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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 18,1923
VOL. 2, NO. 196
SPOTLIGHT
SCHOOL TURNS
1 TO DEATH TRAP
BOX CAR ON ROCK ISLAND TRAIN HARD BY FARM
BUREAU CHIEF
ALL GLAD TO SEE HER BACK
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for Prevention
IN STABBING
DAMAGE CASE ST BAPTISTS
an .otticer or
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APPGAL DENIED .
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JUDGE REFUSES
SEPARATE TRIAL
FDR DOD COOK
SINCLAIR ASKS
U.S. PROTECTION
Instead of Being a Benefit,
Farmer Says It Is a Boom-
erang.
Beaumont Menaced
By Hood Water.
Lifeless Form Found Wrapped
in Newspaper by Train Con-
ductor.
FEW ATTEND
PRAYER MEETS
at a construction
Thursday, was i
U.S. TO PROBE
RADIO TRUSTS
THIRD CASE
FOR POLICE
. IN 3 MONTHS
two
The
It’s soinE to be hard tor a milk-
man to got inaurance fron now
Weather Forecast:
Cooler; showers.
DLa
ec
TI,T
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SOVIET SEIZES
U. S. PROPERTY
SAYS WORLD
IS GOING DRY
M
It
> at 9 p. m.
ied improv-
The demand for "teeder" cattle
always exceeds the supply, espeo-
tally in these years of big corn
On Trains
Five Cents
Cox—the other one—introduces
himseif as monarch or Murga
Grotto. Galesburg. III.
undo
WASHnGroA,"May it. — It
ata money to be a radio fan
To the initiated, there's little
READING, Pa., May H —
They ean him "Sunahine Joe,"
Tho there lm‘t much sunshtne
to his Ufa -
tude demanding eomplete compll-
ance.
Thea
door lea
safety. I
Bardon to Lead
Endeavor Session
en filed in con-
lection last fall,
of a remolutlon
state eenate to-
of anything," Mid Wade.
OMPARISON
Ing to appol
Snted states
up to our record. If any one leade
us. we want to know about it.'
the woman preacher eaya.
Miatakea Milkman
For Robber; Fire.
grew out of an auto in which Mrs.
Darts was riding being struck by
a train and injured. Mrs. Daria
was represented by Baskin. Eastus
and Greines. /
Negroes Beat Mule;
Trio Face Trial
tonal contest conducted by the National eague for Prevention
of Spinal Curyatureg She received $1,090. Rib development wag
the chief point strpssed in the contest. Horseback riding on west-
era plains develop her back, she says.
day.
It is hot be
Curson will “I
Russia Near Break
With Great Britain
-c,e
tlg
Charge of violating the liquot
lawa haa been filed ia Justice of
the Peace Dave Shannon's court
against Harrey Hill.
Hill waa arrested Thursday by
Herman Rhodes, county detective,
and Winston Lewis. city detective.
According to the officers. Hill
■topped' an automobile ho waa
driving oa Lamarat. Rhodes and
Lewis suspected the man was mak-
ing a delivery of liquor and
searched the car. . They found
one half gallon and two pints.
of evidence.
NO SEVERANCES
ILIN, May 18--Apveals of
' Krupp Von Bohlen and
ih from the eentenee of the
i cour martial has "been re-
May sk Congress to
Probe Mayfield Case
“Tea tog* Ten to go. - ■ •"
That wag the chant o Cheeks
Leffler, convention commlealont
of the OofC Friday afternoom. N
with 19 more reservations t
West Texas CofC conventon M
ial will be all ready to putt M
of Fort Worth May 11. i
To speed things up, a bait dome
committees of the bureau of MI
aad means are working w
nor. «
1. M. McCrary haa been
aa the official eong aad ye
of the expedition.
„_______ to protect
him in another attempt to addres
more severe thus usual — Joe
-
i “;
•fire."
