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GAntESmit, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 25, 1923.
VOLUME XXXIX
Killed by Tornado That Swept Adams I
Entire Country Remains In Grip of
Heat Wave; 12 Drowned Seeking Relief
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ceived here today.
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NUMBER 164
Three Men Placed
Under Theft Charge
PROHIBITION TO BE ENFORCED SUNDAY WAS HOTTEST DAY OF
REGARDLESS OF STATE ACTION
Lieut Maughan
Postpones Trip
Murderer Killed in
Battle With Posse
Revenge Was Cause
Of Woman’s Death
Two Liners Bearing
Liquor ReachN.Y.
Gainesville last Fruay night.
two men midi
were also arrest
Hands Start
Threshing of Wheat
Third Victim of
Auto Crash Dies
Baldwin Sees No
Cause for Protest
Prairie Company to
Curtail Purchases
LAW ENFORCEMENT
OF HARDING’S SPEECH
AT NOON MONDAY
a month every time they enter a
French .port.
has
for
the
The First National is the oldest
financial institution in Sapulpa, hav-
ing been organized in August, 1901.
More Oil Fraud
Cases Expected
BREAKING OF CUSTOMS SEALS
IN AMERICAN WATERS
IS DEFENDED.
SLAYER OF DEPUTY SHERIFF
MEETS DEATH NEAR A
TOWN IN MICHIGAN.
CANNOT CONTINUE HEAVY BUY-
ING IN FACE OF DE-
CREASED SALES.
OIL MAN CHARGED WITH USE
OF MAILS TO DEFRAUD
HELD UNDER BOND.
and
runs
TIRES AND ACCESSORIES ARE
STOLEN FROM CAR
OF LOCAL MAN
TONIGHT and TUESDAY—Partly
cloudy.
Shortage of Labor
on Farms Near Here
cooks covmr me ubxht
UIUWILU, TEXAS
20,i
►ten Sator-
Baltic and
seize all liquor in excess of medicinal
The cotton was classed a*
middling and the bale weighed
pounds.
O’Malley Has Given
UptoU. S. Officers
Pioneer Bank of
Sapulpa is Closed
a
HARVESTING OF GRAIN CROP IN
COOKE COUNTY REQUIRES
EXTRA ASSISTANCE
ported by the public opinion and the
the
am
„ now-
through the moot difficult stage of
time passes.1 when
nir»m ' ..a ~
THEORY IS ADVANCED BY
CHICAGO POLICE
AFTER PROBE.
Dailjj itegister
ajo> messenger-__
BREAK IN TEMPERATVB
IS IN SIGHT SAYS
FORECASTERS
Fargo, N. D., June 25.—(Associa-
ted Press.)—A dispatch received here
today says five persons are known
to have been killed and four oth-
ers injured in a tornado that struck
in the west end of Adams county
Sunday night.
The dead listed are Mr. and Mrs.
W. B. Lambert, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Lewis and Olaf LndahL Property
damage is estimated at $100,000.
Dallas. June 2>.—(United Press.!
—Charged with using the mails to
defraud, U. J. O’Malley, alleged
promoter of the O’Malley Oil Com-
pany, was arrested here today by J.
W. Cxupkl. deputy United’ States
marshal. O'Malley's arrest followed
issuance of a complaint by United
States Commissioner Davidson.
Th* complaint charged O'Malley
with defrauding the Rev. M. Albanase
of Greenburg, Tenn., and others
through cut the country.
The only one® alleged to have been
defrauded are Catholic priests,
Dallas, June 25.—(Asociated Press)
—J. J. O’Malley, organizer j»f the
O’Malley Oil Company, with a capi-
tal stock of $3,000,000, surrendered
to federal officers here today and
was held in $5,000 bond on charges of
using the mails to defraud. The com-
plaint was filed several days ago
by a postal inspector. O’Malley said
he eame to Dallas from the Smack-
over oil fields in Arkansas when he
learned of the charges.
, OBJECTIONS TO
SENT TO WASHINGTON
IF SEALS BROKEN.
