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The Austin American
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Number
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Volume 9.
BANDITS HURL EIGHTY TO DEATH
Committee Compromises Under Neff Whip
ENLISTMENT
exicah Feud Ends BELGIAN PLAN San Antonio
66
M
FOR GERMANY
In Fatal Shooting
Diversion.
; a grim prison life because I thought
no chance
crying "see the hammer
m.
Well, it
his pffer burned me deeply, I sup-
15
pecte for a woman who is known
the
city Clara went with it. but Etta
"Even after I boarded the Copen
3.
FORT WORTH.
to kill 75 lambs and
#4
GALVESTON.—James M. Crain,
diversion to force
dis-
te
Associated Press DIspatch.
spy upon the movements of the
hantung bandits who
seized
Ross Farm to Be
WASHINGTON.
been inspired by representa-
the ‘
been ।
vetera ng
Tested for Oil
ily of Virginia and of
esti-
Lee
y
mi
backed. by a man who was a des-
interests today told from the wit-
Auntin American Dipatch.
inforce the
and
firemen
white
The other witness, who said he
’ with Davi* tn custody
paid, but for which received noth-
guards who since Friday night had
atman Pipeline
as Indicated today
in
Tax Bill Killed
will begin shortly
prop-
land owners and the Witherspoon
bill was killed by the senate com-
Coin Tossed in
Union Coal Miner/ Quit
Tuesday;
Patient Starved
Mateawan Death
hhouse last
To Death. Charge
the
Colliery company owned by mem - ।
29.— An-
wan hotel proprietor and promin-
by
by them.
JL
Copeland Urges
'।|inching
an
a des-
800
horsepower just
to
In Powder Blast
Poincare Given
Confidence Vote
The explosion
by tossing a coin.
Two Drowned in
Oklahoma City
Neff will speak
man- | Pat
M.
the
foreign
com-
8
Conference
WASHINGTON. May 23.—Presi-
b Berton Brley
the
Prize House Cat Pelts
79
Learn "Royal” Walk ।
130.000,
Japan Starked by Church
time
Search for Missing Girl
I
R
i|
The Weather for .Today
Texas Cottonseed Crushers’
The Post-Rej
%
5:
1
ke6.
1
iler will present to coi
"S
tion here today.
i published
spent hours walking in front
a
1
I
Homes Wrecked in
East Texas Storm
Stella Larrimore
Gets Death Threat
NEw YORK, May 20.—Threat.
murderess!’ 'see the tiger woman!*
Oh. it’s awful.
j desires to draft a new enforcement |
' program with the aid of the goy- ,
To Stop Rhine
Strike Trouble $12.50 for His Name
You know, a woman has
when the entire world is
Lockhart Gets Daily Paper
LOCKHART, May 39—Lockhart
number of foreign prisoners, includ-
ing many Americans, from a Shang-
history, two witnesses in the
fraud** cases of the General
—Testi -
venture
"made in Germany” all over them-
selves. Rev. J. Frank Norris, pastor
1 high Honduran official offered me
| my complete freedom and safety
from American officials if I would
i consent to become the mis cress of
grown
Reagan
jump.
$1,-
will
itted
and
affairs
adverse
building trades council. arrived at
Clinton prison today to serve the
motive
Fred
trict 1
today.
the
nsion
Pitt-
Hons that it was managed by a
descendant of the famous Lee fam-
pF ROBBERS IN
POLICE, PLAN
to ’
dis - '
lege frauda
dental work
pitais, but it
sheep
county.
All profits from German coal
i be tut ned over to the rep-
leg
then
had sacrificed her freedom for her
honor.
"I know people wont believe it."
NEGOTIATIONS
FRUITLESS.
the troops to withdraw from Paot-
suku.
with
hou-
deavoring to cut off the Spanish
force from the main army, but were
repulsed.
mit
ft
of
Spanish Troops President Will Call June
Lose 127 in Fight
would be little more trouble from
the "Reds
Sixty-five police from Duessel-
more of my honor than my free-
dom.”
"No, there’s no need of going into
Banker at Bonham Diet
BONHAM. May C L Brad-•
V
1
H-e
moeneme
concluded the’introduction of their ‘ geologist’
testimony, was told by Ike Biew- hm up to be and
Associated Press Dispatch.
FORT WORTH, May 29.-
International News Dispatch.
