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VOL. 53—NO. 170
$500,000 Legion Gift to Texas ‘U’ Proposed
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MAYOR FAVORS PLAN
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college, will reach a large number
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With President.
[United Press Dispatch to Statesman.]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4— The Ro- miles an hour when it struck the
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COMMANDER IN FLIGHT.
ery, either existent or contemplated.
ATLANTA.
of congress in paseing the Jnpanese
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from $28.50 to $32.50 weekly.
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State Gets Park
On Bull Creek
By Photo in
24 Hours
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lion Mark Easily,
Legion Leader.
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DENMARK WOULD ALLOW
DOCTORS TO TAKE LIFE
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ST. EDWARD'S WINS
STATION IN TEXAS
GRID CONFERENCE
i institution, so that the entire sum
‘ can go Into payment of an instruc-
chairman of the state park committee of that organization.
The site for the proposed patk overlooks Bull Creek for one-half
mile,' is located near Champion’s place and is one of the most beautiful
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the direction of Joseph, do, the pres-
ident-said, had the whole world of
our time depended in a period of
virtual famine upon the great cen-
tral valleys of America and upon
Chicago, the distributing point for
their food products.
the train.
। The interurban limited was said
to have been traveling about sixty
Commissioner 0. N. Avery is
Also Outspoken in Favor
of Wroo’s Proposal for
Big Civic Improvement.
GRIFFITH
Photo by Jensen.
With the famous Notre Dame Uni-
. versity team.
CHICAGO DISCOVERED
250 YEARS AGO TODAY
Creek. it was an-
nounced.
Should the state
here.
ldges receiving charters
Psy* Tribute to Chicago.
“We can only help those who will
NEW TREASURY ISSUE
QUICKLY SUBSCRIBED
FOUR YOUNGSTERS NOT
GUILTY OF SLAYING
0
SIX NEW MASONIC
LODGES FOR TEXAS
SABER RATTLING IN
GERMANY REJECTED
RAINS OVER MIDDLE WEST.
[United Press Dispatch to Statesman.)
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 4-A
general storm wis sweepink middle
western states today from Nebraska
to the Texas Panhandle and from
CHURCHES CONDEMN
JAP EXCLUSION ACT
K. C. 8. Railroad Forced by Strong
Barge. Competition.
Thirty to forty others were re-
orted seriously * injured.
- » followed the
Check of the dead accounted for
nine known to have Jost their lives.
Train company employes believed
others are dead or* will die from
their injuries.
"I was a passenger aboard the
Christian Movement in Japan “Set
Back 20 Years."
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Charter* Granted for Dallas and
8nn Antonio.
German Defense Minister Rejects
Suggestion of Reyenge.
gaged in agrlculture.
In olosing the president pointed to
“common sense co-operation with
othev nations as the road to world
markets, world prosperity and work
peace.*’
INTERURBAN WRECK
TAKES FIVE LIVES
“Men leaped from the cars:
en screamed and there was M
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to work in Ban Franeisco, were
wrecked here today with a losa of
Ute na yet undetermined but
amutea at from ten to twenty:nive.
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( Associated Press Dispatch to Statesman.)
AMARILLO, Texas, Dec. 4.--Mrs
Billie Meek, on trial here on a
charge of murder in connection with
the shooting to death of Mrs. Bessie
Sommers Oct. 10, went on the wit-
ness stand this morning and tes-
co-operation with other nations.
"One Common Enterprise."
"We can not expect, in the long
course of events, to maintain our
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confusion.”
Accurate count of the killed and
injured was impossible two hours
after the wreck.
The spot where the wreck OC-
curred wus within a few yards of
the end of the dock portion of the
“mole.’; A little farther on and
the truins would have been on the
trestle built for nearly a mile Into
the bay and drowning would have
been added to the horrors of the
disaster.
a successful season this year and i
"I am profoundly impressed with
the fact that the structure of mod-
ern society is essentially a unity,
destined to stand or fall as such.
“At the last, those of us who arc
partners in the supreme service of
building and bettering our civilisa-
tion must go up or go down, must
succeed or fall together, in our one
wreck, which occurred on the Key
Route Interurban system’s “mole”
west of Fortieth and Hollis streets,
Oakland.
, ' the Legion for the cause of educit-
ahoeition- Beyond the $280,000, it is es-
A. & M. Vocational Student Loses
Daughter.
