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PRICE FIVE CENTS
(HOME EDITION)
AUSTIN, TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1923
VOL. 52—NO. 195.
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT PERVADES THE LAND
NATION OBSERVES
We’ll Celebrate
MOVING AGAINST
REBELS’ CAPITAL
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HOLIDAY IS GENERAL
HUERTA RALLIES ARMY
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DRIFTING HELPLESSLY
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By Associated Press.
“SUNSHINE GIRL" AND HER
Building.
NEW YORK, Dec 25—in all lan-
extinguished a
burning cross which had been set up
have
RENO,
noted all around athlete, was married
here yesterday to Mias Bernice Ber-
UNIQUE CHRISTMAS
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THE DAY OF DAYS;
BUSINESS HALTS
Forces Being Assembled to Re-
sist Expected Attack; Number
of Americans Reported Killed
When Rebels Ditch Train.
RETURN TO GREECE;
WILL BE DICTATOR
General Attack On Vera Cruz
Is Imminent. According to Re-
ports From Insurgent Head-
quarters In Menaced City.
DETROIT KLAN CROSS;
NEAR RIOT RESULTS
Singing of Christmas Carols On
the White House Grounds
Ushers In the Y u l e t i d e
Celebration.
Dis-
that
Noted Athlete Becomes a Benedict
BAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Dec. 25—
Harold (Brick) Muller, all-American
end on the University of California
Rescuers, Braving Death In Tur-
bulent Seas, Rushing to As-
sistance of Disabled Craft Off
The Shores of Washington.
BAN FRANCISCO. Cat, Dec. 35.—
A ship that hovered off shore and be-
haved like a rum runner was under
hurveillance all last night by a group
of prohibition agents who shivered in
the chill winds near Moss Beach. The
vigil ended with dawn when the craft
quietly docked and began transferring
bulky sacks to motor trucks.
The agents pounced and discovered
they had seized not a load of holiday
liquor but 700 sacks of salt.
RUM SLEUTHS WATCH
ALL NIGHT; THEN SEIZE
SHIPMENT OF SALT
Priest, On Errand of Mercy, Dies
On Frozen Alaskan Trail; His Dog
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS
REACH POLAR PARTY
Horseback Riding
Spoils Walking Gait,
Old Guide Avers
Former Premier Yields to Impot
tunities of His Countrymen to
Save the State.
Blazing Emblem Set Up On
Steps of the County
City Officers Declare the Matter
Is One for Federal Officials
to Handle.
FRENCH FILM ACTRESS
LOSES DAMAGE SUIT
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of diplomatic immunity.
Commiasioner oyster of the
trlet of Columbia police said
weizure or the liquor had been Impor-
tant and that he had asked "authori-
ies to explain why it could not be
SKCOND OLDEST NEWSPAPER
IN TEXAS. ESTABLISHED 187
Crew of the Dixmude Believed
to Be Suffering for Want
of Food.
pleaded guilty to charges of arson and
are to be sentenced next Friday.
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT BY LEASED WIRE__
win, a recent graduate of the Univer-
sity. *
•ne Seagoing Tug Is Known to
Have Foundered and Number
of Other Vessels In Dire
Distress.
Meanwhile, the Rev. Dr. John
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IDLIIYOUD READ
METSLOVG LTTER IF
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LISTEN
This station is owned and op-
erated by ths Texaa Radio Cor-
poration. dealers in Radio Sup:
pues ana eets. The plane used
at this station la furnished by
the J. R. Reed Music Company
of Austin, Texas.
on conspiracy charges.
steamer diyenchx,sixt mites 3--,
was also gotuu to her aid. The Author
carried a erew of about forty-five mew.
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near Celaya, Mexico, said by travelers
who arrived hero from Mexico City
yesterday to have been the work of
rebels, and the names of more than a
score who died as a result, were ex-
pected here today. Many of the dead
were Americana, according to the re-
ports, which said a number were in-
jured. The passengers said that spikes
had been removed from the ties and
that several coaches overturned. A
number of casuaties were said to have
resulted from lack of medical assist-
ance.
The train was reported to have beon
wrecked by rebels who thought it was
carrying federal troops to Mexico City.
