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4-A
MDBS TD HAVE
LITTLE CHANGE
IN THIS STATE
National Guard Cavalry-
men Wil! Be Ready
to Act.
GET MODERN WEAPONS
Blinding Gas Smoke
Screens Horses and
Riot Guns.
Gas that will strike men blind—
Smoke screens thick as night—
Horses ridden by trained men—
Riot guns by the dozen —
That is what the governor of Texas
will have to fall back on if internal
trouble hits this great state it was
learned Saturday. The 56th Cavalry
Brigade with more than SOO men has
obtained every modern device with
which to repel attacks or to launch
an offensive. Brig. Gen. Jacob F.
"Wolters comanding officer now at
Camp Stanley Mid.
Should there be a riot according
to the general the governor would
eend a message to the cavalrymen at
once. The cavalrymen would be ready
to mount and go to the scene.
Two Full Troops.
There are full troops of cavalry
each armed with modern implements
of warfare at San Antonio " axa-
hachie Dallas. Fort Worth Tyler
McKinney. LaGrange Houston Sher-
man and Brenham.
“What is the first thing the cavalry
would do?” the general was asked.
He answered: “That might be ac-
cording to conditions. Supose there
were 2000 people on Alamo Plaza
attackin. the postoffice. \
“Our men could ride within 100
yards of them set smoke candles in
front and blind the mob so that the
mob leaders wouldn’t know where to
go next.
“If this failed and the mob refused
to scatter." the general added “our
men would toss in one or two gas
bombs.
“There has never been a mob in
Texas too big for two bombs to break
up. The gas blinds them until they
can’t see a wink. The effects of the
gas wears off after about half an hour
however.
“Then if the mob is still angry
it would be an easy matter for mount-
ed men say fifty in number to dis-
perse a mob of 1000.
“But back of all this the men have
sabers which will hurt pretty bad.
And their rifles are by no means toys.
"Then if a concerted attack by in-
furiated citizens upon some institu-
tion is experienced and our other
methods fail there is nothing left but
to shoot. We have plenty of machine
guns and plenty of ammunition but
never will the cavalrymen of Texas
use it. We will not use machine guns
except in case of border trouble.
Will Back I p Anny.
“The primary object of the Na-
tional Guard is to back up the regular
army. Now the National Guard is
about to become larger than the army
itseif. That is why Uncle Sam is al-
lowing us to have modern fighting
xniujbines and latest equipment.”
Jtrigadf r General Wolters explain-
ed that through the courtesy of the
chemical warfare service of the regu-
lar army he was allowed to have sev-
eral hundred gas bombs and an equal
number of smoke caudles for smoke
ecreais. These will be distributed to
troope for use in possible future out-
breaks.
The cavalry brigade under Brigadier
General Wolters will end its training
after an all night hike Monday end-
ing about noon Tuesday.
The brigade is scheduled to entrain
Wednesday about noon at Camp Stan-
ley to go to their homes.
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SUNDAY.
He Is Secretary
Campbell Bascom Slemp. 53 of Big
Stone Gap Va„ Republican state
chairman and former congressman has
been named as secretary to the presi-
dent succeeding George B. Christian.
S4J SLEMP PICKED
FOR HIS ABILITY TO
UNE UP DELEGATES
Generally Supposed Cool-
idge Will Seek Nom-
motion.
Waahington D. C. Aug. 18.—Con-
gressman C. Bascom Slemp of Vir-
ginia recently appointed secretary to
President Coolidge according to gos-
sip heard in political circles was se-
lected for that important position
largely because he has the reputation
of being an adopt in lining up dele-
gates to national Republican conven-
tions.
In Mr. Slemp's own state the prac-
tice for some years has been to deny
negroes much if any participation in
conventions. Indeed the “lily white"
plan started in Virginia long before
it was adopted in the Carolinas and
some of the other Southern states.
