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The Washington times., 1931-06-12
London Manager Recalls Phrases
From Diary Left BY Slain N. Y. Girl

The contents of the little book,
however, gave such a frank and
intimate picture of Miss Faith
fulrs personal life that the hotel
manager was able today, after
nearly three years, to quote pas
sages from the book from his
memory.
Three weeks ago. Haybrook re-
ceived letter from Starr advis-
ing him that she intended to
visit London during the latter
part Of May or the first part of
June.
Officials Of the Cunard Line
today expressed annoyance that
the personnel Of their ships had
been brought into the case. The
officials said neither the Ameri-
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
Tragedy of Youth Occurred From
An Affair, at IS, With Older Man

LONDON, June IL QN.SD.
"Starr Faithful was a charm
ing girl when she was sober,
but one cocktail was sufficient
to change her disposition com.
pletely and put her on the
floor"
This was the manner in which
Rudolph Haybrook, young scenic
artist and friend. and at one
time virtually engaged" to Eliza
beth Tucker Faithful, STAIRS
sister, described the New York
butterfly beauty whose body was
found on the sands of Long
Beach, N. Y.
Haybrook told International
News Service that he first met
starr in 1928 and had seen a
great deal of her during her Wis.
its to England. He said:
II was good to her when she
first came here, and she fol.
lowed me around. was vir.
Gually engaged to her sister,
popularity known by the name
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
Starr Was Held Under Observation
For Mental Strain Six Years Ago

F. Faithful, who was in Boston
the day she vanished. was not
here to prepare a $4,000 civil
suit against prominent Bos'
tonian allegedly friendly with his
daughter as reported, according
to Attorney Charles S. Walkup.
A civil case in First District
Court at BarnStable, Cape Cod,
filed against Mrs. Faithful by a
fashionable New York and Hyan-
mis- clothing concern for S415.5O,
is on the docket for hearing on
Monday.
Indicted in Fraud
Federal Court records today dis
closed that Faithful, the step
father of Starr, was indicted by
a Federal grand jury here in 1921
on mail-fraud charges and, two
years later, was acquitted by q
jury.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
Starr Is Said to Have Had Drinks
In Taxicab With DriUer of Machine

On that occasion a girl with
her hair disarranged and seeming
either intoxicated or drugged ap,
peared in the building.
Part of her clothing was torn.
An older woman with her, who
said the girl was i'll, asked the
elevator starter to watch her "as
she had a lot of money with
her"
When a policeman was called,
the older woman disappeared.
The policeman put the girl IN q
taxicab.
The taxicab driver, according
to the story, drank with the girl
from two bottles Of whisky which
she bought. She ordered the
driver to drive her to Flushing,
L. T.. where she got out.
The two eye-witnesses were
said to have identified the body
of Starr as the girl in the
crematory at Middle Village,
Queens, yesterday, when the ere
nation was suddenly halted by
order of the district attorney.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
'WOrIR Men Denied
Pulitzer Fund Share

NEW YORK, June 12-Surro-
gate James A. Foley has ruled
against the petition of James w.
Barrett and Foster Gilroy, city
editor and assistant business
manager. respectively, of the New
York World for several years, for
permission to intervene as parties
at interest in the proceedings
relative to the transfer of the
newspapers to the Scripps-Howard
interests.
Barrett and Gilroy contended
that they were entitled to share
in the income from the news
paper trust created by the will
of Joseph Pulitzer with the pro-
vision that a share of it should
be paid to the principal editors
and executives" of the World.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12

can police nor Scotland Yard
have yet approached the Cunard
Line officially, and therefore the
line does not consider that it has
any connection with the case.
Like A Daring Novel
The London Evening Standard
today interviewed District Attor-
ney Elvin A. Edwards by radio
telephone, and was informed that
no Englishmen are involved in
the case 80 far as an indict-
ment is concerned" He said:
"Starr FaithfulPs diary is
most astonishing document.
Parts of it read like a daring
novel. A total of 20 men are
mentioned in some connection
in its passionate phrases"
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
Official of CunQrd Line Summoned
To Tell About FrancOnia Party

