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The Washington times., 1932-11-26
RROADWAYS
OF The WORLD
By Mark HeIIinger

COLOMBIA HOTEL Genoa, Italy.-Wel here
why I'm here do not know. All I know is that I'm
sitting in Italian hotel room, trying to regain my land
legs and swayng in my chair attempt to write this
column It's not the first time I've swayed in chair
but the sensation always little different
This has been On exciting day. At A. M-whch is
about o'clock Moore restaurant tmethe good ship Rex
pulled into the harbor Nice France We stayed there
just long enough to drop pilot and few of the cash
customers that the sight very beautiful and
decidedly thrilling. If hadn't been fast asleep might
be able to tell you about it.
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HYner Signs

Warren Hymer, character come
dian recently seen in Madison
Square Garden" and zone Way
Passage" has been signed bX Par
amount for a part of Importance
in support of Alison Skipworth
and Roland Young in Good Com
pany," an original screen story
by Nina Wilcox Putnam.
The Washington times., 1932-11-26

look, there stands a soldier Of
some kind.
The situation hits you imme-
diately. AS an American, see
very little of this. AS a trav-
eler, I see plenty of it. But
nothing that compares with
what I have seen in a few
hours in Italy. Soldiers every.
where. Guns everywhere. Pre-
paredness everywhere.
Are they wise? I think they
are very wise. Far wiser, in
fact, than America today.
But enough Of that. The dis
embarkation from the Rex was
the StrangeSt I have seen in
any land. When the gangplank
was finally secure, the paSSen-
gers were showed into the back
ground and practically the en-
tire town of Genoa was permit
ted to board the boat. Every
body with a few whiskers was
Saluted by the entire crew. And
the longer the whiSkerS, the
bigger the salute.
And what was Hellinger'S
luck? You guessed it. I had
picked out this particular morn.
ing to get q close shave!
Eventually, though, the pas
Sengers were allowed to leave
the boat. The customs officials
were the most courteous I have
encountered anywhere and their
methods gave you a decidedly
good first impression of Italy.
If you are an American, they
do not open your baggage. The
only thing in which they are
interested is cigarettes. That
is their first and only question.
Have you any cigarettes? If
you say no, your baggage is
stamped okay.
This has been going on
now, they tell me-. for several
years. They are still waiting
for the first American who will
say yes.
On an omnibus then, and so
to the hotel at which I am
now stopping. InaSmuch as
I'm a regular tourist by this
time, I've already hired a car
for the rest of the afternoon.
But I want to get this column
off before getting my first real
peek at Genoa.
On to Rome!
Don't think I'll stay here
long. I have a hunch that
I'll linger on for a day or so
and then hop a night train for
Rome. Rome sounds interesting
to me. Always wanted to hit
that spot. think I'll stay
there at least a week or so.
Yes, my friends. Rome'S the
spot for this baby. That was
the spot where Nero fiddled
while Caesar burned, or have I
got my geography mixed? I
ACbC4 WdS Va 1A1uCAl COAAOCQuCAAGC
when it came to historical
dates. The only date I can
recall is the year in which
Columbus discovered America.
And the only reason I re.
membered that one in public
school is because it used to be
our telephone number.
You think that stuff is Of
much use? I don't. Among
the passengers on the way over
was an intelligent bird who
knew every date that ever
amounted to anything. One Of
those pedantic goofS, you know,
who liked to impress you with
his knowledge. He knew the
exact hour when John Keats
had died and the precise
moment when King Wilhelm
was born.
But what good was he in the
long run? asked him how
many hits Ruth had made in
the world SerieS-and he
didn't even know that the
Yankees had played!
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lure alLnOuBn
he is give n
little or no help
from his dia-
logue writer's.
In this picture
at the Earle by
the expedieccy
of mistaken
identity Comic
B r o W n imper-
sonates a cham
~ i " II ~ ~ y
distance swim
m e. r. It so
happens tina t
t h e ave rn
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Uniforms and Soldiers

A serious note though. AS
you looked down from the boat
YOU were Immediately impressed
by the number of uniforms you
saw. Not so much policemen
as soldiers. Soldiers Of every
kind and in every type Of uni
form. Regardless of where you
The Washington times., 1932-11-26
Cooper Returns

After a three-week vacation in
New York, Gary Cooper has re-
turned to Hollywood to start work
on his next picture, 'Lives Of a
Bengal Lancer"
The Washington times., 1932-11-26
Two-MiIe Kiss

