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VOLUIU XVII
NUMBER 301
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SHIPWRECKED MEM
Preparations Are Made for Funeral
ON STRANGE ISLAND
TIMES STRIVES FOB
I S. OFFICIALS ON
Wa
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Cempnny la whleh aTa
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his
unforeseen
might be encountered during
Waited Fur Twa Months On Island
15th at March eurrent
tana
leader
than
conricated at Del Rio
urse dt a senate
mani
meat ana had indtcated that "aome "wept the canyon.
iilaa
been transi
senator Lndd, of North Dakpta.
la
Hue for the
1924
ATES
THII ROAD MOG
General Raoul Madero, who recently
The road how want him merry
Stage
in Mexico.
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OKLAHOMA RAILWAYS
BLIZZARD OF I
of Edward H. McLean. publisher of
■ AND
, I capital atook and $00,000 in first
I1 (_ mortgage « per cent boada.
WASHINGTON,
March
u of mines reports show an
of 695,322,500 gallons.
1.
WEATHER FORECAST
REPORT SURRENDER
1
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11 miles an hour. (Aa rer
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MEXICO CTrY, March 11.
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STEAMER IN DISTRESS
Iha Lei
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cot
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All other
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Ford Proposal for Muscle Shoals
Ready for Consideration By Senate
. Passes House By Vote 227 to124
STORM FEATURES
36THANNIVERSAV
Chairmanship of Committee That
is Investigating Teapot Scandal
MANY WICHITA MOTORISTS
JOIN SAFE DRIVERS'CLUB
CASTLE GATE, Utah. March 11.
(— Nimety-ene bodles were vecov-
HOUSTON AND GALVESTON
ARE RECEIVING BENEFIT
lent
thU
ring
DALLAS INTERESTS
ATTACK BATES TO
POINTS IN SOUTH
d of
ma-
rons
MAJOR EXPLAINS
TEAPOT MESSAGES
AND CODE WORDS
GRIM GAME—CAUTION WILL
CAUSE DEATH TO LOSE.
SAM ANTONIO. Texan, March 1L
() —One hundred thousand "inam-
rams FOR
oinn me
" wasmIXGTON, March 11.
President Coeldge today cent ■
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le senna
»e surk-
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IRDERGONFISCATE
EBE LTENATURE
CHANCELLOR MARX MAY
DISSOLVE THE REICHSTAG
and
the
GALVESTON. Texas. March 11. •
—An attack on freight rates from
New York by water and Mil to
elttes in south Texapand adjotninu
states competinu wiun DeMaa la
of
Who
that
MAJOR GOXZALES ASSUMES
MESPONSIILITY FOR CIACULAn
also
poll*
entombed a a Hi rd ar merning.
Company and government reseue
workers ware contident, barring any
Mr. Smoot has indtcated he willsomething really good."
propose a sales tax as an amend- . . ।
commercial businem was
by Albert L Reed, trettie
of the Dallas Chamber
merer: when he resumed 1
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day that praetieally all of the bodi-e 1
now In the mine would be removed
by niuhtfall.
HOME
EDITION
And he was going west.
To crowd ’em over and erowd ‘em
two years
was props
-j
tbs hearing,
rate caue-K
nue thay
attorney. 2 . ) •
McLean has been "eager" to ap-
off
He did hla level best.
program of appropriation and other
bilim, -L-Er .
new bunine
withstanat
------ork ot my office until m»
health le restored,"
festo are known. .
The conflsested eireulars charged
that • the civil war in Mexico has
EXPERTS FEAR SUCCESS
OF MANUFACTURE OF
SYNTHETIC COCAINE
COUXT ADOLPH MONTGELAS
IN senious CONDITION
weeks under subpoenn. but his tes-
timony has ben put off pending de-
velopment of evidene relating to
efforts during Decembez and Janu-
(Continued on Page 19. Column 1)
STOCKS OF WHEAT IN
COUNTRY MILLS LOWER
.RECOVER 91 BODIES AT MINE IN WHICH 173 WERE ENTOMBED
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Wisconsin Senator Has Resigned
CRUISER WAS WRECKED
IN TROPICAL STORM
suits 2 ■
LI
omea Core
'1
Mexican end other matters listed for
investigation.
