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THE WEATHER
Unsettled with snow late tonight and Sun
day. Colder tonight.
VOL. XXXIV.
STREET CARS TO STOP
AT ALL CROSSINGS
BEGINNING SUNDAY
Mayor Telephones Rail Company Instruc
tions to Abandon System as Soon
as Possible.
WORKS BOARD HOLDS PLAN FAILURE
Asserting that in the opinion of himself and the board of public works
Jt Is a failure, Mayor amuel Lewis Shank today telephoned t£e Indianapolis
Street Railway Company instructions to abandon the skip-stop system as
Jsoon as possible.
James P. Tretton, superintendent of the street railway company, an
nounced that the cars will begin stopping at all corners Sunday morning.
Mayor Shank said the board of works would back up his telephonic
Instructions with a formal order at the regular meeting Monday afternoon.
With the abandonment of the skip-stop
Which was ordered Jan. 25, and put Into
feffect Sunday, Jan. 30, members of the
tnayor’s committee on street car traffic
congestion began to wonder if all of their
Weeks of work prior to the opening of
the new administration is to go for
naught. The skip-stop was not specific
ally recommended by this committee, but
it had been the idea of those interested in
relief from street congestion that it
Would work into the specific recommenda
tions of the Etreet car advisors. Only
two of the recommendations of the street
tar committee have been put into effect
Bnd no tangible step has been taken
toward making effective the others.
ITRETTON ISSUES
A STATEMENT.
Mr. Tretton issued the following state
knent relative to abandonment of skip
ttops:
“The skip-stop method of operation of
our cars which waß recommended by
members of the Indianapolis chapter or
the American Institute of Engineers, ana
placed In operation on Sunday, Jan. 29,
has resulted In considerable speeding
up of the operation of our different lines,
With, we believe, resulting advantages
to the pnblle in quicker transportation
frnd to the company in greater economy
In operation, due to the less frequent
Stops and consequent saving in power
Consumed, and other costs of operation.
We hare, however, received a great many
Complaints from the public as to the in
convenience occasioned them by this
fckip-stop method of operation, and these
complaints immediately raise the ques
tion in our minds as to whether the ad
vantage In operation is sufficient to jus
tify the Inconvenience which the public
Complains of. We will, therefore, dis
continue the skip-stop on and after Feb.
J 2, 1922.”
COMPLAINTS
LEGION, HR SAYS.
Mayor Shank said he discussed skip
stops thoroughly with the board of works
Jresterday and it was the opinion of all
that the system had not resulted in hoped
for advantages to the public and so many
complaints had been received that it was
thought wise to give It nr.
“I think we will continue to skip some
cf the alleys and middle of the square
Stops,” said Mr. Shank, “but the oars
are going to begin stopping at all cross
Streets again.”
Where such skips will be will have to
be worked out later, Mr. Shank said.
The board ordered middle of the block
loading downtown at the same time as
the skip-stop system, but this was aban
doned in less than a week. Hardly a
meeting of the board has passed since
pkip-stops were ordered teat the street
Cr.ilway company has not been ordered
to resume stopping at two or three cor
ners abandoned under the Jan. 25 order.
The only steps to carry out recom
mendations of the mayor’s street car
Committee of which Frederic M. Ayres
was chairman, has been the re-routing
pf Riverside cars and the establishment
(Continued on Page Seven.)
TEN DIE FROM
PNEUMONIA IN
LAST 24 HOURS
Kew Record Shown by Re
ports Made to City Health
Department.
Pneumonia and influenza deaths
Jumped to anew record for the present
epidemic during the twenty-four hours
ending this morning when city health
department reports showed ten from
fmeumonla and one from influenza. The
daily average heretofore has been five
lind six.
Killed by Discharge
of Automatic Pistol
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 11.—Clarence J.
Curby, S6, vice president of the Smith
& Davis Manufacturing Company, was
found dead today in the gunroom of his
home. Members of the family declared
he was killed when an automatic pistol
which he was cleaning accidentally ex
ploded.
