The Daily Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 146, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 1924 Page: 1 of 6
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VOLUME X.
ORANGE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1924
JUDGES, ONE OF FEA TURES OF JULY 4th PROGRAM
9
FRI. NIGHT
ptuht»
if
MUSTVETOOK
A HOLIDAY
want
I
eutting brush out
experts.
Home grown vegetables are get ting their views.
a living example of out-
lover Orange market and the seanon for
What virtue is there in a pulm
daughters-in- berries is about over.
Mrs. Farque. though advaneed in
what living elose to nature will do.
!
eitizena of
Time was
(Thursday) morning and all thru
1.. A...-. ..1:1. -hocanAa
of* others nore fortunate than the
ing her for a visit.
re-
of Bismarck.
Red Cross Milk and Ice Fund
Previously contributed ..... .$60.00
....$1.00
HARTBURe REVIVAL
Send Your Contribution to the Red
Cross Milk and Ice Fund, Care
of Mayor Sol White
P)
/
Today’s Contribution:
A. F. Bums..........
futant of the Seeond Division of the
Sons of Confederate Veterans. Judge
81 YRARS YOUXG, "GRANDMA'
FAIQUE PROVks MIK aor
line of the Northern Pacific and' sponded to an alarm from the north-
stopping the thru line traffic north ern limits of the elty late Wednea-
BEAUMONT SAYS “WELCOME TO OUR
CITY" WITH DEAD THINGS
and hale-
door life.
Starting in Montana it swept east-
Ward reaching its greatest Intensity
C E Ruth*®berg, communist lead-
er, led the denunciatory attaek npon
it was thought the dead past
had buried its dead but auto-
ist who travel t and from from
Beaumont, say it hasn't.
26
J. L. Lockridge, Atlanta.
' The injured were:
Citizens Render
According to Last
Year’s Valuations
POLITICIANS WARMING UP AS
DATE OF CONVENTION NEARS
ALL TESTIMONY
HEARD ON
DISASTER
ling.
I THIS M THE RROORD TOR
THIS SUMMER
BOY ILL NUB TYPHOID FEVER TO
BE AIDED BY MILK AND KE
FUND-5100 IN TODAY
HE HADA
BROKEN ARM
COLLINS TO
SPEAK HERE
Madison Lodge To
Elect Officers
Tonight
TWO KILLED IN
NORTHWEST
STORM
the unless 910,000 la paid.
The Hartman home is within a
5 io
A
g4A
L. A
working order by the inner part
ef this mnonth. There will be opvpor-
tunities for the good people of Or-
Lutcher & Moore
Send Girl Employees
To Galveston
START WORK 0
GULF COAST
PROJECT
Isonzo Taking
Cargo At Pt.
Arthur
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Ieland, June
1*—What it believed to have been
poison gaa was used today to break
the filibustet in the Rhode island
•tale nenate whieh has been In eon-
tinnona seagion sinee 1 p m. Tues-
"Have yow a large let box not
in une that could be loaned to
the Red Cross during the num-
mo, montha, in order that there
may be a place to keep the fee
and .milk tool for distribution
. among thone worthy of the fa-
vor?
Perhaps some one has. or knows
Record Breaking
Crowd Here For
“Big Juneteenth”
E.
young ladies were naked to be the Meanwhile other committees are
guests of the company on a Galvea-' working on their yarious John; final
went back to sleep again, involun-
tarily.
The second time he Was awakened
by live coals of fire dropping on
him from the burning timbers above.
1
any information you have in that
line.
Here’s a chance for the Boy Seouts
Election of officers to serve for
the ensuing Masonie year will fea-
ture ths regular meeting of Mad-
son Lodge 126 tonight at 8 o'clock.
All members are requested to be
present, and visiting brethern are
cordially invited.'
eipation day
any of you
in a minute, but I's got uh braken
ahm"—Yesaah, yessah, if it wan’t
foil dal. I suttainly would help ye
out," continued the neg who will
forever remember that, he did not
hour tew; law providing for sanitary
iprpeetion of fetortes employing fe-
"I .W: male labor, valuable amendments to
Con war at the Lutcher mark farm ...... . _ - . ...
on icth street, Touday, June 17th. ehhd dsbor law: coauthor prin.ary
a 12-pound baby girl. woman’s suffrage bill
‘from his sleep late Tuesday night by
erackling flames- he made a dash
•for the outside—hit a door—and
This time he made his eseape. The
at Dickenson in western North Da-home was a total hss; 159 chiekens
kata where 2 were killed and 21 and two dogs were burned up. To-
injured. Seores of buildings were tal damage is estimated at $4,500,
wrecked. $3,000 of which is covered by in-
not the
Born to Mr.
