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Xb t'uivcr The Weather Pi-rdlctUm: itain or snow to night. Wuriiier Thursday. Maximum ycsu-nluy 33 Minimum today 13.5 Know i$ inch FORD r rj r TTTTTI shy library &; MED Weather Year Ao Maximum 42 Minimum - 39 PMly ElKhteenth Tear Wiwklv Flfty-Tblrd Teu. MEDFORD, OREGON", "WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 19124 NO. 241 SCREEN STAR IVOIVED IN Mabel Normand's Chauffeur Shoots Wealthy Denver Man While Latter Visits Edna Purviance Victim Is Ex pected to Recover Mystery Surrounds the Case. ' I.OS AXGKI,KS. Jan. 2. The Inratuut Ion of n chaurrftii fur his film actresH employer anil IiIh Jealousy of licr wealthy Denver acquaintance, according to tho imllee, were the motives that prompted ,Joo Kelly, alias If. A. i Greer, to shoot Coiirtland S. Dines or Denver, last night In tho presence of the two moving pic ture stars, Mabel Normund and Krtna I'urvlance. Officers working on the case made this statement as they were leaving for Miss Normand's residence to ques tion Miss Ruth Burns, companion of the film actress, who it Is declared, sent Miss Normand's chauffeur, Grt-er, to bring lite film actress home from the Dines apartment. Greer is being bold by the police on a charge of attempted murder but tho priicers declare no action will be taken with regard to the two actresses pres ent at the shooting "unless there are farther developments." Dines has a good chance for recov ery, according to attending physicians. The bullet from the 23 caliber pistol used by Greer but said to belong to Miss Normand, entered his body above ' the heart and came out his back. The Denver oil operator and club man, again declared today that Greer's story of the shooting was false. He j denied the chauffeur's statement as given out by the police that he had. Cinde any threatening move In the auto driver's direction to proni)t the shoot- ver aI,d Mallett who interviewed hlm.j ing. He also reiterated his denial that ho said ho had gntten Into financial . 1.II'lXiCO f 1TZ, Jn": 1 (By Asao be and Miss Vurvlance were engaged difficulty , Roseburg and found be Z X f be! to marry. On this subject he remark could not make good on a wood cut- fore the end of January. It was an ed "iMiss Purviance and I are simply ting contract'. nounced by the war department today close friends." I "So I decided to make people think n"d will consist of 20 battalions of Greer, according to the police baa been in Minn Cnrmnnd'n nmnlnv nnlv Ely mn.,tl, Ho 1 to ' , , 1" , '" , ""'" , " here from New York whore he also worked as a chauffeur. Edna In . Taylor Case The names of both of the film ac- tresses who were present nt Ibe shot- jng of Dines, fl.u- lh; (nv?, tion of tho unsolved murder of Wil- 11am Desmond Taylor, nnnilnent nuv tion picture director, who was killed bere in February, 1922. Edna Purviance was a neighbor ot the slain man and told of having seen his home brilliantly lighted late on the ,h( . , ,. , night of the killing. Mabel Normand came forward as the last person found by tho police who Baw the mur- derod director alive. She had been with him alone within fifty minutes of the time fixed by physicians as the hour In which he died. Her picture was in the dead man's locket. The "Taylor case" as It has come to be called, deyeloped a baffling mys- tol'V fnl lta Invootlimtttirr nrrtnna rri.' film director's former valet, Edward F. Sands, still is being sought in con nection with it. Taylor's body was found on the morning of February 2, 1922, on the floor of his luxuriously furnished bachelor apartment, a fatal bullet wound In the neck. Mr. and Mrs. Tyson Dines, father and mother ot Courtland S. Dines, are Z " L,,. , , . T L " "lurornla ot fhoi- i . r . . continued cold tonight. Records that at their winter home In Rlloxl, Miss., .had stood for years were shattered, according to members of the family in , Paso Roblos, Calif., had a tempera Denver. They will leave this after- ture of nine above zero. Santa Bar noon for Los Angeles. Gene Dines, a bara reported 25 degrees nbove zero, brother, likewise plans to leave this1 Knr'y advices from the southern afternoon. i California citrus districts indicated a Pri..j. r,. . ,. .1 change in the wind velocity prevented Friends of Dines in Denver, accord- the mercury remalnln(. t he mlnl. Ing to Information obtainable In brok- mum very long and the frost damage erage circles declare he practically ad- thus far will not begin to take on tho serious proportion of the freeze of two fContlnned on Page Eight) 1 years ago. SRIES OF DOWN WITH THE KING" OPENS TURBULENT SESSION NEW GREECE