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AUSTIN, TEXAS, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1924
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WIDOW ALLEGED
Announcement of Consolidation.
TO HAVE SOUGHT to Review testimony
DEATH OF SUITOR
HARMONY ON SURFACE
LONG POLICE RECORD
WEEPS OVER VERDICT
IN MOTOR CAR WRECK
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LUTHERANS PICK SITE
WACO, Texas. Nov. 16 - Rr< ommen-
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T. M. Kennerly, Republican candl-
FOUR DENIED BAIL IN
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GOMPERS TO USE GAVEL
SOUTHERN RATES
under which the council, by specialN Victor Samuido, Nicholas Flores, Juan
Alonzo and Jose Fuentes.
THE WEATHER
bui
a fi
meet Dec. 11.
ing.
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Larned. Kans., Provided Pois-
oned Wine for intended Victim
MAJOR M'LEARY'S
MURDERERS GIVEN
3 WEEKS' RESPITE
JOHN HEDSPETH,
WANTED ON MANY
CHARGES, CAUGHT
FOR COLLEGE THIS WEEK
IN MEETING AT WAGO
A.F.OFLSEEKSTO
PLACE ITS VIEWS
IN SCHOOL BOOKS
Noisy ‘Cuddlers’
Annoy Dallasites;
Police Chase ’Em
ONE NEGRO KILLED,
THREE BADLY INJURED
Defendant Bursts Into Tears
- When Jury Pronounces Her
Guilty; Faces Long Term in
Prison. _
Notorious Negro is Arrested At
Daffan Following Attempt to
Enter Homes of Railroad Em-
ployes There.
EXPENDITURES IN HIS
CAMPAIGN FOR SENATOR
MRS. FERGUSON’S LEAD
INCREASED TO 112,235;
COUNT ABOUT COMPLETE
‘DEAD’ WOMAN HALTS
FUNERAL; CHILDREN CRY .
‘GHOST’ AS SHE APPEARS
took the stand during the trial and
testified for the dfendant.
Negro Said to Have Admitted
Many Crimes Here and Else-
• where Following Arrest Friday
Afternoon.
Austin is Among the Cities Bid-
ding For New Educational
Institution. ,
Two of the Victims. Taken to
City Hospital, Believed to
Be Fatally Hurt.
AGED SWIMMING
DIRECTOR IS DROWNED
SAP TO BE LEASED
TO THE G. H.&S. A.
Governor Thomas G. M’Leod of
South C arolina Halts Double
Execution That Had Beer
Scheduled for Next Friday.
MISS RUTH CROSS GUEST
OF DALLAS WRITERS
Executive Intimates Dissatisfac-
tion With Finding of Jury #
Murder Last July Caused
Nationwide Sensation.
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Indications Are Sessions Will Be
Free of Wrangles, Although
the Russia Recognition Ques-
tion May Cause Disturbance.
production of advertisements in two newspaper plants, instead of one,
also will be eliminated.
An additional leased wire news service, that of the United Press
Under the merger the Sunday issue will be a combined American-
Statesman and will be a worthy rival of any newspaper published in
Texas. The six-day Statesman will also be improved,
The Statesman's greatest asset has been the affection and esteem
of the Austin reading public. The operating arrangements incidental
to the combination are such that the former owners are in position to
promise the continuance of basic policies which in the past have won
prestige for the paper, and they trust that a growing confidence will
follow the progress of the paper under its new ownership.
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN.
EDMUNDS TRAVIS, Editor.
W. C. STOREY, General,Manager.
action, may in presidential elections
submit to the membership of the fed-
eration the public records of all prin-
cipal candidates.
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The Austin American this morning will carry the following
statement:
The merger of Austin American and The Austin Statesman,
which will become effective December 1, is accomplished because of the
desire of the owners of The Statesman of the American, to bring about
a greater newspaper and a greater newspaper influence for the Capital
City of Tenas This consolidation is in keeping with the nation-wide
trend toward the elip ination of waste in the publishing business and
toward fewer and better newspapers.
During the last three years there have been in the United States
county near the Comnal county line.
ilomer Hiannn, New Brunfels cofe
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CONVICT WOMAN OF POISON WINE PLOT
DEATH HOVERS OVER
MRS. HARDING; END
BELIEVED TO BE NEAR
TWO MEN INJURED WHEN
AUSTIN-SAN ANTONIO BUS
IS HIT BY ANOTHER CAR
VOL. 53— NO. 152.
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Union Convention at El Paso
Will Devote Much Time to a
Discussion of Education and
Kindred Topics.
