Galveston Daily News (Newspaper) - October 1, 1923, Galveston, Texas 174 GALVESTON TEXAS MONDAY OCTOBER 1 PAGES ESTABLISHED 1842 CALLS OUT ENTIRE Cotton Exports Set New Record This Year Port To Reap Benefit Of Large Texas Crop Business Is Stable Here Galveston as a port suffers less In limes of depression than Inland eiMes but at the same timo benefits to a great degree In times of prosperity As tho port of the Southwest the second export city of the the city experiences an advantage in its comparative stability of business conditions Almost as important as the wharf facilities te expedite the ment of export and import goods are the city's hanking institutions which have a major part in financing the movement of commodities to and from the port An idea of its importance may be gathered from th fact that the bank clearings in one year covering one com- cotton total more than a billion dollars according to mates of the clearing house Prospects of a larger cotton crop this year in Texas bring of course better prospects for the port of Galveston Already the ment of cotton during the months of August and September exceed the figures of the name months of any previous year Bankers look forward optimistically to a year with increasing business lor the port and a corresponding Influence on other lines Unique In commerce the port enjoys a unique distinction W rall cashier of First National Bank staled in thai the failures have been few while the reputation of the bunking and commercial houses is the highest at home and abroad Mr urges the people of the city to exert their best efforts to the and development ot the city coming to a full re- of its advantages as a port a resort and an Industrial city Development along manufacturing A A Home vice dent and cashier of the City National Bank regards as of the city's greatest opportunities He emphasizes his belief in a ment by Mr Catterall lhat the old bugaboo in regard to our ment ton money in and then the city will be at the beginning of j its real development j Natural for factories j certain products ore I celled and J 13 cashier of W L Moody Jt Co bankers declared the factories we have in our midst is proof enough thai can be made m fad tiring as well as shipping center CHy Tl Lee Kempner of Texas Hank and Trust Company takes of the fact that the best advertisers of our neighbor hit competing cities have live right in Halves ton He asks Galveston citizens to eliminate this and advertise our own faculties which some may overlook been use they arc right before our eyes concurs In suggestions brought for by Mayor Hay Us E Harriss and others for raising u fund to ad- vertise to tht world ad- 1111 he lhar before we can hope I to BCi others we must sell ng lines will We completed a very i i successful season in r lie would kopp Mr suys It is nti lhc on Page 11 Column 4 FINAL AGREEMENT IS HOPED FOR IN PERIOD TOR FURTHER PARLEYS Walter S Ward at the Close of the Recent Trial of Ward Pacific Atlantic AT WHITE X Y Hundreds Killed and Many Injured When Separatists Meet Results in Massacre Py Sept terminated in a ma of persons are kno lion here today A n tc have beVis ABBOTT MEN LOSE LIVES AS CAR SMASHES HEAD-ON WITH ANOTHER A i last night ton longshoremen a will a of 111 old was Hills the a expired hi Following a th A It was would nj M in this district and Tex us the H ot I n accident another injured front a second ucci nnd shot to death n parts of Hill County a which has boen by hut crowds tho Hill None of at or near inds in the anti wlm nt and K -y Fn and A J of was instantly killed and the are to bu numbered In the is still with excitement Mid more trouble feared tonight I Tin occupation hold the the police j for the outbreak declaring that the in communist groups later joined The hospitals police barracks arc filled with wounded and French military doctors are all The French authorities late this evening out to round up nil he police they could j in tho streets and under nil those Mill held in reserve I nt The city awoke early with thousands abroad In of an to the tlon iu remain indoors j Street automobiles and oilier vehicles were absent from the streets and the hotels and stores had all lowered their iron and H the first of the five trains hearing the to TEXAS SHOWS OF 08 EEH CENT DESPITE IHS HAIMS D t h r Pn h i d i s and t r 1 r t and Aith 1 1 1 a I Lot Franklin was instantly J Hnd wus received by a company of a neel and public militia which had nt Pan- just to lhc sreen In a permanent i Arthur d with whit and r within the in t n Jr t thi I n of the Ma latlon of Tf end it k days ther In type of labor Cap- tain Raid and It IK only due to their efforts that arn able to their We every that ten days a settlement of the labor controversy will he to nil interested will Frank f of gulf count of the I A that wna that on a permanent would he reached THE WEATHER nnd dny partly dny partly rlo Monday O hound fo It and thr A In n 1 And pen KM II Mfl Hi till lin My win KM And hu tht id fnr run into by d to raveling routh nnd n car driven by Iwo ifr whon hnth n rnr afier noon all the from points in tho had reached the and a procession nnd behind innumerable white and red to a feet wide by 1.000 feet adorned TERR GESSLI R n of -n ir in in Republic and a member of nn address Iho democratic in that civil war in Is in- evitable Herr Messier paid out- break might be expected any day and that the government would be solidly supported by the in the on Pagu 2 Column 2 I Continued nn Page 2 Column 3 Thornton Says Inquiry Would Reveal Delay to Ships at Port Houston A that duct an Investigation te of ships in i which to he InM two monthly sailing IT Houston and thn therefor T j the number of DRASTIC REGULATIONS TO IN- SURE PAYMENT OF DUTIES IN EFFECT