Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1930 — Page 9
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NEW UNIT OF FACTORY WILL COST $25,000 R. B. M. Company to Enlarge Logansport Plant and Add to Force. CHRYSLER TO ADD LINE Newcastle Unit Will Lead in Production of Accessories. BY CHARLES C. STONE, PUt Editor. Tbr Times. Announcement that construction of a (25.000 addition to the plant of the R. B. M. Manufacturing Company at Logansport would be started Monday, was the oustanding development of the week in Indiana business and industry, a survey ended today shows. The addition is to be completed within ninety days, and will necessitate adding to the present force of 116 persons. In the same city, work is progressing satisfactorily in erecting a SIOO,OOO addition to the Associated Apparels Company plant, which is to be ready for use Sept. 1. Orders for 28 Trucks The Indiana Truck Corporation, Marion, has booked orders from the state highway '’■apartments of Nebraska and Missouri, and from three Indiana counties, Scott, Wells and Marion, for a total of twenty-eight trucks. Building permits issued during June were for structures to cost $50,420. an increase over May this year and June last year. In the utilities field, the major event of the week was purchase by the Insull interests of the Union Traction and Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction companies for a total of $7,535,000. Indiana furniture manufacturers are shipping displays of their products to Chicago and Grand Rapids for July shows. It is the belief these shows may indicate a trend toward better conditions in the furniture industry. It is said dealers’ stocks are at a low level, affording j basis for a belief that resumption i of manufacture may be expected soon. A summary of surveys in several Indiana cities is as follows: wcistle- The Newcastle unit of the Chrysler Motor Corporation will be the principal manufacturing center for anew field of operations, the production of accessories. Sltft.lMW to Be Spent Rloomincton —The city-owned water system has been granted authority to sell additional shares of stock to raise *140.000 which will be spent in construction of a standpipe and reservoir. Franklin—The McLaughlin Manufacturing Company is operating at capacity with 125 persons employed. Greensbnrg—John Schwartz and John Bruewer. owners of the Standard Casket Company, whose plant was razed by fire this week, have not yet decided on what course they will pursue in regard to rebuilding. The Chamber of Commerce has appointed a committee to assist in reestablishing the plant if the owners decide to take that step. Oreencastle A shut down announced to continue "a few days" became effective at the plant of the Lone Star Cement Company plant this week. Pern —Excavation will be started this month on the site of a *300.000 hotel here. Crawfordsville—Thirtean grain elevators In Indiana passed from ownership of the Crabbs-Bevnotds-Tavlor Company to the Farmers’ Co-operative Company during the week. Fifty Return to Work Terre Haute—The east plant of the shit Hauto Paper Company, idle since fckFcarv except for one week, has returned operations with a force of fifty. Auburn- The new office building of the Auburn Automobile Company. largest •tructure of Its kind here, which has floor space of 22.000 sauare feet, is nearing completion. Anew service building lor the same company is also in course of construction. Lapurte— Laporte Woolen Mills. Inc., has been formed to make, buy and sell woolen goods and other textile products. Wabash—The George M. Diehl Machine Works, closed a week for the annual vacation. will resume operations Monday and en the same day the United Paperboard Mills will reopen for production with a full force. Kendallrille—A new galvanizing room will be built for the Flint & Walling factory. The new room. 60 feet wide and 125 feet long, will be eauipped with the latest type of machinery. Princeton—The working force of the •Southern Railway shops has been Teuuced by 140 men. for an indefinite period. Sot! b Bend—Approval has been given *>i*ns and speciflctaions for a gTade separation project to cost nearly *1.000.000. The city will pay 35 per cent of the cost and the remainder will be met by the New York Central. Grand Trunk Western, and New Jersey Indiana & Illinois railroads, whose tracks will be affected. It is believed building here in June will reach nearly *2.000.000. based on an unofficial compilation of permits issued. Gary—Construction of a bridge over the Calumet river here to carry tracks of the j; . j. & E. railroad will necessitate expenditure of *44,000. _ OLD WEST IS REVIVED IN PAWNEE BILL FETE Frontier Town Built in Oklahoma Scene of Celebration. JSv United Press TERRITORY POST. PAWNEE. Okla.. July 4.—The old west, stripped only of the saloons which once formed its certer, was revived here for a rousing July 4. The buildings, crude frame and log shacks, the hitching posts, cowboys. Indians and prairie schooners were here in faituful reproduction. Indian trading post was built by Major Gordon W. Lillie to preserve a "rip snorting” chapter from the history of the American frontier. Indians from twenty-one tribes were here for the celebration. 3,000 of them. Their tepees surrounded the town as though it were under eiege. Starts 11th Trip Around World Jtv United Press ATLANTA, Ga. July 4.—Julius Brittlebank. 72. of Charleston. S. C., has started on his eleventh trip around the world since 1911. Brittlebank, who witnessed Lincolns inaugural. plans to vsit Honolulu. Japan. China, Ceylon, Paris and Dublin on this trip.
