Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1927 — Page 15

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LIT A LIVES IN MANSION OF SAD MEMORIES

Chaplin’s Wife and Babies Occupy Beautiful Home, But for Her It Means Little Happiness. By DAN THOMAS Nea Service Writer (Copyright, 1927, Nea Service, Inc.) , HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Feb. 25—A palatial hill-top mansion surrounded by five acres of beautiful grounds—a palace fit for any monarch. Mrs. Lita Grey Chaplin went to court to win the right to live in this big house of many rooms, pending the settlement of the divorce case sh% has brought against the famous cinema comedian. But she has found that living in it brings only sorrow and sad memories.

It# was this mansion to which she came as a bride less than three years ago. She was an eager child in the fairy tale palace then —big-eyed and awed at the swimriiing pool, cathedral organ, rich rugs and tapestries, and the objects d’art from lands afar that filled the Chaplin home. Jtist Empty House But today the fairy palace is only an empty house peopled with ghosts and blasted hopes to Lita Grey Chaplin, who lives in its many rooir.3 with her" babies, her mother, three servants and the babies’ nurse. It is a fairy-tale house, still. But It is not the beautiful home of the Prince Charming so much as the dismal castle on a bleak and windswept hili in which the ogre of the fairy tale might live. “I am so far away. It is so lonely here. The house is so big,” says the girl-mother, adding, “and there are such memories of Charlie here. In these surroundings I can’t help thinking of what has transpired during the last two years. Sometimes it makes me very blue, but there In nothing to do. Maybe some day •! will outgrow that feeling.” She walks from room to room, alone, tracing with a slippered toe a prayer rug from the spicy East, tracing with gentle hand the carvings of an ancient vase of beaten brass, seeing beauty with eyes that have really learned to see a little more in the months that havo flown since, with her little sons In her

Alleged *Pre-Breakfast ’ Bandits Held

REEQ-ROBINSON • DEBATE IS STILL TOPICJNSENATE Missourian Declares Hoosier Charges * Unqualifiedly False/ , . By Roscoe B. Fleming Timet Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Feb. 25—Senators today were still discussing the apeaoh of Senator Arthur R. Roblnaou, youthful Indiana solon, in bit- , Mtfly opposing a resolution of the •rotwan Senator James Reed to ex[tMUl the powers of the Senate invesfwation committee. £ Robinson startled the Senate by ttmrging that Reed was attempting make the United States Government pay for his campaign as a candidate for the presidential nomination, and that he was unfair in his investigation of the In- j dfana primary last spring. Reed called Robinson’s charges I *'af absolutely and unqualifiedly false.” “There had been plenty of complaints made about Indiana before we went,” Reed declared. “If I had not gone Into Indiana under the circumstances I did, the Senator from Indiana would have been warranted in making some of the contemptible charges he has made today.” Reed explained why he went to Indiana alone, saying that other members were unable to attend. He reviewed the Indiana investigation and called Senator James E. Watson as a witness to prove the Inquiry was fair and impartial. Robinson, who further angered Reed by calling him “the venerable, white-haired Senator from Missouri,” declared that after Reed had visited Watson at an Indianapolis hospital, he had advertised for evidence to impeach Watson. “I repeat I did no such thing, that the statement was untrue and you know it was untrue,” Reed answered. “And I do not stand on my venerability. “The Senator has his animosity aroused by statements that freedom can exist anywhere the Ku-Klux Klan rears Its ugly head, with its former head in the Indiana penitentiary for murder. The Senator says I drove a garbage wagon. All •the garbage was in the testimony and it had 8, familiar smell to the Senator wher dumped in his front yard.” CROSS-WORD INVENTOR Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland” Author, Gets Credit. Bu United Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 25. Harvard has discovered that the man who really invented the re-cently-popular crossword puzzle was . Lewis Carroll, author of “Alice in l Wonderland.” Unquestionable proof of this fact has been found in a rare collection of Carroll’s works and memorabilia presented Harvard University recently by the Aagcourt Amory estate. The collection includes mathematical gamss and puzzles amazingly similar to the modern crossword problems.

