The Daily Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 88, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 13, 1924 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME X.
ORANGE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1924.
Number 88
GANG GOT RICH AFTER HE TOOK
New Members Reported In Saturday
OFFICE AS ATTORNEY GENERAL
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New, Aristocracy
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Mannington .
memberships
starting date in unexpected volume, one
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saturday, the second day of the placcs of. businens at least.
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JOHN C. BOX.
irty lines.
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leged to have received targe
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$9.95
Nra James Brown (above) la the
wife of the Labor Member of Par-
DODGES
MA
Cameron Parish Well
values along Main and Fourth streets
when the new building Marta up.
the Flag Day exercines wtheh will
at was rumored that plane are ba-
be held in Anderson echool auditor-
ess
es
by
$5.35
$6.35
Nain-
close
the
In
afternoon
G
three
weeks ago. aceording to Wish, who
to
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III
iery
rend
$11.95
$14.95
$3.95
$4.95
$3.95
$6.35
$7.95
fitting
neces-
KANSAS CITIANS TO BE TAKEN ON A
TOUROFORANGE’SPLANTS, MILLSAND
CITY DOCKS WHILE HERE APRIL 19th
ken Hip V.
and alept :
omieers op to captain in che army
and mprine corps and to lieutenant
ionds are already
as been demonstrati
CO. BID OF BUM WNS JOB;
MUST BE COMPLETED IN YEAR
ground.
and then
don.
The
kF
over-
condition to especially true regard-
ing the highway between the Cales-
aleu and Sabine riven when some
big improvements have been made
in the past few weeks.
pTovement over the present nystem
of front ofTiee delivery.
of a large
ghl-Martin
ent at these exercises will be pre-
seated with a silk flag.
He charged the republican ele-
ment of leadership were "eondemn-
tng idealism, and exdltine material-
ism, to curb a degree that there baa
been a marked debasement of pub-
He and private standards of moral-
ity since the war."
words ona must be turned in
Mny IM.
the action of the democratic pri-
marine.
Peveto comes from a family of
Orange county pioneers his tetber
&
game
son.
When the big 12-car train bearing Kansas City’s 100
trade evangels pulls in here on the morning of Saturday,
April 19th. it will be met by a large delegation of business
men and chamber of commerce members and officials, who
After years of work on ahe part of Orange eitizens and
congressmen from this district, the dream of a postoffice in
keeping with tl rest of the town is on the eve of being
realized. The U. S. government in its contract with William
McDonald Construction company of St. Louis, sucressful bid-
ders, nays that it must be completely and fully realised by
April 9th, 1925.
Newton. 3b.
Trauth, ct.
Kinnear, If.
Dunean, rt..
Wright. «.
Huerra, 2b.
Doty, m
Nemitz, ib.
Chicago Lad of 18 Who Ran Away From Home To See
What Texas was Like Tells Queer Story of Being
Branded On Arm By Three Cowboys Near Clarendon
Sheriffs Department
Busy Serving
Citations
Howard Mannington, whose name
han continuously popped up in the
Senate investigation In connection
with ths now famous "little green
house bi K street." snapped upon
his return from Parts. Hewaswel-i
comed by mubpoena eervera
Amsterdam.
' During the stay at Orange. there
were two Amerienn saflors who were
at 3800 fee
Steamer Cannes peak
Left Saturday
The steamer Connedpeack, aw Am-
erican vessel, left port here Satarday
A twenty year life insuranee pol-
try, payment to he made on t
basis of eompensation of $1.00 a day,
op to 100 dam for home service,
and 31.36 a day for foreign perviee
up to $625.00. dolli
Diamonds against Beaumont Ex-
porters. ■
It has been said by patriotie
home fans that the boys who rail
West End park home, can do what
the cat did to the canary with the
ran over 500
prizes for the two beat es-
uryed in by Orange blgb and
ncKdol children on the history
going good aa
ted, while the in-
W man-
of rib-
ej and
m and
The Kansas City men will be.
