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BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1928
VOL. XXVIII, NO. 163
SMOKING 0. K., PROHIBITION
WRONG, SAYS GIRL LAW GRAD
BIRGER DIES ON GALLOWS
CURTIS FIELD. N. Y., April 34.
Colonel Charles A. Lind-
bergh. the Lone Eagle of the At-
lantic. took the air today to fly aa
he never fife*- before in a race to
save the life'of a fellow airman.
Floyd Bennett * j
Lindbergh hopped oti at 3:09 p.
m. carrying anti-pneumonia serum,
needed by doctors tending the
North £ele filer in Quebec, where
was taker, alter being stricken
with pneumonia while commanding
a relief expedition to the marooned
tram-Atlantic filers on Oreenly Is-
BRECKEKRIDOE April 34.—
—The body of an unidentified man
about 38,years of age was found by
a camper today near the Bandhead
highway two miles east of Brecken-
rldge. Several, buckshot were in the
bod/
Another camper was arrested.
j The dead man was red-haired and
wore a coat and hat purchased at
Chicka&ha, Okla. The word "Beets"
was written Inside a coat sleeve.
i _ __
Man is Crushed
in Elevator *
tog Company, hut that the money
was not used by him personally
Instead, he said, a trust fund was
created for the Sinclair Crude OQ
Purchasing Company and the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana,
each to reeerve one half of the se-
curities Last Saturday, however,
he told the committee, the direc'ors
of his company were consulted and
R wa* decided the fund should be
turned over to the Rinr.iair Purcfcm-
tog Company, in which the Stand-
ard has a large interest
Stewart was pressed hard by in«.
committee after his initial state?
menu. Senator Walsh offered trauv-
urymitnesses to mow that some of
the%ontmental bond coupons wcif ,
to his account in a Chicago bank.
The oil man would not agree that
this had been proved
. , 1__V \
Not “CaaaT
The witness agreed that the bond
transaction between hiajself and
Osier was not of the "usual kind.
On several occasions, he said. Os-
ier had given him securities, which
ftnglly totaled the amount he men-
tioned to the committee. This was
done, declared, despite the fact that
he told Osier he chd not want to
■bare In the profit* jDoou-
Mntal
The Continental' fanner to
buy oil from the Hmagfereys katei -1
eets of Denver for *1.80 a barrel. II
eeld the oil to Sinclair and st< w
companies for 81.78. Stewart, Har-
ry F. Sinclair B. if Biackmer and
•tames K. O’Neil were men-toned sa
guarantors of the ConHnfiHaTa i
•antra a..icluner and O'Neil are.
FORT WORTH, April 24 —(/Py—
Crushed In an elevator shaft, Rob-
ert T. Vaughn. 86. workman at the
Montgomery-Ward new building,
was instantly killed today.
He is survived by his widow and
seven children.
WASHINGTON April 21—<•?>>—
The contention that the. Denison
bin to provide additional barge fa-
cilities to the inland waterways cor-
poration was economically unsound
and would disturb the rate struc-
ture of the entire ^ southwest was
voided before the abuse commerce
committee today by John L Dar-
rouzet of Galveston. Texas. -
Opposing the measure as a repre-
sentative of various Texas commer-
dal organisations
came to an end on the gallows at Benton. Illinois, the other day. whik; a big crowd looked on, Birger
smiled and joked with the hangman and other officers as his legs ^nd arm* were being bound Just before
the trap was sprung. Birger led his" gang in many desperate encounters with the. rigal Shelton gang in the
southern Illinois coal mining districts, machine guns and even air planes being used. He was accused 9f
a number of crimes, but the death penalty was imposed for the murder of- Mayor Joe Adams, of West
City, Illinois. ‘
NORMAN. Okla., April 34<JFV--
Henry C. Mugler editor of Thr
Sooner” annual student publication
of the University of Oklahoma, lay
dangerously wounded in a hospital
here today the victim, he said, of
a bullet with which he sought to
end his .life.
Summoned by the bell to the door
of the Phi Kappa Psl Fraternity,
of. which he is a member, felloe
students found him slumped upon
the threshold. mud-*paStered and
wet. Last night J. D. Grigsby coun-
ty attorney of Cleveland countv gas
summooed In the belief that Mattel
had been shot and brought is a
motor ear to the home Although
refusing at first to make a state-
ment. Grigsby said, Mugler la-ei
told him that he had become des-
pondent and. going to a looely and
muddy spot several blocks from (he
fraternity house, had shot himself
Arthur McCaffray
Almost Buried,
But It Wasn’t He
Darrouset de-
clared thaflfcjt would be revolution-
ising to enforce, or seek to enforce,
a condition of this kind which can-
not be beneficial to the farmers or
to the producers of that section of
the country, who are dependent
upon rail transportation. '
Establishment of the rates con-
templated under tlpe measure, he
•aid. would form the carriers of that
section to protect their stork holders
and ask for a very material in-
crease to freight rates on all other
^ Dead men ordinarily tell no
tales. Arthur McCaffray is dif-
ferent
He was pronounced dead by his
own father Crepe was hung on
bis door. ' (Ln inquest was held.
