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1923 1
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT BY LEASED WIRE
VOL 52—NO. 89.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1923
(HOME EDITION)
PRICE FIVE CENTS
HUGE SWINDLE ALLEGED
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RESCUE ‘BUDDY’
Of Ku Klux Klan
g?
Rev. John
Renfi
minister and lecturer
MOTORS AGAINST TRAIN
OIL STOCK SCHEME
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headquarters
Renfro,
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Convict Slips
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oncerns were combined.
Oiling His Body
■nd
IN
RAILROAD OFFICIALS
GREECE IS WILLING
ust
TO ACCEPT PEACE
couldn't squeeze out, so I smeared
PLAN; ITALY SILENT
O-
we
NOVA SCOTIA ASKS
OKLAHOMA AWAITS
est
NEW MOVE IN WAR
fts
AGAINST FLOGGERS
‛t‛s
CONVICTS MUTINY; SET
od
was not
nd
Ernest
the Scott-Hankenson on Aug. 20.
VAST CONGREGATION
to the prison.
was
caused to the building, but a number
8.- Five.
on the klan, was a matter of specula
tiary in search of the men.
to those of the origina
to Athens
All the penalties thecoun«
WNAS
rec t ion.
TITLE OF MISS AMERICA TURKESTAN REBELLION
WORRYING BOLSHEVISTS
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J . Sept.-8.—
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THE WEATHER
aggregated >292.890, including $250,000
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Conditions Laid Down by Inter-
allied Council of Ambassadors
Similar to Rome’s Demands.
AND CRUMBLED;
TOWNS ENGULFED
IN WRECK; TWO DEAD,
SIX OTHERS INJURED
aid
ing
Lieutenant Governor Signs the
Necessary Papers Eight Min-
utes Before Chief Executive
Crossed the State Line.
dispatched
M ussolini
received
rainage.
rs with
he poor •
Eight Alleged Floggers
Arrested at Port Arthur;
Warrants for Two Others
merchant <
Greenwich,
Educational
Broadway, J. H. Davis, L. K. Byrns,
C. B Whittington and H. E. McBride.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 8.
A rumor, supposed to have ema-
8 —
and
One Important Yokohama Hotel
With Practically All of Its
Guests Literally Sank Into the
Earth.
Majestic
ings on
nue.
the Nevada state penitentiary ard
escaped, traveling naked for eight
miles, was related today by Lee J
Tyma, 24, now under arrest here.
U. S. TO SUPPRESS
OUR LIQUOR PIRATES
into
small*
CLUBS ENRAGED BULL
WITH SHOTGUN; YOUTH
IS FATALLY WOUNDED
iton.
One thing
od
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smoke and flamed and are in a serious
condition.
Frank, Dallas, Texas, general secre-
tary. -
Cleveland was selecte as the 1924
convention city, the date being Oct.
14 to 19.
BEAUTY OF FORM
WINS FOR OHIO GIRL
r
St. Louis Southwestern Inspection
Car Derailed Near Plain-
dealing, La.
East and West Texas: Tonight and
Bunday, fair
TO WORSHIP SUNDAY
IN GARDEN OF GODS
d
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FATHER SENTENCED TO
HANG; SON IS GIVEN
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
DUKE LEAVES LARGE
SUMS FOR EDUCATION
Hundreds of Small Investors,
Scattered All Over the United
States, Said to Have Been
“Stung."
bring to justice. persona responsible. ___
for flogginge developed today into an gufshed before verious damase
33*,
with the department of justice here. rangements for the Italian evacuation
Hr cited a specific case of attack on , of Corfu and the other Greek islands
Butler Perryman Credited With
Being Principal in Operations
That Enriched the Promoters;
Indicted by Federal Jury.
Between Bars After
By Associnted Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Sept. 8.
Governor J. C. Walton's campaign to
rid Oklahoma of mob violence and
I $10,000,000 were the concerns
which it iH alleged the various
I ultimatum
by Premier
Bluff, Ark., and W. O. Sublett, road-
matter, dead as a result of the derail-
ment of an inspection car of the road
near Plaindealing. La., late yesterday.