• NEWSBOYS AND SOLDIERS
I FIGHT; ONE MAN DYING
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Greece forthwith. I
His decision was taken after a dele-
gation which arrived from Athens last
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PARIS, Dec. 25.—The French diri-
gible Dixmude today wan still hover-
ing over the Tunisian desert. The
giant airship, after more than seven
days aloft was slowly moving farther
inland. As the food supplies must,
have been exhausted for some time
the fifty officers and men aboard are
in a desperate plight. Although theze
is little probability of the ship s blow-
ing back over the sea, warships con-
tinued to cruise up and down die
coast to guard against any possible
emergency.
All that could be done, should the
dirigible descend over land would be
to give .her sufficient gasoline to got
home to Cuers. As there is no hangar
in Africa capable of containing Ite
ship, trucks with forces of men and
supplies of gasoline are beinz kept in
readiness on all posts to dash to her
assistance at the first sign of her
ing of Christmas carols by a
of 5000 gathered on the shores
lake at Westlake Park, few-
STORMS LASHING
PACIFIC COAST;
SAILORS PERISH
Author, sent a wireless message say-
ing that she was rushing to her assist-
ance. The Canadian government
MVERETT, Wash.,‘Dec. M.—lu the
second severe storm whieh has swept
the coast of western Washington
within a month four men lost their
lives, a tug was wrecked and a steam-
er and a schooner are reported in dis-
tress.
Two persons on the ill-fated tug
Tyes, which sank last night night off
Pedder Bay four miles from Williams
Head, the Victoria quarantine station,
were saved but four others, including
the captain, were drowned. The men
rescued were Engineer Pike, owner of
the vessel, and Mata Warder.
One of the vessels fighting the rag-
ing gale off the coast is the steamship
Author which was reported in wire-
less messages received here, to be off
Gray's Harbor, known to mariners as
the “giant’s graveyard.” The Author’s
wireless was said to be out of com-
mission, but advices were that she was
"in communication with persons on
the shore at Grays Harbor, apparen.-
ly by means of lanterns and rockets.”
The steamer W. 8., Porter reponted
-to be about ninety miles from the
y
after mianight and
foalban team of 1921 and 1922
British registry.
The tug Tyeewas a wood
vessel of 316 gross tonnage.
The crowd wathered on the steps of
the budlaing and across the stree Just
before midn’ght. Promptly on the
stroko of twelve. ■ fiery cross was
lighted at the top of the stepa After
a brief ceremony. In which one of the
paruicipants was garbea AS Santa
laus, one of the leaders told the crowd
that they would “now all leave."
As the crowd started to dinperss, six
policemen, answering a riot call, ar-
rived. The crowd attempted to prevent
officers from getting close to the biaz-
ing emblem. Police forced their way
to the top of the steps, where they
kicked the cross to the ground and
extingutshed IL amid hoots and sears
from the spectators.
After extinguishing the fire, the
police were forced again to ume their
weapon, to get through the crowd.
East Texas Tonight fair; Wednes-
day fair, warmer.
West Texas: Tonight fair, warmer
except in mouthenst portion; Wednes-
day fair, warmer.
WASHINGTUN POLICE
“PASSING THE BUCK”
IN BUUTLEG SCANDAL
F. Potter.
Two eburches are stirred with .b-
ternal dissension over the demand
for modern interpretations of the
Bible.
When tha Rev. Lee W. Heaton of
FL Worth, Tea., denied the virgin
birth of Christ, he wax ordered by
hie bishop to appear for trial for
heresy. The incident threatens •
split in the Episcopal church, rany
prominent Episcopal churchmen
taking hta aide, including the Rev.
Stuart L Tyson, vice president of
the Modern Churchmen’s Union,
ar l the Rev. Leighton Parka, fa-
mous rector of St Bartholomew
chureh. New Fork.
Bishop William T. Manning, who
a few months ago demanded that
the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant
either recant his declaration of non-
belief in the divinity of hrist or
resign, has been drawn Into the
controversy.
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Texae Radio Corporation and
Austin Statesman Broad-
casting Station.
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couple.
Miao Anderson and Sallatnd
taken."
While the investigation marked
time over Christman the intelligence
corps of the internal revenue bureau
instated it bad not received the al-
leged list of purchasers, while police
evidence taken, and some officials ex-
I pressed doubt that such an index ex-
aliated. The district attorneys office
ana I has announced that it plans to seek
indictment of the alleged purchasers
Roach straton, pastor of
Baptist church. Naw York, sw• •
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moat prominent New York preach-
ers, are engaged in a series of de-
bates on fundamentalism. Dr.
