Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1928 — Page 2

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FIRE PERILS STATE BUILDINGS, WITHOUT INSURANCE

FEW POLICIES ARE TAKEN OUT ON STRUCTURES $45,000,000 Property Is Virtually Unprotected Against Flames. PREMIUMS DETERRENT Remedial Efforts So Far Fail; Repair Fund Suggested. Besides a few small policies carried directly by the institutions, the State of Indiana has no fire insurance upon the $45,000,000 worth of State-owned buildings, it was disclosed today. Attention of State officials was redirected to the insurance problem by the loss of $1,500 in a roof fire at the Governor’s mansion on Fall Creek two weeks ago. Various movements have been started by State organizations to develop plans v,-hereby State property might be insured at a small premium, but all of these attempts have come to naught, Louis Bowman, State auditor said. Although several of the buildings are of fireproof construction they house equipment, valued in millions of dollars, which is inflammable. No Action by Committee An audit made in September, 1926, by Bowman in order to determine the value of State buildings showed $36,591,204 in buildings and $8,482,447 in equipment. Since that time, however, Bowman said the State has added more than $1,000,000 to its holdings, none of which is protected by insurance. In an effort to devise some means whereby protection could be obtained, a committee headed by Dr. F. L. Ross of Richmond was appointed by the State institution section of the State conference on social work. The appointment was made at the October conference in La Porte. The committee has not met. Individual members of the committee were asked to devise methods w-hereby State insurance could be obtained. “Research on the insurance problem has revealed that it would cost the State a very large sum for premiums on the protection and this lin a measure has been a deterrent," Bowman said. i The auditor is working on a plan to be submitted to the next Legislature which will enable the State to carry its own insurance. Bowman proposes that the Legislature appropriate $500,000 to be deposited in State banks to bear interest, as an insurance fund. * State Fund Suggested I In event of a fire or other disaster to any of the property the interest on this fund would, if the Ljmage was not too great, provide P&7|the repair. If the damage would EtSo great that the cost of repairs cut into the principal, the would make up the Deficit by an appropriation. ■ “In this way the State would not Hive to pay large premiums to the Sgisurance companies- and there ■ ould be a reserve fund adequate ko pay for any repairs necessary as [a result of disaster,” Bowman said. [ The State situation is similar to 'that of Marion County. The Times disclosed several weeks ago that the county is permitting insurance policies to lapse because county council failed to appropriate money for p;-e----miums or create an insurance reserve fund.

PRAISE STATE HOSPITAL Research Work Advances Institution’s Standing in Nation. Praise for the research work accomplished by the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane, which has probably advanced it further than any similar Institution in the Nation, was voiced by Dr, Albert E. Sterne and Dr. C. E. Cottingham gtoring discussion following a paclinic at the hospital Hiesday night. Hrhe clinic was part of the proHam of the Indianapolis Medical glfiety. Am Held Up by Two Negroes ■While Motorman George Hall, 28, 617 Tecumseh St., and Conductor Wn. L. McCoy of 924 Highland Ave., at the end of the Indiana Ave. car line, Fourteenth and West Sts., Tuesday night, they were held up by two armed Negro bandits. A watch valued at $55, some tokens and S2O in change were taken.

