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MONDAY, MAY 20, 1918.
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GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
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Madrid, May 19.—The German sub-
marine U-39, says an official dispatch
from Cartagena, entered that port, last
night in a damaged condition.
The U-39, according to German ad-
vices, is the submarine that torpedoed
the Lusitania off Kinsale, May 7, 1915.
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AUTOMOBILES CRASH;
EIGHT PEOPLE HURT
BAPTISTS DEMAND
STRICTER DIVORCES
Machines Meet in Head-on Col-
lision— Houston News
Budget.
Submarine Named Similar to
One Which Sank Lusitania
Seeks Refuge.
Parfay Bottling Works
of the
Southern Beverage Company
Condemn Granting of Them
Except For One Scripture
al Reason.
Triple "X" is the mark that appears on the kind of Ginger Ale
and Bottled Soda that YOU like. The kind that’s made of Distilled
Water and Purest Ingredients, 5c and 10c bottles.
Also Bottlers of Hires’ Root Beer.
WHAT IS "SPRING FEVER”?
It is simply low Vitality, a lack of Energy caused
by impure blood. GROVE'S TASTELESS chill
TONIC restores Vitality and Energy by Purifying
the Blood and you can soon feel its Strengthening,
Invigorating Effect. 60c.
Lax-Fos With Pepsin
A liquid Digestive Laxative pleasant to
take. Just try one 50c. bottle for Indi-
gestion or Constipation.
Sinn Fein Leaders
in Touch With Berlin,
London Paper Avers
And it’s a fact. Par-
fay is SOME DRINK.
It’s delicious. It cools.
It drives away dull
Today—Last Time,
Wm. S. Hart
in
"THE TIGER MAN"
Tomorrow,
JACK PICKFORD,
in a Paramount Feature,
«MILE-A-MINUTE KENDALL."
Gregory Auto Supply Co.
Agent for
GOODYEAR AND AJAX TIRES
Phone 900.
Another Armenian Massacre Begun In
The Caucasus.
By Associated Press.
London, May 20.—The Turks have
resumed the offensive all along the
Caucasian front and have occupied,
Van, says a distpatch from Tiflis dated
May 12. Another Armenian - massacre
has been begun. The negotiations for
a seperate peace between the Caucas-
ian diet and the Ottoman government
have been broken off on account of
the exhorbitant demand of the Turks.
DIXIE No. 1
Today—Last Time,
Viola Dana
in a Metro Feature,
"Riders of the Night”
Added Attractions,
New Screen Telegram,
and a Screaming Comedy.
Tomorrow,
PEGGY HYLAND,
in a New Fox Feature,
“THE DEBT OF HONOR.”
Crystal Vaudeville
Now Presenting
Pershing Players
in Musical Comedy, with Old-Time
Songs, and Good Dancing.
Added Attraction,
JUNE CAPRICE, /
in a Wm. Fox Feature,
“EVERY GIRL’S DREAM”
Special Matinee Daily.
Admission, 10c; War Tax, 1c;
. Total, 11c.
BODY FOUND IN RIVER.
TURKS RESUME DRIVE.
TO be.
Italians to Celebrate.
Money was raised and plans discussed
for the celebration of Italian-Ameri-
can Day in Houston Friday, May 24,
at a meeting in the city auditorium
Sunday. The final arrangements were
left with the central committee, which
will meet tonight. This committee
consists of Joe De George, E. Cerra-
chio, Frank S. Bonno and J. G. Trapo-
lino.
could not proceed on the trip without
a hat, according to army regulations.
He and his father alighted at the
aviation station and engaged an auto
to bring them back to Houston, and it
was while on the return trip that the
accident occurred.
Maximum temperature, 81 degrees;
minimum temperature, 74 degrees;
mean temperature, 76 degrees, which is
2 degrees above the normal; accumu-
lated deficiency of temperature since
first of the month, 30 degrees; accu-
mulated deficiency since Jan. 1st, 92
degrees.
