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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-02
BAXTER PLAY
 TO GIVE WAY TO
 CARROLL DRAMA
Laughter Will Be Shown at l A. M. Tonight
 and Tomorrow

Doctors Wives with Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett in the leading roles will be shown for the last times tonight at the Coliseum theatre. Laughter starring Nancy Carroll, will be presented at regu- lar performances tomorrow night and will be previewed at the o'clock matinee tonight.
 Baxter AS Eminent Surgeon
 In Doctors Wives" Baxter plays the role of an eminent young New York surgeon. Miss Bennett is the object of Warmers afffections and the doctors wife" of the picture. Frank Borzage directed.
 Laughter" is vehicle which gives full opportunity to Miss Car roll for a display of her emotional capabilities.
 Plays ExFOlIies Girl
 Throughout the action of the play Miss Carroll sweeps along in the portrayal of an ex-Follies girl who, as the wife in a mismated mar riage, tries to be loyal-and is, but who always seems to be victimized by the irony of circumstances.
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By LOREN DISNEY
tAaacciatcd Press Sports Writer,

Associated Press Sports Writerl NEW YORK, March 2.-Nothing surprises Broadway more than the sight of a slick, smooth collegian oelting out one of the boys reared in the smell of blood, sweat and resin. In fight circles on the main stem college boys are regarded chiefly as mugs in coon skin coats"
 Young Steve Hanas, as a conse- quence, has the boys considerably flibbergasted. The former Penn State all-around athlete recently moved into the top flight of heavy weights with two-round knockout Of Tommy Loughran, the mos adept boxer among the big fellows and long a New York favorite.
 Hamas sensational performance, coupled with the fact that in his short professional career of 27 fights he has won A by knockouts, has set going full blast the argu- ment as to whether a college foot- ball player ever makes a good fighter.
 Debate Staged
 Wherever managers gather to take the weight off their feet the angles are being discussed In deed, two of the boys. Lou Brown and Jimmy Bronson, who once shared the managership of Add Exum Warren, North Carolina foot ball player who turned to the ring, have been propected in the fore ground to present both sides of the matter.
 Brown expresses belief that the collegian's chances are very slight indeed. Bronson, in charge of box ing for the A. E. F. during tha world war, can't see it that way at all.
 Tn the first place" Brown says ssthe collegian is from 9 to 25 years old when he finishes school and takes up boxing professionally! That means he is too old to ac- quire the instinctive coordination required of every boxer. Besides, he develops a certain muscle on the gridiron to the exclusion of others, which handicaps him if he takes up boxing
 Collegians Too Smart
 Brown also comes forth with an idea which many professors doubt- less would find startling; that the average college football player "is too intelligent to make a good fighter"
 'The college athlete will turn to the profession for which he pre- pared in school when he finds box ing too rough to be worth the stake" Brown says. "He realizes as non-college boys do not that the odds are overwhelmingly against him, and he is liable to end up a battered wreck.
 He is smart enough to get out of the game before it's too late, but this same smartness deprives him of the supreme necessity for max ing good, the driving force which
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-02
Wallace Mourned

All over Hollywood you hear expressions of shock and regret over the death of Edgar Wallace, the novelist.
 M Wallace made good in Holly wood, as he did at everything else he turned his hand to. From the time of his arrival on December n he had written six film stories, three of which are definitely accep- ted by Radio. They are '"The Beast, 2 Soul Hunters and The Man Without a Face
 The amazing facility of the Eng fish writer already had become a legend in Hollywood. For example, a reporter called Wallace recently, asking for an interview. When he arrived 20 minutes later 1,000- word article was completed and waiting for him.
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snd about which he knew more than the central office would even- tually force him out.
 MOnOply Fails
 The monopolization of picture making and exhibiting by big busi- ness has been a failure and the bankers will undoubtedly get cut as soon as they can and take their loss" MT Lesser stated. Tn other lines Independents with fresh blood and no financial past to live down the making inroads into the estab- lshed business of the big fellows This is and will be particularly true of motion pictures and the day is rapidly approaching when brains and iniative will get their break"
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it's money back. With chain op- eration by studios, however, the theatres which they owned took a loss in operation and the studio on the picture. If the loss at a thousand houses was but $100 a week, the total was $lO0,0OO And a flop picture created a far greater less than this. You can lose $1 900 to 5000 a week on any good sized theatre without any trouble. !"
 Continuing the discussion of what he termed the fallacy of elaborate theatres, MT. Lesser pointed out that patrons are in a hurry to get out when tn show is to a box office and they are in a hury to get out when the show is over. Thus, all the money spent on lavish lobbies is wasted after the first visit. The ideal theatre from the public standpoint is one seat about 900 patrons comfortably and one which is adequetly heated and ventilated and containing every safety feature.
 Small City Problem
 The theatre problem is now that of neighborhood communities and small cities. During the spending orgy, if the chains could not buy a house in a community at any price they built one of $500 seats costing $300,000. This house was rarely filled and the community would have been satisfied with Q 600-seat theatre which would have cost about $40,00o and which would have cost pr'oportionately to op- crate. These smaller houses, prop erly handled even by the chains, would have stood a chance of money, MT. Lesser be- Iievas, but there never was chance
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-02
He Knew it Couldn't Be True

