Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 128, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 1923 Page: 1 of 6
six pages : ill. ; page 22 x 16 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
I
Itegifiier
128
NUMBER
VOLUME XXXIX
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 11, 1923
D
Peqin, May 11.— (United
Forty-two energetic, wide-awake,
It is to
New
>
»
II
turns and dips of the plane.
were:
afternoon
*
Spring Cold Wave
a
Is Almost Over
who' international, an* disewsed by
«he
*
on
Even
4
/
Marne
THE WEATHER
are
I
il
t
4
French Counter-Spy Reveals
Startling Incidents of War
Woman Who Slapped
Gendarme Pardoned
Opposition to All
Wars Expressed by
Women’s Meeting
Mother of Youth to
Fight For Justice
Nine-Y ear-Old
Girl Is Premier
Aviatrix of Hawaii
Well Near Nocona
Spraying Gas, Oil
Canada Seeks to
Forestall the Next
Fuel Shortage
were
four or five victims yet remain near ial Methodist
the blazing well.
message
sent 1
tp|x>int-
En-
min-
Atutin. May
l*reM. ‘ -—The
called into anothrt-
bitter tnemitm. Remember the watch-
Are von
Clear weather and good roads pre-
vailed throughout Kansas, Oklahoma
' and Texas today.
CONDITIONS OF ROADS.
(By United Press.)
Fair
and
thia I
they
an-
is
the
discipline.
— is won.
obedience.
ia. not inviting hecklers to put him
throegh a political catechism, fwr?
from hia point of view, his western
trip ia not to be political.
President to Invite Questions
When He Makes Western Trip
London.—England is soon to have
ge from | the biggest aquar
from the, not in the world.
Secret Passages Are
Being Investigated
Ohio’s Governor
Has Veto Record
May 11.—(Associated
of 12 boilers was
thia
Harding would oppose Cleveland be- j problems.
After Mrs. Harding retires for the
Washington, May 11.— (By United
Press.)—President Harding’s plans
for his Alaskan trip which have un-
dergone complete revision were ap-
to have the convention under -proaching completion today.
the | dent for relaxation. ?'
than not his meals merely serve
"ra conference 'period
return
It has not been
he
or
He will visit the
t some stage of
An early annoum-ement of the iti-
nerary is expected.
tfiainesbillr Daily
AND MEfaSENGER^^^
the
bright
and cold
r
Old Soldiers Will
Decorate Graves on
Sunday, May 20th
latusanne, May 11.— (By Associa-
ted Press.)—The murder of M. Vor-
ovsky. head of the Russian soviet
delegation, leader of the Lantana®
4,1 ‘ j Maurice
Conradi, a Rwisa, who
Sulphur, Okla., Boosters Arrive
Here Shortly Before Noon, Take
a Look at Town and Have Big Time
WELL, THEN. THAT’S NOT
WHAT IS AILING YOU.
TONIGHT and SATURDAY—
Partly cloudy to cloudy and some-
what unsettled; cooler.
const er nation by assassinating M-
Vorowaky, Russian delegate mortally
wounding tlie latter’s secretary, and _
shooting another Russian, made this they received at the
th,* v|o*e of the present session. A. 1..
tliairinan of the-enate fi-
ns nee commit lee. declared today.
Wi.o-t stud it will not Is* possible to
Texas Prohibitionists Advocate
Law Preventing Physicians from
Issuing Liquor on Prescriptions
??^*** "h' t* t ' Tokio chamber of commerce, the
r vuicigc nvm mr jaaiv vi ave^ra
u *• entirely prohibiting commodities in Tokio for the month that will be thrown into the Yankee
phy>ieians fron prescribing whiskey 1
as a result of Knox liquor prescrip-
tion decision handed down in
further rise, the average .rate being
4.4 percent over the previous monUi.
Retail prices also have advanced.
Cincinnati, May 11.—(Associated
Press—Three members of the family
contractor of
10.— (By ssociated
legislature will be
pec ial session
next Wednesday morning, a day after
Atlanta, May 11.— (United Press)
—The General Federation of Wo-
men’s chilis in biennial council here
today voted unanimously in favor of
i ^resolution approving settlement
of the international questions thru
a ’’judicial tribunal” and expressing
opposition to all wars.
The organization reports 3,000,-
(KM: club women in the United
States.
Prices Up in Japan
Tokio.—Prices in Tokio, which
gradually declined last year, have
taken la upward turn since the be-
ginning of 1923.
According to the returns of the
look like Republican favoritism to i night the president goes to his study.
