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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-06

MRS. PRENTISS sees mysterious
lights in the Heath household next door
one night. and the next day Harbor
Gardens. Long Island, is agog with the
murder of MYRA HEATH and the dis
appearance of her.husband PERRY.
:, ,l house guests of the Heaths are LAW
htnscE sr dNM MANN1 9er e Myras for
vlvacious to whom suspicion points be-
cause of her strange actions.
Myra Heath never used rouge, never
wore. colors. yet when her body was
found she was heavily rouged. She had
mania for collecting glass. and IL was
q rare old bottle from her collection
that, the murderer used to kill her:
Candles were burning at her head and
ffeet, near by was a card marked. 1.-THE
Wcrk of Perry Heath /"
The strange thing about Heath's dis
appearance Is that the windows. and
doors We're locked on the inside the
night before and were found that way
II the morning. Fingerprints of Bunny
Moore and Inman were found on the
At the Country Club the murder is
rival for the club presidency; AL GUN
lNINGHAM who is trying to solve the
BUCK. newphew OF Mrs. Prentiss and
In love with Bunny, believes Heath also
may have been murdered.
Bunny is amazed to get phone call
from Heath. He calls her again, saying
kriili1g by DEFECTIVE MOTT; 4 Imam
ascending the stairs after the murder,
and Mott questions all the servants and
tells them to keep silent.
NOW GO WITH THE STORY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-06
Cast Filled

Patsy Ruth Miller, Louise
Fazenda and Nat Carr have
been added to the all-star cast
of What Happened to Father"
at the Warner Bros. Hollywood
studio. Walter Merrill, who
recently signed a contract with
the Warmers, will have the
leading juvenile role. The other
members of the cast are Vera
Gordon and George Sidney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-06
First National stars while waiting
to begin his next feature comedy,
Johnny Newcomer"
TWO PICTURES HONORED

"The Amateur Gentleman" the
current First National release star
ring Richard Barthelmess, and Sub
way Sadie, IAN Al Rocket produc-
ton featuring Dorothy Mackail and
Jack Mulhall have been honored by
the National Board of Review by
being selected for the photoplay
guide of popular entertainment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-06
CHAPTER Xxx

Now, Carter" Mott went on, tell
me anything you may know about
the relations OF your employers. Be
frank, for as forbid you people to
repeat this talk, so l can promise
you that l shall not repeat it, ex-
oept to the officers of the law"
We'll, sir, as ladies' maid to both
Mrs. Heath, and Miss Moore, of
course, l couldn't help seeing how
things went on. Mrs. Heath. she
was TERRIBLY in love with Mr.. In
man. Mr.. Heath, he knew it, and
they had hot words about 1t, now
and then"
Did you hear them?"
In part, sir. Sometimes Mr..
Heath would come in while Mrs.
Heath was dressing, and he'd bid me
go in the next room and shut the
door, Then Id do so, but If they
raised their voices, as they some
times did, l couldn't help hearing
that they were quarreling about
Mr.. Inman, even though I couldn't
hear all they said But l never
mentioned 1t, not even to the others
down here. I know my place, and
I've been maid to grand ladies that
rad bigger secrets than Mrs. Heath
had"
"She had no big secrets, them"
mot what I'd call such. She
liked Mr.. Inman and he adored her,
but they were cousins-though dis.
tant ones-and she had right to be
friendly"
did Mr.. Heath urge her to- use
ropge and that sort of thing?"
They all did that. Yes, he would
come to her dressing room and
laughingly try to put some on her
face. : But she said, No in that
way she had, and he'd stop. Then,
Miss Bunny, she was always at her
TO use color, and Mr.. Inman, he was,
too. 1t was sort of a household joke,
you see."
II see. Then, Carter, any one Of
those three might have applied that
paint to her face after the poor lady
was dead"
They might, sir"
"Or you might have done it your
seif?'
"Why, of course I could do it sir
but l didn't. 1 was up in my bed,
asleep"
She was" broke in the cook. II
heard her snoring when I went
rown to look after Katie"
"Well, we're not suspecting you.
Carter" Mott said, we've no reason
to. You surely had no motive and
no. opportunity to kill your mis-
tress."
1.-THE saints forbid!' said Carter,
fervently.
II can tell you something else,
SIR Emma said, not unwilling to
take the limelight again.
All right, go ahead, Emma
Mott began to think he was get
ting some sidelights, if not very cru
cial statements.
''Wen long about twelve o'clock,
| thought 1 heard Katie comm in.
When l have to wait on her comm
in, I'm terrible wakeful. Most every
week she makes me let her in when
it's her night out"
why do you do it?'
"Oh, we all like Katie" Emma
gave an affectionate glance at the
pretty parlor-maid. And she's got
her young man, you know, and it's
pity she would have'to come in at
eleven o'clock and him such a fine
fellerv'
1t was clear to be seen that the
state of keeping company" had
raised Katie to an eminence where
she commanded the favors of the
other servants.
"And So" Emma went on, II stay
awake like, to let her in, for Mrs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-06
Overlooking OF
AUTOS MENACES
DRIVERS SAFETY
Hoosier Motor Club Official
Calls Attention to Stu
alton.