In addition to McGraw. the injured
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ever, mrtial law threatens the en- i
tire state in the event of incresed •
opposition to inquiries into mob ac- I
tivitis being conducted in a number;
of counties at Governor Walton’s di-
Hundreds of Persons Disporting
in the Surf Suddenly Over-
whelmed by Tidal Wave; Cas-
ualties Fewer Than Feared.
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This station is owned and op- •
erated by the Texas Radio Cor-
-poration, dealers in Radio Sup-
plies and sets.. The piano used
at this station is furnished by
the J. R. Reed Music Company
of Austin, Texas.
View of Yokohama Water Front—As It Was
9
will be in the face of public defiance
by N. W Jewett, grand dragon of the) COIUMBUS, Ohio, Sept.
klan realm of Oklahoma, who con-convicts escaped from the Ohio peni- ; ‛
demned Walton's investigaton of mob ten tiary. here shortly after noon today,
activities in Tulsa county as a fight'after scaling the walls which surround
en the klan was a matter nf specula- the structure. All prison guards and
{details of police Immediately began
was made clear, how- combing the vicinity of the periten-
The fire was extin-
SECOND OLDEST NEWSPAPER
IN TEXAS. ESTABLISHED 1871
Anan tenku "klux"kinn. ’ hithxiatcae, of the prisonerswerevere ome by the
tions of a battle to the finish. !
MOUNTAINS SLIDRaneersLocatene, AHEu.AS
HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 8—After
' weeks of investigation on the part of
' federal agents the first story of high
finance in wildcat oil company pro-
motion—as the federal officers see it--
was a matter of court record for all
. the worid to see hero today.
। According to the charges in the in-
dictment, Butler Per 13 man <>( Hous-
; ton is the central figure in a com-
plex merger of many defunct and
partially defunct oil companies that
was made the basis of an alleged
gigantic swindle of small • investors
scattered over the nation.
The Bluebird Oilcompany and the
Big Gusher Oil Company, one capital-
ized at $5,000,000 and' the other at
PORT ARTHUR, Texas, Sept. 8.—
Eight. arrests and two warrants for
arrest of men, four of them city ‘of-
ficials of Port Arthur, today made up
the tally so far scored by Texas ran-
gers in their investigation into recent
alleged Hogging parties in this county.
The indictments' were returned by’
the grand jury and Captain Roy Nich-
ols of the ranger force served the war-
rants. /
Three of the city officials indicted
have been arrested and made bond.
They arFred White, assistant city
atiorieg: M. E. Bailey, assistant chief
of pokCe, and W. L Pool, policemar.
Chief of Police. W W. Covington, the
fourth, had not been arrested early
today. He had not been located, but
Captain Nichols seemed to be under
my body with the oil and I was
able to make it. The next day two /
guards walked past within a dozen
feet of where I was hiding bhind
By Associated Press.
GENEVA, Sept. 8.—If Italy accepts
yesterday's decision of tne interallied
council of ambassadors Greece will
view her dispute with the Italian.gov-
ernment as settled and will not push
her request to the' league of nations
to investigate the crisis, M. Politis,
the Greek spokesman, told the eor-
respondent today.
M Politis added, however, that ac-
Conn.,. was filed today,
and charitable bequests
OTTAWA, Sept 8.—Attacks by Hqu r
pirates on Canadian schooners off the
eastern coast of the United States will
be made the subject of joint repre-
sentations to the American govern-
ment by the Dominion and province
of Nova Scotia, W J. O’Hearn, at-
torney general of Nova Scotin, an-
nounced hast night. He said arrest and
punishment of offenders would be
asked.
LEGIONNAIRES IN TERRORS OF JAPANESE QUAKE BEING UNFOLDED 9 HOUSTON MEN
THRILLING COUP --------J
ro. Baptist
of the Ku
By Associated Press:
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 8 —Dispatches
received here from Russia report that
the rebellion in Turkestan is becoming
more serious and that General Kamo-
neff has left for the scene to take
command of the government troops
against the rebels.
the impression that Covington
trying to avoid arrest.
