The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 13, 1924 Page: 2 of 8
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Great Events That Are Chang-
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6ENATOR ODDIE OF NEVADA
WOULD OUST ASSISTANT
DIRECTORS
CLAIMS SHEER TYRANNY
Declares Appropriations Made For
Relief "Squandered and
Misspent"
Washington.—Existence In the Vet-
erans' Bureau of a "ring" which con-
trols Its policies and operation was
charged in the Senate late Monday
by Senator Oddie (Rep.), Nevada,
who declared "all the laws In the
mind of man" would not make the
bureau function properly so long as
the present condition obtained.
The Nevada Senator asserted that
the six assistant directors now in
... the bureau should be "ousted forth-
with" and that similar action should
be taken in the cases of "every offi-
cial brought over from the War
Risk Insurance Bureau." He de-
clared appropriations made for vet.
eran relief had been "squandered and
misspent" and -that the bureau op-
erated under a policy which "pre-
sumed a raalority of ex-service men
to be dishonest."
Senator Oddie." who is a member
of the special Senate committee ap-
pointed to investigate the adminis-
tration of Director Charles R. Forbes,
criticised the manner In which Major
John F. O'Ryan, the committee coun-
sel, had directed the inquiry. Three
months before it beg-an. he said, Brig.
Gen. Frank T. Hines, the present di-
fes.tor, was given a complete set of
the ingestions which would be asked.
■ "Officials of the bureau were thus
.able to prepare answers for the com-
mittee," he said.
The desirability of ousting the
assistant directors and "other offi-
cials In key positions" had been
presented to Director Hines, th<
Nevada Senator said, but added tha!
"that official is under the influenc <
of the ring."
. "The President Is very anxious that
,t.he bureau shall function properly,'-
he said, "but he is advised by the
director that everything is proceed
Ing satisfactorily, and the director la
under the influence of the ring."
Many veterans got no reply at al'
to their inquiries to the bureau, Sen
ator Caraway, (Dem.), Arkansas, in
terjected, "or when they do, they
receive only form letters."
"I seriously doubt whether some
officials down there desire to in-
jprove conditions," the Arkansas Sen.
ator declared. "If the bureau die;
the work it was created ot perform,
ithe work of every Senator would be
'cut in half."
He said he understood that Gen |
.Hines had issued an order statin • j
that "what he was pleased to cal!
political influence should not be no
tired."
' Employes of the bureau who re-
ported the conditions to the Presi
dent were "thrown into the street,'
Senator Oddie resumed, and order.1
recently were issued that employe\
should not confer with, members oi
Congress.
"It is sheer tyranny," declared
Senator Oddie.
"My purphse is to help Gen. Hinec
in the great work that, is to br j
done," he declared. "I want to poin' j
out to him wherein the bureau is no'
properly functioning. This, I hopc>
will result in benefit to the bureau
to the people and to the former serv
ice men."
items of interest to all
Short Chronicle of Past Occurrence
Throughout the Union and Our
Colonics—News From Europe
That **"11 Interest.
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DOMESTIC
HOUSE CONSIDERS THE
LABOR B0A30 OIL'
Measure to Abolish Railrcid Boarc
Is Taken From Committee
Washington.—The House took out
of the hands of its Commerce Com
mittee the Barkley bill, to abolish
the Railroad Labor Board anr?
brought the measure to the floor fr-
action.
Thc vote by which the measure
was taken from committee, wherf-
it has , reposed without action fc«
weeks, was 194 to 181.
On a rising vote of 143 to 131,
the House declined, however, to give
the bill immediate consideration. It'
supporters demanded a roll call.
Supporters of the measure gained
the upper hand again on the roll
call, the House voting 197 to 172 to
begin its consideration at once.
Republican organization leaderr
opposed the move, which was sup
p rt*d by most of the Democrats
iky the Republican insurgents and
by a number of other Republicans
from the Middle and Far West. Sev
era! Democratic leaders voted in op-
position.
Total capital Invested in chewing
gum industries is $30,000,000, it is
estimated.
Rice grown in the world averages
more than 10,700,000,000 pounds each
year, India producing nearly three-
fourths of it.
There are more cars stolen yearly
in the 28 major cities of the United
States than the total number in use
in Europe, except in France and Eng-
land.
