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Evening star., 1924-05-04

author to appreciate the romance Of
the southern seas, as well as the dis
tinctly unusual and appealing native
music which he introduces as Incl
dental melodies in THE Bird Of Para
disc"
Tully imported the first troupes of
native Hawaiian dancers, singers and
instrumentalists nearly fifteen years
ago, and their popularity has hardly
vet waned. Aloha Oe." the sweet
love song which has almost become
the Hawaiian trade mark, was intro
duced in "The Bird of Paradise"
Evening star., 1924-05-04

LknRODUCERS have learned that
money is not a substitute for
brains. and 1924 is going to see less
time and money spent on sets and
mobs and more on stories, scripts and
direction" so says Producer B. P.
Schulberg.
"The net result" he continues,
"yili be a lowering of production
costs and a raising of entertainment
now list the best pictures of 1924 /
predict that the average production
cost of each will be around $150,000.
That is less than half the average
production cost of the best pictures
of last year.
have suddenly found that we had a
Evening star., 1924-05-04
News andComment
By w. II. Landuo,gt.

critics OF the thcatcr ddcd
the paywrght dream and stood aspiring managers and their
hieg the public should have the
way theatrical entertainment have the items OF
pep and punch without which show least modern show
would be worth seeing Mindful of this pebean discovery the movies
moving their forces manuy the punch 1t wasn't fully realized
when Billy Sullivan and Reginald Denny first exploited in the two
ee that Benny Leonard
u the champion fighters make his But now
going them all and drive the blow home with Jack
Dempsey king of the bunch and Carmea Geac be his leading
woman.
RUT this not ALL One eearvtted scribe OF writing
defense pictures Alaska and hc far north wild
dv sed ~ h d1 | w. ,h % % ] ~ them which the faTsi
should pain OF the phooplay
he declares observed before Along with
this comes the thrilling intelligence that Bccr finally gotten
hair cut and that his face is an avcn All OF which indicates
The movies accomplishing something.
RUT turning to another angle they
fs hs ys Rhs
& S sSsi: IS;: 5Sasa9f 's
more viii the hos @ the s s their
he To4 hi a a
f nH or
55e By
Of %enes Century w arpn and the e The real spr
the p-oudcst history, after all that
AND
- Reyont9n @ at woss instance he filmed Asrea and made the old
@ @ a~a ] m t5u bo aesT5 9nsn @ M M o ao
] 3 M 3 gtu5s not and @ M him o ayg
aSeu regard Sress director: ''~s' ~''''S
TIE As % not m such Dad fellow; alter all Universal its
burg agency advertising picture by
all settled withdrawal
ty its Japanese
Mae MARSH has created Mae gone to
- ~
NEWS iron New York which should delight
says that Roxe broaGcsng station the Capitol Teater has been
Asr night according New York reports rh. Covered Wagon
- closed It's ditine continuous
ra @ s 5f 9a s5 Pa $685. foT the privilege although another
JOYCE will make her appeance the screen the coming
"A is being made in
England.
ssoCIATED EXHIBITORS future Racing
- Luck fs1turing Aont Banks The s?ir starring
ss s4d Ws s:grg Waas S g.: Re e Sixth M
Lone Wolf starring Dorothy Dalton.
"RIUMPH Girl Shy"
pictures Washington all being held the big movie
houses New York
MARC KLAW formerly theatrical
denied that he has any notion OF entering the picture business
. UMORS afoat that r. A Walsh dckeng
&C Gest ior the pstu rights The m Mraes the
Diana Manners and ov:e Caldwell the leading roles
MAE MURRAY Film Daily going make "The Merry
~ into photoplay for Metro re!ease
~ Brandon Fleming called TIE Eleventh Commandment"
FALON HAMILTON probably the leads
IA in the The River Road Shpman to
make
GLADYS WALTON happy though married back
- direction NJ
been division for Universal
EVERYBODY who loves movie wondering the contemplated
II strike June photop1ay strike in the
creative wing of the movies probably would.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Reginald Denny S Lord.

