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AUSTIN, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10,1916.
ESTABLISHED 1871—Vol. 45, No. 43.
GERMANS
CARMALT
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DEFENDS
GRANDEIS
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with a
ted suicide. Both
dently having attempt
hovered near death
HOUDINI AND CHIEF OF POLICE MORRIS.
Before Vast Crowd
$
DANIELS DEFENDS
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BOARD DIDN’T MEET.
NAVAL PROGRAM
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n
a throng of hie former
ciates.
(Continued on_ Pago 811.)
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DALLAS, Texam, Feb. 14.—An unex-
l
are. I ex-
IONDON, Fab. 10, 9:40
room and began shooti
rents
can leave the hospital
as the crowd watched Houinl'n
CHICKENS SHIPPED.
WASHINGTON, Feb, 10.—Alexander
MARBLE FALIS, Texas, Fob. 10.
here Saturday by Sim Brown to New
York.
of Oklahoma.
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Suspended by His Feet
From Top of Little-
field Building He De-
fended Chief Morris’
Challenge.
PREPAREDNESS PLEA
COMES FROM SOUTH
Houdini Escapes
Straight-Jacket
FINDLAY, Ohio, Feb. 10.—Just be-
fore Miss Ada Warner, 41. was to have
been placed on trial here today on a
charge of shooting Norris H. Powell.
cold,
from
id
it-
P-
BO
could be 1
pareness
ments for
studied by
SHE WAITED TWENTY
YEARS THEN DECIDED
TOSHOOT FIANCE
generation" _
Baby Girl May Clear
Up Murder Mystery
। of murder in
touting of Mr.
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BUCHANAN WILL
VOTE FOR STRONGER
NAVY AND PORTS
ARMED MERCHANT
VESSELS WILL NOT
BE GIVEN MERCY
MEMBERSHIP OF
BOY SCOUTS SHOWS
A LARGE INCREASE
shipped to Austin to Roy Starr to be
dressed.
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MRS.JOHNG.M'KAY
DIES OF PHEUMONIA:
CAPITOL TO CLOSE
Chinese Rebels
Capture a City
Bulgarian Organ
Discusses Greece
WILL EXPEDITE
TRIAL OF CASES
TO TEST TAI LAW
The Demonstration
Agents Conferring
Ft Worth Detectives
Called to Mingus
Wilson Names a
New Solicitor
Many Lives Lost,
Says French Report
FRENCH ATTACK
SOUTH OF SOMME
Says He Expected
Mother to Shoot
BRANDEIS TOLD
WHAT HE’D SAY
French Gained Foothold
in Part of First
Line.
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
And TRIBUNE 1
ONLY DAILY PAPER PUBLISHED IN AUSTIN CARRYING THE COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
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HOUDINI MAKES GOOD ON
LIBERATING HIMSELF
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Mau McKay contracted a heavy
2 Q later became pneumonia
if conditions remain as they
pect to vote to strengthen the
ing."
rtll take Melton
finally recovered.
Miss Warner in her suit against
Powell charged that he promised w
marry her twenty-two years ago; that
she waited twenty years for him until
his mother died, and then discovered
he had decided not to wed her.
Estimate German
Losses 2,377,378
aa
slowly
ually. i
using 1
of the
hourly.
O. W. St. CW. husband of one of
the victims and father of Katie, is held
at Palo Pinto as a "precautionary
measure," say th* of fleer®.
Colder Weatker .
for North Texas
The grandpa
as soon as he
and rear him
FIVE CENTS THE COPY
$5000 bond on a charge
connection with the ahe
Cagle.
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— • e-c Before a vast crowd Houdini was strapped in a straight-jacket by Chief of
Chief Examiner 01 I. U. Police Morris today at noon and then suspended by the feet with a rope from
. the top of the Littlefield building. While dangling in midair in full view of
C. Takes Stand in I the crowd he liberated himself from the straight-jacket.
investigation.
Of The Statesmen I®
stantly beoause The
aponsibilits
n
no con-
f
They Take French
Trenches Northwest
• of Vimy.
