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EXCLUSIVE LEASED WIRE OF THE UNITED PRESS. WORLD’S LARGEST AFTERNOON PRESS ASSOCIATION
VOL. 6, NO. 80
TWELVE PAGES
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1927
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NORMS THAI DELAY LOOM
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SPOTLIGHT
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M. R. T.
A SPECIAL leased wire lor the
Fort Worth Press, direct
from the courthouse of Austin,
will be operated during the trial
of Iter. Frank Norris, beginning
next Monday.
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This leased wire will be in ad-
dition to the regular leased wire
of the United Press, whose Aus-
tin bureau will be at the service
of The Press at the same time.
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Austin, you know, will be the
source of much of the interesting
news of Texas next week; the
Legislature will begin to mill
around, and will offer first rate
competition to the leading mur-
der trial of the nation.
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The Press will carry just as
complete a report of the trial as
Is possible to get by leased wire
and Western Union and mall. If
you do not receive Just as Inti-
mate a story as If the action were
in Tarrant courthouse, then It
will he just because you will read
some other paper than The
HWiS.
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I think mere will be uo story
available after Jan. 10 that will
touch the Norris trial for inter-
est. That has been the thought
of the whole Press staff since
this amaslng Interlude began,
and because the whole stafr had
that idea was the reason that Thu
Press has consistently given the
best, and, for weeks, the only
itory that could be obtained
• bout the Norris case.
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The Press has, day In and day
jut, given the news on this and
ill the other interesting bappen-
ngs In Fort Worth.
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I say "Other" Interesting hap-
penings. What, tor Instance, was
the last great and interesting
happening In Fort Worth? The
tank consolidation, of course.
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And what newspaper told Fort
Worth of that Incident first —
broke the new's of the merger of
Fort Worth National and F&.M
National banks? The Fort Woitii
Press.
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The Press published an extra
last Friday, to tell the city what
had happened. It was the firgt
official published word that a
financial transaction which gave
Fort Worth one of the four larg-
est banks In Texas, bad been ef-
fected. -
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The interesting news of this
town, and the world that lies
iround us so effectively brought
o our very door by the United
Press, is published regularly In
The Press.
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And you will find more and
more of this Interesting news as
iou watch thlB newspaper.
Governor's Pardons Total
NTTCO BOOK
AUDIT IS
ORDERED
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When Nashville’s Streets Rivaled Venice
City to Use Figures in
Rate Study
PIPE IS BOUGHT
Several
Let
Contracts Also
By Council -
City Council Tuesday morning
authorized an audit of the books
of the Northern Texas Traction
Company, preparatory to action
on the proposed street car fare ad-
| justment.
The audit, which will cost about
$2,500, it was said, will be made
by Ernst & Ernst.
Expense of making the audit
will be borue by the traction com-
pany. The Council gave no indi-
. cation as to what action it might
take should the audit establish the
figures presented to it by Man-
ager Walter Burke of the NTTCo.
Buy Two Pumps.
The Council Tuesday morning
awarded to the Alls-Chalmers
Company contract for furnishing
two pumps to the city at a cost of
j $3,142 each. The pumps will
raise the capacity of 500 gallons
per minute, possible with old fa-
j clltties, to 1000 gallons per min-
ute at the city water plant.
City Manager O. E. Carr was
authorised to purchase fifty 60-
foot lengths of 26-inch pipe at
$6.70 a foot to connect the Holly
plant with the North Side, across
the Trinity River.
To Make Report.
A contract to furnish 300 tons
i of chemicals, a year's supply, for
use In the water filtration planL
wns awarded to Joe Barlow, local
distributor. The price was quoted
at $1.88 per hundred pounds.
A petition was received by the
council from the Fort Worth As-
| soclatlon of Master Plumbers to
i appoint Jack Enoch to succeed B.
' B. Beach on the examining board
; board of the association. It was
‘•charged that Beach had not at- '
: tended a meeting of the board In
the last six months. The city
; manager will make a report on j
the appointment at the next meet-
ing of the Council.
