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VOL. XVII. NO. 104.—Associated Press Day and Night Leased Wire.
AMARILLO, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1926.
TEN PAGES
PRICE FIVE CE
D PATRONAGE IN SI
RAIL FINANCIERS
PERTURBED OVER
MERGER DECISION
DECISION WILL HAVE NO LAST-
ING EFFECT, RAD. HEAD
BELIEVES.
SLOW RAINS FALL OVER PANHANDLE-PLAINS
BASKET BALL IS “WORLDLY”
Church May Oust
Athletic Promoter
THEATERS AND Moisture Will Be Vast
CHURCHES MUST- -----
OPTIMISM PREVAILING
By NEA Service.
PALMYRA, Ind. March J.-Be-
cause Clyde Martin, 40, former prin-
JOIN IN REFORM
REPRESENTATIVES OF TWO INSTI-
TUTIONS AGREE CO-OPERA-
TION NEEDED.
R
efit to Grain Crop;
i!tiemen Are Pleased
WURZBACH RAPS
ACTIVITIES OF
PARTYIN TEXAS
TEXAS REPUBLICAN JOINED Bl
REPRESENTATIVE GARNER
IN ATTACK
Opinion May Lead to Entire Cleaning
Up of Situation by Congressional
Action.
NEW YORK, March 3—(0)
Although railroad financiers here
are perturbed over the InterMate
commerce commission’s disap-
proval yesterday of the Nickel
Plate merger, several see causes
for optimism In it. They feel
that contemplated consolidations
affecting most of the United States
are materially set back, but the
decisions may lead to an entire
clearing up of the situation by
congressional action. In some
quarters it is considered that only
the Nickel Plate merger wiU be
specifically affected.
“There has been much feeling,"
said one railroad authority, “as
expressed quite strongly in the
opinion by the commission that
minority interests were not re-
ceiving proper consideration. This
very denial of the Nickel Plate
application will probably accelerate
congressional action which will
clear up the whole consolidation
question.”
Leonor F. Loree, head of the Dela-
ware anti Hudson and Kansas City
Southern Railroads, who is sponsor of
mergers to be built around these sys-
tems. believes the decision will not af-
fect the consolidation movement.
’The decision will have no lasting
effect whatever, on railroad consoli-
dation,” he said. "The commission
does not deny the economic value of
mergers but merely the terms of this
particular one. It will not discourage
private initiative in merging the coun-
try’s railroads. Every decision of this
kind merely clears the way for fu-
ture mergers."
Plans for a series of nationwide
mergers have been worked out for
some time on a regional basin Nome
of the mergers follow closely the sug-
gestions of the Interstate commerce
commission, but others, including the
Nickel Plate, differ.
Five great systems would span the
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Clyde Martin
DRAMATIC CRASH
cipal of the Palmyra high school, built arueanamine ....
a community house and organized a PENCODCLIS ADE
basketball team and a dramatic so- UENoURIIO AlIL NIL
ciety among the students here, he
faces expulsion from the Church of
Christ, of which he is a member.
Martin has been accused by an el-
der of the church of being "worldly
and un-Christian." He is being tried
before three judges, one chosen by
his accuser, one by himself and one
by the church; if convicted, he will
lose his church membership.
Martin went to Granger College and
was quite an athlete. When he be-
came high school principal he tore out
a partition In a room at the rear of
the high school and turned it Into a
gymnasium. . The school trustees
didn’t approve, ordered the parttition
rebuilt and made Martin-give up his
high school position.
Nothing daunted, Martin went to
work and built the community house
There he taught the boys basketball
engineered entertainments, put on lit-
tle amateur playlets.
The church elders held up their
hands in horror. Recreation was
worldly. Their children were being
taught to go the way of all flesh.
No Martin is on trial.
CHUCK-AWAY; BIG
IN STOCK MARKET CONVENTION ENDS
EXISTING RECORD FOR VOLUME
AND BREADTH BROKEN IN
COLLAPSE.
COWMEN ENJOY BALL AND
SPORTS AN CLOSING FEATURE
OF MEETING.
PRESIDENT HOPES
FOR ENACTMENT OF
FARM REUEF BILL
WASHINGTON, March s.—() —
President Coolidge told a delegation rep-
resenting farmers of eleven north cen-
tral states today that he hoped legisla-
tlon would be enacted at this session of
congress which would provide effective
agricultural relief.
For a half hour he discussed the ag-
ricultural situation with his tailers who
included members of the House and
Senate and representatives of the Agri-
cultural conference held In Des Moines
in December. While he refrained from
discussing any particular legislative
proposal, the president was described as
expressing the belief that action could
be had on a measure which would re-
ceive general endorsement.
