Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 300, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1932 — Page 12
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BUTLER SENATE VICTORY MEANS HOOVER REBUKE President’s Prestige, Dry Question Are Issues in Two Primaries. BY RAY TUCKER Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, April 25.—President Herbert Hoover’s prestige, prohibition and the Smith-Roosevelt feud are involved in the presidential and senatorial primaries which Massachusetts and Pennsylvania will stage Tuesday in the most important pre-convention contests of the campaign. The result of the clash between Smith and Governor Roosevelt in the two states may determine whether the latter or somebody else will head the Democrats’ national ticket. If Roosevelt picks up most of Pennsylvania’s seventy-six delegates, and wins a fair proportion of the Bay States thirty-six, politicians may conclude that he will survive the attack on him by the 1923 nominee. Present indications are that Roosevelt will have the edge in Pennsylvania and Smith in Massachusetts. In addition to the interest in their contest, politicians will study the votes for evidence that, as in western states, the Democrats have won new adherents in these eastern conservative commonwealths. Bears on Wet Angle The outcome in the contest between Senator James J. Davis and Major General Smedley Butler for the Republican senatorial nomination in Pennsylvania may influence the movement to transform the G. O. P. from a dry to a damp party. If Davis, who belatedly has become wet, should W'in, and also carry the rural districts, it will reinforce arguments that Hoover shift over to the wet side. But if Butler wins, or gets a big i vote, the drys will cite it as warning against any change by the administration. A Butler victory would be regarded as a rebuke to Hoover. The former marine has urged direct unemployment relief and payment of the bonus, which the administration opposes, and he has the support of Governor Gilford Pinchot, Republican progressive. Deprived of Patronage Another sidelight on Hoover’s strength or weakness in this G. O. P. stronghold may be found in the congressional contest between Representative McFadden and Mrs. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot. Following McFadoen’s bitter attack on Hoover as "having sold out to the international bankers,” he was deprived of his patronage and excommunicated from the party. Even though the local organization is backing him, he has refused to withdraw his criticism of the President, and if he wins it will furnish no comfort to the White House. In Massachusetts there is a district delegate scrap involving the President. William F. Whiting of Holyoke, who succeeded Hoover as secretary of commerce, refused to become a delegate pledged to the President, and was struck off the slate by National Committeeman Louis K. Liggett. Asa result, Whiting is running independently against a Hoover delegate. Indications are that Whiting will win easily. DEMOCRATS GET RATES TO CHICAGO CONVENTION $24 Will Include Railroad Fare and 3 Days Lodgings. Special rates for attending the - Democratic national convention at j Chicago the week of June 26 have \ been arranged by the Democratic Club convention committee, it was announced today. Committee members will be at the club from 12 to 2 daily to accept reservations, ppen to all Democrats in the county. The special rate of $24 includes railroad fare, three days at the Hotel Stevens, bus ride around Chicago, a four-hour moonlight boat ride and dance on Lake Michigan, banquet ticket and convention ticket. Committee members include Mark R. Gray, chairman; Frank J. Viehmann. treasurer; Martin Walpole, City Clerk Henry O. Goett, Building Commissioner William F. Hurd, Gar Davis, Gus Mueller and Ira Haymaker. Tickets also may be obtained at Viehmann’s office, Delaware and Ohio streets. ARREST 1,000 IN INDIA Nationalists Nabbed at New Delhi on Eve of Demonstration. By ini ted Pres* NEW DELHI. India. April 25. Hundreds of police were quartered in tents on itoads leading to New Delhi today as the government's arrests of Nationalist congress delegates scheduled to meet here in an independence demonstration exceeded 1,000. Students Temper Salary Hopes By l nited Pres* NEW YORK. April 25.—The depression has made New York university students a little bit doubtful about their money-making ability. In 1930, the seniors estimated they would command a salary of $1,500 yearly on graduation. This year's class reduced the estimate for S3OO.
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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belons to: Charles Oessler. 1422 Park avenue, Oakland coupe from 1422 Park avenue. Jo Hardin. 3551 West Sixteenth street. Ford coupe. X24-IS9, from in front of 1406 South Harding street. Mrs. Charles T. Caldwell. R. R 5. Franklin. Ind.. Packard sedan, from Georgia and Meridian streets. Flovd Wimmer, R R. 11, Box 233 M. Buick coupe. 117-061. from in front of 1441 Belle Vieu place. Lvle McGuire. 1838 East Minnesota street. Ford roadster, from Hunter and Prospect streets. Pauline Tatum. 2460 North New Jersev street. Essex coav.h. 90-377. from in front of 2460 North N* Jersev street. Ted Pierson, 723 Biltmore avenue Chevrolet coach 56-062, from Hovev and Tw-en-tv-thlrd street*.