COV'T ATHENS. Jan. 2. (By Associated Press). Amid shouts from the depu ties and galleries of "Long live the Republic! Down with the king:" Greece's revolutionary government was turned over to the newly elected I national assembly today by Colonel Plastlras. head of the revolutionary committee. Colonel Plastlras opened the session . with a speech ln which he enumerat L ed the achievements of the revolu tionary government which took power Ashland Man Is Held Up Twice in Oakland By Same Highwaymen OAYLAND. Cal.. Jan. 2, Wil- liam Bernard, Ashland, Ore., re- ixrted to the police here yester- day that he was held up twice by the same trio of highwaymen ear- ly yestorday and robbed of $20. Reports from Ashland today failed to identify William Bern- ard as a resident of that city. It is believed that the man in ques- lion recently worked for the Hartman syndicate at Ashland but was not a permanent resi- dent. . B. Debney, Who Tried Dr Brumfield's Stunt, Minus the, Murder, Surrenders to Po- Ijfip KillpH Dnfl and Ahan- iiuj ruueu uuy diiu Huaii doned His Automobile. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 2. Detec-, tlves hero today found and Interview-! ! ed H. B. Dabney of Salem and Rose- burg, who disappeared last September under Circumstances indicatiner that he had been murdered and his body i . . . I Ihrmtrn inln thn lUllTmnntiA font. I"""""11"""" .iimiiivuoiHci Hum a bluff along the Oswego road near nero Dabney was found in front of a school here which his 14 vear old dil"!tr attonds. To Detectives Hell- I slmnlv had dronned out of evlHt- pnen " ho anlri loft v, n,tFn rti,.. . o'. ' . ""'"o p wezo and stopped my car near Dun- tlinme.. Then I hit the dog over the bead with an Iron bar and dropped a W of papers In the car and came into Port'and. , nII over CVPr 8lnce. , went to Spokane, then to Alberta, Can- ada, then bark to Seattle and Tacoma. vnst".rdav 1 went through here to Sa- lorn to find out where my wife was ard thrn enme up hole." No prosecution is contemplated by police, who, however, will turn Dab- nev over to the sheriffs office. me fact that he was coming to Portland was told Captain Leo A. Harms by a womnn In Salem, who was awakened at 12:30 a. m. by Dabney in soarch of his wire, SAN' FRANCISCO, Jan. 2. The Pacific coast states experienced low '""'""aturc records last night and with the abdication of King Constan tino In the fall of 1922. Premier Gonatas followed with an announcement of the resignation of his government which held office under the revolutionary regime. The cabinet withdrew from the session after its resignation. The re publicans and liberals remained in the house and endeavored to form a quorum to elect a speaker. After a heated debate the house adjourned until Saturday. ROSEBURG MAN REPORTED DEAD FOUND PORTLAND RllS TRY TO CUT OFF 110 CITY Encircling Movement to Isolate Mexican Capital From Main Federal Forces Is Announc ed at Vera Cruz Obregon to Add 9000 Troops to Army Before February. (By tho Associated Tress) Vera Cruz reported revolutionary forces have, begun an encircling move ment to cut off Mexico City from out sldo communication with Goneral Sanchez operating near Puebla, east of the capital; General Estrada In Jalisco, on the west, and General FIguoroa advancing from tho south. Mexico City reports that General Sanchez of tho federal forces. has I concentrated 1200 men at Esneranza. Meager government advices from Jalisco stated that tho rebels are re tiring without giving battle. Washington war department refut- ed reorta fro Mexico City that arms alrcndy had boen 8hinped to Mexico for tho federals. The state department at Washing ton denied that the United States was considering the salo of war vessels to Obregon. NEW YORK. Jnn. 2. Enriqun Zeldner, confidential audit of Adolfo decree demanding that nctroleum production taxes be paid to him, upon Guy Stevens, director of the Aasocia- - tion or Producers or Fctroleum In Mexico. j The decree ordered paymont of ! iiinmieuiii uixva lu uu jjh nuei lit at Vera Cruz and directed that paymont or cx""rt t"xea 1,0 contmuca, accoru- 1 n f t ri Iho Tin 1 ji Uiinrtn.I jimnnt Hntif ttBreemont. Infantry. General Callcs already has recruited 4000, it was added, from the region centering around San Luis Potosi and Monterey, A column of 1000 soldiers is ready to leave Monteroy for Tamplco. ac- cording to tho Monterey specials, under command of General Juan Kspinosa Cordoba, Monterey, it is added, received a eom- niunicatlon from Nuevo Leon with an offer of 600 agrarians, already organ- lzcd to place themselves under Calles' ol"ders. V, . ' ..u' . '. ''nrliu0 Colinga, secretary of tho interior, an- nounced today that President Obre- Bon hci decided to send during tho coming week an invitation to the per- manent congressional commission re nuestlng the convocation of an extra ordinary session of the senate for tho sole purpose of considering the gen eral United States-Mexican claims convention which was not acted upon during tho regular session, which ended yestorday. ' President Obregon today received credentials from the following new ministers: Jan Herior. France: Baron Henry DeWoelmont, Belgium, and C. E. O. Bustantcnte, Salvador. Oregon News Brief in SALEM, Ore., Jan. 2. Dlllard A. T.