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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21
CATCHING SNAKES BEATS
ACTING, SAYS SPECIALIST

was used in THE Mighty Barnum.
Three days at $3.50 day.
He came to Hollywood from Iowa
30 years ago, and became one of
Mack Sennett's famous Keystone
cops. The varmint business paid
better, though.
For a sideline, Altman conducts
snake exhibition at Ocean Park
The concession is crowded these
days, because it was one of his
rattlerS that was purchased for the
fantastic murder plot against Mary
James. Altman admits thn6 no
movie chiller ever contained such
horrendouS melodrama as that case
e His snake didn't kill Mrs. James
Probably didn't even bite her. ALI
man himself has been bitten Il
times by rattlesnakes and now be-
lieves he is immunized against the
| venom.
For "All Quiet on the Western
Front" he provided 20 grayback
lice-at 81 each. Bought 'em in a
Los Angeles flophouse. A single
tick brought him SIS after studio
had made frantic search for one
Altman borrowed it from a burro
Tarantulas and scorpions rent fol
$40 a day.
He gets $50 day for iguanas
used in scenes Of fantasy. BY trick
| nhnt0pra 0hv thew Servo &c dY.a
and can be made to appear larger
than an apartment house. Altman
has made eight nature shorts, with
his reptiles and insects as stars.
They don't live long in captivity
so the curator of pests frequently
has to go to the desert and catch
some more actors. He also buys
snakes from amateur collectors
Pays 25 cents a pound.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21
Film Song Writer'S
Have Busy Period

Times Special
HOLLYWOOD, May 81. - Song
writer's in Hollywood are extremely
busy these days.
Ralph Ranger and Leo Robin are
working on numbers for THE Big
Broadcast of 1887" and for Bing
Crosby's musical, Beach of
Dreams" Sam Coslow and Fred
erick Hollander have written "Is It
Love or Infatuation?" for Gladys
Swarthout's new picture, 'The New
Divorce" Stephen Pasternacki is
writing the score for And Sudden
Death"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21
CaroIe Introduces
New Fashion Fad

Times Special
HOLLYWOOD, May 21.-Carole
Lombard launches a fashion fad, de-
signed by Travis Banton, in The
Princess Comes Across"
1t is a costume consisting of a
brief skirt of lightweight black wool
topped by sweat shirt" of closely
shaven black fur. This is the noted
designers latest substitute for the
more conventional coat or cape that
usually completes such an outfit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21
Start Dancing Class

By United Press
TOLEDO. May 81 A hundred
Liberty High School, senior boys
have started a weekly class in ball.
room dancing in the school GYM
nasium. The dean, Eugene Hunt,
is sponsor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21
BY PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, May 21.-Jack
Altman, who is short, stocky, AZ,
and only mildly philosophical, is
not one to sit around meditating on
why the Lord put into this world
such unpleasant things as scorpions,
flies and snakes.
Mr.. Altman has found a very
good use for noxious insects and
reptiles. He makes them into
movie actors. Heavies, of course.
They do the work and he pockets
their wages. Good wages, too; a
dozen cockroaches may earn SIS a
day for him.
1t is not by accident that ALL
man specializes in renting loath-
some creatures. He discovered long
ago that there was a big demand
for them. The list of varmints on
his business card includes gila mon
sters, iguanas, Chinese dragons,
grave robbers, lizards, snakes, and
cave bats. All kinds of insects,
from fleas to centipedes and taran-
tulas. Also buzzards and vultures.
When a studio wants cobra,
Altman takes his favorite bull
snake and fits a little hood, bon
net-like, on its head. He says he
has copyrighted the hood, which is
made of black rubber. That was
the kind of cobra he supplied for
Lives of Bengal Lancer" 1t
earned $3.50 day.
Once a studio was planning to
film an Adam and-Eve sequence
for picture, and the director or
dered Altman to train a serpent to
climb out of tree and take bite
from an apple that Eve was hold
ing. Altman failed. The snake
would descend all right, and was
perfectly willing to take bite of
Eve. But it just didn't care for ap-
pies.
Altman sometimes doubles for
stars in scenes with snakes. He
doubled for Gloria Swanson once,
and for Jack Holt. His collection
of 125 snakes bottled in alcohol
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21
Legion Picture First Since
Steamboat Round Bend
to Run 3 Weeks at Apollo
Four-Star Film Proving Ace Attraction to indianapolis
MovieGoers Edward G. Robinson, in New
Type Role, Booked Next.

