The Austin Statesman (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 312, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 19, 1923 Page: 1 of 10
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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT BY LEASED WIRE
PRICE FIVE CENTS
AUSTIN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1923
(HOME EDITION)
VOL. 51—NO. 312.
TO CURB SUGAR GAMBLERS
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TEN FACE DEATH NEW OFFICE BUILDING IN PROSPECT FOR AUSTININJUNCTION ASKED
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SEVERAL FOREIGN
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“Salvation Lass" passing out of lock chamber in final test of canal.
to test the canal before the waterwa
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is watched the opening.
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DALLAS ENGINEER IS
weeks ago all food supplies excepting 1
PREPARING DATA ON
by four men to cross to the mainland.
FILTRATION PLANT
ure.
SOME‘SHADY’ POLITICS DALLAS POLICEMAN
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PROHIBITION LAWS.
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UPON ICE-LOCKED
MICHIGAN ISLAND
D. A. R’S. IN THROES
OF HEATED ELECTION;
War Record of Son of One Can-
didate for President-General
Object of Anonymous Attack.
TO STOP “ORGY"
OF SPECULATION
Department of Justice Files Pro-
ceedings at New York to Com-
pletely Shut Off Trading in.
Futures.
Three Members of Marooned
Party Reach Mainland After
48-Hour Battle Against Heart-
Breaking Odds.
Plans for the Erection of Six-
Story Building Just Off the
Avenue Said to Be Under
Consideration.
Opening of Canal at New Orleans
Gives City Big Ocean Ship Port
AMERICAN CONCESSIONS
IN TURKEY BRING
PROTEST FROM FRENCH
SECOND OLDEST NEWSPAPER
IN TEXAS. ESTABLISHED 1871.
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Adv.
requiring
also felt
FRANCE USING A WHALE
TO CATCH A SPRAT, SAY
BRITISH INVESTIGATORS
prolonged winter,
enter into their
Salvation Inss, a United States ehip-
ping board vessel, was the final boat
The blaze started on one of the lower
floors and almost immediately the in-
tex ior of the building burst into flames.
The
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details, is the desire of the treasury
officials, even if it involves some de-
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two of the men met death by drowning
before the return to the island wits
accomplished.
A week later the men started again
ZE.
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HOUSTON MARATHON
DANCER COLLAPSES;
HEART DILATION
With Exits Blocked By Flames
Scores Are Forced to Jump
From Windows.
Shop of Austin.
5:45 to 6 p. m.:
news.
9 to 10 p. m.:
Hay Fever Victims Organize To
Fight for Health and Happiness;
Declare War On “Male” Cedar
from the police and sheriff's depart-
ments was assigned to the case.
Federal Government Claims That
During February Alone Brok-
ers Cleaned Up Nearly a Mil-
lion Dollars of Illegitimate.
Profits. ।
NOVEL OIL-GAS SUIT
BEING HEARD AT WACO
emie
BANBITS SEIZE SAFE;
CARRY IT WITH THEM
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BRITISH STUDYING .
DEBT FUNDING PACT
23 COMPLAINTS FILED
IN SUNDAY LAW FIGHT
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Nine Men and One Woman
Slowly Starving; Airplane Ex-
pedition Being Prepared to At-
tempt Their Rescue.
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from entering
transactions in
This station is owned and op-
erated by the Texas Radio Cor-
poration, deniers in Radio Sup:
plies and sets. The piano used
at this station is furnished by
the J. R. Reed Music Company
of Austin, Texas,
wan officially-
federal official
The city commisslor at
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ABILENE, Texas, April 19.-Promi-
nent oil men and chemists from Texas
and Oklahoma are here today as wit-
nesses and spectators in a non-jury
suit being heard by District Judge W.
R. Ely in which it is said a now point
in law is raised. The case in that of
J. D. Eito and the H & O. Co. vs. the
Texas Company, in which oil royalty
is being sued for to the amount of
$140,000, the alleged value of gasoline
claimed to have been made from a
gas well in Shackleford county.
1 The case was transferred here on a
change of venue from Albany.