SAN ANTONIO, May 29—Bent
ONE REASON DEYS So
MENNY SLEEPY-EYED LOOKIN'
Folks DESE DAYs, DAr
AR Radio BizNESS KEEPIN
EM UP LATE AT NIGHr!
‛ g, I
iitei at are
I is not i
fying
had I
For those who died in battle that our liberties might live.
To keep alive wtth.n our hearts the spirit that they knew
We gather here about the graves to pay the dead their due;
pointing
her and
nies, was
in ail
With shrilling fifes and thunaering drums to set the marching
For youthful brown -skinned veterans forever in their prime.
I think ‘they’ be like other souls up them among the blest *
Where earthly tribulations never break their peace and rest.
But—shy on Decoration Day—I fancy thnt they come
9-9"
ON
Hg
•rnUINN, y. •«, May well county Deals in leases and
29 —Union miners Rave quit work I royalties are brisk with prices in-
8. RAYMOND BROOKS
Austin American Staff
PEGGY CHAFFE
ACCUSED.
Associated Press Dispatch.
NEW ORLEANS, May 29.—Clara
Government Stops
Silver Purchasers
SHANGHAI, May The Chi-,
nese army airplanes are kept flyng
over the mountains near Paotzuku.
i ESSEN. May 29—The arrival of
trained police at Bochum and at
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS ’
By J. P. Alley
The path of the storm wax
yards wide, traveling north.
to remain in the emergency
rural school appropriations.
Coffee Oil Tax Hangs.
on Prohibition
months near Paotzuka. resulting in
an acute shortage of water and food'
at Paotzuka. The raid on the train
66
Larrimore •s,'1 this afternoon.
the Coal River i creased.
! details.
DENNEHORA. N. Y.. May
Rattling his chains in unison with
45 other prsoner in a draft from
3
3
3
of the 24
Post WhM
Awaits Clara Phillips, "PPa'Satonoo)t
rrnorz.befornh IX” on June 20 ford, vice presndent of the Fahnin
for his Alaskan tup. ___________ County bank here, was found dead
{ in his garage today.
r
/
xy . . c . ! topen ahop" basis,
world Conference
gg2g$.
between T.
and other
senate committee investigation of
aneed on
swinging
the left
learn to j
exercise
1 eels next week for a conference.
. The Beiginn offer hr ill then be <9s-
i cussed. It is understood many of
the French economic experts Nil,
i go along* i
of the
mine of
lice here 'today
and backward and
evidence gathered in
the belief that the situation will 1 8. Swenson, postoffice
take on the aspect of an ordinary | -------------------------
Statement on Immigration
TOKIO, May 29,—"While I per-
sonally am not opposed to Jpqneya
immigration. feeling against It in
the United States has reached such
fell last night in
Americans whom Mrs.
F ather”
in a gelatin
their faith in the
treasury tonight of a suspei
of silver purchases under the
Smith. C.
from the dingy bars of prison but
it would have cost my self respect."
man act until it can be determined
definitely whether the estimates of
offers, already accepted, exceed the
200 000.000 ounces which tqe law
authorizes the government to buy.
nesa stand how they had invested
------- - -- - — their funds in the defendant com- -- ----
dor were sent into Bochumto re- paa Lee, expecting to -beFehly re- aheaaid.
{.fo-c. ♦ h. e-A --hit. . . . _ ... . ... IL- —.
the cost up
May T9—Some
were seeking to
the right
HOUSTON, May 29—George B
Kimbio. former grand goblin for
the Knights of the KuKlux Klan,
today filed an answer to the suit
for 124 000 alleging indebtedness,
entered against him here yesterday
by the klan. He filed a cross
action against the klan for 1533 000
alleging a conspiracy to oust him
from his position and seeking also
personal damage*.
remainder of
elation, to reduce protein content daily newspaper,
of cottonseed meal from 43 per. later, published aa a weekly, will
rent tn 38 per cent to comply with I published as the Dally Poet and
standards of the Interstate asso-the Register will continue as a
elation met with opposition at th* l weekly paper. All oil news from
conyention of the state- organise-1 Associated Press reports will" be
vice president and general
weather bureau here. Two persons
were drowned.
