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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
HOME EDITION
Newspaper
Owned
TEN PAGES
PRICE IN AUSTIN 3 CTS.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1924
VOL. 53- NO. 45.
TOMORROW
By H- K. SMITH
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STATE FILES CLAIM TO HUMBLE OIL FIELD
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SCORE OR MORE JAILED
WALL FORGES AHEAD CROSS SOIT IS FILED
ONLY ONE WITNESS
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TEXAS REPUBLICANS
TO MAKE STRONG BID
FOR GOVERNORSHIP
DA LI .AS. Texas, July 31.—Lee Tim-
structhere, dropping the men six
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THE WEATHER
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MIDNIGHT PARTY
ENDS IN DEATH:
GIRL IS QUIZZED,
Male Butterflies
‘Booze Fighters;’
Females Bone Dry
EIFVATOR CABLE BREAKS;
ONE MAN KILLED; THREE
BADLY HURT AT DALLAS
Girl Contends That Victim Ac-
cidentally Shot Himself After
All the Guests But She, Had
Left.
Italians Shiver
As Wintry Blasts
Displace Summer
New York Stock Broker Found
in His Apartment with Pistol
Bullet Through His Head.
The
Statesman
One of the Defendants Named
in State’s Bill Brings Action in
Which He Asks for Twenty-
Eight Million Dollars.
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SEEM AT
ALL WILLING
-oDIE .
Addition to Recovery of Rich
Oil Lands.
MAIL CLERK FOILS
BANDITS; KILLS ONE;
WOUNDS ANOTHER
ONE NEGRO SLAYER
OF ILLINOIS GIRL
DOOMED TO DEATH
THREE SUSPECTS HELD
FOR ASSASSINATION
OF FEDERAL OFFICERS
1916, he filed the necessary papers
(Continued, on Page Three.)
amount of $32,000,000. .
Perkins claims that on May 30, 1916.
PACIFIC FREIGHTER
IN DISTRESS; SENDS
OUT CALL FOR HELP
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U. S. Postal Employe Himself
Badly Wounded, In Battle
With Robbers.
G. O. P. Leaders Hope to At-
tract Many Disgruntled
Democrats.
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Oh Your
Vacation
have
Democratic Nominee Endorses
Position of His Nebraskan
Running Mate.
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Follow you. It carries
news and facts about
your old homo town.
Have it sent to you
every day while you
are away. Address
changed as often as
desired.
247 Counties Apparently As-
sure Temple Woman of Sec-
ond Place for Governor.
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this suit. a suit for cross action was
tiled by one of the defendants, G. C.
Perkins of Harris county, who claims
he is entitled to right of possession
on three tracts of land totaling 753
acres lying about twenty miles north-
east of Houston and to title on seven-
eights of the oil alleged to have been
taken unlawfully by other defendants,
except Adolph Goldman and his wife.
Gertrude Goldman of Harris county,
whom he charges with unlawfully en-
tering these three tracts and dispos-
sessing the state and himself of the
land and resulting in damage to the
or that his action has in any way
proved an embarrassment to me. On
the contrary. I think that the view
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EAST ORANGI, N. J., July 31.-
One bandit was killed, one escaped and
a mall clerk was wounded twice when
he frustrated an attempted mail rob-
bery at the Lackawanna railroad sta-
tion at 5 o’clock today.
Eugene Stack, 23, mail clerk em-
ployed at the local postoffice, is in a
hospital with bullet wounds in the
right thumb and the right leg as the
result of his repulse of the bandits,
who it is believed tried to steal a mail
pouch carrying federal reserve pack-
ages.
The escaped bandit got away in a
taxi which is believed to have been
driven by a confederate.
Stack went to the station to meet
the 4:58 a m. train and had taken off
six pouches, including the federal re-
serve bag, when two men got off the
train and limped toward him.
They opened fire without warning
and the shots were returned by Stack.
One bandit* fell dead at the top of the
stairway and plunged to the bottom.
Tne other fled to the street where
Stack saw him enter the taxi.
Ward Loses Hold on Second
Place in Race for Attorney
General; Moody Maintains
Lead by More Than 100,000.
SECOND OLDEST NEWSPAPIR
IN TEXAS. EJTABLISHED 187:
energy should be bent on getting the
world back to peace and to work,
calming the prejudices and passions
growing out of the world war and en-
couraging fruitful trade and commerce.
In all these America should take the
lead."
Hostilities Follow All-Night
Meeting of Ku Klux Ad-
herents Near Town of Grove-
land. Massachussetts.
