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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 17, 192 DRUGS AND WHISKY RUifJ WALLACE REID Probe Threatens Exposure of Movie Colony. belief that these frequently recur-1 ring initials In William's notations j iJicouuittoij recording arug transac tions, were those of Wallie Keid, film idol. MR. HAYS TAKES ACTION Other Immoral Conditions at Hollywood Expected to Be Brought to Light. BY EDWARD DOHERTY. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) LOS AN'GKLES, Cal., Dec. 16. The case of Wallace Keid, a brilliant movie star, ruined by morphine and whisky, may result in more expo sures of conditions in the moving picture colony than did the mystery in the murder of William D. Taylor, moving-picture director. In connection with the report that Reid was "fighting for his life" in a Hollywood sanitarium, as a result of a breakdown nearly two months ago. Will H. Hays, co-ordinating head of the motion-picture industry, late today issued the fol lowing statement: "There is nothing for me to say about the matter at this time except that I join with the others in hop ing that Reid will win back his health and be himself again." Breakdown Is Suffered. Reid suffered a breakdown nearly two months ago after his health had been falling for three years, his wife, Dorothy Davenport, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Olive Dav enport, said today. For several weeks he had been under the care of two physicians and two male nurses. They said they believed "the big struggle was over" and that their plans for the immediate future in cluded nothing more than to "nurse him back to health and to his place in the motion-picture world." Mrs. Davenport said her son-in-law was on half pay with the Fa mous Players-Lasky corporation, and, according to present plans, would remain so until he was able to face the camera again. Some time ago it was announced the actor's eyes were troubling him and later that he had gone into the mountains for a rest. It was about a week after his return from the mountains that his condition neces sitated his going to the sanitarium, it was said. Movie Colony Is Worried. The fact that Hays is in Los An geles and that ha is making an in vestigation has caused much appre hension in the movie colony. It is predicted that a complete shakeup is in store for movie-land It is hinted that Mr. Hays may find that more than one of the big men with whom he has been conferring on the uplift of the moving picture business, are as rotten as some of the stars whose contracts the pro ducers seek to break. Hays was told today that one of the biggest men in the film world is- the man who first started the idol on the poppy path. Great Star Is Ruined. Hays was told, it Is said, this big man with the urge for cleaner pic tures made use of Wally's popularity and encouraged him in rounding up the pretty girls necessary for the staging of wild parties in many a rose-covered bungalow in Holly wood or Laurel Canyon. It was at one of these wild de bauches, where the drugs and the liquor were plentiful, that the great ertar was Introduced to the drug which in a few years has dragged him down to physical, financial and moral ruin. The investigation may show the i movie czar how some directors have been in the habit of systematically ruining the fairest of the young women coming with ambition to Hollywood and how one of them was shot in the arm by one of his play things who thought the money was an insult. The Investigation may show Mr. Hays not only the workings of the dope ring in movie-land. In other words, but also the workings of a "vice ring." It would not be astonishing if he should learn how a certain young woman became a great star in an incredibly short time. Wallace Reid is critically ill. He may pull through. He may not. Three years of morphine and whisky have taken woeful toll of his splen did athletic body. His wife and his mother-in-law blame his friends for his pitiable condition. Perhaps Will Hays will learn the Identity of these friends. DRUG DEALER IS ARRESTED Initials "W. R." on Memoranda Thought to Mean Sales. fBy CUdcaRO Tribune Leased Wire ) NEW YORK, Dec. 18. The ini tials "W. R." appear in the memo randa of William Williams, arrested with two other men in a raid on his Greenwich Village rooms last Monday and held as the head of a narcotic ring which for two years supplied stage and screen players in both New York and Hollywood with drugs. In making this disclosure today, Dr. Carleton Simon, special deputy police commissioner, in charge of the narcotic division, expressed the AUTOS KNOCK DOWN TWO Yonth Suffers Lacerations From Fall to Pavement. With feet unsteady on the snow, two persons failed to step from the paths of automobiles yesterday and were struck down. , Harold Yost, snnill son of Louis Yost, i73 Mallory avenue, stepped against an automobile driven by Esther .Arisen, 1136 Garfield avenue, on Williams avenue near Beach street. He suffered slight lacera tions from his fall tothe pavement and was taken home. Slight bruises were suffered by Frank Angelini, S29 East Thirty fifth street, when he walked into a machine driven by A. L. Strickland. 