Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1933 — Page 9

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'TEN PROGRAMS TO RE GIVEN BY LEISURE CLUBS Varied Entertainment to Be ♦Given at Meetings Here Tonight. LEISI RM HOI R CALENDAR TOMfiIIT Christian park rnmmiinltv house. I t. Wavne and Walnut ( lub. Municipal (lardrns community house. Oak Hill community house. School HI. School School School .HI. School fi*. ] Crispus Attucks. smi rtit.w Mirhis.cn and Noh.e Club. Christian park Leisure Hour Club will present a program featuring music by the Hoosierlancf Silver string band, composed of Edward Wolfiey, Roy Gibson, Charles and Guy Padgett and Kenneth Jolly, to--1 night. Other entertainment will be a comedy stunt, “Stooges and Otherwise,” by Jimmy Commons, Egan Lacy, jack Wilson and Charles Eberly, and forestry pictures exhibited by the state conservation dc- , partment. Sergeant Frank Owen will have ci>*rge of a safety program, featuring Noble Pearcy and Jean Ludwig in specialty dance numbers, and George L. Stork's accordion band, at the Ft. Wayne and Walnut Club tonight. Lydia Ellen and Irwin McCray will sing. A one-act play. “The Fatal Pill, will be presented tonight by the Drama Club of St. Paul's M. E. church at the Municipal Gardens community house. Members of the cast are: Harold Love. George Russell, Eulalia Batman, Margaret j Todd and Roy Vehling. Musical numbers on the program j will include Hayden's Toy Synm- j phony, directed by Mrs. O. E. Run- < dell; a cornet solo by Buddy Kluty and piano numbers by 5-year-old | Dicky Pappenguth. Community singing will be led by Sam Raborn tonight at School lti. \Music on the program will be furnished by the Golden Four Negro quartet, composed ot Walter Purs-lc-y, Lewellyn Becker, John Washington and Raymond Hunter, and by the Hoosier Melody Boys from WKBP. Charles Smith will direct the Central players in a play, “Kidnaping Betty.” School 22 will have a varied program tonight, featuring Charles L. Lines, former Keith star, in songs and stories. Others on the program include Melvin and Elvin Shuppcrt, songs and piano music pupils of the Hilo Hawaiian school of music, including Carlein Shaw, Kermit Shaw, and Lacy Manning music by the Scring Trio, composed of Mary Alice and Charles Sering, and Kcnntli Manners; a farmer stunt bv tin- Corn Huskcrs; music by the : Cdd Sized Four; and music by the | Hoosier Trio, composed of Clyde* Stone, Edward Genier, and JcfTj Canter. Three one-act plays will be presented by the Broadway Players tonight. The cast will include R. L. Overrcich. Harry Frances Hoagland, Marjorie Brownlee, John Thurston, Harold Welch, Harry Thomas, Jessie Keller. George H. Hoagland Jr, j and Martha Davis. Community singing will be led by Mrs. H. H. Wright, accompanied by Miss Ethel Bryan.

