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THIS IS AN ASSOCIATED PRESS PAPER THE DAILY SUN Covers an Exclusive Field in Central Texas VOL. XXIII, NO. 258. TEN PAGES TODAY CORSICANA, TEXAS, FRIDAY. JUNE 10, 1921.

TEN PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS. REPLY WILL NOT BE MAD1E PUBLIC Admiral Not Worried Over Investigation Ordered By Sanate By Associated Press. London, June Admiral Sims said today lie would reply to the request, of Secretary Denby for information on his remarks in his London speech but would not make the reply public. He did not seem perturbed over the reports that the Senate ruled for an Investigation of the speech. He will return to the United States June 15th.

LIFE LOSS FROM FLOODS FIVE HUNDRED Property Losses Are Placed at Fifteen Million Dollars Today By Associated Press. Denver, June loss of life in the Pueblo flood was placed not to exceed 500 and the property losses are $15.000,000 in a statement given by the Denver Civic and Commercial Association today by a committee of business men sent to investigate the situation. WEALTHY MAN KILLED BY MEN AT HIS HOME Game Will Be Played at BAYLOR TO PLAY BOSTON ON GRIDIRON N. E. KENDALL Two Foreigners Engaged By Wife to Frighten Her Husband By Associated Press.

New York, June Dan F. Kaber, wealthy Lakewood, Ohio, publisher, met death after attacking two foreigners engaged by Mrs. Kaber to pose as spirits to frighten him into a better attitude toward her, accord ing to a statement ihe New York Evening World says Mis. Kaber gave to Chief of Police Christensen. Dallas Fair on October 15th By Associated Press.

Juno Bridges athletic director of Pavlor University announced today at Baylor will meet Boston College on the gridiron at the Daiias Fair on October 15th The fola wing year Baylor will play Boston College at Boston. PRO AGENT APPOINTED BY HARDING Will Have Charge of S. W. Counties included By Associated Press. Washington, June appoint-! ment of John D.

Appleby of Okia-j hosna City, as supervising federal prohibition agents of the Southwestern Department including Arkansas, Missouri, Kan ws, Oklahoma, Louisiana and several Texas counties was announced today by internal Revenue Commissioner Blair. Appleby succeeded David A. Gates and will have this headquarters in Ll'fclc Rock. ROY HAYNES IS NATIONAL PRO COMMISSIONER Announcement of Appointment Made at White House Today By Associated Press. Washington.

June fornnl announcement of the appointment of Roy Haynes, a Hillsboro, Ohio, editor, as national prohibition commissioner was made today it the White House. 30,000 ACRES COTTON AND WHEAT RUINED remendous Rains in Egypt Causes Extensive Crop Loss By Associated Press. Cairo, June 10. Egypt estimated thlt eighty per cent of the cotton and much of the wheat in the Nile delta region north of here was lost as a result of the tremendous rains. A dispatch from Mansurah says 30,000 acres of wheat and cotton were devastated.

JEWS BEING AIDED FROM EL PASO FUND AMERICAN TRADERS IN FAR NORTH Some Points Had Not Been Visited Por More Than Four Years By Associated Press. Juneau, Alaska, June Points Many Are Destitute in Mexico and Seeking to Enter U. S. By Associated Press. El Paso, Texas, June the past two months, Jews of El Paso have raised $1,300 to help their destitute co-religionist in Mexico.

All of the sum has been spent on poor Jewish families most of them in Juarez, who have made their way to the border with the hope of gaining ad missioq to the United States, according to Rabbi Martin Zielonka. Dr. Zielonka, of Temple Mt, Sinai, said then; are thousands Jews in Mexico a pitiful They DRESSES ARE BEING MADE AT HOME NOW MISSIONS IN HAITI NEEDED SAYS DENBY Found No Christian Workers From U. S. in That Country By Associated Press.

Washington, June establishment of Chrls'lm Missions in Haiti is urged by Secretary Denby in a letter to the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America made publt today. Secretary Denby expressed surpri that the churches had, not earlier entered tha Haitian field. He said he did not meet a single church from the United State3 in a recent visit there. CHARGED WITH MURDER OF MAILCARRIER Fatal Shooting Took Place Yesterday at Paint Rock, Texas By Associated Press San Angelo, June 10 A formal murder charged was filed in Paint Rock today against Tom Benge, cattleman of Millersview, in connection with the shooting and death yesterday of J. William Bryant, a rural mail carrier.

out DIED IN DALLAS SECRETARY OF WAR TO CLEAR UPAIR ROW Week. Sw He Will Give Matter His Personal Attention By Associated Press. Washington, June Weeks said today he expeced to settle person illy the row of the army air service which lesulted in the request by Major General Menohor for the removal of his assistant. Brigadier General Mitchell. Piece Goods Selling Better Than Ready to Wear Stuff more than 500 miles up the KUymahnft European countries during recent River of northern Siberia, which bad years of persecution, he said, and not ben visited by traders for four years, were reached last summer by a party of American traders, headed by Captain S.

