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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN All the News That's Fit to Print Since 1871. 10 SPEECHES AT BATHERS Travis county officials have bow moved into their spacious new home on the hill, the new courthouse located on Guadalupe street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets. One of the finest in the state, the building has been admired by thousands of Austin people since it was opened this week. The new county jail is located atop the structure. ITHOUSE TO KEEP Page 10 Friday, June 26, 1931 WARNED CI OU WE CONGRATULATE TRAVIS COUNTY ON THE COMPLETION OF THE NEW OP PEN i iai' There'll be no formality aboat the Us sN County Court House AND THE USE OF Texas Gray Granite FURNISHED BY US.

ANTON STASSWENDER MONUMENTS 1400 EAST 4TH ST. AUSTIN, TEXAS THONE 7574 IF NO ANSWER CALL 5S57 Mil open house" at the Travis county courthouse and Jail structure Sat-nrday. County Judge Roy Archer stated Friday. However, prartlcally all county officials and employes of the various departments will be on hand to Charging that he has been informed that several cases of typhoid fever In and around Austin had been traced to the practice of persons bathing in the Colorado river near Montopolis bridge east of the city limits. Dr.

J. C. Anderson, state health officer. Friday sent letters to County Judge Roy Archer and County Health Officer M. Smartt, asking the posting of signs warning would-be bathers against swimming in the river show the expected hundreds 01 citizens through the beautiful, new FRbC--r mil SL If tflllnlfi ill ff 1 i 1 Il.0ft0.000 court and jail structure, Archer stated.

Officials as Hosts iitViit-h nrartirallv all county officials had moved their offices to the new building last Monday, with crv-nntinn nf Frank Tan- According to the letter received by Archer, Dr. Anderson nehiil who completed his moving called attention to the fact that Thursday, no format reception vi ft bill CSiS fi-r-MJMS PUP any kind has been held. Several hundred visitors, however, have already inspected the structure. riftKMoim fcax-o hen fcusv all weeK arranging their records, furniture and other equipment ana practically everything will be heady for the inpn horse" celebration. Former County Judge George the city sewage disposal enters the river just above the Montopolis bridge and the typhoid cases were attributed to this.

Anderson aaid he had received his Information from Asst. City Health Officer E. O. Chlmene. Archer stated Friday he had not conferred with the other members of the commissioners' court regarding tho state health officers request and did not know what action would be taken.

Archer, however, called attention to the fact that the river belongs to the state and expressed the opinion It Is the state health department's duty to Install the warning signs. HUNDREDS THRONG COUNTY JAIL BUT ONLY FOR AN INSPECTION Matthews and the four members of tka mirt fommissioners' court, under 4 III COURTHOUSE LEAD LIST IN whose direction the structure was started, have been given a special out again, with equal courtesy by the sheriff and his assistants. invitation to attend the open nouse celebration. It was stated. Removal of jail prisoners has been delayed for about 10 days in order to give everyone who desires nnnnrtiiTiitv to inspect the new Capable of housing 15S prisoners SEI i' Hi Jail atop the courthouse building, fit Ml In point of service, they out-date 111 the venerable Travis county court house by nearly twice its 55 years.

Add belleve-it-or-not: 'It's a pleasure to go to jail provided you can pick your jail." Hundreds of Austin people have elected to go to jail this week but the trip was merely an inspection tour of Travis county's handsome new bastile atop the recently completed county courthouse. Although the jail has been completed. It will not receive its quota of prisoners until Austin people have been given an opportunity to Inspect it, according to Sheriff Co-ley C. White, who has been holding an Informal sort of "open house" for visitors this week. Hard to Get Out It's no trick at all to go to jail but getting out again is a different story.

Visitors, however, were being welcomed to the jail and ushered That is the total made by adding iff 'White said, making the jail more complete. J. M. Boring and C. A.

Redding will serve as resident jailers. The latter served for many years as Jailer at the old courthouse, and Boring is a deputy sheriff. Prisoners will be served breakfast at 9 a. and given the other meal at 2 p. m.

