Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1927 — Page 15

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CONVICTED EX-SLEUTH TELLS ALL Story of Mellett Slaying Given Judge by Sentenced Man. Bu United Press CANTON, Ohio, May 20.—Details of The murder of Don Mellett, crusading publisher, were revealed today by Floyd Streitenberger, former city detective, immediately after he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the underworld conspiracy. Streitenberger after sentence was passed asked to talk jn-ivately with Judge Frank Clevenger and after a conference, at which attorneys were present, authorities announced that 1 a complete confession had been made.' by the former detective. Repeats Confession Streitenberger then was taken before county officials and repeated his I story ts the plot to stifle the edilorlal attack of Mellett on the Canion vice ring by murder. Prosecutor Harter indicated that Streitenberger was moved to tell his story because of the evidence given against him by Louis Mazer, still to be sentenced for his part in the murder plot. Accused by Mazer Mazer in testifying against his former confederate charged that Streitenberger conceived the idea of killing Mellett and was near the scene the night the young editor was assassinated. Indications that Mazer would be sentenced to a. term of two years In prison actuated Streitenberger in making his statement. County authorities refused to make public the details of the forxpey detective’s story until they have had opportunity to check the facts.

CAL’S NOSE PROBLEM IN REST HUNT Nasal Disorder May Decide Site of Summer White House. United, Press _ , F WASHINGTON, May 20.—President Coolidge today was pondering whether to follow his physician’s advice or his own inclinations in choosing a summer White House in the West. He has reports on eleven estates from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains, prepared by Col. E. W. Starling, secret service attache, after a’ tour of inspection. Only two of the sites. Colorado Springs, Colo., and the Black Hills, S. D., boast the 3,500-foot altitude held desirable by Mr. Coolidge’s physician because of the nasal disorder from which the President suffers. Mr. Coolidge’s choice has been Wisconsin if a suitable place could he found. Its nearness to Washington—only twenty-four hours away

WOUNDED EX-FOLLIES STAR HITS ‘CAREERS’

Stick to Home, Girls, says Self-Shot Former Chorine. By Eldora Field A Ziegfeld Follies beauty with a. three-year contract! A striking personality, about which theatrical reviewers said many flattering things. An unusual “double” voice with range from soprano Lto baritone, and known as “Lillian St.Clair.'’ All these, and sitting at the top of the world, was Mrs. Lillian Edwards of 1321 Blaine Ave., in 1910-13. Today she lies at the city hospital, with almost no chance of recovery, doctors say. Warns Other Girls Down a long and bitter y path of disillusionment, the former Follies beauty traveled before she turned a revolver on herself, inflicting a serious abdominal wound Thursday night. “I think I'm going to die all right,” she said. "I’ mglad. I don’t want to live. But ’ there is something I'd like ambitious girls to know.” “Tell them that a career is the most treacherous, unsatisfying and heart-breaking thing in the world. Any girl who has a good home, with a normal, happy life spreading out before her, should hold this to her heart like a bit of heaven. If she struggles away from it and insists upon a career, she will find that this career will take of her youth and beauty and talents and give her only apples of ashes.” Girls Won’t Believe “I don’t suppose they’ll believe this. I wouldn’t have ance. To ambitious girls with musical talents, a chance to a Follies beauty for instance, seems like reaching a pinnacle of joy. Yet the greater the success, the greater the demands In that kind of life. People think otherbut to keep on the fine, thin lin of near perfection, one must constantly and heavily sacrifice. “All your actions must conform to routine,* hours for this and hours for that. You must not eat only at certain times, because your voice or .your figure will not allow it. Your life becomes a machine thing. Even that one could bear, but there not be the slightest slipping

Twelve Hoosier Spelling Champions Clash Here Tonight for State Title and Reward

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by train, compared with forty-four hours for Colorado Springs—was an added attraction to his natural desire to visit thatilake region. The chief executive is expected to announce his choice in a few days.

