Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1930 — Page 12

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AMERICANS IN FRANCE SPENT ‘PLENTTINI929 Heavy Tourist Taxes Send Many Visitors to Other Countries. BY RALPH HEIN ZEN, United Pren* Staff Correspondent PARIS, May 2. The several hundred thousand American tourists who trod over France last year, sunning on Deauville’s golden sands, digging into ruins in the war zones or just sightseeing in Paris, turned France’s deficient trade balance of $88,000,000 into a banking balance favorable by $122,000,000. Although 1929 was less of a travel year than any year since 1924, as far as American tourists are concerned, French official sources fix at $210,000,000 the amount of American gold poured into the laps of French hotel keepers, music hall owners, railroads and steamships. France’s tourist attractions and scenic beauties brought her more in her exchange with America than did all her merchandise exports. More Than Debt American tourists left in France five times the sum in gold that France paid to the United States last year on her war debts account. Yet France is worried because there was a noticeable slump in tourist travel during 1929. The Wall street crash, which sobered America, has had an immediate effect on tourist travel, and the Riviera is comparatively empty while last year at this time it was filled with Americans, vacationing on the profits of their pastime in Wall Street. Several days ago, a London newspaper published a photograph of the famous tennis courts of Monte Carlo on a bright January afternoon. Tilden was playing a singles match, and yet the two players and their two ballboys were exactly double the number of spectators who sat in the million dollar stands. Much to Germany From unofficial but conservative sources, it is learned that American tourists left 2,000,000,000 francs less behind them in 1929 than the previous year. Most of that money went to Germany and Italy where tourists are beckoned with promises of relief from vexatious taxation. That has led 1 6 anew undercurrent of protest in France against the many petty taxes to which a visiting foreigner is subjected. In France, tourists pay $2 passport visa, which Italy and Germany nave done away with. France charges landing tourists $4 “port fee” which is in reality meant to form a fund from which seamen’s pensions are paid. Germany and Italy pay their seamen’s pensions from domestic taxes. Police Card Needed France obliges a tourist to take out a police identification card at a cost of several dollars after a month's stay. That necessitates long waits in dirty police headquarters corridors, with the atmosphere of tobacco smoke and suspicion peculiar to police headquarters. France then charges a tax and de- luxe tax on hotel bills, restaurant bills, taxicab fares, railroad tickets, almost everything purchased in the shops and besides, charges a “tax de sejour” in all of the watering resorts, this latter intended to help the resorts keep the streets clean. Since Italy and Germany have made Americans welcome and have done away with vexing taxes, thit have reaped the golden reward which France is beginning to regret. There is now a movement to spend $100,000,000 a year on tourist propaganda for France, just as Germany does, but the government has done nothing to reduce taxes on tourists. Movies Poor; Convicts Riot By United Preen HAMBURG, May 2.—Forty youthful inmates of a reform school near Kaltenkirchen rioted, partly wrecking the building. After police and firemen had quieted them they explained that they had revolted because they wanted to be transferred to a nearby prison “where better movies were being shown.”

Ward B. Hiner Candidate for Congress In the Seventh District, with other speakers will denounce Prohibition over station WKBF Saturday evening from 6:30 to 6:35 P. M., and will put on a musical program with speeches between 9:45 and 10:15 P. M. Saturday evening. On Monday evening between 6:30 and 6:35 P. M. other WET speakers will denounce Prohibition, and another musical program with speeches will be put on from 10:00 to 10:30 P. M. Monday evening. Be sure and have your friends tune in on WKBF and hear the truth told about Prohibition.

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Times Radio Dial Twisters

WFBM (1230) Indianapolis (IndUnapolii Power end Lirbt Compeoy) FRIDAY P M 5 00—Commodore ensemble (CBS'. 5 45—Paramount orchestra (CBS). 6 00—Nit Wit hour (CBSi. 6 30—Morrison's Merrymakers. 7:oo—Pettis program. 7:2s—Studio program. 7:3o—Political talk. 7 45 Mac * Al. . _ „ B,oo— Silent, order Federal Radio Commission. WKBF (1400) Indianapolis FRIDAY P. M. 4:oo—Continued novel. 4 25—Dr. T B Rice health talk. 4 40—News flashes. s:os—Town topics. 6 00—Harry Bason piano specialties. 6 20—Connie’s orchestra. 6 50—Mamron Sales Branch. 7.oo—Silent. B.oo—The Regal hour. _ . 9 00—Wilking s Jesse French hour. 10:00—Lunatic's Jamboree. 11:00—Marathon orchestra. 11:30—Lvrlc Theater organ reclUl. 12:00—Jack Tllson's Athletic Club orches tra. 12:30—Sign off.

