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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
Partnership Is Revised

In 1927 the partnership agree
ment was revised to make all mem
bers of the firm general partners.
Later, in 1881, Syfers sold his in
terest to Hamill and Woolling. The
firm holds memberships on the Chi
cago Stock Exchange, Chicago
Board of Trade, Indianapolis Board
OF Trade and an associate member
ship on the New York Curb Elk
change.
Before his entry into the broker
age field, Woolling was engaged in
architectural lines. Hamill has
been connected with the brokerage
business since leaving school, and
from 1907 to 1924 was with Lam
son Bros. & Co. of Chicago. He
came to Indianapolis in 1918 as a
representative of Lamson Bros.
Hamill to Stay Here
The firm of Abbott, Hoppin & Co.
has been an important factor in
eastern brokerage fields for over
seventeen years They are mem
bers of the New York Stock Ex-
change, New York Curb, Chicago
Stock Exchange, Chicago Board of
Trade and Chicago Curb Exchange.
Their floor member is g governor
of the New York Stock Exchange
and a member of the committee
Of arrangements.
Principal Office of the firm is at
100 Broadway New York Branch
offices are maintained at Hotel
Pierre, New York City; 208 South
La Sale street, Chicago; Irving
zuelke building, Appleton, Wis, and
203- POS Continental Bank building.
Indianapolis. They have cor
respondents at Toronto, Montreal,
Buffalo, Detroit and Don Du Lac.
The Indianapolis Office will con-
tinue under the management of
James T. Hamill and K. K Wool
ling.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22

extras. 1Sc; standards. i6c Eggs-Market
steady; extra frsts. lsc, current receipts.
Ice. extras, zoe Poultry-Market. steady
heavy colored fowls. lSc; medium broilers
colored broilerS. i5G Ice: heavy rock
hroilers. l6Ql7c Leghorn broilers. I3c
ducks, i0M l2c; old cocks, l0G lie; young
geese. l0W l2c. PotatoeS-Ohio and New
York bushel sacks. CohblerS partly
graded mostly S6.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
Hoover Returns From Camr

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug 22.-Presi-
dent Hoover returned to the White
House at 800 a. M, today after a.
three-hour motor trip from his
Rapidan (Va) camp where he spent
the weekend. Mrs. Hoover was ex-
pected to return later in the day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
KIDNAPPING is FEARED
Relatives Think Banker Is Spirited
Away from Chicago Loop.

By United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-Relatives Of
William A. Ernsting, 42-year- old
vice president of the First State
bank of BenSenville, a suburb, told
police today they believed the bank
er had been kidnapped.
Ernsting disappeared Saturday
afternoon after comforting with an
attorney, w. H. Fisher, at Fishers
Office in the loop. He did not return
home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
az Times Special


LOUISVILLE. Aug -Cattle-Receipts.
600; general quality only fair: market
slow mostly steady with some weakness
on lower grade steers and heifers bulk
common and medium grass steers and
heifers s4d $50. better finished kinds.
s675; very little here Of value to sell
above: bulk beef cows. 50 SOFAS. so: early
top 81 low cutters and cutter cows. slT
as: bulls. 50 down; most desirable light
stockers. s4.50d5 $50. Calves. $50: steady:
better light vealers. S5d5.50: medium
grades including most heavy calves, So. so
N450; thrpwouts. SO down Hogs-Pe-
ceipts. 1000; market l5c lover: iso- go
lbs, $3.50. 225-255 lbs. s415. 260-295 lbs
$500 500 lbs. Up. $3.50. l40-i55 lbs. s4
lSo lbs. down, $3.50; S0ws. S220M2.95
stays, Sl.95. Sheep-Receipts. 1000; lambs
in light supply; quality plain; market
steady. bulk better grades. IS. so. choice alb
sent salable to So; medium grades in
GLIDING bucks mostly S350d450 throw
outs So down; fat ewes. sl62: stock ewes
active, fully steady. mostly $3.50 per head
down with best ewes to S6.25. Saturday S
shipmentsi Calves, ses, ant sheep. 249.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
STOCK SHARES
SHOW Gains IN
SLOW TRADING
Improved Sentiment in All
Lines Noted; Rails
in Demand.
Average Stock Prices

