Hutchinson News (Newspaper) - September 10, 1925, Hutchinson, Kansas i READ NEWS WANT AUK EVERY THE HUTCHINSON NEWS FINAL EDITION Established July V KANSAS f SEPTEMBER 1925 TWELVE RIVER BED OIL LEASE PROJECT MAY BRING ROW Fight Action of Executive LEASE PRICE TOO LOW Would Have the State is Against Lease Declaring that the deal smells teapot Stephen representative from Elk ex pressed today a determination to oppose In the courts the Arkansas river bed to the Phillips Petroleum of an oil and gag oper asserted that members ot the executive council were garding the rights ot the public In railing to advertise or Why are certain members of the listening to the offer ot the Phillips Petroleum Company and not giving other oil companies a chance to river bed he Not one member of that council If leasing his own would heed an offer of only three thirty second royalty for a proven I know oil men who would be willing to give one Absent Treatment Of Science Practitioner Good Sept Christian Science can give absent treat ment to and collect for her a Jury in city court decided here Part of the treatments figuring In the case were given here while the practitioner was In In INCOME SURTAX OF 20 PER CENT TREASURY PLAN New Law Will Eliminate Pub of People Against eighth royalty and a bonus be Thd legislator criticized members the council tor holding secret with representatives of ie Phillips Petroleum Secret maneuvers give the whole eal the same atmosphere an Tea ot he Except for lie little black the picture 3 Prank secretary ot RAIN BELIEVED TO HAVE BROKEN THE HEAT WAVE Moisture in Varying Amounts Over Moat of DEAD BUDDY COMES TO LIFE COVERS THE SOUTHWEST Hutchinson Received Nearly Half Inch Last Night and More The tax said today he believed the would award the lease to morrow to the Phillips announced he would vote against the If that lease Is made I shall take ihe ot validity In the That lied belongs to the people ot Kan The state executive council has no power to dispose ot public property without giving everybody bid tor it Offer Made An offer of three was made Saturday by the Phillips at special meeting of the executive for the argued that members a the council should show good business sense by He pointed out that the states title to the river bed Is a subject ot court Rather than wait for the courts to settle the he remark the Phillips Petroleum Com pany will admit that the state of Kansas owns the river If you are willing to three thirty seconds of any oil that might be state other members ot the council to heed the but said the state ought to have a little more of the Governor said tha otter sounds like good to and Charles attorney asked permission to draw up a lease of some sort with the Sec ot State Ryan alone insisted that representatives ot other oil present at the be permitted to submit Full Investigation Of Mitchell Charge Is Favored by Davis Full investigation by a disinterest of charges made by Col onel William against army administration of air serv ice matters is favored by Acting Secretary Davis of the war de hastold his colleagues In the department that such an In should be made by some other than the war depart ment itself public was to be entirely He also stressed his Intention to see that while he continues as act ing Colonel Mitchell shall receive fair treatment in con with the disciplinary steps which have been initiated against that to congress now are expected to Include a in surtax rates to a maximum of 20 per repeal ot the publicity section and a lowering If not an entire elimination ot the tax on Other minor changes will be sug largely to up loop holes In the present Secretary who returned today from a declined to say how active a part the treasury would take In urging Its recom on the house ways and means committee when It meets next He previously had in he would make no formal proposal that could be labelled a melloh plan and might only ad vance verbal suggestions In re sponse to such questions as the committee The treasury holds to Its often expressed belief that a majority of the tax payers favor repeal of the publicity Officials say masses of of protest have come In since September when this years payments were opened tor public Treasury officials have not com mitted themselves finally to a 20 per cent surtax but Mellon believes the volume of re turn on that rate will be Im mediately greater than at a higher At one he even sug gested that a 15 per cent tax would be scientifically TODAYS GAMES NATIONAL LEAGUE Phils Win Shutout Sept Phillies took the first game of to days double 4 to Al though both sides got seven hits the Phillies were able to make theirs count 1st game Philadelphia 000 100 472 Boston NQ 7 II Carlson and Wilson An derson and Second R H B Philadelphia 000 000 11 0 Boston 103 6 10 1 Batteries Belts and Wilson Smith and At Chicago 1 Cincinnati 000 14 3 and Hartnett Mays and REGULAR DIVIDEND BY SOUTHERN New street reports that directors ot the Southern Railway at their meeting today would place the common stock on annual dividend basis pt f 7 a were dissipated when only the regular quarterly disburse ment ot a share wag author AMERICAN LEAGUE Yanke Swat New York defeated the Philadel phia Athletics in the first game of a double header today 7 to Suc home runs by Bob Babe Ruth and Lou off Sam Gray in the fourth con largely to the downfall ol the Babe Ruth continued his heavy hitting by hammering out his sec ond home run ot the day In the fourth Inning of the second game between the Athletics and This was Ruths 18th homer of the Ben Paschal also hit a home run In this The Ath pitching