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The Washington times., 1922-02-09
GIFT WHISKEY FOUND TO
BE GOOD INK ERADlCATOR

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Feb. 10
"Moonshine whisky" that removes
ink from hardwood floors was a
gift to Fred Kingston, local broker,
yesterday. Kingston, while moving
into a now office. spilled a large
bottle of black ink on the new
floor.
Not having ink remover convent
ent, he tried the whisky which had
been presented him. The whisky"
removed the ink, the stains, and
bleached o. large white spot in the
floor
The Washington times., 1922-02-09
WHY NOT RELIEVE
THAT COLD NOW?

you'll find the small cost Of q
7 generous bottle Of DR.. Bells
Pine-Tar-Honey . sum well spent
when you learn how promptly and
efficiently and comfortably II relieves
the lingering or new cold or cough.
It's balsa mic and healing antiseptics
arc unsurpassed In promoting ease
from distressed bronchial tubos, help
Ing to loosen phlegm, congestion, and
allaying Inflammation. Get . bottk
at your druggists today. SOC
& COUGHS nd Colds
The Washington times., 1922-02-09
JOSEPH BOVINE ELwELL.

JOSEPH BOVINE ELwELL.
Bridge whist expert, forty
four. a man OF mystery.
Was separated from his wife.
Had one child, a son, Richard,
sixteen.
Was OF powerful physique
that he could have used to ad-
vantage had he chance to
grapple with his slayer.
Was shot at close range the
morning of June II, 1920, be-
tween 4 o'clock and 7:39, in the
apartment at No. 244 West 10th
street, New York, where he
lived alone.
Detectives found a filmy pink
silk garment cut in the shape
of a tight kimOnO, falling lit
tie below the knees. With IL
were a boudoir cap and pair
Of slippers Of the same material.
These vanished the day Of the
murder and were missing sever
al days.
Elwell was reading letters
when shot.
His dying form was found by
n servant.
The police found a list Of wo-
mems names, thirty-five pic
lures Of women and numerous
letters from some of them In
the apartment.
A woman was in the group
that last saw Elwell alive, a few
hours before he was shot.
A woman was among the first
visitors to the apartment after
the tragedy.
Two theories were advanced.
One was that jealousy over \
woman was the motive. The
other was that financial differ
enCes inspired the staying. Rob
berry was not the motive. Moth
ing was stolen.
No weapon was found.
All doors were locked when
the crime was discovered.
The Washington times., 1922-02-09
Mass for Miss Bike.

The st. Patrick Players will as
semble tomorrow morning at 1870
o'clock in ST. PatriCk's Church for
a mass Of requiem for Miss Frances
Biklc. who lost her life in the
Knickerbocker Theatcr disaster
Miss Bike. a senior at st. Cecilia s
Academy. played an important role
I'm the musical production of the
players, Leave 1t To Pierre"
The Washington times., 1922-02-09
Excuses
FIGURE: IN
TRAGEDIES
; Both Victims Were Exponents
of Gay and Easy Life of
Self Indulgence.
BY MARGERY REX.