Average or thirty industrisls for Satur-
day high 675s. low 6s99, last 67i8. 10
80 Average % twenty rails 30 g. % 50.
30 "a. up IS. Average Of twenty utilities
986 % a. 1910. OF 05 Average OF
forty bonds S8l IS. up "a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
In the Air

Weather conditions at 9 a. M:
South southeast wind, miles an
hour; temperature, rs; barometric
pressure, 1924 at sea level; ceiling
clear, smoky, unlimited; visibility,
4 miles; field, good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
Forty-eighth annual Marion coun-

Forty-eighth annual Marion cOun-
ty old settlers meeting will be held
Thursday at Broad Ripple park,
with Attorney Otto w. Cox as one
of the principal speakers, it was
announced today by B. w. Heaton,
president. The session will open at
10 a. m. and basket dinner will
be served at noon. Mrs. Marguerite
Kenney is vice president and sec
rotary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
HAMILL & co.
MERCES WITH
ABBOTT, H0PPIN
Management.of Local Office
viii Continue Under
lanes 7. HamiII.

Merger of James T. Hamill & Co.,
2O3 Continental Bank building. stock
and grain brokers, with the firm of
Abbott, Hoppin g. Co., New York,
was announced today by James T.
Hamill.
Increasingly heavy demands for
the facilities afforded by a mem
bership in the New York Stock Ex-
change were responsible for the
move, Hamill said.
James T. Hamill g. Co., a CO.
partnership, was organized in De-
cember, 1924, with H. G. Stutz and
R. H. Syfers as limited partners,
and James T. Hamill as general
partner. z. K. Woolling became a
special partner of the organization
in August, 1925, and Stutz retired
from the partnership in October,
1925.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
Futures Rance

By United Press
CHICAGO, Aug 32.-Carlots: Wheat. al;
Corn; 2o4; oats, IFS; rye. o. and bar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
BN LNitcd Press

LAFAYETTE Ind, Aug. 22.-Market. ma
15c lower 160-2lO lbs s4.55G4.6O 2f0-
235 lbs. s445G45O; 255-26O lbs, s435a
4.40. 260-23O lbs. s425d 430; 2SO-325 lbs
S4M415 130-160 lbs. S4H425; 1G0-130
lbs, S375; roughs, s3.25 down; top calves,
IS so; top lambs, S..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
Bank CIearingS
INDIANAPOLIS sTATEMr
Local Wagon Wheat

CITY grain elevators are paving Ale for
No 2 soft wheat other grades on their
merli.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22

Jap Jones, of MartinsviIIe, field
representative of the Municipal
Rights League, will speak at a meet
ing of the Universal Club, Tuesday,
at the Columbia Club. Jones sub
ject will be Municipal Ownership
of Our Public Utilities"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
BIZ Lnitcd Press

BV UNfcd Press
ket, 15c lower: pigs $4-55m456: iight
lights, S4.506465 lights S465d475: me-
diums, S4.50@4.65 heavies, s425G4 so;
light roughs, S3.25M375; heavy roughs,
S2.75G3 .25; stays. s1.50d2; calves, So So
eve and wether lambs, $685. bucks, S4.25.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22

Annual reunion of former Dubois
county residents now living in or
near indianapolis will be held Sun
day at Garfield park. Walter N.
Mann, 811 Prospect street, is secre-
tary of the family organization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
DOW-JOneS
Summary

American Piano Corporation in year
ended June 30 reported net loss of s162,
222 after all charges against net income
of s42, 70S in previous year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22

Loot of about .S25 was obtained by
burglars who forced open a safe in
the Office of the Washington Auto
Sales Company, 430 North Capitol
avenue, Saturday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
Karl Stegemeier of the New

Karl Stegemeier of the New
England Life Insurance Company,
has been named extension instruc-
tor in life insurance fundamentals,
in a new evening class to be fea-
tured at the extension division of
the Indiana university in Indian
apolis. Stegemeier's class will meet
Wednesday evenings, beginning
Sept %.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
Chicago Stocks OPENING
by James T. Hamill g. CO..

