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EDWIN DENBY
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cold
TRAFFIC MISHAPS
measures are being urg- H
hidden gold into eircula- n,
represents
were
Held for Investigation
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New Officers
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test Jiita
Spring Term of District
Court Will Open March 3
Bids on Road Maintenance
Equipment Held Up Pending
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
I AW Mdf 1
KNOW ART BUT
I KNOW WHAT -
I LIK£ J
STRICTER DRY LAW
ENFORCEMENT FOR
TEXAS IS PLANNED
the
from
been
eat
fir
prohi-
Gov-
w,hich
w.i'
alien
bonus
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unofficially
< ommiuiotwr
to
aa- .
of
of the SI
WEAT
• East Texas I
Tuesday probably
. ; " f7
Not Worrying
probably quit
^1 ready.
Sensational “Confession"
New Oil Probe Development
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aiu c*«, o.w.ri iw h.m . t
• YORK—A etag party raided
by Mlfce resulted tn 164 nrresta, in-
eluding seven women-
‘..... ' "
Maximum
Minimum today '
Barometer Readings
-■7 a- m- teday........;_____.. NfrlfWi
Relative Humidity
Under the agreement debate on
the tax the bill will end at 4 p. m-
today. A vote on the income tax rates
is expected tomorrow or Wednesday.
■ " I1- ■ "F" .......— ■■■ ■■.
Franc Falls
to New Low
k^vSS
/
measureWveto ‘ "
1 from the
it rat ion. Denby
‘ mem-
bers of Mr. Harding’s cabinet,
having taken office on March 4,
1921.
------- This selection brought to the
Department for the first time
in many yean a man who knew
by personal experience the
viewp6int of enlisted men, both
in the navy and in the Marine
Corps. He had served as a gun-
ner's mate during the war
with Spain and thru all ranks
and grades from private to
major In the Marine Corps dur-
ing the world war.
eon dry
la aome-
ir of. In.
for ear-
Dallas Man found Dead in
Office, Bullet in His Head
DALLAS, Feb. IS.—Charles Bow-
er, 4R, hea<r oF an automobile rent
company, was found in his office
here today, a bullet hole through
his head- A revolver was found be-
side the body. Relatives and friends
said he had been laboring under
j strain of pressing business cares
liberalism; ‘recently.
Mr
a
court "
( Now that the duck season is over,
mucks are more plentiful on local
lakes and creeks than at any time
this year. The Country Club. Lake
Sunday had a hundred or more at
•ne time and there were several oth-
er big droyes in the ereeks nearby-
j..'."
Two weeks from Monday the eight
week’s spring term of the Sixteenth
District Court will open here. Thurs-
day of this week will be the last day
of service for the term and District
Clerk R. L. \y«st will then begin pre-
paring the dockets. The jury lists
nave been in the hands ot Sheriff
Swinney for several days for zer*
’<ee- A few '"»eki ego Judge C. R
Pearman set 20 of the pending suits
for hearing during the first two
weeks Of the term and the attorneys
in the cases have been notified of the
settings-
Sunday night---------.06 iach
Wealih of
Texas Near
10 Billion
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Ife'
Ifa
PARIS, Feb. 18—The franc col-
lapsed to a record low today, fall-
ing to 23.20 to the dollar ahortly
a before noon-
| The new decline came la the face
lot the government’s strong pro-
i*ram for strengthening national
finances and was attributed in part
i to opposition to that program-
I Socialists in a meeting yesterday
condemned the 20 per cent Increase
in taxes before it became effective
and outlined a series of measures
of their own to rehabilitaate the
franc.
| ' Drastic
| ed to get
tion to hold up the currency.
By 8 p tn. thc franc .had fallen
to 2340 to the dollar and 100-50
to the pound sterling.
