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Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
William D. Taylor is Found
Dead in His Home With
Bullet in Heart
QUIZ MABEL NORMAND
Robbery Discounted by Pc.
lice as Motive for Strange
Assassination
United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2.-Willian
d. Taylor, prominent motion picture
director was found dead with s
bullet through his heart on the floo1
OF his luxurious home on South AL
v..rado street today.
Taylor had apparently been mur.
uereo.
Inc body was found by Harry
feazy, his negro servant.
Taylor was one of the leading di.
rectors Of the. Famous Players Lasky
Corporation.
He had been seated at his desk
going through number of cancelled
checks when bullet fired by some
mysterious assailant ended his life
detectives said.
The dead man apparently did no1
nave chance to defend himself. His
revolver was found in bureau draw
'er upstairs.
Robberys was not the motive for
the crime, as none of Taylor's valu-
ables had been disturbed.
Mabel Normand, film comedienne,
was in consultation with Taylor, a
few hours before Taylor met his
death, neighbors told detectives in
vestigating the tragedy today. .
Police believe that when Taylor ac-
companied Miss Normand to her ma
chine as she left. his murderer slip.
ped into the house and hid.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas MacLean
motion picture stars, who live next
door to Taylor, said they heard a
shot fired at about $3.50 last night
Mrs. MacLean said she saw a man
leaving Taylor's residence. She
could furnish no description of him
Mrs. c. F. Reddick, who lives
across court from the Taylor home,
said she, heard three shots fired at 2
a. m. today.
Evidence could be found of only
one bullet-,the one that killed Taylor
having been fired in the room
where the tragedy occurred, how
ever.
Taylor was a dominant figure in
the picture business, and influential
in studio affairs Of the Famous Play
ers-Lasky Corporation, the largest
producing organization in the world.
Police intimated that Edward F.
Sands, whom they are seeking for
robbery of Taylor's home on a
former occasion, will be questioned
in regard to the shooting as soon as
he is taken into custody.
Taylor's last work was "The Green
Temptation" picture starring
Betty Compson. @-'s-
Probably the most famous picture
he ever made in his long career in the
films was Mark Twain's "Huckle-
berry Finn"
Among other well known pictures
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
Sacred College Sealed Up
Until They Have Chosen
a Successor
NOT THERE
Predictions Are That Com.
promise Candidate Will
Be Selected
By HENRY WOOD

United Press Staff Correspondent
ROME, Feb. 2.-The Sacred Col.
lege of cardinals, which will elect
Pope Benedict's successor, entered
the conclave in the Vatican chambers
this afternoon. The ceremony Of wall.
ing up the secret conclave so that
communication cannot be established
with the outside world began at $3.50
p. m. and will last until 8 o'clock
this evening.
Early Ceremonies
ROME, Feb. 2.-The conclave that
will elect a successor to Pope Bene-
dict XIV, was solemnly inaugurated
today, when Cardinals of the Sacred
College accompanied by their priests
and personal servants entered the
Vatican where they will be walled up
from contact with the outside world
until a new pope is chosen.
The first vote will be taken Friday
morning.
Cardinal Vanutelli celebrated the
holp spirit mass at 9:30 today. Mon
signor CALI delivered the traditional
address to the members of the Sac
red College.
At $3.50 this afternoon, the cardin-
ais formally entered the conclave.
A moderate or compromise candi-
date probably will be elected pope, it
was said today. Neither of the two
main parties-the irreconcilables, led
by Cardinal Merry del Val, and the
"peace parley' of Cardinal Gasparri
had sufficient strength to swing
the required majority to the support
of their candidate
Not all the cardinals had arrived
today when the conclave opened, the
Americans being among the missing.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
Big Victor E.. Sha1U Ranch
Sold To BLenkiron & Moulin
Nine Hundred Forty Acres Near Capara Changes
Will Be Inensvely Developed-J. E. Peck
Also Acquires More Property

