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TWEL VE OF 16 VESSELS ON ‘RUM ROW’ HA VE PUT TO SEA
NOCONA WOMAN, AGE 70, IS BEATEN AND ROBBED OF $670
RUM BLOCKADE S Aged Nocona Woman, Beaten and
ppowmn FEEFOTE Robbed of $670 By Two Youths;
PROVING EFFECTIVE Boys Held and Money Recovered
. 12 VESSELS LEAVE -
CLUULLU LLRIL NOCONA. Texas. May 14.—Charges
----- have been filed against Billy sum-
mers and Author Benton, according
to officers, in connection with rob
hery of Benton’s grandmother, Mrs.
Taylor Benton last night.
Proposal of Henry Ford to Buy
400 Shipping Board Vessels Has
Aroused Interest at Washington
AMERICAN ARMS
CONFERENCE PLAN
WAS CAUSED STIR
GENEVA, May 14(The Ameri-
ean delegation to the League of
Nations international conference
for the control of traffic in arms
and munitions today officially
filed an amendment to divorce the
arms convention from the League
of Nations.
d The presentation of the American
imendment, although expected I
many quarters, caused something of
a sensation.
The convention which it is pro-
posed to amend provides that A
central international office shall be
established by the council of the
League of Nations for the collec-
tion and publication of documents
‘ of all kinds relating to traffic in
arms.
The amendment, offered by Rep-
resentative Theodore E. Burton
head of the American delegation,
provides for a central office, but
emits the specification that it be
appointed by the league’s council.
. It differs alsofrom the confer-
ance convention by saying that a
certain number of states to be de-
( termined later shall nominate rep-
1 resentatives to the central office
r and these representatives shall de-
6 termine its organization and fund-
tions. including the method of
electing their successors.
The Burton amendment will be
, discussed later. . .
4 America’s interest in the Panama
, canal is expected to figure Import,
f anly today in discussion of whether
/ there should be international con-
i * trol of arms in shipment.
Such examination during ship:
ment is authorized in the proposed
convention and although the Amerl-
ean delegates did not express an
opinion today, they are understood
to oppose any extensive right of
search involving continuous ex-
aminations of cargoes.
The British delegates submitted
Tan amendment mainly intended to
"give Great Britain the right to ex-
amine all ships suspseted of carry-
ing arms destined to her colonies
and authorizing penalties for it-
legal shipments.
The Japanese delegation vigor-
ously 4 mbatted this proposal as A
impediment to free naviga.
and liberty of transit.
WW Turkey Propones Clause.
Durkey proposed a new clause
whereunder the powers would
agree not to hinder or delay the
movement through their territory
of war materials enroute to a gov-
ernment recognized by two thirds
of the signers of the convention and
WASHINGTON, May 14 (P)—The
announced offer of Henry Ford to
buy 400 ships from the shipping
board, put forth after a-conference
with T. V. O’Connor, its chairman,
is welcome news to members of
the board here, although they de-
clare they are not fully informed
as to details and that a question
of policy involved must first be de-
cided. *
While Mr. Ford said he intends
to scrap the ships, if a fair sale
price is agreed upon, dispatches
from Buffalo credited Mr. O’Con-
nor with the impression that most
of them would, be used in com-
merce. However, he did not deny 1
that retention only of from 10 to 30
boats for shrping purposes was dis- i
QUESTION OF NEW
STATEMENT FAITH
BEFORE BAPTISTS
SCHEDULED FOR CONSIDERA-
TION BY. CONVENTION
AT MEMPHIS
EXPECTED TO PROVOKE
AN EXTENDED DEBATE
cussed with Mr. Ford.
The shipping board, its members
here said, has not determined upon
a scrapping program and this
would have to be considered in
making the deal Dismantling of
the ships and use of the.material
in this country as a condition to
their sale for scrapping was ad-
vanced by Mr. O’Connor in Buffalo.
