Galveston Daily News (Newspaper) - May 13, 1921, Galveston, Texas 80TH 33 GALVESTON TEXAS FEIDAY MAY 13 PAGES TEXAS OLDEST ESTABLISHED 1842 DRY LEADERS THAT PRESENT LAW BE MADE AIRTIGHT IT Policy of Brewing Concern Said to Be Beer for All or Beer for None By Associated of battling lo pti Juhn outside the of wore today judiciary that i rhinds of o tin's family to protest plan to tiff t for purposes tii of uf drys on i Mr John I1 Pavin of York for chf of ts was no too al in i he ih statement iners counsel for Company of St Louis that firm's policy was beer for all or lor said many in stocks of liquor and th to the V o 1 i ta d law a i r L i s h i D a v i n resented iho move by Mr Volstead to dictate to physicians what shull or shall not and the tu await consideration of the by Thf American Medical Association at its month Harbor Tug Crews May Today Chief of Police Says No Need for Either Soldiers or Rangers Here Governor Wires to Mayor BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO U S SPEAKS AT HOUSTON TO MEET OBLIGATIONS MA TURING SHORTLY Crows of harbor were thc chief item of interest in the marine strike situation in Galveston yesterday Their may result it was said yesterday in a complete up of harbor at noon today j Owners and operators of tugs in this harbor are said to favor i tying up their Vessels unless the men agree to move ships distinction j The trouble strew out of an order issued to to shift the j shipping board steamship Lackawanna Bridge from Pier 11 to vator A where it was proposed that she should take cargo The claim j copyright Keystone View Company advanced by The tugboat men that the Lackawanna Bridge is J unfair and that she has a nonunion crew aboard They therefore sm AUCKLAND under blanket instructions from New York headquarters of the 1 various marine unions to assist her If tugboats be tied up here it was predicted that the board would make arrangements to bring own lugs from other ports and into operation here The shipping board steamship Marne which is considered fair inasmuch as she hiis aboard a crew which was signed on articles before the beginning of the strike and before the vessel arrived here was shifted to Texas City yesterday for bunker oil i The work of loading cargo on other shipping board vessels in the SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES AD- harbor which have been worked which have been heretofore was continued yesterday it is anticipated that several of these will be completed this week or early next week The Lake Shore was not able to resume discharge tof her sugar cargo j Governor Pat f refused to send REPRESENTATIVE TINCHER rangers here for service on the water CONFIDENT OF PASSAGE OF MEASURE Press i front The refusal was contained in ja telegram reaching Mayor H O Local men previously had applied to the governor for such protection It I have been asked to send rangers to Galveston tc maintain order I DRESSES AUDIENCE AT HOUSTON Special to The Houston Tex May tors which caused vast development in the industrial world of the countries and which in turn caused the jealousies that brought on the late world war were the uses of steam steel and credit according to Sir Auckland Geddes K C B British ambassador to the United Washington May final vote jam to believe that the people of j States in his address here tonight m to regulate have not the patriotism Auckland spoke to a crowd o i futures was blocked to uphold the law It at Ule auditorium in the ngs m gram futures was mocked of two lectures on world con- I iv today by Representative Qf republican Massachusetts who de- sheriff and the courts all acting a reading of an engrossed I together with their combined For the first time in the history of the world there sprang up an copy uf the available Vole on passage ever had hern ordered by th ch was and backed by every educated class of worker the whole Abiding man on Galveston Island industrial workers for the how ought to be able to maintain order house lo to the utmost botl By l Washington Mny new government bonds in amount is in prospect Tho issue is required to meet gations of the government maturing the nexi two mid n half years It has been decided these obligations will be refunded instead of paid and for this purpose bonds will be issued at a favorable rate of turing several years hence The indebtedness of the government will j It effect will he to defer payment until the financial situation of government has improved Summitry of The includes the victory loan to certificates of totaling and war ings certificates in amount of If these debts were it would be necessary to raise the sum by taxation and leaders in congress and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon have concluded his is not able The various activities of the government leaving the out of will an- for the next i wo years and it is considered ble to levy the added billions needed for debt retirement is now having difficulty to devise f f i ei en L to provide revenue for the operations of the government without imposing hardships We will have 10 refund lie gation coming due through a new