Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1929, Page 28

THE EVENI NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, “TALKIE” CONTRACT FIGHT T0 BE BITTER Actors’ Equity Head Says Producers’ Terms Have Been Refused by Two. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif, June T Frank Gillmore, president of the Actors’ Equity Association, today predicted a “fight to the finish” with the Associa- | tion of Motion Picture Producers over contracts for talking pictures. | Two members of the Equity Associa- | tion, Gillmore announced, have refused | to sign motion picture contracts under ! the producers’ terms. Gillmore declined to reveal the actors’ names, but added | that Equity did not plan a walkout in the controversy. Equity in asking for new working mgreements with the picture producers demanded that the producers hire only | actors in good standing in the organiza- tion, and sought to establish a 48-hour week, with double time for overtime. | Decline to be Restricted. ! Maintaining the demand was attempt to force a virtual “closed shop™ on the industry, the producers stated they would continue to engage artists for’ productions only under the “fair and just form of contract which was prepared by representatives of both producers and motion picture actor: They declined flatly to be restricted by Equity’s demand. | An_ impasse was reached with the producers’ decision. The Academy of | Motion_Picture Arts and Sciences, of which Douglas Fairbanks is head, an- nounced it would take no part in the controversy. Origin of Contract Form. | The Academy. of which both Equity | and the Producers’ Association are | member organizations, drew up the contract form which had been in use for 18 months. Gillmore said Equity's campasn for recognition in motion pictures would be one of constantly applied pressure. “We will win eventually,” Gilimore said, “for producers will find it impos- sible to secure casts.” Contemplating a _drawn-out _siege, Gillmore said a benefit fund for unem- ployed actors would be raised by Equity. He sald donations would be asked and benefit shows given if necessary. s ] PROBER SUSPENDED | N PATTY SLAYIG Radio Man’s Escape Laid to “Apparent Negligence” of Veteran Policeman. By the Associated Press. ! 5 LOS ANGELES, June 7.—Police Capt. | James Bean, head of the Los Angeles H - . homicide squad, today was under sus- pension for “apparent negligence” in the investigation of the slaying of Mrs. Virginia Patty, and in failure to arrest Willlam L. Tallman, radio man suspect. Deputy Chief James Lyons, who an- nounced the veteran investigator's sus- | pension last night, said Bean had been |in possession of Tallman’s name and description and had been Informed of his whereabouts four hours before he LYMAN E. BISHOP, Noted hydraulic engineer of Denver, Colo., has been selected by the Soviet government to supervise a gigantic ir- rigation project in Russia. —Associated Press Fhoto SECOND KENTUCKY BOY SHOOTS ANOTHER YOUTH Home Movie Thrills Have us show you what pleasures the Ciné-Kodak brings See for yourself the great fascination of home movies and how easily the Ciné- Kodak makes them. Askus to show you, too, the beauty of Kodacolor—home mov- ies in full, natural color. Come in for a free demon- stration. Billie Gahan, jured by Brother 10, Is Seriously In- Clarence, 6. By the Assogiated Press. GREENUP, Ky., June 7.—Billie Ga- han, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyde Ga- han, Edgington, was in a serious condi- tion here last night from wounds re- ceived at the hands of his brother, Clarence, 6, who fired a shotgun as the elder boy lay in bed. Clarence is the second child in Ken- | tucky to shoot another in recent weeks. | Carl Mahan, 6, is under sentence to the | reform school until he is 21, for slaying | a playmate in a_quarrel. The verdict | has been appealed | According to friends. Clarence Gahan became angry when his brother would | not get up from the bed, obtained a | shotgun and fired point blank. | ‘The mother is a candidaie for Green- | up County clerk. WOMAN IS CHARGED WITH GIRL’S DEATH Coroner Lays Slaying of Cammeola Soutar to Mrs. Cassler, | in Verdiet. By the Associated Press. VALPARAISO, Ind, June 7.—Mrs. Catherine Cassler of Chicago was charged in a coroner's verdict an- nounced here last night. with having fatally shot Miss Cammeola Soutar, whose body was found near Hebron, Ind., Decoration day. E. H. Miller, county coroner, wrote his verdict too late for filing with the clerk of the circuit court. ‘The coroner, who indicated he might charge Eddle Cassler, 19-year-old foster son of Mrs. Cassler, with being an ac- cessory to the alleged murder, said he belleved the young man knew more about the case than he pretended, but there was nothing at present to call for his being named in his finding. Coroner Miller, in the report of his investigations, found that the Soutar girl, with whom Truman Cassler, hus- band of the accused woman, admitted being intimate, had met her death “by a gunshot wound through the heart.” Mrs. Cassler is scheduled to be grante ed a hearing in a justice court here this afternoon on an affidavit obtained by Sheriff Burney Maxwell last Thursday, charging her with first-degree murder. O’NEILL RUMOR DENIED. NEW YORK, June 7 (®)- published in O'Neill, American playwright, was tuberculosis in Switzerland, were denied last night by Harry Weinberger, attor- ney for the playwright. “O'Nelll is not in_ Switzerland,” the attorney said, “and I am not at ifberty to_disclose where he is. Nor is he ill, as I have heard from him within the iast few days.” Last December reports came from Shanghai that O'Neill was {ll of a re- | currence of a long ailment, but they were denied by Weinberger. 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