With the congested conditions
prevalent on the main highways of
the nation. the overlooking of autos
has become not only nuisance, but
also a very serious factor in reduc-
ing the margin of safety.
This statement was made here to-
day by Todd Stops, Hoosier Motor
Club secretary manager, who called
the situation to the attention of
local car owners and urged those
contemplating trips, particularly
camping trips, to exercise caution
against overlooking their machine.
Reduce Element of Safety
Every one who has made any
lengthy trips this season." he de-
clared, must have noticed the great
number of~cars that were loaded to
such an extent that all kinds of
odds and ends We're hanging loose
from their sides, taking up more of
the road than they were entitled to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-06

and reducing the element of safety.
ut is not so much the load itself
as the neglect of many careless mo-
torists who fail to make their car
ship-shape before they proceed on
tour.
Narrow Escape
"In one instance 1 am informed
by the national touring board of the
American Automobile Association
that only recently there was report
ed the case of a motorist who had
a narrow escape from tragedy
through contact between his car
and an ak that had become loose
from an overloaded camping car.
I'VE have no complaint with our
members on the score of this negli-
gence, as they are not guilty of il
as far as we know. But in the in
terest of safety and fair play, it is
to be hoped that those car owners
who carry much equipment will see
TO it that their machin are ship
shape before they tai to the trail. Z
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-06
THE VANITY CASE %
!. IA Tale Of Mdkterv and Lone
By CAROLYN WELLS

Heath gave her an awful dressin
down once when she caught her
comm in late. Then, as l was lis
TENN for Katie, I heard voices
downstairs. l thought the family had
all gone to bed, and I was thinkin
of burglars"
"Yes, you vast sneered Mrs
Pierce. You was ct up with curl
osity, and you was bound to see
what you could"
"All right, them" said Emma, as
seemingly. Anyway, pushed open
softly the upstairs door to the front
hall and I peeked over the banis-
ters. I couldn't see anybody, but l
heard the voices in the stujo and I
reckernized Mr.. and Mrs. Heath and
MIR. Imam. 1 don't know whether
Miss Bunny was there or not. So,
knowing it wasn't burglars" she
gave a look at Mrs. Pierce, II went
back to bed and waited for Katie"
And that was between IL and 1?'
"Ch, nearer -. Not more'n quar-
ter past. l know, cause 1 thought
ii might like as not be a long while
before Katie came"
We'll, then, if you are sure of
your facts, Emma, we have proof
that Mrs. Heath was alive and well
at 1915. You heard her voice, you
say?"
Yes, sir. ] don't know what she
was saying. I only heard her speak,
but she was mad, sir. That l could
tell. l seemed like Mr.. Heath was
quarreling with Mr. Inman and Mrs.
Heath was upset over it. But
didn't get the words, only their
voices"
Il see. Well, all that doesn't help
much, for the doctors say Mrs.
Heath was killed at about 2 O'Clock.
Though they can't tell exactly. Now,
Katie, that young man of yours
he was in the arbor with you until
half past II"
Yves. sir"
Don't be frightened. I'm not dis
cussing your affairs at ALL Then
ne saw man leave this house?"
mot the house, the grounds"
you've talked to Jimmy about
this since?"
Yes, sir"
Can you tell me just what he
saw"
He says he wasn't noticing spe-
cial. not thinkin' about anything
but
But your sweet self?"
well, yes, sir. And he just sorta
noticed man goin' sneakin' like
through the shrubbery and out the
side gate. He says If he'd been
sneakin toward the house, he'd "a
thought more abour it, but as he
was goin' away. he gave it no con
siderin and he wouida forgotten
about it, if this awful thing hadn't
"a happened"
Il see, very natural. I'm sure.
Now, does Jimmy think the man
was Mr.. Heath?"
He SAYS he don't know. It mighta
been and it mightnt. 1t was like
his size, maybe, but Jimmy. he Just
didn't take notice, and it was sorta
dark, anyhow"
"And then you came right in the
house,
Yes, sir. I was just comm in.
when Jimmy saw him."
'He didn't follow him, them"
"Oh, no, sir. Jim, he went out the
back gate. The man, he went
through the little side gate. the one
that leads to the woods"
Then, of course, that's all you
can tell about the man. Now, it
seems 1t must have been Mr.. Heath.
because Mr.. Heath is inexplicably
missing. But just as you came in,
you saw Miss Moore going up
stairs?"
mo, sir, it was Emma as saw
her"
Eyes, so it was. Well, that looks
as If Miss Moore might have let Mr..
Heath out, and locked the door be
hind him. and gone upstairs just as
Emma went up the other stairs"
1T might be, sir"
TO Be Continued
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-06
BUsHMAN SIGNS CONTRACT

