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VOL. XVII. NO. 107—Associated Press Day and Night Leased Wire
AMARILLO, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1926.
TWELVE PAGES
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CRIBS DAUGHTER NEAR PIGSTY, MAN SLAIN
SUPREME COURT DENIES REHEARING IN ARCHER ROAD CASE
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LIVESTOCK MEMORIAL AT A. & M. PROPOSED Wellington Man
TEXAS ANDS.W. Held Folin wino
TEXAS CAPITOL
IS ALARMED AT
COURT DECISION
TEXAS ROAD BONDS VALUED 75
TO 100 MILLION DOLLARS
ARE AFFECTED.
LEGISLATURE IS HOPE
“Wet” Leader Endorses
Knighted
IC
Moody Declares Way Must Be Found
To Validate Bonds In Question;
Special Call Is Urged.
AUSTIN, March •.(A’)—Derision
of the United Supreme Court in
Washington in denying motion for
rehearing of the Archer County
bond ease was viewed with alarm
in the Texas capitol today.
The decision, affects between
$5,000,000 and $100,000,000 in Texas
road district bonds. ..
Attorney General Don Moody,
who filed the motion for rehear-
ing, said that some means of vall-
dating the bead issues must be
found. He declared that he did
not believe that the people of
Texas would repudiate the bonds
after having enjoyed the privilege
they afforded.
Former Governor James E Fer-
guson said that he had not had an
opportunity to study the opinion in
the case. , .
Some authorities, who declined to be
quoted, said that a special session of
the legislature should be called to
validate the issues, r
The case resulted from the action of
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MAN AND HIS WIFE
ARE FOUND SLAIN
AT SAN ANTONIO
Press Poll on Dry Law
By NEA Service.
WASHINGTON, March 8—“Expressions of public opinion on great
issues through newspaper straw votes are second In value only to votes
at the polls."
With this remark, Congressman John Philip Full of Maryland today
gave his strong commendation to NEA Service and the 700 newspapers
which will co-operate with it in a nation-wide poll on prohibition.
“I favor such a vote on the question of national prohibition,” said
Mr. HUl. "With the volume of votes cast in a widespread balloting
campaign, convincing evidence of the people’s will can be obtained to
guide popular thought and legislative action.
“As an opponent of the Volstead act, I believe firmly that it does
not represent the will of the majority of the American people. Every
chance, official or unofficial, for them to express their disapproval of
It should be seized. Friends of prohibition, likewise, have a fair chance •
to express their views. *
• “On any question of enforcement, of course every citizen will say
ho favors respect for law and obedience to th When a law to obviously
unenforceable, however, as to the prohibition act. the direct answer
to the confusion it creates is to modify it
"I recommend this nation-wide straw vote sponsored by NEA Ber-
vice as a chance for everyone to do what has not been possible at
the polls-to say yes or no on national prohibition."
Captain W. H Stayton, founder and national chairman of the As-
sociation Against the Prohibition Amendment, also endorsed the poll
whole heartedly.
"We have always maintained," he said, “that the prohibition law
represents the will of the minority of the people of the United States
and that, were a popular referendum held, the nation would go over-
whelmingly in favor of a modification of the existing enforcement act •
and, consequently, a broader interpretation of the eighteenth amend-
“On the matter of ratification of the eighteenth amendment, the
people were given no opportunity to express themselves at the polls
.. “ The questionnaire submitted to the readers of your newspapers
will undoubtedly show that a majority is opposed to prohibition, and in
my opinion it to a good way to obtain an expression of the will of the
voters in the absence of a popular referendum.
You are to. be congratulated on your efforts to give your readers
a chance to announce their views on such an important question."
‘ ‘‘ Amarillo citizens will be given an opportunity late this week to
vote on the prohibition law, "
...The News and The Globe will conduct a poll here In conjunction
mNthe nation-wide vote epensored ky 700-newspapers over the
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SAN ANTONIO, March 8.-C.. H
Wiley, 40, and his wife, Mrs. Nora
Wiley, were found dead in their home
this afternoon. Police went to the
rinco when neighbors reported that •
disturbance was in progress there.
The bodies were found in a smell
back bedroom huddled together in one
corner. The man's head was almost
severed from his body and he had ser-
tous cute over the heart and in the
star Chiro blade had pierced the wo-
amn’s skull and her body bore at least
20 knife cuts, police said. She had
also been hit with what police said
must have been a partly broken bot-
Two ordinary pocket knives were
found in the room with the bodies. One
knife was on a bed near by and one
lay on the floor. A number of broken
quart and pint bottles were scattered
over the floor. A gallon Jug partly
filled with whiskey was in ths room
also police said.