The others arrested are
cil would impose are in conformity
with the Italian demands, except that
the Hellenic fleet shall salute the
flags of the three allied nations in-
stead of Italy's alone, and that the
highest Greek military authority shall
present his government's regrets for
the Janina murders to the three allied
diplomatic representatives in Athens.
YORK, Pa . Sept. 8.—Nine conviets
sent to the York county jail recently
from the Eastern penitentiary at Phil-
adelphia mutinied today and set firs
A
Trouton from his home on the night
_ . _ _ ef Aug. 18, in order that he might be
toft to Trinity College, Durham, N. C. kidnaped by the Minters.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Sept 8—
How he greased his body with oil,
slipped through bars of his cell in
lumbus, Ohio, today basked in the
knowledge that her beauty of form
yesterday Won from five’ appreciative
male judges of the annual rail beauty
contest the right to bear for the second
successive year the title of Miss Amer-
NEWNAN, Ga., Sept. 8 — Imprison-
ment for life was the punishment
recommended by the jury for Grady
Minter latef’yesterday after he had
been found guilty of murder in con-
nection with the death of his brother-
in-law’, Millard Trouton; whose body
was found floating in a creek near the
Coweta county line several weeks ago.
Minter confessed that he’was a mem-
ber of a party that kidnaped Trouton
and put him to death.
His father, J. W. Ainter, who was
found guilty of murder Thursday-in
correction with the ease, was sentenced
by Judge C. S. Roop to be hanged on
Oct. 12.
According to Solicitor General At-
kinson, the trials of the other four
men held in conection with Trouton ‛s
death will not be held before next
Wednesday. The four remaining are
Jeff Minter, son of ths condemned
man; his two sons-in-law, Leon Good-
rum and Floyd Weldon, and William
Feltman, who is alleged to have lured
include: W. S: Hanley, chief engineer,
Tyler, Texas; C. B. Pettigrew, division
engineer, Pine Bluff; John Post, mo-
torman, Tyler, Texas; J. N. Peterson,
pilot engineer, Tyler, Texas, and W. O
Montgomery.
The body of Mr. Bowker was taken
to Pine Bluff and that of Mr. Sublett
to Texarkana. Mrs. Sublett wan en
route today from Beaumont, Texan,
where she was visiting friends, to bar
home here.
It was stated that Mr. McGraw suf-
fered three fractured ribs and it is
feared that- he may have been injured
Internally.
a rock.”
At night, he said, he stole some
clothes from a farm . house and
boarded a freight train.
Warden Salter of the Nevada
penitentiary telephoned to local
authorities authorizing them to put
irons on “
CHICAGO, Rept. 8.—F. Edson White
Jr., 1K only son of the president of
Armour & Co. died last night as a
result of wounds sustained when his
shotgun was arcidentally discharged
while he was using it as a club to
ward off an attack by a bull on his
father's estate near Lake Forest, a
suburb.
2,-v
"lke 9-
drowned Labor Day at
< - -- $y
=C.s-d.
vote 10 per cent of the gross income
from stock sales in the Bluebird Com-
pany to payment on the notes. This
money was to be applied day by day,
and not leas than >6.000 each six
months was to ire paid, it is charged.
It is alleged that Perryman was to
receive $1,000 per month as president
of the Buebtrd "and Gusher con-
cerns. It is also charged that neither
ot these concerns had a permit to do
business in Texas.
The men named in the indictment
are Butler Pen y man. James H. West,
J A. Whitten. Henry H. Hoffman.
William C. Turnbow, Alexander C.
Russell, Seyniour E. J. Cox, J. H.
. l’arker and L. B. House. Bonds rang-
l ing from $10,000 down have been mad®
' b3 the defendants.
Texas Radio Corporation and
Austin Statesman Broad-
casting Station.
Phone 8701.
.. .. ....___________________ they stepped from the jail door, they
All the men. with the exception of were seized and taken to the country
McBride, are charged with being prin- and beaten.
and interference with his return to
his home. A brother of the miss-
ing minister has been sent to get'
him, it was stated.
