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$rFOnn MATT, TRFBrKF.. MEDFORD. ORISON. THrUsllAV. J.WrARV X 1'1'J!). P'AOB RRVTN NOOSE NEARiNG rnr. nriiTriinrrv LOUISIANA PAIL V ! r Only Insanity Plea and Su . preme Court Hold Hope for Ada LeBouef and Dr. Drehcr Governor Re fuses to Commute. KATO.V ltorCC. Ui, Jan. 3. tit Only an liifiinliy plt-;i and the Miitu Mjprt'inv court today stood between the huhKmau'tt nuuso anil Mrs. Ada I-eboucf and IJr. Thomns -'. Drclier, Hcntcnccd to di-alli for the murder of the woman's hus band, .la in cm Lcboucf. Ciovcrnor llucy 1. Ixhik hist lily hi decUiit-d to commute tho death penalty of the pair to life imprisonment. With the hope of aid from the governor gone, counsel for the con demned today phi lined to appear before .ludfct .lames I). Simon, who presided at the trial, and request un inquiry by a. canity commission into the ire.se nt ment;il status or Mrs. J,cboucf and Ur. iJreher. If this move falls, counsel planned to 'apply to the tuti supremo court to halt tho execution until a hear ing ean be held. Tho execution is set for Saturday between noon and 3 o'clock. The application for commutation of the death sentence to lift; im prisonment wiis rejected by Gov ernor Long in a 0,tlU0-word state ment, in which he cited tho brutal ity of the murder. The statement mentioned the Chicago I.eopohl Loeb case as an example of the evil of lift. imprisonment, wiving that while "their cxIsU'ino In Jo Hot penitentiary Is one uf pensure nod abandonment," the result Is shown by Chlengo statistics listing BUT persons killed last year against -7(i tho year before. "Hut one thing remains." con tinued the .statement, "iu wive this country from an increasing crime wave and reckless destruction of human life, an unswerving policy of .cnfnrecilient nut only by stale of ficials but by upstanding sit teen -ship of this country. In this ease a commutation of .sentence would bo opening the doors of the stale wide to those who lightly regard human life. I fall tu find out sin gle condition of extenuating cir cumstance which would justify my thrwartlng the course, of the law as has prevailed in this state and this country for centuries past." James TIioiirf was murdered on July J. 11127, in a 'boat' on t-nke Pnlourde. Tho body van slashed, wcluhled and sunk in the hike. Crook Romance, Rialto "llomancc of t lie rinlerwoiiil," now I'luyiiis at the Hialto Ihealrr, has been .icciaimcd universaliy an ono of tile most enKrusslnn stories . of crookdom on the screen. I'ascd on tho staKe iilay or Hi" I same name by Paul Armstrong, it I lias been bronchi up lo dale. Mary Aslor. lien Hard unrl Hob erl Klllotl are leniurnu unit ui" tiupporlini; cast Is flawing. The life nf I lie shady side of a , great city is graphically pictured ill this realistic revelation of speak easies and llieir attendant evils. A most spectacular and powerful drama is nt Hunt's ('raleriau. It ! In "The Foreign Legion." co stal ling Norman Kerry and Lewis Ktone, supported by Mary Nolan nnd June .Marlowe. It Is sheer drama, of romance j and revolt, relieved with comedy, j The Hlnry revolves around the pow erful Hiiuation of a son nnd Ills father opposed to each other, nei ther knowin.-; who the other Is. The action lakes place. In the coloi-rul locale or Algiers and is featured by sensational photo graphic besnly. On Ihe dramatic side, highlights are the trooim nnd the mutiny In Iho desert led by Kerry unknowingly against his fa ther. They also are pilled for smiles or Mary Nolan, blonde and dangerous. Another powerful se quenco Is where the rather Is pre siding judge at his son's trial. XKW lOIJK, .Ian. 2. II'l Til" Tammany society and lis political! branch, the licniuerailc county committee. Inday were etul.dherl j ill their new wlgtviim. n llilTi'-l"ry building of colonial design in j I'nion Sfpinre. j Among the treasured article r"- moved to iho new quartern from I Ihe temporary home in Park, ave- I nue was a cap worn in the Amcr-1 lean Itevolutlon by the Liberty Hoys, till' original houses of Tarn- j many. The cap. of deep red Willi, gold embroidery, was patttnirdj after that worn by Iho ! slaves when they were free. The society last summer sold i'v former home In Fourteenth str i. i w hlcli II bad occupied since IXHK. I Trc-blent Seeks Vint VIENNA, Jan. 3. Ti Wlthelm M Hi In n. schoolmaster who bieiiuie president, Is having a hard time, finding a vultablo home tor him self nnd eleven children, lie will huso none of the palaces and mansions offered him, but wants a flat near bis office. GOVERNOR REFUSES TO INTERFERE I r Dr. Thomas E. Dreher and Ada Donnrr Lcbouef, who are s;n. tnced to hang January 5 at Franklin, La., lor the murder ol the letter's hutband, James J. Lcbouef. Screeiijfe By WADE WERNER HOI.LYWOOU Cal.