Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1938 — Page 11
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Wylie Scenario Prices Go Up After 'Vivacious Lady’ Registers.
By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29.—There is a good market for screenable stories now, because many of the studios fired scores of writers during the recent panic and now find themselves facing a scenario famine in the midst of an unprecedented boom in production. You'd think that a story suitable
for a movie would have a fairly predictable valued based on its own quality, its adaptability for certain stars, its authorship and the cur-
rent demand for yarns... But it] -doesn’t work out that way, and heres
is an example of the sort of judgment that makes Hollywood a gilded booby-hatch: An agent was handling a batch of stories by I. A. R. Wylie. Most of them were pretty old; some were trivial tales retrieved from the bottom of the trunk; several were obviously unsuitable for screen adaptation. So the agent lumped all 18 of them and tried to peddle the portfolio for a paltry $25,000.
Hit Raises Price
But producers weren’t interested. They pointed out that although
Miss Wylie had written several
money-makers, she hadn't been doing much lately. The price dwindled until the stories finally were offered for $9000, only $500 apiece. Still no takers. Eventually RKO’s Pandro Berman selected one of the stories and offered tq buy it alone. The deal was made and the yarn became the “Vivacious Lady.” Now the remaining 17 stories are being sold separately, for from $10,000 to $25,000 each. Going like hotcakes, too three Wylie originals already are in production at other studios. Quite often a studio will spend a fortune for a story, and another fortune for its preparation into a screen play, and the result will be box office poison. Numerous scenarios are labored over by so many high-priced writers
. that the studies refuse to reveal
the ludicrous lists. Good Practice
A young man named William Ludwig is a junior writer at M-G-M. A junior writer is a sort of apprentice, and such beginners are paid $35 a week because they are not supposed to be very bright. Well, this Ludwig was handed an old story that was kicking arcund the lot and was told to practice writing a scenario. He practiced for three weeks; at a total cost to his studio of $105, and the result was the finished script of “Love Finds Andy Hardy,” a fine, human, medium-priced picture which will make more money than-some epics I could name. Anybody who finds such incidents too confusing can sympathize with Sam Pokrass, a Russian composer who has had a hard time understanding Hollywood's language and customs. After arriving here he was installed in a bungalow office and left there for months without anybody coming near him. He felt sure that somebody was aware of his existence because each week there was a handsome paycheck at the cashier’s cage.
‘Gag It in Week’
One day the lonely composer was delighted to see a young man, sprinting down the walk with a briefcase, turn in at his door. The caller slapped down a script, panted; “Gag it up—the boss has got to have it in a week!” and dashed out again. Pokrass let the script lie there. He could find no place in it to write any music. Ten days later the fleet secretary, still on the run, came in again. He saw the script on the desk and said, “Now listen!—the oid man says he has positively got to have this gagged up by one more week, or the picture will be held up and we’ll all get fired and—" “But thees ees not—I am not—” sputtered Pokrass. But the fellow was gone again, muttering about alibis. The musician now had something to compose. He composed a
= peech and a plan of action, and ; - went over and over them. A week
later, when the galloping secretary came in, Pokrass beat him to the punch. He leaped up, held out the script, and screamed, ‘“Vait!” The visitor looked startled, but he vaited. “I — am — not — words — writer,” said the composer. “I—write —moosic.” “My God!” man. low!"
REST IS ORDERED FOR MARY ASTOR
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29 (U. P.) — Mary Astor, injured in a fall from a horse, was instructed to remain in a wheel chair for the next two weeks after leaving Santa Monica Hospital. The picture “Listen, Darling,” on which the actress is working with Freddie Bartholomew, is being held up pending her recovery.
wailed the young “I'm in the wrong bunga-
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
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“} Am the Law.” with Edward G Robinson. Ie oe O’Neill. John Beal, at 12:13, 2:47. 5:21, 7:55 and 10:00.
