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fort was being made to adjust all gas
appliances SO that there would be no
wastage of gas and that this work was
proceeding at the rate of about 5000
appliances per month.
Mr.. Wood said that he was more
than anxious to meet the commission
half way in any action it proposed to
take or any action recommended by
the peoples counsel.
After their conference with the Pub
lie Utilities Commission, the company
representatives called upon Peoples
Counsel Richmond B. Keech.
The gas company officials told Mr..
Keech that all complaints coming to
the company either from consumers di-
rect or through Mr.. Keech were being
investigated and adjustments made
wherever necessary. Mr.. Hyde showed
MIR. Keech a number of testimonials
from consumers. who were satisfied with
their gas service. Mr.. Keech said that
nevertheless, there must be some
grounds for such large number Of
complaints and asked that the COM
pany, fer its own sake. as we'll as for
that of the consumers, do something to
settle the old question.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17
BLOW WITH HORSESHOE
FRACTURES BOYS SKULL

Thirteen-year-old Edward Neam, JEFF
ferson Junior High School student liv-
ing at 239 Linworth place southwest, is
in Emergency Hospital suffering from a
fracture Of the skull from blow on the
head with a horseshoe yesterday while
participating in q game of tossing the
irons.
The striking was purely accidental.
police reported after an investigation.
Elmer Muir. 10 years old, 3l3 Eleventh
street southwest, is the playmate who
tossed the shoe.
One of the school instructors took the
injured boy TO the hospital and the boy s
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Neam were
notified. An improvement in the pa
tents condition was reported at the
hospital this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17
INCOME TAX FACTS.
No. Is.

Salaries paid employees conSti-
tute one of the largest items of
business expenses. To be allowed
as deduction such claims must
conform closely to the wording of
the statute, which provides for
the deduction Of "a reasonable
allowance for personal services
actually rendered" The test of
deductibility is whether the
amounts paid are reasonable and
whether they are, in fact, purely
for personal services. Money
paid an ofhcer Of corporation
for which no services, or services
inadequate to the compensation,
are rendered is not deductible as
salary" Reasonable compensa-
ton is held to be an amount that
ordinarily is paid by like enter
prises in like circumstances for
like services.
Bonuses to employees may be
deducted by employers when such
payments are made IN good faith
as additional compensation for
services, actually rendered, pro-
vided that, when added to the
stipulated salaries, the total does
not exceed "a reasonable COM
pensation Tor services rendered."
When the amount of a salary of
an officer or employe Is paid for
a limited time to q widow or
heirs in recognition Of services
rendered by the deceased, such
payment may be deducted.
Amounts paid to retired en-
ployes, their families or others
dependent upon them, as pen
sions, or on account Of injuries
received by employees, are deduc-
tible by the employer. Such de-
ducticns are limited to the
amount not compensated for by
insurance In favor of the en-
ployer. or otherwise.
Salaries paid by employers to
employees who are absent In
military, naval, or other service
of the Government. but who in
tend to return at the conclusion
Of such service, are allowable
deductions by the employer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17
.EX-TELLER ACQUITTED
IN ENLIGHTENMENT CASE

From the $50 Edition of Yesterdays Starr
Dora L. Davis of Laurel, Md, former
savings teller of the Second Nation al
Bank, was acquitted late this afternoon
by District Supreme Court jury before
Justice Gordon. She had been indicted
on charges Of embezzling $500 of the
funds of the bank in 1928 and with
making false entries on the books of the
bank to cover the alleged peculation.
On motion of Attorneys r. II. Yeat-
man and George~D. Horning, r., Justice
Gordon took from the jury the consid-
Grafton of the charges of making false
entries and left to them only the en-
bezzlement charge. The jury consid-
cred the matter about five minutes and
promptly acquitted the woman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17
COMMISSION is SILENT.
Wickcrsham Declines to Answer CUES
tions Regarding Testimony.

The Law Enforcement Commission
returned today to the almost complete
silence that characterized the days pre-
ceding its prohibition report.
Chairman WickerSham declined 10
answer all questions as to when. how,
or If the commission would comply with
the Senate resolution adopted yesterday,
requesting all the non-secret testimony
and data upon which the now historic
prohibition report was based
The opinion was expressed at COM
mission headquarters, however, that 1t
would be dificult to submit the data
until the commission had had en- oppor-
tunity to re-arrange them.
The commission does not meet again
until March 4. Congress hopes to end
its session on that date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17
Warming!

