Waco Evening Tribune (Waco, Texas) Vol. 1 No. 7, Monday, October 10, 1927

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From Staff Correspondent 12 PAGES
HE BUILT A GOLDEN GOD
AND IT DESTROYED HIM EDDY BANK HELD UP AT NOON
George Remus (at the left) photographed with detectives just after
be had been arrested.
EDITOR’S NOTE: George Remus of Cincinnati was called the
king of the bootleggers. Starting with a capital of $10,000, he built it
up to more than $5,000,000. In his career he had gross sales of more
than $75,000,000; he paid $20,000,000 in graft to various officers; he
employed 3000 people and handled some 3,000,000 gallons of whisky.
Today he is under arres.t for the murder of his wife; and tffis story,
printed in the Cincinnati Post, expresses perfectly the strange, fantas-tic
tragedy of his life. Because it does express this so well, we are
reprinting it here.
By ALFRED SEGAL
Editorial Writer, The Cincinnati Post
CINCINNATI, Oct. 10.—George Remus, mos,t miserable of millionaires,
has come to an Ibsen-like end. Charged with murder, he sits In
his cell, symbol of the futility of riches without character.
Poor little man! Everything he touched turned to gold and the gold
became a corruption that destroyed him.. It entered his home and
destroyed it; it touched his mind with a madness that sent him on
his errand of murder. '*
A pathetic clown that went about slapping at society. In the end
he was dreadfully slapped' himself and now lies crushed and bleeding. |
* ' * *
A poor lawyer from Chicago, he loomed suddenly on the horizon of
Cincinnati, a glittering figure bn the street, giving $5 tips to news-boys.
On the doorstep of the building he had for his office he vaunted
his name in colored tiles. He bought a great house and filled it with
tawdry splendor.
He built a Roman bath, thinking to make a great splash in the city
With a luxury that was not in the home of even Cincinnati’s wealthiest.
Surely, he thought, such display must lift him to a high place in the
community. Is not money the god before'which all the world bows?
He wanted respectability, and the May music festivals and the sym-phonies
found him and his wife in choice seats.
But people only laughed at him, though it was to weep at the
pathetic little man who was like one in a golden ship, floundering
about without a compass.
* * * ,
More than a score of corrupted policemen went to prison and hun-dreds
of other men, seeking to imitate this most absurd of men, fell
likewise to destruction.
When the law seized him and convicted him of felonies, he had even
then no sense of the creeping destruction. Money was I power. Money
would save him. It had lifted him from obscurity and had given him
the'Roman bath and the luxury that filled his house.
But money only postponed the day. In the end he went to prison.
• • *
And when he was out of this prison he was flung into another. He
had bedecked his wife with silks and jewels, that she might shine in
that lofty place where his money was to lift her.
But when he came at length from prison she was gone from him.
He heard tbflt it was even one who had helped to place him in prison
who had taken her.
Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad and the yellow
god that Remus had erected was not through with him. In wild fury
he went about the country, pursuing his wife. The wealth he had spent
to glorify her he now spent to pursue her. So, until that moment when
the pursuit ended and he killed her.
WACO’S ROAD
ENVOY DENIED
AID BY STATE
Judge James R. Jenkins
and Others Told Coun-ty
Should Wait Till It
Can Spend More
AUSTIN, Oct. 10.—(Spl)—
McLennan county commis-sioners
and County Judge
James R. Jenkins were de-nied
application for aid from
the state highway commiS-sion
to improve 150 miles of roads
today at 12 o’clock. W. N. Miner,
secretary of the Waco Chamber of
Commerce, headed a delegation of
Wacoans who made application
for aid, asking for apportionment
from the state to njake asphalt
toppings for various county
roads.
The highway commission denied
the application, stating that the
county should wait until it could
spend more money and improve
the roads by a permanent topping
instead of the temporary asphalt,
which would last about three
years.
BOMB WRECKS
FILM HOUSE
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 10 —
(INS)—The Logan picture theatre in
north Minneapolis was partly wrecked
by a bomb early today. Considerable
damage was done to 'the building but
no one was injured. This is the sec-ond
bombing of moving picture houses
since the strike of motion picture op-erators,
stage hands, scenic artists,
bill posters and musicians began here
a month ago.