Ohio. i There in peace and quiet, without
There ia active pro]>agnnda in | the interruptions of the day. he
favor of New York City by some] lights his pipe and tackles th:>
who say that what a national <*on ' knotty problems that confront him.
vention is for is publicity, and that He seldom goes to bed liefore mid-
New York is the best place to get night and frequently it is I and 2
it. But ether cities reply that getting and sometimes 3 before he "calls it
publicity in New York is not getting a day.”
it out where the voters grow thick'
and independent. Washington. D.
where Mr. Harding now lives, also i*
being boomed, but the criticism is
heard of that, that it would look
had I
the thumb*’ of the president.
All of which is a good deal like
‘store league* baseball—something
to talk about until the season really
opens.
not the poltical events that will in- ;
terrene.
* * * # . Harding like to have
The politicians, who cannot forget i friends in to dinner.
politics even if Mr. Harding can. are J since Mrs. Harding’s health again
permits, thev occasionally go to a
theatre.
Whenever possible the president
loves to spend a quiet evening at
home with Mrs. Harding. They “talk
things over,” just as they did back
in Manon. Like other men who
have “gotten ahead.” the president
relies on his wife’s advice even in b’g
of halieas corpus releasing him from
jail on a charge of contempt for
refusing to testify liefore a grand
jury, at Georgetown. The i*ourt held
thati the application did not give
reason why immunity should be
granted the applicant. The proceed-
ings - resulted from an investigation
into;the flogging recently of R. W.
Burlpson.
Harvey Ignorant
■;
Chicago, May 11.—(By Associated
Preen.)—Mrs. J. L. Mount, frail
mother of Leighton Mount, today
dramatically refused hints that her
son committed suicide and declared
she will fight to bring his slayer
to justice.
She branded |>arts of the testi-
money of President Walter Dill Scott
of Northwestern University before
the grand Jury as “campus lies.’’
“My bov was killed by hazers;
he died fighting. Now 1 am going
to fight. I am through protecting
Northwestern.
. At a meeting of members of
The well continued to burn ' Joseph E. Johnston Camp, United
Veterans, it was decided
than ever, according to reports from'to observe the annual decoration of
i graves on C —”
services of four victims ices commemorating
Araund the Clock With the
President.
Washington.—Following President
Harding around the clock leaves tine
panting.
It takes all the president’s reserve
strength to hold the stiff pace he
net* for himself. . Yet, *‘ro«d the
clock as he will, he finds 24 hours
all too short for the daily duties of
the wor’d’s biggest job.
No matter how jading the day be-
fore. the stroke of 7 fhrls the presi-
dent up and splashing in his Imth.
By 8 he has dressed and shaved--
without the aid of a valet -break-
fasted, glanced over th« morning
papers, read his personal mail and
dispatched any urgent business at
hand.
The president's usual routine calls
•lay.
Conradi charged the bohJievik*
with torturing his aged parents and
two of his sons. who. he said, died
of starvation and cruel 'rest meat in
Russia after the revolution.
British Trawler
Is Enroute Home
Hull. Eng., May 11.—.(Associated
Press.)—— The owner <»f the trawler,!
James Johnson. seizure of which re-'
centlv occasioned a protest from
Great Britain to the Russian soviet
government has received a telegram
from tiw> skipper stating that he has
been released bv the bolsheviks and
now is at a Norwegian port expect-
ing to sail homeward.
Washington, May 11.—(Associated
Press.)Chinese government officials
promised American Minister Sehur-
man that they will “consider'a gen-
eral policy for the extermination if
bandits” in China as soon as the
present, situation growing out of
the capture of American ami foreign
citizens by bandits in Shantung has
' been adjusted.
After Graves Leeper, the young
^?l mtn from Sulphur, had fin-
ished an eloquent speech praising
the curative properties of the
mineral waters found in Platt
National Park, a listener - asked
him what the waters were es-
pecially good for. The Colonel
quickly replied, “Well, Brother,
if you drink the sulphur or bro-
mide waters and they don't cure
you, then that’s not what’a the
matter with you.”
Tientsin, China, May 11.— (United
Press.)—“For God’s sake, take away
the troops. They threaten to kill
us all.”
This message of dispair came this
afternoon from J. B. Powell, Amer-
ican newspaper man, captured with
other foreigners in the camp of the
Shantung bandits who wrecked and
looted the Shanghai-Pekin express
Sunday morning and carried off- its
foreign passengers.
The cry from the hills to which
the brigand now closely pressed by
government troops, have withdrawn,
caused consternation here. Grave
feara are felt for the safety of the
undetermined number of foreigners
still held.
Austin, May 1..— (By Associated
Press.)—Two senate bills were en-
grossed by the house today, oift* au-
thorizing the purchase of ’ additional
land for the A. «i M. college and the
other appropriating $25,000 for the
erection at Houston of a monument
to-General Sam Houston.