taken through the businens section;
tn’s
DOUBLE DISH OF BASEBALL TO BE
SERVED FANS; EXPORTERS TO PLAY
MONDAY;CROWDS MAY BAFFLE ‘EM
Chief Lucky Wright annouced late yesterday that a
double-dish of baseball would be served to hungry fans here
Sunday and Monday. Sunday’s bill will see the Diamonds
. opposing nine good men and true, picked from that great
army of players, which annually receives its walking papers
at this time of the year with these cheering words in its
ears: "Almost but not quite good enough."
ay Leader
I SHOES:
naranteed
on every
>w spring
WASHINGTON, Apr. 12.— The sol.
dier bonus, onee efushed by veto of
the president, started on the last
stage of a journey of a probably
simitar fate, when it was ordered to
the senate by the finanee committee
today.
Essays must not
and meaning of the American flag
as part of their program for stimu-
lating interest in Flag Day. One
prize will be given to the high
school student turning in the win-
ning ensay, the other to the boat
essay turned in from the sixth and
seventh grades of ward schools.
a representative of the U. S. de-
partment of Justice These men
who were charged with insubordina-
‘ tion while enroute from Antwerp.
morning with ,a cargo of arprox-
mately 1,00g tons, composed of lum-
ber and rice. The lumber cargo
Orange county and raised bare,
having spent 16 yearn of his life
in teaching in the county schoots.
He will make the race at the sug-
FAILSTO
BOOKS OF
Reports from the oil Sold Satur-
day morning Mid that the Cameron-
Anderson No. 1 State which was
brought in Saturday morning, was
holding up mealy with a productiou
coming from the 3300 loot nand.
Vaden have several
weeks hard
Representatives of the sherim’a de.
partment have been buaily engaged
for the past two day serving rite- '
tions la tbr euse of O. W Burton
at al va Mre. Carrie Brown at al. in
a million dollar sutt brought to re-
tom 320 arm of land and dam-
ages for oil and minerals taken of
the land in dispute,
it is uhderstood that trial of tbs
ease during the eoming term of dis-
trtet court will depend largely upon
the serviee secured in summonin
witnemses, due to the Met that the
number to vary large.
’ AMARILLO. April 11.—WIlHam
Wish, 18-year-old, la la Amarillo
bearing upon big arm a brand which
he says was placed there by three
cowboys on a ranch nar Clarendon,
where he says be worked for a
week, receiving 33 la pay and th*
rancher’s broad.
J. W. Kemp, manager of the
the demoeratie nomination for presi-
The winnik essay will be road at dent, was met by a group of hie sup-
—" " portets, headed by Colonel Ball, this
branded thetr torearms,
"dumped’ them la Clarem-
"Daugherty’ ownership
Jam Sunday, June IS. All ent
trants m the contest who are prea-
le signed up in their own
HOUSTON. April 12- Another
attempt of the orticials of the
Knights at the Ku Ki or Klan, Inc.,
to require George Kimbro. Jr . form-
gestion of numerous triends who had been th irons for the past 30
know bin record, and if elected will days. It was said that the men had
serve all the people equally and refused to work sad had attempted
fairly. " 'murder white enroute.
training under their ncalp-belts. It
starts at 3:30.
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U. B. PEVETO IS
CANDIDATE FOR
TAX ASSESSOR
U. B. (Bussie) Peveto, principal
of the Olla school, announced hisiwas furnished by various concerns,
candidacy for the office of County while the riee was furnished by the
Tax Assessor Saturday, subject to *
in advance of the to the drive, and to wee that every-
ed. ever worked M his raneh.
The boy however. insiste that hla
story la true. He declared he and
Illa two companions, n Mexican and
German boy, whose names he eould
not give. worked on the ranch a
week.
He declare dthat three cowboys
threw him and his friends to the
ranch says the youth's story is
pure fnbrication and that neither
the youth or two other boys, he says ----- ---
were with him, and also were broad- day be "bumomed" his
iament for Booth Aytshtre who
baa been appointed Lord High
Commissloner to the Church of
Scotland She will receive rovaltyi
lla bar humble home. -
After thin warming np. and re-
karaiegar"stap X^kS^ ro ft‛i 'started which- prompt,
ly afternoon in the biggest Monroe Welsh, who has charge of
of the Orange banebal sea- baseball finances. to state that ev-
, eryone la urged to be present. ]
Following in the Diamond lineup
20-year endowment insurance policy for veteans of the
world war, was ordered favorably reported by the senate ft
* nance committee today, so it can be rushed ahead of the
tax bill.