AILY
to work today,
in the swamps?
it adoption was
the other two
and Mrs A.
was the only means found by a
tired and worn widow as abe at-
tempted to relieve to "some" extent,
the torture of a hot-burning fever
aa it gripped her child. afflicted
with typhold fever. There wee no
l-e to be had thia hot sultry day.
yet there waa a elil famishing
for "just one cool drink"—probably
a drop of cold water on the dp of
hia tongue would have at leaat given
ajme—yes, some relief But the poor
mother was not able to provide th*
ice.
This is what was happening this
LaFollette.
•■ft is a question of polling of
1.000.000 or 7,000,000 votes for, a
mass-elass candidate or forming some
sort of coalition off those who do
not represent us to poll 5.000.000
votes," he said.
"We adopted an organisation plan
stating we wuld form this party on
the basis of the groups represented
here. The eause of the worker* ean
not be represented by big business
mor by liberal business, represented
by LaFollette.
"LaFollette’s ’»e«rd in eoneree:
has shown that he has not extended
a hand to those who have vatterel
under existing conditions.
"You can’t put the farmer, who
is being ruined by the railronde and
labor which is being oppremsed by
injuntane in a party w1* this
man.
day for the next two weeks Prof. .
Reams, who eondheted the song werv ined.
"Say, you feller-
living inspiration of
Senator V. A. Collins, cndidate
for governor, wiu speak Kero tomor-
morrow at 1 o’clock. pobably at
Stark park thought the plase has
not been anseumeed.
Senator ' Collins while a member
ton trip, with a proviso that the
company's automobile would be at
their service The offer was ac-
cepted. At th* Galvas hotel in Gal-
veston registering from Orange to-
day la found the names of: Misaos
Katharine Benson, Bertha Barber.
Matti* B Johnson, Valarie Lemaire
and Ruby Chiidresa.
OLD LADYLUCK
The Orange county eommisakonera
court la mjaking tst progress in
its work as a board of equnmation
this week as a result off the taet
that it is Mund that prasticelly all
property owhers have rendered in 1
aseordanee with the value fixed by •
i nd a profound
This is just one instance cited by
Mina Marques. Led Cross worker, aa
an argument in favor of the milk
and lee fund as proposed and being
worked' out thru the Red Cross
chapter.
Here is sn opoprtunity for some
one to help:
CHICAGO MILLIONAIRE CETS
LEITER ASKING FOR RANSOM;
SAYS SON WILL BE KIDNAP
Farmer Narrowly
Escapes Death
By Fire Tuesday
B F. Mansfield, wh uves near
the Mansfield 'Ferry, was awakened
Although the "bathing beauty"
rage is over in the maiu. Orange will
be represented by five of her fair-
eat on the Oa I veal on beach the bal-
ance of this week.
. Because work at the otfices off the
Lutcher & Moore Lumber company
had slackened a bit during these
dull summer days, all the lady em-
ployees of that depart moot were
given the week-end ott. The five
Beaumont threw all the dead
things of the city on the road
which leads from the Neehes
ferry to Beaumont.
That time has come again.
Csts that have spent all of
Ing Is
cause of many waits
of the senate of Texas was anthot
of the tellowing iun portant measures;
state-wide' atathtory prohibition law;
workman'* eompenbation law, eight
there's »75 00 in it?”
There waa a profound silence that
gripped the little group of negroes
for a few moments, until one sfter
another gapped *nossah" down the
line until it came time for one
of (he well dressed negroes to speak
The negre strpked his ehim, aave
the while man a glancing look and
A strenuus effort is being made
of her sons-in-law*.
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis June 19.—A hot fight developed be-
passenger train and a work train tween eommunists and LaPollette
near Adamsville, Go.. today. Ten, forces on the floor of the new third
passengers were injured. The train party convention here today Just
was out of Nashville for Atlanta, [when a break seemed coming Chair:
The dead are: I man Taylor automatically reeessed
C. L. Thomaeon, H. J. Robertson, the convention without putting it to
years, is
•day. There was no damage done.
They earns by boat, by spesial
train, by auto and afoot, Juneteenth
celebrators beat on a good ume.
and indieations pointed to one of
the biggest crowds in the hipfory
of the city in Orange
Orange colored folks are hosts
todsy to hundreds ot visitors from
nearby towns and the program ealls
'or everything from barbecue and
lemonade to baseball.
