The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 216, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 12, 1926 Page: 1 of 10
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defeated Leahy in the 1924 eleo-
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and
After the money is spente-the
maka-believe power chas—just
little boy who playa
the final filing date, and lead up
Go to the lake and see the
paten.
When the nominatlons were put
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Austin Monday and #
State aid for Camp Bowie Boule-
prenident of the
candidates.
the other candidates get a ehanee
talk or not.
torney.
clals to build the school.
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row, and the Spelling Bee Editor.
work on a per-
BLOWN TO BITS
is expected it
Watch for Pop’s
BOX SCORE
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Pink Baseball Extra
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Judge George E. Hosey Satur-
day overruled a motion for a new
WOULD FLOA1
$5,000,000
Doc Slips One Over On His
County Judge Opponents
on trial there,
before Leahy on
the make-belleve behind
(that does it Thome pol-
years in the penitentiary Friday
on charges of theft and embezzle-
trial for Thon
barred lawyer.
They would rather spend the
money and keep the power and
place that goes with the position.
Crouch was later arreated. He
was released on $2,000 appearance
bond at 1 a. m., Saturday, pend-
iked the editor to the
t kicking him. Leahy
who had I
floor and
“society" wedding of his oldmt
daughter, Emily, and the wealthy
Major John Adama Warner, sup-
erintendent of the Governor’s
state police.
Not one tint had been lacking
covered chair at
mansion.
It ia nil over.
grade
United
train wakes up if he breaks the
dining room chatr-engine.
•out $75 in jewelry will be
as prizes to the winning
18 speaking dates for each group.
Committee to arrange the dates
consisted of: Alex Stedman, Rhee
Watson, Ernest Ditto, Bill Wilkes
and Dave Greines.
District Attorney R. K. Hanger
acted as chairman, and Frank Pot-
charged with theft of ballot boxes,
and all are in Jail.
The indictments grow out of the
No Indication of Immediate set-
tlement of the city's demand for
rates In line with those in Dallas
was seen. v
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iticlansget to playing lord-of-all,
and like the game with its power
■b-' well that they forgot them-
selves; and since some of them
City and County Would -
Shar« Benefits
CANDIDATES ON
STUMP SOON
Itinerary To Be Worked
Out Monday
BOARD FAVORS
TCU SCHOOL
BLAME ACCIDENT
ON TRUCKER
Hit Walker and Failed to
Stop, Police Say
C. Tripp. dis
FWas given six
ebuckled.
“I was a subpoena server for
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1926
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IN VOTE THEFT
Burleson County Jury
Charges 2 With Murder
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Go a little further in thia. It
•w»i queried as follows by an edi-
torial writer yesterday; “What
is behind it when friends of a
candidate (in Pennsylvanla) will
spend $300,000 to get him elect-
ed to nn office that pays a sal-
ary of $10,000 a,yearr"
the cost runs high."
L n New Hood to Jacksboro.
He said a new road runnlu.
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I suspect that when the pag-
bant ia presented, a huge crowd
will look on while the qdeens
and the retinue of followers open
• formally the water carnival of
ake Worth.
• Did you ever see such folks
swe sirs to play at carnival ?
Grown-ups never lose that "let’s
Play" enthusiasm that ia sucb a
big thing in childhood.
At every season we gleefully
ohooee the aetoro. and then we
all troop along behind and en-
joy the pantomime.
Inal libel and contempt and was
fined and sentenced to jail by
Leahy. Goverpor J. F. Hinkle
pardoned the editor, however.
States.
Hubert, you remember, won the
title of the crack speller in Tar-
rant County by eliminating the
best of 10,000 spellers entered in
The Press contest.
And, he spelled those pupils
down on harder words than many
of the champions in other cities
encountered in their matohes.
3 Thursday's the Big Nite.
He'll meet the champions from
such cities as Houston, Memphis,
And that shows the way things
move about as wwtl as any record
could show IL
U"t
from the glory and cireumstance
r. It was perfect, as
rERE’s great money la the
ll oil well shooting business in
—the Panhandle field, I’m told.—a
TORT WORTH stood first in
F postal receipts gain in the
last report.
ITHE movement of the populace
- - Sunday will be ia the direc-
■ tionofthe lake.
TRIAL
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Confident of Acquittal on
Slaying Charge
FRIENDS PLENTIFUL
Speedy Action Expected
in Editor’s Case
—The—
SPOTLIGHT
campaign. -------
of my friends earns to
tle courtroom atlan.VegasTues Mima Emily
day. it will be the third time inofthe immoral
than let the power slip with-
out the effort. •
per million dollar campaign fund
was put on Pepper’s senatorial
(campaign finance committee, Rob-
ert ' Glendenning, Philadelphia
banker, who organised the com-
mittee, told Senate investigators
today.