ury and Tho departments thope two we ii tc Ir by ir that pitch out our nn Intend to try Houston but announced Joint In linns coverning importation kf j of through the mails HonMon In in to in loading in i on from when th to n nn interview I ton to at top In j forcing the dock mts in- i lEili on to work and day delay ni Such a situation bound to hurt to deny j the of labor if In n thn t ind the In: and It wan thin situation which prompted the j mo nt elm delay of shipp at to The president of tlin Houston Cotton misquoted Mayor K ho mated no RO In What UK raid t INI I not iro to nt a tj V r In n port Mr Tho nil on paid re- our lhat to port In delayed longer than he In the Houston of Saturday and anxious to cloar port's nnd It would lip for them to detailed In- of tho tho port In pust th r Stii M Of tllO IP to i etc I Continued on 8 Column 3 end of October to prevent such pack from tariff rules which will be- romo 1 la provision that all sailed will be re- to tbd of origin un- Indorsement broken ex- tainted fraud are In be must nn of the and If tbc articles nro Intended for definite value bo included of tho made a paid by In by mail and particularly hy present rules at che is i- Ttr Nowi ilr Tux Sept for rain on tho trader day of Hept by W K While man Irade tee This will It- lo The will for thn event about I i Special to Tho News York Sept detailed analysis of cotton crop returns j under an average date -5 shows that as a result of continued unfavorable weather ing the greater part of the month cotton in many parts of tho belt is barely holding its own although there hafe been very little more than the normal amount of deterioration for this time of the year More than special correspondents of the Journal of Commerce now place their average estimate of percentage con- dition nt 1 loss of 7.3 per cent This compares with 56.8 per cent month per cent in July and a ten-year overage of per rent The percentage condition on Oct J last was a decline of 7.5 per cent while in September 1021 there had been a drop of 10.4 to 44.7 The present condition figure ever lowest with the tion of for September of any year 1901 It IP in per cent under the high record year and would perm to put an end to all of raising thing like a crop According to tho government formula and the official acreage figure of a per rent condition of that allowing 1 per for bales of cotton be produced in the event that reasonably able weather are ered during the remainder of the Thip however merely represents tho opinion of cotton observers throughout the South and is not to be construed as a prediction Oilier private estimates place the yield as high as bales with one or two down to bales Condition estimates range from 47.8 per cent to 52.3 per cent It Interesting to note that Texas withstanding damaging rains in many has actually made a small gain viz 08 per cent to 56.7 per cent as against 65.9 per cent a month aco The Lone Star Stato is u nig tie in thi a aa declines of more or less severity are recorded by all of other Tennessee and Mississippi were the greatest sufferers all showing very heavy losses North Carolina's per cent condition dropped from per cent last month to 59.4 per or per cent off Oklahoma reported the sin nit opt red 11 rt ion having dropped to per a loss of 5.1 pe com Pince receipt of report some improvement has taken In wither conditions It has stopped mining In and not only In picking the is paid to present better appearance it ta not unTenconnhlp to hope that for October may he more en- than la rune this month A factor however v will have lo be considered and which is ready attention is the rious lowering In the quality nr grade of staple likely to result irom the wet weather Ian month Health Chart at School Compares Mankind to Auto Fort Worth Tex Sept unique health nnd efficiency chart for county schools has been prepared by Dr Frank Smith county health officer and Lillian secretary of tins county Tho chart compares the body to in with each t of the corresponding to an gan of the body Among tho striking sons Is the Tho horn dues not power and 1s disagreeable to boost TO BE Kl GOVERNORS MAY FORM PLANS TO HELP EACH OTHER EN- FORCE LAWS Drastic Measure Taken by Walton nn Si j I o Balk Election Ity Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY Ok Sept force of arms of the state will bo thrown Into the Tuesday to prevent ihc holding of n state election at which a measure would be submitted providing a way for tho legislature to consider impeachment charges against Governor J C Walton and to curb rioting that result from closing of the polls it was announced by the governor tonight The governor that mobilization orders for en tiro homa national guard numbering approximately won had bom issued today and that tonight volunteer militiamen will railed to designated strategic censors Tor an emergency He declined to reveal details of the mobilization plane In addition the executive said that ho had instructed his special corps of secret service operatives which he said numbered men to assist regular county authorities to keep the polls closed Print Ballots For Tulsa and Other Counties iated P By A Tulsa Ok Sapt f th rint ballots for governors to j lhan for Pla Forward is directed by WV of the housa be called by President Coolidge ing October will have before it a broad program touching the tions between the state and national governments with respect to the en- forcement of law and more larly enforcement or lack of en- forcement of the national tion law In some respects the con- ference will go farther than ed by President Harding For one thing it will bring to the attention of the states along the Mexican and Canadian borders methods of to stop what come to be termed bootlegging in