The Orange Daily Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 105, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1923 Page: 1 of 6
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The city of orfcnge and its people today face a nerlotu situa-
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N. • tloo. With Mttrt to the!* health and well-being. It i* important
Jp that thfaf lWtt«r. wh!«h l# none Other than the sauitary situation,
'kj?l > be taken carefully into consideration, and < very effort made to
ffiC'*' W: wipe o«l i bajcard which exists at the present moment.
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Ttie recent heavy ralnr and Hoods have left standing in the
different aectlons of the city, beneath, around and in front of
hundreds of homea, pools of water. In moat instance? this water
has already begun to become stagnant. In beveral iiuun'ces the
vegetable corrosion haa already started, and an odor is noticeable,
ilgnlfylbg that it Is Impure for the lungs and a menace to public
h«|lth. K ■■■/,,!*
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laces offer an Inviting home to mosquitoes in which
eed, multiply and spread death and disease. If (hey
to continue in thpir present state, and gradually be-
come wope, nothing more than locreased death rate may be ex-
ptcted from thtf (disease which is sure to follow. Action must be
forthcoming immediately. Delay means danger.
'fc, s Hprtnkle With KmulNion. i
,,, Property owners, wherever they are, no matter how safe
" > i®** n,ay think ih«y feel, should sprinkle the water around their
solution of kerosene and crude oil. If this
solution cannot he obtained use plain kerosene. It is a little more
expensive, hut almost as effective. Surely what It tplght cost
conld ®ot be compared to a death eveif though It may not be in
your own family. 1
Let's take due consideration of this situation and start NOW
to remedy. It immediately. We cannot Walt, as something must
. be done at once or else we must suffer for our neglect.
• v are miiowed
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Six-Inch Citing Set
r TdcUy.
Xhe Edgerlj Petroleum company
today set six-inch easing in their C^r-
'bello No. 11 at 3150 feet and will
probably aet screen Friday afternoon
according to an announcement made
by company officials this afternoon.
•At that depth the drill penetrated a
promising aand and it is thought
that a test rwm result In * good
well.
The Supreme Oil company today
began aettlng a rig over their lack-
which they con-
it atruoted a derrick aeverai weelu ago.
rui *fo4 ir«ra.rs
well the fitter (art of the weak.v
tlte Hamilton Oil corpor«tIon to-
day set slx-lttch caalng at 49T6 feet
in their Cheeaon No. I after reach-
ing good pay at that depth. Screen
probably will be ,set in this well to-
mofroir and a test made. The aame
company In aettlng 4 1-l-lnoh liner
at 3329 In tkelr. Chaaaon No. 10.
The, Orakge Petroleum company
. is having a little trouble Wttfel their
ChessoaNo. 6 wfeere they drill-
lag today at MO feet.v. yt* mud
waa ftltUnc to return in the drill, It
waa reported this afternoon.
The Humble Oil 4 Refining com-
pany ta drilling (odajr at tttS in
heavy gumbo is their Chesson A-15.
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Minitrel Show Cast
Gets Plumb Let Down
LEE 80UNTREE
DIES SUDDENLY
Well Known Legislator
Passes Away.
Austin. May 3.—Funeral tervices
for Lee J. Rountree, member of the
Texas house of representatives, who
died a. his desk in the house late
yesteraay. will be held here this
morning.
Following services In the state
capltol the body will be taken to
Bryan where the deceased was the
Publisher of the Bryan Eagle, where
he made his home.
Most or the members of the legis-
lature were expected to accompany
the body to Bryan.
Word was , received „ here late
Wednesday afternoon of the stldden
death Of Representative L«e J.
Rountree of Bryan, who died sudden-
ly of heart failure while delivering''
an address on "Flowers For the Llv-
lbg'' on the floor of the house of
representatives at Austin. Efforts
of physicians to, revive him were fn-
tlle. death coming at 6 o'clock yes-
terday afternoon. He never regain-
ed consciousness.
Representative Rountree is well
known In Orange, as well over
the entire state. For several years
he baa been a prominent figure In
Texas politics, and Texas newspaper
life. He was editor of the Bryan
Daily Ehgle, and paat president of
the Texas Editorial association, and
a national officer of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans, also being
prominent in. Masonic affairs. •- f
Representative Rountree was
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TOD AX ® HAPPY thought; Files' steamer. Governor Cobb, wblch has
come iutothe house without wiping
their feet.
