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CLEM GRAY SAYS
WHISKEY TRAFFIC
CAUSE DOWNFALL
EMPLOYE WITNESS
IN COOK’S TRIAL
FOR MAIL FRAUD
Many Railroads That Were Par-
alyzed By the Flood Waters
Hope to Resume Partial Ser-
vice Next Sunday
known that whale the Legion objects
to the klan order it will not denounce
it through a resolution which calls a
spade a spade. With equal force it
voted down a resolution, of the Ok-
SOUTH BOLIVAR
OWNERS PRESENT
PAVING REQUEST
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MT. PLEASANT HI
MEETS MARSHALL
THIS AFTERNOON
tonight by Representative Disney, of
Muskogee, chairman of the committee.
In making the announcement, Rep-
LEGION SELECTS
ST. PAUL FOR THE
1924 CONVENTION
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Flood Waters Reported to Be
Receding Over Different
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HABEAS CORPUS
TRIAL SET FOR
THIS MORNING
RECONSTRUCTION
WORK PROGRESSES
IMPEACHMENT
COMMITTEE TO
REPORTMONDAY
Try the News
Far a Month and
You Won’t
Stop It
resolution, which avoids using
name of the hooded order.
A total of 933 delegates made
By the Associated Press
Paris, Oct. 18.—Charles Karmerer,
of this city, assistant superintendent
of the Ames Shovel and Tool Com-
pany, was killed instantly here to-
night when his automobile collided
with a street car.
By th. Ansoelated Press
Dallas, Oct. 18.—Charged with big-
FOR ASSISTANCE
GIVEN IN JAIL
ed six to nothing. The locals have de-
feated Minden, La., and tied Shreve-
port in practice games and in all
three games have been showing great
improvement.
As the weather predicted for today
will be ideal for football a large crowd
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The Nowa
wi Ceme to You
For Two Cente
Per Day
DEATH TOLL OF
FLOOD IS SIX;
FIVE MISSING
Fort Worth Man Had
Wife In Two Cities
LLOYD GEORGE
PAYS TRIBUTE
ABE LINCOLN
Paris Man Killed
In Car Collision
Prohibition Party
Favors Henry Ford
nounced today that the negro, Burl
Kemp, used as a witness against Gray
and who Gray testified actually kill-
ed Ballard, will be placed on trial
Monday and that the trials of George
McKinley and Paul Keith well follow
that of Kemp. All three are charg-
ed with murder in connection with
the death of Ballard. Special venires
of jurymen have been summoned.
SOME SA YINS*
OF SI BONES
Superannuate
Endowment Fund
Plans Discussed
Jury Locked Up '
Mt Pleasant, Oct. 18.—At 10 o’clock
tonight it was stated at the sheriffs
office that the jury was locked up for
the night with no prospect of a ver-
dict being announced until tomorrow.
•••
Others Charged
Mt Pleasant, Oct 18.—It was
By th. Associated Presa
Oklahoma City, Ok., Oct. 18.—The
report of the house committee inves-
tigating impeachment charges against
Governor J. C. Walton, will be pre-
sented to the lower house of the state
legislature Monday, it was announced
U. S. BAGS NEW JERSEY WHISKEY RING
presiding in court in Longview for the i
past two weeks, will hear a habeas
He “Began to Fool With
the Whiskey Traffic”
FATE NOW RESTS
! WITH THE JURY
Arguments Are Finished and
Case Goes to the Jury to De-
cide His Fate for the Death
of Otis Ballard
Ftt Worth, Oct 18.—Mrs. Martha *my, L. R. Honeycutt, of Ft Worth,
Josephine Johnson, 71, ended her litelwas arrested by Ft. Worth detectives
here today by taking 20 grains of I today and lodged in county jail here
poison. Her action followed the for preliminary hearing tomorrow,
granting of her little grand da ugh- The charges alleged Honeycutt mar-
ter to the giris father after a separ- 1 ried a 16-year-old Ft. Wort girt Jan-
ation had taken place between the'nary 27, in Delas, having at the
girls father and Mother. (time a wife in Ft Worth.