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George Kolb, Rushville farmer, for whom the state asks the death penalty in his trial in Hancock circuit court, Greenfield, for the alleged murder of his third wife by administering poison in quinine capsules. The photograph was taken as Kolb stepped from the courthouse at Greenfield during a court recess.
GLIDER PILOTS PLAN SEA HOP Aircraft Will Be Attached to Ocean Liner. Bn United Press NEW YORK, July 4.—Two young Long Island aviators were aboard a ship on the Atlantic ocean today with the hope of celebrating the Fourth of July by starting the first trans-Atlantic glider flight. Robert N. Lewis, 26, and Hugh Keavney, 28, sailed aboard the Cosulich liner Saturnia Thursday night with two gliders, one of which they said they would fasten to a winch on the boat’s upper deck as soon as weather permitted, and glide over the ocean to Gibraltar. "he two originally had planned to start the glider flight as the ship passed Ambrose Light last night, but a rain, hail and windstorm made the feat impracticable, and they said they would wait until the ship was farther out to sea and the weather better A 2,000-foot towline will connect the glider with the ship, and Lewis and Keavney expected to maintain an altitude of about 1,500 feet. They will communicate with the ship by telephone. The fliers were not too confident of the success of the attempt, since the glider must maintain a speed of fifteen miles an hour to remain aloft and the ship averages only about twenty-one miles. Strong tailwinds also might blow the glider faster than the ship, forcing them to land. HEAD TO WEST COAST Southern Cross Will End CrossNation Flight Late Today. Bn United Press SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 4. —The nose of the Southern Cross was pointed today toward Oakland, Cal, from where it flew westward a; ross the Pacific two years ago on what has become a world encirling flight. The few hundred miles between here and the coast city were all that remained between Lieu-tenant-Colonel Charles KingsfordSmith and his three companions and their goal.
LET YOUR VACATION NET SOME DOLLARS
Are you one of those thirty-six-hole golfers who can’t see how a fisherman gets any fun out of casting “an ol’ plug" around all day? Or do you like to spend your vacation on 300-mile hops between tourists’ camps, with no sympathy for your friend who “wastes his vacation” lolling in a hammock with a bunch of books? What DOES make a good vacation? What made YOURS the best? Each week during the vacation season, The Indianapolis Times will pay $5 to the F~:on submitting the best 100-word letter describing: “Why I think my vacation was the best from the standpoint of mental and physical benefit I received. Why I think my type of vacation fits me better for the year’s grind.” All returned vacationists are eligible. Where did you go? What did
POOH, PARIS! HOLLYWOOD NEVER HAS, AND NEVER WILL, FALL FOR LONG SKIRTS
Bu Vfitted Pre** Hollywood, July 4—The business girls of London, reported to be up in arms against having to 'sear long skirts in the daytime, ar; requested to turn their attention from Paris and consider the Hollywood mode. Because the screen colony has turned thumbs down on long skirts for formal evening wear and trailing dresses never were adopted by the film stars for the creators of film fashions predicted that Paris was wrong and that women would not oU.y the edict demanding longer liaei
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MRS. LANDON PRAISED FOR HOSPITAL GIFT Riley to Use Request for Research and Training DepartmentEstablishment of a research department and development of trained specialists will be the goal of the Riley Memorial Association in the use of the $250,000 willed to the Riley Hospital for Children by the late Mrs, Jessie Spaulding Landon, Indianapolis philanthropist. “Mrs. Landon’s foresight and interest in sick and crippled children insures for trie state and humanity the establishment of a splendid research department in children’s diseases,” said a resolution adopted by the association in connection with Mrs. Landon’s bequest. “Her gift is characteristic of her life in that it forms a firm foundation for childhood of the future.” CLOUMSTS HITMEW YORK Thousands Are Marooned at Rush Hour. Bn United Press NEW YORK July 4.