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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
BELIEVE FIELDS
STORY CLEVER HOAX

DETROIT, Mich, Feb 2j.-Oficisls
here today began TO doubt the story told
by Harry N. Fields confessed forger,
who has told in great detail what he as
serts to be the true facts of the murder
Of William Desmond Taylor.
Authorities here have come to the be
lief Fields. who is waiting sentence on a
charge Of forgery, has framed the story
in order 10 be taken to Los Angeles
where he could be freed on q writ and
it would be impossible to return him to
Detroit for his prison sentence.
Fields has embellished his story each
day and given new evidence which, if
true, would be Of major Importance. His
latest story connects a famous film ac-
tress" with the actual murder party, of
fciaIs stated.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
FILM ACTRESS
SAID TO HAVE
GIVEN SIGNAL
Fields Says Bag of Candy
Was Waved as Sign for
Shooting.
JEALOUSY WAS MOTIVE
TRACES PHONE CALL.

ThACES PdONE GALL.
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 25.-Tracing
q telephone message sent by a woman in
Los Angeles to a friend at a hotel in san
Francisco a few hours after W. d. Tay-
lor was slain, Police Detective Herman
Cline, working under the direction of Dis
trict Attorney WooIwine, was reported
to be in San Francisco today checking on
this important new angle in the investtt-
CATION of the murder case.
In a frantic message over the telephone
on the night of the murder, according to
Cline's information, the woman IS said to
have told her friend she was in trouble"
and needed help.
DETROIT, Feb. 25-A movie actress
Of the Hollywood colony not only was
implicated in the murder OF William
Desmond Taylor, film director, but &C.
tuaIly gave a signal TO waiting gunner
that Taylor was alone and could be
killed safely, according to the story told
Ly Harry N Fields, to authorities IN
the county jail today.
Fields said the actress hired him and
three others, incl ding a Chinaman,
woman and a gunman Of Los Angeles to
kill Taylor, paying them LOCO each. The
actress was madly jealous Of attentions
paid to another movie star by Taylor and
plotted his DEATH Fields said.
The actress went to Taylor's bungalow,
Fields declared, and he and the other kill
ers waited in machine nearby. She APP
peared shortly afterward and waved a
bag Of candy as a signal that Taylor was
alone.
The Chinaman and other gunner then
entered and shot Taylor, while Fields and
the woman remained in the machine, he
said
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
PACT MEETING
HELD BEHIND
CLOSED DOORS
First Step Taken To-
ward Treaty Ratifi- \
cation.
SENATE WATTS
Three Of Seven Gov
enants to Be Re
ported.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. - The
first step in putting the conference
treaties through the Senate was &C.
complfshed today when the Foreign
Relations Committee, meeting be-
hind closed doors, ordered three of
the seven pacts reported to the Sen
ate.
These were:
1. The four powered Pacific treaty,
replacing the Anglo-Japanese alliance
with the Brandegee- Harding compro-
mise reservation attached.
2. The fve-powered naval treaty
between the United States, Great
Britain, France, Italy and Japan.
8. The Submarine and poison gas
between IT, same powers, abolishing
the use of gas in warfare and limit
ing the usages Of submarines.
The action of the Foreign Relations
Committee, taken after a number Of tu-
multuOus and wrangling sessions, leaves
only the various treaties affecting CHINA
still in the committees hands
The vote to report the four powered
treaty was 10 to 3. The negative votes
were those OF senators BOran OF IuauO
and Johnson of California, Republicans,
and Shields, Democrat Of Tennessee.
COMPROMISE
WINS IN WALK.
The compromise reservation to the Pa
cifc treaty agreed upon by President
Harding and Senator Brandegee, Re-
publican Of Connecticut was adopted by
a vote Of 10 to 3. The votes east against
1t were those of Senators Kellogg, Re
publican of Minnesota: POmerene Of OHIO
and Williams, Democrats, Of Mississippi.
The vote to report the naval limitation
of the submarine poison gas treaties was
unanimous. No reservations were at
tached to them, the reservation to the
Pacific treaty being the only one
adopted.
The supplemental agreement taking
the japanese homeland out Of the Pa.
cifc treaty was ordered reported by a
vote Of u to l, Senator BOrah voting
against it.
Senator Lodge announced as soon as the
Chinese treaties were ordered reported,
which he expected would be done early
next week, he would report all seYeh
ltreaties together to the Senate.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
FIND WHITE MULE IN GARAGE.

