Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 248, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1933 — Page 13
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Noel Coward
Whether it is books or theater, Noel Coward, young English author, playwright and actor, is always a winner. Three books have just been published by this man. They are "Design For Living," his latest play; "Cavalcade,” also a j movie as well as a stage play, and, j ■'Spangled Unicorn.” All published by Doubleday, Doran and Company. ' BY WALTER R. HICKMAN THE two most discussed "gals” of fiction today are "Ann Vickers," created by Sinclair Lewis, and, Bea Pullman in "Imitation of Life” by Fannie Hurst. About every place I go, a literary battle starts when people start talking about Ann and Bea. To my way of thinking, Ann Vickers is the more tremendous character. Ann took many flings at ‘ love,” without benefit of clergy and ended up with a married judge. Quite complicated even for these days. On the other hand, Bea Pullman in “Imitation of Life" is successful in business but got a bad deal from Fate when she married Mr. Pullman, ■who sold maple syrup as a side line. Mr. Pullman was not long for this world because he just had to take a train for Philadelphia which was wrecked. Mr. Pullman never lived to give interviews about the wreck and Bea gave him a lovely funeral, i And so Bea was a widow' as well \ as a mother at the age of eighteen and all she had to rely upon was the maple-syrup side line of her dead husband. And the money from these sales had to support Boa's daughter. Jessie; Boa's crippled and chair-ridden father as well as Delilah and Peola. What a combination—Delilah is a colored mammy with a baby girl (nearly white in complexion) called ; Peola. Fannie Hurst describes Delilah as an "enormously buxon figure of a woman with a round black moon face that shone above an Alps of bosom.” And that gives you more accurately a closeup of Delilah than if Miss Hurst had taken a chapter to paint this woman. Delilah was a godsend to Bea in the early years of her struggle because Delilah could cook as no one in the world and it was Delilah’s maple sugar candies and her tempting waffles that made Bea one of the wealthiest business women of ‘her day. a a a Bea as a child was vastly different from Ann Vickers as night is from day. Bea was ignorant of the mysteries of life up to the time she married Mr. Pullman. Ann at the age of fifteen was running up against and seriously considering sex. TVjth in the end really made a flat failure of love and I think that Bea's life (especially Delilah's waffles) was more useful than Ann Vicker. It is the drawing of Bea's early life in her very strict home of her parents in Atlantic City that really makes "Imitation of Life" great lit■eraturc. Miss Hurst has caught the spirit of the real Atlantic City—not the Boardwalk with its ever changing tide of humans but the everyday people who live and die in the section of Atlantic City not frequented by the tourists. Here are two great books. Read “Ann Vickers” first and then immediately start getting acquainted with Bea Pullman in "Imitation of Life." published by Harpers and sells for $2.50. But you will remember Delilah because the author has made this woman as truly great as Bea from a character standpoint. a a a What are they reading in New York? Brentano's announces them as follows—" Ann Vickers" and "Imitation of Life,” “Pageant” by G. B. Lamcaster; "One More Spring," by Robert Nathan; "A Marriage of Convenience" by Anne Green, and. “The Last Adam.” by James Gould Cozzens. a a a Have just received a package from Upton Sinclair. It is his latest book, called "Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox” and the author claims ’that it is "the iinsi-**' story of a Wall Street conspiracy.” Movie row in Indianapolis is bus.. reading this one. I will get busy on it in a few days. a a a Macst ley informs me that the spring publications include "Private Practice" by A. L. Furman; “Love Knows No Holiday" by Marguerite Brenar and “Passion Lighting The World,” by Maurice Dekorbra. I will tell you about “Private Practice," soon. Club Will Sponsor Dance 4 A George Washington dance will be given by the Wayne Township Democratic Club Saturday night at tfie Veterans of Foreign Wars hall King avenue and Walnut street.