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by neight^rs and told this stor
Miss Warner was found •
later at her own home a ml
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The Austin Statesman
Reaching very nearly every, worth-
while family in Austin, olfers the
wire buyer of advortising apace in
the Auutin territory en opportunity
he can not afford to overlook.
preferred before him in pre-
i tor defense. Hin achteve-
Congressman W. W. Venable.
Congrensman W. W. Venable, who
haa just filled the chair in the house
of representtives made vacant by
the death of Congressman "Sam''
Withergpoon of Misiasippl, recently
startled the houae by a speech in
which he came out stkongly for pre-
paredness. Venable', predecensor
was the leader of the anti-prepared.
nee, forces in the lower hun until
hie death.
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After an illness of ten days Mr*.
John G. McKay, wife of Secretary of
State John G. McKay, d cd this morn-
Ing at 10 o'clock at her home, 604 West
Fifte enth Street Several weeks ago
for weeks and
tional Guard. I hope to have the pleas-
ure, in order to raise this extra money
for preparedness, to vote for an in-
< reased tax on incomes. on the manu-
facture of arms and accoutrements of
war and on inheritances. As the wealth
of the country will be the cause of
war, if we have war, it should pay the
cost of preparedness in proportion to
the protection it receives."
A
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ARTILLERY DUEL
PAR JR Fob, 10, via London, 4:41
P m.—The artillery duel between the
French end the Germans is continuing
in the Artois district, according to an-
nouncement made today by the French
war office.
German troops last night made a
strong attack against the French po-
sition between Neuville and La Foll.
This was repulsed and the Germans
succeeded in holding only one mine
crater.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—James W.
Carmalt, chief examiner of the In-
terstate Commerce Commission, today
challenged before the Senate sub-com-
mittee investigating the nomination of
Louis D. Brandeis to the Supreme
Court bench, the declaration of Clif-
ford Thorne, chairman of the Iowa
Railroad Commission, that Mr. Bran-
deis had concealed from him th® at-
titude he would take in arguing th®
Eastern freight rate case before th®
commission.
Yesterday Mr. Thorne, who was as-
sociated with Mr. Brandeis in the trial
of the rate case, declared he was
"dumb-founded” when Brandeis, at the
outset of his closing argument, con-
ceded the contention of the railroads
that existing rate returns were in-
adequate for the prosperity of the
roads and the best interests of the
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—President
Wilson will not make an extended
Southern trip to speak for prepared-
news. He told Southern Senators and
Representatives who invited him to va-
rious cities today that he might make
a few speeches, but at the present time
would not make a trip similar to the
one he rently took to the Middle
West.
Whenever possible the President will
accept invitations to make visits to
cities which will not keep him away
from Washington long, it was said to-
day. - -
Four t housana pounds
On® car of chickens was shipped from T. Yoga I sans of Ban Francisco was
- - - “— nominated by President Wilson today
as solicitor of the Deparinient of the
Interior, succeeding Preston C. West
. •*ee .
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb 10-A rob-
ber held up twenty passengers in a
sleeping car on an eastbound Union
Pacific train last night between Green
River and Rock Springa, Wyo. accord,
ing to reports to railroad headquarter®
here. He escaped by leaning frm the
train. A posse ha® left Green River in
pu rsuit. ___________
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 14.—Th® goy-
eminent organ, Narodni Prava, pub-
lishes a leading article, asserting that
Bulgaria has the right to invade Greece
for the purpose of attacking the French
and British troops there. It declares
Hulgaria is not responsible for the fact
that her* enemies have violated thc
neutrality of Greece and continues:
"Our enemies must not remain where
they are. We have the right to seek
our enemies and destroy them In order
that they may not threaten us
"It may be hard for Greece to see
foreign troops on her soil. but we can
not permit ourselves to be prevented
from defending ourselves. • • We
can not possibly permit the enemy to
remain near our border. He must be
driven out. Wo are prepared to meet
all possibilities with the fullest confi-
dence in our power to win a final vic-
tory."
jacket
Houdini wriggled and twisted, at
first very slowly and with an evident
desire not to exert himself strenuously
until he was sure th* rope about his
ankles would hold. Then he began to
work rapidly. Twisting his arms and
straight-jacket, unfastened the straps
which bound him, one by one and fin-
ally, after a little less than five min-
utes of effort, the jacket, unfastened,
fell, fluttering to . the sidewalk. A
mighty cheer rose from the crowd and
Houdini began to descend.