They started on .. .
from the island the ice broke up and
HOUSTON, Texas, April 19 —Goldie
Hughes, 17, was recovering in a hos-
pital today from an attack of heart
dilation, caused, physicians say; from
exertion on the dance floor
Miss Hughes collapsed late yester-
day, three days after she had danced
more than fifty-four hours.
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Surprises Robber at Work in
a Pharmacy.
gar exchange
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some frozen potatoes, were gone.
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the little colony, an attempt was made
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fall to cut timber, carrying provisions ; Philpot, Mrs. Antoinette Hanton, Misti,
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power to have the legislature enn
Twenty-three complaints were filed
Thursday in the county court charging •
Violations of the Sunday closing law.
The majority of these complaints
named employes of soft drink estab-
lishments.
The sheriff’s department was busy
Thursday formally serving the defend-
ants named in the twenty-three com-
plaints « f their arrest, for alleged vio-
lation of the Sunday closing law.
modern
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our buljd
The Bell bill, making possession of
more than a quart of liquor or pos-
se ssion of a st 111 or materials for man-
ufacturing liquor prima facie evidence
of guilt of violating liquor laws was
reported favorably today by the house
committee on liquor traffic.
The committee also reported favor-
ably the Abney measure, which seeks
to close by injunction hotels and room-
ing houses permitting liquor violations,
gambling or prostitution, and provid-
ing for their operation under bond not
to permit such acts.
force runs the risk of being "inex-
trlcnbfy involved in the common ruin
and being Htseif wiped out.
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The 150 persons living in the forty-
nine suites were quickly aroused. A
ossto me maamanu. few made their way down the stair-
foot but two miles | ways before these were cut off by fire
;and smoke. Many jumped from Win-
dows and others were taken down lad-
ders by firemen.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. April 19—A
safe containing about >17.000 in checks
and 11000 in cash was taken by ban-
dits here today from a truck of the
American Express Company. The ban-
dits fired several shots before escap-
ing in an automobile but no one was
wounded.
They did not attempt to open the
safe but took it with them.
however, did
$614,617 BANKRUPTCY
PROCEEDINGS AT WACO
earful examination. It is
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ous possibilities for the future under
conditions in whic. the occupational
opened. City, stalo an
There were many narrow escapes
when the roof fell in.
a, very complicated
calculations. Three
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WASHINGTON, April 19.—The stir
created by the circumstance of the
sudden withdrawal of Mrs. William
Cumming Story of New York as a
candidate for president general was
still evident among delegates to the
annual congress of the Daughters of
the American Revolution today as they
prepared to vote on the two remaining
candidates and their respectve tickets.
noon of
several months.
gives New Orleans one of the best
water fronts of any of the Southern
harhors and one of the best ocean ship
harbors in the country. The 7800-ton
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Mrs. Story’s allusion to defamation
of character, was followed by a state-
ment issued by the Pennsyivania deler
gallon branding «s false and libelous
an anonymous letter circulated union,;
members of the rociety before the con-
gross convened which, it was 8aid,ret
flecd on the war record of Mrs.
('(M's son. The statement said affi-
davits were held at the Pennsylvania
headquarters which proved the falsity
of the anonymous letter, which also
had been denounced by Mrs Cook as
untrue.
SELFRIDGE FIELD, Mount
Clemens, Mich., April 19.—A two-
passenger army airplane, piloted
by Lieutenant E. C. Whitehead,
took off here at 9:40 this morning
for Fox Island, off Northport, to
take provisions to nine men and
a woman reported marooned there
and facing starvation. The relief
plane was expected to reach North-
port about noon.
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Texas Radio Corporation and
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casting Station.
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mercy 9f sweeping gales and sifting
ice packs—two army airplanes left
Selfridge Field, Mount Clemens, to
carry food to the -na oned party on
Fox Island today.
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By Assoclated Pres.
PARIS, April 19.—A French protest
in connection with tho concessions
granted the American syndicate for
the development of Anatolia has been
handed the Turkish representative in
Paris, Raghip Bey, it was learned to-
day. This protest is similar to the
one recently sent to Angora.