Congtesaman John Boi, who has
supported Orahge faithfully in its
emorts to land the building broke
the news to the Orange Chamber of
Commerce Saturday afternoon in th.
following telegram:
"Orange Chamber of Commerce,
Orange, Texas.
Contraet for Orange Federal
building awarded to William Mc-
Donald Construetion company.
St. Loa is. price 343.354. Work
to be completed by April 9th,
.. ,
All enlisted men and women, and says E
" - - - ward <
« T. Leverett was in Hi
yemterday on buminema.
payments on wartime eontraete, is
also highly signineant.
Bonus Bill
is Favorably
Reported On
WASHINGTON, April 12.—The bonus bill, providing a
AY!
-
Amarillo after being left in Claren-
da, He says he doesn't know
where the other hays went.
Wish said they had been no trou-
ble between himseit, companions
and the ranch workers.
He says two of the men who
branded him were regular employees
of the ranch and the third a visitor.
He gives his home addres«, as
Chicago. He admits he ran away
from home several months ago "to
ano what Texas was like."
Pollee her' are investigating his
•lory and Making work for him
and summed the situation up, by
declaring the trend of the govern- act as hosts to the trippers while they are in Orange.
meat is toward "pluto-democracy" : p-- ■ ■—~ . .......
O. S. T. In Good Order
In Louisiana
' Long distanee travelers reaching
Orange for the paa tfew days in aa-
tomoblles from the east declare that
the Louislana •ection of the Old
Spanish trail ia in the beat conditlon
that it has been in months. This
ineident happened
Reporta from Sweet Lake, in
Cameron Pariah, where a well 1s be-
ing drilled by Sloan A. Emerson.
Ruels A. Moere of Orange and Chan.
Noble of Lake Charles are to the ef-
(oit that a depth of about 1100 feet
Iras been rearbed. The format km.
are paid to have been very interest-
ing. There has aiso been a eonsid-
erable showing of gas in this well,
according to reports.
Orange Rice Mining company. The
vssef to bound for Rotterdam and
formaliy of a record vote
wrote the controversia Jap-
anese exclusion provision into
the immigration bill and then
passed the bill, 322 to 71.
Rejecting appeals of Secretary of
State Hughes to omit, and ignoring
Japanese Ambassador Hamahar’ . J
warning of "grave eonsequenees" to
will face oa 4th street. The foor
■pare will be B4x«t. M will hare a
basement, with modern heating ap-
paratus, •kyllghta over the work-
room and over the lobby and will be
eqiippehowith modern plumbin onjing made for the erection of a mod-
three .Idea or the lobhv with anjerk new building on one of the cor-
aoren.nt asrthenlo ba thuuthe ‛ners fronting on the poetoffice site,
different dopartmentsu nt regular. Several Ofers have‘been made for
apacen. The mall will be brought | property adjoining the site on the
la at the back, which will be an lai-: north.
It is exported that real estate
was Sam Peveto and hia mother' brought here in Irons, taken off the
Emily Bland. He was born in' vessel and returned to Galveston by
morning when be Mepped from his
tram.
' McAdoo st hia hotel, dodged the
Klan issue. He gave out the follow-
ing statement, when asked bv news-
paper men, how he atoed on the Ku
Klux Klan:
“I stand four-square with respect
to this and all other orgnizations
for that immutable guarantee of lib-
erty contained in the 6th amend-
ment of the United States Constitu-
tion, namely :• freedom of religious
worship, freedom of speeeh, freedom
at press, and the right of assembly," "
McAdoo haa been giving thia nn-
awer to the Klan queMlon wherever
it has come up. throughout hi. eam-
paign.