The city sanitary contract foz ,
the coming year was again award-
ed to W. F. Lowry by the Coun-
cil. x J
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Copyright, 19*7,
Here is the plight of Nashville, Tenn., at the peak of its
inundation, as seen from the air—in one of the most remark-
able flood pictures ever printed. Great residence, commer-
cial and industrial areas of the State’s capital city were
submerged as if by a tidal wave when days and days of tor-
rential rains sent the Cumberland River on an unparalleled
By United Pr«s«.
AUSTIN, Jan. 4. — Granting 26
clemency proclamations today,
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson’s
pardon record passed the 3000
mark, and with two weeks yet to
remain in office, may climb to a
much greater figure, It was pre-
dicted .
The population of the State pen-
itentiary is at its lowest in years,
totaling 3227.
The Governor has granted a to-
tal of 3020 pardons during her
term of office so far.
Today's pardons were to the
following:
W. E. Palmer, Wood County,
criminal assault in two cases, five
to 99 years in one case, and five
to 49 years in the other.
Weldon Pleasant, Bexar Coun-
ty, murder, five to 25 years.
Kyle Wright, Wood, embezzle-
ment of county funds in two cases,
two to three years.
Wade Bolden, Harris County,
burglary and theft in tour cases,
eight years.
Frank C. Jordan, Cass County,
burglary, three years.
Sidney Oliver, Hardin County,
murder, five years.
Heni-y Roberts, Delta County,
theft in two cases, two years.
J. H. Ratcliff, Taylor County,
forgery, two years.
Richard Pitts, Lamar County,
murder, five years.
Jewell Red wine, Eastland Coun-
rampage. Thousands were driven from their homes, and ty cuytonr’pI?kerar Hay. Countv
much of the city’s business life was paralyzed. Districts of theft,’two years. ’ V‘
of the city between which lowlands intervened were acces- D. a. Pharrig, Liberty County,
sible only by boat. The huge bridge over the Cumberland, at li(iuor< one year,
the upper right of the picture, stood out above the flood, but j08e Pere*' Webb County, sod-
the ends of its approaches were under water. In the lower
right-hand corner is the Tennessee capitol.
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Nashville Aeronautic Corporation
26 Convicts
Are Given
Freedom
Tuesday
MARTIN WRI
PROSECUTE
PASTOR
PLAN SUBWAY ON Mexican Troops in Clash
JENNINGS AVE. With Rebels At Parras;
Trains Are Held Up
REPORTS BEING
SLUGGED
Will Be Taken Up With
Railroad at Once
LEAHY RETRIAL
JANUARY 10TH
By United I Timm
AUSTIN, Jan. 4. — Harry J.
Leahy, charged with murder of
Dr. J. A. Rpmsey, Mathis physi-
cian. has been taken to George-
town. WUIIantson County, for
trial on Jan. 10. Leahy's case
was sent to Georgetown on change
of venue from Frio County, after
he had been granted a new trial.
The widow of Dr. Ramsey also has
arrived at Georgetown for confer-
ence with District Attorney Harry
Dolan.
TO HOLD WATER
SURVEY MEET
Tax Refund Law Will
Be Discussed
Machinery calculated to obtain
State aid for the Tarrant County
Water Improvement District will
be put In motion at a meeting of
legislators from several counties
with officials of the district at
the Fort Worth Club at 6:30 p. m.
Tuesday.
About 12 members of the next
State legislature from Wise. Dal-
las. Parker, Jack and Young
Counties, as well as Tarrant Coun-
ty legislators, are expected at the
meeting, according to W. E. Blde-
ker, secretary of the board of di-
rectors.
The proposed diversion of State
taxes to the amount of about 12c
bn the $100 valuation to aid the
proposed $10,000,000 project on
the Trinity River will be brought
up at the meeting.