Total precipitation .00 inch, which is
.08 inch below the normal; accumulat-
ed deficiency of precipitation since first
of the month, 1.56 inch; accumulated
deficiency of precipitation since Jan.
1st, 5.19 inches.
Meets Death in Power Plant at Fort
Worth.
By Associated Press.
Fort Worth, May 20.—Frank Hill,
electrician, was killed this morning
* while at work in a power plant. It
is believed his watch chain fell from
his pocket and touched a heavily
charged wire. A workman with him
escaped.
For Galveston and vicinity: Mostly
cloudy tonight and Tuesday.
For East Texas: Cloudy tonight and
Tuesday; scattered showers in north-
east portion.
For West Texas: Generally fair to-
night and Tuesday.
For Oklahoma: Cloudy with scat-
tered showers tonight and Tuesday.
Winds on Texas coast: Moderate to
fresh southerly.
Temperature and precipitation
ord at Galveston for 24 hours ending
at 8 a. m. today:
No Cut Or "Blow-Out"
too bad for us to repair. We could
almost build you a new tire if you
only had the rim left. You will find
our prices the most reasonable and
our work the best. So when you
need any tire repairing keep us in
mind. Once we get your work we
will never lose it because we will
give you satisfaction.
F. Needham Discovered Dead in the
Trinity. 7
refuse equal service and defy
gress?
WHAT WILL WILSON ASK?
"When Mr. Wilson receives the
BRITISH WAR REPORT.
German Artillery Increasingly Active
at Points.
By Associated Press.
London, May 20.—The German artil-
lery developed increased activity last
night along the front between Albert
and Bucquoy, the war office announces.
The statement follows:
"We captured a few prisoners yes-
terday as a result of a successful raid
carried out in the Albert sector. A raid
attempted by the enemy north of
Hinges was repulsed with heavy loss
to the hostile raiding party.
"The hostile artillery activity in-
creased considerably last night on the
Albert-Bucquoy front.”
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and you will appreciate the joy of knowing
how to meet thia with a reliable remedy
Temperature
Observation taken at 8 a. m., 75th
mer. time. Precipi-
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get a box of Woods V Tabules with the | erly winds along the coast,
understanding that if you don’t feel better
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Special to The Tribune.
Houston, May 20.—Eight persons
were injured, one probably seriously,
when two automobiles crashed to-
gether on a bridge near South Houston
about 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon.
The injured people are Capt. F. W.
Bowles, Seventh-ninth field artillery,
and his wife, Lieut, and Mrs. Charles
Hill, Lieut. Wyatt, George P. Macatee,
Sr., George P. Macatee, Jr., and Harry
Iiams, who was driving one of the
autos. All the officers are connected
with the Seventy-ninth field artillery,
stationed at Camp Logan.
Capt. and Mrs. Bowles were brought
to Houston in Westheimer's ambu-
lance and taken to the Baptist sani-
tarium. He was slightly hurt, while
Mrs. Bowles was unconscious for some
time after the accident. She was cut
and bruised about the head and is be-
lieved to be internally injured.
George P. Macatee was bruised about
the knee, while his son received a
fractured arm. Both were brought to
Houston in a private car.
Harry Iiams, driver of one of the
cars, was cut and bruised about the
head and face, and his clothes were
ruined. He also came to Houston in
another car.
Lieut, and Mrs. Hill and Lieut. Wyatt
were taken to the post hospital at El-
lington field in an army ambulance,
and after receiving emergency treat-
ment were brought to the base hospi-
tal at Camp Logan. The other occu-
pants were not injured as far as could
be learned.
According to a statement by Harry
Iiams, he was bringing Mr. Macatee
and his son, also two officers, from
Ellington field to Houston, and as the
car approached (South Houston an auto
coming in the - opposite direction,
which, he said, was going at a fast
rate of speed, collieded- with his car
headon, badly wrecking it and throw-
ing out the occupants. The other auto,
which was larger and heavier, was
also damaged and several of the occu-
pants thrown out.
