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BROWNWOOD TEXAS. MONDAY FEBRUARY 13 1922
VOL. XXII. NO. 102
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EGIW DENBY
E REDUCTION
INiwitihrir of Officers and Men
tf Y of Veeis in Use Xlso
ing in Next Annual
.By Associated Press.)
ASHINGTON Feb. 13. Secretary
.Denby of the Navy Department ap-
nmr& before the House naval com-
pblttee today and recommended that
ttfcSe savy personnel for the next year
fixed at 90000 raeff and 6000 ap-
jireatices compared with 100000 men
:a4 ifiOQ a$jretecies now authorized.
The Secretary recommended that there
ie o reduction in existing strength
it the line officers of the Navy that
itk first class of Annapolis be graduat-
ted and commissioned but that appoint-
lents to the Academy hereafter be
ireduced to three for each member of
fcoegress instead of five.
J The Naval Secretary recommended
that a hundred destroyers be placed
iout of commission. He estimated that
the program outlined would effect a
saving of seventy million dollars in
next year's budget
i Secretary Denbry's statement pbint-
jed out that since 1919 the war-time
naval establishment was reduced from
33C2 vessels in commission to nine
hundred and the commissioned person-
nel from 327PS to 6163 and the en-
listed force from 480723 to 100999.
i "Itis not easy" he said "to get
back to normalcy from such a vast
expansion."
PltSiNI HI iff j
m at wm of
STATE; HO .CASUALTIES
FEDERAL GQYEltNXENT IS NOT
ALARMED BECAUSE OF LOCAL
5AT01E OP REVOLT.
(By Associated Press.)
MEXICO CITY Feb. 13. The muni-
cipal president of Hatzciaro in the
istate of Michoacan and thirty follow
ers revolted against the state govern-
ment. No casualties are reported al-
though the revolutionists began their
movement with cries of "Death to Mu
sics." Francisco Mugica the gover-
nor of Michoacan seized the office in
July 1920 prior to the installation of
the Obregon government in Mexico
City.
It was said in official circles here
today that the uprising is purely local
and is not directed against the cen-
tral government The war office con
tinues to be optmistic in regard to 'he
uprisings asserting that they are of
minor importance.
TUP WITHDRAWAL IS
SUSPENDED IN DUBLIN
DDE TD ULSTER RIOT
4CUJtFEW SE8TORE. IN BELFAST
WMERE EIGHT HAVE BEEN
. KILLED IN TWO DAYS.
(By Associated Press.)
I ' DUBLIN Feb.t 13. The evacuation
rot British troops and other military
f forces from Dublin was unexpectedly
t suspended today. It is thought the
suspension is due to the events in
Ulster.
Car few Kestored.
Belfast Feb. 13. Beginning tonight
curfew will be reimpcsed. Up to three
o'clock this afternoon eight persons
have been Wiled since Saturday. .
Opium Smoking
Less Prevalent
Among Chinese
(By .Associated Press.)
NEW .YORK Feb. 13. Opium smok-
ing Is proportionately less prevalent
ajpong.tbe Chinese than otber races
of JJew York Dr. Carleton Simon spe-
cial deputy police commissioner in
charge of the narcotic division declar
ed at a banquet of the Hip Sing Toug
in Chinatown.
NAMES XIXIA POSTMASTER.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON; - Feb. 13. President
Harding today .nominated Isadora
Newman tob postmaster at Mexia;
Texas.
oacan
REGDMMENOS
NM PERSONNEL
to Be Reduced and Number
Cut; WiU Effect Big Sav
Budget He Says.
ANOTHER
ILL IN NORTH
BROWN COUNTY
BROWNWOOD PRODUCING & RE-
FINING COMPANY WELL NO. 3
MAKES SPECTACULAR ENTRY.