12 YEARS LIFE
OF FREEDOM IS
NIPPEDINWACO
Escaped Convict Since 1914, He Is Betrayed
by Former Cellmate With Whom He
Shares Bottle.
Meeting an old cellmate after 12 years absence from the
pen, a drink of booze to celebrate the occasion, and the re-suit—
throwing a drunk, is the reason that G. D. White, 55,
escaped convict from the Huntsville penitentiary since
1914, is now resting in a cell at the city hall since Sunday
afternoon awaiting word from authorities at Huntsville.
“It’s funny,” White said when telling his story to the
Evening Tribune. “I dou’t like to talk about it now, but
what do you think of my old cellmate tipping me off to
the officers after he had served a portion of a 25-year term,
at the same penitentiary, for murder?”
Tells of Experiences
“I’m going back,” he added. They will take me back
to the same town where I sold carpets recently to house-
:+wives for several weeks,
walking past the entrance to
the pen. No one knew me. CROWDER BOND
IS SET AT $5000
A bond of $5000 was agreed
upon by County Attorney Dick Holt
and attorneys representipg L. D.
Crowder at 10:30 this morning.
Crowder is charged with the mur-der
of Jerry Hickey July 30. and
was released at the time on $3000
boYid. His rearrest last week fol-lowed
his indictment by the grand
jury of the Fifty-fourth district
court, but attorneys were unable to.
agree on a bond. A habeas corpus
hearing to take place Tuesday at
10 a. m., in which an effort was to
be made to agree on suitable bond,
will not be held.
AUSTRIAN MINISTER TO
RUSSIA IS RECALLED
MOSCOW, Oct. 10.—(UP)—Axis-tria
has decided definitely to recall
her minister to Russia, the United
Press learned today,
I wasn’t there long enough.
Just a little over a year and
a trusty, when the desire to
leave the place took me away
knowing that I should stay there
and s,erve my term—then go
■Straight.”
“It’s a long story, my term, and
where I have spent my time since
then. I was working tor a railroad
gang near Palestine in 1914, drawing
less than a dollar a day. Pay day
came and they would, not pay me. The
next 'Saturday it was the same tiling.
It was then that I made up my mind
to leave and take with me two watches
from the section foreman’^ house, to
make-up for the wages due me. The
watches weren't worth 50c each, but
I took them.
Caught Near Palestine
“They arrested me five miles past
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FILE SCHOOL SUIT
IN U. S. THIS WEEK
Case of A. Burton Against AxCell
Trustees Will Be Carried to
Federal Court
The case of A. Burton vs. W. D.
Thompson and other members of
the Axtell school board will prob-ably
be filed in the federal* court
within two days, according to H.
S. Beard, one of Burton’s attor-neys.
The case involves a question
on whether a school board has au-thority
to create a new school dis-trict.
and levy and collect taxes
on it.
WACO HUNTS FOR
FIRE HAZARDS
Citizens Asked to Inspect Homes
And Yards During First Day
Of Fire Prevention Week
Today marked the opening of
fire prevention week; set aside by
Mayor A. Baker: Duncan for the
citizens of Waco to inspect their
homes and yards to see that they
are free from fire hazards. No
daily program has been made by
Fire Marshal Dan Nicholson, and
members of the fire prevention
committee, but all Waco schools
and civic clubs will conduct fire
prevention programs.
TWO STOLEN WACO
AUTOS RECOVERED
Cars Found Parked by Roadside,
Out of Gasoline and Stripped
Of Tires
Two stolen automobiles, taken
from Waco during the week-end,
Were recovered last night by Waco
officers. Mounted Officers Lee and
Cashion found a Ford coupe, stolen
•Irom G. M. Cloud while he was at-tending
church services at the Cen-tral
Christian church. The car was
muddy and the inotometetr and
two front casings were missing.
A coupe stolen from John Alva-rez
of Brownwood while it Vvas
parked on a Waco street was re-covered
last night by Officer A. O.
