Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 104, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1933 Edition 02 — Page 2

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U. S. CLINGS TO ‘GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY’ IN CUBA

Roosevelt Is Unlikely to Intervene Except by Virtual Mandate. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS STlpp-Horard Forrtrn Editor WASHINGTON, Sept 9lf and when President Roosevelt gives the order to Intervene in Cuba, he will do so on a virtual mandate from the principal foreign powers, especially those of Latin America. Os this. Latin-American diplomats here are convinced. In it, they see the beginning of a practical application of the President's announced policy of "the good neighbor'' in international relations with special reference to their part ot the world. In these same circles, it is believed the thirty-odd vessels now in Cuban waters, or steaming in that general direction, may be used to evacuate Americans and other foreigners who may be in peril as a result of the revolution. Both the President and State Secretary Hull have taken great pains to make it plain that the protertion of human lives is the main concern of this government. Property, if destroyed, can be paid for after the excitement is over. Mandate May Be Made Thus, should the admittedly tense situation grow worse, foreigners who feel their lives are menaced might be concentrated where they could be protected or even removed from the island altogether. After which the Cubans could solve their problems in their own way without any further outside interference. Should conditions in the island become chronically worse, however, resulting in mass misery among the Cubans themselves, it is almost certain that the principal countries of Latin America would ask the United States to step in, in the name of humanity. There are increasing indications that there is to be no repetition in 1933 of the 1926-27 Nicaraguan episode. At that time certain of the European powers made quiet representations to Washington that their nationals were in danger. After the United States intervened to "safeguard foreign lives and property," however, these same powers used the incident to fan the flames of anti-American sentiment from one end of Latin America to the other It was worth millions of dollars to them in trade. Already ‘Chiseling* The writer is informed reliably that America's competitors in Mexico. Central and South America already have begun to take advan-; tage of the Cuban-Amcrican situation to Increase Latln-America’s suspicions against the “colossus of the north." But President Roosevelt thus far has so outplayed them that he almost has turned the tables on them. The predicted intervention not only has not materialized, but his every step thus far as had the well-nigh unanimous approval of Latin America. Placing all his cards face up on the table in front of Latin American diplomats here, the President has offered, in effect, to give them free access at any time to the official files bearing on the exchanges between this government and its representatives in Cuba. He is withholding nothing from "our neighbors" as the crisis de- j velops, an unprecedented action' and one which has brought un- j stinted praise in Latin American circles. Intervention admittedly would play havoc with the rest of our Latin American relations, now regarded as being on the eve cf a complete reorientation. Much is expected of the seventh Pan-American congress which meets in Montevideo next December. Without the backing of something like an international mandate, or more particularly a Pan-American mandat'’, intervention in Cuba at this time would wreck that. conference and economically speaking, throw Latin America into the waiting arms of Europe and Japan, of 4 which the President is described as being fully aware.

SAVINGS AND LOAN MEETING IS CALLED Field Service Director to Speak at Session Here. Work of organizing savings and loan associations under the Home Owners' Act of 1933 will be climaxed Sept 16 at a meeting to be held in this city, with Frank A. Chase, director of field service of the federal home loan bank board, as the main speaker. The meeting, to be held in the federal home loan bank. 129 East Market street, will ally the associations into a permanent credit reserve system. Under the law. it can be arranged to have the government subscribe for stock in sums equal to payments by local shareholders up to SIOO,OOO, in order to aid the associations to get started. It is said that, in addition to formation of new savings and loan agencies, established associations also are expected to turn ' federal.'' CRAVING FOR MELON LEADS TO JAIL CELL Vague Answers of Negro Result in Five-Day Sentence. Ernest Tisdale, Negro, is in jail today bemoaning his bad luck in being a resident of Indianapolis. He and six other Negroes appeared Friday before Municipal Judge William H. Shaeffer, following theft of 1.900 cucumbers and eight watermelons from a truck. The six gave various addresses, all outside of Indianapolis. They were given two hours to get out of the city. But Tisdale, who was vaaue about where he lived on East street, was sent to jail for five days lor larceny. The cucumbers and melons were stolen Thursday from a truck driven by Ham* Newsom. 1636 Fletcher avenue. after the Negroes were granted a request for a ride.

