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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 06 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS SUNDAY OCTOBER 7 1908 THIRTY PAGES TODAY 6c A COPY
TREES LOADED with green gold
throughout the Lower R o Grande
Valley.
Hero and there one obtains a
very pleasing view of green gold
turned to a near yellow.
Indicating the ripening process
that grapefruit is now undergoing.
Donna comes forward with the
first carload of grapefruit for the
eeason. It. was the Marsh seedless
variety. Considered a late maturer.
La Feria then promenades to the
front row with a carload of Duncan
fruit usually an early maturer.
Visitors to the Valley are being
disappointed. They arc demanding
fresh Valley grapefruit.
They are told that the firs* fruit
joes to other market?.
It'eTl get ours by and by.
• * *
AND HERE AND THERE ur and
down the Valley Saturday motnnsts
uitnessed a seasonal effort.
The planting or «etting out. of
eahbage plants.
Taking advantage of the rains of
a week or so ago and the season of
sunshine that has followed. Plac-
ing the ground in proper shape to
receive and nourish the fledgling
cabbages.
Indicates new cabbage for the
markets along in the last days of
November and the early dais of
December—and later.
tabbage too is often referred to
as green gold. Green gold when it
goes to market at $20 a ton or bet-
ter. Something else when it goes
to market at $10 or below
0 0 *
CITY COMMISSION of Rrowns-
ville comes forward with announce-
ment that soon it will place before
the citizens of Brownsville a pro-
posal for $500000 in bonds.
They propose to divide it among
the various departments in the fol-
lowing way:
Sanitary sewer extensions. $50000.
For water and light system exten-
iions and improvements $150000.
For additional street paving $200-
C0n.
For rarks and further expendi-
tures on the airport $100000.
Just how much the original
1100.000 for the airport has fallen
short of developing the port is not
* stated but probably w ill be cleared
when the election date is fixed.
• • •
IN ADDITION to which the com-
mission has taken another import-
ant step.
Ordains that new buildings on
Streets in the business district
shall have fronts at least ten feet
back of the existing property line.
This with a view to widened
Streets in the course of time. Gives
twenty years for existing structures
to enter into the new alignment.
But in twenty years won’t the
heed for such widening be as im-
portant in a greater area than that
fixed by the ordinance passed?
Certainly th» business district
will not remain in it? present terri-
tory .
e • •
THE ED1NBLRG water improve-
ment district ia takirg note of th«
spread over the Valley of cement
lining of canals.
The idea being to prevent seep-
age and accompanying destruction
ef adjacent lands and to conserve
the water supply.
Calls an election for October 27
at which time the landholders liv-
ing in the district will pass on a
• bond issue of $1.500UU0 for the pur-
pose of furthering the work.
The Edinburg issue by the way
provides for the purchase and »n-
( atallation of water meters. An-
i ether important top.
• . .
THE VOLUNTEER FIREMEN of
the fifth district convention—whtch
includes the volunteer departments
ef the Valley—will gather in Mis-
sion on October 10-
Chief Marcus ot the Mission de-
partment is arranging a program.
Various demonstrations of new m-
s-entiors and methods of fire-fight-
inr. will be given.
.he volunteer department of the
Valley are highly important ad-
juncts to their various municipal
governments.
Men who give their time and
their efforts to save the property
I even the lives of the citizens ot
their various communities.
Mission it might be mentioned
has gone to unusual lengths to
make thing* comfortable for the
fc young men of its fire department.
MATT SEEK H who in former
- years cooked wild ducks for the
King of Italy also cooked wild
ducks the other night for mem-
bers of the Texas Newspaper Pub-
lishers' association. visiting <n
Brownsville and dining in MaU-
moros.
Matt was caled upon to interpre-
tin' sauces used in the baking of
1 his duck' to tell how they are con-
cocted of what they are made.
Importunities failed. He refused
to become talkative on. the subject.
Leaving an even greater curios-
ity in the minds of som* thirty-
persons present.
In other words. Matt Sepich re-
fused to make a speech before
thirtv person*. But he offered to
explain the sauce t» e >ch person
individually. # # #
SOME FOUR HUNDRED IcgTon-
ncires in the Lower Rio Grande Yal-
t tfv will board special trams Sun-
I (y night to attend the national
»on'ention of the American Legion.
