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Drunkenness Common At Prison Farm, Chaplain Says
CONVICT MORALE
The Weather
Kind But Practical.
Former Convict Tells
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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POPPY SALE Judges Held For Fraud NORRIS TRIAL
In Vare Election
Mayor Approves
Legion Day
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U. 8. BUREAU REPORTS
Defense Attorneys
Summon Meacham.
sorrow today to take up agaln the usually placid threads of its exist-
ence which were sheared suddenly yesterday afternoon by the wrath
of a tornado that wreaked havoc and destruction along a path at
times SOO yards wide through a portion of Southern Maryland, kiling 11
Dallas Man, Charged in Death of
Wife, Granted Bail Here
Frost’s visit as the mercury tum-
bled to 32.4 degrees, the lowest of
ored...
season’s
Satins,
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and
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in 1925 a pageant depicting the
nativity of the Chist Child in a
stable at Bethlehem was added to
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Christmas service held on Christ-
I mas morning. Although the weather
i was cold and near freezing, more
I than 700 people gathered at Woold-
ridge park to render homage to the
new-born King through the sing-
ing of carols and a short prayer
i service.
Injuring four more at Cedarville, 14
miles northeast of here.
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River at Austin:
“Silent night! Holy night!
“All is calm, all is bright,
Round yon virgin, mother and
child
Holy infant so tender and mild.
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace."
city.
For Austin had its first frost of
the season Wednesday morning.
[Associated Press Dispateh to Statesman.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 16.—Meet-
ing in special session as a court of
impeachment, the senate today re-
ceived official notification of the
resignation of George W. English as
federal judge for eastern Illinois,
and then adjourned until Dec. 13.
This was done to give the house
time to act upon a recommendation
to be made by its prosecutors that
Says Frank Barham, “Yes''
For a Little While.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1926. by the Star company
r street
ire both
ks.
Lowest
At 1 a.m. Last Night
Austin Wears Flower
for War Heroes.
May Accidente
lune Accidentt
July Accidents
August Accider
September Aei
October Acide
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Norther Brings First
Frost of Season
to Austin.
other "high misdemeanors," be dis-
continued in view of the resigna-
tion of the jurist.
The session of the senate as a
court lasted Jus^elyht minutes.
Consul Procures
Mexican’s Release
Eleven Children Killed,
flweeping up from out of
Potomac the tornado swooped
twisted intermittently but
Motorists Complain of
Speeding Arrests
in Travis.
Probers of Alleged
Cruelties.
The court of criminal appeals Wednesday granted bail to two
men charged with murder who had been denied ball by district courts.
Will Owin, charged in Dallas county with killing his wife, Edna
Owin, was granted bail of $10,000. and C. W. Watson, charged in
Coleman county with killing Jack McMath, was granted bail of 37500
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ficials of the second division of the
36th ward. In $1000 bail each for
the grand Jury when a recount of
the ballots in their division reveal-
ed that Mr. Wilson had received
five votes and that other demo-
cratic candidates also had been vot-
ed for.
Texas Rainfall
None reported.
opposition in any reputable part of
the American Legion to holding the
next annual convention in France.
the thousands of voices sang the
praises of the event which was her-
alded by the angels 2000 years ago
on the hills of Bethlehem.
was "at a very low ebb, with dis-
cipline poorly exercised.”
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committee to plan for the service.
Will T. Caswell, who has headed
th Christmas carol committee for
1 the ast two years, will be placed
Sunrise Service.
The Christmas carol service was
Grand Jury investigation of com-
plaints of traveling men regarding
arrests for speeding on the high-
ways which they claim is being
done unlawfully mhy be made at
the present session of the jury, it
was learned Wednesday morning at
the court house.
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ige, ”
feet.
has nothing to look forward to, un-
less he can escape or get a pardon.”
Miller stated that the granting of
pardons by Governor Miriam A.
Ferguson to men with bad prison
records was demoralising. He said
the morale at the Eastham farm
GRA^JURYTOPROBEROAD ARRESTS
In Chicago, when « funeral passes
they say. “rhere goes a Daily News
reader" and when a birth is re-
corded they say. “Here comes an-
other Chicago American reader.
