Corsicana Daily Sun from Corsicana, Texas • Page 1

r.w?d# CORSICANA The Electrical Power Hub of Texas. full LEASED WIRE associated press service CORSICANA The Original Oil Field of The Mid-Continent. EIGHT KILLED 0 0 TORNADOES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NAMED 4 0 0 0 8 8 8 8 8 8 WAVE SWEPT FOURTEEN MENJO WATERY GRAVE WILLIAM F. WHITING NAMED AS SECRETARY COMMERCE TUESDAY RESIGNATIO HERBERT HOOVER ACCEPTED IN TELEGRAM OF PRAISE Where Britons Wrote an Epic Page SUPERIOR, Aug. El.

Cool- 5dg accepted today the resignation of Secretary Hoover from the cabinet and appointed William F. Whiting of Holyoke, to succeed him. Mr. Whiting, a personal friend political supporter of President Coolidge for many years, arrived in Superior this morning and was administered the oath of office in the chief room ftt the executive offices here. Mr.

Whiting is head of the Whiting iPaper company of Holyoke, Mass. He has never previously held Jbolitlcal office but has been very Active In state politics especially in western Massachusetts. He was a delegate to the Republican National convention in 1920, 1924 and 1928. He is about 65 years of age. President Coolidge accepted Secretary resignation by telegram, addressed to Washing- ton, in which he praised the Commerce Secretary's effort in promoting the commercial and business iwjties of the nation.

The knowl- acquired by Mr. Hoover of and government while in tne cabinet was President Coolidge said. FAST PASSENGER AND FREIGHT MEET NEAR KANSAS TOWN MISUNDERSTANDING TRAIN ORDERS IS CAUSE; LOCOMOTIVES DEMOLISHED Ten Persons Are Reported Frozen Black Sea Port TREBIZOND. Turke.y Aug. Ten persons were frozen to death when a phenomenal cold wave brought a heavy snow to this Black Sea oort yesterday.

Hundreds of cattle were reported killed in the outlying sections. CHINESE BOB HAIR. Aug. mu- llWpal bureau of public safety has SRereed Peking women under 30 ykurs of age must bob their hair or pay a The order becomes effective Sept. 1.

It is meant to discourage the old Manchu stvle of hair dressing. ANXIETY GROWING AS NO WORD COMES FROM OCEAN FLYERS FEARED HASSELL AND CRAMER DROPPED INTO SEA OFF LABRADOR COAST CHICAGO. A uk have lengthened into days without word from Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, trail blazers of the Arctic airways. It was a certaintv that their monoplane, the Greater had been down since Sunday, for its fuel sunnlv would long since ftgve been exhausted. That is sue- ed in reaching some lonely landing place on the Greenland Coast was the buoving hope for those anxiously awaiting word.

That it had dropped into the sea somewhere off Cape Chidley, Labrador. was the ever growing fear. Donald MacMillan. Arctic explorer now at Nain, Labrador, wirelessed the Associated Press last night that if the plane is down in open water is no possibility of the flyers getting "If they arein a land MacMillan added. is all over.

If Hassell is down on the coast in the vicinity of Cape Chidley. we mav hear nothing of them for several weeks as schooners are now leaving Some bays are deep, and walking to safety is almost impossible for one not knowing sites of the Eskimo The MacMillan message was sent from the field radio station WNP of the Rnwson-Field Museum expedition and received hv Station fi-AFA operated by Ralph Brooks, amateur operator at Calumet Harbor, Ind. Weather Was Fine. MacMillan corroborated what hart previously been reported by W. Hobbs from Mt, Evans that weaf.cr eondi- have been exceptionally favorable for flving for the past few days.

Dr. Hobbs, heading the University of Michigan expedition now at Mt Evans, had eo-opernt- ed in making arrangements for the Greater Rockford's landing on Continued on Page 5) Here is the spot where Kltch proved that Britons forgotten how to ie. It is the famous Grange Tunel at Vimy Ridge, where for weeks a bloody, and battered atmy of British and Canadians withstood the flower of the German The photo shows a party of veterans visiting the scene of their greatest effort. CAMPAIGN DRIVE THROUGH HEART OF THE SOUTHLAND Specialists Rushed To Ponca City Study Case of Little Child PONCA CITY, Aug. CW An airplane rushing two specialists here from Colorado Springs, to the aid of Billy Jean Williams, four-year-old daughteV of Mr.

and Mrs. Roy Williams, who is suffering from a glandular trouble that affects her breathing, arrived here today from Dodge City, where it was forced down yesterday by storms. The physicians. Dr. William Englebach of St.

