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Lady Astor to Launch Sloop.

DEVONPORT, England, April l P.-
Lady Astor, the American born English
peereSs, and members OF Parliament will
off1ciate at the launching of the British
naval sloop Falmouth at Devonport.
April l9.
Evening star., 1932-04-01
ALL-INDIA FEDERATION
FAVORED BY PRINCES
Resolution Adopted by Chamber
in Presence of Viceroy.
Gandhi Money Seized.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, India, April In the
presence of Viceroy Lord wilmington the
Indian Chamber of Princes today
adopted resolution declaring the
readiness of the native states to join
an all-India federation.
The resolution contained the assump-
ton that the British government would
accept responsibility for securing to the
states guarantees Of the existing in
ternal sovereignty.
BOMBAY, April / (P).-A number
of home-rule 10,000-rupee notes bear
ing pictures of Mahatma Gandhi were
seized by police today in a raid on the
home of a prominent Nationalist Po-
lice said the entire program Of the
Indian National Congress was printed
on the notes in minute cryptic char
acters.
Evening star., 1932-04-01
Paraguay Extends Martial Law.

ASUNCION, Paraguay, April [R-
The government today extended the
period of martial law in Paraguay until
July 81. Martial law was decreed last
November following uprisings which
jose QRGgiaTi. ~
Evening star., 1932-04-01
COED KILLS HERSELF
Ends Life With Gun in Student
Fiance's Apartment.

SAN FRANCISCO, April l R.-
Miss Helen Chapman 81, Stanford Uni
versity Medical School graduate, shot
and killed herself here today in the
apartment of her fiance James A. Cary
25, a student at the Stanford Univer-
sity Hospital
Friends of the girl told police she
mad been nervous and had complained
that marriage seemed so far away"
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Radio Programs on Page DIS
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Funeral Tomorrow.
40 INJURED IN RIOT

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Fair tonight; minimum temperature
about IS degrees: tomorrow fair rising
temperature; moderate west winds.
Tefnperatures-Highe 61 at $40
pm. yesterday; lowest, IS, at 6 am. to-
day. Full report on page 8.
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nor Byrd, Jouett Shouse, John RaS-
kob, Alfalfa Bill' Murray, Jim
Reed, William Gibbs McAdoo, John
w. Davis, James E. Cox and others
of like caliber.
If you were planning strategy
with an eye to the future, wouldn't
you rather tie to the latter group?
Sure you would.
The only reason for some rabid
Roosevelt talk in the Indiana dele
cation is because some are afraid
of losing Indiana if Smith is nomi-
mated.
They need not worry about that.
Smith will not be nominated. He
has no more chance for the presi-
dency that Garner or Murray.
But if the real undercurrent
choice would permit his name to
be entered, the fight would be over.
And although this column does not
set up to be an authority on ma
tional politics, it does know, after
discussing the matter with the real
leaders of the Democratic party
that this man is Newton D. Baker
How to get him to make the bid
is the real worry; and if Indiana
by splitting its delegation, is in
position on the second or third bal
lot to start a mounting vote for
whoever the successful choice will
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SCHOOL CITYS /
DEBT SLASEED !
To S1O.762,0OO
Bond Obligations Reduced
$429,000 in Sood
AdminiStrati. /.

Bonded Indebtedness If the In.
dianapolis school city his been re-
duced to the lowest cure since
July l, 1925, it was an Sunceu to-
day by A. B. Good, scr oil business
director.
The school city's Dor ed debt to-
day is 1912 900. Coo said. a re-
duction Of $4,000 81 the pres
ent administration into office
Jan. l, $780,
Hit Peak IL 1929
The debt on Jul, /. 1925. was
only $10.046, 4SO, but 1,050,0OO was
added the following October for
CriSpus Attacks anc Washington
high schools, and les than two
years later, March 10. e27. another
81 100000 was added fCl Shortridge
high school, bringing nc total t.
Sill 500, $50.
The peak was rGscsed July /,
1929, when the Indebtedness
mounted to $12124,0 q
The $429, 900 reduc in two and
one-half years was g. nplished by
the school board, desE issuance of
new bonds totaling 1000 in the
period for new builc IS and addi-
tions.
Good said the new W figure was
reached by purchas If $4,000 in
outstanding bonds tn week.
Borrowing Pc sr Cut
With the 20 per cnt horizontal
assessed valuation ieduction, an
nounced by John G McCloskey,
Center township ass ssor, impend-
ing, borrowing pov of the school
city, under the 2 s cent consti-
tutional limit, vii. b, decreased to
about $1,OO0,O00.
AS a result of his, every eff
fort will be made o increase the
bonded debt marfl by buying in
outstanding bonds ON the sinking
fund in order to leave sufficient
margin for tempo ry loans next
year, Good said.
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HONOR JOHN DEWEY
Named Honorary Chief by
Education Association.