Kansas City, June 25.—(By United
Press.)—The heat wave through tfce
southwest was unbroken today with
new high temperature for the y*»T
being reported in many cities. t The
mercury climbed to M in Kansas
City, the highest for the summer.
Kansas City, June 25.—(United
Press )—Twenty thousand hands to-
day swung into the work of harvest-
ing Kansas’ wheat crop.
Ihe available supply of workers
will be insufficient to meet immedi-
ate demands of tho farmers, ac-
cording to the belief of George E.
Tucke-. director of the United
States Labor Bureau, here today.
Due to htavy rains which retarded
harvest .n the southern section of
the state, grain throughout Kansal
is ripening practically simultane-
ously an.I the quick work will be
needed to save the wheat from be-
coming over-ripe.
Aberdeen, S. D., June 25.—(Asso-
ciated Press.)—Ten persons are said
to have perished and scores of oth-
ers have been injured when a tor-
nado laid waste to a wide stretch
of farming country in the vicinity
of Reeder and Hettinger, N. D. San-
day evening, according to word re-
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Chicago, June 25.—(United Press.)
—A theoiy of revenge was advanced
today by police seeking the slayer
of Mrs. Mary Lawrence, 37, known
as tfie “guardian of Lovers’ Lane.”
Mrs, Laurence was found mysteri-
ously shot to death in her home on
Harlan avenue, a wooded thorough-
fare just outside the northwestern
city limila.
Ethel, 15, her daughter, and John
Prayel. a boy friend, found her seat-
ed’in a chair as if asleep, a bullet
wound in her head.
Harlan avenue, because of its
rustic seclusion, is known to automo-
bilists as “Lover's Lane.”
Mrs. Lawrence had many times
rescued young girls from cars parked
on the roadside, thus winning her
title at the popular drive, “guardian.”
Discarding the theory of suicide,
county and city police are searching
for a man they believed killed her be.
cause of her interference in such an
episode.
Detroit, Mich., June 25.—(Associ-
ated Press)—Seeking relief from the
sweltering Sunday heat, 12 persons
were drowned in the' rivers and lakes
of Michigan yesterday. Grand Rapids
held the record for drowning, accord-
ing to reports, when three persons lost
their lives, and two were drowned
in Detroit. The official tempera turn
was 94 degrees.
WORK OF HARVESTING LARGE
CROP IN KANSAS HAS
BEGUN.
Harry Lee Gibbon and Floy J
Armstrong spent Sunday in Denton
visiting friends.
EAST TEXAS—Tonight and Tue>
diy: Partiv cloudy, with unsettled
wather near east eoast.
WEST TEXAS—Tonight and Tues
day: Generallv fair in south, awl
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the Panhandle uesday.
WILLIAM ZINSMEISTER ALSO
« WOUNDED DAUGHTER IN a
RAGE OF ANGER.
sentiment of the United States
(sought by law to remove strong
drink as a curse upon the Ameri-
can citizen, but ours is a larger
problem now to - remove lawless
drinking as a menace to the republic
itself.”
Mineola, N. Y„ June 25.—(United
Press)—Lieutenant Russell Maughan
apparently does not intend to attempt
his sunrise to sunset flight across
the continent for another ten days.
Hereafter, a flight from Bolling
Field, Washington, the airman an-
nounced he would visit the Curtis
company's plant where a machine is
being prepared for him today. After
a plane has been assembled to Mau-
ghan's satisfaction, he will make two
or three test flights. It has been ex- closing of the bank,
pected that Maughan will be ready
to jump off for the coast early this
week.
Austin, June 25.—(By Associated
Press.)—A force of federal . topo-
graphic engineers will arrive in
Texas next week to begin work on
the $600,000 reclamation and flood
control program provided for by the
regular session of the legislature,
members of the board qf water en-
gineers announced today.
COLORADO STATE HISTORIAN
SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES
FROM ACCIDENT.
IN THE HANDS OF THE NA-
TIONAL BANK EX-
AMINER.