NEW YORK, Feb. st is easy
for the enemy of a man who lives
secretly to murder him unseen.
In mysterious manner two men
who ate the secret bread of pleas
ure and drank sweet stolen waters
have died by the fury of assassins
still unknown.
Strange Parallel.
The career Of William Desmond
Taylor, slain movie director. in life
and death paralleled that of Jim
Elwell, so strangely shot down in his
New York home two years ago.
Each lived alone, and alone each
was attacked. From both Taylor and
Elwell, in their last moments, some
one fled.
Men who shun daylight are apt to
make themselves tempting targets
for marksmcn in the dark.
Taylor's leaVe-takinE of life was
just as mysterious as his inexplicable
4 departure in 1903 from his wife and
child, and just as unaCCountable as
his later change of name. for the
dead man was known originally as
William Cunningham Deanne-Tan-
ner.
Who could have arranged Taylor's
clandestine rendezvous with death"
Suspicion goes over the list of DOS.
sibilities. There is. for instance,
Edward +. Sands, the dead mans
valet, who robbed his master and
whom, one of the feminine stars SAYS.
Taylor vowed to kill at sight. And
there are the men who are interested
in the women Taylor knew.
Will one of the brilliant stars OF
that glamOrous world, whose little
suns are Cooper Hcwitts shoot
npwn to earth and be Obliterated in
he tragedy?
Both Adored BY Women.
Like his prototype Elwell, Taylor
wa adored by the opposite sex, hut
cared for none constantly. In fact.
il is said he was Indifferent to love.
Interesting, travelled, well-read, a
brilliant talker and a discreet COndi-
dant, Taylor held the friendship Of
many women Whether or not his
relations with them were sentimental
or not cannot he determined at this
vtime. go 49,.
But why did he disappear I'm 1908
from a host Of friends and a gay
social circle?
Rover by nature. William Dcaue-
Tanner came to New York from
Dublin in the late nineties. Movies
were unheard Of then. and the young
Irishman did not dream Of the magic
lantern which would create a life of
splendor for him and for thousands
OF others.
lie was Interested in antiques and
objects of art. He entered into that
business near ThiTtieth street and
Fifth avenue at period when this
neighborhoOd held many small shops
with fasCinat nE wares; when the
Holland House was flOurishinE, and
fine old homes and Old-fashiOued
apartment houses had not Ueen
superseded by business.
"FlorodOra' was then in her first
fling. Among tn" pretty girls of that
first cast was Ethel May Harrison.
They met and married in 1901.
Clubs, raCetraCk, thoatorS and gay
PARTIES drew this restless individual.
who because of his addiction to a
life of pleasure did not cause serious
worry to his family when he disap.
The Washington times., 1922-02-09
GAVEL CLUB PLANS TO
ENTERTAIN D. c. WOMEN

The Gavel Club Of Master Masons
will hold its regular Ladies' Night
Friday evening at the Clubrooms
1917 New York avenue. There will
be an entertainment and n five
hundred card party.
The annual election Of officers
and members OF the board of gov.
ernors will be held at the February
meeting OF the club, followed by a
public installation at the Raleigh
on March 1.
The Washington times., 1922-02-09

The director is still a director,
though he wants to be free.
He had hitched his wagon to n
star, and then sought the moon, but
the star turned out to be a comet,
rocketing down, and rocketing fast.
You haven't seen the girl on the
screen In a long time. You are
not apt 10 see her again You
The Washington times., 1922-02-09
SCANDAL MAY
WRECK CAREER.
Of FAMED STAR.
She Is Drug Addict and Her
Director Humors Her
Failing.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. o.
The murder OF William Desmond
Taylor has had a fearsome effect
upon the movies. 1t has threatened
the regulations OF some OF the
brightest names in the film world.
1t is exposing debaucheries, the
looseness, the rottenness Of Holly
wood. II may cost the producers
hundreds of thousands OF dollars.
Hollywood lifts up its hands To
cover its face. shrieks out against
the bright light binding it. de-
tends its conduct with all the genius
of its press agent and organization,
and continues in its iniquity.
An Unheeded Warning.
The murder, whether It was done
by a jealous lover or revengeful
sweetheart, or thief, or a black.
mailer, has been a warning that
has gone unheedcd.
And yet the colony is on the
verge Of another scandal, another
earthquake that will rock IL harder
than the Taylor murder. that will
shake more illustrious names out
Of the skies and scatter them in the
gutter. The scandal Is overdue.
1t concerns a director and a
famous star, one OF the sweetest
girls that ever romped the screen.
You know her well. and him.
You have wept with her, you have
laughed with her. You have looked
at her sweet lips, and II you were a
girl, wished your own were like
them, and. II you are a man, you
may, perhaps, have fancied you'd
like to kiss them.
Sweet-and Vile.
Millions of mothers have looked
at her and loved her, and wondered
IL their daughters would be as
sweet. Everything about this girl
Is sweet.
And yet those sweet lips utter
ugly little Anglo-Saxon vulgarities,
coarse observations, obsCenities.
And they can blow smoke rings
thick as doughnuts.
The girl was one OF the first Of
the picture stars. Taken when she
was young and not very wise, she
was whipped into a pantomimist. She
had a peculiar beauty, a winsome-
ness, sad smile that was infinitely
affecting.
She fell in love with a chauffeur.
q roughneck with nice shoulders
and winning way, and the girl
whom everybody in the world idol.
lied threw herself at the chauffeur's
feet.
An Ungrateful Lover.
She made director out of him.
Oh, it wasn't much of a miracle; it
does not take much to make n di.
rector-a pair of puttees, a mega
phone, a raucous voice, an irritat-
ing manner, a birthstone voCabu.
larry, trick of the eyebrows, and
It's not hard to do, too-and there
you are.
He was ambltious-but not CRATE,
full.
The other day he and the girl
were In room in the Alexandria
Hotel with some friends. The voice
Of the girl-you would never rec
ognize 1t, never associate it with
those sweet lips-was raised and
angry.
you're not going to throw me
aside now" II was saying. you
can't get away with IL. II you
try IL, there1l be headlines I'm the
papers, bigger than those In the
Arbuckle case"
The Fall Of n Star.
The director is still a director,
though he wants to be free.
He had hitched his wagon to a
star, and then sought the moon, but
the star turned out to be comet,
rocketing down, and rocketing fast.
You haven't seen the girl on the
screen in long time. You are
not apt TO see her again You
The Washington times., 1922-02-09
! Mabel NorsnsaassI