Others called to testify today
were two unidentified men who
had been friendly with Starr,
Howard Green, Cunard official;
Customs Inspector Helfinch and
PatrOlman Samuel Katz, stationed
at one Of the Cunard Line piers.
These latter witnesses were to
be questioned about party
aboard the liner Franconia on
May %, in which Starr was be-
heved to have taken part.
She stayed on the boat as the
liner left for Europe and had to
be put off in a tug at quaran-
tine.
After Hamlin left the Grand
Jury room he declared that he
had known Starr "Only in q bust.
ness way" and that he had no
theory as to the way she met her
death. He said he did not know
her family and knew nothing of
stairs 'lOve diary"
Because of the different styles
OF writing found in the diary,
authorities believed it possible
that more than one person might
have had entries in the diary.
A handwriting expert was ex-
pected to be used OF examine the
writing.
Part Of the time between Fri
day, when, Starr vanished, and
Monday, when her body was
found on nearby beach, Gliz-
abeth said, she was in Boston.
Faithful said she was in New
York. Edwards said:
Elizabeth has kc~n very mys-
teriOus about where she spent
the weekend. She may have
The Washington times., 1931-06-12

BOSTON, June IL GN.SO.
Summer acquaintance of Miss
Starr Faithful on Cape Cod were
being checked today by investi-
gators seeking a clue to the slayer
of the girl, whose body was found
on the sand of Long Beach, L. I.
The girl and her mother spent
many summers near Craigville.
Starr was we'll known among the
younger set on the cape.
Miss Faithful, a former resi-
dent Of Br0OkIine and a graduate
Of a girls preparatory school in
Lowell, was under observation for
a nervous strain at Wellesley six
years ago. She was discharged
from observation after nine days.
The girls step-father, Stanley
The Washington times., 1931-06-12

It was interpreted that no in.
d1Viduals will be specifically
named if any indictments are re-
turned, inasmuch as the case was
listed on the grand jury calendar
as "The People Against John Doe
and Richard Roe"
Elizabeth Tucker Faithful,
pretty sister of Starr, admitted to
reporters today that she had been
engaged to Rudolph Haybrook,
London scenic artist, last sum-
mer. She said:
"Rudy and I came to the part
ing of the ways and we broke
off the engagement after my
return to this country"
Two other witnesses expected
to be called before the grand jury
were Richard Finley and Carlisle
Norwood, respectively, an eleva-
tor starter and bank investiga-
tor, who believe they saw Starr
in a dazed condition in the
Chanin Building, on East Forty
seventh Street. on the afternoon
she disappeared.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12

Of Sylvia, and therefore knew
Starr quite well.
II believe the tragedy of her
youth drove her to the wild life
which eventually ended in her
DEATH"
The tragedy of her youth to
which Haybrook referred was un-
derstood to be an affair with an
older man while she was attend
ing school in New England when
she was only Is.
HaybrOOk, confirming from his
personal knowledge a story con-
tanned in the Daily Express that
Miss Faithful, whose lifeIess BODY
was washed up on the sands of
Long Beach, N. Y, last Tuesday.
had attracted the attention of
hotel employees here in 1928 when
she tried desperately and yainIy
to telephone "a friend" a dozen
times a day, said this friend"
was the man whom she had fol-
lowed to England.
The friend" was then tha
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
Honeymoon Voyage
Is Ended bu Mutinu

SAN PEDRO, Calf. June IL
G.N.S. .).-Mutiny among the crew
Of Zane Grey's yacht, Fisherman
II, and the disabling of the aux
iliary motor, was reported to have
caused the noted novelist to end
his world cruise in the South
Seas, according to word received
today at Los Angeles Harbor.
The cruise was being made as
a honeymoon voyage for Mr..
Grey'S daughter, Betty Zane Grey
Carney, and her husband, Robert
w. Carney, who were aboard the
Yacht.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
Poles Today Honor
Late Justices Son

The Polish ambassador, Tytus
Ftlipowicz, will confer the Order
of Polonia Restituta upon Robert
Taft, son of the late former
President and Chief Justice Will
liam Howard Taft, this afternoon
at 4 o'clock at the embassy.
The order, the highest awarded
by the Polish government, is
awarded Mr.. Taft in recognition
of his services with the American
Relief Association in Warsaw fol
lowing the World War.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12