As politicians figure it Slemp is
not likely to have any success in the
far South if he takes a hand indirect-
ly as has been charged in trying to
influence the selection of delegates
that will be favorable to the nomina-
tion of President Coolidge. The gen-
eral supposition is that the present
occupant of the White House will be
a candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation even though the actual an-
nouncement may not be made for some
months yet
Soundings it is said are being
made with a view of ascertaining
what sentiment there is already in
the various sections for Mr. Coolidge.
There is considerable activity even
this soon in the New England states
for his nomination and politicians
from other portions of the country
seem to expect that New England is
likely to get behind his candidacy
and if he has the proper backing up
there his friends and supporters be-
believe he will become a formidable
candidate.
During the last Congress the Dyer
anti-lynching bill was passed in the
House of Representatives. It was
voted for by nearly all the Republi-
can members of that body. But Mr.
Slemp one of the Republicans who
voted against it. On account of n
successful filibuster last winter that
measure was side-tracked in the Sen-
ate. Negro political and other asso-
ciations in Northern and Western
states actively urged the enactment
of the Dyer bill in some of these states
negro voters hold the balance of
power.
“Marriage." said th. proverb-quoter.
“la a lottery." "Tee" answered the
sultan of Sulu as he sadly waved his
hanq toward th. harem “and there's a
buneh of blanks."—Washington Star.
CHAND JUBV TD
DESK PHDBE
OF DUD
Reported Prominent Men
to Be Called for Ques-
tioningx
SEARCH FOR LIQUOR
Warrants Prepared Under
Dean Law for Inves-
tigation.
Investigation into a’leged gambling
and vice in San Antonio will be re-
sumed by the 94th District Court
grand jury when it resumes its ses-
sions Monday after a teu days’ rest.
This was indicated Saturday when Ad-
jutant General Thomas D. Barton who
inaugurated a “clean up” campaign
in San Antonio several weeks ago.
stated upon his return to Austin that
he expected to submit additional evi-
dence to the grand jurors at their
Monday session.
General Barton in his statement
announced that some 150 witnesses
have been summoned to appear before
the inquisitorial body Inquiry at the
office of District Attorney D. A. Mc-
Askill failed to confirm this state-
ment although it is known that a
number of witnesses have been sub-
poenaed. These subpoenaes. il is un-
derstood were issued Friday follow-
ing a conference between the district
attorney and the adjutant general.
Reported Prominent Men Called.
Although it was impossible to as-
certain the names of those summoned
it was rumored at the courthouse that
the list included severabi rominant cit-
izens.
In addition to a number of new
witnesses it is understood that sub-
poenaes have been reissued for a num-
ber whom grand jury bailiffs failed
to find during the recent investiga-
tions held by the grand jury. Follow-
ing the inauguration of the “clean up”
campaign there was a general exodus
of “witnesses" from the citv and it
is understood that the bailiffs have
experienced considerable difficulty in
finding some of those for whom sub-
poenaes were issued.
Prepare Search Warrants.
According to reports current Satur-
day. the grand jury will be asked to
include in its investigations alleged
violations of the prohibition laws. It
is known that the district attorney's
office has had printed n number of
search warrants hot"’ for Honor and
gambling violations. One of these was
signed by Snecial Judge W. J. Jeffries
and used in the raid on the nlace nt !
220 Pecan last week. It is understood
that n number already have been filled
ont and that they will be served by
state rangers.
According to those versed in the
Denn net n search warrant once is-
sued. is good only for three days af-
ter issue. If this be the case it prob-
ably will be necessrry for the dis-
trict attorney to procure new ones
in ease additional raids are to be
made. The usual custom in handling
search warrants -’nder the Dean net
is for them to be procured in justice
court. They are then turned over to
the sheriff's office for service. Under
present plans however it is under-
stood that the warrants wilt bo gouriit
’n district court probably befo-o Judge
W. W. McCrorr in the fifth District
Court and service had by the rangers.