The committee on common car-
riers reported favorably the senate
bill increasing the salary of the
state railroad commissioners from
$4,000 to $5.ooo. Writ of Habeas
Consideration of the departmental; vv r11 UI
appropriation hill on the floor of thei
house continued slowly today.
The Pope textbook bill won
Duty conquered pride and Moncey
felt that he was ready for the work
assigned to him. He said nothing.
The following morning he was at
the ministry of foreign affairs. An
employe told him the colonel was
busy but had given instructions that
“Lieutenant Moncey was to take his
papers and go.” Two days later he
was in Zurich installed in a com-
fortable villa overlooking the lake
and announced himself as “Monsieur
Moncey, builder of motorboats.”
So determined is Mr.
that nobody shall impute
purpose of enhancing
pa.:..i r ..a_______i
intends to tell his audiences wherever
he goes that if they exjact to hear
politics discussed, they w ill be dis-
appointed. I"
talking to them as their president,
with two years mor° to work for
them, and that what he is talking
about is that two year? of work and! the
rsest llio noil irssa 1 nt-nwla ■ 11 ( |inl
tervene. Frequently the president and Mrs.
* * * Harding like to have a few close
The politicians, who cannot forget i friends in to dinner. Afterward,
pnliiinw a von it Mr ITardinrr s*un nra* !
forever trying these days to get the
president, to expres- his preference
for a Republican convention cliv for
1924.
Cleveland, in the Harding home
state, wants one or both conventions,
and the president has been urged to
say he favors Cleveland. Some rival
city started the story that Mr.
T'” ;; .
oaiL3e it was in Ohio and it would ,
for a short stroll in the “back yard”
of the White House, with Laddie Boy
frolicking at his heel*. Sometimes
he takes a golf club and tries a few
shots while lauldie Bov joyously re-
trieves the hall for his master.
The nal grind of the day begins
* ". An endless stream of callers
Of Reports that He
Was to Resign
New York, May 11.— (Associated
Preai*. I—George Harvey, American
ambassador to England declared up-
on his arrival here on the steam-
ship George Washington today that
he knew nothing atmut report* tliat
he bad resigned or planned to re-
sign.
Athens, May 11.— (United Press)
—King George today pardoned Mrs.
Virginia Drake, wife of a former
director of the local branch of the
Standard Oil company, who was im-
prisoned for slapping a gendarme
who stopped her automobile.
not been successful.
The richest hard coal field known
in Canada is in Alberta. It is far
p-cniuved from transportation lines
and. as one expert said, “it might
as well l»e in China.” About 200.000.-
000 tons of fair quality anthracite
could l»e produced there by strip min-
nig. and sub-surface mining, it wa«
said, would bring out hillions of!
tons. The deposit is in the Hay
and Smoky Valleys of Alberta.
Nocona, Montague Co., Texas
May 8.—The Texas Company I. A.
Gist No. I well at 500 feet is mak-
ing an enormous quantity of wet
gas and spraying oil. Thia well ia
located about one and one-quarter
miles northwest of the Humphreys
Maddox No. 2. The Texas company
I. A. Gist No. 2, about one mil®
southwest of No. 1, reached asphalt
accompanied by a heavy oil. Hum-
phreys Maddox No. 3 at 755 feet
drilled into the gas sand, cemented
and will drill in within the next
few days.
urea for protection and release of
the captives now believed to be in
deadly peril.
Before learivng Pekin, I learned
of plans formulated by Chinese bus-
iness men to present apologies and
offer amendments to the foreign
legation today. Twelve prominent
business men of China were to go
Abilene, May 11.—(By Associated
Press.)—Fiv® person* were injured
2 seriously when an automobile over-
turned south of Oval* today. Mrs.
Parrott and Mrs. Ceeil Woods of
Winter* both unconscious, were
brought to Abilene. The accident
occurred when (he driver of the car
attempted to pass a motor truck.
not comply with its terms but it is
understood the powers control suf-
ficient income from private proper-
ties to enable them to collect in-
demnity payments.
The Chinese minister of commun-
ications put out word (that nine
more captives of the Shantung band-
its had been released but the for-
eign diplomats and consuls have no
such information.
Ottawa. Ont.—(Associated Press)
—Federal and provincial governments
of Canada are trying to find a way
to meet next winter's fuel demands
without leaving the country wholly
dependent upon the United States,
having in mind the threat ot -mbar-
"o la»t fad when American ermmun-
ities were -sii'ferin" fr«’»» a shutlsge.
Canada has xast stores of Is ih
soft and hard coal, but transporta-
tion difficulties will prevent their
development so long as the Pennsyl-
vania-West Virginia hard coal field
* and there is no
exports. Testimony liefore
a senate committee indicates that
i Nova Seotia can meet all demands
for soft coal. The search for substi-
WEST 7 EX AS—Tonight and Sat-
urday r IMrtly cloudy to cloudy,
and «cinewhat unsettled; ccoler in
northwest portion tonight; cooler
Saturdav.