By Associatod Press.
MOUND CITY, Ill. July 31.—Nine
days after Miss Daisy Wilson, pretty
18-year-old girl was stain while at-
tempting to protect her father from an
attack by two negroes who had en-
tered the Wilson store at Villa Ridge.
III, with the confessed intent to rob,
Hess Conners. 22. and Fred Hale, 19
negroes, entered pleas of guilty to first
degree murder and robbery and were
sentenced, the former to hang, and the
latter jo serve ninety-nine years in the
minof state prison at hard labor.
The decisions"were returned last
night by Judge D T. Hartwell, follow-
ing presentation of evidence.
conners,’whose date of execution was
set for Oct. 17, had previously con-
fessed to firing the shot that killed
Miss Wilson while ITele.-confessed
complicity in the robbery. -
SECRETAR HUGHES ENDS
PARIS VISIT; MOVE ON
TO BELGIUM CAPITAL
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DAVIS AND BRYAN IN
PERFECT ACCORD ON
“MOBILIZATION DAY”
LONDON, July 31.—Male butter-
flies like to get drunk while fe-
male ones shun liquor and are per-
fectly content with water as a
beverage, is the discovery of the
zoologist. Suit, efter experiments
along these lines. He kept all
sorts of butterflies in his wire
screened garden and exposed sev-
eral bowls, containing either pure
water or whiskey of different-
brands. The males invariably took
to the liquor bowls and sipped so-
long that they fell off the brim and
rolled on the ground.
The females, however, behoved
and without exception shunned the
alcohol.
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La will-?
Then he pulled the trigger again
and there was a loud report, she said.
Mack was dead when an ambulance
surgeon arrived.
Denver Mystery Deepens.
DENVER, Col. July , 31.—Police
have been unable to solve the mys-
tery of circumstances surrounding the
finding of Mrs. Gertrude O’Reilly
Ramsey Cooper of Denver and Kansas
City, lying near death on an Impro-
vised bed in the kitchenette of her
fashionable apartment here Tuesday
morning, gas pouring from a stove
nearby. She is in a hospital, uncon-
scious and unable to aid officers.
Mrs. Cooper’s identity was not
established until yesterday when her
mother, Mrs. Margaret O’Reilly Casey
and her step-father, Patrick Casey,
COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS
REPORT BY LEASED WIRE
NEW YORK, July 31.—John W.
Davis, Democratic presidential candi-
date, anounced today after his return
from Maine, that he was in entire
accord with his running mate. Gov-
ernor Bryan, of Nebraska, regarding
"mobilisation day."
Mr. Davis declared that the view
expressed by Governor Bryan that
there was no necessity at this time
for encouraging civilians to leave their
occupations for "the purpose of en-
gaging in what would be only a
military demonstration without any
practical educational effect, is entire-
ly sound."
Mr. Davis’ announcement was con-
tained in a formal statement issued
after he had conferred with his cam-
• paign manager, Clem L. Shaver. It
said:
"Since my return from the state of
floors into the basement.
C. W. Denton was taken to a hospital i
where his condition was reported
critical. He suffered a broken leg
and arm and probable fracture of the
skull. Timmons’ home was Bonnie
View, Texas. ; __
NINE PRISONERS ESCAPE
FROM LAMAR CO. JAIL
Sixteen oil companies doing business
in Texas, administrators and trustees
of two estates in Harris county, a
trust company in Harris county and
twenty-three individuals, twenty-two
of whom reside in Harris county, are
named defendants in a suit for dam-
ages totaling $50,000,000 filed late
Wednesday afternoon by the state of
Texas in the Fifty-third district court
of Travis county. • The action was
brought at the request of Governor
Pat ). Neff. The state seeks recovery
of the monetary value of 25,000 000
barrels of oil which the state claims
was taken unlawfully by the defend-
ants from state-owned lands in Harris
county and also seeks title and pos-
session of these lands. The lands in-
volved Include the greater part of the
Humble oil field.
Smultaneously with the filing of
By Associated Press.
MANILA, July 31- The steamer
Stahley operated by the Admiral Line
is sending out SOS calls from a point
off the Island of Palawn, one of the
more southerly of the Philippine
archipelago. g-.c
The vessel is owned by the Vhj d
States shipping board. A wireless
message from her said her engines had
broken down and that she was in need
of assistance. She is bound for Europe
with a general cargo.
The Stanley, a freighter of 6463 tons
gross, was built by the Skinner &
Eddy Corporation at Seattle in 1919.
Mexia to Have Cotton Mill.