Sunday itfas a red letter day in the
north Brown cpunty oil field there be-
ing according to the estimates of a
number of jBrown county people who
went to the field and remained there
practically jail day something like one
thousand visitors many o whom were
from Brownwood and many from Ran-
ger Breckenridge Cisco Eastland
Rising Star De Leon Comanche and
many other points. Most of the visi
tors who went out in the forenoon
carried lunches and spent a most en-
joyable day while those who did not
bring lunches dined at the different
places in the field "where it is possible
to buy lunch or meals. Scattered
among the; throng were a number of
financiers representing big oil inter-
ests In different parts of the soutfiwest
The cause of this overflow of enthu-
siasm was; the coming in of "well Nor
3 of the B'rownwood producing & Re-
fining Company formerly -the Lamb-
Kirkpatrick company which merge
into a new organization some time
ago. wen jso. 3 came in at 5 o clock
Sunday morning just before daybreak
and since that time has been flowing
by heads at irregular intervals the
first gushes going to the top of the
"derrick. Mr. Kirkpatrick himself stat-
ed today that he reckoned the well as
being one hundred barrel capacity.
However there are many people who
believe the well to be of much larger
capacity. It is regarded as safe to
say it is one of the best wells yet
brought in' and eliminates once and for
(ill every j vestage of opinion that
the field had not been proven. There
is no longer any kind of doubt that the
north Brown county oil field Is a per- j
manent proposition and that within a:
-bort time! many other wells not now
in process of being drilled. Every
business man in Brownwood should
make its a point to visit the north
Brown coUnty oil field and see at close
range for1 himself just what the lo
cality looks like and ascertain for
himself the facts In the case. The
probability is that many business men
who have never taken the time to
visit the field would be greatly sur
prised.
The weH came in rather In a spec-
tacular way and if the people of
Brownwood had been so they could
have used a wireless telephone they
would haye heard a considerable din.
When thq oil broke forth and went to
the top of the derrick the whistles set
up a continual blowing and this was
taken up by the various other wells
that were drilling until all that area
fairly rang with the sound which wdc
heard for miles- causing the occasion
to sound very much like watching the
old year1 iout and the New Year in. In
a very few minutes people living in
the oil area and for miles around hur-
ried to the well and watched the un-
usual spectacle in the moonlight. Oil
was thrown everywhere and to elimi-
nate danger all lights and fires were
put out The first big flow broke the?
electric 'wiring from the top of the
derrick and it was after daylight be-;
fore the; men in charge of the well
were able to get back into the rig to
replacetand re-arrange the lights. t
It was stated today by leading oil!
men that the bringing in of this well
permanently establishes the claims of
north Brown county as having an oil
field of great proportions. In fact a
new era has dawned on the oil .industry
of .Brown county. Great undertakings
are now said to be almost ready to bo
announced. 1
STUDENT FALLS DEAD.
(By Associated Press.)
. . AUSTIN Feb. 13. Joe Beaty Sparks
-a (Student In the University of TexaB
felldead this morning while attend-
ing a (class. Sparks camet to the Uni
versity ifrora Dinero Texas.
' SIGNING THENINE-POWER TREATY
hoover v; :&t- t
PERSHING
1 1 Elihu Root signing the Nine-Power treaty on China with Senators Lodge and Underwood standing at his right.
Other- notables at the treaty conference are indicated. Delegates of each c ountry signed in a group attaching
their signatures to all four i treaties. . .
GREAT SERVICES HELD
SUNDAY IN HEViVAL AT
SERVICE FOR MEN IN AETERNOON
LARGELY ATTffNDED; MEETING
if
(The Presbyterian revival meeting
entered its second and last week on
Sunday with five great services each
well attended in the basement of the
new church at the corner of Fisk
avenue and East Depot street. The
day's program began at 9:45 with the
Sunday school which had a number
of new adult members and continued
with two preaching services morning
and evening a men's service at"U:00
m. and a young people's service at
6f:15. In addition there was a chain
of prayer meetings in the church
rooms at 7:15.
J There was no morning service to-
day but this afternoon at 3:00 o'clock
there was a good service in the
church and tonight Dr. Cunningham
will -preach at 7:30.
i Saturday night's address was on
the subject of the. "Resurrection" Dr
Cunningham presented the. subject
from the standpoint of prophecy as a
fact arid "as a necessity .to the salva
tion of the world. The theme for
Sunday morning's address was "The
Motherhood of the Church" an inter-
esting discourse that made a strong
appeal to the -minds and hearts of the
hearers. The motherhood of the church
fwas discussed in its association with
the fatherhood of God and brother-
hood and. man. It was established
from the standpoint of .spiritual birth
and spiritual nourishment' the
jpreacher showing how the spiritual
ibirth of man is through thef church
and how his spiritual nourishment
comes through the church. The
church as discussed in this themn
was the church universal rather than
any individual or sectarian denomi-
nation. At 3:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon
PRESBYTE
GRAND JURY TO INVESTIGATE
KHIING OF NEGRO PRISONER
TAKEN FROM
(By Associated Press.)
