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VOL. XLIII—NO. 172.
GOVERNOR TO DIRECT MURDER PROBE
26 TEXANS
INDICTED BY
OHIO JURY
Dr. Cook and Associates
Charged With Oil
Frauds.
TWO TRIALS PREDICTED
Company Paid Fraudulent
Dividends District At-
torney Says.
Cleveland. Ohio. July 10.— Twenty*
six Texas oil promoters including Dr.
Frederick A. Cook former Arctie ex-
plorer were indicted by the federal
grand jury here today on charges of
using the mails to defraud and conspi-
racy to make fraudulent use of the
mails.
According to District Attorney
Bcrnsteen au audit of the books of
the Petroleum Producers' Association
by a government accountant showed
that the company tools in from stock
tales nearly $500000 in a little more
than six months.
Payments of fradulent dividends
is one of the allegations against Cook.
After advertising dividends of two
per cent monthly it is charged the
company paid two dividends of that
size six weeks apart—with money ob-
tained from stock sales.
The trial of the promoters both "in
Cleveland and Fort Worth was pre-
dicted by federal authorities in view
of the fact that separate offenses are
charged in the indictments returned in
the two cities.
In Fort Worth Cook and his as-
sociated promoters are charged with
mailing alleged fraudulent stock of-
fers in the postoffiee there.
The new indictments involve deliv-
ery of the offers within the jurisdic-
tion of the federal court of the north-
ern district of Ohio.
Defendants named as associates and
employes of Cook are: Thomas O.
Turner. Leslie A. McKerchey Fred
K. Smith Beecher S. Henninger O.
L. Bay. Arthur Ekman W. P. Welty
K. L. Maxwell George A de Mont-
rond Seymour E. J. Cox. W. L. Brad-
ish C. H. Mehuron E. J. Bowen.
Samuel L. Hess C. W. Fleet and
Henry O. Stephens of Fort Worth.
Others are Henry W. Blean 11. G.
Cooper Ambrose Delcambre J. It.
Rocks George Harvey Currier. 11. E
Robinson and J. R. Burmeister.
MAN DROPS DEAD AT
HOUSTON ANDLOSOYA
MONDAY AFTERNOON
T. J. Clancy Had Just
Stepped From Running
Board of Car.
Following a short chase on Hous-
ton street after his automobile which
whs being towed to the city pound
by the police tow car T. J. Clancy.
2000 Wyoming street dropped dead at
the corner of Houston and Losoya
streets at -I:3V Monday afternoon.
Mr. Clancy came out of the S|>ears
hardware store just as the police ear
started off with his car. He ran and
jumped on the running board and said
to the driver: “Boys that’s my car.
I'll be down and get it in a minute.”
He then jumped off and walked to
the sidewalk.
As he stepped on to the sidewalk
he fell striking the back of his head
on the walk. He died almost in-
stantly.
Mr. Clancy who was a contractor
and builder had been in poor health
for several months according to the
family physician. He was 52 years
old and a native of Detroit Mieh. He
came to San Antonio 30 years ago
and engaged in the architectural and
contracting business.
He is survived by his widow Mrs.
Sophie Clancy; two sons Roy ami
Lee Clancy; two daughters. Mrs. Fred
Guentert and Mrs. L. A. Raeke; five
grandchildren all of this city; three
brothers. Fred of Grand Rapids Mich.
John and Edrie Clancy both of De-
troit; two sisters Mrs. May McKee
of Toledo Ohio and Mr*. Lizzie
Dougherty of Detroit.
The funeral will be held from the
chapel of the Riebe Undertaking
Com; any at 5 o'clock Wednesday aft-
ernoon. Rev. B. E. Breihan and O. C.
Rack officiating. Interment will be
in the New Lutheran Cemetery. Active
pallbearers will be John Richter 11.
Wesp E. G. Parr. A. L. Reus. E.
Werner and E. Smith. Honorary pall-
bearers will be C. H. Jackson. Joe
Wesp. c. Schroeder. L. Thrailkill F.
Gfoeckner and Charles Bactty.
Operatons Fail in Agreement.
Boston. Mass. July 10.—Negotia-
tions between the leaders of the war-
ring factions of unionized telephone
operators in Greater Boston were de-
clared indefinitely off last night after
a three-hour conference which labor
.leaders had expected would result in
• settlement of their differences. Annie
If. Molloy president of latcal 1-A.