That explains why Hearst's Chicago
Americans circulation at three
cents a copy exceeds that of the
two-cent Daily News by one hun-
dred thousand daily.
TRACY TRIAL POSTPONED
Bud Tracy, charged with ntenlin«
two hogs from the ranch of H. B
Marshall couth of Austin, w.'l not
go to trial on the charge until Jan.
3 1127. it was announced by Jidue
James R. Hamiiten nt the Criminal
District court Wednenday morning.
The case waa set for hearing Wed-
nenday but was continued by agree-
ment.
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slipped into Austin quietly Tuesday
night and left evidences of his visit
on the lawns and roof tops of the
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“Silent night! Holy night!
Shepherds quake at thy sight
Glories stream from heaven afar,
Heavenly hosts sing a Alleluia,
Christ, the Savio- is born,
Christ, the Savior is born."
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ish.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10.—Evi-
dence of fraud has been discovered
in at least one precinct in fast
The Chicago Daily News, much
elated, asks “Do you know of any
advertiser who has exceeded this
record in one newspaper.” Up
speaks modest and retiring Frank
Barham, publisher of the Loa an-
zoles Evening Herald.
"Tea. The Los Angeles EVE-
NINO HERALD In the first ten
months of this year published for
the May company of Los Angeles
one million two hundred and thir-
teen thousand eight hundred and
seventy agate lines, or one hundred
and fifty-six thousand and nineteen
agate Unes above the record you
mention.”
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Ask Investigation.
Directors of the Chamber of Com-
merce have received a number of
letters from traveling men over the
state complaining of their arrests.
These men charge they were ar-
rested for speeding when their au-
tomobiles were moving under the
speed limit. They also complain of
being discriminated against because
they are arrested when automobiles
ahead of them are allowed to pro-
ceed unmlested.
in their meeting Tuesda night
the Chamber of Commerce direc-
tors voted to refer the complaints
to the grand Jury for investigation.
Armistice Speech
T. H. Shelby, of the extension de-
partment of the University of
21st annual convention of the Tax
Assessors’ association of Texas Receives
which will convene at Houston Bs-e-E
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock for '
waa responsible for removing him
from the "walls" at Huntsville,
where he was chaplain. The Fer-
gusons knew I was not in syr 1 athy
with them, and I didn't subscribe to
the Ferguson Forum.
“A preacher, named Watson, who
had fought, bled, and lost his
church at Brownwood in campaign-
ing for Mrs. Ferguson in 1924.
came to Huntsville with a telegram
from Governor Ferguson. and the
prison commissioners gave him my
place.
"A short time before the chaplain
at the Eastham farm he had got
flrun k and was discharged, and I*
was offered his place. which t
took."
Miller related he frequently had
written letters to the governor rec-
ommending men of merit with clear
records for pardons, but had never
received a reply.
At the request of Granberry, he
wrote a letter to the Ferguson Fo-
rum. asking for club rates on sub-
seriptions, and was Informed the
price for guards and other prison
employes would be $1.50 a year. U
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Phillip Sousa, bandmaster, aged
73, says he will march out of lie
to the tune of his own band. A
man keeps going, by keeping go-
ing.” says he.
The best thing Sousa ever 8ald
was, “Anybody could lead my band
N well as I can lead it, for a little
uhile.” ,
Therein resides the safety of the
old fellows, that are fortunate. They
know how, and can keep going.
the proceedings against Ehglish, ;
charging usurpation of power apd |
You that pay big income taxes
Will be able to get a good fur coat
for your wife next March, a time
Of year when furs are cheap. Mr.
Mellon will hand you back 12% per
cent of your income tax for 1926.
This policy will mean a total gift
to taxpayers of about $250,000,000.
With more to come later. "Deeds,
hot words," seems to be the Cool-
0ge motto also, although he doesn’t
talk so much about it.
Times change and newspapers
succeed each other. But the good
old Chicago Daily News eUll thrives
under able management.
The Davie company, one of Cn
cagos leading department stores, in
the first ten month, of this year
used in the Chicago Dally New* one
million fitty-seven thousand, da
(hundred and fifty-eight agate lines
F display advertising. This Davis
company, full of energy, and fore-
sight, evidently wants to reach as
many of the old Daily News read-
er, as possible, before they die.
