Denton Record-Chronicle (Newspaper) - November 2, 1927, Denton, Texas ROUND TOWN The far-reaching effects of column can be attested to by Mrs w H Haw ley who for a lost cat In Tuesday's of the She staled Wednesday morning that the cat had been located in Whl and has been returned to Jwr It is a fine gray Persian CA: Is highly valued in trie ily as the pet or her small ier Joy Following a norther which came up early Tuesday night the dropped to a minimum of 53 degrees Wednesday morning 12 degrees lower than the minimum ol Tuesday The maximum Tuesday was 83 Many were hopeful of a rain with a change In the weather tut were disappointed when the threatening clouds blew away GERMANY APPOINTS S AMBASSADOR BERLIN Nov von counselor of the German embassy at Rome has been confirmed as successor to Baron Ago Von zon late German ambassador to the States it was learned in diplomatic circles today DENTON VOL XXVII NO 69 DENTON TEXAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 2 1927 MISTRIAL HALTS CONSPIRACY CASE AS RESULT OF JURY TAMPERING CHARGES Government Effort to Convict Two Men in Teapot Dome Leasing at Temporary End Grand Jury Probing Charges ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE SERVICE 8 PAGES Figures in Alabama Flogging and Investigation WASHINGTON Nov long winding trail of the Teapot Dome investigation took another awkward turn today when the attempt to convict former Secretary bert Fall and Harry Sinclair of criminal conspiracy ended for the time being in a mistrial Charges of Jury tampering in- allegations that detectives employed by Sinclair had sought to make improper contacts with led the court the and the defense to agree that it was useless to proceed further with the original jury in the box Counsel will confer soon on ar- rangements for another trial with the government favoring a date tn Local Scout Fund Drive Continues Goal Is The drive for funds for the ton Boy Scout Council started here test month is continuing with fair progress J T Harris Scout for the Council said Wednesday No definite date for closing the drive has been set said An effort is being made to raise 2.600 for operating expenses for the council for next year and eral men are working during their spare time on the fund Soliciting Is being continued In both business and residential sections ol Dentou Two Convicted of Murder Claim Held on Cotton Farm AUSTIN Nov Whether re- let cotton pickers can be used as mitigating circum- stances in ft murder trial was ar- before the Court of Criminal today The was fpr Robert Lee Benton and I Js fO in scn Wiling B I Morgan for worked as cotton ore Beriton was given a death dict and 50 years They complained that the judge did nil permit testimony that they were being held on the farm to go to Us Jury January Grand Jury Probe Meantime a grand Jury Is In- quiring into the government's charges that the jury was erly shadowed by private detectives and that one of the jurymen ward a er worker had talked ly of the case and of a car as long as a block which he hoped soon to possess Every member of the Jury In- Kidwell who described charges against him as lies will be asked to go before the grand jury DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS FOR INCOME TAX SLASH Editor Starts Drama WASHINGTON Nov Oil conspiracy trial ended today with a lapsing under a burden of alleged intrigue and attempts at jury tampering The drama at midnight a few nights ago in the city room of a local newspaper Donald K King was assigned to the Tlie rang A voice ed If he wanted a good story on the case Surely he told tho man who proved to be J v a t Cotton Price Rises on Stronger Cables NEW YORK Nov by stronger cables cotton prices ad- about a bale at the Inp of the market here today Good buying was in evidence by Wall Street Liverpool and professional operations while South New Orleans and wire houses sold Weather over the bell was less favorable with forecasts for crs and cooler weather in several lections Killing frosts in the Northwest favored the buying side The statement of Secretary that the carryover figure was act entirely official was also given as a factor encouraging buying after the call Community Singers Meet I Sunday at Lake Dallas The regular meeting of the Com- Singers will be held Sunday beginning at at Dallas the president J w I iand announced time songs will be on which will consist of us sir lets luets and The chorus singing bo directed by leaders from different communities in the county 4 regret over mistrial case Albert Fall announced ment today that Justice don took obviously the right course I Ray Akers a street car conductor