This.
ef-
COUNTERFEIT PLOT NIPT IN BUD
WASHINGTON — A Nation wide
conspiracy to counterfeit $1,000
Treasury notes has been nipt In the
bud thru the arrest of James C-
Houghton, employe of the Bulkau of
Engraving and Printing and Curt
Jacobsen oj New YorK : .‘±2
pine in ;
You wil
■ JHBBBlfceat aix ,-----
wmt shot Henry Ford dnneed a ji;
>»llot dur- Ways ide Inn, proving the jig
In Los. Angeles, a man \ stole a .
radio and got six months on It-
Many hens have
laying for Easter
f •
Lieut. Cmyi. Bruce O. Leighton (left)) npwly appoint*
— Shenandoah and Limit. Com. Zachary Lamsdow
>mand< r McCrary,-era shown photographed at Ngs
ihinaton.
room by Wallace Walllck, who
la turn shot and killed him-
The Judge was shot thru the
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Sonator Green Improved
WASHINGTON—Senator Frank t.
roan of Vermont, who x
the head by .a stray bi
0— < xlraat battle bi
>enta and bootleggers,
hat improved. The dai
on will not be ovt
-
Up Killed in His Court
By Man Who Then Suicides
LINCOLN, Neta, Feb. 18^-
Wllllam Morning, 5«. Veteran
Hstrict Judge, was shot and
today- la hla court .
allace Walllck, who
£>-.‘ .v.
wmuun Qibbfi MeAdw voluntarily before the Senate Land*i
committee >to explain his connection with E. L- n ’
He to Ihown “sing for cameramen after coming, from tho committee
room in Senate Office Building. -
Hr ■*
E is not
DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
r-n. ...... ...w i. ...... | DHgON, TEXAS- MONDAY AFTERNegN. FEBRUARY 18. 1924- 8 FACES
County will be almost doubled this' — ■ 1 — — ’ ’r~ lL ~ —
jraar,” said H. P. Koiner of Krum >
Saturday. “The high price of 1228 i
■y «»J»MAbta for!
I, in the event of
_ Denton Cpunty !
have aw- Tvan larger crop, I
-tawtar than last year-
“that the feed crop like-
ly would bo cuWJflffibn because of
the iqjy price paid for grain last,|
Seuson^and some farmers, he said,
ware not planting any feed at all.
, I was busy with th£ work on Boli-
var street ycsterday'm.jrning at the
time far holding City cfr>urt and over
looked the time until! it was too-,
lata'*, Mid Mayor Hennen. "1 hat-
-♦1 L-Waa nut thero for I wanted - ready
jRMdgjjMiK to be ... done about the
eleven who arc be charged with
driving over the fire hose the other
™ffht> Charges can he filed by the
City Marshal nguinst the two be had
at the City Hall yesterday morning
and the eleven for driving over the
fire Jwae and they can be heard at
.y morning sesaimi of the
eotlon is large
this increase am
H* dry- Summer,
should L-,_ „
of cotton thif “*
t Koiner said
K.’r
Special tt> Record-Chronicle. .—.—1-—
KRUM. Feb. . 1R.- William Bar
nett whs painfully injured when the
■ car he was driving Sunday afternoon,
with four companions, turned over
three blocks north of the main sec-
tion of town. Two ribu broken, two
cracked, and his head badly bruised
were the injuries sustained by Bar-
nett. No one else was injured-
Barnett was driving at the rate
of about 10 miles per hqu.', and in. _j
turning out for another car, I6st con-
trol of the wheel, after which hi" cur
turned turtle into u ditch Those in
the cat besides Barnett were Glenn
Buttrell, Boyd Barnett, Haskell Bione
and Robert Couser. .
The driver was taken into a nearhy
home where a physician was called.
-4 His m/ueiea era paiufulr but mH-se-
rious,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—Ed-
win B. Denby has resigned aa
Secretary of tho Navy and bls
resignation has been accepted.
After repeatedly declaring he ,
never WMlA gaM tho eabiaat
ustaer «*he Are of those who
have criticised Ms part la tho
oil leasing program the secre-
tary noticed PnaMont Cool-
Idge thia morning that he was
__Hte_jle< i-ion followed a tele-
. phone conversation between the
President and Denby la wMch
all the latest aspects
situation were talked _.
tho light of information
ed on to the White House by
Republican leaders in the
Senate
FEARED EMBARRASSMENT.
Recently a number of the
Secretary’s friends also have
been consulted by Coolidge
and they' are understood to
have advised the President that <
they fully understood the em-
barrassment that might reHult
in retaining Denby in the cabi-
net while the oil annulment
suits are in progress.