arms, she fled from the House of Many Rooms. Charlie Chaplin, answering the challenge of his girl wife with her tale of cruelties almost unbelievable, said that Lita did not really love her babies; that she did not even want them, but only sought to keep them from him. Lives for Babies True or false, Lita Grey Chaplin lives In the big mansion today for her babies only, spending every second by their sides, jealous of the nurse’s duties and taking many of them for herself. The baby boys rise early, and their pretty mother is beside their tub as they bathe. She chooses the pretty little togs for their day’s play, and watches the nurse dress them. She has made it her own job to supervise their play and tell them stories that begin with “once upon a time.” She plays with teddy hears and kiddie cars and dolls with Sydney and Charles Jr., looking like another child as she sits, legs tucked under her short skirts, beside their play pen. The Chaplin boys “eat like little pigs,” according to mother Lita’s own laughing description. Charlie Jr. generally gets the high chair at meal times, and Sydney sits upon his mother's lap. But so near of age are the boys that sometimes Charlie, the older, perches on his mother’s knee for feedings from the spoon she

Police Declare Two Victims Identified Pair —Twenty Hold-ups Charged. Identified, according to police, as the two “before-breakfast” Negro bandits, Argus Edwards, 18, of 230 Arch St., and Wilbur Harvey, 18, of 516 Roanoke St., are held Incommunicado at city prison today under $5,000 vagrancy bonds- The beforebreakfast bandits have staged more than twenty hold-ups this year, police say. Sergt. Edward Deeter and Patrolmen Stoddard and N. Reinking, a police night riding squad, arrested the pair at the Joe Mitchell poolroom, 415 Indiana Ave., at 6 a. m. “They’re the Birds” Deeter took the two to the Jack Finneran grocery, 440 S. West St., where Albert Bland, butcher, who was held up qarly Monday, and Finneran’s mother, Mary Finneran, 72, who was threatened if she did not keep still, Identified them. “They are the birds,” Bland said, according to Deeter, when he took the two Negros into the store. “That fellow (pointing to Edwards), is the guy that held the gun and the one who threatened Mrs.. Finneran.” “And that fellow (pointing to Harvey), is the chap who had the blackjack and threatened to beat my brains out after I shoved Edwards from behind the counter after he had taken $6 from the cash register,” Bland said according to Sergeant Deeter. Bland’s bravery probably saved the SIBO he had In his pocket, police say. Other victims will be asked to identify them today. Detective Inspector Claude M. Worley- said. Search Homes Neither had weapons when arrested, Deeter said, and both denied guilt. A search of their homes was started in hope of finding the weapons they are alleged to have used or some of the loot taken. Since they started on their alleged career of banditry, police say the two bandits, who chose the early morning hours to rob, have visited several groceries and meat markets, and in some casese beat their victims who did not have the cash they expected. In a hold-up Wednesday they locked three victims in the meat market ice box. BOYS USE FLEA BOMBS Little Russian Beggars Show Resentment Against Nongivers., Bu United Press ' MOSCOW, Feb. 25.—A new prank has been invented by the gangs of little homeless boys who live in the Moscow streets. The waifs, between the ages of 10 and 14 years, take up positions near railroad stations and hotels. r 'n the approach of a prosperous-100 ring person they begin to clamor for a rouble or two and if the contribution is not immediately forthcoming they drop a pill-box bomb filled with fleas. BUT NO DOUGHNUTS RAY, N. D.—Ninety cups of coffee, and all consumed in three hours and twenty-eight minutes is the record claimed by Frank Trachimowicz. a section hand kgre. Frank went opt to beat the record held by Gus Comstock, Fergus Falls, Minn., who drank eighty-five cups in seven hours. Frank claimed further that he had no difficulty in going to sleep after the affair with Lady Caffeine.

