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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-03

she sailed that she would 20 to her
italian villa after the wedding.
There was no further excitement until
the BRIDE -to-be landed in France and
proceeded to Paris.
Then came Il cableSram. received May
u. 1t read: "Thc Mccormick Baker
wedding has been postponed again, Al.
lister Mccormick announced today. He
said It would take place some time IN
September" Postporement No. 3 had
occurred.
1t appears that Allistcr met the girl
In Paris upon her arrival and for a
time everything seemed to be going
nicely. They motorcd. rode and danced
together and were inseparable. Friends
pointed them out as an ideally devoted
palr-at last-and hopes ran high.
Then the unexpected happened again,
as usual. Miss Baker disappeared from
Paris,
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Black Wedding Co,pn
Stu to Make Debat

MARY spoiled a real spectacle
W. when she failed 10 show up
for her wedding in January.
To begin with. Il was to have
been the most fashionable wedding
Of the season. but that was not all
the wedding gown was to have
been Of solid black.
The whole thing was to have
been done in the Italian manner.
that is to say. the maid Of honor
was to have walked slowly down
the aisle ahead Of the bride. and
carrying = lighted candle.
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gshers had about finished their tasks
Several were still wandering up and
oown, hopelessly trying to wedge in just
one more stout matron where there was
nothing left but room for the slimmest
Of slim debutantes, though the supply Of
deoutantes had run out long ago.
These ushcrs were Gordon McCor.
mick, Harold Fowler Mccormick, Jr.,
Leahder Mccormick Goodheart, Henry
Channon. Joseph T. Ryerson and All.
pert b. Dewey. They lined up in pairs
IN the rear of the church. Leander Nc.
Cormick, the best man, stood ready,
Eric Delamater was at the organ.
playing nuptial music in his besi
manner. Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton Nc.
Cormtck had entered and taken their
places In the front pew, as befitted tho
parents Of the bridegroom, amid the
usual polite buzz and craning of necks
and .rustling: Near them were other
relatives. including Mr.. and Mrs, Cyrus
MCCORMICK. Jr., Harold McCormicI
and Miss Muriel Mccormick.
bridesmaids waited at the rear OF the
CHURCH. So did Allister Mccormick.
Exactly at 4 o'clock the sections began
nnrolling the white strip of carpet to
20 down the aisle, and to put up white
bridal party. S
At ten minutes past 4 door opened
At the back of the church and Mrs.
Robert M. Curtis, q sister Of Miss
Baker, entered, accompanied by the
brides small niece and nephew. They
walked slowly up to the front new.
Then another pause. The atmosnherc
became charged with expectancy, This
was going to be wedding of weddings.
for sure.
Then came one Of those awful waits
1t was twenty minutes. It seemed
twenty hours. Then the officiating
clergyman entered through q side door
at the front Of the church. He made
his way to the pulpit and announced
that there would be no wedding.
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head Of solid ivory. 10, Of course. she
was the only person who read the book
who really liked It.
She likes unconventional people such
rs actors, and actresses. and poets, and
artists, and writers, and lots Of other
people Who have to work for q living,
and tramps and lots more who do not
have to work for q living, and the
butler or buffers as the case may be,
at the Baker home. never quite know
whom to admit and whom to shut odt.
Il requires nerves Of, iron to buttle at
the Baker home when Mary Is around,
for It would not do to offend one Of her
friends. you know.
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Everything Was Set
When Bride Said "Nau"

Take It all In all. the wedding was
to be put over with crash that would
leave the bustling city breathless. In
the church the audience was by this
time packed in row on row. Just to
be there assured ones standing. The
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Contrary Mary Bobs Up
and Still No Weddin0

Then Mary bobbed up again In Paris.
Following this came announcement Of
the postponement Of the wedding until
next September.
Concerning this latest development,
Allister has sent the following cable.
gram to a relation. Report that Mary
and ! have quarreled Is false. Agreed
to postponement Mary is going 10
England Tuesday. VIII follow her In
a week. Will have big wedding in
September. live happily ever afterward.
Am writing in full"
And as poor Barry Baxter said in
"Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" "And
that's that--for now
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"LONlRARI RIMAR1BAKER GOING TO TILT FZANLEA
2WzLL SHE FZNzALL Y BECOME NGGORNZCK,S BRLDES
CAcag05 Famous IN IWont" Heyess In Europe, while
Fatul Suit0r Says Auch-Posponed Nedding SURELY ll
tin September-Let HIM "anng Church, But Heir to
Harvester Trust Millions Persists in Quest