If the boats were to be used in
shipping he said they would have
to be American owned and fly the
American flag -
While not in possession of de-
tails of their chairman’s negotia-
tions with Mr. Ford and the late
ter’s proposal, shipping board com-
missioners are interested in the
offer and promise it close atten-
| tion. The price to be paid, they
believe, will present the main prob-
dem for solution. They assumed
that Mr. Ford proposes to buy ves-
sels of the “laker” type built on the
Great Lakes during the war, about
50 of which have been sold at net
prices ranging from $25,000 to $35,-
000.
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TE NEWS
AHES
BABY, FARM DEATHS INVESTIGATED
TWO STEAMSHIPS AND TWO
SCHOONERS ONLY LIQUOR
SHIPS LEFT
LIQUOR IS GOING UP IN
ATLANTIC COAST CITIES
Message of Dr. Broughton Out-
lines Probable Report of Exec-
utive Committee
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 14. —
Asserting that the supreme issue
today is between “naturalism and
Rum Runners Transfer Their
Activities to Points Along
the Pacific Coast
supernaturalism" the committee on
Baptist faith and message today
submitted to the Southern Baptist
convention In session here a report
licensed to import arms.
Other amendments were also pro-
posed which contemplated an even
wider search of arms carriers than
Great Britain had suggested.
Uruguay offered an amendment
requiring arms exporting countries
to respect the internal -legislation
of importing countries. This was
considered to have a close relation
to sections of the Versailles and
other treaties which oblige ex-
enemy countries to adopt legisla-
tion prohibiting the import of arms.
The French delegates have been
LONDON, May 14. (P)—Sir H.
Rider Haggard, the author, died
here today.
WASHINGTON. May 14. on-
President Coolidge has definitely
decided to reappoint B. E. Haney of
Portland, Ore, as a. member of the
shipping board.
PARIS, May 14. VP—The reply of
the French government to Ger-
many’s proposal for a security pact
will be communicated today to the
governments of all the allies, it was
announced. *.
WASHINGTON, May 14. (r—Win-
field Scott of Enid, Okla., probably
will be appointed commissioner of
pensions to succeed Wilder S. Met’
calf of Lawrence, Kan., who is ex-
pected to resign within a short time.
MOSCOW, May 14. (—Seven per-
sons were killed and 17 injured by
the derailment yesterday of a pas-
senger train about 60 miles from
Moscow The train was bound for
Sebezh, on the Latvian border.
ERIE. Pa., May 14—Two men
were killed and a number of others
injured when four railroad section
hand cars were, wrecked today on
the Erie “railroad between Union
City and Corry. Nine of the injured
were taken to the Corry hospital.
insisting that this question must
be borne in mind. Apparently
. France wishes to prevent Germany,
Bulgaria, Austria and Hungary
: T’rom acquiring under the proposed
"arms convention rights which are
denied them under the peace treat-
les which ended the world war.
LAST OF LITTLEFIELD
BEQUEST OF $500,000
N GIVEN TO UNIVERSITY
AUSTIN, May 14-A new main
building for the University of Texas
is in sight as a result of the deliv-
ery of $500,000 in bonds, completing
a bequest of $1,500,000 by the late
George W. Littlefield of Austin, to
the university. The bonds were pre-
sented to Chairman H. J. L. Stark
by Governor Miriam A. Ferguson
Wednesday, at the request of H. A.
Wroe, a trustee.
MAYOR PREDICTS.
REDUCTION RATE
- OF CITY TAX
Mayor R. E. Shepherd completed
his check of the proposed budgets
of the various departments of the
city government Thursday after-
noon and turned them over to City
Clerk W. E. MeBroom.
In all probability a reduction of
$1.50 to $1.30 per $100 will be ac-
corded the taxpayers of Wichita
Falls in the tax rate of the munici-
pality, the mayor stated.
The budgets will be presented for
consideration and action at the city
council meeting Monday night.
recommending adoption by that
body of the New Hampshire confes-
sion of faith with a few modifica-
tions.
