The Austin Statesman (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 195, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 31, 1924 Page: 1 of 8
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CITY REFUSES TO PENALIZE COP AT SNOW
AUSTIN'S LABOR
President Coolidge early in 1925, she- adds.
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Capitol
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timent of the majority of the tax- ! being held elsewhere than in the
capltol building.
paying 4 itizens of Texhs, ’ declared
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GREENWOOD NAMES
JOHNSON SECRETARY
fer 81 Acres.
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A. C. Champion, donor o Cham-
nion State Park
Hull Creek
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re-
visit to the United States of Mon-
caused as much surprise among the
rood with 264
with 166
Dumb Bells
P. & S. Hospital Sold
sdmlnlstrat'on to extend its policies and influence into
many phases ।
of the state government beyond
the group of departments whose 1
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HAVE YOUR FUN
BUT TAKE CARE
TO HURT NO ONE
ON ELECTION AT
MEETING FRIDAY
Charged With “Bare-Faced Lie.”
{United Prees Dispateh to Statesman.)
they cam? from the trappers, the
value of the lot will not exceed >100.
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THIEVES MAKE HIGH
HAUL OF 'POSSUM
AND SKUNK HIDES
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$29.50
$37.50
$47.50
$74.50
Avery Announces Discovery
That List of Voters Can't
Be Checked in Time for
Use in Election on Feb. 2.
The Austin Statesman
Two Leased Wire Service: The Associated Press and the United Press
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COP HAO ACHING Football Star
TOOTH, ANO WAS Win./at Al
HXAS STATE LBRARY
Auatin, Texaz
Wan Killy dned and hill of nale
transterring, building* and propex-
ues uf the Pnysiolann and Surseons
hospital iocated »• Rio arande and
seventeeth atreets to a corporatinn
known an si David’a Monpita! for
a considertion of $38,600 was tited
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Steal 70 Pelts From Ware,
house of Miller Pro.
duce Co.
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Certain Degree of Hilarity
Expected By Officers Who
Urge Safety on. All Aus-
tin Joymakers Tonight.
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owns, .
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BRITISH FINANCIAL
OFFICIALS VISIT U. S.
WIFE’SPASIYSEECASE
GOV. DAVIS "FIRES"
MEMBER OF BOARD
awarded the >1,300.000 issue of road
bonda issued by the Mexia ronsoll-
dated road distriet by the county
commnisalonere court when hit bid
of par with accrued nterest, with a
premium of >27,000 was accepted
More than seventy miles of roods
will be improved.
Governor Davfa charged Lambert- i
ton with double-crossing and lack
of dependability.
BUSINESS HOUSES TO
CLOSE NEW YEAR’S
Retail Merchants Association Post-
Congress Tonight, Police Promise
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your office of trust on a high plane,"
It added.
The telegram was signed by the
executive committee of the W. C
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7 a: m. Tuesday to 7 a m. Wed-
nesday:
Maximum temperature, 51 degrees
Minimum temperture, 34 degrees.
Average temperature, 44.6 degrees.
Precipitation, nona.
River stage. 7foot: stationary,
no change in 24 hours.
that he had been Suffering from an
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welcome the new,
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and that the Morgan lines will
store normal schedules within
short' time.
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On Capitol Ball 1925’sEvents
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| CHAMPION TO SIGN
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George Searight i eplied in the nega- ing in the state capitol at Mrs.
..... _« tha 8-hour ; Ferguson’s inaugural ball, has been
=. asked by the San Antonio Women's
S e c o n d
Chief Excused Officer. Taylor. Due to the fact that the
Von Rosenberg told the councilfurs were in a raw state, just as
Much Gambling Expected.
"Under this sign the minds of the
people will revert to the old colonial
days and they will demand a roduc-
tion of taxes, such si the income
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day, no order can be Issued by the *
mayoi calling the election for Feb.
taga Norman, governor of the Bank
of England, and -Sir Alun Garrnit
Anderson, a director of the bank.
one-half for overtime after the reg-
ular 8-hour period up to 10 p. in !
and double time from 10 p. m. to '
8 a. m. i
District of Columbia, with
•liar, lots of tun tonight, but be
sure thint you are not in danger of
getting hurt or of hurting some one
else."
Police commisstoner Hgrry W.
