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Evening star., 1931-06-23

TN an ancient Persian village the
i rug-maker sits, tying the countless
knots which bind together the richly
dyed threads composing his almost
priceless handiwork. Generations be-
fore him have handed down the secret
of the dyes, the traditional. patterns,
the color harmony which distin-
guishes the sought-after Ispahans,
Kashans and Namazliks. The skill of
this blender of color means every
thing. Because he KNOWS HOW,
the rug he weaves will become the
treasured possession of some wealthy
connoiSSeur.
The art of blending is equally inn
portant in the making of good gaso-
line. just as the rug-maker uses his
several rich colors to create the fin
ished rug, so must the several types
of gasoline be blended and balanced
to create a fuel of the desired quail
Evening star., 1931-06-23

Have you used up two or three
strokes getting out of sand trap2
Sol Metzger'S leaflet The Explosion
Shot" will aid you In cutting down
your score. Write for 1t in care Of
this paper and inclose. q stamped,
addressed envelope.
(Copyright, 1e81.)
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habits where girls are concerned
bounce back at him when he gives
up the chase of all girls and centers
his devotion on Sue Conroy, society
debutante, to whim he becomes en-
gagged.
The preparations for their mar
riage are blighted by the appearance
Of an ex-fame with a bundle of old
love-letters from Charlie. At first
she threatens to blackmail him, but
later relents, promising to hand over
the damaging epistles if he will
come to her apartment.
When he arrives there ne is dis
covered by her jealous husband-a
tough gangster, who swears he will
get" Charlie. The ensuing events
keep Charlie in a prolonged state of
hot water" He must dodge the
gangster, keep the ex-dame out of
sight, and prevent his fancee and
her mother from discovering his
plight.
But the tangles are untangled in
the end, to the accompaniment of
much hilarity. Donald Meek, as
Ruggles' manServant, heads the sup
port. Tamara Geva, famous as the
star dancer of ''Three's a Crowd, y
on the New York stage, makes her
film debut as the ex-sweetheart
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

acres within the prison walls viii
be gone over" declared the warden.
1T probably will taken ten days.
Meanwhile, the men will remain
confined even at meal time"
Hill first called the state police
Monday after rumors drifted to him
that explosives had been struggled
in and a small group of prisoners
were trying to incite a riot. He
called back 100 of the state troopers
Thursday night.
Rumors were that at least eight
sledgehammers and 100 feet Of hose
were missing from the supply house
and It was feared the convicts had
hidden them for use as weapons IN
the event of an uprising.
1T is regrettable that all the men
must suffer because Of the trouble
making of about 10 per cent, but it
is for the protection of the other
90 per cent we are taking these eX-
IRENE precautions" Hill said.
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ILLINOIS PRISON
SEARCHED FOR
BOMB CACHES
State Troops Patrol Walls;
Every Convict Kept
in His Cell.
BIZ United Press

BIZ Cntted PTeSS
JOLIET, Ill, July 24.-Squads OF
state police patroled the walls, and
every convict in Statewide prison
was confined in his cell today as
guards searched Systematically for
dynamite and arms which it was
rumored had been smuggled into the
penitentiary.
Determined to prevent a recur-
renee Of the riots last spring in
which several lives were lost and
more than 100000 worth of prop
erty destroyed, Warden Henry C..
Hill said the confinement order
would hold until the search is COM
pleted.
EVERY inch of the sixty-four
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Margaret Mumont of the Marx
Brothers comedy fame also has an
important role in this film.
Several vitaphone acts, a short
featurette and a news reel complete
the Circle bill.
Other theaters today offer: Mrs.
Leslie Carter in THE Shanghai
Gesture at English's, Blanche
Sweet at the Lyric, Women Love
Once" at the Indiana, Hush
Money" at the Apollo, white
Shoulders" at the Ohio, "Son Of
India" at the Palace, and burlesque
at the Mutual.
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RUGGLES CLINCHES
POSITION AS STAR
Charlie Opens Today at the Circle in Farce, The Cir
Habit in Which He Has the Role of a Bachelor

last Charlie Rugges really has into star open
ing today the Circle bearing
The Habit"
this Rugges definitely sponsors
stardo which carry forefront
personalities.
The plot Of The Girl Habit complicated doesn't
have to beo the abundant comedy situations provide all the
cations required give Rugges full play his
wealthy bachelor
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FIRE KILLS BRIDE-ELECT
Trapped by Flames in Cottage That
Was to Be Home.
By United Press