WEST TEX AS-Tonight:
an! cooler Saturday: Fair
co der in southwest portion.
the state now
medicinal purposes.
The dry leader stated he was per-
suaded that at least 90 per cent of
the prescriptions made by pbysi;
cians of Dallas and Fort Worth and
other Texas cities were being sold
for the money there is in it.
He baaed his statement, he said,
on records at the comptroller's of-
fice and on information he received
from Dr. A. C. Scott, prominent
Texas physician.
sum-
when he eomes through yourl(
I hy 9.
Pres*.)—F>ancis Ouimet, the United
States’ last hope in the British am-
ateur golf championship, was rjimi-
xpected to contribute i nated today in the semi-finals by
Roger Wcthered.
----- , The Britisher won, two up and one
to play.
were traveling n automobiles, an.l
the great Water Carnival they sn-
i boosting is to be held on Fridav.
The prtipk* of a bu«y eommtuiitv*,
thev detiare. h.'*'e n<> time to waste
on ine$n<>eqiient i-* -'’uir*. tlierefore
thev are,not alarm I at lucV
onu ns.
t he visitor* left town at 2 o’clock
for Marietta. They were accom-
nanied by a committee from the Io
cal Chamber of Commetee, and pass-
age over the Red river loll bridge was
extended free by President H. W.
Stark of the Bridge Co., a eourteay
w.ihh madk« him a* a fntblie-spirited
citizen.
C. H. Frier manager of the Sul-
phur Light and Power cvempany.
al-o intere*tc<i in the Su’pliur Times,
a weekly newspaper. Vailed at The
Register office and inspected the
plant, which he declared tn l»e «ne
of the Itest he had ever seen in a
small ci'y. He al-o took •wenwrao tc.
thank the p.jdisbers of The Regis-
ter for the <a-casional comj limentarv
i press notices about Sulphur, and aa«*l
I the bn-iness interests of .Jiat town
were appieclative of this r*<'Ognition.
I The election of Mr. Frier a- man-
agrr the Sulphur Eloetric Co., ia
ent indy appropriate, he being a live
held that the Volstead act did not
limit the quantity of liquor a ]
sician may prescribe.
The anti-saloon leader asserted
that if the decision were upheld by
the supreme <*ourt “it would very
likely lead to an amendment to our
state laws prohibiting physicians
from prescribing liquor at all.”
Webb declared that about half of I of Joseph Fische, a
the state now prohibits liquor for ■ Hartwel, a suburb, are dead and the
-- - - j father and two others are seriously
injured as a result of a grade cross-
ing accident at Hartwell late last
night when their automobile was
struck by a fast Baltimore & Ohio
passenger train, A misinterpreta-
tion by Fische of a signal given by
the crossing watchman may have
been responsible for the accident.
By UAWHENCE MARTIN.
(United Press Staff Correspondent.!
Washington.—What do you want
attached toito k”ow *bout your government?
Ask President Harding this
mer
town—if he doe*.
The president is going out pre- j f|on> j,. aml out of the?'p^hh'nC« <’ont'n“M
pared to answer questions. While he office. Gabinct officers present {on exP‘,r**^ I
won’t have time to answer all that problems, jsilit icians urge
may be asked, he wants to tell the ments sihI citizens beg favors.
}>eople what thev want to know. He gagements lasting from half a
=---x L_ ute ttfclalf |l()nr H1(. . jf 'tute for Pennsylvania anthracite ha*
with <4««tk-like preririen.
Twice a week—Tuesday* and Fri-
days— the cabinet meets at H. Un-
Mr. Harding recently offered to: til 1 or after, affairs, domestic and
.... ... »» ... —* ,, la.x
of I president and his adviser* and big de-
men. Thirteen men
the rig at the time, wit-
Sevcn bodies have been
men unac-
Four skeletons can be
in the flames beyond
; Last American Is
Eliminated in the
British Golf Game
-- | Washington. May H—(By United
Deal. Eng., May II-—(By United Press.)—The spring cold wave i-
~ • -* • - . 4|X)Ut over fOT the present,
weather bureau said today.
• Rising temperature all over
east and middlewest with
sunshine in some places
weather in others marked the de-
parture of the cold sweep.
Girl Is Killed In
Automobile Mishap
Corsicana, Tex, May 11.—(By
Associated Press. I—Miss Hardinia
Williams, 20. daughter of Q O. Wil-
liams, was instantly killed near here
last night when an automobile in
which she and Alva M. Russell were
riding ran :nto a ditch, throwing
the girl into the windshield. Rus-
sell was badly bruised.