"T ORD help me-" said Reginald
Denny-and he got his wish.
The lord in question being Lord
Lonsdale, one Of England's best
known sportsmen and patron of the
fistic arts.
Denny was young and ambitious
but broke. For weeks he had been
trying to persuade the management
Of the National Sporting Club, Lon
don's swagger boxing center, to let
him fight in one of the preliminary
bouts. Because he was an "un-
known" and had no member to spon-
sor him the officials refused.
Fighters. like actors, seldom suffer
from an inferiority complex. Denny
was good-he admitted it--but with
out backing he could not hope to
enter the sacred portals of the n.
S. c.
Spending his last penny on a post
age stamp, Denny wrote Lord Ions
dale, asked an interview and was in
vited to do his stuff in the peers
private gymnasium, where he donned
the gloves and boxed with the lords
personal trainer, man older.
stronger and more experienced than
the sixteen-year-old Denny. His
Evening star., 1924-05-04

4 SKETCH provocative Of much
"A laughter is to be found III Apart
ment to Let" played by Janet Beecher'
Olive Wyndham, Violet kemble-
Cooper and Harry c. Browne. This
quartet, at Keiths this week, made
their Joint debut in the varieties at
the Palace, New York, and their sue
cess was the talk of Broadway In a
few hours.
The story of the combination OF
legitimate players for vaudeville be-
gins a few weeks ago. when MISS
Wyndham and Mr.. Browne closed in
"The Fool after a full season to-
rether The pair thought that 1t
would be pleasant to go into vaude-
Evening star., 1924-05-04
To Do Barbara Frietchie.

HOW many present-day playgoers
recall the delightful stage char
acterization of Julia Marlowe, Bar
ba.ra Frietchie"? To those who do,
and to the film fans to whom the
lovely Marlowe is but a name. the an
nouncement that Florence Vidor will
re-create on the screen the role Of the
famous stage star is welcome news.
A notable cast to support Miss Vidor
is promised.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Barbary Coast King.

nAvE KIRBY, known as the King
~ Of Barbary Coast" in and around
the bay city of San Francisco, was Sc
lected to play an important bit in the
screen version of '"The Man Who
Came Back" when the director and
his company were on location in Fris-
CO shooting scenes in the genuine
spots" described in the play.
Kirby plays the part of dance hall
manager and his comedy antics and
interpretations of waterfront charac-
ters furnish no little amount Of COM
edy in the picture.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
. New Lubitsch Picture.

HANS KRALY is the author Of the
/ = story on which Ernst Lubitsch's
new production for Warner Brothers
is based. The locale of the story is
New York, the time the present. The
theme, treated in a dramatic manner,
deals with modern society life. Mr..
Kraly has been associated with Mr..
Lubftsch in the capacity OF scenarist
since the early days of the directors
career Among the best known of
his scenarios are Gypsy Blood"
Passion and Deception"
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Friend of Ukulele.

THE distinct optimistic note OBJ
- served in and about ukulele fac
tories this spring is accounted for by
the fact that Richard Walton Tully
is laying his plans for the filming of
his spectacular stage success, tThe
Bird OF Paradise" which will be made
i. Tully 10 recognized as the first
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Photoplays This Week
At the Photoplay Houses This Week

RIALTOJohn Barrymore Shown this after
and evening
PACEThe White Sister" Shown this and evening
METROPOLITAN Men Leave Home" Shown this after
and evening "
COLUMBIA-"Bluf" Shown this afternoon evening.
AMBASSADORWhy Men Leave Home" Shown this afternoon
and evening
CENTRAL-"Rders Up this afternoon and evening
CRANDALLS-"The Love Bandit" Shown this afternoon and
evening. ~
LINCOLN (ColoredPnted People, Shown this afternoon and
evening. ~ ~
Evening star., 1924-05-04

A photoplay novelty at the Tivoli
this week is the "Plastigrams," new
device that gives the screen an ap-
parent third dimension in it's reflect
ed image-that of depth as well as
breadth and height
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Central Riders Up THE
Telephone Girl"

'Riders Up," in which Ethey Shan
non is starred, will be the feature of
the bill for the first four days OF this
week, at Crandalls Central Theater,
:, CONTINUED on Fourth Page.l ..
Evening star., 1924-05-04

score. played by the Palace Orchestra,
under Mr.. Cannon, however, is fea-
ture.
$50, $50 and 9 p.m.a .
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
POSTAL CLERK
KILLS BANDIT
SAVES $4,000
Battles Men Who Attempt to
Stage HoId-up at
Station,
BIZ United Press