Pierce in East Waco. This cdf had
been stripped and the car thieves
Bad either run out of gasoline or
drained all of the gas from the
tank.
Former Wacoan Honored
Mrs. Etta Davidson of Houston, for-mer
Wacoan has. been appointed state
supervisor of the Woodmen circle, an
office recently vacated by Mrs. H. A.
Thomas of Fort Worth, Mrs. Josephine
Wheatly announced in a meeting of
Myrtle Grove No. 44. Mrs. Thomas has
received the office of advisory super-visor.
Mrs. Davidson is said by Waco
friends to have a personality fitting
the honor conferred upon her. She has
been an active worker for the Wood-men'
many years.
LINDBERGH ESCORT PLANES
CRASH, AVIATORS ESCAPE
NEW ORLEANS, Hi.. Oct. 10.—
(INS)—Two naval aviators nar-rowly
escaped injury early today
when one of two planes escorting
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh crashed
into a bank of the Mississippi river
23 miles east of here.
SWEATER COMMITTEE FOR
SOPHOMORE CLASS NAMED
Dixie Lynn Wood of Waco has
been made chairman of a commit-tee
in the sophomore class at Bay-lor
to determine the style of sweat-ers
which this year’s class will or-der.
Roy Adams is also a member
of the committee, and on the social
committee are Adams and Miss
Dorris Roberts.
IN TODAY’S
ISSUE
Editorials on page 4.
Sports, page 5.
Woman’s pages and so-ciety
pages, 6 and T>.
Ella Cinders, page 8.
The Good Time Guy,
page 9.
Markets, page 9.
Full page of comics,
page 10.
Sunday’s Sermonettes,
page 12.
MAIL BANDITS
GET $100,000
7 Sacks Obtained From
Messenger of Bank of
Italy, in the Heart of
Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Oct. 10—(UP)
—Seven sacks of registered mail be-lieved
to contain $100,000 in checks and
negotiable securities were obtained by
two bandits who held up a messenger
of the Bank of Italy In the heart of
the film colony today.
The messenger, Frank F. Wilmoth,
was driving his automobile across an
intersection when the bandits in an-other
machine forced him to the curb,
ordered him. out of the car and then
took his machine and drove away.
SISTER OF WACO
MEN BURIED HERE
Interment of Mrs. Stiead, Whose
Brotlters in Waco Are J. C.
And J. T. Farr, Today
Funeral of Mrs. T. R. Shead of
Catarina, who died Sunday at her
hothe, will be held from the Comp-ton
funeral home sometime Wed-nesday,
3nd interment will be made
at the Park Lawn cemetery. Be-sides
her husband, Mrs. ,Shead is
survived by three sons and an in-fant;
her mother and father, Mr.
and Mrs.„J. E. Farr of Donna;
eight brothers. W. L. Farr of Don-na,
J. C. and J. T. Farr of Waco.
C. B.,’ William and J. B. Farr of
Houston, R. G. Farr of Childress,
Halbert Farr of Akron, Colo., and
one sister Mrs. T. V. Meers of
Houston.
CLAIMS INJURY
from Gas pipe
Woman Sues for $200 Damages Allog-ing
Hurt From Projection
From Truck
The case of Mrs. Emma Wiggs ver-sus
Hine Ken non on $200 personal
da#nage, which tjte former alleges is
due her from injuries Is beginning in
Justice Padgett’s court today. Mrs.
Wiggs and her husand were riding
along the Dallas road In 1925, she'
charges, when gas pipes sticking out
from Kennon’s parked^ truck, and not
clearly visible went through the wind-shied
and Injured her right arm.
2 CHARGED WITH
CHICKEN THEFT
Youths Arrested After Fowls Are Of-fered
for Sale In Waco
Market
Charges were filed against Hoke
Greenwood, and Barnard Greenwood,
in the justice court before Justice of
the Peace R. B. Stanford, this morn-ing,
in connection with the theft of
chickens from farmers between Waco
and Brernond. The boys coming to
Waco Friday night made raids on sev-eral
chicken coops, it is alleged, and
brought the chickens to Waco to sell.
The examining trial has been set for
Tuesday at’ 2 p. m.
