Abilene Morning Reporter, The (Newspaper) - February 8, 1925, Abilene, Texas THE ABILENE MORNING REPORTER FULL PRESS REPORT BY LEASED WIRE FEBRUARY PAGES tnd Vicinity V cloudy cloudy and colder 211 NOT REACH MAN IN CAVE BEFORE MONDAY NEWS IN PICTURES Bond Issue Proposed For Abilene TRAPPED BY A BOULDER Where floyd Was Pinned in Cave By An Eight Ton Rock Above Is entrance to Sand near Cave where Floyd was trapped by an boulder which dropped from the his Diagram shows how Collins was potted Hne Is where workers to free Smaller inset Is Jewel who discovered opening between Collins and the outer air was finally stopped when the floor of the shaft rose nnd touched the Where Wilson Sleeps LAN TO TAKE ROAD OUT OF 8 YEARS OF RECEIVER SHIP IN NEW MONEY Is Planned That One Million Dollars of the New Money Be Advanced By Govern ment For the Road Indorsement of comprehensive program which will include voting bond is sues for between and lo bo in carrying out the program us outlined by Mayor speaking In be of the City for a filtration ami purification city auditorium and fire sta nnd more for L i was at I ho KANSAS plan of Abilene men at the ot f reorganization that lake commerce at 4 oclock Saturday he Kansas Mexico nnd Orient out of years of rei Is ready for federal court at says he Kansas City Times The plan is paid to have been by a group composed chiof y by Kansas headed by receiver for the Orient Clifford lawyer bidder at the Rale of gathering was called b Mayor ns a result of pro pc it ion for a bond Issue for a hall nnd auditorium tbe American presented bo INI WHERE COLLINS BELIEVED TO BE PROCEEDS SLOWLY IS NOW NEAR MOVIE BLAMED foro the commission Tha meeting was composed of tbo fits a commit tec from the American committees the ami Lions the wans an ons e he road Inst spring In j Board of the of Abl and a rain and from the The plan for reorganization 1ms scrutinized by members of the commerce commission and the United State treasury interests He in an Indebted ness of the Orient to the govern ment of approximately Times Tho plan Is tobo built upon i proposal to obtain not less of money for the One million dollars oC tbe lew funds on Id be ad va n ce d by thp ot tho additional government aid had not met with disapproval In With advanced by the the remaining 000 would be underwritten by a group of which Is mem The underwriters voulrt take of the roads common stock under the Tho remainder ot the proposed common of would be allocated for subscription by the note holders of the it Is said would be used to purchase four new ballast cars and for rail replace new strengthening the Pi Chamber of Mayor Coombes presented tho question to tbe group of men gath ered find speaking for the city he outlined for them a program which ho and other city officials have worked out after consultation with tho tax collector and assessor and the fl The said hi Must Vote It Is my opinion that the finan ces of the city are In such a shape as that a complete program should Turn to Page One of the Prophets Says That There was a Smoke Screen Thrown Over Cloud Which Was To Appear last marked the beginning of the end of the ns predict ed by Margrim Hollywood prophetess fit ihi event was as censored In the homo town of tho forecaster as was any world war brittle or sil ting of tho Kowen nnd nnd heard at the stroke of thoy saw and hoard in mt vnto and If hey drew any conclu sions from they saw and or what they failed to see and they kept them to Even the whereabouts of the seeress and most of her followers was veiled in mystery through tho DIVISION OF TAX ON GASO LINE WITH CITY ENDORSED road improving bridges and VARIOUS PARTS OF COUN TRY JO BE TERMINE Only one of stock would be the of Counting ou the will go to the underwriters remaining in stock is to j he allotted for subscript on by the outstanding note holders on a bas is of SSQ a payable In in and with the stipulation that any noto holder shall he entitled to upon payment of his an additional amount of stock equal to 10 per cent of the face of his said MITCHELL IS GETTING RAPPED FOR HIS CRITICISMS The sarcophagus for tho lato President Wilson haa Just plac ed In the Bethlehem Chapel of tho Washington It Is re cessed In the south wall ot the Three flags surmount the cap two ot them being the Presidents flags presented by the gov to each representing Wilsons two Inaugura tions The third 5s ttio flag which was carried by the American troops they It first American flag ever by an English kins on English Rambling ROWELL SHEIK TS ROMANTIC JN STORT THAN IX REAL LIFE By CHESTER IL Beware of sheiks especially the real ones Tho Am Ican girl who proposes to her prince in because pho can not legally do It In have to EO back under Egypt Ian laws to There she may find ni other that her can divorce her by but she can net divorce him at and that ho can lenity take three more wives and con For so it Is written In the Jiw ot V Paris and New York may be American are safer under their partially Christian It Is loo easy to jump at hIf Metle who Uio thinking for the United Slates chamber of former Vice President Join In the crusade against loo many Of course they are tha were what they We have too many and we ara passing too many Ua that is not the stock of complaint Business not the aro too bu because conic ot them regulate bus Labor unions do sam whenever any of tho mim crous laws business think ought to be passed to regulate their aro These Bide thinks ought to be passed to regu lalo the but which neither wants for are the very laws that we reed more Which would business