It tee on state
erty by the bureau,
tax j -----------------
take action against certain per- Spudaine in
sons connected with the purchase under
of hospital sites and other----
IOCKHART. May »—Activit
LONDON, May 29.
storm, took
— ... - ------- he married his stepmother, 12 years
cking plant. The cause of the i his senior,
tat has not been determined. ---------------------
KANSAS CITY,
was simply this.
I storm cellars. No lives were lost.
East Texas: Wednesday and
Thursday, partly cloudy, probably
thundershowers in norh portion,
moderate to fresh southerly wind*
en the coast.
West Texan: Wednesday and
Thursday, partly cloudy.
FORT WORTH--Messages were
recoined here today from west
Texas points that rush shipment ■
of white arsenic with which to fight
in connection
in the veteran
swenson’s testimony during the
an agreement
ager of the Mid-Texas Petroleum commencement exercises of the high
company of Fort Worth school here tomorrow night.
scornful fingers toward
Asseciated Preas Diapateh.
SHANGHAI, May 23 — Shortage ■
The joint steering committee ' ot food In the bandit stronghold at
reached a compromise late Tuesday Paotzuka before the kidnapping of
afternoon, reported to both houses a number of foreigners from the
which was designed to bring up —
Reductions in
that the session will complete its+
labors and veto sine die adjourn- * g
ment by the end of this week.
The Patman oil pipeline
z% per cent on receipts of oil
Arkansas Oil Man
To U. S. Grand Jury
MUSKOGEE. Okla., May 19 —
E. L Hughs, self-styled million-
aire oil operator ofi Eldorado, Ark .
arrested hare yesterday when he
Would Exploit Rail old adopted father of Etta Mae
L_ I Jackson, sister of Clara Philip. ----------
captured "hammer murderes-. she sobbed, "but I am returning to
I anxiously awaits the arrival of the - rim mi-en nr. hecan-e i ‛hmch*
l other strike zenes in the Ruhr today
’ was welcomed by the German of-
ficials as being certain to liquidate
the unrest among the large number
of workmen now on strike The of-
ficials predicted that there now
hordes at grasshopper* be
patched.
the ap-
refuge in
GALVESDN, May 29— Proposed
changes in"the regulations of the
using his seven
enough to run
31.07.
, be asked within a few days to i south of Lockhart.
- + । --- ---o- proposes to prove that Barbot, French aeronaut who won
ders in 1920. according to testimony the defendant Lee "is related to and 25,000 francs by gliding across the
today in federal court injunction |a a member or the great Lee fam- English channel in his "baby"
hearins*against the united mine ily ■. ana that he • versed in mottea monoplane, arrived from
" Story of the "Hattiela death | 50110 tandpastanaisoxened th l ^’in^^^ tby anr
gamble which came shortly b*- govern ment in ine indictment al-from New York to Chicago. Bar-
fore the plaintiff coal operatos • leges that he is not the miraclebot crossed the changel twice in
as the ntei at ure holds a continuous flight on May 6.
If adopted, it will commit the
• The” strike is a result of an SULPHUR SPRINGS, May 29—
Wood and' announcement of intention of the j A wind storm early today blew
was filed' colli er ies company of which War- down eight house* and wrecked
j ren N. Stone, grand chief of the many others in the country 14
Brotherhood of Locomotive Kn miles north of here, dear Posey,
gineers, 1* chairman of the board . The inmates, h taring
, of directors. to operate it on
__ ________ _ ______ senator Ridgeway did not indicate
It- morning was mostly about hsin-the would sign the jant report.
She followed John j vestigations and his conversations The conference .will require sen-
inspector, i with the three defendants. He ate action on the Cffee oil tax bill,
testified that the defendant Lee reducing the tax from 2% per cent
J had told him in November, 1922, as reported by the senate commit-
that he had nothing to do with tee to" 2% per cent, and house ac-
the management of the company, ceptance of this cut. .The Coffee
but merely allqwed Sherwin and | two per cent oil tax bill now on j
age American debutante is not
so beautiful as the average Eng-
lish girl, but the natural supple-
nose and grace of the American
girl enables her to show to a
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 29 —
Oklahoma City was emerging to-
day from the most disastrous flood
"The aver-, mirrors with a heavy book bal-
the top of their head. ;
forward |
Mooney, secretary of
JACKSONVILLE— Tom Davi*,
escaped conviet, alleged to ha**
shot and kill**! Deputy Sheriff the
Hnglish of Houston county at turned over to th* department ।
Grapeland Funday night, la being j of justice for possible criminal,
taken to Dallas for safekeeping, taction against the individuals in-
according to Sheriff Forrest Rea-'volved.
gan of Cheroke county, who passed The chargen so far laid before
through Jacksonville this morning the attorney general relate to aj-
, she was leaving home and efforts
1 to find her would be useless. Ac-
cording to her mother, the girl
may have headed for Louisville.
