Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 81, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 81

Mary Miles Minter Tells of Competing With Mother for Love of Slain Director

MARY MILES MINTER

Secrets of Heart Are Kept in Red Leather Love Diary EOS ANGELES, Aug. 15.—Mary Miles Minter. the beautiful. golden haired erstwhile darling of the films, kept the secrets of her heart in a little red-leather love diary, after the murder of William Desmond Taylor, her benefactor and fiance. "Oh, my beloved, where are you?” she wrote two weeks after the murder, as the investigation of the famous case was at Its helgnt. “You were to have been mine. Had I known you were to be taken from me no power on earth could have kept us apart. "Where. I don’t know, my beloved, but you are somewhere near me. I am certain. You could not leave me so utterly hopeless, alone and forlorn.” Tesn days later someone stole Chummy. Mary's dog, a gift from her murdered lover. "They have taken away what you gave me.” she wrote. "How a dog can Understand, better than most humans.” After the murder investigation, Mary left for Honolulu for a “long rest.” Seated by the waves or -the Pacific, with plaintive Hawaiian music strumming through the palms from her brilliant hotel, she wrote again of the happy dajcr with her lover: “Life without you. dearest. Is weary. Our love was like a great white star that burns it’s way across the heavens. Oh, Desmond, iTry love, where are you?- Surely not so far away hut that I will find you somehow, somewhere?” Other suitors came and failed; Mary longed for her dead lover and held her heart for him. As fate as June, this year, she wrote: “How long, oh how long, my love, until you clasf* me again In .your dear arms?”

SECRET SERVICE AGENTS MOB COUNTERFEITERS More Than $2,000,000 in Falce Bills Is Taken liU United Prrgg NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—Secret service agents, under direction of Joseph Palma, arrested five men in Floral Park. Long Island, during the night and confiscated more than $2,000,000 in counterfeit SIOO bills It" was learned today. The men arrested Samuel and Davis Cohen, Joseph Rossoff, Joseph Kittlebaum and George Sneros. Husbands Finished Argument James Cooper, 3353 E. Michigan St., and Paul Burnell, 3343 E. Michigan St., finished an argument started by their wives, according to testimony before Judge Pro Tem. Lloyd Claycomb In city court today. They were fined $1 and ocsts for assault and battery and charges of slander and profanity against Cooper were continued indefinitely.

CITY PLANNING TO SPEED UP TRAFFIt Belt Line for Traction Freight Considered With Other Transportation Problems,

Immediate steps to relieve congested conditions on Indianapolis streets by diverting electric and gasoline passenger and freight traffic are being considered by the city plan commission, Louis W. Bruck, chairman of the traffic committee, said today. Plans under consideration are: 1. Belt line for interurban freight traffic. 2. Rerouting lnterurbans to speed up connections between Indianapolis and suburbs. 3. Major high speed thoroughfares for automobile transportation through the city. With these plans, the commission announced employment of an expert HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 68 10 a. m 79 7 -a. m 68 11 a. m. • 80 fa. m 72 18 (noon) 82 • *.m. 77 $8

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Golden-Haired Screen Star Paints Vivid Picture of Affair With William Desmond Taylor, By R. A. DONALDSON. United Press Staff Correspondent. |~j JOS ANGELES, Aug. 15.—How William 1 | Desmond Taylor, cold in death in an undertaking parlor, spoke to her as she kissed his ashen lips was told today by Mary Miles Minter, continuing her remarkable of events surrounding the death of the director—-an expose which has brought her back to considerable prominence and publicity. Mary also painted a dramatic word picture of how she confronted Mabel NoFmand, another film star who loved Taylor, after the director was found.murdered, and demanded what the commedienne knew about it. “I took her by the shoulders, shook her and looked into her eyes,” Miss Minter said, describing the scene in Mabel’s boudoir. “ ‘What do you know about the murder?’ I asked. “ ‘Nothing exeept what they’ve told me,’ she replied. And 1 believed her and I still believe her.” \ Mary, who is revealing her part in Taylor’s life to ‘‘get the weight of it from my crushed heart” and start making pictures for the dear public once more, then told about her love for Taylor, to whom, she disclosed, she was engaged.