Mated: "All horie of a settlement has
disappeared and the situation is worse
than it was before.*
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
ACTING GOVERNOR
OFFICIALLY CALLS
OFF ROAD ELECTION
Davidson Takes Advice o.
Legal Department
in Matter.
Austin Tex. July 10.— Efforts to
persuade Acting Governor Davidson
not to recall the special election set
for July 28 to vote on the highway
amendment to the state constitution
failed when Davidson today issued a
recall proclamation.
He said the attorney general recom-
mended the recall and that the legal
department’s opinion holding the elec-
tion to be void has not been altered.
Cost of the election to state and
counties would be approximately $200-
000 he said.
SEVENTEEN SOLDIERS
AND THREE CIVILIANS
CHARGED WITH THEFT
Army Camp Systematically
Looted for Two Years
Officers Say.
Louisville. Ky. July 10.—Seven-
teen soldiers are being held in the
stockade at Camp Henry Knox near
here and two civilians were arrested
late yesterday in connection with
what is alleged to have been a sys-
temized looting of quartermaster sup-
plies at the camp over a period of
two years. Goods to a total value
of $lOOOOO are declared to have
been taken.
The civilian arrests were made
through the United States marshal's
office. Those taken were Shelby
Patterson Louisville nnd Shepherds-
ville merchant and Earl Perry mer-
chant who lives near the camp. It
also developed that a third civilian
Leslie Waldeck of New Albany Ind.
was arrested last week in connection
with the alleged thefts nnd released
under 81500 bond. The men arrested
yesterday were released under $lOOO
bonds and examining trials fixed for
Wednesday.
Members of a detachment of care-
takers left in charge of the camp
last winter nre blamed by army of-
ficers for the removal of the govern-
ment goods. Captain P. A. Helm-
holt. in charge of the provost mar-
shals office has been investigating
affairs and it is said that additional
arrests might be made.
It is charged that members of the
caretaker detachment conspired with
civilians to dispose of the property
and the removal of the stolen prop-
erty was accomplished by loading it
on trucks with that covered by legti-
mate sales.
AIRPORT IS DEDICATED
Twin Cities Honor Aviators Who
Died In World War.
By tlie AMoeiatrd Pim
Fort Snelling. Minn. July 10.—
Two score prominent aviators rep-
resenting the army navy and i. arinc
corps and the British and % French
governments joined today in paving
tribute to fliers who lost their liver
during the World War. at the dedi-
cation of the Wold-Chamberlain Twin
Cities airport formerly Speedway
Field near here.
Buddhist To Vatican.
By the Associated Pres*.
Tod.o July 10.—Buddhists'who op-
posed the exchange of diplomatic rep
reseptatives between Japan and the
Antican thereby recently causing the
diet to vote down a proposal to send
a Japanese minister to the Papal
court have decided to send one of
their abbots to Borne to study the
whole subject of Boman Catholicism.
Thenibbot will sail in July probably
going first to America.
Still Explodes Cabin Burns.
Beno. Nev.. July 10.—The explosion
of a still resulted in the destruction
of a cabin in Goldfield by fire yes-
terday afternoon aceoiding tn reports
received here last night. The blaze
was placed under control before muck
damage was done.
THE WEATHER
FORECAST.
Son Antonio mid vicinity: Tuesday
•night and Wednesday partly cloudy
j maximum temperature. 92 to 9S; Hgnt
to moderate variable winds.
Enst Texas: Tuesday night and Wed-
nesday. partly cloudy. ■
Wcxt Texas: Tuesday night and Wed
nooday. partly cloudy.
home WEATHER FOR TOI RISTS.
’ Chicngo: Temperature. 78; clear; ten-
mile wind from the west; lowest temper-
ature in last 24 hours. 74: highest 92.
St. lx>ui*: Temperature. 78; clear: less
than ten-mile wind from the southwest!
lowest tempeiature in last *4 hours. 76:
highest 92. —
KnnNis City: Temperature 80; clear:
less than ten-mile wind from the south;
lowest temperature in last 24 hours 78.
highest. 92. g
New York: Temperature. 68; cloudy:
twelve-mile wind from the southwest;
lowest temperature in last 24 hours. 66.
highest. t*.
Wushington: Temperature 70; cloudy
lesa than ten-milo wind from the south-
west; lowest temperature in last *4
hours 68; highest. 84.
