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has a In a at at at a THE AUSTIN STATESMAN THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES An Austin Owned Newspaper HOME EDITION 53- NO. 145. IN SECOND OLDEST NEWSPAPER AUSTIN, TEXAS, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1924 REPORT COMPLETE BY ASSOCIATED LEASED PRESS WIRE PRICE FIVE CENTS TEXAS. ESTABLISHED 1871 STOCKS ON NOTE dv881l AL1883A RAMPAGE Mrs. IN 157 COUNTIES 'MA' HAS A TOTAL VOTE OF 297,741 If She Maintains Her Present Average Texas Election Bureau Estimates That Her Final Majority Will Be 121,716.

BUTTE'S TOTAL 221,962 In Bell County, Her Home, Complete Count Gives Mrs. Ferguson a Majority of Eleven Hundred and Thirty Special to The Austin Statesman. DALLAS, Texas, Nov. Complete returns from 157 counties in Texas, tabulated by the Texas Election Bureau Saturday night gave the following on the race for governor: Ferguson, Butte, 221,962. This showed a majority for Mrs.

Ferguson of 75,779. Her majority for counties tabulated has averaged 483. A. On majority the same of 121,716 average she when would the have plete vote in Tuesday's election is tabulated. The counties tabulated include Galveston, Dallas, Harris, Bexar, El a Paso, McLennan, Jefferson and Bell.

Mrs. Ferguson was winner In her home county, Bell, by a majority of 1133. The counties tabulated late Saturday were: FerguCounty: Butte. son. 123 counties previously reported .181,436 230,962 Roberts 239 120 Dewitt 1,170 2,883 Starr 34 270 'Haskell 903 1,903 Nolen 877 1,170 Baylor 404 894 Williamson 2,111 5,964 Trinity 434 1,373 Hamilton 555 1,918 Fannin 1,746 4,160 Burelson 422 2,358 Atascosa 979 782 Culberson 40 95 Armstrong 353 218 Andrews 27 45 Cooke 1,908 2,364 Calhoun 350 662 Crosby 539 866 Angelina 1,151 3,786 Fisher 678 1,453 Lamar 2,5.60 3,319 Moore 42 56 Denton 2,502 3,482 Hill 2,810 4,349 Hansford 204 173 Garza 632 473 Freestone 1,068 2,192 Ward 135 145 Rusk 1,451 2,515 Dawson 612 968 Johnson 2,902 3,188 McLennan 5,634 5,620 Midland 137 315 Bell 4,211 5,544 Total 157 counties ...221,962 297,741 Mrs.

Ferguson's majority, 75,779. (Correction): In counties previously sent the election bureau makes these corrections: FerguButte. son. Hunt' 3,918 4,949 Henderson 1,111 3,321 Travis 5,263 5,447 DALLAS JUDGE GRANTS FIVE DIVORCES ON 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 8.

-Judge Royall Watkins of the Ninety-Fifth Court, celebrated his fifteenth wedding anniversary Saturday. The first four pleas for divorce brought before him' were summarily denied and lectures were given on the home and fireside and children. And then the judge weakened. In quick succession five divorces were granted. "Let's adjourn the court.

I cannot stand this on my wedding anniversary," Judge Watking told his clerk. "And besides it might get me in bad at home." MESSENGER BOY KILLED BY AN AUTOMOBILE SHREVEPORT, Nov. Tarbutton, 17-year-old messenger for the Western Union Telegraph Contpany, was instantly killed here early tonight when run over by an automobile. A. Green, negro, who was driving the car, is being held In jail pending a coroner's investigation.

Ferguson's BEARS Abilene Athlete Jokes as Doctors Remove Appendix state center in 1923, walked into a hospital today and ordered two surgeons to remove his appendix. Bryan refused to take anything but a local anaesthetic and laughed and talked the surgeons during the operation. It is the first case on record at the local hospital where a patient has to take other than a local anaesthetic. ABILENE, Texas, Nov. stoic Dick Bryan, Abilene High School football player and all- ANNUAL REUNION OF S.

