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9-MONTH RELIEF COST IN CITY IS $858,993 Community Fund Report Is Given: Receipts Are $875,346. Total of $858,993.04 was disbursed by the Indianapolis Community Fund during the first nine months of the fiscal year, ended July 31. 1932, against receipts amounting to $875,346.71, according tb an audited report issued today by Arthur V. Brown, fund president. Overhead, including wages of the year-round staff, collection, accounting, campaign, service to agencies and publicity amounts to less than 7 t*nts of each dollar subscribed, Brown declared. He cited savings, which include a volunteer wage reduction of 10 per cent by the staff and a larger volunteer reduction in the salary of David Liggett, executive director of the fund. Direct relief agencies of the fund have been carrying the heaviest load in years, and the so-called character building organizations have stepped out of that category to assist In the relief field. Brown said. Balanra, November I, IDS! Jl 82,869.73 RECEIPTS Payments on 1932 subscription* $691,290 70 Payments on 1931 subscription* 1R.544 45 Payment* on suspended subscriptions 1,01400 Interest on bank deposits 638 83 Borrowed from bank * 80,000 00 Total receipts 8791,485.98 Tnlal, balance Nov. I, 1931. and reeelpts *8*5.346.71 DISBURSEMENTS To Member Ontanisation* '1932 Accounts! Alpha Home Association * 3,187.50 American Settlement Association 5.736,76 Bovs' Clitb Association 8,130 32 Boy Scouts or America 14,550.01) Camp Fire Girls 4.370.54 Catholic Community Center.. 35,210 62 Catholic, Women's Association 1,668.75 Chrlstamore House 9.107 38 Family Welfare Society 270,635.37 Planner House 15,839 75 Florence Crlttenton Home.... 5,684.38 Girl Scout,* 5,375.02 Hawthorne Social Service House 5.162.50 Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays 195.84 Indianapolis Day Nursery Association 5.950.00 Indianapolis Flower Mission,. 599.99 Indianapolis Home for Aged Women 2,375.00 Indianapolis Orphan Asylum. 7,437 50 Indianapolis Travelers Aid . 6.356.11 Jewish Federation of Indianapolis . 38.062.50 Old Folks’ Home lAltenheimi 2,750.00 Public Health Nursing Assocla>tlon 25,899.99 Red Cross Chapter 30,000 00 Saint Elizabeth's Home 7,400 00 Salvation Army 25,727.91 Social Service Department— Indianapolis Church Federation 4,312.50 Society of Good Shepherd.... 2,250.00 Theodora Home 2,844.12 Volunteers of America 16,878.78 Wheeler City Rescue Mission 9,248.81 Woman's Improvement Club.. 3,081.25 Y. M. C. A.—Central Branch 46.776.00 Y. M. C. A.—Colored Branch 11.007.00 Y. W. C. A.—Central Branch 26.358.33 Y W. C. A —Colored Branch 15,316.67 Y. W. C. A—S ou t h Side Branch 2,700.00 Central Registration Bureau. 2.827.83 Central Investigating Office.. 2.796 97 Total 1932 accounts $683,811.99 (1931 Accounts) Family Welfare Society $ 2.000.00 Total paid to member organizations $685,811.99 Expenses of 1932 campaign '*3B.043,38, less $16,019.67, amount advanced prior to Nov. 1, 193 U $ 22.023,71 Administration, collecting and accounting 19.916.17 Council of social agencies . 8,816.26 Centralized service to agencies 636.50 Publicity 4.310.25 Other Disbursements: Repayment of bank loans and Interest. 1931 88,800.99 Repayment of bank loans, 1932 20. 00n.n0 Equipment purchases 319.08 Annual meeting 30d.a4 Advanced 1933 campaign expenses *... 6.827.47 Interest on current loans 1.221.68 Total other disbursements.. .8117,478.16 Total disbursements $858,993.04 Total, balance Nov. I, 1931, and receipts *875,346.71 Total disbursements 858,993.04 Balance, July 31. 1932 S 16,353.67 DEMOCRAT WOMEN TO HOLD ONE-DAY SCHOOL Two “Course*'* Will Be Given in Eleventh District by Leader*. Democratic women of the Eleventh district will meet, Friday nnd next Tuesday in two ‘schools of democracy" sponsored by Mrs. Marcia Murphy, Eleventh district vicechairman. Speakers at the Friday meeting at Greenfield will include: Mrs, A. T. Flynn, Democratic state vice-chairman: Mrs. Olive Beldon Lewis and Albert Stump, Indianapolis. Mrs. Zelpha Resner, Hancock county vice-chairman, will preside Mrs. Victoria Haller, president of the Hancock County Democratic Women’s Club, will be hostess. A similar meeting will be held at Anderson Sept. 20.