Eddie was New York 330 10 0 Philadelphia 100 000 11 2 Hoyt and Bengough Gray and Second came H H New York 010 201 000 12 2 100 020 12 1 Jones and Bengough Harrie and More than a half inch of rain had fallen In Hutchinson up until noon The precipitation started shortly before midnight last night and continued In heavy showers until noon with all Indica tion of rain all Breaking one ot the most severe heatwaves ot the the rain drove the which has been hovering around the century mark for a down to a few degrees above 70 i General to West of Reports from over this section ot the state indicate that the rain is very falling along tho Rock Island lines from to Liberal and soaking Santa Fe territory as far west ot Hutchinson as Garden Lightning caused Some damage to the Southwestern Bell Tele phone company lines between Hutchinson and Pratt last burning out of No wind damage was reported wires In good shape Local telegraph operators said no damage had been experienced by their wires from last nights Heaviest at The largest amount of rainfall was reported at Pratt with a total ot one and three fourths Rain was falling at Pratt in heavy showers this reports Only light showers were reported at Rain to the amount of ot an Inch fell at One Inch of precipitation was felt at Great Bend while about the same amount fell at Garden Lyons reported one Inch ot rain with heavy showers this Kansas Sept Scattered showers and cloudy skies brought welcomed relief from the prolonged heat wave in Kansas and Missouri From over the two states came reports pt ranging from slight traces to as much as two Inches The precipitation occurred princi pally in the northern half of Mis souri and all of except the southeastern Belief that the protracted heat wave had been at least was expressed by government weather man He said that in tho past 37 years there had been only 3 or 4 stances when such heat waves had not been broken some time be tween Sept 5 and 11 of each Over the Southwest In Horton reported the heaviest rainfall with two Manhattan received McPherson Dodge City Liberal Salina and Hutchinson with Inches received the most precipitation in St Joseph had Lexington Louis add Kansas City re ported Probable showers and overcast skies were promised the two states for Inches at Rainfall was general throughout this section The pre cipitation here was In time to Rain which fell here last was of great benefit to the farm ers report Cooler weather pre vailed which farmers said would check the burning of the corn and the premature Little Rain at The weather man has not decided whether to give Wich ita some rain or not Intermittent drizzles starting at to day had not furnished enough moisture to The temper during the night took a sudden drop and this morn ing stood at 69 At Arkansas Arkansas Sept started falling here at noon breaking a long dry and hot v EXPECT ARREST OF TEMPERANCE WORKER SLAYER Authorities Claim to Have First FIVE YOUTHS ARE HELD Boys Held for Rotten Egg Episode Rather Than Kill Officials Sixtyone years ago on a battlefield Miles Cook of threw a blanket his comrade Charles Webster ot Traverso had been To his amaze ment Cook met Webster very much alive at the annual en at Grand Rapids CHURCH UNITY GETS APPROVAL OF CONFERENCES Four Methodist Bodies Vote in Favor of Joining South BANDITS STEAL REGISTERED MAIL Messenger Bound and Quin tette Gets Away With Four Valuable Unification of the Methodist Epis copal church with the Methodist Episcopal was ap proved by the Michigan conference here 179 to The conference rejected a pro posed constitutional amendment for the admission of laymen to the ministerial Favored In New of the Method 1st Episcopal north and the South Methodist church was approved today by the West Wisconsin Methodist Episcopal church In annual conven tion The vote was 92 to The conference also favored ah amendment concerning the admis sion ot laymen to the the vote being 8 to Kentucky Favors Unification ot the Methodist Epis copal and the Meth odist Episcopal was voted 65 to 3 at the annual session of the Kentucky conference of the Methodist Episcopal church hero Louis conference ot the Meth odist Episcopal In annual session here voted unani In favor of the plan of uni fication with the Methodist copal Mistaken For Shot Sept Jesse of lb miles west of was shot and seriously wounded when he was mistaken for a burglar at Union town about 2 oclock this morning by Lloyd Two burglars In the store of W Lloyd Strouds father set oft a burglar A Stroud went to her sons home to notify and then called Kent The latter went to the front ot the store In his night while unaware that Kent hac been went to the rear o the As along one side of the Stroud saw around the corner and tired on him with a shot the charge taking effect Kents ab chest and The robbers A dozen bolts ot silk which they had were found yards from the WICHITA INDEPENDENTS CUT GAS PRICE TO Gasoline was selling at cents per gallon here the lowest The price was post ed yesterday by three Independent It Is one cent below the Standard Oil price and in exclusive If the state CURTIS AND PAULEN VISITING Topeka Benator and Gover nor Paulen left or Burlington this morning to participate in cere opening Browns Win In Louis Drowns took todays first game rom the White Sox 4 to 2 contest bad gone 13in At 000 14 1 020 000 000 000 8 0 anil Faber and hit homer first Atv game Cleveland 7 SI Detroit 000 7 1 Batteries and Sewell Dams bit homer last First In Five began falling this afternoon at It Is the first precipitation here In nearly Crops are suffering from lack of Light Rain at Rain