THE MORXIXG OREGOXlJfX, THURSDAY, ' FEBRUARY 23, 1023
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TAYLOR DECLARED
KILLED BY PLOTTERS
Two Men and Woman Guilty,
Says Prisoner.
STORY NOT CREDITED!
H. 31. Fields, Arrested at Detroit,
Hepuied Drug Addict, Thought
Seeking Transportation,
DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 22. Two
men and a woman plotted the murder
of William Desmond Taylor, los
Angeles film director, who. was shot
to death. February 1, according to the
reputed statement o Harry M. Fields,
under arrest here.
Making public further details of
Fields' alleged admission tonight,
which included some changes from
the story he was said to have told
officers, Irving J. Coffin, sheriff, said
the suspect told him he know noth
ing of the motive behind the slaying
and that his only interest in it was
the $000 he received for driving the
automobile in which the plotters went
to Taylor's house to kill the director.
What he claimed to be the location
of the pistol used to kill Taylor was
disclosed to Sheriff Coffin by Fields.
Fields also told the sheriff that the
man .who paid him $900 for driving
the automobile had changed a $1000
bill at a Los Angeles bank on Feb
ruary 1, the day Taylor was killed,
and an effort will be made to verify
this statement.
After the shooting Fields Is said to
have asserted he drove the men and
woman back to a resort, which was
characterized as a "hop joint," where
the milrder was planned. He was
paid then, it was added, and left Los
Angeles at once.
While Fields' reputed admission
that he is a drug addict has cast
some doubt on his statements, author
ities have questioned him closely, and
have telegraphed a comprehensive
report to Los Angeles. , Pending fur
ther advices from authorities there,
local officfals have refused to give
any information concerning he re
sult of the quiz to which Fields was
subjected, after receipt of questions
which Sheriff Traeger of Los Angeles
telegraphed to be asked the prisoner.
Sheriff Coffin expressed the view
that Fields, who is said to have ad
mitted he is a drug addict, manu
factured his story in an attempt to
obtain free transportation to Los
Angeles, where he says he has a wife
and four children. Fields, at the time
of his arrest two weeks ago on a
charge of issuing worthless checks,
gave his home" as Buffalo, and his
age as 37.
CONCORD, N. C, Feb. 22. Local
police, in the absence of word from
Los Angeles, were not certain today
whether the man detained here ia
Edward F. Sands, wanted in connec
tion with the murder of William
Desmond Taylor, Los Angeles motion
.picture director, or Harvey Adams of
Richmond, Va. The man insists that
he is Adams and that he came to
Concord on his way farther south to
seek work with a construction com
pany. RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 22. Captain
Alexander Wright, head of the local
detective bureau, today declared he
believed that the man held, by Chief
of Police Talbert in Concord, N. C,
suspected of being Edward F. Sands,
is Harvey Adams of South Richmond.
AGE OF filfiNTS TRACED
HUGE FLIXTS CALLED WORK
OF PliE-PLEISTOCEXE MAX.
sWvativeiy that 50 per cent of our
calls are wrong numbers or that
something is wrong one way or an
other. Repeatedly have we reported
it out of order and just as often have
we failed to get permanent relief.
Combined with the rates, which I
term tpo high, this constitutes a
situation which never should be al
lowed to exist. There should be a
way out and I hope one will be
found." -
H. K: Judge, president of the East
Side Business Men's club, said: "My
opinion is that the public servica
comnvssion is taking a very wrong
stand. I am quite in accord with the
expressions of The Oregonian on this
subject, and I believe the commissiou
should be removed and a body ap
pointed that will look after the in
terests of the public more closely."
MOTHER IS QUIZZED
1 POISON HEARING
Coroner's Jury Returns Open
Verdict on Children.
MRS. RHODES ON STAND
FQRD IIE OFFER
MODIFICATIONS TO PROPOSAL
ACCEPTED.
Definite Guarantee on Production
of Fertilizer Added to Muscle
Shoals Proposal.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 22.
Three alterations in the proposal made
by Henry Ford for lease or purchase
of the government's nitrate and power
projects at Muscle Shoals. Alabama,
have been agreed to by, the Detroit
manufacturer. They are:
1. To write into the proposed con
tract, a definite guarantee to produce
fertilizers m their finished form at
a given annual minimum tonnage.
2. To capitalize the operating com
pany which is to be created to super
vise Muscle Shoals operations.
3. To revise the language of the
so-called farmers' clause in order to
insure the delivery of fertilizers from
the producing plant to the consumers
at a profit not exceeding 8 per cent
based on the cost of manufacture.
Mr. Ford's approval of these modifi
cations was announced today by W. B.
Mayo, chief engineer for the Ford
company upon his return from De
troit, where he conferred with the
manufacturer. Formal announcement
to the house military committee mem
bers who are investigating the offer
in congress will be made by Mr. Mayo
as soon as arrangements, for him to
testify are completed, probably Friday.
