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The Marshall News Messenger from Marshall, Texas • 1

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iMn! A "7 r.Iember tl Associated Press 1 1 ii I i nj 6,000 Word News Serrks Received Daily EAST TEXAS KNOWS WHEN ITS IN THE NEWS- volume 7 Watch Marshall and Eaat Taaat Grow MARSHALL, TEXAS, TUESDAY JUNE 8, 1926 Pacific A Atlantie Photo Sarvlea NUMBER 229 BR ME ill jrj "i 7 II II II i 1- 1 ait a a a I T7 I II i I EkmeM And Mwl Siberian Wafves Ire Hello, Gus! Howdy, Tom! Man Trapped In Ueqro Funeral Procession Is Held As Bank Robber Forced To Bodies lb- KXKiitra ereu. I-ongview, June 7. A negro funeral procession which forced the escaping fugitive into a blocked highway where he abandoned his auto ar (lip AmIII NOME, Alaska, June 7. Bringing a tale of cannibalism and Marvafion among the natives of Indian Point, Siberia, across Ber- ing Strait from Alaska, Capt. Ira Rank, of the motorship Trader, has just returned from a trading cruise to islands along the Hiber- fun fllANt.

mobile, was credited by Upshur County authorities with probably paving the way to solution of the hold-up by a lone man of the Guaranty State Bank at Ore City, Monday. The bandit obtained about $2,400, v. -A 'V C'v '--'V I 1 I i i 1 i i vv--: Ride in 1 flivver was Thomas Prince of Sweden at Went Orange, P. a. riioio A.

Edison's welcome to the crown N. when Thomas Edison (right) TWO OTHERS JEALOUSY AND SPREE BLAMED AS STEWARD RUNS AMUCK TELLS OF AFFAIR One of Men Wounded Relates Story, Telling How Tarter Appeared On Scene Houston, June 7. Five persons are dead, another in aer-iously wounded, and a seventh in a hospital with alight wounds, as the outcome of a shooting affray in a bungalow near Houston's water front early today. R. R.

Tarter, 30, keward-on the hipping board vessel Brush, apparently crazed by jealousy, suddenly whipped wtt a pistol, shot Mrs. Elna Milam, 33, who lived in the house and Johnnie Domange, 29, sailor of Port Arthur, Texas, who he apparently believed his rival for the affections of the woman; A. K. Latiolus, 21, of Houston, a chance inmate of the bungalow; a negro maid and Bill flonnier, 25, and Anderson Beckman both sailors of Port Arthur. Three hours later Tarter shot bwJ.4!lIeJ hrmself; Mrs.

Milam, Domange and Latiolus died almost instantly. The negro maid, who was shot in the thigh while she was running from the scene, died during the day. d'onnier's jugular vein was sever ed by a bullet, but Beckmnn escap ed with a bullet in the leg. Tartar had known the woman for five years, the authorities learned. He recently returned to Houston after a long absence and found Domange and the woman apparently on very friendly terms.

Accord: ng to Beckman story to authorities, whe went to the Milam home Sunday afternoon to drink some bwr, he said, Tarter came in followed by Dom-nnge and Sunnier, "Tarter left the room," Beckman said. "Edna (Mrs. Milam) and Domange sat together. When Bob Tarter returned to the room he drew gun and started shooting at Domange. Domange fell and Tarter shot Etina.

She fell, and as Sonier tried to run he was shot down. Alex Latiolus jumped up and was shot, "I ran out the back door and was trying to get my car out of the yard when Domange ran out that way calling for nls mothei. "I went back after him and was trying to car' him to the car when Tarter came to the back door and started shooting. I got shot in the (Continued or, page eight) EWBOXO MEDITATIONS By J. P.

AUVy DEYdwiNE be heap O' J5UCK-EkRIES UP ROVH' DAT oiz. ha'ntep house But 1 a in' Pickin' 'EM- I AIN' WANT NO HA'NT RUNNIN' ME THU A PLACK-BERRY Hi V- VAj heard prince was in town he had him out to dinner by the flivver route showed him all through his magic electrical plant. Princes rode E. behind in procession of big limousines. LATTER FAILS TO SEND ENVOY LEADERS WROUGHT UP AS SPAIN SENDS HOY SECRETARY IS AN AFFRONT Officials Resent Action Germany Still Demanding A Permanent Chair ftr III Am.Hltf! erH.