Capt. and Mrs. Bowles, Lieut, and
Mrs. Hill, Lieut. Wyatt and a woman
companion whose name could not be
learned, occupied the south bound car,
and all were thrown out by the force
of the collision. ,
It was a peculiar incident that
caused Mr. Macatee and his son to be
in the wreck. Both had left Houston
for Galveston by train and when near
the station at Ellington field young
Macatee’s hat blew off and went out
separatists, the enemies of all efforts
at an Irish settlement and those who
are advocates of chaos.
"That is an awkward crux for John
Dillon.
“What is John Dillon’s own position
and what is behind his manifesto to
America? He is, of course, nominally
for the war, but he will not lift an ef-
fective finger to help it. He and his
fellows unconditionally resist the prin-
ciples of conscription,' though it is a
matter of federal policy unquestionably
within the sole competence of the im-
perial parliament on this side of the
Atlantic, as is that of congress on the
other side. Can the president and the
people of the United States imagine
any- situation in which any body of
Americans in a crisis like this would
(Data furnished by U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture Weather
Bureau.)
Mrs. John Lutz, 1620 Church street,
reports having a goodly number of
ripe tomatoes in her war garden. Each
of the plants at present is bearing from
15 to 20 ripe tomatoes.
By Associated Press.
London, May 20.—The Observer, com-
menting on the Irish situation, says:
“A brave step has been taken in Ire-
land for grave reasons. Friday morning
Prof. de Valera, president of the Sinn
Fein party and many other extremists
of the same organization, were ar-
rested.
“The reason is that these avowed
pro-Germans have once more been in
treasonable touch with the enemy de-
spite the leniency with which they
were treated after the last Dublin out-
break of revolt and sabotage.
“The reality ‘and seriousness of this
pro-German plot has been known for
some time. In view of Admiral von
Capelle’s assertion that Germany is
assured for years to come of a steady
supply of U-boats which never cease
their efforts to get in touch with the
Sinn Feiners and separatists, this re-
peated treason must be put down with
an unflinching hand and prevented
from recurring.
AMERICANS HARSHER.
"Americans, with their inborn ab-
horrence of disloyal anarchism, have
hitherto dealt more harshly with pro-
German conspirators than we have
dealt with them on this side of the
Atlantic. Nevertheless an organized
Nationalist attempt is being made to
mislead and prejudice American opin-
ion with regard to the whole Irish
situation. This attempt will undoubt-
edly be continued unless it is met with
stern and cool discrimation across the
Atlantic. It can only help to serve
Germany’s game in the nick of Ger-
many’s time.
"John Dillon, the Irish Nationalist
leader, and his friends have made them-
selves responsible for a malevolent
manifesto. It asserts that the British
government is not sincere in its in-
tentions with regard to the home rule
bill, and that the British policy is fail-
ing in its promise to Ireland.
“The assertions are without truth.
They are either devoid of knowledge
or scruple, or spring from that almost
irradicable habit of passionate misrep-
resentation which in every crisis plays
its perverse, bitter part in defeating
the efforts of the best friends of Ire-
land.
“The Nationalists could have made
Ireland shappy and self-governed long
ago had they the nerve, courage and
sense enough to embrace their full
duty on the side of the allies and re-
pudiate the Sinn Fein.
BRITISH POLICY HONEST.
“We hope President Wilson and the
people of the United States will not
be misled by John Dillon’s manifesto.
We hope they will set themselves fully
to understand what the British policy
in Ireland really is. It is a plain thing
and an honest thing and is the only
thing compatible, on the one side, with
the war interests of the allies while
on the other side, tending steadily
to reconcile two breeds and creeds.
Without this, Ireland is wasting time,
and barred agitation will plunge from
one unsettlement to another and there
will be no health in her.
