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8
The Austin American
Number
AUSTIN, TEXAS, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1923.
Volume 9.
MOREHOUSE KLAN TURNS ON SKIPWIT
1
COTTON SALE
*
Against Terrorism
I
of
NEW DANCE
IRISH CHIEFS
Cleveland Radical Leader to
»
Endangered
RECORD MADE
ESCAPE NET
i
All Titles
I
J
trying to
ficil information.
and a tr
the
Yn
a recent Rudolf Valentino
contest.
in the sand hil
Lake Michigan last
some time yesterday morning.
Miles in One Day
Cleveland,
tinued dancing beyond 2:49
Crossed Electric
8
Dallas Dancers Stopped
DALLAS, April 15
thon dance here which started yes-
supervising
decided
against Sunday dancing.
duration
in a motorlss machine,
Called Session
JOBSTOWN,
Speaker Sengler and Lieutenant
Governor
has by legislation st
erase.1* and tl
government should take sim-
ilar action.
of Hood county, whose body was
€
speedway May 30
i
hattan.
We stand today in the
utl
ardner de-
in
p
she is like nothing so much as a
French Pilot* Off
First
page under advertisements of
pink
"These stories should be
printed on the first page"
Rogers Ranker Dies
partly cloudy.
W
»
t
I
Drink Results In
Texas Man's Death
Soviet Explains
Legal Status of
Russian Church
Michigan Launches
Second Test on Law
Face Charges of Starting
Organization in Support of
Sabotage and Violence.
Donor of $850,000
Not Concerned Over
Way Being Spent
TARIFF BILL
HITS SOUTH’S
Free State Troops
Miss De Valera
Miller Jury Still
Out; Fails to Reach
U. S. Warned by
Bums on Spread
Of Communism
in the age which stands emphati-
cally for the doctrine of equality
of the sexes and la insisting upon
School Problems
To Be Discussed
At Meet Tonight
Mystery Surround* Deserted
Rum Runner; Sign* of Fight
through two days and three nights
and the greater part of the third
presuma bl;
William
winner
beauty
The Weather (or Today
East Texas: Monday party eloudy
and warmer in south portion; Tues-
Ld
the
GALVESTON. April 15.—With 75
delegates from all sections of the
state assemble*! here, the state con-
vention of the Council of Jewish
Women got under way here this
Fail* to Bring Verdict From
Men Deciding Case Against
Sealy Resident.
resenrch is not the position of this
church."
a flight from Kansas City, Mo., to
San Antonio. It was learned tody.
The airline distance is 705 miles.
The birds were liberated at 6:03
a. m. and was timed in the loft at
LEADER MAY
BE BANISHED
FROM STATE
Speeding Auto
Kills Two; One
Seriously Hurt
4
, i
con-
l. m.
more than ten years ago.
Ruthen berg testified he had been
a socialist organizer, was the can-
didate of that party for mayor of
Cleveland several times and also
ran for governor. congressman and
United States senator from Ohio.
cadent
States
Wive* of Army Aviator* to
Get Air Thrill Twice Year
carried off the honors of the day.
The progress made in moterless
topped the "de-
hat the United
may do with it.
That was his answer to a ques-
tion as to his attitude toward the
$
Arkansas Student I* Hit by
Train in Attempt to Save Baby
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By J. P. AQty
presence
th move-
Jap Riverside
Drive Dancing
School Raided
New York Ha* Fire
NEW YORK. April 15.—A num-
ber of persons were rescued when
fire started in the hotel Penn at
overdose of headache medicine is
believed by police and physicians
to have been responsible for the
death of E. J. Pribble, 35. resident
Of Legislature
Starts Today
J
Lodge Official to Be Tried
On Fund Conversion Charge
SACRAMENTO. Cat. April 15. —
Emanuel I. Guillery, who as treas-
urer of the burial department of
district grand lodge No. 35. Grand
United Order of Odd Fellows, la
charged with conversion to his own
use of more'than 32000 belonging
to the lodge, will be returned to
Muskogee. Okla., to stand trial as
the result of an extradition arrant
issued here today.
of one of the great yot
ments of history," Dr. C
p to New York
he best record.
party,
ills on
NEW YORK, April 15—A mys- Lexington avenue and Fart 42nd
tery of the sea. Involving a pos- j street early this morning. Ono
sible battie between rum runners j man was reported to have been
and pirates. developed today when badly burned,
the roast guard eutter Manhattan' ------ --w.
such that were an agreement possi -
ble it would have been reached by
held secretly
the shore of
summer.
which transacted sgme business.
