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GALVESTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 17,1921. —TWELVE PAGES.
NO. 95.
VOL. 41.
BRITAIN WON’T
CLAIM CAPTURE
CLOSING APPEALS PRICES DECLINE
IN FEBRUARY
IN HAMON CASE
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HHAVY BOMBARDMENT.
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Palmer Speaks of Recent State Will Try to Secure
Ruling.
New Evidence.
hours each.
VIOLATIONS OF LAW.
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VOTES FAVOR STRIKE.
STATE DEPOSITORY LAW.
of
in the
an
PACKING HOUSE BALLOT.
MAINTAINS INNOCENCE.
MILWAUKEE MAN SELECTED.
brother to Sylvester, who
and
an-
GRANTS NO PARDONS.
GRAY CAP ONLY CLUE.
ELMER MYERS REPORTS.
SLEEPING SICKNESS FATAL.
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By Associated Press.
I. AND G. N. REDUCTION.
APPLICATIONS DECREASE. ra
ENGAGE IN FIGHTING.
BRIAND WINS VICTORY.
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MAN KILLS GIRL;
ENDS OWN LIFE
ACTOR PASSES AWAY.
CRISSINGER TAKES OATH.
Thompson as Uncle Josh in “The
FRENCH REDS ACQUITTED.
He
had been ill four days.
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past.
HARDING ORDERS REVIEW.
WOULD TAX BACHELORS.
THE WEATHER
A
QUARREL OVER
NAVAL POLICY
Southeast Corner 22nd and Strand
EVERY BANKING CONVENIENCE
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man
By Associated Press.
Boston, March 17.—
DEFENDANT IN TEARS
AS ATTORNEYS ARGUE
Weatherford, Tex., March 17—Mrs.
Pearl Melton. 27 years old, died last
night, at Weatherford of sleeping sick-
ness from which she had been suffer-
ing for seven days.
Favor Control
of Explosives
Tragedy Is Enacted at
Rockford, III.
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 17. Action to army
and navy officers in refusing to per-
mit American troops to participate in
an evacuation day parade at Boston
at which Irish freedom' advocates are
ip charge was formally approved to-
day by President Harding after a con-
ference with Secretary Hughes of the
state department and Secretary Weeks
of the war department.
Commander and Crew
Stay On Board.
wanted to retain their grasp
Hamon millions.”
Freeling and McLean De-
liver Final Pleas.
Statement By Soviet Mis-
. sion at Riga.
Case Will Reach Jury Late
This Afternoon.
Food Shrinks 7 Per Cent
During Month.
Bonar Law Quits Because
of III Health.
Ban Will Be Lifted On
April 1.
Decrease 38.5 Per Cent
From Peak.
Troops Are Kept Out -of
Boston Parade.
PRESIDENT HARDING
FORMALLY APPROVES
Administration Is Severely
Criticised.
ENGLISH CABINET
OFFICER RESIGNS
%
BASEBALL SCANDAL
CASES ARE DROPPED
MAY MEAN BEER
AT SODA FOUNTAIN
SUBMARINE N-2
RUNS UPON ROCKS
BUREAU OF LABOR
GIVES OUT DATA
SANITARIUM BEING
BUILT AT KERRVILLE
Heavy Bombardment Took
Place Yesterday.
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So Many After Penntta To Dis-
pense Liquoz.
REPORTS DESCRIBE
ARTILLERY ACTION
Old Homestead," and played The 'part
3,00 times, was announced today. He
Poland Adopts
Constitution
EXCITING SCENES
IN COSTA RICA
Champion was upbraiding Sylvester
Mullen, a friend of Col. Hamon, for the
testimony he had given and for his as-
sociation with a man who had lived
openly with a woman to whom he was
not married for ten years, when Val
OF KRONSTADT
By Associated Press.
Paris, March 17.—The ten commun-
st leaders who were placed on trial
Feb* 28 on charges of lotting to over-
throw the government in cennectlon
with the strikes of May 1, 1920, were
acquitted today. *
The death of Wil-
) succeeded Den-
Lawrence, who
his address, Mr.
By Associated Press.