<t San Antonio.
\ Th«v will go in three train*.
1 ^ (Continued on page t«oJ i
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NOT TO HEAR
SMITH SPEAK
Dem Nominee to Hold
Parley in Tennessee
But to Talk Only in
Kentucky on Border
ALBANY N. Y.. Oct. 6.—<A»>-
Planng the "Solid South" outside of
his future speech-making plans
Governor Smith will invade the bor-
der state of Kentucky for the first
address of his second campaign tour
Next Saturday night at Louisville
he will make his seventh speech on
national issues since his nomination
Aug. 22.
This announcement was made today
by the democratic presidential norm
nee at the daily press conference at
the executive mansion. He will leave
Albany either Monday or Tuesday.
After spending a day or two in
New York City in conference with
party leaders the governor will
leave by special train Thursday
morning for Chattanooga and Nash-
ville Tenn. for further conferencer-
writh democratic chieftains of that
section but no speeches.
Plans.\ re Vague
The time of his arrival in Louis-
ville for his Saturday speech had not
been determined today.
Beyond his engagement in Kentuc-
ky the governor said nothing had
been decided as final. This even in-
cluding the day of his departure for
New York by regular train. It is
generally believed however that the
week of October 15 will find him in
Chicago and somewhere in Missour
for the second and third speeches.
Tentative schedules submitted to
him for revision are understood t<
have undergone considerable changi
and no one now will venture to say
whether the nominee will make three
weeks of it on the road or return t<
Albany after two weeks.
Decision is Surprise
Considerable surprise was caused
by the nominee's decision to make
no speech in Tennessee. It had been
expected he would pick this state for
the first speech of his second stump-
ing tour and at one time considera-
tion was said to have been given to
a trip into the "Solid South.”
The governor however is sa-d to
have good reasons for making a
speechless visit to the border state
and hopes to make the most of th»
opportunity there to get some first-
hand information on the political
trend in that section.
In going to Kentucky where he
has been informed he has a good
chance to win in November Gover-
nor Smith will enter a state which
was carried by President Coolidge
four years ago by about 25000 plu-
rality and by the democrats in lf«20
l>y approximately 4000. It has 13
electoral votes one republican and
one democratic senator.
Kentucky to Have
Guard for Smith
LOUISVILLE Oct. o.——v po-
lice guard will be placed around Gov.
Smith democratic presidential can-
didate. and at the Jefferson county
armory when he speaks here next
Saturday to pre\ent possible disor-
ders and safeguard him and members
of his party during their stay Chief
of Police Roy VV. Easley said today.
Chief Easley said he had not re-
ceived a communication from pohee
at Jackson. Miss. who were said la«t
night to be forwarding a letter al-
leged to have been written by "R. E.
Luca*. Routp 1 [ins-son Springs Ky"
containing an **sertrd threat against
Gov. Smith.
Utilities Win War to
Build Line to Brady
BRADY. Tev.. Oct. ft — B'—The
Brady iitv council today was re-
strained from further interfering
with the We t Texas Utilities com-
pany in its efforts to lay a pewer
line irtn the ritv limits in an in-
junction granted m district court
here.
The ap- e I for an injunction was
filed by the utilities company after
eleven workmen were. arrested
Tuesday on charges of obstructing
a street. The city council charges
the West Texas Utilities company
is er tering the city without a fran-
chise.
Mr*. Hoover Value*
Personal Greetings
tLIZARETHTON. Tenn Oct. ft.—
(4’i—Mrs. Herbert Hoover evidently
placed a higher value today on a per-
sonal greeting from the people of
half a dozen southern states than
she did on her luncheon as she left
the table before the luncheon ten-
dered her and her husband bv the
chamber of commerce of Kliraheth-
ton and held an impromptu reception
for several hundred women in an-
other room.
"I didn't know there were -o many
people in this whole h'alf of the «tate
as have come to greet us today" she
told them as she took her place in a
roped off receiving line and accepted
bouquets of roses.
DEFENDS MKS. UIULFBRXNDT
IRVING. Texas. Oct. ft.—<A*>— De-
fending the action of Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt assistant V. S
attorney general in speaking before
denominational groups in Wisconsin.
Mrs. Sarah C. Menezes of Dallas
'poke here tonight in behalf of Her-
bert Hoover. Mrs. Menere* is nssi«'.
ant federal district attorney for the
northern district of Texas.