By United Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., June 80.
DIR. John Dewey, veteran New
York educator and philosopher, has
been elected honorary president for
life of the National Education AsSo-
citation, the first to hold the new
Office.
The election of Dewey to the
honorary post left Joseph Roster of
Paramount State Teachers college,
Paramount, w. Va, the only nom
inee in the field for the active
presidency of the association
Dewey also had been nominated
for the presidency after a conven-
ton fight Wednesday.
The convention also bestowed an
honorary life presidency upon Al
bert E. Winship, octogenarian editor
of the Journal of Education.
Delegates to the convention held
a teachers bathing beauty contest
Wednesday night, but the judges
were unable to agree on a winner
Three teachers tied for the beauty
honorS. They were Ruth M. Henck-
Ter, University City. Mo; Emily A
Iampieri, Philadelphia, and Irene M
Moffatt. Los Angeles.
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Island.
editor at that time of the Leslie
publications, who divorced Willie
Wilde, brother of Oscar, and died
as the Baroness de Bazus. al
though she never married a baron.
and we never could find out how
She came by the title; and Aimee
Croker, a close friend of mine.
who recently divorced her fifth
husband, Prince Galatzine. She
lives in Paris and maintains a
salon frequented by visiting Amer
lean Bohemians.
There were scores of Spectac-
uIar people. But these were the
regulars.
And the most glamorous event
OF the period, the one that was the
basis for the most table talk and
the most sermons, was the pre-
mere of the London vampire, Olga
Nethersole, in 'Sapho' at Wal
lacks theater on Feb. Is, 1900.
1t was the most sensational
f1rst night I ever saw. The plav
was adapted by Clyde Fitch, the
very dapper American. from the
french OF Daudet. 1t opened
with a scene showing an art stu
dents ball in Paris.
There was a young fellow from
The provinces named Jean. plaved
by Hamilton Revelle, and a no.
tor1ous cocotte, Olga Nethersole
attracts him. After the mildly
trenAed ball Jean asks Olga to
allow him to take her to her
apartment.
IN the next scene the startled
Il audience saw Jean and Olga
standing at the foot of an amaz-
ing spiral staircase. CThis scene
was soon to be known all over
the nation as the spiral stairs
Scene.)
Olga sighed and said, I am so
tired. Won't you carry me up
Stairs?'
So the man, slowly kissing Olga.
carried her up the red stairs in
his arms. Olga was a big woman.
too. When he got to the second
floor, Jean said, rs this the f1oor?'
and Nethersole sighed and muir
INJURED, One fight more
1T was the most daring scene
we ever had witnessed in the
United States. The curtain slow
ly descended. Then the applause
began. 1t lasted for long time.
But Olga Nethersole, the
shocking woman, made the scene
even more scandalouS by not COM
ing out to take a bow.
Shocked ladies whispered, THAT
woman is still up in her boudoir
with jean Well, the theater was
closed by the police, of course.
and Fitch departed hastily to
Europe.
But the ban soon was removed
and the wicked people of Man
haitian f1ocked to Wallack's to
hear the shameless Olga whisper,
I am so tired
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From the Harold Seton Collection.
Olga NethersOle, above, as Car
men and in centerpiece as the
shocking Sapho.
compeer by Mrs. Aimee Croker
Ashe = Gillig GourauG Mishnof
Galatzine and Diamond Jim
Brady, other famous premiere at
tendantS.
Seton went to first nights for
twenty-six years.
THE champion first-nighter
l. of the American stage" the
owner of collection of 10000
theatrical photographs, the sur
vivor of twenty summers in New
port and of eighteen trips to the
continent for openings in Paris
and London, Seton no longer goes
regularly to first nights.
He considers the fashionable
opening thing of the past
However, he is still reason
ably enthusiastic devotee of the
stage. He goes with most en-
joyment to plays exposing NUM-
cipal niSbehavior. This season,
for example, he cared most for
Merry Go-Round."
He admits that lie becomes a
little sad when he discusses his
tangled memories of the sinful
Mrs. Patrick Campbell being asked
to check out of the Plaza because
she smoked cigaret in the lobby,
and Marie DRESSER managing a
concession at Coney Island and
Mrs. Leslie Carter on the open
ing night of 'Zaza."
Packed away in colonial desks
and cabinets in his apartment,
Seton's 10000 photographs are a
pictorial record of the rise and
decline of the major players of
the last three generations.
Lately he has exhibited them
privately as historical curioSitieS
in the fashionable American colo
MES in London, Paris Monte
Carlo, and Rome.
+
A S a boy in short trousers I
IA began going to first nights"
said Mr.. Seton, recalling his ex-
periences, land that was during
the brazen nineties. I kept it
up for a quarter century.
Il often visited Tony Pastors in
Fourteenth street, next door to old
Tammy Hall, and I remember
the song and dance of the famous
Tony.
II visited Roster & Balls mu-
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BY JOSEPH MITCHELL
Times STAFF Writer


