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Volume 5
Number 61
Borah Makes Broadside
Attack On The Taxation
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Policy of G. O. P. Leaders
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Important Clues Found
In Bomb Sending Case,
Hold Victims’ Funeral
Tokio; and Right Rev. Manuel Fer-
dinado as suffragan bishop of Porto
HIR AM JOHNSON
ANNOUNCES FOR
REP. NOMINATION
to accompany him on official inspec-
tion trips around the country in 1922
LIFE PRISONER,
PLAYING MARKET
TOO MUCH OF A
GOOD THING
THOMAS SPEAKS
TO CONVENTION
TEXAS BAPTISTS
Marshall, Texas, Friday, November 16,1923
Figures in Diploma Ring Expose
PRESIDENT OF
SOUTHWESTERN
IS FOR FLAPPER
amount paid the presiding elder
the same period.
Waco Man Killed
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tracts for the veterans hospitals; his
alleged reletions with Mrs. Elias Mor,
timer, wife of Forbes principal accus-
er; the divorce obtained from him rec-
ently by Mrs. Kate Forbes and about
charges of drmking parties in Wash-
ington and other places.
To all the charges of improper con-
duct and of drinking and carousing
County, and Monroe Fox, police chief
of Cropus Christi, were in San An-
tonio today aiding the local officers
in their hunt for the culprit. They
concurred in the theory of the sheriffs
office here that the bomber has re-
turned to the coast city.
Chief deputy sheriff A. A. Newton
Jr., is of the opinion that a personal
A ring consisung of physicians and others chatzed with selling fake medi-
cal diplomas is under examination at St. Louls and arrests are expected short-
ly. This photograph shows, left to right, Harry Thompsod Brundage, a news
paper reporter who spent $3,000 and secured a degree of Doctor of Medicine,
and Prof. W. P. Sachs, former examiner for the Missouri department of pub-
lic echools, who, it is alleged, supplied the ring with diplomas and certificates.
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Stop It
TWO SOMERVELL
MEN CONVICTED
LIQUOR CHARGE
The News
wi Cems t Yen
Fer Twa Ceats
Per Dar
Duty of United States to Join
League Or Organize Coun-
cil of Nations
far as it is going for bad.”
SPEAKERS FAVOR
ENDOWMENTFUND
SOME SA YINS’
OF SI BONES
will see they are betting better,
believe the pendulum has swung
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A. E. F. Wrestler Dies at Houston
By the Associated Press
Houston. Nov. 15.—Johnny Panes,
28. champion light weight wrestler of
the Rainbow Division, American Ex-
peditionary Forces, dropped dead this
afternoon shortly after a work out
with another wrestler.
Counsel States Expects to Prove
Forbes One of Gang to De-
fraud Government
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FLAYS PRIVATE
AND OFFICIAL
LIFE OF FORBES
RESOLUTION OF
EPISCOPALIANS
FAVORS LEAGUE
------ West, also charged with manufactur-
Waco. Nov. 15.—Dr. W .E. Colgin, ing of intoxicating liquor, was start-
retired Waco physician and promin- ed and the hearing of testimony was
ent in Central Texas, died here to- in progress when court adjourned to-
him and Mrs. Mortimer in an apart-
ment at Wardman Park Inn in this
jtv but declared that the door was
"wide open." At another time he said
that he prokably was a bit indiscrete
Ef we all hurd evverything
rhet iz sed 'bout us there wudn‘
be menny uv us stuck up.
I hates to see a yung cupple
tell their baby buggy.
It talks the wind outten a
feller ter git mad en tell anuther
feller what he thinks uv him en
hen hev him say “I jist konsid-
ers the source.” There haint
enny more to say.
Its komedy er tragedy ac-
cordin’ to whuthur its you er
the tuther feller it happens to.
Faim iz a matter uv tutch-
downs. Last summer it wuz
home runs.
The hardest job you en me
boath hev is jist behavin’ our-
self s.
Poverty is a good thing ef it,
cums when we air growin’ np.
Ef a wummun hez more brains
then hnr ole man she shows it
by newer lettin’ him kno it.
