Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 320, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 30, 1926 Page: 2 of 16
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WICHITA DAILY TIMES
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- Speed Boot Lies 100 Fathoms
Under Surface of Gulf
—Occupants Escape
zon #2.42-22
Apesa boat les today 100 fathoms
under the surface of the Gulf Of
Mexico about a quarter of a mile
from the Malsoon. Havant"" "8814*
4‘Yetont sank into yesterday aft-
or a collision with Miss Palm Beach
a, they rounded a buoy on the
course of the 12-mile open race for
motor boats. Thousands of persons
along the seawall, were watoning
the boats as they aped through *
aea disturbed by a heavy swell, ,
piss Okeechobee with Mra WAA.
Conners of Buffalo at the wheel
had safely rounded the boey a short
distance ahead of Miss Palm Beach,
going to nearly so miles an hour
and leaving a wide white wake be:
hind her. Miss Palm Beach struck
the wake, leaped clear of the water
and came down off her course. Baby
car, closely following, also leaped
1 over the swell and struck the left
side of Miss Palm Beach, orusNE
! the deck and ripping a hole in her
own bow. _ .
Motor Boat to Rescue.
George Wood, driving Baby Car
and Joe Kenny, his mechanician,
were thrown out of the boat. Mr
Connors had heard the crash. She
immediately swung her boat about
sharply and with the motors rosF-
ing ana the ball of Miss Okeechobee
. bait hidden by the spray she rased
back toward the buoy where Wood
and Kenny could be seen bobbins
up and down with the swell.
Kenny’s ure preserver had floated
away from him ea he started to
swim toward Baby Gar, which was
| running la a eirele with Ma motor
roaring. Mia Conners went along,
aide Wood. As she slowed down
both the boat and the men in the
36, She Has *
■ 20 Children
Srrensund, stame, sturch so.
o-srs. Louts M. Cross. 80
years old, today to the mother ot
so enildren. She gave birth to
loth child. a 18-pound girl
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the enildren are living.
OVERED BY SNOV
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arisstins rain tell virtually the ens
■ tire day, turning to Blees in some
" piaces and elsewhere mixed with
* snow flurries.
me
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san Antonio 4
L SAN ANTONIO, March 80.
The temperature la the viein
San Antonio stood at 40 early
after a night of heavy rains 5
**-20,na aevae
87 miles an hour at one time d -
the night and for about five 1 .
utes hail fell. The forecast for the
day to railing temperatures with
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wills reported that about half an Whies
inen telt there during the niy £122
s
comes suddenly all fruit will be de-
stroyed.
The strange kick-back of winter
was explained by weather ottiolal:
CO Tren which made Amarillo
the coldest place to the countri for Raintail" totalling M toll at
suited from the fact that the Pane 2222L-R 41 A=dA*ia
, handle city was the center of an
interlapping of the high barometer
area of the northeastern part of the
country with the low barometer
area prevailing to the southwestern
noekles and the Rio Grande Valley.
Though the fruit crop in many
sections appears to be damaged the
n-wind did not blow without some
good, for the wheat crop andthe
western ranges are said to hay
reaped inestimable benefit from the
snow and rain. A report from Chile
dresna a West Texas range, town,
said that there was plenty of water
for the range and asrleulturists
said that the anew should benerst
the great wheat acreage of the Pan:
handle, assuring an abundant deep
Pha
y of
oday
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LUBBOCK MUSIC FETE High School Girls
HAS 5,000 ATTENDANCE AS. pet ph
S sat Stage Booze Party
Demands U. S. Cut 95
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wasnoron. Buren to in—lur to about the 4000 mark for the
1n.ee.oertetrts. $222:("e,."l
In a Hotel Room
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instance of student rig 1
CW-EE,
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pile are thrown together away from
ompou, technical bieh school are
putts tacm.m tE prmanse
three other siris, not pupils Of. Ih
sobool. to share the room, wisout ,
registering, on payment of half of
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di nsTrn. Birla naked the other
eentt
requested to leave by thehot -
EOrcsis." Nothing wrong her-
boned except arinkins on the part
Er the boys and noise, we have
learned. "The other girls may not
have been hiss school pupils et an
"JmaLT ."NorooncatNud ,
officials and officers of the state E
Men" sencol athletic, association
Vinners in 47 mu-
luding plano, vio-
ensembleplaying
no rendered a are.