Geneva, June 1- Interns! strife contines to threaten the existence of the League of Nations. Both Spain and Brazil today cast an affront on the prestige of tho jeneral organization, in the opin ion of a majority of the delegate. Spain by sending a boyish secretary of legation to sit beside statesmen like Chamberlain, Bri-r'mtOTdfipffeT-Df the-T-mmril," and" 13ri7.il by refusing to send anybody, to the session. League leaders were much wrought -up tonight, and there is no attempt to conceal the view if Spain and Brazil hope to force the great powers into according them permanent seats in 'he council of the league, as the government of Rio Do Janerio and ulrid demand, their action' is likely to have a reverse effect. Germany is still insistent that oi.ly Germany shall have a permanent chair in the council at this, time, and European-statesmen realize that if Spain and Brazil are to be placated and raised from the 'links of temporary members to ermanent members, the increased importance which German's accession is expected to bring to the league will have to be abandoned.

Big Air Lines To Be Operated Dallas, June 7. Airplane pas- Isenger and mail feeder lines from. to Houston, Amarillo and Sun Antonio, Texas. and Tulsa, are planned by th International Airways, a 8250,000 corporation which formally takes over Tuesday the three hangars and 140 airplanes at Love Field, here, of Southern Airways, according to announcement Monday of W. P.

Erwin, general manager. Lines to Houston and Amarillo will be started about September 1, he said, with 15 five-passenger planes available for the route. If they are successful, lines to Stui Antonio, Shreveport, and Tulsa will follow with one mail and four passenger planes for each, line, Erwin added. Four Counties To Be Freed of Tick Bans Sun Antonio, June 7. The cattle fever tick quarantine will litfed from Caldwell, Guadalupe, Gonzales, Dewitt and Valverde counties on July 15, Leo Callan, chairman of the Texas Livestock: Sanitary Commission, announced recently.

The band is being lifted because these counties have been founds fret' of the fever tick, he said. Final inspections have been completed. Kennedy, Kleber, Nueces and Kendall counties will be free of t'eks and the ouarantine lifted be-fi November, CHn said. The Weather East Texas: Tuesday increasing cloudines; Wednesday proWy thundershewers. cooler in portion.

Lisht to southeast south winds a the coat- E. P. Scoll Is Wurzbach's Eat Human To Keep Alive 1 liree hundred natives died or starvation last winter Captain Rank suid. Those who survived hail lived on a diet of their com-rrdes, relatives uml dogs. Many of the natives killed their wives and children with knives, and then ended their own lives rather than resort to cannibalism.

These natives Captain Rank entirely on guns to of life. The Soviet authorities took eway their ammunition and guns to prevent any possibility of an uprising, and also refused to permit trading with foreigners. BROOKHART LEADS HIS TWO RIVALS Has Plurality of 7.9.'0 Votes Over Senator Cummins. His Nearest Opponent Des Moines, June 7. Col.

Smith Brookhart had polled 48.:) per cent of the Republican aenatriH vote recorded when reports had been received from 407 of the 2,447 Iowa preeinids at 10 o'clock to-right. His lead over. Senator A. B. Cummins, his closets rival, then was 7,150 votes.

The count in these precincts was; Brookhart, Cummins, 25 Clark, SM01. TWO IN BUCKET ELEVATOR DIE COMING TO TOP Chicago, June workmen employed in excavation at the bottom of a IIS foot caisson started up the shaft in a bucket suspended by a What happened in the lift, as the men made their upward yesterday, will never be known. When the bucket reached the surface it, was empty. A workman lowered to the bottom of the cassion found Michael McNaughton dead and Thomas I)fti so badly injured that he soon died. The belief of fellow workmen that the two had an altercation in the narrow shaft, could not be substantiated by police, nor could any cause be found for a possible disagreement between them.

Investigators determined, however, that something caused one or both men loose their grip on the rope which held the bucket upright, ciu'ing it to tip and send theni both to death. President's Dry Order Discussed Washington, D. June 7. President Coolidee discussed today with Secretary Mellon and Chairman Graham, of the House Judiciary Committee, the Britten resolution which would nullify the President' executive order authorizing the employment of state officers as Federal prohibition agents. There "wa.

no announcement concerning the conference, but Chairman Graham predicted afterward that the Britten resolution would be acted upon unfavorably bv his committee. He added thnt there was no douht in his own mind about the legality cf the Candidate For Governor HALE AND JOHN RAMSEY-ACCUSE U. S. OFFICIALS of Tortuous Methods Alleged to have been Used by Agents th AMnUll Pre. Pawhuska, Junje 7.

Stories of tortuous methods alleged to have been used 4y pewttv of the United States Department of Justice in an effort to obtain confessions in several Osage Indian murder cases, were told on the witness stand here today by William K. Hale and John Ramsey. testifviiisr as defense witnesses in the trial of F.rnest Burkhart, Hale's nephew, for the murder of W. R. Smith of Fairfax.

