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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT BY LEASED WIRE VOL. 50-NO. 339. SECOND OLDEST NEWSPAPEB IN TEXAS. ESTABLISHED 187 AUSTIN, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1922 1 (HOME EDITION) PRICE FIVE CENTS T-re M1TO If WH A A if PLANT TO WOODWARD REBUILT THE FREESTONE MOB TAKES VENGEANCE FOR GIRL'S LIFE Negroes Tied to Iron Post At Kirvin and Torch Applied to Oil-Soaked Fuel.

ONE CONFESSED GRIME KILLING OF BUD BALLEW REMOVES PICTURESQUE CHARACTER; BEATEN TO DRAW BY EX-RANGER RECONSTRUCTION PLANS PRACTICALLY DECIDED ON; DEATH LIST IN TORNADO DEFINITELY FIXED AT i 2 Plans for the reconstruction of the Woodward Manufacturing Company buildings, destroyed by Thursday's' tornado, and early resumption of manufacturing activities are being formulated, it was announced Saturday morning by Sam Sparks, one of the largest stockholders of the concern. Preliminaries to this were discussed Saturday morning at a meeting xf the Chamber of Commerce before which D. J. Woodward, and Mr. Sparks appeared to submit a plan for reconstruction.

A committee of architects, contractors and business men, members of the Chamber of Commerce, were appointed by President Eldred McKinnon to consult with the officials of the Woodward company with instructions to report back on their findings at a special meeting called for Monday morning at 11 o'clock at the Chamber of Commerce. 1 Names of the members of this com By Associated Press. ARDMOKE, May 6. Bud Bal-lew, one of. the last of the famous southwestern gunmen and peace officers of his generation died with his "boots on" as he always wished to end his career.

Bud's body bearing five bullet holes was back home today from across the Texas border where he mixed yesterday with a former Texas ranger. For once the killer's gun did not get into action. He died as at least eight others have died at his hands. And the irony of it is, from the standpoint of his friends, he dropped with his pistols in their holters. Ballew was brought back from Wichita Falls last night feet first in an airplane tc his wife and son to his chief, Buck Garrett, former sheriff of Carter' county.

Tears welling in his eyes Garrett after inspecting the body of his lieutenant, who several times saved his life in gun fights, declared Bud was murdered. "He didn't have a chance" said Garrett. "Five shots and all from the back," the old chief said, shaking his head. Garrett said the law sshoulc1 be allowed to take its course in the ease EDUCATOR SHOT TO DEATH; SLAYER TAKESOWN LIFE Engineering Professor At University of South Carolina and University Marshal Victims. IN TREASURER'S OFFICE Student Attracted By Pistol Shots Finds Bodies Lying Side By Side.

By Associated Press. COLUMBIA, S. May 6. Prof, M. I Goode Homes of the University of i South Carolina and iWn Hale, the uni- versiiy marshal, were found shot to death today in the office of the treasurer of the University.

The bodies of the two men were found by W. T. Holland, a law student in the university, who, passing the De Sassaure building, heard shots and entered the treasurer's office. He reported that a pistol lay beside the body of the marshal. Professor Homes was a member of the school of engineering faculty.

PRESIDENT HOLDS UP BONUS PLAN; WANTS ADDITIONAL FACTS V-VllllitlLtW Jl lit tu'ULyillii McCurnber Bill to Executive But Get Little Encouragement. By Associated Press. after a conference today with Senate finance committee Republicans, withheld decision on the soldiers' bonus legislation until he can study the vari ous plans proposed. Chairman McCurnber and Senators Curtis ard Watson of the finance com mittee, with Senator Lodge of Massa chusetts, the Republican leader, were closeted with the executive for more than an hour. They explained in detail the McCurnber bonus plan, which Is similar to the House measure, and also outlined- the Smoot insurance plan.

Senators said the President had ex pressed no opinion and that they did most of the talking. Mr. Harding asked about the sales tax, which he previously had recommended as a i means of financing the bonus, and was told that this form of tax could not bo put through Congress. Attention was called by the Senators that the Mc- I Cumber plan would entail no large ex pendltures by -the government during the next three years, and that no irn mediate means of financing the bonus would have to be found. Asked whether in their judgment the President would approve the Mc- f'unil er plan, the.