200 Grand avenue North, at Third and Madison streets. He was knocked to the pavement but his in juries did not warrant his -removal to the hospital. PAROLE VIOLATOR HELD Threat Against Woman Leads to Arrest of Montana Slayer. Threats said to have been made in a Portland street yesterday against the ex-widow of the man he was convicted of slaying resulted in the arrest of Fred C, Wilson, ex resident of Butte. He was lodged in the city jail last night on a charge of being a parole violator from the Montana state prison at Deer Lodge. Mrs. G. Johnson, 605 East Twenty sixth stret, Vancouver, Wash., ex wife of Leonard Flagg, for whose death in Butte in 1918 Wilson was sent to the penitentiary on a second degree murder charge, met the man yesterday afternon in front of the auto stage terminal in Yamhill street. She told police that Wilson threatened to "get" her, and sup plied the information that he was a parole violator. CHILD-BEATER PUNISHED Cruel Mother Fined $100 and f Sentenced to Jail. QUINCY, HI., Dec 16 Five dol lars a lash for 20 lashes inflicted on her 5-year-old son, whose back and arms bore evidence of a beating, and three months in jail, was the penalty prescribed by Co.unty Judge Nauert on Mrs. Jane Hunsacker, mother of the lad. So severely was the boy punished that he was taken to a hosp'tal for treatment. His offense for the punishment, his mother ad mitted, was the loes of a shoe but toner. "I only wish," said the court, "that the law permitted tying you to a post and treating you the same .as you did your little son." nio ESHOTDNKLAN Discussion on Purported Violence Spirited. CONFERENCE IS CLOSED Klan of this city recently to the Boy Scout troops, during a drive for a triennial fund, was rejected by the committee in charge of. the cam paign, without any explanations. This action caused Rev. Comble E. Smith of this city to defend the klan in a sermon. Several days after delivering this sermon Rev. Mr. orann announced ne had received threats by mail and by telephone. PHONE RATE PLANS LAID Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane Of ficials Consider Course. THE PTTfiET SOTTNin TtTTRRATT Seattle. Wash., Dec. 16. (Special.) Official representatives of Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane met here today for final conference on the course to be followed in behalf of these cities in the investigation of telephone rates at the hearing be fore the state board of public works in Olympia next Monday. Valuation of. the telephone properties will be taken up first, to be followed by the hearing on the rates. Today's conference was held in the office of Thomas J. L. Kennedy, cor poration counsel of Seattle, and was attended by E. D. Ridley and W. W. Hardinger, Spokane engineers; J. Charles Dennis, city attorney of Ta coma; Thomas Phipps, Seattle engi neer; George F. Russell and E. D. Obrien of the Seattle utilities de partment. Alex Winston, assistant corporation counsel of Spokane, was unable to attend on account of ill ness. Legal and engineering counsel of the three cities have been working together on their side of the case for several months. CRASH KILLS CAPITALIST Prominent Tennessee Man Victim of Auto Accident. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec 16, Jesse"M. Overton, 69, one of the most prominent citizens of Nashville, cap i talist, president of various coal companies and once prominently identified with the Jersey cattle in dustry in this section, was killed here this afternoon when his auto mobile collided with a streetcar. Mr. Overton was a brother-in-law of Judge J. M. Dickinson, secretary of war in President Taffs cabinet and was the father of Johnnie Over ton, famous Yale athlete, who was killed with the marines in France in the world war.. Gambling Charges Placed. VANCOUVER, Wash, Dec 16. (Special.) Information charging George Manolis, a local pool room operator, and George Pappas, an em