The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 1

SftTH TEAK--HO 30 UI.UK.T QALVE8TON. TKXAS. TUESDAY, MAY 70, 1927. ESTABLISHED 1842. 150 OR MORE DEAD.

I IN TORNADOES Is Felt Over fI ELECTION TODAY CLIMAX OF MUNICIPAL CAMPAigN GI1YPM SUITE BOND ISSUE AND SEVEN CHARTER AMENDMENTS ALSO SUBMITTED. Galveston voters will be called upon today HO make their selection of a tour commissioners and a tax assessor aud collector" who -rill hold the "i-elfia or.niunlclpal government for the' next -tW In addition election of municipal officers, 'there ViH" be' submlUed to the yotera of the city several charter amendments and a boud Issue for. permanent street candidates' for city flees have their candl daciei, 'six comprising the democratic' party ticket -and six the Galveefbn city party ticket. There Ifi-but one Independent. places In the various precincts will open this morning o'clock and will, close a 7 Supervisors for both tho party- and In dope nd- have beoa approved by the mayor.

Reward A reward of is being offered by'the democratic party for tection and convlctlo'ri of. any peraq'n visors iare to antme Vote' lUer off leiaui 'aro amtJous thai counting of ballots and'to insura quicker' election 'Thft democratic'-party: ticket com- prlees! Louis C. Elbert. candidate for mayor-president. Harkle, candidate for finance commissioner.

"Frank J. ilelllna, for commiualoner of fire arid.police. H. Ivey, candidate for commls- of streets and public property. Myers, candidate for commissioner of waterworks and sewer- John L.

Kelly, candidate for aa- seeoor and collector. GalvfiHton city ticket Jack candidate for Frank M. Douglas; candidate for finance commissioner. Walter. T.

Smith, candidate for commlailorier of fire and police. Robert MJ Tevls, candidate for conmiBiloner of streets and public property. Alvln 7. iange, candidate for commissioner- of waterworks and dewer- candidate for as- Bcftsor nnd 'collector. R.

P. Williamson Is candldftla for coinm'fflioncr of fire" and police on the. Independent ticket. Intennlre For the pant two weeks all parties have waged an Intensive campaign, rallies beinc held nightly, when Election -Returns Tonight From. Old Tribune Building The News and Tribune, usual, will announce election returns, beginning shortly after.

7 o'clock tonight. A stereoptlcon will be used and the screen will be placed ON THE TWENT1T-FOURTH STREET SIDE OF TJHB OLD TRIBUNE BUILDING, at Mechanic and Twenty -fourth streets. Everyone ii' Invited to be there. This is the location, because It is a quiet street with no street car traffic, thus affording plenty of park- Ills space for thousands of persons. should 'NOT be parked on Uie block) as too much badly-needed space will thus be taken lip.

RETURNS WllL BE ANNOUNCED FROM. THE NEWS-TRIBUNE BUILDING AT NO. 2108 MECHANIC STREET. Be at the old Trl- -bune building If you want to get the it-suits without delay. Because -all News-Tribune telephones iilli, be heeded In the work of.gatherinE^returns from Ultv places, friends are asked to w.fTMln from telephoning in for results.

They can not be given in this manner. Coine to town, however, and join the throng at the side of the old Tribune building. A Kews 'extra, with', figures from each, precinct, will be iwued: as soon as sufficient, returns are in. Mississippi Wdtrs Lashed By Qale; 50-MileJ Front on Main Stream Is: Threatened (Continued on Pago a. Column 1.) THE WEATHER For Galveston and Vicinity--Tuesday partly cloudy; fresh southerly tvlndn For East Texan--Tuesday and Wednesday generally fair; moderate to fresh southerly winds on const.

