Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1932 — Page 11

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POWER GONE, SIMMONS IS ILL AND BANKRUPT North Carolinan, Once High in Senate Councils, Is Near Trail’s End. jHORN OF HIS PRESTIGE jouthern Leader Pays Price With Tom Heflin for Bolting Ticket. i GEORGE SANFORD HOLMES Times Htff Writer WASHINGTON, May 26—Exaenator Furniioia M. Simmons ol North Carolina has filed a voluntary ; petition in bankruptcy and '’X-Scn- I ator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama has wound up his affairs in Wash- j ington and gone home, a private citizen. This is the price paid by the two southern leaders who bolted the Democratic ticket in 1928 and dared the fetish of Democratic regularity below the Mason and Dixon line. For one, political isolation and financial insolvency; for the other, loss of his senate seat and, for the time, at least, forfeiture of his membership in the ranks of the retsuiar Democrats of his state, with all that penalty entails. There is more than a tinge of political and personal tragedy in the case of Simmons, war-time head of the senate finance committee, for ; thirty years dictator of North Carolina politics, and a factor in national affairs. Near End of Trail Now well past 70 years of age. in j failing health, with impaired eye- ! sight and hopelessly involved in debt, shorn of his senate seat, his j political prestige, and economic security In his declining years, he! presents today probably the most abject demonstration of the ruth-. lessness of party discipline displayed by national politics in a generation. For Simmons was a power and a ■ patriarch of his party. Oblivion: overtook him not because of any lap c e of personal probity or patriotic conduct or neglect of the interests of his state in congress, but because he defied the machine he had erected in his own state. He was crushed by the very juggernaut he had built and guided for more than a quarter century. When former Governor Alfred E. Smith was nominated by the Democratic party at Houston in 1928. followed by the choice of John J Raskob as national chairman, Sim- j mons committed the crime of crimes \ in southern politics —he bolted his party. Party Never Forgave The result of his insurgency was j that North Carolina went for Hoover. The Democratic organization perfected by himself in the north state never forgave Simmons. When the primaries of 1930 rolled around, Simmons was buried under the avenging avalanche. Today, Josiah W. Bailey, one of his life-long, trusted, intimate lieutenants, sits in his place in the United Stales senate. Then came the depression. Land poor and lonesome, the repudiated leader sits amid the ruins of a lifetime. with the pillars of his political temple piled above him. Efforts to provide an official berth for him through the kindness of the present administration failed, due to various causes, among them physical disability. And even the memory of the man who made the name of North Carolina synonymous with political j rnighi and prestige went down in the wreckage of his old age. For there is little doubt but what partisan apostasy cost him the honor of having his statue placed in the Capitol hall of fame, as one of the two representatives of his state j chosen for that distinction. His punishment therefore will persist through posterity. Heflin Also Passed With him into enforced retirement went that other arch-bolter, former Senator tTom Heflin of Alabama, but not until after a protracted and i determined struggle to regain the seat now occupied by his successful adversary in the election of 1930. John H. Bankhead. Heflin paid for his political heresy in the same manner as Simmons, but the punishment was ir.etcd out in a different way. Heflin was read out of his party in Alabama by the central committee and denied a candidacy in the party primary, j That beat him. For more than a year. Heflin fought to unseat his rival and regain his office, by attacking the validity of the primary and charging corruption in the election. The -.enate decided against him. Now. with his affairs practically j wound up. the contest over, the at.ornevs and witnesses paid. “Cotton Tom" has left Washington, politically down, but. in the opinion of many observers, by no means out. j Like Simmons, he is paying the price of insurgency in the Democratic party, even though the machines. which disciplined both for nonconformity, are declaring, at the moment, that they will have no more of Alfred E. Smith in 1932.

