Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1935 — Page 6

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TRAUMRETURNS FOR VISIT. AND LANDS IN CELL Terre Haute Ex-Gangster Will Face Trial for Forgetting Promise. B'i Timet Special TERRS HAUTE, April 26.—Joe Traum, lormer local aid St* Louis gangster and Federal convict, paid Ihe price of his liberty for coming hark to his home city to "look around." and his present horizon is very much limited by steel bars. Traum was arrested in front of a tavern bar north of the city and locked up in the Vigo County jail for safe keeping, charged with vagrancy and investigation. He is held under a SSOOO bond for trial today before Judge John Duffy Traum had previously been warned by police “to stay away from Terre Haute and Vigo County.” Traum was represented at hir hearing by Ernest Causey, local attorney, who protested vigorously against “any highhanded, Nazistic tactics’’ on the part of the law in dealing with his client’s constitutional rights. Local police, however, insisted on an opportunity to “check up on ( Traum.” who, it was pointed out. ! had been arrested here several j weeks ago, being released when he had promised to leave Vigo County j and ‘‘stay put” elsewhere.

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I By Timet Special CLOVERDALE. April 26.—Freshman enrollment at De Pauw University next fall probably will include the name of Wayne Snider, son of 1 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Snider and a graduate cum laude of the local I high school. Completing his feur-vear secondary schooling with an average of 97’i per cent, the 16-year-old class leader has been awarded half a doeen j scholastic citations. include a scholarship medal a grand honor certificate, and the additional distinction of having his name engraved on the school’s permanent record plate. Throughout his school years the youth has devoted part of his time j to music and as a clarinet soloist has appeared both on radio and in ! school recitals. An expert typist, hp was declared class champion and recently gave i a public speed demonstration. Hp has been a career for The Indianapolis Times since grade school days, and his saving from earnings will enable him to continue his education.

-0 0 9 Collects Autographs By Timet Special EDINBURG, April 26. Some autographs are easily obtained and others defy the wiliest collector, according to Ralph Lutes, local high school senior whose hobby is rounding up celebrated names. Young Lutes’ most recent acquisition is a laboriously scribbled “Johnnie Dillinger," sent to him by a sister of the late outlaw’. It will take its place with autographs from such well-known persons as Secretary Cordell Hull. Senator Huey P. Long and Maria Rasputin. Only twice, young Lutes says, has he failed to gain a signature much desired. The first to ignore a solicitation was the Emperor of Japan: the second. Bruno Richard Hauptmann. 000 Plane Brings Fish Bli Timet Special COLUMBUS. April 26.—This is the strange story of a local w r oman who, without leaving the city, caught 25 pounds of flying fish, and

stranger yet, used as bait a red kimono! Maj. Ralph Rogers, chaplain at Lungley Field, Va., wanted to give his sister, Mrs. Jeff Brougher of this city, a present. So by telephone and telegraph they arranged the transaction. Thus when an airplane flew slowly over a highway at the city's edge, Mrs. Brougher waved a signal, the kimono, and down from the plane wafted a small silk parachute. It landed nearby. The plane proceeded towards Dayton; Mrs. Brougher. via taxi, toward home. There she later served a score of friends an assortment of salt water fish. a a Hog Protection Urged By Timet Special THORNTOWN. April 26.—The fact that Indiana hog herds have been exceptionally free from cholera is no execuse for farmers failing to vaccinate their spring pigs, Murray Barker, Indiana Farm Bureau Laboratories manager, warns. “After the cholera germ has af-

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' fected the individual hog, there is ; little that can be done.” Mr. Barker | declared. “This makes it expedient ! to vaccinate while the herd is in good physical condition.” “Vaccination against cholera is only insurance against the most deadly disease prevalent among hogs.” he continued. “Since hog prices have reached the present level, this reduces the comparative cost of vaccinating, as the price of serum has not advanced as much as hog prices.” 000 Tax Paying Increases By Timet Special KOKOMO. April 26.—Spring tax collections are 43 per cent greater this year than they w r ere a year ago, County Treasurer Ryan reveals. Collections from Nov. 20, 1933. to April 20, 1934, amounted to $160,- | 281.56, both current and delinquent, and increased more than $70,000 he said, for the corresponding period of 1934 and 1935. RED EMBLEM FOUND ON COLLEGE FLAGPOLE Enraged Students Find Stars and Stripes at Half-Staff. By United Prrtt KALAMAZOO, Mich., April 26. A red "flag” waved from the top of the campus flagpole as election day dawned at Kalamazoo College today. Beneath the crimson banner was the American flag—at half-staff. Enraged students found that ropes to the flags had been cut off. A delegation was sent to the nearest fire station, seeking aid in removing the flag and hoisting the American emblem to Its usual place.

