Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 306, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1932 — Page 7

MAY 2, 1932

CONGRESS AID FOR JOBLESS IS DEMANDED Relief Conference Opens in Capital: Plight of U. S. Told. BY HERBERT LITTLE Tlmf Staff W riter WASHINGTON. May 2—Call for anew campaign to force congress to enart unemployment relief before it adjourns was sounded here Saturday. A conference called by the "joint committee on unemployment" for the avowed purpose of "denouncing congress" for its failure to act in the crisis, heard Representative David J. Lewis <Dem. t Md. emphasize the need for relief such as that proposed to and rejected by eongress in the $750,000,000 La Fol-letie-Costigan bill. Lewis expressed the hope that eongress will act before it adjourns, but he attacked the Democratic Connery relief bill now before the house, which provides for loans to the states, as an attempt to "substitute blue-prints for bread."

Starving Point Near* Report* of serious relief situations, nearing starvation in many cases, were presented from Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, Philadelphia and North Carolina. Miss Lea D. Taylor, president of the National Federation of Settlements. reported Chicago was allowing relief of only $5 76 to needy families, while other Illinois cities are allowing only $l3B and $1 a family. Even so, Chicago will soon be without any relief funds, she said. Dr. Bidnrv E. Goldstein, unem- * ployment chairman of the New York City affairs committee, said: "Unless this city is assisted by the state or federal government, the vast army of unemployed in New York will suffer destitution and starvation, and it is not likely they will suffer any longer in silence. "At least $11,000,000 a month is needed to care for the 200.000 utterly destitute families in New York, and the board of estimate has just appropriated $5,000,000 for two months.” 100,000 Are Jobless Larry Hogan. Marion t%r . C.) labor organizer, said 100.000 were jobless in his state, most of them either "begging or bumming the highways.” Many are suffering from pellegra, nervous troubles and consumption, he said. In Pennsylvania, bread riots and lootings are likely, according to John W. F.delman. a Philadelphia official of the full-fashioned hosiery workers, unless the state legislature or the federal government acts promptly. Father John A. Ryan of the National Catholic Welfare Council, asserted : “Vanished buying-power must be recreated through relief and a huge public works program such as Senator La Toilette's, calling for five and a half billion dollars."

MIDLAND UNITED PAYS TAXES OF $43,661.71 Anirunt Is Half of Annual Lrvv in County. Companies of the Midland United Company group today paid into the Marion county treasurer's office checks aggregating $43,661.71. approximately one-hall of the total of their annual taxes in the county. The second half will be paid in November. Midland United Companies arc paying a total of $4,219,527.81 in real estate and personal property taxes in the state this year, it was announced today. Half of the bill was paid today by the companies in eighty-six of the states ninety-two counties in which they own property. Two operating companies, it was announced, have tax bills of more than one million dollars each, the Northern Indiana Public Servire Company with $1,484,466.76 and the Public Service Company of Indiana with $1,389,987,80. CRASH HALTS ROMANCE Vouth Killed and Bride-To-Be Hurt When Plane Falls. By f nitfl f’rrtt OMAHA. Neb. May 1.-An airplane crash today had frustrated a romance. Frank Marshall. 22. was killed instantly and his bride-to-be. Helen Schlen, 19. was injured so seriously that physicians said she probably would die. Wealthy Cronies Are Rilled By I nttrrt I'tmi WOOSTER. 0.. May 2. —Vacation plans of two wealth.’ cronies w’ere interrupted by death today because of an automobile accident which killed C. J. Forbes. 60. wealthy Rabson Park <Fla) hotel owner, and fatally injured Lee B. BurMine. 16. New York Life insurance agent. The two had driven from Florida.

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EDNA IS A COMEDY RIOT IN THIS MOVIE Barbara Stanwyck, as the Young School Teacher Who Thought Cabbages Beautiful, Is Salvation of 'So Big/ BY WALTER D. HICKMAN AFTER teeing Edna May Oliver in "Ladies of the Jury,” I am of the opinion when Mane Dressier takes her final movie curtain—and I hope it will be year* and years—that Miss Oliver will inherit her crown. Miss Oliver has what is known as a natural comedy face, and she probably play* the rich and haughty Mrs. Livingston B. Crane entirely different than the late Mrc. Fiske did upon the stage.