While the three alterations were
regarded by some committee members
as greatly improving the form of the
proposal and adding to its value, as
they view it from the government's
standpoint, other members said it
would have been more acceptable if
Mr. Ford had also agreed to a reduc
tion in the lease clause from 100 to
50 years, as suggested by Secretary
Weeks when he testified before the
committee.
The comimittee held only one meet
ing today on account of the holiday.
Gray Silver, Washington representa
tive of the American farm bureau fed
eration, testified that the 1,600,000
farmer members of the organization
had "unreservedly indorsed" the Ford
offer and had full confidence that they
would get cheaper fertilizers and
other commodities which .he would
manufacture at Muscle Shoals. '
Doctor Says Woman Feared That
More Youngsters Might Be
Added to Family.
ing convulsions perhaps half an hour
afterward.1 - - -
She denied that -there was or had
been any person about their home and
declared that the package from which
she took the doses had been unopened
until the morning she usd it.
Package Is Sealed.
At that time, she testified, she had
removed the string which held a piece
of wrapping paper about the package,
opened the end of the carton and had
taken out the medicine. She said that
the package up to that time had not
been tampered with by her or any ot;
her family and that the medicine
given the children was just as it came
from the original package. She swore
she had begun preparing breakfast
for the family, and other witnesses
later confirmed her story that break
fast was under way.
utner witnesses called were Mrs.
James Moorcroft, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Roundtree, C. J. Carlson, Dr. Georga
H Dow and Dr. 3. M. Sleioher of Che
halis, Mailcarrier Fenn and Freeman
D. Jennings of the West oast Gro
cery company, Tacoma, whose firm
supplied the Epsom salts packages to
Carlson's Curtis store.
FALL'S APPROVAL "BOUGHT
AMENDMENT TO RECLAMATION
BILL PROPOSED.
CHURCH 'SNOBBERY' HIT
Anthropologist Says Relics Prove
Intelligent Beings Existed in
Third Geological Period.
NEW YORK, Feb. 22. Man of suf
ficient intelligence and handicraft to
shape flint iniplements and build and
use fires existed in the third geolog-'
ical period. Proof of this was pre
sented in a series of chipped flints
which have just been exhibited by the
American museum, according to Dr.
Henry Fairfield Osburne, president
of the museum, and an authority on
the beginnings of the human race.
The fl'nts were recently discovered
by J. Reid Moir, near Foxhall, East
Anglia, England, at a lower level
than previous human relics wore ad
mitted to have been found. The col
lection, known as the Foxhall flints,
has been presented to the museum by
Mr. Moir. From the size of the im-plement-the
largest weighs seven
pounds six ounces the investigators
deduce that they were the handiwork
of a race of men of larger stature
than that which followed it in the
pleistocene time. It was surmised
tho implements were used in crushing
the bones of animals and in break
ing holes in the ice so that fishermen
could carry on operations.
The collection proves. Dr. Osborne
said, "the existence of tertiary men. "
BAIL FUND ESTABLISHED
Civil Liberties Union Prepares to
Protect Its Members,
NEW YORK, Feb. 22. The, estab
lishment of a national bail fund to
write bail in cases involving free
speech and other civil rights, was
announced today by the American
civil liberties union. The fund is in
the hands of Albert de Silver and L.
Hollingsworth Wood, lawyers, and
Norman M. Thomas, associate editor
of the Nation, as trustees.
The trustees announced that $60,000
already was available.
Winning of Workers Rests on Sound
Economic Relations, Says Bishop.
CHICAGO, Feb. 22. The church
must abandon its "attitude of spir
itual snobbery" before it can hope
to dispense- the social gospel to the
workers. Bishop Paul Jons, secre
tary of the Fellowship of Reconcilia
tion, New York, said today in an ad
dress before the council of cities of
the Methodist Episcopal church.
"When the church abandons its at
titude of spiritual snobbery;" he said,
"in which it imagines it can 'put over'
something in the industrial field by
doing something for the workers and
those winning their gratitude and al
legiance, and begins in humility to
seek ways of . working with them in
the establishment of sound economic
relations so that the every-day work
of the world may be a field for the
expression of real brotherhood it will
have found the key to the solution of
the problem."
CHURCHES TO BE REBUILT
France to Guarantee Bond Issue
for Devastated Regions.
PARIS, Feb. 22. (By the " Asso
ciated Press.) A bond issue for the
reconstruction of 300 churches in the
devastated areas of France has been
authorized 1
It will be the same type as other
issues for reconstruction projects in
devastated regions, and will amount
to 200,000,000 francs, bearing interest
at 6 per cent, issued in 500-franc de
nominations, and payable in 30 yeara
The issue will be guaranteed by the
government. .