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UNITED FOE TO FACE G. 0. P. IN MAYOR BATTLE Harmony Call Sounded by Democrats: Name City Chairman Saturday. CLAUER IS FAVORITE County Treasurer-Elect Is Choice for Pilot Among Party Leaders. An Indianapolis Democratic party that must present a solid front to withstand a supreme effort of the Republicans to regain control of the city government was working at top speed today in each of the 289 precincts. First test of the inner party, strength will face the leaders Satur- 1 day afternoon at the Claypool, when a city chairman is chosen. Despite reports of revolt in the ranks, heads of the party believe that William E. Clauer, county treasurer-elect, wull outdistance any competition. From the setup of the party now', more than two months before the primary, it is conceded that the chairman for the coming year must be a past master at keeping peace. Others expected to be elected on the city ticket are: Mrs. William Owens, vice-chairman; Frank McCarthy, works board official, secretary; and Frank McKinney, treasurer. McCarthy may face stiff opposition from Ed Boren, insurance man, for the secretaryship. McKinney Is Favored To team with Clauer. the leading Democrats want E. Kirk McKinney, present city chairman, who is expected to announce his mayoralty candidacy shortly after the committee session. The Democrats, in pow'er locally for the last four years, now are going through the same stages that often struck the Republicans when they controlled the city and county. The major party, it seems, always finds itself in intricate dealings with the rank and file until, finally, when it appears that all is lost, there is a sudden welding of sentiment and power to achieve success. If McKinney takes his place in the battle, he will have to defeat Joseph T. Markey, who started his campaign for the city executive’s job several weeks ago. However McKinney, w'ho has been close to Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan for the last three years in various capaoi- j ties, will have the backing of the administration. Club to Line Up Support It is understood that he either will get this support to a man or there will be many strange faces around the city hall. McKinney, it is said, is not anxious for the mayor's chair. As works board president and Sullivan's confidant, he has seen enough of the job to know its stepping off places. The Republican money probably will stand pat behind Charles W. Jewett, former mayor, if and when he decides to start the battle. James A. Collins, former criminal court judge, who has made no official announcement. and Boynton J. Moore, former city councilman, will be the’ other chief contenders. John Duvall, former mayor, also is in the race.
Scarcity of Jobs Makes Serving on Jury Popular Task of Filling Panel Is Made Comparatively Easy in Era of Depression. Scarcity of jobs has made jury service popular in Marion county. In fact, county court attaches agree, the task of impaneling a jury has become comparatively easy in this era of depression. "Hundreds of men ask us to put them on juries. We have to refuse because that is a duty delegated to jury commissioners,” Charles R Ettinger, deputy county clerk, says.
Moreover, the mere asking to serve automatically disqualifies one for jury service in this state. But there is a way around this legal deterrent. Bailiffs of the courts often recommend names for jury service. This is done when the venire selected by jury commissioners is insufficient. Judges' appoint jurors, with approval of counsel, to fill such vacancies. "We get a lot of good jurymen by this process," Joseph G. Bowen, superior court four bailiff said, "but we do not call the -professional' juror.” Jury commissioners, a Democrat and Republican, select juries by putting names, taken from tax du-
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Employment for nearly one hundred men is being afforded by construction of the new Indiana university school of dentistry building on West Michigan street. Much progress has been made on the building since surveying work was started late in November, concrete for the second floor having been poured this week. The building will be three stories in height and will measure 220 * v
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Rep. Lewis Douglas of Arizona named director of the budget Thursday by President-Elect Roosevelt, is wealthy and could support several automobiles with ease—but he prefers a bicycle. Cycling is Douglas' favorite form of exercise.