Intruders B’J l uitril Press WASHINGTON. May 26. .Whenever there is a delay of even a few seconds in the movements of the United States air mail, the airline flying it has to make a report to the government. Two delays within the last few days were reported as follow's "Pilot Willingham, out of Cheyenne, hit a crow in the air, making a hole in the leading edge of the wing." "Pilot Claire Vance, near Dell. Utah, struck an eagle in the air. breaking the leading edge of the upper lrfi wing."

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GLAMOUR FADES FROM GREENWICH VILLAGE Cradle of Genius and Paradise of Eccentrics Drew Curious by Thousands

BY GEORGE BRITT Time* Staff Wrltrr Copyright. 1353 bv Nr-* York WorldTeiegram Corporation.! “C’EE Greenwich Village" still ij urge the sightseeing bus signs J in Times Square. A decade back they could promise more. “All aboard for Greenwich Village," they barked. "Bohemians, studios, tea rooms, little theaters, art galleries, poets and freaks See the village! Watch the longhaired men and the short-haired women! Fifty cents for a complete j tour of the village. Then on to Chinatown." In the boom years buses debarked armies of invading thrillseekers. The more dignified tourists. New Yorkers as well as out- j of-towners. would go to Washing- ; ton Square on the Fifth avenue bus and wander unescorted through the biased and twisted streets. From Brunos Garret in Wash- j ington square to Merton Clivette's Soul Light Shrine in Sheridan square all things were possible. Within less than a block in the year 1917 one might have observed Leon Trotski—but who cared, then?—sipping tea in the Purple Pup, and Eugene ONeill downing a hooker of rye with Renee Lacoste or Christine in the Hell Hole. The guides pointed out hasheesh dens and scenes of suicide, and walked their visitors up tortuous stairways to observe an artist dying of starvation. There was a 50-50 split of the dimes collected for seeing the artist Along the street sauntered the famous Sonia, cigaret girl, and Tiny Tim. selling his famous • Soul Kiss Candy." every bag containing a bon mot of oriental philosophy Maxwell Bodenheim sold the Little Review on the streets Antique “shoppes." souvenir treasure chests and tea leaf readers overlapped. , b it a CLIVETTE. looking like Buffalo Bill, welcomed the unwary to his museum—" Bazaar de Junk." , Benjamin DeCasseres called it—to observe the shrine, a crucifixion done in luminous paint. For 25 cents extra they might walk upstairs to his art gallery. And this was a painter whose work actually hung in the Luxembourg. "Anything." he advised R friend, "anything you put over in the name of art is perfectly legitimate." Cltvette had the strength of his prejudices. In the windows he loved to place anti-Catholic manifestos. such as "Why vote? The pope is president." Nothing surprised • him more than for a truck driver or schoolboy to smash window and sign with a paving stone. An ancient rookery, four stories high, now demolished from the north side of Sheridan Square, at one time housed nine tearooms and a little theater. It was the first of Romany Marie's places in the village. Above

CAMERA STUDIES OF NEW YORK’S MAYOR FACING INVESTIGATORS

"Remember, I'm still the mayor of New York."

MIBS TOURNEYS SLATED TODAY Brightwood and Garfield Playgrounds Are Sites. Sectional championship marble games were held in The Indianapolis Times' annual city "mibs" championship this afternoon at Garfield park tennis courts and at Brightwood playgrounds. Boys and girls l.om the southeast and northeast sections ot the cTtTTompetecT”" A sectional championship will be held Saturday afternoon at Brookside park at 1:30. following a safety I rally to be held at the Rivoli theater Saturday morning in charge of Lieutenant Frank Owen and Timothy McMahon of the police accident prevention bureau. East side schoolboys and girls who attend Nos. 54 and 81 or St. Philip's and Little Flower Catholic schools are urged to enter the Brookside championships Saturday afternoon. Several rings, with Owen, McMahon. Wally Middlcsworth. city recreation director, and Times representatives in charge will, be open to expedite play. Sectional winners are being crowned all over the city. During the week of June 13 all will gather at Willard park to fight it out for the city championship. The winner will receive as his or her reward a free trip to Ocean City, N. J, late in June, to compete in the national marble championship. The Indianapolis winner will go as a guest of Thp Times, with all expenses paid and chaperoned. Any boy or girl who will not be 15 years old on or before July 1, 1932. is eligible to compete for the title. -