As he was untied. Houdini lay on
the floor of the truck, gasping. His
eyes were closed. He straightened up
to a sitting position, and several per-
sons crowded forward to congratulate
him.
"I can not see you," he said, rubbing
his eyes. He appeared to be blinded
from the rush of blood to his head.
For a few minutes he sat on the edge
of the truck, oblivious to the cheering
When Chief Morris extended his right
hand, Houdini grasped it and smiled,
but it was evident he could barely see
the chief.
Two More Challenges.
Houdini was taken in charge by
several acquaintances and hurried
through the crowd. In the surge and
scrambling he rapidly came back to
himself and his fatigue was not so
evident.
Houdini's escape from the straight-
jacket was only the first of the or-
deals he must go through today, al-
though the most spectacular. This
afternoon he will endeavor to escape
from a packing case built by employes
of E. M. Scarbrough A Sons and to-
night will try to escape. In full view
of the audiences after being bound
and strapped in a chair by employes
of Walter Tips Company.
On account of the death of Mrs.
McKay. wife of Secretary of State
John G. McKay, the regular monthly
meeting of the State Board of Educa-
tion was not held today, having been
postponed until after the funeral of
Mrs. McKay. Governor Ferguson was
also out of the city, having gone to
lemple yesterday on personal busi-
ness.
masters made the year the most pros-
perous in the six years’ history of the
movement.
Among the significant items of the
chief scout executives’ report were that
scout troops had been organised in al-
most every church denomination in the
country, that 3489 troops met in
churches and 3886 troops met in school
buildings, armories and community in-
stitutions, and that th® 7047 scoutinas-
ters included clergymen, physicians,
lawyers, teachers and other profession-
al men.
Among the features reported were:
A department of education provided
by two special gifts, training courses
in several universities and colleges,
budgets provided in forty cities and a
library department concerned with the
influevee of books on boys.
Late today President Wilson received
the members of the national council at
• the White House and spoke to them
of bis high regard for the work they
are doing.
his teeth he pulled the sleeves
• jacket up to his head. Very
and painfully he worked. Grad-
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BERLIN, Feb. 14, by wireless to Say-
villa. -The German government is
about to issue a memorandum to neu-
(ral governments announcing that
hereafter armed merchantmen belong-
ing to countries at war with Germany
will be considered and treated as war-
ships.
Many Attend the
Funeral of Cagle
43. Nov. 19 last, it was announced Iha A
the charge had been dropped by Vow -------- . -w. . .
ill on condition that Miss Warner dr SP: ahe never recavered. Her nu8:
her breach of promise action agaly 332 and four children survive. Tne
hi¥hfrA»nt marks the end H55
one of the strangest cases ever bro’ E
into the hio courts. Miss Wf
was charged with having donned t 222
clothes and entered at night Bq
l home, where he livd alone, dem
»that he marry her, and when
4 fused she is said to have shot b
was found with a bullet in hi
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Mngus, Texas. Authorities hope that
the child, who was left unonscious
by the mysterious assailant, will be
able to tell who the murderej was.
The little girl is at a local hospital
and has been expected to die almost
PARIS, Feb. 14.—A dispatch from
Bucharest delayed five days, states
that th* damage to the Skoda arma-
ment factory in Bohemia was more
serious than at first announced. Ru-
manian official circles. the dispatch
says, have received Information from
Vienna of the destruction of all the
cangon which were in course of manu-
facture, as wall as all the plane and
drawings in the draughting offices.