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS TUESDAY JULY 10 1923. -TWENTY PAGES.
LEVIATHAN
LANDS 800
IN FRANCE
Giant Liner Stops at Cher-
bourg Then Leaves for
Southampton.
BRITISH ARE EXCITED
Press Prints Columns
About Cargo of Ameri-
can Millionaires.
By the Associated Tress.
Cherbourg France July 10.—The
giant liner Leviathan arrived here to-
day on her first trans-Atlantic voyage
as a passenger ship under the Amer-
ican flag. She iandet. 800 of her
passenners here and continued on to
Southampton.
By the Associated Press.
XoOndun. July 10. — Tlh- expected
arrival of the Leviathan at South-
ampton late today is attracting in-
terest far beyond shipping circles.
The great liners’ pre-war anteced-
ents her disputed claim to the world's
record tonnage and her cargo of re-
puted' millionaires on the present
"oyage have all been widely dis-
cussed in the newspapers. The re-
ported impending arrest of a large
proportion of her crew for desertion
has also augmented public eurosity.
Four S« - otiand Yard detectives left
London for Southampton yesterday
with about 200 warrants which pre-
sumably are to be served on men
accused of deserting British ships
when attracted by higher wages of-
fered in the United States.
Evidently referring to the Leviath-
an's tonnage Harold Sounder chair-
man of the White Star Line in a
public speech yesterday said there
was a certain ship which claimed
to lie able to blow herself out as
with a bicycle pump and then laid
claim to being the largest vessel
afloat. He added that the dock au-
thorities tvould not object to the
tonnage but would make the owner*
pay for the hot air.
The arrival of the Aquitania with-
out mails which the American postal
authorities arc said to have held for j
the Leviathan believing that the j
latter would arrive first leads the i
Daily Mail to point out that a de-
lay of 24 hours Ims been caused by ■
this arrangement.
The coming of the big ship is.
causing some stir in Southampton |
where it is announced she will be I
oj’en to the public on Saturday. The j
owners of motor coaches are adver- ;
tising trips in the surroundng dis-
tricts for the occasion nnd are doing '
a big business. It is said that more I
than 1000 tickets have already been |
sold for parties of school children (
alone.
OIL PRICES CUT
Reduction of 25 Cents Announced In
Pennsylvania Crude.
Pittsburgh Pa.. July 10.—A reduc-
tion of 25 cents in the price of the
principal grades of crude oil was an
announced at the opening of the mar-i
ket today.
The new prices are: New York
transit and Bradford district $3 a
barrel: national transit. Southwest
Pennsylvania Eureka Pipe Line and
Buekeye Pipe Line $2.75.
Other reductions were: Cabell 21
cents to 81.50; Somerset 15 cents to:
51.40: Somerset light 20 cents to*
$1.55; Ragland 15 cents to 75 cents.
$175000 Loan In Oil District.
Long Beach. Cal.. July 10. —A loss
of approximately $175000 resulted
from a fire started in the Signal Hill
oil district early today by the exnlo-i
sion of a 500-gallon tank of gasoline
in the plant of the Gilmore Refining
Comnany. The flames were confined
to th" Gilmore plant and the adjoin-
ing Rogers Edward Drill Company j
50 BUCKETEERS FLEE
Grand Jury Probe Has Good Effect
in Cleaning Out Crooked Brokers.
Chicago July 10.—More than fifty
overnight brokers nnd bucketeers
have either ceased business or fled
from here since a grand jury inauiry
was instituted into their o]>erations
according to Robert McMillan assist-:
ant state's attorney who is conduct-1
ing the investigation.
More than a dozen of the biggest .
brokerage houses drawn into the in- I
vestigation have publicly announced
their closing while scores of the
small places have jumped before the
state could reach them ho said.
Shoots Self and Wife.
Ennis Tex.. Julv 10.—Ed Dvorak
farmer aged about 50 years last night
shot nnd killed his -life and then
ended his own life at his farm between .
Oak Grove and Rice. He shot his I
wife through the hear and then shot |
himself in the forehead. They are
survived by five children.
One Killed. One Hurt nt Crash.