"If the father had read that
diary, he would have destroyed
it,"
Starr was murdered for black
mail, the New York Journal said
today.
The Journal, acting independ-
entity of District Attorney Edwards
learned. 1t claimed. that three men
victims of the plot in which the
beautiful girl was a central figure.
were being sought as those who
would have paid a premium for
her life.
These men, according to the in
formation, hired men who, in
turn, hired the actual slayers, the
assassins who lured the unsus-
pecting beauty to a quiet rendez-
vouS rendered her Senseless, and
threw her into the ocean.
Last Thursday she was at a mid.
town Speakeasy with two men,
the newspaper said. She was in
a merry mood
The Washington times., 1931-06-12

ships surgeon on the Mauretania,
Haybrook said, with whom Starr
was so madly in love that she
followed him to London, ap-
parently on the spur of the mo-
ment. The surgeon is now be-
lieved to be in China.
Lacking funds for her hotel
bill. and unable to get in touch
with her friend" Miss Faithful
was compelled to return tn the
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
TO ENTERTAIN AT RANCH

PAINTER, Wyo., June IL
GNSO.-Wyoming COW ponies,
range cattle and dude wranglers
have been called in to assist in
the spending of a fortune. Mrs.
E. Marshall Field. divorced wife
of Marshall Field Sd, who is said
to receive $1,0OO.O0O a year al
mony, has leased the Dewey Rid
die ranch here and. plans to
give her Eastern friends a taste
Of life in the great open spaces
this summer. She will have $50
saddle horses and q dozen wrang.
lera ut her command
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
ON RADIO.
/. BOARD DENIED
BY COURT
Bailey Keeps Case Open to
Permit N. B. C. Suit in
Equity If Found Needed

Asserting that he did not be-
lieve the courts should interfere
with the Federal Radio Commits
sion before the latter had entered
its final rulings, Justice Jennings
Bailey in District Supreme Court
today denied the petition of the
National Broadcasting Company
for a preliminary Injunction to
restrain the Commission from
holding hearings June IS which
might result in revocation of its
licenses.
Equity Relief Open
Justice Bailey, however, declared
that he would keep the papers
and hold the case open so that
If the ruling of the Commission
is adverse to the petitioner and
irreparable loss might result from
the contemplated ruling, the petit
tioners might then seek relief in
equity.
The National BrOadcasting
Company and three other sub
salaries of the Radio Corpora
tiOn of America recently brought
suits declaring they had been
notified by the commission that
their licenses were considered
temporary and that hearings
would be held June Is to de-
termine whether they should be
revoked.
Action of the commission fol-
lows Section 13 of the Radio Act
directing that licenses be with
held from any company which
has been held in violation of the
Antitrust Act by Federal
circuit court.
Tube Case Cited
1t was pointed out that the
Radio Corporation of America
had been adjudged guilty by a
Delaware Federal court Of Great
ing a monopoly in connection
with a vacuum tube contract with
other radio companies.
The petitiOning companies de-
clared that section Of the Radio
Act to be unconstitutional and
asked the court to nulIify it but
Duke M. Patrick pleaded with
the court not to establish q pre-
cedent which would limit the
commissions powers.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
Doctor Hits Deceit
OF Child Patients

PHILADELPHIA, June IA
plea that physicians and parents
never "fooI' children when pain
full medical treatment is neces-
sary by telling them 1T won't
hurt a bit" was made at the
medical convention section on
children'S diseases by DR.. Joseph
Brenneman, of Chicago. He said:
"NO child old enough to un-
derStand what is said should
ever be hurt without being told
frankly that he is going to be
hurt and just when.
"a child will at once forget
and forgive q pain of which he
has been duly and honestly
warned: he will never do either
if he has been deceived"
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
DANCER WINS DIVORCE

CHICAGO, June IL G.N.SO.
Superior Judge Desort has
granted a divorce to Mrs. Evelyn
Mack, a dancer, from William
D. Mack, stage comedian and
one time husband of Phyllis Ha-
yer. motion picture actress.
Grounds were cruelty.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12

United States, leaving her bag
gage behind.
It was in this baggage that the
girls love diary, believed to be
the same book now reported to be
engaging the attention of the
New York police authorities, who
are attempting to solve the mys-
terry of her death, was found.
Later, after her parents had
paid the hotel bill, the baggage
and diary were returned to Miss
Faithful.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
BOY HERO HONORED

