Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 131, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1928 — Page 2

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MOVIE SCHOOLS' VICTIMS CALLED FOR JURY QUIZ Stories of Blasted Hopes and Lost Money to Be Told. BY STANLEY BAILEY United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Oct, 22.—Six women, who claim to have been victimized by Hollywood “movie schools,” were to appear before the Los Angeles county grand jury today and tell of the operations of the institutions. The present investigation, one of many by local and state authorities, was ordered by Ellis Eagan, deputy district attorney. The schools have existed for years in and about Hollywood. The first one sprung up, probably, when the first studio opened its doors and the first extra applied for a job. Survive All Attacks Since then they have been subject of all manner of attacks. Campaigners have knocked, the state labor commission has probed and writers have flayed, but still the schools make money. They appeal to the yearning of the unknown to win glory in the films, and that appeal brings in the profits. There is the case of Mrs. Margaret Russell of Hollywood, who reported to Eagan that she had paid $250 for a course of instruction in a school, after being promised a position. The course, she said, included only a brief instruction in screen makeup. She did not even receive a diploma, she complained. Useless Diplomas Beautifully engraved certificates, which are looked at with admiration by printers and owners, if not by casting directors, are a principal stock in the trade of the schools. Os course, all such institutions are not illegal in their operations, but the studios pay little attention to the diplomas, even though they may not always look with actual disfavor on the proof of the money spent to learn the art. Many devices are used by some of the schools to obtain their “sucker lists.” Boxes have been placed in drug stores, with invitations for letters asking for screen tests. Cameramen go through the state, making tests, and, it is claimed, if the “sucker” has money she is told she has talent. Talkie School Late The Hollywood Filmograph, a small magazine, has been having a particular war with such schools for months and was named defendant in a $330,000 libel suit, later reported dropped. A group of the schools was plaintiff. The records of the “alumni” of such schools, who came from all social strata, with the poorer classes predominating, are filled with stories of hopes raised high and then shattered. A wealthy Indiana widow spent $75,000 to become an actress. She finally was starred in one production and returned to oblivion. With the coming of the talkies, a new type of school appeared—that which would teach actors and those aspiring to the screen to talk for reproduction, and they reaped small fortunes, from those on the inside as well as those looking in.

LEGAL ADVICE OFFERED BALLOTERS AT POLLS Sixty Attorneys Volunteer Services for Election Day. So that voters may have full information as to their rights at their rights at the polls, sixty local attorneys havp volunteered their services to L. J. Keach, Marion county Democratic chairman, and have been assigned to voting places throughout the county. The attorneys urge voters to insist upon their rights at the polks and to report promptly any denial of that right. “Marion county voters are entitled to an honest and clean election and these sixty volunteer lawyers will help them get it,” Keach said. “Examination of the list of inspectors filed by the Republican county chairman for the coming election reveals several with criminal records.” HOLD DEATH INQUEST Impatient Attorney Slain in Elevator Shaft. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—An inquest will be held today into the death last night of Blackburn Esterline, assistant United States solicitor general, who was struck by an elevator in the Department of Justice building. Esterline is believed to have become impatient when the elevator operator did not answer his summons promptly and peered down the shaft. The cab was descending and struck him on the head.

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FARMER KILLS HUNTER;HELD ‘Fired to Teach Lesson;’ Pleads Not Guilty. By United Press • ROCHESTER, N. Y„ Oct. 22. Calm in his protestations that he meant only to wound, not kill, his victim, Edwin Oacon, Jr., 41, farmer, today pleaded not guilty to a charge of first degree murder for the slaying of Charles S. Capellino, 67, wealthy Italian banker of this city. Capellino, hunting slunday on Gacon’s unposted farm' land near here, was shot dead with his own gun after an argument. When the banker displayed a hunting license, the irate farmer seized the shotgun and fired at close range, according to the confession in possession cf authorities. “I only wanted to tear off part of his shoulder and teach him a lesson,” Gacon, explained. Capellino died instantly.

MACFADDEN TO SPEAK Publisher and Author on Program of Rotary Club. Bernarr Macfadden, author, publisher and editor, will be in Indianapolis Tuesday for two speeches. The 60-year-old publisher of Physical Culture magazine will speak on “How the Busy Man Can Keep Fit at 60,” at the Rotary Club luncheon at the Clalpool. In the evening he will speak at the Ail Souls Unitarian church on “Maintaining the Spirit of Youth.” Macfadden will come here in a private car, bringing with him his wife ahd six children. OFFICERS CLOSE CAMP Reserves Spend Two Days at Ft. Harrison. Following map-reading exercise and a compass demonstration Sunday the contract camp for reserve officers and civilians was closed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. The camp was opened Saturday and the students were quartered and messed at the officers’ club. A demonstration of formal guard mounting was made by the 11th infantry following pistol range firing. Brigadier General George H. Jamerson, post commandant, and other officers spoke at the smoker Saturday night. RONDTHALER RITES SET Former Pastor Here to Be Buried Tuesday Afternoon. Funeral sendees for Dr. J. Albert Rondthaler, 84fl former pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church who died Saturday in Batavia, 111., will be held at 3 Tuesday afternoon in Crown Hill chapel. Dr. Rondthaler left Indianapolis in 1894 to accept a pastorate in Chicago. At the time of his death he was connected with the Mooseheart school at Batavia. The widow, two sons and two daughters survive.