WATSON ASSAILED FOR HELP BY WILL HAYS Van Nuys Says Special Interests AH Will G. O. P. Aid in Campaign. By Tnited Pre* VEEDERS3URG, Ind., Sept. 13. —Striking at Senator James E. Watson for having Will Hays, head of the motion picture industry, return to Indiana to assist in his campaign for re-election. Frederick Van Nuys, Democratic nominee opposing Watson, addressed a Fountain county Democratic meeting here Monday night. Van Nuys charged that “every $150.000-a-year representative of the special interests and monopolies will be headed into Indiana during this campaign” to aid Watson. OIL DEALERS Advised on Provisions of New Tax Law by State Auditor’s Office. Forms and instructions for oil dealers to follow in carrying out provisions of the new gasoline tax law are being sent to dealers throughout the state by Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor. The law was amended at the special session to place tfce tax on any oil fuel used by motors on state highways. Under the new provisions the tax must be paid on all kerosene, naphtha, benzol, casing head gas. distillate, fuel oil and the like end if not used so as to be taxable refund la made. Williamson asked that separate payments be made and separate accounts be kept for other than gasoline. Freight Hopper Is Injured Howard Little, 19. Bloomfield, is In city hospital suffering from leg lacerations as the result of stealing p ride on an Indianapolis Central freight train from Bloomfield to Indiana polls.

50 YEARS OF WEBER & FIELDS

They Jump From Free Lunch Ranks to Diamond Class

Joe Weber and Lew Fields, who were a team when the Bowery was a gay theater street, will celebrate their golden Jubilee as a team with a banquet at the Hotel Aator, New York, on the night of Sept. 25. • Not that we was together fifty years yet. It was Afty-am," say* Weber. But we never had It a golden Jubilee. Und whatever It I* coming to us, we want It." In approaching auch an occasion the two partners are naturally remlniacent. and a aerie* of article* by A. J. Liebling. of which the following i* the second, presents aome of the reminiscence. BY A. J. LIEBLING Time* Staff Writer • Copyright, 1932. by the New York WorldTetegram Corporationi LEW FIELDS, attired in a slate gray Prince Albert, with trousers to match, a pearl gray plug hat, black shoes with gray spats, a bouquet of forget-me-nots in his buttonhole, and Joe Weber, comparably bedight, sat in Joe Smith’s saloon on East Fourteenth street with four other variety actors no less elegant. Into the saloon shambled a tramp. “Gents,” he said, ‘‘l ain't et for three days. I used to he a professional myself—knockabout and pantomime.” "Knockabout?” echoed the sympathetic Ward. “If you can do a couple of flips for us to prove what you say. we’ll see you get something to eat.” Mentally he was calculating chances for putting Mr. Smith on the cuff for a beer which would entitle the tramp to fill up on free lunch. The tramp stepped back, spat on his hands, launched into a handspring. Out of his pants pockets dropped 75 cents in change, more than the combined capital of the theatrical elegants. M M U IT was the second stage of the Weber and Fields career. The boys had a good act—two pretty good acts, in fact, since besides '* the Mike and Meyer Dutch turn they retained the old paper-tear-ing and dancing skit, performing both on each bill when they were booked. They had triumphed at theaters like Miners and the London, the present Chinese theater on the Bowery, then an ornate music hall, although they had never played Tony Pastor's on Broadway near Prince street, the final consecration of a variety career. But there was no steady work unless you had your own show. There were no variety circuits—the word vaudeville was not yet current. There were, as Weber recalls, but three theatrical agents in all New York and they did not bother with variety turns. Each of the half dozen New York music halls of the second rank would play a turn one week a season and you relied on the mail box at Harry Miner's pool room for the rest of your engagements. This case and billiard room was the official hangout for laying off actors. Weber and Fields took their first company on the road when they were about 15. It was a co-operative, all members of the company except Roger Dolan and his wife agreeing to share in the receipts, but Joe and Lew guaranteed transportation and the enterprise was known as the Weber and Fields show. " * n ROGER DOLAN—his memory still chagrins Joe Weber—was a fat-faced, cross-eyed man who did a comic dialog with Mrs. Dolan. He stood out for a regular salary of sls a week for the team, and, as things turned out he made more money than the impresarios. "I got. the idea in Williamsburg," Fields relates. “I saw a big tent there that the medicine