Mrs. Crane is one of those "talkie" women who Just talks and talks, and when she becomes a member of the Jury trying Mrs. Gordon, an ex-show girl, for murder, well, she just about wrecks the Judge, the

lawyers, but her clever methods of causing eleven other Jurors to vote for acquittal saves the defendant from saying good-by to the world. Realism is rot the object of this story' or direction. Miss Oliver violates every rule of a trial, but her comedy remarks, especially when she ques-

tions witnesses are high comedy spots of the picture. Her clever work in the jury room is good *or one laugh after another. Am going to vote " Ladies of the Jury" my favorite movie this week because of the grand comedy work of Miss Oliver. Those who are air minded are interested in Morton Dowmey with the silvery voice; Tony Wons, the announcer and reader, and Jacques Renard and his orchestra. Wons tackles the barter scene In Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice,” in which he talks the role of Shylock over the microphone. It takes nerve to do that on the variety stage today, but Won's technique and voice got as much applause as when I heard Otis Skinner read the same lines in makeup on the legitimate stage. He also recites "The Red Balloon.” Downey lets the audience select his songs and the orchestra backs him up It is a different type of stage presentation we have had. Now at the Indiana. MUM YOU WILL FIND GREAT ACTING HERE Years ago when I read Edna Ferber's "So Big,” and met Selina Peake who left Chicago, I then and there made up my mind I w'anted to meet her on the talking screen. At last the talking version has been made and Barbara Stanwyck

as Selina who turned the drabness of a truck farm into a glorious velvet adventure of life, gives the greatest acting portrayal of her career. It is the sincere, close to the soil characterizati o n of Miss Stanwyck, that makes this picture what it is today. There are so many details worked out by Miss Ferber in

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her book that it would be impossible to follow Saline's interestiftg career from the time she was a child way back in the old days of Chicago when the Palmer House was the sign of all that was important and gay step by step. The director had to bend the strong will and personality of the little school teacher to the .strong demands of the soil. And with the aid of Miss Stanwyck the director has done wonders, but to get every detail of this soul progress of this fine woman the movie w’ould have to have been three hours in length. Great acting will be found every second that Miss Stanwyck is on the screen. Watch her introduction to the drabness of the truck farm when .she thought cabbages in growth were 1: 'tiful. Watch the understanding work of Dick Winslow as Roelf at thp age of 14 when he agrees with the little school teacher that cabbages are beautiful. Another honest soil characterization is that of Alan Hale as Klaas Pool. •'So Big" is a picture for those who want to think. Now at the Apollo. a a a HERE IS A GANGSTER AT HIS VERY WORST It seems to me that the gangsters in "Scarface" must have thought they were staging another World war because they shoot down

50 many people who crossed their paths. Never have I s*en so much Run play in all my life in one movie. Melodrama of the highest power is poured into • Scarface " . Paul Muni is the gangster. Scarface. who rises as a savage hoodlum to the underworld

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ruler, only to meet his death when he became yellow or when it began to show. The story is unpleasant to me because the high spots in nearly all crimes are those which have taken place either in New York or Chicago. In other words, the character played by Muni is the composite gangster of all. the modem bad memos the new social order. Even the Valentine day massacre in Chicago is Included in the killing scenes. Osgood Perkins. Boris Karloff and many others take part in this tale of gang death. As far as I am concerned. I did not have a pleasant or a comfortable second while seeing this picture. As usual, be your own judge. To me there is too much awful death here and it is not theater. ••Scarface" should be the last of the gangster movies. Now at the Palace. mam FINAL CONCERT OF SEASON TONIGHT The final concert to be given by the choral section of the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale under the direction of Elmer Andrew Steffen, and assisted by the Mu Phi Epsilon national honorary musical sorority's ten-piano ensemble with Bomar