INDIANAPOLIS movie-goers
quartet Of Under Two Flags to the exclusive class formerly
only by Will Shirley
other
takes the combined Colbert
Bend to be held the Apollo third
McIgen and Roand Russell the picture
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uduC6Q w. dllu Iue DOOhS VII
be done away with forever.
Evelyn had nothing. The brief
pleasure she had in the letters
from Manila passed so soon. She
tried so hard to get work similar
to Caroline'S, to get any kind Of
work, to free herself of the
shabby monotony of the apart
ment house. 1t all came to moth
since Dorathea went away, and
nothing had happened. Nothing
at all.
She hadn't even a suggestion
when Jan asked her advice about
Q spring suit.
Coming out of the office build
ing, at / o'clock one Saturday
in April, she found David Byrne
waiting for her.
Something's happened - but
nothing's wrong. It's good news,
really, but I wanted you for moral
support. I have to tell Evelyn.
My cars here. Let's go some
where and get a cocktail and
some lunch"
He put an envelope in her
hands.
There was a folded sheet in it
and narrow strip, check.
do you feel all right?" David
asked anxiously. You're white
as ghoSt!"
The Washington times., 1936-12-08

"WOmen In Love-" latest
and best of May ChriStie'S
novels of modern New York
life starts Wednesday in the
Times. Don't miss the open
ing chapter.
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when Loved You . "A DiSturbinS Interesting
Ru HAZEL LIVINGSTON

she could just forget him If she could get over looking
in the pobox for letters things people said dldn re-
mind her of him. If she didn't who walked like he
did, or wore the same kind overcoats If the music they
danced to- and the books they'd read together could just
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The Washington times., 1936-08-31
IRUN AWAITS
LAUNCHING0F
NEW BATTLE
Attempt to
Protect Stronghold by
Exposing Hostages

HENDAYE, France, Aug. 81
GN.SD .-Loyalist and insurgent
forces jockeyed for position at
Irun today, with a bloody second
phase of the battle of Irun" eX-
pected to open momentarily.
A multi-motored Fokker plane
bombed the loyalist stronghold
this morning in preliminary ges-
ture, but did little damage. Mean.
while, insurgents consolidated po-
sitionS for a major bombardment.
The loyaliSt defenders, upon re-
ceiving an inSurgent threat to raze
the town, announced they were
concentrating hostages in the
heart of the city, bringing many
from San Sebastian.
1t was. presumed the hostages
would be shot or exposed to tho
inSurgent bombardment when the
expected attack opened.
A leftist newspaper reported the
bishop of Valladolid and other
prominent hostages in Irun will
be shot as soon as the inSurgent
bombardment opens.
Insurgents had threatened to
lombard the city at dawn, and as
a result more than 5000 refugees
streamed over the international
bridge into France. Sleeping
quarters were arranged for them
and they were conveyed to Bay
onne, St. Jean de Luz, and Biar-
ritz Only active fighters re-
manned at Irun.
Six hundred women and chill.
dren crossed the border at mid
night.
Earlier the mayor Of Irun re-
quested the population to evacu-
ate after the insurgents sent an
ultimatum threatening a land, sea
and air bombardment unless the
loyalists surrendered.
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$1,000 WATCH.
GIRL FLIERSI IN
AIR DERBY
36 Planes Leave For
Dallas; Two Avoid
Crash Narrowly

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, Aug. 81
GN.SO Headed by Ruth Chat
terton, screen actress, fleet Of
36 airplanes took to the skies
again today, headed for the west
with Dallas, Tex, their next
objective after an overnight rest
here.
The transcontinental sports
man pilot derby, named in honor
Of Miss Chatterton, sponsor of the
event. attracted more than $4,000
persons here yesterday afternoon
to see the contestants arrive.
Planes Near Crash
Two of the planes narrowly
averted a ground collision when
planes piloted by Katherine Sui
Fun Cheung, Chinese girl of Los
Angeles, and Marjorie Jane Gage,
of New York, an official hostess,
stopped their ships within several
inches of each other while taxing
to their places up the field.
The party was feted by city
officials last night, and Mayor
Leo P. Mclaughlin appointed the
screen actress as deputy mayor of
the spa"
Miss Chatterton's plane is piloted
by Bob Blair.
The flight began at Cleveland,
Ohio, Saturday, and will terminate
at Los Angeles.
English Girl Wins
Miss Salaman, the English avi-
atrix, received the $3.50 prize for
the best flying" into Hot Springs,
and Frank Spricks, of California,
won the trophy for the first flier
arriving here.
NEW YORK, Aug. 81 GN.SD.
First of the Bendix Air Troph,
contestants to arrive, Amelia Eal
hart Putnam, landed her 'Flyin
Laboratory" monoplane at Floy
Bennett Field today from ClevC
land. The transcontinental air rae
starts Friday morning.
VOTE AMERICAN
You'll enjoy Ellsworth Vine
tennis coverage of the nation
singles at Forest Hills. Turn t;
the sports pages of The Times.
The Washington times., 1936-08-31
WILL OUTLINE
RELIEF FOR
AGRICULTURE
Nominee Talks With
Advisers On Drought
Aid Proposals
By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON

