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THE MERIDIAN TRIBUNE
BRYAN ADVISES TO
PAY BIG BONDS
TELLS DALLAS AUDIENCE IT
CAN BE DONE—TAX CUT
ALSO CAN BE MADE.
MILLIONS FOR JUST A FEW
Dry Southern Democrat for President,
Progressive," Another De-
mand Made.
Dallas, Texas. — William Jennings
Bryan in an address before 4,000
people at the Fair Park . Coliseum
here Monday night declared he was
in favor of making the people who
made money out of the world war
pay a handsome bonus to the boys
who took the risk, by re-enacting
the excess profits tax to place $450,-
000,000 annually into the United
States treasurer, thus paying the
soldier bonus and at the same time
reducing taxes.
In addition to his bonus and tax
reduction statements, which brought
prolonged applause from the crowd
the principal points of his address
were a demand for a Southern Demo-
crat who is a dry progressive for
president, and a demand for a fair
distribution of taxes, as against
present tendencies. The Republi-
cans, he charged, are making endless
effort -to shift the great burden, of
taxation from the shoulders of the
selected few to the shoulders of the
common masses.
“President Harding wanted a bonus
one way, the White House wanted it
another,” Mr. Bryan said. “The sol-
diers got it no way. Mr. Mellon op-
poses a bonus, and offers to reduce
taxes as an alternative, and Coolidge
doesn’t have the grace to say he
wants a bonus at all.
“We Democrats say we can pay a
bonus and reduce taxes more than
the Republicans propose in their tax
reduction plan, which would elimi-
nate bonus from consideration. We
should re-enact the excess profits
tax, and take from the profiteers the
millions they gained while our boys
were taking the risks of war.
“The Republicans have had money
for railroads, money for ship. subsidy,
money for everything except the sol-
diers. The record shows that a few
people made money out of the war
as money was never made before and
will never be made again.
“Our plan is to make those people
who made money out of the war, and
who still have it and are making
more, pay the debt we owe to the
soldiers. We want these 4,000,000
soldiers to have a chance, at the polls
to punish the few who bled their
families at home while they them-
selves were bleeding for their
country. We want a greater and
fairer reduction in taxes than the
Republicans propose and still pay
the bonus.”
DANGER IN FRENCH
AND BR T.SH BREAK
Premier of Greece Warns Against
Hostility Between Powers.
Athens.—“If, as some politicians
predict, the nations of Europe rally
to two hostile. French and British
camps, it would be the greatest
misfortune that could befall the en-
tire world.”
Thus Premier Venizelos of Greece,
probably the most shrewd and far-
seeing statesman of Southeast Eu-
rope, summed up the trend of Euro-
pean alignments in an interview
here.0
"What Europe needs today is
elimination of International contro-
versies," he said, adding that the
recent "accord between Italy and
Jugo-Slavia must be welcomed on
this account.
“As for the little entente, Greece
does not intend to take the initiative
in seeking to join,” Venizelos said.
“But we should probably be ready
to join when invited after Czecho-
Slovakia drops her present objec-
tions.”
“Proposed recognition of the Rus-
sian Government by world powers
will contribute greatly to stabiliza-
'tion of international relations,” he
said. “In view of the close economic
link between Greece and Russia it
’is most necessary that we recognize
the Soviet Government, but being
a small nation Greece can not take
the lead in this respect.”
‘ “However, we intend to recognize
Russia immediately after the great
powers," he declard.
• “President Coolidge’s intention to
participate in the world court must
be warmly welcomed. Indeed, it en-
tirely confirms the American tradi-
,tion of settling international con-
‘flicts by arbitration.”
French Birth Rate Declines.
Par ..—The French birth rate con-
tinues to decline, according to the
Frei ch National Birth Rate Alliance.
1 F-r.S. tile number of births in
.0320. according to this source, was
‘46,400 against 48,000 in 1922. The
total decrease for the ten principal
it e. of France in the same two
cars was 1,600. The number of
■ a rages in these ten cities dwin-
’ sed w.ch even greater rapidity, the
gure.s lor the past three years be-
ing, 59.000 in 1923, 63,800 in 1922,
and 73,000 in 1921.
