Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 102, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1932 — Page 2

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10,000 CHEER THOMAS;FLAYS MAJOR PARTIES Socialist Candidate for President Draws Throng to. Tabernacle. (Continued From Page One) the relief of unemployment. Watson talked like one of the old Bourbon kings of France at the end of feudalism. “I thought I was listening to Louis XVI in modern dress and an Indiana accent. "And why not, for capitalism,like feudalism at the end of the eighteenth century, has run its course and nears the end which its own inherent contradictions, its cruelties and its follies have imposed upon it. People Are Awakening "The patience or the apathy of our people has been marvelous to behold, but they are awakening—already you can hear the distant rumbling of thunder, 13,000,000 American workers, perhaps twenty by next winter, will remain starving to help Hoover or Roosevelt balance the budget. ‘ The country where 200,000 boys, fifteen and upwards are homeless vagabonds, is not a land of security. Not much longer will the masses go cold and hungry in the midst of actual or potential plenty. The march of the Bonus Army, which in the end was answered by bullets and not by bread was a portent. So is the asiounding spontaneous strike of farmers in lowa and Nebraska. "Or consider the misery and the smoldering civil war of the soft coal fields, including Indiana. Consider the march of the miners in Illinois, who apparently were led into a machine gun nest. I welcome these signs that the workers are awakening, although I do not always welcome the direction that their activities take. Flays John L. Lewis "A farmer's strike can not break the chains of debts, improper taxes, fantastic tariffs and a crazy price and marketing system which hold our farmers in virtual slavery. A strike of Illinois coal miners, however heroic, and justified by the conduct not only of employers, but by the leadership of John L. Lewis, which has done so much to undermine the confidence of American workers in the integrity and intelligence of a labor movement whish is essential to their well being, can not of itself socialize coal. "And without the socialization of coal, there is no answer to the desperate sickness of a chaotic overdeveloped industry. "I am not expressing an opinion of the policy of the strike or the wisdom of anew dual union. I am expressing my Socialist convictions that the problem of unemployed miners concerns us all and that there can be no progress where the spirit of revolt has completely died among tne exploited. “I plead, however, at this time for turning that spirit of revolt into channels of well thought-out political action. Only the capture of the political power in state and nation will enable us to strike at the heart of the problems either of farmers or industrial workers. "We Socialists still believe that there is yet time for a strong, wellorganized political movement, supplemented by labor unions and farmers’ organizations and co-op-eratives, to bring about social ownership by a society of workers of head and brain of natural resources and the great means of production, emphatically including banking and our public utilities, and the management of all this for the use of the human family and not for the pride and profit of an owning class. "Over and over we have challenged the Republican and Democratic parties to meet our argument and they are silent. They try to deafen you by ballyhoo or bribe you with little favors. • But, Mr. Hoover's record speaks so loud that we can not hear his words. Walter Lipnman says that Hoover at least has saved our banking system. Perhaps. But not one of the fundamental economic problems has he touched. Doles to Business "He has given doles like water to private business in the name of "ragged individualism" while he has denied federal responsibility for nation-wide unemployment. Mr. Roosevelt is a gentleman of amiable intentions who leads whichever way the wind blows. He wrote the constitution which American marines imposed by bayonets on Hayati. but has denounced Republican imperialism. "He has been for and against the League of Nations. His answer to economic problems, which he has done so little to help in New York, appears to be a vague and weak control over Wall street, a control which he never has tried to establish as Governor, but promises as President. "Roosevelt's party is a party of incompatibles bound together only by a hanger for public patronage,” Thomas charged. "Again we repeat our challenge: Only Socialism can save us; only Socialism can make machinery a blessing and not a curse; only Socialism once and for all can conquer the dark dominion of poverty. "What we mean to do we have set forth plainly in our platform. We have given our program for repealing unemployment and helping the working farmers—absentee landlords in country or city, we have no intention of helping.” MA HOLDS SLIM LEAD Keeps 3.870 Majority in Official Count on Governor Primary. fly United rret DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 7-Offi-ial returns today had failed to dislodge Mrs. Miriam A. ;Ma) Ferguson from her slim lead over Governor Ross Sterling for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. She has a majority of 3.870 votes in a total of 951,818. Opera Is Lecture Subject Miss Lucille Stewart will lecture on "The Fairyland of the Opera" Thursday afternoon at 2 at the meeting of the Calendar Aid and Mission group of the Central Christian church, Delaware and Walnut streets.