Receipts yesterday 75 bales,
selling at 27% to 28% for
whites, 25 to 26 for blues. Fu-
tures closed 12 points down.
Judge P. O. Beard, who has been
By the Aseoeiated Press
Dallas, Oct. 18.— Frank Callahan,
sentenced at the May term of fed-
eral court to serve six months in jail
and pay a fine of $560 haa been par-
doned by President Coolidge and re-
leased from county jail here, Judge
William Atwell reported today. Cal-
lahan, a trusty, volunteered to quell
Eddy Stokes, sentenced to serve a
term in state prison for highway rob-
bery, when Stokes barricaded him-
self in his cell and defied jalors to
take him. Callahan entered the cell
and was struck over the head with
an iron bar; but Stokes was finally
Aged Woman Kills
Self Over Trouble
By the Associated Prees
Springfield, HL, Oct. 18.—David
Lloyd George came today and paid
homage to the memory of Abraham
Lincoln.
With bared head, heedless of a cold
driving rain. the war time premier
of Great Britain approached the mon-
ument and entered the tomb of the
martyred president where he placed
on the saccophagus ao wreath with his
card, bearing the words:
“A humble and reverent homage to
the memory of one of the worlds
greatest men.”
By the Associated Press
FL Worth, Oct. 18.—Mrs. Virginia
Brown, of Ft Worth, formerly an
employe of the Petroleum Producer*
Association, of which Dr. Frederick A.
Cook was president, testified this af-
ternoon in the trial in federal dis-
trict court of Dr. Cook and his 13
co-defendants, charged with using the
United States mails to defraud, that
some weeks 300,000 pieces of liter-
ature were sent out to prospective
buyers of the Associations stock.
Mrs. Brown said that she was sup-
ervisor of the mailing division of the
Petroleum Producers Association, and
that on an average of about 15,000
letters were sent out each week. She
asserted that at one time 53 girls were
employed in the mailing department.
F. W. Wimberly, head of the Wim-
berly Advertising Agency, of Ft
Worth, also took the stand this after-
noon. He testified that be handled
much of the advertising of Cook and
others of the defendant companies.
Practically all of the advertising Is-
sued either by th Petroleum Produc-
er* Association or the other compan-
ies was approved by Dr. Cook, he
said.
declared.
The investigating committee
holding night sessions in order
complete the work.
The Marshall high school football
squad will go into their fourth battle
of the season this afternoon at 4:15
when they meet the high school squad
from Mt. Pleasant for the first time.
Today games will be their second
game played with a contender for
the state championship, the first being
with Henderson high who they defeat-
resentative Disney declared that I -------------- ----------------
plans to submit the report tomorrow' Charles F. Kendrick, of San Francisco,
had been upset by much addisional ' The resolution which was carried by
evidence called to the committees at-. a roar of “ayes” to the weak cry of a
tention. score of "noes" was as follows:
"We have received more evidence
than we ever dreamed of,” he declar-
ed. “We feel that the public is en-
titled to as much information as may
be obtained and many important wit-
nesses have yet to be heard.”
The report automatically will be-
come a bill of impeachment if the
houe adopts it, A majority vote la1
necessary. The senate then would
have to decide if the evidence is sut-
ficient to bring the governor to trial.
No leaa than twelve specific charges
against the executive, any one of
which would be grounds for impeach-
ment, if proven, will be reported by
the committee, Representative Disney
“I canna get over it,” a Scotch
farmer remarked to his wife.
“I put a twa-shillin’ piece in the
plate at the kirk this morning
instead o’ ma usual penny.”
