Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 82, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1932 — Page 5

AUG. 15, 1932

‘SALES' DRIVES OF TWO MAJOR PARTIES BEGUN Eastern Campaign Offices of Democrats and G. 0. P. Swing in Action. BY OTIS PEABODY SWIFT lulled Prrs Staff Corretoondent NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—The two major political parties today began a nation-wide merchandising campaign to ‘'sell" their respective presidential candidates to the voters. Their campaigns, of course, have been under way for some time but not until today were both parties permanently “at home” in national sales headquarters in New York. On the sixth floor of the WaldorfAstoria hotel, in a suite of seemingly endless connecting bedrooms, Republican eastern campaign headquarters swung into action this morning. Its efficient machinery answers the challenge of Democratic national headquarters, which has a suite of connecting salesmen's sample rooms in the Hotel Biltmore. Between these two hotels —separated by a few short blocks of swagger Park avenue —one may see how a President is made.

Basic Technique Is Same No national advertising agency, no public relations counsellor, ever approached a job with more efficient zeal, schooled technique or elaborate machinery than do the gentlemen of the hotel suites, out to sell their candidates to the people of the United States. Democratic or Republican, the basic technique essentially is the same. Each has its nest of connecting rooms, busy with typewriters, conferences and bustle. Each has its multiplicity of publicity bureaus, speakers bureaus, mailing rooms, conference rooms, women’s divisions. But there the similarity ends. The Republicans do the thing in the stately new Waldorf, w'ith poise, modulated voices and noiseless typewriters; the Democrats do it in the brave and gay old Biltmore with more dash and excitement. Discreet, tempered and well-in-formed, Republican headquarters takes its hills in silent second, has floating power to spare on the straightaway, belies, with factual information, the faintly perfumed atmosphere in which it works. Democrats’ Gears Grind In these quiet halls. Senator Felix Hebert of Rhode Island, eastern campaign manager, holds sway. A lean, tight-buttoned figure, he has a high forehead, thin nostrils, sensitive lips and quizzical, sagacious eyes. To Hebert reports George Akerson, eastern publicity director. Once Akerson was President Hoovers secretary; now he is an official of a motion picture company, lent to the presidential campaign. John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, head of the speakers’ bureau, completes the triumvirate here. Gears may grind a bit at Democratic headquarters, but there appears to be more action. Everybody is busy. A steady drum-fire of typing comes from the inner offices. Big Jim Farley chairman of the Democratic committee, 6 foot 2, is the dynamo of Democratic headquarters. Coatless, red face, his bald spot shining in the heat, he dashes about the suite. Mrs. Roosevelt Has Office No visit here would be complete without a glimpse into the bare cubby hole that houses Charles Michaelson, permanent publicity chieftain of the Democrats. His stubby figure is hunched in an attitude of thought; his eyes peer darkly behind rimmed spectacles. But his vitriolic pen is something to contend with. He once was Washington correspondent for the old New York World. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt also has an office nearby, but it’s personal and not political. A secretary there handles her New York interests, her charities, details of the furniture business she conducts as a hobby.

ARMY DIVISION WILL BE REVIEWED FRIDAY Indiana Residents Invited to Event at Camp Knox. By Times Special FT. KNOX. Kv„ Aug. 15,-Gov-ernors and the people of the three states represented in the thirtyeighth division. Kentucky. Indiana and West Virginia, are invited to visit here next Friday for final review of the division. Major-General Robert H. Tyndall, division commander, announced today. A special feature will be a demonstration by a detachment of the First cavalry (mechanized). They will maneuver their vehicles, including the new Christie combat car or tank, between the line c* spectators and the troops as formed for the review. The demonstration will begin at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the review following immediately. Planes of the One hundred thirteenth observation will be in the vewing. flying low. Major-General Hugh A. Drum, Fifth corps area commander, will receive the review, along with distinguished guests. General Tyndall will command the troops.

Tortures Self DENVER, Aug. 15. The grewsome story of a man watching his own death by self-inflicted torture was bared today at the coroner's inquest into the death of Dr. Hugh A. Powell, 32. Denver dentist. With a mirror before him. Dr. Powell slowly had strangled to death, hanging by the headrest of his dental chair, a towel twisted around his neck. The body was naked, except for a pair of women's silk stockings and a pair of women's slippers and the lower part of the body had been tightly bound with a rope. The case was attributed to a mental disease which causes self-inflicted torture to hold a fascination for the victim, said Dr. B. B. Jaffa, deputy coroner.

