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a a a a a a a a a a a THE AUSTIN THIRTY different breeds of livestock from virtually every state in the United States and province in Canada, competed for prizes in the international livestock show in Chicago. Miss Emma Swanson is shown above with Laurel Perfection one of the prize bulls entered in the show. VETS IN HOSPITAL ARE NOT FORGOTTEN BY LEGION WOMEN Austin Auxiliary Will Send Box of Gifts For Christmas. Final appeal was issued Tuesday by Mrs. Q.

C. Taylor, president of Travis Post Legion Auxiliary, for donations by Austin citizens to be included in Christmas boxes to be sent Wednesday to the three veterans hospitals in Texas. Eatables Not Wanted. The legion auxiliary of Texas, she announced, wig trying to make Christmas pleasant for the wounded men and is urging the co-operation of those who can give. Money, clothing, books, magazine subscriptions, dominoes, playing cards, mah jongg sets, all will be acceptable.

Eatables cannot be accepted because of the fact that the hospital inmates are on regular diets. SIX PERISH WHEN FIRE SWEEPS TENEMENT Survivors Of Families Flee in Zero Weather. Press Dispatch to NEW YORK, Dec. 16. -Six persons perished today when flames of suspicious origin swept through 8.

Harlem tenement house near the Mount Sinar hospital. Survivors of ten families, were, driven to the streets in zero weather. The location of the disastrous blaze is in the "pyromaniac, district." A -madman was responsible for loss of a score of. lives in the neighborhood a year or so ago. Only one of the six victims was identified.

He was Edward Russell, 64, driven from a window by flames. SWEETIN CONFESSION. RULED OUT BY JUDGE Signed Under Duress, Claim- Made In Murder Trial. Press Dispatch to MOUNT VERNON, Dec. The confession of Elsie Sweetin, in which she admitted poisoning her husband, Wilford Sweetin, was ruled out as testimony in the case today by Judge J.

C. Kern. Judge Kern ruled that Mrs Sweetin signed the confession under duress and that her constitutional rights had been violated in obtaining the document. 14 NEW OIL WELLS. Fourteen oll wells were added Tuesday.

to the forrest of derricks surrounding Wortham, Freestone county's newest oil center. Twelve of these wells are to be drilled by the Simms Oil Company, all in Freestone, county, one to start Wednesday, and eleven of them Thursday. Magnolia, Petroleum Company will drill two wells in Limestone county, just, across the county line, starting both on Dec. 30. Airmail service has been introduced in China.

heir 'children. March 31, clers. the administration has set its face. REG'LAR FELLERS- -By Gene Byrnes. WHERE BUT WELL I GIMME A TO? THAT HAFTA KNOW CANT TELL GREEN WHERE YOU'RE THIS TIME TRANSFER ONE'S GOIN'! YOU 'CAUSE ITS A PLEASE? ALL RIGHT! S'PRIZE PARTY AN' SUPPOSED YOU KNOW! AINT TO 12-19 (Copyright, 1924.

by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) STATESMAN, AUSTIN, TEXAS. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1924. $5 RATE ON KATY AND $2 DIVIDEND ON PRAIRIE GIVEN General Electric Leads Rush of Industrial Stocks Upward. Press Dispatch to Wall Street Journal Review. NEW YORK, Dec.

Speculaenthusiasm received further overnight from two divitive developments including estabstumulus $5 rate on H. K. dend a T. Preferred and the continuation of regular quarterly dividends of $2. Prairie Oil and Gas.

The latter authorization was especially encouraging as considerable doubt had been entertained in Wall Street concerning maintenance of this payment. Stocks continued buoyant in the early dealings and further gains scored throughout the list. were Goneral Electric headed the rush upward among industrials, reaching high for twenty years at a new 2.84¾. Both industrial and railroad averages attained their best levels of the current bull market and this factor served to impart confidence regarding continuance of brtho forward movement in the whole list. continued to carry glad tidings of a merry Christmas for the bulls.

No change took place in the nature of the market which maintained in its vivid style all the characteristics of a great. bull swing. This was even true of the reactionary tendencies which developed in the late afternoon. For the uprush in special stocks in the earlier hours had reached the vio-1 lent stage. St it was a healthy indication of the markets desire to protect itself against excesses that an easier tone should have set in towards the close.