Straton defending the literal Inter-
pretation of thy Bible, and Dr Pot
ter pleading for the preaching of
religion in the light of modern dis
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and was bound for Vancouver.
The two vessels attempting to go
to the ansiatence of the Author are.
being impeded by heavy seas, accord-
ing to radio advices. The Author is
reported rolling heavily In gale churn-
ing seas.
The schooner sending out frantic
calls for aid iast night was the Jacox,
which was towing the schooner
Thistle. Rhe reported that her tow
with the schooner had parted in the
terrific gale and that the Thistle was
drifting shoreward near Ship Pointn
the strait of Juan de-FucA. The coast
guara cutter Snohomish sent a radio
dispatch to the Jacox. saying she was
rushing to her assistance.
The Thistle la of 1462 net tonnage
and had a cargo of lumber. The num-
ber of her crew is not known but it is
thought to be small.
The steamer Author is a steel screw
vessel of 3553 tons sailing under
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 25— Sergeant
A. M. Lees. Company H. Twenty-sec-
ond infantry, Fort MgPherson, whose
home is at Walker, Jowa, was prob-
ably fatally stabbed early today in
a fight downtown between soldiers
and a gyoup of newsboys. One news-
boy was reported seriously stabbed.
Otis Herndon, 30. a newsboy, was
Nrrested by the police. Ha la charged
with having used a dirk in stabbing
Less,
Sergeant Goldsmith and Corporal
James C. Coleman, also sationed at
Fort McPherson, are also being held
at police headquarters pending fur-
ther investigation.
The soldiers told the police that a
group of newsboys were "tensing an-
other boy" when they interferred.
Herndon, they raid, then stabbe Less.
Hospital authorities stated the dirk
had penetrated Less" heart tissues and
that they expected bis death.
stated. is based upon observations of
troop movements from Apizaco to
Huamantla, but no advance has begun
as yet. The rebels are accumulating
reinorc emente to resist an Obregon-
ista attack, the statement adds.
The war plan agreed upon the revo-
lutionary council held recently in Es-
per,ansa providing for combined action
of rebel forces at Vera Crus, Oaxaca,
Puebla and Guerrero is already in
operation, the communique states.
Reinforcements have entrained here
to support the attack on Santa Lu-
cretia, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where
heavy fighting continues with the fed-
eral garrison still successfully resist-
ing all attacks.
A revolt of federal garrisons sta-
tioned in the Tampico oil fields is
reported here and it is reported that
adherents of General Sanchez have of-
fered to join the rebellion, but this had
not been confirmed.
FRESNO, Cal., Dec. 21.—Santa Claus ’
encountered an unusual Christmas tree I
at Dinuba, where an orange tree, J
thirty-five feet high and bearing more
than a thousand oranges, was substi-
tuted for the customary evergreen.
More than three thousand persons
from the countryside attended a com-
munity festival there, of which the
mammoth orange tree was the out-
standing feature.__________
coming down.
The Tatahouine region where she
was last sighted is rather mountainous
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Author is trying to guide his ship in this di-
OBREGON TROOPS TWO CHURCHES STIRRED BY DEMAND FOR
“MODERN” INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE
CHICAGO, Dec. 25—Donald McNil-
lan. frozen in the ice fastness eleven
degrees from the North Pole early
today received a Christmas greeting
by radio from his sister, Mrs. Wil-
liam Fogg of Freeport, Maine, who
came to Chicago to talk to the Arctic
explorer. v
Messages from McNillan sent in
telegraphic code to the broadcasting
station here acknowledged the greet-
ing. Mrs. Fogg’s daughters, IMHan
and May, also greeted their uncle.
After the personal messeges Christ-
mas carols were sung for the explor-
ing crew and a prayer service was
•old.
PARIS, Dec. 25.—Cleo de Merode,
French motion picture actress, has lost
her suit for 100,000 francs against the
owners of the film "Peacock Alley”
which she charges injured hor reputa-
tion by burlesquing incidents in her
career.
The court held that the conduct of
the dancer represented on the film
was in no way dishonorable and fur-
ther stated there was nothing In the
picture which idendfies the heroine
with Mlle. Merode. In addition to dis-
missing the suit the court ordered the
actress to pay the film producers 2000
francs for coetab
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—The capi-
tal laid aside the business of govern-
ment today to celebrate the birth of
Christ.