EF You A NACHOL-BAWN
LIAH You Kin SORTER
'FORD t' talk; but EF
You Ain' GooD AT IT.
PEN YOU BETTUH KEEP
Vo' MOUF SHEr!!_
(
I
guaranteed- third, no church society
has the right to own property: apd
fourth, all property belonging to the
church societies in Russia is de-
clsred to be national property, but
buildings and articles of service are
handed over to religious societies
for free use.”
April 15—Communr
vention of the communist
ly on the bumper. ______ w_, ____ __
Jason and Mildred Holt afternoon following a meeti
ant. who was given a five-year term i Goldie Hughes to drop out shortly
in the penitentiary recently in a; after 3 a. m. and leave the con-
trial in the local criminal district test to Miss Williams apd L. Kess-
court on the same charge. will face | ler. At 2:27 p. m.. Sunday, Kess-
trial on two joint charges of mur- i ler was ruled off the floor as a
der in connection with the sameresult of his apparent inability to
fight on Monday, July 9. In the keep time to the music, or to do
The Right Rev. Gershom Mott
Williams was born in Fort Hamil-
ton. N. Y.. in February. 1567. He
has been In charge of the Ameri-
can Episcopal churches in Europe
for seven years.
pills for
inahded.
Episcopal Leader Defends Youth of
Today; "We Had Our Time,” Says
OMAHA. Neb., Aprir‘s.—"When-
sermon delivered here this
MONETT, Ark., April 15 — Clem-
ent Barber. a student at the Jones-
boro agricultural school, ran into
the path of a train here today in an
attempt to save Hamner Green. a
1-year-old boy, who had left his
mother’s side and walked along the
tracks. The child win killed and
Barber was injured. He was taken
to a Jonesboro hospital, where it
was said he would recover.
The mara-
"As she sweeps down the street.
English Market Is Deliberation
- m--s-
Fund For Public
seasona. It is estimated that there
are about 5200 acres under cotton
ever doctrines for religion cannot
be interpreted to hold the interest
of youth, the end f those doctrines
and customs is in sight,” said Rev.
Dr. William E. Gardner, secretary
of the department of religious ed-
ucation of the Episcopal church.
Sunday. Doctors prevailed on Miss
Fall* on Madi Gras Dancer*
MILWAVKEE, Win. April IS.—
While thousands of persons were
dancing at the Mardi Gras of the
Loyal Order of Moose in the mu-
nicipal auditorium here last night,
a aky lighta weighted down by
•now, caved in, seriously injuring
three children and throwing the
dancers into a near panic. One
of the injured children is not ex-
pected to live.
made to-
world, and especially if they come
from New England. have a con-
scientious feeling that unless good-
ness is accompanied by a due
amount of discomfort, it is not
goodness. The youth of the, day
has repudiated this idea.” ’
Lascalles Break* in Movie*
I LONDON. April 15. — Viscount
IAscellee. ths husband of Princess
Mary. qualified today as a full-
fledged motion picture actor. He
appears as the chief character in
a film showing a day’s sport of the
Bramham Moor hunt, of which he
is master. ,
and Saturday afternoons had been | more Saturday when they
Skipwith Asked to
Resign by Klan
—
NEW ORLEANS, April 15—Capt
J. K Skipwith, exalted cyclope ot
the Morehouse parish ku klux klan
and one ot the central figures in the
state’s investigation Into the kia-
naptng and slaying of Wstt Daniela
.BURLINGTON, N. X, April 15 -
Crossed electric wires were be- . . w
1ieved today to have caused the fire silled terms. Premier Poincare apd
in one of the stables or the Ran- his ministers and experts for France
cocas stock farm last night when I and. Premier Theunis and Foreign
many valuable horses, including the Minister Jaspar of Belgium Als-
ataiions Inchcape and Cirrus were, cussed the r views st the end of the
kiuea Henry W Treeh, manager two days conference, concluded
of the farm, declared he could find i yesterday, and a Ereed to have tbe
no evidence of incendiarism. Harry [ preliminary plan drafted.
F. Sinclair Jr., owner of the farm. ~ I " m .
refused to make an stimate of his Prize Horses DOTH to Death
loss.
spent in preparation of the charge. ,
Miller and Foster Bell co-defend- i
It was also stated that the three
klans, shortly after the opening
hearing at Bastrop was concluded
in January, requested Dr. B. M. Me-
Koin, former mayor of Mer Rouge,
to leave for the good of the order
and peace of the community. Dr.
