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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT BY LEASED WIRE
VOL. 50—NO. 341.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1922
(HOME EDITION)
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SPARNEBERG IS POSTMASTER
RANGERS RUSH TO FREESTONE CO.LOCAL REPUBLICAN
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RUSSIANS URGED
RACE WAR FEARED AS
RESULT OF BURNING OF
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FIGHTING NOT FINISHED
OUTLOOK IS GLOOMY INTENDS TO PROSECUTE
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of Texas.
RESULT OF OVERFLOW
OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER
MUST ACCEPT TERMS
OF UNITED STATES
Slugged, "kidnapped”
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MURDERED; HEAD SPLIT
WIDE OPEN WITH AXE
CHINESE CHIEF
DEFIES ALLIES;
COURTS TROUBLE
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Forty Thousand of These Are
Being Cared for In Various
Refugee Camps.
siderable Excitement Sunday
Forenoon.
Attitude of France and Belgium
Dims Prospects of Reaching
An Agreement
ish Embassy Officials For
Protection.
Inmates Stage Noisy Demonstra-
tion Because of Curtailment of
Privileges.
Wu’s Rear Reported to Have
Been Attacked By Forces
From Honan.
Gen. Wu Pei-Fu Flatly Refuses
to Obey Order to Retire From
Tien Tsin.
GRAND JURY SELECTED
FOR THE JUNE TERM
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. C. C. Enters Formal Order
Vacating Famous Shreveport
Rate Cases.
By Associated Press.
WACO, Texas, May 8—W. P. Driskell, 55, a well known cotton
dealer, was found dead in his garage at his home here this morning
with his head split open, apparently with an axe. Mystery surrounds
the crime.
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WILSON BRANDS REED
AS ‘MARPLOT’; CALLS
FOR SENATOR’S DEFEAT
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has been declared that the Russians
were asking for 3,000,000,000 gold ru-
bied, or twenty-five times as much as
the allied offer.
“KIDNAP" NEGRO ON
By Associated Prems,
ST. LOVIS, May 8.—Police today
were investigatine the finding of what
was described AS a crude bomb in the
easement of the city hall yesterday.
It was a aack fourteen inches long,
four inches thick and fie with •AW:
«u,U saturated with nitroglycerin.
The bomb was about to be thrown
into the furnice aa rubbish whan ais.
tovered.
one or more blows over the head, and Lawyers Representing Cossack
A8ctthor“thzk-ssallapsd undecizha and i Chief Write Senator Borah to
WASHINGTON. Mny ».-Clvll war
in China has only just hegun. Ma Soo.
representative here o fthe Canton gov-
ernment, declared today in answer to
Predictions by other Chinese leaders
that the defeat of General Chang Tso-
In's Manchurian army before tha
gates of Peking would end hostilities.
The Cantonese troops, Ma Soo said,
have just been ordered north to con-
tinue the campaign against General
Wu Pei-Fu.
CRUDE BOMB IS FOUND
IN ST. LOUIS CITY HAU
"I had reasoned with them, explain-
ing that the jail was so large we could
not give them As many visiting days
as formerly." Westbrook ssid. "They
refused to obey, and there was nothing
left to do but hammer in the fact that
they were not to destroy property to
gain their end.”
The women's ward was close to the
disturbance. Four babies who were
locked up when their mothers and two
other women were committed on s
contempt of court sentence, became
hysterical and jail physicians were
celled to quiet them. One woman
about to become a mother was report-
ed to be suffering a severe nervous
shock.
The body of Drsikell was found in
the seed room adjoining the garage
wrapped in a quilt believed to have
been takken from the Driskell home. No
one was at home last night except
Driskell and it is believed his murder,
er obtained the quilt after killing the
man, wrapped it around him dragged
him into the seed house and then took
his automobile and drove away. The
car was found in a ditch in the old
army camp three miles out.
Blood found on one of the wheels
indicated that Driskell was sturck
down either in the garage or in the
car. It is the theory of the detectives
that the quilt was used to obliterate
blood signs and the car was removed
to create the impression that Driskell
was out of town and prevent his being
found until his murderers could make
their escape.
An inquest divulged a clew and an
arrest is expected any hour.
abductors. It was later reported that
TO SIGN TERMS; iSS leader APPOINTED
TENDERED LOAN ASKS FOR GUARD BY PRES. HARDING
of the hanging of
night.