The biggest crowd arriving during
■he forenoon wes a train load of
the colored population of Fort Ar-
Tar and Beaumont arriving at 10
1. m. This train brought the Fort
Arthur baseball team that will play
•be Salem Brotherhood team at West
End park this afternoon The fact
hat all colored people are eelebrat-
typhoid-stricken fatherlees boy, were *o get tie ice ana milk system into
enloying the luxuries of life.
s vote.
A report of the majority -it the
nomination committee favored ignor-
ing the candida-y of LaFollette and
recommended seleetion of new can-
didates.
Rev. Henderson, the newly-elected A substitute wsa offered by the
nesociational mimsionary off the Bap- i communists which would ask LaFk
flat denomination, in eherge of the i lotto to run on the communist party
Fonthetst Texas wet farted 1 1-9 tlattorm. A minority report would
Jack Nogueas, a local zivil engi-
neer. endeavored to measure the
depths of patriotism among the Or-
ange negroes this morning when he
observed a number cf negroes posing
on the Orange National bank cor-
her, "just taking it easy” on Eman-
. CHICAGO, June 19.—Police and
private deteetives guarded the homer
of weelthv Ellis avenue residents
today following the receipt of a
ranscm letter by Irwin H Hartman,
millionaire furniture dealer, thrent-
ening t kidnep Irwin Hartmen. Jr.,
at the park, boat parade, and the
prize fight have not beta anhouneed
yet but are expected ' to be ready
for publication tomarow.
The tinanee committee cOmposed
ot J. B Turner, Jake Depwe, and
Q. C. Ellisor are meeting with an-
eoufagementtn almost all quarters,
their first tear tor funds meeting
with sueeess on every cell mode.
their nine Hves; artillery horses
that drug the guns at the Bat-
tie of Bunker Hill, eanary bird,
ehiekens, pigs, hog*, nogs and
parrots. all generously eontribute
to a smell, than which there is
said to be no greater within
the ken of man.
"Boy in Beaumont— get a free
smell," said a tourist todsy ss
he nursed his fraetured nostrils.
are living, some of them reriding
in this city. Mrs. Farque does'
not wear gfanacs and loves to talk
te young folks about the "long ago"
and she can keep you interested, too.
"Grandma" Farque resides in Hons-
son, but visits regularly among th*'
hordes of lineage who revere her [
for her many genial and disereet ;
qualities, and who are ever implor- .
THE PONCE DE LEoN NTUFP .-are. With the . hot wcanvEnwoNOnED
Mr. Emma Farque, 81 years old, weather scorching the’erop. M-K ’ " Wo
pioneer of southeast Texas, hearty! Home-grown plume and blaekber- Judge Ed 8. MeCarver waa today
ries are rapidly diminishing on the notified of his appointment by Judge.
" — Daniel Walker of Beaumont, aa ad-
law, rrandgons, grandanghters, etc., ------------------- ----------. ... _____
___and the piud boaster of a ver- Nothing can take a ma nott his Walker is commander off the second
(table army of them is in the city feet like seeing a comfortable chair idivialon. _______________________
"mixing it" with her "bays and ’ " _______________
girla”—her •‘children." ' " _____
Pile driving work was Manoa
his morning along the river tront
oy the Golf Coeat Lnes station on
water street for the bulkheads an
art of the plan for raising the
street level preparatory to paving.
Mayor White was instrumehtal in
putting thru the proposed improve-
went, which wil improve the ap-
searance of this part of the town
materially. >
gliest wen. I have therefore, ap-
pointed as otticial judges for a bath-
ing beauty contest which will be
[held at O. 8. T. pork at a time
0 be announced later, Joo Wiggles
Abe A-Koisay, Claud Malone, Jack
Higman, and Ed Turpin." . ,
Asked if these men would consti-
tute the entire ecmmittee, the field
marshal looked pussled but quickly
recovered himseli,
"You may My that while this
comnittee was picked aa the ugliest
men In town, that in our enthusiasm
we may have overlooked several
likely candidates, and that the com-
mittee will be increased from ume
to time as other ugly men age re-
ported by interested eitizens."
gaess CANTALOPES
After studying the evidence which _________
It is sgreed lays blame tor the a< All U A DVrT
eident which killed 48 snllors on I IN MAKKM I
the fact that the guns were insut- UIV IMIIUIL 1
ficientiy rupplied.withmair; henwin ------ work on "Junetsmth," 1924.
in turn report to Admiral Samuel .
