THE WEATHER
Unsettled, rain tonight, probably 6now and
colder Saturday.
VOL. XXXIV.
AGREE ON TENTATIVE TAXES FOR ‘BONUS’
‘BLESSED BABY’ NOTES
WRITTEN BY ACTRESS
TO DIRECTOR FOUND
Mabel Normand Denies Visit to Taylor Home
on Night of Mu rder Was to Ask
Return of Missives.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY HOLDS LETTERS
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 10. —The “Blessed Baby’’ letters, said to
have been written by Mabel Normand, popular film comedienne, to Wil
liam Desmond Taylor, today are in the custody of the district attorney.
They were recovered from one of the slain director’s riding boots.
Miss Normand, entirely recovered from her breakdown following the
Taylor tragedy, was expected to tell District Attorney Woolwine all she
knew of the dead man and his past.
..The actress denied later a published
report crediting her with saying her visit
with Taylor on the night he met his
death was to demand that he return to
her the “blessed baby” letters she had
written to him.
This report quoted Miss Normand to
the effect that Taylor had refused to re
turn the package of letters and tele
grams saying he had turned them over
for an unexplained reason, to two of
ficials of the Famous Players-Lasky Cor
poration.
fSATS SHE MADE
NO SUCH STATEMENT.
“I made no such statement,” the come
dienne said. “The report is totally
fa it e 'was said at the District Attorney’s
office Mary Miles Minter probably would
be interrogated t.y W oolwine at the con
clusion of Miss Normand's statement.
Miss Minter has been in seclusion at
hr Bollywood home for several days,
both she and her mother declining to
meet any of the newspaper men who
have called there.
Woolwines is in possession of the let
ters which had been reported as mass
ing for Eeveral days, but which were
found in a boot at the slain director s
home when assistants of the public ad
ministrator were searching the director s
c ffecta
The District Attorney said he had
examined the missives, but failed to tint
anything of particular significance rela
tive to the mystery. .
An unconfirmed rumor was in circuia
tlon to the effect Mary Miles Minter,
beautiful film star, who was friendly
with Taylor, had been interrogated by
representatives of the District Attorney
three days ago.
John G. Mott, Miss Minter’s attorney,
was quoted as declining to comment on
the rumor the star had been at vV ool
wlne's office, but was reported to have
said:
“Miss Minter is cooperating in every
way possible with the officials.”
At police headquarters it was reported
police investigators believe they have im
portant clews in connection with the re
volver with which Taylor was slain._ It
was stated information which came into
their hands just before dawn, is re
garded as very Important.
It was declared the police may de
velop leads that will show where the re
volver was bought and reveal the identity
of the purchaser. If this proves true,
the detectives said, the officials may be
on the verge of an early solution of the
murder mystery.
SEEK IDENTITY OF
“MYSTERY WOMAN.
Delving into the information a
“mystery woman” visited Taylor the
night of the murder preceding the visit
of Mabel Normand, officials hope to bring
the identity of this woman to light and
learn the reason for her call, which so
briefly preceded the slaying.
It was reported the district attorney
was anxious especially to know if Miss
Normand was aware of this caller and
what knowledge she had, if any, of the
mysterious caller s mission.
Concerted efforts are to be made to
obtain more details of this early evening
visit. Officials feel the woman’s call may
have had n direct connection with the
murder that occurred a short time later.
At the same time it became known
positively Taylor, the day before he das
shot, had withdrawn $2,500 from a bank.
The afternoon before he was killed the
director returned to the bank and re
deposited the money.
From this discovery the investigators
have given serious consideration to a
theory Taylor's slaying may have been
the outgrowth cf a blackmail plot. As
the crime is reconstructed on the basis
of this theory, officers say the director
may have drawn the money from the
bank for the purpose of acceding to
some blackmailer’s demands.
BELIEVE DEMANDS
M ERE REFUSED.
Later they believe he may have de
cided to refuse the demand.
Upon making this refusal, officers say,
the Intruder probably quarreled with
Taylor and the fatal shooting followed.
Mrs. Douglas Mac Lean, wife of the
screen star, cleared up an important
point when she said the man she saw
leaving the Taylor home a few minutes
after a shot had been heard, was not
Sands.
