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New Britain herald., 1920-07-02
"CEMENT LAWN" INVENTED

Here's a Lawn That Saves Time, Costs
 Only s65 and Causes No Worry
 About Work.
 Los Angeles. Cal. July "A lawn lawn and is said by its owner to be better than lawn-a waterless, mowerless. weedlcss, gopgherless lawn-in short, cement lawn painted grass-green. has made its ap- pearance in front of q Los Angeles bungalow.
 Mrs. A. C. Woodward. inventor and owner. says it saves time, money and worry. She never has to water it: she never has { ocut it: it is always dry enough to sit on-and it needs painting only once a year.
 She has circular holes cut through the lawn and in them and along the edges she has flowers planted.
 "I invented the cement lawn,' she said. because Of trouble I had in getting a man to take care of my old grass lawn. Ii costs only $55.
 You don't know what a blessing it is." she continued. gDo you know | believe there would be much less unhappiness in married life if the husband would use a cement instead of a grass lawn and so avoid having 10 come home after work and run an old Iawn-mower over the front yard every night.
New Britain herald., 1920-07-02
WILL VISIT T.. s.

London. July 2.-Dr. A. E. Garvie. principal of the New college, London. union. is shortly leaving England on an Anglo-American friendship mis- sion to the United States.
 "I shall get at tho ear of the na- ton by sypcaking at churches. uni- versailles and colleges" he said.
New Britain herald., 1920-07-02
Two Cool and fortable Sum
 Corsets $l,

One. a girdle Corset of f1e coutil, with wide ell; Serts at sides. The other an elastic top, model, of pink cal hose supporters attal
New Britain herald., 1920-07-02
Summer Ne
 Special

An assortment of fine lac@
 collars, at ' A wonderful lot of those [
 Vestees in white and e
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
THINK VISITOR WAS
SLAYER Of ELWELL
Caller Expected Was Man, Is
Theory, Since Whist King
Didn't Put Wig On.

NEW YORK. June 15.-Theories in
the Joseph B. Elwell murder case
seem to crystalize into one theory as
being most likely.
This is that Elwell intended to re-
ceive a visitor, and that visitor prob
ably a man with whom he was on
familiar terms. for he did not trouble
to replace his false teeth or toupee.
Those who hold this theory think 1t
probable that Elwell either remem-
bered this engagement or made 1t
after he had planned to retire for the
night and that he probably was rest
ing on his bed dressed in his pajamas
when the postman rang the bell.
Believing that this was the party
with whom he had the engagement,
this theory has IL, Elwell probably
walked from his room to the recep-
ton room and there, probably de-
Gliding that he would not return to
his room but to await the call he
expected, he did the most natural
thing-opened his mail and began to
read it to pass away the time until
his caller came. The caller came.
Elwell admitted him and the murder
followed.
Great stress has been laid on the
opened letter found with Elwelis
body. The letter, however. was not
clasped in his hands: it was on the
floor beside him, and Elwell prob
ably never glanced at the letter again
after his caller appeared.
Those who hold this theory are en-
abled to further Ak the time OF the
arrival of the murderer through the
opened letter by estimating that 1T
would have taken Elwell no longer
than ten minutes to return to his
room, read the letter, and then open
the others.
He was interrupted in the reading
of his mail. and therefore those who
hold this theory believe that the
murderer gained admittance to the
house between 1925 (the time the
postman arrived) and 1888 (ten MIN
utes after the postman lefD.
II pedestrians who noticed a man
entering or leaving the house at this
time or within an hour and half
afterward are found, a description of
the murderer probably can be OBJ
tanned
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
ALL LIKED ELWELL,
SAySF0LL|ES GIRL
Babe Marlowe Surprised at
Finding That "joe"
Wore Toupee. ="

