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Vol. 23
NO. 131 .
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Big Uwil-iings of modern constroe-
1 turn which were Lmuly damaged axwl
in many instances still in part ruin
from diraster last September were
further' damaged by today'a quake.
The rtibtnet went into seaaion Im-
mediately after the earthquake to
to consider relief measures and to
obtain information regarding the ex-
tent of the damage.
The stock market suspended opera-
t ions owing to the failure of com-
to the railroad in
the Chigasaki and Hirazuka and re-
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Removal ot Troops Asked
Bq Williamson Co. Sheriff
MARION, HL, Jan. 15.--Sheriff
George Galligan today* requested
Gov- Small to remove the troo|w in
Wihiamson Couffity
men are
are missing,
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ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE
UNITED PRESS SERVICE
OFFICIALS OF DALLAS
TO VISIT DENTON IN
RESERVOIR INTEREST
Germany and
tions ns to measures
be quickly applied to improve the
statue or the mark andstabiTTze It.
THREE MORE DEATHS
N GASOLINE BURST
ORING TOTAL TO NINE
LONDON. Jan. 15. -A local seis-
mograph registered the Japanese
earthquake of Tuesday iffbrning as
severe, but records On the same
machine indicated the shocks of
September, which devastated Tokio
and Yokohama with jXppaHtng loss
of life were 14 times greater.
eastern part of Ihe ebunty Tf‘ the
proposed lakq would flood the cross-
ing
Monday night a Dallas official tele-
phoned here and made arrangements
to meet with the court Tuesday af-
ternoon hut Tuesday morning be-
cause of the rain the plans were can-
celled and Judge Jackson said he
would call a meeting of the commis-
sioners at any time tho Dallas-offi-
cials could come here.
SALE OF
ARMS lb The
OBREGON
governmehT
CONGRESS TODAY.
Senate—Agriculture Commit-
tee hearings continue; Interstate
Commerce Committee holds its
first meeting.
Hou"e—Rules fight continues:
Foreign Affairs Com it tee contin-
ues hearings on Rogers bill;
Agriculture Committee contin-
ues -hearings ort farm relief;
Muscle Shoals hearings open be-
fore Military Committee; tax
hearings continue before Ways
and Means Committee.
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Thg moth villain irts Um admh- .
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with a pair of droamy
PEKIN. Jan. 16. -A train was
tun>blei| down a bank into the Uga-
wa River and six others .were over-
turned between -Gotemba and To-
kio in severe earth shocks early
today, nsokit repffyts say dire fi r«-
ging in Ike Sugafea suburb of To-
k io. *-■ - ijt* -—
East Highway Contract to
Be Decided Upon Tuesday
|. Whether the two bids for the work
, on the East Highway to complete it
to the county line will be accepted
| or rejected will be decided at the
1 Tuesday, afternoon session of the
I County Commissioners Court. The
monthly session adjourned Monday
afternoon until Tuesday afternoon
for the purpose of deciding on the
bids which were received last Friday
Lend at which time all other blds were
Projected and these wore held for con-
sideration- «
Bit Bank at Sprintfield,
Mo., Closed By Directors
♦ JEFFERSON, City, Mo. Jan.16 ♦
♦ —The Holland Banking Co. of ♦
♦ Springfield, Mo., with total re- +
♦ source" orf 17.008,510, has been ♦
+ closed by action of the board ♦
♦ of directors, according to word ♦
♦ received by the State Finance ♦
♦ Department today- 4>
♦ It was the largest bank ever ♦
♦ closed in-the history of Miq- ♦
| ♦ souri, records of the fjnanee da* ♦
♦ partmente show- +
♦ The Holland bank was the ♦
i fer-bfeffOUV BtoU bank in Missouri ♦
♦ outeids Af Kansas City and Rt. ♦
♦ Louts- Two runs were made on ♦
To Confer With Court
Members of the Dallas City Cotp-
mission are expected to come to Den-
ton some time this week or the first
of the next week to discuss with
a special session of the Oounty Com-
missioners Court matters pertaining
• to the proposed reservoir nite on Elm
Crtek. The purpose of the visit here
was not definitely anweuncod but it -
Woman Wounded When Police
Battle With Booze Runners
ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 16 .—Mrs. C.