Mexican presiaenoy in a statement
vesterday, said that there was little
doubt M to the outcome of the next
presidentiai election. snerting Gov-
ernor Angel Fierce of Sinaloa is
matory" Mesican revolutionary otr-
culars were ordered suppressed —"
COMMITTEE pnuranEs TO
TAKE UF oruEI MATTEnS
ara;
etly
usi-
Sratiatios Show That 11, MB People
Ara Killed By Motor
Aecidenta.
GEORGIA JUDGE IE BACK HOME
AFTER ABSENCE OF OVER
FIVE. MONTHS.
MRS souther Ptaoa, N. I
ho hoe been for a week
t
justice of San Antonio.
. Thone responsible (or the
by Agent Parker of the 1 .
investigation of the department of
mauronE AND VICINITY
VISITED BY FINCE GALE
Use bas ta vay
certain dommodi-
RIGID CROSS EXAMINATION OF
M‘LEAN‘ CONFIDENTIAL
MAN.
COM WORD “EYED" WAS
DAUGHERTY ASSISTANT
If the ptocess le suecessful limi-
tation of the production of thetpo-
com leaf in Peru, Bolivia and Java
would no longer suttiee aa a pren
ventive measure, it to,believed.
A comminalon of the league now
le making plane for anginternattonal
opium conterence la November.
- wAnaTOX, March 11. OP-
Sematee Lea root of Wiucemalu has
bo ohoirmno ana member
sile lamds eommittee which
pa One the ell meamani.
Hla letter of resignmtiom to co the
wiuingness to accept appointment
aa attorney genetai hea sustained
the opinion of many administration
leaders that Mr. Dakgherty'o re-
tirement le imminent. but they are
at a loas to explain the persistence
of the calm that overspread that
phase of the situation immediately
after hie unexpected trip from Mi-
ami. Fla. 1 ,
Chairman Brookhart of the Spe-
cial investigating oommittee mean-
while is planntng to open the In-
weunid eliminate the unfair discrim-
ination against Dalits and north
Texas cities.
Mr. Reed was on the stand almost
all the morning.
COUNSEL TO ADVISE
COOUDGE IN ACTION
ON DOHENY’S OFFER
4 . 1“1.
NEW YORK, March A. •-No
EKmnst 1 WB
from New York
to soumnerhpol
>t Belleved Thore Will Be Pros
ecut ions Unless Offense It
Repeated.
trading in better elamses of woois
Foreien wools are etrongiat un-
changed prises. 11.
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ri t,
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way bore
C. where
Hearing of Texas-Okiahoma Rato
Case in Progress at
Galveston,
Near Santo Domingo For
Breamer.
WASHINGTON, March 11./—The
Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway
Company was authorised today by
the interstate commerce commisslon
to issue $00,000 in capital stock
and $800,000 in first mortwages *
per cent bonds.
The commission nt the same time
approved the applieation of the Ok-
lahoma City - Shawnee Interurban
Company to Issue 9800.000 in new
mondtaH a rodwetion * B cent
ee income taxon tor IMS to be au-
thorisea hl Bars March 15.
The preeidlut belleves that the
tmportenee of the reductlee would
suntar; the la»ine muide of all other
lenieintien tor,Ite eomstderntiom. ’
The text of the mesnage follower
Special Message to Congress From SHIPWRECKED MEN
President Coolidge Recommends Tax SPENO TWO MONTHS
Reduction Be Made Before March 1j
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The Wiaconsin wenator'e warnine
that he migh retire as chairman
was given la the
TMs statement was authorised by i
Senator Lenroot :
"Since eoming to Southern Pines
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Wichita Falla and vWlnUy: Tem-
perature: maximum. Mt minimum,
27; at 1100 p. m.. Tuenday, 43. Clear.
No precipitation. Barometer, 29.28
NoKhoaat breeze, maximum velocity
ST. LOUIS, Maroh 11. UN— Hebet
Natlone, state commisstoner of labor
ntatintics and brother of One O.