—Two storms from the north and west met over the metropolitan area during the evening rush hour Thursday and damaged traffic lines, buildings and streets in all parts of the city, marooning thousands of home-going workers, and vacationists leaving the city for the week-end. An inch of rain fell during the two hours the storm lasted, half of it during two cloudbursts which put power lines out of commission and forced suspension of service for an hour on a fifty-four-block section of the west side interborough rapid transit subway line. Only three persons were reported injured, a patrolman when lightning struck his police booth in Brooklyn, and two others caught by a fortyfoot street cave-in on Houston street. All went home after treatment at hospitals. Many subway stations w ire flooded with water a foot deep, forcing passengers to waele through to the street level or wait until pump crews removed the water after an hour’s work.
you do? Why was your vacation best? Then, in another vacation contest, The Times w-ill award $5 each week to the person sending in the best vacation picture. Those regarded as possible winners will appear daily. On the back of the picture or on an attached piece of paper, write your name, together with the names of those in the picture and the place the picture was taken. These photographs will not be returned. In each contest, announcement will be made on Tuesday of winners in both divisions for the preceding week. The contests start next Monday. First winners will be announced Tuesday, July 15. A reader may compete in both “divisions”—letter and photo—if he wishes. Mail or bring your letters and snapshots to the Vacation Contest Editor, The Indianapolis Times.
And so, after the first weak flourish, long skirts were not seen along Hollywood boulevard, nor will movie-goers see them on the screen. “Long skirts era cumbersome. I have never worn them except for evening dress," said Dorothy Mackaill. “Short skirts are the only practical thing for daytime wear,” was the opinion of Loretta Young. “The modem girl hasn't time to change dresses three or four times a day. He pee the present semi-
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1930
GUILT IN GANG REIGN LAID TO COPCAPTAINS District Chiefs Can Pile Up SIOO,OOO Yearly in Chicago Graft. FORCE MORALE RUINED Most Patrolmen Honest, Superiors Crooked, Is Observer’s Charge. BY BRUCE CATTON NEA Service Writer CHICAGO, July 4.—Until Chicago finds some way of rooting out corruption from it police force, it will have small luck in any effort to permanently subdue its lawless gangs. Police commissioners come and go, but the organization remains much the same from year to year. Gangland gains much of its power through political influence, but it gains most of its revenue through its arrangements with police officials; and until these arrangements are broken up and the guilty men are driven off of the force, gangland is going to keep on making big' money—which is the chief thing that makes gangland powerful. Police Captains Blamed The real key to the Chicago situation lies in the hands of perhaps a score of men—the police captains who control the districts where organized crime flourishes most. To be effective, a clean-up must either begin or end, or both, with them. All of this is more or less a matter of common knowledge among those in touch with the situtaion here. It also comes on the word of a high law enforcement official, who declares bluntly that “the whole thing is up to the police captains. If they’re honest and efficient the gangs would die out overnight.” This man is in as close contact with the police force and the underworld as any man in Chicago. Because of his position, his name can not be used; but what he has to say is interesting. Most Patrolmen Honest “The ordinary patrolman on the beat in Chicago is honest—or would be if he had any encouragement from his superiors,” he said. “It’s the police captain that is responsible. A captain in charge of a ‘good’ district here can make from SIOO,OOO a year on up in addition to his regular salary. “The established minimum rate of payment by a Chicago speakeasy to the district captain is SIOO a month. I know of one district where .there are 400 speakeasies. Figure it out for yourself. Nothing for “Beat” Man “The man on the beat doesn’t cut in on