Those who have been questioned at
length are: Charles Eyton, general man
ager of the Famous I’layers-X.asky Com
pany; Douglas Mac Lean, screen star, and
his wife; Charles Maigno, director for
Lasky; Capt. W. A. Robertson, and Ar
thur Hoyt, friends of the murdered man.
Two Killed When
Factory Blows Up
AKRON, Ohio. Feb. 10.—Two men
were instantly killed In an explosion of
a fireworks plant at Hudson, near here
this afternoon One factory building is
reported wrecked.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending at 7
p. m„ Fei>. 11, 1822:
Unsettled, with rain tonight, probably
turning to enow Saturday. Colder Sat
urday.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. m 88
7 a. m SS
8 a. m S3
9 a. m 89
10 a. m 41
11 a. n 43
32 (noon) 48
1 p. m....,, 47
8 p f1L........,,,w *2
Published at Indianapolis,
Ind., Daily Except Sunday.
TELLS OF PLANS
TO JOIN COUNTY
INSTITUTIONS
Tutewiler Gives Council As
surance of Taking Good
Advice.
Assurance today was given the mem
bers of the Marion County Council by
President Harry Tutewiler of the board
of commissioners that the best possible
advice would be obtained by the com
missioners before they proceed to com
bine the various county commissioners
under one head
Mr Tutewiler informed the council
that he intended appointing a committee
consisting of a representative of the
county council, Judge Frank Lahr of
the Juvenile Court, a representative of
the Girls' School, a truancy officer, a
member of the police department who has
Investigated conditions and a member of
the charity board to advise the commis
sioners relative to combining certain In
stitutions
It was admitted by Mr. Tutewiler that
there are serious objections to placing
the poor farm and Julietta on the same
tract of ground.
APPROPRIATIONS
ASKED OF COUNCIL.
The commissioners have asked the
council to pass at tomorrow’s session
the following ordinances:
Appropriating $234.fi75.48 for general
expenses for operating the county offices
and institutions for this year.
Authorizing a bond issue for $.100.0000
for track elevation.
Authorizing the sale of nearly all of
the workhquse grounds.
Authorizing the sale of the poor farm
and its re-location.
Authorizing a bond issue of $150,000 to
build annexes at Julietta Assylum.
Authorizing a bond issue of $150,000 to
re-locate and build a negro orphan's
home.
Authorizing a bond issue for $75,000 for
the re-location and building of a Ju
venile Detention Home.
TRUCK GROWERS
ASK MARKET.
A committee from the gardeners and
Truck Growers’ Association asked the
council to appropriate $30,000 for the pur
pose of turning the north half of the
courthouse yard Into a market place.
The council did not Indicate what action
would be taken.
Representatives of the Marlon County
Bar Association asked for an appropria
tion of $2,000 to pay for the upkeep of
the law library on the fourth floor of
the courthouse.
Hick Studies Cat Lingo,
Gets Inside Show Facts
By WALTER B. HICKMAN.
“Meow!”
That means “howdy do” in cat lan
guage.
But “meeyow-ow” in plain language
means "leave me alone.”
That I discovered today at the first
championship cat show of the Indian
apolis Cat Club, which is being given
in connection with the poultry nhi.w at
Tomlinson Hall.
I was introduced to Con ’d’ Argento,
a smoke male champion, which is owned
by Mrs. W. L. Anderson, by Mrs. C. O.
Robinson of 3544 Carrolton avenue, one
of the leading workers at the show.
The champion paid no attention to us
until Mrs. Anderson reached into the
cage and took this wonderful eat in her
arms.
Rhodes, Made Drowsy
by Mash Aroma , Falls
Easy Victim to Cops
Albert L. Rhodes, 43, 701 Union street,
was sitting on a chair in an upstairs
room of his home today while the corn
mash in a whisky still boiled and bub
bled, the roliee say. He was almost
asleep when suddenly the doorbell rang
and he peeked out and saw the uniforms
of the police. Rhodes walked down
stairs, opened the door, and said: “Come
in, gentlemen.”
