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IN tEAHY TRIAL
AUSTIN, Feb. 1.— Favorabhe report on
given an opportunity of making a de-
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TO SIGN PENCE PACT
word and not, as he bad said, "a wife
Mayfield, serving a life sen-
Dr. George Blakeslee, neurologist, was
inefuded all the eccentricities and al-
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bruises and
other side of the question, declared the
stituttonal amendments submitted that
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Tying Red Ribbon Around If s Neck
NEW STEAMSHIP RATES
ARE GIVEN APPROVAL
PLACING INDUSTRY UNDER
RAUOAD COMMISSION
COMMITTEE APPROVES
—LAND-TAX PROPOSAL
U.S.SCORESIN
FIRST DAY OF
INNES IS FREED
AFTER SERVING
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NOUSTON
FRANKLIN.
FRAUD CHARGES
AGANST 9 IN
PENNSYLVANIA
barb, Evanston, HU a presidant of a de-
funct social club In New York, a woman
publicity writer, and an elderly, black-
young goose among its fellows on a Stat-
en Island farm, had expressed so great a
(W Ito Amiri i ted Pren)
AUSTIN, FWb. l.-A house victory for
the Bech bul, proposing regulation of
the Texas motor bus industry by the
railread commission, was virtually as-
• Everybody seemed anzlous to see the
measure passed and to make that fact
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eader of or-
Their testi-
EIGHT THEFTS REPORTED SINCE
FRIDAY NIGHT; MESSENGER
BOYS HANDICAPPED
NESS OF GOVUMmiT IN
TRIAL OF OFFICERS
for a five-minute recess to recover, He
resumed hie questioning.
Browning replied:
"I don't remember," to several ques-
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Neatenttdt the
of measles la the Conway
ACTION OF INSURGENT IN SUP-
9 PORTING ADMINISTRATION
WISHES IS SURPRISE >
PITTSBURGH GRAND JURT ACTS
ON EVE OF SENATE'S SEIZURE
OF BALLOT BOXES
INJURED TRAFFIG VICTIM
IS REPORTED RECOVERING
_ Mrs. Arridalligo, her daughter. Car-
* men, id yean eld, aad two sons. Ar-
thur: 18, and Edward, 11, were rushed
Expect Momo to Acept. •
Mrs. I. B. Ferguson of 1807 Fillmore
street. telephoned In a new angle on
Amarillo's dog episodes, last night.
Instead of losing a valuable canine,
aba has found one.
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Two Dockets Produced.
The witness said that later he went to
the home of Justice of the Peace Floyd
Th sherifrs deputies also report the
recovery of nine pairs of high-priced
shoez.but they know who they belong
-te. They won stolen frees a box car la
familles there. _
Nestas parties fa boats have brought
te the varieus eoneentratien rellef
"There wes a goodly proportion--far
oat of proportion—of canes of vagrancy."
"I asked him if he did not know tkat
pracUcing poonage, when J." 1 ...
Raymondville attorney, was paced oa the
witnemes were presented Tweed
the state in rebtta In the tri
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amendment to the annual naval appro-
orintion bill were twenty-fear Republi:
cans, moot of them generally accounted
M the regular of the regulars, and twen-
’ the enate amendment etill has to run
the gauntlet of the. house, when a him-
iar proposal was voted down recently I
a narrow margin after it had been spon-
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attorney, who had been arrested aad
placid in the Willacy county jail at Ray-
mondville on charges of vagrancy. Be
raid be appealed to Raymond Teller,
sheriff. one of the def endants fa the peon-
age case.
" 'No, you can't mo them,’" he quoted
Telar •• saying.
•Afte boy a la jailr" he teatified he
to the hospital when they were taken
sritleally IU Jaet after eating their
- breakfast at their winter home. The
breekfast had been partly prepared last
eight and left oa the table before the
family appeared. The police bold the
theory that poison was put in the food
while the family slept.
two guns were found by an Amarillo res-
ident in ble garage aad they aren’t hle.
‘teb.’ 1
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y, Feb. 1--Ed-
ward West Browning’s separation suit,
brought against hie bride of oil monthn
the former Frances (Poaches) ‘Heenan,
was taken under wdvisement tonight by
‘Supreme Court Justice Seeger.
Within the two weeks following next
Saturday, attorneys for both sides may
• amplify the contentions eet forth ia the
WASEINUTON,
Gander Ie Explained.