ploye of the place, with conducting a gambling game was filed this aft ernoon with the county clerk. The two men were arrested last night and later released on JlOflQ bonds each. Eugene "Kiwanians Aid Astoria. EUGENE, Or., Dec. 16. (Special.) The Eugene Kiwanis club yester day voted to send 100 ta the Ki wanis' club of Astoria for the relief of the fire sufferers of that city. The Oregonian publishes practi cally all of the want ads printed in the other three Portland papers, in addition to thousands of exclusive advertisements not printed in any other local paper. Grain Rate Hearing Postponed. Postponement was taken yester day of the hearing before Jj B. Campbell, member of the interstate commerce commission, of the com plaint of Albers Brothers Milling company against the O.-W. R. & N. company for reduced rates on grain to Portland from points in the Mil waukee territory in eastern Wash ington. Puget sound enjoys prefer ential rates in the zone affected by the hearing, with a shorter mileage to tidewater there than at Portland. No date was fixed for the hearing, but it will be taken up later at Mr. Campbell's convenience. Instead, he heard evidence yesterday in a case brought before him of alleged over charge on rail shipments whereby a return of part of a freight bill was sought. Phone your want ads Oregonian, Main 7070. to The Olcott Asks. Executives to Sign Petition Urging Congress to Grant Astoria Relief. - WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va., Dec. IB. The 14th annual con ference of governors ended today with a spirited discussion of the Ku Klux Klan. Many of the ex ecutives then prepared to leave for Washington to accept President Harding's invitation to discuss pro hibition enforcement with him at luncheon Monday. An executive committee consist ing of Governors Cox of Massa chusetts, Hardee of Florida and Mc Cray of Indiana was elected; ex Governor Townsend of Delaware was re-elected treasurer, and Miles C. Riley of Madison, Wis., secre tary. Governor McCray invited the governors to confer next year in Indiana, suggesting French Lick Springs. Selection of the next meeting place was left to an ex ecutive committee. The Ku Klux Klan discuesion de veloped after an address In which Governor Allen of Kansas declared that the organization was doomed to die and-expressed hope that the efforts of the attorney-general of Kansas to oust the klan from that state on the ground that it was operating without a charter would be successful. . Governor Morrison of North Caro lina said that, although the organ ization aroused religious feeling, he did not believe it was responsible for violence In his state. He asked Governor Allen whether the klan ever indorsed manifestations of law lessness or had done anything to stop them. Governor Allen replied that every member of the organization believed he was doing a noble work. When lawlessness developed, he said, the klan would disavow it and then give $50 to a "loqse-mout'hed preacher who would thank God for the klan." Governor Olcott of Oregon asked if Kansas had sent troops to sup press the klan during the railroad strike. Mr. Allen replied that he was ready to do so, but that such action did not become necessary. Governor Olcott then asked what means Governor Allen thought, would prove most effective In curb ing the society, and the Kansas ex ecutive said he favored filing the names of members with state offi cials and refusing to grant charters to the organization. Governor McCray at this point said he had found that a charter had j been issued to the klan in Indiana a month before he knew about it. but that the klansmen had been quiet in his state. The governors were asked by Governor Olcott to sign a petition urging the adoption by congress of the McNary resolution to appropri ate $3, 000,000 for relief work at Astoria. Or., where fire recently de stroyed a large part of the city. SCOUTS REJECT KLAN GIFT Campaign Committee Refuses $15,000 Without Comment. ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Dec. 16. A dona tlon of $15,000. offered by Ku Klux DRUGGISTS Alder Street at West Park THE STORE OF MANY GIFTS free 44Q'tniAufcA oetfctcmiyiOffl' Open Evenings All This Week Doors close at 9 :00 o'clock. Shop easily with us. Use our Phone Exchange and let us deliver your purchases promptly and to any and every section of the city. U. S. Postoffice downstairs Com plete in detail, efficient, courteous clerks. OPEN A CHARGE ACCOUNT Pay on the 16th and receive your S. & H. 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