A-Hiinting for a Crown

Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Voorhees, Ft. Wayne, are working on their beagle hound, preparing in for enry in the state fair dog show’. The Voorhees dog lacks only two points of being a champion.

Tragedy Rules Life of Gorgeous Jean Harlow

Platinum’s Happiness Hunt Failure, Despite Rise to Film Stardom. (Continued From Page One) of a German immigrant parents, w'ho grew up in the slums of New York's east side, drifted out to Hollywood, got a small job in the movies and rapidly rose to the heights. Played Big Brother Role He could have pictured himself, too iwhich was also true), as a quiet, studious man—perhaps even morose—who seemed to find little attraction in the gaudy pleasures of life and preferred to discuss life in a philosophical vein, even giving himself to frequent philosophical discussions on suicide. And Bern could have shown himself (which also was true) as a moody man who, for years, seemed to have no loves of his own but found joy in playing a "Big Brother" to movie actresses whose lives had been cursed by misfortune. When the late Barbara La Marr was at the end of her trail, sick and dead broke, Bern brought her home, paid for her physicians, and was with her until the end came. When Mabel Normand found herself entrapped in the tragic circumstances surrounding the murder of William Desmond Taylor, it Bern who befriended her and forced other Hollywood executives to come to her aid. In view of all this, it seems hardly surprising that Bern should turn a pistol on himself after penning a farewell note to his young bride in which he assured her he still loved her. Would Have Chosen Jean And for the actress to play opposite him in this stark drama of belated love, brief happiness and sudden tragedy. Bern scarcely could have chosen a more appropriate leading lady than Jean Harlow. Jean Harlow had known love before, though it is doubtful if she had ever known happiness for—as developments often prove these two elements not always are mirrored by each other. Perhaps, in his moody way, Bern would have chosen for his bride a girl who had not known happiness before —with the hope that he could bring her happiness. And such was Jean Harlow’s history. Asa child in Kansas City, she never seemed to “get on" with the other little girls in her neighborhood. They liked dolls and those other things that little girls usually play with; Jean didn’t. She stored her dolls away as fast as they were given her and sought other pleasures. A Bride at 16 It was the same when she was attending, at 15. an exclusive school for girls near Chicago. The other girls liked to dance; Jean didn't dance, so she sat out her dances. The other girls liked ’dates" with the boys; Jean didn't care much about dates with the boys. And then, when she was 16, a handsome 22 - year - old Chicago youth, who had just inherited his father's fortune, came into her life. He was Charles F. McGrew, whom the younger set knew more affectionately as “Chick.” At last, this 16-year-old girl who seemed to have never known love apparently believed she had found It. At any rate, Jean and "Chick” McGrew were married. Though she may have found love, she missed happiness ... for not long after the romance of the two youngsters ended on the rocks of separation. Took Mother's Maiden Name Shortly after their marriage in September. 1927, Jean and her rich young husband moved to Beverly Hills. For a time, they played gaily in Hollywood's social whirlpool where the young wife met many famous movie stars. But Jean—the litle girl who didn't like dolls, who didn’t dance and who didn't care for dates with the boys —soon found that her marital happiness was merely a mirage. She and "Chick” separated, a little later she filed suit for divorce and got it. Jean went to live with her mother and her new stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Marino Bello, who also had moved to Beverly Hills. Her mother had divorced Jean's father, a Kansas City physician, and married Bello. Her maiden name had been Jean Harlow and her first husband had been Dr. Carpentier. Jean had been born Harleane Carpentier. but when she entered the movies she dropped this name and adopted her mother's maiden name. A Lot in Common Though Jean did not come to Hollywood with any intention of entering the movies, it was onlynatural that she should drift into it. She was young, she was goodlooking. she had friends among the movie people—and what girl does not aspire to become a movie star or long for the chance? And so. as she began in a small way and her success mounted, she came under the observation of Paul Bern, whose success was already accomplished. t Doubtless, they found a lot in common—this girl whose happiness had been clouded by an unsuccessful marn£e at the age of 16 and the