All the luck thet ewer ram
my way cost ewet
Mistress: "I've invited Mr.
and Mrs. Blank to dinner at 7,
Norah, but I think we’ll give
them a quarter of an hour’s
grace.”
Norah: “Well, mum, Oi heard
ye wore religious folks, but Oi
do think that's rather over-
din’ it.”
beating his wife in the Drake Hotel in dog of the lad and his most insepar-
Chicago and on other occasions he had ’ able companion, killed in the explos-
seen evidences of similar attacks. I ion and found in the boys arms when
ed, was buried at the foot of the grave
in which his master was laid.
The funeral was held in the Preshy-
terian church and was attended by
many persons. Motive for sending
day at 3:20 o’clock from injuries re- day.
reived when struck by an automobile ---------—---
as he was preparing to catch a street wholesale liquor raids made in Som-
car for his home. Ho died without । ervell County two months ago k
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Forbea entered specific denial. Time
and again O’Ryan asked him to swear
to his answers but he remained un-
shaken and appeared to be calmer
than he was during his direct exam-
ination. As on yesterday and the day
before he repeatedly contradicted tes-
timony of Mortimer who he character-
ized as a "wife beater.” He asserted
that once he had found Mortimer
By the Associated Press
Dallas. Nov. 15.—It is the “imme-
diate «nd imperative” duty of the
United States government either to
join the existing League of Nations
“or to proceed immediately to organ-
ize some other effective association
or council of nations," the house of
Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, Urited States of America,
declared in a resolution adopted fust
before the conclusion of its special
Ry the Associated Press
Cleburne, Nov. 15.—The third con-
viction in the liquor trials being held
here on change of venue from Glen-
rose, Somervell County, was returned
by a jury here today when sentences
of one year were assessed against
John Davis and D. Conley, Glenrose
men, who pleaded guilty to charges cf
manufacturing liquor.
The trial of Dr. W. B. Pruitt, Glen-
rose, was postponed until Friday, due
to inability of the defendant to ap-
pear, as the result of injuries rereiv-
ed in an automobile crash at Glen-
rose last night. The trial of I. M.
By the Arsoclated Press
Washington, Nov. 15.—The first
broadside attack on the taxation
policy of Republican organization
leaders in congress was made to-
night by Senator Borah, (Rep.)
Idaho, who declared that reduc-
tion of the present tax burden
was not only an economic neces-
sity but a moral duty.
If the present plan of delaying such
a reduction is carried out, he said in
a formal statement, it may prove a
"hazardous enterprise for congress
to face its consistency next year at
the polls, for the tax payer, he as-
serted, is showing a strong inclina-
tion to “turn upon his torturer.”
“We are just now in Washington
witnessing the uncovering of a shame-
less saturnalia of incompetency, waste
and graft. Money appropriated for
the benefit of wounded and diseased
of the late war has been thrown here
and there as if dollars were mere
waste paper. I doubt very much, when
everything is considered, the sacred-
ness of the fund and the pathetic need
of the disabled, if a more grovelling
exhibit of unconscionable indecnency
of dishonesty has ever been disclosed.
The peculiar feature of it all is that
those responsible for this condition
seem to think that as it was publie
money, only the taxpayers money,
that no great culpability is attached to
its waste. I beg to say that that
spirit, that view of the use of public
money is marvelously widespread.”
STATE OFFERS
TESTIMONY ON
ABUSED POWERS
Rico. Declaring it could ill afford to
lose the services of Bishop Logan
Roots of China, the house refused to
accept his resignation because of his
membership on the Christian Council
of China.
By the Ansoclated Press
Temple, Nov. 15.—Dr. P. W. Horn,
president of the Southwestern Uni-
versity, Georgetown, is for the flap-
per and jelly beans, for bobbed hair
and for modern styles. he told a meet-
ing of the high school Parent-Teach-
ers Association today.
The young people are "no worse
than their parents were at their age,"
he said, and refused to believe the
picture of modern youth, as painted
by current lierature. "Girls may
smoke cigaretts and drink,” he said,
“but I don’t know any who do and I
believe generally the young people are
all right. They say the boys seek
out the easiest places, but look what
he boys did in the recent war—I am
for the boys of today.