London, March 17.—Lord Lee of Fareham, first lord of the ad-
miralty’ declared today that his reference to the United States in his
discussion of naval matters at a meeting of naval architects here
yesterday had not been quoted correctly. What he really said, he
asserted, was:
"We see the naval committee of the United States senate lay-
ing down the principle that America shall maintain a navy at least
equal to that of any other power. That is a claim to equality which
this country never has accepted in the past and never would ac-
cept save in connection with the great English-speaking nation
which sprang from our loins and ever holds a great place in our re-
gard and confidence. ***
"The difference between our formula and America’s is too
slight to be made the subject of controversy, still less of friction or
hostility.”
leaned forward,
Designed to Accommodate
Ex-Service Men.
Mullen, a
application for a writ of error in the
case of H. S. Lawson vs. John W. Baker,
state treasurer, et al., the Supreme
By Associated Press.
Riga, March 17.—The Russian
soviet mission here asserted today
that the bolsheviki captured
Kronstadt from the revolutionists
Wednesday night.
was sitting nearby,
Fort Worth Packing House Employees
Balloting.
By Associated Press.
Fort Worth. March 17.—Practically
every vote cast in Jast night’s refer-
endum among packing house work-
men here, favored a strike, it was an-
nounced today. District President Ma-
lone declined to give out any figures
beyond saying 1,200 attended the meet-
ing and the sentiment was overwhelm-
ingly in favor of the strike.
At one point in
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MATEWAN GUN FIGHT.
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Jury Listens to Prosecution’s Analysis
of Evidence.
By Associated Press.
Williamson, W. Va., March 17.—The
Matewan gun fight jury today listened
to the prosecution’s analysis of testi-
mony given in the trial of sixteen resi-
dents of the mining town ins connec-
tion with the death of Albert C. Felts,
a private detective last May. One of the
defendants. J. C. McCoy, yesterday was
acquitted on motion of state’s coun-
sel. The jury is expected to begin its
deliberations probably late Saturday
afternoon.
As to members of her counsel plead-
ed for her acquittal this morning, the
young defendant sat with downcast
eyes and on several occasions cried si-
lently. Once when Joe Ben Champion,
twin brother of the presiding judge,
referred to the scene created two days
ago when one of the state counsel re-
ferred to Mrs. J. L. Smith of El Paso
the mother, as “an old woman,” Clara
was joined in tears by Mrs. Smith, and
other feminine members of the family
who sat in a group.
POWERFUL ARGUMENT.
I what was termed as a “powerful
argument" by his associates and ad-
mitted by Attorney General Freeling
to have been a hard plea, well deliv-
ered, Mr. Champion pleaded for an ac-
quittal. He spoke disparagingly of the
participation in the trial of the state
attorney general and’ the governor’s
action in appointing that official as
chief prosecutor.
“While the people may not question
the authority of Gov. J. B. A. Robert-
son in making the appointment,” he
said, “they will question his judgment,
“adding that the governor had been
taken advantage of by “those who
William S. Spry Made Commissioner of
Land Office.
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 17.—A recess ap-
pointment as commissioner of the
general land office was given by
President Harding today to William S.
Spry, former governor of Utah.
Edward C. Finney of Kansas was
given a recess appointment as first as-
sistant secretary of the interior.
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 17.—Presi-
dent Harding has asked Attor-
ney -General Daugherty to re-
view the case of Eugene V. Debs
socialist presidential , candidate
in 1920, now serving a sentence
under the espionage act in At-
lanta penitentiary.
The president is understood
to have acted in response to re-
peated appeals for another study
of the evidence on which Debs
was convicted. A similar review
was made several months ago at
the direction of President Wil-
son. Mr. Wilson decided against
clemency.
Court has upheld the constitutionality
of the state depository law. The higher
court did not write an opinion, but in
effect affirmed the judgment of the
Third Court of Civil Appeals which had
some time ago held the law valid.
The suit was instituted by T. M. Mc-
Gregor on behalf of H. S.' Lawson of
Austin, who sought by injunction pro-
ceedings to restrain the board from
awarding contracts to the state de-
positories for the safekeeping of the
state’s funds. ’ The trial . court \ the
Fifty-third District Court of Travis
county, upheld the law nd this hold-
ing was affirmed by the Third Court of
Civil Appeals.