IRVING BERLIN TOILS ON SONGS

King of Tin Pan Alley Works Like Slave on Melodies

How do composers of sone hits set about achieving their melodious craatlons? In the article that follows, the third of a series describing that mythical district known as Tin Pan Alley, Jack Poser tell* of the working methods of some of Its star*. BY JACK FOSTER Time* Staff Writer 'Copyright. 1932 by the New York WorldTelegram Corporation) NEW YORK. Aug. 13.—Irving Berlin doesn't comb his hair himself. He puts on his hat in the morning and is driven to a barber shop near his office on the Alley of Crazy Rhythms, where he is shaved and combed for the day. He is as absent-minded as last year's girl friend. He instructs his chauffeur to be waiting at a designated place at a designated hour, but, if he finishes work ahead of time he steps into a cab without considering and waves the taxi-man to hustle him to his country home. Or if the chauffeur does meet up with him, frequently at the end of their journey he reaches into his jeans to pay him.

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It's an old legend in the coffee bars of the alley that no waiter toils more earnestly than the former Izzy Balin, singing waiter in a Bowery spot opposite a drug store run by the Schenck brothers. He locks himself like a prisoner in a room. He pecks painfully at a piano, originating melody and lyrics at the same time—an unusual method. Sometimes he has remained forty-eight hours, a convict for the sin of creating, and finally when he has come downstairs for his bun tnd jelly he has lost several pounds. Yet as a result his greatest songs always have been pure melody, and his rhymes blossomed into lyrical poetry. He never completely destroys a line he has written. Take the example of "What Does It Matter?” When Berlin first played it, the manager of his publishing firm, Max Winslow’, had no yearn-ing-just-for-you for the lyric. Whereupon Mr. Berlin happily bumped into his chauffeur, was driven home, sweated out anew idea and the next day, after his matutinal hair-combing, appeared with his tremendously successful “Russian Lullaby.” a a tt IT’S true that Mr. Berlin has not created any terrific popular hits in the six years since his lovely "Always,” the SBO,OOO royalty on

Daughter Dies in Dentist Chair; Fatal to Mother

End Comes to Parent 30 Hours After First Tragedy; Both Here 19 Years.

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A daughter and mother died within a period of thirty hours during the week-end. Mrs. Mary Emma Stovall. 39, wife of Roy Stovall. 701 Mozart avenue, died Friday in a dentist’s office after gas had been administered for a tooth extraction. She had been in poor health. News of the death of Mrs. Stovall, when carried to her mother, Mrs. Laura Patterson, 73. of the same address, hastened death from heart disease. Mrs. Patterson had been ill for a short time. She died thirty hours after her daughter. Both mother and daughter were born in Colesburg, Ky. The two families came to Indianapolis nineteen years ago. Mrs. Patterson aided her husband, James Patterson, in the opertation of a grocery business at Emerson and Orion avenues until a year ago. when they retired. Both women were members of the First Nazarene church, Washington street and State avenue. Double funeral services were to be held at 2 today in the Stovall home. Burial was to be in Memorial Park cemetery.

BUYS SEVENTH PAPER Don M. Nixon Purchases Michigan City's Evening Dispatch. By United Press MICHIGAN CITY. Ind , Aug. 15. —The Michigan City Dispatch, an evening newspaper, today was absorbed into the newspaper chain owned by Don M. Nixon. Wabash. Six other papers comprise the Nixon chain, the Wabash Plain Dealer, the Peru Tribune, the Terre Haute Spectator, the Middesboro iKv.) News, the Elizabethtown (Tenn.) Star, and the Pulaski <Va.) Southwest Tunes.

which he gave to his wife on their engagement. But his melodies in the recently mothballed “Face the Music”— particularly “A Castle in Manhattan”—are extraordinary show music, to be reckoned with. Os a less intense Alley clan is the veteran Joe Young. Young can turn his melancholy eyes from a Broadw’ay surface car struggling to reach Columbus circle by the cocktail hour to a sheet of paper and produce a lyric in less than no time. He has struck off actually thousands of words to music in his twenty years of rhythm, many of them to great songs. His “How’re You Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm After They've Seen Paree?” received a sharp rebuke from Washington, which had little else to worry about since a war was in progress. He wrote “I’m on My Way to Mexico” at the height of a revolution, much to his sorrow, was killed off shortly and hurt the sheet music sales. Os course, Young also has written with Walter Donaldson such a hit as ’’Mammy,” which A1 Jolson at first wouldn’t have nohow, and innumerable others. He is frank to admit that fequently he makes errors in grammar. But he is waiting for sounds rather than for Harvard.