S. Robison, commander in chief Rome grown eantalopes are being i powr anrur
of the fleet who will pace the find- reecived on 'he market thia week. ' HI. IN PORT AuTNI H
Ings to the judge Advcate off the selling tor 15 and 20 centa . Mios M*F, Marais,., pXV
navy. two years this included 9,613 milen retary and Mina Florence J. Perry.
Following this the testimony will Home-grown cantabpes this year health nurse of Orange Chapter Red
go to Secretary Wilbur of the navy are big and hnsky looking Crons, spent, yenserdav in Port Ar
and thence to the naval board of Corn took a sudden jump this thur witnessing Red Cross pre-school
week from 50 to *0 cents s dozen, age elinte work. The work was wel
but the corn is better this week worth the time of the Orange Red
" than leal. Cron representatives, necording le
leaf? As to whether
remarked: "Boss I'd help you out
secke‛ revivel mee ms at the Herta- pledge the eonvention toward favor-
burg Baptist church this weck. Two lug LaFollette without asking him
services will be eondueted there ench anything about it.
The questhon was never determ-
. The first peport was greeted
* Number 148
BA THING BEAUTY CONTEST WITH UGLIEST MENAS
Wednenday afternoon had it
all over FHday the 13th ia had
inch for Sherirt J. W. Heltom.
Touring - the northeast part
off the coumty, the nhertt pasa-
ed by a farm of hia and was
mystintea to mee that the farm-
house waa misndng nvestiua-
llos proved that it Nad been
burned to the ground.
Aa the sherift walked around
the rains inapecting what the
fire had left lie heard what he
thought was the noine of an
approarhing car. Turning
.round he saw columns of
fiame IS to 20 t^t high leap-
ing from his tive pesmenger
Hudwon where it stood parked.
Digwing into the wround for
dirt to throw on the flames
with his pocket kalte the third
calamity befell Helton when he
Mach the sharp blade of the
knife into one off his fimgers.
ange to avail themselves of that
blensing: "It is more blessed to
give than to receive "
Who will be the next to donate
to the Red Ceoss Milk and Ice
Fuad?
EADER
The steamer Isonzo flying ___
Italian flag, which is making regular . .
trip. Into snd out of this ,r, is bloek e the home of Robert Franks,
scheduled to take on a portion of 14 7**' old sehool boy, who was
ita esrgo In Port Arthur, before xidnaped and slam
reaching this por: this week. This Hartman told police he received
vessel is returning now from Tam- a npcelal delivery letter saying his
pieo. Mexico, where a eapacity earo aon wquld be kidnaped and murder-
of lumber airted at orange was ed untess the »10.000 was paid,
discharged. Police think it may be the work of
Another thery is that mum one
la trying to capitalise on the publi ■
hys eria aroused by the Franka
murder.
NEW YORK, June 1»—Political
ntragetists of rival candidates for
the democratic presidential nomina-
tion swung around among the lend-
ers and early delegates today as
the preliminaries for th* big meet
began to take form. Chief develop-
meats were these:
2 "WiHiam O. McAdoo held con-
terence with his convention lleu-
tenanta, aimed to effect sn early
decision of the contest after bal-
toting begans next week.
"Friends of Oov Smith and Wil-
Mam Randolph Hearst moved to
bring a temporary trace la their
personal quarrel ao that there would
be ao rift ia the Smith forees from
New York. Smith would not dis-
euss the move and Hearst was out
of Iowa.
"George Brennan had a luncheon
contetence with the New York
delegation leader including Norman
J H Dyer, H L. Payne, K.
Reagan, all of Atlanta.
where a box of.chis kind Is In the
community that could be used It
slightly epaired. Ring up the Red
Cross hendqbarters nt 740 and give of thirteen children, most of whom
USE CHLORINE GAS TO BREAK .".-"0;
Fil QgTEp IN pnnrg ANnVPlaenrGudsentuhatoetBetbinrBzotxhCnntastpimnoned
ILIUUU I LH 111 IIIIUUL IULFIL to offer *uch brands of entertainment that every Orange
Apanmepp Anu nnannai.mm mI-pleitizen '-'ill be glad he stayed at home for the Fourth and
SENATE; SIX KNOCKED OUT
■ •---------------——---women should be judged by ths
She is an absolute silen to the
name-siekness. She‘is the mother
ST. PAUL, Juns 1*.—Two were
killed and heavy property damage
was done by a storm which swept
neross North Dakota end Minne-
sota early today.
Mack, national committeeman, and
J. J. Pitzgeraid. Brennan ia work-
ing to prolong the voting in the be-
lief that it will weaken McAdoo.