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of voice or appearance, not the least dev-iatlon from the’ ultar standard. The knowledge of this which Is always with you, makes even a successful career, a nerve wracking thing.” Went “Down Hill’’ After Mrs. Edwards’ contract with Ziegfeld expired she was for several years with other New York successes. Strain on her voice and failing health made her her accept positions with lesser companies and she finally came to Chicago. “It’s been sort of down hill for a long time," she said sorrowfully. “I’m done now." Mrs. Neal Wagner, who has the apartment opposite to the one Mrs. Edwards occupied alone, said Mrs. Edwards had been despondent since the rent for the adartment came due the otoher day and Mrs. Edwards Emitted she didn’t have the money. “She was nice and plejtsant to my children. 1 hope she gets well," remarked Mrs. Wagner.

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Twelve, youngsters, spelling champions, will “fight with words” tonight in the battle for the State Spelling Championship and a trip to the National Spelling Bee at Washington, D. C., where the national winner will receive a gold prize of SI,OOO. The Indianapolis Times, sponsor of the spelling contest program in the grade schools, invites the public to attend the State contest at Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge High School. The contest begins at Bp. m.—but there are only 1,500 seats and none are reserved. Better come early! No charge.

HEART BEATS THUNDER AT DOCTORS’ GATHERING Trachoma Germ Isolated, Drunkenness Determined, Imagination Hurts, Physicians Told.

WASHINGTON, May 20—Two thousand American Medical Association delegate* here heard human heart beats ring out like thunder claps and were silent before the marvel. In another hall a great discovery —lsolation of the long-sought germ of trachoma —was announced by an unassuming Japanese doctor In tones hardly audible, and 1,000 eye specialists arose and cheered. The heart beats were amplified ten trillion times by an “electric stethoscope,’’ demonstrated by Dr. Clyde Snook of the Bell Telephone Company laboratories. Dr. Hideyo Noguchi of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research consumed half an hour telling of seven years’ experiment enabling him to Isolate the dreaded trachoma germ. Dr. Martin Cohen of New York aided. When Is Drunk? * When is a man drunk? Wags have said it is when he lies on the Moor and has to hold on, but a scientific answer was given today to thousands of doctors at the American Medical Association convention by Dr. Emil Bogen, Cincinnati, as

Water ‘Jag 9 Found Possible Bv Vnitrd Prat WASHINGTON, May 20. Water, drunk in sufficient quantities, Is intoxicating, according to Dr. A. M. Snell and Dr. L. G. Rountree of Rochester, N. Y., attending the conference of the Association for the Study of Internal Secretions. Five or six gallons taken every day will eventually produce a “jag” similar to that brought on by Indulging in too much liquor it .was said.

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the rebuit of investigating more than 300 cases in past year. Dr. Bogen concluded that, generally. real intoxication sets in after drinking more than an ounce and a half of absolute alcohol, or about

Madman’s Dynatni te Murders 36 Children

0 This picture shows the wreckage of the consolidated schol at Bath, Mich., after two dynamite blasts were set off by Andrew Kelioe, demented farmer. Forty-four persona are known to have been killed—-thirty-six of them Vhildren. Other bodies are believed to he buried

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three ounces of SO per cent whisky. Results vary from lack of control to absolute coma. Imagination Hurts Imagination was pictured aa one of the greatest breeders of 111 health, especially among neurasthenics, by several doctors at today's session. Dr. Nellis B. Foster of New York showed that changes even in personality may result from a belief that organic disease exists. Dr. George R. Minot. Boston, urged a diet rich in liver In cases of pernicious anaemia, while danger of sinus Infection from swimming pools was emphasized by Dr. Frederick E. Hasty of Nashville, Tend. Fliers Seek Record Bv Unitfil Print CRANWELL, Lincolnshire, England, May 20. —Two British airmen departed at 10:40 a. m. today for Karachi, British India, in an attempt to establish anew world record for non-stop airplane distance fliflgfiht. They are Flight Lieutenant C. R. Carr and Flight Lieutenant L. E. M. Glllman.