ATLANTIC CITY. June l5.--"The
most Charming, cultivated man I ever
knew" is what Babe Marlowe. Of the
ZiesfeId Follies, says of the slain
turfman and social favorite, Joseph
B. Elwell. She added:
'I haven't seen Joe for nearly two
years, but he was a good friend OF
mine. A perfect gentleman and
man whom everybody loved, men and
women alike. 1 never heard anyone
say an unkind thing about him He
fascinated everybody.
~ was introduced to him at Long
Beach. and / went to many parties
after that at which he was either
the jovial host or the favorite guest.
We were invited 10 his Seventeen
street home when he f1rst moved
there. We always had such good
times"
Miss MarIowe IL a member of tho
Ziegfeld Foilies. which opens here to-
night. She left the Midnight Frolic
a week ago to begin rehearsals for
the summer performance Otherwise
she would have contributed TO the
last entertainment the popular gam
bier and her good friends had en-
joyed.
NOT A LOVE AFFAIR
MISS MarlOWe a0ueu.
at wasn't any love affair between
Joe and me. He used to call me UP
and take me to dinner every now
and then. Sometimes we would be
Joined by friends of his or mine, and
sometimes we went alone. When I
visited him at his house my mother
chaperoned US"
Asked IL he had ever talked of his
wife, Miss Marlowe said that Mr..
Elwell told her he was divorced and
she does not think he could have
been as cruel or niggardly as Mrs.
Elwell has pictured him.
Miss Marlowe continued:
II would do anything / could to
help find the man who murdered Joe,
but / don't know of any man or wom-
an who has seen him since have.
"He was the kind that went with
a girl for a while then just casually
dropped her out Of his life"
Miss Marlowe is a niece of Com
missioner of immigration Wallis at
Ellis Island. She Is tall and slim,
young and beautiful. She has been
on the stage since 1917. She has
short auburn hair and pretty blue
eyes.
They never wrote letters to each
other but he used to drop her cards
from Palm Beach and other Southern
resorts. The little show girl was
much amazed when she read of Mr..
Elwelrs wigs. She said he was
slightly bald when she knew him and
that his hair was gray over the ears.
She didn't like the idea Of "Joe's
cafnouflage." The last time she saw
him was a hot summer day, when he
was waiting in his car near the stage
entrance for some other member of
the company. She smiled and he
bowed. and that was their last meet
ing.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
JOHNSON "OUT OF
POLITICS" FOR
PRESENT

Il am forgetting politics for
the time being. l have absolute
ly nothing to say"
This was the only statement
that Senator Hiram w. john
son would make on his return
here from Chicago last even
ing. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Johnson.
The Senator's train was late,
and he was tired after the coz
vention strain and the long, hot
trip from Chicago. He hurried
from the station to his private
automobile and went immedi-
ately to his home, the old Cecil
Calvert mansion, near River
dale, Md, to take a long rest.
At the Capitol it was said Sem
ator johnson may not come
down to his office for a day or
two. Despite the vigorous cam
paign he carried on for the
Presidential nomination, it was
stated, he has found time to at
tend to all important Congress
sional and personal business,
and his desk is practically
clear.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
$500, 600 in Pay Raises
Awaited by Employees

Government employees in Washing
ton and local merchants are looking
forward expectantly to July Is, Gov
ernment pay day, which will find a
half million dollars more in the
Federal department pay envelopes
than the preceding pay day; and by
the end of the year $11, 100000 will
have been added to the earnings of
Government clerks in Washington as
a result of the semi-annual increases,
which go into effect July /.
In the Internal Revenue Bureau
alone. it is estimated that approx
mately 800, 900 will be given in ad-
ditional compensation to employees
who have been recommended for pro-
motion for the first six months of the
fiscal year which ends next June.
$4,000, 600 IN RAISES.
In all, it is estimated that more
than s22.O0O,000 will be expended in
additional compensation in the Fed
eral departments for the fiscal year
192O-21. This amount does not in
clude S35,0O0,00 additional compen-
sation appropriated by Congress for
postal employees, nor the s240 annual
bonus. which also amounts to $685.
600. 900.
Government officials estimate.
however, that the S22 600, 900, which
will be used to promote Federal en-
ployes is approximately SS,000,00O
less than the amount used for this
purpose for the fiscal year 1920,
which ends with this month, which
amounted to $3o,760,OOo.
This is due, it is said, to the large
The Washington times., 1920-06-15

number OF Government who have
been separated from the service since
the war ended. According to the
Civil Service Commission. July 1919.
there was approximately 102,3SS Gov
ernment employees working and this
number Is cut to 96.237 by April 80,
1920.
During May this number was re-
duced by another 1000, and it is es-
timated that more than 5000 will
have been released by the end of this
month.
MANY MORE MUST GO.
According to officials of the Civil
Service Commission the number OF
employees actually separated from the
service was much large than the
figures given. but they were only of
temporary nature, and positions
were found for them in other Govern
ment bureaus. 1t is estimated that
in the Census Bureau alone more
than 1000 employees who had been
separated from positions in other de-
partments have been placed and
about 5000 employees have obtained
positions in the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau to assist in the work connected
with the tax returns.
While the Civil Service Commission
has been able to place the majority
of the Government employees separat-
ed from the service in other depart
ments, they do not think that they
will be able to find positions for the
large number Of employees who are to
be dismissed this month.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
ARMY AUTOMATIC USED
BY SLAYER, SAYS EXPERT
Bullet That Killed Elwell Could
Have Pierced Six Inches of
Timber, Police Told.

