The Marshall Morning News (Marshall, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 108, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 16, 1923 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume 4
Number 108
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KLANSMEN ARMED SELVES AFTER KIDNAPING
1
GOVERNOR SPEAKS
CUT MEMBERSHIP
that
and
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A
ONLY THREE COUPONS
tz
Houston middling spots-...
Governor Neff and Lieutenant
Governor Whit Davidson
Declared Elected
Gains in Workmen Shown in a
Statement From Washing-
ton Headquarters
The Chief of Denver Police An-
nounces J. C. Sloan of Caster
Wyoming, As Dead Man
LEGISLATURE
MUST MEET IN
CALL SESSION
Haugh of Runnels Would Cut
House of Representatives to
75 and Senate to 25, With 12
Month Session Every 2 Years
BRITISH WAIT
TO HEAR FROM
THEIR NATION
OUT OFFICIAL
RAILWAY NEWS
I
I
GRAND JURY IS
INVESTIGATING
carried fainting to a hotel.
K. A. Armand, another victim of
the hooded band, was brought
Jones,
the
SOME SAYINS*
OF SI BONES
made
that
The Paper That Haa
More than Three Tous-
aand Circulation in the
County of Publication—
1600 in the City.
_______ ____ ‘■l.w.Klu i
____ i 31.94,land involved.
Port eales today 3,500 bales.
CHAS. H. WELCH,
IM Paper that More
People are Willing to
Pay Their Money tor
Than Any Other Fub-
lished in East Texas,
llltn'ol)iillllioriiiiii)llnue
MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—SIX THOUSAND WORD NEWS REPORT RECEIVED DAILY
Marshall, Texas, Tuesday, January 16,1923
leaden, 1
rarily to make way for the farmers
measures.
Cotton Market I
The Morning News'
BIBLE DISTRIBUTION
COUPON
was in line
the subject
are „ „
ure of obstruction appears to be hav-
ing its effect, at least on the Indus-'
trial migiets who were at first de !
reived by the conciliatory methods of
the French and there are indications
that they will not persist in their re-
fusal to deliver the reparations coal.
Demand Made by Dudley of El
Paso and Davis of Dallas
for Special Session
for South Bank Is Declared to Be
Boundary; No Controversy
Until Oil Found
COMPROMISE ON
BOUNDARY SUIT
ON RED RIVER.
DEFENSE RESTS
IN HERRIN TRI AL
Lacking .onw explanation from Mr. resume the negotiations tomorrow af-
Boyden that would clear up the mys- ternoon but some of the participants
tery no comment beyond the officialr appeared to be less confident
statement was obtainable.
Want Hearing On Lease
Austin, Jan. 15.—Chairman S. B.
Cowell of the state board of control
tonight telegraphed Col. Forbes, di-
rector of the United States Veterans’
Bureau and requested an immediate
reply as to whether the federal depart-
ment will consider further the leasing
of the American Legion hospital at
Kerrville Cowell said the leasing of
the hospital would probably be de-
termined within a few days.
I
• vailing in the parish.
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By th* Associated Press
Houston, Jan. 15. — Mrs. R. R.
Harrison, widow who was taken
out from her home in Goose Creek
on the night of January 5th and se-
verely flogged by masked men, ap-
peared before the Harris County
grand jury today and was question-
ed for an hour and fifteen minutes.
At the conclusion she collapsed from
exhaustion and excitement and was
In Line With Other Speeches
to on Law 'Enforcement; Wants
Houston late Saturday and is receiv-
ing medical treatment.
More Laws to Enforce Laws'
Already on Statute Books
than
heretofore that an agreement in prin-
cipal would be reached before the
departure of the London commission
I starts for home next Saturday.
Chairman Mellon of the American
i delegation was represented as being
I still hopeful of a tentative settlement
before that time but it was
clear that he was predicting
one would be reached.
Austin, Jan. 15.—Ranger Captain R.
D. Shumake who has had in custody at
Dallas, Mias Naomi Boucher and her
two brothers in connection with the
Skipworth case at Waco, is schedul-
ed to arrive in Austin tomorrow morn-
ing to have a conference with Adju-
tant General Barton regarding the
case.