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Stolen automobiles recovered bv police belong to: Dudlev willisto® 8055 North Meridian street. Sluts coupe, found in rear of city hospital John Beaslev. Mars Hill. Ford roadster, found at 61$ Warren avenue.
NOWIS GOODTIME TO MAKE COMPARISON Talking Version of ‘The Miracle Man’ Affords a Splendid Opportunity to Consider It in Silent Form. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN THE silent version of “The Miracle Man” many years ago ushered in anew day for dramatic art on the screen, focused attention upon the late Lon Chaney to the extent that he became one of fllmdom’s greatest figures. The talking version, made brilliant by the advanced talking art of the screen, will accomplish none of these things, not because it is not a finely acted and directed picture, but because the novelty of the theme is gone.
Meaning that the new crop of movie goers will probably rave over
the talking version because it is novelty to them but we old timers who saw the silent version will bother ourselves with c o m p a risons. When we come down to brass tacks the talking version is superior j in most items to the silent version with Lon Chaney, i Betty Compson, j and Thomas!
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Meighan. And yet the talking j version of this same story will not ! make stars or leaders of Sylvia Sidney. Chester Morris, Irving Pichel, : John Wray or Hobart Bosworth j although their acting is superior, because the mechanics or the methods of registering expression o n the talking screen is superior today. To my way of thinking John Wray gives a bigger performance of the crook with the bogus crippled body than the late Chaney, because of Wray’s ability to use his voice so successfully. Chester Morris is more cruel as John Madison, the brains of the grafting gang on faith healing than Thomas Meighan. It is a tossup between Sylvia Sidney and Betty Compson as Helen Smith, a member of the gang who comes clean, mentally, spiritually and morally under the influence of the Patriarch played with intensive feeling by Hobart Bosworth.
The best acting performance is the work done by Robert Coogan as the cripple boy who throws away his crutches and is honestly cured by the Patriarch, because he “believes.” The cure scene showing the crook pulling a fake cure and the cripple boy being honestly healed is one of the great scenes of this picture. To my way of thinking, the talking version of “The Miracle Man” is the outstanding movie of the week. Now at the Indiana. HUM CONCERNING “THE WET PARADE” AT PALACE The first part of “The Wet Parade” shows the old saloon making degenerates and incompetents out of men and women in the old south. The second part shows the cheap and often poisonous liquor of the bootlegging making murderers and destroyers of homes out of men in a great northern city. The movie closes with a suggestion that somebody will come along big enough to cure this “evil” with its
jangsters and the like which has caused anew and sinister element in society. When the head of the enforcement department of prohibition declares that he is fed up with the “farce of prohibition,” or words to that effect, and hat he felt like going out and getting drunk himself, the audience applauded
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when I was present. The story concerns the suffering that the saloon brought into the home of Roger Chilcote (Lewis Stone) and influences his daughter Maggie May, played with understanding by Dorothy Jordan, to pray and work for national prohibition. During both the wet and prohibition days, Kip Tarleton, played by Robert Young, sees his father (played so well by Walter Huston) goes from being just a drunk until he became a murderer because he murdered his own w-ife from drinking poisoned bootleg whisky. That drives Kip to become a prohibition agent and in so doing nearly gets a fatal ride from the bootleg gang. Neil Hamilton gives a vigorous performance as Roger Chilcote Jr„ who paid with his eyesight by | drinking bad bootleg hooch. Jimmy Durante gives a comedy performance of a prohibition agent who tastes the bootleg hooch in the modern speakeasy and then swears out a warrant, but the picture show’s Jimmy never getting a real conviction. There is going to be a mixed verdict. on “The Wet Parade,” and my personal verdict is very much mixed. Be your ovm judge. But you are going to talk about this one aaid there will be many hot arguments over it. Now at the Palace. * # HERE IS SOME VERY SMART SATIRE You are going to find a lot of smart and pointed satire in “It’s ! Tough to Be Famous,” with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., as a member of the | navy who suddenly found himself to be a national hero because he saved a submarine crew from perishing at the bottom of the ocean. That part of the public which insists on having public heroes to remake Scotty (Fairbanks) and they just about ruin this lad and his pretty wife, played nicely by Mary Brian. At times the satire becomes very
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Scotty and starts selling the untrue side of the new national hero. This publicity so upsets our hero in his own home that his wife left him after a terrible outburst of temper from her husband. And I personally feel that Scotty had a right to be tough because he picks up a magazine and
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reads under the name of his own wife how “saintly and sweet he looks at night,” while sleeping on his pillow at night by her side. Scotty refuses to continue to be the national hero, when suddenly another sailor did the great stunt of jumping overboard in midocean and rescuing a pet dog. The public (meaning the public, of course, in this movie) showered the hero and the dog with ticker tape and all just as they did Scotty. Scotty was fast becoming an ex-hero and he didn’t have a dog. And the very end of the picture gives you a great laugh because by just doing his human duty, Scotty would have reinstated himself as a national hero. But Scotty and his wife retreat in an auto. Not a great picture, but mighty interesting theater, with a lot of truth behind every laugh. I like it. Now at the Circle.
