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SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1<425.
COL MITCHELL TRIAL BEGINS IN WASHINGTON
M
NAVY AND WAR HEADS
CALLED AS WITNESSES
(By AuorimU-d Fret* I
Washington, Nov. 2.—Col. Wil-
liam Mitchell, who is on trial by
court murtial as u result of his crit-
icism of conduct of the Govern^,
ment's Air Service, today risked the
court to summon Secretaries Davis
of the Wur Department and Wilbur
of the Nuvy Department as witnes*-
es.
After rejecting another motion by
Mitchell’s counsel to dismiss the
charges on the ground that the
court bad, no'jurisdiction over the
proposition, the defense called to
the stand its first witness. A. W.
Yeager, reporter for the San. An-
tonio Light, to whom Mitchell gave
a copy of his San Aritonio state-
ment on September 5.
Washington, Nov. 1.—Opposing
counsel has taken full advantage of
the week-end recess to work out
their prosecution and defense plans
and are ready^for resumption Mon-
day of their legal struggle before
the eouyt of Generals in the rise
of Col. William Mitchell, army ser-
vice critjic of the War and Navy de-„
1 partmenta.
The prosecution officers, headed,
by Col. Sherman Moreland, had
concluded preliminary examinations
of several witnesses summoned by
them to appear against Col. M’tchell
to support the charges of conduct
prejudical to good order and Military
discipline. These included three Tex-
as newspaper mch who disseminated
the statements the defendant made
public in San Antpnio, chneg'ng the
two executive departments yith “in-
competency, criminal neglect and al-
most treasonable administration” of
aviation affairs, which gave rise to
the > court-martial proceedings.
• i Col. Moreland also had been, as a
result of the court’s recess, to work
out much of the statement he will
. make before the court, probably at
Monday's sessions' which will for*--
cast briefly the points bn which he
will seek conviction of the accused
officer. .
So far at the defense’s ■ pro par#
tions were concerned. Representative
Prank R. Reijl of Illinois, civilian
counsel for Col. Mitchell, said ho
was “thoioughly prepared."
The defense attorney still was un-
dacidod whether he will yield tc ad-
visers who have urged him to reek a
subpoena^ fqr President Coolidgc.
SULPHUR SPRINGS
YOUNG LADY IS
HONORED AT BAYLOR
Belton, Texas, Oct. 31.—Miss Inez
Gilstrap, dranger, has the* distinc-
tion of being president of the larg-
est class of girls ip Texas. She was
recently elected by- the Baylor Col-
lege freshman class', which has an
enrollment of 581.y
Other officers elected" were Kath-
erine Roberts, Sulphur Springs, gen-
eral vice-president; Mary 1 Conner,
Fort.Worth, secretary; Emma Kirt-
ley Edwards, Port Worth, treasurer;j
vice-presidents of dormitories: Burt, j
Isabelle Moor, Bonham; Luther,!
Kathleen Teel, .Devine; Ruth, Strib-
ling, Grace Harbor, San Saba; Ely-
Pepper, Rufh Fenwick, Denton;
Heard and Ferguson, Mary Alice
Cooley; Cottage Home, Annie Lou
Kilstfap, Briton.
Zane Grey’s “Wild Horse Mesa’’- at
-the Mission Monday amp Tuesday.
29,512 BALES UP
T0UGTUBER18F0R
HOPKINS COUNTY
Government Statistician H. B.
Sickles has received Official notice,
from Washington*oi the cotton gin-
ned- in Hopkins county this year up
to October 18, which was 29,512
bales, against 19,843 for correspond-
ing time last year.