C. Cowan was shot and seriously
wounded last night by stray bul-
lets from a battle between police
and rum runners. She was return-
ing from a neighbor's when the
booze njnners’ auto exchanging
shots with a closely pursuing po-
lice car, dashed past.
.11 DGE ROBERTSON TO ASK FOR
------- SPK4HAK JUDGE
DALLAS Judge Felix D. Rolwrl-
aon. candidate for Governor, will ask
the Hur Association to elect a spe-
mnl Judge to serve white he l« mak-
ing his campaign so the court’s busi-
ness may not be, interrupted.
X»va'«-a wmvaa an, sse _ _ ,
form within th* next 10 days. Bis
Iquarterx prpbaWy wHi bemfMfflHb,. ..----- -----.JHR
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Baldwin’s Swansong Will
Abandon Protective Tariff
LONDON, Jan. 15—The njuch-
mooted question of huw the Govern-
ment, in view of its overwhelming
defeat in the recent election on the
protective VarilT issue would handle
that subject in the King's speech at
the opening/of the new Parliament
was settled today when the Monarch,
reading his Minister’s pronounce-
ment, candidly referred to the coun-
try’s rejwlion of Ihc tariff pronos iTs’
and indicated their abandonment by
the government.
Premier Baldwin thus faces the
situation squarely in what is gener-
ally regarded as* his swansong, as
the political export's see nothing hut
defeat for him in the forthcoming
vote nt confidence.
Speech Favor* Labor
The King's speech furnished one
of the most axtansive lists of pro-
posed measures fuvorrible to labor
that was ever placed in a King's
message. In, fact, the Labor party
itself cpuld hardly have issued a
more striking announcement.
Danton East Highway and means
that would be used.in providing con-
nection between Penton nnd the
Tuesday morning
W. T. Bevers of
said that he would re-
that position the last
month and would return
former
~ —-or —Ph/rUT copyright, Harris A Ewing.
Senator Earle B. Mayfield of Texas may or may not be ousted from the upper house of Congrees. It
depends largely upon what thia committee finda. Left to right: Senator ML M. Neely, West Virginia; Sen-
ator William H. King of Utah; Senator 8. P. Spencer of Missouri; Senator F. L. Greene of Vermont; Messrs.
Zumbrun and Hanger, attorneys for Senator Mayfield; and Counsel Nickels and Woodward for George Ped-
dy, who is contesting the seat. In rear are shown John Rhoades and A. Barttiolmsss, assisting the committee
VERA CRUZ,’Jan. 15.—A long and
bloody battle in the oil district of
Guero Azul resulted in a victory fir
the revolutionists, according to in-
formation from General Moran, chief
of the revolutionist forces. The re-
ports said that the Federal garrison
under command of Colonel Silva was ;
dispersed and the town occupied by
the revolutionists.
About 300 prisons were taken. CoL
Silva kescaped.
-SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 15—Ameri-
can arm and ammunition are being
delivered into the hands of Mexican
troops who wearing the red un<l
black colors of Bo lshevism, accord-
Ing to the rApurtw wye”wttwexw*
who have arrested in San Antonio
within the last day or two frotu Pie-
dra* Negras.
| TOKIO, Jaq. 15.—(9:40 a. m.l-Re-
ports reaching Tvkio ou the extent
! of the damage from yesterday morn-
ing’s earthquake today gave rise to
the belief that heavy losses bars
* been sustained in the vicinity of Od-
awara. The quake whieh“Mt Tokio at
i (I a.—ui. yesterday lasted far three
minutes and was the heaviest shoek
_ _______,___- 46,—With L*in£r_.the di'as|ee of Sept 1-____
additional death* during the! Cable, telegraph and telephone
.... . ... communications have been interrupt-
I ed and all train service stopped east
of Kodzu.
! A few tmiall fites broke out in To-
I kio immediately foHowing the shake
lowing to foresight of the aviation
are | bureau, which had arranged patrols
2 '—v in out-
in the event of an
irinqunKV.
