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Evening star., 1932-08-19
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Evening star., 1932-08-19
Upturn in Film Business.

NEW YORK, August 19 [P-Wal
Street hears that the August seasonal
upturn in the film business is getting
under way with indications of some
improvement in income this Fall. AL
of the important film producers, with
the exception of Loew's Inc, have
reported large operating deficits so far
this year.
Evening star., 1932-08-19
Federal Reserve Credit.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS
The daily average volume of Federal
Reserve bank credit outstanding during
the week ending August IT, as reported
by the Federal Reserve banks, was
50, ,352, ,000. 900, a decrease of $24, ,000, 900
compared with the preceding week and
an increase of 1927 900, 900 compared
with the corresponding week Of 1881.
Evening star., 1932-08-19
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS
(Opening Quotations

NEW YORK, August l9 (R.-Over-
the counter market:
Evening star., 1932-08-19

Appraisers of the estate Of David
Shields Crawford, baker and restau-
rateur of Edingburgh, Scotland, who
disappeared from the liner Orsovo while
on his way to Australia, have placed on
it a value of $725,00
Evening star., 1932-08-19
U. S. TREASURY BALANCE.

By the Associated Press.
Treasury receipts for August II were
S81, ,064, ,13273; expenditures. S88,557,-
666.79; balance, SAB, 1893, 3,95127. Gus
toms duties for II days of August were
Sl3,640, ,3OO.78.
Evening star., 1932-08-19
SILVER QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK, August 19 (P).-Noon
Silver futures steady; sales, $50, 900
ounces. September, 2840 bid: October,
1855 bid: December, 1890 bid; jan
uary, 29o5 bid; March, 1925 bid
Evening star., 1932-08-19

Umbrella making Is on the increase
in England, where more than 4,300, 900
are made year, compared with $751;
600 in 1924
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
PARASITE BANK is
POMERENE TARGET
RefuSaIS to Make Loans to
Needy Are ASSaiIed.

By Scripps-Hoicdrd Newspaper Alliance
BOSTON, Nov. 18.-Banks, rs per
cent or more liquid-and there are
such-which refuse to make loans
on proper security, are parasites in
the community" according to Chair
man Atlee Pomerene of the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation.
Pomerene castigated such bank
ers, citing examples, but not names
or cities, in a speech Thursday at
the annual meeting of the New Eng
land council with New England
Governors.
Saying he believed go per cent of
the banks are doing their full duty
Pomerene paid his respects" to the
40 per cent or less" which are not
Il am referring to those banks
that are soliciting deposits in their
several communities, boasting that
they are rs per cent or more liquid,
and refusing to loan their money
out to people in need of it to pay
labor, to buy goods, or to continue
manufacturing and commerce"
He said if he had the power he
would compel banks to loan money,
merchants to buy more goods on
longer-term credits, and tell labor
to return to work at what wages it
could get on condition that they
would be returned to normal when
normal conditions return.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Influence Is Expected
to Spur Recognition of Russia

dent-elect's closest advisers are
known to be opposed to the Hoover
policy of attempting to segregate a
nation of 100000 people.
William Gibbs McAdoo, whose
advice, it is said, will be particu-
larly potent in selection of a secre-
tary of state, has stated that nei-
ther disarmament, world peace, nor
any plan for the economic reor-
ganization of the world will work
without the Soviet Union.
mo effective plan of disarma-
ment can be made unless Russia is
taken into the family of nations
and becomes a party to it." he said
in an address at Dallas.
Russia" he went on, sis, OF
course, armed from head to foot
Can YOU blame her? If you call a
man an outlaw and stand around
his house making threatening ges-
lures, should it be a matter of sur
prise if he appears at the door with
a shotgun in his hands?"
1T is a singular fact" he stated
in the same speech, that, amid all
the divide talk of disarmament,
only one great nation has made an
official proposal for complete and
universal disarmament on land and
sea and in the air. That nation is
husband Russia possesses today
one of the largest and most effec-
tive armies in the world.
The Russian proposal was voted
down. 1t is surprising to find the
United States voted against it. The
proposal was given curt dismissal
by the delegates at Geneva for the
reason that it was not con-
sidered sincere.
Il never have believed in the
soundness of this explanation. At
any rate, if I had been delegate
at that conference, I would have
accepted the Russian proposals at
their full value and would have in
dorsed any reasonable proposal that
would accomplish disarmament"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
MINSTREL SHOWS GLORY HAS VANISHED
Great Days We're Those When Band Bared in CoIorful Parade