Old time real estate activity ap-
pears to have re-established itself
with bang. Following the inn
pOrtant announcements which
were made in the Press yesterday
comes today another of even
greater magnitude. II. l.. Loud
announces the conclusion of the
sale of 941 acres of fine land ly-
ing northwest of Calipatria from
Judge Victor E. Shaw, Judge of
the state appellate court, to l..
S. Blenkiron and c. f. Nowlin,
prOprietors of the Hanson Dairy
of Los Angeles. The sale price
was 100000 per acre.
The new owners of the Shaw
ranch will make use of it in con-
nection with their Los Angeles
interests. AS soon as practicable
the ranch will all be put in alfalfa
and stocked with pure bred Hol-
stein cattle for the purpose of re-
newing the Los Angeles county
herds from time to time.
The purchase which is announc-
ed today will give Blenkiron and
NOwlin a total of 1910 acres all
of the best quality of the Valleys
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02

land. The purchase is significant
as bearing evidence of the faith of
the old timers in the county. Mr..
Blenkiron and Mr.. Nowlin have
been interested in the valley
many years and have been identi-
fled with varied interests, but
more especially the cattle busi-
ness which has been standby
here from the beginning. MIR.
.NOwIin and Mr.. BlenkiroR each
own valuable Ell Centre business
property and both are maintain
ing a close touch with all local af-
fairs.
II. L.. Loud also announced to-
day the sale of the l.. S. Blenkiron
ranch two miles south of FL Cen
trO on the highway, to j. +. Peck
of CalexicO. This property con-
sists of 160 acres and sold for
$4,000 per acre. The ranch will
be put into vegetables Immediate
ly, but a little later will be sowed
to alfalfa and stocked with pure
bred Holstein cattle for which
MIR. Peck has already achieved a
reputation. Mr.. Peck is another
old timer who knows q good thing
when he sees it.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
Ford Contract Should Have
Reservations Says Sec
retary of War
TOO MUCH INVOLVED
Government Would Need to
Put Up Fifty Millions
Lease Long Winded
By JAMES T. KOLBERT


(Unietd Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-Congress
should modify Henry Ford's contract
for the Muscle Shoals nitrate project
to Safeguard the governments in
terest," Secretary OF War Weeks said
today in sending it and much other
data on the offer to Congress.
The most important modification
proposed, by Weeks is limitation of the
Ford lease to fifty years instead of
100 as Ford desires.
Weeks action puts up to Congress
the question as to whether Ford si.al.
obtain the plant for manufacture Of
cheap fertilizer and other products
Efforts for prompt action on the Of
fer will be started at once by farm
bloc leaders.
An appropriation by Congress of
from $40,00O,000 to $50,000,000 "of
which Mr.. Ford will have the benefit
for approximately 100 years at four
per cent" is necessary, the secretary
said.
If Ford's offer is not accepted by
Congress, Weeks recommended that
the government complete the Wilson
Dam and sell the electric power for
commercial requirements.
This, he said, could be done fol
about half the appropriations neces
sary under the Ford offer and the
expenditures would be warranted.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
RESTRICTIONS WILL
MAKE WAR
TAME
Poison Gas and Submarine!
OutlaVed by Washington
Conference

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Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
TWENTY BELIEVED TO
BE SNOW BOUND
In HILLS
All Thought Safe and To Haze
Taken Refuge in the Many
Cabins in Pass
United Press Leased Wire

SAN BERNARDINO, Calf, Feb
2.-Belief was expressed here today
that possibly twenty persons were
still snowbound in the Cajon Pass
and Hesperia regions.
All are believed to have taken
refuge in cabins.
County authorities have sent in
supplies to the various cabins in the
pass. Trail-breakers on skis opened
the way.
None of those who are snowbound
are thought to be in danger.
The snow was fast melting today.
Although the road is blocked with
eight-foot drifts in some places, it is
believed that in another "a hours al
those who have taken refuge in the
various cabins will be able to make
their way out again.
Cajon Pass is the gateway through
the San Bernardino mountains to the
east.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02