Srione, chief federal prohibition
doroement azent in the St Louls
Itriet, w|U be asked to resign by
governor Hyde uniess h* volun:
Taril, submits his resignation as a
/result of the alleged beer protection
"goandal, according to the St. Lout
prohibitton against a etate official
usink railroad pasnes, was an-
obuneed today by Governor Neff.
MY. Caldwell ta attorney for a rail-
road and aa ouch enjoys free passes.
The attorney general held that this
was contrary to the railroad pass
law.
FREDICTB FLORES ELECTION
General Madero Confident of Out
come in Mexico Contest.
nk,
p m.‘
pm
p m.
p in.
pm
5"
p m
sq6how
ezbibtta that Dallas I—
through rales on certain comgmodi-
ties equal to the total combfnaton
of local rates whereas oulanoma
City. Shreveport and other opmpet-
ing cities have through rates that
are considerably less than the total
combination of locals from . New
York to those pointe. ' Takine, for
instanee. a shipment of pitch from
New York to Okiahoma City,, Mr.
give for obvious reanone.
At the conference which was at-
tended by •rebel retuzees Awent
Parker, custom officials and Texas
rangers the followers of Adolfo d•
LaHuerta were told thst eirculation
of documents incitin revolution to
another country would not be per-
mitted in the United Btates. The
T0^
OF REBEL LEADERS
AND THEIR TROOPS
GENEVA, March 11.0-Manufac-
ture of synthetic cocaine by German
cheminta will inerease the dirtieul-
ties of regulating the narcotic evils.
It la feared by exverts attached to
pear before the committee, Major
said, and "sent 200 telegrams" to
his agents telling them he was com-
ing irrespective of their advice.
SEX ATM osLEOMMTTEE
HAS HXLCUTIVE sEsSION
perative Wenth-
Wichita FaUl
>..M Op
2: 2Y
wer Bet
k
1884
Smen-nhesnh
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Into this fight awninst carelese-
new that la responaible for BO per
cent of the fatalities has been pum-
moned publicity, the doctor of p-
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ague of Nations Official re-
of the German output have
jectiles and money.” a-
it is further charged that American
nirplane vilots murdered old men
Lnd women and children at Morelia
and demands that Mexicans be the
Ponly arbiters in the internel affairs
of the country. _
obregon was charged with trying
to perpetuate himself la power by
ollylac himself with America and
that ha haw instituted a regime of
outrages, intimidatioins, kidnapinK
and official assasnination of oon-
of a debate in which he was ab-
Milad from the Demoemtie side for
having vipitee Albert B. Fell to hik
hotel here betome Fall Informed the
he had merve hie lime he’woule
be young enough to be of
PRESIDENT URGES 1923 TAX CUT
LENROOT RESIGNS AS CHAIRMAN PUBLIC LANDS COMMITTEE
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an they complied with.the laws.
It is not belleved there will be
prosecutions unlens the offense le
repeated.
MISSOURIOFFICIAL
WILLBEREQUESTED
TO RESIBN POSITION
BALTIMORE. March 11.— Balti-
more and vicinity were visited by s
fierce gale accompanied by heavy
anew and rain laat night which left
In its wake crippled electric trans-
purtation and interrupted telephone
and telegraph nervice. A I womaa
believed to hove been blinded by
the enow wee run over and killed
by an automobile. Bay ahlpplng wae
hampered.
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THE WEATHER 1
"The taqepare
terestu, agkloul
nance, ta fact, al
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inu sold “the country to the most
powerful nation on the earth at the
price of warshipu, nirplanes. pro-
y nil ।
la the
WASHINGTON, March 11. (P
Stocks of wheat st country mills
snd elevators on March 1 totalled
90,396,000 busheln, the department
of agriculture announced today.
Stocka totalled 92,538,000 bushels a
year ago.
BREMEN. Germany. March 11.«m
Count Adolf Montgelam. who has
just 'arrived from Mexico City, is
suffering from a nervous break-
down His condition is described no
nerlous.
iyaterioualy dis- pontnhupan on"a5i. to eturn to
ohatrmanachtp, ' Me hue been meting
chairmen la the absenca of Senator
Lenrott.
