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THE TIMES RECEIVES THE FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY AND SATURDAY NIGHT
THE WEATHER
Wichita Falla and vicinity: Sun-
day unsettled, coolers Monday part-
ly cloudy.
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CLOUDBURST FLOODS NOR TH ERN POR TION OF DALLAS COUNTY
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MAJORITY FOR SCHOOL BOND ISSUE MORE THAN TWO TO ONE
IWO BOYS DROWN
SHAMROCK OIL COMPANY SELLS BULGARIA REPORTS
HOLDING TO PRAIRIE COMPANY NEW ngtilnnAmn-
115 WELLS WITH 3,000 CAPACITY
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DALLAS. April 25. (FI—Larry Mil-
stead, 23, was shot and killed to-
night by a negro highwayman who
held him up as he sat-in an auto-
mobile with a woman companion In
Vickery Place.
Milstead’s companion. Mrs. Mabst
Berry of Austin, Texas, was not
injured. Milstead was shot once.
Mrs. Berry was here visiting her
sister, Mrs. W. R. Bedell., It was
in front of Mrs. Bedell’s home that
the killing occurred.
Mr. Milstead came to Dallas from
Washington, D. C., about a year
ago to take charge of the district
agency for a typewriter concern.
He was well known In Dallas and
Fort Worth, having trained aa an
aviator in the latter city during the
He is survived by his parents and
a sister who reside in Washington.
: Milstead la the second Dallas man
to meet death at the hands of negro
highwaymen within two weeks. On
the night of April 12, Ryan Adkins
was held up by two negroes aa he
was driving with a woman compan-
ion near Southern Methodist Uni
versity. He waa forced out of his
car, robbed and beaten over the
head with a pistol, resulting in hie
death shortly after. His companion
was then assaulted and the car
driven into a ditch and wrecked.
Several negroes were arrested on
suspicion, but no charges have been
filed in the case.
SMALL POX SCARE AT
CAPITAL HAS INVADED
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WASHINGTON, April 25. '(FI—The
capital’s email pox tears today In-
vaded the veterans' bureau, ons of
ths most populous of ths govern-
ment agencies and a special doctor’s
office was opened in the building no
that all employee could bs vacci-
nated. If they desired.
The step was taken after bureau i
officials learned that a woman el ark I
had continued work after having
been exposed to the disease which
In the past few weeks has resulted
in more than a dozen deaths here.
Nearly 600 persona are employ ed la
the veterans' bureau building.
Ona of the largest deals for
production and oil properties in
the history of the north- Texas
fields was closed late Saturday
night when the Prairie Oil and
Gas Company purchased the hold-
ings of the Shamrock Oil Com-
pany of Wichita Falla, one of the
larger producing concerns in the
district for a consideration of $2,-
000,000.
The. Shamrock Oil Company,
which is composed of a number of
local operators, including C. H.
Clark, J. E. Dunaway, J. L. Bald-
ridge and others, was one of the
most successful concerns in the
district.
The Prairie Company’s purchase
consists of leases in Archer, Wich-
ita and other counties in north
Texas and 8,500 acres in Mexico.
The acreage proven and unproven
included in the deal aggregated
approximately 20,000. -
The various leases purchased
contain 115- producing wells with
a daily production of nearly 3,000
barrels, the majority of these pro-
ducers being in the Swastika field
in Archer county. .
A portion” of the holdings ac-
quired by the Prairie Oil and Gas
Company are. located in the Pan-
die section and includes uno gasser
and an interest in a second one.
This is the second big deal to
be consu mated i this district
during the past 10 days in which
the Prairie was the purchaser,
that company having acquired the
interest of Gwynn and others in
the Wilmot pool, Archer county, .
and interests of the Mahlsted-
Mook Company in Young county
for a consideration not made pub-
lic.