By United Press
EAST ORANGE. N. J.. July 31.-
Quick thinking and steady aim by a
postoffice employe prevented a
$4,000 nail robbery here today.
One Of two bandits who attempted
the robbery In the LAckawanna
Railway station, was shot and kilINCd
by Eugene Stack, a postal clerk,
during a battle on the station plat.
form.
Stack himself was struck twice
by bullets. The second bandit es-
capped
Five pouches, containing about
$50 900 in registered mail and money
orders were on the platform as the
gunmen approached. A sixth bag
filed with Federal reserve currency
from New York, which ordinarily Is
with the other five, did not arrive
today.
Stack approached the upper post
office platform to await arrival OF a
nail train from New York at 4:5s
a m. He was reading a newspaper
as the bandits came up from the 9th
er end of the station.
without warning one of the men
drew an automatic pistol and opened
fire on the postal man and negro
helper. The negro fed, but Stack,
although hit in the leg. drew his
service pistol and fired six shots at
the bandits. One of the men was
shot through the chest and killed
The other escaped.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
Local Livestock Market
Makes Largest Single
Drop Since Pre-War Days
Decrease Is No Sur
prise to Traders.
NO INCREASE IN PORK
FIGURES ARE REPORTED
Other Market CenterS An
nounce Similar Changes
in Value of Live Hogs
Big Packers Refused to
Buy at Top Quotation,

Hog prices at the local livestock
market made the largest single drop
since war-days when prices slumped
81 TO SI.10 today. All weights Of
hogs sold at S9.75 compared with
$1O.S5 and 5000 Wednesday. Prices
are just Is cents above the level of
a week ago.
The drop was no surprise TO trad
ers who have declared the rise.
which has been in progress nearly
four weeks. would not be substan-
tiaL Many factors contributed to
the decline. Among those are the
unsettled conditions of foreign mar
kets; the increase of receipts; slack
ening Of demand, and the general
feeling among traders that the rise
was unhealthy.
No marked increase in dressed
pork prices has been recorded, and
as long as the advance in live hogs
has been broken, no radical advance
Is anticipated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
Three Warships

Once over the high seas, only the
trackless way of the old Vikings
and discoverers marks their course.
Down below three American war
vessels will be on the watch--the
Billingsly at the Faroes, the Reid
on the sea between Faroes and Ice
land and the Raleigh at Hornafjord.
Our aviators are conscious Of the
difficulties that lie just ahead, but
doubt If they will prove as severe
as the Alaskan and Aleutian flights
When finally the decision not to
fly was reached, the disappointed air
men arranged a visit to the sunken
German war craft Won Hindenburg
and Sedeliz in Scappa Flow and for
a mile drive over the hills to
visit the quaint and ancient town
Of Kirkwall, whose houses, streets
and people remind one of illustra-
tfons to Hans Anderson's fairy tales.
The f1iers will step once more
aboard the Richmond, hopeful that
daybreak will find clear weather
ahead. Fogs and mists are preva-
lent at this time Of year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
TRUCK SMASHED
BY INTERURBAN
D Car Leaves Track After
CraSh-TWo Are Hurt.

A north-bound work train on the
Lafayette interurban line struck a
truck at Stop 4. five miles northwest
of the business district, today.
Clarence Gedig, 23, of 1908 n. New
Jersey ST.. truck driver, suffered Sc
we're body cuts and bruises. He was
taken to city hospital.
Joseph Doris, is, of TIA n. Illi-
nois St, truck passenger. received
minor bruises. Police took him home.
Motorman Lester B. Crider, Leba-
non. was slated on an assault and
battery charge by Sergeant Sheehan
and squad
The traction car knocked the
truck against waiting station, de-
molishing it and the truck. The
front trucks OF the car left the track
and the car travelled 300 feet on the
ties, police said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
RAILROADS OBEY
SMOKE ORDINANCE
H, F. TempIeton Reports
Better Cooperation,

Violation Of the city smoke or
dinanoe decreased from SIS to 81 per
cent among the seven railroads OF
the city in the first three weeks
campaign. II. F.. Templeton. assist.
ant chief smok einspector, said to-
day. A total of 129 inspections was
made.
The Big Four led all the roads
with the smallest per cent Of vio-
lation with an average OF 27.5 per
cent. Templeton reported that 80
per cent of the locomotives of this
road are equippepd with smoke
consumers.
Railroad officials promised Temple
ton they would continue coopera-
ton with the city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
S22,15S.23 ROAD
COSTS APPROVED
County Council Also Au-
thorizeS Bond Issue.