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Charlie, the elder of the Chaplin youngsters, perches on his mother’s knee for feedings from the spoon or cup she holds, while Sydney makes good use of the high chair. They eat, says Mother Lita, "like little pigs.”

holds, while Sydney manages the eating job in the high chair. Then Comes Night Days. They pass somehow with the babies to chatter with. Then comes the night time and after the kiddies are tucked in bed the big house in creakings and whisperings protests its emptiness. “That’s when the memories come back,” says Mrs. Chaplin, "and when I think over and over the years since my marriage.” The Chaplin troubles which really began, later revelations proved, In 1924 when Charlie Chaplin went to Mexico to marry Lita Grey, who had been his leading lady *n a film, and who then went on a fishing trip alone for his honeymoon, came to a head only a few weeks ago. Chaplin, according to his wife’s story, insulted some guests of hers

SKUNK CABBAGE EARLIESTFLOWER Ranks as Bloom Despite Unpleasant Scent. Bu United Press WASHINGTQN, Feb. 25.—The earliest spring flower blooms the last in February or the first of March, says a bulletin from the American Nature Association, The name is the skunk cabbage. The skunk cabbage, although blossom has an unpleasant scent, is, nevertheless, a flower and, by reason of its hardihood is braving the cold long before any of the other flowers have commenced to push themselves above the earth, it is deserving of all the honors which the name of first spring flower may carry with it, the bulletin declares. Trailing arbutus is claimed by Some to be the “first flower”.lt can be found in March and even, on rare occasions, in the later part of February. /

Far and Near

CAS BLANCA, Spain Bad weather compelled the Ruguayan fliers under Major Loareborges to postpone their departure from here on the next stage of their proposed flight across the Atlantic. LONDON —Disarmament probably will be discussed along the lines of President Coolidge’s proposal in the House of Commons upon introduction of the foregin office’s estimates. BIARRITZ —King Alfonso of Spain became an automobile mechanic for a few minutes. When Engine trouble developed in his car the King stepped out, took off his hat and coat, rolled up his sleeves and helped the chauffeur. BOGOTA. Colombia—A plot to smuggle Into the country 500,000 pesos in forged ten pesos bank notes wan discovered and several arrests were made. PANAMA—The Commerce Association is expected to cable Washington asking that Panama be included in the itinerary of the proposed Central American investigation this summer by the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations. LONDON—Addressing the League of Nations parliamentary committee, Sir Eric Drummond scouted the idea that the United States would formally enter the league, but he welcomed signs of “increasing cooperation,” between the United States and the League. WASHINGTON—A disappearance of the chaos of interference and howls which prevent good radio reception is seen by Secretary of Commerce Hoover as a result of the radio legislation signed by the President. AIR SERVICE BEGINS VIENNA—A regular air passenger and mail service between Vienna and Rome has been inaugurated. The journey takes only six hours, including a stop at Venice. This Is an extension of a line already In operation Vienna.

Other Stories of Chaplin Home This is the first of four articles by Dan Thomas, Hollywood correspondent for The Indianapolis Times and NEA Service, giving an intimate picture of how Mrs. Lita Grey Chaplin is living in the beautiful Chaplin mansion, pending settlement of her divorce case against the screen comedian. Each article will he illustrated with exclusive photographs, the first ever taken in the Chaplin home.

and ordered them from the house, It*was the final straw to two years of insults and even death threats

Man Who Deals With Poison Alcohol

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Here is the man upon whom will fall the task of developing a nonpoisonous denatured alcohol. He is James M. Doran, chemist of the prohibition unit, summoned with Under Secretary of the Treasury Winston and Assistant Secretry Andrews for a conference on poison alcohol. He will have three assistant chemists for his research and says he believes he can develop the new product in a year.