The police arrested Rhodes on th*.
charge of operating a blind tiger, and
brought the copper still, gas hotplate,
a cooling device, bottles and jugs and
about a gallon of white mule whisky
to headquarters as evidence. The still
was in full operation when the police
arrived. A garden hose had been run
through two walls, extending from the
bathroom to the room where the still
was found. In this way cold water was
obtained to cool the coils. Two hundred
gallons of mash was destroyed by the
police.
Flood Brings Plague
HULL, Eng., Feb. 10.—An unprecedented
number of cases of typhoid fever have
developed here following the recent tidal
wave which caused nearly $3,000,000 dam
age about the Humber estuary,
3 uiifcraa Uaili? STimrs
Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914, at
Fostofflee, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March S, 1879.
1
Edward F. Sands, also known as Ed
ward Fitz Strathmore, former valet for
William Desmond Taylor, prominent
movie director who was found slain in his
I.os Angeles home, is sought by police.
Sands previously had been charged by
Taylor with larceny, having stolen sev
eral articles from Taylor's home.
MINERSCLAIM
TO HAVE PUBLIC
MORALSUPPORT
Backed by People in Their De
mands on Coal Opera
tors.
Coal miners of America fee! they have
the public with them In their demands
for a wage conference with the mine op
erators, union leader here said today.
The international officers of the or
ganization believe they would receive the
moral support of the people In demanding
that the operators fulfill that part of
their contract providing for a wage
conference before the expiration of the
present agreement March 111.
If the operators permit the contract
to expire without formulating anew one,
a strike, in the bituminous fields ut the
nation is expected to follow. Unions exist
on contractor;;! relations with their cul
ploes, and the operators have declared
for lower wages and open shop con
ditions after April 1.
Seven members of the wage scale
committee of the union, named by the full
committee, were formulating the demands
they will present to the operators In
case there Is a last minute hitch and
the employers agree to a conference. If
they are not given an opportunity to
present the demands before March 31,
then they will shove them under the
mine owners’ noses In a strike, officials
said.
Governor Suffers
Influenza Attack
Governor Warren T. McCray was con
fined to his home today with an attack of
induenza. While the Governor's condi
tion is not regarded as serious, he was
instructed by his physician to remain
tn bed a few days. He was seized by the
Ulness yesterday.
Argento had nothing to say to us, but
whispered something to his mistress. Mrs.
Anderson called attention to his gorgeous
overcoat and his white undercoat. Some
class to this cat, because ho has two
coats. In a cage next to Argento is his
10-months-old daughter, Sunshine, and
his son, Hoky Smoke, owned by Mrs.
G. Kraft.
I met another high class cat. He Is
known as Robbins of Minnesota and is
owned by Mrs. R. H. Haggard. Rob
bins is a dependant of the late King
Winter. Mrs. Robinson said that Robbins
has the “head of his father.’’
It seemed to me that the more royal
the cat, the more fine manners he has.
Blood xvlll tell even in cats, you know.
(Continued on Page Six.)
EXPRESS HELD
UP BY BANDITS
Band of Armed Mexicans
Crosses Border, but Has
Bad Luck.
EL PASO, Texas Feb. 10.—An. expedi
tion of thirty-five heavily-armed Mexi
cans crossed the border from Texas into
Mexico last night and attacked the ex
press from Mexico City.
The attack, which had been carefully
planned and was made after wrecked
bridges had halted the train, was
beaten off by the military guard of the
train. Cavalry detachments rushed by
Gen. .Tose Mendez, commandant at Jua
rez, freshly mounted, while the bandit
gang had been hard-ridden, pursued the
attackers and was expected to overtake
them.
The leader of the band was identified
by a railroad station agent as Nicolas
Rodriguez, who is out on bond follow
ing his arrest on charges of collecting
arms and plotting against the Mexican
government in El Paso.
This station agent, who had oppor
tunity to view the gang and its equip
ment closely, declares it had new sad
dles, cartridge belts, rifles, canteens and
other paraphernalia, mostly bearing
United States marks,
Much Sought Man
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10,1922.
HOSPITAL TO
BE ENLARGED
BY NEW UNITS
Dr. Hodgin Tells of
Plans for Two New
Buildings.
OLD PLANS USED!