Ky. where the family formerly
lived to resurrect an old romance.
ernoon
8 to
Cottonseed Crushers 0
Lowering of Protem Contest
Phillipa. Loe Angelee girl convicted ’
of the murder of Mrs. Alberta Mead-
ows. declared here today that she
was innocent of the crime and that
she was returning to California of
her own free will to prove it. Peggy 1
Chaffee, alleged witness to the kill- ‘
bureau has
. Southern Pacific train which is
International News DIspatch. ' carrying hl* daughter back to Los
PARIS, May 29. - Belgium has Anselen.with.her "ister..Itwiu.be
a reparations plan to the, first meeting in eight xears.
vy whieh 2,400.000,600 sold . ' am joins on to Boa Aneeiee
-pproximately 3588,000,000. to help both °L,u‘e *iris.in thetr
: ___ . 2_____ fighr to clear Ciara of the crime
dom in the right way. I am in-
nocent of the crime and when all
comes out will be vindicated.”
Mrs Phillips declared that her
conviction resulted from her failure j
to tell the details of her story at her
trial, she having ma i nt a ned silence
upon advice of her counsel. As a
result, she said, only one aide of
the affair wa* told, that of the pro-
secution.
Mrs. Phillips waived extradition
to the United States and exh bited
a carbon copy of the waiver wit-
nessed by the American consul. The
Honduran supreme court had issued
a decree ordering her release, but
she refused to take advantage of it.
saying she had determined to re-
turn to California to prove her in-
nocence.
Mrs. Phillips and her guard will
leave tomorrow at noon aboard the
Southern "Pactfib Sunset limited
and will arrive in Los Angeles Fri-
day night
charge shNa mldt j rovenurscanatroducnuapnropriatzons
preylously.. 8 WhAt the "Oin committee, by
I am going back to California on i vote of 3 to 1 in the house, and
my own accord." she said, "to fight l three senators to two. recorn-
for my name and honor and free - I mended:
I senate to passage of the measures
; named in the report. Adoption, it
I was predicted, will make certain |
| that the governor will not veto the,
i appropriations until new approp-
riations for smaller amounts are
before him, and will also make sure
Together at a bivouac, aid all the heavens hum
wKh soldier- talk and laughter, and the astral spaces Jing
With bugle calls these fighters know, and aongs they •sed to sing!
raleigh. N c. May i» — An Fort Worth Oil Promoter
immredinte horneuaondurconems Arranges for $20,000 Bond Five Men Killed
and from which would be barred FORT WORTH. May 29—Ar-
Lay flowers on their one red graves- but think of them a* Men
Who flock together mid th* stars to meet their pals again.
Who smoke and latgh and rem!nisce with faces all aglow:
Lay flower* on their sacred graves, but think of them as though
Thay still are lads or gr'zzled vets who in true soldier-wise
Ar* swapping jokes and storles ’round a campfir* in the skies.
! - (Copyright* 1933, NEA Service, Inc.)
Engineers, according
nano- will soon blossom forth with a
Th* complaint charges use of the .
malls to defraud and was fied ! •j
with the fugitve warrant eworn . _____________________ i
j einner Parker here. The original Neff to Speak at Lockhart Ousted Klan Goblin Seeks
complaint .alegen shat Glenn ",,29 $538,000 in Cross Action
Killa Mother, Wounds Sister
MITCHELI., SD.. May 29—Mr
Martha Carter, A, today ahot and
“"f. her mother, Mrs. H. M Buz-
well, <3. and seriously wounded a
slater, Cora Buzzell, 80, before her
brother, John, overpowered her
They had quarreled when Mrs.
Buzzell ordered Mm Carter from
their home, police said
-----—--------- —------ing. a These witnesses were Miss
been beseiged in the headquarter* ; Alice M Kane of Roxbury. ------ ------ -----, .
of the fire department. On the ar- and N. J. Gary of Utica, 111. i he invested 'around $11,000"
rival of the policemen there was a “Mst Be All Right.” ' these companies, he testified.
rapid disappearce of all the wearers. Miss Kane, a gray-haired woman
of red armlets. of 69 yeas, was th* second
The German officials expressed ness in the case.
teaches one to be gracefully erect.