Cramer conducting, will be presented tonight at 8:15 o'clock at the Murat theater. This evening's concert will be the first of the musicals as a contribution to National Music Week. The chorus which is composed of seven-ty-five voices was last heard in concert in February on the artist program of the active section of the Matinee Musicale with Bomar Cramer as guest artist. The outstanding numbers presented by the choral group will be a group of songs from the works of Edward German, "The Omnipotence,” by Schubert, Mascagni's “Scene and Prayer,” from "Cavalleria Rusticana," and "The Finale,” from “The Gondoliers.” by Sullivan. . The latter two of which there has been a special arrangement of the music made by B. B. Burkette, local musician and organist for the Zaring theater. The chorus will be accompanied by the entire piano ensemble in "The Finale.”

Miss Oliver

The playing of the ten-pianos in unison may be considered a great tocatto novelty for it is comparatively new in the musical world. The musicians of this piano ensemble who are taking an active part in the furtherance and the promoting of this difficult art which will greatly enlarge the piano field are selected talent of this city. * n u YOU WILL LOVE OAKIE THIS TIME Take It from me that you are going to love the comedy and natural work of Jack Oakie as Alec Dugan, the announcer of the events in Speed Condon's air circus, in the movie "Sky Bride.” And Richard Arlen is cast as Speed. Condon and Eddie, played by Tom Douglas are good pals in this flying stunt circus at the start of

the story.and they are as playful as two kittens, but in time they begin to play . rough and this compels Condon to try to clip Eddie's wings in the air. He does and Eddie is killed. Then Speed starts a terrific battle to forget that he killed his pal. The carefree Alec Dugan starts out to help Speed to find himself again. It is in these scenes

that Oakie proves himself to be a most human comedian, and you w’ill love his devotion to Speed. You will want to laugh and then turn right around and cry. The rescue scene of a child from the undercarriage of a plane in midair is theatrical, but it has a great punch. It sure about turned me into a nervous wreck. It is corking effective theater. Louise Closser Hale Is lovely as Eddie's mother. Now at the Circle. Other theaters today offer. Esther Ralston in person with her own revue at the Lyric; “A Modern Virgin'' at Keith's, and, burlesque at the Colonial.

LEGION PIONEER COMING Findlay Atorney Will Address Past Commanders Wednesday. Ralph D. Cole, Findlay (O.) attorney, who enlisted as a private two months after the United States entered the World war and immediately was commissioned a major, will speak at the annual dinner of the Past Commanders’ Association of the American Legion Wednesday night at the Antlers. Cole w’as discharged honorably as a lieutenantcolonel. He was one of the twenty men who attended a caucus in Paris. Feb. 6. 1919. which led to founding of the legion. WOODMEN INITIATE 36 200 Persons Present at Circle Ceremonies in Athenaeum. Supreme Forest Woodmen circle of the central district of Indiana initiated thirty-six candidates Sunday at a meeting in the Atheneum. Approximately 200 persons were present. Ramona grove No. 63 of Indianapolis sponsored Ihe meeting. In charge of arrangements was Mrs. May Beaver, state manager. Speakers w’ere Mrs. Addie Braly of Indianapolis. Mrs. May Rogers of Frankfort, state president, and Miss Louise Patrick of Dennison, Tex.

AMUSEMENTS nrTTTTSr ■ 1 I ft •nib Oa th Slag*—l:lß. 3:46, •:, •:! ESTHER RALSTON Golden Girt of the Stare and Scree* IN PERSON and Her Hollywood Bcvac of_li 1^ ■“<*, a Drama “YOUNG AMERICA" ™w**TaAirmDAT—he* tom g TOM MIX I I> His FIKST TAJ JUNG PICTIRK I "DESTBY BIDES AGAIN”

