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WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1923.
SIXTEEN PAGES
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IANY ARE INJURED
EXHIBIT WEAPONS
OFFICERS FOUND IN
HOME WACO NEGBO
— MEMPHIS, TENN., March 16.—Eight persons were killed and fifty
or more injured in the storm which wrecked the village of Savage, in
Tate county. Miss., late yesterday and swept through sections of Panola
and Quitman counties, according to word received today from the storm
y swept area.
1. Wire communication with the storm swept section still was cut off
today.
Sardis, Hernando, Phillip and Crenshaw, Miss., also felt the effects
GUN AND OTHER ARTICLES IN
EVIDENCE IN TRIAL OF .
CASE.
of the storm.
At Sardis 11 dwellings were wrecked and a railroad water tank was
' blown across the track, accordins to reports brought to neighboring
towns by train crews. Two persons were reported injured at Sardis.
At Crenshaw several homes were damaged. 6."
The storm apparently took its heaviest toll at Savage, which was
partly wrecked by a tornado two moaths ago. Relief parties were sent
to Savage from Crenshaw and other towns. The injured at Savage were
, estimated at 25 or more.
John Kerr, a merchant, crushed•
when his store at Savage wgs 4s-
moliss d, died early today at Cren-
shammwwhere he was taken fer
medical attention, according to W.
5 McCoy, a telegraph operator at
Crenshaw, who brought the first
definite news of tho storm’s havoc
to Memphis today. Three other
persons, a man named Chambers,
his wife and son, were drowned
when they were blown into Cold,
water river.
ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN
THE PROPERTY OF VICTIM
Brother Of Murdered Man and
Others Testify During * ...
Friday.
* COURT IF DHLAYRD 1
• BY SEVERN WEATHER 4
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% By Associated Press. 4
• MARION, ILL, March 16.— 4
• Owing to a severe rain and 4
• wind storm in all parts of 4
• Williamson county yesterday 4
• afternoon and loot sight, 4
• Juror Nathan Barnes was un- 4
• able to return this morning 4
• for resumption of the Herrin 4
• riot trial and court was ad. 4
• journed for the remainder of 4
• the week, 4
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GIRL IS MURDERED
WANT ‘BIG FELLOW
WACO, TEXAS, March 16.—The
SHERIFF TELLS OF
COMMUNIST MID
OTHERS ON STAND
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THREATENS TO BREAK
, U. S. GOVERNMENT
DESCRIBES FINDING
4 OKLAHOMA CITY, March 4
• 16.—A threat to "break" the •
•United States government •
• was made here toray by Bev- 4
i sh erly Mahoney, imperial kloke •
• ard of the Ku Blur Nian, in a •
• brief address to the stats leg- A
1 • islature. He declared: •
• “This country has a super- •
4. government. We must break 4
BARRELS OF PAPER AND
DOCUMENTS
OF TWO • it. We will." * *
$*****4444.41
CROSS EXAMINATION :
BY FRANK P. WALSH
Sheriff Admits FederalI Agents Had
Gone Through the
Evidence.
SEARCHERS ABANDON
HOPE FOR SOLUTION
NO NEGOTIATIONS CONSIDERED .
UNTIL TROOPS ARE WITHDRAWN
UNOFFICIAL REPLY OF LEADERS
By Associated Press.
BERLIN, March !«.—Germany’s
unofficial response to the recent
announcement that France and Bel-
gium will evacuate the occupied
regions as fast as Berlin maker -
tangible guarantees, asserts that
Four negroes wers reported
r hilled on plantations near Lam-
bert, Miss.
Mrs. T. H. Rich, of Savage was
brought to a hospital today with
. her skull fractured. Her condition
was reported as critical
6 CHICAGO, March 16.—The esntsr,
K et the blizzard which for the past
three days has enveloped the mid-
dle west from Texas to ths Cana-
dian border, today was sweeping
over Ontario, the weather bureau
here announced. Colder weather
followed in’its wake, but rising
temperatures were predicted for
Saturday and Sunday.
DISCLOSES RAIDS
PLANNED DY IRISH
By Associated Press.
DUBLIN, March 18.—-A document
found in a raid in this city on
March 7 reveals startling plans for
ths destruction of residences and a
campaign of shooting on sight *
“To meet the desperate and bar-
baroua methods being adopted by
Six shooter, scabbard, pocket book,
rope and gloves alleged to have
been found in the borne of Roy
Mitchell.. Waco negro on trial for
the murder of W. ■. Helt on Janu-
ary 19 of this year, were submitted
In evidence by County Attorney
Farmer at the Friday morning ses-
sion of court.