Corpus Denied
Austni, May 11.— (By Associated
x t. x. * 'U Press.)—The criminal court of ap-
tory in the senate when the upper; tnd tlenjw| thp ^p^tion
house voted down a pomt of order s j^mar of El in for writ
that the bill is inadmissible under - r. .... -
the governor's <-all for a special ses-
sion.
The Clark $5,000,000 emergency
school appropriation hill and the
Floyd $2,000,000 rural school aid
bill were reported favorably by the
finance committee as was tlie Hen-
derson house bill similar to the Clark
bill.
A compromise agreement on the
judiciary appropriation bill has lieen
reached, memliers of the committee
stated.
The Pope amendments which would
require judges of the various court*
to read commendation* of cases
submitted to them will be removed
from the bill under the agreement.
Switzerland Accused of Failing
to Safeguard Russian Delegates
* i "
Berlin, May II.— .United Press.) —
Russia's representative* at the Ijiu
sanne conference have handed a note
to the Swiss government formally
acctping Switzerland of failing to
take precautions to protect the lives
of Vorowsky. Ahrens and Dibrilkov '
«ky after being notified an attack!
on the soviet tjelegate* wa* planned.!
The Russian note saya the allies I
will b» held morally re*f«ousrl>le fori
the death of Vorowskv and the] y- .. .
wounding of the other* i»v a former «*»?”*»**’ ’’F Maurwe Aiex.ader
officer of tlie Czar’* arm vla-t i:ig<.t. I to*r*dl« * Sw*M- who 'M,<* ’*rve^ ,
i in the Russian army, has stirred
Switzerland as han no single event
Iavu.-anne. May 11.—(By United sinee the assassinatio:* of EmprvM
Phmm. i-*1 am glad 1 had revenge.” Elisabeth of Austria at Geneva in
Maurice Conradi, former officer in I hiflg.
th* C«ar army, who 1st, yesterday, Conradi who was seized by police
threw the Lausanne conference into ‘ after he had killed Vorovsky, «oa-
tinned tn maintain that he acted]
alone in an effort to avenge his]
father and uncle for nii>crealaeent|
' hands of th®|
statement as part of a lengthy plea Bolsheviks during the “red terror.*|
Willard And Firpo
Favorites for Their
Matches Saturday
New York, May II.—(By United J
Preae.l—Jess Willard, the biggest Peqin, May 11.— (United Press.!
piece Uncle Sam has on ring feet, —The diplomatic corps delivered «n
ian, have been made heavy favor- *nR that the Chinese government ob-
ers held by bandits- in the Shantung
“logic hills by midnight tonight, Pekin
time.
Otherwise a heavy progressive in-
* ". The pow-
ers’ ultimatum was presented Wed-
nesday but kept secret until today.
The diplomatic corps does not
specify the action that will be pur-
sued in the event that China does into the hills and offer themselves
as hostages for release of the for-
eign prisoners, according to the plan.
The “sorrow of the Chinese peo-
ple over the outrage" was to be ex-
pressed and presented at each lega-
tion by a delegation of three, in-
cluding the president of the United
Chambers of Commerce in China.
The legations were to be informed
tliat a million dollars was ready for
ransom if necessary.
Washington. May 11.—(By United
Press.)—American Minister Schur-
man at Pekin has warned Chinese
authorities that the death of a for-
eigner among the prisoners of the
Shantung bandits will n^ean that
China will face serious international
complications, the state department
announced today.
Columbus, Ohio. May 11.—(United
Press.)—Alvin Victor Donahey, the
Democratic governor who won his
office last year over Carmi Thomp-
son, “President Harding’s choice” for
executive of his home state, has won
the Ohio “long distance” veto rec-
ord. «
Donahey took the state veto title
from former Governor James M. Cox,
when he returned 7« hills to the leg-
islature disapproved. Cox’s record
was 36.
Governor Donahey’a Republican
legislature, however, returned to the
capital, spent two days in caucus
and then in one night session re-en-
acted fifteen measures—three of them
important Republican tax program
bills—over the executive veto.
The legislature then adjourned un-
til December, 1924. If the Democratic
governor wishes to make any ap-
pointments in the next year and a
half of hi* administration, he will
have to call a special session of the
legislature.
On fair days, when no |H*vbleius
He will tell them he is press, the president sometime* takes
ii xi._:_ :j x tjie afternoon off for golf. Usually,
however, the routine of ofice con-
tinues tlirouglioiit the aternnon and
? President seldom leaves his desk
untif after 6.
St. Joseph, Mich, May 11.—(By
United Press.)—Charges that secret
chambers and passage ways existed
in the House of David for use of
“King” Benjamin Purnell and other!
high cult leaders were investigated
by Judge Harry Dlngeman’* “one
man” grand jury today.
Phillip Khun, the contractor who
built Shiloh, Purnell’s residence
was summoned to disclose whether
the cult’s “king” could be hiding in
a secret apartment at the colony.