repeal blue sky safety and inspection and anri the safeguards of busi ness against radical ani confisca tory If they are often fussily administered If three in when one is if red tape the Is not in but more business In to make three j years after my Abilene Inclined to think that per haps the people were future of our city lit that thought hag since cen dispelled because Abilene is onward nnd has al the usual of un In the of R his was the statement made by member of tha inn of Chiro Busby was born n lAwrence August lr came i during Infancy and was raised in a small town in where Ms was engaged in the mercantile Ho attended tbe public school of lhat place and finished high school In 1SOS he mov ed with his parents to where he spent two vears In the Lockney Christian Ho entered the Boone School at Plainview Jn Says Those Who Drafted Army Including Had Targets of Super DISPUTE HAS NOW ARISEN Both Mellon and Commis of the Set Out Criticisms And Deny their justice first Investigation Into tho bank in r needs of livestock nnd other agricultural interests ivas under taken today by Commissioner executive officer of the farm loan as of re cent recommendations by the agri cultural i n K hi today in company with Williams of the loan hoard Cooper will make trip through the country to HOC what can he done to relieve the credit In a letter President of the Secretary Mel lon said he not entirely clear as to the ot tho commission which suggested that the farm loan board some ag which would open up to cooperative marketing asso tile proper lines of con i Thc declared the hoard roarty to mect tho legitimate demands of cooperative though U announced that thoy would probably watch and wait In the privacy of heir Individually ban In At tho crucial a reporter the home of the proph where wove burning anil door Instantly the lights wont Antl that was the only wore to report In with iho pre hour of Drizzling mist veiled the hills oC Hollywood in the waiting but shortly after midnight tho n was seen through drifting Whether anyot these clouds was the little black of prophetic description was net evident to the man on tbe and efforts to reach members of the cult for an opinion were unsuccessful in the early morning cult members re main hidden from the general pub there were other phases of the end cf tho world situation that became pure One woman visited district attorneys office to ask aid In pre venting her mother from dispos ing of her property ns tho result of Rowens She Discussion of several blUa now pending before the legislature was taken up by tho Abilene city commission Friday afternoon nf the One of the will it sory far cHIes of more population to place ut In tho ha nt A of a board another will call for n per centage of Ihe automobile gas oline Io en to tho city treas ury tbo other has to do creating for flinng nnd suburban The commission went on record as endorsing the which Is being advocated by Galveston and other cities to provide lhat a percentage of the and tax es to the slate bo given to the city treasury for the upkeep of the Tho said hnt In view of tho many owned by chy people seldom ever use the CAVE stream of hope for reaching Floyd Collins In his fand Cave trap flow ed down two channels Searchers had explored another cave nearby to a point not hereto fore reached planned another visit with more light and some and working downward from ihe the mina began Friday had attained a depth of 25 Rescue workers how that when they penetrated Sand they probably find a man trapped beneath a who no longer Homer who wore himself the first three days after his brother was discovered in the cav took a small party Into a crevice not far from tbe mouth of Sand Cave mid penetrated seventy feet A black pit of depth blocked their passage and after dropping a rock tc satisfy themselves the bottom was aome distance below trie little band re turned to daylight for ropes and belter Meanwhile another was under Three volunteers bound themselves together rope and crawled Sand Cave for a survey under the direction of supervisor ot the mining work on the surface ceased RB the three solemnly entered Sanii Cave followed Strict Soldiers ordered the strictest si Xo miners worked In the ways but dally pass over tho streets part of this money should ba utilized for repair upkeep of the Tho mayor vaa In to the representative from this district Informing him of the action taken by the city com Oppose Utility BUl Another which Mayor brought up for discussion was one make It com for all population to placa Jl in the hands of a board especially created for this Thla 1C passed will the city responsibilities of utili ties of this commission dW not ob ject to this Jn Its the opinion of the Individual commis seemed to bo that each oily The diamond point No one In the vicinity permitted to talk or about the Half an hour after the the drill began pounding away In accordance with previous Instructions from two minutes its boring continued and then el silent for experiment was while those mother had a por should lie allowed to tlon of her funds to Hie In Los superior court suit her lender o Ite colony In Turn to Pago COMMISSIONER IS WITNESS er or not thia plan should bo and the compulsory clause is the one which was pointed of the is invited before nnd definite In made by Abi The was of the opin ion that some sort of regulation ol zones for filling stations and sub urban stores is BLANTON DEFENDS HIS 2 by gulps regarding his two gallon Representative felt obliged lo take the In his confidence ami defend He has had full dress