French irepresentations to the United
Stttes in the form of excbange of
views in progress at Washington with
the American embassy in Pari unin-
formed regarding the nature of the
discussion.
WACO, Texas, April 19. The Circle
A Corporation (it America, manufac-
turers of soft drinks, has filed in the
federal court at Waco a voluntary
petition in bankruptcy, listing liabili-
tfes at $614,617.63 and assets at
>3X0,709.
I. R. Lazenby, of Dallas, is presi-
dent and the corporation has plants at
W aco, Dallas and BL Louis.
cert program. Names of artists
and titles of selections to be
announced during broadcast.
The new giant navigation canal at
New Orleans was thrown open recently
following final tests of the lock cham-
bers. The completion of the canal
brick apartment house on Ellis Street,
i in the center of the city, early today.
Many ocupants were hurt.
I The dead: Frank Tosier, George
standing of any clauso hefore the ov-
roreaa zanyardoor asooror tnerrrost | 3^^
Detecuive” Gnning gald ther. had I Erutain, 11 was 8a1d hero today:
been no developments at that hour. I negardins Ameriean.com men t n to
Meanwhile ono of the most thor-ithe.British delay in the final kealin
ough man hunts staged in this sectioniorthe debt .fundins arrangements .of.
was under wav. very avallable man fielals point out that the document 1.
but when two miles out they were
caught in a blinding snowstorm. They [
wandered about, uncertain Of their
direction for nearly a day before find-
ing their way back to the island.
Last Monday morning a third start
was made. Edward Horn, 23, Carl
Cooper, 35, and Ellis Sayres, 21, were
the men who composed the party
which left the island in a stoutly built
skiff, eight feet long. They carried
one pair of oars, an eight-foot pole
and an axe.
They had no food. Nearly starved,
they took turns at the oars. There
was open water for about five miles.
Horn. seated in a physician's office
here, told the story as Dr. IL E. Flood
treated his frozen feet;.
“When we ran into ice It took all
one man's strength to push the boat
a few feet. The ice became thicker
and we attempted to lift the boat upon
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, April 19.—Injunc-
tion proceedings to completely shut
off trading in sugar futures were in-
stituted in New York today by the
federal government.
The government's bill, prepared
under the personal attention of At-
torney General Daugherty after con-
sultation with President Harding, asks
the court to permanently prevent the
By Associated Press.
LONDON, April 19.—“Franco 15
spending millions on the occupation
and gettting next to nothing out of it i
she is using a whale to catch a sprat.".
This strikingly phrased conclusion Is
contained in the report of tho labor
party's delegation which went to the
Ruhr about the middle of March td
investigate the situation there and
in other parts of Germany.
Tho delegation was composed of
Thomas Shaw, Charles R. Burton and
William Adamson, all members of the
House of Commons.
The report which was issued last
night declares that the delegation
found a state of war existing in the
W. E. Long, secretary of the Austin
Chambe of Commerce, and Dr. Fred-
erick Duncalf, of the Varsity faculty,
have been chosen as members of the
executive committee.
- All the officers of the association
are sufferers from hay-fever and they
are determined to do all in their
Nils . Werenskiold, hydraulic engi-
neer of Dallas, is compiling data on
the cost of a water filtration plant
for the city of Austin and informa-
tion concerning levels and location is
being, furnished him by the city engi-
neer’s department, According to In-
formation obtained Thursday at the
city hall. Mr. Werenskiold Is the en-
gineer who built the filtration plant
now in operation at Waco and has
supervised other engineering projects
in Texas, It is stated. His investi-
gations of Austin’s water problem
were instituted at the instigation of
Street Commissioner George T’. Sea-
right, it is said. • •
The street commssioner's action In
consulting with the Dalias engineer
on the water problem was the prin-
cipal subject of discussion Tuesday
evening at an executive gession of
tho Chamber of Commerce directorate,
civic club representatives and city
li ill officials, concerning whah no in-
formation could be obtaine d W< dnes-
day. The meeting consisted of se v-
eral warm stages of argument, it was'
learned from one man who was pres-
ent. Commissioner Walter L. Fyres,
head of the water and light depart-
rhent, who has been taking the lead
in the official investigation of the
water problem, is said to have been
kept completely in the dark concern-
ing the proceedings with the Dallas
engineer.