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TENSION GRIPS HONOR DEATH TRIALJCENE Four Convicted Americans Fight to Escape Prison Term. BY DAN CAMPBELL l elteS fmi SUIT Corre*iident HONOLULU, T. H., May 2.—An undercurrent of tension spread through the city today, bringing out emergency police reserves, while four Americans convicted of manslaughtervfor the honor slaying of a half-caste native fought to escape sentence to Oahu prison. Growing feeling against the racially mixed Jurors who voted the conviction led to fears for their safety. Police guards were furnished four islanders awaiting second trial on charges of attacking Thella Fortescue Massie, wife of an American navy lieutenant. City Appears Calm Deserted streets that usually swarm with sailors on week-end leave gave Honolulu an outward appearance of calm. Authorities, however, took every precaution to avert anew outbreak of racial animosity that swept the city last January and was climaxed with Joe Kahahawai's death. He was one* of Mrs. Massie's asserted attackers. Clarence Darrow, famed criminal counsel who emerged from retirement for the case, was at Pearl Harbor navy base conferring on appeal plans with Mrs. Granville Fortescue, her son-in-law. Lieutenant (J. G.) Thomas H. Massie, and the two enlisted men, Edward Lord and Albert Jones. But unless Circuit Judge Charles S. Davis grants them anew trial when they appear before him next Friday—and this Is regarded highly unlikely—he will have no alternative but to sentence them to ten years each "at hard labor.” Law Compels Term The jury recommended leniency, but territorial laws compel the court to exact the maximum sentence. The prison board, with the judge's approval, may shorten the sentence to as little as three months. Persistent reports spread through navy circles that Governor Lawrence Judd intended to pardon the prisoners. Darrow is believed to be mapping an appeal to the territorial supreme court and a request for a new trial possibly on charges that Prosecutor John Kelley was prejudicial in his closing address to the jury. The defense also noted frequent except! ms to prosecution alienist testimony and Darrow expressed dissatisfaction with Judge Charles Davis’ instructions to the jury.

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SCIENCE SPLITS ATOM Goal of Modern Chemists Reached In British Laboratory, By Vaite4 Prr * CAMBRIDGE. England. May 2. British ' ntists have succeeded In splitting the r.tom and in transmuting elements into other elements. The goal of ancient alchemists and the dream of modern chemists was reached by Dr. F. D. Cockroft and Dr. E. T. S. Walton in experiments at Cavendish laboratory here. The experimenters succeeded in turning atoms of hydrogen into atoms of helium.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Indiana Ballroom Offers Cash Prizes and Week’s Engagement. Here’s your chance! If you secretly have been nursing a talent which you consider as worthy of praise as Kate Smith or Bing Crosby's crooning, Ben Bernie's wit, Morton Downey's lyric tenor, Walter Winchell’s chatter, Won's scrap book musLngs, the Mills Brothers’ rhythm, or Amos and Andy’s comedy sketches, you may prove yourself by entering The Times-Charlie Davis Amateur Radio Contest, which starts in the Indiana Roof ballroom Tuesday night. Charlie Davis, former Indiana theater master of ceremonies, featuring his dance orchestra in the Indiana ballroom, is responsible for the contest. If you know Charlie and are acquainted with his activities in local theatrical circles during the last six years, you probably are aware of his faith in local talent. It is his contention that Indianapolis can vie with New York. Chicago, or any leading metropolis when it comes to real talent. Frank Sharp, WFBM program director, and Manager Tom Devine of the Roof agree with Davis. Now, it’s up to all of you local songbirds, tap dancers (a comparatively new radio feature), w'ould-be radio announcers, saxophone, accordion, fiddle and piccolo players, etc., to do your stuff. Any non-professional 16 years of i age, or more, is eligible to enter the

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competition. (NO RECITATIONS ALLOWED.) Incidentally, you will be competing for cash awards totaling $25. and a one-week engagement on the Roof, as you show your fellow citizens just how talented you are. Fill out the following entry blank and mail it tonight to The Times Charlie Davis Contest Editor, or take it to Manager Tom Devine's office on the fifth floor of the Indiana Theater Tuesday night. Then watch Tuesday's Times for further details;