immigrants and the introduction of narcotics Assurances havo by en given the counties were placed with local printers today following receipt by Secretary John Smiley of the county election commission of a de- livery from W C secretary of tho state election board at Oklahoma City The special vote on all ures Including tho legislative In- question was ordered un the ballots Thn election will he held according to law it was announced at Smiley's office letter was mailed from Oklahoma City early this morning The county election machinery embracing 107 precincts will by 6 o'clock Tuesday morning dry leader that the broadening to of the conference will not include proposals for repeal or of the dry law There has also been called for a conference of dry leaders through the federal cil of churches to hr held Oct 14 to 16 and which may be in session at the time of the governors ence Among the signers of the call are Senator of Tex thor of constitutional prohibition provision and Bishup Capers of the diocese of Western Texas At this meeting the Smiley declared The ballots bd ready for distribution by noon tomorrow it was ai printing establishments which denly threw off the Sunday quiet a noon today to prepare the voting slips and typewriters were hurriedly called from bat game parks and automobile jaunts to their rooms and by night fall tho thunder of high Leagu he pr presses roared defiance oC Governor J C Walton's proclamation sMl not a day old postponing the tion This afternoon at election headquarters were re- nty polling ill submit for consideration I chinery which has been inoperative of and seizure limit the search j Irom thre since the state road bonds election miles nt sea as a means of rum runners the granting f which aa applied to its nationals having been denied by Britain and the absence of a Continued on Page 2 Column 1 oral months ago Clerks judges In every precinct were or dered to prepare for balloting day and in numerous localities prem ises were rented for the polling places was feverish activity throughout thn city and county night as leaders of various factio strove for advantage in the naming of inspectors and clerks of Former Head of Santa Fe Railroad Well Known Here Dies at Temple KOH V KAIH ix News Hay City Tex Sept r h to and carnival the yot held The fair n 10 ir and ed nt Pn In th bring evidenced by nearby live stock and poultry TO J 75 old Torn and tho A Santa nl n early and Hie will be to his old home Colonel had 111 for mouths president r this for Meanwhile plan D member opponents of the went forward rapidly to ensure an attempt by the public to vote lowing a proclamation early today by tho governor postponing the election tho leaders of the ment to override him established communication by telegraph and ephone with every county in tho state and they announced that meetings were in progress in virtually all sections at which speakers were citizens to at- tempt to vote in defiance of tho governor's proclamation Simultaneously the governor deV clared that ho was on the verge of proclaiming more stringent martial lav throughout thn I havo been very ho said But one more crack and J am going to put this under tial law lhat will bo martial law I um going to make them go to bed at 6 o'clock and there wilt be very few passes Issued after that hour I have no doubt there will ho many vacant houses in Oklahoma soon The It plain that only the civilian arm of the ment machinery consisting of lar county officials and his secret service operatives would be used to the casting of ballots and that the military would hold in serve for use in event of rioting that might result from the closing of the polls He explained that ha did not intend to order the arrest of persons seeking to vote His whole action ho said would consist In keeping the polls closed Be Bloodshed Governor Walton made no effort to minimize the seriousness ot thd situation There may be he but there will be nc tion This Is my election I called It and I certainly have the right to pone It Furthermore It would illegal to hold It now for the on that the law has not plied with through proper lion ot thn questions to voted The executive declared that W secretary of the election board by whose orders chinery put in motion playing with the klan Mr ent of the governor's proclamation declared that he was powerless stop the work that had and lhat if the election was to be prevented the burden would bo the governor alone Today ballots were being printed every county in the state Governor Walton again assailed the Oklahoma press ing that tho opposition of pers to his program in the ptate was alone responsible for conditions iv the state If the Phoenix tho Oklahoma Oklahoman and HIP Oklahoma City and the Tulsa Tribune had been locked up and the keys to their doors thrown in the river PLX not be having trouble In Oklahoma today asserted 1C there IH bloodshed you cnn it fit their door and there he d although 1 dread to pay ir K Short siato attorney general declared tonight ia no precedent for the governor's on Pago 11 Column 0 Science in Tabloid Water Clean This Is polluted Do not use the water for or This sign Is seen occasionally in woods of Pacific ne of tho moit picturesque of the United iri being made to overcome that necessitate Mich water clean has he attention of scientists for many Thoso attempts are not rined to keeping drink Inn ree from Kerms but ore or the purpose of thd A M expert on lect says that icen spent In the last fow by coast to of voter by icts A feu years ago It was 110 n for 1 arge ma n u fa c t u r f t u rivers and streams 11 a I e r fa 1 was run Into i h f n i n H a way of rid of It Today much of this Is In A No tn in- In saving ihn lakes and efforts irc u llf Of anil t rights by Inc