DISTANT STATIONS

FRIDAY —0:30 P. M.~ Columbia—U. S. Navy band to WABC. Chicago—Gendron's orchesWGN 1720), Chicago—Goldkette's orchestra; Nighthaws. —:*s P. M NBC System—Famous Loves to WJZ. KDKA. WLW. „ — 7 P. M.— Columbia—True Story hour to WABC, WMAQ. . , WBBM (770). Chicago—School program. WGN (720i. Chicago—Axel Christenson. WLB ( 870). Chicago—Melodies or Kan NBC S Bvs*em—Clicquot Eskimos to WEAF, WWJ. WSAI. „ . _ . NBC Svstem—lnterwoven Pair. Jones ana Hare to WJZ. KDKA. KYW. WHAS. —7:30 P. M.— WBBM (770i. Chicago—The Chicagoans. t WENR (870), Chicago—Farmer Rusks players. . NBC Svstem—Armour program to wjz, KDKA. WJR. WSM. WHAS. WSM (650). Nashville—Lowe Bros. P. M.— Columbia —Quaker State program to WABC. WKRC. WMAQ. WBBM (770). Chicago—Bedford program. NBC System—Raleigh revue to WEAF. WIBO. WWJ. WSAI. WENR (870), Chicago—Variety muslcale. WGN (7201. Chicago—Pat Barnes. NBC System—Armstrong Quakers to WJZ, KDKA, KYW, WJR, WLW. WHAS. —8:30 P. M.— WBBM (770). Chicago—Weem’s orchestra. Columbia—G. M. Fast Freight to WABC, WKRC. , , x „„ NBC System—Kodak Week-End to WJZ, KDKA, WJR, KYW. WMAQ (670), Chicago—Northwestern U. WTAM rS (iO7O), Cleveland—Friday frolics. —9 P. M KYW (1020), Chicago—Book Man; news; features. , . Columbia—Osborne’s orchestra to WABC, WKRC. , , „ WE.’R (870). Chicago—Mike and Herman; easy chair music. NBC Svstem —Lopez orchestra to WEAF, WWJ. WSM. WGN (720). Chicago—Tomorrow’s Tribune; Hungry Five. NBC System—Sketch book to WJZ. KDKA. WHAS. WSM. WJR (750). Detroit—Lighthouse orchestra. WMAQ (670). Chicago—Entertainers. —9:15 P. M.— NBC System—Spitalny's music to WJZ, KDKA. WSM (650), Nashville—Dot and Larry. WSB (740), Atlanta—Concert. —9:30 P. M.— KDKA (980). Pittsburgh—Gerun’s orchestra. WGN (720). Chicago—Goldkette’s orchestra; Nighthawks. NBC System—Amos ’n’ Andy to WMAQ, KYW, WHAS, WSM. WTAM (10701. Cleveland—News; entertainers. —9:45 P. M.— KYW (1020), Chicago—Wayne King’s orchestra. NBC System—Prohibition poll to WENR, WSM, WHAS. WMAQ (670), Chicago—Pianist. —lO P. M KTHS (1040), Hot Springs—Kingsway orchestra. WGN (720). Chicago—Dream Ship; dance music (two hours). WENR iß7oi. Chicago—Air Vaudeville (two hours). WJR (750). Detroit—News reel; Holst orchestra. NBC System—Slumber music to WJZ, KYW. WHAS. WSB, WSM. —10:15 P. M.— WCCO (810). Mlnneapolis-St. Paul—Mulligan's orchestra. —10:30 P. M.— WJR (750). Detroit—Diensberger’s orchestra. —II P. M.— KYW (1020). Chicago—Panlco and Stone's orchestras. WBBM (770), Chicago—Dance music (one hour). WIBO (560), Chicago—Celebrity program (two hours). WJR (750). Detrot—Michigan Limited; Berger's orchestra. —11:20 P. M—WCCO (810). Minneapolis-St. Paul—Gold Medal orchestra. —11:45 P. M.— WDAF (610). Kansas City—Nighthawk nfrolic. —l2 M.— KSTP (1460). St. Paul—Midnight Club. KYW (1020 1 . Chicago—Hassell's orchestra (one hour). WLW (700). Cincinnati—Castle Farm orchestra. WHK (1390), Cleveland—William’s orchestra. —12:30 P. M WLW (700), Cincinnati —Insomniacs. WLW (700) Cincinnati FRIDAY P M. 4:ls—Maids of Melodies. 4:3o—Livestock report. 4:4o—Program chats. 4:4s—Floyd Gibbons. Literary Digest report (NBC). s:ls—Brooks and Ross. s:3o—Benrus time announcement. s:3o—Crosley dinner concert. s:s9—Hv Grade weather forecast. 6:oo—Hotel Gibson orchestra. 6:ls—Judge J. Ezra Butternut (WOR). 6:3o—Vocal and piano. 6:4s—Natural Bridge program (NBC). 7:oo—Studebaker Champions. 7:3o—American Scribe. 7:4s—Great States Lawn Party. B:oo—Armstrong Quakers (NBC). B:3o—Heatrolatown. 9:oo—Crosley string quartet. 9:3o—Castle Farm orchestra. 10 00—Benrus time announcement. 10:00—Estate weather man. 10:00—Danhallrose trio. 10:30—Crosley Burnt Corkers. 11:00—Hotel Gibson orchestra. 11:30—Sweet and Low Down. 12:00 M.—Castle Farm orchestra. 12:30—Insomniacs. I:oo—Benrus time announcement: sign off. Day Programs WFBM (1230) Indianapolis i Indianapolis Power and Llrbt Company) SATURDAY A. M 7:oo—Pep Unlimited Club, record program. 9:oo—Schlosser's Butter and Egg Men. 9:ls—U. S. Army band (CBS). 9:3o—Saturday Syncopators (CBS). 9:4s—Dessa Bvrd. organ program. 10:30—Paul Tremaine’s orchestra (CBS). 11:30—Hotel Barclev orchestra (CBS). 11:45—Record program. 12:00 Noon—Farm community network )CBS>. 1:00 to s:oo—Silent.

