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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
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TWELVE PAGES
Owned
Newspaper
HOME EDITION
VOL. 52—NO. 270.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1924
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IRISH ARMY MUTINY SAID TO BE MORE SERIOUS THAN FIRST REPORTED
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO EXPAND ACTIVITIES
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$25,000 BUDGET Wrecked on Uncharted Island,
PRESIDENT CALLS
as
OF NEW UPRISING
Months, Returns to His Home
RATES AT ONCE
40 COMMITTEES NAMED
WARLIKE IN DUBLIN
SENATE WANTS SPEED
65-foot
TO HAVE RESIGNED AS
UNIVERSITY REGENT
Attorney General Daugherty’s cabinet
FOND OF MOVING,
have been sounded out as to their will-
it
importance that. I
his resignation, it is reported. to Gov-
army headquarters announced eary
''absolutely normal in all commands.'
r
it of un-
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DEMOCRATS WOULD
Senator Burton K. Wheeler.
in
charging fraud, graft and fraudulent
meeting next week.
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MISSOURI OFFICIAL
MAY HAVE TO RESIGN
publicity committee.
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THE WEATHER
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pany of Austim, Texan
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PRESS INQUIRY INTO
CONGRESSIONAL GRAFT
IRELAND THOUGHT
TO BE ON VERGE
Disguised as Boy
Girl Creates Stir
In All-Night Cafe
Armored Motor Cars and Lorries
Carrying Soldiers Dash About
the Streets; Political Angle'to
the Disturbances.
Five Hundred Business and Pro-
fessional Men of Austin Will
Be Invited to Join Ranks of
City Building Organization.
Invitation Membership Campaign
Started Tuesday and Will
Continue Through Thursday,
Under Direction of A C. Bull.
The Austin Statesman is now sold in the
city limits of Austin for three cents per copy
by newsboys each day of the week excepting
Sunday.
court against Smith, Hauser & Mc-
Isaac. Inc., of New York, to recover
$7,000,000 alleged excess spent in con-
struction of Camp Meade.
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pe
in order to facilitate the work. Chair-
man Bull and members on the general
membership committee have divided
Daugherty ‘Prosecutor’ Preparing To
Dig Deep Into Hidden Recesses
Of the Department of Justice
in advising that no further effort be
made at present to ascertain the names
from the departmat, the committee
declared It waa unwilling to recom-
mend that the house "be placed in the
position of being responsible for the
suspension of proceedings by the at-
torney general in connection with the
matter."
WASHINGTON, March 1L — Presi-
dent Coolidge today sent a special
message to congress recommending a
reduction of 26 per cent on income
taxes tor 1923 be authorised before
I March 16.
EXTREME COLD WEATHER
SWEEPING THE SOUTH
MUSCLE SHOALS BILL
SENT TO THE SENATE;
ITS FATE IN DOUBT
considerable number from one Agricul-
tural state to another.
power cruiser led to a warm friend-
ship.
Farly in October, soon after Judge
March current
"Many people have been expecting
that such would be the case and de-
ferred their tax return! accordingly.
GERMANS NOW MAKING
SYNTHETIC COCAINE
HAMON’S DAUGHTER
DEFENDS HER FATHER
i,d-
PRICE IN AUSTIN 3 CTS.
sente
The president believes that the im-
portance of reduction would justify
the laying aside of all other legislative
business for Its consideration.
The text of the message follows:
"It has been my earnest hope that
a 2$ per centum reduction in taxes to
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tion in recommending that the public
welfare would be much advanced by
temporarily laying aside all other leg-
------- the amount of revenue which it will
She took no baggage except a violin, be necessary for the measure to pro-
which she said her father had given 1 vjde
her, and left a note for her mother 1 - -e
senate finance committee in an effort
to speed up disposition of the revenue
bill was voiced today by Chairman
Smoot.
Although agreement has been reach-
I ed on many of the administrative sec-
tions of the measure, the most import-
ant of these, as well as all of the tax
schedules, remain to be acted upon.
saying, Mother. dar, Tve gone to tell J
the senate about daddy. I think he'd
like me to. Don't worry. I’ll be a good |
girl. Olive Bell."