COOLIDGE WILL
ORDER AN INQUIRY
Every Law Will Be Enforced Says
President In Ordering
Action
Washington.—President Coolidge
has decided to employ special coun-
sel drawn from both the Republican
and Democratic parties to proceed
with court action as a result of evi-
dence adduced at the Senate commit-
tee hearings on the leasing of naval
oil leases.
In a statement just issued the Pres-
ident declared that “counsel will be
instructed to prosecute these cases
in the courts so that if there is any
guilt it will be punished; if there
is any civil liability it will be en-
forced; if there is any fraud it will
be revealed, and if there are any
contracts which are illegal they will
be canceled.”
The President determined upon this
course after being advised by tne
Department of Justice that it was
in accordance with precedents. Ex-
plaining that the Justice Department
had been observing the evidence un-
folded in the Senate committee, the
executive in his statement asserted
that “every law will be enforced and
every right of the people and the
Government will be protected.”
White House, officials, in making
public the statement, said the spe-
ci&l counsel would be appointed just
as soon as selections could be made.
COMMUNITY TAX
PROPOSAL LOSES
Mellon's Recommendation is Voted
Down by House the
House Body
Washington.—The community prop-
erty tax was the subject of a hot
fight in the House Ways and Means
iCommittee as a result of which there
is every indication that the recom-
mendations of the Treasury Depart-
ment that Congress no longer per-
imit the filing of separate income
tax returns by husband and wife will
be defeated. Final vote on the prop-
osition will come soon.
In its last session of the commit-
tee the Treasury recommendations
were attacked by Representative Had-
ley “(Rep.) of Washington and by
Representative Garmer, Texas, and
[Martin, Louisiana, (Dem.). On mo-
tion of Mr. Hadley,- which came af-
ter seven hours’ discussion of the
•proposition, the recommendations of
the Treasury were rejected. The
'matter did not end here,, however,
for a motion was advanced to make
'salaries and wages taxable to the
ispose earning them.
There is a great deal of opposi-
tion to this proposal and the senti-'
ment in the committee would indi-
cate that it will be rejected and that
the law as it now reads will be re-
tained. No alternative proposal
seems imminent.
, Province Has 57 Cents Left
Buenos Aires.—Dr. Gomez, federal
investigator, sent to Juguay, capital
of a northwestern province of the
Argentine republic, to investigate
an alleged shortage in the treasury,
reported that instead of the 500,000
pesos supposed to be in the Juguay
coffers, he found 57 cents.
$40,000 Labor Temple Planned.
Waco, Texas.—Plans have virtual-
ly been completed as a result of
which a labor temple to cost ap-
proximately $40,000 will be built by
the Central Labor Council here. The
selection of a site for the temple
will soon be determined.
State Loses in Suit for Land
Austin, Texas.—Judgment for de-
fendants was rendered by Judge
Cooper Sansom, Twenty-Sixth District
Court of Travis County, in the case
of State of Texas, vs Alice Allen
Talkington et al. for recovery of 180
acres of land in Montague, County,
alleged to be vacant. The State gave
notice of appeal.
To Assume New State Duties.
Weatherford, Texase-W. A. Sand-
lin of this city, state bank examiner
of the Fort Worth district, has been
appointed to the office of deputy
banking commissioner at Austin and
will move his family to that city at
once.
Princess Yolanda Becomes Mother
Rome.—Princess Yolanda, daughter
of the king and queen of Italy, gave
birth to a daughter, at Turin. Queen
Helena was present at the happy
event and it is expected that the
baby will be named for her.
Accepts as Egypt’s Premier
,London.—Zaghlul Pasha accepted the
invitation of the king of Egypt to
form a ministry.
COOLIDGE ORDERS
Food in Germany Shows Decline
Washington.—Germany’s food sit-
uation gives prospect of only slight
improvement during this year in the
opinion of representatives of the de-
partment of agriculture, just return-
ed from a survey of German condi-
tions. There is a favorable outlook
for increased production of meats
jand fats, but the total supply avail-
able for consumption is expected to
be below that of pre-war years.
There is little indication that the
grain crops this year will be larger
than those of 1923.