(By James T Hamill g. CO..
Aug. %
J S Rad g. Tel 1034lnsull 6's 40. Al
3endix AVA. 1915 Middle VEST. 81
Borg Warner. 9as SID Utilities. rs
Cities Service Swift & CO.. 1885
Cord Corp. .. 3lz Swift Init w 1914
Cont Chi COM. q. Grigsby GrunoW 49,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
UNCLE SANS
NEW TAXES
WHERE THEY HIT YOU
AND HOW!

This is the last of twenty special
stories explaining the new federal taxes.
Evening star., 1932-06-11

rest for embezzling insurance COM
pany funds. Nevertheless, Clara goes
through with the wedding and makes
good the shortage. The husband goes
from bad to worse, and finally, as
they are leaving New York, on advice
OF Inspector Garrison of the police.
holds up gas station. Escaping, he
shoots pcliceman Both husband
and wife are then sentenced to
prison.
One Of the really impressive scenes
OF the picture occurs as the mother
says good-by to her little daughter
IN an orphanage before commencing
TO serve her prison term
The latter part CT the picture Is
concerned with the efforts Of the
mother to locate her daughter after
her parole from prison. She finally
is successful. but for the sake of the
girl. who believes her parents dead,
does not disclose her identity. In the
end she kills her neer-do-well hus-
band, after he, tco. is paroled from
Evening star., 1932-06-11
Prices Plumb L0west
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Evening star., 1932-06-11

the cast, "The Strange Case Of Clara
Deane." current attraction at War
ner Bros Metropolitan, fails to rise
very much above the level Of the
average wringer of a decade
or so ago.
Not trace of humor lightens the
tragedy Of the story, and only the
work Of Wynne Gibson, in the title
role. and Dudley Digges, as the out
wardly hard-boiled but really soft
hearted police inspector, save it from
mediocrity.
Miss Gibson does a really fine piece
OF acting as the mother who Is torn
away from her little daughter and
taken 10 prison. She is released after
Is years and finds her daughter
grown up and about to be married.
The story opens in a fashionable
dressmaker's shop in 1912 Clara
Deane, designer, is about to marry.
On the eve of the ceremony her
prospective husband (Pat O'Brien)
is notified Of a warrant for his ar
Evening star., 1932-06-11

hardly knew, he arrives just In time
to save her from the clutches of an
evil gang who are about to ship her
to South America, and to save her
lover from being burned alive
Helen Mack plays the part Of Ma
non, the almost too innocent daugh-
ter, and William Blackwell is Paul
Revoir, the bewildered and uncon-
vincing lover. Jack La Rue and Rita
La Roy are good in minor parts. but
the picture rests almost entirely on
McLaglen's shoulders, who gives his
finest performance in the role Of
the father.
A comedy starring Benny Rubin
and several additional short sub
jects, including an airplane travelogue
over the Andes of Peru and a news
reel supplement the main feature.
H. G.
Wynne Gibson as Clara Deane
At Warmers Metropolitan.
DESPITE rather excellent acting
by two or three members of
Evening star., 1932-06-11

vice and crime in the darkest .dens
and dives Of Paris. where men are
tortured and thrown into roaring
furnace and young women are sold
in bondage, the picture leaves little
to be desired in gruesome terror. 1t
bears the stamp of ''Super-thriller"
from start to finish.
The story opens with man-hunt,
and Costaud, a World War hero,
jailed for a crime committed in a
brawl shortly after he was decorated
for bravery, is being tracked through
deep swamp together with another
fleeing convict. He escapes the
fusillade OF shots which kills his
companion by diving into a river
and is reported drowned. He makes
his way to Paris to find his daughter
who knows nothing of his fife OF
crime but believes he was killed on
the battlefield Her mother has just
died, and 1t is Costaud's plan to
supply her with sufficient funds to
live safely and we'll. Posing as a
friend Of her fathers whom she
Evening star., 1932-06-11

over backward to get mentioned in
these columns. Society does its
best to keep out. But the final
conglomeration of news, as rs My
Face Red?" tells you. is a potpourri
Of social gossip. theater waggery and
murder mysteries out in neat
little language pills.
Mr.. Cortez plays the kind of a
role which Roger Prior acted for a
week at the Belasco during the past
season. His troubles are concerned
not only with whipping his daily
scandal column into shape, but in
keeping his Office water supply full
Of gin. and in making love to a va
riety Of fair young ladies. Finally.
when a gangster has come into his
Office and almost wiped him from
the map, the bullet in his innards
makes him realize that Miss Twelve
trees is the one and only after all.
Not pretty tale-but. If YOU
haven't seen Blessed Event" well
enough. Cortez is. dapper but lik-
able. E. de S. M.
Evening star., 1932-06-11