this. Oh, he may get a $5 bill now and then, or a few cigars or a couple of drinks. But that’s all. “The money goes to the men in charge. The captain and his. two lieutenants are the men who get the gravy. “That’s what ruins the morale of the man on the beat—and can you wonder at it? He’d be honest if he had the incentive. But where’s his incentive?” TRIES FOR AIR MARK Aviator Attempts to Beat Cross-U. S. Record. Bn United Pres* LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 4. James H. Collins, former army aviator, took off from the United airport here at 1:33 a. m. today on an attempt to break Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s cross country flight record. Collins was flying a Lockheed low wing cabin plane, with a 450-horse power motor. He carried fuel enough to last until he reaches Wichita, Kan., his only intended stop. REALTY DEALS GAINING $86,500 in Transaction by Firm in Week Reported. Real estate deals totaling $86,500 were announced today by Bridges & Graves, 243 North Delaware street, and by Thomas F. Carson, 910 Hume-Mansur building. W. L. Bridges of Bridges & Graves asserted that business conditions are steadily improving in Indianapolis, with more prospective buyers of real estate listed now than for a long time. Program at Institution Bn Times Special PLAINFIELD, Ind., July 4.—A program of music and recitations this morning opened the Fourth of July observance at the Indiana Boys school here. A holiday dinner was served, all food for which, except ice cream presented by the board of control, was produced at the institution.
sports wear, a fairly short skirt, is the most practical thing for all hours of the day.” “I never saw anything so silly as the uneven hemline they tried to popularize last season,” said Bernice Claire. “I don’t blame the London business girls. But they should do as we do—pay no attention to Paris when foolish styles are recommended.” M M M FROM Alice White came the following comment: “I noticed that Patou, the man-dress-maker, just sailed Icf, Paris from
SAM TO SING FAREWELL
‘Lawn Mower Man’ Is Radio Fans’ Idol
BY JOHN T. HAWKINS. VOICES will buzz at 9:15 tonight over your radio set. Then a familiar bass note will weave itself around the hearts of listeners with “There’s Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie,” and the world will know that “Singin’ Sam, the Lawn Mower Man,” will be giving his melody “Aloha” to you. For Sam and his “lawn party” series end for this season at 9:15 I tonight over WLW—“Sam, the Lawn Mower Man,” also “Sam, the Mystery Man,” about whose identity thousands have been wondering. In his “au revoir” will be thirteen weeks in which “Singin’ Sam’s” homey basso has strummed itself into the world that lives by the radio announcer’s time clock. an HARRY FRANKEL, as “Singin’ Sam” is known outside the “mike” range, began his trouping career with the J. Colburn Great Barlow minstrels. He started with Frank Tinney of musical comedy fame, in the days when the "burnt corkers” were emulated by amateurish male clubs and end men cracked wise as the opportunity offered. His easy rounded voice carried him to the pinnacle of minstreldom when he joined A1 G. Field’s minstrels. But minstrelsy went out of the hearts of people with the coming of jazz, and Frankel trouped in vaudeville. Teaming with a buddy “blackface” he toured as “Frankel and Dunleavy” for three years on the RKO circuit. tt st tt THEN came a night thirteen weeks ago when the first Great States “lawn party” was held, under sponsorship of the big Richmond lawn mower concern. The Harry Frankel of the “blackface” days became “Singin’ Sam.” His voice was the night bird that sang by the cradle, the hospital bed, and wooed tired business men to slumber in their chairs and dream of the days when they, too, were minstrels. So tonight, “Singin’ Sam” tells his audience “goodby,” for the time being. He’ll sing “Just a Flower From an Old Bouquet,” “Miss Me ’ and “Was It a Dream?” and when he sings there’ll be tears in eyes, happiness, a laugh perhaps, but most part, “good-by.” WILLIAM G. IRWIN IS BUTLER GROUP HEAD Elected President of Foundation at Trustees Meeting. Officers and directors were elected today at a meeting of the board of trustees of the Butler Foundation at 1104 Fletcher Savings and Trust building. A meeting of the university board