Air Mail Plane
Christened With
Real Champagne
SALE OF INTOXICATING
UQUOR IS BARRED FROM
OIL FIELDS IN MEXICO
BROWNSVILLE, April 25. (—
Sale of intoxicating liquor In the
oil fields of Mexico has been prohib-
ited by sn order’ of President Plu-
tarco Elias Calles, according to a
report reaching here tonight simul-
taneously with the return from that
country of Standard Oll Company
officials who were in Brownsville
on their way to Chicago
MINEOLA, N. T., April 25. -
Miss Anne Morgan, sister of J. P
Morgan, today christened with a
hottie of what wee said to be pre-
war champagne the new air mall
plane which is to be used for the
night mall route between New.Tork
and Chicago. The ceremony was at
Curtiss Field. This was the first
tints she had accepted a christen-
ing invitation of any kind. Miss
Morgan said.
OFFICIALS REFUSE TO
DISCUSS USE OF WINE
WASHINGTON. April 25, VP)—Re-
ported use of real champagne In
the christening of the new air mail
plane today at Mineola revived a
custom followed for many years In
the christening of navy vessels, but
abandoned with the advent of the
Volstead lew, making transporta-
tion of intoxicating liquor from ons
place th another illegal.
FORMER MEMBER OF
CONGRESS IS DEAD Prohibition Commissioner‘Haynes
SAP id Mh said touzy-he did mot ears to com-
MINDEN, La., April 25. (F»—John
TA Watkins, 70-year-old representa-
tive In congress from the fourth
Louisiana district from 1905 to- 1919,
died at a Washington, D. C., hos-
pital at 11 o’clock Saturday morn-
ing, according to information reach.
"ing here. Death was due to a heart
attack following a three weeks’ Ill-
ness of influenza. Funeral serv-
ices will be held in Minden, his
home, at 3 o'clock Monday after-
noon. •
Dry Agents Seize
Large Distillery
Near Dickinson
| SAN ANTONIO, April 11—General
prohibition agents, working .out of
■ran Antonio seized the largest and
"-most complete distillery ever cap-
, lured in Texas, according to .reports
I received here today.
I The huge apparatus was seised at
k Dickinson. It was two 250-gallon
g copper stills and one 50-gallon cop-
- per still. They were found le op-
I oration in the barn of a dairy.
i in addition to the three stills.
1 5.800 gallons of mesh and a large
■ quantity of moon-shine whiskey
■ were seized by the officers.
i ' According to agents of division
15’ comprised of New Mexico, Tex-
■ as and Oklahoma, the distillery
■ captured at Dickinson la the most
■ complete and up-to-date distillery
■ to have been captured in the dis-
■ trict under their jurisdiction.
NEWOISTUABANCES
IN SMALLER TOWNS
CITY HALL. LIBRARY AND A
THEATER ARE BURNED
AT PLEVNA
SIX PERSONS ARE DEAD
AND NUMBER WOUNDED
Unsuccessful Attempts Made to
Destroy Three Bridges In
Region of Varna c
(By the Associated-Press.)
Bulgarian disturbances flamed
up again in the provinces today,
although earlier reports had in-
sisted the situation was improving.
Six are dead and a number
wounded as a result of several
conflicts in different provincial
towns, according to direct dis-
patches from Sofia or indirect re-
porta coming via other European
capitals.
At Plevna ths city hall, library
and a theater were burned; at Bur-
gaa two were killed and a number
wounded in a conflict between gov-
ernment troope and communists; in
fighting at Gabrovo three commun-
ists were killed; at’ Varna police
killed the communist leader Kassa-
boff after burning his house, ac-
cording to these reports.