Armed with search warrant the po-
lice broke into a garage at III North
Illinois street today and discovered two
gallons of white mule and two large
empty jugs. The owner Of the garage
said 1t had been rented to a man giving
his name as Harry Jameson, Cavett Io-
tell jameson was not known at the
hotel.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
FACTA FORMS
NEW CABINET
Italian Deputy Names Self
Premier and Minister
of Interior.

ROME, Feb. 25.--Deputy Facta today
succeeded In forming a new cabinet,
with himself as premier and minister
of interior. The other members are:
Foreign affairs, Senator Schanzer.
Justice, Luigi Rossi.
Public works, De Vitte.
Treasury, Beano.
Industry, Teofilo Rossi.
Agriculture, Bertini.
Education, Anile.
Finance, Bertone.
Colonies, Vescalea
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
Strange Acting Man Makes
o. Fuss in Governors office
Calls TUo Days in Succession at 1850 O'clock
Each Time.

several minutes yesterday he left be-
fore police arrived.
Today a StatehOuse policeman at
tempted to 6letain him, but he ran out
the south entrance and east in Wash
= ingtOn street, the pursuing officer
losing him mt Illinois and Pearl
streets. Governor McCray was in his
private Office on both occasions.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25

Police this afternoon arc searching
for "A young man, thought to be in
sane, who created a disturbance In
Gov. Warren T. McCray's outer office
at the StatehOuse yesterday and to-
day. He came to the office at 1850
o'clock both times.
After singing and whooping for
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
Epidemic Claims
Seven More Lives

Pneumonia took FIVE and influenza two
lives from 10 o'clock Friday until 10
o'clock this morning. the city health de-
partment announced. DR.. Herman g.
Morgan, secretary of the board Of pub
lie health, can see no abatement of the
epidemIe.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
Says Movie Hubby
Forced Her to Live
With Millionaire

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb 25-Charg-
ing that Francis Spottiswoode- Aitken.
veteran motion picture character actor,
had forced her to live with a millionaire
Santa Barbarian, Mrs. Marion Avis Spot
tiswoode-A itken today filed sensational
counter charges in the divorce action III
stituted by her husband
Mrs. Spottiswoode- Aitken asserted she
had been coerced Into living with tho
millionaire in order that her husband
might extort money from him.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
Police Wreck Still
They Are Unable to
MOUe OUer Streets

Because OF the condition OF some of the
city streets. the police today were unable
to take still captured In n raid at $50
South Temple avenue to headquarters and
were forced to destroy 1t. They also de-
strOyed a large quantity of mash, but
carried five gallons of white mule" two
blocks to "A patrol wagon which had been
driven as necr the house as the condition
of the streets would permit.
PasquRIe Mendick, "a, and Carl 8.
George, 20, occupants of the house, were
arrested on blind tiger charg
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
RefOrmatOry Site
Up Again Next Week

The reformatory removal commission
will meet some time next week in another
effort tc decide on a location for the
Institution, Governor Warren T. McCTay
said today. The Governor said the sit
uation in regard to a site is unchanged.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
HIS NIGHTCAP

VERSAILLES, ,'eb. 25.--Two small
glasses of rum fOrI ed the last break
fast of "Bluabeard' E@ndru, who was
guillOtined here today Landru re-
fused to take any solid God, saying
he was beyond all need Of ystenance
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
Landru Beheaded Before
Gate OF St. Pierre Prison
French 'BIWebeards' Head Drops Into BGs-
ket as HORRIBLY Curious Cr0yOd Looks On