ana KAY FRANCIS IS NOW A MOVIE ST*R The movie magf 1 £ have decided that Kay Francis is glamorus and ; big enough to be a star and now ; all is needed that sufficient people ; pay their money to see Kay as a star. We have her this week in her first starring vehicle, “Man Wanted,” in
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which the former trained actress on an In and ianapolis stage by Stuart Walker years ago, shows the results of that early training. I have always maintained that Miss Francis was such a fine example of the perfect clothes wearing type that she could not fail in sophisticated roles and plays. She has that sort of a role
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in “Man Wanted” i n which she is the editor of a smart society magazine, w'ho falls helplessly in love with her male secretary as played by Da\ld Manners. David has his troubles because he is engaged to Ruth Holman as played so comically by Una Merkel. Neither the story or the acting claims to be realistic, It is just the same old formula that has worked wonders at the box office for years. This time it is better and smarter acted than formerly. It. gives Miss Francis a chance to wear some wonderful gowns and stage a series of normal love scenes. Os course the ending is happy because the female boss of the magazine gets her secretary for keeps. The photography, scenery and costumes are right. Now at the Apollo. The annual revue of Indiana University,” The Jordan River Revue,” was presented Saturday matinee and night at English’s. The night performance of this revue closed the road of more than eighty students concerned with this big production. About fourteen Indianapolis men and women students at the university took part. Indianapolis theaters todav offer: Ida belle Arnold in “Getting Gertie’s Garter” at Keiths. Beth and Betty Dodge at the Lyric, and burlesque at the Mutual. Neighborhood theaters tonight offer: “Shanghai Express” at the Mecca, “Strangers in Love” at the Tuxedo. ‘Dance Team” at the Stratford, “Business and Pleasure” at the Belmont and Emerson, “The Wiser Sex” at the Hollywood, “The Final Edition” at the Daisy, “Polly of the Circus" at the Talbot, and “Broken Lullaby” at the Hamilton. WOMEN TAKE LIVES BY POISON AND GAS One Swallows Fatal Potion After Registering at Hotel. Poison and gas were chosen by tw r o w’omen Sunday as methods of suicide. Mrs. Charlotte Newmyer, 35, : swallowed poison shortly after entering a room at the New Occidental hotel, South Illinois street. She left a note reading as folows: “Dear Bernard—When this is read ;to you—. Please notify Mrs. C. A. Huff, 5210 Grandview drive Wash- : ington 2181.” Mrs. Huff told police the suicide ! victim had been employed three w’eeks in her home as a maid. Body of Mrs. Amelia Fickensher, 45, who inhaled gas in her home at 405 Douglass street, was discovered by a sister, Mrs. Mary Kelly, 1334 North Tuxedo street, who came to visit her.
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YEAR’S TRAFFIC TOLL IN COUNTY MOUNTS TO 35 Two Negroes Are Latest Auto Crash Fatalities; Drivers Arrested. Traffic death toll in Marion county since Jan. 1 stands at thirty-five today. The latest additions to the list of dead are George Basey, 18, of 53 North* Jefferson avenue, and A1 Jordan, Negro, who lived at the Negro Y. M. C. A. Basey was killed late Saturday when he was hurled from a truck
at Forty-sixth and Meridian streets, when it collided with an automobile driven by Miss Violet Wilson, 31, of Zionsville. She is held
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on charges of involuntary manslaughter and speeding. Dr. E. R. Wilson, deputy coroner, ordered the arrest. The youth was riding on a truck operated by William Forthoffer, 19, employe of a delivery service. Miss Brookie McDonald, Zionsville, was a passenger in the automobile. She and Miss McDonald suffered cuts and bruises. Jordan died in city hospital this morning of injuries incurred April 13 when struck by an automobile driven by Littel Carpenter, Negro, 2037 Boulevard place. Carpenter is awaiting trial on a reckless driving charge. Man's Skull Fractured Among a dozen persons injured in week-end traffic accidents, one is in a serious condition today at St. Francis hospital. He is Harry Brower, 57, R. R. 1, Box 30, who suffered a skull fracture when he was struck by an automobile on Carson avenue, a mile south of Troy avenue. The car was driven by N. F. Morgan, Southport. Bert Plew, 56, of 5639 Greenfield avenue, suffered a fracture of the left leg and cuts on the chin when his automobile struck a traffic sign at English and Emerson avenues. Arthur S. Jones, 48, of 2006 East St. Clair street, who received a broken leg when struck by an automobile at St. Clair street and Massachusetts avenue, is held on a drunk charge. The car was driven by Rowoe Hammons, 24, of 334 Fulton street. Three Children Hurt Three children were among the injured. Leland Miller, 10, of 349 South Holmes avenue, was cut and bruised when a bicycle ije was riding was struck by a taxicab. Sarah Rogers, 6, of 1702 Lockwood street, received a leg injury when struck by a truck. Warren Oldham, 8, Negro, of 2408 North Oxford street, was bruised when struck by an automobile at Twenty-fifth and Oxford streets. Others injured included: Robert Bania, 741 North Bosart avenue, and Mrs. Lee Cornett, 2641 Manker street, cuts; Cletus Snyder, 21. of 113 West Georgia street, cuts and bruises: Mrs. Etta Brotz, 45. of 1666 Naomi street, chest injuries, and Mildred Harlan, Xokomo, face cuts and bruises.
