Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 323, Ed. 1 Friday, April 2, 1926 Page: 2 of 28
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WICHITA DAILY TIMES
BDERAL GRAND JURY BILLS
THEATRICAL PRODUCER
D. ON SIX COUNTS
FACES PROSPECT HEAVY
FINE. AND IMPRISONMENT
3 —
Indicted for Swearing That Party
Was “Dry" and That Na One
W Was in Bath Tub
was automatically granted immun-
it, from prosecution M the liquor
charges through hto own testimony.
But this immunity. Federal At-
torney Buckner said, did not ap-
ply to perjury because it might re-
suit hi the government trading im.
munity for evidence and getting in
return only false testimony. He
charges that CarroU lied to the
grand jury on three specific points
The principal accusatic ns were that
he testified he had no record of the
guestsat the party: that no intoxi-
eating liquor was served Md that
no one got late the bath tub while
the party wm th progress.
Carroll, who to 34 years old, was
arrested in November. 1924, for dis:
playing paintings of his show girls
In front of his theater. He pro-
tested it wM all in the name of art.
and WM acquitted.
NEW YORK. April 2. (P)—In-
dieted for perjury as an aftermath
bd hto bath tub party, Karl Carrell,
theatrical producer, was confronted
with the prospect of a heavy fine
and imprisonment.
[ A federal stand jury has Indicts
him on six counts for swearing
that the part, on February 11 was
dry and that there was no one, nude
Society Probing
Browning Case;
May Prosecute
Baylor College
Girls Win P. K. D.
Debating Croon
ESTES rank. Color, April 2. on-
Baylor College of Texas today, won
the women’s debating champion-
ship h, defeating Southwestern Col-
lege of Kansas in the contest held
ta connection with the annual con-
vention of Pl Kappa Delta, na-
tional forensic fraternity.
The College of Emporia, Kansas,
won in the men’s section, b, de-
feating Northwestern Teachers’ Col-
logo of South Dakota.
The convention sme to a close
tonight.
SPLENDID ourtoOK IN
BREWSTER, PRESIDIO AND
JEFF DAVIS COUNTIES
mamar. APat A 1
wencaw orrosron"
PREVENTS “JAP” LEASE
IN LOWER CALIFORNIA
PART ONE .
NEW YORK. April 3. (P)—Edward
W. Browning, wealthy real estate
operator, today found his latest
Cinderella venture beset from three
quarters, 1
The Children’s Society has begun
an investigation of his relations
with 15-year-old Frances (Peaches)
Heenan, whom h. has intimated he
will marry as soon .• she becomes
16 next June. Frances in recovering
from sold thrown in her face white
■ho slept in her mother’s home tool
Saturday. Brownins to 57 and di-
voreed his wife in 1933.
“We will hale Mr Browning into
the court. If this proves necessary."
Mid Vincent Pisarra, secretary and
superintendent of th. society. "If a
gray-haired man more than 50 years
old takes a little school girl ent for
night rides in an automobile and
takes her to dances—all this with-
out a proper guardian, it to time
that something was done about it."
The newest investigation devel-
ops closely after that started by
the police to learn who threw the
acid, and another by the board of
education, which wants an explana.
tion of Frances’ long absence from
classes. She was a student at the
Textile High School for girls, but
has not attends classes since last
fall.
A school investigator was once
informed nt the Heenan home that
the girl had been sent away to re-
e uperate from pneumonia. Brown-
Ing, however, admitting that during
her absence she had been with him
to many parties. The term of her
absence, friends say. also included
efforts to win stage fame on Broad-
way , MT
Detectives seeking the aefd
throws questioned friends of
Frances in the Phi Lamda Tau So-
rority. where Browning met her.
1For otherwise, in a bath tub filled
with liquid, variously described as
“fruit juice, ginger ale and wine.
The grand jury believed testimony
7 of other witnesses that the part,
4 was wet and that somebody had a
5 The maximum penalty on each
■ count of the indictment is five
years’ imprisonment and $2,000 fine.
“ It lies within the discretion of the
court whether sentences on each
w conviction may, run successively.