The directors propose to Intro-
duce the bill into the next legis-
lature setting aside that amount
of the State tax collected In Tap-
rant County to be used in aiding
the project.
State aid at Galveston, Corpus
Chrtstl, Harris County and other
points in Texas arc cited as prece-
dents for the proposed bill.
Construction of a subway on
Jennings Avenue under the Santa
Fe railroad tracks will be the next
major street improvement under-
taken by the city. City Manager
O. E. Carr announced Tuesday.
Carr told the City Council at
its meeting that officials of the
Santa Fe are known to favor a
grade separation on Jennings.
W. E. Maxon, vice president of
the railroad, said In a letter to
Carr that he would recommend
action on the underpass to the
board of the Santa Fe.
The proposed improvement
would divert a large part of the
heavy traffic now directed over
Hemphill Street, Carr said.
Both city and railroad are now
ready to advertise Tor bids on the
Berry Street subway, the most im-
portant of the railroad-cit'y pro-
jects.
Change in Plans.
A slight change in plans was
asked by Maxon so that paving of
a subway would be of the same
thickness as that of the ap-
proaches.
Contracts totaling $27,000 were
awarded the General Construction
Co. for paving of Edgewood Ter-
race, Dallas Pike to Meadow-
brook Drive, and Forest Park
Boulevard, Devitt Street to
Weatherford Addition. The pav-
ing will be Uvalde rock asphalt.
A petition was filed with City
Council Tuesday for paving of
Avenue H, from east Intersection
of Commerce to east intersection
of Hawkins Street.
BY A, W. FOLGER
(United Press Correspondent).
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 4.—Disor- '
ders and armed conflicts were re-
ported from several sections of !
the country today.
Leaders of a demonstration
against the government at Leon,
state of Guanajato, were reported
executed by government troops
yesterday when a group of reli-
gious agitators awaiting the ar-
rival of rebels from San Fran-
cisco del Rincon, nearby, were
charged by the troops and dis-
persed. Others were arrested.
'A battle occurred in Parras,
state of Coahulla, when a group of
fanatics seized the city hall and
looted a train arriving from the
west. Troops charged the Insur-
gents, with heavy losses on both
sides. The rebels fled to the
bills.
A group of 150 anti-government
rioters, fleeing from the town of
Tlaplan, assaulted seven hunters
in the hills near Mount Ajusco
In the western part of the valley.
One of the hunters, Benito
Police
Took
Companion
$50
Claiming to have been slugged
Es- | during the night by some mysterl-
clava. was killed and three others
wounded, It was reported.
Armed groups, one of them
Identified as Insurrectionists, held
up trains In two sections of Mex-
ico. One group, composed of
three men, held up a train from
Juarez, near Montezuma station,
in Sonora. They fired shots at
the engineer, but were driven off
by troops on the train.
A small band of rebels cut tel-
egraph communications between
Mexico City and Cuernevaca and
later held up the Cuernevaca-
Mexlco City train near Ajusco sta-
tion. They were driven away by
a military escort.
In Conception del Oro, state of
Zacatecas, troops dispersed crowds
and arrested some of the anti-
government agitators.
RAILWAY MERGER
IS PROTESTED
FALPPER FANNY SAYS:
When the kid sister takes
her piano lesson her fingers
work in harmony, but her
ind doesn’to
AIMER'S CASE DROPPED
By United Press V
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4. — The
famous Almee Semple McPherson
conspiracy case virtually was end-
ed today. Asserting he was thru
“with perjured testimony, fake
evidence and sensationalism,” Dis-
trict Attorney Asa Keyes announc-
ed. In substance, today that the
case against tile evangelist and
her associates would be dropped.
By United Pi-mi.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. — De-
scribing the proposed merger of
the Kansas City Southern Railway
Company, MK&T Railroad Com-
pany and the St. Louis Southwest-
ern Railway Company as a combi-
nation in restrain of trade, violat-
ing the Sherman anti-trust act,
the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity A
Sabine Railway Co. protested
against the consoldlatlon in a
brief filed with the Interstate
Commerce Commission today.