peared in 1908 for what his friends
thought would be a short time
At the Vanderbilt Cup race that
year Taylor waved goodbye to his
wife, later sent to their apartment
in the Colonial Hotel for his clothes
but remained unheard from until the
movies began to flash faces around
the world. In this way his friends
knew, that Taylor was Tanner and
not dead by any means.
His wife meantime had divorced
him and married Edward Robins,
restauranteur, nov proprietor of Del.
monico's. Tanner, become Taylor,
tired of the old life, found new out
let for his whims and rowing dispo-
sition in the adventures that he
directed upon the lots; in the sets
that pretended to be some far coun-
try, or castle or drawing room; In
the women of many compilations and
temperaments who found both haven
and heaven in Hollywood.
Taylor's associates were men and
women whom the screen brought be-
fore all of us. We know their man.
nerisms, their charms and their fea-
lures as well as those of our own
relatives. Mabel Norman was his
pal" Claire Windor was a friend.
Neva Gerber was once engaged to
the man, but they decided in a per
fectly friendly way not to marry.
He admired pretty Mary Miles
Minter. famous long ago as THE
Littlcst Rebel"
Mabers Letters Missing.
Letters Mabel Normand wrote to
him were missing, a search OF Tay-
lor's house revealed. She was the last
person known to see him alive. Mrs.
Douglas Mclean, a neighbor, saw
a man hurrying away at night and
heard a shot; lights in his house
burning late attracted Edna PuIvi-
anCc, another neighbof, but she
though little about the circumstance
at the time.
The broad ax., 1922-01-14
RICHARD z. WEST
BROOKS REFLECTED PREsI-
DENT OF THE COOK COUNTY
BAR ASSOCIATION.

The annual election of the Cook
County Bar Association. at which Of
6eers for the forthcoming year were
elected. was held at the Appomattox
Club last Saturday evening.
Hon. Richard E. Westbrooks was
reelected President The Office of
president was hOtIy contested by Hon.
James A. Scott. Assistant States At
torney and c. Francis STAFFORD. Mr..
Scott withdrew after the FIRST ballot
had been cast Attorney John F.
Wilson nominated Mr.. Westbrooks.
Attorney N. S. Taylor nominated Mr..
Scott. Attorney A. NJ. Burroughs
nominated Mr.. StraEord
The broad ax., 1922-01-14
INVITED TO VIRGINIA

NJ. 7. Bailey. 1898 S. State street,
president of the Alumni Association
OF the V. N. & I. I. at Petersburg. Va,
has just been invited to attend q big
mass meeting on January IS at Rich
mond. Va, by the citizens of Rich
mond and surrounding towns at which
time the president of the Institute,
Prof. John N. Candy. win make pub
lie the appointment of Mrs. Ora
Brown Stokes as nonresident lecturer
and member of the faculty. If for
any reasons. Mr.. Bailey cannot be
present, he win be represented either
by Hon. ]. c. Robertson of Richmond
or Hon. J. Thomas Newsome Of New
port News. Va.
The broad ax., 1922-01-14

