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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23
DENIES LOBBY CHARGE
Senator HILBERT Never Represented
Insurance Scraps, He Says.

By United Press
PROVIDENCE, r. T., March 23.-
Senator Felix Hebert CRep., r. T.,
today denied charges by Senator
Alben w. Barley Dem, KY,
that he had been a lobbyist for in
surance companies before legisla-
tive bodies.
Smyrna times., 1931-10-21

dence near this place for some
weeks past, is now on the mend
and hopes are entertained for his
final recovery, although during the
greater part of last week the
chances seemed very much against
him.
The new street spoken of last
week has taken form. Two routes
for it were surveyed by Mr.. Rob
erts, In presence of Messrs. Corbit
Williams, Townsend, Ferguson and
Vandyke, the committee appointed
by the court for the purpose. They
were here two days but have come
to no conclusion, a drawing of
both routes is to be made and a
decision decided upon by the com
mittee one day next week.
The younger portion of the com
mun1ty had quite lively time last
Thursday evening. 1t was occa-
stoned by the marriage of Mr..
George V. Anderson, of Whining
ton, to Miss Josephine Daniels of
this place, daughter of the Mr..
Daniels spoken of in my last from
here. They were stopping with
Mr.. II. H. Lee, whose wife is a sis
ter to the bride. After the sere-
made, Mr.. Lee threw open his
doors, and the way the eatables
flew, was as the darkey said "a
caution to de white foxes" they
remained until the wee small hours
before they took their departure.
Professor David Quimby is to
start a singing school here on We'd
nesday evening, which from ap-
pearances promises to be a sue
cess.
The Assistant State Superinten-
dent Mr.. H. c. Carpenter, was in
town last Wednesday, to visit the
school. He found it in session
with 63 scholars on the roll, with
an average attendance of about so
there being AZ there that day.
Presiding Elder Martindale. was
in town today, the guest of Mr.. L.
w. Lattimus.
Mr.. Walter Colt, also of your
town was here TODAY.
Smyrna times., 1931-10-21
DON'T BE A "ROAD HOG"
Delaware Safety Council Gives Ad-
vice for Driving on Highway

If it were possible for Safety
Sally" to interview every Delaware
automobilist and innumerate the
number of accidents caused by the
road hog, hogging the road, this
selfish and unfair practice would
be practically eliminated. Some
motorists forget that they have
just claim on the middle of the
road. Drive as far to the right as
conditions permit Where the road
is wide enough for two lines of cars
each way, if you want to drive
slowly, keep over to the right side.
Never cross the center line of a
road to pass cars on the above
mentioned type of highway. IF
the highway is only wide enough
for one car each way never cross
the center line unless you have
clear visible road for at least two
hundred feet. Cheating at cards
comes pretty low down on our So
cial scale. Yet cheating in traffic
IS often upheld as clever. The
Delaware Safety Council believes
if cheating in traffic were held as
questionable as cheating at cards
our traffic troubles would be just
about over. Any operator who
loses his temper, who becomes
sulky, or is abnormal from any
one of many causes is unfit to
drive because his vehicle provides
a medium of expression for his
personality. If that personality is
upset he is bound to make trouble
for himself and others generally
for both. Observe the golden rule
Always Be Considerate of 9th
ers".
Smyrna times., 1931-10-21
QUIET CEREMONY, STAFFORD
Miss Irene f. Rhea Becomes Bride
of Norman w. Evans

Miss Irene Flowers Rhea, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Orville Dorane
Rhea, and Norman w. Evans, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Vaughn S Evans,
of Laurel, were married at 10
o'clock Thursday morning at the
home Of the brides parents by the
Rev. Lee Elliott, pastor Of Mt
Pleasant NJ P. Church. The we'd
ding was attended only by the
members of the immediate famil-
les The bride was attended by
her sister, Miss Rosena Brown
Rhea, of Seaford, as maid of hon
or. Albert Evans, of Laurel, broth
er of the bridegroom, was best
man The bride is a graduate of
the Seaford high school. The
bridegroom is graduate Of the
Laurel high school, They left inn
mediately following the ceremony
on a motor trip to Boston and
other New England cities. A we'd
ding breakfast was served They
will reside at Vienna, Md, where
the bridegroom is an electrical en-
gineer on the plant of the Eastern
Shore Public Service Company
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BIG BOAT RUNS AGROUND
Steamer on Way to Take Passeng.
ers Off Green Liner Senator

