Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1936 — Page 10

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LOS ANGELES' GLITTER HIDES TAWDRY FACTS City Is Crackpot Paradise, Stokes Says After Survey of Conditions. BY THOMAS L. STOKES LOS ANGELES. Feb. 25 Behold the Painted Lady of the Pacific Southwest—no longer of the Angels. She glitters across the boards, swishing her resplendent garments, tossing a coiffure like that of the reigning movie queen. But back in the wings are her old mother and father, conning the Townsend Plan hopefully, and a batch of wretched children who are fed and clothed only by the grace of a rich uncle off in Washington. Symbolized in this modern Babylon. with its gaudy grandeur and its moving picture megalomania, are ell the mad fever of America's predepression glamor and, at the same time, the ruin which swept down upon a careless and carefree people. Her beneficent sun tints the palaces of the rich which perch on her encircling mountains, plays upon the cardboard stage where young men and women make their gestures for thousands a week, warms a bit the hearts of former stock brokers, real estate salesmen and promoters who now bend over their vegetables in government relief gardens, smiles through the windows upon thousands of women, once favored with the good life, who now sew by the day to earn from the government enough to feed themselves. Go Back for Years All of this, and other causes which go back for years to places far away, account for this Crackpot Paradise where gullible thousands % grasp for every passing scheme and 'fad to the amusement—and occasional alarm—of fellow citizens elsewhere. This is the end of a trail which leads back 15 and 20 years to lowa, Kansas, Nebraska and other Midwest states when war prices drove up the value of farm lands and lots of older people sold out and retired, or left their farms to their children to operate, and came West to sit in the sun of southern California. Thousands of others who had annuities and investments on which they could live comfortably swelled the exodus, so that Los Angeles, only a village in 1870 of 5000 inhabitants, and just a small city of 102,000 in 1900, more than doubled in the decade from 1920 to 1930, from 576,000 to 1,233,000, to become the fifth city in size in the nation. Other Hordes Attracted Other hordes were attracted by the rising moving picture giant and, as the city flourished, it naturally drew the promoter type to feed upon tire fat pastures—oil and real estate salesmen, among others. Idleness and. perchance, the gentle sun ripened the innate religious instincts of the mid-western folks who came here and doubtless exaggerated that credulity w’hich so often has sent that region chasing off after economic will-o'-the-wisps. v In the days of prosperity the religious complex led them off after

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Spring, summer, or “what-you-may-call-it''—this weather we're having—may be a boon, benefit or cause for lusty cheers to “subzeroites,” but it's a big pain to Robert Birt. 6, of 827 S. West-st. He shows his dislike in the photo

Aimee Semple McPherson —w’ho still packs them in at Angelus Temple, incidentally. And those who had a little money to spare tried to make it bigger by investing in stocks of various kinds, principally oil, or in such enterprises as building and loan associations. \ Along came the depression. One huge building and loan association crumpled and carried away the savings of thousands. Oil stocks depreciated. Payments on the farm that had been sold back home stopped. Children who had been sending funds along could do so no longer. Sinclair Came First The old people and the young ones were ripe for saviors. They came along. Upton Sinclair was first with his EPIC—End Poverty in California—plan of production for use, which very nearly sent him to the Governor’s chair. Then came that benign old man, Dr. Francis E. Townsend, the Pied Piper who was going to give all the old folks S2OO a month, and started that long parade which began to wind outward from southern California and gradually moved across the Rocky Mountains and across the plains and prairies to terrify the citadels of capital in the East. Lots of Upton Sinclair’s EPICs have swarmed over to Doc Townsend. The novelist, for the time, is retired in his big house at Beverly Hills, in the movie colony, a mansion purchased for investment Lu: into which he had to move himself, from his Pasadena home, when he was unable to rent it. Downey Active Director Active director of the EPIC movemen is Sheridan Downey, EPIC candidate for Lieutenant Governor, who ran ahead of the novelist, and who now is demanding that the EPICs be represented on the Roosevelt delegation to the Philadelphia convention and threatening—though no one takes it seriously—to put out a slate of delegates of their own in the May primary. Dr. Townsend is ill in a Glendale sanitarium, but his movement gees right ahead. National headquarters have been

as he grimaces when his grandmother. Mrs. Stella Rogers, tries out the old home remedy of sulphur and molasses on his sudden attack of spring fever. “Grandma's” stock has gone to zero with her use of the sulphur antidote, Robert says.