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This is the second of a series of twelve articles treating movie-making from the inside Tomorrow: How the Extras Are Handled. By DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer TTOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 18.— One of the most important features in the production of a motion picture is the selection of the characters-—“casting" it is cailed in celluloid circles. For this job each studio maintains its own casting director and his assistants. Aiding them very materially is the Central Casting Bureau, through which all “extras” are secured. In the usual routine the star or stars are the first ones selected. This generally is done by the producer or director, rather than the casting director. The task is often simplified by the fact that the story has been written for a pailicular actor or actress. In other instances much difficulty arises over the fact that the star desired is tied up in some other production. In that case a substitute must be selected. Two Types of Stars Many of our pictures today have no stars—that is, the picture itself is featured above any particular player. The leading members of the cast in such instances are called “featured players.” In Hollywood there is a definite line drawn between a star and a featured player. A star must be big enough to carry a picture on the strength of his, or her, name alone. A featured player, while his name has box office value, is not expected to be the prime factor in drawing the crowds. There are the title of the film and one or two other “names” to help out. For example, Colleen Moore is a star. Her name brings them in. Evelyn Brent is a featured player. Her name merely adds strength to the attraction. In the field of featured players the casting director nearly always has his choice of several persons for each part. There is always more than one to fit almost any type of characterization. Here, too. the director often takes a hand and a dozen or more persons are often given screen tests for a single part. Tests Are Costly These tests seemingly are a part of the unnecessary waste that goes on in every Hollywood studio. Every test given costs the company between SSO and SIOO. Yet many directors insist upon giving tests to each prospect, despite the fact that they have seen them upon the screen numerous times. If they are unfamiliar with a player’s w-ork, it is a simple matter to get a film or cut-outs from a film in which the player worked. And in nine out of ten cases a player is far more realistic in an actual scene than in a test. Next come the “bit” actors—players who have small, unimportant roles. Each casting director has on his desk a Standard Casting Directory containing classified photographs of free-lancers. Most of them also have photographs of players on contract to other companies. All studios loan their players when they can’t keep them busy at home. With the aid of his directory and other lists, the casting director summons half a dozen persons of the type desired and then makes his selection. Another aid to the casting director is in the great body of managers and agents who inhabit the picture colony. These men earn their living by securing work for their clients. They are in constant touch with all studios watching for every part which they might secure for one of their players.

SERVICE SHOP ROBBED Owner Reports Loss of S3OO Worth of Batteries. Robert McCoy reported to police today that burglars took S3OO worth of batteries from his service shop, 135 W. Sixteenth St., Tuesday night. During a four hour absence of the family, burglars entered the home of E. S. Howe, 43 S. Gray St., and took clothing valued at SSO. Principal Eva Wiles reported School 12, McCarty and Chadwick Sts., entered Tuesday night and some tools taken. Win Interstate Music Test The Arsenal Technical high school riiale quartet composed of Vincent Haines, first tenor; Daniel Shattuck, second tenor; Ira Hopper, baritone, and William Jones, bass, won first place at the Music Supervisors National Conference in Chicago Monday. Quartets from twenty-five other States co.mpetited.

SENATE PROBES CUBAN CHARGES Investigate Accusations of Despotic Rule. Dp t nilcil Pri .t WASHINGTON. April 13.—Senator Shipstead (Farm-Labor), Minneapolis, today lined up support for his resolution calling on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to investigate alleged chaotic conditions in Cuba. Shipstead offered the resolution Tuesday. It directs the committee to establish whether the Platt Amendment enacted by Congress in 1901 as a condition to Cuban liberty, is being violated in the island republic. The resolution recites complaints of Americans in Cuba that they are being deprived of property without legal right and that the present Cuban regime is a virtual dictatorship marked by assassinations, farcial court procedure and denial of citizens’ elementary rights. Power of subpoena would be granted the investigating body, under the resolution. The committee would report its findings to the Senate.

PRECINCT BOUNDARIES MUDDLE INTO COURT Barred Candidate Files Suit Jesting Election Board Power. Marion Superior Court Four was called on to settle confusion regarding authority of county commissioners to change precinct boundary lines, and the election board's authority to veto such changes. Ralph E. Jones, attorney for Jesse A. Evans, 1324 N. Olney St., filed suit to mandate the election board to recognize his filing in the Eighteenth precinct of the First ward, the precinct he filed in after the changes were ordered. After filing closed the election board vtoed the changes, throwing out the filing of Evans, along with other candidates.