Louis, and Dr. E. K. Shelton, Denver, will study the child's case. The specialists made the air trip at the behest of Lew Wentz, millionaire oil operator of this city Williams jg employed by Wentz to direct recreational activities for Ponca City boys.

FOR WEST THIS LEMJE PLAT-OFF ABILENE, Aug. 21. Wv Hun dreds of baseball fans were on hand here today to watch Abilene, winner or the first half of the West Texas league, and San Angelo, victor rtf the last half, battle for the 1928 championship. Ash Hillin will be on the mound for Abilene, while Hokey Garcia, of strikeout fame, probably will do the hurling for San Angelo. Two games will be played here, and on Thursday the series will open in San Angelo where two games also will be played.

Should a fifth contest be necessary, it. will be played Sunday, the site to be determined by the toss of a coin Neck Fractured In Play on Beach Aug. The Weather Tonight Wednesday generally fair. Thermometer Readings: 8 a. ...92 12 noon .........101 ft a i 1 10 a.

98 2 102 100 1 3 de NEW YORK, Aug. 21. WV- drive through the heart of the Solid South virtually has been decided upon by democratic chief- tians as the first move in the campaign for Joe T. Robinson, vice presidential nominee. Decision probably will be reached during the day although it is doubtful if any formal announcement will be forthcoming until af- er notification ceremonies for Governor Smith tomorrow.

The plan is understood to have the full approval of the Arkansas senator who upon his arrival here yesterday from Little Rock gave members of the democratic national committee an optimistic report on conditions in the Southern States. The itinerary at present calls for addresses in eight Southern states with the space of three weeks from the time of the formal notification of the senator of his selection for the vice presidential position at Hot Springs, Ark, August 30. After his notification the senator will go to Lonoke, his birthplace. He then will proceed to Texas for speeches in Dallas and Cisco, and from there Is expected to swing through Tennessee, Georgia. Northern Florida, the Caroltnas.

Virginia and Kentucky. From 10 to 14 speeches are contemplated during this tour. Memphis. Atlanta, Jacksonville, Charlotte and Raleigh are known to have been suggested as likely points after the senator leaves Texas. It is regarded as possible that Mr.

Robinson will deliver addresses in Chattanooga and Nashville after his swing up the coast through Virginia and on his way I to Kentucky, The senator has spent considerable time going over the proposed itinerary. He has Indicated a desire to take the road as soon as formally notified. The senator today had scheduled a conference with Chairman John J. Raskob of the democratic national committee, as well as several engagements at Democratic headquarters with other party leaders. Aug.

21. trainmen are dead and eight other persons injured, two seriously, as the result of a head-on collision of Missouri Pacific pas senger train from St. Louis to Denver, and an extra freight I train, near here last night. The injured included five passengers. The dead: P.

H. YOUNG, Hoisington, passenger engineer, BERT KLINE, Hoisington, freight brakeman. 1 CHARLES COTTON, Hoisington, freight brakeman F. E. Peugh, Hoisington, freight engineer, suffered a broken right leg, internal injuries and cuts.

Mayer Vandergrif, Denver, who was riding on the coal car of the freight was injured internally. The wreck was caused, it was reported, by a misunderstanding of train orders. The passenger train was reported to have been ordered on the side here, but passed McCracken on the main line ahead of its schedule. A baggae car and fifteen freight cars left the tracks. The locomotives were demolished.

Bank Messengers Robbed of $19,000 By Chicago Bandits CHICAGO. Aug Five Robbers held up two bank messengers in a taxicab today, robbing them of $19,000 in cash and negoti- i papers, as the messengers A i were transferring the money from the Service State bank. Armed with pistols and rifles, the five robbers riding in a blue sedan drove alongside the taxicab and crowded it to the curb. Covering the messengers and the cab driver, the robbers grabbed up the satchel containing the money and speeded away. The messengers were taking the money to the Union Trust company.

OBJECT TO PLACING NAMES OF EXECUTED NEGROES ON TABLET HOT ROW BREWING OVER MEMORIAL TABLET NAMES AT UNIVERSITY STADIUM STORY OF FIERCE BATTLE WITH STORM TOLD BY SURVIVORS STEAMER LOST 14 MEMBERS OF CREW IN STORM AT SEA AUSTIN, Aug. Commander Walton D. Hood of the American Legion declared here today that names of Texas negro World War soldiers executed in connection with the Houston camp race riot will not go on the state memorial tablet to be erected here in commemoration of dead in the war, if he has anything to do with it. The names were included in a list of about 5,000 Texans furnished the memorial tablet committee of which Hood is a member, by the adjutant general's department The committee, headed bv Gov. Moody, met today to consider the letting of a contract 1 the tablet, for which the 40th legislature appropriated $5,000.

