Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1933 — Page 6

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5 NEW LAWS EFFECTIVE IN STATE_JAN, 1 Sixth to Start on Jan. 15; Pension, Registration Acts Included. Five new laws, passed by the 1933 legislature, will become effective with the New Year and a sixth en Jan. 15. Those taking effect Monday are: Establishing old age pensions with sls monthly and $l3O annual maximum. Classifying cities and standardizing officials salaries. Setting salaries of county officials. Extending for a two-year period the 1932 salary reduction act. Nineteen Cities Lose Status Ousting of E. J. Barker, a Republican, as secretary of the state board of agriculture. The voter registration law will become effective Jan. 15. Under provisions of the old age pensions act, the state and county share in pension payments to indigents over 70, who do not own property valued at more than SI,OOO. Nineteen cities will be reduced to the status of towns under the reclassification act and mayors instead of boards will be empowered to appoint all nonelective officials. Townsend Succeeds Barker Both salaries and fees will be greatly reduced under provisions of the county salary measure. Delinquent tax collection fees will be 3 per cent for the county treasurer. Mr. Barker is to be succeeded as secretary of the state board of agriculture by Lieutenant-Governor M. Clifford Townsend, who as commissioner of agriculture receives a $6,000 annual salary. Registration of voters will start Jan. 15 and continue to the twentyninth day preceding primary elections. It will be resumed May 15 and continue to the twenty-ninth day before the general elections. RABBI TARSHISH WILL SPEAK TO ROTARIANS ‘Strength and Weaknec-s of U. S.’ Is Luncheon Topic. Rabbi Jacob Tarshish, Columbus, 0., wall be the principal speaker on the Rotary Club past presidents’ day program to be observed with a luncheon in the Claypool Tuesday noon. Rabbi Tarshish, a well-known radio orator, will speak on “The Strength and Weakness of America.” Attendance prizes will be awarded at the meeting and two new members will be introduced.

UNEMPLOYED IN FRANCE IS SET AT 1.500,000 Increasing Numbers Go on Relief Rolls, Report Shows. Bl! United Press PARIS, Dec. 29.—France's unemployed number approximately 1,500,000, it was indicated today when the ministry of labor’s final announcement for the year showed 303,921 men and women receiving national or municipal unemployment allowances. This was an increase of 32,065 over last year and 18,466 over last week.

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BY WALTER D. HICKMAN TF Christmas trees could talk and give impressions of what happened before them. I wonder what they would say. Lady Eleanor Smith, noted author of "Fiamenco" and “Ballerina," had the same curiosity and she began a searching inquiry to discover the answer. The result is “Christmas Tree," her latest novel, which is as much of a novelty in construction as it is a searching character study of men and women who buy Christmas trees of various sizes for different reasons. The construction is similar to that used in the stage version of “Grand Hotel" and “Dinner at Eight.” The first chaper is devoted to Miss Heath, head of the Christmas tree department in a swanky department store in London. Among the many people to whom she sold Christmas trees were “seven characters in search of a Christmas tree” and the reader is concerned in the following chapters of what happened in the lives of the purchasers while the trees were lighted for the celebration. a a o WEARY with fatigue from the hoiday rush, Miss Heath returns to her two-room apartment and tells her roommate of seven people she remembered who purchased Christmas trees. She held noted certain characteristics in all of the seven purchasers. Then Miss Heath remarks to her roommate that she would like to know what really happens to those trees. This is recited in the prologue and in the next seven chapters the reader accompanies the Christmas trees into seven different places and Christmas and the trees have a different meaning to every purchaser. Lady Smith excells in her character portraits as every character actually steps out as a full-grown person capable of living in our world. That is one test of realistic writing. a a a THE trees were purchased as follows: By the Fenwicks, a young married couple without funds, but with a great love for each other and their three children. Here was a real Christmas. There was no sham but a genuine appreciation of the tree and its meaning. By Fraulein • Haussermann, a teacher in a London girls’ school, who had a lonely Christmas with her small tree, in her one room. Here is a beautiful" and touching picture of lonesomeness. It is about perfect. By Lord Penrath who bought a costly tree and. sent it not to his wife, but to a hospital where his latest affair was recovering from an operation. The contrast between the false front put up by Lord Penrath before his selfish and quarreling wife and his real self shown at the hospital bed, is one of the outstanding points in the story. By Mr. Brodie, a selfish, cruel and egotistical millionaire who bought a Christmas tree and sent it to a hospital for children after his secretary had called him a selfish pig. By Madame Lenosova. a has-been actress of the stage, who made one final gesture to get a Hollywood