According to members of the familp,
Curby, Just before starting for his office,
declared he was “going to clean a gun.”
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending at 7
b. m.. Feb. 12, 1922:
! Unsettled, with enow late tonight and
f Sunday. Colder tonight, with lowest
emperature 20 to 25 degrees.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. m 37
7 a. m 36
8 a. m 36
9 a. m 37
10 a. 39
31 a. m 40
J 2 (noon) 41
J p. m.. 42
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Published at Indianapolis,
Ind., Daily Except Sunday.
HEATEDWORDS
EXCHANGED BY
COUNTY HEADS
Breach Between Coun
cil and Commission
ers Widens.
The breach between the majority
members of the County Commission
and the County Council was widened
today when bond issues for the coun
ty charitable institutions was taken
up and hot exchanges of words were
passed between Commissioners Car
lin Shank and Harry Tutweiler and
Councilman Russell T. Byers over the
plans of the Commissioners for sell
ing several of the institutions and
combining the county institutions
into a more compact unit.
During the session the council passed
many appropriations and vetoed others
and also passed the resolution calling
for a bond issue of $150,000 foi the Ju
lietta Asylum, but postponed indefinitely
action on the resolutions for the sale
of tfie county workhouse, county farm,
colored orphan’s home and the detention
home. These issues are to be considered
by a special commltte appointed by
Mr.jTutweller and President M. D. Haver
stick of the council. The council also
passed the resolution calling for a bond
Issue for $300,000 for track elevation
work.
TUTEWILER ANNOUNCES
HIS COMMITTEE.
Following the meeting of the council,
Tuteweiler announced as the members
of h!s portion of the committee: Judge
Frank J. Lahr of the juvenile court,
Mrs. Richard Lleber, special policewo
man; Mrs. Angelina Moore of the truancy
board of Indianapolis; Mrs. Jacob P.
Dunn of the board of control of the In
diana Girls’ School; Mrs. Joseph B.
Kealing, chairman of the County Board
of Charities; Wallace O. Lee, represent
ing various charitable organizations, and
President Haverstick of the county coun
cil. President Haverstick announced as
his choice from the council, Frank E.
Brown, Hence Ortne and John Shearer,
this committee to start at once and work
out a definite program covering a period
of from ten to fifteen years on which
(Continued on Page Seven.)
2 Arrests , Rumors
Draw Crowds to
Bank Building
Rumor piled upon rumor today caused
a huge crowd of curious persons to gath
er in front of the Peoples State Bank
Building on East Market street
The first small crowd gathered when a
couple of women detectives caught two
11-year-old girls stealing rings from a
five and ten-cent store and took them to
their office in the People Bank Building
to question them.
While other Inquisitive persons aug
mented the crowd that had followed the
detectives someone informed police
headquarters that a woman had drunk
carbolic acid in a physician's office In the
building.
The emergency squad responded and
its arrival in front of the building
brought further crowds.
While the police searched vainly for
the woman the rumor spread that the
Peoples State Bank had been robbed and
then the crowd grew in earnest.
It almost took a public announcement
from the police that there was “nothing
doing” to disperse the interested on
lookers.
Rikhoff Suspends Cops;
Will File Booze Charges
j Two members of the Indianapolis
! police force were suspended today by
! Chief of Police Herman F. Rikhoff, who
| said he will prefer charges of being
under the influence of liquor against
! them. The men suspended are Patrol
, man Patrick Shea and Patrolman Wil
liam Schlangen.
Patrolman Shea was suspended as a re
sult of the written report of Sergeant
Stoddard, who reported Shea was drunk
at the home of Charles Francis, 218 East
McCarty street, last Sunday and that he
used bad language. Shea was appointed
to the force Nov. 25, 1919.
A report came from Beville avenue and
Washington street last night that
Entered as Second Claes Matter, July 25, 1914, at
Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March S, 1879.