would you the girl loved and with you,
M , sd turned you times, very atari
at what pretty Mary Landon Baker has done young Ass
u mccormick
And what would you DO the dozd dsushr Of Of
hiest families the land and dong parents insisted
s,r With family Just like could not make
A. vsf mind 80 through With n!
v.u you might do Just what Mary did,
ANYHOW heress has back her word Just
m, now that the wedding suy and positively for
perhaps June" has been until September
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psahas or ERgraa,ss
nd Doesn't Bat an Eve

ssSgv tney 1res
We are all clowns in the dusty
=. o.. Of everyday life; fate il our
~! sleep at night is intolerably
Hnasgiou', 70 10 work In the day.
"Solution 10 like q drug. A little Of
eekte the turmoil of the brain, but
~ much dssdens the nerves."
New" she smiled, what do you
tAiat Of my literary effortsP" The
!a!efveye. murmured something polite,
uen switched the conversation around
v tas wedding to.be.
In not married to Barry Baxter. -
~. snd. cont.adicting q rumor cur.
Mat q that time. History tells us
aas setors make poor husbands, but as
~essnearts they stand at the head Of
y viii marry Allister Mccormick
yea J reach England. Please don't
Mn at Barry Baxter. Really he
N3nasrtul boy, 10 entertaining. !"
,Mvs friends glOat over her orig
Iinv her unconventional way Of
so.na things. "Oh. she will never do
As!nMs tne way everybody else does"
,aN would say. That IL why they
t." t not really SO surprised when she
Mas 70 show up. ut the church when
~ a'r was at last arranged. cts
-" aH way say the faithful ones.
ui9 fact, she once wrote a book about
S,sS society friends and wrote IL no
% nat nobody had any diaculty
ws~ver in picking out who was who.
~ ps'niu! part about It was that she
wSa ~ the book that she considered
I"u!oooy In society but herself had a
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! miss Baker is not in love with me, "
he said. II didn't marry her three
weeks ago, as reported. That is sheer
nonsense. 1t is preposterous to say
there is a love affair between us.
"Allister Mccormick Is one of my
"losest pals. l never had the slightest
idea why they are not married.
MARY Is most wonderful girl,
charming, exquisitely beautiful and
delicate as flower. To hurt her is
a crime. And think of people limiting
she did this because Of me. 1t is incon-
ceivable.
Mary is extremely brilliant. When
she was little girl she was on her
back with spinal trouble for eight years.
During that time her mind must have
grown twice as much as other peoples,
for she is ten years ahead of average
girls in intellect.
when I think of the unfairness Of
her suffering l 60 wild. l have not
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u Allisser 10 still . trailing along
l,l,s his best to win his elusive
s,,I. but without the success In his
.S.dt.l affairs that his relatives
~. had IN shutting of competition
m the "Harvestet Trust"
And here 10 just one more peril.
,et query: What would you do
! 4 yvu were . handsome, dashins
"a psttsd young actor, and you
.vd the daughter Of one Of the
xleeksfeller oil trust" families, and
7 l,apd you were not Of the blood
,sysl. or whatever they call It, and
IND her, and maybe she loved you,
"a sll that sort Of thing, and It just
eeuIdn't b done. What would you
~
Well, Barry Baxter, the actor,
IL. His friends said his heart was
Issksn. His physician said he died
q the result Of an accident on the
kage.
All this quite naturally brings up
u question as to the sort Of people
~ actors in this extraordinary
naspce or performance, or what
gvsr you want to call it, are, any
w. TO begin with, they first
limit upon an astonished land, 30 to
9ssk, IN . blars Of publicity when
Nary failed to show up for the we'd
6hs st the Fourth Presbyterian
Cpsh In Chicago on the afternoon
4 January 3 Of this year. She had
,lnsdy postponed the wedding once,
4 siginally having been sst for the
)erisus May. ;:
Alilstsr took it calmly. He ex.
Dhinsd that Mary was swfully aes.
tAssie, really, in fact, she thoushtatoo-
hzospsctively entirely. But they
~. made for each other just the
ma hs insisted, and he would 60
sAA with this thing. Well, he
va q through With Il II he has to |
lpae % trying forever, or words to
tA' s6ect. You may not approve
4 hm, but Allister il Just like that.
Nov for Mary. Allister 10 right. |
" % aesthetic. She writes epigrams
e.sy Day, just after breakfast. Once
q lItetiny an interviewer, she said |
IA 70 ylad you've called. I've Just |
0Shsa ok few epigrams,
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time she first deferred her marriage to
Mccormick. Sometimes they were
alone, sometimes Mccormick was with
them. When the wedding failed to come
off as scheduled. Baxter at once denied
that he was involved In triangle"
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the wedding, arrived In Chicago at the
sams ttme ss the wire announcing bax-
tp.'s death In New York.
8extop weS treQuently seen In ldlss
1stse's 81 bsny IN chicsss q g.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-11-29