UNITED PRESS SCORES BEAT
WITH MUSSOLINI SERIES
One of the outstanding newspaper exploits of recent years is
revealed in the release Wednesday by the United Press of a
series of articles by Premier Benito Mussolini, in which Musso-
lini tells the intimate, personal story of his dally life.
The articles were secured exclusively for newspapers receiv-
Ir" United Press service thru the enterprise of Thomas B. Mor-
gan, Rome manager of the United Press. They were In large
part dictated to Morgan by Mussolini. For an hour or more
each day over a period of four weeks Morgan worked side by
side with the premier, assisting In the formulation, revision and
correction of the articles.
Securing the consent of the Italian premier to authorship of
such a strongly personal series of newspaper articles was a task
requiring a high degree of personal ability and tact. It demon-
strated the confidence which Mussolini reposes in the United
Press organization and Its Rome office. Mussolini is regarded
by his followers as the busiest man in the world. He works in-
tensively 14 to 16 hours a day. He personally holds seven port-
folios in his own government. Every minute of each day is
scheduled In advance for some definite thing the premier must
do. Personal efficiency is his fetish; hard work his gospel. He
consented to publication of the series of articels largely in the
belief that his own example of efficiency might do some good
in the world.
Watch for the First of the Series In
WEDNESDAY’S PRESS
ous assailant, a man giving his
name as U. W. Farrell, apparent-
ly about 60 years old, Is at 5.00
West Belknap Street, trying to re-
member what happened.
Farrell says his home Is in
Alaska.
According; to the dazed man’s
story, he and a barber went Into
a hamburger stand, the last thing
he remembers before he ‘‘passed
out." Fifty dollars Is missiug from
his pocket, he claims.
When Farrell told his story to
police, he said he thought the
hamburger stand where he
stopped was about at Third and
Main Streets.
Officer C. D. Smith, who Inves-
tigated the reported slugging, be-
lieves he can Identify one or two
men whom he saw with Farrell
about midnight.
Loss of $75 is reported to po-
lice by D. L. Miller, after his shop
at 806 Throckmorton Street had
been broken Into early Monday
night.
The rear window was broken
thru, and the cash drawer opened
and emptied.
Miller discovered his loss and
notified police. Sergeant A. L.
Ford and Officers Brown and
Conner investigated.
omy, five years.
Brlr c O’Neal, MeLennan Coun-
ty, buiglary and theft In 25 oases,
six years.
Delmar (Buddie) O'Neal, Mc-
Lennan County, three cases of
theft, six years. •
BUI Murray, Nacogdoches Coun-
ty, liquor, one year.
E. B. Moy, Harris County, mur-
der of wife, five to 99 years.
Clyde Masonlieimer, Dallas
County, theft, two years.
Archie Murdock, Dallas Coun-
ty, burglary, two to 10 years,
Walter McGinty, Limestone
County, murder, five to 50 years.
Hugh Wynn, Dallas County,
theft, two to three years.
Blnford Craft, Bexar County,
burglary, with Intent to commit
theft, and theft in three cases term
not given.
Albert Davis. Tom Green Coun-
ty, swindling, two years.
Sam Wood, Wood County,
liquor, one year.
John York, San Saba County,
theft, two years.
Joe Woods, Cooke County, at-
tempt to commit burglary, four
years.
SUES BUS LINE
Concho County Woman
Asks for $52,000
Mrs. Sara Corbell, who lives In
Concho County, seeks $52,000
damage from the Red Ball Cor-
poration, operating between Dal-
las and Fort Worth, and G. W.
Hyde, one of its drivers, in a suit
brought in District Court Tues-
day.
Mrs. Corbel claims she was
riding in an auto on the Dallas
Pike and the collision resulted
as negligence of the driver of
the bus. The accident occurred
November 25, 1926.
