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h K VOL. LXI XO. 19.099 EPn,!Vt '' . - "r B-S Peond . Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 192S PRICE FIVE CENTS FARM BUSINESS GOOD, J I Tfll V (If qavq puipflpn DinuuD nLL I nLI III MASKED MEN LINE UP AND ROB 20 LOGGERS GERMAN NAMES AGAIN STARVING HORDES BREAKUP OF STUDIOS iflPTflD muni i wnnn iiDi2Ch,nu I Ull WRITTEN ON STREETS Ml MULLI IIUUU unuuu WITH JAPAN END IWTAYLOR MURDER J. OGDEX ARMOUK DECLARES TIMES ARE BETTER. SHOTS EXCHANGED IX POOL ROOM HOLDUP AT ALOHA. POLICE GET NEW COMPLAINT HEAVY BLOW IS DECLARED DEALT MOVIE INDUSTRY. FROM CITY HALL. IR DRIVE FDR CHEST TO BE ENLIVENED War Chiefs Summoned to Decide New Attack. IS ITCHED V DIE SEEKING FOOD Snow Covers Bones of Hundreds of Thousands. BODIES STREWN ON STEPPES Russian Peasants Wander Until They Drop. MILLIONS STILL JOURNEY Human Instincts Lost and Fami lies Become Little Better X Than Beasts. TTFA. Vols Region, Russia, Jan. -(By the Associated Presd.) When th snows melt this spring; the Rus sian steppes will be . strewn with skeletons. They will resemble the high prairies of the "American cow country In the days when Dig; cattle outfits bad Insufficient hay for a hard winter. But among; the. skeletons of cattle and capitis there will be bones of bun rirH r thousands of men. women and children who fell exhausted In their quest for bread; who lived the s.tnple lives of the peasant and. had little conception of the political up heaval which made this famina more terrible than that of 1891. They wandered, and millions are still wandering;. There, was nothing; to eat in their homes so they started in the trek for bread. Soma started ..rH far the Volfta and found death in the typhus-ridden railway .n.r. or among: the horrors ot rrfurei camps along; the Volga; oth ers started for Turke'stan. Others Move Eastward. etlll others moved eastward toward Siberia, the land of sold and wheat which has always been so alluring to the Russian moujik. who neara nt tle of Its vastness. Its hardships and h.artlessnesa. The peasants knew nothing; of mod ern ways. They were unable to buy railway tickets, unable to get per mits to ride on trains burdened with tha red army and food for Moscow and retroarad. When their animals dropped dead, the families walked on, always hoping; food lay over the next knolL But tha country districts have no grain, or If peasant families have a mail supply they conceal It in the ffort to prolong their lives until an other crop is harvested. In the larger towns there Is food for sale at fabulous prices, but tno starving r.fniro.9 have neither money nor s;oods to exchange and can only sit .town ts await death or trudge on vntll they fall. Bodies Collected Cars. The bodies that lie along tha rail roads are collected on cars-and hauled to centers where they are. piled In frozen, snow-covered heaps to await burial. Freexlng refugees remove all garments from the dead, so that the froxen bodies are nude when collected. families drift apart and wander aimlessly on to their Inevitable fata Human Instincts are lost and they become little better than beasts. The city and town populations are so hardened to Buffering that they art little moved by the misery which lies all about. Death seems more merci ful In the country for the refugees; they sink into the white covering of the endless plain and wolves strip their bones. Death Stalks Over Steppes. From Perm and Ekaterinburg ts the Caspian aea death ls stalking over the steppes. Russians, Cossacks, Kalmucks! Kirmhix and Tartars alike are meeting their end with hopeless ness and patience begotten ot cen turies of unequal struggle against political extortion and unfavorable climatic conditions, made worse by Ignorance of scientific farming methods. j American corn will be too late to well as the families who have elected ! to make their fight in the villages, remote from the railways rather than endure the hardships and death their neighbors have suffered along the main lines of tranaportat'on. Kntlre village populations have died in the provinces east of the Volga and the animals which survive are so weak it ts impossible '.to get adequate horsepower to deliver food to the thousands of destitute settle ments far from food stations. STEVENS' ESTATE DIVIDED Hsvggcd Millionaire's' Property Goes, . c., I NEW YORK. Feb. S. The estate of Calvin Armory Stevens, known as the "ragged millionaire," who died In Bensonhurst. L. I . in 1S77, while liv ing apart from his wife, goes to his daughter. Mrs. Kate Stevens Fagan. and his sister. Mrs. Mary Grace Rich ardson. It was learned yesterday. Each gets IJ90.000, under a ruling of Supreme Court Justico Donnelly. Stevens' frugality was a by-word In New York. Although he Inherited a fortune from his father. Calvin Stevens, be wore shiny clothes, ate In dingy lunchrooms and slept on a cot In a small attlo