-llrl.iu r. l.-,ln.n..n ....... n.lf,,P nlootnri chairman of tho state Industrial ucci- mm iuain norVrt txifn vttar lie Is a democrat and an appointee of (Governor Pierce and succeeds W, A. 'A Marshall as chairman. Marshall re- cently was reappointed a member of the commission by Pierce and his newj term begins today, SALEM, Ore., Jan. 2. The stato enKlneering department today re ceived a total of $4408.83 in license feea for 1324 from persons and con cerns holding water rights in Ore gon for power development. Previous to today a total of $4044.18 In fees for 1924 had been received. Today is the last day to make tho payments to nvnlrl a npnnltv rf nnn.fnnrth tho! amount of the fees. SALEM, Ore., Jan. 2. Governor Pierce today reappointed Whitney L. Poise of Portland as a member of the state land settlement commission. U. Alexander of Pendleton was ap pointed a few dHVH ago to succeed L. M. Oraham of Forest Grove. Other members of the commission nre O. H Baker of Bend, and Charles Hall of Marshfleld. There is still one va cancy on the commission, that left when the term of W. P. Stranborg of Portland expired a year ftRo, Mabel Normand . PssgWvte stw w feMs Mabel Normand Above Is one of the Iate3t photographs of Miss Mabel Normand, who figured in a movie sensation In Los Angeles for the second time, last night. ITALY PROTESTS i? U.S.11GRAT! WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 Italy made representations through has the state department opposing the immi gration quota revision now undor con sideration by the house immigration i committee. WASHINGTON'. Jjin. 9. Tho ammto on,! ho,,o !i...i., .. . .....,.. u.u,uc '0 i.uoieu lo ougin consideration snort - ly ot a new immigration Dill on the basis of proiiosals submitted yestor day by Secretary Davis of tho labor department. . Mr. Davis' recommendations, em bodied in tho draft of the proimscd measure, include selection ot Immi grants abroad through examination and certification by American con suls, extension of quota restrictions to Canada, Mexico and South and Cen tral America, suspension of limita tions under centrnln conditions and the reckoning of quotas on a monthly Instead of a yearly basis. SACRAMENTO. Cal.. Jan. 2 The last hopo for executive clemency for Alex A. Kcls, con- demned "haystack murderer" of I Lodl, who is under sentence lo he hanged at Folsom pcnltcn- -t ' tiary Friday morning, January 4, V vanished today when Governor I"''ho.rdon. recently appealed to bv Mm. Anno Rolls, tho prlfton- er's wife, declared in a state ment that no new evidence had been presented on behalf of Kels and therefore, he could not Intervene to save Kels from executiont MrH. K(.,8 wnPn in. formed of this decision collapned and is said to be in a serious 4 condition. Death Toll of the Automobile SALEM, Ore, Jan. 2. Arthur D. Coovert, 50, died in a local hospital last night aa a result of a fractured skull received when the bicycle which he waa riding collided with an auto; mobile driven by H. K. York of Port land on a downtown street last Fri day evening. Know KnllH, Knn Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2. A light snowfall in outlying districts of tho city was reported thin -afternoon. in Limelight Again Z , -, :" REBUILDING JDF PAGE THEATRE TO It. S. Antle, nno of the partners in the George A. Hunt Theutor company. : arrived hero from Pasadena, Calif.. yi'Htcrdny morning, having started for this clly a short tlmo after receiving j George Hum's telegram Sunday fore luon tolling him that tho . Pago theater had burned. Mr. Antlo I I'oitM that Dr. F. S. Pago, owner of (ln theater, and A. Cj Knight, hit , , ln cnlirjr0 f tho 1)ro)orty hn,.0i Moff Los Angeles that dav bv motor car for this city, As soon as they nrrlve in this city a meeting will be held with tho other interests concerned in tho building to discuss the mutter of rebuilding. Until this is done it will not be known whether the 1'iigo will be rebuilt. It is said that Mihhih. Hunt and Antlo have two offers to build a new theater for tho Ctcorge A. Hunt Theatt-r com pany, but nothing definite in tho situ ation will be known until after the result oC tho mooting abovo men tioned. Mr. Antlo aftor a conference with M r. Hunt ycHtrnluy wild that tho loss suffered by their company, which was ut firxt given out in tho neigh borhood of $40,000, would bo much Iras. 