ASSEMBLY MAY SAVEJB.OOO Adjournment March 2 Can Cut Expense to State by $2,000 a Day. Nearly SB,OOO will be saved if the Indiana assembly adjourns the night of March 2, four days ahead of the legal limit, as administration leaders today are contemplating. Official figures on the cost of operating reveal that fifty senators and ninety-eight representatives are on the pay roll at $9.15 a day. Combined salaries for four days total $5,416.80. Lieutenant-Governor M. Clifford Towmsend is paid $43.20 for presiding over the senate for four days, and Speaker Earl Crawford is paid the same sum for presiding over the house. Employes of the senate total sixty at $5 day and low'er house employes total fifty-five at the same perdiem. For four days the total for employes of both houses is $2,300. Estimates for supplies, lights and incidental expenses total nearly SIOO for the four days, bringing the grand total to $7,903, or about $2,00 a day. If the recess plan is adopted, instead of a final adjournement, v he salaries of senators and representatives W'ill be paid for the entire sixty-one days specified in the state Constitution, but expenses for employes and supplies would be curtailed sharply. Estimate of total savings under the four-day recess plan is SI,BOO, compared with SB,OOO if a sine die adjournement is taken four days ahead of schedule. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Southwest wind, 8 miles an hour; temperature, 46; barometric pressure, 30.07 at sea level; general condition. high, overcast, smoky; ceiling unlimited; visibility, 2 miles; field good.
| plicates. in a box. They draw names as judges notify them juries are j needed. This box has three keys and all are necessary to open it. Commissioners have one key each and a ; deputy county clerk the other. The box is kept in the safe in the county clerk's office. “Women are entitled to serve as jurors in Indiana,” Ettinger explained. "but it is a policy not to | use them in this county.” Persons over 60 may be excused because of age, but now seldom ask ; release, officers said.
Dentistry Building Rises in City’s Medical Center
The Indianapolis Times
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933
RAPID CLIMB MADE BY NEW BUBGETCHIEF Lewis Douglas of Arizona Wealthy, Well-Educated and a Fighter. CHAMPION OF ECONOMY Waged Hard Fight in House to Cut Expenditures for Veterans. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Feb. 24—A goodlooking young man with a professional air, whose congressional career has been marked chiefly by fights against the Boulder dam bill and government operation of Muscle Shoals and, latterly, his insistence on governmental economy, is Representative Lewis Douglas of Arizona, who will become director -of the budget. Representative Douglas, wealthy, well-educated and in society here, is known to his colleagues as a conservative. He worked for the copper tax-tariff during the last revenue revision, and voted for the sales tax. His interest in federal economy started when he was named a member of the famous house economy committee at the last session, and during his w'ork with that group he insisted that veterans’ benefits be< reduced. Hits Veterans’ Cost He appealed to what he called "the unorganized majority” to express their wishes to congress, to exert their pressure against the large expenditures for ex-soldiers* Because he himself is an ex-soldier, his views got wide attention. Representative Douglas insisted that those who had been injured in actual service should have the country's help and gratitude, but that such "gratitude should not be carried to the extent of granting a subsidy to those whose disabilities w'ere not received w-hile in the service.” Standing erect, pointing with a long finger, as though at figures on a blackboard. Representative Douglas stood before session after session of the house demanding federal economies. That he and his committee didn't succeed any too well does not detract from the fact that Representative Douglas made a hard fight. Since that time he has worked just as hard for economy as a member of the house appropriations, committee. Ranks High in Arizona Mr. Douglas came to congress in 1927, with experience as a soldier, a mining expert and a legislator, having served in the Arizona house. His family is "the” Douglas family or Arizona, the town of Douglas having been named for his father. Representative Douglas, who is but 39, was born in Arizona, but came east to college and was graduated from Amherst in 1916. He took special mining courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Out of the officers’ training camp he came a second lieutenant in the field artillery, and served so gallantly in France that he was decorated