Copyright. 1882. BY the New York World
Telegram Corporation9
NEW YORK, June 30.-It was
LIZ the fiamhoyant, sturdy era,
when the champagne in the gid
ed restaurants of Broadway was
known, deliberately, as "the con-
centrated laughter Of the peasant
girls of France"
Small portraits of stout ac-
tresses were given away with
packages of cigarets. Shocked
ladies discussed the passionate
antics of the sloe-eyed British
siren. Olga Nethersole, able in
ventor of what the reformerS
called the Nethersole kiss"
The swift answer and the wise
crack had their origin on the
rowdy stage of Tony Pastors and
not in the mind of the mayor.
1t was the time when the pert
remarks of theatrical PEOPLE be-
came the threadbare idioms of
citizens in small towns from che
coast to the other.
The arrogant anecdotes of the
green room were imbedded in the
consciousness of the people. An
auctioneer in Indiana, dissatisfied
with the outcome of his oratory,
would shout, What did Patti
say?" A contractor, turning down
a low bid, would ask What did
Adelina tell the minstrel man?"
And any adult would know that
a reference expressed by Adelina
Patti, the singer, when j. H.
Haverly, the minstrel car, asked
her terms for series of concerts.
1.-TWO hundred thousand!" said
the singer.
why, my dear lady," said the
shocked gentleman, that is more
than we pay the President for a
years work"
We'll" said Patti, why the he'll
don't you get the President to sing
for you?"
TT was the era of the very fash
Il ionable first night. Broadway
was lined with carriages at each
premiere. Footmen jumped to the
curb to fling open the crested
doors of the polished carriage OF
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish.
On opening nights famous per-
sons, well garmented and jeweled,
arrived at the pretentious en-
trance of the Empire, the play
house which got most of the car
riage trade, at Broadway and
F'ortieth street.
Between acts men went hastily
to the Knickerbocker for jigger
of whisky, and after the PERFORM
ance, with their fair and full
bosomed companions, the same
gentlemen hurried to Rector's G.
to the Cafe Martin for cham
payne and Holsters. The theater
was a tinseled, but heavily re-
Spected institution.
And at this time Harold Seton,
a young man of leisure, already
was a veteran first-nighter.
At the age when most young
men still we're asking their par
ents for permission to go out at
night, Seton was acknowledged as
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The Bidding
South passed, West passed, North
bid one heart. East should over
call with one spade. South passes
and West passes.
A bid of two hearts by North
would be satisfactory, but he would
be justified in doubling one spade
to show more accurately to his
partner the quick trick strength of
his hand.
If North had bid two hearts, East
would be justified in bidding two
spades, even though it is only a
four-card suit, but when North
doubles, East should pass. South,
with his trickless hand, simply bids
two hearts.
This is not showing strength, but
as the double was informatory, it
tells partner that your hand con-
tains little or nothing.
With South's two passes and now
his simple bid Of two hearts, North
should not try for game.
The Play
The play is very interesting-East
swings three rounds Of spades, the
third round being trumped by the
declarer, and he must be careful
to trump with the eight of hearts
and not the three.
The king of trump next is played
and won by East with the ace, who
swings another spade.
The declarer must trump high
and take chance on the hearts
breaking-he needs the three of
hearts as an entry into dummy.
The queen of hearts is played
and all outstanding hearts are
picked up. Declarer next leads the
three Of hearts, winning in dummy
with the five spot.
He then leads the queen of dia-
monds, West refusing to cover, and
now the declarer must play his jack
of diamonds on dummy's queen.
He then leads the ten of diamonds
and again West refuses to cover
Now the declarer must not play his
last diamond, but instead must lead
a club and finesse the queen which
holds.
He then leads his ace of clubs
and trumps his losing club in dunn
my, and the last trick is won with
the ace of diamonds.
Two successful illnesses and a