The aix shooter, scabbard, pocket
book and gloves are alleged to
have been the property of the mur-
dered man, while the rope was in-
troduced in the effort to show that
it was a part of the rope found on
the murdered man’s leg and by
which he had been dragged after
his death.
0 HIS SECRE
NEW YORE. March 16.—"A big
fellow” and his secretary were
sought today in connection with the
mysterious death of Dorothy King,
artists’ model, in her apartment on
West Fifty-Seventh street.
Elevator operators said that two
men known to them as the “big
fellow” and his secretary visited
her the night before her death.
Miss King, who la described as
one of the city's most beautiful
girls was found dead in her bed by
a maid.
Aa empty enoloroform bottle was
found near the body. The police be-
lieve Miss King was murdered but
admit she may have committed sui-
cide. Some of her jewelry was
missing.
A. T. Holt, brother of the mur-
dered man, testified that pistol
submitted, in evidence was similar
sad believed the [same pistol that
his brother, owned. He also iden-
title the gloves and pocket book as
belonging to his brother.
George Jackson, deputy sheriff
the enemy to destroy the govern- testified to having found the prop- TxA Guimard, or Boston who
erty submitted in evidence in a ' Albert, Guimares e.Bester
search of “Mitchell’s house the next admits he was a friend of .Mies
day after he was arrested. He tes-
tifled to having found the scabbard
ment." the document says, “the re-
publican army’s general headquar-
tors has decided to amend and In
some cases make more drastic the
action ordered In recent general or
ders to commandants. *
"Some of' these orders have been
Gales were reported in the’ east-
ern great lakes region, reaching a
velocity of nearly 90 miles an hour
at Cleveland and Buffalo.
The storm just past left snow
banks varying from a tow inches a..
to a foot and a half over the entire after this date, dot v. liable
northern group of mid-western Amone those mentioned as liable
states and in even some localities to be shot on sight are members
In Oklahoma and tho Texas Pan-
handle-N __________
cancelled and the action directed
in them embodied in a new order
which will come into operation It
anyfurther executions by the
enemy are carried out in this area
CHICAGO, March 16.—The north-
westward march of two storms
from the west, one from the north-
er* Rocky mountain region and the
other from the southern Rocky
mountains, brought relief to the
upper Mississippi valley, but de-
struction to the lower Mississippi
valley today.
The storm that centered over
New Mexico Thursday on its east-
ward sweep was marked by death
and destruction aa it crossed
northern Mississippi last night. At
Lambert, Miss., four negroes were
reported hilled. Virtually the en-
tire town of Savage. Miss., was re-
ported destroyed, where 25 persons
were blown Into the Coldwater
river. Some wars still unaccounted
for today.
Other towns in tbs vicinity were
without, means, of communelation
and idamage in that section for
that fason had not been checked
early today. ...
I Relief parties were making for
the stricken area.
The storm in the upper portion
of the valley left Kansas, Nebras-
ka. Iowa, Illinois and Missouri par-
tially covered by enow. In some
portions of those states It was re-
ported at a depth of more than a
foot. Eighteen inches of snow fell
in Omaha yesterday, demoralising
traffic and transportation. Through-
out the area telephone wires were
down and poles snapped
In Lane county, Kansas the snow
was said to be two foot deep while
LaCrosse and Scott City, Kan., re-
ported 13 and 10 inches, respec-
lively.
‘Snow, accompanied by a high
wind, fell for a short time la Chi-
eago today, end more wae predict-
ed by the weather bureau.
of the Free State parliament, army
officers of all raaka, judges, legal
advisers and “the proprietors and
directors of the hostile press in
Ireland and the senior officials em-
ployed hr the same, such as editors,
sub-editors and leader writers In
cases where it is known that thoan
officials are hostile."
DALLAS COUNTY MAN IS
SERIOUSLY INSURED IN
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
DALLAS. March 16--William
Herndon, 45, farmer, living three
miles south of Buckner’s orphan
hems, was found in a ravine a mile
from his home today, with hle skull
fractured, nine ribs broken and
collar bona crushed. He was taken
to a hoepital where it was said he
probably would die. An automobile
driven by Herndon was standing at
a bridge across ths ravine. Offi-
erre believed he lost control of his
machine which struck the abut-
ment of the bridge and threw the
driver into the ravine.
to ask writ or nanon
IX HOUSTON BANK CASE
AUSTIN. March 14.—Application
for writ of error in the case of the
Houston Exchange National Bank
against ths state prison board will
be filed to the supreme court with-
in a few days, it wae learned today.