McKoin went to Baltimore early in
February and still is in that jty.
pale people?" he
the socialist party
danced steadily
difficult one it is only a
Ruthenberg. who served several
months in an Ohio work house dur-
ing the war for obstructing the
draft, has been a socialist and radi-
cal leader for years. As a witness
at Foster’s trial he described his
career from the time he entered
she li like nothing so much as • stabbed her husband, according to
fine, young spirited puppy dog., the police. “I don't remember what
eager for the tray. We do wrong > happened." she was quoted as hav-
to condemn them, to decry them, ing said.
to euepect them. Youth is abroad ! —--
..... - Woman 70 Year* Old Start*
Still With Red Cross Loan
JACKSON, Miss . April 15. — Mrs.
Four French Automobiles in
International Race
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 14-
Announcement that four French
automobiles of the same make had
been entered in the eleventh an-
nual international 500 mile race to
be run at the Indianapolis motor
Wires Blamed for Revised Reparation Plan
Sinclair Blaze' pBeingaFrerared-by,Alies
Belgian revised reparations plan, it
is officially confirmed, will soon be
put inio tentative form in prepara-
tion for the German demand for the
The textbook investigating commit-
tees and the house eleemosynary
committee will continte their work
requiring committee sessions, dur-
ing the early part of the week
Marlin Boy Drown*
MARLIN, April 15.—Henry Jolly.
19 years old. was drowned in Big
creek, near here, yesterday. Joly
was attempting to cross the creek
on horseback when the horse stum-
bled, throwing him into the stream
Jolly had almost reached the bank
when he became exhausted.
old horses, and Cherryola. famous
mare and mother of Purchase, the
stallion saved, were also killed.
Among the colts destroyed were
three by Inchcape. two by Super-
man. three by Purchase and one
each by Lucullite and Sir Jolin
Johnson.
ments in China and gives them
an exact status with that oGreat
Britain, France, Portugal. Italy.
Belgium and the Netherlands, the
other signatory power* to the nine
power treaty negotiated b¥ the
arms conference.
night by the speedway manage-
ment. Earlier in the day it was
stated that the entries of three
German cars had been received. Three Injured When Skylight-
day, while couple after couple
dropped out around To the very
Guests Is Latest in Hotels
NEW YORK, April 15—Installa-
tion of chapels for the use of
guests in each hotel of the Bow-
man group, was announced toay
by John Bowman, president of a
company controlling a chain of
hotels extending the Atlantic to
the Pacifie coasts. They will be
known as "meditation chapels" and
will contain altars which will be
consecrated on their completion, it
was said.
dared today. "Home of us don’t,
realize it. We have lived out our,
time. We look about us and the'
morals and the manners of the
young people shock us."
Dr. ardner defended the youth
of the day "who dress and talk and
think as they like.”
"I am one of those who stand for
the flapper. She is a symbol of
the time,” Dr. Gardner declared.
FORT WORTH, April 15.—An
near this city.
Investigation by the police re*
vealed that Pribble. with J. H
Rushind, a companion, went to a
drug store, where they purchased
six ounces of pthe medicine. They
drank it in a restaurant and Prib-
ble became unconscious. His com-
panion. also feeling the effects of
the medicine, placed him in an au-
tomobile and remembers nothing
after assisting the man to leave
the taxicab near the spot where
his body was found. Pribble was
married.
With 24 hours of deliberation
reeled off, the jury in whose hands Honston Girl Wins
run the late of John Miller, tried Ilouston •II 1 " 1,18
morning. •
"If they have no vital truth they
become aide-eddies in the stream
of human interest. If they have
vital truth, youth finds it and
clothes it in new phrases and fig-
urea and makes it an asset in hu-
man endeavor.”
It was Dr. Gardner's plea for
some declaration on which he could
go before the youth of the church
and reassure them that resulted in
the adoption by the conference of
educational leaders of the Episco-
pal church yesterday of the resolu-
tions that "the hurch’s documents
and official teachings do not ham-
per their (youth’s) spirit of honest
search for truth. nor the desire
to get a larger vision of it and
that the narrower position which
ignores th* fruit of modern knowl-
edge and the results of scientific
Suweep and Edict. valuable 3-
yer-old fillies, and 36 mares, in-
chiding 19 former racers, were
killed. The mares were Miss Crit-
tenden. Passing Showers. White
Silk. Autumn Second. Royal Ensign
Lequett, Wedding Cake. Fanfare.
found the abandoned two masted
rum schooner "Patricia M. Behan
with sails set and anchor dragging
at the entrance to Great South
Bay. The deck was strewn with i
empty cartridge shells and there
were signs of a struggle according ,
seriously injuring two more apd
carrying away a 3-year-old child.
