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Haro XXVII WACO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1923 -32 Copy 5e 240 Moscow Plot in Germany Seen in Red Uprising in Ruhr Inspection For West Texas Tech Begins June 10 Forty Cities and Towns Bid for Location of College; Sutton to Make I rip By AUSTIN, May tion of that are applicants for the Texas Technological college probably will begin on June 10, Chairman 8, H. owell of the locating board stated today. Cowell said Dr. W. 8, Sutton who yesterday was named acting president of the atate university, will accompany the board on the inspection toor and that of the site for the achool will not await election of a permanent president.

Forty west and sre bidding for location of Texaa educational institution. Refloated to kill the Technological appropriation in leg- failed, and Governor Neff only last week went on record In an Interview that would never no much a from the Institution's appropriation. Scenes of Red Uprising in Germany and Map of Blood Area in the Ruhr Wave of Communism Carrying Bloodshed Sweeps Over Country By International News Service ESSEN May 26 German industrial city of Gelsenkirchen on the northern boundary of the Ruhr, is completely in the hands of the German reds today. They are ruling with an iron handt imposing prohibition and threatening the death penalty for looting. Gelsenkirchen shops are virtually sold out, due to low prices enforced by the communists.

Shop keepers are unwilling to replenish their stocks owing to heavy losses they would sustain. Famine is threatened. Trouble ia brewing Hamborn, of the great iron and steel works owned by the Thy won family. Freah communist are reported from Cestrop, near Dormund, and Bochum. Bruce Resigns As Head of Normal By Associated May Dr II president ef college, relieved of active bin request by board of normal coUese In hara today and president emeritus of the school and a ptatmmr of education, Dr.

Marquis of Alpine Normal wai promoted to of larger IVnton H. Morelock of the elected a to at Alpine. Mias Annie Webb Blanton for presidency of normal but had application for tJ a 1 stated. m' lj.ognd of says art of Lockhart of board and Eckhart. for the coming- Today Is Birthday I For Cameron Park Today in tha anniversary of Cameron park.

What of grandest heautv Into Waco park through gift of family on May 27 3119. At that time park con- of acres. Today flrat of park of addition, which park a to 433 McLennan Farmers See Bumper Crops As Harvesting Is On Telling of waving fields of grain, ready for the sickle; of sturdy and healthful fields of cotton, much of it already chopped and clean of weeds; and of fluttering blades of corn, blue-black and lusty with ife; making mention also of bountiful plantings of forage crops, and mentioning good cheer and hopefulness as the dominating spirit among farmers just now, The Tribune baa reports this morning from every section of McLennan county. Mestly Firmtn in nearly from fsrrr.ers, but in a fsw from Sand who actively and daily In touch with crop At a few rain would be gleaned. Moogy, Bob Mitchell: While cotton St late.

It up to good stand and It being chopped well. good, will probably to The long anticipated red uprising in the Ruhr of Germany has commenced. Pictures show; Upper left: Bird eye view of Gelsenkirchen, city of 100,000 in industrial center, completely in hands of the reds. The giant blast furnaces and entrances to coal mines are shown. Upper right: Map of the Ruhr.

Note locations of the towns of Dortmund, Bochum, Essen, reported centers of red uprisings. Lower: Mannheim business center, occ upied by French Band To BERLIN, May declared today that the red rising in the Ruhr is the opening gun in a deep laid Moscow plot for the bolahevists to through central Eu: rope. Three Russian ists, arrested at were serving as couriers. Karl Radek, the cleverest 1 y. it and most cynical soviet spokes- IllS 0tO man in Europe, is in Berlin.

II 1 Dort Brand, JhreatenS Texas to Send Horde to Shrine Meet at Capital i 1 ning of a carefully plotted se- 1 our Locations in of ington Set Aside for Karem (Waco) Temple Threatens Bloodshed "fi will not accuse Lord Curzon (British foreign secretary) of having hired the assassin of Vaslav at said Radek. will not allege that the Lausanne murder was the begin troops and possible center 1 red sabotage, of: For a Bigger Waco TURN TO COLUMN 1 China Grants Demands Of U. S. in Coltman Death By International WASHINGTON, May granted completely the for reparation tn of t'oltman, AiMrim merchant ehot and killed by provincial December, It announced afternoon. Coltman will be $5R.

by the Pekin government, the provincial concerned with his death have been and Pekin government hat a polo gtied and promised to rectify con dltions which led to China to Float 8ix-Year Loan at 8 Par Cent Bv international PEKIN. May hlneae cabinet aftpmoon decided to float a UO.ftOO.i^O loan at I per cent. The loan will by certain regaidM favorable, considering China chaotic condition. Seat By The Associated ST. PAt'U May J.