Even the African honking gander came
These were a nursery fbiultun maha
facturer aad hle wife of the Chicago sa
Highways to the
under two to four
Both sides of the controversy over the
cruisers had. their say in the senate last
mast and the veto on the amendment
eame today without further debate, after
Senator Curtis, the majority leader, who
stood with the president, had announced
he wm toddy for the test of strength.
After adoption of the eruiser end other
amendments, the senate passed the naval
bill without ■ record vote and with one
diszenting voice, that of- Senator King,
Demoerat, Utah. An amendment by Sen-
stor Dill. Democrat. Washington, to pro-
Mbit federal officials from using naval
radio etations fsr propaganda purposes,
wm approved after'its acceptance by
Chairman Bale.
Previously the senate had approved
committee amendments fixing the enlist-
•d strength of the navy at 84,000 instead
of 82,500, as provided by the house and
inereasing the appropriation for novel
aviation.
The goverment fired one of its big
guns here this afternoon in the eaae
against eleven Willacy county officers.
mony wae much alike. It all related to
external evidences, they admited, of
signs of happiness between the elderly
real estat man and hie young wife.
Browning, oa the stanC was indefinite
in many answers particularly on eroas-
examination after bla direct examina-
tion had resulted ia a lengthy categoric-
al denial of every set of cruelty end ec-
Cogdell testified that he had made an
live boys, and especially
BIG NAVY MEN
OVERRIDE WISH
f OF PRESIDENT
officer in the aame district.
There was some question to right as
to the disposition of zome ballot boxes
raised by District Attorney famuoI R^
Gardner in connection with hie inquiry.
These boxes are among those ordered
seized by the senate for use of its com-
mittee In investigating the November,
senatorial election in Pennsylvania. The
district attorney contends the boxes and
their contents are essential to hie ease.
The senate agents are due here tomor-
row at -which time it ie expected they
will confer with Gardner.
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_ .. Bod Crow retoMoo-
zativea, were Making clothing for the
homelese persone. Many toft te seek
hoete that all peronai property wm
puted pn
■wart dt __
Representative Alfred Fetich ofEreder-
icksburg requiring all but operators to
carry insurance protecting patrone was
diacaaaH more than an toor, chiefly by
lawyer members, before it was adopted.
The question of "eentralization of
HOUSE GIVES APPROVAL
TO NICARAGUAN POLICY
WASHINGrON. Feb. -Over the pro-
dise,!ineluding M or 49 milk drenges, 15
or 20 overcoats aad ten Federal
by someone.
He wore a collar but no identification
tag.
She is anxious to keep hiss, but feels
that since he apparently is a very valu-
able dog, she should make this effort to
notify his real owner.
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Day In Washington
Ford tax hekrings were resumed.
The Senate finance committee ap-
proved the alien property bill.
Construetion of three eruisers, op-
posed by President Coolidce, was ap-
proved by the Senate, g.-----------------
Sennte Republiean leedero eteved off
the buck to refuse to pass on theye
questions of salary raises.
Solon Geta Camatie
Weedward of Coleman asked Wirts,
"isn’t Is true hat if we asked the dear
people bow they want us to vote on
every measure, we would, never get
through F - -
Holbrook of Galveston, taking the
with Browning detrimental •
health ?”
"I would," the neurologist said.
leged eruelties charged by Mrs. Brown-,
ing, and denied by her husband.
"On the basis of this question, believ-
ing the facta to be true, ae l stated,’*
EpsteinLbegan, "what would you say waa
the eause- of-Mre. Browning’s nervous
disorders which have manifested them-
selves during the latter part of her life
with Mr. Browning, and which have not
recurred eInce she left him?"
"I think," Dr. Blageslee Mid, “that it
can be fairly stated that Mrs. Brown-
ing’s nervous condition is the result of
1 paychic traumas aad emotional reaction
from disagreeable environment."
J Would you consider further living
the unusual situation of oil the Repub-
A Hican insurgents standing with the preni-
dent. They were joined by eight Demo-
erats and a scattering of the old «uard.
Constituting the elear majority of the
entire senate, which voted for the eruiser
________ Browning wm perepiring, profusely and
Mrs. Ferguson came home to discover hie vigorous interrogator, Henry Ep-
a fine pointer bird dog from three to I ate in, counsel for Mrs. Browning, sud-
seven months old in the living room. The denly reeled and nearly fell. He asked
front door was uylocked but not oped, *
m that he appatehtly wae placed there
3 " hospital hero from poison alleged to
, have been pet la their breakfast food
9: today.