STYLE WORLD BOWS TO MAE WEST

Cw'ves Stage Triumphant Return at Her Dictum

Thi i* the Anal story in a aerie* of three on Mae Weat. the buxom actreaa. who i* reitorint eurre* to feminine favor. BY WILLIS THORNTON, Servite Writer NEW YORK, Sept 9. When Mae West emerged from her ten days as a guest of New York City at its Welfare Island resort, she came forth as a conquering heroine. That the city had sent her there because twelve good men and true decided her play, "Sex," was Indecent, made no difference. Women's clubs hailed her as a social force, and Broadway at last admitted that she was a big shot. The "dozen plays” which her stay at Welfare had inspired her to write did not mateflalize immediately. She fooled around with "The Drag," which was too "strong” tp bring even to Broadway, and "This Wicked Age.” Neither came to anything. Then suddenly “Diamond LU” exploded on Broadway like Payne's fireworks. Mae West’s flippant pen, her feline wriggle, and her husky, croony voice made "Diamond Lil" into something everybody just had to see. The story of the lady who took her funds where she found them was not distinguished, but the costumes of the Lillian Russell era. the purring lines like “I ain't ice!” and "C'mon up and see me some time—any time!" set up a new character in theater lore to stand beside the Sadie Thompson of **Rain." 0 0 8 DIAMOND LIL" ran on and on, and finally came the clarion call of Hollywood which comes to all good little actresses sooner or later. "Diamond Lil" became "She Done Him Wrong" in the movies, and millions instead of thousands were able to hear "She’s Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage” anck the film's throughly disinfected version of "Frankie and Johnnie.” But, more important, millions of women saw the glamorous gowns of Diamond Lil, with their generous revelations of these and those, this and that. And what’s more, the French dressmakers saw them, too. Fashion reporters saw several of the more distinguished couturiers popping with great regularity in and out of cinemas showing "She Done Him Wrong.” The result was that fashionists agree that this coming season

FLUNG INTO AIR, LANDS ON HEAD Negro Gets Terrific Thump in Car Crash, but Gets Up, Walks. Witnesses marveled today at the escape from death of a Negro who was injured only slightly as a result of a crash involving two trucks and an automobile at Thirteenth street and College avenue. The Negro, Herbert Hinkle, 1410 North Arsenal avenue, was hurled into the air a distance of ten feet, witnesses told police, and fell to the pavement, striking on his head. When police arrived, they found Hinkle apparently dead, but soon he began to move his legs and shortly afterward regained consciousness. He was able to get into a city hospital ambulance without aid. : Hinkle's head was cut and bruised, j Hinkle was riding in a truck I driven by Henry Washington, Negro, which struck an automobile driven by R. W. Retterer, 44. of 4010 Guilford avenue. The truck spun around after the crash, .struck a truck driven *by George E. Davis, 22, of 2245 Bellefontaine street, and was overturned. However, Hinkle was the only person hurt. CATHEDRAL HIGH TO HOLD FALL FESTIVAL Two-Day Event in Auditorium Is Scheduled for Oct. 6, 7. Major event of the fall program at Cathedral high school will be a two-day festival Oct. 6 and 7 in the school auditorium. General festival committee is headed by James E. Rocap, who anthe following as chairmen of various committees: Arrangements. James Lynch; advertising and publicity, Paul Just; prizes, Matthew Herold; children's party, Mrs. George Smith; laydown game, Charles Jonas; race horse, Harry Woirhaye: bing. Joseph Sexton; fortune booth. Thomas Gillespie; ham tree, John O’Neal; country store, Mrs. Thomas Gillespie and Mrs. Clifford Sweeney; candies, Mrs. Glenn Cruzan; ice cream, Mrs. Daniel McCool; cakes and baked goods, Mrs. Leo Wurtz; decorations, Brother William, school principal; refreshments. Joseph J. O’Mahoney; Lady Bountiful booth. Mrs. Timothy McMahon, and quilt booth, Mrs. Martin Walpole. WRECK KILLS ENGINEER Trains Crash When 'Meet Order’ Is Overlooked. By United Press AMIGO, W. Va., Sept. 9—James W. Crotty, locomotive engineer, was killed here Friday and six other trainmen were injured when a freight and passenger train crashed head-on on the Virginia railroad. Crotty was believed to have overlooked orders to ••meet" the freight train here. He was driving the passenger locomotive. None of the passengers was hurt. HIGH MOTOR TAX HIT Autoists Pay Excessive Levies. Declares Stoops. Declaring that excessive taxes discourage motor car ownership, Todd Stoop>s. secretary-manager of the Hoosier Motor Club, today said that the nations motorists pay special taxes to federal, state, and local governments at the rate of 52.041 a minute. "The tax bill amounts to $122,833 an hour, or $2,947,992 a day. Motorists pay 10.7 per cent of all taxes frock ail sources,” he said.