Cost Estimated at
Half Million Dol
lars.
Plans for the erection of two new
buildings at the City Hospital, which
practically have been agreed upon
as the program of extension to put
the institution in modern con
dition, were announced by Dr. E. EL
Hodgin, chairman of the board of
public health, at a luncheon given
the board by the social service ad
visory committee of the hospital.
The buildings will consist of anew
ward unit, to be located west of the
present Burilsall units and of the same
type, and an administration aud nurses'
home building,,to be situated on the
vacant space in the northeast corner of
the hospital plot. Both are to be three
stories in height and have basements.
Plans developed a decade ago by
Adolph Scherer, local architect, in a
contest conducted by the city for a
general hospital scheme are to tie fol
lowed in the structures. The cost will
be approximately s'ioo,ooo, Dr. Hodgin
sa’ 1. The new ward will add 120 to the
patient capacity aad the nurses’ ho m
will be large enough to accommodate
full complement of student nurses.
COUNCIL WILL
CONSIDER PLANS.
Before the plans are adopted, Dr.
Hodgin said, they will be gone over in
detail with the city council, The council
may be asked to meet with the board
Saturday evening.
The mnvi of the board toward en
larging the plant follow, condemnation
of the building now used as a bogie for
internes and nurses by the State fire
marshal, who has ordered it torn down
within the next three or four months.
Mis* Annette It. Cowles, superintendent
of- nurses at the hospital, spoke at the
luncheon of the dire need for better ac
commodations for student nurse,, as
serting she now has only sixty-four
girls to care, for .142 patients. Tbcro
should be more than double this number
!of nurses, she said. The situation is
becoming such. she said, that Indian
: apolis may be unable to induce girls to
enter the nurses’ training school because
of the unattractive living conditions in
which case it would cost approximately
$75,000 a year to hire graduate nurses to
take their place.
WILL PROVIDE
FOR STUDENTS.
In announcing the plan. Dr. Hodgin
said it was realization of this situation
which brought the board to devote a
large part of its contemplated expendi
ture for construction to accommodations
for student nurses.
The board in announcing it, tentative
plan abandoned Its original Intention to
build new wings upon both sides of the
Bttrdsall units and reconstruct the build
ing south of that into a nurses’ homo
The two wings would have necessitated
razing the present garage, heating plant
and laundry buildings to the east of the
Burdsall units and probably would have
cost $600,000, Dr. Hodgin said.
U. S. ORDERS LOP
OFF 3,000 MORE
Work at Steel Mills for War
Craft Stopped.
BETHLEHEM, Pa, Feb 10—Following
instruction from the Navy Department,
work was ordered suspended today at
local plant of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany on material for the battleship end
battle cruiser being buiit at the Fore
River plant of the company The order
also stepped work on armor p' te and
guns for battleships now building Two
thousand men will be laid off at the
Bethlehem plant and 1,000 at tho Fora
River plant
Joyce, Millionaire
Lumberman, Is Sued
CHICAGO, Feb. 10—Edward Each,
auto dealer, has filed a praecipe in a
stilt for $500,000 against David Gage
Joyce, millionaire lumberman, brother of
Stanley Joyce, who recently divorced
Peggy Joyce, actress. Joyce and Esch
have In the last year obtained divorces.
They say the case is the result of a
"business transaction.”
Declares the Flapper Really Isn’t Bad
MRS. W. L. GEORGE GIVES VIEW OF MODERN GIRL
She Merely Tries to Give That Impression
CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—The flapper
isn't as flip as her accusers claim.
The modern girl only tries to be in
teresting.
She wishes to suggest—merely
suggest—that perhaps, who knows
what might happen?
Making It plain that for the sake
of domestic tranquillity she wished
to agree with her husband as far
as possible on questions of feminism,
Mrs. W. L. George, wife of the noted
English novelist and feminist, thus
outlined her views today.
“There are cases when agreement
Is impossible and when we don’t
agree, it Isn’t my fault,” Mrs. George
stated with the usual knack of a
woman to “beat an argument.”
Budget Economy Is
All Psychological ,
Says Senator King
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—-The cost
of running the Government has in
creased $40(1,000,000 under Republican
rule, despite budget rule economies, it
was charged In the Senate today by
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah.
