Neff Charges Under Inquiry By Committee
Austin July 28 The first item in Governor Neffs charges of alleged graft and extravagance was revealed to the joint appropriations committees as G W Tilley state fire marshal testified regarding padding of expense accounts in his department The inspectors allegedly padded about 105000 total figures show 17500 per inspector The committee to call T M Scott secretary of the fire insurance commission Monday and adjournment to Monday looms while lawmakers debate measures submitted by the governor and consider budgets for highways livestock sanitary commission and education with several items cut or left intact The house and senate move toward final action on key bills including senatorial redistricting and an education census appropriation
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Tex
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Joint Appropriations
G. W. Tilley
Tilley
T. M. Scott
House
Senate
State Department of Education
Thin Iil
Ilan Probo
King of Throckmorton
Lee Rountree
Ku Klux Klan du Texas
Leon Mott
Walker
American Legion Hospital
Johnson
Wichita
Vertaberg
Bexar
Specia Gliraft
Johnson Mich
Warmth to continue with hot highs around 98 in San Antonio
The forecast shows continued warm weather for San Antonio and vicinity with partly cloudy skies Saturday night and Sunday. Highs near 94 to 98 degrees and light southerly winds, with generally fair conditions for the week in the west gulf states. Nationwide, New Mexico and Arizona saw rain, Texas reports little rain, and Phoenix had a thunder shower likely from heat. The U S hottest readings included 110 degrees in Phoenix and 104 in Encinas Lampasas and Falfurrias.
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J. H. Jarboe
Weather Bureau
West Gulf States
Washington Weather Bureau
West Indies
Mississippi
Missouri
Texas
Brentiam
Amarillo
Galveston
New Mexico
Arizona
Phoenix
Encinas
Lampasas
Williston N. D
Chicago
Pilot Conquers Lake In Narrow Oregon Landing
Forester pilot Raymond G. Fisher faced engine failure at 15,000 feet and landed on a crater lake islet in Crater Lake Oregon. He sent for repairs, relayed by wireless, and returned to Moifrord after successful field work and a cautious ascent.
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San Francisco
Raymond G. Fisher
Forest Service
Crater Lake
Oregon
Fisher
Pisher
Fishre Feud
Torch Elit
Moiford
Ore
Hia
Ruler to Porto Rico
K Mont Reily, sailing to assume governorship of the inland, opposes independence for U S insular possessions and backs statehood. He says Porto Ricans favoring independence should pursue statehood, with elected officers like states. He plans a strict enforcement of law and will outline aims in his inaugural address next Saturday.
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New York
K. Mont Reily
Torto Rica
United States
Trial resumes as missing waivers threaten White Sox case
Chicago July 23. The trial of former White Sox players and alleged gamblers resumes with a key issue whether grand jury statements signed by Biddie Connte, Claude Williams, and Joe Tarkson can be admitted as evidence despite missing humanity waivers. The court has ruled statements may apply to those who made them.
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Chicago
White Sox
Xerick
Cincinnati
Biddie Ciontte
Claude Williams
Joe Tarkson
Humanity
Weather Across Cities Saturday to Sunday
San Antonio and vicinity show a high of 94 to 99 with partly cloudy skies and southerly winds. Chicago New York and Washington report clear to partly cloudy conditions with highs near 80 and winds from the west to southwest, while other cities log lows around 70s and upper 60s.
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Kanna
City
Natoeat
New York
Washington
Illinois Governor Enjoys Immunity Waiting on Judge
Springfield July 23 IllinoIs to day began a three day intermission in the Small Sterling Curtis indictments for embezzlement and fraud. Judge Smith will rule next act. Governor Small remains temporarily immune from arrest per counsel. Bonds have been arranged for Sterling and Curtis. Warrant service next week could trigger a possible clash between state troops and sheriff deputies.
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Illnois
Small-Sterling-Curtis
Sangamon County
Smith
Sterling
Vernon Curtis
Grand Park Banker
Small
France to Send Troops to Silesia Through Germany
Paris reports Premier Briand after Rambouillet council meeting seeks safe transit through Germany for a division of French troops bound for Upper Silesia. French government urges allies to provide sufficient force before establishing a boundary, with a second division planned if needed.
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Briand
Council of Ministers
Rambruillet
Berlin
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Silesia
Rambouillet
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France
Ments
Upper Silesia
David Lloyd George
London
SEEK TRAIN ROBBERS RIFE DRAGNET SPREAD IN ARKANSAS
Memphis police and sheriffs' deputies joined a statewide dragnet across several Arkansas counties and the city to capture six men who robbed Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 205 near Vandalia Arkansas, taking loot from the tail and express cars and fleeing in an automobile toward Wynne. Officials could not confirm the loot size, though it was expected not to be large.