Not only is he a party to
the oil leasee, having affixed
his signature along with that
dcffcOdwT* his* pert^Vn
the proceedings snd has declar-
ed publicly since the present
controversy arose that he be-
lieved the contracts legal and
would be willing to puraae the
same course again.
APPEARED INCONSISTENT.
It has been pointed out to
the President that It might ap-
pear inconsistent to have u
member of the administration
bolding these views remain in
office while the administration
Itself, thru its counsel, was
moving in the courts to annul
the leasee on the ground that
they were made without au-
thority of the law.
The Ural step in these legal
proceedsings. injunction suits
to prevent further work on the
Team* and California rewervew.
is expected immediately after
the Restate completes conflrma-
tion of the oil counsel, prob-
ably todf)*,
ROOSEVELT MAY QUIT TOO
For the same reason there
have been reports that Theo-
dore Roosevelt also would re-
tire as assistant secretary un-
der Denby.
Roosevelt also had
in the framing of I
■ecTHiry giM) iwivro rumor*
that the resignation of Attor-
ney General Daugherty would
follow witMn a few days.
RESIGNATION MARCH 18
It i» expected that the effec-
tive date of Secretary Denby's
resignation will be March !•-
The Secretary’s retirement
makes the first break in the
official family Mr. Coolidge
took over intact
Harding admiiHst
was one of the original
President Coolidge represents
action, Cummings declared.
“As 1 see it, we are discussing*
not only the fortunes of an indi-
vidual but we are considering i.
fate of a cause," he said.
Cummings, charged the Republi-
can administration with hanging
up a record of disastrous failures,
spotted with scandals and culmi-
nating with the urnaxing Teapot
Dome disclosures-
Constable W. L. Connolly and Dave
Rutherfrord, a farmery heta Satur-
day night, died early today. Ruther-
ford is in a serious condition while
Connolly ia expected io recover-
The shooting followed tho at-
| ilgl make an ar-
tonigM .nd
----- ,-----rain, no* •
much change in temperature.
Wrrt Texan tonight and
Tuesday unsettled, somewhat
colder in Panhandle Tuesday.
Ttmpsrotuie
yesterday -----------
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AUSTIN, Feb 18.—Purchase of
over $10,000,000 worth of rpad main-
tenance machinery for the State
Highway Commission may be post-
poned indefinitely pending a decision
of the Supreme Court in the cases
involving vniadity of the statute R-
B. Waithall, member of th« State
Board of Control in charge of pur-
t-hnsing, mldressqd a letter to the At-
torney . General asking if it is wise
to .make the purchases now or defer
until the court decides the matter
and also when a decision could be
expected. ------..V. *:—. ~ _
~ ' ——— | Mellon plan which has'1 been defi-
FEZ'is
I a part
the ~ oil
Ing a day increase failed, became
apparent today, i <
Already there ii a serious shot-
tage of meat tn the country. -Meat
porters, in sympathy with dock
workers who ar. holding up the BI)oolln(r „
rtrtetl ""rafUTL h»PnHI y tc'"Pl °f the ufflCOr«
■ LrlKf*N. rpiii««»ii rn nnnnln rnln
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—Bel-
died bonus advocates in Con-
<*««• vriH confer thtx week
with Thomas W. Miller, alien
property fuetodian, and Repre-
sentative Fairchild of New
York regarding a possible con-
gressional investigation that
Secretary of the Treasury Mel-
lon misled President Harding
and is mhdradtng Preaident
Coolidge concerning the condi-
tion of the treasury in order
to 'defeat the bonus. Miller and
Fairchild made the charges in
speeches in Americsn
meetings in New York.
NEW YORK,’Feb? 18.—American
' i were pushing their
campaign f6F an ex-serirTce men’a
bonus today with renewed vigor
after a Sensational spurt last
night in which the Treasury De-
partment was accused of “juggling’'
ita estimates against the project
and Secretary Mellon was charged
with “misleading” the late Presi-
dent Harding and President Cofl-
idge- * - *
The charge of “juggling”
made by Col. Thomas MHler,
property custodian, at a
meeting.