“Our office was
ago. where they both
The two met again
gun is said to have dealt the negro
very center of the business district
on Congress avenue, shortly after 10
, Robertson Plans to Go to Wash-
ington and Seek Arrest of Al-
leged “Kidnappers.”
threc months
W. S. MOORE QUITS
CONGRESSIONAL RACE
GAINESVILLE, Texas. May s._
W. S. Moore of Gainesville authorized
the statement today that he would
withdraw from the race for the un-
expired term of the late Representative
Lucian W. Parrish from the Thir-
teenth Texas congressional district,
but that in due time he would an-
nounce his candidacy for the regular
Democratic nomination as representa-
tive from that district.
WEATKER FORECAST
EAST Texas: Tonight and Tuesday
unsettled, probably local thunder
showers in northeast portion.
WEST TEXAS: Tonight and Tues-
day partly cloudy with somewhat un-
settled weather.
Belgium on the other, over the terms
under which the reconstruction of
Russia would be undertaken.
Those who predict a breakup on this
think it will take the form of an ad-
SECOND OLDEST NEWSPAPER
IN TEXAS. ESTABLISHED 1871
This became known today when it
was learned that Robertson, who lives
in Bloomfield, hah written a special
delivery letter to Morris Peterson, sec-
retary of the British embassy, supple-
menting a telegram sent yesterday.
Robertson is seeking to have the
embassy assist him in obtaining the
arrest of John Rhuland and T. G. An-
derson on charges of impersonating
federal officers. He already has caused
the arrest of John F. Ellis, another
detective, on a carge of kidnapping.
The friendship between Robertson
and Miss Culberson was said to have
started at the University of Texas
The letter, signed by Clark, Prentice
A Poulstone, the law firm representing
the general, referred to the charges
made to the committee last month that
General Semenoff, in his military oper-
| ations in Siberia in 1919 and 1920 was
I "nothing more than a brigand and a
. murderer and was personally respon-
sible for the killing of two American
soldiers.” It added that since General
Semeniff arrived in the United States,
— - T T ---- “persons with political and private
Gregg Hill, Commissioners appointed ends to serve have, through civil pro-
by the Travis county Criminal District ceedings, endeavored to injure and dis
Court have selected the grand jury credit the general and the cause he
panel, for the next term of the Crim- represented."
"We believe," the letter continued,
"that General Semeniff is entitled to
a hearing before your committee, both
for hie testimony and for that of others
who have personal knowledge of the
facts, to answer the hearsay and un-
corroborated accusations which have
been made against him.”
were predicting that Russia's refusal
to accept the memorandum would
Scores of people witnessed the af-,
fair, which caused considerable ex- By Associated Press,
citement, and a city policeman was ' NEW YORK, May 8.—Counsel for
standing on the corner across the General Gregorie Semenoff, Cossack
street less than a block distant, but chieftain, yesterday sent a letter to
no one attempted to Interfere with the Senator William E. Borah. requesting
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the men were from Granger, that one : a meeting of the Senate committee on
of them was a constable there and that education and labor, so that the gen-
the negro was accused of "jumping" eral could appear with witnesses and
a labor contract. I answer the various charges against
No report of the affair had been him.
made to police headquarters Monday ’
morning.
inal District Court, beginning June 5,
as follows:
James E. Lucy, Austin; John Pay-
ton, Sprinkle; Fred Collier. Mud; J.
S. Boothe, Del Valle; Bill Bratton.
Merrilltown; Alexius Johnson, Deck-
er; Blake Manor, Austin; J. W. Lov-
ett, Creed more; L J. Schneider. Littig:
Herbert Allen, Ree Cave; Simon Gillis.
Austin; R. L Dillingham, Austin;
Shirley Gregg, Manor.
OBREGON GOVERNMENT*
at the primaries. Certainly Missour
cannot afford to be represented 1
such a marplot and it might check
the enthussm of Democrats through-
out the country if their comrades in
Missouri should not redeem the repu-
tation of the party by substituting for
Reed a man of the true breed of Demo-
cratic principle. I am sure your your
own great infuence will contribute to
the desired and expected redemption.
PGense aocept assurances of my
entire confidence in the Missouri
Democrats and believe’me. with best
wishes,
"Sincerely yours,
(Signed) "Woodrow Wison"
In a letter last week to John O.