Columbus. Ohio. Julv 10.—Russell
R. Haines. 28. commercial aviator was
killed and Ernest Rhodes. 28. was fa-
tally injured late yesterlav when their
nirnlane crashed to earth from an alti-
tude of 600 feet near Norton Field.*
Margaret Wilson in Business
Margaret Woodrow Wilson daughter of the former president and w<
known for her community work has entered upon a business career becomin
actively identified with a New York advertising agency.
IRATE LIEUTENANT BIFFS
CLERGYMAN ON THE JAW
FOR KISSING HIS BRIDE
Merely a Display of Fatherly Affection Says Min-
ister in Explaining Why He Caressed Army Of-
ficer’s Wife on the Cheek But His Paternal
Act Cost Him a Trip Through Glass
Panel of Church Door.
Boston. Mass.. July 10.—Lieut.
Wesley McLaren Hague United
States Navy admitted today that he
had engaged in a scuffle with Rev.
George Lyman Paine yesterday in
the course of which he knocked the
clergyman through the glass panel
of « door in the offices of the
Greater Boston Federation of
Churches on Beacon street.
He said his anger had been aroused
when the clergyman after admitting
that he had ktksed the lieutenant’s
bride of two months insisted that it
was merely a display of fatherly af-
fection.
Baptized the Bride.
“I believed he needed a thrashing
and I gave it to him." said Lieuten-
ant Hague. “I considered the mat-
ter had ended right there and want
it to end there.”
Rev. M. Paine who is executive
secretary of the church federation
said that Hague had attacked him
through a misunderstanding of occur-
rences while the lieutenant was on
duty at Baltimore. *
He officiated nt the marriage of the
lieutenant to Miss Priscilla Redgrave
MAY TEST DEAN LAW
FOLLOWING RULING
ON HIGHWAY ELECTION
Judge McCloskey Believes
Effort May Be Made to
Release Men From Prison.
Stating the belief that the Dean en-
forcement act would be tested as a
result of the ruling of the attorney
I general in which ho held that an elec-
tion on the highway amendment to the
j constitution if belli July 28. would be
I illegal. County Judge Augustus Mc-
Closkey Tuesday said that it is esti
mated there arc about 500 persons in
the state penitentiary who have been
sent up for a-violation of the Dean
law.
While he has no proof that such
action is being taken. Judge McClos
key said it Js his belief that the mat-
ter is being looked into at the pres-
' ehf time with the view of testing the
[law. “It would be strange.” he said
njif the friends or relatives of some of
|Wc people in the penitentiary were
; not busying themselves to see if it is
not jsissible to have them released on
the grounds that the Dean law nevei
legally went into effect.
“If relatives or friends are not tnk-
jog this action” he said “it is almost
a certainty that some attorney whose
client has been convicted under the
law will take up the wssibility of re-
leasing him. I would if a client* of
mine had been convicted."
Girl. Is Kidnaper).
Chicago. 111. July 10.—Overpowered
by four men as she walked to her place
of employment today Miss Philimina
Costello 18 was kidnaped and thrown
into an automobile in which the men
were riding.
The enr sped out of sight before any
of the persons who witnessed the kid-
naping could get an accurate descrip-
tion of the men.
of Baltimore while he was assistant
rector of Christ Episcopal church
Cambridge.
Shortly before the marriage he
baptized Miss Redgrave and. he says
when he kissed her after this cere-
mony. Lieutenant Hague did not of-
fer any protest.
Kissed Like a Father.
White the lieutenant was away
Rev. Mr. Paine took Mrs. Hague for
an automobile ride to Belmont. He
admits that while they wore going
through a meadow he kissed her on
the cheek.
The clergyman asserts that it was.
merely a paternal and friendly act.
Yesterday Lieutenant Hague visited I
the office of tt ■ chureh federation. '
ignored Rev. Mr. Paine’s outstretched
band and swung at his chin.
The two grappled and the clergy-
man crashed through a glass door
sustaining several cuts about the
head and arms.
Rev. Mr. Paine is married nnd is
the father of two sons who are stu-
dents at Harvard.
Lieutenant Hague resides in San
Diego Cal.
TO BE PARTLY CLOUDY
Maximum Temperatures Will Be
FYom 92 to 98 Wednesday.
Partly cloudy and warmer with
maximum temperatures from 92 to 98
is*the weather forecast for San An-
tonio and vicinity Tuesday night and
Wednesday. Light to moderate vari-
able winds will blow.
The weather map shows a low pre-
sure area to the west of Texas and a
small high pressure area to the east.