Following an invitation Chief of De-
tective Sam Street and Captain Wal-
ter Harvey expressed the theory that
Wiley had killed his wife and then cut
AGED MAN WANTS TO
COME TO PANHANDLE
AND RIDE COW PONIES
Ride ’em cowpuncher.
“I want to come to Texas when the
Old Time cowpunchers meet at Can-
yon, and I want to get on a cow pony
and sit in a Heiser 42 pound saddle
and let ’er buck,” writes John B. Leach,
70 years old, who lives at Kansas City.
John Arnot, 1409 Lincoln street, re-
celved the letter from Mr. Leach yes-
terday. Mr. Arnot to president of the
Old Time Cowpunchers association.
Mr. Leach writes that he began his
career as a cowpuncher in 1876 in the
Rocky Mountain near Longmont, Colo-
rado. He states that he never was much
of a cowboy, but to making a success
at railroading.
FORMER TEXAN IS
onnec-
. with
• con-
- con-
his own throat.
The police said that 11 months ago i
they made a call to the Wiley house
and found the body of a Mexican,
who had been shot to death In the
Identical corner where the two bodies
were found today. Wiley was asleep
by it. Two months ago they responded
to a call to the same place. Wiley hav-
ing taken two shots at his wife on that
occasion, the police said. They said
Wiley had been confined to Jall re-
cently and was released only a few
hours before ths, slayings.
HARGED IN DEATH
OF FARMERS WIFE
VISIT OF KING ALFONSO TO
U. S. IS DENIED BY AMHASSADOR
PALN BEACH, Fla., Mar. s.—()—
Alexander P. Moore, former ambassa-
dor to Spain, said here today that re-
ports of a visit to the United States
by King Alfonso of Spain in ths early
autumn, were groundless.
THE DAY IN WASHINGTON
Hearings on the Schall-Johnson
Senatorial contest from Minnesota,
were closed.
“ The Senate Judiciary committee
considered pending bills to modify
the prohibition law.
The House agriculture committee
discussed farm legislation with mid-
dle west delegations.
The supreme court declared un-
constitutional the Pennsylvania law,
prohibiting the use of shoddy in
bedding.
The Senate adoped a resolution au-
thorising a point congressional com-
mittee to consider bids for Muscle
Shoals
The Senate Lands committee and
the Interior Department reached an
agreement ba regulating grazing on
the public domain.
Secretary Hoover urged that the
shipping board be stripped of its ad-
ministrative powers over the gov-
ernment merchant fleet
DENVER, Mar. 8.—(P)— Information
charging Virgil A. Massie, and Mrs.
Rene Divilbess, former Texas resident,
with the murder of Mrs. Katherine
Rosenbaum Massie, daughter of a
Carthage, III, farmer, who died under
mysterious circumstances February 1,
was filed In Jefferson county district
court today by District Attorney Joel E.
Stone. They are held in Jall in Gorden,
Colorado.
PRESIDENT H ASNO
FAULT TO FIND UN
EXPENDITURES NOW
WASHINGTON, March 1—( ) —
Representative Tilson of Connecticut,
the Republican leader, today assured
the House that President Coolidge in
urging that congress put the brake on
applications for the remainder of the
session, had no fault to find with. ex-
penditures to date.
The assurance was given after Rep-
resentative Garner, Democrat, Texas,
asked the floor leader just what reduo-
tions the president wanted.
“There is no effort to restrain con-
gress," Mr. Tilson replied. “It to simply
calling attention to the drastic cut la
revenues."
He added that the president made no
specific recommendations for reductions.
Temple Banker Robbed
TEMPLE Mar,” 8.—(JP)—The home
of P. F. Downs, president of ths First
National bank, was robbed Saturday
night aad jewelry valued at more than
$760 was taken.
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IMARILLO TO VOTE
TODAY ON $240,000
SCHOOL BOND ISSUE
SCANDALS TRULY
BROADWAY EVENT
CROWDS TURNED AWAY AT Al DI
TORIUM; PRODUCTION GON-
GEOUS, FLASHIY.
' Breadway brought to Amarillo:
Geers White’s Scandals, which play-
ed to a packed house at the Auditorium
last night, was the most elaborate, gor.
geous, brilliant entertainment ever seen
in the city. Scene after scene of splen-
dor, with bits of comedy, dancing and
novelties of all sorts sandwiched in be-
tween. flashed before the audience in a
kaleidoscope of beauty and color.
And girls! Dozens of them. The cos-
tumes ranged from fluffy colonial gowns
to daring Oriental creations. The chorus
was well-trained as to dancing and when
as a finale to the first act, the complete
Chorus danced the Charleston, led by a
particularly attractive boyish-bobbed
beauty, the Auditorium rocked with ap-
plause.