‘TELL ME MORE ABOUT IT’ — LINDY
A Broadway rumor that Miss Blanche Sachel Vanities show pirl
would remove Col. Charles A. from the ranks of the ever-so-elipiblcr
became so insistent recently that Lucky was jarred out of his customary
quietness with a “tell me more about this marriape." Mi^s Sachel
formerly “Miss Australia" asserts she is embarrassed by the rumor.
She ha? been to parties w<th Charley several times she said.
HARDIN QUIET1
ON VOTE QUIZ
Congress Plans Probe
Of Charges Despite
Request to Quit
MISSION. Oct. n.--4jp> Sid L
Hardin of Mission today refused t*
comment on a report from Wash-
ington that th* congressional inves-
tigating committee would not drop
its probe of irregularities Hardin had
charged existed in the democratic
primary in which Congressman John
; Garner won the nomination ove*
Hardin by S.CfHt \otes.
Hardin recently withdrew a suit
. he had filed against. Garner in die
trict court at Uvalde saying that hr
j did not have sufficient information
| to continue pressing the contest.
The announcement that the inves-
tigation would not be dropped was
) made by Chairman Lehlbach of th*
house campaign fund- committer
who -aid he had re< ejved a request
from Hardin for the com mttee t*
drop its investigation of charge- hr
had made of the improper use o
money by Garner force*.
The investigation will be continued
! Lehlbach said “until certain infor
motion has been obtained" adding
| that Garner had requested th* com-
mittee to look into his campaign tc
clear up Hardin's charges.
Lehlbach said Hardin charged that
Mexicans had been brought acros*
i the Texas border to vote in the elec-
. tion for Garner but that since the
result of the election could not he
changed by committee investigation
he wished to withdraw hi* charge-
Differential Rate
Attacked by Body
SWEETWATER. Tex.. Oct. 6.- GP
i —The West Texas Chamber of Com-
merce. through its traffic commit-
ter. and shipper- representing a wide
territory took definite action today
1 for a co-ordinated attack against
♦ he differential freight rate system
in Texa*.
Derision «gi made to join w-'th
the Texa- Indu-tria! Traffic League
in presenting pleas for adjusted
rate before the Interstate Com-
merce Commission.
L. S. I’awkett. traffic manager of
* hr U l i i '• laied f
onlv were shipper* over the entire
state vitally interested in aboliti. n
of the differential system but th t
the South Texa* and Rio Grande
chambers of commerce had pledge*!
the r aid and that the East Texas
c • itber of Commerce already was
in the fight with the offer of 3id
and legal counsel.
• •ninton was expressed at the
meeting that if the development of
Texas is rot to be retarded ns a
result of new freight schedules
which went into effect when the
common point sj t*m w.-.s abolished
the differentia! rating must be
eliminated.
NEGRESS KILLED: I HVRT
DENTON. lex.. Oft. f*V-
Llexia Davis negro-Wax inacnie
was killed and two of her sons at d
two grandchildren were injured
seriouslv when their automobile
overturned near here 1 tods-
Two other children in the machine
were slightly hurt.
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SUNDAY GAME
TO BE ON AIR
OVER KWWG
The third gome of the World
Series to he played on the Or-
dinal diamond at St. Louis Sun-
day afternoon will hr broadcast
over radio station KWWG in co-
operation with The Brownsville
Herald and The Associated Press.
'Mry will begin at l:.10 p. m
t entral Standard time. Baseball
fans of the \ alley are invited to
tune in and take a grandstand
seal at the stadium. V dirert
wire will relay the 2* me here
play by play.
LARRY SOON
IS VERY ILL
Movie Actor Confined
In Desert Hospital
With Pneumonia
SAN BERNARDINO Calif. Oct. r.
■Pi—Larry Semon motion picture
comedian and director and former
vaudeville pe’-former lay dangerous-
ly ill with pneumonia at a desert
sanitarium near Victorville late to-
' day.
A message from Dr. H. Garcelon.
| Semen's physician said the actor
| was “very low.’* Earlier in the dav
i a report came from the desert town
| ■dating that some one purporting to
be |»r. Garcelon hail telephoned thv:
Semon had died-
Semon was removed to the sani-
tarium from his ranch where he haq
been ill for several months.