Adjutant General R. Robertson told Hood that names of the Texas negroes executed are marked on the list, which Includes all persons losing their Jives in any manner during war service. The tablet will be erected at Texas University Memorial Stadium San Antonio Pastor Killed by Truck SAN ANTONIO, Aug. The Rev. Joseph F.

Webb. 57. pastor of the Prospect Hill Methodist church was almost instantly killed Tuesday when struek by a truck as he alighted from behind a street car here. FIFTY THOUSAND MEMBERS CATHOLIC ORDERS PARADE IN CLEVELAND K. C.

MEET HOUSTON WOMAN SHOT AFTER ROW OVERINSURANCE GALVESTON, A. Braswell, 28, railroad employe, 0-1 Youth Was was in a critical condition in a DeilCVeu hospital rere today as the result of a fractured neck suffered last night while playing on the beach. Braswell formerly resided at Jasper. Victim Hit and Run Driver Near Denton VKNIZKLOS PARTY ATHENS Greece, Aug Results of parliamentary elections, which gave the Republican parties 234 seats in the chamber of deputies against 16 to par ties of Royalist sympathies, are re garded as blasting any hope that the Greek people by popular eon- nent ever will return to a monarchical form of government. The election proved a great triumph for Premier Venizeloe, who heads the Liberal party.

DENTON, Aug. 21 tH -Relieved i to have been the victim last night of a hit-and-run driver, an uniten- tified youth, about 19, suffering from a fractured skull and cuts about his legs, was found near I death on the Fort Worth-Deriton highway, about 12 miles uth here, early today by William (lorry and Cecil Harrison of Denton. The youth was brought a Denton hospital, where a search of overalls which he was wearing revealed nothing that might identify him. HOUSTON. Aug Fred J.

Pheifer was shot in the left side, and Mrs. Drayton Hooper was powder burned in a shooting at a cafe here today, A husband of one of the women came to the restaurant and became abusive over an insurance matter, Mrs. Pheifer told officers. The two women went into a back room and the man demanded that they open the door, she said. Several shots then were fired through the door, one of them striking Mrs.

Pheifer in the side, the woman said. She told officers she fired at the man and was sure one bullet struck him in the, back. The man was not arrested. Will Keep Rangers In Wink Some Time AUSTIN, Aug, 21. -GV Governor Moody said today that state rangers will be retained at Wink until it is considered "cleaned of lawlessness.

Assistant Attorney General Daw Pickle, who recently held a court of inquiry there, assisted by Ranger Captain W. Wiight, said conditions are improving Pickle filed suit in district court yesterday for cancellation of the charters of three recreation clubs at Wink and secured temporary In junctions forbidding their operation of pool tables. TAKE OFF IS GARDEN CITY N. Aug 21 The spot at Field whence hopped off for is to be a national park A syndl cate headed bv John Rockefel ler. has acquired ten acres from Paul J- Lannin at less than i cost for Lindbergh Commemorative Park.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 21. Gft With more than 50,000 members of Cleveland Catholic orders parading through Cleveland, the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus reached its most eventful day of its convention today. While plans were worked out for gala program, national officers and directors held informal conferences yesterday to consider problems and policies to be decided at the present convention, Two questions the situation in Mexico and alleged circulation of a spurious Knights of Columbus expected to cause the most discussion Martin H. Carmody, Supreme Knight, said expulsion of priests and nuns from Mexico constitutes problem in which the Knights of Columbus feel very deeply.

He announced the convention would reaffirm the stand taken at the 1928 convention in Philadelphia, protesting to the United States government the expulsion of Catholics from Mexico. Carmody also announced that the Knights, who number 700,000 members in the country, would not participate in the forthcoming presidential campaign. Knights of Columbus positively will not endorse Governor Alfred E. Smith or any other candidate for any other Carmody said, "ours a sctrictly non-partisan organization. Our membership is recruited from men with every political Child Killed When Interurban Strikes Automobile Monday PANAMA, Aug.

21. (AP) The story of a fierce battle with sea and wind, in which fourteen lives were lost, is recounted in the log of the Mystic Line steamship W. S. McKenney which docked here last night long overdue from Seattle. The log shows that on August 8, when the men perished, the ship near midnight, while fighting a strong gale, lost its steering control.