Word comes from the Assoc
ciated Press of embarrassment
and annoyance inflicted by i'm
posters and petty grafters, who
in many cities of the country, by
posing as Associated Press rep
resentatiyes, have victimized mer-
chants and others.
For the protection of our citi-
zens we can say authoritatively
that the Associated Press does
not issue badges or printed Gre
dentials to its representatives.
Its employees do not ask for spe-
cial privileges, advances of money,
credit at hotels and other public
places of entertainment. They
do not ask banks to cash checks
without complete Identification;
they do not solicit the purchase
OF any article, or endeavor to
sell anything.
We wish our business men and
citizens to know that when any
person comes to them seeking
favors or making any solicitation
involving money or credit on the
ground that he represents the As
ISOLATED Press, it is safe to set
that person down as an impostor
regardless of the nature of his
purported credentials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band this evening at Stanley Hall;
John S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster:
Anton Pointner. assistant.
March, lie Gigot" (Leg Of Nut
tom NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Romberg
Overture, lie Roi lDit' The King
Hath Said ..................D elibes
Entr Acte-"Coquetteri Mathews
"ConXonetta" ..... Herbert
Gems from musical comedy, Fifty
Million Frenchmen" ......... Porter
Tango, THE Maid of Argentine. Brymn
Waltz song, Carolina Mine. Friend
Finale, Some Smoke. Romberg
The Star Spangled Banner
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DINNER POSTPONED

Testimonial to Doak Delayed by
Death of Mother.
Indefinite postponement Of a testi-
monial dinner to have been rendered
Secretary Doak Thursday night at the
Mayfower Hotel because of the death
of his mother in Bristol, Va, was an
nounced today.
The hosts we're to have been Bill
Doak Lodge, No. 584; Columbia Lodge,
No. 4S4; District Lodge. No. 286, and
the Ladies Auxiliary of Mount Vernon
Lodge. No. 1913, Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen. Prominent railroad
men had been invited to speak.
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Gov. Emerson Nears Crisis.

CHEYENNE, Wyo.. February II Up
The condition of Gov. Frank c. Emer-
son of Wyoming. suffering from an
attack of pneumonia, was unchanged
today as he approached the crisis of his
illness. Attending physicians said he
was holding his own. Pneumonia de-
yeloped from mild attack of influenza
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17
'CONFEREES SHAPE
| BILLBOARD REPORT
Wait for More Information on
Details, but May Finish
Up Today.

Senate and House conferees on the
bill to regulate outdoor signs in Wash
ington may complete their work within
the next day or two. The conferees
held a meeting yesterday afternoon at
which they went over the details of the
measure, but decided to wait for some
additional information on certain points
before making a report. It is possible
they may finish the report some time
today.
The bill would give the Commits
sioners authority to make regulations
governing signs and other outdoor
advertising It has passed both branches
Of Congress.
The conferees are engaged in per-
fecting the language of some of the
amendments, and their report will go
to the House and Senate for final
ratification.
The conferees are Senators Capper
of Kansas, Jones of Washington and
King of Utah: Representatives Zihl-
man Of Maryland, Hall of Indiana and
Mary T. Norton OF New Jersey.
PRESS SCORES SIGNS.
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Historic Book in Library

RICHMOND, Va, February II [R-
A guard book kept by the adjutant
general of the 4th Regiment of Maine
Volunteers until the nSeta battle of Bull
Run and used thereafter by the 10th
Virgins Infantry was presented to the
State Library yesterday by j. r. Switzer,
circuit clerk of Rockingham County.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17
WAGNER PROPOSES
DRY LAW REPEAL
WITHOUT SALOON
Continued From First Page

barring that form Of liquor sale or by
other similar methods, he outlined. This,
he held, would clear the way for out
right repeal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17

Airman service has been inaugurated
between Batavia, Java, and Amsterdam,
Holland, by way Of Bangkok, Siam.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17
HIGH GAS PRESSURE
7, HELD BILL BOOSTER:
CHANGE is ORDERED

Continued From First Page.)
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SENATE ACTS FAST
TO BRING UP BONUS
BILL FOR PASSAGE