Unsuccessful Attempts to destroy
three bridges in the region of Varna
were reported. ,
The former agrarian minister,
Omar Chersky, swore allegiance to
the government and promised to ap-
peal to Bulgarian peasants to sup-
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Deny Records in
Pardon Cases are
Kept From Public
AUSTIN,
Sanderford,
I Governor
April, 25:
Town of Lelot, North of Dallas, Has
14-Inch Rain Within Two Hours and
Much Damage io Property Results
IDUNT VESUVIUS
AGAIN IN ERUPTION
AFTER 8 MONTHS
I DALLAS, April 25. (AP)—An
unestimated amount of damage
was done today by a cloudburst
which inundated the greater part
of north Dallas county. Breaking
first at noon over Elm fork, where
huge clouds remained for hours,
the cloudburst finally swept down
on the little village of Letot, sev-
eral miles north of Dallas, wrecked
NAPLES, Italy, April 25. P)—After
eight: months of comparative rest
Vesuvius Is In eruption again. The
volcano offers a fantastic spectacle,
especially at night when lava flow-
ing from the southwest side of the
crater casts a glow over the area.
...The present activity occurs peri-
odically and is caused by ths col-
lapse of a section of ths rim of ths
crater. Professor Mallandra, ths di-
rsetor of the Vesuvius observatory
has gone as near ths cratsr as pos-
sible and confirmed the cause of the
eruption as the collapse of the rim
which allows ths lava to flow down 1
ths volcano slope.
ACTIVITY OF VESUVIUS
CONTINUES TO INCREASE
NAPLES, April 25. (FI—The ac-
tivity of Vesuvius which after eight
months of comparative real, is in
eruption again, continued to in-
crease slightly today but conditions
were regarded as so safe that five
hundred tourists, one-third Of them
Americans, were permitted to
ascend the volcano on the funicular
railway which runs to summit, and
to go near the crater.
IN BRAZOS RIVER
RICHMOND, Tejas, April 25. (—
Henry V. Vancik, 14, and his broth-
er Eddia. 13, were drowned in the
Brazos river at Orchard, 10 miles
west of Richmond, at 4 p. m Satur-
day. The bodies of the boys had not
been recoveredilate Saturday night.
Five boys were in a party picking
Half Million Dollars to Be Spent *
• Improving City School Facilities
Result Vote Bond Issue Saturday
berries when they decided to go in
swimming In the river. The two
, , , VanelK boys got-beyond their depth-
two stores, paralyzed interurban and went under, the other three 7 m . ..
track to Denton, Sherman and boys being unable to rescue them. [election and 274 Wiehitans voted
Denison, wrecking automobiles and The 44 -.......n *......‘
With the passage of the $300-IANIID DAN , -
000 bond issue of the Wichita I 1 TW NP K Mil
Falls Independent School District | UUIIIII UUII TIMINS
in the election Saturday by a ma- A TP DI IA Gnus
jority of more than two to one, CT-D
Wichita Falls is assured a newi U 1 LIILHIU UUUN 1 1
junior high school, a new elemen-
tary school building and the con-
struction of additions to at least
two existing school buildings.
Only 404 votes were cast in the ■
Two Houses Are Washed Away
In the Outskirts of Sterling
City
merit on the Mineola ceremony on
the basis of present advices.
Air mail officers promptly dis-
claimed any connection with the
christening, earing the plane had
not yet been officially accepted by
the poetoffice deportment.
BUILDER SAYS PRE-WAR
CHAMPAGNE WAS USED
NEW YORK. April 25. (FI—L.
Charles Cox of the Cox-Klemin
Aircroft Corporation, builders and
designers of the new air mall plane
“Night Hawk,” said tonight that
real pre-war champagne, was used
in christening the plane at Curtice
Field by Mise Anne Morgan this
afternoon. The liquor, he said, was
taken to the field without a trans-
portation permit from prohibition
authorities. Mr. Cox would not say
where he got the champagne.”
In the absence of R. O. Merrick,
enforcement agent" for Now York
and northern New Jersey one of his
agents verified the fact that "no
permit to transport the liquor had
been ashed or granted."
Majors W. J. Hensley Jr., com-
mandant of Mitchell Field, who was
an unofficial visitor at the chris-
tening said he had been told cham-
pagne was to be used and advised
against it. Seltzer water waa or-
derod used as a substitute 'he said.
