Brownwood Bulletin (Newspaper) - March 18, 1925, Brownwood, Texas EIGHT PAGES TODAY MARCH 131 RELOCATION OF PRISONS AUTHORIZED MAK HOMELESS Bt FIRE II fOMO BY LACK OF WATER IX COM THE FLAXES thous g and persons were rendered homeless whea major tion swept northwestern Tokio to day destroying buildings resulting in casual The was brought under control Great confusion Troops are on the scene tearing down hous es in an effort to prevent further spread of the blaze while thousands of residents laden with household effects are streaming toward safe So Water Supply Firemen were helpless in their attempts to check the conflagration because drouth had exhausted the The fire started in a at Junction in Southeastern and tonight was sweeping in a southwesterly direction toward largest of the metropolitan porks and site of the famous Im Museum and Zoological Gar Simultaneous with the outbreak of the major fires started in the Chimachi and Zosh con The Sre in the ing dispatches from swept an area which was being rebuilt after the recent fire and earthquake which devastated the It in a factory district un touched by the fire that came in the earthquake and ran its course through a district made up of temporary and reconstructed In the area are many wooden JON BEFORE TEX MEX ACCEPTED ASD AFTER MORE OXE HUX COX IX OPEX March the senates speedy confirmation of John Sargent of Vermont to be Attorney the controversy between President Coolidge and the legislative body over the twice rejected nomination of Charles Warren for the today had known its place in history with comparable incidents i American The nomination of a former Attorney General of Ver mont and a lifelong friend of the was by the Senate session by unani moos consent just four hours it had been following publication of correspondence dis closing that Warren had de the offer of a recess ap Approva was given without debate after the Judiciary to which the nomina tion was had discussed it for little more than half an There were vacant scats in the a number of the mem bers having already left nomination was tak en up in open session on the pro posal of Senator Democrat because Warrens nomination also had been in the The proposal was adopted after sonic objection from the Republican and unanimous consent to Missing Banker WICKHAM of Council hank president and has been missing for sev eral Relatives fear that ho kas been abducted and is being held for possibly in DEAD IN POISON LIQUOR was then Chairman iven on the request o who submit ted the committee Leaders planned to have the Sen ate adjourn sine die today after clearing the calendar of a few re a number having been disposed of yesterday along with that of RECEIVER FOR PAUL ROAD ASKED IN SUIT liii Press March tion for for the Chi Milwaukee and Paul Rail way Company filed in United States District Court The offered as a friend ly action with the company con was filed in District Judge James Wilkersons IIS March i Tlle receivership climaxes the number 11 iri the weeks and months of uncertainty during the afternoon j next i reduction in the capital structure ninth now exceeding is ex March Coroner said today he was inclined to believe his estimate of deaths a year in Philadelphia from by Governor in his address SHEPHERD AMI ARF WITH MURDER ING RICH Ry Shepherd and Charles INSURGENT UK TO BROTH TO EVEN OLD fly March Wit is held in county jail here were charged with the murder of a of assault of murder i il Arson pending as William Shepherds result ot the dynamite foster in an indictment sion which resulted in the practical turned today by the country srand destruction early Tuesday of the home cf his father near this The returned before Stanford fixed Chief Justice Hopkins of thr bond at In the assault to inal charged that and in the ar of son a statement made by Wittliff after an allday and latter head of a science who has confess the states attorney has an that he taught how to feed Billy McClintock typhoid germs to get the boys inoculated the victim with typhoid The indictment further charged that poisoning in the form of aco prussic acid and morphine were Judge Hopkins ordered two who now are prisoners of the plates who took Shepherd into custody to bo brought before him at 1 for arraignment on Faiman a in which he declared he had conspired Shepherd to introduce typhoid serins into the young millionaire when he had made a will leaving his to charged by prosecutors to havi been strengthened last night by before Hie Legislature yesterday in support of an enforcement was former a grilling by County Attorney Farm In a signed Witt liff having placed and sot off the Victim Still Young Fricke was reported to be retting comfortably at the hospital where he was taken in a dazed con following the In the statement credited to Witt ho asserted that ill feeling had existed between him and his Reinhold for some and that blowing up lie Fricke home was the method adopted by him to settle the Full responsibility for the fake telephone call which Fricke received Monday telling him that his uncle was dangerously ill at was assumed by too Since making his esti As a result of this Fricke