Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1922 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight. Thursday, increasing cloudiness, unsettled by night.

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TAX PAYERS TO BE HELPED BY BIG NAVY CUT Limitation Treaty Will Lift Great Burden. NEW ARMY PLANS Plans Evolved for Saving of Vast Sums. Special to Indiana Daily Times fend Philadelohla Public Ledger. By ROBERT BARRY. WASHINGTON, Feb. B—Congressional leaders have begun consideration of ways and means to translate results of the Armament Limitation Conference into direct financial benefits for the American taxpayer. Drastic cuts in the officer and enlisted personnel of both Army and Navy are contemplated. The reductions are to be considerably greater than those favored by the Administration. Congress looking to elections just ahead is included to use a meat, ax rather than a paring knife. The House Committee on Naval Affairs was expected to meet today to begin a reorganization of the Navy in accordance with the provisions of the five-power naval limitation treaty. A bill is to be drafted for guidance of the Appropriations Committee which is to provide funds for the naval establishment during the next fiscal year. Slicing of around 5200,000,000 from the naval budget was forecast by conservative Republicans on the Naval Affairs Committee. Reductions In personnel from the current strength of 7,000 officers and 105,000 men to 2,400 officers and 60,000 men are to be urged by some of the leaders, although there is some sentiment that the enlisted strength should not be cut below 75,000. However, the fact that President Harding does not consider a cut to 80,000 excessive was expected to Influence the House into going well below that figure. BORAH LEADS IN ARMV CUT. Senator Borah of Idaho who led the successful fight for economy last year, opened lire on the Army. The Senator will support the naval limitation treat? but he gave notice he would insist !H Amrttian taxpayer should realize direct heights from the conference. He wllV fight to have the authorized strength of the Army reduced from 13,000 officers and 150,000 men to 6,500 officers and 100.000 men. A saving of at least $100,000,000 a year would result he said. “The work of the disarmament conference should be translated immediately as far as possible into a reduction of (Continued on Page Seven.)

PARTIES LINE UP FOR SENATORIAL PRIMARY EVENT Democratic Leaders Hope to Induce Ralston to Enter Race. Senatorial primary affairs In Indiana have been shaping themselves in such a way during the last few days that the definite line-up of the campaign In both parties may be known within a short time. Democratic party leaders have been using their efforts to perstede Samuel M. Ralston, former Governor lndiana, to become a candidate for the ftemocratic nomination for the Senate. Mr. Ralston is still undecided whether to make the race, but at the same time a great deal of pressure is being brought to bear to persuade him that he should be a candidate. BEVERIDGE DECAYS ANNOUNCEMENT. The reticence of Albert .T. Beveridge in making an announcement of his candidacy is something of a surprise even to his friends who are unable to understand his delay in entering the race. That he will be a candidate is held certain and reports continue to the effect that his announcement will soon be forthcoming. At the present time he is in retirement at French Lick. Meanwhile the Beveridge boom is continuing in the State with the organiza(Continued on Page Nine.) fneumonia Deaths Here in 8 Days, 45 Deaths from pneumonia and influenza in the past eight days, during which the epidemic lias been growing, totalled forty-five today. Five succumbed to pneumonia and one from influenza in the twenty-four hours ended this morning, health department reports showed. Dr. Herman C. Morgan, secretary of the board of public health, again stressed the, importance of avoiding infection and of proper care if afflicted.

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Indiana prohibition leaders greeted Roy A. Haynes, Federal prohibition commissioner, when he arrived In Indianapolis today to address the law-enforcement meeting at the Roberts Park M E. Church. The picture shows, from left to right—Sherman A. Cunea, publicity director for the national organization; Mr. Haynes, Ilert Morgan, prohibition director of Indiana, and It. C. Minton, assistant prohibition director for Indiana.

