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OL. XLin—NO. 37.
HOUSE DOUBTS SENATE'S SOBRIETY
Thousand Germans Arrested and Fifteen Billion Marks Seized in Ruhr
JEPORTEES
ARE HERDED
ID TRAINS
rench Abandon Aloof
Dignity—Check Sabo
tage With Iron Hand.
XPEL EVERY MAYOR
ieneral Strike Called Af
ter Thousand Citizens
Rounded Up.
UT RESISTANCE LOW
trike Funds From Ger
many, Equivalent of
$1,000,000, Seized.
Kssen. Feb. M. —The entire Ruhr
illey was in economic and civic de
(station tonight
Not a town from Dusseldorf to
ortmund had a head to its local gov
nment; every mayor and burgomas
r had been deported or arrested,
id th* French, like a conquering
my in war time, ruled everything
ith an iron hand.
Around one thousand Germane, in
oding the councilmen of Bochum,
ere taken into custody today at the
Tbhet point, and hundreds herded
to trains for deportation.
The French no longer maintained
e aloof dignity with which the sanc
me of the early day of occupation
ere enforced. Sabotage is met with
ern repression, and both French and
erman observers fear a crisis.
More than 15,000,000,000 marks
ere seized by the invaders today in
hold-up of the Berlin-Cologne ex-
■ess near Hagen.
A state of intensified siege was
dared in virtually every important
ty of the newly occupied zone.
Some of the towns falling under
is ban today wore Bochum, Herpe
id Wanne. '
Against increasing repression, Gor
an resistance was at low ebb, but
lion workers in the vicinity of Bo
lum immediately declared a general
rike in protest ngainst the arrest of
e town coundllors.
I/iok Into Rifles.
I The earliest available version of the
teat “train robbery” at Hagen, in
Ibich the French made their -greatest
Ingle haul of the occupation, was
lorn German sources. A French an
puncement confirmed the seizure,
pwever, and added that, besides ac
piring nearly $1,000,000 (even at
le present rate of exchange) the oc
bpiers captured a quantity of plates
ling sent to Cologne for the manu
leture of 50,000 bank notes.
I There were members of the Reich
lag aboard the Berlin-Cologne express
Ihen its wheels ground to a halt on
I waste stretch outside of Hagen as
■e engineer found himself confronted
I French poilus who held him up
I Jesse James style. Others lined
he tracks with machine guns.
[Heads went out of windows to
■certain the cause of the sudden
pit, and many deputies found them
[ives looking into a cocked rifle and
pard sharp commands to get their
suuta up and heads in before they
hrs shot.
| The poilus took possession of the
rain and in a third class compart
ent the searchers found what they
ere seeking, a diminutive safe from
ie Reichsbank, containing thirteen
Uion marks. Two Reichsbank em
oyes guarded it They were cover-
I and held at the bayonet point
hile straining troopers grunted and
saved as they removed the safe from
ie compartment and eased it to the
-onnd. The money had been intended
i pay for workers, many of whom
•e striking on orders from the Ger
as government.
A •5,000,000-Mark Haul.
The Reichstag deputies were out
>oken both at what they termed
train robbery” and the government's
vrelessness in permitting such large
ams to be transported without ade
pate guard on a line to which the
rench had access:
This seizure was not undertaken by
« French without due precaution.
; developed that blue-clad cavalry
id infantry occupied the station at
tanne, near the scene of the hold
p, surrounded the depot at South
ecklinghausen and at Herne and
ipt a olose military grip on the en-
re region, occupying the inhabitants'
inds with frequent raids and arrests.
Employes on the Berlin-Cologne
neg near these points, and prospec
ve passengers were driven away un-
I the French had the captured safe
united away towards Paris.
Other hauls made by the French
day include one of 65.000.000 marks
government funds at Coblenz, taken
ter four French civilian custom of
cials had picked a fight with Ger
an railroad officials, according to
a latter'* version.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
SMOKERS FORM LEAGUE
New Political Organization to Fighl
Utah Anti-smoking Law.
Salt Lake City, Utah. Feb. 24.—
Tentative organizatiou of a "league
of liberty” party was completed at a
mass meeting here late today, cai’ed
to protest against arrest of persons
smoking cigarettes in public places.
The mass meeting followed a gi
gantic parade and demonstration
against the state law.