MusEingum st. These men are held
1t is said in connection with the in
vestigation of alleged operation Of
high jackers" In and near Indian
apors. All are charged with va
grancy. Robert Pecar, %, 686 Bernard
Ave, and Richard Wishmire. u. 1921
Blaine ave, two white men, were the
others who We're held on yargancy
charges.
Judge Wilmeth continued the cases
until Dec. and reduced the bonds
from $4,000 in each case to $4,000.
Watson Reslated
Leslie Watson, who has been held
on a vagrancy charge in connection
with the investigation of the Orme
case, was reslated on a charge OF vs.
hicle taking. John Crouch, held in
the same connection, was charged
with embezzlement. The charges
grew out of the disappearance OF a
taxicab on the, night Of the shooting.
The cases Of Josephine Coleman
and Nealy Fluerey. held in the same
connection, were continued until Dec.
6. Ivan Watson. held in the inV&SasA-
cation, was discharged
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Home Edition

Automobile accidents kill one per
son on an average every forty min
utes, or thirty-five a day, on Americas
highways and streets. While you are
reading this article at least two Aneri-
cans will be injured in motor acci-
Ients.
More Americans than were killed in
Inc World War are being killed and
injured in automobile mishaps this
year. The total toll viii be about
$4,000 persons killed and approx
nately 40. 900 injured-many of these
MANNED for life.
One-third of these Will be children,
not yet Is years old. Nine-tenths will
be pedestrians. run down by autoists.
Figures compiled for the Times by
NEA Service in a Nationwide survey
show that in 1921 lives of II. .024 per
sons were snuffed out by automobiles.
and approximately $4,000 were In
jured. These figures. compiled from
vital statistics records of each State,
represent the most complete check
ever made of the American jugger-
naut's fearful harvest.
Motor fatalities will kin more peo-
pie this year than typhoid. malaria
and smallpox combined. They viii
exceed the deaths from appendicitis
and equal diphtheria fatalities-and
in most cases they could have been
avoided.
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Push Gar Used
by J0y-RiderS'

An old railroad with a good hill on
the line. a push car left by workmen,
and a young America" in possession.
This was the situation that will
bring twenty-four boys and five girls
into Juvenile Court Friday for an in
formal hearing as a result OF two
poIly automobiles being run over at
the New Jersey ST. crossing by the
new form Of vehicle for indianapolis
'joy-riders."
When the Big Four Railroad
changed its route through the city It
left the old line. Parallel to Louis
ana St. the line goes down hill. The
children. aged 10 to Il, found the push
car. turned it on it's back and
thoroughly creased the wheels with
grease obtained from the nearby
Standard oil plant
Ding, Ding. No brakes. Autos on
the crossing. Juvenile Court!
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bile death rate Of any American city
of more than 100000. There were
889 fatalities in California last year,
or 24.1 deaths per 100000 population.
Los Angeles rate is 27.9. with 40
fatalities last year. This was a de
crease from 24.4 in 1920 for Cali
fornia. and an increase for Los An
geles from 27.1.
Mississippi has the lowest record
for auto deaths, the rate being 81
per 100000. South Carolina is sec
ond with 4.5.
Despite all their traffic police, their
safety commissions and their other
efforts to minimize accidents, the
large cities present the highest death
rate Compared with the national
death rate of 11.5 per 100000 popula-
ton, the death ra.e In sixty-five
American cities last year was 1876.
The safest city in the United States
is New Bedford, Mass. 1t decreased
its automobile fatalities from sixteen
in 1913 to half that number in 1921,
or CA per 100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-11-29
SANITARY BOARD
VOTES To BUILD
GARBAGE PLANT
LuCiuS Swift Opposes Measure
on Grounds of No Detailed
Investigations.