E Police, who are havint the food ex-
7 amined by chemista, expressed the
P- opinion the case aright develop into a
a. foreign political murder plot, pointing
4 out that the Arridalligo family has beea
. E a powerful political influence ia Guate-
3 mla.
WEALTHY GUATEMALA
H WOMAN IS
u . LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1.- Mr, Male
• j Arridalligo reputed wealthiest woman
, 3 of G note mate. her daughter and tte
■ j sons, are ia a aerious rendition in a
the proposed constitutional amendment
by Representative J. H. Boggs of San
Angelo, designed to allow 17 West Texas
counties to levy county tax on 2,000,000
acres of rxan University lands tonight
was voted by the Homae constitutional
amendments committee.
Boggs offered aa amendment, which
he later withdrew. Renfro of Coman-
che. High of Willa Point and McComb
of Dallas voted against favorable recom-
mendation but no announcement of mi*
erat, Virginia, to call Secretary Kellogg
for questioning oa the subject.’On thio
motion, Representative Fish, Republican.
New York, joined with the Democrats,
who supported it.
Action on the Fairehild resolution
climaxed a series of stormy meetings
Reports from the Northwest. Texas
Hospitai last .night stated zthat
the Blr. KnickinbQeker, who Wae knocked
SZiJ^ tanomdik.
Herring Monday night, wm reatin well
and would be out within a day or |wo.
Kr. Kniekinbocker, whoM home is in
St. Louis, WM carried to the hospital
in a nemi-consscious condition follovine
the aecident, but reporta indieate that
thesinjuries were chiefly —
cute end not ef a confining nature.
The driver of the car which struek Mr.
Kniekinbocker to not knowp.
brief conversations with R. F. Robinson,
Willacy county attorney and among the
defendants,-in which Robinson said that
he was holding the boys underrconviet
bond. After investigating the legality
of convict bonds, he said, "I told Mr.
Robinson that I had ascertained that the
beading system had been abolished. Then
he said he was dding it for the benefit
of the farmers."
•Youth Tello Story.
* Other witnesses who testified Monday
afternoon were Walter Newman, IS, Hen-
derson, Texas: Wilson Gresham, Lam-
pacas; Allen II. Nichola, 18, former page
ia the Houm of Representatives, Wash-
ington, D. C. These boys were members
of a cotton picking party recruited ia
testimony agreed in that they had been
arrested for vagrancy a few hours be-
fore a afmilar charge had been dismissed
against them. The justice of the peace,
according to several of the boys, offered
to get them a cotton picking job oa the
farm ef Lloyd Burnett, his brother-in-
law, another defendant ia the case. A
fine for vagraney wae to be paid oat of
their wages, neveral of the withesses
■aid.
die-
busy ’
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homes along the principal routes an wen
$ to In the interior were flooded.
po The White river torrent eontinued to
mroep through wide gaps to the levees
between Cotten Plant and Dixie. The
Bathe river overflow wm adding to the
volume of the fined.
ConpGY ChAsrr,tenrn,
see the dochet. After Mme argument
two dockets were produced. One of these,
according to the witness, had 389 cases
OKLAHOMA OUTLAWSHOT
i ATTaffTWO ESCAPE
(By The Ambciatea Prem) _
McAlester, Okie,-Feb. .-George
Kimes, under sentenee of 30 years for
manalaughter, wm shot and seriously
POLICE HSIE M WATCH
FOR CROSBYTON THIEVES
Amarillo police were notified last
night to be on the look oot for the
LANSnNG, Kins., Feb. 1 German
Fernandes waa ehot and hilled and three
other temateo of the stae penitentiary
at Lansing, were wounded this after-
noon during an attempted prison break.
Fernandes wm serving as a. charge of
burglary. He wm convicted in Una
county. •
IF TROOPLIRE WIHDRAWN
HANKOW, Feb. 1 The nationalist .
(Cantonese) government will sign an
agreement for a new treaty with Great
Britain as soon as the British forces are
withdrawn from Shanghai. This offi-
elal announcement wm made tonight by
Eugene Chen, nationalist minister of
foreign affairs.
In his statement, Mr. Chen Mid netto-
tiatione with Owen O’Malley, British
charge d'affaires, virtually had boon
completed regarding the Britleh conees-. .
sion at Hankow, the document fquiring
only the signature of both parties.