Mexia is to have a large cotton mill
according to incorporators of the
Mexia Textile Mills, which was granted
a charter here today. The capital
stock is $450,000. The company is to
manufcture cotton goods. The incor-
porators are J. K. Hughes, J. .Sanford
Smith and Jack Womack all of Mexia.
A San Antonio prisoner is resisting
extradition to Illinois on a federal
charge of train robbery by the plea
that he is already under bond in Texas
to answer to a bootlegging charge.
A decision rendered in the case of
Ex parte Frank James, when he was
wanted in Louisiana on a fedoral
charge of train robbery and in Mi
souri on a state charge, is cited in
support of the Texan's contention.
Texas ought* to protest. EverY un;
caught train robber in America will
rush to Texas and get in the bootleg-
ging busineee, if such a precedent ic
the legs. was believed to-be danser-
ously hurt.
The wounded men, James Connally,
Francis Cotter. Edmund Lucey and
a fourth named Buckley, all of Haver-
hill, were in one automobile.
They alleged th. t they were fired
upon by klansmen ‘ in a large truck,
when they attempted to pass the
vehicle after police had signalled them
to move ahead.
Approximately half of the score of
men arrested vere Haverhill residents
and others were from Massachusetts
cities as far west as Worcester. All
were dharged with disturbing the
peace.
About 300 armed guards surrounded
the ten-acre field in Groveland in
which the ceremonies were in progress
last night, witnesses raid. A crowd
of about 400 men collected outside the
field, but although hostile, no disturb-
ance arose until about 1 o’clock this
morning when the meeting ended and
the klansmen. openly armed, witnesses
and occasional shots were fired at the
klan members, riding in their cars,
drove toward Haverhil and it was in
Haverhill that all tha arrests were
made, before the last of the klan cara
had disappeared. Arrests appeared to
be approximately evenly divided be-
tween persons attending the klan meet-
ing and opposition.
WACO, Texas, July 31.—That the
Republicans of Texas expect to make
a determined effort to elect the next
governor of Texas,. with the assistance
of dissatisfied Democrats, was evi-
denced in a statement made public to-
day by Charles A. Boynton of Waco,
vice chairman of the Republican state
executive committee of Texas.
Mr. Boynton mentions a number of
prominent Republicans who are pos-
sible nominees at the coming Repub-
San Saba sends out the news report
that a man who has lived there ninety-
three years voted in the Democratic
primaries last Saturday, just by way
of telling the world that San Saba is
a land of longevity.
Unconfirmed reports have it that
down at San Diogo every man living
in the county in 1836 voted in the pri-
maries there last Saturday, as usual-
from which it is to be inferred that in
San Diego men are immortal.
, said, marched out of the field beside
the cars as a measure of precaution
against attack. Large numbers of the
klan group were apparently former
service men, wearing uniforms.
Stones were hurled at the machinea
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Harris county applications for permits ; _
f . "or natural ; which I see
gas on the three tracts; that these 4 that 1 am
tracts were surveyed In compliance
with the law; and that on June 25,
Brownsville; Charles C. Littleton, Fort
Worth; T P. Lee, Houston; John Star-
ling, Dallas, and James McNary, El
Paso.
Mr. Boynton in his statement gives
as his opinion that the long expected
break in the Democratic party in Tex-
as has now come, and that In the nom-
ination to be made by the Republicans
at Fort Worth, and the campaign to
follow, "the Republicans have an op-
portunity to render' a real and great
service to the state and it is our in-
tention to accept , same and make
good."
The advice, counsel and co-operation
of the host of Democrats of the state
who are, or should be, ready to put
the real interests and future of the
state above partisan policies, is the
concluding appeal of Mr. Boynton’s
statement.
visited her. ... ,
Mrs. Casey told police she knew of
no reason why her daughter should
attempt to take her owp life and Mr.
Casey declared he believed that Mrs.
Cooper was a victim of foul play.
Police were trying to verify a re-
port that J. H. Cooper of Kansas City,
from whom Mrs. Cooper is said to
have been divorced in Wichita, Kan.,
four years ago, arrived in Denver
Tuesday night and that Mr. Cooper
had communicated with his former
wife by telephone before staining for
her home. Mr. Cooper thus far has
not been located.
Mrs. Cooper came to Denver from
Kansas City recently.
The Wounded Men, All Struck
By Buckshot, 'Claim that
They Were Fired Upon By
Party of Kluxers.