Akers told of knowing Juror No 11 and of having ted with him about the case well he said was boasting in a soft drink saloon that he was ferent to the case and that they are going to hang the Jury King engaged to meet Akers and the following day they met well in a soft drink place and ed trial with him Then according to King Kidwell observed that if all went well he expected to in case of an car as long as this block Subsequently United States shals armed with search rants search a room in Wardman Park Hotel the headquarters of Burns detectives who allegedly were shadowing all but one ber of the Jury Evidence was found that operatives concentrated here from New York Baltimore Philadelphia and other places had been keeping all of the jurors ex- cept Robert F Flora an ice com- pany salesman constant surveillance Neil assistant Ignited States attorney it Is my belief and I aver that the real employer of said tives is Harry F Sinclair TO NAME DELEGATES TO BO CONVENTION Neb Nov the Minneapolis tion wero to be named today by the Omaha of the tional Hobor Welfare Association following an address by James Eads Howe millionaire hobo and head of the organisation The national convention Is to convene in apolis who all the delegates ar- rive Eust Tonight and Thursday partly cloudy local showers near west coast er In east and south portions tonight warmer Thursday In north and cooler on coast Tonight fair cooler In southeast warmer In Panhandle Thursday fair warmer in north portion Temperature Maximum yesterday 83 Minimum today 53 1 m today Humidity a m today 70 per cent WASHINGTON Nov publicans and Democrats were In agreement here today on the ciple that the present corporation income tax be reduced Both sides in the tax fight the preliminary to which the present group of House Ways and Means Committee ings made known they favor a cut but differences have ed as to its extent Secretary of the Treasurer Mellon has ed the present 13 per cent rate to be cut to 12 per cent but Garner of Texas ranking member of the com- mittee and other Democrats Insists the reduction can be 10 per cent The Garner proposal would cost an estimated or more while Mellon holds should be the limit of tax cuts Gamer has able backing from Senator Simmons N C ranking minority member of the Senate Finance Committee who feels the tax reduction total could be with cuts or eliminations in other rates than the corporation levy Likewise many vor Garner's idea of a deeper cut than the Mellon proposal Business roads lumber coal dealers chambers of commerce and banks were listed to appear be- fore the committee today to en- dorse Garner's views The list Alfred P Thorn Association of Railway Frank J Wisner Laurel Miss National Lumber Association P W on Illinois Chamber of Commerce and M Craig Merchants National Bank Port Arthur Texas The present plan of both sides is lo make the corporations tax cut the chief feature of the new nue the committee is framing or introduction as soon as Con- gress reconvenes No reduction in tax has been made in recent yoars old Wave Drops Temperature in West KANSAS CITY Nov cold wave originating in the Rocky Mountain States ed eastward today after ing up several weeks of un- usually warm weather In the I- Northwest and Southwest in Kansas and Western Missouri stood in the upper this I- ii drop of more than 30 degrees from yesterday's h A drop in temperature h also was recorded in North Texas this morning nut Following the Hogging uf Mrs Clements Daniel an Investigation into alleged Klau outrages in Alabama fs being directed by Governor Graves upper Attorney General C C McCall lower left Is conducting thu James center Is grand dragon of tho Klan In Alabama testified been indicted in county where Mrs Daniel was beaten BOARD CANT CUT TAX RATE NOW IS POLLARD OPINION AUSTIN Nov an ion now being dictated Attorney General Pollard rules against the legality of a recall of the State Tax Board to reduce the tax rate Pollard who was at first ed to believe such action legal con- cludes his opinion by saying that he agrees with the Governor that statutes prevent the action Balchen Denies Accepting Offer to Pilot The Dawn NEW YORK Nov ant today denied assertions by Mrs Francis son that he had accepted her of- fer to pilot her plane the Dawn across tho Atlantic to Copenhagen tills year who made the Atlantic air crossing with mander Richard Byrd last June announced however that he would attempt a second crossing In the Grayson plane If he could give It preliminary tests and If he could be relieved temporarily from his duties as a test pilot DALLAS WILL TRY TO SELL SURPLUS RESERVOIR WATER DALLAS