The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 32, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 20, 1923 Page: 2 of 16
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SOVIET ALSO
HAS ILLICIT
t RUMPROBLEM
Bootlegging Rivals Rapid
Growth of Indus-
try in U. S.
WANT THEIR VODKA
Stills ‘‘Hooch” and Seiz-
ures Part of Their
Every Day Life.
By the AMociated Frew.
Moscow Feb. 20—The Russian gov-
ernment has declared war on boot-
leggers and manufacturers of illicit
"hooch” and the campaign is dupli-
cating in many of its scenes the sit-
uation in New York and other Amer-
ican cities.
The sale of wines and beers is legal
in Russian but the soviet regime has
continued the war policy established
early in 1915 of banning vodka and
other strong intoxicants.
These are now being made in huge
quantities illicitly and nearly every
one of Moscow’s newly rich lias his
private source of supply.
3000 Stills Found.
During the last three months of
1922. according to statistics furnished
the correspondent by the Moscow au-
thorities the police made 5807 house
senrehes and discovered nearly 3000
private stills.
Evidence indicated that there were
"vodka trusts.” or combinations of
capital to produce the liquor in large
quantities.
Restaurants have been raided and
quantities of brandies and high-power
Spirits seized while in some instances
•’patrons "bringing their own” have
jeen arrested.
Special rewards are made to police-
men for discovering stills.
Heavy prison sentences or expul-
sion from Moscow are the penalties
applied to violators of the law.
Some government officials attribute
the growth of illicit distilling and
bootlegging to the high taxes placed
on wine and beer. These are sold in
every grocery store and in big govern-
ment shops but at a figure beyond
the means of the average Russian.
Beer Is No Cure.
Others declare that even cheap wine
and beer would never cure the Rus-
sian—a vodka drinker for generations
—of his taste for spirits and have
endeavored to obtain restoration of
legalized sale of vodka manufactured
under a government monopoly.
Thia monopoly in the days of the
czar supplied a great share of the
state revenues.
The communist program however
is against drink oFall kinds and even
/bough greatly in need of funds. Pre-
mier Lenine and other high officials
are understood to oppose the restora-
tion of vodka which they declare
made Russian village feasts drunken
orgies and contributed greatly to the
ignorance of the peasants whom the
government is now trying to educate.
However there is still a strong
campaign for its restoration.
TEXAS UNIVERSITY
PRESIDENT TO HEAD
j CLEVELAND SCHOOL
Dr. Vinton Chosen From
°1 119 Can- . (
didates.
Cleveland Ohio Feb. 20. — Dr.
Robert Ernest Vinson president of
I the University of Texas has accepted
’ the presidency of the Western Re-
J serve University the board of trus-
tees of the latter institution an-
I nounced last night.
Dr. Vinson is expected to assume
hi* new duties not later than July.
He was from 119 candidates.
Dr. Vinson will succeed Dr.
Charles F. Thwing who resigned No-
vember 11 1921 after having held
the presidency for 31 years.
Dr. Vinson is 49 years old. He has
been president of the University of
Texas since 1916 previous to which
time he served at the head of Presby-
terian Theological Seminary Austin
■ Tex. for four years
CRASH THROUGH ICE
Doctor and Nurse Dose Elves in Ac-
• ’ cident on Lake Erie.
Sandusky. Ohio. Feb. 20.—The body
of Mias Sylvie Schultz. Toledo nurse
and the ill-fated automobile in which
she and Dr. T. C. Greist of Put-in-
Bay went to their death through thin
ice on Lakg Erie Saturday night
were recovered by searchers Monday
afternoon.
The physicinn's automobile was
found on the bottom of the lake at a
point less than a mile southwest of
Put-in-Bay. The automobile was
brought to the surface of firm ice with
difficulty but was found to be unoc-
cupied. Later the searchers using
grappling hooks brought up the body
of the nurse. Thus far efforts to re-
cover the body of Dr. Greist have been
unsuccessful.
Honors for Paderewski.
Los Angeles. Cal.. Feb. 20.—The
degree of doctor of laws will be con-
ferred on Ignace .Tan Paderewski
musician and statesman by the uni-
versity of Southern California here
next Thursday in connection with
patriotic exercises in observance of
Washington's birthday.
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TUESDAY.
Risks Death to Aid Science
Baltimore Feb. 20.—Risking his
life for the sake of science a man
here will soon enter a scaled cham-
ber which will then be filled with
illuminating gas.
With him will go a dog.
Observers watching through giast
panels will take him out when he
shows signs of acute distress. 'The
dog will be taken out dead.
It will be the first of a scries of
experiments conducted by the city au-
thorities to discover what makes Bal-
timore gas so deadly. In the past
year 47 persons died from its effects
aud scores were overcome.
When the health in an at-
tempt to discover the cause decided
on these tests Dr. J. H. Shrader city
chemist was the first to volunteer as
the human subject.
“There is little danger.” he said.
“Besides we may find out things
about this gas which may be of value
to the health of the entire nation.”
He added that it was possible Unit
thousands of eases of illness attribut-
ed to other causes may be due to
lowered vitality caused by the inhal-
ing of illuminating gas.
"French medical experts” he ex
plained “report a case in Paris
where 36 out of 40 persons living in
one house suffered from chronic car-
bon monoxide poisoning. The result-
ant lowered vitality was favorable to
the development in them of tenden-
cies to diseases they may have inherit-
ed from their parents or of conta-
gions to which they may have been
exposed. .
There is carbon monoxide in the
gas served here. If it leaks. a result
such as that found in Paris may de-
velop.”