which began falling here at today had amounted to of an inch st 3 government Combined Attack On Riffs Begun Sept Matin says the French offensive against the In Morocco has begun In After a preparatory bombardment yesterday the attacked along the entire front To Oust Crawford County Sept An ouster the office of Crawfor county attorney will be tiled 1 supreme court tins week possibly late It was ed by Assistant Attorney Genera William The proposed action follows Investigation of cour records ot liquor prosecutions 1 Crawford during which th state legal department took test mony from a number oC county and local peace officers in SALINA PRIEST IS ENTITLED TO ilve bandits held up a Winona mall wagon about tied he messengers bands and feet with wire and gagged him and then after selecting the four registered mail out of between 50 and 60 headed towards the Twin Cities In an The night Henry Wll was on his way from a rail way station to the About three blocks from the he by five men who ed him Into an alley and warned against any Doubt If Loot Value Is said that he monetary value of the mail stolen could not be estimated al present but said he doubted that he four pouches stolen could con tain great Because of the great start the robbers obtained local authorities did not attempt to pursue bu notified by telephone overy sur rounding He Started The robbery was discovered when a railroad employe became alarmed at his failure to find the morning Believing that some thing had happened to the mes senger he started a anc found In the lying beside the mall Texas Legion Asks Fair Mitchell Tria Ban Sept of the stanc taken by William Mitchell eighth corps air officer and a de mand for and public trial 1 Mitchell Is court will b asked ot every state legion ization in the United States by Wayne Davis of San for raer Texas commander of th American This commis sion was placed on Davis to day com mander of the Texas American Le who Wednesday night con ferred with Da vis said he would immediately dls charge the duty assigned WEATHER overcast to night andi Friday probably In east and south por tions not much change In tem i and Fri day partly cloudy to cloudy cooler TEMPERATURE READINGS 6 8 10 12 Midnight 3 Maximum 4 6 5 10 12 Noon Spurns Millions Five Louis Pete George Walter Long and Merlin were arrested and jailed last barged with defacing a private as the result of a alleged to made y at he coroners in nest In which he Is quoted as these boys ware members t the gang which the ome of Myrtle president who was assassin ted here Monday Coroner said that 10 youths were not taken in con with the but they ere arrested In the hope that they supply Information which would lead to a Warrants ere also Issued for two other in connection with the egg A Clew From We have a very slight clew In Qe Coroner Modlin however that he had ng to make public at present Officers said that in the arrests if the youths they hoped to ob aln the names of bootleggers and find a clew that would ead to an arrest In connection with the theory that a liquor law killed County Attorney Nichols has adjourned if the grand jury until September 15 to give his full time in the in and Coroner Modlin announced a recess of the Inquest his forenoon until In deferment of the funeral services of Governor for That he Is determined to put every resource of the state behind movement to stop bootlegging was the comment of John at Des in connection with a letter sent him yesterday by of the slain woman and acting president of county who asked the governors help to give the town a good cleaning Cook charged In her letter hat city authorities here had not her in her activities for enforcement of the prohibition and other They were lenient with law she The state today added 200 to the 1600 reward of yesterday for Cooks GERMANY SEEKS TO STIFLE NEW AGENCY OF HATE Movement Head ed by PATTERNED AFTER KLAN German Called Knights of Fiery Dates Back Two this Oklahoma City girl of 11 spurned the millions of Edward New York In order to with her Browning to adopt as a companion for his other adopted Doro thy Margretta has gone tu Los Angeles In the be coming a vaudeville CAPITAL SHIES FROM RUM GAME DUE TO LOSSES British Financiers Have Paid to Learn is Determined in Anna world and na BS Sept steady rain the church was filled this morning be cause of the ceremony of Investi ture of Father John local as domestic Bishop Tief ot The In vestiture gives to Father Maher he title of Invests him with the purple and him a mem ber ot the household of the IF THEY WOULD CROSS WITH FISH HE COULD GET EVERY MINUTE president of the said on her arrival to attend the funeral that If it is proved Cook was killed as a result of her law enforcement then she believed that the time had come for Christian woman to Una up with the organization In its ef forts to educate the public con science on the liquor Now we have the law and the she but that Is only the We must bring tho minority to observe the That Is our great Tho shooting of this wo man brings home the necessity to every woman of being more active that she shall not have died In This IB the first Instance on record of any wo man in the being kill ed for her principles or her activi Sept Ar rest of the slayer of prohibition today was expected by county officials as a result of developments In the A casual remark made by the killer was they and other incriminating evidence soon will be In warranting an ar They refused to divulge the name of the suspect Cook was shot through the heart Monday night as she sat In her home writing an ad dress for delivery before the