og the beat talent
■ I meat in keepiss It out of the hands
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man Antonio. Seum ROR TH conten
Also reported heavy Those opposed to the drastic re-
______strictions in the Volstead law al-
senmitera neper. * CIANe,
STAMFORD, Texas, March 50.mA resentatives of five: organizations
quarter of an inch of rain fell here holding the dry viewpoint, were
early last night and was followed jealled to meet today as a joint com.
by a severe norther. This morning mittee to arrange for presentation
the ground has a thin coating ot of their arguments,
anow and the mercury stands at 26 Committee Per
with very little signs of moderation. - 1
"ha" Lale
rains.
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in the United States. g
The committee hearings which
were on the Boylan resolution to
request withdrawal of recognition
were attended by Mother Semple,
head of the convent at Cayoncan
a pro-
urged othe
Wl- :2t:/esrenaret
ney. third, and Littlefield and Los
renso tying for fourth place. Three
hundred and forty musicians com-
pated for honors in the contests.
Artists of national reputation who
appeared during the festival are:
James Stanley, baritone: Mme.
Louise Hubbard, sopranos Max. Po
cored the
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who was recently expelled from likoft violinist, and Edwin HAM
Mexico. She came to recount to the plant PM-MSN
committee her experiences in the]------Ta AwhlaTl .
recent closing of convents by the
Mexican government.
SET DATE CIVIL SUIT
THAT BEGAN BELL. CASE
commee wrersomsel
. This committee comprises. Can
men $:29,S9222/25027 as
stetans say he was injured about the
head, but probably will recover.
The most serious damage apparr
ently was done in the business dis-
triet, where scantling was ripped
from the tops of skyscrapers and
showered down on buildings below,
smashing window class and tearing
houtan" Of the Run hotel.
Mein and Rusk, on Travis street,
were awakened by the storm,
dressed quickly and fled to the lob-
bies until the wind ceased.
Several, pieces of timber landed on
top of the Rusk hotel, plowed holes
in the roof and let the water pour
■ wires Are mown Down. latest .... .... ...-----------------
The telephone company, Western ranine nt to Pelook this morning, degrees above zero.
Union and railway telegraph wires I following a drop to 36 degrees last. . Even 9a, A on . tot res. ------- . = -3. ,x. Cramton , -- —: ----, -=== - .
were Mown down in almost all di-I meat and cold rain early th the day. has been felt and at Phoeni took the wet and dry ranks the CrMEI for 30 years carried a bullet in his
rections. Telephone long distance Ar o, treat blanket which the form of record breaking reins bill to place all except the heart, which as a result has doubled
lines were operating north along toe ... P the Panhandle and A rainfall of 1.19 inches on Mons enforcement. officials under I its natural size.
Houston and Texas Central ratirond felunet ToMO, putting the fin- day was the greatest single dat's service regulations drew the Ml. In 1896 he. attended a charivart
right ot way and partial service Tom touches on the extraordinar- precipitation registered during the Plowing statement today t m during which the bridegroom bes
was being given through Dallas. But 1, 2502 Henson in the ground and month of March to that e for M B. Wheelers, d.rvice bin Same anesg ae.tim.ert:
mner in, ether, fireern paenesir imaumens the whent erop "ASuquargue, x. M. reported the ro-2202152252" Scene Wlanonl ^ "w." se cura.
win me .on. ... .... .... — ... 9W samtoe sutrorea most Jan to % mW mow WM rauins this “plsenest say of the winter" wit the objectors 12: 5 A * m/ert.
water were nearly obscured in a Beaumont. Their Dallas wires were morning at Breckenridge and snow cold winds and snow. Jud dacha believe the h bin etop forward in 1 ,=.
com 7 -...... eaninas .aeee aann meoeee... aam-LA*ACE "-- | USS^^S
Mean while, Kenny got in the was crippled by falling wires a nd north to Wichita Falls, snow was p.d dew n to wadins PPMAIR-SN tion enferiem "Orrietals expect the 1 senes
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Crowd Protects Priest
MEXICO CITY. March (so. (n-
Dispatches from Jalapa, Vera Crux
report trouble in the town of China
Blanket Sleet and Snow orey
SEYMOUR, Texas, March S0.g
This section it again in the grip of
winter and is covered by a blanket
of sleet and snow, which fell 1
night and this morning.