"Most of the women spent m.W"
hours swinging a foot in line with,
the shoulders and bringing it [
down to the floor with the knees
bent outward in order to make a
soft • curtsy" instead of a stiff
bow • It is strenuous exercise pre- .
paring for court and a good way i
to reduce also.
Many women lose poise as soon
aa they enter th* throne room and*
the usher call* out their names," I
added Miss Vacant.
Th* old custom of compelling
women to walk out backward from
the king's present has been abol-
ished. The trains of court gowns
have been reduced in length, mak-
ing the whole operation easier
Not many of the court dresses
will cost more than $300.
CHARLESTON, W. Va..pMay 29.
—A coin wa tossed to determine
who would khl Anse Hatfield. Mate-
Double Price on Market A ral or nine fwt was
ST. IOUIS. Mav 29 -prices ob- at El Reno, 25 miles west of
tained for squirrel pelts today at here.
i ho Fur Merchants' Sales com- —--— -
Nem World’s "Debs
per cent Increase and common
house rat a 20 per cent
Sales since yesterday total
I Schwartz to use his name in fur-
i therance OF their alleged fraudulent
schemes, for this he received
$12 50 per week, according to
Associated Press Dispateh.
PARIS, Muy 29.—Any doubts as
to the soldity of Premier Poin-
care's position were set at rest
tonight when the chamber of
deputies by a majority of 438, ex-
pressed confidence in him and his
government and voted the money
needed to carry out his policy in
the Ruhr.
crities did not even resort to the
common practice of abstnining.
Shanghai-Peking express May
FAYETTEVILLF, III May 29-2
Five men were killed and three
injured in an explosion at the Her-
cules Powder company here today.
A fist and rock fight between chest with a load of No. 4 birdshot I
Ramon Peruneda and Ynasto Al- from.a 12-gauge singte-barrel shot-l
ma-o ana ™. other , , -
dtapnzhag.Eortymuctirzhdiotkjafhsnernechargz.oderhotslver and Coal Systems.
yesterday afternoo when Almaso ' dollar almost exactly in fhe center |
waa shot and almost instantly killed of Almaso’s chest, according to
-in Peruneda's ©old drinks stand at Tannehill, who conducted the in-
his bond at $10,000. He was re-
manded to jail on default of hall.
dent Harding w.n cal! a conference
of state governors to convene here
about the middle of June for dis-;, . • - ----
cushion of prohibition enforcement. | but added their vote to the prem-
1 it was learned off it ially at the white i ler triumphant majority.
' house. The president, it wa* said. |
Invested in the Lee compa
Mass.,N. I Gary, of Utica, Ill.
hai-Peking train, said a diapateh
from Lincheng today.
While the Chinese airmen drifted-
lazily back and forth over the
mountains with observers watching
all the trails, the parley between
the provincial officials and brigand-
chiefs has continued but without
result.
Peking has sent a telegrain to the
military governor of Shantung
province saying he must obtain the
release of the captives within ten.
days.
L. C. Solomon, one of the Ameri-,
can prisoners, wrote from theg
mountain camp that the Chinese
amusement of the Americans is,
playing mahjong, ancient Chinese
game, with the bandit chiefs.
left voted
His other
bills are later passed, the
mated amount of nToney the:
bring in wHI probably be peri
CHICAGO. May ce—The state,
department of registration and
education today began an investi-
gat ion into the deaths of two
women shortly after they were
disc harged from a suburban sani-
tarlum, one of whom died of star-
vation. according to the death
certificate.