-This is a nervous town these days, full of the heebejeebies. Silent screen plnyvrs bite their linger nails over t h e Iiierousin.g mipoi'tatiou o f stage players for talking film roles while the new comers show a tendency to break out into cold per spiration it n d e r the cruel state of the camera. Klciumr (irilTith, one of the most r c c e n t iinporla tnins from liroad- Eleanor Griffith way. feep; I here is just as much reason for nerv ousness on one side as the other. A camera, she points out, can be wilder n sImto nlayer nnaecusloni- x A A X A. A. Hollywood By WADE WARNER PhU IMH AP TUP 15 J t 1W i V.n' ed to it Just as milch as a micro phone can terrify a screen ingenue unaccustomed lo speaking stage lines. "I'nder the circuiutant'es.' ob served Miss CrrllTlth belween the scenes of "Nightsiick," her first eniu.e into tile talking movies, "Ihe leelir. of resentment here toward newcomers from the stage is puzzling me. 1 don't think the experienced players of the silent screen have much fear from us. really. Some nf us may fit into the pictiiics. I Im'ie, to. my self. Dark Side Brighter Among those, who can look fur ward lo a more prosperous season than Ihcy have ever had in motion pictures are the negro players ami extras. With King Vidor making "Hallelujah," Fox making' "Hearts in Dixie," and Christie a series of all-nem-o talking comedies, the de mand tor negro talent is at its all time high in Hollywood. "K.rts hi IMxie" will he an effort to In corporate i:i one talking-singing picture (he best negro talent ob tainable in drama, comedy and song. An amusing feature of Christie's use of real negro talent In the talking comedies is that many of the negroes do not photograph dark ennui'h In look like negroes. va WILL FULLY SATISFY EXPECT THE VERY Yet Dunlops Cost No More Than Other Good Tires FORD PETERSON DISTRIBUTOR FOR SOUTHERN OREGON AND NORTHERN AX - AAA XX AAAA KXX AXXXXX AX AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAJaliAAAJA 1 Al ITT A NEW YORKER ARGE By G. D. SEYMOUR XKW YOHK. Rpvellors whus the Social Register names are in ; have gotten their fill of mingling ' with racketeers a rift riff-raff, anj Hroadway!i night life Is undergo ing its first major transformation iu half a do2en years. The summer has seen the pass- ' ing of several dozen ni.;;ht clubs hidden up alleys and down dark ; ; halls, where only a eason ugo hi ' : larity abounded "from 10 p. in. till ' closing." Folk with reputations to preserve no longer find it a lark to visit them. At the clubs that are; i flourishing this fall all the tables , ' are reserved. Desirable patrons ! can get reservations, (laughters i i and rowdies are unwelcome, and more and more frequently they ar-; , live at such rendezvous to find that ' everything Is taken. Other symptoms of the t runs for-1 nation abound. The St. Regis roof, which was opened last sum-' mer as a select place to dine and dance, has become thn Club St. i Regis, open only to members. An; : thony Droxel Middle is president.) and non-members may ho enter- f , tained as guests only oneo every: 'four months. And Flnren. Zlctfelil, Jr., Is re ' : opening his Midnight Frolic on the; roof of the New Amsterdam thea-1 s . ire with a $7.50 cover charge, and , .vki.aNO. Jan? i. -with the assurance that guests at i llu ..flArthn-ilrn twl fltinMni' aim. i The COIldltioll of MTOtl T per club need not rub elbows withl'h k. United States ambassador to ruffians and money hoodlums. France, who Is III with asthmatic No Bottle Goods Perhaps a new name will bo evolved for Ihe new type of nl'ler-1 theatre club, just as tho night club ' Last night Mr. Derrick was which spang up Iu was given 'able to sit up In bed lo read and the name lo