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An Austin
HOME EDITION
VOL. 52—NO. 263.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1924
COSTA RICA IS SHAKEN BY SERIES OF SEVERE EARTHQUAKES
IE
SEEKING TO SOLVE
Of Alleged ‘Graft’
PARKING PROBLEM
THREE ARE IN THE RACE AMERICANS ESCAPE
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HARDSHIP ON PUBLIC
REGARDED IT AS TRAP
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BAKER BUYS ORIENTAL
Mabelle
’s for Miss Mabelle In the
would be constructed
at a cost of
$4,000,000.
WEDNESDAYS PROGRAM.
BYFIELD-CANDLER SUIT
COUNSEL REPORTED ILL
. 1141.444.71
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THE WEATHER
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HUNDREDS OF AUSTIN WOMEN
HEAR MRS. CHASE; LECTURES
ON BETTER HOMES APPRECIATED
HOTEL HISTORIC OLD
HOSTELRY TO BE RAZED
FERGUSONSPURNS BUILDINGS CRASH,
ORGANIZATION AS MANY CASUALTIES
BEING “KLANNISH” AS EARTH ROCKS
Some Declare Automobiles Have
No More Right to Occupy
Street Space Than Merchants
Have to Utilize Sidewalks.
AGED JAPANESE PRINCE,
TWICE REPORTED DEAD,
APPARENTLY RECOVERING
U. S. Minister and His Family
Have Close Call When Lega-
tion Collapses; Extent of Dis-
aster In Interior Not Known.
Speakers at St. Louis Convention
Declare Small Minority Is
Trampling On Rights of the
Masses. I
to
sly
Montana Senator Expresses Be-
lief Doheny's Purpose Was to
Influence Investigation; Cipher
Messages Decoded and Read.
SECOND OLDEST NEWSPAPER
IN TEXAS. ESTABLISHED 1871
Total county taxes ..... 8264,214.50
Paid Mat. treasurer, Jan. 1924:
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Plaintiff In Breach of Promise
Suit Accused of Blackmail;
’Bought’ a Baby for Evidence
OLLIE COLE IS GIVEN
FIVE-YEAR SENTENCE
ON ROBBERY CHARGE
Thirty-Story, 1000-Room Struc-
ture Planned for North
• Texas Metropolis.
MOODY TO BROWNWOOD
FOR STARKEY TRIAL
DEADLY NEW POISON
GAS MADE BY GERMANS
Adjudged Winners In Beauty
Olympiad Conducted by Radio
ACTION ON SHOALS BILL
BEFORE END OF WEEK
all
..... $597,061.77
LONDON’S AIR DEFENSE
TO BE ELABORATE
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PLCASLD
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MCETCHA
Conference Will Probably Pick
Head of Ticket From Among
H. L. Darwin, T. W. David-
son and W. E. Pope.
Sue LAO? 1
I$ NOW xw
LFUL HEOOCD
I WIF A
structure were incomplete, but local
newspapers say it will be a thirty-
*tory. 1000-room_bullding.
Tipper of Teapot” Reveals
That Petroleum Magnate Of-
fered to Let Him or His Broth-
er In On Good Thing.
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Total state taxes ........ $332,147.27
Total taxes paid in. -
PRICE FIVE CENTS
......... $225,068,63
registra-
highway
..... $107,688.64
He said plans for the new
Taxes paid into the county tax co-
lector’s office during the year
amounted to $597,061.77, according to
report of J. R. Williams, county tax
collector.. The distribution of taxes L
according to the various funds isf
shown in the report of the collector!
as follows:
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DOHENY DANGLED
ALLURING "BAIT"
BEFORE SENATOR
22′0
Attorney!
beach of
withdrawn
023
County ad valorem tax,...,
Special 15c road tax......
Highway district tax.....
Common school district tax
County poll tax .........
County part auto tax 1924
registrations .. .......
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ba Md her suit againet Baum.
