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The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
MANY CITIES GIVEN
UTILITY RATE CUTS
Smaller Communities Benefit by
Commission Order.

More than 200 cities, towns and
communities will be benefited by
utility rate reductions totaling $685.
900 a year, ordered by the public
service commission, effective Friday.
Most of the reductions affect
smaller communities and majority
are small savings effected by agree
ments negotiated by Sherman Min
ton. public counsellor.
The reductions involve electric,
water, gas and telephone companies.
Most telephone companies in the
state have agreed, according to Min
ton, to abide by the commission or
der against the Indiana Bell Tele-
phone Company, eliminating the IS
cents monthly extra charge for
handset telephones after customers
have paid maximum Of s. for
three years. A.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
BY WILLIAM ID. O'BRIEN
Times Special Writer

UTEST POINT. Sept. Bat
w tie Monument, estimated
by tourists, known throughout the
world in picture, last goal of every
West Point Cadet-in front Of 1t
he receives his diploma-gleamed
DULY high over the Hudson in the
dreary chill soon after dawn.
Past its historic rise on Trophy
Point clupped-clupped horses, ar
tillerv wheels rumbled, howitzers
and trucks, tractors and field
kitchens rounded the rows Of 81
fenced guns and the feet of men IN
rife and machine gun companies
likewise patted past.
All were moving up TO the
front.
Across the river dt was pre-
tended a brigade was encampeo'
prepared TO march next day on
Monroe, twenty miles away, where
enemy forces were concentrating.
The First battalion (the pretense
continued was detached from the
brigade the night before, and re-
inforced by Battery AS artillery
detachment and one heavier pla-
toon, was sent across the river
with certain orders.
The First battalion and rein
forcements comprised some 600
seniors and third clasSmen OF the
United States Military Academy
and these cadets marched and
trotted and rode by Battle Monu-
ment at the beginning Of one OF
the most extensive and exacting
war games ever plotted at West
Point.
Academy officers planned the
maneuvers in emphasizing the no
ton that an officers value to his
army and country is enchanced by
an understanding of the view
point of the enlisted men he shall
one day command.
This may be gained, 1t is be-
Ieved officially, by requiring
cadet training for a commission to
perform every task of the enlisted
man on the march and in the
field.
Some hours before the battalion
was on the road Major Dennis E.
McCunniff, chief umpire of the
maneuvers, stepped out Of his role
as a tactical officer of the acad-
envy.
He appeared as a messenger,
supposed to come from the head
quarters of the brigade assumed to
be in camp across the Hudson, be-
fore cadets who had been chosen
as commanding officers for the
first days maneuvers.
THE major told them of the
Il brigade commanders message
directing the battalion to take
and hold the western exit of the
pass over Bull mountain east Of
Highland Mills to cover the
crossing of the brigade on the
morrow.
Cadet officers consulted, studied
maps and planned their first
days advance. Then, under COM
mand of Cadet Paul Burlingame,
battalion commander, two rifle
companies, a machine gun COM
pany, a howitzer platoon. a bat
terry of artillery and head
quarters company moved past
Battle Monument.
Travelling rough Pipe Line trail,
lodging tree stumps, rocks and
other encumbrances planted to
discourage curious automobilists,
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
CARRIED INTO COURT
Youth on Stretcher as Man
slaughter Hearing Is Set.

Clifford c. Hanning, Is, of 909
East Thirty-eighth street, charged
with involuntary manslaughter as
the result of the death of Mrs. Vir-
ginia Fitch of Paoi, Ind. in an
automobile collision, will be given
a hearing Sept. 6 before Municipal
Judge William H. Sheaffer.
Suffering from injuries incurred
in the crash, Hanning was brought
into court on a stretcher Thursday
for arraignment. and the hearing
date set. He is at liberty under
$500 bond.
Mrs. Fitch was injured fatally
Sunday night when an automobile
in which she was a passenger COL
nded with one driven by Hanning.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
LIGHTNING KILLS THREE
Roadside Soft Drink Stand Struck;
Seven Others Burned.
RrTritsd Press

By nifed Press
CABOT. Ark. Sept. 2.-Three per-
sons we're killed and seven others
critically burned when lightning
struck 3 roadside soft drink stand
near here Friday night
The lightning struck a gasoline
torch lamp in front of the stand,
where a dozen persons going to
nearby dance hall sought shelter
from an electrical storm.
Three men-George Snyder, IS.
Little Rock: Gerald Pickard. Is. and
Earl Sneed. 20. of Cabot-were dead
when doctors arrived. Seven others
were badly burned.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
Taxi Hits Traffic Policeman