COOLIDGE INVITED TO
VISIT CORPUS CHRISTI
CORPUS CHRISTI, March #. —An in-
vital ion to President Coolidge to come to
Corpus Christi to recuperate from his
recent slight indisposition has been ex-
tended by the local Chamber of Com-
merce, The mild climate of South Tex-
as was alluded to in the invitation as
offering the presidentan opportunity to
regain his strength. No reply has been
received as yet.
Several months ago an invitation to
formally open the port of Corpus Chris-
ti next fall was extended to President
Coolidge
THE DAY IN WASHINGTON
The five year army aviation con-
struction program was made public.
The lake cargo coal case was re-
opened by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The house military committee re-
jected appeal for a department of
national defense.
The resignation of Lieut. Leigh
Wade, army round the world filer,
was accepted.
Secretary Kellogg declined to tell
the senate foreign relations commit-
tee why Countess. Karolyi was ex-
cluded.
Chairman Eastman of tho inter-
- Mate commerce commission sold a
leak In the Nickel Plate decision
was out of the question.
President Coolidge told farmers’
representatives he hoped congress
would provide effective agricultural
relief at this session.
NEW YORK, Mar. 3.—(A) —Another
dramatic collapse in prices, in which all
breadth of trading were broken, took
place today in the New York Htock Ex-
chance. Net declines in the active is-
sues ranged from 1 to 33 points, with
existing records for the volume and
the stocks of ramroad shares identi-
fled with pending merger plans bearing
the brunt of the selling attacks, due to
the interstate commerce commission's
rejection of the proposed “Nickel Plate"
Rejoicing over the reports of rain in
all parts of the Panhandle and optimis-
tic over the outlook for the Industry,
cattlemen returned to their homes last
night and thia morning, declaring the
tenth annual convention of the Panhan-
dle Livestock Producers association was
the best in history.
The convention was formerly closed
last night with a wrestling match at
the auditorium and a dance at the In-
ternational Harvester company’s build-
ing at Tenth and Grant streets.
“We want to thank everybody who
American People Would Be "Chemically
Pure” If Laws Could Accomplish,
Author Says
NEW YORK, March 3.—(P)-
Representatives of both the church
* and theatre agreed tonight that re-
form within theatre was of vital in-
terest to both institutions, and could
be beat brought about by co-opera-
tion between them.
Speakers at a dinner given by the
federal council of churches of
Christ in America to representatives
of church and drama, said that
church leaders should actively sup-
port plays of which Gary could ap-
prove. The chain h representatives
asked for better plays; representa-
tires of the theatre asked for better
audiences before which to pre-sent
their plays.
Arguing for theatre reform, the
Her. George H. Andrews, chairman
of the committee on drama of the
federal council, said that such re-
form should come from within.
Many people, he said, think only in
terms of law and censorship but as-
serted that the less legislating done
in the regulation of art, education
and religion, the better for civiliza-
tion.
"We can throw the weight of our In-
fluence on the side of those persons and
groups, especially those inside the
theatre, working for better things," be
said. "This course rec commends itself to
us for trial and I believe will prove ef-
fective in application. If you agree
with us we want you, of the theatre and
Interested in the theatre, to think with
us and work with us toward a practical
program erf action.”
Mr. Andrews said the church leaders
Drizzling rains fell ever the entire
Panhandle and extended far into the
Plains yesterday afternoon and last
night with prospects for more to-
day.
The precipitation south of Ama-
rillo was much heavier than north.
A slow, steady rain fell all day at
Nan Angelo and extending north-
ward became lighter as it reached
this country. The weather bureau
here reported .07 of an inch had
fallen at midnight. The forecast for
today is cloudy and probable rain.
All three railroads reported light
rains over the territories. The Rock
Island bulletins indicated drizzling rain
starting during the afternoon and con-
tinuing through the night was falling
from Tuc umcarl to Sayre. The Santa Ft
reported light showers over its entire
Panhandle system while the Fort Worth
and Denver said showers were falling
from Dalhart to Childress.
The rains last night had in no way
affected the dirt roads. Cattlemen at-
tending the convention were all smiles
over the prospects for more rains which
means more grass.
Half Inch at Floydada
FLOYDADA, Mar. 3.- Slow rain be-
gan falling at 10 o’clock this morning.
Half an inch had fallen by 5 o’clock and
it was still falling. It will be a great
benefit to wheat growers.
Castro Gets Good Kain
Ah-h-h-h-h-h!
PRACTICES
A $387,000,000 picture, this. For
President Coolidge was signing ths
new law which slices that much from
the public's annual tax bill.