MeTony to Waco
By th. Associated Press
Waco, Jan. 15. — J. S. Melony, the
head of all federal cotton classing
work, with headquarters at Washing-
ton, will inspect the work being done
here by the cotton classing depart-
ment of the farm association Janu-
ary 18, it was stated here.
to question E. C. Gregory, former
employe of the Missouri and North
Arkansas railway, relating to rec-
ent bridge fires on that road, ac-
cording to a report received here
tonight by the Southwestern Amer- | By the Associated Pi
lean. Pn.frAn .Tan
Action of citizens followed the
wholesale burning of bridges on
the road last week, starting Tues-
day when a bridge near Eureka
Springs, Ark., was completely de-
stroyed.
Five other bridges had either
!»een completely destroyed or badly
damaged by Friday night, complete-
ly tying up the line between Leslie
and Eureka Springs. Eight alleged
strikers are under arrest and charg-
ed with arson and a grand jury was
called at Searcy to investigate the
burnings.
A committee of armed citizens
sitting tonight had several alleged
strikers before it. 1..
was forthcoming from the meeting
but it is known that it has to do
with the further ejection of former
employees of the Missouri
North Arkansas railroad.
DEFENDANTS IN
WACO KILLING
SURRENDERED
— i
Dallas, Jan. 15. —• Ranger R. E.!
Shumake tonight said he would turn
over to Sheriff Stegall, of McLennan
County, Miss Maomi Boucher and
Horace and Bernard Boucher, who
have been held in connection with the
Grady Skipworth killing.
The McLennan County sheriff came
to Dallas under court instructions to
arrest Capt. Shumake in event the
ranger officer did not give assurances
that he would appear in Waco.
Since early Sunday one of the
Boucher boys had been in custody at
McKinney and the other at Rockwall
County, officials said. Miss Boucher
was held in Dallas and it was an-,
nounced that she was under the best1
of treatment while here at a private
residence. .
Apparently Capt. Shumake intended |
to return to Waco tonight as he said
there were more people he wanted to!
question.
Germans and French troops occurred
at the railroad station at Bouchum .... ™.._
this evening, the french fire killing -n /a7 declared by the majority
opinion to Im* the bank referred to In
the treaty with Spain in 1M9 as the
boundary between the United State? •
and the Spanish possessions and the
court said it presumed that the ) promillent Texas Democrat featured
hank as it exists today is the somejthc afternoon res5ion of the h))Uie.
it was then exci-nt where it can be ,- - ..
shown by evidence that there has been I vaj of the calling of a conrtitutii,naI
a change in its location ir interven- conventjon
ing years due to erosipn.
The decision was a compromise be-
tween the contentions of the United
States and of Tex ;s. There was a
loundarv dispute until the ownership
of the lied of the Red F
an imp'rtant controversy due to the
discovery of oil.
homa instituted original proceedings ■ By the Associated Pres,
By the Aaaoelated Fraas
Austin, Jan. 15. -— Demand that
Governor Neff call a special session of
the legislature to carry out his leg-
islative program or that the legisla-
ture take steps to submit to the vote
of the people the question of extend-
ing the legislative term to six months
was made in the Senate this after
noon by Senators Dudley of El Paso
and Davis of Dallas. A concurrent
resolution to extend the legislative
session is being prepared by Senator
Davis.
Probably the most important meas-
ure introduced in the Senate today was
that of Senator Baugh, of Runnels,
proposing the reduction of the House
membership to 75 and the senate to
25 with a 12 months session every two
years at a $3,600 salary. Senator:
Clark, this afternoon, introduced a bill
proposing a $5,000,000 appropriation
to supplement the state school f
the coming two years. The Senate
committee to inspect the state rail
road was made today by President
Davidson.
i By the Anflociated Prwaa
Washington, Jan. 15. — Railroads
the which operate 96 per cent of the class
and one mileage in the United States em-
IDENTIFY MINT
I BANDIT SLAIN
IN THE B ATTLE
crime and devote its labors exclusi- i Neff and lieutenant Governor T.
vely to the whipping of Armand and > Davidson and reading of
Mrs. Harrison.
CANVASSING OF
HOODED CRIMES VOTE TAKES UP
DAY FOR SOLONS
! and the prosecution announced it
would begin its refutal arguments to-
morrow morning.
i bandit made away with $200,000
currency from a Federal Reserve batik
■ trucK in — — -------, —
I Charles T. Linton, a guard.
The bandits frozen body with
bullet in the heart was found
. , ! night in a private garage here.