The beadle had noticed the
mistake, and in silence he allow-
ed the farmer to miaa the plate
for twenty-three consecutive
Sundays. On the twenty-fourth
Sunday the farmer again ignor-
ed the plate, but the old beadle
stretched the ladle in front of
him and in a loud, tragic whis-
per hoarsely said:
“Your time’s up noo, Sandy.”
held here for Louisiana authorities,
will seek to obtain his liberty from
the county jail, through a habeas
corpus hearing.
Mooney is said to be wanted in
Louisiana on a charge of securing
money under false pretense and was
arrested here, where he came to work.
Mooney contends that he is being il-
legally held and asks for a hearing
and for release following the hear-
ing.
Lyt tieton 4 Jasper are represent-
ing Mooney in his habeas corpus
suit.
its original purposes and stands
for the service men irrespective
of belief in religion or politics
and welcomes all such to its fold,
that within this fold the ques-
tion of such belief or affiliation
be never raised to the prejudice
or hurt of any one, but that the
spirit of tolerance and good will
be extended to all, irrespective
of their belief in or adherence to
any society whatever so long as
the same does not conflict with
allegiance to God and to the Gov-
ernment of the United States.”
Major Kendrick accused the Leg-
ionnaires of “pussy footing” on the
Ku Klux Klan question and announc-
ed that he was there to “tear the
masks off them and see just where
we are.”
Ghe Atarshall gllorning ilews
______________MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—SIX THOUSAND WORD NEWS REPORT RECEIVED DAILY
Marshall, Texas, Friday, October 19,1923 '
By the Asmociated Press
Oklahoma City, Oct. 18.—Their de-
vastating force virtually spent, flood
waters of the North and South Can-
adian Rivers and tributary streams
tonight are spreading toward the
Arkansas line, after causing millions
of dollars damage in Oklahoma.
The total known death list climbed
to six today when two more bodies
were recovered from Oklahoma Citys
stricken region on the south side and
word was received that two boys were
drowned at Chickasha late yesterday.
Five persons still are missing here.
Overflow water* in the eastern part
of the state at Eufaula, Henryetta,
and Okmulgee, the latest sections to
be effected, are receding, although
thousands of acres of farm lands still
ar* inundated. Tremendous damage
was suffered by railroad property and
highways.
Everywhere reconstrutcion work is
being pushed rapidly. .Many rail-
roads whose traffic in all directions
was paralized, hope to resume par-
tial service by Sunday and by that
times most of the broken lines of com-
munication are expected to be restor-
ed.
Efforts to reopen connection thoro-
fares between Capital Hill and Pack-
ing Town, southern suburbs of Okla-
homa are nearing completion.
The bodies of Mrs. Janey Ellis, a
local Salvation Army worker, and an
unidentified man were found by
searchers here,today as falling wat-
ers permitted a further search of the
flood swept lowland.
Carl Gray and Ray Reed, residing
north of Chickasha, were drowned
when the horse they were riding slip-
ped and fell on a submerged road.
Their bodies have not been recovered.
A mother and daughter perished
here Monday in trying to escape from
ther flooded home.
The property owners of South
Bolivar street filed a petition yester-
day with Mayor Owens for the paving
of South Bolivar. The petition waa
given to the Mayor by Wr. Will Wola
and contained the names of all the
property owners on that street with
the exception of a few who have not
been seen by the committee circula-
ting the petition. The petition calls
for paving of Bolivar street from the
City Hall to Border street which calls
for the entire length of South Bolivar.
The Mayors office receives daily
many inquiries and requests in regard
to the improvements to be made with
the money voted in the recent bond
issue. These requests come from citi-
zens' in all parts of the city and are
for improvements provided for in the
different sections of the bond issue.
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WEATHER
B Ite Amoelatted Pem
Bast Texas: Friday fair.
Satueday fair. Warmer to the
perthwent portion.
By the Associated Press
Mt. Pleasant, Oct. 18.—The fate
of Clem Gray, charged with the
slaying of Otis Ballard reached the
jury at about dusk this evening.