DIMMITT, Mar. 3.—A drizzling rain
continuing all day today la estimated at
approximately one-fourth of an inch and
will he of untold benefit to wheat crops. .
Farmers are elated and indications are
that more rain will follow. The rain
TWO IN FAMILY
SUCCUMB TO FLU
THIRD MEMBER or PARE FAMILY,
consolidation. -
Total sales, as compiled by Associated
Press tabulators, were 3,785,700 shares,
as compared with 3,015,700 yesterday __. ......________________
and 3,340,600 in the previous record success,” said Lee Bivins, president of
breaking session of November 10,1925.- - ............-
The number of industrial stocks dealt
could and should support the plays and
pictures of which they could approve.
But, he explained, he wished not to be
understood as saying that the church
should support only those plays and pic-
tures which mention specifically some
doctrine or program of the church.
“This is a mistake too many clergy-
men make," he said. “Too often they
endorse plays which at best can be
is believed to have extended over a
wide territory.
FORT WORTH. March 2.—(.I’)-
Rains which assure continuation ol
what are declared to be the best range
conditions in 10 years were falling over
West Texas and the Panhandle tonight,
. dispatches received here indicated. A
has helped to make the convention a
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IGNORANT OF DEATHS,
CRITICALLY ILL
in was 653, as compared with the pre-
vious high of 625 established yesterday.
Despite the unprecedented and almost
perpendicular decline of the past week,
which la believed to have reduced the
quoted value of the securities listed on
the exchange by over $1,000,000 no un-
easiness over the financial situation and
credit standing of brokerage houses was
apparent in leading banking circles to-
night.
One of the most powerful banking in-
the association last night. "It would
have been impossible for us to have
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AMARILLOAN GETS
TERM FOR TAKING
NICKEL FROM NEGRO
KANSAS CITY, March S.—(P)-
Robert Clark, 27, Chillicot he, Mo., and
John Jackson, 24, Amarillo, Texas,
today were sentenced to ten years
each in the penitentiary for robbery
of five cents from Leaborer Walker,
a negro.
Officers here declare they have no
record of having ever arrested John
Jackson and none of them remember
having ever heard of him.
entertained the visitors without the aid
of everybody in Amarillo and we cer-
tainly appreciate It.”
A large number of the cattlemen made
reservations for next year’s convention
before they left and representatives of
the various livestock markets said that
they would send larger delegations in
1927.
Fourteen states are represented in the
registrations and oldtimers any that
cowmen came a greater distance to at-
tend the meeting than ever before.
California, New Mexico, Kansas,
Colorado, Nebraska, and Oklahoma were
the leading states in number of regis-
i trations.
TWO ARRESTED IN
PANHANDLE CRIME
OFFICERS HAVE NOT YET LOCA.
TED LOOTERS OF FIVE AMA.
RILLO STORES.
light rain was falling nere at 9 p. m.
Advices from Haskett told of a slow,
gentle rain there which promises to be
of great benefit. Light steady showers,
bringing optimism to farmers, stock-
men and grain growers was reported
from Amarillo. A general drizzle was
reported from San Angeto, where it was
declared it conserved the benefits of the
late January snow. Rain fell last night
and this morning at Midland.
Half an inch of rain was reported at
Hillsboro.
Brownfield, Plainview and Slaton re-
ported steady rains.
$7,000 Rank Loot Taken
| CINCINNATI. March 3.—(.)— Two
armed robbers held up a branch office
of the First National Bank of Lock-
land, Ohio, and stole $7,000. A third rob-
ber remained outside the bank in an
automobile.
TWO ARE KILLED WHEN
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKS
ALTOONA, Penn. March 3.—(P) —
Two persons were killed and a number
slightly injured tonight when a Penn-
sylvania railroad local passenger train
bound from Cumberland, Maryland, to
Altoona was wrecked at Kladder Sta-
tlon.
Four cars left the track with the en-
gine. The train was a local and carried
but few passengers.
4 marillo Business Men
Reserve May Peterson
Tickets for Employes
Amarillo business , houses want
their employes to hear May Peter-
son, Amarillo’s own prima donna,
when she sings at the auditorium’
Friday night.
Seventeen firms yesterday reserve,
ed tickets for sll their employes.
“That is a wonderful spirit and
shows splendid co-operation to the
Fair," said Dr. Rue Parcells, chair-
man of the committee which has ar-
ranged the concert.
Dr. Parcells reported out-of-town
reservations were being received
from various towns an<l that the
local ticket sale continued heavy.