Two surveys of Austin’s water prob-
lem have already boen made, each re-
sulting in tho re comnmendation that a
filtration plant be erected. It is un-
derstood that the dealings with the
Dallas engineer are for the purpose
of getting an estimate of the probable
cost of a filtration plant for Austin
on which to base a proposition for
a bond issue. That the question of
a bond issue will come to a head be-
fore the end of April, is stated* at
tho city hall.
tions. Many of these firms would be
better pleased with locations in Aus-
tin as much as their business is trans-
acted through the Texas capital.
With the completion of the new
hotel, Mr. Long stated, there will be
a noticeable increase in the demand
for office space in Austin. To meet
this demand at least one other office
building must be erected here.
pign based ordered bloodhounds put on the trail
Ehnmeterof of the slayer.
The shooting occurred at 3:30 at a
run purportin to make such sale has
in Ids possession or under his control
a supply of sugar adequate to meet
the requirements of such transaction.”
The action is requested, the gov-
ernment says, as a. result of "an orgy
of speculation,” which has driven up
the price of sugar to the consumer
and which during February enriched
the pocketbooks of brokers by $900,-
000. A ’’conspiracy in restraint of
trade and commerce" is charged, and
officials of the exchange and of the
New York coffee and sugar clearing
house association against which the
injunction would be directed jointly
with the exchange, are asked to ap-
pear in court and answer the govern-
menfs allegations.
The court was advised In the bill
that the exchange and the clearing
house association serve no legitimate
or useful purpose in the marketing
in Interstate and foreign commerce of
(Continued on Page Three.)
By Associated Press.
NORTHPORT, Mich., April 19.-
Cold, exhausted and half starved, three
mOn who for forty-eight hours battled
their way through slush, ice and open I
water, reached the. mainland here yes-
terday bearing ne S that ten others—■
nine men and a woman—are slowly
starving on Fox Island, eighteen miles
from here in Lake .Michigan.
As a result of their story—a story
of a battle against great odds in which
human lives were constantly at the
By Associated Press
LONDON, April 19.—The draft of
the Anglo-American debt funding
agreement which has been in the hand*
of the British treasury officials for a
week, is being closely studied to make
sure there has been no misunder-
Mra Anthony Wayne Cook of Penn-
sylvania and Mrs. G. Wallace Hanger
of Washington were the two candi-
dates for president general k.*. ... • ••
field today as the result of Mrs. Story s
withdrawal Immediately after she was
placed in nomination last night. Her
declaration from the floor that pho
was withdrawing in favor of Mrs. Cook
“in repudiation of a campaign based
upon defamation of the Cau --
a candidate" threw the convention into
an uproar during the nominating Sf S-
slop. Mrs. Cook thereupon announced
that sho was “perfectly willing to
share Mrs. Story’s votes with Mrs.
WASHINGTON, April 19.—Up
to ’ the close of last year aviators
of the air mail service had flown
a total of 5,281,823 miles since the
inauguration of the service in May,
1918, according to a report made
public today by the postoffice de-
partment. It was estimated that
the service is now operating on a
schedule of 2,000,000 miles a year.
The total cost of the service since
its inauguration was figured at
$4,295,967.69, much of the expendi-
ture having been made for perma-
nent improvements, such as repair
shops and development of landing
fields. A total of 160,437,600 letters
had been delivered by air, the total
for last year increasing to 60,-
000.000.
The reports showed that on more
than one-third of the 14,704 tripe
made, the pilots had to wing their
way through rain, snow, hail or
fog.
laws making possible the destruction
D.AEEAb, Texas, April 19. J. of the male or pollinating cedar
Gibson, 22 motorcycle policeman, was trees in the vicinity of Austin, which
shot and almost instantly killed cariy they claim aro tho cause of the hay-
todax by.® burslar who Gibson and fev er. Locai Austin physicians ana
wo canm-.11 J; Nobles another .orficen, A15coY-l University of Texas Botanists hove ta-
il'll In the cred in the nct.or lohbmgn drug stors lvestigated the malady and declared
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able; it was stated.