Sapulpa, Okla., June 25.— (United
Denver, Colo., June 25.—(United
Press)—Thomas F. Dawson, Colorado
state historian, died in the county
hospital here early today from in-
juries received in an automobile
crash yesterday afternoon, bringing
the total to three dead out of the
four passengers of the Denver Press
Club car.
Dawson passed away suddenly a
few minutes after he had seemed to
be past the critical stage.
Donald Craig, Washington corre-
spondent of the New York Herald,
now remains the only survivor of the
accident which occurred when an au-
tomobile, carrying a party of corre-
spondents on an excursion trip in
connection with President Harding’s
visit to Denver, plunged over a 75-
foot cliff. „ . I
New York, June 25.—(By United
Press.)—Two persons are dead as tie
result of a renewed heat wave which
touched 91 degrees Sunday. June
24 has been as hot here only three
times in 43 years. No break in the
heat wave is in sight, according to
the weather bureau. Temperature
this morning at 9 a. m. was 75 de-
grees.
Independence, Kans., June 25.—
(Associated Press.)—The Prairie Oil
A Gas company today announced
that effective tomorrow it will cur-
tail its purchases of crude oil in all
fields in Oklahoma, Kansas
North Texas by prorating the
from the wells.
The company explained it could
not continue to purchase and stock
such a large proportion of mid-con-
tinent products which had steadily
increased from month to month in
the face of decreased sales to refin-
eries many of which are supplying
their needs from other sources, in-
cluding California.
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Houston, June 25.—(Aasocated
Press.)—The first bale of the 1923
cotton season wag sold at auction
this morning on the floor of the
floor of the Houston Cotton Ex-
change. It was purchased for $1,27 5
by Anderson-Clayton & Co. The
bale was grown by A. J. Thomas of
Weslaco in the Rio Grande valley.
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New York, June 25.—(Associated
Press. I- Two more “wet” liners
steamed into port today while gov-
ernment official* were preparing to
move on another vessel which had
docked over the week-er-d with
liquor transported over the three-
mile limit in defiance of the treasury
department dry ruling. Ihe latest
arrivals were* rhe British \ liner
Tusconia and the French liner Suf-
ren.
'1 hr surveyor of the port announced
that the United States government
would follow its initial
day in the case of the
requirements as fast as it arrives.
Customs men shortly before nond
began removing the seized liquor
stock from the Berengaria. They
plan next to visit the Paris to seize
liquor declared in excess of her
medicinal requirements.
Then the dry agents plan to take
up the case of ’he Cedric, Caronia,
Providence and Conte Verdi.
Washington, June 25.—(Associated
Press)—Another 24 hours at least
of the present broiling weather tain
prospect for eastern and southern
parts of the country. Some tem-
porary periods of relief were fore-
cast in occasional thunder showers
throughout the territory.
Hot weather continued today over
the eastern and southern states, the
great central states and regions of
the great lakes but it was cooler
over the northern plains for the
Rocky Mountains and Pacific states.
WILL NOT ATTEMPT FLIGHT
ACROSS COUNTRY FOR
TEN DAYS.
Pennsy Railroad
Ignores Board
ELECTS REPRESENTATIVES INI
DEFIANCE OF THE R. R.
LABOR BOARD REBUKE.
Press.)—The First National Bank of
Sapulpa did not open for business
this morning and on the front door
was pasted the following notice:
“Closed by order of the board of
directors. The national bank exam-
iner has taken charge.” Signed,
“Charles Filson, national bank ex-
aminer.”
It was stated today that the bank
had been closed temporarily and
placed in the hands of a bank ex-
aminer for the purpose of reorgan-
ization. Plans for the reorganization
are now well under way. They are
expected to be completed in a short
time and the new institution opened
up in the new location. One of the
directors stated today that it is not
contemplated that anyone should
lose anything by the
County, North-Dakota Sunday Night YEAR; MERCURY REACHED 100
PROPERTY DAMAGE IS SAID
TO HAVE AMOUNTED TO
OVER $100,000 -
Seven Persons Killed and 40 Were
Injured When Street Cars Plunged
From Elevated Structure in New York
Chicago, June 25.—(United Press)
—The Pennsylvania railroad, ignor-
ing the United States Railroad La-
bor Board’s recent reprimand,
completed additional elections
employe representatives under
“company union” plan.