MOTION PICTURES frrtn i fT~ LAST 4 DAYS BARBARA STANWYCK in the picturizatlon of w Edna Ferber’a novel of American WomanSUBld with DICKIE MOOBE Extra, LINE S BUSY’Comedy Hit NEXT THURSDAY MIDNIGHT JOAN BENNETT in “The Trial of ViTlenno Ware"

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Top Row (left to right) Hiram Sexson, Frank Klave, Lewis Kcmmerer, James Gribben, Charles Sanders. Richard Cavlor. Second Row — Elizabeth Kudel-

ka. Louise Bray, Marie Barnes. Mildred Walther, Edna Knotts, Mildred Minchin. Third Row—Mildred James, Jimmie McGee. Floyd Phillips, Earl Moortfla Harrell Butterfield, John Ellis. X Bottom Row—Mary Fahmer. Rose Finegold, Charles Hendrickson, Robert Sexson, Roy Brown. Pass Hat and Reds Move By United Pre PONTIAC, May 2.—A most effective way of breaking up demonstrations 'of Communists was discovered here when someone started passing a hat at a May day demonstration. Even the policemen left.

I THEY CAME IN THE I | NIGHT.. I was all alone . . 1 I they accused me.. lam innocent 1 | ..if you love me, believe meT f [night^ jCOURTwI jg- . S This soul-drama is from real lifel^JHwwjjjj^p* A young wife framed. A husband Walt#r who never lost faith. A crooked HUSTON Judge put through the Third Degree I pmhp If you like thrills —here are THRILLS! HOLM ES I By MARK HELLINGER, noted new*. PAGE paper writer, and Char lea Beahan. W.S.Van L#wts ■ starts FRIDAY John MlMm"* I Tmty Maretum \ K*±yi i bl JLil.l'

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NORTH SIDE > JNHHSVfeNBSfIWWI at Max. Pat in |MfMMq| Tlibot il Bad M. hf'l■ tlClßfl Doubir Feature rMMw Nanrr In “BROKEN LULLABY" William Boyd In “SKY DEVILS" mMMMMMai tt n iriirflldflKill and fctaßwßMaAtoif Colic** WII.I. ROGERS "BUSINESS AND PLEASURE Comedy aad Navelty SOUTH SIDE rLVrLOVE- " WEST SIDE Waih * Belmont Two Feature. Monel arrmr MAE CLARKE ia 'FJNAI. FntTtOV ■■■■■■■■■■l 3549 W. Ml eh. IjMjSKmfl an In CONDUCT"

RAINBOW'S END DREAMS TRUE! $250,000 GOLD Woman Reared in Orphans’ Home Suddenly Finds Self Rich at 29. By United Pr*u CHICAGO, May 2—One of those pots of gold at the end of the rainbow dreams came true today, when Mrs. Marie Meehl. 29. who grew up in an orphanage, learned she was heir to a $250,000 fortune. Word of a long-lost brother and the information that she is a grandniece of President Paul Von Hmdenberg of Germany also came. Her brother is Seawell Augustus Auerswald of Redwood City, Cal. They were separated on the death of their father, a young German newspaper correspondent, a nephew of Von Hindenberg. The girl was placed in a Los Angeles orphanage. The boy was reared by the Salvation Army there. When an estate of $500,000 to be divided by brother and sister was bequeathed by their maternal grandmother—heritage of her husband, who came west in the gold rush of 1849— Auerswald started to hunt for his sister. He knew only that she had left the orphanage to come to Chicago for instruction in nursing about ten years ago. Finally, he learned a Marie Auerswald had married Frank Mormorstcin, a taxicab driver. Monitorstein was found, and said she had obtained a divorce some •time ago. She visited his home once a week to see their daughter, he said. The woman finally was identified as the missing sister, and located with her second husband. Graf Zep Start* to Brazil Again By United Prrnn FRIEDRICHSHAFEN. May 2. The Graf Zeppelin began Its fourth commercial flight of the season to Pernambuco, Brazil, at 5 a. m. today.

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