Also he advocate* an anti-klan
plank, which leaders regard aa a
move to embarass McAdoo.
"John W. Davis supporters opened
up headquarters at the Waldorf and
began campaign to make the Weet
Virginian the favorite 'dark hone.'
Judge John R. Holt, a noted ora-
tor of West Virginia will nominate
Davie aad Mrs. Isetta Jewel Brown
will second the nomination.
Dark horses fanciers also trotted
out Senator Fat Harrisos and Sen-
ator Glass today, the latter coming
in for some additional backing
upon his arrival. He I* for McAdoo
first
"Homer S. Cummings, former
mmittee chairman disclaimed say
jooms launched in his behalt."
l the board last year. The coart had
I reached the J‛a la welme dawn the
hist alphabelleally on Thufsday morn-
detalls of the boat races.
ts help: Try to find a few wooden
palls that may be used for keeping
iee that will be given to the unfor-
tunate families. The Orange Fire
__________ ______ _ Department boy* will assist In put-
the day in Orange, while thousands Hag these palls la shape for use
peracns being at letaure eor the day
on account of industrles clqaing
•town who employ large numbers of
the colored population The Lutcher
* Moore Lumber company’*' two
;mw mills elcsed tor the day.
Several senatora said they were
Mearly oversome by the gaa but,
continued the nession.
? The senate eontinued its deadlock I
penaion while the governor and lleut.-1
Eieermor began an investigation to'
find cut who bad placed the gas- i
soaked wad under the chair
Four senators were overeome and
marly all made ill.
Two of the sraatoro were taken
to the Rhode Island hospital Two
others were carried cut from the
chamber and revived in the eorri-
dr.
bole is to be deepened ten foot more
when another core test will be
made.
A DAV WKKK
Ro jort ■ from Deweyville are to the
effeet that the saw mills st that
place are ter the present boing op-
erated on a ha-la 01 five days a
‘ week on aecount of the dull lumaber
market.
quention can be fully answered, re:
maine to be seen. The palm leaf
iee al the West Orange Baptist by acelamation but it
ehureh last year. ia in charge ot, reconsidered when I
th* song nerviees here. icame up.
INTERESr LX WILDCATTIG
TUHNS To WIXFREE NO. 1
Interest in wild-catting tor oil
in th* Oulf Coast territory again
turns to the American National OU .
company's No. 1 Joe Wintree where
coring hex been started again sfter,
the drill hss gone through 65 feet
of herd gumbo. The first core
showed some oil but the second one
showed a great deal more. The
A cloudburst which accompanied surance.
the 10 mile wind washed out rail---------
road embankments and highways GRASS FIRE
blocking western trattic on the coast ? The Drange Ure department
3 KILLED IN COMMUNISTS AND LAFOLLETTE
.TRAINMRECK FORCES ARE IN DEADLOCK
trainmen were killed and 3 others 1 ———
hurt in a head-on collision between j CONVENTION HALL, St. Paul.
The deadlo:k la du* to demoeratie
fnsistenee that republican mem bi ro
vote in favor of a eonstitutional
seavent ion before anual appropri-
ations ere passed and the senate
adpourns. The chair refused to rec-
ornize republicans.
Fist fights, rioting on a stall
seale and huncorous Bcenes such as
when the speaker, Lioat.-Oovernur
Toupin. e democrat, was shaved as
be set ia a chair, have marked the
leng-drawn out sesnion, but today
the climax was reached with the in-
troduetion of gaa, into the chamber.
About 7:45 a. ai. those benators
who errs awake e: the long night
nessign, noticed a strong odor of
gas permeatipg the room One by
Ms they started roughing bat seas
would leave the room.
A few minutes later a reporter
attting at the procs table, near the
rostrum fell over uneonselcua,
Lieut. -Governor Toupin staying
on his seat, his head drooping caught
al one of his body guards to save
himaseif trom felling. Two men ran
from the chamber crying for asrist
Mcc and doe -yrs.
Governor Flynn who was in his
office st the time dashed Into the
nenate Chamber Search ins about
the rostrum and sniffing the air he
looked under the table and chairs
and tinally found • bundle off wet
py rs under the lieyi-Bpvernor’s
Without waiting 16 tnvestigate fur-
ther Flynn ran from the room,
throwing the paper into the corridor.
Thry smelled btrongly of whet is
dpeteVM to bn ehleyine gas and
ejemlats ware soffit for to analyze
the liquid with which they had been
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