IUnited Pras Dpatrh to Sentesman.}
BRYAN,' Texas. Dec. 4. -Smoth-
ered to death, the lifeless body of
the 2-months-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs W. P Campbell was taken
from her bed here yesterday morn-
ing. Campbell Iu a disabled vet-
eran in government training at
Texas A. A M. Pollese.
Mercury to 26 at Amarillo
With Heavy Snow Over
Middle West.
$ 6
. Not satisfied, the young high-
waymen made him remove his
SNOW IN PANHANDLE Parls’ Fashions
BUT FREEZING WAVE
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Dec. 4.—Action
Voluntary Donations Would
Bring Fund to Half Mil-
branch or ■•chair” of the University
Creek heights to the State of Toxa, for useas a state park wasor Texds, is the proposal of Major
announced Thursday at the Lons Club meeting by Dr. A. W. Griffith, John C. Townes, former state coin-
mander of the American Legion,
who was at the head of the organ-
ization in Texas • which collected
funds for starting the legion Memo-
IEN
of the tract
of veterans who seek
(Unted Press DIspatch to Statesman.]
WACO, Texas, Dec. 4 —Charters
have been granted six Texas Ma-
sonic lodges, it was announced to-
day at the ejghty-seventh annual
session of the grand lodge of Texas
is first as the great market place
to which the world resort to buy
and sell its food." ‘ -
Ho turned to the Biblical history
of the period of agricultural depres-
slon in the world at the time when
Joseph built up Egypt’s grain sup-
plies to last during he "seven years
of dearth,"
just as the whole Medlterranean
world of the tirne had depended
Dumb Bells 1 ■—t—
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scenic points In
this part of the
state. Under the
deal consummated
Second
committee,
state will*
the
night. Today's was the first gen-
eral rain this section has had In
months.
Bill Introduced Provides Certain
Conditions.
{Associated Press Diepateh to Statesman.
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 4. A bill
which would authorize doctors un-
der certain conditions to take the
life of a patient without incur-
ring punishment has been intro-
duced in the Danish parliament by
Minister of Justice Stelneke.
' their bodies badly burned by fire
"New Guard" Work* which destroyed -the first car of
@f-Anmsen.
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tAanociated Press Dispatch to Statesman.)
ATLANTA, (in. Dec. 4. Dr. B.
Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
today was elected president of the
Federal Council of Churches, suc-
ceeding Dr. Robert E. Speer who
was not eligible for re-election.
Modern Society’s Structure
Unity to Stand, or Fall
Together and U. S. Must
Co-operate—Coolidge.
$500,000 Bond Issue to
Finance Construction of
Building Is Estimate of
Austin Bank President.
derstanding and co-opertion be-
tween agriculture and Industry.
"There has heen a great deal of
distress endured by the people on
the farm," he said. “The com-
mercial and industrial side of our
nation has been giving too much,
thought jo wheat and hogs and
corn, to their transport and to their
prices and not enough thought to' -___- . - —
the men and women who are en- Twelfth Street train of the Key
(Assoelated Preet Dispatch to Statesman.]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.— Sub-
scriptions to the new trensury long-
term bond issue of $200,080,000
opened yesterday exceeded half a
billion dollars today, and Acting
Secretary Winston announced that
the offering for further cash sale
will bo withdrawn at the close of
business, tonight.
TAXICAB DRIVERS
THREATEN TO STRIKE
(Associnted Press Dispateh to‛Stateaman.1
. DALABAa* Dehhthe
cold wave swiping southeastward
from the Rocky Mountains which (
brought freezing weather in the
Texas Panhandle last night prob-
ably will not penetrate as far south
as Dallas and Fort Worth,'but will ,
pass estward through Oklahoma. .
according to the local weather bu- ,
reau, i
The mercury at Dallas and vl- (
cinity may barely reach the freez-
ing point by Friday morning, when (
the orest of the cold possibly will ,
have passed, the bureau announced.
Thundershowers were reported hast
night at a number of North Texas
points.
Snow, sleet and rain fell in por-
tions of the Panhandle last night
and this morning, with th” mer-
cury 26 at Amarillo. Stockmen,
given ample warning, will suffer no
losses: A
ya On Stand, and Add*
Was Threatened.
were: other people,"" said Mr. Coqlidge.
Farmers Negleoted, He 6aya. ported nertousjy inj
Coolidge appealed for more un- intense confusion
METHODIST ELDER DIES.
(Assdeiated Press Dispateh to Sfatesman.)
