Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 57, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1932 — Page 3

JULY 16, 1932.

DEPRESSION AX CUPS MOVIES' HUGE SALARIES All Major Picture Studios of Hollywood Cut Pay of Stars. By r titi'ii Prise HOLLYWOOD, July 16,—A1l major motion picture studios of Hollywood were on record today with pay reduction scheoules which affect practically every worker in the industry, and involve figures running into hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. The last to come under the line was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, home lot of many of the most famous personages in films. A brief memorandum sent from New York by Nicholas Schenck, M-G-M and Lowe, Inc., brough the news to Hollywood that reductions ranging from 5 to 35 per cent will become effective Monday. Previously Paramount had taken cuts ranging from 5 to 20 per cent. First National Warner Bros, already had cut “approximately” 10 per cent, with such stars are Richard Barthclmess and George Arliss affected. R-K-O studios several months ago enforced a reduction “from 25 per cent down,' depending upon the size of salaries. In some cases, it was said, contract stars were not affected unless they voluntarily accepted reduced pay. At, Warner Brothers-First National. for instance, it was understood Ruth Chatterton’s salary was maintained. Barthclmess was an outstanding example of a star who volunteered readjustment on his contract. Hollywood enjoyed much bac.kfer.ee gossip over the M-G-M announcement. “I haven't heard about it.” said Jean Harlow, platinum blond, “but, of course, I can not be quoted on it." Colleen Moore dismissed the news with a shrug, and comment “just one of those things.” Miss Moore recently signed with the studio at a figurp said to be $2,500 a week. It, was known that John Gilbert has a contract up for renewal shortly. Gretta Garbo finished her M-G-M contract May 19. and dozens of rumors ’were heard as to her plans. AGED DENTIST DEAD Dr. Steele Gilmore Passes at Princeton Home. Dr. Steele F. Gilmore. 80, well 1 known dentist and inventor, died Friday in his home at Princeton. He lived in Indianapolis from 1907 to 1928, practicing dentistry and teaching at Indiana Dental college. Dr. Gilmore was a pioneer business man of Princeton. He was inventor ol a removable dental bridge. He was president of the Indiana ! State Dental Association in 1912 and 1913. Funeral services were to I be held today. MOVIES FREE IN -WAR’ I Noblesville Is Paradise for Fans; I Prices Cut Reekiessly. fill I nitrd Press NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. July 16. Cost of theatrical entertainment in Noblesville has been driven to a point within the reach of all residents, during a price war among moving picture houses. The slashing began when one theater cut its admission price from 40 cents to 25 cent. A competing house advertised a 10-cent admittance fee on two days of each week. A third movie met competition by admiting all members or J one family, regardless of the number of children, for 10 cents. Rock bottom was reached when one of the other movies began operating twelve hours continuously one day each w'eek—with no admission charge. HURT IN AUTO CRASH George Drews Injured Internally; Roth Drivers Arrested. Drivers of two autos were injured. one seriously, and both were arrested for reckless driving following an accident early loday at McCarty and West streets. George Drews. 23. of 526 Jones street, one of the drivers, is in a serious condition at city hospital of internal injuries, and Habig Ferris, 33. of 1712 East Twelfth street, the second driver, was treated for cuts on the head and body. ‘Hot’ Movie Scene Stirs Woman Hi/ I niter! Press N’iW ORLEANS. July 16.-A mid-dle-aged woman stood up in her seat, shouted: “Everybody get hot,” as a love scene of a talking picture neared a climax. A policeman who tried to quiet her was embraced and three ushers rushed to his rescue.

Missing Spark By I'tiilcd Pram CHICAGO. July 16—There seemed to be something wrong with . G. Jarvis* control of the subconscious today, and the 63-year-old magician and hypnotist called on police to aid him. Jarvis has a warrant issued at Lake Geneva. Wisconsin, charging his wife with grand larceny. "I haven't been able to contact her subconscious mind,” the hypnotist told Chicago detectives. "If I could reach her subconsciousness I would have her back in a minute." He explained he had met his wife three weeks ago when she was demonstrating shoe polish in a store. In a week they were married and at Lake Geneva on a honeymoon. Jarvis said his bride had disappeared while he was in swimming, and with her $l6O from his suit case.