Aside from sensational rises in industrial specialties like Cast Iron Pipe, Worthingten Pump, Iron Products, the principal feature of the market was the impressive be-: havior of the railroad stocks, based on fresh traffic statistics showing that the carriers are still enjoying unexampled prosperity. NEW HIGH PRICE MARK ON WHEAT DELIVERIES Press Dispatch to CHICAGO, Dec. 16. increased general commission house buying all deliveries of wheat rose today to a new high price record for the season. Reports of rain interfering the wheat harvest in Argentina did a good deal to encourage activity on the part of purchasers.

The opening which ranged from to 1 cent higher, May, 1.68¾ and July, 1.48¾ 1.48⅞, was followed by a slight sag and then by a decided upturn all around. Cold weather likely to- increase teeding tended to strengthen -corn and oats. Country offerings of corn to arrive were small. After ing unchanged to cent higher; May, 1.30½ corn eased down a little, and then scored a moderate advance. Oats started to cent up, aD May, reacted somewhat and then went higher than before.

Provisione, like grain, were responsive to enlarged buying. Subsequently all deliveries of rye and oats as well as of wheat overtopped the season's highest. quotations. For the first time this season, the world's available supply total was less than at the corresponding date last year. Heavy profit taking sales checked the corn market advance.

Wheat- Open. High. Low. Close. Dec.

$1.66 $1.657 May 1.68¾ 1.68% 1.70½ July 1.48¾ 1.50° 1.48½ 1.49⅝ CornDec. 1.25½ 1.263 1.25 May 1.30½ 1.31 1.81 July 1.30% 1.315 1.30¼ Oats-Dec. .61 May .65 July .63 Rye Dec. 1.41½ 1.44; 1,40 1,44 May 1.46 1.49¾ 1.46 1.49 July 1.33.½ 1.36 1.33½ 1.35% LardMay 16.70 17:12 16:70 17.07 Jan. 3 16.42 116.80 $16:42 16.80 RibsJan.

1455 14.70 May .14.97 15.17 14.97 15.17 BelliesJan. 15.45 May 15.90 CHICAGO PRODUCE. CHICAGO, Dec. 16. Poultry: Alive, unsettled: fowls, springs, 181C; roosters, turkeys, 30c; geese, 16c; ducks, 16c.

Butter: Higher: creamery extras, 41c; standards, 40e: extra firsts, firsts, seconds, Eggs: Higher: firsts, ordinary firsts, refrigerator extras, firsts, TWO-POUND BABY AT HOUSTON LOSES FIGHT Lives for Thirteen Days But Finally Dies. Press Dispatch to, HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. Hermann Lee Saunders Houston's tiniest baby, lost a valiant thirteenday struggle for life today. Brought here by, the stork five months before his scheduled arrival was necessary to keep him swathed in absorbent cotton and Blankets in the hope that he might live to defy medical tradition. The infant weighed two pounds at time of his death.

English courts try about 300 breach of promise suits a year. COTTON OPENS UP WITH FAST SPURT ON CABLE REPORTS Importers Lifting Hedges, Says Report From Liverpool. Press Dispatch to NEW ORLEANS, 'Dec. The cotton market opened with a spurt of activity and at a good advance in sympathy with higher cables, Liverpool reporting that importers were lifting hedges freely First trades showed gains of 25 tc 28 points and right after the call January traded up to 24.15, March tc 24.17 and May, 24.43, or 28 to 33 points above yesterday's closing. There was good trade buying and shorts covered freely finding contracts scarce.

The main cause of the advance was the strength of the situation ir spots. Prices soon eased 'off 11 to 17 points from the highs on more or less realizing but soon rallied again until prices were nearly back to the highs. Sentiment appears to be increasingly bullish. The market ruled very steady all morning, although there was some reaction due to profit taking. Thus at the end of the first hour January traded down to 23.95c and March to 24c, or 17 to 20 points off from the early high, but soon rallied again, making new highs at 24.22c for January and 24.29c for March.

This advance again brought realizing, but prices only eased off moderately, the offerings being absorbed by trade buying. COTTON CLOSINGS. NEW ORLEANS. Dec. futures closed steady at net advances of 1 to 7 points.

Previous High. Low. Close. Close. Dec.

24.35 23.96 23.96 Jan. 24.22 23.83 23.83@85 23.82 March 24.29 23.92 23.92@94 23.88 May 24.55 24.20 24.22 24.15 July 24.64 24.32 24.32 bid 24.27 24.34 asked Opening: ch December, 24.15; January, 24.10: March, 24.10; May, 24.38; July, 24.52. NEW YORK, Dec. futures closed steady, Previous High. Low.