“Bobbed hair is all right for young
girls.” Dr. Horn said that it is more
sanitary and there is no reason why
women should have to spend so much
time fixing their hair.
As for the styles he thinks they are
becoming more sensible every day.
“The girls used to sweep the floor
with their long dresses, but now we
have janitors to do that. Study the
styles for 100 years back and you
Boston, Nov. 15.— Tesse Pomeroy,
life prisoner of the Charlestown state
prison, who has served nearly half of
a century in that institution, has been
dipping into the stock market, it was
learned today and the returns of his
investment, amounting to $50 or $60,
has been tucked away in the prison
safe for his convenience.
"Pomeroy bought some Liberty
Bonds during the war, $300 worth,”
sajd William Hendry, the warden,
“and decided to cash them and buy:
some stock. We took care of the 1
transaction for him and bought some
shares."
Pomeroy was convicted at the age
of 15 for the murder of Horace H
Mellon, 4 years old, and his death
sentence was commuted to life im-
prisonment in 1876 He has been in
the Charlestown prison ever since.
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Two Men Arrested
For Highway Death
and jaw to defraud the government.
He added that he expected further “to
show that this criminal conduct was
in consenance with his previous life
record.”
O’Ryan put question after question
to Forbes about his meetings at the | driving a smanlcar. The lad did not
office of the commission which got con ; know he number of the car driven by
the man who gave him the package
in permitting Mortimer, who testified an infernal machine to Barnes contin-
that he was seeking hospital contracts,! ued to be unknown today. His friends
and acquaintances all say they could
There is an aged negro over
in Georgia who seems to have
gotten about all the good things
out of life that there is. In
talking to a newspaper report-
er, he said:
“Yas, suh, Boss, I got six
fiddles, sixteen child'un, my
wife is deef en dum, I preaches
in the summer time and- shoots
craps in de winter, ennybody’s
shoes will fit me and my neigh-
bors raise chickens. I haint
newer hed no sickness and I is
so handy with a razor thet there
haint no nigger in Georgy thet
would kick my possum dog or
smile at one of my gals. Yas,
suh, de good Lord has shore
treated me good. Yas, suh,
thank you, most white gentle-
mens like you alius pitches de
ole man a quarter.”
By the Associnted Prema
Galveston, Nov. 15.—With the elec-
tion of Judge O. S. Lattimore, of Aus-
tin, as president, three vice presidents
and two recording secretaries and an
address by Cullen Thomas, of Dallas,
the annual gathering of the Texas
Baptists General Convention got un-
der full swing today.
"The future of the world rests in
the hands of the English speaking
people,” declared Mr. Thomas. He
said America could not continue to
maintain a role of selfish isolation fn
world affairs.
“If Americans want peace let them
outlaw the monster war,” said Mr.
Thomas. Much of his address was de-
voted to an attack on the Roman
Catholic church.
their relations with each other” and
"the church cannot permit war to re-
main the only method for the ulti-
mate settlement of disputes between
By the Associated Press ; nations.
Temple, Nov. 15.—Two strong ad-. Election was announced today o.
dresses in behalf of the proposed on-1 Rev. N. Cross, of St. Paul. Minn., as
dowmentfund of $10,000,000 with I bishop of Spokane, Wash.; Rev Chas,
which to provide for the superannuat- F. Reifsnider as suffragan bishop of
Vernon, Nov. 15 —Two Vernon men
were in jail here today in connection
with the death of Jim Hodges, 21,
kiHed on a highway near here on the
night of November 11. Sheriff Frank
Edmondson said he had evidence
against the men in custody that
Hodges was struck by their automo-
bile and his body had been dragged
almost a mile by the machine.
think of no possible reason.
Developments were lacking in the
investigation here so far as county and
city authorities announced. Several
officers went to San Antonio early to-
day to help in the inquiry to learn
who sent the package from there an i
word was awaited from them by the
officers here.
ed preachers of Methodism marked
the second days session of the Central
Texas Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, being held
here. Bishop W. F. McMurray, of
Missouri, spoke this morning, explain-
ing the plan whereby this fund is to
be raised and Bishop Dickey followed
with an appeal for its prompt exe-i
cution. It was urged that the matter
be formulated and acted upon at the
first quarterly conference to be held
following this session.