and his accompanied who hy their son left for Shepherd as the man who only to on their ed the school in the fall of mate several weeks ago of twelve snid seemed deaths a day from Hiis in bacteriology coroner said IIP had j aml Hi too j story coincided with the time Fal j man he attended the Hy Prett March Because bib gun Walter arrival that the uncle was not ill Preliminary hearings for Wittliff has been act for Mitchell still alive today ami still separated from his whoso death he mourned so greatly that he attempted to take his life on her grave late His condi is Ufi liam Donovan of New now serving as Assistant Attorney Gen was nominated today by President Coolidge to be Assistant Attorney a post of higher rank now held by who has TilP man who has not broken down under days of ques made the same denial of Whites story that he has made of and John foi ner attache of the who Shepherd hail written con Youre a Shepherd shout ed ut Further of Fai that had been fixed by Shepherd and himself as his portion of tho McClintock fortune if their plans were suc was prosecutors in a letter showing that Faiman planned worth of CONTINUED ON PAGE South who voted against the confirmation of Charles Warren for attorney general is snapped leaving the White House after a conference with the B 1 3 ii w m SI DID LA r OR tsE OK lly March a step in ti attempts to reorganize tho and Orion r Its re asked the today for to issue 1 Charge is Returned by Jury for Irion County By Prut SAN inj charging Gratton CM I A port with in connection on or with the killing of Sam Thai bearing 6 per cent it and to deposit them ihi Department as for a government loan of a like HEM BUST MEX WORKING IX LOWER TRAP PED AFTER By I chief mine inspector of West In a A statement issued shortly after noon today that workers would not be able to read the 3t en tombed miners in 41 of the Bethlehem Mines Corporation be fore late SALE OF PRESENT PElTED TO PAY FOR By Preti Three men were placet un der arrest in explosion nt Mine II of i lie 31 lues in which men were arrest fol lowed the report of u possi bility that the disaster hail been caused hjr the explosion of a There has been no indications as to whether any of the minors The House vote on con vived the blaat which the curring the amendments was 3 to last hold cut little hope that The provides for sale ot tho nr of thim will taken out thirteen prison aggregating Not sincea sheet of Game burst valued at about up through tho opening that according to Senator Wood 300 below the has sanction for relocation of the System to some spot near the center of the state was today passage in the Senate of the Teer by a vote of 20 to 8 and concurrence by House in the Senate The Sen ate reduced the appropriation of the House from to and the Honse a few mo ments later concurred In this The now goes to the anyone on the surface heard fron tho imprisoned A low rum bling preceded the wrecked the mines lighting equip ment and caused the tipple totter and tal into the shaft and shook buildings in Fair broke windows anil shook from their in house 300 feet Find o Trace of Since that moment ot and children have milled about the mine trying tc lnd soine wurt of the entombed Only two rescue workers nad ben able to send word to tho and that word was uol F chief through t mine inspector of West Virginia and i companion were the first t go The pushed their past HIP debris the stable wher the mine horses were All the tt animals Then The corporation has had an ap pushed on into two of the he air was they That was They could rind will be arraigned Friday when date for trial Trilli likely be Denied been In jail here Rai Wlt llc Davenport rf t 1 I While definitely tnc was to have caused K i OF THERES A DIFFERENCE were Barron was the 2lBt to be examined today and Minnick the other veniremen were ac by the but challeng ed the bringing the to tal of defense challenges to the same number that the lioa has Of the 113 veniremen nine ac eight challenged by the de eight by the 49 ex for scruples against the death penalty and 39 excused for other Prospects for completing th jury seemed less favorable as the morning session of court its as venire man after venireman was found to lie disqualified for one reason or orders for the sum of additional were there being several dozen remaining in the ori ginal This mornings session was quite free from the bickering which characterized Tuesdays examina LEATHER East Texas fair frost in the interior in north weft fair freezing in Panhandle freezing of were appoint ers by Judge in bonds of The petition was filed in the of the Binkley Coal was in the interest of the road it with general coun sel for the railway pres ent and concurring in the There was no The a system of miles of Middlewest to the Pacific one of the largest systems of the has a bonded debt of in preferred stock and in common Its Pacific Coast extension carry ing electrically driven trains over the Rocky has become one of the marvels of modern day railroad but the ex tension with terminals in Paul and has not re turned the profits originally anti Harry president of the hurried home from New York today