Gudmundson, master of thi tra.lur schooner Polar Bear, according to word received here. The Bear left Nome, Alaska, June 27, 1920, sailed around tho Siberian coast and East Cape into the Arctic and arrived at the mouth of the ma August 4, The schooner was worked up the river 120 miles and anchored while the traders took a small boat 390 miles farther up. Trading Was Good. were stilt 400 miles from the head of the Captain Gudmundson said in writing cf his trip to a Juneau friend "We found trading very good as no boat had visited that vicinity in four years and we soon disposed of our wares and loaded up with goods of the country Last winter the Polar Bear and its company was frozen in at the mouth of the Kolyma, having failed in an attempt to reach Nome before the ice came. Her cargo of furs and ivory will be taken to Nome this spring and shipped out to Seattle.

By Associated Press. Fort Worth. Texas, Juno ionable dresses, made at home in exclusive styles, are being worn by women, through the plan of from ready-made models, according to salesmen here. With the report fhat the dressmak- r'B art is being revived, merchants say that sales of yard goods exceed those of ready-made garments. While some women use regular patterns, others, adept with the needle, have admitted that they make their dresses alter models in the shops at reduced costs.

Salesmen Transferred. Home merchants have transferred salesmen from the ready-to-wear departments to the piece good counter. Ready-to-wear clearance sales were earlier this some of the dealers said, because more women are making their own clothes. Home of the advantages of clothes made at customers said, were better materials and fits, in more Individual styles, at cheaper cost. FUNERAL OF COL GALBRAITH ON SATURDAY Will Be Conducted By Post of American Legion By Associated Press.

Cincinnati, Jnne 10 The funeral of Colonel Frederick W. Galbraith. commander of the American Legion, wil! be hMd Saturday afternoon art the Music Hall, the largest auditorium in the city. It will he in charge of the Robert J. Bentley post of the American legion of which the commander was a member.

Burial will iprobably be in Arlington cemetery, Washington, D. C. The body arrived here last night accompanied by a soldier escort. REPORTED THAT SPEECH WAS GARBLED Admiral Said Nothing Which He Stated Before, It Is Said By Associated Press. London, June was learned unofficially but by good authority today In the reply of Admiral Sims to Denby's request for an explanation of, hi, speech, oplnloh Ih.t some parts of the speech were garbled.

The answer declares that Sims said nothing not said before in his speeches in the United States and bis book. By Associated Press. Dallas, June J. B. Gambrell, retired president of the Southern Baptist Convention, died at the home of his daughter here today.

He was seveety-ntne years of age, and had been ill since February. He was a noted southern educator. He serve! as a professor in various southern Baptist theological in-! stltutlons and for many years was editor of the Baptist Standard at Dallas, He had lived at Dallas for twenty- three years. He is survived by two sons and three daughters. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

James Bruton Gambrell, son of Joel Bruton and Jane Elvira Gam- breH, was born in Anderson, South Carolira, August 21st, 1841. In the 1 following year his parents moved to Mississippi, where he was reared on farm, reeeiving his ucation in the country schools. Young Gambrell entered the Confederate army in his twentieth year, serving twenty-eight months In the army of Virginia. Most his service was as a scout under General Robert E. Lee.

On one of his scoutlnp expeditions he m-t Miss Mary T. Corbell of Nansemond Virginia. A year later Gambrell picked his way through the Union lines and at midnight on January 13, 1864, married Miss Corbell at her home. At the close of the war he return- POPULATION OVERTAKING PRODUCTION Secretary of Agriculture Wallace Made Address to Students Associated Press. Amherst, June United States has entered a new- era in which the growing population seems to our normal production of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said today in an address before the Massachusetts Agricultural College.

years ago there was land in abundance for all who cared to farm, today that land is selling for Trom $100 to $300 an acre. Fitly years ago a y-f ung farmer who tlau the will to work, a good wife and a few simple implements could move into the great West with almost certain assurance that after a time he would own Ins farm and home, while today a capital equal to from $20,000 to $50,000 is re quired to carry on farming in the great surplus producing states. This matter of financial credit has therefore become one of the most pressing Wallace said. RESOLUTION ASKS RECALL OF ADMIRAL Dishonorable Discharge From Navy By President Also Asked By Associated Press. Denver.