Senators said Mr Harding had given no indication of his intention One of the Senators said he was to send the President a completed draft of a bill embodying his bonus plan. Senator Smooth also is to pre sent his plan In person, probably early next week, and after studying the two the President will call the Senators In for further discussion. WASHINGTON WORKERS TO SAVE DAYLIGHT By Associated Presp, WASHINGTON, May Government departments and the business community of Washington will lnavg-urate what is In effect daylight savings on Monday, May 15, by going to work an hour earlier, but without moving forward the. hands of the clock. Secretary Hoover announced today tfter ft conference participated in by himself, representatives of the commercial organlazt Ions of Washington and President Harding.

HEATHER FORECAST East Texas; Tonight and Hunday partly cloudy, somewhat unsettled in east portion, cooler in northwest and north central portions. West Texas: Tonight and Sunday generally fair; cooler tonight in north and central portions, DEMOCRATS OPEN FIRE ON FORDNEY TARIFFMEASURE Senator Simmons Presents Minority Report Attacking the Bill As Grotesque and Absurd. SAYS PEOPLE WILL PAY Declares Schedules Proposed Will Create Additional Tax Burden of Billions. WASHINGTON, May 6. The taxes that would be imposed by the pending tariff bill would be as real as those imposed by the revenue bill and probably as great, from three to four billion dollars, Senator Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the Senate finance committee, declared in a minority report filed today in the Senate.

"They must be paid by all the people," the re-port says, "just as those the bill must be paid by all the people and not by the beneficial iet' who have demanded and cot teni The people mutt not only nay the taxes on imports which go directly into the treasury, but they must pay the resulting increase in prices of all the thligs they buy and consume. "Broadly speaking, the views of the special interests who as'red these taxes and gf them and of the people who pay them differ widely in their appraisement tf this jiieasun and its effect upon the nation proapority. "S6 i.r as the special interests concerned, it gDcs without saying the taxes 'mposed are both satisfying and comforting. "On the other hand, the people view this bill as a measure of mischief and dangerous possibilities, ioaded with in-Mimerable burdens them and thtir rosterity. "When the Fordney bill passed llie fouse, the general public regarded it as a 1 1 rstosity so grotsnn and absurd that they took rave as a juk-s lan us a serious attempt it revision It did not ei: in tlnm any firat Jep.ree of alarm bo they felt sure the Senate would rewrite it and they expected from this body saner action in their behalf.

"In these expectations the people have been grievously disappointed. That disappointment has grown as they studied the bill, first into surpn.se find then indignation at the audac'y of the assault upon their pocket and is finally culminating into a gtim d''ciin'nation to resist to t.h'i utmost thi ai tempted i. "in these circumstat os the peop'c will satisfied with nolIi'Tig of a full exposure throu.j'i dtsciissli of this attempted outrage inspired by the "eflie to the ests their exo isc n.i -spiiaey if silence, no threat if bT, 1.0 charges of filibuster or cicture i vrt be i to sniv.c-sercen and divert the i cpc.siu 3 of the liquiiies which lurk i'. the lax-laden i nd 3 is of thenc pages of 'he amended jrrtney I ill, an act (if properly entitled) to mortgage the country and its resources to the protected and monopolized industries." Senator Simmons says the sta foment in the majority report that the purpose of the bill is to permit American industry to pay wages sufficient to en-nbl-i American wotkingmen t3 maintain he American standard of living, rather strange, in p. the fa't that these selfsame tmlustrte are engaged in an cxtsive drive to reduce present wage standards." He f.dds that the standard of in foreign competing countries is tody mote nearly equal the Amerirm standard (han ever before; that the cost of pi'ooucU bears a much slUhlar relation to the daily wage pail to than in former times and th-it profits rcnsnUit? a far larger Clemen" in selling prices, both in this country aid abroad, than all other piemen's entering intci the cost of Referring to the argument of the majority that unless the bill Is passed American markets will be seriously Invaded by foreign producers, the report says American goods are sold In foreign markets on competition with the world and that if American producers can compete In those market with foreign manufacturers they jhould be able to compete In the American market.

BROWNWOOD MAN KILLED. By Associated Press. BROWNWOOD, Texas, May 6. J. M.

Baker, 40, laborer, wag killed here this morning when a nine-foot ditch In which he was working caved in, A widow and four children survive, AUSTIN BANK CLEARINGS. Austin tank clearings for th weak ending Saturday, May 6, totaled according to the report of the Austin Clearing House Association, HENRY P. DAVIDSON, FINANCIER, DIES ON THE OPERATING TABLE Member of the Firm of J. P. Morgan Co.