Other officers elected were First
Vice President. c. Francis STAFFORD:
Second Vice President, Violet N. An
derson. Third Vice President, J. Har-
old Mosly; Secretary, William L. Of
ford; Treasurer. Oliver A. Clark.
The Board Of Directors is made up
of Colonel Franklin A. DenisOn. VIII
lis E Mollison, Hon. James A. Scott
H. NJ Porter. J. Gray Lucas, A. E.
Patterson and N. S. Taylor.
The speakers were the President
Attorneys Wilson. MolIisoh and Den
iSon.
The installation and banquet will
be held February Sd, 1922, at the club
rooms Of the association.
The broad ax., 1922-01-14
N. A. A. c. P. MASS MEETING
URGES CONGRESS TO
PASS DYER BILL

The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People in
its annual mass meeting on the night
of January 7, in New York City
unanimously and by acclamation
passed the following resolution call
ing upon Congress to pass the Dyer
Anti-Lynching Bill:
Since 1889, 3,434 human beings ac-
cused of crime have been murdered
by mobs in the United States before
their guilt could be established by
law OF their punishment legally in
fiicted.
During the World War when the
allied nations were fighting to make
the world safe for democracy, more
than $50 United States citizens were
lynched in America. During the last
year 63 have been lynched, and since
Congress has been debating the Dyer
Bill, mobs in impudent defiance of
the government have murdered 80
victims.
Some of these lynchings have been
accompanied by the most atrocious
and revolving orgies; in the last three
years q have been publicly burned
at the stake amid torture an dphysi-
cal manning. and in the presence of
women and children, and in many
cases the burning has been openly
advertised beforehand.
mo particular crime is responsible
for this blood lust. Since 1889, 1888
persons have been lynched, against
whom no accusation of any crime
against womanhood has been even al
legged, and in this same period O.
women have been lynched.
I'm view of record of lawlessness
which shames this nation in the eyes
of the civilized world, neutralizes her
and religion, denies her
civilization and discredit its democrat
&c government everywhere, we, the !
National Association for the Advance
ment OF Colored People, in mass
meeting assembled, appeal to the
United States Congress to take dras-
tic action in order that lynching may
be stopped absolutely and forever and
BY the power of the Federal govern
nent The states will not and can
lot act. They stand helpless before
he mob and confess openly their
We assert that an enormity so
,ruel and frightful calls upon this gov
'rnment to hesitate at no technicali-
les and legal hair-splitting, but to 90
o the limit of its authority in main
aiming law and order; in re-establish-
ng republican government according
o constitutional guarantees, and in
irving its own citizens at least as
much protection as international law
ompeis it to give to foreigners.
In the name of God and humanity,
-ongressmen of the United States,
ASS the Dyer Anti-Lynehing BHIP
The broad ax., 1922-01-14
NEW COUNTY INTEREST
RECORD SET BY CARR
1921 Collections Reach Total Of
S6S4.4le.oo; Commissioners
Laud Result

Congratulations were recently ex-
tended to County Treasurer Patrick
J. Carr by members of the Board OF
County Commissioners because Of the
large amount of interest money
earned on public funds during the
year 1921 as indicated in the report
to the board. All previous records
were shattered The total interest
received on all funds ending Decem-
Der l, 1921, was $654,4l9.9o. Mr.. Carr
has been Treasurer since April and
the interest is on money collected
since that time.
Lauds Check System
The wisdom of checking on the
Treasurer's records and requiring him
to report all interest earned is shown,
Mr.. Carr says, in comparing the rec
ords of past years. In 1905 the total
interest turned over by the County
Treasurer was only HS,l3S, according
to records in the County Comp
troller's Office. The total has grown
steadily until IT has reached the big
figure reported by Mr.. Carr.
In 1909 the interest received, ac-
cording to the Comptroller's records,
had increased to $ll7,266.9l; in 1914
it amounted to $l8o, o,2S6l2, in 1918 to
$500. .S334s, in 1920 to $SSS, S,681.l7 and
this year to $6S4.4lo.3O. The best
showing of any month during 1921
was in May, when the interest
to $l28.63S.44. The poorest
showing was in January, $l2,46l.l2, a
period when practically no tax money
was being received.
Treasurer carr's Letter
In his letter to the County Com
Treasurer Carr says:
herewith take pleasure in sub
hitting to you an accounting of all |
interest earned on County moneys for
the fiscal year ending November 80, |
1921. A resume of all of said interest
shows a total for the year of interest
rom all sources on all county moneys
'f $6S4,4lo.90. This is by far the
argest amount of interest ever re-
urned on county moneys.
If your honorable body should de-
ire to make an audit of this interest
n appoint committee for that pur-
'ose, will gladly give them every
eeess to the County Treasurer's rec
'rds. The new law. which went into
fleet in 1919, covering interest on
ounty moneys, makes it obligatory
pom the county treasurer, as we'll as
pom all depositaries of county
moneys, to make verified returns each
month with afhdavits attached and
worn to as to the amount Of interest
armed on such moneys, the original
opies of which are in the hands of
he comptroller of Cook County.
'hese verified returns will show that
he amounted stated (S654.4l9o0) is
The broad ax., 1922-01-14
NEW lin CROW" CAR LAW
FOR NASHVILLE, TENN.