bond Chairman of the house ways means said recently There is no way In- by taxation Out Secretary Mellon il is understood giving attention to the lem and is wording out details of a heme Which eventually Will be put congress There tlon for because of the depression imrl condition of the money The offering would be less to cause a nt a later date j jo Holder of maturing ties II will lie In lieu of payment new tonds henring n higher Where payment is bonds of house committee likewise the refunding process The obligations within the next half years should he funded hy the on favorable he said the speaker These men began to read and to think In Germany with their perverted theories of Darwinism the workers began to wish to spread out over the balance of the world in their if ft greed for more fields were i i Tie basic causes of Uie war declared said he was confident it would meeting it is i Germany wanted room evidence of of your city I for expansion wm Qr no the iaw and it will he thc first order business tomorrow of Representative Tincher nf life and property Through you I I call upon all these departments of your local government to have a joint meeting and to prepare and j prosecute limit a program in last generation being educated de- ran Kansas author of the measure behalf of law and order tion which crept out during con- of the proposal today Opponents of th would authorize unwarranted go interference in business No received last and declared that many uf the Anight to a request forwarded the day I will in that event take such steps j European peoples in an industrial Escape Him 40 Convicts Penitentiary NETHERLANDS LEGISLATION DRAWS NO DISTINCTION j A mom FIELDS i eleven Later Recaptured Others Are Reported Posse to Rush Them at Daylight GUERILLA WARFARE WAGED IN MOUNTAINS OF STATE Reply to American Note Outlines Points Made by the Dutch Government as seem wise to establish a it ment on Galveston Island I lie noted one cause of preparation for war and that they feared that France would re- for the war of ISil should tin Germans themselves not keep themselves in readiness Sir Auckland did not refer to thc nation during his talk were too drastic before to of the Eighth Hint the measure my at Kort Sam Houston the friendship of thc two great nent In Id that the measure Saii by A Cov peoples for each other manipulation of grain prices commandant at Ho will deliver the second of the lectures tomorrow night at the ett for permission to place ments of soldiers aboard shipping i board vessels It was believed ADMINISTRATION BEGINS i that some reply will reach offered today but they were either Chief of Police W J Sedgwick stated yesterday that things along water front had been quiet the and would prove beneficial to ers A succession of amendments were voted down or ruled out on points of Among he amendments FORCING VACANCIES IN TEXAS FEDERAL OFFICES Favorable action ahe measure was advocated by dell the republican leader Representative crat Texas declared the would license gambling in grain and Jeffries republican braska the proposal was camouflage that won't help thc farmer water front after dusk and i accompanied by squads in biles also keep on the go He clared that fifteen men had been yesterday to thc force of pol icemen placed on wharves nnd that the number on duty now man io vacate days ago had been requested by tho department on April 30 His term of office would not have expired until in October and marks the first instance of the administration forcing vacancies in Texas to make way for appointment of republicans No reason was assigned by the de- in requesting itr By Press Washington May does not draw any dis- between Dutch and foreign capital in the exploitation of oil fields and thirt to American capital part in such exploitation the reply of the Netherlands government says to the note recently presented at The Hague by William Phillips the American minister concerning con- cessions in the Djambi oil fields in Indies A summary of the reply was made public in a statement by the state department tonight which in tion to outlining the points made by the Dutch foreign office re- viewed negotiations which had led to the formal exchange uf notes A further communication on the sub- ject is expected to be dispatched soon by Secretary Hughes to The Hague Concerning the recent passage in the second chamber of the lands parliament of an oil granting a concession to Batavia Company in the Djambi field to the exclusion of Americans the lands reply says thai when last January Mr Phillips requested that American companies be permitted to participate in the Djambi con- cession the law had already been drafted and the question pending the approval of parliament had been settled As for American capital participating in the Batavia Com- pany it says that such a question must be subject to the approval of the Dutch government The reply adds however that there arc rich oil fields in both Sumatra and Borneo and the ter of colonies will be glad to make contracts with other companies for their exploitation similar to that already made with the Batavia