R. MASONS TO OPEN HERE MONDAY Large Class of Candidates Will Receive Degrees During Four Days of Masonic Assembly. This week will be Scottish Rite week in Austin, for the annual reunion of the Masonic bodies will be held for four days, beginning Monday morning at 9 o'clock at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, when the fourth degree will be conferred on a large class of candidates. Masons from all parts of Texas will be expected for the coming reunion as visitors to this important event on the fall calendar of the Scottish Rite bodies. The coming reunion will be staged under the direction of James Wooten McClendon, venerable master, and Edward Henry Christian Bantel as reunion director.

The schedule of reunion calls for the conferring the fourth to the sixteenth degrees, inclusive, on Monday, the opening day. Other degrees will be conferred as follows: Tuesday, Nov. 11, seventeenth twenty-third degrees, inclusive; Wednesday, twenty- (Continued on Page Three.) SLAYER OF SAN ANTONIO WOMAN FATALLY HURT IN STATE PENITENTIARY Special to The Austin Statesman. HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Nov. Crow, serving a twenty-five-year sentence for the murder of Ora Parker at San Antonio in 1921, died a.t the state prison here at 2:45 p.

m. Saturday from injuries suffered while work in the prison wagon factory at 9:45 a. Crow was handling oak lumber at a circular saw when in some way a heavy two-by-four was thrown up by the saw, striking him squarely across the head. His skull was crushed and one eye torn out. He was rushed to the prison hospital, but never regained consciousness.

He had been at -the prison here a little more than a year. It was charged at his trial for the murder of Ora Parker that he slew the woman after stealing her jewelry and threw her body into the San Antonio River. Crow's body will be forwarded -to San Antonio Sunday morning at the request of a brother, Fred Crow, of that place. DALLAS MAN VICTIM OF MOB ATTACK; BADLY SLASHED WITH KNIVES Special to The Austin Statesman. DALLAS, Texas, Nov.

as to the cause of a mysterious attack on Chance Senter, 24, who was hauled into an automobile in East Dallas late Saturday night and ripped almost 'to ribbons by knife thrusts inflicted by half a dozen men, police were scourthe city at an early hour Sunday morning in an effort to apprehend his assailants. Santer himself could shed no light on the attack, The men called him up to an automobile parked at the curb, he said, and one of them slashed him. Others hauled him into the car and, after a -block dash down the street, dumped his almost lifeless body out on the sidewalk. Majority Passes 75,000 Mark STAMPEDE LONGHORNS INCOME OF STATE EXCEEDS EXPENSE BY $11,000.000 Lon A. Smith Points Out Defects of Present Accounting System in Annual Report on Financial Condition.

SYSTEM NOT FOLLOWED Recommends Commission of tified Accounts and Central Supervising Agency to Maintain Uniform System. Receipts of the state government from all sources for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, 1924, amounted to $61,816,449 while expenditures for the same period reached $50,919,819, according to the annual report of Lon A. Smith, state comptroller, presented to the governor Saturday. Sources from which these receipts were obtained are: Ad valorem taxes, poll taxes, occupation taxes, inheritance taxes, gross receipts, 109; gasoline tax, franchise taxes, automobile licenses, state departments, 841; land sales, interest land sales, redemption of bonds and notes, interest received on bonds, interest on state deposits, United States government, $5,861,278, which includes federal aid for highways, vocational education and other purposes; miscellaneous, prison system receipts, $1,770,313.

The expenditures include, $24,832,346 education, of which $17,967,300 was for the support of the public free schools; $2,235,056 for the University of Texas and its branches, $1,807,337 for A. M. Colleges and its branches, $2,597,332 for state teachers colleges, $197,055 for Texas Technological College, and $28,263 for the educational (Continued on Page Two.) BOY FATALLY MANGLED. BY GERMAN POLICE DOG PARIS, Nov. Louis Vief and his wife, residents of the suburb of Drancy, returning to their home, after a brief absence, found the mangled body of their 6-year-old son lying beside the family's German police dog.