C-C ASKS ACTION Austin Chorus Will Sing Christmas Ca rols
ON CHARGES
CAROL PICTURES
Ths camera record of the im-
pressive Christmas service of
1925 on page 14 today.
contra ted its fury upon the school
house here where 61 pupils, teach-
ers and attendants were gathered.
I Eleven of the children were killed
' and most of the others injured when
1 the building was destroyed. .
At least a dozen other farm
I houses and burns in the path were
levelled apd the damage was esti-
mated’ at thousands of dollars.
Officers Rsady To Act.
Neither District Attorney J. D.
Moore nor County Attorney John
W. Hornsby have received any let-
ters of complaint, both stated Wed-
nesday. The grand Jury ikewise
has received no complaints so far
as can be learned. Attorney Moore
said he had heard of the complaints
and Attorney Hornsby said he had
knowledge of the action taken by
the Chamber of Commerce direc-
tors..
“I shall refer to the grand jury
This beautiful Christmas carol
sung by the nations of the world ।
for hundreds of years commemorat-
ing the coming of the Christ Child
to the world 2000 years ago will be
sung again at the annual Christmas
carol by thousands of Austin people.
The Chamber of Commerce board
of directors voted Tuesday night to
sponsor the staging of a Christmas
Pageant and carol program this
year at the Yuletide following the
custom established two years ago in
the sunrise carol service Christmas
morning at Wooldridge park.
than 60 degrees. The forecast for
tonight is fair and not as cold as
Tuesday night, with another frost.
You remember the excitement on
that original Armistice day. Every-
body threW his hat up in the air,
many, poor geese, believing that all
Europe loved us, because we had
gone prancing across the Atlantic
ocean, tearing millions of boys from
their homes, spending and lending
billions of dollars, on what was not
our business.
fair and warmer weather for Aus-
tin and Central Texas for the cele-
bration of Armistice day. according
to A. R. W. Stoessen, local United
States weather observer.
The ice and frost were not severe
enough to cause damages to crops
and vegetation in this section, it
was reported.
5 We knew new that Europe hates
Tus, those that haven't paid us a
penny of principal or interest of
the billions lent them. hating us
worst of all. The mere thought of
Paying makes them ill.
fortunately wo can afford what
we spent on that patriotic debauch.
L«t us hope that our future spend-
ings will be on preparedness here
in America. We have made the
enemies. Let us make preparations
that will quiet the enmities.
light
Chorus
f the Ama-
hold its reg-
y night at
.■ro t1e
sl. It wan an-
ning by R.
n. Lester C.
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lied in the
Travis Courts to
Close Thursday
All offices in the county court
house will be closed for the entire
day, Thursday. In observance of
Armistice day, it was announced by
County Judge George S. Matthews
Wednesday morning.
All courts will recess this after-
noon unQi Friday morning. The
criminal district court Wednesday
morning reset a number of cases
scheduled for this week until Jan.
3, 1927.
Members of the grand Jury an-
nounced that body will recess this
afternoon until probably Monday In
order to observe the national holi-
day Thursday.
Austin and Central Texas:
Forecast, tonight fair, not so
cold. Frost tonight. Thursday,
fair and warmer.
lean Legion. He said there is no
women’
In a
rs. Well
If half the $250,000.000 could be
spent on a greet United States air
Test rome big fortunes in this
fountn vould be safer than they
Pr new.
The thermometer verified Jack
in Ciarge again this Christmas,
President Mueller said Wednesday
morning. Dr. George Green, pastor
of the irst Baptist church and
Leste Brenizer, director of the
Amateur Choral club will also be
named on the committee. .
any complaints that come to me of
alleged unlawful arrests.” Judge
Hornsby said. “If anyone has a
grievance on this score, he will be
welcomed to appear before the
grand jury and make his complaint
known. The grand jury will be glad
to hear these complaints and make
an investigation."
to paint a white line down the
middle of Congress avenue as a re-
sult of the report of a committee
on civic improvement at the weekly
luncheon of the Exchange Nub held
In the Driskill hotel Wednesday
noon.