NEW YORK, April 5—A Japan-
ese dancing school in a fashionable
residential section on Riverside
drive was raided by detectives early
today and the proprietor, hostess
»and 19 young girls, all under 21
years of age, were arrested. The
girls were charged with incorrigi-
bility and the proprietor and host-
ess with operating a dancing school
without a license.
When the detectives entered 60
Japanese who were in the hall fled
for exits and escaped to their rooms I
on floors above.
ROGERS, April 15-J H Wear
prominent banker of this city, died
yesterday after a lingering Hlness.
_ ------ ---- He is survived by five children, in-
WestTexas: Mongay partly cloudy • eluding Bruce Wear, a student at
and varmeri Tuesday partly cloudy.LA&M college.
U. S. Officially Announces
End of Lansing-Ishi Treaty
WASHINGTON, April 15.—Offl-
cial announcement that the cele-
brated Lansing-Ishii agreement be-
tween the United States and Japan
has been cancelled and is of "no
further force or effect” was made
today by the state department with
an explanation that the Cancella-
tion was being announced simulta-
neously in Tokio by the Japanese
foreign office in an identical state-
ment.
This act of cancellation restore* a
parity of interests on the part of
Japanese and American govern-
were killed and Mrs. Wm Jason and
David Read were severely injured.
The mishng baby is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jason.
Chicago Woman Held on Death
Of Hutband After “Party”
• CHICAGO, April 15. — arter an
all-night drinking party Fred Storey
was found stabbed to death in his
home. Mrs. Sarah Storey, wife of
the victim, and Herbert Peck, who
was in the house at the time, were
taken into custody by the police
Peck accused Mrs Ftorey of having
the affair,
PITTSFIELD, Mass., April 15—Convention of Jewish Women
A speeding automobile tonight R IT 1 ur an a
crashed into a crowd of people ets Under Way at alveston
waiting for a trolley car here, kill-
ing two persons almost instantly.
DUBLIN, April 15—Earn on De
Valera, Dan Breen and P. J. Rut-
ledge are still at large. Austin
Stack, when captured by the free
state authorities, according to of-
Service, Inc.,
ties that the jury would fail to
agree, arguing that the case was
last week on a charge of assault to
murder on Ernest Schaffner grow-
ing out of the fatal gun ahd knife
fight on the streets of Sealy last
September, last night had failed to
reach an agreement on its verdict.
The case was handed to the jury
at 11 o’clock Saturday night and et
11 o'clock last night the jury had
retired for the night without having
reached a verdict.
Prediction. Made
it was being freely predicted on
the streets yesterday that the Miller
Legion Hai Special Program
Of Entertainment on Tonight Rounavcariy-tn1s morning, inning
against a house on the Dallas pike
make his way through the free
state lines. He was well dressed,
but looked ill and haggard, and
had a many days’ growth of beard.
The document found on Stack Re-
questing the president of the re-
public to order "an immediate ces-
nation of hostilities" was in Stack’s
own handwriting and ready for
signature by all members of the
irregular executive committee.
Had the document been com-
pleted it would have put Eamon
De Valer in the position of having
to call off hostilities and the fact
that Stack when arrested had not
obtained the signatures to the doc-
ument may defer for the present
a complete cessation of fighting.
The end, however, is now believed
in free state circles to be only a
question of time. .
SAN ANTONIO, April 15 —Pig- quarters was based was said to
eons belonging to the members of have been the charge that he had
San Antonio, center of the Amer- permitted a violation of the klan
lean racing pigeon unin, broke the ! laws which prohibited the klansmen
world's 700-mile record Saturday in trom wearing their hoods and robes
- — — -- 'only at initiation ceremonials.
DAR Meet Opens Today (
WASHINGTON, April 15—With
a three-cornered political fight for
the administration of the organisa-
tion promising ample and increasing
excitement for the 2000 or more del-
egates, the 32d annual continental
congress of the Daughters of the
American Revolution will be opened
formally tomorrow morning.