WIND SOR, Colo. June IL
Q.N.SO Paul Kuntzel, II Boy
Scout. is the proud possessor of
a lifesaver's certificate from the
National Council of Boy Scouts,
presented to him at a recent court
of honor held here. Paul was
given the certificate for his brav-
cry in rescuing two companions
from the icy waters of Windsor
Lake last winter.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
N. Y. Hotel MANAGER
Wins French Medal

PARIS, June IL IN.SD,
Henri Prince, of New York, repre-
sentative of Mayor James j.
Walker in the party of American
mayors touring France, was deco
rated by the French government
today for advancement of the
French culinary art" Prince is
hotel manager.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
SISTER BELIEVED TO HOLD KEY TO SLAYING OF +
GIRL WITH STARR ON ''HEAVY
DATE, PROBER BELIEVES

was called before the grand jury.
He was Detective Theodore
Magee.
None of the members Of the
Faithful family will be asked to
waive immunity in connection
with their testimony, according
to Police Inspector Harold r.
King.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
VISIT HARDING RITES

CINCINNATI, June IA dele
CATION of so members of the
Hamilton County Republican Club
will attend dedication services Of
the Harding Memorial at Marion,
Ohio, June 10.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12

CONTINUED From First PaRe)
brought into the grand jury room
by . detective. The coat and
underwear which Starr had worn
when she left her home on that
tLfated Friday were missing.
The man who found the dead
girls love diary"-which had
been missing for several days
The Washington times., 1931-06-12
Youth Held in Theft
Of Pistols From Shop

Charged with having entered
a store at 927 D st. N. w, on
February %, and stolen six au-
tomato pistols valued at SIS
each, Frederick C. Sampson, 25,
was held for the Grand Jury on
bond of $4,000 by Judge John
P. Mcmahon in Police Court to-
day.
The Washington times., 1931-06-12

4V4 V4A4NNND 4 AA414VAI11&V
DISTRICT ATTORNEY E. A.
EDWARDS of Nassau County,
New York, said he received in
formation of value from Francis
Peabody Hamlin, attache of
Boston branch of Cunard Line,
who knew Starr Faithful,
slain Greenwich Village beauty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11

By Times Special
CHICAGO, Dec. 11.-One of the
most important problems facing the
American and National leaguers-
the broadcasting of games-was
taken up at great length here
Thursday and the definite trend is
toward prohibiting radio broadcastS
in 1888. Action at the present time
was blocked when one club, later
found out to be the Chicago Cubs,
signed radio contract for 1892
the night before the matter came
up for discussion.
OF the sixteen major league club
owners, it was understood that
eleven are definitely against broad
casting. One of the five other clubs,
Cleveland, is ready to eliminate
broadcaSting any time the league
wishes. The other four clubs IA
voring radio are the Browns, Card
inals, Cubs and Red Sox.
William L. Veeck, Cubs president,
is the champion of those favoring
broadcasting. He believes radio has
gone a long way toward educating
the fans, particularly the women.
President William Harridge of the
American League intimated that if
radio became an issue with the
newspapers, he would recommend
brOadcaStS be eliminated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
Al Singer
Faces Bat
Former Lightweight Champ
Takes on King of
Feathers.
United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-Al Singer,
who won and lost the worlds light
weight championship before he at
tanned his majority. will make his
first serious comeback" effort to-
night in a ten-round bout at Madi-
son Square Garden against Bat
Battalino, worlds featherweight
champion.
Singer, unlike other deposed
champions, carries no handicap of
old age in attempting to regain his
lost honorS, and but for an alleged
lack Of courage would be an odds
on favorite to become the first
lightweight in boxing history to re-
peat as world champion.
The little Bronx Hebrew has had
a meteoric career, soaring like a
skyrocket until he attained the
worlds championship and then
falling like the burned-out rockets
shaft.
He won his title in July, 1880, by
a one-round knockout of Sammy
Mandell and lost it-also by a one
round knockout-to Tony Canzoneri
four months later when he still was
five months short of his tWenty-first
birthday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
Two Ten-Round Scraps Top
Bic Fistic Card at Armory