The engines were cut down to half speed and an unsuccessful attempt vas made to bring the prow to windward. A heavy sea struck the vessel, shifting the forward deck load. The port rigging foremast was broken off, the mast crashing over the starboard side of the ship, and 150,000,000 feet of lumber went overboard. The engines then were stopped and all hands were called on deck to cover the hatch, the cover having been washed off by a tremendous wave that swirled over the ship tearing away everything on deck from stem to stern. The windows of the upper chartroom were broken, the chart wheelhouse flooded, the doors to the saloon smashed in and the lifeboats carried away.

It was while crew was attempting to cover the hatch that a wave swished fourteen sailors into the sea, none of whom was rescued. The weather continued unfavorable thrbughout the next day but tho day following, the steering apparatus having been repaired, the skipper turned his vessel about and returned to the place where the men were washed overboard, hoping they might have been saved by clinging to some of the lumber that ha.l gone into the. sea just be, fore them. Although the McKenney cruised about the vicinity of the tragedy for half day and recovered muchi of the lumber, no trace of the men was found. The Nelson Line steamer American Star, which arrived at Balboa last night, also was caught in the storm.

Although it out the gale without casualties, it was badly battered and the passengers experienced a considerable scare The American Star was overtaken by the gale when 120 miles from Cape Corrlentes in the Gulf of California and apparently did not receive the full force of the storm, which caught the McKenney off Cape San Lucas, Lower California. Captain Batterson of the American Star estimates that the wind attained a veJocity of, 120 to 150 miles an hour. I Supreme Court Balks Effort Escape Life Sentence INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. Judge David A.

Myers, chief justice of the Indianapolis supreme court, last night issued a -writ of prohibition restraining Judge John Richter of the Laporte circuit court from enforcing a writ of habeas corpus sought by D. C. Stephenson. Stephenson, a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, is serving a life sentence for murder at the state prison in Michigan City. Hearing of the hobeas corpus action has been set for today at Laporte.

Stephenson based his claim for release on allegations that he was convicted in a court which lacked jurisdiction and under an improperly drawn indictment. DESOLATION OVER HAITI WIDESPREAD AFTER HURRICANE MEXICAN FLIER ON H)l ft. HAVANA. A uk 21, Major Robert Fierro, Mexican aviator, who made a good-will flight from Mexico City to Havana, today started on a tour of Central America, en route to his home station. He took off for Guatemala City, Guatemala, at 8:41 a.

m. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. Aug. 21. was widespread today over southern Haiti, where a tropical storm last week wrecked towns, killed 200 persons and left 10,000 homeless.

Eighty per cent of the buildings in Grand Boucan and Petit Trou were demolished. The hurricane first hurled itself over an area twenty miles wide, from Cavalllon to St. X.ouis and then to Aquin. It spread northeast and northwest, across the Peninsula, covering an area more than 70 miles wide on the north coast from Mirragane to Jeremie. The inundation in most of the towns ranged from eight to twenty feet in depth Officers of the United States naval tug Woodcock, which returned yesterday after a second relief trip to the stricken area, said, the material loss would exceed $1,000 000 American and Syrian colonies of Port-Au-Prince, together with the municipality, are raising a relief fund.

MAN LOST FROM HIS FAMILY EIGHT YEARS IS FOUND AT LAST HOUSTON. Aug. 21 (Vi Rural Ricketts of Cambridge, lost from his family in Texas for 8 years and believed to be dead, has been located as a result of the filing of condemnation proceedings by the Houston school board against property owned by the Ricketts estate and the placing of an advertisement with United States postal authorities by Mrs. Thelma Hodges of Dallas, a sitter. A postal clerk at Cambridge, who Rural Ricketts saw the tal advertisement and notified him.

The lost brother has been reunited with his family at Houston and settlement of property interests made. Letters sent by the Ricketts family to Rural Ricketts and letters by the latter to members of his family had been returned repeatedly, due to changes in residence by all parties concerned TWO TWISTERS HIT LATE MONDAY; MANY INJURED AS RESULT PROPERTY DAMAGE REPORTED HEAVY ABOUT AUSTIN, MINNESOTA ST. PAUL. Aug. 21.

of two persons in a hospital today brought to eight the known fatalities in the tornado that swept two Southern Minnesota counties and Northern Iowa points yesterday afternoon. Additional scores of injured were reported, bringing the list to nearly 100 Latest dead are Mavin gardner of Austin, who died in a hospital from injuries received when the tornado crushed home, killing outright his 12-year old son Harold, and Mrs. Harry Johnson, who was hurt when her home crumbled under the blast of the wind. SMITH ANSWERS ATTACK OF WHITE ON LEGISLATIVE ACTS; DEMOCRATS SWARM TO ALBANY BY HAROLD OLIVER. (Associated Press Staff Writer.) ALBANY.

