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VOL. 51—NO. 4.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1922
(HOME EDITION)
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Victim of Shipboard Accident
ATTORNEYS PICKING JURY
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AND SUIT OF OVERALLS
LIFE OF WAR FINANCE
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Early Retrial of Cases Against
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Prohibition of the exportation of oils
Secretary Hale of State Executive
Committee Gives Out List
of Candidates.
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WACO, Texas, June 6—E. W. Cole
of Austin has filed his application with
the state Democratic executive com-
mittee for a place on the ticket for the
army, that “only part of one street in 1
Pettigoe" is in Ulster, and the re- ‘
maider in county Donegal, says that 1
if the British troops have invaded the
Free State. Griffith and Collins will be
able to claim that the British and not ।
the Irish are violating the treaty. The
By Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June 6.—Attorneys
in the trial of Madalyn N. Obenchain
for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy,
at Beverly Glen, a suburb., August 5,
last, which opened in the supreme court
here yesterday, were to resume the
examination of talesmen today in an
effort to select a jury. This is Mrs.
Obenchain's second trial, a jury hav-
ing failed to reach an agreement in
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KANSAS CITY, June «—Two mask-
ed men last night held up and robbed
the messenger in the baggage car of
. Miaou ri Pacific train number 108 be-
tween Kansas City, Kansas, and the
union station. The only loot obtained
was the mesenger's watch and a satch-
el containing his overalls.
mittee. A telegram and letter received
from him by Secretary Hale asks that
his name be enrolled as a
T. W. Davidson.
Austin: J. C. Mason, Mer-
government, it says, must take in-
Lieutenant Governor:
son. Memphis: Colonel
consideration, the decision said, it was
nounced she had passed the crisis and
would recover.
Mrs. Moore, who was the wife of
Alexander P. Moore, publisher of the
Pittsburgh Leader, later suffered a
relapse and yesterday afternoon was
so ill that members of the family were
summoned to the bedside
The accident, which Dr. Schilldecker,
one of her physicians, said was the
on the 1920 census, is entitled to one
more representative in congress. re-
gardless of the fact that the new ap-
portionment has not been made by
congress. and “that such neglect of
duty by congress should not and could
not work to deprive Texas or any other
state from having numerical represen-
tation in congress guaranteed under
the constitution.”
E. W. Cole is director of the division
of markets, state department of agri-
culture.
So far the application of Harry War-
ner. editor of the Par’s News, as a
candidate for governor, has not yet
been received here by Secretary J. W.
Hale of the democratic executive com-
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uttnnaetion to correct the serious sit Former Comic Opera Star, Pro-
A Belfast dispatch to the Times re-
July primaries, for congressman
By Associated Press.
OKMULGEE. Okla., June 6.—John
Grave was shot and killed at Henry-
etta last night by two masked robbers
who held up a card game and took
$400 from the players, according to
police reports here. Blood hounds are
on the bandit's trail.
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ports considerable firing last night
near Lettercran, between Pettigoe and
Castlederg, also at Mullaghfed, on the
Fermaigh-Monaghan border. Two men
and a girl were killed in the Letter-
River is reduced to thirty-four, with
discovery of additional survivors, ac-
cording to La Nacion.
Professor E. W. Kemmerer. Prince-
ton University, and family, are among
the survivors. Dr. Kemmerer is in-
Head of Shopmen’s Union In-
timates That Walkout May Be
Called for July First.
dered by the board today, being re-
turnable June 30.
B. M. Jewell, head of the shop crafts
union. here today for a railroad strike
of Public Accounts:
The larger rut was ordered for the
car knockers’ because the board sai
it believed their work did not require
the same skill in the service as other
branches of car men's work. This
heavier reduction for the freight car
men came under especially severe
criticism in the minority report, the
labor members declaring there was no
justification for discrimination in car
work.
(ar cleaners, who now receive an
average of $3.18 a day, were cut 5
cents an hour, or 40 cents a day.
The mechanics, whose daily rate now
averages from $6.11 for electric work-
ers to $6.28 for blacksmiths, will lose
56 cents a day under the new de-
cision. bringing their daily wage to
approximately $5.70.
SECOND OLDEST NEWSPAPER
IN TEXAS. ESTABLISHED 1371
WASHINGTON, June • — Legislation the first. The juries also disagreed
extending activities of the war finance I in as many trials of Afthur C. Burch,
corporation for another year, as rec- (a co-defendant who, the prosecution j
ommended by agricultural interests charges, shot Kennedy after entering
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Blilie May-
BRITONS NOT CHEERED
Collins-De Valera-Compact Re-
garded as Adding Complica-
tions to Muddled Situation.
was completed yesterday in congress into a conspiracy with Mrs. Obenchain
and the bill now goes to President to cause Kennedy’s death.
