JfEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, fEDTORD, OKEfiON", MONDAY, APKTL 9, 1923
PA(1E THREE
IN TEXAS FIELDS
FORT WORTH, Texas, April 9.
With' the government preparing to
lender the promoter-swindler impo
tent ay Darring Mm from the malls
with 200 oil 'fraud cases already In
vestigated and with plans made to
exiena tne oil pro do to Duties, Texas,
and Wichita . Falls, Texas, United
States District Attorney. Henry Zwel
fei Said today that the halfway mark
had not been reached in the investi
gation ot promoters.
The grand Jury resumed its Bes
Blons today. , ',.-., ' ;
"Two years wiil probably be re
quired to clean up all the investiga
tions and violations already uncov
ered," Zwelfel aserted. .
He Intimated that the Investiga
tion in Dalas would uncover fraudu
lent, operations on a wholesale scale.
ImDortant flevolanmpnta pvnpntnrl
within the next week were said to be
the return ot indictments by the
grand Jury here in connection with
oil cases and the launching of efforts
to bar fraudulent promoters from us
ing the malls. ' . ; , ... ;
POSTAL ROBBER
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 9. Tho
ease of Richard Scanldfi, suspected of
complicity in both the recent $30,000
robbery of stamps from tho postoffice
at Olympia, Wash;, and the robbery
of the Citizens bank at Springfield,
Mo.. May 6 of last year, is on the
calendar of United States Commis
sioner Krull for arraignment today.
He la appearing on tho Olympia
charge.
With Scanlon, who Is also known
as Richard Williams and Richard
Riley, were arrested George Conley,
George W. Caesar, a Mexican drug
gist; Sam Cohn, a messenger boy, and
Mrs. Helen Conley, wife of Conley.
The Conlcys and Scanlon are charged
with the illegal possession of SC000
irf stamps. Caesar is charged with
having bought $2000 of the stamps
for (1100. Cohn is being held as
Caesar's messenger boy..
','None of the. stnmp theft suspects
aie Connected by the authorities with
the Springfield robbery npart from
Scanlon. .
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LONDON. A romance of the typo of "She Stoops to Conquer" which has set London by its ears and
nflamed romanticists the world over is that recently consummated between the daughter of Lord Knollys,
private secretary to the king, snd a cigar merchant's helper. '
The bride, the Hon. Alexandra, is the widow of a British captain killed early in the war. She steps
from the Britkb court, into a huroole s'tuation as a poor man's wife, and daughter-in-law of an agc4
usher in an Edinburgh court.
. Vhen Dellora Anell, Chiiao's multi-millionaire heiress, weds her poor young newspaper artist,
she will have only the casm of immense wealth to bridge instead of the one of social position.
Dcllora's struggling your.gr hustand-'.o-be, however, has Horatio Alger on his side; Jid as for tho
Chcckleys, was it not their 'own' Bobby, Eurns who said, "A man's a man for a' that"?
VIRGIN ISLES AS
RIGHT TO MAKE
RUM FOR EXPORT
ST. THOMAlj, Virgin IkIiiikIh. April
. (By tho Associated Press)
Modification of prohibition laws so comes to running his kingdom, mere
ns to permit manufacture of rum for were no telephones, automobiles, or
everyone, old or young, and sends
them away from the theatre chuckling
over the ready wit of a real American
in the play ot the "Yankee," cleverly
played by Harry C. Myers. The fact
that Mark Twain has taken his hero
out of a wealthy and aristocratic fam
ily of New England ot the present day ,
and has suddenly placed him back in
the days when King Arthur and his ;
knights of the round tablo had full
sway over morry old England forms a
splendid and solid concrete foundation
for the funniest of offerings.
