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STATE TAX ON
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Radicals
Incensed
Saturday.
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Summons Taft
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Press Dispatch.
acter.
Gompers Called.
ing
ial
privilege out of control of govern-
More Witnesses in
FLAMES SWEEP
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be
CAROLINA TOWN
Radieals Defiant
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The Tiger S defi
of the service
and left him
huge
MRS WM. CHESLEY LEWIS
Press Diapatch.
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Gain Headway
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-It has been copservatively
Governor of Illinois Orders
mas
Attack Found.
d Preea Dipekch.
Press Dispateh,
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Press Dispatch.
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Be Investigated
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Dispeteh.
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assoclates
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thicket this morning
en
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ritea will be con-
been
filed an e
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that a r
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Watchman Shoots
congressional es-
cort of honor will
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old home at Chi-
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Covington and Maypearl
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played with the Covington team At-
treated, said his bark probably was
broken
Hammond,
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Transportation to Chicago
From New Orleans; Work to
Cost Total of $19,000,000.
at Municipal
Authorities.
Wilson to Head
Teachers Association
Houston Talk Pleads
for More School
Assistance. 3
of
in
La Follette Group
Gets in Action
High School Boy
Asseciated Press Pispatch.
No Arrangements
For Rockefeller
Asevelated Prena Dinpateh.
Burial to Be Made in
Chicago.
Million Dollar Loss
Suffered.
to summon
allocation
telephone repoi
at the jail at
Jim Emmerson night marshal at
Newkirk, near here. hi held in the
county jail today on a charge of
The hegro was a trusty at the jail
and under 16 years" sentence for
at May;
teams 0l
afcentury
. There
eulogies
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b
bouquet of
The card)
Far it he month,.
Friday .........
serlous expresnions of thought by
several of the spekers on the pro-
gram, held sway throughout the en-
tire evenng.
The banquet was a reminiscence
timately 200 em-
Is whoa the ex-
Bomb Explodes
In Rail Yards
‘c
JI
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Harding Favors
Anti-Lynch Bill
Asseelated Press Dispateh.
‘signed to hear the executive’s .trial,
to proleed to Ada and convene the
I firm tot **' county district court in I
special messlon.
parte petitfon aoktng James
'er be appointed 1 man
ment" and outlining a general pro
gram of liberal legislation.
Politics Banned
America beauty roses
read:
4
Robertson to Face !
Jury in Spite of t
An investigatlon into wide dis*
crepancies in the higher price of
gsoline in smhll towna over large
cities will be the first demand Riats
Senator Edgar K. Witt of Warn will
make when the legislature opens
next Jan 9, hr declared here Fri-
day.
Qasoline now costs 15 to 16 rents
in Dallas and other cities, while it
costs 21 and 22 rente in Austin,
meeting behind closed doors in the
senate agriculture room, adopted
There were a
ployes in the
statement to the house judiciary
committee by Representative Kel-l
)
j raided Hip Hing tong headquarters
in Chinatown, arrested the presi-
dent. L Yoo Hang, and confiscated
i IS pistolm, a box of daggers and
; brass knuckles and thousands of
rounds of ammunition *
Court Adjournment
a----ita M Di,-ta -
OKLAHOMA CITY, Du-. 1 —Th.
(trial of Governor JHA Hobert-
i 1
WASHINOTON, D. C, Dsc 1-
President Harding personally fa-
vors the enactment of the Dyer
( ant I-lynching bill. It waa declare
nt the white house today, although
It was made clear that the execu-
Solons Will Be Asked to Investigate
.HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
| By J P Alley
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1 — Funeral
services far Representative James
R. Mann, Ilinois, who died at his
home here last night, will be held
tomorrow afternoon in the hall of
the house of representatives where
he served in peaceful and stormy
days, for more than a quarter of
Double Price Gas Company System
She Sets Record
—----
'ravis post
nbera, was
e Texas
ersity post,
year hast a ,
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he legion's
osed state !
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Milton Eubank, 22. principal of the. in
public school at Covington, was in- —
jured in a football game yesterday
witness to bo called in support of
his demand for the impeachment of
Attorney General Daugherty.
The chief justice was desired to
Mr. Keller wrote, in con-
► answer will be toun MM
s want ado.
