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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-05-08
BLUEGRASS COLT
Is WINNER OF
KENTUCKY DERBY
nRy The Associated Pressl

LOUISVILLE, KY, May BE
have yourself. Ken'rcky bred three
wear old. II the winner Of the Ken
lucky Derby.
The litr,c brown colt. Il son Of Ma
rathoa and Miss RiE2,"ts, from tn !.
stable % r. r. Bradley of Lexington
KS., flashed across In, wire win
1er by scant neck after a thrilling
race with Black Servant, his stable
mate. while record breaking crowd
Of 60. spectators stood on tip toe
Al the Churchville Downs course this
evening. The crowd was the biggest
that ever saw the running Of the blue
ribbon event for three year olds.
Black Servant, which acted as
pace maker for nearly the entir'
distance. finished in second place,
while Prudery, the crack filly from
the Harry Payne Whiteney stable,
which coupled with Tryster was the
public choice, pulled up in third
place. six lengths behind the leader.
Behave Yourself ran the ore mile
and quarter in 2:0l Is over a
track lightning fast.
The race. carrying $4,000 in ad-
ded money,--the richest prize foI
three years olds in the world-was
worth $3S,450 net to the winner and
$4,000 IL the second bradley entry
so the Lexington turfman won an
proxlmately $4,000 in addition u
seveisl big wagers.
Behave Yourself was ridden hy Jocke,
Thompson. n former stable boy. wh'
never before has piloted horse IN a.
important ey~~at. Jockey I.r';e, the
crack rider of the Bradley stable. was
told that he would be- rewarded Will
5000 if he piloted his horse to VICTORY
and was given his choice Of the mounts
choosing Black Servant.
wner Bradley was the first to con
gratulate the youthful Thompson on hi
brilliant victory and il is probable tina
the 5000 reward vii 20 TO him.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-05-08
JAP SAYS NOBODY
WISHES TO DISARM

TOXIC. May T. - In speech be
fore gathering Of Japanese COVER
nors today. Vice Admiral Tomasaburo
Kato. minister Of the navy, declared
he was heartily in favor of the arm
ament reduction but that no concrete
proposal for bringing this about had
been received from any country.
Meantime he was convinced that
Japan's naval program. which j. eX-
pected to be completed in 1927 at a
cost of 20O,OO0,O00 yen would not
necessitate increased taxation. There
was no intention Of carrying out the
project without considering the fl
nancial condition Of the Empire, and
to be able to meet the requirements
framed for curtailing ordinary eXpen-
ditures for the next fiscal year 80 as
to be able to meet the requirements
Of new construction.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-05-08
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONFERENCE
SHOWS MAGIC VALLEY WAY OUT
OF TRANSPORTATION TROUBLES

Enormous possibilities for the Val
ley through connection with the great
inland waterways system ever projec-
ted in the worlds history were dis
closed at the conference of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Association in New
Orleans last week. according to c. l..
Jessup, who has just returned from
the meeting.
''If everybody down here could
have heard this proposition outlined
as / did," Mr.. Jessup said last night,
1--WE could finance a dozen bond is
sues like the ore for the Rio Grande
railway if il became necessary"
He went on then TO show how. by
standardizing the narrow guage road
and thus insuring deep water al Point
Isabel it would soon be possible to
send consignment Of truck from the
Valley ~ water TO New Orleans.
Memphis, ST. Louis. Kansas City. Chi
cago, Toronto, Montreal. by one
route; to Louisville, Cincinnati and
into the upper regions Of the Ohio
river system by another; or to any
Of the points on the Atlantic sea-
board or navigable waters tributary
TO il.
The one point which practically ev-
cry speaker at the conference stres-
sed, Mr.. Jessup said. was the certain
~ that railroad rates have already
reached the prohibitory point and
there is no hope for immediate relief
except through water transportation.
\ tremendous movement is on foot
To make this remedy possible at the
earliest mement, he said, and il
would be unthinkable for the Valley
60 fail to get into it at the start
through the Standardization Of the
O'Brien road.
The New Orleans meeting was not
held by lot Of visionaries. he pointed
cut, bu. by practical business men
from "a states. representing 55 per
cent Of .he nations population, 64
PER cent If its total area, 90 per cent
of its total exportable products, IL
pr cent Of its manufactured products
and 20 per cent of its agricultural
products. At the conclusion Of the
session the convention adopted a
platform" which contained, among
others the following planks:
!. That the economic development
Of the Valley is a basic principal Of
the organization.
z. That the necessity Of transpor-
tation relief from whatever means
may be first at hand but essentially
IN the improvement Of waterways is
.mpe rative and does not admit Of de-
bate or contention.
g That the commercial suprem-
acy Of a nation and the extent to
which il is permitted to participate in
the worlds markets depend vitality up
on its proximity to the sea or its acces-
s'biity., low resistance and cost of
reaching the sea.
The convention also went on record
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-05-08
GIRL KILLED, MAN
SHOT IN QUARREL