The Yankee ffnds that Kihg'Arthur
is awity behind the time-' when it
LOCK I
CANAL BLOWN UP
I
- NEW YORK April 9. Tho New
York Herald announces today that
.commencing tomorrow it will issue a
miniature newspaper for the busy
man which can be ' read in ten min
utes, in addition to the regular edi
tion. Frank A. Munsey, the publisher, in
making the announcement, says:
"The average man hasn't more
than about 20 minutes for his morn
ing newspaper. , Tho truth
is that the average man with so little
ttmo for his morning newspaper,
doesn't got very far with tho news of
the day.
"Twenty minutes cannot do the
work of twenty hours, and thero is
well nigh 20. hours' of reading In a
copy of the New York Herald."
PARIS, April 9. (By tho Asso
ciated Press.) Louis Loucheur's pa
per, the Petit Journal, quotes him as
snying that his recent trip to Eng
land convinced him of the possibility
of an accord with Great Britain,
"which will not sacrifice in the least
the legitimate Interests of France and
her allies concerning reparations or
security."
"Everyone whom he saw in Great
Britain," SI. Loucneur says, "appear
ed to understand' that France and
Belgium are determined to carry
op" in the Ruhr venture. He ex
presses a hope that he has succeeded
In dispelling "certain suspicions
which existed in Great Britain con
cerning France and Its alms.'1
export purposes only i:i tho Virgin
islands was advocated by members of
the municipal 'ouncil of St. Thomas
and St. Croix at a hearing todny.ut
in fact any ot the necessities of life of
the present day, so he immediately
prepares to install them. To seo thou
sands of knights clad in armor' and
K5SKN, 'April' p.tny tho Asso
elated l'reHH) The 'explosion " of i
tlnio bomb destroyed tho lock of the
Dortmund-Ems canal near Heme
early today. The canal was blocked
seriously interfering with the com
plicated inland waterway traffic to
the Ruhr.
This Is the most serious case of
sabotage yet ' reported on tho Ruhr
L
TO MARCH TRADE
WASHINGTON. April . A !),-
000. 000 increase in the March collac-
tiims of Incomes ami profits taxes as
compared with the'Matvh collections
of last year, on which the higher In
come surtax rates nppltcd, gives 'a
practical answer to the tax problem
and "shows clenrly what courts fur
ther revision should lake," Secretary
Mellon declared in a statement last
night.
Forecasting In his statement pos
sible efforts by the treasury to bftvo
congress further cut the surtax rates
Inennies. Sei-retary Mellon nssert-
ed that tho March collections of
JJC3. 000.000 had fully justified Ills
prediction that downward revision
would have tho effect of Increasing
rather than decreasing tho federal
revenue. Tho secretary viewed the
Increase in eotlcctlons us proof that
the downward revision hud acted as
a stimulant to business.
Kven the present surtax rates
which range to u mixlmum of r0 per
rent and glvo a combined maximum
normal and surtax of 58 per cent. Mr.
Mellon said, are tending to hamper
business and causing the largo tax
payers to seek every possible means
of averting tho taxublo ineomo.
Bishop Tuttlo Wouker. ,
ST. I.OLMH, April 9. P.lsliop TuU
tie of tho Episcopal church who Is
111. with grlppb. was reported as
slightly weaker today.
New Oil Ruling.
WASHINGTON, April 9. Oil com
panies wholesaling gasoline can
furnlSh retailers tank and pump
equipment under an agreement that
the equipment be eyrlusivcly for
handling the gasoline of tho company
owning tho 'o.ulpment, the supreme
court held today in cases brought by
the federal trade commission.
WE MAKE THEM
, Medford Tent and
Awning Works
Opposite S. P. Depot .
the government house before Socre- " "' - .i l . . . . ,
tary Denby and his congressional mounted on motorcycles riding to the I waterways. The lock destroyed is
from tho fleet maneuvers off Pan
ama. . .
The counellmen also advocated
that St. Thomas be mndo a free port
party, stopping here en route home rescue of King Arthur and the Yankee
is one or lue runniest signis. 10 iry
and describe this unusual offering is
like trying to tell a joke when one has
(Virirnttnn tho onditlff with thfi attached
for tho distribution of rum from thekIcku can.t bo donQ
A special and catchy musical
score by "Betty" at the mighty Wur
litzer is one of the novel features that
accompanies the showing. -
West Indies which before prohibi
tion was tho principal business of the
islnnds.