WKBF (1400) Indianapolis (Indianapolis Broadcasting. Inc.) SATURDAY A. M. 6 45—Church federation morning worship. 7:oo—Talk o' Town. B:4s—Stewart's Radio, Inc. 9:05—K0-We-Ba program. 9:ls—Your English. 9 25 Morrison's style talk. 9:3s—Hoosler Coffee Club. 9:4s—Standard Nut Margarine cooking chat. 9:ss—Home message. 10:00—Pomal makes Pomalay. 10:05—Indianapolis Paint and Color Cos. 10:15 —L. S. Ayres & Cos. 10:30—Market Quotations. 10:35 —Organ recital. 11:00—Part 2 of Women’s Club. 11:15—De Voe Paint Girls. 11:30—Announcements. 11:45—Jackson Supply Company. 11:55—Sue Carolyn. P. M. 12:15—The Farm Adviser. 12 30—Jansen-Overman Company. 12 35—Market reports. 12:40—Midday records.

Fishing the Air

“Mary Had a Little Lamb” will be played in the styles of Schubert, Debussy and Liszt when Bernhard Levitow's concert ensemble plays over WFBM and the Columbia broadcasting system at 5:30 p. m., Friday. nun * * Theme songs of recent blooming are arranged in a medley which the Cavaliers quartet will present to listeners over KYW, WTAM and an NBC network during the Cities Service concert, Friday night at 6 o’clock. a it tt tt tt u “Cattle Thieves on Bar Q” is the presentation to be given by the Nit Wits over WFBM and the Columbia broadcasting system at 6 p. m., Friday. a tt tt tt tt tt The story of two lovers who disproved the accepted theory that men and women of genius should never marry each other, will be dramatized during the Famous Loves sketch, presented over WLW and a National broadcasting company network, Friday night at 6:45 o’clock.

HIGH SPOTS OF FRIDAY NIGHT’S PROGRAM 6:00 Wits in “Cattle Thieves of Bar Q,” to WFBM. NBC WEAF)—Cities Service concert. 6:4S—NBC (WJZ)—Famous Loves—" Robert Browning.” 7:oo—Columbia—True Story hour—Mary and Bob. 7:3O—NBC (WJZ)—Armour Chorus and orchestra. WKBW, Buffalo—Cantata, “The Darkest Hour.” 8:00—NBC (WEAF)—Raleigh Revue. B:3o—Columbia—Gold Medal Fast Freight. NBC (WJZ)—Kodak Week-End concert. 9:OO—NBC (WEAF)—Vincent Lopez orchestra.