The meeting appointed a com
mittee of 100 to draft a program for
the new political organization.
MORMONS IN VALLEY
Sect Secures Permit To Build Church
In Brownsville.
Tex.. Feb. 24.—A
building permit has been granted to
members of the Mormon sect for' the
construction of the first Mormon
church in the lower Rio Grande val
ley. The building is to be located in
this city. It will be constructed by
members of the church. Work will
start on it within the next few days.
GASOLINE GOES UP
Retail Price of OU Boosted to 23
Cents in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City, Feb. 24.—Follow
ing the lead of the Marland Oil Com
pany, which increased the retail price
of gasoline to 23 cents throughout
Oklahoma today, competitors boosted
their oil to the same level.
FEDERAL BANK DEBITS
Total for Dallas District $97,253,
000; $7,085,000 for San Antonio.
Dallas, Tex., Feb. 24.—Debits to
individual account to member banks
for the week, as announed by the
Federal Reserve Bunk for the elev
enth district is as follows:
Dallas distrist: Austin, $3,503,-
000; Corsicana, $1,398,000; Dallas,
$42,639,000; Fort Worth. $27,328,-
000; San Antonio. $7,085,060;
Shreveport, $7,453,000; Texarkana,
$3,216,000: Waco, $4,681,000. To
tal $97,253,000.
El Paso district: El Paso. $7,
439,000; Albuquerque. $2,29.8.000;
Roswell. $528,000; Tucson, $1,900,
000. Total $12,165,000.
Houstou district: Houston $26,
705,000; Galveston, $17,927,000;
Beaumont, $4,142,000. Total $48,-
774,000.
Two More Towns Want College.
Austin. Tex.. Feb. 24.—Two addi
tional Texas town, Ralls and Cole
man Junction, have filed applications
for consideration as suitable sites for
the location of the Texas Technolo
gical College in West Texas. This
makes upward of 30 cities and towns
in West Texas that have applied for
the location of the college.
Flies Kite With Wire-Electrocuted.
Roswell. N. M.. Feb. 24.—Flying
a kite with a copper wire cost the
life of Ralph Silva today. The kite
wire touched an electric wire and
Silva was instantly killed. Both
hands were severely burned. When
spectators reached the boy, he was
dead.
Honolulu Records Severe Quakes.
Honolulu, Feb. 24. —Severe earth
quake shocks were recorded last night
by the seismograph at both the Uni
versity of Hawaii and the federal
observatory station. The tremors were
first noted at 9 p. m., and lasted
three hours, the records show.
Bill Would Double Motor Tax.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 24—The House
Saturday afternoon passed finally, bv
a voto of 62 to 43, the Sackett bil’l
changing the motor vehicle tax bill.
This is the bill that proposes to double
the tax on motor vehicles in Texas.
THE WEATHER
TEMPE BATCHES.
FEB. 24— 4 a. m 47
- P* m 53 5 a. m 47
s p. m 53 6 a. m 18
J P- m S 3 7 a. m 47
5 P- m 52 5 a. m 47
« P- m 50 s a. IS
7 p. m 17 10 a. IS
’ P- m 47 11 a. 50
» P- "> <» 12 noon 49
to Pi m 42 1 p. m 19
11 P. m«aaaaa*«49 2 P. 11l 4 9
12 mtdnirht.,.,47 3 p. m 49
FEB. 25— 4 p. in 50
J *• m <» 6 P. m ;.50
2 a. m. *49 p. m 50
* a. 48 7 p. 59
FORECAST.
Eaat and West Tini: Cloudy, occaa
•lonal rains in south portion; little
change In temperature.
• HOME WEATHER FOR TOVRISTS.
St. Louis: Temperature. Si; eloudy; Si
mile wind from the south: lowest tem
perature in last Si hours, 28; highest. 8«.
Chicoco: Temperature, 28; partly
cloudy; Si-mlle wind from the aouth;
lowest temperature in last 2i hours, 20;
highest, SS.
Kansas City: Temperature, 42; raining;
18*mile wind from the south: lowest tem
perature in last 24 hours. <2; highest, 4«.
Waw York: Temperature, 12; clear; 12-
mi!< wind from the northwest; lowest
temperature in last 24 hours, 8; highest,
28.