•I “blunder" de vou mm-
crats, called into session by Sena-
tor La Folletts of Wisconsin, re-
publican. and Representative Hu-
dleston of Alabama democrat,
formed a progressive group for the
promotion of progessive legislation
during the present and the next
congresa. About 40 senators, rep-
quet and read him the card and
letter.
George W Wickersham, former
attorney general, Hampel Gompers.
president of the American federa-
lion of labor, and Guy Oyster, Mr.
ld Gompers' secretary, also were men-
tioned by Mr. Keller as other wit-
nesses he would ask the committee
to this particular
Asanelated Press Dispateh,
DALLAS. Texas, Dec. 1 --Jsse N
Bigbee, 47. principal of Brown !
srrhool here and widely known in
Texas educational circles, died at
Aseseiated Press Dispateh: ,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Chief
Justice Taft was today named in a
Mrs George L Agin had a miracu-
lous escape from death thia morning
when a small touring car which she
was driving went over the see wall
and turned a somersault. Mrs. Agin.
More Precautions.
Chief of police. O'Brien insisted
the precautions were merely the
usual ones. He declared he did not
even know of four letters threaten-
ing the Tiger which have been re-
ceived by Mayor Kiel. The amost
secretive manner in which Clemen-
ceau was escorted from hiTran to
the Pulitzer home also had no sig-
niicance, the chief said
Wacoan Named to
Head Fair Chiefs
Aamselated Press Dispath.
TORONTO, Ont.. Dec 1~The in-
terhational Aseoclation of Fairs and
Exhibitions, in annual convention
yesterday, elected Keth H Mayfield
of the Texas Cotton Palace, Waco.
Texas. president of the asnoriation
and admitted Wichita Falls, Texas,
fair to membership
President Harding said he hoped
to attend because of the “very great
wg nm u esM"iPsedSet"souEern
Pairfield last night.
The Austin American
Hmawmnzndh. • AUSTIN, TEXAS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1922.
other southern products or
ports.
“AAA. 4
( reverence, personal and official,"
ry { T j . he had for the TIinois veteran
I exaS Hducator ? Knowing Mr. Mann’s service. the
president feels the country has
Dies at Dallas-ained ____________
tondanta here, where he tn, eupreme court, the diplomatic corp,
iratea" mid hl. back mrobabty w. ana the senate have been invited
be taken to
r Aswciate Press Dispateh.
I HOUSTON Texas Dee I - --Thir-
ty rertional groups of delegates to
the Mate teachers" assoclation ron-
vention were in sesslon on Frtdav
prepartory to the general sessions
The convention, which runs thru
Saturday will be devoted largely to
dineuswion of plans for reorganita-
tie n of the state school system
Calling of a constitutional conven-
fion to change thone nections of the
bnsie law which deal with school
eupport probably will be urged. aa
rharite ot a
L Frence."
. . »dM. I am deeply tbuched,”
* £ tierzyaccmie
painfully Injured, was taken to a
hospital.
BANK CLEARINQS.
Monday 4 4071 - . ... .1214,467.93
Tuenday . t............... 140,654.34 - - ------ ---- ...------.
Wednesday ............ 182,240.92 Waco and etna Hr pinres, e’en when
ganizes
Schools
rofessor of
he Univer-
engaged ip
g the Han
and a let-
at the of-
he univer-
h Rhodes
in Antonio
ighly the
Dr. Hen-
ork in the
an Antonio
nd general
y program.
Raid Chinatown; „ _ -
Teng War redred MANN FUNERAL
be called upon by a resolution Ren-
at or Witt will introduce in the sen*
at* to investigate actions d oil
companies xing the** prices, to
determine whether anti-trust laws
are being violated, whether the dis-
„eriminirtions can be corrected by
present laws, or whether further
anti-trust laws are needed. Senator ;
Witt declared
Senator Witt will favor a consti-
tutional convention, according to his
present views, he indicated
"The governor’s declaration for
a new constitution is unanswerable,"
Senator Witt said.
Blunders
, the charges on which he based a
a demand for impeachment, Mr. Wei-
Woman Escapes Death
Asene’ated Pm Dispatek
GALVESTON, Texas. Dec
i ri between the school
Sheriff Mayo of Freestone county,
at the jail at Fairchild last night
la thought to be surrounded in a
thicket eight miles north of Fair-j
child, according to reports reaching
here late today it Is said that ap-
proximately 500 men are searching
for the negro and an attempt is
bring made to secure blond bounds
Situation Tengg.