room la a betid ing he owned. Ex-Wheat Director Tells Ranchers That Financial Situation Is Much Improved. CHICAGO. Feb. 5. After a week of rising prices of agricultural prod ucts, Julius H. Barnes, ex-wheat di- I rector, and J. Ogden Armour, packer. tonight issued statements asserting that the farmer is coming Into hi own again. Calling attention to the fact that wheat was advanced almost 12 cents and corn over 2 cents within a week, Mr. Barnes said: "It is Urns to quit telling the farmer he is bankrupt. It is time to quit telling industry there is no farm market." Among hopeful signs of recent months. Mr. Barnes said, were etabil ixlng of foreign markets, a desire to help the farmer at home, a 25 per cent advance in wheat prices, 30 per xent for oats and 33 per cent for hogs, while sheep have almost dou bled and cotton has doubled in prlceV "All farm selling prices ar on the upgrade," he said. "All that the farmer buys has cheapened. Labor Is plentiful and cheaper. Farm credit difficulties have ceased. Europe will pay in 1922 with less difficulty than in 1921." "We aro getting over our sickness, Mr. Armour said. "It is time to for get what is behind us and look ahead. I am optimistic on the business situ ation and believe it is no time to sell stocks or anything. We are getting out of the low-priced period and all the bad stuff behind us. Business is better all around. Livestock is higher and we must look ahead." Besides advances In prices of farm products, the week was featured by big reductions in some farm imple ments- SYNDICALIST IS FINED Year's Sentence and $1000 line Meted Out to Proponent of Revolt. DULUTH, Minn.. Feb. S.-The max imum sentence ot $1000 fine or year's imprisonment was Imposed upon Tobias Kekkonen by Judge H. A. Rancer In district court yes terday. Kekkonen was found guilty on a chargs of teaching and advocat ing criminal syndicalism by a Jusy in March. 1921. He was alleged to have been edi tor of a newspaper published by the Workers' Socialist Publishing com pany, in which an article headed "The Workers of America Must Become Revolutionary" wis printed. The company recently was fined $1000 on similar charge. SPEED PLANES EXPECTED Big Future In Vse of Substance to Increase Combustibility. MADISON'. Wis.. Feb. 5. Airplane engines with a speed of from 200 to 300 miles an hour are expected to result from the possibilities of using ellurium and selinlum in compound with gasoline to Increase conrbusti bilitv of gasoline, Victor H. Lenher, professor of chemistry at the Uni versity of Wisconsin, who found the new use for the substance, said today. Because of the small production of tellurium, amounting to so tons a year, and because of the necessity of redesigning all engines before the compound can be used, he added, it s not expected that Its properties rill be taken advantage of In the erv near future. L. E. BEAN T0BE SPEAKER Candidate for Governor to Talk at McMlnnvllIo Tuesday. EUGENE. Or.. Feb. 5. (Special.) E. Bean, speaker of the house of representatives and avowed candidate for governor, will begin at JIcMinn- Tiusdar night a series ot peeches which will mark the opening of his gubernatorial campaign. At that tim he will participate in Joint debate with J. E. Gratke on question of financing the Port land exposition. Monday, February 13. Mr. Bean is scheduled for an address before the Lincoln club of Ontario. He will speak before the chamber of com- merc of Urande the following j.y at noon ana Derore me .Bauer chamoer Thursday noon. STRIKE TIES UP BERLIN Street Cars, Gas, Water and Elec tricity Shut Down. BERLIN. Feb. 5. By the Asso ciated Press.) Tramway service and the gas. water and electrlc'ty supply here were shut off when the munic ipal employes struck today. The strike of railroad men has ex tended to ail of Baden. Nothing has come of the negotiations begun yes- terday for settling the strike. Many bankers have reduced their working hours and some banks have closed. GOTHAM HAS MOVIE FIRE Several Injured in Panic at Lyric Theater in w York NEW YORK. Feb. 5. An explosion, followed by fire, spread panic among W0 patrons of the Lyric motion pic ture theater here today, but all reached the street. The blase was put out after it had destroyed sev eral thousand feet of film. Several persons were injured slightly in tha crush at the exits. Arms Parley Improves American Relations. TRUE SITUATION DISCOVERED Lack of U. S. Intent to Run Amuck in East Revealed. NIPPON'S PRIDE INTACT Point of Keeping Shantung Nego tiations Entirely Out of Arms Conference Is Won. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Copyright. 