Christian Temperance Union of which she was president A definite motive for the entirely different previous has been officers It was first thought that Mrs Cook had been slain by bootleggers or rum against whom she had waged unceasing million dollars Is the estimated loss sustained during the last year by English financiers who sent men down to the seas In ships filled with liquor Intended to age the thirst of will ing and ready to purchase the con The swift blockaders of the coast guard off the shores of the United not only have ob famous Rum but also have cut so deeply Into the bank rolls of the financiers that longer are willing to fur nish the money to intrepid skip pers who would chance the run ning of the blockade to put their wet cargoes Masters and crews of rum run ners are seeking other employ ment They aver that their days of opulence have passed and that they are looking for more law abiding methods to eke out a liv Since exports destined ultimately forthe United States have dropped almost 60 per cent and available figures indicate that liquor exports from Great Britain this year will fall far be low the annual gallons sent out ot the country during the last few To the news of the stifling ot the liquor traffic in America is the huge deals of the last few years had almost exhausted of old whiskey so that most of that avail able for purchase Is now barely father and alleged to be behind the recent organiza tion here of the uf the Kirey after the Ku have lioen by the German police in They are and hoth German but United Stales and residents at A third Don ot Is said to left Germany three weeks ago and to he In Chicago now Papers by the police that branches o the exist In and tnat tin of the dules hack to The police Investigations In other cities branches are said to exist are being secretly on the basis of clues furnished in the material in To Arrest AH A complete list of the member of the organization was and the pollen In tho larger cities of Germany have been Instructed to arrest all persons figuring on this It Is alleged by the investigating authorities that the organization was financed with funds supplied from klan circles It held its meetings In various restau rants In northern and western Causes Is In a over the discovery tha Germany Is of u Knights 01 tho Fire One American and two German Americans are by thi police to have slated tho which soems to have some strength as forty persons al to have boon connected will it have been takun Into and other arrests are declared tc be One thousand Ofr mans ore credited with holding membership In The Knights of the Cross have copied to some extent the ritual of the Ku Klux The insignia of the organization la a bloody tho red and white flag of Imperial and tha The membership has been largely ob from and the notorious Liberate It is the avowed purpose c the Knights to gather together men determined to fight fir the libera tion of tho and by waging war on Jews to free the countr of The names of the American and the Germ started the organization are being kept t by the Until evi dence Is produced that they are promoting a German Klux the American diplomatic repre will decline to Blind Woman Can Again Tell Time year ago burglars entered the home ot president of the American Academy of through a kitchen window and stole jewelry Including a specially made wrist watch that enabled De who Is to tell the There was said to be only one other watch like It In Tuesday night the same kitchen window was raised and a package pushed It contained the watch and this note Jem Is you o have this and pray tor His The watch strikes the hours and quarter and Is valued at HAYS TEACHERS COLLEGE HAS RECORD ENROLLMENT Sept The fall semester at Kansas state teachers college of Hays opened Tuesday with the largest residence enrollment the college has ever had during an autumn The com enrollment of the training school and the college proper is slightly In excess of LANDING PLACE FOR PLANES ON Sept Ing platform lor mail planes on the roof Is Included In plans for a new Chicago which congress will be asked to ap prove at its forthcoming Postmaster Arthur Lueder has TILDEN IS WINNER IN SENSATIONAL MATCH Germantown Cricket Phila American to day defeated Jean of in one ot the most battles Davis Cup a Tll den was forced to the limit to by of and gave the United States a lead of In the international tennis LEONARD WOOD ADMITS BANKRUPTCY Slayer of Officers Held in New Mexico A man named who with a man named Nolte has been accused ot killing Ed Clark and Sheriff Sam Pratt of has been found In New tho sheriffs office here believed A telegram from the chief ol police at to the local sheriff said that Coin had been found and asked for Coins a lives at At the time ot officers there stated they would be able to locate Coin In a few PETITION CHICAGO TO NEW ORLEANS Sept for an overnight air mall service between New Orleans and Chi cago with stops at Jackson or was received today by Postmaster General PRESIDENT COOLIDGE IS BACK AT WHITE President Coolidge returned to the white bouse today after a summera outing in New WEATHER AND ROADS New Leonard son of the gov of the today filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy in Ho esti mated his liabilities at and assets at divided as follows cash II in bank In open and an for Increased Enrollment than not In the pupils In the training were enrolled in the Pitts burg college i The platform would bf President Brandenburg an twa city blocks Booa Kansas City roads Part roads roads roads roads Arkansas roads good and Part roads Topeka Part Dodge slip if s