$750 BOND FOR
P. C. WALCOTT
Defendant Testifies in Examining
Trial (<> Passing Cheek On
Dollius’ Market
P. C. Wolcott has been bound over
to the grand jury under bond of $750
charged with forgery, following a
statement in Justice J. J. Padgett’s
court this morning that he passed a
check for $1.87 to Dollins' market. A.
J. Bonds of China Springs, whose
name was forged to the check, has
had his name forged to a check three
times in the last two months, irivesti-gation
showed. Edwin McGhee was
charged by indictment some time ago
for forging two checks on Bonds.
BATTERED BODY OF WEALTHY
WIDOW FOUND NEAll HOME
HAMILTON, Mo., Oct. 10—(INS)—
The battered body of Mrs. Clara Aus-tin,
wealthy 74-year-old widow, was
found in an outbuilding at her home
here today. It is believed the woman
was murdered Saturday night. Blood-hounds
were put on a trail and it is
believed robbery was the motive for
the crime.
PAT NEFF FILLS PULPIT
IN WACO, PASTOR ABSENT
Rev. William C. Burton, pastor of
Central Presbyterian church, is ex-pected
to return from the synod at
Breckenridge either tonight or Tues-day
morning. Mrs. Burton received
word this morning that he planned to
return as soon as the synod sessions
are completed. His pulpit Sunday was
filled by Rev^ H. D. Tucker* in the
morning and former Governor Pat
Jtfeff at night.
TABERNACLIST
CHURCH VOTE
SPLIT 67-150
Resolution Offered at the
Sunday Church Serv-
* ices Adopted by About
150 to 67, Is Report
By a ratio of 67 to about
150 the membership of the
Tabernacle Baptist church
stands divided on a resolu-tion
which was presented it
for consideration at Sunday’s
church service, it became known
Monday. /
The resolution and division, as
espressed in these figures, comes
as an aftermath of a resolution
presented at the county-wide Bap-list
association at Moody last
week strongly supporting Baylor
university; Dr. S. P. Brooks, its
president, and all Baptist institu-tions
of Texas against any attacks
which might be made against
them, which resolution was sup-ported
by messengers of the Taber-nacle
church, led by Clyde Me-
Mahan, educational director.
At Tabernacle church services
Sunday a resolution was presented
which contained these two para-graphs:
In view of tiie fact that Taber-nacle
Baptist church is in full
harmony with the Southern Bap-tist
convention work l'or Christ,
that we hereby go on record as
adopting and making it our own
the now famous resolution of-fered
by the beloved late Presi-dent
George W. McDaniel at
Houston, Texas in May, 1928,
which reads as follows: “That
tills convention accepts Genesis
as teaching that man was the
special creation of God and re-jeets
every theory, evolution or
otherwise, which teaches that
man originated in or came by
way of lower animal ancestry.”
And this, in view of the fact
that any Baptist who would fail
to sign tiie McDaniel resolution
is out of harmony with tiie
Southern Baptist convention and
as cooperating with the South-ern
Baptist convention as true
Baptists and Christians, we, the
Tabernacle Baptist congregation,
could not Indorse or support any
person who would thus refuse to
cooperate with our Southern
Baptist convention. And we also
believe that Baptists who do not
indorse and support denomina-tional
servants who refuse to
sign the McDaniel resolution, do
so to the hurt of Christ’s cause
as represented by southern Bap-tists
and are thus most largely
responsible for our present con-fusion
in county, state, nation
and world, among Baptists.
Speaking of these paragraphs
Monday, Mr. McMahan, one of the
67 voting “no,” declared:
“We would be glad to vote ‘yes’
on this section of the resolution,
but it was part of the third para-
-graph of the resolution proper
which we could not indorse. The
third paragraph reads:
And we wish to further go on
record that any individual, as-sociation
or convention that in-dorses
and supports men who are
unwilling to sign tiie McDaniel
resolution do not represent tiie
spirit, purpose and policy - of
Tabernacle Baptist congregation.