May Succeed Kenyon
James R Howard, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation, is
spoken of as a probable successor of
Senator William S. Kenyon, who retired
to accept a seat on the Federal bench.
Film Head Brands
Demand for Notes
Stories as False
LOS ANGELES. Feb. 11.—Stories that
Mabel Normand went to the home of
William Desmond Taylor slain movie di
rector, to force him to return to her let
ters, were branded ns "vicious false
hoods” here today by Charles Eyton, gen
eral manager of the Famous Flayers-
Lasky Corporation.
“Miss Normand went to Taylor’s home
that night to get a book,” Eyton said.
“She didn’t try to get her letters until
after the murder had been committed, I
was in his home after the inquest with
a public administrator when she called
and asked for them.
“There is a tendency of certain news
paper interests here to publish stories
against a man who cannot defend him
self against scandalous insinuations. They
shall retract, or I’ll know the reason
why,” he said.
ELECTRIC RATE
INVESTIGATION
WILL BE MADE
Public Service Commission to
Conduct Inquiry, Van
Auken Announces.
An investigation of rates charged all
classes of electric service consumers In
Indianapolis will be made by the public
service commission. Commissioner Glenu
Van Aucken announced In a formal state
ment today. The Investigation will bo
made in connection with a petition of a
number of manufacturers asking for a
reduction in power rates, the statement
said.
After setting out the title of the case,
the statement says:
“The public service commission now
announces, in the above entitled causes.
In its investigation prior to the bearing,
during the hearing and subsequent to
the hearing, and in the final determina
tion of the causes, it will consider and
determine and order just and reasonable
rates, not only for the power consumers
(petitioners herein), but for all classes
of electric service consumers in the city
of Indianapolis.
I AIK WARNING
GIVEN PUBLIC.
“This notice is issued to all parties
concerned In order there may be no mis
take about the commission’s purpose to
consider and determine proper rates for
all classes of electric service in tho city
of Indianapolis, and in order any party
who may object to the procedure outlined
herein may have opportunity to make
such objection in writing prior to the
hearing.”
The action of the commission is taken
under the provision of the public service
commission act which permits the com
mission to Institute proceedings on its
own motion for the readjustment of
rates. It is possible the action of the
commission in going into all classes of
electric rates in Indianapolis will mean a
reduction in such rates.
OTHER LIGHT
COMPANY AFFECTED.
The question of electric rates has
been brought to the front because of the
Indiana Electric Corporation merger of
which the Merchants Heat and Light
Company is a part. The action, however,
affects the Indianapolis Light and Ileat
Company as well.
The petition of Indianapolis manu
facturers for a reduction in power rates
was filed some time ago, but action was
held up during the bearing of the merger
case. The petitioners for a decrease in
rates also participated in the merger
hearings.
Schlangen was under the Influence of
liquor and was abusing a motorist. Serge.
Cox was sent to investigate and brought
Schlangen to headquarters where his
badge was taken from him. Schlangen
was appointed to the force Dec. 6, 1005.
Rail Employe Killed
PERU, Ind., Feb. IL—J. B. Morrison,
51, railroad laborer, was crushed to
death when a coal dock in the Wabash
railroad yards here fell on him late last
night. He is survived by a widow and
six children.
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1922.
15 RAIL UNION
HEADS ACCEPT
BID OF MINERS
All But One of 16
Presidents Respond
Favorably.
LEWIS GRATIFIED
Says Workers See
Need of Closer Co
operation.
Fifteen of the sixteen presidents o*
railroad unions invited by the United
Mine Workers of America to meet
with them at Chicago. Feb. 21 have
accepted the invitation, according to
a statement given out by John L.
Lewis, International president of the
miners, today. The statement includ
ed a letter to D. W. Holt, grand pres
ident of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Signalmen of American, urging him
to accept.
Gratification over the acceptance of the
invitation is expressed in the statement
of Mr. Lewis.