Mooney Dash By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15. Six men and two women were held today after creating a disturbance during* the closing ceremony of the Olympic games in an effort to stage a "Free Tom Mooney” demonstration. The crowd booed four men and two women who ran out on the field dressed in track suits, and shouting at the top of their voices, and followed by two other men bearing a banner. "Free Tom Mooney.” An official jerked the sign from the two men, but the other six ran around the track to the Olympic peristyle, where police arrested them. The sign bearers also were taken into custory. The Olympic program continued.

SLUG ATTENDANT, FLEE Bandits Attack Gas Station Man, Escape Without Loot. Running into the street as two bandits assaulted him with blackjacks, Lowell Shanklin, 29, of 3247 College avenue, attendant at a filling station at 715 East Washington street, Sunday night saved himself from probable serious injury, and caused the bandits to flee without obtaining any money. Shanklin was sent to city hospital for treatment of head lacerations. He told police the two men, one carrying a suitcase, entered the station, and. without warning, began striking him with blackjacks. OFFICERS’ CAMP OPENS Lse of Infantry Weapons to Be Stressed at Fort. Reserve officers' training camp, which opened Sunday at Ft. Harrison. to close Aug. 27, will stress the use of infantry weapons during the first week of the session. Command post exercises will be given intensive study during the second week. Lectures on the subjects will be given by the regular army officers on duty at the fort. Thirty-six airplanes will be stationed at Schoen field for duration of the camp, to be used in instruction of the eighty reserve air corps officers.

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A UTHORS in the loftier fields of literary endeavor—such as short story, poetry writing and radio columning—seldom are famous popular song waiters. Dorothy Parker, it is true, polished off “How Am I to Know?” for that gentle movie picture “Dynamite,” and it was a wow. Eddie Goulding, writer and director of film talk, produced “Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere” for Gloria Swanson, and Ring Lardner is responsible for several of the brightest show lyrics. De Sylva, Brown and Henderson deliver smart, swell tunes partly, I think, because they have discovered new ways of getting across the universal notion that “I love you” and “you’re beautiful.” Instead of using the war-horse expressions they slyly sing “You’re the Cream in My Coffee,” “This Is the Missus,” “Thank Your Father, Thank Your Mother,” and “If I Had a Talking Picture of You.” That is grand stuff—funny and pictureful, and it reveals the great change that has come in music that the maid hums since the day of such sappy coyness as “I’ll Be You’re Little Tootsie-Wootsie in the Good Old Summer Time.” Walter Donaldson, author of “Little White Lies,” “You’re Driving Me Crazy” and “My Blue Heaven,” is a card. A practical joker? Say, he’ll tell his partner, Moe Gumble, who is innocent of suspicion, even though he has seen Paris with his eyes open, tcreach into his desk drawer and a baby alligator will nip him. He’ll ask a guest to take a chair and gleefully he’ll press an electric button that'll make it a hot seat*

I HAVE gone thus far, too, without pointing out another ace melody writer, Harry Warren, father of “Crying for the Carolines” and “Cheerful Little Earful.” But Harry isn't about an awful lot, or maybe I'm just a man who always likes to get home for breakfast. He is of Italian extraction, quiet, unassuming and in his little blue heaven on Long Island he writes his gracious, musicianly ditties. Speaking of domestic birds, there is Gus Kahn of the Chicago Kahns, and consequently not of the New York Kahns. Kahn employs the ship-at-harbor method of composing a lyric. Given a melody, he turns it over to his wife while he turns in on the couch. Mrs. Kahn, an accomplished pianist, plays the melody over and over, and he scribbles out suitable words. By midnight he has either completed the manuscript or fallen asleep. Art in this case, therefore, depends on the leniency of Morpheus. But Con Conrad, body and soul, of “Margie” and “Barney Google.” does not take his composing so leisurely. He Tvorks best in the heat of excitement or when his protege, Russ Columbo, is stringing his violin and, I am told, he virtually w r as foaming’ at the mouth when he produced “You Call It Madness, Ah, but I Call It Love.” It is no secret that Mr. Conrad is curious about the ways of the dice cup and the card. tt n n WELL, in Atlantic City not so distantly he found that there is a depression, no fooling, and so he wrote a song. He

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Irving Berlin, king of Tin Pan Alley. wrote a song about “Pretty Puppy” because they sell hot puppies to visitors with freeting dogs on the Boardwalk. A1 Jolson heard the song and like it, paid him SSOO. It was published. It sold eight copies. Have you noticed how seldom thus far the names of women have appeared? Except for that blond it's been virtually a stag party. Well, as a matter of fact, very few talented women have developed into great song writers, just as there have been no outstanding feminine composers of classical symphony and only a few significant painters. Among exceptions are Dorothy x'ields, daughter of Lew Fields, who wrote the lyrics of “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby,” Lew Leslie’s “Blackbirds” and Rube Bloom's “Soliloquy”; Mabel Wayne, composer of “Ramona”; Jessie L. Deppen, of “Japanese Sunset”; and Dana Suesse, the 20-year-old author of “Jazz Nocturne.” Next: Music makers for revues and operettas.