•fj When Should a Young AxlttS Girl Accept Them? “You, a waif, cannot accept gifts from a rich man and be above suspicion,” said Joyce Daring’s youthful and fiery tempered admirer after she had unknowingly accepted presents from a wealthy clubman. This is another excerpt from “Joy,” the thrilling serial from the pen of Barbara Webb, which will start in The Times March 1. It is the story of a modern girl who was thrust from her home into the world when her parents parted after twenty years of married life. Homeless and on her own resources, Joyce meets and sees more men than she would in the shelter of her home. Four men who pursue her for her youth and beauty fill her life with whirlwind adventures. Joyce climbed from poverty to a high social position of wealtlf and fame, only to arrive at the pinnacle of worldly success and find bitter disillusionment. What it cost her was magnified by those who hated her for her material succe*. Friends deserted her all along the route to fame, while others rallied to her side in the name of selfishness and gain. It is the story of a great love that can be understood only by those who have the power to know deep emotions, the feeling that comes after the disillusions pass out of life’s picture. Never before has a story had such a grip upon its readers. Joyce Daring’s life is full to the brim with breathless escapes, trials, temptations, each followed by its happiness or sorrow. Be sure to read the first installments March 1. You’ll remember this story for years.

from him, Lita charged. She left his house with her children. Chaplin Bays that the w-elrles of the party were rousing the children and that this special party was the last straw, too, being only one cf a series of parties which “no young mother should give or attend.” Lita Grey demanded a million dollars. Chaplin countered with SIOO checks sent weekly for the support of his children. Lita would not cash the checks. They were “insultingly small.” Her return to the empty “House of Many Rooms” is a certain small victory. She claimed she could not pay the rent on the house where she was temporarily living and demanded her right to live in the Chaplin mansion. The court agreed. She’s there. But happy? “Too many memories,” says brown-eyed Lita Chaplin.

JEWS SUCCEEDING AS SOILTILLERS Flock Back to Farming Lands of Russia. Bu United Press MOSCOW, Feb. 25.—The Jews of Russia are flocking back to the land after centuries of homelessness, becoming farmers again with such a fresh point of view that they are showing the experienced Russian soil-tillers modern agricultural methods which astonish the old Russian farmers. The Jewish farmers are making a success of their new venture on twofifths of the capital needed by the Russian farmers. Moreover, the Jewish tillers are getting bigger and better crops than the Russians ever thought possible. The Soviet Government with the hope of establishing a Jewish Repub- ' lie within the Soviet Union, in time, A department of the government has is helping the colonization of Jews, been created to foster the movement, and land in fertile parts of the Ukraine, in Northern Crimea, along the Azoff Sea and in White Russia has been set aside. In two years since the movement started, 8,000 Jewish homesteads have been established, and 150,000 Jews have filed applications for land.