'Concurrent meetings will be held
by the Sons of the American Revo-
lution and the Children of the
American Revolution.
last there was very little evidence
_____ ___________ of exhaustion about her and for a (otnan Nawgno-Ar
The trial of John Miller on the swans ong she staged as lively-----
assault to murder charge opened on one-step as she did on the first! T)T , I m
Monday morning of last week The! night r’lant IVIOVed J hrec
testimony was concluded on Friday . Three Break Record
afternoon and arguments began on . Three Houston dancers broke the
Saturday afternoon, after Friday ' world record established at Balt-
_ ing of
the board of managers at 4 o’clock.
HOUSTON, April 15— Sixty-five
hours and twenty-nine minutes.
That is the answer of a Texas
girl to the would-be world cham-
pion long distance dancers of
New York and Cleveland.
The record was made at Mc-
Millian's dancing academy here.
21 couples having set out at 9:15
p. m. Thursday with a cash prize
WASHINGTON, April 15 — The
Ford ney-MeCum ber tariff bill keep-
ing out English-made goods may
cause the south to lose its best
cotton customer. /
Information received here today is
to the effect that movement is on
foot in Great Britain to encourage
the raising of cotton in South Af-
rica. A levy on trade will be laid
fr the purpose.
Cable dispatches from Ioonon tell
of the address of Sir Ph Slip
Iloyd-Greame in the house of com-
mons, in which he declared that the
United States was making trade
impossible.
Senator Simmons of North Caro-
lina. during the debate on the"tariff
bill, declared that such a result
might follow. Secretary of Com-
merce Hoover is making inquiries
into the situation.
Africa Competitor.
The prospect of making South
Africa an important cotton produc-
ing country is good, according to
a report to the commerce depart-
ment from Consul L. V. Boyle,
Natal. There is said to be ap-
proximately 4 000,000 acres of land
in the Union of South Africa suit-
able for growing cotton. 2,000,000
hcres of which ar* in the Transvaal
and 2.000,000 acres in Natal Con-
siderable interest in growing cotton
has recently been aroused in Natal
because of the ravages of the
boll weevil in the United States.
The production of cotton in South
Africa has steadily increased front
22 bales of 500 pounds in 1910 to
2320 bales for the mason 1921-22.
The outlook for the 1922-23 crop
ie exceedingly promising, because
MITCHELL -FIELD, N. Y, April
15—Wives and mothers of army
airmen compelled by army regula- . . . M , . , -
tions to stay on th ground whjlejto Captain M. J. Ryan of the Man-
their men climbed up into the sky j hattan.
will be permtted to enjoy the thrill ,T-------;
or niying twice a year under the Chapel Room for Religious
terms of a war department order - - - - —
received here today.
Sarah Strong. 70 y^rv old, pleaded
guilty at Vicksburg of illicit dis-
tilling with a sti set up with
money borrowed from the Red
Cross, it was revealed in a report
Issued by Federal Prohibition Di-
rector Daly. She was sentenced to
13 months in the penitentiary.
klans renewed their petition to hint
asking that he issue a proclamation
banishing Skipwith from the order
and declaring his offic vacant. A
proclamation along these Unes was
prepared, it was stated, and was
ready for the signature of the Im-
perial wizard when the legal wran-
gle between Evans and Simmons
i developed.
The girls said they had been en- Simmons, it was said, favored
saged to teach the Japanese the Skipwith’s cause and Skipwith. as
tango and other dances. When they I soon as he heard of th, Evans-
were arraigned In women's •ourt Simmons row, collected a number
many at them became hysterical I or his followers snd hurried to At-
Most of them were accompanied in' lanta with the avowed purpose of
court by their perents. Eight fur- supportin, Simmons.
nished ball of 3600 and the others I At the present Um, the outcome
were committed to a home pending of the effort to oust Skipwith is
an investigation by the probation ( declared to be waiting the result
officers.________________ jot the fight between Evans and
Found at Last! Man Who
Want* Crime Newt on Pl
MOSCOW, April 16.—Tn connec-
tion with the recent trial of the
Roman Catholic archbishop. Zep-
lisk, and 'he forthcoming trial of
the Most Rev. Dr. Tikhon, former
patriarch of all Russia. Commisar
of Justice Kursky today made to
the Associated Press the fpllowpg
statement:
"The legal position of the church
in soviet Russia and ita allied re-
publfes is best illustrated by the
fundamental regulations fixed by
the decree of separation of church
and state in 1918. According to
thia every citizen, first, may pro-
fess any religion or none at all; sec-
Splash Day Gets
Galveston Crowd
GALVESrON, April 15— Splash
day, official opening of the Galves-
ton beach season, drew hundred a of
spectators, motorists and pedes-
triana to the beach front today, but
a nipping wind from the north kept
all but a few hardly individuals out
of the surf and promenading on
the boulevard or circulating among
the concessions, most of which did
a thriving business.