Representative Fairchild (Rep.),
xv. said Bev rotary Mellon mlS- '
led Mr. Harding in anticipating a
$600,000,000 deficit when events
proved there was a $300,000,000
surplus in the treasury. This $900,-
000,000 difference, Fairchild' assert-
ed. “prevented Mr. Hardfitg per.
haps more than any other featura.
from signing the bonus bill-”
Alvin Owsley, formerly national
commander of the Lfegion, told his |
hearers the bonus bill would pass [
_ ftlhM Pss««m^ Kt M X 1, .— .
■ ■ — ■ v - ’ I rvrivj
; get a majority in the Senate
“eventually passing over the veto
’ of Calvin Coolidge.”
British Cabinet Moves to
End Dock Workers' Strike
Transportation Paralyzed
LONDON, Feb. 18.—The Labor
cabinet met this afternoon to dis-
cuss' the strike of 110,000 dock-
workers which has tied up shipping
and paralysed transportation at gv-
ery port in the United Kingdom
except London. It is believed the
cabinet will recommend interven-
tion-
The paralyzing effect of the
strike, which started at noon Sat-
urday after final negotiations be- ____
MA- .4UIL-4 SANTA ANNA, Feb. 18—City Mar-
,jffo?era To FeacK » compromise pn shall Ji0 Griffith. 85, whe was vm4>
the men's demand for a two shill- ed in a gun battle between Griffith
BOWIE I
NEW BORTON- The Nash Ex-
change -Bank at Nash, privately own-
ed, has closed and its business will
be placed in the hands of a receiv-
GENEVA, Feb. 18—W. P. 0. ’
Huiding, former governor of tho
1-iMted Hl-tne ^^MOrve
bogrd, .has been
leeted as high .
the League of Nations to Hun-
gary for control of finaneM under
the League's loan plan. Ho has
informed the League that ho vriH
accept if officially designated.
It was said in LeiifM * circles
that the selection of Harding had.
been approved by all the inter-
ested parties. 7
Marshal Dies From Wounds
Received in 3-Handed Duel
DALLAS, Feb. 18—Freesing
weather extended r'rom the Rocky
Mountain region southward over
Lire I'nxaa- Poalsaadlo—laat—alffikt,—.
portions of West and Southwest
Texas were drenched with • mix-
ture of rain and snow. It was
raining in many sections, includ-
ing North Texas today.
Alpine reported three inches of
snow last night- •
Colder weather la forecast for
the State tonight with < freesing
nearly to Dallas* i
HhffHnp Nflnipfi Rv I
IIUIUIII^ llUlllvll UJ LuugUu
tn Represent It in Hungary
| —n..-T,r- a _____ : , ■ n, .—-~j UrtITEM PRESS 'SERVICE 'NZ x
SECRETARY DENBY RESIGNS conference wiISforecasts
— ___ X 1/8JAW1 TOGE OF BONUS
OFTAX MEASURE
Hubbard Bates, city marshal, was
if armed Monday of his appointment
i district chairman Of the 26th Dis-
■ict for the Standardisation Com
ittee of the State Firemen's Asso-
ation. The district comprises the
irritory west from Bonham . to
ainesville and south to Denton and
EeKinney and he is n"ked to call nv
>on as possible a meeting of all fire
tiefs in the district to formulste
plan of action beat suited to the
sods of the district' along the lines
! fire prevention, concert of action,
«. Denton heretofore ha* been iti
is Fort Wort-h District and No. 26 ia
swly created by the committee,
gtes will issue a call for a
IM of chief* in a few days, probably
, Sherman.
WASHINGTON, Feb- IM- -
Texas wealth waa $».R1»,M$JW._ . -
at the end of 1922, an in-
crease of 56-4 per cent in the
decade, with a PW capita
wealth of $2,019, an iaeraeaa
of 39.4 per cent. ncconUnr3E7^_i
government flgurea made pub-
lie today.
FREEZING WEATHER
TONIGHTS FORECAST
9
Announcement of S- M. N. Marrs
for re-election as State Superintend
Ont of Public Instruction was made
in Sunday’s papers. Marrs has made
a very aucrassful record of adminls-
tration uf his department since 'hr
took charge of it nearly two years
ago, and his recommendations Kr
legislation for the improvement of
the school system of the State were
very largely followed by the last
Imgiilature. Mrs. Marrs formerly
was Miss Ina Caddel, aiatsr of H fl.