Of 1,000 species of birds in North
America only about 225 go as far
south as the Gulf Statrj in winter,
and only about 150 of Mrese entirely
leave the United States.
Looking out over the waters of the
harbor of Riva, in Uorthern Italy,
is a statue of St. John of Nepormick,
the patron saint of the many who
face danger going out to sea.
The cabbage-like heart of the sotol,
a plant native to New Mexico, was
once roasted or boiled and eaten by
the natives and the trunks were
utilized to make a distilled drink
called "sotol."
The blood-stained minnie ball
which struck and wounded Gen. Ster-
ling Price, in command of the Con-
federate forces, during the battle
of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, In the war
between the States, was included in
loot taken by burglars who ransack-
ed the home of Bryan Snyder Jr,
Dallas, Texas.
Death came recently *.o Mrs. Ev-
elyn Sample, 78, after she had laid
unconscious for almost four years.
She was struck by a street car on
Aug. 5. 1920, and never regpined con-
sciousness. During the entire pe-
riod she was given liquid nourish-
ment through the -nostrils. Death
was attributed by physicians to a
hemorrhage of the brain.
The crop of French prunes in the
orchard of Henry Kleinsorge, of Sut-
ter County, Cal., was partially saved
from the recent heavv frosU by
chickens roost'ng in the trees. Trees
not used by tlie chickens at night
were badly damage*'. Kleinsorge
says the waroiih of tl.e chickens'
bodies proved far morj elective
than smudee pots.
Former Representative John E.
Andrus, 83, of Y>.nkers, one of the
country's richest men, has ordered
to be built in Kensico Cemetery a
mausoleum to cost between $350,000
and $500,000. Mr. Andrus' tomb will
be larger and more elaborate than
that of the late William Rockefeller
In North Tarrytown. It will bo
made of Westerly granite, and will
contain sixteen crypts.
The United States Railroad Labor
Board refused to decide whether the
marriage of a woman in the Rail-
way Clerks' Brotherhood shall be
cause for dismissal. The board re-
ferred the question back to the Chi-
cago & Eastern Illinois, the San An-
tonio & Aransas Pass and the Am-
erican Railway Express officials, to
make the question "thfc nibject of di-
recc nnd thoughtful negotiations."
WASHINGTON
THE CASS COUNTY SUN
The Navy Department has direct-
ed Admiral Dayton, commander of
the Bquadron in Central American
waters, to offer one of his vessels
now at Ampala, as a meeting place
for the representatives from Central
American countries, the United
States and the contending factions
in Honduras, who will endeavor to
reach a peaceful adjustment of con-
ditions in Honduras.
A bill introduced by Representa-
tive Wurzbach (Rep.) of Texas pro-
poses sweeping amendments to the
tariff law by removing all oils and
animal fats from the free list to the
listB paying revenue and increasing
some of the rates of vegetable oils as
carried in the law. Producers in this
•sountry show that the commodities
are coming into th* country in great
quantities itnd bearing do** the mar-
ket lor domes'^ product*..
National banks In Missouri cam
exercise trust powers under a will, It
baa been held by the Supreme
Court.
Suspension of section 28 of the
Merchant Marine act for one year,
as provided in legislation now pend-
ing in Congress, is favored by Pres-
ident Coolldge.
A suit brought to test the rights of
the Knights of Pythias to increaso
life insurance premiums in Nebraska
has been decided against the order
by the Supremo Court.
Bills appropriating $1,500,000 ad-
ditional for eradication of the foot
and mouth disease in California and
$1,000,000 for relief in the drouth-
affected districts of New Mexico have
been signed by President Coolldge.
Evangeline Booth, national com-
mander of the Salvation Army, call-
ed on President Coolldge recently.
The President spared half an hour
of a busy day to discuss Salvation
Army activities with Miss Booth,
who later visited with Mrs. Coolldge.
Pledging confidence to complete
within five years all pending riverB
and harbors improvement, the House
Rivers and Harbors Committee
brought out a bill, which call for an
appropriation of $30,705,350 for pro-
jects now under way.
Modification of the corporation tax,
and repeal of the tax on telegraph
and telephone messages was voted
by the Senate in advancing consid-
eration of the revenue bill. Notice
was given, however, that contestB
would be made later on both of
these levies.