The road announced that in an
election held at the shopcraft and
miscellaneous forces in Illinois, In-
diana and Michigan, a 75.4 pertent
vote was cast.
Seattle. Wash.. June 25—(United
Press.)—Reports were in circulation
here today that Captain Raoukl
Amundsen and Lieutenant Oskcr
Ohmdabl had “hopped <*ff” from
Wainwright inlet on their attempt
to fly acro*» the North Pole to the
island of Stitzenbergen. •
The report, however, wav without
confirmation.
Paris, June 25.— (United Press.)—
.. „. . An official French protest against
Moreover, the executive voiced the American seizure of liquor on steam-
ers flying this country’s flag will
be dispatched to Washington if the
New York customs authorities go
through the program of breaking
BROKEN AXLE ON ONE OF TIE
CARS GIVEN AS THE
CAUSE OF ACCIDENT
Premier Poincare favors delaying
other action until the next session
of American congress in the belief
that the law will be changed. Othbr
officials are talking reprisals, es-
_____ , . pecially strict enforcement or cus-
and “drys.” but as one of whether I toms regulations under which Amer*
Sheriff Elliott and Constable Jack
Helm returned home this morning
from Wichita Falls, having in cus-
tody one Frank Donaldson of that
city, who was arret t«d in connec-
tion »vlth the theft of automobile
parte from • car farrnging to C M.
Bentley, residing two mile« east of
Porter Silvey and tam Rebeftsoa,
’ ling in this couaty,
ited and placed ia the
county jail in connection with the
theft. Charges of theft over $50
were placed against each of the three
men.
The windshield, coils, 3 casings, 1
wheel and several wrenches were
taken from the car sometime Fri-
day night, and the robbery was re-
jwrted to the sheriff Saturday. Part
of the loot was recovered oa the
road north of Gainesville, where the
men drove their ear into a ditch,
and ths reminder wss found in
Wiehita Falta. -
The local officers ware assisted in
locating Donaldson at Wichita Falls
by Charles Dsbout, George Hawktea
and W. P. Belcher, Wichita couaty
officers. .r4'
Loudon, June 25.—(United Press)
—Premier Stanley Baldwin announced
in the house of commons today that
he could see no grounds for a British
protest against the breaking of its
customs seals in American terri-
torial waters by officials ’ of the
United States.
Thfc statement followed questions
by members as to the government’s
attitude toward America’s eonfisca-
ton of sealed liquor on British liners.
London, June 25.-*-(By Associated
Press!)—Premier Baldwin stated in
the house of commons today that
there was no grouhd for protest if
British customs seals were broken
within United Statte’r territorial
waters by officials of the United
States customs service. His state-
ment was in answer to a question
whether Great Britain recognised
America’s right to break the seals
of liquor-aboard ships.
Masons to Meet
Herem August By Man Recovered
GAINESVILLE IS INCLUDED IN
STATE-WIDE SPEAKING
TOUR OF 36 TOWNS.
Emphatic Statement Is Made By
President in Address at Denver
?DB,ECT French Protest The
Denver, June 25.—(By Associated Seizure Of Liquor
Press.)—President Harding serve-l
notice in an address here today that FORMAL
the federal government was deter-1
mined *<• enforce tho prohibition law
even should the burden of enforce-
ment ccjitiriue to be increasingly
thrown upon it by the states.
Louisville, Ky., June 25.—(Asso-
ciated Press.)—Fishermen near here
this morning recovered the body of
Sara Connelly, 16, who was shot and
killed by William Zinsmeister, who
also killed his daughter, Mamie, 16,
wounded three other young people
and then on the point of being cap-
tured committed suicide at a picnic
on the banks of the Ohio river near
here yesterday.