ROLL STOCKINGS BANNED
25 Men in Babylon to Quit Girls
Who Violate Proprieties.
BABYLON, X Y., Feb. 22. Twenty
five young unmarried men of this
town have adopted resolutions de
claring they will not be seen in pub
lic with young women who wear
their goloshes unbuttoned or roU
down their stockings. Their formal
statement added:
"The young men of Babylon are
not prudes, but they have a better
notion of propriety than did the
young men of ancient Babylon."
The prestige of Oregonian Want
Ads has been attained' not merely by
The Oregonian's large circulation, but
by the fact that all its readers ano
interested in Oregonian Want-Ads.
PHONE RULING ASSAILED
'Continued From First Page.)
could levy such tolls on goods and get
business. Even in the matter of the
pay stations, the company wants it
sll; it allows but 10 per cent of the
collections to the store proprietor for
all the trouble he goes to, space af
fording, taking 90 per cent.- In a way,
this is a small matter, but it shows
the company is thrifty and not over
looking anything."
Not oniy is the charge for busi
ness phenes far too high, but in his
own office the Bervice Is very In
ferior, said Lieutenant Harold C
Jones, in charge of the sea service
bureau of the United States shipping
board.
"In -our case the telephone service
is very important," said Lieutenant
Jones. "We are constantly using t
in our recruiting work. Since the
company put in a new automatic in
strument in our office, I will say eoa-
CHEHALIS,, Wash., Feb. 22. (Spe
cial.) Analysis of the internal organs
of Verda Rhodes, II, showed presence
of etrychnine in her body, according
to a report today from the Univer
sity of Washington, where the organs
were taken for examination following
the sudden death of the five children
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rhodes Feb
ruary 11. The children died in con
vulsions after their mother had given
them a dose from an Epsom salts
package.
Analysis of the contents of the
package some time ago had shown
that it contained an alkaline poison
mixed with the salts. It was an
nounced today that a sample taken
from the top of the package by Dr.
J. M. Sleicher, who attended the chil
dren, had a much higher percentage of
poison. The authorities took this rev
elation as proving that the poison had
been placed in the top of the package
by some person who had planned to
murder the family.
Inquest Is Held.
At the inquest into the case today
County Prosecutor Allen quizzed Mrs.
Rhodes concerning a statement she
was alleged to have made to the ef
fect that she would not have her chil
dren back if she could.
Mrs. Rhodes explained that she had
meant she wouldn't want them back
if they had to suffer again as they
had that morning. Mrs. Rhodes could
not recall the person to whom she
had made the statement, and Mr. Allen
declined to call his informant 'as a
witness.
The last witness at the inquest was
Dr. George H. Dow, family physician
for the Rhodes, who said he had
treated Mrs Rhodes foria year for a
nervous disorder which seemed to cen
ter about her fear of becoming the
mother of additional children. He
said he believed she was now over
her nervous ailment and that he re
garded her as mentally sound.
Jury Finds Verdict.
The verdict of the coroner'3 jury
follows:
"We, the jury, in the case of the
Rhodes children's death, find as fol
lows: Verda, 11; Edward, -9; Marie
Anna Belle, 7; James, 6; Vernie, 3;
the children of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Rhodes, of Klaber, Wash., on Feb
ruary 11, 1922, came to their deaths
at or about 8:30 o'clock P. M., at the
country home of their parents, 17
miles southwest of Chehalis, death
caused by strychnine poisoning from
some unknown source."
The jurors were George R. Walker,
secretary Southwest Washington Fair
association; A. L. Reiblin, dry goods
merchant; Dave Alexander, shoe deal
er; Dr. James H. Johnson, dentist;
George L. Sears, druggist, and John
West, pioneer grocer.
The list of witnesses at the inquest
included Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rhodes,
father and mother of the children;
the children's grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Rhodes, pioneer of the Eoist
fort country; Rev. Edward Harris,
civil war veteran and neighborhood
physician; Glenn Roundtree and wife.
and others of the best-Known citi
zens of western Lewis county.
Mother Is Praised.
All paid high tribute to the good
character of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Rhodes and to the love for her chil
dren which had always characterized
the mother.
The verdict specifying that death
resulted from strychnine poisoning
was precipitated by the news from
Seattle received by Coroner Living
stone to the effect that the analysis
of the stomach and liver of Verda
Rhodes taken two days ago to Dr.
M. C. W. Johnston of the department
of pharmacy of the University of
Washington had shown strychnine in
positive quantity. Also that the sam
ple taken from the alleged box of
salts by Dr. J. M. Sleicher of Chehalis
and which Dr. Johnston had analyzed
also contained a positive strychnine
reaction.
However, in the case of the stom
ach and liver the percentage of
strychnine has not yet been deter
mined and the final report will not
be ready until the end of the week
or early next week. The Sleichef
sample showed strychnine in much
heavier percentage than had the re
mainder of the contents of the box.