ULOSEDDOOR
me the rush for. I
kg to the ground a
the door opened to 1
: Parents and Children Caught
In I-Fated Building When
Oil Lamp Overturns
______ 39
THE state university should
I have aa its head no one who
haa incurred political animosities.
Neff is peculiarly of a temper-
meat that has aroused much po-
litical spleen. His reputation to
not so much that of a scholar.
ds or even an executive, as it to that
Ww a politician and an intemper-
"at pleader for his own ideas.
F Thore to a current report some
political trading has been engag-
ed to make Neff head of the uni-
versity.
It is untortunate for the state
university if true.1
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. May 11. — Twent-
were injured, tive ne-
■ three ears at a Rook
rhea uain werej do-
"‘XU8FR,""Say 18
would be requented to
fully the charges *4
United States enator-
B. Mayfield of Texas,
Trade Trip Lacks
Ten Reservation
Price Two Cents
• • §
table fortitude."
•rit
. ______ .... .
Cold in death, nude and thrown
upon the splintery floor of a box
car, the tiny body of a baby was
found to a Rock Island freight
train at Saginaw shortly after 11
p. m. Thursday.
The find swells the total of un-
known dead babies found during
the past three months to three.
Wrapped in a newspaper, the
little body was nude and apparent-
ly had been dead for only a few
hours. A conductor on the freight
discovered the infant The car was
shunted to a side track and the
sheriff's office notified
SHERIFF TO SCENE
COURT AFFIRMS FUNDS NEEDED
2a :8
07
8ttir
ee. i ■ A.
Dr. Frederick A. Cook and 22
others indicted in the Petroleum
Producers Aasn. must go to trial
together. This was the ruling
Friday of Federal Judge Benjamin
Bledsoe in refusing a severancs
motion of H. C. Wade, attorney
for Cook.
Wade contended that Cook did
no wrong and should be entitled
to a separate trial. Of the thou-
sands who bought stock in Cook's
organisation on glowing promises
some were "disappointed in their
expectations but were not deprived
Harvey S. Steen, 42. 2220 Lips-
comb-st, who waa stabbed just
above the heart ia aa altercation
DURING PANIC
s ■ "0v
MAN HELD ON-
BOOZE CHARGE
J , " J - • .
a just what he does all
iz, it makes little dtt
whether his pain to
S. Goldberg, 1912 Chambers-
ave. Thureday eight mistook his
mllkmaa. O. B. McReynolda, for a
prowier and pumped two shots at
Pollee rushed to the scene and
utraightemed te queer tangle out.
Goldberg declared he had been
reetlena all night and the ratte
of the mik bottles brought action.
400 proud parents, friends and
children in a school house
here last night, were in im-
provised morgues today as of-
ficials continued searching the
ruins of the little frame build-
ing.
The injured numbers more
than a score, according to
WMMET DALTON, only sur-
Ia vivor of the Dalton gang.
that Lord
la his atti-
wenty-FiveHurt
In Railroad Wreck tr4
Sheriff Carl Smith and
deputies answered the'call.
with say other eountry oa earth —
”X2293f0n
____________ the mosticompi
---------—----------I "I have inquired of many
Gilvin and Dr. Ike Withers rolled churches and find none to come
76 LIVES LOST IN BLAZ
...... . ____________________
FIND BODY OF NEWBORN BABY INUWt RAPPED
Her prayer meetlag baa
members and 60 attendanta.
* Bow's the prayer meeting
your churcht
into Fat Worth Friday morning.
The party left Fort Worth by
automobile May 2 and traveled
240 miles.
So many fish were caught.
Snow Mid, numerous strings had
to be given sway. But this was a
difficult proposition, he added. aa
the natives were too lazy to clean
them and usually refused to ac-
cept the gifts.
Other than throwing three rear
tires, no trouble was experienced
by the trio on the road .
OIL TANK ON FIRE
ByYUSON,‘May ft— Task No,
242 of the Humble Oil Co. at the
storage farm near Webster, Texas,
has been reported on fire. The
tank waa atruck by lightnlag. ac-
cording to reports. The tank to
steel and a capacity of 35,000
barrels.