FORT WORTH, TEXAS. May =
Miss Jewel Smith. 20 years cd, was
shot and instantly killed and Elmer
F.. Walker, 81, well known business
man was wounded in double shoot
ing here tonight. The shooting oc-
cured IN the room Of the girl, who
lives in boarding house.
According TO other roomeTs a shot
was heard about IL o'clock tonight
and Walker rushed from the room,
shot in the right wrist. Just as ne
reached the door. another shot was
fired and the girl was found lying
across the bed. shot through the
heart. According to police Officers
1he couple had disagreement ear
lier in the evening at Lake Worth,
Walker will recover.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-05-08
GERMANS IN S|LES|A
MOBILIZE TO RESIST
POLISH REBEL FORCE

KRUEZBERG SILESIA May T.
German reichswehr officers have as
sumed control of the Kruezherg dis
tricfs, 1000 army rifles have been
issued snd guards th-cwn about the
town to defend ii against threatened
attack by Poles who are camped in
front Of Rosenberg. The Polish army
is estimated at 5000, with several
scores Of machine guns.
The inter-allied officials are help
less, the French troops having been
withdrawn two days ago for service
at Rybnik. The entente's represent
atives are seven French civilians, q
British major and an Italian citizen
Their position is not a pleasant ones
the towns people are highly excited
and are angry with the French for
having withdrawn their troops at a
critical time.
The German leaders have inform
ed the inter-allied commission that
they have no intention Of attacking
Rosenburg, but would confiae them
selves to defensive actions. The en-
tente representatives nase appealed
to the Poles In advance they were
told that sooner or later the Poles
would occupy Kreuzberg, probably
Sunday AT that time the allied Of
ficials were negotiating for an ex-
change Of eighty German police
held bv the Poles in Rosenberg for
ITO prisoners held by Germans.
The Polish attitude incensed the
German leaders. who notified the i'm
terallied commission that the Ger
mans would hold on communications
with the rebels and would not agree
to an exchange Of prisoners, but f
the Poles carried out their threats 10
shoot German police the Germans
would be forced to reprisa's against
Polish prisoners.
The Germans received a ship
ment Of arms and ammunition from
the Reichswehr depot at Breslau to-
day sufficient to equip 1000 men,
The Officers say however, that pro-
bably not more than 5000 viii be
Immediately armed, the remainder ~
the guns being issued when the
Poles attack.
Men and boys with rifles, shot
guns, revolvers. knives and exes hold
every village between here and OPP
peln and submit strangers TO u mi
mute examination.
OPPELN, UPPER SILESIA, May
THE French officials here report
that the Poles are evacuating the
Rybnik area and are showing an in
cfnation to withdraw from other
sections Of the industrial region. The
only serious fighting is going on at
Keiferstaedtl thirty six miles south
east of Oppeln, where German Elm
wohnerwehr are attacking the
Poles.
In general. the situation has inn
proved and work has been resumed
Al number Of mines. One OF the
French authorities said today.
"The Poles are coming 70 the rea-
!ization that they adopted the wrong
tactics. The indications are they
gradually will retire and leave the
entente to decide this question We
expect this attitude to make itself
plain within the next three or four
days"
PARIS. May Captain Deblois
of the French Army, controller OF
the Ober-Glogau district Of Upper
Silesia. who was made prisoner by
fifty Germans while on tour of
inspection. has been returned TO the
Irppcr Silesian frontier and released
according 10 adviccs from Silesia to-
night
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-05-08
2 HURT IN BLAST