The dead number nearly 300 and sev-
eral hundr*d were injured by the ex-
plosion, which caused the disaster and
which is said to be the work of crim-
Inals, who employed melinite for the
purpose. The dispatch adds that the
Austrian military censorship has pro-
hibited the publishing of news of the
disaster in A u®t ria-Hungary.
TEMPLE, Texas, Feb. 10.- -Governor
Ferguson, who has been at the Sparks
farm south of this city two days, term-
inated his visit abruptly today when
notified of the death of Mra John G.
McKay at Austin and left for the cap-
ital.
WILSON DECIDES
AGAINST A TRIP
THROUGH SOUTH
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Forecast:
East Texas: Tonight and Friday un-
settled
West Texas: Tonight and Friday
generally fair, colder tonight In north
portlon.
manacled arm were brought to a level
with his head. Then there was an-
other struggle. Working furiously he
succeeded in drawing first one arm
and then both over his head. He
was as good as free, although the
crowd did not realize it. Nevertheless
the watchers cheere. Their sympathy
had gone out to him.
The Crowd Cheered.
Once his arms were over hi® head
the f*at was easy His supple fingers,
working under the heavy sleeve® of the
there to Belton, where tn® interment
will take place at 1 o’clock Friday
afternoon. Her child, John H., 1s buried
here. Belton is the former home of
Mr. and Mrs. McKay.
Departments in the State Capitol will
be closed tomorrow afternoon in re-
a pect to Mrs. McKay and many State
officials will be in the party that will
accompany the body to Belton.
Active pallbearers from Austin are:
Governor James E. Ferguson, C. C. .
McDonald, W. M. Woodall, Lon A.
Brooks, George Leavy and Ham Carter.
Active pallbearers from Belton are:
Lon A. Curtis, Charles M. Campbell.
E E. Upshaw, Hugh Smith, C. A.
Hughes and K. O- Gresham.
Honorary pallbearers are: A. W.
Griffith, H. A. Wroe, B, A. Cox Jr., W.
H. Folts, B. Y. Cummings of Hillsboro.
Jake S. Wolters of Houston, Murrell L.
Buckner and R. U Winfrey of Dallas.
Q. U- Watson of Houston, E. B. Houso,
Henry Hutchings. Walter Caldwell,
Chester Thrasher and George Matthew*
of Austin, Colonel W. 8. Hunter, Neal .
Hassel, M. V. Smith, Robert McKinley.
Walter Roach, Judge John D. Robin- i
son. H. K. Orgain, Curtis Mitchell H. I
C. Poe, T. T. Moore, Stanton Allen, 1
Winborne Pearce, W. W. Hair. W. S.
Lemley. Charles Love and William
Campbell of Belton.
GOVERNOR RETURNS.
_______ _ > pulled "higher" This was
granted, and when about seventy-five
feet up the pulling stopped and Hou-
dini began to work on the straight-
M.o.3
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19--An in-1 Houdini said very little whlle he was
crease of 46 per cent in membership being confined in the straight-jacket
during last year was annonced today As the pulley began tn work and he
at the annual meeting of the national was drawn clear of the truck. Jie asked
council of the Buy Soouts of America. I that he be
The Increase to 182,622 boys and sc9urt--“
BERLIN, Feb. 10. via London.— rhe
capture from the French of a large
section of trenches northwest of Vimy
in ths Artois region was announced
by German army headouarUrs today.
A mine crater near Neuville, in the
same sector, was retaken. South of
the Somme, the French gained a foot-
hold in a small part of one of the
German first line trenches.
The statement follows:
"Western theater: Northwest of
Vimy We captured a large trench sec-
tion from the French and near Neuville
we conquered one of th® eraters pre-
viously lost. Fifty, two prisoners and
twenty-tWo machine guns remained in
our hands.
"South of the Homme several local
attacks by the French were repulsed.
Directly north o( Becquincourt the en-
emy 'obtained a foothold in a small
section of our foremost line trenches.
"On Combres hiU we destroyed an
enemy position by an explosion.
"A French mining operation north-
east of Celles in the Vosges was un-
successful.