DEMPSEY FAILS AS STAGE STAR Play to Discontinue Run at End of Week. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 22. Jack Dempsey’s great personal popularity failed to register at the box offices when it came to putting over “The Big Fight,” a play which co-starred the former heavyweight champion and hi .vise, Estelle Taylor. Prc rcers of the play will discontinue its run at the end of this week in Hartford, Conn. The “Big Fight” oppned in Buffalo, Aug. 30. It was bruoght to New York from Philadelphia, and its Broadway run was a disappointment to the management, Sam Harris and David Belasoo. A brief road tour, in hopes that smaller cities would support the show on the basis of rempsey’s popularity attracted too few customers.

TEMPERATURE TO DROP Rain and Cool Weather Predicted for Tonight. Rain and 12 to 15 degrees cooler weather tonight will follow the comparatively mild weather of the week-end J. H. Armington, predicted today. Today’s temperature of 56 was 12 degrees above normal. The mercury will read 40 to 45 degrees Tuesday morning and there likely will be rain during the night, he said. Tuesday, however, will be warm and it will warm up somewhat by night, he predicted. The temperature average was 57, 3 degrees above normal, Sunday. MINE WORKERS MEET The annual meeting of the international board of the United Mine Workers of America began at 10 this morning in the organization offices at Merchants Bank building. Appealed cases will be acted upon and routine business transacted, according to John L. Lewis, international president, who arrived here Sunday night. Twenty-five delegates from the thirty-one districts of the miners in the United States and Canada at tended. FORMER PREMIER DIES Hu United Press LONDON, Oct. 22. Andrew Fisher, 66, former premier of Australia, died today at his Hampstead home. Death was due to a heart attack brought on by influenza.

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RASKOB PUTS IN BUSY WEEK-END Challenges Accuracy of Magazine Poll. By United Proa NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—With Herbert Hoover, the opposition candidate, invading New York. Chairman John J. Raskob of the Democratic national committee set a record for campaign activity over the weekend. He was besieged by newspapermen for comment on latest developments in the oil lease cases at Washington. He was asked whether he intended to curb Governor Bilbo cf Mississippi in the latter’s statement that Hoover had danced with a Negress. He declined to speak on these matters “for the time being”. But he was not silent in other respects. He issued a statement challenging the accuracy of the Literary Digest poll, which so far has shown all but four states for Hoover. He cited errors in the Digest poll of four years ago. He made public a letter he had written to Chairman Work of the Republican party, saying that organization had “become simply the prohibition party of the United States.” QUIZZES AL ON HIS STAND ON ‘POWER’ Socialist Candidates Praises Smith for Attack on Hoover. [ill United Press READING Pa., Oct. 22.—Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, has asked Governor Alfred E. Smith to explain more fully his stand on the power question. The query was in the form of a letter which praised Smith for his vigorous attack on Hoover and the Republican party for their stand on Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam. Thomas asked the Democratic nominee whether as President he would merely retain power sites now owned by the Government or whether he would attempt to deal with the "super power monopoly,” and if so, how. He read the letter to a political audience here last night.

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DRY ACT HURTS MAN'S RIGHTS, DEBATER SAYS i x Prohibition Act Injected in Forum Discussion by Chicagoan. “Repeal the prohibition law! Not because it is a failure (which obviously it is), but because it is a violation of the natural rights of man. It is contrary to the Declaration of Independence, which declares for 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happines.’ It' is to the bill of rights in the Constitution and the greater its success the greater its harm.” Although asked not to do so by his opponent in debate at the Jewih Community Center, Sunday n'ght, Horace J. Bridges, Chicago, attacked the prohibition law and the eighteenth amendment with the above words. The debate subject was “Can We Make People Good by Law?” Dr. John A. Lapp, professor of sociology at Marquette university, Milwaukee, upheld the affirmative. He is director of the social action department of the National Catholic Welfare conference and a prohibitionist. In opening his debate subject Lapp pleaded that the prohibition law be left out of the discussion, as an entire evening would be needed, for that topic alone. In rebuttal he challenged his opponent to name an unnecessary law which had a universal personal application, and Bridges took that opening to assail prohibition. He was greeted with a round of applause. “Some persons think that human nature can not be changed in any way,” Lapp declared. “I believe that human nature is modifiable and that scientific statutes will aid in making people better. I do not bellev§ that all people will be made good by law.” “It is unprofitable to argue the success or failure of the prohibition law,” he declared. “If you accept the failure theory (which I do not) it would be easy to trace it to un scientific planning. It may be that alcohol beverages should have been reduced in content gradually, rather than at a single stroke.” The popular idea that there are “too many laws” he termed a myth. Bridges took the stand that while agreeing that law in the debate meant statutes, Lapp failed to define goodness. Goodness means doing the right thing for the right sake and is something impossible to be brought about by law. It must come from within, he contended. President Leonard A. Strauss of the Jewish Community Center Association, presided. The debate was the first of the third annual open forum series sponsored by the organization and open to the public. BILLY SUNDAY COMING Evangelist Speaks Wednesday on Prohibition at Cadle. Billy Sunday, evangelist, will speak at Cadle Tabernacle Wednesday evening on “Prohibition” under the direction of a committee headed by Charles F. McCampbell, it was announced today. J. Russell Paxton, Technical high school, will lead community singing and members of church choirs of the city have been invited to join a voluntary choir for the evening. Probe After Finding of Bones Bji Times Slue ini ALEXANDRIA, Ind„ Oct. 22. Authorities today are making investigation following finding of some human bones, hair and traces of quicklime by Frank Bicknell in an old grave In the yard of his home.