transferred to Washington, right under Congress’ nose, but I found the former national headquarters now headquarters for the western division embracing 11 states, a busy place, with old folks in and out inquiring about club problems. When the depression hit Los Angeles it piled up the w’reckage into a problem which was one of the worst in the county because of the peculiar conditions here. At one time every third person in this area was on relief. Recently relief cases have tapered off somewhat. 50 Ter Cent White Collar Fifty per cent of those on relief here are white collar people, the highest proportion in the country. Naturally it was difficult to find jobs for them that didn’t smack of boondoggling. Eight thousand of this type now work the community gardens. Ten thousand women are on sewing projects. Army officers supervise the organization, which works directly with Harry Hopkins in Washington, and which has been commended generally for its efficiency. Typical of the half-prosperity, half-destitute state of the country, there are thousands on relief, and, on the other hand, there are other thousands who have money—to discover which you need only go out to Santa Anita race track any afternoon and look at the crowds which stretch as far as the eye can reach, and bet $50,000 and $60,000 on every race. 12 ASK FOfT IENIENCY Reformatory Inmates Send Pleas to Clemency Commission. Twelve long-term inmates of the State Reformatory, one serving a 25-year sentence for several South Bend robberies, sought leniency from the State Clemency Commission today. Allen "Warner, sentenced to 25 years in St. Joseph Circuit Court April 10, 1930, accused of participating in more than a score of crimes, was one of the petitioners.

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FORMER RAIL i WORKER DIES AT CITY HOME Harry G. Alexander, ill 7 Months, to Be Buried in Crown Hill. Funeral arrangements are being completed today for Harry G. Alexander, who died yesterday in his home, 1225 Churchman-av, after an I illness of seven months. The Rev. R. O. Mcßea, Edwin Ray M. E. Church | pastor, is to officiate. Burial is to be in Crown Hill. Mr. Alexander, who was 62, was city passenger agent of the Monon Railroad from 1903 to 1909 and district passenger agent from 1909 to 1914. He also was connected with the operative department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad several years. He had been engaged in the truck transport business recently | but was retired at the time of his death. A member of the Edwin Ray | Church, Mr. Alexander served on ! the board of stewards. He was a member of the Ancient Landmarks Lodge, F. & A. M. He had been a ! life-long resident of Indianapolis. Survivors are the widow; a brother, Frank Alexander of this | city; three sisters, Miss Alice Alexander, Indianapolis, Mrs. June I Sutherland, Morristown, and Mrs. Bert Elliott, Shelbyville. Mrs. Foltzenloger Dies Funeral arrangements are being made today for Mrs. Caroline Foltzenloger, who died yesterday in her home, 46 Palmer-st. She was 79. Survivors are three sons, William, Frank and Joseph Foltzenloger of Indianapolis, and five daughters, Miss Elizabeth Foltzenloger,. Mrs. George Scherrer, Mrs. Will Norris and Mrs. Ethel Callahan of Indianapolis and Mrs. Edward Mitchell of Chicago. Miller Rites Tomorrow Services for William J. Miller, who died yesterday in the Marion County Tuberculosis Hospital after an illnes of four years, are to be held tomorrow at 10:30 in the Harry W. Moore Funeral Home. Burial is to be in Memorial Park. Mr. Miller, who was 48, was a former musician for the Circle Theater. He is survived by Mrs. Dorothea Mercer, a daughter. Funeral Is Arranged Funeral services for Mrs. Helen M. McCormick, who died yesterday in her home, 2031 E. lOth-st, are to be held tomorrow at 3 in Shirley Brothers Central Chapel. Burial is to be in Crown Hill. She was 92. Survivors are a son, James F. McCormick, and a. daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Bleek, both of Indianapolis.