The statement follows:
"The practically unanimous acceptance
by the representatives of the railroad
organizations of the invitation of the
United Mine Workers of America is es
pecially gratifying. It indicates that the
organized railroad workers ar.d mine
workers have a profound appreciation of
the necessity for closer cooperation and
reflects a determination to utilize every
proper means of protecting the interests
of the men employed in these basic in
dustries It Is my firm conviction that
the Chicago meeting will be fruitful of
results that will reflect credit upon the
associated organizations and demonstrate
the capacity of labor to Intelligently or
ganlze for tho promotion of Us ideals.”
The following union presidents have
been Invited to attend the conference:
B. M. Jewell, president. Railway Em
ployes, Dept. A. F. of L.; J. A. Franklin,
president, International Brotherhood of
Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders and
Helpers of America; E. H. Fitzgerald,
president. Brotherhood of Railway and
Steamship Clerks; E. J. Manion, presi
dent, Order of Railroad Telegraphers;
T. O. Cashen, president, Switchmen's
Union of North America; D. W. Kelt,
president. Brotherhood of Railroad Slg
nalthen of America; J. P. Noonan, presi
dent, International Brotherhood of Elec
trical Workers; Timothy J. Hcaly, presi
dent, International Brotherhood of Fire
men and Oilers; Martin F. Ryan, presi
dent, B'Hrolhcrhood of Railway Carmen
of America; James W. Kline, president.
International Brotherhood of Black
smiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers; Wil
liam 11. Johnson, president. Interna
tional Association of Machirls’s; John J.
Hynes, president. Amalgamated Sheet
Metal Workers; E. F. Grahlc, president,
United Brotherhood of Maintenance of
Way Employes and' Railway Shop La
borers; L. E. Sheppard, president. Order
of Railway Conductors of America ; War
ren S. Stone, Grand Chief Engineer,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers;
William S. Carter, president. Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen anil En
ginemen ; William G. Lee, president.
Brotherhood of Kailrond Trainmen.
SCALE SUBCOMMITTEE
WILL REPORT MONDAY.
A subcommittee of ’ two of the scale
committee of the United Mine Workers of
America, who hare been going over
the various demands of local unions, will
report Monday morning to the subcom
mittee of seven. " In the afternoon the
committee of seven will report to the
complete scale committee nnd the genie
committee in turn will report to the in
ternational convention Tuesdlay. The
committee of two is composed of Lee
Hall, president of the Ohio district, nnd
John Messier, president of the Indiana
district.
JOHNSON SEES GREAT
POLITIC A L POSSIBILITIES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Great polit
ical possibilities join in the Joint confer
ence of miners and railroad workers in
Chicago, Feb. 21, ’William H. Johnston,
president of the International Association
of Machinists, declared here today.
"The purpose of the ‘defensive alli
ance’ meeting Is to effect determina :e
bonds between the coal miners and the
railroad workers, heretofore more a
matter of well wishing than of concrete
cooperation,” said Johnston.
“From, that conference a great politi
cal labor coalition may come.”
The International Association of Ma
chinists already has accepted the invi
tation of John L. Lewis to attend the
conference, Johnston said.
Find ZR-2 Disaster
Preventable; Tests
Were Abandoned
LONDON, Feb. 11—The disaster
of the dirigible ZR-2, with the loss
of more than two score lives, might
have been averted if the proper pre
liminary tests had been made, ac
cording to the report of the technical
committee of the Royal Aeoronautic
Society, which will be made public
soon. The committee has been mak
ing a thorough Investigation into tho
catastrophe.
It was learned that the report Will
declare tests of strength regarding
the construction plans of the ZR-2
wore abandoned because of lack of
funds. Building of the airship was
then undertaken on the basis of un
completed experiments.