Close. Close. Oct. 24.10 23.85 23.87@89 23.79 Dec. 23.75 23.42 23.47@49 23:42 Jan.

23.87 23.55 23.55(058 23.49 March 24.27 23.95 23.96 99 23.91 May 24.63 24.32 24.32@35 24.27 July 24.78 24.47 24.47 24.39 Opening: December, 23.55 January, 23.65 March, 24.08; May, 24.46; July, 24.55. LIVERPOOL COTTON. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 16. Cotton spot quiet, prices steady.

Strictly good middling, 14.11; good middling, 13.76; strictly middling, 13.56; middling, 13.26; strictly low middling, 12.96: low middling, 12.56; strictly good ordinary, 12.16; good ordinary, 11.56. Sales, 5000 bales, including 3300 American. Receipts, 24,000 bales, including 16,200 American. ROTARY HEARS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES W. A.

Smith and Sterling Takeuchi Address Luncheon Club. American ideals of democracy and their spread in other nations formed the general topic around which the Rotary program for yesterday noon was built. Talks by Block Smith, Y. M. C.

A. secretary at the University; Sterling Takeuchi, University student from Japan, and J. G. Maytin, Russian diplomat under the old regime, were featured on the program, Block Smith outlined the work and scope of the Y. M.

C. A agencies now maintained in twenty-three nations, and the methods by which this growth was effected. Sterling Takeuchi made an analysis of the extent of American customs in the Japanese nations and the deep rooted hold they had taken. "The supreme test of the extent Japan has reached in its assimilation of western civilization will come Dec. 24 of this year, when the Japanese nation will vote on the of manhood suffrage," he concluded.

Maytin closed the talks with the statement that the development of American ideals in the Chinese and Russian nations and a consequent alliance of America with them would bring about a concentration of power that would eliminate the necessity of a league of nations. Music was furnished by Mrs. Margaret Huddle Slaughter, who gave three selections. MARINES TO PROTECT AMERICANS IN CHINA Mutiny of Troops Causes Order Pekin. Press Dispatch to PEKIN, Dec.

Twenty picked American marines were ordered to proceed to Kalgan, 125 miles northwest of here, at 5 a. m. Wednesday to protect lives of American citizens endangered by a mutiny of Chinese troops. The Chinese assured the American legation that the situation was "well in hand," but the unusual action of rushing the marines to Kalgan was decided upon regardless of the assurance. COOLIDGE OPPOSES NAVAL COMPARISONS Opposes Washington Treaty Spirit, President.

Thinks. Press Dispatch to WASHINGTON, Dec. Coolidge expressed disapproval to callers today of the tendency to compare the United States navy with other navies. He believes this is a violation o1 the spirit of the Washington arms conference, and if followed by the administration, would lead to competitive armaments building between the nations, against which THE biggest news story of of the suit of Charles against a London bank for the day in England is the trial Ernest Robinson (inset) $700,000 paid by an Indian potentate, referred to as Mr. to kush up an affair with Mrs.

Robinson, but which he avers he never received. The Dead JAMES BRADY. James Brady, 81, father of Judge John W. Brady of Austin, died Tuesday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fred B.

Wilder, in Long Beach, according to a message received by Judge Brady. Mr. Brady was a pioneer resident in Austin, coming here in 1871 and for forty years was engaged in the mercantile business. Surviving him are three sons, John W. Brady, Austin; Will P.

Brady and D. J. Brady, Los Angeles and two daughters, Mrs. D. T.

White, El Paso and Mrs. Fred B. Wilder, Long Beach, Cal. PLURALITY ELECTION OF PRESIDENT ASKED Bill Introduced Senate by Johnson of California. Press Dispatch WASHINGTON, Dec.

-A resolution proposing a constitutional amendment providing for election of a president by a plurality of electors rather than a majority was introduced today by Senator Johnson 1 (Republican) of California. NEW JAP AMBASSADOR. Press Dispatch to Statesman.1 TOKIO, Dec. Tsuneo Matsudaira, vice minister of foreign affairs, is acceptable to the United States as ambassador, it was announced today. He will shortly take up his new post.

LA GRANGE STORE ROBBED. Press Dispatch to LA GRANGE, Dec. 16. Bandits robbed W. A.