ORDERS DRIVERS STOP Car, Bus Men Must Give Right-of-Way to Police. Answering a letter sent to the Indianapolis Street Railway Company by Police Chief Claude M. Worley, Superintendent James P. Tretton enclosed a copy of orders sent all car and bus men of the company and the Peoples Motor Coach Company demanding they stop at once and give the right-of-way to police and emergency automobiles. Dismissal will result if the order is not obeyed, Tretton’s letter stated. He pledged cooperation with police in safety measures. Worley’s letter had been sent when it was reported to him that a street car was a contributory cause in the recent emergency car smash-up.

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PLAN LINCOLN DRIVE Fifty Campaign Captains Will 3le?t Thursday Night. Plans for the Indianapolis campaign for the Lincoln Memorial in Spencer County will be perfected at a meeting at the Claypool Thursday night. A. M. Glossbrenner, city chairman, will preside, and Vice Chairman Fred Hoke will deliver the prinlpal address. Fifty men. who will be team captains during the drive, will attend. These men will form a group of 450 voluntary solicitoi-s, who will start operations here May 10.

LARGE VOTE IS URGED City Clerk Boyce Issues Public Statement. City Clerk William A. Boyce, Jr., today urged a large vote in the coming primary to "dispell the doom of political selfishness and corruption,” in a statement on behalf of the Independent Republican Voters’ League. “With the filing of 122 declarations of candidacy for delegates to the Republican State convention yesterday, our county-precinct organization is more nearly complete than we have ever had it before,” Boyce said. “The mandamus suit filed on behalf of Jesse A. Evans in Superior Court, Room 4, this morning in an effort to obtain' equity and justice for some of our precinct committeemen candidates who were thrown out on a hair-line technicality is further evidence of our determination to wage a successful campaign for anew blood Republican countypercinct organization that will not permits its county chairman and election board representatives to hide behind legal technicalities in order to* overthrow the desires of the rank and file of the party.

TWO PERSONS MISSING Police today searched for Albert William. 16, who ran away from his home near Danville, Ind.. Tuesday. The youth is a ward of the Board of Children’s Guardians. Ed Phillips, 50, left his home at 535 W. Twenty-Eighth St., with SBO on his person and has not been seen since, a son told police.

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THREE BANDITS GET SO7 FROM TRUCK DRIVERS Rob Laundry Wagons: Flee From Police Squads in North Side. Three bandits in a Whippet coach held up three laundry truck drivers on the north side this morning, obtaining $97 loot and escaped from more than half a dozen squads of police who hunted the north section of the city. Motor Policemen Roeder and De Vault sighted the bandits shortly after the third hold-up at FiftySecond St. and Keystone Ave. and chased them four miles at a fifty-mile-an-hour speed, but were eluded. The bandit car, speeding east on Fifty-Second St., nearly collided with the police car headed north on Keystone Ave. By the time the police had turned around the bandits were speeding south on the Allison Rd. The police pursued them to Keystone Ave. and the Allisonville Rd., where several other roads intersect, and were unable to find out which route the bandits had taken before they were out of sight. Gordon F. Dickie, 1211 N. Gale St., driver for the Crown Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company, was the first victim. He parked in the 2000 block on Ruckle St., when the bandit car stopped beside him. Three men jumped out one flourishing a gun and took S2O. Fifteen minutes later the same men held up John F. Morris. 2034 Bellefontainc St., Excelsior Laundry Company driver, in front of 3125 Sutherland Ave. Morris was just getting out of his truck when two of the men seized him and grabbed $23. The third bandit remained at the wheel of the machine. The third hold-up was at Manlove Ave. and Forty-Ninth St. Eugene Golden, 747 Terrace Ave., Progress Laundry Company driver, was robbed of ssl. The three hold-ups occurred within a forty-five-minute period. One bandit was described as 35 and work a dark suit and black soft hat. Another was said to be about 27, and no definite description was obtained of the third. The blue Whippet was stolen from Pennsylvania and North Sts. Tuesday night, Carrie A. Grice, 520 W. Twenty-Eighth St., reported to police early today.