“Tte public Is becoming nauseated
fcy the constant repetition of claims
of economy by apologists for tho Ad
ministration,” King declared. “Every
one knows these claims are not ac
curate, The fact is Government ex
penditures have Increased $400,000,-
000 a year.”
DEMOCRATS TO
ASSAIL G. 0. P.
‘AIMLESSNESS’
Chairman Hull Will
Awaken Hoosier
Followers.
Bpeclal to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 10.—Demo
crats are about to take to the war
path for the 1922 congressional elec
tions. The tocsin will be sounded In
West Virginia tomorrow night when
Cordell Hull, chairman of the na
tional committee, will, after a day of
conference, address the leaders of
that State at Huntington.
Next week Mr. Hull will go to Indi
anapolis. in whut he calls the trail of
Vice President Coolldge. to wske up
the Democrats of Indiana to the possibili
ties In a year of particularly bitter Re
publican factionalism. "Justifiable op
timism” Is the ered Chairman Hull in
tends preaching to the Democratic faith
ful throughout the land. He professes
to tee the party's chan v, at this stage
of the impending contest as promising
ns they were at the corresponding period
In 1912 when events conspired to enable
a Democratic victory.
Mr. Hull declares the Decmocrat's para
n ount issue In 1922 will be the "Inaction
and aimlessness” of the Republican parfv
According so statements made to the
writer by Chairman Hull, the Democratic
(Continued on Page Four.)
HARDING MAY
GIVE SENATE
PACTS TODAY
Will Open Fight for Ratifi
cation of Treaties Soon as
Possible.
WASHINGTON. Feb. io.—President
Harding will go to the Senate in person
today or tomorrow t osubmlt the arma
ment treaties and open hla fight for their
ratification. White House officials have
announced.
President Harding's message, it it vm
derstood, will feature tne deelar.Uic.n
that the treaties involve no surrender of
American sovereignty. He also will as
sert that bis campaign pledges relating
to world concord through conference
have been followed.
The President has been advised by
Senators Lodge and Underwood that lit
tle opposition is expected to (he treaties
In the Senate, but it was decided he
should present them personally to em
phasize both to the Senate and the coun
try the achievements of the conference.
President Harding Is putting the finish
ing touches on his treaty message, most
of which was compiled In his off'ce.
The exact time of his appearance at
tbs Capitol will depend upon when the
tpetch Is finished and printed. Harding
loped to get it off early In the forenoon,
in which case it could be printed in less
t.ian two hours, enabling him to appear
in the Senate chamber at 1 o'clock.
The report of the American delegates,
132 pages long, has been printed and
will be submitted by tho President with
the treaties.
The Cabinet held one o fthe shortest
sessions In weeks, meeting for only an
hour. Indications at noon were that tho
President would go to the Capital lato
this afternoon.
After the Cabinet meeting broke Up
Secretary of State Hughes stayed be
hind anil conferred with the President
for nearly an hour over the message
which will accompany the treaties to tho
Senate. When Secretary Hughes left the
message xvas sent to the public printer
under rush orders.
GENERAL STRIKE IN NAPLES.
NAPLES, Feb. 10.—This city was tied
up by* a general strike today.
It was successful for her husband
who holds different views on the
modern girl sat quiet during the re
mainder of the interview.
“I don’t agree with my husband
that the women of today over adver
tise.
“It Is the other people who ad
vertise the modern girl. For In
stance, to look like a vamp nowadays
is the fashion and every one knows
the fashions for women are sot by the
men."
Charges against the flapper are be
ing voiced merely because every ona
is making a fuss over her, Mrs.
George believes.
“Parties are given for girls at all
age*—naver lor boys,” she said. “Ea->
Suhacrintlon Ratss: f ßy Carrier, Week. Indianapolis, 10c; Elsewhere, 12<x
Buoscnpuon Rates Man> SOo Per Month; *5,00 Per Year.
SAYS MERGER
MADE INVALID
BY UTILITY ACT
Groninger Tells Pub
lic Service Body Its
Order Illegal.