Costumes Brilliant.
Amarillo will today give its answer
to the plea of Superintendent W. A.
McIntosh and members of the board of
trustees for more school room.
A large majority for the $240,000 bond
issue to sought by board school officials
who point out they will be able to get
a larger premium with an overwhelm-
ing majority.
There will be only two voting places,
the court bouse for those living east of
Polk street and the central fire station
for those west of Polk.
Polls will be opened at t o’clock and
close at • this afternoon. Presiding
Judges at the court house will be J. R.
Gaut and E. J. Witt and at the fire
station W. 8. Roberts and J. P. Bur-
gess.
Contracts for the buildings will be let
Immediately after the bonds are voted,
according to plans of authorities who
declared they wish to alleviate the con-
gested conditions of the schools as soon
as possible. Architects have completed
plans on the three buildings and work
can be started at once.
. The new improvements are a 22-room
building in the southwest part of the
city, a10-room addition to the North
Amarillo and a 16-room unit for the
San Jacinto school building.
Many puplis living in North Amaril-
lo are now being forced to attend Tyler___-___________. ...______- _____
Streetschool. Such conditions also ex- Robert B. Dula, Jr., and $5,000 yearly
1st in San Jacinto. Half day sessions are
also being held in several schools.
Never before has such gorgeous scen-
ery been displayed In Amarillo, Bril-
lant drops, with the girls in still more
brilliant costumes, were flashed before
the crowd in rapid succession. In one
instance four elaborate scenes came to-
gether, presenting the famous curtains
of girls. The glittering draperies of the
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WOMAN GETS DIVORCE
AND ALIMONY WHEN
HUSBAND ABANDONS
NEW TORK, March S — (PrThat
he would net recognize the right of
any man to abandon his wife without
providing in the manner to which she
has been accustomed, supreme court
Justice Proskauer today awarded Mrs.
Elsie Singman Dula, separation from
RAISERS FAVOR
HUGE PROPOSAL
RONZE STATUES AND MEMORIAL
BUILDING INCLUDED IN
PROJECT.
WILL COST $350,000
Pioneer Cattlemen and Cowboys To Be
Memorialized Is Plan Outlined By
Dean of Agriculture.
FORT WORTH, March s.—()-
Proposal to erect a memorial to the
livestock industry of Texas, featur-
ing the cowboy and his pioneer
work at A & M college was endorsed
in a resolution adopted by the ex-
ecutive committee of the Texas and
Southern Cattle. Dodshm ohm ohm •
elation, today, preceding the general
sessions of the fifteenth anniversary
convention of the Association,
which opens tomorrow. The memo-
rial project was outlined to the com-
mittee by Dr. E. J. Kyle, dean of
the department of Agriculture at
A. & M. The memorial would serve
both an artistic and utilitarian pur-
pose, taking the form of a building
now needed by the college, to house
the departments of animal and dai-
ry husbandry, Kyle explained
Bronze statues and oil paintings
would commemorate the days st
trail driver and cowboy pioneers.
Under Kyle’s plan bronze busts of pio-
neer cattlemen would be placed in the
rotunda and the walls would be decorate
ed with paintings of cowhoys and cuttle
scenes. In front there would be threce
bronze statues — a longhorn steer to
typify the past, a typical beef steer of
today, anil a statue of a typical Texas
cowboy.
The resolution adopted asks the next
legislature to make appropriations for
the building and its memorial features.
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LATE WIRE NEWS
Held Following
Fatal Shooting
WOMAN ADJUDGED INSANE IS TAKEN TO FAR noMr
BY HUSBAND; FATHER DEMANDS RETURN:
REFUSES TO LEAVE; 18 SHOT TO DEATH.
Charged With Murder in Connection with the Slayine or w.M
Owens, J. W. Martin Is Released On $5,000 Bond." "
Shot Gun Used in Altercation.” 297
. Wellington, Texas, March 8.—(Special to The News.).h |
Owens kept his married daughter in a crib next to a pigsty, fler
husband brought her to my house. Owens came to claim her, and
I ordered him off the place. He refused to go. I shot him.”
This is the story told authorities by J. W. Martin, who lives
on a farm near the Owens place five miles north of nere. Martin
was arrested and charged with murder in connection with the
death of W. M. Owens, who was slain Sunday.
According to Martin's story, Mrs •
Mark Anderson, Owens’ daughter, was
adjudged of unsound mind some time
ago, and sent to a sanitarium. Owens,
It to said, went after her and took her
back to his farm. Neighbors say
Owens boxed off the end of a feed
crip, next to a pig sty, and kept her
there.