Eastern tneater: On the front® held
by tho armies of Generais von Lin-
ningen and von Bothmer, attacks by
weak enemy detachments were de-
feated by tn® A ustro -Germans.
"Balkan theater: There is nothing
to report."
prepareness may well be
the people of this day and
tj n. McKay was born at Da Ville
57922 y-one years ago. She was the
,*2ghter of J. M Day, a farmer of
• 3 4 section, and one of the oldest
9 of Ben County. Mrs. McKay
• Ma8 married in 1893 at Da Ville to
0 -2 hn G. McKay.
mo Funeral services will be held at the
"ome Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock,
t her own noxe a xuaa J, Services will be conducted by Rev. W.
knife wound in her throat, evi-NA. Hamlett of the First Baptist Church.
. . -*-1*- B-th The funeral party will leave at 12:60
o’clock Friday noon on the Missouri.
Kansas A Texas for Temple and from
Collinsville is the old home of Mrs.
Cagle. The casket was taken directly
from the train which brought it from
Sherman today to the cemetery.
Mrs. Faust has been released under
FORT WORTH, Texas. Feb. 10--
The assistance of the Fort Worth de-
tective department has been sought by
Mingus officers in solving the double
murder at the George St. (’lair home.
Mrs. St. Clair and Mr®. Will Wilkins,
who had been given a home by the
St. Claire, were beaten to deat with
a steel car pin last Friday night. Kt.
Clair is held In jail at Palo Pinto on
circumstantial evidence. Deputy Sher.
Iff Loflin of Mingus spent Wednes-
day in Fort Worth conferring with
local officers and was accompanied
home last night by a detective.
tied the rope about his ankles. He
asked that he be drawn to a consider-
able height ns one of his ideas I* that
he would rather be killed than maimed
in a fall.
Just before Houdini was bound. Ser-
geant Hughes, an old-time artist with
the rope, produced a smnll, stout cord
from his pockets and told Houdini that
he could bind him with the cord In
such a manner that escape from the
straight- jacket would be 1mpossible.
This not having been part of the chal-
lenge, however. Houdini was not called
upon to accept it.
No time was wasted in preliminaries
"If conditions remain as they are, I
expect to vote to strengthen the navy,
dur coast fortifications, and for an ap-
propriation for more air scout flying
machines," says Congressman J P.
Buchanan in a letter just received by
Bruce L. Ott of this city, who wrote
Congressman Buchanan requesting in-
formation in regard to his attitude on
the preparedness program. The Con-
gressman from this district mentions
Increased tax on incomes, on tbs man-
ufacture of arms and accoutrements of
war and on Inheritances as the means
by which to raise extra money for pre-
paredness.
The letter to Mr. Ott reads:
"Your letter of Jan. 28, requesting
my attitude on the preparedness pro-
gram. received.
"Replying. I wish to say that you
are correct in your statemeht that I
will be controlled in my actions by the
wishes of the majority of my consti-
tuent*. This majority sentiment can
only be determined under existing cir-
cumstances, through communications
from my constituents. Of course, hal
this issue arisen prior to the election
the people would have had opportunity
and doubtless would have expressed
themselves upon this important ques-
tion. Ro far' I have found the senti-
ment in my district seriously divided.
Contradicts Denuncia-
ation of Lawyer by R.
R. Commission.
FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 10—
Melton Kelly, older of the two boy®
who was shot by their mother before
she killed herself yesterday morning.
Is better today and will recover. His
brother, Leonard, died yesterday after-
noon. "I don't blame mamma," said
Melton today. "She couldn't help it.
Rhe had often told us she would kill
us and then herself and I wasn't sur-
prised when she called us into ths
Amsterdam Courant stats® that the
Prussian casualty lists 420 to 429 show
14,319 dead, wounded and missing, and
Prussinn lists 430 to 439 show 14,444
dead, wounded and missing. The to-
tal Prussian losses are computed by
this newspaper as 2,377,378. Th* Ger-
man military losses include also 3M
lists of casualties of Wurtemberg
forces, 447 Bavarian Flats, 141 Saxon
lists, sixty navy lists and some lists
concerning German officers and non-
commissioned officers in th* Turkish
service, according to the Courant.