“Block-Heads.”” with urel and Hardy. at 11:00, 1:44, ¢: 8 8:52 and
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Horace Heidt and Hi t oi oe at 12:40, 2:55, ae and
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LAUTNER SEEKS HIGHER| PUBLIC INTEREST IN OPERA |
By JAMES When Joseph Lautner arrived in Indianapolis head the Jordan Conservatory’ new opera department, he included no sacred operatic cows in his baggage. Championing opera in English, believing that many classics of the standard repertory could be cut to advantage, and deploring the undue
: | social aspect of this musical form,
he is interested primarily in developing both voices and public interest in his new post. The young American opera singer today is confronted with the necessity of jumping from the sandlots of the voice studio to the big leagues of the Metropolitan or Chicago City opera. At present there is little chance for seasoning. The growth of opera departments in the country’s music schools, Mr. Lautner believes, will help to remedy this deficiency.
Sang in Berlin Volksoper
It was as a singer in the Berlin Volksoper that Mr. Lautner became enthusiastic about opera in the vernacular. °
“I used to turn thumbs down on opera in English,” he said. “But in Germany all are done in German. Although I knew the works in the original language, the change soon seemed perfectly natural and satisfactory. And it is a much better arrangement for the general public.” Thus far, opera in English has been handicapped by some poor translations, he thinks, but he spoke
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THRASHER with enthusiasm of the English version of the Wagner “Ring” cycle, which Fritz Mahler showed him recently. This was the winner of a nationwide competition, and is to be used by the Metropolitan next summer at the New York World's Fair. Mr. Lautner has a new slant on -the perennial problem of “Will we have opera in the movies?”
Favors Opera in Movies
“Though I know nothing of Hollywood’s production policy,” he said, “I have often wondered why the movies haven't taken opera and done with it what they can do so easily; that is, give the acting parts to attractive stars (such as you seldom see on the opera stage) and let the singing be done by someone else.” During Mr. Lautner’s two seasons with the Volksoper, he sang in most of the Mozart operas produced there and did the “lighter” Wagnerian roles, Lohengrin, Tannaheuser and Siegmund. “I wasn’t driven out of Germany,” he remarked. “But I saw Mr. Hitler’s handwriting on the wall, so I did not go back last year.” He comes to the local conservatory after a year on the Westminster Choir School faculty at Princeton, N. J. He has established his home at 151 W. 47th St. Mrs. Lautner, a composition student of Schoenberg; also will be a member of the Jordan teaching staff the coming
year.
IN NEW YORK —s, store ross
Musical Hits Likely for New Broadway Season; World's Fair to Add Attractions.
EW YORK, Aug. 29.—Baseball writers and reporters through the years have been of the opinion that the team which leads the field on Juiy 4 is the one which will romp home the gonfalon winner when September rolls around. The theater has certain similar beliefs. The late Charles Dillingham, for instance, always said that any season which promised at least 10 good musical shows was certain to be an all-around excellent one. And as sultry August is giving 'way before the breezier winds of September, perhaps. it’s time to check upon the Broadway show shops and determine what sort of a fall and winter Manhattan holds
forth. N USICALS? The racks are A. bulging with relevant items. Lew Leslie promises an edition of “Blackbirds.” And most of us with fond memories’ of Adelaide Hall and the roundelay, “I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby” are looking forward to the first night. Rodgers and Hart, prolific tunesmiths, will invade the field with two vehicles, as if their current “I Married An Angel” were not enough. They are preparing a modern version of Shakespeare’s “Comedy of
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Errors” for George Abbott and will!