Airplane patrols today penetrated
With $5,.r>00 already pledged and
$1,100 niore in sight from among reg-
ular contributors yet to be seen, the
Finance Committee of the Chamber
of Commerce expressed the belief
thru Chairman Fred Rayzor Monday
nigiit that the $10,000 budget sought
for this yea » work ig.in sight- The
committee will seek to secure many
more individual memberships at
from $12 a year upward outside of
business heads to bring up the $3,-
400 short of the $10,000 merk eet fjr
this year's budget-
Abandon Hockenbury Plan
A number of matters, were consid-
ered at Monday night's regular
monlhlv maaung. Tha hotol propo-
sition was considered at length with
the result that a motion was adopted
to cancel the the Hoeken-
bury System to put on a campaign
and to recommend to the citizens
that a straight-out bonus of $25,000
be offered to anybody who would
contract to put up a $150,000 60-room
hotel with plans subject to the ap-
proval of the Chamber and with oth-
er safeguards included in the con;
tract. ___
B. B. Harris and W. H. Hook of
the Agrictultnre Department of the
Teachers College and C. I. A. were
elected associate members of the
directorate.
G. N. Rucker presented a contract
from the Denton Muncipal Band,
which. He said, had about settled the
band controversy and for which be
asked the Chamber of Commerce’s
hand bonus. The matter was referred
to the Band Committee- The Muni-
- Biand include^ 28 lUgDllH^ri
with at leant seren more sure te Join,
Rucker stated, and with membership
eligible to all musicians interested.
The banquet for the Swine Breed-
ers' Association was authorized as
the Chamber's part of the entertain-
ment of the visitors her? for the as-
sociation's meeting next month- The
dairy industry was considered at
some length and plans discussed as
to how to help it- The Secretary was
instructed to take up with the Wes-
tern Union Telegraph Co. the matter
of longer hours by the up-town office.
The service in the hours lhe local
office is open was complimented and
the short hours was said to be the
only cause of complaint.
William Watson, delivery truck
driver for the J - A. Cook Grocery
Was painfully bruised about the body
when he was thrown from a truck
against a lamp post when the truck
skidded on the wet pavement in front
of the First Baptist Church on West
Oak Street and crashed into the curb
on the south side of the street at
U:30 n. m. Tuesday. The two left
wheals of the truck were Crushed
and the left fenders and the body
were damaged. Watson said that he
was driving west on Oak Street at
the rato of about 15 miles per hour
and that as he neared the Baptist
Church a ear pulled out from the
curb. To avoid striking the car he
applied the brakes suddenly and skjd-
ded into the curb. The attending |■hy-
sician "aid that Watson's injuries
wore not likely to prove serious.
A cur driven by Garner Johnson
of Gainesville and one driven by
R.; B. Cheatham of Krum collided
on the Main Street of Krum. Sunday
afternoon. The ffont fenders and ra-
diators of bath .car, were damaged
and the windshield on Johnson', car
wns broken. The drivers cscape’l in-
jury. A car owned by D- P. Pearson
end an automobile belonging to a
man whose nahio was not learned
w»Hi slightly damaged wh«n one of
the machines in the collision ■ skid-
ded into them following the acci-
dent.
F- ./ embargo oh
armsTb The
RevotoJwisTs
Committee Calls Dr. Schacht
PARIS, Jan. 15.—Dr. Schact, pres-
ident-of the Relehetog and German
currency commissioner, has been
invited by the expert investigating
committee headed by Charles G.
Dawes to come to Paris immediate-
ly, it was announced this afternoon.
The committee desires to avail U
self of Dr. Schacht’s knowledge of
the present currency situation in
receive his sugges-
which coulc
ancial erbia caused by the phe-
nomenal f»H of the frue, de-
cided tn increase sll texes, di-
rect end indirect, by M per
cent. It also decided to reduce
the recoverable budget in 1M4
to 5,000, OOO.HO frances which
will be met by IhU-jsew taxa-
tion.
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Barometer Readings
a. m. today 29.77
Relative Humidity
99 per eent
PORT ARTHUR, Jan.
three i
night, the total death toll in buman
life ns a result of the explosion of
a high pressure still at the Texas
C“. refinery here yesterday was in-
•-* crcHAed to nine. U fl. YaieHs In «i »■’’
-— local hospital—to—a critical co nd it- I **“4
ion and is not expected .to live. | "W"
Those dying during the night are I-------• - -•>—
Antonio Klitna, George VtdFtfli' nnd (*“ JHWd “lid rvporj_ fires
Enoch Landry, all of Port Arthur. districts “ -v
I earthquake,
j 2—it,v. |,rirv.l
t’he districts farther away from To-
kio -
The power station
• wa* demolished.