WILMINGTON. N. C.. July 31.—With
three men held without bond in son-
nection with the assassination of Pro-
hibiton Officer Leon George and Dep-
uty United Steles Marshal Sam Lilly
on a remote trail through a swamp
near Phoenix Tuesday night, the imut
for others thought to be involved pro-
ceeded today in various obsfure locali-
ties in this am! adjoining counties.
Police here raid they were con-
vinced that the three men under ar-
rest—Elmer Stuart and Jack Ramsoy,
held at Southport on murder charges,
and Linwood Tindall, in jail here as
nn alleged accessory before the fact—
were the leaders of a bootlegging ring
which they allege was responsible for
the shooting of Illy and George, who
had been active in combatting illicit
distilling in the vicinity.
Lilly and George, say the officer,
apparently were lured to the swamp
near Phoenix with a message hinting
at the whereabouts of a moonshine
still and the assassins then nouiried
to. lie in wait for them
East Texas: Tonight and Friday
partly cloudy, probably local thunder-
showers in cast portion; cooler tonight
in north portion.
West Texas: Tonight and Friday
partly cloudy, probably showers in
Panhandle; cooler tonight in Pan-
handle.
A viper in a keg of beer, over in
Budapest, killed a bartender and his
first customer one morning last week.
And Budapest gets on-the cables with
the news. A worm in a barrel of mash
has killed its thousands on this side
of the Atlantic, but nobody ever
' thought of making a cablegram report
of He
Senator Jim Strong. re-elected to
the senate from the Panel, distrit
without opposition, announoes that hi.
platform with referenco to legislative
measures is, “Kill 'em all."
Senator Strong does not mean that
literally. Voting "nay" on everything
would be as bad as voting “nay on
nothing. But the comment of the sen-
ator reflects the general disgust with
too much law. Everybody feels that
he is being governed too much, which
really means he is not being governed
rightly, and it requires legislative
measures to chang» even that.
Mrs. Edith Wilmans, th. "lady from
Dallaa," was defeated for retclection
to the legislature last week. The hot
weather was the cause of it. Dallaa
voters were opposed to continuing a
situation under which the gallant mem-
ber. of the house of representatives
were required to work with their coal,
on.
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DALLAS, Texas, July 31.—Gradually
forging ahead as late returns from the
Democratic primary last Saturday
came in over night, Mrs. Miriam Fer-
guson, candidate for governor was
leading Lynch Davidson for second
place by 5213 votes on the noon tabu-
lation by the Texas Election Bureau.
247 out of 252 counties had reported,
169 complete, and the figures were:
For governor? Barton, 28,044; Burkett,
20,709; Collins, 25,222; Lynch David-
son, 133,482; T.W. Davidson, 117,060;
Dixon, 4165; Ferguson. 138,965; Pope,
16,717; Robertson, 184,845.
Total tabulated 668,939.
For lieutenant governor: Edwards,
184,295; Malone, 57,745; McCall, 95,-
800; Miller, 192,990.
For attorney general: Melson, 86,-
467; Moody, 274.348; Wall, 106,436;
Ward, 101,540.
Harris county complete was included
in the tabulation.
PARIS, Texas, July 31—Nine prison-
ers’ escaped from the Iamar county
jail early today. Three of them were
being held under serious charses-
At noon no trace of the nine men,
five of whom were negrcos, had been
found by officials.
Roy Mitchell, one of those who 8-
caped, w;ts under death sentence for
killing his son.
The escape is U ought to have been
made some time after midnight. They
were confined in cells on the fifth
floor of the courthous, but in some
unexplained manner egcsed from the
cells, used blankets for a rope and
prying the bars apart at a window, let
themselves to the ground.
A pascerby early today awakened
the jailer who lived In the building
and asked him if all his prisoners were
present, investigation disclosed the
escape.
Practically Complete Count From Damages Totaling Fifty Million
Dollars Sought by the State in
HAVERHILL, Mass., July 31.—Four
men were shot early today when hos-
tile crowds clashed with between 3000
and 5000 members. of the Kn Klux
Klan who held a meeting lasting into
the early morning on the hill in the
neighboring town of Groveland. State
and local police at length quelled the
disorders, taking into custody twenty-
three men. including three of the
wounded, and confiscated six shotguns,
several revolvers ar quantities of
ammunition.
The disorders broke, out at the con-
clusion of a klan initiation ceremony .
on Perry Hill, Groveland, and con-
tinued as nearly 1000 automobiles
bearing klansmen from Worcester, Bos-
ton, Springfield and other cities travel-
ed from the meeting place homeward
over the road toward Haverhill. Shots
were fired and nany. missiles were
thrown at the passing cars but so far
as is known only four men were in-
jured. None of the injured men, all
of whom suffered buckshot wounds in
By Associated Press.