The report contains, besides the
prologue, 25 articles setting forth
the doctrines ‘ of the Baptist de-
nomination as well as three sec-
tions dealing with “science and re-
ligion." -
Protest/against the teaching of
the theory of evolution in the pub-
lie schools “as though it were a
definite and established truth" is
contained in the report.
Upon this subject the report
states that “exponents of evolution
freely, admit that no proof has been
forthcoming that man is not the
direct creation of God” as recorded
in the Bible.
The report with the exception of
one article was unanimously adopt-
ed. Dr. C. P. Stealy of Oklahoma
did not agree with the rest of the
committee on the doctrinal, state-
ment dealing with “the fall of man"
contained in Article 3. He offered
as a substitute a section headed
"the creation and fall of man."’
CONSIDER ADVISABILITY
OF STATEMENT ON FAITH
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 14. —
While messengers to the Southern
Baptist convention in session here
today were studying the report of
the convention’s executive commit-
tee, chief interest lay in the report
this afternoon of the committee ap-
pointed to consider the advisability,
of issuing another statement of the
Baptist faith.
The report, originally set for Sat-
urday, but reassigned for today
when interest in its contents de-
manded it, is expected to precipitate
a discussion as to just what is to
constitute a true declaration.
The message to the convention
yesterday of Dr. Len B. Broughton,
noted Baptist divine of Jackson-
ville, Fla. indicated that the report
will affirm unmistakably the atti-
tude of Baptists toward science, re-
ligion, their relation and their ef-
fects when combined in teaching.
"Let the scientist keep his hands
off of our theology and our Bible as
he demands that the theologian
keep his hands off his science,’ Dr.
Broughton declared.".
Departments Separate.
The two departments of science
and religion are separate. Dr.
Broughton asserted, "and yet the
scientist has demanded the right to
invade the field of theologian and
is telling him the ways of God
through test tubes and microscopes.
"Scientists are needed,” Dr.
Broughton continued, “a nd his
works are important. But science
and religion must be kept separate
by Christian men and women. If
we fail at this point it will not be
long before the world will be with-
out a Savior and the Savior will be
without a church."
Adoption of the executive com-
mittee’s report today was made con-
tingent upon whether the conven-
tion accepted a recommendation to
affiliate more closely with the Y.
M. C. A.
The report provides that the con-
vention affiliate with the 13 de-
nominations supporting. the organ-
ization by appointing a committee
of three to confer with the organ-
ization’s director, it being pointed
out that such an interest would fos-
ter a more intimate association with
the work.
NEW YORK, May 14. (AP)-
Twelve of the 16 rum vessels that
have been anchored on rum row
under the surveillance of the
blockading coast guard have put
to sea toward Halifax, officers of.
the CG-17, patrol boat, reported
today when they put in at Staten
Island. Two steamships and two
schooners are the only liquor ships
left, they reported.
NEW YORK, May 14. (P—The
Forty-four bables have died while inmates of the baby farm of Mrs.
Geisen-Volk, pictured above as she faced court in her hearing on the .
charge of having substituted another baby for the one left in her care reported
by Wm. Angerer.
No Indictment Returned Against
Mrs.
fieri! in Poisoning Case;
Nd Report in Case of Mr. Shepherd
HEAVY RAINS IIS
1 CHICAGO, May 14. (n—Mrs. wil.
1am D. Shepherd has been cleared
by the grand jury of implication in
. the death of the murders of Mrs,
0 Emma Nelson Mechintock and WH-
n ilam McClintock, millionaire orphan.
- "**Y The jury voted two "no bills/
a IEAI thus quashing recommendations of
J 5 HITV1 - coroner’s jury that held her as
MU U.T. UAILAIIUIVIM accessory to her husband, held, for
trial on an indictment charging the
murder by typhoid germs of young
OVER HALF-INCH FALLS
HERE IN THREE HOURS
EARLY THURSDAY
EXTENDS FROM BOWIE :
TO TEXLINE ON DENVER
Katy Reports Rain Far North As
Altus: Seymour and Archer
City Wet
McClintock. “ It took noaction on
the coroner’s jury’s verdict holding
Shepherd responsible for Mrs. Me-
Clintock’s death, but may thereby
hear any further evidence developed
in that regard. .