distinguish R from tho i listen to the radio, cabaret of pre-prohihlllon days, j The' T 1-year-old diplomat was I roadway believes that the high-j forced to-bed at his Cahgrln Kails class liquor-selling night club Is; est a to about 10 days ago when he ;one. (suffered an attack o bronchitis. The night club In ita new incur-i Tuesday night his condition sud natioil 1h "not selling." Those who denly becumo worse and two 1 want to drink run fro to HpenkcuK' le. of which Ihcrc are plonty. i lint prohibition i-hIUh urn not con .cmlcu to b tho chief reason tor I the ehnngliii; vorae. Soi lnl bar-jut iriera were lowered by the wftr. So- I city women round thrill In minE- IliiiK with real gunmen, and visitors to New York souillil to see how Ithe under half lived. Muny found FOR SLIPPERY HIGHWAYS Dunlops Rugged Tread enables you to start when you step on the gas and stop when you . apply the brakes Play Safe Ride on Dunlop Balloons! I ' 1 1 hat if lived by Kit Ink .'hecks ttml I by bl hi k nw i I i n g u n U by ven tf ; i bad liquor. IVrhaps, if the niRlit club ever attracts iho Hllealfun f , historian;, thpy will rhrunlHi iu I 'passing in Ks. and cnulit its wane to a revival of tin coiiHcioUKnens I , among the mor select of M imo time pall oiis, without whom sup (Kirt It could nut opera t it nrnfitHhly. 1 Aftp Seven Years X.iegfcld'H Midnight Frolic 4ill re sume its place as a center of HiohiI wav'fl night lite after a lapse of , if" hen It was pened In l!la, "Diamond Jim" Itrady was a habitue and wealth and society mingled at its tables with stars of the stage and with famous sports men. While champagne bubbled. Will Rotors twirled his iHriat, Kd die Cantor and W. C. Fields clowned, the Dolly Hlster and Oildn tirny danced, and many another famous entertainer helped divert Ihe .ruests. . , It was converted into the KYolle theatre in IH-l. and since then It has housed a succession of plays. Now Ziegfcld senses Ihe call for i new type of after-theatre rendez vous, and on Thanksgiving night It again became the Midnight Frolic, with Kddle Cantor, Helen Morgan and other Xlegfeld stars to entertain and with George Olscn'a band to play fur dancing. I . Her- ! influenza, was described as ' i Improved" today by Dr. much John 1'hlllips, tanks of oxygen were sent from a hospital to the estate to be used In case of emergency. Two iiui-nrs nlo were put on duty his bedside. MuMlXNVll.LK Monigbmery Ward & fo. plnns to erect 30.ouol bulldipK tor retail store to be es-j i tittdilwd here. MOTORISTS WHO REQUIRE AND FINEST OF TIRE PERFORMANCE OUUY1M.K. O., Jan. 3-i.Vi Four men and one woiiuiiq all .members of ihe same fainll. are In the county jail at Wnnster, awaiting grand Jury consideration on charges of child stealing in con. ucct Ion with the disappearance a week ago of Mel in iort. fotir-yMir-oIil son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray mond Hurst of IMTVllle. The five suspects pleaded not guilty hist nielli when arraigned before Mayor A. C. Weygandt of Orrvilte. line uf the leaders In the search for the bo . They were lo post bonds of JliUMrO each. Tboac held are Klias (Null Arn old, 65. of lUrville; William Arn old. 3tl, electrieal supply dealer of I Akron, his son; Arthur Arnold, j Orrvllle .another son; Mrs. Dor j othy Mellenry, L'7, of Orrvllle. I daughter of the elder Arnold, and her husband, Buscuut Mellenry. j County 1'roserutor Waller Mou j gey said the warrants charge all five had a pJirt In enticing the ; small hoy from his home late last j Thursday, but addej the arrests I had thrown no furl her light on ubriher Melvln Is dead or alive, j The four men had previously I been arrested by I toy 1 torsi, city marshal, and uncle of Melvin. It Is the supposition of Mougey that i haireii tif Roy llorst caused his I euemlos to kidnap Melvin, thlult j Ing he was Ihe marshal's son. I The four men were arrested early yesterday and Mrs. Mellenry was taken into custody nt 7 o'clock last night. Tho prisoners offered alibis, but the prosecutor said there were many conflicting details in their1 stories. ; ROUTT. AND Portland ias I Coke Co. relueo-, pntes to custo mers, which will mvnn (SO.O0O yearly saving. CLU-COLDS Check at firat nnee. 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