The minister asserted hle signature
to the. document. In present eirenm-
stances would be tantamount to signing
under duress, which would make the
agreement one thet would not be laat-
Effective nezt Year
. .. Other members made hot arguments
today for aad against the bill which beeomes
wholesale proportions. Another theft
from the high school building was re-
ported yetserday afternoon.
It ie Mid thet moot of the thefts occur
from the alley beek of Western Union
offices, where the delivery boys perk
their bicycles while inside. Four of the
wheel were taken Friday night, three
Solarday night and one Sunday night.
One of the thefts occurred before a local
business house while the messenger boy
was making a delivery.
inf or explanatton from MrBrowning Dodd, another dofeadent, aad aeked to -—
who Mid that hle iwfe when seeing' the ‘ -
Right in the center of the Chinese
disorders Ie Edwin S. Cunhingham, the
American consul-general at Shanghai.
CYCLE THOB
INFEST CITY,
POLICEREPORT
"Remember, Mr. Browning," Mid Jus-
lice Seeger, "you ar now in a position
where a man muat think before he
speaks."
Interest turned suddenly, after Brown-
ing left the stand, to the recall of Mrs.
Browning.
She denied she had ever before seen
the "boy friend,” Jamee P. Mixon, who
testified against her yetserday. She tes-
tified that to Browning abe had been a
wife, in all the marital meanings of the
«... U. eounty Jaii charged with the ToFzcnspomrniduippetomy “
The committee rejected, 8 to a pro-
posal by Representative Meera, Doom-
REGULATION OF
DUS UNES DY
resent the boys. He Mid they were be-
ing held for hie brother-in-law} Lloyd
Burnett. The eases were dismissed.”
Cogdell Mid the boys went to town
with him from Dodd’a house and that
they went to seek employment ae cotton
pickers. In conversation with Deputy
Sheriff Swanner, the following morning,
this conversation is alleged to have taken
place:
"I pat one ever oa yea last night while
yea were asleep.”
"How is that!"
"I went out and got those boys and
placed them under arrest.”
Just Wanted to Talk. -
Cogdell said that he went to the court
house later that day, and just as he en-
tered he mw the buys being carried along
the hallway. He Mid he inquired M to
what the trouble wm.
“‘I wish to talk to thoao boys,’ ho
quoted himself having Mid. "I represent
them. Justice of the Peace Dodd said I
could aot talk to them."
“Then Mrs. Cogdell, who accompanied
me to the court houee, said, “It’s a shame
la the sight of God that these boys
should be treated thio way?
” "Take her to jail, too,’ ” Justice of the
Peace Dodd ordered, secording to the
other side of the question, declared the Gulf to French Atlantie, Hamburg
voters hsve severe! time held in eon- Range, Gulf British and Gulf shipping
power la Austin" was raised by Repre-
sentative Dewey Young of Wellington,
Who introduced himself as “just a corn-
fed. cuntryconstittfonarfawyer."---
Supported by the veteran Judge Wal-
ter Aeker, Houston member, and Repre-
sentative G. R. Lpscomb, Fort Worth
eolleague of Representative Welter H.
Beck, Ue Um’s author, Toung put over
an amendment striking out those por-
tions of the measure empowering the
railroad commission to assess penalties.
Sledge Houaton bore for the slaying of
Gartett Wirtte at Somerville last March.
Seven of them were eye witnesss to the
alasing of White.
Earthqueke I® Recprded.
WASHINGTON. Fb. 1.—Aa earth-
aqake, deseribed by Director Tondorf
aa "very severe," was recorded today
by the Georgetow University seinmo-
graph. The tremors began at 1:16 p.
m. aad eontinung until 8:80 p. m., reach-
ing a maximum between 2:04 p. m. and
till p m. The distanee wm entimated
listed, most of them with vagrancy
charges. ____
«nyTheAeoelatedPrejo
ATLANTA, Ge, Feb. 1—Aer fourteen •
years, either in prion er in cabri ae the
result of charges growing out of the mys-
drius disappearance of Mrs. Eloise
Nelms Dennis and Mise Beatrice Nelm»,
sjsters, in Baa Antonio in 1914. Victor F.
Innes is free and the Nelms mystery is
no nearer solved than it was when court
action .began. .