Washington: Temperature, Id; dear;
8-mile wind from the northwest: lowest
temperature la last 24 hours, 12; highest
SI.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1923.-FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES
MISSING BRIDE IS
STILL MISSING; SO
IS RANCHERS’S $7900
Suspect. Held in Los An
geles Is Not His
Wife.
San Angelo. Tex.. Feb. 24.—A wo
man styled Mrs. A. Chapelle, of
Southport, England, and said to be
poring as a friend of Lady Astor,
and held by lets Angeles police on a
fugitive warrant from San Angelo,
is not the missiug bride of L. P.
Grimes. former Sterling county
ranchman. Sheriff Frank Duckworth
wired home today.
Duckworth and Grimes hurried to
Tais Angeles when advised by police
there that Mrs. Chapglle aus.vcrcd
the description of Mrs. Grimes, who.
her husband charges, deserted him at
Fort Wort, taking $7900 from him,
a part of the proceeds from the sale
of bis ranch.
Grimes met Mrs. Mary Hickman,
a carnival fortune teller, at the Fort
Worth Fat StocT Show last March.
They corresponded and were mar
ried here December 10.
MISER BURIED IN
$2700 COFFIN BUT
BILL IS NOT BAID
Estate Will Not Pay It, Nor
Will Body Be Dis
tarbed.
Oklahoma City, Okla., Feb. 24.—
John Missed, miser, who was found
dead in hia little; ramshackle hut her,
several days ago. will await the judg
ment day in a $2700 coffin and bis es
tate will not suffer the bill. County
Attorney J. K. Wright declared to
day.
Missed left a small fortune which
was willed to charity, but a local un
dertaking concern which had charge
of the burial presented a bill which
included the $2700 casket.
“The undertakers will never get
that $2700 and tiie body will not be
disturbed in the coffin cither,"
Wright said.
The state has entered a case claim
ing that Missed was not of sound mind
when he willed his estate to Rev.
John Hall, and that pressure was
used to obtain his signature to the
document.
The bearing nt which the will is to
be formally contested was set for
March 9.
SHIP SUBSIDY BILL
MAY BE MAIN G.O.P.
ISSUE IN 1924 RACE
Harding May Cancel Alas
kan Trip and Take
Stamp for Measure.
Washington, D. C. Feb. 24. —Fail-
ure of the ship subsidy bill to pass
at this session of Congress may cause
Presideut Harding to undertake to
make it the keynote Republican issue
in the next presidential campaign.
That he is thoroughly “sold" on the
idea of a ship subsidy cannot be denied
and he is convinced that if it is prop
erly presented to the Republican voters
they will accept it as sound party
doctrine, equal to the protective tariff
theory.
Of course there will be no announce
ment of the chief executive's plans
in this regard until after March 4.
Quite conferences and recent callers
at the White House have brought back
the word to Capitol Hill that Presi
dent Harding is anxious to go before’
the country as the champion of the
subsidy. It is hinted that he is pre
pared to abandon his Alaskan trip and
devote that time to a tour of the Mid
dle West, where most of the opposi
tion to the ship subsidy is centered,
presenting bis argument in behalf of
that measure.
The report that the President is
ready and willing to make the subsidy
the leading campaigu issue has been
received with somewhat mingled emo
tions on "The Hill.” The Democrats,
who believe it cannot be popularized,
are frankly elated, declaring opposi
tion to the subsidy will offset opposi
tion to the League of Nations, for
which it is recognized the Democratic
party again must stand. And while
the Republicans generally would rather
have some other issue the'proposal
does not strike them with as much
terror as it would have some months
ago.
MENTIONED AS‘U’HEAD
Start Movement To Have Dr. Tigert
Appointed President.
Austin. Tex.. Feb. 24.—Represen
tative George Purl of Dallas, Satur
day started a movement to have Dr.
John C. Tigert, national commission
er of education, appointed president
of the University of Texas. A peti
tion is to be circulated to that effect.
The petition is to be presented to the
board of regents of the university.
FREE LDVE
AND ‘MONKEY
BILL’ RAPPED
Negro School and Whites’
College Mentioned “in
Same Breath.”
IN THE LEGISLATURE
Uproar Comes Over Amend
ment to Anti-evolu
tion Proposal.