Significance of Armistice Day.” Mr.
Shelby declared that the efforts of
American people in the great war
had come to naught because of
partisan politics.
“It is a disgrace to the American
people that many leading citizens
everywhere have let down their
moral standard to such an extent
that they flaunt a provision of the
constitution by winking at the pro-
hibition laws.”
Singer and Reader
The program waa in charge of
Mrs. Charles N. Bustin Jr., who ar-
ranged a Red Cross motif to remind
the members of the club of the Red
Cross drive which starts next week
The entertainment was furnished by
a reading from Miwa Marthn Reese
and a vocal solo by Mrs. George C.
Seawell.
Took Low Rate
“Cranberry uggested that we not
send in $1.50, but that we take ad-
vantage of the $1 rate, supposed ip
be available only for convicts. He'd
d beat Old Jim himself," Miller testi-
l fled.
Prisoners now evidence little in-
! tereat In religious services, “and
, most of them pay no attention when
, I try to preach. In cold weather, I
catch a little squad around a stove.
, and these won’t move."
Greater Than Before.
This year it is planned t o make
the carol service even bigger and
better than before. The time and
place of the service will be an-
nounced later as the plans begin to
take definite shape.
“Silent night! Holy night.
Son of God love’s purs light.
Radiant beams from Thy holy
facs,
With the dawn of redeeming
grace,
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth,
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth.”
Forecast
West Texas and Oklahoma: To-
night and Thursday fair. rising tem-
perature.
East Texas: Tonight fair, no so
cold, frost in the interior; Thurs-
day fair, warmer.
• • •
Austin temperatures (from 8 a. m.
Tuesday to 8 a. m. Wednesday):
Maximum. 60; minimum, 32; aver-
age. 46.
they had disappeared,
said.
CHILD DIES.
[Associated Press Dispatch to Statesman.]
WACO, Nov. 10.—Burns received
Tuesday - afternoon, when he
stumbled and fell in a tub of boil-
ing water. resulted In the death
early today of Carlos Peterson,
three-year-old son of W. 8. Peter-
son.
downward shortly after leaving.
Drunkenness is "very common”
■ among the guards and prisoners.
After sending in his calling card the chaplain said.
tor several days, old Jack Frost MIller stated ,h‘
tale of the tragedy.
John Marshall Bur
11-year-old figure,
streaming from his
Eastern religions have a horror of
destroying animal life. The igno-
rant mother on the_banks of the
Nile will allow files to eat around
the eves of her baby because it is
a siv to kill those flies.
The Japanese axe eastern, but also
practical, and hate hydrophobia. So
here and there they celebrate "dog
hunting week." In Hyoco district
recently 5800 wild, homeless dogs
were rounded up and killed.
sturdy seaplanes bearing the hopes
of the United States and ’taly were
turned up here today in pre pa rat >n
for their seaworthy tests prelim-
inary to the annual Schneider cup
The weatherman has promised
CITY COUNCIL TO
MEET FRIDAY.
Due to the Armistice Day holiday,
the city council will not hold its
regular session Thursday morning,
it was announced by Mayor P. W.
McFadden Wednesday. The meet-
ing Instead will be held at 10
o'clock Friday morning at the city
hall. ’
All departments of the city gov-
ernment will cease labor for the
day in order that clerks and em-
ployes may participate in the pa-
triotic festivities of the eighth an-
niversary of the signing of the arm-
istice.
Citizens of Austin were urged to
co-operate with the American Le-
gion in every way possible in the
proper observance of Armistice Day
by Mayor P. W. McFadden in a
statement issued Wednesday morn-
ing.
“In recognition of the patriotic
significance of the occasion, I hope
that every citizen of Austin will
assist the American Legion in all
of its undertakings,” the mayor
said.
"I also urge upon the citizenship
to assist in the sale of the poppies
by the American Legion Woman's
Auxiliary by purchasing one or
more of the memorial flowers and
also to participate in the parade on
Armistice morning.”
Austin Men Go to
Houston Convention
Austin will be represented at the
LA PLATA, Md., Nov. 10.—This little town of 500 sod is stooped in
Committee Named.