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Sweeping, generous curves, frills, puffs, big hats .... those are some of the things that Mae West, above, is bringing to women's styles.

will see a modern version of the woman of twenty-five years ago. The curves and swerves of the Naughty Nineties are back. Long, tight skirts, trailing the ground. Tight, short jackets with puff sleeves. Big hats, with feathers again in evidence. Flowers, and flashy diamond accessories. Skirts that narrow below the knee, and then are out again into a modified train. A revival of the days when women were women, and men were glad of it.

City Industrial Show to Be Held at Fieldhouse

Wide Variety of Exhibits to Feature Exposition, Sept. 25-oct. 1. A century of industrial progress for Indianapolis will be shown at the Butler fieldhouse from Sept. 25 to Oct. 1, inclusive. Scores of local industries will display their products, showing the latest trends in manufacturing, merchandising, and other industrial phases in the city. Part of the proceeds of the show will be devoted to establishment of scholarships at Butler. A plan is being considered to allow school children, when accompanied by their teachers, to visit the exhibition free in the afternoons. An antique show, the first to be held in Indianapolis, will be one feature of the exhibit. Officials have arranged with local residents to exhibit rare heirlooms in a show to be devoted to those who collect or keep as gifts furniture, bottles, glassware, and the like. Prizes will be offered for the most novel antiques. Residents of Indianapolis are invited to exhibit their pieces free. A society bridge tournament, in which the three accepted systems j of contract bridge will be featured, , will be held during the show. The exhibitors plan to put on sevI eral fashion shows, a flavor show, | and a footwear show, in addition to , the events already mentioned.

POISON SUSPECT PLANS HIS FIGHT FOR LIFE Lawyers Are Appointed for Akron Attorney in Death Case. By United Press BENTON, Ark.. Sept. 9.—Two attorneys named by the court today began planning the defense of Mark H. Shank, Akron. 0., attorney charged with fatally poisoning four members of the Alvin Colley family of Akron. Shank took a pauper’s oath when arraigned in court Friday and Judge Thomas E. Toley appointed N. A. McDaniel and Kenneth Coffelt, both of Benton, to conduct his defense. Judge E. H. Boylan. Akron, who came here with Mrs. Shank, acted as legal adviser to the accused slayer. Shank did not enter a plea to the charges, although the indictments were read to him. TAXI DRIVER HELD UP Negroes Take Ride, $3 and Cab and Then Abandon It. Two Negroes boarded a taxi Friday night at Capitol avenue and Sixteenth street and ordered the driver to take them to Hadley and Patterson streets, where they held up the driver. James Farrell, 45, of the Dakota hotel. They took $3 and liis cab from him. The car later was found abandoned in the 600 block Worth street. BULLET WOUND SERIOUS Bridgeport - Girl. 7, Shot Playing Holdup, in Hospital. Vivian Poland. 7. of Br;dgepo?\ accidentally shot Friday by her brother, John Thomas. 14. still is in serious condition today at Methodist hospital. The bullet, fired from a revolver during a game of "holdup,'' struck the girl in the abdomen. She spent a restful night, hospital attendants reported. v 1 '