ALL DARWIN’S FAULT
Law-maker Would Allow
Blacks to Be Taught
Monkey Theory.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 24.—The House
was thrown into an uproar this after
noon when Representative Hendricks,
of Ellis, offered an amendment to
the Stroder anti-evolution bill, known
as the "monkey bill.” which was
under consideration, to exempt the
Prairie View normal, an institution
for negroes, and the Grubbs vocation
al college, located at Arlington, from
the provisions of the measure.
Demands came from all oxer the
House that the amendment be with
drawn. the principal objection to the
amendment being that it connected
the Grubbs college with a negro
school.
Hendricks declined to withdraw his
amendment, whereupon Representa
tive Rountree raised the point of
order that it was not germane. The
speaker overruled the point of order.
As the uproar grew* stronger, Hen
dricks withdrew the amendment.
Sharp Tilt For Two Hours.
For two hours the House debated
the bill, which seeks to prohibit the
teaching of the evolution theory,
cither Darwinian or theistic, in state
supported schools, and there were
some sharp tilts.
When the measure was taken up.
the author offered an amendment
eliminating the penalty clause and
providing that the teaching of the
evolutionary theory as a fact would
be unlawful. •
While Representative Price was
speaking to his motion, he was in
terrupted by Representative Stroder,
who asked if Price believed in free
love.
“What Kind of Free Lovef”
“What kind of free love —Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, or what kind of doc
trine?” Price shouted back nt
Stroder, and he added: “You go to
the temple, to the synagogue, to the
church and to the public forum, with
your peculiar doctrine, but for God's
sake, save the Texas Legislature from
passing upon such a question.”
Representative Howeth moved to
table the Price amendment and the
motion prevailed. 62 to 50. It was
then that Hendricks offered his
amendment that the provisions of the
bill shall not apply to Prairie View
normal and Grubbs college.
After it had been withdrawn the
House adjourned.
Raps "Free-Lovism.”
Defending his bill, Stroder denounc
ed the theory of evolution in scath
ing terms, declaring it was “implant
ed in this country by emissaries of
the devil pho emigrated from Ger
many. France and England.” He in
sisted that any man “who believes in
evolution in its materialistic sense”
as “an athirst of the worst form.” He
severely arraigned socialism, bolshe
vism. “free-lovism.” materialism and
anaarchism, “declaring that each was
akin to the evolutionary theory.
It was asserted by Representative
Howeth thaf evolution was “the
anti-tithesis of everything scriptural.”
The theory, he said, would “under
mine the Bible, because it disputes
the Geneses account cf creation and.
in time, would dAtroy civilization.”
In offering the ajuendment to strike
out the enacting giause. Representa
tive Price, o* Mcrris, asserted that
“the word of God needs no aid or
defense from the Texas Legislature.”
It would be as logical, he declared,
“to send Texas rangers to New
Jerasulem to defend it against vio
lence” as it would be for the Legis
lature to seek to defend the Bible
against the alleged baneful effects of
evolution teachings.
Darwin Has Defender.
Price expressed the belief that “if
Jesus Christ were in the House, he
would condemn the Stroder-Howetb
bill on the ground that it restricts
free speech, free thought and free
conscience. It savors of fanaticism
and witchcraft and would do credit
to the Spanish inquisition. I do not
believe the Legislature has any right
to set . itself un as an arbiter of
scientific and religious issues.”
The bill was characterized br Rep
resentative Miller. o f Parker, as the
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EARLY RETURNS GIVE
EL PASO ANTI-KLAN
TICKET GOOD LEAD
No Disorders Reported;
Ka Kluxers Beat
en 3 to 2.
El Paso. Tex., Feb. 24.—Early re
turns tonight indicated the entire
anti-klan ticket in the city elections
has been elected by a vote of 3 to 2.
At 8:30 o'clock, headquarters of
R. M. Dudley, anti-klan candidate for
mayor, announced half of the pre
cincts show Dudley 4500 votes to
2600 for P. E. Gardner, alleged to
be supported by the hooded order.
Official returns from nine of the
37 precincts gave Dudley 1467, Gard
ner 911.
With the exception of a fight in
the police station between two detec
tives, the day passed without trouble
up to this hour.
Indications were that not only the
mayoralty race and aldermanic ticket,
but all others running on the anti
klan platform were elected by huge
majorities.