C. M. CALDWELL RESIGNS
AS MEMBER OF REGENTS
OF TEXAS UNIVERSITY
AVWTW. March H UH—Rwigaa-
ton ot C. M. Caldwell of Abilene
eA had re- neglectea with the resuit that I can
“------- not in my prebent etate of health
, but the house today
to resume with its
"It has been my earnent hope thst
a 21 per eentum reduction in taxes
• to be paid for the current year ‘
might be provided by law before the
CHARGE DISCRIMINATION
MADE IN FAVOR OF
OTHER CITIES.
1. VALERIANO GONZALES 2;
SUNES RESPONSIBILITY
Peet-Diepateh.
,7 Charles R. Frother renigned Bun-
day as etate food and drug com:
minnioner after! an offictal of th
arlesedteck Brothers Brewerz ad-
:^\’ro^on*inb”.’^ufMtuto NO WORD FROM FRENCH
nf rval bbor. Prather by virtue of -----------
Me office had charge of beverage
ivudonanu Heber Natjoas hove
drilled emphatically any knowledge
nor amendments having been added
legtslative buqinena wag
\ _____Wy / The list ’f meu- I
\325 bers continue to I
N5*85 grow with the I
arrival of each I
mall and the rod and white diacs are I
atsplayed on automobftes through! I
out the city. It is considered a die* I
tinct honor for s motorist to dispiar I
the emblem of the organizatlon sad I
many are doing AL
Statinties show that a total of I
11,666 persons were hilled la auto- I
mobile aecidenta In the United I
Srates In 1122 end responsible esti- I
metes place the 1923 death toll ae I
high. If not higher. Public safety I
campaigns ere needed end *0*^
Times was one of the first newe- I
papers in the United Staten to mee
the need end demend for such an
organization and the Safe Driver 1
Club was immediately entablimhed.
For Young Man
f • ■
HARRISNUHOH. Fa.. March IL
(m—Offering to go to the elec:
trie choir in place of Joseph
Trinile, convieted of murder,
Walter J. Kirkwood, so, of phila-
delphta, wrote to Governor Pin
shot that Trinkle shouia be given
it to 1* years ta prison aa when
NOGALES, Aris.. MArch 11.0—
WASHINGTON. March 11.0)— The
oil committee held on executive
nesston today for examination of
the Three Rivers, N. M., telegrams
before calling additional witnesnen.
These mesaages were brought in
under a dragnet subpoena ceiling
for ell telegrame received or cent by
Albert B. Fall. Harry F. Sinclair. J.
W. Zevely, Robert Stewart of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
and M. M. Miackmer of the Midwest
Refining Company between Janu-
nry 1. 1921, and March 1. 1924.
states amt rates through gulf ports the Washington Pont,‘andprobably
to.Dallan..He,declared La tMt‘ tomorrow MLa n himseir.
U^ugh rati should be Aad. thst has been here neveral
side tracked during the week's Ba-
tata ob the otter which was mede
—- CAREFUL in SITE
DRNVINEWITHCLUB
sim and arge of
The Times Sat
Drivers' Ct ab.
. Mexicans replied they were unaware
Pthatthey were.vioiptihgsaneAmeia WASHINGTON, maaren i.m
k they would be permitted to remain Wih Attorney General Daugherty's
V in the t'nited States only oo long
Preparations were mode by the'
company construetion torces during 1 HUMAN LIVES ARE 8TAKES IN
epeech two weeks sgo in the
hardened by years of toll in the
mines—men who bed uone through
t have not reouperated aa I had
hoped sad it will aot be possible for
me to eontinue my work on the
committee on public lends snd sur-
veya " V
"I realised tome time ago thst 11
was nearing the point of exhaustion
snd stated upon the floor of the
senate .that if the oil investigation
continued Indetinitely I would feel
compelled to resign from the com-
mittee,
"I have glvea nearly four montha
of service in this In vetigetion try-
quiry Thursday with connideration
of charges involving the Cantu
revolution in Lower Calitornta in
1921. The chairman and Senator
Wheeler have received a large num-
ber of documents aad are holding
i Guard Hastily Organtoed
Castle Gate yesterday for the first
time nince Saturday's dinaster that
struck praetically every home in the.
comp allowed itself to give way to
its emotion. For the first time
xriet-strieken women, orphanee
children and red-eyed men—men
the night for the imatallation of
horse drawn tram cars In the mine
this morning to expedite the work
of renoving the bodies. The work
necenbarily was slow taroughout the
greater part of yesterday since
many of the bodies were found a
mile or a mile and a half in the In-
terior of the mine end ell were be-
ing removed by utrbther bearers.
