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VOL. XLH—NO. 350.
MYSTERIOUS FIRE AT POST; LOSS S2OO(M
IMS DUEL;
FIGHT ISJUII
TO ENGLISHMAN
Steps in Line of Fire Be
* tween General and
Lieutenant.
FAMILY WITNESS IT
Second Britisher Slain by
Promiscuous Gun Play
Recently.
By the Associated Press
Mexico City. Jan- 4.—Georgs W.
Steabben, a British merchant, was mor
tally wounded last night when he
walked into the line of fire between two
men engaged in a pistol duel in the
streets. Mr. Steabben was wounded in
the presence of his wife and child. He
has been in Mexico only four months.
Physicians hold out no hope for his
recovery. In addition to Mr. Steabben.
six other persons were seriously wound
ed in the exchange of a dozen shots be
tween Gen. Leovigudo Avila and Lieut.
O>l. Constantino Lazcana, who used the
crowded streets as their duelling ground.
Mr. Steabben is the second Britisher
who has been shot during the past three
davs in promiscuous gun play in the
capital. Wilfred Herbert Gore Ewart
was found dead in a hotel Monday
morning. An investigation revealed the
fact that he had been killed by a stray
bullet New Year's eve as he was watch
ing the paradera from his balcony.
Mr. Ewart was 31 years old and a
captain in the Scots Guards during the
war. He is said to be a son of I*dy
Mary Ewart, author of several books.
HELD VP IN WAREZ.
Taxicab Driver and Accomplira Rob
Two Prominent American Women.
El Paso. Tex.. Jan. 4.—Mrs. George.
i wife of the former governor ot
The Philippines and ex-governor of New
Mexico and now international boundary
commissioner, and Mrs. Charles Hunt,
wife of Colonel Hunt, former rough
rider,” were held up last night by ■
masked bandit and robbed of diamonds
and jewelry valued at more than $4OOO.
according to reports to El Paso and
Juarez police. .
The hold-up occurred in Juarez, on
the Mexican side, just after the women
had crossed the river.
Mrs. Curry and Mrs. Hunt were be
ing driven to Juarez in a taxicab to
join the husbands at dinner. Thecar
i,ad been called from a local stand
Driving about two blocks beyond the
Stanton street bridge, the driver turned
on the main street and drove into a
side thoroughfare and stopped, Mrs.
Curry and Mrs. Hunt reported.
A masked man opened the door and
pointing a gun at the women, ordered
them out of the car. He then wrenched
the jewels from their .hands- remo'-«l
their necklace, and. jmning the driver
of the car, drove away.
The bandit overlooked a platinum
wrist watch and a diamond platinum
pin worn by Mrs. Curry, it was re
potted. . , *
ASSAULTS WIFE AND
FRIEND BELIEVING
THEY ARE IN LOVE
Three Io wans in Critical
Condition Following
Attack.
(.e«l»r Rapids. lowa.. Jan. 4.—Mrs.
'Barbara Abodeely and Samuel J.
Kacerc, who were assaulted by Mrs.
Abodeely's husband with an axe Tues
day night were in a critical condition
here last night, each having received
two fractures of the skull. Abodeely,
who inflicted skull wounds on himself
with the axe is in a serious condition
but doctors said he would recover.
Abodeely told county officers that he
tried to kill his wife and Kncere because
he though they wore in love, his sus
picions having been aroused because he
believed they had too many telephone
conversations. The police declared his
jealousy was without foundation. Abo
deely came here from St. Louis three
years ago.
TWO KILLED BY TRAIN
Brother and Sister C*ught Between
Moving Cars in Missouri.
jCarrollton, Mo.. Jan. 4—John L. Sul
lifan, 30. single, and Evaline Sullivan.
40. a sister, were killed by a switching
Santa Fe train here late yesterday.
They were in a motor car and attempt
ed to cross where the train was cut in
two. not knowing that trainmen were
closing the gap.
Temple Has $lO,OOO Fire.