is scheduled for this afternoon. The foundation’s officers for the ensuing year are: William G. Irwin, president; Clarence L. Goodwin, vice-president: A. V, Brown, treasurer; J. W. Atherton, secretary. Directors in addition to the officers are: C. D. Owen, Hilton U. Brown, James L. Clark, Sterling R. Holt, Emsley W. Johnson, Edwin R. Errett, Hugh Miller, Arthur C. Newby, A. M. Rosenthal, Albert Snider and P. H. Welshimer. The foundation, a holding company for Butler endowments and funds, reported a total of $1,070,743.33 on its books with an income of $64,000 received from the money now in the treasury. BAND CONCERT SUNDAY Arndt Organization Will Play at Ellenberger Park. The Arndt concert band, directed by Herman Arndt, under the auspices of the Indianapolis park board will give a concert • Sunday at 3 p. m. in Ellenberger park. The program includes marches by Sousa, Herbert, a medley of popular songs, selections from “Rio Rita,” plantation melodies and several novelty numbers.
FIND INLAND SEA RICH WITH FOSSILS
Important Discovery Made in Gobi Desert by Roy Andrews. BY D. C. BESS United Press Staff Correspondent PEIPING, July 4.—Discovery of a huge inland sea in which rich fossil deposits abound was disclosed today by Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, noted American scientist and explorer. Dr. Andrews returned to Peiping on a hurried visit to purchase supplies for the expedition into the Gobi desert which he is leading this summer. He said a storm struck the expedition in the shifting, treachous desert sands of the Gobi, and destroyed the major part of their supplies. The discovery of the inland sea was regarded as highly significant by Dr. Andrews, who believes the Gobi desert was the cradle of civilization—the true Garden of Eden.
New York saying he had given up hope of persuading American women to adopt long skirts. He should have listened to Hollywood.” Edward Stevenson, creator of film fashions at First National studios, explained to the United Press Hollywood's ideas on the styles for he coming season: ‘‘The long skirt for street wear is definitely out because women have found it cumbersome and unattractive. American women have to wear clothes which adapt themselves to all hours of the day because of their active lives.
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But It’s All for the Undertaker
Bn United Press HOBOKEN, N. J., July 4.—The planetary layout, as of July 1, forbodes a great deal of tough luck for the United States and almost all its inhabitants, Professor Gustave Meyer, the Hoboken astrologer, said today in his annual prediction of death, destruction, and stock market fluctuations. Professor Meyer, a pudgy, senatorial-looking person, who wears a black ribbon with his nose glasses, and who predicted such events as President Harding’s death, Jack Dempsey’s marriage, and a verdict of acquittal in the Hall-Mills trial, sees prosperity and good fortune for only one class of people during the present summer. “A tidal wave of prosperity,” said the professor, cocking an eye at a chart and scribbling hieroglyphics on a pad, “will descend upon the undertakers of the land. They are in for a season of brisk business”
EDUCATORS ELECT Willis A. Sutton, Atlanta, Heads Association. Bn United Press COLUMBUS, 0., July 4.—Willis A. Sutton, superintendent of schools at Atlanta, Ga., was elected president of the National Education Association, to succeed Miss E. Ruth Pyrtle, Lincoln, Neb., the electnn committee announced tsday at the closing session of the sixty-eight.: annual meeting. Sutton defeated Dr. Joseph Rosier of Fairmont, W. Va., 604 to 443 Henry Lester Smith, dean of the college of education at Indiana university, was elected treasurer. REWARD IS OFFERED FOR MISSING YOUTH George Dorsey Jr. Gone From Home in Maryland Since March 28. Reward of SIOO has been offered by Mrs. George W. Dorsey Sr. of Prince Frederick, Md„ for information about her son, George W. Dorsey Jr., 17, who ran away from home March 28 and is believed to have traveled west. The youth threw away articles with his name on them and is believed to be traveling under an assumed name. He is 6 feet Is 4 inches tall, weighs 158 pounds, has light hair, blue eyes, a southern accent and a long raised scar on one side. He is a swimmer and is a devotee of hunting and other sports.