Hurled ten feet when struck by a
taxicab, Roy Losh, traffic police
manfi suffered chest and shoulder
injuries Friday at Pearl and Illi-
nois streets. Ralph Chestnut, 81, of
152 Villa avenue, cab driver, was ar
rested on charges of reckless driv-
ing and assault and battery.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
C0NV0CATION is SET
Professor Schultz to Be Speaker at
Manchester College.
By Times Special

By Times Special
NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind,
Sept. 2.-Opening convocation of
Manchester college will be help
Sept. IS, and the speaker will be
professor j. Raymond Schultz, mem
ber of the faculty, it is announced
by President Otho Winger.
A four-day freshman period will
open Friday, Sept. 8.
Faculty members returning after
summer study include Professor j.
E. Dotterer and DR.. R. H. Miller,
from the University of Chicago, and
Professor Edward Kintner from IN
diana university.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
HUNT WOUNDED MAN

Hendricks County Authorities Seek
Identity of Marauder.
Hendricks county authorities to-
day are without clews to the identity
of man believed wounded Thurs
day night when he and two COM
panions Swere fired upon by George
Winkler, R. R. 18, Box 442.
Winkler said he fired when he
steal chickens at his farm. Follow
found the three men attempting to
ing a shot, Winkler said one Of the
men cried out and was carried away
by his companions.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
Child Killed by Electric Train

VALPARAISO, Ind, Sept. a.
Sixteen-month-old Raymond We
deem was killed instantly Friday
night when he walked into the path
Of Q South Shore electric train at
the home Of his parents, near MIN
exal Springs.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
SHOP OPENED

Martha Washington Company Has
. New Store on North Meridian.
Another shop of the Martha
Washington Candy Company was
opened today at 1901 North Me-
ridian street 1t will specialize in sale
of ice cream.
w. j. Hefferman, regional man
ager for the company, was in charge
Of the opening.
A New England colonial atmos-
phere prevails in the shop and coi-
ors used in decoration OF the ex-
terror are red, white and blue.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02

Two Negro passengers in a taxi,
driven by FerreI Bennett, $40 North
Meridian street, robbed him Of $1.80
early today after he had driven to
Northwestern avenue and Twenty
fifth street, Bennett reported to
police.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02

This is the seoond Of series Of ar
tieles bv correspondent, who ae-
eompanled the cadets in the field. on
how the West Point cadets are being
trained in war maneuvers-
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
Ito Be Continued.)

Dona Faye, Bert Wrennick, Kitty
Axton, Jack Foley, Evelynne Cor
dray and frankie Ralston.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
MAN KILLED UNDER
TRUCK; Unidentified
Body Held at City Morgue
for Investigation.

Authorities still were attempting
today to. determine the identity Of
a man who was killed when he fell
beneath wheels of truck at Capitol
and Kentucky avenues Friday noon.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02

nesses told police the man seemed
to slump and fall under the wheels
as the truck passed.
John F. Forbes, 33, Brooklyn, Ind,
driver of the truck, was not held.
The death raised the county toll
to eighty-nine fer the year.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02

The body, that Of a
man about so, remains
at city morgue, where
it was sent by DR.. E. R.
Wilson. deputy coroner,
who investigated. Wit
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
FUNERAL RITES
ARE HELD FOR
ADOLF WEGMAN
Veteran MaChiniSt Had
Been indianapolis Resi-
dent 35 Years.

Funeral services for adolf Veg
man, IS. a native Of Germany. who
died at his home 800 Corrill Greet.
/ Thursday following an illness Of six
months, were held In the Yoight
funeral home at $3.50 this morning
and at 9 in The Sacred Heart
Catholic church. Burial followed in
St. Joseph's cemetery.
Mr., Wegman. who for twenty-five
years was a uachinist at the Chand-
Ter and Taylor Company, had re-
sided in indianapolis thirty-five
years.
Surviving him are four daughters.
Mrs. Max Bare, Miss Collette Veg
man. Miss Frances Wegman and
Miss Agnes Wegman, indianapolis:
four sisters, Mrs. Anna Bany and
Mrs. Pauline Schumacher, OF IN
dianapoliS and Mrs. Sophie Herr
and Miss Hildegard Wegman of
Germany and a brother Gebhardt
Wegman of Germany
Services at Greenfield
The body Of Clarence w. Fort,
who died at his home in Tavares,
Fla, will be brought to Indianapolis
Sunday morning and will be taken
to the Lyman funeral home at
Greenfield, where funeral services
will be held at 2;3O p. m.
Surviving him, in addition TO the
widow, Mrs. Nellie c. Fort. and four
children, are the father, F -. Fort,
Indianapolis and three sisters. Mrs.
Agnes Rhea Of Muncie, Mrs Alma
hartman of French Lick and Miss
Ruth Fort, Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
ByUnifedPress