WEBSTER, Mass, July pa
prospective bride was burned to
death here early today when fire
destroyed the lake cottage which
was to have been her future home
Miss Jennie Christopher, 80, who
was to have been married soon to
Owen Marsch, was trapped in her
bedroom.
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- A Week in Town
TRAFFIC LAWS
HAVE EN- ALL
DOING TRICKS
Motorists Need Bulletins by
the Hour to Keep
in Step.
~ CHARLEs z. CARLL

Motorists ont know from one
day to the next tho status NJ d.
town parking and traffic. This week
the outlook changed twice and
chance for another shift looms. One
thing motorists are positive about is
that police are serious in their at
tempts to halt accidents. Nearly 200
persons were arrested in the city in
two days.
After years Of written and verbal
alteration, north side taxpayers
have hoisted battle flags in court
IN the attempt to gain possession of
the city property now used by the
Woo:-tock Country Club. They say
thelr 1900 '--'"-'- the ground. A
park for taxpayers rather than an
exclusive country club is their de-
sire.
Mrs. Marjorie Pelecco pulled a
cigaret on downtown street and
freed women of the danger of ever
again being held responsible for any
outbreaks from open-air smoking.
G. w. Hardwick, an insurance sales
man, slapped pretty Mrs. Pelecco,
and a judge told HardWick to mind
his own business, giving him ten
days in jail during which to do it.
a $50 fine helped out" too
Tragedy also marked the week in
Indianapolis. Three droWnings Of
Indianapolis residents occurred in
almost as many days. Thursday
afternoon Jack Shaffer was laid to
rest in Grown Hill cemetery. He
was an expert swimmer. He was
drawn to his death in swimming
pool drain pipe.
The office of Governor Harry G.
Leslie again is revolving in weather
vane style. Aids of the state execu-
tive handled the case of John
Tooley, Is, of Princeton, banished
from Gibson county by Judge
Claude Smith. They were ready to
absolve Smith Of all blame for
sentencing the boy to eight years
in the boys school, when something
happened and they decided to
await Leslie's return from an
Observation-Disclosures" campaign.
Two persons, James Jameson, 8,
and Mrs. Marjorie Wilson have
many thanks to offer this week.
Both we're pulled away from electric
wires before they were electrocuted.
The husband still is the boss of
the home. Judge Frank Baker said
SO the other day. He decided a man
at least can tell his wife when and
when not to move.
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England's Jewish population is
estimated at 100000, two-thirds of
which is in London.
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The husband still is the boss of
the home. Judge Frank Baker said
SO the other day. He decided a man
at least can tell his wife when and
when not to move.
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Two persons, James Jameson, 8,
and Mrs Marjorie Wilson have
many thanks to offer this week.
Both we're pulled away from electric
wires before they were electrocuted.
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LAKE COUNTY
SALARIES BILL
FACES ATTACK
ConStitutionaIity Likely to
Be Challenged After
0uden Opinion.

Constitutionality of the Lake
county officials salary bill enacted
by the 1881 Indiana legislature,
faces almost certain attack if the
state follows an opinion given today
by Attorney General James NJ. o.
den to Lawrence F. Orr, chief ex-
aminer for the state accounts board.
The encouragement advised Orr
on move that would slice the Lake
county prosecutors income from
about s150,000 to $4,000 annually,
six months before another law APP
plying to all prosecutors in the state,
would go into effect.
The legislature last winter regu-
lated all prosecutors salaries, &C
cording to work done, and reduced
that Of the Lake county officer to
$4,000. 1t would become effective
Jan. l, 1882.
Another bill, which fixed salaries
for all Lake county officers and also
named a $4,000 stipend for the
prosecutor, would become effective
July l, this year.
1t was to enforce the salary cut
under this measure that Orr was
advised in lengthy opinion today.
Suits already have been prepared,
it is understood, attacking the latter
bill on grounds that the legislature
cannot change salaries Of county
officials during incumbencY.
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NAVY PRUNING LIGHT
Ten Million DoIIar Cut Is
Pledge to Hoover.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, June 8.-Navy
Admirals were back in Washington
today well satisfied with their
Rapidan weekend. They succeed
ed in covering President Herbert
Hoover that the navy could not re-
duce its budget materially without
interfering with the administration
policy of aiding employment.
They went to Camp Saturday
fearing Mr.. Hoover might demand
drastic cuts in their $3.50 100000 al
lotment for the next fiscal year.
They returned treasured that no
navy yards or training stations
would be abandoned, lest men be
forced out of work.
They left behind them a tenta-
tive pledge of $1O,O0O,OOO in minor
economies this year, and possibly
100000 to $15,000,00O more next
year. These economies were sug-
gested by the admirals themselves,
more as a matter of efficiency than
economy.
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ACCEPTS CALL
TO CITY PULPIT
Richmond (Va.) Man to
Fill University Park Post.