BLOCKS PURCHASE
Cites Provisions for
Cities Acquiring
Properties.
The order of the public service
commission authorizing the issuance
of securities for the purchase of
seven Indiana utility plants by the
Indiana Electric Corporation is In
valid because it in effect prevents
the carrying out of the provisions of
the public utility law which permits
municipalities to purchase privately
owned utilities, Taylir E. Groninger,
corporation counsel for the city of
Indianapolis, told the commission to
day. The statement was made in
the argument eefore the commission
on the petition of the city of Indian
apolis, the city of Kokomo and
others for a rehearing of the 'case.
Mr. Groninger said that it would bo
impossible for Indianapolis ever to pur
chase the property of the Merchants
Heat and Light Company, a part of the
merged concern. If It should desire to
because of the fact that the commis
sion authorized the placing of a blanket
mortagage on ail the seven properties. He
said the city could not purchase the
local property without assuming the en
tire mortgage.
FULL COMMISSION
HEARS ARGUMENT.
The arguments on the petition were
heard by the full commission and At
torney General U. S. Lesh, who has
been asked to rule on whether the com
mlssion has the power to reopen the case,
sat in the hearing. Representing the
parties petitioning for a rehcarlug were
Mr. Groninger, Samuel Ashby, special
court. - 1 for th eity of Indianapolis, and
Fred Rates Johnson, counsel for the city
<>f Kokomo.' Representing the Indiana
Electric Corporation were Paul P. Haynes,
carl H. Mote, Charles McPherson and J.
W. Fester.
Commissioner George VV. Barnard told
Mr. Groninger In reply to his arguments
that lie did not believe the commission
could issue an order which would pre
vent a city from purchasing a utility
plant. Mr. Johnson replied that such
an order could be issued but, that it
would not be valid.
Mr. Groninger, In continuing his argu
ments Insisted that deflnhs valuations
should have been placed on all the prop
erty involved. He read the section of
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SIX DIE FROM
PNEUMONIA IN
LAST 24 HOURS
Same Ratio Maintained for
Three Days, Health De
partment Reports.
Pneumonia and Influenza continued to
exac;t their toll of six deaths a day during
the twenty-four hours ending this morn
ing, city health department records show.
Five deaths have been directly traceable
to pneumonia and one to influenza each
twenty-four hours for the past three
days. The total toll from these diseases
in the last nine days is over fifty.
Ship, Hit by Storm,
Limps Back to Port
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10.—Hit by a
terrific storm raging 1,000 miles out In
the Pacific, the freighter Bessie Dollsr,
badly damaged, today was limping back
to Vancouver, according to wireless ad
vices from the steamer Bearport, in di
rect touch with the vessel.
The bridge of the Bessie Dollar was
sw’ept away, her steward killed and her
captain badly injured by the storm. She
was reported abojt 790 miles from Van
couver.
GOODBT, CLAY PIPE.
BRISTOL, England, Feb. 10.'~Its busi
ness destroyed by the growth of wooden
pipes in public favor, the oldest clap pipe
factory In the world has Just shut down
f, rever. It made pipes for more than 200
years.
tertalnment of daughters by many
families is as regular and systematic
as an established business. This has
an Inflating Influence on tha girl.
But when she Is married the enter
tainment stops. Os course every
woman should marry, I agree with
my husband that marriage Is a
woman's best career. A woman who
is nol married thinks too much
about men. When married, she Is
liberated from such thoughts.”
The whole attitude of the present
day girl Is best explained, Mrs.
George said, by the old epigram:
“It Is the busine.i of every woman
to have a present so that the future
may not find has without a put.’*
HE’S EMPHATIC
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—“I have
not resigned, I have not been asked
to resign, and I have no intention of
resigning,” said Secretary of the In
terior Albert F. Fall, today in re
sponse to a published story that he
was about to get out of the cabinet
because of dissatisfaction with the
policies of the Harding Administra
tion.
THINK GENOA
PARLEY WILL
BE PUT OFF
Leaders See Effect of
French and Ameri
can Stand.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—France’s
thinly veiled distrust of the Genoa
economic conference, as revealed to
day In Premier Poincare’s note to
the United Status and allied govern
ments, Is expected here to put a
final quietus on the advancement of
plans for holding the parley March
8, the date originally set by the Brit
ish-Italian promoters.