ST. LOUIS NJ, May Two men
were seriously injured and three other
persons slightly cut by flying glass
in agasoline explosion that wrecked
a cleaning establishment here late
this evening The explosion followed
a fire Of undetermined origin.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-05-08
SEND PROTEST
TO NEFF UPON
TRUCKINCLAW
Valley Concern Dealers Le-
gislation Will Wreck
Its Business

Strong protest TO Governor Neff
against hardships wrought by the new
law was voiced in a letter
sent the Governor yesterday by the
Transport Company. In
common with other concerns Of the
kind. the local company declares the
provisions Of the bill are absured and
will certainly destroy its business un-
less something j. done to offer relief.
The letter, of which copies have
been sent To Senator Parr and Rep
resentative Branch. j. as follows:
May z. 1921.
Hon. Pat NJ Ncff,
Austin. Texas.
Dear SIR
| am writing TO you 20 protest
Senate Bill No. 10l passed at the
last session Of the legislature. My
partner and / have by industry,
hard work and economy built up a
truck business of five two-ton
trucks. serving the Rio Grande
Valley from Brownsville TO Roma.
We have successfully competed
with railroads and have given a
door to door delivery.
The present law ruins US, we
cannot continue in business If II
remains in it's present form on the
statute books, we have studied
carefully our costs under the law
and they are prohibitive, the tax
virtually confiscates our business.
leaving US with five trucks and
no possible market Of purchaser
for them. Thus the law destroys
our investment in an honest bust
ress of $2O.0OO.00. 1t also leaves
the public at the mercy Of the rail
roads.
In the three counties we run
through the bad roads; do moro
damage to our trucks than the
trucks do TO the roads We feel
keenly this law is unjust. unfair
and destructive. crude and clumsy
and neeiiessly expensive in its OPP
Grafton, we pay not only the tax,
but are burdoned with red tape
bookkeeping system which adds
enormously to the expense. We
ask you to give your valuable
thought to the repeal of this law
and IL a motor truck law is called
for by circumstances attending
their operation in your opinion.
will you kindly help in the fran
ing Of just and reasonable act.
Sincerely Yours,
BROWNSVILLE TRANSPORT
COMPANY
IRAA
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-05-08
FRANKLIN X. LANE
is SERIOUSLY I'LL

ROCHESTER, MINI, May 7
The condition of Franklin X. Lane,
former secretary Of the Interior who
underwent an operation here Thurs
day remained unchanged tonight,
but is sti'l serious with the turning
points expected Monday, according
ophysician.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin X. Lane
Jr.. and other relatives arrived here
today
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-05-08
GERMANY UNDECIDED ON
ULTIMATE UNABLE
TO FIND new RULERS

BERLIN, May z. (By The A. p.
Reparations) - Reichstag leaders adj
mitted tonight that no progress had
been made in the direction of solving
the present crisis. This announce
ment was made after day crowded
with party conferences and discis-
sions between the cabinet and the
foreign relations committee over the
ultimatum of the allies on the repara-
tions terms.
The German peoples party and the
democrats alone of the present coal
ition bloc went on record as oppos-
ing any new cabinet which would
. accept ne allies ultimatum. The
clericals and majority socialists were
divided in their sentiments. Herman
Mueller, of the majority socialists
minister Of transport signed the Yer
sailles treaty, was opposed to yield
ing TO the entente.
The deliberations today centerel
wholly on financial indemnities, wAich
the ultimatum and the Tipped Silesiaa
situation.
Candidates for the posts of chan
cellor and various ministerials were
not discussed. President Havenstein,
of the Reichbank, ard under secretary
usr1,h nf hn -, e Soc
were consulted by the foreign rela-
tions committee.
The disarmament condition proved
complication in consequens, Of Ba-
varia's flat refusal 10 Gisband the
einwhnerwehr tcivilian guardsl In
this Bavaria has become more obdur-
ate because of the Upper Silesian re-
volt. and Premier yon Kahr's hurried
visit to Berlin did not afford the gov
ernment assurances beyond his re-
affirmation Of Bavaria's attitude.
DIR. Wilhelm Mayer, German am
bassador to France who was sum-
moned from Paris Thursday when it
was believed that new cabinet under
his leadership could be constituted
before the arrival Of the ultimatum,
had not given President Ebert a def
mite answer up TO eight o'clock to-
night. Party leaders with whom DR.,
Mayer conferred all day believe that
he is not inclined TO trade the embassy
for the precarious post of chancellor
in the cabinet the future of which j.
wrapped in doubt.
DIR. Mayer, who is a member of
the Bavarian Peoples party. nominal
ly allied with the clericals. said he
would be disinclined to succeed Chan
cellor Ferhenbach because he was not
in acord with the clerical's general
. program and he also believed that the
Bavarian attitude would be likely 20
embarass him in the chancellorship.
''If the entente had put a prompt
end and flatly disavowed Korfanty'h
insurrection lin upper Silesia) or had
taken anticipatory measures regard
ing it, as the entente well might have
done in view of our repeated warn.
ings, reichstag circles would today
be more readily inclined to give the
ultimatum and the reparations terms
objective consideration" well known
party leader informed the correspon-
dent in discussing the part played by
the Urper Silesian revolt in the pres
ent crisis.
Korfanty's action has visibly en-.
couraged German opponents Of dis
armament and also measurably con
tributed to increasing the suspicion
with which official and non-official
Germany views Frances interest N
the present ultimatum and financial
indemnities.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-05-08
WEATHER FORECAST