The Tokaido railway apparently
suffered heavily. Several trains were
derailed.
Heavy damage
th: z..
! gtnnx w.u reported.
Professor Tatsutaro Hakamura,
noted student of seismie activity and
’ recognized as one of the world'*
lending earthquake experts, believed
i- the shake originated from volcanic
activity at Mouht Tunzawa in the.
province of Sagami.
Hr expressed belief that probably
enormous damage had been done in
the vinicity of Odavara, the bay thru
which access to Tokio from the sea
is had.—
TOKIO, Jan. 15.—Fifty person* are
believed to have been killed in Tokio,
Yokohnntn and the outside districts
in today's earthquake while many
were injured. No casualties among
foreigners have been reported.
The center of the earthquake is be-
lieved, to have been near Tanxawa
Province, according to officials of the
Central Observatory, where its dura'
lion wns recorded as 12 minutes. Its
intensity was estimated as half that
of last September-
Ono report stated that 600 houses
had been demolisht in Yokohama.
Odawra, about 75 miles southwest
of here; suffered the greatest dam-
age from the earthquake.
Water mains were ript from their
places by the quake
and water flooded the streets anil
hundred" of homes in the two cities
3. Fred Rayor, wm in Dnllu TbH«
^»y tn attend the meeting of the |
Southern lee Manufacturer*, AmO-^
ciitlon at the Adolphue Hotel and
to delivvi uu address before lh«t
body on “The Advantages of Soaring
lee.” Rayzor baa accepted an nlvlta:.
> tion from W. I. Starer, Secretory of
the Mountain State Ice Manufactur-
er's Association, to speak on the
|ka, subject at the meeting of that
I organlation in Denver and will leave
for that place Thursday. *
I “With all the New Year withes by
! the Denton businees tneh, pot a one
wished for an Improvement In the
unpaved reads so that the fanners
could get to town during long wet
I WtH*-” >«id J.JL Bryan of several
miles southeast of Denton Monday.
“If the dirt roads were improved so
they could be traveled during wet
wantbar tt would mean fetich to both
; the farmer, and business man.”
"A number of Denton County citi-
xens outside of Denton are showing
( their interest in the Chamber1 of
Commerce with subscriptions,*1 said
JBL Frank Browder, _£•£—cc—“ —
I Tuesday. “Yesterday we got a te»n-
^tribution from Mrs. Alex Deussen
rof Ponder and another from D. S.
' Donald of Plainview, who evidently
I bel'erve the Chamber of Commerce
work le of benefit to the whole coun-
I ty as well as the county seat.”
Roumlabout would not be human
If he did not appreciate the many
kindly wishes and offers of assist-
ance occasioned by hie announce-
ment for Lieutenant-Governor. Doz--
ens of friends—here and elsewhere
—called Tuesday following the an-
nouncement in Stole papers to offer
to do what they could to help. Many
of them said they would immediately
write friends over the State in one's
behalf, and such letters will be of tre-
mendous assistance toward the ful-
fillment of one's political ambitions.
Indeed, to bo quite candid, one’s main
hope is founded on the idea that
Denton friends will interest thein-
t selves in the matter, because they
ean render assistance that will oe
invaluable. Denton County has nev-
er had a State official in Its history.
The County Commissioners Court
Monday Issued instructions for
transfer of the balance rem lining
in the Ststi? Highway fund, created
through automobile license fees, to
the road and bridge fund. This ac-
tion is made possible by the State
Highway Department taking cluirgq
of the maiwtenance of the State high-
ways in the county Though the
StaLc organisation will not du the
work for the next two to six months
the court will forward all aeevunte
to the department for settlement in
accordance with the agreement made
ut the special session of the court
last Friday. ~~
The highway funds to be transfer-
red amount to *17,5.16 less the bills
allowed at the present session of the
couU' In the rond and bridge fund
the money will be available for use
on nd? of the liters! roads ,of the
county a" the court sees fit to use
it. The bills allowed at thia session
of the rnurj vote ft>r work done by
the county m_Ummiaboa aud fee the apartment'•
which the county is responsible.