Continued From First Pase.)
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Conflicting testimony was given at
the inquest as TO just whether or not
blood stains were found on the bed
clothing on the cot where the Limerick
girl was found dead.
Lyman Greene, Casualty Hospital in
terne, testified that no blood was pres
ent and that the linen was "spotlessly
white" Members of the rescue squad
testified that they arrived short while
after Greene's departure and found a
blood-stained pillow on the bed
The coroner'S jury spent the better
part of week hearing the case and
then ordered the four suspects held
for the grand jury While the grand
jury investigation was in progress police
arrested Mrs. Dora Limerick and Mrs.
Julia Bywaters. the dead girls sister,
but released them after questioning.
A. dismantled still was found in the
basement of Policeman Langdon's home
during the investigation which resulted
in his appearance before the Police
Trial Board.
The four suspects were released
shortly after the grand jury filed its
report. Langdon was met by his wife
They talked brilliantly for few min
utes.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08
ROUNDING ROUND
y. With H4dkMEE TAHTzS

INDIANAPOLIS Flouney Aubrey
l. ored to the stage tweny-eight years ago.
These unnakerS Columbia
casting system their
Service Writer
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08
Due Soon

Clark Gable, the newest screen
find" is the featured player in
Metros Sporting Blood" Opposite
this popular male lead we find
Madge Evans, the little lady who
made such a hit in Son of India" !"
Sporting Blood" has been Sc
cured by Loew's Palace for an early
release so that it can be included in
their August Parade of Hits" and
will be on view the week of Aug. 18.
The film, based on the Saturday
Evening Post story, 'Horseflesh." by
Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, concerns
the race horse "Hommy Boy" and is
said to be superior to any tale of
the turf yet seen on the screen. 4
gripping romance is interviewer
throughout and the splendid work
Of Clark Gable is outstanding.
Ernest Terrence, as the trainer of
Tommy Boy" wins new IaurelS and
the cast includes Lew Cody, Marie
Provost and many other favorites.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08

boxing act An agent chanced to see them
and praised their work to Louis Bowers,
who ran repertory stock company.
How much do you boys want?" asked
Bowers.
piled spokesman Miller, who, by now, was
convinced that he and his partner were
pretty clever.
'Yassuh, chorused both Miller and
Lyles, who knew meal ticket when they
They went on that night between the
first and second acts OF EAST Lynne"
without an idea of what they were going
to do, without a hope that their jobs
would survive the evening. They stayed
on a solid hour. The audience f1dgeted,
reached for their hats, and wandered out
the door.
fired. We were told to stick to our boxing
act. Then We started writing the kind of
chatter that we've used ever since.
I'm 1907 we wrote Shuttle Along" but
| it took us fifteen years to produce IT.
In 1910 they were ready for the BREATH
taking Jump to New York. Before the
United States entered the war Miller and
Lyles toured European music halls.
In 1922 they dragged out the Shuttle
| Along" manuscript, recruited some Negro
talent that included Paul Robson and
Josephine Baker, rented tumble-down
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08

lor and makes the rounds of all the
night clubs, race tracks and other
centers Of amusement.
And his plan to get results, re-
suits that are not only surprising
to Rogers, Fiji and his sons. but
which will amaze you, too, it is
thought.
Young As You Feel" which is
Rogers fifth starring picture for
Fox, is the talking screens version
OF George AIDES well-knoWn stage
play, Father and the Boys" In
addition to Miss Dorsay the come
dian is supported by cast of sterl-
ing quality, including Lucian Lit
tlef1eld, Donald Diflaway, Torrance
Ray, Rosalie Roy and Lucille
Brown.
Short subjects, including Bobby
Jones in the golf subject. THE
Spoon" Vitaphone Varieties and
and Fox Movietone News round out
the program.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08
SMART" MONEY
NOW AT THE OHIO

Edward G. Robinson's widely dis
cussed picture, Smart Money" was
brought back to the Ohio theater
today for another weeks showing
in the downtown district, following
the reception of hundreds of re-
quests for its return by motion pic
ture fans. 1t opens today and will
be shown through next Friday.
Smart Money" when given its
premiere Indianapolis showing at
another downtown theater several
weeks ago, proved to be one of the
best box office attractions of this
year.
In addition to Robinson, who shot
to national popularity following his
work in Little Caesar" the cast
also includes Evalyn Knapp, James
Cagney, Noel Francis and Margaret
Livingston.
The new program also includes a
selection of short presentations and
the latest Universal talking news
reel.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08
RUTH CHATTERTON
TOPS CAST AT INDIANA

