THE MORNIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1922
BOj'JUS BiLL CARRIES
FIVE-WAY FEATURE
Variety of Benefits for Veter
ans Outlined.
TRAINING ONE OF PLANS
Ei-Sen k-e Man Who Elects to Take
AiljuMed Vmy Would Get $1.25
Day for Overseas Sen ice.
TUB ORKGONIAN NEWS Bl'KEAC
Washineton. D. C. Feb. . In taking
up the proposal t6 provide a bonus,
or adjusted compensation, for vet
erana of tne world war, the house
ways ani means committee which i
to initiate the legislation will give
first consideration to the five-way
plan carried ill the Kordney bill in
troduced in the house last April.
I'nder the terms of this bill any
veteran eligible to adjusted com
pensation may avail himself of any
one of the following options: Adjust
ed service pay In cash; adjusted serv
ice certificate which is equivalent to
a paid-up life insurance policy; voca
tional training; at -government ex
pense; government aid . in the im
provement of a farm or city home, or,
finally, a tract of land in a govern
ment project reclaimed by Irrigation
or drainage especially for soldier set
tlement. The veteran who elects to take ad
Justed service pay In cash will re
ceive ll.cr. for each day of overseas
service and fl for each day of home
service in excess of 60 days in the
military or naval forces of the I'nited
States after April 5. J17, and before
July 1. 1!M. The amounts paid, how
ever, shall not exceed 50 for the
veteran who performed no overseas
service nor more than $625 for the
overseas veteran.
1.73 a Day Frevlaea.
The adjusted service certificate,
w-hich is the second of the options,
would equal the adjusted service pay
of the veteran increased by 40 per
cent with interest thereon for iO
years at' the rate of 4 per cent a
year, compounded annually, piling up
a total obligation at maturity equal
to approximately 3 38 times the ad
Justed service pay. The veteran would
name a beneficiary of the certificate
with power to chance it from time to
time. The face value of the certifi
cate would be payable to the veteran
at the end of 20 years, or upon his
death before that time to the bene
fictary. I'nder the vocational aid provision
the veteran would receive $1.75 for
each day of attendance on a course
of vocational training; with certain
deductions for absence, but the total
amount paid out by the government
would not exceed 140 per cent of w-hat
the veteran would have received had
he chosen the cash plan of adjusted
service pay.
The farm and home aid plan provides
for payment to the veteran in one
sum or In Installments an amount not
to exceed 140 per cent of his adjust
ed service pay to enable him to make
Improvements on a city or suburban
home. Before making the payment
the government agency administering
this part of the act would have au
thority to call on the federal farm
loan bank appraisers to pass on the
desirability of the Investment.
Vetera May Select Lands.
The veteran is given the oppor
tunity under the land settlement pro
vision to select a farm unit within
a soldiers' settlement project re
claimed by irrigation or drainage,
such projects to be selected with a
view of having one or more in each of
the states. The veteran's adjusted
service pay Is to be accepted as the
Initial payment on the land and no
further payment would be required
for two years thereafter. Balances
on the purchase price could be paid
upon an amortization plan over a pe
riod not exceeding 40 years, deferred
payments to carry interest at the rate
of per cent.
Commissioned officers above the
grade of captain in the army and
marine corps, lieutenant In the navy,
first lieutenant of engineers in the
coast guard, or past assistant sur
geons in the public health service are
barred from beenfits, along with ci
vilian officers and employes of the
government under the terms of the
Kordney bill.
The bill carries numerous details
necessary to the administration of
the act w-hich are subject to change
when the ways and means committee
of the house and the finance commit
tee of the senate gets down to work
on It-
bonds. These are only "two of a
score of programmes.
Another sub-committee under Rep
resentative Green of Iowa will be
gin tomorrow a study of the original
Fordney bill with a view to deciding
what modifications, if any. are to be
made In it. It was said to be prac
tically certain that the five-way"
programme would be retained, but
that some changes in individual plans
might be made.