Glendenning said that when he
started Pepper’s Philadelphia or-
Oil well shooters put nitro-
giyoerin into a torpedo and drop
nanto the well, to break up any
Mid rock that is impeding the
Wiling.
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duhertgwiahnuaecomapanisd
Girls struggle up long stops,
pulling behind them trains of sil-
ver and gold and beads that
■ would be a burden if the spirit
dithin wasn’t oblivious to any
Vstraint.
The charge of nitro necessary
to break the Panhandle rock la
running sometimes as high as
200 to DOO quarts at a shot. And
toef I am told, ia great stuff for
— the shooters. —————---;
That nitro is a high-fiying
if it wore plain water. And the
thing about .it is that I have
known one or two nitro-glycerine .
handlers who have done it for
I longer than I have written edi-
torials, and they are just no
I strong and able-bodied aa I am.
| At tnug wZito be
I "shot" and the producers pay
I well for the shooting, there will
I be shooters.
pollticians wake fap and find they
have gone hog-wild in their
$:,000 in gold from the New Na-
tional Museum after the big con-
test Thursday night.
Teachers in Fort Worth are ex-
pecting Hubert to walk away with
the first prise of (1.000.
You recall that he spelled for
an hour and 30 minutes in The
Press finals without repeating or
fumbling a single letter, and re-
tracing will be allowed in the na-
tional contest, providing the
speller doesn't jumble his letters.
They’re Easy for Hubert.
And Hubert holds a record of
miSlingdworacin TM
class at 8. 8. Dillow School.
The party wilr’reach-St Louis
at 11:25 a. m. Sunday and depart
for Washington st 12 o'clock. It
will reach Washington Honday at
ing the outcome of the ' habeas
corpus hearing.
F. E. Spencer, 21. was under
$750 bond Saturday, furnished ia
Justice Hughes' court on a charee
of driving while intoxicated, in
connection with the running down
of Ben H. Rosenthal, 1212 Belle
Place, June 9.
It is alleged that Spencer was
the driver of a gravet truek which
hit Rosenthat at Eighth and Mato.
stood to have come to the com-
mitte idicating the midwesteru
State expenditures la Its recent
primary rivaled those in Pennsyl-
van la.
. ngn-oudini
the gorgeous
NEWLYWEDS TAKE
FUNERAL TRIP
of the committee. he described
te business connections of eacn
at the request of Senator Reed.
Democrat, Missouri, chairman of
the investigating committee. Glen-
denning said he had first seen Ed-
ward W. Bok, Philadelphia, donor
of the $100,000 “Bok peace plan."
Who declined to serve on the
committee. but gave $2,000.
The committee probably will
wind up the probe of Pennsyiva:
nia polities the middle of next
The FortWorth Press
like the
A special committee of Arling-
ton Heights eltizens will go to
lag county roada aad viaducts and
subways in IBs eit*. U IT|M
County Judge Emmett Moore, who
says plans for a county bond is-
sue election after Jan. 1 are being
made.
Moore said the exact amount
the plane would call for waa still
problematical, but would range
between (3.000.000 and (1,009,
000.
However. $5,000,000 would be
needed to provide the improve-
ment s Fort Worth and the.county
needs to keep pace with progresa.
Speaking dates
To Make 18 Appearances
Speaking tours will beglh after
the executive
About 250 periona will take
to the election. Plans are to have
old. and making about *1 a day
“About a thousand people came,
I guess. Nobody waited for. an
invitation.
‘’Reverend Father Kean mar-
ried us. Then we went to Kath-
erine’s two-story frame house on
at 170th Street and Third Avenue
By Unite Pres.
BRECKENRIDGE. Texas, June
12.—Only bits of flesh and wiapa
of hair remained of J. Ed Brown,
driver ot a nttrogtyeerta truek
which exploded near Crystal Falls
Friday.
Identification of Brown as driv-
er of the death truck was not es-
tablished unUi late yesterday.
The blast tore a tango hole in the
roadway, hurling pieces of the
machine and human wreckage 300
yards.
Brown, 22, was a former Cisco
high school football star.
TO FIRE SALUTE
FOR MERCER
the post, thus leaving me free to
devote all my time to gathering
data on my opponents.
Another reason for declinins
the chairmanship was that I must
for the next few days devote part
of my spare time to arranging for
the big surprise I expect to spring
on my opponents next week.