TBXARKANA Feb. 13. Judge Tur
ner of. Bowie County announced today.
that a grand Jury investigation will
be made ofathe killing Saturday night
of N. B. Norman a negro who was
taken from a deputy sheriff and shot
to death by a small band of men.
The body of Norman was found on
Sunday morning two and a half miles
northwest of this city where he had
been shot to deathEhreebullets had
entered his headand one had peno
trated his right breast
Norman is said to have been the
negro who last "Wednesday drove
Deputy Sheriff Jordan from a farm
near Texarkana UBing a rifle to en
fore- hia commands He was" not
wanted here for any other offense and
had no' connection with the murder of
u. Ytt .uHuuers ine jiyian sioreKeeperjwe muraerer -or Jjanuors;
BSgrr
about 125 men and young men gath-
ered at the church . and heard Dv
Cunningham's address' upoa tlio
theme "Man. of God." It was a power-
ful appeal to the men and boys to put
on the whole armor-of God and enroll
themselves as His soldiers.
Sunday night the theme of the
address was "Ltet Immortality and
Glory' The ssrnion was based upon
the transligurrttipai.jjScene in which
Closes and" ElTasvf-appearcd' upon the
holy mount with Christ and Peter
James and John witnessed the trans-
figuration and; heard the voice of God
declare that "This is my haloved. son
in whom I am well .pleased; hear
Shim."
The services will continue through
this week with the same schedule as
last week: At i):30"a. in. service in
Daniel Baker chapel; - 3i00 p. ni.
service at the church; :15 p. m.
brief prayer meetings for men women
boys and girls at the church; and at
7:30 p. m. preaching at the church.
The song services of Sunday were
inspiring the choir being greatly in-
creased' and the junior singers takiifg
an interesting .part in the service.
COLLINS WARNS ISO
SAYS COUP D'ETAT IS PLANNED
AGAINST THE PROVISIONAL
GOVERNMENT.
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON Feb. 13. Mchael Collins
head of the provisional government of
Ireland sent a cablegram of warning
to the American Association for the
Tjecognltion of the Irish Republic not
to assist nor countenance the coup
d'etat which he declared is planned
against the Irish provisional govern-
ment" says a dispatch from Dublin
today to the London Press Associa-
tion
DEPUTY SHERIFF
who was fatally wounded Thursday
night in an attempted hold-up ac-
cording to officers. Landers died
within an hour after he was shot.
Norman had been arrested nt
Ashtown Little River County Ark
and wras being brought to Texarkana
by Air. Jordan at the time ho was
seized. It was ascertained that a car
full of men followed Jordan from
Ashtown ' crossing the Red River
bridge at Index . three minutes be-
hind hinj telling the bridge-keeper
that they were Little River County
Deputy Sheriffs and asking how long
it had been since Jordan passed. It
is; known that no deputies Tvere in
this car.
District Attorney C. A Wheeler
Is still positive that 'tha men' who
killed the negro belieVbtKthat'hb was
MCA
AGAINST
PNG
ORGANIZATION
. Xr s. $M
RETIRE FROM CONGRESS
AT END PRESENT TERM
VETERAN THINKS HLS AGE AND
HEALTH DEMAND LESS A
LESS STRENUOUS LIFE-
(By Associated Press.)
' WASHINGTON Feb. 1J. "Uncle
Joe" Cannon the oldest member of the
House announced today that he would
not be a candidate for re-election as
representative of the Eighteenth Illi-
nois district. The former speaker an-
nounced his intention to retire from
politics.
While he gave no reason for his re"
tirement in his published statement
'friends declared that he had made the
decision in the belief that his health
and advanced age made a less stren
uous life advisable. He is expected to
I'etire to his home at Danville alter
finishing his present term in the
House.
