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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
Hates Women SO Much He
Weds and Deserts 5 Of Them

Women, l hate them. The more !
hate them the more l want to marry
them" declared Forest Z. Warner, %,
alias Delbert Venable, today as he con
fessed to having married five women
without taking the trouble to obtain a
divorce from any of them.
Still. Warner admitted the one woman
he really loved was not among those he
married That woman, whose name he
refused to reveal, was one he admitted
had deserted her husband and four chill
dren at Terre Haute, six years ago ana
had gone with him to Louisiana, and from
there to Les Moines. Then they went
to Cleveland. Ohio, where she deserted
him.
There was born In him at that moment
hate that he declares has caused him to
marry four women since that date ana
not to obtain div rec from an yof them
Years before he was married and he has
five children all grown, as the result OF
that marriage.
Aside from this, Warner confessed to
Detectives William Reilly and Frank
Reynolds that he had served sentence
in the Ohio State Prison on the charge
Of forgery, having been sent up from
Greenvllle Ohio
IT is WIFE NO. WHO
CAUSES HIS ARREST.
1t was wife No s. whom he married
April %. Of this year at the parsonage
Of Rev. Green, a Methodist minister at
Vincennes who caused his arrest Satur-
day, but that time he was known to
her onl vas Delbert Venable 43, Of Zanes-
vile. Ohio. The arrest was made by Pa
trolman Barge, who charged the man
with vagrancy, but today after obtaining
Il confession from the alleged much mar
ried man, Detectives Reilly and Reynolds
placed the charge Of bigamy against him.
According to Warmers confession he
was born on Dec. 20. 1868, at Greenville,
Ohio. There he married Miss Matte h.
Willis on May Il. 1889. They had the fol
lowing children. he said: Lawrence
Warner, so, a salesman for the Delco
company at Seattle, Wash; Daniel T.
Warner, 2S, Canton, Ohio; Lorena
Warner q, singer Of Dayton, Ohio ;
Thomas Warner. %. OF the same city
Mrs Ester Fischer, 20, Of Newport News.
Va.
He admitted marrying Miss Laura Beg
ley, 80, of Canton, Ohio. I'm Sept, 1918.
He used the name OF Elmer Hines at the
time Of the wedding. Warner declared he
not only never obtained divorce but
always used different name every
time he married.
Miss Pearl Lowry 80 Of GAINESVILLE.
Ohio was wife No. g. be said Using
the name Of Elmer Wills he married her
In February. 1919.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
IMMIGRANT SHIPS
ARRIVE ON AUG. /
Delays Occasioned to Evade
New u. S. Law.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1-Three liners,
bringing hundreds of immigrants from
Italg, Greece and Ireland, officially ar
rived" here today. They crossed the
three mile limit almost on the stroke of
midnight, after having delayed their ar
rival In American waters for several days
to evade the new immigration restriction
law.
The Megalli Hellas. the Greek steamer,
which, with 1870 American passengers. has
been riding the waters off Fire Island
since last week, came in first, landing a
fuming lot of Americans but a joyful
horde of Greeks who might have had to
return to the old country had the Me-
GALL Hellas arrived" during July. The
Cedric, carrying immigrants, arrived from
Queenstown, and is believed to havJ de-
layed en- route to avoid difficulties nth
the new Isw
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
MAN ARRESTED
WANTED IN EAST
Jack Burns Says He Jumped
Bond in Baltimore.

Jack Burns, alias Elmer Swallow. 10,
who was arrested in a rooming house in
the 400 block on North Illinois street
Sunday morning with his wife, Estella
Burns. admitted to the police this after,
noon that he had jumped a $500 bond
in Baltimore, after he had been arrested
for shooting a man. He is held under
$40, 600 bond on n charge of being fugi-
tive from justice while the police In
vestigate his story.
Burns was taken into custody after De
tectiges Roach and Fossati had received
information that he was planning to hold
up one Of the Washington street banks
today.
The fugitive said he had shot Joe
Laraghan during a quarrel in the Insor
cafe in Baltimore last May. He said that
he had lived at G20 Fulton street Balti-
more, before fleeing to this city.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
OF COKE
DECLARED SLOW
Citizens Gas Company Files
Monthly Report.