The “University of Maine Stein Song” features the Armour hour to be broadcast through WLW and an NBC network, Friday night at 7:30 o’clock. a tt tt tt tt tt “Give Me One Hour,” from the “White Eagle,” by Rudolph Friml, will be sung by Lois Bennett in the Armstrong Quakers’ broadcast over WLW and an NBC network, Friday night, at 8 o’clock. a tt tt a tt tt Countess Olga Albani, soprano, is featured in musical snapshots of current Broadway hits, in the Kodak week-end program over WLW and an NBC network, Friday nighs, at 8:30 o’clock. NEW MONEY-MAKING SYSTEM IS BARED

Utility Plan of Extracting Fees Is Made Public by Commission. By (Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, May 2.—The federal trade commission today made public facts concerning anew way utility holding companies extract money from their operating companies. The Phoenix Utility Company, subsidiary of Electric Bond and Share, is organizd with a capital of $2,000. It owns no construction equipment. Yet it does construction work for Electric Bond and Share subsidiaries, and in the last five years has had an income totaling $5,503,000. Virtually all of this has been profit. This is the way it is done. After Phoenix Utilities has contracted with one of its fellow subsidiaries to do a construction job, it asks for an advance payment to cover ex-

Flowers of Spring And summer and fall—all about when and where to plant flowers, hedges and vines, with data about combinations and costs; that’s what our Washington bureau’s latest bulletin on FLOWER GARDens tells. It is designed mainly to assist those whose gardening must, of necessity, be confined to a small area. You will find this gardening bulletin filled with valuable and practical information on how to go about having flowers the season round. Fill out the coupon below and send for it; CLIP COUPON HERE FLOWER GARDENS EDITOR, Washington Bureau, The Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington. D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin FLOWER GARDENS, and enclose herewith 5 cents to cover postage and handling costs: INAME STREET AND NUMBER CITY STATE I am a reader of The Times. (Code No.)

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I:ls—lndiana theater staue presentation. 2.oo—Jac Broderick dance studio. 2:ls—The Girl Friends Three. 2:3o—Tom and Wash Laugh Club. 3:oo—Silent.. 3.3o—The Rhythm King. WLW (700) Cincinnati SATURDAY A. M. 7:oo—Aunt Jemima Man (NBC). 7:ls—Organ. B:oo—Crosley woman's hour, with health talk. 9:oo—Orpheus trio. 9:30 —Livestock reports. 9:4o—The Garden Clinic. 10:00 —Donhallrofe trio. 10:30—Weather, river and market reports. 10:55 —Time signals. 11:00—Organ concert. 11:30—Hotel Gibson orchestra. 12:50—Livestock reports. P. M. * 12:00—National Farm and Home hour (NBC). I:oo—Crosley dealers matinee. . 3:oo—Merrymakers (NBC).

penses. It uses the advance to buy construction equipment and materials. All expenses are born by the company for which the work is being done. Bui D hoenix utilities collects fees of 4 and 5 per cent for its services, in addition to expenses, and turns these over to Electric Bond and Share. The fees are not needed for payment of personnel of Phoenix utilities. It has eighteen vice-presidents and eleven other officers, but all serve without salary. Twenty are officers or employes of Electric Bond and Share subsidiaries and receive salaries from these companies. The salaries are charged to operating expenses on which rates are paid by the consumer. Nine are employes or officers of electric bond and share itself. At present there is no agency, federal or state, with authority to regulate the manner in which this subsidiary collects fees for Electric Bond and Share.