ATLANTA. Ga . Nov/1Shot ai
she lay os the ground efter firir g 0n
a group of men attempting to ubduet
her husband Tursday night at their
home in Haralson county, Mra, Robert
Stewart, wife of the "raiding prison"
of the North Ceorgia Methodist confer •
ence; died today' nt a hosptal here.
Her husband was not at her bed-
pide when she died, -having returned
to the home at .Draketown Friday aft-
ernoon to assist the sheriff in appre-
hending the men who were responsible
fop the attempt to abduct him. / Mr.
Stewart was quoted this morning t.n
Maying that he recognized five men in
the attacking* party and will swear
out warrants for thefr arrest;
Mrs. stewart was brought to a hos-
pital here yesterday, paralyzed rom
the shoulders down as the result of .
the bulletwound in her back.
The consolidation of Austin American and The Austin Statesman
is the result of a series of conferences in which the owners of both
papers have discussed this project from marly angles. It has been
the desire of each group of owners to give the Capital City a newspaper
representative of the city’s remarkable progress. That this can be
accomplished through combining the two properties, eliminating one
of the Sunday issues, and improving the telegraphic and home news
SECOND OLDEST NEWSPAPER
nN THXAS. ESTABLISHED 1871
SAN ANTONIO, Tesas, Nov. 15.— .
Two men were injured wLn A motor ;
’ 14, was etruck by no nutomobile thin !
fternoon on (he AGstin road in Bexar ; JI
owner, was bruised and him right knee .
was hurt when the bun was turned
WASNINOTON, Nov. IS.- Westher
outlook for the week beginning Mon-
day:
Weal gulf ataten: Arosty fair ex-
cept for rains about middle of week)
near normal terporatures flrat half,
colder about middle of week.
I They asserted the defendant gave them
a vjl of poisoned wine and a revolver
MADE FROM PIECE OF I. C. C. TO INVESTIGATE
HISTORIC TEXAS TREE
already.has been contracted for, giving the consolidated papers three
leased wires, where at present the papers have but two. This service
begins December 1, the date of the physical consolidation of the plants.
The American wishes to state that every effort will be made to
increase the good will and .reader confidence which has been built ,up
in recent years, and which is far more valuable than any possible in-
vestment in machinery and printing materials.
THE AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY,
By CHARLES. E. MARSH, President.
BEXAR CO. MURDER MOTORMAN IS BLAMED
FOR DISASTROUS WRECK
anl promised them 1200 for the pro-
posed killinge.
The defense gave notice that motion
for a new ft ial would be filed, f‛on-
vietion carries with it an indeterminate
prison term of from five to twenty
years.
COlUMBIA, S. C., Nov. 15.— Mforti. ,
mer N. King and Frank Hlariel)
Were Bcheduled to dto by electrocution
next Friday for the murder of Majori.
Bamuel H. Mevoary, a native of Texas,,
near Cheraw, S. last July. today,
were reprieved by Governor Thomas
G. McLeod until Friday, Dec. 5.
Three weeks’ respite was granted,
the governor stated, in order that he
might review the testimony in the cane
upon his return from the conference
of governors in Jaeksonville next
week. »
The two men were convicted o
murder in Chesterfield county aud on
Hept. 33 were sentenced by Judge Q,
Featherstone to, he «lectrocuted at the
ptate penitentiary on Nov. 21. Both
have been in-the death house at the
penitentiary here sinde having been
Search was begun by the war de-
partment throughout the,
atates: shortly aftor Maor Meleary
dinappenred in the cdurs6 of an autoe
moblle trip from Raleigh to Columbia.
With the arrest of King ot his hone ’
henr Canton, N. C, it was loomed that
the army officer had been. alnin near
Cheraw, S. C., July 2, he had
given (ho two wayfarers a ride. The
motive established at the trial was
robbery.
Juarez, Mexico, across the Ro G ande. T. M. Kennerly, RepubUcan cnndl-
The opening ceremonies in the twodate for senator in Texas, reported no
conventions will occur simultaneously . conti ibutions and no expenditures.
Two joint sessions of the two conven- : —----eee-—:—
.WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.— Senator
Sheppard (Democrat) of Texas, re-
ported to the secretary of the senate
today'that in his campaign for re-
election he had received no contribu-
tions and spent nothing. In- the pri-
mary campaign he spent 13724 and
received no ontribsitione.
East and Vest Texas: Sunday and
Monday fair.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. A torther
hearing in the Interstate commerde
comiission’s Southern class rate in-
vestigation was announced by the
cOmmleslon today for Dec. 15 at At-
lanta. The herring was called that
results in traffic teste conducted in
Apri to give the carriers ah oppor-
tunity to ascertain the effects upon
their revenues qf rates recommended
by the proceeding might be introduced
into the commission’s record.
