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WORST BUZZARD IN MANY YEARS SWEEPING THE SOUT
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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT BY LEASED WIRE
VOL. 51—NO. 281.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, SUNDAY, MARCH 18,1923
(HOME EDITION)
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WACO’S‘BLACK TERROR’ SENTENCED TO DEATH
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MERCURY DROPS SIXTY
GALLOWS CHEERED
DEGREES AT AMARILLO;
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GOVERNMENT’S INCOME
THE WHITE HOUSE HIS OWN STORY
TAXING POWER PROPOSED
Homer Toney, On Trial For His
e give
SHOUTS OF APPLAUSE
ness
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or
SEES NO OPPOSITION SEEK TO SET UP ALIBI
Presidential Spokesman Declares Defense Introduces Number Of
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Business
and salaried men
men
By Associated Press.
MONDAY IS ELECTION
lumbus.
DAY IN AUSTIN FOR
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS
in regard to the es-
the year.
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below zero this mornins.
of
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to have been an outgrowth of a diffi-
cully between the men nt that time.
TO BE REORGANIZED
Special efforts are being made to
Payne
tymee nenmamenuutast
WEATHER FORECAST.
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estimated loss of between $75,000 and
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CROWING WORSE, U.S,
DIPLOMAT DECLARES
BROTHERS QUARREL; ONE I
DEAD; THE OTHER IN JAIL
Charles R. Crane Piclures Situa-
tion As Blacker Than When
Tartars Ruled Moscow.
MOTHER AND FATHER
MURDERED; TWO INFANTS
SUFFOCATED TO DEATH
Defendant’s Relatives; District
Attorney Moody Hits Witness
With Chair.
W.
IVEL
IRARY
Life. Will Take The Witi
Stand Either Monday
Tuesday.
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ite libra-
of this
come to
Monday is primary election day in ■
Austin and voters of the city will cast
U. S. TRANSPORTATION
ACT CONSTITUTIONAL,
FEDERAL COURT HOLDS
SECOND ODDEST NEWSPAPER
IN TEXAS. ESTABLISHED 1871.
TWO TRAIN ROBBERS
CAPTURED BY POSSE;
BOTH BADLY WOUNDED
[proportion
entherford
which goes
| minimum
late library
ached, the
Women's
i of their
, who
in the
mmit-
SHOOTS WIFE, KILLS
3 CHILDREN, THEN
TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
Since then his chief political adviser.
"President Harding will be a candi-
date for renomination,"’ said the at-
Ito library
I made an
finds that
lording to
rhe lowest
compara-
I are used.
110 library
will cer-
orhood of
ress car-
the Bus-
en’B Club
1 mile of
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they have
Lit in the
tory goes,
interested
estimate
f pennies
• of the
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OKLAHOMAN OFFERS TO
SHOOT IT OUT WITH
OFFICER; HE’S DEATH
Virginia Railroad Employe, For
No Apparent Reason, Turns
Home Into Shambles.
reach adequate cover with stock trains
enroute to Omaha but enormous loss
in stock is feared.
placed the weapon behind his ear and
pulled the trigger, killing himself In-
stantly.
ation
Bon-
copy
cord.
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Special to The Austin Statesman.
HOUSTON, Texas, March 17—Thor-
U. S. JUDGE REBUKES
INDUCED SALE TACTICS
OF DRY OFFICERS
day.
With an
I
egree
"Bo-
l sev-
arious
m in
d the
MISSISSIPPI STORM
TOLL INCREASED TO 28
FLAMES WIPE OUT
STEPHENS CO. TOWN
Seven For City Commission
Comprise Ticket.
id the
tizens,
« that
of
ive to
ed in
BY nOnEIT T. SMALL
Special Correspondent of The Statesman.
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ates, I
pus. to
piously
ind re-
b all in
and to
o prac-
on and
public
pch, to
I greater
with the death in a Memphis hospital
of Mrs M. II. Rich, injured when her
home at Savage was demolished; the
receipt of belated advices from Bates-
ville reporting the death of five ne-
groes in a farm settlement near that
to vn, and further reports of four ne-
groes killed near Rock Hill, in Panola
County* i
By Associated Press.
AMARILLO, Texas, March 17.—Breaking all known records in
temperature changes here, the most severe blizzard of the winter swept
the Panhandle of Texas tonight, driving the temperature downward
at an alarming rate. The blizzard struck in the form of a fierce wind
from the north and the mercury dropped 60 degrees in six hours.