Steiner’s Junior Hawaiians, from the Steiner music studio, "frill be on lie program at School 34 tonight. They will include Fred Birk. Louise Blunk, Richard Geckler and Orvin Tetcr. The Garfield Players will present a one-act play, ‘ Scheming Mothers," with a cast composed of Helen Malloy, Louise Forgman, William Weaver. Mabel and Helen Hohn and Norman Aiken. A group of violin solos will be given by Chloriz McGill. Other numbers will be music by the Troubadour quartet from Indiana Central college, composed of Arnold Elzy. Kenneth Brice, Melvin Livenood and Virgil Hague; songs by Vera Kupple; banjo music and songs by "Drake the Ban joist"; readings by Mrs. Martha L. Huggins, and songs by Mrs. Frank West. Community singing at School 67 will be led by Kenneth Hughes, accompanied by Bertha Slaughter. The Scott county Melody Men will play string instruments. Members are Donald Hughy, Roy Shepherd, and Lent! Fortner. The Slauughter trio will play. A violin solo will be played by Betty Jane Mitchell, a pupil of Olive Kiler. A variety program of tap dancing, singing, readings and one-act skits will bo presented at School 38. Tap dancers will be Wilmer and Wildred Snyder. Rev. Sims. Rosemary Alberts. Evelyn Morehouse 'and Marguarite Pollard. Singers will be Mary Rosalind Bolser. Virginia Barnes and Gilbert and Raymond Alberts. Plays will be given by Geraldine Wallace and Herman Kent. Irene Pollard. Doris and Louise Bickncll will give readings. laud business moves Developments Are Constructive, Says Bradslrt et's Review. By United I'ns* NEW YORK. Jan. 20.—Business developments of the last week were generally constructive. Bradstreet’s Weekly Trade Review said toady. l ame Duck Amendment Ratified United I’ri SS OLYMPIA, Wash. Jan. 20.—The Washington legislature Thursday ratified the lame duck amendment to the federal Constitution when the house concurred in the previous senate action. Bank Suit to Be Settled Suit of Frank W. Ervant. Kokomo, Howard National bank receiver to enforce an assessment of 100 per cent on stockholders, is to be settled out ot court. Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell was notified Thursday by attorneys. Tru-t Fund Grows <OO Per Cent By I ntied rr< y ST. LOUIS, Jail. *" —A trust fund started in KMt> with a $50,000 donation for th" 'ear* of public school teachers retired because of age. has grown to $400,000.

FILM DRAMA PALE BESIDE JEHOL TALES Plots and Counterplots, With Thrones as Prizes, Dot History

Thr Jrhol of yesterday and today are contrasted in this article, the of three describing the Chinese province which now is the objective of invading Japanese troops.

Hu V FA firrricc OUT of Jehoi's glittering past come stories of lavish, splendrous days that are in striking contrast to the scenes of decadence which now greet visitors to this North China province. For poverty today has smitten the countryside which once basked in the reflected glory of the pleas-ure-loving Manchus. The roads—one of which was described by a member of Lord McCartney's embassy 140 years ago as being the most beautiful in the world—are rutted and at times impassable. Yet it was over these roads that brilliant imperial processions swung in the days of Jehol’s magnificence. Tea houses dot the roads at intervals. Pigs root In the streets of the villages. Crumbled temples are everywhere, while on the high ridges may be seen temples which have withstood the corrosion of time. Jehol’s people, for the most part, are descendants of the Manchu servants, although to the north there are a few Mongol chieftains. The peasants raise sheep and cultivate millet and gao-liang. Poppies grow in the oases and furnish the tremendous opium trade which has become so profitable to Tang Yu-lin. This then is the scene for the new drama of the east—the drama that has been sleeping since the Manchus fled Jehol in a manner that smacks of a Broadway thriller. u a a THE Manchu curtain fell upon a fear-stricken Chinese beauty, the royal seal of a dead monarch in her possession, fleeing toward Peking to establish herself as dowager empress and satisfy a slumbering ambition. Few movie situations are more filled with counterplot. The young woman in question was Yehonala, who became known to the true empress as the “concubine Yi,” who ruled for fifty years as dowager and was mother to the Emperor Tung-chih. Yi was a Manchu girl, a favorite of Hsieng-feng. Her father was an army officer. She is described as beautiful and of superior education. She was 18 when called in for the approval of Hsicn, whom historians dismiss as dissipated, weak and unworthy—one of several such in a slowly declining line. He was childless. She bore him a son. Later the empress had the misfortune to bear a mere daughter. Yi, hence, became chief concubine and immensely important. Such was the emperor’s behavior that his brother. Prince Kung, practically ruied the land. The year was 1860. And, with a weakling as chief, the “foreign white devils” were reported coming. English and French warships appeared in the harbor. A march to Peking began. Whereupon the emperor, who had taken little interest in Jehol theretofore, decided to put to

Kills at Cards Given Life for Death of Woman in Hotel Poker Game.

