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PURGING Of FW EFFECTIVE TODAY Federal Censor Says Stu dios “Leaning Over Back wards" to Co-operate. If the Associated fr*u HOLLYWOOD July 1«—The mo tion picture industry * self-ronsorshlp plan become* formally effective to morrow, but already a number of production* have been laiued "certifi cate* of purity.” Some of these are for release during the coming week Joseph I. Breen, the one-man jury of movie morals, said today there is a disposition on the part of all the studios to comply with the regulations of the new code administration. “Instead of arguing about certain change*, u might be expected in some ease*, the studio* are really ‘leaning over backward*. ” Breen said “They are all willing »o meet the regula tions of the administration " Change* Are Ordered. After viewing nearly 50 feature films Breen said he demanded changes in some, which production head* imme diately ordered One film will be al most completely remade It was learned privately from the studio that the costumes of the star might be con sidered offensive Pictures In which Breen ha* asked change* will again be submitted to him when retakes and alterations are made When they meet wtth hi* approval they will be given certificates and release. It became known today that a fine of $25 000 will be assessed against any member of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of Amer ica found guilty of violating the code of ethic*. Specifically, the agreement —which Is yet to be signed by all member companies to become effective —provides the fine In the event any member distributes or allows to be exhibited a picture which fails to receive a censorship certificate. letter Regarded as Fair. "The letter of Cardinal Hayes (Archbishop of New York!, which Is to be read in Catholic churches of his dioceae tomorrow Is regarded In Holly wood as most fair,” Breen declared. “HI* statement that ‘reform, restric tion and suppression that would de prive the people of legitimate pleas ure are not in contemplation' was particularly cheering to Hollywood. "That statement, coming from a churchman of Cardinal Hayes' stand ing. was interpreted to mean that clean, good and worthwhile pictures will receive the support of his fol lowers. ' Breen said. “Dictator” Breen does not expect to work Sunday, the day the new set-up goes into effect, Inasmuch as he has viewed 10 or 12 pictures every day of the last four. The code ad ministrator has looked at pictures from 10 each morning until 1 o’clock the following morning, with time off only for meals and for dictating mem orandums He said he hoped to spend Sunday at the beach with Mrs. Breen and their five children. FILMS HAVE BEEN Cl’T. Boston Newspaper Reports Objection able Parts Deleted. BOSTON, July 14 UP).—The Bos ton Sunday Advertiser says in a copyrighted story that drastic cuts of •genes and dialogue in all motion pic ture films scheduled for current show ing and listed as objectionable by the Chicago Legion of Decency have been made by local distributors for the major Hollywood studios The newspaper asserts it has learned that two films, "Born to Be Bad,” starring Loretta Young, and "Dr. Monica,” starring Kay Francis, have been cut to nearly 20 per cent, while other pictures termed objectionable by the legion have been revised to elimi nate offending material. It discovered that the distributors were generally taking their cue from the standard imposed upon Sunday motion pictures in this State by Maj. Patrick F. Healey, Massachusetts censor lor Sunday shows, and apply ing that standard to week-day presen tations In "an effort to mollify the growing menace to the film industry by the Nation-wide Legion of Decency drive. ’ $2,000,000 HIGHWAY FUND IS ALLOCATED Secretary Ickes Sets Aside Sum for Continuance of Great Smoky National Parkway. Secretary Ickes yesterday allotted *2.000.000 for continuation of work In developing the Great Smoky Na tional Parkway, bringing Its total fund up to $6,000,000. The parkway, planned as one of the outstanding drives in the Nation, will extend from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, linking these two recreational centers Prelimin ary work, on the Great Smoky drive Is now under way The 350-nnle c.|ye will follow in general the Southern Appalachian Mountain Range, with a 200-foot right of way contributed by the States of Virginia. Tennessee and North Carolina. Completion of the drive is expected to bring thousands of visitors to the region, which em braces most of the finest scenery in tile Eastern United States. Original plans call for the Great .Smoky Park way to join the spectacular Skyline Drive at some point in the Shenan doah Park. This scenic drive, that follow the top of a mountain range is partially completed. ———__—___ ! Police Chiefs Loaned 50 Cars MAJ BIOWV TO MAKE TOIB APTEK CONVENTION. FIFTY automobile* have been placed at the disposal of the Inter national Association of Chiefs of Police for their convention to be held here September 