Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 127, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1923 Page: 1 of 6
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BROWN WOOD
BULLETIN
THE WEATHER
Phre to the world the best you
hrre and the best will come
back to you.
TONIGIIT TUfSETTJE3H XtfCII
COLDER. COLD WAVE TEMPERA-
TURE 28 TO 32. FRIDAY FAIR.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRjSSS
SIX PAGES TODAY
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
BfcOWNWOOD TEXAS THURSDAY MARCH 15 1923
V0L.XX1II. NO. 127
PRICE 5 CENTS
ONLY ONE HOUR
SPECIA
SEHU PER
THE SPRING BUZZARD
NO BUSINESS IS UNDERTAKEN BY!
SESSION
SONS ARE INVOLVED
III 1IH PI
Mutilated Body Found B.uried in Cellar Near Canadian; Sto-
len Automobile Found in Oklahoma; Former Em-
ploye of Dead Man Is Held As a Suspect.
(By Associated Press)
CANADIAN March 15! After find-
ing the body of Noah Samples
pioneer Panhandle cattleman- buried
in a cellar about 16 miles southeast
of here Hemphill county officers to-
day advanced the theory that several
persons were implicated in the killing.
AVilliam Mohler -who has been an. em-
ploye of Samples is slill held in the
jail here. He maintains his inno-
cence. Sheriff Stickler today forecast
the arrest of several other persons.
When Samples'-body was found late
Wednesday buried in a cellar south-
cast 'of this place it was found that
his head had been beaten into a pulp
and a rope was found in the grave in-
dicating that his hands had been tied
behind him. The dirt around the
hody was dry Vacating tnat he was
buried before the rain of Saturday
night
Money 3Iissing.
His watch was in his pocket but his
money was gone. His body was
brought to Canadian where an inquest
will be held.
The deceased was 72 years old and
lived in this country about twenty-five
years. He was the owner of a large
ranch. He is survived by his cwidow
and several grown children.
Saturday afternoon Samples had
made arrangements to leave this place
on a yisit to Oklahoma with his wife
and "William Mohler young man who
bad been working for Samples. -Failed
to Return.
Samples went nine miles south of
Canadian the farm of J. W. Harrell
and left there about 5:30 p. m. Sat-
urday for Canadian again.
Mohler is said to have gone to the
farm and started on the return trip
with Samples. .He told officers that
Samples drove back to Canadian and
told him lie was "going to leave for
Kansas City.
A bloody pocket knife and blood
stains are alleged to have been found
in Mohler's clothes. Officers also say
that they found about $30 in money
which it is known that Samples had
secured from the bank.
Fresh developments today tend to
throw additional light on the mystery
o Sampelss disappearance officer
' said. Samples automobile was locat-
ed at Strong City pklahoma. John
Salyer of Roger Mills county Okla.
told officers that he pulled "the car out
of the mud Sunday. The driver wa3
believed to ce Mohler.
Samples haH lived in this section
for about thirty years and was engag-
ed in the cattle business.
HEAVY DECLINE IN
JWEMGE VALUE PLDHf
LINOS IS DEVELOPED
LOSS TX VALTE F AVERAGE
PLOW LAND IS SLIGHTLY 3IORE
THAN" ONE-FOURTH.
(By Associated Press.
"WASHINGTON March 15. A de
cline of 26 per cent in the average val-j
ue of plow lands throughout the coun-
try is shown in the statistical survey
of the Department of Agriculture an-
nounced today.
The average value per acre on
March 1 was $66.33 the Department
reported compared with $69.89 on the
same date last year and $90.01 in
1920.
BOY 8 REGULAR '
TRAFFIC OFFICER
SUBSTITUTES FOR OFFICERS AXD
DOES GOOD JOB; ASIBJTI0X
MAIiDEN Mass. March 15. Only
eight years od and the youngest
traffic officer of the world! This dis-
tinction is held by Joe McArthur 6
years old of Willow place.
"When the senior officers are having
their relief periods Joe never misses
an opportunity to be in the centre
of the busy business squaers to di-
rect the heavy traffic. The youth has
become a first class traffic officer and
his instructions are followed careful-
ly by truckmen and other drivers.
Ever sinco the lad was ablo to
walk it has been hte rimbition to be-
come a cop.
Recently he "was given a helmet
and lost no time in adding othor
things to his -wardrobe; until now he
has a complete policeman's outfit
hole n
SEVEN WOMEN
HEROIC GOBI) FKRISHES AFTER
RESCUING THREE BED-
RIDDEN 1UTIENTS.
(By Associated Press.1
ANGELICA X. Y.. March 15. Sev-
en women and two men burned to
death in. a fire in the county alms
house today.