Contract with, W. E» Gorrison for
looking after the courthouse clowk
was ranawed and ho was ordered
paid feMF'w qtlartor for hia aervlias.
On petition the court-ordered the
Lewisville and Decatur rotid at Beth- .
Robertson will, atiaounca hia idst- el changad.lajuuuHiullkof ths church elan priee^ t
rm within the next 10 days. His building and grounds in ordar to Only trouble
prevent rwroaehment* on the two eyes U you nover know why
nlachs of nronertv b» trafijc- aro drtaming apdut,
OSAKA, Jan. Hh-Tokio, still ly-
ing in partial rpihs, was severely
ghaken again today by shocks of an
equally severe grade, lasting 12
miftutes. It was reported that the
city had suffered less, however,
than was ut first thought.
No fires there were reported and
U is said the capital's waterpipes
-wee* not broken. Tha imperial fam-
i ily is safe.
PEKIN. Jan. 15—Six persons
were killed, 260 injured and 600
houses destroyed by an earthquake
' in Yokohama today, according to
a wireless dispatch from Osaka.
Four' were killed and twenty In*
I jured in Tokio in shocks which
I ravaged tho district devastated in
I September, the same report says.
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RECORD“CHRONICLE
DENTON, TEXAS.-TUESDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY 15, f<)24
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Will They Recommend Expulsion or Not?
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weath^
raslonal rain, warmer on cmM;
Wednesday cloudy, ralti in Mrt, 3
colder in west.
' West Texan tonight assd Wed- ’
— nesday partly cloudy, aww la
north, colder tonight f
", colder Wednesday.
Temperature '”ti
Maximum yesterday
Minimum today
7 a. m. today . . T* 7
Precipitation
IM • .09 inch
State papers Tuesday morning
carried the announcement of W. C.
Edwards as a candidate for thu Dem-
ocratic nomination for Lieutenant-
Governor. The Dallas News carried
the following story:
Announcement of his candidacy to
be the nominee for the office of Lteu-
Tenant Governor of Texas at the
forthcoming Democratic primary
election was made Monday afternoon
by Will . Edwards of Denton, well-
known Texas newspaper publisher
and “t present a member of the Thir-
ty-Eighth Legislature.
The only other candidate for this
office wfij has announced to date is
I. W. Culp of Temple, an attorney
and also a member of the Thirty-'
Eighth Legislature.
Wilt C. Edwhrdst has been connect-
ed w ith Cbe Denton JtocordARronuda
for the hist quarter of a centin jA
Since ISMMl he has beert owner of this
paper. He has iited in Denton for
forty-one years—practically art of
his life. At one time or another he
has served as president of the Texas
Press Association, the Texas Daily
Press League, and is now president
of the Denton Chamber of Commerce.
He was also a member of the last
State Democratic Executive Commit-
Mr- Edwards has been considering
the question of his candidacy for
more than a week, but did not dffi-
the race until Monday.
The people of Denton are at pres-
ent organizing a campaign to boost
4ho candidacy uf Mr. r.lwards. Due
to his long residence in the State
and to his long period of service as
a newspaper man and a puKTlc ser-
vhnt in various capacities, Mr. Ed-
wards is generally regarded as be-
ing one of tho most widely acquant-
ed men in Texas-
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 15,—Authori-
ties today were awaiting" further .in-
formation from Texas to aid in the
possible identification of a man ar-
rested here Saturday as Tom Tate,
who escaped 12 years ago from the
Tarrant County jail'tirhere he was
awaiting execution for tl)e alleged
killing near Tyler of Pres Ilnrdl-
gree, a farmer, and .Mrs. Gus Mar-
tin •
The man, who gave his name as
John Moore, formerly of San Anto-
nio. reiterated his denial that ho ia
Tkte- •
Cornmiasionar of Finance John
C. Harris and Water Commiaaiones
Harry It. Gowina of Dallas were
scheduled to visit Denton Tuesday
in Xhe interest. of the jurepesed
Dallas reservoir site near Luwh-
vlllaA according to • story ro the
Lallas News of Tuesday, r jt ip
to noon they had not arrived srd
it was thought the koevy rain
probably would cause «- ]>Ml Ma *-
ment of the visit. Secrete,7 H.