You should get a chuckle from Warner Baxter's story about the actor who called his wife on the phone.
 Hello, dear" he said, I'm bringing two guests home in din- ner. Is it okay?"
 aWhy, yes. dear" replied the feminine voice at the other end of the wire.
 The actor slammed down the phone. Can you beat itl" he exclaimed. The wrong number again"
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AAMAs .KO.s LoUeARAN .lM. -2Np ROUND

has carried most of the great fighters to the top"
 As a clincher Brown cites a long list of college athletic stars who failed to set the boxing world on fire. His list includes such former gridiron stars as Monty Mum of Nebraska, Tiny Roebuck of Has kell, Sualy Montgomery of Centre and George Traitor of Notre Dame.
 Good In Proportion
 When Bronson moved to the cen ter of the stage to voice a good word for the college product, his chief objection to Browns argu- msnt was the citing of failures:
 Every year around 10000 boys start boxing, either as professionals or as amateurs, with prospects Of becoming so, and if out of all of these boys one becomes 8 really good fighter that is a good aver age.
 Now anybody can name three good boxers-don't forget Hamas- who have developed out of the 50 collegians who have become pro- fessional boxers.
 'SIf three men out of 50 can make good, how many fine fighters do you think the colleges would con- tribute annually if 10000 college athletes each year turned to pro fessional boxing2 Wouldn't they make your to 10000 look sick2
 Take the matter of coordination. The prime requisites of football player are speed, stamina, power. courage. agility, ability to think fast in an emergency and perfect brain control over muscles. Those are just the qualities that every manager hopes to find fighter
 Now consider the talent of a college boy to persevere. He has been doing thta for years, studying subjects laid out for him, and he masters them or leaves college. He learns self discipline.
 Sure, he can quit and go into business. but he considers that, too, before he decides to enter the ring, and he brings a trained mind to the problem. And if he decides to enter you can depend on him for more perseverance, than the boy without a college education who can al- ways drive a truck.
 And if a boy in perfect. eondi- tion, his muscles trained to obey his mind. and with ability to take instruction drilled in him, is too old to shift from college sports at 22, then what right had Bob F'itz- simmons, at 26, to start to learn to fight.
 At 36, Bob won the heavyweight championship, and he had not been training through the years the very same muscles that could be used later in fighting"
 Whether the boys settled any thing or not, one thing is agreed by all hands. Either would love to have a Steve Hamas. whether he climbed down from atruck or stepped from a professors echair.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-02
GRAND PRIZE REBEKAHS
 CARD PARTY

Perseverance Lodge No 2 A Re- bekahs will hold card party We'd nesday night at the I. o. o. F. Hall. Both bridge and whist will be played and games start promptly at 8 pm. Good prizes and lunch con. Admission fifty cents. This is the fourth and last of the present series and GRAND PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED. You are invited.
 adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-02
Did Y.u Know

