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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