The negro was seen entering the
Gregory, J R Beverly. Emil Rose
C. H Johnson, T P. Oliver. T M
I tve would make no comment con-
! cerning the dempcratie filibuster in
I the senate
The executive, it ws added,
feels that lynching is a very sore
■pot on our boastlof "civilization."
/ 7) ADAanuL.
A-CLRITMAS
murder of another negro. He
ST. LouJS, Dee. 1 — Clarence
Billington, • blacksmith, was in-
Jured serfousty and slight property
damage waa caused by a bomb ex-
plodine in tba yard of th. Missouri
Pacific railroad shop. here tonight
a, 50 crattsmen were departing
altar finishing thetr day's work
and for your poble pentimeni trar-
leealy expresmed a to the meritor-
tous wervhe renderd by negro
Leroy Shetrin, A •
1 POLi'cs WILL MIK
wid LIGION gp You'll
’ eT WE POLITICS
Be , MixJN‘ ’.----
JOST TweTY Foug Mo&k DA 1b GQ,
And W •u KeP u HOPDa
FO&,o TW weit Foug 1&t sft
vMN2°C60R3/
Eubank, whome horns teat whitney. AKe for bumnal tomorrow
nlavad with th. Covineton team. Al- Ths preaident, tha cabinet.
NEFF ADVOCATES____________
TROOPS READY Clemenceau is Guarded NEW. CONGRESS Taft Summoned to Testify GOVERNOR SAYI
TO QUELL RIOT By Heavy Cordon of BLOC PLANNING ' TEX?"----
IN MEXICO CITY Police at St. Louis Home ACTJ VE SEASON in Daugherty Impeachment HUGE
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Russel Birkhead .
Suit Summoned
Asaocinted Press Dimpateh.
OXFORD, Mias., Dec. 1. — Sub-
poenas issued today increased to 39
the number of witnesses summoned
to testify in United States district
court here next week in the suit for
damages instituted by Miss Frances
Birkhead. formerly a stenographer
in the Mississippi state capital,
against Governor Lee M Russell of
Mississippi.
Miss Birkhead in her petition.
Making 8140.040 damages, charged
the governor with breach of promise
Regarding the committee request
that hs give the names of all per-
sons who could testify as to any of
Not a single life would have been
lost, Captain Tucker declared, f
the men on the doomed steamer had
acted promptly and jumped when
he told them to Into the coast guard
power boat as he brought it along
the side of the Maplehurst. Ten
times Captain Tucker laid his frail
craft alongside the Maplehurst end
nearer the
on of Oklahoma on a charge of
ezereearameumyudbyenchatde
idespite th* action of Juge J w.
HOUSTON Texas, Dec 1—Upon
petition of two stockholders. District
Judge J D Harvey today ordered
an investigation into the affairs of
the Southern Motors Manutacturing
Assn . Ltd., capitalized at $10,000-
000 pnd whose stock has had a wide
CORSICANA, Texas. Dec. 1 — Thetg . ■ A .
mreroxnansrparpsannrrstaywuthrnedouthern Motors to
ler wrote that he would not com-
ply except in such certain particu-
lars as he and his advisers regard
as safe.
Fourteen Allegation*.
Setting forth 14 specific gounds
for impeachment Mr. Keller al-
leged that Mr. Daugherty had prac-
ticed “fraud and deceit" on Mr.
Taft while president to obtain the
release from prison of Charles W.
Morse and that on Morse’s failure
to pay Daugherty’s associates in the
pardon proceedings an agreed fee
he “prostituted” the office of at-
torney general for "personal re-
venge" by securing an Indictment of
Morse.
In his letter to Chairman Vol-
stead, of the judiciary committee,
Mr. Ke|ler said that specifications
he enclosed "set out and I Am pre-
pared to prove that the said Daugh-
erty is guilty of serious misconduct
in office, highly prejudicial to the
public interest and of grave abuse
of his discretionary powers.
Politics were declared to
of the black trooph,in the war ia
connection with < hha controversy
WAth Senator Hitehcock about pres-
ence of negroes on the Rhine,
brought a reaction this afternoon
that pleased him greatly
after hM arrival. delegates of the
negro citizens committee of Ft.