President Coolidge’s simple program
for the day was similar to that of
many other employes of the nation.
The festivities about the family church
service, the customary big dinner with
extras and a quiet evening were his
portion, shared with Mrs. Coolidge,
their two sons and Mr. and Mrs. Frank
W. Stearns of Boston, old friends, who.
were the only White House guests.
Members of the president’s official
family pursued similar homely
courses. Secretaries Hughes. Hoover,
Weeks and Denby, Attorney General
Daugherty and Postmaster General
New passed the day quietly here, while
Secretary Mellon was at his home in
Pittsburgh. Secretary Davis was
visiting hta father at Sharon, Pa., and
Secretary Work was with this daugh-
ter at Evanston. IlL Secretary Wal-
lace had arranged a short trip out of
the city.
The special church services began
at midnight and during the day the
Protestant denomination held a union
service at which Bishop William F.
Msbowell of the Meihodiat Eplacopal
Church de! levered the Christmas ser-
mon. The midnight services followed
the singing of carols at the White
House in the presence of several
thousand persons which Mrs. Coolidge
hopes will become an annual Christ-
mas eve custom and the first of a
series of celebrations about the "na-
tional Christmas tree" in the ellipse
south of the White House. The 'na-
tional tree” is a sixty-foot spruce sent
VERA CRUZ, Dec. 25.—A general
attack by feedral troops on Vera Cruz
is imminent, according to revolution-
ary headquarters. This belief, it is
PARIS, Dec. 25.—Former Premier ____ __________ a
Venizelos has decided to return to tured last night's outdoor celebrations.
Athens and is letving Paris for A gaily decorated and illuminated tree
$ floated on a barge in the lake.
Nev., Dec. 25.—Air mail
President’s Family Celebrates
Christmas In a Manner as
Simple as the Humblest Citi-
zen of the Republic.
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec 25.--
Orange orchhards laden with golden
fruit were the decorations" among
which thousands of motorists cele-
brated southern California’s outdoor
Christmas. Other yuletide throngs
; chose the race track at Culver City,
t near here, where the day was to be
made memorable for turf followers
, with a Christmas handicap opening
1 a 100-day run of thoroughbreds while
football fans chose to sit in the warm
sun at Washington Park where the
Haskell' Indians battled Olympic Club
players from San Francisco.
In order that the “force"
may have Christmas dinner
with their families, The States-
man will publish only one edi-
tion today, and that is being is*
sued several hours earlier than
usual. Tomorrow, with the rest
of the community, we will get
back on regular schedule.
May all have a merry Christ-
mas and a happy and prosper-
ous New Year is the sincere
wish of The Statesman.
DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 25. — Police,
using their clubs as weapons, forced
their way through a crowd of more
than two thousand persons gathered at
a Ku Klux Kir ceremony here just
night had delivered to him this morn- guages, by those of most creeds and
ing a document signed by 270 members colors of the earth, the advent of
of the legislative assembly elected lake Christmas was celebra ted last night
night urging himn to resume charge of > in the huge registry hall of the imnmi-
the government and save the country, rgration station at Ellis Island
M. Venizelos was told that the, Of the motley crowd of 800, half
elected representatives of nineteen were clinging to the hope that the
electoral istricts who were away in doors of the United States had not
the provinces at the time the docu- . been closed irrevocably against them,
ment was drawn up, also favored the1 ' , ,,
request which thus wag supported by ’ (Continued j>n Page Two.)
more than 200 deputies out of the 396 ( -***
petore JU overwhmmhg aentment AIR MAIL SERVICE IS
of the country as thus expressed M. nu Win32. --nVH 1
head of the mrmnon, that he could not \ SUSPENDED FOR WEEK
refuse to lead hta help to the country - - ---
but declared that his political action
would only have a temporary chnraet-
WASHINGTON, O. C. Dee. 25-
Sam Saneiver is the gldest guide
in Glacier National Park. Sam
"ha, been in the saddle since he
was 12 years old’ and ha rides
much easier than hs walks.
He was barn, in the Hudson Bay
country and walked the traps with
his father when a bay. Ha has
guided all the notables that have
isited the park. He also is a re-
markable pock horse sacker. Gov-
ernment engineers who super-
vised work in Glaciar Nat anal
Park were so impressed by this
Rocky Mountain charecter thet
they took him to Alaska to help
with their operations there.
Sam says “horseback ridin" has
spoiled many a man to' walkin
just so “automobile drivin’" di for
many more in years to some."