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Memphis
Tenn
Arkansas
St. Touts
Vandale
Avi
Wynne
Ark
Post Office and Express Company
Mexican man faces multiple felony charges after arrest
An 82 year old Mexican man was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Feliciano Flores on Saturday morning amid abduction bigamy swearing and a statutory charge. Officers allege he wed a 13 year old girl after deserting his family and forging wartime draft records. He claimed no lawful wife and was remanded to jail by Judge Walling with bail set at 500.
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Feliciano Flores
Colima Street
Fudge Walling
46Th
Mob Linches Jail In Hattiesburg After Convicted Murder
Casey Jones white man recently convicted of killing Mrs. J. Mosely is hanged by a mob in the courthouse yard after breaking into the county jail. Sheriff Edmonson Deputy Gray and Jailer McKenzie faced the mob as doors were smashed. Jones resisted with a razor and chair before being overpowered and executed. Coroner to convene a jury. Rumors circulate of two injured mob members. The Mosley crime occurred at Mrs. Mosley’s home where Jones, a boarder, allegedly shot her after being told to move out. her husband wounded Jones in the attack.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Casey Jones
Mosely
J. J. Hulett
Uwwh
Harmon
Jones
Mostey
Win
Amnesia Case Tangles Georgia Postmaster in LA Scene
A sleeping man in Pershing Square Los Angeles woke to be told he was in Los Angeles and asked for the text office. The shaken man identified himself as Bouly Crihins, postmaster of Wahira Georgia, claiming to have applied for a vacation from his Georgia post. Physicians deem the incident an amnesia case likely from war shell shock and hard whips endured overseas before obtaining his current post.
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Pershing Square
Vost
Bouly Crihins
Wahira
Georgia Post
Georgia Post Mareh
Cumbus
Police gas bombs tested by New York riot battalion
Reported demonstration at Fort Lotten shows two NYPD riot units dispersing a mob with gas bombs and no revolvers. Eighteen bombs were thrown as officers retreated gasping, witnesses and police officers deeming the method promising. Philadelphia recently conducted a similar test.
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Fort Lotten
Amy
Philadelphia
WILL ABANDON POSTS IN THE ARMY REORG
Washington July 23 Secretary Weeks announced six army cantonments will be abandoned including Camp Devens Massachusetts and Camp Meade Maryland. One large cantonment will be kept in the South due to climate advantages while the force will be reduced to 150,000 enlisted under Congress. Units will move to permanent posts and many commands will be reduced to skeleton strength.
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War Department
Weeks
Camp Devens
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Congress
Anid
Harding Camps With Edison Party Near Potomac Island
President Harding left Washington by auto to join the camping party of Harvey Firestone Henry Ford and Thomas A Edison near Pettontown Md at a camp on an island at the junction of Licking creek and the Potomac river. He planned horseback work and wood chopping and arrived with the Edison Firestone Ford party.
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Potomac River
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Voters Show Little Interest in Saturday Texas Amendments
Bexar County and San Antonio residents showed little turnout as five Texas constitutional amendments faced ballots. Early afternoon results indicated a likely small vote with turnout patterns reflecting limited campaigning. Women showed some interest in abolishing the prison board. other amendments touch absentee voting, citizenship, poll tax payment, executive pay, Confederate pension boosts, and legislator compensation.
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Texas
Bexar County
San Antonio
Desert search for Dallas man spans Arizona desert
A posse on horseback and a delayed Arizona search focus on John 7 Knight from Dallas. His car was found abandoned with charred papers near the Yamama river bed sixty miles northwest of Phoenix. Knight left Buckeye last Friday and has not been seen since. Dallas officials note Knight is well known in oil circles and last saw him in El Paso.
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Ariz
Knight
Dallas
Tex
Ayamaha River
Buckeye
Here
John 7 Knight
Arizona
Doday
Wichita
Pickens Burton
Burton
Hi Paso
NM Paso
Beaumont Ku Klux Klan Charter Revoked in Texas
Atlanta dated July 93 reports Col. W J Simmons announcing immediate revocation of the Beaumont Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan charter. Beaumont Klan members allegedly claimed responsibility for the beating tar and feathering of physician J S Paul and R F Scott in letters to local newspapers.
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Atlanta
Beaumont
Texas
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
W. J. Simmons
Knights of the Ku Klus Klan
J. S. Paul
R. F. Scott
Klan Admits Deeds in Beaumont Tar and Feathers Case
Beaumont local Klan issues long letters to two newspapers taking responsibility for the beating tar and feathering of Dr. A. Daniels and Paul and Scott. The 4000 word missive carries the order seal and quotes poetry. Grand Wizard William Simmons will review the letters as investigators prepare to hand over local roster information to authorities.
