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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
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VOL. 52—NO. 249.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1924
PRICE FIVE CENTS
COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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DAUGHERTY IS DEFIANT
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W. G. M’ADOO WILL NOT WITHDRAW FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE
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OIL LEASE PROBERS QUIZ NEW YORK FINANCIERS
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FORMER RAILROAD CAPITAL BUZZING
DIRECTOR DECIDES WITH EXPECTANCY
TO DEFY CRITICS OF NEW SCANDAL
Supporters Hail Son - in - Law Senate Committee’s Hurriedly
gressives.
DEFINES HIS PLATFORM OTHER MEN INVOLVED
SEVERAL WERE INJURED
ATTACK IS REDOUBLED
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VENERABLE BISHOP
A. C. GARRETT DIES
SUDDENLY AT DALLAS
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LOS ANGELES. Cal., Feb. 1».
when It will be removed
bara LaMarr's life story, uccording
neral and burial will be determined
NO CLUE TO SOLVE
Rev. Thomas
Gailor of Memphis.
KRESS STORE ROBBERY
FOUND BY POLICE
resumption of the inquiry but
net session, which already was pre-
sattafled with
questioning him In private.
deranged, babbled in an-
questions.
DALLAS, Texas, Feb 1».
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Head of Episcopal
Church is Called
By His Creator
INCENDIARY TIRES
TENEMENT HOUSE,
THIRTEEN PERISH
CADINET MEMBER
CALMLY IGNORES
GROWING DEMAND
FOR RESIGNATION
Called Executive Session Gives
Rise to Rumors of Startling
and Sensational Developments.
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AILS
Names of Present and Former
Officials Not Hitherto Men-
tioned May Be Brought Into
the Oil Inquiry.
they could eyen try
the roaring furnace
Commissioner Nolen Advances
Theory That Safe Was Blown
Early Sunday Morning.
PRESIDENT UNABLE TO -
HARMONIZE REPUBLICANS
ON TAX REFORM BILL
Some
st or lee.
to dash through
with which they
impaired by his blindness and his age.
91 years, was sudden and unexpected.
gestions have been
committee might be
A kidnaping at 1$; a capture by a
cowboy and a mad dash across the
saddle of her conqueror; widowhood;
a police court; banishment from Loe
operated by the Texas
Corporation, dealers tn
Tenn., president of the national coun-
cil of the Episcopal Church, and from
Bishop Coadjutor Harry T. Moore of
the Dallas Diocese, who la expected to
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Fort Worth Millionaire Arrested
In Disorderly House Raid; Wife of
Winfield Scott Sues for Divorce
Idaho, he suggested yesterday that his
resignation was n matter that could
Angeles because she was "too beau-
tiful’’; marriage to a bigamist and a
second widowhood; cabarets; vaude-
ville; a literary leaning and motion
picture scenarios; the extra route to
stardom—these are some of the high
NINE-CENT LOAF GIVES
RETAILER LARGE PROUT
Testimony Gives Wilder Tale
Than Any Ever Filmed by Barbara
The storm ragin
General Daugherty
occupied with th* decision of Secretary
Denby to quit the president's official
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was an outstanding leader in affairs
of this section.
Complete arrangements for the fu-
where he went to attend his sister's
funeral.* The ritualistic services of the
church will be conducted at the fu-
neral In the cathedral and the Masonic
service at the burial.
SEVERE COLD WAVE
HEADED FOR TEXAS
End Is Totally Unexpected
Despite the Burden of
91 Years.
—A low
Gulf of
—•k
War On Official Corruption,
Another World Conference
and Railroad Reforms Among
Things He’ll Advocate.
until Friday,
to the cathedi
barometer area In
Mexico is causing
tions of Texas and
■k.
Texas Radio Cor re rat lea and
Austin Statesman Broad-
casting Station.
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g around Attorney
had centers at both
"I haven’t got any
can search me.”
Three views of Barbara La Marr, and one of one of her former hus-
bands. Jack Daugherty.
Just before the cabinet meeting the
president had been in conference with
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ted by
were confronted.
Territied on opening their hall doors
to rind a vortex o flame mushroom-
Ing down from the roof through
■moke-choked corridors, the families
on the lower floors retreated in panic
to the windows from which they man-
nged, in some cases by seemingly im-
possibie means, to reach safely Sev-
eral were severely burned, others in-
By Associated Frees
NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Thirteen
lives were snuffed out In a few min-
utes in a firs, belleyed to have been
of incendiary origin which early today
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Roscoe I the government’s spectal counsel in
the oil cases and previously both he
buggy.
efraud,
m the
years’
question of his resignation had not
been discussed and declared be had
no statement to make for the present.