June recall of Ad- tnny I mirai Sims from England and his dis- honorable dlsrhanre trom the navy by ittry In 1867. Hs was ordained at the Cheery Creek church, In Porto- rnade their way to Mexico, being lured there by unscrupulous persons who told them that Mexico was a land of opportunity, where jobs wore plentiful. Agents in some countries, it was said, were given $10 a person for every one they induced to sail to Mexico. Arriving in Mexico the Jews found a people who could not speak their language. They found a country torn ty revolution, struggling to rebuild itself, but already with more men looking for jobs than there were jobs to be had.

Looked to America. I The immigrants looked to America FamOUS Palace Hdl DCeil as a land of opportunity, according to the Rabbi, and under much difficulty, hundreds of them have reached border cities. At the border there is little hope of crossing. Being without money or having small funds, they find It hard to live until they cun enter the United States and obtain work Home illegally have entered the I United States. Smugglers remain I ar the railroad station in Juarez, I as TREASURES OF ART ARE DESTROYED Closed to the Public For This Reason By Associated Pros? NEW FEDERAL PROHIBITION SUPERVISOR John D.

Appleby of Oklahoma Named For Southwestern District By Associated Press. Oklahoma City, June 10. D- Appleby has been appointed supervising federal prohibition agent of the southwestern department. He has been secretary cf the Republican State Central Committee of Oklahoma for five years and has been active in Oklahoma Republican circles for two decades. HARRISON RESENTS SPEECHES Calls Sims and Harvey Gold Dust of U.

S. By Associated Press. Washington, June Admiral Sims and Ambassador Harvey were described today in the senate by Senator Harrison, Democrat, of as two Gold Dust twins" who now represent the United States government in England. COALMINERS CONFERENCE INL0ND0N Long Step Toward Settlement of Strike Taken By Delegates the president, if his remarks in London on the Irish question were found correctly quoted, is the demand of the i resolution presented today at the an- time the secretaryship of the Texas! of Uie Baptist Convention and at the end th AmeHcan Federa. three year, he asked be released from the executive duties of his office He was then elected to the chair A A VTAWJ of Christian Ethics ant Ecclesiology vliiil'lii J.

1VI" in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary of Fort Worth. Among his early pastorates were at West Point and Oxford, Mississippi, While at Oxford, Dr, Gambrell took a course In the University of Miss ssippi. He was later editor of the Mississippi Baptist Record and held that position for fifteen years. He also served several as president of Mercer College at Macon, Georgia, In 1897, Dr. Gambrell! was elected corresponding secretary of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, but in 1910 he resigned to become editor of the Baptist Standard at Dallas.

FOR ELECTION ISSUED TODAY Representative to Be Elected From Eastland and Callahan By Associated Press. Austin, June Neff issued a proclamation for a special election on July sixteenth in the representative district composed of Callahan Dr, Gambrell was elected president and Eastland counties to fill the va- of the Southern Baptist Convention cancy caused by the election of Joe Poor Day For Restaurants. By Associated Press. El raso, Texas, June day is a poor day for El Paso restaurants, the proprietors declare, although more persops eat away from home on Saturday and Sunday than diuring the rest of the week. The reason for the poor week-end business lies across the river, the restaurant owners say.

Workers take' fO I their pay envelopes to Juarez, where II they dine in the numerous cafes, ca-! harets and saloons. During the week, when their pocket books are they eat in El Paso. By Associated Press. London, June a conference of coal miners' delegates held here today they decided a ballot would be taken in all coal fields on the proposals of the mine owners for a strike settlement. It is considered a long step toward peace in tho coal industry.

Find Ancient Tombs. By Associated Press. London, June of the English school of Archaeology have discovered at Mykalosson, in the Greek province of Roeotia, 35 tombs dating from the fifth and sixth centuries before Christ. The conditions cf the tombs, if ascertained, have not yet been announced. Ragusa Dalmatia, June 1 famous Palace of Rectors in this an- cicnt fortressed city, has been closed i to the public.

