The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 219, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 25, 1925 Page: 1 of 18
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Today
To President Coolidge.
Please Kill Mosquitoes.
Hanging Men in Egypt.
The Federal Judges.
By Arthur Brisbane
Copyright- IS2I by Star Co ■■
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE in-
stead of selling tbe Los Angeles
to private individuals that can
well afford to build their own di-
rigible why not use the government’s
two big air ships in a campaign
against the nation's mosquitoes?
■yOC will be remembered for many
* things. When you retire front
the prcsidental office in 1928 pre-
Itaps you will have built canals
from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of
-Mexico and the Atlantic. And un-
doubtedly you will encourage the air-
plane industry in a way that will
make this country safe from future
enemies.
This is to suggest that you use
tbe dirigibles to destroy an ever pres-
ent nuisance the mosquitoes ALL
OVER THE UNITED STATES.
•T't i destroy the mosquitoes would
• be to destroy malaria and all
possibility of yellow fever. To wipe
out malaria would add to the wealth
of the United States an amount far
greater than our national debt fire
times over.
Tbe thing has been tried success-
Mrs. Roscoe Canaday with Roscoe Jr. clasped in h*r arms and Governor Miriam I'erguson before whom the
fiebt against extradition is being waged today.
fully by the agricultural department
in Louisiana at Tallulah. There
flying machines have scattered over
swamps the breeding places of the
mosquitoes a dust destructive to the
mosquitoes harmless to men and ani-
mals.
WIPING out mosquitoes in one
place does no good. They
travel from place to place on trains
automobiles etc. A campaign to ex-
terminate mosquitoes all over tbe
country would be worthy of any
President more profitable than any-
thing ever done by any President.
Los Angeles and Shenandoah
could be employed usefully and pro-
ductively every flying day in this
work earning a thousand times the
cost of the work.
SEVEN men were hanged in Cairo
last Saturday for murdering the
British Sirdar Sir Lee Stack gov-
ernor general of the Sudan.
Of the seven hanged forty minutes
apart to make the hanging more im-
pressive only one struggled against
his fate.
One asked "have you boasted of
hilling twenty-five Englishmen?” said
"No. it was thirty-five.”
Another as they put the rope
around his neck exclaimed: "I did
this for God. He knows whether
I am guilty or innocent.”
THERE is bitter hatred of British
domination in Egypt India.
China and other places. But you ob-
serve that in tbe end the British have
their way.
In Egypt seven men are hanged
for killing one. Ghandi who tried
to upset British rule in Indin was
put in jail and kept there the three
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TWO MORE POLICE FACE AXE
Mother Eove Battles i
Technicalities in Fight i
Against Extradition;
H TO REPEAT
POWER TEST
TONIGHT
By tbe Associated Frees.
SCHENECTADY Aug. 25.—The
last of three super-power broadcasting
tests conducted at the General Elec-
tric Company's radio broadcasting sta-
tion WGY at the request of Secre-
tary of Commerce Hoover will be
made between 6:35 and 11 o'clock.
Eastern standard time tonight on a
wave length of 379.5 meters. The
broadcasting will be on alternate pow-
er of 2500 watts and jO OOO watts ev-
ery 15 minutes.
Mnny reports from listeners arc be-
ing received at WGY. One of the
most interesting observations made by
listeners in this city <Tn the tests of
Saturday night and last night where
it has been expected that the strength
of the WGY signals under super-pow-
er might blanket the air was that the
signals strength of outside stations
showed a decided increase in volume
when WGY switched from normal to
super-power.
WATERED MILK WAR
CONTINUED BY CITY
The war on watered milk vendors
instituted several days ago by W. C
King city physician was continued
Tuesday when complaints were filed
against two additional dealers.-
Governor Undecided as
Two Attorneys Argue
at Austin Hearing.
• By the Associated Press.
AUSTIN Aug. 25.—After a lengthy
hearing today before Governor Miriam
A. Ferguson it was still undecided
whether Mrs. Roscoe Canaday of San
Antonio would go to New York to
face a charge of kidnaping her own
child Roscoe Jr. as charged by in-
dictment in Queens county New York.
Governor Fergusop aaid a decision
probably will be made late this after-
noon. However she seemed inclined
to favor the argument of Mrs. Cana-
day'« attorney.