While the coke supply OF the Citizens
Gas Company increased during the
month Of June by 6,O00 tons. sales were
slow, due to excessive heat, according to
monthly report fled today with the
public service commission Gas con
sumption. according to the report. was
somewhat lower, due also to the heat, the
report stated.
Gas sales for the month amounted
to $500, ,09354, while coke sales amounted
to $7S,3 S,3S213. Sales Of ammonia, coal tar
and benzol approximated $4,000, ac-
cording to the report
The operating revenue for June showed
2 loss, the report stated Coke sales to
indianapolis firms during the month
amounted to 100 tons. at an average
price Of SS25 per ton.
Coke on hand at the end Of the month.
the report showed. amounted L. 3.38I
tons valued at $1.234 1893 80 The total
coke stock at the beginning Of June was
1885 tons valued at $1,189. .8S9.O4. an
increase of e,395 tons, valued at $64744. %
Concerning the sale and shipment Of
coke. the report stated.
'The shipments of coke to Indianap-
oils dealers amounted to 1.1O9 tons in
June, compared to s73 tons In May. This
hiulcdIcS. 10 speclal improvement over
May, as that month suffered from the
special stimulus which usually comes in
April. Canvasses OF the fuel dealers in
dicate that coke is holding its place well
with all other fuels, but that very little
Of any fuel Is now being ordered. Added
TO the feeling Of householders that fuel
and freights VIII be cheaper. is the nat
ural psychological effect of the extreme
heat which has continued since about
the middle Of May. Inquiry brings the
information that the same stagnation
exists in the retail fuel 8,aFkets Of other
cities.
The price remaipsui unchanged
throughoJ June az S. > per ton I. Q, b.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
2,I44 Arrests
During Month
OfJuLy in City
1899 of the Police Victims
We're M0leS-440 Negroes
Caught During Period.

indianapolis. citLzeRs were far from
tal yA 1,aSs July. according to
the police report on tho number OF ar
rests made within the month. The Of
fetal count shows that 2.1li persons fell
afoul Of the law
The men We're the priacipal transgres-
sors, for of the total number, 939 were
males. while the remainder represente
the "geutler sex" The cOlored element
was not missing among the yiolators
either, for 40 OF those tsen into Gus
tocy we're negroes.
The average monthly arrests In 1921
and prior to July was about 1900. &C
cordlng to police figures The greatest
number Of arrests In any one month here
tofore, according TO the turkeys. was
1909
The Increase is due in large part, the
police said. to .he enforcement OF the
city license ordinances, hundreds Of per
sons being arrested for failure to comply
with the license regulations.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
FOUR MILLION ON
WAY TO MOSCOW

PARIS, Aug. IA revolutionary up
rising has added fresh terrors to the ter
rihle famine and plague situation in Rus
sia, but the, government troops are crush
ing the rebels, said a Reval despatch to
LInformation today.
-Four million starving, plague stricken
peasants are reported to be moving
towards Moscow from the cholera and
famine districts.
The cholera is claiming 95 per cent OF
the residents of some districts.
The public service bureau has been no
tilted by the wcrkmen in the Volga dis
trict that all factories Will be turned back
to their former owners under guarantees,
the RevaI despatch added. The Petru-
grad tramways are to be turned back
TO their Belgian owners.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
GERMANY SENDS
RELIEF SHIP

BERLIN, Aug. 1.-The German Red
Cross has needed Russias cry for help.
A ship is being loaded with medical sup
plies with which to fight the Russian
cholera plague. 1t will be sent to Petro-
grad. A number Of German doctors are
going with the medicines to cooperats
with the Russian Red Cross.
A gloomy and desolate picture of life
in Russia is printed in advices received
by the Berliner Tageblatt through ''un-
derground channels" from Petrograd.
The Petrograd correspondent OF the Ger
man newspaper says:
THE discipline of the workers has bro
ken doWn. There is practically no work
because there are no raw materials, no
iron. no coal, no nails for building and
no tools. In Petrograd the ration of
bread is one pound daily. The people
axe supposed to get a quarter of a pound
of sugar monthly and sometimes they
get a pound of dried fish. Spectators
are profiteering in the little stock% OF
butter, coffee, lard. shoes clothing and
other necessities that are on hand.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
STILL PENDING
LLOYD GEORGE