Friends say he was angered be-
cause his daughter attended the pic-
nic in company with a young man
After killing and wounding the
on
Over 700 Autos
Passed Thru Town
Of Valley View
Valley View, Texas, June 25.—-
(Special to The Register)—There-
was »4otal of 720 cars passed '
through this place over the D. C.*
D. highway during a period of 12
hours Sunday, according to a
count made by C. P. Ward, local
barber. \Ward took his post ofc
hi» front porch on North Lee
street at day light Sunday morn-
ing, and remained on duty for
twelve hours, cars passing at an
average of one a minute during the
entire time.
There were 455 Fords which rat-
tled pa^t Ward’s house, while there
were 265 cars of other makes.
Four hundred and thirty cars
were headed south, while 290 went
north.
A car a minute is some increase
in the number of cars passing
aver the highway here as compared
with several years ago. The
..first
car that passed through this lit-
tle town. Business was suspend-
ed for an hour and all the residents
gathered around to give the little
old flivver the “once-over\ and
that was only fifteen years ago.
What-are we going to do with
flivvers in the next twenty years?
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convk tion not only that the prohi-
bition r mend men t will not be repeal-
ed. but whatever changes may be
madri in the Volstead act “will rep-
resent the sincere purpose of effective the French seals,
enforcement, rather than moderation ” "
at the general policy.”
Striking straight out at those who
violate the law, the president said
the issue ia fast coming to be recog-
nized not as one between the “wet^”
AlWl v uw uzacr om w nviuri itziiis ir^'iuaiiviin uiiuri wuivm nuici'
the laws of “this country- can be and ican ships could be detained nearly
will be enforced.”
“So fcr as the federal government
is concerned,’ he said, “and I am
very sure aL«o. so far as ccncerns
the very great majority of the state
governments and the local govern-
ments, it will be enforced. A grat-
ifying, indeed it may fairly be said,
an amazing progress has been made
in* the Inst few years toward better
enforcement.
Whil. Mr. Harding made no direct-
reference to the Mtuaticn i“ x’
York state, he did say that ... -
spectacle of a state nullifying its own
. authority, and asking the national
sovereignty to take over an im-
portant part of its power, is new.”
He added that “when '.he implica-
tions of this strange proposal are
fully understood by people and par-
ties devoted to preserving the rights
of the state?, the new nullification-
tats, I venture to say.-will dice ver
that they have pcrpetrVed what is
likely to prove one of the historic
blunder* in political management.”
The pTVhient disclosed that a gocj
deal o¥»test)many U res4»M»ir Wash-
ington that some states having pro-
hibition enforcement cedes and even
some which smcessfully enforced
“dry” taws before national prohibi-i
f./i.. Aft. **,l lllxli.ni.. ClwAir '
own police authority in this matter
end to turn over the burden of pro-
hibition enf >rcement to the federal;
authorities.”
‘’Doubtlesshe said, “this isj
largely 4»m* to a misconceived notion,
too widely entertained, that the fed-
eral government has actually taken
over the real responsibility. The
fact is quite the contrary. The fed-
eral government is not equipped with
lhe instrumentalities to make en-
forcement lordly' effective. It doe*
not maintain either n police or r.
jiulicial establishment adequate to or
design*d for «uch a task. If the bur
den of enforcement shall continue to i
ho :nereasingh- thrown upon the
federal goverment. it will be neces-
saiy,' at targe expense, to create a
federal police authority which in
time will inevitably come to be re-
garded as an intrusion upon and in-
terference with the right of local au-
thority to manage local concerns.
Ths poseibilities of disaster in such a
situation hardly need to be sug-
gested. Yet it is something that w?
must, nwignizc as among the men
a-es in this situation.
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perform, in connection with the en-
- forcemeat of this policy, those func-
a- — -U--!___Lfl—__
proper province. These are compli-
ance in all its aspect* as i
to international eommer-the im-
portation and exportation of liquors,
the collection of federal revenue, lh“
prevention of smuggling, and in gen-
eral, the enforcement’ of the law
within the propv realm <>f federal
authority. But the business of local
enforcement, by str.tes and citie*,
ought to l»e. in the^hands of the
state and local* authorities, and it
should be executed in all sincerity
and good faith, xs other laws are
presumed to. be executed .