There is little sentiment in the
committee now, it was stated, in
favor of the suggested decrease in
the total amount of cash that might
be received by the ex-service men
under option No. 1 with a cor
responding increase in the value of
each of the other four options.
OFFICERS BLOCKED
HI MURDER
Film Folk Said to Have Re
fused to Help Sleuths.
FLOUR MANAGERS NAMED I
SYNDICATE OF BANKS AN
NOVNCE APPOINTMENTS.
TAYLOR ESTATE $20,000
W. II. Foster and Ernest Reiner to
Have ficneral Charge of Port
laud Mills Company.
W. 1L Foster, a director of the
Gray-Rosenbaum tirain company and
Krnet Kelner, general manager of
the Chesapeake Kxport company of
New York, which is an exporting
subsidiary of the Gray-Rosenbaum
Grain company, were yesterday ap
pointed Jointly as general managers
of the Portland Flouring Mills com
pany and all subsidiary enterprises.
The appointment was made by the
syndicate of banks now doing busi
ness as the Portland Flouring Mills
company.
Sir. Foster and Mr. Reiner declared
that putlished reports of a forth
coming transfer of the physical prop
erty of the Portland Flouring MiUs
company to the Gray-Hosenbaum
Grain company were erroneous and
that no such transfer has been ef
fected or is Intended. The present
officers, directors and stockholders
of the former Houser interests will
remain unchanged, they declared, ex
c pt that -the two Joint general man
agers will have entire supervision of
all operations, Frank &hull, recently
appointed presidentof the Portland
Flouring Mills company, will con
tinue in that capacity and will co
operate with Mr. Foster and Mr.
Reiner.
The Portland Flouring Mills com
pany will continue in the grain ex
porting business, it was dVclared last
night by Mr. Reiner. A recent report
was that this phase of the business
would be discontinued and the opera
tions of the company confined ta
milling.
The property over which Mr. Fos
ter and Mr. Reiner will have Jurisdic
tion includes the plant of the Port
land Flouring Mills company, some
150 grain elevators throughout the
northwest and three grain docks at
Portland. These last are the Mont
gomery, Irving and Pacific Coast Ele
vator docks.
New Hunt for letters Written to
. Slain Director by Actresses
Begun by Authorities.
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CREW PICKED UP AT SEA
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Scotia coast. She took the passen
gers off the Powhattan and landed
them in New York. The Northern
Pacific had the distinction on this
trip to be carrying the last regular
contingent of returning soldiers.
During the early. summer of 1929
the Northern Pacific carried General
Pershing on his trip through the An
tilles and the Caribbean, but she came
to grief at San Juan. Porto Rico,
where she went ashore at the harbor
entrance, closing the port for a time.
Upon her release she returned to the
United States.
The vessel was offered for sale on
December 21 .last by the United
States shipping board, but so far as
available records show she was still
under government control when the
fire broke out this morning.
The Northern Pacific was 509 feet
long, 53 feet wide and had a depth
of SJ feet. Her registered gross ton
nage was S255 tons.
WORK ON SHIPS HALTED
(Confirmed From First "Page
9350,000,000 CASH ESTIMATE
Sources) for liaising Bonus Revenue
Will Bo Studied Today.
WASHINGTON". IX C. Feb. S. A
tentative estimate of $350,000,000
yearly as the amount of special
taxes that must be laid to finance the
cash feature of the proposed soldier
bonus legislation was made today at
an executive session of majority
members of the house ways and
means committee. The exact amount
that is to be determined upon and the
sources from which it must come
w ill be taken up tomorrow by a sub
committee, beaded by Chairman Ford
ney. Committeemen said it was not the
Intention to rely on any part either
of the Interest or principal of the
Hriiish or other foreign debts In con
nection with the bonus. They said
that something around $350,000,000 a
year would take care of the cash
payments to be made over the two
and one-half years' period beginning
January 1, 19:3. and that the finding
of definite and certain sources from
which to obtain this amount was
their Immediate concern.