Supplementary briefs on the result
of the traffic test will be accepted by
the commission up until Jan. 6.
Oral argument Ju the proceedings
was assigned for Jan. 14 to 16, in-
clusive, at Washington before the
commission.
lions will be held during-the-week.
Recognition'of soviet Hussla will be
another question for the eonsidera-
lion of the American convention as it
has been in the last four gatherings.
While many delegates look for no re-
versal of the federation's attitude to-
ward the Russian question, there will
be in the convention, nevertheless, a
large bloc determined to press for
another roll call of the delegates on
• the recognition resolutions.
Political controversy in the assem-
bl age probably was avoided-by an
agreement between opposing groups
under which the' executive council in
a special report to tL© convention in
one of the early sessions, will recom-
mend strict adherence to the polioy of
non-partisan activity, with a provision
COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS
REPORT BY LEASED WIRE
inst election, and recetly appointed must ratify the action of the direct-
United States senator to succeed ora and then the Interstate Commerce
Tlenttor Vodge, was drowned in the (‘ommission must pass on the lease.
Atlantic. Ocean late today while bath- The H. A. A A. P. stockholders will
DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 15.—“Loud
Spooners" is the latest crime report-
ed in Dallas. Police were called to
break up a spooning party in
front of a residence in East Dallas
to the discomfort of the nearby resi-
dents.
The police fond two couples in
an automobile who were, according
to their reports, boisterous in their
cuddling. They were ordered to
break away and leave.
Residents reported that they were
unable to sleep because of the noise
the spooners were making.
John Hedspeth, negro, wanted here
on several counts and at various other
places over the state for various of-
fences, was arrested by section hands
at Daffan Friday afternoon after a
three-mile chase on horseback thnt
ended when the negro was roped with
a t8s, it tranipired nthe county jail
HOME EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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By Associated Press. . .
EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 15.— Educa-
tion will be among the chief topics
of discussion in the fourth annual con-
vention of the American Federation of
Labor, opening here Monday.
, Through action of the convention
various groups will seek to secure
presentation of labor’s viewpoint on
civic affairs and economic subjects
in the textbooks of the public grade
schools and high schools, and to pro-
mote participation of union members
in school board affais.
Two departmental meetings prelimi-
nary to the general convention closed
their annual sessions here with rec-
omvptlons’onedteation,
'The labor movement has lost con-
trol of the public schools and we
should now go into the politics to the
extent of having trade unionists on
the board of education of every com-
muhity," John P. Frey1, editor of the
Iron Moulders’ Journal, recommended
to the closing session of the metal
trades department. President James
O’Connell of the metal trades depart-
ment gave the program of part time
education for employed people exten-
sive consideration in-his annual report
to the' convention, recommending co-
operative action by all labor unions
affiliated with the- American Federa-
tion to promote worker education.
Delegates and visitors in Fl- Paso
for the convntion tonight numbered
approximately 1200. The executive
council of the federation, headed by
l’resident Samuel Gompers, completed
arrangements for the conventon to-
The opening session at 10 o’clock
Monday morning will receive the an-
nual report of the executive council,
Reviewing the work of the federation
during the year and outlining tenta-
tive policies for the future for .the
Aged. Marr Killed by Automobile,
LAREDO, Texas, Nov. 15--Ciplano
Jimenez, 86. waN fatally injured today
when he was struck by an automobile
while trossinar a street here. He died
800 after being to his home.
General Pershing 'Returns. „
NEW YORK. Nov. 15. -Generi John
J. Pershing returned from abroad on
the steamshp Phrs today, after visit-
ing his son, Warren, al a Swiss school
SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Nov 15--
Four men churged withche murder of
Mariano Tarin, a farmer, were denied
bail when‘arraigned-today. Turin sald
before he died that he was shot from
ambush as he stepged into his front
yard at' Elmderf but a subsequent in-
vestigation showed that he was shot
near a whiskey still several hundred,
yards from the,house, and’ that the
battle took place over possession of the
still.
The men held on murder charges are
DAYTONA. Fla. Nov. 15 Charles
Cox, 79, swimming instructor of South
Boston, .Masa, said to be an uncle of
W. M. Butler, chairman of the Re-
publican campaign committee. In the
NEW YORK; Nov. 15 Mrs. Mar-
garet Hberidan hurried home last
night in time to postpone her-tuneral,
8he left home last Thursday evening
to visit friends. and had such a good
time she stayed nil night. In the
meantime, n woman who had been
struck by n tux 1 cub was taken to
Bellevue Hospital and died there un-
identified.