Edison 19 Minutes Late
Reporting for Work -- Rut
It’s His 75th Birthday
WEST ORANGE, N. J., Feb. 11.—
Thomas A. Edison celebrated his seventy
fifth birthday anniversary today. He
announced that the world Is ou the
threshold of a great inventing era and
that America soon will enjoy a long
period of prosperity.
"We soon shall be able to hear ants
talk," he announced as he explained that
he was working to improve the amplifier
that spreads broadcast radio messages.
Mr. Edison sbame-facedly reported for
work nineteen minutes late, after his
9,000 employes had punched the clock.
“It shan't happen again," he apologized
to the newspaper men when he told them
of his dereliction. Today’s tardiness,
however, Is offset, by the fact that he
worked all Monday and Wednesday
night until 1 a. m. Thursday morning,
STATE’S SHARE
OF ‘BONUS’ PUT
AT $11,000,000
Estimate Made of Part
Hoosiers Would Be
Called to Pay.
Indiana taxpayers will he called
upon to pay $11,000,000 or more a
year in taxes for the soldier “bonus,”
should the program agreed upon yes
terday by the House Ways end
Means Committee become a law, ac
cording to estimates based on the
most reliable information available.
The American Legion will take no
official stand either In favor or in
opposition to the present program of
raising the money for the “bonus,”
or any other method, according to
Lemuel E. Holies, national adjutant
of the Legion.
LEGION TO TAKE NO
PART IN DISCUSSION.
“In accordance with the announced
policy of the legion In this matter,” Mr.
Holies said today, "neither tho legion
nor its officers will take any part in the
discussion of any means which may be
selected by Congress to raise money for
the adjusted compensation. It is tiie re
sult In which we are interested and we
will not taka any part in discussing, ad
vocating or opposing the means Congress
takes to make the adjusted compensation
for which the legion has atood, a rca!
ity.”
Hanford MaoNlder, national commander
of the legion, expressed a similar opinion
when he was here several weeks ago at
tending the conference of American Le
gion heads.
In all probability labor organizations
will oppose the present plan of taxation
Labor leaders called attention today to
the fact, that only one provision of the"
proposed law, that placing a tax of 2b.
per cent on the undivided profits of cor
(Uontlnued on Dago Seven.)
WORKING WIFE
NOT FRIENDLY
SAYS HUSBAND
Mrs. Hammond Asserts Mate
Injured Hands to Keep
Her Front Toiling.
“Since that woman has started to work
nnd is earning her own money, there is
no living with her,” explained Everett
Hammond in city court today. He was
arrested for assault and battery On hts
wife, Ruth Hammond, at their home, 920
Massachusetts avenue.
Mrs. Hammond is a stenographer tn
tiie Government prohibition office. Her
eyes filled with tears as she showed her
battered hands and told tho court her
husband had hit her on the bands to
keep her front working.
Hammond declared his wife attacked
him with a butcher knife and said he
injured her hands in taking the knife
from her. She denied this. Others tea- .
titled about Hammond’s cruel treatment
of his wife. Testimony revealed he had
taken n diamond ring which she pur
chased with her own morey and pawned
it. She heard nothing of him for a week,
she said, when she received a postal
card which stated: “I am down in the
country shooting rabbits.” She declared
he used money obtained from the ring
to pay expenses of the trip.
Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth found Ham
mond guilty of assault and battery and
fined him $lO and costs and sentenced
him to thirty days in jail.
Will Contest Suit
Reveals Bowie Wed
to Woman
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11.—A romance
of the land of cherry blossoms, in which
an American attorney and student of
Orientalism wedded an aristocratic Japa
nese miss, was brought to light by the
contest brought against the will of the
late Henry Pike Bowie. His stepson filed
suit alleging Bowie had left $100,001) to
a Japanese woman and her two sons be
caus etbey bad promised to have his
memory deified by a Shinto temple.
Louis P. Dunkley, attorney retained by
the Japanese heirs, revealed that Koma
Hlrano, mentioned in the will, was
Bowie’s bride and the two sons were bis
sons. Dunkley added that a shrine was
erected Vo Bowie's mcniuig’.