A small high rests over the Rockies
with its tip over the Panhandle. There
is no dominating element on the map
and thundershowers will probably oc-
cur over the state.
Port Arthur and Encinal reported
inch rains over night and Hondo got
.20 of an inch. *
SNEED FEUD TRIAL
C. B. Berry on Trial at Seymour
Charged With Slaying at Padueah. |
Seymour Tex. July 10.—Selection
of a jury was begun in the trial of
C. B. Berry charged with the killing
of Kood Barton at Paducah Novem-;
ber 10. 1922. Barton was the son-in-;
law of John Beal Sneed of Paducah. 1
Berry on March 7 this year was
shot and seriously wounded on the
streets of Paducah and Sneed was 1
charged with the shooting. Sneed on |
July 2 thia year was shot and seri-
ously wounded in Padueah. and Berry
was charged with the shooting.
Sneed still is in a Quanah hospital.
It is reported he will recover. lu
1912 he faced charges of slaying Al <
Boyce and his aged father. Captain A. l
G. Boyce. The older Boyce was killed
at Fort Worth January 19. 1912. The
young Boyce was shot at Amarillo
September 14 1912.
The killing followed'the elopement]
of Mrs. Sneed nnd Al Boyce in Can-1
ada. on November S. 1911. After pro-
longed trials of both cases Sneed wasi
acquitted.
KIJ KLUX WILL
KLM H
SIMMONS sirs
“Nobody’s Business What
Kind of Costume Klan
Wears” He Says.
SAYS PAPERS WRONG
History Textbooks Contain
Lies About C'd Klan
• He Declares.
Tulsa. Okla. July 10.—William
Joseph Simmons founder and em-
peror of the Ku Klux Klan in an
address at Convention Hall last night
issued a sweeping denial of newspa-
per stories that there has been dis-
affection in the ranks of the order.
He characterized the writers of such
stories as “spot tailed minnows that
think they know the ocean.” He
added that he knows “IOO.OPO times
more about the Ku Klux Klan than
any newspaper writer.”
Says History Books Wrong.
Simmons charged that the written
histories studied by school children
contain almost entirely untruthful ref-
erence .o the old Ku Klux Klan ami
insisted that these statements were
included in textbooks at the direction
of "pestiferous and pusillanimous pol-
iticians.”
He denied that the Ku Klux Klan
is fostering religious intolerance and
declared it has as much right to wear
a robe and n mask “as Shriners to
wear the costume of the heathenish
Turk.”
“In fact” he added “it is nobody's
business wiiat kind of a costume is
worn by the Ku Klux Klan.”
Wants the Mask.
“The folks that are kicking up the
greatest fuss about the mask do not
care about that face covering” he
declared. “They want to know who
is behind it so they can boycott them.
But they will find out soon enough.
Then maybe they won't be so anxious
to know. 1 have no apologies to make
for that mask. It's going to stay
right where it is.
“You hear so much talk about the
Ku Klux Klan causing religious in-
tolerance. Why the denomination
that is making the biggest howl is
the one that is the most intolerant
in the world.
“As far as the negro is concerned
there are two things he must get un-.
dor his woolly head and keep there. |
tine is that he is a negro. The other
is that a white man is a white man.
and each must keep in his place.
NO ONE WILLING TO
TELL WOMAN SHE IS
TO DIE FOR MURDER
Speaking Only Italian She
Fails to Understand
Verdict.
Chicago. July 10.—Mrs. Snbelle
Nitti Crudelie convicted yesterday of
the murder of her first husband.
Frank Nitti. remains unaware that
the verdict carried with it a sentence
of death by hanging. Mrs. Crudelie
does not understand English and ft
was ascertained this morning that
no one has had the heart to tell the
woman the import of the verdict to
her.
The judge yesterday afternoon
avoided the task of having her told
in her own language; her attorney
• simply couldn’t” and the jailers
last night did not.
It is thought that she knows she
is convicted. Inasmuch ns her hus-
band. Peter Crudelie a score of
years her junior who was convicted
with her. told her at the time the
jury reported to "cheer up.”
Mrs. Crudelie is reported to have
slept soundly last night. She was
put to work today scrubbing the
floors in the county jail.
The motion for a new trial will be
heard Saturday.
"There's no one on the jail staff
that can talk Italian" said Warden
Wesley Westbrook. "It seems to me
that it's the duty of the state's at-
torney or of the court to announce
the verdict to her.”
