Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1934 — Page 3

MAY 24, 1984

129 ENTRIES IN TIMES - BLOCK SKATEJERBY All Pairings Will Be Made Tomorrow; Floor in Fine Shape. Two more days, and the 129 entrants in the first annual Wm. H. Block Company-Indianapolis Times Roller Skate Derby will clamp on skates and line up for opening heats. The derby will start at 2 Saturday in Tomlinson hall. The first event, as w r ell as all other opening heats and semi-finals in the afternoon, and the finals at 7:30 p. m., will be started by H. W. (Wally) Middlesworth, city recreation director, the official starter-referee. All entrants are reported training industriously and spectators are expected to receive marfy thrills throughout the course of the derby. The public is to be admitted free to both afternoon and night sessions. Spectators will be seated in the balcony and on the stage. The entire skating floor will be used for the races and fancy skating contests, with only contestants and officials allowed on the floor. 22 Laps Equals Mile The Times Block’s suggest that you come early in order to get one of the best spots. Pairings in the derby were to be drawn today by James Clark, clerk of the course, and The Times Roller derby editor. In answer to the many inquiries about the size of the Tomlinson hall rink, The Times derby editor wishes to announce that twenty-two laps complete a mile on the floor. Corner boxes, which must be cleared by racers on the right side, will be set twenty feet from each side, and seventen and one-half feet from each end, giving contestants enough room on the corners. The starting line is fifteen feet from one corner, giving racers fiftyfive feet straightaway before going into the first turn. The ends of the floor provide a short straightaway of a little more than fortyseven feet. The long seventy-foot front and back stretches will give performers a chance to obtain speed. Entries Are Closed Entries in the derby now are closed, and if* you are not listed among the contestants, The Times and Block’s suggest that you visit Tomlinson hall at both afternoon and night sessions Saturday, pick out contestants in each age class and root for them to win. Twelve events, in all, will be held, and three age classes will participate. The events include ten single races, a three-legged race and a fancy skating exhibition. Prize awards will include silver cups to winners of the ten single racing event's and the fancy skating exhibition, and twin medals to the winning combination in the three-legged race. The prizes are being provided by the Block store and will be presented by a representative of the store at the close of the final event. Skates for the derby will be furnished each contestant free, excepting those desiring to use their own rink skates, which will be permissable. Entrants Listed

Entries in the 14-year-old and younger class are: Girls—Velma Wright, Dorothy Figg, Marilyn Livingston, Mary Wall, Betty Alderson, Luewana Weld, Dorothy Boggs, Marie Boggs, Dorothy Hunter, Pearl Fields, Mary Geilker, Doloer Matdcalf, Mary Alice Russell, Norma Merz, Betty Watson, Phyllis Jean Cron, Jeanette Simmons, Helen Parker, Helen Fields, Mary Hobbs, Agnes Jefferson, Johnnie Mae and Betty Jane Hoff. Boys—Willard Tibbs, Bobby .Toe Turner, Walter Storms, Russell Faucett, George Watson, Robert Tibb, William Bland, Robert Windisch, Jesse Wright, Marvin Farber, Paul Wright, Ralph Amor, Marion Fine, Dale Ferguson, James Hall, Russell Harrison, Harry Crouch, Bob Merrick, Earl Figg, Roy Clift, Gene Kesterson, Virgil Bornhorst, Alvin Allison, Glen Pevler, Joe Wilkerson, John Lyden, Kemp Martin, William Pierson and John Sims. Girl entries in the middle age class, which includes all entrants 15, 16 and 17-year olds, are: Ethel Tanner. Ruth Padgett, Elinor Schrontz, Helen Price, Evelyn Hardy, Helen Hardy, Ruth Clark, Eileen Byers, Margaret Fisher, June Kitzmiller, Thelma Roembke, Betty Williamson, Rita Grote, Jessie Clark, Andreymae Boggs and Mildred Sanders. Middle, Older Classes Boys entered in the middle class are: William Jackson, Donald Hurst, Owen Carew, Richard Price, Richard McClung, Robert Fritch, Harrell Butterfield, John Sheetz, Pat Fleming, Donald Atan, Thomas Lafever, Max Woodruff, Norman Saunders, Louis Janke, Thomas Yonny, Ed Arsyman, Gordon Connor, Charles Garvey, Anthony Neumeister, John Byers Jr., John Shea, Joe Dunham, Kenneth Brown, Charles Benner, Harry Adkins, Harry Dwyer, Welby Clift, Meadford Childress, Bob Welsman. Basis Reiss, Edwin Schoad and Harry Malson. Entrants in the 18-year-old and above class are: Girls—Mary Helen Wilkerson, Clara C. Hadley, Margaret Bailey, Etta May Vickrey and Katherine Jones. Boys Jimmy Carter, William Kord, George Taffin, Joe Stout, Robert Lemoss, John Bristow, Bob Monroe, Charles W. Robbins, Courtland Christner, James Jones, Gene Belcher, Ervin E. Miller, Johnny Burlask, James Brown, Charles Hilt, Claud Merrell, Charles A. Shearer, Jefferson McLucas, “Curly” Huffman, Armond Hockman, Malcolm Eberhart, Leo Pierce, Jack Huntsman and August Sharkey. More derby news will be published In The Times tomorrow. Read it and plan to be in the rooting sections Saturday afternoon and night. Boy Scouts Will Meet Semi-annual meeting of the Boy Scouts of America was to be held this afternoon at the country home of Earl Kiger, northwest of the city. A “fish-fry” and outdoor sports will be features of the meeting.

