Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1934 — Page 3

MAY 31, 1934.

25 CITY GIRLS WILL VIE FOR MOVIE HONORS

Semi-Finalists in TimesMGM Search for Talent to Appear at Loew’s. Twenty-five outstanding Indianapolis girls, their natural beauty and charm enhanced by smart evenng gowns, will smile their prettiest tonight in eager hope of being named among winners of screen and voice tests, as they parade across the brilliantly lighted stage of Loe,w's Palace theater to make their first personal appearance before the Hollywood motion picture experts serving as judges in search for new screen personalities conducted by The Indianapolis Times on behalf of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Company. With them as they participate in the elimination proceedings will be eighteen children, named with the girls as semi-finalists following a seven-hour session of the judges yesterday. The children, aspirants for an opportunity to star in the Hal Roach “Our Gang” comedies, will also compete for the privilege of being awarded the coveted talking motion picture tests. Presentation of the semi-finalists of the screen personalities campaign on the stage of the theater will occur at the 9 o’clock performance only, and will come as an added attraction to the theater's regular screen program which tonight forms the final showing of Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer's “Sadie McKee,” starring Joan Crawford, Jack Flex, manager, announced this morning. Tests to Be Friday As the girls and children are presented on the stage, Edward Carrier, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer test director from the California studios, here to supervise the filming of the Indianapolis screen and voice tests, will be seated with his staff of technicians in the theater audience. Basing their decisions upon the various contestants’ personality, poise, voice appeal and general appearance, the motion picture technicians w*il select the more outstanding for tests. Flming of the tests, which will be conducted just as they are in the Hollywood studios, will take place on the stage of Loew s Palace Friday evening at the 9 o'clock performance. The personnel of Director Carrier’s staff, the members of which also served yesterday as judges in the consideration of the thousands of photographs submitted in The Times campaign, is as follows: Charles David, ace M-G-M cameraman; Stephen Jones, veteran sound engineer; Ruth L. Webb, Max Factor, makeup artist from the M-G-M studios; Philip Grecco, studio technican. Those selected as semi-finalists who will appear on the stage of Loew's tonight for further consideration of the judges follow; CHILDREN Suzan Schlneter, 7, 552 W. D. Woodruff Place. Richard Robert Reeves, 4, 4971 West Thirteenth street. June Farb, 5, 1 East Thirty-sixth street. Joann Reed. 8, 146 North Sheffield avenue. Rosemary Robertson, 8, 826 West Minnesota street. Leo V. Comiskey Jr.. 4. 1212*2 Oliver avenue. Gloria Joan Metzler, 6, 2633 Napoieon street. Nancy Lou Whaley, 3. 1469 North Bosart street. Jean Thompson, 4, 218 East Nineteenth Barbara Jean Wolf, 6, 617 North Illinois Buddy Copeland, 4. East Seventy-fourth street. Hub Hubbard, 3, 1808 Central avenue. Dean Hinshaw, 5, 1234 North Tacotpa avenue. Patsy Ruth Ferguson, 5, 1317 West Twen-ty-eighth street. Dorothy E. Driscoll, 7, 55 North Addison street. Rose Marie Moynahan, 5, Ambassador hotel. Jimmy Lee Prentice, 5, 911 North Jefferson street. Barbara Jean Heater, 3, 1107 Linwood Street. GIRLS Mayrose Robinson, 19, of Shelbyville. Lela Leon, 21, 1352 South Meridian Street. Leona Todd. 21. 3933 Sutherland avenue. Mary Margaret Kohnle, 20, 3925 East Washington street, Kathryn King, 18, 717 North Noble Street. Kathrwn Yagen, 19, 648 East Twentyfirst street. Anna Lascu, 18, 1024 North Belle Vieu place. Ruth Pauline Luckey, 18, 123 North Linwood avenue. Betty Lu Miller, 18, 5645 Guilford avenue. Lillian E. Hutts, 447 North Alabama Street. Emily Yuckmat, 20, 2338 Carrollton avenue. Melba Schopp. 18, 805 Eugene street. Mary Louise Krick, 18, 644 East Ninth street. Audrey Foley, 20, 2842 East New York Street. Dorothy Deubner, 26. 2175 Dexter street. Jan Flowers, 19, 734 Graham street. Maude Margaret Platter, 20, 1323 North Bancroft street. Kathryn Murphy, 18, 3645 Orchard avenue. Dorothy Grader, 18, 2850 Northwestern Svenue. Ireane Biller, 21, 415 North Delaware street. Fanchon Fattig, 20, 117 North Drexel svenue. Bessie Mikels, 21. 1422 South New Jersey street. Nettie E. Schneider, 20, 1328 North Delawsrc street. C. Mari de Schipper, 20, 821 Hampden drive. Dorothy Wiley. 18, of LaFontaine. Many Photos Considered All of the above have been notified to report to the manager of Loew’s Palace theater this evening at 8 o’clock. Selection of the semi-finalists was made at the conclusion of a sevenhour session of the motion picture technicians late yesterday. There were thousands of photographs to be considered, and each photograph was carefully inspected by each

