Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 227, Ed. 1 Friday, December 26, 1924 Page: 2 of 14
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TDALLAs. Dec. so —Another sol-
they of the old south has passed up.
. General James Monroe Cochran.
To, commander of the United Con-
federate Veterans west of the Miss
Iissippl With the rank of lieutenant
general, died at his home here last
night of injuries received when he
slipped on the icy pavement a week
ago when the first-blizzard of the
winter struck Dallas. Funeral ar-
rangements were expected to be
completed today.
Born on June 1. 1846, at Farm-
wee Branch, 12—miles—north—of the
present city of Dallas, he was said
to have been the second white male
born in what is now Dallas county.
His birth antedated organisation of
the county by a month. He joined
the leentederate army at the age et
16, serving in Company 1. 30th Tex.
as ouvalry, Gano’s brigade. He was
wounded twice during, the war
"Three sons and six daughters sur-
OKLAHOMA OFFICER IS
KILLED AT SAN ANTONIO
HOTEL GUEST IS HELD
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. Dec. M.«nl
Police are holding a guest at a
hotel here following the death year
terday of A. P. Oliver, a deputy
sheriff of Washita county, Okta-
homa., who was found shot in his
room, Oliver, a former resident of
Floresville, Texan, cams here on
his way to that town, 30 miles
south of here, to spend Christmas.
There was ad witness to the
shooting, but police made the arrest
following a written statement by
the proprietress of the hotel.
J
Bit AND DAMNELJ
FOR MACHINE GUNS
PARIS, Dec. 26.4)—Officers to the
interallied control commission have
discovered in Berlin a deget of
rifle and machine gun barrels, the
■cho de Paris learns from an "in-
controvertible informant" In Ger-
many. An inventory now being
taken has accounted for 40,000 bars
role and it is expected that the
total will reach 100,000. The depot
was found in a cunningly devised
hiding place.
WICHITA DA IY TIMES, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1924
IUUN
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ROANOKE. Va, Dec. ft. mn—vi.
bration. believed here to be earth
tremors end strong enough to shake
pictures from walls, knock vases
frem tables and rock buildings,
were felt in Roanoke and vicinity
late last night. a watchman to a
silk mill reported that the floor of
the brick building ho was patrolling
trembled and furniture rattled
about
New Victor
ainment
HE KILLE
Exco CITY, Dec. 6. -
r armed bandits Wednesday
t derailed a Laredo to Mexico
The allied council of ambassadors
will. meet tomorrow to consider
whether Germany has fulfilled her
obligations under the Versailles
treaty to an extent making advis-
able evacuation of the Cologne area
by the allies on the stipulated date
of January 10.
The French contend that Ger-
many have violated the disarmar
ment clauses and Premier Herriot
oa Wednesday submitted to his cab-
inet a memorandum, to which the
ministers agreed, declaring that
evacuation of the Cologne bridge-
head was impossible.
so EARTH SHOCKS ARE
REGISTERED AT WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. 00 2-No.
earth shocks were registered on the
seismograph at Georgetown Univer-
city during the night. Father Ton-
dorf, in charge of the instrument,
said today.
FIND BODIES TWO MEN
WITH ARMS CLASPED IN
RUINS OF LODGING HOUSE
NonTH TONAWANDA, N.-Y.,
Dee. 20. uri—Two men lost their
lives when fire swept through the
Washington Hotel a workmen’s
lodging house, early today.
Paul Kabby made his way to the
street from the third floor, but
dashed back into the blazing build-
ing when he learned that his friend.
William Smith, waa missing. The
charted bodies were found with
arms clasped in Smith’s room when
firemen were able to enter.
; passenger train at El Cobre,
4 et Saltillo, killed a woman
enger and the six soldiers of
guard and sacked the express
according to, press dispatches
- Saltillo. Several passengers
I wounded in the fight. In which
soldier guard put up sal la pi / ----
futile resistance. , . SEDALIA. Mo., Dec. 26, ()—Wil-
military column has been sent liam Everett Ogle, one year and
, Saltilio in pursuit of the ban- eight months old, choked to death
A similar outrage occurred at at the home of his parents, /My.
nearby station of Carneros last and Mes. W E Ogle, here yesterday
ber on Christmas candy.