A. O. eighth candidate to file in ten atorlal to succeed Knute Net non. Governor made no for mal statement when filed on republican ticket today. HTTWeather EAST TEXAS Hunday and Mon day to winds on the coast.

WEST TiSAS Sunday Mon-j dau partly clnudr. OKLAHOMA! and Monday fair. ARKANSAS; Sunday and Monday! partly cloudy, probabty In portion. LOUISIANA; Sunday Monday partly cloudy, scattered In east portion. By Or, itftfer Opttelae 411 Austin Ave, for today: Partly cloudy to cloudy.

rat Maximum. at I ni minimum. at i a. barometer. 19 Tn.

humidity, par cent, total alnd for the fastsut at 1 SO p. total wind for tha month. 3 total rain for month. .1 Inch. Weather Outleek B.v Ths WASHINGTON.

May outlook for the beginning Monday Uulf Partly cloudy with thunder temperature about normal Upper Mlseissivml lowsr cloudl- and Occaeional half. ially fair thsraaftar, about normaL Two Youths Shot and Killed At Texas Town on Border By ALPtNE May low Coffman and Jack Coffman. 11 and 11 reepectivaty, and killad yeaterday at Studyfcutte near Terllr.gxia, on Metican bortler Blllaba, a Mexican, haa placed In jail here. The cause of not known A Coffman were bom and reared In county and of a well known family. in Collision By Internationa: GLASGOW, May 26 In collision with steamship Baron Vernon, the liner Metagam bound for Canada with 1100 on board, was to return to port today.

Machine Guns Seek ACO will not be to progressive spirit. If next Tuesday turn down the proposition of for a now city hall. The structure is an to the leading of central Texaa. It Hi ugly like a weatherbeaten tombstone to lethargy- and InarUa, This Is not the first time The urged Waco- to vote bonds for a new nlclpal A point made at time, however, concerning handllrut of derived from the bond Issue in case of approved. Though actually the money which would be voted, nreeent city commlslson will not exciusive jusigment in the matter, a committee', composed of of in Waco, been named advisory to the council In expenditure of the The mlsliwn must seek the of this committee and though technically not forced to act upon advice this committee would give.

Is morally bound to act on advice to an extent far greater than any technical position would assure. usiness uke judgment handling 1311,000 fund will With assurance, with fact undisputed that growth far outstripped now houHlryr the government, progressive Wacoan no nativa In Tueedayg alec tt than to caer ballot for the bond Waco a city of vision The city has gone forward, never backward. Wftts the return of prosperlt- to Its trade area, now not a to establish a precedent for backsliding in the onward movement of civic progress The proposed bond received city wide endorsement. Rotary, Lion. Y.

and Chamber of Commerce riven their unqualified support to the meature, The News-Tribune those civic organisations which gone on record in favor of the bond issue to work for Its passage Tuesday. Be fair to your city. Pay Rolls Put State In Red Half a Million By Tha Associated AUSTIN, May Pay of various amounting to than 1500.000. received by the state treasurer today bringing' the deficiency of general revenue fund to approximately a million Terrell announced. Liberate Captives Dean Highland Votes $24,000 In School Bonds By The PEKING, May M.sebi ne guns and rifles tontjght are attempting to force the release of 14 foreigners, including six Americans, held by bandits in the hills above Llncheng New Well Blows in At Powell Oil Field Neff Signs 19 Bills By The Press AUSTIN, May additional and resolutions passed by called special legislative were signed bv Governor Neff today.

They Include the Bonham bill providing for colecting delinquent land taxes and the Culp bill levying a tax on coin operated vending machines Both of affective after adjournment of session. Play at Washington Conclave News-Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, bands I foe of biggest of tt was nouncod tonight. Arabia of Houston will play at war department June S. and Hue of Austin will at of day. of Waco will play at at Pennsylvania street June 8- El of Galveston will play st Washington ft, and Arabia of Houston at on day.

WASHINGTON, May TJie greatest gathering of Texans ever held outside the Lone Star state is the promise here for next week when Shr.n- ers from all over the nation gather here. The headquarters of the various Texas temples were announced several days ago. Khiva temple of Amanllo and Arabia of Houston drew the choicest locations. Khiva temple is to be quartered at the fashionable hotel, just across If No Taxes Levied Governor Expected to Turn Down All Appropriations Unless Revenue Is Raised By Associated May 26 -Governor Neff Tuesday will veto all of the general appropriation measures before him unless the present legislature passes some of the revenue measures now being considered before that time, it was authoritatively stated tonight. The governor held several conferences with legislative leaden today regarding the financial situation.