Millions Spent in State by Sears, Roebuck & Cos.

Aid to Indiana Industry Is Cited in Anniversary Announcement. Indiana has ben enriched $15,561,295 through expenditures of Sears, Roebuck Company in the state during the last two years, according to an elaborate report and analysis of the company's business i prepared in anticipation of its forty- j sixth anniversary celebration. Sept. J 15 to 24. and received in this city by i John Burke, manager of the local Sears store. The report, from the office of D. ! M. Nelson, vice-president in charge of merchandising showed that of the total sum spent by Sears in Indiana in 1930 and 1931. $12,977,942 was for merchandise purchased from 205 manufacturing sources located in seventy-five cities of the state. American industries, the report pointed out, have been receiving, in states where Sears has retail stores, in the neighborhood of $200,000,000 a year for manufactured products. The rest of the total of sums paid out in this state by the big merchandising firm was divided as follows: Wages and salaries paid to resident Sears employes in Indiana $1,598,536. Indiana newspapers received a to- j tal of $523,164 for advertising space purchased by Sears stores. A .total of $461,653 was paid fpr rents and taxes on Sears property in Indiana. The report showed a long list of factories, each maintaining substan- j tia] pay rolls, supported chiefly by ; merchandise purchases of the Sears I buying organization. Commenting on the shape that the forty-sixth birthday celebration plans would take, Manager Burke said that merchandise tested in Sears' own laboratories would be featured especially during the anniversary event. "Sears had the first general testing laboratories ever established by a large merchandising concern on a comparable basis,” he declared ‘ Naturally we are proud of the ex-j treme care taken to protect inter- [ ests of our customers.”

.. ' ,| urated Mr. Walter, “make me laugh.’’ But Walter laughed after their first performance. They went on a gold rush town. ? The Pacific coast never had seen an act like For ten weeks they played San Francisco at an average of $250 a week, counting their earnings at two cabarets, the Cremome and the Bella Union. And when they appeared in Miners' pool room next fall, each 22-year-old sported im. his shirt front a three-carat yellow diaNext: Weber and Fields conquer Broadway. way mark, in 1007. men used lor .shows and loft t y ] standing between visits. T found MffiwßfflKljr C the fellow who owned the lot and told him I wanted to put on a show. si IH e* “When he heard we wern t a ’ JL,' rival medicine combinati >n he s&jgß SY said we could have the ‘ent for $lO a ueek There would be anmher vacant tent in Troy next week, he said." ' The Weber <V Fields show played the Williamsburg and Troy SiaSßLfW&fve !.f tents to receipts varying from sl2 to S6O a night 'there was only *•’ one S6O night), with five variety jj t. turns, including Weber and Fields