Temple. Tex., Jan 4.—Loss esimated
at $lO,OOO was caused here last night
when the Thompson Mule Barn, located
in the adge of the business dirstriet.
was destroyed by fire. The blaze was
spectacular and endangered much val
properly, but sevc.al streams of
water played on it by firemen kept the
Games from spreading.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
FORMER ACTOR HELD
IN CONNECTION WITH
BIG JEWEL ROBBERY
Search of New York Apart
ment Leads to Possible
Clue.
New York. Jan. 4.—Frank Barrett
Carman, former actor and host at the
New Years’ Eve party at which Mrs.
C. P. Hugo Schoelldopf. of Buffalo,
claims to have been robbed of jewels
valuel nt $500,000, yesterday was held
without bail charged with having aided
two men, as yet unarrested, in commit
ting grand larceny. He will be exam
ined Friday.
The police after a search of Car
man's apartment where the party was
held, declared that they had discovered
a possible clue and that they were
hunting for two men. residents of the
apartment below Carman's, in which
Mrs. Schoellkopf snid she had been rob
bed. This apartment which Carman
had taken over from Fanny Brice, ac
tress, wife of Ricky Arnstein. was sub
let, according to the police, on Decem
ber 8. to three actors.
Inspector Coughlin, who has spent
manv hours questioning guests at the
party said he hoped soon to pick up the
trail of the gems.
Detectives intimated that there might
be other arrests before Carman was ex
amined Friday. Carman refused to make
any statement at his arrest.
PRESIDENT REFUSES
TO RECEIVE MEMBERS
OF ANTI-DRY CLUB
Society Women Indulge in
Hissing When Refusal
Read.
New Yors. Jan. 4.—Members of the
Molly Pitcher Club, some of them
prominent society and club women, in
dulged in hissing yesterday when it
was announced nt a cln’o luncheon that
Vreeident Harding had declined to meet
a delegation named to lay before him
the club's arguments for repeal of ths
prohibition amendment.
The storm burst when Ransom H.
Gillett, counsel for the New York di
vision of the association opposed to the
prohibition amendment, read excerpts
from a letter from the President giving
as grounds for his refusal to meet the
woman hia belief that "it is a futile
thing to expect the repeal of the amend
ment” and that such an interview could
only “result in controversul publicity
and create a suspicion that the federal
govetament is not in good faith endeav
oring to enforce the prohibition laws.”
The club made public a part of the
President’s letter and gave out a newly
adopted resolution, arguing against the
validity of his objections to the inter
view and renewing the request that the
delegation be received. The resolution
also reminded the President that he re
cently had received a church delegation
"to discuss prohibition.”
Mr. Gillett speaking of the Presi
dent's refusal to see the delegation, de
clared that “when the chief executive
of this republic can not receive any
delegation to discuss any topic as pro
vided for under the constitution, then
the republic is in danger."
He then quoted from the President's
letter:
"Ordinarily I would receive any dele
gation on your suggestion, and 1 try to
make it a rule to find time for any
audience with any delegation whose
members desire to present to the Presi
dent a pressing problem of government.
Frankly, however. 1 do not believe it
would be an opportune time just now
to receive a delegation which aims to
give expression to its hostility to the
18th amendment.lvis such a futile thing
to expect the repeal of the amendment
that I doubt the wisdom of giving an
interview which can only result in con
troversial publicity and create a suspi
cion that the federal government is nol
in good faith, endeavoring to enforce
the prohibition laws.”
Miss‘Elizabeth Marbury, club presi
dent. and one of several anti-prohibition
speakers who addressed the gathering,
criticized federal agents and the police
for the manner in which they enforced
the prohibition enforcement law here on
New Year's eve. predicting that “such
a form of despotism would speedily
break down all respect for law and or
der."
INJURED IN JUMP
Owner of Blazing Building Forced to
Jjoap to Pavement.
Eufali. Ala.. Jan. 4.—Pat Brannon,
proprietor of a two-story building which
was destroyed here early yesterday
morning by a fire that claimed two
lives, is under treatment at a hospital
for serious injuries, received in a forced
leap to the pavement to escape the
flames. Brannon jumped to the side
walk from a small porch on the second
floor.