BABY CHOKES TO DEATH
ON CHRISTMAS CANDY
ROBERT GRAHAM IP
HONE FOR HOLIDAYS
Robert Graham, eon of Dr. and
Mrs. R. H Graham, (1832 Seventh
street. Is boms for the holidays
from Allen Academy at Bryan, Tex-
as, where he has Man attending
school. .
He is a second-year student and
during the Texas Fain last October,
ho was s member of the drill team
that took flrat prizes as the best
drilled team among junior colleges
and academies competing at the
fair.
Special bargain wall paper at
Watson’s, 807 Indiana.—Adv.
(Continued from Beg* One.)
16 of the dead were sol for this ;
afternoon followed by burial to sepe
arete graves. The Rev. a W. Estes, 1
pastor of the Presbyterian church, %
was named to conduct tha services
with ministers from eli denomina-
tion a participating. The remaining
17 victims, st the fire probably will
be buried tomorrow. . .
Grave diggers were busy through,
out the morning in tha little ceme-
tery. now covered with a mantle of
anew. Local undertakers were un-
able to meet the demend for caskets
and special shipments had to be ,
ordered from Oklahoma City and
Anadarko.
Twenty persons injured in the
fire are still confined to hospitals.
All were considered to have at least ”
an even chance of recovery.
A committee of local citizens had
been appelated by Mayor F. E. Gil-
lesple to provide for the care of
children orphaned by the disaster
and to work toward rehabilitation i
of the home life of Babb’s Switch.
Already a movement to under way
to raise funds with which to erect a
monument to the memory of those
who lost their lives in Oklahoma’s ^
worst Christmas tragedy. They
monument will be placed either in
Hobart or on the site of the fire. ,
Three smell fires in Hobart vese
terday added to the city's tension.
One of the blazes, originating in a
jewelry store, caused a mild panic'
in two nearby moving picture thea- -
ters, but no one was seriously In-
jured. ,
Officers say they expect to take
no action toward investigating the
fire, Vigilance of the school trus-
tees in placing wire netting over the
outside of the school windows to
keep out vandals to held chiefly re-
sponsible for the heavy loss of life.
Could the windews dt the one-story
structure have been used as a means | »
of egress virtually all of the 200
persons in the building could have
escaped, it to believed. Aa It was.
the door was ths, only practicable
exit snd there was such a rush for
this that persons farthest from it ”
had little chance to escape as the
fire, starting from a candle on the!
Christmas tree, swept through the ‘
small structure - ; -' ‘
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RESULT or HOBART FIRE -
HOBART, Okla. Dee. ad u—-Bens
which were to have pealed joyous: *
ly for the wedding of Claude Bold-
ing and Gladys Clements, yester-
day, will today, toll lugubriously as
the body of the bride-to-be to laid
in its final resting place In the Ho:
Mart cemetery,
bias Clements was one of three
sisters who perished with 30 other
persons in the fire which destroyed
the Babb’s Switch school house
while a Christmas eve entertainment
was In progress. Holding was bad-
ly burned in a futile attempt «>
save his sweetheart, but is expect,
ed to recover. One of Miss Clem
ents’ sisters, Mrs. Juanita Clements
Stevenson, came here with her three
year old daughter from Michigan
[ to attend the wedding. Today the
I bodies of mother and child lie side
by side in the local morgue, togethe
or with that of Miss Clements’ oth-
er sister who was to have acted as
bride’s maid.
Romance again bowed to tragedy
In the case of Aubrey Coffey and
Vesta Jackson, who were to have
been married next spring. Both
perished in the fire, Andrew Jack-
son, brother of the girl, sought to
rescue ths betrothed pair when,
standing on the outside he tried to
test loose the wire netting which
severed a window end barred their
wey to safety. But the wire resist-
ed his efforts and the flames final-
ly drove him back.