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medium of forty ommittees who will
carry on the invitation campaign in
Selection of Varsity President
May Be Taken Up at the
April Meeting.
misuse of government funds, Amos
W. W. Woodcock, United States dis-
Government reports from Gieorgia"t j
peach belt stated the cold wave will .
not appreciably affect the crop.
SECOND oLDEsr NEWSPAPER
IN TEXAS. ESTABLISHED 1871
Dead, for ABGOFGRES T
day. I certainty from the fiscal year at once.
' At the last meeting of the regents.I which would be a strong stimulant to
, a brief executive session was held and business, with its resultant benefit to
tenhouse’s possession of
Celebration Plane Approved.
General plans have been approved
tor the celebration by the Volunteer
Firemen's organisation which will be
held April 21. at Deep Eddy, according
to tentative arrangements. There will
United States.
matter of such imminent
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only six states, all in New England,
showed less than 10 per cent change
in their farm occupants. In most of
the corn belt and western states
changes ranged from 10 to 15 per cent.
The chief cause of the turnover is
believed by agricultural experts to be
the attractiveness of the new land
| which, in the past, has set up waves
NsaEAMpfwel Georgian, Mourned
Texas Radio Corporation and
Austin Statesman Broad-
cating Station.
Knowledge that various eligibles
, a
This station is owned and
operated by the Texas Radio
Corporation, dealers tn Had to
Supplies and sots. The piano
used at this station la furnished
by the J. H Reed Music Com-
. of migration among the farm popula-
! tions. Another cause is seen in the
extent to which farm land has ben
bought and sold for' investment and
speculation. In addition the rapid in-
WASHINGTON, March 11With
within the next few years. He de-
clared that other cities in Texas fl-
army has been of much wider effect__•___________________
than the official reports admit.
Dissatisaction With changes in the ] ■ 1 ■ ----------.
=sS’irHSS; AMERICAN FARMERS
Chairman Smoot, of the Finance
Committee. Plana to Hold
Night Sessions In Order to Ex-
pedite Action.
. (station and enacting a resolution for
ernor Neff who appointed him a few । this purpose, whieh ought to be by
months ago. ‘ unanimous consent.
The election of a president of the "The taxpayers, the business inter-
university will be formally considered | ests, agriculture, industry, finance--An
at the April session of the regents, fact, all the elements that go to make
though it may be mentioned Incident- up the economic welfare of the people
ally at the monthly session on Tues- of A merlot-would be greatly benefited
day of next week. The April date was by such action.
learned authoritatively in Austin Mon- ' "It would remove an
Formal beginning of the invitation
membership campaign to be conducted
by the Chamber of Commerce for three
days, beginning Tuesday morning,
came in a luncheon meeting of com-
mitteemen held Monday night at the
Driskill Hotel.
Plans for the campaign in which It
is proposed to interview 500 business
men of Austin in the matter of in-
ereasing the total membership of the
• planning to open the inquiry Thursday
with consideration of charges involv-
ing the Cantu revolution in Lower Cal-
ifornia in 1921. The chairman and
Senator Wheeler have received a large
number of documents and are holding
numerous conferences with witnesses
j and others relating to the Mexican and
other matters listed-for investigation.
WASHINGTON, March 11.— Almost
a fifth of the country’s farms had new
occupants in 1922. Nine southern
I be paid for the current year might be
C. M. Cold weir of Abilene, regent of I provided by law before the 15th of
the University of Texas. Is reported to i
Disaffection Is Said to Be Wide-
spread Among All Ranks of
the Dail’s Military Estab-
lishment.