ond, when th. carrying out of r: ana T F Richards of Mer Rouge,
Iigious rite, does not interfere with a. . sen ak-a t re-
public order and the right, of cui- last August, has been asked t .
zene. free performance of them la sign "for th. good of th, order and
being heard in the times ahe
"Moat Christians all over
Inchichape, noted racer and prize
stallion in the Harty F. Sinclair
racing stable, was burned to death
along with 60 other stallions and
brood mares in a fire that swept a
stable on the Rancocons stock
farm.
to leave Louisiana, according to ha-
; formation which the New Orleans
! Times-Picayune says it has ob-
tained from a prominent klansman.
According to the newspaper:—th*
request for Skipwtth’s resignation
came from the majority of klans-
men in Morehouse. Ouachita and
Madison parishes.
Refuses to Resign
! Captain Skipwith, it was stated,
refused either to resign or to leave
the state, maintaining that he wm
legally elected as cyclops and that
only the imperial wizard of the or-
der could remove him. Klansmen
in the three parishes. It was add-
ed. took up the question with Im-
perial Wizard Evans before th*
differences between Dr. Evans and
Emperor Simmons arose in Atlanta
and it was stated that Dr. Evan*
also advised Skipwith to resign and
leave Louisiana.
Dr. Evans did not pursue the mat-
ter further at the time, it was said,
but later on member* of the three
pound their gavels at 9 o’clock this
morning and declare the first called
session of the 38th legislature under
way. It is hoped that there will be
enough member* here to form a
quorum in both houses and permit
the houses to start dispatch of busi-
ness. However, member* here are
rather skeptical that a sufficient
number—100 representatives and 21
senator*- will be in the capitol at
9 o’clock for an immedinte start.
After organization of both the
houses, which will require but
little time, probably 25 bilis. Includ-
ing the general appropriations bills,
a bill by John T. Smith to appro-
priate sufficient funds to pay in-
terest of deficiency warrants with
which state employes are paid, the
Coffee gross production tax. and
other tax measures, will be offered.
Episcopal Bishop Better
RT LoUis, Mo. April 15— Bish-
op Daniel H Tuttle, head of the
Episcopal church in America, who
rallied^ front n sinking spell yes-
terday? maintained the improve-
ment today, according to an-
nouncement by his ph y stria ns The
aged prelate has been critically ill
for six weeks. 5
I United States department of jus-
tice today, William J. Burna, chief
of the bureau of investigation, de
partment of justice, declared today
upop his arrival in El Paso from
San Antonio.
"It ia not a theory but a fact
that millions of dollars are being
spent in the United States by Rus-
sia to spread communistic prop-
aganda.” Mr. Burns said. "The
communist movement is gaining
strength in large industrial cen-
ters and is being closely watched
by members of our department
While the problem confronting us
Jump of World Airplane Tour
NICE. April 16.—Three pilots--
Captain Madon, M. de Gaillard and
M. Pickard—took off in their ma-
chines early this morning for Mi-
lan. their first jump in the round
world flight of the "flying circum"
organised by Captain Rapt. Mad-
den and Gaillard, however, soon
developed motor trouble and had
to turn back. They mad* bad
langing and their airplane* were
wrecked. Picard continued the
fight to Milan
the rains fell earlier than usual. PiFhtnMonH-TI9 ypUKI;.M- *.0 IV
or to
one month sooner than in past
High School Sophomore I*
Found Dead in Hi* Room
WICHITA Kan April 15.—Wal-
ter C. Bayes, 17. high school sopho-
more. was found dead in his room
here this afternoon, slumped in his
ehair a .32-caliber revolver lying
on the floor where it had appar-
ently dropped from his hand. An
empty bottle labeled "poison" was
on the table.
CARVER, Mm, April 15-
Charles Garland had trouble
enough getting rid of his $850,000
inheritance ad is not at all con-
cerned with what the American
N J.. April 15-
American Legion members will
be given a treat at the regular
' flights was indicated when expert*
railed attention to the fact that the
pilot less planes today exceeded the
’ records made at Clermnant-Ferrand
1 last August, during which pilots
I were aboard the machines.