In making a number of
Takes" a rowing camera" trav-
eled two miles on the mo Man
of Her Own" set to film an
embrace between Clark Gable
and Carole Lombard.
The Washington times., 1932-11-26
Weaver Boys Hit
In Corn Husk
Caperins
(aperins
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Comedian Joe E. Brown
to make "You, Said a
Mouthful'' q highly amusing pic
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Arrive in Genoa

NTTIVS IN OSnOd
Some five hours later-almost-
seven days to the minute since
we left New York-the boat ar
rived at Genoa. BY this time.
much to my stewards surprise,
] was on deck. l found out later
that he was already making
preparations to let me sleep
through q return voyage.
I really anticipated a wild
time in the harbor Of Genoa.
Here was the Rex, the pride
OF the Italian fleet. home again
from its maiden voyage. I had
visions of airplanes dropping
flowers in it, queenly path. I
imagined that guns would boom
and that soldiers would stand
ct attention all along the pier.
I even visualized u procession
Of beautifully bedecked boats
guiding US into the pier with
Peggy Joyce as Queen Of the
May.
And what happened? Do I
have to ask you? One, lonesome
airplane circled around the boat
and then disappeared in the
distance. Our boat gave three
healthy, longing blasts. And
while there were plenty of boats
in the harbor, the only reply
was the tiny whistle of a
mangey tugboat. 1t was like an
elephant talking to a pansy.
The only real excitement that
! could find was distributed
among the passengers. They
kept glancing at their watches
and assuring one another that
we would land at IL o'clock. Elk
actly why that IL o'clock busi-
ness was so important do not
know. But 1t seemed to be the
one thing in the world that
Inattered at the moment.
Important Matter
AS we were nearing the dock,
,it suddenly dawned upon me
that I had neglected very
serious thing. I had neglected
to learn how to say soda"
in Italian! If I wanted a
brandy and soda in Genoa, I
wouldn't be able to order it!
That may seem very trivial to
you-but it meant far more
to me than all that twelve
O'Clock" business did to the
rest Of the passengers.
I hunted around and finally
dug up a deck steward who
had been most friendly during
the voyage. I had never spoken
70 him and I didn't know
whether he understood English
but his smile had been most
encouraging.
pardon me-" I said. "but
I would like to learn some
thing. You parlais English?"
He gave me that big George
Marshall smile.
ISL" he replied.
''Goodp I cried. "How do
you say brandy and soda in
1talian?"
He looked at me in the ut.
most amazement. One would
think I had been talking Chi
Tlese to him. I tried again.
Listen" I said very care
fully. "You didn't understand.
I said how do you say brandy
and soda in italian? Cognac
and soda. You understand"
His expression changed. The
look of puzzled bewilderment
disappeared completely. He
smiled happily.
"Si," he replied. "T under
stand now. Twelve o'clockl"
Once the boat cooked, things
were vastly different. On the
pier, a band of soldiers was
playing everythinc, from ave
Maria" to that new American
song hit called everything Is
Peaches Down in Georgia"
# I had pressed them real
hard, I'll bet the1 could have
played "Dardanella."
Uniforms and Soldiers
A.
The Washington times., 1932-11-26

WARNER sRoS. THEATRES
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-07
FREE MOONEY
$1,000 CRY AT
MASS MEETING
Flag of Soviet Russia Dis
played in Rally at
San Francisco.
By United Press

BIZ Z NfIEQ BfcH8
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. with
the flag of Soviet Russia prominent-
ly displayed above the speakers
stand, an enthusiastic crowd Of
Is, 5000 persons damned Civic audi
forum here Sunday to launch new
drive to obtain a pardon for Tom
Mooney, serving a life sentence for
the 1916 San Francisco Prepared
ness day bombing.
Roughly dressed workmen and
studiouS appearing men joined in
chanting Free Tom Mooney" in
thunderous chorus, stamping their
feet in accompaniment. There was
the frenzy of a college student foot
ball rally.
1t was the first time the hammer
and sickle of Soviet Russia had been
displayed in San Francisco. The
throng sang the "Internationale,'
Communist anthem.
The meeting was swept from cli-
max to climax as Theodore Dresser.
novelist, and Lincoln Steffens, lib
eral writer, spoke.
Dresser conducted the questioning
of Paul Callicotte, eccentric Port
land (Ore) mountain guide, who
claimed he, not Mooney, planted the
Preparedness day bomb that killed
ten persons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-07
STOP COLDS
QUICK
in the Dry Stage!