„ „ , ‘t1® “®us<- ficials believe the bandit was instant- a reparations settlement plan to the: J„... 15. .‘.JIT-----
Mr. Ball expressed unqualified appro-by bullc-t from the revolver commission completely mystifier! of- of views as to the terms of settlement
The State Department have been developed in conversations
„ ’ ' ■ 2__ 2/L- 11 and American
bandit into the automobile the rest of in a formal stat'-ment. commissioners regarding the refund-
I Officials felt certain that there had ing of Great Eritains war debt to the
escaped, been some misunderstanding. United States were halted today while
Secretary the British awaited instructions from
statement their government. The subject mat-
was believed to be due to the desire ter of these instructions were with-
that it should be definitely under-'he'd but it was learned that the deals
I of the early capture of the rest of stood that the Washington govern- of both the time of final payments and
_____~ Cl^„e .. ....♦ k ? m ffUHl Ol't inn with nnv nrn- tkn internet v-.lo knri klaxon non vnszod
in contesting the claims of Texas to the murder of Howard Hoffman,
I jurisdiction to the middle of the of the victims of the Herrion
stream. In an opinion on April n.jrestetd its case late this afternoon.
1921, the court held that the south Judge Hartwell overruled a motion by’
bank of the stream was the boundary i the defense to strike out the testi-
and the opinion today defined what I mony of 18 of the state's witnesses
should constitute that bank.
FIGHT BETWEEN
between the State of Texas and Okla-
- homa was located today by that court
B> th» A«»l«t«l Prvss i jn an opinion rendered by Justice
Berlin, Jan. 15. —- A clash between - yan Devanter, justice McReynolds,
dissenting.
The Southerly cut bank as it existed
the form of two bills was taken up af- ed to mark the southerly cut bank as
ter the administration shipping bill, the boundary between the two states,
in accordance with plans of Republican the court exercising the jurisdicition
had been laid aside tempo- over the work of the committee.
ran'lv tn make wav for the farmers ♦ ♦ ♦
Austin, Jan. 15. — Preparation of
the final feature of the boundary line
litigation between Texas and Okla-
homa will begin immediately, follow-
i ing the decision of the Federal Su-
I preme Court today of the Red River
Receipts yesterday 14 bales. ' case, attorney general Keeling an-
Cotton sold at 27 cents, according i nounced tonight. The final suit in-
to grade and staple.
Futures closed 11 points down.
March New York closed —
May New York closed
March New Orleans closed.
May New Orleans closed.-
March Liverpool closed 30.30 decision received by attorneys in
May Liverpool closed -29.90 Washington who represented Texas In
Galveston middling spots-------27.65 the case late today confirmed reports
Houston middling spots-----...27.60 that Texas won all of the valley
New York middling spots------27.75' and agricultural lands in the deciaion
New Orleans middling spots....27.50(and at least 90 per cent of the oil
Liverpool middling spots_______31.94 land involved. The attorney general
'expressed satisfaction over the hold-
ing of the federal court.
The vote canvas showed Neff vic-
torious over Atwell, his Republican
^opponent by 334,199 to 73,327; and
Davidson victor over George Kepple
i *',53,550 to 56,519.
! The governor’s message
with his past speeches on
'of law enforcement. After pointing
out the necessity for respect and obed-
ience to law if civilization is to en-l
I dure the chief executive made several :
j recommendations as to legislative
[ needs for more effective law enforce-
ment. These included a law requiring
state officials to an oath that they will
net violate the prohibition laws; pro-
hibition of the sale or lease of pistols; |
expedition of trial of criminal cases ; i
repeal of suspended sentence law;t
making it a penitentiary offense to j
possess liquor and fixing a jail sen-1
fence for appearing in public under IB the AMOciau4
the influence of intoxicants. | Dejjv Jan lg _ gUjn mint DCD A D AT1ON Pl AN
Bills; proposing a state col ege for bandit was identificd late today as j. lULl AHA 1 IVIN iLAll
West Texas and appomtmen of a s]oan Casper, Wyoming. Rugg ZY Tl fl TX XX <3 rt DU H1T1T3 i
committee to make recommendations : chjef of lice de. (1 V U I? R k |) RV Till? I
a. to a site was introduced in th*> rtment, announced Hurt Sioan is one VI 1 LilLU DI HID
House by Representative Baldwin of' ,f the men the ,jce have ht' ~ AIDW DITMDD FIY
Slaton. A tax of one cent on every | Det.ember u last. the d the (J.k.lNUn KUMvRED
ten cent sale of beverages and re-ilandjt mad(i awav wjth S2(k),n V.U.rtvn Wil a,
rreshments is proposed in a hill by from a F-ederal Rcserve ba,lk ------
Representative Melson, of Sulphur, jn front of the mint_ kjmng, By the Associated Press
Springs. I Charles T Linton a iruard. Washington, Jan. 15. — Dispatches
A short address by Thomas H. Ball Tbe bandits frozen bodv with a 'r<’m Paris today stating that Roland
of Houston, former congressman and .... *, ■ * ■
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WEATHER
East Texas: Tuesday fair,
warmer except In Southeastern
portion. Wednesday fair and
warmer.