With passage of ar appropriation
ordinance for $22,15S2S and authori.
zat'on Of two bond issues for road
imr rovements, the county council
completed it's two-day session today
and adjourned.
Originally the ordinance called for
about $4,000. An item of $31, 900 for
paving Twenty-Fifth ST.. Yandes to
Rural Sts., temporarily was cut out.
1t will be taken up later.
Bond issues for concreting Airing
ton Ave, from Michigan st. to
Brookville Rd., a distance of 1.6
miles, and the Three Notch Rd.. an
extension of S. Meridian st. from
the city limits to the county line.
distance of 6.3 miles were authorized.
Estimates prepared by J. j. Grif-
fifth. county surveyor, placed cost
of the Arlington Ave. work at $780,
900 and the Three Notch Rd. at
$210,520.
The issue for the latter road VIII
not be made until after Jan. /, 1925.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31

By NEA Service
E1HEY are the proudest moth
ers in America!
IL Their boys are circling the
globe, through the air, for Uncle
Sam.
And now they are coming home.
II wouldn't have stopped
Lowell from flying around the
world for anything" says Mrs
Jasper G.. Smith of Los Angeles,
mother of Lieut. Lowell Smith,
who received command of the
flight after Mai. Frederick Martin
crashed into an Alaskan mountain.
In Los Angeles is Mrs. Robert
Harding. whose son John Is the
ranking second lieutenant and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
MANS PLEA WINS CASE
Tells Judge He Was Speeding to
Buy Bread for His Family.

A plea that he was driving to a
bakery to buy bread with his last %
cents to feed his six children, won
freedom today for Henry ,Studder,
35, of 1125 Troy Ave-, arrested
Wednesday on charge Of driving
thirty miles an hour.
Studder told Judge Delbert o..
Wilmeth that he had been out of
work for four weeks and was
broke" He said he was driving
only twenty miles an hour.
Judge Willneth withheld judgment
and discharged him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31

mechanician on the New Orleans,
ship No. Of the flight.
Flying has changed my boy.
Before the war, when he was pre-
pairing for an engineering course
at Vanderbilt University in Nash
Vile. Tenn. he had the smooth
est, softest skin. the reddest
cheeks Now his face is tanned,
and as he wrote me the other day,
We're husky like luInberjacks. .
In Spokane, Mrs. Cora L. Ar
mold is waiting for her son. Lieut..
Leslie P. Arnold. another one OF
the pilots
I'm rot at all worried about
Leslie" she says In all the time
he has been flying he has had only
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
RECEIVER is SHOCKED
Lightning Transfer Company Loses
$500 to Thieves.

c. F. Green. receiver for the
Lightning Transfer Co., 31S E. st.
Joseph ST.. was shocked today, he
told police. when he discovered
that thieves had entered the place
and had taken $500 worth of equip
ment, including a skirt chassis for
ton and a half truck, a crank case,
wrenches, wheel barrow, cross-cut
saw, eight jacks. block and tackle
and a quantity Of rope and cable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
ARGUMENTS OF STATE FAIL
TO SHAKE COURTS DECISION
Medical Witnesses Can Testify to
Show Mental Condition of Youths,
Judge Holds-Cites Supreme Court
Opinion.
By EDWARD c. DERR

CRIMINAL COURTROOM, CHIC4GO July 31-Legal ar-
hortes today forecast the escape Nathan Leopold and Rich
ard Loeb from the for the Staying of Robert Franks This
forecast based the tentative ruling of Chief Justice John
Caver which favors the defense that its medical
testimony is admissible.
AT the end of two hours of argument by the State
today Justice Cavery to his ruling which permits the
defense to introduce medical testimony show mitigating
eirou
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31

one accident. And that wasn't
serious"
Near CassopoEs. Mich, lives
Mrs. William NJ. Wade. mother OF
Lieut.. Leigh Wade.
Lieutenant Wade has been home
only for visits Of a few hours at d
time since entering the Army,
his mother says. A couple OF times.
when he was stationed at Dalton.
he flew back for brief visits.
Mrs. Wade receives almost daily
letters from him.
Mrs. Christina Nelson. mother
OF Lieut.. Eric Nelson, haison Off
Ger and chief engineer on the
flight, lives in Sweden.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
DAIRYMEN ARE HELD
Charges With Selling Watered Milk
to Customer.

William Wright, 81, and Edward
Eickhoff, SO, r. r. P, dairymen.
gathered at the river" according
to affidavits filed against them by
j. r. Dunwoody, resulting in their
arrest today by Fred Howe, city
board ef health officer
The men were charged with sell
ing adulterated milk. The affidavits
alleged they sold watered milk to
w. c. Quack, 1135 Churchnan st.
Charges were denied on behalf Of
the dairymen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
STORMS AND COOLER
Real Relief Predicted by Local
Weather Bureau.