For Texaj--Tuesday and Wednesday generally fair. Louisiana--Tuesday partly cloudy; ahowers In east portion; colder In north.portion. Wednesday generally fair. For Arkansas--Tuesday cloudy; showers in east portion; colder. Wednesday generally fair, For Oklahoma--Tuesday and Wednesday generally fair; colder Tuesday In east portion.

i Sometimes I think of older boys, and hardship! th.it we had-Of how Ve'vo changed to ways, but nomhow 1 am sad At seeing- pass tho I knew, crude, maybe, in thpt day, Let's look back and recall a few that since have panted awny. Sain to prop up windows. Inside shutters for parlor, Sputtering, i matches with revenue stamp on box. Coal of) that itmelt like coafoll. Organ grinder with one-legged Instrument, Sanded picket fence.

Brick walks washed with Venetian red pnlnL BrAuoct.tedPrew. fifty-mile levee front the MJa- betweerr. Rouge mentarlly- Milftltig- the 'im- mediae Baydu Milfoil along A', prediction'ol. continued' wlni, and etormy weather to accompany erect of tlin fiuod down the val- Ity, added to.threat of the-waters as they continued to mass about the mouth tif Old-Rlvpr before descending. Into the valley, either through breach I Bayou De cr down the main stream.

Htimpurla alr.ng Gtal- tes'tnd ihe south bonk" of the-Red River wt not affected by. the FwetrinR winds trday as they drov a tho water a from thp -levees along Uial fi-)iiL Scores of men worked in tliot neighborhood, however; topping; the embankments In Iho facp oC Kits.lv rice toward th-j crest. ot and trees In th'i irdkutet! that the were tc return Tholfwiid over- farm -civiiiaki 1 yifct-cir-hucdroil li-yi-e'vcrkerft la- bo.ibUcloiiK.'J« PiJlBB-. arirl, lisyou Qlalses In un-l vjclnlly as'th' Cfiitml ap- it? friticol r-oiuU. Five colled.

Into insr'yio- '-it AJi'iBJidrla a. ea'rid the lever Refugees continued to concent in Cimps, a.s tow.hs iiy fear for tile rafcly of their Most of refugees.were and -chiidren, thu.men re- In tc aid in the cr. to cftie for livestock I-tocvt'r and. Secretary vid'terl the DCCUP of the Caer- rron crrvnsse Poydraa, brtar-h in tin leree to pave New Orleans htm been widened to mere than ZOU feet. AND MRS, SYNDER DEATH SENTENCE CHEERS.

GREET VERDICT OF JTTEY; DEFENDANTS MAINTAIN COHPOSURE. For Galveston and Democracy Yesterday a hard-fought political campaign passed Into history, the yotera of Galvcston approach the solemu duty of selecting a mayor, board.of commissioners and tax assereor and collector to Bervo for two years. Having the Interest ot always at heart, The News earnestly urges the election of the democratic candidates. The democratic candidates stand for a progressive, buelnesallke administration, responsive to 'the wishes of the" white people ot Galveston. The city party candidates are hacked by the solid negro vote; they stand, therefore, for the negro Influence In municipal affairs.

Today's election culminates a systematic effort by ihe city party, of which City Recorder Henry O'Dell Is president, to gain perpetual control over the city government by exploiting the negro vote. This fnct has been demonstrated by every step of the city party's career under the leadership of Henry O'DolI. It was demonstrated -when tho Sand-picked city party candidates were nominated at a half-black, Half-white nominating; convention; It has been demonstrated by in- 1 flnramatory appeals at rallies of negro supporters when speakers were unaware that these nieetihgQ were being reported; The democratic party Qalveston entered the field for tho purpose'of ridding Galveston of political boastsm and restoring the bajance of political power to the white citizenship. -The democratic candidates were nominated as the result of a primary participated in by more than 2,200 white voters. The city party candidates were nominated by a convention equally divided between negro delegates and white delegates.