Sleet and snow, driven by the fifty-mile wind, started falling late
tonight and zero weather forecast by morning with serious damage to
livestock.
The thermometer registered 68 degrees at 5 o’clock this after-
noon and at 11 tonight it stood at 8 above.
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SNOW, SLEET AND WIND
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ROANOKE, Va., March 17.—After an
unsuccessful attempt to kill his wife,
: Ballard MeGuire, 32, an employe of the
| Norfolk & Western Railway, tonight
storm, which caused damage estimated
at hundreds of thousands of dollars
tional tax bill and on his coming trip
through the country he is likely to
hear much about the tax burdens the
people are hearing. That complaint
is said to be moe desirous of hearing
wht the country is thinking than in
tellinE the country, what he thinks.
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sippl valley from the northwest on
This station is owned and op-
erated by the Texas Radio Cor-
poration, dealers in Radio Sup-
plies and sets. The piano used
al this station la furnished by
the J. R. Reed Music Company
of Austin, Texas
— — — 'appreciation of the Harding adminis-
tration, Mr. Daugherty said, is now
LOCUST GROVE, Ola , March 17.— beginning.
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Fla., March 17
DENVER, Colo., March 17 — Lashed
Along by a wind that ranged from 45
miles an hour speed in Denver to 100
miles an hour in velocity at Carona,
Colo, at the "top of the world," on
the Continental Divide, the worst
blizzard of the winter today swept
Colorado and the Rocky Mountain re-
Mi AM I BEACH,
have realized that another year has
gone by without any sort of tax re-
lief. They have found the states in
increasing number failin in with the
government plan of levying income
Special to The Austin Statesman.
FORT WORTH, Texas, March 17—A
blizzard will strike Fort Worth Mon-
day morning.
With temperatures ranging between
24 and 28 degrees, the weather will
be one of the severest cold spells of
the year.
• For the north and central portions
of East Texas, United States Weather
Observer Landis forecasts the mercury
will hover between 20 and 28 degrees
Monday.
The cold wave will bring tempera-
tures between 10 and 18 degrees-for
the north portion of West Texas and
for the south portion between 24 and
28 degrees during Sunday.
I’he blzzar Saturday was sweeping
down from the Rockies. At Denve,
there was a drop of 50 degrees in 12
hours.
He fully realizes that the church must
again play a leading part in saving
Russla,
"The religious spirit of Russfa has
grown with suffering and has never
been stronger than today. The latest
move is to force a bolhevik church on
the people. This will be the worst tor-
ur of the Ruanlan ptopJW*
since 1888. Fine snow is being
whipped by a seventy mile an.hourough reorganization is planned for the
wind and the snow is drifting badiY. ! prohibition enforcement force in this
C---inl heine mede e district. E. B. Henson of Austin slated
today. Mr. Henson is chief of the field
BREKENRIDOI, Texas, March li.
Nearly all of th* town of Ivan in
Stephens county, twenty ml ten north-
east of Breckenridge, was swept away
a total
to the
plans to Introduce several witnesses
who have Important testimony to give,
the character of which has not been
man. That it will be Jate Tuesday
Miami’ before the presentation of defense tes-
recent|timoty can be completed was the
opinion xpressed by one of Toney’s
portion, Monday fair, not to cold.
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------ . . I took the lives of his three children—
CHICAGO. March 1 . * • 1 James, aged 5, and Dot and Dorothy,
scheduled to do another lion ac .' , twins, aged 3—and then sent a bullet
day, according to the w cat 1e r,burea through his own train.
which announced another eod g i The tragedy was enacted in their
exceptionally severe for this season of i home here. McGuire, returning home
■will strike the upper Missis- , from his work late today, found his
that wife standing at the head of the stair-
way. As he entered the front door,
he pulled a pistol from his pocket and
advance guard of snow ber|fired. The bullet struck Mrs. McGuire
ginning tonight. the full force of thejin the arm. She was not seriously
storm is expected to sweep into the J wounded.
valley from Canada Sunday morning' McGuire then mounted the stairs
and is expected to keep temperatures and went to the room where his three
down for at least another 48 hours, children were and killed the tots as
rhe storm is well on its way through > they played upon the floor. He then
he Canadian northwest toward the ■
Mississippi valley and lake region
Temperature readings at many points
in Canada ranged from 20 to 36 degrees
There Will Be No Other Can-
didale Except One Who Is
Always a Candidate.