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her was the Vermillion Hound; below, the Sea Maid. The others included Aladdin's Lamp, the Black Parrott, kept by Vera Black, who had been a Biograph movie star, and in the basement, Don Dickerman’s Pirate's Den. They jarred upon one another, all those explosive elements suddenly brought together in the village. The native Irish and Italians resented the new villagers, and they in turn hated the sightseers. DON DICKERMAN’S piraticallooking doorman and musicians. with their jack boots, big swords and earrings, looked like sissies to the Hudson Dupstcr’s gang. ' Many an evening Dickerman had to interrupt the music to lead out reinforesments to save his doorman from losing an ear. Formerly, residents of the Ninth ward ate and drank as did any one else. The Brcvoort and the Lafayette drew the Bohemian

"No; I don't remember what I have said at a meeting two weeks ago."

HOOVER AND AIDS PLAN MOIST PLANKS

President Asks Help of •Middle of Road’ Group on Draft. By Scrlppt-Nicard \ctrtpapcr Alliance WASHINGTON. May 26.—Tur ling frem politicians and professional prohibitionists. President Herbert Hoover has drafted several groups of sincere drys to frame a moist plank which he hopes will satisfy all elements in the party—including Senator William E. Borah of Idaho. The White House is not dealing with the Mcßrides. Wilsons or Cannons in this latest modification of the ‘noble experiment," or even with National Chairman Simeon D. Fess of Ohio. He is reported to be in touch with men of the type of Wiliam Allen White of Kansas. John R. Mott of the Y. M. C. A. and several influential Methodists. Borah, whose prohibition speech in the senate Wednesday was regarded as a warning to the Chicago convention, has rejected all suggestions for anything but a repeal proposal as a test of prohibition. He does not favor repeal, but he believes that efforts to cater to both wets and drys by some half-way measure is “legal nullification.*’ The senator's prepared speech Wednesday was his first real prohibition demonstration since 1928. Borah was not at his best, however. and for the first time in years he wa s the object of laughter from the galleries. The ou-torrak came after he had been trapped by Senator Hiram Bingham mto admitting that "people won't get drunk on 2.75 ’ieer. A woman high up in a corner of

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932

• An etching by John Sloan of "The Hell Hole," a famous village resort of yesteryear.

trade which had money to spend. There was old Gonfarone’s and the original Maria’s and Mori's among the Italian places. At Mama Bertelotti's under the "L" in Third street lunch cost 15 cents —a nickel for minestrone, bread and butter, a nickel for a glass of red wine and a nickel tip. The Black Cat in West Broadway was the one cabaret. Then came the merry Villagers. First of the new eating places, after Polly’s, was the Mad Hatter, two rooms in the old wood cellar' at 150 West Fourth street, started by the sculptress. Edith Unger. She built her reputation on chocolate cake and space where people might lounge, smoke and talk at ease. When Miss Unger took an evening off, she left the place in charge of a teacher from the Long Island City high school, by the name of “Jimmie Criswell.” "Anything you take in over $5 is yours.” she would say

“I insist that counsel not testify in this way and put the answer up to me . . ."

