Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1932 — Page 2

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MORTGAGE PLEA OF LITTLE HELP TO BORROWERS Moratorium Urged on Home Foreclosures Fails to Materialize. BY NED BROOKS Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—The administration's plea for a sixty-day moratorium on home mortgage foreclosures has had little effect on the policy of lending Institutions toward borrowers, results of a nation-wide Scrippe-Howard survey showed today. The survey showed, however, that in many cases the institutions themselves had found It desirable for their own interests to adopt a more lenient attitude toward home owners. Many cities reported that foreclosures are being made only in extreme cases, in which the borrowers are hopelessly in arrears, and there is no indication that they will be a’:.e to catch up on back payments. The survey was conducted as a result of conflicting reports on, the ef-'cct of the appeal by Cnairman I ran 'in Fort of the federal home loan board for a general suspension of foreclosures until the home .or.n system is in full operation. Fort’s Statement Disputed Fort’s proposal was put in the form of an order to all closed national banks and later extended to closed state banks in forty states. Solvent national and state banks we.e asked to join in the movement. Fort later said the effect of the sugges.lon was widespread among all lending Institutions. Reports from borowers indicated the contrary The Scripps-Howard survey, conducted through newspapers in all sections, revealed these facts. 1. That in no district covered by the survey has an absolute moratorium on foreclosures been declared. 2. That the increasing leniency of lenders is a move of economic necessity rather than a result of the administration appeal. 3. That in most cases adoption of a less stringent policy toward foreclosures preceded Fort’s plea. 4. That lenders are skeptical of the benefits of the $134,000,000 federal home loan system, with some expecting a tightening of requirements on the mortgaged home owner. Called Political Move Several officials of financial in-st-tutiens suggested that Fort’s proposed moratorium was for political consumption. . n a large number of cases, reports indicated that lending institutions already have more money tied up in reel estate than they desire, and wou and prefer to have overdue notes ra her than more property. Fcreclosures in many cities are being resorted to only when the borrower is unable to keep up interest and tax payments, and then only if he 's in arrears six months or a ywr. I"..re leniency toward borrowers w s reported in New York, Washington, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Baltimore, Cleveland, Knoxville, Birm'npham, Albuquerque, Houston, Ft. Worth and San Francisco. Cincinnati and Columbus reported no change in the policy <9f lenders. Toledo reported a virtual moratorium for the last two years, except in extreme cases of delinquency. Akron reported a similar condition during the last eighteen months, but no actual moratorium, because of legal complication demanding some foreclosures. THROW OUT SUIT ON SCHOOL ANNEXATION Technicality in Title of Case Defeats Perry Township Battle. Suit to set aside annexation of the Perry township school by the city school corporation today was out of court on a technicality in the title of the suit when Judge Joseph R. Williams, superior court two, sustained a demurrer by the city. Williams sustained the city school corporation contention that title of the suit should read “Perry township of Marion county” instead of merely ‘‘Perry township.” Annexation of the school grew out of a fight between Omer Green, Perry township trustee, and city school officials over difference in tuition fees. JAIL ‘TRAFFIC TERROR’ D.unken Driver Fined slll, Given Term of Thirty Days. Thirty days’ imprisonment and slll in fines were the aftermath Wednesday in municipal court of a traffic “reign of terror” caused Labor day by Taylor Houchienes, 20, Negro, 453 West Sixteenth street, Houchienes, arrested on charges of drunkenness, operating a car while under the influence of liquor and failure to stop after an accident, backed over a pedestrian, demoralz:d traffic and figured in two other accidents in five minutes ’time, ir.bert and Sylvester Vaughn, Ne-,-oes, passengers in his car, also ?re fined for drunkenness. SSISTANT DEAN NAMED „s Kiper, Indianapolis Teacher, Given Indiana U. Post. / Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 15 —The position of assistant to the dca.is of men at Indiana university, fo.merly held by Max M. Sappenfleld of Bloomington, will be filled by James Kiper of Indianapolis, who received his A. B. degree in political science from the university last June. Sappenfield ressigned the position to do graduate work at Illinois university. Kiper wifi do graduate work at Indiana in addition to his duties as assistant to Deans C. E. Edmondson and C. J. Sembower. He will take up his new work at once and will deal especially with men students of the freshman class. Pedestrian Is Injured John Polouich, 22, of 764 -Ketcham street, Incurred cuts on head, back and hands Wednesday night when he was stuck by an automobile while walking in the 500 block Bquth Tibbs avenue. Driver of the car was William Poland, 24, of U. South Harris avenue.