The Illinois- Representative is one
of the most picturesque and. widely
known figures in Congress. He 'be.
8C years old on May Jth. Ho U now
iserving his twenty-third term as a
member of the House and for eight
years of his long service . he was
speaker of the 'House.
January Exports '
at Lowest Figure
in Seven Months
--t
(By Associated Press;)
WASHINGTON Feb. 13. Exports
during January aggregated $279000-
Ji00 the lowest in seven months and
mounted to a decretase of fifteen mil
lions from December.'
The Imports in January totaieu
S216.000.000 against S237.000.000 for
the previous month and $209000000
for January of last year.
Mary Miles Minter
Says She Has Told
Police All She Knew
(By Associated Press.)
LOS ANGELES Feb. 13. "Mary
Miles Minter issued a statement here
today through her attorney declaring
that she had told the investigators "all
she knew" of the life of William Des-
mond Taylor. She said she was un-
able to conceive how any person could
voluntarily harm Taylor.
LEGS BROKEN BUT UNINJURED.
(By International News Serviced)
PITTSBURGH Pa. Feb. 13 Rich
ard Dowling of No 60 Twenty-seventh
street admits he is a cripple.. While
walking along PenM avenue he fall and
broke his legs.
Along came a. cop w;ho found Dow
ling in no pain. The cop turned this
report in at the .Twenty-sixth street
pollco station: .
"Richard Dpwllng two. logs broken
uninjured. -Accident Talren home."
Dowllng's legs were both' wooden.
UNCLE JDE
CANNON TO
FATHER AND Ilfi MURDERED
AS LITTLE GHILD ITGHES IIEILK
Murderers "Looked Like Mexicans But Talked- Like Ne-
groes" Says Little Girl After Spending Night .
of Terror in Ho me of Parents. . . .
OTEL ROBBED
OF SI
DARING BANDITS
SAFETY DEI'dSIT BOXES IN OF-
FICE YIELD RICH REWARD
FOR ROBBERS.
(By Associated Press.)
ST. LOUIS Feb. 13. Jewelry esti
mated by the Hotel management to be
valued at $100000 was obtained by
bandits who early today looted the
feafety deposit boxes of the HoteJ
Washington here.
The night clerk was compelled to
jjpen the safe at the point of a revolv
er. The bandits also obtained nearly
a thousand dollars in cash and more
than a thousand in checks from the
cash drawer. They escaped after
compelling the clerk and night eleva
tor operator to lie flat on the floor.
One guest wife of a local banker
estimated her losses at ten thousand
dollars. Carl Zork who was involv-
ed in the. baseball scandal but later
i.was exonerated resides at the -hoteL
He said his. losses are. $750.
Two of the bandits lootedthe safety
deposit boxes while the other guarded
the elevator.
ST40AB&ASI
TO MEET AND ARRANGE
ILDING CHAPEL
BAYLOR INIVERSITY SUSTAINS
SEVERE LOSS IN BURNING
OF BUILDING.
(By Associated Press.)
WACO Feb. 13. Local trustees of
Baylor University held a session Sun-
day and decided to invite the executive
committee of the Baptist General Con-
vention to meet in Waco and take ac-
tion for th6 rebuilding of Carroll Chap-
el which was burned Saturday night
The Board had" intended to meet in
Fort Worth but owing to the emer
gency was asked to meet here:
The fire originated in the dome of
the handsome building and caused a
loss estimated at approximately a
quarter of a million dollars. The
building houses the university library
containing between .25000 and 30000
.books many of them Tery rare and
valuable volumes.
Smoking Banned .
By College Girls
Rooms Too Small
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK Feb. 13. Smoking by
girl -students of the Teachers College
of Columbia University Is banned for
architectural rather than on moral
grounds according to Margaret Kll-
patrlck president of the student 'body.
"The girls here smoke we all do"
she said "but we can not do It in the
hall. The rooms are-too small.".
Neff Confers With
r
State Officials
on Martial Law
(By Associated Press.)
AUSTIN Feb. 13. The question of
extending martial law to Include all df
Limestone county and also whether
the local officers in the area now un'
der martial law should be supplanted
by military officers was the subject
of a conference in the Governor's office
thiB morning.