He lay helpless on the pavement for
several minuses before he was discov
ered by persons in the crowd which
gathered at the fire. According to re
ports, Mr. Brannon- suffered a broken
wrist and injuries about the bead when
he struck the pavement. Winnie Bare
field. 20 years old. and her father per
ished in the flames. Their bodies were
recovered from the ruins of the building
and all ministers of the city officiated
at the dual funeral- at the Episcopal
Church yesterday afterno :.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1923.—FOURTEEN PAGES.
SCORES HURLED
INTO HD AS
BRIDGE FALLS
Eight Persons Missing While
Death List May
Reach 30.
CABLE SNAPS APART
Structure Gives Way in
Midst of Heavy Traffic
Jam.
tue Asßoeiated Frew*.
Kelso, Wash., Jan. 4.—Names of eight
missing persons while estimates of the
lost ran as high as 30, when rescue
parties resumed their search today of the
Cowlitz river into which nu old sus
pension bridge, here bearing scores of
men and women, collapsed at 5 o clock
last night.
From 50 to 100 pedestrians, one
truck and at least ten passenger auto
mobiles were on the bridge when it fell.
The structure gave way in the midst
of a traffic jam.
Most of the persons on the bridge
were thrown into the river and many
were picked up by boats or swam ashore.
After darkness efforts to recover bodies
were futile, though the river steamer.
Pomona, played a searchlight over the
scene. Vp to this morning no bodies
had been found.
Six Seriously Hurt.
Of those rescued two are believed
fatally injured. Six others were taken
from the water seriously hurt.
The missing include Ben Barr, coun
ty commissioner-elect; Mr. and Mrs.
A. G. Huntington, pioneer residents of
Kelso, and several employe* of logging
camps.
Early today there was a rush of rela
tives seeking some word ‘of lose loved
one« and a constantly growing list of
missing persons.
The exact death toll may not be
known for several days as the Cowlitz
and the Columbia, into which it flows
about two miles below the citv, may
swirl the bodies of the victims mnny
miles.
The bridge connected east and west
Kelso. A cable support buekled and
the bridge threw trucks, automobiles
and their passengers into the torrent,
swollen by recent floods.
Five minutes before the accident,
scores of cars were backed up at cither
approach, together with many pedes
trians waiting to cross. Thus press of
traffic had dwindled when the bridge
crashed.
Survivors Tell of Crash.
Survivors told almost identical stories.
To swim ashore, encumbered with heavy
clothing, was a test to be met only by
the strongest and most adept. Many
of the survivors were pulled from the
river three blocks below the wreckage.
Exploration of the wreckage was be
gun with daylight and an endeavor was
made to grapple for submerged automo
bile* in which bodies might be held.
The estimated number rescued was
40. J. F. Hamilton, a construction
engineer, a witness of the disaster com
mented :
“Some will say that the height of
the river, and the log jam that had ac
cumulated against it, weakened the
structure and caused it to collapse. I
can not agree with this, for only a few
days ago I inspected the piers and they
were not weakened. It was the cable
which broke, for some unknown reason,
possibly at the impact ot a heavy
jar.”
Scant as the warning wa« st the
snapping of. the cable, many pedestrians
on the bridge raced to safety, and in
one or two instances automobiles were
backed away.
NINE SMALL FIRES
Letter Chute In Russell Building Is
Sttfbtly Damaged,
Incipient fires caused nine alarms
Wednesday afternoon and night. No
material damage was recorded. \
A letter chute in the Russell build
ing. East Houston street, was dis
covered burning at 7:15 Wednesday
evening. Smoke pouring from the
chute attracted the attention of the
watchman. An alarm brought two em
ployes from the postofficc. The chute
when opened was found to be smould
ering at the bottom, where the pad
ding in the recepticle was found to
have become ignited in some undeter
mined manner. But one letter was
in the box and it escaped damage.
An overheated stove in the home of
Phil Hymas. 1102 West Russell Place,
caused an alarm at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon. A false alarm caused a
run to box 37, San Pedro avenue and
West Elmira street and an outhouse,
at 400 Simpson street, was slightly
damaged by fire at 8:35.