He will also be quizzed as to,
chatges of colony enemies that Ben-'
jamin used secret tunnels in passing,
to and from rooms of young girls.;
Following testimony of Louise
Ha^er Johnson, hula hula dancer
until recently at Eden Springs, the
cult’s famous amusement resort,
other witnesses will be summoned
to ascertain whether Benjamin now
demands a “white wash’ ’affidavit
from women members when
leave the colony, authorities
nounced.
Some work- j
the fire a,
f rom
W. Si. King, R. G. Morris. J. E.
Pavin’. I*. T. Rexroat. Pete Peters,
___ between’ \ vrn Barlow. Steve Stephan*. Brice
cities and communities was ►tre-.-cd liarmftt. I. H. Be< khnin. Farley Mil-
,1__* speakers, each pledging the l< r. II. P. sho't. ( D. Henry. Wools
support of the other in any lamia-1 Hagby, V. H. Keith. P. M. Ri<Hey. I .
] II Frier. C. Vandcavencr. W. Ga-
unt • hroirh. Ros* W«>tu»'-k. G B. • nn-
Tlny I ningliai”, O. D. White. Ed Ballinger.
House Engrosses
Houston Monument
And A. & M. Bills complete consideration of appropria*
____ lien measures and this, if nothing
else, will require another *«*—ion.
Re|»re*entative J. E. Quai«i. chair-
man of the house appropriation com
mittec, »«aid then* i» a p>*sibili*y
that the house will lie able to com-
plete! it* work. He said, however, it
will require record time ami few As-
ia ys if another session is to b*
a voided.
(loverm-r Neff has ie»t made known
his attitude toward another session.
Corsicana,
Pre®*)—A battery
expected to begin this afternoon
pumping of steam into the Hughes-
McKie oil well’ fire, the sudden burst-
ing into flames of which took a toll
of 14 or 15 lives Wednesday..
Nine boilers were in place
morning and others were being in-
stalled. "*----” —x:----J *----
fiercely today, if anything, strongerjConfederate
the scene. ! graves on Sunday. May 20th. Serv-
Funeral services of four victims i ieea commemorating this occasion
held yesterday. The bodies of will lie held at the Whaley Memor-
church at the 11
o’clock hour on that date, conducted
by Rev. Minor Bounds.
Tlie Confederate Veterans voted
to have an Old Soldiers and Old Set-
tlers picnic in Gainesville on July
4th. It is planned to offer prizes
to the oldest citizens of the county
who attend the picnic. Details will
be announced later.
WANTED
The Register want® a repre-
•entathre la every town and com-
munity in the surrounding ter-
ritory* to write news and solicit
subscriptions for the paper.
We will nay for the news item*
and a good eommiasion for sub-
scriptions.
It’s a chance to make addi-
tional money at part time work.
Address your reply to Editor,
TNI NEGISTER
GaiuMvill®, Texas
Efforts To Control
Oil Fire Are Made
_
Corsicana, May 11.— (By United
Press.)—Efforts were to lie made to-
<lay to bring under control the fire to
which rages on the spot where the »
J. K. Hughes Developing company
early in the week brought in its
first gusher in the Hughes-McKie
lease near here.
Workers labored ail yesterday and
most of last night connecting up
the giant boilers from which steam
will be hot upon tlie burning mass.
Officials of the company had plan-
nel t i start extinguishing the flames
late ye»urday but were delaved.
Tlr* fne which started from a .
spark iion a hammer or pebble hit Federation of Women’s clubs
u control head look a known death
toll of eleven men. Thirteen
were on
nesses. said,
recovered, leaving six
counted for.
plainly seen
reach of tlie workers,
ers reported seeing in
fifth charred skeleton hidden
xiew except when the wind blows;
a certain way.
A fund ba* been started by thei
Humphreys foundation for the fam-
ilies of those killed in the fiTO. Col-
onel A. E. Humphreys led the list
with a bequeath of $5.UtM*. Other oil
men and several of the large oil com-
panies are ci w
to the fund.
Mr. Harding will make at least
half of his trip by water thereby
eliminating many of the speeches
he would have to deliver were the
out-going journey and the
both made overland,
definitely determined whether
will go west via Panama canal
return that way. I
canal, however, at
the trip.
Chicago. May 11.—(Associated
Press)—Members of the grand jury
investigating the disappearance of
Ix*ighton Mount. Northwestern Uni-
versity Freshman, nearly two years
ago and the recent discovery under
an Evanston pier of a skeleton be-
lieved by authorities to be that of
Mount today went to Evanston to
view the bones.
A party of physi^mns
the coroner’s staff also was prepar-
ing to examine the skeleton. As yet
it is understood no expert testimony
concerning the skeleton has been
heard by the grand jurors.