The case will test the contention of
the state that no appeal bond is re-
quired on part of ths prison board.
The stats's appeal to the first court
of civil appeals recently was die-
missed on this ground. Ths stats
contends no appeal bond Is neces-
sary. A new injunction has just
been issued against the prison
board, restraining it from paying
funds until notea amounting ‘to
$112,000 are paid to the Houston
under the house and the ropes tied
in the flue. . .
Charlie Wilson, Mitchell’s broth-
er to law, identified the shotgun
submitted to evidence as his prop-
erty. He was at ths home of hie
mother, Lucy Posteal, ths night of
the murder and met Roy Mitchell
that night while on the road to the
gravel pit, ■ near the scene of the
murder. Mitchell took his meals at
Lucy Posteal’s, but he never came
back to the house the night of the
murder after eating hie supper.
Identifier Pistel *
Issie Fred. In the jewelry and
loan business, testified that be had
leased the pistol in evidence to W.
EL Holt. He submitted the Invoice
from the wholesaler to himself,
with the number of the pistol cor-
responding with the one found in
Mitchell’s home. Defense attorneys
insisted on the record of the lease
book from Fred to Holt be submit-
ted, but the witness testified this
book had been lost. He was al-
lowed by the court to testify from
memory sa to the transaction be-
tween his firm and Holt. *
Maybelle Posteal, Johnny Pos-
teal, Henry Longmire and B. D.
Wilson, all negroes, testified as to
having seen Mitchell at Lucy Pos-
tears house the night of the mur-
der and of his having left the
house after eating supper. The tes-
timony of some of them as to the
time when Mitchell left-end what
occurred differed from the eworn
statements made to the county at-
torney, causing him to charge "In-
fluence has been brought to bear."
Miss Helen Jacobs, sister of Mra.
Ethel Denecamp, who wae mur-
dered the same night Holt was
killed, testified that her sister left
her mother's home about 1 o'clock
Friday night and that she found
her body the Sunday following.
TO COMPLETE TESTIMONY
LATE FRIDAY OR SATURDAY
WACO, March 16.—Unless there
is an unexpected delay, toetimony
will have been completed to the
King and that he was acquainted
with several men mentioned la eon*
noction with the robbery of Mrs.
C. P. H. Schoelkopf of Buffalo, at
Temperature dropped 20 degrees
In St Paul following a light enow-
fall there yesterday. Early today
the thermometer registered eight
. degrees above zero.
Freezing temperatures and snow
flurries wsrs general over Okla-
homa.
Southeastern Missouri had its
hardest rsia in five years and riv-
ers to that section were at flood
stage. The Missouri river at Jef-
ferson City, Mo., was rising.
6 Gales of 52 miles an hour swept
Ahacross a portion of Texas and car-
5 ried the severest blizzard at tha
year into the Panhandle.
California, whipped by high
winds, reported fair weather today.
. Much colder weather was pre-
, alleted for ths Ohio valley, Tennes-
lie and the east gull states today.
riUMBXIXQ WEATMRR '
5 1 ovun MOST OF TEZAP
DALLAS. March 16.—Freezing
temperatures last night were re-
potted over Texas as far south as
Taylor and Del Rio, according to
the local weather bureau, Tem-
peratures at 7 o’clock this morning
ranged from 18 degrees above zero
at Amarillo to 43 degrees at
Brownsville. At Dallas the mer-
bury stood at 31.. Abilene 24, Hous-
ton 40. Palestine 34 and San Anto-
nio St.
Frist tn tho coast was forecast
for et Texas tonight, to ths west
the "ediction wae for fair weath-
er and rising temperatures.
rim manci SNOW
AN usToEY OF HOUSTON
t HOUSTON, March 10.—Snow fur-
i ries occurred in Houston this morn-
T ing far Ibe third time to March to
the history for ths local weather
bureau. Other years to which snow
fell to March were 1915 and 1920.
The precipitation was not heavy
enough to be ooen on the ground.
Light frost isy forecast for tonight
Houston and vicinity and east
Texas. Little damage to crops is
eabeeted.
trial of Roy Mitchell, negro,
charged with the murder of W. E.
Holt, by late Friday afternoon or
early Saturday morning. The wit-
nesses number about 20 and it ia
expected they wlH be examined
rapidly today .the jury having been
completed late Thuraday afternoon
Mitchell la charged by indictment
with all of Waco’s mystery murders
of the last year and the Holt case,
the first to be tried, has a bearing
on all the other cases, four for
murder and the others for different
offenses. Including the Holt ease,
11 grand jury indictments are
pending Mitchell.