McAdoo before a large audience
at the City auditorium denounrod
the scandals now unfolding at
Washington, including oti, veterans
bureau, prohibition enforcements
‘Clarence Parish and Miss Orela
Bourge, both at Orange county,
were united in marriage at the court
b UM here Saturday noon in the
prbsuence of a few witnesses by Jos
tire of the Pence J. P. Tatum
in the poet office block will soar
crowded grandstands as everyone
knows. The psychological effect
therefore win the game be-
g
WASHINGTON, Apr. 12-
in the face of a warning that
efforts of the United States
"open door” and other Amer-
ican policies in the Far East,
might lie set at naught, the
house today without even the ; 2
Amer iron - Japanese relationa, the
house swiruly adopted the provision,
supporters of the provtaion saying
that they weald insist in ita reten-
tion. should the senate move to
strike it out, even though all im-
migration leglalation at thia sension
be blocked.
Scores at amendments were offer-
ed ia an attempt to modify it, bat
were shoaled down viva voee vote,
the provtaion placing tbo quotas on
the eensma of 1330 instead of 131g.
went througa aa presented, with-
mending al! attaeks.
Meanwhile eonsideration of a aim-
liar bill in the senate w s bloeked
by diseusalon of President Coolidge's
memge about senate investigations.
CHICAGO, DL, April 13—Some-
one I* going to jail and I am not
warring that it will be me."
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, head
of tbe senate Daugherty investiga-
tion committee, deelared here today.
Wheeler reiterated his charges that
- the indictment returned againat him
by federal grand jury in Ma home
Male of Montana was a "trame-up" :
by persons intetested in stopping tbe |
fivestigation of Harry Dsugherty: ,
•I am going on with the iuives-
ligation and nothing will stop me
until I have finished," Wheeler de-
clared emphatically.
“Already - we have shown that
Daugherty was untted for the post
, of atuorney general. Before he be-
came attorney general he was a poor
I man and now after three years in
office he is wealthy. We find him
owning various stoeks, fnaluding
stork, ia the Wright Martin com-
pany. which, according to records
defrauded the government of mil
, lions of dollars during the war. No
move was ever made to prosecute
[ the company
Not alone has Daugherty gained
I wealth but tbe gang from Columbus
| is rich.” < .
| Wheeler also attaeked Coolidge
| for not acting more vigorously in
the investigatfon. He said the pres-
ident’s thoughts were confingd to
for both games, with the exception
of a mysterious pitcher whose name
(a being kept secret who wilt pitch
part of the Exporter game Mon-
day:
Somebody Going to Jail But Not Me-Wheeler
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Contract For Post Office Goes To St. Lotus Firm
SAYS3 DAUGHERTY.MB COLUMBUSY Y. M. B. L. Membership Drive Will WM MDONALD CONSTRUCTION
Go Into Last Stretch Monday; 250
BALKED SENATE
LAYS PLANS TO
GET DAUGHERTY
WASHINGTON, April 13- Balk-
ed hl its attempt to get st th. bank
aceount of former Attorney General
Daugherty and Jaaa. w. Smith, the
senate committee tonight laid plans
to overome the legal obstacles
thrown in its way and fpree.a re-
lentless scrutiny of the nianetal af-
fairs of the attorney general.
Chairman Brookhart was by no
means dineouraged over the fhilure
to force its Way into the Midland
National Bank of Washington Court
Houne, Ohio, owned by a brother of
the attorney general. •
"On the contrary." "said Brook-
hart "I regard the testimeny taken
in Ohio aa th. most signicant eviz
dear, that has yet been produced
before the committee."
"The testimomy of John Phelon,
th. bank examiner, who waa permit-
ted to make a brief study of the
bank’s books indicated that Harry
Daugherty was virtually bankrupt
before beeorhing attorney generl,
but after taking office he had nearly
$75,000 deposited to hia eredit in
hla bank.
