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Show Los Angeles Sleuths Are I Searching for Other Bodies j Angelina Wiolancl Rizzio. Mrs. Blackburn nnd her daughter I're j both being hold in the county jail. Under arr -st also are Mrs. Mar- tha Rhoads and William Rhoads, from beneath whose home the , wierdly buried body was removed yesterday. I A fanatic zeal led Mrs. Rhoads to I believe in her own super-natural power to bring life back into the body of Willa Rhoads. her lti-year-old dnt'Khter. who died more than four 'ears ago, the woman toln police. po-lice. In this belief she was sustained sustain-ed by more than 300 menibe.ji of the cult, she said. "We buried her there 11 months ago." Mis. Khoads stated. "With I her we buried seven dogs which in ! my belief are a symbol of the power pow-er of resurrection. They were her pets and one of them died the day she passed away. We killed the other six and laid them out in a row in a casket similar to the one in which vc buried Willa. "We did not lay her out as is the custom of , those who do not believe be-lieve as we do. We laid her on her back and drew her knees to ner chest and crogscd her hands and then placed her in a cedar casket that my husband made." LOS ANGELES. Oct. 10. A fran- ', tic tnmt for other bodies of mysteriously myster-iously missing persons is on nere. ! following discovery of the body of 16-year-old Willa Rhoads, buried for two years in the hope of resurrection. resur-rection. Two women, said to be "high I priestesses" of the "Roytil Ordt-r of the Great Eleven," are under arrest on 15 counts. . Headquarters of the cult were in ; the Santa Susanna hills, with a ! "temple" in Ventura county. William Rhoads, foster-father of the dead girl, told police of mysterious myster-ious ceremonies and oaths that he never would reveal location of the body, pending the promised "rising from the dead." Buried in Ice The bodj', it was learned, had been transported about by members mem-bers of the "Divine Order of the Royal Arm of the Great E! wen," preserved in ice, and finally placed in a cedar casket and buried beneath be-neath the beach house beside a casket cas-ket containing seven dogs. The girl's body was found as a result re-sult of a police investigation into activities of Mrs. May Otis Blackburn, Black-burn, so-called high priestess of the cult, and her daughter, Mrs. Huth |