TWO PLAYS SCHEDULED Rrookside Group to Present "The Monkey's Paw," “Thursday Evening." "The Monkey's Paw" and “Thursday Evening." two one-act plays, will be presented Thursday night by Brookside Players with Miss

Caroline Brown as one of the playsrs. Proceeds will go to charity Other cast members are: Myra Rowley, Christina Valentine. Louise lVilliams, George Butler, Lorin Woodward. William C. Thomas, Harry Krentler and Jesse Pritchett. Cha rl e s Martin will be stage manager, and Miss Jean Hopper will be

door manager. Group of readings and monologs will be given by Man' Jean Ssfton. Joan Pattou and Markum Ellis.

the gallery snickered, and then a roar of laughter rippled around the senate balconies and floor. The senator from Idaho seemed stunned. He acted as if he could not believe his ears. For a moment he gazed upward into the gallery: then he stopped midway in his sentence. From then on it seemed as if his enthusiasm palled. The laughter, obviously, was precipitated by the picture of the great Borah being bested in debate. The audience seemed to get the same pleasure a baseball crowd does when Babe Ruth strikes out.

Eventually Jimmie bought it. Later she became the wife of a boarder in the tea room. His name was Hendrik Willem Van Loon. B B B WRITERS, moving * picture actors and many another celebrity congregated here "Down the Rabbit Hole.” Strangers kept to the front room. Friends were urged into the more clubby back room, along with Cocaine, the yellow cat, and Marcel Duchamp, painter of the "Nude Descending the Stairs,” who was the champion chess player thereabouts. The two Gish sisters, the two Talmadges, and sometimes t Iso Mama Talmadge and little sUter Natalie Mary Pickford, Dick Ba> thelmess, Van Loon, then working over in Barron street on his "Story of Mankind”; Henry Seidel Canby, Nina Wilcox Putnam, Man Ray. the photographer; Piet Meyer, who introduced batik, and so on, could be seen there.

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"I don’t believe . . . you have any legal right to inquire into the operations of an executive’s mind ...” .

SCANDAL STORY SHOCKS JUDGE Jurist Blushes at Hospital Lovemaking Tale. By United /'rest CHICAGO, May 26.—Testimony In the separate maintenance suit brought by Mrs. James L. Baldwin. Oak Park clubwoman, against her husband, so embarrassed Judge Joseph Sabath, noted divorce court jurist, that today he was attempting to arrange a settlement. The story which brought blushes to the jurist’ cheeks was Mrs., Baldwin's description of her husband's amorous advances to a pretty young nurse in a room of the hospital she heads. Mrs. Baldwin said she watched the scene from the bathroom, where she hid after her husband told her to “go find yourself a bridge game.” "His nurse, Miss Earleen Allen, started to give him a sponge bath.” "Then he reached up. put his arm around her. pulled her down and bit her neck. Miss Allen told him she would report him to the superintendent, but Mr. Baldwin told 1 her. ‘You cant start a scandal in this hospital. My wife is president.’ "The nurse told him to finish his own bath and went over to the window. He groaned, and told her j to come over to the bed. then he kissed her. and said. 'l'd like to buy you a wrist watch and some silk i stockings.' • I “That was enough for me. I came in and asked him. ‘ls this your Christianity?’ He denied it all, but the nurse said it was true.” i

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The place always closed at 11 o’clock to avoid the after-theater slummers and the collegiate crowd who rough-housed the Purple Pup. • The moving picture crowd was a profitable contact. Village scenes were written for the film, and the Ft. Lee studios sent down for extra actors. Many a tea shop proprietress and unpublished poet supported a village existence by acting. The movies liked the villagers for such scenes because they, almost alone then, could wear a smock with naturalness. After the success of Mad Hatter, with Charles Reade’s Purple pie Pup, the Pirates' and Romany Marie comiftg in at once, tearooms mushroomed in every vacant flv.r space. White Poodles. Mouse Traps, the Pig -;nd Whistle, which still survives, and innumerable others sprang up, along with nameless little hide-outs and joints of all

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“A SIOO,OOO check from one man mightn't be as good as J. P. Morgan’s mere promise ...”