1922, by The Oregonian.) WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 5. (Spe ciaL) The great outstanding achieve ment of the Washington conference, but one which is not referred to of ficially in any of the documents, is the complete obliteration of the talk of war between the United States and Japan. This talk In the last year or two had been growing to a dangerous proportion. As a result of the Washington con ference, the relations between the United States and Japan are better than they have been in a decade. There is a better understanding of aims and intentions between the two governments. The Japanese have dis covered that there is no intention on the part of the Washington govern ment to run amuck In the far east. The Japanese have found that there is at Washington a disposition to trust them, in the orient, and conse quently the Japanese are going home extremely happy over the outcome of the conference which they felt at first they had every reason to fear. Shantung Point Is W, Japan won her point of keeping the Shantung negotiations entirely out of the official scope of the conference. There was a distinct reason of pride In this. Japan at Versailles promised to restore Shantung to -.China within reasonable time. Therefore, it was matter only between Japan and China as to the terms of this restora tion. Japan felt it would be casting doubt upon the bona fide of her promises made at Versailles if the Washington conference should offi cially take up the Shantung question. Undoubtedly the Washington con-' ference ceded the Shantung compro- I mise and undoubtedly the Chinese would jiot have signed any of the far eastern treaties In the absence of a definite Shantung understanding. Such course by China would have cast (Concluded on Page -. Column 3.) .............................. . J j i ' " HAPPY DREAMS I t l. S..t X. ... .A.A. .A. .".A. A. - I ' t . 'j ciioi.op Robbers Order Men to Face Wall as Money Is Handed Out; Host ages Used in Making Escape. HOQUIAM, Wash., Feb. 5. (Spe cial.) Two men wearing masks of cloth that hung down over their long, black slickers walked into the pool room of Aloha Lumber company's vil lage at Aloha, 24 miles west of here. and robbed 20 loggers of between $300 and $500 late last night. They escaped toward Stearnsvllle, using four of their victims as hostages for 00 yards down the road after leav Ing the place. ' Chief William Thompson and Ser geant Robert Wintrlp of the Hoquiam police force, both deputy sheriffs, upon receiving notice of the holdup notified Sheriff Elmer Gibson at Montesano and started for the scene. They returned at 4:30 this morning with several clews. Jack Strouce, who was being shaved in the barber chair, put a purse con taining $45 underneath him, and saved his money. A logger wearing calked shoes dropped his wallet' with $250 on the floor and stamped his foot on it, so that the holdup men did not get his money, but so far as known these two sums were the only ones overlooked. . The robbers walked in with drawn revolvers and ordered the men to "stick; 'em up and face the walL" One robber locked the rear door. He searched the men while the other covered them. Frank Redmond made a break out the front door and a few minutes later heaved a chunk of coal through one of the windows. "Come on. Bud, they're ehootln' at us. one robber exclaimed, una out laws started for the door. Thinking they might be shot, they ordered Frank Zafuca, - barber, and three other men to go ahead of them. They went east toward Stearnsvllle road. After they had gone about 60 yards, Bill Miller, standing on the porch, shot at the group with a rifle; The robbers answered with one shot, which pierced a window and burled Itself Inside the counter. It was later recovered and appeared to be out of a .38 caliber rifle. The robbers took no watches, Jew elry or checks, but got "brass money," good at the company's store and hotel. CITY HAS BALMY DAY Air Is Humid, With Only Trace of Rain; Motorists Turn Out. Balmy weather, usually associated with early spring, greeted .foruana ers yesterday. The air was humid with only a trace of rain, and in the afternoon the thermometer reached 49 hi degrees. This was 2V4 degrees - under the warmest day so far this year, Janu ary 25, when the thermometer reached As a result of the mild weather many motorists tooK advantage or the day. The highways leading from Portland were alive with cars. The weather bureau predicted rain for the Portland district today westerly winds. m mm Marauder . Substitutes Old Titles for Patriotic Ones Cut on Curbings. L A second complaint from the city engineer's office about the blotting out of new street names substituted for German names was lodged with the police yesterday, with the reauest that extra vigilance be maintained. The region for which guards were asked Is on Pershing street from East Fourteenth to East Twentieth street, and on McLaughlin street from East Eighth to East Twentieth streets, i ' . ' Several weeks ago the first com plaint was made by the city engineer. His office had then ordered the old names obliterated from the curbs and new ones carved in their places. After