“The policy of Lloyd-George govern-
ment is threefold. It is, first to re-
store the normal order of the civilized
society; second, to apply gradually
equal military service in England,
Scotland and Wales; third, to bring in
the home rule bill.
“For these purposes, Lord French, a
famous soldier, proud of his Irish blood,
and Edward Shortt, a Liberal, and
both home rule advocates, have gone
to Ireland as lord lieutenant and chief
secretary. Their primary purpose is
to govern. It is to grapple with the
Queen Theater.
Owen Davis’ splendid stage success,
"Mile-a-Minute Kendall,” which shows
at the Queen theater tomorrow and
Wednesday, is a credit in picture form,
to its author. Jack Pickford has made
the title part live, and the cast in sup-
port is all that one could ask. The
Paramount company has given the story
splendid production from a technical
standpoint, and the director, Wm. D.
Taylor, has made it as great a suc-
cess as his famous "Tom Sawyer” pic-
tures. The new picture, however, is
far different from the Mark Twain
stories. Pickford plays the part of
a young idler who has all but ruined
his own life by dissipation. His father
saves him from marrying an adven-
turess, and then throws the boy out
on his own resources. Then it is again
demonstrated that a man needs the
love of a good woman and the incentive
of real and creative work to make a
success of life • and man of himself.
Louise Huff plays Joan, the girl of the
“old days,” and plays the part beau-
tifully. Lottie Pickford is the beau-
tiful adventuress, and Jane Wolff and
others have good parts in the sup-
port.
‘Take it
from Me"
some of the leaders considered the
resolution as being too radical to have
smooth sailing before the convention
The only debate, however, consisted
of discussions in favor of the resolu-
tion and condemnation of the present
“unstable” state of society due to
“promiscuous marriage and divorce.”
An attempt had been made at the
last previous convention to bring up
the matter, but the leaders, off the
floor of the convention, succeeded in
preventing official action, for fear of
a division which would react to the
disadvantage of other measures which
were considered more vital at that
time.
It was announced today by the home
missions board that El Paso, Texas,
was the choice of the board for the
location of the Southern Baptist tu-
berculosis sanitarium. The board, at
the last convention, was empowered
to consider the entire question of the
founding and location of such an in-
stitution. Several cities in Texas had
aspired to the hospital, but the- board,
after deliberation, decided upon El
Paso.
While the question of the next con-
vention city has not yet been brought
before the convention, it is conceded
by most of the leaders that Atlanta,
Ga., will entertain the body next year.
Miami, Fla., had conducted a vigor-
ous campaign to obtain the conven-
tion next year, but at the last with-
drew its invitation in favor of Atlanta,
with the understanding that Miami
would get the convention in 1920.
An effort was made at this morn-
ing’s session .to rush the work of the
convention so that final adjournment
could be taken tonight or at noon to-
morrow. Deelgates had so many things
to discuss, however, that it seemed
doubtful that the wish of floor leaders
could be fulfilled. Various phases of
church work among the laymen were
topics of discussion at the afternoon
session.
Among' the guests at local hotels
are the following:
Galvez: Frank Low, New York; I.
H. Cohen, New York; W. G. Klauss,
St. Louis; J. C. Morriss, St. Louis; Mr.
and Mrs. G. K. Thompson, Ellington;
C. D. Meyer, New York; H. F. Bland,
HOuston; H. S. Boyd, Connecticut; P.
G. Claiborme, Dallas; D. C. Sanders,
Fort Worth; L. A. Duck, St. Louis.
Tremont: W. L. Sanderson, Whit-
ney; Irving H. Stark, New York; H. T.
Hamilton, Dallas; S. L. Hanson, Elling-
ton; F'. S. Hartman, Ellington; P. A.
Crane, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Sherman, Pensacola; A. H. Goldstein,
Chicago; Walter Graves, Fort Worth;
N. Cohen, New York; G. T. Smith, Cen-
ter. 6
Panama: Mr. and Mrs. E. Cockrell,
' Houston; J. D. Thaggard, Dallas; F.