FORD TO SPEND SEVEN MILLION IN ADVERTISING Contract Let to New York Firm For Newspaper and .Magazine Space Tty United Press DETROIT. Aug. 15.— The Ford Motor Company will sobn begin to advertise in newspapers and publications throughout the country, after five years without advertising in the name of the company. A contract for $7,000,000 advertising was announced today by the newlyformed advertising department of the Ford Company, through the Brotherton Advertising Agency, New York.

Back to Nature By United News ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 15. Irwin Bendeek, laborer, decided it was too hot here Tuesday to wear even a fig leaf. So he went downtown clad in k broad smile. Police took him to a hospital for observation.

traffic engineer, J. Rollln Bibblns of Washington, who will come to Indianapolis next week to make a traffic survey. Bibbins has made similar surveys in Montreal and Detroit. City officials point out that just as elevation of steam railways has relieved traffic congestion and speeded transportation, similar work with electric lines will relieve present trarflo tieups. Elevated lines for lnterurbans have been suggested. Increasing number of busses and trucks entering the city have cause* new problems in transportation. It is possible that heavier traffic will be confined to side streets, allowing passenger automobiles use of wider streets. An appropriation of $6,000 now In hands of city council will cover expenses of the engineer's services next year. Funds now on hand will defray costs of preliminary survey.

"He loved me, he told me so. so many times.” she said. ”VVe wer wonderfully happy. Then mother stepped In.” Miss Minter is suing her mother for part of a million dollars she made when a star. Mother. Mary says, held out on her. “We met clandestinely,” she continued, speaking of Taylor. "Then he was determined not to cause a break between myself and my family, who didn’t want me to marry him. Ijored Too Much “He tried to give me up, but we loved each other too much for that. Then he was murdered. "The day after he was killed I went to the undertaker’s and saw ; him. I pulled back the sheet and looked at him. He was waxen; his lips were ashen. T leaned down, put my arms about him and kissed him; put my cheek to his. "His face was cold, hut suddenly there seemed to come a touch of warmth to It. He answered me. I heard hts voice: “’I shall love you always, Mary,’ he whispered. I kissed him and put a red rose in his hand—then the door opened. Then the undertaker came in. “Mr. Taylor was a frequent visitor at our house, and for a time he was always more than welcome. Mother couldn’t find too high praise for him, nor could Margaret. “I loved him at first sight, and when it became evident he preferred my company, mother became furious and forbade me to go with him. and wouldn’t permit him to call. Mother Wanted Him “It Is a hard thing to say, but her real reason was she had dlscoveied she. cared for him herself. He was her own age ami she thought she should have him.” Her mother’s desire ignored, according to Mary, she bent all efforts (Continued on Page 111 BEDFORD WOMAN KILLED Meet* Death When Macliine Crashes Over Embankment. By United Peru a \ BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Aug. 15. Mrs. Richard Lentz, 26. wife of a •stone quarryman of Bedford, was killed today when an auto In which she was rkling went over an embankment near the Mitchell schoolhouse, south of here. Alleged “Dopester” Held Federal officers today were Investigating the case of Daniel Ferry, 36. of 1637 E. Minnesota Bt., who is held on a vagrancy charge under a high bond. Patrolman O’Connor arrested Perry. He alleges he saw Perry give another man a “shot In the arm,” In a yard near Kentucky Are. and Missouri St. A f ypodermlo syringe Is held as evidence. The other man escaped.

Letter to Times Urges Action on School Fight

This is the first letter received by The Times opposing the remonstrance by fourteen persons, said to be taxpayers, against the school board's building program. It Is typical of others received. Write The Times, giving your views on the move made by the fourteen persons, that If successful will prevent Indianapolis from keeping step with the times, and which will cause some 5,000 growing citizens to obtain their education in makeshift buildings. Sign your name \and address. Indianapolis Times: I cannot help but express my appreciation in the miner you are supporting the citizens of