50 YEARS OF WEBER & FIELDS

Every Laugh Was a Big Guffaw in All Their Shows

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Weber and Fields Showgirls around the turn of the century. A banquet at the Hotel Astor on the night of Sept. 25 will mark the golden Jubilee of a theatrical Institution —the famous comedy team of Weber and Fields. In a series of articles of which the following Is the fourth, A. J. Llebling tells the romatic story of the rise or two east side boys whose Joint career forms one of the most entertaining chapters In the history of the theater. BY A. J. LIEBLING Time* Staff Writer (Copyright. 1332, by the New York WorldTelegram Corporation) ASK the Weber and Fields of today what was their best show. “ ‘Fiddle-de-Dee,’” Joe Weber--will answer, and in the same breath. “Maybe ‘Catherine.’ ” “ ’Pousse Cafe,’ ” Fields will contend. “Maybe ‘The Con Curers.’ ” “Still ‘Barbara Fidgety’ was a good show” Fields forgets his lumbago, Weber his rice and milk diet, the dispute grows more animated and more digressive, and presently it appears that they were all great shows at the Music Hall. “Well, then, take ‘Fiddle-de-Dee,’ just as an example,” the visitor curious to learn Weberfleldsian lore persists. “What was the big laughs?” “They were all big laughs,” the white-haired Weber insists seriously. The kindly Fields just looks Injured. And It Is probably true. There is a magic of success which makes it appear on some nights that a particular gambler can throw nothing but sevens, some days a baseball player can hit nothing less than a two-bagger. Comedians, too, have streaks, when every gesture, every crack, is for the evening funny. But some of the Weber and Fields hokum remains funny through the years. a tt n THERE was the scene when Fields and Bernard sold Weber the exclusive rights to a wonderful doll. “Read me the contract,” requested the hapless Weber before signing. “Oh, no,” said Fields. “We write the contract after you sign.” The same gag is serving the four Marx brothers in their latest picture, and serving them well. The business of breaking a fiddle on Weber’s head at every performance was made famous by Fields forty years before Milt and Frank Britton went into vaudeville. And w’here would burlesque comics be today without Warfield’s triumphant quip: “You might bring me a demitasse.” “Bring me the same, and a cup of coffee.” Warfield, the first Jewish genre comedian, was a music hall development. He came to the hall from a variety show called “The Comic World,” and it was in the bur-

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Erring Saver of Sidewalk Souls Is Released on Mann Act Charge. Mercy jingled with retribution in the law's tambourine in the federal building Wednesday for a Salvation Army captain, and the man, who had saved sidewalk souls, himself was saved from cell doors. The Salvation Army captain was John C. Hall, Rocky Mount, N. C., arrested on Mann act charges by department of justice agents, who charged he left his family to run away to Indianapolis with a woman with whom he was infatuated. Hall, facing a lengthy prison term, appeared before Howard S. Young, United States commissioner. A. G. Cavins, assistant district attorney, was called to prosecute Hall at the hearing. The prisoner sat with’ head bowed as the case was explained to Cavins. “Mr. Commissioner,” said Cavins, ‘‘we don't want this man. I move that the case be dismissed.” Cavins explained that a recent ruling by the attorney-general VENUE CHANGE SOUGHT Vehling Seeks to Take $25,000 Damage Suit Out of County. Change of venue from Marion circuit court was sought today by Fred W. Vehling, former coroner, in a petition filed in a suit for $25,000 damages for an illegal autopsy in which he is a defendant. The suit, by Tempie Tinner, widow of Vernon Tinner, Negro, alleges that Vehling and Dr. Clarence N. Harris, Negro deputy coroner, performed an illegal autopsy Aug. 5 on Tinner, who died at city hospital from natural causes following an atta<& of spinal meningitis. Dr. Harris ifc a joint defendant.