Ruth Chatterton, for many months
considered one of the most popular
actresses to appear on the talking
screen, this week is being presented
at the Indiana theater in her latest
picture, "The Magnificent Lie" In
important supporting roles are Stu
art Erwin, Ralph Bellamy and Sam
Hardy. The picture is being pre-
sented by the management as new
fall hit" No. 2.
In addition to the feature pic
ture, the Indiana's new bill also in
cludes new episode Of ."Adven-
lures in Africa" Initiation" a.
Bimbo cartoon; Via Express" a
Tom Howard comedy, and the new
est Paramount news reel release.
THE Magnificent Lie" is based on
novel by Leonard Merrick, adapt
ed by Samson Raphaelson, who re-
Gently completed collaborating on
THE Smiling Lieutenant" for Maui
rice Chavalier. 1t is a story of in
trigue and strange love, and Ber-
thold Viertel, the European stage
director, author and playwright,
who has recently devoted all of his
time to talking picture making in
Hollywood, directed.
Miss Chatterton's supporting cast
is headed by Bellamy, new per-
sonality from the New York stage.
Although practically unknown in
Hollywood when he was selected for
the coveted role, he has since been
hailed as the ideal type for the part
and as "a young man with future
in pictures"
The young actors early stage ex-
perience proved valuable to him
when he was instructed to learn his
part for "The Magnificent Lie" over
night. He won recognition on the
New York stage after several years
Of work and striving in the middle
west with stock companies. He has.
therefore, acquired an uncanny
knack for assimilating the require
ments of a part in short order.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08
NEW ROGERS
COMEDY AT APOLLO

young AS You Feel" the long
awaited Will Rogers comedy
drama, in which the popular screen
star and comedian is seen for the
first time as a model of what the
well-dresSed man should wear,
opens today at the Apollo theater.
The story deals with the quite hu-
man and logical predicament of a
kind and wealthy widower who
finds his two willful sons slowly
getting beyond his control. They
absolutely refuse to share any Of the
responsibilities of his large meat
packing business, but are very will
ing to spend its profits on their So
cial and sports activities.
After years Of patience Rogers de-
cides to beat his sons at their own
game, and in. the company of that
delightful French comedienne, Fiji
Dorsay. he visits an expensive tai
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08

".tA5 uAoAiSu young BRUSH gtdRe star
plays opposite her as Barry. tbe
architect Of proud ancestry but inn
poverished purse. He last appeared
IN films in Never the Twain Shall
Meet and "a Free Soul"
Richard Bennett, noted American
stage star, makes his debut in talk
ing pictures as John Rarick, Miss
Davies father, who is so busy
amassing tremendous fortune that
ne Is blind to the disintegration of
his family happiness.
Bennett, dean of the family that
has won fame on stage and screen,
father Of Constance, Joan and Bar
oara, Is said to offer a magnificent
performance in this role.
Irene Rich, one Of the most pom
ular Of silent screen stars. whose
performance in Strangers May
KISS" won laudatory comment, PLAYS
tne part Of the mother, driven to
lndlscretion by her husbands in
difference.
Included in the splendid cast are
such favorites as Kent Douglass and
Mary Duncan. The picture has as
lts locale New York and the prin-
clpaI motivation is obtained in the
founding of the Rarick fortune
upon a worldwide chain of sand
lucent stores. AS monument to
this achievement the elder Rarick
builds the tallest skyscraper on
earth.
His daughter, Jennifer, anxious to
win the young architect, obtains the
contract for him, but in so doing is
misunderstood. Berry, believing
she tried to buy him, promptly
Weds her society rival.
Tragic complications are brought
about through the suicide of the
younger brother, heart-broken at
the discovery Of his mothers
amourS and the probable compro-
missing Of his sister.
A Charlie Chase comedy, "The
Panic Is On" the latest issue of the
Hearst Metrotone News and a Silly
Symphony cartoon will round out
the program.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08