White House officials also declared
the cabinet had not diseussed the pos-
sible retirement of the attorney gen-
©rat and added that Mr Daugherty had
not submitted his resignation.
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SECOND OLDEST NEWSPAPER
IN TEXAS. ESTABLISHED 1171
jured in falls.
Of the dead, five were boys and
two girls, four women and two men.
One of the children was an infant,
whose charred body was found at the
breast of Ito dead mother. xvaaz nxau vuxaua waa ve uuvuxaxuyu
The fire was discovered by a Pas8,- upon receipt of advice from the Right
ing policeman who saw smoke and - _ - - - —
names rising against the inner side
of a window. He rushed into the
house and up the staircases, ham-
mering with his Data on doors and
shouting a warning. Flames stopped
him before he reached the upper
stories. The front door had been
opened as he entered and as he dashed
out, he saw Louis Choenfield, a news
vendor. running from the entrance
with three men at his heels. He took
all four to a police station where
Choenfie!d, who appeared to police to
lights in the engrossing life story of ____ ___ _________
Barbara told here. be considered properly at today’s cabi-
be mentally
swer to all
Hie secretary. Miss Kathleen Law-
rence. found him suffering with a pain
in his chest early yesterday Mho calle
physicians, but his illness seemed
slight, they said, and his quick re-
covery was expected. While a phy-
sician, Miss Lawrence and a number
of friends were at his bedside last
night, the bishop attempted to rise,
but crumpled over after calling to
those about him, and died immediately.
The Right Rev. Ethelbert Talbot of
Bethlehem. Pa., who becomes presid-
ing bishop of the church by virtue of
his seniority of consecration, was noti-
fied of the death, as were other mem-
bers of the house of bishops.
LOU LAWSON’S BROTHER
AIDING GOTHAM POLICE
IN MURDER MYSTERY
DALLAS, Texas. Feb. 19— Funeral
services for the Right Rev. Alexander
C. Garrett, presiding bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in Amer-
ica, who died at his home here last
night, will be held Friday, a« cording
to tentative plans announced by Dean
Robert S. Chalmers of St. Matthew's
Cathedral. The body will lie in state
in the chapel at St. Mary’s College for
Women, which the bishop founded and
where his cottage home -was located.
Irai. Each day the chapel
Sawyer testified that .Roth pro-
duced an affidavit from Jacquelin
Dyris, another actress, who quotel
Miss Lu Marr as describing Sawyer as
a "perfect lover,” although you’d never
thing it to look at him.
Later Dr. Charles 8. Rubenstein of
Gouverner Hospital recognised him as
a man he had treated several times
for epileptic seizures and who, he
added, had come to him for treat-
ment last night about an hour before
the fire was discovered.
Choenfield and the three men later
were released, the police being satis-
fied that the four had nothing to do
with starting the fire. Three of the
men. they mid. had boon engaged in
attempting to rouse fire imprisoned
tenants, while Choenfield was run-
ning toward a fire box, intent to send-
ing in an alarm
story tenement In the heart of New
yorks lower East Side ghetto. Seven
of those killed were children.
The blase, unequalled in rapidity in
the annals of the fire department,
flared up the staircase, fanned by a
draft from the tenement's open front
door, blocking escapo of the elght
families who occupied the budding.
This station is owned and
of those in the two upper
awakening to find the flames
-Bar-. co-respondents, among them
-Ai—j Arbuckle.
ends of Pennsylvania Avenue today.
After conferences with the president
and Senator Borah (Republican) of
and the attorney general had been told
of the new turn taken by the oil in-
vestigation. While the cabinet was in
session the nil committee was hearing
behind closed doors some of the evi-
dence on which Senator Wheeler
(Democrat) of Montana has asked that
the attorney general’s attitude toward
the oil program and his conduct gen-
erally be investigated.
return Thursday
NEW YORK, Feb. 10. Norman
Lawson, here from his home in Al-
varado, Texas. was working with po-
lice today in an effort to pierce the
mystery surrounding the murder of his
el st er, Louise Lawson, who was
strangled in her fashlonable apartment
by gem thieves.
Ho was said to have told the police
all he knew of the girl's activities
since she left home at the age of 11,
six years ago, to study music in New
York. The police said he appeared to
know little of his sister's mode of life
since she left home, holding the im-
pression with others of her relatives
that she had achieved considerable
success In theatrical and motion pic-
ture circles.
Iawson also will settle his sister's
estate, valued at $30,000.