Pi/ United Press EDALIA, Mo.. Jan. 20. —Jess Adams, 66. Thursday was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing Miss Peggy Branstetter in a poker game at a local hotel. The young woman was shot fatally last .Thanksgiving after a night of liquor and cards. Adams pleaded not guilty. WATER CO. SUES CITY FOR $172,902 IN BILLS Service Charges for August to December Unpaid, Is Charge. Suit against the city to collect $172,902 in unpaid water bills for service from August to December last year was filed today in superior court five by the Indianapolis Water Company. It is the second suit to be filed against the city by the utility within a year. The suit, setting out that the total bill is for service for fire protection, public buildings, park sprinkling systems and drinking fountains, avers the bill accrued under three separate rates fixed by the public service commission in the rate reduction cases. SLAIN MAN IS FOUND Head Crushed by Heavy Blows; All Identification Marks Gone. 1! ii f tu'fi it I‘rrss RACINE. Wis.. Jan. 20.—The body of an unidentified man. about 40, head and face apparently crushed by heavy blows, was found near a highway north of the city today. He was dressed only in underclothing and a blue shirt. Police said the body was covered with bruises, indicating the man had been beaten. Identification marks had been removed.

Cheapening of Dollar Is Urged by Texas Senator

Connally Advocates Plan as Way to Emerge From Depression. By Bcripps-Howani %'ncspttpcr Allianet WASHINGTON. Jan. 20.—Senator Tom Connally (Deni.. Tex.) today joined the growing group in congress that sees cheapening of the dollar as the way out of this depression. Others have proposed printing more money, paying the bonus, ana other methods; but Senator Connally wants to reduce the gold content of the dollar by congressional action.

ic prime minister, produced the ' * ' al and moved in. k • - *; Chia-Ching was another Man- .. • fri j ... jj J mto die in Jehol. And there is j ii[tiT"*anrr ***&'<”&*■& ■ -P- wM#** tother melodramatic finish, this me with a bit more of the tri- ' " ""

flight and hide out, tinder the excuse of a hunting trip. As the fugitives progressed, they could see the glow of a burning palace, fired by the ‘foreigners.” Not long thereafter, the emperor died in Jehol. a a a TN the interim Yi had plotted to seize the reins of power at first chance, make herseif the dowager .and put herself on the throne. Fearing such an attempt. Hsien had threatened Yi with death and when the empress herself interceded. the dying emperor made a will denying Yi any standing. But the emperor’s masseur discovered the will—and the plot thickened. He notified Yi. Servants became spies—and, just before death came, she stole the great seal, packed up her son and headed for Peking. All efforts to halt her plans were fruitless—the smart Manchu girl slipped in ahead of the prime minister, produced the seal and moved in. Chia-Ching was another Manchu to die in Jehol. And there is another melodramatic finish, this time with a bit more of the triangle in it. This emperor was particularly interested in many feminine associates; in fact he ordered the women's quarters at the pleasure palace enlarged several times. The plot rests on that circumstance. For a certain artist and his wife contributed designs for the buildings and the emperor sent for them. The artist’s wife seemed most beautiful to the ruler. She was given a position as a decorator and designer. Thus engaged she was separated from her husband for a year. a a a Meanwhile, her husband dare not draw the Manchu's wrath by seeking out his wife. One day. however, he appeared and pleaded for her return. The emperor said she would be sent home in due time. The husband brooded and wor-