C. C. McDonald of Wichita Falls
representing the state of New York
and W. C. Linden of San Antonio rep-
resenting Mrs. Canaday presented
contentions that apparently caused
the governor to take the case under
advisement
Linden contended that Mrs. Canaday
was not entitled to stand trial for the
charge inasmuch as she had established
her residence in San Antonio two
years before her former husband took
action iu New York courts to take cus-
tody of the child.
McDonald said the residence of the
child was not in Texas but in New
York and the decree from the New
York court in January 1925 giving
the custody of the child to Mr. Cana-
day was valid. Linden declared that
the New lork court had no jurisdic-
tion over the child following order of
the district court in Bexar coutuy
whereby neither parent could remove
tbe chdd from Bexar county where
t annday had been granted permission
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TFFMffIiwGHT
VOL. XLV—NO. 219.
GAS BLAST STARTS
$40000 BLAZE
te w te • W W te w te w
r
Father Welcomes Son’s Arrest
ORDER PAIR
RELIEVED
OF DUTY
Official Guillotine Busy as
Commissioner Shakes
Up Force.
Two‘more policefnen were threat-
ened Tuesday by tbe official guillotine
which lopped off four heads last week
when Commissioucr Phil Wright be-
gan his shakeup.
The officers affected are Sidney
Ford and O. I’. Meyers who have been
relieved by J. J. O'Banion and W. R.
S pence.
It is said that investigation of the
former pair's service is being made by
tbe commissioucr.
Commissioner Wright denied that
Ford and Meyers had been dis-
charged. but declare! they had been
indefinitely suspended by Chief of Po-
lice T. U. Miller.
Rumors were current about police
headquarters that the action came in
pursuance of the commissioner's policy
of relieving inefficient policemen and
supplanting them with men of proven
worth.
Ford and Meyers arc veterans in
the department.
SHERIFF STEVENS
BACK ON JOB AFTER
TWO-WEEKS 9 ILLNESS
Sheriff Jim Stevens wan but smil-
ing appeared at his office Tuesday
after an absence of two weeks due
to illness.
Tbe sheriff was given a hearty re-
ception by deputies and newspaper
men whom he told he would be on the
job steadily in the future.
Mr. Stevens’ physician declared the
sheriff's illness had been almost provi-
dential as he had worked for many
months without a letup and was be-
ginning to suffer from the strain.
THIRTY-FIVE BURNED
IN MEXICAN THEATER
By the Associated Press.
EL PASO Aug. 25.—Thirty-five
persons were severely burned in a fire
which destroyed a motion picture
theater at La Junta Chi. Sunday
night according to reports here. A
special train carrying physicians
nurses and government officials left
Chihuahua City today for the scene
of the disaster. Wire communication
with La Junta is interrupted on ac-
count of a severe storm and only
meager details of the accident are
available.
AGREEMENT UNLIKELY.
By the AMaciated Press
LONDON Aug. 25.—Information
late today from both French and Eng-
lish iodrecs close to the debt conferees
was that the conferees arc not pro-
gressing satisfactorily. While there is
still some hope differences might be
bridged the® is wide divergence of
opinion regarding tbe French pay-
ments.nnd optimism is not pro-
nounced
Member of The Associated Press.
TUESDAY. AUGUST 25 1925.
Poor Memory
And Frankness
Save Speeder
Frankness and a poor memory j
saved Clarence Lieck of Con- |
verse the extreme fine for speed- •
ing when he appeared before t
Justice of the Peace Louis Boltz }
Monday.
**l had an excuse but it was a i
poor one and I have forgotten 4
it” he told tbe judge.
“That being the case." Judge |
Boltz said “I won’t fine you i
but five dollars and costs.
“I was going to fine you the
limit but since you pleaded
guilty and refrained from think-
ing up an excuse id fake Hie
place of your poor one. I'll make
it as light as I can.”
ESCAPES REATH
IN 50-FHOT
PLUNGE
Falling 50 feet down the inside of
a smokestack being erected at the El-
liott Jones Refinery on the Blanco
Road Monday J. M. Logan 29 13G
Dwyer Avenue suffered nothing more
than a fractured left leg and severe
cuts on the face and arms.