this work had been going on for a day or two, the masons discovered one morning that the new names had been scraped out and the old ones replaced. It was suspected at the time that cer tain German citizens, who had been active in public requests that the old street names be given back to the streets, might have had a hand in the changes. " Orders were given yesterday to both the patrol and detective divi sions of the police department, aswell as iu iue ituuiguD squau, lu waicu these streets during the night and endeavor to catch the culprit. MAN IS SH0TAT DANCE Olympia Taxi Proporietor Ex pected to Die of Wound. OLYMPIA. Wash., Feb. 5. (Spe cial.) M. F. "Cy" Nogal, 41, Olympia taxi proprietor, was, shot probably fatally, early today at a dance at Fairview, six miles south of here and Sid Riley, 25, was held in the Olympia city Jail charged with the shooting. Riley, crazed with moonshine, ac cording to Sheriff Hoage, shot Nogal twice in the abdomen as he left his car and was about to enter the dance hall with his sweetheart. After the shooting, the sheriff said, Riley threw away his revolver and fled, entering the rear door of the hall and seeking to mix with the dancers. He was ar rested by Sheriff Hoage, who was among the dancers. Nogal, who was a well-known state capitol character, Is in St. Peter's hospital rapidly sink ing. He was unmarried and been in business here for three years. GRAIN MARKETS CHOSEN Secretary Wallace Names San Francisco and Los Angeles. WASHINGTON, D. C.,.Feb. 5. Sec retary Wallace announced today the designation of the San Francisco chamber of commerce as a contract market for barley and the designa tion of the Los Angeles grain ex change as a contract market for bar ley, sorghums and corn, within tha meaning of the future trading act. The two designatiqns announced bring the total number of contract markets authorized to 11. ALL DETERMINED TO WIN Longer and Stronger Pull Is Ahead of Workers. POflR PFOPI F RFWFRfilK General Smith Reiterates Necessity for Average Citizen to Awaken to Duty. CHEST CAMPAIGNERS URGED TO RALLY TO LUNCHEON AT MULTXOMAH HOTEL j TODAY. All workers in the community chest campaign, whether gen eral, adjutant, colonel, captain or lieutenant, both men and women, are directed to report today at 12:15 for a war council luncheon at the Multnomah hotel. Campaign plans will be decided at this meeting and it is important that everyone in , the drive who can do so attend. As complete reports as can possibly be made are desired to show the progress of the can vass up to this time. - roruanaa community chest cam paign starts upon its second week today. The chest itself is now nearly half full. It had been hoped in preliminary plans to make the drive Snappy ana achieve a full chest by last Saturday night. . This proved an. impossible task. v in the first place the very magni tude of the Job of soliciting prac tically everyone in the city, filling out blanks, reporting subscriptions to the banks, auditing them and listing them correctly was entirely too much and showed arlier optimism of en thusiastic campaigners was unjusti- tiea. It was evident when last week was half over that the game Would go into extra Innings. The campaign means a longer and a stronger pull than was first anticipated, say the leaders, but they are determined to accomplish it, no matter what will be required to win. Attack to Be Harder. xeein win do clenched a little tighter and the attack will be a little harder when lieutenants start out this morning to win subscriptions. The first week was a valuable time for training and practice; now they are going after a decisive victory witn tne win to win, say campaign leaders. Territory already canvassed will be re-combed and a more Inten sive campaign made everywhere. At a noon meeting today at the Multnomah, which all workers are urged to attend, a general stock-tak ing win take place, when General Smith will survey the battlefield, hear reports from all four sectors and de termine future policies. It may be that there will be a com plete change in campaign plans tne result or today's meeting. There will be a switch in strategy if that is indicated as demanded by reports.The commander-in-chief will not issue orders for any radical changes unless the war council today advises it. . Status to Be Learned. "I want to know today Just where we are at," said General Smith, speaking colloquially, "and so we are going to 'shoot the sun,' as a sailor would say, and work out our latitude and longitude. If we are drifting off our course we want to know it. On the other hand, if we are making progress in the right direction, this meeting will show it to lis. "The genius of the campaign so far has been the spirit of giving mani fested by those to whom hunger and want are by no means strangers. Our colonels have commented upon this unexpected generosity. Persons