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IN OUR TOWN
FINAL
EDITION
Here’s something that perhaps, ought
the have been said sooner:
The seventeenth senatorial district
of Texas, of which Galveston is the
largest city, has performed a distinct
closed.
This came about through the election
of T. J. Holbrook as state senator from
the district.
Senator Holbrook has made a record
as a legislator of which any man might
be justly proud.
He was instrumental in the passage
of a number of measures that were of a
constructive nature.
He did a lot more than that. He as-
sisted In the demise of a number of
measures, a large number of them, that
would have been harmful to the inter-
ests of the people of the state.
Senator Holbrook assisted in no
small way in bringing about the repeal
of some laws that were harmful.
He was a new man on the job when
the session of the legislature opened.
He was one of the recognized leaders
in the legislature when the session
closd.
He did a lot of work and did it well.
VOL. 43.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1923.—SIXTEEN PAGES
NO. 95
FO UR DIE IN FIRE SAYS U.S. WANTS
AND ONE BADLY
...............- FRENCH SHOOT
FRENCH ISLANDS TWO GERMAN
The secret of success!
That is what everybody wants to
know.
A few wealthy men and women may
be willing to sp nd fortunes for the
secret of eternal youth.
But where one person wants eternal
youth, thousands want to know how
to succeed, to get on in life.
Andrew Carnegie once gave a defi-
nition of the test by which anyone
could tell whether they could attain
the secret of success.
“There is a very simple test,” said
Mr. Carnegie, “by which anyone can
tell at once whether .they can succeed
or not.
“The test is simply this: Can you
save money?”
That is the whole thing in a nut-
shell.
Are you able to save money?
Most people prefer the pleasures of
the money to comfort in the future.
It is not easy to learn how to save
money.
But it is the first leg of the journey
on the road to success.
“World Peace and Progress Hinges
Upon the Solution of International
Debts.”
Such was the heading over an ar-
ticle in Friday’s Tribune.
Galveston is probably more directly
concerned with world peace and prog-
ress than most other American cities.
Galveston's largest source of income
Is foreign trade, the shipment of com-
modities to foreign nations, and the
receipt of commodities from foreign
nations.
But in a larger sense, the prosperity
of the entire United States is closely
connected with the free interchange
of world commerce.
Leaders of Galveston finance and
business can perform no more useful
function in the interest of better times
than by lending their influence to the
solution of
question.
Machine
the international debt
shops constructed by the
U, S. engineering department at Fort
Point are nearing completion.
Government dredges and other ves-
sels used in the Galveston engineering
district, which comprises all of the Tex-
as coast and a part of the Louisiana
coast, will be repaired here.
Completion of the machine shops will
greatly increase the facilities of the en-
gineering department for repair work
and will add a substantial payroll to
Galveston,
Now is the time for all good men to
plant a garden!
With this thought in mind Librarian
Patten has assembled a supply of gar-
den literature.
Any Galvestonian desiring to plant
a garden and in search of information
as to method and procedure may find
it at the library.
A garden not only affords a health-
ful and interesting means of spare time
employment, but it also helps to keep
the family budget down.
FEAR TROUBLE OVER
IRISH DEMONSTRATION
New York Police Force
Augmented For Parade.
By Associated Press.
New York, March 17.—Two hundred
and fifty city detectives in plain
clothes and several hundred uniformed
patrolmen were detailed today to min-
gle with Fifth Avenue crowds this
afternoon when 40,000 men and women
are expeted to take part in the annual
St. Patrick’s day parade.
The police order for increased pro-
tection was issued in spite of state-
ments of city officials that no trouble
was anticipated.
A delegation claiming to represent
the American Association for Recogni-
tion of the Irish Republic called on
Mayor Hylan Thursday warning him
that there would be trouble if the
parade was held. The organization
sent the mayor a letter repudiating the
action of the delegation. Late yes-
day three men drove up to the city
hall in a motor. One of them was
masked. They sent a letter to tne
mayor again warning of “trouble” if
the parade was held.
Officials have shortened the line of
march, halting the procession at 110th
street instead of 126th.
Major Michael A. Kelly of the
American Association for the Recogni-
tion of the Irish Republic has written
to Mayor Hylan:
“The organizations supporting the
Irish republic will take no part in any
celebrations or dinners; they will ob-
serve the day as one of mourning for
the 67 Irish patriots who have been
executed by the Irish State agents and
will hold a memorial meeting Sunday
night to commemorate their sacrifice.”
