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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-04

Mrs-BarbaraSpeAr'a myth z he
could TO help YOU If he knew
how good lydia E. PinkhAm's
Vegetable Compound was, he'd
60 straight 10 the nearest drug
store and buy you 4 bottle.
MY husband SAYS I am my old
self again. says Mrs. Barbara
Spears. 80 Elma Street. Akron,
Ohio. Il was tired and all in with
no appetite. Had no pep and vas
IN poor spirits. Your Vegetable
Compound eliminated THAI awful
tired feeling"
Don't nv YOUR husbands patience
TOO far. Let a bottle from your
dugEia NON. IL probably will
help you. because nearly a million
American women know from per-
sonal experience than il helps thems
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-04

DR.. James c. Bonbright. professor OF
economies st Columbia University and
vice-chairman- Of the power authority Of
he state of New York. ana pr. Harry W.
for Industrial Democracy. Will discuss
Government Regulation during the
Economics in a Changing Social order
program THURSDAY at $50 D. m. over an
NBC-WJZ network.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-04
PURE FOOD BILL
BRINGS CAIN IN
SENATE'S MAIL
Letters. kilograms From
Constituents Flood
Lawmakers.
BY RUTH FINNEY
I-mea SnerIal Will

WASHINGTON. April Sen
at0rs desks are loaded down again
with mail and kilograms from con-
sti'uents This time the topic is the
Copeland Food and DRUG Bill now
before The Senate
The a s0ciated Grocery ManufsC-
tuners Association. which fought the
bin FOR two wears. is now supporting
lt lu i-s amended form b.. drug
manufacturers are continuing TO
fChf Warren Burgess. speaking
"as an officer in TWO o. the largest
ASSOCIATION" Of the industry, has
Sent ont letters urging telegra pnlc
protests against the bill
Bg-.nees journals are predicting
IT'S massage because 81 desire on
the part Of other affected industries
70 restore confidence Of buyers and
10 avoid intcrIection ~ the pure
food issue In tho next election.
Drug manufacturers are concen-
trafinr on an attempt 10 substitute
the blll % Rep james Mead ID.
n ~ for the Copeland bill i legis-
Iative action of some sort IS 70 %
taken The Mead bill would leave
control 81 food and drug advertising
vlfh the Federal Trade Commission.
which uow exercises limited Jurls-
dlcfion over 10.
False Advertising Prohibited
The revised Copeland bill reported
from committee a few days after
President Ro0sevelt's message on
the subject. prohibits false adver-
Using I'm addition 10 false labelling.
covers cosmetics as well as food ana
drues. and requires more lnforma-
tive labelling
r. f0rbids representation u any
drug as having a therapeutic effect
on Brghts disease. cancer. tuber-
rr,fo.ir tnfantile paralysis. venereal
diseases and heart and vascular
diseases. but strikes out a clause
giving tho Secretary Of Agriculture
power 10 expand tins list.
other important changes.
The wording 81 factory inspection
provtgi0ns has been revised. and
prohibition added against sale OF
products from factories which eX-
ciude department inspectors.
Standard Requirement Set
The words in every particular
have been stricken from the clause
governing truth in drug advertise
mcufv
A requirement that the amount Of
alcohol I'm a preparation be stated
on the label was added.
Power has been given the Secre-
tarv ~ Agriculture to grant eXemp-
ti0n from "impra cticabIe" labelling
requirements.
The bin fixes only \ minimum
standard for canned foods instead
of The quality standards originally
proposed An attempt may be made
on The floor 10 put in the original
requirements. since the President.
while no did not discuss this matter
specifically. referred several times in
his message to standards" rather
man standard
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-04
SAHARA TRANSPORT
CLUB DANCE APRIL 10
5000 Expect 10 Attend Annual Event
at Riverside.