Chamber of Commerce (his year and
increase the budget to 125,000 were . . ,
outlined to the worker. by Chairman status entertng the mystery cinssirica-
Alfred C. Bull. An invitation will be J tion due to lack of surface develop-
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+nan whAr. <* i. .. ...AA..1of population to the cities, Brings
today, whereit 8 expected to undergo about constant changes in market op-
n searching scrutiny by the agriculture; portunities and necessitates readjust-
comnmittee. , , .2 ments in systems of farming and in
The measure was passed by the J sizes o farms, while different classes
house yesterday by a vote of 227 to i of farmers in this country move in
124. after a week of stormy debate, - . . - - . .
given to each of these merchants, bust- ’ ments since his return from Florida,
nesmand profesnionat men to join the | senator. Wheeler, Democrat, Montana,
Chamber of Commerce through the .....
— in his role of "prosecutor plunged into
final preparations today for opening
the senate investigation of his admin-
istration.
ALBANY, Ga., March 11.—Return-
ing home after an absence of more
than five months during which he was
shipwrecked and spent two months on
an island, in the West Indies to find
his wife in charge of his office and
entered in the primaries to succeed
him, Judge William E. Smith, ordi-
nary of Dougherty county, today had
resumed his place in the community
from which he mysteriously disap-
peared last October 6.
According to Judge Smith, several
years ago he met Frank Rittenhouse
‘of Baltimore at Miami, Fla., and a
mutual fondness for the sea and Rit-
Smith left Albany, he said, the two
cruised to the Bahama Islands and re-
mained there several - days. On No-
vember 24 Rittenhouse, Smith and
Charles R. Allen, also of Baltimore,
left Miami for Buenos Aires.
Three weeks later the cruiser was
wrecked in a tropical storm and the
three white men and a negro member
of the crew were washed ashore- on an
island.
The island, as nearly as they could
figure out, is about 125 miles north-
east of Santo Domingo, and if it had a
name the men did not learn it, Judge
Smith said.
They located several • small houses
occupied by fishermen • who spoke
either Spanish or French, Judge Smith
said. Here they whiled away time. oc-
that there is a political angle, and
that one member of the government
has resigned while some of the depu-
ties intend to repign their seats in the
Dail Eireann,
There were incidents in Dublin yes-
terday recalling the recent troublous
times, the correspondents declare, with
the rapid movement of armored cars
and"lorrjes carrying armed soldiers
through the streets and now and then
a low. flying airplane.
Meanwhile Major- General Liam
Tobin and Colonel Charles Dalton,
alleged leaders of the mutiny, con-
tinue al liberty.
GENEVA, March 11.— Manufacture
of synthetic cocaine by German chem-
ists will increase the difficulties of
regulating the narcotic evil, it is
feared by experts ' attached to the
League of Nations. Official reports
of the German output have come to
Geneva.
If the process is successful, limita-
tion of the production of the Coco leaf
in Peru. Bolivia and Java would no
longer suffice as a preventive meas-
ure. It is believed.
A commission of the league now is
making plans for an international
opium conference In November.
trict attorney for Maryland. today
filed suit in the local United States
COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS
REPORT BY LEASED WIRE
DUBLIN, March 11.—Free State
have resigned his position on the
board and his successor Is o be named
by Governor Neff within a short time,
Mr. Caldwell is vice president of a
short line of railroad in West Texas
and the attorney general ruled that he
could not use railroad passes and con-
tinue as a regent, he then tendered
names of certain men in order that I that Mr. Daugherty’s retirement is im-
aomneittewsriunongzeelaamaphgnther minent, but they are at a 1oss to ex-
"Presden damK Jhnon totd the plain the perstatence of the calm that
workers that Austin is no longer a: overspread that phase of the situation
20-cent town; that it had gone into the immediately after his unexpected trip
city class, and that it was ready to ■ from Miami.
undertake bigger things, which will Chairman Brookhart of the special
enhance its prosperity considerably i investigating committee. meanwhile is
Chief Executive Believes All
Other Legislation Should Be
Sidetracked in Order to Re-
lieve Taxpayers Before 15th.