Thunderstorns and cooler weather
were forecast for Indianapolis to-
day.
Temperatures kept within the
seventy mark during the early
morning. 1t was 80 at II a. m and
20 at noon
Extreme heat Wednesday was
followed by a small tornado on the
southeastern section of the county.
Mrs, Roy Pfendler. living near
Acton was hurt when the buggy
she was in was struck by a tel
ephone pole blown down by the
storm. Her daughter, Virginia. 6.
was also hurt when thrown from
the buggy when the horse ran away.
One man was taken to his hotel
rooms suffering from the heat, but
be quickly recovered
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
Mercy!
By Unfted Press

By United Press
CRIMINAL COURT ROOM,
CHICAGO, July 81 Chief
Justice John R. Caverly, sitting
as judge and jury at the
judicial hearing of Nathan f.
Leopold and Richard Loeb for
murder Of Robert Franks. to-
day received fifteen letters on
the case, showing a pro-
nounced change in the letter
writing public's attitude to-
ward the slayers.
Justice Caverly said four
teen of the writer's urged life
Imprisonment for the boys, the
other one demanded the
gallows.
Heretofore, preponderance of
letters urged the extreme
penalty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
SPEED AGE is 22 YEARS
I&ivers, "a, Not So Slow Either,
Court Reveals.

Twenty-Five is the speed age, ac-
cording to a study of affidavits filed
against motorists in city court to-
day.
OF the drivers arraigned, seven
were %, three were IT, two were 18.
four were 19. two were 20, four
were 81. two were %, six were "a.
one was 25, four were 27 two were
28, one was 20, two were 33 and
others were 36, 81. 3s, SO. Al, A, As,
46 and SO, respectively.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
Policy Holders to Be Guests

Boosters Club of the Public Saw
ings Insurance Company will have a
basket picnic Saturday for their
policy holders. Popcorn, peanuts,
lemonade and crackerjack will be
distributed free. Games and con-
tests for young and cid will be
held.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
Refuse to RuY

By United Press
OMAHA, Neb., July 81. Refusal
Of the big packers to buy hogs is
causing the break in hog prices Of
the last two days, according to COM
mission houses here.
Big packers bought very few hogs
commission men say. Little packing
houses and spectators are said to
have lost heavily.
Prices here broke 25 % so cents
today, making the top price 1925.
compared with Tuesdays high Of
S1O.10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
MORE. DOPE, SAYS CHIEF
Rikhoff Tells Officers to Get Informa-
ton.

Hereafter police officials will make
determined efforts to find out where
dope" and liquor users obtain their
supplies Police Chief Herman Rik-
hoff instructed inspectors, super
visors and captains to see that po-
lice obtained this information when
making arrests. Attention was called
to the fact that there was a previous
order to this effect.
The order was the result of criti-
cism of police for failing to obtain
these facts, made by William H.
Remy, prosecutor, recently in Crimi-
nal Court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
STOKERS COMPULSORY
Amendments to Building Code In.
clude Boiler Specifications.

Amendments to the building code
soon to be offered to the city coun-
Gil will include new specifications for
putting boilers in place, H. F. TEN
pleton, assistant chief smoke in
spector, said today.
They will include compulsory In
stallation of mechanical stokers on
boilers Of $50 or more horse power
and increasing the height of stacks
to afford better drafts. Both of these
changes will tend to eliminate the
smoke evil, Templeton said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
Germany Enters
War

Ten years ago Kaiser Will
helm declared a state OF war ex-
listed In Germany and ordered
the mobilization Of $500, 900
men.
Meanwhile the Russian army
was continuing TO mobilize.
Serbian troops repulsed the
invading Austrian army.
The Car of Russia warned
Austria that he would not
countenance a conquest Of Ser
bia-
Americans in Europe were
making q desperate effort TO
get home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
HUNT SQUIRRELS FRIDAY
Season on Fuzzy Fellows From
Aug. to Nov. 30.

George Mannfeld, chief of fish and
game, department of conservation,
officially uncorks the trees Friday
for squirrel hunters.
Open season on the fuzzy fellows
is from Aug. to Nov. 30.
So with the squirrels henceforth
until fall in a constant state of agi-
tation, the common or garden variety
of nut. known also by society as a
boob or "stone head or, fiat tire, -
can rest easy while the enemy's at
tention Is being diverted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-31
PAVING BIDS OPENED
Seventy-Ffrst st. Road TO Cost S37,
800, Proposal Shows.

Contract for an eighteen-foot con-
crete roadway in Seventy First St.
from College Ave. to Illinois st. was
to be awarded to Salvatore s. Palma
by the board Of county commits
sioners on a bid Of s37 800 today. He
submitted the lowest of four bids.
Owing to lack Of quorum the con-
tract was not let at the morning
session. The law requires awarding
of a contract the same day bids are
opened.