brilliant, but moody, 41-year-old director who never had had a love affair himself but seemed to get his greatest happiness out of befriending those who were unhappy in life. Playing Own Leading Roles So, last July, the curtain rose on the romance of Jean Harlow and Paul Bern and disclosed a marriage to astonished Hollywood, which had little dreamed that the two were considering such a step. Now the final curtain has descended. tragedy replacing happiness to make a sinister climax. Paul Bern and Jean Harlow play their own leading roles in this grim drama of life and love and death—a drama torn directly from their own lives and far more gripping than any in which she ever starred or he ever directed. Next—Jean Harlow’s childhood . . . the little girl who never played with dolls. E. H.ZIEGNER7 WRITER, DEAD Newspaper Man Dies After Emergency Operation. Relapse following an emergency operation for appendicitis today proved fatal to Edward T. Ziegner, 45, of 4180 Ruckle street, Indianapolis News editorial writer, who died at Methodist hospital. Mr. Ziegner was born at St. Louis Crossing, Batholomew county, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ziegner. He attended Columbus high school and was graduated from Wabash college, in whose alumni affairs he remained active until the time of his death. Mr. Ziegner formerly was with the Atlanta and Washington bureaus of the Associated Press and had been a member of the News editorial department for the last seventeen years, nine of which he was an editorial w'riter. His parents, wudow and two children survive. WIDOW OF CITY MAN LOSES ESTATE BATTLE Mrs. O’Connor Ruled Down by Western Court of Appeals. Widow of Joseph S. O'Connor, former Indianapolis man and son of M. O'Connor, founder of a local wholesale grocery company, has lost her fight for a share of his $200,000 estate. The district court of appeals ruled Tuesday in San Francisco that the claim of Mrs, Cardine O'Connor was an expectancy claim under Indiana law while the estate was settled under California law. Mr. O'Connor died in San Francisco March 20. 1930, after filing a divorce suit in Los Angeles. The couple was married at Kansas City. Mo., in March. 1925, and lived here a short time before moving to California. 5 FLYING MAIL HEADS TO BE GREETED HERE Clancy Arranging Reception for Postmasters on Way to Parley. Postmaster Leslie D. Clancy today was arranging a reception for vhe five “flying postmasters of California," who will stop at 1 Sunday at municipal airport en route to the national postmasters’ convention in Springfield, Mass. Representatives of the postoffice, Chamber of Commerce and city officials are expected to greet the visitors, who will reach here on a T. 6 W. A. plane. The group includes the postmasters of San Francisco. Oakland. Alameda and Pasadena, Cal., and Douglas, Ariz. HUNT SLUGGER SUSPECT Assault Charge Faces Man for Brawl at Alleged Drinking Party. William Haycraft, 25, of 534 North East street, is sought on an intent to kill charge following a fight at an alleged drinking party Tuesday night. He is alleged to have slugged William Dilley, 58, of 531 North East street, with a blackjack. MAN, 81, IS MISSING George B. Young Is Sought by Wife; Left Home Tuesday Night. George B. Young, 81. of 1444 West Thirty-fifth street, was reported missing to police Tuesday night. According to Mrs. Young, he left home to go to 2202 Coyner avenue, but did not appear there. Baptist Chorus Group Elects Indianapolis Baptist Association Male chorus Tuesday night elected Arthur D. Moore, president. The meeting was held at Woodruff Place Baptist church. Democrats to Hear Leaders State and county candidates and party leaders wiil speak at a meeting of the Fall Creek Democratic Club at 8 Monday night at Northwestern avenue and Twenty-fifth street.