after the directors had determined in New York last night upon a receivership as the best present mode of meeting the financial requirements of the com Readjustment of the finances of the roid will it is under the formation of protective committees of security WHITE of El was nominat ed by President to he United States Marshal for the western Texas District AND MAKEUP x KANSAS cation for permission to issue in receivership certificates for the Orient follows the plan of with the new filed In Federal District Court here by Kemper and his Judge John Pollock will start bearings on the plan Monday when hearing on the confirmation ot the Orient sale will be Clifford counsel for the said today the application for an additional loan of one mil lion dollars and extension of the existing loan of two million dol lars would furnish a basis lor the plan of The court will be shown tangible evidence Monday that the group seeking to refinance the Orient actually has applied lor a loan ami for extension of Misled His plan is to the Orient with two and a quarter million new one million from the Government and tho remainder to be advanced by the group headed by Kemper and The Government loan be used for the pur chaso of additional rolling stock and for the repair of present Histed The Orients attorney said he did not expect the Interstate Commerce act upon the receiv ers application after Judge Pollock on the sale of the FLASHES Of at present Minister to wan today nominated liy President to be Ambassador to W ASH March A protest the seating of Senator T Ten from a of utoto w at the explosion and late last night Mine Superintendent Bonton Milch ell said he did not believe any of the men could be said this morning thf work would go on as though every one had Rumors of Soon after the explosion reports thac a dynamite bouil had been dropped the snail but these were later Tin mine opened on a nonunion last October and employed anon The entombed men coal cutters and their helpers yl HIP night Last nights explosion wds tlic second within thp mine in than ten On October 1 a gas explosion killed ton The mine has been with every modern device sine that time and it uns believed It so pronounced on by a deputy inspector who examined The hct that Lambie and hit companion could no trace of the men ucar the mouth of shaft was not considered unusual as all the minets were believed to bt a considerable distance Tho mine has been in op for a number of years am has extended for more than a mlu a halt from the It nat thought none of the cutters won nearer than a milo and most of them probably a greater tanco trom the spot ex plosion reported that the mine was bailly damaged and that thf rescue would find it hard going through pas TO L of Kansas was nominated today by President Cool to Minister to Booth ot Minneapolis and Arba of were nominated today by President Coolidge to be circuit in the who engineered the the In Big Territory The plant is to be centrally lo at some point in a territory about fifty miles wide and 150 miles long in the central part of the state including all of and and parts of Johnson and The measures also provides that the shall be a revolving fund to be returned to the Treas ury within the ensuing two years from money obtained from the sale of present prison Selection of a new site for the prison system is placed in the hands of a commis sion of to be composed of the Lieutenant At torney Speaker of the anil Land Conscription of property as well as of man power for national de fense was favored by the House today when it adopted a resolution by SS to The resolution provided that the Texas Legisla ture so on record as favoring the proposed amendment to the Fed eral Constitution to give Congress the right to conscript The House also adopted the Stevenson resolution favoring a tax on prescription whisky sold by druggists to raise funds for tick eradication Stevenson asserted that a gallon tax would raise The resolution also authorizes appointment of a house committee of five to work during vacation to ascertain ways and means of rais ing funds from indirect sources and report its findings to the first called session of the 39th Legisla or to the next regular session should no called session he held Tie Vote ID A single vote by the presiding of ficer of the Senate todav held what appeared to he a certain call for an extra of the vote atso saved the entire ed appropriation of almost the largest finance measure of the Lieutenant Governor Miller accomplished this by off a tie of U to 14 on a motion to appoint a new conference committee to the cdn Warnings ot a special sesion to begin Friday were cast in the de bate if the measure did not go thru and of the presiding cer apparently dispelled these I Rf Ulys ses of Pennsylvania was nominated today by President Coolidge ft to Sargent of Vermont took tho oath of office today as Attorney General of the United A Challenge TO word Puzzle Solvers On page 6 today you will and a puzzle that stumped the masters in this new It has never been solved by even the but Its hist as legitimate a puzzle as you have beea get If you try Turn 8 and see caa