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the first "a hours. This is why: A
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Relief comes quickly if you take
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neutrality-suspicious. this cold rem
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relieves the headache and grippy
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grippe. You're playing safe when
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Every drug store in America sells
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Handy. pocket size box, cellophane-
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-07

He was charming, she remem-
bers. But he could not pronounce
Roosevelt's name; called him
President Roomvine."
The time . the time she took
small Charlie Taft to hear his
fathers inaugural address. How
that little tucker preferred the
company of Long John Silver,
taking along Treasure Island
against the threat of ennui.
IT consider it tribute to his
fathers eloquence that Treasure
Island was not opened that day.
The time of the cruise with Mr..
Taft on the Mayfower in his last
year as President. How every
where there were those thunder
Gus wenty-one-gun salutes.
Yes, she said, it is long, event.
full way she has come to get to
this still place on the shaded
street, to reach at last a time of
quiet.
1t is not easy for her to be
quiet. It is not natural A quar-
ter of century coming up side
by side with MI. Taft, from OBJ
security to the White House, made
her stranger to solitude.
GO even now, at II, she does not
~ capitulate to the years. She
wandered abroad alone last
spring, when her daughter could
not accompany her. Helen want
ed to go, but she had to be at
Bryn Mawr."
She stopped off on the way back
in Canada. We've had house
at Murray Bay, let me see, since
1892 We like it there in summer"
She will be getting around Wash
ington this winter
But she misses Will. The big
house Is very quiet. She wishes
Will were back, if only for an
hour.
It creeps into her voice when
she speaks Of him, and every
once in a while today she did. 1t
shows in her face when his name
comes up, and it did now and
then.
THE bust That is Alonzo,
Wills father. Wills is upstairs"
Il hope the world court will
succeed. Mr.. Taft would have
liked to see that. ;"
Il want to see prohibition
beaten. Will never drank him
self, but he felt that way, too. :. :"
The life they richly led could
not have left her otherwise. She
could not ahve fought for him as
she did, could not have been
Nellie" always to him and he
viii" to her, as they talked
among friends, without the tie
making this indelible mark upon
her.
There are other moments. Mo-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-07
BERT DENNY,
EX-U. P. HEAD
HERE, IS DEAD
Former Bureau Manager Is
Victim of Pneumonia;
Wrote Sports.