Knowing ones estimate that 2,500
bales have .been ginned since the re-
port, which puts the cotton ginned
to, date at 32,000 bales.-.The aver-
age crop for Hopkins county for tht
past ten years is given as 31,181
bales. . "*
There is much cotton Jo be pick-
ed over the county and the estimates
of 40,000 and above are'now-free-
ly predicted, Some going as high as
45,000 bales. v
Sulphur Springs - received' .161
bales of. cotton Saturday,' bringing
the receipts for ,t,he season up to
18,819 bales. Thc'receipts were good
again today and at Ihe close ’ of
business tonight will bring the total
around 19,000 which'is a record for
Sulphur Springs. The market came
In a little stronger this morning
and buyers were active and taking
everything that came in.
Try n classified *d for result*.
SIX KILLED, MANY ARE
INJURED IN WRECK
GREAT BRITAIN
PROTESTS AGAINST
ACTION OF FRANCE
(By A»tociatfd
London, Nov, 2.—A dispatch to
the Daily Mail from Syria says that
large bodies of -Turkish troops are
moving toward Mosul from Turkey.
The Daily Express has a similar
report. It puts the number of Turks
at 5,000 and adds that the French
have given them permission to cross
Syria.
Reports say that Great Britian has
protested to the French Govern-
ment.
The suggestion is made that the
French commanders in Syria are
favoring Turkish preparations to
check British action against the
Mosul boundary.
GOVERNOR HONORS
DEFICIENCY WARRANTS
FOR CATTLE DISEASE
(Uu Aaaucijtei Praaa)
Austin, Nov. 2.—Deficiency war-
rants amounting to $552,000 to
fight the foot and mouth disease in
Harris and Galveston counties were
ordered today by Governor Fergu-
son.
The State Livestock Sanitary
Commission made the request to
Governor Ferguson who honored
the request and sent an order to
the Comptroller’s Department.
DUTCH ANDERSON IS
KILLED IN GUN BATTLE
CHARLEY JONES .
OF DIKE VICTIM OF
APPENDICITIS
Charles Lewis Jones, forty-five
years of age, died Monday morning
at 6 o'clock at his-home at Dike
after a short illness with appendi-
citis. Fun era 1 service- are announc-
ed for Tuesday morning at Tira,
with burial in the Tim- eenjetbry*-—
Mr. Jones has long been a resi-
dent of this tfotinty, having come
here with bis parents from Indiana
when q small boy. Besides his wife,
he is survived by a number of chil-
dren.
ARDMORE MAN'S
BODY RECOVERED
FROM SUNKEN SHIP
STATE OF TEXAS
STILL ON CASH
BASIS TODAY
(By A*tocwi<<i i*re««>
Newport, R. I., Nov. 2.—-The
body recovered by divers yesterday
from the sunken submarine 8-51
was identified today as that of Hen-
ry Crawford, radio man of Ard-
more, Oklahoma.
Identification was made by the
means of finger prints, a mono-
gramed ring and an initialed belt
buckle.
(/Tty Aaaoriatad Praia)
Austin, Nov. 2.—Gregory Hatch-
er, state treasurer," t<WKiv declared
that the sta'te j* still on, a cash bas-
is and that alll warrants presented
at the Treasury1 will be paid.
This was made possible through
the j«o-operation of Austin and Dal-
las banks with which Hatcher ar-
ranged to meet the October payroll
for state employes, amounting to
more than $100,000.
(By l* re**)
Nahunta, Ga., Nov. 2.—Six adults
were killed and approximately 24
children injured when the. Atlantic
"Coast Lines’ fast New York-Florida
passenger train, No. 81. crashed
into a loaded school bus a; a grade
crossing, here today.
Jerusalem,- Nov. 2.—Guerrilla
warfare is sweeping through Syria
and the French have lost control of
100 miles of territory northward
from Damascus to Homs, according
to refugees from the striekenScoun-
try.
Six groups of guerrillas have
united under single leadership and
have occupied the towns of Duma,
Jlamier, Katif, Jurood, Yabiood and
Nabk. Sixteen additional village;
and nine Bedouin tribes have joined
the guerrillas in the Damascus dis-
trict. . *
French bombardment of Syrian
communities continued as late as
last Wednesday, when six villages
were shelled-
Panjeky conditions prevail in Da-
mascus, whence an average of 4,-
000 foreigners and women are flee
ing daily.