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Chamber of Deputies Extends Vote of
Confidence.
Paris, March 17.— (By the Associated
Press).—The chamber of deputies voted
confidence in the government of Pre-
mier Briand today at the end of the
debate on the reparations decisions ar-
rived at in the London conference. Th
vote was 489 to 67.
Warsaw, March 17.—(By the Asso-
ciated Press).— The legislature of the
republio on the eve of the plebiscite
to determine whether upper Silesia
shall be Polish or German, today adopt-
ed the constitution of reborn Poland
after, its third and final reading.
Eighteen months ago a special com-
mission of the diet began struggling
with the question. A constitution now
has been completed which the Poles
believe will have a fbVarble influence
upon the participants in the Rlebis-
cite. In the event that the upper Si-
lesians vote to join Poland after a sep-
aration of more than 500 years, th©
legislators have promised the Silesians
wide autonomy, with their own diet
elected upon a broad Democratic basis
and representing all trades of the in-
dustrial district, half the size of Bel-
gium which has been the object of dis-
pute between Poland and Germany.
the department of justice, was
nounced unofficially yesterday.
By Associated Press.
Rockford, Ill., March 17.—Miss Helen
Wilson, shot last night by Arthur
Bauscher, wealthy Freeport florist, who
then shot himself, died this morn-
ing without regaining conscibusness.
Bauscher died two hours after the
■'double shooting. - ,
Miss Wilson recently divorced her
husband, Clarence Widholm, an auto-
mobile salesman of Rockford. Bauscher,
her employer and a widower, implored
her to marry him.
Miss Wilson, it is said, became recon-
cild last week with her former hus-
band and had planned to re-marry him.
Last night she left Freeport on an in-
terurban car bound for Rockford, where
Widholm was waiting for her. Bauscher
also boarded the car, and as she alight-
ed at Rockford, Bauscher shot her
through the right temple, then fired a
bullet through his brain-
Boston America* Pitcher Had Been a
Holdout.
By Associated Press.
■ Hot Springs, Ark., March 17.—Elmer
Myers, pitcher of the Boston American
League Baseball club, who had former-
ly been a holdout, has reported at the
Red Sox training camp here. McInnis,
Vick, Menosky and Walters, who are
holding out for increased salaries, have
not been heard from. President H. H.
Franzee, of the Boston club, is expected
to arrive here within the next few days
to confer with Manager Hugh Duffy
on the delinquent players.
Dallas Police Seek Bandits Who Killed
Man. i
By Associated Press.
Dallas, March 17.—A gray checkered •
cap is the only clue police had today
to identify two men who, shortly after :
midnight, killed Peter Lastro, 50, and
wounded Nilan Ninich, 45, Dallas bus-
'iness men. in an attempted holdup.
Ninich and Lastro were attacked in ,
front of the Ninich home and offered (
resistance. A two-minute scuffle fol- .
lowed, during which the bandits shot :
and killed Lastro. Ninich’s wound is not .
serious. One of the would-be robbers (
left his cap. ]
Young Farm Hand Charged With Mur-
der in Indiana.
By Associated Press.
Warsaw, Ind., March 17.— Virgil
Decker, 19-year-old farm hand, who is
in jail here charged with the murder
of Leroy Lovett of Elkhart, Ind., will
be questioned today by authorities in-
vestigating the case in an endeavor to
wring some statement from him con-
cerning the crime. Decker stoutly
maintains his innocence.
Arthur Decker, 16, brother of Virgil-
also is in jail here.
Interest in the murder case is at a
high pitch here.' Sheriff Moon has
placed guards at every entrance to the
jail and no one is being admitted. Feel-
ing is said to be running high.
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, March 17.—Applications for
permits to dispense intoxicating liquor
under the provisions of the Dean pro-
hibition law are apparently decrease
irs, according to figures obtained in
the comptroller’s department, there be-;
ing so'far a decrease of nearly 600 as
compared to the number in 1930. Last
year there were 1,650 permits issued to
physicians, manufacturers, wholesale
druggists, etc., and so far in 1921, the,
total issued has reached only 1,038. This
means that many who held permits in
1920, are not renewing them. It has
not as yet been ascertained whether,
this is due to a lack of thirst by the
"wets” or whether the people of Texas
are becoming healthier than in the
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 17.—.Withdrawal
of supervision over the manufacture
And sale of explosives with the repeal
by congress of war legislation has
made it easy for anarchists, safe blow-
ers and others to obtain explosives fcr
illegal purposes, said a statement is-
sued today ky the bureau of mines.