Louis relied at the Pulitzer home
marshal of the supreme* court of
Oklahoma, has set a record for her
male colleagues to attain la one
day recently she personally sum-
moned 124 persons to court and did
not resort to the malls. Besides
attending to her duties as marshal.
Mrs Lewis does not neglect her
hom affairs.
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Project Will Give All-Water Farmer Awarded
The Weather
East Texas: Saturday and Sun-
day, partly cloudy; net mush
change in temperature.
West Texas: Saturday and Sun-
day, fair; not mush change in tem-
perature.
by Rev
E Free-
rector of
town fighting a fire a the Roper ‘ -----
lumber company's saw mill, where timated that the state
$300000 daipagesiwes estimated torchaee at adequate •
wiU be
by his
NEW YORK. Dec 1-y Arrange-
manta for the funeral William
(3, Rockefeller, nephew of John D.
Rockefeller, who died last night as
the result of cold contrasted at the
Vale-Harvard football game, today
were delayed pending receipt of
word from* his wife, who has been
touring Enrope Word of his death
was cabled her last night.
murder following the fatal shoot-
Auwpabatrekka.w k rwE' M
"am. | E eeneon.:
W w Dorberger, K n Dorn -lxounezter.ranenna.wansznon.down.
berger, M C. IMMMLW c.ienre,/Frelins ' W the
N. k Wright, a. c. GImand and w 1 '
p. Green.
WASHINOTON, P C., Dec. 1.— testirv.
Another unofficial "Moe” in con- nectin
gross was born today when pro-
gressives, republicans and demor
his home this morning He was
born near Denison and was for-
merly superintenent of schools at
Sm’thville and Kingsville
I ADA Okla. Dec I—The Ponto-
• only distri ; court, in which
■ Governor J R A Robertson of
Oklahoma is scheuled to go on
trial on Dec It. on a rharge of ac-
deptihg a bribe, was adjoorned un-
til Abril in an order issued lot* to-
day by Pintrlet Judge J W B<>len
Tiger Tickled at Bouquet
of Roses Presented to Him
by Negroes of Missour ; He's
to Make Formal Talk Today.
j Epiphany Episco-
I pal c hurch.
Wash in gtor,
which Mr Mann
A, • i _ F : attended, and Dr.
Gridiron Game IJ s..fontzom:
ary. tne house
Associated Press Dispatch. 1 chaplin. Late in
WAXAHACHIE Texas Dec 1— the day the body.
or prewar aay, ana or the aay. i -c. gu. 'io 4 ptxaz I Teacher Hurt in
spent by the men In the trene hes tinry today.
In Parts, on shipboard and elm I The situation in Fairfield is tense
where during those days fraught I over th* attempted assault, it is re-
wish bo much misery and. some- ported
times, pleasures
Hloyd J Gregory spoke on "teath-
ernecks and Advertising ‘ Rv this
time the party had reached its el-
mat and was adjourned with the
ununding of taps
Those present were: Judge Brady
Dr Q. C Rutt* Wayne Howell. E
$23^33 for Suit *
Against Stewart
Asocinted Press Dispateh.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 1--A
jury tn Judge Allen C. Southern’s
d;viaion of the circuit court- here
late today awarded H. C. Sabin, a
farmer who Uvea near Laurel. Neb..
$23,833 damages against W. E.
Stewart land company and the
Stewart land mortgage company.
Sabin's suit was the first of fifty
scheduled for trial in circuit court
here Involving about a quarter of
a million dollars.
Rabin testified that he paid the
defendant $14,928 for 52 acres of
land in Hidalgo county.Texas, which
he alleges had been misrepresented
to him as being situated on an irri-
gation system He sued for $13,622
actual and 427.204 puntitive dam-
ages He was awarded S 13,833 ac-
tual and 110,000 puntitive damages
J Kenned*'
Park, Loyc
resentatives and members-
New York Notice 4
banned, and it was announced of-,
ficially that no third party move-
ment was contemplated. Republi-
cans. democrats and a farmer-la-
borie joined in the conference,
which was declared to be bi-parti-
san and legislative, but not politi-
cal in character
Organization of the new bloc,
which is similar to the unofficial
senate farm bloc and Includes
many of the latter's members, is
to be followed by two open meet-
ings tomorrow of progressives from
sll parts of the country. Between
144 and 240 are expected for a
morning meeting and the pro-
gressive conference will close to-
morrow night with a dinner, fpr
which accommodations for 844 have
been made.