By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
PEKA. Kan, Aug. 81
(I.N.S0 With the aid of his
agricultural advisers, Gov. Alfred
M. Landon today was mapping
out his personal program for at.
tending President RooSe t'S
drought-relief conference and for
a subsequent political tour of the
farm belt.
The Republican nominee said
he would announce his plans
during the day for attending the
Presidents conference at Des
Moines Thursday. He will with
hold details of his second cam.
paign trip, into the farm belt,
until after the drought con-
ference.
Landon was reported planning
a motor ride to Des MoineS, al
though the majority of his party
Of advisers, correspondents and
photographers would make the
trip by train, After comforting
with the President, he would re-
turn by train.
LandOn Prepares Talks
The governor was at work on a
series of farm speeches, one of
which will be delivered at Des
Moines in mid September as the
opening shot on his second cam
paign trip. In this speech, the
governor probably will condemn
the outlaWed AAA, sharply criti-
cize Administration policies which
opened the tariff doors to impor-
tations to foreign farm products
and discuss the Republican pro
gram of farm relief.
The Republican program would
guarantee the domestic markets
to American farmers and pay
them benefits only on such crops
as carry surpluseS to be sold in
foreign markets.
On his second campaign trip,
Landon probably will visit Iowa,
Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wis
consin and Missouri. He may
make major addresses in st. Paul,
Indianapolis, Milwaukee and pos
sibly either Chicago or st. Louis.
May Change Trip
There has been some sharp dis
cussion in the Landon camp over
the itinerary for this second trip.
Some of his advisers urge a visit
to Iowa and Minnesota and then
to swing northward to cover Mon
tana, Wyoming and Idaho, leav-
ing Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and
Wisconsin for a later trip. No
final decision has been reached
as yet.
The nominee already has de-
cided to make another Eastern
trip, with speeches or appearances
in New York, Boston, Philadelphia
and Baltimore.
He will visit Detroit, too, but
not until after the primaries
have been held in Michigan.
Thus far. Landon has made no
plans for visiting the West coast
Most of his advisers are opposed
to the lengthy cross country trip,
urging him to concentrate all his
campaign efforts in the farm belt
and the East. The nominee him
self has made no decision on this
issue.
-VoTE AMERIcAN-
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PROBE PICNIC
PLANE CRASH

NEW YORK, Aug. 81 G.N.SO.
Investigation was begun today to
determine what caused an air
plane to plunge into the midst
of a picnic group of eight at Fer
ris Point in the Bronx, killing
young woman and injuring three
other persons.
The dead woman was Sylvia
Salmi, 20. The injured included
Oliver Kangas, 20, who suffered
a fractured skull; Henry Salmi,
SO, and his wife, Helen, SO.
The two occupants of the plane,
Herbert S. Ross, commercial pilot,
and Robert A. Berquist, student
flier, escaped unhurt,
The Washington times., 1936-08-31
TERROR RE|GNS
IN MADRID
Continued from Page y

Continued from Page II
and executions always being the
climax.
The executions were reported
carried out in the cellars of the
club, the bodies of victims then
being thrown into the streets to
be picked up by street cleaners.
Insurgent Moorish troops, the
refugees said, were believed to be-
within IS miles of Madrid, and
the anarchist organizations have
threatened to burn the fashion
able residential section of the cap
ital if insurgents attack.
They also were reported to have
threatened to kill all their own
wives and their children, rather
than let them fall into the hands
of the insurgents.
Militiamen, said the refugees,
search all outgoing trains for
aristocrats, and when any are
found they are taken to the plat
form and shot.
The Washington times., 1936-08-31