1t will take numerous knockouts
to send the fans home early from
the Armory Tuesday night, for
Matchmaker Ely has scheduled
forty rounds of boxing for the
Legion show. The ten-round main
event between Allen Whitlow and
Prince Saunders will be supported
by another ten, two skies and two
tours. Complete program follows:
Ten ROunds-AIIen WhitIow, Phoenix,
arizona. VS.. Prince Saunders, Chicago
junior HghtweightS.
Ten Rounds-Lou Vine. Indiana polls, vs.
Sammy Ward, Evansville; lightweights.
Six ROunds-BiIIy Dugan. Denver, Cole
VS.. Joe Harding. Kokomo; middleReightS.
Six Rounds-George Downey. Indian
apOls, vs.. Larry Pruitt. Indianapolis;
featherweights.
Four Rounds-Buddy Nicholson, Shelby.
vile, VS.. Z. o. Crawford. Peru; light
weights.
ap0lhis: vs.; Billy Cox. Indianapolis
Lou Vine, formerly of Chicago
but now living in Indianapolis
who is to meet Sammy Ward OF
Evansville in ten-rounder, fought
four times last season at the Arm
DRY, defeating Charley Baxter
twice, beating Harry Forbes anc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
6 Tits on
Cage Card

Six games are on the basket
menu for city prep hardwood
teams tonight. Tech journeys to
Lafayette, where Tim Campbells
toSsers tackle A. B. Masters Jeffer-
son five. Washington's Continentals
are reported in good shape for the
battle at Mooresville, and Ed Died.
rich's Broad Ripple veterans are
down for action at Warren Central
Clemens, E. Conner or Marley
M. O'Connor, Sweeney and Ford
will be in Cathedrals starting line
up against the up-and-coming Dan
vile tossers at the north side gym
tonight.
Lou Reichers Park Snipers take
on Castleton in the other home
game tonight, while Manuals i'm
proved quintet tackles Ben Davis at
Bridgeport gym.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
Five Events
at ArnOry

With five matches on the program,
everything is in readiness for to-
nights wrestling show at the Ar
mory. Billy Thorn, Indiana U.
coach, takes on Johnny (Swede)
Carlin in the two-out-of- three fall
feature, with a two-hour time limit.
In the double semi-windup, Buck
Weaver, Terre Haute collegian,
tackles Carl CLANCY, and Speedy
O'Neil opposes Tommy Shaboo in
one-fall events, with thirty-minute
time limit.
Buck LipScomb faces Farmer
Bailey in another thirty-minute
event, while Charles Bo5o and Wal
ter Vollman collide in the opener at
$3.50. Frank Buchanan will referee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11

Smith added a rs Thursday to his
63 on the first round and finished
one stroke ahead of Harry Cooper,
Chicago, who turned in a 70 for the
best card Thursday, two under par
The final drama Of the qualifying
round came at shutdown when eight
players who had scores of 1853 teed
off to decide the two who would
qualify.
Billy Burke, national open cham
pion, and Jimmie Thompson of
Colorado Springs, Colo, won the
playof with birdie tours. Among
those eliminated were Walter
Hagen, Detroit, and Johnny Daw-
son, Chicago.
Among the other well-known
qualifiers were DIN Dutra, George
Won Elm, Paul Runyan, Joe Kirk
wood, Willie Hunter, Gene Sarazen,
Whiffy Cox, Roland Mackenzie,
Motrie Dutra and Johnny Golden.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11

Another benefit expected to be
derived is that it will enable second
division teams to get players who
will strengthen the weaker clubs OF
both leagues. The player limit goes
into effect June Is. Each club may
continue to option fifteen players.
The American League favored a
reduction of the player limit to
twenty-five, but the National League
won when Commissioner K. M.
Lands cast the deciding vote for
twenty-three. :
The high-priced ball players,
starting with Babe Ruth, who drew
$4,000 the past two years, and on
down the line to Lou Gehrig, Bill
Terry, Dazzy Vance, Lefty Grove, AL
Simmons, Mickey Cochrane, Jimmy
FoxX, and others will feel the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
Central to
Quit Grid

Adjustment of intercollegiate
football from the athletic program
was announced Thursday night at
Indiana Central college, University
Heights. Games scheduled for next
fall have been cancelled.
Football costs the college more
than the other major sports and its
returns are less, President Good
stated in announcing the action. To
make up for the elimination of the
grid sport, a physical education pro-
gram has been mapped out and
funds usually appropriated for foot
ball will be used in this department..
During the past season, Indiana
Central failed to win a single grid
encounter, tying Hanover. Small at
tendance was reported. Intercol-
legiate relations in other sports will
continue, President Good added.