The Rev. Lee Sadler of Richmond,
Va, has been called to the Uni
versity Park Christian church, and
will begin his pastcrate here July /.
He succeeds the Rev. Frederick
w. Burnham who has accepted the
call Of the Seventh Street Chris
ton church in Richmond.
DR.. Sadler is 80 and a native of
North Carolina. He was educated
in the school at Lynchburg, Va,
and received his A. B. at Atlantic
Christian college at Wilson, N. c.
His masters degree was obtained
at Vanderbilt university, and he
studied for his doctorate of phil
osophy in sociology at Columbia
university.
He was member of the Atlantic
Christian college faculty for four
years as head of the department
Of social science. DR.. Sadler began
his ministry at GreenvilIe, N. G.
DR.. and Mrs. Sadler have two
sons, Bert, 10; Lee Jr., IS.
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BY DAN THOMAS
NEA Service Writer

HOLLYWOOD, June 8.-Charm-
ing, brunei Kay Francis, VINO came
out here from the Broadway stage
about a year and half ago to find
rival Hollywood talkie producers
Vying for her services
Beautiful jeanette Macdonald,
with hair like golden sunshine and
eyes of starry blue, who is ac-
claimed as the best feminine singer
in motion pictures
These two selections complete
The Six Most Beautiful Women of
the Talkies," chosen for NEA Serv-
ice and The Times by a special
board of beauty judges composed of
six of Hollywood's most famous di-
rectors. They join Marlene Dietrich,
Frances Dee, Dolores Del Rio and
Gloria Swanson, previously an
nounced.
Made Good in Big Way
Kay Francis, born in Oklahoma
City, made good in big way ever
since she was lured from the legiti-
mate stage by the huge salary
checks film producers often toss
about so carelessly.
The reason?
There is only one Kay Francis.
When a role suits her, nobody else
can really play it right. Conse-
quently, she is in considerable de-
mand.
The demand for her is so great
that she was one Of the players over
whom a war almost broke out
among producers.
Scores Another Achievement
Kay was one of the three players
Warner Brothers signed while they
still were under contract to Para
mount, in direct violation to the
so-called gentleman's agreement
among studio heads.
Miss Francis has scored another
achievement-bu through no effort
Of her own. She is the only girl in
Hollywood whose name ever has
been linked with Ronald Colman's.
Ronnie has lot Of leading wom-
en-. But even Wilma Banky, who
with Colman formed what was con-
sidered the screens greatest love
team, never was linked with him
away from the studio.
Kay Is Distinctive
1t was different when Kay went
over to play opposite him in
'Raffles." All Hollywood was
soon predicting that the elusive
Colman, always popular but never
serious with women, had fallen"
The two still are great friends,
but talk of a genuine romance has
died out.
Kay is distinctive. The directors
who chose her as one of the six
greatest beauties declared her to be
smart, chic and bubblirg with sex.
Her black, wavy hair brushed
back over her ears in boyish bob
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U. S. WORKERS
LOSE MILLIONS
IN WAGE CUTS
Federation'S Estimate Is
Based on Comparison
of Factory Pay.