Mia. Bring My. aha can iden-
tify the baby by a atiff finger,
sauged by a cut shortly after it.
birth. Baum‛• attorneye assert
that the infant which M. Mabelle
iaims aa here, haa auch a de-
formity.
TOKIO, March 4.—Prince Mayayoshi
Matsukata, M. announcement of whose
death shocked the nation saturday,
but who was found Nunday to be alive,
lo ietnipe stremgth and hl. condition
now 1. hopeful. It woo announced to-
day.
43,336.84 1
16,071.14
22.149.27
Mil 25
40,022.25
TRAFFIC EXPERTS Two Congressmen
May Face Charges
Approximately Half the Build-
ings In City of San Jose Either
Demolished or Badly Dam-
aged by Shocks.
State taxes ......
Stat. part auto
tion tax paid
epartment . ...
Temple Man Withdraws His
Name for Endorsement as
Candidate for Governor Be-
cause of K. K. K. Issue.
one upon which
COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS
REPORT BT* LEASED WIRE
WASHINGTON, March 4.—Action
before the end of the wook on Henry
Ford’s offer for M uscle Shoals was
predieted by leaders today as the
I house turned ita attention to the Me-
1 Kennte proposal for cceptanco v the
bid. .j
j Two days probably win be devoted
I to general discussion after which the
I bill will be considered under the five
minute rule with amendments la order.
NEW YORK, March 4 —Earthquakes
shook Port Limon and Ran Jose, Costa
Rica, early today, said a message re-
ceived here by the all-America cables.
The first quake occurred at about 5 a.
m. and was followed by others. The
tremors were continuing at 8 o’clock.
Many buildings in San Jose were
damaged.
ment and when her baby was born,
gave it to Miss Mabelle, the com-
plaint charged.
Mise Mabelle, it is alleged, left
Chicago, tolling the mother that
she was taking the child to St.
Louis. From St. Louis Miss Dring
says she received a telegram stat-
ing that the baby was critically
ill. Then osmo a message from
Kansas City, telling of its death.
The child is* alive, Miss Dring and
the attorneye declare, and is the
At top, Mary Costello; left. Hilda Brooks; right, Statira Childress;
below. Helen Hamilton.
Beauty con tests are getting to be aa ordinary as ball games—a
girl can hardly avoid being a "prettiest girl” some time. Miss Hilda
Brooks of Cincinnati, the latest to bo declared the prettiest of the pret-
tiest, is a distinctive prize beauty, however. She was declared winner in
the first pulchritude Olympiad ever held by radio, conducted by station
WLW. Mary ostell, Statira Childress and Helen Hamilton took
second, third and fourth prizes, respectively. The decisions were made
bs fane after descriptions of contestants had been broadcast
East Texas: Tonight fair, colder,
frost In north portion; Wednesday
fair; moderate to fresh westerly to
northerly winds on the coast.
West Texas: Tonight fair, colder
except in southwest portion; Wednee-
day fair
Crfminal djstrlet court will probably
be at ease for the remainder of the
week, due to the calling of District
Attorney Dan Moody to Brownwood to
assist in the prosecution of a case in
connection-with the shooting of Pot
Brown a year or more ago.
Judge Hamilton -sald that it was not
likely that Mr. Moody would be back
before the early part of next week. In
the meantime no criminal cases will
be called to trial here.
Domestic art lecture: Furnishing
a six-room house.
Domestic science lecture: Feeding
and care of children.
Demonstrations of the following:
Soft gingerbread.
School sandwiches.
Cup custards.
Meringues.
Omelettes. ,
Cocoa eggnog.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. March 4—
Miso Eileen Mabelle, plaintiff in a
$50,000 breech of promise suit
pending here against Joe Baum,
was named in a warrant charging
blackmail late Monday. Deputy
marshale seeking to serve tho
warrant are being aided in their
search by Maxie Dring, British
Immigrant girl, who is attempting
to recover her baby.
Mice Mabelle charged in her suit
againet Baum that he was the
father of a child she alleged wee
born to her in Chicago last July.