write a show for Beatrice Lillie. Max Gordon will break the barrier with “Sing Out the News” and Dwight Wiman will be represented by an Arthur Schwartz opus tentatively titled “Swing to the Left.” William Gaxton and Victor Moore, grand comedy team, will be re-
RKO to Release
18 Disney Films
Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29.—For the 1938-39 season, RKO Radio will release 18 Walt Disney short features in Technicolor. Six of these will be special attractions. First of this group, “The Brave Little Tailor,” to be released in September, will be a Dishey “special” based on the fairy tale by the Grimm Brothers, authors of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” The others are “Farmyard Symphony,” “Donald’s Golf Game,” “Ferdinand the Bull, “Merbabies” “Mother Goose Goes Hollywood,” “Donald’s Lucky Day,” “Society Dog Show,” “The Practical Pig,” “The Hockey Champ,” “The Ugly Duckling,” “Goofy and Wilbur,” “Donald’s Cousin Gun,” “The Beach Picnic,” “Sea Scouts,” “The Autograph Hound,” “Donald’s Penguin” and “The Painter.” Thirteen March of Time presentations will again be Sobol by
| RKO radio. Produced by the pub-| “lishers of Life, Time and Fortune it
is being shown in 11,072 theatres and released in English, - French and
united under Vinton Freedley’s banner in a musical version of “Clear All Wires.” Walter Huston in the Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill effort, “Knickerbocker Holiday,” Cole Porter's “You Never Know” and a Negro revue with a score by Duke Ellington—all these loom as potential hits. Even Uncle Sam, spurred by the fitful competition, will swing into fall action with an extravaganza called “Sing for Your Supper.” Add a possible successful termination of a deal whereby the Martin Beck Theater will house the D’Oyley Carte Gilbert and Sullivan company, a puppet revue entitled “It’s a Small World” and the Theater Arts Committee sponsorship of the Revue TAC six nights weekly in a Broadway auditorium and you have an appetizing menu indeed.
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UT that isn’t all. Billy Rose's vaudeville bills at his Casa
the Rialto and in the 50s, the World's Fair, live attractions on the stages of Paramount, State, Music Hall, Strand and the Capitol, the last two recent additions, all will
supplement the regular stage attractions in New York town. The list: of musical shows would indicate that singing and dancing performers are once more -available for the hiring. Two years ago, the Broadway showmen were defending the paucity of musical shows by explaining that suitable talent was wasting its fragrance on the desert air of Palm Springs some three thousand miles from Shubert Alley and Sardi’s. But there has been a de-emphasis of musical films and the trek of such performers is back to the local scene. Which is a reason for such an imposing schedule for this fall.
New Releases
Stress Romance.
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29 (U. P.).— The movie industry cited the 94 pictures to be released before Nov. 1 as evidence today that the screen is getting away from crime portrayals and returning to homely, ‘fomantic themes. ° A joint statement from the studios, in connection with the motion pictures’ “greatest year” campaign, said “comedy-drama” and comedy are being emphasized. Of the 94 pictures to be put on the screens during the remainder of August, September and October, there will be 22 comedy-dramas, 17 comedies, 13 crime stories, seven musicales, six dramas, five mysteries, five spectacle dramas, four
melodramas, four westerns, four musical dramas, four action dramas
and three strictly “family pictures.” |
May | Yohe,
British veteran-of the Boer War and
{of England and America.
misery.”
‘STORM BLOWS OUT:
Manana, the other night clubs on
| week-long convention here. - The
‘Madcap’ of 90s, Is Dead
Once. King's Friend, but Worked Recently as WPA Clerk.
BOSTON, Aug. 29 (U. P.)—To the humble Back Bay apartment of a $16.50-a-week WPA clerk today came cablegrams and telegrams of condolence from persons the world over who remembered her as May Yohe, madcap of the Gay Nineties
and once owner of the ill-omened but coveted Hope diamond.
Funeral services for Miss Yohe, |
who died of heart disease yesterday, will be held Wednesday at a Roxbury funeral parlor, followed by cremation.
“I don’t know what I'll do with |-
the ashes,” said her third and last husband, Capt. John - A. Smuts,
nephew of the famed Gen. Jan Christiaan Smuts of the Boer army. Near the death bed of the 72-year-old woman who once likened her life to a roller-coaster, rested the choice possession of her late years of obscurity. It was a photograph of a bearded man who’ had inscribed to “To May, 1898,” and signed it “Edward.” King Edward
VII, whe entertained May at dinner |
when he was Prince of Wales and she was the musical comedy favori of London, Paris and New Yofk, had given it to her.
Figured in ‘Scandal Then May was Lady Hope, bride of Lord Francis Hope, wearer of the 44-karat Hope diamond, vivaciously beautiful and unconventional, toast- | ed in all the pleasure spots of two continents for her wit, charm and daring. Soon afterward society was scandalized. Lady Hope eloped with the handsome, dashing Capt. Putnam Bradley Strong, son of a former mayor of New York, and in 10 years she threw away a fortune in jewels in a vain effort to hold his love. She married Capt. Strong in 1902, divorced him in 1910, and in 1914 married Capt. John A. Smuts. The tragedies of her life were ascribed from time to time to the voodooed Hope diamond which she wore only twice, but the reckless, headlong spirit which won her the sobriquet “Madcap May” could have accounted for them.