Higdon, a local lawyer, Mr. Wilson,
asked Mr Higdon "not to complicat
the contest in Missouri by becoming a
candidate for the nomination
Mr. Long regently opened hie cam-
paign at Capt Girardeau ana Mr. Reed
opened his Saturday at Moberly. The
primary le August I.
In his opening campaign address
Senator Reed defended his course and
asserted that Mr. Wlinon was the "hey
who is conductirg the campaign in
Missouri for the Mbv mide"
I break the conference up, had not them-
A--. . I selves signed the memorandum.
AANRRrGe AVENII 1 The rirth week or the Genoa confer-
uUllUDuvu AVrNUrence. opening today, will see the end
of the conclave, it is generally believed.
— , An atmosphere of gloom pervades con-
ference circles, in view of the apparent
irreconcilability of the positions of
England on one hand and France and
HEAVY RAIN AT GAINESVILLE.
By Associated Press.
GAINESVILLK, Texas, May 8.—Aa
inch of rain fell here between 7 and 8
o'clock thia morning and was still
falling at 10 o'clock. Elm Creek fork
of the Trinity rose three feet last night
from heavy rains yesterday.
notified this
By Associated Preen.
ST. LOUIS May 8,—Referring to
United States Senator James A. Reed
as a "marplot" former President Wil-
son. in a letter to former Governor
Lon V. Stephens, asks the defeat of
Missouri's senior senator to "redeem
the reputation" of the Democratie par-
ty.
It was Mr. Wilson's third letter on
the race for the Democratic nomina-
tion for United States senator be-
tween Mr. Reed and Breckenridge
Long, former third assistant secretary
or state in the Wilson administration.
The letter was in reply to one by
Mr. Stephens in which the former gov-
ernor referred to a letter the former
President recently wrote the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, attacking Reed. Mr.
Reed replied to this letter in which he
questioned Mr. Wilson', memory.
The letter, under date of April 27,
to Mr. stephens, follows:
deal" Governor Stephens
"Tour letter of April twenty-becond
gratified me I am glad to be
sustained in my own Judgment of Reed
by your eloser knowledge of him and
I ehall hope and confidently expect to
see nim repudiated by the Democrats
By Associated Press.
CORSICANA, Texas, May 8.-
Ths negro found hanging to a tree
between Fairfield and Kirvin this
morning was known as Shadrach
Green, according to a telephone re-
port from Fairfield. According to
the telephone shots had been fired
Into the body. On the surface
everything is quiet, it was said.
altogether the proposed loan would
WASHINGTON, May 8—As a fur-
ther step in the harmonising of acti-
vities of the Interstate Commerce
Commission and state regulating bod-
ies, the federal commission announced
today that it had formally vacated all
its orders against the State of Texas
in what is known as the Shreveport
rate case.
The noted Shreveport case, insti-
tuted eleven years ago, developed the
entrance of the federal agency into
the field of control over state rates.
The supreme court recently handed
down a decision in what is known as
the Wisconsin case defining the pow-
er of the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission as compared with the power
of the state commissions and this de-
cision resulted in the agreement upon
further activities between the com-
mission and the state authorities.
State commissions in won sequence
including that of Texas, have with-
drawn orders which conflict with In-
terstate Commerce Commission poli-
cies in many important details and
has substituted for their former or-
ders new ones which fit federal poli-
cles The federal commission under
the agreement on the other hand, has
allowed the new orders of Texas and
other states to be the sole guiding rule
for railroads in the territory con-
cerned.
morning that he had been found
hanging to a limb in the pasture
at his farm. We responded to the
call and cut the body down. That
is all we know of the circum-
stances.”
Cornish was a farmer.
.NEWARK, N. J ’ May request
that the British embassy send an agent
to escort him from the station tomor-
row, that he would not be molested,
has been made by Alexander E. Rob-
ertson. British war veteran, who plans
to go to Washington to press his
... —,—pre- charges that private detectives at-
yiousix issuea A. statement denouncing tempted to railroad him out ot the
the eftosts it alleged France and Bel - country because of his edorta to win
gium had made to wreck the confer- the hand of Miss Marv Clberwn
ence. The statement called attention daughter of Senator Charles A. Cui-’
to the fact that these powers, which *------ - -
The Russian delegation had
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 8.—Ringleaders in a
riot in the Cook county jail last night
were taken from their cells early to-
day and whipped by Warden Wesley
West brock and thirty guards before
the disturbance was stopped. , The Hot
started because of an order limiting
the prisoners' right to receive visitors
once instead of twice a week.