In his experiments. Dr. Shrader
will be assisted by Walter M. Berry
HARDING ENLISTS
IN FIGHT AGAINST
THE BOLL WEEVIL
Offers Federal Resources
in Fight on “Billion
Dollar Bandit.”
Atlanta. Ga.. Feb. 20.—0 n the eve
of the national conference here for
boll weevil control. President Hard-
ing last night pledged “every re-
source of the technical and scien-
tific organizations of the federal gov-
ernment" to the national campaign
against the “billion dollar bandit.”
President Harding's pledge of sup-
port to the campaign and his force-
ful endorsement of the conference
was given in a letter received by
Dr. Miller Reese Hutchinson of New
York managing director of the cam-
paign in which the President praised
the movement in the highest terms
and offered definite suggestions for
the war on the weevil.
The first skirmish in this national
fight against the pest will begin here
this morning with the convening of
the conference at which will be as-
sembled interests of the cotton indus-
try to outline plans for concerted
action to preserve the American cot-
ton industry.
President Harding suggested in his
letter that an interstate treaty be-
tween the cotton states such as bus
been effected among the states with
common interests along the Colorado
river would be helpful to unify and
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engineer of the U. S. Bureau of Stand-
ards. Dr. c. W. Mitchell of the U. S.
Public Health Service and other gov-
ernment experts
co-ordinate the effort against the
weevil.
The President asked that the At-
lanta conference consider this pro-
posal and expressed the belief that
the conference would prove "a mile-
stone on the way to victory in this
warfare for humanity.”
Dr. Hutchinson who is the lead-
ing figure in the conference wired
the President that he. as President
of the United States is automatically
commander-in-chief of all its insti-
tutions. including the national cam-
paign for bool weevil control.
OWE U. S. $255235805
Germany's Bill for American Rhine
♦"oree Is Quarter Billion
Washington D. C„ Feb. 20.—Eliot
Wadsworth assistant secretary of the
treasury designated to represent the
U-ited' States on the inter-allied
board appointed to adjust the claims
against Germany for maintenance of
occupational forces will sail today
from New York for France.
Latest compilations of costs of the
American army of occupation show
that on October 31. 1922. the German
government owed the United States
8255235825.
Venezuela Great Oil Country.
New York. Feb. 20.—Venezuela will
become the leading oil producing
country of the world within a few
years members of the American In-
stitute of Mining and Metallurgy
meeting in annual convention were
told yesterday. An oil survey of that
country prepared by J. Whituey Lew-
is of New York set fqyh that
few harbor improvements. crude pe-
troleum could be shipped cheaper
from Marin Cairbo to New York than
from any other oil port of the world.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
KEMAL SMS
1001 DOW
IS
Decides to Marry Her;
Weds in Regular
Turk Style.
WOULD FREE WOMEN
Once They Went to War;
Must Wake Up Again
He Says.
By the AMHoriated Pre...
Constantinople Feb. 20. — Musta-
pha Kemal Pasha who was recently
married to the daughter of a rich
Smyrna notable has made a note-
worthy public pronouncement in favor
of the emancipation of Turkish wom-
en. Speaking before the Teachers’
Association at Broussa he declared
the work before the nation could only
be perfected if Turkish women joined
equally with the men in educating
themselves and in taking active parts
in the nation’s affairs.
Kemal Pasha’s bride is Latife
Hanoum. She is reported to have
brought him a dowry of 1000.000
Turkish lira or approximately $030-
000 at the present rate of exchange.
The ceremony was in Turkish
style the two principals taking places
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“I have decided to marry Latife
Hanoum. Will you please accom-
plish the necessary ceremonies?”
The mufti then addressed the wom-
an saying:
“Do you accept as husband (>naxi
Mustapim Kemal Pasha in return for
a gift from him of ten drams of sil-
ver and on condition of a nuptial in-
demnity as agreed upon by you in
event of separation?”
The affirmative reply concluded the
ceremony.
Kamal in his address ascribed the
present seclusion of the sex in Tur-
key to Persian influence asserting
that it was not in accordance with
the precepts of the Moslem religiou.
When Women Went to War.
He recalled the olden times when
Turkish women went to war side by
side with their husbands and some-
times succeeded to the throne of the
sultans.
At the very dawn of Islamism
there were women savants women of
letters women orators and women who
opened schools lectured and took a
great part in the public life. The
Moslem religion he said orders wom-
en to educate themselves in the same
degree as men.
It is only in the large towns he
continued that women seclude them-
selves now. In the country they work
with the men and participate in all
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their activities. In the cities the
traditions of seclusion has been car-
ried too far he said.
Kemal concluded that women ought
to seclude themselves moderately but
not hide themselves.
DOCTOR ASKS TRIAL
Physician Accused of Dancer's Death
Seek* Release on Bail..
San Diego Cal. Feb. 20. — Al-
though there was no word today from
the district attorney as to the char-
acter of the evidence to be pro-
duced against Dr. Louis L. Jacobs
Camp Kearney hospital physician
charged with the murder of Fritzi
Mann dancer it was admitted that
the prosecutor and several of his as-
sistants were busy marshalling facts
which they intended to bring before
the jury.
Meanwhile former Mayor Wadham
attorney for the physician repeated
his assertion that the trial could
come none too soon to suit Dr.
Jacobs. Wadham made no secret of
his intention to seek Dr. Jacobs’ re-
lease on bail the physician having
declared that he was needed at the
camp to care for soldier patients.
The district attorney said he would
resist the application.
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