“What I ani saying must not be
construed as indicating any relaxa
tion of the national government’s
pumose to do its full duty in this
matter I have no dcubt that if the
burden is cast, in undue proportion,
upon the national authority the fed-
eral government will, not only unde’
this administration bitt under what-
ever others may com* in the future,
assume and discharge the full obliga
tion. But I am pointing out that
this ought not to be made necessary.
The aational policy ought to be sup-
ik. --J ^AA — ft. *
administrative machinery of
wh<4e country. For myself I
confident that we are passing
A statewide campaign covering
every section of Texas, starting aJ
Fort Worth and Wichita Falls on
July 4, under the direction of the
committee on education and Masonic
service of the Grand Lodge of Texas,
has been outlined following a recent
conference of representatives, and
August 6 has been set as the date
for the meeting in Gainesville. •
The Masonic campaign will consist
of open meetings in thirty-five cities
and towns in Texas. The afternoon
meetings will he deovted to publie ad-
dresses abng Maacnie, subjects and
■ -teachings before the ladies, wires, 4o wham he objected,
familtas and friends of the Masonic After killing and
fraternity. At night there will be a young people, Zinsmeister stood
meeting fo’ Masons only. at. which the river bank and terrorized the
talks will bo made of right living, picnickers by firing more than 13
good citizenship, character building, shots.
! the public free school* and how)
Mason* can. aid in building them up
In praetiealiy every city, in which
tlicse meeiings will be hr Id there
will bo a varied program of enter-
tainment in the afternoon. • •
The temperature exceeded all
previous marks of the year Sunday,
when the postqffice thermometer in
Gainesville registered 100 degree* a*
a maximum. On Saturday the mer-
cury reached 99 degrees, and on Fri-
day stood at 96. The temperature
has been slightly lower today, a
maximum of 98 degrees having been
reached at 2 o’clock The minimtun
temperature for the past twenty-
four hours ha* been 73 degree.
Continued fair weather and high
temperature is predicted for Tues-
day and there are no indication* of
a decided drop of the mercury thia
week.
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Louisville, Ky., June 25.— (United
Press.)—The body of Sara Connally,
16, who was shot and killed by Wil-
liam Zinsmeister, 40, when he ran
amuck among bathers on the Ohio
river beach, killing bis daughter,
Mamie, 16, and wounfling three oth-
ers, was found here today.
Zinsmeister apfieared at the beach j
late Sunday, walked to his daughter
and fired two shots -into her face, i
He then whirled around firing and
re loading quickly. Two boys and
a girl were wounded. No trace of
Miss Connally was found last night
and police searched for her on the
assumption that a bullet vfrom Zins-
meister's gun killed her.
Zinsmeister left the beach walk-
ing a mile and a half on the Cane
Run road and shot and killed him-
self. It is believed that he
crazed by the heat or jealousy.
this matter, and that as
SK1V SS.'ZX '*• 5
cf the unalterable obligation of taw
enforcement. The country and the
nation will not ] erm it the law of
the land to lie made a byword.
’It ia a curious illustration of
loose thinking, that some people have
preposed as a means to protecting
tho fullcft right* of the states, that
the state* should abandon their part in
enfercing the prohibitory* policy.
That means simply an invitation to
the federal government to exercise
powtw which should be exercised by
Escanaba, Mich., June 25.—(United
Press.)—Upper Michigan’s most
spectacular ecnvictment in years
ended here Sunday with the killing
of George Natchoff, slayer of Deputy
Sheriff Frank Curran.
Natchoff was shot to death in
pitched battle with a posse in
swamp near Beaver, Michigan.
Report Says Wat
Wichita Falta, June 25.—(Associa-
ted Press.)—Counsel for Henry J.
Toussaint, convicted at Anson Sat-
urday of the murder fo his father
here in February, 1921, and senten-
ced to 99 years in the penitentiary,
announced here today that be would
accept the verdict and begin serv-
ing his sentence at once. Toussaint
was first tried in Wichita County
and sentenced to death, the ease
being reversed and remanded and
sent to Jones county on a change of
venue.