'Asked if ho was surprised and shocked at receiving tho telegraphic news of the fire, Mr. Antlo replied; "I was not, becaiiHo I had a pre monition of some kind when tho telo gram was handed mo and said to my self while opening it, 'Either one of tho houses was burned or sumo one has died.' Of course, I regret that the firo oecurrud, but my main re gret Is that Amos Wlllits was killed and the firo chief injured as a con science of that fire. Our loss is a minor consideration." Mr. Hunt had nlno expressed simi lar views Sunday and Monday. He was more deeply affected by the tragic death "f Mr. WIlUtB than nt the Iohs and inconvenience suffered by the company. TJ.o funeral services of Amos WU lits. which will be held Thursday at 2:00 o'clock at the Poii Funeral home will probably nave an unusually large attendance. The Noted Dead LEW TRENCHARD, Englnnd, Jan. ". The Rev. Sablno Baring Gould, English novelist and thoologlclan, died today. Ho was the author of many books during his 70 years of literary activity and was best known as the writer of the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers." Ho also wroto "Now the Day Is Over," "Through the Night of Doubt nnd Sorrow" and "On tho Resur rection Morning." Ho would have been flu years old on January 28. He began his career as a wrltor at the age of twenty and published works of fic tion, history, Tolk lore, religion, travel and mythology. NEW YORK. Montgomery Roose velt Schuyler, sportsman and a cousin of the late Theodore Roosevelt, is dead at his county home at Nyack, at the age of 70. He owned some of tho fast est pleasure yachts In the east. j With Busted Water Pipes Plumbers in Salem Go On Strike SALEM, Ore, Jan. 2. With frozen and burstcd water pipes general in homes throughout the city becauso of the excessivo cold of tho past two days, the Journey- men plumbers of Salem laid down their tools this morning when the master plumbers refused to meet their demands for an Increase in wages of $1 a day. A conference between tho strikers and their employes Is planned for later In tho day, fol- lowing a meetng of tho master plumbers of the city. About twenty plumbers walked out. 4. N. y. GOVERNOR 3ESA Governor Al Smith in Message to Legislature Again Asks State to Memorialize Con gress for Light Wine and Beer Amendment. ALII A NY, N. Y., Jan. 2. Further efforts for modification of tho Vol stead act wero suggested in Governor Smith's message to the Now York leg iHhituro today. lie urged that Now York's representatives bo asked to lay before tho present congress a memor ial to congress adopted by the last legislature. "Tho 'last session of tho legislature," said tho meHsago, "memorialized con gress by resolution to change the present narrow, senseless definition of what constitutes an Intoxicating bov oniKO as set forth in the Volstoad act, to tho end that thero may be per mitted tho manufacture and sale of light wines and beer, under tho care ful restrictions set forth In our legis lative enactment of lilJO. (This enactment was a law legalizing the manufacture and salo of 2.75 per cent beer, which was declared unconsti tutional by stato courts). "Hulsciuently, the legislature fur ther defined tho policy of tho state in relation to this subject by tho re peal of tho stato law, which, in ef fect left enforcement of tho Volstead act with both stato and federal gov- ernment and left tho prosocutlon for violation of the Volstead net entirely with the federal government. It must be remembered, however, that this did not and cannot and will not bring about a change in the present defini tion of what constitutes an intoxicant An umendmcnt to tho Volstead act Is only possible by tho congress of tho United States. "Inasmuch as wo have a now con gress now In session, I suggest that by resolution properly adopted you call tho attention of our representa tives from this stalo to tho action of lust winter nnd request them to lay It beforo the present congress." Daily Report on the Crime Wave T,ONO IlKACIl, Cal., Jan. 2. Two armed bandits on tared the Western Union office hare early this morning. lined up a half dozen 'employes, rob- hed tho cash refilHtor of $137; and ts- enped amid a ftiKillade of bullets fired by police who wero nearby when the robbery occurred. 