CHICAGO. Aug. 81 0.N.S).
Death in the electric chair loomed
for a 15-year,old choir boy here
today.
The boy is Roland Munroe, who
calmly confessed beating to death
Mrs. Agnes Roffeis, 65-year-old
invalid widow.
The serenity with which the
red-haired boy accepted his pre-
dicament amazed authorities.
The youngster, an avid reader
of detective fiction, apparently
was more perturbed over the so
luton Of his perfect crime" than
the murder charge he faces. He re-
marked:
II didn't really mean to go
so far as to kill her. But 1
don't think they'll convict me
because I'm too young. They
wouldn't send a 15-year- old boy
to the electric chair"
SLEEPS SOUNDLY
The State, however, will likely
ask the death penalty, Assistant
States Attorney Richard Devine
declared today.
The problem of prosecution and
punishment will be taken up after
the coroner'S inquest today, the
prosecutor said. He pointed out
that there is no doubt of the juris-
diction of the criminal court to
try the youth for murder and i'm
pose the death penalty.
Pending the results of psychia-
trio examinations, Devine said, the
plan is to go before the grand
jury and obtain an indictment.
Apparently unable to realize
the enormity of his crime, Roland.
handsome body with wavy red
hair, slept soundly in his Jail cell
last night.
Didn't Want to See Her Suffer
He was sound asleep early yes
terday when police arrested him
in his home for questioning. At
first he denied any knowledge of
the murder of the elderly woman
for whom he occasionally ran
errandS and did odd jobs.
Then he said the woman "died
partly by accident and 1 killed
her because 1 didn't want to see
her suffer-"
Finally, after being tripped up
IN his own statements, the choir
boy told police how he went to
the basement of Mrs. Roffeis'
home Saturday evening, and
found a small hammer which he
used to straighten out key for
her. The widow then showed
him some pieces of cheap jewelry,
discussing with him the possible
sale of the articles, worth, per-
haps, $40.
Used Hammer and Cane
While walking about, the widow
stumbled and fell, Roland said.
He confessed to police:
"While she lay there the
thought entered my mind that
if LnnoEoI IoaR 0YYf onI1IH oo$
all the jeweIry and have the
money for myself.
81 grabbed the hammer and
hit her twice on the head. The
third time / missed and the
hammer hit the floor and the
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handle broke. Then I took her
cane and hit her five or six
times with the crooked part.
used both hands.
"She didn't move, but didn't
think she was dead, so / got
some wire and intended to tie
her hands so she couldn't use
the telephone. l put some of
the wire around her neck"
WIPED BLOOD OFF FACE
The youth described how he
The Washington times., 1936-08-31

wiped the aged womans face with
a dolly because Il can't stand
blood"
Before leaving the house, he
said, he went to the bathroom
and washed the blood from his
hands.
He took the jewelry to an old
gold dealer and then returned
home. Police recovered the
jewelry, a number of cheap
trinketS.
The Washington times., 1936-08-31

ELIZABETH JAMES, g. of Port Hope, near Toronto
shown in her bed in Philadelphia hospital after tooth
removed from her lung She had swallowed the tooth in
the of operation in Toronto for removal of toss
and doctors there unable extract it, International
News Photo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-09

development of Alaska, v-ere the keynotes in the ado cess delivered by Governor Troy. Air mai contracts for Alaska are necessary to serve the people and to provide revenue to per init development to carry cn.
 We know that we have a great country here and a c.eat people, " Governor Troy saiI.. :" srall not tell you a.: ehout AlaskG ct this timeF he cortiT.xed, q want the people to hear first what these Chechakos up here see. They are trained observers and trained to broadcast what they see and learn wish you to listen in to their programs and get their story, and if you become interested, investigate further"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-09

on September 5, 1903 for Douglas Arizona. The nephew of these two men is trying to locate them.
 FRED ELWELL MCLEOD = Be- lieved to be somewhere in Alaska, A public worker, probably with a railroad company. His niece would appreciate getting in uch with him.
 BENJAMIN DUNLOP = Formerly lived on Canadian side but in October. 1916, left his forwarding address as Tenakee. Alaska. Friends of his relatives last saw him before 1916 in Vancouver. His niece is anxious to communicate with him. PETE OSHUST-Aged 38. His wife, Anna Oshust. of Roslyn, Washington, is anxious to locate him.
 WALTER NOBLE-He is an old family friend of the Afford children who are now grown and would like to renew their friendship. They have not heard from him for some 25 years, and by this time should be quite an elderly man. He is a cook by occupation and at one time cooked for the Buxton Lumber Comapny.
 HAROLD or BUD ERICKSON Had worked in Chichagof mine for quite some time. He is a young man about 35 years of age, has fair hair and very blue eyes. He is miner and is supposedly fol- lowing this occupation at the pres ent time He has not been heard from for two and one half years, and his relatives are endeavoring to locate him.
 HERMAN G UTTENPL JAN or HERMAN PLAN-Has not been seen by relatives since 1915 at which time he visited in New York and presumably returned to Alaska He is barber by trade but is interested in prospecting His last address. which appeared on let ter written by him in 1916 was Herman Plan, Red Dragon Hotel, at Iditarod or Flat, Alaska, and also Cordova, Alaska"
 LAWRENCE EDWARD BARRON This man was interested, along
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-09
TWO JUDGES NAMED
 FOR SCOUTS COURT