Honolulu.—Laura Lillis, nine years
old has earned the distinction of be-
ing the premier aviatrix of Hawaii
as the result of a recent flight with
a commercial aviator who establish-
ed a new altitude record of the
islands at 7,100 feet.
Laura, the daughter of Captain
W. J. Lillis of the Honolulu traffic
squad, feels safer 5,000 feet above
the ground than she does at crowd-
ed street intersections, according to
her father. Her first flight was
made when she was six years old and
she has been up frequently in the
past three years.
Lillis has accompanied his daugh-
ter on each of her trips and said
that she has never displayed the
'slightest sign of fear at any of the
Diplomats Deliver Ultimatum to 1 ^worid*. L«ge.t
China Asking Release of Prisoners! Aquarium in June
London.—England is soon to have
The dispairing message from J the biggest aquarium in Europe, if
Powell which was sent from the. not in the world. It is located at
bandits camp today stirred growing the Mappin Terraces in London and
anger among tlie foreigners against’will lie <-ompleted in June. It is to .
what are felt to lie insufficient meas-1 coat half a million dollars. j live-wire citizens of Sulphur, Okla
More than 100,000 gallons of wa i traveling in motor caravan, arrived
ter will be required to fill the tanks,]*" ’lamesvllle about II o’clock Fn
which will contain fish and water jd*.* morning, on the final lap of their
fauna from all parts of the world, i journey planned to advertise
Natural sea water will be used. This the first annual Water Carnival and
will lie brought from the North Sea’Basket Dinner in Sulphur on May
up the Thames and taken to the I The party was met several
zoological gardens in barges. . j miles out of town by Jess t unning
ham and Luther Turner, re present
ing the Chamber of Commerw. Their
arrival in • the city was aniioiin<-ed
by the noise of automobile horns,
and immediately thereafter, a large
number of citizen* gathered along
California street in the business sec-
tion to greet tlie visitors anil bear
the music iby the orchestra made up
of students front Oklahoma Univer-
sity, w^o: played on the sidewalk;
in front of Turbeville’s music store.
At the conclusion of this program
the Sulplnirites visited the various
business establishments and left ad-
vertising material. An hour was
spent in forming new acquaintances.
The visitors then went to lunch at
the Turner Hotel and while they
were in the dining room, a surprise
treat was lieing prepared on the
lawn of the hotel, where Carey Shell
massed his Boys Rand of 147 pieces'
and rendered a concert that simply
dumbfounded the Oklahomans, who
were surprised to know that Gaines-
ville could perfect, as well as main-
tain such an aggregation of juvenile
musician*. Many glowing compli-
ments were paid to the boys.
Graves Leeper, former citizen of
Gainesville, and a man idolized by
his friends, was one of the leaders of
the visiting crowd. He made a brief
address at the Turner, in which lie
paid high honor to Gainesville and
its people; also put in some good
words for Sulphur, his present home. I
Mr. Leeper made another talk at
the Chamber of Commerce’
o’clock. Announcement that
Leeper is to ap|iear on any program
is always tlie drawing card for a
large crowd. - ----
mere* room, where the
meeting was held, was .
door*. Others who spoke were U, T. i 1 • K. ]Smilh.^S. Gown. lx. Clinton.
Rexroat, Sulphur citizen who owns
the Gorham farm a few mile* south
.4tlaitta, May 11.— (By Associa-
ted Press. I—The resolution endors-
ing adjudication by orderly judicial
procedure of international controver-
sies was adopted today by the Gen-
in mid biennial session here with-
out opposition. The* convention
took this action after a speech bv
Mr*. pen*y V. Peiinybacker of Aus-
tin, Texas, urging that the whole
matter" be placed almve partisan-
ship.
by the
ble Undertaking.
The *fu)phtir * boosters ate
afraid «»f any sort of li’Ksloo.
By JOHN O’BRIEN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
CHAPTER 1
Paris.—Wounded twice
I'erdun—tlie Croix de Guerre and
C ross of the Legion of Honor on his
breast, Second Lieutenant Rene
Moncey presented himself one morn-
ing in May 1916, in obedience to in-
st nut ions, at tbe ministry of for-
eign affairs on the Quai d’Orsay.
Paris. He had been picked for "spe-
cial service" in Switzerland. The; process was not quite so easy as he
colonel in charge of the intelligence had imagined. Running into a crowd
branch of the ministry said to him:! of officers on
“Moncey, you are going where: hand went automatically
i i 11 nnn ' ••• <* rwirfooflv notiirol an
There is only. imental salute, .which brought looks
of astonishment from the officers
and from Moncey the one word, ad-
dressed to himself: “Idiot?”