Miss Anne Morgan, who is a sis-
let of J. P. Morgan, wielded the
bottle,' which was decorated with
red, white and blue ribbons, car-
ried’a label dated 1914.
• Neither the army nor the mail
service. It was pointed out, had
anything to, do officially with the
christening, which was arranged by
Mr. Cox and the American Women’s
Association, of which Miss Morgan
is treasurer.
, , SAN ANGELO April 23. The
The three Surviving beys tele-for the issuance of the bonds and drouth as broken in sterling .oun.
phoned Sheriff Hagen at Richmond, T , . 2
and when he arrived on the scene, 130 voted against the bond pro- ty at dusk today bA downpour
that turned dry reads into rushing
The vote was as follows: torrents Washed away two. houses
Box: ‘ For Against Total on the outskirts or Sterling Cits.
trucks and endangering the lives ______________________..... - ____, ,
of more than 25 persons. The pre- they told a story about five masked posal.
cipitation varied from 1.5. inches
men overpowering them and trying
to drown the'five of them, succeed.
Ing In causing ths death of the two Court House . .
1 "---Later the younger of theligh School....
they I -
at Dallas to 14 inches at Letot
Tonight the Rosa told 1. officer that
within two hours.
precipitation is general.
... -were frightened and make up the
No itves have been reported lost story about the masked men.
Damage at Letot le estimated at |
$20,000. Livestock losses are ex-
pected to be large.
Sheriff Schuyler Marehell and his.
force of deputies are patrolling the!
effected area. Some deputies are in
boats. . 1
Various reservoirs are reported,
overflowing or filling rapidly. Bil-1
4
111
. Total..:74 150 *404
Officials of ths school board de-
elare that the $500,000 is necessary
- for the immediate needs of the
I nun school district The issuance of the
I K bonds will not raise the school tax
ILLIINU U. Hi III rate, as the district is now assess-
/ ling on the maximum rate of $1.00 |
HI norn AITHnnIV The school board will endeavor
1 I I IBITAW to care for the existing overcrowd-
Ulll |1 I il n! ed conditions in the city schools
VLOULU I UHuNI with the $500,000, although officials
------ declare more money is needed.
lions of gallons of water are report- Resolution Favors
ed pouring into the ,three dams
across Elm Fork of, the Trinity
river, White Rock Lake and Bach-
man’s Dam, the Isst being at the
flood stage at 5 o'clock. Trinity
Professor Mallandra, the director! river is expected to be at flood bank
of the Vesuvius observatory, proved here by Sunday morning,
his assertion that the situation is Three Bridges Gone.
not dangerous by descending him- Three small bridges on the Den-
salt into the crater to study the dis- fon interurban line were washed
turbance. We found that an erup-
tive tone of solidified , lave con-
tained within the crater had sud-
denly collapsed, leaving an open
mouth four meters wide and three
I hundred meters below the crater's
rim. It is from this mouth that lava
j is issuing.
ASSIST ANT ATTORNEY
| CHICAGO IN TEXAS TO
PROBE M’CUNTOCK CASE
out. dispatches here report. Service
on the Sherman-Denison line was
Nation-W Me
Campaign Against "Red"
Internationalists" i
WASHINGTON, April *5. (P) -The
34th continental congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion passed into history with • ban-
quet tonight after a day devoted to
installing new officers, recording
gifts for the building of the so-
ciety’s new $2,000,000 auditorium
The general plan of the board
which has been discussed and ten-
tatively agreed upon provides for '
the erection of a new junior high
school in the western part of the
city, the grounds, building and fur-
nitura of which will cost approxi-
mately-Il-o.aoo. Officials hope to
complete the new structure before
the opening of the school term in
September 1926.
Elementary Baliding.
An’ elementary school building
did considerable damage to prop,
erty and sent a wall of water down
the north Concho river that was
midway between Sterling City and.