"Can't the emocratle of th!« town get
together?" Inquired the political exhor-
ter In Kentucky. "Get together!" an-
ewered the man with court-plaster on
his ear. "why. It takes eleven deputy
sheriffs to keep ’em apart!"—Washing-
ton Star. D
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
Sir Tom’s Trophy
Sit Thomas Lipton famous British
yachtsman has presented this trophy
as an award ta the winner of the
fishermen's race to be held late in
August to celebrate the 300th anni-
versary of the founding of Gloucester
Mass home of deepsea fishes.
TAKEN TO FT. WORTH
Hudson and Rodgers Arrested Here
Charged With Intent to Defraud.
Fort Worth. Tex. -Aug. 18.—C. A.
Hudson and E. D. Rogers oil pro-
moters. arrested in San Antonio on
complaints filed here charging misuse
of the mails were brought to Fort
Worth Saturday morning by Deputy
United States marshals and released
on bonds of .$500(1 each.
The two promoters were charged
with misuse of the mails in connec-
tion with operation of the Rogers
Production Company.
They nre alleged to have made
“flagrant” misrepresentations in their
literature.
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WANT GAIALDT
TDBEIUDNTD
CAMP STANLEY
San Antonio Business Men
Anxious to Get Brigade
Back in 1924.
HAVE MADE PROGRESS
National Guardsmen Look
“Damn Good? Com-
mandant States.
San Antonio business men are
making efforts to bring the 56th
Cavalry Brigade Texas National
Guard back to Camp Stanley next
year for two week’s training. Briga-
dier General Jacob F. Wolters the
commanding oficer said Saturday
while visiting at the Gunter Hotel.
“Our training this year starting a
week ago last Wednesday has been
more profitable to the national guard
than any two-week training period
we have over had before” Brigadier
General Wolters said.
“The weather has been much cool-
er at Camp Stanley than it was a
year ago at Camp Mabry.
“In our two reviews the men won
praise from Major General E. M.
Lewis from Acting Governor T. W.
Davidson' from Major General
George. C. Rickards from Colonel
'Tommy’ Tompkins and from dozens
of others. For the first time in
our experience the only all-Texas
cavalrymen are rated as a ‘crack
outfit’ by men who know: their busi-
ness.
“Of course the accommodations in
the way of buildings and general
camp accommodations are better at
Camp Mabry but I have found that
because that camp is so near Austin
the men take less interest in their
training and the officers are more
apt to spend so much time in town
that they aren’t fit for hard riding.
Plenty of Work.
“This is not true at Camp Stanley.
The men have been more or less
busy from dawn to dark so that be-
fore they know it they are picking
up hard muscles their skin is tougher
and they can stand a lot more work
than they coujd when they came
here.
“It is just this sort of thing we
need to build up the National Guard
of Texas. If our cavalry units are
trained hardened to duty they can
protect the country while infantry
artillery and other branches arc
building up their organizations.
Cavalrymen are very necessary on
the broad plains of Texas.”
The cavalry brigade under Briga-
dier General Wolters is the only
cavalry unit in the Texas National
Guard and incidentally the only unit
of “AU-Texans” in the service. There
were 833 men at this year’s camp
while next year. Brigadier General
Wolters expects more than 1000 men.
The cavalrymen wear yellow hat
cords. For this reason they some-
times are mistaken for “generals” be-
cause the general's hat cord is gold.
The men nave gained a reputation
in San Antonio for their neat mili-
tan- bearing while in the city.
There has been but one arrest an
enlisted man A. W. O. L. four days
from camp. The other 832 men
most of whom have remained in camp
since the training started have man-
aged to keep out of the guardhouse.
Brigadier General Wolters reported.
Like Their Mounts.
“Cavalrymen either in the regular
army national guard or reserves are
usually the kind of fellows a ho like
horses like all dumb animals for that
matter and who are courteous yet
rough and tumble soldiers” the gen-
eral said.
“If we find no-account loafers in
the cavalry we soon give them so
much to do that they want to get
in some other branch of the ser-
vice.” •
One of the most famous of cavalry
officers Colonel S. H. R. Tompkins
popularly known as “Colonel Tommy”
has been with the national guard
brigade since training started. He
is resident commander of Camp
Stanley. Colonel Tompkins has had
Inore than 38 years' experience in the
cavalry.
