structure for the comedy antics of Bert Wheeler as the New York taxi driver, who becomes a western sheriff by accident, for Mitzi Green as Bert’s sister and for Robert Woolsey as the big New York gambler. And the result is that “Girl Crazy” on the screen is both a

laughing ‘ and a giggling picture. You may laugh right out loud or you may just giggle, but you will do one or both. I did both. They have used only one song number of the original score and that is “I’ve Got Rhythm," and they have done a grand job with that number. Even the orchestra is hot and so has been

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Real honest to goodness auto race drivers take part in "The Crowd Roars” with James Cagney and Joan Blondell. This picture, part of which was made at the Indianapolis Speedway, now playing at the Apollo, with Harry Hartz, real driver, in the cast.

truth is that this team doesn’t miss a single bet for a laugh] It is their movie and all is well. You will remember Mitzi Green because she does corking impersonations of George Arliss, Edna May Oliver and others. And she looks like ’em too. Now at the Circle. a tt tt STUART WALKER DIRECTED THIS ONE Naturally in Indianapolis we are interested in Stuart Walker because he has given us so many fine things on the stage in his stock seasons here. While he was in Indianapolis he made many stars what they are today on Broadway. And now as a

director in Hollywood he is doing the same thing for the screen. The future will prove that statement or otherwise. Walker directed “The Misleading Lady," a story about a girl who wanted to act but she had to

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prove to the playwright that she possessed enough of that “it” quality to interest a man to propose to her in a certain length of time. The man was a scientific engineer, played very he-mannish by Edmund Lowe. She allows Lowe to pop the question while she has a recording device rigged up to a phonograph in the room. But somebody turns the machine on before the would-be actress could get it off of the machine and a house party roars at Lowe popping the question. Lowe then kidnaps the girl (played by Claudette Colbert in the right way) and takes her to a mountain retreat. It is here that Walker has a chance to put hokum into a Tiffany setting as the author introduces an escaped inmate of an asylum who thinks that he is Napoleon and Stuart Erwin is the person who plays Boney. 1 noticed many of the clever touches of Walker’s direction in these scenes and he does not permit Boney to overact to the degree of just being only a comic. When Boney gives advice about love, well it is the real article. Walker is learning his way about the studio and this one is miles ahead of his first directing effort. Now at the Indiana. tt u u Fannie Brice, Phil Baker and Ted I Healy are at English’s this after- ! noon and night in a return engagement in “Crazy Quilt.” Other theaters today offer: “Uni expected Husband," at Keith's; Sue 1 Carol and Nick Stuart at the Lyric, and burlesque at the Mutual. REXALL CLUB MEETS 500 Come to City for Sales Parley of Drug Organization. H. E. Bickel, Goshen, president of the Indiana Rexall Club, is the presiding officer at the two-day convention of Rexall druggists, independently owned stores, which opened at the Claypool today. Approximately 500 agents who are here to discuss plans for the year, also will attend a banquet and dance, given by the United Drug Company tonight. TINY TWINS ARE DEAD Babies Weighing Less Than Four Pounds Live But Short Time. Boy and girl twdn babies born Saturday at St. Vincent’s hospital to Mrs. Marie Smith Trueblood, 3615 Prospect street, are dead. Their combined weight was less than four pounds. The son died a few hours after birth and the daughter early Sunday.