The I350.0U0.000 estimate, it was
explained, was made on the basis of
figures presented at public hearings
by fiscal officers of the army, navy
and marine corps. The figures con
templated 50 per cent of the men who
served with the army and 75 per
cent of those who served with the
navy and marine corps electing to
take cash. This figure may be re
vised as the sub-committee studies
the matter.
The first question before the tax
sub-committee will be that of de
ciding whether the tax revenue is to
come from a limited group of sources
or whether the taxes will be spread
over a wide field. It was said that
there are two schools of thought in
the committee. Some members em
phasised that it would be the pur
pose to so arrange the tax programme
as to interfere as little as possible
with the recovery of business
There was said to be a drift of
sentiment for a tax of possibly one
cent a gallon on gasoline and also a
levy ob the transfer of slocks and
of the American delegation. The re
port was in the printers' hands today.
It may be presented to the president
tomorrow. The document was said to
cover more than 100 pages, including
all the treaties and resolutions of the
conference as well as a full history
of the negotiations and explanations
of the various agreements and of the
reasons that prevented agreements in
such cases as land armaments, sub
marines, auxiliary craft tonnage limi
tations and similar matters on the
agenda of the conference.
It was expected the president would
require a day or two before trans
mitting the treaties to the senate.
The view was expressed that the
report would go far to clear up much
of the misapprehension concerning
some of the treaties.
FARM BLOC VICTORIOUS
Continwl From First Pare.)
stock or membership capital in excess
of per cent a year.
With respect to the authority
granted the secretary of agriculture
to control attempts to monopolize or
restrain trade, the bill provides that
notice of charges of alleged violations
must be served on the offending asso
ciation and it must be given an op
portunity to defend itself. If found
guilty the secretary may order the
association to "cease and desist" and
in event of Its failure to do so the
case then may be referred to the fed
eral courts for enforcement of the
order and the filing of such decrees
a- the courts deem equitable-
New Office Octn Postmaster.
THE ORKGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington. IX C. Feb. 8. Clyde A.
Super of Bickleton. Waslu, has been
appointed postmaster at CleodelU a
pew postoffice in Klickitat county.
tests show Kdlefsen's
riN ctcI in float, p-iwr 7V Aiv.
a man lurking in the shadows of
heavy shrubbery surrounding the
hotel Alvarado. at Sixth and Alva
rado streets, nearly two blocks from
the Taylor apartments, on the night
of the murder. This, she said, was
about 9:45 o'clock, or approximately
two sours after the time set by the
police as that of the crime. He had a
cap and a dark gray muffler, she said.
She remarked at the time hi3 actions
were suspicious, for, although he was
standing at a car stop, he did not
board the street car.
The police, however, insisted the
man to be sought was Sands. No
complaint charging murder has been
issued against him yet however. No
official reason has been given in any
quarter for the absence of a complaint
against the missing butler-Becretary
in the face of the frankly stated be
lief of the police that he is the man
they want.
The investigation centering in the
district attorney's office, it was said
may not bring forth a complaint until
after the case has been presented to
the grand jury.
Among the persons named as likely
to be called by the district attorney
are Mabel Normand. Mary Miles Mln
ter, Neva Gerber and Clair Windsor,
all film actresses; Mrs. Douglas Mac
liean, wife of a film actor; Howard
Fellows, Taylor's chauffeur, and
Henry Peavey, his negro house man.
Miss Minter will be called because
of her close friendship for Taylor;
Miss Normand because she is the last-
known person who saw him alive
Miss Gerber because Bhe was once his
fiancee, and Miss Windsor because
she had been associated with him.
Body -Laid Ost."
A report said that police officers,
summoned immediately after the
crime was discovered, found Taylor's
body had been carefully "laid out
on the floor of his apartments, except
for the fact that a chair was over
turned on his legs. The feet were to-
gether and the hands by the sides, it
was said.
This report was understood to have
"interested" the district attorney's of
fice especially.
The report came from F. Parsons,
a member of the police "flying equad
ron," which answers hurry calls.