Morgan store here some time after last midnight, escaping with merchandise valued at $500. Buy Christmas gifts and Christmas NOW at Ye Qualitye Adv. Detachable collars. were invented by Hannahs Montague, an English housewife, in 1825. A 1632-fork in an English household is believed to be the oldest in existence.

MINISTER REFUSED DUEL WITH EDITOR Argentine President Refuses to Grant Resignation, Press Dispatch to BUENOS AIRES, Dec. Alvaear has refused to accept the resignation of Finance. Minister Molina, SO he might to fight a duel with the editor of a newspaper. It is customary for ministers to resign and resume office after the duel. FALLS OFF WHARF; DROWNS.

Press Dispatch to HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. Members of ambulance crew today were searching the waters of the ship channel in an effort to recover Frank Chase's body. He fell from the wharf at the Long Beach plant last night. Chase, who was 62, was walking the wharf with two companions when he slipped into the water. BAD COFFEE SEIZED.

A follow- up campaign will be made by inspectors of the food and drug division, following the recent survey of coffee roasting plants throughout the state, when twenty cases of misbranding and eight cases of adulteration were found, and the conditions remedied, it was announced by. the state health department. THE TRUTP ABOUT CANCER New Book Gives Latest Developments in Extensive Cancer Research. A very complete and comprehensive book on cancer and its treatment is now offered by Dr. O.

A. Johnson, well-known cancer specialist. There is probably no man in America who has made a closer study of this dread disease, or who has treated as many sufferers from it. For 25 years he has been treating cancer without the knife. The results of his experience and research he gives in this new book.

Anyone suffering from cancer or who has a loved one or friend so afflicted, should by all means get this book. Just address Dr. 0. A. Johnson, Suite 356, 1324 Main street, Kansas City, Mo.

It will be sent free and postpaid. -Adv. FENNER BEANE NEW ORLEANS BROKERS NEW YORK ORDERS RECEIVED THROUGH Members EXCHANGE 718 Littlefield Our Branch Building, Office Phone 3232 Principal Exchanges All FRED E. PRYOR, Manager. Direct Private Wires to New York, New Orleans, Chicago and thronghout the South.

MONEY TO LOAN On 'Austin City Property and Black Land Farms. TEXAS BANK TRUST CO. BUSINESS and PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY of AUSTIN Patronize These Firms For the BEST GOODS and SERVICE Abstractors Insurance GRACY TITLE GUARANTY CO. 810 Littlefield Bldg. Phone 6515 TRAVIS CO.

ABSTRACT TITLE CO. 214-16 Littlefield Bldg. Phone 6348 Courtesy -Service Satisfaction Accountants HUDDLESTON SMITH Public Accountants Income Tax Practice 423 Littlefield Bldg. Phone 5474 WERKENTHIN BROS. Systems Audits Phone 2427 913 Littlefield Bldg.

W. G. LEE WOODS Corporation Accountant 429 Littlefield Bldg. Phone 7225 Advertising AUSTIN MULTIGRAPHING SHOP Sales Letter Specialist, Campaigns 604 Scarbrough Bldg. WERKENTHIN BROS.

Insurance Agency Phone 2427 913 Littlefield Bldg, -Kodak Finishing THE GAZLEY Koday Finishing Enlarging In at 10, and out at 5 that Afternoon. Laundries Do Family Washing Austin "La Laundry Dry Cleaning Co. Phones 5368-5369 "Send It to the HOME STEAM Phone 3702 211 E. 5th St Leather Dealers Plow Harness, Saddles, Slickers Ranger Belts and Scabbards, Leather and Shoe Findiugs. A.

W. BRILL 218 E. 6th Architects Loans GIESECKE HARRIS Per Cent-Farm Loans-6 Per Cent Architects THOS. P. WHITIS 520 Littlefield Bldg.

Phone 6675 710 Scarbrough Bldg. Phone 6459 Art Novelty Shop Wall Paper, Paints, Window Glass Art Supplies, Pictures, Picture Framing C. A. BRADFORD CO. 9th and Colorado YE QUALITY SHOPPE Painting, Prints, Antiques, Gifts 1104 Colorado St.

Phone 7901 Athletic and Sporting Goods SPORTING GOODS CO Wholesale, Retail, and Manufacturing 704 Congress Ave, Auto Supplies AUTO SUPPLY COMPANY Wholesale Only Phone 4992 403 Congress Ave. Auto Tires Brunswick and Goodrich Tires HARRY GOLDEN Corner 5th and Brazos Phone 7069 NITSCHKE TIRE INC. Federal Extra Service Tires 503 Brazos Phone 3830 Auto Tops Top Recovering and Body Upholstering F. W. CRANE 113 E.