Patrick Sheridan and his sister,
Mary, worried when tmeii mother
failed to come home that night. When
they read of the woman killed by the
taxi, they hastened to the hospital
The body'Was taken to Patrick's home
and the "relalives were summoned to
the wake.
Then Mrs. Elieridan came home,
“A ghost!" cried the grandchildren.
"A ghost, your grandmother!” said
Mrs. Sheridan.
The body .was taken back to the
.morgue.
PREACHER'S WIFE, SHOT
BY MOBBERS, DIES AS
RESULT OF WOUNDS
Overturning of a Ford car In which
five negroes were riding a short dis-:
tance this side of Creedmoor about 6
p. m. Saturday resulted in the death
of W. F. Norwood, and serious injury
to three others in the party, accord-
ing to a report received nt police head-
quarters. The three injured negroes
were taken to the Austin City Hospital.
The driver of the car; Lafayette
Spain, escaped serious injury, aside
from bruises and cuts, from broken
glass.
One of the other negroes was in-
definitely identified by the name of
Moore. The man himself, however, was
not at a late hour Saturday night In
any .condition to talk about the acci-
dent.
Doubt was expressed - at thie City
Hospital Saturday night as to the re-*
covery of two of the injured men. A
brother, George Norwood, called at
police headquarters late Saturday
night and stated that he had been to
the City Hospital and identified the
dead man ns W. F. Norwood, his
brother.
Since his arrest, the negro has ad-1
mitted to forging several checks here,
to stealing a motorcycle from a local
dealer, to robbing a car of a suitcase
of silk clothing and a Winchester rifle,
to' robbing a Mexican’s home' near
Daffan a few days ago and to other
offenses, according to Jaller Wil
Bargsley.
Hedspeth was arrested .by section
hands at Daffan after he had attempt-
ed to enter the box cars in which they
lived, it was said. The women of the
party saw him entering the cars and
rushed to where the crew was working
and gave the alai m. The men of the
party rushed to their homes, but the
negro fled. Two of the men then took
to horse and chased the negro for over
three miles before they succeeded in
catching him. One of the men threw
a lasso about, hle body and brought
him to earth. They later brought him
to Austin and turned him over to the
sheriffs department.
Railroad agents, hearing of hls ar-
rest, questioned him and are said to
have secured admissions of various
box car thefts from him.
Saturday a Mexican appeared at the
jail and asked to see the negro to find
out if he were .the man who had robbed
his home a few days ago, said Bargs-
ley. Upon being confronted with the
negro, he 'declared that he was the
man end described -a pocketbook and
its contents that had been taken
Bargsley produced the pocketbook and
it was identified, he said.
Hedspeth had led the sheriff’s forces
and the city police a merry chase for
over a year before he was arrested
Friday, It was said. Varloui com-
plaints reached the sheriff about one
year ago of depredations of a "white-
eyed" negro. A good description of
the man was given officers, and the
entire force was instructed to keep on
the lookout for hin.
He was first discovered on July. 4.
1923, by Jaller Bargsley and Deputy
(Continued on Page Three.)
LARNHD. Kan.. Nov- 15.- Mra,
Mary K. Eggleston was found guilty
of poisoning wine in an attempt to kill
D. A. Ely, her suitor, by a jury bare
early tonight. Mre. Eggleston seemed
stunned when the verdiet was firt
read and then later burst into tears.
Ely, 60-year-old reni estate dealer,
DALLAS. Texas. Nov 16. Ruth
Crosh and Annie Laurie Williamhs, two
Texas women who have gone high in
literary circles, were guosts here to-
night at a dinner, when the Dallas
Writers' Club was host. Miss Cross
is the author of "The Golden Cocoon,"
one of the most recent best sellers,
with its entire locale situated in Texas
— Lamar county and at Austin.
Miss Cross is to leave Dallas Wed-
nesday for a visit to Fort Worth.
197 similar consolidations. Rising costs of printing have partially been 1
responsible. But more nearly is it true that there has been a national The case ag aini t Miu. Hgeleston. who
effort on the part of the newspaper publishers to eliminate needless Alro.
duplication, both of newspaper issues and newspaper work. husband’a firat wire, was based upon
By this consolidation the needless issue of two Sunday morning " „timony,ot,,11 ,C "urzeun, drtootive
papers in Austin is superseded by the issue of a greater Sunday clared tin..we man enaged then to kin
paper—the American-Sintesman, which will have its intial issue IIN and Mre. Erraiexton number one.