Speakers Named
The speakers at the dinner. It is
announced, will include. Samel
Untermyer, Near York attorney;
Senator I-a Follette and former
Senator Bristow of Kansas. The
morning meeting will be an ' open
forum" for expression of pro-
gressive opinion and the speakers
will be President Gompers of the
American federation of labor, Gov-
ernor Blaine of Wisconsin and Sen-
ator La Follette.
every ma a board could have been
saved Ten jumped out of the -___
twenty on board, f (opyright,-
Aasociated Press Dispatch.
La HALLE, 111., Dec. 1—Stand-
ing in a rain-soaked corn field un-
der th* shadow of Starved Rock on
the Illinois river. Governor Len
Small Lhis afternoon gve the order
to proceed with construction of the
connecting link between the Great
Lakes and the Mississippi.
* Plans Approved
He approved the plans for the
five great locks- two of them with
a greater lift than any lock in the
Panama canal — which will raise
snd lower tugs and barges a total
of 128 feet in the 40 miles between
LaSalle and Lockport
Next spring work win start on
the project, which will require
three years tn complete and which
involves an expenditure of about
$19,000,000
•ail Direct
With the waterways completion,
the governor said, fleets of bargee
can operate direct from Chicago to
New Orleans, carrying manufactur-
ed articles and grain from the
Great Lakes to he gulf at a con-
siderable saving over railroa
freight rates and bringing br‘k
sugar, coffee, rice, lumber and all
Tigen Gratified.
"In honor and esteem of your
life of service to your ownDeople,
HOUSTON, Texas Dec 1--S.C,
WIlnon of Sam Houston normal in-
stitute was elected president of the
state teachers' assoclation here this
hfternoon.
To Construct Apartment
C. P. Sites of Dallas, grchitect ‘
was in Austin Friday looking over
the ground at Fourteenth and
Brazos streets, where the constrte -
tion of a modern two-story apart-
ment house costing approximately
814.444 is being contemplated by
Mm Norma N Tenison of
principal stockholder in the Tenison
naddlery of Dallas. Mrs Tenipon is
In Austin at present visltlph her
•Isler, Mrs Lena Griffith, and her
nephew, K P9 Cravens. Austin
banker and bond broker.
The proposed abartment house is
to be equipped with servant house,
garage and glassed-in sun parlors
for each room
The flames, starting in the negro
section, gained great headway be-
fore a high wind at the Art be-
cause the local fire department was
engaged on the opposite side of the
---- with his charge, formally
filed, that Attorney General Daugh- ~
erty had appointed “untrustworthy,
corrupt and dangerous men" to
high office, knowing at the time
that they were men of such char-'
ler, republican, Minnesota, as
Edward*, who la ns-
Bolen today in adjourntng the Ron
tntoc county district court until
best April
Chief Justice John B Harrison
of the state supreme court tonignt
immediately ordered Special Judge
Middies Behaved,
Investigators Find
Aanelnteq Press Dispateh.
ANNAPOLIS. Md. Dec 1---The
first day of inquiry by the navel
board of investigation appointed by
Secretary of Navy Denby to inves-
ligate the alleged drinking scandal
and disgraceful conduct by midship
men after the Army-Navy foothall
gam* et Philadelphia Inst Satur-
day showed no testimony to sub-
stantiate the report that any of the
midshipmen acted In other then a
gentlemany manner The board ad-
journed after its session today and
will recvnvene again on Mondny
PONCA CIT'Y, OKU, Dec. 1. -
---------- pofnts are
$6,50 800 621 fineries
... 307,304.50 The proper style
The radical elements, which com-
prised the bulk of. the demonstra-
tors Thursday night, assumed a de-
flant attitude today Small groups
of them appeared in various sec-
tipns of th* city and shouted in-
vctive agoinst th* city adminis-
tration. It was reported this after-
noon that an attempt was made at
Boon to storm the pumping plant at
Peral VHo, a suburb of the capltal,
but that th* attacking party was
repulsed by the police
Iate this afternoon, when ths
city council joined with Alonzo Ro-
mero. president of the council, in
declaring that they would not re-
sign offiee on the demand of the
radicals unles they were forced to
do so by the fderal authoritiea.
resolutions unanimously dec lari i
their purpose "to drive sped
Am*UM Preas Dispatch.
