The Austin Statesman (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 314, Ed. 1 Monday, May 11, 1925 Page: 3 of 10
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EX-PREACHER HELD
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Weather News
(Continued on Page Two.)
Streets Safe
the hope that customers could elude
the coast guard's pickets in the fog
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and do business.
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100 Cases Of Whiskey
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$100 BOND FOR
CALIFORNIA GIRL
Austin Man Charged
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University Faculty
Members Claimed.
ONE SERENADE,
BILL FOR $39.60
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Children Admitted
Free At Deep Eddy
Every. child in Austin under 12
Mrs. Ferguson Absent
And Place Is Taken
By Secretary While
Treasurer Replies.
lazily riding the rollers off Sandy
Hook.
were imminent caused sending of
rangers to Galveston on request of
industrial interests.
Attend Convention Mass.'
District deputies attending the
convention are Mrs. A. J. Blanco,
Ban Antonio; Mrs. Louis Poth, Yoa-
kum; Ms. Alfred Swingle, Houston,
and Mrs. Marie Spreckelmeyer, Fort
Worth.
Preceding the business session,
the delegates and visitors attended
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Rangers Withdraw
From Galveston
State’s Reputation
To Be Saved For
Eyes Of Business,
Whitfield Claims.
Roosevelts’ Party
Arrives In India
tAuoelated Pie Dispaten u statesman.
Veterans Respond
To McGee’s Offer
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January accidents.......... 53
February accidents.........51
March acoidents ........... 40
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commander of the coast guard here.
Ioe!ved a.radio message from hl
blockaders over the week-end tiat
aom. of the whiskey shipa were
wadin out there
SAW BLADES FOUND N—p _
BABE LAWRENCES BUNK The Austin Statesman
ty, 8; Williamson county, 3 inches
in past three days; Roanoke, 2.
Good rains reported at Gonzales,
Galveston, Houston, Corsicana;
Lockhart, Greenville, Paris, Ozona*
Eldorado. Ireland and Ellasville. >
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Louis Hardeman, negro, charged
with murder in connection with th®,
death of another negro named How-
ard near Manor several months ago,
was scheduled to go to trial this
Monday afternoon at two o’clock.
Pending Hardeman’s trial, the case
Kimble, negro, charged with
Woman Cuts Ahead,
Man’s Car Damaged
G. E. Aderholter of rout® 8 re-
ported to police Sunday night that
his car had been damaged in a col-
lision on South Congress avenue
Bulgarian Bombers
Enter Guilty Pleas
[Associated Press Dispateh to Statesmin.j
VIENNA, May 11. — Dispatches
from Sofia say that all the prin-
cipals charged with responsibility
for the recent bombing of the Sveti
Kral cathedral in which 160 pr sons
were killed have pleaded guilty with
the exception of one defendant,
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will be distributed at the gate which
will entitle the holder to a free
ride on each one of the amusement
Geviees. Commencing at 7:80 the
high school band in full uniform
will give a concert. This concert
will last until 9 o'clock and will be
tollowed by a free movie program.
Empire's Flags Fly.
A deep silence from the throng
on the platform which marked his
appearance was broken by a sudden
roar of cheers and cries of "Hoch."
Berlin was .ablaze with the red,
white and black of the old empire
by orders of monarchist organiza-
tions, but the automobile* carrying
Hindenburg, and Chancellor Luther
from the Neerstrasse station
through Brandenburg gale into the
capital flaunted the red, gold and
black colors of the republican presi-
dential flag.
ed last Tuesday.
Rear Admiral Billard, comman-
dant of the coast guard, Has said in
Washington that ho will be satis-
fied if appreciable disintegration of
rum row begins within a month, but
some of the schooners and- steam-
HERBERT QUICK DIES.
[Assoclated Press Dispateh to Statesman.]
COLUMBIA, Mo., May 11.—Her-
bert Quick, 64, novelist and agri-
cultural editor, died her® Sunday
ot heart ‘disease.
TWO CARS COLLIDE.
Both cars Were slightly damaged
Sunday night when W. N. Smith
and R. H. Burdett collided at Sixth
and Blanco streets.
Refuse To Talk.
Following their arrest, both the
man and woman refused to talk.
Officers began a questioning that
lasted until Sunday afternoon, when
the girl is said to have told a com-
cases of whisky for 100 cases ot
water?