Succumbs Under Surgeon's Knife. By Associated Press. NEW YORK, May -Henry Davison of J. P. Morgan died on the operating table today.

The announcement was made at 2 o'clock at the Morgan offices. Mr. Davison died about 1:30 p. m. Mr.

Davison was placed on the table for a operation to remove a tumor resting on the auditory nerve. The operation wag performed in a special room fitted up in his country home at Peacock Point, in Locust Valley, Long Island. A few minutes after tlio flash of Mr. Davison's death reached the Morgaj offices the following statement, pre-Humbuly dictated by one of the physicians, but unsigned, was received: "Mr. Henry P.

Davison died shortly after the conclusion of an operation for infiltrating tumor of the brain, which could only be partially removed." TWO GIRLS IN STOLEN AUTOMOBILE ARRESTED BY WILLIAMSON SHERIFF Special to The Austin GKOKGKTOWN, Texan, May 6. Sheriff Lee O. Allen, on the watch for two cars reported stolen In San Antonio a night or two ago, apprehended a car driven by two girls, IS and 17 years of age, respectively. They arrived In Georgetown about dark Thursday evening and when interrogated by the Williamson county sheriff stated that at 8an Antonio two men turned the car over to them for their use in makinir a trip to Waco; that at or near New Braunfels the men left and they were on their way to the home of me of the two when taken Into custody at Waco. They were put aboard trains during the night, one to her home In Waco and the other to her home in Rin Antonio.

The car was held by local officers and later turned over to officers from Han Antonio. Bandits Rcb Kansas City Girl. KANSAS CITY, May Three automobile bandits today held tip Mls Mabel Jenkins, cashier of the I B. Price Mercantile Company, and escaped with $1000 In payroll money. The robbery took place at Fourteenth and Oak streets in the downtown Other Two Tortured Victims Maintain Their Innocence With Their Last Breaths.

TEAGUE, Texas, May 6. Two white men wr detained today for further investigation of their actions preceding the attack on and murder of Eula Awsley, for which three negroes were burned at Kir. vin this morning. No announcement of charges being filed against the men have been made, according to report here. They were, held pending investigation only.

By Associated Press. KIRVIN, Texas, May 6. Three ne-, groes were burned to death at th same stake here at o'clock this morning by a mob of 500 determined men; following their alleged implication in, the criminal assault nnd murder of 17-. year-old Kulu Awsley, white girl whose mutilated body was found near-here Thursday night. "Knap" Curry, the first negro was taken from the custody of Free-' stone county officers early in the night as he was being tsken from Worthnm, tflsome point west.

It is alleged that ho confessed to the mob that he had assaulted and n-dered the girl, and that In his confession he Implicated two other negroes, J. II. Varney anit, Mose Jones. The mob divested the KlMrlff of his, keys to the Freestone county jail, whero Jones and Varney were being held as suspects. Hurrying to the Jail, the mob unlocked ihe doors and took the two negroes In charge.

All threa. negroes wtre then rushed to Kirvin, tho home of the dead girl, and an Iron, stake d'-iven Into the ground on email square In the heart of the town. Wood was Hccumulated and saturated! with oil to increase it inflammability. Curry was burned first; then Varney and Jones. There was some delay In burning the last two, Inasmuch they steadfastly maintained their Innocence.

Third degree methods falledV to bring a confession from them, andl (Continued on Page Two.) CHECKING OF NAMES ON TAX PETITIONS MEANS MUCH WORK All of 10 Days Allowed Will Be Needed Says City Clerk Joe Hornsby. That the work of checking the names on the petitions calling upon the council to cut the tax rate from $2.20 to $2 will occupy him for the full period of ten days allowed under the city charter, was the opinion expressed Satur day morning by City Clerk Joe Horns by. lie was at that time busy on the preliminaries to this work and had before him list of all the qualified voters of the city which had been oblained from County Tax Collector, J. II. Williams.

"It will take ten days and probably. as many nights to get this work out of the way," estimated the city clerk as he viewed (he tall stack of sheets before him. A preliminary Inspection of the. petitions reveals that more than a sufficient number of legal signatures are appended to validate the call for an election on the tax rate reduction ordinance. In some Instances repetitions have been noted by the city clerk, it was learned Saturday.