The fossil beds and the sea, or great lake, hitherto uncharted, may contain evidences of the earliest man, he said. It was to locate this sea or lake, surrounded entirely by sand dunes, and defying detection until now, that the expedition started a few weeks ago for the desert. The fosil beds lie about 300 miles northeast of Kalgan, Dr. Andrews told the United Press. He said that paleontologists in the party now are making a careful study of the fossils on the spot, and that important contributions to the knowledge of prehistoric man might result. The huge inland sea was found after a 500-mile trek through the desert. The sand dunes made the going dangerous and difficult. Motor cars had to be abandoned and camels used in the caravan, which, so far as known, took white men to the shores of this hidden body of water for the first time. The mysterious lake, surrounded by high bluffs, filled with fossil bones, first excited the interest of Dr. Andrews two years ago.
“Semi-sports clothes always are correct. The proper length for skirts this summer will be three inches below the knee. Ultra short skirts never will come back. They never were good looking. “Besides the average woman hasn’t good looking knees. Long skirts for evening gowns probably are back to stay. They never should have l en abandoned because a beautiful evening gown loses its beauty with knee-length • skirts.
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The stock market will nose dive again in the early autumn, Professor Meyer predicts, and he strongly advises every one to get out while the getting out is good. There will be an epidemic of suicides, he believes, along with a large number of business failures. Hotels and fashionable restaurants will go to the wall in great numbers this summer, according to Dr. Meyer’s stars, and the same holds
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true of summer resorts. There will be robberies galore, serious fires, embezzlements, and the United States is likely to lose a number of soldiers and diplomats abroad. There will be a number of highly spectacular scandals this summer among members of the clergy, the press, and the bar, say the Hoboken heavens. The press and the clergy, however, are in for better times in the late fall, Professor Meyer asserted. The divorce courts will be crowded and there will be an epidemic among large cattle. Jail deliveries will be plentiful and there will be several large railroad calamities. Church attendance, Dr. Meyer’s charts tell him, will fall off. In July there will be earthquakes of serious consequences in California. Either the White House or the national capital is due for a serious explosion or fire in October, according te Professor Meyer. SPANISH KING’S COUSIN WEDDED TO PRINCESS Ex-Fiance of Mabel Gilman Corey 1 Is Married. Bn United Press PARIS, July 4.—The newspaper Midi said today Prince Don Louis De Bourbon, first cousin of King Alfonso of Spain, had been married to the Princess Amedee de Broglie, 71, member of one of the oldest families of the French nobility. Prince Don Louis is 40, and the former fiance of Mrs. Mabel Gilman Corey, former musical comedy star and also former wife of William E. Corey, Pittsburgh steel man. The reported marriage precipitated an argument of international importance when Mrs. Corey broke their engagement. Veteran Dies at 91 Bv United Press BLOOMFIELD, Ind., July 4. Five Civil war veterans remained in this locality today after the death of Thomas J. Axe, 91, a member of Company C, Twenty-first regiment, Indiana artillery. He had been a resident here for eighty years. He was a native of Wayne county, Ohio.