The Green Line freighter and
passenger ship, Senator, plying be-
tween Baltimore and Philadelphia,
ran aground on the new dyke be-
ing constructed near Pea Patch
Island in the Delaware river below
New Castle early Saturday morn
ing. 1t is expected the ship will
float early this week. Captain r.
B. Wright got in communication
with the authorities of the COM
pany and another boat went and
took off the cargo and few pas
sengers from the Senator. Cap
tain Wright said he misjudged the
river lights. No one was injured.
The Senator is not in danger. The
freighter Robin Goodfellow of the
Sea Shipping Co., is aground on
the Delaware shore within sight of
Senator. The Goodfellow went
ashore Wednesday morning and
may have to be dredged out.
Smyrna times., 1931-10-21
SMYRNA MEN IN ACCIDENT
J.F'rank Dealxyne and William Col
lins Fall With Pole at MiddIetoyn

While engaged in stringing wires
on an electric light pole at Middle
town, Tuesday morning, of last
week, ]. Frank Deakyne, superin-
tendent of the Middletown electric
light plant, and Mr.. William Col
Inns of Smyrna, met with painful
accident. Both Mr.. Deakyne and
Mr.. Collins We're strapped to pole
on Catherine street engaged in
working on the wires, when the
pole broke at the ground end, and
threw them both to the street with
it. They could not remove their
safety belts so that they could
jump, and in the fall Mr.. Deakyne
received broken right ankle, and
Mr.. Collins suffered broken bone
in the right heel. Both were re-
moved to the hospital of DR.. j. D.
Niles, where ex-rays were taken,
and the broken bones set, and at
this writing they are resting COM
fortably.
Smyrna times., 1931-10-21
HIGHWAY COMMISSION ASKS
BIDS FOR HIGHWAY WORK
TO Do EXTRA ROAD BUILD
ING TO AID UNEMPLOYED
Bids for Eleven Sections of Road
Opened November 10, Including
Smyrna Clayton Sidewalk

The State Highway Commission
in order to furnish work during
the Fall and Winter and thus re-
lieve the unemployment problem,
has advertised for additional bids
for road work in all three counties
of the State which will keep en-
ployment the greater part of the
Winter. The bids for the IL con
tracts advertised to De opened at
Dover November 10 follow: Con
tract 178, Dagsbcro- -Shafton, Sus-
sex County, grading 5.57 miles;
Contract 1T, Georgetown-S Spring
field Roads, Sussex County, gray
cling, Al miles; Contract 194,
Frankford-R Sussex County.
traffic bound Stag, % miles; Con
tract 209, Farnhurst to Whining
ton, New Castle County, grading
dual highway, 2.6 miles; Contract
210, Holly Oak to Claymont, New
Castle County, Philadelphia pike
sidewalk, $500 feet; Contract 211.
Camden-Camp Meeting WOODS,
Kent County, sidewalk; Contract
212, CIayton-Smyrna, Kent County
sidewalk 1900 feet; Contract 213,
Blades-Seaford town limits, Sussex
County, 1925 feet; Contract 214,
Millsboro towards Harmon School,
Sussex County, sidewalk 1900 feet;
Contract 215, Barkers Landing
Causeway, Kent County, 5000 feet;
Contract MB-I, painting bascule
bridge over Christiana River, South
Market Street, Wilmington.
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SUSSEX BOYS FORM PATROL.
mailOy c. Vaughn ScOutmasfer o!
CoOispring Form Organization

Sussex county farmer-parents
have organized the first Farm
Patrol Boy Scouts of America, in
Delaware, with headquarters at
Coolsprings. This patrol has been
named the Coolspring Patrol, No.
102, with Malloy c. Vaughn,
scoutmaster. It was registered
with the Wilmington Area Coun-
ell, by Stanley N. Woodhead, field
executive with offices at Dover
A farm patrol is one that is or
ganized by the parents or guard
ians OF the scouts and is not con
nected with any church or organi-
zation While the patrol has no
troop committee in the ordinary
sense of the word, the fathers Of
the boys take over all the respon-
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Wins Highway Safety Contest

Miss Gail Antoine of Centreville,
has been announced as the State
winner in the 1881 Grange high
way safety essay Contest, and has
received a prize of S5 and a silver
medal. Other members of the
various oranges in Delaware who
won bronze medals are Elwood
McLane. of Wilmington; Miss Elsie
Gray, of Lewes. and Joseph A.
Briggs, Jr., of Elsmere.
Smyrna times., 1931-10-21
DEMAND NEGRO BE HANGED
IN OPEN If FOUND GUILTY
PETITION FOR GOVERNOR BE
ING CIRCULATED IN BERLIN
Detroit Police to Compare Jones
Fingerprints With Those Found
in Home Where 6 Were Slain