East Texas: Sunday cloudy, Mon
day partly cloudy; cooler in north
portion.
West Texas: Sunday generally fair
cooler in Eorth portion; Monday
fair.
Paragould soliphone., 1921-11-09
RICE RAISERS GET LOAN OF
 ONE MILLION
Advance Is Made by War Finance Corporation to Arkansas Association Plans to Lease Mills.

Little Rock, Nov. 8.-Approval by the War Finance Corporation in Washington yesterday of loan of $1,000,000 to the Arkansas Rice Growers Cooperative Association, marks the beginning of the big gest cooperative marketing scheme Arkansas has ever known.
 With the money thus made avail able. the local organization members will take their crops from the rice fields through the mills to market and thus will totally eliminate the About $50 rice growers are members of the organization and they have on hand between 650,000 and 100000 barrels of rice to be handled in this manner. The organization is growing rapidly and probably before long will number practically all the rice growers in the state.
Paragould soliphone., 1921-11-09
FARMER HELD FOR
 KILLING HIS WIFE

Searcy, Nov S.-William Raney, aged 26, farmer living near Brun- didge. about 10 miles west of Searcy, is held in the White county jail here on a charge of having killed his wife, who died October 5. Mrs. Raney's body was exhumed yesterA day morning, and the stomach taken to Little Rock to be analysed. The state chemist told Sheriff Ben AL len that. portions of other organs would have to be examined before it could be determined whether she had been poisoned, as is charged in the warrant for Raney's arrest. The warrant was issued at the request of Mrs. Raneys mother.
 Raney denied that he was respon- sible for his wife's death. He said that he took home a bottle of medi- cine for his wife, and that soon aft CT she had taken portion of it, she was seized with convulsions and died within few hours.
Paragould soliphone., 1921-11-09
LOSES
 LEASE SUIT
 IN JONESBORO
Chaighead County Lands Il Cilkerson Become Involv- ed in Oil Lease Litiga- ton.

The Jonesboro Sun. 7th. says: "The suit of the J. F. Scott on Company vs. the Little Husky OH Company in which the plaintiff claimed rights to leases on the lend lat Gilkerson on which the Douohue oil well has been started wag de- cided at five o'clock Saturday after noon by Chancellor Wheatley in favor of J. L. Donahuc. The court held that MT. Donahue had right to the leases of the land in ques- tion, which were taken by tho Little Husky Company for MT. Don- ahue. but added that the Little Husky could not make contracts it. self. not being incorporated under the laws of Arkansas.
 Attorney Jeff Block of Paragould and Basil Baker of this city. coun- scl for the Scott Company, gave notice of an appeal and will t4st the case in the Arkansas supreme court <
 "Mr. Mckee, head of the Little Husky Company, stated that drilling would be resumed at the Donahua well tomorrow and would continue steadily.
 "Donahue interests are represent. cd by Attorney H. M. Mayes."
Paragould soliphone., 1921-11-09
Maternity Bill Is
 Reported in House

Washington. Nov. S.-The Shep- pard-Towner bill for protection of maternity and infancy, already passed by the senate, was favorably reported yesterday by the House In- terstate Commerce Commission,
 The bill would limit to five years the annual appropriation of $1.000,- 900 for use by the states and the federal government in an effort to protect infants and mothers. The appropriation of $450.000 for start ing work under the bill was retain ed. Efforts will be made by the committee to have the bill consid- cred by the house this month.
Paragould soliphone., 1921-11-09
Important Feature.