Two Candidates For Mayor And rtntrsuangt,doue tho Ertontgtunhe
far ave not been reflected in the na-
sale. He pleaded guilty to a charge
a of possession,- but branded the sale
a evidence a "fraieup."
i2una3eamaan2)w susasusasusasnssui
East Texas: Sunday, fair, colder ex-
cept on the coast. Cold wave in north
and cenkrei with temperature 20 to 28
degrees by Monday morning. Monday,
fair, colder in southeast portion, prob-
ably freezing to the coast; fresh shift-
ing southerly winds on coast, swinging
to northeast Sunday night.
West Texas: Know In north; rain in
WASHINGTON, March 17.—Weather
outlook for the week beginning Mon-
day:
West Gulf States: Rain Sunday night
followed by generally fair except for
rains about Wednesday or Thursday.
Decidedly colder first part, probably
frost to the gulf coast and freezing
temperature in the interior, rising tem-
brature puddle pt the week.
$ 100,000 with no insurance. Several
south portion, colder with a cold wave;
temperature will be 10 to 18 degres by fire this morning, with
in north and 24 to 28 degrees In south est’mated loss of hetween $7!
TAXPAYERS CLAMORING FOR RELIEF™*™"
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SEATTLE. Wnsh, March 17.—Ex-
amination of the bodies of Mrs. Cleo-
patra Karas and Gust Karas, her
brother-in-law, found dead in the
Home Bakery, at Everett, swept by
fire early today, revealed that both
had been beaten about the heart and
killed probably before the fire started.
Coroner Charles Fickle said Mrs.
Karas' two children. George, aged 4,
and Polly. aged 2, whose bodies were
also found, had been suffocated by
smoke, the coroner said.
The skulls of the two older persons
had been terribly crushed, he declared.
Ho said he enld assign no motive for
the crime.
veloped during the examination
3 p. m.: Regular radio sermon
by Rev. George Green, pastor of
the First BAptist Church.
NEW ORLEANS, March 17 — Con-
stitutionality of the transportation act
of 1920 was upheld in a decision here
today by a court composed of Federal
District Judge Rufus Foster and Cir-
cult Judges R. W. Walker and A. C.
King in the suit of the Dayton A Goore
Creek Hnilroad Company against the
United States government and 1be in-
terstate commerce commission.
The railroad sought an injunction to
restrain the government from collec-
tion of its net earnings in excess of
6 per cent. The corporation admitted
it had earned more than 6 per cent on
its investment, but contended th^
transportation act was unconstitu-
tional and it sought to collect without
compensntion and without due process
of law. The court denied the injunc-
tion. Its decision carrying with it the
ruling that the act was constitutional.
HARDING TO SEEK GREER'S ALLEGED AMENDMENT (RTAY INC
SECOND TERM IN SLAYER TO T E L L AMENMEN1 UUKI AILING
Texas Radio Corporation and
Austin Statesman Broad-
casting Station.
Phons 8701.
gion. Snowfall was general through- 1:UST GROVE, OkU . :aich 17 —
out the region accompanied by rapid- Sam Fry was shot and instantly killed
ly descending temperature. -n • henaee et-ec* be-e *-datr l.«r
One death was attributable to the
Mr. Daugherty, who is at
Beach recuperating from his
illness, made his statement
" 02 LiLAM.
Act \ Te
Mitchell i, to be trled on twelve
chargee, all of them involving the
brutal murders occurring in Mclen-
nan county during the past year.
..was 7143 o'clock when Coun-
ty Attorney Fanner completed his an.
peal to the jury and the Jurymen re-
tiren to consider the verdict, first se-
lecting a foreman At 762 o'clock
tho jury pled back into the box an.
nouneins it had reached 4 Vordldt. As
the twelve mtn came back into the
court room, the hum of conversation
woe hushed until the decinion of the
U lai jury was unnounced. After a
hush of but a moment, a shout of
opprovw wont up from the crowd that
filled the court room to its capacity,
t beers and hand elnpping were joined
in oy the large number of women who
were in I he crowd. The demonsira.
tion continued several minutes with-
out any reprimand or notice by the
ocers, who smiled their approval of
the decision given,
Cheers Were given County Attorney
Farmer and hearty approval was given
his prosecutiov of the case and his
uK’l o the Jury they sell
Mitchell to the sallowa to expiate his
avimes, sorry that he only had but one
life to offer up when twelve would be
required to satisfy his known offenses
Mitchell, dm log the Harmer's ar:
raignuient for the misdeeds that he
had committed and reference made to
sending him to the gellowR, took on
an ashen color but his nerve did not
break in the slightest nor did he dis.
play any unusual emotion when the
verdict was announced after the brief
retirement a d return of the jury, de-
termining that death should be meted
out to him.