PARIS, Texas, Dec. 4 — Rev. E.
L. Egger, presiding elder of the
Paris district and widely known
among Methodists of north Texas,
died at his home here yesterday.
He was stricken Sunday while
preaching at Annona.
tees their salaries are increased
5 not attach an addi- United Pres Dispateh to Statesman.)
Jinnai burden upon th” treasury HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 4.—Held
He vetoed the measure last session, up by two nmasked men here Inst
Edge changed the measure so night. F. D. Benoist, traveling
[ that about $40,000,000 rtf the neces- • salesman of St. Louis, shelled out
specific international legal machin-
( Assoeiated Press Dispatch to Statesman.] . . -
City Southern Railroad, according
to J. F. Holden, vice president in
charge of traffic.
Competition with barge lines,
forces the road/to seek the reduc-
tions, he said.
BRYAN STUDENTS BABY
SMOTHERS TO DEATH
across the Atlantic, a Fifth Avenue
costumer was seekins exclusive
rights to transmit photographs of
the latest Parisian modes.
And there's no doubt or joke
about the possibllitles of tho new
"photorndlogram" fur sending lm-
portant documents across wide
spaces, and obtaining important
signatures quickly. It, can be done
with absolute accuracy and safety.
News pletures can be . flushed
around the world in time for first
editions.
In fact, it is a sclentifio possi-
bility to build a radio telephone
which permits the parties to see
MRS. R. E. L. KNIGHT JR., prominent young society
IVI matron of Dallas, Texas, well known in Austin, ap-
plied for a part with a stock company in Houston under
the name of “Margaret Wilson.” She made such a hit
' that the newspaper reporters got curious and found out
[ who the young actress really was. Then Mrs. Knight
I fled back to Dallas.
NOW you can flash a picture around the world, sign a
IN document over in China, possibly even go calling on
your sweetheart in London. All may soon be done by
"photoradiogram." Radio pictures below of Prince of
Wales (left), and Premier Baldwin (right). TO COMMISSION
NEW YORK, Dec. 4-Witiin 24
hours after the first suecesstul
wireless transmission of pictures
Bobbed Haired Girl*, Freckled Boy*
.Gain Freedom.
(Aseociated Press Dispnteh to SAatesman.)
CHICAGO, Dec. 4 -Lucille Mar-
shall and Anna Valanis, bobbed
haire, Anthony Valanis and Wil-
liam Lydon, freckled,, all in their
teens, were found not guilty last
night of the killing of Mrs. Resale
Gaensslen.
■ tional staff. Half a million dollars
administered through an existing
LONGEST BRIDGE BLOWN UP.
[Associated Presa Dispsteh t Stntesman.]
HANKOW, China. Dec. 4—Fol-
lowers of General Wu Pel Bu, for4
merly military commander of the
Peking government, are reported to
have blown up the Hankow - Peking
railway bridge over the Yellow
River, said to be the longest bridge
in China. •? .
help themselves. In any other rule,
I am convinced, would live disaster
for us and Increasing misfortune for1
those whom we might seek to
serve."
The president puida warm tribute
to Chicago, of which he sald: "It
(United Ptm Dispateh t* statesman.
oKHAND, Cal., Dec 4—Two
trains loaded with people on route
board do- ! be placed in the University or other
{Unlted Prem Dispateh to Stitesman.y
HAN ANTONIO, Texas. Dec. 4.-
With two gunshot wounds near his
he art, W. H. Hall, 64, former Han
Antonio policeman, was found in a
tool ' shed Wednesday, probably
fatally wounded. On the floor 9
nearby was a revolver an in hi .
pocket a note direct! g spoalitrj' J
of his body. —gg
UPRISIr • IN OUERRERO.
football teams. The Saints closed
Buenos Aires Court Sentence* Man
' For Disease Given.
(United Press DIspnteh te Statesmnn.)
BUENOS AIRES. Dec. 4— The
IA Pinta court last night sen-
tenced a man to three years im-
prisonment for having transmitted
a serious disease to his fiance by
kissing her. Many of the nurses
appearing as witnesses declared he
should not have been imprisoned,
ns he kissed the girl Ip a moment
of great passion!
shoes. One of them netted $50. His
hatband was overlooked. He sal-
vaged $25 from that.
which will
brace West
IiiNSAS'Mirpashot upnEaypt's grain stored up under
tion of two cents a hundredweight
in freight rates on wheit and corn
from Kansas Cty to gulf, ports for
export will be asked by the Kansas
[Associnted Press Dispatch to Statesman.