President Carl H. Mueller was
authorized by the board to name a
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Owsley Tells Legion
To Gather at Paris
(Associated Presn Dispatch to Statesman.)
HOUSTON. Nov. 10.—Colonel Al-
vin Owsley, fourth national com-
mander ef the Amerin Legion,
having arrived early Wednesday
from Dalia* to participate in the
Armistice day celebration, Thurs-
day. was given a breakfast at the
local Chamber of Commerce.
Mayor Oscar Holcombe. General
John A. Hulen, Colonel John Hoover
and many of the war-time friends
and associates of Colonel Owsley
were at the breakfast.
7 Colonel Owsley said he wanted to
see Texas become more aroused
DALLAS, Tex.. Nov. 10—Threats
of filing peonage charges, made by
Mexican Consul R. Cantu Lara
here, resulted Tuesday in the re-
lease 6f a number of Mexican citi-
zens, three families and twe single
men. by a farmer who had retained
them to pick cotton.
The pickers complained that they
had ben promised “first picking”
cotton, hut after arriving at the
place were expected to pick second
and third round cotton under threat
of being shot if they left th* farm.
races which are scheduled to be held
over Hampton Roads on Armistice
day.
America, with two victories to
her credit in the International
event and only one more needed to
obtain permanent possession of the
trophy, has entered three R-3 C
racers, while Italy which has never'
W n the race, entered three speedy
monoplane type planes equipped
I with twin pontoons.
sand Injuring two score, mostly
school children, here, and severely
Then a special religious Service
in their honor was held in the Oku-
rayma temple, thirty Buddhist
priests officiating. Gautama, .the
original Buddhist. you remember,
allowed a starving tigress with no
milk tor her cubs to eat his body.
The cubs had miik, Gautama was
miraculously restored to life, and
all lived happily.
This intsrssts business and cus-
tomers everywhere for wise adver
tising means economy for the buy-
er. The more goods each clerk can
sell in the business today, the lower
the prices at which the merchant
can afford to mark his goods. it’s
better to make two per cent on
fifty million dollars than fifty per
cent on one million. It is advertis-
ing that changes a one million busi-
ness to a fifty million business.
Conditions in the Texas peni-
tentiary cannot be blamed on the
guards alone, but "are due to the
whole system from the governor on
down." W. E. Miller, chaplain of the
Eastham and Ferguson farm*.
Wednesday, told the house investi-
gating committee.
"The fountain head is 'way up here
at Austin," Miller said.
a three-day session. Some 200 tax
assessors will be in attendance at
the meeting, It has been announced.
Those who will attend from Aus-
tin are: State Comptroler 8. H.
Terrell; J. W. Stewart, chief tax
collector in the comptroller’s depart
ment; County Tax Assesor Steve
Heffington; Paul Williams, tax
consultant and E. G. Homer.
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feature tie
given at the
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children w ill
nd the Moth-
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feet. Present
Change since
lower.
Demos Given Zeros.
The return sheets on election
night gave 295 votes to each of the
republican candidates, headed by
Congressman William S. Vare for
the senate, with zero marks behind
the names of democratic and other
candidates. The returns showed
288 votes for Vare, 289 for John S.
Fisher, republican gubernatorial
candidate, five for Wilson and
three for Judge Eugene C. Bonni-
well. democratic candidate for gov-
ernor.
Utterly indifferent.
In holding the three officials, all
negroes. Judge Gordon told them
it was apparent that their return
whs “false” and that they were "ut-
terly indifferent" to the rights of
the voters.
"Here is enough evidence," he
added, "for a Jury to find that you
made a false return. You could
not have made such a mistake, and
I deem it my duty to hold you for
the grand jury on a charge of con-
spiracy to make a false return and
making a false return.”
Names of Mayor H. C. Meacham
of Fort Worth and Fenton Baker,
manager of the Baker hotel at Dal*
las, are included in a list of five
witnesses subpoenaed by ths de-
fense in, the case of Dr. J. Frank
Norris, fundamentalist Baptist pas-
tor of Fort Worth, who will go to
trial here Jan. 10 on a charge of
murder in connection with the slay-
ing of D. E. Chipps, Fort Worth
lumbermen, last July.
