Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 24, 1921 Page: 1 of 4
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London, Aug. 24—The giant air- Hafdy.
that
was
seen
were
fronts in the city of Hull.
have
the
LYRIC
man Lincoln was seriously injured.
of the wreck this morning.
WHERE THE GULF BREEZE BLOWS
TODAY
T0-
(Continued on Last Page)
Trunks On Sale
Final
ac-
10c and 20c
Washington,
24.—T wenty -one
Aus.
He charged the people were ad- g-owj' House which was d~ “troved bv
n<T thp nnblin ULI ?rOW^ .,1OUHe WHICH WAS u BCTOyM OX
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CONGRESS EXPECTED
TO RECESS TONIGHT
FOR THIRTY DAYS
mN'S ACCEPTANCE
OF HARDINGS INVITA-
TION RECEIVED TODAY
Fight Against Second
Report of Committee
On Educational Bill
AUSTRIA SIGNS TREATY
OF PEACE WITH 0. S
c was un-
able <o attend on account of other mat-
Pricpd Special
Per Suit
PASSENGER TRAIN GOES
INTOCREEKWHERERAIN
WASHED BRIDGE AW
Sir Sam Hughes,
Noted Britisher, Dies
At Home in Ontario
flNeed a Trunk? Going on a trip? Going
away to college?
UThe prices will surprise you and please you.
Get a Trunk and begin to fill it now for the
day you will go away.
Aug. 24.—Congre
d tveloj
PHONE 69
WHEN YOU HAVE NEWS
ITEMS FOR THIS PAPER.
be-
the
SEE THIS GOOD FEATURE
DAY ENTITLED
“Blind Youth”
With
Lou Tellegan
AND
Willard Mack
Taking the Leading Parts.
',/'hutes were seen
ZR-2.
Burn ng fragments of
belched dense
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ffl»K
RELIGIOUS FANATICS
STIR INDIAN NOBS,
WHO WREAK HAVOC
This is a very interesting story and
you can’t help but enjoy.
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ship, ZR-2, purchased by the United end of
States from Great Britain, exploded
over the city of Hull, according to
have brought the a£*P* a"y
the claini they
.. s so i
day coach eain barely 10 percent net cn a valua-
atc the value of the pi op,Tty and de-
THE
MANHATTAN
CLOTHIERS
", Kiwba
drill, union made.
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All working men
tow the value of
ese Unionalls.
Death List Grows
To Six by Finding
Of Additional Bodies
Today and Tomorrow
Will Rogers
—1>-
“Guile of Women
flToday we put on display a handsome line
of Trunks. There are many kinds and all
sizes.
Timm is Saw Dirigible
ville cotton man, i
from a trip to England
ic'wi iimii, buaicu um > . "i _ _ ---------—
he had ween the ZR-2 on several oc-I a or 9 to 13 tjie house
easions while in England, and that it 1 ~---------———
was a beautiful spectacle when viewed ^Hllor, proposing
in the heavings, majestically sailing on
its trial flights.
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ho. Im w
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: Waco, Aug. 24.—Mrs. W.T. Aven died
from the effects o? poison administered
by her husband, was the veidiet of Judge
J R.-Jenkins who held the inquest to-
day. The woman died July 5. Th’ body
was exhumed Au<ust 19. the viscera re-
moved and examined . Twenty-five
grams of poison were found. .
. Mrs. Leslie Keyes, charged with com-
plicity in the murder, was a'lowed bond
of $3 000. Aven, charged with the mur-
d r of his wife and also the murder of
Leslie Keyes, is held without bond.
Lightning Hits Oil
Tank, Causes Big Fire
| j Port Arthur, Aug. 24.—Fire, which ■
{started at 7 o’clock this morning wh«n
{lightning kt on.
Tokio. Aug. 24.—Japan's acceptance of
President Hardimr's invitaton to partici
pate in the conference on lini’ti^Jions of
armaments and disciission of the Far
l.a-t rn problems Xov> inlier 11 next was
forwarded to Washington today
The machine was nearing the
a trial flight which was to es
tsblish her fitness for a trans-Atlantic
tlight to America.