WITH fcVERY one of its-it <eeih,
the mosouiio bites the hand tuat
teedB hlmj "
WE' DON'T know what the road
to ued in paved with, but, anyway,
we me iolu that's why the traitlc
ao i.o licav y.'
been aground two miles oft Key
West since Tuesday night, *IU he
made again today by the navy tug,
Bay Spring, and (he ■custKuurd cut-
ter, Snnte. The vessel, which has a
passenger list of SO peraous, is vin
no dnugnr.
NOW IS the time for all good cit-
izf-ns to inform tbemseives concern-
ing the proposed amendment to me
city charter to allow the pity to us-
sess property for public improve-
mei&s. Election day comes In July.
We Should be thinking about that
t|Ue.;tlon now. " '
DIVIDING NEVER will be mul-
tiplying. Therefore divorce is an
evil. ' •
A CALL now comes from' the^ Or-
ange Baseball association for sub-
scription to maiutain the Diamonds
throughout tne season.
mately half ot the needed amount
has been secured. There should l>«
no trouble in getting the remainder
AIRPLANE
Passes Over Kansas At
J00 Miles.
OGILBY, Osl., May i.—Tli.- T«li
passed over here todny at Xl:t5 «.
m. Pacific time. Ogtlbv lnjhr flirt
town In CMIfornla after Yuma, AHx.
on the Southern Pacific iallr<Ki>:
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 3. —
Approxl- airplane T-2 was believed
safely across Kansas today on its
transcontinental pon-stop flight.
The trail blaeerof the air passed
of funds. The Diamonds hare d«m- over Kan8|l8 C|ty >bort|y after mld
onstrated tltey ure a winning club m nlgllt( fIylng ,n the alr the Veady
semi-professional • circles in this ro#r Qj tJ]ie m0t0rs indicating no dlf-
"neck of the woods." Now, do they
-get support/
IT WAS rumored today th4t a
certain post commander ot the
American Legion very likely will face
suits aggregating something like
100,000,0b0„000,000 marks, growing
out of the collapsing of the rehears-
al platform at the Liberty theatre
iast nigbt with Ml persons on it, no
oue being injured.
ALL GOOD feeling should be ex-
pressed. However, most of them ar-
rive by freight.
DISTANCE DOESN'T tend any
enchantment to a tack in your shoe.
FIRST ALARM was sounded today
at 10:25 from Front and Fifth
pstreets. "The Third Alarm" will be
at the Strand Jor two djjja starting
today. ■
| scheduled to have delivered an ad-
lt« platform, constructed of dre^ before the eleventh annual con-
1 x it planks, at, the Liberty thea- v* «° ,of «h« ***** f MU"
... nlclpallties to be held In his home
iion c,ty Msy 8-9, at which Mayor W.
bearsal for the American Legion ■ _ „ ' ... o.„ t,
minstrel ^tow to b« given here May ®
k and 9. There were 81 members to mttte ftddre8geB- ^
Bland Case Jury
Fails To Agree
After they were unable to reach
an agreement in the case, following
r:uoy" hours of dellbeiation, the
Jury in the case of W. F. l.achal, et
al., vs. D. C% Bland, et al."T salt In-
l *1 i volvtng the setate of Mrs. Jane
Manuel rflamck Bland, and to set aside a partition
in "Dutch" Again therein, was discharged by District
• Judge V. H. Stark at 9 o'clock this
WASHINGTON, May 3 —Manuel morning. The Jury has been out
Herrick, former congressman from "l™® Monday when arguments ln the
Oklahoma, got arrested defepite the ctt*® were completed.
Siet that he Is now h detective. I —
Harrick, was to have a hearing to- Incur Small LOSS
day oil charges of disorderly conduct { Pmv«11 Dwelling
following arrest on a downtowh. m
.treet corner last night on the com-'™? "re d8paTtment WttV.e*!,ed
plaint of % young woman who said nv«(anesaay
9. There were 81 members
Of the cast on the structure when
It «Mt down with a loud oraah. No
one iWaa Injured although all were
considerably scrambled together.
Cistumes for the show will be dis-
tributed at rehearsal tonight, K be-
ing Announced that ten trunka full
hav^ Arrived. A new platform la
being built^4%. the theatre today.
be waa annoying her. Police found
on him a book containing names''and
nddteaaes of a number ot women
and .a bottle of highly acented per-
fume. '
Harrick told the officers
A detective employed
agency here.
by n
he waa
private
afternoon to 8holara
street between Eighth and Ninth,
where ^ small blaxe had been dis-
covered In the roof ot a dwelling
belonging to Joe Pa veil. It waa
extinguished with but small loss.