FORMER ARMY TRANSPORT ON FIRE; 4 MISSING Northern Pacific Burning 100 Miles South of Sandy Hook. NEW YORK, Feb. 8.--Blazing from stem to stern, the former army transport. Northern Pacific, was on her way to Chester, Pa., to be reconditioned into a crack passenger liner, was expected at any minute to sink about twenty-five miles off Cape May, this afternoon. The vessel, the speediest afloat under the American flag, was listing heavily to starboard. Twenty-seven men, said to complete the skeleton crew on the ship, were on board the steamship Transportation and the steamer Herbert G. Wylie, which were standing by. Four draftsmen employed by the Sun Ship Building Company at Chester, Pa., were still missing and were believed to have been tossed into the sea from one of the vessel's lifeboats. The missing men are W. J. Nallett, T. J, Peekman, R. J. Hall and 11. .1, Kruger. The burning vessel was reported drifting in a southeasterly direction about three miles an hour. Captain William Lustle, who commanded the vessel during the war, when It saw service as a transport, was in command. None of the reports Indicated how the vessel had caught fire. After an early report had been sent out that the Northern Pacific was afire, officials of the Army Transport Service Issued a denial, saying the vessel was tied tip at her pier. Later It developed she had left last night for Chester. OFTEN CALLED *JINX SHIP’ WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—The former transport Northern Pacific, burning at sea 100 miles south of Sandy Hook, is known In Army and Navy circles as the “jinx ship” of the Government service. An atmosphere of disaster has hovered over the vessel ever since she was put into service. Army and Navy men wagged their heads over the news that she is burning. “The old hoodoo Is still working,” they said. In April, 1915, she was caught and buffeted iir a storm off the Pacific coast which Imperiled her 150 passengers. As a transport she went ashore off Fire Island while bringing troops from France, and it was several days before some of the seriously wounded soldiers, with their nurses, could be taken off. The Northern Pacific was built as a passenger express for the Spokane,, Portland & Seattle Railroad. On her way to tile coast she passed through the Panama Canal, after a record-breaking trip from Philadelphia to Cristobal, carrying General Goethals.

‘Hick’ Gets Chickens to Tell Secrets TIMES MAN PA YS VI SIT TO BIG POVLTR Y SHOW Goose Only Bird That Recognized Him

By WALTER D. HICKMAN. No secrets has' the hen nowadays. ’Tis “turrible,” but even the domestic egg-laying hen has been discovered. Science, not mind reading, can tell nearly to an hour when a lien will produce an egg. If that isn’t destroying the secret of the hen, I know what does. Nowadays, one doesn’t have to wait foi the merry cackle of Mrs. Hen to announce that another egg has been added to her credit. I know it is true, because I visited the Indianapolis Poultry and Pet Stock Show at Tomlinson Hall which opened today for the rest of the week. I witnessed H. W. Fitting of the Purdue University extension bureau discover the secret of the hen. I was ushered into a modern city hen

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23 Still Missing in Richmond (Ya.) Fire RICHMOND, Va„ Feb. B.—Firemen today searched the smoking ruins of the Hotel Lexington to find trace of the twenty-three person# still unaccounted for 1 nthe fire which destroyed the building yesterday. Three bodies of victim.! who perished In the fire ore In morgues. An Investigation has been started by city officials. HARDING URGES SHIP MERGER ON PACIFIC COAST Western Magnates in Consultation With President at White House. WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—Administration plans for gigantic steamship merger on the Pacific Coast, to operate under the Government’s proposed subsidy for the American Merchant Marine, were laid before a score of Pacific coast shipping magnates at the White House today by President Harding. The shipping men were presented by A. 1). Lasker, chairman of (he Shipping Board. Chairman Lasker said following the meeting with the President, that If the plan works out satisfactorily and If it is found feasible to do so, all individual shipping companies and transportation enterprises on the Pacific coast will be invited to enter the combine. Chairman Lasker stated that the term “merger” did not properly describe the venture In that there was no actual combine contemplated. The proper term for it, he explained, is a “master marine corporation,” which will take over all shipping interests on the Pacific coast operating under the American flag. VESSEL ASHORE IN SNOW SQUALL British Steamer Thistlemore, With Crew of 51, Grounds Near Provincetown, Mass. PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Feb. 8 The British steamer Thistlemore with a crew of fifty-one men and a heavy cargo, was aground on Race Bar Point, three miles from here today. The vessel went ashore in a snow squall and is being battered by terrific seas, which make it impossible to launch life boats. The coast guard cutter Tampa is standing by. The steamer is only seventy-five yards from shore, but heavy breakers are hampering the work of rescue.

house, accommodating twenty-five chickens. which is one of the features of the Purdue exhibit. A human being can stand up in this hen house. And it even has windows and a ventilating system. This model has a water stand, something new to my idea of a hen house. Then there is a largo space where the hens can exercise and even promenade. There are even “bedrooms” and a roost. There is even a "kitchen,” that’s what I call it, bat Mr. Fitting called it a “mash hopper” but it looked like a kitchen to me. Mr. Fitting picked up a Rhode Island Red and called my attention to the faded yellow ring around the eyes and then directed my attention to the disappearing yellow of the hen’s legs. He didn't call ’em legs, he called ’em shanks. When the yellow in a hen’s legs fades out, that is one sign that she has been doing her