NEW YORK, June 15.-Capt VIM.
A. Jones, leading gun and pistol shot
expert. said today that he was certain
the bullet that killed Joseph b. Elwell
was fired from an army Colt .4o-cali-
Der automatic pistol.
When Captain Jones was in the po-
lice department. he was called into
consultation in all shooting cases
where the weapon was not found. He
has been frequently summoned to
other cities to determine what weap-
ons were used in mysterious murder
cases. He now heads a detective
agency.
Captain Jones said:
"The fact that the empty she'll was
found and the rifiing on the steel
Jacket bullet was to the left, estab-
fishes positively that the pistol used
was the army Colt automatic.
This same bullet could be used in
AS Smith e. Wesson or a Colt re-
volver, but IL used in the Smith &
wesson the spiral markings on the
bullet, made as It passes through the
barrel at time OF ejectment, would be
to the right. In automatic pistols the
shells are elected at time OF explo-
sion"
Captain Jones explained that tests
made on his own rife range and on
army rife ranges have shown that
bullets elected from this caliber pis-
tol will pass through six inches of
timber and 3-10 OF an inch of steel.
Captain Jones has dispelled abso-
lutely the theory that Elwell COM
mitted suicide.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
ELWELL'S SON TO QUIT
SCHOOL TO HELP MOTHER

NEW YORK, June 15.-Mrs. John
b. Elwells manly little son, Richard,
the Image OF his father" was with
the widow when she was seen by a
reporter last evening. He said
II hadn't seen my father since I
was five years old. ! have been 60
ing to a prep school at Andover. I
guess that's all over now. I don't
know what I am going to do, but
mother can't afford to send me to
sch ool.
"She has no money. and I will have
to stay home and help her. I want
to help her all I can"
The little fellows eyes filled with
tears as he grasped his. mothers
hand.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
COLLAPSE OF LENlN
REGIME Is DENIED

BERLIN, June 15.-Rumors of the
collapse of the Lenin- Trotzky regime
at Moscow was branded as false here
today. 1t was announced by the
foreign office that wireless messages
were received as usual from Moscow
and that nothing was said about a
revolutionary outbreak.
Commissar Victor Kopp, repre-
sentative of the soviet characterized
the report as a news agency swindle"
for the purpose OF raising the value
of the rouble, large sums of which
are held in England, and also to en-
courage the Russian reactionaries.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
Continued from First Page.)

floor. He admitted the garment as
described had been found. but de
clared that 1T was not the property OF
one person. but had been in the turf
mans bed room for many months.
One of the few visitors called by
the authorities to the home yesterday
was June r. Gard, an osteopathy
specialist, who had been summoned
she said to treat Elwell for poor
blood circulation. She said during her
brief questioning that she had given
the turfman four treatments since the
first of the year.
The two men suspected of venge-
full feelings toward Elwell continued
to be missing.
Convinced that quick work is neces-
sary to sift the dozens of clues that
have come in. or been unearthed. the
police and the district attorney held
a might session" Of the official in
quiry last night. Two society women
and two men equally well known were
! interrogated.
Elwelrs connection with men and
women OF prominence has been estab-
lished. Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt's son.
Jack Rutherford, it was learned, re-
Gently gave Elwell a check for $4,000
! as first payment on the Elwell motor
boat Gardenia. now moored at Palm
| Beach.
PLAYED HIGH IN WALDORF.
Ewell, it was learned, took a hand
in games of baccarat, poker and
bridge played at the Waldorf for high
stakes by such men as John A. Drake,
the late John w. (Bet-you-a-M Million)
Gates, Charles Gates, A. h. Hudson
and Tex Rickard.
At the time of his limited separa-
ton" from his wife Elwell was I'm
fear" says David C. Hirsch. law part
ner of Judge John f. Mcintyre, the
turfman's former lawyer.
The will OF the murdered man, exc
cuted In 1915, was opened yesterday
by order OF the surrogate. 1t left
everythinE-renI md personal prop
erty-to EIweu's parents.
Informed that her ffteen-yenr-old
| son, Richard. Ind been left unpro.
vfded for, Mrs. Helen Derby EIwcll
became distrnugbt I'm her tiny apart
mcnt mt 1857 Lexington avenue. She
cried,
TIGER IN HER AROUSED.
81 shall light to the last gnsp to
see TINT my hoy Is protected"
While her handsome. manly little son
held her hand and strove to comfort
her. the widow said:
II was terribly shocked to learn
that Elwell had not the decency even
to provide for our boy. l care not
for myself. But this studied cruelty
arouses the tiger in me. / shall do
whatever is legally possible to pro
tect my boy"
Mrs. Elwell asserted she had been
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
BUGS BAER STILL
FINDS SOMETHING
TO SAY ON G. 0. P.
BIZ -BUGs" BAER-