25 Below in Wisconsin. BUIMCHIOD, Wis., Jan. 2. The thermometer reentered 25 degrees below zoro here today. IV1ERCURY HITS SIX SALEM. Ore., Jnn. 2. The cold snup which has held the central Wil lamette valley In its grip for the past two days was broken thlB morning. Tho lowest point reached by the ther mometer last night was 12 above, as against six above the previous night. The lomperatno was rising rapidly this morning and rain was In pros pect. UOSICnunO, Ore., Jan. 2. A falling baromotor this morning indicated the passing of the severe cold spoil which has gripped this part of the state the past three days, according to an an nouncement from the United States weather bureau station this morning. Tho temperature Inst night dropped to AGAIN 1 SANE DRY LAW CONVENTION CALLED BV E. Y. Clarke Requests All Cy clops to Attend K. K. Con vention and Decide Whether Klan Should Be Reformed Or Disbanded Promises Sensational Developments-' ATLANTA, On., Jan. 2. E. Y. Clarke, Imperial giant, today issued a call for a national congress of the Ku Klnx Klnn to meet in Atlanta on Fobruary 20 to "Rather together and prayerfully consider methods to elim inates existing evilfi, or else to follow tho example of the founder of the original Ku Klux Klan and have the courage and manhood to deviao ways ind means for the immediate dis bandment of tho organization." Mi. Clarke's proclamation calls at tention to tho organization of the klan on July 4th, 1916, by William Joseph Simmons and says that these "laudable aims, ideals, principles and purpoHOH have apparently been aban doned by the klan and the organiza tion has become one with lawless tendencies and political designs," and that the end of the "bitter war" bo twecn the emperor and imperial wiz ard In not in sight. "With the above conditions exist ing and with the federal government and tho courts of the. land becoming, increasingly alarmed over tho situa tion," Mr. Clarke's proclamation says that, "it behooves klansmen, in all ranks and stations to gathet together," and consider means of eliminating existing evils, or else tfsbandment of the organization." Tho proclamation which is signed "E. Y. Clarke, imperial giant, imperial wizard emeritus," states that all offic ials of the klan, regardless of fac tional differences or alignments, take the necessary steps to see that every klan in tho nation is represented by one or more delegates, including the cyclops of each klan. It adds that "emperor and Imperial wizard of the organization will bo asked to be in Atlanta at this time and to hold themHoIves In readiness to come beforo the national convention in case that body so desires at any ! tlmo during its session which it Is now contemplated will last for at least two full days." The "imperial proclamation," was addressed to "all grand dragons, hydras, grand titaiiB, furies, cyclops, - torrors, king kleagles, imperial repre sentatives and citizens of the invisible empire. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan." William J. Simmons Is emperor of tho klan and H. W. Evans Imperial wizard. "I have issued the call for the na tional congress of klansmen in answer to Insistent demand that I use my authority to do so and thus allow the real klansmen of the nation to get togothor without intimidation and autocratic rule and discuss frankly conditions Insido the organization," Clarke asserted. "Within-4 the next few days I wU announce the personnel of the men who will be Jn charge of the national congress and I will also-probably have some things to say which will prove startling to klansmen and to the citi zens of the nation interested in law and frco democratic political govern ment." The Daily Bank Robbery PAWHUSKA, Okla,, Jan. 2. Two bandits held up the First National bank at Shldlor, near here, today and escaped with $8100 in cash. Posses aro in pursuit of tho robbers who escaped lu a motor car. ABOVE IN SALEM. slightly below 18 dogrees, but the mer cury started rising this morning. A; light snowfall occurred shortly after daybreak and the forecast issued by the weather observer for today was rain or snow with a rising tempera ture. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 2. Definite assurance of passing of the cold wave which has gripped Oregon since Sunday was contained ln reports to the weather bureau here today and caused the forecast of warmer weather following snow or rain for tonight The minimum here last night was 19, but with overcast skies today the temper ature was rising, and snow tell stead ily throughout the day. K1AN GfANT is yt, s