EXECUTE FIVE MEN
IN JUAREZ, MEXICO
Occupation of Esperanza, Strategic
Position Near Vera Cruz,
Also Reported
El Paso, Texas.—Five men have
been executed by a firing squad in
the Juarez, Mexico, cemetery follow-
ing the. allged discovery, of a plot
to turn Juarez over to Mexican rev-
olutionary chiefs.
Col. Ramon Lopez, commander of
the Juarez garrison, announced that
a large quantity of rifles and pistols,
together with ammunition, was found
after the plot had been uncovered.
Four of the men were barely 21
years of age. The oldest, a former
follower of Francisco Villa, had but
one arm, the other having been lost
while fighting for the bandit chief-
tain.
The men were taken from the an-
cient stone jail in Juarez and march-
ed to the cemetery, followed by a
crowd attracted by the grim aspect
of the party.
Little time was lost after the cem-
etery was reached, the condemned
men being acquainted with their fate
during the march.
Following the usual custom of
reading their sentence, the men were
ordered to prepare for death. Some
stood mute. Others removed their
hats, took out their handkerchiefs
and faced the squad.
One at a time, as thejr names
were called, the men walked in front
of the adobe wall of the grim guard-
house in the cemetery and stood at
rigid attention.
At the command of fire the limp
form of the prisoner would fall to
the’ ground in death throes. Imme-
diately after the volley a “mercy
shot” was administered.
Mexico City, via Laredo Junction.
—The death of Gen. Fortunato May-
cotte during the fighting which pre-
ceded the capture of Esperanza by
federals has been reported in mes-
sages received at railway headquar-
ters. Maycotte was military com-
mander of Oaxaca and revolted with
Manuel Garcia Vigil, Governor of
Oaxaca, shortly after De la Huerta
initiated his movement at Vera Cruz
early in December. Since then he
has taken a leading part in rebel
military operations in the States of
Puebla and Vera Cruz.
The town of Esperanza, considered
the most important strategic posi-
tion on the railway between the cap-
ital and Vera Cruz and described as
the key to Orizaba, was captured
late Saturday by the federal forces
under Gen. Martinez, according to
an official statement made by
der-Secretary of War Manzo.
Un-
PASTOR HURLS DEFI
AT JUDGE’S ACTION
Ministers Score Jurist for His Re-
buke After the Courts
Criticised
Kansas City, Mo.—Preaching to a
“standing room only” congregation,
the Rev. Baxter Waters Sunday de-
fied Judge Thad Landon, who halt-
ed him before the bench last week
because of his criticism of the
courts.
The minister repeated without al-
teration the statement about the
courts for which the Judge had re-
buked him.
The text of his sermon was: “My
Summons to Court.”
Dr. Waters’ sermon consisted of
a blanket attack on any individual,
order or organization advocating the
abolition of free speech in the pul-
pits.
“I shall criticise conditions here
as long as I am here and they war-
rant it,” he declared. “My trip to
the court has not frightened me in
the least. It is a minister’s duty to
comment on affairs of public inter-
est.
“Judge Landon’s charge that a
great many members of my congre-
gation would be found with liquor
in their homes if an investigation
were made by me, I believe is very
unfair, unless he has himself made
this investigation.
“He cautioned me to return to my
pulpit and document only on mat-
ters about which I had facts. I do
not believe he has a rights to tell me
what I can comment on and what
not.
“I repeat again that the conditions
in the courts are deplorable. I beg
all my listeners to co-operate in ev-
erything which will - correct these
conditions.’’.
$150,000 Land Deal Closed
Midland, Texas.—Henry Rhodes of
Odessa sold to Henry Peagues of that
city an eight section ranch, located
about 20 miles northwest of Midland.
The deal involved about $150,000.
Charges Against Cobb .Dismissed
Wharton, Texas.—Charges of viola-
tion of the State game laws, filed
against Isvin S. Cobb, nationally
known humorist and newspaper man
have been dismissed on petitions of
the County Attorney of Wharton
County here. The County Judge
wiped the charges from the books
after he had received the petition
and had investigated the case. Cobb
was charged with hunting under
an assumed name, here two years
ago without license.
37 DEAD IN BLAST
IN ILLINOIS COLLIERY
Ignition of Gas in Old Working
Caused Explosion Is
Belief.