A jury returtied a verdict that ha
had comq to his death at the
hands of the usual person or per-
sons unknown His * crave was
dug and his friends ordered flow-
VEW ORLEANS — < NBA»—The drinking becomes a moral question.
pr&hiqltion Jaw is all wrong and f "Women have as much right to
smoking by rtfrls is all right, says smoke as men.
Miss Golds gfchin.' New Orleans, the "It is not a sin for a woman to
only v or nap due to receive a degree smoke or drink although she may
at the-laj/ school graduation e**r- sutler more serious physical conse-
quences than g man and should be
governed accordingly. ,
"It Is bad taste for a woman to
smoke or drink in the presence of
conscientious persons who find It of-
fensive.”
Miss Schlll intends to go into the
practice of law when she Is grad-
ANSON Tex.. April 34 —
A jury to try Marshal! Ratliff for
murder in the death of Oeorga
Carmichael. Cisco policeman, wh#
died. Luu. auuitds received (A
gun'fight precipitated by r^Meryj
of the First National Bank at CU-,
00 on Dec. 23. 1927. was completed
here today.
Ratliff was given the death penal- j
fy at Abilene two we?ks ago for the I
slaying of O. E. <Bit> Bedford. Cisco >
police chief, who also was wounded;
fatally to the bank bsttle. He pre- ;
vtously had received a life term for
torn here to testify In the oil cases .waters from two swollen creeps,
Btewart is now under lriitl^amnt(j us^ every available craft to carry
for refusing to answer the commit- ^ nnstotw and relief ,
tee s questions an a former occasion. The town has been wothout rail
Senator Walsh. Democrat. Montana communication for two days end
told the oU man had purged him- mere was slim chance that serrlee
■elf of contempt so far as the 8*n- would M restored before another 24
ate was concerned, but that the m- hours.
tflctment still good.1 with hundreds of persons driven
At the end of his testimony. 8tew- from' the partly submerged houses,
art insisted on, replying to uie many quartered in the court ho.w
queries which he had turned s deal ^ other high places relief work
ear to on the former occasion He was well orgsineeff and there Was
soukl not recall ever having du- nc suffering
euesed the transactions with Sin- No loss of life has been reported
clair and knew nothing about the although many nearby rural settle-
bonds except those about which he menta are under water and isolated
had testified. J _ ™
Should Stewart lose his appeal ALBANY. Georgia. April 24.-'4>
from the decision of the district of. —Newton.. county seat of
Columbia supreme court here hold-1 county. Georgia was being evacu-
mg him Bor the Senate be will be, ated today as the inhabitants, fear-
tounedlateiy liberated by the Senate , fag a repetition of the dlustrous
acrgqaat-at-arms floods'- of 1935. sought higher
The body had born taken to
an undertaking establishment. A
friend.- William O Connell. went
there to set what service hr
might render Then he telephon-
ed Mrs. McCaffray. the widow,
She appeared. In her weeds, and
discovered the corpse was not
Arthur alter all.
McCaffray. who had not been
home fbr several days, elected to
return at the time Mrs. McCaf-
fray was at the undertakers. He
saw the crepe on his door and
found a mournful air within.
Mrs. McCaffray found her hus-
band at the head of the table. -
"This place,” he told her. “Is
like a morgue. You and thy five
children are' In mourning How
b/uw because I don’t think it can
be enforced, because violation.of the
prohibition act lessens the respect
for law. and last of all. because if It
could be enforced It shouldn't be
beat use drinking is not a fit subject
for legislation^
"Drinking is not a moral question
but one of hygiene. Only excessive
uated. v -
“There is no more worthy profes-
sion than that of housekeeping.’'
she said, "but I haven’t spent five
years In college just to be a house-
keeper."
Commission Opens
Bids for Highway
Work in Coleman
AUSTIN. Tex.. April 4.—(JP>—The
Jersey Man Denies
He Offered to Pay
Smith's Delegates
Highway Commission Tuesday be-
gan opening bids for T6 mHes of
road construction and about 190
miles of maintenance hard surface
■topping, both sets of work to cost
around *1.000.000 and prepared to
hear the pleas of delegations from
about 30 counties for road aid.