Appeaf had been made to the
state department to assist in lo-
cating the missing man. No fur-
ther action in the case is probable
by the state, it was said.
Renfro’s home is at Sinton.
Some of the companies named in
the indiet ments had: certain assets
left, the grand jury declares, but
ethers hud practacuily ceased operat-
ing and all of them were solvent' and
Mrs. O. W. Muck ley, Rt Louls, re-L,, _ , - .0 -
cording secretary, and Rev. Graham Miss Mary Katherine Campbell of Co-
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What the governor's next move
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COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo . Sept.
8—The Garden of the Gods at dawn
Sunday morning will witness the gath-
ering of a vast congregation, compris-
ing the thousands of churchmen' at-
tending the international convention
of the Disciples of, Christ and other
thousands of worshipere from Colorado
Springs churches, in a sunrise service
in the shadow .of cathedral spires
Rev. A. E. Cory, Kinston, N. C., was
elected president of the convention for
the ensuing year At yesterday"s ses-
slon. Other officens. elected include):
J. H. Nance, Dallas, Texas, treasurer;
Secure Pardon for Convicted
Comrade While Mississippi
Governor is Speeding Back to
Block Action.
TEXARKANA, Texas, Sept
W. E. McGraw, vice president
tea, queen of Beventy-five fair con-
testants from as many cities.
Miss Campbell, 17, with a winning
smile, golden brown hair and an ath-
letic grace of form, swept everything
before her when she walked, dressed
in a one-piece orangs.bathing suit, by
the judges box.
seized by the naval forces of the
Rome government.
M Politis said he''understood that
the note of the ambassadors’ council
virtually Incorporated the measures
proposed before the . council of the
league by the Spanish ambassador to
France, Count Quinones De Leon.
Therefore, he added, the council
might well say that it had effectively
collaborated in solving the crisis.
"Under the circumstances," he con-
tinued. "the question of competency
of the league to take up the Greco-
Italian dispute becomes purely aca-
demic because the conflict, itself will
presumably have been settled.”.
View of Yokohama and railroad bridge, destroyed in Japanese conflagrations.
He was serving a term of from one
to fifteen years in the Reno prison .
for burglary.
“I smuggled a hacksaw and A
, By Associated Press.
PARIS, Sept. 8.— The proposals
contained in the note which the In-
terallied council of ambassadors has
sent to Greece are virtually identical
-------- ceptance by Greece was contingent
This action, he added. was decided I upon whether the program of settle-
upon after a recent discussion he had ’ ment reached at Paris included ar-
No recent report of a rebellion. In
Turkestan has been received. In Au<
gust. 1922, it was reported that an
armistice had been concluded between
the bolshevik! and the Mussulmans of
Turkestan.
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NEW YORK, Sept 8.—The will of
Angler B. Duke, millionaire tobacco
35 •
cipals or accomplices in the Hogging
of Clay and Carl Dunn at Port Arthur
on Aug. 17. Me Bride is under indict-’
ment in connection with the flogging
of A A. King on Aug; 9. McBride was
required to make >3000 bond, while the
others made bonds in the sum of $500.
The flogging of the Dunn brothers
had become widely known since its
occurrence, but the first public report
of the .King flogging was not made
public until last evening, when Mc-
Bride was arrested.
King declared a party of unmasked
men had taken him into the woods,
slashed his body, sandpapered him and
poured iodine over the wounds.
Clay Dunn had been detained at the
Port Arthur city jail following the
killing of Detective B. A. Harris. It
was thought he might give some • -i-
dence valuable to the state. Carl Dunn
came to his brother’s rescue and when
he appeared at the jail Clay Dunn was
released on his own recognizance. As (
1aK3
missing Baptist pastor and Ku
Klux Klan lecturer has been lo-
cated in Philadelphia. A report
said that his whereabouts had
been learned through a telegram
to a woman in San Antonio.
Rangers refused to give out any
information.
none were operating at a profit.’’
It is also charged that "each and all
I I"' ted to be Um orporated and or-
jEanized for the purpose of mining and
selling oil, but had been operating
more largely to sell stock.”