S. Watkins, Beaumont; C. L. Stewart,
Port Arthur; Lieut. F. M. Foshey, El-
lington; Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Wells, U.
S. M. C.; Maud Akin, Nacogdoches; Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Moore, Austin; Mr. and
Mrs. A. F. Douglas' Fort Worth; V.
Holinquist, Mobile.
Oriental: A. C.'Lauge, Jr., Quincy;
R. E. Draughon, Houston; Mr. and Mrs.
M. M. Snider, Springfield; J. M. Oden,
Tyler; J. S. Thomas, Houston; J. S.
Ben and family, Tampa; Lester Davis,
, Ellington; W. H. Sloan; Los Angeles;
Hobson Brown, Dallas; F. M. McKay,
New York.
_________________________________Weather Conditions.
n Warm, seasonable weather has pre-
vailed over the cotton region during
0YV CskEETTa the last 24 hours, and there have been
| scattered showers. The rains in Ok-
T‘n TcpA sBasi lahoma during the last 24 hours were
AUDGCOU 11 CEDAL . locally heavy, Ida, Okla., reported 2.15
--------’ inches. Rains have also fallen in the
By Associated Press.
Fort Worth, May 20.—J. F. Need-
ham’s body was found in the Trinity
river here this morning. He was 63
and came to Fort Worth two weeks
ago from Vernon. His shoes were dis-
covered on the bank.
So try it and see. CC per glass or bottle is the cost and
a better nickel was never spent.
Crystal Vaudeville.
The Pershing Players are presenting
a new bill for the first part of this
week at the Crystal Vaudeville, which
embraces a number of the popular old-
time songs, and dancing features of
more than ordinary merit. A new Wm.
Fox feature picture, entitled “Every
Girl’s Dream,” starring June Caprice.
The story of “Every Girl’s Dream”
is laid in Holland. June Caprice., as
Gretchen, a foster child, loves Carl, a
woodcutter. Hulda is jealous and tries
to steal him from Gretchen.
Mynehr de Haas, the town capitalits,
a withered old man, wants to marry
Gretchen, but she puts him off despite
the urging of her foster mother on
whose house Mynher holds a mort-
gage.
One day Cary is kidnapped. The next
day royal messengers appear in town
and order all the foster damsels to
search their belongings for a certain
locket. The owner is a lost princess.
Hulda seeks in vain, but finds the
jewel in Gretchen’s trunk and steals
it. She is placed on a throne to meet
her prince. An old man comes from
the coach; Thinking he’s the prince, ’
Hulda flees and confesses she stole the
gem from Gretchen.
Gretchen is then enthroned and the
old man announces the prince. He is
Carl. While the people celebrate
Gretchen’s fortune a courier arrives
with news of the king’s death, mak-
ing Carl king.
tionalists’ representatives will he ask
them what they are doing to help?
Will he ask them why, if they re-
pudiate the Sinn Fein and disclaim
the devil, they hold so many candles
to the devil? Will he ask them what
they are doing to conciliate Protestant-
ism in the north of Ireland, whence
President Wilson derives his origin,
and to draw breeds and creeds to-
gether to make a nation which with-
out that must be forever unmade?
"John Dillon and his friends are only
adding so far to every single diffi-
culty of the situation.
“While the Lloyd-George govern-
ment has to face stubborn opposition
from the Irish Unionists to any form
of home rule, the cabinet gets no con-
structive assistance whatever from
the Nationalistic advocates of self-
government. Not in the impracticable
temper which the Nationalists are now
showing—a temper equally impracti-
cable both on conscription and home
rule—could the American constitution
have ever been framed or a settlement
reached in South Africa.
"The preparation of the home rule
bill is in active progress. Time is re-
quired that it may be framed with
wise and liberal statesmanship. That
is the sole reason for the delay which
John Dillon seeks to misrepresent. .