Kult and high hat 111 Washington for eight sions recent criticism rjf its opera snld frei that some of Turn to pnge outpouring of official criticisms of Central assistant chief of the army air for recent statements on con Secretary broke his long silence on the controversy hv which although not mentioning General Mitchell by declared thoso charged with drafting army including General and who ed with the Mitchell air had been the targets for super The house also continued its Inquiry Into the I legitimate of cooperative i i M W C but was wining to Hartman Declares He Was oe look over the situation and 1 at trit whatever further steps arc verely at me Chairman of the In commerce thanking the president for Ing him the commis DURING THE SESSIONS HELD ho In speech In the houso worn them on an ALLEGES CRUEL average of a lie had them for eight years In hf and whenever he wont to a firemans he always wore the and Is Given Rigid of Walker prison alleged Irregularities In the 5nm in tlie the and a rnox the members cf john Hartman been cleared awa b who testified this WEATHER WEATHER BUREAU f Department of ly cloudy his diploma In Sclen rowi and from rart 1 to and April He was employed ns a member of the tii consumed thp limn of prison probe commission this af to Ihe stand at his that he might when any is the record be before the Members of the committee Then Inquired Into conditions in the prison that he did not Hart man was a physic and he had come to the from the federal On his reexamin of last from injurious yesterday after noon when he was by an au Ife a WELL KNOWN GALVESTON DIES SATURDAY left the mine early after Md compiled his he announced the survey In the was correct and that Ihq were reiaf The party their hear ings of pneumatic air hammer used by The It was had been flunk where It waa relation It may tap the cave 10 or SO feet of where Collins was said At The bored to the 46foot level early in the successfully passed through a sis foot limestone strata and was halt ed again when the 61foot level via With a bed beneath miners In the shaft in no danger for the according of the Kentucky Uni Progress in sinking the shaft not been su The work halted for time during underground tests and still 25 feet deep A section ot cribbing had placed along the HWes and was resumed when the were com the work started It was be Turn to Page UNABLE TO DETERMINE HOW YOUTH HAPPENED TO BE INSIDE FURNACE known He 10 ive day after a brief born In Early De cember coming to Calves ton In 1 He was with a number of sensational crim inal and west faculty of that institution for court General T eral months after which he entered j he bad been under his command southwest the Texas Chiropractic College of empowered to do fr c Kan Antonio and a fter months of there ho became practice with owner of tho Wells After months of sana practice he resumed hs study of Chiropractic at the Texas College and finished with the de gree of Doctor of Chiropractic Eeu Turn to Page tember returning to he practiced un til moving to May where he has been In practice with tho exception of time spent In Post Graduate study in Chicago and Pittsburgh In and obeying orders In tombing tests off the Virginia capes in Captain Johnson charged Gen eral with a failure to car i t iit j br practiced medicine In 1 and lo submit j self to the board of medical j I tr prove his served a year t i cr outlook for ibc week a day in the WELL ATTORNEY IS t Monday rn Jones sal West Gulf Considerable The committee inquired into the IX FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN ROOM AND DES from The naval captain In reply j to made the flat state ment I would any aviator In niv force if he done out in his statement that the army pol were formed by Temperatures dental services for the prisoners In his room found unconscious Hr Is of of Boird f o arid a member of the Col lege of Christ anil their j Tt Is wAr vc that wish to r to tho I iTum to s so when they required without died today j his faculties to said that the repula tell what tcm cf chief medical ex Weaver was 54 years old and a tho prison was wellknown Ho lived W and the alone In Ibc residential He tt ied hul found on the his head bn chief Iner nt a salary of j j former salary wa LOUISVILLE bert Lee a 12yearold was so severely burned In Mast furnace of the National Forge Company here today that he died a few hours His par ents and a janitor at the plant were unable to explain how tho youth happened lo be Inside tha furnace which Is used for Ing A negro John the at this he toM officials of the Ball of from j tho flaming interior moment af he Flames flared up filled entire Interior cf the ac the janitors Id he walked away and then a He turned and the a flaming jumped from the The boys were burned off and his face and entire body were severely Albert was unconscious for sev eral He talked to his moth body bruised and Fnr overturned and disar As To ranlon he range A Indicating a Blood t was In various Melton Weaver af P tcr toM by two I tinned about a pardon a j they ilus Vll named He TIM ash floor In the H Is believed women a man on the Pry Wft hiph and four and A half feet About year agro he away from home all ft carnival was showing in city 13 and two cr times his 1 Gusli hnl not WS3 days tc spent Ir the family iho he was i mobile In front of tbe the Th on the mother Thus not that li 1 come he 1 Turn to Tige turn last er a short during a lucid In terval and said he went into room and laid down be side the He fell asleep when he awakened his clothes wena on The door through which la two