. The attorney and his- wife were
brought to trial on murder charges in
Ban Antohib, October 10, 1914, but when
the bodies of the young women could not
be produced the fudge ordered an ac-
quittal under the Texas corpus delicti
law.
The state of Oyorgia then asked that
Innes and hts wife ba brought to Atlanta .
tv stand trial for larceny after trust ana
fraud. Innes was given a seven-year
sentence in the Georgia state ourts
which he served aad Mrs. lanes served
two years before contracting a serious
illness which caused her dismissal.
The federal courts took over the.ses
after Innes hod completed hie seven-year
state sentena and he wm tried and on-
victd of using the mails to defraud. He *
completed hie sentenee- Saturday. A
friend paid hie $1,000 fine today.
mou
university and representatives of ther '
Austin Chamber of Commerce, appeared 1
at the hearing, protecting proposed
passage of the bill, Splawn declared in
a recent, statement the bill if paeqed,
will deptivethe iastttatlon of practieal-
ly all available revenue for building
purposes.
W.M. Fly of Gonzales presided over
the committee. He Tuesday waa ap-
pofnted its chairman to sueceed thekn
Norman Kittrell of Houston. S--\
they are against salary raises, few state
officials.
Tea como up here and say," he
thundered, "the people have no interest
la thio thing. To hell with the people",
thet le whet you say" be declared.
t n. A A.nctme.a p,aaa)
GEORGETOWN, fexas, Feb. 1-Re-
prating substantially the eame revolting
story which resulted in the conviction of
Harry J. Teshyat ble previous trial at
George West, Roberto Martines waa the
second witness for the state here Tues-
day ia Leahy’s trial on change of venue
for the murder of Dr. J. A. Ramsey of
Mathis, whew body wm fouad four
months after he left hie home one night
to call on a purported patient. The tak-
ing of testimony began ot 8 p. m.
Mr. Ramsey, widow of the physieian
was the first witness. She testified that
sho laet mw her husband on the night
of May M. 1926, when he left with a
Mexican whom ehe later learned . wm
Marlines, to visit a woman whom Marti-
nea Mid was ill of appendicitis. She
mw nothing more of him until his body
wm disinterred from the shallow grave
in the hills near Mathie.
The widow testified that she had never
known Harry J. Leahy, eo-defendant with
Martines. She also identified a post-
card mailed from Beeville on May 21 as
having been initialed by her husband.
board. United Kingdom conferences
were approved ae wae aa agreement of
organization, filed by the South Atlaatic
steamship conference with hendguar-
tore at Savannah, Ga.' The board can-
celled the Gulf Mediterranean confer-
race so carriers could conform to the
rates of the eentmal freieght aseocia*
ilon.
(,TheAmoeiateaPyese) .
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 1. -Oa the eve of
the sejzure of ballot boxes containing
November election returna in Allegheny
Justice Boeger, Jn a short comment
upon the yldeing of the tria* Mid that
IM had been criticised for having per-
mitted the trial te be open to the pub-
lic, but that he had no regrets on that
account.
POLICE SEEKING OWRERS ’
OF BICYCLES ARD OURS
Chief Gaither has throe hicycleo ana
two shot guns at the station.
person or perdons who broke late a dry
, t? wEahzknnaordmz.na
UNIDENTIFIED YOUTH
KIUED AT PALESTINE
(Bpite Amilrted Fremi
PALESTINE, Feb. 1.The body oLan
unidentified boy, aged about 16,
wae. Ailed by a train six miles enste of
hero laet night, wae held in a morgue
hero today awaitiie identification. With
a eompanion, Cornelius Pattman ef
Pangburn. Arkansas, he fell asleep on
the rails. Pattman said he know hie eom-
panion only as Fred, having met him
in Arkansas. ...c.
mKiSISIPMSOnMmeu
ladieg” size, and the other la a .11 gauge
regular double-barteled fircram The
s reused ef eleetion. The box has aot beea fouad.
T/CogdeR, Joseph Joyce was charged with V«Un<
---. — * illegally in a district where he did not
reside and with serving as aa election
Al one point in the cross questioning
of Browning during a period ia the ef-
ternon when the court room, packed and
stuffy, wm particularly heavy aired.
Right of last week, and police state that _
the’ matter is becoming a nuisance in its
with the'thefts and that action will be
taken against them when they ere
caught.