NOTEBOOK NAMING
80 WOMEN STUDIED
IN REMINGTON CASE
Associates Ranged From
High Social Circles
to Underworld.
Los Angeles. Tai.. Feb. 24.—A
notebook containing the names of 80
women occupied the attention of de
tectites investigating the Earle Rem
ington murder case tonight.
Remington's papers were carefully
perused in hope of discovering some
correspondence which would reveal
the Motive for his murder.
Among the papers was the bonk
with the names of tie women be
lieved, to have been Rmingtdh's as
seriates in various affairs.
Permission to go through the pa
pers w|s given by Mrs. Virginia Rem
ington. the widow.
All the forces of the law were com
bined tonight in an attempt to delve
into the depths of the underworld
channel where the few clues in con
nection With the murder have invari
ably IM; only to be lost.
Several women noted in the book
have already been qustioned, but po
lice said nothing of importance had
been revealed. They carefully guard
ed the names of the women, who are
snid to range from high social cir
cles to tile underworld.
DRUNKEN GARAGEMAN
CAUSED 13 TO DIE
IN FIRE, IS CHARGE
Smoked Cigarette, in Al
coholic Stupor, Before
Blaze, Witness Says.
Kansas City. Kan.. Feb. 24.—
Charges of drunkenness and careless
ness against Thomas C. Hattley, own
er of the building in which thirteen
persons burned to death yesterday,
were made in the state investigation
of the disaster today.
An employe of the Hattley gar
age, occupying the ground floor be
low where the victims lived, testi
fied Hattley was in the garage in a
drunken semi-stupor, smoking a cigar
ette, just two hours before the fire
was discovered.
The employe,’ E. D. Hodge, testi
fied the garage had a large amount
of oil in retainers and oil-soaked rags
scattered throughout the ground floor.
He declared Hattley was still drink
ing about midnight.
Several other witnesses affirmed
Hodge's statement as to Hattley's con
dition the night of the fire. Joseph
Fee, assistant to the fire chief, de
glared that the fire, which he char
acterized as an oil and old timber
fire, must have started either in the
garage section of the building or very
near it.
Authorities conducting the investi
gation declared they would attempt to
determine why a rooming house had
been allowed to operate over a gar
age in violation of a city ordin
ance.
Hattley, in testifying, admitted he
had been drinking, but denied he was
intoxicated.
GASOLINE ON SUNDAY
Senate Bill .Allows Purchase of Motor
Supplies on Sabbath.
Austin. Tex., Feb. 24.—The Senate
engrossed Senator Cousins' bill allow
ing the sale of gasoline and lubricating
oils on Sunday.
Interurban Oil Slove Explodes.
Youngstown. Ohio, Feb. 24.—A
score of persons were injured, several
seriously, tonight when an oil stove
on an interurban car exploded near
Pleasant Grove Station. Five persons
were returned to a hospital here. The
explosion tore out the frout of the
car.
PRESIDENT
SPEAKS FOR
THE LEAGUE
Harding Wants U. S. Par
ticipation in Interna
tional Court.
SENATE IS SURPRISED
Suggests Reservations Re
stricting Nation’s Re
sponsibility.
SUGGESTED BY HUGHES
Little Chance That Propos
al Will Be Considered
This Session.
Washington, I). C, Feb. 24—Presi
dent Harding today asked the Sen
ate to approve American participation
in the permanent court of interna
tional justice.
Tewing the Sente, occupied as it
was with the ship subsidy filibuster,
completely by surprise, Mr. Harding
requested cousent before the end of
the present session to ratification of
the protocol of the international trib
unal set up by the League of Natioua
to settle ditputes betweeu natious.
The move, the President said,' wat
at the suggestion of Secretary of
State Hughes.
Read Behind dosed Doors.
The president's message, with an
accompanying letter from Secretary
of State Hughes, was read to the
Senate in an executive.session behind
closed doors and was referred to the
foreign relations committee.
Apparently releasing this step
might revive the old league of nations
fight, inasmuch as the court obtains
its power from Woodrow Wilson's
league covenant, which the Senate
failed to ratify, Mr. Harding and
Hughes both stressed that senatorial
approval of the tribunal's protocol
would not involve any legal relation
or assumption of obligation towards
the league. They expressed their
willingness to have this stated in one
of four reservations to the ratifica
tion of the protocol.