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HELD FOR KILLING SIX YEARS AGO Confessed Suspect Identified From Photograph. By Uni led Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Carl Panzram, 35, will be turned over to Salem, Mass., authorities following his identification from a picture by three women and a youth, there as the man who was last seen with Henry McMahon, 12, slain six years ago, authorities here said today. Mrs. Bertha M. Luxton of Marblehead; Mrs. Margaret Crean, Mrs. Theresa C. Parsons afid Walter Crean. 20, of Salem, identified Panzram who recently confessed to police he had killed a boy near Boston and another in Philadelphia. Cream, a playmate of the slain boy, readily identified Panzzram as the man with whom he saw Henry walking down a road in Salem, on July 18. 1922. The boy’s body was found in a berry patch several days later. Panzram was returned here from Baltimore, Md., to face charges of house breaking. OPEN CHURCH SERVICES Evangelistic Meetings Start at University Place Christian. A series of evangelistic meetings to last several weeks were opened by the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, pastor of the University Place Christian church Sunday night. Floyd Jones director of music, and Vein Racquet, chairman of the administration committee, will assist with the services.

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SUCCEEDS M’NUTT AS COMMITTEMAN Mcllale Named at Joint Legion Session Sunday. Frank M. McHale, state legion commander, today succeeded Paul V. McNutt of Bloomington as Indiana national executive committeeman of the American Legion, McHale of Logansport was named Sunday at a joint meeting of old and new legion commanders in the War Memorial building. McNutt is national commander-elect. Fred A. Wiecking, state com-mander-elect, set 35,000 members as an objective at the close of 1929. P. E. Greenlee, Shelbyville, was continued as state adjutant. A drive to swell the Indiana delegation at the Louisville convention In 1929 will continue throughout the year. BETH EL ZEDECK HOST Dr, Ellas Margolis Guest of Directors of Temple. Dr. Ellas Margolis of Emmanuel Synagogue, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., today was the guest of honor of the board of directors of Temple Beth El Zedeck. Dr. Margolis is chairman of a committee of the United Synagogue of America which is endeavoring to strengthen the religious and social service activities of the organized forces of conservative Judaism in the United States and Canada. Many to Send Mall by Zep NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—More than 7,009 pieces of mall have been received at the postoffice for mailing with Graf Zeppelin on its return flight. The fee is $1 for letters and 50 cents for postcards.

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MOTORTRUCK CONGRESS WILL OPENTUESDAY Thirty States Will Join in Exposition, to Last Four Days. Thousands of representatives of thirty state motor truck associations will assemble here Tuesday for the year’s premier motor truck event, the Midwest Motor Truck Transportation congress, to be held for four days in Manufacturers’ building at the state fair gorund. Exhibits of great Importance to truck operators will include chasses, completed jobs, new developments, and the latest special equipment. This congress will be the first exclusive motor truck. Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky state motor truck associations are sponsors of the congress, which has been indorsed by similar organizations in Minnesota, Nebraska, lowa, Wisconsin, the Dakotas and Louisiana. Aim at Standardization Standardization and betterment of motor truck transportation is the aim of the congress, which will give manufacturers and users and opportunity to get together and exchange ideas. All visitors to the congress have been asked to obtain season passes at the registration desk in the main entrance of the Manufacturers’ building. Registration will begin Tuesday morning and the formal welcome will be extended at 2 in the afternoon by John E. Frederick, president of the state Chamber of Commerce Schortemefer to Speak An address will be made by Secretary of State Frederick E v Schortemeier, chairman of the reciprocal committee of the National Association of State Secretaries. Dinner will be served at 6:30 Tuesday in the conference room, when technical subjects will be discussed. Problems of acute interest to both manufacturer and user will be discussed at the general conferences. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the program outlines. PEACE TO BE TOPIC Other Details of High School Discussion Contest Announced. B,y Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 22. “American Responsibility for World Peace” will be the topic for the annal discussion league contest for Indiana high schools, Mrs. Adola Bittner of the Indiana university extension division announces. The contest is held under auspices of the division. Entries will close Feb. 24. Local contests will be held up to March 15, county (o March 22 and district, April 12. The final will be held here April 20. Auto Crank Hurts Motorist Bu United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 22. W. C. Smith, suffered the loss of three teeth and a badly mangled upifer lip while cranking his automobile when the crank tlew up and hit him in the face. Thfc force of the blow knocked Smith to the ground. A physician took seven stitches in his injured lip.