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POOR GET MORE FOOD AS COSTS ARE (M AGAIN $2.77 Basket Now Contains Larger Stock of Supplies Than $3 Bought in ’3l. BY LOWELL NUSSBAUM. The depression can be blamed for a lot of things, including the forcing of nearly 10,000 Center township families to obtain food baskets from the trustee, but in one instance, it actually is benefiting both the trustee and the needy. Comparison of items placed in the trustee’s food baskets today v’ith those of last year shows the reedy are receiving more food in each basket than last year, and at the same time lowered food prices have resulted in lessening the cost of each basket to the township. Prices and basket lists are revised about every two weeks by Mrs. Hanna Noone. Center township trustee, to keep step with lowered food costs. Poor relief baskets are distributed on orders issued by the trustee’s office to designated groceries. New Prices Cited Prices paid under the most recent list, adopted last week, are: No. 1 basket, for two persons in a family, $2; No. 2 basket, for two to five persons, $2.77; No. 3 basket, for five to eight persons, $3.61, and No. 4 basket, for more than eight persons, $4.54. Most baskets issued are No. 2. Comparing the present No. 2 basket, costing $2.77, with the No. 2 basket of last September, costing $3, it is found the present basket contains more food, while costing 23 cents less. Items placed in the baskets last September and omitted now, include: Rolled oats, 8 cents: frankfurters, 15 cents: macaroni. 8 cents: onions, 3 cents: cabbage, 8 cents, and one pound of bacon less, 9 cents, a total of 51 cents worth of food eliminated from the basket. Additions to the baskets include: Extra can of milk, 8 cents; rice, 5 cents; syrup, 12 cents; baking powder. 10 cents; dozen eggs, 15 cents; two pounds boiling beef, 28 cents, a total of 78 cents worth of food added to the basket. Government Provides Flour The township is saved an additional 10 cents through use of free government flour, ground from wheat donated by the federal farm board. - Instead of including three pounds of flour, 10 cents, in each basket each week, a total of twelve pounds of flour a month, the trustee now issues orders for a twenty-four-pound sack of the government flour for each family each month. Items included in the present No. 2 basket include: Boiling beef, two pounds, 28 cents: bacon or sugar cured jowl, one pound 9 cents: lard, one pound. 8 cents; oleo, one pound, 10 cents; eggs, one dozen, 15 cents; potatoes, 17 pounds. 22 cents; apples, three pounds, 15 cents; can of tomatoes, 10 cents; can of salmon, 12 cents; baking powaer or one pint vinegar, 10 cents; can of syrup. 12 cents; milk, two cans 15 cents; apple butter, one quart. 20 cents' sugar two pounds, 11 cents; beans, two pounds, 7 cents: rice, one pound. 5 cents; coffee, one pound. 21 cents; salt, pepper, matches (alternating each week), 5 cents: toilet soap, one bar, 6 cents; laundry'soap. th.ee bars, 11 cents; bread, five loaves. 25 cents. Credit Adds Cost Food prices could be reduced considerably if the township were able pay grocers cash, or within a reasonable period, Mrs. Noone said. Under present conditions, she pointed out, grocers must wait as long as six months or more until bonds can be issued by the township to pay poor relief bills, thus forcing the grocers to borrow money to continue in business. Despite lowered food prices, the total cost of feeding the needy constantly is growing, due to the increased number of baskets being issued. Relief Needs Increase In January, 1932, the Center township trustee issued 29,381 baskets. In February, this year, the number rose to 30,258, while in March 33,997 ; were issued. In January, baskets cost the township $99,858, while in February the sum was $101,498. Figures for March are incomplete, the sum of $49,765 having been spent for food in the first half of the month. This is a total of $251,111 for the first two and one-half months of this year, nearly SIOO,OOO more than was spent for groceries for the same period last year. More Milk Dispensed In addition to the baskets, the trustee issued 6,666 milk orders, the orders averaging seven quarts each. In February the number had risen to 8,293. and in March to 11,343. In January, the trustee issued 6,972 tons of coal to destitute families; 7,469 in February and 8,085 in March. Increased total expenditures of the Center township trustee for poor relief, as shown by records in the county auditor’s olflee, are: November, $74,561; December, $102,181: January, $141,163; February, $140,434; March 1 to 15, $75,990.