‘KING BEN’S’ BEATRICE IN COURT TEARS Tells Confessing House of David Intimacies to Father. Bu United Press ST. JOSEPH, Mich., May 20. The calm which Mrs. Dolly Smith Wheeler, 33, pretty former disciple of the House of David, has showm heretofore in telling of alleged intimacies with “King Ben” Purnell, was broken today when she sobbed on the stand while telling of confessing to her father. She was testifying at ,th© State's suit to dissolve the religious cult. Yesterday she told how “King Ben” had Justified intimacies with pretty young women members of his colony by declaring It was a “purification” creed. “During one of our preaehibg tours my father was also preaching.” Mrs. Wheeler testified today. “He showed me a letter from my sister, lone, telling of Ben’s activities. I read It and said it was all true.” She started sobbing and for a few moments testimony was stopped. STEVE CASE GOES TO GOSHEN COURT Prison Conference Suit Leaves South Bend. Bu I’nitrd Press SOUTH BEND, Ind . May 20. D. C. Stephenson’s suit for a writ of Mandamus permitting his attorney, Robert Moore, to have a private conference with the ex-Klan dragon in his prison * cell, today received a change of venue to Judge Janies Drake's Circuit Court in Goshen. Elkhart County. The change was granted by Judge I .T. Fred Bingham in Superior Court. ! Number One. where it had been sent from Laporte County on Stephenson's request. Law suits pending In which Stephenson is involved await the opportunity of a private conference between Stephenson and his attorney, the complaint asserts. The change of venue was made on ' the plea that the defense case would | be prejudiced In St. Joseph Tounty, because residents are-opposed to the I prison rules adopted by the trustees.

KNICKER GIRL BACK TO SCHOOL ON COURT ORDER Judge Declares Indiana Law Doesn’t Say How Virginia Allen, 11, Shall Dress.

Bv I n ih'ii „ JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind„ May 20. —Knickers and all, Virginia Allen, 11-year-old storm center of Port Fulton, was compelled to attend schol today. Michael D. Schlosser, secretary of the Clark County board of Children’s Guardians, went to Virginia’s home this morning and led her along Port Fulton’s maple-shaded streets to the schoollioule front, which she had been barred. It was little Virginia who shocked the Port Fulton school board by answering the school bell each morning attired in knickers. Such ap"parel was unthinkable to the board and Virginia was forbidden to receive lnstructlo nunless she adopted dresses. There followed charges and Injunctions and damage suits. For a time Virginia went to school, protected by a restnrlnlngorder, but it expired. “Go to School,” Order Schlosser took Virginia to school this morning by order of Judge George C. Knopp of the Clark County Juvenile court, who told Mrs. Al-

tinder the debris. This rescue squad of firemen was the first to penetrate the shambles. Hanging walls and parts of the roof are being pulled down by workers with ropes, while others are seen earning fallen timbers and searching frantically among the rnins.

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Only Fatality of Storm Injured

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Earl Wolverton, 17, ol 40(1 S. Harlan St., the only victim of the storm. He was fatally injured when he abandoned his auto and Bought refuge in the doorway of the Arthur furniture store, which was ripp4 apart by the wind blast.

KILLER-HYPNOTIST, MOTHER OE FOUR. FACES GALLOWS Smiles at Chicago Verdict, Climax to Snyder-Like Case.

Bu United Press CHICAGO, ’May 20.—A middle aged woman, mothVr of four children, today sat in the Cook County Jail facing the possibility of death for murder. She is Mrs. Catherine Cassler, convicted yesterday of the murder of William Lindstrom. The jury recommended she be hanged. It is the third time in the history of Cook County that a woman has been found guilty and death sentence recommended. Neither of the other two women was executed, however. Smiled in Cell The case bears striking similarity to the Snyder-Gray trial. Under Conviction Also Loren Patrick and Mrs. Lillian Fraser, common-law wife of Lindstrom, also are under conviction for the murder. Both pleaded guilty. It was brought out that Lindstrom had taken out $7,500 Insurance in favor of rs. Fraser. Confessions of Mrs. Fraser and Patrick said that Mrs. Onssler brought Lindstrom to Chicago and "mesmerized” Patrick into beating Lindstrom to death.