QUAKE CAUSES DAMAGE.
By Associated Press.
Belgrade, March 17.—An earthquake
felt in several cities in southeastern
Europe on Thursday caused consider-
able damage along the Dalmatian coast
especially at Ragusa and Cattaro. The
Catholic cathedral and other buildings
at Sarajevo suffered, while a tobacco
factory at Mostar was so badly damag-
ed that it was unable to operate. So
far as is known there were no casual-
ties
HURTBYSMOKE
By Associated Press.
Everett, Wash., March 17.—Four persons are dead and one is
suffering from smoke and prostration as a result of a disastrous fire
that wiped out a whole family early today in rooms in the rear of a
bakery here.
SAYS OFFICIALS
IN BUNCO DEALS
Charges City Detectives
Conferred With Chief.
WOMAN USED TO
LURE IN VICTIMS
Declares They Picked Up
Strangers.
By Associated Press.
Denver, Colo., March 17.—The so call-
ed “shadow” of Denver’s alleged bun-
ko ring leaders, testified here yester-
day afternoon in district court in the
trial of 20 defendants on conspiracy
charges.
Whispered conferences between A.
W. Duff, one of the reputed heads of
the alleged international confidence
ring, and city detectives, the accosting
of “victims” by alleged members of the
ring at the state capitol grounds and
conferences in offices maintained by
the defendants were described by Rob-
ert R. Maiden, former Kansas City
police officer and since last uJne a
special investigator here, in the office
of District Attorney Van Cise.
First intimation that a woman was
engaged by the alleged ring to lure
victims into the net, in which scores
are said to have been fleeced of hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars, was giv-
en by Maiden. He declared that one
of the defendants operated at the capi-
tol grounds with a woman, both accost-
ing strangers at various times last
summer.
Maiden testified that he watched of-
fices of Lou H. Blonger, alleged “mas-
ter mind" of the ring, and Duff,
through field glasses from a building
across the street. He described con-
ferences he said were held by Blonger
and Duff with other defendants. One
morning, he declared, he saw Duff hold
a whispered conversation with Peter
Carr city detective on a street corn-
er and on another day he said he trail-
ed Duff to a hotel where he said Duff
met George Sanders, another city de-
tective.
SUZANNE WINS FINALS.
By Associated Press.
Nice, March 17.—(By the Associated
Press).—Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen won
the finals in the women’s singles of
the Nice lawn tennis tournament today
from Miss Elizabeth Ryan, formerly of
Colifornia, 6-1, 6-0.
AIRPLANES CONTINUE FLIGHT.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Repub-
lic, March 17.—(By the Associated
Press).—The six United States army
airplanes, engaged in a test flight
from San Antonio to Porto Rico, ar-
rived here this morning from Port Au
Prince Haiti.
Would Take Antilles As
Debt Settlement
WRITER DRAWS VERY
LONG CONCLUSIONS
FOR SABOTAGE
Were.
1111 WEEL
RUHR TROOPS IN
ACCIDENT: FRENI
U.S. Replies To
Allied Plan For
Our Reparation
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 17.—The
American reply to the allied sug-
gestions for repayment of the
$250,000,000 spent by the U. S. in
maintaining its troops on the
Rhine was forwarded today to
Paris. It Was understood to de-
cline the suggestion that the val-
ue of seized German ships be
deducted from the troop bill, but
not to constitute a flat rejection
of allied plans.
BERLIN DENIES
MONEY OFFER
Have Made No Advances
For Settlement.
Berlin, March 17.—(By the Associat-
ed Press).—The, rumor that Germany
has offered forty billion gold marks or
any other fixed sum, or has submitted
fresh reparations proposals through an
intermediary channel, was flatly denied
by the German foreign office today.
f In the first place, it is pointed out,
such a sum is considerably in excess
of the amount provided for in the gov-
ernment’s proposals of last January,
and therefore is declared to be out of
the question in view of the disturbed
economic situation resulting from the
occupation of the Ruhr.
In addition it is stated in official
quarters the Ruhr situation in the
present impasse does not permit new
and definite proposals to be contemp-
lated, especially as the character of.
the- negotiations which would obviously
precede an active resumption of the
reparations discussion has not yet been
indicated nor have such negotiations
even been suggested as .a possible
early eventuality.