24 Hour*
criticism of the use to which the
fund is being put made by Samuel
Gompers, prrsident of the American
Federation of Labor. If. as Gom-
pers say, the Garland money is
being used to foster revolutionary
propaganda. Garland says he does
not know it. The trustees of the
fund have not consulted him nor is
he interested.
His farm colony here working
out with him certain Ideas of com-
munal life in ramshackle struc-
tures takes all his time and thought
he insists.
Texas Pastor Hits
Non-Stop Dancing
GALVESTON. April 15—Liken-
ing those who participate in dance
contents to break the "world’s rec-
ord” tn a woman who committed
suicide to "get a new thrill.’' and to
the ancient Athenians, who were
only amused at Paula efforts to
bring the message of God tothm.
Rev R. F, Phillips, rector of Grace
Episcopal church in a sermon to-
night declared that such people are
fools, that the British-government
Travis post meeting tonight. A
special program, including a radio
concert program, refreshment* and
other features, haa been arranged
by a committee, consisting of J.
C. Reynolds, J. T McKean and
John Gracy, who will be in charge
of the enterinment at the close
of the business session. Several
new members will be introduced
Travis post's part in the decoration
of world war soldier graves will be
discussed during the business ses-
sion.
2.0,1. 20 P.954 --.e W A*5 any real dancing.
It la likely that Judge Hamilton will Miss WlHams first announced
set the second trial on the assault she would go on through Sunday
charge on the same date, to 9 a. making a 72-hour
in Natal this season, and that the y 1 A q , 1 record,
combined yield in Natal and therrench IVotorless g. .
Transvaal of the current crop will.__ _ Cleveland Danepre Start
in-noyreqgntiuowhecrinan. Planes Make New CLEVELAND, ono. Apri is. -
nth." wfich ha a atapie of about D l • m IToun..men and four women were
1* inches Labor Cheap Records in Tests ‘ Popmgrotonigin Anpenddavort
pCotnengineprhdumpdetlatto: c W^PoS^S
mipccomssunuatinenbrufcamtgfcntanodpdr“anroauzacpbkseepaEherorpcpsn"soumrlnker
connecung th. latter city and 30-s0 feet ieday and remained in tbelthanatniz clonzstsccompetiton,Mis
hnnnenbure. The cotton la Miekea t air from thre to four minutes Th. Andarinesdottsenisk.r.Th ’ plan to
by nauive women and chilren. th.! demonstration was given at th. dance at tast W pours.
supply of this labor being so abun- j Snint Cyr flying field,
dant that it ia unnecessary to hire There were three or four large
native men to pick cotton. Picking enough to carry a pilot, but a ma-
conts amount to approximately two: Jority of the 62 entries had an aver-
shillings per mo pounds. age wing spread of between 15 and t-can, agtin, gic44 na-p,
Colton was the only major com-25 feet and weighed from 15 to 50 1 deraa stopped at • o'clock Sunday
moouy that recttvea noprotectonlround"povMachine",dorigned.bzmormin" Wsen the B0ar"o antdey
n th“arommdnous“adembcznomannasinhieh‘s Mahneyhol’ritw Phnn tors or the Dallas realestate board,
th* commodity threatened in retal- < he established a world • record for
lation 1 rmiin" 15 a "*ntt "hit
Sunday Agreement
~ ° ! EL PASO,
“ tan*, fostered and financed by the
Russian soviets, spells th* most
* difficult problem confronting the
CHICAGO, I., April 16—Greater
publicity for crime was urged by
Warden Wesley Westbrook of the
county jail In- a speech before the
Chicago teacher*’ league today as
a deterrent of potential criminal*.
"Why do Chicago newspnpers
publish crim* stories on the eighth
German Wive* Get Third of
Hobby’* Pay for Table Keep
BERLIN, April 15.—German hus-
bands mustggive their wives one-
third of their incomeS to maintain
the family table. That ia the law
and the German newspapers are
now calling this fact to the at-
tention of housewives, who are
having trouble making their al-
owances cover the increased costs
of food. This one-third income
is not to meet rent or the wages
of servant*. It is merely to cover
the expense of keeping up the
table.
jury would further strengthen the ■
county’* record of being one of the Eoa Ior t.,
most prolific counties in the state Pretty Mis* Magdalene Williams,
in the production of hung furie in
criminal cases. Several persons ex-
pressed opinion* as almost certain-
ST. JOSEPH. Mich., April 15.—
The second test of Michigan’s law
against criminal syndicalism will
be launched in th* Berrien county
circuit court tomorrow, when
Charles E. Ruthenberg of Cleveland
goes to trial, charged with assem-
bling an organization which advo-
cated the duty, necessity and pro-
priety of crime, sabotage, violence
and other unlawful mears of ter-
rorism, as a means of accomplish-
ing "industrial and political re-
form."