Before the war. and before that.
thousands Of performers roamed the
western plains like budaioes and
swarmed in the meadows of New JERSEY
IKE MOSQUITOES. They we're performers
Of curious kinds unknown today even
to Broadway
They have been replaced in their
former hunting grounds by shadows Of
voices whining through a loud-speaker
and shadows OF faces Pickering across
a screen.
Shadows defeated BY shadows a few
old-timers cluster in the Hobbies Of
trouDers' hotels along Broadway or in
old-fashioned managers Offices papered
with yellow photographs. coming the
rear pages OF The Billboard and talk
ing OF the brave DAYS of the athletic
combinations. the Ministries. the travel
ing req shows the Uncle Tommers. Buff
falo Bill and. yes. the silent movies.
In series of six articles. the third
of which follows A. J. Liebling will
discuss these old-time performers. To-
day he writes of minstrel shows.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
VIEWS CONFLICT ON
BEER BUSINESS AID
One Sixth Increase Seen al
Paramount Glass Plant.

Contrasting opinions as to the eff
feet of return of beer on the bust
ness volume of glass industries were
revealed today by officials of two
companies.
Despite general belief that orders
for bottles would tax capacities of
glass factories, the increase would
be less than one-sixth of the pres
ent business volume, according to
officials of the Paramount Glass
Works, 1901 South keystone avenue.
Reverse is true, according to pre-
dictionS of officials of the Ovens
Illinois Glass Company of Toledo,
who stated that three plants now
closed would be reopened, offering
employment to 1000 men and con-
sumption of more than 100000 in
raw materials and S2,500,000 of fuel
in the first year.
.One of the closed plants, which
would be affected, is located at
Evansville. This plant, it was stated
could be reorganized to produce
100000 bottles annuallys The
home plant is in Toledo, but the
company has offices in Indianapolis.
Officials of the Paramount COM
pany said that the plant, now oper-
atlng at so per cent of capacity,
within a few hours could be pre-
pared for immediate production of
any amount of increased business.
All that would be required, they
stated, would be preparation of adj
ditlonal molds, a process requiring
only a short time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18

more recent, might be presented
before a coroner'S jury.
The Minnesota maid was about
a half mile from the shore of an
ice age lake that has since dried
up. Probably she was on raft
or in a canoe.
An arrow, or perhaps a spear,
was projected toward her and its
point entered her bosom, pierre
ing the right lung, and perhaps
entering the heart, causing in
slant death.
The mortal blow was struck from
the front, not behind her back.
DR.. jerks knows this from a
gouge in the right shoulder blade
Of the skeleton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18

CHE toppled over into the water,
- sank to the depths, and the
mud and silt of years sealed her
bones into a natural grave which
was disturbed only twenty millenia
later, when Minnesota road re-
pairers dug out her skull and
skeleton.
Who welded the weapon never
will be known. nor has the weapon
been recovered.
But shell ornaments to hold her
hair and others with a sexual sig
nificance found with her skeleton
undoubtedly adorned her.
An antler dagger, found nearby,
may have been carried by her at
the time Of l$r death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18

Indian maiden when he laid be-
fore the National Academy of Sci
ence here a detailed report on
what was appraised as eone of
the best authenticated finds in
North America"
=
TN the historically remote days
Il when a great ice sheet COW
cred northern North America,
this girl lived in prehistoric Min
neSota.
She was mongoloid in her fea-
lures, and her rounded nose open
ings linked her more closely to
the apes than modern women.
How she was killed is sug-
gested by DIR. Je1ks' investiga-
tions, which. if tie death we're
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Test Yourself