An appeal for funds for the con
struction of a water reservoir and
Irrigation projects also was made by
tho councllmon, wlio declared that
four years of drought had seriously
reduced agricultural production. In
reply Secretary Don by stated he
would dispatch a naval civil engi
neer to tho islands at once, to study
and report on the feasibility of such
a project, adding with a, smile that
"water is more needed than rum."
, Secretary Denby and his party sail
ed on the transport Henderson to
night' for Washington; whero ' they
expect to arrive Friday. '
To know
how good a cigarette
really can be made
you must try a
CIGARETTE
"Gimmie," Rialto
It may have been sympathy for the
economically dependent wifo who is
forced to wheedle from her husband
every nickel for carfare; or It may
have been sheer Inspiration that sot
Rupert Hughes to the creation of his
newest photoplay, "Gimme," which
was shown at the Rialto theatre yes
terday. "Gimmo" is one of those light
domestic comedy things, seasoned
with a good dash of drama, (lint only
Rupert Hughes Is so expert In con
cocting. Helono Chadwick, who played so
beautifully the role of the young wife
in that other Hughes masterpiece,
"Dangerous Curves Abend." Is again
tho wifo In this one, and gives a flaw
loss performance. Tho husband, Clin
ton Kerrls, Is played by Gaston Glass,
that skilled young French actor. Oth
ers in tho cast, which Is uniformly ex
cellent, are H. IJ. Walthall, Eleanor
Board man, Kate Lester,
Film Based On
Mark Twain's Satire
Attracts Crowds
Knterlng on Its next to the Inst day,
Mark Twain's famous satire on the
old world. "A Connecticut Yankee In
King Arthur's court." is playing at
tho rage theatre.
"A Connecticut Yankee" appeals to
CUSS FRETFUL
LONDON, April 9. (F.y tho As
sociated Press) The most important
part of the present parliamentary
session begins today when the house
of commons reassembles after a short
vacation.
It is universally admitted that
there nro critical times abend of the
government. Seldom has there boon
an administration that has drawn
more criticism from tho press be
cause of Ur alleged shortcomings.
The unrest In the labor world, tho
discontent shown by a largo division
of tho middle classes and tho anxiety
of capital and business are the fea
tures in every London newspaper and
tho government soema to he regarded
ns the senpe gnnt nf all Interests.
near the junction of tho Dortmund
Ems canal with the main canal that
runs down to tho Rhino at Dulsburg
and Ituhort, where the world's largest
inland port is located.
The Intention of the dynamiters
apparently was not only to block the
ennal, but to drain the water from
tho main lihinc-Herno canal, which
is tho main waterway artery in the
Ruhr. -
The French say this main cnnal
has not been interfered with, as the
locks on both sides of the one which
was dynamited were closed imme
diately after the explosion to prevent
the draining of tho main canal.
Tho Dnrtmund-IOms . canal, Itself
an important waterway, Is blocked by
tho destruction of tha lock, Guards
have been placed ni all junctions and
locks as a mcasuro for prevention of
further damage.
Tho circumstances of tho explosion
indicated that the bomb had been
placed with great care under difficult
circumstances. It blew out the gate
and toro a largo hole In tho side of
tho cunal.
PEKING Dr. "Wellington Koo will
bo named as foreign minister to buc
ceof Huang Iru, resigned.
DRONCMTIS
DAt bedtime rub the throat an
chest thoroughly with
V V a po Rub
Ovtr 17 Million Jan UuJYtuk
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Nash Six Touring, 1921 Model. Newly painted. Fine
condition. " : . .
Maxwell 1920 Touring.
Baby Overland Touring, 1921 model.
Chevrolet Touring, 1920 model, newly painted, fine
condition.
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