Com- pany Reviewing thc discussions that preceded exchange of notes said that on June 30 the Netherlands tion here addressed a tion to the state department setting forth that Dutch control in the com- panies should not be excluded from leases of American public lands and representing that American citizens were treated on an equality with Dutch citizens in thc Netherlands East Indies The legation addressed another note lo tne state department on September 27 submitting additional information regarding the Netherlands East Indian mining law To these the American government replied on November that it did not appear that American zens were given privileges in the Netherlands East Indies similar to those provided by the general ins law At that time the ment said occasion was taken to re- fer to the pending Djambi and to thc fact that American companies had been unsuccessful in their for a share in the con- Eleven of the forty convicts who charged their guards wounding two of the latter and escaped from thc state penitentiary at ville yesterday morning have been captured Another group of the fugitives is thought to be surrounded in the woods near Dodge A posse of thirty men has drawn a cordon around the thicket waiting for daylight to rush the convicts These were the latest developments at midnight last night as State Police and Sheriff's Forces Attempt to Outflank den Foes By Williamson Va May j learned in u long distance telephone conversation with J A Herring warfare all odds of the prison committee at At that time four of the had just been brought in They were captured Mr Herring said after a gun battle near Dodge None of the combatants was injured Mr Herring stated although all of the dogs trailed the men in the thicket and brought them to bay were killed Mr Herring added that reinforcements from the penitentiary were at that time ou the point of leaving in an automobile for Dodge carrying with them a fresh pack of bloodhounds Twenty men hud remained at the scene of the capture the reinforcements bringing their strength up lo thirty The plan was to keep a close watch on the woods where the convicts were supposed to be hid and at daylight to follow the u from all sides for a roundup Ed Miller was one of the men captured Mr Herring said He talked from his home and had not the names of the other three who were being checked up at the penitentiary H SEVEN AKE CAPTURED TWO GUARDS SHOT QI ESCAPE to The Netra Huntsville Tex May their guards wounding two of them forty convicts in the state penitentiary here made their escape from the institution this j morning shortly before 11 o'clock ONE HUNDRED ARMED ZENS LEAD SEARCH TON ROADS WATCHED Special to The Tex May f A Binford has sent out several to search for escaped con- victs from Huntsville who are ported to be headed for Houston According to the message received i At S o'clock tonight it was reported i by the sheriff seven of the favoring the forces ing the slate was waged night in the mountains of the County coal field w a strike has long in progress Beginning after dawn this morning at the mining town ot Merrimac four miles up the Tug River this city a fusillade ot shots was poured from the successively into Sprigg and W Va and McCarr Xy All available state police and deputy sheriffs centered in son were rushed to tiie scene hy train and automobile but according to reports had been unable at a lale hour io check shooting Harry C a state tion officer and merchant at was killed by a bullet from the mountains and Phillips and a man named Salvert employes of the White Star Coal Company sary ut have been ly wounded Rumors of other killings and have been received at headquarters of the state police but up to late hour had not been con- firmed Tonight a little handful of stale police about twenty in number were reported to be working their way over the between mac and seeking to get above and outflank their hidden foes Today's outbreak had all the of a prearranged The visited with the hail of lead are all within seven miles oJ that thirty-three of these men were j two convicts who escaped this p a a narrow valley still at large although it was under- j morning have been captured and 100 th banks of Ine Tug River where it separates West Virginia from tucky The firing today and tonight I stood that a posse had surrounded armed citizens have surrounded j four of the men and a battle was twenty at Dodge a small town near expected some time tonight One of i 1 wounded men R L seriously hurt The other j Arnold is not in T H ne penitentiary All leading to Houston from the tion of Huntsville are be- watched as it is j In some mariner ten or twelve re- that several of the convicts will had been smuggled into the I attempt to reach this city came from on both inmates inside thc prison walls The delivery was led few of the prisoners took these re- j Georgre R Anderson who was j c in an attempt to and attacked thc guard at given a sides of the river according to the state police The police are concentrated in the mountains on the West Virginia side county officials here got touch with the officials of Pike the