All night long on augmented etaft
of undertakers worked in the tem-
porary' morgue established at the
Knights of Pythias ball preparing
the bodies for burial aa rapidly as
they were 1 transported from the
mine.
An express cer filled with cotfins
arrived last night at the eamp and
n large force of men worked prac-
tically all night removing the MS-
hots to the morgue. This work waw
driving bi
motorists I
from ths regents of the University
of Toxas, because of the statutory
WASHINGTOX, March 11.(•)—
President Coolidge will be guided
by the advice of the special oil eoun-
Ml in aetin on the offer made
yesterday by Baward La Doheny to
continue construction work on the
horaue tanks at Pearl Harbor.
Hawnli, at hie own expense.
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WOOLEN TRADE GOOD
WITH STRONG PRICES
AUSTIS, March 11. m- Wolea
business in the Beaton market is
fairly acuve 4nd mohair and mo-
hair nolle today developed aome
WASHINOTOX, March.M. (--
Under pressure of a hard-hitting
cross examination John F Major,
oon fide nt la l man to Edward B. Me-
Loan, explained to the oil commit-
tee today some more of the mys-
teriM of the McLean telegrame
’ One of those referred to, without
nemo in the messages, he Mid. wns
C. Bascom Slemp. with whom he
declared he had returned from
Florida end upon whom he had called
several times since Mr. Siemp’a in-
vitation. He tnaisted the calls were
“purely soelal."
The code word "Eyed.” the wit-
mb explained as referring to E. B.
Rochenter, attached to the office of
Attorney General Daukgherty. He
Mid Rochester on one qeasion hod
asked him to come to the depart-
thing” might be expected soon, but
he was hasy as to detaila
"The mnyateripus Willis” referred
to repeatedly in the telegrams as
toetang . ater MM Mita interests
finally was identicied by Major as
Wilton J. Lambert, the publisher's
word hsd been received here eariy
thin ntternoom of 4ho fate of th
Freneh freighter Toure, which
broadcasthis, O. A mesenges early
today that ah Adanti rale had
driven her upoh the rocks at Nuevi-
THE TRIES RECEIVES THE FULL LEASED WIRE S ER A880CIATED PRESS DAILY AND SATURDAY NIGHT
Wichita Hnilp Limes
PRICE U-PAY NO MOM - WICHITA HALUL TljXAa, TUMDAY, MAROl 11, 1M4 *_________FOURTEEN PAGES
route from Cullcan to Mexico City
where he mM a conterence would
be called "In the interests of the
Florss cause." The elections will
be held the first Bundsy in July.
Referring to the De LaHuerta re-
bellion General Madero stated he
doubted whether "complete peace"
will come to pace before two
months.” *
GOV. XEv LAVES ox TRIP
runOEGH RIO GMAMDB VALLEY
use. The governor reterred the
request to the board of pardone
which informed Kirkwood that
there la bo law in this state that
will permit the pubstitution.
Kirkwood (Rated ha was
"broken la health, eandot hold
down a real job" and aidnotece
that he would be "ot any mors
um on earth whatever.” Hle mo ■
tire, he exphined, wasito "startle
humenity to a been remiiation"
of what capital punishment
meana, > He ottered to pay his
own car fare to the plane o exe-
eat tea
continued surrender of rebel leadera
is reported.
