The Daily Herald (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 183, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1923 Page: 1 of 4
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THREATS REPORTED
AGAINST FARMERS
IN NORTHERN TEXAS
By Associated Press
Dallas, Texas, Aug. 16.—Charges
that unknown persons are threatening
to burn the barns and homes of farm-
ers in Hunt county if they join the
Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Associa-
tion, were made here today by L. F.
McKay, publicity director of the asso-
ciation.
The specific threats were made by
strange, unmasked men last Tuesday,
while six of the leading farmers resid-
ing near Greenville were in Dallas
with a view of joining the Association,
he said. The unknown men visited
the farmers' homes and frightened
their wives, accordin gto McKay. Ef-
forts are being made to apprehend the
men who made the threats, McKay
said.
GOV. NEFF SUGGESTS
ABOLISHMENT ALL
OBSOLETE STATUTES
SPEEDY WINDS WILL
AID LONG FLIGHTS,
AVIATOR BELIEVES
By Associated Press
Chicago, Aug. 1.....—A 12-hour non-
stop airplane flight from the west
coast to the east coast is not an im-
probability, and there is every reason
to believe that this remarkable flight
will be realized within a short time,
according to Major R. W. Shroeder,
former holder of altitude records, and
one of the first aviators to ascend to a
height of more than 38,000 feet.
"To negotiate the distance between
San Francisco and New York in this
^Jiiort time, the aviator must ascend to
a height of more than 30,000 feet in
order to get into what is called the
anti-trade winds,” Major Schroeder
said in explaining his theory of the
flight. "These winds blow at a veloc-
ity in excess of 100 miles an hour and
wth the aid of the plane motor hum-
ming at a speed, say 160 miles an
hour, the flight can be accomplished,
providing that all conditions are fav-
orable.’’
Major SchroedeT pointed out that the
higher a flyer goes the slower his
mental faculties function.
“Experiments have been going on
for more than a year,” he said, “with
a compartment which is impregnable
to the admittance of air through any
but an authorized channel. By attach-
ing this channel to the super-charge of
an airplane engine, the air in this com-
partment can be kept at a level equal
to that from which the aviator start-
ed. In ncase of any disorganization of
this system, an oxygen tank has been
placed in the compartment. The me-
chanical devices on this tank start op-
erating as soon as the air in the com-
partment reaches a certain low point,
and in this way adverse conditions
within are dissipated.”
Major Schroeder, the aviator who
fell six miles and lived to tell about it,
explained that the construction of the
compartment was of very light wood
but that Its durability has been tested.
The compartment has a tri-thickness
of glass, and is fairly comfortable
within, he said.
“The altitude a person can reacli
nerw depends on human endurance and
not so much upon the calibre of the
airplane,” the aviator continued. "My
altitude flight before I retired from
the army was not to see how high 1
could fly but to discover what plane
could best be used for photographic
purposes. That was the main thought
when I first ascended into the air.”
“During the flight I was blown con-
siderably off my course and it was
then that I thought of the possibility
of the west to east coast flight with
the aid of the anti-trade winds, which
blow west to east. I think it is possi-
ble, and that it will not be long before
the country will be startled with such
an actual accomplishment.”
EIGHTY-FOUR TAKEN IN
PROHIBITION DRAGNET
By Associated Press
Washington, Aug. 16.—With eighty-
tour persons already under arrest at
Savannah, Georgia, under conspiracy
charge in connection with the prohibi-
tion enforcement act, Department of
Justice officials said today they believ-
ed they had finally rounded up one, if
I not the largest, bootleg forces in the
United tates. Other important arrests
are forecast. It was stated that in
dietments would be sought not only
under the Volstead act, but also under
1 he customs laws against smuggling,
'-he statutes making it unlawful to
.ransport smuggled goods.
CONE JOHNSON VERY ILL
AT HIS HOME IN TYLER
Tyler, Texasi Aug. 15.—Cone John-
son, veteran lawyer and statesman of
Tyler, is seriously ill at his Front
Street home here. He had just re-
covered from a serious illness of last
winter, when again stricken here last
week. Mr. Johnson Is 63 years old
and was admitted to the bar here in
1883.
FAVORABLE TRADE BALANCE
7 SHOWN BY DEPAR+MENT
Washington, Aug. 16—A favorable
trade balance of $26,060,000 was
shown by offifficial figures on the coun-
try's exports and imports for July,
which was issued today at the Depart-
ment of Commerce. This was the first
month in which exports exceeded im
ports since February. Exports in July
totaled 1310,000,000, and imports $284,-
000,000.