Attorneye for Baum, who made
an investigation in Chicago, pre-
sented a complaint to the county
prosecutor elleging that Mice
Mabelle went to Chicago and ad-
vertised for an infant.
Maxie Dring, penniless immi-
grant, who was soon to become a
mother, answered tho advertise-
LONDON. March 4 —An imporant
scheme of air defence for Great Britain
is being prepared by the air ministry
and the war office under direction of
Colonel Edward B. Ashmore who com-
manded London’s defense during the
war, according to the Daily Chronicle.
The scheme comprises a sky defensive
extending to more than 10,000 feet
above the ground.
••Colonel Ashmore,” says the news-
paper, “will take great arose of ths aky
and so ‘mine" and net and barrage
them that from the earth level tb an
altitude of more than three miles, no
aerial raiders will find it possible to
live and move therein, while above
that will be an area of bursting shells
and other defensive* measures. New
squadrons of fleet air fighters will
patrol the air to an altitude never be-
fore attained in aerial fighting.”
OIL SNARE SPREAD FOR WALSH
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PARIS, March 4—The new poison
gae developed in Germany embodies
carbon monoxide, in the opinion of the
eminent French chemist. Dr. Pierre
Louis Rehm, writing in the Matin.
The German chemists, he says,
probably have succeeded iny getting
solutions of metallic carbonyls, the
microscope particles of which, are
capable of penetrating the filters of
gae ms ska and then giving off carbon
monoxide.
This gas is not only colorless and
odorless, but one of the deadliest
known to science.
By Associated Press.
BAN JOSE, Costa Rica., March 4.--A
series of earth shocks, the strongest
felt here in twenty-five years, be-
ginning at 4 o’clock this morning,
damaged fully half the buildings of
San Jose and caused a number of
casualties.
A part of the American legation
building collapsed but the American
minister and his family and the Ameri-
can consul and his family escaped un-
injured.
No injuries to any American resi-
dent have been reported-
Communication with neighboring
cities is entirely cut off.
WASHINGTON, March 4.—No
investigation of the findings of the
Chicago grand jury which indicted
C. R. Forbes and J. W. Thompson
will be made by tho special senate
veterans committee, it was an-
nounced today by Senator Rood,
chairman of that committee.
Senator Reed declared that tho
information furnished the com-
mittee concerning two mo bore of
the house of representatives show-
ed that it wae not a matter for in*
vsetigation but prompt pi isecu-
tion.
A member of the special commit-
tee stated after a oonference with
John W. H. Crim, government
counsel in the case, that it was the
understanding of the comm ttoe
that Mr. Crim would give to the
president the names of the two
congressmen involved in the
charges made by the Chicago
grand jury.
promise action have
from tho case.
By Associated Press.
ST. LOVIS, March 4.— Downtown
parking of automobiles must be
abolished. building skyscrapers
limited and 4176.000.400 raised yearly
for extension of electric railways in
order to relieve traffic congestion
in large cities of the Unted States,
transportation experts representing
municipalities and electric railways
disclosed at the mi-year meeting of
the American Railway Association
here today.
Perking was vigorously attacked by
five traffic experts led by Harland
Bartholomew, city plan engineer of
St. Louis.
“There is no more reason why
street space should be given over to
the parking of automohiles than there
is for granting the wholesale grocer
the use of part or all of the side-
walk and street space in front of his
building for the storage of commod-
ities,” Bartholomew declared. "Street
space should be “reserved for moving
traffic wherever space is needed.”
President Britton I. Budd of the
association declared that street car
riders would soon revolt against the
small minority who travel in automo-
bile! taking precedence over them in
the use of street space. He termed
the problem of congestion relief a
joint one for electric railway and
automobile men.
Illustrating the unfairness of park-
ing to the average motorist, R B.