CASOLINE to sell for $1 a
U ion? impossible, don't get
alarmed. a Standard Oil official
Mid last apriag.
However, gasoline coats 21.30
a gallon in South Africa.
This brings to prominence a
farmer in the Orange Free State.
He has invented a new motor
fuel made from the juice of
priekly pear, and it's retailing
at 45c a gallon in his country.
He blundered on the process by
accident. Necessity has been
called the mother of invention.
8o haa laziness. Its third parent
. is chance. Even old man Roent-
gen discovered X-rays by acci-
dent, which to just another way
of saying that nature hands it to
us on a platter.
agea for personal injuries.
The case was tried here
Judge R. E. I. Roy’s court.
few years that have elapeed
the adoption of nation-wid
bition. Compare America
‘ WASHINGTON. May 13—More suiking longadorem
Washington Bureau
The Fort Worth Press
BY W. H. PORTERFIELD.
WASHINGTON, May 12.—Ac-
cording to the American Farm Bu-
reau federation. the Fordney-Me- z
Cumber tariff act, instead of be-
ing a benefit to the farmers of the
middle west, to proving a posi-
tive injury in at least one sche-
dule.
The eection referred to to that
levying a tariff of 1 1-2 cents per
pound on cattle weighing less than
1050 pounds each, and 2 cents ।
per pound on those weighing more.
These cattle. Imported from
Canada, are for the greater part
bought by farmers for stock feed-
lag purposes. Ths tariff adds
from 516 to 225 to the price per
head.
*
•
t Worth Press
By United Prem __ •
CLEVELAND, S. C., May
18.— Seventy-gix crushed and I
, blackened bodies, the toll of a
disastrous fire which trapped
Sinclair announced today that
he would address a public meeting
under auspicea of the American
Civil Lberties Union in Loa An-
gelm tomorrow night
Sinclair to out oa 2500 ball un-
der chargee of "alleged unlawful
assemblage" aa a result of his at-
tempt. three da} ago, to read a
section of the federdi constitution
to a group of friends at San Po-
ds*
the ughts, found their niebd
and loved ones burled to Mm
blackened mom. 5
MANY MORGUES
Frenzied relatives hesitati
often in their labors tn an efta
to identify bodies. Lttle grou
gathered about each body aa
was brought from the ruins b
little remained to establieh tl
names of the victima.
The bodies worn nned earn
fully and rented tenderly b
loved ones to neerby homes
Then as the coll of the dimetol
it would coat 2222.222.tbd to
duplicate the Great Wall of China,
engineers wy-
with a gun and a blackjack—
decent and out in the open—
with the modern bandit who
lurks in the mahogany office
and works with the stock divi-
dend aad bankruptcy proceed-
ings’ We might as well be hon-
3 of raw material
% tag indeetry.
Speclal Correspondence
WASHINGTON, May 12. — The
world is advancing steadily toward
world prohibieon, in the opinion
of F. G cheed, Engllah inventor
and manufacturer, head of Creed
aad company of Surrey, England,
who to now visiting in the United
States.
Mp Creed to one of England’s
grestt tompiraace leaders, being
ottletai head of the "atrength of
Britain" prohibition movement.
"The prohibition movement to
bandit, who worked
By United Hem ,
MOSCOW. May 1«.—A break
with England is feared by respon-
sible government ofticials here.
Russia will be unable to go
much farther in meeting tbs de-
maads mt down in the British
ultimatum, it was pointed out to-
Gupui dohhFun wy udfave meir ' wEhe
i, Cleveland, while John B.
"hews In that, but there may be
news to why the coot has in-
creased.
Within the next month, Uncle
Sam hopes to tell the story. If
there is a great monopoly reach-
ing out to control and then capi-
talise the radio habit, the govern-
meat wants to know. The charge
has been made that a radio trust
to operating in the United States
and then, thru cooperation with
foreign organizatlona; operating to
make radio equipment expensive
thruout the world.