, which would mean a maximum of
■ 30years’ imprisonment, or concur-
, rently.
‘ 'Carroll, who is producer of sev-
e. oral Broadway shows featuring
L feminine beauty, was arrests after
is the indictment was returns yes-
), terday. He pleaded not guilty and
3 furnished $2,500 bond. His counsel
5 requested an early trial.
S Among the witnesses who ap-
4 peared before the grand jury was
K Joyce Hawley, a show girl, who
retains a lawyer to bring suit for
$1,000 against Carrofl, which she
said he promised her for her bath.
The producer gave her $20 and told
her to forget it, she said several
"Alnenecopes chans
. Carroll now has for consolation
the statement of federal officials
i that he could have easily eluded in
dtalmeat. They said that the grand
Jury was not in tercets in the
moral side of the part,, but Ml,
wanted to haow where so much 11. 2 ----------
quor came from. Under the pronibi- Jealousy may have been the motive
tion law the theatrical producer for the attack, naites saw
. WAsniorow. April •. (M—Un.
usual interest to being taken b,
the department of justice in the
case of the British ship Quadra,
seized off San Francisco, which
may involve a construction by the
supreme court of the legality of
many American rum seizures under
the treaty with Great Britain.
Members of the crew of the
Quadra lost in the lower courts and
are seeking a supreme court review
of the eass This review to op-
posed b, the government which
contends that there to oh eubotaa-
tial question of law involved re-
quirtag construction of the treaty
by the court
Captain Ford and the first and
second officers of the ship and sey-
oral members of th. crow were ar-
rested at the time of the seisure
and convicted of violating the
American prohibition law. In the
lower courts they, unsuccessfully
raised the legal question that the
vessel wm beyond the territorial
limits of the United States and that
Grest Britain had no right to
authorise seizure of her vessels, be.
read the three-mile limit, such an
net being a waiver of the rights
guaranteed by the Magna Charts.
; As the department of justice seen
it, the whole case, if a review to
whether evidence obtained ie
seizure of the ship should have been
excluded at the trial because the
seizure was illegal and whether the
officers and crew •* the Quadra
should have been released because
they were brought within the jur-
iediction of the court m a result
of an illegal seisure.
The government to contending
that there are many facts in the
case independent of the question
whether the chip WM within or out-
side the treaty limits which dis-
closed a conspiracy to violate the
American law. The lower courts, It
holds derided the vessel wM loss
than six miles from shore, which
WM easily withim the hour's sail-
lag distance specified in the treaty, perintendent of public instruction.
SPECIAL COMMISSIONER
APPOINTED TO MAKE NEW
SURVEY OF PHILIPPINES
WAsINGTON, Aprn a m-car-
mi Thompson of Ohio was appointed
by President Coolidge today as a
special commissioner to survey
economic and internal conditions in
th. Philippines.
“The decision of the president to
take this step,” a White House an-
nouncement said, “follows the in-
creased interest in congress rew
cently in regard to, the Philippine
Islands.
“Moreover, the president, feels
that an intensive study of the pos-
sibilities of the insular possessions
may lead to increased development
of their natural resouro i and that
such a study, will he of great bene-
fit and importance not only to the
United States, but to the Pllipinos
as well.
"It to his desire to obtain further
information gathered by % ‘man in
whom he has confidence and whose
practical experience will enable
him to give the president a come
prehensive and accurate report."
Runs For Superintendent
VERNON, Texas, April 9.—Ercell
W. Brooks, principal of the Thompe
son school, near Oklaunton, is a
candidate for Wilbarger county Bu-
3ar.
for the attack, police say.
The Phi Lamda Tau Sorority to
also under investigation by the ehil-
dren’s society because of Brown-
Ins’s interest to it. Browning has
said he gave the girls their sorority
pins sent them flowers and attend-
id their parties
The famous
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ELECTRA LAD, 4, KNOCKED
DOWN BY AUTOMOBILE
ELECTRA, Tosas, April 1— r.
Heft, Jr four-year-old son of C
F. Nett, Br. narrowix escaped se-
rious injury late Thursday after,
noon when struck by a ear while
I crossing the street in front of his
I father’s blacksmith shop st MB
North Main street.