The riot started on the fourth tier.
Flaming blankets set afire by prison-
ers were dropped to the ground floor.
Dense smoke almost suffocated many.
With steel strips tom from their bunks
the prisoners beat upon the bars of
their cells, and the bedlam was heard
for blpcks. Crowds gathered at the
jail entrance and police were called to
beat them away.
Efforts ot the guards to quell the
riot, which began at 9:30 p. m. and
lasted until midnight, failed until War-
den Westbrook took charge of the situ-
ation. Thirty minutes later the jail
was calm.
PEKING, May 7.—It is stated that
General Wu Pei-Fu, commander of
the Chi-Li forces, has demanded the
dismissal of General Chang Tso-Lin
from the government of Manchuria
and the payment by Chang of $20,000,-
000 as compensation for instigating
the warfare.
spectacular incident was walking north I "
on Congress avenue, just below the '
Maverick Cafe, when a dilapidated I
Ford automobile containing three men i
dashed into the curb directly ahead of j
him. Two of the men leaped out, one I
drawing a heavy revolver, according
to spectators, and fell upon the un- f
suspecting negro. The man with the '
Cornish last
amount to 300.000.000 gold francs. It !
By Associated Press.
FORT WORTH, Texas. May 8—
The body of a negro, Tom Cornish,
brother of John Cornish, one of the
victims of the Kirven mob Satur-
day morning, was found hanging
to a tree limb by a farmer between
Kirven and Fairfield this morning.
Officers at Teague were informed
by phone that the body had been
found. Tom had been making cer-
tain statments that had led people
in and around Kirvin to believe
that he had something to do with
the assaulting and murdering of
17-year-old Eula Awsley.
Sheriff Mayo of Limestone
county said this morning that he
knew nothing of the circumstances
Spectacular Affair Causes Con-
reconstruction. It was asserted that
Great Britain and Italy Join In Alec Robertson
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 8—-Denial
that attempts were made to drive
Alexander E. Robertson, British
war veterans out of the country
because of a love affair with the
daughter of Senator Culberson of
Texas, was made today by the
Burns detective agency which was
retained to gather information
about him. Robertson's move-
ments have been of his own ac-
cord, it was said.
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, May 8 —The Am-
erican government is standing unalter-
ably for the guarantees requested of
the Obregon regime in Mexico, nearly
a year ago and so far General Obre-
gon and his advisers have given no
definite assurance that the guarantees
will be given in order to make formal
recognition of their government post
sible.
Many intimations that the Mexican
authorities are favorably disposed
toward the Americans request have
reached the state department but of-
ficials here will not be satisfied with
anything less than a formal pledge by
the Obregon government itself. It was
said at the state department today
that consequently the situation re-
mained just where it was when the
terms of recognition were submitted
to Mexico City in June J 921
, , — journment. If the soviet reply, which
.. , , and hustled i3 expected within two days, is un-jwere students
out of town, in broad daylight, in the satisfactory, these people say, another —
By Associated Press.
, GENOA, May 8. — Premier Lloyd
George of Great Britain and Foreign
Minister Schanzer of Italy addressed
today a strong appeal to the Russian
representatives at the conference here,
urging them to accept the allied mem
orandum in its main points and prom-
ising Russia an international loan, with
the understanding that the lending
countries would thus provide funds for
the reconstruction of Russia. The
allies would claim the right to make
sure, however, that the money loaned
was actually invested in the work of
reached the refuge camps, it
added.
By Associated Press.
TIEN TSIN May 8.—General Wu
Pei-Fu, who came to Tien Tsin from
Peking in pursuit of the Manchurian
General Chang Tso-Lin was ordered
yesterday by the allied military com-
manders here to leave the city as his
presence was held to be in violation
of the 1901 protocol. He refused to
leave on the ground that he was act-
ing governor of Chihli province and
would remain as long as necessary for
his purpose 8.
The bridges between this city and
Taku, on the south side of the Hun
river estuary, were burned by the re-
treating members of Chang Tso-Lin's
army. Two thousand of Chang’s sold-
iers were reported yesterday in Tang-
ku, on the north side of the river,
where their demands to convoy then
to Mukden were fruitless, no locomo-
tives being available. Frequent at-
tempts at telephonic communication
with Tangku last night were unsuc-
cessful.