The federal trade commission
hsa iavestigators in the field aow
gathering faets and figures The
commission to operating under a
congresisonal • resolution passed
just before ooagrem adjourned.
Members of the commission de-
cline to discuse the information al-
ready obtained it will be four or
five weeks before the commission-
ers win have a preliminary report.
ing at his home Friday.
Steen was taken to the City-
County hospital in the police
emergency car. Dr. J. B. Dunn,
who attended him, said the blade
only penetrated an ineh and the
injury to not serlous. Steen was
removed to his home late after his
wound was dressed. An arrest was
expected today. .
City Hallers Back
From Fishing Trip
After spenamg 19 days ia ths
wilds of ths Hano river, and
quenching thirita at Via Acuna.
Mexico. City : OBSratary C. 8
The blunder with the Deltons
and the James brothers was
.Partly in their method, not their
Mtesults. They lacked good law-
P yers. da
DOBMENACES
U. S. CONSULATE
By Unltea Pries
MEXICO CITY, Mexico, May 12.
A huge bomb was exploded in the
basement of the building occupied
by the American consulate here
early today. No one was injured
and little damage «u eaneed.
No arrests had been made late
today.
There is no direct evidence, po-
lice Mid. that tbs bomb was in-
tended for the American con-
sulate. However, it was explained,
if the bombers had the American
consulate in mind, it was for the
purpose of embarassing the Obre-
gon government in Ito negotiations
for recognition.
The bombgjexploded on the first
floor of the building. The Ameri-
can consulate la on the second
floor.
day.
The resolution was laid ton the
Mme eubjeet to call, without ts-
Sheriff E. E. 'Welch, of Cam-
den, who made a preliminary
survey today. Eighteen
bodies have been identified
and turned over to relatives.
The others were mostly a
mass of burned flesh and
bones and identification was
impossible.
Every home to the little vil-
lage has been pressed into sew-
ice either as a morgue oramn
hospital to care tor those
trampled in the peelr which
followed the cry of "fre" or
those who were injured leaping
to safety from the recsud fleer.
HOMES OF HORROR
Homes were converted into
houses of horror by the azony of
the injured. Some suffered broken 2
backs in their daring leaps tiom
the building, while others, inciud3 '
ing women and children, were bat-
tered and broken by the rush at
the door of the schoolhoune when .
the audience, mad with fright,
sought to escape from ths flsmSS.
It was commencement dax tor
the pupils of the little school. A
stage had been erected on the
second floor from which the Du
body was brought to Fort Worth
sad turned over to Robertson-
Mueller Undertaking Co.
Investigation at the death of an
infant found with its throat slash-
ed at 319 Texas-st March 12 and
a baby discovered dead from ex-
posure at Sixteenth and Grand-
ave. May 2. to bow in the hands
of Captain George Hale. It is be-
lieved a letter momentarily ex-
pected by Hale will result in the
detection of those implicated in
the gruesome tragedies.
AWAITS LETTER
"When this letter arrives, it
may show we are hot on the trail.
If it does not, then we have no
trail at all." Hale says.
Ho probably also will conduct
an investigation of the death of
the infant at Saginaw.
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Cox to Moot Cox
At Maaonic Moot
Ma
7 year-old urehin. probably will
2nm e
broken when a heavy track ran
By United Prees
PASADENA. Cal., May 13 -
Upton Sinclair, author and social-
tot. charged with unlawful assem-
blage, today appealed to President
m."t1
HOL______
9 Price Two Cents
inside and those nearest t
were jammed azainst the teat
it could not be opened.
Farmers aad their tamiies 1
came to town to be entertal
for the evening by their ObiM
churned and muled at the eta
door like atampeded cattle
these who tellan-the erush of
manity, were trampled under 1
Thea the names, roaring 1
the bonding, reaped the from
cluster about the entrance
there who bad gone down •
consumed in the blaze.