Little Rock, Nov. S.-One of the most important features of the 53rd annual convention of the Arkansas Educational Association this week will be the sessions of the citizens section, which will be held in the convention hall of the Hotel Mar ion. The first will be held on Thursday evening, when Governor McRae will deliver the principal address on the school survey which is to start next week. At 9 a. m. Friday, Hugh s. Magill of Wash ington, Secretary of the National Educational Association, will dis cuss the question of school finances
 AS a result of the campaign which has been conducted for some months, it is expected there will be at least 15,O00 citizens enrolled by the end of this week. They are requested to send one delegate for each 25 members from the various counties although the sessions will be open to all, whether formal delegates or not. The citizens section is the body which will take the lead in carrying out the policies for in- creased efficiency in our public school system and great and con- structive program is expected to be formulated by them.
Paragould soliphone., 1921-11-09

time since the discovery of the pink boil worm in Texas and Louis jana there is now very strong possibility for this pest to become established in Arkansas. Indeed it is altogether likely that the pest has been introduced in the state though it will take some investiga- tion to determine whether it has become established. According to a report which was received at plant board headquarters, late this after noon, this pest has not been discov- cred at Ennis, Texas which is about twenty miles south of Dallas and is situated in Ellis county, perhaps the biggest cotton county in the south. But the worst danger so far as Arkansas is concerned lies in the fact that Ennis is situated in a part of Texas upon which Arkansas has relied in the past for much of it's planting seed, and the pink boil worm has thus far been spread all most entirely in cottonseed.
 The infestation at Ennis, Texas undoubtedly originated through ship ment of seed which were sent to that place from Carload, New Mexi- co. It is significant that shipments of cotton seed from the same point were traced to two points in Ark ansas. Worse than this is the fact that the newly discovered infested area in Texas is right in the heart of the big seed center from which we get much of our planting seed It is altogether probably that the pink boolworm got a years start in that area before it was discovered and although the infestation is thought to cover only a small area there is danger that infested seed was shipped from that territory last year and will establish the pink bollwOrm in new territory, from which new territory they will in turn spread before these new points of infestation are discovered.
Paragould soliphone., 1921-11-09
PARACOULD H. s. TO MEET FAST
 MILITARY TEAM
All Plans Are Being Made to Give Football Eleven From Mississippi Stiff Contest 1Armistice Day.
tFrom Tuesdays Daily)

Current rumors were afloat down town this morning to the effect that the game between the Paragould high school football team and the Tueplo Military Academy hero on Armistice Day had been cancelled. However, the management of ath- letics at the high school fail to con- firm the rumor and they state posi- lively that to date no other plans are being arranged for, except to meet the fast Mississippi team here next Friday afternoon. Rumor had it that the Bullpups from Hendrix College had been substituted for tho Mississippians, but Coach Mayo knows nothing of any such shift in the arrangement of affairs for next Fridays game and if anyone knows of such change it is presumed that he would know something about It..
 An effort will be made for next Friday afternoon to be a holiday with all the business people of Paragould and it is hoped that large crowd will witness what will not only be the best football game staged on the home grounds for the 1921 season, but what will also perhaps be the biggest and hardest game ever played, in Paragould.4 All the dope that has been received about the Tupelo team points to tho fact that they are a wonderful az gregation, and they are considered wonders in aerial football. Coach Mayo is this week paying especial attention to coaching his boys how to defend themselves against such an attack. Unless all signs fail and all dope buckets are upset. there will be more real football In evidence on the local field this week than has been in all the other threo. games played hero this year com- bined. The Bulldogs are to be pitted against foe of unusual strength and they are drilling the1a- selves to be ready for the battle.