8 ASPIRE TO FILL CHAIR OF GOVERNOR And All See Advantage in m Present Direct Primary. By Frank J. Prince Tinkering with the direct primary has brought many bills into the legisia ve hopper. All of them have foi tut opposition chiefly because there are eight known candidates for the office of State executive on the Republican side. Friends of each of these candidates see some advantage in the primary law which was scored by both parties in conventions last summer. With both parties pledged to a revision of the direct primary neither has had the courage to make the promised fight against public opinion. Many a gubernatorial candidate has seen the "light” since the conventions adjourned last May. Each one has a following which sees possibilities in letting the “dear people” vote for a choice. Walb “Mum” Even the astute Clyde A. Walb, Republican State chairman, who toured Indiana before the Legislature convened in behalf of primary repeal as a “party measure” Is “mum” on the question now. Editors throughout the State, who saw nothing but “ruin” and "expense” in the law, are not so sure about it now. Considered a candidate for the Governorship until he made charges that “on every hand evidence may be seen of the money interest, of the international bankers” which Senator James A. Reed exploded in his investigation into Indiana political affairs, Walb thought that the convention would do his bidding 11 only the primary could he removed. But there are others who think a direct appeal to the voters is the thing. By ushering the $3,500,000 Evansville bridge bill through and being present when It was signed by Governor Jackson, Lieutenant Governor F. Harold Van Orman made a host of friends In the First district. He has a wide acquaintance and a fund of funny stories. He, Is not averse to consideration for the first office in the State. GUliom Talked Without any announcement to that effect, the speeches recently made by Attorney General Arthur L. Gllllom are regarded as his opening gun for 1928. Their gist has been tole-ance with a slight sprinkling of “wet” tendency and they have been effective. Geography, too, would help Gllliom, because the northern part of the State has not had a Governor for many years. He Is from South Bend. M. Bert Thurman, collector of internal revenue for Indiana, thinks he can fill the chair. However, with the Watson machine missing on a few cylinders since the election Nov. 4, the collector probably will come to the conclusion that a Federal Job beats a State contest. Walter Bossert, former Grand Dragon of Ku Klux Rian and political foe of Senator James E. Watson, may throw his hat into the ring. If he does the candidacy of Frederick E. Schortemeier, secretary of State, will be hurt more than that of any other. Distribution of license plates and control of the State highway police has helped Schortemeier in building up an organization. He has accepted many Invitations to speak to churches and Sunday schools and has been an avid hand shaker since the Legislature convened. The “right of succession” may play some part in his case as Jackson was secretary of State until elected Governor. Leslie Stock Up Possibly the strongest and yet the least discussed Republican candidate is Harry G. Leslie, House speaker, who makes Lafayette his home. As secretary of Purdue University alumni Leslie is known throughout Indiana. His defeat of Lemuel A. Pittenger, Coffln-Trotter-Jackson-Hufflngton t candidate for the speakership, and fair dealing during the session have made him many friends. He probably would be the hardest man to beat in a State wide battle. Leslie probably could reunite the various factions in the ranks of the G. O. P. Former Lieutenant Governor Ed Bush of Salem has his eye on the office. He has also seen the “executive mansion" on Fall Creek Blvd. Bush started out by lambasting the utilities and urging abolition of the public service commission. He is now the lobbyist for the Farm Bureau Federation, and has been the center of some stormy battles In the farmer ranks. Bush Is credited with being the originator of the luxury tax idea during this session 'on which his own organization Is divided. Eigjit —so far—eigh’t, with more In the offing. Whatever else may be said there will be no dearth of candidates. DRY YEAR FOR FRENCH PARIS, Feb. 25.—Tlje wine ciup Is so short in France this year that there will be only 10 bottles for every man. woman and child In the country. Production Is off more than one-third and the government is worrying about where the rest is to

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“I am so far away. It Is so lonely here. The house la so big.”—Mrs. Chaplin on the beautiful staircase of the Chaplin mansion.

ESCAPED CONVICT HELD ON BURGLARY CHARGE Flight of Youth to Mother’s Home Halted by Arrest —Worley Seeks to ‘Trade Release’ for Lee.

Flight of a 22-year-old escaped convict, Hoyle Turknett, from the Florida State Prison, at Jacksonville, Fla., to his mother In Scranton, Pa., was halted here early today by Merchant Policeman Charles Germain, who captured Turknett in the W. J. Hermerich drug store, 2901 W. Washington St. Germ iln saw the youth in the store and covenng him with a revolver ordered him to unlock the front door and come out. Turknett