BT LOUIS, Mr, Dec. 1-8t.
Louie was gaily decked out in
French and American Gags tonight
to do honor to Georges Clemenceau.
Tiger of France who arrived here
thia morning on hie good-will-for-
France tour of America
For miles through the business
section where he will ride in A
parade tomorrow prior to his ad-
dress at 2 o’clock in the Odon, every
trolley wire eupport form side-
walk to sidewalk was coveted with
the red, white and blue of the two
republics he hopes to weld closer.
Clemenceau, resting at the country
home of Joseph Pulitxer, publisher
of the St. Louie Post Dispatch. wwas
under heavy guard Blue coated
policemn with riot guns on their .
shoulders walked about the house
inside, two plain clothesmen kepi
vigil.
15 Lost in Wind
Storm on Ocean
Ananelated Presa Dinpateh.
RAN DIEGO. CAL.. Dec 1—Fif-
teen persons were drowned when
the motor ship Isabella was wrecked
in s tropical hurricane October 11.
acording to a report brought her*
by the Mexican steamer Guerrero,
which grounded her* during the
same hurricane. The Guerrero was
towed to San Diego by the British
wrecking steamer Algerine. Both
departed today for Han Pedro
where the Guerrero will be re-
paired.
| a group of men as over gathered
around a feat Ive board Judge John
I W. Brady, toastmaster of th* an-
nual university A K F banquet
held at the Driskill hotel Friday
night voiced the opinion that the
-soldiers of the United States want
into th* world war on behaf of civi-
lization and th* word While being
heartily cheered the judge stated
that regardless of all talk to the
contrary there is not a man of the
world war veterans who la not will-
ing to go into another war for the
same purpose.
"When good fellowe get together"
la not a phrase with suffie lent
meaning to describe the gathering
of the 17 war veterane and whal
took place at the meeting Hilarity
uperabtndant, tempered by the
Awrixtai Press Dispateh.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. I—The fed-
oral troops were held in barracks
today in anticipation of another
demonstration similar to that of
Thursday night when 17 persons
were killed and more than 40 in-
jured when the police fired upon a
mob which was attempting to storm
the city hall in anger over the
ahortage of water
The confederation of labor, which
staged last night’s parade of pro-
teat against the aldermen, held an
extended meeting this morning and
immediately called on its adherents
to strike as a sign of mourning for
eight of its members who were
killed during the disturbances and
whose bodies are lying in state st
confederation headquarters. The
strike will continue until tomorrow
noeon. The victims of the disrdere
will be buried tomorrow morning.
Associated Preas Dispatch.
NEWBERN, N. C, Dec, 1.—Ap-
proximately 1204 persens, most of
them negroes, were made homeless,
about 200 residences, two churches,
two warehouses and several small
stores, were destroyed and loss es-
timated at 81.000.040 was caused by
fire which late today swept 20
blocks in the western section of
Newbern.
HOUSTON, Texas, Ds I—AJ
■(ate tax' on petroleum or at leameK
5 per cent, to produce nearly $6,4 |
000,000, and taxes on the $a0,000,001 5
annual amusement expenditures
and for luxuries, were advocated |
by Governor Neff here tontght la I
his address before the State Teach- ,
ers’ association. He declared in '
’ favor of a scientific, impartial Bar- 2
vey of the state's entire educational I
Ue
We art mw produeing approx- ■
Imately 10,000,006 barrels of oil a j
month in Texas, worth, except
when the legislature is in sesston. J
$1.50 a barrel. J
Belongs to Texas.