Kelk er of Chicago, declared that
while there were 250,000 automobiles
in Chicago, the loop could park only
1140 of them
"Support should be enlisted every-
where to secure a reasonable limita-
tion of building heights and to pro-
hibit parking where the interests of
thousands are sacrificed to the con-
venience, real or imaginary, of the
very few.” Kelker said. “The adoption
of appropriate regulations is recom-
mended and above all support should
be given to the enforcement of all
sound traffic reglation.""
Separation of automobiles and
street cars by streets or parts of
streets in the business districts and
ths confining of automobiles outside
business districts to boulevards, in-
sofar as possible, were advocated by
George Baker Anderson of Io8
Angeles. Left hand turns also cause
much congestion and should be
abolished in heavily congested di-
tricts, he insisted. Figures quoted by
Mr. Anderson showed that the aver-
age automobile rider in Loe Angeles
occupied slightly more than fourteen
times as much street space as a street,
car rider.
Hghty per cent of collision acci-
dents between automobiles in Cleve-
land are caused by parking in down-
town streets, said John J. Stanley of,
('leveland.
General conditions In the industry,
are good. declared J. K. Newman and
B. H Cobb of New York and Prof.
Richard T. Ely of Madison. WIs l
There is need for new money for
extensions, all agreed, but It is being
obtained through restored confidence
on the part of inveMore.
Acquit fat for John Pearson and
five years in the state penitentiarv
for Ollio Cole was the verdict of a
jury in the eriminal district court in
the trial of the two men indicted for
robbery with firearms in connection
with the hold up of a dice game four
weeks ago near Mt. Bonnell.
The case went to the jury at mid-
night. Monday, the jury returning a
verdict shortly before noon Tuesday.
Counsel for the defense stated that
an appeal In the Ollie Cole case would
be filed.
FARM-LABOR UNION PICKING POLITICAL SLATE
I . ________________________
WASIINGTON, Man-Il 4—Sur-
prises tumblea over one another
again today when the oil committee
resumed Ita pubile heurings.
Senator Walsh of Montana, the
commlttev'x chief promecutor, pre-
: senged eqerespondence showing ‘
E. I- Doheny soughe hat Dece_____
to intereet him in an oil enterprime,
anil that he promapuly refusca to hav
anyeine to do nil ll nny venture that
mighe make him appeap in a wromu
light. In view of his official pomtiom.
wltam J. Bunn chief of the bu-
nuu of In. eMigalien ot cne depar-
ment of Justice, tesuriea that K. B.
MeLcan liad been placed on the roll of
secret agents of tin- depertmene boom
after inauguraton da, la 1921; that
he stiu retatned that comnectom; ami
that the famods - Mar,' memeuge waa
ment to Florida in an effort to sug-
| Eest Umi he shonla resign hi ordr
not to embarrass Attoriey Generai
Daugherty.
WASHINGTON, March 4 — Senator
Walsh, Democrat, Montana, chief
prosecutor in the oil inquiry. retume
in December to enter into an oil
trensaction with E. L. Doheny.
It might be “squeamtshness on my
part" Senator Walsh told Doheny but
he could not appear to use his offi-
cial position for profit.
Senator Walsh said the purpone ot
the negotiations apperentiy was to
hamper the work of the oil commit-
tee.
Telegrams put into the record of
the oil committee today ebowed that
after Walsh had forwarded tc Doheny
a suggestion from s constituent as to
development of the Montana oil rleld,
Doheny suggested that Walsh or hi
brother go to Los Angeles and con-
eull about tt.
Doheny based bin suggestion on a
proviso that the Montana senator or
his brother was willing to “take la.
terest" in the proposition.
.Senator Walsh replied that the sug-
gestion was “most alluring" but mid
he could not accept because la-May
negotiations with the government
would be necessary.
"Whlla I am in the official pomi-
lion I hold.'’ said Waisbe reply, “It
seems to me unwise for me to engage
in any business dependent In any
appreciable degree on government
DECATUR Ga., March 4—Because
at the illness of defense counmel, the
eult of Mrs Barah a. Myflela for $1o,-
000 against Walter T. Candler, waa
postponed until tomorrow when the
came waa called In DeKalb count, su-
perior enurt Ida,.