The women's quarters and admin-
istration building were destroyed-
Charles Sanborn a guard lost his
life trying to rescue bed-ridden
women. The fire started with a gas
explosion in the basement of the
wooden structure where twenty-four
women patients were quartered.
Sanborn entered the blazing struc-
ture tbree times each time carrying
out one woman. On his fourth tritf
the floor caved in and he burned to
death. The loss to the buildings is
estimated at $100000.
6REAT FflRESJ. FIRES -.
fi SIEBM IH5
BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL
LOSS IS ESTIMATED BY ENGL
XEERS -AT HOKE THAX .
FIVE BULLION.
(By Associated Press.)
PASADENA. Calif. March 15. Fire
fighters are still on duty in the Sierra
Msdre mountains near here lest the
flames which started yesterday spread
rapidly and break out with renewed
fury. The fire was believed to be un-
der control last night The Los An-
geles county forester estimated the
damage to the watershed at five mil-
lion dollars. Whether the Sr? is to
be kept under control today depended
upon whether there is a repetition of
the high winds of yesterday.
BRITISH C0H1EII
JUKES FIST PITMEN
ON HEM WAR
T
CITS DEBT DOW TQ EXACTLY
FOUR BILLION SIX IirXDEED
3IILLI0X HOLLARS.
By Associated Press.) J
WASHINGTON. March 15. The;
first payment by the British govern-
meat under the debt funding agree-
raent will be made today at the New
York federal reserve bank. Although
the agreement is not yet actually
signed the London government made
known its desire to make at once" a
payment of $412S.0S5 necessary to re-
duce the debt to even $4600000000
Upon which the C2-year debt funding
plan was calculated.
FirstPayment On
1922 Income Tax
Being Made Today
fBy Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON March 15. The
first instalment of income and
profits taxes covering the calendar
year 1922 was due today and was
estimated by Treasury officials at
about four hundred millions. It
was explained that the figure is
subject to great uncertainty since
the collections will show tho ef-
fect of changes made by the reve-
nue act of 1921fc
BIDS FOR DEPOSITORIES.
(By Associated Press.)
AUSTIN March 15. Bids for bank
depositories of state funds were posted
by the depositor Doard under the new
law today fixing the interest rate at
four per cent. The board will bogin
letting contracts within a few days.
HUNTS LIS IN
ID IBS
WITH WW
HOLD CHK'AGOAN DISCARDS HIS
FAITHFUL HORSE TO USE
"TIN LIZZIE."
(By International News Service)
'Chicago; March is. The last
clash botween the "horse and .automo-
bile1 described here by Stanley B.
Graham a Chicagoan who has just
returned from a hunting trip in the
wilds of Northern Mexico has : re'
suited in victory for the auto.
Graham discarded the old faithful
horso in his hunt for lions to sub-
stitute the trusty flivver.
His story related how he had
chased lions embracing one' with
only a hunting coat between Itim
and the Hon and spent nights m
Mexican jailsi with dope fiends for
cellmates.
Used Old Auto.
. "I used an old second-hand Ford
to get around In." Graham said "for
water holes are too far apart to so
from one to the other in the burn-
ing sun with a horse and dogs. My
trip would have been impossible
without a car.
"One day when the dogfl were
faint from lack of water and had
just finished a Hon my Mexican com-
panion said he saw a smaller one in
the brsuh three hundred yards away.
I went over to the dogs who got. him
near the head. I had the Mexican
grab his tail while I threw a heavy
duck coat over him! The coat held
his claws so I wrapped him up nice
ly and carried him back to camp.
Hunter Arrested.
"They change politics so frequently
In Mexico that I had difficulty in
keeping out of jail Because I dicja't
hao a permit to enter the country
with cameras and rifles they arrest-
ed mo and threw mo into nil with a.
lot of 'hop heads The American
customs official across the border
got me out.
Another time when P attempted
to visit the Island of Tiburbn (where-
the last cannibals of tho Americas'
are Eaid to exist in a remnant of the
vSera Indian tribe) I was met by a
company of soldiers who were on- the
lookout for Cecil B; DcMIUe rhc
motion picture producer whom they
Tiad orders to Btop from landing.
Unable to convince the soldiers of
my Identity. I was thrown Into jail
untit the tangle was straightened
out."
This was Graham's seventh trip.
Ho bagged six largo lions and ninny
mountain sheep antelope and deer.
CHARGE EE115
lillOUsflSft
UEKMAXS HEARING FRESH! UNI-
FORMS ROB FKI.LOWS TO
LNCllEASK KhSlrtTANTE.
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS. March 15. German nation-
alists wearing French unifornis and
posing as French soldiers are declar-
ed in French official advices from the
Ruhr- to have been committing rob-
beries and other outrages with their
own countrymen as their victims.