A stubborn mule was too much
for three negroes Thureday after-
aeon. They went into paroxysms
of eager aad. according to charge
filed against them in P. W.
Seward’a-ct, knocked the animal’*
eye out. ;
The trio ia now’in county Jal)
awaiting trial la the oounty-e at
lor can emile about it. can’t bet.
Just to make thinga easier.
Physicians and nurses hold
out little hope for his recovery.
But Joe doesn’t seem to mind
—ho just keeps on amiling.
"When I we» a regular kid,
jua< like the stbor fellera," he
Myo philosophieaily, ”I never
thought much about amtUa* sad
laughin.
"When I did, it was only be-
cause somethlog 4 etroek me
crops at low prices. The most
profitable use that can be made of
cheap com to to turn it into meat
Thus, as will be seen, our farm-
ere have been injured in their
“buying" market with no advan-
tage whatever to their "selling"
market.
' AX-STUDENTS’ associations of
. -J the University of, Texas, in
many parts of the stats, have
gone on record so opposed to the
selection of Governor Pat M.
Neff as president of the state
university.
They make it clear their objec-
tion Irin nowise personally di-
rected toward Neff, but the/
would deplore selection of any
governor aa head of a state uni-
versity.
A governor, after two cam-
paigna. naturally makes many po-
litical enemies. He becomes the
leader of a faction.
The proverbial Wedneaday
night prayer meeting is not nearly
such a popular thing aa the lay-
man fancies.
Many prayer meetings are held
but few people attend them.
"I believe we have the boat pray-
er meeting in the city." says Mrs.
Bessle Williams, pastor st the
Church of ths Nazarene, Evans
aad Baltimore-aves.
Frank B. Bardsn wil lead the
Senior Christian Endeavor of First
Congregatioml Church Sunday
afternoon.
Short talks will be made oa
various Biblical verses. Rev. G
J. Read being asalgned the topic:
"What in the Bible Ha* Helped
Me,”
MiasRuth Rend win lead the
sone bervice. N
Thureday afternoon Judge Bled-
soe overruled all motlons /or eev
erances. He declared If each de:
tendant waa given a separate trial
there would never be an end to
the hearings.
This will mean the joint trial of
23 defendants in the PPA aad of
the 39 defendants in the Revere
case.
• Doc Cook was arraigned Thure
day afternoon aad plead not guil-
ty. The data of his trial haa aot
been aot aa yet. a
B’SENUNONr, Tex., May 18.—A
near water spout which feel here
at 2 a. m. and a heavy rata that
isestill falling today haa the city
almoat inundated.
Street cars have stopped, auto-
mobiles are stranded everywhere
and the water to running over the
curbing* flooding business houses.
Lightning etrack the Beaumont
Now* building but no one 'waa in-
jured. e
Indieted PPA and Revere Co.
Men Must Face U. S. Court
Collectively. t
By NBA Service.
CLEVELAND, May 19.-
When the Masonie grottoes of
the country assemble here for
their 34th annual national con-
vention. Jane 11, 12 and 13,
John H. Cox will have the op-
portunity of meeting John H.
Cox.
John H. Cox has never met
John H. Cox, but he hopes to
make his acquaintance. So does
MEET JOHN H. COX, ABOVE,
the monarch of Al Sirst Grotto;
below, monarch of Murga
Grotto.
been made Judge Bledsoe Mid hr
would like to hear testimony in
the plea.
After Doc Cook had been V
raighed Friday morning Sherwin
took the stand. Heteldetihaw
tag given evidence to a ropreayn-^
ullve of the federal trade comml
■ion
Ho testified as to having filled
out questlonnalres as to the three
Robert Los Interests. He said he
was told by the representative of
the commission that his compli-
once was mandatory. •
CLEANING OUT
It is thought all minor motions
may be out of the way by Satr-
day aoon. Next week it to plan-
ned to hear evidence on other
motions. Thia to especially true
la the Joha T. Hones case Honea
to asking to have the indictment
against kirn quashed on the
grounds of his appearing before s
hearing of the federal trades oom-
mission.