Several members of joint legislative ways and means commit tee conferred with the relative to vetoing tha appropriation The committee to a to botb Monday with tlons for meeting the preaent tion looking toward adjournment at the next It stated by members tonUrht that If oil production tax and tha pipe fax bills paaaad by flciais but I will say one thing, When we begin killing we win aim straight and the toll of our enemiea will be far greater than our This statement to International News Service comes just at the time when papers axe raising a hue cry over "a bolabevtst plot in the Immediately after giving the interview, to take command behind the ecenes tn Ruhr. in Two After carefully fueling out slttiation, the In the Buhr commenced in The violence centered in two towns and Dortmund. A rod in control of former town at reporta According to German who are combatting the red wave the ally French militarism, which playing the role of Give No French have the police no aid Germans are bitterly commenting, that miiStarv a hlch. upon siiffht- est provocation, conducted senate Monday or Tuwdiy tn in the supreme court today, declared John IMttmore Illegally removed director of the Christian Science church. Judge Dodge heard the evidence Introduced on a bill seeking reinstatement.

The report also finds Miss Annie Knott, Dlttmore successor, has no claim to position Program of Rand Concert in Cotton Palace Park. SUNPAT. MAT Sft P. M. Karcm Band EVERETT MCCRACKEN, Conductor 1 Marvh Cat.

Band, McOaughey. 2- Overture Offenbach, 9. popular tal Moon Mastini Kortlander; Got to Mama Every Night." Hose A 4 Saf. ranek. til Nocturne and Morning Hymn of Praise, (I) A Court Function, 1 (The and Aana) 6.

Hacred Medley to the World," arr Itarn- house. Popular hit line Irving Berlin Star Spangled Banner The $24,000 bond Issue for Spedai te The of an addition lo CORSICA NA. May J. Dean Highland echoe 1 carried Thomson Oil corfn.ration urday at the district by a Springfield No. 1, located ln a di- Th.

roct Une between the Hughes McKie ln an4 th0 tax of 10c on voted upon jn this afternoon at 4 SO wlth an at the time, carried ST to jestimated flow of 24.000 harrela additlon will be of rick and of flreproof conatructloa There will he four rooms and ment. The will a lunch The been so de- slgnrd that two of them can threwn Into one, giving the school an ample-sijted auditortum The ar- chitcct is Pearaou are to hegln work on the new buliding so it be toniplete.t in time for the open- Ing of the September Duchess of York, Bride Of Six Weeks, Is 111 By International News Service LONDON. May The inieto- ess of York, daughter-in-law of the king and queen, who was formerly Elisabeth is suffering from whooping cough and was isolated today. Bhe married to the Duke of York six ago, Jap Issue By International News Kervlce TOKIO, May Following a hour devoted to discussion of the proposal of reopening for recognition of soviet Russia, the cabinet tonight adjourned until Tuesday, Ssn Anteo-o Boy SAN ANTONIO, May 31 berry killed last night when a car tn which he was riding ran into an paiked on street. flow' is getting stronger the and is flowing line oil.

After well blew in, St took some time to turn the flow into flow It filled two 600-barrel tanks ln SS by a watch, according to The pay encountered at feet. Although balling was tn progress at the well all day, It though! that the well could hot be brought In before Sunday morning A Urge crowd present well drenching of surrounding country with a spray of oil, received a drenching of the golden fluid storage facilities over flowing and busy con earthen tanks The well making 1,060,000 of Jail and for By International New Service WAUKEGAN. May IS Boyle was sentenced to six months in Jail and fined today by R. Welah when found guilty here of contempt of court, in that he refused to testify before the grand jury investigating Small jury "fixing Dittmore Removal From Science Board Attacked By International Service BOSTON, May Judge A Frederick Dodge, in a report filed the street from the treasury. Arabia temple is to be quartered at the Harrington, a new hotel in the very heart of the city, Karem Temple, Waco, win four locations Part of the delegation win be quartered at Hall hotel and Waah ington Inn, both hotels a block south of The will at 111 First near the and at Mf Rast Capitol street.

10 blocks further out Majda Temple, El Paso, will be at the Howard bouse up 1 vania avenue, a few of the Miskat Temple. Wichita Fails, will be parked la Pullman near Union station. Ben Hur Temple, Austin, wtil be parked on Baltimore and Qtshs railroad track El Temple Gal- will be Uxated at Fiehtston hall. Thirteenth street, to the business section. Lighting Historic Pennsylvania avenue, ever mhSeh Oeneral Pershing army, navy and marine corps in parade which celebrated the I of eiery inaugural parade and of the solemn escort which the unknown American to his final meting place on Armistice day In be made a of for the of the and their Al- governor will not maasureg on his desk.