Nolen thia morning gave this war-
ig to those who will be downtown
rnlgaa 1oes the qld yonr out and
wet wlanket over
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Littlepage Told Him He
™ Could Go Home, Von Ros;
Just Embarrassing.
. The city attorney expressed the
opinion that the new question raised
by the council would "only be a
little emhat rassing."’
‘While I have not. investigated
this new angle. I do not believe
that you can deprive a man of his
right to vote,” Rector said.
"In other words, if n qualified
voter appears at' the polls on Feb
g
tee in charge of the Ferguson in- T. I of San Antonio.
March Suggested.
This would mean that the election.,
can not b0 legally held until March
1 at the earliest, city officials com-
mented. ... ..
'That's hometbing that must be
taken into, account. all right," de-
clared City Attorney J. Houlain
Heitor. "Lools like the more wo
go into this thing, the more com-
plications come up.”
Cook's Mind Easy.
.Chas. B. Cook, president of 'tha
eRy manaxer ClUb,'' Wednesday
morning refuned to 1* perturbed
over this latest Ambuscade of the
city council. He aald that he would
confer with Travis Tax Collector
J. It. Williams • < Williams* con-
venlenee in regard to meourins the
||,t of voters.
"It's just another detail to be
smoothed out," said Cook.
Must Call Election.
The city council will bo compelled
to call the election for Fob. 2. de-
spite the opinion of various mem-
bars of the council that the elec-
tion may be invalid. City Attorney
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W/M4DAME
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STATE SHOWS DEFICIT.
The stnte treasury showed a def i-.
< It of $2,626,914 83 on the last day
•A busineni of 1924. It is expected
tax ollectlons will wpo out the
deficit by March 1.
chanical loading devices similar to
those in use at pters in New Or-
leans and Galveston, freight con-
signed to a number of Austin busi-
ness houses out of New York mar-
kets has been delayed for several
weeks, it was announced Wednes-
day by W. R Smith, division freight
and passenger agent of the South-
ern Pacific lines
A telegram received by Mr. Smith
Wednesday states 369 striking long-
shoremen have returned to work
City Forces Not Affected.
Asked whether this will affect
c.ity laborers, Street Commissioner,
OOD ROADS FOR MEXIA
(Asclated Press .Dipateh ta Statesman.)
• MEXIA Dee 31 Edgar Hon
2 nold of Oklahoma City has been
Wednesday morning in the office of
County Clerk Fred Malone.
The deed was xecuted by Dr- Je
Gilbert, president, and S J. Clark,
secretary, of the Physleians and
Surgeon's hospital
The sale is secured by 14 promis-
----- | Women's Christian Temperance
Member of Board of Administration ; Union heartily endorses" his stand
.........- - - "Wo believe you express the sen-
2, the council on a motion by Com-
minsioner Harry 1, Hynes and
seconded by Comnmissioner Harry
W. Nolen that final conalderatior
of the election call be postponed to
10 o’clock Friday morning.
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Attorneys Present.
John Cofer. Attorney for the con-
testants, and J. Harris Gardner,
attorney for I he Intervenor, Harrs
W. Nolen. In the recent city election
coirtest, were present at the meet-
ing, but said they hadeno comment
to ofe i ' ‘ofer nnnounced he would
be present at Friday’s meeting and
offer his commenta.
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ROOSEVELT HAS OPERATION.
(Associated Press Dispatch Statesman/-
NEW YORK, Dec 31.-Theodore
Roosevelt, former assistant secre-
Ury of the navy, is in a private
hospltal here» recovering ffom an
operation for throat affection Tues-
day.
hull In If you make’a Hull nolue
or it you nre ■' Hille hilar loun but
we don't want i“ hay* lo haul you
Double Time to Be Asked
for Saturday Afternoons,
Holidays, With Advances
For All Over-Time Work.
Secretary of State J. J. Strickland
Wednesday morning announced that
he hns tendered his resignation to
Governor Neff, effective Jan. 1.
Urgent business affaira in Mexico
requiring his Immediate attention
and -net osaltating a trip prompted
him to resign, said Strickland. He
will leave for • Mexico within the
next day or so, he said.
General Henry Hutchings, as-
sistant secretary, willct as secre-
tary of state until an appointment
Ir made.
of gambling and intenperance
whlle in Washington. Scott brought
suit for divorce against his wife,
who filed a cross bill..