VERSAILLES, France, Feb 25.-Tn the
misty dawn, Henri Landru, Frances
arch murderer, was beheo ded on the gull
Iotine before the gate of st. PIERRE prison
today. He had been found guilty Nov.
80 Of the murder of ten women to whom
he had made love and offered marriage,
and a boy, the son of one Of his femi-
nine victims.
Landru protested his innocence to the
very end.
Il viii be brave" were the last words
he uttered just before the knife fell.
1t was eight minutes after o'clock
when Landru rolled from the execution
block He carried with him into the
great beyond his secret of the missing
women he was convicted of Staying for
their savings.
A crowd Of morbidly( curious persons.
including numerous women, had gathered
before the guillotine before daybreak
At fifteen minutes after O'Clock a lit
tie group of prison officials entered Lam
dru's cell and told him to prepare for
the end. The condemned mans hands
were tied behind his back and his feet
were loosely hobbled, permitting him to
shuttle down the stairs from the third
cell row.
COMPLAINS TO
EXECUTIONER
Once Landru remarked to the execu-
toner and his assistants who were lead
ing him TO the guillotine:
To speed the work of the executioner,
a high power arc light was burning in
the prison court, flooding the guillotine
with its rays
Landru stopped SHORT for a moment
and his body threw a heavy shadow
across the foot Of the death scaffold
Landru was pale, but stood erect anu
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
Obenchain Case
Draws Near End

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 25.-The
State expects to complete its case against
Madalynne Obenchain, charged with
completely in the murder of John Bolton
Kennedy by Wednesday, it was an
nounced today by Deputy Prosecuting
Attorney Keyes.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
Low Water Pressure
Causes Complaint

A petition, asking the Indiana Power
Company Of Bloomfield, be compelled to
increase it's water pressure for fire pro-
lection, was filed by Newman T. Miller,
State fire marshal, with the public
service commission today. According to
the petition, the company has refused
to increase fire prevention facilities at
the suggestion of the fire marshals Of
fee. The petition is believed to be the
first of its kind ever fled in the State
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
AMERICANS sNUBBED.

ST. NORTH. Switzerland Feb. pa
Chicago millionaire and his wife met with
severe sDubs here when they tried to
hobnob with English aristOcrats. They
left In high dudgeon.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
WEATHER

Forecast for indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty four hours ending
p. m. Feb. 20. 1922:
Fair tonight and Sunday; slightly
warmer tonight. with lowest temperature
Q hn11t dorrnna
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25

SNAKES AS A CURE"
BERLIN, Feb. 25.-Dr. Heinrich Melin-
arto IS using a serum prepared from
snakes bodies in the treatment Of tuber-
culosis and claims to be having unusua.
success.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-25
THE WEATHER

Fair tonight and Sunday. Slightly warm
tonight.
The Washington times., 1922-12-03

he gets! Wowl The only way .
fat man can mako friends in the
subway during the rush hour is
to take . taxicab.
No matter how patriotic a fat
man L., he can't burst into Q war.
When he goes to . recruiting
office they tell him to look
around and locate the nearest
exit and not to try to beat his
neighbor to the street.
Some people inherit their flesh,
and inheriting fat IL somewhat
different than inhsriting money.
By painful and concentrated
effort one can get rid of the
money, but a. to reducing weight,
the methods invented up to date
seem only to encourage It.
The most painful spectacle on
earth ID q fat man on . diet.
The Washington times., 1922-12-03

There are times when he feels
like going and eating . good
porterhouse steak and ending 1t
all, but he remembers that all his
friends will hiss 81 told him 90"
and he desists. There are times
when he walls to himself: 81 love
my predigested crackers, but, oh,
for q good fat, husky ssrdine"
When a fat man gets sick he
can't make anybody believe it.
II people would only lot him
alone he would be all right, but
they won't. He q constantly
under the influence Of mental
suggestion that Il not at all fiat
tering. i
Il all seems 20 useless when, a
some man once said: ''The fat
are getting fatter and the skinny
are getting SKINNER"
The Washington times., 1922-12-03
A Foolish Law