On the 3rd of this month a Jim
Crow ordinance was introduced be-
fore the city council by Hines. one
Of the couneilmen, and referred to a
special committee consisting Of Hines,
Yarbrough and Willard This ordi-
nance goes further than the already
existing one 10 provide that a portion
of each car should be set apart for
each race and that strict segregation
be enforced. Large printed and NOV
able signs are to be used and the en-
frances also are to be separate. II is
to take effect thirty days after pass
age.
The broad ax., 1922-01-14
GLfKPSEs AND sIDELIeHTs
OF LIFE
By Dr.. n. A.. Majors

dramas were silenced by rapiC
changes of civilization, and a new
order sprung into being. The drama.
written by the immortal bard of 'Avor
are as well-night immortal, and they
are appreciated and respected by the
most learned people of all the world
and perhaps read more extensively
than any other book except the Bible.
Shakespeare sounded with a mental
vision all Of the heights and depths
of human nature. In his matchIess
intellect he treasured al of the great
courts of royalty, and brought kings
and queens, and great potentates be-
fore the common vision of the poor,
by hurting them before the footlights
with pleas for mercy, or excuse for
acts they would have populace ap-
prove.
What was It that almost put the
Shakespearean dramas to almost Her
culeaR siIence5
II may have been the advent of
vaudeville, the supergorgeous bur-
lesque, the modern comedy, combined
with the commercial spirit of the lit
erary age that has brought to the sur
face within the last dozen years such
writers as Hal Caine, Winston
Churchill, H. G. Wells, A. Conan
Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur
Brisbane, and a Eost of Others of
less magnitude. Then the era busi-
ness opportunity for riot in a specu-
lstive period no doubt has sobered
the mind Of humanity to a very great
extent Of course, we are not to lose
sight of the fact that the new day
takes powerful stress from the old
day. Modern life has become an i'm
Pelling force itself, and people are
drifting away from those older les
sons learned, when they could learn
no others.
Then there is the integral factor. or
anit. Perhaps more impressive the
iadividuai; separate and distinct in all |
that pertains to life itself, not exclud-
ing its aims, beliefs, principles sus-
taining truths founded upon knowI-
edge, and proved by a thousand ex-
perienees; these are the luIIing hyp-
notes that have put Wm. Henry
dramas to peaceful sleep,
only temporary, yet to peaceful sleep.
Now. what of all of this about
Shakespeare What is it in your
mind, Mister? You who are so all
fired thoughtful for the rest of us?
We are very anxious to know what II
IS that Is so great burden on your
literary heart
II VIM Henry Shakespeare is ever
to come back then the Negro trage-
dian wiz give him the vogue. The
American knows that Shakespeare's
greatest characters were the Negro
and the Jew. His dramas do not
match well with the American system
Of caste. to faunt before An audience
0theilo in the act of killing a white
woman, after she had proved her love
Tor black man would be very un-
populas IN this period Of the worlds
progress. White men do not believe
good white women love coIored men.
caa't you see, reader. some of the
-auses Of the suppression of Shakes
peares No writer of any race has
-ver undertaken to telI this truth to
he public before.
The broad ax., 1922-01-14
LEAVES CRY

Rev J. w. Tut of Davenport, Ia,
state grand master Of U. B. F. & s.
n. 7, left the city during the week
after attending the annual session Of
the Mutual Aid Board which convened
At the Nincennes hotel on January z
Rev Tut. was mach pleased with the
years work Of the organization.
The broad ax., 1922-01-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin. Sulinger
have started the erection of their fu-
ture home in Morgan Park on lots
purchased at 1I26z S. May street.
through the Bailey Realty Co. 56ss
S. State street