The Sahara Transport Club will
hold i,s annual dance and frOlic
a. the Riverside Dance Pavilion
April 70 and 5000 persons are ex-
pectcd To attend. There Will be a
I0-pirce orchestra.
The Grand N0narch'S Dance will
h. held April 10 at the Athenaeum.
with admission only upon presenta-
ton Of the 1895 dues card.
Evening star., 1935-11-08
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, November The
Virginia Education Associations ef-
forts to obtain legislation establish
i-g . teachers retirement system on
. sounder basis than the one now in
eject is hampered by the reticence
of women teachers to tell their true
ages.
The 20. 900 questionnaires broadca st
throughout the State in order to OBJ
tn statistical data to include in the
associations program contain blanks
for the birth date of teachers answer
Ing the query, DR.. c. J. Heatwole. ex-
e, tive secretary Of the association,
told a public hearing on tax matters
several days ago. He added that he
was having difiiculty in obtaining cor
rect answers to that question.
DR.. Heatwole told the hearing, ar
ranged by the State Chamber of COM
nice on taxation and Government
that In 4 previous inquiry 4 check of
some birthdates submitted against
State records revealed that some OF
Evening star., 1935-11-08
LEGGE FARM FOUNDATION
RULED SUBJECT TO TAX
Attorneys Will Appeal View
State Is Entitled to
$122, 800 Levy.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November g. Judge
Win G. Knoch OF Du Page County
ordered payment yesterday of a sl22,-
800. State inheritance tax on the
$500 900 fund established in the will
of the late Alexander Legge for a
national farm foundation.
In assessing the tax, Judge Knoch
agreed with the contention Of Attor-
ney General Kerner of Illinois that
the fund was not tax exempt because
it benefited farmers throughout the
country.
Attorneys for the foundation, dedi-
Gated to agricultural research. an
nounced the ruling would be appealed.
Legge was president OF the 1nterna-
tional Harvester Co. and a former
chairman of the Federal Farm Board.
He died two years ago.
Evening star., 1935-11-08
cipitated q farmer uprising against
MORTGAGE foreclosures.

The mortgage debt was still high
around 5000, ZOO. .000-but farmers now
have cash with which to pay interest
and some of the principal.
The 1885 corn crop is near normal
and the outlook for next year is bright
they said
For the first time since the farm re-
volt, the price index of things Iowa
farmers sell and the price index OF
things they buy lIave come together
at parity"
The produc farmers sell will pur-
chase as many Of the products they
buy as they did during the 1910-14
! iod, which has been termed
parity
Iowa Farm Price Index.
TIE Iowa farm price index climbed
to the parity" level September Is anc
held it through to October Is. In
September the Iowa farm price index
was 1913 per cent of the 1904 level
aid the index of things they buy also
at 1913 per cent, giving farmers l0(
per cent purchasing power.
On October Is Iowa farm prices
were out in front of the Nations farm
prices. the natio i farm price indie,
standing at 80 per cent.
Economists pointed out, however
that parity farm purchasing power die
not necessarily mean parity from in
come, since the volume of product:
Evening star., 1935-11-08
OUTLOOK CHEERING
TO IOWA FARMERS
Purchasing Power of Prod
uCtS at "Parity" Goal
of Administration.
6y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AMES, Iowa, November 8.-Economic
charts which record the month-to-
month condition of the Iowa farmer
reflected the brightest agricultural
prospects today that Iowa has seen in
Eve years.
The purchasing power of Iowa farm
products has reached parity" the
goal of the Farm Administration, Iowa
State College economists reported.
Iowa farm income. increased by
sS0,0o0,000 in crop benefit payments,
has climbed steadily.
Farm Debt Recalled.
Th2 State College professors re-
called the billion dollar farm mort
gage debt and the sacrifice" farm
prices of 1881 and 1882 which pre-
Evening star., 1935-11-08
Woman Teachers Hinder La,u
By Refusing to Tell 4 &c

the respondents must have been
teaching school two years before they
were born"
Another Of the difficulties encoun-
tered in estimating how q teachers
retirement plan would work in practice,
he told his listeners, is the greater lon
Evening star., 1935-11-08

gevity of the average woman teacher
as compared with male teachers.
He recalled that one of the retired
teachers receiving restricted annuities
under the present plan died at Nor
folk few weeks ago at the age Of 103.
Evening star., 1935-11-08

available for sale was still below nor
NAL.
The Iowa index had climbed 81
points from the all-time low Of II per
cent in January Is, 1888.
Evening star., 1935-11-08
Light Meat Eaters.

Japan's consumption of meat Is
about 2h pounds per head, compared
with some 280 pounds eaten by Amer
leans.
The Washington times., 1935-10-26
Movies Buying
'OriQinaIs'