He had learned his lesson, how-
ever. A few minutes later, when h®
was reading a newspaper bulletin
telling of the sinking of the Lusi-
tania and had voiced his disgust by
curt Parisian expletives, two young
women turned contemptuous eyes on
him. with the remark:
“Well, what’s that got to do with
! you, slacker?”
I¥a«f.. M^n/iitAriw) nr izi a a nrl Mnrovov
no
__ You are
a soldier, however, a soldier un-,
“3 discipline. Now leave un-
you. Here are five thousand francs
Take off that uniform. Go out apd
have a good time in Paris this even-
ing. It will be the last chance you
will have for a long time. Be care-
ful about women, especially here.”
Called Slacker
When Lieutenant Moneey sallied
forth from the department store
where he had effected the transfor-
mation from a uniformed officer
into a “civicf* he found that tne
j process was not quite so easy
.*”J *—ZT""** P-—““ -----
the ministry said to him: ! of officers on the boulevard, his
, you are going where j hand went automatically to his hat
there is no glory. You will be one'in a perfectly natural, military, reg-
of the ‘San* Gloir®.’ There is only ’ imontal *alnte which bronchi look*
danger and hard work ahead. You
will never get a word of thanks for
whatever you may accomplish. You
will be a spy. Yes, a spy. You
will have no name, no personality.
You will be a number, a zero. The
service is hard, very hard. It is
for men of the highest, the noblest
qualities. You will be working in
the ahadows, against powerful and
word—no glory, no thanks.
rea<ly ?”
"Ch*i, mon colonel."
“All right. Now you
longer a French officer,
still i ‘
<ler iron discipline. Now leave
til the war is won. No discussion
absolute obedience. You will re
•■eive your orders regularly. Be here
tomorrow morning at eleven. You
will recejve the necessary documents
and verbal instructions and vou will
leave immediately for Zurich. When
you arrive there the rest is up to
split his salary with anyone
would guarantee a “Tninimum
speeches on the trip. What he would visions are made,
rather do than make speeches him
self is to listen to speeches from
the men and women of the towns and
cities he will stop in. He would lik •
to get their point of view on rail ! spects to the president,
roads and prohibition, taxes and the; tered the White Houee
international court, ■*“— “— “— •**— ---------
to impress his ideas
jects.
those sub-i shaken hands with several hundred
talk
at
; Grave*
wire.
The (."hamber of (om | 1 hose making up tin party
____ Grnea Ixcejie, H. Jenning, “Me”
packed to the MiUnrtam. II. (kntlc. Speck Siuelkcr.
I H Frier. E. Henry. A. G®cpei, W. L
.. 1 Fulton. W. B. Kill N. Smith. < . 11.
of Gainesville; W. B. Gill of Sulphur. | Sandern, Joe skiver. R. Williamson.
J. Z. Keel and W. D. Garnett of <«’ l’l*y. Flank Overton. Joe Nevcn*.
liainesville.
The importance of friendship and i
neighborly co-operation I 1.
commerce, the
wholesale prices of the principal
of January showed an increase of
1.8 per cent on the average over
.. , .... . . . . . , December of last year. The whole-
?odray Mie prices for . February showed a
Atticus Webb, superintendent of
the Texas Anti-Saloon League, at-
* tacked Judge Knox’s decision which
pi'y Three Members of
Family Killed In
Crossing Accident
At 1, as a rule, comes the visitor*
line—hundreds <rt citizens from every
walk of life and every part of the
i-ountiy come daily to pay their re-
_.—x_ x_ xu ----u—x^ ,siuc<. he m-
r a little mere
, rather than try! than two years ago. the president has
* ia i’x n fii a i > i x. I *, * l* I. . I ,<' ■> i« .. z. ■ x 1 i.....lak/l
] thousand of his countrymen.
! After that conn** luncheon.
Harding* meal-times are not spared the presi-
hini the] dent for relaxation. More frequently
. J hi* own po-1 than not- his meals merely serve a* a
litical fortunes on bis trip that h<i time foi a conference rw*riod with
advisers.
Press. 1—Jess Willard, the .biggest
and Louis Firpo, the huge Argentin ultimatum to China today demand
ian, have been made heavy favor- ’nR that the Chinese government ob-
ites to emerge from the pile of beef ***” release of all foreign prison-
that aLx> at*u UaIsI Rar Ixanrlitu. in t Iia Shunftm<r
ring stadium - tomorrow as
contenders for the heavyweight
championship.”
Willard has been estimated as 13 demnity will be imposed.
to 11 favorite over Floyd Johnsou «**
and Firpo over McAuliffe with odds
being offered at three to one with
no Jack McAuliffe cash in sight.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Leonard, J. T. & Leonard, Joe M. Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 128, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 1923, newspaper, May 11, 1923; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1311589/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cooke County Library.