, contract before her gaudy Christmas tree. By Signor Galvani, maitre d’hotel, who purchased a giant tree for his j hotel and then went home and tossed out of a window an eightinch tree that his lonely wife had prepared in high spirits. By Jenny Lynn, a successful London movie actress, who received a j tree from a humble lover and who broke that affair selfishly before the | tree. 1 The epilog shows what happened to these characters before the next Christmas. “Christmas Tree” is published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company and sells for $2.50. a a a THIS department has just received a copy of “The New Deal, a Socialist Analysis,” by Norman Thomas. In discussing President Roosevelt’s 1 new deal, Mr. Thomas writes: “It ; seems to be a bold, even a radical, ; program to those who have grown [accustomed to stupidity, misreprel sentation and plain dishonesty during the Hoover, Coolidge and Harding terms. “It is a distinct improvement in ; this sense, but it should be judged in the light what needs to be done, | and not by comparison with Hoo- ! ver's stupidity.” Mr. Thomas then proceeds to ana- ' lyze the “new deal” in that light. PACKING HEAO DENIES RAINEY’S NRA CHARGE .Monopoly Impossible, Profits Not Exhorbitant, He Says. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.—Speaker Henry T. Rainey's demands for government operation of the packing industry because of its alleged failure to co-operate in the recovery program were challenged today by William Whitfield Woods, president of the Institute of American Meat Packers. “The very nature and perishability of meat make any monopoly impossible,” said Mr. Woods. “There are more than 1,200 meat packing | establishments all in active competition every day. There are no exhorbitant profits in the packing industry.

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BOY IS NAMED 4-H CHAMPION FOR 3RD TIME Summitville Breeder Wins Annual Holstein Award. 1 Martin Underwood, Summitville. Ind.. has attained an honor which he shares with only one other boy I in the United States, that of being designated state # champion 4-H Holstein boy for the third consecutive year. The award is made annually by the extension service of the Hol- ' stein-Friesian Association of AmerI ica. Martin is believed to have | established a national record in | owning and showing the champion 14-H Club Holstein heifer at four ; successive state fairs. I He joined the 4-H Club five years j ago, and now has a herd of five j registered Holstein cows and a bull. During the five years, Martin exhibited in twenty-six 4-H Club and thirty-one open class competitions, winning $475 in prize money, with twenty-six firsts, five seconds, six thirds, two fourths, two fifths, four sixths, one seventh, three eighths, one ninth and one eleventh. In addition, he has sold $235 worth of milk and calves. Martin is a high school senior and plans to enter Purdue university, where he will specialize in dairying. MOOSE TO CELEBRATE ON NEW YEAR’S EVE Eodge No, 17 Will Hold Open House At Clubrooms. Open house will be held New Year’s eve by Moose lodge, No. 17, at its clubrooms, 135 North Delaware street, for members, their families and friends. Announcement also has been made by the entertainment committee that each Saturday night will be observed as family night, with free dancing for members and their families.