John W. Follmer, inspector, re-
ported that relatives and friends
of the two women told him that,
while they were patients at the
sanitarium they were given "water
cure,” applied with a garden hose
with an intense nosxle spray and
were "dieted” until they were liv-
ing skeletons just before thein
deaths.
pipeline tax bill were
Clark Minority report
P. Ross
quest The entire load of shot ■ proposed
lodged in the Mexican'* breast. ' Prance by
pomamoncrronenatlhange srponxetea"Annuanyyzom|fightEoclearclara of the crime
saulting Peruneda. This attack qermany, th* Matin revsaled today, of which she .has been convicted,
was alleged to have been committed Franc* now haa the scheme under he declared Clara is of too gan-
twe .sopgdmration: “ was *“*7^* by - sAacpuroyibochme ahanhe"
of his place of business at Fifth’ 1 Germany balance her budget; vlet im of a frame-uP on the, part
and East avenue and Almaso is by selling her foreign exchange of.the otricer5 to make good-
•aid to have accused Peruneda of e. German rail rods* be exploited When Clara end her sister. Etta
tipping off’ officers concerning internationally for th* benefit of Ma*, were here seven years ago j his palatial
doings of Almaso and his com- the interallied reparations comint*- with a theatrical .troupe Gray he- .
sion, it being estimated tnat. L- came InterestM to the two girls I
- marks could be and adopted,E tta. Mae then
ray. years old. When th show ef
Glenn, Fort Worth nil man arrest-
od yesterday on a fugitive warrant
from Alabama. Glenn was held
in the county jail over night
Only the extreme
• gainst the premier.
oasulties. Th* rebels were' en-
all volltical difference* and in-rangement for $20,000 bond were
trigues was advanced as the one betng made today by Porter E
several months ago. Clara- Phillips
today broke down and told how she
in the.history, of.the Sin A drop MEILLA Morocco. May 19 -The
oainches.in tha swollen. Nor spanish troops have lost 1ST men
senodiannyen.and av. absence, of <n leiilea or wounded in defending
heayy.rains.xp-stream Indicated their postton at TUUaaaa against
LX. J hn..oreest: o.che.rlood had an aack by the Beni U ‘ *<«1
Pesed la.t night, according to of- iribesrhen. The tribesmen had SOO
ster in describing the Mateawan cendant of Gene:al Rovert E. Lee.
"street battle" when Albert Felts - ---------------------
and six other Baldwin Felts detec- i
evicted striking miners from the Evolution Draws
company houses. v, . c-g
After Hattiela had testified before W rath Ol Morris
a giand jury investigating the
Mateawan shooting, a number of j WACO, May 29. — Branding all
men met to discuss reprisal mean- i teachers of evolution and modern-
urea, Brewster declared, and finally I ism little, sawed-off. two-by-four
determined who would kill Hatfield professors bearing the mark of
of death have been made against j
Mis* Stelln Larrimore, actress,
who ha* announced ah* will sue '
Gerald:ne Farrar, opera star, fof
$1,000,000 for slander in naming I
her.an-.corrorpondent...!n .the Lay wreatha upon thsir resting place and let th- word, bo Mid
Farrarinel gen divorco suit. Miss In memory and honor of the gallant soldier dead.
For there are ceremonies which we owe ourselves to Five
. ards of the United
j transactions baaed
I in interstate and
I merce.
Representative Wallace stood out
against Satterwhite, Quaid and Bell
on adoption of the compromise
Senators Davis, Wood and Clark
voted to accept the report, while
Fate of other revenue- bill*
pased by the house but not yet
acted upon in the senate will be
uncertain if the report is adopted,
it was admitted. If other revenue
the governor’s desk will be vetoed,
if the larger tax is voted in the
later bill.
of guards out to see me and ask
if I would not reconsider by de-
i cision before it was entirely too
late. e
“On* word would have set me free
May 29.—Po-
United States
But oh th* happy souls of them, these valiant lads and brave.
Are not beneath the wreaths we lay,upon each grassy grave.
I like to think they're out somewhere, beyond our utmost ken,
Not clay beneath a monument, but first - class f’ghting men
Who gather in the army bue or in the khaki brown
To marc along th* milky way as through a conquered town.
was held today to th* United Somewhere up there in paradise, with rhythmic tramping feet.
States grand jury on a charge of---- ' ‘ ‘ ----in
using the mall* to defraud The
United States commissioner fixed
AUSTIN, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1923.
in the Calwel county oil field
was further increased late today
--. with the arrival of rig and tools
that the Juntiee department might • on the C. p. Rom farm, flve miles
An oil tax of 2%4 per cent.
Gross production tax on lumber
of 2 per cant.
Cutting 81.000.000 from tha edu-
cational bill.
Cutting $2,500,000 from tha
emergency school appropriation,
leaving thio $3,500,000.
Trimming $500,000 from the
rural school bill, leaving this bill
$2,500,000.