Johnston City, Ill. — Thirty-seven
men are dead, six seriously injured;
and badly burned, while eight others
suffered burns about the head and
body in a mysterious explosion in
the east side colliery of the Crerar-
Clinch Company’s Friday afternoon.
Fifteen who were trapped with
the dead and injured in the mine
were carried out by rescuers with
barely a stitch of clothing upon
their bodies and all the hair burned
from their bodies, but excepting for
their terrible experience, not other
wi, hurt. When the explosion oc-
curred there were 375 men in the
mine.
Hundreds of men volunteered to
go down into the mine when four
Johnston City . physicians stepped
forward and announced their inten-
tion of braving the poisonous gases
of inner recesses of the mine where
the men were trapped.
The men near the entrances es-
caped easily, but entries No. 9, 10,
11 and 12, locked in the depths,of
the colliery where the actual ex-
plosion took place were fatherest
from a means of escape and the
men there suffered the full terror of
the terriffic blast.
Waiting in the cold outside the
mine shaft relatives and workers
were completely enveloped by the
aense black smoke which turned
their faces black as night. .Ambu-
lances from Herrin and Johnston
City were lined up as each figure
borne on a stretcher was brought
up out of the smoke shaft by means
of an elevator. The waiting crowds
pushed forward fearful that some
relative might be borne out to them:
Among the dead were Herbert Mc-
Cullough, mine manager, and Jesse
Ford, mine boss.
The silence of the night was brok-
en by the wild shriek of wives and
mothers of the dead men. Organiza-
tions rushed hundreds of sandwiches
and gallons of coffee, to the mine
and distributed it freely among the
women and children workers who
have stood vigil since the explosion
occurred. .
Accidental ignition of gas in an
old working of the mine caused the
explosion.
Most of the dead were killed out-
right by the explosion, which was
terrific within the two workings af-
fected.
Fifteen men in one entry threw
up a barricade against the gas, but
five suffocated from the smoke that
followed the blast.
MACDONALD IS AGAINST
SECRET DIPLOMACY
British Premier to Tell Public of
Foreign Negotiations.
London.—Secret diplomacy will
have no place in the dealings of
missioner. of the general land office.
Great Britain’s new Premier, Ram- This land has been recovered by the
say MacDonald, with foreign coun- state out of the original 3,000,000 acres
given for building the capitol.
tries. .
Mr. MacDonald intends that the
public shall be informed of foreign
negotiations whenever the circum-
stances warrant. He also has de-
cided that the discussion within the
Cabinet shall not be kept “drum
tight" as it is contended in some
quarters was the case in the Bald-
win-Curzon administration, but that
the newspapers shall be given a com-
munique after each session,' sum-
marizing the subjects discussed or
decisions taken.
To get better acquainted with the
foreign representatives accredited to
Great Britain, Mr. MacDonald held
an official reception at the Foreign
Office for the diplomatic corps. Most
of the Ambassadors, including Frank
B. Kellogg, the American representa-
tive, never had met the new Premier.
They were presented to him in
Lord Curzon’s old-office by Under
secretary Crowe.
Uses Crutches to Demand Pensions.
Vienna.—A deputation of 400 crip-
ples, 50 of whom brandished their
crutches, stormed the Parliament
building, clamoring for the immedi-
ate payment of overdue pensions.
After two hours of speech making
the demonstrators were assured their
grievances would be redressed,
whereupon they hobbled home,
threatening to return if the promises
of the Ministers were not fulfilled.
Thieves Get $10,000 in Gems
Hollywood, Cal.—Burglars who
forced an entrance to the home of
Pauline Frederick, motion picture
actress, carried away clothing and
jewelry valued at $10,000, according
to a report to the police.
Kell on Committee to Aid Vets.
Washington. — Appointment of a
permanent committee of the Cham-
ber of Commerce of the United
States to co-operate with the Vet-
erans’ Bureau in finding employment
for rehabilitated former service men
was announced by Julius H Barnes,
president. The committee, selected
at the request of President Coolidge,
will enlist the support of American
business interests in behalf of the
veterans. Frank Kell of Wichita
Falls, Texas, is a member of the
committee.
Texas Items
A new police alarm system is be-
ing installed on the downtown streets
of Palestine.