PARIS, July 31.—Closing his visit to
Paris with a quiet forenoon without
any official appointments, Charles E.
Hughes, American secretary of state,
left for Brussels shortly after noon to
remain there two days. He wlll.be
entertained by King Albert and Queen
Elizabeth, talk with the notables of the
Belgian capital and then continue his
trip to Berlin. ,{
The secretary’s stay in the German
capital will be brief and he will leave
there Monday evening for Bremen
where he will embark for home on the
President Harding.
The members of the American Bar
Association । still in Paris spent today
at Versailles.
The English are studying compare-
tive anatomy. They have produced
some startling discoveries. Recently a
big glove manufacturer discovered that
women’s hands are growing larger. The
average glove has increased from 6/4
and 6/2 to 6%2 and and these larger
sixes are being cut wider. The demand
once brisk for the 5%2 fllove practically
has disappeared. The increase has
been most marked since the war.
The growth in the size of the
women’s hands is attributed to their
wider employment in industry. Just as
there is a question among the “evolu-
tionary” economists as to whether
aboriginal man, in the trees, saw
something on the plain and went out
after it, or was driven down out of the
trees and found something on the plain,
which contributed to hie evolutionary
(Continued on Page Three.)
A West Texas man applied to hi
balky tin Lizzie the .old method Of j
starting a balky horse by building A
fire under it last week. It started al
right. Naa the car, the fire. He could
not put it out and the car burned up.
of course.
Psychologists maintain that the
catastrophe resulted from the too lit-
eral acceptance of the advertisers
slogan: "Obey that impulse."
It seems more likely that it grew
out of the late inclination to personify
the Ford. He took it out on “Lizzie,”
when the thought-probably never would
have occurred to him if he had been
wont to think of his Ford as a "ratto
trap ”
But if that was his impulse, he was
sn ungallant brute, probably given to
the habit of abusing his wife.
expressed by the governor of Nebraska
to the effect that there is no necessity
at this time to encourage civilians to
i leave! their occupations for the purpose
। of engaging in what would only be a
military demonstration without any
practical educational effects, is en-
tirely sound. ’
"It is one 'thing to keep the military
‘organizatihs of the country in ade-
I quate practice; it is quite another to
encourage demonstrations, which can ,
be nothing else, nt a time when every
lican convention to be held at Fort .
mrinasrsusmstrsn.mauhns tog
pona Antonis;
W. E. Talbot; Dallas; K. B. Creager. way.termtnal warshouse.unden..con:
NEW YORK, July 31.—Harry Mack,
a stock broker, was killed in his room
in the theatrical rooming district early
today following a party which had
lasted until after midnight. A young
woman who was alone with him when
he' was shot and who described her-
self us Peggy Cook, a hairdresser of
Philadelphia, was questioned by the
police.
Miss Cook, who gave her age as 19
years, declared the shooting was acci-
dental. She had remained after the
other guests left, she said, and when
she noticed a revolver in the room
asked Mack to put it away because
it frightened her. He took the weapon,
she said, and opened the chamber, al-
' lowing several cartridges to fall ato
the floor. Then he placed the re-
volver against his temple, she said,
and after pulling the trigger ex-
claimed: "See, it isn't loaded."
An Austin
BELATED RETURNS SUES TO RECOVER
SEEM TO SETTLE MARKET VALUE OF
PRIMARY DOUBTS ALL OIL PRODUCED
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RIOT AT KLAN MEETING
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Mrs. Ferguson Lengthens Lead Over Davidson
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ROME, Italy, July 31.—An un-
precedented cold wave is sweeping
throughout Italy, bringing summer
snow to the provinces of Bergamo
and Verono for the first time «in
the memory of the oldest resi-
dents.
. Hail storms and heavy rains have
damaged the crops in several
provinces and in the Italian Tyrol
it is so cold that the residents
are obliged to wear furs.
Everywhere throughout northern
Italy rivers and lakes are over-
flowing.
FOUR MEN SHOT;
THOUSANDSTAKE
PART IN FIGHTING
Maine I have taken the occasion to
inform myself fully concerning the
views expressed by the governor of
Nebraska in regard to ’mobilisation
filed with the county surveyor of day.’
... ..---#— ---ite ' “I am surprised at the statements
...ci. I —2 in the press to the effect
that I am in disagreement with him
to drill for petroleum oil
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