Resolutions declaring intention to
construct a new garbage disposal
plant at Sellers Farm, at an estimated
cost Of S375. .000 were adopted today by
the board Of sanitary commissioners.
A public hearing upon the resolu-
tions was set for 10 n. m, Dec. 81.
Commissioner Lucius 3. Swift voted
no" on the resolutions, reading a
prepared statement Of his reasons for
so doing. President Jay A. Craven
and Vice President John L. Elliott
voted yes without comment
Swift Votes mo"
Swift declared he could not vote
intelligently on the resolutions. so
therefore was going to be on the safe
side by voting no"
He said the consulting engineer EN-
ployed TO design the garbage plant
over his protest had worked only four
months and that no detailed report Of
his findings or of the various methods
Of garbage disposal used throughout
the country had been submitted upon
which the board could base an intelli-
gent course. He said this was in con
trast with months Of investigation
pursued before the resolution for the
sewage disposal plant was adopted.
Advises New DTier
Swift submitted a proposal that the
present garbage plant be surveyed by
disinterested engineers to determine
whether it can not be made odoriess
by installation of a new type of drier
for $40. 900
Craven remarked that such an In
vestigation might proceed while the
resolution for the new plant is pro
crossing. but he was satisfied the new
plant is needed.
Swift said he thought complaints Of
odors from the present plant by West
Indianapolis citizens were justified, and
he thought the trouble could be RENE
died faster by remodeling the pres
ent plant than by constructing a new
one.
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MARITAL TROUBLE
CAUSES SUICIDE
Wife Takes Acid After Husband
Leaves Her.

Apparently discouraged because her
husband had left her, Mrs. Frederick
Daniels, p, Carter apartments. 768
Massachusetts Ave. committed suicide
by taking carbolic acid. according to
DR.. Paul F. Robinson. coroner.
Mrs. Daniels was found dead in her
apartment this morning by Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Gross. Z Carter apartments. and
Anna Gregory, colored. laundress for
Mrs. Daniels.
At the side of the body was found
a note signed by her husband and a
check for 500. The note read:
we have had so many quarrels
that 1 am leaving you. Here is 800
TO tide you over. When YOU make up
your mind TO be reasonable and quit
chewing the rag at me l will come
home"
DIR. Robinson said the woman had
been dead about fifteen hours. The
body was removed to the undertaking.
establishment of Henry c. Vehhng.
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And instead of decreasing or remain
ing stationary. the percentage Of au-
tOmobile fatalities is steadily 1ncreas
ing, despite all efforts to regulate traf
flc
Fatalities on Increase
Increase in automobile traffic and
corresponding increase in the percent
age of automobile fatalities per 100. GOO
population is shown In figures for
cities and counties where accurate
death statistics are kept. Figures for
these localities show that:
In 1917. with 4,9S3,340 automobiles
licensed, there were 6,724 deaths in
auto accidents, or a death rate from
this cause of 90 per 100000 popula-
tion.
With 6,146,617 automobiles in 1918.
there were 1926 fatalities, or 90 per
100000.
Autos numbered 7.5SS.S48 in 1919.
There We're 7.96S persons killed, or
"a per 100000.
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myself assisted Orme to the porch and
then the other fellow disappeared %
The porch referred to was that of
Eugene Hay. in whose house Or1ne
was carried.
The other fellow" was talking to
Miss McCune before he disappeared.
according to the testimony. 1t was
testified the man talked to no one but
Miss McCune. Thompson meanwhile
was calling the hospital and the
police station, according to the
evidence.
The presence OF another man at the
scene of the shooting added mystery
to the case which police and de
tectives have been unable to solve.
The man was described as being five
feet nine inches tall, brown hair.
smooth face, gray felt hat crushed
in the center.
Thompson Doubtful
Thompson, in his testimony. said
/ the witness must have some other
man in mind" He said he did not
sac the "other fellow" referred to. The
fact that he did not see the other
man lLltIy DC accounted LOT Dy the
fact that Thompson left before Orme
was carried into the house and spent
about fifteen minutes. making tele-
phone calls. Thompson was not asked
where he made the calls.
Secrecy surrounded activities OF the
police today in following up their
cleanup of loafers. Newspaper men
were refused permission to see u num-
be~ of affidavits filed against persons
taken in the cleanup.
The cleanup was ocCasioned direct
ly by the shooting of Orme and the
subsequent investigation. Few ar
rests were made today.
Through detective who appeared
in the courtroom to ask that the
eight cases be continued, the names
of the defendants We're learned. The
detective said there was no reason
that the identity of these eight de-
PENDANTS be kept secret. OF the eight
men whose bonds were reduced. six
were colored. They were James B.
Turner, 26, 1104 Z. Thirteenth ST.;
William Harrison, alias Bully, "a.
6131a Indiana Ave; James Roberts, 20,
S45 w. Walnut ST.; Hugh Turner, 2S,
All w. North ST.; Lawrence Reynolds,
26, 321 w. Vermont St, and Sylves-
ter Farmer. 81, alias Avondale, no
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-11-29
VIGILANTES AND
BOOTLEG EGGERS IN
PITCHED BATTLE
Arkansas Oil Fields Scene of
Gun PIay-RepOrtS Say
Is Killed.