RAILROADS FACE MYJEMANDS Big Four Official Cites WarTime Stagnation. Railroads arc struggling to overcome a ten-year period of stagnation, declared Philip T. White, gem eral superintendent of the Big Four Railroad, before the nineteenth anTraffic Club at the Columbia Club Thursday night. White spoke on "What the Railroads Mean to Us.” "Tremendous demands have left the railroads crying for larger terminals, switching yards, bridges and other improvements,” White said. “Plans are being worked out to remedy this stagnated situation. Put the railroads on a financially sound basis, revive them from the period of stagnation into which they drifted following the war, and take them out of politics. Then they will be in good shape,” he said. , State Senator Andrew E. Durham of Greencastle acted as toastmaster. Thei invocation was offered by the Rev. Floyd H. Van Keuren, Christ Church rector. TRANSPLANTING SALMON LIHUE, Kauai.—The flrst*experiment in transplanting salmon to the streams of Hawaii was begun with the arrival here of 20,000 Chinook salmon eggs. The shipment was sent through from Seattle in refrigerated cases. The plantings will be made in the Hanale! and Wainiha streams on the island of Kauai, where trout have been successful. RID FORESTS OF GOATS HAWAII NATIONAL PARK—A goat drive culminating in an abandoned Hawaiian village • ridded the Pune and Kau forests of 3,500 goats and furnished meat for native inaus or feasts. The goats were distributed among the Hawalians with the stipulation that they be killed within a given period. The drive was organized by the local forest service and neighboring ranch men. TABLET FOR NUN MEXICO CITY. Feb. 25.—A bronze tablet was unveiled recently in the village of San Miguel de Napantla in honor of Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz. The sister was known as "the tenth Muse,” because of her poetic writings in both Latin and Spanish. Among her works was "La Inconsecuincia de los hombres” (The Inconsequence of Men), which critics have called one of the greatest poems ever written by a woman.

did so. Searched by Police Lieut. Fred Winkler revealod $19,25, ring.*, watches, cigarets, razor blades, candy and perfume taken from the store, were on his person. INSERT A ? (’! 2.1 ml’? pun Turknett said he escaped from the Florida prison Feb. 4. He was sentenced more than six years ago to a fifteen-year term, when he was convicted of five charges, following a tire store burglary. A trusty in the prison, he was in charge of the clothing room. He had access to the prison yard. Donning a suit he took out to air on a line, during the absence of a guard, he scaled the fifteen foot wall, Etole a ride on a fast passenger train to Quitman, Ga. From there he went to Evansville, Ind. Money From Mother In the meantime his mother had wired him money from Scranton, and Wednesday night came here en route there. Without money to go further and without food Thursday, he decided on the burglary to obtain something to eat, the youth said. His father, a Jacksonville policeman for seventeen years, was killed seven years ago, by a Negro holdup man, who was lynched by a mub, Turknett said.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—A marblo statue of an angel weighing 200 pounds and worth SI,OOO was stolen from the fnmily plot of Joseph Ziegler in Calvary cemetery, it was reported to police. HAMMOND, I .a—The first carload of strawberries lias left for New York. Strawberries this year In Louisiana are more than a month ahead of last year’s crop. SOMERVILLE, Mass.—Despite his plea-that alcohol found in his home was merely for "rubbing purposes," 96-year-old Baron Goldberg was fined S2OO for bootlegging. Ho appealed. WARTBURG, Tenn.—For frightening two youths into the act that caused their deaths. Will Llntncr of Wartburg, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and faces three years' imprisonment. Evidence showed ho fired several shots at Walter Johnson, 16, and Alfred Johnson, 18, and that, frightened, they leaped into the Emery River and were drowned. KERNERVILLE, X. C.—Five-year-old Jimmy Devine swallowed nil automobile—a toy one, an Inch and a half long. lie will be X-rayed to locate the car. ST. PAUL, Minn.—Human life will l>e lengthened fifteen to twenty years by the adoption of a program of prevention of teeth diseases, Dr. Henry L. dean of the College of Marquette University, Milwaukee, told delegates to the Minnesota State Dental Association here. GOB GOES TO COLLEGE TACOMA, Wash.—J. Edwin Monroe, tallest whaleboat oarsman of the battleship Arizona, plans to enter the University of Washington next fall after his discharge from the Navy. Monroe Is 6 feet 7 Inches tall, and has the strength of two ordinary men. He plans to Join the varsity crew, which already baa two men feet $ inches tall. , ,