General Joseph Mingo Ramiro*
Carrido. formerly on the staff of 1
General Enrique Estrade. J al lav*
rebel commander, hex given ahnseleT
up in Mexico City, it tx MM , "AH
According to dlspatcbex from
Guadalajara. Generai Jeans Novo*,
another Eatrada follower, has ear- J
rendered in that city, while PeuN ,
Line Floros has turned over AlK H
forces numbering about 1.000 mem2N
t« General Joaquin Amare at SaEX
ula. . I
President Obregon will arrive Me '1
day at Manzanmle where Ne vA I
meet member* of hle family Mr d
complications which
DEL RIO, Tekav, March 11.0
After conferencenwith K. H. Parker,
department of justice agent from
Han Antonio, responsibility for pub-__
llcatlon here of inflammatory Mexl- rarE.
can revolutionary circulars wan as- decie
sumed todsy by Major Valertano
22 PLUNGE INTO FINAL
by a man Whose name he would not
at strong priees, not-
continued qulet in the
carried on through long lanes
weeping women end children
braved the told night blasta
the Government Cool
or Bureau of the
Eleketrie Company.)
West Texas: To-
night snd Wednen-
dsr unsettled,
probably rain in
boutheest portion
and rain or Mow
in north portion,
warmer tonight.
East Texas: ‘To-
night Incrensing
cloudiness, warm-
er; Wednesday un-
seitied, local rainn.
warmer in Met
portion.
"leedlng the republic in popularity.”
The general wae in Nogales on
•bf the alleged grsfL
’ The Post-Dipatch asserts Gov:
. XT. maom penrmooc HtoTr
Nations should he refuse toresten.
Frother and Heber Natlns are
avvointees of Hyd =eenem--
, Ome.m f ; ’f 4n.
g- ■ 0,
similar experlencen, made thslr ap-
pearance on the one mein street at
the village. With the approach of
every conveyance carrying bodies
from the mine the streets filled rap-
idly and crowds pressed forward to
the morgue. During the afternoon
when every avallaple truck, melt
wagon and automobile had beea
pressed Into service of transporting
the bodies the crowds became an
groat that a hastily organized guard
crew of former service men was
presned into service to keep the
street clesr.
Th* weather last night suddenly
chanuea and cold blasts swept
through the canyon in which Castle
Gate nestles, chilling the voluntary
workers on duty at the mine. Know
started falling early last evening,
but abated during the night, leav-
ing a covering of while over the
mountains
At the company cemetery located
within the confines of the area of
mln* No. 2 a force of 76 men work-
ing under are light* heawtily in-
stalled yenterday continued through-
out the night to prepare graven ta
receive the victims of the dimaster.
Burial of the victims will start thia
morning.
PHILADELPHIA, March 11.0—
The 36th anniversary of the terrible
blizxaard of Hit was observed by
kine borealis todsy by blowing
down telegraph. telephon* and
eleotrie light pole* and creating
general havoc in wire communica-
tion in castors Pertnayivanta snd in
th* Delaware-Maryland peninunuln.
The storm was accompanied by
heavy wet snow. Four to six foot
snow drifts wete reported in York
county, Pennayiyania.
The high wind caused minor dam-
ago in Philadelphia and roofa of a
tew house* ware torn off.
At the Delaware cape* the wind
attained a velocity of 72 mile* an
hour.
*6
Pres.
Ing aa best I could to keep up with
such other work as could not be
Washington next week, but shall
WASHINGTON, March 11. (—
The seate ou comthittee prepared
today to wind up far the time being
at least Its Inquiry into the Me-
Lean-Fall chapter of the reserve
teasing scandal and gt to other
matters. Th* government’s spectal
counsel meanwhile w*r* enroute to
Cheyenne, Wyo., to launch th* firat
oftennive in the long court battie to
grow out of th* Inventiguton,
Although telegram* continue to
come in from telegraph company
managar*, th* committee vlans to
suspena further public investigation
of th* "lead*" embodied in them a*
•oon aa it has completed the ex-
amination of several more employe*
"When death tehee hle atand at
th* busy traffic corner, the railroad
crooalng. the dangerous highway
curve or the acpool playground, a
trim game begina with reekiesanesa
aa his aldo and caution a* hl*
enemy Th* stakes are human live*.
If caution l* aisplayedkeath lose.
---Cascful and
6WVEPn considerate
numerqus eonferences with wit-
nemnes’ and other relatinu to the
cabinet status entering the mystery NEW HIGH RECORD FOR
devetopment* since his return from GASOUHE PRODUCTION
IN MONTHOF JANUARY ;
plungod into Dnat preparations I WASHINGTON. Maroh tl. e—A
day for opening the senate Inventi- I new high record gasoline produc- I
wation of his administration, tlon wAg entablished tn January.