HANKOW, China, Dec. 4.—It is
reported that General Wu Pel-Fu,
former military commander of the
Peking government, is in flight
from his old headquarters in Honan
province. His flight is attributed
to the receipt of an .ultimatum from
the Shensi provincial commander,
who is advancing against him, fol-
lower! by a mutiny of his own body-
guard.
the L ioin a
Father Marquette Landed on Site
of Wrigley Building.
(Associated Press Dispatch to Statesman-]
CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—While Chi-
cago today entertained President
Coolidge, it also welcomed a repro-
sentative of its first visitor, Father
Marquette, French Jesuit explorer,
who arrived 250 years ago today &t
the mouth of the Chicago River.
Those in charge hoped the presi-
dent, could spare a few moments to
participate in ceremonies hld in
front of the Wrigley Building, the
spot where Marquette erected a
rude shelter. A copy of the hut
was ■constructed yesterday.
The part of Marquette will
be played by David Bremer, Loyola
Universnty ptudenv
AMARILLO DEFENDANT
OFFERED SEPARATION
Sale of Veterans Hospital
at Kerrville to Federal
Government to Provide
Funds to Finance It.
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slowly and I felt the brakes applied
» to our tram to prevent us running
, to close to it.
"As we slowed, down Iha Short
1 Line train came charging upon our
f train. Apparently its brakes failed
to work, or th” wheels did not hold .
on the wet track.
"The front platform of the Short
Lin” train hit the rear of our train
> Above the floor level and it seemed
‛ to sweep rigit through the car.
' “It was a:terriblo scene;
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~em
Ing statewide attention with
8 INCHES IN DAKOTA,
YANKTON, R. D.. Dec. 4.—Eight
inches of snow blanketed this sec-
tion early today, the flrkt heavy
fall of the winter, and it continued
to pile up during the forenoon.
Rout*.” 1. W. Ewing told the
United Presm,
“Our train wah on the Key Route
Mole just about to run out on the
trestle work section of the pier. A
traln ahead of us was running more
Sommers threntened to kill
about sven months before
shoot!ag.
; timated that voluntary subscrip-
tions will be made to increase thec R. s,
I fund to half a million dollars. She
em. > Veterans Benefited.
1 Instead of spending much of this
• in buildings and equipment. it is
। estimated that the endowment can
HEAVY SNOW IN KANSAS.
{Associated Press Dispateh to Stntesmnn.)
RANK AH CITY, Mo. Dec. 4- A
blanket of five to seven inches of
snow Covered western Kansas to-
day. Rain or snow was genera
throughout this section last night.
pended on their mutual good rela-iMissouri •» Colorado. Knin wne
Ione, eo did the continued prosper- ifallink in muny pari: ofKansan and
ny of the United state" depend on Aizsouri ani in northwestern Texas
z ■ A heavy snow began falling last
AUSTIN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1924.
Esta b l l s h e d
rial Hospital at Kerrville.
$280,000 Can Bo Raised.
Major Townes advocates sale by
the state of tho. Kerrville hospital
to the federal government, wnlch
is now operating it; and setting
asiAe the $280,000 donated and
r d by the Benevglent War Risk
So_jaty, of which he was head, as
a trust fund to be administered by
Coolidge Addresses Lunch-,
eon of Commercial Club
at Chicago on Visit to
Livestock Exposition.
lined that early this year she
learned that Mrs. Sommers, then
Bessie Arnold, was having clandes-
tine meetings with Meek.
After learning this, Mrs. Meek
testified, she offered to divorce
Meek if the three would get to-
gether and reach an agreement.
Mrs. Meek also testified that Mr*.
An Amnerican Legion college en-
dowment. With half a million dol-
lars set aside for educational work
among veterans of the World War.
administered probably through a
T. I. A. A. Officials Approve
Austin School for
I Membership.
common enterprise." <
President Coolldge wAs careful
to avoid committing his advocacy
of international co-operation to any
Sixty Miles an Hour
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Associated Frew Dispatch to Statesman.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 4
Surprise was manifest on the
Yale campus today among stu-
dents and professors when an-
nouncement was made that Mrs.
Margaret Sanger, advocate of
birth control, had addressed 200
students of the Yale divinity
I hoi l Tue sday.
After her address, it is stated,
steps were taken by graduate
students to organize a class for
discussion of the subject. An
invitation was extended to Mrs.