8th St. Phone 5605 Bakerles Best of All Bread MACRY'S BAKING CO. Better Bread--Better Service HOLLAND'S STUDIO Banks Physicians AUSTIN NATIONAL BANK DR. E. P.

DAVISS Resources $8,000,000.00 Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat "No Account Too Small" 227 Littlefield Bldg. Phone 2090 6 Per Cent Guaranteed First Mortgage Real Estate Notes for Sale COMPANY Pleating and Hemstitching TEXAS BANK TRUST MABEL GANNAWAY Pleating, Hemstitching, Buttons Batteries 911 Congress Phone 8362 BATTERY and SERVICE COMPANY Plumbing Electric Supplies Recharge 6th St. Repair All Makes of Phone Batteries 6420 A. E. HANCOCK CO.

Plumbing We Repair All Makes of Batteries 908 Congress Phone 6195 SHAW BATTERY SERVICE 119 Congress Ave. Phone 5850 HARPER LINSCOMB Plumbing, Gas and Electrical Contractors SIMS AND MEREDITH Show Room, 204 W. 18th St. Phone 8521 Battery Repairing our Specialty 217 E. 5th St.

Phone 2502 "Where Good Plumbing Repairs Are Made" E. RAVEN-PLUMBER Phone 6763 1403 Lavaca Star Blacksmithing Iron Work Figure With Me Your Printers and Publishers Wrought Iron Work for Christmas E. T. SIGGELL FIRM FOUNDATION PUB. HOUSE "Good Printing Costs No More" 104-108 E.

9th St. Chiropractors VON BECKMANN-3 CO. KINNEY KINNEY, M. D. C.

Printers and Binders Palmer Phone 6366 811 School Graduates Congress Aver 300 E. 9th Phone 4038 The Wright Chiropractic Offices Produce J. STANLEY WRIGHT, D.D.S., D.C., PE.C. 203 W. 7th St.

Tel. 5695 Highest Cash Prices Paid For Your Chickens Eggs and Turkeys BALAGIA PRODUCE 506 Trinity Cleaners BIGGS Cleaners and COMPANY Tailors Public Stenographers 1007 Congress Ave. Phone 7601 AUSTIN MULTIGRAPHING SHOP Suits Cleaned and Legal a Specialty JACK THE HATTER 604 Scarbrough Bldg. Phone 2062 110 E. 5th St.

NICK LINZ Radiator Repairing Master Dry -Hatter Phones 2652-7936 611 Congress AUSTIN Welding and Radiator Work Exclusively 205 E. WELDING RADIATOR WKS. MILES BROTHERS 5th St. Phone 8783 Cleaners and Hatters 324 E. 5th St.

Phone 6026 Real Estate GEORGE WESLEY Master Cleaner Real W. A. BOSWELL Phones 2670-2646 913 Congress Ave. Estate, Insurance, Loans. 912 Littlefield Bldg.

Phone 6678 0. G. HOFHEINZ Dentists Real Estate, Rentals, Fire, and Life Insurance DR. G. F.

ECKHARDT 700 Phone Brazos 6727 St. Rent Car Service Drugs LIGHTSEY'S Driverless Fords SYSTEM When You Think of Drugs Phone. 8545 104 W. 7th THINK OF RENFRO'S Phones: No. 1-5845 No.

2-9411. Roofing Dyer Barrett Hot and Air Heating Johns-Mansville DYER J. 0. BUAAS SONS- SINCE KOCH, CLEANER AND 1884 Quality and Quick Service 405 W. 6th St.

Phone 6323 Seeds Electrical Repairs Seed and C. Bird, J. MARTIN SON Dog E. and Poultry Supplies 214 6th St. THE AUSTIN ELECTRIC WORKS Rewinding of All Kinds 501 Colorado St.

Phone 2858 Sheet Metal Works Florists General Tin GAGE and Sheet BROTHERS Metal Work ART FLOWER SHOP 500 E. 6th St. Phone 5279 Bouquets, Cut Flowers, Funeral Designs 204 W. 6th St. Phone 9360 Shoe Repair Shops Hardware The For Strid the Shoe Very Best Shop, in Opposite Postoffice W.

Shoe Repairing J. Evers, Prop. JOHN C. ROSS HARDWARE CO. Everything in Hardware Phone 7066 319 Congress Ave.