break in trump were necessary to
make four odd. which, of course
could not be bid.
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be, then Hoosierdom can claim the
honor of picking the nominee.
The high command sees that
clearly, but HooSiers, being notorious
bandwagon jumpers, the irresistible
urge is permeating the delegation.
Building for the future is tough
job in politics, especially in Indiana,
but by the three votes enumerated
above, the McNutt-Van Nuys-Mc-
Hale Taggart combination has &C.
mented a wall of friendship that
may endure, unless many memories
become shortened.
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a Stewart Studio operated for more
than year, but the present man
agement disclains connection with
the predecessor.
Coupons similar to those used at
present we're issued by the former
studio, and reports have been re-
ceived that these coupons will be
honored if additional photographs
are purchased.
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CHICAGO, June 30.-The conven-
ton has gotten down to politics at
last. The preliminary events were
only scuffles and entertainment, but
finally we begin to have the real,
old, dyed in the wool politics.
And, without dissenting vote from
leaders of other states, it is agreed
that the smartest example of this
type of strategy is being played by
Indiana under the real leadership
of Paul v. McNutt, Governor nomi-
nee; Frederick Van Mugs, senator
nominee; Frank McHale. McNutt
manager and delegation chairman,
and Thomas Taggart, national COM
n1itteeman.
Members of the delegation them
selves do not seem to grasp the play
that was made by the casting of the
solid bloc of thirty votes against
Huey Long and the Minnesota
pledged delegations, and for Jouett
Shouse for permanent chairman.
In the first place this group of
ACdOCAS, A1OW hl1OWn dS GllC NUN ulG
high command, is looking forward,
if not to 1886, then to 1910, when
they believe Indiana will have a
presidential candidate to offer the
nation.
q n
On one side of the fence is Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, to all purposes all
alone. 1t is true that he has a ma
jority of the delegates pledged tc
his cause, but it must be remem-
bered that, in the greater majority
of states he was unoppoSed in the
primary, because the others wer,
sleeping at the switch.
None of these pledged delegation.
really believe that Roosevelt is tn,
long-awaited Moses to lead then
out of the wilderness.
On the other side of the fence
fighting Roosevelt, are the rea
powers of the party.
They include Al Smith, Cover.
nor Ritchie, Jack Garner, Cover.
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known as 'Soubrette row. Any
first night of that period was an
event to remember until your
dying day.
THE first night regulars were
fascinating people. The smart
set was always represented by
Harry Lehr, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Gould, Stanford White until he
was murdered, and Clarence Mac
kaye and his first wife, the late
Katherine Duer, mother of Mrs.
Irving Berlin. Alfred G.. Wander
bit was also a regular.
II u
NEANHATTAN'S Bohemia was
1V1 represented by Diamond Jim
Brady, who used to shoot his cuffs
so he could see his jewelry shine;
Abe Hummell, the lawyer who got
divorces for all the theatrical peo-
pie until he was diSbarred and
sent to prison; Mrs. Frank Leslie,
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sic hall in Thirty-fourth street,
which was modelled on continental
lines. The proprietors, two for
mer saloon keepers, scandalized
the town when they imported
Charmion, a trapeze artist, who
stripped to her tights in mid-air
and tossed her red garters to the
gentlemen in the boxes.
There never was a more scan
dalous performance. And I re-
member the five Barrison sisters,
a group of very fat girls, singing
an amazing song, And Then the
Lights Went Out They were
shameless women for those inno-
cent days.
But these were mild expert
ences. The sensational days still
were to come. the years at the
end of the century.
Times Square was new. Where
the Hotel Astor now stands there
was a line of brownstone houses
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FUNERAL RITES SET
City Woman, Killed in Auto Crash
to Be Buried Today.