IN THE CORN BELT. June Is
Scientists have not yet succeeded
in isolsting the germ that causes
a convention Chicago 10 just
convAlescinE from the Republi-
can soiree and Is wondering what
II was all about A plebiscite OF
Inhabitants indicates that either
Mack Sennett or Ben Turpin
should have been nominated on
the nrst ballot
The idea OF these male sewfnr
circles seems to be TO make some
other bimbo think you are more
important than he IL. You don't
belbng u1less you are round
shouldered from carrying q mock
OF badges that make you look
like a two-legged xylophone. A
yam with seven badges on his
chest has the cutting edge on a
suckoo with only three partisan
citations.
The average delegate is . Suy
whose neck thinks IL 10 in q cage
every time he puts on a collar
He figures that all big cities were
built by Sam Lloyd. He steps
into the convention wigwam Just
plumb suffocating with import
snce and has a tough time seeing
over his top vest button. He
starts to simmer down when he
pipes little old Smoot. Penrose.
or Crane, who are so used to dele
gates that they drive 'em tandem.
His skull starts to shrink to its
usual acreage which is equivalent
TO the doorknob on a doll house.
The only place where he u
equal is when everybody is skip
ping the words OF the IS. s.
Banner" He skips just as many
as the Campaign Committee. He
kind of hangs around In his seat
for two or three days, waiting for
the chairman to page him for one
of those speeches that made him
famous on the Pingasset School
Board.
On the NTH day his Importance
has diminished enough to enable
him to breathe without throwing
his Adams apple out Of gear.
Then he sarts looking for a less
important guy to pick on. When
he finds that bird he rides him
dizzy. The less important guy
branches out for himself and digs
up another sap of fewer import
ance than the less important
bird. He rattles his badges at
him, and the other turns purple
with congested Importance.
Which is about all that the
coroner's jury can figure out
about a convention.
The idea is to make some other
gipe think you are just triple
plated with Importance and that
he is an errand boy on the wrong
errand.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
COUNTESS 8. DE SZINAWSKA, who
y was once friend of Elwell, but who
auarre1ed with him when he suspected
her of being an enemy alien.
Note From FClara' Is
Latest Clue In Death
ON. Y. whist King

told by her father-in-law, Joseph ..
Elwell. that 100000 had been left TO
the boy But II was learned yester-
day that this 100000 was in the form
OF an irrevocable trust fund whlch
yielded an income OF $4,000 a year.
Ss 600 going to EIwell and $1,000 to
his parents. The trust fund. 1t is
believed, now reverts to the estate
Mrs. Elwell's legal fight will be
waged over this.
A witness who brought the inVesti-
CATION a big step forward yesterday
is Octavio Figueroe, a young Argen'
tinian, who lives at the Ritz-Carlton
Hotel He says:
"I last saw Mr.. Elwell at 80
O'Clock Friday morning. l was
member of the party with whom ne
dined at the Ritz and later went 70
the Ziegfeld Follies with him He
was jovial and danced twice with
the ladies Of our party
LAST SEEN OF HIM.
I'VE were among the frst to leave
when the show closed at 1:3o. On
the sidewalk Mr.. Elwell moved to-
ward the waiting line Of taxicaos and
said, Anybody going north" We
were going east. so we did not accept
his evident invitation to ride uptown
with him.
"A taxi came along then, we hailed
it and got in. Elwell raised his hat
and walked toward another taxi. That
is the last i saw OF him
Elwel went in this taxi to spot
between Forty-second street and his
home. Information has been given
the police, II was learned last night
that is expected to clear up today the
remainder OF the mystery period.
This places at daybreak the hou' OF
Elwells arrival at his silent homo m
West Seventeen street.
Undressing, he lay on his bed read
ing a morning newspaper. Then came
a summons that took him below. He
went to the door and got four letters
that had just been delivered. Three
Of these were conventional ones.
"CLARA, WAS SEEKING HIM.
The fourth was from woman at
the Hotel Biltmore who signed her
self "Clara" and mailed the scented
note Thursday evening. 1t merely
told Elwell she was in town and had
sought unsuccessfully to communicate
with him by phone.
This, the finding of the lingerie and
the discovery that n woman was In
EhveIrs "bncheIor' house n fortnight
ngo clinched the police theory that
Efweu was killed in vengeance for a
woman.
One OF the two men under suspicion
was definitely eliminated yesterday.
The second man, whose estranged
wife has been seen in the turfman's
company often. was still missing yes
terday. He has a fine apartment up
town, which has been closed since
last Thursday.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
SHAPELY DANCER SKINS
KNEE, SUES FOR $4,000