In urging legislation to control’ the
handling as well as the manufacture
and sale of explosives, the bureau an-
nounced that the United States is prac-
tically the only civilized government in
the world that fails to exercise a na-
tional supervisicn over explosives.
Large stores of explosives, the state-
ment said, have been found within the
limits of cities and towns where an ex-
plosion might cause loss of life and
property. State convicts have been
known to hide dynamite which they
had for road work to be used for safe
blowing When their terms expired.
Given Recess Appointment as Assist-
ant to Attornty General.
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 17.—Guy D. Goff
of Milwaukee was given a recess ap-
pointment today by President Harding
as assistant to the attorney general.
Selection of Mr. Goff for the post,
which is the second highest place in
London, March 17.—(By the Associat-
ed Press.)—Andrew Bonar Law, lord of
the privy seal today resigned from the
cabinet. Ill-health was given as the
reason for his resignation.
Mr. Bonar Law also retired from the
government leadership in the house
of commons.
Notices Are Being Sent Ont ot the Em-
ployees.
By Associated Press.
Houston, March 17.—-The Interna-
tional and Great Northern will send
out notices to employees tomorrow ad-
vising them of a meeting for March
25 at Palestine when the matter of
wag® reductions will be discussed, ac-
cording to announcement of Thornwell.
Fay, executive officer of the system,
this morning. No proposed schedule
of wages has been decided upon, ac-
cording to Fay, nor nas any date been
set for application of lower wages. The
scale and date of application will be
discussed at the conference and if no
agreement can -be reached the entire
matter will go to the railroad labor
board, Fay stated.
FORECAST
For Galveston and Vicinity:
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday.
Continued warm.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy
tonight and Friday. Continued
warm.
For West Texas: Generally fair
tonight and Friday. Little change
in temperature.
For Oklahoma: Generally fair
tonight and Friday. Little change
in temperature.
Winds on Texas Coast: Light
to moderate southerly.
By Associated Press.
San Jose, Costa Rica, March 17.—Op-
ponents of the government of Costa
Rica are sharply criticizing the ad-
ministration- hostilities between this
country and Panama following inter-
vention by the United States.
Exciting scenes, are occuring in con-
gress, many members of which are de-
nouncing the government as favoring
Panama and endangering the indepen-
dence of Costa Rica.
The government is making concilia-
tory replies to the criticisms and en-
deavoring- to calm the storm.
Costa Rican interests in Panama have
been placed in th© hands of the Span-
ish minister there. The Panaman gov-
ernment has repatriated many Costa
Ricans who were taken prisoner dur-
ing the recent fighting and has sent
them to Puerb Limon. United States
warships are reported to be watching
th© Costa Rican and Panaman coast.
Measure Is Upheld By Decision
_ Court.
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, March 17.—By refusing
Majority in Favor of Strike Found by
Early Count.
By Associated Press.
Kansas City, March 17. — Official
count of the first hundred ballots in
the packing house strike vote taken
yesterday showed 98 in favor of a
walkout and two opposed, union offi-
cials announced today. The vote is
being completed. today with the tak-
ing of ballots from the workers at the
Swift and Wilson plants and the count
probably will be completed by mid-
night, according to union officials.
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By Associated Press
Washington, March 17.—D. R. Cris-
singer of Marion, Ohio, took oath to-
day as comptroller of the currency and
as such automatically became a mem-
ber of the federal reserve board.
A Simple and Convenient Plan.
A checking account with this bank
is a simple and convenient plan for
handling income and expenses.
The First National Bank
Neff Has Extended No Clemency Dur-
ing Tenure.
By Associated Press.
■ Austin, March 17.—In the sixty days
that Gov. Neff has been in office not
a single pardon has been granted. I The
monthly report of the state prison
commission for January shows, how-
ever, that 75 pardons were granted to
convicts and thirty-four paroles issued
during January but all of them were
given before Gov. Neff took office.