Petitions were being prepared in
Berlin, Md, Friday for presenta-
ton before Governor Ritchie of
Maryland, asking, that should Or
phan Jones, Negro, 6O-year-old
confessed slayer of four members
of the family of w. Green Davis,
of Taylorville, be found guilty of
murder and sentenced to be hang
ed, that the hanging take place in
public in Worcester county. Lieut.
Joseph H. Itzel, of the Baltimore
city detective bureau, and States
Attorney Godfrey Child of Wor-
cester county, said Thursday that
it is highly probable that the Ne
gro will be hanged, in view of the
mass of circumstantial evidence
against him coupled with his con-
fession of the slayings. Officials
say there is little likelihood that
Detroit, Mich, authorities could
get the Negro, even if they could
link him with a crime there. Fred
A. Culver, acting police chief of
Berlin, received a request from
James e. Mccarthy, Detroit chief
of detectives, for a set of Jones
fingerprints for comparison with
those found in the home of an
Italian where members of a family
of six were slain under circumstan-
ces similar on July 8, 1929. The
fingerprints were sent to Detroit.
The last public hanging in Wor-
cester county took place IA years
ago near Snow Hill, when an Itali-
an was hanged for the murder of
a farmer. A throng of $500 per-
sons, many from other States,
were present in Berlin Thursday
when the funeral services were
held at Buckingham Presbyterian
Church for the four victims, Mr..
Davis, his wife, Ivy Smith Davis,
and their two children, Elizabeth
Gertrude Davis and Mary Lee Da-
Wis. The Rev. DR.. j. R. Verbycke,
pastor, was in charge. The bodies
were inferred in the family lot at
the I. o. r. M. cemetery in Bishop
vile, Nd During the funeral ser
vice, Mrs. Ruth Timmons, wife of
Harry Timmons, Of Whaleyville
tainted and considerable excite
ment prevailed as the woman was
being taken from the church on
stretcher, and given medical atten-
ton. Heat generated by the crowd
ed condition in the church at the
funeral was the cause of the faint
ing, physicians said. The Detroit
police chief said in his wire that
Orphan Jones, the Negro charged
with the Davis family slayings,
answered the description of a Ne
gro, who on July 3, 1929, murder
ed six members of a Detroit fam
lily in their beds. The Detroit fam
lily, named Evangelist, included the
father, mother and four children
and circumstances of their muir
ders was similar to the Green Da-
Wis family slayings. McCarty add
ed that the Negro escaped and was
still at large and that Jones an
swered the description of the De
troit family slayer over two years
ooo
Smyrna times., 1931-10-21
He'd Better Do IL

A judge in Pittsburgh has ruled
that there is no obligation on a
golfer to yell ''Fore!" 70 these
ahead Of him before making his
stroke, but it might be kinder IL
he did, II he is the kind of golfer
most of us are. .-Rnetnn Globe.
Smyrna times., 1931-10-21

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town and Lewas ''s
Smyrna times., 1931-10-21
SMYRNA FIFTY YEARS AGO AS
REVAMPED FROM OUR FILES
ITEMS ABOUT SMYRNA FROM
SMYRNA TINES, OCT. I9, 1881
Notes of Marriages, Deaths, Real
Estate Deals and Matters of In
terest of Half Century Ago

(The Smyrna Times has started
to look back over its files and tell
what happened around the correspond
ing date of this issue. half century
ago. We hope to make this a regular
weekly feature. If it does nothing else,
II ~ill call to mind people and events
of that day that should be interesting
to the present generation. We hope
our readers will find it interesting and
that it will make the Times more eag-
erly sought and read-Editor)
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$50 in Cash Will Be Given
for Best Picture of
Terror