WEATHER
FORECAST
“Blanket forecast" for fair
weather over the entire State of
Texas was Issued by the U. S.
pWeather Bureau here for Wednes-
day.
Moderate temperatures are re-
posted thruout the United States
Tuesday, with less than a half
dozen official weather station!
registering freezing marks.
iiotni.v
Midnight ..
1 a. m. ...
2 a. n
BULLETINS
By United IVm.
WASHINGTON, Jmi. 4.—Re-
ports current In TexM that the
Government hud decided to per-
manently dlecontlnue giving the
State federal aid road funds,
are without foundation, offici-
als of the Unman of Public
Attorney’s Operation May
Cause Postponement
COLLINS ILL AGAIN
Minister to Preach In
Austin Sunday Night
District Attorney Jesse E. Mar-
tin will aid in the prosecution of
Dr. J. Frank Norris, charged with
killing D. E. Chlpps in the study
of the First Baptist Church here
last July, when the trial Is called
In Austin next Monday on a
change of venue.
Plans to represent the state in
the trial were announced Tuesday
by Martin.
Possibility of a delay in the
trial was seen, however, when it
was announced that Chester B.
Collins, Lufkin attorney for Dr.
Norris, is again confined to the
Baptist Hospital.
Suffers from Infection.
Collins is suffering from a
serious infection and probably will
be confined In the hospital for a
month, according to Dr. Harold
B. Johnson. He will undergo an
operation this week.
Attorneys point out that ab-
sence of Collins from the defense
counsel's table will not constitute
grounds for a continuance, but
Norris would be grauted a delay
it it was shown that Collins would
be a material witness.
Hi Before.
Collins was ill when the case
was called here last November, and
Marvin Simpson, defense counsel,
said at that time Collins would
be a material witness, aitho no
motion was presented. The at-
torney was 111 with the “flu” at
that time.
Simultaneous with the word of
Collins’ confinement came the
announcement from the First Bap-
tist Church that Rev. Norris will
preach at the Hyde Park Baptist
Church in Austin Sunday.
Subpoenas for five additional
defense witnesses were being
served Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff
Mark Chambers. The new wit-
nesses Included Henry C. Cantrell,
J. H. Maddox, T. C. McMurray, L.
L. Pollack and George Chapman.
Headed by Moore.
W. P. McLean, special prosecu-
tor, said Tuesday that the pros-
ecution had decided to summon
only three members of each of the
four grand Juries which have In-
dicted Norris since 1912.
Application to have subpoenas
for the 12 men were mailed to the
Criminal District Court Clerk at
Austin, after the names had been
selected from certified copies or
the four grand Jury lists furnish-
ed by the District Clerk.
The prosecution will be headed
by District Attorney J. W. Moore
of Austin. In a recent visit to
Fort Worth, Moore urged Martin
to join the staff of prosecutors
as Tarrant County’s official rep-
resentative.
Civic Trial Set
For February 28
The $150,000 damage suit
brought against Rev. J. Frank
Norris, pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church, by D. E. Chlpps Jr.
for the death of his father, D.
E. Chlpps, lumberman, is set for
trial In Judge Hal Lattimore’s
court February 28.
However, attorneys point o|
that the trial of the case will d
pend on the trial of the murder
case set for Monday in Austin.
They say the civil case will not
be called until after the murder
trial, and a continuance of tho
Austin case would necessitate a f “
delay In the trial of the civil
case.
Depositions of City Manager
Carr, Mayor Meacham, Mrs. May
Murphy Chlpps, Ben Kelty and
Amon G. Carter were taken by
Norris’ attorney* after Rev. J.
Frank Norris had claimed his
constitutional right in refusing
to allow the firm of McLean.
Scott & Sayers, special prose-
cutors in the murder case and
attorneys for Young Chlpps, lo
take his deposition.
TOWN IS SHAKEN
BY ’QUAKES
By EL** CENTRO,
Two earth
severe eno
shook the city
The
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