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Faced*with overcrowded condi- , tions, which poor farm officials j admit are the worst in history, at- I tempts are being made to give j proper care to more than 600 in- J mates of the institution. Upper—The dining room of i limited facilities where meals are j served in tw'o shifts because of S the increased number of inmates, j Center—Even benches under the I

EVIDENCE IS ENDED IN HAMILTON TRIAL

Jury Is Dismissed Until Monday, Date Set for Final Arguments. By Times Special LEBANON. Ind., July 16.—Fate of Louis E. Hamilton, charged with murder in the slaying of Lafayette A. Jackson, Indianapolis chain store head, will be rested with the jury Monday, after final arguments in Boone circuit court. The state will demand death for Hamilton. Jurymen, all Montgomery county residents, were permitted to return to their homes for the week-end when the trial recessed late Friday. Special Judge Brenton A. Devol w'arned them -not to read newspaper accounts of the trial or discuss the case among yourselves or your families.” The jury is expected to receive the case late Monday. Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson announced that Floyd Mattice, his

Time Is Near; Enroll in Free Swimming Classes

Courses at Broad Ripple to Be Sponsored by Times Next Week. "What is the first thing I must do to learn to swim?” a prospective student of The Times-Ripple Learn-to-swim week asked today. The Times relayed the question to Bill Tomlison and Monty Montgomery. instructors of the school and they sent back this answer: "Throw away your water-wings, tubes and floats, and don't be afraid of getting water in your ears. Forget all about the water. Water fear is the principle cause of drownings. and we shall attempt to build up your courage as well as teach you the fundamental strokes of swimming.” Thus Tomlison and Montgomery sum up the purpose of Learn-to-swim week. The Times and Broad Ripple want to give you a free start in swimming which some day may save your life or that of some person you may be able to rescue. If you have one arm and one leg and attend the six sessions of the Learn-to-swim week, the instruction staff guarantees that you will swim. Os course you must practice and follow all the necessary exercises to perfect your rythm. Preliminary enrollments for the Learn-to-Swim week are coming in fast. Every one is eligible. Classes will be held in the morning for children, high school stu-

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trees at the poor farm are crowded these warm days with men and w'omen. Poor farm officials say the increase will bring demands for more benches. Lower—The first hallway bed made its appearance today. Unless another building is erected, many inmates may sleep in hallways through the winter, officials said.

chief deputy, w'ill present the state’s final argument. Hamilton’s alibi is that he was in lola, Kan., at the time of the Jackson holdup. May 27, 1931. Among last witnesses to testify was Miss Sue Sawyer, lola invalid, who, supported by a nurse, told how' Hamilton and Witt did not reach the Kansas town until Friday afternoon, May 29, two days after the murder. In low, feeble voice. Miss Sawyer, a neighbor of the Hamilton family, told the jury she was positive of the date. She said she was in the yard cutting flowers for Decoration day when Hamilton and two strangers, alleged by the state to have been Witt and his wife. Naomi, arrived. Asa surprise witness, Lafayette Lane. 83, twice mayor and six years police judge of lola, supported the invalid’s testimony. He testified he had kept his car in the Hamilton garage “for two weeks prior to Decoration day,” but found another car in the garage on May 29.

LEARN TO SWIM This coupon entitles holder to a free swimming lesson In The Indianapoils Times-Broad Ripple pool. Learn-to-Swin week is July 18-23. This does not include admission, but entitles holder to reduced rate—adults, 25 cents; children, 10 cents.

dents may attend in the afternoon, and adults at night. However, in case of time conflicts, you may attend anv one of the classes. Individual instruction will be given to each student, and the staff will be patient with beginners. Fair swimmers who wish to learn the back stroke, the crawl or fancy diving will be separated into groups. Certificates in swimming proficiency will be given at the end of the week to swimmers who pass a beginner's test. These certificates bear the name of The Indianapolis Times-Broad Ripple park and American Red Cross swimming school and are signed by the instructors. To enroll for Learn-to-Swim week clip out the coupon and sign up with Bill Tomlison or Earl Montgomery at Broad Ripple park. Late entries will be taken until Wednesday, but unless the students pass the swimming tests they will not be awarded the certificates. Therefore, it is best that you enroll and report Monday.