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1922.

| SHANK WILL GO WITH RAIL MEN TO COMMISSION Street Car Heads Tel! City Oflicials of Loss in Operations. •'lf you hare to go to the public service commission we’ll go together," ; declared Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank to- ! day after Dr. Henry Jameson, chairman j of the executive committee, and Robert j l. Todd, president and general manager |of the Indianapolis Street Railway ComI pany, had presented figures to show that J the company Is operating at a loss. The officials were ltt conference with Will* am j H. Freeman of the board of public works, Mayor Shnnk and City Civil Engineer John L. Elliott. Pointing to a table showing that the company’s deficit In 1921 was $212.1.37.17, I)r. Jameson declared that the company should spend $3,343,000 upon improvements in equipment In the next three or four years but cannot hope to sell the securities to raise tho money unless something Is rone to show a profit. WISITES CREDIT RE-ESTABLISIIF.n. He said the company was laying Its ! plight on the table for the board of , works and the public to carefully and scientifically study so that “we can find roads—and they can bo found to the point where wo can re-establish our credit.” The city council w3 Invited to the conference, but not a member came. I'r Jameson said he was sorry the council was not present because he was very nnxbAis that all branches of the city government hear what he had to say. He declared that the council has It In Its power to throw the company into bankruptcy by passing the amendments to the Jitney regulation ordinance now pertdI ing. He said that one of the things that must be done to make it possible for the company to get money with which to make necessary Improvements and keep tho property In tunning order Is assurance for security holders that the city council will use Its power over the company in the proper way. Mr. Shank assured the traction officials that the city administration has no desire to drive the company into the hands [of a receiver, that the city had gotten more from the street railway company In his former administration than under any other mayor and that bo trusted the same would be true now. “Absolutely," said the officials. TO HELP COMPANY GET ON ITS FEET. “I’m going to do everything In my power to help you get on yonr feet. Nobody is going to get me In a position where I’ll bust you nnd take the money of the stockholders out of their hands,” said the mayor. The traction men said that four-fifths of the ownership of the company is vested in 1,050 stockholders who live in (Continued on Page Two.)

duty—meaning she has been laying for sometime. After making a few more tests, Mr. Fitting calmly announced “She will lay today.” And the hen did’nt mind it at all. Not a bit. She seemed to know it and did not resent the fact that Mr. Fitting knew it too. NOT HINT? CONCEALED FROM SCIENCE. So a hen can conceal nothing from science now days. But it is all Greek to me. I would have to use a Ouija board and I doubt if Ouija knows the secret of the hen. After seeing the hen discovered, I was attracted to another part of the hall by a familiar “quack quack.” One big goose gave me a royal wel(Continued on .Page Eleven.)

DIRECTOR OF DRY FORCES GIVES REVIEW Haynes, in Talk Here, Says Officials Are Lax. PEOPLE CARELESS Relates Reasons Why Laws Not Better Enforced. Lethargic piA officials and apathetic citizens a. e among two of the most formidable obstacles to the complete enforcement of the Federal prohibition law, Roy A, Haynes, Federal prohibition commissioner, said today in his address before the prohibition law enforcement convention held under the auspices of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League at Roberts Park M. E. Church. Director Haynes reviewed the work of the Federal prohibition department since lie took charge, told of the forces it has had to combat, of the handicap under which it lias labored and of the great degree of success ho says has been attained. UNITED STATES AN EXPERIMENT STATION. That the United States Is being looked upon by a large part of the rest of the world ns an experimental station where prohibition is being tried out, and upon the success ir failure of the experiment in this eouutry depends the fate of the world-wide prohibition movement, was the gist of the address of Miss Anna Gordon, national president of the Woman'* Christian Temperance Union. Mss Gordon Is now on her way to Mexico In the Interest of the movement, after which she will visit Cuba and Nassau, In the Bahama Isnlnds. •She recently returned from an extended South American trip, nnd said that Uruguay. Brazil, Peru, Chile nnd the Argentine Itepublic are especially Interested 1n the outcome of the prohibition movement In the United States. Director Haynes frankly admitted that I .here l* considerable b.isic of truth to (Continued on Page Two.) SAY UNIVERSAL CO. SETS PRICE, REST FOLLOW Representatives of 5 Cement Concrns Meet With Gov. McCray. The Universal Portland Cement Company sets Its prices for cement and other concerns fotlow. according to a statement in ado today to Ooevrnor Warren T. Mc- | Cray by representatives of five cement ' concerns that made Identical bids for the ' sale of 200,000 barrels ols cement to the Mate. The representatives of the cement con- | corns were closeted with Governor Mel Cray .Attorney General IT. S. Lesh nnd members of the highway commission for nearly three hours. They had been called in to explain why they had submitted identical 1 'ls. Follow!n( the conference, the Governor nnd Mr. T h met with the highway commission > discuss the subject further. Representatives of the cement companies refused to make any statement, saying they would leave that entirely In tho hands of the Governor. I According ti Governor McCray, the cement company representatives told him and the commission that if there were j not some uniformity of price small con- | cerns would have monopolies in their limited districts because they would have i tho advantages of lower freight rates. | The identical bids submitted to the State | included the freight. Representatives of the cement companies who met with the Governor were i Utain S. Smith of the Universal Portland Cement Company, R. H. Rader of (the Lehigh Portland Cement Company, Ilarry Jennings of tho Wabash Portland Cement Company, D. H. MaoFarland of the Atlas Portland Cement Company and O. H. Straus of the Indiana l J ortland Cement Company.