Other witnesses subpoenaed by
the defense for appearance in the
Criminal District court here are:
Leo S. Grevenberg, clerk of the
Texas hotel, Fort Worth; L. M. Es-
tes. house officer, Baker hotel, Dal-
las, and Ed Young, house officer,
Texas hotel. Fort Worth.
The application for subpoenas
was filed Tuesday afternoon In the
office of District Clerk S. A. Phil-
quist and bore the names of Mar-
vin B. Rimpson and H. L. Brewster,
attorneys for Norris.
Christmas Cheer
Meeting Today
Committees for handling details
of the Christmas cheer drive for
1926 to be staged in co-operation
with The Austin Statesman and for
inaugurating the community chest
plan In 1927 will be named by Pres-
ident Carl H. Mueller in a meeting
of the Central Council of Social
Agencies this afternoon at 4 o'clock
The meeting will be held at the
Chamber of Commerce auditorium.
W. H. Richardson Jr. and Van
Mueller will supervise the campaign
for funds for the Christmas cheer
this year. President Mueller has
announced.
Miller expressed the opinion that .
the state would never be able to
make its prison farms self-sustain-
ing. "Ive often thought the state
could maintain all its prisoners In
though the sun shone during the arinehotehoand not.require them to
_ . • .. . . . :0.1 do any work, and at th*, end of the
day Tuesday, a cold wind kept the! year the cost would be leu than
--------•— °-— --eendine hichen under the present system of opera-
tion. with the enormous breakage
and stealage. The state ought to
build walls large enough to accom.
modate all the prisoners.’*
Miller charged James E. Ferguson
week’s election,-when unofficial re- i
turns showed zeroes for William B. j
Wilson, democratic candidate for
United States senator, tn mre than
a score of the city's 1500 precincts,
in the opinion of the election court.
Judge James Gay Gordon,6o asa .iL,
serted in holding three election of-
[Associsted Press Dispateh to Stat
from the school house, resounding
with the screams of wounded and
imprisoned, to the home of the
Rev. W. 8. Heigham, Episcopal
rector.
"Please telephone everybody." he
sobbed, “the whole school house has
blown away."
Almoat th* population of the
town followed the boy to the top
of the knoll where the school had
stood. Its contents, human and in-
animate. were strewn over a radi-
us of more than a quarter of a
mile.
the carpi service. More than 7000
persons gathered in Wooldridge
park at 7:30 on Christmas ve and
Grand Jury Votes
Five Indictments
Five felony indictments naming
two defendants were returned"
Tuesday afternoon by the Travis
county grand Jury in its present-
ment to Judge James R. Hamilton.
Mat Balch was re-indicted on a
charge of burglarizing a private res-
idence. A previous Indictment re-
turned against Balch was faulty
and the case dropped from the
criminal docket. Balch was arrest-
ed Tuesday night but was released i
on 81000 bond.
The other defendant indicted has
not been arrested. He is a negro
juvenile indicted on four charges
of forgery.
Mors Guide Poets
The committee stated that it be-
lieved that traffic would be facili-
tated greatly by marking the mid-
dle of the street and requiring
passing cars to stay on the proper
side of the line. The committee
also recommended that mor* guide
posts be placed on the roads near
Austin marking the way into the
business section.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 9—
This city,. Los Angeles, if it lives
up to its opportunities, which it
usually does, will do for flying ma-
chines wha Detroit has done for
r utomobiles.
An excellent start has been made,
good machines are manufactured
here. They will be delivered to the
consumer in any part of North
America after a 24-hour tryout
^flight, and the price will be “FOB
wherever you have a landing field."
Many in years to come will wire
to Los Angeles for a flying ma-
chine, have it delivered the next
morning, step in and fly back to
California. Many that read this,
will see tmat.
and interest ml in the "on to Paris" - ---- —
watchword and slogan of the Amer- a many as six subseribed, but that
- convicts might subscribe for |1 a
year. Miller related.
•’hysterical WEDNESDAY
typanrh-hisim
7 THIS YLAA
AUSTIN, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1926.