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 26.-Origi.
nal stories continue to be the
principal source for motion pic
ture material, and the stage, from
which early talkies bought the
bulk of their properties, has de-
clined to where but 13 per cent of
the total Hollywood purchases for
the year we're plays.
This was revealed yesterday in
a survy by the Paramount
Studios Of the stories, books and
plays purchased by Hollywood
studios for the year ended Sep
tember l.
OF the total Of more than $50
stories for feature production,
representing an estimated $685..
900 investment, more than so per
cent Of all purcases were originals,
81 per cent were books and only
13 per cent plays.
Paramount studios, the most
consistent story buyer in the film
industry, led the field with a total
of 1913 purchases of which 78 were
originals, 80 were books and 20
plays. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ran
a close second with Ill buys.
The Washington times., 1935-10-26

making of the picture believes it will.
For many years I have been producing "a Midsum-
mer Nights Dream" and in many parts of the world
Sometimes have shown it stages, at other times in
parks and outdoor gardens Lovers of Shakespeare and
lovers of spectacle have been good enough to bestow upon
these performances their critical appreciation
But I will confess that completely salts
fled with any of those productions Of the "Dream
matter how avshy they praised and matter what
wonderful performances actors and actresses might have
given
Now at last in the motion picture version think
have been able show this comedy Shakespeare wrote
it and imagined it.
In the first place. this comedy is exactly what its
indicaesa dream. The whole thing is chmerica 1t IS
something that could not possibly happen except in the
maginings that to in Sleep The play should be
approached with that mental attitude.
Now, the motion picture it to me- is the ideal
method Of inducing such attitude in audiences. There
is certain unreaity about the figures the
We realize subconsciously that they not flesh
and-blood humans but fitting shadows.
Therefore, think willing accept the screen
great number of things that would not accept from
living breathing payers-mprobabities, if not impossib
ties. That the exact state of mind should have in
audiences viewing this Shakespearean comedy And will
have it when we show the "Dream."
Some people call "camera tricks the boundess ability
of the motion picture to portray things which human
players could not begin to portray. call them camera
miraces.'
Take for example the forest outside Athens where most
of the action of the play takes place How could that be
shown stage 60 feet wide and possibly half deep?
How could be shown properly in outdoor grove
10 times large?
But with out motion picture sets-consruced by tech
nicans who really geniuses- wide-sweeping
cameras give the impression of forest miles IN
tent with hundreds of spots of enrancing loveiness
On the stage in a grove could we show, heevably
hundred little sprites dancing up and down moonbeam?
We do that in the picture, most convincngy. And the
transformation of the head of Bottom the into
asss head through the manipulaons of "Puck' the
mischievoqs fairy is wrought miracuously in flash And
the arrival in the forest of Oberon the evil fairy with his
company of great black bats-and of other iusory
things that could not be shown by any other than
that of the cinema camera.
With all due respect to every producer of ga Midsum
The Washington times., 1935-10-26
Styles of Year 2O5O Will Be
Shown in Wells Movie

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 26.-Rene
Hubert, one of the screens fore
NOSE designers in this country
and abroad, has completed the
costumes that are to clothe the
players in the final sequence of
the Alexander Korda production
of H. G. Wells's Things To
Come" The designs represent
the clothes to be worn in the
year 2050.
The gowns of the woman Of the
future will, according to those
worn in the picture, be extremely
simple in shape and line, elimi-
The Washington times., 1935-10-26

arts.
Perhaps you would be
interested to know why |
am frank to state that to-
day l believe the motion
picture to be the most
wonderful medium for the
presentation of drama and
spectacle that the world has
ever known.
The reasons are simple:
the screen has leaped farther
ahead in the last few years
than the stage has crawled
in many centuries. I am
completely converted to the
cinema today.
People ask me if I shall
make other pictures. Most
certainly-if the public en-
joys ga Midsummer Nights
Dream" as thoroughly as I
believe it will, and as every
one else connected with the
The Washington times., 1935-10-26

mating all complicated contrap-
tions. They are made of new
textures.
Such accessories as buttons, zip
pers and hooks are dispensed
with, with the clothes cut so that
they fold in natural manner
around the body. Handkerchiefs
are unknown in this era, for ths
people Of Wells's world will have
no colds. Stockings are another
feature of clothing that are elm.
mated.
Things To Come" will be re
leased through United Artists.
The Washington times., 1935-10-26

Hollywood GiggIes

Gene Lockhart, the jovial CO.
median, is East to play the lead
ing role in the new Shumlin pro-
ductiop, Sweet Mystery of Life"
sends IN the following wisecracki-
grams:
AS accurate-as the weather
man.
AS affable-as a real estate
salesman.
AS artificial-as plucked eye
brows.
AS appetizing-as a warm bot
tie of beer.
AS bald-as a tennis court.
AS bashful-aS a subway guard.
AS bountiful-as a dowager's
chins.
AS candid-as an oil stock pros
pectuS.
AS charitable-as q columnist.
To all inquiries regarding his
identity Wendy Barrie replies
that her boy friend is lust baby"
However, her friends observe that
baby" came through with a new
slave bracelet for Wendy last
week.
Dorothy Whitmore pauses in
her blues singing to tell this one:
I'm surprised" exclaimed the
The Washington times., 1935-10-26