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TAXES SLUMP, i BUT CITY HIKES LEVY FUR 1933 | Comparison of Budgets Shows $284,387 Drop in Citizens’ Share. Despite the 23.9 cent increase ia the city tax levy required by the 1933 budget submitted to the council Tuesday, taxes to be paid by citizens are $284,387.74 less than in 1932, comparison of the two budgets revealed today. A total of $6,877,217.58 is to be raised by taxation in 1933, while in 1932 the tax levy amount was $7,161,605.32. Decreases in property valuation and increased tax delinquencies caused the boost, officials said. Remainder of the budget, to meet the city’s requirements of $7,466,553.71 estimated by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and William L. Elder, city controller, will come from the unexpended balance this year and from miscellaneous receipts such as licenses and fees. An estimated total of $685,920.30 is expected to be received as the city’s share of the state gasoline tax, more than three times the sum derived from the tax this year. Monopolize Gas Tax Fund Practically the entire gasoline tax fund will be utilized by the board of works and the street commissioner's department, according to the I budget figures. The works board will receive $229,348.71 for resurfacing and widening projects. In the street commissioner’s department $382,646.98 of the gas tax will be used chiefly for salaries and administrative expenses. The department of the city civil engineer is allotted $23,744.61 and the park board $50,150. Os the seventeen items of the budget, fifteen totals were decreased from last year's amounts. An increase of $43,366.79 is shown in the sanitation bond fund, and the city sinking fund is raised $131,678.05. The largest single reduction is $222,511.89 in the general fund. The sanitation department is slashed $90,897.25 and the recreation department $23,395.75. Departments Are Curtailed In a letter accompanying the i budget to the council, Sullivan stated that the reductions had been accomplished by salary reductions which cut approximately 15 per cent from the total pay roll, elimination of positions and transfers to various funds of state gasoline tax money. Explaining that suggestions had been received to eliminate some departments, Sullivan asserted that he believed every branch of the administration useful and necessary, and that all "have been continued, although curtailed.” Except for passage of an ordi- ; nance setting Sept. 11 as the date I for salary cuts to become effective, ; the council took no budget approval j action at its special meeting Tues- ' day. Date for a special meeting Sept. I 12 was set to enable representatives ! of tax reduction organizations to I discuss the budget with the coun- | cil. Final action will be taken Sept. , 19.

PURDUE AND INDIANA UNIVERSITIES FOUGHT Hoosier Taxpayers’ Union Fight Use of State Funds for Two Schools. Opposition to the $3,000,000 state appropriations for Purdue and Indiana universities was voiced Tuesday night by leaders of the Hoosier Taxpayers’ Union, Inc., at a fund drive meeting at the English. John H. Aiken, Ft. Wayne, president of the union and its chief lobbyist at the recent special legislature session, termed the universities "private institutions" and asserted "it costs the people more to send their children to Indiana or Purdue than it does to schools not stateowned,” State Senator Lee J. Hartztll, Ft. Wayne, declared for abolition of kindergartens and abandonment of the compulsory school attendance age of 16. Other speakers urged drastic reduction in all public expenditures such as teachers’, county, city and township officials’ salaries. POLITICAL PULL FAILS: THREE YOUTHS FINED Congregating Conviction Follows Boast of Immunity to Law. "Political pressure” on which three young men said they could count to keep them out of trouble, failed to materialize Tuesday in municipal court four. Judge William H. Sheaffer fined Jean Barrett, 20, of 1123 Olive street; Herbert Atkin, 18, of 905 j Elm street, and Homer Hawkins, 22.; of 1521 Wade street, $lO and costs on charges of congregating. Hawkins’ fine was suspended. They were arrested in front of the | Bruce bakery, 1018 Virginia avenue, and are alleged to have told merchants of the neighborhood who ob- j jected to their congregating, that a "certain politician will get us out,! if we re arrested.” TWO SERIOUSLY HURT IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS 80-Year-Old Man Suffers Possible; Fracture of Skull. Serious injuries incurred Tuesday by two pedestrians struck by automobiles. Thomas O'Connor. 80, of 2322 College avenue, suffered a broken arm and possible skull fracture when he was struck by a car driven by Charles Carter, 20. of 2329 North Dearborn street, in the 2600 block, College avenue. A rib fracture with possible puncture of a lung and a broken nose were suffered by Manuel Walton. 36, Miller street and Blaine avenue, as result of being struck by an automobile while walking at Miller street and Lyndhurst drive. Homer Lethig, 22, of 4516 West Washington street, the driver, lost control of the car after the accident and his car struck a utility pole. Lethig was not hurt. Attempted Holdup Is Foiled Kicking a knife from the hands of his assailant. Herman Hummel, 46. foiled an attempted holdup on Tuesday night near the Emrichville bridge.