•CHOOL bIVn* DOWN.
TECUMSEW, Okla. m. 14 - nrk
believed to be of incendiary origin to-
day destroyed the school building here
It a !«■ of $40,000.
Luther Nickels and W. A. Keeling,
Assistant Attorneys General, returned
today from Houston, where they con-
ferred with the attorneys of ths In-
ternational 4b Great Northern Railway
Company regarding the trial of the
thirty-eight suits brought by the rail-
road company in attacking the intangi-
ble asset tax valuation fixed by the
State Tax Board, also making th® al-
legation of discrimination in local as-
sessments.
The attorneys reached an agreement
to have the cases ernedited sod set
for different dates so that the state's
attorneys may be present to contest
the railroad's petition. It was agreed
that the Houston esse win be tried as
quickly as possibe and that the trial
will occur at the earliest dale the court
can find a place on the docket to
consider it.
It is the intention of the Assistant
Attorneys General to participate in all
thirty-eight cases, being in that num-
ber of counties. This means there will
be some jumping around over the
State,
The first issue is that the Intangible
valuation given by the State Tax
Board is too high, in fact, that the
company, which is receivership, has no
intangible value. That question may
go up in a test case from Harris Coun.
ty. The second coun, allegation of
local discrimination in assessments,
will naturally have to be tried In each
county, the local facts deciding the
issue.
public. I e
"There is one incident firmly fixed I
in my mind," said Mr. Carmalt, "re- I Before a crowd of 5000 persons, Har-
garding a conversation Mr. Thorne had I ry Houdini, the "mystifier," escaped
with me on the second day of argu- 1 from a penitentiary straight-jacket
ment in the rate case. Mr. Thorne, I | while hanging head downward seventy-
understand, stated that when the com- I five feet in the air, suspended from a
mission fixed the allotment of time beam on the Littlefield building at
for attorneys to argue the case, he sixth Street and Congrees Avenue,
had asked the privilege of being per-I just after noon Thursday. In making
m it ted to follow counsel for the ship- I his escape he successfully defended a
per® instead of opening the argu- challenge given by Chief of Police Will
ment. I J. Morris, who provided the straight-
"Mr. Thorne naked me what Mr. | jacket
Brndetec’posttion.woulabsinsareu-l Dazed, blinded and with hiR tace
mont. There sxan POndou pntnon lerimson from the rush of blood to hl«
mina. " I MFarrandaist wKh him head, Houdini hardly heard the Chief
..J be.1 haa 48r There certain^ of Ptice When the latier extended his
wna he cohreaisttrom handtonimattorthesest and Aaid:
Mr. Thorne. I am confident that I u “ on.m2• M uaint
told Mr. Thorne that Mr. Brandelsl me stInAMinutesv,50uSesond iroo
would take the position that the net ainThestrpishtzasketsnom.which Hou-
operating income of the camera was din encarednissthelonetziseved *ina
not adequate with specia stress on the zed. InatransportinK.prisoners. The
Aentr1 preieht Association territory. I sleev es are longer than the arm and
Fortrer, I said he would take the po«l- hand1r ,h" man imprisoned and from
tion thst the methods pursued by the thasnndn.ok Shem # rap: aro.crossed
to BontaintaFrgapog, cennunapihiod iih ^he^ac^To t0
meed or armgpaarroua te weFgnrpthe
inereasinKauheirerearnuat it was asloner. Fom this acket Houin,-
the result of this conversation that I caped.in exactly four minutes, fifty
Mr. Thorne wrote to Mr. Brandeis a I Second _ , ,1,
note asking about a change in the al- .Poliee.Chlet. Morris fixed the jacket
iotment of time. It is very strongly I aboit Houdinis body. On th® plat-
my impression that because ir Thorne form with him were Alex Hughes, ser-
recognised the attitude of Mr. pran-leeant, of Pollce, and Clyde Jennings,
dels would take that Mr. Brandeis got patrolman. Two of Houdini a attend-
the conception that Mr. Thorne wanted ents were preentto U" the ropes nbout
an opportunity to answer him In ad- IHoudinl’ssankies, for on the strength of
dltlon to hla main argument in the the rope and the accuracy with which
cse lit was tied depended the life of the
Mr. Carmalt was called to the stand tamous performer.. A wooden bsam
on suggestion of Georg W. Anderson, had been anchored to the Lttietleld
United Statea District Attorney In building Just north of a point above
Boston, who is attending the hear- the awning In Congress Anyue and
Ings, inis testimony was regarded by a point perhaps ninety feet high. A
friends of Mr. Brandeis as being very pully from this beam held the rope,
much in his favor. Houdini was trussed up on one of
Chairman Chilton stated he under- Joe Macken’s trucks, which formed an
atood Mr. Brandeis was employed to improvised stage. Only one man’s
assist In developing "all aides of the I services were required to fasten the
case” and asked Carmalt if Brandeis belts of the straight-jacket and Chief
helped Thorne develop his aldo. Car- Morris served.