F. Browder of the Chamber if
Commerce said the onjy wqrd he
had received of the proposed visit
was the statement in the Dallas
News.
A story printed in the News
Tuesday indicated that the Dai-
l:.s officials were favorable to the
feffin.it ■ iw----t---n--- r.. It ’
was plainly atated that there are
several obstacles in the way, includ-
it K the fact that the proposed,
lake would overflow several roads.
The News story follows:
Denton, Rockwall and Collin
Counties will aid the city of Dal-
las in securing lands necessary for
the $65,000,000 reservoir project, th
event it is found necessary to have
Irnda which have been bought for
speculative purposes condemned as
such, it, was announced at a con-
ference with Mayor Louis Blaytocx
end members of the City Commis-
sion. Another outstanding develop-
Lenton Tuesday, it
ty the Mayor.
May Condemn Lands
Land bought around the various
reservoir sites for purely specula-
tive purposes may be condemned
and the city will get the lands at
a reasonable figure, it was an-
nounced Monday afternoon. In the
conference were Mayor Louis Blay-
lock, members of the City Com-
mission, the special hydraulic en-
gineers who will direct construc-
tion of the reservoir, along with
property owners of several of the
sites. Members of the group cen-
sured those who would buy the
land and try to profit off of the
city of Dallas when the purchase
is necessitated.
Reports that business men and
financial interests of Dallas have
been buying up land along the pro-
posed Lewisville-Garza site, which
has been mentioned prominently as
one of the logical points where the
huge reservoir to be
from the $5,000,000 water
issue, brought promises of
tance from C. G. Thomas
other Lewisville citizens In
fight to see that the options
granted to the city of Dallas
reasonable prices.
“If the reports are true that
some of the land which would be
inundated has been purchased at
high prices, it can be easily proven
that the purchasers paid for it far
above the actual price—then tjie
land involved can and will be con-
demned and aold to the eity of
Dallas,” Thomas explained.
“We sincerely hope that the re-
ports are untrue,” said Mayor
Blaylock, “and that no one will
■fry to hold us up on land prices.
We still have. the Mountain Creek
and Wylie sites, as well as sev-
eral others, and I can
people of Dallas that
blocked in one direction
take another. site.”
. “It would be a comparatively
easy matter," he continued, "when
compared /with ths excessive cost
of building a bridge of one and
1 one-half mile- length to change the
course of the road. This would still
- keep the towns *w e*w>muaisati<M»
with their trade territorie*. The
value of the increased trade That
would be brought by tho location
of tho reservoir would far cancel
the loss that might result tem-
porarily from a ehange in the
course of the roads.
“The city has proposed to
Struct the dam in »uen » manner
rnd wherever the reservoir is fin-
• Ily located that highways
railways could be diverted
the dam,” Mayor Blaylock explain-
ed.
Real estate men who have been
tetained by the city to aecure op-
tions on three of the reservoir
sites reported Monday afternoon
;nat while some hitches had appear-
ed. as a whole the work was pro-
ceeding smoothly. Likely property
owners near other sites confront-
ed by the temporary delay on the
options for the Lewisville-Garza
site will make it easier for the
city to take up options in other
localities, it was pointed out.
Much will depend on
come cT tt: _
talives of the city government to
Denton Tuesday, it was admitted
PARIS, Jan. 15.—All taxes in
France are to be raised 10 per cent '
and the severest measures of econ-' i
omy in public service put into ef-
fect ns u part of the cabinet’s pro-
gram of financial adjustment to
bolster up the franc. The program
which also includes Mjournment
<t all such projects aa pensiona
and bonuses will be introduced im- g
mediately in the Chamber.
The franc reacted today in an-
ticipation of desperate Government
measures and gained a bit, being
quoted at 22,42 to the dollar short- •
ly before noon compared with its
close yesterday at 22.7$.