Harding.
Applications for loans from the cor-
poration would, under the bill, be re-
ceived until July 1, 1923, and the date
for winding up the corporation’s af-
fairs extended until August 1926.
WASHINGTON, June 6.-- Senate
conferees on the army appropriation
bill who are continuing heir negotia-
tions with the hqse delegation had
the support of Prsident Harding to-
day in a letter urging retention of the
larger senate provisions for officers,
enlisted personnel and the national
guard.
giving no explanation to the public of
the process by which the majority ar-
rive at their rates established, gives
the public an impression that these
rates are not founded on a careful
consideration of facts."
WEATNER FORECAST
Hast Texas: Tonight and Wenes-
By Associated Press.
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LILLIAN RUSSELL MOORE Hoary Old Gobbler DAUGHERTY DECIDES
DIES UNEXPECTEDLY AT Mothers’ Brood of
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wired Mr. Warner, advising him to ductions recently ordered and pendi
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SAN MARCOS, Texas, June 6.—
Though plainly puzzled over the
divergent views and actiorts of his
mixed brood of orphans, a big
turkey gobbler owned by Mrs. J. H.
Sawyer of Wimberly, this county,
is doing his level best to provide
food, shelter and education for a
large flock of young turkeys and
chickens placed in his charge.
With the young turkeys, the
gobbler has very little trouble, but
the chickens have the old bird
puzzled and anxious, as his ad-
monitions in good regular turkey
talk apparently fail to make the
wished-for impression upon the
chickens, who are at present going
through the flapper period of
chickendom.
Without offspring of his own,
the old boy wandered about the
Sawyer farm disconsolate and sad.
His lonely state appealed to Mrs.
Sawyer’s sympathies, and in order
to give the old widower something
to scratch and gobble for, a large
assortment of young turkeys and
chickens were placed in his charge.
Life immediately assumed a busy
and interesting aspect. As a
guardian the old gobbler has risen
to his responsibilities in splendid
form. Life is now for him one
ceaseless and bewildering activity,
and Mrs. Sawyer is watching the
experiment with a never failing
interest and enjoyment.
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By Associated Press.
LONDON, June 6.—Arthur Griffith
and his colleagues on the Irish dele-
gation which has been discussing the
Irish situation with the British cab-
inet will leave Dublin tonight, it is
announced, for a resumption of the
negotiations with Colonial Secretary
Churchill tomorrow.
The Daily Mail's political corre-
spondent says British government cir-
cles believe Griffith and Michael Col-
lins have agreed to observe the full
terms of the Anglo-Irish treaty even
though this means throwing Eamon
De Valera overboard despite their re-
cent pact with him, while the Dublin
correspondent of the same newspaper
reports the impression that the Col-
lins-De Valera pact will be abandoned
after the elections.
Surprise is expressed here at Col-
lins’ and De Valera’s joint appeal for
the support of the electors for the coal-
ition panel in the elections and the
withdrawal of the other candidates in
the national interests. This, it is pre-
dicted, will not only lead to the with-
drawal ofmany independent candi-
dates, but Wil encourage the extre-
mists forcibly to prevent the election
of those ignoring the appel.
The London press i^ taking sides in
the controversy over the capture of
Pettigoe from the Sinn Feiners by
British troops. Some think it will be
a valuable lesson to the republican
extremists while others condemn it
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Commissioner of Land offie: J. C.
Thompson. Crowell: J. T. Robison.
Austin.
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion: S. M. N. Marrs. Austin: Jeffer-
son G. Smith. Rankin; Ed. R. Bentley,
MeAllen, " "
Commissioner or Agriculture: Geo.
B. Terrell, Austin.
Attorney General: W. A. Keeling.
Chief Justice of Supreme Court: C.
M. Cureton.
Associate Justice of Supreme Court:
Thomas B. Greenwood, Austin.
Court of Criminal Appeals: W. C.
Morrow, Austin: F. L. Hawkins, Aus-
tin; A. J. Harper, KI Paso.
1, the day the cut goes into effect,
although Mr. Jewell refused to predic t i
whether such action would be taken.
The shop union head said he woull
be unable to make a more definite
statement on the decision until later.
By Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, June The esti-
mated death list of eighty in the Villa
Franca steamship wreck in the Parana
The minority report of the labor
members pointedly stated that the ma-
jority decision was made “with no
consideration of human needs” and
charges that it failed to carry out th*
function of the board to set up a 'just
and reasonable" wage.
"The tendency of this decision is to
vindicate the propaganda of the rail-
roads and consequently condemn such
statements as the employes have been
able to bring to public attention,” the
minority opinion said. It was signed
by Albert O. Wharton, W. L. McMeni-
men and Albert Phillips, the three
labor representatives.
Supervisory forces of the railway
shops were not decreased. After due
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 6.—Over a strong protest of the three labor
representatives on the United States Railroad Labor Board, a new
wage cut of seven cents an hour for railway shop mechanics and nine
cents for freight car men, cutting 400,000 shopmen approximately
$60,000,000 a year, was ordered by the board today.
The new wage reduction brought an estimated added saving of
$59,669,347 annually to the railroads, following on the heels of a
$50,000,000 cut in the wages of maintenance of way laborers last week.
The shopcrafts decision becomes effective July 1st, the same date as
last week’s order.
WASHINGTON, June 6.—Retrial of
the eastern, group of the so-called ce-
ment cases will be undertaken as
speedily as possible, the department of
justice announced today.
The department's announcement said
that at a conference between Attorney
General Daugherty and Colonel Wil-
liam Hayward, United States attorney
for the southern district of New York,
who came to Washington for the pur-
pose, decision was reached for “vig-
orous prosecution of the cement cases
and other anti-trust cases n the New
York district."
The case against the central group
In the cement combination will come
to trial in Chicago June 15, the de-
partment said, adding that a third
case on a civil bill is awaiting action
in Denver.
In a lengthy statement setting forth
the accomplishments of the depart-
ment of justice in the matter of prose-
cution of anti-trust cases, the attorney
general said it was his purpose not to
"permit prosecution of the fraud suits
to interfere with the Increasing volume
of other legal business pressing for
consideration.”
Twenty-six anti-trust cases, the
statement said, have been instituted
since March 4, 1921, of which fourteen
have been criminal actions.
The department of justice also is
receiving reports, it is asserted, on the
pending steel merger and on the gaso-
line price situation in the United
States.
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tacta, attorney, expresned belief they ____________ _______
could complete the sase within six or day, partly cloudy to cloudy; scat-
raven week,. Burch's first trial ran|tered shgwers in south portion,. vestigating South American financial
mor.than, thren,monthsand Mrs. A Wes TeKaa:, Tonight and Wednes- conditions for th. United State. gov
Obenchain S nearly that long. day, generally fair, ernment.
As a result of two nights of
activity somebody is ready to
hang out his single as a full-
fledged painter of houses. At
least that is the surmise around
police headquarters as a result
of the report of the theft of a
dozen paint brushes on Sunday
night and of several gallons of
paint on Monday night. Now he
needs only to steal a job and
he’s all set. Voila!
On Monday, L C. Smith, sale-
man for a paint-brush concern,
informed the police that a dozen
expensive sample brushes had
been stolen from his car. His
car was also stolen but later re-
covered in South Austin at which
time the owner discovered the
loss of the paint brushes.
On Tuesday morning Louis
Houseman, painter, notified the
officers that during Monday
night someone had visited a
place where he had been work-
ing on West Thirtieth street
and got several gallons of paint.
By Associated Press.
PITTSBURG, Penn., June 6.—Lillian
from Londonderry to reported to have Bueseu.Mra, Alexander
been extended-t include foodstuff.. brieht.stan meriaanncomie. OP era
live stock, coal and other merchan- i tor. threc. decadeezsand 1 nternationaliy
dlse, the object being to terminate theknown 45, professionatsbeauty. wha
robberles of theae articles from train, i died at 2:20-07clocktthisomorn: K' had
and lorries in Donegal. The Times | hoen.1111sevweeks following, a ship
reports that the provisional'Free State horr.accident.whtlewreturning.from
government to meeting the onsequent aEshee physrcidnstttwV“aynexgoctd
By Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Maas, June 6—The
question of sifting more effectively
candidates for admission to Harvard
University, which has been said to in-
volve the proportion of Jewish stu-
dents, was referred by the “board of
overseers yesterday to a committee
to be drawn from the faculties of the
University.
A statement from the university
said that until the committee re-port-
ed, no further aetion on the matter
wouud be taken and no change made
in the entrance requirements.