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from Wisconsin.
greAter portion of ths rotton rewion
whlle h'su pressure in northern states
will bring colder weather to the state
tonight and tomorrow, with freezing
nearly to the sect gulf coast, accord-
ing to the local weather bureau. The
forecast for the next twenty-four to
thirty-ata houre le for temperature of
10 to 20 degrees aboye zero in North
T.xa. with rain probably turning to
sleet or enoW; 20 to 28 degree in
East Texas and probably rain er
snow, and 10 to 14 degree In Went
Texas.
Thirty-four degrees at Amarillo was
the coldoat reported last night
rain, over por-
enstwara over the
will be open to the public to pay their
last respects to the churchman, who
of Late President Wilson
as the “Hope of the Pro-
By Associated Preen
FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 19.
A romance that started in Kan-
eee City in January, 1923, and cul-
minated in a marriage between
Winfield Scott, Fort Worth mil-
lionnire, end Gertrud, Lene, bequ:
tiful Kensae City girl, waa ended
in Fort Worth Monday when Mre.
Seott filed ouit for divorce which
waa a counter aettan to Scott's di-
vorce suit filed meveral months
"“The- petition wae filed a few
hours after Scott had boon ar-
rested in company with another
man and two women after a dis-
orderly houee raid made by Fort
Worth officers. The young mil-
lionaire was chargod with a statu-
tory offense in the county court.
In her petition, the plaintiff
Eight Families, Trapped In Their
Beds by Roaring Flames, Have
Practically No Chance to
Escape.
to testimony heard in court here, is
wilder than any fiction tale she over
helped create on the screen.
Even Los Angeles, jaded by so many
movie revelations, is amazed at the
stories about Barbara that have come
to light as a result of the trial of
Herman L. Roth, lawyer. on the
charge of extortion brought against
him by Arthur II. Sawyer, business
manager of Miss LaMarr. It is al-
leged that Roth approached Sawyer
for money to suppress a divorce peti-
tion Roth said Bernard Deely, Misa
LaMarr’s Tifth husband, asked him to
file.
The complaint, repudiated by Deely
on the witness stand, named seven
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—Attorney
.General Daugherty remained silentiy
defiant today in the face of the new
attack on him, and the Tuesday cabi-
net meeting pansoda without an an-
nouncement of his resignation.
Department of justice offictals in-
sisted that he had no intention of
Surrenering to his critics, but sena-
tors who have taken the lead in ad.
vising the president to ask bimn to
retire remained confident that their
ad Hee would be followed.
Mr. Daugherty, himself, arriving at
the cabinet meeting a half hour late,
would talk only about the weather.
When he emerged an hour later and
was questioned by newspaper men, he
showed plain signs of agitation and
annoyance. but he insisted that the
CHICAGO, Feb. 19- bread
prices averaging 9 cents a pound loaf
net the baker and retailer a profit of
I approximately 3.1 cento a loaf, accord-
ing to Joseph Rushkewioz, eecretary
of the city council high cost of living
committee.
An inquiry was made by the com-
mittee after charges were made In
Washington that a national breed
trust was profiteering In the com-
modity.
REPORT BY
Five Boys. Two Girls. Four
Women and Two Men Burned
to Death in New York
Holocaust.
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The death of Bishop Garrett, whose
activity in church affairs was little
CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—Styled by his
friends as pre-eminently available for
the presidency and the "hope of the
progressive thought of the nation,"
William Gibbs McAdoo, former secre-
tary of the treasyry today le in the
race for the Democratic presidential
nomination to stay.
A conference of supporters from
virtually every state, which met here
yesterday to discuss the effect of Mr.
McAdoo’s connection with the Doheny
oil interests after his services in the
Wilson cabinet, upon his presidential
candidacy unanimously approved a
resolution demanding his leadership.
"We denounce and condemn the re-
cent infamous conspiracy which at-
tempted to besmirch his name and
proclaim that he. has emerged from
the attacks stronger than before,” the
resolution said.
"We unanimously demand his lead-
ership.”
Called to address the assemblage
after the vot of confidence, Mr. Me-
Adoo outlined his platform.
These are some of the things "that
need to be done to protect the rights
of the people and satisfy the demands
of progress,” he said:
Drive corruption out of-Washing-
ton.
Call a new world conference to deal
with political and economic problems.
Submit the question of American
foreign policy to a national referen-
dum.
Take the grip of Wall Street off the
(Continued on Page Three.)
At noon Tuesday no trace of the
i obbers who blew the safe of the
8. H. Kress A Co.'s store and escaped
with 11000 in cash had been found
by the police department, according
to an anouncement made by Police
Commissioner Harry Nolen.