1t blush Tor It's
own weakness.
While Mr.. De
Miles picture
was not credited
as being the best
film of its time,
It still played
r in G S around
most of its sue
cessors. and as
far as we can see
plays more than
that around the
current picture.
You will un-
d o u b t e dly be
stirred once
more by Estelle
Taylor doing a
b a C h a n a liam
ant. hN ThnA-
Evening star., 1932-06-11
From the Front Row
Reviews and News of Washington 5 Theaters.

moment, Hollywood beer" parties
are beginning to pail. Snapshots OF
young things Sprawling over floors
and WhatnotS have little either OF
originality or excitement about them
When hero B kisses vampire G at
a party given by hero's wife, and
hero's wife runs out like wild
bull, the situation is so banal, SO
redolent of happenings in a thou
sand other films. that 1t seems as
though the time had come to call a
halt on such things. Even as
played by Mr. March. these scenes
Of unlicensed love affairs seem un-
deniably cheap.
Fortunately, however, Mr.. March's
ability to act like gentleman even
when he Is obviously a bum, dlssl-
pates much Of the Sordidness. As q
newspaper sleuth who marries mil
lions, only to give up the office in
favor of writing plays in his wife's
kitchen, he becomes successful
overnight, and with that success
falls head over heels in love with
former flame Of his who happens to
be playing the leading role in his
play. Thereupon the flame" tAd-
rianne Allen annexes the happy
young playwright, the playwright an
nexeS the flame, and the good lit
tie wife tries a little gin drinking
of her own to prove that she can
take it on the chin" and not mind
it either. In the end the young
married couple are brought to-
gether by the appearance of mother
stork-and as the final curtains
come to a close the ladies in the
audience will probably be crying.
Mr. March and Miss Sidney are
worth seeing-even if the film has
its downs and well as its ups.
E. de S. M.
Evening star., 1932-06-11

X The District Of
Columbia" and the
"Northlapd," plying
daily between Wash
ington and Norfolk,
have equipped their
soft drink dispensers
With the same quality
Kelvinator that In In
the 1882 model de-
signed for your home.
Evening star., 1932-06-11
rs My Face Red?"
Stars Ricardo COrteZ.

otdIS NlSdluO SoisNLs
THOSE who still want to know
L how a certain Broadway chat
ter artist lives, breathes and works
in his obviously commendable art
of prying into other peoples affairs
will find rs My Face Red?" with
Ricardo Cortez and Helen Twelve
trees. at R-K-O Keith's. a fast
moving yarn, full of impossibilities
and at the same time, thanks to
Zasu Pitts, full of laughs. Although
neither so swift nor so funny as
was and probably will be Blessed
Event" when it comes to the screen,
the picture has few tirst-rate mo-
ments, and for the rest should burn
up" the gentleman whom it is meant
to satirize. Whether or not the
public will like it depends on how
much of this sort of stuff it has
been getting-frankly, the theme
has begun to get frayed and worn
and is slightly tiresome as far as
this department is concerned
BY now the world at large knows
that there are such people known as
Broadway, columnists" One or two
in particular have become in the
past few months what used to be
called "the rage" Actors and their
near counterparts twist themselves
Evening star., 1932-06-11
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prison. to prevent him from demand
ing money from their daughter.
A Paramount news reel, a Riplev
Believe 1t or Not" travel picture
and an animated cartoon round out
The Dill. w. 8. T.
Evening star., 1932-06-11