by the Belgian government and cited by General Pershing. Back home again, he worked as an instructor in history at Amherst, and taught chemistry at Hackley school for a month. His mining and business experiences stretched over six years. Climb Is Rapid With his wife and three children, Representative Douglas has maintained a home here in fashionable Georgetowm. Os medium stature, Representative Douglas holds himself straight, as a soldier should. His hair is sparse and dark, his face bronzed,; his eyes sharp and given to quick, pleasant smiles. His is a personality and his a; background that has impressed j house leaders, and he has climbed in Democratic councils in his short career here. For exercise Representative Douglas rides a bicycle. HAY TO BE BURIED HERE Former Federal Official to Be Laid to Last Rest at Noon. Funeral services for Eugene Gano Hay, former United States general appraiser, who died Tuesday in Summit, N. J., w'ill be held at noon today at the grave in Crow'n Hill cemetery. Mr. Hay was bom in Charlestown, Ind.. and practiced law in Indiana. He and Mrs. Hay had lived at the Marott last year. He had been a resident of Summit twenty-five years. j
by 65 feet. It will contain classrooms, laboratories and clinics necessary for teaching dentistry. On the third floor will be the main clinic, containing eighty dental chairs. One of the features of the new building will be a separate dental clinic for children, which, in connection with the Riley Memorial hospital for children, will afford the highest type of medical and dental attention. . V- i ‘ ’ ' ' - " ‘ * '
Junior Stars Tune Up for Play in Times Roller Polo Tourney
M Clang of hockey stick against t > flying puck was heard on a see ?f of vacant lots toriav. r. youth; shinny artists started tutting up t The Times Junior Roller Polo tr: v tljjljjy. Kyi jE of tlv elimination meets iKSjL *|K '/ j"*44Pl be held on the Tomlinson hall i, y 1 ( Si March 4 Finals sai PPPiill|||’ W set for the same place on Marc h J Any group of boys in the city u der 15 years of age. weighing li m than 120 pounds each, is eligi tournament. Five play H ni’tst be assembled for tin tram. 1 . ts eight should be carried, to provi ' ' ' - ... substitutes when the pace gets fa jf|aß|Bgr djjt*' Winners and runners-up in t obu tourney will receive prizes that v SP’fP'F.' : gladden the heart cl' any boy. I 1 V*yi|Ppy i victorious eight will be equipj: tllr ttg’B • ,dgiii’ lilfll Wy | with special high type pairs AY vEfflSE| " J|i skates as first prize and the te; ; /mm. %ljiyj§gi§f ' W. ft finishing second also will rece /M/m M II J| skates of only slightly less value. ' ' */‘ U ln addition, contestants will mJf / ' given free admittance to certi t. nrnfoecimo 1 ntomnr
St. Anthony's Panthers are pictured here, ready for The Times’ Junior Roller Polo tourney. Front Row (left to right)—Marty Masariu, sub rush; Dick Miller Jr., rush; Bernard Broderick, ruth. Back Row deft to right)—Bud Medenwald. half back; Joe Case, sub-goaln; Harry Smcck. goalie; and Jim Noonan, half back. Tudy Ost, sub half back w r as ill when picture was taken. Lower Picture (left to right)—Medenwald. Broderick. Noonan and Miller rushing for the puck after action started in a practice session for the Times tournament.
Don’t Push! Psychologist Assails U. S. Methods of Training •n, Child. , .
By Vnited Press DETROIT, Feb. 24.—The American tendency to start children’s thought processes too early in life was decried here by Dr. Walter B. Pitkin, psychologist, of Columbia university, as the main factor in human breakdown. “No country can compare with our own record right now 7 ,” he said. "Every four hours of the day five people in New York are sent away to asylums.” This is not a problem growing out of the depression, he added, but was “with us during prosperity.” “We have attempted to give direction to a personality before knowing what the personality would be—and without a fair picture of what the opportunity for that personality would be.” If America is to put an end to its "mass production of breakdowns.” and correct its "topsyturvy career educations,” it must stop treating its children as grownups. Dr. Pitkin warned. The child must be educated to be as adaptable as possible, and has a better chance of success if he develops into a Jack-of-All Trades sort of person, he said. VERDICT IS SET ASIDE Third Trial Ordered by Supreme Court for Alleged Killer. A third trial has been ordered by the supreme court for William J. Keifer, who was first sentenced for manslaughter, retried and sentenced for murder. The murder decision, carrying a life sentence, was reversed by the high court. Keifer was convicted in Howard circuit court for killing his sweetheart, Catherine Russell.