5:43 to 6 p. m.: Local and
general news.
9 to 10 p. m.: Regular sum-
mer program consisting of pho-
nograph select ions on Bruns-
wick furnished by J. R. Reed
Music Company of Austin.
(By the Associated Press)
Stories of mountains that slid into
their valleya, of huge waves that swept
seaward hundreds of ocean bathers at
coast resorts, of a Yokohama hotel
that "literally sank into the earth."
and other spectacular incidents wit-
nessed by'survivors of tire great dts-
aster are being given to the world as
communication in and around Japan
is gradually restored.
The Tokio Correspondent of the Chi-
cago Tribune, reaching Kobe, said 500
foreigners were killed in Yokohama;
the earthquake and fire left the for-
eign residential section a ruin; dead
bodies were everywhere when the
flames had passed. The hotels of the
portcity were obliterated; of the 200
guests in the Oriental Pa lace . Hotel
only a lew escaped; the United Club,
the Court 'Cherry Mount and Bluff
Hotels also were wrecked with loss of
life. The last three, situated on the
heights, toppled .into the ruins at the
base of the bluff.
Thomas D. Cochrane, an American
motion picture man, was kt Miyano-
(Continued on Tage Two.)
Klux Klan, has been located by
state rangers, it was announced at
ranger headquarters today. The
minister’s whereabouts were not
made public.
Mr. Renfro has been missing
since Aug. 22. He was last seen
in San Antonio. Announcement
that he had been ideated was made
by Major Charles M. Crawford,
assistant adjutant general.
Renfro’s whereabouts will be
kept secret to prevent development
of any difficulties, Crawford said,
general superintendent of the Rt. Louis
Southwestern Railroad and six other
officials and employes of th road were
in a hospital here today suffering from
injuries, the extent of which had not
been definitely determined early today,
and two others. D. W. Bowker, super-
tnrdiiwav’wlhneraquptdontopin’Belief Spreads Th.. Gov.™..'FIRE TO JAIL; NUMBER OF
May Plac Entire State PRISONERS BADLY INJURED
Under Martial Law.
JACKSON, Miks.. Sept. 8.—The
American Legion today obtained par-
don for Sharp Welborn, former ser-
vice man, and in accomplishing the
feat afforded that part of Mississippi
between Pickens and Jackson and
along the Illinois Central Railroad
from McComb to the Louisiana state
line the greatest excitement in years.
It was a 44-mile race between two
powerful automobiles and an' Illinois
Central Flyer with Governor Russell
aboard bound north from New Or-
leans. The Legionnaires had set out
to meet Lieutenant Governor Homer
Casteel, at Canton, before (he train
crossed the state line at Osyka and
they won the race with only eight
minutes to spare.
Welborn served in the navy during
the World War and, according to the
veterans' bureau, it later developed
he had become mentally defective as
a result of exposure at sea. . In 1919
he was convicted of manslaughter in
Jasper county and he had hardly be-
gun to serve a sentence of eight years
before war veterans and other Mis-
sissippians launched a campaign for
a pardon in order that the offer of
, the veterans' bureau to send him to
a hospital for treatment might be ac-
cepted.
Governor Russell steadfastly refused
clemency.
Governor Russell visited Memphis,
Tenn , for a day last spring and dur-
ing his absence the lieutenant gover-
nor issued a pardon. As a result of
the controversy, that followed the le-
gal authorities ruled that the lieuten-
ant governor had power to grant
clemency while acting as,chief execu-
tive. The governor countered with
the declaration that not until his term
(Contained on Page Two)
Perryman, it is charged, bought a
majority of the stock in the Big
। Gusher Company from the Bankers
Bond and Mortgage Company, through
Henry _H. Hoffman; 4,668,529 shares
bottle of oil into my cett, e said, of the Ranger-Comanche Corapany and
"and feigned sickness, zo I wouldn't 3,200,000 shares of the Union National
be put to work. One night I sawed ’ Company, all for $100,000, It is ar-
one of the bars, but found I leged. that he gave promissory notes
fn payment, dye threw years after
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