Firms reserving tickets yesterday
were:
Southwestern Public Service com-
pany, American State Bank, Great
West Mills, Amarillo Laundry, Mc-
Carty Motor company, Troy Loun-
dry, Amarillo Gas company, Pan-
handle Laundry, Tuney Chisum
Motor company. Mistletoe Cream-
eries, Pearce Dental Supply com-
pany, Ledbetter Drug stores. Brown
Cracker & Candy company. Frost
Motor company, Ordway -Saunders
Insurance company. Green Bros.
Furniture temp ny. Cat Furlty Tire
Shops.
Three persons, two men and one wo-
man, have been arrested and more than
half the clothes stolen from the Der-
lach-Hopkins Dry Goods store in Pan-
handle Tuesday night, has been recov-
cred by officers in Amarillo and Pan-
handle but no trace has been found of
the burglar who Tuesday night looted
five stores here.
A man was arrested in a local hotel
last night by the sheriff’s department.
A suit case containing an overcoat, a
suit of clothes and several shirts later
identified as those stolen from the store
were found in his possession.
The police found a suit case contain-
ing several women’s silk dre sses in a
room in a house in the 1600 block on
Buchanan street. People living in the
house were at a loss to explain how the
suit case ever got there. The man liv-
ing in the room proved nn alibi to of-
ficers. These dresses were also identi-
fled as coming from Derlach-Hopkins
store.
Dresses, suits, hosiery, suit cases and
shirts valued at more than $650 were
stolen from the Panhandle store ly
burglars Tuesday night. They gained
entrance by prying open a rear win-
dow. Officers here were notified at once
and by midnight had recovered half the
loot and had one man under arrest. The
man and woman were arrested on the
Panhandle-Amarilio highway and clothes
from the store were found in their Io-
session, officers any.
Prisoners Deny Guilt
All deny their guilt saying they bought
the clothes from men in Panhandle.
Smashing their way into three gro-
eery stores on Tenth strect, the Norborn
Harris store, 102 West Sixth, and Toney
Chisum’s office, 118 West Fifth st
All places were entered through rear
doors or windows. The burglars took
$25 in cash and a gun from the Nor-
born Harris store; $9 in eash and a pis-
tol from the Central grocery: a small
amount of cash and a gun from J. H.
Harris grocery and a few dollars in
change from the Williams grocery.
They took from $15 to $50 in cash and
several valuable papers from Toney
Chisum’s safe.
Chief fain wired to Fort Worth yes-
terday asking for a finger print expert
to come here. The safes robbed here
are being guarded until he arrives.
The buglaries Tuesday night bring
the total here above the 20 mark.
CARLOAD OF SMILES
WAYBILLED TO CAL BY
CLERKS OF RAILROAD
WASHINGTON, March 3 An imag
inary carload of smiles sent to Presi-
dent Coolidge by a night force of rail-
way clerks at Stockton, Calif. arrived
today at the White House.
A waybill, carried across the contin-
ent by freight conductors was left nt
the exec utive offices by Frank Wahl,
secretary and treasury of a railway
clerk’s lodge here.
On the night of January 27 the idea
of making out a regular waybill for
“100,000 pounds of smiles,” started the
imaginary shipment on its way. Hun
dreds of railroad workers as the mani-
test was passed along, attached their
names. Some / attached messages, a
night crew in Chicago asking "how
about light wines and beer for the
thirsty?
Two members of an Amarillo family
have succumed to influenza. A third is
dangerously 111.
Pohn R. Parr, 24, 604 North Lincoln,
died Tuesday morning. Twenty four
hours later his 55-year-old mother, Mrs.
Mollie E. Parr, passed away.
Funeral services for both will be held
at 3 o’clock tomorrow- afternoon.
Parr's Il-year-old wife will not at-
tend. She does not know that either is
not alive; she fails to understand why
they are not at her bedside.
Mbe is waging a desperate battle
against the ravages of pneumonia, the
disease that resulted fatally for her hus-
band and his mother.
Each was stricken with the flu about
10 days ago.
The only member of the family to es-
cape la the two-months-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Parr. She is in the care
of friends. She Is not old enough to
know of the toll the Grim Reaper is
exacting In her family.
Rev. O. H. Bryant, will conduct the
funeral services today, with burial in
Llano cemetery.
Mrs. Farr is survived by a son, Lon
Parr, and + daughter, Mrs. Martha Ar-
cher, both of Amarillo.
COL NTESS VERA FAILS TO t
PRESENT HERSELF IN COURT
NEW YonK, March ——Although
the time limit of ten days alloted by
Ibo immigration officials for a tem-
porary stay to Countess Cathcart ex-
pired at 11 o’clock tonight, she did
not present her-self st Ellis Island.