Congress Must Speed Up to Cut Farm Production

ROCKEFELLER ACTION TO •BE PROBED BY SENATE National Parks Service Move to Be Investigated by Committee. By Scrfpps-Hoienrd .Yci espaper .l llianir WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The senate committee on public lands, of which Gerald P. Nye (Rep., N. D.), is chairman, has voted to investigate the activities of the national parks service in connection with the purchase of 30.000 acres of land in the Jackson hole country of Wyoming by John D. Rockefeller Jr., to add to the Grand Teton National Park. The Wyoming senators, opposed strongly to the addition of more private land to the Grand Teton park, have served an ultimatum that they will resist the project to the utmost. They offered to accept an addition to the park and creation of a federal-state administered wild life reserve of the remainder, to be under the joint control of the government and the state of Wyoming. No charges are brought against the good intentions .or good faith of Mr. Rockefeller. It is Senator Robert D. Carey’s contention that he has been misled in the project, and that the citizens of Jackson's hole and of Wyoming generally are against placing any more taxable lands in federal reservations in their state. Hear Unpaid Taxes Claim Hearing on a government claim for §19,289 unpaid taxes against the Insley Manufacturing Company was started Friday before Superior Judge Russell J. Ryan. The company is in receivership and owes taxes for 1923. 1924. 1925 and 1923. according to a claim filed by E. E. Neal, federal internal revenue collector. \

‘‘lt may be said that such course is drastic action," the senator said. : "The country is faced by a critical situation. The welfare of the whole people must be paramount." The method he proposes. Connally believes, would result in an expansion of the currency that could be kept in precise corn:*)]. Economists say that if congress ever seriously undertook legislation to reduce the gold content of the dollar that the country first would have to go off the gold standard tempoj rarily. remain off until the new gold . content of the dollar is fixed, and then go back on a partial gold i standard.

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Above: An old p’ai-lon at the entrance to Jehol . . . Below: The temple and monastery buildings of Hs-n-kung. (Photos from “Jehol, City of Emperors,” by Sven Hedin; courtesy of E. P. Dutton & Cos.)

ried and fell ill. And one night, the heartsick wife disappeared from her room—some of her garments were found floating in a nearby lake. A messenger brought the news to the harassed artist. Within a few moments he had joined his loved one in death. A few years later a lightning bolt hit the palace and the emperor was burned to death. Such is but a sketch of an almost Shakespearean story, recently disclosed in full detail by Sven Hedin, writer-explorer, who spent much time in research in the records of Jehol and described his findings in ‘‘Jehol, City of Emperors” (E. P. Dutton & Cos.). And such, too, is but a slice of

Planting Season to Start Soon; Roosevelt May Push Measure. By Scripps-Hoivaril Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. Jan. 20.—Reduction of several major farm crops under governmental supervision will not be possible for at least another year, unless President-Elect Roosevelt compromises the congressional row over farm relief at once, so the measure can be passed this session. New green shoots of wheat and cotton and tobacco and rice may be coming up through the good earth before congress acts, and this possibility is being discussed among senators. Mr. Roosevelt is expected to determine in his -conferences today whether the domestic allotment plan shall be pushed through to a showdown, and if he says the word, the bill that has passed the house will come in some amended form to a quick vote in the senate. Since his agricultural advisors, like Henry Morganthau Jr. and Professors Meyers and Tugwell, have sponsored the measure since it was born in the house, the general belief is that Mr. Roosevelt will insist on its passage. One provision of the domestic allotment bill is for reduction of acreage by farmers of cotton, wheat, tobacco and rice who receive its bounties. But these crops generally are planted early in the spring, and preparation of the ground for their sowing is begun even earlier. Sc. if crop reduction planned and supervised by the government —a fundamental principle—is to affect these 1934 crops, the measure will have to be enacted during this session. The senate agriculture committee again today considered the bill in executive session, with a decision expected on whether there would be brief hearings. WOMAN BADLY BURNED Clothing Ignited by Kitchen Stove; Taken to Hospital. When her clothing was ignited from a kitchen stove Thursday, Mrs. Edna Mayhew, 40. R. R. J3 Box 237, suffered severe burns on the body and arms. She was taken to Robert Long hospital. Man Believed Killed by Train By United Press MARION, Ind., Jan. 20—The body of Clinton Groves, 37, was found today beside the Nickel Plate railroad here. His watch had stopped at 10:30, leading authorities to believe he had been struck by a train at that time Thursday night.