IMinIT-UN
TRAPPED I
Woman Faces Murder Charge
DALLAS, Mar. 8.—(I) — Formal
charges .of murder were lodged today
against Mrs. Clara M. Tedford, 32, who
shot and mortally wounded her husband
G. A. Tedford, last night after the two
had quarreled. Tedford died just before
noon.
Felder is Denied Appeal.
WASHINGTON, March 8——(P)
Thomas B. Felder, the New York law-
yer, convicted of having conspired with
Gaston B. Means and others to bribe
government officials and refused sppeal
today by the supreme court
alimony.
Mrs. Dula had been receiving tem-
porary alimony of $35 a week. Jus-
tice Proskauer said the evidence show-
ed conclusively that the Dulas had
NEW YORK, March s.—(P)— Mrs.
Eleanor V. Brewster today was awarded
$200,000 damages against Miss Corliss
Palmer, movie actress for alienation of
the affections of Eugene V. Brewster,
wealthy magazine publisher. The Jury
deliberated one hour.
WASHINGTON, March s.—()—As-
sistant Secretary Andrews said today it
would be helpful If public officials
would take a special oath to obey tbs
prohibition law. He retrained however
from commenting on the necessity tor
such action advocated recently by a
number of women's organizations.
HOUSTON, March •. -()— Ran-
dolph Roberston, 50, former vice consul
at Nueva Laredo, pleaded guilty here
today in federal court to two counts of
an indictment charging embezzlement
and misuse of state department funds.
The government dismissed an Indict-
ment charging perjury in a former
trial on the first Indictment and recom-
mended that the court suspend Robert,
son’s sentence. Judge Hutcheson gave
him two years in Leavenworth and sus-
pended the sentence for five years.
been living at the rate of $22000 n
year. Dula he characterized as an
"Idler, living on the bounty of his
family."
Mr. Dull Is son of Robert B. Duln,
former vice preside nt of the American
Tobacco Company. They lived at
Tuckahoo, N. Y. on a seven acre es.
tate which was shin Dula by his
father.
A suit against her father In law and
his wife for $250,000 for alleged alien-
ation of her husband’s affections filed
by Mrs. Dula. Is pending.
Her husband, Mark Anderson,
learned of her plight, it is said, and re-
ceived court permission to have her re-
moved from her father’s home. He
took her to the home of Martin, an
old friend of Owens, nearby.
Sunday morning, Martin says, Owens
came to his door and demanded that
his daughter be allowed to return to
his home. Martin refused, and an al-
tercation to said to have ensued.
“Owens refused to leave the place,”
Martin said, “and declared be was go-
ing to stay until we brought her down
to breakfast, then take her home. I
ordered him away again, and ho began
to abuse me."
Owens who was 53 years old. died
instantly, after two full charges from
a shotgun had been fired into bla body.
Martin was jailed after being charg-
ed with murder, but was released to-
day on $5,000 bond.
MAGNUS JOHNSON IS
DEFEATEO IN CONTEST
FOR SEAT IN SENATE
WASHINGTON, March 8.—An un-
animous decision against Magnus
Johnson, former farmer-labor Senator,
in his contest for the seat held by
Senator Schall, Republican, Minnesota,
was reached today by Senate elections
sub-committee.
A report embodying this decision
will be prepared within a few days
for submission to the entire committee
which, in turn, will make its recom-
mendations to the Senate, where the
contest must be decided finally.
AMERICAN ACTRESS
TO WED SIR CHARLES
MENDL OF BRITAIN
WASHINGTON, March 3—(A) - The
Department of Justice is understood to
be investigating the right of the Texas
Company to the Adams patent of the
cracking of process by which crude oil
is converted Into gasoline. Officials de- 1
elined today to predict
PARIS, Mar. 8.—(P)— According to
reliable Information. Elsie De Wolfe, the
American actress, and Sir Charles
Mendl, head of the press section of the
British embassy In Paris, plan to be
married Wednesday morning. The in-
tended wedding comes as v great sur-
prise to their friends.
Miss Do Wolfe is 61 years old. She
made her debut on the stage in 1800
1.- ...... ... - and was for years head of her own stock
whether action company She left the stage in 1903 and
since has been engaged as Interior dec-
would re u _ orator. Sir Charles Mendl was an in-
March -(-A telligence officers lu the British army
silt .0rewnowI was granted tel during the war “• was inlanted in
day in the federal trade commissions -
suit charging the American Tobacco w-nanMP a a a . n
comp any with aiding in price fixing in I ATTIMOREF ACCE PTS
the Philadelphia district. The court of MI HIROAL AUUE 1 1 V
appeals, which hmd dismissed the case, npsaap an
(Was ovorruled.__APPOINTMENT MADE AS
“You Can't Trade a Ham Bone in on APPEALS ATTORNEY
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Another Ham,” Kroh Tells Auto Men
Butchers are better business
men than automobile dealers.