Slight damage was caused by a fire
discovered in C. W. Tander’s feed store,
1208 Nogalitos street, at 6:50 in the
afternoon. No damage resulted when
fire broke out in the home of Mrs.
A. Smith. 225 West Mistletoe avenue
at 6:20 A grass fire caused a run
to the 1200 block River Avenue and
n similar run was made to Elmendorf
and Perez streets late Wednesda, night.
A false alarm was sounded at 12:30
Thursday inorning from a box at
Wyoming and Mesquite streets.
Third Degree Gone; Psychology Replaces It
By ROY GIBBONS.
Chicago. Jan. 4.—Chicago police are
substituting for the crude brutalities
of “the third degree” the new terrors of
psychology.
Through , practical application of
psychological principles, particularly
through breaking down resistance of
the conscious mind and liberating the
unconscious mind, they are wringing
confessions from criminals.
The new system is having its most
spectnucular test in the case of Albert
Foster, arrested on a charge of first
degree murder in connection with the
mysterious disappearance of his former
fiancee, Mrs. Kate Mitchell Trostell.
Quizzed Vs Hours.
For 98 hours —without sleep or let-up
—Detective Chief Michael Hughes and
his assistants put Foster through the
psychological third degree.
There were no threats of physical
violence, no shouting and denunciation,
no shooting of firearms.
“We proceeded on the theory,”
Hughes explained, "that in every hu
man being is a spark of decency, and
if you can free that spark, the flame
of truth is bound to leap outward.”
At the end of 98 hours of psycho
logical sweating. Hughes had obtained
from Foster a statement Mrs. Trostell
and ho had quarreled, she was taken
sick and she jumped into the drainage
canal.
Had it not becn'for this statement,
the police would have had to free
Foster, for the body of Mrs. Trostell
has not yet been found.
Now the inquisition is proceeding
with the purpose of wringing from
Foster the truth about some stains
found on bis coat and on the running
board of bis automobile. These stains
were analyzed by an official chemist,
who said they were human blood.
Foster's inquisitors first tried to
build up before his mind's eye the
image of the crime of ehieb he was
suspected. They held before him
time aftertime a picture of Mrs. Tros
tell. Often as many as 30 men sur
rounded him and plied him with ques
tion*. *
“Can’t Stick to Lie.”
“All criminals lie.” said Hughes.
“But rare is the man who <an stick
to a lie. We find a liar will tell n
different version of the same story to
almos teveryone. So we lead a sus
pect into telling lies, then we check
TWO BOYS MISSING' ANNULMENT OF DANCER’S
AFTER BURNING OF MARRIAGE IS VACATED BY
DALLAS ORPHAN home judge CHARGING PERJURY
Lads Known to Have Been
in Dormitory Which
Was Destroyed.
Dallas. Tex., Jan. 4.—Two boys
known to have been in the dormitory
which was destroyed by fire at Buck
ners Orphans Home, eight miles east
of Dallas. Tuesday night are missing, it
was announced last night by Norman
Campbell. Dallas business man. former
inmate of the home and president of
the ex-Inmates Association, folloging
a trip to the institution. Telephonic
communication with the institution is
still out and the names of the boys re
ported missing could not be ascertained.
WOMAN FINDS BODY
OF MURDERED MAN
AT CORPUS CHRISTI
Throat Is Slashed and Num
erous Knife Wounds
About Face.
Corpus Christi. Tex.. Jan. 4.—Rob
bery is believed to have been the motive
for the m«rder of an unidentified man
whose body was found eight miles south
of here by a Mexican woman yesterday
afternoon. The throat had been slashed
and numerous knife wounds were about
the head and face.
As yet no one has been able to iden
tify the man. although hundreds of per
sons have viewed the body in a local
morgue. The man was about 35 years
old and was well dressed. No laundry
marks or other clues were found on the
clothing which was of good quality.
A tattoo mark on the right forearm is
expected to aid in establishing the
man’s identity. Wheis found the hat.
coat and shoes had been removed from
the body ami the pockets were turned
outward. The murder occurred early
yesterday, undertakers believe.