A RE you familiar with the
IA researches going on in
the big industrial laboratories
Of the nation?
Do you know why Prof. Pic
card sailed into the strato-
sphere?
Do you know what Prof.
Compton found out in his
50.000-mile chase of cosmic
rays?
You do if you are one of the
regular readers Of David
Dietz's column on science.
For five years now it has
been a daily feature on the
editorial page of The Indian
apolis Times. Written i'm Ian
guage that the layman can UNI
derstand, it deals with the lat
est theories, discoveries and
marvels of modern science.
Join the thousands of read
ers who follow 1t daily. It viii
keep you abreast the latest de-
velopments of science.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
BY A. ]. LIEBLING
Times stan Writer

Copyright. 1882. by the New York World
Telegram corporation)
XXTHEN I see an old codger
w around here that I don't
recognize" said Al E Flat Edwards
as he leaned on the mezzanine rail
of the N. v. A. clubhouse on
Forty-sixth street, Il whistle like
this: 'Tu-whee, tu-whee'
IF he comes over to me, he is
minstrel man."
That was the signal for the
minstrel men, in their purple or
scarlet listers, to form their two
block line of march and, start the
11:45 parade.
With fifty men you easily could
have parade that stretched two
blocks" conf1ded Mr.. Edwards,
Frank Cushman '93. "You would
have two lines of single file, with
the men spaced wide apart, on
each side of the street, and in the
center the boys with the banners.
The band would lead the way.
No band ever sounded like a min
1strel band. The boys doubling in
brass were performers, and each
wanted the center of the stage.
Real window breakers.
"The drum major would throw
MS patton over the trolley wires
and catch it again.
The girls would line the curb
and smile. The kids would run
behind. The Ministries probably
all had hangovers, and the morn
ing air was a great thing for the
fellows who just were kicking
cobblestones.
But the band" Mr.. Edwards
injured top turned pale green at
the memory. Say, you lust trv
blowing out strong like that after
you have been up all night play
ing poker.
Most people think a cornetist
blows with his lungs, but really
ne works with his stomach
"iuoOleS' On, an empty morning
AFTER stomach. And the smell of
lunch in the streets"
q n
E-FLAT, who won his appella-
- ton because he habitually
blew in that lofty key, mopped his
reminiscently agonized brow.
That's why I had to quit the
Ministries" he said. "I became one
of the -Four Emperors of Music.
a variety act which, if I may say
so, lives as standard But there
never was anything like the min
strels."
Never" breathed Tom Barrett,
Haverley's Augmented Mastodon
MinStrelS, '79.
Never" echoed Poodle Jones.
AL G. Fields vintage undeter-
mined.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18

A few fugitives from the min
strel army that was decimated
long ago mingle with the general
theatrical rout at the N. V. A.
"On the coolest mornings we
had to turn out, said Tom. ut
didn't make no difference. Some
times it was SO cold the horns'd
freeze and we'd all have to step
into a beer saloon to thaw them
out"
mot having been a member of
the band" said E-hat. you don't
know that we we're supposed to
carry little bottles of alcohol to
look out for that. But we always
managed to lose Them
Whereas most Of the variety
actors, whose calling has fallen
victim to the talking pictures and
the depression only during the last
few years, are ready to believe the
worst, the minstrel men, whose
game went on the rocks twenty
years ago, are full of hope.
I'VE have little organization
here right now" Billy Helms con-
fessed without the slightest reluc-
lance, that is looking for book
ings and will give a better show
than any of these kids.
Why, Billy Maxwell, our inter-
locutor and tenor soloist, hits high
c like eating candy" Billy, at one
time with the Gus Hill Minstrels.
is on an end with the youthful or
ganization, the Empire State
MinStrels.
IT DO the dancing" said Tom.
Il Il hoof as good as did fifty
three years ago. And in those
days there was dancers. You
danced American clog, Or Lanca-
shire clog, or trick clog, or song
and-dance-that was soft shoe, or
you were a jigger.
"Afterward they made up the
buck-and-wing, and that was the
beginning of the end. 1t was
bastard dance, with little of
this and little of that all mixed,
and now there is no dancing left,
only acrobaticS."
There never was anything like
a minstrel tenor" said High Tom
Ward, who should know, FOR he
won his soubriquet because, in Mr..
Helms words, he could hit a high
G like eating ice cream
"They would break your heart"
said Mr.. Edwards Solemnly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
DIRGE FOR VAUDEVILLE
Famed Palace Theater IN. W Is
Turned Into Movie House.