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AND is Mae pleased? Say! Listen: “I always knew that men, and women, too, preferred to see us with the natural curves that God gave us. It was all a mistake —a great, fatal mistake, this giving women’s clothes a straight line. “I think this return to the graceful, comfortable curves of yesteryear will be a _ wonderful thing for the women of America.” continues Mae. "It will improve their health, give them vitality

FIND CLEW TO BANDITS Partial Identification Reported In City Bank Holdup. Tentative identification has been made of five of eight men in a bandit gang which obtained $24,000 Wednesday in a holdup of the State Bank of Massachusetts Avenue. Detectives refuse to reveal the names of the five men, pointing out that the partial identification was based on Bertillon photographs. EX-COUNTY OFFICERS ARE SUICIDE VICTIMS Woman Takes Poison; Man Dies of Gas. By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., Sept. 9. Two former Cass county officials were victims of suicide today. Mrs. Lulu Byers, 52, county clerk for eight years until Jan. 1, 1933, died at a hospital this morning, an hour after she had taken poison at the home of a friend here. George W. Cann, 64, county auditor from 1906 to 1910, was found dead in the gas-filled kitchen of his home. Financial difficulties were blamed for both suicides. Mis. Byers had been operating a millinery shop at Monticello since April 1. Friday night, however, she came here to visit a friend. She is survived by four sons and one daughter. Cann is survived by the widow and three daughters. QUIZ SLUGGER SUSPECT Detectives Await Recovery of Woman to View Negro. Held as a suspect n the slugging of Miss Steena Harding, 61-year-old housekeeper at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Saul Munter, 1915 North Delaware street, Thursday night, William Jones, 32, Negro. 1106 East Seventeenth street, is being quizzed by detectives. Jones' case Friday was continued to Wednesday, pending Miss Harding’s recovery. As soon as her condition permits, she will view Jones in an effort to identify him as the slugger. HELD ON FIVE CHARGES Burnside (Ky.) Youth Suspect in Robbery Here Year Ago. Suspect in a robbery about a year ago, Cecil Stafford, 19, Burnside, Ky., was arrested Friday night on charges of improper automobile license plates, no driver’s license, no certificate of title, assault and battery and vagrancy. Earl Surber, 20, Burnside, Ky., who was with Stafford in an automobile, faces a vagrancy charge. Officers said Stafford was driving a car which he did not own and which bore license plates issued for a car of another type of body. The robbery was that of a lunch car near Tenth and Dearborn streets.

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and added magnetism, and enhance their natural charm.” As she dropped these philosophies, Mae was in Los Angeles, all agog over a Labor day trip to the mountains. For the bad girl of the screen and stage is not nearly as black as she is painted. Those cigarets she smokes with such an air in "She Done Him Wrong” are lit for her by her maid just before the scene is shot. Mae herself doesn’t smoke. "I smoke ’em on the stage just because it makes me look hard,” she confides. Further, in her off-stage moments, Mae doesn’t drink or go for "night life.” 000 IT’S not that she's narrowminded about such things. She hasn’t time. She dictates plays to a dictating machine. Many a rehearsal in the afternoon has worked out lines Mae wrote in the morning, and then incorporated lines she “ad-libbed" on the rehearsal stage herself. Many an old friend of trouping days has known the helping hand of Mae West. Mae West has a shrewd money sense —ask the movie managers, who brought her to Hollywood, and who were tickled at getting a great Broadway star at what seemed a low contract figure. Then they found that the contracts provided that Mae need not act in any plays unless she herself had approved them. And she refused to approve any except her own. for which she charged the studio a nifty price. Mae’s never had time even to marry. If she ever does, it’ll be no handsome sheik, she insists. "The homely ones have more sex appeal.” she says bluntly. Then she goes on to explain. "Sex appeal is the radiation of an attractive personality.” It’s not necessarily beauty of face or figure. 8 0 0 MAE’s slant on clothes was well shown by her comment when Marlene Dietrich tried to start a trousers vogue. "What burns me up,” said Mae, “is them dumb dames on the west coast wearin’ pants. They don’t have any shame. You’ll never catch me in pants! I take that fashion as a personal insult!” But by the same token, the coming fashions are a personal tribute to Mae West, the little Brooklyn girl who vowed by Venus that a world should come to heb own generous ideas of the feminine figure.