mer Nights Dream" through
the ages, firmly believe that
Shakespeare's spirit Of fantaS-
tic fun has never before been
portrayed as it is portrayed in
this motion picture.
For, after all, the whole play
is fun-and a lot of the fun is
of the type you Americans call
"lowbrow. There seems, some
how, to have existed a belief
among people in general that
Shakespeare's plays are high
brow''-that they are enjoyed
only by intellectuals, or by
those who are devoteeS of
Shakespeare because of their
reading. Bosh! In this play the
Bard is as down-to-earth as
any writer of 1885 farceS.
Perhaps this absurd belief
of Shakespeare not being for
the common people will be dis
PEELED by our showing of "A
Midsummer Nights Dream" in
picture form. In fact, I am
quite sure it will be. At all
events, I am glad and proud
to have produced it for the
Warner Brothers.
I hope that when you see it
at the National Theater, where
I understand it opens soon,
you will agree with me that
the Dream" is a production
that everyone can enjoy.
Very truly yours,
The Washington times., 1935-10-26

critics visited a certain producer,
who remarked: Great Scott!
That suit you're wearing looks as
if it had been slept in"
To which the film critic re-
piled: "It has. It's the one I
wore to your preYieW last night" I"
The Washington times., 1935-10-26
Producer of Dream Praises
Movies as Wonderful
Medium for Drama
Dear Mr.. Kelley:

Dear Mr. Kelley:
If you had asked 10 years ago if were interested
in the motion picture my would have been most
emphatic no. l thought then that the motion picture was
parasite and dangerous one-On the theater on tera
ture on music, painting and on all the other
The Washington times., 1935-10-26

lfrom lady's hat and put it on
bathtub.
The sign read: How would
you like to see your best girl in
this for $3.25?"
And we did such a big bust
ness" quipped Jack, that I was
promoted right out Of the store!"
A movie village short story, as
told by James Burke:
One Of our ultrasmart movie
The Washington times., 1935-10-26
Dorothy Whitmore pauSes in
her blues singing to tell this one:
I'm surprised" exclaimed the

wife OF a very handsome actor,
as she came upon him kissing the
maid.
"Oh, no, I'm surprised; you are
astonished," he rejoined.
During three months in Holly
wood, Jan Kiepura, the Polish
tenor, has laughed at only one
American joke. We hasten to
pass it on, as told by Benny
Baker.
A couple Of out-of-work aero
bats were standing in front Of a
famous millionaire's mansion in
New York. One observed wist-
fully:
Gee, a guy who owns a home
like that must have everything" !"
"Oh. I don't know" consoled
the other, Il bet he can't stand
on his hands,
What? You heard 1t four
years ago? Well, then, sue me.
Jack Benny was telling Una
Merkel about his first job in q
department store.
BY mistake he took a sign
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-01-18
e. O N T l N u E n
from page one.
Karpis Now Object
OF Intensive Hunt
By Federal Agents

ado, broke down and "squealed" the
tip that led to the deaths Of his
mother and brother-"Ma" and Fred
Barker.
Barker,s capture In Chicago Jan. 8.
"a coup that the department Of Jus
tice kept secret till late Thursday
was conceded to have been the big
break" the federal agents were seek
ing in their drive to smash the wide
rowing Karpis-Barker band Of out
laws.
Taken at about the same time that
federal gunners under Inspector Har-
old Nathan shot down Russell (Slim
Gray Gibson, another member Of the
gang, in another part OF Chicago.
Barker was Immediately put through
strenuous questioning.
At the telephone direction Of J. Ed
gar Hoover, federal detectice COM
mander, the nervous gangster was in
terrogated for hours.
did he break DOWN." department
officers were asked.
I'VE can't tell you that" was the
answer. Remember we have to put
this man on trial and we can't dis
close what we learned"
It was about that time that E. J..
Connelley. a crack investigator Of the
department. was hustled down to
Florida. More than a dozen other
agents went there from division offices
in the south.
The net result was the finding Of
the hideout OF Fred and Kate (Ma)
Barker at Oklawaha, several days Of
surveillance and finally the five-hour
gunfight which ended the crime career
of Ma" and her son.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-01-18
BAR Case IS TAKEN
UNDER ADJUSTMENT.
State Board Seeking Injunction
Against Bismarck collec.
ton Bureau