NEW YORK, Nov. 18.-The cur
tain has fallen on big time vaude-
vile.
The last bill has been played at
the Palace theater, which for a.
score of years was the pace-setter
for the variety world. And, as a
browning blow the movies have
moved in.
Vaudeville was too expensive with
the depression on, said the man.
agement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
IA ARE NOMINATED
Candidates for Directors of
City C. of C.

Nomination of fourteen candi-
dates for the indianapolis Chamber
of Commerce board of directors has
been announced by the nominating
committee comprised of William H
Trimble, chairman; Clarence E.
Crippin, N. H. Gilman and A. Keifer
Mayer. The election will be held
Dec. IS.
Seven of the fourteen will be
elected and serve three years. Those
renominated include: Charles E.
Coffin, Frank E. Gates, Howard T.
Griffith, Dick Miller, George S.
Olive, Paul @. Richey and C. H.
Rottger.
New candidates are c. Curtis
Duck, j. Duane DUNCAN, j. j. Fitz-
gerald, James w. Putnam, Ernest
G. Ropkey, Louis j. Schwitzer and
Richard A. Shirley.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18

most every show had female i'm
personator, but he had to keep
his place. Another kind of
speciality that was popular was
gun juggling.
with the big show you had
singing and dancing eight, usually,
and then came the second part,
what we usually called the big act.
That was where some of the boys
would put on wench dresses and
they would play some fool sketch
or travesty.
'The scene might be out on a
levee, just as it would he on any
day down South, with lots OF
Negroes playing the banjo and
singing and shooting craps, and
two steamboats, racing and one of
them blowing up-all a typical
Southern everyday scene.
n II
"XXTELL, Dan and I went out
w to the coast with HaVerly,
and it was wonderful trip. We
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
BY WATSON DAVIS
Managing Editor. Science Service

A mn ARBOR, Mich, Nov. 10
4 = Violent death, perhaps even
a murder of passion, ended the
brief career of a seventeen and-a-
half-year-old girl. who promises
to become Americas most famous
prehistoric inhabitant, after hav-
ing been covered by glacial silts for
some 10000 years.
Her youthful SHELTON, marvel
ously preserved, may clinch the
argument for the existence of an
Gent peoples in America.
DR.. A. E. jerks, University of
Minnesota anthropologist. de-
scribed the death of the ancient
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
DEMOCRATS IN
FRENZY OVER
JOB APPEALS
congressman Deluged With
Pleas for Appointments
to Federal Posts.
SENATORS PASS BUCK
Applicants Are Advised to
Query Representatives,
Who Also DODGE.

By Scripps-Hooqrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1s.-Never
in the history of the government IL
is believed, has an election resulted
in such a flood of applications for
federal positions as that which has
burst upon congress since the Dem
ocratic landslide of Nov. 8.
1t is more than a flood. 1t was
tidal wave of appeals from high
and low, rolling in from all parts
OF the nation, beating against the
doors of senators and representa-
tives, sinking secretaries and clerks
in a sea of correspondence, bringing
almost to desperation many Of
those who have jobs and patronage
at their disposal.
The deluge presents a problem to
members of both houses. In count
less instances, constituents are ask
ing for positions that are not va
cant and will not be vacant for
some time. Many are promoting
themselves for highly personal APP
pointive positions; as for instance,
that Of physician to the President.
Many Seek Postal Jobs
Applications for misunderstanding,
large numbers of which are coming
from women, would, if granted, ne
ceSsitate a poStoffice in every city
block and at every country cross
roads in the land
Frantic senators who are being APP
pealed to for postoffice jobs are re-
ferring constituents to their respec-
tive representatives, pointing out
that they must take the initiative in
making recommendations for those
positions and that the senate mere
ly has the power to confirm.
Representatives, on the other
hand, who are in receipt of appli-
cations for such berthS as judge
ships, marshalShips, district attor-
neyships, etc, are referring their
correspondents to their colleagues
in the senate, pointing out that
senators exercise the right of pa
tronage in relation to Offices which
exceed boundaries in jurisdiction
and administration.
And so "the buck is passed" be-
tween the two houses, with no COM
mitments made.
Recall Wilson Action
Veteran congressman recall that
President Wilson, during his sec
ond term, made postmaster APP
pointments via the civil service
route, thus taking the matter out
of the hands of representatives en-
tirely and putting it on the basis
of merit.
Whether Governor Roosevelt will
follow this procedure, whether the
presidential authority will be exer-
cised at will to remove Republican
incumbentS whose terms have not
expired, or whether vacancies will
be filled on congressional recon-
mendations as they expire, are ques-
tons yet to be answered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Attends Forestry Convention