Declaration that ho wa threatened with electrocution and that small charges of electricity actual- were applied to his body in an elTort to obtain a confession, was nwie by Hale, a wealthy Osage mnty cattleman. Ramsey, who is under charge as an accomplice in the Smith killings, told a story similar to that of Hale's. He made two confessions, I ore implicating him in the Smith en and one that he was the tual murderer of Henry Roan. He. has repudiated both confessions.

OFFICIALS TO BE CALLED Pawahuxka, June state officials will be drawn into the Osage murder trials, M. Springer, defense 'attorney an-j pounced tonight. Suhpoenas will be issued tomorrow for Governor M. E. Trapp acting Lieutenant Governor J.

W. Attorney General George Short, J. W. Finley, former federal agent in charge of operations in Oklahoma and Ark-j ansas and Alva McDonald, former i IJnited States Marshal for the western district of Oklahoma, Springer said. He refused to divulge the reason for calling the officials but it is believed they will be called upon to testify to whether clemency has been extended properly to witnesses who have testified for the State.

Big Gasser In DeBerry Field Considerable interest is center- around the Deberry field since gasser, estimated at netween i tff OAO wA OjlO OOA wot brought in about three and a half miles southeast of Deberry, accord- I lie wril, wnivi, IB uwnru Lewis, is one of many gars in this field. It was learned, unofficially, last night that the well will be eapd mat once. Only meagre be learned. information could Bvrd and Expedition Due at N. Y.

June 22 Bt Iwttr1 Pre ant Commander R-hard K. Byrd nd his pIar exploration fjpdl tion aboard the steamer Chantier. expects to reach New York about June 22. A message to the navy One man is being held in the Upsghur County jail at Gilmer in Upshur County jail at Gilmer in irg been arrested in a woods, to which members of a posse said they had traced the escaping bandit. The suspect, officers said, denied knowledge of the holdup, and no trace of the loot has been found.

Miss Williams, cashier of the hnnk, and her aunt were alon when the bandit entered and forced her to hand him currency, which he stuffed into a sack. He hasten ed from the bank to a waiting car and sped toward Daingerfield. Finding the way blocked by a negro funeral procession, the highwayman turned back toward the city until he reached a branch road. He followed that to where it blocked, and there abandoned his auto, seeking shelter of the woods, in which the suspect was arrested shortly after, according to authorities. CAPITOL IS SCENE OF FIST FIGHT Ink-Well and Glass of Water Are Hurled Three Solons Take Part in Row Washington, June 7, An exchange of blows, the throwing of ink wells and a glass of water occurred today at the eapitol in a fine-ht between Renresentat.ive Rankin, Democrat, on one! side and Commissioner Frederick A.

Fenning of the District of Colombia and bis counsel, Frank J. Hogan, on the other. The encounter was staged before the house judiciary committee 1 where an investigation of Mr, Fen-ring's administration is under way. Hogan Slightly Injured Mr. Hogan was silghtly injured above the left temple, but the participants were separated before others were hurt.

Representative Rankin admitted i the throwing of the ink well, Ho igan the throwing of the glass of I water anl Fenning said he did all (in his power to reach Rankin with his fists, but was unsuccessful. Rankin said some one had struck him and that he thought it was Fenning. The fight was precipitated when Rankin became angered over an interruption by Hogan to his line 1 of questioning. W. L.

Kutledge Given 4 Years St. Louis, June 7 -Wm, E. Rut. vu- ledge, 64. editor of the Preachers Magazine, was sentenced by Fed-, eral Judge Farts today to serve four years in prison for use of the mails to defraud in promotion of the Economy Oil Company.

Rut-ledge was convicted by ar jury last night. As secretary -treasurer and trus tee of the oil company, captalized at $5,000,000, Rutledge is alleged to have sold $258,000 in stock, now worthl to 1,000 clergymen and 500 laymen throughout the United State. of them reader of bin magazine, published at Kirkwood, a St. Louis suburb. The coronary drilled numerous dry tlls in Kentucky, Tennessee Arkansas and Txas.

Defense counsel gave notice of appeal and Ratledge'a bond was fixed at 700. By ly HOPE TO STAY EXECUTION OF MEMPHIS MAN I Faces Death bv French Firintr Squad on Charge of Attempted Desertion Hv flu lrM. Washington, June 7. Ambassador Herrick, at Paris, was Inst ni ct ret yK el jo-day to intercede with the French Government in behalf of Bennett J. Doty, also known as "Gilbert Claire," private in the French Foreign Legion, who Is faring deulh on charges of attempted desertion.