And, we further go on record
that this church repects as un-fair,
unBaptistie and unbrotlierly
any action that would single out
one church and pastor of an en-tire
association for public ridi-eule
by inunendo. insinuation
and misrepresentation by resolu-tion
and through the press in
such language as tiie following:
“We deplore that even one
could be found among us who is
willing to encourage sucli at-lacks
by furnishing a platform
from which the attacks could be
launched, surreptitiously circu-lating
literature fhich contains
this false propaganda and oth-crwisc
lending comfort and aid
to the enemies of our organized
work.”
The quoted part of the above
was a clause contained in the res-olution
which McMahan supported
at tiie Moody county-wide Baptist
meeting last week.
Mr. McMahan stated that about
150 voted for the resolution of-fered
in Tabernacle church Sun-day,
but that he and 66 others re-fused
to voae for it on account of
the construction of the third para-graph
of the resolution.
“I have no statement to make
about the matter at this timd,”
said the educational leader.
Aske dif he and his 66 follow-ers
contemplated withdrawing
from the church he said:
“No, we are simply waiting to
see what move the other side
makes.” '
12-YEAR-OLD SI
PREVENTIOI
A T least one Waco boy is
/\starting Fire Prevention
week right. That boy is *
Jack Payne, 12 years old, who
attends the Bell’s Hill public
school.
Jack went hon\e to iunch at
ARTS FIRE
V WEEK RIGHTO
1814 Clay avenue, found that
no one was at home, and also
found that the ironing board
was blazing. Snatching the
board he tore it loose from its
moorings, smothered the flames
and flung it into the yard. He
thus prevented a'fire.
PLANE LANDS
AT RICHFIELD
Lieut. Doolittle, En Route From
San Diego to Dayton, Ohio,
Stops in Witco
Lieutenant James Doolittle,
who landed at, Richfield Sun-day
at 7:15 p. m. from Sau Diego,
Cal.,' in his monoplane, took off
this morning at 6 o’clock for Day-ton,
Ohio, where he will attend the
opening of a new iandtng field. He
spent last night with his brother-in-
law, Lieutenant , Leland An-drews
here.
CRIES ‘POLITICS’ WACOAN SAYS
BUDDHA GAINS
IN AMERICA
Mrs. Florence Knapp, former re-publican
secretary of state of New
Y'ork under “Al” Smith, who at-tributed
to “politics” the charge’
that she wasted and misappropri-ated
$1,200,Q00 spent in taking the
192 5 state census. She said she
believed the accusation was dem-ocratic
retaliation for Theodore
Roosevelt’s convention attack upon
Governor Al Smith.
WOMAN AND 6
READY TO FLY
CURTISS FIELD, N. Y„ Oct. 10.
(INS)—With a passenger list of six
for the Old Orchard, Me., hop of
its transatlantic schedule, Mis.s
Francis Wilson Grayson's Sikorsky
Amphian airplane was warmed up
and put through its final tests this
morning preparatory to the take-off
scheduled for later in the day.
RANGERS GO TO
ZAPATA COUNTY
Report Revolutionary Force Being
Organized for Entry Into
„ Mexico
AUSTIN, Oct. 10.—(UP) — Three
companies of Texas rangers are now
stationed on the border, all within
easy striking distance of Zapati coun-ty,
where a revolutionary force is re-ported
preparing to cross into' Mexico.
POWER INDUSTRY
CONTROL SOUGHT
Action 011 810,000,000,000 Business
Asked, by Senator Norris,
Insurgent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.— (INS)
—Government control of the $10,-
000,000,090 light anji power indus-try,
through legislation and federal^
example, will be made a major is-sue
at the coming session of con-gress,
and carried into the 1928
presidential campaign. Senator
George W. Norris, republican, Ne-braska,
insurgent leader of the
senate, predicted here today.
WALTHALL HURT
IN AUTO CRASH
Board of Control Member Injured
in Highway Traetor-Automo-bile
Collision
AUSTIN, Oct. 10.— (UP)—R. B.
Walthall, member of the state
board of control, was painfully but
not seriously hurt last night when
his automobile collided with a
highway department tractor left on
the road near Austin. Walthall
says there was no light on the trac-
'tor, which had been left on the
roadway.