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CROOK TAKES VALUED DOOKS Varied Loot Obtained by City Burglars. ooks valued at SIOO were stolen Friday from James W. Wells while he moved to 21 North Gladstone avenue. The books included two sets of encyclopedias, histories, fiction and textbooks on engineering. Robert Haynes, 2650 altimore avenue, is held on a charge of petit larceny following theft of bottled milk and cream from a grocery at Thirtieth and Caroline streets. Silverware, pew’ter objects and clothing was stoln from a basement locker, according to a report to police by G. W. Voorhies, 111 East Sixteenth street, apartment 405. Seven cartons of cigarets and 50 cents in pennies formed the loot from the grocery of Clarence Humper, 2520 North Olney street. Entrance was gained through a side window'. John Scott, 2, of 2305 Fairview avenue, is held on a vagrancy charge, having been identified by Fred Hunter, 30, of 413 Minerva street, who told police he caught Scott reaching through a window of his home in an attempt to steal a pair of trousers. FOUR HURTJN CRASH Woman Critically Injured as Autos Collide. Critical injuries were incurred Friday night by Mrs. Guy Scott, 44, Brownsburg, in an automobile collision on the Zionsville road three-quarters of a mile east of Road 52. She is in city hospital suffering from a fractured skull and other injuries. Less serious injuries w'ere suffered by three other persons. Mrs. Scott was a passenger in a car driven by J. E. Newkirk, Scottsburg, which collided with one driven by Tine L. Mitchell, 36, of 1055 Roache street. Newkirk's wife. 25, suffered sprains. His nose was broken. Their son, Jackie, 2, was injured slightly. Deputy sheriffs arrested Mitchell on reckless driving charges. Several broken bottles which had contained beer w'ere found in Mitchell's car, officers said. BUILD NEW COURTS 12 More Tennis Lots to Be Opened by Butler. Tw-elve more tennis courts will be built on the university’s athletic field, north of Butler stadium, and facing Fifty-second street. Three courts, located near the fieldhouse, have been improved. The new courts will be ready for play within two w-eeks.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Joe Ralston, 516 Drake street, Ford coupe, 65-595. from Indiana avenue and Vermont street. Robert Lentz. 3719 East Walnut sA*eet, Chevrolet roadster, 114-404, from Delaware and Market streets. Estel MidkifT. 1743 West Morris street. Ford tudor, from Riverside park. Cow Eats Man’s Only Pants NEW ORLEANS, July 16.—A cow ate O. Faucheau’s only pair of Sunday pants and today the family appealed to charity for pants for •‘papa” so he could go to church—his only recreation from farm duties.

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LAUSANNE DEAL STRUNG WEAPON FOR HITLERITES Herriot Regime Is Menaced by London Denial of His Interpretation. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS SerinDS-Howard Foreisrn Editor WASHINGTON, July 15.—More than one European government may fall as a result of the unprecedented snarl over the meaning of the Lausanne reparations and war debts settlement and the new AngloFrench entente. The position of the Herriot government at Paris has been seriously undermined by London’s denials of Premier Herriott's interpretations of what the understandings mean, and if he fails to cling to his own particular version he more than likely will be overthrown. On the other hand, if he does stick to his guns and continues to hold out against Britain that the agreements give France what amounts to veto power over the w'ar debts settlements, which Europe hopes to make w'ith the United States, the new entente would be vitiated, if not killed. Assert Von Papen Duped In Germany, a storm is reported gaining velocity daily over the outcome at Lausanne. The Nazis of Adolf Hitler, and other Nationalists, are making political capital of the way Chancellor Von Papen was “duped.” More than ever the prediction is that the Hitlerites will sweep Germany in the national elections two weeks from Sunday. Publication of the text of the “gentleman’s agreement” is said to have added fuel to the fire of German nationalism. The first words in Lhe document are cited to prove that, despite British denials, a “united front” has been formed against the United States, and that unless the United States gives w'ay, Germany will reap no benefits whatever from Lausanne. Knew Nothing of It According to the agreement as published, it is not to become effective until ratified, and ratification wil not take place “before a satisfactory settlement is obtained between them (the allies) and their own creditors.” Os this agreement Von Papen, head of the German government and the German delegation at Lausanne, it is admitted, knew' nothing until the banquet held to celebrate the “settlement” was at its height. The blunders at Lausanne then may turn the tide in Germany and put the fire-eating Hitler in power. With Hitler and Germany's extreme nationalists in the saddle, Europe will have to face grave new dangers, and for this situation Herriot’s enemies in France will blame him. If he is not out of office before that time, his fall will not be long delayed.