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CATHEDRAL HIGH JUNIOR PROM SET FOR FRIDAY

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Cathedral high school junior prom will be held in the school audi torium Friday night. Thomas Battista is chariman of the refresh' merits committee and William Crane heads the ticket committee.

Roosevelt Makes Plea for New National Unity

By United Press GETTYSBURG, Pa., May 31. The fields of Gettysburg returned to the status of a national shrine today, after being the scene of a second noteworthy appeal for national unity. In the same place where Abraham Lincoln delivered his immortal address, President Roosevelt yesterday appealed for anew understanding to put down sectional and class ambitions. One paragraph of Mr. Roosevelt's speech was regarded as of unusual meaning a reply in a few words to many of the attacks launched against his administration by political foes recently. This was: “It is, I think, as I survey the picture from every angle, a simple

WATER SURVEY COSTS PUBLIC

Consumers Must Pay Rate Fight Expenses Now Near $500,000. While the Indianapolis Water Company and the public service commission pause. for a breath in their half million dollar fight over water rates s the public prepared today to pay the costs. Estimates made by Evans Williams, acting chief accountant for the commission, show that the public service commission will have spent about $20,000 when the case is completed and the water company will have spent $450,000. The consumer may pay the costs as part of the operating expense of the water company. judge before the contestant was definitely ruled out or ruled in. Following the presentation of the semi-finalists on the stage of the theater tonight, the girls and children who are to receive the coveted tests will be named. Then throughout the day Friday the successful contestants will be schooled in the “lines” they are to read as they make their debut before the motion picture company's sound recording cameras. At the 9 o’clock performance Friday evening, the Hollywood technicians will swing into action to film the tests of the successful girls and children. This procedure will occur before the theater audience, coming as an added attraction to the premiere engagement of M-G-M's musical, “The Hollywood Party.” Following the filming'of the tests, the film is to be shipped to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer laboratories, where it will be developed, printed and titled. One print will then be returned to Indianapolis for exhibition for one week on the screen of Loew’s theater, and another print will be previewed before production and casting office officials of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Hal Roach studios.

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FUNERAL TRAIN KILLS CITY MAN

Deaf Contractor, Unable to Hear Whistle, Struck Walking Track. Unable to hear a train's warning whistles because of deafness, Elmer Modlin, 69, R. R. 8, Box 387-E, a contractor, was struck and killed by a special funeral train on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks near Stop 4 road today. Mr. Modlin had started walking on the tracks which are near the Brookville road and had left the tracks when the scheduled train went flying by earlier in the morning. He had been accustomed to walking the tracks and because of his deafness did not hear the special train. The train whistled loudly several times, according to Henry Ahlers, R. R. 8, Box 405, who arrived on the scene shortly after the fatal accident. J. A. Donahue, 320 Virginia avenue, a railroad detective, waited on the scene for deputy sheriffs while the train sped on to Hamilton, O. Mr. Donahue said that S. Leonard was the train engineer. Mr. Modlins body was dismembered. He is survived by two sons, Wesley and Neal, with whom he lived; three brothers and a sister. The special train was bearing the body of M. V. Hynes, railroad executive, who died here recently. COLLEGE" CHIEF NAMED Pittsburgh Dean Appointed Head of University of Washington. By United Press SEATTLE, May 31.—Dr. Lez Paul Sieg, 55, dean of the Uniyersity of Pittsburgh, has been selected president of University of Washington. He will take office Aug. 1 at $12,000 a year.