This event will require at -least
three hours a day, therefore it
wag up to somebody else to ar-
range for speaking dates for other
in readiness to be submitted to the
Commissioners' Court which sue-
.Coeds the present one.
He said all the present commin
/aloners were In favor of the bond
issue, but it was not likely to be-
EAIID come an insue before election,
---.. —_.UK "I don't see how anypne could
UNDER BOND beugart’suetr str undertakimg." '
---- Moore said.
Many New Roads Needed
Says Moore
PIKE TO DALLAS
and Informed me that Hal Hughea
had prevailed on Ed Sorrels to
ter presided over the meeting.
About 50 candidates were pres-
ent.
Recreation Department Pageant. ------
Don't speed, don't hog the road P‛"MNOroN June 12__Ev.
-but enjoy u» to I. the open.erodWoTwhz -goar,-
000" for the George Wharton Pep-
They learn, when they waken,
that by reckless disregard of
. rules, by profligacy and riotous
diending in the face of the law,
■y have lost the very power
" which they have sought.
GOVERNOR GIVES AWAY DAUGHTER AMID SOCIETY PAGEANTRY
AND THEN RECALLS “L‛ RIDE TO OWN WEDDING
BY DR. B. U. L. OONNER, v
KEVERAL of my polltical oppo-
• nents were laughing up their
sleeves thia morning, believing
that they had downed the famous
Dr. B. U. L. Connor, candidate for
County Judge
was struck in the arm.
Altho Magee has completed
plana for his defense of the man-
slaughter charge lodged against
him, he hold several conferences
today with R. H. Hanna and J. 8.
Vaught, his attorneys, and brief-
ly dlecusned the case In addition
to Hanna aad Vaught. Fred E.
Wilson, State's Attorney General,
will appear tor Mages.
When the editor enters the lit-
Emergency Officers Hinkle andArifnrton Heights eivie League,
Massey placed the five under ar-1 acid Saturday.
rest tor affray snd disturbing the Priest did not reveal the pei
BY WLLIAM J. M’EVOY.
(United Press Correspondent.)
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.. Juno
2.--€onfident of his exoneration.
Carl C. Magee, militant editor of
the New Mexico State Tribune, to-
day,prepared for his trip to Las
Vegas tor another court battle.
Magee is slated to go to trial
Tuesday In the San Miguel Coun-
ty District Court at Las Vegas for
the killing of John I amsttor, a
by-stander, during a flat fight
with former Judge D. J. Leahy in
a hotel lobby there last August.
I sssetter was struck by a stray
bullet when Magee fired at Leahy.
No Need To Use Prod, RELEASE
Says Corbett* *- -
Tripp was found guilty of em_
besaling ***« from Mise LlmflF to
Alexander while acting as her at-
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. | Those making bond gave the' Talk of a county-wide bond Ie
sens held Friday night. R. L. names of Helma O’Bannon, 403 sue to embrace the Wee*. Side
Rogers, Rugua Garrett and Georgi , East Weatherford Street; Mrs. project will bring no tot-up in the
T. Cope were appointed a commit |,. Wheeler, Rotary Apartments; Mvic league's efforts to get the
tee to further urge school offi-Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Lilly. 2109 boulevard paved. Priest said.
Washingtou Street; and W. F. I "We want something done right
Snow. 5112 Buchman Street. • now," he annerted.
Three women and two meh —— ____• •
were each uader $20 bond Satur- _ c , c.
day, said by police to have par- Io Seek State
ticipated in an alleged fight at A id Mondav
Sixth and Lamar streets Friday ■
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Courthouse to pick a chairman
and committees to arrange for
group meetings of the candidates
Bigzent crowd ever asembled
at Lake Worth is expected at the
opening of the Summer bathing
season with a pageant and style
revue * p. m. Saturday, accord-
lag to R. E. Sweeney, director.
The fete will be opened with
the pageant, ia which Miss Doro-
thy Scott will be crowned Prin-
oom of Venice. The pageant ie of
Venetian theme aad about 150
persona will participate in it.
County candidates will be mepved
out Monday by a committee 0
non-office reek era.
The committee waa appelated
at a meeting of candidatoe in
Criminal District Court Room Sat-
evening..
Patients in Southwesterm Hos-
pital complained wbsn ths row
started, .snd polite were sum- -i .... •
monkd by ths superintendent. 'vard. Dea priest,
"Merrily we roll along," la the
old IUL And it was written
about us in our make-believe
melves.
TRIPP IS DENIED
NEW TRIAL
nominate me for chairman of the
speaking committee.