Bert M. Demby, 90, former United
Press bureau manager here, died
Sunday in his home, 1713 North
New Jersey streeg. Pneumonia con-
tracted a few days earlier caused
the death.
Born in Little Rock Ark, Mr..
DENNY came to indianapolis in 1926
as United Press correspondent
He then was an employe of The
Times and later was named man
ager of the local office in 1923. He
held the post year, and later went
to Chicago to be special sports
writer.
He returned to Indianapolis in
1880 and married Miss Lois Stone,
daughter of the Rev. F. M. Stone,
formerly of Indianapolis.
He was a member of Central M
E. church of Hot Springs.
Mr.. DENLY is survived by the
widow and his mother, Mrs. Kate
DENNY of Hot Springs.
Definite funeral arrangements
have not been made, However, the
rites probably will be held Tuesday
morning in the home. The body will
be taken to Hot Springs for burial.
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eyes, that was the greatest
time. We had 5000 people at the
party"
1t was the late heydey, too, of
the Pike street, Cincinnati, girl.
who married the young lawyer,
William Howard Taft, went up
and down the world with him and
finally to the executive mansion.
Their silver wedding at the cap
ital.
The night was balmy and the
stars were out. Chinese lanterns
and garlands of colored lights
glowed in consultations from the
cedars and shrubbery of the
White House lawn.
A rainbow searchlight made a
shimmering volcano of the great
fountain in front of the porte
cochere. Somewhere in the
shadows the marine band was
playing.
a S the favored 5000 strolled
L n the lawn the darkness out
side grew alive with $4,000 curious
others, peering within, and the
phalanXes of all the police re-
serves of Washington had a hard
time keeping order.
Then, at IL, trumpeters blew a
fanfare. President and Mrs. Taft
stepped out on the south portico,
descended amid vast hullabaloo,
began to greet the folks.
So many dignitaries were there
that the private citizens felt lone
some. The senate strutted to the
last Sulky Democrat. So did the
house. Out to a man, also were
the diplomatic corps and the
Washington branches of the
army, the navy and marine corps.
But no one had better time
than ancient Aunt Della Torrey
of Millbury, Mass, whose pies
her nephew Will set greater store
by than any other fare.
1t was she who was delighted by
the cabled greetings from the
kings and queens of the earth,
While her nephew was more graft
fled by letter from an old friend,
and wrote two-page, long-hand
reply
There were other moments-a
multitude. They endure. They
flow back sometimes through the
deep stiffness as the serene mis-
tress in Wyoming avenue lays
aside the Harpers that she finds
is changing so, or the immutable
Geographic; as she comes in from
st. Johns Episcopal church, or
when she sees friends leave after
q while at contract.
n
THE time the time the
Il Pope received her and she
chatted in French with him. He
was Leo XIII, and when he found
she could understand him they
spoke for half an hour.
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Mrs. Taft as she appeared when
mistress Of the White House, and
a baby picture of her.
peared. Footmen in livery took
their place. Ike Hoover, head
usher, put on a uniform. A house
keeper supplanted the steward,
and Mrs. Taft herself kept direct
supervision over all the house
hold affairs.
CHE overhauled the hit-and miss
~ mode of sending out White
house invitations, the traffic in
which had been a minor scandal
for thirty years; in Difference to
the city's hoStesseS she announced
her yearly schedule Of entertain
ment early in the autumn; she
presided at what took on the as
pect Of an American court.
Always, in White House func-
tons, she surrounded herself with
army and navy officers, and they
were always in full dress. The
custom of serving refreshments,
abrogated in the Roosevelt re-
gime, was restored and the cabinet
hostesses fell in line.
Still savory memory are the
hot corn dodgers OF Mrs. Mac
Veagh. She was the wife of the
secretary of the treasury, and
while her pipe organ, running
through three stories of her IA
nous house, doomed lusty melody,
she dispensed dodgers on gold
platters. That was something in
1910.
With dignity and aplomb, Mrs.
Taft reigned and then, after fou
years, she saw before Taft did,
that Taft'S number was up.
She saw the break with Mr..
Roosevelt impending, and at the
time she said regretfully, "Will
will not see."
With a heart as stout as when
she entered, she went away from
the White House and left her
mark upon its life. Those are
her cherry trees by the Wash
ington monument; those are her
queenly ways they still talk about.
Now, in the three-story brick
house, all but lost among the elms
at Twenty-third street and wy
oming avenue, affairs of less gilt
tering moment, but seemingly
pleasant enough, fill the autumn
days.
Next: Mrs. Theodore ROOse-
welt.
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ATTEMPT MADE TO
WHIPSAW ROOSEVELT
Letters Charge Khan Is Trying to
Knife AL Smith.

h0ue Al SnuLn.
Second attempt to confuse sup
porters of Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Democratic presidential
nominee, was seen today by local
party leaders in the mailing of
campaign literature to a picked list
of Democratic voters.
Several weeks ago anonymous
postcards were mailed from Chi
cago, urging that the name of
Roosevelt be scratched from ballots
and that of Governor Alfred E.
Smith inserted.
Use of voting machines eliminated
possibility of such change.
The letters received by voters to-
day Enclosed a reprint of a paid
political Advertisement indorSing
Senator James E. Watson for re-
election.
Included with the reprint was a
autographed letter signed in fac
simile by five names. The charge
is made that khan activities are
being carried on in the Democratic
party to injure Smith.
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DEMOCRATS ON
GUARD AGAINST
C. 0. P. THREAT
Ready to Move Into Action
to Beat Down Any Last
Minute Surprise.
Continued from Page one)