PUBLISHERS MEET HOOVER IN PARLEY

Problems of Depression Are Discussed at Night Session. By United Prcun WASHINGTON, May 26.—Thirtyeight publishers and editors of lead- j ing newspapers were homeward bound today, after a frank exchange of views with President Hoover on means of expediting economic recovery. In the privacy of the Lincoln study upstairs in the White House. Mr. Hoover Wednesday nighx outlined his program to the newspaper executives, canvassed the difficulties of the economic and legislative situations, and suggested ways of mobilizing public opinion in support of constructive measures. The editors and publishers in turn offered their news. Mr. Hoover’s urgent desire for speedy balancing of the federal budget as prerequisite to recovery was emphasized in the discussions. The tax and economy measures necessary to balance the budget have been caught in a congressional jam that threatens to extend well into June. Possible means of breaking this jam were considered, with especial attention to the tax bill. Further revision of the tax rates now being debated in the senate Vsras proposed by some of the publishers. The President's credit expansion programs, unemployment relief, and the continued veterans' bonus agitation were among other topics discussed in the three-hour session, which lasted until midnight Colonel Frank Knox of the Chi- j cago Daily News was spokesman for the group. Hg was host to the

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sorts. Lee Chumley of current eating salon fame, was not even a villager at that time. m * b Romany marie also survives. writh colors high. Originally she was a business manager at the Ferrer school of art in One Hundred Tenth street, where Robert Henri and George Bellows were the most popular teachers in the city. Pupils from the village got to know her. and she emigrated to the tearoom paradise. Tiny Tim. he of the long black hair and pale face, learned salesmanship on the village street. At first he offered his candy for a dime, large package. No one bought. He cut the size in half, raised the price to a quarter and proceeded toward wealth. The poems in his candy sacks were his own writing, and his wife at the same time was studying the occult. From here they moved to Hollywood to teach philosophy. Sonia, the cigaret girl, drifted into the village unknown and penniless, and drifted out to die almost alone in a hospital. But in between these times she made herself a character of the first magnitude. She wore the most extreme and elaborately coiffured bob in the village and the brightest smocks. From tearoom to tearoom she moved, "cigarets. cigarets," with a smile for every ranger and a chill for familiar approach. M B B STILL another character was "Doris the Dope." the beautiful girl who claimed a titled lord was the father of her children, who could cough piteously whenever she needed money. The Breevoort was her haunt. After an evening’s good coughing, she could be relied upon to blossom out w-ith the most gorgeous gown in the dining room and to ignore the men who had paid for it. Doris was famous, too, for having taken a moonlight bath, nude, in the Washington Square fountain, defying respectable policemen to come and get her. They are gone and scattered now. They grew older. The subway and Seventh avenue extension tore a gash through the old houses and brought in thfc Bing <fc Bing apartments. Many of the artists moved to Woodstock, Corton, Carmel, back to Paris and elsewhere. Rising rents had their part. As early as December, 1915, the Times’ real estate section reported a house at 50 West Twelfth street, which formerly rented for $1,500 a year, now yielding $3,500. The owner had spent SB,OOO in improvements. At 124 Waverly place the owner spent SIO,OOO and rents moved up from SI,OOO to $4,660. The old village blossomed as a swamp flower. But it did produce such a stir within its square mile of territory that without it American arts and WTiting might be unrecognizable today.

“No. I don’t know that, judge and you know- that I couidn’l know it."

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visitors at dinner preceding the conference. He said: "We can give out nothing. You know how these White House conferences are— anything that is, aid must come from the President.* The White House had no statement. LAFFOON IS SPEAKER Kentucky Governor Will Address Editors at French Lick. Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky will be the principal speaker at the dinner of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association Saturday night at French Lick, which will bring to a close the summer meeting to the association, it was announced today.