U. S. SURVEY SHOWS . . ... .........
forcement agent in the St. Louis dis-
trict. will be asked to resign by
Governor Hyde unless he voluntarily
submits his resignation as a result of
the alleged beer protection scandal,
according to the St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch. •
Charles B. Prather resigned Sunday
as state food and drug commisssioner
after an official of the Griesedieck
Brothers frewery admitted 115,000 had!
been paid for alleged protection in the 1
manufacture of real beer. Prather,
by virtue of his office, had charge
of beverage inspection.
Prather and Heber Nations have
denied emphatically any knowledge
of the alleged graft.
The Post-Dispatch asserts Governor
Hyde has sought legal advice as to
methods of removing He bar Nations
should he refuse to resign?
Prather and Heber Nationa are ap-
pointees of Hyde.
asionally fishing and subsisting on
the crude fare oLtho islanders.
Finally, according to the story, a
small steamer arrived to trade with
the islanders. The shipwrecked party
left on It and in about two weeks ar-
rived at Santo Domingo, where they
secured passage on a sailing vessel.
They arrived in Tampa, Fla., last
Wednesday and communicated with
their families.
Only one accurate report of Judge
Smith had reached Albany prior to
last Wednesday when he wired his wife
for money on which to get home.
"The first thing I did when I got
money from home,’’ Judge Fmith said,
"was got something to eat. i had lived
so long on dried herring and hardtack
that I wanted something really good.”'
I CALDWELL REPORTED
but how soon it will be taken up in
senate committee has not been deter-
mined. Chairman Norris already has
declared opposition to the Ford offer
and members, of the committee also
have criticized terms of the proposed
lease.
As passed by (he house, the measure
is in practically the same form in
which It was reported by the military
committee, only a few minor amend-
ments having been added. All other
legislative business was sidetracked
during the week’s debate on the pfter.
which was made two years ago, but
the house today was prepared to re-
sume with its program of appropria-
don and other bills.
1:41 to’6 p. m.: Local and
general news.
1 to 19 pm: Regular pro-
gram consisting of phonograph
selections on Brunswick fur-
nished by J. R. Reed Music
company of Austin.
DUBLIN, March .11.—Joseph Mc-
Grath, minister of industry and com-
msits. announced his resignation in
the Dail Eireann this afternoon be-
cause of “muddling” in connection
with army troubles.
business district into sections and
section Each committee will have the ion of many administratiox. leaders
LONDON, March 11.— Dispatehes
from Dublin correspondents today say
that the trouble in the Free Blate
Requisition Honored.
A requisition from the governor of
Ohio for the return to that state of
Walter Jones, wanted on a charge of
burglary, was honored today by Gov-
ernor Neff. Jones is under arrest in
Houston.
n Austin
COOLIDGE FOR TAX CUT
Almost a Fifth of the Country’s
Farms Had New Occupants
in 1922.
Secretary Mellon will be heara by
CHICAGO. March 11.olive Nomthe commtitee before the tax rates are
Hamon. l«-y»ar-oM daughter of the stndled.
late Jake Hamon, wealthy oil man and Mr. Smoot ha, declarea acme ot the
Oklahoma Republican leader, left last | rates as reduced by the houm WIU
night for Washington in an attempt to have t be revisea, irsisting the meas-
persuade the United states nenate tolure as it stands .fall. by $100,000,000
allow her to deny charses that herjot raising sufficlent revenue. Mr.
he an entertaining program, inelud- f father hnainttemptedso arzansea. cor: Mellon wiu be anked to present hi.
ing "peecheg, athltie contests .nd a lrupt political deal with Major General View, on the house bill end to emtimate
parade on ongrene Avenue, acord- | Leonard Wood: | -
ing to R. C. Stovall, chairman of the
ST. LOUIS, Ms.. March IL— Heber
Nations, state commissioner of labor
statistics, and brother of Ous O. Na-
tions, chief federal prohibition en-
WASHINGTON, March 11—Opposi-
tion was indicated today by some
Democratic members of the house to
the recommendation of the judiciary
committee that Investigation of the
charges that two members of the
chamber have accepted money Im-
Committee’s Suggestion That
Matter Be Left to Attorney
General, Opposed.