Mrs. Shepherd greeted the jury’s
vote with a statement in which she
said an acquittal “must be the ulti-
mate outcome of all the conspiracy
against my husband and myself.
There must be an end to this damn-
price of liquor going up in New
York is going down in California.
The reason is the dry navy’s block-
ade of the east coast rum row.
Many of the ships, unable to do
business here, have sailed for the
Pacific coast, where customers are
bringing loads ashore
regularly and without difficulty.
Some estimates places the Values
of whiskey landed in and around
San Diego within the past 48 hours
at more than $200,000. As a result
the bottom has fallen out of the gin
market in California. Scotch is re-
ported selling for $4 a quart in Los
Angeles, compared with old prices
of $6 to $9. Cutters are reported
unable to cope with the rum ships
off southern California.
New York newspapers say that
though liquor is still plentiful here,
it is coming from reserve stocks
and wholesale prices have gone up
$10 to $15 a case ashore since the
blockade started The World says
that champagne, which formerly
sold at $85 or sye a case, how costs
$100. Rye whiskey is very rare and
Scotch is as high as 160 a case.
TRIANGULAR BOOZE WAR _
“ WAGED ON PACIP COAST
SAN PEDRO. Cal. May u a-
Rum runners. hijackers and law
enforcement officers were waging a
triangular war here today for con-
trol of San Pedro harbor.
Police and federal prohibition
agents admitted they had’llttle sue-
cess in stemming the flow of illicit
nquor from a rum fleet of vessels
said to be lying off the coast be-
tween here and San Diego, but de-
clared they had evidence to show
that hijackers were making it hot
for the rum smugglers
Reports were being investigated
of a shooting affray last midnight
on the road between Whale Point
and Point Firman overlooking
Steps Are Being Taken By State
, To Collect Approximately $200,000
Inheritance Tax on Burnett Gift
BRADLEY ELECTED
VICE PRESIDENT
FURNITURE MEN
MAN HURT IN POOL
AT PORT ARTHUR DIES
BEAUMONT, Texas, May 14—I.
Davidson, seaman on the steamer
George Pearce, died at Port Arthur
Wednesday night as a result of
fracturing his skull when he dived
into a swimming pool, striking his
head against the cement bottom
Monday.. He was a native of Fin-
land but his family is said to re-
side in New Orleans, N
Speelal to The Times.
AUSTIN, Texas, May 14.--Steps
were being taken Thursday by the
inheritance tax division of the
comptroller’s department to collect
approximately $200,000 of inserit-
ance taxes claimed to be due by the
state on the trust fund bequeathed
by the late Mrs. Burk Burnett to
Texas Christian University of Fort
Worth, the astorney general having
held that this trust fund is sub.
jeet to an inheritance tax.
Mrs. Burnett gave to this insti-
tution $5,000,000 in trust and three-
fourths of this amount is subject
to this tax, it was held.
DALLAS Texas, May 14.—1. p.
Walker of Houston was elected
president of the Retail Furniture
Dealers’ Association of Texas at the
closing session of the three-day con-
vention here today. Houston was
selected as the 1926 convention elty.
Walker succeeds W. He Wray of
Dallas. -------------•
John W. Bradley of Wichita Falls,
Harvey L Rix, of Big Spring, and
T. J. Walton of Corsicana were
elected vice presidents, and C. E.
Wilson of Houston was elected
treasurer. It was voted to author-
ise employment of a ‘full-time
traveling secretary, who has not
been named. .
Heavy rains visited sections of
northwest Texas and southwest Ok-
lahoma again Thursday morning
and drenched certain areas of the
two states. -
Starting shortly before 7 o’clock,
.51 of an inch of rainy had fallen
in Wichita Falls at 10 o’clock when
the heavy downpour let up, accord-
ing to figures of the Government
Cooperative Weather Bureau. oper-
ated by the Wichita Falls Electric
Company A temperature of 62 de-
grees was reported at 8 o’clock and
the thermometer gave little inclina-
tion of elimbing rapidly. The ba-
rometer stood at 29:12 and a north-
east wind prevailed In this section
of ithe state.