After years of tife in ths saddle, he
aays, a man’s less got so bowed
they don’t stand up right to Sup-
port the opine. He ses he’d beta
to soy how “autodrivin’a «oln’ to
leeve ’em.”
5:45 to * P- m : Local and
general news.
I W 11 P m.: Reqpular pro-
gram consisting of phonograph
selections on Brunswick fur-
nished by J. R Reod Music Com-
pany of A Stitt.
on the steps of the Wayne county
buallding. The police arrived at the
VENIZELOS AGREES TO
rations.
By Associated Press.
NOME, Alaska, Dec. 24—An Es-
kimo mushed seventy-five mites in
two days to tell Noma today that
the Rev. F. J- Ruppert, S. J-,
pastor of St. Joseph’s Roman
Catholic church in this city, had
yielded his life to the cold while
trying to teke oranges, apples end
Christmas greeting cards to the
Hot Springe orphanage near the
Pilgrim River, north of here.
Over Father Ruppert’s body
when it wee found eight days ago
on the bank of the river, four
miles fro mthe orphanage, stood
Mink, the leader of hie dog team.
Mink ferociously repelled those
who came to carry his dead master
to the orphar.age, and had to be
captured first.
Search for Father Ruppert had
been started when one dog ap-
peared at Iron Creek, fifteen m’les
er. The former premier added that he -
had no intention of -forming a cabinet service from East to West ha? been
under his presidency, and that his discontinued until Jan. 1, according to
entire efforts would be bent toward advices received by the Reno air mail
bringing the country back to normalcy field and the Reno postoffice.
and then considering the work to ne ‘The lay-off is out of respect to the
1 memory of the four air mall pilots who
He will reach Athens before the lost their lives this year and to per-
new assembly convenes early in mit a risid inspection of every mail
January } plane in the service.
frcm Hot Springs. Soon after
another arrived at the orphange.
Father Riappert, who won the tve
of the not by the way ne wo’ke
for others, without thougt of
himself in ar influenza cpidemic
that wasted the Eskimo and took
many whites in this district sev-
eral years ago, was buried Wed-
nesday at the orphanage.
Carrying his Christmas cheer for
fifty persona including sisters and
brothers of the orphanage et the
institution. Father Ruppert was
continuing his journey alone from
Duffy O'Connor's road house,
which is on the route to Hot
Springe from Nome. It ie believed
thet a reindeer frightened hie
team end caused the dogs to scat-
ter. A temperature of thirty de-
grees below zero ws prevailing in
that region. Father Ruppert
seemed to have lain down to root.
SUPERIOR. Win. Dec. 2ft.— Christ-
mas eve was observed by Edward J.
Sailstad and Dorothy Anderson in
their cells in the county jail here laet
night with the receipt of gifts from
all parts of the country.
Besides gifts and letters from local
-citizens, Sailstad and Mira Anderson
received tokens from Neps, Cal, where
they were arrested.
Mrs. Sailstad, mother of the jailed
man who is awaiting sentence, to-
gether with Miss Anderson, on charges
of arson, spent the evening with the
WASHINGTON. Dec 25.— With PO-
Ike officials declaring the case row,-
ing out of the recent raid on an al-
ie@ed boot I.is syndicate "out.o ..our
hand.'' and up to federal authorities,
the distriet attoryey’s otrie was con-
sidering plans today to trace the mys-
terious "list of customers" reported
| noised during the round up In an et-
xrom, ziiruM I tort to determine whether it existed
LOVER HEAPED WITH GIFTS . ahattng poi-
ish legation, an orficial ot which pre-
vented seizure of what police described
as a 150.000 stock of liquor, stored in
an apartment house which he occu-
pied. Indicated that they considered
the case closed as far as they were
concerned. Dr. Venceslas Sokolowski,
first secretary of the Polish legation,
Informed the state department that
the liquor wan his and produced per-
mits showing that It had been ob-
tained through the regular channels
conclusion of the ceremony held by
men eruta to be leaders of the Ku Klux
Klan in Detroit.
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Dim While Fishyng.
GULFPORT, Mins., Dec. 35.—Arthur
(Smoky) Dupont, 50 years old, a show-
man who was spending the winter
here, died yesterday in a shift from
which Le had been fishing in the Mis-
simippi Sound. Physicians belleve
leath was due to apoplexy.
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