The dog was removed and is being watched for possible signs of madness. The case has created a stir here as dogs of this breed have been favorites and there are thousands of them in the Paris region. The Vief's dog, a female, had always been the child's playmate. Recently she had a litter of puppies one of which was kept. It is supposed that the boy infuriated her by trying to take this pup and and that she killed the lad.

BAYLOR TRIUMPHS OVER VARSITY IN FIRST GAME IN STADIUM; SCORE 28-10 By LLOYD GREGORY. On the virgin turf of the Varsity Memorial colorful and what should have been inspiring Longhorns were forced Saturday to drink to the cup of defeat, pressed relentlessly to their lips. mad fans saw Texas gamely "drink its hemlock" Bridges and his mighty Baylor Bears. Baylor, ball triumphed over a Longhorn eleven that played by a 28-10 margin. CABINET MEMBER GOES TO SOUTH AMERICA FOR STUDY OF IMMIGRATION NEW YORK, Nov.

8. James J. Davis, secretary of labor, sailed today on the Southern Cross for South America to study methods of handling immigrants. He issued a statement suggesting that congress in its next session would amend the immigration law to provide for admitting alien families as units. "If the alien is to bring his family to his new country, he is forced to support it abroad with wages he earns in America.

If he is enabled to bring them here, the buying power of his wages goes to help American busi- ness," Mr. Davis said. He will visit Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Panama. NORWAY WILL RETAIN PROHIBITION STATUTE CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Nov. One of the results of the recent Norwegian elections, in which the conservative and agrarian (peasant) parties secured a narrow, combined majority of two the storthing, will be the retention of prohibition, which was opposed by the conservatives but favored by a majority of the agrarian nominees.

Inasmuch as the prohibitionists are allied with lefts a strong minority, it is not expected the conservatives can muster enough strength to repeal the present law during the coming session. Althougit the women of Norway have been permitted to vote since 1907, only twice have women candidates been elected to the storthing, at the recent election all women candldates were defeated. WOMAN, SHOT SHERIFF. IS AWARDED DAMAGES HATTIESBURG, Nov. Mrs.

Edna Brannan was awarded $2800 damages in Forest county circuit court against former Sheriff Aderin and a guaranty company a result of injuries received two years ago when a deputy sheriff and two other officers on the watch for liquor runners fired upon her. Mrs. Brannan who received a bullet wound in the chest filed two suits, claiming $4000 in each case. The deputy sheriff admitted the shooting but claimed it was accidental. Something vital seemed to be lacking from the Varsity offense and detense--from the very start the Longhorn players seemed to be expecting defeat.

However, Texas would have had to play superhuman football to battle on even terms with the green and gold gridiron giants. For the powerful, tricky, shifty, fighting eleven fashioned by Frank Bridges, Saturday stamped itself as one of the mightiest elevens of all Southwestern history, as it flashed meteor-like across the Varsity stadium. Longhorn supporters may glean some solace out one of the most humiliating and decisive reverses ever suffered, by an orange and white football eleven Stewart's men fought. bravely on, and in the last quarter scored eight points as proof of the fact that their scrapping spirit yet lived. Too, the spirit of the Texas rooters was excellent.

No just criticism of rooting -of the fans can be made, for the Longhorn boosters yelled lustily even when defeat was certain, and after the game they staged a on the field surrounding the atnietes. caller Baylor and Bridges yesterday achieved their greatest triumph. Texas was beaten, decisively, overwhelmingunquestionably licked. And the little mentor of the Bruins grinned happily as he rubbed his hands over the head of the negro mascot" who sat next to him, mumbling the while queer incantations, while his powerful machine of the gridiron, hitting smoothly on all exeven "cylinders," ploughed through the Texas line, This negro is always at Bridges' side during the progress of an Important game, and right vigorously was his head massaged Saturday. Bridges.

lived up to his reputation of being the trickiest coach in the coninference. Saturday his Bears unleashed (Continued on Page Eight.) WEST TEXAS FARMER IS MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING; LAST SEEN IN SANTONE COLEMAN, Texas, Nov. A statewide search has failed to solve the mysterious disappearance of R. W. Hudleston, 62, of this city, who has seen by a member of his family since Sept.