Heavy rains were reported at all
points on the Fort Worth and Den-
ver City railroad between Texline
and Bowie Thursday morning.
Roads are practically impassable,
and operations in the outlying oll
fields are being held up because of
the lack of transportation, facilities.
Rain was reported at all points
on the northwestern division of the
Missouri, Wansas and Texas rail-
road between Wichita Falls and Al-
tus. Okla." . *
The rain extended west as far as
Seymour on the Wichita Valley rail-
road and a heavy rain was reported
at Archer City, with a light shower
at Olney by the dispatcher of the
Wichita Falls and Southern rail-
road.
Heavy rains have done no dam-
age to the irrigation ditches and
laterals, P. A. Welty, chief engineer
of the water improvement district,
announced Thursday.
Water in Lake Kemp is at the
new high evel of 67 feet and heavy
rains northwest of the lake will
add further depth to the storage
reservoir.
Almost two inches_of rain has
been experienced in Wichita Falls
during May, the rainy season start-
ing on May 6 with .52 inches of
precipitation.
The following report for the
month on precipitation was issued
by J. W. Lyle of the weather bu-
reau, Thursday, May 6-52; May 7
-01: May 9—trace: May 10 57;
May 11—trace: May 13—31 and May
14—.51, a total of 1.92 inches.
Heavy rains are interfering with
farming, according to agricultur-
ists, who state that farmers are un-
able to work in the fields and that
sufficient moisture has been re-
celved.
able outrage against us.” She has
maintained throughout-that the In-
vestigation of the deaths and the
charges against her husband and
herself was a conspiracy.
The grand jury took action after
hearing more than a score of wit-
nesses in less than two hours. Its
decision was not unexpected as
Robert E. Crowe, state’s attorney,
had declared that the action of the
coroner’s jury and its recommenda-
tions had interfered with the trial
of Shepherd, due to start,next Mon-
day, and had indicated that he did
not believe the evidence sufficient
to sustain a charge against Mrs.
Shepherd in either death. Some of
the witnesses heard by the grand
jury are persons who will be used
by the defense in Shepherd’s trial.
harbor. A large truck followed
closely by, a touring ear” was at-
EXERCISES WILL
MARK CLOSING OF
WORK IN SCHOOLS
Commencement exercises, pro-
grams and plenics will mark the
closing of the year’s work in the
rural schools of Wichita county.
Thursday and Friday nights. Burl
Bryant, county superintendent of
schools, stated Thursday that every
school in the county would con-
clude its work this week.
Thursday night the Clara school
will reproduce its three-act play,
“Nothing But the Truth,” at the
Cashion school.
The Valley View school will hold
its commencement exercises Thura-
day night at the school building,
while the commencement program
at the Clara school will be ren-
dered Friday night.
In most of the remainder of the
schools programs have been ar-
ra n ged for Friday night, 1
Plans have been made by the
City View and Weeth schools to
have a picnic Friday afternoon at
Scotland Park in Wichita Falls. It
was stated Thursday that unless
more favorable weather conditions
existed Friday morning the picnics
would necessarily have to be can-
celled. 3
tacked by another touring car, rest-
dents of the outlying district told
police, and volleys of pistol shots
were exchanged.
Shortly after the shooting in ves-
tigators ran on to a skidway lead-
ing down the steep slope of a bluff
to the water’s edge. A truck ap-
parently had been used to operate
the tackle with which a cargo had
been dragged up the skidway onto
the highway and police expressed
the opinion that this may have been
the same truck attacked by hijack-
Between $10,000 and $20,000 worth
of whiskey is being landed in or
near the harbor daily, officers esti-
mated, adding frankly that the in-
pour of liquor will continue so long
as they are handicapped by entire
lack of small fast boats with which
to patrol the port.