MILLIONAIRE IS UNDER QUIZ IN VAULTROBBERY Held as Suspect in Daring $150,000 Safe Deposit Raid at Chicago. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—Frank J. Parker, once one of AI Capone’s henchmen, and now a millionaire Montreal brewer, was under arrest today, held as a suspect in the daring safe deposit vault robbery here Sunday, in which between $150,000 and $250,000 were taken. Police declared Parker the only ( suspect intelligent enough and, wealthy enough to have engineered the robbery. “I’m no bank robber,” snorted! Parker. “I’m worth about $lO,000,000. and I've plenty without j stealing more.” Four other men, their identity kept a secret, also are held by police ; here as suspects. Parker served four years in the Joliet penitentiary before amass- j ing his fortune. He is said to have i originated the system of bringing bonded liquor into the United States from Canada by airplane. He owns many breweries. ANTI-NEPOTISM 'JOKER' BARED Provision Slipped Into Budget Bill Splits Families. Unwittingly the recent special session of the Indiana legislature stimulated business—the rooming house business. Without the general knowledge of members of both houses they per- ! mitted Senator Wililam B. Hoadley | (Rep.), Bloomington, to slip into the | budget bill a provision that no emi ployes of the government can be members of the same family "living in the same domicile.” Hoadley tried to put this provision in the bill by a senate amendment, but failed. So he slipped it in through the conference committee on the last day of the session. His principal thought in the matter was the effect it would have at Indiana university. But it also effects the statehouse and here is where the rooming house business is being stimulated. Brothers, sisters and other relatives, who have been living together and working for the state, now are moving. The new budget law becomes effective Oct. 1, and they want to be beyond the pale of this anti-nepotism provision. Attorney-General James M. Ogden declared the Hoadley proviso “unconstitutional." since it is not covered by the budget law title.

OFFICIAL IS PROBED Complete Grand Jury Quiz On for Bedford Clerk. By United Press BEDFORD, Ind., Sept. 7.—The Lawrence county grand jury was summoned into special session today by Judge John C. Branaman for a "complete investigation and examination” of the office of Raymond Mitchell, clerk of the circuit court. Mitchell, a Republican, is serving his second term. It expires next year. Prosecutor Cullen Barnes will direct the investigation. “It has been reported to this court,” Judge Branaman said, as he instructed the jury, "by Lawrence F. Orr, chief of the state board of accounts, and it is a matter of general and notorious rumor throughout the county, that there is gross irregularity and misconduct in management of this office.” JOIN IN TEST CASE TO FIGHT FARM VALUATIONS Eleven Farm Bureau Organizations to Take Part in Battle. Eleven county farm bureau organizations will join, under leadership of the state farm bureau federation, to test in the courts the rights of the state tax board to increase local farm land valuations. Announcement of the test case v/as mads today by W. H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation. After land is listed at its "true cash value,” the state tax board has no right to increase the valuation, those bringing the suit will contend. "Farmers and other property owners are bearing more than their fair share of the cost of government in Indiana, and it is enough that their holdings be taxed at their true cash value and not be further burdened with assessments representing more than their properties are worth,’’ Settle said. SLASH IN STATE COAL FREIGHT RATES LIKELY Public Sendee Commission Hearing on Cuts Scheduled Sept. 22. Coal freight rates in the southeastern Indiana area may be reduced by nearly one-third as the result of a public service commission hearing scheduled for Sept. 22* it was anounced today by O. R. Livinghouse, chief of the tariff division. Livinghouse summoned other railroads in the district to show why they should not meet the voluntary reduction of 31 cents a ton offered by the Chicago. Indianapolis & Loiusville, and the Chicago. Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific railroads. j ’flgfHE j ! FUNERAL DIRECTORS \ IJWN.&UNOISST. iI22UNIOt?9j i TALBOt 1876 OREXEL 2SST j