HINTON, w. Va, June 15.-Miss
Nyma Scabert, pretty danseuse, wants
$50, 900 damages from the proprietors
Of the McCreery Hotel for a skinned
knee.
She instituted a damage suit in the
Federal court at Charleston against
the proprietors. charging that while
on a road tour she had stopped at
the McCreery Hotel While there
she walked into an open elevator
shaft and barked her knee so Sc
verely that it interfered with her
dancing.
In speaking OF the accident, Miss
Seabert declared her fortune rested
in her shapely limbs.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
EBERT THREATENS TO
RESIGN PRESIDENCY

BERLIN, June 15.-President Ebert
is threatening to resign unless the
leaders OF the various parties unite
soon In the formation of a coalition
cabinet. according to a newspaper re-
port current today.
The latest leader commissioned to
form a ministry is Karl Triborn, OF
the Centrist party.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
MAN AND WIFE POISONED.

BOSTON June 15.-George A.
Hamilton and his wife, Irene, died
victims Of wood alcohol poisoning, in
the opinion of physicians who at
tended them. Medical Examiner
Ieary ordered an analysis Of the con-
tents of a bottle of colorless liquid
found in their room in a South End
lodging house.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
ASKS CABINET TO STAY.

President Seitz, In accepting the
resignation OF the Austrian cabinet
headed by Chancellor Renner, re-
ouested the cabinet to remain in Of
Ace until new cabinet could he
formed. the American commissioner
at Vienna notified the state Depart
ment today.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
WORKER UNCOVERS RUM
Mine IN PENNSYLVANIA

ERIE, Pa, June 15.-Work on the
Mill Creek tube construction here was
temporarily halted when one of the
men employed on the excavation un-
covered whiskey mine.
Driving his pick into the creek
channel, he struck a bottle and the
odor which filled the air Immediately
brought the rest of the workmen 10
the scene. Foremen declared that
help is now easy to get.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
ITALY TO REINFORCE
BRITISH IN PERSIA

LONDON, June 15.--Italy Is expect
ed TO send troops TO Persia to help
the British stop the advance of the
Russian army Of invasion. according
TO the Daily Express today.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
INSTALLS RADIO PLANT.

LONDON, June 15.-Keeping pace
with the times, the Daily Mail has
installed its own wireless receiving
plant for the receiving OF news dis
patches on the roof Of the Carmelite
House, home OF the Northcliffe papers
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
THE costly New York home where the noted turfman
was found slain sitting upright in chair in the
library.

out. 1t is mighty hard and trying. to
be sure, particularly upon my poor
mother and my aged father, but We
want to see Justice done.
I'VE don't intend to hide anything.
We don't want to. All we desire Is to
see that justice Is done. no matter
what II may lay bare"
The Washington times., 1920-06-15
CALLS AT WHITE HOUSE.

Father York, of Oyster Bay, q life
long friend of the late Colonel Roose-
welt. and during the former Presi-
dents incumbency often a visitor at
the Executive Mansion, called at the
White House executive offices today
and spent half an hour renewing ac-
Quaintances with the older employees.
The Washington times., 1920-06-15

The idea is to make some other
gipe think you are just triple
plated with Importance and that
he is an errand boy on the wrong
errand.