Caddei of thia eity, and vsed to teach
in the Denton schools.
While returning from Fort
Worth Iste Saturday night a car
driven by Ear! Wakefield of Pon-
der overturned on the Fort Worth-
Denton highway juat north of Ar-
gjile. When, the car turned over
it hkjdiled for a distance of about
15 fact and stopped inside of a
field beside the read- Alike the
driver was in the car while it
was skidding “wrorfg side up,” af-
,<... ,4. ;u...i..K w—l.o wasi but
use | «lightly injured- The top,
an- w\.7_\' ‘I,
front wheel
-
Bartun Orders Bangers at' ]<*.
Corpus Christi Transferred!'
DAN DOBB
- SAYS -
Fruit is being varnished,
preserves It so the shipper's
forts will not be fruitless-
- A man in Michigan has edited
g. weekly paper 50 years. We don’t
knew how he makes bls living.
As ye sow so shall ye reap. Bok
spent his money for pesce, the oil
men spending theirs for Just the
reverse.
Russia, poor, Russia, her trou-
bles never cease; she has *----
recognised by /Italy so may
garlic out of courtesy.
Wire says the British Labor
premier hasn't done manual labor
aince he was 20, showing a re-
markable intelligence at an early
age
Chicago teamsters are striking
Whsn teamsters fsll out chsuffeurs
get more than their .duo. --------—
These days a moth keeps one
eye on the calender and the other
on your winter clothes.
The world would be much bet-
ter if you could whistle with a
pipe in your mouth.
: You will find that three cheers
jeers.
AUSTIN. Fob. 18.—Orders by di-
rection of Adjutant General Bar-
ton were issued today for *“
withdrawal of State rnngeTs
Corpus Christ and tho transfer
of the company which has made
,1t» headquarter's tn that City a
year under command of Capt. Tom
Hickman to Fort McKavctt on the
Schleicher-Menard County line. The
rangers are being sent to Fort
McKavett at the urgent request of
cattle raisers and other citizens
of that town - and vicinity. It was
announced. Cattle and hog thieves
have been active and other
claaavs of lawlessness reported, and
It would appear, according to re-
ports, that local peace officers are
unable to cope with the situation.
Federals Advancing in Vera Crus
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 18^—(By
radio via zFart Worth Star-Tele-
gram to the Asaoctitod Proas).—
The Federsl advsnee sgsinst 1,200
rebels operating in Northern Vers
Cruz was begun today, according
to n War Department announce-
ment.
Six thousand loyal troops are to
participate in the operation*
of the
over in I
M9»<
GIVEN TO M’AD001»Sw5:
f ♦ has
I ♦ iee
: + turcs;
' *w varasii X»I 111 rau<u( wurn u uuildl ▼
■ ♦ or neck tie; talked over a tele- ♦
Z r'.----- seen a building more ♦
Voted unanimously by more than + than four stories high. He lived ♦
1 wonyen attending thf . ♦ in the same house in which he ♦
♦ wna boffl.’ ♦
+ “I never saw any ^ense in +
+ doing unnecessary things," ♦
♦IBishon said- ♦
"Isider Zesmer, former Denton
merchant, made a speech before the
Colombian Club at Dallas last week
endorsing and recommending the
Denton County candidate for Lieute-
nant Governor,” said E. 8. Edwards,
whg was here from Dallas Sunday.
About the first stopping plsee in
America Zesmer made was in Den- =
ton, and ha moved to Dallas abouf 10
years ago where he hsa made, ac-
cording to reports, a very consider-
able merchandising success, but he
is still loyak , to Denton, it would
>eem ■
“Thq other ear ran into eur car,* |
■aid Sammie Speer, whose, brother-
in-law, William Sburtleff, foreman
of the High School work, waa driving
one of the two Fords which collided
i»n »he Fort Worth Highway couth
of Denton Saturday. Z. B- Brooks
was.driving the other ear and he and
his family narrowly escaped very
teripus hurts, two of the children
rtWWTBTTY tn 8»« broil Ffi ' THf •«
Brooks car. Speer said, waa trying
to pass a big ear when the collision
■ccurred. Speer and two other men
vefe In the car Shurtleff gas driv-
»»g
A letter to J. M Owens,, from
<rs. Owens, who Is ' at the_bed-
ide of her father, C. H. McCutch-
eon. nt Campbell, Mom Saturday
aid that he had suffered a relapse
md was in a critical condition,
Jbait an earlier telegram, sent
oon after she arrived at Camp-
tell,. said he had teeovered con-
otousness from Zthe paralytic
troke sustained Feb. 12.