Ralph Wilcox, state forester,
heading a delegation of conserva-
tionists interested in reforestation
attended the third annual meeting
OF the central states forestry con-
greSS at Louisville, KY, today. The
session will close Saturday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
BY WILLIAM PHILIP STMMS,
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.-Resto-
ration of normal trade relations
with Russia, followed by formal
recognition, early in the Roosevelt
administration, is forecast by OBJ
servers here.
Admitting an absolutely "open
mind" on the subject. the Presi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
BATTLE LOOMS OVER
1888 REAPPORTIONING
Legislative Control Will Go to Cities
II Figures Are Followed.

Urban centers' large gains in pop
ulation over the smaller counties
forecasts a vigorous battle in the
1888 general assembly over reappor-
tionment, it was indicated today.
There has been no legislative re-
apportionment in the state since
1921, although the Indiana Consti-
tuition requires enumeration and re-
apportionment every six years.
If the 1888 legislature carries out
the constitutional mandate and if
1881 enumeration figures are fol-
lowed, control of the assembly will
pass for the first time in years from
the smaller communities to the
larger cities of the state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
DIES WORKING ON CAR
Heart Disease Is Fatal to John
SmOck of EdgewOod

While working on his auto in
garage at his home Thursday night,
John Smock, 70, R. r. 6, Box 632,
died of heart disease, according to
deputy Sheriffs.
Mr.. Smock was member of
Southport Presbyterian church and
of Southport Masonic lodge.
Funeral services Sunday after
noon in Southport church will be
followed by burial in Round Hill
cemetery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18

George Christy in character of
Julius Crow and Old-time minstrel
show program. From Robinson
Locke collection in public library.
DO you remember Dick Jose
Singing Silver Threads'?" Tom
whispered.
Or Freddy Bowers and that
tear jerker of his, 'Always'?" coun-
tered E-f1at.
Answering the plea of a Junior
visitor, Tom consented to outline
a minstrel show of the grand
period.
THIRST, there was the first
Il part" he began with what
seemed truism. "That was where
all the boys were seated in a semi
circle. In the beginning they was
right down on the stage, but aft
erward we got them up in tiers.
That was when the j. terlocu-
tor gagged with the end men and
members of the company sang
and danced as requested. Ha-
verley carried two interlocutors
and four end men, working in
two editions, but later shows got
up to four and eight.
Then came the olio. That was
a sort of vaudeville performance
between the big numbers. We had
George Wilson, the monologist,
who delivered a comic stump
speech-Lew Dockstader was his
only rival.
Then there would be a comedy
musical act-Swiss bell ringers or
sleigh bell performers, or such.
Every show had quartet, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Prince Injured in Fall

BIZ UHUed PfesS
CHICAGO, Nov. 18.-Prince Mi
chael Contacuzene, great grandson
of President Grant and grand
nephew of the late Potter Palmer,
was injured late Thursday when
his horse fell during a hunt at the
OnwentSia Hunt Club. Physicians
said they would take x-rayS today
to determine the extent of the in
juries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Mattresses Canners, Grnnn

DR.. w. H. Harrison addressed
members of the Indiana Gamers
Association at the closing session
Of their annual convention in the
Claypool today. He discussed pulp
standards, Of special interest to
members because Indiana leads in
tomato pulp production.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
END DRY ENFORCEMENT
New Jersey Law Out Of Effect
December 6.
IN Tnifed prea.

by Cnlten Press
TRENTON, N. j., Nov. 18.-En-
forcement of the New Jersey pro-
hibition act will cease Dec. 6. State
police were so advised Thursday by
Att0rney-Genera William A. Ste
vens. The act was repealed by the
Nov. 8 vote.
Police also were told that they
are without authority to enforce the
national prohibition law and need
not give aid to federal agents, even
when help is requested.