Reduction of flood control ap-
propriation to $300,000.
Under this report, the total re-
ductions will be $4,300,000 from ap-
propriations already made.
The governor will be urged un-
der the Davis sub-committee reso-
lution considered by the joint com-
mittee, to veto such items from ap-
propriations as may lie required,
but not to veto the appropriations
as a whole.
Early Adjournment Seen.
No reference wa* made in the
joint report to further taxation
ficiais of
five year sen-
a height that the problem can not
continue.”
With this declaration Sydney Gu-
lick. secretary of the Federation of
American Churches, startled a
meeting of the American-Japanese
society here this afternoon.
pipelines for intrastate ousness.
TMie bin wa• one or thome In-cu, .— ---we-
sluded in tb. list Arsiknated bi i bers ot the Brotherhood or Loco-
th* governor as requisite to Ap-
WASHINGTON, May
nouncement was made
GIVEN FRANCE
Cendant of so illustrious a family
as the Lees, must be all right,”
Swenson's testimony.
pefen** Uphold* "General." Seven Honepower Airplane
fene counsel, in stating the de- For New York-Chicago Flight
-nt rigure in the Mateawan disor- Thnsaerense earlzutodez, -said tha! _ NEW TO**' May 29.-Georses
attempted to draw a $ 12,000 drat!
at th* Commercial National b*nkJ I like to think of these that died, a* swinging through a street
। Oil company of San Antonio. : strike and the reign of terror at-
I The Ross,, farm is near the tributed to the communist element,
kv wn gg - I , ri a Burditte, wels and in, a..section in which nearly 50 persons have
trT^ bUI Th. On Open Shop Announcement o“r^ LXcXX b“" killed,, win come to an end.
i week te levy a tax of charleston, w Va, May “ ---
sing Sing, made up or "Misciplne
prisoners," Hebert F. Brinden, I
former head ot the New York
conducting the cot ion export trade
or the First Baptist church of Fort under .the. new. cotton standards
Worth- at the auditorium here to- | act erfentive .Aug. 1. requirns
night declared that raise doctrines' use of. the ottictal cotton stand-,
Jthfeatened to tear asunder the greatiards of.the United States in all
Christian relicion. I transactions baaed on standards
who worked up the case against the
three defendants, "General" Robert,
A. Lee, Charles Sherwin and H. H
Schwartz.
Miss Kane said that she had first
heard of the General Lee interests
American thrqugh circulars sent to her
oil i through the.United States mails.
Lee “I was quite sure that anything
rain Raid Called
17, United Mine Workers
Fifth and East avenue.
48 Perunea surrendered to the of-
VT ficers immediately afterd the shoot-
9 ing and was placed in the county
g jail pending a preliminary hearing
•' in Justice Tannehill • court, where
Ph a char** of murder was filed
""T against him.
t, dmits Shooting
K - Almaso was shot through the
Over lexaspmephaa. reedvod an we, .c,, -0 SCO - _____
wound ang a badly lacerated ear realzed annually in Ulla
-Heil go bin *■ as * result of being struck in the 3. - - — -
25 grown I head with a rock in the fight which ! mine.
tollo"Kiith"imntordBckhorneaid. wroulanstung “xpe5*,06,000K2l went to Los angeles to enter the
Almaso. witnesses to the shoot- mark* yearly movies.
Ing yesterday, is mid to have made Troops Would Remain ,m, M
ooneer Texan civil war vet - threats against Peruneda and. ac- 4 Reparations tommfeslon would SAVES OWN HONOR.
’ _"Ama member of Terry*' rexas cording to the story told officers, take a quarter of th* stock in all | Internetional News Dispateh.
Raneera died here suddenly .this he entered Peruneda'* store yester-German corporations, obtaining a ON BOARD S. 8 COPAN, EN
Kanere Gedegtetruoien- day brandishing a long knife. He quarter of the dividend. ROUTE FROM PUERTO CORTEZ.