---. ---- — -- -- . V i—T Going up yesterday the great machine
advices received here shortly alter v.orked perfectly, responding readily to
1 o’clock this afternoon. the control levers and riding easily de-
fl higli wind which was encounter-
Booth Tarkington’s
Edgar’s Little Saw”
Pollard Comedy
Betty Compton
“Prisoners of Love”
man execut ve body does not convene
until Septembe. 2(
Republican mcmbeis of the senate
committee attending the confeien e re-
fused to discuss the terms of the treaty
but it wits learned that it is a compar-
atively short document.
T he conference between the president, (man
Vie-na, August 24.—The treaty of
peace with the United States was
signed at 1 o’clock this afternoon.
■ 11 a. a. tail jl a,
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Trial Spin; Many Killed
British Dirigible Explodes ||j
on ‘ ~ "
Austin, Aug. 24.—The People’s Cub
launched its fi?ht in the house this
morning against the second rep-rt of the
free conference committee on the edu-
dependent’on the result cational bill with the hope of electing
At i jrneys representing the City of Gainesville and other defendants
i.i the suit of the New Odorless Sewerage Company vs. the City of
Ttbo^cJeignXXi^ivTuX Gainesville and others, have received information from Hon. Silas Hare.
■ • district judge at Sherman, Texas, that he had denied the application for
injunction asked for by the Sewerage Company. It will be remem-
bered that the Sewerage Company brought the suit against the City and
the Board of Aidermen to restrain the defendants from putting in force
ahd effect the rates to be charged by the Sewerage Company for service,
nd that matter was heard by Judge Hare, as special judge, on the 23rd
aay of July.
. j The court held in the opinion refusing the injunction that the Plain*
tiff had failed to make a showing sufficient to justify the granting of
the injunction. Ihis is a great victory
------------------------^for
the City and for the pe. pie of
Gainesville, according to the attorney*
and the City Coun.il members
I City Attorney W. L. Blanton and W.
S. Moo;e represented the City of Gaines-
nille;'W. O. Davis and W. E. Murphy,
the Sewerage Company.
The findings of Fact and Conclusion*
of Law, as rendered by Judge Hare fol-
low:
| Hoyt
] Charles Little. Newberry Port, Mass, .’were British and 15 Americans.
I The financial loss, it was said, is to'
I London. Aug. 24.—The new American i,e borne partly by the United States'
jd;ri"ib'e ZR-2 was wrecked by an ex- under the terms of the BritishAmerican
' plosion near Hull today. agreement governing the building of the •’
emu, were known to have been ^hip for this government. Final ac- 11
The two jumped from the blaz- yeptance of the’ craft of this country, it
Mac^n, Ga., Aug. 24.—Two bodies were
taken this morning from the ruins of the
England, in convert- lhe Jle flr8t conference committee Lh known dead to six. One of the listed
J ______ A _ a • at a 1 n® lllOYYkO TZW* vHo Qn/innn av4«*«» aaaci.a** 1 :
>‘men
con '
Was still missing.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
In the 3r<* inning of today ganje
' tweeaj New York and Cleveland;
Yank* were leading 2 to 0. Batjtries;
I Covel*sike and O’Neill, Hoyt and Schang.
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Hull, England, Aug. 24—Disaster over-
took the giant dirigible ZR-2 late this
afternoon. The monster airship explod-
,ed over the river Humber here, fal ing
into the stream a mass <
were 1
ficers and nearly
cans < i „ , , „
regular British crew, on board. . A native mob, marching through sev-
The number of fatalities has not been pral successive small towns. burned
(definitely ascertained but twelve bodies ^dwellings of white inhabitants, looted
"••e said to have l>een recovered and it/the postoffice and destroyed pioperty.
js* believed that not less than ten on;Railway lines have been cut in several
board were saved. (places. The military garrison at Mala-
The disaster occurred wh:de the ZR-2,dar fired on the mob and many casual-
was on what was intended to be her ties resulted.
inander Louis H. Maxfield, Washington, final trip before being turned over by her
I It /' I .-.»»♦ ■. a »> 4 rw m A vi rl Q 10 n 1 T10 ,l> • 4 •I* X. • . . 1 rl a ma 4 a a Vx a T * ** «4 ,1 4 a 4 a a
Lieutenant navy for her flight across the Atlantic. People*# dllD 1 AlinCn
\Tarifktia * . • _
Hull. Aug. 24.—At 8 o’clock tonight it
v.n- the a in oi the leader^ t<> dispose of
I ci'H e taking :• recess but it
cat d tl at if tile 'late wa-
clean, the- long anticipated
v « ■! n < !>.■ deferred.