The patrol boat ignored the hall
and veered off.
‘•The Atlantic seaboard Institu-
tion of rum row is a case for the
THIS YEAR.
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duty at Galveston wharves since •
May 1, have been withdrawn, Adjt. rgL 1 T • 3 TT •
Gen. Mark McGee announced Mon- LnoUsan0S Llne0 UD
day. Rumors that labor troubles — ----
aboard the British steamship Raz-
mak. All members of the party
are well. They are prepared to
leave tonight for Punjab.
Soviet Secretary
Recalled At Paris
[Asociated Prens Dispateh to Statesman.
PARIS, May 11.—M. Voline, first
secretary of the Russian embassy
here, has been recalled, it was ah-
hounced Monday as a result of pro-
tests to Moscow by the French
foreign office of Russian alleged
participation in a communist dem-
onstration in Paris. •
at Croy
dlanaystet
AUSTIN WEATHER.
7 a. m. Sunday to 7 a. m. Monday.
Maximum temperature, 81,
Minimum temperature, 62.
Average temperature, 71.5.
Precipitation, trace.
River stage, 2.6 feet; falling; fall
of .8 foot since 7 a,. Sunday.
TEXAS RAIN8:
(United Press Dispateh to Statesman.)
JACKSON, Miss., May 11.—Mis-
sissippi will not collect 112,000,000
from Henry Ford for alleged vio-
lation of anti-trust laws.
Gov. Whitfield has called upon
State Revenue Agent Miller to
quash the suit and "save the state’s
reputation in the eyes of the busi-
ness world."
Whitfield said Miller instituted
the suit without consulting him.
"The suit does not reflect the
attitude of the state towand legiti-
mate business," he governor said,
adding that he will call on the legis-
lature to pass a resolution to that
effect.
coTneFAYcaorish indlavNay his lantte seaboard by the di
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San Antonio, 1.65; Pearsall, 2.04:
Del Ria. 2.12; Sabinal, 2.12; Nev
Braunpets, 1.04; Hondo, 1.23; Dal-
hart, 2.76; Weatherford, .6; Rule,
........ 1; Aemphis, 2; Inadale, 1.6; Am-
eIekets in the rog herst, .76; Sonora,. 2; San Angelo,
During a lift in 227: For Worth, 1.04; Garzn2 2;
Kerr county, .75 to 3 inches; Arm-
Motorcycle Rider
Injured In Crash
‛z, G, Smith was slightly injured
Sunday night when the motorcycle
on which he was riding collided
with a Chevrolet car, 709-412, on
South Congress avenue. He was
able to ride his machine away and
was not taken to a hospital, officers
reported.
Eight-Year Term
For Husband’s Death
[Assoclated Press Dispateh to Statesman.)
SAINT BRIEUC, France, May 11.
Countess Louise De Kerninon, who
was a cdaret singer in northern
Africa when the count married her
35 years ao, facs a term of eight
years imprisonment for shooting
her husband. She was convicted
after a trial which attracted great
attention throughout France and
sentence was passed yesterday. She
plans an appeal.
Highway Board
Files Applications
Applications for highway con-
struction and maintenance are be-
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DRUMS ANO SHJUST /
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HORMER GOV. JONATHAN
— M. DAVIS of Kansas, charged
with soliciting a bribe to par-
don a convict, went on trial
Monday at Topeka. Davis, and
his son, Russell, are alleged to
have conspired with Carl J. Pe-
terson, former state bank com-
mlssloner, to get 825,000 for the
release of Walter Grundy, con-
vict banker.
Of Chicago Gunmen
{United Press Dispateh to Statesman.]
CHICAGO, May 11.—Three Chi-
cago gunmen were hunted Monday
for the murder of Frank Cochran
[United Press Dispateh to Statesman-1
BERLIN, May 11.—Field Marshal
Von Hindenburg, president-elect of
Germany, arrived in Berlin today,
greeted by a tremendous throng
which lined the six-mile route from
Neerstrasse station in the suburbs
to the Wilhclmstrasse palace.
There was a dramatic, scene at
the suburban station when' the field
marshal, who takes the oath of of-
fice Tuesday as president of the,
republic, stepped from his private
car. . . < •'
Wanted—An Old Car
The older, the better; must be an An.
tiquated affair; nothing later than 1909
model; must have top and able to run .... .... .