These, it Is presumed, were oversights. Without them, however, city officials consider it certain that at least 1350 valid signatures will bo found among the 3440 ottered, That number Is approximately nne-frnirth rtf the tntal least for mayor at the last election, 'the total required to legalize a call for an initiative election. PURSE OF $490,000 OFFERED FOR DEMPSEY AND CARPENTIER FIGH? PARIS, May 6. A purse of $490,000, 75 per cent to the wtnner and 26 per" cent to the loser, was offered Jack. Dempsey, world's champion heavyweight boxer, this afternoon for a return match with Georges Carpentier, tho European champion, to be held In Pershlne stadium the day before Grand i-rlx race, scheduled for June 24, OKLAHOMA PREACHER HELD FOR ARSON IN BITTER CHURCH ROW Pastor Is Charged With Having Set Fire to His Own Church At Lawton.

By Associated Press. LAWTON, May 6. Charged with setting fire to his church with the purpose of gaining sympathy for himself and casting suspicion on his enemies in the Lawton Presbyterian Church controversy, Kev. Thomas J. Erwin was free under bond today to answer on May JO to an arson information filed against him by County Attorney Fletcher Riley.

H. C. Lewis, supporter of the pastor in the church fight and a member of the board of sessions of the church, will be arraigned with Mr. Irwin on a similar charge. The sensational charge against the former pastor followed a court of inquiry conducted by the county attorney and came in the face of declarations by the pastor that the alleged incendiary fires at the church were set by enemies.

The pastor also blamed suspended members of the church for his alleged abduction last Saturday night. The county attorney, however, indicated he had dropped the investigation of the abduction after obtaining information that tended to confirm the belief that Irwin arranged his abduction. Another development in the bathinsf suit marriage which the former pastor performed last summer at an amusement resort near here came last night with the announcement, at Oklahoma City by Frank L. Wall that he and his girl bride, Helen Brinsfield, would remarry next month and again seal the bathing romance. Mr, Irwin was severely criticised by one section of the congregation for officiating at the wedding, and the marriage formed one of the charges against him on which he was to have been tried by a church commission.

Mr. Irwin resigned, however, and ended a possibility of being brought to trial in an ecclesiastical church. DUVAL DODGE PUT ON PROBATION FOR A YEAR By Associated Press. KALAMAOOO, May 6. John Duval Dodge, young Detroit millionaire, and Rex Earl of Kalamazoo were placed on probation for one year when they appeared before Circuit Judge Weimer today for sentence following their conviction of a of illegal possession and of transportation of liquor.

Judge "Weimer announced the usual terms of probation will be rigidly enforced, chief of these being that the respondents shall 'contribute from his earnings for the support of those dependent upon him." Dodge also was directed to pay $r00 probationary fine and reimburse the county treasury for the expense incurred in th' pending case against him, the amount being J500. Earl was di-cted to pay a fine of $100 within ninety days in addition to the year's probation. Other terms of probation orders required Dodge and Earl to observe the laws of the state and ordinances of any city In which they may be, to strictly abstain from the use of Intoxicating liquor and to report at least onco a month to the probation offcer without whose consent they may not leavo the state. BELGIUM STRENGTHENS FORCES IN GERMANY By Associated Press. BRCSSELH, May 6.

Belgian forces In Germany are being reinforced. Two thousand men, their staff of officers nr.d J100 horses are to leave for the occupied area today and Monday. The measure is due to the recent series of frequent aggressions in which Belgian foldiers have been victims. The latost of these affairs occurred at Homberg, near Essen, on Thursday, when two German civilians wounded Belgian Lieutenant Bronne with revolvers, mittee were not available early Satur- day afternoon, however, as Secretary W. U.

Long of the Chamber of Commerce announced that he had been able to see only three of the five men named to Bervo. That a bond issue of approximately $200,000 will be necessary to finance the reconstruction work was the statement of Mr. Sparks. Most of the material in the buildings wrecked by the storm can bo used for the work of reconstruction, he suid, Water mains, the railroad spur, and portion of thfl plant machinery remain available for use, he said. These things would he of no value to a wrecked concern, he said, but would be of material value to a firm that is put back on its feet.

Permanent suspension of operations by the Woodward company, proponents of the reconstruction plan point oul, would mean loss not only to the stockholders of the concern, but would result in an appreciable economic losn to Austin commercially. To Repair St. Edward's. Local alumni of St. Edward's College, where the tornado did a quarter of a million dollars' worth of damage, ore ulso discussing preliminaries to the launching of a plan for the reconstruction of the destroyed buildings.