just what does a vampire" sug-
gest to you? What sort of fantastic
picture does your mind paint for
You when you think of one?
The Times will award cash prizes
totaling $50 to the persons who
within the next few days submit the
best drawings of their impression of
a vampire"
BY ''best" necessarily is not meant
most artistic. This contest is open
to everybody and the strangeness of
your idea may win a prize over
some one very Skillful with pencil.
AS almost every one has a differ
ent idea about vampires" and
things Of a supernatural nature this
contest should bring in some very
unusual pieces of work.
This contest is being offered in
connection with the showing at the
Circle, starting Friday, of a story
dealing with vampires" This pic
ture is 'Dracula," taken from the
Widely-read novel and the famous
stage play of the same name.
The story deals with mysterious
forces that live in the dead of night
and of one such force in particular
that character in the story discover
to be vampire" who carries on
series Of the strangest roman ces
the world has ever known. His Kiss
is death, yet women can not escane
his magnetic power.
This contest opens today just
get pen or pencil and sketch out
your impression of a vampire. And
remember you do not have to be
an artist to get in this contest. The
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his theory that he should publish
every bit of scandal regarding all
people regardless of the TACT that its
publication will not only ruin the
principals but many innocent people
as well. From the standpoint of
fact and of realism Scandal Sheet"
is just melodramatic theater and
not realism.
Bancroft as the managing editor
even buffalos his publisher and
holds him in the hollow of his hand
because Bancroft by his sensational
methods has made the paper a
circulation success and a financial
victory.
But you do not get the real at
mosphere of a real editorial room at
any time. Reporters in real life
have often died while on duty and
even telephoning in a story, but
their work has been appreciated.
Bancroft as the managing editor
publishes everything and he gets a
chance to test his strength. His
own wife is caught by the photog-
rapher Of the paper in the arm of
banker whose crooked dealings
were exposed by Bancroft before the
banker could put into effect a plan
to pay back every cent to the de-
positors.
The managing editor goes to his
own home, a palace, and confronts
his wife. She tells him that she.
loves the banker.
The M. E. goes to the bankers
apartment and shoots the banker
dead. The M. E. goes to his news
paper, publishes the story of the
shooting and the causes and then
goes to Jail.
he is sent to prison for the rest of
his life and sunshine comes into his
life again when he is made editor
OF the prison newspaper. And the
managing editor starts out to make
The prison paper the most yellow in
the bushes.
This story is not realism. It is
only melodramatic theater and as
such it has suspense at times.
You may not agree with my views
Be your own judge, but don't Judge
every managing editor in the world
by the one in Scandal Sheet"
Now at the Circle.
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and only % very modern story would
permit the star to wear such little
clothes.
1t is true tllat it takes the story
some time to get under way, but
when it does eet its stride, it is
classy and even magnificent fun.
We are concerned with one Larry
Day Fairbanks), a powerful New
York broker, who has never had
time for women or holidays until
Vivian Benton (Bebe Daniels) sets
her eyes on him.
He then forgets his Wall Street,
millions and all that, and he about
jumps on the boat which carries her
TO Europe. Nearly all The story
takes place on the boat.
Vivian won't listen and gives him
the cold shoulder. This sets him
wild, but wildness makes him meek
when he learns that his holiday has
caused him to lose his fortune in a
Wall Street crash. Then Vivian
becomes the real woman and we
know that Larry will be happy.
The comedy scenes between Fair
banks and Edward Everett Horton
as Roger, a modern "Peeping Tom"
valet. are really comedy gems. At
times the droll Horton just about
walks away with the picture.
In one mad scene when Fairbanks
drinks a love cocktail he goes cave
man" and what he does to the boat
and the attendants is nobody's bust
ness. This is great fun.
AS I remember, Miss Daniels has
only one song number and that is a
Jazz one. 1t has swinging melody
and her voice is adequate to the
slim demands. Her talking voice
registers better in this one than in
any previous talker. And she looks
gorgeous in this one.
Fairbanks plays the first part of
the picture in a sort of a business
mans restraint, but he becomes
athletic when he becomes wildly in
love.
The photography is splendid, the
dialogue in the major scenes is
smart and the settings are mag
nificent.
Here is really a new Douglas Fair
banks and I hope that he stays
new and modern"
Now at the Palace.
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BEBE HAS A
POOR ONE THIS TIME

Although Bebe Daniels does some
smart and excellent work on an
other screen this week, she is guilty
OF doing some mighty poor and UNI
convincing work on the Apollo
screen in MY Past
The supposed box Office bait to
this one is that it is supposed to be
based on "Ex-Mistress." If I re-
member the story correctly, the
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tary Hyde is taking no steps to
make loans to individual farmers,
as was contemplated in the bill,
Senator Caraway said.
"A number of us are getting very
FESTIVE under this delay. Valuable
time is being lost. and If the in
tent of the senate, which was to
help farmers in distress, is to be
observed. it is time for him to show
more action"
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The INDIANAPOLIS TIMES -
DRAW A VAMPIRE
AND WIN A PRIZE

craziest sort of drawing may be
the one that gives the most un-
canny idea Of one Of these terrorS
Of the night.
Please hurry with your drawing,
as the contest closes Saturday noon.
All drawings must be in the hands
of the 'Dracula" editor, care Of
The Times, by that time, to be con-
sidered.
The rules are simple, so make your
work just as simple as you can. Be
sure your name and address is writ
ten plainly on your drawing.
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SENATOR cRITIClSES
AGRICULTURAL HEAD