This made a total of five alarms to
whlob the department has responded
wi^iln the past forty-eight hour*.
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Tonight
4,
i Friday,
moderate
a n
light
north
erly. winds.
jEllice B. Leaves
<i j For Beaumont Cargo
j The schooner Elllce B. which hae
to | been tied up at the rice mill
' wharves tor almost two weeks de-
1 parted this morning for Betumont
where abe will take on n cargo of
lumber for Havana.
atood that an effort
FIRST THING the new director
df the maritime department of the
chamber ot commerce needs is sup-
fleu!ties had been experienced by the
pilots, Lleuts. John A. MacReady'
and Oakley Kelly.
The plane wee reported sighted
over Topeka, a halt hour later, fly-
ing high at a speed of about 100
miles per hour.
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PRIESTS MEET
TO LAY BASIS
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American Methodist
Episcopal Bishop Ad-
dresses v Gathering o f
All-Russian Faiths.
Copyrighted by Ualti l Pww, Jtt2a
MOSCOW, May 3.x_WhltePaired
port and cooperation of the 10C*1 bishops, their diamond'crosses flash-
firms and business houses who have' lQ ^ ^ ^ thoWnda Qf fJ|n.
to do with export or. import ship- *• * .
ping. This basis ie necessary upon dl*. "Untied with bewblskered me-
which to build the shipping ot t^e tropolltUne In white caps and ker-
port ot Orange. Mr. Luhn has ar-j«blefa at the ^eaventlon of the
rived. Will he have jour coopera-;pr(e-tBOf |{unia today, the conveD-
tlon and Support? Tell him so. , jtloa which la to decide the future of
■ "' '< ' , , " { r ' the Russian religion. ' ' ' '
NO USE. You can't keepa good . - Obkrdi dnd Stele S
head of hair down. ■ J It was a meeting of eccleslasts of
the' old Russian orthodox' church
FAIRYLAND MOVES Into Stark
Park on Saturday, May 6. There
will be flowers and the bees and
birds iand honest-to-goodness fairies
A rare treat for the children
Orange.
to" prepare a baslg tor a new Rus-
stan religion. " (The reformers or
"living church" grodp' Controls a
mapOrity of the BOO delegates at-
LOCAL FIREMEN
ATTEND MEET
Convention Will be Held
in San Marcos.
°' tending th® all-Russian church coun-
elal and tbie group seeks to h^ve
the convention reorganise the or-
thodox church so that it will be ac-
ceptable to the communist govern-
ment.
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With these smiles on their faces, Lieutenants John A. MacReady
ernmeat aviators and record breakera, discuss their coming non-
deft) and Oakley Kelle'y (right) crack McCook Field (O.) gov-
stop transcontinental flight ,frotn Mineols, N. Y., to San Diego. FCal.
To Demonstrate j
Fire Alarm Box
If you don't know how to turn
in a fire alarm from one «f the
alarm boxes you should learn to do
so at once, according to city firemen,
who today arranged a fire alarm box
In the Strand theatre with whtch
they will give practical demonstra-
tions during the showing of "The
Third Alarm" the thrilling flro pic-
ture which ts being shown ss a ben-
efit for the Orange Volunteer Fire
Department. _ ,
Demonafrat(&ha ""SW' be given by
several firemen assigned to auty at
the theatre during the two days the
picture will be1 shown here ,lt was
announced today. Money derived
from the picture *111 be turned over
to the reguUr fire department
fund. : V * ' '' "i
First Day Sees 74 Loads
? Dumped.
Approximately one ocre Of the
low Jand surrounding th6 Orange
Car A Steel company's property was
filled In Wednesday and today with
tin cans, automobile tires, rubbish,
.... _ | trash and waste gathered yesterday
The reorganisation is expt,ct-'fn th# f|r„t day c( the plck up ^
ed to take the form of abolition ot DurJng the d u trU(!k load, o't
bishops, resognttloa ot authority oTf|trai|h wer€ up and rtumped
the soviet government and accept- oa the gn>und de9|gnated b th9
ance of the order under which all cle#n u> cam , commlttee.
church property was natlonallied. 0ver 0ne Area
- An ImpMatoned Speech Work of atheri„K up tra,h Hnd
^-r!!w?_-° *L^'rubbl8h collected during Clean Up
'Week was confined Wednesday to
Cash And Property Go
To Wife of Deceased
Oil And Land Man By
Court Order.