The Interior Department announc-
es that it had taken under advise-
ment a request for the Osage Indiati
council that eight sections of Okla-
homa oil ls.nds embracing 5,120 acres
which were set aside for emergency
use by the navy during the war,
be returned to the Osages for In-
clusion in areas subject to annual
leasing.
Legislative authority was voted by
the House of Representative^ in
passing the Ketcham bill, for tha
United States Department of Agri-
culture to contribute its research in
foreign markets as to requirements
of those markets of agricultural pro-
duction, marketing practices and
prospect of foreign competition.
Wars of the future will last no
longer than the time It takes to put
the participants to sleep, chemists
attending the convention of the Am-
erican Chemical society here pre-
dicted. Progress in gas chemistry
is tending more and more toward the
production of some sleep-producing
gas, which will anaesthetize whole
armies and permit them to be taken
prisoners while in slumber, they said.
Xhe appointment of an American
cotton growers' commission is con-
templated in a bill to be offered by
Representative Larsen of Georgia,
with the hope of exterminating the
boll weevil through its work. In dis-
cussing the menace of the weevil
during consideration of the agricul-
tural appropriation bill by the IIouBe
Mr. larsen pointed out that all the
Government's effort had been to con-
trol the boll weevil, and as a result
tae weevil had done damage to the
extent of $10,000,000 or more. The
Government's expenditure since 1905
has been $1,412,120.
Texas News
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FOREIGN
Emigration statistics for 1923 re-
veal that thousands of skilled work-
men are leaving Scotland and going
to the United States.
Taxis in Paris fitted with four-
wheel brakes have a notice to that
effect painted on the rear of the
car to warn those following to be
prepared for a sudden halt to traffic.
M. J. Smith of Boston has been
appointed as League of Nations high
commissioner for Hungary, taking j
the position which W. P. G. Harding j
governor of the Boston Fed-rat Re- !
serve Bank, was unable to accept
owing to ill health.
as a mark ef esteem for American
democracy, Greece, the youngest
public in the world, has offered to
loan the American people one of the
most beautiful of statues, bequeathed
to her by antiquity—"Hermes Carry-
ing the Infant Dionysus," the master-
piece of Praxiteles, the famous Greek
sculptor of the Fifth century.
A correspondent at The Hague re-
ports a ' case which strikingly illus-
trates the lnfrequency of arrests It,
some parts of Holland. A man ar-
rested about the end of March In a
little town near Utrecht has just
been found dead of starvation In hit:
cell, the writer says, the authorities
having forgotten that they had a
prisoner.
Skeletons of 214 men and women
who lived In Warwickshire somi
1500 years ago have been dug up in
a Held at Bieford-on-Avon. near Strat-
ford, the birthplace of Shakespeare.
Sir Arthur Keith, the anthropolo-
gist, is to examine them, and will be
able to reconstruct the appviirancc
of these Anglo-Saxon warrlois and
Austin was selected ns the 1925
couventiou city by the State Medical
association at its convention at Sau
Antonio, last week.
Goose Creek soon will have nine
miles of graded, shelled and paved
streets as a result of a contract just
let for the work.
Tolbert Hannon will succeed Frank
P. Bell as postmaster at Richmond, he
having recently received his appoint-
ment.
Building permits- issued at Galves-
ton during the entire month of April
reached a total valuation of $260,058.
Arrangements have been made for
the establishment of a cotton ex-
change in Weimar.
The vote on the river bonds at the
election at El Cainpo was 504 for and
only 19 against.
State and county taxes totaling
$296,498 were paid In Washington
County during the year ending March
31. This does not Include automobile
taxes or special school taxes.
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The attorney general Saturday ap-
proved an issue of Kaufman county
levee improvement bonds totaling
$140,000. These bonds mature serial-
ly and bear 6 per cent interest.
Houston building permits for the
month of April totaled $1,961,514,
which brought the total for the year
to date to $6,535,815. A total of 647
permits were issued during April.
Strawberries are being shipped from
Harris county points at an average of
three cars a day. The movement is
now at the peak. In addition 300 to
500 cases, or nearly a carload, are be-
ing consumed in Houston each day.