NOCONA, Texas May 14. Two
Nocona youths, one 17 and the other
20 years of age, are. in the Mon-
tague county jail in connection with
the theft of $670 in cash from Mrs
Taylor Benton, aged 10, at her
home one mile east of Nocona
Wednesday night. Mrs. Taylor was
roughly handled but not seriously
hurt by the youths, who forced her
to deliver the money to them. The
telephone wires were cut and the
two boys made their escape before
an alarm could be given.
The aged woman reported the
robbery ‘as soon as possible and
about two hours later, after a dill-
kept search. City Marshal R.: T.
Anderson arrested the two youths
and held them for questioning.
After four hours of grubllink, the
youths are said to have confessed
to the robbery and told where the
stolen money was hidden.All of
the $670 was recovered.
The two youths were taken to
Montague Thursday - morning and
placed in the county jail there.
Charges of robbery will be filed
against them, officers say. Both
are well known in-Nocona and one
of them is said to be a relative of
Mrs. Benton and to have known
that she kept considerable money
about the premises. i
HOUSTON WOMAN -
DEFATS CHAMPION
IN SECOND ROUND
DALLAS. Texas, May 14.0-
Miss Margery, Dorrance of Houston
defeated Mrs Prisellia Rodgers.
Feott of Paris: 1924 champion, in the
second round of the championship
fifght in the finth annual tourna-
ment held by the Texas Women’s
Gelf Association at Brook: Hollow
Country Club’here today, 2 and 1.
Although it was predicted that
Miss Dorrance probably was one of.
MrsScott’s strongest opponents,
the defeat of the champion was a
sensational upset. Beautiful and al-
most perfect iron shots won Miss
Dorrance the impressive victory, 1
Mrs. A. M. Rhodes of Dallas elim-
inated Mrs. Jim Harned of Dallas,
2 and 1, and will meet Miss Dor-
rance in the semi-finals Friday.
Mrs. C. Maddox and Mrs. Ernest
Hightower, both of Fort Worth, will
meet in the other semi-final match:
They won over Mrs. Pauline Head:,
rick and Mrs. May Whitley, both of
Fort Worth, 5 and 4, and 1 up. re-
,hi,spectively:
A A large gallery followed the play:
ere today, the weather being’ much
better for golf and the course being
in better condition.
FRACTURED SKULL
CAUSED DEATH OF
‘BABY FARM BABY
DAMAGE SUIT ON SEWER
SYSTEM STILL ON TRIAL
The suit for $27,50% damages,
styled W. D. McClure against the
city of Iowa Park based on eer-
tain allegations relative to the sew.
erage system of the eity, is still on
trial in the 89th district court be-
fore Judge P. A. Martin and a jury.
TSTIFIES THAT HE
NEGOTIATED PARDON
IN CASE OF GRUNDY
TOPEKA Kan, May 14 (P)—A. L:
Oswald, Hutchinson, Kan., attorney. ‘
the state’s principal witness against
Jonathan M. Davis, former govern-
or, on trial’charged with seeking a
bribe, testified today that he had
completed negotiations with Carl J
Peterson for a pardon for Walter
Grundy, convicted Hutchinson bank-
er, after telling Governor Davis
himself that “Peterson told me
$2,500 would be all right."
Cross examination of Fred W.T
Pollman, one of the state’s star wit-
nesses, was continued today.
On the witness stand yesterday
Pollman also a convicted banker,
who, it is alleged, paid $1,250
to Russell Q. Davis, son of
the former governor, and in
return received a pardon told of
two meetings with young Davis and
identified the pardon granted him 1
He was not permitted to relate his,
conversations with young Davis’or
to tell- o? the payment of the money,
however, as the transaction forma
the basis of a pending criminal
charge against the Davises. It was
merely brought out that Pollman
received the pardon in a Topeka
hotel room. -
. The prosecution—previously’ had
introduced testimony of Glenn A..