FORT WORTH, May 3 Cash
and property valued at JJ,Or>0,OOQ
waa Awarded to Mrs. Mary couts
Bprnett, widow of Samuel Burn Bur-
nett, famous Texas i cattleman and
financier, in an agreed Judgment en-
tered in district court here in her
suit against yir. E. Connell aad
Marlon Sansom, administrators ' of
'the estate.
By terms of the judgment.
Bufnett Ik granted $246,731
ce*h. The remainder is in. real es-
tate, livestock, securities and house-
(hold goods.' ( .
I<eft'to Granddaughter
The reihalnder of the estate aft-
er Mrs. Burnett's claims have been
met will be divided. It la understood
Into three parts for* Tom L. Bur-
nett,'son; Mrs. Ollie L. Burnett,
daughter-in-law and Ann. Burnett
Wagoner, granddaughter.
In the .will left by the millionaire,
the bulk ot, hfti vast wealth was giv-
en to the,granddaughter.,
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t. &rs.'
.50 In
Greets L. J. Luhn.
Lea, and
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Board of directors of tbe cbumli
of commerce today greeted L. J.
Luhn. formerty of Oalvoatmi. now :;
head of the maritime department of
the chamber, welcoming him into
bl# new position. The board
took an important step toward
vlving the chamber through
ed membership by naming a cos
tee of five to function perma'pl—g™,
*• Meet Tomorrow !*!!* *;.
Mr. Luhn made a short tglk; to
the directors and a meeting of tfc
maritime committee was caltj^'
Friday evening. sThla body l|(
posed of J. O. Sims, William Raed.
*F. H. Farwel!, W
Oeorge Cole. !i •'
On the membership problem; a
committee composed of J- O. Sims.
4. N. Sims, J. N. Parker, Q. H.
Campbell and George Cole waa nam*
od and a meeting called for' 9:30
u. m. Monday.
Invito LegUdmxw* , - H;
At the meeting today n mc
was unanimoascly adopted that
ange Join wltb Port Arthur an*
Beaumont in issuing an invitation td
the state leglalatora to viiJt tne
bine district at some opportune time.
The suggested date was la event
another special session being
.this year. However, the
participation in the invitation
with itno such stipulation.
Attend Convention
It was announced that W . £L
alld E. V. Folsom will
Orange at the convention of
tional Foreign Trade agsoct
going on at New Orlean*-
men twlll. leave here ~ '
Report 100
in Tula
•BP. May
i Hi
hundred
ed by exploeion of
depot at Tula, Riu«fct.
firmed dispatch from Moscow
General Mellnikott is reported t
the dead. Tula Is 10& miles
:^SSma
Moscow.
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Orange
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before Blibop Wedensky swayed -the
gathering with an Impassioned,
speech. „
While the bolsheviks are unbe-
lievers their aim Is the same as tbe
church, namely the welfare ot tbe
people, he (old the convention.'
"Our church, therefore, must be
loyal to the government. We must
Several members of the Orange
Volunteer Fire Department Will
leave Sunday night tor San Marcos,
Texas, where they will attend the
regular convention of the Tejas
Firemen's association to be held In
that city Tuesday. Wednesday and
Thursday. Those who have been
named delegate* to -the convention
are Claude Prejean, Joe Peveto, Jew.
well Sanders, George Watson and
Commissioner Tom Soilleau.
Now effort will be made lo have
a team from Orange represented at .
the convention, while several other Episcopal chutch of America, like-
cities will hsve teams there to' take
part In the various contests to be
held during the meetings, and
Which handsome prlxes will
awarded. 1 < •:
-the area from Geen avenue to. John
street, and from the Sabine river to
Adantn bayot|. . Today's work win
be between Green aventle and John
street north and south, thereby com-
pleting the last phase of the cam-
paign.
_ , , The clean up campaign' has beetf
abandon any counterrev olutlonary Qneof th# mogt eff<y.tlVfl tl)^ hJs.
attitude, which —"
was formerly exer
clsed under Patriarch Tikhon whom
the government was rightly prose-
cuting.''
Bishop Blake Talks
Bishop Blake of the MMetbodlst
in
be
Hold Examination
of Alleged Figlitef*
Justice of the Peace Lon A. Gar-
rison in the oil field will bold an
examining trial this afternoon ln
the cases of Dutcb Walen and Slim
Llnder, oil field Workers, who are
charged with disturbing tbe peace.