Both bishops resented the idea that
participation in the raising of the
fund should be considered as charity,
holding that the laborer is worthy of
his hire and that taking care of the
venerable preachers who have worn
themselves out in.the service is only
just and that they should be given
good care and support cn their declin-
ing years. The plan laid down by the
general conference, which has approv-
ed this endowment, is that each
church raise within five years a sum
equal to the sum paid its preacher
for the conference year 1922 and the
Continue Hearing of Davis Case
Georgetown, Nov. 15.—Hearing in
the case of Rev. A. A. Davis, of Waco,
charged with perjury in connection
with his appearance before a William-
son County grand jury which investi-
gated a flogging, ease was continued
here today until Tuesday January 8,
because of illness of the Rev. Mr.
Daria.
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- who is a manager of a telephone com-
pany at Custer City.
j Late in the day the prosecution took
; up a pardon granted to Gus Littrel,
alleged notorious outlaw. which was
(issued just before governor Walton
was suspended from office following
; the filing of impeachment charges
against him. The pardon was annul-
led by acting governor M. E. Trapp
and Tillet is still in the penitentiary
j where he is serving a life sentence
| for murder.
j Since the pardon was issued two ad-
ditional murders have been filed
' against Littrel which had been held in
obeyance when the original charge
'was brousht. The prosecution con-
tended that the governor knew the
two other charges had not. been filed
and that in issuing a pardon he had
attempted to absolve Littrel of re-
sponsibility in the three cases.
Counsel for the defense announced
today that a subpeona had been is-
sued for N. C. Jewett, grand dragon
I of the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma,
I ordering him to bring before the
I court complete state records of the
klan including the entire Oklahoma
। membership roll
I Managers of all local telegraph of-
fices also will be summoned by the
defense to appear with records nt tele-
grams exchanged between members
at the legislature during September,
October and thus far in November.
Receipts yesterday 50 bales,
selling at 30 to 32% for whites,
28 to 29% for blues. Futures
closed up 25 points.
By the Asnociated Press
San Antonio, Nov. 15.—The
hunt today for the sender of the
bomb which killed J. A. Barnas
and his 12-year-old son, Jesse,
in Corpus Christi Wednesday, has
shifted to the scene of the crime
Officers here tonight declared
they believed the guilty person—
who is said to have given the
bomb to Leon Morales, 14-year-
old news boy, to ship was from
Corpus Christi and had probably
returned to that city after know-
ing the infernal machine had been
sent on its deadly mission.
Leon Morales still claims he ean
positively identify the stranger who
game him the package to ship and
declared that he was willing to go to
Corpus Christi to help the officers in
their work. Sheriff Peters, of Nueces
Oklahoma City, Nov. 15.—The im-
peachment trial of Governor J. C.
Walton pased slowly through the
opening day of the prosecutions effort
to substantiate the charge that the
executive abused his pardon and pa-
rol powers.
Prosecution announced it would
seek to prove the governor used his
pardon and parol authority to enable
his friends to obtain large attorneys
fees, thereby paying political debts,
but said it could introduce no testi-
mony that the executive had received
bribes for eets of clemency.
Much of the day was devoted to
bringing out the details of an alleged
agreement between Guy Sigler,
state representative from Carter
County and Pearl Hicks, of Beckham,
Okla., who was granted a pardon
after being convicted cn a bogus check
charge. T. M. Lowrey, court clerk,
cf Beckham County, identified a cer-
tified copy of a contract by which
Sigler was to receive $2,500 the ap-
peal ond which Hicks had made, in
return for obtaining a pardon within
60 days. The witness testified that
he paid the mone"on June 28 last to
declaring he bad no suspicion at the
time and did not look.