$lO AND COST FOR SHORT WEIGHT Load of Coal Found to Be 180 Pounds Off. I. A. Barker, president and weighmaster of the I. A. Barker & Son Coal Company, 2120 Hoyt avenue, today was convicted in city court on a short weight charge and was fined $lO and costs. The case is one of a number being brought into "court by the Commercial Credit, Audit and Correct Weights Bureau. Weight and Measure Inspectors Petty and Stewart stopped two of Barker's drivers on a load of coal en route to the home of Mrs. Leona Taylor, 05S North Olney street. They weighed the coal, which proved to be 180 pounds under weight. Barker explained to the court that he got the trucks mixed when weighing the coal. C. F. Coffin Addresses Hartford City C. of C. “The Value of a Chamber of Commerce to a Community” was the subject of an address made by Charles F. Coffin, president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, before a general membership meeting of the Hartford City Chamber of Commerce yesterday evering. John B. Reynolds, general secretar of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com ,ierce, also addressed the meeting on the cooperation which is extended to chambers over the State by the Indianapolis organization.

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MINERS TO PUT UP STRONG FIGHT IN PAY DEMAND Garment Workers Pledge Support in Battle of Workers. DISTRICT HEADS MEET Moral and financial support of union garment workers of America was offered the United Mine Workers today In their impending wage fight with the coal operators. Just as the miners’ scale committee prepared to meet for formulation of their demands, a letter was received from Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the Garment Workers, saying his organization “will do all it possibly can to help the miners financially in their struggle against the avarice of the mine owners.” Sclileslnger's letter, together with virtual assurances from the railroad workers that they favor an alliance with the miners, will enable the miners to put up a stronger front than ever when their contract expires March 31. LEWIS SAYS OFFER SHOWS LABOR’S SPIRIT. “It is representative of the spirit which pervades the ranks of organized labor and manifests determination on the part of the workers to rally to the support of the organized mine workers in opposing the proposals for unwarranted wage cuts in the industry,” President John L. Lewis of the miners said. Schlesinger reviewed the struggle which his followers have just come through la their strike against wage reductions put into effect by the employers. “I can, therefore, readily appreciate your tension and strain in tho Initial fight your organization Is entering upon now,” he wrote. “lain watching yonr situation very keenly, realizing how immensely Important Its outcome Is for tho members of your organization and for the labor movement In general.” District presidents of the miners union jbmpristng the wage scale committee (Continued on Page Eleven.)

Hays to Start His Work as ‘Movie Czar “ by Making Inspection of Hollywood

WASHINGTON, Feb. B—One of the first official acts of Will H. Hays, cxnr of the American motion picture Industry, will be a trip to Hollywood, Cal., according to a close associate. His present intention is to go to the Pacific coast about April 1 for a month's stay. During that time, un less the plans are changed, he will Inspect every phase of life in the Hollywood motion picture colony to acquaint himself first hand with condit ions there. Cortland Smith, formerly president of the American Press Association and a “dollar-a year" man in the Postoffice Department, who will be

One of Many Letters Gives Insight to W. D. Taylor’s Lite LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 8. —An anonymous letter written In code on stationery of the Hotel Alexandria, and expressing passiontae affection for William Desmond Taylor, murdered film director, is the latest addition to tho numerous articles collected by the police reflecting various episodes of the dead man’s past.