Hal bad it all figured out that
by placing me at the head of the
committee I would be forced to
give it th« greater part of my
Thu biggest play-party, of
course, la the pageant of the Fat
•took Show. At that social show,
queens stroll maj stically down
a promenade, and there is a nol-
emnity about it all that ia just
aa real aa any little boy's make-
belleve nt playing robber.
millions to spend, they
pended, except re-enistment of
, former service me %
Negotiations between city offi-
cials and representatives of the
Fort Worth Power and Light
Company wore still under way
Saturday.
■Bmgpa—SK’i mxbiisiwsmHiruiiiirn'iiiiiiiiiiiimn emep
Appeal bond was set at $5,000
“nszs-sset ASSAULI UN CUP miLnzumh:
head one group, aad candidates Arrested on Complaint of vingtotorm qnewroed t.Pplin
for district attorney will head the i Aee... ni. north of the River, he went on
other. Major office seekers will Officer Dyer "On this same road, whieu
speak last on the candidate pro- ------ wouid be • malor thorotare.into
grams • „ .1 .the ***2 from the nide, •
■ - - Habeas corpus proceedings for bridge should be built over the
Rymond Lee Crouch, who is ae- J Trinity, probably on East Belkvap
caused of asnault in police report Street, and a subway under to
la connection with the burllag ot; raiiroad tracka would be, neces
a wad of papers at the ear of j sary " he said
Lake Officer Dyer, was to be heard . •Another viaduct to Arllgt L
by Judge H. o.dosnett at2D. m.fHelghts is needed, and ishoua-
Saturday. be taken care of in a county k
Dyer said that, while riding in sue. The Weat Seventh street vlu-
a car with his wife and baby, he duct was built ia such a manner”
attempted to it y Crouch foi Next Court to Act
speeding on the Lake Worth Road Moore said ths road to Keil- r
Crouch refused to stop, ana should be blie ana Impron .
hurled the bundle of papers at his ment made on the Benbrok ruzc.
car. striking his wife, and nar Moor, sayi estimates will be
rowly missing the baby, be said. draw J up. and everything win be
Dr Vei- Pr---,
NORMAN, Okla., June 12.A
honeymoon waa turned into a fun-
oral trip boro for the bride aad
groom. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Edson.
The mother of the groom, Mrs.
W. D. Edson. »0. died of heart
failure a few minutes after the
wedding. The bridal couple ne-
eompanied the body to Duluth,
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itaiists. Reading from the lists
they took ponnesalon of ballot
boxes used In the 192* primary j
olodlon ' at Horio, a votiag box northwest to Jacksboro was bad
aear the town of Somerville. The nora" "toorNecP°Wl"“"tre
morning following the election the atds tnour and Lubbock
boxes were found in the court- MN. "Trinurn Uitrtt. nuu
house at Caldwei. K , a ancluanzcamp how".
-ss
"li. ePavzsttgztnen Alone.iasqworhavicinizrasncrdnd to
which occurred at Lange's home. cr"Tha. Should be Imuroved^uu
for n. -w.» the.-jjsssriSrowJSKrtifu
"neG________. deed heads to the county Mae to
j connect up with McKinney,” he
Aner MAN nr
HUUUdL MIHIV Ur i. now geng to pallas.
ASSAULT ON COP "
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.....It-all-came-about-thle-ways---tme,thurtakigmeotr my cam-
A meeting was held in the
Fort Worth stood eighth in
building permits issued in May-
eighth to the Nation, third in
Texas.
And an old song says: "‘Men
must work, and women must
weep."
By United Prem
CALDWELL, Texas, Jun. 12.—■
Th. Burlenon County grand jury
has returned indictments agalst
two men charged with the murder
of Otto Lange and four men
Ths mosquito, our most suc-
cessful bathing suit censor, ______________ ,
ia with ■» again,a laztinthe aectacle. -
reated men ar supposed to have in ‘ihrXTu
been .former klansmen. runds from auch aa taaue. He
. All the cane: were worked up faaya viaducts and subway are
by Sheriff Cllat B. Lewis, asaisted needed, and shoula be indluded
by state Rangers. in a county -wide bund Aasue.
Kinech Shelbours and 8. Balk., ..ah carainal roads leading to
employes at the Santa Pe round Fort Worth Shoul be strlghi
houne at Somerville, are named ened, mprovedana mad. l.U
in the murder indictments roods with an so-toot right oi
Sam Gin.. J H. Shelbourne, way .. Moore said, in expiaintua
---— . —--— —---Davis Lauderdale and Buck Tut- the need of the improvementa. ’ i
Hayes, Overr their benda id the arch or eword, tle are charzed with robbery..brfwould "favor good roada, even —
- --- - - firearma, alllegations being that
sSB‛
Own a Car
ug anyone now can know the
mures mm! cenvenlences that
me with owning n motor ear
of the
in order and my name offered by |
_ “Sorrels, I immediately lined up
enough votes to defeat myself for
Ing election as Judge of the 67th
District Court,in the July prl-
marien, will be held atsp.m.