“'T'HERE will be no more uneven hemlines in evening gowns. Evening gowns are simple, almost Grechian in line, and are made of beautiful materials such as brocades, soft chiffons, and the like. They are worn with simple jewelry, and vitn evening wraps, which are of hip length and furtrimmed. “Paris no longer controls the styles. It may originate them, but if the movies scorn its creations, American women also refuse to wear them.” 1
HOUSE CHIEFS PLACE BAN ON STOCKSPROBE Longworth and Aids Back Hoover and Watson in Barring Inquiry. DICKINSON LEADS MOVE lowa Senate Nominee Asks Quiz, Co-Operating With Will Wood. B'J Krripps-Howard yetescaper Alliance WASHINGTON, July 4.—Speaker Nicholas Longworth and other house leaders, following the example of President Hoover and James E. Watson, senate majority leader, have turned thumbs down on a proposal to investigate the New York Stock Exchange. Longworth’s attitude is that the suggested house inquiry, which was sponsored by L. J. Dickinson of lowa, who recently won the Republican nomination for senator, would not have a constructive result at this time. Longworth held that the probe would prove harmful if undertaken during this period of economic and stock market uncertainties and that it should be delayed until business is on a more even keel. Dickinson’s resolution, introduced folowing the slump last month on the stock exchanges, directed the appointment of a select committee of seven congressmen to ascertain to what extent the exchanges “may have been utilized by unscrupulous manipulators for the purpose of influencing legislation of the congress, or official actions of the executive officers of the government, and for exercising an unfavorable influence upon the general economic situation of the country.” Will Wood Aids Move His resolution also directed an inquiry into whether “stock manipulation is practiced by short selling or block sales or rigging or promotion sales or wash sales” for the benefit of a limited number of investors, but against the interest of the general public." Representative Will Wood of Indiana, chairman of the Republican congressional committee of the house, co-operated with him in preparation of the resolution, Dickinson said, “and, like me, he was anxious for a thorough investigation, but the rules committee reached the same conclusion as senate leaders and ruled against us.” Dickinson said he discussed his resolution with Republican Leader Tilson and Chairman Snell of the rules committee. In connection with the plan of a group of “young guard” Republican senators to investigate the New York Stock Exchange, it was learned today that this group had agreed to recommend Senator Otis F. Glenn of Illinois as chairman and Glenn had consented to serve. But Watson, after conferences with President Hoover, called them off. Indirect Probe Forecast An indirect senate inquiry into the stock exchange is expected next fall as a result of passage recently of the reso’ution by Senator King of Utah to make “a complete survey of the national and federal reserve banking systems.” This committee is authorized to “comprehend specifically” the use of the federal reserve facilities for trading in speculative securities, the extent of call loans, and also investment and security trusts, chain and branch banking and likewise “any related problems” which the committee may deem it important to investigate. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, former secretary of the treasury under Woodrow Wilson, was named chairman. His associates include Senators Walcott of Connecticut. Townsend of Delaware, Bratton of New Mexico and Norbeck of South Dakota. FILM RUINED BEAUTY, SAYS FRENCH STAR Seeks Million Francs for Alleged Injustice by Talkie. Bv United Press PARIS, July 4.—One million francs, approximately $40,000, is Mile. Tonia Navar’s price for being allegedly fattened, debeautifled and nasally voiced by a British talkie film concern. Mile.. Navar has placed the affair in the hands of a lawyer who has entered suit in Paris for 1,000,000 francs damages to her beauty and reputation. She claims she made her first talkie film in the picture, “La Route Est Belle,” (“The Route Is Beautiful”) in which she took the part of the curious type of woman who is a season ticket holder in the Comedie Francaise. The result—but listen to Mile. Navar: “An ignominy! A crime! My eyes were ruined in the film, my figure was distorted to look elephantine . . . Mon Dieu, and my voice, Monsieur, was hashed, raucous, stuttering. I tremble when I think of it. I received more than 200 letters of protest from my friends.” Five Hurt in Blast Bv United Press EAST CHICAGO, Ind, July 4. An explosion which wrecked the Adler street sewer pumping station seriously injured five men. Workmen were attempting to clean tar from the screen chamber, it was reported, when the explosion occurred. Half of a reinforced concrete wall and the glass roof of the chamber were demolished. Last Lee Aid Is 92 Bv United Press MATHEWS COURTHOUSE, Va., July 4.—The Rev. Giles B. Cooke, who celebrated his ninety-second birthday here recently, is the last surviving member of General Robert E. Lee’s famous staff of officers.