LONDON, Aug. 1-Tha irish settle
ment still is pending and 10 move VII
be made by the British government until
fhe Sim Fein at Dublin takes decisive
action.
Premier Lloyd George declared this to
be the status OF the Irish situation this
afternoon when he made a brief state
NJ in the House Of Commons The
premier was asked by a member Il he
was in a position to make an announce
ment on the I-.sI reace negotiations.
The premier replica The Sim Fein
has not vet replied to the government
terms, Consequently I am unable to
make a statement st this time"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
RELIEF NEEDS
CAUSERUSSIA
TO SURRENDER
Prisoners Will Be Released to
Induce U. S. to Aid
Stricken People.
TROTSKI URGES WAR
Would Attack Poland and All
EurOpe-Starving Families
Flee to Moscow.
TROTSKI URGES WAR

WASHINGTON, Aug. / = First
steps to relieve starving Russians
were taken today with receipt of as
surances that American prisoners
would be released by the soviet au-
thorities.
The promises to release the pris-
oners came to Secretary of Com
merce Hoover in a cable from Maxim
Gorky. Gorkys cable was reply
to a recent one by Hoover that re-
lief would be held up as long as
Americans were imprisoned.
Immediately after receiving the cable
Hoover instructed Walter Lyman Brown,
European director of the American Re
lief administration in London, to proceed
TO Riga, but TO withhold opening of dis
cussions until American prisoners are
actually delivered out of Russia
GORKY's REPLY TO
HOOVER MESSAGE,
Gorky's reply to Hooyer's message.
dated london, follows:
Riga transmits following from Max
i'm GOrky, presented by representative
soviet government in Latvia:
July 2s I have transmitted your pro-
posal to the soviet government, seeing
that the soviet government alone can
discuss the conditions contained therein.
I have received from. the soviet govern
ment the following reply for transmission
to you:
THE Russian government has ac-
Quainted itself with the proposal Of Mr.
Hoover, made in the name of the Ameri-
can Relief administration and finds this
proposal quite acceptable as to a basis
including the release Of the American
prisoners The Russian government con-
siders it desirable as soon as possible to
fix the precise conditions on which this
association (the American relief associa
tom viii Immediately begin negotiations
OF its humane intentions to guarantee the
feeding, medical treatment and clothing
Of q million children and inyalids. For
that purpose the Russian government
would consider it useful that Director
Brown or another person invested with
full powers should carry out negotiations
and shUlid Immediately come to Moscow,
Riga or Reval The Russian soviet gov
ernment awaits a speedy reply as to the
place and date of these negotiations"
Signed: Chairman Of the commission
Of the all Russian central executive com
m1ttee for helping ;he famine stricken
territories. Kameneff, Maxim Gorky.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
SAVES
CHILD STING OF
PRISON BIRTH
PardOns La Porte Woman
Forger, Who Soon Will Be
come a Mother.

IN order that the FIRST glimpse of
light Of the unborn child OF Mrs. Mar
garet Smith. la Porte may not be inside
the ,uur walls Of n prison, Governed
Warren T. McCray today Issued q par
don to Mrs. Smith. Mrs Smith was
convicted In La Porto County March IA.
1927. aud was sentenced 20 two TO four
teen years In the Woman's state Prison,
on a charge Of forgery. Mrs. Smith had
forged three checks amounting TO $9S
Mrs. Smiths pardon was granted along
with one other pardon. eight paroles,
one remission Of jail sentence. one remis-
sion OF fine and twenty seven rofusals,
following actiou b ythe State board Of
pardons.
PRISONER WILL
BE DEPORTED.
The second pardon was issued 20 Ba-
silio Canania, who was sentenced from
Wayne County, July 20, 1909, TO a term
Of one 10 eight years in the State prison,
for petit larceny. Since being confined
In the prison, Canania was adjudged in
sane, and was placed In the insane ward.
and his term having expired long ago, he
was issued pardon In order TO clear the
records In order. however for the par
don to become effective, Cananio must
leave Michigan City at once, for New
York City. where he is 10 be deported TO
Italy.
One Marion County man is included in
the persons who we're granted paroles
He is Anton Jones. SeErenced Feb 3, 1919,
to n term OF hve to fourteen years IN the
Indiana state Reformatory, for robbery.
Others granted paroles are
Albert Schnac2e. Nanderburgh County,
sentenced Feb. II. 1921. to six months at
the Indiana State Farm. and fined $40
and costs, on charge OF vehicle taking.
Leonard Northam, Elkhart County, sen
fenced March 20, 1920 to the Indiana
state Reformatory. for n term Of one to
fourteen years, for robbery.
Charles Swaney. Daviess County, ser
tencAd Feb 16, 1921, to one to fourteen
years at the Indiana State prison. for re
ceiying stolen goods
Clinton Redmond, vanderburgh County,
sentenced Oct l., 1908, for life on n
charge Of murder.
Don Henderson. Lawrence County, sen
fenced Dec G, 1920, to six months on
the state Farm and fined $40 and costs,
on a charge of assault and battery. Pa
rolled on condition that unpaid and un-
served portion Of fine be paid.
Avn Lamb, Vanderburgh County, sen
fenced Dec. n, 1920. to six months on
the Indiana State Farm and fined 5000
and costs on charge Of violation Of
liquor laws. Par0led on condition that
unpaid and unserved portion Of fine
be paid.
MUST SUPPORT
HIS CHILDREN.
George Crawford, Grant County, SEN
fenced Feb 8, 1921, to one to three years
in the Reformatory on a charge OF wife
Continued on Page Eleven)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
Senate Adopts the
Sweet Bill Report