Defense attorney's late Thursday
afternoon let it be hnown they will
challenge the manner in which the
confession was obtained from
Mitchell Before the confession was
read to the jury, defense attorneys
served notice thst they would, later
in the trial of the case, challenge
AUSTIN, March 16.—Two appli- the confession on the ground that
it was secured by promises; that it
was mads by the defendant In fear
of serious bodily hsrm and probe
bank.
EQUEST PERMITS
FOR MANUFACTURE
OF CARBON QUICK
cations for authority to manufac-
ture carbon black of gas in the
Amarillo district, have been re-
ceived by the railroad commission.
It was learned today.
application baa b e e n received was not voluntary
from Laredo and two from Steph- as ALYSIWE
ens county have been aet for hear-
ing next Monday. The commission
recently granted application to J.
W. Hassell and others to manufac-
ture carbon black from casing head
mission ably death. They will attempt to
X . Imilor show, according to their statement
A aimHAL to the court, that the confession
gas la the Stephens county dis-
trict. Considerable Internet recent-
ly centered around'the legislative
proposal to permit manufacture of
carbon block, now prohibited.
County Attorney Testifies.
take " confession, took the
stand and testified that Mitchell
made his statement voluntarily and
after being warned that anything
he might say could be used against
him. He testified that the confess
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sion was In Mitchell’s own lan-
guage, having been taken down by
him In shorthand, transcribed and
read to Mitchell: that tho inter-
lineations in the confession are cor-
rections suggested by Mitchell
The negro sits in the court room
between two state rangers, taking
• keen interest In the proceedings
in addition to the detachment of
rangers, about 20 special deputies
have been sworn in as a matter of
P Evidently the trial of tho case
has not affected the negro’s appe-
tite. Just before court adjourned
Thursday afternoon be pulled a roll
of bills from his pocket, handed one
to Constable Harvey Bulls slid
asked him if be would get him
what he wanted to sat. lie request-
ed a cup of coffee, two coffee cakes
10 cents worth of buns need one
pound of hogshead cheese. Con-
stable Butts secured for him the
requested supper.
a New roar's party, was arrested
today on a charge of carrying
weapons without a permit
Attendants at the building where
Miss King lived failed, however, to
identify him as the "big fellow" or
hie secretary. Guimares told he had
known Miss King for months and
had made hermany gifts. He said
he visited her Wednesday night but
left early.
WILL FURNISHES PROOF
MO MODEL M INN
New Yonk. March 16.--A win
drawn recently by MissDorothy
Keenan, who called herself Dorothy
King, hinting at fear for her life,’
was taken today by the police ne
further proof that the artists' model
had been slain and robbed of'her
jewels. Her body was found yester-
day with an empty chloroform bot-
tle nearby, in her fashionable West
57th street apartment.
Police Mid they attached consid,
arable importance to this excerpt
from the will, dated January 29,
which was found to the apartment':
"I. Dorothy Keenan, believing that
something unforeseen might happen
to me, hereby bequeath all my
earthly possessions to my mother."
Police Inspector Koughlin de-
clared an investigation showed that
Miss Keenan had given Albert Gui-
mares of Boston a $750 coat, a play-
er plane, and several pieces of jew-
elry. Guimares is being held.
The police after questioning John
Thomas, negro elevator boy, said
they were told thst a man engaged
in the tiro business in New York.
Philadelphia and Boston frequently
visited the model and had showered
her with presents. He visited the
apartment Wednesday night, Thom-
as said. •
The autopey showed thst death
was caused by chloroform.
Dark marks and a scratch on the
nose, a finger nail rip on the right
eye and finger marks about the eye
and mouth were also found. Dr.
Charles Norrie, chief medical exam-
iner, reported.
MAN UNDER ARREST
WANTED IN BOSTON
BOSTON, March to.—Albert K.
Guimares, under arrest in New York
to connection with the death of an
artist’s model, has long been sought
by the police of this city on an In-
dictment charging larceny from
customers of the bankrupt broker-
age firm of Joseph and William Me-
Loughlin. He was known here as
Al Morris and was the manager of
the company’s office, now closed.
HELD wrrHoUT BAIL
- ON STATUTORY CHARGE
DENISOX, TEXAS. March 16—
Raymond Simpson, 24, was bound
over to the grand jury without ball
to justice court here today on a
statutory offense charge. He was
married two weeks ago and the
girl to whom he was previously
engaged filed complaint.