Francis x. Bushman, long famous
on the motion picture screen. has
been engaged by E. NJ. Asher for
one of the principal male roles in
support of Corrine Griffith in her
next Finst National starring vehicle,
THE Lady in Ermine." The other
principal is Einar Hanson, who
gained fame as a star on the Euro
pean stage and screen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-06
BARTHMMEss BUSY AGAIN

A corner of the great Arabian
desert in Asia Minor has been trans
planted to the Tec-Art studios, where
Sidney Olcott has commenced the
production of "The White Black
Sheep" an Inspiration picture for
First National, starring Richard
Barthelmess, supported by Patsy
Ruth Miller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-06
DALE ADDED TO CAST

Dale Fuller, character actress, and
Billy Bits, juvenile comedian, have
been added to the cast of Thomas
Meighan's next Paramount starring
picture, THE Canadian Many
scenes Nor this picture will be made
in the wheat fields near Calgary,
Alberta, Canada
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-06

Photoplays in various stages of
filming embrace THE Country Be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
D E SPITE GOOD
CROPS FARMERS
GO BANKRUPT
L an Societies Take
Over Montana Acres
81 a Farmer CORRESPONDENT.

DAGMAR, Mont, March 8. = After
four years Of bumper crops, the
astonishing fact remains that farms
in Sheridan county are rapidly
going out of the hands of their former
owners, into the hands of the loan
companies. In one issue of the Pro-
ducers' News Ia weekly paper printed
in Plentywood, the county seat of
Sheridan county, Montana) no less
than eleven notices of sheriff's sales
of farms in that county were adver-
tised. This issue of the Producers
News contains the average number Of
legal notices of sheriff sales for at
least the past two years.
This means that several hundred
farms have been foreclosed and taken
away from the real producers and
have gone into the hands of the loan
companies and this in the midst Of
what should be good times" 1t is
at the end of four years of bumper
crops, as the years of 1921, 1922, 1923
and 1924 have been years in which
farmers have raised crops a great
deal better than the average since the
country was first settled and built up
some 20 years ago.
One other thing to take into CON
sideration is that land values in
Sheridan county have not been de-
fated, so that cannot be the cause Of
so many losing their farms.
1t seems that one can truthfully
say, that the more wheat we raise
the poorer we get, and in the end
we lose our farms and go to work for
wages in the woods.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Tractor Machines
Remove Snow and
Hundreds Lose Jobs
BY a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, March 8. - An
other last line resource of the wage
worker, the casual and seasonal work
er in particular, is going. During the
winters the unemployed have usually
had some opportunity to earn little
something by shovelling snow. This
city has been trying out a new ma
chine for clearing off the snow. The
contrivance cleans a block from a
heavy snowfall in an hour. The ma
chine gets it's power from a gas motor.
The tractor has a caterpillar drive.
with a 3 foot soup which gathers in
the snow as it is driven along. This
snow is shoveled into the center by
man working on each side of the
machine.
A carrying belt, equipped with large
hollow cups like those on a digger,
carries the snow to the top of the
tractor where it automatically drops
into a five ton truck attached behind.
1t takes about ten minutes to load a
truck. All the, labor required is a
man to run the tractor and six others.
one on each side to do the loading and
four to shovel the snow in from the
sides. 40 to so men were formerly
required for this amount of work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
"Out You Col" Says
Cincinnati Y. M. c. A.
Head to Union Worker