WASHINGTON Aug. 1.-The Senate
today adopted the conference report on
the Smoot Sweet bill for the creation OF
separate Federal veterans bureau to
handle soldiers aid. The war risk in
surance bureau, the educational board
led similar agencies are to be consoli-
dated In the new bureau. 1t is to be in
dependent of any Government department
and answerable only to the President
and Congress.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
RICHARD STONE
. REACHES BANFF
Will Aid in Effort to Find
Body of Father.

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Aug. Richard
Stone, son OF Dir. w. Z. Stone, is at Bann
to help in the work of recovering his
fathers body. The following message
has been received from him by Miss
Helen Hand, private secretary to DIR.
Stone:
Arrived last night and met DR.. Bell
and Mr.. Wheeler. Mrs. Stone is at camp
thirty miles out of Banff. Reported in
exceptionally good physical condition
VIII remain here until body is recoy-
cred. Well organized expedition being
formed for further search"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01

At Little Rock. Ark, Warner, travelling
under the name Of Edward Wills, met
Miss Beulah Head, %. Early in March of
this year he says he married her at
Monroe, La.
Tiring Of her quickly be deserted her
ana went to Vincennes. where he met
Martha G. Lucas, and was introduced to
her as Delbert e. Venable, a construc-
tiOn engineer at GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
He seemed to have plenty OF money" ,"
declared wife No. 5. who was formerly
Miss Lucas Of Vincennes He ate at
the best places. He bought 60 cent porter
house steaks and 20 cent orders Of head
lettuce. He would invite me TO sup
per, and then we would go to the shows
OF course you know the only shows In
Nincennes are movies. 1t was IN the lat
ter part of March that l met him and we
were married April %"
She then showed a letter, three pages
neatly written with pen and Ink and
signed, "Delbert Z. Venabe" The let =
ter was addressed to Mr.. and Mrs. Lucas.
1115 North Beville avenue. Indianapolis
who are the parents of Warmers fifth
wife. 1t was cleverly worded telling the
parents Of the quiet marriage at the
parsonage OF Rev Green, and ne prom
iSed TO love and care for his wife and
treat her kindly.
KIND TREATMENT
ENDS AFTER TWO DAYS.
"He did not treat me kindly after the
first two days. He seemed to want to
go 10 his meals by himself" declared the
former Miss Lucas. He was just as
clever n talker as he was writer" she
added az she folded the letter and put It.
In an envelope.
Mrs. Venable declared her husband had
obtained S325 from her after week Of
married life and then deserted her.
Mrs. Venable then came to indianapolis
and stayed at the home Of her parents,
she said Her husband made fatal mis-
take, however lie left a notebook when
he deserted wife No. s. and In that book
was the address, Pearl Wills. y South
Sixth street. GAINESVILLE, Ohio" Mrs.
Vcnable opened a correspondence with
Mrs Pearl Wills and found that the
GAINESVILLE woman also was the wife Of
her husband.
When VenabIe arrived in indianapolis
a few days ago he sent a taxi driver 10
his wife aud asked her to meet him at
the Union station, and declared be would
square things
IF he married me- TO get my money /
thought he would try 1t on some other
woman declared Mrs Nenable. There
fore l told Patrolman Barge and be ar
rested my husband. am only sorry
that ! had to be one Of his victims"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
FAVORS
WAR ON EUROPE