The letter follows: What shall I call you, you wonderful man? You arc standing on the lot, the Idol of an adoring company. You have Just come over and put your coat on my chair. “I want to go away with you, up In the hUl* or anywhere. Just so we'd be alone—all alone. In a beautiful little woodland lodge, you'd be cooh (as I can only moke tea) and fetch the water and build the fire. “Wouldn’t It be glorious to sit In a big comfy couch by a cosy warm fire with the wind whistling outside trying to harmonize with the faint sweet strains of music coming from our vlctrola? And then yon’d have to get up and take off the record. Os course, I don’t mean that, dear. Did yon really suppose I Intended you to take care of me like a baby? "Oh, no, for this Is my part. I’d sweep and dust (they make the sweetest little dust caps, you know) and tie fresh ribbons on the snowy white curtains and feed the birds and fix the flowers, and, Oh yes, set the table and help you wash the dishes, and then In my spare time I'd dam your socks.”

Mayor Asks Public to Give Film Town Folk ‘Square Deal 9 LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. B.—Mayor Cryer today issued a statement answering attacks being made upon the "morals of the so-called motion picture colony of Los Angeles.” He said in rart: "The Arbuekle case and the slaying ot Mr. Taylor were Indeed unfortunate affairs, but it is not Just to criticise an entire group of people such as those engaged in the motion picture Industry, for incidents, many of them not true as to fact, which have been published broadcast recently. I believe the Hollywood motion picture color.y should not be condemned for the actions of a few of its members, any more than a district or an Industry located in San Francisco, New York or Chicago. “I am persuaded that there are hundreds of clean, law-abiding men and women engaged in the making of motion pictures, and in their behalf I ask the open-mlnued Judgment and . the even--minded justice characteristic of our [American people.”

SUSPECT SAID TO BE MADLY IN LOVE WITH FILM COLONY STAR Actress Reputed to Have Held Director Who Was Murdered in Greater Esteem Than Ardent Suitor. jj.-ji VIEWS OF INVES TIGATQRS DIFFER LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 8. —One of the biggest independent figures in the movies was questioned in connection with, the murder of William D. Taylor by the district attorney’s office today. Operatives said he was anew man in the case. This man, recently divorced, was said to have been madly in love with an actress who apparently held Taylor in higher esteem than she did the man now being questioned. The man under surveillance was the only one of the half dozen biggest men in the picture game in Hollywood who did not attend Taylor’s funeral yesterday, investigators said.

He is reported to have proposed marriage on numerous occasions to the actress whose silken night gown police detectives asert they found In Taylor's home shortly after he was shot. RON OF WEALTH ALSO ADMIRER OP ACTRESS. Still another Investigation agency was Interesting Itself today In the son of a multi-millionaire family. This young man also has been known In Hollywood for some time as an ardent admirer of the actress who is today the nucleus of the Taylor murder investigation. “We are looking today for a few bits of necessary corroborative. evidence to support the theory already partly borne out by recent discoveries,” one detective said. “Rome one Is going to be arrested —and suddenly—fer the Taylor murder,” Eugene Blscallluse. under sheriff, aald today. “And It will not be Edward F. Sands, Taylor's missing valet.

Hay’s aid !n hts new work, will accompany his chief to the coast. Hays is at Miami, Fla., where he has consistently refused to make any statement with regard to the murder of William Desmond Taylor, movie director—the latest scandal in the motion picture Industry. Since the Arbuckle case, there has been much talk of the movie Industry leaving California and of the establishment of anew “Hollywood” ou Long Island. It was learned authoritatively that no such plans are being conaidered. Whether Hays' trip will result In any drastic changes In Hollywood or moving picture geography generally, remains to be seen.

Sands Also Sought as Army Deserter Feb. B.—Edward Sands, former vaiet for William Desmond Taylor, for whom Los Angeles police have Instituted a nation-wide search in connection with the Tayior murder, also Is being sought by the War Department as a deserter from the Army, the adjutant general announced today.