Many guerrilla raids occur .daily
in the Alepho, Parma and llaurian
districts.
MARTIN DENIED
NEW TRIAL; GIVES
NOTICE OF APPEAL
(By AHHonntfd Preu)
Dallas, Nov. 2.—W. A. Martin,
convicted of murder for slaying
Deputy Sheriff R. B. Parsons of
Denton county and sentenced to 99
years in the penitentiary, was de-
nied a new trial by Judge Pipper,
here today.
Notice of appeal was given by
defense counsel.
TRY OUR WANT ADS.
MIKE AND JOHNNY
SAY PREACHER NEEDS
NEW TIN HENRY
Rev. and Mrs. J. Howard Wil-
liams and children came in Sunday-
on the noon west-bound Cotton
Belt passenger train from two
weeks over in Benton, Arkansas,
wheie Brother Williams held a very
fine meeting. They were to have
reached home Saturday night, but
car trouble caused the delay and
the abandonment of the trip ft*
planned in their car. They started
home in their car, hut the same re-
fused to come out of Arkansas.
Mike Sanders and Johnny Rhodes
over on Jefferson street say that
the pieacher has the wrong make:
of car. They say he used to travel j
in a Ford and was always on time, j
as a Tin Henry never went back, bn j
a preacher trying to make his ap-
pointment. Bro. Williams was here
in time to preach at his church last
night and delivered a good sermon.
WOMAN IDENTIFIED
GOLDEN HAIR WHO
- - INHERITS $100,090
4 ’’•St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 1.—Mrs.
Mary Cheatham Kistner of
Bismarck, Mo., is the Marie Cheat-
ham to whom an unnamed client of
J. R. Davis, attorney, desires to be-
queath $100,000. Davis announced
here Sunday,. He said identification
was virtually established.
Marie Cheatham was a golden-
haired image of the mysterious cli-
ent carried in his heart for twenty-
five years in the Northwest lumber
camps.
"After leaving De Soto, Mo., I
lived In De Soto until 1910,’’ the
woman wrote, explaining she mar-
tied a Missouri Pacific train dis-
patcher ami is the mother ef two..
children. Davis said he would inter-
view her in a few days..
The anonymous client chose to
leave his fortune to a former
friend rather thun to a few distant
relatives, with whom he hal qunr-
teled, Davis added.
TRY OUR WANT ADS.
KNOB KNOCKERS TRY
BOHLING WORKS SAFE
- *1 wq|Mto
« Knob knockers made their ap-
pearance In Sulphur Springs Sun-
day night by attacking the safe of
Jhe Sulphur Springs Bottling plant
on Main street. The building was
entered by prixing open a window.
The knob was knocked off the big
safe but the safe withstood the fur-
ther efforts of the bandits in try-
ing to open it.
Officers have been at woik on
the case today but at press time
nothing was ready to give out for
publication.
John Acker came down from Jos-
ephine Sunday to get a lot Of Dooly
Yams, etc., for home' use tohile he
remains in exile out on the black-
land. John wants to get back home,
btit guests that ho will have to re
main away a few months longer
for running off -lyst year1 when
things looked a little gloomy in
Hopkins county.
Miss Zoline Askew will entertain
the Tuesday Night Bridge club to-
night at her home on College street.
LEADING PHYSICIAN
AT WILLS POINTS
DIES SUDDENLY
Wills Point, Texas, Nov. 1.—Dr.
C. L. Haynes died suddenly here Fri-
day night. He had made a profes-
sional call and attended a ball game
late in the afternoon. Paralysis was
given as the cause of his~3caffi.TTe
had been prominent in business and
professional affair*, here for many
years.
