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t zAidkz Your plans}or mxm PALACE: OCTOBER 22 to NOVEMBER 6 Waco Evening Tribune VOLUME 1—NUMBER 7 (INS) Means— International News Service. WACO, TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1927 (Spl) Means— 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 TURN TO PAGE 3, COLUMN G 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.';
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ID | tx-waco-nwp-wetr_1927-10-10 |
Title | Waco Evening Tribune (Waco, Texas) Vol. 1 No. 7, Monday, October 10, 1927 |
Date | 1927-10-10 |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 7 |
Editor | Frank Baldwin |
Number of Pages | 12 |
Publisher | Southern Publishing Company |
Language | English |
Rights | http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights |
Resource Type | Text |
Format | Newspaper, 12 pages |
Collection Name | Baylor University - The Texas Collection - Historic Waco Newspapers |
Uniform Title | Waco Evening Tribune (Waco, Texas) |
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Title | tx-waco-nwp-wetr_1927-10-10_01 |
OCR - Transcript | t zAidkz Your plans}or mxm PALACE: OCTOBER 22 to NOVEMBER 6 Waco Evening Tribune VOLUME 1—NUMBER 7 (INS) Means— International News Service. WACO, TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1927 (Spl) Means— 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 TURN TO PAGE 3, COLUMN G 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.'; |