Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1932 — Page 4

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JIMMY WALKER 'IN HIDING' ON ATLANTIC SHIP Betty Compton, Linked With Ex-Mayor, Is on Same Vessel. BY CARL D. GROAT United Preta Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1932. by United Press) ABOARD S. S. CONTE GRANDE, Nov. 11.—James J. Walker, New York’s once spectacular mayor, his political career definitely ended, was in strict seclusion aboard ship today, en route abroad for an indefinite stay. Also aboard was Miss Betty Compton, the actress, who has admitted being the mysterious "Madame X” of the Seabury hearings when Walker was on trial ori charges of official misconduct. .. It had been brought out that she received $7,500 from one of the exmayor’s accounts. She later explained it was for "a bet." It was also testified Miss Compton received approximately SBO,OOO in stocks and other securities from sources close to Walker. The former mayor went into hiding even before the ship sailed Thursday. And not a sight of him could be had by reporters who besieged his suite. After sailing, the United Press sent a note to the suite and it was returned with the note, "I am not the man you want.” * Several cabins were reserved in Walker’s name. Miss Compton was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Florence Compton, a friend, Mrs. Alice Leary and Miss Modesto Gerhegan. Walker, wtih his valet, boarded the Conte Grande at 11 a. m. Thursday in New York, and hurried Into his suite on a deck. , This is the same ship on which Walker sailed for Europe in September, after he had resigned as lhayor under the fire of the Seabury investigators. As on the previous voyage, on the Conte Grande, Walker again is traveling with a group of reporters, who are going over to sail back on the maiden voyage of the new Conte De Savoia. En Route to India By United Preen NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—James J. Walker is en route to India, it was reported here Thursday night from apparently reliable sources. The reports said he would be the guest there of a maharajah whom he entertained here when he was mayor, fcfter which he would go to Paris for an indefinite stay. General opinion here was that Tammany hall is "through” with Walker.

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This is the second of three stories on Charlie Chaplin's three loves—Mildred Harris. Lita Grey and. now, Paulette Goddard. BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer Hollywood, Nov. 11.—too much Sweet Sixteen. That is the reason Charlie Chaplin and his first wife. Mildred Harris, came to a parting of the ways. At least that was the story told to me by Miss Harris. We were discussing Charlie’s married life at the time of his separation from Lita Grey, his second wife. “Too much sweet 16—that’s Charlie’s trouble,” Mildred commented. “What he needs, to be really happy, is a woman of about 30, a woman with poise, with a full knowledge of human nature, particularly of the kind accompanying exceptional minds, and

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with a brilliance to match his own.” . It was about fifteen years ago that Charlie married his first wife, who at that time was little, more than a beautiful blond child. They were married nearly two years before their ship of matrimony hit the rocks. n u A PORTION of the blame for this crash might be laid to the death of their infant son. Charlie always has had a passion for children. To have a son of his own and then lose him was almost too much for the comedian, He never quite recovered from the blow. Soon the Chap-lin-Harris marriage was dissolved. However, Mildred took the large share of the blame upon her own shoulders. According to her own statements, she was too

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young to understand Charlie, to give him the things he wanted from a wife. “I doubt if any young girl could understand Charlie —I know I didn’t,” Miss Harris once remarked. “Were I married to him again, I believe I could make him happy. I was just a girl before. I have learned a great deal since, and I think I know what it would take to keep Charlie happy.” There is a strange twist to this great genius of comedy and tragedy. Although he knows that girls still in or barely out of their teens can’t possibly have a mentality to match his, Charlie seldom has shown any interest in more mature women. tt a tt THERE is something about the freshness of those so many years his junior which interests

BOOK SUPPLY DWINDLING AT CITYUBRARY Reduced Budget to Buy New Volumes, Repair Old , Blamed. Shrinkage of book stocks in the Indiana polis public library was reported Tueesday to the board of school commissioners by Luther L. Dickerson, librarian. Reduced budget for buying new books and getting old books mended together with abnormal demands for books of all sorts, especially those on jobs and the practical aspects of business, have caused the him—for a time. Then he tires of them. At least, such has been the case in the past. Perhaps history will be written anew for him if he marries Paulette Goddard, as Hollywood is certain he will. Chaplin also is extremely impulsive, strongly inclined to act quickly and repent at leisure—if there is any repenting to be done. His courtship with Mildred Harris was a short one. Almost before any one in Holywood realized that there was a serious note between them, she had become Mrs. Chaplin. But it didn’t take so long to detect trouble between them. Some time before they separated, rumors had spread through the film colony that all was not going so well in the Chaplin home. However, the real exciting part of Charlie’s love life, if it may be termed that, didn't star for a number of years after Mildred divorced him. During the interim he was reported engaged to quite a number of girls, including the glamorous Pola Nigri. But the rumors proved groundless until Lita Grey came along. Then the real fun, or should I say trouble, started—it spelled trouble for Charlie anyway. For she, too, was only 16. Next: J Chaplin’s life with Lita Grey.

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MDRE JUSTICE FDR MASSES IS SEENJIG NEED Sherwood Eddy Speaks to 100 City Ministers on World Conditions. "We must give the masses justice or they will arise in fury and take more than justice.” Sherwood Eddy, author, lecturer and traveler, declared today in addressing about 100 Indianapolis ministers at the Roberts Park M. E. church. Eddy is in the city for a two-day institute on disarmament, which opened today at the Y. W. C. A. under auspices of the Indiana Council of International Relations.

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Discussing "World Conditions,’' Eddy said he found in Europe bankruptcy, revolt, demand for revision of the treaty of Versailles and inability of France to pay her war debts. Stating he had visited Russia seven times since the Red regime began, he declared he found one bad thing—denial of personal liberty, and one good thing—a passion for social justice. Eddy urged adopting of unemployment insurance and expressed the belief that “we are at the end of an epoch." He will be the speaker at a night session of the disarmament institute to be held at the Roberts Park church. Addressing a luncheon session today at the Y. W. C. A., Dr. C. R. Hennings asserted that enemy nations of Germany during the World war have failed to carry out their disarmament promises, although Germany began disarming immediately after the close of the conflict.