CHECKS WON IN'
WORLD SERIES
ARE WORTHLESS
PROHIBITION OFFICERS
WANT BEVERAGE TAX
(By Anunciatrd r-ttyyt
Muskegon, Mich., ftfov. 2.—The
bandit slain here Saturday after he
had shot and fatally wounded Chas.
Hammond, city detective, was posi-
tively identified today as Dutch
Anderson, noted slug, and pal of
Gerald Chapman, super bandit.
Identification was made today by
finger prints of the slain bandit
and those of Anderson. Secret ser-
vice operators who arrived here to-
day also aided in the identification.
Anderson wer.t to his death
fighting, so did Detective Hammond
who, although fatally wounded,
wrested the revolver from the
bandit's hand in an alley in the
shadow of the police station, and
then killed- Anderson with the lat-
ter's weapon. The airest was made
alter Anderson, who had $2,200 in
counterfeit $20 hills on his person,
- h;-. J passed one {or a box of candy.
SQOC FAMILY
COMES TO SULPHUR
FROM CALIFORNIA
(By Aaavciatad Praaa)
Washington, Nov. 2.—Prohibition
enforcement officials today sought
to aid the taxing power of the Gov-
ernment as a means of checking
what they describe as a tremendous
flood of high-powered beers sweep-
ing the country-
A tax of one cent a gallon on
ceieal beverages was asked by the
House Ways and Means Committee
by Lincoln Amliews, assistant sec-
retary of the treasury, in charge of
prohibition enforcement. This would
afford the Government power to
inspect near beer distilleries.
CLARKSVILLE IS
FOR GOOD GAME
The Wildcats are hard at work
again today in training for the next
game, Friday, with the Clarksville
Hi, which is scheduled to be here
on that day. Clarksville has a
strong team and a good game is in
store for all who may be so fortu-
nate as to be able to JjdtncsJ. ..the
game.
CITY OFFICERS
ARE ROUNDING UP
LAW VIOLATORS
Dr. Amos R. Wood of Los Ange-
les, California, has moved his fam-
ily to Sulphur Springs and has
rooms with Mr. and Mrs. J. Boggs
on North Davis street.
Dr. Wood has opened a new jew-
elry store in the Morris Drug store
at southw-est coriher bf the square,
where he will also carry an optical
department.
Sulphur Spring* extends the glad
hand to Dr. Wood and family and
wishes for them a pleasant, profit-
able and long stay in our midst.
1
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WEST TEXAS TOWN
' SUFFERS $50,000
FIRE EARLY TODAY
■Ml
Chief of Police Jerry Lewis and
deputies have been waging war on
law violators for the past few days.
Saturday night a lot of fellows were
locked up on a charge of having too
Much booze. Sunday night a crap
game was found in the very act and
more than a half
jail.
dozen landed in
J. FRANK NORRIS
SAYS LEAGUE IS
AGAINST SCRIPTURE
Chicago, Nov. L—The League of
Nations Is contrary to the teaching
of Scripture, the Rev. J. Frank Nor-i tions on which the "checks’’ were
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 319—A
number of Pirate supporters, who
placed their money on the Pitts-
burgh club and then thought they
had "cleaned up" when their favor-
ites won the championship, now
find that they didn't win a cent,
police having received numerous |
complaints within the last few .lay* . i OTrniJCIJC
that the money was "covered" withj, J | LI UtilV
bogus certified checks. ! ll K n rniMtPAlii
Among the betters who found] M ijj pMRIJ LAR
their “checks" to be worthless was 1
a former pugilist who bet $25,000.
In another instance a theatrical
manager placed $5,000 but did not
realize on his “investment,” Other
wager* ranging from $50 to $500
have come to the notice of pojic-e.
who figure that a total of $100j000
was covered by,the spurious paper.
Baltimore and Washington bank;
are raid to have been the Smstitu-
STOLEN FROM OARAGE
ris told the convention of the Bap-
tist Bible Union of America here
Sunday night.