was not compensating me fully for
my work and that the salary of the
treasurer should be raised. Through
an unfortunate misunderstanding and
as result of an extraordinary polit-
ical situation growing out of the dis
agreement between Assemblyman
Beal and the governor, county salar-
les were not adjusted at the last
session of the legislature and it cam
not be done now for four years be-
cause of the constitutional provision
that an elective officers salary may
not be raised during his term of
office. We are confronted, there
fore, with the situation that for four
years at least, the county cannot pay
what everyone has recognized to be a
right and reasonable compensation
for my office. ] cannot be satisfied
with the salary of the office and what
is really to the point | am satisfied
that no man with experience and abil-
ity to handle the office as it should
be handled for the best interests of
the people will be willing to take it
for the salary. The problem, there
fore, has been to arrive at solution
of the matter which will fully pro-
tect the public's interests and not re-
suit in any impairment of the effici-
ency of the service, and believe that
such situation has been worked out.
81 submit few facts, not with any
purpose to "toot my own horn" nor
fxuA
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
FUEL DEALER
is ACQUITTED
J. 3. Whitaker Cleared of the
Charge of Furnishing
Short Measure

J. B. Whitaker, Ell Centre fuel
dealer, was acquitted late yesterday
for alleged short measure in the sale
of wood.
Some time ago Ell Centrans We're
startled when it became known that
Mr.. Whitaker had been arrested on
complaint Of Weights and Measures
Commissioner Waite for alleged
short measuring wood. He retained
counsel and demanded jury trial.
Yesterday the case came up before a
jury in Justice of the Peace May
fields court The trial continued
throughout the day. One juror held
out for conviction for time, but fin
ally joined in with the eleven others
and acquitted Mr. Whitaker.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
IS. ON
4 n \ | D Us
Sc A 7
No Agreement Up To Press
Hour in the Trial of
.Arbuckle
SMILE OF COMEDIAN
1t Is OF the Wan Sort and it
Does Not Deceive His
Friends
SMILE OF COMEDIAN
United Press Leased Wire

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.-Ros
coo (Fatty) Arbuckle hid a near.
breaking heart behind a hearty laugh
when he came to the Hall if Justice
shortly after 10 a. m. today to take
up the vigil while the jury deliberat.
ed over the question of whether OF
not he took the life of Virginia
Rape.
While Arbuckle would not for 6
moment show. to the public that he
was discouraged his friends and his
wife knew it.
When Arbuckle arrived the jury
had not yet reached the court but the
crowd had. Practically every seat il
the courtroom was filled and the cor
ridors outside were dotted viii
groups of people anxious for 8
glimpse of Fatty on trial.
Shortly before II O'Clock the sus-
pense was broken when bailiff was
summoned to the jury room and tolc
the jury desired to see the judge. The
Judge was called, it being expected
that he would call the jury into court
There were no indications as tc
whether verdict had been reached.
Court was convened and Judge
Louderback read a note from the
jury requiring a transcript of the
evidence.
Attorneys for both sides agreed tc
granting the request and the trans
cript was ordered given the jury.
The request was taken as indicat
ing the jury had not given up hope OF
reaching an agreement.
The jury was not called into court
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
MOTORISTS RESCUED
ATLAST
Auto Club of Southern CalifOr.
mia Takes Relief to the
SnOW Bound
United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2.-Every
motorist snowbound by the sudden
weekend storm on the Ridge Route
from Los Angeles to- Bakersfield has
now been rescued, officials of the
federal and state forest services and
the Auto Club of Southern California
agreed after careful check of the
situation today.
Snow is fast melting along the
Ridge Route after two days of sun
shine, and it will soon be passible
again, the highway department an
nounced.
Altogether, 27 automobile parties
were stalled at National Forest Inn
Lebec and TETON ranger station, and
at various points on the road itself.
Supplies were rusher in by a party
of American LYegion men from the
Bakersfield end OF the route, and by
Auto club relief trucks and cars from
the Los Angeles end.
All of the stranded motorists were
reached before they suffered from ex-
posure or hunger.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
FALLS HUNDRED FEET
TO HIS DEATH
United Press Leased Wire

PASADENA, Calf, Feb. 2. -
Harold Thompson fell 100 feet off the
lower Mount Wilson trail late Mon
dav night, while he nd two compan-
ions, all about 10, were fighting treir
way from Opid's Camp, back of
Mount Wilson, through binding. snow
to this city. Young Thompson was
badly frozen at he time and fell to
his death when overcome by tie icy
winds that swept teh mountains.
Arthur Wareham, one companion,
managed to get part way down the
trail to Opid's Camp with feet and
hands frozen, where he got into tele-
phone communication today with
local authorities.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
INCREASES THE
AUTO MILEAGE
United Press Leased Wire