Bankers, among who alarm spread . >
swiftly us the Bruse was near pan- ’ 'Ijj
ic scenes and there seemed no lias- .
it t o the franc’s drop, expect
tho depreciated exchange may con-
tinue to gain slowly if the Govern-
ment’s measures prove effective.
The Government decided to de-
mand un immediate vote of confi- '
donee in the Chamber on 4te~ ««jr—
financial program.
Measures to repress fiscal frauds,
speed up collection of back taxes
and repress spsculstion in national
bonds and French securitise art to
bo laid before the deputies.
Community Buildini Oebow’s
Subject at C. of C. Banquet
at Lowry Hall This Erailng
“Community Building” will be
the subject of the addrese by Rev.
Charles L. Debow ' of Oklahoma
City, who «t. to be the principal
.-.peaker at the Chamber of Coin»’ ““f
me i ce annual banquet to be given
st Lowry Hal! ' tonight, begltllttfllf -----
at 7 o’clock. ' - J. - -...a
The benouet is to be served 'in
three courses and between courseti
the program e'ommlttea had Kr-
rongrd for aeOoeot «Mo)oo)—Ksti----
i.ers. During tho courses musie will
be furnished by tho C. I. A. or-
eheetro, Fred Miao*, - ibllnsss - off--
the committee, said Tuesday.
“It ie possible that there will
be some changes made in ths pro-
gram that has boon arranged by
the committee," Minor' said. "Dr.
Debow will not arriev until late
„nd it is not knows the time he
wilt require to make his address."
The tentatisv program follows!
Froiude, C. I. A. . Orchestra;'
violin solo, Homer Richey; voea!
solo. Harry E. Shultz; sing-song,
led by E. L. Anderson; report,
'Chamber of Commercs Activities
during 1923, ' H F. Browder: ad-
dress, “The Work for 1924,” Presi-
dent W. C. Juiwarda;. fivoninbinto----.
talk, F. M. Bralley; reading. Miss
Justina Smith; five-minute talk. R.
L. Marquis; address “Community -
Building,” Rev. Charles L. Ds bow;
sing-song, followed by the benedlc-
:<on.
Sscrslary of tho Chamber - of
Commerce H. F. Browder said
luesday that this benouet would
te more largely attendee than any
jicvious affair of a similar nature
as more tickets all ready have been
sold than ever before. He added
that those who did not have tick-
ets would find it almoat ipnpossible
tt get places if they came to tho
banquet without a place reserved.
$1 Apportionment Dae Jan. 18
AUSTIN, Jan. 15—An apportion-
ment of $1 on the school fund will
go out Jan- 15. Supt- Marra an-
nounced today. This is the third $1
appointment to be sent out. The to-
tal sum thia time will be $1,301,270.
A man may he down, but never out
unless he is down In the mouth.
On reading the news from other
countries it looks as if the U. S. has
all the peace in the world.
The fart that there ere bootleg- —
gers ia proof they don’t drink the
kind of stuff they sell.
A bachelor's troubles are that
he has no wife to blame for them.
/ Mnny a man gets knocked cell ®
while taking a drink to warm him
up.
You. can't stand still and win the
human roes.
Wouldn't it be funny if everybody
believed every! ody?
Very few good cooks stay single. “si
The female with the specie ia more
deadly than the male- ,
A wife on hand ia wortl^ two at ,
the movies.
Fine feathers make sad biHs wbeu...^
the bills come In.
It there were no eues worde. hew
would we discuss taxes?
You don't have to go far to run - Yfl
into debt. 4
Woman's place I" In the horns, not
Cohgre.v has made Iota of, peace,
but doesn't uro much of it.
Only thing some people save for A
a rainy day ia rhssmatism --- • -4B
' The xMrte villain act*
era College, Tuesday,-"because the
ion Holland Boll eve>
entered the State
University was as a student under
He ought to be a good man,
„ he is, for out In West Texas
the standard of goodness was his
father, and the highest coinpll-
y ment that could.. i»a paid a man
• was to say that he was 'almost
; as good a man as Montgomery
Bell.' Spurgeon Bell is head of
the Business Administration De-
partment in Texas University, and
Rev. Robert Belt is pastor of
Baptist Church at Decatur."