I The driver’s name was not ob-
tained, but the license number, of
the car was jotted down by by-
standers.
“She said she wasn’t driving over
11 miles sn hour, but b.r car
skidded M feet before stopping, as
the road marts plainly show,” the
child’s father stated. Beyond a hard
bump and sense bruises there were
no indications of serious injury. -
SANTONE MAN FALLS TO
DEATH FROM OIL TANK
PAN ANTONIO. April 1, in.Cue
Ermier, 58, superintendent of tab
Ban Antonle Merer pipe manuface
taring company’s plant at Saspame
co, lost his footing on the slipper,
top of a fuel oil tank this morning
and fell 30 feet te his death. He
lived about If minutes after landing
upon the rocky surface below the
tank, though never regaining cone
sclousness.
Ermier had been employed by the
oompan, for 33 years. He had been
superintendent of the plant 25
years. 1
How Do We Do It?
Charming New
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ALPrm, Texas,
Brewster. Presidio a
counties are facing a
look for an -agrioult
stock standpoint. Th
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past few
grass as.
flae shape Md every
set for profitable flan
• ‘weeks, is
id early feed
and live-
w of this
• than M
ins of the
nging the
a return
& R, Landen of Ban Antonio win
the U.’S. Biological Survey,
local county agent, R. a
have put out 10,500 baits 1---
otes in the past tt days, and the
ranchmen of the highland section
report very tine results in the de-
struction of coyotes. A range of
approximately 60,000 square miles
was covered.
County Agent R. * Miller, as-
sisted by L C.’ Whitehead of Ban
Antonio, with the U. S. Biological
Survey, save a number of demon-
strations in poisoning gophers in
Brewster. Presidio Md Jeff Davis
counties during the past few days.
Public, exhibitions, were given at
several ranches.
In speaking of the work of this
section Mr. Whitehead stated, that
in three years 81 toas of bait for
asariae are ntet
ties. The benefits to ranchmen are
practically unlimited, as one ranch-
or alone claims to have been saved
M much M $40,000 ta the protee.
tion to his winter range, from
prairie dogs and other varmints.
As a result of Mr. Miller’s work
in Brewster, Presidio and Jeff Da-
vto counties, steps are being taken
to conserve the surplus, and pose
sibly a large percentage of the fruit
crops, which have heretofore been
wasted. A commercial product can
be made from the culls of the ape
pie crop, also the same may be said
*f * * n 1
venNoN or FibLo wan
SCALDED WHEN PIPE BURSTS
vinnon, rezan, Aprn 1.-
Chapin, 33, tool dresser for Mitchell
and Mitchell, contractors was pain-
fully scalded when a steam pipe
broke on a boiler in the off fields
near where he wM standing.
HAH Dinoo. CaL, April R. m..
American opposition to a lease by
Japanese interests of a 2,000,000-
acre oil, vegetable dye and rubber
concession around Magdalena Bay.
Lower California, influenced his de-
cision to terminate negotiations
with Dr. K. 0. Osawa, head ofa
Japanese oxnoiente. Colonel .. a
vasquen, holder of the Mertens
grants, announced 45*4
th?"supanccncche72‘ touewing an
extended telegraphic conference
with Dr. Osawa. He said he would
seek American backing for his
project in the future
Colonisation of the land by J0D-
anese was never contemplated, in
the course of the negotiations. Vas:
ques said. The concessions, he
pointed out, referred simply to the
exploitation of certain specified
products and under Mexican law at
iSU^ £ we A ~
This clause caused, s hitch in the
dealings with the Japanese mg
outs, Vasques said, but
tentatively accepted hto
the lease beforethe 1
were broken off. 1"
Correspondence in sup
assertion that he had tri
his concessions to Ame
eanste before starting a
will Dr. Osawa was St
Vasques. He pointed «
insisted is all instances
ership Md control st the
main in his own hands
ploitations were to be
be said, on a roxaltz N
per cent share and a dor
was included in the *
contract with the Japat
cater he asserted.
lease
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