RECESS APPOINTMENTS.
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, March 17.—With a view of
making an inspection of the tubercular
sanitarium for exservice men now in
course of construction, S. B. Cowell,
chairman and A. R. Johnson, member
of the state board of control, have gone
to Kerrville. The building for one unit
of 66 beds is now completed and the
board of control will gee that equip-
ment necessary to furnish the unit is
installed at the earliest possible mo-
ment. Information received by the
board is that there are already 20 to
25 tubercular exSoldiers at Kerrville
waiting to be accommodated.
Before leaving for Kerrville, Chair-
man Cowell stated it is difficult for'
exsoldiers afflicted with tuberculosis to
obtain accommodations at the institu-
tion in its present shape and he would
advise that these men refrain from go-
ing until the institution is formally
opened.
The' state board of control will not
assume direct charge of the institu-
tion until the title passes from the
American Legion to the State of Texas.
The bill carrying an appropriation of
$1,500,000 to take over the property,
has been signed by the governor, but
before the actual transfer is made the
attorney general has held the title must
be ratified by the various posts of the
legton throughout the state.
It has not as yet been indicated who
will be named as superintendent of the
new institution.
By Associated Press.
Westerly, R. I- March 17.—The sub-
marine N-2, a coastal type boat, struck
the Watch Hill reef, while manoevuer-
ing off here today and ran up on the
rocks high and dry. 'Coast guards who
went out to her reported that Lieut.
Claude Farmer and his creW of fif-
teen men would remain aboard.
French and Turkish Forces in Hostile
Encounter.
By Associated Press.
Constantinople, March 17.—French
and Turkish forces in Cilicia have keen
engaged in renewed fighting there, it is
said in advices received in this city.
Further uprisings agalnht the boL
sheviki in Kuban, Terek 'and Daghes-
tan are reported.
Severe Artillery Action Took Place
Wednesday.
By Associated Press.
Copenhagen, March 17.—The bolshe-
vik batteries on the Karelian headland
opened a strong fire against Kronstadt
yestedray, says the Helsingfors corres-
pondent of the Berlingske Tidende to-
day.
The bombardment from Kronstadt
caused four extensive fires along the
coast toward Petrograd, the warships
at Kronstadt participating in the bom-
bardment, the correspondent adds.
Finnish refugees from Systerbak re-
port the bolsheviki are making exten-
sive preparations for a new attack on
Kronstadt, four artillery divisions with
forty-eight four-inch and six-inch guns
being concentrated between Systerbak
and Petrograd.
Last night there was a violent artil-
lery duel between the fortresses at
Kronstadt, Krasnaya Gorka and Orani-
enbaum.
clutched Mr. Champion’s arm
asked:
By Associated Press.
Chicago, March 17.—The state today
dropped the cases against all of the
Chicago White Sox baseball players
indicted for the alleged throwing of
the 1919 world’s series except Chick
Gandil.
The action was taken after Judge
William E. Dever had refused to grant
a continuance of mor© than sixty days
in the case. The state demanded six
months on the grounds that it would
take that length of time to gather (
evidence which would give the prose-
cution a chance of conviction.
Immediately after the action had
been taken, Robert E. Crowe, state’s
attorney, announced that an attempt
would be made to gather new evidence
and that new indictments would be
sought against the men. The players
whose cases were dropped were those
who had surrendered and given ball,
namely, Claude Williams, Joe Jackson,
Oscar Felsch, Buck Weaver, Swede Ris-
berg, Eddie Cicotte and Fred McMul-
lin.
The cases of Gandil, Hal Chase, Ra-
chel Brown, Joseph J. Sullivan, Abe
Attell and Bill Burns were stricken
off the court call by Judge Dever. They
were charged with being the men who
arranged the alleged conspiracy. Tak-
ing the cases off the call prevents
calling them up again for six months.
Mr. Crowe, in his announcement that
cases were dropped, said that he “was
convinced that a crime had been com-
mitted but that corruption of the
state’s principal witnesses made it
impossible to go on with th© case.”
“Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicott© and
Claude Williams, the men who con-
fessed to the grand jury, have been
corrupted,” he declared.
“With their evidence available, we
would have a clean cut case against
these men and be sure of obtaining
convictions. Without their evidence
our case is hopeless.”
‘This case is not finished, however
and these men have not escaped punish-
ment. We are going right after the
evidence that will convict and we
know where to get it.
“When this evidence has been pro-'
cured I shall personally go before the
grand jury and seek new' indictments.,.
And there will be no mistakes next
time.”
Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, baseball,
commissioner, refused to comment to-
day on the action of the state in drop-
ping the baseball gambling cases.
"They’ve what!” he shouted when
told that the cases had been dropped^
I can’t say a word,” he continued.
“Say, I’m Val, not ‘Vester’ and you
aren’t talking about me, are you?”
Sheriff Buck Garrett, sitting immed-
iately behind Mr. Mullen quickly cau-
tioned him, and there was little disor-
der.
James H. Mathers, county attorney
for Carter county, retained by the de-
fense before be assumed office Jan. 3,
followed Mr. Champion. His first re-
mark was that the millions of others
were aligned with the Hamon millions
in an unequal fight on Clara Hamon
and that the fight was made more un-
equal by the participation of Attorney
General Freeling. As he got into his
argument Mathers doffed his coat and
vest and used a handkerchief fre-
quently to mop his brow.
RIDICULES WITNESSES.
In the order of their appearance
Mathers ridiculed the state witness-
es, picking flaws in their testimony
and attempting to show a semblance
of conflicting evidence.
The testimony of"T. J. Irwin of Law-
ton, who delivered Hamon’s funeral
oration, was declared by the attorney
to be either an "untruth," or "his ora-
tion was not inspired by an accredited
envoy of God.”
“There was never a Bible in Jake
Hamon’s room,” Mathers , charged, “be-
cause he died aS he lived, cursing,
swearing and in debauchery.”
"I tell you the bullet which caused
Jake Hamon’s death was the just exe-
cution of the sentence of God,” Math-
ers shouted.
His pleading brought tears to many
spectators, a number of mothers cry-
ing softly and wiping their eyes with
their handkerchiefs.
, Reference to Attorney General Freel-
ing as the next possible governor of
Oklahoma was made by Mathers when
he said he “did not want Mr. Freeling
to go Into the governor’s chair through
the tears of this little girl.”
“Murder was not in the heart of this
defendant; it was her defense against
a brutal attack, not an act against a
man she loved,” Mathers said.
Continued on Page Eight.
By Associated Press.
Madison, Wis., March 17.— As-
semblyman Mark’s bill to tax all
bachelors between the ag.es o 30
and 60 ten dollars annually for
the privilege of remaining sin-
gle was reported out for passage
by the assembly committee on
taxation last night. Although
the bill was offered as a joke, its
friends declared they will muster
enough votes to pass it. A com-
panion bill is that offered by
Senator Bilgren, providing for a
“Wisconsin home for maiden la-
dies,” to be supported by bache-
lor taxes.
Butter is Sold in Cartons Other Than
Those Authorized.
Special to the Tribune.
Austin, March 17?—Inspectors of
weights and measures of the depart-
ment of markets and warehouses, re-
port many violations of the law with
reference to the sale of butter in less
than one-pound cartons or the desig-
nated fraction of one pound, to-wit, 4
and 8 ounces, according to D. E. Lyday,
commissioners of the department. “At
this time,” said Commissioner Lyday,
“the law forbidding short weights
seems to be more generally disregard-
ed in the sale of butter, than in any
other commodity. This is a serious
matter. Estimates given this depart-
ment indicate the annual sale in Texas
of about 16,000,000 pounds of butter.
If sold in packages averaging a short-
age of one ounce, this would indicate a
loss to the consumer of 1,000,000
pounds of butter per year. At the time
this estimate was prepared the mone-
tary loss to the consumers of Texas, on
this item alone, would have amounted
to $600,000 per annum. The law1 re-
quires sale of butter in standard car-
tons containing 16 ounces, 8 ounces and
4 ounces. . It also requires the net
weight of the contents to be printed
on the package.