*Tarmers bf the Aubrey section
xe manifesting sn interest tn
ommercial fertiliser and the bank
here will order the fertilizer in
luantity and sell it at eoet to the
armers of that section,” said G.
I. Everett, county demonstration
gent, who addressed a gathering
f farmers at Aubrey Saturday oa
he subject of fertilisers. There Is
growing interest in the use of
ertiliser over the county, he snid,
nd added that several farmers in
ha vicinity of Denton, partieulnr-
ir melon growers, will use targe
uantitiea this year- Everett is di-
eting much of his time new to
rorking in the interest of the use
f fertilizer, terracing and tree
nining.
Rufus McCurry, advertising man-
ger of the Dreamland Theatre, an-
ounced Monday that “Scaramouche,”
icturazation of Sabatini's novel, had
een secured to be shown some time
a April- While the scene of the sto-
y is laid in France, beginning just
efore the opening of the French
involution, many of the harrowing
etaiH of th-isc day': nrc glossed over
j a recounts! full of quaint humor
ealing with the life of the hero Who
Home" the rolo of Scaramouthe in
n Intinerant show.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—A sen-
"confession" has provided
Ibe Senate oil investigators with
new evidence relating to oil spec-
ulation, it wbh learned today. Com-
mittee members declined to reveal
who made the confession and were
carefully guarding the new evl-
dence- Severnt subpoenas have been
Issued for “important witnesses*'
wboee names-are being withheld
for the present.
* Roosevelt Will Not Resign
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—
Thedore Rooeevclt, Assistant
Sec ret sty of the Navy, an-
nounced after half an hour's
conference with President Cool-
idge today thgt he would not
retire ae the result of the re-
tirement of Secretary Denbq.
“I have Juat been to see the
President and I am not resign-
ing,” Roosevelt said.
Roberts Also Confirmed
WASHINGTON. Feb- 18 -Organ-
ization of the legal machinery to '
handle the oil lease suits Was I
I completed today by Senate con-
I firmatton of Owen J- Roberts of
Philadelphia as special counsel.
I Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, Derno-
j crat, waa confirmed Saturday.
it. is expected, that legal pro-'
ceedinga. to s.top further work on
the Teapot and California oil re-
> Serves will be takeri in the very
near future. The vote on Roberts
Was 68 Io 8.
AUSTIN, Feb.' 18.—Plans
stricter enforcement of the r
bition laws, particularly against the
smuggling of liquor and narcotics
from Mexjco into Texas, Werv dTs-
cussed at a conference in
Neff’s private office today,
waa attended by Gov. Neff, Frahk
M. Cole, Federal prohibition' direc-
tor; Atticus Webb, superintendent
of tho Anti-Saloon League of Tek-
as; W. J- Milburn, chairman of
the executive board of the Anti-
Saloon League of America, and
several others.
Today’s conference is nlgnlflcsnt,
coming so soon after Gov. Neff’s
speech delivered at a law enforce-
ment mass meeting nt San An-
tonio Sunday in which the Texas
executive declared that the Fed-
eral government is not enforcing
the, eighteenth amendinht with the
"vision nor the vigor that its im-
portance demands."
AS CAR TURNS TURTLE
AS CARTURNS TURTLE
strikes, refused to handle
storngc stocks.
The Ixindon newspapers reduced
their size, because of a threatened*
shortage in print paper. .
Reports early this morning, at
an hour when the country’s dock
dorkers ordinarily would have
gone to work, showed that every
por(~~waa idle except the port of
London'?