who, by reason of their circumstances, have- been advised by our solicitors not to make a chest subscription, have demanded the right to help others In worse plight than themselves. "A man wearing a ragged coat came Into headquarters Friday and said he had $2 and wanted to split even with the chest. A woman who supports herself by taking in wash ings and who was leaving town sent us $5. Boys bring us in silver dollars and a. dollar looks pretty big to "a boy. The subscription means he is going without things he would like mightily to buy for himself. Poor People Generous. "Poorer people of Portland know the need of the community chest. Many persons of wealth have given handsomely. But many In all classes of the population remain indifferent to the needs of the chest supplies. If an invidious comparison could be drawn, perhaps it could be said that the middle layer of the population, people quite comfortable and able to give, a giving less to relieve the unfortunate than are the poor, who in many cases are only about one (Concluded oa i'asts 2, Column l.J New California Scandal Is Fault of Few, Is Assertion of Well Known Producer. . NEW YORK. Feb: 5. Herbert Bren on, well-known motion picture pro ducing manager, declared tonight that the actors' colony at Hollywood, Cal., should be broken up. Discussing the Taylor murder, he said that the incident, added to re cent motion picture scandals in Cali fornia, had given the industry a set back from which it would be long in recovering. "The trouble Is that out in Holly wood the motion-picture) people are I thrown upon tnemseives lor recre- ation." he said. "They live, think and I talk Pictures all the time. They do not lead the normal lives with out side diversion whieh we in the east do. The minority, who have made monev quickly persons with little character and less morals have had their heads turned and have cast asidd all restraint. These are the ones who bring discredit - upon us, and the eood suffer with the bad. "I think It would be a Jolly good thing If Hollywood were abolished It should be scattered and It will be as a result of the indignation which will cause moving picture directors to give it up as a segregated produc tion center. It has a tendency to spread, to creep to those who ordi narily would not be affected by it the small part affects the whole.1 PULLMAN CASE IS FILED State of Idaho Seizes Sleeper Vn der Volstead Law. BOISE. Idaho, Feb. 5. United States Attorney Davis yesterday filed the case of the United States against "one standard Pullman sleep er," which was seized by the state and federal agents" late last night under provisions of the Volstead law. Papers were served on the car yes terday Just as It was about to leave for Spokane. Friday night officers entered the sleeper and found two suitcases of liquor. They arrested three Pullman employes, wlio, following arraign ment yesterday, were placed in Jail because of inability to furnish bond. The Oregon Short Line Railroad company later yesterday gave bond of $20,000 for appearance of the car in .xourt, when the case is palled. WINE VAT FUMES FATAL California Rancher Asphyxiated After Saving Employe. SANTA ROSA, Cal., Feb. 5. Sam Tomblinson, 60, rancher of Guerne ville, near here, was asphyxiated by fumes in a wine vat on his place after he had saved Lyman Miller, 19-year old employe on the ranch, from death by (the same cause. ' Miller was working' in the vat, cleaning it, when he was overcome by the fumes. Tomblinson went to his assistance and succeeded in push ing the young man's body through a small door In the top of the vat. Then the fumes overcame him. Mil ler fell on the ground outside the vat, and when he had recovered suffi ciently to make his way to the ranch house was too dazed to remember that Tomblinson was still In the vat. JUG0-SLAVS REDUCE ARMY Force to Be Reduced to 110,000 by Terms of Recent Agreement. BELGRADE, Jugo-Slavia, Feb. E. The Jugo-Slav army 13 to be reduced to 110,000 men. This is an outcome of an agree ment reached by the ministry of war and the parliamentary budget com mittee. ' ' NDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60 degrees; minimum, aa degrees. TODAY'S Rain; southwestern winds. Foreign. American's dance charms Moscow. Page 3. Election of pope still at issue. Page 2. Wandering hordes die of starvation. Paget. National. All talk of war with Japan ends. Page 1. Arma parley will end today with signing ot treaties, rage ... Iomestic. American women upset by Kargot Asqulth. Page 3. Hollywood film colony assailed by pro ducer, rage -Building contractors to maintain uniform wage scales. Page 2. Farm business good, says Chicago packer. rage i. Direct ocean lines to Ireland planned. Page it. B New clews louna in layior murder. Page l. Attempts to hide murderer of film man scented, rage i. Pacific Northwest. Wenatchee railroad to go forward. Page 