Charles Cornwell of Roanoke, who
is attending Denton High School,
is probably the furthereat-away
pupil Tfi Denton High who makes
the trip every day. Charles comes
to Argyle where Mrs. Cornwell Is
teaching and from then on in the
family Ford to Denton High. He Is
in the low eleventh grade and Is
hoping to go into high eleven next
week.
While hers
Chief of Police
Denison
sign from
of this month and
to his former position of chief
special agent for the Katy. Bevero
has been chief of police at Deni-
son for the last year or more and
when he tendered his resignation
the city offered to raise hia salary
if he would remain in the >f>osi
tion but he said he preferred the
work with the railroad. Bevers
worked through Dentoh during ths
time he was with the Katy before
and co-opeiated with county officers
here.
B. C. Moon, who came to. Deh-
^ton County in 1875 apd for many'
years lived about six miles south
oZ jJaaLtoU. Ixma iMLxirued fium VS uaL
Ttuss where ho moved Zlyoarsags
and will make his home here.
Moon has bought a farm about
three miles nqrthwest of town and
said Tuesday that he expected to
make Denton County permanently
his home.
“I was interested in the refer-
ence in Roundabout to H. E. Bell
of Gatesville,” said W. H. Bruce,
president emeritus of the Teach-
ers College, 7
only instruct! I
had until he
\Japanese Quake
Does Big Damage
FRANCE T0 RAISE «
TAXES TO BOLSTER
FALLING EXCHAN6E j
, PARIS. Jan. 15.—The French ._
SAN ANGELO, Texas, Jun, 15.
The 5-ycar-old won of Mr and Mrh.
Clifford Brown at Ozona was crush-
ed io death beneath the wheel* of
itely make up his mind to AH. automobile when he broke a way
from hi. grandmother and started hundrfdB of homp. jn the two citl
into the street before the car, nc- 1 * . ...
cording to word roroteed hero today. I *’ "*'?« ,.he Hh°‘fk
- YiTniS7 t2La baolg damaged x
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 15—
Wilhelm Stabb, 14, died today af-
ter crashing into u sewer-intake
while coasting on a steep hill. It
was the first coasting accident of
the winter.
PORT ARTHUR -Six
known dead, two others
five perhaps fatally injured and 22
olhers slightly injured as u result of
the explosion of four batteries of
high pressure gasoline stills at the
Texas Company refTnerv here.
WORCESTER, Mass—Caught be-
tween the door and reeling of a run-
away elevator two babies bt Mrs. Ed-
ward Young and Mrs. Harvey-Curroy
respectively were crushed to death
while they and seven other babies
were being taken to the nursery in
the City Hospital.
TEMPLE—Mrs. Ckei „j(Jonnoll, 30,
of Eddy was burned t<f death when
her clothing caught fire as she wa»
lathing her infant.
SHREVEPORT, La. — John G.
Lynch, LR&N freight claim agent,
sustained a fractured skull when a
jitney collided with a banana wag-
®P.----r----
TEMPLE—Mrs. T. J. Knight wns
injured when a Santa Fe train atnrck
a car in which she was riding at a
grade crossing.
BROWNSVILLE-Stephen Barlow,
recently from Tampico, Mexico, was
found in a hotel with a. bullet thru
his head •'
ment of the conferences Monday ,s
Seen in that it may be necessary
to abandon the Lewisville-Garza
site. Mayor Blaylock said.
Monday it was found that if the
reservoir is located at the Lewis-
ville-Gsrza site the course of two
roads, onq of them the MeKinncy
highway, will have to be abandoned
fcr several miles, and the rouJs
given another eourae. It waa aug-
gerted that Dallas bjttf a bridge
over the proposed lane to seep the
McKinney highway intact between
Deaton and McKinney. -5 hi-, ,nan,
however, was flatly turned down
by the city on the grounl 'hit
it would coat $1,000,000 and would
never prove eueeeseful.
Commissioner of Finance John
C. Harris and Water Commissioner
Harry H. Gowins will visit Denton
Tuesday in an effort to straighten
out this tangle with representa-
tives from the various affected
towns. As it is only two or three
miles of one of the roads
would be inundated is paved, Mayor
Blaylock explained.
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Trade Would Increase
be a
liter,” he continued.
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