The daily worker., 1926-03-27
Antics of Yellow Press
In Murder Mystery Help
Reveal Its Vile Nature
BY }. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

EVERY edition of capitalist newspaper reveals the blat-
- ancy the malicious Misrepresentation the deliberate fas
caton INDUCED in in handling of the days events he
@ It trip OF 2 r 0Sy Snn Asr kss % Gs Is
search Of facts solve the mystery Of the murder Of
William Desmond Taylor, Hollywood film director, several
years offered the saffron press excellent opportunity
to display its questionable wares to good advantage.
This instance the daily press have
motive for brazen publication OF Veritabe ink flood OF
admittedly baseess and counterruors except the
craving for the sensational the desire to decorate
edition with startling headline.
Days and days Of finally reached their ouImin-
alton in the publication of the startling story that
had all papers from the of the
prosecuting attorney the LaSae Hotel in Chicago Keyes
assistant Harold l. Davis interviewed at great length
as to the extent of this disaster But morning
Davis is quoted calmly declaring that evidence
had disappeared and in the words OF the Chicago Tribune
Here is the explanations W.
report agents a newspaper
the Photographic the and then
returned IT. thus quIetins the hue and cry"
Again in the words Of the Tribune, "AI this however,
Mr. Davis also denied One newspaper reporter hints to
another that he is going steal the papers" real dime
novel STYLE and inside an hour every daily rushing extras
the streets, Murder Mystery Records Stoen some
thing to that effect
But that isn't ALL Almost the day the three
in the including Mary Miles Mnter her mother
Mrs Shelby and Mabel Normand another nove STAR have
been both Los Angeles and New York City and all the
York to interview Mabel Normand only to find upon his ar
rival that she is rushing back to Los Angeles to eude him.
1t all thrilling Then there flashes the
special heradng the that mabel Normand COL
apses Then the prosecutors statement that:
Normandy has
long Of connection with the (the
murder of TayIor)."
In the however, the reporters carefully pur
suing Prosecutor Keyes teng his way to the north sde
visit States Attorney Grove the criminal build
ing Detailed stories published OF alleged extended in
terveW between Grove and Reyes carefully planning
arrests 1t is stated that the actual muderes of Taylor
would be under lock and key Then later this is all
spoiled by the statement of the that the murder
mystery had been discussed all with Crowe that
merely personal visit and friendly conversation mostly
about Chicago swag and California oranges.
There end of this kind of stuff At this writing
continues in full blast 1t typical of the kind of endless
tomnyrot that poured daily into the columns of the SUBJ
sidized press under the mask of news"
If lies concocted wholesale in this manner without
any real incentive, merely to win circulation thru
iazzng bIase reading public then there lengths
to which this capitalist press will when the vital
interests OF the class for which speaks threatened
If the Tribune fill its columns with fakes
ing the Taylor mystery merely to maintain itself in the cir
that this Tribune will stop nothing vy the Rus
sian Bolshevk revolution that undermined capas whole
structure and hastens its downfall the world
1t was last August and September that The Tribune for
instance spread its announcement that the Union of Soviet
Republics was being swept by famine. The fall and
winter have passed. and spring again here famine
fake The Tribune spreading stories that the of
Soviet money facing deflaton. This just cheap
canard that will be exposed by the actual facts
Not even The Trbunes lies stave off by second
the execution OF abos death against the social
tenn of which the whole kept press but foul offspring