EVANGELIST COMING

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Lloyd C. Shanklin

Lloyd C. Shanklin, nationally known evangelist, author and trav- | eler, will initiate an interdenomina- : tional revival campaign Sunday | night at the Indianapolis Gospel Tabernacle, 610 North Alabama street. Dr. Shanklin is associated with the Independent Fundamental Churches of America. General Conference for Evangelism, with headquarters in Chicago. He comes to Indianapolis to ‘give pastors and church members the benefit of the results of his many campaigns. Dates and subjects of his lectures are as follows: Sunday—“ How to Keep New Years Resolution.” Monday—“ How to take the blue Out of Blue Monday.” Tuesday—“ How to Forget the Depression and Become an Heir to Millions." Wednesday—“A Masterpiece on. “God Is Love.” Thursday—“ The Signs of Our Own Times Revealed Today.” Friday—“ What Are the Many Attributes of God?” Saturday—“ How Was the WoYd Made Flesh and Dwel't Among Us?” Sunday, Jan. 7—Morning. “The Whale of a Time Jonah Had on the Fence:” night. “How to Sing the Wonderful Songs of Solomon Today.” ~ MOTION PICTURES All sects: 25c, 11 a. m.to6 p. m. Last 2 Days! Hurry MIRIAM HOPKINS GARY COOPER FREDRIC MARCH ‘DESIGN for LIVING’ with Edward Everett Horton

NEGROES FETE EMANCIPATION Celebration to Be Staged at City Church on Monday. In keeping with a long-estab-lished custom, the Negro churches of the city will observe Emancipation services next Monday morning at 11 in the Phillips Temple C. M. E. church, Drake and West streets. I Dr. J. L. Saunders, pastor of the Shilch Baptist church, will preside. Special music will be given by the Y. M. C. A. band and the Bethel A. |M. E. choir. Robert L. Brokenburr, i attorney, will read the Emancipaj tion proclamation. Dr. M. A.. Tali ley, pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist ; church, will deliver the principal j address. Military and fraternal or- ! ganizations will take part in the | program. A collection will be taken, to be used for relief work. Included on the arrangement committee are Dr. J. D. Johnson, chairman; Robert E. Skelton. C. H. Bell. M. W. Clair, J. L. Whi~e, G. W. Ward, Dr. Talley and J. B. Carter. BLEBRATE i New ear’s Eve^|| Dance Till Dawn tgj RCHESTRAS—2 1 lIANA ROOF BAND AT LANE, M. C. iRLEM HIGH HATTERS Pius a Dazzling 1 ] m AND WHITE REVUE I j Advance Ticket Sale Till JE 6 P. M., Sunday, Dec. 31 j aKk. —Bsc Inci. Tax. Night of j Dance, sl.lO, Incl. Tax. JR MAKE TABLE RESERVATIONS NOW SB FOR AN ADDITIONAL W COST OF St B SI.OO A COUPLE

JAPANESE SEEK MORE LAND. CHINESE CLAIM Mikado's Forces Declared Active in Chahar Province. i By United Press PEIPING. China. Dec. 29.—Japanese forces in Chahar province, apparently intending to annex additional territory, claimed bv China, # to Manchoukuo, are inaugurating a program of systematic control, Chinese authorities announced today. Soldiers in the Japanese exped'tionary force are constructing a AMUSEMENTS 4 Days Only STARTING NEW YEAR'S EVE MATINEE NEW YEAR’S DAY Madge Kennedy & Hollo Peters In the Comedy Romance of the Tyro! “Autumn Crocus” A Yr. in London —200 Times in N. Y. WITH AN ALL N. Y. CAST Pop. Prices, 35c to SI SATURDAY . . . Dec. 30th Dancing 10 Till 2 Cover Charge SI.OO SUNDAY, NEW YEAR’S EVE By Reservation Only— Dancing 10 Till 4 Noise Makers —Favors Cover Charge $1.05 ELABORATE FLOOR SHOW BOTH NIGHTS Music by GENE WOOD'S ORCHESTRA WASHINGTON AT MERIDIAN

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highway linking Kuyuan and Dolon Nor. and are building an airdrome near Heiho. from which they are patrolling the southern fringe of inner Mongolia, it was asserted. So serious was the Chahar situation regarded that Sung ChehYuan, governor of the province, decided to come to Peiping from Kalgan to consult War Minister Ho Ying-Ching. MOTION PICTURES l3plli£ thkek E* <Mp2sc j Now—First Showing! Will James’ ‘Smoky’ Victor Jory and Big Cast l.:iuret anil Haro I —Mickey Mouse.