23. On that date Hudleston went to Fort of cotton pickers. He Worth in quest had less than $100 on his person. Not able to find pickers, he went being to the farm labor bureau at San AnThat is the last trace the famtonio. been able to find of him.

They Ily think he was murdered. Victors Sing Praise of 'Texas Baylor Students Stage Colorful Demonstration "Fellows, this Texas gang has the wonderful spirit have ever seen; they showed more spirit today in defeat than any other team have ever seen show in victory." That was the praise given Texas students by Howard (Sniper) Connally at the tremendous rally held in the Stephen F. Austin Hotel by the Baylor rooters tast night. Connally was only one of hundreds of students from the Waco school who praised the wonderful spirit that kept the Texas rooters on their feet apparently trying to yell their lungs out when the score stood 28 to 0 against them. "Sunshine" Gilmore, business manager for "Baylor Towers" jumped on a table -in the midst of the rally, waved the gang to silence and told them they had Just licked the most wonderful bun sportsmen in the state.

Wa ing poetic he got off the following verse, composed, he said, on the spur of the moment: "We've seen colleges all Both the large and the small, With students sad and blue, DAY OF WILDEST EXCITEMENT AS PRICES SOAR TO HIGHEST LEVELS EXPECT COOLIDGE TO REMODEL HIS CABINET CIRCLE Washington Political Observers Confident Several Changes Will Be Made at of New Administration. HUGHES IS UNDECIDED Secretary of State Is Anxious to Resume Law Practice, But May Be Induced to Retain His Portfolio Temporarily. WASHINGTON, Nov. changes in the cabinet by next spring are looked for in Washington as a result of reports that some members Intend to retire private life for personal reasong and a bellef that President Coolidge after next March 4 will prefer a cabinet entirely of his own selection. Upon assuming the presidency after the death of President Harding, Mr.

Coolidge requested all members of the cabinet not to submit their resignations. While he has no such request now with the aproach of a term of four years to which he has been elected by vote of the people, he has neither asked for nor received in any way resignations of members of the present cabinet. It is expected that he will urge suecessfully several members of the present cabinet to continue in office after his inauguration in March. Although Secretary Hughes is understood to have indicated to friends that he would prefer for private reasons to return to the practice of law, it is the general view that the secretary of state will continue at his post for a year, if not (Continued on Page Two.) I. W.

ON WARPATH IN FAR NORTHWEST; TROOPS TO AWE THEM Sheriff Asks For Soldiers to Protect Life and Property in Washington State. SEATTLE, Nov. -Sheriff Conn and Prosecutor Gilbert of Skagitak county have asked Governor Hart for troops on account of 300 Industrial Workers of the World having established control of the principal road leading to Concrete, said dispatch published today by the Seattle Times. The situation grew out of strike that started three weeks ago on large hydro-electric plant which the Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Company has been building on the Baker River at Concrete, The newspaper quoted Conn as saying that conditions gotten Sheriff, beyond his control and that the I. W.

W. in the district were being rapidly reinforced from Seattle. A huge camp has been established in the woods along the road by the It was related, and twice passenger trains on the Great Northern Railway have been stopped, am swearing a large special force of deputies," Sheriff Conn was stated to have said, "but we need troops." dispatch declared that 300 workers on the project had resisted efforts of I. W. W.

to persuade them to quit work. BRADLEY D. HOGUE TO BE BURIED MONDAY DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 8-Funeral services for Bradley B. Hogue, editor of the Dallas Times Herald, who died Thursday morning at Baylor Hospital, will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock from the residence at 1213 North Beckley Avenue.

Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. Railroad Shares Lead in Orgy of Speculation, No Less Than 43 Issues Going to New Peak' Prices. MARKET HISTORY MADE Practically All the Securities and Commodities Share in the Sensational Advance; Trading Goes to Unprecedented Figure Stadium and amid surroundings, Texas dregs from the bitter Fifteen thousand gridpresented by Frank playing alert, heads-up indifferent football a corner of the lobby and placed on the table long enough to say: "Fellows, we've won a wonderful victory; but we must get ready another game next week." for, The victory- -mad students filled lobby of the Austin Hotel with a rally that surpassed anything staged in this town for years in its frenzy of excitement. Every man in the band looked as if he was trying to blow the mouthpiece off. his instrument as the airs popular with Baylor were played.