HE cable tells that they Just passed law
making It obligatory for every get up in tram car
subway
And give his woman, II there IL any woman
standing. :,
In America this effect accomplished without any law
at all.
Strictly speaking. do accomplish n but the women do
which ~ ~ wv
10 an the general Of the thins con-
eerned.
II man is sitting down in . and some woman
standing
You supposed immediately tip your hat Offer
the lady w.
Your seat and then grab balance Of your
Journey.
Many have lived line subway for many years
and haven't -
Had seat for entire trip either uptown or downtown
that time.
You intend give your up but YOU do Il lust
the
That's the lot Of birds get married. They don't moan
TO propose,
But the first thing they know has been
Working them and the balefu deed they ere
accepted
The lady stands front and saes rrht at YOU
fdgetng,
And then she knows the and that she receives
the seat.
And they getting right through your news
paper, too
That law be all right France We manage somehow
without it.
The Washington times., 1922-12-03
Quincy Todd on Love Letters

somebody In tho world has rot
enough sense to write a love let
ter that means something. But I
have not won this bet yet and I
seem to be getting farther away
all the time. These letters are
getting worse and worse. The
most sensible one find in the
past Ave years starts out: MY
Darling Babykins and Wonder
Heart The rest Of them have
all been worse. I don't see how
these love letters always bob up
at the wrong time"
Nothing" says Quincy, ''lives
a. long as . love letter. The ink
never fades, the paper never
wears out and It il impossible for
them to get lost in the garbage
or waste paper. II house burns
down to the ground, in most
cases the only thing to survive
the flames will be some package
Of old love letters that have been
hid away in the attic. They are
imperishable. Women never
destroy 'em, even If they are
compromising, and men can't
"For "a long time only two
people have worry over these
love letters, the one who writes
'em and the one who receives 'em,
but all Of q sudden somebody
starts something in the court and
then everybody, in the country
has got to begin worrying about
them.
-"I believe the writing Of love
letters should ort to be prohibited
by Law"
Even II they was" interrupts
Elias @. Higginbotham, "some-
body would be bsotleggin' them"
Doubtless" says Quincy.
"But, II they was prohibited by an
The Washington times., 1922-12-03
Taking the Fat Out of Life

VV7HEN any gentleman, a
w innocently, begins to &C
" quirs weight and mad
vsrtently overlaps the zoo mari
by even . half pound, he begin.
to get . lot Of advice from hi,
friends and they begin to look a
him sadly and shake their head
and walk away to hide theil
grief.
He also begins getting . lot Of
mail from various people and In
stitutions who and which are
ready to add forty years to hi,
life by making him thin.
It Is no crime to be fat, but II
might just a. we'll be. A man i,
under suspicion, just the same
Personally he may think he 10 sit
ting very pretty apd may feel like
a fighting cock, But his friends
all tell him differently and begin
saving up for a wreath.
He Is reminded that he Il too
fat by BARRIERS, subway guards,
ticket takers, policemen, janitors,
bootblacks, and It IL positively
fatal for him to 60 near . doctor.
Now It II just possible that this
bird will outlive eight or ten
skinny guys and II may be per
fectly natural for him to be
rotuud, but he can't make any
body believe Il. Being fat, he u
out Of style, and that IL all there
Is to II.
In the old days a man could be
fat and nobody seem to care.
Now, when he Is fat, he must also
suffer . new disease called
blood pressure" which has been
invented to make his case a little
harder to guess.
Al . result there are now more
ways TO reduce fat than to re-
duoe the cost Of living, and they
are all just about a. good. The
thing those systems Of reduction
really reduce IL the bankroll.
Why pick on the portly CENT?
He has enough. trouble. For in
stance, modern dancing is to him
q closed book. Many a fat man
can waggle a wicked walkover,
but he does not dare to get out
on the floor and try to Valentino
through one Of those willowly,
clinging-vine fox trots. No, he
doesn't fit. He may have the
courage, but he hasn't the part
ners. I
He Is also very fi'icndlcss sort
Of gink in the subway. The looks
The Washington times., 1922-12-03
By Roy K. Moulton