The democratic candidates were nominated In the broad light of day by tho citizens themselves; tho city party candidates were nominated through tho machinations of an organization calling itself a political party which to his good hour has kept secret the personnel of IU executive committee. Henry O'Dell controls the unified negro voto In Galveston, and no man not acceptable to Henry O'Dell can become a candidate on city party ticket. Tho democratic candidates aro offerlnK a platform of progressive Achievement, In line with-the highest Ideala ot democracy. Every man on the democratic ticket Is qualified by experience and ability for the office to which he aspires. There Is every indication that the democratic will be elected, but In ordor that the influence for which tha city party stands may bo ptornly rebuked, the victory should be overwhclm- Lot no dcmocratlc T0tcr ftbsont himself'from tbe polls through overconflfJence.

Tho wclfro of Gnlvoaton and the prestige of the democratic party in Oalvcaton arc at stake today. Your city and your party nnd soinitimenf Ind My-eyes moist with tears. Of course I wont all modern things, Ho maUerwhftt they cost. But memory to often brings to me the thJnci.X've lout Rarry need your vote. Do not fall them, but vote democratic ticket straight.

By ABtaclited May.9.^-Mrs. Kuth, Brown and Henry Jiidd Gray, hor corset para xuo.UTvarq~.to -pay with their Jlvos for" the crime that snatche'l them from obscurity; and made theol in ternationally" Jchbwn. peliberatlne less- than. a ''jury ooriyicteL naurdfir-of. Wrs." 1 any- Albert magazino art -editor.

sentence" IB riiah.datbry Ilrat' de gree 1 formalUy ol sentence; was postponed iiiit Monday morning. 'Prisoners' Seem baxed. Cheers greeted'the verdict' when wa.B'fla«hed to crowd out- elde 4 court. court the- verdict was received. 'In silenci.

Neither JOQ, and' to biT'-e'lther too dazed.to" fully comprehend' I'ts' or only hearing what'they had expected. IUUUKI.UCB, the foreman uttered hls "both cuilty if. murder in blonde heid, drsaiei fc i iA i i 1 'thei'liqiiiu-ij then she ba6K -ilito POEltlon.Mid' she sat jury. Pedlvrees But Gray, whbse plea. 6f doml- nanoe.bythe superior mind of Mrs bnyder, hail led tome believe-him on Ease Column .6.) CAMPAIGN OF.INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE PORTION Again.

relt.raUner 'ills determina- lon to as city recorder. he- In re-electod pollco and fire commlsslorief, H. wil- Ilamson made his final plea fo'r'aupJ port at a well attended'rally I School 5 quaro last night. Mr. his abhlove- ments commissioner anil 11 'P OII commissioner, ridiculed his two opponents; Frank J.

Melllna. and Walter Terry Smith denied, he was a "Moody man" and promised to everybody a office" deal lf he "My platform Is." he declared, for the people and. by. the people. Fair play to all and special privileges to none.

I'm- Koine to give you service, and I'm' going to- treat everybody right And. I'm going' to get rid of Henry. -I'll. ot him by-failing to elect.hlm. you see IZ I don't." more Interested lian you are," he- said, eiplalnlng that he has money Invested of tbo Moody 'addlnr far.from being a aioody man." 8hbrr Letleni He devoted part of'hla rem'urks to explaining why Charles A.

Keenan and L. M. Kfnyon had broken their promises to speak, for. him at the final rally. He held up what said was the original copy of the letter hearing the signatures of Mr.

Kccnan, Harry Gray. and. others, mailed out to tho voters urging his re-election. He explained, that Mr. FCccnan had promised to support him, put his signature'to the letter and agreed to speak for him.