Much of the testimony which the
congressman gave regarding his
wife's alleged indiscretions while
in Washington did no come from
his own personal knowledge, Bcott
testified. He said it first come to
him through his private secretary,
Jane L Kennedy of Alpena, , who
stayed at his apartment with his
wife.
H* said he refused to believe Mix*
Kennedy's storis, however, until
he had substantiated them by his
wife’s diary, guest book, and sthte-
ments of others.
a telegram to Representative King,
received here Wednesday.
"We commend you for placing
ponse Election of Officers.
All business houses in the city,
a with the exception of drug stores.
Nolen and Police Chief. Do-
ing Patrol Duty, Called
for Men to Help Them;
Found None
Hs a poll tax or an affida:
vit to the effect that he' has paid
his poll tax, I do not believe that
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British public as it seems to have
in America The only information
as tn the purpose of their trip, is
contalned in a brief agency disptch
from America to the effect that they
will-confer with Heeretary of State
Hughes on the subjec t of inter-al-
Hod debts.
England Surprised At Conference
On Intor-Allied Debte.
(Aasotintea Prens Dispnteh u Stateaman,)
LONDON, Dec. 81—New* of the
Donor of Bull Creek 3ife to Trans- New York three weeks ago in pro-
-- ■ test over the installation of me-
Austin and Centrai Texas: To
night and Thursday, probably fain. ।
colder Thursday.'
Christian Temperance Enlon to
"express to Austin citizens" commit-
liability of the city clerk to se-
cure the list of qunlitied voters of
the city In ume for the city mav:
mer election scheduled for Fab. 3
will, mean that the election will be
invalid. "If 1e election is held .In
strict comphance wiun the city
charter.” It wan announced durinz
n meeting of the city council Wed-
nesday morning by City Comnala- .
sionerc. N. Avery.
♦ • •
Takes Month to Check List.
Thia latest development in the
case camo when City Clerk Joa
itorunty stated that the charter
provides the election judges mun!
be furnished with a list of qualified
voters for each ward.
Hornsby stated that this provision
can not be compiled with in time
for the election, since poll tax pay-
ments will not ceane until midnighte
Jan. 31, and that County Tax Col*
lector J. R. Williams had informed
him that it will take thirty days to
compile a complete list of the quali-
fied voters of the city after the
close of the poll tax paying period.
Joi It y on the fire insurance coni-
mission, which has charge of mak-
ing rates for workmen’s, compen-
Rallon ingu rance, In Addition to its
other supervisory duties.
The new governor will nsme ill
members of the highway commis-
sion.
The governor and her secretary
of state will be a majority of ths
state board of education, with the
comptroller the third member. The
Urgent Mexican Business
in the State of Texas sent more
men to the United States federal :
penitentiary during the last fis-
cal year than any other state dis-
tricts which send prisoners to the
institution here, according to the
annual report of W. M. Fisher,
record clerk.
From Texas there were recelv-
ed 375 prisoners. The western
district of.Nexas,. embracing the
upper Rio Grande country, scene
of much narcotic smuggling, fur-
nished 244.
men. Is the only other distrie »
credited with more than 100 pris-
oners
Will Name One Regent.
The appointment of an insurance
ommsaloner and n state (Ire mar-
dial will give the governor a ma-
Nolen Couldn’t Find Them.
■ Nolen explained that he and Chief
I.ttlepage patrolled the streets
Monday night while alleged auto-
mobile pilferers were nt work and
were unable to get assistance when
they called the police headquarters.
Nolen said he went to the Han-
cock Opera House and found the
three officers enjoying the show.
Thereupon he instructed Chief Lit-
ilepage to fine the three officers >10.
Von Rosenberg, he said, refused
to take the fine and as an alter-
native, Nolen said, he ordered the
ten-day suspension invoked against
the officer.
N. A. Ladd Hands Out Order
Given By Sec. Orobett
of Union Hero Slating
New Wage Scale Adopted.
He Will See Tax Collector
Williams and Attorneys
But. Refuse- to Bo Least
Pertw bed Over Affair.
Representative A. H King of
, Throckmorton, who opposed danc-
Daily
WASHINOTON, Dec. 21. A year
‘ot treachery, sickness, death,
restlossness, war and labor troubles.
A year in which the people of
America will demand their righta,
though their fate will lie In the
hands of others.
This cheerful prognotieatlon for
1925 is made by Madame Marcia,
Wnshington astrologist, famous, for
her predictions of Important events.