Report* were current that the reply of
the American Government to the Italian
note of invitation had already been dis
patched. State Department officials de
clined to confirm, deny or discuss the
Genoa matter, saying that it was in
the hands of President Harding.
FRANCE. AMERICA
ON SAME (iROCXPS.
Although for different reasons, the
French and American governments now
find themselves on virtually the same
ground with regard to the Genoa con
ference. Both are opposed to It and the
belief is generally here that against the
combined opposition, the British and
Italians can do little else bat call it off
or postpone It three months, as Poin
care suggested.
The conclusions reached by the French
government's new note —that the con
ference alms have not been sufficiently
made clear and that March 8 is too early
a date anyway—ls a fair reflection of
the administration's attitude and, even
though Paris and Washington arrived at
these conclusions through different
methods, for different reasons France is
revealed by the Poincare note, to be
suspicious of the Genoa meeting because
she fears some change may be made in
the reparations agreements and because
she fears Russia may be accepted into
the aociety of nations without guaran
teeing to make restitution for past short
comings.
UNITED STATES
REMAINS SKEPTICAL.
The United States Is skeptical of the
conference, because the Administration
feels that Europe has not attempted to
help herself by reducing armies and bal
ancing budgets, because it is suspected
there will be talk of “canceling war
debts," and, lastly, there is distinct aver
sion to sitting down and dealing with
Lenin and Trotskl as equals.
One result of the French note may be
to relieve the Administration of the em
barrassing duty of giving the Genoa in
vitation a flat turndown.
It was expected that formal announce
ment would be made late today after
the Cabinet meeting, of America's atti
tude toward the conference.
LONDON, Feb. 10.—The foreign office
today formally advised the French gov
ernment through the Comte De S An
laire, French ambassador, that Great
Britain is opposed to a postponement
of the Genoa conference. The Genoa
meeting is scheduled to open March 8.
MAN HELD FOR
EMBEZZLEMENT
KNEW TAYLOR?
Suspect Gets Brief Notoriety
by Reciting Relations With
Film Colony.
TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 10.—A man giving
his name as Walter Scott Underwood and
said to be wanted in Los Angeles on a
charge of taking $l,lOO from the Pacific
Electric Company where he was employed
ns cashier, was held by authorities here
today pending arrival of Los Angeles
officials.
Topeka authorities doubled interest
in Underwood whou he declared he knew
the murdered William Desmond Taylor
and the valet. Sands, well, had attended
a “party” with Taylor recently and had
"suspicious” as to who killed the di
rector.
Underwood was taken from a train at
the request of Los Angeles authorities.
NEVER HEARD OF HIM,
SAYS MABEL NORMAND
LOS ANGELES. Cal., Feb. 10—Walter
Scott Underwood under arrest in Topeka,
Kan., in connection with a embezzlement
was not acquainted with William Des
mond Taylor or with the numerous movie
celebrities mentioned in the Taylor case,
despite Underwood’s statements to the
contrary. It was believed here.
“I never heard of the man.” said Mabel
Normand, denying dispatches quoting
Underwood as saying he recently had at
tended a "party” at Taylor's home which
Miss Normand and others attended.
Other persons branded Underwood's
alleged statements as “rot.” They did
not believa he was connected with the
murder.
CALLED TO WASHINGTON.
Dr. Frank F. Hutchins, 1435 North 1
Pennsylvania street, who with Mrs.
Hutchins Is spending the winter In Flor- ,
Ida, was summoned to Washington to :
attend a neuro-phychlatry conference. :
He Is one of several specialists to meet I
with the director of the United States:
Veteran’s Bureau to discus: ways and j
means of
nervous cases,
HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COPY
LIST DRAWN TO
YIELD SUM OF
$350,000,000
Tobacco, Cigarettes,
Autos, Gasoline
Included.
TAPS ADMISSIONS
Also Real Estate and
Stock and Bond
Transfers.