Anutrition and health education
program is being conducted in Hays
county under the auspices of the Par-
ent-Teacher Association of San Mar-
cos.
National banks in Texas may act as
guardians and administrators, accord-
ing to an opinion of the attorney gen-
eral’s department, which reverses a
former opinion.
The special election held in the
Crockett road district to determine
whether bonds to the amount of $240,-
000 would be issued carried by al-
most 4 to 1.
Decatur has been selected as the
place for the 87th semi-annual meet-
ing of the North Texas Medical Asso-
ciation. The date of the meeting has
been set for June 24-25.
State Treasurer Terrell has made a
call for payment of registered war-
rants up to and including No. 10500,
there being $212,619 in the general
revenue fund to make such payment.
The gin report for Shelby county
shows there were 16,666 bales of cot-
ton ginned in Shelby county from the
crop of 1923 prior to January 1, 1924,
as compared with 13,139 bales ginned
to January 1, 1923.
All dairies operating inside the city
limits of Houston must move out by
July 1, when a new city ordinance be-
comes effective. Any place keeping
two cows or more and selling milk is
defined as a dairy.
License to do business in Texas in
1924 has been granted by the state
department of insurance to the Amic-
able Life Insurance Company of Waco.
This company, its statement says, has
$820,000 capital stock and $824,434 sur-
plus.
According to information received
Lavaca County commissioners court
has awarded the contracts for the con-
struction of a section of highway No.
3-B, from Hallettsville to the Fayette •
County line, the consideration being
$124,964.
The Texas blue sky law applies .to
the sale of stock authorized prior to
enactment of the law, but placed on
sale after passage of the act, accord-
ing to an opinion of the attorney gen-
eral’s department rendered this week
to Secretary of State S. L. Staples.
/ This state may look forward to the
most prosperous year in its history
because the farmer has money in his
pocket and has liquidated most of his
debts as the result of a billion-dollar
crop produced in 1923, Bert Beall of
Greenville, president, said in his an-
nual report recently to the convention
of the Texas Hardware and Implement
Association at Fort Worth.
The 59,000 acres of land recovered
recently from the Capitol Syndicate in
the northwest part of the Panhandle
will be offered for public sale- next
•September, provided the court’s de-
cree on the partiton of the land is en-
tered in time, according to announce-
mint this week by J. T. Robison, com-
The Texas state capitol 'building,
with its grounds of eighteen acres, is
worth $7,500,000, according to an in-
ventory of the state board of control,
compiled by W. J. Womack and W. A.
Holland of* the auditing department.
The capitol cost the state 3,000,000
acres of Northwest Texas land when
it was constructed in the. eighties. The
governor’s mansion, which was used
by President Sam Houston, is now
valued at about $75,000, and the land
which it occupies is valued in the in-
ventory at $320,000.
At a special meeting of the DeWitt
County commissioners court, an order
was passed for the creation of road
trict No. 5 and a bond election of
$135,000 to be held on March 8, the
same date of the Nixon-Smiley bond
issue in Gonzales County for the fi-
nancing of the highway, the Glacier
to Gulf highway, designated as a state
and federal aid route.
The temporary executives in charge
of the Texas centennial celebration
have been very active since the con-
ference of the Texas Centennial Expo-
sition survey committee, held in Aus-
tin Jan. 8, at which time temporary
plans were made whereby Texas will
be given the opportunity on. Feb. 12
of deciding whether or not a huge
Texas centennial celebration would
be given at some point in the state
at a near future date.
Public utility electric power plants
in Texas during 1923 produced approx-
imately one billion kilowatt hours of
electric energy, according to the Tex-
as Public Service Information Bureau.
This is about ninety million kilowatt
hours a month. Only 10 states ex-
ceeded this record.
The Texas educational survey last
week entered the counties of William-
son, Hidalgo, Jones and Ellis for
tests and measurement work, which
included examination of pupils in the
fundamentals of education. Similar
work has been completed in Pecos,
Titus, Cook and Karnes counties and
is continuing in Montgomery, Bee, Co-
mal and Nacogdoches counties. This
week Floyd County will be added to
the list and cities of Dallas, Fort
Worth and possibly San Antonio and
Houston will be reached by the latter
part of the week.
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