At an early hour tonight it ap
peared doubtful if administration
leaders could force action by the Sen
ate in the one week of the session
remaining. The general opinion
seemed to be that the full pledged
participation was one of too grat im
portance to be passed upon in such a
short time.
Irreconcilibles Ready to Fight.
Some of the irreconcilibles in the
league fight indicated privately they
would oppose the request. ,
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, lead
er of the fight against the league in
1919, is understood to have assured
the President of his support. The
foreign relations committee is ex
pected to consider the matter Tues
day.
What has happened behind the
scenes in recent months to cause the
President to take today’s step was not
revealed.
The court judges are elected by the
league's council and assembly. In
participating officially in -the interna
tional court, Mr. Harding and Mr.
Hughes stated it would be highly ad
visable for the United States to have
a voice in the judges’ election. This,
they itted, can be done only by
appoint it A special American dele
gates to the league council and as
sembly for that purpose.
It was this point that caused for
mer opponents of the league in the
Senate to ponder. The United States
thus, technically, would have repre
sentatives in both bodies of the
league. It is virtually certain that
the Senate will make it unmistakably
dear that these delegates can per
form no. other functions. It may in
sist in right to confirm them.
Text of Reservations.
The text of the reservation sug
gested follows:
“1. That such adhesion rhall not
be taken to involve any legal rela
tions on the part of the United
States to the League of Rations or
the assumption of any obligations by
the United States under the cove
nant of the League of Nations.
“2. That the United States shall
be permitted to participate through
representatives designated for the
purpose and upon an equality with
the other states’ members respective
ly of the council tmd assembly of
the League of Nations in any and
all proceedings of either the council or
the assembly for the election of judges
or deputy judges of the permanent
court of international justice, or for
the filling of vacancies.
“3. That the United States will pay
a fair share of the expenses of the
court ns determined and appropriat-
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t( Mr. Marshall”
Matthew D. Biddulph, arrested as
the "Mr. Marshall” in the $500,000
jewel robbery of Mrs. C. P. H. Schoell
kopf in New York City, New Y'ear's
Eve. is held in $lOO,OOO bail awaiting
trial.
OIL WELL RIGGING
FALLS AT SOMERSET,
KILLING WORKMAN
A. B. Stokes Meets Instant
Death When Skull
Is Fractured.
A. B. Stokcz, 23, was instantly
killed .nt 4 o’clock Saturday after
noon at Somerset when the rigging of
n well, on which he was working,
presumably came loose and fell on
him. breaking his back and fracturing
his skull.
Mr. Stokes was atk employe of the
Eggleston Oil Company of Somerset,
and had been Jiving there for three
years.
Mr. Stokes was a native of Sonora,
Tex., and is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mr*. Snip Stokes; one brother
and two sisters. Misses Johana and
Ruby Stokes, all of Sonora: a broth
er. H. .V; Stokes of Somerset, and a
sister. Mrs. V. Locklin of San An
gelo, Tex. The body will be sent to
Sonora Sunday night for interment by
Wilbert and Pclphrey, undertakers.
RIO GRANDE LACKS
ONLY TWO FEET OF
MAKING FLOOD STAGE
Fifty-year February Preci
pitation Record
Broken.
Brownsville, Tex.. Feb. 24.—The
Rio Grande iacis but two feet of
touching flood stage, fifteen feet, at
Rio Grande City. Actual flood stage
will be reached by Sunday morning,
it is expected.
Water will reach the tops of the
l.nvir banks at Mission by that time,
it is predicted.
The river is up but little at
Brownsville. A heavy volume of wa
ter is not expected until Tuesday.
There are no reports of a flood
anywhere in the valley as vet.
It is still raining and a 50-year
record for February precipitation has
been broken.
There is no automobile traffic.
MAYFIELD IN DALLAS
Believe Conference Concerns Washing-
Contest Proceedings.
Austin, Tex.. Feb. 24.—Earle B.
Mayfield, United States sinator-elect,
left Saturday night for Dallas where
he will hold an important conference
with friends. He said he will only
spend Sunday at Dallas. The na
ture of the conferei ce was not made
public. It may have some bearing
on the contest proceedings files! in
the United States Senate In which
Mayfield's right to his seat is being
challenged. It is understood May
field contemplates leaving shortly for
Washington.