Mrs. Bytiald, the wife of Clyde K.
Byfield, Atlanta automobile ‘dealer, al-
leged that Mr. Candler. millonaire
aportsman, and son of Asa O. Candler
Sr, Atlanta millionaire ,oft drink
manufacturer, attacked bar while she
and her huaband. Mr. Candler, and
hla two young daughter, were en
route to Europe on the liner Beren-
garla during the summer of 1922.
Mra Byfiela and her humbana were
in court when the oe.me wae called but
Mr Candler we, not prement. Both
atdes were represented by lawyers
from Atlanta.
DALLAS, Texas March 4—The
Oriental Hotel, Daltas landmark, and
for half a century popular with Texans
and visitors from other states, la to
pass out, a victim to modernism.
Announcement was made last night
by the Oriental Hotel Association that
the six-story hotel which in the past
has been host to auch notables as
Grover Cleveland. Theodore Roosevelt.
Woodrow Wilson and Warren O.
Harding, has been sola to T, B. Baker,
hotel operator at Fort Worth. Ran An-
tonio and Austin, for $785,000. Mr
Raker. In turn annunced that the work
of destruction of the old building would
begin six months hence when preeent
leases expire and that a new hotel
The correspondence took place be-
fore Doheny revealed that he had
laned $100,000 to AB Fall but after
the senate Inqurly into tbe Sinclair
and Doheny leases had been begun.
In reading the messages into the
i record Senator Walsh Mid efforts had
। been made "to discover something that
> might be urged feloniounly or other-
CO. TAX COLLECTIONS
IS POSTPONED; DEFENSE FOR THE LAST YEAR Emaws between Doheny Anafmysizg.e-
• Waleh Reveal, Correpondene
TOTAI <597061 77 Senator Walrh announce that the
IV IAL ?•3 1 ,VV1.I 4 , committee had found in its meareh tele-
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Approximately IM women crowded
Into the auditorium of the Elka Club
to attend the opening of The Austin
statesman’s Better-Foods, Bettor-
Home, Exposition and hear the Initial
lectures of Mra. Florence Austin Chase
of Chicago who spoke on "Rome Sweet
Home," and demonstrated the making
of varloua Minde. Mrs. Chase alto epok
on the importance of the hoymewive
knowing food values in order that ahe
may plan the proper menus for the
family and how to use discriminntion
in the preparation of- toods in In-
dividual cAses,
The housewives of the elt, who nt-
tended Monday were erithuninstie
about the training offered to them
free by The Austin Stateman In co-
Operation with a number of Auetin'e
(Continued on Page Thirteen.)
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Texan Radio orporation and
Austin Statesman Broad-
easting Station.
Thia sttion is owned and
operated by the Texan Radio
Corporation, dealers in Radio
Suppites and not a Tho piano
used at thin station in furnshe
by the J. K. Reed Music com-
pany of Austin, Texaa
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1:41 to 4 p. -Local and
general news.
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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
By Associated Press.
DALLAS, Texas, March 4.—The
name of former Governor Jame! E.
Ferguson ax the possible indorses of
the Farmer-Labor party for governor
of Texas, was withdrawn from con-
sideration by ths Farmer-Labor polit-
ical conference today on Mr. Fer-
guson’s own request. His name had
been put up soon after consideration
of the gubernatorial candidates began.
w. D. Lewis of Coryell county read
a letter from Mr. Ferguson in which
the former governor said he did not
desire the indorsement of the Farmer-
Labor party. He said he had never
been a candidate for he Farmer-Labor
indorsement and that he Intended to
continue his candidacy for governor
regardless of the action taken at this
meeting. He declared that “as the
Farmer-Labor party has openly in-
dorsed throe members of the Ku Klux
Klan and as I intend to ask my friends
to oppose the Ku Klux Klan candi-
dates, and I will oppose them myself.
I cannot ask the support of the Form-
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