That Walter Byron's real name is Walter Butler?
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 HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March D. Likely novels are grabbed off by Hollywood while they're still proofs. Through such deal Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer is able to announce the purchase of Clarence Budding ton Hollands -F'ootlightsg just as the first chapter of the serial makes it's appearance in national magazine.
 ''Footlights" is intended for Bus ter Keaton, and probably will be his next picture This makes two stories on tap, '"The Unexpected Husband" having been announced several days ago.
 In the Ke1land film, Buster plays
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-02
Famous Football Players

college professor who inherits a fortune, backs a Broadway show, gets mixed up with jewel rob- bery and undergoes an amusing series of misadventures
 Lawrence Johnson already is at work on the screen treatment and Edward Sedgwick will direct the picture as the first assignment under his new contract. Larry Meingarten will supervise.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-02
THEATRE CHAINS
 DISINTECRATING
Boom-Day Orgy Now Pass ing - Day for Inde-
 pendents Looming

HOLLYOOWD Cal, March l.
 With some of the largest theatre chains in the country either being turned back to their former own CTS or sold to independent operator, on a nothing -down-pay me some. time basis, Hollywood is viewing the disintegration of one of tho most spectacular creations of the boom-day orgy with something akin to satisfaction.
 The actual makers of motion pic lures never looked upon the acqui- sition of thousands of theatres with any degree of enthusiasm. Tho situation was forced upon them by men thirsting for personal power and glory and by financial inter ests that suddenly found themsevle. in the show business with no know. ledge of it's operation.
 Now these theatres are being un- loaded literally by the thousands and behind their transfer is g story of financial tragedy.
 While the failure of chain op- enation is tragic because of the money involved, it is creating a situation which is being taken ad- vantage of by individuals. Out of it, say those who know, is emerg- ing the day for the independent in all branches of the business.
 New Road for Industry
 The road for the industry to follow in the future was sketched and the reason for chain failure is revealed by Sol Lesser, one the founders of the West Coast chain which sold it's ITS theatres at the height of the boom at peak prices. MT. Lesser is now, an independent producer and is recognized as one of the astute showmen of the coast. s49i
 This wholesale unloading had to come,' MT. Lesser declared. At the time these huge chains were built up, excessive prices were paid for buildings, lands and leaseholds. On top of this was added a good- will figure fixed arbitrarily at three times the previous years earning, an earning capacity not duplicated before or since, as the sales were all made during the boom years.
 With the breaking of the boom, the bankers discovered two things that it was impossible to earn on the fictitious values carried on the books and that it took individual showmanship to run theatres. Mass operation of houses will never work. There were no large sums of money to take the theatres off the bankers hands and no one had the inclination to put up any, even if they had it. So the chains are being un- loaded with no cash down, a loss being written off by the banks, and an agreement to pay for the houses some time out of profits"
 Built Lavishly
 Another element contributing to the downfall of the national chains declared MT. Lesser, was the type of house built. Not satisfied with buying at top figures, they built palaces in which chandelier cost as much as small theatre would during normal times. After one visit of curiosity, the public had no further interest in the lavish and went to them only if the picture was worth seeing.
 Then banker operation of both studios and theatres created a vicious circle" MT. Lesser contin- ued. 'In the old days if a picture was a failure it was sold to some l6,000 exhibitors and they absorbed the loss and, while the studio made nothing on the film. it was reasonable to assume it would get
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-02
Bob is Modest

A group of us. Robert Montgonl- cry included, were talking about an unpleasant Hollywood person. ality. Bob was the only one with a kind word for him.
 Whats the matter?" someone asked Jackie Cooper says what he thinks about people"
 "Yeah?" Tipped Bob. "If l had Jackie Cooper's standing in this business, would too,"
Evening star., 1932-09-01
CONGRESS OPENING
IS TENSE IN MEXICO
Troops to Line Streets for
Passage of President, Who
Denies He Will Quit.
Ax the Associated Press.