Weber and Fields at the halfway mark, in 1907. men used for their shows and left I standing between visits. I found ! the fellow who owned the lot and ! told him I wanted to put on a show. “When he heard we wern't a rival medicine combination he said we could have the tent for $lO a week. There would be anj other vacant tent in Troy next j week, he said.” The Weber & Fields show played the Williamsburg and Troy tents to receipts varying from sl2 to S6O a night (there was only one S6O night >, with five , variety turns, including Weber and Fields and smith and Way. Smith and Way was the billing they used for the paper tearing. Ates the variety show, they put on an afterpiece, a farce in which all member of the company appeared, entitled “The Crowded Hotel.” Weber played the part of an Irishman, and the big laugh of the show was when he asked the hotel clerk, “What time does the 10 o’clock train leave in the morning?” Sixty minutes past 9,” Clerk Fields replied without hesitating a moment. an n PRACTICALLY all the receipts went to bill-posters, the Albany boat line and theatrical boarding houses. Lew and Joe returned to atheir daily five-hour game of pool at Miner’s. "It was a nickel a game,” they explain, “and we never spent more than a nickel in any day. To organize a strong road show that would be sure of bookings in real theaters, you had to get good acts to work for you. To get good acts to work for you, you had to inspire confidence. To inspire confidence you had to have diamonds. And so Weber and Fields were more than ever on the qui vive for a lucrative engagement which would provide the initial payment on a couple of rings and some studs. Their craving for "ice” was whetted by their first engagement with a recognized traveling show. Gus Hill’s. Gus Hill was an Indian-club swinger. His clubs, loaded with lead, were exhibited in the lobby before each performance. A strong man could hardly budge one from the carpet. Hill dropped the weights out before his act. But he had three gleaming shirt studs, each the size of a pea. “If a faker like that can be a manager, with diamonds, we got to get diamonds,” Joe told Lew.

BOARD NOT TO PAVE PROTESTERS’ SECTION Contract for $9,062 Job is Awarded R. M. Bowen Cos. Contract amounting to $9,062 for paving of East New York street between State and Arsenal avenues was awarded Monday by the bbard of works to R. M. Bowen, contractor. Prior to awarding the contract, the board decided to leave unpaved a section in front of property belonging to J. W. and J. D. Grismere, who have remonstrated against the damages awarded them in purchasing the right of way for the new street. Litigation, is pending in which the Grismeres seek an increase in the $5,500 damages awarded them. It is expected that the matter will be settled before the remainder of the street is paved completely, the board said, and if not, the paving of the section in front of the Grismere property will not be started.

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Weber and Fields as the public best knows them. HILL paid the act thirty a week and board. During those years they accepted about any wages offered them. Weber even now always says wages. He thinks salary is high hat. Long before the Hill engagemen they had earned $125 a week for one week in Providence. But gradually the average amount was getting higher. Especially was this true of their asking price. In fact, in 1889 they wrote a letter to a*gentleman named Gustav Walter, proprietor, according to the Clipper, of the Orpheum theater, San Francisco, naming $175 as their terms. They were, they assured him, the funniest men in the east. They had sent several thousand letters in their career, and nobody even had answered from further than Paterson, N. J., but Walter took the bait. “O. K. for four weeks. Call at Southern Pacific offices for transportation,” he wired. Three days later they were off for California—and diamonds. Their adventures on that foray into the unknown —how Fields’ California uncle, whom they had counted on for a grubstake, met them at the train and tried to operate a touch; how they engaged a room at the finest hotel in San Francisco for $3, being under the impression that the clerk meant $3 a week; how they learned, on their arrival, that Walter would be bankrupt if their act flopped—these are materials for hours of excited narration full of laughs and arguments. in the Astor headquarters.

n n u THE Orpheum was a music hall operated in conjunction with a saloon, and when the boys first sought out Walter to ask for an advance on their pay, they found him leaning on his bar and meditating suicide. “Who are you?” he asked heavily. . “We are Weber and Fields.” the young New Yorkers replied, with two ingratiating smiles. "Veil,” said the morose and sat-

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urated Mr. Walter, “make me laugh.” It was impossible. But Walter laughed after their first performance. They went on at 1:30 In the morning, the shank of the evening in that fabulous city, which had forgotten it was a gold rush town. The Pacific coast never had seen an act like theirs. For ten weeks they played San Francisco at an average of $250 a week, counting their earnings at two cabarets, the Cremome and the Bella Union. And when they appeared in Miners’ pool room next fall, each 22-year-old sported his shirt front a three-carat diambnd. Next: Weber and Fields conquer Broadway.