TOTAL DEAD IN MINE
DISASTER IN NINETY-EIGHT
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LANIER BROS. GARAI
Kemmerer, .Wyoming, Aug. 16—Res-
cue crews in the Kemmerer Coal Co.
mine No. 1, believe they have located
tho body of Joe Roberts, the last to
be recovered. With the removal of
Roberts’ body today, the total dead
will be ninety-eight. A number of the
disaster victims are Japanese. The
cause of the explosion has not yet
been determined.
Savannah, Ga.^ Aug. 16.—Nearly
two score Savannah business men and
citizens were arrested today and to-
night in what was declared to be the
biggest round-up of alleged liquor vio-
lators in history of the city.
The arrests were made on federal
warrants based on charges running
from common bootlegging to conspir-
acy to violate the national prohibition
law and those arrested included some
of tlie best known business men of
they city—a banker, a lawyer, several
merchants and a former sergeant of
police.
The arrests with promises of more
to follow has created a sensation. The
more prominent of those taken into
custody are:
J- J Powers, vice president and
cashier of the Exchange Bank of Sa-
vannah.
C'hautaqua, N. Y„ Aug 15—“The
initial step toward a better observ-
ance of our laws consists in arous-
ing the public conscience to the
sense of the duty and responsibilit-
ies of citzenship^” Governor Pat M.
Neff of Texas declared in a speech
here today in which he call upon the
"Minute Men of America” to answer
the question as to wheteher the laws
of the land shoui be enforced. His
attention was devoted principally to
the Volstead act. “There can be
seen today in this country, on every
hand, a general revolt against gover-
mental authority," the Governor said
“Lawlessness is organized and com-
mercialized. It is bold and insolent
in business affairs and is struggling
for recognition in the social and poli-
tical world,” he said. “Whatever the
cost, tlie Government must enforce
her laws or ultimately go on the rocks
of anarchy and ruin.”
A veiled criticism of the action of
the New York legislature in repealing
the state enforcement act was made.
Mr. Neff suggested as a means of se-
curing better law enforcement that
“all antiquated laws should be wiped
off file statute books.” He said in
part:
“All antiquated laws should be wip-
ed off the statute books; fossilized
tedious technical.ties which interfere
court procedure should be abolished;
with the judgment of the courts shouiu
be done away with; trial should 1*
had immediately after the offense is
committed; punishment for crime
should he certain; sickening sentimen-
talists should cease mollycoddling
criminals; red handed murderers ought
not to he petted as heroes, the escape
from punishment of criminals after
conviction should be made reasonably
impossible, immunity should be given
to no professional criminals; potential
criminals should be made to know
that if they violate the law, punish-
ment will be swift and sure; the high
up criminals should be prosecuted and
convicted as well as those in humble
and obscure walks of life, those should
be elected to pffi-ce who do not them-
selves violate the laws nor connive
with lawlessness; officers who, for
any reason, fail or refuse to enforce
the laws should be by proper legal pro-
cedure, speedily removed from office
the men of the country who really be-
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and an unworthy American who gives
hope and encouragement to these law
breakers and law defiers by raising,
in their behalf, the question as to the
power of the government to enforce
her constitutional and statutory laws.
Whatever tho American people will
to do, they can do.
“The prohibition amendment was
adopted by precincts, by counties, by
states and finally, by the nation. Out
pe! tho Federal Government, in order
to preserve the Constitution, to ex-
pand its functions to perform what the
State is empowered and authorized to
do. Such refusal would prove the
State no longer in accord with the
Constitution. N0 State, consistent
with its relation to the Union and' its
sister States, can sulk in its tent, like
Achilles of old and leave the battle to
its comrades, when the enemies of
of the 2,543 counties in the United law and order seek as against all the
States, only 305 were wet in 1916. The State and the general government, to
people voted for national prohibition, ignore and override the fundamental
for ty six states ratified it and con-j law of the land. The State guilty of
gress, by a two-thirds vote; put the such disloyalty dims forever the lus-
seal of its approval on it. That cons- ter of its star, placed on the flag by
titutionai provision written by the [the Nation to emblem the sovereignty-
people into the constitution of this na-
tion, is there to stay. If any one be-
lieves the American people will ever
take a backward step by the repeal of
the prohibition law, let him consign
that thought forever to the limbo of
oblivion. That issue is settled. It is
■not the eighteenth amendment that is
lieve in law and order should not now on trial, it is the American Re-
dodge jury service nor fail any where | public. It is not the Volstead law. It
along the line to hold up the hands of is all law.
Joseph B. Berner, merchant.
Samuel Berner, former sergeant 0fjth°se who are making an honest ef-
poliee.
A. Carlson, merchant.
C. Graham Baughn, lawyer.
Frank Balson, grocer.