HINDU LABORER MORE CONTENT THAN AMERICAN Scientist Asserts 20 Cents a Day Pay Satisfies India’s Natives. BY PAUL H. KING United Press Staff Correspondent ST. LOUIS, May 2.—The Hindu laborer with 20 cents in his pockets is more content than the American with millions, S. Kamesan of the British research, Debra Dim, India, believes. “The laborer on 20 cents a day, perhaps with one meal, gets more out of life than the American with two automobiles, ten rooms, three baths, a country club and a bootlegger who uses real whisky for flavoring,” Kamesan said here. Kamesan, in America to study methods of wood preservation, said he believes the unemployment question is a consequence of mass production by machines. Praised 5-Day Week “So far unemployment questions have baffled the best brains of foreign countries. We have none of it in India, for our people are satisfied with what they have. They have not learned discontent.” “The rate and direction of Newtonian civilization, pressage a crash,” he said. “It’s possible, however, that the machine is producing the antidote for its own poison; that the machine age may save itself by a humanizing, self-reformation which is outside its aims.” He had praise for Henry Ford’s five-day week. Kamesan dwelt at length on the advancement of India’s women in industry. “Thousands of native women can hold their own in any debate with men and already are beginning to compete with men in various services. Yes there is a woman problem in India, too.” Retain Native Dress He pointed out that the women of India are remaining with their native dress with few exceptions. Kamesan said he believes: Henry Ford’s ideas on industry and production seem Indian; occidental life is the zenith of civilzation born of mechanics—Newton’s laws carried to their logical conclusion. More Americans should vis ; t India and more Indians should visit America. “We are at one extreme and you at the other. Happiest are those who have made a compromise between the satisfaction born of fatalism and the perpetual unrest born of ambition. Many have done so both in America and India,” Kamesan said. FINDS HONEY IN ATTIC 200 Pounds of Sweets Stored by Bees in Rafters of Home. By United Press STEVENS POINT, Wis., May 2. —C. M. Radley, farmer living near here, found more than two hundred pounds of honey in the rafters of his home, stored by two colonies of bees. Although the honey apparently had been stored in the attic for a long time, Radley said it was of excellent flavor. Couldn’t Break SSOO Bill By United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 2.—W. H. Keathley, a well-known building contractor here, spent an entire Sunday in a fruitless effort to “break” a SSOO bill.

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Mrs. Evelyn Marshall Field, above, isn’t worrying about keeping the proverbial wolf from the door. She is reported to have obtained a $1,000,000-a-year income settlement before leaving her New York home for Reno to seek a divorce from Marshall Field 111, grandson and heir of Chicago’s late multimillionaire merchant.

Meridian at South Street, Riley 83SS—Convenient Drive-In OPEN NIGHTS AND SUNDAYS Tune in the Rose Tire Buddies each Tuesday evening from 7 to 8 P. M., Station WKBF.

HAROLD LLOYD IS PLUNGING ON NEWESTMOVIE Comedian, Own Producer, to Gamble $2,000,000 on 'Feet First.’ By United Press HOLLYWOOD, May 2.—The king, who would have traded his throne for a horse, has nothing on the comedian who must barter his fortune for a laugh. The biggest stakes in the fim industry may be won with laughter. But the nation's funny bone is a most difficult point of attack. Harold Lloyd at present is head over heels in “Feet First.” Lloyd plans to spend $2,000,000 this year on the production of this feature and probably one other. Most every one falls for the usual “gags” of straight drama. The tragedy of the widow’s weeds, the heroine in the clutch of the villian, the smile of a child, the girl in the arms of the handsome man, kissing perhaps; all register with the theater-going public. But you may have the funniest story ever written and if it has an old “gag” to fetch a laugh, the laugh likely will not come, and, if it does, it probably will be from snicker row. Dealing in laughter as a com-

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modity Is a gamble. It may go stale easily. Harold Lloyd has devoted his career to making laughter, a* a is considered an honest judge of hat will register with the audienc nd, Lloyd, off the lot. is one of tb ost serious looking stars in Holi od. Probably, he is thinking u, iew stunts. “Feet First” is estimated tc ost 51,000.000 and may contain 100 laughs, which is SIO,OOO ala gh. Pretty expensive, and if some of the laugh punches fail to touch the public laugh button the count will be on the producer, in this case Lloyd. Lloyd is one of the few stars who films and produces his own pictures. The new show concerns the misadventures of a shoe clerk. It will be pre-viewed five or six times before the master prints are made for public showing. "Welcome Danger.” his first talkirg picture cost in the neighborhood of $1,000,000, just twice as much as “Grandma’s Boy,” and three times as much as “The Freshman.” GOSSIP BANNED BY CLUB Montana Woman’s Group Believed Only One of Kind. By United Press HAMILTON, Mont., May 2. Needles may fly, valid news may be recounted, jokes may be told; in fact, there’s only one “verboten” to conversational intercourse—that is that great American indoor sport of gossiping. This describes Hamilton's gossipless sewing organization, the Kanyon Krcek Kensington Club, believed to be the only one of its kind in the United States.