So declared A. R. Kroh, of the
National Automobile Dealers' asso-
elation at a meeting held yesterday
at noon at the Amarillo hotel Mr.
Kroh was accompanied by H. D.
Bullock of the same organization.
“Whoever heard of a man pur-
chasing a barn from a butcher
aad then returning a few days
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later with the bone from that ham
and demanding that It be taken in
on another ham?" asked Mr. Groh.
“Never, never pay more for a used
automobile than you can sell this
car for with a profit added."
“What about taking in open
cars? someone naked.
“I'd come pretty nbor lotting the
public wear out their own open
cars, there is no market for them."
he said. “More than 11,000 cars
are going to the junk head every
day."
“How many hours a day does
the automobile salesman work on
an average?" asked Jim Jenkins.
“About two,” shot back the
speaker. “There to not one au.
tomobile salesman in a hundred
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ONE DEAD, THIRTY SEVEN n
CUED ALIVE, IN DOUBLE
EXPLOSION
ECCLES, W. Va, March 8.—(P)-
One man to known to have been killed, *
11 minora are entombed, and 87 others
were rescued alive, following the ex.
plosion in mines number five and six of
the Crab Orchard Improvement Com.
pany near here, according to * check
made late tonight by officials. Many
of those brought out by rescue crews
were badly burned and were suffering
from the effects of, poison gam
Mine officials said that the original
blast occurred in number 1, where the
26 entombed men were working and
that it spread to No. • trapping 40
others. Rescue erews went into No. 6
shortly after the blast occurred and
brought out the two score survivors
They said this mine was little affected
by the blast.
Number I mine was filled with poison,
ous gases and the rescue men could not
go down the shaft. The two bodies
were found in a lateral connecting the
mines.
those brought out by res
re badly burned and were
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NINTH CABINET OF
BRIAND LOOMS AS
FRENCH SOLUTION
PARIS, March s—()—A ninth s
Briand cabinet tonight seemed the
most probable solution of France’s cab-
inet crista. One of the public men con-
suited today by President Doumergue
expressed the general sentiment re-
garding the crista saying:
“The situation to complicated and
simple. It to simple because it to
complicated. The legislation of this
apparent anomally to that when the
situation is so complete there to only
one man can unravel IL That is
Briand."
M. Briand, however will require a
great deal of persuasion before be con-
sents to undertake anew the difficult
task of bringing order of the parth^*
menty chaos. He is willing to remain
at the Quaid or any as foreign min-
ister but prefers that some else grap-
ple with the financial situation. The
opinion tonight, however, is that the
necessary pressure to overcome his ob-
Jertions will be brought to answer, be-
cause it is impossible now to see how
any other man can unravel the tangle.
The extreme radicals and socialists are
making another effort to reorganize
their cartel behind a Herriot cabinet.
The president of the Chamber of Dep-"
utes, however, la averse to this com- "
bination, because he would be obliged 1
to support the same financial policy he
followed when in power before, which .
was rejected by the Senate. Joseph
Cailliaux is still mentioned as an
available candidate if M. Briand should
steadfastly refuse.
The WEATHER
j FORT WORTH, March •.—( A) -No-
tified today of his appointment by the
court of criminal appeals as its attorney
j in the hearing before the supremo court
of the United States of the famous Mur-
ray Jacksoa-Ku Klux Klan Clogging
case from Williamson county, district
Judge Hal S. Lattimore today stated
he will accept the appointment.
Texas Pioneer Dies
GALVESTON. Mar 1.-4*) —Charles
P. McNeill, 80, member of a pioneer
T»xaa family, died here early today.
Funeral serv icon will be held here Tues-
day with Interment at Perry’s Landing.
Brazoria county.
For Amarillo and victatty Tuesday fate:
slightly warmer. .20
Fort West Texas: Tuesday fair, , 4
For Eastern New Mexico: Mostly fair Tues-
day; not much change in temperature. J
Weather Conditions
High premure covers the Plains States this 1 J
morning. The pressure is low in the Northeast
Itain has fallen along the Atlantic coast see-
tions and light eno r over the Ohio Tallies. EX J
ww temperatures over the Lake region
seasonal temperatures are
ing. The eastward mover
States high pressure Area,
er tonight and Tuesday wi
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