In the first prosecution brought
under the act. which was passed as
a war-time measure, the jury try-
ing William Z. Foster disagreed ten
days ago.
Communist Convention.
The charge against Ruthenberg. as
in the case of Foster and 34 others
waiting trial, grew out of atten-
dance at the second national con-
San Antonio at 6:54:40 p. m., hav-
ing flown the distance in 12 hours
51 minutes and 40 seconds. Th*
actual timing shows the winning
bird to have averaged 1610.794 yards
per minute. The first 19 birds in
the race bettered the previous 700-
miles world’s record, which, accord-
ing to the American Racing Pigeon
News, was made by a bird belong-
ing to Wm. J. Lautz, making an
average speed of 1546.97 yards per
minute from Lawrenceburg, Tenn.,
to Buffalo, N. Y. The winner of
Saturday’s race ia R. G. Zinemeister.
■ Simmons.
c I. j McKoin Left
antone Vnorecng The efforts of the klansmen to
OailLVllU 1 I oust skipwith was said to have
..T, p).T i been taken in the belief that Skip-
lOdK LCcord ill with was a storm center and that
. until he is eliminated the process
7(1) Nila H‘*orh+ nf bringing conditions and relations
----U — 11^11 L jn Morehouse parish to normal will
_L , be slow. The technical ground on
which the petition to Atlanta head-
matter of time before the govern-
ment will succeed in removing the
menace.”
Bomb plots have decreased in
number during the past year, the
department chief sald. Instead of
planting bomba and proceedings by
the method of "direct action," rad-
icals of today plan to kill individ-
uals who stand in their way, be
said.
’ Radical literature in large quan-
tities is being distributed through-
out the country," Mr. Burns said
"There are radicals practically
everywhere.”
NEW YORK, April 16 — Transfer
of a newspaper plant over a three-
mile route beginning when the
presses ren off the last edition this
morning was accomplished by the
New York Tribune today when it
moved into its new home in West
40th street from Printing House
square, opposite city hall, the site
on which it was founded by Horace
Greeley.
Monday’s editions will be printed
with the entire mechanical appli-
ances used 24 hours previously,
through the rapid work of a fleet of
truck and 300 skilled mechanics. By
police permission the trucks trav-
ersed the distance in less than half
the ordinary time.
The seven-story building which
will be occupied exclusively by the
newspaper is said to be the most
modern of its kind.
Representatives from the various j
civie clubs and the chamber off
commerce will meet tonight at 7:45
with the Austin school board to
discuss measures for providing
housing capacity for the public
schools next year. The present
school buildings are overflowing and
not another available school room
in the city, and several are being
rented for class rooms.
Hupt A. N. McCallum has talked
to the various civic clubs, suggest-
ing four way* for providing for ade
quote housing for the pupils and
these methods will be thoroughly
investigated before Austin is asked
to provide money for building pur-
/ poses. . •
Among the representatives from I
the various club* are:
Rotary club: D. K Woodward
. Adam R. Johnson and Ed I.
Steck
I Jons club: Ram Sparks, Dr. C. T. ,
Gray and A. V Riley.
YMBL: Q. C. Taylor, Thurlow
Weed and Arthur Watson.
Amercan legion: Hubert Jonen ।
George Nalle and Wilford Turner. ,
Business and Professional Wom- ,
erin" club: Mrs. R. L. Bewley, Misn (
Lols Ervin and Mrs Anna Sandbo, (
Committee* from the chamber of
commerce, KIwanis club and Trades ,
Council are yet to be appointed. •
Well-Known American Bishop
Die* in Hospital in France
PARIS, April 1» — The Risht
Rev. Gershom Mott Willlama, for-
mer bishop of Marquette, Mich.,
died t midnight Saturday in the
Ameritan hospital here. He had
been ill two week*.
Bishop Williams on Palm Sun-
day preached what he then an-
nounced as his last sermon.
W. Davidson will
Onely. Dode. Broompace, Restraint.
Rudona, Topeola, Nazepha. Hiurbel, _ -1 I -j
xightmare. Hlorense and itiyale. । Headache Remedy
Twelve foals, alx 2- and 3-year- —.T,3 j
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