TWO RELEASED IN FUH DEATH Mrs. Keith-Miller, Captain Lancaster Set Free. By United Press MIAMI, Fla., April 25.—Two-wom-en claimed the love of Haden Clarke today, as investigation into the death of the young writer, found shot to death here last Thursday, failed to reveal any definite evidence proving suicide or murder. One was Mrs. Jessie M. KeithMiller. Australian aviatrix, in whose bungalow Clarke died. Clarke had resided there along with Captain William N. Lancaster, Mrs. Keith-Miller’s manager, while he assisted the woman flier in writing a book. The other woman was Peggy Browne, who appeared late Saturday at the office of Vernon Hawthorne, state's attorney, and declared that she, and not Mrs. KeithMiller, was the sweetheart of Clarke. In the face of evidence which Hawthorne previously had said tended to disprove the theory that Clarke took his own life, Mrs. KeithMiller and Captain Lancaster were released from all suspicion of Clarke's death. They had been held since the body was found. TRIGGER-BOY SOUGHT Mother Charges Lad, 13, Shot Father Fatally. By l nited Press GILBERT, Ariz..-April 25.—Bobby Merrill, 13, was hunted by police today when they said his mother charged him with shooting and fatally wounding his father, R. W. Merrill, 40, and injuring his brother Charles, 11, Saturday night. Mrs. Merrill, hysterical, answered questions about the shooting by saying, “Bobby did it,” but gave no motive. Circus Tickets Await Runaway By United Press CHICAGO, April 25.—Albert Zengel told police* today he thought his 14-year-old boy John would come hurrying back home if he could only get word to him that a pair of circus tickets await his arrival. The youth ran away to seek his fortune a month ago.
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Joseph Tozier Confesses Ash Can Baby Crime, Say Detectives. Confession that he strangled his new born son and placed the body in an ash can has been made by Joseph Tozier, 28, of 1335 North Alabama street, detectivees stated today. Body of the baby was found in an alley at the rear of 101 East Fourteenth street on April 14. It was born the preceding day. Marriage of the parents took place April 10 at Noblesville. The mother was Miss Josephine Duckwall, De Pauw university graduate. The parents were employed in a downtown department store here. Tozier, shortly after his arrest, stated the baby was born dead. “I can not sleep at night and I want to make this additional statement,”- Tozier stated in prefacing the confession, according to detectives. “The baby was alive when it was born. I grabbed its neck in my right hand and choked it with all the strength I had for about a
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GUVERNORSTO BE ADDRESSED BY PRESIDENT Slated for Talk on Link Between Federal and State Taxation. By T'niled Pre** WASHINGTON, April 25.—President Hoover today accepted an invitation to address the Governors' conference at Richmond, Va., Wednesday. The President will discuss the relation between state and federal governments, economy and taxation. By United Pre* RICHMOND, Va., April 25. Questions of taxation, banking, unemployment relief and the control of municipal expenditures were to be discussed at the annual conferences of Governors opening here today. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived here Sunday night. Although politics officially is barred as a subject of discussion, he at once became the vocal point of interest particularly among Democratic Governors. He was accompanied here on the train from Washington by Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, chosen as keynoter at the Democratic national convention. One of the most important events of the conference will be an address by Governor Roosevelt, on Wednesday night at a pageant reproducing the Virginia convention of 1773. Roosevelt will speak on George Washington. His speech will be broadcast nationally. Governor George White of Ohio will be the principal speaker tonight at an informal dinner at Charlottesville, given at the Monticello hotel by 'the Charlottesville Chamber of Commerce. The principal speaker Tuesday evening, when a state dinner will be held at the John Marshall hotel, will be Governor x Albert Ritchie of Maryland.
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