Fort Worth, June 25.—(By United
Press.)—Additional oil fraud indict-
ments were expected to be return-
ed this week by a federal grand
jury which met here today.
Evidence involving half a dozen
oil companies was to be presented to
the body. Several oil company of-
ficial* found guilty of using the
unsettled in north portion; cooler in mails to defraud began prison sen-
tences in Leavenworth last week.
New York, June 25.—(Associated
Press.)—At least seven pen*a«
were killed and more than 4C in-
jured this afternoon when a street
car train plunged from the Brook-
lyn Manhattan transit elevated
strwXur** at Fifth and Flatbush
avenues in Brooklyn and were
smashed. Of the injured at least
five were expected to die.
An official explanation of the ac’
cident was that an axta on one of
the car* had broken and that this
had ripped up the outside rail, raus'
ing the train to plunge to the street.
Witnesses said something went
wrong with the first car, which
plunged over the side of the struc-
ture, dragging its mate with it. Part
of the' structure itself was earned
away. The train crashed two an
tomobiles beneath it
As the cars crashed, to the street
they carried with them a mas? of
high tension electric wires, and tnese
ignited the shattered wreckage of
the wodien cars. Firemen fightiiyt
amid terrified and screamingwriter remembers well "the
gers, soon checked the flames.
First Bale Cotton
Reaches Houston
Reports from various sections of
Cooke county, indicate that there is
a shortage of harvest hands, one
farmer stating that he could use 25
additional men if they cbuld be se-
cured. Others report a similar lack
of help.
Mrs. Blanche Mason, assistant sec-
jretary of the Chamber of Commerce,
has announced that if. persons desir-
ing work on farms will notify her,
she will assist in securing employ-
ment.
INDICTMENTS MAY FOLLOW
* MEETING OF GRAND
JURY THIS WEEK.
tho eighteenth am°ndment.
'spite all that, the question is kept Testertiy"
Hl poht.es because of the a mos. wm ^o * of new%
1 fanatical urgency of the minority ol
( extremists cn both sides. Unless,
i through the recognition and accept-
ance of the situation in its true
light, through the eff**etive enforce-
ment of the law by all th-* constituted
authorities, and with the acquiescence
of the cleaily dominant public opin-1
ion of the countrv. tie question Is;
' f/On}.,the,dom8in|was killed and Tommy French of
<»f political action. »t continue a; a • • av
demoralizing element in our whole Denv?r’ "ho. was- dnv,n« the
public* life. It will b* a permanent
: bar to the wise determination of
many issue* utterly unrelated to
j the liquor question. It will be the
means of encouraging disrespect for
many laws. It will bring disrepute
ujfon our community and be pointed
to as justifying the charge that we
are a nation of hypocrites. There
can be no issue in this land para-
mount to -.hat of enforcement cf th?
law.
“It is easy to understand the con-
ditions out cf which much unrest has
. i developed, but it is nof easy to com-
1 prehend so much clemency, amid ft
Tlie federal government ought toi ‘ievelcping peril. I want to give
■farm in onnnA.finn pp. warning against, that peril
I'.,, _* • “Many citizens, not teetotalers in
tion* which are obviously within its their habits, lawfully acquired stores
------- of private stock* in anticipation of
it rchvt s prohibition, pending the ratification
- . of the amendment and the enactment
of the regulatory law. The latter
practice is rather too costly to be
indulged by the masses, so there are
literally American millions who re-
sent the lawful possessions of the
few. the lawless practices of a few
more, and rebel against the denial to
th* vast majority. Universal prohi-
bition in the United states would oc-
casion far less discontent than par-
tial indulgence.
“It is the partial indulgence which
challenges the majesty of law, but
the greater crime ia the impairment
of the more fiber of the republic.
The-resentful millions have the ex-
ample of law defiance by thoae who
can afford buy, and are recklea*
enough to take the risk, and there
is inculcated a contempt for law
whidi may some day find expression
in far more serious form.