"I was in Charlie' Kcenan's office at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon and he told me that he was for me and would speak for m. hero tonight. And now the newspaper; come- out NEGROES' Tdio) TO SAT THEY IN COUNTY appeal tb.e party rallies last night at mont- arid 'Market street's for white people and street Church negro'es: Speaker at 'the negro rally. Barbour, negro Instructed 11 hearers that: If they were r.hal- enged they presented themselves vote theyj should state ihat had lived the state moniths and in the "county ielx nionths "whether you have or nbU" He also told them" that anyone of fared" thftrh a bribe'they were to "take the 'money, -go to the and the' party straight anyhow." At the of the white branch speakers reiterated their'defense of present administration, rehashed campaign material, and' concluded with the city arty In O'Dell la Serlouji. Speaking: and almost entire atiaence his usual: evity, 'TIenry; O'Dell, after-' two hours of speaking by "olhe'r epoak- ere.

last, night rnade an earnest, and mpaSBloned appeal to citizens to vote for party candidates, last rally of-the party fea-r O'DeU'a changed- rnahnel-. candidates 'delivered -and virtiiiiliy. tH references to The News andJlM. "echb," The Tribune. O'Deirs-dictlonrshowed" conslder- ablo and "did not cbn- aln errors noticeable "clurInE part of the campaign'.

by he master of ceremonies, Cohen Jr the had be- ome restless, reyivc'd at te- proflpect'of: hearing aomethlng' 'hot." from h'la 'tutomaryVUlk the audience of his uiiblemished iracter. blameleaa record" a spoke at ome this: subject, and hen, in accusations hat he was bpas. cried, My can't )Ofls niy own O'Dell -career of his of famb and" hontr." 3fe declare'd hat twenty" y.eari. "In "which he had practiced V.ivor, old one word that would, bring- a jlush of shame to the-face of any Referring to the now. famous cartridge box" speech of a r.ryro ex-eral nights ago, O'Dell These nen-spaucrs have dcllberate- misinterpreted negro's statement." "lie on and at- empted to explain the "cartridge ox" Incident aa meaning- "The artrldge box of Uncle Sam.

to be Used In the defense of our coun- Referring; to the democratic aMth the that the use of jdidates, ho said, "They ila name was unauthorized. Unau- Why, I've got it right icre on this letter for anybody to sec. I don't know what happened him, but something: mtiEt have lappened to him." Then he explained that L. M. Kenyon had also promised to give him its support and to speak for him at the final rally.

"I saw Kenyon his office at 12:45 o'clock Sunday," Mr. WllllsmaonVald, "and he old me that he was for and that ie would be with us tonlfrht This morning I called up his office plied with the law themselves! and with the. next brenth they offer a $500 reward for violation of It" Jic said the "election supervisors whom tney are gonna put at the polls can do nothing but sit back and look on. They can't say a word. If they do, the election Judge has thft power a a district Judge.

can put them nna their cohorts In Jail, if ho want to, and if docs. I'll see that they stay there." n. I. P.ohen Jr. spoke of his own as a public official and harity He eulogized each (Continued on Pago 10, Column 3.) (Continued on Pago 10, Column 2.) VICTORY SEEN; THOUSANDS ATTEND PARTY'S Galveston" her tiie cause of democracy, and heard the appeals, of speakers for thtj election, of, candidates to 7 day.

The democratic rally! held at Tremont and Avenue ,11, came as.the culmination of the intensive cam- has been waged by demoeratlcycahdi'd'ates' as they' define i rree 'thla city from the domination of professional politicians and- to reat the tontrol of government from the''hands of the-ne- groes." It was the "largest demonstration held not In the local campaign, but- any previous campaign held -this city, democratic leaders -declared, and Is a true harbmfiter of democratic landslide at the'-election today, they forecast. Prior to leaving for Austin, where he goes 'to attend state-legislature and where he will-introduce a bill providing- for a "white" primary not in conflict with the constitution of the United States, Sta'te Senator T. Holbrook sounde'd "a warhlngr-'to the citizens of 'Galveston to. forever silence the domination negro In local politics. Fred C.

Pabst, outstanding, democrat of Galveaton and thrice nominated to a democratic office by the democrats of urgently appealed for the support of dcm-. ocratic ticket, asserting "thaf-tho citizenship owes it democracy to plnce.the democratic ticket at the lelm of government. Commlsvloner Presides. Vic a member of the county presided at the meeting, introducing "the candidates pledging his "Buppor.t to democratic Mr. Dantin again averred that the audience was 100 per'cent democrat and again urged-the citizens to vote the democratic ticket from top to bottom.