Commissioner Nolen advanced the
theory that the robbery was pulled off
early Sunday morning rather than
Sunday night or early Monday morn-
ing. "
"When we investigated the affair
Monday morning, not the slightest
scent of nitroglycerin or other ex-
plosive agents used on the job was
discernable,” he declared. "Soap on
some of the towels had hardened Into
a crust and there was no perceptible
odor on the towels used in barricading
the safe while it was blown. For that
reason I am of the opinion that the
robbery must have been perpetrated
early Sunday morning.”
Commissioner Nolen scouted the idea
advanced In some quarters Monday
that throe shote reported heard by
Constable Lafe Young and others at
1:80 Sunday morning had anything
to do with the Kross store robbery. The
police head expressed the belief that
these three reporta were backfiring
of an automobile and that the yegg-
men who wrecked the Kross safe used
only one charge that had been planted
with an accuracy characteristie of
professional safe-blowers.
To substantlate his contention.
Commissioner Nolen stated that fire-
men at the central fire station who
sloop lightly near the fire alarm tele-
phone only 100 feet away from the
roO of the Kress store heard nothing
that would indicate any safe-biowing
operations wre in progrens.
Attorney General Tells Inter-
viewers. After Cabinet Meet-
ing, That Nothing Has Ari^n
Requiring a Statement.
Mast Texan: Tonight and Wed-
nesday uhsettled, probably rain in
nouth and rain or snow In north por-
tiot; colder in northern portion to-
night; colder Weanenanyi moderate
to fresh northerly winds on the coast.
West Teana: Tonight and Wednes-
day unsetttea, probably anew la north
portion with freeb to etrona northerly
winda, colder; cold wave in north por
tion with temperature 14 to 24 de-
areca.
Ion income tax rate ached ute failed to
break the deadlock between Hie
Croupe.
Aa the Income Trates ot the reve-
nue bill were taken up in the house
Republican leaders admitted the vote
would be close with the Democrats
united for the Garner Democratic
plan and with the insureenta stn
holatng out against the treasury rates
and threatenine to vote with' the
Democrat e if their compromtee 1 not
accepted.
Clamor for Ousting of Nation's
Chief Law Official From the
President s Cabinet Becoming
More and More Insistent
RIGHT REV. A. C. GARRETT.
sues for $200,000 damages for def-
amation of character and $1200
monthly alimony pending the
hearing of the ouit.
It la alleged by Mrs. Scott that
her husband in his auit for divorce
against her, which was filed in
June, 1923. made allegations which
wore a reflection on her character
and for this cho requests the court
to award her $200,000 damages.
Pending the hearing of the suit,
Mrs. Scott requests $1200 a month
alimony and attorneys fees for
her counse whose MR* io not
stated in the petition.
The Fort Worthmillionaire was
married after a whirlwind court-
ship in Kansas City* The mar-
riage woe ussfei mod in a Kansas
City hotel in the woo hours of the
* morning with waiters and bell
boys at witnesses.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1$. — A n
eleventh hour appeal by the White
House today to Republican Insurgent
leaders, urging agreement with the
organisation Republicans on the Mel-
An Austin Owned Newspaper
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1».—An effort
to run down the latest and one of the
most startling reports that has reached
Washington in connection with the
oil scandal was made today by the
senate oil committee.
Harry Payne Whitnoy, New York,
financier, and officials of J. P. Ben-
kard & Co., a New York brokerage
firm, had been asked to meet with
the commiktee behind closed doors.
Members of the Benkard firm ar-
rived at the committee room after
the session had been in progress for
nearly an hour, but Mr. Whitney had
not arrived.
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon-
tana, author of the resolution propos-
ing an investigation of the adminis-
tration of Attorney General Daugh-
erty attended the meeting by special
invitation. He had with him the re-
port of a special investigator in New
York regarding alleged transactions
by government .officials in stock of
the Sinclair oil companies just prior
and subsequent to the lease of Tea-
pot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair by
Albert B. Fall.
Atlee Pome re ne and Owen J. Rob-
erts. special government counsel in
the oil ceses, were summoned to the
committee- room soon after the offi-
cials of the Benkard firm arrived.
Curiosity over today’s executive
session, called despite the ten-day
recess of the Committee’s Inquiry, and
the absence from the capital of Sena-"
tor Walsh, Democrat. Montana, leader
in the investigation, has been en-
hanced by ths sequence of events Sun-
day which preceded the summoning
of the New York men. Senators
Walsh and Wheeler had a conference
with Wilson 3. lambert, counsel for
Edward B McLean, publisher of the
Washington Post, and later they met
with Chairman Lenroot of the com-
mittee and Mr Pomerene. After-
wards Mr. Lenroot and Mr. Pomerene
called at the White House.
It has been ex pet red that Mr Me-
Lean, who waa summoned recently
from Palm Beach. Fla., would he
among the flrat witnesses called after
ilwell,
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