2*-27. Maj. Ernest W Brown, super intendent of Washington police, is shown shaking hands with Mrs Joseph L. Arnold, secretary to the Ladies’ Entertainment Committee of the convention, as she sits behind the wheel of one of the special cars Albert J Sardo, general chairman of the convention, is next to Maj. Brown. Maj Brown and Sardo plan to tour a number of cities in the car after the convention to stimulate interest in the association's affairs. —Star Stall Photo. TRUSTYWHOSLEW I ” . Penal Shake-up Follows Killing of Helen Eaton in Arkansas. By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 14—A ! grand jury, called Into special session today for Wednesday, will be asked to Indict PYank Martin, trusty convict guard, for first degree muPder for kill ing Helen Spence Eaton, escaped girl convict. The guard, held in jail on a charge of murder, shot the 21-year-old brunette alayer of two men w'hen he overtook her on a highway near Jacksonville Women's Prison Farm Wednesday afternoon 24 hours after she had escaped, leaving behind a note boasting she would never be taken alive. It was her fifth break from the prison in little over a year, and she was armed with a pistol she had stolen in her getaway. Among witnesses to be summoned | will be A. C. Stedman, who resigned ; as penal superintendent yesterday. During the 18 months of Stedman’s administration 14 convicts were killed in escape attempts. Changes Personnel. S. L. Tod Hunter, former warden of the penitentiary, named as Stedman’s successor today, ordered the removal of Mrs. V. O. Brockman, superintend ent, and her husband, assistant super intendent, of Jacksonville Women’s Farm, from which the Eaton girl made j her escapes. Tod Hunter today ordered all trusty i guards back to Tucker and all shot 1 guns removed from the prison. “No women will be guarded with shotguns during my administration," he declared. Tod Hunter said the trusty guard system would be abolished. Dress Replaces Overalls. Meanwhile the body of the Eaton girl, in a pretty pink dress substituted for the man's shirt, hat and overalls she was wearing when killed, was claimed by her uncle. Pless Spence, ind taken to St. Charles, on the White River, for burial tomorrow. Helen's first lnncarceration was for : the court room killing of Jack Worls as he was being tried for the murder of her father, Cicero Spence. Later, while her case was beinng appealed to the Supreme Court, she killed Jim Bohots, a restaurant operator, who. she claimed, attempted to force his attentions on her. She confessed the latter killing after she had been paroled for shooting Worls. Her con science bothered her. she said. Win Chevy Chase Dance Prize. Charles Ricci. 815 Massachusetts avenue northeast, and Billie Marshall. 228 Rhode Island avenue, were first prize winners in the Chevy Chase Lake dance pavilion dance contest Friday night. Winners of the second prize were Charles Hayes and Betty Ann Bigelow. MA, PA, SONNY A SIS EN. JOY THEIR SWIMS AT THE FINE GLEN ECHO CRYSTAL POOL. WHY NOT YOU? FRENCH DRESSMAKER Rrmodrltnj and altrration* a tprrtalitr. Negligee* and Lingerie to Order I>r*fanlnt. ropytnj. rntttnj and fitting service*. 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Hanfstaengl said he found the American spirit had undergone no change whatever in his long absence. He was equally sure, he added, that conditions in Germany are “perfectly normal and calm,” with no outward indication of disquietude. “I am vitally Interested, as you can imagine, to observe Germany again after this exciting interlude, and to use my eyes and ears," Hanfstaengi said. “1 have talked to people, and find anairs running meir usual cuuise Hanfstaengl, the foreign press chief of the Nazi party, told of his visit to Harvard withr the enthusiasm of an old grad who had long been denied the privilege of attending a class re union. “I am still in a daze,” he said boyishly. “I must have time to col lect my thoughts which, obstinately, are returning to Harv%rd. Boston and New England. My journey was an incomparable experience. My recep tion everywhere, especially at Cam bridge, was typical of American hos pitality and good fellowship. "I was especially pleased that I saw not a single example of misbehaviour at numerous banquets and other func tions which I attended. "I saw not the slightest evidence to support dire prophesies that the re peal of prohibition would hurl Amer ica into an alcoholic chaos.” Trivial, human incidents brought out the real significance of his return to America. Hanfstaengl said. ‘'There was the old college barber who remembered me,” the Nazi chief tain recalled. "Then I encountered the tailor's errand boy, now a husky policeman, who. strangely enough, was assigned to protect me. ‘‘I might say that I went to Harvard an old grad, but I come back to i Germany a freshman.