Baskin, Eastus and Greines,
Honea's attorneys, Thureday an-
nounced they would bo willig
to go into the case then, either
on argument or with submiasion
lmorgue or a hompltal.
Doctors sad nurses from Cam-
den and other surroundig tows
ruehod here thruout the night to
give themselves up to the task of
carrying for tbs injured.
i, L
says: "What
ABSURD.
Total average importations from
Canada represent from one forty-
fourth to one-fiftieth of the domes
tic consumptton. It to absurd, ac-
cording to Gray Sitver. head of the
farm bureau, to contend that
American stock ralsere need to be
protected against a country that
sends us but one-tittleh of our
local needs. ’
“If the additional tariff Jm-
posed by the act of 1233 had any
effect at all oa prices to the pro-
ducer," ray* Silver, "It was en-
tirely on the Canadian aide. That
is, it operated to increase the
spread between Canadian and
American prices by forcing down
Canadian prices instead of raising
our own.”.
ASK REDUCTION.
The farmers of the middle west
have, thru their bureaus, petition
ed the tariff commission to reduce
the duties by fifty percent.
The tariff ha* worked a posi-
where one-tenth of our total area
to dry," he told.
“I have been a trequent visitor
to America during the part quar-
ter century and I can see the tre-
mendous progrees you have made
toward nation wide sobriety ia the
May 18.
than 2300,999 to property of the
International Harvester Corpora-
tion. the General Electric Co. and
other American property haa been
seized by soviet authorities to and
about Vladivostok, it waa learned
at the state department bore to-
The setzures became known
when the state department Imued
an explanation of why the Ameri-
can consulate was closed at Vladi-
voetok.
Soviet authorities, it was said,
seised the office of American Con-
sul Tuck sad he was unable to
continue his duties. The soviet
had ordered all foreign represent-
atives to present their offietal doc-
uments. This Tuck refused to do.
beeause it would border on recog-
nition of the eoviet government.
Presa - • -
By United Preps ■
KANSAS CITt, May 12.—Im-
passioned appesto-for more fund*
to spreads the teachings of the
Baptist church were made today
by delegates to the Southern Bap-
tist annual convention here.
Asserting that Baptists were not
doing their "sacred duty in lend-
ing financial support to the work
of the state," Dr. E. D. Grey, At-
lanta. secretary of the home mis-
sions board, urged all members to
support more actively the $75,-
000,000 campaign drive.
Dr. F. H. Vermillion, superin-
tendent of the Haptist tubercular
Sanitarium, El Paso, pleaded foi
3500,009 to carry on the work of
the institution.
The apellate-ct st Texarkana
hsa affirmed the judgment in the
case of Mrs. PC. Davis vs, the
Fort Worth Belt railway where-
in she was awarded 95,999 dam-
He compared Cook to a clothier
who might offer s 330 suit for
sale st that price, claiming the
value of the suit to be $100.
“The purpose ot this statement
as alleged in this indictment was ,
for engendering in one's mind
something that was not so," Judge
Bledsoe ruled. “That is a* blind,
as child-like argument to thia
court.
“I think the Indictment is
good."
ARRAIGNED
Doc Cook with other defendants i
in the PPA indictment were then
arraigned.
McLean and Scott Thursday
made a plea of immunity for
Charles Sherwin and H. H.
Seb war*. After arguments had
Sometimea Joe's smile
oss out Bo thinke b
wiggio hie wanted lega
“Some day r bo able to use
'em again," he saya contidently.
“Aad then HI grew up to be
just what I always wasted to
bo—a cop!
“AM when I wak my heat
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Siler, Leon M. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 196, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1923, newspaper, May 18, 1923; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1547099/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.