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besides putting in his regular day shift
of ten hours or so tn each twenty-four.
"I feel fine and as fit as any two
shift man in the world,” he continued.
‘ I am never going to retire and I’m
going to live until—well, for fifteen
years longer, anyhow.”
"Mr. Edison, who is the greatest man
in the world today,” ho was asked.
"I don’t know. I’m so busy in my
laboratory that 1 haven't time to meet
folks. I never p c anywhere." He said
lie met Roosevelt at one time, however,
and added: “I liked Teddy.”
Edison is convinced the arms parley
did some good.
"It's better than nothing at all,” he
explained. "It’s all right to limit the
Navy, but here’s an idea that I want to
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ASKS SAYINGS
BE USED FOR
‘BONUS’ FUND
Constituents Demand
Congress Adopt
New Plan.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Con
gress today faced a strong demand
that the savings resulting from the
arms conference be diverted toward
paying the soldier “bonus.”
It has been officially estimated that
the Government will save $200,000,-
000 a year from the naval holiday
done. And on top of that reductions
in tiie Navy and Army personnel are
certain to result from the arms con
ference agreements.
With hundreds of protesting messages
pouring in on them Republican memborn
••f tiie .Senate Finance Committee and the
H'uise Ways and Means Committee met
today to consider the special taxes
tentatively agreed upon by the House
group which has charge of drawing up
the ‘bonus’ hill. These special taxes,
which probably will be approved late to
day by the Senate Committee and thou
taken to President Harding for his O.
K., are as follows:
One cent a gallon on gasoline, designed
to raise $70,''00.000 ; 25 cents per horse
power on automobiles. J.'iO.OOO.OOO; 50
cents per 1,000 on cigaretrs, $25,000,000;
2 cents a pound on chewing and smok
ing tobacco $3.0'0,000; doubled tax. or 20
per cent on theater admissions over 25
cents, $00,000,000; re-enactment of the 1
cent on parcel post packages, costing
25 cents or more; per cent tax ou un
divided corporation profits; an Increase
in the tax on stock exchange transac
tions, no definite rate fixed; t\ of 5
cents for every $lO involved in real
estate transfers, no estimate; tax of
of 1 per cent on capital stock. The latter
three taxes are estimated collectively to
yield $(54,000,000.
The above table of special taxes will
yield an estimated return of $310,000,Out).
Mabel Normand Tells
of Visit at Taylor Home
Film Comedienne Issues Statement on Rela
tions With Director.
IThfl United Press lias obtained from
Mabel Normand a complete statement of
her lust visit to William Desmond Taylor
on the night, of ids murder. This l* the
most comprehensive recital of what tran.-
spired during her call on the director tiie
film star lias made since the tragedy. It
Is believed to be substantially the same
us her statement made to District At
torney Woolwine when she was ques
tioned by him.]
By MABEL NORMAND.
Copyright, 1922, by United Press,
LOS ANGELES. Feb. 11.—This is my
own story of Just what happened on the
night of my last visit to William Des
mond Taylor, the evening of Feb. 1.
In response to a telephone call left by
Mr. Taylor at my home during the after
noon of the day he was killed, I stopped
at his house between 7 nnd 7:15 in tho
evening.
The purpose of my eall was t) pick up
a book which Mr. Taylor bad purchased
for me that afternoon, knowing particu
larly that I wanted it. ne already had
sent one book to my home, but had re-’
quested me to stop for this one, which I
assumed he had purchased later.
Upon my arrival, 1 was let into the
house by Henry Peavey, Mr. Taylor's
valet, who Informed me Mr. Taylor was
conversing with someone over the tele
phone. In a few minutes after my arrival
Mr. Taylor said, ‘good-by’ to the party
with whom he was conversing and left
the telephone. He greeted me. He had
just finished dinner and his man had
cleared away the table, but he asked me
if I would not let him have something
prepared for me or go out to dinner with
him later." I declined, explaining I was
tired and had an early studio call to
make the next morning.