Watchman. 81, Dies of Injuries.
Houston, Tex.. Feb. 24.—Barto
Luitich, aged 81 years, crossing watch
man employed by the Houston Belt
and Terminal, died at 3:30 this morn
ing at St. Joseph's Infirmary from
injuries received Wednesday morning
when he was struck by an outbound
passenger train while on duty at the
Nance street crossing.
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Hundreds of
Dollars
To be awarded to
best “Talkers”
For particulars see page 2.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
DRYS DDK’T
VOTE LIKE
THEY DRINK
Sleuths Should Search Cel«
lars of Congressmen,
They Are Told.
LAW COSTS TOO MUCH
$620,756,996,000,000
Needed in Next 25 Years,
Is “Estimate.”
ASHER CALLED DOWN
Senator Too Drunk to An
swer Roll Call, Rep
resentative Says.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 24 Sena
torial sobriety was questioned in the
House today as wets and drys staged
one of the stormiest sessions in years
during a debate on enforcement of the
Volstead act.
It waa started by Representative
Gallivan of Massachusetts, un
avowed wet, who attacked UkKgM
stoutly mounting costs of enforee
ment of the liquor laws. The House
roared with laughter as he solemnly
declared that it would cost $620,756.-
996,000.000 in the next 25 years if the
cost continued to increase at the pres
ent rate.
The storm broke when Gallivan, in
the midst of which he "twitted" the
drys for not-“voting as they drauk,”
declared "a senator got drunk the
other night—a dry senator —and two
colleagues, had to hold him to keep
him from answering a roll call."
Blanton Heard From Again.
Representative Blanton, of Texas,
leaped to his feet and made a point
of order, declaring the remark was a
violation of the House rules, as it re
flected on a senator.
Gallivan declared he was in favor
of having dry sleuths look into the cel
lars of dry congressmen who recently
voted for the House resolution by Rep
resentative Cramton, of Michigan, a
dry, to find out “how much ambassa
dors drink.”
“I wonder how many here would
raise their right hand." Gallivan con
tinued, “if I asked the drys in the
House to religiously vote as the Anti-
Saloon League tells them? How
many of them take a drink and like
a drink? *
“I pause for a moment and await
the raising of a singe hand.”
Cramton raised his hand, but has
tily denied he liked liquor, stating he
misunderstood the question.
Gallivan took a fling at Agent
Asher, the genius of disguises, who
recently led two dry raids in Wash
ington. He declared there was an
“army of dry sleuths going about the
coutnry in disguise, nosing into every
man's business and every woman’s
kitchen, laying traps to involve inno
cent people into the meshes of the
Volstead law.”
Compares Dry to “Tut.”
“And now." said Gallivan, in con
cluding, as he pointed to the gal
lery. “the gentleman who sits be
hind the clock in the gallery, the Hon
orable Wayne Wheeier. of the Anti-
Saloon League, is the man who says
it is lawless to agitate for the repeal
of the Volstead law, or even the
eighteenth amendment—he does not
belong to the tribes of Abraham Lin
coln or Thomas Jefferson, but to the
tribe of the Pharaohs in Egypt, whose
tomb has just been opened after 3WX)
years.” ,
Representative Blanton came back
at Gallivan in poker terms.
Pointing to Gallivan. Representa
tive Tinkham. Massachusetts, and
Representative Hill of Maryland, wet
leaders, the Texan shouted:
“There they sit—three of a kind.
You can draw to that hand until eter
nity and never fill it.”
“We expect to draw a full hou>e to
this three in the next Congress." re
torted Hill.
“Your grandchildren will be 8"
years old before you do that," shot
back Blanton, scornfully.
GIRL, 18, SENTENCED
Fifth Member ol Family to Sene
Term for Dope Law Violation.
Fort Worth. Tex., Feb. 24 — Anni*
Beland Hayden. IS, left Fort Worth
Saturday afternoon for a federal re
formatory after bidding farewell to
her mother, sister and brother, who
had just returned from federal pria
ons.
Under eighteen months' sentence for
unlawful possession of morphine. An-
nie Beland Hayden is the fifth mem
ber of the Reland family to nerve a
term for violation of the nareotie
law-.
She was taken to the reformatory
at Caldwell, N. J.