-’ NO CASH as little as Cents Daily J JRDAS’S Ji' S KELYINATOR JordaVs k'?. LEONARD NO CASH as little as 4 'C Cents Daily NO CASH 0 as little as Cents Daily JORD W S « NORGE Jordan’s I WILLIAMS ! ICE-O-MATIC NO CASH as little as <fl e Cents Daily HELD POSSIBILITY Religious Research Group Reports Big Majority for Unification. By 'he SMOfiited Pr»»* NEW YORK, July 14—Union of nearly three-quarter* of the Protest ant* in the United States Into one va*t church Is held a possibility in a report made public today by the Institute of Social and Religious Re search. The report, which deals with church unity movement*, follows a *tudy of more than three years under the di rection of Dr. H. Paul Douglas* of the institute A questionnaire sent to both min isters and laymen of many denomi nations brought In 16 355 replies the report reveals. Approximately two third* favored some Itind of union. This number wa* split evenly be tween those who favored a Federal union, analogous to that of the States, and those favoring a general union. The other one-third preferred con i ‘ inuing the present system of separate denominations “No similar number of definite re sponses on the subject was ever se secured from a representative section of the American religious public,” asserted Dr. Douglass. GIRL SUES COLLEGE Asks Damages for Loss of Eye in Chemistry Experiment. RALEIGH, N. C., July 14 C4P).— Miss Lois Sallie Silver, 19-year-old Wake County girl, today filed suit against Meredith College for *31, 413.50 damages, alleging that an ex plosion March 7 during a chemical test in the laboratory of the college resulted in the loss of her right eye and caused permanent facial disfig urement. The young woman is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W M. Silver. It is alleged the explosion was due to the negligence of Dr. Winston, in structor in chemistry, in not warning her ol the consequences as she worked on an experiment in which she mixed alcohol, an acid and water. Elected DISnttCT MAX TO HEAD RAINBOW DIVISION. M. MARCl'S MANNING, Attorney. 3719 Harrison street, who yesterday was elected president of the Rainbow Division at the an nual reunion of the veterans' organization In Detroit, accord ing to an Associated Press dis patch. He succeeds Wilbur M. Brucker. a former Governor of Michigan. The division decided to hold its reunion here next year. COLUMBUS LAW CLASS SET FOR CARNIVAL Dancing, Bingo Parties. Raffles and a Beauty Contest Will Feature Program. Arrangements have been com pleted lor the “campus carnival'’ to be given by the Class of '36 of Co lumbus University School of Law on Tuesday evening at the school cam pus. it was announced today by George P. Daly, chairman of the com mittee in charge of the affair. In addition to the dancing, which will be held in the air-conditioned "moot court” room, many other types ol entertainment will be featured on the evening’s program, including bingo parties, raffles and a beauty contest. Prizes will be awarded. The affair will be "topped off" with -efreshments. s p E C I A L s p E C I A L RINGLETS TONIC OIL PERMANENT + WAVES + Now you can have a brilliant wave conformed to your individuality at a sensationally low price. This Is strictly a high-grade wave. No rush work. 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The conference adopted the le gion of Decency pledge to withhold patronage from objectionable films. me p*eoge ana eaicationii material will be mailed to .00.000 Protestant pastors early In the Fall as part of a movement for concerted attention to the motion picture problem on Sunday. October 21. Twenty-five denominational agen cies were represented at the confer ence and will be asked to co-oprate In carrying out the national campaign. Dr Samuel M Cavert. general sec retary of the Federal Council, empha sized the Protestant campaign was not an attempt at national censorship but merely a means of encouraging whole some motion picture entertainment. Persons signing the Protestant pledge, which Includes a declaration of purpose "to remain away from all motion pictures which olTend decency and Christian morality," will not be guided, however, by any "black list" of pictures. They will be referred to non-church film appraisaJs. The promotion work will be In trusted to the Federal Council’s Spe cial Comlmttee on Motion Pictures, headed by Ret. Dr. Harold McAfee Robinson of Philadelphia, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education. The council campaign will be di rected br Rev. Dr Worth M Tippy, head of the department of social serv ices. RETAIL LIQUOR GROUP WILL MEET TOMORROW Exclusive Beverages Dealers Pledge Aid in Cleaning Up Undesirable Practices. The Exclusive Retail Liquor Deal ers Association, formed about three weeks ago by a group of merchants dealing only in liquor, beer and wine, will hold its second meeting at 10 am. tomorrow in the Pan-American room of the Mayflower Hotel The association has pledged co operation with District officials in cleanfng up "undesirable" practices In the liquor trade here. ARMY AMBULANCE BODY ELECTS CAPITAL MAN Edward fox Named Commander of the South at Atlantio Citjr. 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