SENATE WILL 1 SPEED UP ON RELIEF BILLS Hearing Is Called on Plan of Compromise Framed by Democrats. I—HOOVER VETO FORECAST President Is Firm Against Federal Public Works Bond Issue. fly Scripitt-Ua’ciird .Yttr* paper .lUtnuc* WASHINGTON. May 26.—Steps to move federal relief bills toward enactment were taken today. The -enate banking and currency committee will hold hearings Wednesday on the Democratic j compromise plan for relief presented by Senators Robert F. Wagner, Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas. Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. Key Pittman and Robert J. Bulkley. Hearings also will be held on the Barbour bill which, if it does not. contain the precise relief program 'of President Hoover, is very doso j to it. The hearings will last only a day or so. Chairman Peter Norbeck proposes to hear the authors of the bills and department heads having to do with this subject. The bill should be on the senate calendar by the end of next week. Firmly Behind Bond Issue If Republican and Democratic members of the banking and currency committee are able to agree on one or the other of the i very similar relief plans, final passage should be greatly expedited. However. Democrats plan to stand : firmly, behind their proposal for a I federal public works bond issue, and the strength of President Hoover’s opposition to this item is indicated by reports that he will veto a relief bill with public works included. Wagner tDem., N. Y.>, in presenting thp Democratic bill to the senate Wednesday, extensively outlined reasons for inclusion of federal public works. Need Is Outlined "The federal projects constitute that part of the program from which we can expect the earliest results,” he said. •The carrying charges, at most, ! can be only a small amount com- | pared to the $185,000,000, which, under the bill, is lifted out of cur- : rent appropriations. To that ex- : tent the program of federal construction authorized by this legislation will help to balance the budget and relieve the pressure of taxation from the taxpayer. "Every business man distinguishes between borrowing to pay current j expenses and borrowing for neces- [ sary permanent improvements. Tha one is extravagant, the other investment." Mass Meeting Called Wagner pointed out. also, that eight out of twelve issues of federal bonds advanced on the New York Stock Exchange the day Senator Robinson of Arkansas announced his advocacy of a public works bond issue, and that every issue gained on the day the compromise Democratic relief program was announced. Tonight members of congress will i gather at a mass meeting called by Representatives F. H. La Guardia, James Head and Clyde Kelly to discuss plans for relief. The ttirce leaders plan to prevent adjournment of congress until a relief measure* has been enacted into law. The Garner relief bill is to be disi cussed in the house next week. SCOUTS TO DECORATE GRAVES OF VETERANS Boys to Begin Thrir Memorial Da j Services Sunday. Memorial day services of the Boy Scouts will begin at 2 Sunday when approximately 300 scouts are expected to assemble at Crown Hill cemetery. They will put flags at the graves of all war veterans. The Scouts also will take part in exercises which will be held under auspices of the G. A. R.. the American Lfegion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars at other cemeteries. The Boy Scout band will assist in the memorial services of the American Legion of Carmel Sun--1 day In Carmel cemetery. A parade of the Legion post and the Scouts will precede the ceremony. Scouts will work at the statehouse Monday morning. They will aid in grouping flowers, and in taking them to Crown Hill. They also will aid in gathering flowers from various schools. APARTMENT OWNERS PONDER TAX CHANGES Tentative Recommendations Submitted by Resolutions Group. Action on a proposed tax program will be taken by the Apartment House Owners’ Association at its meeting June 8. it was decided Wednesday night when tentative recommendations were submitted by the association’s tax committee. Committee recommendations included: , A conference of butinesi end civic organizations delegates to formulate a tax program for the state. Tax rate limit of *1.50 on each SIM of taxable property, the deflcit to be made i up by other forma of taxation That the association decline to advocate an Income or sales tax at oresent. That present tax laws be enforced more vigorously to prevent concealment of taa- ‘ ablea. Additional legislation requiring assessor! ’to do their full duty with reference to j discovering secluded taxabiea : That the Governor be requested to cell I • special session to enact remedial tag J legislation. SEEKS DICTATOR POWER fly 1 nil'll Rr BERLIN, May ,26 Dictatorial powers to reconstruct the cabinet will be asked of President Paul von Hmdenburg by Chancellor Heinnch Bruening on Sunday, it was reported today