Nov pal today began looking toward supplying Denton Carrollton and with water from Lake Dallas they said will more than supply the needs of Dallas and surrounding towns for many years Statement Is Interpreted to Mean Lowden Very Much in Race Mrs De Van Watts Heads W C T V AUSTIN Nov Clause Dr Van Watts of Austin was re- president of the State con- vention of the Christian Union here today LITTLE THEATER TO PLAN WINTER WORK Officers of the Little Theater have issued a call for e meeting to complete plans for Mayor B W said Wednesday that had no need of additional water The wells here furnish enough water for needs at the present time and IT occasion demands an even greater supply can be secured said that negotiations for water from Lake Dallas were not under way so far as Denton li concerned WASHINGTON Nov statement of Senator Norbeck Re- publican leader of South Dakota that he is for Frank O Lowden of Illinois was interpreted here today as convincing notice that Lowden fs very much in the race for tho 1928 Republican presidential Norbeck has complete control of the Republican organization of his State it was pointed out In 1920 he carried primary there for Senator Hiram Johnson of nia when Dakota was State to for j son More recently Jib power In a State gubernatorial lest In tnj opposition was overwhelmingly defeated As goes Dakota goes Hence if Norbeck Is for Lowden Is reason to South Dakota will send a Lowden delegation to the nominating con- vention next summer The statement also has its effect on so-called in- dependent group in Congress Ing for the nomination of Norris Republican Nebraska The Independents had counted on beck to support Norris Many of them are personally opposed to Lowden and they privately admit that their stand has been ed by profession of to the former Illinois ernor to be Id at building Friday evening at 7 clock Every citizen Interested In any way in maintaining an in Denlon whether as actors or in any other capacity la asked to meet with The will last but an hour it was staled As a meeting early last summer Brent Jackson was president Fred Rayzor vice president mid Mrs E P Craig secretary and treasurer Governor's of Davenport Pardon Upheld AUSTIN Nov Dan Moody's revocation of conditional granted by former nor Miriam Ferguson to Oration convicted of murder and sentenced to 99 years In Tom Green County was upheld today by the Court of Criminal Appeals Moody revoked the pardon be- cause It originally Issued on the condition that Davenport be remanded to nn Insane find ho allegedly did not Picking and Ginning Make Rapid Progress During Week WASHINGTON Nov and ginning made rapid progress under continuation of favorable weather in the the government weekly weather report on cotton said today In tlie more eastern States Iho bulk has been picked as far north as Virginia and the uplands crop Is largely ered in Tennessee although on tom bolls are opening iy In Arkansas picking has been nearly completed except in the east In Oklahoma late cotton op- ened fast and the harvest rapidly The Texas harvest Is about except In tho west and extreme West M E NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE OPENS DALLAS Nov opening session of the sixty-first North Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church here was taken up largely with routine business Auditors appointed included Earl Jones of Denton and J O of Greenville ONE FIRE VICTIM BURIED FUNERAL OF OTHER AT 5 TODAY Funeral services were held at the Schmitz Funeral Chapel at 5 clock Tuesday afternoon for J A Patton 64 who was burned death in the blaze which destroyed tlie Depot Cafe and Rooming House early Tuesday morning NV R Wolfrum minister of tin Church of Christ at Sanger con- ducted the services Burial was in the I O O F cemetery Relatives Here Mr and Mrs S J Gilbreath the latter a sister of Frank to was also burned to death in the fire arrived in Denton Wed morning from their at Iowa Park They were located following broadcasting of the new of death by Station the igram and started here They were accompanied u their daughter and son-in-law Mr and Mrs Jones Arrangements were made to hoi services for Billingsley a I he Schmitz chapel at 5 Wednesday afternoon W J Akin who was painfully In the fire was able to re turn Tuesday afternoon to his horn at Bridgeport Boy Friend Sought After Tulsa Woman Shot to Death TULSA Okla Nov day sought a boy friend whose strumming of her piano here late yesterday was halted by the shot which killed Mrs Mary Ellen wife of a Wisconsin air mall pilot Three girl friends witnesses to tho tragedy said the piano whose name they did not had taken