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John A. George and Ahamed, one of his Arabian horses, which will appear in a feature attraction at the state fair coliseum Friday night.

Two pure bred Arabian horses, owned by John A. George of Indianapolis and trained by Rudy Rudynoff, for nine years head trainer for the Ringling circus, will perform Friday night as a special exhibition in the state fair coliseum. Horses appearing will be Ahamed, gray stallion, and a full brother, Abu Selim, a bay. They will be put through a number of tricks taught by Rudynoff while fitted with saddles and bridles from Arabia. George has thirty Arabian horses at Arabdale. his Brown county ranch. His interest in horses of this breed led to the United States government loaning him Ribal. premier stallion, and George is the agent of the war department in perpetuating the breed in this section of the country.

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The two horses to perform Friday will appear Sunday in a show at Ft. Wayne. WIFE-KILLER, OUT OF CELL, FACES RUM TRIAL Man Convicted Twenty Years Ago Is Held by Noblesville Police. Oliver Bradley, convicted twenty years ago of the murder of his wife in Indianapolis, and given a life term in prison, is held at Noblesville on a blind tiger charge. Raid on Bradley’s home in Noblesville Tuesday night resulted in seizure of 120 quart bottles of home brew, twenty gallons brewing, and a gallon and a half of whisky, according to officers. Bradley was released from prison on parole a few years ago.

•.. tobaccos made for cigarettes and pipes; granulated tobaccos. But there was plenty of room for a tobacco made solely for pipes. If you will look on the packages of tobacco, you will find that a great many of them say "for pipe and cigarettes”; but look at the Granger package! It says: GRANGER ROUGH CUT Pipe Tobacco Granger is made of the best pipe tobacco that grows. It is made by Wellman’s Method. It is cut right for pipes—rough cut. It burns slower and is a cooler smoke. Just try it!

SEPT. 7, 1932

CONVICTED OF MURDER, EGAN TO FIGHT CASE Famed Defender of Poor Maps Plans for Appeal of Jury’s Verdict. By T nited Press SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, 7-Fac-ing a life sentence in prison. Frank J. Egan, San Francisco's famed defender of the poor, today mapped plans for his appeal, following his conviction Tuesday by a jury of the first degree murder of Mrs. Jessie Scott Hughes. Egan's lifelong friend and benefactress. With Egan, was convicted Albert Tinnin, an ex-convict. The jury convicted Egan and Tinnin on testimony that Mrs. Hughes was struck down unconscious and then crushed to death under an automobile to simulate a hit-run auto accident. Verne Doran, who admitted taking part in the plot, turned state's witness and in return will be permitted to plead guilty to manslaughter. The state contended that Egan, desperate for funds, ordered the death of his friend. She carried more than SIO,OOO in life insurance, payable to Egan. The jury was out seventy hours. It was learned that ten of the jurors had held out for hanging. The verdict recommended life imprisonA large parale with automobiles ment. CHILDREN HIT BY TRUCK Bov, 4, and Girl, 3. Bruised in South Side Mishap. When a truck was backed against them, Bettie Balding, 3, of 1005 Church street, and Kenneth Kinnser, 4. of 215 West Ray street, suffered bruises. The truck was driven by Bennie Ellis. 40, of 837 South Capitol avenue, scene of the accident.