PRIMARY FIGHT DUEINSENATE Battle Faced on Abolition in Smaller Counties of State. Three more administration bills, already passed by the house, will arrive in the senate today for speedy action. One refers to control of the state police department and the others concern salaries of township trustees and county prosecutors. With either an eariy adjournment, or at least a recess, confronting members of the assembly, a grand rush to get pet measures pulled out of the legislative jam may result in a wholesale suspension of constitutional rules and much fast balloting. Developments today assured passage in the senate of the optional primary bill which Senator Alanson L. Albright IDem., Cayuga), chairman of the elections committee, has tried for several days to block. Senator Jacob Weiss <Dem„ Indianapolis) will offer an amendment i calling for petitions signed by only 10 per cent of the voters of”a political party, instead of 20 per cent, to make a primary election mandatory. With this compromise making it easier to arrange for a primary, much of the objection to the measure coming from senators representing the smaller counties will be withdrawn. Weiss expects to ask for suspension of constitution rules so that the bill can be rushed to the lower house for action. Senate amendments to the house measures increasing fees for chain stores were debated briskly late Thursday afternoon before the bill • was passed to third reading in the upper house. Another house measure sent to third reading by the senate provides for permanent registration of voters and is a Democratic platform meas- ! ure.
Upon completion of the building the dental school will be moved from its present rented quarters at Walnut and Pennsylvania streets, which it has occupied for about fifteen years. The new school, which is being erected opposite the Robert Long hospital, will add one more unit to the present Indiana university medical center, which now contains the Long hospital, Ball nurses’ home, William Coleman hospital. Riley hospital, with its Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs wings, and the Indiana university medical school, * □ w
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Clang of hockey stick against the flying puck was heard on a score of vacant lots today, a- youthful shinny artists started tuning up fer The Times Junior Roller Polo tourney, with eight days left to practice. First of the elimination meets will be held on the Tomlinson hall rink on Saturday, March 4. Finals are set for the same place on March 11. Any group of boys in the city under 15 years of age. weighing less than 120 pounds each, is eligible for the tournament. Five players must be assembled for the team, but eight should be carried, to provide substitutes when the pace gets fast. Winners and runners-up in the tourney will receive prizes that will gladden the heart of any boy. The victorious eight will be equipped with special high type pairs of skates as first prize and the team finishing second also will receive skates of only slightly less value. In addition, contestants will be given free admittance to certain professicnal games at Tomlinson hall; the best teams play a curtain raiser for one of the roller polo league games, and possibly take a trip to another city in the league with the "grown-up” stars. Part of the equipment, such as skates and goal tender's mask and guards will be provided, but each lad should have his cw’n hockey stick. L. S. Ayres & Cos. is donating stick and puck wuth each pair of skates sold. Full information will be given in The Times Saturday on •equipment and rules for the tourney.
Rustlers Back Branding Iron Again Is Needed to Foil Western Thieves.
By United Press PUEBLO, Colo., Feb. 24.—The depression and the motorcar have brought the branding iron back into use in the west. In the day of the open range when cattle wandered at will, the branding iron was the chief means of protecting a rancher’s stock. Cattle from a dozen ranches might be intermingled but the tell-tale brand enabled the owner to pick his own steers. But when the west was fenced, the branding iron, in many cases, fell into disuse. % Anew type of cattle thief has brought it back. Cattle rustlers ride trucks these days, and they cut fences, rope a fzw—three or maybe four steers or calves from a herd, load them aboard their trucks and speed away. Once gone, with unbranded cattle, there is no way to trace them. So the cattlemen are again branding their calves as a protection against the motorized rustier who especially is active in these days when money is even scarcer than branded cattle. MAP DRY FIGHT PLANS Churchmen to Meet in Washington March 7 to Form Unit. A militant unit for the retention of prohibition probably will be formed at a national convention of prominent churchmen which will be held in Washington March 7 and 8, according to Dr. James A. Crain, local dry leader. Dr. Crain, who is secretary of the Disciples of Christ board of temperance and social welfare, said he would leave for Washington early next week to assist in making arrangements for the convention.