General Wu said no further fight-
ing would be necessary if General
Chang Tso-Lin's men withdrew out-
side the great wall. He added that as
Chang had invaded a province within
which he had no jurisdiction he would
not return to headquarters until Chang
was outside the border.
The declaration was made again by
General Wu that he is not interested
in politics, but desires the unification
of China, a better government and a
representative parliament. He paid
he would not fight the forces of Dr.
Sun Yat Sen, head of the southern
government, unless they advanced fur-
ther south.
Governor Neff today ordered two
detachments of state ranger* to be
sent immediately to Fairfield,
county seat of Freestone county
to prevent an uprising of negroes
which Sheriff W. M. Mayo of
Freextene county said was immi-
nent. The sheriff requested the
ranger* in a message this morning
He said the negroes of the coun-
ty are threatening to avenge the
death of the three negroes who
were burned at Kirven Saturday
morning.
Captain Frank Hamor and a de-
tachment of rangers are prepar-
ing to leave this evening while
another detachment under Captain
Tom Hickman will proceed from
Fort Worth.
The request for the ranger*
came in a telegram shortly after
Sheriff Mayo had talked by tele-
phone with Governor Neff. It
said:
“Please send me as many as ten
rangers to Fairfield at Once.”
The information was given out
by Secretary Walthal who said
that it was evidently the gov-
ernor’s intention that the rangers
work under Sheriff Mayo in sup-
pressing any uprising or trouble
among the negroes of Freestone
county, and not to investigate the
lynching.
The feeling between the Whites
and blacks in Freestone county
is reported to have become in-
HANKOW, May 8.— The Peking-
Hankow railway north of Kwangshuf
has been cut, and it is reported that
Chao-Ti, military governor of the
province of Horta n. has started hostil-
ities against the forces of Wu Pei-Fu.
Fighting was proceeding today at
Sinyangchow, 100 miles north of here
and some occurred yesterday at
Cheng-Chow.
The above dispatch would indicate
that Wu Pei-Fu while zuccessful in
his campaign against the Manchurian
general, Chang Tso-Lin. in the vicin-
ity of Peking, was being attacked from
the south. Cheng-Chow, the northern-
most point mentioned in the dispatch,
is in Henan province about 400 miles
southwest of Peking. Chno-T has
bren governor of Honan since June
1916.
o'clock Sunday morning, was the ex- l
nemaawhn SEMENOFF ANXIOUS
search of work The victim of this n--•
George H. Sparenberg, real estate dealer of Austin and commit-
teeman of the Republican party in Texas, was today named by Presi-
dent Harding as postmaster of the Austin office. Notice that his
name had been sent to the Senate by President Harding was received
in an Associated Press dispatch to the Austin Statesman from Wash-
ington late this afternoon.
Mr. Sparenberg has been a resident of Austin for the past three
and a half years. He came here from Big Spring, Texas, where he
was postmaster for sixteen years. He came to Austin in order to
place his two sons in school here and has acquired residence property
on Nueces Street.
Since his residence in Austin Mr. Sparenberg has been prom-
inent in the activity of the Republican party throughout the State and
has frequently been called on to attend Republican committee meet-
ings. He had the endorsement of F. E. Scobey, R. B. Creager, Con-
gressman Wurzbach and other Republican leaders for the postoffice
position. He was selected from a list of twelve applicants.
The new postmaster promises to reorganize the workings of the
postoffice but added that for the present he would retain all the pres-
ent employes. No changes in personnel will be made for some time,
Mr. Sparenberg stated.
Mr. Sparenberg is still in Washington.
By Associated Pres*
TIEN TSIN, May 8.—Numbers
of Manchurian soldiers were dis-
covered last night south of the for-
mer German concession. Ameri
can and Chinese guards, armed
with a machine gun, were ready
to beat off any attempt at inva-
sion but the men proved quite
docile and are reported to have
agreed to lay down their arms if
given food.
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NEW ORLEANS, May 8—Approxi-
mately 70,000 men, women and chil-
dren are homeless in Mississippi and
Louisiana as the result of the Missis-
sippi River flood and of this number
40,000 are being fed, sheltered and
clothed by the Red Cross and other
organizations. It was officially an-
nounced today by various relief hodies
No provisions have been made to
aid the 30,000 persons who have not
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