SAYS KLAN RULES CITY
Officials of Indiana Town Charged
With Being Members of K. K. K.
Michigan City, Ind.. Jan. 4.—Charges
against Maurice Bowen, eity manager:
Arthur Snyder, a .member of the city
commission, and David Miller, eity en
gineer. were members of the Ku Klux
Klan were pending before the Michigan
City commission tixlay. Arthur M. Sul
livan. former chief, of police, who de
manded reasons for his requested resig
nation last Monday made the charges.
“My discharge was caused by the
fact that I refused to join the klan,”
Sullivan said.
“Conditions in Michigan City have
become almost unbearable for persons
not affiliated with the klan. Night
Captain Thomas Grui-t and four or five
members of the police force have al
ready resigned.”
Mrs. Kate Mitchell Troatril. Her Daughter 1 and Albert Foster.
him up. and finally in bis mental con
fusion the truth will out.
“This, in effect, is what has hap
pened in Foster’s <asc.“
Foster’s confession came in the 98th
hour when, by pre-arrangem»ut. Mrs.
Trostell's daughter entered the room
Colirt Decide® Eva Fontaine Burrows and Mother Ob
tained Annulment by Fraud and Recommends
That Bar Association Investigate Practices
of Her Attorney, Which He Calls Im
proper and Irregular — $1,000,000
Breach of Promise Suit Involved.
Nyack, N. Y., Jan. 4.—Evan Fon
taine Burrows uunullment of her mar
riage with, Sterling Adair was vacated
yesterday l>y Justice Tompkins in Su
preme court here, when he sustained
charges of fraud brought by Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney in defense of a $l,-
I 000,000 breach of promise suit brought
against him by the dancer.
Justice Tompkins, who granted the
annullment in July, 1920, also ordered
the district attorney to bring before a
grand jury all-records in the case with
a view to indicting Miss Burrows and
her mother for perjury in having ob
tained the annullaient through fraud.
. Says I’erjury Committed.
The court further recommended that
the New York Bar association investi
gate the practices of Charles l-irestone,
of Mount Vernon and New York, at
torney of gecord for the dancer in the
suit for annullment.
“A gross fruud has been perpetrated
on the court," Justice Thompkins wrote
in his decision. “Perjury has been com
mitted by both complainants, deceit anil
concealment resorted to. and irregular
and improper practice indulged in by
the plaintiffs attorney of record.
Charles Firestone.”
Miss Fontaine obtained the annull
rnent on statements that she did not
live with Adair after their marriage.
NEGRO IS KIDNAPED
I»tii<dans Black Spirited Away by Men
in Automobile.
Shreveport. La.. Jan. 4. —Called out
side of a garage where he was employed.
Italic Leggett, 35-year-old negr >. was
forced into an automobile by* five un
known white men here about < :30
o’clock Wednesday night and spirited
away. , ...
Police had received several complaints
of late that Leggett was associating
with white women and this is believed
to have prompted the kidnaping. Offi
cers searched throughout a greater part
of the night for the tnan. but were un
able to find any trace of him or his ab
ductors.
Fail to Climb Mount Shasta.
Redding. Cal., Jan. 4.—Charles War
ner. Oakland newspaper man. and
Leonard Thatcher, student at the I m
versity of California, arrived m Sisson,
a town at the base of Mount Shasta,
north of here at 8:15 last night and an
nounced they had failed in their effort
to make the first mid-winter ascent of
the mountain. They turned back at
Thumb Rock, the half-way point, at
noon, Tuesday.
and pleaded hysterically with him to
tell her where her mother was.
The spark of decency, according to
police psychologists, burst into the
flame of truth. And then Foster was
led away for a few hours’ rest, after
which the inquisition was r rd.
The affidavits submitted by counsel for
Whitney included several letters alleged
to have been written by the dancer to
Adair in which a plan of collusion to
set aside their marriage was outlined.
The dancer and Adair were married in
Texas. It was the claim of Miss Fon
taine that she becamd sepdated from
her husband three hours after their mar
riage. He entered the navy and died
sometime later.