Sanger to appear again. Stuart
fanger, son of Mrs. Sanger, is a
member of the freshman class at
the divinity school.
-[United Press Dispateh to Statesman-
CHICAGO, Dec. 4. — Overcast
skies, a spattering of rain and snow,
a greasy feel in the air—typical
loop weather for this time of the
year—greeted President and Mrs.
Coolidge when they arrived here
at 8:55 a. tn. today to attend the
International Livestock Exposition
and to pay Chicago a 13-hour
visit.
More than 180 uniformed police
men formed an avenue for the
presidential pary while many plain
clothes men mingled with the
crowd.
Coolidge Holds Conforences.
Tremendous cheers boomed ouUu
the appearance of Mr. Coolidge. U
Was hs fast appearance inthe miK-
die west sinc he took office. /
For three hours this morning Die
president held conferences with
party leaders and business men.
The president's list of callers In-
cluded Vice President-elect Dawes,
former Governor Lowden of Illinois,
William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum
king, and Fred Upham, Repub-
lican national committeeman from
Illinois.
The trip from Wshington to Chi-
cago was uneventful. At breakfast
President and Mrs. Coolidge had a
(able to themselves, Wheit th”
President and Mrs. Coolidge arose,
none in the car paid their respect
by rising. • ”
Without referring by name to the
League of Nations the world court
or amny other form of international
machinery, President Coolidge made
a straightaway appeal for sympa-
thetic co-operation with other na-
tions as the one firm foundation for
this country’ll well being.,
Speaking at a luncheon of the
Chicago Commercial Club, the
president asserted that just as the
common prosperity of agrlculture
country on a permanent level of
general well being far above that of
CITY FOR AUDITORIUM
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PRICE 5 CENTS
TOWNES PLANS Birth cmiml
MEMORIAL CHAIR Shocks Yale
Alexander C. Garrett Lodge, Dal-
las;Harlandale Lodge, Harlandale;
Blue Bonnet Lodge, Ran Antonio;
Idalou -Lodge. Idalou; Gouldhusk
Lodge, Gouldhusk; Richardson
Lodge, Rcharson.
exclusion net Is termed as "need-
less and wanton" in the report of
the commissfon on internatlonal
I justice nnd good will, prepared for
। submission t<» the Federal Council
of Churches. in session here. it whs
announced today. This report
' asserted that missionary leaders in
Japan feel that the exclusion has
"set back the progress of the Chrls-
tian movement twenty years.”
GRAIN RATE CUT TO
TEXAS COAST ASKED
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arembers Ot the elty coune ;
Thursday pledged their co-operatof
to civic leaders and cttizens of Au •
' tin in plana ior the financing and
They Won’t Work After Dec. 31 for
Less Than $32.50.
(United Preu Dispatch to Statesman.)
ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Dec. 4 — Late
New Year's Eve parties may turn
into hiking escapndes as result of
a threatened strike of St. Louis
taxicab drivers.
The drivera have threatened to
walk but at midnight, Dec. 31, un-
wi see:22®
Aonrerence"in eetng at Dlas. ac- sor according" to tentative plan”
cording to a telegram received I announced to th 1 n. . wileducation. It Is Bald.
Thursday by Father schumncher, 1 "nal inspection ot the site will
preldenVorthe college Coach jack be made Fridaythy OpernorNen:
Meagher of the St. Edward s nth- hl« danshter. Miss Hallie Maud ,
letic teams and wiiam P Halligan.: Neff; the five members of tho l
registrar of the school, are in Dal- state parks board, an official f
las where they went for (he purpose j the Kentucky park board; mem-
of presenting the schoois applica-hers of the state highway com- Train Goin
tion for conferenee membership 1 mission and five newspapermen
Durinb the last three years Ft? of the Texas newspapers. A 1 athe rAemocinteg Pre„ pteot, , st, ,
Edward s College has been attract- motion picture photographer will DETROIT Mich Dec 4 — Crash*
Its accompany the party to take views • . —.1 .ancn., r6’ .. < a3n
'of the new state park. '7 Into the trailer of a truck load-
__________I____. ed with forty steel drums of tur-
-------—c.c. pentine, a limited train on the De-
tentative plans have been compint. RAISE POSTAL RATES, troll United Lines Interurban was
ed for a same here hristmas day RAISE POSTAL PAY wrecked at Wyandotte, a suburb.
last night. Five were killed and
ard" of the senate, trailer of the truck. It is believed
under the fresh leadership of Sena-" sparks from a broken trolley wire
[Associated Press Distrh to Statesman 1 ■ ■ . . i , . left fire to the turpentine.