The sanitarium is in the Mojave
desert beyond the San Bernardino
mountain*. Couununication by way
of Victorville is uncertain.
Governor Proclaims
>ire Prevention Week
AUSTIN. Ort. iT.-The week
of October 7 to ir> was proclaimed
as fire prevention week bv Gover-
nor Moody today.
He urged c ambers of commrrce
school authorities women's clubs
and other civic otganitatton* to ar-
sist in the observance.
ROOSEVELT LAI DR SMITH
CLEVELAND. O. Oct. (jpi—
Fra;.* I in D. Roosevelt democrat^-
nominee for governor of New York
declared in a prepared address
h«*—. tonight that the personal quali-
ties possessed bv Alfred K. Smith
i “would mako him a more successful
| and more useful presidert than
Herbert Hoover because he would
| h« able to coordinate thr executive
and legislative functions of the
go\ernment.”
“SMITn FOR TARIFF"— R \SKOB
NEW YORK. Ort *.— <Pi—John J
Haskob. chairman of the democratic
national committee in a statement
issued at national headquarters to-
' day. declared Governor Smith “00m-
1 prehend*. ax rlearly ax I rompre.
bend it. thr! we must have tariff
1 protection.”
LEGION CHIEF
ON HAND FOR
ANNUAL MEET
"
S. A. Cops Capture 24
Cases of ‘Pre-War’
As Help Arrives;
DirigibH on Way
NAVAL MR STATION. Lakchurst1
N. J. Oct. 6.— (4*i—The navy’s j
giant dirigible Lo« Angeles left her
hargar here shortly after dusk to-
night to attend the American Leg-
ion convention in San Antonio Tex.
She carried a crew of 4b men and
officers with Lieutenant Command-
er H. V. Wiley in command.
Although it had not been planned
to start on the long flight before
Monday favorable weather condi-
tions prompted the «tart tonight.
It was expected the ship would be
tied to a m « rig mast at l-orti
Worth. Texas by Monday morninc.:
The tentative route for the trip
wouid carry the dirigible over At-
lanta. Montgomery. New Orleans.
San Antonio and Fort Worth.
SAN ANTONIO. Oct. fi.—-The
tempo of preparations for the
American Legion national conven-
tion. which opens here Monday
Quickened with arrival of National
Commander Idward Spafford. Five
army kitchens were established in
the business district. five extra
registration booths were erected
hotels packed every possible bed
into their rooms and headquarters
were established for every depart-
ment and committee of the national
body. The greatest influx of Leg-
ionnaires is expected tomorrow.
During the day an army of crack
peace officers borrowed from every
citv in the United States that has
eier entertained a Legion conven-
tion reported to local authorities
for duty. Local authorities seized
24 cases of alleged pre-war whiskey
durine the day and arre-ted four
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DANK ROBBED:
MAN 25 HELD
Second Man Sought In
Cumby ‘Job’ Believ- |
ed to Have Cash
..-
OREKNVILLK. Tex.. Oct. *>.--<** -
\ 25-year-old man was held in Sul-!
phur Springs tonight in the rohherv
of the l umbv Stale Bark at < umbv.
near here today while officers
searched for a second suspect.
1 The m«" now arrested sva« taker
[ by a posse in a field near Cumby
1 after two hank officials had been
held up and the hank robbed. Of-
ficers expressed the belief that an
accomplice in an automobile which
had been ne:ir the bank fled with
out his companion whom they be-
lieved is the man under arrest.
J. T. Weaver cashier and J. A.
Orefn. bookkeeper were alone in
the hank shortly after 2 p. m.. when
th» rohher entered showed them a
pistol and demanded that the money
I m the cashier's cage be given to
them. Thev complied and the rob-
ber fled through the door.
La Feria’s First
Car Grapefruit
Sent to Markets
LA KtRIA Oct. h. La Lena's
first car of 1928 grapefruit picked
from the orchard of Ras Erickson
on the North \\ hite Ranoh road
was shipped Saturday afternoon.
The fruit was packed and shipped
by White &- Lawler. Inc. and the
grower received $1054 for the 310
boxes comprising the shipment.
The fruit was the Duncan variety
and was officially te*ted Saturday
morning by Special < henust I. Irby
Davis and .1. E. Thompson local in-
spector. -The sugar content was
found satisfactory ard was pro-
nounced up to the Valley standard
in every respect. The fruit rues
large size and has excellent color.