Many of the Western Union boys have
been greatly handicapped by the thefts:
One lad bought anew hieyele on the in-
stallment plan and used it one day, only
to beve it stolen that night. He ia now
working and walking to make hle deliv-
erlea and thus carry put hie obligations.
He cannot afford another bike until the
last one ie paid for.
NEWS OF MARRIAGE
CLEARS UP MYSTERY
eounty by agents of the United States,
_______ the county grand jury today returned
ATTORNEY PRovES stax «n
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. — Minimum
retee from the gulf to foreign porta
were approved by the shipping board to
sanctioning agreemehts affecting gulf
aad Muth Atlantic parts.
The agreements established a gen-
eral minimum on a parity with rates
with Alantie ports to Europe. •
during which Republicans acewood Dem-
aerate with attempting to injeet polities -
into internatiogal affaire, eliciting vig- •‘O affairs
orous dentala from the latter, *----
ayto . ----a ------------------- .
The first speed lawe were ras>li« hi
Additional tents were sent todny to
| DonsAne-b the "ational guard Wad-
Mtwattew MAeute.
I Congestion eb refugees there le de-
, k earthed m sente. The town ie without
adeeuate hamnihe fneitfi.. vana -a
_ . witness. "We had come little skirmish
ashed a lengthy hypothetical question. It about that and she did not go to jail."
■—r-j-a .11 .s--*-eii —a The witness said that he had two
tence for murder, was Kimes’ partner
ia the attempt to escape, and with noth-
ing more dangerous than an imitation
pletel managed to force his way out of
the prison.
He wm caught within a few minutes,
however, on the prison farm, with the
aid of bloodhounds. • A
Kimes was shot twice in the heed, by
Clint Clayton, a prinon guard, when to
attempted to force the turnkey to open
the front door of the prison. Peni-
tentiary authoities said he might aot
live.
oontririty his jtpqpgj1^ charged against "You’ll have to find eat," Teller re-
him when she herself was on the wit- "plted,hesaid.------------ '
igreelated Prem)
Feh, l.— The house for-
nitfee today ordered a
favorable report ea the Gafhet Meata- -
ISenate leaders expect the houee to
eseept the amendment, which would ap-
5 4 propri ate $1,200,000 for beginning ‘work
on the three scouts this year, and Ito
prevailing opinion at the capital le that
6 Mr. Coolidge will sign the naval bill
with this provision in it.
- • Even if the emended bill becomes a
5 it would not noeesrarily fallow that
work weald to started' on the additional
eraft this year, ae under the amendment
the president could direct the navy de-
partment to withhold tto letting of bide.
I ——The chief executive hae taken tire pa-
sition that the construction of the erufs-
3 . ere atthis time is not essential end thet
it would be tto better policy to defer the
' letting of contracts pending the outcome
at the efforts now being made at Geneva
t te bring ebout another disarmement egn-
Senator Hale. Republican. Maine, chair-
man of the naval committee, and others
of his committee, took the position that
these and a number ef other light eruis-
era were necessary to balance the M-
tiom’s fighting Aleet and that their can-
(traction coal4 not be regarded aa mili-
taristic act on the port of the United
States since both Great Britain and Ja-
eaa have built many such eraft since the
9 Washington arms eonference five years
Police state that an effort ia being nority report waa made,
mode to. catch the culprits eonnerted Dr. W. M. W. Sptawn, president of she
wounded in an attempt tonight to ee- wora ano not._________
capo from the state penitentiany- ita mme only." ---—
Physician on Stand.
the day. An amendment by
_ Flyhl thefla of bicycles from Western
- Union delivery boys uaee" been reported
to the city police courts since .Friday
fense. I told him that I wished to rep-
to safeguard properly the ballot boxes.
Votine on those indicted were ele-
tion officers of distriets la Homestead,
a mill town, and two Pittaburgh dietricta,
including five women. They were charg-
ed with misdemeanor and conspiracy.
John Carr, a Pittsburgh alderman, wm
indicted for failing to receive and pro-
tect a ballot box aad wm supposed to
hare toea turned ever to him after the
week ef public hearine, and filo briefa
sapporting their sides of the case.
Browning soft tied s hia wife left him
without cause; ehe contends Browning
wae so creel she tod to leave him.
Since there was ae jury in the hearing
thezdecision aa to whether Mr. Browning
shell receive a decree of separation or
not to solely in the hands of Justice
Seeger, -5 -A. . ne mr: '
Browning In Denial
Oa the stand today, Browning denied
he wm a cruel husband. To support him
in his statements, that he wes “hind,
affectionate, thoughtful and bourteous,"
he brought into court sveral of his
tions: The court admonished him, and
thereafter Browning responded more
readily.