County Attorney Williams opened
arguments for the state, followed
by add rases by Carroll Florence
and closing by District Attorney
Hutchings
After the noon recess today Gray,
on trial for his life, asked permis-
sion to talk to the jury that sat in
judgment and in a voice broken with
sobs, stood with hands handcuffed be-
fore the twelve jurors picturing his
early life in Titus County down to
three years ago.
He had been prosperous, had asso-
edated with the best citizenship of
the county and had enjoyed as good a
name as any in the county, he said.
But three years ago he “began to
fool with the whiskey traffic.” He
want out soon. He got in trouble and
went from bad to worse, he continued.
Three years ago he was as happy as
a man could be; today he was not the
Clem Gray of yesterday and only ask-
ed for another chance to be the old
Clem Gray, that he would gladly give
his life up to bring that of Ballard
back; that it was not he so much that
will suffer in the electric chair as his
wife and two boys, he explained brok-
enly.
The whiskey traffic was the root
of his downfall, he concluded, asking
the twelve men to be lenient.
States He Was Prosperous Until —
By the Assoeiated hw
Sum peeple go ter see pictur
shows thet luk like they air
goin‘ ter be burty raw so they
kan kondem them. Et leest
they sey thets what they go
fur.
Son, you will find the strata
en narrow path to hev a lot uv
steep hills en lonesum valleys,
but ef you stick to it you will
git home atter a while.
Atter all, the wurld is full uv
wurk ter do en sumboddy has
got ter do it
A husband that kan pleese 3
wimmin—hez wife, his muther
en hiz wifes muther—hez ez
good a chance fur a pare uv
wings ez ef he allreddy bed ’em
a sproutin’.
Bud, ef you kan furgit a rung
that he* bin dun you, you air
a bigger man then ef you let it
rankel in yore bosom.
Steve Huskins sed his wife
sex thet the paper* air so full
uv skanduls thet she kant
hardly find time ter do hur
work.
By the Associated Press
San Francisco, Oct. 18.—A verbal
battle over the Ku Klux Klan and
anti-klan resolutions in which the
press of the country was charged with
trying to split the American Legion
over the klan question, raged for sev-
eral hours at the fourth days session
of the fifth annual American Legion
convention here, resulting in the
adoption of the “Michigan anti-klan
By the Amoeiated Press
Gainesville, Oct. 18.—The North
Texas conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, South, at its second
busineas session, with about 400
preachers and delegates present, dis-
cussed plans for raising the super-
annuate endowment fund. Dr. C. C.
. . , , - L idown, was submitted by E. W. Wit-
corpus trial in district court here at | Of Oklahoma, who stated he was
nine o clock this morning, when W. a member of the klan. The resolution
P. Mooney, wanted in Louisiana and follows:
“American Legion adheres to
San Francisco, Oct. 18.—St. Paul
was selected for the sixth annual
convention of the American Legion
in 1924, by the Legion convention to-
day. Paris, France, was recommend-
ed as the convention city in 1928.
on the 10th annual anniversary of
the signing of the Armistice.
New York, Oct. 18.— The fed-
eral government fired a double
barrel charge into wet forces
alleged to be drenching New York
and New Jersey with illicit liquor.
With one charge federal agents,
working under direct orders from
Washington, brought down a bag of
eleven conspirators, who, rounded up
in the hotel Pennsylvania, and else-
where, are alleged to have been using
$80,000 to bribe prohibition agents not
to stop the brewing of real beer in
New Jersey; not to interfere with the
converting of industrial alcohol into
strong liquor; and to block the flood-
ing of New York and New Jersey with
beer from rival vats in Pennsylvania.