By Scripps-Ho,oGrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, June s.-Amer-
lean workers lost between 81 SOC, oOo.-
600 and $4,000, 100000 through wage
cuts, unemployment and part time
work in the first quarter Of 1881, ac-
cording to an estimate made today
in the monthly survey of business
Of the American Federation Of La
Dor.
The estimate is based on a COM
parison of factory wages this year
and those paid in the same months
OF 1929. These show a drop of
about one-third from $500. 900 600 in
1929 to s650,00o,000 this spring. The
rise in wages this spring was found
to be merely seasonal.
Five Million Still JobIess
The statement estimates that
nearly 100000 men still I'M
employed. May showed III per
cent out Of work. Little gain is ex-
pected after May. Meanwhile. re-
lief funds are being exhausted, the
report says.
Good points in the picture are
listed as follows:
Business activity has increased.
forecasters believe that the bottom
has been reached; automobile plants
increased their output each month
this spring up to the May peak;
cotton textiles increased accord
ingly; retail buying improved; pro-
duction of mines and factories has
risen.
But, the survey says, prices are
declining, there probably will be
more wage cuts, the building indus
try IS declining. steel mills find or
ders slow, very difficult six months
are ahead, with hard adjustments.
Some Progress Made
Progress has been made this
spring" says the report in sum-
ming up the situation, but a new
decline still is possible.
Reliable forecasters believe that
the present pessimism is a sign Of
the final stages Of the depression.
that executives are making an eff
fort to adjust, and most business
leaders see next fall as a likely time
for recovery to start.
Nevertheless, unwise policies may
tip the scales downward"
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Furniture Manufacturer Shortens
Week to Days; Raises Wage.
By Scripps-H picard Newspaper Alliance
MINNEAPOLIS, June 8.-Put-
ting into effect a plan which he
believes would solve the nations
unemployment problem, if practiced
generally, Joseph w. Grossman,
president of the Reliable Parlor
Furniture Company here, just has
signed a new contract under which
his employees will work five days a
week and will receive a 10 per cent
wage increase to compensate in part
for the loss of a days pay.
The plan is to be tried out for
one year, and if it proves satisfac-
tory to employers and employees
alike, it will be retained.
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3 PROMOTERS
DENY GUILT IN
RACKET CASE
Enter Pleas to Charges of
False PretenSe in AID
Solicitation.

Three promoters Of the Indiana
Business Mems Association, Inc.
alleged to have represented they had
power with county courts, in Grim
inal court today, entered not guilty
pleas to charges OF conspiracy to
commit a felony and obtaining
money under false pretenses.
Selden Blumenfeld, attorney and
general counsel for the associa-
ton, and Arthur Freyer and Charles
johnson were arraigned. Police are
seeking five other members of the
outfit.
Blumenfeld asked for a jury trial,
date Of which will be set later by
Judge Frank P. Baker.
Winkler Too Hasty
The storm over assertions of
Henry Winkler, counsel for Blumen-
field, that his client told him he had
been informed his bond would be
reduced "if I had a certain attor-
ney," passed more or less quietly.
Baker demanded Winkler give the
name of the attorney supposed to
have the bond-reducing power.
Winkler told Baker that he prob
ably was a little hasty to repeat
confidential information given me
by my client
Name Not Revealed
Although Baker told WinkIer and
Blumenfeld he would not tolerate
differences of influence in his court,
the name of the certain attorney"
was not revealed.
Winkler made the charge during
a superior court two hearing Fri
day when Blumenfeld sought to
have his $4,000 bond reduced.
The men we're indicted after they
are alleged to have made the
promises of immunity in the courts
to prospective advertisers, in a
magazine they said would be pub
lished.
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BY BEN STERN