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TtA'EDUSA and her snake-heads that wriggled like a windblown bob was a piker compared to H. A. (Red) Terrell, town marshal et al„ of Beech Grove. Terrell has the oddest job in the town, because he has as many jobs rolled into his one as Medusa had snake-heads. Today Terrell may be town marshal, but tonight he may be fire chief. Tuesday he may skip from park to disposal plant engineer and wind up the day for good measure by being the town’s board of health, street commissioner, director of poor relief for Perry township trustees and amateur veterinarian. And if that doesn’t fill his day. he can take a turn at being collaborating epidemiologist for the United States government. Terrell is “Red” to Beech Grovesters. It’s a nickname said affectionately and with the constant belief that whatever goes wrong that is needed is to leave it up to “Red" in his multiple capacity. # n o I> ED" has been called from -tv goat doctoring to banditcatching and from fire-fighting to shooting a mad dog. He hangs quarantine signs as a epidemiologist and moves on to the job of saving some destitute family from starvation. There’s one thing “Red” likes—his jobs. There’s one thing “Red" hates—publicity. For, as tough as his job seems to be, it wasn’t half as tough as arguing him into talking about himself or posing for the above photo. “Aw! that’s nothing. All these jobs. Say, I’ve got plenty of spare time to throw a line now and then," he declares modestly. And Beech Grovesters vouch for that, for they say “Red” throws as mean a bass line as he does his job of moving from job to job.

The End. SLAIN THIEF UNKNOWN Folice Continue Efforts to Identify Negro Shot in Burglary. Efforts to identify a Negro burglar shot fatally Saturday by Rudolph Grosskpof in his home at 4847 Carrollton avenue, are being continued by police today. Fingerprints of the victim have been sent to authorities throughout the country. The Negro, believed to have been the “flashlight burglar" who entered five other homes last week, was about 25. THIEVES GET $516 LOOT Warehouse, Homes and Autos Are Emered Over Week-End. Thieves looted a warehouse, homes and automobiles of nearly $516 in cash and merchandise during the week-end, according to detectives. Thefts were reported by: .Maridian Petroleum Company, 1101 East Twenty-third street, $66; Mrs. Elizabeth McCarty, 3733 North Meridian street, sls; Sol Enoivitz, 2334 Ashland avenue, S4OO, and James Sweeney, 3030 East New York street, $35. Australian “Red Army” Reported By United Press SYDNEY, April 18.—Formation of a so-called “red army" of 40,000 men was reported today in industrial areas of New South Wales.

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INDIANA HARD HIT BY TARIFF Value of Exports Shrinks Greatly in Year. By Times Special WASHINGTON, April 18.—The tragic effect on Indiana of the retaliatory trade barriers which other countries erected after passage of the Smoot-Hawley tariff act was revealed today by the department cf commerce. The value of Indiana merchandise exported, according to the department, shrunk from $55,628,025 in 1930 to $30,604,462 in 1931. Passenger autos and chasses ranked first in value among the state’s exports in 1931, amounting to $4,285,259, compared with $8,214,290 in 1930. Other leading exports listed with comparative values for 1931 and 1930 were: Auto accessories, (excepting tiresX, $2,841,628 and $3,191,014; lard, $2,769,195 and $3,644,952; other industrial machinery and parts, $2,528,429 and $2,971,930; gasoline,

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SUSPECT HELD IN KIDNAPING OF DELAWARE GIRL Man, Woman Are Sought; Child Returned With No Ransom Paid. By United Press PHILADELPHIA. April 18.—One man was under arrest today in connection with the kidnaping of Hilda Brodsky, 8-year-old Wilmington girl, a Philadelphia police official said. The girl was returned home without payment of ransom Sunday. After admitting the suspect was being held and that the arrest of another man and a woman is expected shortly, the police official refused to commit himself further, lives in Wilmington and is held by Delaware police. He is suspected as an accomplice. The woman and man being sought are the persons, police believe, who lured the girl into their automobile and sought the ransom. The man, they claim, is a wellknown gangster. The kidnapers were not promised immunity. If arrested and found guilty of kidnaping and demanding ransom, they can be executed. If no ransom was demanded and they are found guilty of abduction, the state law provides a long prison term. The girl was lured into an automobile while on her way to school Friday and she was returned unharmed to Philadelphia police Sunday. Wilmington police took her to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brodsky, in Wilmington. Police said no ransom was paid, although it was reported $50,000 had been asked in a note received by the parents. The child was returned to police by the Rev. Joseph M. Pugliese. South Philadelphia Roman Catholic priest, with whom the kidnapers had negotiated. Police said the girl had recognized the woman, who took part in the kidnaping as one she had seen in her father's hosiery factory in Wilmington about ten days ago. The man under arrest, police said,

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