Here’s A Chance for Fame and Fortune — Don’t Pass It Up!

WOULD you like to have a screen and voice test? Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer, the company which today has more stars on its roster th£n any other individual film producing organization, in association with The Indianapolis Times, and Loew’s Palace theater, offers to girls and children of this immediate area an opportunity of demonstrating their screen personalities before their cameras and microphones. This great movie company is seeking to discover new screen personalities . . . girls and children with charm, personality, and voice appeal . . . and in their search in this area has enlisted the aid of The Times and Loew’s. In this connection, M-G-M is sending to this city its elaborate traveling motion picture studio. This lavishly equipped studio on wheels, in addition to being fully equipped for the taking of screen and tests of prospective stars, maintains apparatus for the filming of newsreel pictures. In coming to Indianapolis, the traveling studio brings with it the .greatest opportunity ever offered to girls and children of this city. Here, for the first time, is a real honest-to-goodness chance to get into the movies. Here is an opportunity to be given actual, bona fide voice and screen tests, not by an individual cameraman, or by some fly-by-night organization, but by the greatest motion picture company in the world. u tt AND although this great company already has under contract such outstanding stars as Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery, William Haines, John and Lionel Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Colleen Moore, and many others, it is seeking new personalities for M-G-M and Hal Roach pictures. M-G-M executives believe that their stars of tomorrow will prove to be “unknowns” of today. Instead of waiting for these discoveries to be made through the regular channels they have set out to discover them. Girls and children throughout the entire country are being tested by the traveling motion picture studio. Shopgirls, stenographers, clerks, waitresses, schoolgirls, home girls, are being given an opportunity to demonstrate their personality and ability. If you think that you would screen well, if you feel that your voice may have appeal, if your friends have ever told you that you resembled some famous motion picture star and that you would make good in the movies, here is your chance to find out. Any Indianapolis area girl between the ages of 18 and 28 is eligible to submit an application for a screen and voice test to be made when the M-G-M studio visits Palace theater. All you have to do is clip the application blank appearing in The Times and mail it with a good photograph of yourself to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Screen Test Editor, The Indianapolis Times. OUT of the group of girls selected to be given voice and screen tests, after the tests have been made and exhibited on the screen of Loew’s theater, judges will select the girl whose tests proved to be the most promising. She will then be named “Miss Indianapolis” and will be eligible to complete with other territory winners for the grand award offered by M-G-M. This award consists of a three-

APPLICATION—METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER Voice and Screen Opportunity Tests Sponsored by THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES AND LOEW’S PALACE THEATER Name Age.,,,,,,, Address Phone Height Weight Complexion Legal Guardian This application is to be properly filled out and mailed with photograph of entrant to the M.-G.-M. Screen Test Editor, the Indianapolis Times, on or before midnight, Tuesday, May 29. In signing and submitting this application, contestants agree to abide by the decisions of the appointed judges in both preliminary as well as final findings, and grant permission to The Indianapolis Times to publish their photographs and other information submitted herein. Photographs will not be returned, but they may be called for when contest e/ids. Clear snapshot photographs accepted. Girls over 18, children over 3 are eligible.