County Attornay Farmer In his ad-
dress issued a warning to the negro
population of Waco and Melennan
county that they had better mend their
ways and unite with the good and
law-ubiding white citizens Of the city
and county in seeing that the laws of
the mud were observed not giving
aid and comfort to min like Roy
Mitchell whom he referred to as the
"bluebell rd," and who at liberty made
life cheap in this cou. t, a menace to
every white woman ant gir, Dia-
cardiny ninny if the niceties of 1a
Enelish tangunKe, Farmer went into
Mitchell's confession in the Holt and
Denocamp murders, drew Ine curtain
aside and Mletured the soenes that
were enacted that January evening on
the Springfield road, beginning with
the time when Mitchell crept up on
his intended victims.
Preceding Farmer's final appeal to
the jury, asking that the extreme
penalty be Inflicted ugon Mitchell, At-
torneys Price, Miller ami Kingsbury,
counsel for the defense. presented
Mitchell's side of the case, explaining
that they were there with a duty to
perrorm-a duty that had been imposed
on them by the court. They let it be
known plainly that they were not
hired counmel but, in fact, were offi-
cers of the court appointed to seo
that Mitchell had a fair and impartial
trial and that only a legal evidenca
was presented in his prosecution.
Roy Mitchell will go to trial Mon-
day morning at 9 o'clock on a charge
of having murdered Miss Ethel Dene-
camp, woman companion of Holt. The
special venire of seventy-five men
summaned from which to select the
jury was excused Friday morning to
report Monday morning at 9 o'clock
end Attorney Kingsbury, Ptiee and
Miller will yeprosent the defendant by
appointment of the court.
force and works out of Austin. He is
in Houston supervising the local force
of two men until a new group head
is chosen. L. B. Aanss, group head,
resigned recently.
That extensive additions are to be
made to the local force bringing it up
Ito a number adequate to cope with
conditions In this district, was Inti-
mated by Mr. Henson.
torney general. "There will be 2o
2, .... revealed by the negro’s counses. Other
other candidate against him except one witnesses will also be introduced to
and that one is always a candidate, substantlate the defense testimony al-
He will be renominated and re-elected, ready submitted in regard to the es-
The country and the party will de- tablisbment of an ani for the accused
mand it.” m - . — .
newspaper correspondents with Presi-
dent Harding’s Florida vacation party.
The statement is regarded as by far
the most authoritative announcement
as to President Harding’s intentions
with respect to 1924 yet made, because
of the close relationship between the
chief executive and Mr. Daugherty.
The president and Mr. Daugherty
had several conferences before the
vacation party left Washington this
month, and they have seen each other
two or three times during this visit.
Similar statements have been made
in the last few months by several
Republicans regarded as close to the
president. Secretary Hoover some
months ago made such a statement in
an address in Callfornia, and only last
month Senator Watson of Indiana. in
a speech in the senate, predicted that
Mr. Harding would be a candidate and
•would be renominated. Asked if there
was any contingency under which Mr.
Harding would not seek another term
in the White House. Mr. Daugherty
said he believed only an impairment
of the president’s health would stand
in the way.
The time for the most extensive
NEW YORK, March 17 —Charles R.
Crane of Chicago, who was American
diplomatic commissioner to Russia and
Turky in 1917 and 1919, said today
that the rule of the Tartars, known
as the saddest period In Russian his-
tory, is not to be compared in bru-
tality with that of the present
"usurpers."
Returning on the steamship Aqultanla
after a tour of Investigation in Russia
Mr. Crane Issued a statement in which
he said:
"The only two Russians holding Im-
portant posts in bolshevik Russia. Le-
nine and Tchitcherin, are entirely
broken and mere symbols, but the in-
sane Polo, Dzierzinski, the head of the
horrible Cheka, is as active and re-
sourceful as ever.