DAYTON, O., Feb. 2-By discovery
of tellurium gasoline compound,
which increases automobile mileage
one hundred per cent over present gas
oline fuel was announced at the re-
search laboratory of the General Mo-
tors Company here today.
created under "Bill" Taylor's mega
phone were "The Furnace" "Sacred
and Profane Love-" "The Witching
Hour" wealth" "The Soul o
YOUTH" Captain Kidd Junior"
"Tom Sawyer" Johanna Enlsts,"
"Judy of Iaogue's Harbor," "Nurse
Marjorie" and Jennie Be Good
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
FOUR ARE KILLED II;
"CANY0N OF
DEATH"
United Press Leased Wire

SOMERTON, Ariz., Feb. 2.-Foui'
men were killed outright ard TWO
probably fatally injured in great
landslide in the Valley of Mexico,
near San Angel, according to ad
vices received here today.
The slide occurred in La Berranca
del Murato Canyon OF Death.)
The men killed and injured We're
engineers in the employ of the de-
partment of communications and
public works of the Mexican federal
government.
They were supervising an excavat-
ing project when one entire rock wal!
of the canyon crumpled upon them
today's dispatches said.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
SAYS VIZ
SHOULD BE
HAPPY
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PASADENA, Calf, Feb. 2.-Geo
NJ. Reynolds, president Of ore Of the
largest hanks n the United State,
the Continental National Of Chicago
stated on his arrival lere today to
spend the winter "commerciHl condl-
lions on this coast are so n.uth better
than they @re anywhere else in tho
country, ycu folks ought to lie very
happy"
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Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02

TACOMA, Wash, Feb. 2.-Prepar-
ed to risk life and limb in an attempt
to scale the snow covered crest of
Mount Rainier, 14,408 feet above sea
level, Jacques Bergues and Jean and
Jacques Landry, European mountain
climbers, left here today with score
of local mountaineers and newspaper
correspondents on the first leg of their
journey.
Mount Rainier has never been scaled
in the winter.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
WANT SECRETARY OF
EDUCATION
United Press Leased Wire

CLEVELAND, O., Feb. "A nation-
wide campaign to establish a secre-
tary of education in the cabinet is in
full swing.
This drive, outlined today to the
United Press by R. G. Jones, president
of the Superintendent Department of
the National Educational Association
is backed by many of Americas most
prominent educators, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-02
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Continued on page two.)
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-11-14
FINGER PRINTS ON RECTORS
SHIRT ARE BEING EXAMINED
S!euths Again Are Turning Attention
to Mrs. M;lls' Daughter

New Brunswick, n. j., Nov. O.
Finger prints found on the bosom of
the shirt worn by ire Rev. Edward
Wheeler Hall may picture to experts
one Of the principals in the murder of
the rector and the choir singer, Mrs.
Eleanor Rhinehardt Mills, it became
known through an authoritative
source today.
The authorities admitted that re-
port by "-1art5 on the finger prints
is eX3ea.ed tomorrow.
After the conference with Albert
Gibb. grand jury foreman, Special
Deputy Attorney General Mott an
nounced that the case would not go
before the grand jury until next
week.
Detectives working on the case are
again turning their attention to
Charlotte Mills, daughter of the slain
choir singer, who has announced her
intention of calling upon Governor
Edwards. Several of the detectives
are of the opinion that the girl is in
possession of information which she
has not yet diyulged.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-11-14

2ncc, Of course, though the sentence
is truly ambiguous. "On with the
dance; let JOY be uncofiincd," was the
way o&e linotype operator showed
that he was not acquainted with the
oft-quotcd line from Byron's "Childe
Harold
Cardinal Gibbons, in an interview
a few years ago, told 2 story Of P. c.
Gilmore and his band. Gilmore,
said the cardinal, was famo;:s for
his playing Of Mozart's Twelfth
Mass On one occasion he played il
in a North Carolina town and the
next day The local paper announced
that he rendered with great effect
"Mozart's Twelfth Massachusetts,. "
The story reminds one of the type
setter who eternally improved no his
copy as written. by the reporter. \
young couple were married at nuptial
mass in a Georgia city, but he knew
better-he made it "Nuptial, Mass" "
Besides the typographical errors
with which all newspapers are famil-
Jar. glaring inconsistencies often
make apologies necessary. For ex-
ample, a New York daily once an
nounced that a famous singer had
contracted q cold and would be un-
able to appear at scheduled con-
cert. The item appeared on the same
page with cold-cure/ advertisement.
1t is certain the advertising manager
had to do 4 lot Of explaining, for the
cold-cure advertisement contained a
signed testimonial from the self
same singer!
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-11-14
Complexion of Congress