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month trip to the famous studios in Culver City, Cal., where she will meet the stars, where she will be entertained at parties and receptions, and where she will be given further and more elaborate tests by a prominent director. Upon the outcome of these tests will depend her chances of becoming a real star. As for the children—any child, either boy or girl, between the ages of 3 and 12, may submit applications. They must reside within fifty miles of Indianapolis, and like the girls, they will not be considered eligible if they have had screen credit in any nationally distributed motion picture, or if they are employes or members of the family of an employe of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Indianapolis Times, or Loew’s Palace theater. Os the children chosen to be given screen and voice tests, one child will be named winner and will compete with other child territory winner for the award offered by Hal Roach, famous comedy producer. Mr. Roach, maker of the famous “Our Gang” comedies, has agreed to present a three-month contract at a salary of SSO a week, to the winning child. The traveling expenses of the fortunate youngster and his or her mother or chaperon also will be paid by Mr. Roach. It’s really a chance of a lifetime, and is far too important to pass off with a hasty shrug of the shoulders. Fame . . . fortune . . . perhaps even stardom on the screen . . . looms on the horizon. Don’t let it pass without taking advantage of it. Mail your application in today, and when you do, paste the registration blank on the reverse side of your photo, and be sure that it carries sufficient postage. DEAD GANGSTER FOUND Murder Linked With Futile Effort to Kill Hijacker’s Moll. By United Press PITTSBURGH, May 24.—Police today linked the latest dead gangster found in this vicinity with a Washington hijacker’s moll. The bullet-ridden body of Morris Kauffman was found here yesterday. Police worked on the theory he may have been one of the men who attempted to kill Mrs. Leonora Fontaine near Philadelphia because she “knew too much.” Kauffman's death, police reasoned, was perhaps because he “botched” the job.

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NOTED AQUATIC STAR IS KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE Helen Hawkins Is Victim; Inquiry Is Launched by City Police. Probe of circumstances surrounding the fatal injuries received in a traffic accident last night by Miss Helen Hawkins, 26, of 1339 North New Jersey street, prominent swimmer, was begun today by Chief Mike Morrissey and others. Miss Hawkins was struck by a car driven by Miss Julia Freyn, 18, of 4929 North A/T Meridian street, as she Aifj was walking near the *** intersection of St. Clair and Delaware streets. Witnesses charged, according to the police, that Miss Freyn’s car stopped only momentarily, and then was driven northward. The witnesses said several motorists pursued and stopped the car near Sixteenth street, causing Miss Freyn to return. Patrolman George Connell, who investigated with patrolman Francis Griffin, explained today that he made no arrests because Dr. E. C. Wilson, deputy coroner, said he saw no reason to prefer charges. Dr. Wilson confirmed that statement today Officers Explain Action Chief Morrissey said he ordered officers Connell and Griffin into headquarters today to explain why their report made,no mention of the alleged failure of the death car to stay at the scene. A sworn statement that the car failed to stop more than momentarily was made to Dr. Wilson today by Herbert Geiss, 2409 North Pennsylvania street, who had walked with Miss Hawkins to the intersection, and then had started in another direction. His statement was confirmed to reporters by Howard Martin, 1536 Broadway, and Mrs. Lena Leonard, 712 North Delaware street. Riding with Miss Freyn were John Logan, 38, Washington, and Russell W. Langsenkamp, 27, of 3060 North Meridian street. * Daughter of Don Hawkins Miss Hawkins, the daughter of Don P. Hawkins, broker, had been a life guard at Willard and Rhodius parks swimming pools. Miss Hawkins was educated at Tudor hall and at a school in France. She was born here and had been interested in and affiliated with recreation work here most of her life. The body was taken to the Hockensmith mortuary. Conrad Bailey, 24, Newcastle, died early today at city hospital from injuries suffered in an accident May 20 when the automobile in which he was riding skidded 200 feet and turned over seven times at Post road and Washington street. Forty-Sixth Fatality His death was the forty-sixth traffic fatality this year. Another occupant of the car, Roland Rowe, 21, Newcastle, high school basketball star, died instantly in the crash. The accident occured as the car was turned suddenly to avoid crashing into an automobile that cut out of the line of traffic. Paul Mendenhall, 26, of 3711 Kenwood avenue, also in the car, has been removed from city hospital to St. Vincent’s hospital where his condition is reported as fair today.

AAA OFFICER STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF RACE Louis Schwitzer, Harry Hartz Speak to City C. of C. The strict search for mechanical imperfections in cars nominated to enter the 500-mile Indianapolis motor speedway race and the importance of mechanical discoveries made during the race were described yesterday to the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce by Louis Schwitzer, chairman of the American Automobile Association technical committee. The chamber, meeting in the Indianapolis Athletic Club, also heard from Harry Hartz, veteran driver, a description of the race from the driver’s viewpoint. Doyle Zaring was elected to a place on the chamber’s board of directors in a run-off of a previous tie-vote.