Fighting to Keep Name of Picture Star Out of Mire Friends Rally to Save Professional Reputation of Mary Miles Minter. LOS ANGELES, Feb. B.—A fight to save the professional reputation of Mary Miles Minter, movie star, whose name has been dragged Into the William Desmond Taylor murder mystery, was started today by her friends here. Hollywood financiers, dealt a severe blow in the Arbuekle case, are resolved that no more sc ,-en prestige In which thousands of do.lars has been invested, shall be lost. While police hunted the slayer of Taylor, motion picture magnates, determined to preserve Miss Minter's screen popularity, met with attorneys at her home. Behind drawn curtains while private detectives stood guard to keep outsiders away, the conference continued for hours. The expensive motors in which the film magnates drove to the council of war were lined up for haif a block in both directions. Her love letters to Taylor, her friends insisted, were innocently written. “They were innocent,” It was stated, “but they are subject to possible misconstruction in the hands of the public.” Every effort was being made, It was understood to recover other letters of Miss Minter’s which have disappeared. Hollywood has gone back to work after Taylor's funeral. Once more greasepainted lords and bewhiskered comedians appeared. But there was a manifest tension throughout fiimdom.

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"Mr. Taylor was killed through Jealousy and not revenge.’ The police took a diametrically opposite view. “Sands killed Taylor,"* said Capt. D. L, Adams. “We want him.” The possibility that Taylor evas a victim of asphasia was being considered by detectives today as an explanation for the alleged “double personality” angle of the murdered man’s mysteryshrouded past. Taylor was shanrLiled in lower New Y'ork, he had often toid friends here,. He was carried to Cape Horn and was unable to work his way back for three months. j fHI SB Before he was slugged and shanghaied Taylor had a good position and apparently was wrapped up In his wife and family. He never returned after he was shanghaied. The police hunt, Adams Indicated, Is being concentrated almost solely on an effort to arrest the former secretary. HOLLYWOOD HOLDS ITS BREATH. While the police, sheriff's office, tho district attorney’s office and a private detective agency were busy following the myriad clews—clews which often led to nowhere —Hollywood and that portion of the motion picture colony which overflows Into the exclusive residential districts was literally bolding Us breath. Guards paced the sidewalk In front of the home of Mary Mlies Minter. Mabel Normand was doing her talking largely through her press agent. There was a mad scramble to get back ! letters and “love notes" and what not on ; part of probably more girls whose lights twinkle In the film firmanent than the public knows. GOSSIP W HISPERS AROUND NEW INGENUES. Hardly a hour passed without gossip whispering around the name of some new Ingenue of the movies—some sweet, loTe!y young thing, whose demureness on the screen perbars has been an example pointed out to thousands of daughters by thousands of mothers —In connection with the supposed chivalries and romances of William Desmond Taylor. Things had almost reached a point where stardom seemed to mean close friendship with Taylor—the warmer the friendship, the brighter the light of the etar. Much mystery surrounded the whereabouts of the supposed letters of Mabel Normand to Taylor. It was announced they had h een returned to, her. but today the publicity man for the star of “Mickey” announced: “Miss Normand has not received the missing packet of letters.” And Captain of Tollee D. I*. Adame, said: "Tho letters are not in the hands of the police. But we are holding other letters found in Taylor’s home after the murder. However, they ere not Miss Normand's. “Some private Individual connected with this case from an angle which would | undoubtedly be interesting to us Is hold- | lng them.” TELEGRAMS EFFORT TO PATCH UP DISAGREEMENT. Among the telegrams from Miss Normand to Taylor said to be missing were believed to have been a number sent by the comedienne in Los Angeles In 1919, when Taylor was “orr location’ in Massachusetts with one of the Famous Players’ producing units. These telegram? were said to have been addressed to “Captain” Taylor. Taylor was known by his military title for some time after his discharge with distinguished awards from the British army, his associates here said. The exchange of wires was said to have been an attempt to patch up a disagreement between the friends arising over the attentions one was bestowing upon a third member of the picture colony. Miss Normand was starring In **The Slim Princess,” George Ado’s humorous classic, in 1919. It was made at the Goldwyn studios. Victor Schertzlnger was Miss Normand’s director. Taylor at the time was directing Mary Miles Minter In “Ann of the Green Gables,” made in Massachusetts and the New England States. MARY MILES MINTER REPORTED IN COLLAPSE. Mary Miles Minter has suffered a complete nervous collapse and Is In a serious condition, according to reports here today. . Doctors were said to be In constant attendance on the little star. Automobiles ladentified as those of Los Angeles specialists were parked In front of the cl< sely guarded Minter home In Hollywood. While the attention of officers working on the William Desmond Taylor (Continued on Page Two.)

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