Col-lose officials have already announced that the present schooT term will be completed and that students will be boused in temporary quarters until the close of school In June. By the opening of the fall term of the college, It Is hoped, however, to have completed the reconstruction of the boys' dormitory, the power plant, and the gymnasium buildings, all three of which were wrecked by the storm. At noon Saturday It was announced that members of Travis Post, American Legion, who have been doing guard duty at St. Kdward's College and Penn Field, had been relieved and the entire work has been taken over by the rollco. City offlelnls voiced their appreciation of the assistance given by the veterans, who were on duty from Thursday night until Saturday morning.

At the Chamber of Commerce, lied Cross workers were assorting clothing and bedding donated for the relief of the storm victims and additional cash donations were being re- (Continued on Pnge Two.) MISSISSIPPI FLOOD WATERS APPROACHING CITY OF NEW ORLEANS Ey Associated Press. NEW OULKANS, May 6. Flood waters from the break In the levee twelve miles south of here approached Xew Orleans today. I.cveo board officials, however, expressed assurance that the city was In no danger, declaring that If the flood continued to spread northward it could be diverted easily, A zoning system for feeding about 7000 persons who have clung to their homes In the section flooded through the Weecama crevasse near Ferrlday, and between 4000 and 6000 In the Black river area, was being put Into effect today by National Guard units. assault on a girl, formerly had a serious defect in speech and was subject to four and five epileptic fits weekly.

Jan. 21 last Or. Terry Townsend, a New York City specialist, removed glands from the body of a prisoner electrocuted for murder and transplanted them to that of Hauser, having first obtained hie consent to the operation. Warden Lawes eald the operation had apparently been entirely uccetkfuL I and indicated no feud would arise across the border as a result of the slaying. Dr.

Walter Hardy, a local physician who examined the body of Bal- lew, said there were indications that more than one gun had figured in the i shooting. I An X-ray photograph revealed a bul-! let under the left arm which appeared i to be of large calbre, Dr. Hardy said, i Two other wounds, the physician said, i he believed were made by smaller bul-j lets. i Ballew's daring pb a peace officer was as noted in the southwest as were his escapades. He feared no one but Buck Garrett, whom he loved.

Bud's delight under stimulant was to shoot up a town and many times citizens of Ardmore and other southern Oklahoma towns have sought shelter while Bud whooped up and down the streets emptying his pistols in the air. Bud he was always called Bud and refused to give his Christian name i was ns picturesque in person as were i his deeds. The principal thing that attracted attention was his shock of curly red hair. He was a big man, standing 5 i feet 11 inches. Bud wore a cherubic 1 expression which bclid his character.

He wore a h'gh wide-brimmed dust-colored hat and clung to high cow-boots despite the fact that he diove a motor car much of the time in recent years. Ballew Splendid Horseman. Bud Ballew was a horesman as good as any in this country where spirited western ponies prevail. In fact it was a round-up which took him on bis last trip to Wichita Falls. He had entered a roping contest to vie, with cowboys in horsemanship.

Bud liked diamonds and always wore a big t'l-ishing stone in his While Fud usu.illy were two guns strapped to him he was a one-gun man. He never became accustomed to what he termed new fangled automatic revolvers, but depended on a single (Continued on Page Two.) BAKHMETEFF DENIES DIVERSION OF FUNDS LOANED TO KERENSKY Russian "Ambassador" Declares Every Cent Went Where It Was Appropriated For. By Associated Tress. WASHINGTON, May 6. Charges made in the Senate that Boris Bakh-meteff, the last accredited Russian ambassador here, illegitimately used money from credits extended by the United States to Russia under the Ker-ensky regime, were denied by Mr.

Bak-meteff, today in a Btatement filed with the Slate department and forwarded by SecrUary Hughes to the Senate. None of the money loaned the Ker-ensky government by the United States, the ambassador said, had been used for purpoe other than those known to the Treasury department. He denied flatly the charge that he had purchased real estate in this country or had appropriated any of the loaned funds for maintenance of the embassy in Wa-shineton, Epilepsy and Stuttering Cured By Transplanting of Human Glands By Associated Press. OSSINING, N. May 6.

Epilepsy and stuttering were cured through the implantation of human glands into the body of a Sing Sing prisoner, it was announced here yesterday by "Warden Lewis E. La wee. It was declared to be the first time In history that such an operation was resorted to for the cure of epilepsy. The prisoner, George Hauser, serving sentence for felonious i.