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Buteman, delkpscratt had headed in shore to
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Make Austin
Austin and Central Texas: To-
night and Tuesday, partly cloudy:
cooler tonight.
• Zadgoraky, sacristan of the cathe-
. dral, charged with having assisted
the conspirators, begged that ha be
imprisoned,, not killed, so that ho
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Had Been Here For Week.
Campbell and the girl had been
in Austin since early last week and
has been under surveillance of the
officers since Thursday. Officers
said they surprised them in an Aus-
tin rooming house late Saturday
afternoon and placed them under
arrest.
Both the man and woman made
statements Sunday afternoon and
night in which they are said to
have confessed their guilt. The
statements were not made public.
Trial was set for June 8, when Fed-
eral court will convene here. Camp-
bell is being held in county jail un-
til he makes bond. The girl, a neat-
appearing well-reared 18-years old,
will be placed in a home here until
the trial. ,
Campbell is said to have a wife
and child in a small town in Call- .
fornia, where he met the girl. At
the time of the meeting, Campbell
was conducting a revival and the I
girl was an interested attendant at
s-rvices. Campbell quit his church
and opened a bakery. The girl was
employed to work in the bakery,,
officers say, but busness was bad
and Campbell left and came to
Texas, settling in San Antonio.
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the solicitation teams for Tuesday
and Wednesday.
ttending the chamber of com-
me rco conference were .T. D. Por
E. P. Cravens, Bledsoe Payne, W.
H. Stacy, A. V. Riley, A. C. Bull.
Sam Greenberg, Adam Johnson, H.
H. Ludecke, Sam Sparks, Rev. Ed-
ward Owers, Noyes D. Smith, A.
W. Griffith, Will Schulle, Gordon
wileox, W. T. Mayne, Walter E.
Long, C. B. .Cook, leader of the
men's division In last week's drive
and R. H. Raker,, campaign chair-
man.
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[Assoeiated Press Dispateh to Statesman.]
NEW YORK, May 11.Van-
quished in this portion of th® At-
rHE first photo of the largest
A- air-cooled airplane engine
produced in America. It is 430
h. p., and made a successful test
flight in a plane near Washing-
ton, D. C. . .
ers that have formed part of the
fleet selling liquor • between Cape
Ann, Mass., and. Cap® May, N. J.,
for four years, have already vanish-
ed. IM her they have gone to their
home ports on foreign shores or are
seking other marts along the coast.
There seems to be hope that cue-
tomers from Baltimore and Wash-
ington can reach sources of supply,
for seyeral rum ships have Apper:
3n,26 the entrande of Chosapeake
Board Of Pardons
Hears Of Violation
The board of pardons was advised
Monday that conditions of a pardon
recently granted by the governor to
a convict sent up from Fannin
county had been violated and re-
quest made that the pardon be re-
voked. The matter is to'be referred
to Gov. Ferguson when she returns
to Austin Tuesday.
pedition arrived here
Ink filed Monday by county repre-
l sentatives at the regular semi-
monthly meeting of the state high-
way commission. Other routine
business will be disposed of, it is
1 announced. —",—-
___________ ___Jry navy’s
blockade, rum row is breaking up.
Borne liquor craft remain off New
York hoping for fog to aid them.
Thick mist earned Sunday for the
first time since the blockade start-
smugglers would have great dif-
ficulty in getting ashore even in
the mist. l x
instancing the efficacy of the
blockade is a story told by a sea-
man of the dry navy. When a coast a
guard boat cut in close to a rim
steamer there came a hail by mega-
phone from the bridge:
"We need water. How about 100
LIKE WISCONSIN?
"Austin is far superior to the
city I had anticipated," declared
Mrs. Joe Garrett of Beaumont,
state treasurer of the Catholic
Daughters of America, who is
attending the biennial convention
of that organization here.
"In my ride over the city, I
was agreeably surprised at its
picturesqueness and beauty. You
have such wonderful hills every-
where here, and when they are
clothed with a purple haze it
makes a splendid impression on
a visitor. The scenery her® re-
minds me of that found in my
old home in Wisconsin. I tell
you that Austin approaches Wis-
consin in scenery more, than any
other Texas city I have visited."