Marriage Caused Furor
She was 25 when she dropped her role of stage favorite to marry, in 1894, Lord Hope, heir to the Dukedom of Newcastle. This caused a furor in the halls of Deepdene, ancestral English home presided over traditionally by ladies born to title.
But it was only a taste of the uproar that May brought to British society with her escapades. Edward, then Prince of Wales, called her “Maizie, darling.” Their close friendship dithered the gossips
Commenting With a pun once on her first two husbands, she said: “At first there was Hope; after that there was a strong chance of
When Capt. Strong left her, May's fortune was $2.30. In Portland, Ore. in 1910, she divorced him and married Capt. Smuts in what appeared to be the one great love match of her career. Poverty, hard manual work and illness were unable to shake them apart. They lived in a cheap Boston lodging house.
Citizenship Restored
In 1924 Capt. Smuts was found wounded in their rooms. Police questioned May but Smuts insisted it was an accident which occurred while he was cleaning his gun. This spring Capt. Smuts was stricken with arthritis and May applied for a WPA job. She learned then that. though born in Bethle-
hem, Pa., she had lost her citizen- | whee
ship through marriage to the Briton. In April the aging woman was restored to citizenship and assigned to a WPA project in which vital statistics of the city were transferred from ancient ledgers to card catalogs. “It’s fascinating work and I'm glorying in it,” she had said. “I'm happier than ever before and proud as Lucifer of my job.”
TEXAS UNSCATHED
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Aug. 20 (U. P.) .—A Gulf storm which threatened. for a time to cause serious damage to Texas coastal towns was ‘blowing itself out in the mountainous interior of Mexico today.
Only one town, Victoria, capital of | ;
the Mexican State of Tamaulipas, received the full fury of the storm.
Tropical winds and torrents of rain | R
struck there yesterday, cutting off all communications. No word had been received since the storm struck, but weather authorities believed that the wind was not of sufficient
force to have caused serious property Monroe
damage or loss of life.
OFFICERS NAMED BY PILGRIM HOLINESS
FRANKFORT, Aug. 29 (U. P) — The Rev. Area Mon was elected superintendent of the Indiana district of Pilgrim Holiness at the close of the denomination’s
Rey. George Huff, was chosen assistant superintendent, the Rev. F. B. Dunn, secretary, and the Rev. E. V. Holt, ‘treasurer,
“HE KNOWS TOMORROW”
SIR EDWARDS | fl
| CURTAIN FALLS ON EXCITING LIFE
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Once an international footlight favorite, May Yohe, more recently a $1650 a week WPA clerk, was dead today in her small apartment in Back Bay, Boston. At top the ‘Madcap of the Nineties’ is seen in
contrasting photos of earlier days.
Couneil Renews Budget Study; C. of C. Organ Demands Cuts
City Councilmen were to meet again this afternoon to resume their review of the 1939 Municipal budget proposals, which would require an
11-cent increase in the tax rate. County Councilmen were expected to meet early this week to begin their second study of the proposed county budget, preparatory to making the “substantial slashes” they promised after 500 taxpayers protested the proposed 12-cent county tax levy at a public hearing Friday. Meanwhile, the need for budget “reductions, instead of increases,” was discussed in an article carried in Activities, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce publication, issued today.
Seek Reduction Method
The statement; in part, follows: ~ “Confronted with demands for increases in budgets and tax rates that would carry the total 1939 property tax far beyond the 1937 record-breaking $3.20, officers, directors, committee members and staff of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce are concentrating dur-
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ing the next two months on not only preventing any increase, but effecting an actual reduction, if acceptable ways to that end can be found. “The Ciyic Affairs Committee and board of directors at recent meetings directed that the utmost effort be made to accomplish all reasonable reductions in the budget, with the objective of bringing about a decrease instead of an increase in the tax levy, to the largest extent reasonable. “Staff and committee members are attending all sessions of the budget-making and _tax-levying bodies, including conferences of the City and County Councils. They will participate fully in sessions of the County Board of Tax Adjustment, which, starting Sept. 12, must consider all budgets and rates within the County, and attempt to bring them within the legislative limits.”