ATLANTA, June 6—The novel
experience of a husband serving
on a jury that granted his wife
a divorce has just boon brought
to light here in the case of Mrs.
Sara Myrtice A i ma nd who was
granted a decree from Albert
Irwin Almand several months
ago. Mrs Almand did not at-
tend the hearing* the divorce be-
ing granted on depositions taken
in Newark, N. J., where she now
resides. The decree is valid ac-
cording to lawyers in the case.
H. W. M carty, counsel who
represented Mrs. Almand, de-
clared that he did not know that
her husband was on the jury un-
til a week after the verdict had
been granted.
vote of a proximately 1,200,000 railway _ __
...........workers of the United States will be 1 felt that the duties and responsibilities
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mail his formal application"b mid- I it was declared at a conference of 1 for the mechanics averaged a little
night of June 5, the lost date for ap- I union leaders here today. ■ more than 8 per cent, all machinists
plying for place on the ticket. I The vote in each organisation will boilermaker, btackeminhs -hear met.
H r ven out berounrarhnnouhens"nirwagaycue"o l ‘ meta
will be without apposition in the July - - -
primaries. •
Of the 39 cemndidates, the name of
Mrs. Miriam Ferguson, candidate for
United States senator. is the only one
of a woman appearing on the list.
Offices of United States senator and
lieutenant governor are the most pop-
ular so far as candidates are con-
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Marshall; Joe E. Edmondson Grape-
land; Andrew S. Jamison, Ft. Worth.
State Treasurer: C. V. Terrell, Aus-
tin; George G. Garrett. Dallas: Ed
A. Christian. Austin: W. D Carroll.
Comanche: L. E. Tennison. Clifton:
A. H. Kerr, Fort Worth.
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workers, electrical Workers, car men
(except freight car men), molders, cu-
pola tenders and car makers and the
regular helper apprentices receiving a
cut of 7 cents an hour. Freight car
men, commonly known as ‘car knock-
ers” and the object of some of the
conference, while refusing to comment ! heqviest-assauitsby the roads in their
on the decision until he had seen nbantse ° er wases, were cut 9
copy, declared any reduction at pres-
ent was wholly unjustified and un-
reasonable.
With the strike vote returnable June
30, a walkout could be called on July
cerned. eight aspiring to the former
office and five for the latter.
The list as given out by Secretary
Hale and which will in all probabil-
ity be a duplicate of the July primary
ballot, follows in full:
United States Senator: Earle B.
Mayfield, Austin: C. A. Culberson,
Dallas; Clarence Ousley, Fort Worth;
Robert T. Henry. Waco: James E. Fer.
guson. Temple: Sterling P. Strong.
Dallas: Cullen F. Thomas, Dallas;
Mrs. Miriam Ferguson, Temple.
Governor: Pat M Neff. Austin;
Fred S Rorers, Bonham; w. W. King.
Bronson: Harry T. Warner. Paris.
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have
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The board’s latest decision, which
is to be followed shortly by reductions
for railway clerks, telegraphers and
al other classes of railway employes
except the train service men, was
। brief and offered no explanation as to
how the new rates were arrived at.
This omission brought more fire from
the dissenters, who declared the ma-
jority decision did not consider «hu-
man needs.” ignored the pleas of the
employes for a living wage.” and make
no attempt to show that mechanics
are not entitled to such a standard." '
Suggestion for "some recognizea 1,
standard” to be worked out by the
board and used as a basis for future
wage adjustments was contained in
the minority report. The labor mem-
bers felt, they said. that the board
should “initiate a study which shall
determine the amount necessary to
meet some recognized standard, and it
must use its result as a basis for its
decision and that it must, through
these decisions, transmit this informa-
tion to the public."
The derision, the minority report
continued, tended “to substantiate the
position of the railroads that wages
need not be established with reference
to the needs of the family,” contend-
ing that a minjmum ware for the shop
crafts should be 56 cents an hour,
which would/ mean a rate of 87 cents
for skilled mchanic.
The saving* to the railroad far ex- _ a
ceed anything justified by the saving*
to the public in reduced rates,” the
dissenters said, adding that payroll
slashes during the last six months of
1921 had been made, including layoffs, ,
at the annual rate of $1,300,000,000, "in
strong contrast to the increasing pros-
perity of the roads."
"The increasing antithesis between
profits and just wages will result in ;
lowered morale, and this reduction will g2
not result in economies,” the minority
opinion said. ”The majority failed U -
carry out the function for which the
board was created Such decisions J
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