Lying in a heap at the bottom of
the stack it was haif an hour before
he was rescued and then it was not
until a hole had been burned in the
bottom of the stack with an acetylene
torch. To prevent Mr. Logan's clothes
from catching fire when the torch was
used a fellow workman descended into
the smokestack and held him upright
against the opposite side of the four-
foot cylinder.
Mr.sLogan was taken to the Santa
Rosa Infirmary where Tuesday he is
reported resting easily.
The injured man was employed on
the rivet crew. He was riveting on
top of the last section of the stack
when he lost his balance and fell head-
first down the stack. His fety har-
ness had been removed a few minutes
before the fail.
A hook and ladder truck from cen-
tral fire station was dispatched to the
rcfineiy by Chief J. G. Sarran but
the injured man had been rescued
when it arrived.
... '
BRITISH POST CAN’T
KEEP TRACK OF LONG
WANDERING PRINCE
By the Associated Frees.
LONDON. Aug. s—-With the whole
world following through the news dis-
patches the peregrinations of the
Prinee of Wales on his South Amer-
ican trip the British postofficc is
unaware of his whereabouts according
to a squib in the Daily Express. ‘
The paper says a company of school
cadets encamped in the country re-
cently received a message from the
prince to which they filed a reply ex-
pressing loyal and dutiful greetings
the message being addressed to “H. R.
H. Prince of Wales H. M. S. Rc I
pulse." . j
Published by The Light Publishing Company
San Antonio Texas.
FAVORS CELL
FOR ERRING
BANKER
W. B. Slaughter Details
Vain But Costly Fight to
Clear Boy’s Name.
"I'm glad Coney's been caught. I'd
Father he'd rot in prison than con-
tinue to live the life he has. Of
eourre it> hard to have a son like
that buf it can't be helped.”
William B. Slaughter one-time cat-
tle king of Southwest Texa& but now
running a small hotel on East Com-
merce street voiced this sentiment
Tuesday when informed that his only
son. Coney C. Slaughter wrecker of
a Pueblo bank in 1915 has been re-
captured and will be returned to the
Leavenworth prison from which he
escaped in January this year accord-
ing to word received from Denver
where he was arrested. Monday.
Then a mist clouded his eyes.
ONCE GOOD BOV
"But he was once a good boy and
the best cow hand I ever bad” he
added. "He just got into too fast
company.”
The father talked of his son freely
telling of his early life on the Lazy
“S” ranch where he punched cattle
and repaired the windmills. He
hasn't seen him since the Pueblo bank
failure in 1915.
“Coney was my only son” he said.
"He started as an errand boy in my
mercantile establishment at Strat-
ford in the early days. Then 1
bought hitn an interest in the bank
at Dalhart."
Later Slaughter said he furnished
his son money with which to buy the
controlling interest in the Pueblo
bank. The father moved to Pueblo
but could not stand the altitude and
moved back to Dallas leaving his son
in charge as vice president and cash-
ier of the bank. Then came the
crash.
LOST FORTUNE
"I went to my son's rescue and
turned over everything I had to my
brother C. C. Slaughter to raise a half
million dollars” the father said. "But
when I got there with the money the
bank was closed. It was too late. My
son went east and I haven't seen him
since.”
Slaughter said he was indicted on
more than 40 counts as a result of
the bank failure but was cleared
Joseph Weldon Bailey and Judge
W. H. Atwell representing him.
"If Coney had stayed and faced
the issue as I did and had had money
to fight the case he would have come
clear” the father said.
As a result of the crash. Slaughter
said he lost bis entire fortune more
than 81.000.000.
"My brother was to turn back what
was left after my debts were paid but
he didn't do it and now I've got judg-
ment against his estate for a million”
he added.
FROM OLD FAMILY
The father now living with his
wife iu the small San Antonio hotel
comes from one of the oldest families
in tbe state. He was tbe son of
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Success of Air
Test by Light
Convinces Army
Second Division maneuvers
will be directed from the air
this fall.
Brigadier General Paul B.
Malone commanding the divi-
sion. made the announcement
Tuesday.
“Success of the San Antonio
Light’s recent radio-airplane re-
port »g test has convinced Gen-
eral Malone of the feasibility of
directing the maneuvers by radiu
from a plane." it was announced
at the general's headquarters.