a gun from his pocket and placed it on the instrument as he struck up a tune They said Mrs It In her hands making gestures and ing You have to pull the ger don't you before they no The player warned For God's sake lay that down or it will go oil A moment later the gun was discharged None could tell who pulled The piano left GETS YEARS FOR ING CHECK DEL KIO Nov O'Neill 40 home address unknown must spend the next three years In State cn for a check for on a local business woman He was sentenced in court hero today CONFESSES MURDER Ol POSTMASTER SHREVEPORT Ln Nov Aaron Ray negro confessed here last night to Ross son 30 postmaster at Chestnut La near here last Thursday Tho negro declined to make further ments Robbery is to have been his motive SCHOOL FUNDS HELD IN- SEVERAL COUNTIES AUSTIN Nov school funds for Crockett Dickens berg Lamb Pecos Camp Hartley Loving Madison McCulloch King Wood Floyd Hansford and Sabine Counties are being held up by the Slate Department of for failure lo receive proper cates of treasurer's reports and de- bonds Funds of 394 pendent districts arc being with held for similar reasons LOCAL MOTHER OF MRS DUDLEY ERETT DIES Friends here received word of the death In Chicago Tuesday of Mrs B F Dresch mother of Mrs ley Everett formerly of Denton and now of neral services will be held at 2 clock Thursday afternoon at tlie Smith Lamar chapel In Oak Cliff SCOUTMASTER IS APPOINTED FOR TROOP 4 Eugene Bates hns been ed scoutmaster of Troop 4 Denton Boy Scouts sponsored by the duty Seoul tive J T Harris announced day Bates a student at tlie ers College is a former member of Troop 4 and hns taken an active Interest in Scout Work PLEA OF TO AFFRAY DRAWS FINE A fine nf assessed In City Court Tuesday a cal man who entered ft plea of guilty to a of affray A DLAIR CON TRACT AT GAINESVILLE The Electric Shop of Denton hup received the contract for wiring fixtures for tlie Turner HoU it Gainesville now under con- The firm's was Resolution Asks Passage Of Relief Measure with Feature ST Nov with the significance of a politico platform awaited the here today of 300 Middles West an Southern leaders In the Tight to ob Is In federal farm aid It embodies a demand for possible passage of a embra ing the general features of the Me sent to the Whit House by the last Congress and ve toed by President Coolidge A committee of 29 ove by Governor Adam McMullen Nebraska an ardent advocate the vetoed worked until midnight whipping tho Into shape Full significance of the lies In the fact that membership o the committee Is including alike Den and Republicans of a shades and cotton and whea growers of national prominence In addition to a demand for pas saga of a relief observers be the resolution might a National call to farmers to regard party lines In thn presidential election and vote fo an avowed advocate of federal ni to farmers Search City Bank Bandits Shifts to Housto HOUSTON for two bandits who robbed th First National Bank of Texas Cit of Tuesday afternoon shift ed to Houston today when tho ca believed to havo been used by Hi robbers was found here The ca was Identified ns one stolen her on Oct 27 Tacks similar to those tho street at Texas City on at Fort Worth following an at tempted robbery there were In Iho car arid led officers lo bo Unit both holdups wer planned by the same men 21 INDICTMENTS RETURNED BY GRAND JURY IRST REPORT OF TERM LATE TUESDAY PENDED SENTENCES FOR FORGERY CITIZENS PLAN INDUSTRIAL WEEK OBSERVANCE TO PRO MOTE INTEREST IN CAL INDUSTRY TO OP- EN NOV 14 Observance of industria week in Denton will begin Monday Nov 14 it was de at a meeting of manu and others held in the municipal building day evening The meeting was presided over by O M Curtis chairman of the committee of the Chambe Commerce A motion that Curtis be authorized to nam a committee to have charge of th plans for the week It was voted to secure a centra that all exhibits could placed iri one hall this year iu stead of In various downtown show windows as was done last Jail Ef fort will be made to secure attrac tive exhibits from nil local manu and entertainment fea tures will be provided The meeting Tuesday by 17 persons including number of Denton manufacturers A round table discussion on the lact that better support o Denton industrial enterprises needed as they must have of the citizens here to ceed It was pointed out Second Fine Arts Number Entertains Large Crowd at TC A large crowd of students and townspeople was delightfully en- Tuesday evening by the Newell Company which the second fine arts ber of the season at the Teachers College Both solo and ensemble numbers were appended repeatedly