The purpose as interpreted here is
to excite the public against the troop3
arid stiffen the German resistance.
Duesseidorf March 15. Three Ger
mans wore shot and killed by French
soritriss today while they were trying
to break into the "machinery ware-
house in Recklinghausen. Tho French
announced that the shooting took
place "after the Germans disregarded
chnlleuges.
Severe Blizzard
In Panhandle Is
Featured by Snojv
(By Associated Press.)
AMARILLO. March 15. The
Panhandle today Is in thc'grlp of
a blizzard. Snow is falling fast
this morning with the tempera-
ture 12 degrees above.
New Orleans) ' March 15. Tho
Weather Bureau this morning
issued southwest storm warnings
for the Texas coast.
Revision Freight
Rate Schedules Is
Ordered by Board
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON March 15. Rail-
roads operating- through tho south-
west and lower Mississippi valley to-
day were ordered by the Interstate
Commerce Commission- to make ft
ceneral revision of commodity rate
schedules. effective Juno 3th. ThcJ
commission ordered tho lower rates
on shipments from Memphis to Ar-
kansas points and Southern Missouri
and from Natcnoz Miss. and Arkan-
sas; points to various territories.
GULF COAST Oil ADVANCES.
HOUSTON March 15. The Humble
on and Refininc company today an
nounced an Increase in. the prices ofr
Gulf Coast crude oil from- ?l-.50 tol
?1.75.
WALLACE
UNITED VISIT
iu onn u nnn
siiiyiiuuu
WILL UK ASKED TO PARTICIPATE
IX LAVING CORNERSTONE OF
PECAN' LABORATORY.
PLANS are well under way to have
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
Cantwell Wallace -visit Brownwood and
i ? ci 1 1 w a Mm 1ifnf nillroati nt flip lJlvftliT
ucii iti inv. v....v. . j .... - -" - - -
of the Pecan l aboratory cornerstone
in the near future. Secretary Wallace
left Washington recently and is now
somowhero on the Pacific Coast this
being a part of his program for a com-
plete itinerary of the country. His
return trip it is understool will be by
way of Fort Worth and the .Chamber of
Commerce of Brownwood with A. I.
rjabis in charge of the fedoral pecan
work here- and others are doing their
best to. have Mr. Wallace come to
Brownwood on the occasion mention-
ed. It has been suggested if ho accepts
tho invitation to be present that he
be brought here in a car from Fort
Worth as ho would no doubt welcome
a change from the continual and ted-
ious travel on a train. Telegrams
were sent to Senator Morris Sheppard
and Congressman Thotnas L Blanjon
.asking them to Jirge Mr. Wallace to
visit Brownwood and Senator Shep-
pard Us well as Mr. Blanton got busy
and rushed these telegrams backed by
their own insistanco that the Secre
tary accept the invitation of the citi-
zens of tho city "in the heart of Tex
as." If Mr. Wallace accepts the date
will be announced and the necessary
committees will at once get busy mak-
ing preparations.
Is Distinguished Citizen.
Snnretarv Wallace is a distinguished
citizen of his State Iowa . and for
(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX.)
' HENRY C. WALLACE
EITHER HOUSE
Session Probably Shortest on Record Was Ended One Hour
After It Convened in Response to Demand of Gov- '
ernor; Members Hurry to Their Homes.
MITCHELL GOES
' TO TIP FOR
HOLT 11EI3
F0LrR JURORS ACCEPTED AFTER
TWENTY VENIREMEN' HAD
BEEN EXAMINED.
(By Associated Press.)
WACO March 15 Roy Mitchell
negro went to trial here today charg-
ed with the murder of W. E. Holt in
January. Rangers and county peace
officers are on guard.
Arthur Polsteal negro brother-in-law
of Mitchell is charged with per-
jury in a complaint The charge is an
aftermath of Polsteal's appearance be-
fore the grand jury. Polsteal Is
charged by complaint with the murder
of Holt and Mrs. Ethel Denecamp but
no action' was taken by the grand
jury since the alleged statements by
Mitchell do not incriminate anybody
else.
Four jurors had been accepted for
the trial of the case this afternoon af-
ter twenty veniremen had been ex-
amined. TO' PAY FERfilllf TAl
5
NEGOTIATION'S END WITH RE-
i nS VL TO PAY WHAT IS SAID
TO BE EXIIORBITANT TAX.
(By .Associated Press.)
MEXICO CITY March 15. Repre
sentatives of the oil companies who
have been negotiating with the Mexi-
can government On the question of
taxation have broken off the conversa-
tions refusing to pay the taxes fixed
for February. The oil companies
hold that the rates fixed by the minis
try of finance are unduly high. They
are understood to have decided not to
make any payments until a final
agreement is reached.