the other way and he win Civ,
ten dollars . word to recall then
pet names he has INDUCED in
And In some cases he has {
chance to do that very thing
although II may cost him NOR,
than ten bucks a word.
"The punishment for writing
them things comes when . guy
has to sit in court and listen te
them in . breach Of promise suit
II you give this guy his choice hi
would rather 60 and take . sea,
in the electric chair than to sit
In the witness stand and admi,
that he was dotty enough to write
them.
"Ths telephone Is . great in.
vention. You can talk all day
into a telephone and get a
mushy a. the occasion seems to
demand but the next day or ten
years later the telephone cannot
rise and sock you on the button.
A love letter never loses its punch
and it sometimes gets stronger
with age.
II have always said that the
prize chump Of the universe Ii the
one who goes about his love max
ing with . fountain pen. He
don't know when to stop. The
only way to do this and feel at
all safe IL to write the letter with
invisible ink, then, Just before
mailing It, tear It into small bits
and burn these In the fireplace.
"I don't suppose you have ever
written any Of them things" says
Elias @. Higgenbotham.
"well, I can't remember any,"
says Quincy. "But that don't
keep mo from being uneasy. I
believe every gentleman writes q
few, some time or other. There's
many . bird who has Joined tho
Oh why Did l. Learn To- Write
Club very sudden and without
much warning. A love letter can
play dead for twenty years and
then come to life at the most en-
barrassing moment"
"You don't say sor' exclaims
Elias O.. Higginbotham.
"Ha-hap says Quincy. you're
a little mite uneasy, what!"
"You look a little nervous
YOURSELF" says Elias Q. Higgen-
botham.
swell, maybe, I be-" says
Quincy. Maybe, ! be. You
never can tell"
Great Britain RiRhts Rsssrysd
The Washington times., 1922-12-03
<T SEE q great many love
letters are being pub
l;.k>l T. A.

-
letters are being pub
lished In the papers now
adays," says Elias @. Higgin-
botham, "and I see they are now
trying to prove one woman's
sanity by her love letters and get
her released from a hospital"
Proving people sane by their
love letters il about the poorest
way have ever heard Of" says
Quincy Todd. "It is a better way
to prove their insanity in most
cases."
"But . guy that sits down and
writes . love letter Is not neces-
sarily balmy in the beam" says
Elias @. Higginbotham. T have
known some very intelligent birds
to do this very thing"
mo, they are not necessarily
cuckoo" says Quincy, "but they
are very absent minded. But II
am up before = Jury Of alien
lists which will put me In an
asylum or keep me out, much
prefer that no love letters that
have ever written In the past
forty years be introduced into
evidence. A guy will say things
in . love letter which, II he sees
any other guy saying the same
things in . love letter, he will
say this other guy is plumb loco
and should ort to be in . padded
CELL"
"Well, at any rate" says Elias
@. Higginbotham, ''they make me
very sick. no matter who writes
'em, for they are 100 per cent
foolish. I don't sec why the
newspapers always publish them"
"The newspapers always pub
lish them because you always
read thsm," says Quincy. "If
there is an account Of . war be-, ,
tween Great Britain and the
United States in ono column and
q love letter from . preacher to
his sweetheart In the next
column, you will read the love
letter. And 90 viii almost every
body else, whether they admit 1t |
or not"
"Well, the reason I always read |
the things is this" says Elias @. |
Higginbotham. For the past
twenty years I have been pour
Ing over these love letters In
hopes that some day / would
find one that has got some
sense to it. I kinda make |
q little bet with myself that ]
The Washington times., 1922-12-03

amendment 10 the Constitution,
and not aired In public, the
people Of this country could 60
back to work and not have these
love letters on their minds.
There Is no bird In this
world who can write as silly a
love letter as the one who should
ort to know better. It seems like
the educated fellsrs can beat the
boneheads all. hollow with the
mushy conversation-and the old
birds-Wowi
"A young feller Is liable to
haul of and write q letter to the
gal he expects to lead to the
halter and he may drop in q few
phrases hero and there which
may sound soft, but he writes
mostly about himself. All young
fellers do that.
But when a guy gets along in
years and starts In at this cuckoo
correspondence, there Is no limit
to the baby talk that he can
crowd into q letter. In fact, It
Is Just about nothing else. He
writes it all about the lady, and,
believe me, II she Is all he says
she is in the letter, she IL . queer
bird. There is just about as
much sense to one Of them things
as there Il to q peace conference.
when . middle aged guy goes
into the love letter business, he
checks his brains at the door and
doesn't call for them again until
he Is through. \
when he writes these letters
he Is so enamored that he says to
himself that he does not. care who
reads them, he Is Just that
desperate. Then a couple Of
years, later when the affair has
cooled of, he 10 Just as desperate