Adair Declined Her Plans.
Photostatic copies of letters and tele
grams submitted by Whitney's attor
neys purported to prove Mr. and Mrs.
Adair lived at various New York ho
tels during the period the dancer claims
to have been separated from her hus
band. • ‘
Justice Tompkins' decision set forth
that the evidence indicated Adair re
peatedly .had declined to enter into a
plan with hia wife whereby the mar
riage might be fraudulently annulled.
Miss Fontaine nnd her mother re
maiueil in California during the Nyack
proceedings, having declined the invita
tion of Whitney's counsel to come east
to attend the hearings.
Miss Fontaine formerly made her
home in the Greenwich Village section
of New York City, nnd it was there, she
alleged that she met young Whitney,
a grandson of the late Cornelius I an
derbilt.
CHILE’S CABINET QUITS
Appointment of Liberal as Supreme
Court President Brings Resignations.
Hr the AMoekated Pre*#.
Santiago. Chile, Jan. 4.—The Chilean
cabinet, headed by Premier Rivas
Vicuna, resigned yesterday afternoon
as the result of differences over the
appointment of Braulio Moreno, as
president of the supreme court.
Braulio Moreno was supported by
the Liberal Alliance against Enrique
Foster Recaberren, the unionist candi
date.
In protest over the appointment, the
unionists forced the .resignation of three
of their members from the ministry,
and the resignation of the other mem
bers followed. •
The political situation makes a solu
tion, of the crisis apparently difficult.
Mexico to Show Exhibits.
Leipsic, Germany. Jan. 4. —Mexico is
planning to establish permanent ex
hibits of her manufactures and agricul
tural and mineral products in all the
large cities of Germany, according to
information obtained in Mexican offi
cial quarters.
The Leipsic exposition will open dur
ing the spring.
ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY DE
BLAZE IN ARMY BUILDING
PREVENTS DISASTRIDLIS FIRE
Government Property Burned in Fire
That Has Mysterious Origin — Loss
About $2OOO — Army Fire Fighters
Battle laze in Warehouse, Preventing
Costly Fire.
Fire officials at Fort Sam Houston are unable to de I
mine the cause of a mysterious blaze that started in a ’ i
house on Fourth street and Avenue A at 10 o’clock T< J
night and destroyed between one and two thousand . :
worth of government property. The building in w’
fire occurred is in that part of Fort Sam Houston p- 15
known as Camp Travis, was located in the corrie
Servire Battery of the Fifteenth Field Artillery. 5.45
A large number of government saddles and ha’ ||
either destroyed or so completely damaged that the9s
no further use and the walls of the building were al:** j
damaged. '
The blaze, starting from an undetermined origin,'* 9
first discovered by a guard. Companies 1, 3 and 4of the t I
Sam Houston fire department, under the direction of Chk 8
Ed Hogan and Assistant Chief W. J. Bailey, fought the
flames until it was extinguished. This, however, was only
after big damages had resulted. 1
When discovered by the guard, the blaze was on the
inside of the warehouse.
MANY SCANTILY CLAD
PERSONS DRIVEN INTO
SNOW TO ESCAPE FIRE
Six Rescued in Early Morn
ing Blaze in New
York.
New York. Jan. 4. —Six persons had
a narrow- escape from death and more
than a hundred others scantily clad
were driven into the snow covered
srteets early today during a fire which
damaged several tenement buildings.
Starting in tbe two-story double build
ing occupied by a paper box factory,
tbe flames spread quickly to tenements
on both sides. Carl Kuhn, his wife and
four children, who were trapped by
smoke and -fire in their fourth floor
apartment were reached after a perilous
climb over the roof of the adjoining
building and carried to safety.
PROMINENT MEN WILL
TAKE STAND TO AID
FORMER U. S. CONSUL
Randolph Robertson Is Al
lowed $15,000 Bond on
Embezzlement Charge.