north of the prison proper by Criminal Judge C W n in routing the This is tile gate opening out through of Harris County for being the j the administration They j loader of a trio that robbed the fire on the guard who risburg State Bank some turned it until he emptied his pun He is said to have a record and then ran into the guards criminal and It is j The men then forced said he was Ule leaUer in a similar turnkey to open tho gates and attack nn the of let thorn out prisoners were Oklahoma at McAlester several ther gathered together On- of them ago At thal Umc a broke into the armory and secured in thc Oklahoma prison and j a number of shotguns while a con- I h freedom him I was up the I thc and Cd at nor stackers from the mutinous gang of j a break for freedom The guns were distributed and who a with two of the unarmed shop in Fort Bend guards ahead of them they his conviction of to the railroad gate and shot the guard there Il is said that break was led i by G R Anderson Harry Lee son Henry Spillers in j COTTON EXPORTERS SEE BE- LIEF IN WAT OF HANDLING SHIPMENTS is forty-five All men who can not give an account of themselves will he TO STOP IS I brought to the police station de- It is understood that in some of slates the federal officers have been card indexed so to speak and in cases where the Wilson tration requested resignation of the republican incumbent similar j treatment will be accorded in those Continued on Page 2 Column 3 I instances by this administration murder in connection with ing of R Parker assistant cashier j of thc Blue State Bank was not among those escaping it was learned here to reports reaching Houston J A Herring and LI of board Staff Special to The News Washington May and tangible results arc expected by the of cotton exporters and Southern bankers as the re- sult of the new policy of the War S Judge Glad He Failed to Betray Child's ami Friday partly cloudy partly probably local showers in extreme norih portion cooler m the interior Wesl partly local anil I cooler n Ibe cloudy Ml owe i Staff In I Washington May attempt was made today by Hudspeth of Texas during eons of the grain futures the of representatives to have it revised in include provisions that would have stopped gambling in The Texas members asked that the single identity of b1 eliminated from the by mak ing It applicable to products and including cotton of commodities covered b the legislation The amendment went 0111 on a point of order by Mr Tincher author of hill this ing was however Mr costs assessed upon him p Ib Mated that be would if his prevailed ask that the be over wilh a view to its provisions the practices in cotton future and lay a lax of fin a bale o-l sales where Ibe product not in existence Added 10 ibis tax imply be stated in cnse the person sale did not own or in reasonable prospect of owning it where con- for future deliveries were in- hi an with Mr the debate Mr Hudspeth called lo drafted Harry then county FOUR FORMER HUSBANDS ARE ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED H is a e is permuted as to other public and as between atto at Pallas which Mr assisted in having passed by Texas legislature ing I he deuces should be respected shops out of business an im- i strange ri mediate result of which he stated by statute an advance in the spot cotton market The idea further he hy tue farmers tress held in Texas in when hy 1 they look 1171 the cost of for a i profit over the By the offender against thc virtue Denver Toll May nun nf be also ar- il of Denver's juvenile by the state in a case which court who has ended a five-year cr could have been controversy hy paying a fine 5500 certainly never as other cases have his conviction on it not been for confidence tempi of court says the reposed n me as juvenile judge ing statement that the principle afterward 1 was permitted to which he fought has been vindicated The judge bail refused to reveal the a boy 1 it is very unfair to be compelled lo pay a fine of SSH and costs for of court in the in which 1 refused to be- tray the confidences of a child T have no regrets for the long fight uc io vindicate ciple involved even if technically by some assured rule of thc law th courts compel such a betrayal f such fines or enforcement of 1 am sure we demonstrated i such sentences Kor this reason we Ibat in the court supposed the same wrong anil it is in the would be shown in this case of justice that such in proper way I am not any of the who have felt it is duly io press this matter a i jo wish to recall the ninny cases in political battles here in where in questions heavy fines and alties have been imposed for con- tempt of court sustained but where the officers have never issued any or demanded the payment nnd clients pastors and and it should he denied in a where the value of a con- to the and to justice is pi i baps the highest It like n on lion Ai that me nng lite 1 should he In lions on tbc dny for this I rible when nn aliened and I have to believe it would been were it in the power of presiding judge lo do it but he held it was nut in his power so having fought the uu clear