Mends? Is the 6th Dstriet Court-
room
.L Amaztonauluaneaida. “
'HOME
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day atternoon, the records show-
Ka on his residence M MM Am
DEADLOCKED ON
LIGHT RATES
mwackebrwwenywwHGesheMmbeaydaazmnldlandegeealaga-
and do not care whether any of on the meeting of TCU cltl-[
Howeven, city . offielals atlll
expect to settle without going Into
court over the rites. The elly
issued an ultimatum in which a
2c per kilowatt hour reduetion
waa named aa the least reduction
that would be acceptable to the
city.
Beauteous Models To
Parade in Style Show
Streets.
Rally of supporters and friends Rosenthal suffered a dislocated'
of Judges James E. Mercer, seek- shoulder aad a broken thumb.
““ The truck did not stop, according
R. NnMTrn Expenditure of approximated
I V U II HIM U I LU (5.000.000, to be used to build
will move to a lot now owned in
TCU Addition wooden buildings
salvaged from wards where new
extenslons are being built.
Fruity Medel. Ooh1
The style revue? will follqw.
Latest modes In bathing suite and
street sport wear will be shown.
- Number of models have been
entered by Fort Worth merchants.
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bitter klan fight that was waged "4 “eny wod Menerit.
Snirt* daughter of Governor Al Smith of Mew York, with her husband. Major John A. Barner, on the steps of the Cathedral
of the Immaralate Ooncepion, Albany, anmedintely after they were married ________________
, held by members of Governor Smith's staff. Left, Governor Smith at the wedding. Bight, the Governor at 81, a few years before hie own
Magee appeared marriage,
charges of arlw|-------- --------------------- BV leom M. BILER,
LEAVE FOR BIG
- tion. Judge Armijo was District .. _
- Attorney whsa Mages made his lt*i Red Letter Day for
previous appearances la court, but S+em
did not participate in ths cases. Hurert Ptem
las Leahy appointed special prose- —
cutors. Sheriff Lorenzo Delgado. ny eamsv x f wn ws wnmou.
Semantndjpnzecrduzorn"omn‛ba MusertstmTKwom-s
the officer of the court. ing champion, and his party leave
The editor's desk ia his UtUs over the "Texas Special” for
Wahtogton, D.c- at 4:55 ► m.
ena Netnsnurs. "" I Huber wul have tmu dayu ot
___________________ pleasure after reaching Washing-
DCDDCD’C nNrvinAedarcpatometacs.lto
KKd MUNCI champtonof,
METHODS BAREDS 2. um.
Those “Good for $1,000” bee Was poaibi. b Th
Lined Up. Witness Says
newspapers thruout the United
"There has been no change in
the attitude of the school board
oa the matter of a school at TCU.
"We said we would furnish
something there by the time the
school opens and we feel pretty
sore werwill.
“It may be possible to build the
first unit of a perannont build-
Ang." — — —-— ----
Committee Named.
This was the comment of E. A.
12:45 p. m. over the B. A O.
L AnMY RECRUITING AGAIN. i
rf Unie4 Prese
WASHINGTON, June 12.--
Army recruiting was ordsrsd re- '
.opened by the War Department
today. On April 2 the army had
attained its maximum authorised
strength and.reeruiting was sus
Magee’s trial Will ba presided
over by Judge Luis Armijo, who
VOL. 5, NO. 216 zxzv.zgycasn
modem weddings go. And now
tho last statesman and social dow-
ager had departed, the famwell
echoes of band music had died
away and there waa a cleaning up
of the refreshment equipage.
Governor Al brushed at a trickle
of sweat and mused on kU own
marriage these 2* years ago to
pretty Katherine Dunn in New
York City's Bronx.
"Automobilesf Band? Cater-
ers? Gold braid, arched swords,
and all that? JLsten, son—I rode
to my wedding on the Third Ave-
earns who could get in.
"Honeymoon? Sure we had a
honeymoon. Down at Bath Beach,
in South Brooklyn. Bath Beach
was Niagara Falla for the Bronx
and.the,East Side then."
Governor Al was proud of the
fine wedding which his, eldest
daughter Emily had. So was
Emily’s mother.
Just as proud as they worn of
the wedding to which Al rode on
the Third Avenue elevated, back
yonder in his subpoena-serving
days—long before he had much
of an idea of being Governor or
President. Z
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