THE WEATHER
FORECAST TILL 7 P. M. SUN-
DAY..
For Galveston and vicinity:
Fair and warmer tonight; Suh-
day, unsettled.
For East Texas: Tonight, fair;
warmer; Sunday, unsettled, rain
in north portion; colder except
southeast portion.
For West Texas: Tonight, in-
creasing cloudiness, warmer ex-
cept Panhandle; Sunday, unset-
tled; rain or snow in north por-
tion; colder.
For Oklahoma: Tonight, in-
creasing cloudiness, warmer ex-
cept northwest portion; Sunday,
unsettled with rain’ or snow,
colder; cold wave with tempera-
ture below freezing Sunday
night.
Winds on Texas coast: Increas-
ing southerly.
Declares Policy Continua-
tion of Monroe Doctrine.
Paris, March 17.—(By the Associated
Press).—The United States desires to
obtain cession of the Antilles from
France, in payment of the French war
debt, according to Adolfo Agorio, the
Uruguayan writer, in an article print-
ed in the Briandist newspaper L’Eclair.
Supporting his contention, Agorio
quotes the following remarks which he
says Secretary Hughes recently made
to a South American diplomat, who is
a friend of the writer:
“The Monroe doctrine is the funda-
mental basis as well as the unique
strength of Pan-Americanism and will I
not have attained its essential object
as long as there remain European col-
onies in America.
“The hour we are hoping for, how-
ever, will soon strike. We have post-
poned our differences with Great
Britain. As to France, she owes us
too many billions for us to be able to
cancel her debt, for we are responsible
to the people of the United States. But
in a few years the sum France owes
will, with interest, have grown to such
fantastic proportions that no country
in the world could pay it.”
“Will the question of the sale of the
French Antilles be considered?” the
diplomat asked Mr. Hughes, according
to M. Agorio. The article says that
By Associated Press.
Duesseldorf, March 17,—Two Ger-
mans were shot and instantly killed by
French sentinels during the night—one
at Recklinghausen and the other at
Essen.
Three Germans who were arrested
were said by the French to have been
caught cutting telephone and telegraph
wires, which they declared they were
doing under the- orders of their chief
who had instructed them to commit
systematic sabotage.
Their chief, when arrested at Dues-
seldorf, is declared by the authorities
to have said he was merely carrying
out instructions from Berlin.
GERMANY STATES VIEW.
Washington Receives Reparations Plan
From Embassy.
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 17.—State depart-
ment officials have received a state-
ment of Germany’s position in regard
to reparations, but they declared today
that the information, as delivered yes-
terday by Dr. F nse Heirich Dieckhoff,
counsellor of the German Embassy,
called for no action by the Washington
govern ent looging to mediation or In-
tervention by it in the reparations dis-
pute between Germany and France.
The information presented by Dr. Di-
eckhoff was characterized as a state-
ment of Germany’s position, without
any request for action by the United
States. Officials said they would make
no reply, nor would they call it to
the attention of the French govern-
ment.
the American secretary thought for a
few moments and then continued:
“Certainly; and we hope the French
will become reasonable and will not
rexuse to discuss this uestion with us.
From the viewpoint of our military
and naval defenses these islands are
WOULD FORCE PRISONER FOOD.
By Associated Press.
Dedham, Mass., March
Sacco, radical, convicted of
17.—Nicoli
Al
By Associated Press.
Berlin, March 17.—A report from Friemersheim, a Rhine town
near Duisburg says that forty soldiers were killed and many injured
when a French troop train collided with a freight. The impact was
so violent that several coaches were telescoped.
Premier Poincare’s attitude on that point, a high official declared,
remains quite as firm as at the beginning of the occupation of the
Ruhr. From the same source it is learned that all rumors of at-
tempts to open negotiations indirectly are unfounded, so far as the
French government is concerned, and no proposition of any kind
has been brought to its attention.
FRENCH MAINTAIN STAND
By Associated Press.
Paris, March 17.—-Premier Poincare will entertain no proposi-
tions for negotiations with Germany until the Berlin government
makes it known directly and officially to France that she wants to
negotiate, it was declared today in French official circles.
Any attempt by a third power to intervene or provoke discussion
of the terms under which a settlement might be reached with Ger-
many, it was added, will be regarded by France as an unfriendly act.