Will sn will be mada to through to prevent tlve from all of appropriation bills back for tf not probably will cut down totals by vetoing ceurtsun it was Taken til on By Internationa; Service CHICAGO, Parker Gibson, id, of ttei Broadway. Kansas City, en route to Pittsburgh, taken from a train here today, ill. and died on way to a hospital. Chicago to By International News Service WaSHINtiTON, May 2i United Veterans' located on threxel boulevand. cago, win be etoeed io and fcOO now there will be transferred to Maywood, Great and Milwaukee institutions, It announced today.

expeditions 'th the flourish of tanks and cavalry, now calmly stands by while the red are turntnr whole down. plundering and killing, firing town balls and staging bloody street An old Prussian military chief in discussing the situation with International News Service, said" support of the la the Ruhr wilt be a boomerang As as breaks out communists will rapidly pollute the occupational just as the Russians Infected the In war days. General De- Goutte. French commander tn playing a dangerous game." The Red disorders have spread to Bochum where of red1 h.v. on ET -A tetl- MANY WOUNDED AT BOCHUM storm afternoon, declared by to b.

th. woonAaA hlt thm Rio valley, pierced Oarmai 1 ar no -V of and i klu i and destroyed and i cotton and many fruit ne offlcee and lr northern Cameron county, county agricultural agent'a VIOLENCE AT MUENSTER til MUENSTKR Germany, May violence broke out here to- 1 day. Communtau stormed dewy, stations, but were driven off with ft ms i water y. of Hailstorm Strikes Rio Grande Valley hall reported, In other parts of valley. Cameron county is the most one in the United TURN PAGE a COLUMN to Take Texas Ohio Dancers Claim Students to Harvest were exchanged.

GERMAN DYNAMITER executed DUSSRLDoRF May Albert Seklageter, leader of a hand of seven German railway In the Ruhr, today was executed by the French military au- He ss to death by French military mission on May after being found guilty of sabotage. RADICAL STRIKE EXTENDED KSSKN May workers landed at field here at and communists In Ruhr 15 o'clock timel tonight, continued spreading today and completing a Gsreaan estimated that flight. Lieutenant Crocker left 300 000 men were out The Kllington fleld, Houston. Texas, at was extended from the region where many mines and metal are closed. Into Bochum mining dtairfet.

where li shafts snd 15 metal works are shut down and T000 are idle. Gulf -to-Canada Flight in 11 Hours By MOUNT SLEMONS, Mich May Harrtson Crocker New Marathon Record By The Associated YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. May Miss Mercer and Harry who bog an dancing at near here last Saturday in an to break all existing distance today claimed a record when they passed mark say that previous tSi-fcewr record, get by eis in Texas, not match performance they been resting only every eight while the Texans sure sstd to have rested li ery hour. By AUSTIN, 2t are for te te of wmver- atty to work in Labor My ere announced today. sstd harvest is expiated te Stert tn first week tn under th egents by whiek the students be taken into and st Myers Denby Declares War Always Draw Others In By Internationa; News Service NEWPORT, May know now that war betwoen great or of powerg will always Involve many other and cannot say certainty that such a war may not come at any declared Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby today, in to graduating class el the Navai War REDS CONTROL RUHR AMSTERDAM, May All the northern half of the Ruhr is virtually under control of German according to from the German frontier today.

A number of Russian communists reported to be making their way into Germany. It reported that a soviet established by communist committee at Gelsenkirchen. Semen Signs $3,000,000 Contract By The As ted NEW YORK. May 2f Larry Semon. who a few ago New York newspaper cartoonist at a weekly salary, today had signed contract with Truart Film corporation for production of in the next three which Will set him er 5 21 (central flight of 1400 In 11 and The actual flight pled 11 and of being In reaching landing J21 55.000 Hsrveet By International KANSAS CITY.

May Fifty-five thouaand harvest hands will needed this year tn Tevss. Oklahoma, Kaesgie and Nebraska, it was today by George N. Tucker, agricultural field repreeeetaltve of the employ ment bureau of the t'nlted department ot labor. The for these statse Is estimated at 1I.5IS.000. Weather Flight By International Service BEI-LE VILLE.

May IS On account of unfavorable conditions, trip at the big non-rigid dirigible TC-t today, Mal. John A. Paeglow. otumander of Srett.

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