Parsons, with Detective Thomas
Zeigler, was the first officer to reach
the scene.
Sands Reported Seen.
Late today the detective bureau re
ceived through the Los Angeles county
sherifTa office a message from the
sheriff at Tucson, Ariz., to tae effect
that a man resembling Sands was seen
at Lowell. Ariz., February 4, three
days' after Taylor was slain. Walter
Peterson of Tucson, according to this
message, was the Tucson sheriffs in
formant. Peterson said the man he
talked with professed to be a deserter
from the British navy and said he had
been in Los Angeles and was familiar
with the Hollywood section, where
most of the motion picture colony Is
situated. The man told Peterson he
was on his way to the Imperial valley,
California, without explaining what
he was doing in Arizona.
The sheriffs office here, according
to deputies working on the case, up to
tonight bad wound up at a "blank
wall" in every step It had taken. This
investigation, ,lt was said, had noth
ing to do with Sands. The sheriff's
investigators said they expected to
examine Henry Peavey, house man for
Taylor, in an effort to obtain cor
roboration or denial of certain state
ments made to them by other parties,
and that possibly some light would be
thrown on the situation when this
was done. A
Servaat Helps Police.
Peavey passed the day assisting po
lice officers in checking over Taylor's
effects at the apartment where the
slaying occurred. These articles were
taken, after the checking, to a stor
age warehouse under the direction of
the public administrator of the county.
The police took charge of certain
articles, it was said, as possibly hav
ing some bearing upon the crime, but
did not etate what they were.
After the search Captain Adams
said there had been no letters discov
ered by the police and that he had
never seen any letters addressed to
Taylor with the exception of about
half a dozen from the director's ex
wife and daughter. These, he de
clared, had absolutely no bearing
upon the case.
Mabel Normand and Mary Miles
Minter, motion picture actresses,
friends of the slain director, who
were previously questioned about the
case, remained in seclusion today.
Both police and sheriff Investigators
said late in the afternoon no further
information had been sought from
them.
Deserter's Description Sent,
While Associated Press dispatches
from Washington announced the navy
department had forwarded to the po
lice descriptions of a deserter from
the navy who had used the name of
Strathmore, which was known to
have been used by Sands, the police
said at a late hour they had no direct
Information from the department.
They professed anxiety to get the of
ficial description, saying they could
make good use of it. The description
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sent by the Associated Press tallied
closely with that of Sands, given by
persons who knew him here. The
Washington dispatch, however, stated
that Strathmore had scars on his
shoulder blade which were not men
tioned in the description of Sands
Captain Charles R. Moffatt of the
detective bureau said, however, that
the Sands description was not a "sat
isfactory one," having 'been made up
of statements of a dozen or more
persons, some of their recollections of
the man being quite vague.
Prior to turning the Taylor resi
dence back to the landlord today, the
police took another careful survey of
the surroundings, making particular
note of the arrangement of the rooms
and nearby buildings.
The Taylor apart uents constitute
unit of a group of eight 2-story white
stucco buildings - grouped about
tiled court in which palms, flower
beds and fountains are artistically
arranged. Taylor's place occupies a
corner of the court at the furthest
extremity from South Alvarado street.
upon which the court faced, the gen
eral location being about a block from
West Lake park, near the heart of
one of the most exclusive residential
sections of the city.
The living room of the apartment
where Taylor was found shot to
death is reached by the front door,
a step from the court. In the rear of
this room is a dining room, and back
of that a kitchen. In the upper floor
are two bedrooms. In the rear of the
building is a detached garage.
The police took especial note of the
fact that there is an alley leading
from the rear of the premises to an
other street. Their theory is that the
slayer escaped by this alley.
The Los Angeles Examiner today
published another unsigned letter of
passion, written in a simple code, and
upon stationery of a local hotel,
which was found among the effects of
Taylor. It deciphered as follows:
What shall X call you. you wonder
ful man. You are 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 hills or any
where, just so we'd be alone all
alone. In a beautiful little woodland
lodge, you'd be cook, as I can only
make tea and fetch water and build
the fire.