"Now the Cheka is repeating in the
church the processes by which political,
educational and industrial Russia has
been destroyed and all leadership de-
capitated. Fyknon, who was elected
LONG BEACH, Cat, March 17.-
J. N. Stevens, who recently came from
Texas to visit his brother. W. B. Ste-
vens, nt Lynwood, near hero, la dead
from a shotgun wound and tho.brother
is beii ble for the slay
Ing, as the result of ft quarrel at the
Stevens home today. Investigators
sald W. 11. Htevena told them his
brother attacked him with a motor car
crank find he fired in self defense.
The quarrel was said tq have been
over whether J. „N. Stevens should
make his home with his brother.
seven candidates for commissioners.
Considerable conjecture as .to who
the members of the next city admin-
istration will be, which has been In-
dulged In during the past week will
be indicated tomorrow night when the
votes are counted in the various races.
Monday’s primary will not necessarily
mean election since two candidates
for mayor and eight candidates for
the commission posts are permitted
to run for the second primary elec-
tion.
The candidates for mayor are Dr.
W. D. Yett, present incumbent, and
George H. ansdowne. There are
seven candidates for the four commis-
sion posts, those being Commissioners
II. I. Haynes, George Searight and
John D. Copeland and C. N. Avpry,
Harry W. Nolen, Jim Quinlan and
John 8. Ward.
The polls will open Monday morning
at 8 o’clock and close at 7 p. m.
persons narrowly escaped death as the
high-swind swept the fin meg through
tho little town. About twenty-two
buildings with all their contents were
destroyed.
The town has no fire department and
the bucket brigade won the only pro-
tection. All that । is left in the town
now are the postoffice, meat market,
one hotel, two grocery stores and a
garage.
their ballots for one of two candi- ! Politically, as well as economically,
dales for mayor and for four out oti,in.ndmitted that the most Important
legislation to come before the next
session of congress must deal with
taxation. Unless the Income tax re-
turns to be filed a year hence can
show a material reduction In the total
to be paid to the government by the
people there can bo no doubt that the
Republican Party will go into be
presidential campaign under the most
unfavorable auspices. It will not suf-
fice to tell the people about great
economies in government unless these
economies show in a ieduced tax bill.
Kftorla by congress to reduce the
rates of the income tax law will be
met with the usual opposition by the
treasury department experts who pro-
tested even against the slight cuts
made last year and the lifting of the
so-called "nuisance" taxes on soda
water, ice cream and supposed "luxu-
ries’ in dress. But with their politi-
cal lives at stake, the Republican lead-
ers are likely to work hard to bring
down the burden born by the people
for the last six years.
The proposal of a constitutional
amendment to limit the powers of the
government in the imposition of In-
dividual and corporation taxes is cer-
tain to be a popular one and if a res-
olution submitting such an amend-
ment to the people should be passed
ry was snot an n8-anLI Kied , - - .... ■ .....
' on a business street here today by
Homer (’ox. a deputy sheriff. Wit-InGQ{A50 QgAins"IqAE
nesses said the shooting resulted when 5E1,,%5 \ l ■ 11 [W111 I f 111M
... ........— ----------- Fry accosted the officer, told him he iivvvin 5 uuhwihvii
in Colorado. The storm extended Into had liquor in his possession and of-
Arizona and New Mexico and.ifered to "shoot it out." Fry was al-
Wyoming fears were expressed toatileged to have made a motion as if to
loss of livestock would be heavy if draw a pistol and Cox opened fire.
the snowfall continued. J Cox served a warrant on Fry re-
cently to search his residence for
OMAHA, Neb., March 17.—What is {liquor, and the shooting today was said
described ns one of the worst bliz- te heen mterowth of •
Attorney General Daugherty Pre-
dicts That President’s Re-
Nomination and Re-Election In
1924 is No Longer In Doubt.
homes yesterday are marooned in the
towns to which they- ventured. Re-
ports from O’Neill. Neb. state that the
blizzard raging there is the worse
Copyright, 1923.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17.'—Backed by the business in-’Men And Women Stage Noisy
tcrests of the country and carrying a wide popular appeal, an amend-; Demonstrati.n E.... o
ment to the constitution is to be introduced in the next congress limit-J ,- I . urt Room
ing the amount of income tax which can be levied against an individual Following Reading Of the
or corporation. I Jury’s Decision.