Mrs. Luella Kingsland, 47O9 East
New York street, who was killed
near Berea, KY, in an automohils
accident Tuesday, was to be Juried
today in Crown Hill cemetery.
Funeral services was TO 5e held
at 2 this afternoon in the Shirley
Brothers chapel at 946 North Illi-
nois street. The Rev. John B. Fer
gusoA. pastor of the Irvington Pres
byterian church, is in charge of the
service.
The accident occurred when Ed
ward @. Welsh. brother-in-law of
Mrs. Kingsland. swerved his car and
skidded into a ditch. Survivors are
her e-year-old daughter. Dorothy;
three sisters, Miss Nora Bryan, Miss
Anna Bryan of Cory, and Mrs. John
Redenbarger Of Brazil, and a BROTH
er, c. w. Bryan Of Brazil.
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Illinois Warden Is Promoted

d LWtttW To"
JOLIET, Ill, June 30.-Warden
Henry c. Hill of Joliet and State
vile penitentiaries left here today
to prepare to assume his new post
as director of the new federal pris-
on at Lewisburg, Pa. Hill will go to
Washington to study federal prison
problems and will take up his duties
at Lewisburg Sept. 1.
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CITY BUSINESS HOUSES
LOOTED BY BURGLARS
Varied Booty Obtained at Four
Stores, Owners Report.

Varied loot was obtained by
burglars from four business houses
Wednesday night and early today.
Fireworks valued at $3.50 were
stolen from a shoe repair shop at
1881 Wade street, operated by
James Honeycutt. At the Folk
grocery next door, at 1883 Wade
street. bars inside windows pre-
vented entrance, although screens
were removed and glass broken.
Charles Morris, merchant police
man, said he saw boy run from
the store.
Pharmacy of Arthur Mennier,
Prospect and ST. Peter streets,
yielded loot which included 50,
three cartons of cigaretS and thirty
packages of razor blades. A door
was found open by Mckinley Arm
strong, 1903 Kelly street, mer-
chant policeman.
Breaking a window in the st.
Regis cleaning shop at Fourteenth
and Pennsylvania streets, burglar
stole a quantity of clothing.
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PLAN PICNIC MONDAY
Beech Grove Celebration Will Be
Community Affair.

Joint observance of the Fourth OF
July and the Washington bicenten-
NAL in the form of a community
picnic will be held Monday in Sarah
T. Bolton park, Beech Grove, under
auspices of the Methodist and
Christian churches of the commu-
nifty.
Program will include speeches
band concerts, a baseball game and
a flag raising, the latter in charge
of the new Beech Grove Boy Scout
troop.
The event is being arranged by
Carl Koch, Emerson K. Whitaker
c. NJ Hamilton and N. I. Bailey.
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400 Drowned in Rumania

By United Press
BERLIN, June 30-Four hundred
persons were drowned in floods
during the last week in the Media
via section of Rumania, dispatches
to the zitung Am Mittag from Bu-
charest said today.
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VetheyoeS Ior71d Kisses Shocked 1hongs and Packed

Harold Seton is hailed as the cham
pion first-nighter Of the American stage.
More than twenty-five years Of attend
snce at premieres have given him an
almost inexhsustable well at memories.
This is first Of series OF interviews with
Joseph Mitchell. Times staf writer.
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CONT RACT
BRIDGE
ar tie
EXPERTSpLMIT
BY w. E. M,KENNEY

OFTEN at contract you will fino
~ a hand where game should be
bid, but due to very bad breaks, the
contract is defeated.
Then again, there are hands
where a game contract should not
be arrived at, although good breaks
will allow it to be made.
For example, the declarer in the
following hand makes four odd, but
he must play the hand very we'll to
do so.
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