Water Valley at 9 tonight, and due
to arrive here at daybreak Sunday
morning. All telephone connections
are out between this city and Ster-
ling City and only the most meager
details have gotten through
Itll.l.snono REPORTS THAT
GOOD RAIV is FALLING
W ACO Texas April 25 VP-A,
good rain is falling at Hillsboro
| early tonight, according to Texas
1 Telephone Company reports
NEARLY AN INCH MAIN
UPORTED AT GREENVILLE
1 GREENVILLE Texas. April 24. i
—Precipitation here this afternoon
totalled .85 inches, while rainfall in
Hunt county varied from two to
three inches in some sections.
in—Ghent. HOUSTON, April 26. (—Worn
out after two days of travel from
private secretary to
Miriam A. Ferguson, Chicago. John Sbarbaro, assistant
paused long enough from a close
examination of pardon records to-
state's attorney of Cook county, 114
linois, arrived here tonight and an-
nounced he would begin his inves-
Interrupted when 11 power line ' that brought the total near
poles keeled over, snapping the
trolley line in two several places.
When the cloudburst came a't Le-
tot, several persons rushed to the
recently completed brick building
owued by J. F. Fugitt, who was
there with his family.’ Shortly after
the roof collapsed and the founda-
tion gave way, before the rush of
the waters. All escaped serious In-
jury.
Aubrey Simone etore was washed
a short distance down Joe’s creek
and ths Fugitt Filling ststlon was
completely washed away: A woman
and three children were rescued by
two men from an automobile ee It
was awept off a highway. Another
man abandoned his truck ss ths
walls of ths Fugitt building col-
lapsed and destroyed ths machine.
night to assert that pardon In- ’ ligation of the last illness of Mrs.
formation had not been denied mma Nelson MeClintock tomorrow.
Mrs. McClintock, mother of Wil-
newspaper men and that henceforth liam N McClintock, the “millionaire
the records would be "wide open at orphan," whose death in Chicago a
few months ago led to the indict,
ment of William D. Shepherd, his
foster father, and Charlee C. Fain,
man, head of a medical school, on
charges of murder, is said to have
become III et Bayview, Texas In
1909. and to have died a few weeks except by way of Farmersville, a
bus line operator said tonight: The
rain was especially heavy at Rock-
wall, Royce City, Burroughs, Wal-"
lett and through to Greenville.
all times.” —
Mr. Sanderford asserted that he
had not given the order to close
the pardon records as was reported
in ths office of secretary of state,
and that Governor Ferguson was
willing to lot the "newspaper
boys” have any information they
designate any time. He further
declared that the names on the
pardon proclamations could be ob-
tained aa soon, aa the proclama-
tions are signed, and that there
would be po delay waiting for the
proclamations to return to the of-
fice of the secretary of state for
record.
To-date the governor has issued
but 202 pardon proclamations of
which T4 are wull pardons snd the
remainder conditional, he said. He
asserted that only 350 proclama:
tions of all kinds including paroles,
reprieves and furloughs had been
issued since Governor Ferguson
took office, and not 40# as was re-
ported about a month ago.
REPORT NEWSPAPERS
1.
ARE DENIED ACCESS1
AUSTIN, April 25. (P)—Right to
examine state pardon records was
denied newspaper men again today
on orders of Ghent Sanderford, pri-
vate secretary to Governor Miriam
A. Ferguson, pending working out a
"new system" of announcing the
grants of executive clemency by the
governor.
This is the second time the right
later In Chicago.
Mr. Sbarbaro had little to say to-
night on his arrival here. He an-
sounced that h. would make his
headquarters in Houston while in-
vestigating circumstances surround-
ing. Mrs. McClintock’s death, snd
that hs would question .very ons
who knew Mrs. McClintock or Shep-
herd at Bayview. He had nothing
to say about reports that the grand
Jury Here would bs asked to Inves-
tigate th. case for th. purpose of
returning an Indictment In Texas,
where it is said Mrs.‘ McClintock
may have been “slow" polsened. Mr
Sbarbaro was accompanied by news,
paper men from the Chicago papers.