NV the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, September 1.-The
Thirty-fifth Congress gathered today
in tense atmosphere brought about
by recent rumors that President Pas
cual Ortiz Rubio soon would step
down.
The President only this week issued
o statement denying he had resigned,
and insisting that his relations with
Mexico's strong man." Gen. Plutarco
Elias Gales. were cordial.
Gen. Gales was not present today
for the opening Of the Congress, set
for pm.
the city to line the streets between
the palace and the chamber when the
President appears.
The congressional session will last
four months Many important political
decisions are ahead The most promi-
nent from the American viewpoint
probably will be action on the Ameri-
can-Mexican Mixed Claims Commits
sion's renewal treaties. These were
signed three months ago, but must be
ratified to become effective.
On the eve of the Congress opening
the President announced sweeping re-
forms in the agrarian laws designed
to obtain immediate payment for land
owners whose lands are taken frcm
them for distribution among the popu-
lation. Land under cultivation by the
new decree cannot be appropriated.
Evening star., 1932-09-01
REDUCED GAS, RATE
ORDERED IN KANSAS
State Commission Fixes 30-Cent
Charge Instead of 39.5 Cents
for Cities eSrvice System.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans., September IA re-
vised ruling of the Kansas Public Serv-
ice Commission yesterday ordered dis
tributing companies of the Cities Serv-
ice Gas Co. to charge 80 cents a thou
sand cubic feet at the city gate, instead
Of the current 39.5-cent rate.
The finding, applying to II diStribut-
ing concerns serving approximately 80
cities and towns in the State, was an
nounced after a rehearing on an order
lowering the rats to 295 cents.
An investigation into Cities Service
rates was begun several months ego
after the company declined to lower its
rates 10 cents a thousand cubic feet at
the request of Gov. Harry M. Wood
ring.
Informed of the commissions find
ing for a 30-cent gate rate, Robert
Stone of Cities Service counsel, said
"Of course. We can't accept that rate. y
Commissioners Thurman Hill and
Charles w. Campbell concurred in the
Evening star., 1932-09-01
80 MINISTERS TO LEAVE
MRS. HUTTON'S CHURCH
iowa and Minnesota Division Says
Publicity and Policies Cause
Withdrawal Decision
Rr the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DIES MONIES. Iowa, September l.
Thirty-two ministers of the Iowa and
Minnesota division have voted to with
draw from the International Church of
the Four-Square Gospel. Rev. John R.
Richey, divisional officer, announced
yesterday.
The ministers also decided to break
all Affiliations with Mrs. Aimee Semple
Mcpherson Hutton, leader of the de-
nomination, Richey said.
Certain widespread publicity" and
policies of the International Church's S
leadership we're given as the reasons for
the withdrawal.
Plans are being made to reorganize
and incorporate the churches repre-
sented under Iowa laws in the name of
the open Bible Fvalgelistic Associa-
tion" it was announced.
Evening star., 1932-09-01
the fesher it s-the better 1t is!

The whole vast Gulf organization has been
geared up 20 handle gas almost as dairy han
dies milk Gulf has carefully located its huge
refneries in many sections of the country SO
that a stream of FRESH gas can be easily kept
flowing into every one of the $4,000 Gulf
filling stations Gulf tank trucks speed FRESH
gas to Gulf pumps every day in the year.
You pay for power. Get it-all of it. Get
FRESH MADE gas-delivered FRESH. Get
Gulf. Use it exclusively. Your motor will
be cleaner, quieter, faster.
Evening star., 1932-09-01
AMERICAN SHOT IN ITALY
IN RESISTING ROBBERY
Ernest williams Roche of Phila-
delphia in Grave Condition
After Attack at Lido.

BY the Associated Press.
VENICE, italy, September Ernest
williams Roche, 40, of Philadelphia,
representative of Chicago electrical
firm, was shot in the back and gravely
wounded at the Lido Tuesday night by
a man who, he said, was attempting to
rob him. An operation was performed,
and the bullet was removed from
Roches spinal column.
An Italian, who said he was Dino
Camporini, 20, was arrested and identi-
fed by Roche as his assailant. The
prisoner denied the charge. He was
found in a Lido hotel, where he had
q revolver, mask and rife.
The shooting took place in the gar
den of Rochs's hotel. The wounded
mans condition is said to be grave.
Evening star., 1932-09-01
BAN CARS DURING RELIEF
Kansas Red Cross to Decline to
Help Those Able to Run Autos.

SALINA, Kans September l F).-
Commencing today, persons who have
automobiles will have to surrender their
license tags to the Red Cross before
they can receive further aid from that
organization here, 1t was announced
yesterday. When the car owners feel
able to resume buying their own gro
ceries. the tags will be returned to
them.
Evening star., 1932-09-01
DR.. A. H. SMITH DIES
Credited With Aiding Boxer In
demnity Gift to China.