Next house: Republicans 225;
Democrats, 207; Socialist, 1; Farmer
Labor, /; Independent, l.
Present house: Total membership,
,435. Present membership: Repuoli-
cans, 296; Democrats, 130; Socialist,
1; vacancies. s. Of these eight vac
ancies three were filled at Tuesdays
election for unexpired terms ending
March 8. 1923, as follows: Illinois, at
large, First and Eighth Nebraska dis
tricts. The remaining five vacancies
were not filed at this election for the
Sixty-seventh congress.
Next Senate: Republicans, So;
Democrats, AZ; Farmer-Labor, 1.
Present senate: Total membership,
SO. Present. membership: Republi-
cans, SO; Democrats, SO; Republican
and Progressive, l.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-11-14
FOUR SCORE DEAD
IN MINE TRAGEDY
Bodies Removed by Rescue Crews at
SpaDgler-Scarch Not
Over

Spang!e., Pa, Nov 7.-The Reil-
~ Coal company's mine, swept by q
gas explosion yesterday morning, was
cleared of its dead today.
Late t&is afternoon rescue crews
brought out five bodies. believed to
have been the last in the workings.
This brought the tota! Of known dead
to 50. Thirty-two miners were res
cued.
Officials Of the company declared
that a regheck Of their records made
It practically certain that 112 men
were in the mine when the explosion
took place. The total official list of
survivors includes SIX miners who
we're in the cage when the food of
gas and smoke issued from the mouth
OF the shaft. The total dead in
Guides three miners rescued alive who
failed to regain consciousness.
Further search Of the headings was
made tonight. Nine officials and res
cue men realized the possibility that
'one or two men might have entered
the mine yesterday without report
ing to their boss. All miners listed as
missing have been accounted for,
however.
The quiet precision which marked
removal of the corpses to the morgue
was evident tonight as preparations
for the funerals got under way. Iden-
tilted bodies were removed from the
morgue as quickly as they were
claimed Company officials notified
widows and relatives that they will
take charge Of funeral arrangements
if desired.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-11-14
BAPTIST WOMEN
END CONVENTION

Columbia, Nov. 9.-Mrs. j. D.
Chapman Of Anderson was reelected
president Of the South Carolina Bap-
It's. Woman's Missionary union ct the
closing session today Of the twentieth
annual meeting in the First Baptist
church here.
!, Other officers were elected as fol-
lows:
Mrs. Edwin Carpenter, Florence,
vice president. District vice pres!-
dents: Mrs. A. j. Clement, lnman,
northern; Mrs. E. W. Masters, An
derson, northwestern; Mrs. Mary
Adams, Darlington, eastern; Mrs. {.
NJ. Scott, Columbia. central; Miss Eu-
nice Williams, Allendalc, southern;
Mrs. D. A. G. Outz, Greenwood, wes-
tern; Miss Vonnie Lance, Spartan
burg, corresponding secretary; Miss
Bessie Major, Anderson, recording
secretary; Miss King, Columbia,
treasurer; Mrs. George E. Davis, Or
angeburg, Y. w. A. and college cor
respondent; Mrs. w. J. Hatcher
Johnston. Sunbeam superintendent !;
Miss Azile Wofford, Royal Ambassa-
doris superintendent; Mrs. T. 3.
Clarkson, Gaffney, superintendent
mission study; Miss Annie Ulmer, Co.
lumhia. auditor; Miss Azile Wofford,
Laurens, field worker.
The next annual meeting will be
held in Florence.
Representative were named for
the State Baptist convention in Rock
Hill, and the w. NJ. I. convention in
connection with the Southern Baptist
convention.