BERLIN, Aug. War on Poland and
the rest Of Europe to escape the famine
is urged by the soviet war minister, Leon
Troski, according to Russian dispatches
received here today.
The messages said Troski in public
speeches. advanced the idea that war
would compel other European countries
to furnish food.
Trotski declared that the fear of war
In Europe's present condition would COM
pei other countries to relieve the famine
district by donating supplies, the report
said.
While the famine continues unabated
and thousands are dying, the plague sit
uation is empasized in reports received
here. Both cholera and typhus were
said to be spreading among the weakened
drought victims
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
THOUSANDS OF
CHILDREN DESERTED

COPENHAGEN. Aug. New cholera
cases are developing in the Samara dis
trict Of Russia at the rate of 400 daily
according to information received here
from Riga.
Thousands Of children in the Samara
district have been deserted by their par
ents in the wild fight of the populace
from the plague ridden countryside
The task of lighting the pestilence Is
rendered dodbly difficult by the bad san
itary conditions.
The Samara district is in eastern
Russia, stretching from the Volga to the
Ural Mountains. The area is 5S,321 square
miles and the population at the outbreak
of the war was 2,765, 600.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
WISH DOCTOR
FULL TIME FOR
VET PATIENTS
Service Committee Urges U. S.
Physician Be Kept From
Private Practice.
BETTER RESULTS AIM
Responsibility Also an Issue as
Borne Out in Com
plants.

Recommendation that full time
physicians of the United States pub
lie health service should not be per-
mitted to engage in private practice
and that a resident physician should
be detailed by the Government to
supervise the care of disabled sol
dier patients at the Methodist hos
pital, are contained in a report OF the
hospital committee of the Service
Club, submitted and unanimously ap-
proved by the Service Club at its
weekly luncheon at the Lincoln
hotel today.
The report also points out that staff
surgeons and specialists Of the local I.
S. Z. II s. are paid from S75 to $500
month for their services, and while no
definite recommendation is made in re
gard to this, 1t is stated that these fig
ures seem very inadequate when com
pared to the fees charged in the medical
profession.
COST PER DIEM
EXCEEDS s5
According to the report the Methodist
Hospital receives from the Government SO
i day for each patient which amount
must cover subsistence, quarters, nursing
and incidental drugs. The hOspitai au-
thorities maintain that the cost per diem
is largely in excess Of s. and the com
mittee recommends that the Government
Increase its allowance to the hospital to
the end that the former service men
shall not be considered pauper patients
in any sense
The need Of resident physician is
gone into at considerable length and in
regard to this the report says:
1T is also believed the best interests
Of the service would le met by a ruling
TO the effect that full time officers (doc-
torsj Of the L. S. P. II. S. should not
maintain a private practice.
The regulations OF the 4. S, p. II. S.
require that patients be visited at least
once each day. In the interval between
visits any. care Of the patient is left TO
the muses., employees or the hospital or
the nurse may call an inferno, also an
cmploye Of the hospital. There was one
case of seemingly very serious indiffer
euce called 10 the attention of your com
mittee and vouched for by several pa
tients, where mau was entirely neglect
ed after an operation unul he died some
hours later. No attempt on the part OF
your committee was made to determine
as TO the truth Of that charge. this being
left in the hands OF other agencies. but
your committee Is Of the opinion that I'm
the operation OF a ffty-he hospital tae
Government should have n resident .physl-
sician In charge Of and accountable for
al cases, TO the end that the responsi-
bilIty would rest entirely with the public
health service and not be divided rs be
tween it and the hospital In the above
mentioned incident, II true. it would be
Continued on Page Eleven.)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-01
WHOLE TOWN OF
5000 ON FIRE
Blaze Wipes Out Business Sec
ton and Rages in Resi-
dence District.

DES MONIES, Iowa, Aug. 1.-Eldorado.
Iowa, a town OF 5000 inhabitants, sixty
miles northeast OF here. was threatened
with total destruction by fire today. The
grea ter part OF the business district al
ready has been destroyed.
Prisoners have been removed from the
county jail TO prevent a panic
Fire departments from Iowa Falls,
Ackley and Grundy Center are assisting
in fighting the flames.