CLAREMONT. Calf, September l (41.
DIR. Arthur Henderson Smith, credited
with convincing President Theodore
Roosevelt that indemnities of the Boxer
Rebellion should be returned to China
for the education of Chinese youth, died
yesterday at the age Of 81.
An authority on the Orient and the
author of several books on Chinese
customs, DR.. Smith was at the siege
of Peking during the rebellion.
DIR. Smith has been retired since
1926. He was born in Vernon, Conn,
in 1845, and served In the Civil War.
He spent 81 years in China
Evening star., 1932-09-01

GASOLINE won't "keep.' The older it gets
- the weaker it gets. And as staleness in
creases power decreases.
The Light ends of gas-important "easy
starting'' elements evaporate and chem
ical change takes place-so that the longer
gas is stored, the less power it gives. Too, stale
gas is stickier-more apt to foul valves and
carbureter. More apt to knock and thump.
The whole petroleum industry has long
known these facts-has searched for way
to halt the deterioration of gasoline.
Evening star., 1932-09-01

During the past several years, Gulf has
worked on the problem - has finally de-
veloped refining and. distributing system
that assures the motorist Of getting FRESH,
ful-po,oered gasoline.
First, by giving you the best gasoline that
can be made - by SO refining this gas as to
take out certain complex elements that
cause rapid deterioration. Hence, Gulf gas
stays FRESH longer.
Second, by getting this FRESH MADE.
FULLPOWERED gas to you in hurry.
Evening star., 1932-09-01
Police Replace Stolen $301.

TOLEDO, Ohio. September P,.-
Members Of the Toledo Police Depart
ment are being solicited for contri-
buttons toward fund to replace s30l
stolen two months ago from the safe
in a precinct station. Chief of Police
Louis Haas ordered the police to re-
place the stolen sum within a week.
Evening star., 1932-09-01
YOUNG EARL MARRIED
Youthful Nobleman, Son of Ranch
er, Takes Wife at Calgary. I

CALGARY, Altoona, September CP).
The l9-year-old Earl OF Egmont-
Freddy Perceval to his cowboy friends
married yesterday Ann Geraldine
Noodle, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
D. G. Noodle.
The earl inherited his title from his
ranching father, the tenth Earl of Eg-
mont, who died recently as the result
OF an automobile accident He was
bequeathed about $4,000 in the will
of the ninth countess of Egmont, who
died in June.
Evening star., 1932-09-01

There were 81 convictions for bank
robbery in Indiana in the year ending
Nav /. 1882. resulting in sentences
totaling 700 years in prison.
Evening star., 1932-09-01

finding. Chairman j. W. Greenleaf as
sented, saying he was convinced" 80
cents would constitute reasonable
price,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
Red Flag Is Raised On
Union Square: Joblese
NY. Worker Arrested

NEW YORK. An unemployed
worker Friday afternoon raised red
flag on the Union Square flagpole
and was Immediately arrested by a
policeman stationed nearby, A large
crowd of workers, most of them I'M
employed, were attracted to the
scene.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
Labor Bureaucrats In
Another Meeting To
Plot Against Furriers

NEW YORK-Plans for united
campaign of the nisleaders of many
reactionary unions to fight the
growing rank and file movement in
the International Fur Workers IN
ion, are indicated by announcement
through employers trade papers that
a meeting will be held Tuesday in
the Auditorium of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union. The
meeting is ito make plans for fl
nancial support of the furriers' Or
CARNATIONS" by which is meant, to
support the machine in the A. F.. of
L. fur union.
The last such meeting attempted
was several days ago, when Vol,
Hillman, Dubinsky, now president of
the 1. L. G. W., Sorking, Lupi, the
dummy president of the furriers, and
others Of the same sort, gathered
in the Hotel Governor Clinton, and
broke out again when a swarm of
rank and file fueriers swept in want
ing to know what they were plotting
behind closed doors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
Fl DRESS SHOP
STRIKES ARE WON
Needle Union Getting
Ready for More Action,

NEW YORK. At a meeting of
the dress trade committee of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union held last night, Fannie Golos,
organizer, reported on activities dur
ing the past month. Since work
started in the dress trade, 80 shops
were taken down out Of which 81
were settled.
The committee decided to take
steps Immediately to strengthen the
organization in the various blocks, to
COLOMBO workers in the open shops
and intensity the work
The bosses are resorting to all
sorts of schemes in order to rob the
workers of their wages, now that the
season is at an end. Workers should
insist on getting their pay promptly
and if any difficulty develops. to i'm
report the matter to the
office of the Union.