N. Aug 21 je the na- tUm In his votes bills while an PLAINFIELD, Ind Aug. answer which he Stanley Smith, ft, Fawhuaka. aidered final was Instantly killed and his 11-year-j Declaring hi old sister, Marcele, injured fatally an opponent when their car was struck by an I fixed and secure, interurban car west of here this 1 satisfied the people afternoon I state not cone He aimed the rejoinder principally at the Kansas, editor, but he intended it to apply to his other critics. Including Dr.

John Roach legions swarming into Htraton, New York Baptist mlnis- Albany from ail sections of the na who has charged governor tion to see their new leader official- with being the greatest foe of the ly notified of his presidential noml I forces of moral progress in the nation tomorrow night today found country today. Governor Smith calmly waiting ids taking up each bill covered hour of triumph as well as the re- by Whii(. the nominee denounced action to his counter thrust at erit-1 tbe thing as "unfair, unman- ics of his long record in the New York legislature. Tomorrow evening on steps of the capital the nominee will deliver a spech formally launching his campaign for the presidency. Clearing his desk for the momentous event, the governor made public a detailed reply to William Allen charges that he favored the saloon and was lienlent towards gambling and prostitu- a long list of 1 must be con- and added: I have the satisfaction, however of knowing that it is not concurred ST.

PAUL, Aug. Two tornadoes took six lives, injured more than three scoro persons and caused property damage estimated in' excess of one million dollars in Southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa late yesterday. Austin, was the Three were killed there, more than 50 per sons were injured, and business buildings and residences wero wrecked. A fourth Minnesota casualty was near Glenville, while the two women lost their lives at Twin Lakes, a resort near Rockwell City, Iowa, The known dead are: August Newbauer, automobllo mechanic, and liurold Baumgartner, 12, both of Austin, and Laverne Roberts, of Nora Springs, Iowa, all killed at Austin. Mrs, Chris G.

Hagen, at Glenville, Minn. Stellar Powell of Truer, and Mrs. George Steer, 50, of Lavelock, killed at Twin Lakes, Iowa. Austin Streets Patrolled. One hundred members of American Legion aided Company Minnesota national guard, in patrolling streets of Austin today as a recheck of damage was started after a night of darkness, due to failure of power lines.

Fifteen of the persons injured at Austin required hospital treatment, and three are not expected to recover. The Minnesota tornado apparently started In the vicinity of Emmons, in Freeborn county, near the Iowa line. It swung northeastward, missing Glenville and working its way into Austin and then turned to enter lowu. As the tornado swept on toward Austin, farm buildings and crops were crushed. A heavy rain followed and roads were flooded and some pavement washed away.

More than fifty automobiles were wrecked in Austin by the storm which seemed to pick out follow the main street. Starting at 4:55 p. nr, the tornado In less than eight minutes had covered a path two blocks wide and about two miles long in Austin, where the damage was estimated at more than $500,000 All the buildings at tin- county fair grounds, where the fair was to have opened today, were wrecked. Doctors at the hospital worked over the injured under severe leap, because of lack of lights and electric power. Contract Awarded Hospital Building AUSTIN, Aug 21 Contract for construction of a dormitory at the Abilene state hospital was awarded today by the state board of control to Hulfuntz company, Abilene, on its low bid of $35,688.

The. plumbing and heating contract, $5,536, went to P. Osborn, Abiient, and wiring to Sun- i puny. Abile I iy gislatlve record immorality rnd that he was if New York in the "sian- 1 In by the people of who have year after confidence in me, not i that a large part of I herein referred to wa them In the past by politicai i "I am hu re that 1 a I continued, "when I concurred in by the I telllgent, thinking ruralv Political ati (withstanding this matter ts laid before agents of my rrn he it is not ir-mJnded, In copie of the The mother, Mrs Ola Smith and ianother daughter, were i seriously injured A brother, Wade, four, and an uncle, I' Grady, Delta, were injured. deroua attack," the nominee assail ed the republican national commit tee for associating itself" with a mutter he regarded as pei said matter out i and put in it as "pure! "whan the inot propose that campai I vai sy ov if th) "glad whim Inthi politi) pai to rn bafoi Hi re and This Is The Best Time- The Daily Sun jutinued on Page 4 13653712.