"The British ministry must have a
certain time in which to restore politi-
cal security in Ireland, to frame its
home rule bill, to create a cooler at-
mosphere and to advance steadily
toward equal service.
FAIR PLAY NECESSARY.
“The Nationalists will be confronted
with the responsibility of modifying
their attitude or proving that they are
incredible workers of the whole com-
prehensive policy which alone can
make Ireland one. Fair play for Great
Britain and her government is neces-
sary.
“This matter is as much to America’s
own interests as ours. The pro-Ger-
man conspiracy in Ireland endangers
in obvious ways the safety of Ameri-
can transports. We are confident that
the government will have the support
of the American people in putting an
end, as far as Sinn Fein plotting is
concerned, to a state of things which
President Wilson would not tolerate
for a day.
“Austen Chamberlain’s speech showed
the other day the large minded out-
look, the spirit of high minded justice
and the unswerving good faith an
home rule. It is lamentable that John
Dillon’s manifest contains not one
hint of constructive temper and sa-
gacity.”
Dixie No. 1.
The Dixie No. 1 is showing today for
the last time the Metro feature entitled
“Riders of the Night,” a drama of the
“blue grass” region of Kentucky. The
newest screen telegram news weekly
and a new high class comedy are also
on the program for today. Tomorrow
Peggy Hyland comes to the Dixie No.
1 in a new Fox feature entitled “The
Debt of Honor.” This dainty, clever
actress who screens so well and is such
a delight to look upon has as her ve-
hicle a play that is topical in that it
has to do with the pernicious spy sys-
tem that is still tearing at the roots
of American preparation for the big
war. Honor (Miss Hyland) is
adopted by a senator who is at work
on the sending of transports to Eu-
rope. There is a leak. The wife, in
love with a spy, is giving him infor-
mation. To save her adopted father
pain, Honor takes the blame for her
foster mother’s indiscretion. This is
how she pays her debt to him. Her
sweetheart, however, refuses to believe
her guilty and together they get the
spy, help their country, and Honor
wins her way back to the affection of
her “daddy,” *
By Associated Press.
Hot Springs, Ark., May 20.—In an
effort to check what Baptist leaders
term the “alarming increase” in the
number of divorces, the Southern Bap-
tist convention today adopted a reso-
lution condemning the granting of di-
vorces except for the one scriptural
reason and requested all preachers
within its jurisdiction to refuse to per-
form the marriage ceremony for either
of an divorced couple unless infidelity,
as defined in the bible had been as-
signed as cause for their divorce. The
resolution was presented by the dele-
gation from Oklahoma, which called
attention to what it deplored as the
unstable marital conditions in that
state.
It also urged that ministers of the
gospel be the only persons who could
perform a Legal marriage ceremony, and
that civil marriage contracts be abol-
ished.
The convention has no executive
power over the Southern. Baptist
church, and the only restriction it can
put upon its ministers in performing
marriage ceremonies, is the moral
limitation of its influence expressed
by the majority of delegates from all
states wherein the denomination has
churches. The delegates, however, were
unanimous in their endorsement of the
resolution. It was the first time the
convention had attempted to restrict
the marriage of divorced persons, and
Rufus Cage Dead.
Rufus Cage, philanthropist, promi-
nent businessman and well known
citizen, died at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. D. M. Tourtellot, 4109 Main
street, at 6:05 o’clock Sunday evening,
aged 66 years. He was stricken with
paralysis last Wednesday evening and
notwithstanding that everything pos-
sible was done, he lapsed into uncon-
sciousness and remained in that condi-
tion until his death.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Julia Ella Cage, three sons, Com-
mander H. K. Cage of the United
States ship Huntington, now at sea;
Elliott Cage and Rufus Cage, Jr., of
Houston, and one daughter, Mrs. D. M.
Tourtellot of Houston.
The funeral will be held from Christ
church at 5 o’clock this afternoon,
with Rev. Peter Gray Sears officiat-
ing. Burial will be in Glenwood ceme-
tery. -
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