The late Lillian Russell and David Warfield in a scene from “Fiddle-de-Dee.”

lesques of current dramas that he first showed his latent tear-jerk-ing powers. But long before the tremolo and vox humana music master who said, “If you don’t vant her—l vant her,” was the Shadrach Leschinski who said, “For ten thousand dollars I marry an ostrich.” Warfield Hopper, Willie Collier, Fay Templeton and Joe and Lew themselves, incidentally, are the only surviving principals of that legendary era. n u THE theater which housed the Weber and Fields productions gained all its fame daring their regime. When they got it, it was a rather disreputable variety theater known as the Imperial. The stage was but sixteen feet deep and in the days of their spectacular shows they used to paint the back drop on the bricks of the rear wall. The critics of the day, headed by Alan Dale of the American, Acton Davies of the Evening Sun and Rennold Wolf of the Morning Telegraph, were consistently kind to the Music Hall shows. Perhaps the quaint Joe Weber custom of allowing newspaper men free credit at the case in the basement had something to do with the good will of the press. At the end of every month Joe, who reigned over the business affairs of the team, tore up the newspaper checks. But the Music Hall was a paragon of sobriety among its contemporaries. The bar always was closed during the actual performance, opening at intermission. The Weber and Fields burlesques of stage hits could have existed .only during a great the-ater-going era. Personalities abounded on the stage and the shop girl and her

barred prosecution of “white slave” cases, where there is no evidence of criminal intention of commercialism. Hall sobbed silently, shook hands with officials, and promised to start home to his family and resume the task of aiding the unfortunate.

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boy- friend —there weren’t many office girls—who today read movie fan magazines, then fed on details about Mrs. Leslie Carter, Pauline Hall, John Drew, Olga Nethersole and the Farnums. Their interest was shared by the box holders. A united interest focussed on the stage. 0 0# NOT only was the plot of each great popular success familiar to all New York—the idiosyncrasies of each player were equally common property. Thus when Lew Fields confined his remarks to Italian—learned it from his favorite barber—in a burlesque of “The Hmjjiming Bird” —nobody in his audience needed to be informed that he was kidding young Lionel Barrymore. Barrymore had played the part of a deceived Italian husband, picking up his English cues in purest Tuscan, a triumph of literal interpretation. Or when in “Du Hurry” the comedians fried an egg over Fay Templeton’s hair, the house knew they were referring to the red haired Mrs. Leslie Carter in “Du Barry.” Os all the Weber and Fields burlesquers, none was cleverer than giant Pete Dailey, an east sider himself. Dailey was a nocturnal animal if ever one lived and he abhorred matinees. Company discipline was strict, and Pete, half awake, would be dragged into a box at, say, “Sapwho,” at Wallack’s theater, where he promptly would fall asleep. But when the curtain call came, his travesty was always the most apt. He was a Jim Thorpe of comedy—be didn’t have to train. “And dance,” Max Weber, Joe’s brother, speaks awefully. “Two-hundred-and-fifty pounds and do a back flip like a kid.” “And sing,” choruses Fields. “Lu-Lu! How I love my Lu, Lu, Lo, Lubs you? ’deed I do, Lu-Lu, you are a Lu-Lu! Lu-Lu, you’re my love, for true!’’ Through the hotel room plastered with photographs struts a ghost—the ghost of a broth of a man.“Pete Dailey,” says Weber, “there never was any one like him.” And quick at repartee! 0 0 0 THERE was a time Charlie Bigelow, a mighty good albeit bald comedian, tried to kid him ad lib, in a scene together.