CINCINNATI. March 3.-aout you
go!" was the order shot at union
worker by the Cincinnati central
branch OF the Young Mems Christian
Association. He was diving in the
Y. M. c. A. dormitory when evicted.
His offense was that on the afternoon
previous he had been arrested as
picket for the Amalgamated Clothing
workers before a non-union shop. The
police have put over score OF pick
cts under arrest charging them with
disorderly conduct.
The Y. M. C. A.ipeople did not wait
10 see II II wasn't the usual case of
police persecution ending in dismissal
OF the defendant by the judge but inn
mediately told him to move out be-
cause he was involved in labor diff
ficulty."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Company Parsimony
Leads to Explosion
In Ohio Coal Mine
BY a Worker Correspondent.

POWHATTAN POINT, o., March 8.
The explosion at the mine here re-
Gently in which one miner was killed
was''due to the company's negligence
and desire to economic. The mine be-
longed to the Cleveland and Western
Coal Co.
Three days prior to the accident a
strike had occurred because of the
concerns insistence on paying wages
in checks. The men returned to work
on a Monday morning. The company
had stopped the fan which sucks the
dust up in the shaft when the strike
began. When the men came back
this fan was started up again. Enough
dust meanwhile had accumulated in
the lower levels to form an explosive
mixture. The explosion began at the
bottom of the shaft. Flames shot out
of the pit to a height many times
higher than the steel structure over
the mine.
The explosion took place a few
minutes before a. m. Had it occurred
little further back in the mine
every miner would have been killed.
AS it was one was killed and 20 in
jured.
1t is not known what caused the
gas to ignite.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
CARPENTER is
NOW SPEEDED UP
LIKE MACHINES
Union Officials Want
Speed-up System
sy a worker o0rrespOndent

PORTLAND, Ore, March S.-Before
the development of the present speed
mania, the carpenter had a more or
less bearable existence. A youth
spent five years or so learning the
trade, the work was interesting, and
a man prided himself on the job he
could turn out.
But today speed is what counts. The
first question usually asked Of the car
penter in search of work Isl How
many doors can you hang, or how
many feet of base, ETC., can you fix in
day." The slave is made to feel
that he must work like demon or
get off the job quick. After Juggling
a heavy tool box onto the job, he
stands all ready, overalls on, hammer
in hand, tool box open, and starts to
right on the whistle like a trained
dog.
Work to Set Frames.
On modern freproof building the
carpenters end consists Of building
forms for concrete footings, columns
and walls. This work, in winter
especially, is dirty, disagreeable and
sometimes dangerous. Later on he
sets the rough frames for the door
openings and grounds the walls ready
for plastering. Then when the building
is ready for trim the "finisher" starts
work and the speed-up system is ap-
piled to the limit. The inside wood
work of an up-to-date business block is
cut down to minimum. Every min
ute Is made to count-so many feet
Of base or picture mold, so many door
frames to set, so many doors or win
dows to fit and hang per day.
Union Officials For 1t.
Nearly all the big jobs are union,
but most of the union officials foster
and encourage the speed-up system
Work at top speed! Turn out the
work! Show the boss that you are
worth two or three non-union men!
That is the slogan. So when the
wood butcher sits down at noon,
amongst the bricks, lime and lumber,
10 gnaw his Feed, the usual topic is
work-what he can do and has done.
Too Old at Fifty.
The American carpenter is a typical
example of the bosses propaganda
taking root and flourishing, with dis
astrous results to the carpenter. Any
day in the Labor Hall can be seen
goodly number of WORKOUT specimens
Of humanity, sitting around waiting
for an odd job to come in, too old at
nifty to stand up against the strenuous
pace set on the big jobs and too dull
mentally to understand the reason for
their plight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Demand Tribute for
Chance at a Living
BY a Worker Correspondent.