malt replied that he did. .WishedIto B< Sura.
"When you told Mr. Thorne of the After having the strnight- jacket 34:
conclusion Mr. Brandeis had reached." I justed about his body. Houdini laid
I down on the truck while an assistant
DALLAK, Texas, Feb, 10 County
demonstration agente from Central and
Northeast Texas today are in regular
semi -annual conference at a local ho-
tel. The meetings, which will loot three
days, are for the exchange of view*
and addresses by experts on modern
farmin* method*. Several authorities
from the A. A M. Colle** and five dis-
trict agent* from the Texas Depart-
ment of Agriculture are in attendance.
Robber Held tip
Pullman Passengers
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Secretary
of the Navy Daniels defended the ad-
ministration naval increase program
and advocated immediate bunding up
of an adequate merchant marine in a
speech here today before the session
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States devoted to discussion of
national preparedness.
"We can no longer live unto our-
selves," said Mr Daniela. "On our
farms we grow more than th® Republic
can consume. We must feed much of
the world. We have the right also to
have a large share in clothing the
world and supplyin* people in every
clime with whatever is manufactured
in our mills and factorles. But how
can we fill our larger mission? What
avail teeming harvest® and large pro-
duction in factories without adequate
end reasonable water transportation?
The securing of an adequate merchant
marine is a pressin* problem and it is
so tied up with the enlarging and
strengthening of our navy that the two
can not be wisely separated.
"The naval program offered by the
administration is a constructive and
progressive one: if built according to
the continuous five-year program- the
first continuing program ever proposed
by an administration—it will give us
by the year 1921 thirty -three capital
ships of the first line and twenty-five
battleships of the second line, with ten
armored cruisers, 104 destroyers, 175
submarines and smaller craft in pro-
portion.”
Mr Daniels declared himself to be
a disciple of Benjamin Franklin on the
question of preparedness.
“This philosopher-statesman eclared
that 'there never was a good war, nor
a bad peace,’ but he did more to pre-
pare for the impending revolution than
any other man," he said.
"No man in the revolutionary period
COLLINSVILLE, Texas, Feb. 10.-
The funeral of the late Rev. H. M
Cagle, who died Tuesday from gun-
shot wounds inflicted at Sherman
Monday by Mrs. Annie Faust, wife of a
prominent farmer of the county, was
held here today and was intended by
m.— The
peeled turn for the better Was noted
today in the condition of Katie St.
------ navy, our Clair, 3-year-old daughter of Mra. Q.
coast fortification* and for an appro- W St. Clair, who, with Mra Will
priation for more air scout flying ma-wilkins, was beaten to death with a
chines. I am opposed to th* Garrison steel spike bar early last Saturdn
continental army plan, but will vote to -- — •—t—•••— —---
strengthen the State militia or Na*
SHANGHAI, Feb. 10.— Luchow, In
the southern part of Sze-Chuen prov-
ince, has been captured by theYunnan
revolutionists, according to Word re-
celved here today.
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