START EVALUATION OF STATE INSULL HOLDINGS Tax Board Fixes Values on Indiana Utilities. The State tax board today began : the valuation for taxation purposes of the Samuel Insull utility holdings in Indiana. The valuation of the Gary Railway Company was set at $1,547,258, an increase of $224,160 from 1927. The company's earnings have increased and its stock is now paying 8 per cent dividends, it was brought out. The East Chicago Gas Company valuation was increased from $30,000 to $60,000. The Kokomo Gas and Fuel Company figure was boosted from $373,400 to $392,000. Thp Public Service Pipe Line Company, Gary, valuation was set at ; $500,000, the same as last year. Attorney Wiiliam Mclncrny, South Bend, and a corps cf assistants represented the Insull interests. Seek English Channel Gold Du I 'tilted Press NEW YORK, April 18.—Harry L. ! Bowdoin, a diver, is organizing an expedition to recover $15,000,000 in gold out of the steamship Egypt which was sunk during the World War in the English Channel.

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Paul Davis, left, and Charles Bell have the leading roles respectively of Alaric and Mrs. Chichester in the comedy, “Peg o’ My Heart,” to be presented by the Cathedral High School Dramatic Club Friday night in the school auditorium. Three other “girls” will complete the feminine cast. They are: Thomas Carey, Peg; Myles Sweeney, Ethel, and Daniel McDuffee, the maid. The male roles are taken by Edward Fillenworth, Jerry; Edward Burkert, Christian Brent, and Carl Friedman, lawyer.

U. S, AND ITALY TO SIGN PACT Arbitration Treaty Ready for Signatures. Bp United Preset WASHINGTON, April 18.—An arbitration treaty with Italy will be signed at the State Department at noon Thursday by Secretary of State Kellogg and Ambassador De Martino, it was announced today. The treaty is a second of a series now being negotiated with various governments and essentially is similar to the French pact signed here Feb. 6. The first article refers to the Bryan conciliation treaty and provides that all disputes of whatever nature not otherwise composed will be submtted to a conciliation commission. Article two provides for obligatory arbitration of justiciable questions, which the two governments cannot settle by diplomacy or conciliation. The third article lists four exceptions to arbitration, including ques- f tions of domestic labor, involving rights of third parties, the Monroe doctrine and Italy’s obligation under the League covenant. Finds Tooth of Mastodon Du Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., April 13. Omer Cassell found a mastodon tooth buried near the Big Four railroad tunnel here. The tooth is six inches long and three inches wide.

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BIRGER IS SANE: BIES THURSDAY ON GALLOWS Doomed Gangster Loses in Final Court Battle to Cheat Noose. BENTON, ill., April 18.—Defeated in every move to avert execution, Charlie Birger, southern Illinois gang lord, faces death on the gallows Thursday. His sanity hearing which extended his die from Friday the 13th, until he was resentenced, came to a sudden conclusion Tuesday afternoon and it toon the jury only twelve minutes to agree that Birger was as sane as ever. The defense which had claimed it would call a dozen or more witnesses —and perhaps a few alienists—to prove that the gangster’s mind had become tin' need since he was first sent*., lto die, presented a weak case. I offered the testimoii” Gleason, barbecue stand proprietor, to support its point. When the verdict came in Circuit Judge Charles Miller sentenced Birger to hang at 10 a. m. Thursday. Birger was convicted of hiring two young henchmen. Harry and Elmo Thomason to assassinate Mayor Joe Adams, of West City, during a bitter gang war with his rivals, Carl, Earl and Bernic Shelton over the southern Illinois bootleg trade) Birger’s Friend Held Bit Times special HAMMOND, Ind., April 18.— Claude Bauman, 30, who says he is a friend of Charlie Birger, notorious Illinois gangster sentenced to hang Thursday, is held by police here. He is wanted in Illinois on a murder charge. : Police say Bauman has thirty-two buckshot wounds in his back and head. They believe the wounds were suffered six months ago.

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