t-i the highest court in the and availed ourselves of edy seemed justifiable and having lost out nn a in a court of one Majority UM now die comply with law however much wo question Us Honolulu May Taul cent Southard also known as Mrs Lyda Meyer was held by the police here orders from Los An- geles in connection with the death of four of her husbands n in-law and a child of one of the men she married Paul Southard whom she married in Angeles last November told the police here she tried to get him to take out worth of life in- surance Southard is a petty officer on the iv S Monterey stationed a4 Harbor Hawaii Insurance of which she was to he the was carried on the all the five men whose deaths are investigated Mrs Southard according o the police has agreed to return without Papers for extradition are being prepared Salt Lake May Prosecuting Attorney Frank L phan of Twin Kails County Idaho said Mrs Hout matrimonial record was being investigated for the of determining the causes and fixing the responsibility for the deaths of four former an infant child by first husband and broiher Edward Insurance of which Mrs Southard was the beneficiary was carried on the of five men said Of this she is said lo linve col- Mrs who is years oid for a lime ns a u Tu in Falls death for last winter Her parents several others most of them were long time convicts having been convicted of bank o i arrived in late Corporation lo on Page 2 Column 2 a hurried trip i in lhc of cotton which I from here nnd found no signs of I has for abroad but any of tho convicts along I nnl Dipped as explained today by w L Claylon of Houston chairman of the committee appointed at the recent meeting in Atlanta The appreciation of the South and the cotion industry was pressed to Harding i when he received Mr Clayton and Managing of thc War Finance Corporation who also to the president that blc results expected from the new policy As explained at the APPROPRIATION BELL i i ENCOUNTERS OPPOSITION j OE DISARMAMENT By Associated Press Washington May half billion dollar naval appropriation was taken up today in the senate only to encounter immediate tion from the advocates of Reading of the senate naval j fairs committee's amendments had i scarcely more than started when j first rumblings of the imminent dis- I armament fight were The first amendments slightly I ing of the hill as HEADY TOR USE treasury department cotton when under orders from the foreign i buyer is warehoused and the re- i become negotiable j The War Finance Corporation day announced payment of the final installment due on its advances of passed by the house were accepted Special to The News i approximately made 1 I IS MADE IN JUNE I without discussion hut when the amendment was reached to increase the sum available for recruiting a j million dollars Senator re- action decided thai the new Slovakia This was i publican leader of the dis- i normal college at Nacogdoches shall died by two armament forces asked that it he constructed before the Austin Tex May hoard inR April May June and July of regents of the state normal col- last assist in financing ex- in session here today by of cotton to merican export firms passed over until the senate takes I Normal The board -n regents after ton vas sold at very high price and heavily against foreign buyers and thai met PASTOR SAYS BONDS TO ASSIST EIS NEEDY PARISHIONERS up thc question of naval personnel Ian inspection trip to with the This by Senator came to Austin i i iiiii in jj n 1 rv iii iin i repeated time after time with the i for Purpose of making a so Kaljoris to the fullest result that when the day's l Deride which one Of i tion ended practically all of the normals was to he major committee's increases in the j first and also to perfect j first half of the had passed of and transact tine matters I The Nacogdoches is to be i BUSINESS OF nnd for occupancy OF NATION SHOWS LARGE DECREASE IN PAST the i The establishing normal did i not carry such an appropriation j Alt members of the hoard were present at today's two f-f them Miss Margie of Carthage 1 1 Bennett of I ing new recently by Governor The other A C HI in 1021 a of Thc only Texas cities listed in this are Dallas nnd Houston i of the office durin I Slaff Special to Tho News Washington May business condition is reflected in the postal receipts of fifty of thc largest postoffices for April of this i year compared with one year ago There offices did in ness in April and only rt J Judge A president The other officer month last year amounted compared with April of this year r decrease if H K Turner Austin 1.2 per The l ft Hi April COM- met with thc board and their i i wilh in a nominations of members I Continued on race 2 3 crease of nor cent j were approved fiy Associated Press Chicago III May Desire to aid his starving parishioners caused him to attempt to gain money from valued at which hnd been stolen in a Toledo mnil robbery and lo his care cording lo an alleged confession made today by Rev Anthony Horek of Ind He hi td in bond on charges of piracy and of bonds The Mere intrusted to him i i on a hy Ms to his sion j