Short Galveston-San Antonio
Road Plan-State
hway
Via Alvin Object of Effort
Galveston county has combined with
three other counties, Matagorda, Bra-
zoria and Jackson, in maturing plans
for approaching the state highway com-
murder, ! mission to petition for the designation
of a new state highway which shall
of vital importance to us, while they I who is on a hunger strike, is suffer-
bring in nothing, or practically noth-ing from a mental disease and should extend from Galveston through Alvin,
I hope, and with | be forcibly fed Judge Webster of the
(j superior court was informed today by
ing, to the French.
me the entire public opinion of the
United States hopes, that the French
government will end this by an under-
standing.”
GIVE UP ALL HOPE
FOR BISHOP TUTTLE
Prelate Is Unconscious
and Near Death.
By Associated Press.
St. Louis, Mo., March 17.—-Physicians
attending the Right Rev. Daniel S. Tut-
tle, 86 years old presiding bishop of the
Episcopal church in the United States,
today announced death may come at
any moment to the aged prelate, who
has suffered from an atack of grippe
for more than a week. In some mo-
ments of his delirium the aged church-
man has been reciting whole services
of the church it was stated.
Attending physicians asserted the
bishop could not last more than 24
hours.
He has been unconscious since yes-
terday morning, and lapsed into this
state as he read his book of prayers.
Telegrams and long distance tele-
phone calls from church dignitaries in
all parts of the country are increasing
it was stated.
The aged church man has been a
bishop 56 years and has consecrated 80
of the 234 bishops of the church.
When death comes the sonorous bells
of Christ church Cathedral, will toll
the sorrowful news of the bishop’s de-
mise.
Banking and Afterdinner Speaking Two Non-Essential Industries
By Will Rogers
Well, this has
been a kinder quiet
week. One night I
had to buy my own
dinner. And an-
other night a
friend took me out
and I didn’t have to
make a speech for
it. In fact, that
was the reason he took me. It was
with the understanding I was to keep
quiet.
But the newspaper women of all the
papers formed a Newspaper Women’s
Club and they gave a big ball at the
Rits Carlton Hotel, and had a big
Al. Smith of New York. You see,
everybody was there.
You know, women are doing about
: to knock his wife down, why the heart
I interest writers would have been on
| the job. So you see ns people in public
all the writing on newspapers and
magazines now. Of course there are
lots of men working on them too, but
they mostly just put the titles under
the pictures. You know, if you are
going into the newspaper business
nowadays, don’t get a pen or a type-
writer—get a camera. There are thou-
sands that buy a paper for the pictures
that don’t know the reading is in there
at all.
We had there women writers that
life want to stand in with those girls
as we never know what might happen.
Now, I had read up on this governor’s
history, for he is of interest to all the
whole country, for if the Democrats
decide to enter anybody in the next
presidential election, why, he looks to
be the cat’s corsets. Personally I
don’t think the Democrats will enter
anybody. If they are wise they will
cover everything. It would have been
the greatest place in the world for
some woman to have shot her husband.
She could have gotten a lot of publicity
show and I was asked to announce
the acts. You know what an an-
nouncer at a benefit show is. Instead out of it. There were women murder
of letting the show run along smooth
and nice, one act after the other, they
have somebody come in and help drag
the show out. He is kinder like a train
caller, only worse. I had some jokes
about the first three or four acts; then
I run out of jokes and from then on
writers that could tell from the smoke
the caliber pistol used. Then there
were
have
the fashion editors that could
described her chemise
frock
while she did the shooting. Then the
sob sister squad who could have almost
made you feel sorry she had only one
husband to shoot. Then we had the
movie writers who can tell you that
I was better.
I was glad they had it at the Ritz
of us a chance to get j Charlie and Pola will be engaged just
before each releases a picture, all dur-
as it gave a loi
into that hotel that would never have
gotten in there any other way. My
main job was to introduce t ever nor
ing the year. Then, in case some man
should have felt at home and wanted
let it go by default. There Is only one
way to get even with Harding now and
that is to leave him in there another
term.
Besides, the Democrats come nearer
getting what they want when they
have a Republican president than they
do with one of their own. They wanted
this here league of nations thing and
couldn’t get it with their own gang.
Now it looks like the Republicans are
going to give it to them under an
assumed name—of course, it may just
be for spite.
Then the Democrats wanted the
farm loans. Well, they got that. They
didn’t want the ship subsidy, so they
didn’t get that. So personally, I think
it has been one of the best Democratic
administrations the Republicans ever
put on.