FIourney E. Miller and Aubrey Iyles. as
couple of young Negroes entering the
Fiske institute in Tennessee. intended to
become, respectively, an Episcopal min
lister and a doctor of medicine.
When, despite. anything they could do
as clowns they determined to become the
best cullud vaudeville team eXtant.
Now, with that scheme realized, Miller
and LYleS, Steve and Sam, or however you
choose to know them, have crashed the
ranks of the radio stars.
1t seems strange, rejecting on their
twenty eight professional years together as
veterans long since have not been snatched
into broadcastinR prominence. They
stood by silently as Amos n Andy scared
to fame. They heard some Of their own
pet expressions appropriated by others.
Now, with a diffidence seldom found IN
the Use requested" the Let me resplain
phrases that helped to make them famous
before radio was born. They don't want
to be imitators of established stars. Their
act. so far, has suffered from this self
'''iPOeyo Il you doubt doubt their originality, get a
flrst all-colored musical show hit. It was
copyrighted in 1922 and Miller and LyleS
were the authors.
They met at school, the big, smiling
cafe-au-lait Negro and the smaller, darker
one. They were thrown together because
grand stand. and hence had to have
couple Of canvasmen to fence the field on
AS custodians Of the field, they began
TO WORRY about a band. Neither could
| play anything. but they organized one
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08
Beverly Bayne of Screen Fame viii Open Sunday Night
at Engish's as One of the Wives in AS Husbands
Co. Successful Comedy by CrotherS.

XKTITH Beverly Bayne of stage and serving guest
w special the Arthur Casey Company
will present "As Husbands Sunday night at Englishs
eighteenth Arthur
Indianapolis
As Husbands the by Rachel Cothers who
here will be the first time the play presented outside OF New
also has written Let Us Be Gay and other It's production
City where the original this
proving public "As Husbands CO.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08
STUART WALKER
DIRECTED THIS ONE

indianapolis motion picture en-
thusiasts, as well as local followers
OF the legitimate stage, this week
are being given an opportunity to
pass judgment on Stuart Walkers
skill as movie director.
This is made possible with the
showing Of "The Secret Call" new
Paramount feature attraction at the
Circle theater. Stuart Walker, who
signed a long-term contract as a
Paramount director several months
ago, was given this production as
his first assignment with Clara Bow
originally cast in the stellar role.
The 'it" girl later was replaced
by the much discussed Peggy Shan
non, however, who now is heralded
as one Of the most promising of
Paramount's new stars.
In the cast are Richard Arlen and
Ned Sparks, with almost hundred
others in less important parts. The
story of Miss Shannon reads like
fiction, so interesting has been her
career.
A few years ago. she was just
a beautiful girl living with her
family in Pine Bluff, Ark. Today,
she is that same beautiful girl, but
has an equipment of rich stage ex-
perience from work in stock COM
panies and on Broadway.
She got the "stage bug" several
years ago when she was IN Few
York on a visit with her mother
and a sister. The girl in an ad-
joining apartment, who was in the
show business, took Miss Shannon
back stage one day to meet Florenz
ziegfeld, impressario Of the Fol
lies"
The new Circle program also Of
fers a Joe Penner comedy, a Grant
land Rice sports reel, and the latest
Paramount news release.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08

movie theater and opened to instant sue
cess. The show ran two years in New
York and year on the road.
Then they wrote "Runnin' Wild" Keep
shuf1in' " and Rang Tang" They have
been featured in Great Day" and George
Whites Scandals They have made a
lot of money and Lyles, ''for an invest
ment,' bought 1,500 acres of timberland in
Liberia.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08


won the plaudits of the critics.
Burns Mantle selected it as one
of his ten best plays of 1930-31. and
other authorities recommended the
piece for the Pulitzer prize. 1t will
be sent on tour in the fall b. the
New York Theater Guild.
"As Husbands Go" is a comedy
about two American women in Paris
who, under the spell of the French
capital and a pair Of continental
philanderers, decide that their
homes and husbands in Iowa are
dull.
They resolve to return to this
country, free themselves of all mari
tai and home ties, and marry their
foreign lovers.
The main portion of the plays
fun is derived from the many COM
edy situations which result when the
playwright brings the Europeans
back to Iowa with the women and
throws them into the mid-western
atmosphere.
She will be surrounded here by the
The Indianapolis times., 1931-08-08

with all the essentials except g. drum
They cut the neck of an old banjo and
banged on that.
They began to clown at the games. And
remained one Of their best acts for nearly
three decades.
=. The summer following their graduation,
II II i9OS, they headed for Chicago. After
flirting with starvation and yaRrsncy. thew
got a JOB in a dime museum on Clark
Street. They got 25 cents apiece for their