West Texas: Tuesday fair,
Wednesday fair.
The prompt action jof
Hughes in .•'.•it'-, rizi'i™ a
Texas contended that under the
Vote On Capper treaty with Spain the edge of the
T„ water »t the normal stage of the riv-
15111 IS Expeciea er should be the bank. The Red River
__ I like others has in the course of time
By the AwodaUd Pr»M cut a gorge through whch it flows, the
Washington, Jan. 15. — Such pro- walls of which are bluffs. The United
gress wae made bv the senate today' States and Oklahoma asserted that
in consideration of farm credits legis- the bluffs on the south side of the
lation that a vote is predicted tomor- river should be held by the court as
row on the Capper bill, the first of the bank to be marked as the boun-
the farmer relief measures to be tak- dary line.
rn Up. , A committee of three members un-
Thq crMit legislation pending in ' der the decision today will be appoint-
'’Sss. TWO MEMBERS OF KLAN
TESTIFY IN HEARINGS
By the Press
Ft. Smith, Ark^ Jan. 15. — One
man was killed and two wounded
at Harrison, Arkansas, today when
members of a committee attempted . jNSIST KLA^J HAD N0 PART IN KIDNAPING; ONLY ARMED
SELVES AS PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE, IN VIEW OF
INTENSE FEELING PREVAILING IN THE PARISH
™ ICC riVRQ
Bastrop, Jan. 15. — New ground 1. V’. VJ. VI1 T aJM
i was opened today by States attorneys,
in their task of unravelling the mys-,
teries surrounding the kidnaping and
slaying of Thomas Richards and
Watt Daniels, victims of blackhooded
I kidnapers. Two members of the Ku 1
Klux Klan put into the record a re-
|cital of an assembling of klansmen in
a store held in anticipation that Mer
Rouge citizens might swoop down on
Bastrop.
Jc.mes F. Harp and Jack
farmers of Benita, a village in
southern part of Morehouse parish,
both members of the parish klan or-
ganization testified that after t...
No information kidnaping of Daniels, Richards
seen on the ployed 1,801,.315 persons in all bran-
chi* of service during October, the
Int< rstate Commerce Commission re-
ported today and paid them a total of
$225,514,000. During the same month
of the previous year the same roads
had 1,754,126 empioves who received
$237,602,959.
The commissions report also dealt
He will ap-
pear before a grand jury as soon as
the physicians advise that his
strength is sufficient.
The grand jury was called into ' By th. A.m^i.wd Pren
court at 10 o'clock Monday morn- , Austin, Jan. 15. — Canvassing of
i J 1 *■■■ *': *-:-*
C. W. Robinson to suspend its in- I
vestigation into all other forms of
Te„’n<L-b> Distri7 Z?ud5e hh* vote of the November election
resulting in the election of Governor
W.
--------- r, Governor
Neff's message and recommendation
The charge of Judge Robinson is on law enforcement consumed most
said to have made the most vigor- i of the time of the two legislative
ous charge against masks lawless- 'bodies today,
ness that has ever emanated from
any bench in the United States.
I sees they air makin all the
joy ridin roads en streets wider
but the strate en n$rrer wav
still seems broad enuff fur all
the travellurs.
Most ewery time my church
en your’n too, fur thet matter,
tries to raise munny by hevin’
the preecher to preech ’bout It.
there is alius sum fellers thet
want the pulpit ter konfine it-
self ter the preechin’ uv the
Gospul.