b mud Press
PATERSON. N. j., Sept. "A
strike Of silk workers. centering in
the mills in this area, will be sub
mitted to the national labor board
for mediation. il was revealed after
Senator Robert F. Wagner invited
workers and employers to meet. The
conference will be held in Washing
ton next Tuesday.
The Washington times., 1933-06-23
Series of Duds

You can understand why Ruth
Chatterton has been going steadily
downward on the toboggan when
you, consider she has had such
trash as "The Crash" "Once a
Lady" Tomorrow and Tomor-
row" and Lilly Turner" 1t makes
you sigh for the actress of "The
Doctors Secret" and Sarah and
Son"
William Haines passed from the
scene as a favorite because he
couldn't survive and project him
self as the star of stories where
he was an irritant rather than
an appealing figure. Gloria Swan
sons Tonight or Never" was a
wafer-thin story that she ruined
by trying to improve on David
Belasco treatment. Perfect Un-
derstanding" was another Swan
son failure due, I think, to the
fact that it was made in England.
If they have ever made an AL
picture in England. it has never
been my good fortune to see it
screened. John Bull may Surpass
us in diplomacy, but at making
pictures he is still very much in
the amateur class when compared
to Hollywood.
Warren William, who is a real
society man and fine actor, was
asked to put across such an i'm
possible tale as THE Mind
Reader" with hero who was a
trimmer and a charlatan from
the first to the last reel. Hot
Pepper" made me thoroughly
tired of the Edmund LoWe-Victor
MacLaglen team and What, No
Beer" convinced me that Buster
Keaton had shot his bolt as a
comedian and that even Jimmy
Durante could be a bore without
the right material.
The Washington times., 1933-06-23

thors set them back with their
juvenile audience and gave the
nations censors nervous prostra-
tion trying to clean up their bur-
lesque hokum in $50 This Is
Africa" A rotten bunch of gags
in every way.
Cylde Beatty has only himself
to blame for the flop of "The
Big Cage" He was the star of
the picture and the author of
the 10-cent story in which he
tried to ride to screen glory.
AL Jolson can tell the fellow
who wrote "Hallalujah, I'm a
Bum" he was no friend of his
James Dunn and Sally Eilers as
team couldn't put over Hold
Me Tight" and Sylvia Sidney's
Madame Butterfly" was proof
enough you couldn't blow up a
one-act play into a feature length
movie unless you put something
in it for stuffing.
The Washington times., 1933-06-23
Unappealing Characters

I think Joan Crawford has a
fight coming with her authors
unless she draws better material
than the revamped Sadie Thomp-
son" and the overrated Faulkner's
a To-day We Live" both back
ward steps in the Crawford career.
Helen Hayes drew the feeble Son
Daughter" and Ramon Navarro
tried to make the absurA Bar
barian" credible. Jean Harlow and
Clark Gable as a team were
strong enough to survive the
feeble fiction, Red Dust" while
Jesse Lasky'S comeback as a pro-
ducer is less than startling be-
cause of two poor stories, Zoo in
Budapest" and "The Warrior Hus
band"
When I say poor stories, mean,
among other things, yarns that
the movie public find it hard to
HNAACFV. QUILL 90 OCAOW C41C OCdS
where the manly hero kept a girl
down at the bottom of the ocean
until she was taking almost her
last breath. Imagine a girl falling
heavy for chap who forced her
to submit to such devilish cruelty.
Again in Hell Below" where
Robert Montgomery has to die to
justify himself for stealing the
wife of shell shocked and pitia-
bly, crippled soldier. Or Temple
Drake" where the heroine is sup
posed to have been smitten by
the lowest type of degenerate.
You can't blame these mistakes
on the audience or on the critics.
The fault can be placed directly
at the doorstep of the authors or
possibly on the portico of the ex-
ecutives who pick the stories. Hol-
lywood pays for their stupidity
and their bad judgment.
The Washington times., 1933-06-23
"Krakatoa" " Film
on Keith: s Bill