Knowledge that various ellgiblesiBuresu ----—
have been sounded ent ee to their | output
Willing to Die
DRED THOUSAND CIRCU-
LARS ARE BEIZED AT
. DEL RIO.
AUSTIN, March 11.(0—Governor
Neff left Austin today to join the
state park board St San Antonio for
a week’s trip through the Rlo
Grand* valley to select tourist
campsites and Investigate proposed
state park locations. / He will go
first to Waco to attend n semi-
annual meeting of the board of
trustees of Baylor College. The
governor took with him a number
of blank deeds expecting, he said,
to induce a number of land owners
along the BJo Grande to donate
'camp sites.
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SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE it. Judge Smith said .
ro MOLD NIGHT SESSIONS They located Mveral small housta
- ■ ...... becupied by, fishermen who spoke
WASHINGTON. Merck 11.0—De-elther Spanish or French. Judge
termination to held night mematons Smith Mid. Here they whila away
of the senate finance eommittee in time oocasionally fishing end sub-
nn effort to spaed up disposition of nistine on the crude fare of the tw-
the revenue bill wae voiced today landers."
by. Chairman Smoot. | Finaliy. according to’ the story, a
Although asreement has beenjaman atamer arrived to trade with
#5: i^ed^^
seoretary Mellon win be hear by The.narvd nin
the committee before th* rate* aretTamra, VinMina
■tudl*d, Mr. Smoot has eclarea Ehoir of mlte:
some.otmdate “ St AiBan5 priLrT
slstlag the measure as It stands last Wednenda when he wired hi:
fails by $100,000,000 of rnising sut-lwife for money on which to «et - --...---.---.
riclent revenue. Mr. Mellon will be home. renounced Ato caSdldacy for the
ashed to present his views on the I "The first thing I did when I got
house bill and to Mttmato the mony from home,” Judge Smith
amount of revnue which it will be said, "was to get something good to
necessary for the measure to pro- eat. J had lived so long as dried
vide. herring end hardtack that I wanted
The Safe De J, er*' Club pledge will
be found ea ae imeide page el thia
eqielow. Sign it nnd beta* or men
41 to The Times nnd gee yen* red
end white dtec.
uressmen and nenators.
The manitesto appealed for all
Mexleans "who love the religion and
the memory of thslr day: who feel
a pride for an antonomous father-
land and who remember the holy
warmth of the family hearth and
who desire the future liberty of
thgir sone to rise up. seise arms and
o3throw the traitor that to syich
a degree has offended the national
pride.”
There are a number of refugee
Huertistas in Del Rio and it has
been definitely learned that the
document Mme from them.
Official* here conaider th* docu-
ment highly inflammatory and cal-
culated to endanger American liven
WASHINGTON. March 11. O—The
MeKenOo bill providing for accept-
ance of- Henry Ford'a offer for
Muncle Shonin wm in the hands of
th* MMte today where It is expeet-
ed to undergo a searching merutins
by the agricultural committee.
The measure wad pansed by Us
houme yemterday by a veto or MT to
111. afer a weak of stormy debate,
hut how aeon ft wilt be taken up in
senate committee has not been de-
termined. Chairman Norrie aiready
has declared oppositton to the Ford
offer and members of the committee
atoo .Bake cuitigined terms > of the
proponea lense. • 3,
As pameed by Us houne Ue mean;
ure is practically in the Mme form
in which It wm reported by th*
military committee, only a few mi-
nt.* ft ♦
laing. ♦
ered up to l e’eleek tbl* atterneen
from No. 2 mlae of the l tab Fuel
this morn lag
Texas-Qkipbi
“Many people have born expecting I ..... __ im n..