HARD TO GET JURY
First Panel Exhausted In Trial Grow-
ing Out of Lynching.
Columbia. Mo.. July 10.—The selei-j
tion of prospective jurors in the mill-;
der trial of George W. Barkwcll. lo-
cal contractor under indictment in
connection with the lynching of James
Scott negro who was hanged by a i
mob here April 29 last was resumed
in circuit court here today. _
Six more veniremen remained to be!
selected for the panel of 40. the other'
34 having been chosen yesterday. |
Scott was hanged after a mob had
forcibly taken the prisoner from jail
where he hnd been held on a charge I
of having attempted to attack the
daughter of a Missouri University
professor. 1
Kidnaped Bridegroom
Will Make His Second
Attempt at Matrimony
New Orleans. La. July 10. _
Janies L. Keiffer. 18 college
athlete and erstwhile missing
bridegroom who mysteriously dis-
appeared two weeks ago on his
wedding day leaving Miss Doris
Voss his intended wife her at-
tendants and a crowd waiting in
the church will make bis second
try at matrimony today.
Keiffer disappeared on the
morning of his wedding day a few
hours before the ceremony was
scheduled to have been performed.
He was found several days ago in
Timpson Texas where he said
he had been taken by two strange
men who he met in New Orleans
when he went to a jewelry store
to exchange his wedding ring.
20 CHINESE TRAIN
BANDITS KILLED IN
FIGHT WITH TROOPS
Surviving Brigands Escape
With Captives Taken
in Raid.
Hong Kong July 10.—About twenty
of the bandits who held up a train
on the Canton-Kowtoon railway near
Canton Saturday were killed today in
n battle with Chinese troops.
The main body of the bandits
escaped to the hills with the 90 well-
to-do Chines* taken prisoners when the
train was raided.
A Chinese military officer and one
soldier was killed in the attack on
the train and loot valued at $50000
was taken.
MEXICAN CONSUL SAYS
HE WAS BARRED FROM
BEACH; ASKS $10 : 0N
Sues San Jose Beach Own-
er for Alleged Discrimina-
tion and Insult.
Alleging that he his family and
guests including the Mexican consul
। at Houston and a member of the Mex-
I ican consulate in San Antonio had
' been refused admission to the San
Jose bathing beach for the reason that
। they were of Spanish or Mexican de-
scent a suit asking for .$lOOOO
damages has been filed with the clerk
of the federal court by Lauro Isa-
guerre acting consul of the Mexican
government at Corpus-Christi.
11. E. Stumberg. named as the own-
er and manager of the bathing beach
is the defendant named in the suit in
which $5009 actual and .$5OOO exem-
plary damages are asked by the Mexi-
can sousul.
The petition alleges that on May
*24 1923 Mr. Isaguerre accompanied
by Mrs. Isaguerre and guests includ-
ing Augustin Alva ('ejudo of the Mex-
ican consulate at San Antonio. Mrs
('ejudo and Miss (’ejudo ami Lisan-
dro Pena consul of the Mexican gov-
ernment at Houston endeavored to
purchase tickets for entrance to the
bathing beach.
The petition alleges that “the de-
fendant his agent and employe re-
fused to accept such admission fees so
tendered and informed the plaintiff in
the presence and hearing of his wife
ami guests that no Spanish nr Mexi-
can people would be admit ted to said
place of public amusement.”
In the prayer to the petition the
plaintiff alleges that “by reason of
the unjust wrongful and unlawful
discrimination against plaintiff his
wife and sirtU guests ami the refusal
of defendant to admit them to said
place of public amusement as afore-
said. the plaintiff was insulted am’
greatly embarrassed chagrined and
humiliated and caused to suffer great
mental anguish.”
In the request for exemplary dam-
ages. the consul alleges that the re-
fusal was made deliberately and with
the intent to humiliate himself his
wife and guests.
Index to Advertisers
Index to principal advertising In to
day’s Light for guidance of shopper*:
Advertiser— fage
Amusement^ !
Authorized Ford and Lincoln Deal-
ers 2 1
Banks. Insurance Investments. ... 2i
Blum Co.. Emil 1'
Bohnet's Bakery
Classified and Real Estate IS-I
Cloonan & Osborn -
Coca Cola Co »
Colgate & Co U
Corn .Products . Co. <Karo) 1 <
Emblcton Motor Co
Fomby Clothing Co
Frank Bros.