Including the death of President
POOD football playing has
• brought "Buddie" King of
Dallas the reward of a position
in the state treasurer's office.
King, a member of the S. M. U
team, has been given a temporary
positionby W. Gregory Hatcher,
treasurer-elect, who said many
friends over the state interested
in football had asked him to ap-
point King. .The announcement
was made before the 8- M. U.-
West Virginia Wesleyan game to
be played Thursday in order to
encourage King, Hatcher said.
cross-examination all Tuenday af- . .
ternoon, Congressman Frank D. . 10 2
Scott denied Allegations-of his wife
AUSTIN, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1924.
Wants His Dismissed Followers
Put Back in Old Place*.
IONDON, Dec 31 Leon Trot,
zky. Russian soviet war minister, is
■till in Moscow, according to news
paper dispatches. He l- anid to
have declared himself willing to
leave the soviet capital if his dis-
missed adherenta are reinstated in
their old positions And not ex-
posed to reprisals, also if his op-
ponents In the supreme 1 evolution-
ary war council are removed!
It is believed an agreement will
be reachrd, the dispntches add.
FIRST GERMAN CRUISER TROTZKY REMAINS
ILniid "re suioman1 IN RUSSIAN CAPITAL
BHkuIM, Dec. 81.—Germany a
tir»t post-war cruiser will be
launched at Wilhelmshaven Jan
with the cabinet in attendance
you can deprve this man of his
suffrage right simply because _hU
name is not on a list of voters cer-
tified by the county tax collector.’'
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Postpone Consideration.
The couneil in session Wednesday
declded to postpone final consider,
ation of City Attorney Rector's
opinion that Mayer w. D. Yett is
required under the charter to call
the electon for 1 nb 2 and that this
must be done thirty days before the
date of the electton, A Hat of elec-
tion Judges must also be compiled, .
Attorney Rector held in his opinion,
in accordance with the city .barter.
Because the new charter does not
become effective until Thursday,
Jan. 1, and this being a legal holi-
Harding.
Madame Marcia explains that the
country will start its new year lin-
der the zodiac algn LAbra.
| “Libra standa for jufltlc* and a
I balancing of accountn," she ex-
. plains. “It is the sign of the United
States and is sometimes called The
Eagle.
the state, is expected to come to
Austin this afternoon nr Thursday
to execute the deed formally trans-
forcing the Sl-acre tract to the
state, through"* John Tobin, chair-
. man of the Lions' Club park com-
mittee, and the state parks board
As soon as the deed is executed.
James I. Fry, landscape engineer,
will come here to inspect the park
site- and t > report ■< n beautifica-
tion work to be started. It is ex-
pected. erly in the year
W. F Lambertson from the board,
of administration because he re-J J L
chanecjioryaunazey or"kahatsonnaf Leavenworth
versity, nil Kansas was wondering y) 7 T 1
:55m ml next Eubernatorat nv Kecord rrom
Lambertson, who was asked to ryv '
resign by the governor several day: / o rye
ago, was "fired' late Wednesday1 ' A V(L•
and advised he had told "a bare.
faced lie."
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TOPEKA, Kan. Dec. 31.—With
the ousting by Governor Davis off
enberg Says in Taking
Case to Council.
The Ntatenmas will be printed
tomorrow as a consolidated
American Statesman in order
that The Ktatesman workers
may enjoy a new year holiday.
1 a hospital in an ambulance And
"X ’X.X n 'S’ saialiv efine, albetln sat have
"Hb go to H hut be careful '
restaurants and similar busnesses,
will be closed after noon Thursday
in observance of New Year’s Day.
it was announced Wednesday at the
headquarters of the Retail Mer-
chants’ Associaion.
The annuai banquet and election
of officers for the association has
been scheduled for Jan 12 Instead
ol .fan. 19. aw originally announced,
because of the crowded condition of
the city at the time of the in-
nuguratonof Mi a. Ferguson, it was
announced.