Here 20,000 stevedores decided to
remain at work, complicating the
situation and threatening to cause J
i hard fight between union and
non-union labor,
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American Mails Tied Up. <
PLYMOUTH, Eng., Feb. 18—Five ’
thousand bags of American mail ter turning over, he
were held up hero today because I*lightly injured- Tho top, tho
of refusal uf dock workers to han- windshield? the front tex and one
die It. I front wheel were demolished ia ..
the wreck. The driver telephone to
J local garage man to’ eomo af-
ter the car and during tho half
hour in which- it" was unattended
one tire and some tools were
stolen, it is said-
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CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—Liberalism
or reaction is the chief issue th
be settled by the McAdoo "avail-
ilblllty conference” Homer L. Cum-
mings, former chairman of the
nnttomr democratic committee de-
V'rtt’V’TV iHKk x't njru dared today in the keynote ad-
CLOSES j <jrc»s to more than 300 supporters
of W. G. McAdoo, gathered here
to decide whether he Is still’ avail-
able as a democratic presidential
candidate- I n
McAdoo represents liberalism; ‘ r<
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WASHINGTON. Feb. 18—Re-
publican insurgents and organi-
zation leaders in the House
again failed today to reach an
agreement that would loaura
defeat of the Democratic tax
program.
WAjSHINGTONTm 18.—The fate
of the administration tax reduction
plan today hinged on a final confer-
ence between republican and pro-
gressive leaders. t new xu
If the eleventh hour compromise) ’legionnaires
efforts of the administration fails, *
democratic lenders predicted the pas-
sage of the Garner pMn with 44 per
cent maximumf surtax rates and
nominal income taxes cut in half.
As a final concession to win pro-
gressive votes that would insure the
adoption of a "republican tax bill”
republican leader Longworth agreed
to accept 37 1-2 per cent as the sur-
tax maximum. He haA previously de-
declared 35 per cent waa the outside
maximum he would accept.
While Representative Calgue, Min-
. nexata. one nf the progressive group,
announced his willingness to accept
37 1-2 per cent, he is determined to
have the present four and eight per
cent nominal taxes cut in half- Sev-
eral other progressives are said to
look with favor on Clagus’s propos-
al, but Longworth insists nominal
rates can not be cut below three and
six per cent set by Secretary• Mellon.'
A lower figure, Longworth maintains
would results in a treasury deficit-
E7*U~Doheny, oil magnkU. Itepiest iiiattve Garner uf T****.
----- author of the democratic plan, takes
issue with Longworth on that ques-
tion He declares his plan will raise
11 $100,000,000 more revenue than the
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' f dropped by GOP chiefs as im-
poa/^ble of passage. ■ .
J Longworth claims 20A republicans
are pledge to vote for 85 per cent tax
rates. He must muster 10 more votes
, to command a majority of the house.
The democrats claim 205 members
pledged to the Garner plans- Of the
22 progressives, Representative Nel-
son. Wisconsin, progressive leadfr,
indicated at least i7 will vote for
, - the Garner j>lan unless the demands
he hasn t dolie. Bishop ♦ wf his
groups are met at the eonfer-
nevey chawed gum; eaten ♦ enr, today-
r’tiiz'AY’n v u ia ia lT ,ve cream; aeen a motion nic- ▼* --------a j_v_a_ —
CHICAGO, Feb. 18-tomplete con- * lurc,; r|dJen on #
fidrnce in and the continued avail- + train or in auto; worn a collar +
ability;pf William Gibbs McAdoo as ' 4. ,
Democratic candidate for President' + phone: a
was *~*----*---*-------'* ‘ -
“availability conferanca” here toaayv ]
Delegates and telegrams from 40
states announced a determination to
fight for McAdoo’s nomination and
election In brief two minute speeches
f 1 the speakers reaffirmed their faith
- • ■ -------in McAdoo and proclaimed him the
Decision on Highway Laws
0 * McAdoo acted in a strictly legal
and ethical capacity for the Doheny
oil interests In Mexico, speakers de-
clared.
The conference was aroused to a
high pitch of enthusiasm by reading
of a telegram of support of Mr Adoo
from T. J. Walsh, Democrat, Mos-
Jana, chairman of the Senate com-
mittee investigating the Teapot Dome
oil scandal.
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