Hardeman, Marlon. Dimmit. Bay-
lor, Tarrant and Cameron counties
will participate to construction
contracts; Kendall. Kerr. Kimble
, . . A M . | Schleicher, Sutton. Coleman and
who was sentenced to 99 years to Taylor counties to
the Federal prison for the murder -
and mattotng of a soldier to Baris; A • «
during the World War. was anVc: 7l OyeS Again iS tO
ed at a hotel here today. * r fj J A V * > » y
Confronted with prteon records’ ! ASSOOOted
and photographs. Ogston admitted Prpeg
his identity, and said that he M ,CM Uirtliors
, escaped from the McNeil orison — ■ k
eight months ago by sawing through , YORK. April 34.—OP—Hie
the roof. He had a pair of oar* bo*rd directors of The Associated
j he had made in the carpenter shop J*re* re-elected Frank B
and with these he rowed to the *oy** of **» Washington (D. C.)
mainland, two miles away, to a,st^ prT‘ki**lt
boat he found he said. He armed °r Walarbury
to Dallas on April 18. he told of -1 R*PubUcan was elect-
WASHINGTON. April 34—tjP) —
Emphatic denial was made today
in the Senate by Senator *EdwanK
Democrat. New Jersey, of the re-
cent statement of Senator Heflin.
Democrat. Alabama, that Mayor
Frank Hague of Jersey City had
agreed to pay the expenses of the
New Jersey delegates to the Hou-
ston convention in exchange -for
written 'pledges that they would
support (4o\ ernor Smith.
comer- | ' ; 71
There were /explanatlbns all
around. McCkffrav paid that
he-had bem -.iKingNcare of a
sick friend and had, neglected to
notify his wife. y'
The body that had ch^ d iden-
tified as McCaffrays Was found
in an alley -A bullet hole to the
head. The coroner’s Jury ver-
dict will be changed to read
“John Dde."| ? ' , »
County Can't Pay
Officers With Funds
From Registrations
DALLAS. Tex, April 34 —oPi—
Wesley Ogston. escaped from the
______ Federal penitentiary at McNeil Is-
repuled wotth more than $5,000,000] land, off the coast of Washington,
began Tuesday before Judge Bruce
Young in Forty-Eighth District
Court The litigant* are members
of the two wealthiest families to th?
BoqttHPMtj- e*. - 1 s* •* /
Selection of a Jury was to Ijegto
Tuesday afternoon. TO enable at-
torneys to make minor amendments
to thetr pleadings. Judge Young re-
cessed court shortly bciore noon
until 2 p. m Both sides announced
ready.
Mr*. Waggoner charge)
treatment in her petitlort
makes specific allegations against
her estranged husband.
Waggoner's answer dentes the
charges. The purport of his answer
is that be is ndt contesting the di-
vorce on cross-adtlon. nor does he
Djake any charge against his wife.
Both Mrs. Waggoner and Wag-
goner were to igourt. * \
She sat with her father. Tom L
Burnett of Electra. who Is a sonipf
the Nurk Burnett. n\ill*onaire cow
man and oil man. Waggoner is Uv
son of W. T. Jpfaffoncr, multi-mil-
lionaire oil mkn and cattle man.
The couple were married Septem-
ber 4.1932. and separated on Decem-
ber 30. 1927, aeeordtog to the plead-
tog* / T ,, -
bkNNOX BOLD*]
FORT WORTH. April
Bob Letxiiox. in fielder has been sold
outright by the Fort Worth baseball
club to Charlotte. N. C . of the South
Atlantic league.
L The Republican program follows
f Reduction of the corporation tax
from 18** to 124 per cent, loas to
! revenue $82,000,000
, Repeal of the automobile tax.
1 km. 866.000.000. - •' j
Repeal of the estate tax. loss, $7,-
«M>It 1 ]l [
Revision of the sur^x rates on
incomes b^Fween 818.000 and *70 -
000 loss $25 000 000
increase In the exemption allow-
ed corporations from $3,000 to *3.-
000 km. $12 000.001.
Increase in the exemption under
Urn admission tax from 78 cents to
83.. low, $11,000,000
| Repeal of the taxes on wine and
cereal beverages, km. |i 120000
Cotton Stdtement
Had no Effect on
'Price is Cla\
AUSTIN. Tex.. April 24.—{M*)—A
county te without authority to use
any part of the funds derived from
registration of motor vehicle* to pay
Use expense of county traffic offi-
cers. but may pay such officers out
of the general fund, assistant at-
torney general H Grady Chandler
ruled Tuesday in an opinion to Bas-
com Oox. assistant county attorney.