IflKiicn Outlined. Will Ford, veteran war horse of the democratic: party, was again an outstanding speaker aa.he out- Ined the Issues of the campaign and called upon the "red-blooded citizenship to' answer call," Mr. Ford defended statemerita by A. F. Myers, candidate for, commissioner of waterworks' and sewerage," that the.

Galveston -water supply 'is Mmpjre- by reading- teler grams B. Wardlow, state chemist'dated May 9, 1927. to the effect 'that no samples of Galveston water h'ad been received by the state aboratorles. Sir. Ford also read another telegram declaring that the state chemist had received no sam- of water.

Mr. Ford declared that these tele- were a vindication of Mr. Myers' BtatementB and refuted the statements made by Alvln T. Lange, commissioner of -waterworks and Bewerase, that the state laboratories md -pronounced lure. OF.

GASOLINE. SUPPLY 'PASSED WITH NO DEFINITE WORD. By JUioeUted New York, May -Two- French airmen; who pitted their war- iteeled nerves the murky terrors of the.Atlantic In the storm, were somewhere Paris and New York late today, their trim stripped craft, the. "White. Bird, as the forty-hour period.

panel 1 no, supply ended without definite word as, the." flyers' whereabbuta, "Whether the "aviators. Captains Charles NUhgeiaer, pilot, and Fran- cols nayigrator, were still. tn the iiJ.r, floating on ocean, or. wrecked the" New; Fouridlarid wasteland, no this evening could-say. IB excitement pulsed- through waiting 1 -crowds, assembled at New York waterfront and standing: ihe harbor ifter report told bf-the a Rockland, Maine, and-'Gloucester, dark that direction" the 'riivy yard at Boston messaged its "belief.

the plane.waa coast and New York-; tucked beneath a blanket of murky, fog, continued its-reception preparations lir- the 5 Speculation Speculation, to, the total -positive' 'Bijrntin, dayV' ranjfetf widely, from ru'mori rTreIesH shipping; 'men arid coast watchers from'Halifax Point eyes and for. hours, without tensenecs of" the for news ''the men who' sought to make, the westward crossing of the Atlantic-by. air beat whatever. Americans are''entered in the 00 prtele -prize noiwjtop -competition, kepi Pali's and Tew.York in a. constant cable, communication as rumors and reports -vent flashing- back and" forth.

of the Atlantic bad weather 1 rivalled. Fog, the white menace to airmen, swelling- inland from the Grand Bankf' left clearing, weather along- tho coast of New Foimdiand, where conflicting reports of "sighting" came during the OVEE $35,000 CONTRABAND IS FOUND ON SHIPBOAHD AND IN RESTAURANT. MILLIONS IN LOSSES SUSTAINED By Associated Frees. The death list In tprnailqes and storms. which- have be'en sweeping the Middle West since stood at, mpre than .150 with more, than A thousand, injured aud property loss millions of dollars.

forty persons ivcre and- one -hundred jured vheh. mo widf through the business area of Inr Bluff, while more than fifty 'persons Were killed and two" hundred injured a series of twisters, that shot, across Arkansas. iroin the portion tlie northwestern tip. In ports trlckJlng In over lines of of. the stormswept territory added 6 the mounting list.

of 3ead and injiii-edL The 'Monday afternoon total of 150 or more dead- added to a cas- uait'y. total of fifty-five killed Sat; urday night, Sunday and yesterday In Mji- souri and other states; Two separate tornadoes whJtfi swept through Northwestern Texas early- Monday caused thirty- two deathti at NtVftda, Wolf City' and: Kellogg, injumt fifty and caused a property loss of A dozen were killed and thirty injured Sunday night when tornn- does hit several Central and counties, while the twisters struck id Kansas Sat" urday' night. Stonii Kills tih North Texas Town By Associated Nevada, Tex.i pile of splintered ruins what yesterday was the town of Nevada. Ca.ught-In. the path a terrific the vlllago of 800 was crushed like an eggshell early toddy, ind tonight was seeking a roof over- lead and coffins.for-.its dead.