ST. JOSEPH, MICHI, March 16 —
With Sheriff George Bridgman, of
Berrien county still on the stand,
the trial of William Z. Foster,
charged with criminal syndicalism,
entered the last day of ita first week
today with taking of evidence well
under way.
Bridgman was followed by Jacob
Spolansky, one of the federal agents
who assisted him last August in
raiding tho communlat party con-
vention in the dunes near here, as a
result of which Foster and seventy-
five others were named In warrants
charging violation of the Michigan
law against syndicalist activities.
The stats finished the direct ex-
amination of Sheriff Bridgman and
the cross examination was taken up
by Frank P. Walsh.
The sheriff described the raid on
the communlat convention and the
finding of two barrels of paper, doe-
uments, filing envelopes, type-
writers, duplicating machines and
other supplies and paraphernalia
which had been burled on the con-
vention ground. V
Mr. Walsh questioned, the sheriff
shout the part played by Francis
Morrow, alias Ashworth, a depart-
ment of justice agent who was pres-
ent at the convention as a delegate
and wae “arrested" when ’the meet-
ing-was raided
The sheriff admitted that when
Morrow was taken into another
room he screamed and cried, appar-
ently in great pain and when re-
turned to a cell told his fellow pris-
oners he had been hasten by the
federal agents and deputies.
ined in fall two days
_____—___— E the genuine cone
Mr. Walsh brought out that Anen
O. Myers," general manager of the
W. J. Burns International detective
agency, came to St. Joseph Imme-
diately after the raid.
O. I. Smith, assistant attorney
general of Michigan, objected that
tho defense was trying to lay
grounds for impeaching the, testi-
mony of Myers, who was a defense
witness, when depositions were
taken by Mr. Walsh to Chicago.
The defense counsel dropped the
question but tried to bring out that
Myers and other government agents
had been given access to the piles
of evidence and that MFers had sent
one of the papers to New York or
Washington.
Sheriff Bridgman admitted the
federal agents had gone through the
evidence but denied any had been
removed.
Mr. Walsh also tried to bring out
that when Morrow was released he
drew up a statement releasing the
department of justice agents from
all claims, of damages for the boat-
ing he pretended to have received
at their hands. The sheriff ad-
mitted such a paper was prepared
but denied knowing where it is now.
Spolansky testified he had
watched the communist convention
for several days, before It was
raided and that on Sunday, August
SC, two days before the raid, he saw
Foster on the seen*
Foster was not present when the
raid was made and when arrested
in Chicago later denied having at-
tended the convention.
HEM SOLDIER
KILLED IN WRECK
SIX I
URE
PRIEST
PIN
ST. LOUIS. March 16.—Although
searchers at Virden, lit., have aband-
oned hope of solving the myeterinux
Aimaprarance of Rev. John A. Vran-
lak. Catholic priest of Virden, local
police announced today that they still
were investigating the case.
Detectives who have been as-
signed to the case admitted, how-
ever. that it presents’one of the
strangest and most battling mya-
terlee in the annals • the St. 'num
police department. The detectives
Mid they were without a clue that
might lead to further developments
after making a minute search of the
river district here, where Father
Vraniak’s automobile was found last
Saturday.
The crux of the mystery, ’ they
added, is to the question of how
the priest’s automobile was brought
lack to this city after Father
Vraniak was last reported seen in
It st Venice, III., on his way back
to Virden, after making purchases
to St. Louis.
FOLLOW CLUES WITHOUT
AN ENCOURAGING RESULT
VIRDEN, ILL, March 16.—Await-
Ing probable action by Bishop
James Ryan at Alton, calling upon
the Catholics to his diocese to aid
to the search for Father John A.
Vraniak, who disappeared nearly
two weeks ago, authorities here and
members of missing priest’s family
announced today that they had
. worked out every possible clue,
without a single' encouraging result,
i "------__
MADAME CLEMENCEAU
DIES AT HOME IN PARIS
MILWAUKEE. WIS., March 16.-
The death in Paris of Mme. Mary
Plummer Clemenceau, estranged
wife of tho "Tiger" of France, and
war time premier, in announced to-
day by the Milwaukee Journal. Mra.
Clemenceau was a native of Du-
rand, Wla. „ ,
Mme. Clemenceau was 73 years
old and has been an invalid In
Paris for the last. 10 years. Al-
though separated from the “Tiger."