' that suck, would be the case and I ALBANY, Ga... March 11. • R*
iferred iheir tax returns acoord- | turning home atter an absence of
otdHu eu^^5^ m2 Me- s4 au
actdng"lrothiutioqgtottt pnfpon primanie guconed
whiehcoudhe to be by ynanimowpiughrt"oounty,"uodinmn‘
iera. Ch. bMlMM in-sumed hiz place in the communtty
itur, industry, fl-1 from which he m3---------
nn.r. . _______an th. elemenu that appeared laat October ».
ona and go to make up the economic wel: According to Jud5nmun 2ern. ndt attempt anything more
"22.220 are of the people of America would years sgo he met Fran Htten" routine work of my office un
zenterd4 be greatis bonoflttod by such ae- houme of Baltimore at Miami, Fla,
burent o5 uo * and a mutual fondness for the cm
"maI er "It woul remove an element of and Rittenhoume's possesslon of a
... uncertainty from the fiacal year at 63-toot power cruiser led to a warm
once, which would be a strong I friendship.
stimulant to bustnesa with Ite rer f Early In October soon after Judge
suitant benefit to the wage earner Smith left Albany he Mid the twe
and the agrieulture of our coyntry I eruised to the Bahama lalands and
It la Impossible ta mo that any I remained there Mveral day*. - On
harm could accrue from thio action. November 24 Rittenhotme, Smith-------
and there la every prospect of rerland Chavlen R Allen, aleo Of Malli- from
suiting benefits which would befmoreler Miami for Buonos Altea - „ .
7,^ - • s-sUs;i
con-oence or me people met -ne i n-hnra An I
zovernment is intent nolely on Ue Aono onana nearly as tbsy
promotion of Ue public weitarei.The.zlandum".nmr1 “! mh
without regard to any collateral ob- lcould figure out. Is about IM mile
"ttou" reKar“ co-tra oo [northeast ot santo Domingo and it
3"5 . ' I ft had a name Ue men did not learn
route from Hermonite to M**l
Oly -Tkec8e
p2
Declares MoLean Ha* Boon Eager
IS to Appear Before the Senate
Committee.
BERLIN, March >1. ()—Chancel-
lor Marx at a conference of wovern-
ment party leaders yesterday reiter-
ated'his determination to dissolve
the reichstag immediately It the
noelaliets end nationaitists insiAt
opon offering amendmenta to a
special full power emergency art
The soclallsts have announced
Thursday as the date for bringing
up the propoeed amendmenta.
Another road hog hove in sight
And he was coming east.
. To crowd 'em ever sad crowd 'em
off
He cared not in the least. h
They met— two piles st junk 147
by;
Ha! ha! We laughed—and then.
Out crawled the charmed degen-
erates
To hog the road again
—A. 8. O.
Reed showed thst the through rot*
was 60 eente, wb Ils the combination
of locale totalled 92 1-1 centa yet
both the through rate and the total
combination of focals on that Mme
shipment to Dallas wm M 1-2 cents.
In the Oklahoma City shipment Ue
route was by water to Brunswick
ME and rail to Oklahoma City and
to Dalia* wm by water to Houston
or Gaivestor and rail to Dalia*.
Me contended that Dallas should
hsve a through rate lower than the
comblMtlon of locals in proportion
to’the Oklahoma Clty rates.
Hla exhibit* showed the rates on
all commodities to Dallas were the
Mme ** in te case of pitch and
that in all ihstances ths through
rste was tbs same as ths total of
ths combination of local rates. This,
he said, IB unfair to Dallas. He
further contended that the water
catriers have shrunk the port rates
to Atlantic ports on through ship-
ments so that through rates could
be made and have not shrunk th*
rate* to gulf port*.
H* charged that Houston and
Gaiveston receive the benefit of
these port to port rates for local
shtpmenta, giving them an unfair
advantage over Dallas snd north
Texas eltien.
In his exhibit Mr. Read compared
rates on shipments through Bruns-
wick, Charleston, Jacksonville or
Wilminiton to points in adjoining
Louisiana: Tonight fair, tavr
frost to the epast: Wednesday in-
creasing eloudtness. watmer.
Arkansas: Tonight fair. contlnusd
cold; Wednenday eloudy and un-
setdied, rain or snow in north west
portion, rising temperature.
Oklahoma: Tonight imereaning
eloudtnes: Wednesday unsettied.
rain or "0"• . ' - - .
Expect io Reach Remainder Bodies
Entombed in Mine Before Nightfall;
€ :Y
Mt' *
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