the romance, tragedy, and drama enacted in the citadel of a thousand Buddhas and another thousand Lama priests, praying at the shrines even as the human stories were unfolding just outside in the summer palace of the emperor. a a a THERE were gay and joyous scenes—fireworks flaring above the lakes —actors and singers and poets—celebrations of victories and feating over nature’s bounty. Chicn-Lung’s court had been, indeed, the scene of such pomp and ceremony as only the East can display. Himself a poet and actor, he summoned the best makers and wearers of ancient masks; the

Bargain March Philadelphia Democrats to Aid in Inaugural for $19.98.

p, if Bcripps-Hoieard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. John O’Donnell, Philadelphia Democratic leader, plans to bring his marching club to the Roosevelt inauguration. For $19.98 he advertises an allday, all expense tour, to include round trip railroad fare, overcoat, necktie, spats, gloves, cane, derby hat, badges and band. ROOSEVELT MAY KEEP OLD G. 0. P. STALWART Trade Commission Counsel Wins Praise From Many Liberals. By Bcrippx-ll award Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. Jan. 20.—One prominent member of the Republican regime will retain his place when Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President if his Democratic friends in the senate and house have their say. He is Robert E. Healy, chief counsel of the federal trade commission. Judge Healy is a Vermont Republican, appointed during the administration of Coolidge at about the time the trade commission was entrusted with the task of investigating utility company propaganda and holding company finances, and it is his work in this investigation that has won him the hearty commendation of congressional liberals. When the utility investigation was first proposed by Senator Thomas J. Walsh <Dem.. Mont.), it was to be a senate investigation. Friends of the power companies proposed instead that the matter be turned over to the federal trade commission, and were successful after a hoc senate fight. BANKER’S WIDOVSTSUED Union Trust Company Files Action for §29,300, on Loan. A suit demanding judgment of $29300 from Mrs. Isa H. Morris, widow, and ether heirs of J. Edward Morris, former president of the defunct Washington Bank and Trust Company, v.as filed in circuit court Thursday by the Union Trust Company, as trustee. Morris borrowed $17,500 from the trust company March 12, 1929. payable in five years at 8 per cent interest, according to the suit. The money is unpaid, the complaint avers, and the trust company seeks foreclosure of the mortgage securing the note. County Paid $1,147,000 Debt By United Press PENDLETON, Ore. Jan. 20. Twelve years ago Umatilla county owed $1,050,000 in bonds and $97,000 in registered warrants. Today the county is debt free.

.best musicians and elocutionists. His reception of the Tashh Lama, prince of the church in India, was superlatively lavish. Yet even this outstanding event in a long list of lavish occasions was not without its sub-plot. Out in India, the historic Warren Hastings, of the India Company, was playing a memorable political game with the lama for his English interests. The great lama had hoped to bring Hastings and the Emperor Chien together on a friendly basis and Chien was using his lama temples to win greater power and prestige. Years and years of check and checkmate in a walled city where bells tinkled in the wind and luxury piled upon luxury! As armies foregather today, the game of time goes on—but now against a background of rotting Oriental splendor. THE END

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WOMAN DEFENDS J. A. STILLMAN IN LOVE IANGLE Millionaire Banker Didn't Steal Her Affections, She Asserts. /?. United Press BOSTON. Jan. 20.—Mrs. Lucy Rochefort, attractive wife of a Montreal politi.ian, announced today she ' would defend James A. Stillman, millionaire bankei, against any i alienation of affection suit her husband may file against Stillman. “Mr. Stillman is innocent.” said Mrs. Rocheffort. She said ‘he had not lived with her husband “as man and wife" for | seven years. She now lives with her mother, Mrs. Emily M. Baker. "There is nothing to the alienation charges," declared Mrs. Rochefort. “There was nothing of that kind between us. My husband knew all the tme about Mr. Stillman, and

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