Sister, the only kiss you kan
afford ter give iz the win you
kan tell yer dawter 'bout.
What this country needs
not more peeple but better
Maple.
I hev sum times wundered
vhat the Lord thout uv Jazz.
ment has no connection with any pro-j the interest rate had been canvassed
The British expected to be ready to
the most daring gangs of desperadoes, reparations commission.
' This gang went out I-acking some exnlanal
III VUC II1IUU1U va. ».*» VI U1C V1S.AII1S9 VI UC1 HUH HUI, . . . .
In an opinion on April 11, restetd its case late this afternoon. orl'J' ^or money, the officers said.
deadly marksmanship, either
j an-
... The final suit in-
| volves the boundary on the east side
. 'of the Panhandle section and the de
.27.62 termination of the 100th meridian that
.27.781 is now pending in the Federal tribun-
-27.21 al, Keeling stated.
.27.27, A summary of the Supreme Court's
one person and wounding several.
♦ ♦ ♦
Paris, Jan. 15. — The French and
Belgium troops now occupy the whole
of the Ruhr basin and have reached
the limits of that neutral zone 30
miles in depth in which the Germans
are l>arred from having Reichswehr
or regular garrisons. The troops are
at the gate of Dorthund where they
were ordered to stop for the present.
In view of the progressive obstinacy
of the German attitude however, it
has been decided to extend the ad-
vance Tuesday, occupying Dorthund
nnd lestablishing troops in Northeast
and Southeast completely' command-
ing the important railroad junctions.
„„ r .. e noma insmuil-u nrignmi
The promptitude which the French n thp Suprem(. Court aBd the Vn.ted OT.FWI1> -an. aelcnse ,
are showing in countering each meas- stat(>s intervenpd joininf, that Statp at the trial of fiye men charged wi:h ! Hee. was the master mind of one of ject which has been made before the rather Hloroughiy.
• . > ___ __ • L .. rwnnr*>3 nf rl ne norn J noc . TP TYri Pfl f IOT3 R Z*OTn TT11 *11 OH. L Th o RwiFicla nvrtxa
°ne |
riot_ in the country.
River became'
The state of Okla-
One of the admission requirements
was deadly marksmanship, either with
shotgun, pistol or rifle.
a i rom tans today stating tn at Koiarui
last | Boyden, American observer with the ! ■
„ „ Of- reparations commission had submitted By the AssccUted Tress
f cials believe the bandit was instant- a reparations settlement plan to the J Washington. Jan. 15. — A difference
ly killed by a 1 . — .
of a guard at the mint. ficials here.
Police believe that after pu’ling the disclaimed all knowledge of the plan between the British
I . — JXa X*.a - a V — — .• * - 1.i 1 T ‘ * Ts <1 V* rva O 1 cftl tl *m on E . -<-», .- e I.‘vo w
i the pang drove to the garage, locked
the automobile inside and ( , ’
None of the loot was found in the
bandit car.
i The identification of Sloan, accord-
' ing to Chief Williams, is a forerunner
■ onrlv s’anfuro nf thp rost. of
Marion, Uh, Jan. 15. — The defense ',he P«nS- Sloan> “‘‘•■’’niing to the po-
. . ... .....
three other men were t
' Mer Rouge - Bastrop highway, a
dozen or more klansmen gathered in
a hardware store and armed them-
selves and prepared for eventualities
Both insisted that the klan had no
part in the kidnaping but that the
gathering of the klansmen was deem-
ed advisable as a precautionary meas- ■
I ure in view of the intense feeling pre- at some lenght with the event of the
.v- —national strike of the railroad shop
Harp and Jones were the principal men last summer. By October the
witnesses at the afternoon session of roads reporting had 504,499 men. at
the hearing, They were preceeded on' work in maintenance of equtpment
the witness stand by S. L. Carpenter, work which division chiefly include!
parish sheriff and Gus Boyd. Collin- the shopcraftsmen. This was 113,501
ston storekeeper, from whom it is more than they had during September,
said the blackhooded band purchased It was also noted that the number of
gasoline while holding the two kid- guards and transportation police in
naped men prisoners gnd half a doz- service during July, when the strike
en other witnesses. began, mounted to 39,430 men against
1 a normal force of about 8,400. In Oc-
i tober the number employed in this cat-
| C«ory was reduced by approximately
20,000 persons. ,
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