STATE DEATHS
RSON—Mrs. Amilda
ANDE ers. Survivors: Daughter. Mrs. Mau
band.
Harry: brother Gainey
Frank; son, ARGO S—Mrs. Lacinds Eckert. 79. Survivors: Husband. Joh CHRISNEY—Mrs. ah P. Patme ore, Survivors: Husband, A. S. Patm : daughMrs. Louetta Beasley: step AEUBhLorS, Mrs. Addie Bahn, Mrs. Cleo der and Mrs. Belle Bender; stepsons, Wendell and
Cecil Patmore UMBUS—David B. age, 36. Survivors: Wife, Mrs. Irma Russell, Clarence, Chester, rs, Mrs. thur McLa! ward Brixon, Mrs. Harry Mrs. Mary Worley. 74. Survives: band, James E.; espie; sons, Behers, Levi, Robert Rush. CYNTHIANA—Mrs. Isola May Drabing, 48. Survivors: Husband, Andy: daughter, | § Mrs. Alma Kerns. DELPHI--Claude Wall, 62. wi Marie; brother, Charles. DENVER—Mrs. Marie Elizabeth Earhart, 177. Survivors: Hush nd, Abner: sons. Gharles V. and John C.: daughts Ethel hat, ae Charles, ames ne Bonaldaen Ne Jane Wilson.
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DINBURG—Samuel 3. Murphy, 77. SurVie Daughters: er . Haze srong and Mrs. Bess kers
Sons. Clifford and Theodore: brother James; sisters, Mrs. Renie Bills.
pln, Mrs. Ed-
Hus-
orley; James,
Lg Joshua,
Survivors:
ELEBART Frank Mott. 65. Survivors: Wife, Agnes n, - Alva; daughter, Mrs. Eldridge Dilis; SISters, Mrs. Nellie Chandler and Mrs. Tglias Se Brock. ry B. Veatch, 65. Surson, Henry Jr.; 3s er, Mrs. Mary Kate DeBruler.
RL our & Hilliard, . ro . ite: anche; father and stepmother. Mrs, els Hilliard; sister, Mrs. Edith eeler.
. Josephine Leimgruber. 75. Survivors® Sons, Louis and Joseph; daughter. Miss Marie Leimgruber. Thomas A. Swift, 76. Survivors: Wife, Mary; son, William; brother; Sam; sister, Mrs. Jane Colclouch. — Emma PF. Eikenberry.- 80. Sea luiband, ® David: sister urs. Almira Myers: pchildren, Gertrude sve, Susie Newland. and Galen B. Eik-
en FOWLER—John H. Edris, 85. Survivors: Jo and Toi daughter, Mrs.
Sons, Robert Nels: Nelson Ernest E ‘Baldwin, 52. Survivors: Wife, Effie; sons. Edward, Harold and Emory,
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HAMMOND-—Mrs. Frieda .Schischka % Survivors: Husband, Albert: sons, Albe and Ernst; dau hiss Mrs. Frieda Se dorf and Miss e Schischka; brother,
Au ust Grotstruc ot Survivor: Daughter,
Willard, 3s. Mrs. Ne Mudr JEFFERS ONVILLE—Joh T. uvyons, 80. BuryIvors: Sons, Theodore and Walter. YETTE--Grant I Browneller, 74. SurI Mrs. W. E. McCleary and . Fannie Craig; half-brother, . 8
LAFONTAINE—Garl B. Sailors, 64. Survivors: Wife, Ada; daughter, Mrs. Thelma
EVAN vivors: brother, Ne
LAF. vharA Mrs. Bro
Seis PORTE—MTrs. anne J. Parker, ohn; dau
Hisham, Mrs. ares
eese, Rov, Owen, John ter, Mrs. il
Bailey Godden; haif-brothers, Y john and Thom: Gooden; Daj f-aiss er, Mrs. Joseph Linnell.
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¢o LOGAN SPORT—Samuel LeRoy Cotner, RN Wife, 3 OS ot Ham, Jo Walter Cotner: Sisters. Minnie Vernon, ma Vernon Anna Banta. HB Big P.