3 ARE KILLED IN
CROSSING CRASH
Fourth Member of Party Injured
When Santa Fe Flyer Strikes
Automobile
NEWTON. Kan., Oct. 10.—(UP)
—V. H. Whitehair, Mrs. Mary Stev-ens
and Miss Virginia Taylor were
killed, shortly after noon Sunday,
and Mrs. Whitehair was critically
injured when a motor car driven
T>y Whitehair was struck by the
Santa Fe Flyer, “The Chief,”' at a
crossing near Cedar Point. Mrs.
Wh'itehair is the daughter of Mrs.
Stevens and the aunt of Miss Tay-lor.
Bandit Raids Harass
Frontier of Bulgaria
BERLIN, Oct. 10.—(UP)—Au-thority
to declare a state of siege
in the frontier district of Petrich
afid Kistendil in order to check
bandit raids, has been sought tele-graphically
fro hi King Boris of
Bulgaria, a Sofia dispatch said to-day.
Mrs. Glass, Who Carries
Christianity to China,
Warns of ‘Gospel’ Being
Brought to America
Five thousand followers of Buddha
live in Salt Lake City, New York,
Boston and otner American Cities,
according to Mrs. W. B. Glass, a re-turned
missionary from China, who is
talking to women of the Seventh and
James Baptist auxiliary this after-noon
in their meeting. Dr. and Mrs.
Glass are at home on furlough from
26 years’ service to place their two
daughters in Baylor university.
‘Buddhism on Trek’
“Buddhism on the Trek” is the sub-ject
of her talk, and right here in
the United States, according to Mrs.
Glass, children of Buddhist followers
are taught to sing "Oh How I Love
Buddha ^Because He First Loved Me”
to the tune of “Jesus Loves Me.”
She quotes a Buddhist of Japan as
saying "Americans in their busy life
need peace and tranquilty offered
them by the religious philosophy of
Buddhism,” while another Japanese
makes the statement that thus far,
work of Buddha missionaries is con-fined
to American born Japanese in
this country, but plans are being made
to extend the work to white people.
America Must Awake
“American people must be waked up
to conditions that are gaining a foot-hold
in this country,” says Mrs. Glass.
"If they only realized the spiritual
crisis through which we are passing
today, it would be so much easier to
accomplish the work that foreign mis-sionairies
from America are attempt-ing.”
Mrs. Glass is the first trained
nurse that the Baptist foreign mission
board ever sent to a foreign field.
YOUTH IS KILLED
BY COLLEGE MATE
Accidental Revolver Shot Proves
Fatal to Junior at Univer-sity
of Kansas
LAWRENCE, Kan., Oct. 10.—
(UP)—Accidental discharge : of a
revolver, which his roommate was
examining, resulted in wounds
which proved fatal for Edward
Naylon, 20 years old, Leavenworth,
Kan., a junior in the University of
Kansas.
AS THE WIRES
CLOSED
MEXICO CITY.—Authorities today
learned that Gen. Juan Barragan,
chief of staff of President Carranza
some years ago, had taken refuge in
the Cuban embassy.
LAREDD.—A railroad bridge 20
miles from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,
on the Mexican National railroad to
Mexico City, was burned early to*
day by a hand of rebels.
CHICAGO. — Bussell Scott, who
fought against hanging on the gal-lows
but hanged himself in his jail
cell, was vindicated as insane Jpy a
coroner’s jury here today. *
MAYS LANDING, N. J.—Release
on ball was refused Mrs. Margarot
Lilliendahl, jointly accused with Wil-lis
Beach, of the murder of her lius*
hand, Dr. William Lilliendahl, on
her arraignment here today.
AUSTIN.—Governor Moody today
refused commutation of sentence for
A. V. Millikin, sentenced to be electro-cuted
Oct. 14 for murder of Mrs! Yir-ginia
Petty near New Braunfels.
RIO GRANDE CITY.—The Rio
Grande river was rising rapidly at
this point today and was expected
to reach the flood stage late tonight.