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ILL INFANT IN •COURTSHANDS Woman Who Deserted Baby Said to Have Stolen It in Connersville. Shunted about from person to person, an abandoned 7-months-old baby was referred to juvenile court authorities yesterday. Too young to know the tragedy of its life, the baby was brought to Mrs. Walter Hess, 125 Beville avenue Tuesday night, who was asked by the mother, who said she had “stolen” the infant from Connersville, to care for it overnight. Mrs. Hess notified police, who took the child, wfiich was ill, to city hospital. Mrs. Hess had cared for the baby previously in response to an advertisement, but had turned it over to Connersville authorities who said it was a ward of the court. The mother was known to Mrs. Hess as Mrs. Joe Anderson. STUDENTS TO INSPECT DUESENBERG* FACTORY Group of Fifty From Purdue Will Also Watch Speedway Trials. Approximately fifty juniors and seniors from Purdue ■ university mechanical engineering school will visit Indianapolis this afternoon to inspect the Duesenberg automobile factory and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The college men are to get.firsthand glimpses of the racing cars and then watch their time trials. Some will attend the annual pre-race dinner meeting of the Indiana chapter, Automotive Engineers’ Society, at the Athenaeum. The gasoline limitation in effect this year at the Speedw'ay will be discussed at the dinner. NOMINEES PROPOSED FOR LION CLUB SLATE Ralph Roberts for President Heads Committee List. Nominees for Lion Club officers were named yesterday by the nominating committee in a meeting in the Washington. Nominees are Ralph V. Roberts, president; L. E. Halstead, first vicepresident; Roscoe Conkle, second vice-president; E. E. Krutsinger, third vice-president; John E. Cook, treasurer; Glen L. Campbell, secretary; R. F. Kerbox, lion tamer; R. G. Hesseldenz, tail twister, and Walter D. Niman and James R. McCoy, directors.

Joseph O’Mahoney, Edward Murphy and Lawrence Pfleger. Rear Row—Robert Maxey, John Bills, Joseph Reidy, Robert Post and Daniel Rohyans.

Buck Wins by a Neck No Man Hath Greater Love for Those Who Like to Pet Than Our Mr. Sumner.

PALPITATIONS of petters of Marion county can be soothed by the year 1934, for Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner says he’s going to do nothing about the hug-and-smack boys and girls who frequent county highways and cow lanes.

As far as the sheriff is concerned, they can moo and coo and buss (Webster for kiss) in the family bus without bother from his deputy sheriffs. And Sheriff “Buck” is passing some “busses” along, not of the kissing kind, as suggestions to the city administration for handling the lovers in city parks. “I believe in bigger and better trees in Riverside park. Young love should be shaded from the prying eyes—even of a copper,” is the sheriff’s first rule. Then he comes back with his second proposal and that is: “That the city furnish busses to take these ‘saplings’ out amongst the real thing. Many can’t afford to have cars. They can’t neck on the porches, so why not pick up loads nightly and take them to a nice fenced-off spot in one of our parks. “The city should provide little wooden whistles so that in case Johnny Dillinger or any of the little Dillingers attempt playing Peeping John that an escort can summon the police, state or otherwise,” sagely says the sheriff. “Buck” admits that all he knows about “petting” is what he’s read in the past performance charts or lovelorn columns of several years ago. And as long as life must do a lot of surging in youth in the spring and summer, the sheriff is all for giving them a break —instead of a heartbreak.

250 ARE EXPECTED AT ELKS DANCE SATURDAY Reservations Coming in Rapidly Committee Reports. Reservations for the Elks Speedway sport dance, which will be held in the Oriental room of the Antlers Saturday night, indicate that more than 250 will attend, according to F. W. Spooner, chairman. Music and floor show will be under the direction of Jack Tilson. The dance team of John Sweet and Rosalyn Ludwig will be featured in special numbers. Reservations are in charge of W. G. Taylor, secretary; C. W. Crowe and F. H. Krause. Members of the reception committee are Joe Freihage Jr., William Schnorr, Herman Schmidt, John J. Minta, Robert Minta and C. C. Cohee.