Guarantee Shoe Co Il
Household Furniture Co
Hubig- Co.. Simon
Jeske Bros. Co. ..; ...... ’ n
Kellogg Co. < Hran Flakes) 1 -
Kellogg Co. (Corn Flakes» 11
Manufacturers’ and Merchants’
Contest S
McCormick & <’o. (Banquet Tea) 11
Model Baking Co 5
Postum Cereal Co. (Post Toasties. i
Rees Optical Co.. H. C »
Resorts and Railroads I*4
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OAVICSON
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SOMERVILLE
Acting Governor to Inves-
tigate Slaying of Otto
Lange.
SCORES MASKED BAND
‘ Mobocracy” on Alarming
Increase in Texas
He Says.
OFFERS $5OO REWARD
Not Satisfied With Probe
by Rangers and Coun-
ty Officials.
Austjn. Tex. July 10.—A personal
investigation of the killing of Otto
Lange farmer near Somerville a week
ago is to be made by Acting Governor
Davidson he announced Tuesday.
The governor expressed dissatis-
faction with the investigation by
rangers ond Somerville officials.
”1 am not satisfied with any of the
theories that have been advanced and
1 confidently believe that the guilty
parties can and will be apprehended”
Davidson said.
Governor Davidson said he had ac-
cepted an invitation of comjiany II of
the 143rd Infantry to attend and ad-
dress a barbecue nr Somerville Fri-
day July 13 and he will choose as
his subject “The Supremacy of the
Law”
“1 am going to the people of Somer-
ville as their acting governor as a
friend of law and order without ill
will Jo any man so long as he stays
within the law. 1 am anticipating a
pleasant and profitable visit. 1 shall
take occasion to gain information at
first hand relative to the shotting of
Otto Lange.”
Grand Jury to Be Called.
Davidson also announced that plans
are under way for a grand jury investi-
gation into the death of Lange Judge
Alexander of that district having de-
cided to empanel the gra d jury for
that purpose.
Davidson also issued today a proc-
lamation offering a reward of $5OO
for the apprehension and convic-
tion of ^he slayers of Otlo Kinge. In
offering the reward Drvidson said. "I
am doing it in the hopa that it will
impress the people of Texas that mob
violence should and must cease” in-
stead of offering a standi g reward. I
shall offer a reward for each case
ns it arises during my tenure in the
governor's office.
Wants Law Reliable.
"Men must lean to rel. upon the
law as society's protector and UTen-
fer. If its arm is not long enough
it must be lengthened and its judg-
ment made mote swift and i-ertaiv. ’
The surest way of obtaining this end
is to let the public know that the law
is its proper and only recour-e.
“When the individual runs amuek
the law may reach him but when the
whole communities join tire mob. the
law becomes impotent and helpless.
The ordinary mob is a seething mass
of men provoked by some revolting
erime. When it has spent its force
it is dime.”
Masked Mob Most Dangerous.
"The masked mob is the most dang-
erous of all species” continued Vie
acting governor. “It is a eonspirac'.
organized with a formed design «nd
with malice aforethought to commit
a crime and coneral its perpetrators.
It work» as from ambush. It pro-
te -ts its members by disguise as well
as may its numbers. There is no de-
fense. and should be none to mur-
der committed under the mask.
"Mobocracy in its various forms bas
grown to such an extent in Texas
that the whole public must frow»
upon it.
"I do not hope for the paltry dol-
lars to bring in the evil-doers in any
great number but I do hope that it
'.will to same degree sound a towm
alarm and that in aroused pub-
lie sentiment i» will stiffen the arm
of the arm of the courts in stamping
out an evil which can grow into such
proportions as to choke civilization
itself."
PLENTY OF LIQUOR
Prssengera on Aquitania Did Not
Suffer For Lara o! M t Goods.
Southampton July 10 —voy-
age of the steamer Aouitama from
New York was ai-eordiag to the pas-
-enters wotter than on mo.-t occas-
ions in the pee-Volsiead day*.
Many of the vaFengers carried sup-
plies in such plentiful quantitira that
they were not entirely consumed when
the vessel reached port and they
bad difficulty in passing them ttrouph
the customs.
The only liquor disposed from lbs
chip's stores however* were turvugn
the ship's surgeon.
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