Stove Repairing FULAER BRUSHES Let Do Your Uses, He 00 Fr Cellar to Attic" Us Stove Repairing Phon 526 I. B. KING 1417 Lavaca St. Phone 4895 Ice Cream anulacturers Transfer Companies VIOLET CROWN ICE CREAM Pasteurized MERCHANTS TRANSFER 101 6th St. Phone 9194 We Move Anything Phone 6286 400 Colorado St.

Insurance Turkish: Bath BULL DEVINEY General Insurance LITTLEFIELD BATHS Littlefield Bldg. Tel. 4420 Open Under New Management Expert in Charge. We Keep You Young. MAERKI BAKING CO.

Wholesale Only Better Bread--Better Service REINHARDT LUMBER COMPANY Everything in the Building Line 501 W. 5th St. Phone 2798 Markets Lumber FLETCHER'S MARKET S. Government Inspected Meats Phones 8453-3579 West Sixth St4 Try Our Home-Baked Ham Imported Swiss and Italian Cheess STANDARD MARKET Machinists and Welders Cylinder Regrinding, Score Filling Auto Engine Parts Structural Steel And Machine Supplies HEIERMANN INDUSTRIES 117 E. 5th 408 Braze Skinnay Will Entertain Newsies COME on, fellers! in free Skinny's Christgonna let us mas Day to his show from 10 a.

m. to 8 p. That's what newsboys and, messengers of Austin will say to their "buddies" Christmas morning. Manager "Skinny" Pryor of the Grand Central Theater is inviting all newsboys and messenger boys of the city to attend his show as his guests on Christmas Day. PRESBYTERIAN MEN WILL HOLD MEETING Monthly Conference Scheduled For Tuesday At 7:30 p.

m. The men of the First Southern Presbyterian Church will hold their monthly meeting at 7:30 Tuesday night in the church annex. Judge Cooper Sansom and Mr. Rorie of Somerville will speak. Several musical numbers will also be given.

The program is in charge of the following group: Milton Morris, Dr. M. F. Kreisle, J. B.

Jarmon, A. L. Love, J. C. Brown, Donald Smith, A.

M. Gribble J. T. Johnson, Frank Nivens, William Kendall, W. W.

Maxwell, A. M. Kreisle and Felix Shuford. DIVORCE ASKED BY ACTRESS OF MOVIES She's Reported Engaged To Champion Jack Dempsey, Press Dispatch to PHILADELPHIA, Dee. Estelle Taylor Peacock, motion picture actress, is suing her husband, Kenneth M.

Peacock for a divorce in the court of common pleas here, it was learned at city hall today. The motion picture actress was reported as being engaged to Jack Dempsey. STATE MAY CLOSE M'COY CASE TODAY Hanging Asked in Murder Trial at Los Angeles. Press Dispatch to LOS ANGELES, Dec. The framework of evidence the state has, designed as a basis for a demand that "Kid'? McCoy be hanged for murder is nearing completion.

The prosecution may conclude its case today, according to Deputy Attorney Fricks, head of the state's counsel. Thirty-four witnesses have so far been called to testify against the. "Kid." INVESTIGATION ASKED IN LAREDO SHOOTING Deputy Sheriff by Alleged Mexican Soldiers. Press Dispatch to Statesman.I LAREDO, Texas, Dec- 16. -United States Consul Walsh in Nuevo Laredo today, requested Mexican authorities to thoroughly investigate the shooting yesterday of Deputy Sheriff Joe Fierros of Laredo by alleged Mexican soldiers and smug- Optometrists and Opticians WARD TREADWELL Optometrists 7th and Congress Ave.

Phone 5738 Osteopathic Physicians DR. ALBERT L. DEVENY Osteopathic Physician and Sargeon Phone 6872 701 Scarbrough Bldg. WM. A.

LEWIS, M. D. 0. Specializes in Osteopathy First Floor Masonic Temple Phone 6802 Photographers Where There's Beauty, Holland Takes It Where There's None, Holland Makes It HOLLAND'S STUDIO Canada exported 401,983 tons of gypsum during the year ended on Fire and Tornado Insurance on Feeristuffs, Cotton. and all other property FREE AND WILLIAMS Veterinarians SURE INSURANCE AT AUSTIN VETERINARY HOSPITAL GERHARD INSURANCE AGENCY 1207 Specialize in Treatment of Dogs Phone 6678 912-Littlefield Bldg.

E. 5th St. Phone 6546.