■ wa. advancing on the store pro- 5. Reparations commission would i Hon dura.. May 29.—Looking out
DENI AON —Mr*. KiUn Scott prietor when the latter reached 1 take over German government mon- over the lowlands~pf Louisiana for
vET-"asaN Ler thia morning bak and, leveling hi. shotgun, fired , opolles upon tobacco, alcohol and ; the first time since her sensational
-uplr.j’meenunl, the fatal shot into the Mexicarssugar j escap* from her California prison
as a result ov influenxa • chest Almbaso died almost in- &. Abolish the blockade to per- -------•---------------------------
stantly. mit German, themselves to exploit II,
Peruneda was taken into custody the Rhineland and Ruhr for thej’ymInAr JATop
by Police Sergeant J N. Littlepage benefit of the reparation, account I I dIIIUUI I UIIUU
and Officer. Crittenden.’ McNeill French and Belgian troop, would
and Sexton. remain in the Ruhr under th* Bel-
The killing occurred in the oldgian plan, but only as a guaranty.
Ruckhorn saloon, where another I not interfering with the German
DENTON.— Governor Neff dis- i Mexican met hl* death about t wo ! administration.
eu-seq Texas' resources and possi- years AEo at the hands of a Mex- Premier Hoincare will go to Brus-
smtles formanutacturing. especi- -igan.named Falcon, according ...
ally cotton mills, in a commence-t _____________
ment address at th* College of ,, ' “ I
Industrial Art. here today. Later Criminal Action Planned on
he atended a luncheon at Um . I
Kl want a club, where he spoke of ; rurchase of Hospital Sites
the prison system. I — ’
possible solution of tanglod worii
affair, by ths United States Ser-
ator Royal S. Copeland of New
Work in an address today at the
annual commencement exercise,
at North Carolina state college.
"We are living in a fools para-
dise," Senator Copeland declared
“in certain lines in America we
have prosperity but the Idleness of
the rest of the world ah on Id warn
us that our prosperity ja likely
Io be transient."
better advantage at coyrt functions
han he English slater."
This statement wa. mad* today
by Miss Marguerlte Vacant. Qfsi-
cial dancing instructor at the
English court.
Mia. Vacant ha. spent strenu-
ou. and patient hours for many
day*,.teaching English and Ameri-
can women the essential part, of
court etiquette In preparation for
the presentation, to King George
and Queen Mary.
"The American women were
eager to learn and most anxious
to do everything correct!^,” con-
tinued Miss Vacant.
Mia. Vacant disclosed that many
mansion. Although
Mae remained with her adored the Honduran sent a special envoy
father until last fall, when she of guards out to see me and ask
aenat, began alashing appropria-
tions.
Senators voting for the Patman
leg in the same way to
walk "regally." Such
prove I of previous approprihtion
bill*, in his message before the
locate Miss Ruth Wilson, 19, who
disappeared last night from her
home leaving a note stating that
Cotton Exporter* Confer on
New Official Standards Act
WASHINGTON, May 29. —
Agreement was reached today be-
tween a group of leading cotton
exporters and the secretary of
agriculture on an arrangement for
the womid over aa a murderess.
pose nothing other couid be ex-
caused the brigands to throw 80
Chinese prisoners to death from one
of the mountain cliffn, according to
information received today from
Father William Infers, aged Ger-
man priest, who has made several
trips to the outlaws' headquarter*.
Victims Tagged.
The information from Father
Lenfers, which came in a letter
from the prelate at Lincheng, de-
clared that the prisoners’ feet were
bound and each was labeled with
his name and identification before
being hurled to death.
Later, the bandits notifisd the
families of the massacred captives
of their deaths and relatives were
permitted to remove the bodies,
identification being facilitated by
the tags attached to the corpses.
"Mak* Bandits Police
The only way to maintain peace
here is to enlist the bandits and
keep them in this territory for years
as a police force, since they alone
are familiar with the inaccessible
mountain fastnesses and trails.”
Father Lenfers denies that troops
were in league with the outlaws.
He declares that the soldiers • have
been beseiging the brigands for
Standard Oil Scion Sued
For Divorce by Stepmother
NEW YORK, May M —John M
Vandergrift, grandson of a founder
of the Standard Oil company, has
been sued for divorce by his step-
mother. Mn. Sybil M. Vandergrift,
it »as revealed today.
Vandergrift is described as "of
the theatrical „proession." After
his father died at Pittsburg in 1915
measures, nor to cuts in the depart-
mental appropriation bill as pro-
(.1997 _ Av,,. inpote wngb ala betof the ________________
■ -r—AEa—AV6A I I —A(M ■ vl %I4EA senate the first thing this morning at Suchow, the priest says, was in
a l * «LE B “J} A V j l for consideration. the nature of
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