The great fluidity of American eco-
nomic and social life. the experts say.
also tends to create condition which
make for shifting, since farmers, dis-
satisfied with the land they occupy,
are not deterred from moving by the
risk of not finding another farm im-
mediately available, some shifting is
more or less aimless; they concede.
WASHINGTON. March 11.—The
East Texas: Tonight. Increasing
cloudiness. warmer; Wednesday, un-
settled, local rains; warmer in east
portion.
West Texas: Tonight and Wednes-
day. unsettled, probably rain in south-
east portion and rain or snow in north
portion; warmer tonight.
but much of the fluidity reprei
desirable economic and soclal
adjustment.
The growth of Austin and of The Statesman has en-
couraged The Statesman's management to take a step to which
it has long looked forward and place a street sale price on
this paper in line with big city practice. We believe this step
will result advantageously to the entire community, and we
assure our patrons that, so far from attempting to recover its
expenses through cutting down our news and feature service.
The Statesman will be steadily improved.
"Gimme a pack of Chesterfields,"
commanded what appeared to be a
flashily dressed youth of the "jelly-
bean’’ type of the clerk behind the
cigar counter in a downtown cafe
last night. In addition to his neatly
pressed gray suit, gaudy tie, shiny
"brogues" and jaunty soft hat, the
apparent J. B affected a surly voice
and swaggering manner. To the
loungers about the place the "Ches-
terfieldian" appeared to be what he
represented-merel a callow boy in
his late teens- but- the masquerade
was disclosed when "he” paid for
the fags, for the tiny hands, well
manicured nails, with a glittering
diamond set in platinum on one
finger, would have revealed ' him"
to be a girl even though several
black curl* of bobbed hair had not
slipped from beneath the hat. "
By the time the spectators had
recovered from their amazement
and surprise, the masquerader had
hurried from the restaurant arid en-
tered a Ford coupe parked at the
curb. The driver of this car wore
a cap pulled far down over the head,
but a few telltale locks of hair, re-
vealed as the pair drove off. led to
the belief that the pilot of the coupe
also was a girl in masculine attire,
out for a little lark.
‘-About the same hour of the night
several boys in feminine attire were
reported to have been seen roaming
about town, but it is not believed
there was any connection between
th* two sets of masqueraders.
BALTIMORE, Md. March 11.
properly be left to the departmen of
justice.
The committee found that the reply
of Attorney General Daugherty to the
resolutions directing him to divulge the
names of the accused representatives
presented to the house the chofce of
। taking full responsibility for invest-
gating the allegations, or permitting
the department to continue its inves-
tigation.
no hesita-
WIBHB-RELLS
MysrsDmranrom
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the presidency mentioned, one member ; che wage earner and ths agriculture
। suggesting that the matter be consid- of our country* it is impossible to see
ered for action at the May meeting that any harm could accrue from this
। Another Wanted it to come up in April | action, and there is every prespect of
.. ; and a tentative agreement was reached resulting benefits, which would be very
that it be considered in the April meet- great.
NW f ANTONMFNT KTI"T ing, which regulariy is for the third "It would be a positive step in the
IVHVV MiVAVIVIHIVI •UII | Tuesday of the month and in Austin, right direction, which is more needed
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______ regents at the April merlin*, aa that pustle write re without regard to any
1 plan WAN suggested at the February collaterai objecta."
meetipK. but not adopted. Thia would I ___—
Include both Texans and two or three j WASHINGTON, March H. — Deter-
fromi out of the etatr That part of mination to hold nalght seealons of tha
the program may be considered in the' - —■
a .. . . . , states showed changes in more than a
2", ’^t^^ul^V.; #tart ^»,u^^*ced,’«
after a survey of the situation, and
ATLANTA, Ga.. Mareh 11.—An by I
Mast from the west today ment the
temperature below freezing In many ,
I sections. -
1 Extreme cold weather was reported ’
: In Virginia and the Carolinas, while
weather bulletins say that the freezing
mark was registered in Georgia as far
south as the Florida Uns.
High winds and low temperntures
also were reported in Alabama. Louis-
lana and Mississippl.
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