The senate, upon reconvening,
on the anti-beer bill v
sited principallv for reports from
- ..n th * bill. '
1921; set for
r 23, 1921;
M UllV VICI 11UU CMV »/.*TV JJ. IM. VVV SA j
shortly after she had signal ed that she
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\ Shanghai. Aug. 24.—Fears
death list running as high as 10 000 has
(resulted from typhoons around Ning- have met with
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poo on the coast and on the Yangste ulations committee and it
She was fiver were expressed by relief woikers
(today.
All communication with the district date.
resumed names wmi-n exienueu uuuurcus 01 icrv engines, o Bunoeam "vossacK , tow ng
while the *long the surf of the water. Eye w t- 2 100 horsepower; normal crew, officers Jias been severed.
Two European steamers were reported
driven aground on the Shanghai bar and the traaty at the same time and the Ger-
to break many of the windows of store gas bag, and she could cruise 6 .'00 mi’es. (several Inmdred junks were swamped.
A tidal wave was reported to
cor- .
of the he typhoons at Ningpoo.
of
Washington, Aug. 24.—Secretary
.._s wit- Navy Denby was deeply shocked when he
corps of am- read The United Press dispatch of the
2 f - destruction of the ZR-2. “This is the first
d members of the "crew to the in- word we have had on it.” he said. “I
as they were landed.
while the ZR-2 was cruising over
I
™ ■£ SU5HHS TOE tll-
“iiuis"■ TENT10NS «f AIDERMEN ■ IT-
TORNEIS IN CUTTING SEINES RITES
(publican members of the senate foreign (
H-ditmns committee by President Hard-
ing anil Secretary Hughes at a conier-
vnee held today at the White House.
Senator Li itge of Massachusetts, chair-
man c
announced, after the conference he would
call a meeting of the committee for 2
o’clock this afternoon at wh.ch time
a Secretaiy Hughes would give more de-
tailed iuiorinatun as to the treaty.
Terms of the treaty were sa.d to
‘i no opposition by any
of the majority members of the iore»gn
..2__1___*'______1 I was .ndi-
cated that- all gave to it their cordial
approval
The president, it was stated, hoped
for ratification of the pact at an early
ft was explained, however, that
he would not ask the eenate to foiego
its 30-d»y recess to begin ton.ght, in
£Smuch as it was desired that the Ger-
man Reichstag and the senate consider
1 o’clock this afternoon.
: The airship is a
river Humber and it is feared there
was some loss of life,
f The airship was i
Washington. Aug. 24.- Congress was Hull in fine Style when suddenly the huge^gas bag exploded
existed. Larnng uiiioreseen d veioj was seen to break in two. Instant-1
^rihhe senan’aml hm^^ium thej'ly there were terrific explosions(
nut *odiy were .on r..nte i with a mim and the airship burst into flames ber 52 men, including
l>er of miscellaneous matterfl which it jnd began to descend.
• . , f '>'*hutes were seen to
was nidi
not wiped
vacation
Lindsay, Ont., Aug. 24.—Sir Sam
jHiighcs, former Canadian minister of
( ^munitions and long a figure in political
1'fe of the Dominion, died at his home
Ehere early today.
PernCioi-.s anaemia, from which he had
buffered since his rnturn from Europe
st winter, caused his death. (
BLOW CORNER GETS
FOURTEENTH VICTIM
JT PORT mo, TEX.
its own conference committee. Port Arthur, Aug. 24—Port Arthur’s'
I The club at a caucus decided la^t ‘‘bloody coiner” annexed its fourteenth
v • except yictim last night when Joe Foster, 36, a
written by itself. Club leaders 'puty .’constable, was shet and almost
can put thig plan over- It iq instantly killed by Captain Charley!
- * major ty (Blackwell, 50 years old, ex Texas Rang r
on; the third conference committee re- pnd at the Gu]f Refin n„ Com. j
port which it would not have on the pany. |
first two even if the club lias to take ( jshortX'y after his arrest by Chief of Po-
th^ appointment of the committee from ?ice M. ’ B. Ward, Blackwell said th-
the hands oi the speaker and elect the shooting was the result of trouble of
ccmmitteo itself. Jonsr standing and that he fired in self-
Representative Curtis of Tarrant defense.