“These laws have been passed for the
protection of the public and their en-
forcement has been enthrusted to this
department and lam instructing our
inspectors to carefully look out for
violations, and to require the strictest
observance of this law. All citizens of
Texas are notified that in our opinion
enough educational work has been
done to put all persons on notice as to
the requirements of this act, and the
same will hereafter be strictly en-
, forced.”
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By Associated Press.
Philadelphia, March 17.— The ruling
that physicians may prescribe beer
“may mean bear at the soda fountain,
but never again beer over th© saloon
bar or in the hotel dining room,” said
former Attorney* General A. Mitchell
Palmer here today.
, “The law has fixed one channel
through which beer may be obtained
for medicinal purposes,” said Mr. Pal-
mer in speaking of his ruling on beer,
recently made public after he left of-
fice. “It says plainly brewers may
manufacture, wholesale druggists only
may sell at wholesale, and it can be
retailed only by registered pharmacists
on physicians’ prescriptions. That, cuts
out the beer parties and the growler.
“There was never any legal knot to be
untied here. Why it took the people
interested in it so long to ferret out
this advantage, I do not understand.”.
“‘The prohibition law,” said Mr.
Palmer, “will never be fully effective
until the public becomes possessed of a
consciousness of wrongdoing in violat-
ing it. I think the majority of the
physicians will treat this beer matter
as one involving professional ethics.”
By Associated Press.
Ardmore, March 17.—Indications
shortly before the noon recess today
pointed to the case of Clara Smith Ha-
mon, on trial on a charge of having
murdered Col. Jake L. Hamon, Repub-
lican national committeeman from Ok-
lahoma and millionaire oil and rail-
road promoter, being ip the hands of
the jury by 5 p. m., according to S. P.
Freeling, state attorney general and
W. P. McLean of Fort Worth, Texas,
respectively, leading counsel for the
state and defense.
The two, who will close the argu-
ments for their sides, will address the
jury after the noon recess. Mr. Mc-
Lean and Attorney General Freeling,
talking during a recess period * this
morning, made no effort to agree to a
time limit, ..but, in geting at the ap-
proximate time each wanted, they said
they had in mind talking about two
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 17.—The ban pro-
hibiting withdrawals of whiskey from
bonded warehouses insofar as it affects
retail druggists will be lifted April 1
under an order issued today by Prohibi-
tion Commissioner Kramer. Modifica-
tion of the order stopping withdrawals
was not extended to wholesale liquor
dealers.
Coincidentally, Mr. Kramer an-
nounced that wholesale dealers must,
go out of business about May 15. He
said also that plans of the bureau pro-
vided for the completion of regulations
based on former Attorney General Pal-
mer’s opinion as to wholesalers to be
effective about the same date'.
RETAIL DRUGGISTS
MAY GET LIQUOR
-n .
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 17.—Wholesale
prices of commodities continued to de-
crease in February, with a drop of 5%
per cent for the month or a total de-
crease of 38.5 per cent from the high
peak prices of May, 1920, said the
monthly bulletin issued today by the
bureau of labor statistics.
Food declined 7 per cent for the
month, or 38 per cent from prices a
year ago, the bulletin said, building
materials 7 per cent for the month, or
26 per cent below prices a year ago;
farm products prices 5% per cent dur-
ing the month, or 45 per cent for the
year; cloth and clothing prices 4% per
cent for the month and more than 44
per cent for the year. Fuel and light-
ing prices drcpped 4% per cent from
January prices, but still showed an in-
crease of 16.5 per cent over prices a
year ago.
Metal and metal products dropped 4
per cent in February and 22% per cent
for the year; chemicals and drugs 2%
per cent for the month and 9% per cent
for the year; miscellaneous gom-
modifies, including such articled as
wrapping paper, mill feed, middlings,
bran, cottonseed meal and cil, lubricat-
ing oil, jute, rubber news print, soap,
tobacco and wood pulp, about 5% per
cent each for the month, and hguse fur-
nishings 2 per cent during the month.
Of the 327 commodities included in
the comparison, 207 showed a decrease,
for the month and 33 showed an in-'
crease. In 87 cases no change in charge
was recorded. Of these a majority were
in food and clothing groups.
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