ELDORADO. Arm. Nov. 29-A new
battle between underworld characters
and vjpilantes has broken ont near
tho border If Ouachita and Union
Counties in tbe Smaclzovar oil field
district according to reDorrs received
bora
r,,. 80 .,,. ,,++1.,,.a,.. NO.. s,:.,
q, b.. @su..
ia, rIt,,,esod bootloo.,.oe,,.. dive
La.oa,.s o,a .,ar,}1s,. arc ,i,.re7
aaaips+ tho ,-i,,,lantas fr tba at,fr-,isb
which FIRST fa~af laer nf~bf and raered
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-11-29
COUZENS To FILL
NE WBERRY SEAT
Detroit Mayor Is Named U. s.
Senator From Michigan.

BIZ Inltcd Pre88
LANSING. Mich, Nov. 29.--James
Couzens. millionaire mayor Of Detroit,
was named United States Senator from
Michigan today to AN the seat made
vacant by the resignation Of Truman
II. Newherry.
Mayor Couzens win go to Washing
ton uncmbarrassed by promises of
political patronaEes or pledges as TO
his policies" said Governor A. J.
Groesbeck In making public the ap-
pointmeut.
"He can represent the State with
out being bound by ties OF any kind. ~
The new Senator Will take office at
the beginning Of the regular session of
Congress in December.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-11-29
S Death i'm Auto Accident EUery 70

New York State, with 1888 auto
deaths in 1921, shows death rate Of
1874. In the first nine months Of
1922, the Empire State had 1,219
fatalities. New York Citys fatalities
in 1921 totaled 896, or 1876 per 100,-
600 residents, with 701 deaths up to
Oct. / as the 1922 toll.
Cities with the highest ratio of au-
tomobile fatalities, following Los
Angeles, are: Youngstown, Ohio.
243 per 100000; Kansas City, 20.S;
Chicago, 20.3; Albany, N. Y, 20;
Bridgeport, Conn, 1875; Lowell Mass.
1913.
Accurate Count Impossible
yearly deaths from highway
traffic accidents are variously es-
timated at from 49, 900 to $4,000" de-
cIares William P. Emo. international
traffic authority. It doubt that even
official figures give a true picture of
the extent of auto fatalities.
LAS a matter Of fact, there is no
means Of making an accurate count,
because many of those who ultimately
die from traffic accidents get home,
out OF town or to a hospital, and all
records of the cause of the death are
often lost 1t is not likely that the
total number Of deaths from highway
traffic Is $4,000 per year. or about 100
every day
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-11-29

FU Tnifed NetcS
ERIE, Pa. Nov. 29.-Henry Ford
is undecided whether or not TO be
a presidential candidate in 1924.
Asked if he would make the race the
Detroit manufacturer replied:
II don't know"
There's a lot Of talk that you have
it in mind he was told.
Perhaps but it IS a little too early
to talk about that" he answered.
Ford was here for a conference re
garding the electrification of his rail-
road the Detroit, Chicago and Ironton.
by the General Electric Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-11-29
HURT IN COLLISION

Ed b. Vestal, Al, of 241 W Thirty
Second St, was hurt when his auto
mobile colhded with one driven by
James Crider living east of the city,
at Central Ave. and Maple Road to-
day Vestal was taken TO St Vincent S
Hospital with q possible broken leg.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-11-29
WOMAN BEFORE CORONER
TELLS OFFICERS Of NEW
FIGURE At CRIME spot
Viola Johnson Declares Mysterious Stranger
Assisted in Carrying Victim to
Porch and Disappears

man who before has been accounted for in the
gation Of the killing Hence city
twelve days mentioned testimony given the
today by Viola Johnson 1871 Ludlow Ave The was
Robert Thomson Ave. lawyer in an auto
mobile when they heard shot and discovered sitting the
front seat Of his with a bullet wound in his side
The witness said Mr. Hay Miss McCune fellow and