‘LOGANS, Survivors: Daughter, Mrs. ats "Gang:
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ters, Mrs. Sarah |
P LAREL wt HARRY
loff; son, Ore Gotshall; granddaughter, velyn Watts: brother. Grant Gotshall. ura L. SeMilion 48. Survivors: Wife, . Hazel McMillen: son, Gerald McMillen sisters, Spencer. Mrs Nellie Fatiey and ‘Mary MeM len; brother, Dale McMillen
rs. Elizabeth Gepoinger, 69. Survive Brother, John Bruck: uisters, Mrs. Fl . Mrs. Maggie Sprowl and
Survivors: Brother, cliff.
Vv: . Huls, D. Huls: sister, ¥na
MEXICO—William PF. Rae sh, 76. Survivors: Wife, Mrs. Minnie Wolfe Nash: two sons, Perry and Roy; daughtet, Mrs. lu - Umbarge brother, P, sisters, Mre. Artie Romack and Mrs. Della
MONTICELLO—Lahon Hildebrand, 83. Survivors: Daug! Ve Mrs. Carl ster; TS.
h ._ Otto; - sister, Minerva Girard; brother, Lorenzo VERNON—Mrs. Sarah E. Cham3: Husban Henry:
Io Pierpont; sons, Bur-
E. Hert, 01
GrC ne ' daughters, White and Mrs. Esther Wagner,
ROACHDALE—Albert J. Elless, 74. vivors: Side, Sarah; daughter, Nts. svivia Leach: son, George.
VINCENNES..Georg Cullison, 82. Survivors: Wife, i ' daughter, Mrs. Dl Stackhouse: brothers, Sam, Frank
WALTON—Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Bechdol, 69. Survivors: Husband, i Bechdol: daughters. Mrs. Eva Cunn ham, Mrs. e eav McDaniel; ers. Henry a and 3 Alf Lina Wean BROKEN NECK UNNOTICED CADIZ, O., Aug. 29 (U. P.).—After an automobile accident & week ago, hospital physicians took a look at Edward Turkal, and pronounced him unhurt, but kept for treatment the two companions who had been
with him in the wreck. Yesterday, Mr. Turkal’s neck pained him and
red Wean: ator, Miss
| he went back to the hospital. Doc-.
tors found it had been broken and kept him there to wear a cast for
“BLOCK-HEADS"
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E. H. DARRACH, REALTY FIRM FOUNDER, DEAD
Funeral Services Tomorrow For Jefferson Caylor, Church Leader.
Eugene Haslet Darrach, 4409 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis businessman and civic leader who died Saturday at Methodist Hospital, is to be buried at Crown Hill tomorrow following funeral services at 4 p. m. at the Flanner & Buchanan Mor-
‘tuary. He was 72.
Born in Napoleon, Ripley County, Mr. Darrach was president of the Darrach Co. real estate and investment firm. He attended public schools in Warren Township, Marion County, and ‘Butler University, Mr. Darrach had been ill about 10 days. He was a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Sons of the American Revolution,
Columbia Club, Miami Beach, Fla,
Chamber of Commerce, the Committee of One Hundred of Miami Beach and the ‘Indianapolis and Miami Beach Real Estate Boards.
He was founder and later president of the Interstate Car Co. here, an industry which manufactured freight car castings.
After leaving school, Mr. Darrach was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1881 until 1884, when he entered the service of the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad at Lincoln, Neb. He was employed by the Kansas City, Ft. Scott & Memphis Railway at Kansas City from 1888 until 1891.
He was superintendent eof car Service for the North West Dispatch Co. at Detroit and Minneapolis from 1893 to 1894. In 1895 he was appointed manager of the Commerce Dispatch Line and held that post four years.
Before organizing the Interstate Car Co., Mr. Darrach founded the
Special Freight Dispatch Car Lines | ca
in Indianapolis in 1899 and served as manager until 1902.