I len, Virginia's mother, to send the girl to every session of school and notify the court if the school board or anybody else excluded her. So the compulsion under which Virginia resumed her education today was only strategic and really marked another victory for the mother of the “knlckerbocker girl.” Judge Kopp intervened In the fight at the request of the \>oard of children’s guardians. Board members declared that Virginia had no proper guardianship. No Legal Destruction Judge Kopp, after the hearing, explained that he Is not at this time called upon to say whether the mother Is right or wrong in her stand against the school board. But he added he doesn’t think the school board may say how a child shall dress provided such dress Is in accordance with State law, which mqkes no distinction between frocks and knickers. The judge made Virginia a ward of the court, placed her In the custody of the board of children's guardians and sent her to school without saying how she should dress.

ENTHUSIASM IN MANAGER IDEA MARKED Cincinnati Mayor First of Drive Speakers—Council Praised. Increased enthusiasm marked the city manager campaign today, leaders sakl, due to the Impetus given the movement by the many converts who heard Mayor Murray L. Seasongood detail the advantages the city manager government brought to Cincinnati. The Cincinnati mayor talked to a large crowd at the Claypool Thursday night and his address was broadcast over WKBF, reaching many moro than the 600 in his immediate audience. Charles F. Coffin, city manager executive committee chairman, Introduced the Cincinnati mayor. He told the audience that this was the first of a series of educational meetings

Complete Speech Complete speech of Mayor Murray L. Seasongood at the city manager mass meeting Thursday night will be found on page 13.

that will be held prior to the general election June 21. Coffin praised City Clerk William A. Boyce Jr. and the city council for the prompt attention given the petition for a city manager election, which was signed by 38,000 citizens. Effect on Parties “Political parties cannot stand out against the people if the people will take government into their own hands,” Seasongood told Mrs. Thomas B. Sherrln, who asked how the proper commissioners could be obtained when political parties are active. „ * “The city manager form keeps the people interested in government,” said Seasongood. Following the address many interested citizens questioned the Cincinnati mayor. Scores of women interested in the proposed government change were present. William L. Taylor, attorney, asked Seasongood to outline the difference in powers of the city manager and mayor. “The city manager is an executive, like the general manager of any large corporation, while the mayor iw the ceremonial head of the city,” was his reply* Seasongood told Mrs. E. I. Lewis, wife of Interstate Commerce Commissioner Lewis, of the detailed work of ,the manager as executive administrator of the city’s affairs.

Job Up to Manager It was explained to 'William T. | Ellis that th© commissioners select. ; the manager, who has full responsibility. j “Civic groups make recommenda- \ tions and compel outstanding leaders of the community to run for the commission and rarely meet with refusal,” Seasongood declared In answer to a question of Franklin Vonnegut. At the speakers table were Mayor and Mrs. Seasongood, Coffin, W. H. I InslCjj', president of Insley Manui factoring Company; Frank E. Oates,' | realtor and J. W. Esterline, president of Esterline Angus Company, and Mrs. Esterline. Best Advertisement “The best advertisement Indianapolis could have would be an efficient city government not exploited by factional and partisan politics," asserted Winfield T. Miller, before the Women’s Legislative Forum at the Board of Trade today. “We should let the world know that Indianapolis people take a pride in their civic affairs. Its administration should be one of good business principles,” he said.” “Any successful business concern would go bankrupt If it changed management and discharged employes every four years! Why should the city follow the bankrupt method Passing Buck Too Easy " ‘Buck passing’ is too easy under the political system,” asserted MilMrs. Elsa/ Huebner Olsen will speak before a meeting of the Philothea tonight at 86 Whittier PI. Other speaking dates are being arranged by Blythe Q. Hondrlcks, In charge of the campaign speakers’ bureau. Lawrence V. Sheridan will speak tonight before the Irvington American Legion at the Irvington State Bank. LATIN ENVOY IN CITY i- - Ambassador Passes Through on Trip. Traveling by automobile, Argentine Ambassador Honoris de Puerry* don left Indianapolis this morning for St. Louis, after spending Thursday eight-seeing In the city. He and his party arrived here Wednesday night. Ambassador FuerrjoJon, who was former premier and treasury department head of the Argentltie Republic, was the guest of William Fortune, president of the George Rogers Clark commission, and C. L. Harrod, general secretary of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce on his tour of the city. During the day he spent more than an hour at the Speedway, attended luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club and a dinner at Fortune's home. The party fs on it*,, way to the Pacific coast, motoring via Alb. rquerqque and Santa