Accuse Congress
of Shielding Rich
on *.Bonus 9 Taxes
WA9HLNGTOX, Feb. 10.—Congress
is putting the soldier ‘‘bonll. , • t.r
burden entirely on the shoulders of
tho com xion people and is shielding
the wealthy, hundreds of telegrams
reaching Congress charged today.
The messages from all sections ej
the country protest vigorously against
the special taxes tentatively agreed
up,n by Republicans the House Ways
and Means Committee to provide >
funds for the "bonus. ■
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Con
gress today found a way to get tho
money to pay a soldier “bonus.”
After a lengthy discussion behind
closed doers, the tax division of tho
House Ways and Means Committee
agreed upon the Imposition of the
following schedule of new taxes, de
signed to raise nearly all of the
$350,000,000 which has been estimat
ed as necessary the first year.
Tax tobacco 2 cents a pound to
raise $5,000,000.
Tax cigarettes 50 cents a thousand,
$25,000,000.
Tax automobiles 25 cents a horses
power, $50,000,000.
Tax gasoline 1 cent a gallon. s7*,
000.000.
Tax of one-tenth of 1 per cent on
■ took and bond transfers. $05,000,000.
Tax on real estate transfers, $5 a
thousand, $20,000,000.
Tax theater tickets 20 per cent
when over 25 cento in price, 574,00*,-
000.
ONE AGREEMENT
IS KEPT SECRET.
The commute also reported an agree
ment. it was said, on another special
tax, but its members iefused to divulge
the nature of It.
The tax on theateT tickets is exactly
doubled under the new schedule agreed
too. Hereafter as2 theater seat will cost
the holder $2.40, the Government get
ting the 40 cents in taxes, if the House
and Senate accept the committee’s re
port. which is deemed Ukely.
The suggested tax of 1 cent on bank
checks was definitely rejected. Chair
man Fordnev announced Jhe agreement
and then sought a conference with mem
bers of the Senate Finance Committee to
secure their agreement.
FULL COMMITTEE
MEETS TOMORROW.
Tb-.e will be a meeting of the foil
Ways and Means Committee tomorrow t*
ratify the work of the subcommittees,
should the Senate agreement be reached
as expected. The “bonus” bill' be re
ported to the House early next week, th*
leaders said, and rushed to passage
under preferential agreements.
Legislative provisions of the “fir* way"
"bonus" bill were perfected by a special
committee, working under Representative
Green. lowa. Some minor changes were
effected.
BUDDENBAUM IS
NEW CLUB HEAD
Lumber Man Chosen by Broad
Ripple Business Body.
Carl Buddenbaum, president of the
Buddenbaum Lumber Company, was
elected president of the Broad Ripple
Business Men’s Club at a meeting at
Fifty-Ninth street and Keystone avenue
last night. Other officers elected are
Robert Glaube, vice president; V. N.
Mohr, secretary, and Fred Casscihanm.
treasurer.
Herman Doll, Earl Temperly and R.
George were appointed as a committee to
draft by-laws and resolutions. A per
manent name for the organization will
be chosen at the next meeting Feb. IN.
About fifty men attended the meeting.
NINE lICRT IN “L” TRAIN CRASH.
CHICAGO. Feb. 10. —Nine persons were
injured today when two “L” trains on
the Humboldt Park line crashed In
what was said to be the heaviest fog In
Chicago in years. Panic ensued among
passengers.
Two More Holders
of Times Policies
Paid for Injuries
Two nnt-of-town subscribers of the
Daily Times have received payment
through the Travel Accident Insurance
plan maintained by this paper for In
juries they sustained in accidents.
A check for S3O has been mailed te
Harold Applegate, Scottabnrg, B. R.
No, 2, who was injured when a truck
he was driving was struck by a
freight train at Bosstown. The
right side of Mr. Applegate a head
and his forehead were cut and hi*
Wt shoulder was bruised. Ihe ac
cident. which demolished the truck,
occurred Jan. 2.
Another check for 51.43 was seat
to Levi Hunter 00S East Taylor
street, Kokomo, who sustained in
juries when the radius rod on hi*
automobile came loose, cansing the
machine to upset. The accident oc
curred two miles south of Logan sport,
Mr. Hunter Buffered a dislocated
shoulder and numerous bruise*.
NO. 235.