HARVEY, Ill. - Work being scarce
here, / went to Chicago several weeks
ago to see what could get there.
Not picking up anything l went over
to the slave market" as it is called.
around Madison and Canal streets.
This is what was offered: A night
watchman's job at $32 a week for
which | would have to pay $40; a
railroad crossing fiagman's Job. for
which the agent wanted SIS tho the
Job only paid SIS a month; a chauf-
feur's position which would bring me
sos month and board but for which
would have to give $40. The last Ia
Dor agent offered me a 81 a day
common laborer's job If would paw
him So for it. One of these blood
suckers on Canal street had an appli-
cation for a janitor to take care of
church. The position paid 81 a day.
l could have it for $40 down.
A few farm jobs were listed at sos.
$S5 and $40 month. The fee for these
was SO or Sc. The applicant would
nave to pay his transportation to the
place. nN
Some of these labor agents actually
were shipping men to places from
which | had just come, having been
informed that no help was needed.
Wipe Out Private Agencies.
think these private employment
agencies should be wiped out and re-
placed by public bureaus. Why do not
the labor organizations get busy and
help make 1t possible for the fellow
VINO wants to work to get a job with
out having to. pay tribute to these
human leeches?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Swift Rise of State
Industries Increase
Soviet Bank Deposits

MOSCOW, U. S. S. r., March g.
The 1924-25 fiscal year has shown a
very considerable growth in the de-
posits of the Commercial and Indus
trial Bank of the Union Socialist of
Soviet Republics, that is a result of
the swift development of state indus
tries (Which are the basic clients of
the bank and the Strengthening Of
their finances.
Current accounts and deposits for
the past year total 4,S4O, 600, 900 rubles.
Withdrawals, 4,517 200, 900 rubles. The
deposits on October 1, 1925 amounted
to 222,SOO,OOO rubles, as against 1906
100000 rubles on October l. 1924.
This shows more than 100 per cent
increase.
The current account and deposit
operations of the provincial branches
were more intensive than those of the
head Office.
The turnover of deposits and with
drawals in the branches amounted to
6,277,O0O,0OO rubles as against S,279.-
100000 rubles in the head office. @
Concerning the sums standing on
deposit at the end of the fiscal
year, 56,4% belongs to state Industry,
more than 800 to state and municipal
organizations, So TO state and mix
ed commercial enterprises. go to
transport, 1.66 TO co-operatives. 2.1%
to credit organizations and 2.s95 TO
individuals. Ia y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Unemployed of San
Francisco Learn to
Sleep with Eye Open
BY a Worker Correspondent.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 3-That
necessity is the mother of invention"
"a bourgeois contention) is now being
exemplified by the working men of
this city. There are thousands of
working men here now, jobless, home
less, foodless, with no place to go to
avoid the rigors of the prevalent
storms. In order to get off the
streets and get a few minutes rest,
some OF the men go into the hotel
Hobbies, sit down by the warm fires in
the stoves, and, incidentally, when for
a moment the ever-alert eye Of the
clerk Is elsewhere occupied they doze
off into a much needed sleep. This is
a violation of the hotel rules. When
the clerk notices 1t he approaches the
sleeper, places his hand on his Shout
der, and informs him with convinc-
ing manner that the cool and invigor-
ating air outside is a reviying tonic
for such lethargy
AS necessity, however, is the
mother of invention, some Of the men,
to distract the attention Of the clerk,
and get their quota of sleep, take q
newspaper with them to the stove, and
holding It before their eyes, distract
the attention of the clerk, thus getting
a few minutes much needed sleep.
Some of the men have become so pro-
fcient in this deception that they can
not only hold newspaper before them
while they procure their snooze, but
can even keep one foot moving in con-
slant gyration while the sleep is be.
ing obtained saw one man SO pro-
heient in this art that he could SIT at
the stove for hours with one eye open
while he slept, at the same time keep
ing his head revolving on his Shout.
ders like an owl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Business Ignores
George Washington

NEW ORLEANS. March 3--Capital-
list newspapers in box car letters re-
Gently heralded the fact that "thous.
ands Of American flags were flying in
different parts of the city in honor OF
the birthday Of George Washington.
the great American and that business
was generally suspended" As a mat.
ter OF fact business with the excep.
ton of the banks and government Of.
fees went on as usual. Two.thirds OF
the citizens Of this city and state be-
lieve that Washington is the name Of
race horse or a member OF the
police force.