"The prophet Isiah warns Jeru-
salem against entering a confeder-
acy as hope of deliverance from in-
vasion of war,” the Rev. Norris
said. “So long as Israel or Judah
remained separated and independent
nations of the earth, that long were
they all powerful and invincible."
But the (jay they associated them-
selves into leagues either with
Egypt on the south or Assyria on
the nofthK that day marked the be- Mrs. Bill Felton of Dallas is
Iwipr of .the downfall of the elect spending.a few days hcer with Mrs.
Noble Glover on Gilmer street.
certified and several of the eoni-
plainents declare the men who
“took” their money said they were
from Cleveland.
Inspector of Detectives John Ber-
ry says there is no way in which
the winning can be collected, altho
there might be gleaned a few
crumbs of satisfaction by prosecut-
ing the men who posted the checks
on charges of issuing worthless pa-
per. Thato is, if the men can be lo-
cated.
L. A. Stephenson had hi* Ford
car stolen from his home Bit Col-
lege street Sunday night. The pur-
ties taking the car Went ttr*hia ga-
rage and took the cat1 ar.d then,
tore down part of hiR fence in get-
ting away with it. Officer* are at
woik on the case but »o far no trace
of the ear has been found, nor aijy
clue ns to who took it.
PERSIA OUSTS
CROWN PRINCE
London, Nov. 2.—Persia Is rid-]
ding herself of the crown prince
along with the rest of Kajar dynas- j
ty, according to dispatches from [
Teheran. \/
The heir to the deposed Shah is
en route from Teheran to Paris, ac-
companied during the early’ stage
of his journey by a detachment of
soldiers.
Teheran is rejoicing at Premier
Riza Khan's success in ousting the
reigning family.
It is supposed that the deported
prince Will join the deposed Shah,
who is believed to be in Southern
$urope, where he has been in vir-
tual exile, since 1923, although he
explained that his health made his
residence there desirable.-
(Hu A*toci*t*4 PrtacJ
Wichita Falls, Nov. 2.—-Fire that
started in the business district atT
Holliday, fifteen miles south of
here, early today destroyed a caC>,
drug store, filling station and dance
hall, with n loss estimated at $50,-
000.
COUNTY COURT
OPENS LAST WEEK
PRESENT TERM
Judge George C. Stephens open-
ed the fourth and last week of the
present term of County court this t
morning with a jury on hand for
the week. No jury cases were ready
for trial and the jury was dismissed
till tomoirow. Several non-jury and
probate cases have been before the
court today. '
Try a classified ad for reaulta.
4—r
Most of our common sayings are
very old, and doubties* "You can’t
keep a good man down" was coined
by the whale.—La Grange Reporter.
PERKINS BROS SAFE AT
MARSHALL BLOWN OPEN
More than 95 per cent of land
and 91 per cent of factories" have
been restored in trie French devas-
tated region*.
Dr. Smith and Sad Berry drove
dawn from Greenville Sunday with
no - other business than to get a
squaic meal at the home of Bosh
Berry, and they were not fooled.
Bose says they brought along good
appetites and also carried homt
with them sufficient grub to last a
week.
But, after all, "asleep at the
switch” at its worst wus not *o bad
as drunk nt the wheel,—-Columbus
Dispatch.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Garrett and
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gariett of Cor-
sicana spent the week-end her*,
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ellas Chap-
man on Gilmer street.
Perkins Bros, stor* at Marshall
was robbed Sunday afternoon about
4 o’clock, according to a moss ago
received by J. Hoggs, manager of
the store, who was spending Sunday
with homefolks her*. The message
stated that entratwe seemed to
have been made from the basem^jt.
The safe was blown open and
around $1,100 in money taken from
the safe, besides a lot of merchan-
dise. - -. i i&KXgR
Mr. Bogga left at once for M**-
iriall before learning further pa*
Uvular*. ’
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Bagwell, J. S. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 254, Ed. 1 Monday, November 2, 1925, newspaper, November 2, 1925; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth813883/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.