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that several concerns are seeking loca-
tions in Austin and pointed out the
need for a big office building. Ad-
ditional details could not be obtained
from the secretary, however, who
stated that his information was con-
fidential.
LYNN, Mass. April 19.—Five per-
sons were killed in a fire which de-
stroyed the Essex Castle, a five-story
ph 11 m " y at Hall Mi ■ et and Ro ■ -
Avenue. When tho officers saw the
burglar inside-, Gibson took a station
at the front door and Nobles went to
the rear door. Hen ng tho four shots.
Nobles hurried to. the front just in
time to see his partner stagger and
fall. -
The slayer left nn overcoat and bur-
Erection of a six-story office build-
ing to furnish accommodations for
several large foreign corporations,
particularly insurance companies,
seeking location in Austin in order to
be conveniently situated with regard
to necessary operations with tho state
department of insurance, is in con*
templation here, according to infor-
mation obtained Thursday in business
. circles. Three insurance companies,
one of them employing a staff of over
seventy-five office workers, are said
to be considering locations in Austin
but at present no quarters are avall-
Despite the fact that many persons
are prone to make light of hay-fever
and its sufferers, a number of prom-
inent Austin citizens who suffer from
I the affliction have found it sufficiently
serious to organize themselves Into the
Texas Hay-Fever Association. This
afternoon a tea will be held at the
University Cafeteria, at which time
plans will be discussed for the putting
on of an intensive campaign for mem-
bers. The tea will be given, starting
at 4 o’clock.
The officers of the association are:
President, Dr. H. W. Harper, of the
that the male cedars were responsible
for the suffering from hay-fever in
Austin,
Six weeks ago in the regular session
of the legislature a bill was Introduced
providing for the, destruction of tho
male or pollinating cedars. This bill
was 'referred to a house committee,
and did not come up for discussion in
the house. “There are 2,000 persons
in Austin who suffer from hay-fever,
and we are going to keep up the
fight until the hglslafurc does the one
thing that will relieve these 2,000
persons,'’ said Mrs Villavaso, secre-
tary of the association this morning.
'Those who do not suffer with this
trouble have no Idea of the torment
which these sufferers go through with
in the winter time. There are many
people who have Austin during the
winter in order to get relief. And
there are several students of the Uni-
versity of Texas who have had to be
sent home by the University physi-
clans, because they were ho handicap-
ped in their work by the hay-fever.
“Our' task at the presnt time is
educational-in nature. For this, reason
we are now having printed a bulletin,
setting forth the reasons why tho pol-
lnating cdars should be destroyed in
the vicinity of Austin. This booklet
will be off the press in a few days,
and copies will be destributed among
the legislators,” concluded Mrs. Vil-
lavaso.
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ness, and Gibson fired two shots each,
and the officer fell, having been
wounded twice in the neck and ab-
domen. Police Commissioner Turley
It is also reported that a big oil
concern, has its eyes on the Austin
business district with the view of
erecting an office building here. This
information could not be confirmed,
however. With all office quarters in
the city taken by active firms it is
considered certain that at least one
big office building must be erected
within a few’ months.to take care of
Austin’s business growth and to pro-
vide quarters for big concerns known
to be eager to establish here.
In discussing the demand for an ad-
ditional office building here, Secretary
Long of the Chamber of Commerce
cited figures obtained from Dallas in
regard to the number of foreign cor-
porations making their state head-
quarters there, for whom the most
convenient location would be in Aus-
tin. close to the state departments un-
der supervision of whi h they fall and
with which they necessarily have con-
siderable dealings.
In Dallas, he stated there aro state
headquarters for 253 foreign corpora-
University faculty; vice-president.
Mrs. R. II. Griffith; treasurer, Mrs.
Ham Sparks, and secretary, Mrs.
A; OADEQErnest Villavaso. An executive com-
lYIUnuLntn SUAFLO mitteo of five members is in process
of being chosen. At the present time
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partly cloudy, warmer in northcast
portion; fresh southerly winds on the
coast. ,
West Texas: Tonight and Friday,
partly cloudy, nut much change in
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