Americans were on board the ZR-2 wher (pointy opened the debate on the bill j
; she was wrecked today during her final threatened to stay here “until icicles
trial flight, a report to the navy de-P,aJ*8 cn ^he Capitol” rather than vote
partment from London said. <>n-the conference report.
The report, filed at 7 30, said that at I f™’1'8 was interrupted by a message
the time there appeared to be only six."®*11 the senate announcing that body
' survivors from the entire complement- adopted tin measure 19 to 4. Curtis
resumed and declared the bill had not
Timmis Saw Dirigible cutT sufficiently to stop extrava-
•Valter Timmis, well known Gaines-
< UNION ALLS
Only two were known to have been ship for this government,
saved.
ing bag in parachutes and came down Was said, was
_______________________ i of this flight.
,1/ There were three Texans among the
;prew which was to l.„.v, L.—-L- .
giant airship to America. Part of the °1n<;
| crew was reported to have gone on . . . ■
'test flight. Whether the Texans were on proposed to give the club the
’•the ship at the time of the accident is thnH
'(not yet known. They are:
Norman O. Walker, Commerce. Texas.
Leser K. Coleman, Fort Worth.
. John E. Waterman, El Paso.
iiMiii a nip iu £,iigianu, in con versa,- ~-s —- ---- -----
tion with a Register man, stated that l,lamp for the second extra session.),
current resolution by Representative
a legislative investig*
tipn of certain large oil corporations op-
erating in the Mid-Continent oil fields,
wjas defeated in the senate today.
■Lieutenant Governor Davidson today
appointed the senate committee which
i<to make an investigation of the Davis
mountains in Jeff Davis county and Frio
mountains in Frio county with a view
— of the establishment of a state park.
JUDGE S. WEN I
DIED FROM POISON AD-i .
MINISTERED BY HUBBYi made of heavy khaki ■
■
as to permit plaintiff to
| benat°i Borah of Idaho, one of the suicktr piled upon their sidas. Fire- of $50,000.00 and thereby do preci-
------K — .. . ■ ate the value of the piop-rty and de-
A r li t t'ain left Grand Junction for ktroy the market value of the sad -ya-
scene of the wreck this morning. tern. On July 23rJ the City of -laines-
I ville was also macle a party defendant.
| The defendants all du'y answered by
cplea in abatement, general and special
exceptions, a denial of the material al-
legations in plaintiff’s pleading.
2. On June 25. 1898 the City of Gain-
esville, hy an ordinance duly passed,
granted to Jack Steele and his associ-
«n'es the right to construct and operate
a system of sewerage in said City for
a term of fifty years and providing:
“The said Yack Steele shall fur-
nish a good and efficient system of
of attend the conference.
« Findings of Fact.
1. Original petition presented to th*
I.Tudge of the 15th District Court July
Giand Junction. Colo., Aug, 24.—One 18, 1921; filed in the District Court of
--- —-— -------------- r.™------, ,----1 was kil.cd and 25 passengers in- Cooke county July 20, 1ST
Secretary Hughes and the Republican ,jured in the wreck of the Denver & Rio hearing in Gainesville July ,
members of the senate foreign relations Jirande westbound passenger train No. I plaintiff charging that Thomas was th*
committee ended at 10.30 o’clock, about -about 13 miles east of here early today. Mayor. Savage the Secretary and
an hour having been spent in discussion, according to word received here. The man other defendants Aldermen of the City
Senator Johnsen of ■California, woh kilL d was Douglas Armstrong, engineer, of Gainesville: pla'ntiff alleging that it*
like Senator Borah was an irreconcilable The t-a u crashed into a creek where i'lopc-rties in Gamesv.lle were worth
in the fight over the treaty of Ver- br df4e had becn wa8hed out by a *95 009.00: that the defendant* wer*
sailles. also was absent from the con- cloudburst which bioke over this dis- threatening to cna< t an ordinance lower*
rerence. The California senatoi has not triet last night, advices said. Four coach- *n£ the rates
been m Washington for several days. ,es,ithe mail and baggage cars, <"
Senntnr Rcrnh r.f Trinh,. (h. ■ .. . 615 &
Bombay, Aug, 24.—Stirred bv re'igious Republican lommittee memb. rs did n t
fanatics armed mobs of thousands of attend the conference. He explained to
thousands of natives are spread’ng fire news; aper men that he had not decl n?d the
find terror in the Maladar district. Des- .Ike presidents invitation, but “«■»<»
LL. sL,„.u a o7 flames.‘There lPefa‘e apPcals. f°r^elP terx” ’
five American commissioned of- ky white inhabitants. Military re-
-,r a dozen other Ameri- Vn^ments were today reported arnv-
of lesser ranking in add tion to the [ing.
wreck in the sPite
ed.