Arguments In the case Of J. p. Cair,
Of Dickinson for the State Bar board
versus the Business Service Collection
bureau Of Bismarck were concluded
here Friday morning ana the drA-
sion taken under advisemens BY
Judge r. q. Mcfarland Of James
town.
The state board, through Cain, I'm
mediate past president, seeks an In
Junction restraining the collection
bureau from an alleged practice OF
law In the bureaus collection act:vi-
ties. g. +. Ellsworth. jamestown, and
J. A. Hyland. Bismarck. presented the
bar boards case. Scott Cameron act
ed - attorney for the defendants.
Pleadings In the case on the dis
trict court calendar, wherein Phrona
+. Roberts Of Bismarck, plaintiff,
seeks title TO Z five-acre tract Of land
In southern Burleigh county which L.
u. Davis and Edith Davis claim was
transferred to them In Z verbal con-
tract, were heard Friday afternoon.
It "a the contention Of the plaintiff
that the verbal contract Is not bind
Ing where title to land Is involved.
Judge Mcfarland, who Is conduct
Ing the term Of district court here,
said that he expects to call the jury
sometime In the near future but that
the exact date had not been set. The
jury WAS dismissed In December. SUBJ
ject 70 call, when It was found that
the majority Of cases on the calendar
were not ready for presentation.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-01-18
HOUSE TENSE THURSDAY
OVER IMPEACHMENT TALK

A house filled with tension over re-
ports OF impending impeachment
proceedings against Gov. Thomas II.
Noodle Thursday hurried through 80
minutes Of routine business. mark
ed by . skirmish between leaders on
Interpretation Of naturalization laws.
With impeachment talk rife, legis-
lators in the house referred six bills
to various committees, listened to tel.
egrams Of praise and condemnation
for It's stand on Governor Noodle.
then concluded the day with . short
tr1-coruered argument. on the ctt-
senship question.
A the shortest session Of the lower
assembly since the beginning Of the
legislative meeting drew to . close.
Thomas Burke, youthful Democratic
floor leader. rose to "ampli1y the
status Of Governor Noodle"
Moodie Letter Read
At the beginning of the session .
letter had been received and read.
from Noodle. announcing that he was
obtaining documents Is evidence Of
his citizenship. which had been ques.
toned previously In . house resolu-
ton.
Governor Noodles letter states
he has proof Of his citixenship."
Burke explained to the house. THE
proof consists Of homestead entries
and land patents issued to his step
father IN 1884. Other documents
which he Is going 70 obtain arc
naturalization papers q his step
father In June. 1858. at Bookings.
Is D."
Delay IN obtaining the documents
Burke said. had been caused BY 70.
fusal Of the clerk Of court ct Brook
ines to issue . certified copy without
q court order.
The request has been taken up
ct Brookings, st. Paul. and Washing-
tom" Burke explained. An affidavit
from Noodle upon which the certi.
fled CODY Vim b obtained has been
sent 70 authorities. Burke said.
'Ths records VIII b hare today. 10.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-01-18
SANITARY ENGINEER
TELLS STATE NEEDS
Urges Cooperation Toward I'm.
proving Conditions Affect
ing General Health

Active cooperation Of all civic
groups and individual citizens for the
Improvement Of sanitary conditions
In North Dakota is needed and Is re-
Quested by the state health depart
ment," declared Mark D. Hollis, new
state sanitary engineer. In his adj
dress Thursday morning over KFYR,
under auspices of the eighth district,
North Dakota Federation OF Women S
clubs.
The present sanitary situation in
North Dakota" he said, lis unique in
that the state Is relatively young. is
not intensely populated and has the
opportunity to profit by the mistakes
and experiences Of older states in its
sanitary development. Climatic con-
ditions during the past few years have
made the officials of our municipaN-
ties realize the value Of properly de-
signed and adequate public water and
sewerage systems. Our surface water
supplies, including natural streams,
lakes and impounded reservoirs, have
practically vanished. The Missouri
and Red rivers are, OF course, excep-
C4OAAGs wv CVCll III GllCSC VIC AlOW lIdo
been alarmingly reduced. especially in
the Red river. Communities depend
Ing on surface streams must more
than ever resort to sanitary science to
purify this supply"
Hollis stated that he has found in
tense interest among officials con-
cerned with sanitary matters during
his inspection trips in the state and
he foretold the greatest development
In sanitary science that the state has
ever seen for the next few years, en-
phasizing the important part which
sanitary engineering In all its phases
must play. He pointed out that the
departments program considers the
rural problems as well as those Of
urban centers and urged all commune
ties to take advantage Of the consul
tation services and booklets now avail
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