SAYS THEY
DISCUSSED BOOKS.
I said I intended to go home early,
have dinner and go to bed. For twenty
five minutes Mr. Taylor and I sat dis
cussing various books and photoplays.
About twenty minutes to eight, I pre
pared to start for home. Mr. Taylor
walked with me to where my car was
purl. 'I at the. curbing. There wag a
DARK CLOUDS
GATHER OVER
PACT SURVEY
Heated Discussion Is
Stirred Up in
Senate.
NO EARLY ACTION
Adjourn Until Tues
day Without Agree
ment.
| Full text of President Harding’s ad- .
J dress will be found on page 4.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. The
four-power Pacific treaty unexpected
ly provoked a stormy session of the
Senate Foreign Relation Committee
today, when the members began a
preliminary survey of the new Inter
national agreements evolved by the
armament conference.
For nearly two hours a heated dis
cussion of the various provisions or
the Pacific pact raged, and the com
mittee adjourned until Thursday
without any agreement being reached
as to which of the seven conference
treaties should be acted on first.
It had been anticipate! the naval
treaty, ns promising the least opposition,
wouid be considered first, but several of
the Senate "irreconcilables,” who are
members of the committee, insisted that
the Pacific treaty be taken up before any
of the others.
Although consideration of the treaties
begins under propitious circumstances
which Senators of both parties attribute
largely to the favorable Impression
created by the address of President
Harding in submitting the pacts. It was
Indicated there would be no undue haste
in securing the Senate's ratification of
t&e new international agreements.
The desire of the committee members
first to familiarize themselves with all
the complex details of the different
treaties before being called upon to pass
final Judgment upon them probably will
preclude any Immediate action on them.
Tho statement of Senator Borah, Re
publican, Idaho, one of the “irreconcil
able” members, that he Intended to sup
port the naval treaty, and probably
would favor the others if he found
President Harding to be correct In his
opinion that they would not involve the
American people In entangling foreign
alliances, was regarded as having eased
tho Senatorial situation in and out of
the committee considerably.
Farm Bodies Exempt
in Marketing Bill
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The House
today adopted, 276 to 8, the Senate
amendment to the cooperative marketing
bill which exempts farmers’ cooperative
organizations from the provisions of the
anti-trust laws. The bill now goes to
the President for his signature.
copy of the “Police Gazette’Tn the car,
which he noticed. He chided me for
having it in my possession, remarking
Freud. Ilaeckel and Nletzche were hardly
compatible with such literature.
After an exchange of repartee for a few
minutes, I bade biin goodnight and di
rected my chauffeur to drive me home.
Before I left, Mr. Taylor promised to
telephone me at my home within an
hour. He never did.
As William (my chauffeur) pulled away
from the curb, I looked back and saw
Mr. Taylor standing there gazing after
me. I waved my hand.
That-was the last time I ever saw Mr.
Taylor alive.
Within a few minutes I was at my
home. I retired immediately, having
dinner served to me in bed about 8:15.
The first knowledge I had of Mr. Tay
lor’s death was when Edna Purvlanee
telephoned me the following morning
about 7:30.
She told me Mr. Taylor’s valet had been
seen rushing from Mr. Taylor's home,
screaming master was dead.
HAS NO IDEA
WHO KILLED HIM.
I have no idea who killed Mr. Taylor,
or what was the reason for his death.
I would be only too proud to announce
the fact, had I been engaged to Mr. Tay
lor, but such a statement would be an
absolute untruth.
I held Mr. Taylor in the highest esteem,
regarding him as a very learned, cul
tured gentleman, with whom any woman
might be proud to associate.
Mr. Taylor and I had much in common
and during the long period of our friend
ship, he aided me materially in my study
of the French language and philosophy,
in which I had been interested for some
time. I am Interested in these things
now.