PARK CHIEFS TO HOLD CONCLAVE

Lieber Will Be Guest of Banquet; Convention in Ft. Wayne. By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind.. Sept. *9. The eighteenth annual convention of the Indiana Association of Park Departments will be held here Monday and Tuesday. Colonel David Foster, president of the city board of park commissioners and president of the state organization, stated today that Colonel Richard Lieber, former head of the Indiana park department, would be a guest at the closing banquet. Officers will be elected Tuesday night. Present officers are W. J. Rossman, East Chicago, first vice-presi-dent; L. R. McCool, Evansville, second vice-president, Mrs. Lillian J. White, Terre Haute, third vicepresident; and Miss Cecilia M. Welch, Ft, Wayne, secretary-treas-urer. Auto Injuries Fatal By United Press WASHINGTON, Ind., Sept. 9. Mrs. Alice Blair, 75, Washington, died late Friday in Daviess county hospital from injuries received in an automobile accident at Shoals a few hours earlier. Mrs. Carrie Flagg, driver of the car, was hurt seriously. Starts Today “TIMES RENTAL WEEK” September 9th to 16 th /?== ■ If you are among the hundreds of Indianapolis residents planning to move during the next few weeks and have not selected your place, be sure to read the Rental Columns in The Times during ‘‘Times Rental Week’’ which starts today. V ■ Times Want Ads OIITLET SHOE STORES BRELIABLE SHOES AT LOWEST PRlCtftl SOW 259 E. Washington Bt. 3 *O3 W. Washington St. STOBES 109-111 S. Illinois St.ii ' The Strong Old Bank of Indiana The Indiana National Bank of Indianapolis

DEATH CALLS E. J, VESTAL, HERE 52YEARS Heart Disease Is Fatal to Retired City Lumber Dealer; Aged 72. Heart disease caused the death Friday of Everett J. Vestal, 72, retired lumber dealer, at his home, 1406 Carrollton avenue. Mr. Vestal had been a resident of Indianapolis for fifty-two years. Funeral services conducted by Dr. David M. Edwards, pastor of First Friends church, and the Rev. A. J. Spaulding, pastor of Fletcher Place M. E. church, will be held at 10:30 Monday at the residence. • Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Vestal was born in Plainfield. Sept. 1, 1861. He was engaged in the lumber business most of his life, until his retirement two years ago. He was a member of First Friends church. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Jeannette Marshall Vestal; a daughter, Miss Ruth Vestal, and a sister, Mrs. Ruby V. Chandler. Plainfield. Dies After Short Illness Following a short illness. Miss Catherine Kortepeter, 71, a life-long resident of Marion county, died Thursday at her home on state Road 29. Funeral service will be held at 2 Sunday in the J. C. Wilson funeral home, 1230 Prospect street. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery. Mrs. Kortepeter was a member of' Emmanuel Reformed church. Survivors are a brother, F. W. Kortepeter, and a sister, Mrs. F. W. Huckriede, Poland. Former Resident Is Dead An illness of six months caused the death Thursday of Mrs. Flora Doerr Ellis, 57, at her home in Richmond, according to word received here by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Doerr. Mrs. Ellis was born in Indianapolis and went to Richmond thirty years ago. Survivors are the parents and a sister, Mrs. Ralph Little, Richmond. Funeral services will be held at 4 Sunday at her home. Burial will be in Earlham cemetery. Funeral Services Set Funeral services for Mrs. Nellie Firestone, 43, will be held at 10 Monday in the Moore & Kirk funeral home, 2530 Station street. Burial will be in Anderson cemetery. Mrs. Firestone died Friday at her home. 2820 Wood street, after a long illness. Suvivors are the husband, Charles Firestone, and seven children, Clifford, Harry, Billie, Cora, Robert, Maude and Leßoy Firestone.