Chaplain Miler, followed F. A.
Patterqon, Kerrville, who recently
completed nerving a one-year sen-
tence on n whisky charge In the
penitentiary. Patterson testirled
that on the Harlem farm R. E. Me-
Adams, the manager, kept his own
stock on the state farm; that Mc-
Adams spurred and whipped the
prisoners and abused them, and said
that Walter Thomas, second man-'
ager of th* farm, gave him beer
and sold it to others.
Patterson testified that Thomas
made "pretty good beer’ and said
one evening Thomas sold a half
"dozen bottle* to Mr. Grigg” and
thought that Thomas received “20
cents a bottle for it."
A truck load of groceries was
hauled from the prison farm com-
missary to McAdams ranch 18
miles away by prisoners named
Buster Johnson and Pat Patterson
said. He related that 68 head of
cattle with brands other than the
state’s star brand were brought to
the farm and ohe day hr Waa out
with McAdams looking at the cat-
tle and McAdams said "My rattle
are looking fine.” Patterson test I
fled. In the spring the cattle were
taken off, he said Eighteen heed
of horses were fed on state corn
Patterson said, and McAdams told
the dog boy to tell the eommisson-
era the horses belonged to the dog
boy if they asked to whom they
belonged, he said. He said the
commissioners made McAdams
move some of the horses in the
spring.
Five bales of cotton were placed
in a building and several days later
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Heavy Lossss.
Losses through theft amounted
to thousands of dollars on the
Eastham farm, during the past two
years when 8. G. Granberry, now
prison commissioner, waa manager.
Miller testified. He said theft losses
throughout the system were
enormous.
Ed Sapp, convict, who is serving
a long term, and who has been men-
tioned repeatedly by witnesses, will
testify Friday before the committee.
Miller testified that Sapp was a
model prisoner during the war; he
cooked for him; but that he went
)es
land for
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TodayTHE Austin Statesman
Second Oldest Daily Newspaper in Texas Established Aug. 1, 1871
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For Schneider Race,
"[Asnociated Press Dispateh to Statesman.]
Out of the chaos and welter Ini
the wake of the whimsical, wrath-
ful winds, there came today stories,
of heroism, stoicism and a queer
intermingling of humor in the
- Because of an error in the
Phrasing of the manslaughter
charge prejudicial to the defendant,
the court reversed and remanded
the life sentence imposed in Milam
county on J. A. Claxton for mur-
der, In connection with the killing
of Otto Junek. July 28, 1824.
Claxton’s case was first reversed
and remanded several months ago
by the appellate court, but later
was affirmed on the state's motion
for rehearing, and was reversed
and remanded Wednesday on ap-
j pellant’s motion for rehearing
The court affirmed the 31060 fine
Imposed on Jimmy McDaniel in
Tarrant county for negligent homi-
cide. and the five-year and one day
sentence imposed on Juan Garica
in Bexar county for murder in con-
nection with the killing of Teodore
Lerma.
In granting Owin bail, the court
pointed out that the Identity of
Mrs. Owin's assailant was a sub-
ject of conflict.
ity sheritis
a barrel of
■avis county
>ut 25 miles
ernoon ■ ..
a charge of
liquors ” 4 ।
e Justi . A
nneh1l I ‘ •
res another
f illicit liq-
against 1 Im
aturday lo
veral q1 .
•re found in
the present autumn season. Al-
The annual poppy sale which is
sponsored by the ladies’ auxiliary
of Travis Post, American Legion,
will begin at 8 o’clock Thursday,
Armistice Day, according to Mrs.
Earl Simms, who placed the pop-
ples at the Chamber of Commerce
this morning for distribution atian
early hour. From the capitol to
the" river bridge. Congress avenue
will be thronged with the young
ladies selling the flowers, and it is
hoped that by nightfall every per-
son in Austin will be wearing the
memorial symbol, Mrs. Simms
stated.
Dozens of applications to aid in
the sale have been made by young
women of he city to the Chamber
of Commerce during the week, and
there are enough registered to fa-
cilitate a thorough canvass of the
city.
The poppies that are sold here
are made by ex-soldiers confined
in American Legion hospitals.
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