In letters to Wisconsin relatives
she denied as tats as 1919 thst they
were divorced. Newspaper sketch-
es coverign ths life of Georges
Clemenceau make mention that the
"Tiger" was divorced 13 years aft;
er the marriage.
When Georges Clemenceau was
an exile from Franco and was teach-
ing French In a young ladies’ sem-
Inary at Stamford, Conn., he fell in
love with one of his pupils who was
a beauty. Her name was Mary E.
Plummer and she was the belle of
the village of Durand, Wis.
They were married to New York
at the time France and Germany
were girding for the war of 1870.
Clemenceau yielded to the entreaties
of hta friends and returned to his
native country, beginning this re-
markable career which culminated
only a complete withdrawal of the
allies will make possible any ne-
gotiations.
This opinion so far has been ex:
pressed only in the, press and
reichstag circles, but it la known
that editors and politicians alike
have been Informed by the govern-
ment that any negotiations on the
reparations question are condition-
al upon the .return of the Ruhr to
German control. .
Political writers familiar with
the attitude of Wilhelmstrasse say
that they have heard nothing of
the. reported German overture to
London. Any intimations of, peace
suggestions that appear In the Ber-
lin press come from outside sources.
Die Zelt, the industrialist jour-
nal, asserts that the "occupation of
territory is no guarantee for de-
liveries," and that "not a pfenning
will be given until, the last soldier
la evacuated from the Ruhr." This
norms to epitomize fairly the alti-
tude of both the newspapers and
the reichstag parties. The govern-
ment is convinced that It has the
unswerving support of Germany’s
millions lu setting forth that there
can be no negotiations while the
allies remain to the Ruhr valley,
"The presence of even restricted
forces of occupation," a socialist
leader said, “would be a constant
reminder of the ten weeks of ter-
ror to which the Ruhr workers
have been subjected end would also
constitute a permanent baale of
friction."
DENIED me Id BELULAx
TROOPS SENT TO RUHR
By Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, March 16.—The re-
ported dispatch of 5,900 Belgian
troops to the Ruhr can be authori-
tatively denied. There is no ques-
non of reinforcing the Belgian
army of occupation, which is st
present about that number. The
report probably arose from the fact
that French troops are being sent
to relieve those now in occupied
Germany. ,
The Belgian socialists in the
senate and chamber have decided
to accept the British laborite invi-
tatlon for an inter-allied socialist
conference to Parla to seek a solu-
tion of the reparations question. -
The Belgian syndicalists have
appointed a committee of twelve
to proceed to the Ruhr to Investi-
gate conditions there following the
example of ths British laborites.
WALTHALL BEGINS HIS
DUTIES AS SUPERVISOR
OIL AND GAS DIVISION
er — ---.
AUSTIN, March 16.—R. D. Wal-
thall, for the past two years secre-
tary to Governor Neff, today as-
sumed the duties of chief supervi-
sor of the oil and gas division of
the state railroad commission, sue-
ceeding J. W. Hassell, resigned
Mrs. Epsa Stanford, assistant sec-
retary to Governor ‘Neff, -will be
acting secretary and probably will
be appointed permanently to that
position.
SMALL ROADS REQUEST
MILEAGE BOOKS PERMITS
after the dominant part he took at
Versailles in drafting the treaty
that ended the world war.
- Three children were born to the
couple. The Wisconsin woman
proudly shared to the repeated suc-
cesmes of her brilliant husband. But
there came a mysterious day when
her dream of life long happiness
was shattered. Something de velope <1.
It has sever been made known—that
FORMER ACTING |
IMPERIAL WIZARD 1
OF KLAN MISSING 1
WaA Shirteen, rear* Man:
1 in the" OJIb’wa“forest by
Nee-tah-wee-gan, wife of Pe-
tah-bo. The latter jested al-
ways with his wife that the
boy was the son of a white
man, but never would she
name his father. Her hatred
of all whites grew with the
years. When 13, Wen-dah-ban
is taken to the trading post *
by Pe-tah-bo. There the boy
sees white people for the first
time, and longs to be a white
man. When he Is 14 hs is sent
into the forests till ho shall
have ths dream that shall de-
’ermine his career. He dreams
hs is white, returns and tails
his guardians of tho vision.
Returning next season to the
trading post, he quits Pe-tah-
Do, there and asks Merton
Layard, the Hudson's Bay 8
Company’s manager, for
work. The aboy relates bin
dream, and Morton exclaims,
"I believe you are white."
Read the second install-
ment of
Indiana Blood in
Sunday's Times 4
By Associated Press.