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THRONGS PLAY ‘I SPY’ GAME WITH DILLINGER

Speedway Fans Crane Necks for Peak at Bandit in Vain. Milling thousands at the Speedway yesterday were “Dillinger conscious.” This form of mob psychology is something like being “air minded,” according to experts, and almost as exciting. Given the proper setting and some publicity at the 500-mile classic, “seeing Dillinger” became a game which was indulged in by thousands of spectators. “There’s Dillinger,” yelled a gawkey, yellow-haired youth to his companions as thousands made their way through the gates before the race, “over there in that gray car.” Immediately hundreds turned to stare. “Ha, ha!” guffawed th®> gawky youth, as two of his companions promptly tripped him up and sent him sprawling on the ground. Dillinger “Doubles” Noted Fashionably garbed women in the grandstand speculated on the possibility of the “phantom bandit” being in the crowd. Many welldressed, slight young men with brown hair and small mustaches were embarrassed by the scrutiny to which they were subjected by the crowd. Through the stands and the infield, federal agents, especially assigned to track down the Hoosier desperado, flitted in and out of groups of spectators. Captain Matt Leach and his state policemen also kept a constant vigil. Captain Leach recalled that Dillinger visited the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago six times last summer while thousands of police officers scoured the country for him, and, knowing Dillinger’s love for fast cars, thought it not unlikely that the bandit might come to the race. Says He Saw Bandit Justin Sullivan, Greenwood, told police that he had seen a car on State Road 31 before the race started in which four men were riding. Mr. Sullivan said he was positive that a man seated in the rear of the car, holding a machine gun, was Dillinger. Far from the madding throng at the Speedway a small group of justice department operatives searched peaceful southern Indiana fields for the hidden grave of the bandit, following statements by Melvin H. Purvis, head of the Chicago federal bureau of investigation, that he believed Dillinger “dead.” And on a drought-stricken farm in Mooresville, gnarled John Dillinger Sr. laughed at reports of the demise of his notorious son.

*-H PARLEY TO START MONOAY

Kiwanis Clubs Assisting in Junior Leader Conference. The third annual 4-H junior leader training conference will start Monday at the Marion county Boy Scout reservation, it was announced today. The sessions will be under direction of the 4-H Club division of the Purdue university agricultural extension department in co-operation with the agricultural committee of Indiana Kiwanis clubs. The program, which will last through June 8, includes talks by Floyd McMurray, public instruction superintendent; Albert Stump, Indianapolis attorney; A. B. United States department of agriculture; Walter I. Fegan, South Bend, Indiana district governor of Kiwanis International; J. W. Bosse, deputy state superintendent of public instruction, and Dr. A. M. Smith, vocational education director and state club leader.

Philately Cherished Hobby of Clerk Who Handles Stamps in Postoffice

Carrier Who Takes Long Strolls Has Counterpart in Joe Zix. BY WILLIAM H. M’GAUGHEY Times Staff Writer The mail carrier who spends his vacation by taking long walks has his counterpart in Joe Zix, a postal clerk who handles stamps all day long in the main postoffice, and then devotes his evenings to collecting stamps as a hobby. Although thousands of stamps pass through Joe s hands every day, he admits to staying up late at night going over his private collection. Because of Joe’s enthusiasm for his hobby, postal officials have bestowed upon him the duty of accommodating stamp collectors who write to the postmaster. For instance, about two hundred persons have written in requesting Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker to send their letters out when the Chi-cago-acksonville, Fla., air line is re-established. Joe files these requests away, along with the letters that the collectors have addressed for the first north to south flight, and when the first plane passes through Indianapolis Joe will see to it that the letters are aboard. ‘First Stamps’ Valuable Joe himself will have several letters on that plane, which he will address to the postmaster in Jacksonville. These letters will be returned to Joe on the first flight back and he will have several prize stamps for his collection. One of the aims of avid stamp collectors, Joe explains, is to obtain a “first” stamp, that is, one that is sent out of a certain postoffice for some special event. When the first air mail flight from New York to Los Angeles was made on Oct. 25, 1930, the local postoffice received more than 12,000 requests from collectors to have their letters go out on that flight. A Sample of Service The first night flight from coast to coast on July 29, 1931, brought in more than 2,000 requests and the first Chicago to Cincinnati flight via Indianapolis, in 1927, gave Joe more than 5,000 letters to mail. Besides handling stamps for special air mail flights, Joe takes care of several hunched letters yearly, sent by collectors who wish mail postmarked from Indianapolis as a state capital. They send a package here with several addlessed letters inside, which Joe njails back to them with a local postmark. On the anniversary of the death of persons, relatives often send letters here to be postmarked here on the date of the anniversary. Birthdays often find collectors desiring letters mailed from Indianapolis. Have Special Department To accommodate stamp collectors the government hires eleven clerks in Washington who do nothing but fill their requests. A profit of more than $1,000,000 yearly is realized by the government from stamp collectors. • When anew issue of a stamp comes off the press, thousands of requests are received in Washington from collectors who desire stamps from that first issue. To commemorate the Washington bicentennial celebration in 1932, the government sold nearly 6,000,000 1 and 2-cent stamps, alone, to collectors. In a collection at 241 South Arsenal avenue, which Joe owns jointly with a bank clerk, Floyd Shockley, the men have every “first” stamp issued by the government for all special occasions from the PanAmerican Exposition in 1901, to the Mother’s day stamp of this year. One Stamp Worth sl6 The two men have more than 500.000 stamps filed away in filing cabinets, note books, and cigar boxes