JOHN D.'S KIN IS NEAR DEATH Family to Be Reunited at Mrs. McCormick’s Bedside. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—The Rocke-feller-McCormick clan prepared today for a last sad reunion at the bedside of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who is so critically ill that physicians virtually have given up hope of saving her life more than a few days longer. Harold F. McCormick, whose marriage to her joined two of America’s greatest fortunes and whose divorce created one of the country’s greatest social stirs, visited at her bedside in the Drake hotel again Sunday. With them were their son, Fowler, who married Fifi Stillman, and their daughter, Muriel, the wife of Elish Dyer Hubbard. Mrs. McCormick’s second daughter, Mathilde, who married Max Oser, Swiss riding master, will arrive in New York Tuesday from France. John D. Rockefeller Jr., is expected to accompany her to Chicago. Friends said Mrs. McCormick’s father, 93-year-old John D. Rockefeller, probably would not come, because of his advanced age.

9 P. M. CURFEW HIT BY JUDGE GECKLER Law ‘Too Drastic,’ Asserts Head of Juvenile Court. While bemoaning a movement of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs to enforce the 9 p. m. curfew law, boys and girls of Indianapolis today found a .friend and champion for their rights in Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler, By denouncing the curfew law as “too drastic,” Geckler became the leader of the children in their fight against the “early to bed” edict. Members of the club group will confer with Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan Tuesday to discuss enforcement of the old law. Geckler declared he believed that 10 p. m. would be early enough for children to vacate streets. He further stated the “law should apply to those under 16.” He urges parents to “know at all times where their children are.”

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SURVEY STARTS TO DECIDE ON PUBUCWORKS Program in Relief Bill May Be Launched Soon by Government. BY RUTH FINNEY Timrs Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.—The administration will decide in a few weeks whether public works included by congress in the relief bill shall be undertaken at once. An interdepartmental survey to determine if this construction work could be started advantageously at present is being made by the director of the budget. He will make recommendations to Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills, and Mills then will report to the President on the financial problems involved. The relief act provides that no part of its public works appropriation, except that for road construction, shall be expended “if the secretary of the treasury certifies to the President that the amount necessary is not available and can not be obtained upon reasonable terms.” Part of Sum Allotted A total of $322,224,000 is contained in the relief act for public works, of which $120,000,000 is apportioned to the states and may be used by them to pay their share ot federal aid road building costs. The government's share of this work was provided in one of the regular appropriation bills. Another $16,000,000 for road construction is to be spent as follows: For national forest highways, $5,000,000; for roads, trails, bridges and fire lanes in national forests, $5,000,000; for roads, trails and bridges in national parks and to monuments, $3,000,000; for Indian reservation roads, $1,000,000; for roads through other public lands or reservations, $2,000,000. Some for Federal Buildings Os the remaining $186,224,000 appropriated conditionally, now waiting recommendations by the directors of the budget and Secretary Mills, $100,000,000 is for construction of public buildings, postoffices and custom houses. The treasury and postoffice interdepartmental committtee is going over the situation, deetrmining how long it will take to procure land, prepare plans and receive bids, and will recommend if new work can be started advantageously in addition to that already under way.

House Votes for Probe of Printing Contract

Minority Board Report Is Accepted; Seek Quiz of Tag ‘Deal.’ Investigation by state and federal officials of circumstances surrounding the $82,400 contract fer purchase of drivers’ license certificates in 1929, loomed today as the house concurred in the minority report of a committee investigating charges of graft and corruption in letting the contract. In adopting the minority report, the house ignored the committee majority which sought to halt the probe. Calling for investigation of the contract and charges of corruption, the minority report was signed by Representatives Fred S. Galloway (Dem.), Indianapolis, who first brought the matter to the attention of the assembly; Chester K. Watson (Dem.), Ft. Wayne, and William E. Wilson (Dem.), Greenfield. Representative Gerritt Bates (Dem.), Indianapolis, chairman of the investigation committee, signed the majority report. Information on which Galloway’s charges were made was obtained from federal income tax authorities, who reported that the printing firm receiving the contract had not paid tax on the full amount. Officials of the printing firm are reported as saying they did not obtain the entire amount paid from the treasurer's office. The contract was sub-let to,the Heywood Printing Company, Lafayette, which is said to have received SIO,OOO for its work. Ohlhaver & Burkhart, Aurora, 111., was awarded the original contract. HOLMES’ PAY SLASHED Retired U. S. Supreme Court Justice Loses SIO,OOO a Year. By Times Special WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.—Ten thousand dollars—so per cent—will be deducted from the salary now received by Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired justice of the United States supreme court. No federal judge who has resigned may receive more than $lO,000 annually, according to provisions of the economy bill recently passed by congress.