Memphis, June 7, While Bennet Doty, Memphis youth. awaits execution for mutiny with in two days by a filing squad of the French Foreign Legion at Sueida, Syria, the commanding officer of the brigade of the Thirtieth division, A. with which Doty served creditably in France, will be working with others in what they fear is a "forlorn hope'' attempt to save the young soldier of fortune. Doty was a member of Battery 115th field artillery, in the brig ade of the "Old Hickory" division, over which Brig. Gen.

L. D. Tyson had command. General Tyson, I now United States senator from Tennessee, will, relative of Doty were advised, move in the youth's behalf in Washington today. Other Southern senators will join him.

Lemuel Doty, the father of the boy, a lawyer, of Memphis, and Biloxi, has appealed to the French officials in New Orleans. Doty, the only American in the French Foreign Legion in the desperate war with the Druse tribesmen in Syria, was known to the (Continued on page eight) Myers' Slayer Is Given Long Term Winnifield, June 7. John ielhng. slayer of Walter Myers, St. Maurice in August, li25, war sentenced serve from eight to ten years in the state penitpn-t'ary by Judge F.

E. Jones, in the court here Monday. was convicted of manslaughter three weeks ago. A motb.n for a new trial ws ar-f ued, and i verruled Monday mnrn-iiig by Judge Jones, Notice of up- If'fal was ghen by Moss, Peter Julius T. Ing, of Shreveport, assisted by Harry Fuller, district attorney in the prosecution.

A previous trial held last fall resulted In the jury failing to reach- a verdict. Medals for Governors for Work for Prisons I New York, June 7. Two Gover-; nors and one former Governor will he awarded gold medals this year by the national committee on prisons ''and prjson labor for out-st-mding work in fathering the es-u Mlsbment of industries in the in'iHtntinns of America. They are Governor Smith of New York, snia. and former Governor Trin-kle of Virginia.

Announcement of the award wis made by Dr. E. Withim, erecutive director of the committee, PREACHER AND TAILOR DROWN A. L. Lily Loses Life in Vain To Save Pastor from a Watery Grave Bv tl A'frlttM rrl.

Kingsland, June 7. Rev. J. P. Bradbury, pastor of the Christian Church at Ennis, and a companion, A.

L. Lilly, tailor of Ennis lost their lives in the rapids of Llano River, 4 miles east of here, tonight at 7 o'clock while fishing. Rev. Mr. Bradbury had.

thrown his hook out into the water, it was stated, and when it hecanrw fastened in some drift, he started into the water to unfasten it. The rapidly rushing water carried him down stream: and Lily lost his life trying to save the pastor from drowning. At 11 o'clock tonight were being made to recover the bodies. The river was st normal stage and recovery was expected "h'n time. WCDD JanjTlCS Willi Miracle.

Both Killed I 1 pineville. June 7. A pistol duel Ix-twet-n P'fi Miracle, deputy constable and Lloyd Webb in! f'henoa Holtnw, rer here Suri'layJ 1 Dallas, June 7. A fight over the republican nomination for Govern-j or for the first time in Texas was irdicated here tmlay with the an nouncement of the candidates who had filed up to five p. m.

for state congressional offices. The names were filed with the State Execu tive Committee. E. P. Scott of Corpus Christi, is be the Wurzbac.h candidate for Governor, opposing H.

H. Haines, of Houston, who has been recommended by the State Executive Committee. Congressman Wurzbaeh is to fight the regular Republican organization in the state, and it was announced at Republican headquarters here that Scott is the Congressman's candidate. This is the only contest among the Republicans for Governor. The complete state ticket is similar with the exception of one or two changes in minor offices, to the list announced a few days ago.

Way Cleared For Gasoline Inquiry June 7. The feder al trade commission is doing preliminary work in investigating gas- ith a view to deter mining whether the consumer is inninlly lcing gouged as charged I Senator democrat, of Florida. President Coolidge has approved the commission's Inqury, but in rffprg hp made it clear he be than bv artifiiral stimulation The commission probably will tsk fll summer for its and will try to have a report ready for congress when it convene again in December. w-aO, m-n. )-pvd seasonal advanf es in gao-Reports bere said tht( prices wen dictated by th Miracle wsi lvir? ambush for.Uw of and Hemand rather Wei.b.

thinking the latter was car -virg a Ifxid of l.quor. When Webb anproached Mirarle accosted department today from the ship Mm. Wel.b thereupon drew hit which left London, June 4, laid all pistol, firing at Miracle, who re-aboard "were well. turnel the fire..

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