When the yell leader called for a yell every man and woman in the room took part. The yells included Coach Stewart and Captain Marley as well the Baylor coach and captain; and those given for the University men were given with as much pep and enthusiasm as were those for the Baylor heroes. It was as clean a parade and rally from the time the column. of students swung down Congress Avenue and into the hotel until the time the yell leader dismissed the gang with the admonition to be sure not to miss the train, as the city has ever seen. By Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Nov. 8. -Bullish enthusiasm, founded on the speculative belief that marked revival in trade was in prospect, with the removal of election uncertainty, ran rampant 10- day in practically all the securities and commodities markets, reaching its intensity experienced in the the stock market which most active half holidada volume session of sales in in history with a total excess of 1,450,000 shares. Another orgy of speculation in the railroad shares, couples with an enormous investment demand for the high grade issues boosted forty-three Issues to new peak prices for the year, including New York Central, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, Rock Island, Wabash, Missouri Pacific issues, Baltimore Ohio, Southern Railway, Atlantic Coast Line and Louisville Nashville. The general average of railroad shares was lifted to its highest level in seven years.

Industrial shares also attained new high average for the year despite enormous us profit taking. United States common led the advance in this group, touching 113, the highest price in five years. American Can and U. S. Cast Iron Pipe sold at their highest prices in history while American Tobacco H.

R. Mallinson, United Drug, Corn Products and a score of others bettered their previous 1924 maximum quotations. Railroad bonds moved upward in the wake of stocks, day's sales in this market also establishing a new Saturday record for all time at approximately $13,700,000. Bullish sentiment, engendered by the unprecedented demand for securities, permeated to the commodity markets. Chicago wheat futures for all months from December to May closed at net gains of to cents a bushel.

The advance in corn prices ranged from to nearly 2 cents a bushel. An outburst of buying at the opening of the coffee market resulted in extreme gains of 35 to 90 points, which were subsequently reduced to net gains of 15 to 30 points on heavy Brazilian selling. Cotton futures reacted on publication of the government crop report, which was about in line with the trade's expectations, but rallied later in sympathy with stocks, closing 40 to 56 points higher. Foreign exchange mounted to higher ground under the leadership of sterling. Wall Street brokerage houses today sent out calls for additional help.

Many brokers predicted that a ne.y high record at above 3,000,000 a day probably would be established. before the present bull movement reached its climax. Severe Earthquakes Predicted. BOLOGNA, Italy, Nov. Raphael Brandandi, the seismologist, has predieted earthquakes for Nov.

11 and from Nov. 16 to 17. The center of the shocks, It was said, would be In the extreme East, probably in the Philippine Islands. Then the grave and the gay; But we're here to sayThere's none, students and sports- men, Like you." Captain Pittman told the rooters that it was their fight that had made it possible for his team to win the game today, Coach Bridges was pulled out of THE WEATHER West Texas: Sunday, fair, warmer; Monday, fair. East Texas: Sunday, fair, warmer in north portion; Monday, fair.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. Weather outlook. for the the west week, beginning, Mostly Monfair, with temperatures near. normal, except for cool spell about middle of week.

Officers Pose As Bootleggers; Nab Thirsty Customers DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 8-The demand was good but the supply was awful. Plain clothes officers Isbell and Nowlin raided a tailor shop Saturday morning and confiscated five half gallon jars of corn whiskey and two quarts of bonded liquor. While they searched for more, six calls for whiskey came in. "Come on down," Nowlin told one "customer" over the phone.

"You'll be surprised." He came and he was. Officers took him and two alleged bootleggers to jail. DALLAS, Texas, Nov. alleged drug peddler was arrested, automobile and twenty grains of morphine were seized Saturday when Federal Narcotic Officers Brown and McCullough, posing as drug addicts, kept an appointment to make a purchase from suspect..