With the other barrel the govern-
ment fired into the first of several
thousand saloon keepers alleged to
be running wide open in New York
City since the repeal of the state pro-
hibition enforcement law. Fifty-four
suits were filed in federal court to
padlock these alleged “speak easies"
under provisions of the Volstead act
and United States Attorney Hay-
ward added that more actions woula
‘Resolved by the American
Legion in National Convention
assembled that we consider any
individual, group of individuals
or organization which creates or
fosters racial, religious or class
strife among our people or which
takes into their own hands en-
forcement of laws, determination
of guilt or infliction of punish-
ment to be un-American, a
menace to our liberties and des-
tructive to our fundamental
rights, and be it further,
“Resolved, that we consider
such action by any individual,
group or organization, to be in-
consistent with the ideals and
purposes of the American Le-
gion.”
The Kendrick resolution, which waa
loot on a roH call, was as follows:
“Resolved that the Ku Klux
Klan is an organization which is
destructive to American princi-
ples and ideals and is unfair to
hundreds of our comrades in arms
during the World War, this con-
vention most unequivocally de-
nounces the Ku Klux Klan as
being an un-American organiza-
tion and unworthy of membership
by local American citizens.”
The Oklahoma resolution, voted
Seleeman, of Dallas, president of S.
M. U., brought up the subject
Reports were heard from the Rev
W. T. Whiteside, presiding Elder of
of football fans are expected out at the Greenville district, and the Rev.
Athletic Park this afternoon to back I E. L. Eger, presiding elder of the
the local team to win. Paris _
“I left my money home,” said
the lady on the train to the con-
ductor. “You will have to trust
me. I am one of the directors’
wives.”
“I am sorry, madam,” replied
the conductor. “I can't do that,
even if you were the director’s
only wife."
be brought as soon as complaints
could be typewritten.
It was stated that a regular week-
ly bribe of $6,500 was accepted by one
of the agents, before making the ar-
rest today.
The men arrested are J. Harry Fo-
ley, former secretary to Senator Ed-
wards, of New Jersey, when the lat-
ter was governor and now state sup-
erintendent of weights and measures;
Herbert Katz, of the Patterson Brew-
ing and Malting Co.; Edward Butler,
of Peter Breidt Brewing Co., at Eli-
zabeth, N. J.; Harry Kullen, of the
Hygeia Brewing Company; Passaic,
N. J.; Geo. Seeber, of the. Rising gun
Brewing Co., Elizabeth, N. J.; Henry
Greenfield, a prohibition agent; Em-
anuel Elsenbein, a warehouse man,
Herman J. Goldman; Theodore 1.
Schwatzman, of the Herman Chemical
Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.; William Nathan
of Hoboken, N. J., and Dr. Leo Zak-
aross
AU were charged with conspiring to
give bribes to influence the conduct
of prohibition agents.
The charges against Foley and the
four officials of breweries alleged that
they had paid bribes to federal agents
to permit them to flood New York
and New Jersey with beer of high
alcoholic content. The agents in ac-
cepting the bribe, it was stated,
agreed to permit the manufacture and
sale of New Jersey beer and on the
other hand promised to use their best
efforts to prevent the sale in New
Jersey of beer made in Pennsylvania.
With the $4,500 received by federal
agents today the total bribes seized
by the government forces and confis-
cated was $84,500, according to Unit-
ed States Attorney Hayward, who
estimated the total given in bribes
since the conspiracy originated was
$700,000.
Mr. Hayward said baring the alleg-
ed conspiracy revealed a shocking
and sensational state of affairs in
New Jersey arid possibly Pennsylvan-
ia. State and other high officials, pol-
iticians and persons high in social
standing, he said, were in league with
the bootleg conspirators.
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Los Angeles, Oct 18.—Henry Ford dragged from his cell. Callahan also
in all likelihood will get the pres!- told officers the location of Charles
dential nomination of the prohibition Gaines, convicted murderer and Sia-
party, according to Virgil O. Hen- ney Walk, also convicted murderer,
shaw, charman of the Prohibition when the two recently attempted -
National Committee, who issued from jal break.
here today a cal for a national coo- Judge Atwell recommended the
ference at Washingtoa, December 18. pardon.
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