COUNTY DADS
MEET TUESDAY
Conference With Highway Depart-ment
in Austin Today Causes
Postponement of Meeting
Because of a conference with
highway department in Austin to-day
which is being attended by
county commissioners, their regu-lar
Session is postponed until Tues-day
at 10 a. m. At that time all
,bills presented to the county will
be gone over. Judge James R.
Jenkins, the commissioners, and
Manton Hannah have received an
invitation from Leon V. Shaw of
the Austin Bridge Construction
company of Dallas, to attend the
Dallas fair, which will be read by
Hannah at the commissioners’
meeting tonjorrow. Wheth">- it will
be accepted is not yet known.
Community Chest Board
To Meet on Wednesday
A. M. Goldstein, chairman of. the
advisory ooard of the Community
Chest organization has announced, a
meeting of the board for 10:30 Wed-nesday
morning at the Chamber of
Commerce. This will- be an unusually
important meeting at which plans for
the publicity to be used in the coming
campaign will be discussed.
WOMAN
AND MAN
SOUGHT
Between $1500 and $2000
Is Obtained From First
National by Stick-Up
Artist
Feminine Companion
Waits Him in a Car
Sheriff and Deputies Seek-ing
Chevrolet and a
Large Car; Fail to
Identify Make
A sum of money esti-mated
at between $1500 and
$2000 was taken from the
First National bank of Eddy
in a daylight hold-up by a
single man at 1 p. m. today
and Sheriff Leslie Stegall has dis-patched
deputies to search for a
car containing the man and a
woman said to be driving it.
Entering the bank unmasked-,
according to report in 'Waco from
Eddy, the man pointed a gun at
Fred Stewart, cashier, who was the
only occupant of the place at the
time, and demanded, “Where ia
your vault?”
Forcing Stewart into it and
locking the door, he gathered up
the cash in the drawer and left
through the back door, where a
car said to be a new Studebaker
coach carried him off at once with-a
woman at the wheel.
Telephones Operator
Stewart telephoned Mrs. Emma
Owens, telephone operator at'
Eddy, from the vault and she im-mediately
notified Dr. J. R.
Knight, president of the bank, and
all merchants in town, but the
robber made a quick getaway to-ward
Temple, it is reported. All
Monday morning deposits of Eddy
merchants are said to be in the
sum that he carried with him.
An accurate figure on the
amount taken was not obtainable,
but Dr. Knight estimated it at
$2000.
Deputy Sheriff Oat Beard of
Eddy, assisted by a number of res-idents,
is making a search for the
car, while officers at Temple and
W.aco were notified immediately of
the holdup. Although Stegall and
Smith Dosher went at once to tha
Temple road to hunt for tho
couple, Dosher’s belief is that they
have gone on through Waco to-ward
Dallas, slipping by before
Waco received notice of the rob-bery.
He has accordingly sent
telephone calls to Hillsboro and
points on both sides, to be notified
if any glimpse of the car, said to
be new and with a motometer sur-mounting
the ra.diator cap, is seen.
Several See Car
The car is reported by several Ed-dyites
to have been parked near an
alley entrance to the bank for an hour
before the holdup took place, but as its
occupants seemed busy with affairs,of
their own about the town, no particu-lar
notice was taken of it. Some claim
to have seen it several days ago at a
vacant house in town, which they
presumed 'the driver was inspecting
with a view to possible occupancy.
Reports from the Y'ellow Dog
filling station near Hewitt state
that a car answering the descrip-tion
of the robbers’ passed there
going north soon after 1 o’clock.
No sign of it has been found since,
the sheriff says.
THE WEATHER
ALor of people
oMo AIM To
PLEASE ARE POOR
By Dr. Isldor Block, Optometrist and
Meteorologist, 421 Austin Avenue
Forecast for tomorrow: Fair and
warmer. Temperature: Maximum, 75
at 3 p. m. ; minimum, 52 at 7 a. m.
Barometer, 30. Humidity, 95. Total
rain for month, 6.75.
EAST TEXAS: Fair and warmer
tonight. Tuesday increasing cloudiness.
Warmer except in northwest portion.
WEST TEXAS: Tonight increasing
cloudiness, warmer. Tuesday cloudy
aud warme.';