While over Hull at 5.45 p. m. today
passing overJ was going to make a test flight
The dirigible broke in two and plung d
into the river Htimber, a wreck.
The crew aboard was believed to nuin-
— , ....g 21 Americans.
Three par-1 The ZR-2 was originally the B-38, an
improvement on the famous B-34. which
icrossed to America in 1919. CL_ ----
>li95 feet long. Her other dimensions were:
the airship Diameter. 85 feet, 4 inches; capacity. 2,-
columns of smoke and 700000 cubic feet; total lift. S3 tons;
umed flames which extended hundreds of feet engines, 6 Sunbeam “Cossack", total ng
(Hesses saw at least four men descend in and men, 30.
parachutes. Three men were seen «qip jiad s:x propellers, her structure
hanging from one parachute. contained fourteen compartments in each
Tlie explosions were of such force as of which was a giant goldheate-s-skin.1
| . I»a-z-m I - »»»n v* vr «-v £ 4lm ii'in/lmi'j zi ♦ w4 r\rn 1 __J v_ .11 _ .. Z1 ?? f\f\ —.
fronts in the city of Hull. Aluminum petrol tanks, water tanks and
j A message from Hull received shortly bomb magazines lined the long steel cor-
after 7 p. m. said the airship’s captain ridors of the ship, and here, in the
had been leacucd. Some bodies, the nies- pidors were the living quarters c."
sage said, had been recovered. crew.
Tugs and other craft of all kinds put
(off from the shore for rescue work im-
mediately after the disaster was v.
Inessed. Simultaneously a <
bulances dashed to the pier and took in-
jurec ... — —- ----- -- — t
firmarv ns thev were landed. j hardly know what to say.
It while the ZR 2 was cruising over' Mr. Denby said it was impossible foi
Hull that -he was seen to emerge from him to say how many Americans, if any,
the cbmds and break in two. (were on board the ship when it explod-
I One explosion occurred as the ship was «*<»• “Undoubtedly there were a few
tailing and the other after it touched Ameneans on board, he sa.d,
the water The wreckage floated on
,the w Ater about 2<»0 yards from the river-
1 s’de quay and continued to burn.
I A Hull message announced that the
■badly burned body of “Ensign Marcus '
lAster'y'’ was taken to the mortuary. It
added that Captain Sween, the British
officer who commanded the ZR-2, was
j unharmed. It is assumed here that the
|•■As♦erly” is meant Lieutenant Marcus
H. Asterly. American radio officer.
J A dispatch to the Press Association
lirom Hull says five men were saved
I from the crew of 49.
• It is learn d that the American of-
I ficers on board the dirigible were Com-
j I) ( Lieutenant Commander Valentine ^British builders to the Unit d States
iX. Bieg of Brynmar, Pa.; 7' x
I Commander Emory Coit of Marietta, ----
.Ohio; L eutenant Marcus H. Asterly, Hull. Aug. 24.—At 8 o’clock tonight it
I Washington, D. C.; Lieutenant Hen-y W. vas stated that 49 men were believed to
I Hoyt ( learwater, Fla., and Lieutenant jtave been aboard the ZR-2. Of these, 34
(Charles Little. Newberry Port, Mass,
one
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THE SMILE OF ANTICIPATION.
that will inevitably irradiate your countenance when the food is
placed before you will grow into a broader one of satisfaction
after you have finished your meal here. Come and test the matter
for yourself. You’ll certainly want to repeat the experience.
Vogue Cafe
RAY BUTLER, Mgr.
BASE
BALL
. ffl
THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 4 P. M.
Admission: 50 Cents
Gainesville Kiwanians
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Ardmore Kiwanians
A game that will be full of thrillt and amusement. If you are
not present you will be lonesome, for everyone but you win see
the game. Come to the game and help us show Ardmore Gainea-
ville is alive and full of “pep.” DEAR ROTARIANS: DON’T
ickets on sale at all drug stores.
'* S'
ORIOLE
Whore siren
is born? J
igH
Strength is born in the
wheatfields and is brought
home to you in
“Oriole Flour”
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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 23, 192L
NUMBER 17.
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