4. Masked men line up ana rob 20 loggers. Page l. Seattle's offer to General Goethals amus ing. Page . Bonus regulations revised. Page i. Sports. University of Washington has basketball flag about won. Page 10. Tomorrow's card full of promise. Page 10. Commercial and Marine. Australian demand for lumber better. Pago 12. Portland and Vicinity. Chest drive to be enlivened this week. Page 1- Good judgment now key to - prosperity, says banker. Page 17. Market on lumber to Japan disturbed by rumors. Page 16. German names again wruien on streets. Page 1. , Utility securities absorbed rapidly. Page 18. Capture of robber suspects, laid to luck. Page 18. Renewed religion is declared seeded. Page 5, "Suspect" Is Quizzed But Later Released. SCENE OF KILLING VISITED Woman's Silk Night Dress Is Reported Missing. DRUG VENDOR IS SOUGHT Several New Developments Mark Inquiry Into Death of Film Producer. LOS ANGELES. Feb. 5. A motion picture actor, termed by police and deputy sheriffs "a suspect" In connec tion with the murder here last Wednesday night of 'William Desmond Taylor, director, was taken into cus tody tonight, taken to the scene of the slaying and later released, with. instructions to keep In touch with the officers. The name of the actor was not made public by either the deputy sheriffs who took him into custody nor the police who Joined the deputies and the "suspect" at the Miller apartments and participated In a re-enactment of the crime as they understood it. Murder Scene Visited. When the actor was found by the deputies and taken to the county Jail for, questioning so hurriedly that he had not the time to take the make up off his face, two other employes of a motion picture company also were taken Into custody as witnesses in connection with his detention. After a long questioning, it was said, the actor was- unable to say ex actly where he was at the time the officers believe Taylor was shot. Then he was taken to the Taylor apart ments, where the re-enactment of the crime took place. Although the police did not so an nounce, it was understood no person who had seen a man lurking about the Taylor home Wednesday nisht was able to identify the actor as that man. Actor Later Released. It was after that development that the actor was released, with instruc tions to keep in close communication with the detectives. The actor and the other two men who, it was said, might yet be wanted as material witnesses, were taken into custody as the result of information that an automobile, said to resemble one owned by the sus pect, was seen near the Taylor home Wednesday night. The actor was said to have admit ted ownership of the automobile, but denied he was the man Mrs. Douglas MaoLean, wife of a film actor, and her maid said they had seen leaving the Taylor home.'' One Is Camera Operator. One of the two men taken as ma terial witnesses was a camera man. The occupation of the other was not made public. They also were released. A 'drug peddler, upon whose trail the police said they were "getting warmer," and the absence of a wo me an's silken night dress, said by Henry Peavey, negro houseman, to be miss ing from the apartments of Taylor, were also developments tonight of the search for the slayer. The police were reticent as to the details concerning their search for the man believed to have sought patron age for his contraband drugs among the employes of motion picture stu dios, but they intimated their belief he had attempted to make a delivery through Taylor to an actress who found It difficult to make her pur chases in person. - INIgbt Dress Not Explained. The exact importance of the miss ing nightdress, which was pink in color, was not made plain. Peavey, however, was firm in his declaration that it had a regular place in Taylor's apartments and equally firm in his assertions that since his employer was slain he had been unable to find it. . Peavey's story of the silk night robe received support from the po lice. While the officers declined to state how much of their attention they were giving to this phase of the in vestigation, they said that Earl Tif fany, ex-chauffeur for Taylor, had given them information of a similar nature. Tiffany Makes Statement. ' Tiffany was said to have told the police that Edward F. Sands, Tay lor's ex-butler, told him of how the butler had spied upon Taylor and had thus found in his apartments a large number of pieces of silken underwear unknown in a mars wardrobe. . According to Tiffany's story to tho police. Sand-s said his curiosity was aroused, so he folded the garments in a "trick" manner, and, noting the wav they were folded the next day, became convinced the director did not keeD them in his apartment for sen timental reasons. The day brought forth its usual grist of tips to the police. Another angle was the story tola by an associate of Taylor llmt an (Concluded on l'Jk T, Cuiuoiu 4.i f