Its: Baptist Church; the one building which suffered least, was a morgue where lay on' pine, fourteen of Us sixteen 1 Its houses were flatened to the ground or scattered to the four Its luslness buildings were wrecks, and beneath fallen roofs 'arid collapsed walls more than fifty I wounded, who sought the wreckage, of their homes after receiving- emergency treatment. than twenty more (seriously injured were taken Dallas, McKInney and Greenville. Jpward of 300 were- without ade- the local supply Senator Holbrook declared prior his departure that the campaign irac peculiar, from 'many but pfclveston had -never before un- drrtnkcn to "throw off the- yoke of yranny of s. profesnional politician rept' Iii power by the vote." The white have decided It to Interest to take In their own Hands governmental powers," said the senator. "This Is the last city on the nn continent that has witnessed a spectacle of neRroes 'mlxlnft with whites nnd speaking 1 togwthffr OP a political platform.

It Is time to hrow off the shncklc ncffro dom- nrition and to' establish a free'sov- erhment. Our fight. Is not against (Contlnued on Pago 8. Column 2.) able-bodled residents, worked far ht tp' relieve suffering and brine: some order out of chaos. Apart.

wind, which came out c-f ths night about 2:30 a. did its work ioma inspectors I and- wrecked-virtually all the the steamship i brl business structures, but In on.e section several. blocks Two Chinamen were ordered held for trial on bonds of $10,000 each and a large quantity of opium' was I QUate -shelter as all seized yesterday as the result of bl arrest of three men and seizure of thirty-five'tins of opium Sunday night by A. G. Scharff, special agent of- the treasury vengeful It not only- d'i- Frank W.

Qulnn, superintendent of three-fourths the dweli- customs, federal custom I yesterday, boarded the Bessemer City, searched the vessel and found about fifty tins of valued at more than J25.00Q rent retail prices. Sunday night 25 tins were taken from the Chinese steward of the Bessemer City, and raiding- of restaurant on Market' 'street west of Twenty- fifth street netted an additional ten tins. The total of eighty-five tins of opium, each weighing a teal, or slightly more than an ounce. Is valued at more than $35,000, making It the largest haul since 1910 in the history of the gulf coast, it WES claimed. Chinese Held.

The two Chinamen. Chang- Yue' Sing, steward of the Bessemer City, and Lock Quan, said to a local restaurant 'proprietor, each was ordered held In default of 10.000 bond by United States Commissioner Brantly Harris, who conducted an examining trial at the fedi ing opium aa uara il Picked up the frame houses, at cur- tore them art and scattered the splinters over the landscape so that the.victims have not even for largest merchandise store "Wai flattened, like a pancake. The' gin was converted '-'into kindling wood as though by a thousand axes. Some of. stores have, only the walla left standing.

A roof sprawls where the cashier cage of the National Bank should be. The only drug store was dlspenclng In the open air. The property damage is estimated at $750,000, with $50.000 tornado insurance. The tornado apparently came from the southwest and traveled northeast. For six miles to the northeast of the town the landscape Is strewn with boards, bits of furniture, farm machinery, parts of au- i6ir.obtles, tin roofing and a litter what he talking about." Quan repeated after Sing Implicated him In the matter.

Cfmreli Used Undertakers from nearby towns embalmed the In tho basement The ca.se, which Is one of the most i of the First Baptist Church, the Important handled by the local cus-1 heavy doors of which were wrenched toms authorities In several years, by the wtiid. Throughout the began night when William afternoon residents and visitors fifed Llefcrt, customs guard, acting un- i who hnd their der instructions from his chief, searched the Chinese steward as ht left the shjp at Pier whose relatives were able to pro- Mr. Qulr.i; cure coffins from other towns, (Continued on Page 7, Column 4.) (Continued en Page 2, Column.