Davis, a convict, who stated he car-
ried a message from Governor Davis
to Pollman that I $1,250 was paid
to Russell G. Davis the pardon ap
pDcations of both convicts would be
considered favorably. :
ABILENE MAN HURT IN
FALL ON DALLAS STREET
DALLAS May 14 James B Bar-
ton of Abilene was taken to a hos-
pital today after a fall on the
street. He was talking to an ef-
figer, asking directions te the home
of his brother, w hen he fainted and
fell His head hit the curbing -
OVERNIGHT GAIN
OF SEVEN CENTS
IN PRICE WHEAT
CHICAGO May 15. (—An un-
usually sharp advance in the priee
of wheat today accompanied indi-
cations of export business of liberal *
amount Wheatfor May delivery*
rose to $1.68 in the final hour of
trading, an overnight gain of seven
cents a bushel
A tremendous falling off in the
amount of wheat shipments from
south America to Europe was taken
as significant in connection with
enlarged export demand here. It
was, pointed out that wheat ship-
ments from Argentina this week
have been only 259,000 bushels as
NEW YORK, May 14. UP—.Dr. Otto against 2,293,000 bushels for the
correspondigthme last year. *
Before the day was ended May
H. Schultze, medical expert, noti-
filed the district attorney today.. .
after an autopsy that a fraeturedidelivery wheat brought: $1.68 •
skull caused the death of Williamibushel, an extreme rise of 7 cents
compared with yesterday’s late
dealing. Today’s finish for the mar-
ket as a whole was strong at gains
varying from two to seven cents,
with May delivery $167T T6 $1.68
and July $1.62 to $1,521.
Winters, one month old infant, who
had been placed in the “baby farm”
of Mrs. Helen A. Gelsen Volk. *
NEW YORK, May 14 (Py—Charges
that Agnes Toohey, 16 months old.
was held by the heels and dashed
against a ‘wall at a baby hospital
conducted by Mrs Helen Gelsen:
Volk have collapsed as a result of
an autopsy which followed exhum-
ation of the body.
The attack occurred the day be-
WEATHER FORECAST
One of the jurors* was excused
Wednesday afternoon because of 41-
ness in his family and the trial ........____________________.
continued with only eleven men in nurst.—nut no signa of physical in-
the jury box. It was apparent late
Thursday that the remainder of the
day would be required to conclude
fore, the child died, according to the
uncorroborated testimony of a
the testimony In the case.
THE MOST
RESPONSIVE
WANT ADS
IN
WICHITA FALLS
ARE
TIMES
WANT ADS *
PHONE 4391 L
. TODAY,
jury were found on the body yes-
terday.
An autopsy is yet to be performed
on the body of William Winter, one
1 OTS.OF PEOPLE TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF THE
FACT THAT IT ISN’T
HUMAN TO BE PERFECT
month old, who also died at the
baby home and whose body also has
been exhumed. The reason for this
autopsy has not been disclosed.
Mrs. Volk is under arrest on a
charge of baby substitution and
violation of the health code.
Health department records have
disclosed that 44 babies died at the
two establishments maintained by
her since January 1. 1918.
MAN HELD WHO WAS
‘ARRESTED WEDNESDAT
A man who was arrested by coun-
t officers late Wednesday night
upon complaint of a farmer and his
wife was still in custody late
Thursday afternoon at which time
preparations were being made for
trial. The arresting officers assert
that the arrest was the result of
an alleged petting party on the
roadside about which many com-
plaints have been registered by
farmers, ,
—LITTLE JOE
WICHTTA FALLS and vicinity Tem-
perature Maximum 85 degrees: minimum
63 degrees. at 1 p. m. Thursday 78 de-
trees: precipitation 51. Cloudy South
wind. average velocity 12 miles per hour
Barometer 29 00. (As reported by the
Gov ernment Cooperat ive Weather Bureau
operated by the Wichita Falls Electric "
Company) , *
EAST AND WEST TEXAS AND ox.
LAHOMA: Tonight and Friday partly .
cloudy.
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