It is claimed now that heavy taxes are choking industry. The; ,
recent business revival, after the serious period of deflation, has been .
growing steadily despite the burden of taxation ahead, but there is no} “‛wACOHSoxEreS”Aran , 171 .
doubt that the income tax returns filed last Thursday have had a oniy nine minutes ot delberdlion, "r
sobering influence on the heads of corporations, reaching from coast JuY, In the trial of Boy Mitchell,
cons? “ ne«ro, charged with the shooting and
to coast. .. . . . , killing ut W. K Holt on the night 0f
January 19, lane returned a verdict of
guilt, eosensinu hie punishment at
bl tho
y tho
andi-
ought
lo. 1,
----- patriarch of the Russlan church be-
AHuHlc , ,, , ,, ! fore the bolsheviki came in. hns cer-
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was increased, to twenty-eight tonight; never compromise in rellglous matters.
Jurors Find Negro Guilty Of
Murdering W. E. Holt Nine
Minutes After Case Is Sub-
mitted To Them.
TACOMA, Wash., March 17. Two of
three men who held up n Northern
Pacific train fit South I’rahic to^lay
were captured later west of Enumclaw.
They were badly wounded.
The automobile used by the bandit*'
was riddled with shots from the re-
volvers anti rifles of the officers of
Buckley as the car passed through tho
tow n
6. F. Going. 26. express messoner
on the train, saved 215,000 from, tin ft
when he took the money from the safe
and put it in another part of the crir
After thrcats to shoot him if he did
not disclose where the money was bid-
den had failed, the men left tho rta-
tion. The third bandit was captured
later in the woods by a posae. He also
was reported to have been woindd
zards in the mer ory of the oldest set-
tlers is raging over Nebraska, and is
- HOUSTON DRY UNIT
creasing danger of life. Towns are
isolated and ranchers x ho left their
Homer Toney will take the witness
stand in his own defense either Monday
Prediction that President Harding will । or Tuesday to deny that he la the
be a candidate for renomination, will i nesro who on the night of February 6
be selected as the Republican standard mortaily wounded if. C. Greer, grain
bearer and will ba re-elected, was : dealer, when the latter caught a thief
made here today by Attorney General In his feed yard and exchanged shots
Daugherty, pre-ton ven tion campaign ! W- th him in a battle that proved fatal
manager for Mr. Harding in 1920, ami .f the grain dealer. Before Toney
......... takes the stand, however, the defense
counsel.
The -chief purpose of testimony in-
troduced by the defense Saturday was
the establishment of an alibi for Toney.
Lula Toney, sister-in-law of the ac-
cused negro, testified that she saw
Toney in his house next door to her
residence at the time that the shoot-
ing of Greer is reported to have taken
place. Virgie Jackson, Toney’s niece,
and daughter of Lula Toney, testified
that *dte was on her way to her moth-
er’s home from town when she heard
shots in the direction of Greer's feed
store. Ten minutes later she reached
her mother's home and she said that
she saw a light burning in Homer
Toney’s house next door.
The sensation of the prokeedings
Saturday, however, was staged just be-
fore the noon recess when District
Attorney Dan Moody took exception
to the alleged impudence of a negro
witness of the defense and struck him
with a chair. Judge James R. Ham-
ilton assessed a fine of $100, but a
few minutes later ordered its reinit-
tance.
A new angle in the Case was de-
taxes. The stnte levies have been
mild, of course, compared to the na-
tonnl tribute which business and in-
dividuals must pay, but theyreen) that
■ the national income tax started in
much the same wty only to leap in
1917 to a staggering sum.
President Hording has worked dili-
Special to The Austin Statesman. -
HOUSTON, Texas, March 17.—The
Wesley version of tho Bible triumphed
in federal court when Judge J. C.
Hutcheson quoted "Lead us not Into
temptation" In criticising the "induced
sale" whereby evidence is sometmes
securd against persons charged with
selling intoxicating liquor.
Assistant United States Attorney
Horace Boule suggested the Calvin
version, quoting: "Let ua hot be led
into temptation."
"I prefer the broader version,
though," the court replied, and again
quoted, "Lead’us. not into temptation.’’
"The induced sale is contrary to
Anglo-Saxon government," he con-
oltded.
The occsfon was the continuation
of the trial of a man chargd with
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