Caraway Demands Speed in Use OF
Relief Fund.
BIZ Scripps-HopGrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, March 2.-Unless
Secretary of Agriculture Hyde acts
speedily, the chief purpose of the
$20,0OO,o00 drought relief bill will
be defeated, Senator Thaddeus H.
Caraway Of Arkansas asserted to-
day.
1T seems to me and to a num-
Der of other senators from the
drought stricken areas that Secre-
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FRENCH LICK, Ind, March g.
Dr. William Edward Fitch, widely
known expert on mineral waters,
has been appointed medical hydrol-
ogist and director of French Lick
Springs, it is announced by the
French Lick Springs Hotel Com
pany.
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m ov lie resembles
the orig in al as
much as an ele-
plant resembles a
flea. And that is
some resemblance.
There is mighty
little sense to the
story as unfolded
on the screen. 1t
hints at being SEN
Sational, but it gets
no pla &C e. Miss
Daniels is g Utility
most of the time
of b elm g rather
lazy on the job
and seems to sense
IL F-nL LII IL
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movie really has no story at all. She
seldom rang true at anytime in this
picture. Lewis Stone is cast as one
of the male events in Dora Macys
life, the part played by Miss Daniels.
Ben Lyon, who in real life is Bebe's
husband, is the lover of Dora. Their
love scenes seemed rehearsed at
home three years after a honey
moon.
The story just isn't there and
without story no man or woman
in Hollywood can make it hit. Z
Now at the Apollo.
y n
SPEAKING OF AN
OVERTURE AT INDIANA
Some months ago 1 voiced the
opinion that I would like to see the
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flesh I was quite
wild over it, be-
cause it did bring
certain types of
newSpapermen to
the screen as they
may and do exist.
Scandal S h e e t"
does not give you
the truth of the
editorial room or a
managing editor or
a publisher as he
exists ninety-nine
times out of a
hundred. George
RancrOft iS % CT
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IVA = AAAAA ~ - CeAAS y
in Reaching for
the Moon" than
he ever has on
the stage, or the
screen b e fore.
Nothing wrong
or suggestive, but
it is just the idea
Of the head
of the Royal
Family Of Holly
wood doing such a
thing because h
has worn arnnOr
and the clothes
Of Robin Hood in
the past. And so
f a ir banks las
pOOp NlerU p1Odarf1
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Two Face Booze CHARGES

Joe Modaffari, 40, Of 231 South
Noble street, and Patsy Rossi, %, of
.7O6 Lord street, today were held in
default of $4,000 bond on vagrancy
charges in connection with a still
confiscated by police Thursday at
% North LaSalle street.
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bandits in the Wolf a. Dassauer
department store here. one of the
largest in northeastern Indiana. The
robbers held up L. H. Sheline, Office
manager. five girl employees and two
Negro porters.
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DOUG BECOMES VERY
MODERN IN THIS ONE
Senior Male Member of Royal Family of Hollywood Gives
4 Public Thrill in Reaching for the Moon
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN


The senior male member OF Ioywoods royal family has
modern both in character and dress
speaking Fairbanks the senior
Reaching Moon"
leading the
attire type dressing
In his
Once esmabe complained tome that only
the yef the the poor
ence content with in fur coats
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HERE is ANOTHER
MOVIE OF NEWSPAPER LIFE

Now the question you are going TO
ask me ISIS Scandal Sheet" as
movie as good as Front Page" was
on the screen.
You may recall that when / saw
"Front Page" on the stage in the
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Store Bandits Get $4,000
81 Times SpeciaI
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, March loot
Of $4,000 was obtained by three
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YEGGS GET $500, WATCH
Safe Is Blown at Downtown Bowling
Alley.

Alley.
Yeggs early today blew the safe
in Beams bowling alley, Ohio and
Illinois streets, and obtained 5000 in
currency and watch. Detectives
said the safe was rolled up in floor
mats to deaden the sound of the
blast. Entrance was effected through
door leading to a fire escape.
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"eOrge ndncrOi' as the very yellow
editor of a Scandalous sheet. It is