Important clues are said to have
been found in both Corpus Christi and
San Antonio and, after the Nueces
County officials conferred with those
of Bexar County, it was declared that
hopes for his capture of the criminal
were brighter
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Side by Side in Casket
Corpus Christi, Nov. 15.—In the
same casket side by side J. A. Baamnes,
and his young son, killed yesterday
when a bomb exploded in an express
package addressed to Mr. Barnes,
were buried this afternoon. The pet
By the Associated Prest
Chicago, Nov. 15.—Senator Hiram
W. Johnson, of California, tonight an-
nounced his candidacy for the Repub-
Fean nomination for President, de-
claring that "the ensuing contest will
determine whether the Republican
party shall be the permanent instru-
ment of reaction or whether it shall
respond to present day conditions and
aspirations.”
In tossing his hat into the presiden-
tial, ring Senator Johnson declared for
direct presidential preference pri-
maries in all the states and said the
need today was for a revitalized Re-
publican party” which should be an
instrument neither of static reaction
nor destructive radicalism” and ex-
pressed opposition to the League of
Nations and "all its subsidiaries.”
His announcement follows in part:
“There is discontent in the lard.
There is threatened disintegration of
the Republican party. The discontent
and party difficulties arise not be-
cause of popular government but
from the lack of it. Two warring
philosophies of government in the na-
tion, just as in the state from which
I came, struggle for mastery. The
old ultra-conservative, materialistic
and stolidly stubbornly resisting
any claims and vigorously contesting
every human advance invites anoth-
er ultra-radicalism. The other, mind-
ful of existing rights and recognizing
conditions and mankinds gradual pro-
gress is idealistic and forward. It
avoids ultra-conservatism and ultra-
radicalism.
I
Ghe Alarshall Atlorning News
______________MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—SIX THOUSAND WORD NEWS REPORT RECEIVED DAILY
Before beginning his questioning
O'Ryan apparently stirred by Forbes'
charges of improper conduct by com-
mittee counsel stated that he "espect-
ed to prove convincingly the whole
truth of Mortimer’s charge that Col.
Forbes was one of the gang of con- . _ - . .., u.
who were tied neek anam! IttKZS ££
had several disputes in regard to real
estate deals and some of these are
said to have caused bitterness.
Morales was with deputies all day
Thursday and helped the officers in
combing the city for a crippled man
By the Aszociated Press
Washington, Nov. 15.—Searching
inquiry into the official and private
life of Charles R. Forbes was made
today by John F. O’Ryan, general
counsel for the Senate Veterans Com-
mittee as the former director of the
Veterans Bureau sat for six hours
facing his accusers in the witness
chair in the crowded room.
WEATHER
East Texas: Friday Eener-
ally fair. Cooler in north cen-
tral portion Saturday fener-
ally fair. Little change in tem-
perature.
session here today.
The action was requested of Presi-
dent Coolidge, Secretary Hughes and
the chairman of the Foreign Affairs
Committee of the United States Sen-
ate for the "purpose of settling ami-
cably international disputes and thus
save us from the great danger of an-
other world war.”
Denial was made today that contro-
versies engendered by Rev. Percy
Stickney Grant or any other priest
of the church had inspired the declara-
tion of creed last night which was a
re-affirmation of the literalness of the
church s expressed belief in the Virgin
birth of Christ. It was learned that
the bishops had adopted a suppl imen-
tary resolution in which the utter-
ance of Bishop William Wawrence, cf
Massachusetts, were declared the mo-
tivating influence for the adoption of
The resolution for cessation of wa JESSE POMEROY,
stated that the house of bishops was i ”
“impressed with the serious and sin-
ister conditions of the nations in
Siglers agent. H. S. Diskins.
Aldrich Blake, former counselor tes- i
tilled that Governor Walton had infor-,
mation that Sigler would get $1,000
I for obtaining the pardon for Hicks.
' The prosecution also introduced tes-
timony bearing on the case of H. T.
Wheeler, who was convicted of pois.
Jessing liquor in Custer County and1
i who presented a pardon to the court
i when sentence was passed on him The
' witness admitted that a number of
letters had been written to the gover-
' nor by representatives of men of the
county urging clemency for Wheeler
Forbes said Mortimer had found 1 the debris of the boys home was clear-
Young People Are No Worse
Than Their Parents Were
At Their Age”
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