IKK R
bill was rushed out with nmazing LLna III I La I
speed after only a brief tnlk in ““VYIL-"
womia pA7K AP
draw 350 or less under the insur- I I 4 La H • K VI
FLAGESSAYS
Orange Elks are offering two five
ue.m (
The contraet waa let April Sth
by th. treasury department, and
speeies that the McDonald company
will furnish all labor, equipment and
materinla for the conatruction of
building and approaches eomplete,
eicept as otherwine specied in the
bid. This ineludes plumbing, heating
and electric wiring.
The McDonald empany la requtred
to execute a formal contract and tor-
ward Mme to Washington together
with bond in the sum of $24,000,
guranteeing ths faithful perform-
ance of th. work.
Th. site aa which the building
will be ereeted to what is known aa
the Russell IM. corner 4th and
Mala streete. It was acquired by
the governnent in 1315 for $7,500.
33 630 of which was paid far by elti
seas of Orange.
The initial approprlation waa ne-
cured by Martin Dire, Hr in 1314.
who asked "for $110,000 and got
540,000. After purchase of the
site $55,000 remained far building
Yenrs a delay followed in whieh
the government waa unauceehaful la
getting bids within thia rum on the
kind of building required. Several
ttmes bids were asked but the low-
est bid before now was 370,000.
The building will be a one-story
structure of oriek, built seyeral tort
off the ground with an approach
leading up to the entrunee whieh
CTOR
on Street
1
urton
in the navy are eligible.
The bill will be reported to the
senate s soon as possible and is ex-
pezted Co pass without opposition.
granstand of yelling fans would
add to the gaiety of the day Mon-
day and probably be the means of
puiling in -a few extra talleys for
the native sons.. We pass It along
for what ft to worth.
Home say that a large crowd will
baffle and embartass the Beaumont
team which is unacustomed to
With no real checkup possible Y. M. D. L. officials Sat-
urday night estimated the new memhers brought in by the
organizations big mmbership drive at # mil um of 250.
Starting as a one-day effort with drive, saw at 3 130 new mem-
teams working in both the elty and bera drawn in. with th. oilfield un-
orangetieid, .the big push has been reported. Headrmarters force wet
.. . . . . - • . jubilant over the showing made at
switched into a three-day drive that the First National bank today where
will eloM Monday evening just prev- workers accounted for 50 new mem-
lout to the regular weekly meeting berships during tha day.
of the league. The decision to The final effort will be made all
make it longer was reached when day Monday. Workers are urged
headquartete was flooded with new to give aa mack time aa poasible
er grand goblin for the Missisaippi ■ ... .----
valley domain to produce the books
of the office, failed here today, Down 1200 Feet On
when Judge Ewing Boyd of the 50th '
district court, denied the appli-
and introduced to orange businems
men. , An auto trip to the city
deeka, and a tour of Orange'a mills
and faetories will eonelude the pro-
gram. . <
It is planned jo. park the trip-
para' train on Front atreet while
they are in Orange.
' The Kansas citiane will stage a
parade during their stay, which will
be led by their jazzy 20-pieee jazxy
band.
Cameron-Anderson
Busy Pulling Stem
The Cameron-Anderson Oil com-
pony waa at work Saturday pulling
out the drill Mem which was left in
No. 1 State, whoa the well came Is
Fndsy morning, it is belleved that
when the drill stem to pulled out and
the wall otherwise cleared that there
Win be h marked tnerense ia the
produetiom. la order that no ehaneem
be taken ia the process of bringins
the well ia. the oik waa allowed to
flow before the . drill stem, whteh
bad been used in eetting the sereem,
was pelted Mt. - ;
These lke-to-have been Texas
leaguers will take it out on the
Diamonds, in a game that promines
to' have all the necewary thrills of
a mid-season contest The Dia-
•cation of attorneys representing the
klan, for an appointment of an
auditor. *
The klan contends he is Indebted
to the order and that the Moks are
necessary to determine the amount.
aforementioned Exporters. When
I the homelings were running up
football ecores in baseball games
1 here last summer, ambitious fans
I were wont to sigh and wish for a
big league team to conquer
1 Their prayers have been answer-
KLAN ISSUE
HOUSTON, TexnK, April 12.-
William Gibbs McAdoo, eandidate for
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