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Principal speaker at the Marion County Democratic Women’s Club at 8 tonight in the Claypool is to be former Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan (above).

LOWER PENSION AGE FAVOREDJW EAGLES Liberal Program for State Is Advocated. Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 25.—Hope that the old-age pension program scheduled to be considered at a special session of the Indiana Legislature will be as liberal as is possible under the Federal Social Security Act, was expressed today by Ray C. Brock, Kokomo, chairman of the old-age pension commission of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Mr. Brock declared the commission, which has campaigned since 1921 for a state pension system, favors 65 as the eligible age for pensions, rather than 70 as set by the state act passed in 1933. While the Federal act sets 70 as the starting age until 1940, Mr. Brock said its retention ■would operate to withhold aid from many deserving aged. “It is the hope of the Eagles that Indiana will adopt an old-age pension system that will give the fullest measure of benefit to the largest number possible within x the scope of the Federal law.” Hoosier Gets Post in East By United Press HARTFORD. Conn., Feb. 25. Kenneth R. Guyer, Evansville, lnd., has been named general manager of the Connecticut Milk Producers’ Association, succeeding Henry W. Fienemann. He has been manager of the Evansville Milk Producers’ Association since 1932.

WILENTZ MAY USE COURTS TO HALT REPRIEVE New Jersey Official Speeds Back From South to Chart Action. By United Press TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 25. Amandus Hochmuth, octogenarian Franco-Prussian war veteran, stopped showling snow in front of his Hopewell (N. J.) home today long enough to say that he could and would identify Bruno Richard Hauptmann again as the man he saw with a ladder near the Lindbergh estate before the kidnaping. “I identifed Hauptmann at the fHal and I am prepared to do so again at any time or place,” Hochmuth said. TRENTON. N. J., Feb. 25.—Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz, speeding back from Florida, will go to the courts, if necessary, to prevent another reprieve for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, it was reported today. The prosecutor was expected here late today. Soon after his arrival he is to confer with aids to chart a defense against attacks on important witnesses by Gov. Harold G. Hoffman. Mr. Wilentz will find the Hauptmann situation radically changed since he went south in January. He believed then that Gov. Hoffman would convince himself during the period of reprieve granted Hauptmann, that the case had been solved. Instead of becoming convinced Gov. Hoffman has flatly accused Millard Whited, identification witness, of lying, has hinted that he may ask Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon to return to explain alleged discrepancies in his testimony, and expressed skepticism about the veracity of still another identification w-itness. The Whited case may reach a A CLEAR COMPLEXION Ruddy cheeks—sparkling eyes—most women can have. Dr. F. M. Edwards for 20 years treated scores of women who suffered from constipation. During these years he gave his patients a substitute for calomel made of a few well-known vegetable ingredients, naming them Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets. Knoiv them by their olive color. These tablets are wonder-workers on the bowols, causing a normal action, carrying off the waste and poisonous matter in one’s system. If yon have a pale face, sallow look, dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, headaches, a listless, no-good feeling, all out. of sorts, inactive bowels, take one or two of Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets at night for a week and note the pleasing results. Thousands of women and men take Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets —now and (hen—to keep fit. 15c, 30c and 60c.— Advertisement.

t Hunterdon County grand Jury. Should the Sourland mountaineer be found guilty of perjury, the validity of all tne case against Hauptman would be in doubt. It was on

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the strength of Whited's testimony that he saw Hauptmann in the vicinity of the Lindbergh estate that Hauptmann was extradited from New York to New Jersey for trial.