"Wouldn't it be glorious to sit in a
big comfy couch by a cozy warm fire
with the wind whistling outside try
ing to harmonize with the faint
strains of music coming from our
Victrola. And then you'd have to
get up and take off the record. Of
course, I don't mean that, dear. Did
you 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 sweet
est little dust caps, you know) and
tie fresh ribbons on the snowy white
curtains and feed the birds and fix the
riowers, and, ho, yes, set the table
and help you wash the dishes and
then in my spare time I'd darn your
socks. ,
i a go to my room and put on
something soft and flowing, then I'd
lie on the couch and wait for you. I
might fall asleep, for a fire always
makes me drowsy then I'd wake to
find two strong arms around me and
two dear lips pressed on mine in
long sweet kiss "
The Examiner withheld the remain
der of the letter from publication.
SANDS IS BELIEVED DESERTER
Naval Authorities Think Butler
AYas Edward Snyder.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 8. The
complete description, finger prints
and speclments of, the handwriting
of a naval deserter, Edward Fitz
gerald Snyder, alias Strathmore, be
lieved by naval officials to resemble
closely Edward F. Sands, missing
butler-secretary, wanted by Los An
geles police in connection with the
killing of William D. Taylor, motion
picture director, were Bent to the
police of ,the California city today
by Kear-Admiral Thomas Washing,
ton, chief of the bureau of navigation
ol the navy department.
The description of Strathmore, or
Snyder, as recorded in the naval rec
ords at the time of his last enlist
ment in 1919 was as follows:
Age, 24 years 10 months.
Height, 5 feet 6 inches.
Weight, 186 pounds.
Eyes, black.
Hair, brown.
Complexion, ruddy. '
Color, white.
Scars on shoulder blades.
Strathmore or Snyder first en
listed In the navy at Cincinnati, O.,
September 19, 1911, giving his name
as Snyder and the address of his next
of kin as father, Murray T. Snyder,
Marion, O., according to naval rec
ords.
He was dishonorably discharged in
August. 1916. after being sentenced
by court-martial for embezzlement
and fraud and following a year's im
prisonment in the Portsmouth navy
yard. New Hampshire, he was said
to have fraudulently re-enlisted in
October, 1917, at the New York navy
yard as ship's cook, giving the same
name for himself ajid father as on
the first enlistment. He deserted at
New London, Conn., in January, 1919,
but again fraudulently re-enlisted a
month later at Kansas City under the
name of Strathmore, giving the name
of Henry William Fitzwilllam Keats
of Lincolnshire, England, as his
uncle, and he finally deserted from
the Great Lakes training station on
April 2, 1919. His war risk insur
ance was said to have been made
out in fa. or of his mother, -Marguerite
Amelia Snyder, Marion, O.
At the time of his last enlistment,
February, 1919, he stated that he was
born in IS 94 and that Boston was
his home. 1
The bureau of navigation learned
of the search for Edward F. Sands
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To get the final touch
of perfection which makes
an artist great, it is neces
sary that the artist's Victor
. Records be played on the
'Victrola, '
Neither the instrument
nor the record is complete
in itself Both are depend
ent upon each other; both
are specially made to be
used together and this is
possible only because both
are Victor products,
'Victrolas $25 to $1500,
New Victor Records dem
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Victor products on the 1st
of each month.
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through the circular issued by the
chief of the police of Los Angeles.
Trunk Order Protested.
ALBANY, Or., Feb. 8. (Spo.al. -
Protests have been made to the county
court of Linn county by many indus
tries operating in this county over
the order regulating the weight t-f
tiuck loads on the roads of the county.
The first order made a limit of ljno
pounds to the load, exclusive of the
weip-ht of the truck and th's was
ator modified to 4000 pounds, ino'ud
jng truck and load. Protects have
been made aeramst each order, it he
iug asserted that it will Interfere with
the operation of. different industries
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