Those attending the conference were
the Governor Keeling Smith Stone
Wolters Barton and Major Machen.
"HOOCH CIGAR APPEARS
(By International News Service)
COLUMBUS. Ohio. Feb. 13. The
010 BY'
BAPTI
0 RERD
hooch perfecfo has made its appear- wopg last June throagk- coaselr af-
ance here. Ostensibly a foil-wrapped being sentenced to haagi appealed
cigar the owner pulls off the ; folX bicase to the Supreme Court ei'that
draws the cork and presto! he; ii.fi- st.ani win com'up for hearing?
'blbesa.slug of hooch! - '"' " in April. West is still in jH-
(By Associated. Press) .
1
lACO Feb. 13. The drag net which
ment and city detective force and con-
stable's office over the vicinity of Con- -cord
near here where W. H. Barker
a merchant and his wife were mur-
dered" Saturday night and Homer Turk
13-year-old son of a neighbor Avas .
stricken down has resulted in the ar-
rest of nine negroes who are m jail
here as suspects. The tragedy is stil!
shrouded In mvsterv todav. and offi
cers are in doubt as to the motive for .
the crime.
Child Only Witness.
1 1 11 A - 1.1 M -M it
aii me suspects are oem tor iuruier -investigation
but no evidence has. been
secured against any except two who
are described by the child survivor oZ
the Barker family as looking like
Mexicans and talking like negroes.
The fact that these two according to
information obtained by detectives .
left their homes Saturday night and .
did uot .return is considered signift-;
cant r
The little girl of the murdered cou
ple remained on the bed alone in the
house fr6m the time of the murder .
about 10 o'clock Saturday night until
daylight Sunday. The wounded Turk
bay 'lay on the.floor.besideher bed un-
conscious and she-hearing-him enter
the house after the. murder thought
hewas one of themurderers and was -;
ofra
.itnn aunt at Lakeview and the boy
is in a sanitarium with no hope for
I'filfl VerjwArv hpTrt out
Rofefeery Motive
itopoery is tne omy motive tnat.can
be assigned for the murder. It was
generally understood in .the conimunl-
ty where the Barkers lived that Mr.
Barker was in the habit of keeping
considerable money in his house as
a matter of fact a search of the prem
ises the morning after the double mur-
der;was discovered revealed about
S20Q in pitchers above he doors and
in other out of the way places.
That Mr. Barker must have had. an '.
intimation when he was accosted in
the' lot near his store last night as he
left house house to go to the barn
that .robbery was intended is indicat-
ed by the fact that his right hand was
found tightly clenched around a knife
in his trousers pocket The knife had
taot been opened. The pistol which he
jjkept in his house was found under the
pillow In the room occupied by him
his wife and their 4-year-old daughter.
The man who fired the fatal shot
was so close to his vlrtfm tlinf TV .
Barker's face was badly powder burn--
fcd- " : -
Mr. Barker who was about 75 years
old moved to Concord frdm Cleburne
eight years ago.
FIDENGE Of FRIENDS
OE GRIME HE CLAIMS
LUCKY DEAL IN SUtJCK BASKETS
FOLLOWED BY PYRAMIDING
OF BUSCTE&l
(By Associated Press.) : f -f -CHICAGO.
Feb. 13t-Raymondv 'J; :
Bischoff 23 years old who is under
detention in connection with an admit-
ted shortage of four and a ha!fmil-
liori dollars as a 'result of financial
dealings with approximately six thbu
iiuu reaiuenis oi me CHICK yards Q1S-'
trlct. blamed a lucky deal with a -friend's
money for his continued tran-s
actions which finally involved him "so-
fbeavjly. ; .
Bischoff said a friend begged him to
play the market witn. his money and
rafter a successful play hlch doubled
thcumbney In a week -ha was besieged
by others with similar requests. That'
fwas the beginning of. It he said.
Wist Cvse Will Soon
tk Heard by Supreme
Court of Arizona
Information receive hv th niwn '
frpii Sheriff Maloney of Mohave caun-
ty Arizona is to tha effect that the
man West who is caarred witu vnr.
MLLm Smith formerly oC Brown-
CM
STARTED HIM
ON PATH
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