of the mistakes, and the usually
disorganized Democrats conduct
campaign as smart as Mark Hanna's
in 1896.
The campaign has converted two
erstwhile friends into angry foes.
Both Hoover and Roosevelt served
here under Woodrow Wilson, and
with their wives It was their wont to
get together in their respective
homes for pick-me-up Sunday sup
pers.
With Hoover not a party man
indeed, suspected of being a Demo-
crat-and Roosevelt an "indepen-
dent, anti-Tammany Democrat" the
two comparatively young men had
more in common then than they
have now.
Sideline Interest Increased
Each candidates strategy has in
creased sideline interest. From a
man willing to make only three
campaign speeches, Hoover has been
transformed into the most active
seeker Of the presidency in modern
politics.
The roar of protest against his
policies shelled him from his White
House dugout.
Roosevelt insisted on strenuous,
nation wide tour, against the adj
vice of all advisers, solely to con-
vince the voters he was physically
able to endure the rigorS of the
presidency. AS result, his health
'has disappeared as a subject of
public discussion.
Few major mistakes have marked
the battle, but the Republicans
seem to have suffered most. Their
campaign of fear" apparently has
antagonized the rank and file.
And Hoover's statement that
loss of the gold standard was only
two weeks distant at one time, to-
gether with his declaration that his
defeat would bring weeds to the
pavements and rot to the school
houses, angered the influential in
terests favorably disposed toward
him.
AL Smith Nearest Blunder
He was accused, even in Wall
Street, of a willingness to slow up
recovery to advance his political
fortunes.
On the Democratic side, Al
Smiths Newark address was the
nearest the Democrats came to
plumbers. But the Republicans
showed a peculiar inability to cap
italize on this slip, and the Demo-
Gratis quickly rallied.
Oratorical high lights have been
Senator Carter Glass assault on the
administrators financial falla-
cies" and Owen D. Young's rebuke
of the fear campaign"
Of an entirely different order,
but politically significant, was
Smiths address at Boston. His rec
onciliation with Roosevelt was an
event both human, and, as he says,
historic"
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ments that keep Ticking back into
the quiet house that was dim to-
day beneath the bronze leaves.
She was slim and rosy and 10,
with grey-blue eyes, a tip-tilted
nose and dark bangs. That was
when fate tapped her on the
shoulder in the starlight on a
snowy hillside.
THEY had never seen each
l. other before, she and the
stalwart young man, and that
astonished them. They had
grown up in Cincinnati. Their
fathers were lawyers. She was
a student in Miss Nourses school.
He was studying law.
cit was at a coasting party, 1
remember very well, on a fine
steep hill on Mt. Auburn" she
wrote long afterward. will TAFT
was there and after being intro
duced to me, he took me down
the hill on his big bobsled. After
that we met frequently"
They met a rehearsalS for "She
Stoops to Conquer" and "a
Scrap Of Paper" The younger
set of Cincinnati in 1885 were
thespain while, and the romance
of the law student and the girl
from the brick house in Pike
street thrived.
A year later, in 1886, Helen Her
ron and Mr.. Taft were married;
they honeymooned to Europe sec
ond class; came back to Cincin-
natl to live in modest house
down by the stone quarry.
From that day, his wife was as
absorbed in the mans career as
he was himself.
Mrs. Taft always kept my feet
on the ground" he used to say.
She had to urge him ahead in
politics, for, as she often recalls,
che was no politician" And she
was the one he could always de-
pend upon for encouragement and
counsel through all the years of
varied government service in the
far places that led finally to
Washington.
A LWAYS she has had patric-
N ian way, a will of her own.
The White House perceived that
no later than the day of Mr.. Taft'i
Inauguration.
After the ceremony Mr.. Roose-
velt decided not to ride back to
the White House with his sue
cessor, a custom before that I'M
broken.
"Since the ex-President was not
going to ride back" Mrs. Taft
later explained, 81 decided would
No Presidents wife ever had done
it before, but as long as pre-
cedents were being disregarded
thought it might not be too great
risk for me to disregard this
one.
"Of course, there was objection.
Some of the inaugural committee
took my place at my husbands
side. Perhaps I had little secret
elation in thinking that was
doing something which no woman
ever had done before"
Installed in the White House,
she promptly revealed her execu-
tive ability; she upset social ira
dition.
The ushers at the doors disap-
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REPUBLICAN VICTORY
PREDICTED IN STATE
Bal and Women Leaders See Sweep
for G.. o, p.

George A. Ball. Republican ma
tional committeeman; Miss Dorothy
Cunningham, committeewoman, and
Mrs. Beryl Holland, state vice.
chairman, today issued statements
claiming victory in Indiana for
their party.
The national spokesman declared
that 1.-THE trend to Hoover in re-
cent weeks has been tremendous. f"
Indications are from all sectors
of the state that the tide will sweep
the Republican ticket to victory in
the Tuesday election" they said
Mrs. Holland declared that never
before in history has Indiana taken
such a sincere interest in an cleo
ton.
1.-THE women of Indiana con-
tributed largely to the election of
President Hoover in 1928, and they
have not deserted their leader in
this economic crisis" they said.