Said to be one of the most
spectacular thrills ever caught
by the camera and microphone
will be presented as a special
added attraction beginning to-
day at RKO Keith's when "Kra-
katoa" is shown in conjunction
with the musical feature Melody
Cruise"
"Krakatoa," it might be ex-
planned, is the name of one of
the worlds most active subma-
rine volcanoes, located in the
Indian Ocean.
j. H. Becker, an intrepid cam
eraman in the service of the Dutch
government, waited for several
months to secure the startling
sight anC sound record of Kra-
katoa.
The Washington times., 1933-06-23
Failure Of Many Pictures Is Di-
rectIv Traced to Weak Fiction
All In a Day
THE LADY WHO MEANT WELL
-6y-
MARK HELLINGER

niture in storage, stayed to look
at the bare walls which had
meant so much before, and de-
parted for Mammals house.
Mamma did her best to make
Johnny feel at home. She told
him, when he arrived, that the
place was his. In fact she kissed
him. She said that she would
accept no money from them
until Johnny got a job, and
that the two kids had nothing
in the world to worry about.
Time passes slowly. But not
in a column. Six months have
elapsed between this paragraph
and the one preceding it. John.
ny is still jobless. He is discour-
aged. Downhearted. Sunk.
But not Mamma. Mamma is
happy. Very happy. Instead of
being alone, she now has her
darling daughter around all the
time. And at night, if Mamma
wants Joan to go shopping with
her or to a movie, she knows
that no argument win result be-
tween the love birds. For
Johnny is now so indebted to
Mamma that he can't say any,
thing about it.
During the day, Johnny goes
out to look for a job. If he
comes home before five, Mamma
whispers to Joan that she'd bet
that Johnny didn't look for a
job at all. She'd bet that he
went to a movie instead. Ask
him.
One day it got a little beyond
Johnny's nerves. The kid for
got himself for once.
"Joan," he said quietly. I'm
going to leave her. 1 can't stand
that woman any more. She's
got me half crazy.
I'm going, and I want you, as
my wife, to come with me. I've
got friend in Brooklyn who'll
take care of us until 1 get a job.
Now it's either me or your
mother. Who's your choice?"
Joan thought for a moment.
"LiSten," she said. You're
my husband and I love you.
She's my mother and love her.
There's no choice at all. If you
want to leave, after all she's
done for you, that's your busi-
ness. I'm staying"
Johnny left.
Johnny waited for Joan. Joan
waited for Johnny. Each one
loved the other madly. But
they never met again, until re-
Gently, in a court of divorce.
And then they sat on opposite
sides of the great room and
listened to a judge, who looked
cody from one to the other
and then divorced them.
Joan cried on the way out of
court. Johnny didn't. He
couldn't. There was a lump in
his throat as big as an apple.
AS they waited for a taxi,
Mamma took out her handker.
chief and brushed a tear aside.
Then she turned to Joan.
did you see how coldly he
sat there?" she moaned. after
me treating him as though he
were my own son, he looked as
though he blamed me for every
thing. And I meant so well!"
The Washington times., 1933-06-23
Hollywood Parade

During her stay in Paris, La
Dietrich has discarded trousers.
It comes from a very good source
that she also will be wearing
dresses on her return to this
country.
To me, it is a funny story. Ever
since he went on location to
Annapolis, Bruce Cabot has been
putting in almost daily long dis
tance calls to Adrienne Ames.
The other night they came to a
dead end in the conversation.
Cabot hesitated for moment,
then he exclaimed: Were having
a thunder-st here. Do you
want to listen to it?" So he put
the received out the window and
Miss Ames, in Hollywood, listened
to about SIS worth of Maryland
thunder.
If Metro Goldwyn-Mayer will
give him a three-months vacation,
Nils ASther wants to accept an
offer to do "Mr. WI" on the Lon
don stage. The Swedish actor re-
Gently made a hit as a Chinese
in 1.-The Bitter Tea of General
Yen" Plastering up the corners
of his eyes for the part later cost
him several weeks of painful re-
cuperation. Due to the shortage
of sirens in Hollywood, Fox will
postpone "The Worst Woman in
Paris" until Myrna 10y is suffi-
GENTLY recovered to take the lead.
Funniest sign of all, says
Groucho Marx, is above beach
store. It reads: "Ye Olde Ken
lucky Kosher Delicatessen."
The Washington times., 1933-06-23