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 15, 1923

MAN MURDERED IN DRUNKEN BRAWL

COALITION CABINU FIRMLY IN POWER OVERGERMANY Stresemann Declares Resistance to French in Ruhr Will Continue, By CARL D. GROAT United Press Staff Corrcspo+lent BERLIN, Aug. 15.—Chartcellor Stresemann’s coalition government appeared firmly in I power today after its presenta- ; tion to the Reichstag yesterday , and a strong vote of confidence I by that body. A majority of the middle groups of public opinion seemed in full accord with the Government and ready to i-hack it against the Communists and extreme reactionaries the only | groups in open opposition. I Meantime, the internal situation I showed signs of calming, despite new outbreaks yesterday in Aaschen (Alx- | La-Chappelle) and vicinity, in which | ten were killed and upward of 100 j wounded, and extension of the Strikes In the chemical and electrical industries at Frankfurt. Downs Hecklers The new chancellor’s opening speech in the Reichstag, during which he--boldly downed Commpnist heckling. showed the new government will follow out the same broad lines as the preceding Cabinet of Dr. Wilhelm Cuno. Stresemann declared himself in favor of consolidation of tho political and economic situation as an (indispensable preliminary resumption of reparations payments, continuation of jPansive resistance, which, he said, was fully Justified In the last British note to France, and an Internal gold loan to provide funds for adjustment of wages as demanded by the workers. Appeals to Farmer* The chancellor appealed to the agriculturists to relieve the food situation, admitting the government could not expect the workers to remain quiet unlees they were assured an adequate food supply. In a general interview following his appearance in the Reichstag. Stresemann told newspapermen Paris is deceived if it thinks the change in German government indicates an end to resistance program. The chancellor said his new- tax program was expected to ameliorate finances considerably and reiterated the policy that Germany considers the Rhine provinces as inviolate. Ruhr Necessary to Germany Regarding the Ruhr. Stresemann said It will always remain the soul of Industry and a necessary symbol of the nation’s material accomplishments. The chancellor attributed Internal confusion to a breaking of the popular nerve. “Nothing is so bad for a nation as not to know Its future,” he said. "But a people with the great past of Germany need not fear. We still have the power to carve our own destiny.” Throwing a warning to France, Stresemann said It would not be safe to press the German people too far. Disruption, he said, would mean bolshevism, a poison that "would not halt within German borders.” Dr. Cuno, It was reported, has been mentioned as new German ambassador for Washington, a post he probably would accept.

FORTY-EIGHT POUND FISH Local Men Catch Giant Mud-Cat in Wldta River. “He was a true member of the cat family, he fought like a tiger,” said Preston Reeves, 331 8. Alabama Bt. today In telling of a forty-eight-pound catfish caught by George Blauvelt, 620 W. Pearl St., E. L. Macy, 1362 N. Gale fit., and Reeves In the east fork of Wb‘te River in Jackson County. The big fish, a mud-cat, measured four feet from tip of tall to mouth. It took two of the men to drag him into a boat after he had battled for several minutes to get off of a trotllne.

Indianapolis in their fight for better housing of 5,000 public school children who are forced to attend school in portables and temporary buildings, of which some will not be able to give proper warmth in extreme cold weather. Is the city of Indianapolis, 375,000 people or more, going to sit idle as in the past few years and let fourteen persons, some of whom may not be taxpayers, block the proposed public school building program? Just what

Shirley Vernon, Follies Girl, Is Declared Broadway’s Prettiest

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YOU HAVE THE RECORDED WORD OF BROADWAY’S SHOW GIRLS THAT SHIRLEY VERNON, SHOWN HERE IS THAT FAMOUS THOROUGFARE’S PRETTIEST GIRL. SHE’S IN THE FOLLIES. AS "HER MOTHER. MARGARET VERNON. WAS 14 YF-ARS BEFORE HER. AND WE LL SAY BROADWAY SHOW GIRLS CAN PICK THE GOOD LOOK ERS TOO

MINE BLAST TOLL MAY EXCEED 100, OFFICIALS BELIEVE Ninety-Seven Bodies Have Been Accounted for in Wreckage of Gas-Infected Shaft —Work of Rescue Hampered by Foul Air, Tty United Press KEMMERER, Wyo., Aug. 15.—The toll of lives lost in the explosion in frontier mine No. 1 of the Kemmerer Coal Company Tuesday morning is expected to exceed 100’. Ninety-seven dead are accounted for. Dawn found wearied rescue workers still toiling in the tumbled shaft where bodies of helplessly trapped miners lay piled in a grewsome mass against the tons of wreckage that formed a barrier against their escape after the blast. v Most of the lives were lost nearly a mile below ground. There was a terrific explosion which resulted in a cave-in on several lower levels and poisonous gases swept through the shafts, snuffing out lives of the imprisoned workers.