So far as revealing the contents of any
letters written by Mr. Taylor to me, or
by me to Mr. Taylor is concerned, I have
no reason to fear any consequences which
might result from such disclosures, ex
cept the natural embarrassment of hav
ing personal correspondence revealed to
the public gaze. | A
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MYSTERIOUS
STRANGER IS
NOW SOUGHT
Nurse’s Story May
Throw Light on
Mystery.
SUSPECT IS HELD
Blood - Stained Cap
May Reveal
Slayer.
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District Attorney
Discredits Rumors
of Police Laxity
BT THOMAS LEE WOOLWINE,
District Attorney of Los Angelea.
Copyright, 1922, by International
News Service.)
LOS ANGELES. Cal., Feb. IL—ln
the William Desmond Taylor case the
police officers have been busy night
and day working on various theories,
and the statements of a great number
of persons we thought might tend to
throw some light upon this myster
ious killing have been taken by the
district attorney. We are little be
yond the very threshold of the Inves
tigation, but I must say, that so far
nothing has developed that gives us
the slightest intimation as to who
perpetrated the ghastly deed.
In all my experience, I have seldom,
if ever, come in contact with any case
that is so devoid of substantial clues
There remains a great leal to be done
and we can only hope from day to
day that this situation may change.
I have been Informed articles have
been carried by the public press out
side of the city of Los Angles to the
effect tho police authorities are not
using their best endeavors to unravel
this mystery, but from daily contact
with the officers working on the ceae.
I have never seen any intimation of
such an attitude upon the part of any
of them.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 11.—A
woman, middle-aged and of quiet,
Intellectual type, known to have been
deeply in love with William Desmond
Taylor, slain film director, while
actresses showered him with affect
ionate attentions, was expected to be
called to the district attorney's office
today to be questioned in an entirely
new and important phase of the in
vestigation of the mysterious murder.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 11.—A
nurse who declared she saw a mys
terious man, wearing a cap and muff
ler, watching Miss Normand and
Taylor as they 6tood In front of the
Taylor home the night of the murder,
has given investigators anew clew.
Detectives left armed with search
warrants. Their destination was kept
secret They were known, how
ever, to be following a trial started
by the nurse.
Following ont the clew given by the
nurse, police took Walter Shiel, a sus
pect, Into custody as material witness.
The prisoner's cap, seized when he was
arrested, answered the description of the
cap worn by the prowler obseved by the
nurse and Mrs. Douglas Mac Lean the
night of the muder.
On the visor of the cap officers found
a blood stain. The prisoner was nnable
to give a satisfactory explanation of tils
coincidence, or how the cap came Into
his possession. Investigators are ques
tioning the man further in an attempt to
ascertain if he might have known any of
the circumstances surrounding the mur
der.
ANOTHER SUSPECT
IS WATCHED.
It Is known that District Attorney
Woolwine’s corps of invesigators have
unoev surveillance a man whose identity
Is boiD kept secret, but who is be
lieved to know more about the case than
he revealed at conferences at the district
attorney’s office.
From out the conflicting, tangled mass
of evidence and suspicion, the chief in
vestigator emerged with three theories
as to the three unknown quantities in
the case—the assassin, the instigator and
the motive.
L The Slayer—now believed beyond all
doubt to be the mysterious figure tn
muffler and cap seen leaving the dead
director’s home on the evening of the
crime, lnrked behind a clump of bashes,
while Taylor talked with Mabel Nor
mand on the sidewalk before his resi
dence, according to fresh evidence In
Woolwine’s hands.
2. The Instigator—believed to have
been a wealthy Jealons rival of Taylor,
has been under Constance surveillance
by the police and the sifting of state
ments of stars and leading lights of the
film world at t.he district attorney's
office, point still more directly to this
young man.
S. The motive—which was at first
thought to have been blackmail, has
been definitely established as jealousy,
(Continued on Page Two.)
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