Coldest weather at Winter
5.222 22.4 99,475
et Peerat, UnHSLN True Wilson, I meea over the ordered deportation
* Leeneg Toem par-of the only Spanish priest there. M
Ot teMetret Morais, Members of the congregation aur-
SRAFCNLIA"YoE, oe the sa rounded the church and toe priest’s
that .. pereona were ....... ...... DIENVEN eotd. March s.w-"=----- *=- =**.: 22. •
nth. mnactori "that swept the The winter twins—snow and cold- e-M. tint leatalilive committes dar. It is reported that troops may
cur early today. The property loss are back on the job again, in the mar up or representatives of or-be required to handle the situation,
w predented mainiy by unrooted Rocky Mountain region after a two rnisauonr favoring modification » *
Kouneeand broken windows. About-months’ layoff..is law has selected‘W. M. Stayton ego AT A CHARIVARI.
100 plate “cians windows to stores. Montana cities are experiencing hand or the Association Against the SHOE AT A CHARIVYANL
weresmashed. I the coldest weather in near A 79AF Prohibition Amendment, as its chief he LVES YEARS WIrn
were **** ... and one eity. Livingston, had theChokesman and other witnesses, in-y LIVES IEABN WHO
Latdet *— on necora. two coldest days, Sunday and Mone “cluding Assistant Secretary Am *
yonr WORTH. March te.or—The day, on record since December 37: drown will bo announced at the res BULLET IN WE BANT .
Xrtnonereon record began 1924, when the mercury bank to 1012-2----(nteranted. I ----
"Enter reports from Beaumont said
that six persons were injured there
ISTIN, March 00. un—Civil suit
id Jesus: Ramires and wife
not Harris Ball and others, out
thich-grew sensational charges
or attempted bribery of, a grand
Juror, counter charges of agreeing
to accept a bribe, and. the indict,
meat of Harris Bell on a charge of
alleged swindling, waa set for April
it. when District Judge George Cal.
houn today granted Bell’s motion
for a continuance. A 1 ’
Granting of the continuance was
argued by attorneys for both aides.
quest of senators interested. I -----
...... The action of the house yesterday CHARLESTON, m., March so.00-
in Arizona the. Sold TAVS lin passing with support from both R. * Curtis, a paper hanger, has
a felt and at Phoenix took the wet and dry ranks the Cramton I for so years carried a bullet in his
yesterday,
pash path
CHARLESTON, III., March 80.00)
FARGO GIRL INJURED era re, OTA:
AGAEAT tion of the Oman, Mig" aChoor P9Y7,
IN MOTOR ACCIDENT cipals. 1
veRNON, Texas, March 30.—Miss
Obanetta Ramsey of the Fargo com-
munity was painfully injured here
Sunday night when the steering
gear of the car she was driving
locked and caused the machine to
plunge into a ditch at the side of
‘the road.
dips--.,
Negro recruiting sergeant, will-
tery Frollo—-Adv,__________
Pleturd frames at Decorators —
Adv. 1___‘*
Auto paint at Decorators.—Adv,
The Hawaiian musicians, Military
supreme quality house paint at
Decorators.It lasts.—Ady...-.-
aboard. working. City telephone service Ballinger, Coleman
Meanwhile, Kenny got in the was crippled by falling wires and
course of Baby Oar and caught a trees in many seettons of the elty
trailing rope and pulled himself on The Houston Lighting and Power, -----------------.
board. She attempted to steer the company lines were blown down, here, reported snow falling there dren. APeaat
damaged craft toward shore, at the out by falling treed and disabled by this morning. • , And the weather, mans SITrs
water was pouring into the hull too abort circuits I# many sections. === . indicates only, that Aord will
font. Kenny shut off the motor andA scantling blown from a tall Twenty-three at Walters, .greeted in chilly fashion,
jumped overboard just an Baby Gar building on Main street crashed WALTERS Okla., March 30. A —— ____.