UTILITY RATES CUT FOR INDIANA CITIES Four Will Benefit by Reductions Ordered by Commission. Reductions in electric rates for the towns of Sullivan, Chile, Amboy, and Glenwood, has been ordered by the Indiana Public Service Commission. ' Patrons of the Public Service company of Sullivan will benefit by $8,187 a year as result of reductions. Chili was given a 14.5 per cent reduction; Amboy, 13.7 per cent; and Glenwood rates were reduced 10 per cent. On an annual basis, the reductions amount to $9,000 and, in each case, they had been agreed upon in conference between town officials and representatives of the utilities. Actress Will W r ed By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Edith Evans, 35, Des Moines, actress who appeared in the cast of “Evensong" in New York and London, and Raymond Maher, 33, Friday obtained a license to marry. It will be Miss Evans’ second marriage.

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Coast guard crews are searching the waters of Lake Michigan for the body of Miss Majenta Gerard, above, of River Forest, 111,, who is believed to have been aboard an airplane that disappeared over the lake while en route from South Bend to Chicago.

HEARING DATE SET ON LIMESTONE CODE Regulations Submitted by Industry Leaders. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 —Public hearing on an NRA code for the limestone industry was set today for Tuesday, Sept. 19, with Deputy Administrator Malcolm Muir presiding. The proposed code for the industry was submitted the National Limestone Industry, Associated, claiming to represent 80 per cent of the industry. It calls for an average forty-hour week, with eight extra hours during rush periods for all employes except executives, supervisors, repair and shipping crews, and the like. The minimum wage for unskilled labor is to be 40 cents an hour, except where the rate on July 15, 1929, was lower than that. The new rate is not to be less than 30 cents an hour, in any event. Office workers would receive a minimum of sls a week in cities over 500.000; $14.50 in cities of 250,000 to 500,000; sl4 in cities between 2,500 and 250,000, and sl2 in towns of less than 2,500.

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DEATH FEARED FOR THREE IN MISSING PLANE Autagiro Wrecked in Lake, Belief of Searchers; Faint Hope Held. By United Press CHICAGO. Sept 9.—Hope for the safety of two pilots and a woman companion, missing on a flight tA Chicago from South Bend. Ind., dwindled rapidly today as efforts to find them were redoubled. Sea craft and a half-dozen planes patrolled Lake Michigan along the Indiana shoreline. Two blimps were ready to join planes today in flights over the Indiana-Michigan border The fliers, missing since they were sighted near Michigan City, about. Wednesday noon, were H. W. <Spud > Manning, champion parachute jumper; Carl Otto, pilot of the autogiro plane in which they were flying, and Miss Majenta Gerard, Chicago. who accompanied Manning to South Bend for an aviators’ banquet given by Vincent Bendix. One Hope llekl One new thread of hope was revealed today. Two persons at Michigan City reported they saw an autogiro plane returning from over the lake at noon Wednesday. If this was the plane of the missing persons, other aviators said, it was possible that they landed in a sparsely settled section along the state line border. The greatest concern for the trio rose from a statement by the skipper of a lake steamer who reported that he had sighted a large piece of fabric about six miles off shore between here and Michigan City. It was feared that the fabric was from the autogiro, which, pilots pointed out, would sink immediately if brought down on water. If the plane came down on the lake, the only hope tlrnt the trio still was alive rested on the possibility that they might have ripped off the gasoline tank and used it as a float. Faced Strortg Winds Manning and the tw T o others started for Chicago shortly after 10 o'clock Wednesday, fighting strong headwinds. He said he would take a short cut across the lake, instead of following the customary shoreline route. It was possible that, once out over the lake, he found his fuel supply rapidly diminishing and turned back, then cracked up the ship as he brought it down on land. In this event the trio still might be alive, but unable to get to the nearest town. Manning, who performed in the international air races here last week-end, claimed the world’s record for delayed parachute jumps.