The above data was given to the jury
by Coroner Livingston just before it
retired to consider its verdict. The
verdict was returned promptly.
Father Is Wltness.-
Edward Rhodes, father of the chil
dren, had been hurriedly summoned
home from Pacific county, where he
was timber cruising when the trag
edy 'occurred, he testified. His home
life and that of his wife always had
been most happy, he said, and there
was no insanity, in her family so far
as he knew, the parents and four
brothers being now alive. A small
quantity of strychnine he once bought
for the medicine for a sick dog he ac
counted for in full. His wife-had so
far as he knew never been despond
ent or discouraged, and never suf
fered from melancholy, he swore.
Mrs. Edward Rhodes, the mother,
gave her age as 33 years. She detailed
the story of giving the five little ones
the supposed salts, only to see them
sink down in turn and die in agoniz-
CENSORSHIP IS PROPOSED
, i
BILL FOR FEDERAL REGTTLA
' TION INTRODUCED.
Action of. Certain Producers in
Showing Objectionable Films Said
to Make Action Imperative,
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. "22. A
bill providing for establishment of a
federal motion picture 'commission
with censorship powers over all films
entered in interstate commerce was
introduced in the house today by
Representative Appleby, republican,
New York. .
The commission would be under the
bureau of education and in addition
to its duty as public censor would be
directed to, make: inquiry into the
recreational and educational possibili
ties of motion pictures and the dis
semination of such information.
"There is little douot in the minds
of the great majority of tne people
familiar with motion pictures and the
picture industry of the desirability
and necessity of immediate establish
ment of a censorship of the,motion
picture films," said Mr. Appleby in a
statement. "The continued action of
certain producers in presenting objec
tionable films makes it imperative.
A censorship law that may be satis
factory in one state is not satisfactory
in another and hence it would be bet
ter if the pictures were under federal
regulation."
Declaring that the picture theaters
are patronized today largely by chiH
dren, and a vast army of illiterates
and the ignorant," Mr. Appleby added
it was incredible "to think that the
federal government will longer per
mit the creation .of lasting impres
sions upon these minds based on the
immoral, obscene, indecent and crime
inciting." The New Jersey representative as
serted that with "the advent of Postmaster-General
Hays with his high
ideals" into the moving picture field
the way would be opened for better
pictures."
Delegation of Western Representa
tives and W. Ii. Boise and El. F.
Blaine Call on Secretary.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D. C, Feb. 22. A dele
gation of western representatives, in
cluding Sinnott of-Oregon, Summers
of Washington, Smith and French of
Idaho, accompanied by Whitney L
Boise of Portland and E. F. Blaine,
representing the Western States
Reclamation association, called Tues
day on Secretary Fall to ask if he
would approve as amendment to the
latest McNary reclamation bill which
would stipulate clearly that . money
going into reclamation projects when
repaid by settlers shall go into a re
volving fund to continue the work on
reclamation.
They told the secretary the McNary
bill he had recently indorsed seemed
to provide that money repaid by set
tlers should go into the treasury and
be lost to the fund. Secretary Fall
said such an amendment would be
acceptable to him. He reiterated his
interest in the reclamation measure
and toid hip callers that at the proper
time he believed the president would
send a special message to congress
urging the legislation.
Farm Bureau. Enrolls 273.
GRANTS PASS, Or., Feb. 22. (Spe
cial.) A total of 273 new members
was obtained during the membership
drive conducted by the Josephine
County Farm Bureau association.
Read The Oregonian classified ads.
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PASTORS FIGHT "SALOME"
Pittsburg Council of Churches
Wants Opera Changed.
PITTSBURG,' Feb. 22 Protesting
against the proposed performance of
"Salome" during the visit of the
Chicago Grand Opera company here
next month, the Pittsburg council of
churches, through its secretary, Rev.
Dr. Charles B. Zahniser, today sent
a letter to the grand opera com
mittee. 'The letter asked that another opera
be substituted.
Oregon's Best Coal Southport.
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ORCHESTRA
i. F. N. Colburn, Director
Tonight's Programme
6 to S and 9:30 to 11 riJO
1. March. ''Lorraine' Louis Ganne
2. Waltz, 'arhat Fascinating
Waltz". T Lincke
3. Song, "To a Wild Rose"
.i Edward MacDowell
4 "Oregon, Where Love Ts Best"
. .Cecil Teague
5. Selection, "Red Mill":.:
Victor Herbert
6. (a) "Aragonaise" from " Le
Cid". G. Massen-et
- (b) ."Chan Sans Paroles"
P. Tsehaikowsky
7. "Nola". ' Felix Arndt
S. Fox trot. "Coax Me"
Sargent and Freshman
A Delightful Programme
Every Night
6 to 8 and 0:30 to 11:30
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