Etta blit h e d
with an axe. Vengeance is the mo-
tive. Indiana and Chicago' police
believe. Cochran's . testimony, as
chief witness for the state, resulted
in the conviction of two men who
took part in a recent murder.
Point, Ind., the fourth In- years will be the guest of Deep
Eddy Bathing Beach Wednesday .
afternoon and night. Free tickets
WRI A "
AN OFFER to be head coach of
-- athletics at Texas Techno-
logical college at Lubbock has
been made to Clyde Littlefield,
University of Texas track coach,
it was learned Monday.
Lit tiefield confirmed the report
One of the heaviest fines as-
sessed in recent years in corpora-
tion court was . levied against a
young man claiming residence in a
University fraternity house, who
was charged on the police docket
with intoxication and using abusive
language. When arraigned Mon-
day before Judge Harris Bell, he
was assessed fines totaling 839.60.
Testimony Introduced at trial
tended to show that the young man
In company with others went to a
Whitis street home near the cam-
pus shortly after 1 o’clock Monday
morning and began a serenade.
The young man was subsequently
found back of thp house intoxi-
cated. In an altercation that en-
sued, the youth is said to have used
considerable profanity. Officers
were called and the offender spent
the remainder of the night in city
jail.
Wooldridge Wins
In Supreme Court
(United Press Dispateh to Statesmn)
WASHINGTON, May 11.—A. P.
Wooldridge, receiver of the Nationd
Bank of Cleburne, Texas, impaired
by defalcations in 1921, Monday won
in, supreme court a suit to compel
the United States Fidelity and
Garanty company, a bonding com-
pany, to. pay a 825,000 bond.
'The bonding company had pa|d
823,812 of the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe Railway company, one of
the depositors, and claimed It was
liable only for the 81688 remainder.
Power courts refused to allow the
ffset and held the bonding com-
pany was liable for the full 825.000.
The court today affirmed the lower
coprts.
LAssoclated Press Dispateh to Statesmanl
FORT WORTH, May 11.—Escape of A,B, (Babe) Lawrence, life termer
in the county jail, was foiled by Jailer Barney Fitch Sunday morning
when he found nine hack saw blades in Lawrence’s bunk and one bar of
Lawrence’s cell cut through in one place.
Fitch declared Monday that two prisoners, Lawrence and another,
were implicated in the plot. The saws were smuggled into the jail inside
a magazine sent through the mall to the second man, whose identity was
withheld pending further investigation. Fitch said the identity of the
sender of the magazine was known.
THEY WILL LOOK
TOMORROW.
Roofing and painting and fix-
Ing to do,
To change the old house Into
one that is now.
Phon® us a Want Ad and
without delay
You’ll have th® right men on .
t your house job today.
READ AND U8E
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Th® announcement of Adjutant
General McGee that his office would
work overtime to disburse the spe-
cial • appropriation of 810,000 for
disabled Texas former service men
and women has met with an im-
mediate response.
McGee spent most of the morn-
ing opening and studying applica-
tions for assistance. He received 25
letters Monday morning.
that he had been approached in
the matter, but said he had reach-
ed no decision as to his accept-
ance of the offer.
"I'd rather you wouldn’t say
anything about it right now; I
haven't made up my mind yet,"
Iittlefield said.
Started On Lecture Tour.
Officers say he wrote the girl and
her parents, asking that the girl te
allowed to come to San Antonio and
work in a bakery he would open.
The parents allowed the girl to
make the trip, officers add.
In San Antonio the man told the
girl that he wished her to accom-
pany him on a tour of the state
while he lectured on the evils of
the narcotic habit and on hygenic
cookery. The tour was started and
lectures were given in towns be-
tween Austin and San Antonio be-
fore arriving hero.
Detective J. Ei McClain received
information from San Antonio
Thursday that the couple were liv-
ing together without being married
and immediately began an investi-
gation of the case. He found that
the man had made lectures in
Travis county at choolhouss.
With th® blockaders having on
duty 38 craft, it was believed
plte story.
With this information officers be-
gan grilling Campbell, firing ques-
. --------- --- tions at him from early Sunday
ils misdeed by prayer night until five o’clock Sunday
morning before he would make a
"He who does not believe in re- I
ligion does not believe in the power I
of God," was the challenge given, I
Monday morning by Mrs. Lena West
Guinn, secretary to Gov. Miriam A. I
Ferguson, in her address of wel- I
come to 75 delegates and visitors |
to the fifth state biennial conven-
tion of the Catholic Daughters of
America at the opening of the busi-
ness session Monday morning.