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AUTOIST LURED BY TRAIN TRACK Motorist Drives Car Along Railroad Right-of-Way; Cops Give Chase. A Casey Jones “complex” seized Spencer Galbraith, 31, of 1325 Blaine avenue, as he returned home last night. It had been a busy day for Spencer, what with the Speedway races, Memorial day and everything. The sun was hot, too, and Spencer, according to. police, had cooled off with some bretv —apparently a wee drop too much. In his homeward path, the main line of the Belt railroad loomed invitingly as Spencer rolled along Harding street in his automobile. Emulating the legendary pilot of “old 99,” Spencer turned his car onto the railroad tracks and drove half a block along the tarcks, giving a very good imitation of a locomotive. Horror stricken, patrolmen Charles Felton and Henry McClain rushed to the rescue. They stopped the budding engineer with loud cries just as Spencer according to the police, emitted a defiant “toot-toot” to the empty tracks.

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NEW OEAL HAS EDGE IN DIGEST POLLOFSTATE Roosevelt Policies Backed by 8,196 to 7,854 Opposed. President Roosevelt and the new deal policies hold only the slight lead of 342 ballots in Hoosierdom’s tabulation in the third returns issued by the Literary Digest in its nation-wide poll. Out of 16,050 ballots from Indiana, those supporting the Rooseveltian program number 8,196 to 7,854 opposed. In the election, 54.66 per cent of the voters of the state supported and voted for the President, while the poll shows that only 51.07 per cent of the sentiment voted thus far is back of him. The state returns show that 6,435 voted for him in the 1932 election, against 2.007 who did not. In turn, 5,409 of those voting in the poll cast ballots against Herbert Hoover to 1.430 who voted for the former national executive. Twelve states are shown to approve the new deal, while Maine and Vermont are the two dissenters in the third returns from the magazine's poll. States giving the administration the edge in the vote are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana.

16-YEAR-OLD BOY DIES IN HEAD-ON CAR CRASH Three Race Visitors Injured in Mishap Near Morocco. By United Press RENSSELAER, Ind., May 31.—A 16-year-old Petersburg boy was killed and thre£ Chicagoans were injured when two cars collided head-on near Morocco. The dead youth is George Rumer. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Rumer, also of Petersburg, and Edward Caske and Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Fla tow of Chicago, were those injured. Caske and Mr. and Mrs. Flatow were en route to Indianapolis to witness the 500-mile race. JOB’S DAUGHTER’S TO INSTALL NEW COUNCIL Grand Guardian Marie Leonard to Lead Ceremony. Marie Leonard, grand guardian of the Order of Jod's Daughters in Indiana, will install anew Bethel council of Bethel lodge, No. 9, tomorrow night at the Brightwood Masonic temple after election of lodge officers. The new council will consist of Matilda Mewhimmey, guardian; Ray Whisler, associate guardian; Dorothy Tyre, secretary; Alpha Cromer, treasurer, and Dena Walch, director of music. Other grand officers will assist Grand Guardian Leonard.

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