The palace contained many priceless gems of paintings and in other border towns in Mexico, Mi.ulptlire hack to the Renais according to immigration in HUnee El Paso nnd offer to take an alien. (tf anti-Italian demon- across the border for $5. Some have, htratlonNj invaded the palace accepted the offers, some have been and destroyed practically all of the successful and a score have been: j)ajntitigH mart sculpture. So much caught and ordered deported by ciamagro was that now no one is federal court at El Paso. I permitted to enter the palace, which formerly was the chief treasure the city.

Serbian soldiers stand guard at the entrance and MME. CURIE RECOVERING RAPIDLY Additional Chinese Relief F. T. Whitehill Collin Street 15,00 W. T.

Hippe 2.50 Baby Born in El Paso A young woman from Poland, who) of was soon to he a mother, crossed the' Rio Grande without a passport. She was located in Ki Paso and sent to a hospital where a baby was born. When the mother was able, she sent with the father and baby, back to Juarez and turned over to immigration authorities, because they had entered th United States illegally. The Jews of El Paso are taking caroI destroyed, of the family. Ttio late James Gordon Bennett, Dr Zielonka is planning to organ-jHp0 iB to have called Ragusa ire ali of the Jews of Mexico.

Those "the garden spot of was a who are prosperous will tailed visitor here, having bought on, he said, to aid in forming anja on Riand of Lacomo. op- organizattun for the purpose of help- the town, and the site where ing the destitute Jews from Europe fucbard Coe it tie Lion was ship who stranded ia Mexico. have orders to refuse entrance to anyone not on official business. Old Destroyed, In like manner, many of the old reilea of Venetian art and culture, which were to he found all along the Dalmatian coast, evidence of former Venetian glory, have been torn down Conditions in Cities of Sonora Fast Approaching Normal In 1907. At the convention in Waahington, D.

C. in 1920 a precedent of many years was broken and he was elected for the fourth time as president. He retired after this term and was sent to Europe to visit the afflicted Baptists in war-stricken Europe. He was accompanied by Dr. E.

Y. Mul- llna, preaident of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary of Louisville, Kentucky. They made a sur vey of the needs of Europe. Return ing from Europe, Dr. Gambrell spent his time filling speaking engagements in Texas and other states until his Illness.

Burkett to the senate. Lamp Sells for 2.500 Pounds. By Associated London. June Arab glass lamp of the 14th centry which formed part of Ihe late Morgan S. Williams' collection of arms and armor was sold here recently for 2,500 pounds.

The lamp bears inscriptions from the Koran while another inscription has been translated as "Power and might to our laird and Sultan, Protector of the World and CANADIAN RAILWAYS CUT WAGES Reduction of welve Per Cent to Be Made on First of July By Associated Press. Montreal, June 10, The Canadian railways today took preliminary steps to cut wages twelve per cent on July first and fhter to revise working conditions. Juarez Has Big Debt. By Associated Presa. Juarez.

Chihuahua June The city government of Juarez Is seeking aid from the Chihuahua state government to help pay debts total ling $40.000, incurred since, 1916. The deficit became apparent during the term of Francisco D. Gonzales as may or, and is owed, chiefly, to an KI Paso company for electric power. Under the now Chihauhua constitu- I tion. municipal authorities can be held By Associated Press.

for made during their adminis- Juarcz, Chihuahua, Mexico, Junejtration unless a notification sent 10 Mayor Francisco Rodriquez, to the state government, congrc TEXAS PECAN GROWERS ARE IN SESSION For Marketing Will Be Discussed at Meeting By Associated Press. Brownwood, June io, the Toxa- Pecan Grower will meet in Austin Me among other matti for marketing nuts, It two weeks spent in cities of So-j having the power to cotne to the at the arsociatlcn'a nora, declared he wan surprised at aid. today. way Sonora is recovering from the depression, understand that the Caner.ea Copper company intends to re-etn-j ploy haif of the men thrown out oft I work when it ceased operations re gently," the Mayor said. Silver Mines Operating, i Ihe district of Arizpe there are siher mines operating with 300 at work.

I noticed several cars of lumer and machinery billed to 11 mines, standing on sidings. I in tarmJng is being stitn I ulated by the announcement that of tlcials of various cities and Mms. Curie, discoverer of radium Federal aid for re I hae been prwnlid with a gram of the and repairing the irrigation precieua by women of of the Rio Yaqui. Thi.s will America. 1 muau tauch to that district.

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