PREACHER ACTING AS
PEACE OFFICER SHOOTS
AN OIL FIELD WORKER
NEWKIRK, Okla., April 25. (P)-
The Rev. I. L Manning, who holds
a commission aa a peace officer at
Braman, a email oil town near here
was free today.on $5.000bond_after
spending yesterday in Jail charged
with attempted murder. The min-
ister is alleged to have shot Ar-
thur Ferrell, en oll field worker,
to see the pardon records has been when he refused to stop his motor
refused, first time on orders of D. , car In, response to an order. Mr.
A. Gregs, acting secretary of state. Manning fired three times. He
told officers he shot at the tires
Heretofore the newspaper men have
examined the pardons In the office
of the secretary after they have
been served and accepted by the
convicts named and from one to two
weeks after the proclamations have
been signed by the governor. When
the newspaper men called at the
office of the secretary of state to-
day they were informed the names
of convicta pardoned must be ob-
tained from the governor's office.
Mr. Sanderford would not say how
often or by whom the namea of con-
victs pardoned would be announced,
but said he "would talk It over with
the governor" when she returned.
Gov. FERGUSON HOME
AFTER WEEK OF TRAVEL
AUSTIN, Texas, April 2s. m—
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson rep
turned to the governor’s mansion
today after a strenuous week of
travel over Texas. She was accom-
panied by her husband, former goy-
ernor James E. Ferguson, and her
daughters. Governor Ferguson vis-
ited the National Good Roads show
lit Houston and the Battle of Flow,
era at San Antonio.
of the machine. His bond was fur-
nished by a delegation of citizens
of Brannon. including several busi-
ness men e
' WEATHER FORECAST
WICHITA FALLS and vicinity: Tem-
perature: Maximum 93 degrees: minimum
• 1; 89 at 6 p. m. Saturday. Precipitation
Mil. East wind, average velocity 15 miles
per hour. Barometer 29.07. (As reported
by the Government Weather Bureau, op-
erated by the Wichita Falla Electric Com-
pany.)
WEST TEXAS: Sunday unsettler, cooler
in the Panhandle: Monday partly cloudy.
OKLAHOMA: Sunday and Monday un-
WEST TEXAS: Sunday unsettled, cooler
Monday, 0
EAST TEXAS: Sunday and Monday
mostly cloudy, probably scattered showers
in north portion; cooler in northwest por-
tion Monday
Weather Coming Week
WASHINGTON April 11.—Weath-
er outlook for the week beginning
Monday: r
West gulf states: Partly cloudy,
with some probability of local then-
dor showers:, temperature above
normal flrot half and near normal
latter part *A
the
$100,000 mark and the passing of a
resolution in favor of a nationwide
campaign against “red internation-
alists." Annual enrollment of aliens
also was favored.
The congress declined to go on
record in favor of placing prohibi-
tion agents under civil service on
the ground that It would be "med-
diing In the police system of gov-
ernment," and taking the aland that
the question might be political and
not within its scope, refused to en-
dorse the principle invested in the
District of Columbia’s efforts to ob-
tain representation in congress.
The delegates authorized the na-
tional board of management to ar-
range for a bond flotation for the
will be erected in the western part
of the Floral Heights addition near
the Seymour road and Garfield
(Continued on Page 2. Column 2)
MAN ARRESTED FOR
ATTEMPTED ASSAULT
REMOVED TO 'PARIS
TEXARKANA TERRITORY
HAS TWO INCH RAIN
TEXARKANA. Texas April 25.00—
Nearly two inches of rain fell In
Texarkana territory today, cover-
ing a wide area In both northeast
Texas and southwest .Arkansas
While crops had not yet begun to
| suffer from want of moisture to-
day's rain will be highly beneficial.
Dallas fire fighting apparatus
Was rushed to Letot: Firemen ex-
tricated persons Imprisoned in ths
debris and rescued many who were
waterbound in their Hooded homes
Highway connection to Greenville
was severed late in the afternoon.