A San Antonio Light reporter
recently "covered" maneuvers of
the C. M. T. C. for his paper in
an airplane and made his reports
from the ship by radio.
POLICE DROP PROBE
OF ‘CONSPIRACIES’
AGAINST RICH MAN
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO Aug. 25.—Authorities
have dropped further investigation of
charges by Max Phillips wealthy col-
lar manufacturer and polo player that
unidentified persons arc conspiring to
ruin his reputation and wreck his
business through entanglements with
women and spiritualists.
The police also have withdrawn of-
ficial protection of the manufacturer
and his estate at Baton Town say-
ing that the facts are insufficient to
prove a conspiracy.
Langdon E. Murrs acting prosecu-
tor however said that the grand jury
on September 22 would get the case
against three women aud one man.
all detectives who were arrested on
complaint of Mr. Phillips and charged
with conspiracy and carrying concealed
weapons. He says they tried to lure
him to a yacht so he could be ar-
rested for the violation of the Manu
act.
NEBRASKA OFFICERS
SEEK SLAYERS OF 2
By tbe Associated Press.
NORTH PLATTE Neb. Aug. 25.
Two separate posses today are comb-
ing Southwestern Nebraska and
Northern Kansas for two men who
yesterday shot and killed Ed Clark
North Platte traffic officer and the
sheriff of Thomas County Kansas.
The sheriff was killed in a fight is
which Kansas authorities tried to cap-
ture the men. The name of the sheriff
was not given in dispatches to local
officers.
REINFORCEMENTS
AID FRENCH TROOPS
BEIRUT Syria Aug. 25.—Bereo
hundred Bedouins from trans-Jor-
dania have arrived in the Jebel
Druse district where the Druse
tribesmen have been iu rebellion
। against the French for the last
month.
French air forces have boroba’rJcd
several rebel posts. One French col-
onel whose airplane was brought down
by the enemy regained the French
lines in
EDITION
TWO PPM'TQ Per copy tn city and vicinity
r “ U VUiXlo Five cents on trains and elsewhere.
FIRE SWEEPS
STORES ON
HOUSTON
STREET
Roemers Clad Scantily
Flee as Flames Spread
Rapidly.
A flying matchhead which landed in
a tub of gasoline being used t<»
clothing caused a fire at Houston
and Laredo streets Tuesday morning
which damaged three buildings and
stocks about $40000.
The blaze which began when the
gasoline exploded in tjie dry good* and
shoe store of M. Wolf at 601 West
Houston street quickly spread tn th-
tailor shop of C. Espiuoza at 605 and
then to the cafe of C. Pompas at No.
607.
Several men and women roomers en
the second story were forced to flee
in scanty attire due to the quick
spread of the flames. They were given
clothing and shelter by neighbor*.
Tbo entire stock of the Wolf store
valued at about $20000 as well as
the building and Wolf's new automo-
bile which stood at the curb were
completely burned.
Mr. and Mrs. Wolf were near the
gasoline tub when it detonated and
narrowly escaped serious injury when
the flaming gasoline burst throughout
the store.
ORGAN FOR CITY’S
NEW AUDITORIUM
TO BE DISCUSSED
The publie will reap its benefits
from the city's $1000000 auditorium
now under construction in free con-
verts Mayor John W. Tobin an-
nounced Tuesday.
Recitals on the $40000 organ will
be given probably once or twies ■
week be said.
Every organist in the city will be
asked to attend a meeting of the city
commission soon to discuss the merits
of the various organs bids on which
have been opened and tabulated.
HAWAIIAN AIRPLANE
FLIGHT POSTPONED
By the Associated Frees.
SAN FRANCISCO Aug. 25.—The
proposed flight of three American air-
planes from San Francisco to Hawaii
was postponed today from Friday
August 28 to Monday. August 31. Dif-
ficulty in installing in the PB-1 tbe
big Boeing plane which flew he a
from Seattle last week a new engirt
to replace that which developed »
broken oil feed was the cause of the
postponement.
POPE SERS TEX AN.
By th* Associated
ROME. Auf. 25.—The Pope today
granted an audien<t to the Ruhr Ret.
Joseph Patrick Lynch. bishop of l»al’
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