“But there never was an outfit
like the old Seventh.” he will tell you.
“That was my old command and I
love it. They’ve shanghaied me out
here so long that I like the looks of
a cavalry standard better than any-
thing.
“I say the national guardsmen look
damn good—and you can put it down
just like that.”
Latvia la Not Latvia.
Latvia should not be contused with
Lithuania warns the commerce bureau.
Since the establishment of the exchange
ot money orders between the United
States and Latvia numerous applications
for the issue of orders on Lithuania have
been made and In many cases accepted
by postmasters who are misled by hte
tact that people sometimes designate
Lithuania as Litvla Lltava Llnava er
Lieutva. While United States money or-
ders are now paid in Latvia (alao known
as Lettonia and Latvija) there is yet
no money order convention with Ithu-
anla.—New York Times.
Only 313 Papers In Russia.
Only 3<5 periodicals are published in
all Russia according to a report made
to the central committee ot the Russian
Communist party by the press depart-
ment. Ot these papers. 174 are dailies
those with the largest circulation being
Ixvestlya the official government organ
With 1S0.00O; Moscow Pravda 80000; Pe-
trograd Pravda 87000; Rabotchaya Ca-
xeta 74.000: Rabotchaya Moskba. 67000
and Komunlst 62000. The total circula-
tion ot all the papers in Russia on April
off In circulation is due to the aboli-
-1 was put at 1882000. The big falling
RUHR RESISTANCE
CANNOT CONTINUE
THROUGH WINTER
Neither Industrialists or
Workmen Can Hold
Out That Long.
By WILLIAM E. NASH.
Special Cable to The Ban Antonio Light
and the Oilcago Daily News.
Copyright. 1923.
DaesseUorf Aug. 18.—How long
can passive resistance last?.
Labor leaders sa yit will last three
months. French officers say a few
weeks. Nationalist agitators say in-
definitely.
To choose between such assertions is
the job of a prophet not a reporter
but the writer can state from careful
observation on the spot that a miracle
will be necessary to enable the dis
couraged industrialists and the pov-
erty stricken workmen to hold out
over the coming winter.
Business men and manufacturers
have gone almost to the limit of their
endurance. They have preferred ruin to
surrender. They have undergone
enough damage already to set back
their enterprises for montip. Another
six months of conflict would bring
them so low that it would take them
six years to recover.
In fact with such a prospect patriot-
ism becomes n weak and powerless
controversy which will probably yield
to self-defense. For the working mer.
money is the chief consideration. If
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AUGUST 19 1923.
they can get enough cash to live onl
without working they will keep up the.
resistance but if they find
in danger of starvation they will turn"
desperate.
Heretofore makeshift expedients
have been used to to guarantee their'
doles and subsidies chief among them
being an issue of many different kinds
of local paper money. But this cannct
keep on forever.
German script has become nearly as
worthless abroad to the tune at alarm-
ing proletarian disorders at home. It
barred completely from the foreign
stock exchanges a catastrophe will en-
sue in Germany. Workmen swear they
will turn Bolshevist before they wilt
yield to General DeGouttte in charge
of the French troops. And despite the
number of times they have made the
same threat since the armistice it
seems probable that they will actual-
ly make that threat good if pressed to
the wall. Bolshevism holds far less
terror for them than “militarism."
Spectres of the hunger blockade
such as those endured during the war
are terrible _ things for any people.
There is a limit to human suffering.
Conditions are not the same in Gert
many as in Russia.
If passive resistance ceases there-
fore the initiative probably must come
from the industrialists rather than
r ’om the working men. There are only
three logical outcomes to the present
situation. One is the collanse of pass-
ive resistance the seconk is recon-
'•iliation and the third is communism.
One of the three apparently must
"ome soon.
A COOL. COMFORTABLE. CON-
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Worth No. 22 10 p. m. Southern
Pacific 613 Navarro Street.—(Adv.)
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