At the top of the list for sour
stories I place John Gilbert'S
"Fast Workers" and 1 honestly
think whoever picked that for Mr..
Gilbert was somebody who saw
him clinging desperately in a last
effort to survive as star and
wanted to see him sink. He got
his wish for Fast Workers"
killed John Gilbert as a star.
Another palooka was Ann Hard
ing's Prestige" which was made
after stencil story No. l about the
tropical country and the unhappy
wife. Constance Bennett drew
one in "Rockabye," again proving
that a star can't do Mack Sen
nett stuff in a story and keep it
credible. Barbara Stanwyck
has had some of the worst luck,
drawing such stories as THE Pur-
chase Price," which represented
Hollywood at it's poorest. being
miscast in Bitter Tea of General
Yen" and then making Ladies
They Talk About" synthetic
tale that had her shooting at a
man one minute and making vio-
lent love to him in the next.
The Washington times., 1933-06-23
When The Feature Is
Shown On The Screen

PALACE - Marion -Iavies in
"Peg O. My Heart" at 11:15 a. M,
1:2O. 3:25, $50, 7:35 and 9:40
p. m.
RKO KEITH'S- s"lie Rug
giles in Melody Cruise" at 1884
a. m, 1877, $40, SAB. 7:46 and
9:49 p. m.
EARLE-Barbara Stanwyck in
"Baby Face" at 11:15 a. m, 1:51,
ABS. 7:21 and 9:57 p. m. Stage
shows at 1859, 3:45, $50 and
9:06 p. m.
FOX-James Dunn in The Girl
In 419" at II a. M, 1874. APT,
1920 and 1918 p. m. Stage shows
at 1928, 3:16, 6:09 and 9:02 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Ann Harding in
"When Ladies Meet" at 1880
a. M, 1885, 3:35, $40, TAO and
GAS p. m. ..,..
METROPOLITAN -" Gold Dig
gers of 1885," at II a M, 12:45.
1920, 4:10. 5:55. 1885 and 9:20
p. m.
The Washington times., 1933-06-23
Richard ArIen to
Play Farmer
in Film
BY HARR ON CARROLL
Copyright, 1898. King Features
Syndicate, Incl

HOLLYWOOD, CAL, June %.
When Dick Arlen went golfing
with both Adolph zukor and
Emanuel Cohen the other day,
studio gossips wondered whether
they talked of the stars recent
dissatisfaction with Paramount.
Maybe they did, for Charles R..
Rogers announces today that Dick
will be loaned to him for one Of
the leads in Golden Harvest" |"
the first of the new series of pic
lures he 5 making for Para
mount release.
AS the role is a fat one, it
offers Dick chance to play diff
ferent type of character-a young
lheat farmer, guesses are being
made that a truce has been eff
fected and that the stars option
will be exercised in August.
Rogers will send two units on
location for Golden Harvest" one
The Washington times., 1933-06-23
- STAGE AND SCREEN
Midnight Mary
Next at Fox
Theater

The melodramatic career of a
New York tenement girl who
comes perilously close to the
electric chair is depicted in
Midnight Mary" a new Metro
GoldWyn-Mayer Cosmopolitan pic
ture opening next Friday at the
Fox Theater. The picture was
filmed from an original story by
Anita Loos and features Loretta
Young, Ricardo Cortez, Franchot
Tone, Andy Devine and Una
Merkel.
The story centers on Mary
Martin, young girl who grows
UP in adverse circumstances and
is finally induced to join a
group of crooks who progress
rapidly from petty larceny to
robberies on the grand scale.
She falls in love with a wealthy
young attorney and tries des-
pcrately to start a new life on
an honest footing. The gangSter
who has dominated her youth
threatens to kill the man she
loves, and against her will, Mary
Martin is forced back into the
underworld.
The pivotal role is played by
Loretta Young, one of the most
popular of the screens younger
stars. Ricardo Cortez plays the
gangster who forces her to be-
come a crook, and the romantic
phases of the plot are handled
by Miss Young and Franchot
Tone. Andy Devine and Una
Merkel insure the picture of
numerous comedy moments, and
the group of supporting players
include Frank Conroy, Warren