MOVIE CRUSADE 1 WILL CONTINUE, CHIEFS PLEDGE Legion of Decency Must Not Relax Its Fight, Says Catholic Editor. BY THE REV. WILFRED PARSONS, S. J. Editor-in-Chief. America, Catboiie Review-of-the-Week Just a year ago, the Legion of Decency began its career as one organized movement to assist in cleaning up the motion pictures. The scheme evolved was simplicity itself. The Bishops had the good fortune to hit upon a title which “caught on.” They formed no national body with by-laws and officers or dues. They respected the diocesan organization of the Catholic Church. The only standardized thing about it was the Pledge of Decency. By this members merely recognized openly their already previously existing obligations in conscience to stay away from films which are subversive of good morals. On this basis, anybody could join, and a tacit invitation was held out to those of all beliefs to take the same or a similar pledge. Protestant churches, singly, and also the Federal Council of Churches, as well as the piincipal ‘ Jewish organizations, joined wholeheartedly in the movement throughout the nation. 8,000,000 Signed Pledge The effect was electric. Probably 8,000,000 people signed the pledge. The industry took'alarm. It had in 1930 signed a Code of Morals, obligating itself to observe it, but had in practice repudiated that signature. Now it was faced with the consequences, for motion pictures in those I intervening years had gone beyond ! the bounds, not only of what should J constitute good entertainment for j the masses, but of ordinary decency. [ The industry was not slow to see that such an organized movement meant business. It sent two envoys 1 to the Bishops’ Committee. It made anew commitment to j observe the Code, and it signified its intentions of meaning it this time, by offering to set up a Code | Administration in Hollywood, with full powers to reject any scenario or completed picture that violated the Code. It was openly stated by the Bishops that this was their minimum requirement, and tacitly ■ recognized by the industry that only a continuance of pressure by the Legion would insure satisfaction on a lasting basis. Legion of Decency’s Aims At this point, it is well to recall just what the Legion intended to do. It had nothing to do with anything but the motion pictures. ' Other moral crusades could be carried on, but not by the Legion, ' which believed in first things first, and one thing at a time. It had nothing to do, itself, with the film as art. It did not advocate political censorship. It proclaimed that the responsibility for good pictures lay on the industry, and that it was the right of the public to hold it to that responsibility; it declined to shoulder that responsibility itself. If the industry should later show, after a , fair trial, that it could not censor itself, it stood ready to take whatever measures might be necessary. But it was a movement of public opinion, expressed in mass fashion, | and it believed that public opinion would prevail. Here also lay the reason why the Legion did not interest itself in any . proposal, though thousands were j made, to reform the industry by law, whether it be to forbid wholesale trade practices like block booking, or alliances of producer and exhibitor, or any other technical > matter. Legion Has Brought Clean Films It held that the making of pictures preceded all these things, and ! that good pictures are perfectly compatible with them. Experience ! had shown it that exhibitors will take the films that promise box- ! office returns, and even now go to i all lengths to refuse play dates to : pictures they have booked in a block, in order to secure others that 1 will pay, whether these are good or bad morally. If we stop the evil at its source, j reasoned the Legion, namely, at the production point, we will have j achieved our end. That end is simply and solely an even higher standard of morals in this form of popular entertainment. The results of this policy have j fairly well justified it, all things I considered. Previewing boards, which used to reject 40 per cent of all films, now find it hard, especially in very recent months, to find j 1 per cent that are entirely objec- i tionable. The political censor, boards have had their work reduced ■ almost to nothing. Moreover, the : artistic values of the films have in- ; creased; for the producers, not able ; now to use the cheap and nasty way I to secure a laugh or a thrill, were j forced to rely on legitimate methods. 1 One thing remains to do. The I producers themselves are not converted, nor is there any hope that thev will be. They will continue to travel the decent way as long as the pressure is on them. The real problem In Hollywood is the writer: in his brain originate the ideas that the Legion has combated. Drive out the indecent writer, and put the decent ones in his place: that is the next job for the Legion. BROADWAY PASTOR TO GIVE SPECIAL SERMONS The Rev. Millard to Conduct Series of Services. The Rev. Richard Marion Millard. Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church pastor, has announced a I series of special sermons for the; period preceding Pentecost. The sermon themes and dates are: May 5. “rhe Christian Alternative for Atheistic Communism;” May 12, “Is There an Adequate Substitute for True Love. Christian Marriage and a Happy Home?;” May 19. “The Responsibility for the New Wave of Intemperance;” May 26, “A Nobler Patriotism,” and June 2, “Reworking Christian Missions.”

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