BY BEN STERN
THAT party which offers the
l. best solution for the tax prob
lem-that is, best in the estimation
of the leaders of the Indiana farm
bureau-will be accorded the sup
port of the more than $4,000 men,
bers Of that group in the 1882 cleo
ton.
Taxation will be made the para
mount issue in next years campaign
in Indiana, if the farm bureau heads
have their way.
A challenge to this effect was is
sued soon after the legislature
closed by Lewis Taylor, vice-presi-
dent and director of the bureaus
tax and legislative departments.
IF the farmers are to be heard
they must begin without delay to
prepare to share in control of the
conventions. This they can not do
with money.
The industrial captains have
seen to that by imposing their own
taxes en- us and retaining blood
money, thus saved, to control state
conventions.
Our plan is easier and more
SIMPLE" declared Taylor. ITO win
in this fight we must proceed at
once to share in the control of the
political set-up from precinct COM
mitteemen to state chairmen of
both parties.
IF in this fight for tax freedom,
it is necessary to soil political hands
and clothes in the process of apply
ing dope to industrial bloodsuckerS,
savings not only in money, but in
political self-respect and economical
government, should provide ade-
quately for the laundry bill.
ITO this end, our organization
now should apply itself"
Back of Taylor's and the farm
bureau heads ire is the manner in
which the corporate and income
tax bills were slaughtered in the
senate, after having been passed by
the Democratic house.
The farmers feel that they not
only have been double crossed, but
that their intelligence has been be-
Titled by the play acting among
the so-called farmer legislators.
The organized agriculturists are
plainly and evidently out for re-
venge and if past performances of
the bureau are a token, woe betide
the scalps of those they deem
enemies.
Smart politics" in 1882 evident
ly means tax reform pledges faith
fully carried out.
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OIL MADE INTO RUBBER;
SOVIET GUARDS SECRET
Mysterious Process Is Used in
Russian Government Factories.

Mysterious Process Is Used In
Russian Government Factories.
By United Press
MOSCOW, June 8.-The Soviet
government is guarding jealousy the
vital secret of how it's factories hope
to manufacture rubber from oil on
a commercial scale.
A short item in the Moscow
Izvestia reported that the Leningrad
rubber trust factory had produced
more than half a ton of CONNER
cial rubber from oil through a
mysterious process.
1t also was stated that this batch
of rubber was sent to the Red Tri-
angle factory for the manufacture
Of various rubber goods.
Efforts to manufacture synthetic
rubber from oil were begun in 1918.
Soviet laboratories have been en-
gagged busily on solution of this
problem for the last thirteen years.
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Road Purchases Scheduled

John j. Brown, director Of the
state highway department, said to-
day that the department June %
would buy 6,425 gallons of paint
varnish and raw oils for mainte-
nance work on signs, bridges, guard
rails, and other highway markings
at an estimated cost of $500.
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Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to: ,. -,
Ford sedan. 23-o4s from 1902 Madison
avenue. ,, -, 1,,.,
'front.' Of 1909 North CAPITOL avenue.
Cohen Bros COS North Capitol avenue,
Hudson coach. M-l5sS, from QUO NoKbH
Henry LeaveiIe. West Michigan street,
Apt. IL. ChrYsler sedan. from 40 west
North street
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QUAKES ROCK EUROPE
English, Clad in Night Clothes,
Rush From Homes Into Rain.

BIZ United Press
LONDON, June 8.-Fear of a re-
currence of severe earthquakes
which shook most of the British
isles, part of northern Europe and
the Scandinavian peninsula kept in
habitants uneasy today.
The quakes were felt throughout
England and Scotland, chiefly in
Yorkshire and the MidlandS where
the people, clad in night clothes,
rushed from their homes into a
heavy rain when the first shock
occurred early Sunday.
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Kay Francis nefN

This is the last Of four stories on "The
Six Most Beautiful Women Of the Talk
les" selected by NEA Service and The
Times, by six famous film directors who
acted as beauty judges.
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B'nail Birth, District No. 2,
opened its seventy-ninth annual ses-
sion Sunday at the West Baden
Springs hotel. More than 200 dele
gates from Indiana, Kentucky, Colo
RADIO. Wyoming and New Mexico at
tended. The convention will close
Tuesday.
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CHINA MUST STAMP OUT
REDS, LEADER ASSERTS
Communism Most Vital Problem, Is
View of General. Chang.

By United Press
NANKING, China, June Sup
preston of Communism is the most
vital problem facing China, Cen
eral Chang Kai-Shek, head of the
national government at Marking,
said today.
Our main duty at present" Gen.
eral Chang said in the first inter
view he has granted in two years,
lis the suppression of Communism.
Some progress is being made, but
not as much as is desirable. The
Communists, however, eventually
will be suppressed"
1.-THE Soviet attitude is we'll
known" he said. "Chinas attitude
toward Moscow is much the same
as that of the United States"