The countess still was registered at
11:30 o’clock tonight at the hotel Am-
bassador and had not checked out, tbr
hotel management said.
After her detention at Kills Island,
ciPger Aids and Abets Democrats
Opponents and Coolidge Charged
With Responsibility.
WASHINGTON, anreh 2-42
—Republican patronage in the souls ,
was the target for attacks in the i
House today by Representative
Wurzbach, Republican, Texas, and 1
Representative Garner, Democrat,
of the same slate.
Assailing the practices of his par.
ty in Texas, Mr. Wurzbach asserted
that federal appointees all through
the south held their offices “by
grace of corrupt, disruptable and
politically irresponsible machines.”
it. H. Creager, national committee.
man for Texas, and Eugene Nolte,
the state chairman, far from sup.
porting hi. campaigns far congress,
he charged, had “aided and abetted
Democratic opponents -
“Pie -Counter” Republicans of the
South, he added, did not want members
of their party elected to office, because
that would interfere with the division
of the “spoils"
Representative Garner declared pres,
ident Coolidge must bo hold response
ble for continuation of patronage evils
in Texas. He also accused Mr. Wurr.
bach of “cuddling up to Coolidge” ras
Dior than appealing to him aa head of
the administration to remedy this “rot.
tenness".
He praised Mr. Wurzbach for bring,
ing the issue Into the open but said he 1
should not have allowed these “amna. ”
ble outrages’ to continue during his
five years in office without airing them -
before.
"If I were in your place as the only ’
Republican in Congress from Texuse.
Mr Gamer went on era control 1
party In that state or bust up the mas
chine that was taking this power from
me, old pard, you’re in this business
yourself. If a district attorney is pro.
tecting a criminal aa you say, you,
ought to defy such outrages rather
condone your president in his inactive
ity.”
•There are too many taker Republ,
cans in Texas; most of them in the
party just as long as they can hold
office.” "9" :
SENATE RATIFIES
FIVE TREATIES I
RORDER TRA
WASHINGTON, March 3.—(2P)-
Five treaties, including a convention
with Mexico for the prevention of smug. 0
Kling of narcotics, liquor and aliens
across the border, were ratified today
by the Senate.
. Two of the treaties are rum convene
tions, one with Spain and the other with
Belgium, similar to pacts entered into
with Great Britain and many other no.
tions for the enforcement of prohibition
laws within 12 miles of the America#
coast. An extradition treaty with Crecho
Slovakia and a supplementary extradb
Man treaty with Cuba also were include
The convention with Mexico was sta#.
ed December 23, and is designed to pre.
vent the smuggling into either country
of merchandise, narcotics and other
commodities the importation of which
is prohibited by law, and of aliens.
There also are provisions for the pro.
motion nf public health, the protection
of animal life and plant life and the
conservation and development of tho
marine life resources off certain of their
coasts.
To carry out the fisheries protection
provisions of the treaty, an internationn)
because of her admission of adultery, fisheries commission will be appointed
the countess obtained her release un- SIM
der personal bond of $500,
House A Icoholic Body
Hasn't Confidence of
Public, Stayton Says
comprising two representatives or each
government. This commission will study
— the whole question of fish protection
with a view of submitting recommends. *
tions
W A\SHINGTON. March 3 -(.)—
Holding tint the House alcoholic
liquor traffic committee “does not
have the public confidence,” W. II.
Stayton, national chairman of the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment, in a statement today,
expressed approval of the sugges-
lion of Assistant Secretary An-
drews of the Treasury department,
that a commission be created to con-
duit a survey of prohibition.
Mr Stayton declared, however,
that “such an investigation would
be more than useless unless con-
ducted by a committee that is
above the suspicion of partiality.
He predicted that the proposed in-
vestigation would undoubtedly
bring out very many facts that the
American public should know, and
added that the source of expenses of
the House liquor traffic committee
on Its trips to Canada last year,
is “still • my stery to the best of our
knowledge."
“Official sanction for the trip" he
said, “was not granted by the House
of Representatives and the govern-
ment did not pay the committee’s
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settled, possibly rain.
Fort West Texas: Thursday partly cloudy,
to cloudy, probably rain.
For Eastern New Mexico: Unsettled Thura-
day, probably anow north and rain south pore
tion: little change is temperature.
Weather Conditions
The Plains States high pressure area has
moved slowly eastward and covers the Cone
iral Mississippi valley this morning. It is at
tended by colder weather is the Northeast
with alight change elsewhere. Light rain has.
fallen over southern New Mexico with seners,
ally fair weather elsewhere. The continued”
eastward movement or the central Missises,
atsh preeseere N, T To =
tim wenther tonight and Thursday with Bag
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