‘ "Morally, that oil belong, to |
Texas, and she ought never to have d
relinquished her legal xights to it. I
These wells sre Fapidly drainE I
Texas dry. Ought not the sdi 4
at leaat. as a minimum, get t perd
cent of this stream of gold flow- I
ing out of Texas?" |
Governor Neff told the t en chere, 5
"It is to our shame that the avs I
erage boy and girl in Texas does I
not have ar. equal educational op- A
portujtty with the boy and girt of 1
other etatea Texas shouta buy the ]
beat scho system there is on the J
market But I am not in favor of a
buying any kind of school system I
for Texas, or. of buying anythinel
from anybody, unless the mone A
can be had with which to pay toN
it. If we are to have an adequate I
educational system, in ‘Teas, pro- 1
vision should be made for its aup> 1
port Candor prompts me te say I
I am opposed at this time, under I
present conditions, to. raising"teA
tsx rate on the homes and the A
lands of this state. Let us tap new J
sources of revenue.” I
$50 Per Child.
Liquor Cases in
Okla. Reopened
Associated Press Dispatch.
TULSA, Okla. Dec. 1—Cliftord
W King assistant state attorney
general, late today filed In county
court here 24 motions seeking to (
reopen liquor fses dismissed by
County Attorney W. F Braver an
announced that he would imme-
d lately begin investigation of Sea-
ver’s official art* to determine
whether or not he would ask for
the suspension of the Tulsa county
attorney.
The assistant attorney general .
said his investigation would coyer
every angle of the ase and that he '
would have no further announce-
ments to make until he had plenty y
of time to go into the matter fully. ”
I P Hornaday, T
i Arehle Gray K
POSSE CORNERS
.jF
Tgaxawarets FUGITIVE NEGRO'.
i lave dy i ime at i _ on report* at a threatend tong war.
A , — ■ J Spec ial Deputy Police Commissioner
Annual Banquet Black Wanted ——
Before a* gay and yet a* serious
SERICES TODAY Wiorks Starw ton LakL
EFire Rages in
i Canadian Town
H snneiated Press Dipateh.
F MONTKF.AIa Dee. 1—A fir*
vinihle from Montreal, war raging
tonight in the village nf Terr*
Bonne, 25 miles from thia city.
E Due o the lack nf direct com-
Utnun lra tion between the village and
EjMonfreal the nature and extent nf
ithe fire have not been learned. The
village has a population of about
010,000,
nppropriation nf $4,-
irk l echools /
system by investing anquaf/5
In each of her scholastic student,
California spends $60 on each elee
mentary child. 884 ob aach high
school child and 8140 per junior
college pupil.
“If we should make the intest-
ment of 880 per child I believe tba
state should pay half of that and
the local units the other $25." "
Governor Neff pointed out that
for the year ending last Aug. 314
the total revenue* of the state from
all sources was 838,442.144. out eti
which was paid a total of $24,747,4
714 for education.
• “People Perish."
The governor’s address, one of
the aerie* he recently announcedi
in which he would discuss his i
schedule of proposed legislation he
will recommend to the new legto-■
lature, was based upon the text,
which he announced in opening hiai
remarks. "People Perish for Lack'
of Knowledge "
Governor Neff summarized hid
recommendations on education in
11 specific items They are:
"The state must recognise edu-«
ration as a vital function of the
government. ,
"Let the atate mak a thorough,
scientific, impartial survey of our
entire educational life.
"Mak* the state the big unit of
educational system with a strong,
activd aggressive state board of
eduoation- as the administrativeg
head 4
"Invest not less than 884 in every
child in the state within scholastici
\ Tsp New Resources.
"Provide nine months of schoo
each year for every child in Texae, I
"Tap in Texas new sources of ।
revenue in order to get money with
which to pay our educational hil.a
"Enact a law making a safer,
saner and more economic method)
of buying, distributing and usingy
free textbooks . j
Hee to It that our echo last
census is accurately and honestly,
taken. .
Mako scholastic apportlonment;
on the basis of actual attendanci
at school. •
‘Take up the slack, stop the,
leaks and enminate the waste andi
duplication in our educational sys-
tm.
"Teach the boys and . girl* of
'the stats some of the practical
things of life and impress on their
minds the thought that the mans
whose brow glistens with beads of ’
honest sweat is king of men “Cor
a’ that and for a’ that.'* ce
Asseclated Press Dispateh.
HOUGHTON, Mich. Dec. 1.-
Eleven men memhers of ths crow
of the Canadian steamer Maple-
hurst, lost their lives early this
merning when the vessel went
ashore at the upper, or canal en-
trance to the Keweenaw waterway
Nine others were heroically saved
by Captain Charles A Tucker and
the members of the crew of ths
coast guard station at the canal.
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