All meals will be prepared in the new kitchen of the Jail. The nwe structure Is not only j1 Miaai es.iBaD if necessary, the jail is completely fire-proof and built with the idea of comfort as well as safety, the sheriff pointed out Cells are arranged In blocks designed to accommodate 20, 16, 12 or even prisoners, with white and negro captives to be kept separated. The Juvenile ward and quarters for women prisoners are located on the first floor of the jail building, with the second story reserved for men prisoners. Each cell is equipped with running water, and each cell block has its own table, fastened to the floor and Immovable. Finger Printing Arrangements are being made to equip a finger-printing room, Sher-' together the years four county employes spent in the old Travis coun ty courthouse, which they have now forsaken for new headquarters in I I 'lliH IH iW'iPB HI1IW KM HUM il IHH 111 the recently completed county structure.

To Miss Emilie Lira be ry goes the distinction at naving served comfortable and cool. Its situation atop the new courthouse gives it the advantages of sunshine and fresh air and at the same time helps to make It escape-proof. longest of any county employe. She is deputy county clerk, serving under Fred C. Malone, and when ap pointed to this office 27 years ago also held the distinction of being Travis county's first woman deputy.

Her employer. County Clerk Ma lone something of an old-timer if We congratulate Travis County on completing the New Courthouse and the use of large quantities of our material insures an everlasting structure. himself, having worked for the Sheriff Coley hlte statea. DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY SEEKS FLIGHT RECORD LOS ANGELES. June 26 (CP) Death Valley Scotty, of the "fabulous desert gold mines," announced today that ha would attempt to break the transcontinental speed record In a flight with James Hall, noted broker -aviator of New York, The present west-to-east record of hours, 25 minutes is held by Capt.

Frank Hawks. Ecott holds the railroad record of 44 hours, 54 minutes for a trip petween Los Angeles and Chicago, ft. waa made in 1905. AITHFULL'S LETTERS VIRTUALLY ACCEPTED XEW TORK, June 25. (UP) Tlrtually everyone connected with fre case except the mother and Btep-father of Starr Faithfull were convinced today that three letters written by the dead girl to Dr.

G. Jameson Carr two of them expressing the intention to commit suicide were authentic. Stanley E. Faithfull, the stepfather, and his wife insisted, however, that the handwriting in the letters waa not Starr's, and Dist. Atty.

Elvin N. Edwards said he had not rejected the murder theory, chiefly because of the Faithfull's attitude. Tucker Faithfull, Starr's aister, waa Bald to be convinced Starr wrote the letters in which he indicated she had "only 24 hours more to lire." county for 23 years. all or these, however, were spent In the county clerk's office. Another th a long service rec ord Is S.

A. Philquist, district clerk. who has worked in the courthouse for 25 years. He also holds the hon or of running for his office regu larly without opposition, receiving the unanimous aupport of the Toters. O.

P. Bonner they call him "OPie" has spent the past years in the courthouse, ana zu of theBe have been spent in the district clerk's office. The old-timers aa well as the "youngsters" In county service Travis and County Sand Gravel Co. TRAVIS COUNTY Montgomery Ward Co. were smiling their broadcast smiles today aa they occupied headquarters in the new courthouse.

They even declined to be sentimental on the passing of the old structure, in which they started to work years ago. 511 Scarbrough Bldg. Austin, Texas Phones: Office 4263; Plant (Dial Opr.) 125 GOOD TURKEP CROP SEEN LAMPASAS, June 26. Excellent hatches and fine weather conditions for young turkeys in this section give promise to a large crop of marketable fowls this fall, The turkey market holding up so well last season and the low prices i being received for other farm com- modities are factors that caused many people to attempt to raise a i large crop of turkeys this season, Lampasas ships annually from 25 to 40 car loads of turkeys. It Is SMITHVILLE FORMS BAND PMITHVITJ.K, June 18.

Organisation of a municipal band has been itarted here under the direction of Prof. Gus Streithoff and practices have started with interested musicians meeting in the library room of the Smithvtlle Chamber of Commerce, Equipment being provided for the band by the Chamber of Commerce and the Lions club. The Chamber of Commerce recently presented the band with a bass horn and efforts are now being made to upply the musical organization with bass and snars arums. Austin, Texas 409 Congress Ave, Read the American-Statesman Want Ads believed now that this crop will be a heavy average and possibly as good as the banner year of 1927. twmm 2 llitTlliii IsTii'il IT 11 fMif If1! Ill ii'liMlriM liT HP I VIS TO TRA COUN The Completion of the New County Court House Marks a Definite Step in the Forward Progress of Travis County and We Are Pleased to Have Had A Part In the Erection of This Building.

QUAR RIES NG AUSTIN, TEXAS SCARBROUGH BUILDING.