sank beneath the waves. The meche through an automobile and missed minimum of M degrees was recordSouthwest Snow Covered
aniclaa then swam to the judges’ A. r. Butler, elty detective, Azled here last night. Sleet And Eno
| "--:*t2*****a " - ZEP AT IMAMEHEENEE
making efforts to neep ner auont. 1 machine
L Finally she was taken in tow and hat
" beached in Havana herben 122
n. w. cuuwr, vavz --------- z rw ---- ==- -------------- ... hiehe KANSAS CITY, March 80. MME
inches. A trick of fate probab1y fell at intervals during the nIENtwith Easter less than a week away
orin Jonnson was [ nanes. also a city detective, left the morning
_ “— 1. **** . a moment before to pursual
making efforts to keep her Stiont: I machine s moment before to pursue ..... eat
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jured. # HIea - = 4 ccamlss takaal
ween w h oo we snI
covered with snow today. The
storm, which had held the Rocky
Mountain region in its grip since I war contain - .----- --=
-Wednesday spread eastward I solids than will the new beer.
— - Oklahoma, western------------
nimoue under the steering wheel. 2245.22 21-20220255 Wadene. masouri and norinsern Teies m^ IDENTIFY SLAIN GIRL
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" MA " IIs snowten war xelhellet.nep5ncciM2"L.
snow -no-mcki ported in Kansas. At Topeka the I flection be the elaln girl’s halt-
early this morning, 1 measured nine inches and St 1 Hee Dorthy Phillips state’s At-
meroury. down 1.35 was hisir showing early toes. .. tome, Louis Dunkeliers of Tases
bar the southeastern part et the 1 -the werant
Greenburg and Bucklin reported
: from eight to ten inches. :
ton business men and represents- ____
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wens Miitary Training somr W: * the weinte, of Rousten muon
summer, according to announcement 52osoen ownnoar Kntr and at
by the chamber ar commerce to
day, TA
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ely yew.
. . Brownwood Reports Snow.
an unw v-u-m-n, -- ------------- BROWNWOOD, March =.,
minor damage was reported. Barns Cola rain followed by a-
were blown down near Katy and at northern with snow and sleet struck
Wallis several small buildings were this “ section C-------------
turned over, i Bellaire, a suburb pending the mercury, gown w an
of Houston, two houses, were un-it temperature rises today it li bes
roofed and s number of barns were moved ■• damage has been done
demolished. Houses were also moved to crops and fruits.
from their foundation and off der-1
ricks were wrecked in east Itous.
tea.w.
Balmy Spring Sunshine. .
GALVESTON, March 30. (P)—Gat-
veston basked in balmy spring sure
Severe Store at Liberty . I shine this morning while reports
LIBERTY, Texas, March so. m Jeame in from all parte of the south-
men were killed and a third west of cold and inclement weather,
eritically injured when a stormA brief electrical and rain flurry
"swept a path about half a mile wide before daylight had given place to
I through the South Liberty all field clearing skies and bright sunshine
There at 4 a. m. today. Virtually by 1 o’clock.
I every derrick and building in the .
path was demolished. Twenty Degrees at Lubbock,
aena men are Jack Kelly and LuBBOGK, March 30. ()--Bewail:
Ta Mr. Brown. The moot seriously ing the shortness of the "summer"
injured man to Booth Roberts. The and wearing overcoats which had
litter was placet on a train to be already been placed away for safe
rushed to Houston for treatment.” keeping until next winter. Bouth
physicians boneved he had email Plains people today were enveloped
I chance of recovery, by fitful flurries of snow, driven 5
1"rno three men were employes of r lashing north wind. The mer-
Tithe Peer Oil Company and had just cary sank to 20 degrees at midnight
been called out to work when thelast night and at ” Pelook this
struck, morning was at M. Thio octab-
1.rhe home et D. C. Bishop, on the liehes a new record for Maren tom-
Teage of the storm, was wrecked, and perature and ruined the section’s
11 sir. and Mrs. Hurst, who also fruit crop.
id in the home, were injured. | nal. a Waeb
wico. Nares so. W—Raintan in
Waco up to i a. m. Tuesday totaled
1.26 for the previous 24 hours, make
ing the total for the month T.O8.