“Put on your hat!” bawled bold Peter, “You’re half naked.” His remark echoes through the decades wherever there is smalltime vaudeville. Nobody ever knew quite what his co-player was going to say. That was the charm of the hall. Edgar Smith provided a mere skeleton of dialog. And if anew importation from legit protested, Fields, the partner in charge of production, said, “Well, you’re supposed to be good. Think of something to say!" Like the time Collier asked the chorine, “Who are you?” and she answered, “Virginia Earle” (pronounced as in Joisey City). And Collier, .that mad wag, answered just like that, “How is your sister, Omega?” “The company was just like one big family,” says Lew, “and that is no gag. They were all stars, so nobody could feel stuck up.” There was a struggle for the spotlight between Hopper and Charley Ross, a handsome light comedian, after which Ross resigned and once Frankie Bailey went for Dave Warfield with a toy horsewhip, but those incidents over a stretch of eight years, stood out. 0 n a “TJESIDES,” say the collaboraJ3 tors, “Frank Wilstach, our publicity man, probably made that up about Frankie. Horsewhips and hatpins were the favorite publicity props for actresses in those days. From the windows of the Hunting room at the Astor, where they have met for luncheon almost every day for twenty-five years, the comedians look down upon the Broadway crowds, hurrying to get into movie houses before the afternoon tariff goes into effect, lapping up cocoa nut milk and near beer, buying pirated copies of popular songs, dashing between the wheels of taxicabs. “What do they do now wh-'n they are insulted?” Weber muses aloud. “There are no more horses. There are no more? big hats.” Next—The break between Weber and Fields and their reunion.

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CITY OFFICIALS’ PARLEY TALKS UTILITY LAWS Leslie’s Failure to Sign Municipal Ownership Bill Assailed. By United Press GARY, Ind., Sept. 15.—Discussion of problems arising out of public utilities opened at the Indiana Municipal League's thirty-third annual convention here today. Carl D. Thompson, secretary of the Public Ownership League of America, was scheduled to lead the debate. Following him on the program were Mayor William J. Hosey, Ft. Wayne; Mayor Thomas Cooksey, Crawfordsville, and Mayor Joseph Kimmell of Vincennes. Several attacks on the public service commission were anticipated. An indication of the trend of today’s discussion was given by Mayor H. Carl Volland of Columbus, in Wednesday afternoon’s session when he criticised Governor Harry G. Leslie for failure to sign a municipal ownership bill passed by the recent special legislative session. Volland referred to the public service commission as a “nonessential appendage of state government and a menace to local government.” Delegates planned to tour the Calumet section steel mills this afternoon and visit the site of the 1933 world’s fair in Chicago. J. Adam Bede, former representative in congress from Minnesota, will be speaker at tonight’s session. JOBLESS; PLEA WINS Judge Withholds Action in Suit of . Divorced Wife. Judgment was withheld Wednesday by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker in the case of a jobless man. Goebel Tudor, 688 East Eleventh street, apartment R, charged with failure to pay support money for his two children, Goebel Jr., 8, and Gene, 4. Mother of the children, Mrs. Elizabeth Tudor, of Ravens wood, filed the charge. She testified that since June 21 of this year, Tudor has paid but $2 for the children’s support. Tudor pleaded that he has been unemployed since June 28, a week after the couple was divorced. NAB PAIR AS THIEVES Two Accused of Many Purse Snatchings in Recent Weeks. An epidemic of purse-snatching which has prevailed for several weeks, and in which scores of women pedestrians have lost pocketbooks, was believed ended today With the arrest of Benjamin Friend, 28, of 1010 Bellefontaine street, and Arthur Abraham, 28, of 36 Parkview avenue. Detectives said Friend has confessed several robberies, and that the pair ■ used a stolen car and stolen license plates in cruising in search of victims and making their escape. Both men are held on vagrancy charges on $5,000 bond each. Cavein Injuries Are Fatal Internal injuries received when he was •crushed in a sewer cavein Wednesday at Rural street and Nowland avenue proved fatal to John Means, Negro, 1356 North West street, at city hospital.

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LAUNCHES CRUSADE Campaign Against Gaming h Started by Wilson. Campaign against drinking and gambling resorts in Marion county was launched Wednesday by Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson, who turned over numerous complaints to Sheriff Charles Sumner for investigation. Complaints against restaurants, barbecue and hamburger stands south of the city, have come to the prosecutor since a raid Friday night at the Rome restaurant, 3053 Madison avenue.

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