Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-15
Mabel NOrvssuv,d's
Chauffeur Called

G ,ntinueA from rsss One
blood to the house where the arrests
were made.
Greeted by voiley
The agents and deputy sheriffs sur.
rounded the house and rushed It. A
'ollcy from the windows and doors
greeted them. but they forced an en-.
trance and seized the eight men. The
packets were found in the house. the
agents said, but the man who got them
was not believed to be among those
arrested.
One Federal agent said IL wa. nos.
Siblc the arrests might lead to a clue
to the murder Of William Desmond
Taylor.
According to the Los Angeles Times
letters demanding money under threat
OF death have been received by o num-
ease s45, 900 was extorted. The oiiicers
declared they believed the threats were
idle ones. A typewriter Of peculiar
inake WITH which II was charged the
threatening letters we're written, was
found in the house raided. It was said.
May Recall Miss Minter
Whether Mary Miles Minter. a friend
OF Taylor. will again be questioned BY
District Attorney Woolwine IL prob.
lcmatical. One signed statement from
Woolwinc's strong box. That. Miss
stinter's personal attorney. John G.
Mott. believes will be all that will be
required Of her.
Mr.. Mott has questioned his client at
length and says lie is satisfied that Miss
Mintcr knows no more about the mur.
der or possible motive than would a
convent girl who had never heard OF the
director. Mabel Norman may be ques.
toned again. but not Immediately.
Whether Adolph Zukor. president OF
the Famous Players Lasky Company,
will retain william A. Pinkerton TO
turn loose company Of his detectives
to investigate the mysterious murder
of Taylor, who put money in the pockets
Of the Lasky interests with the success.
full photoplays he directed. Is a question
repeatedly oskcd and thus far gone un.
answered.
Mr.. Gukor Is here, a recent arrival.
Yesterday MIR. Pinkerton came from San
Francisco. lie has, he told n reporter
two weeks ngo in San Francisco. be-
fore Taylor was murdered. O financial
interest in Southern California studios
and keen interest in clean pictures.
No particular significance is at.
tachcd as yet to the presence In Los
Angeles Of the screen magnate an,l
the head of a detective agency. Mr.,
Pinkcrton's visit to the Pacific Coast
has no bearing at present on the Taylor
murder case, for he went to San Fran.
cisco and then came here on his semi
annual inspection tour of his Western
coast Offices.
May Call In Pinkcrton
But the wiscacrcs profess 70 be Ger.
tain that, because of the blind alleys
into which the Taylor investigation has
Zukor will be calling on Mr.. Pinkerton
to talk things over. Mr.. Pinkerton has
authorized no interviews expressing an
opinion about the murder. Fe has
turned interviewcrs away with the re.
mark that the case is not his.
All Hollywood Is excited over what
those who have laughed about It before
now call the "unwarrantcd Ccnsorins
of screenland.
Business interests are coming to.
gcther to tell the world that "movie.
land has been maligncd" to FIJI the
mails with 1.-THE truth about Holly
wood"-a truth that will condemn all
attacks as baseless, as unjustitied, as
sensationally untrue. and the press
agents are already oiling up their type
writer's and putting In new ribbons and
doing finger exercises in preparation
for the task Of salvaging the worlds
opinion.
Stories Of dope parties. it is OK
pccted, will be called base canarls: in
fact, many people from screenland who
frequently attended them already arc
beginning to wonder "where they get
this stuff about dope; we haven't seen
any" But not all.
Eyes. know there have been dope
parties,' many OF them" a screen star
said--a star whose word Is worth more
than affidavits from some persons. IT
didn't 90 to any myself, but I'm not
shutting my eyes to the fact that others
did. They've been dying out the last
two or three months, l think, though
I'm not sure about it,