1 he Erickson orchard is pronounc-
ed one of the best in the fa Frria
j section and will yield proHfirall?
i Ibis season. It has been given abun-
dant water throughout the season
and all trees well sprayed.
Reserve Bank Head
Goes Under Knife
NEW YORK Ort. Benja-
min Strong governor of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York was re-
ported to be "progressing satisfac-
torily” after undergoing an opera-
tion at N>A York hospital today for
an abdominal abscess. This report
was made several hours after the
operation had been performed by
; Dr Eugene H. Pool.
.Mr. Strong itl intermittently for
twelve rears entered th« hospital
Thursdav.
Hit KM AN APPEALS TO l?. S.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 6.—<*T—
An appeal to the United States su-
preme court on behalf of William
Edward Hickman Lo Anjelr slav-
er. w*s on its way to W a:-King*on
today by air maiL
Workers Speed
Up Vote Search
In Final Spurt
Rv 1>. FIELD BRITTLE
i VsMx-iateri Press Staff Writer.)
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Ort. fi.—<)P>
— Now begins the final four-week
drive of the presidential campaign
rolling along under a full head of
steam generated in the political boil-
ers at every nook and corner of the
country.
At this mile post of the race vote
hunting forces of Alfred E. Smith
and Herbert Hoover continue to
HOOVER URGES
VOTE FOR MEN
OVER PARTIES
Huge Throng Stands
In Deep Mud to Hear
G. O. P. Nominee in
Appeal to South
ELIZASETHTON. Tcnn.. Oct.
iA*i—Herbert Hoover appealed to the
people of the south today to '.ay
aside party prejudices and vote for
a president who represents the prin-
ciples that correspond to their con-
victions. I
Speaking to an immense crowd
members of which stood almost
ankle deep in mud. the republican
presidential candidate made one of
the first personal pleas for the sup-
port of the normally solid democrat-
ic south that a nominee of his party
has made in modern political his-
tory.
As the candidate’s car appeared a
roar went up from mountaineers
crowded about the stands.
Asks Fair Play
Launching into his speech h* ex-
panded his views on farm relief
prohibition and other platform dec-
larations but made no reference to
the religious issue stirring south-
ern states.
Hoover did. however make an ap-1
peal for fair play and good sports-
manship asserting that “we prove
ourselves worthy of self-government
and worthy of confidence as officials
in proportion as we keep these con- ‘
test* free from abu e free from mis-
representation and free from words
and acts that cary regret.”
“In a contest like this there is no
(Continued on page two)
AUSTRIA CITY
ARMED CAMP
Expect War As Rival
Parties Gather In
Sunday Parley
WIENER. Neustadt. Austria. Oct.
f>. '/T*!—Barricaded and under arm-
ed patrols like a wartime camp
rather than the induatrial center
it i = . th's citv ton'ght was prepared
for any event arising tomorrow
from the meeting of two rival po-
litical organizations.
Several thousand inhabitants have
sought the countryside hut their
numbers vvill he more than re-
gained when the special trains begin
depositing the demonst rators to-
morrow' morning.
The parties which have sched-
j ulrd giant mass meetings are the
social democrats who predominate
here ard in the capitol and the
Heimwehr. or home defense league
I of Christian socialists who control
the present national government.
Although the Austrian gov rnment
derlired to grant the request of
several international peace societies
that both political meetings he for-
bidden. it has placed in tl e city
12.500 troops and gendarmes. The
authorities in their preparations
have even gone so far as to com-
mand the large municipal hos-
pital.
Private property is shuttered and
hanked about bv sandbag*. Work
ceased today in 14*1 factories.
The whole city once the residence
of the sovereigns of imperial Aus-
: tria. wa* a flaming mas of red so-
cialist flags today.
The socialists are expected to
show a strength of 00.000 tomorrow
while the Heimwehr will muster
25.000.
The gnvmernment today took over
the post office and telegraph bu-
reau in the city. Sale of alcohol
over the week-end has been forbid-
den. Local and foreign newspaper-
men have issued 400 passes to wit-
ness the unprecedented spectacle.
longan named manager
KANSAS CITY. Oct. <>r>—Geo.