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“Mother and child are doing well,” was the report ffbm Vienna physicians, following the birth of a son to Princess leana of Rumania. Ileana and her husband, the Archduke Anton of Hapsburg, are shown in a recent photograph. The baby will be christened Stephan, it was reported.

HUTTON DENIED RETRIAL “Iron Man” Must Pay $5,000 to Pasadena Nurse. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15.—“ Iron Man” David Hutton, husband of Aimee Semple McPherson, must pay the judgment of $5,000 awarded Myrtle St. Pierre, Pasadena nurse, for breach of promise. Superior Judge Lester W, Roth, who heard the trial denied Hutton's petition for anew hearing. A stay of execution for thirty days was granted.

On Drys’ Side Prohibition may be a soapbox for political orators, a disease, or a quadraped with a blue nose, but whatever it is, James C. George, of 622 South East street, has got it and Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer, gave.it to him. Sheaffer attempted to take it away from George, when he was arrested on a drunk charge. “Judge, I haven’t been drinking. I haven’t drank a drop since you put me on prohibition,” George pleaded tearfully. “Put you orj prohibition?” queried the judge. “Probation,” amended a court officer,” he's out on probation on another case of intoxication in your court.” “Oh! Charge dismissed. See that you stay on the prohibition side,” the judge ordered.

Faces Intoxication Charge Police who said they found Emil Troxel, 24, of 2101 East Garfield drive, asleep in his automobile parked in the center of the intersection of Capitol avenue and Fortysecond street Sunday night, arrested him on a charge of drunkenness.

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11 STATES WILL VOTE NOV. 8 ON REPEALER ACTS Wets Expect Vote Will Be Favorable in Most, Though Few Are Doubtful. By Scrippt-Hoicard Xewtpopfr A Ilia nr* WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Eleven states will vote on the prohibition question at the election Nov. 8. One state. Texas, already has gon on record at a Democratic primary referendum on July 23, in favor of repeal of the eighteenth amendment. The issue will be presented to the voters in various forms, in most cases they will pass upon propositions to repeal state prohibition or enforcement acts. In others they will have an opportunity to register their wishes on the question of repealing the amendment. The states in which referenda are scheduled for Nov. 8 are Louisiana, Wyoming. Connecticut, California, Oregon, Michigan. Washington, Colorado. Arizona. North *Dako‘.a and New Jersey. Advocates of repeal expect favorable decisions in most, although Oregon, Washington, Colorado and North Dakota are classed as doubtful. Some Already Have Repealed If a considerable number of the states voting this year register disapproval of their state enforcement acts it materially will add to those which already have repealed local prohibition. Rhpde Island. Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin. Montana and Nevada have already done away with state Volstead measures, while Maryland has never enacted one. Illinois adopted a repeal act w hich was vetoed, however, by Governor Emmerson. Importance of the congressional contests in this general election is becoming more evident in the prohibition fight as wets and drys argue the immediate liquor question: Modification of the Volstead act. Republicans always have formed a large part of the so-called beer bloc in both senate and house, but Democrats now running for congress are pledged in their party's platform for immediate modification of the law enforcing the eighteenth amendment, and from that side, particularly, the new wet strength is expected to come. Work for Modification While the occupant of the White House would have to sign any modification bill before it could become law, the first and last opportunities for enacting such a bill lies before congress. It must advance the modification bill to the White House, and, if sufficient strength is available, it can pass the bill over a presidential veto. The Hoover position on modification is not definitely know’n, because he shunned the pressing question in his acceptance speech. But Franklin Roosevelt has said he will recommend modification to the next congress, which comes into being March 4, if he si elected in November. There is now a stronger possibility that modification may be accomplished at the short December session of this congress, because of the growing interest in it, and demand for it. HOOVER PAYS THE BILL President Defrays Cost of Printing Acceptance Speech. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—President Hoover paid the bill for printing 3.000 copies of his acceptance speech. The cover page makes the announcement, “Not printed at government expense.” The President followed custom in paying tlie bill.

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