Mr. Darrach had served as president of the Darrach Co. since he founded the firm in 1922. At the time of his death he was a director of the Indiana National Bank and a governor of the Indianapolis Board of Trade. Survivors are the wife, Mrs. Mary M. Darrach; a brother, Charles S. Darrach, Los Angeles, and a niece, Miss Mary Louise Darrach of Washington,
JEFFERSON CAYLOR, 108 E. 13th St, who died yesterday at Methodist Hospital, is to be buried at Crown Hill tomorrow following funeral services at 2:30 p. m. at the Central Avenue M. E. Church. He was 90. : Mr. Caylor was known as the “dean of laymen” of the Central Church, having served as a board member since 1879 and as treasurer for 43 years. Mr. Caylor also served more than 50 years as head usher. Born on a farm where Irvington now stands, Mr. Caylor was for many years a salesman for the Crowder-Cooper Shoe Co. and later was a representative of the General Box Co. Survivors are a grandson, William Floyd Wiggins, Indianapolis, and two great-grandchildren. .
MISS VIRGINIA JUNE EBERT, 326 S. Roena Ave. who died Friday at the Sunnyside Sanatorium, is to be buried at Plainfield today following funeral services at 2 p. m. at the Blackwell Funeral Home. She was 22. Born in Virginia, Miss Ebert was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Ebert and had been a resident of Indianapolis since she was 3 months old. She had ‘been i about three years. Survivors besides the parents are a sister, Mrs. Evelyn Davis, Indianapolis; five brothers, George Ebert, Bloomington, and Berl Ebert, William Ebert, Ronald Ebert and Albert Ebert, Indianapolis.
MRS. CLARINDA ELY, 928 W. 30th St., Indianapolis resident for 50 years, who died yesterday after six weeks’ illness, is to be buried at Crown Hill tomorrow following funeral services at 10 a. m. at the
Hisey & Titus Mortuary. She was “74.
Born in Cameltown, Mich., she: was. a resident of Saranac, Mich, until her marriage to Elmer H. Ely in 1885. Mr. Ely died 12 years ago. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Charles F. Coffin Jr, and Miss Vivian B. Ely, Washington High School mathematics department head, both of Indianapolis; a broth er, Dennis Kelly, Marshall, and two sisters, Mrs. Lottie Walling= ton, Saranac, and Mrs. Claud Frace, Ironwood, Mich. "CHARLES A. MACHEIT, lifelong resident of Indianapolis who died Saturday at his home, 2918
‘Broadway, is to be buried at Crown
Hill Cemetery today following funeral services at 2 p. m. at the Hisey & Titus Mortuary. He was 73. Mr. Machett formerly was a sales man for the Van Camp Hardware & Iron Co. and later for the Chape-man-Price Steel Co. Survivors are the wife, Mrs. Gene= vieve Mansfield Machett; a son, Clarence E. Machett; a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Walters, and a granddaughter, Miss Patricia Wal« ters, all of Indianapolis.
EASTON FACES DEATH IN ELECTRIC CHAIR
MICHIGAN CITY, Aug. 29 (U, P.)—A sullen North Dakota youth who left the farm for a crime cae reer, today faced death in the Ine diana State Prison electric chair Oct. 21.
A jury returned a first degree murder verdict late Saturday against Orelle Easton, 25, Valley City, N. D., for the slaying of State Policeman Ray Dixon, and Judge Russell Smith immediately pronounced sentence. ‘The jury deliberated two hours and eight minutes. The defense plea of insanity was offset by testi mony of a three-man sanity come mission. The experts termed Orelle
A Orelle had claimed that his brother Clarence, 27, had shot Patrolman Dixon near Laporte last June as the trooper approached their stalled automobile. The state's witnesses testified, however, that Orelle had done the shooting. larence was killed and Orelle tured by a posse the following Say in a farmyard near De Selm,
WOMAN IS ‘DOUBLE’ FOR MRS. ROOSEVELT,
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29 (U. P). —Mrs. Ralph H. Williams is a “double” for the First Lady. Mrs. Williams, whose birthday is Jan. 30, the same as President ° Roosevelt's, resembles Mrs. Roosevelt so closely that an auctioneer who once sold a chair to her announced with pride that he had just sold it to “Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.” In features, complexion and mannerisms, Mrs. Williams is a “dead ringer” for the first lady, but she is about 20 years her junior.
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