Welch akd Under were tftwi
tour o'clock this maraing by
It Is | under-1 uty Sheriff Henry La Fleaur after
will be taftde they were alleged to have engaged
wise was enthusiastically received
"In the name ot the bishops ot
totgr of the city, according to James
Alberts, commissioner of cioaq up,
and others who have worked dili-
gently1 under serious handicap by
the rains and floods of. the past sev-
eral weeks In an effort to make the
city more sanitary. ,
the trash collected this year from
. , „ .... . property all. over the city has not
the Methodist Episcopal church, I (been near so much as has boen^Ol-
salute you as fellow servants olil€K.tM ln prevldus campaigns of slm-
Ood," he told them. '"I bring ywi |jar character, Mr< Alberts said, he-
affectionate greetings from members, cauae 0f the 'fact that property owtr-
the Methodlstcb nrch ih America." | ers are keeping their premises more
NEW YORK, May 3.—The Amer-
ican SugarR efining company touay
reduced refined sugar to |9.90, a
quarter of a,-cent off from Itis last
(Quotation. Sugar stock on the New' sentation leading ky two
Work stock exchange dropped "harp-,Beaumont coming next wltb/ ten
ly nppn publication of .,the new*, the point* above Orange, while
tltur trails the list.
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of the Methodist
in America."
Episcopal church
New Meidco Man
Coming To Orange
announced that Mr*. C. M.
w " • | 1IIOJ www *V «-"W - —
to obtain cargo for her return trip m flstlcntf oa the streeu of th* oil
the port of Orange ^ *•"'
It In hnnounced,
Daslels of New Mexico will be In
chpi« et the music at the revival
meeting* whlcW Will *t*rt> at the,
rtlrt mjmttMl «kureh n*tt Sundfey.tM«p#n, ak the people of OHiS«
Un. DanIM* l«' well known a* a rttpi{ny offering their continual
ehjbtr leader and her services ar© cooperation In ab effort to make the
expected to add atileh to the nightly city one ot the most sanitary In the
meetings at that church L
sanitary.' He also nnl^l that the city
garbage department has done good
work all the year In gathering up
traslr and refuse collected from
homes ovet\ the cfty.
f filaaler Next Year , ,r.
Thia: ha*, In n Igrgo measure, les-
sened the work of cleaning ttp the
eity. Next year, he declared, tt will
be even easier tip ehrlry oui auch a
Four Rieftneries~~
Cut Sugar Price
SAN FRANCISCO, May, 3The
Cejllfornlat-HaWailan and Western
sugar refineries today announced a
reduction in the price of sugar ot 2b
cents per hundred pounds. The cut
was the second within a week.
- The-new price -per 100 pounds at
refineries is $10.10. • ^
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Plnehurst Country club
to play an important part
third monthly golf tenmament- fo
•held at Lakd Charles
team to go from hero to-
the Lake Ch£rlea event has hot
chosen, but probably WO) "
lected. from tbe following,
whom will form thf C
ante; Lutcher Brown,
English, Charley
Campbell, George
mura, J. E. Harrison and
lard. The play wHl
Lake Charles Conn
said to be one ot
ln 'Louisiana. , «. ,
The tlr*t of the fb&r-clty tc
ments was held In Beaumont,
Lake Charles team showing the
to Orange, Beaumont and Port
thur. ln the second monthly
staged over the Port Arthur
try club course Beaumont led the
field. Brown, Roberta, Keith
Groove* turning in tho best cards foi
the d^y
Tho tenths will go into the t!
match with tbe Lake Charles
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losses ranging from 1 to 5 points.
New Ku Klux
Asks Kankas
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Gas And Crude Oil
Take A Fall Today
KANSAS CITY, Mo .'May 3.—The
Standard Oil company curt the retail TOPEKA^ May 8.—The
price of gasoline another cent here state Charter board will
today. The new price is 18 1-S May 18 whether it will Issue n
acuta at filling stations. Tho re- te to the Ku Klux Klaa of
ddctloll todny was the thld Irt a a rival organization of the seci
motnh. Ider controlled ttt Atlanta. Ga.
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NR* TORK. Mny ContlMlntW 7, C."^Hop
the price Mashing in the oil industry, Harvey. 'J^"
Pennsylvania crude waa reduced if
V-ents barrel today on gll grades ex- t]
pept Corning which was reduced 18 j
venta and Ragldnd which waa would Ji
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