December 7. The thousands of dollars in annual waste through the Theyanrertodthedetendantsvethem
lugs of their organization to the
American unions trade congress.
George Slater, , president of the
Texas Federation of-Labor, will wel-
come the < onv ention to the 1
State, and representatives of 1l Paso
inqluding Mayor R, M. Dudley, will
. participate in the inangugal cere-
monies.
At the same time the American
gathering goes into session, the Mexi-
can General Confederation of Labor
will open its annual- convention In
services of both papers, under one general management, can hardly According to Testimony at Her
be doubted. . J
Iria Mrs. Mary Eggleston, of
By Associated Press.
MARION. Ohio. Nov. 15. Ms . dation of a elto, for the college that will
Florence Kling Harding, widow of the .be built in Texas by the Lutheran
late president seriously III at White v. - . • . ... . . . - .
oaks Farm here is growing weaker diBour. W1 be nadf at meet
each hour, a bulletin issued by Dr. Carlin to be held here next Wednesday
W, Sawyer, her physician, nt 8130 to- and Thursday, word to this effect
night rald.. The physician, however, having been‘received by kev. G, IL
expressed the belief that she would ; t • . .. . . . ..
survive the night.- Blat, pastor of the local -utheran
"Mrs. Harding has slept most of thechurch.
day," the bulletin rend, "and has Also! Membersof the Texas board Are:
taken a small amount of nourishment. • Bov. IL C. Gaertner, chn! man, Mhlone;
Regardless of this, she is very ex- 0. E. Wels, Thorndale: W. F. Dube,
huustedand weak tonight. She hns Tho Giroye, and H. Hodde, Malone,
failed perceptibly during the day/’ Two representatives or the board of
At midnight; Dr. Hawyer issued the general difectors of the Lutheran
following bulletin: • -Miseour synod will also at fend, Nov.
"Mrs Harding has heen comfoi fable M, Krenznnn of Kentlallville, Ind.,
upto midniglit. She was stronger andjand W. H- Hchlueter of BL Luis.
more cheerful." Cities making an effort to secure the
---------it------ neWAchool are: Waco Dalla, Marlin,
Temple, Austin, Giddings, La Grange
! and Alexia.
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dent 'Gompers will deliver his annual SHEPPARD REPORTS NO
.essage to the delegates and fraternal !
delegates from Mexico, Germany, Eng-
land and France will convey the greet-
HAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 15.--
The board of directors of the Ran An-
tonio & Aransas Pans Railway have
Authorized the lensing of the"road to
the Galveston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio Railway, one of the Southern
Pacific lines.
Before Hie lease can be made, how-
ever, the stockholders of both lines
over and rolled in a diteh. The name
of the other injured man was not
ancertatned. I i
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15-Reapon-
sibility for the wreck on the Inter-
national Railway near Tonawanda.
N . Y , Oct. 19, resulting- in the death
offou persons and injuries tonint ty-
eight, was placed, on Motorman Fore-
man of the passenger train in a report
today by the sfety bureau of the
Interstate commerce commssion.
The report raid the •rash was* due
to. the failure of Foreman to maintain
proper lookout aud to note that there
was a train standing at the station nt
Ell hot Creak road.
Labor Plans Unique Campaign of Education
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An Austin Owned
.DALLAS, Texas. Nov. 1.— Complete
returns from 246 of the 252 counties
tabulated by the Texas Election Bu-
reau Saturday night showed the fof-
lowing on tire race for governor
Ferguson, 414, 904; Butte, 302.660.
Majority for .Mrs. Ferguson. 112,235.
The six jemalning counties are Coch-
ran, Hockley, King, Reagan. Upton
and Yoakum and have a combined-vot-
ing strength of 1228.
। Whether elections were held in these
counties the bureau has been unable to
ascer tain.
The latest, tabulation by the bureau
contains all the revised figures from
the 246 . counties reporting.
EL raso Texne, ‘Nov. 15- Pres-
ident Gompers of the American Fed-
eration of Iabor will wield a .gavel in
the federation convention, beginning
Monday, which came from the historic
red gum tree at Nacogdoches, Texas,
under which General Sam Houston met
Indian chieftains and Mexican laders
to negotiate peace. ,
W. J. Moran, publisher of the
Southwest Labor Advocate, will pre-
sent the gavel to President Gompers
at the opening session of the conven+
tlon. It is the direct gift, in the name
of the Texas labor unions, of I, M.
Ware, a member of the Brotherhood
of Railway Cormen at Terrell, Texas.
The tree recently wan shattered by
lightning. Ware, familiar with the his-
torfe background, saved a piece for
the gavel.
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