L.HI2‛SIG, Germany, Dec. 4— "I tor Curtis, is functioning in close; -----------
see sacrificed to the realization of structive legislation. ------
such a thought." Dr. Otto G easier. In the case of the postal bill, the But They Overlooked $25 He Had
German minister of defense de- president informed Senator Edge. In HI* Hatband.
dared in a campaign speech for the j New Jersey: that the salary in- l
Democratic party here yesterday.
"This ridiculous rattling of sabers
which wo don't possess must cease."
the speaker continued. We must
pontine „ourselves to bustnesa andisary $62,000,000 will be raised byUfti
• • j increasing the third class postage y---
KKQnv bAdamw on mag 1 periodicals. It
—1P UI I ASSIUN is indicated this may go through.
COSTS HIM 3 YEARS1
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in T e x a s
to 11 p. m. Austin time: Hrooklyn night,
(••■luring Brooklyn organizations and bvlot
"KoKA, rutsbu.b (»l« m.), 1120 p, m .
Austin time: Welch night program. . 5
wenn. Zion (446 m.>. 1:10 p. m. Austin '
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Chaplin's Wife
to School
(nited Prezs Dlspnteh la Btatesman.y
I oLLLYWOOD, Cal , Dec. 4
• ' Back to her school books to-
day trotted little Lita Grey, child
bride of Charles Bpencer Chaplin.
A tutor has.been employed'to
teach Lita the rudiment* of al-
gebra. history and perhaps a bit
of domestic science. Classes are
being held each morning in the
Chaplin mansion out on Beverley
Hille.
Employment of the tutor has
met provision of the California
law which requires school at-
tendance of four hours daily tu-
toring at home for all children
under 18 years of age.
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Auatip and Central Texas: - I
night partly cloudy, colder; Meidny I
generalty fair
Weal Texas: Tonight soneraily
fair, colder; Friday fair. . fit
Austin Temperatures,
7 a, m. Wednesday " to 1 a in,
Thursday: 0.
Maximum, 76. . E 0
Minimum, 66. .
Ramfall, .03 Inchon.
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themselves in favor of the proposd
following an address by 11. A. Wron
vrezident of tho American National
Hank, who explained a plan.pro.
posed by him for the use o •« .40
- ■
tho construction of tho auditosiun. (
building wan Biiggested by V,r0
Mayor W. D. Yett and Commis:
eloner C. N. Av,ery declared them- d
selves particularly in favor of I I
project It" an important civic Im-
provement,, _■ ' ' L 0,4
$500,000 Bond leste
Wroe asked th® council whHhW ?
(he city l" willing to create a bond
issue to finance the erection of the
propdsed auditorium costing aH-
proximately $500,000. The Austin
bunker dated a bill would be 8ulz -
milted to the legislature asking that
body to lease to the city for a Perg n t
of ninety-nine years at nominal 2
lease price the temorary capitpl
grounds at Eleventh Street and
Congress Avenue as a slte for the
proposed auditorium.
That some difficulty will be ene
countered in financing the audi-
torium through a bond issue wm
the opinion expressed in a statte—-,
ment by Finance Commssioner. Ma
Harry L Haynes who ventured the
prediction that the taxpayers of
Austin would not be willing to vote
a bond issue of $500,000 in view of.
the great need of other public im-
provements. Commissioner Haynes
added that the constitutional tax
limit likely would not permit the
issuance of more than $300,800 worth
of bonds in odditlon to those al-
ready Issued.
Avery Favors Plan.
Commissioner C- N. Avery ex-
pressed himself in hearty accord
with the movement to secure the
proposed auditorium because of the
urgent need for. such an institution.
Mayor W. Di Yett expressed th*
belief that the people of ‘ Texas
would be willing through their rep-
reaentatves in the legislature to
lease to the city tho temporary
capitol grounds for the auditorium
site.
(Assoiated Pres Dispateh te Statesman,)
MFXICO CITY, Dec. 4 —General
Jose Amarillas, commander of mill-
(ary operation” in Guerrero, who
came here to attend General Callea’
Inauguration, left hurriedly to di-
rect movements against s( altered
ui zisinga resulting from dissatis- 5
fnotinw with the results of the'state g‛‛
•lection*.
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