Left at Altar Minister Is Victim as Nobody Takes Free Marriage Offer.

A FREE wedding, marriage ceremony, and a gift to the bridesmaid and bridegroom went a-begging Friday night at a lawn social of the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Englewood Christian church. No one in the crowd that attended the social would volunteer to make life one “spat after another.” “It’s a shame no couple took advantage of our offer. Maybe they don’| believe two can live as cheap as one these days,” declared, Mrs. John James, chairman of the social, as she wrapped up the bridal present and the ring and told the minister he wouldn’t have to work. The groundhog and the woodchuck are the same animal, the former name being given to the animal in the east.

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Shrinking from even the friendly greeting of her home town folks, Libby Holman Reynolds is seeking retirement in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Kahn in the w’ooded Cincinnati suburb, Wyoming, show'll above. Mrs. Kahn, w'ho is Libby’s sister, accompanied the widow on the trip from Winston-Salem after Reynolds’ tragic death.

Padding Congress Record Costs U. S. $2,000 a Day

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Pre* Staff Correspondent (Coovrieht. 1932. bv United Press) WASHINGTON, July 16. Padding of the congressional record is costing about $2,000 a day in the final rush to get political propaganda printed at government expense. About thirty-five pages in each issue of the congressional record now' are given over to reprinting outside speeches, letters to and from constituents, addresses by emminent citizens, and small type tables on everything from war debts to the cost of Canadian bungalow siding. Most of it has no connection whatever with the proceedings of congress. Senators and congressmen, by obtaining unanimous consent, can have anything printed in the congressional record—and do. In one volume of the record can be found almost anything except comic strips. Illustrations are forbidden. Anything printed in the record can be reprinted and set. out as campaign literature under the congressional franking privilege. Even political candidates not in congress may have their speeches inserted in the congressional record, and sent out from under the frank of some friendly senator or congressman. Several senators condemned the practice when an attempt was made to Insert a political speech by War Secretary Patrick Hurley. They pointed out that the congressional record cost SSB a page. Congressional printing is a large item in the expense of the government printing office—which uses a total of 1,500 carloads of material every year. This is the equivalent of a loaded train ten miles long. No one has figured up how' TARIFF JTRUGE FAILS Ireland, England at Odds on Disputed Questions. By United Press LONDON, July 16.—A1l prospects of a truce in the Anglo-Irish economic war vanished today after Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and President Eamon de Valera, w'ho came here hurriedly, failed to reach any compromise on disputed questions. Unless King George intervenes, so far considered, unlikely, Britain and Ireland will fight it out through retaliatory tariffs, already sanctioned by both governments.

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BORAH AGAIN IS URGED TO LEAD DRYS; TICKET Leigh Colvin Resigns From Board of Strategy in Stormy Session. WASHINGTON, July 16. Dr. Leigh Colvin, chairman of the national Prohibition party, renew-ed his efforts today to induce Senator William E. Borah of Idaho to head a dry third party movement. Colvin resigned from the national prohibition board of strategy, dissatisfied with the course it charted for the leading dry organizations in the election campaign. The board in a stormy session dismissed the third party idea. Borah gave little encouragement to Colvin, although withholding his formal decision for a few days. He indicated he would respond to a third party call only if there were a “moral uprising" of the people. Aside from Colvin's flare-up, the chief dispute in the prohibition board's final session w'as on the question of directly indorsing President Hoover for re-election. One minority group wanted the dry' organizations to come out for him flatly. Another proposed to withhold any declaration until after Mr. Hoover makes his acceptance speech. The majority, however, held out against a direct indorsement.