DUESSELDORE, March 16.—One
French soldier was killed and three
soldiers and three French railroad
men were injured when a French
troop train was wrecked near
Treves win the Rhineland today aa
the result of sabotage.
The train was diverted from the
main line by a switch being thrown
and crashed into a freight train.
Another case of volence was the
blowing up by dynamite et the
railroad bridge over—the Kalkum
fiver between Duisburg and Dues-
seldorf The French patrol guard-
ing the bridge was fired upon by
the perpetrators, but nose of its
members were injured.
Near Coblens three miles of tele-
phone and telegraph cable which
included 14 important military
wirea were cut and destroyed.
Additions) reinforcements to the
guards for ths civil engineers’ mis-
sion ars beginning to arrive. It
was announced today that 15,000
French and 5,000 Belgian troops
ars coming. ■
CHICAGO BUILDING, IS
DESTROYED BY FIRE;
. QUARTER MILLION LOSS
CHICAGO, March 16—two-
story brick building covering near-
ly half a block was destroyed by
fire today with a loss estimated at
$250,000 and two adjacent buildings
were damas s
“Tim plant# of the Johnson and
Carlson Tank Company and the
I Riviera . Talking Machine Company
occupied the structure destroyed.
estranged them and they trod sep-
arste pathways ever after.
Twenty-eight years ago It was re-
ported that Mme. Clemenceau had
died. The report was printed in the
United States but her friends in
America said that no announcement
of her death was ever made either
in France or in this country.
B. Patterson, a Durand, Wle. law-
yer and a close friend of the Plum-
mer family, said last fall that it
was the firm belief of many persons
in that place that the “Tiger” still
loved Mary Plummer.
SIX BANDITS ROD
BANK IN MISSOURI
GET OVER 510,000
By Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, MO., March 16.—Six
bandits today held up the State
Bank of Wellston, just west of the
city limits, lined up eight employee
and three customers against a
wall, ecooped up between $10,000
and $15,000 from the cages and es-
caped in automobiles. The robbery
was executed in Isss than two min-
utes. It was said. • L
Each bandit carried a revolver
and all bet one was masked.
Julius Kensler, president of the
bank, said the money wae coverei
by theft insurance.
1 The bank is located in a busy
section and hundreds of persons
were said to be in the Immediate
vicinity when the robbery occur-
red %
Burglars, attempted to stub the
bank five, weeks ago i ui were
frightened away by a night watch-
man.
WASHINGTON, March 16.—While
eastern trunk line railroads are pre-
paring to take into court the order
of the interstate commerce commis-
sion which requires them to sell in-
terchangeable mileage after May 15.
nine small railroads which the com-
mission exempted from the necessi-
ty of selling the mileage books have
applied for permission to do so.
They include the Joplin and Pitts-
burg and the Kansas City, Kaw Val-
ley unit Western railroads. They
petition the commission for new au-
thority to install sale of the books.
The petition asserted that the
smaller lines would lose a large
amount for passenger traffic if they
failed to give the same rates and fa-
cilities that competing trunk lines
give.
canrEN is GHANTED ros
MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
AUSTIN, Mareli 16.—Charter was
granted today by the secretary of
state to the Sam Houston Memorial
Association The association was
organized for the purpose of col-
lecting funds and erecting a monu-
ment to General Sam Houston in
commemoration of his services to
the republic and state of Texas.
The monument will be erected in
Harris county. Headquarters of the
association will be st Houston.
APPOINT ALIENISTS TO
EXAMINE NICOLA SACCO
1 ----
DEDHAN, MASS., March 16.-
Judge Thayer in superior court to-
day instructed the district attorney
to appoint two alienists to examine
Nicola Sacco, convicted murderer,
on hunger strike, and report to the
court tomorrow morning as to his
(Sacco’s) mental comition. .
CITY DETECTIVE REGAN
FORT WORTH SUSPENDED
FONT WORTH March 14—Ches-
ter Reman, city detective four r3 ears
with the pollee department, this
morning received untice from l’o-
Tier Chief Ler of his M1 sponsion
folewing allegations that he and
beaten tip C W Ewaris of Lent,
Texas The latter had bee >1 arrest-
ed Monday and taken to the police
headquarters for investigation.