Judge James Wickersham n q Thomas Cashen have been elected judges on the Boy Scout Court of Honor, Wellman Holbrook, chairman of the district committee, announced today.
 The election was made by the dis trict council of the Boy Scout or ganization. Judge Wickersham will succeed H. L. Redlingshafer, who is leaving to assume new post in Washington, D. C.. while Cashen will serve as the Douglas representative.
 Present plans call for the holding of a court of honor one week from next Friday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-09
INFORMATION
 IS WANTED Il OF
 MISSING ONES
Many Inquiries Are Receiv- ed at Governor S Of-
 flee in Juneau

Inquiries have been received by the Office of the Governor in Juneau regarding the following per sons supposed to be in Alaska:
 ERNEST HOGSTEDT-About 60 years old; Swedish birth, tall. fair. Last heard from two years ago in Monterey, California; wrote his sis- ter he intended to go north at that time and probably would go to Alaska. He is an heir to fn estate that is waiting to be settled.
 TEX, EUGENE, OR GENE COR DON-Has spent over 35 years in Alaska but went outside about five years ago. He was supposed to have been seen in Juneau some three years ago. His daughter is very anxious to communicate with him.
 GEORG BEHNKE-Born in Hav- elberg about 1880 or 1883. Last heard from in 1914 in Spokane, Washington, Served four years with the Marines on the Alabama His sister, the last of his family, is very anxious to hear from him.
 MARTIN OTTERSTAD-Born at Borseskogen, Norway, on May IS, 1895 His parents are Anna A.. and Ole O. Otterstad. At one time he was employed as a miner in Juneau and is now believed to be elsewhere in Alaska.
 THOMAS AND ADAM BROWN Lived in Yukon Territory where Adam Brown held placer mining claims on Forty Mile Creek in 1908- 1909. Thomas Brown left Dawson
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-09

with eight other men, in a mining venture, supposedly l50 miles inland from Kctchikan. His last letter home was written on September 20 1885, and postmarked Ketchikan
 Alaska. His wife and daughter have both been ill and are anxious to get into contact with him.
 EDWARD CHRYSLER or CRYS- LER-Last heard from in Dawson, Yukon Territory, about 1916. He probably moved over to the Alaska side; he should be quite an elderly man by this time.
 SAMUEL GRAHAM-Last heard of in Yukon Territory-was black smith by trade but prospected and ran roadhouse at Fish Creek. About 1904 he was reported to have left Fish Creek for Fairbanks in the company of a man named Woods. His nephew is anxious to communicate win him. s JOHN GESKE, JESKE, JASKA or CzECHI-In 1891-82 was york ing in a brewery in Si~I.a, Alaska, but soon after returned to the States. Relatives last track of him until he was heard from in Cop peropolis, California, at which time he was again preparing to leave for Alaska 1924-1925).
 Anyone having any information in regards to these people is re- quested to notify the Governors Office
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-09
JUNEAU RADIO
 BROADCAST IS
 MADE SUNDAY
Talks by Gov Troy, Don Thompson Picked Up
 Over Nation
Continued from Page One)

ton at Point Reyes, California, and released over the NEG coast t-to-coast network. Telegralns were received from various parts of the United States from San Francisco to New Work, stating the broadcast had been received. One message of par tlcular interest to Juneau residents was from A. B. (Cot) Hayes, PAA representative in Seattle, formerly PAA Traffic Manager in Juneau. Mir. Hayes stated that he heard the program and the voices of both speakers were clear and entirely dis tlnguishable, and added that the Juneau broadcast was better in his opinion from technical standpoint than those released from the Philip pine Clipper last summer. The same transmitter used in the Philippine Clipper broadcasts is being employed in the broadcastS from the Electra.
 Will Broadcast From Nome
 Passengers aboard the Electra leaving here yesterday in addition to the pilots, were L. s. Peck, Don Thompson and J. w. Baker After the broadcasts at Fairbanks, the plane will release broadcasts from a point within the Arctic Circle, probably near Fort Yukon; from Nome; from Anchorage, and from the air over Mt. Mckinley.
 Governor Talks
 The importance of roads and air ways, particularly better air fields and aids to air navigation, and the need of increased population in the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-09
RETURNS FROM sITKA

H. B. Crewson, agent for Cen tennial Flouring Mills, arrived from Sitka on the North Sea.