WASHINGTON.’ Feb? "President
oolidge’s program of deferring con-
ruetfetehdee additional scout erula-
; authorized throe years ago, was die-
•proved today by tto senate.
Tto vote wm 49 to tt; and developed
REPORT AMUN CARTER
QUITS AS TECH REGENT
d, The Asngelated Pre)
AUSTIN, Feb. 1.—Reports current hero
for the past several days are that Amon
G. Carter, Fort Worth publisher, has rar
signed ae chairman of the regents of
Texas Technological college.
According to authoritative information
Carter handed in hle resignation laat
week, but Governor Dan Moody asked
that he reconsider. Pending Carter’s
final decision on whother he will recon-
sider, Moody ie withholding a statement.
Mr. Carter expects to be out of tto
state much of this year, and this was a
major factor ia his resignation, close
friends say. Two weeks ago he was re-
appointed by Moody, and was confirmed
unanimously by the senate.
BU SEEKS APPROPRIATION
TO FIGHT PREDATORY ARMAIS
ATSTIN, Feb. 1~Forty men from
practically every section of the state
gathered here Tuesday to back a bill in
tto 40th legislature providing for an-
nual appropriation of $50,000 for de
struction of predatory animals and $25,-
000 for fighting injurioua rodents. The
federal government would co-operate to
tto campaign with its funds.
- The bill was introduced ia tto
House by Fool of El Paso; Runge of Ma-
son, Petsch of Fredericksburg, aad 25
others, aad ia tto senate by Berkeley
ef Alpine, Real of Kerrville, end Wood-
Ward of Coleman.
NELMS MYSTERY REMAINS AS
ACCUSEDMANGIVEN
... ..0 LBERTYag .... „
effective December 1,1928, if passed by
tto Homo before it received final ap-
proval.
Less than half an hour after it was
introduced, a bill by Farr of Benavides
oppropriatiag $20,500 to pay salaries of
officials of the state livestock commis-
siea waa passed.
Diversion of surface water eausing
daatage to property would be mode ag«
lawful fa another mensure, by Bailey,
which finally peace d. A, i
tort of ita,.Pemooratie membore, the
Room Foreign affairs committee ( *
reported the Fairchild resolution pro-
posing that tto House endorob Presi-
dent Coolidge’s Nicaraguan-Mexiean
policy. Tto vote wm 10 to 5.
Representative Connaliy, Dymovs*.
Texas, voted Pith tto Republlcansfor
tto ennouncedrpurpose of moving to re-
consider the ration. Thio Ko did, after
IAL NEARS END.
LAB. Feb. 1.——Thirteen
.k:
eared late today when the measure was friends.—
Ongroosod by vote of 100 to l(.
idal, pasjage will be voted on in a
few dgy: 4a
LOST DOG IS FOUND j
. RY MRS. FERGUSONm-ttresamndtarnruasotatmad. “Tsr-seraney cases the accused should be
Quite a Warm Sesaion.
FDR I. G.t.APPOINTMENT
t HOUSTON, Feb: 1—Colqnel a. -a.
Haines, Republiean candidate for gov-
ernor lent year to to te recommended
today to President Coollge for appoint-
meat to the imterstate commeree Cem- —
Tto Berate voted to delay the shift of
^■asigroMan quotas to a national-origin
►< Active
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEDRUARY 2,192%,1
(By The Asociated Press)
MARCELINE, Mo., Feb. News of
their marriage in Chicago, January 18.
teday cleared up the mystery surround-
ing the disappearance of the Rev. D.
V. Downey, pastor of the St. Bonavent-
are Catholic Church here, and Miss
Maudie Myers, 21, daughter of a Marce-
lino coal minor.
The marriage was revealed today by
Robert M. Sweitzer, Cook eounty clerk
at Chicago, who eaid the couple wm
married by Judge Hoary W. McEwen
there.
It was learned yesterday that Father
Downey aent a letter of resignation to
be forwarded to the bishop at St, Jos-
eph, to his assistaat hero after he left.
The names of the girl, who te a Pro-
testant, and the priest, had never boon
liaked until their disappearance. Fath-
er Downey, however, was popular ‘a-
mong tto Protestants of Mareeline.
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