More than 1.50 inches of, rain was
reported at Fort Worth early to-
night.
KELLOGG IN FAVOR
OF INTERNATIONAL
JUDICIAL TRIBUNAL
new auditorium Mrs. An thony
Wayne Cook, president general, de-
flaring there would be nn per capita
tax levied for the project.
In passing the resolution to reen
ommend a "definite, intensive cam-
paign to be organized In nevery
state" to combat the danger of radi-
calism, the congress was informed
by Mrs. Cook thet "men and women
of Influence are lending their names
to carry on the radical movement
under the guise of peace.”
After an address by Secretary
Davis on "bootlegging” immigrants,
the congress went on record as fa-
voring enrollment of aliens "that
the desirable alien may be encour-
aged and aided and that the unde-
sirable alien.” here to preach the
downfall of fur institutions or here
in violation of our laws, may b*
promptly found and deported”
THREE MEN HELD IN
NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE
TEXARKANA. Texas, April 25 (P)
Chris Day, arrested in Cass coun-
ty yesterday on a charge of at-
tempting to assault a young white
woman at the home of her father
near Avinger, who was taken to the
Bowie county jail at Boston early
in the afternoon for safe-keeping,
later was removed to the Lamar
county jail-at Paris. According to
Cass county officers, Day, who is
F7 years old, confessed that he had
entered the house with the Inten-
tion of assaulting the girl. Screams
of the wonian awakened her father,
on whose appearance Day fled.......
GERMANY WILL ELECT
PRESIDENT ON SUNDAY
BERLIN, April 26. VP—The voters
throughout Germany will decide to-
morrow who shall bs ths next presi-
dent of the republic Dr. Wilhelm
Marx, representing the republican
block; Field Marshal Von Hinden-
burg, candidate of the nationalists,
and Ernst Thaelmann, communist
party, are the nominees. Thaelmann
Chicago Reports
First Death as
Result of Heat
CHICAGO April 25 on The first
death of the year In Chicago at-
tributed to heat was reported to.
day Michael Belokowits died in a
hospital after collapsing at work
yesterday.
I RICHMOND, Ae, April 25 (FI-All
heat records for April were shat-
tered here this afternoon when the
mercury at I o'clock registered
96 1-10 degrees, official tempera,
turs, ths weather bureau announced.
The previous high was 95 degrees
on April 1‘S. 1911, and on April 27,
1914.
le considered a negligible quantity, so .
that the real contest is between Yom
Hindenburg and Marx.
Unless Dr. Mays scores a lead of
at least three or four million votes,
the cause of democracy In Ger-
CASE PERFECT BONDS
WASHINGTON, April 25. (Fl-
becretary Kellogg declared himself
tonight to be “heartily In favor" of
America’s participation In an inter-
national tribune) for the settlement
of international disputes.
Addressing the delegates of ths
American, Society of International
Law, Mr. Kellogg asserted It was
"strange that although we are ap-
prosehing 1025 the United Sister.
one of the leading countries in ar-
bitration is not a member of any
international court."
"1 am heartily in favor of the
establishment bt a judicial tribunal
to which nations may present their
problems in their International dis-
putes," he said.
He said that .although Interna-
tional law la yet in a state of evolu-
tion, there are still enough inter-
national regulations to make such a
court workable. For this purpose,
he added, he believed thoroughly In
the efforts to codify and extend the
principles of international law.
Opposition to American participa-
tion in a world court, he thought,
was due to-misunderstanding of the
powers of such, a tribunal. The
question to be submitted, he said,
would be “judiciable" points, such
as violations of wellnown Inter-
national principles " .
Pointing out that the United
States and Englend have for the
last 110 wears settled all differ-
SAN ANTONIO, April 26—M C.