B Longan. managing editor of the
Kansas City Star today was elected
president and general manager o'
the Kansas City Star company and
announcement was made that Roy A
Roberts the Star’s Washington cor-
respondent since 1915. would succeed
'fr. Longan as managing editor at
| the end of the presidential campaign.
blanket the country with their ef-
forts. apparently accepting anew the
time-honored theory that elections
are won and lost in the days just pre-
ceding the opening of the ballot
boxes.
It is obvious that the opposing
managers are not ready to accept the
issue as settled in any quarter and
are not willing to recall their troops
for the pre-arranged wind-up drive
in the east. The zone of activity still
embraces the north and south the
east and west with no little envious
scrutiny being accorded the distrib-
uted northwest.
Eye Northwest
Even though Hoover goes today t<>
assault the democratic ramparts of
the solid south from two vantage
points in Tennesssee it is to the
northwest that both parties look—
and with mixed emotions since Smith
personally has staged hib fight among
the nortnwesterners who otten aban-
don their republican regularity the
democrats are more optimistic than
ever of success. The Hoover man-
agers. admitting the seriousness of
the situation are preparing their
counter-strokes. Hoover himself may
go over some of Smith’s trail on his
way to the west roast to east his
ballot.
As an immediate remedy the re-
publicans are sending their vice
presidential candidate the hurt and
hoarse Senator < urtis along the
northern frontier in the wake of the
Smith personality. Helping him is
Senator Borah who is telling the
farmers that Hoover not only had
nothing to do with the low price of
wheat during the war but really had
something to do with sending it up.
Everybody Busy
But no matter which sector in-
spires hope or despair the soldiers
of both parties are hanging away at
targets on all fronts.
Curtis mashed finger and sore
throat and all. will go hack to the
east from the northwest; Senator
^Continued on page two.)
NOB CASE I
JURY’S HANDS
Alleged Confession Is
Repudiated by Man
Under Charge
HOUSTON. Opt. «.—<£»)—The fate
of C harley Oldham first white man
to fare a jury here for fifty years
in the lynching of a negro was in
the hands of the jury late tonight.
Argument in the rase was concluded
after 11 p. m. and the judge ordered
the jury locked up for the night. He
said he would be ready to receive a
verdict at 9:30 a. m.. Sunday.
Oldham repudiated his alleged con-
fession introduced by the state say-
ing he was prompted to make the
statement by Captain of Detectives
Tom Sheeley. who told him that he
probably would not be convicted and
that the police were anxious to clear
up the lynching because of the un-
favorable impression it made on vis-
itors to the national democratic con-
vention.
Oldham took the stand in his own
defense. He said he was at home on
the night Robert Powell negro was
taken from his hospital bed and
hanged from a bridge. He said that
he made his asserted confession be-
cause he “wanted to help the police
^boys out.”
Oldham and six other men were
charged in the hanging. One defend-
ant has been discharged.
Mrs. Griswold Hits
Back at Probe Threat
SAN ANTONIO. Oct.
Mrs. J. < . Griswold speaker of the
republican national committee
named Friday hv Rep. Coring M.
Rlack of New York in a motion be-
fore the house campaign funds in-
vestigation committee which asked
an inquiry into activities of Mrs.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt and re-
ports concerning a whispering cam-
paign against Governor Smith sent
a telegram tonight to Rlack saying:
"The vofee of the South's pro-
Hoover women today is a clamor
not a whisper. Thanks for the hon-
or of coupling my name with that
of Mr*. Willebrandt."
M. E. L aymen Deplore
'Church *n Politics1
ATLANTA Ga.. Oct. »>p -
Eighty-three Georgia laymen of the
.Methodist Episcopal church. South
today issued a statement declaring
that "on behalf of our great and
faithful membership. we protest
against draggirg our beloved church
info politics."
“tte deplore the action of certain
of our bishops who have attempted
to reverse the established position
of the Methodist Episcopal church
and its ministrv in party politics"
tho statement said.
OFFICER SLAIN; MAN HELD
BFAUMONT Oct fi -<>Pi-A La-
til. 47. oil field employe will be
given a preliminary hearing in jus-
tice court Monday on a charge of
murder in the fatal shooting of
George Briggs Rn erick pistol
marksman and former peace officer
on a downtown street early today.