J. F. Eden, carried through the
doorway of the building on the
tide of hysterical humans' fighting
their way, to safety, sought to force
his way back Into the inferno for
his three-year-old daughter, but he
was unable to gain an entrance and
the child burned to death. 5,
Mrs. W. a Boldtng lost three chil-
dren in the fire. One of them, Ed-
ward, eightryears old. She managed
to get out of the building with her.
but once outside the boy remember-
ed his toys he had left behind and
dashed back after them. He never
came out, r
As a result of the fire the little
settlement spent the saddest Christ-
mas of Its history. And it was ex-
peated to be the happiest. Crops
had been unusually good this year
and Santa Claus had promised to
deal each family a more lavish
measure of Christmas gaiety than
normally. But the fire spoiled It
all. Christmas carols changed to
funeral dirges. Christmas gifts and
festivities were forgotten while
every citizen turned his attention to
Identifying the dead and preparing
for their burial.
Several families lost two or more
members in the fire. The family of
T. C. Coffey, consisting of his wife
and four children, was completely
wiped out. The name of Holding.
Curtis. Biggers, Peck Reville end
Clements sppear two or three times
in the Hat of dead.
Babb's Switch to a prosperous
farming community located seven
miles south of Hobart. Cotton and
wheat are the principal products
raised. The population to about 260.
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MONOXIDE POISONING
CAUSES DEATH OF TWO
BAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dee. 26.-
Carbon, monoxide poisoning from
inhaling sas fumes caused the death
of Mrs, Sophia Schnelle, 15, and her
son, August, 42, found lying in their
home here last Tuesday. A daughy
ter of the dead woman, Miss Agnes
Schnelle, is slowly recovering at a
hospital, having been unconscious
When found. " ,
The verdiet of death by poisoning
was given by the city chemist ‘W he
made an analysis of the contents of
the stomachs of the victims. 1
Three Are Dead
31 Sick Result
Poisoned liquor
Christmas, In addition to the dead
and sick between 40 and 50 persons
are in the accident ward of Belle-
vue from injuries sustained in
rights or falls due to liquor.
Yesterday’s fatalities increased to
11 the number of deaths in the city
from poison liquor during the
month.
The number of drunks yesterday
and on Christmas eve war as great
aa at any time prior to prohibition,
according to the police. Officials at
Bellevue hospital said the tide of
deaths and suffering from poison
liquor had been steadily rising since
NEW YORK, Dec. 26. (P)— Three
- men are dead. 21 others are 111 in
Bellevue hospital and the pollen
court calendars are crowded as a
result of the liquor drinking yes:
terday In thin city in celebration of
BLAIN 4 MAUTN co. Ditribeters
COUPES
the first prohibition, christmas in
1020.
In an open letter to Governor
Smith asking his support in the
passage of a state enforcement act,
Arthur J. Davis, state superintend-
ent, of the Anti-Saloon League
quoted the city health department’s
figures as showing 455 deaths from
alcoholism in New York eity dur-
Ing the present year as compared
with 807 deaths last year.
“This number," said Mr. Davis in
his letter, “is greater than that of
any year since prohibition a.A al
most as large as in pre-prohibition
days."-
HALF BLOCK BUILDINGS
DESTROYED AT HUMBLIN
HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 26 un-
Fire starting in a vacant hour
early today destroyed half a bloc,
of buildings at Humble, 18 mile
northeast of here. Some intrudes
seeking shelter from the cold in th
building, la thought to have starter
the blaze in an effort to keep warm
Five buildings were destroyer
Furniture from two which were ou
cupied was all removed. The othe
three were vacant.
SULLIVAN
be a special seat
gress after Mar
that the senate
or even conside
propriation bills
house has alrea
yet further that
number of sena
session of the
will be In no n
they know tha
their wleh, and
delay to hold u
propriation bill
the special sess
sinter finally th
sewrate's time,
tavaly a good d
gaged or certain
debate on ‘ fuse
the postal wy
veto, and on ‘
treaty. These t
have mortgages
tiona of the ■
days. The lease
teaches that y
come up, inch
events, that wIl
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and that it to
Senators who
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the way they 1
disposed of. 4
bill provides,
secretary of WI
Shoals to anyb
a lease within
Senator Underw
wise satisfactor
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ernment keeps
the Under wood
result in some
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will'fight a 1
chance for an
the whole Mua
any means, but
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Senator Norrie
promise in the
meat of Senate
ton. Senator
to the effect tl
of Muscle Sho
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engineers and
commission sh
ways of dispos
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