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Loed
Paul
Scott
William Joseph Simmons
Atlanta
Texas
Klan Issues Warnings Across Texas and Kansas
In Harlingen Texas a Ku Klux Klan proclamation warns violators that activities will be halted near the post office. It bans gambling bootlegging and tossing and pledges action to protect families and youths. Similar notices reach Cuero and Topeka. A third victim tar and feathering occurs in Lafkin with unknown assailants.
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Harlingen
Tex
Bsalk
Ku Klux Klan
SHIN
Harding to submit plan to fund railroad debts to Congress
Washington, July 23. President Harding will send to Congress next Tuesday the administration plan for funding railroad debts to the government and settling road claims without new appropriations. Roads and administration reach understanding to speed settlement under current war time contracts.
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Washington, D. C
Harding
Congress
Spanish Forces Struggle With Moroccan Tribes Near Melilla
Reports from Madrid and Paris detail renewed fighting as Spanish troops and local natives repel tribal attacks near Melilla Morocco. Reinforcements arrive and rumors of General Silvestre's death surface, with conflicting casualty reports and evolving assessments of the crisis.
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Mellila
Morocca
Morocco
Silvestre
Melilla
Renorts
Paris
Journal
Cieneral Silve
Greeks Push On Toward Constantinople Front
Constantinople dispatches say Greek forces advance on the Brussa front dislodging Turkish positions and reaching Aneut near Brus sa. Reports describe disorder in Kemalist lines, pursues Turks toward Angora with cavalry tanks and airplanes aiding the rout beyond Eski Shehr. Casualty estimates place five thousand dead wounded or missing in the fighting before Kutia.
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Kutia
SHIP HELD LOADED WITH BOOZE BY NEW HAVEN POLICE
Acting on a tip, New Haven police halted an 18 man crew unloading 800 cases of Scotch whiskey from the fishing sloop Jennie Ty. They seized the vessel and three vehicles, valued liquor at about 7000 dollars, and arrested three residents among the group. Federal and state charges followed for liquor law violations and conspiring to bring liquor into Connecticut.
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Conn
Jennie T
New Britain
Bean
LSO
Connecticut
Clothing prices rise and living costs fall in June report
New York reports June price changes from the National Industrial Conference Board. Clothing up nine tenths of one percent, Fool down three tenths, other items steady. Living costs fall two tenths, year to July 1 shows a 21 percent drop, but from July 1, 1914 levels costs up six and a half percent. Injured man dies in Abilene as attorney R. Chint Chambers succumbs. suspect Charles Carter likely to face preliminary hearing Monday.
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New York
United States
National Industrial Conference Board
Fool
Abilene
Tex
R. Chint Chambers
Unarry Carter
Bergdoll Probe Breaks Up In Near Riot At Hearing
Washington reports the Bergdoll investigation hearing erupted in near riot as witness Braun called Rep Johnson a liar. Braun was escorted out and adjournment moved by Chairman Peters. The session focused on Bergdoll family ties and defense actions amid accusations of witness coercion and letter interference.
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D. C
Bergdolt Investigating Committee
Sion
Charles A. Braun
Representative Johnson
Kentucky
Jobson
Braun
House
Peters
Mr. Johnson
Mr. Johnson Jitnbs
Bran
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Dledger
Maj
Bruce Sr
Campbell
Emma Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Johnson
John HU. Selburne
Bergdonl
Brinin
James FE. Romig
Bergdoll
Irwin Bergdoll
Bergdolls
Cabaret Probe Demanded Over Paying for Permits
Chicago July 23 An open letter to Mayor William Hale Thompson from Arthur Burrage Farwell secretary of the Chicago Law and Order league asks for an investigation of reports that cabaret proprietors pay large sums for operating rights. The letter cites raiding of Jeffery Tavern in South Chicago where liquor valued at 7000 was seized. An affidavit from two neighbors claims a tavern proprietor said they must pay big money to stay in business.
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Chicago
William Hate Thompson
Arthur Burrage Farwell
Chicago Law and Oreer League
Jeffery Tavern
Min
League
Bulgaria is Warned by Allies over Balkan Tensions
In Sofia on July 22 French British and Italian ministers presented Premier Stambulinsky with a joint memorandum warning Bulgaria about intrigues aimed at stirring conflict for Bulgaria’s gain. The Bulgarian premier pledged peace and affirmed Bulgaria’s wish to avoid trouble while respecting allied desires. Portland obituary notes Sir Alonzo Garabank dies at 77, founder and longtime president and treasurer of the International Taper Company.
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France
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Italy
Stambulinsky
Bulgaria
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Mtutes
Portland
Alonzo
Garabank
International Taper Company
Ormerly
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