LAKE NEAR TO
CLAREMORE IS
TRAGEDY SITE
Mother Four Children
And Man Lost When
Boat Upsets; Two in
Party Escape
TULSA Okla Oct. —(AP»—S»*
persons including a mother and her
four small children were drowned
and two others were rescued when a
boat capsized 13 1-2 mles northeast
of t'laremore. Okla . th>« afternoon.
The dead are: Mr*. Minnie Shep-
ard her four children. Dannie. 10; .
Imngene S; Charlotte 6; Georgia
and I.urn Saunders.
A daughter of Mrs Shepard suc-
ceeded in reaching the bank of the
lake.
Ambulance* with pulmotors were
called from t'laremore and • h»l*ea
but efforts to resuscitate any of the
victims were unsuccessful.
The bodies were taken to a Tulsa
undertaking parlor.
The party had gone from Tulsa
to fish in Spring Lake a small body
of water little more than 100 feet
long and 2 feet wide. A coherent
stnty of the disaster could not ba
obtained from the surviving girl.
German Dirigible
Being Prepared
! For 1). S Flight
K REID RICH SHAKEN tiernunr
Oct. 6.—t/P)—Dr. Hugo Eckener and
the crew of the German dingib’e
Graf Zeppelin today were rushing
preparations in the hope of getting
away on the trans-Atlantic trip to
the United States next week. They
plan to leave some time after Tues-
day.
A cabin has been reserved for
W. B. Leeds of the American tin-
plate family but he is reoorted ilt
and uncerta>n whether be will be
able to make the trip.
Passage has also been engaged bv
Robert Reiner a textile manufactur-
er of Weehawkcn N. .1. and Fred-
erick Gilfillan. an American who re-
sides at Lucerne Switzerland. Many
other Americans applied for par-age.
but Dr. Eckener *n:d he bad room for
only these three.
Effort to Bare Rum
Rinj? Fails; End Case
WICHITA Ka*.. Oct. (AV—A
charge of conspiracy to violates th*”
I federal prohibitor? law^ preferred
against Louis B. Hund o' Amarillo
Texas today was dismi*s«d by ludgc
George T. McDermott in federal
court' Hund and 14 others were in-
dicted by a federal grand jury as
being involved in an alleged protect-
ed “liquor ring
Three of those indicted entered
pleas of guilty; five ca«es have been
dismissed and the federal court
jury which had been sitting in the
cases of seven others was dismissed
late yesterday when it failed ta
agree upon a decision.
Textile Workers on
Strike Compromise
NEW BEDFORD Mass. Oct.
(£>>—The textile workers strike
which has kept goods and workers
idle in this city for 2*> weeks ended
today.
By vote of unions reported in th»
textile council strikers accepted a
compromise under which wages will
He reduced five per cent and the
manufacturers hereafter will give
workers thirty' days notice of any
proposed general wage cut. The
strike was called as a protect agatn«t
an announced ten per cent wage re-
duction.
The New Bedford Manufacturers'
Association arranged a meeting for
tonight. It wa* experted that they
would d'-cuss plans for reopening
the mill*.
U. of T. Head Silent
On Initiation Probe
• AUSTIN Oct. fi.——After re-
ceiving a voluminous report from a
} special committee named to investi-
gate circumstances of the death Hv
electrical shock of Nolle McElroy
University of Texas «t»>*nt. at the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity
house Sunday night. Dr. H. Y. Bene-
dict president of the school. *a;d *-e
had “nothing to say about any de-
cision in the matter.”
The report absolved all connected
with the tragedy of any wrong n-
tentmn.
McElroy died after he had been
shocked in an initiation.
MRS. AU08TA ASKS DIVORCE
MIN LOLA. L- L Oct. -1/Py— Mrs.
Helen B. Acosta wife of Bert Acos-
ta co-pilot on Commander Byrd's
trans-Atlantic flight filed suit to-
day against Dorothy Walker of
| Beechhuri»t N. Y.t to recover $125-
I 4*00 for alleged alienation of her hus-
; band's affections.
TEXTBOOK COMMISSION TO MEET
AUSTIN Oct. *.—4/Pt—The state
textbook commission will meet Mon-
day as required by law but will de-
fer until probably the following Mon-
day its consideration of new public
i *chml textbook contract* wrludinc
geographies and arithmetics worth
i millions.
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