Final figures from the election held
In district No. 10, Milam county, on
Issuance of $75,000 in bonds to build
the middle leg of Farrier highway,
state project No. 43, show that the
bonds carried by over ten to one ma-
jority.
At a special session of the commis-
sioners court of Washington county,
with Judge J. H. Chappell presiding,
the new county jail at Brenham, a
three-story brick structure, costing
$38,000, was accepted from the con-
tractors.
The onion harvest in Willacy county
Is now on in full swing and thu yield
this season is said to be more than
twice what the early estimates placed
It at. They are taking from 50 to
150 crates per acre and the quality is
exceptionally good.
The Southwestern Phonograph Deal-
ers' Association, which will meet In
Galveston May 21, and the Texas As-
sociation of Insurance Agents on June
26 and 27, have been added to the
many associations which will convene
in Galveston this summer.
Elgin's peach and plum crop appar-
ently was one of the most promising
of the year, previous to the recent
electrical storm, but since that time
hundreds of pounds of young fruit are j
strewn under the trees, where high
wind has blown them off.
Construction has been started on a
new four-stand Murray cotton gin at
Eva, a few miles south of Alice, at a
cost of approximately $25,000 and sup-
plies a need of long standing in that
community, which contributes largely
to Jim Wells County's cotton produc-
tion.
The first day of May finds the state
in a much strong financial condition
than it was a year ago, according to
C. V. Terrell, state treasurer. At the
close of business April 30 the general
revenue fund had on hand $1,172,817.
On May 1, last year, this fund was
empty, the state then being on a de-
ficiency. The deficiency in not likely
to return until July 1, Mr. Terrell said.
During May and June, Inst, $1,617,000
came into the state treasury.
The Texas railroad commission has
authorized the Galveston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio,railway to charge a
rate of 29 cents per 100 pounds on
carload shipments on crude oil from
Luling and Oilfield to El Paso. The
commission has also authorized a rate
of 13 cents on carload shipments of
crude oil from Bay City to Houston,
and 14 cents to Galveston and TexaH
City by carriers, and to expire on Au-
gust 20, 1924. The commission also
authorized a rate of 12 cents on car-
load shipments of sugar from Texas
City to Houston, and 18 cents to Beau-
mont, Chalson, Orange, Port Arthur,
Port Neches and Sabine.
Establishment of a string of cotton
mills for Texas is the object of the
Texas Textile Mills, a $5,000,000 cor
poration characted at Austlfi. accord
lng to incorporators. The first mill of
the company is to be built at Dallas
and will be the largest in Texas, ac
cording to State Representative Lewis
T. Carpenter, one of the incorporatots.
Work on this mill will proceed as soon
as final organization is completed, Mr
Carpenter said. The Dallas rt.111 will
be the forerunner of other lur*e cotton
mills throughout the State
Heed Nature's
Warning Before
It Is Too Late
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Pains in the Side, Back and
Kidneys Show That Some-
thing Is Wrong With Your
System — Nervousness,
Loss of Appetite and
Sleeplessness Are A d-
vance Warnings That if
Heeded Will Save Serious
Trouble Later On.
TANLAC HAS HELPED
THOUSANDS REGAIN
NORMAL HEALTH
Over 100,000 Persons Have
Testified That TANLAC
Has Corrected Stomach
Trouble, Indigestion,
Rheumatism, Nervousness
and Kindred Ailments—
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and Starts Rich Red Blood
Coursing Through Your
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gists Sell TANLAC.
MOTHER!
Baby's Best Laxative is
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When baby Is constipated, has wind*
colic, feverish.breath, coated-tongue, or
diarrhea, a half teaspoonful of genuine
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the poisons, gases, bile, souring food
and waste right out. Never cramps or
overacts. Babies love its delicious taste.
Ask your druggist for genuine "Cali-
fornia Fig Syrup" which has full direc-
tions for Infants In arms, and children
of all ages, plainly printed on bottle.
Mother! You must say "California" or
you mnv tret an 'rnitation fig syrup.
Magnetism Merely
A Jury at Howell failed to convict
h boy on u charge of stealing it dog.
A boy never steals a dog, of course.
They just grin ami go away together.
—E. C. A., in Detroit News.
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Banger, J. E. A. & Erwin, W. L. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 13, 1924, newspaper, May 13, 1924; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth341595/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.