BEARD ANYBODY’S BUT INSIGNIA IS HOUSE OF DAVID’S, SAYS JUDGE

By United Press NEW YORK, May 23.—A beard is a man’s own affair but the name of the House of David can not be taken in vain, Federal Judge John M. Woolsey ruled yesterday. He granted the original bearded House of David baseball team an injunctipn forbidding Louis Murphy of Spring Valley, 111., exhibiting a group of unshaven athletes under the “House of David” insignia. The court’s learned ruling held that “from time immemorial beards have been in the public domain. Any man may, if so minded, without being subject to any challenge legal or equitable, not only grow such beard as he can, but may purposely imitate another’s facial shrubbery even to the extent of following such topiary modification thereof as may have caught his fancy.” But combining a beard with the name House of David, Judge Woolsey held, indicated a desire to “masquerade as the plaintiff’s team and thus unfairly to compete with it.” YOUNG SUSPECTS HELD Four Youths Accused of Robbing Royalton Store. Four youths were arrested today by city police and held for authorities at Royalton, Ind. They are said to have confessed robbery of the Royalton general store last night. They are Archie Wilson, 18, of 420 White River parkway; Leonard Ash, 18, of 1005 West Washington street; Charles Schupperd, 1226 West Market street, and Charles Keeker, 18, Zionsville. They are held on fugitive and vagrancy charges under SI,OOO bonds.

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STATE DENTISTS HEAR DR. RUST IN FINALPARLEY Forced Feeding of Child Deprecated by City Speaker. Threats and pleas of parents in an effort to force children to eat were termed “bad psychology” and “useless” by Dr, Byron Rust, Indianapolis, at the closing session yesterday of the Indiana State Dental Association in the Claypool. “Children who will not eat, as a rule, are in small families and like to attract attention by their actions. The parent should not hang over the child’s chair with threats and please,” Dr. Rust asserted. Officers reappointed were Dr. A. R. Ross, Lafayette, secretary; Dr. William Bogie, Vincennes, treasurer; Dr. H. J. Longcamp, Aurora, supervisor of clinics; Dr. H. T. Berkey, Ft. Wayne, master of exhibits; Dr. R. I. Blakeman. Indianapolis, representative to the state health council; Dr. J. B. Carr, chairman to the Riley Memorial Association. Dr. R. C. Schurr, Valparaiso, was named executive committeeman. Dr. W. C. Boren, Princeton, was appointed to the finance committee; Dr. G. T. Gregory, Indianapolis, ethics committee; Dr. R. M. Smiley, Washington, necrology; Dr. A. P. Craig, Gary, board of censors; Dr. Robert Miller, Muncie, and Dr. Millard Dill, Plainfield, legislative committee; Dr. Mary H. Westfall, chairman of the committee on oral hygiene. Associate editors of the Journal of the Association who were appointed .are Dr. Douglas White, Indianapolis; Dr. N. M. Campbell, Gary; Dr. W. G. Campbell, Sunman; Dr. J. C. Stewart, Terre Haute; Dr. H. C. Dimmich, Ft. Wayne. Members of the dental health council named were Dr. E. E. Voyles, Indianapolis, chairman; Dr. F. R. Henshaw, Dr. J. B. Carr -and Dr, E. L. Mitchell, Indianapolis, and Dr. R. R. Gillis, Hammond.

APARTMENT OWNERS’ PRESIDENT PICKS AIDS Committee Heads Are Named at Meeting Yesterday. R. A. Franke, newly elected president of the Apartment Owners’ Association, announced committee chairmen for the coming year in a meeting yester- -y in the Washington. The committee heads are: Membership, a. F. McCord; operators and agents division, I. Watt Pugh; resident managers division, Miss Mary Malloy and Mrs. T. D. McGee; finance, H. H. Woodsmall; legislative, Isidore Feibleman; ethics and research, j. Allen Dawson; publicity, Fred Zried, and program, Richard Coons. U. S. NAVY RECRUITING OFFICE TO BE VISITED District Commander Will Inspect Local Station. Personnel and equipment of the navy recruiting station, 30 East Washington street, will be inspected tomorrow by Commander E. J. Blankenship, United States navy. Commander Blankenship recently relieved Commander D. A. McElduff as inspector of naval recruiting in the central district. He will make his first inspection of the local station Friday. On completion of the inspection, Commander Blankenship will visit his parents at Paragon before returning to his headquarters in St. Louis. WARRENBURG IS FIRST Tech Freshman Scores 18 Points in Track Meet. Herman Warrenburg collected eighteen points to win first in the annual Manual high school track meet yesterday afternoon. Warrenburg won the 100 and 220yard low hurdles. Charles Griffen was second and Richard Arnett, third. The meet was sponsored by the Roines Club, senior boys' honor organization