HOUSTON. March 16 — A nation- 1
wide search for Edward Young 4
Clarke, former acting Imperial Wis- < 1
ard of the Ku Klux Klan, to bring 1
him lu book otr a Mann white slave 1
charge was-in prospect today fol-fy]
towing t.ts failure to appear in fed- J
oral court bore yesterday 1
Clarke, under $1,000 bond, disap- 1
peered irnm his home at Atlanta.' 1
Ga., early in the month and his. 1
whereabouts are unknown even to I
his attorney a. Federal Judge J. C. - ,>]
Hutcheson was informed yesterday 1
by an attorney who asked evatIn- 1
uance of the case. Clarke’s stren- 1
uous activities in klan work, and a , 1
consequent bear - breakdown in 1
health, was given as reasons for his 1
failure to appear. It was stated
definitely that he was no longer , 1
within the jurisdiction of the federal 1
court of southern Georgia.
Sydney Smith, Clarke’s attorney..
In asking continuance, sold that At- 1
lanta federal commissioner had set 1
Clarke’s bearing for the September# 1
term of, court. Judge Hutcheson 1
overruled the plea for continuance. 1
declaring that the Atlanta official , 1
had no authority to set the date of
cases to be tried in the Texas court. 1
Just what steps will be taken to
bring Clarke to speedy trial were
not definitely announced. It- was 1a-
tlmatcd. however, that a bench war-
rant, returnable to the Houston fed- :
eral court, would be issued. Were
Clarke arrested under such an or- ′ J
dor bo would be brought here to 1
make bond. *
Mr. Smith declared he was not
representing the klan and that he
was not a member of it. 1 1
ATTORNEY Deviss cuAnwic I
1 FUGITIVE PRON jtmes 1
UTLANTA, GA.. sraren 16. a. I
ward Young Clarke, former acting 1
Imperial wizard of the Ku Klux
Kian, under indictment for alleged 1
violation of the Mann aet to the fed-
oral court at Houston, is act a fugl- .
tive from justice but is seeking rest 1
In parts unknown upon the adv lee 1
of his counsel, it was stated today 1
at the office of Westmoreland and |
Smith, attorneys for Mr. Clarke. 1
It was explained that Clarke made 1
bond at $1,000 which required him ]
to appear at the September term of
the federal court at Houston. “On
our adviee," it was stated by his ate
torneys, “he was then at perfect lib- J
erty to go where he pleased end he
left the city for a much needed. '
rest." 1
The federal Judge st Houston was he
not satisfied with the action of the
United States commissioner here, it -
was added, “he ordered Mr. Clarke’s ,
bond increased to $5,000 and ordered
his immediate arrest. Mr. Clarke
will appear for trial to September
as his bond requires.”
CONVICTED OF MURDER .,
WOMAN IS SENTENCED
FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS
SHREVEPORT, LA., Sareh U — ′
Mrs. Alva Lazroe, convicted of man-
slaughter, today was sentenced to
the state penitentiary for a term J
of five to seven years. She was
charged with shooting to death
Paul Le Blano in front of her home
last Thanksgiving night.
A though her attorneys had pre- fl
pared a motion for an appeal, Mrs
Lazroe announced in court she did
not wish another trial. She told
the court she was innocent. 4
Mrs. Lazroe was tried twice on i.
the charge, the-first verdict of 4
guilty being set aside because of a ,
flaw in the indictment. During the
second trial Mrs. Lazroe occupied a
stretcher because of Illness,
Edna Richards, her sister, charged N
with being an accessory after the
fact in connection with the erime. 4
was sentenced to en indeterminate. 4
term, in the house of Good Shep-
bar de at New Orleans,--- 1
REPORT BISHOP TUTTLE
IS “HOLDING AS/OWN"
ST. LOUIS, March 1A—The Right
Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, senior bishop |
of the Episcopal church in the Unit- •
ed States, who has been seriously ’ a
111 at hie residence here with an
attack of grippe, today was report- , 1
ed so "holding his own."
No apparent change has been. "
noted in the aged prelate’s condition ]
in the past 48 hours, it was ape.
nounced. ns
IS
ERWICHITAN
CAPTURED AND
T BACK TO JAIL
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS, March 1C ,
Howard county’s only prisoners.. 1
Robert Grimes of Victoria and 5
Wichita Falls charged with forgery. ,
and Hugh Davis of Hamlin, charged ‘ .
With masking w hiskey, were being
returned today by Deputy Sheriff to
McKinney to Big Springs, where J
they escaped late Wednesday. sod
Grimes was captured in a railroad J
station here thia morning. Davis. ■ %
who was caught Thursday at Stere 4
iing. fold officers that Grimes *
forced him at'the point of a pistol
to escape and then robbed and de-.h
serted him at a hotel in Sterling W
Davis said he was preparing to .
furnish bond when he escaped. ae- 99
cording to MeKinaenu, a
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