E
T
L OF F
OFFIGIAUF
ORDER FOE CLARKE'S ARREST
AND RETUHN TO HOUSTON'
IS EXPECTED.
(By Associated Press.)
HOUSTON March 15. Federal
Judge Hutcheson today declined to
grant a continuance in tho case of
Edward Young Clarke of Atlanta
former acting imperial Wizard of the
Ku Klux Klan charged here with
violation of the Mann act. It is ex-
pected that a writ wilt bo issued for
his arrest and return to Houston.
His attpmey said he did not know
Clarke's present whoreabouts.
Earthquake Shock
Damages Delicate
Recording Machine
(By Associated Press.)
ROME March 15. A heavy
earthquake at a point not far dist- '
ant was recorded by seismographs
at Naples and Foggi3 this morn-
ing The quake was so intense
that It damaged the instruments.
1 A FJprenco dispatch reported
the earthquake centering in tho
Balmatian zone across the Adri-
atlc. -
charged wrrn PERJURY.
(By Associated Press.) .
NYACK N. Y. March 15. Evan
Burrowes Fontaine the dancer and
Mrs. Florence Fontaine her mother
were indicted on charges of perjury
today growing out of tho million dol-
lar breach of promise suit filed by the
.dancer against. Cornelius VanderbiU
Whitney.
OIL COMPANIES FIE!
MEXICAN
OFF B it
CONTIHC
DENIED
OB
HIGH
UN
OF L
rami
(By Associated Press)
AUSTIN March 15. The Legisla-
ture adjourned the special session
at 11 o'clock this morning- one hour
after it had convened in response to
the call of the governor. It Is be-
lieved to have established a new rec-
ord for the shortest session. No bills
were introduced and no work was un-
dertaken. The House voted to ad-
journ adopting the Patman resolution
to that effect 70 to 43. The Senate
adopted the adjournment resolution
by a viva voce vote.
Senator Lewis of Grimes county ex-
pressed strong opposition to adjourn-
ment. Senator McMillin of Grayson
county was eleqted president pro tem
of the Senate for the time it was in
session today. Senator Witt of Waco
was elected president pro tem ad in-
terim just before adjournment. Twenty-eight
SenatOFS and 114 Representa-
tives were present. The same officers
were appointed In both houses for the
special session.
Neff's proclamation calling the ses-
sion was read in both houses.
Governor Silent.
Committees appointed to inform the
Governor that the adjournment hour
had been set returned 'with a mes-
sage that he had nothing further to
communicate at this time.
. MrsrEdlth WHrnan-sTBallasCtEe on-
ly woman member of the House ex-
pressed criticism of. the newspapers
of the state when she arose . to a
point of personal privilege duringr the
short period of the House session.
The Senate required a few more
minutes and set back the. clock eight
minutes. The session of the Senate
thus officially ended at 11:08 one hour
and eight minutes after- it had con-
vened. Immediately after the passage
of the adjournment resolution the
members began leaving the chambers
and preparing to catch trains for their
homes.
MM EXPORTS
FEBRUARY INCREASED
OVER FIFTY MILLIONS
DTPORTS OF GOLD INTO AMERICA
LOWEST FOR MANY MONTHS
SAYS REPORT.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON March 15. The
.total exports from the United States
j during February amounted to $?10i-
KHJO.OOO compared with $250619000
in February of last year.
The Imports of gold Into tho
United States during February were
valued at S3S2736 smaller than
those T)f any month In the last three
years. The gold exports totalled
; $1399189 which was close to tho
average figure. .
T
JAILS MOONSHINER
PAIS INCOME LEYY GOES TO
JAIL PAYS TAX ON" JAIL
FOOD AXD QUARTERS.
International News Service Special
Correspondent.
HONOLULU March 15. "Just be-
cause a man's tootlegger is no reason
why he shouldn't pay an income tax"
says J. Walter Jones colector of in-
ternal revenue for the Territory of
-Hawaii. And not only are the fines in-
cidental to his profession not deduct-
able as "legitimate business expense"
according to Jones and the bootlegger
will also be. expected to pay a tax on
the .food and quarters received as a
result of his jail sentence for viola-
tion of the prohibition law which
must.be reported as income.
"According to the Federal law all
persons are required to report every
dollar of their income collected from
every source" Collector Jones says.
"Every source in this instance would
necessarily refer to the profits deriv-
ed by a manufacturer of intoxicat-
ing beverages regardless whether or
not such beverages are legally and il-
legally manufactured."
Collector Jones' ruling has caused
quite a stir among the local bootleg
gentry.
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