PARENTS ASK AID IN SEEKING SONS Three Franklin (Ind.) Young Men Leave Home, Parents of three Franklin (Ind.) young men, who left home Saturday and have not been heard from, have asked The Times to assist In the search for them. They are: Byron Julian, 15, son of Ernest Julian; dark hair, dark eyes; wearing light shirt, khaki trousers and old black shoes when last seen. Lee Smithers, 15, son of William Smithers, light hair, blue eyes, wearing a cream colored shirt, dark blue trousers, light cap and brown shoes when he left. Carl Rudlsell, 19, light hair, blue eyes, wearing a soft hat, dark brown trousers, blue shirt and brown shoes When last seen. The parents believe the boys may have gone to Indianapolis’ or Chicago. Information should be sent to Franklin police.

do these persons mean or what are their aims? Have they no children of their own ? Are-they really interested in the public school system of Indianapolis for the benefit of public school patrons or not? A good way to ruin a growing e&pital city like Indianapolis is to crowd the children out. I hope the citizens of Indianapolis appreciate like I do that our city has at leasft one newspaper that fights fgr the rights of its citizens unselfishly and

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After a complete check-up, mine officials said 137 men entered the shaft Tuesday. Os these thirty-seven were brought out alive, which would leave three still missing. Bad air on the thirteenth level made tcscue work slow. The ventilating system was put out of order by the explosion, which caused the disaster. Every precaution was taken to protect rescue crews from poisonous fumes. Virtually all wreckage caused by the blast was clearing up during the night. The victims were charred beyond recognition. Indicating an Intense flame had shot and seared its way through the underground shaft turning tunnels and passageways into an Inferno. Removal of the victims to the Odd Fellow Hall, turned hastily Into a morgue, In Kemnierer was slow. As the cars came up the main shaft from below with their tragic freight, the 1,500 watchers —mothers, sweethearts, wives and fathers—surged through thq guard. The cargoes were more grim because on several caps of dead miners the electric mine lamps still burned, casting weird shadows about. Women Sob While women sobbed above, the rescue crews worked doggedly below fighting gas and debris. They ex(Continued on Page 6)

has a great feeling and respect for the 5,000 children who must bear the force of being hemsed in temporary shacks and portables who may b forced to do so many years by the fourteen persons who attempt to hold up the building program which would enable them to attend school in modern fire-proof buildings. Thanking The Indianapolis Times for its lead in the fight, I am, EMIL y. SCHAAD, 2645 Applegate St., City.

Woman Living Across Lake Tells of Hearing Splash in Water.and Some One Saying, ‘You've Croaked Him,' SCENE OF CRIME AT SPRING LAKE, NEAR CITY \ / Victim Has Deep Gash Over Eye—Neighbor Gives Investigating Officers License Number of Automobile and one„Name, The nude body of Jack Sullivan, 45,- who lived on "West St, near Merrill St., today was found on a bed in a cottage occupied hy AVade Williams, 802V 2 S. West St., and John Ward, 827 S. West St., at Spring Lake, nine miles southwest of the city.

Police say Sullivan was murdered by being thrown in the lake during a drunken brawl. They say his assailants pulled him from the water and made an unsuccessful effort to ret.uscitate him. Williams and Ward were at a prize fight at Ft. Harrison last night. They told the police they found the body when they returned to the cottage this morning. Liquor Is Found Fifty-five quarts of beer and a small amount of whisky were found in the cottage by Sheriff George Sniditr, who Investigated the death. A circumstantial story of the affair was told by Mrs. Pearl Pearcy, who lives across the small lake. Mrs. Pearcy said that at 1 a. m. today she heard sounds of a brawl across the _ She said she heard a splash in the water and then heard a man say, "You’ve croaked hltm” She said she he&ra voices of both men and women. Hears Man Counting She said she heard a man counting "one, two, one, two,” as if pumping th*e arms of a drowned man . A few minutes later, she said, she saw five men carrying what appeared to lie liquor from the cottage and putting It in an automobile. She said a second automobile appeared and two men and two women got In, apparently from an adjoining cottage. She said one of the women remarked: “I have not had a bit of sleep all night.” Mrs. Pearcy gave the police a number she said was -the license number of the second automobile. She _plso gave them the name of a man she said she believed knew something about the affair. Coroner Paul F. Robinson, in examining the body, found a deep gash over the right eye. p RAB6IISJAILED ON LIQUOR CHARGE Alleged to Have Sold Champagne Intended for Church, By United Press ST. LOUIS. Mo., Aug. 15.—Rabbi Jacob Grodsky, 61-year-old leader of a Hebrew orthodox church, was held In Jail today on a charge so selling a case of champagne intended for church purposes. Rabbi Grodsky and his son, R. J. Grodsky, spent the night In Jail in default of bond after S. Kapovich admitted to officers he paid $55 each for two cases of champagne he was seen carrying from the parsonage. Christ Church Threatened Fire started in a roof gutter on Christ Church, "The Little Church Around the Comer,” in Monument PI., today from a cigarette srdd to have been thrown out of a window In the Board of Trade Bldg. The blaze was extinguished Immediately by firemen without damage.