GLASS SCARES FOES OF BANK LAW REFORM Stock Market and Utility Exposes Cited by Senator, Demanding Action. ANGRY AT HOUSE DELAY Federal Reserve System Is Used for Speculators’ Benefit, He Says. BY RAY TUCKER Timrs Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Feb. 24.—Revelations of stock market and public utility operations developed before senatorial committees in the last few days were cited today by Senator Carter Glass iDem.. Va.) as concrete evidence of the need for reform in the nation's banking laws. Referring to his persistent demand for revision of the banking rystom so that it shall serve depositors, industry and business rather than the speculative interests, the man who declined the treasury post in the Roosevelt administration said: "These disclosures of high finance before the senate finance and senate banking and currency committees prove conclusively the truth of what I said on the senate floor four years ago—at the height of the boom, namely, that the federal reserve system was being used to aid the speculators rather than those for whom it was created. Reform Necessity Shown "It also shows the necessity for reform of the banking system as provided in my bill passed by the senate, but held up in the heuse. The failure to press this to enactment is utterly incomprehensible to me.” Although Mr. Glass mentioned no names, he obviously referred to testimony by Charles E. Mitchell, dominating figure of the National City bank, and bankers who helped to finance the Insull public utility empire, including Owen D. Young and Charles G. Dawes. The latter two, as well as Mitchell, admitted that they had made serious mistakes in financing doubtful enterprises with brnk and company resources during the boom. Again and again in testifying before the senate committee, Mitchell conceded that a great bank should not have become involved in some of the ventures he described. Great Losses to Stock Holders These included a joint operation ! for maintaining the price of AnaI conda Copper, unusually large I bonuses to bank officials and, as j one committee member character- | ized it, "bailing out the bank's loans” by taking over doubtful Cuban sugar properties through | subsidiaries of the National City I Company. Whereas these investments led to ; tremendous profits for a few bank • officials, witnesses admitted that j they caused great losses to holders ! of sl ock in the banks and investment companies involved. It is Mr. Glass’ contention that banks should not be permitted to participate in such stock market operations, and Mitchell admitted that, in retrospect, it was a bad thing. Glass to Demand Action The Glass banking bill, which sharply restricts such operations and brings national banks under greater control of the reserve system, has passed the senate, but it still is before the house banking and currency committee. The latter group’s only action to reform the banking system has been to pass the Steagall bill guaranteeing bank action, now in the senate banking committee, which opposes favorable action. It has resisted suggestions by house members that, in return for approval of the Steagall and Goldborough inflation measures, the Glass bill will be reported out.. Glass has Informed important members of the Roosevelt administration that he thinks it outrageous that no action was taken on his measure by house Democrats, and he will advance the Mitchell-Young-Dawes testimony as evidence of the need for its passage at the special session of congress. POLICE SQUAD CAR HIT TWICE BY STREET CARS Patrolmen Figure in Two Accidents in Space of Few Hours. Twice within a few hours, police squard car 40, assigned to radio patrolmen John L. Allison and Roy F. Conaway, was struck by street cars in the 909 block Virginia avenue Wednesday night. The first accident occurred when Allison was driving southwest in Virginia avenue and was forced to swerve into the path of a street car by a motorist pulling from the curb. Edward Hoffman, 18, of 1130 South Randolph street, the motorist, was arrested for alleged failure to give a hand signal. Walter Myer, 40, of 1504 Leonard street, was operator of the street car. Later, going in the opposite direction, the squad car was struck by a street car operated by Claude Smith, 45, of 2709 North Gale street. Conaway was driving and was waiting in the street for traffic to pass so that he could turn. The officers reported that Smith said he saw the automobile on the tracks, but the brakes refused to work. AGED - RESIDENT - DEAD Mrs. Martha M. Friddle Taken at Home of Her Daughter. Funeral services for Mrs. Martha M. Friddle, 87, who died Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. B. F. Jones, 1925 Dexter avenue, will be held at 2 Saturday in the Riverside Park Methodist church. Burial will be in Mooresville. She had been a resident of Indianapolis forty-six years. Mrs. Friddle was a member of the West Michigan Street Methodist church.