Brownsville v
Money derived from fines collect-
ed for violations of the highway
laws may be used to help defray
the expense of county traffic of-
ficers ateo Mr Chandler held.
Mr. Cos had asked -whether the
eoudty commissioners court of his
county could transfer to the gener-
al fund from the rood and bridge
fund a portion of- the fund* derived
from regulation of motor vehicles
to pay such officers
ylsi Dismissal of
> Woods Ouster Suit
in New Petition
WAXAHACHIE. Texas. April 34 -
(/P>—A petition asking that the civil
ouster suit against / Lagrande J.
Wood* of Navarro county be dis-
missed has been prepared ruid will
be sent fo Attorney General Claude
Pollard at Austin. The petition was
prepared following a conference be-
tween Wood.,, hi* Attorney, Out
cruel
One Judge Fines
Another in 5. A.
on Contempt Charge
Robbed by 4 Men
Who Make Escape
Passenger and
Pilot Killed in
Ford Plane Crash
N*W YORK Aprti
Tanned from his t#$ weeks under
the North Carolina suti Governor
Smith was back in New York today ,
the proposed extension of hie vaca-
tion to include srweral day* at Ab-
rneoo New Jereey> vetoed by rain
weather .
As his train was pulling into the
Pennsylvania station he dictated a
statement in which he said be was
gratified at the cordial welcome ex-
tended him by the South and that
he had found the people there Bttie
different from those he knew to his
home state.
8EDAL1A Mo, April 34.— t>Pl—
The Bank of Kingsville. Johnson
oounty. was robbed at 9 80 a m .
today of 83.000 by four men who
escaped in an automobile.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. April 34.—
fjpt—One judge fined another judge
HO for oontompt of oourt to fifty-
seventh district oourt here today
Judge E. B Minor; presiding, as-
sewed oe fine against Judge Oeo
OHRoqfti Jt~ of the county oourt
beesueexhe latter failed to appear
to represent a client when the case
was called Judge Clifton will have
an opportunity to explain hie ab-
NATIONAL -New York at Boston
postponed: rato^ „ h
DETROIT Mich.. April 34
Gordon A. Taylor. 28. of the Taylor
Aircraft Corporation. Rochester. N.
Y.. pilot and Aaron Ro*enoi#-m. of
New York City a pemonger, were
killed this afternoon at the Ford
airport when a plane Taylor was
demonstrating went into a nose
dive at an altitude of about 1,000
feet and crashed to the ground. * 1
bastiand House b, j
MARKETS
Burned, Probe On
FROG FARM FOR TEX
in his native land and not in alien
•oil.’*
The orator referred te condi-
tions In Borne at the time of the
persecution of Christians so ex-
amples of condition* in Mextom'
"It was the same when Nero burn-
ed Rome and attributed his crime
to the Christians,” his grace said.
12 point range. Bonds, irregular;
Italian Industrials firm. Foreign ex-
chaflgve. mixed: Spanish. Japanese
and Portuguese rates weak Cotton,
higher; bullish crop advices. Sugar,
steady, trade support. Coffeev
steady. European buying, a
CHICAGO: Wheat, firm:fc>uHuh
Kansas report. Corn, steady afore-
cast unfavorable weather Cfittie.
irregular. Hogs, strong to high*.
THE WEATHER
' OPEN PAMRNGKk SERVICE
HOUSTON. Tex. Aprti 34. —(>F>—
Air mall planes between Houston
and Dallas and oe; ween San Antonio
and Dallas were open to passenger
traffic for the first time Tuesday.
No applications had been received
it was mid at the Houston airport
for passengers or the first day. ,
JgASTLAND. Tex. April 34.—(AV
Fifteen persons in a';farmhouse
southwest M Cisco, escaped severe
injuries at daybreak today when a
fire destroyed the home of Jim
Marchman. farmer. ' ”
The fire was only a quarter of a
mile from the R N Jackson home
where 18 day* ago an enure family
of eight was slain and the house
burned. The fire today was believed
to be of incendiary origin, and
Ranger Captain Tom Hickmsr. is
Investigating. '
Charles Jackeon brother of R. N..
with his family was visiting file
Marchman'1 at the time of the
horned toads, how many years
they can Bve without water, food or
air. the length of their horns, etc.
oomee the announcement that Tex
Worshalh. 300 East Chandler Street,
is to enter the horned toad business.
Mr. Worsham told a BulteUtPle-
(co.vnxtxg ox rtoi ropx>
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