Tlu arrests are the result
work under cover of thirty or more
men 'lining several weeks.
fort to enforce the laws of the coun-1 teenth amendment,
try.
“No law should be repealed merely
because its violators sometimes es-
of that State.
“There should be rum running in-
dustry on the Atlantic Coast. Our
Colonial fathers threw English tea in-
to the Boston Harbor to teach King
George III, that Americans had rights
which must be respected. It may be
that the time is near at hand when
the worthy descendants of those illus-
trious patriots of ’76 will be compelled
to throw foreign beverages into Bos-
ton harbor to let all the world know
that no intoxicants can be manufac-
"In the enforcement of the eigh-
each State has a
duty to perform. For the first time j tured, transported or sold on land or
i:i the history of this country, in pro-! on sea where rightly floats the flag of
viding for the enforcement of that law the American Republic. No agency of
of the j°ape punishment. “Thou shalt not kill” j concurrent power of the Nation and any kind, even though sailing beneath
1 jg a law hoary with age. However, ihte Slate was written into the consti- a foreign flag, should be permitted
fr«m the time Cain killed Abel, mur- ,ution <rlle prohibition amendment is-openly to flaunt the laws of this Na-
m ARRESTS MADE
BY MILITARY AT TULSA
C. A. HOPINKS KILLED AT SAN
JUAN BY S. D. HENDERSON
Brownsville, Texas, Aug. 16.—C. A.
Hopkins was shot and killed at San
Juan, Hidalgo county, today, s. D.
Henderson surrendered to the ofllcers.
He refused to make any statement as
to the shooting.
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By Associated Press
Tulsa, Okla., Aug. 16.—Two men
were arrested here today by military
authorities enforcing martial law In
connection with the whipping of Wal-
ter Tuinia at Red Fork, on April 15.
Officers say they believe the men will
be able to throw some light on other
mysterious abductions and floggings
which have occurred in this vicinity
recently. The men,, one of whom is
Bob Atkins, former deputy sherifT, are
being held until they can be question-
ed by Attorney General Short. Riot
charges will be filed against the men
if evidence warrants, the attorney
general said. The name of the other
man was not made public.
dor has been on the increase. It is |the law ot the Nation nad of every
conservatively estimated that we have j State in the Union. Therefore each
in the Vnited States, 10,000 homicides IState should assume its responsibility
a year. During the nineteen months !an<1 courageously discharge its duty,
we were engaged in the world-war we I should now desert the pro-
lost 50,000 soldiers. It is almost half hibllion ca,,sp and !eave its enforce-
as dangerous to live at home, in time
of peace, as it is to fight abroad in
time of war. Only about 3 per cent
of those in this country who commit
murder are convicted and punished.
Are we, for that reason, to repeal the
laws dgainst murder? Murderers will
favor the repeal. Law against theft
is older than the Ten Commandments.
Notwithstanding that, any day any-
where yon pick up a paper, you can
read an account of the stealing of an
automobile. Should we for that rea-
son. repeal the laws against theft?
Certainly no iaw abiding citizen would
think so.
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Amarillo Man Flogged.
Amarillo, Texas, Aug. 16.—E. E. Mc-
Donald, a railroad laborer, who was
kidnaped by five unmasked men last
night, returned home early today bear-
ing fifty or sixty slashes on his body.
He was hurried to a hospital where
his condition is said to be serious.
Two men are being detained and an-
other arrest is expected, officers said.
McDonald said he was beaten with a
weapon similar to a barrel stave and
then turned loose on the prairie.
ment exclusively to the Federal Gov-
lernment. It is the solemn duty of
every State to help enforce the cons-
titution of the Nation. No State in
this Union whose public servants even
claim to respect the memory of Thom-
as leffersoi; will compel the National
Government to usurp the police pow-
ers of that State by admitting an un-
willingness to enforce the prohibition
laws. Surely such a policy of nega-
tion tends to destroy the sovereignty
of the State. Certainly no State by
refusing to enforce a law, should com-
ti-rn cn American territory.”
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“The official report of the Institute
of Economics at Washington testifies
to our lax enforcement of the law by
stating that through burglary, theft,
robbery and swindling, the people, dur-
ing the year 1922, lost over $2,000,000,-
000. These laws are as old as civiliza-
tion. What law abiding citizen could
suggest their repeal, or make easier
their violation Who is advocating
the repeal or modification of our pro-
hibition law, not an old law, but a
new one> because it is not enforced at
all times and places The bootleggers,
the whisky men and those who sym-
pathize with them are the ones who
say it should be repealed.
“Instead of repealing these laws,
they should all be strengthened and
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