dore Roberts, that grand old actor,
leading the IsraeliteS through the
raging and parted waters OF the Red
Sea (this was known to be the best
fake of it's day.; by the gnashing OF
teeth when Pharoah'S child dies
and by the grotesquely awful make
ups Of all of the members OF the
cast. But the sand and Moses watch
ing the thunderbolts. and the waters
swallowing the Egyptians, still seem
as exciting as they were IN the old
davs-perhaps, more so, on account
of the relief they have been thrown
up against. ---.E .
Sari Martha, the new British Clara
Bow, and the womanly walls OF
Marguerite Churchill as the tor
mented wife, do not make Forgot
ten Commandments" more than
barely palatable. One fears. too,
that admirers of the Soviet regime
are not likely to be too polite about
it For the moral which It pur-
ports to paint is not datterlng 10
Petrograd-land and the actors
plav their roles as though they we're
having a pretty tough time bear
ing up.
This is shame. Particularly
since Miss Martha is one OF the
handsomer of recent finds, and While
Marguerite Churchill is not good
actress. Irving Pichel iS-and so Is
Gene RAYMOND. All three OF them,
in this tepid story OF why you
shouldn't get married IN Russia
are completely lost-Moses and the
chariots winning by full length.
This weeks stage show. however,
Is bright affair. enlivened by
conely group of Chester Hale girls.
who dance a graceful ballet, ana
then do Parisienne dance OF some
what warmer proportions. Otner
features of this show are those per-
ennial favorites Radcliffe and Rog-
ers: King. King and King. mopplng
up the floor with their hlgh-pres-
sure feet: Lee Calls, doing an
Apache adagio, and lightly filnglng
the lady into the orchestra pit;
Anita Avila and Jack Nile In an
original and colorful dance. ana
Sylvia Nelson, who sings gently IN
between. Then there Is wesley
Eddy singing a Helen Kane version
of Mean to Me" with thunderouSly
successful results. and the orches-
ira trying 10 Keep itS esco o"oy
from the stage during that final
terpischorean display-which is rem
iniscent of the Moulin Rouge in its
heyday. E. de S. MELCHEF.
March and Sylvia Sidney in
"Merrily We Go to He'll.
THOUGH the-two chief proSag-
"a onists of the new film at Loew's
Palace go along in fits and starts OF
alcoholic merriment, 'Merrily We
Go to He'll is a modernistic sermon
on the perils of matrimony where
brains marrying money and vice
versa is involved Played to the hilt
by that admirable actor Fredrlc
March, and equally so by Sylvia
Sidney twhose avordupois Is, alas!
beginning to creep up on herr, TINS
picture is notable for the tear-tug
it has as a climax. for the amount
of alcohol consumed by Mr.. March,
and for the manner in which I'VE
moderns" are painted as a promis-
cuous bunch of patriots whose mar
riages mean just about as little as
does the handwriting on the wall.
Taken from the novel. Il, Jerry.
Take Thee, Joan" it is perhaps
overstern in it's preaching. At this
Evening star., 1932-06-11
while Paris Sleeps"
At LOeW'S Columbia.


STARRING Victor McLaglen as
~ a fighting apache in While
Paris Sleeps" a tale of the French
underworld, which for sheer thrill
and melodrama would make Eugene
Sue gasp for breath. LoeWs Colum-
bia inaugurates its new low-price
policy this week
In this. the most hard-boiled and
probably the best role in his career.
McIraglen AS the grim-visaged Cos
taud. an escaped life-termer from
the French penal colony, makes a
lone stand against police, detectives
and the vilest thugs in the worlo
for the honor of his daughter. whom
he finally saves from a fate worse
than death only TO blow himself into
eternity when cornered by his pur-
SUerS at the end.
Woven against a background OF
Evening star., 1932-06-11
LOew's Fox Features
Forgotten Commandments"

THE best part of Forgotten
Commandments" Is THE Ten
Commandments" Scenes
from Cecil B. De Miles ex-
silent movie spectacle. which
Yivaled Ben Hur" for sheer size
of cast, camels and chariots. are
inserted into the middle OF the new
Paramount film at the Fox and make
Evening star., 1932-06-11

A grain of corn or wheat. gathered
out Of the middle of the ear. was the
origin of all the weights used In Eng
land