------ Clear and colder to the‘real fores
s Hxnan-mP (1 No rains were reported at chul-
memeneet. ======:
strueted buildings were demolished Merle BN
or astorm.pncnaarck.br* 2.2 CTEM TORY MNE ELL Witon
ripped tom % score of carnges and win be delayed at least a Fee
other buildings and tossed intoorgis to County Agent L RE
neighboring yards, some landing on _
top of business houses. Trees were 1
blown down and Umbo and foliage IE WLTELA
uttered the streets burn tare mora- beer serand snow "covered
however, no far this section of Texas today. From
----=-, . 10*4 * W Wichita Falls south, to Ballinger,
banar a 1 «2 No estimate of the damage could and other rotate rain and snow
DIA1OA Sideses) "$2,22 tanie no an =
T • Ml Fields Damaged. | O’clock Monday evening and con-i
r smiovs rubbed gently but******* *** _4 - - * -
iyinto the sis, guck, eus the pain
reduces too om—too BAUMB
NGUE (renounced Ben Gov) to won-
M for nboomstin. Sastles, Chest
de and every ache and pels. Buy to
hout a tobe. Every drogsit eadis to.
at__
lived in une nome, were InJuro.
About 80 derricks were blown
down, bat tha majority of the homes
at the field, where about 100 fam-
Illoe live, were just outside the path
at the storm.
Houses Are Blown Dews
ercoats
Htt
5 1
n Tatt Muron so-
After thawing out the rain gusrs
with the mercury standing at 34
degrees, this morning, it was found
that precipitation at the elez Pumps
ing station had totaled ST loch
• since last night A
well counts ordered the arrest of
Rarona M. Stadlers at Menrs. IIl...
The state’s attorney said 20p
Phillips had furnished him with in
formation that the slain girl was -
to mose Madiere at a Peoria hotel
which had
Bridal Pair
6 Feet Tall
LOS ANGELES. March 20.
site magets. Wiasis known
in circuses and on the soreen.
were married here yesterday:
Odell to known as "Prince
Timer.” The ceremony was per-
formed on the set between
scenes, during the famine of *
circus picture. Odell to three
root tal waste his bride is one
inch talierwp Y
PIitd pamipe said the girl left
“Caullteothe with a neighbor, whel
was to take her to Rome, lit. eighth
miles from Peoria. From Rome, the
Firi was to walk to Peoria and meet
Nadlers. Questioning of Madlers on
whether or not she, met him and
proceeded to Delevan as planned.
will be undertaken by authorities ,
upon the man’s arrest. _ A
New e. or C. Trensurev
VERNON, Texas, March 30. Roy
w. Abbott has been appointed
treasurer of the Vernon Chamber et
Commerce to fill the unexpired term
of 3. T. Glover, directorand treat-
urer, who recently moved to Amsel
J. *. Mute will succeed Mr.
Clover ae director. 1
original pointings at Decorators.
—Adw
New wallpaper at Decorators.-1
“Xu Mela annaere. Military
Frolie.—Ady- - • - 1
Artist material Deeoralora—Ajv.
iental Dry Cleaning
38168
Ml Fields Damaged. ... ...._, --------.
, BEAUMONT. March 80.(P—Dam- tinued Mill midnight. The prompt-
las. estimated at $125,000 was done tation here was .60 inches and other
Ite the oil fields of Sour Lake, Bate points in the section reported sine
son, Hull and Saratoga by the storm tier rainfall. A half inch of snow
this morning. Three-fourths et the covered the ground this morning,
derricks in these fields were work- Fruit, practically all of which waa
ling. Me one was injured and the blooming, will be damaged by the
towns proper suffered slight dam- 16 degree temperature. Should the
- age, according to reports this morn- general thaw come suddenly, prace
aerme owatrT IE 1'4 ucany all triut win be destroyed
GOMTW BENKORCL -------- ’ -, Fruit men declare.
2- Several Botdings Unrooted --*
ICANALDERUE,HAMMOND, La., March 30. un-T Five Inches at Woodward
sootne-ra High wind, rain and hall swept this OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., March
• section this morning, unroofing 30. (P)—Little hope was held out by
T Sea I several buildings and damaging the weather bureau for relief today
gome ABV , many automobiles at Independence, from the belated wintry epoll that
1 alAnumber of children experienced a has gripped Oklahoma since Sunday r
geyged narrow escape. ‘ As they alighted instead of the cold that ban. been
040-e.ee, from a large boa and entered the most pronounced in the northwest-
school build Inn at independence part of the state to due to move
the storm struck, demolishing toe eastward. —4
vehicle they had just left. While the mercury has not drop-I
this morning blew down nine dor. nenes, YEREYW "and
ricks in the Orange field, unroofed M tor «Mtb we* aou we
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