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PAIR HELD UP IN HOTEL HERE; S3OOJSBOOTY Youthful Bandits Force Way Into Room, Rob Men, Leave Leisurely. Alter a delay of nearly fortyeight hours, a holdup iA the Claypool, in which the loot was nearly S3OO, was reported to police Monday afternoon. Obert C. Zinn, Camden. N. J., and his nephew, Wilbur Zinn. Toledo. 0., were the victims of the robbery which they told police was committed by two youths 19 to 20 years old. The Zinns said that about 6:30 Saturday night there was a knock at the door of their room on the fourth floor of the hotel. The robbers forced their way in as the door opened. One carried a revolver. Both were masked with handkerchiefs. After binding the men, the bandits forced Obert Zinn to lie on the bed and his nephew on the floor, with his head in the bathroom, he said. Obtaining only a few dollars from the men's pockets, one of the robbers asked: “Where is the rest of it?” "In the office downstairs,” he was told. “Then I’ve got a bum steer,” was the comment of the robber. Search of the Zinns’ baggage followed and from a traveling bag owned by Obert Zinn, the robbers removed $250. During the robbery, the handkerchief mask slipped on the face of one of the bandits. He handed his rovolver to his companion and adjusted the masks of both. The bandits left without any show of hurry, police were told. Scout Chiefs to Meet Scoutmasters of Indianapolis troops will hold their annual fall meeting at 7:30 tonight in Roberts Park M. E. church.

Happy Days!

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Miss Grace Ewing Good cheer! That’s what the members of the Mississippi Valley Conference on Tuberculosis, meeting in the Claypool, dispence in their sanatoriums and to patients outside. And Miss Grace Ewing of Shelbyville, public health nurse, is showing anew way to dispense that cheer in the photo. No! It really hasn’t a kick in aschooner full. It is merely a schoonel of gelatin molded to resemble lager and demonstrated at the conference by the Ad Seidel & Sons Company of Chicago, as a way of pepping up the jadded appetites of sick patients with a view of “what may be” in the next four years.

_SEPT. 13,1932

T. M. HONAN IS DEAD) SERVED IN STATEPOSTS Former Attorney-General Was Prominent Alumnus of Indiana U. Thomas M. Honan, 65. of Seymour, former attorney-general of Indiana, and a prominent alumnus of Indiana university, died Monday in St. Vincent's hospital. He had been in ill health about three years, and was in the hospital nine days. Born in Jackson county, he attended the public schools thera. Later, he attended Hanover college, transferring to Indiana university. He was graduated in the class of 1889. i He was active in Democratic politics. He was prosecuting attorney of Jackson and Lawrence counties several terms, and was city attorney of Seymour four years. Mr. Honan was Jackson county's representative in the general assembly during the sixty-fourth, sixtyfifth and sixty-sixth sessions. He was Speaker of the house during the latter session. He was elected at-torney-general in 1910. serving in the administrations of Governor Thomas R. Marshall and Governor Samuel M. Ralston. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and of various legal organizations. He was active in the aiumni affairs of Indiana university. Funeral services will be held at 9 Thursday in St. Ambrose Catholic church in Seymour. Burial will be in Seymour. Death Caused by Alcoholism Acute alcoholism caused the death of Orville Middaugh, 28, of 1532 South Belmont avenue, found dead Monday afternon near Minnesota street and Belmont avenue, according to a preliminary finding by Coroner W. E. Arbuckle.