That's Edict From Police
! Commissioner Nolen on
' Eve of Big New Year’s
Celebration
Representative King made a
statement recently that he strongly
opposed dancing in the capitol, but'
did not offer object Iona to the ball
Because evidence showed that he
was suffering from a toothache and
had been excused from duty by
Police Chief J. N Littlepage Mon-
day night, the city council Wed-
nesday morning upheld the appeal
of Motorcycle Officer A. H. Von
Rosenberg and declined to ratify
the action of PoHee Commissloner
Harry W. Nolen in ordering the of-
ficer suspended for a ten-day
period when Von Rosenberg refused
to be fined $10 out of his month’s
salary,
Nolen told the council that he had
fined Von Rosenberg and Officers
Will Meredith and Ernest Bargsley
J10 each after he had found them
in attendance at a show' Monday
night at the Hancock Opera House
Morgan Line Longshoremen Protest
Mechanical Loading Devices.
PARK DEED SOON Due to A strike of longshoremen!
____ employed by the Morgan lines in
Trip Requires Time, Says
L 31- The four federal dlstricts • Secretary of State.
Assistant Secretary In Neff's Of-
fice Appointed.
Appointment of John H. Johnson
nf Galveston, assistant sesretary in
the governor's office, to the posi-
tion of law secretary to Judge T, B.
Greenwood of the supreme court,
was announced today.
The law position was held for a
number of years by Wrigut
Mathews- of Palestine, resigned.
Johnson:haw been in the governor's
office several years,, except for a
few months last winter when he
was secretary to the Texas Educa-
tional Survey, ' -
Nomination of- W. Gregory
Hatcher of Dallas as state treasure
-a friend of the Fergusons and a
supporter of Ferguson policies, will
give the governor a majority on two
•mportant boards,) the banking
board and the depository board.
I‘he governor is to appoint the
banking commissionet Dan Moody.
■ attorney general will be the third
member. •
Notice was served Wednesday
morning by N. A. Ladd of the Aus-
tin Trades Labor Council that the
wages of common laborers would
be Increased in Austin in line with
nationwide increases, effective
April 1.
Ladd handed each councilman a
copy of the was increase order
given out by Secret a hy H. M. Cor-
Lett of Local No. 266, International
Hod Carriers, Building and Com-
mon Laborers’ Union of America
Common Labor 50 Cents.
The new wage scale provides pay-
ment of 62% cents an hour for the
following classes of work: . Drill-
ing for blasting, hodding of brick
and mortar, mortar makers and
sand screeners. cutting concrete by
hand, laying of newer tile, helping
plumbers, handling of cement in
, large mixer and labor foremen.
Handling blasting powder will carry
a wage of 75 cents an hour and
all common labor will get 60 cents
an hour.
The notice states that a working
day shall be 8 hours; that double
time will be charged on holidays
and Saturday afternoons; time and
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VOL. 54—NO. 195.
Hides of 32 o’possums, 24 skunks,
2 coons. 4 ringtails and 8 civet
cats were stolen some time Tues-
day night from the warehouse of
the Miller Produce Company, 301
West Fourth Street, It was report-
ed to police headquarters early
Wednesday morning. The burglary
was discovered by F. L. Taylor,
bookkeeper for the concern, when
he opened for business Wednesday
morning.
The thief, or thieves, gained en-
trance to the building by forcing
a lock on a side door of the build-
ing opening onto Laavaca Street. A
thin blade of steel was evidently
inserted in the crack of the door
and the lock broken by pressure,
■ it was said.
The furs were the only things
missing from the stock after a hasty
survey Wednesday morning, said
I Congrenaman Deniec Chargea »•
Gambling and Drinking.
{AaDtiated Yim Dispateh to Sintesman.1
ALPENA, Mhh. Dec. 31— Under
a bcessed tooth for several days prior
to Monday and said the chief "told
me to o home if I wanted to.” he said.
I didn't go home heca use I want-' l’olice are working on the case.
e to be with the boys and hecausehoush they declare the burglars
I love the work I am doing. Von; let no worthwhile clues.
Rosenberg stated. i --------------
"It was raining that night and it STRIKE IN NEW YORK
“as not pra.tteal rnr u, io patrol CAUSES FREIGHT DELAY
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Departments in Line
With ‘Ma’ Ferguson
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Election of state officlals in harmony with the Ferguson platform,
and appointments nf members of boards, will enable the Ferguson
WAGE RAISE FOR IREACIIERY, death, restlessness, war and what not are in store for the American:
___1 people in 1925. That is, if you believe the prophecy of Madame Marcia, Wash-
ington astrologist, said to have predicted the death d President Harding. The fate of
the United States will lie in the hands of others, she says. ’ Misfortune will overtake
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