“I do not Me how any citizen
who cherishes the protection of law
in organized society may feel himself
secure when he himself is the ex-
ample of contempt for taw*.. Clearly
there is ca’l for awakened conscience
and awakened realization of true
self intvcwt on the part of the few
I who will themselves suffer moat
reverence for lawr ia forgotten
ive lawiesaaes. (hirs must be a law-
abiding republic, and reverence and
obedience must spring from the- in-
fluential and the leaders among men,
as well aa obedience from the hum-
bler citizen, else the temple will col-
lapse.
“Whatever satisfaction there may
be in indulgence, whatever objection
there ta the no-called invasion of
wmonal liberty, either counts wnen
the supremacy of taw and the stabil-
ity of onr institutions are menaced.
With all good intention the majority
Ey LAWRENCE MARTIN,
With lYctident Harding, Denver,
Colo., June 25.—(United Press.)--
President Harding stepped into an-
other of the “delicate situations”
here today that have marked his
entire speech-making tour to date.
He found that Denver, selected
for his speech on prohibition enforce-
ment and law enforcement generally,
was still watching developments in
a prohibition enforcement of some
former enforcement officials. Ho
found that city with the lid on
under the regime of a new municipal
administration. Altogether, he could
not have selected a more /timely or
interesting topic for his speech here
than prohibition enforcement, the
president found, even though he ran
the risk of stepping on some toes.
Mr. Harding regards today’s speech
as pro I ably the most important ut-
terance on domestic matters he will
make. He has determined to leave
no doubt in the mind of the country
as to his stand on prohibition en-
forcement of ths Vblsteid law.
Harding also wants “wet” Demo-
crats like Governor Al Smith of New
York to be under no misapprehen-
sion as to ths position of this ad-
ministration and of the Republican
party nationally on the prohibition
problem.
So interested was Mr. Harding in
making wide publicity for his speech
today that he personally made spe-
cial ‘ and unusual arrangements to
permit its publication in the east
this afternoon.
Denver, June 25.—(Associated
Press) Preside nt Harding arrived at
the Municipal Auditorium at 11.45
o’dock to deliver his address on taw
enforcement after completing a tour
of Denver. The hall, including 12,-
000 persons, was filed with many
standing in ths gallery.
a*
Denver, June 25.—(By Associated
Press.)—Thomae F. Dawson, Colorado
state historian and nationally known
newspaper man. died early this morn-
ing in a Denver hospital, the third
victim of the automobile accident in
. He
with the group of newspaper
men in President Harding’s party.
The automobile, one qf a caravan
in which visiting newspaper corres-
pondents were riding through Den-
ver’s mountain part, went over a
cliff in Bear Creek canyon, dropping
; 75 feet to the creek bed.
Sumner Curtis, representative of
the Republican national committee,
was killed and Tommy French
was fatally injured.
Donald Craig, member of the
Washington bureau of New York
Herald, was injured but it was said
at the hospital that he would recov-
er unless complications developed.
the i»tates. Instead of being an as-
sertion of state rights it is an adan-
donment of them; it is an abdica-
tion; it amounts to a confession by
the state that it doesn’t choose to
govern itself but prefers to turn the
task, or a considerable part of it,
over to the federal authority. There
could, be no more complete negation
I*" “tire °f *Ut* r‘ght8'
‘ “I am making my appeal in this
matter to the broadest and best
sentiments cf law-abiding Americans
everywhere. We must recognize that I
there are some people on both sides
of this question in whose minds it. is
absolutely paramount. Some would
be willing to sacrifice every other
consideration of policy in order to
have their own way as to this one.
This constitutes one of the most
demoralizing factors in the situation.
“It is very generally believed that
the adoption of the Constitutional
amendment would take the question
j out of phlfttcs. Thus far It’has not
done so, though I venture to predict
that neither of the great parties
will declare openly for the repeal of
But de-
tiou an* “disposed to abditafe theirj
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Leonard, J. T. & Leonard, Joe M. Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 166, Ed. 1 Monday, June 25, 1923, newspaper, June 25, 1923; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1311627/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cooke County Library.