Crewes, Henry Clark Ed Ferguson
and H. El Brady, Luling oft field
workers, charged with negligent
homicide in connection with an au-
tomoblie accident on the Seguin
road Thursday .In which Juanita
Ayala was killed and her brother,
Enrico, seriously injured, have been
released on bond. Crews also faces
a charge in justice court of driving
an automobile while under the in-
fluence of liquor Bonds in the
sum of $500 each for Clark, Fergu-
son and Brady, and $1,000 for
Crews were furnished by O. B.
black their attorney, lata Friday.
Enrico is expected to recover, re-
porta from the hospital early Satur-
day said.
? The-four men, before their re-
lease from jail, donated $25 to pay
an undertaker for conveying the
body of Juanita Ayala to her home
at Converse, the father stating to
Sheriff Jim Stevens that he was
without funds.
many will, in th. opinion of the
leaders of the liberal parties, have
suffered a severe setback. They ad-
mit that they will be satisfied with
a safe margin in the former chan-
cellor’s favor, but nevertheless
realize that a heavy poll for Von
Hindenburg means definite coor-
dination of pronounced anti-repub-
lican sentiment snd that it will In-
evitably leave German Internal pol-
ities In a state of turmoil and fer-
ment for an indefinite period
TRIAL GERALD CHAPMAN
FONTS STATE $10,764.28
HARTFORD Conn., April 25. iF —
The murder trial of Gerald Chap-
man, sentenced to be hanged In
-ine-for-ahoolins—apuliceman, cost
the state $16,766.29. State Attorney
Hugh Alcorn reported to the court
today. '
Wile Has "Few"
Charges in Suit
Asking Divorce
CHICAGO April 25 (m—Mrs.
’ Helen Dlack Shumway, daughter of
a wealthy builder, today in a bi
for divorce charged that her hus-
band, Wayne Shumway, became en-
traded with her on Armletice Day
‘last year and branded.....her with a
ired hot Iron She charged that he
had beaten, struck, pinched, bitten,,
choked burned and kicked her and
asked a divorce on the grounds of
cruelty.
ATTACK ON
BATTING
AVERAGE HIGH
ences by, diplomacy, Secretary Kel-
logg said that he befleved-what
within * short time problems which
In the past have been considered
ample excuse for war will bo settled
• 1 peaceably.
Of the big bundle of answers
In last week’s Times Cross Word
Puzzle Ad Gram contest, there
were only nine incorrect lists of
answers.-'__-
The pueales are easy, the
prizes are large for the amount
of effort .required to win.
On page 11. part 2, of today’s
issue, you will find another Cross
Word Punsle Ad Gram.
Read the rules- sharpen your
pencils and your wits and pull
down a prise for a little amus-"
ing diversion.
WICHITA DAILY TIMES.
in Washington
The D. A. R. convention en.
dorsed, a national campaign
against communism.
Formal denial of reported
atrocities in Bulgaria was made
by the Bulgarian legation.
President end Mrs. Coolidge
were hosts en a week-end cruise
down the Potomac.
.Proposals fora national con.
ference on shipping were adt
vanced by the United States
Chamber jot commerce.
Government officials expressed
interest in reported use of pre-
war champagne In Mineola _
christening of airplane.
The Interstate Commerce
Commission denied thet the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Itwy had appealed for financial
relief prior to the recent re-
ceivership. ,
• 0
REPORI
HONOLULU April 23. un— con:
filet believed to be a major engage-
ment which wilt de ci de The fate of
the Island of Oahu is now In pros-
ress In the channel between the is -
lands of Molokai and Lanat is an
Epiion unofficially expressed at
Pearl harbor, naval headquarters.
The stand fleet is understood to
bs making an effort to land forces
on Molokal and Lanat, while the
"black" high command is attempt-
ing to locate the airplane carrier
Langley and put her out of action
before the finet can launch the pro-
posed gigantic air attack on Oahu
centering on Pearl harbor.
This would leave the fleet with,
out an air offensive except such as
provided by the 35 scouting pllnesrh
carried by the 11 batuieghie, —
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