and the generous In giving a of encores Newell American or took the lead in the program and his numbers were ly well received Adele Eschwei prano also offered pleasing bers Instrumental solos and duets presented by Joseph Marks and Rosamond Crawford pi- anist were greeted by hearty plause The program was very Informal Announcement of each was made by the artists ana ex- of the music presented often were made before offered by the singers Twenty-one bills of ment were returned in the irst report of the grand jury Tuesday afternoon in Dis- rict Court here Nineteen of he bills were felonies and wo charged misdemeanors These Included bills returned against Oscar F Coon and E E Hodges charging forgery Among others Indicted were J P theft over the value of two cases O A Coleman theft over the value of two cases C L Scott forgery and over the value of W M Rhodes burglary and two cases of heft of chickens Richard Gould theft over the value of E E Hodges entered a plea of to forgery before a jury Wednesday and was given a year suspended sentence Monday nftemoon Oscar P Coon entered a plea of guilty to a charge of for- gery and a two-year pended sentence Criminal Settings The criminal court session will be divided into three sections The first will be held during the second week and the third will be the seventh and eighth weeks Following are the settings of criminal cases for the first week of the term First day second week Nov C L Scott forgery two cases o A Coleman theft over the value of two cases J F Tunnell theft over the value of two cases W M Rhodes burglary theft of chickens two cases Gould theft over the value of Second day second Nov two cases J -A Parker liquor Lew Richie liquor Dick Lewis glary theft over the value of Third day second week Nov Ed Allen driving while ed O Jones possessing ment for the manufacture of uor E Pickering possessing ment for the manufacture of liquor D A Murdock forgery four cases Colorado Guardsmen May Be Galled Out hi Strike DENVER Colo Nov threat of tho National Guard hung over Southern coal fields today as striking miners prepared to resume picketing In defiance of the orders of Governor William H Adams ordered tho return of guard airplanes from Pueblo to recommended the arrest of nil and ced that the guard would bo ed out if It were necessary to pre- vent picketing The Governor's action came In answer to a voto at I W W ings In and Trinidad to resume active picketing MILLER IS GRANTED DIVORCE PARIS Nov Versailles tribunal has granted Marylyn stage screen di- vorce from Jack IN EXPRESSES SYMPATHY OMAHA Nth Nov ol on tho death of bishop J J was received by Francis P Matthews close personal friend of tho dead churchman here today Howard Taft Chief of the Supreme Court Tatt In the work of America In the LARGE ENROLLMENT EXPECTED FOR T C 28 SUMMER SCHOOL Predicting a 1928 summer school enrollment of not less than Dr R L Marquis president of the Denton Teachers College said Wednesday that plans were being made to care for the largest mer session of the college's histo- ry Marquis returned Tuesday from Austin where he conferred with presidents of other teachers col- leges in Texas and Governor dy regarding ways and means of conducting the summer school for next year The Legislature only for summer school purposes at the Denton in- and It Is estimated that approximately will be needed to care for the host of dents expected In the conference with Governor Moody Marquis said the Governor was favorable to teaching the mer students as usual and ed the college presidents to carry on the summer school work rigid economy to enable the session to be conducted at a mini- mum cost We will be short about when we go Into the teaching of summer classes this Marquis said The effort will be made here to carry over between and from the regular session and then we will practice my In not offering as large a ber of courses as we Have In the past The classes also will be er and teachers employed for thn session will not be paid as high salaries as usual Income will be Increased by laboratory and library fees I think and then If we are short or I we will be able to secure the sum as an emergency appropriation Marquis said that teachers for the summer school might have to take their on faith The teachers will be told that they may have to wait to get their aries until the Legislature next meets but Is hoped that such will not be necessary Last year we had the largest summer school college enrollment In tho history of the quis said And I will venture s prediction that the enrollment for the summer will be even less than 7.009 thn may be considerably