The business sessions are being .
held at Knights of Columbus hall, —
with Miss Loretto E. Yeager W Galt
Texas Tech is invading ranks of
the University of Texas faculty and
L . denting the lines in some depart-
l" ments by dangling better salaries
as heads of departments in front
I of teachers who have been at the
university from five to ten years.
I Increases running from 8600 to
1 81000 a year will be paid a number ’
of varsity professor®, who will go
to Texas Tech to fill higher places
than they have here. The scale of
pay is no higher, but there are sev-
I eral plums to be plucked and var-
l sity teachers are plucking them.
Prof. J, N. Michie, A. M., of th®
mathematics faculty here, goes to
Texas Tech as head of the mathe-
matics department; Prof. Donald A. .
Flanders, Ph. D. (Penn.), of th® l ’
varsity summer school, will 6® 1
j Michie's right-hand man; W. M.
Whyburn, A. Mi, summer school
I teacher, will be associate professor
and Miss Elizabeth B. Stafford. A.
M., varsity regular session, will be t.
adjunct profeesor.
Prof. R. C. Harrison, A. M., of
the regular session, will be head of 1
the English department and is tak- l
__ ing with him Prof. Loring Click,
— PhArP• and Prof. W• B. Gates,
The men will report the latter
part of September.
veston, state regent, presiding. Other
officers of the order are Miss Mary
Jane Higgins, Fort Worth, state
scretary; Mrs. Joe Garrett, Beau-
mont, state treasurer: Miss Annie
O'Donnell, state advocate; Miss Ora
O’Daniel, Scotland, state monitor;
Very Ry. Msgr. James M. Kirwin,
Galveston, state chaplain.
when a woman driver passed him - -----
on the right and then cut short in of Ike Kimble, negr
front of him. Neither was injured, murder was passed.
W. E. Barnhart was charged with
carrying brass knuckles in Justice
of the Peace F. R. Tannehill's court
Monday morning following his ar-
rest at 1600 South Congress avenue
Sunday night. The trouble grew
out of an argument said to have
started at a baseball game Sunday
afternoon.
L. E. Campbell, former Seventh
Day Adventist preacher and a lec-
turer on health subects, was placed
in jail with bond fixed at 82000 fol-
lowing arraignment before U. S.
Commissioner Paul A. Lockhart on
a charge of vlolatlngth® Mann act.
« Thegirith him-was released on
a personal bond of 8100 signed by
the two detectives who made the
arrest and who secured statements
from the couple on which the
charges were based. No charges
were filed against the girl, but she
is being held as a witness.
Teams were being appointed
Monday from Austin civic clubs to
co-operate with R. 11. Baker’s citi-
zens’ committee Tuesday and Wed-
nesday in a supreme effort to raise
the additional 850,000 to complete
the YWCA building and pudget
fund.
Leaders in a conference*-at the
chamber of commerce Saturday
agreed that the city cannot afford
to fail in its effort in behalf of the
young women. From the group at
that meeting, with those appointed-
by luncheon clubs, will be formed
AUSTIN, TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1925.
Rangers under command of Capt.
Frank Hamer, who have been on
PHRISTY MATHEWSON, fam- qAI mKY KE353
V ous pitcher of the GUnts "-“"“"“--ST
. years ago and now president of
the Boston National 'league club,
is back at Saranac Lake, conva-
lescing fron a heavy cold he
caught at the opening game of
the season.
DUMB:BELLS
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Lecturer Arraigned
In Federal Court
After Investigation
For Last 3 Days.
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statement. At that hour part of
the statement officers said they se-
cured from the girl was read to him
and he is said to have confessed
to the trip.
Campbell, waived preliminary
hearing when arraigned and asked
for bond. He said he doubted if
he could make bond in Austin, as
he has been her^only a short time.
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coroner." write, Capt. samuni
Taylor Moore in the New York
World Monday.
The captain adds that the en-
forcement problem la by no mean,
ended, however, for ho uald, along
the.coast there are immense cache,
of liquor, overland rum running by
motor truck from Canada will re-
vert to the prominence it had be-
fore the appearance of the rum row
and some of th® liquor fleet may
do business 50 or • ven 100
.from nhore
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