Continued on Page Sixteen.
an alienist.
The Unknown Hero
This happened yesterday.
*****
Two maddened beasts
Plunging and rearing
*****
Frightened horses
Hitched to a
Heavy Ice Wagon
Dashing towards
Tremont street
And crowded traffic
Near the noon rush!
Hearts missed
* *
A beat: and
Imagination quailed
Before the certain
And inevitable
Horror of disaster
* * •
When
A man
In a touring car
ass
Stepped on it
Gave it gas and
Shot forward
*
*
Before the run-away.
Horn screeching,
Cut out exploding
* * *
Engine roaring.
All heeded,
* *
Cars and people
Turned aside.
The horror passed.
The danger over
In a breath.
It took nerve
And a cool head
And courage for
* *
His life lay
In the balance! But
He stole away
His name none knows!
%*** *
But the hat
Of every real man
Is off to him.
a
R. de O.
| Angleton, Bay City, and West Colum-
| bia, terminating at Edna, as a result of
which County Commissioner W. J.
Stoner, chairman of the road and
I bridge committee, Friday night sent a
report to the state highway engineer,
J. D. Fauntleroy, at Austin, for a hear-
ing when the commission .meets next
J : week, in order to present Galveston’s
I standing in the matter. The decision
j was reached following the visit here of
I two road commissioners from Brazoria
county, Frank K. Stevens and Neal
Giesecke, who arrived in Galveston
Friday for consultation.
County Commissioner Fred Hartel,
I James A. Boddeker, Victor Dantin, and
! W. J. Stoner and County Engineer C. C.
Washington, who considered the mat-
ter during the afternoon, expressed
themselves as being heartily in favor
of the move, and it is expected that
i when the county commissioners’ court
1 meets Tuesday a representative will
be appointed to go to Austin for ap-
1 pearance before the state highway
commission in favor of the road. It is
| probable that other representatives will
' be sent from the Young Men’s Progres-
I sive league and the Galveston Commer-
cial Association to the hearing of the
j commission, which Holds Its sessions
Monday and Tuesday. It is understood
that other counties will send delegates,
including five county judges.
The special advantages to be obtained
by the road are a shortening of fifty
miles of the route to San Sntonio, it is
said, and the opening up of the adjacent
territory for easier access, as well as
the institution of a more convenient
approach to the Rio Grande Valley. This
would undoubtedly attract more tours
ists to Galveston, it is said. The project
has been suggested for over a year
by the Y. M. P. L., which has even
had correspondence with other counties
on the matter.
Approximately 60 miles of the road,
which extends from Angleton to Mid-
fields, near the west county line of Bra-
zoria county, is designated already as
a state highway from Midfields to
Edna, Jackson county, about 25 miles,
and from Angleton to Alvin approxi-
mately the same distance, which will
form a continuous state highway, No.
19, running west from Houston.
Almost all of the road is already
shelled and surfaced with the exception
of some few isolated stretches in Jack-
son county, and at the present time a
six mile stretch in Brazoria, east of
Angleton, is being shelled, which will
complete the unfinished portion in Bra-
zoria, according to Mr. Stevens.
The counties in which the road is
unshelled will be willing ‘to surface
them if the state should designate the
road as a state highway, Mr. Stevens
said, and in addition, state aid will be
available for the continued improve-
ment of the road which will make the
highway comparable to any of its type
in the southwest section of the state.
Other Brazoria county officials who
had intended accompanying the two
commissioners for a visit to a shell
dredge and in connection with the road
matter postponed their visit until the
, latter part of next week.
"Of all sad words—the saddest are these,
it might have been.” "If I had only taken
advantage of the 90,000 extra vote offer.”
"I might have had one of those Special Cash
Prizes if I had only worked a little harder.”
Don’t leave any reason for self-accusation
when the final result is announced. Do your
level best right now.
The Special Cash Prize and the 90,000
extra vote offer of the Tribune’s Auto Cam-
paign, will both end at midnight tonight.
Subscriptions may be turned in to the cam-
paign department or mailed up to midnight
tonight. Those mailed will count on the of-
fers when they are received in the campaign
department, provided only that the post-
mark shows they were mailed before the clos-
ing hour of the offers. It is not necessary
that these subscriptions reach the campaign
department on Saturday, but only that they
be mailed in time to bear a postmark of that
date.
The Campaign Will Close Next Saturday
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