Many prominent men of Mexico will
go on the stand in defense of Randolph
Robertson, former consul at Nueva La
redo. charged with embezzlement of
$13,000, if he is tried, and give testi
mony tending to show that the funds
missing -were not taken by Mr. Robert
son but rather that the money was lost
through inefficient bookkeeping methods
while Mr. Robertson was engaged in im
portant work in Mexico during the
World War. Mr. Robertson, his friends
say. is not better off financially than
when he went into office.
Valentin Rivero, prominent business
man of Mexico, now making his home
in San Antonio, said. “Mr. Robertson’s
service has always been considered as
the most efficient as any on the border.
We feel that when th.- investigation is
completed he will be absolutely cleared
for today he is as poor a man as he
ever was. People who have received
favors from Randolph Robertson in the
last six or eight years can be counted
by the hundreds and they will all testify
to his good character.
"It was his policy to seek out those
in trouble and give them aid and be
never would take any money for his
services.”
During tbe war. according to other
friends of Mr. Robertson's, be spent
money under instructions of the govern
ment for work in Mexico and they be
lieve that this is where the loss was sus
tained. _
Robertson was arrested Tuesday at
Laredo on advices from San Antonio
which in turn had been sent from
Washington. The adrice was that be is
charged with embezzling funds of the
government while consul at Nueva l.a
redo. At a hearing at Laredo Wednes
dav h<- was allowed bail in tbe sum of
$15,000.
NOON EDITI
TWO CENTS “ d
r ive cents on trains and <
ESTABLISHMENT OF
TEXAS INDUSTRIES
URGED BY GOVERNOR
NeH Says State Should
Budd More Fac
tories.
ÜberA>. Tex., Jan. 4.—A plea fo<
encouraging the establishment of indus
trial factories in Texas to manufactui-Q
Texas ootton, wool and other product®
and enactment of law* which will assist
in the establishment of sm-h factorial,
was made by Governor Neff in the rrr«
enth of his legislative addresses her#
last night.
Texas ranks foremost among stated
in industrial poesibilitiee, yet the state
has never realized such possibilities, th*
governor declared. He reviewed the
amount of raw materials Texas pro
duces each year and pointed out that
little of this is manufactured in Texas
factories.
“The textile industry has greater pe—
sibilities in Texas than any other place
in tbe world.” the governor said. “One
fourth of the cotton of the world in
grown in Texas fi"ld. yet we operate
only a few small cotton mills. Al
thougii we have the largest sheet*
ranches in the world and the larges#
wool market, we have no woolen mill*.
We produce the major part of the mo
hair of the world, but ehip it to New
England to be made into clothes.
"Texas sbduld make an effort to
build factories in this state.” the gover
nor concluded. "Those who wouM
build factories ri.ould be assured that
their investments would not be dis
turbed by radical legislation. Thoso
who labor should be assured that their
rights would be safeguarded. Some leg
islation in regard to taxation that
would eiwourage infant Industrie*
Should be iwseed.”
ROB HOTEL ROOM
Thieves Get $7O In Visit To Hi
Other Places Entered.
H. H. Site, registered at the Trav
eler’s Hotel, reported his room prowled
at 9:30 Wednesday night. A pur-*
containing $7O and a number of re
ceipts, he reported, was stolen.
Thieves stripped the home of M. U
Busby. 733 St. James street, of fix
tures. :i<-cording to a report filed with
detectives at 6:40 Wednesday aftor
noon. The list ot loot included twelve
electric “hades a heater, thirteen win
dow shades s*ven electric push switches
and a iniror. J
Mrs. Mary McCumber. 425 1-2 Mum
avenue, reported a larje deer akin stole® y
from her home Wednesday ahvnxjaßg i
A thief stole a medicine case from
the aotamobilc « fl>r. Amos Grave* at
9 och»ck Wednesday night, whik rha
car was parked near Houstan
street and Avenue C.
Clothing was stolen fhen a thief
stripped the line in the bark yard at
the hom«' at H. C. Grant. 51* Nevada
street. Wednesday afternoon.
M. Dia*. West Travi« afreet, re
ported a bolt of Nue *e?fe pattern ;
cleth stolen from his home. A Milt af ,
clothes pan Maore. Ompany J. 25 4 ]
Infantry. Camp Travi* reported a
stolen from him recently*