‘BURGLARS’ CAUGHT RIGHT ON THE JOB Intrepid Sergeant Finds One in Closet, Another Behind Bathtub —Advises Spanking,

"Burglars!” came the call to police headquarters. Sergeant Wilkerson and an emergency squad sped to the home of Tony Ferracane, 3310 Brooksido Ave. The Ferracano family Is at / a summer camp. A neighbor had heard a door in the house slam. The house was quickly surrounded. Sergeant Wilkerson tried the front door. It was unlocked. Bravely he entered. He Iboked in the front room and it was empty. He entered the dining-room and the kitchen and they were empty. Then he went Into a bedroom, likewise empty. Then he pulled open a closet door. Inside, crouched among some clothing, was a much-frightened small boy. The “burglar" was dragged forth. Did he have an accomplice? He did. The accomplice was lying behind the bath tub. He likewise was drarged forth. They gave their ages ,%* 4 and 9. The boy* explained they had oh-

Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperature.

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TELEPHONE RATE HEARING OPENS IN CHICAGO COURT Bell Attorneys Contend Company Is Losing Money, By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 15. —Hearing for a temporary restraining order to enjoin the Indiana public service commission from enforcing its recent decision granting the Indiana Bell Telephone Company a rate Increase of about $1,000,000 annually began before Judge George T. Page in Federal Court here today. The company originally asked for a rate Increase totalling $2,500,000 is demanding the order alleging that the increase granted is not sufficient to meet expenses, pay a profit and pay off debts. The service Commission Issued the order after a year's Investigation. If the company gets the restraining order. Increased rates would be in force until a hearing can be held before three Federal judges. Batteyy of Attorneys The commission was represented by Commissioner Glen Van Auken and attorneys Frank Faris, George Barnard and Fred Van Nuys. The telephone company was represented by Will H. Thompson, chief counsel. Frank Dailey, C. A. Rottger, Thomas R. Keyes and B. G. Halstead were also In the courtroom as attorneys or witnesses. Rottger is president of the Indiana Bell Company. Keyes filed an affidavit showing alleged net earnings of the company sa far this year. These earnings were seUforth as: January, $55,045.05; February, $9l, 8S9.88; March, $07,360.94; April, sllß,666.66: May. $106,689.70; June, SIOO,176.28, and July $74,640.06. The figures show a deficit of $4,951.46, the affidavit said, / Deficit Is Cited Thompson then addressed the court declaring that the Indiana Telephone Company has never paid dividends on capital stock and has a corporate deficit of $2,400,000. He declared the order by the commission virtually confiscates the company’s property. He said the public service commission should be compelled to give bond if the order becomes effective. He asserted that the commission authorized the company to borrow $11,000,000 from the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and then "Is only willing to permit the Indiana company to earn 6 per cent annually.” Work to Start on Substation Ground for the new postoffice substation at E. Michigan and Rural Sts. will be broken within a week, Robert H. Bryson, postmaster, said today. The building Is expocted to be ready for occupancy Nov. 1. Twenty-two carriers will operate out of the station.

talned a key and unlocked the front door. The ""burglars" had thoroughly ransacked the house. Gathered in a pile the police found a quantity of licorice, two watches, four keys, a purse, a doU and an electric toaster. The boys were taken to their home and relatives were warned. Police were told the older of the boys some time ago stole a $55 watch from a relative and sold it for 6 cents. The watch never was recovered. Storm Works Havoc Bv Time* Special NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind.’, Aug. 15. —One of the worst hall and windstorms in years visited here Tuesday afternoon. Hailstones as large as hen's egga broke out window panes .and destroyed crops. M*hy trees were blown down. No estimate of the dam age haa been made.