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VOL. XL—NO. 16.
EMPIRE TEST
4T BENAVIDES
NOTIGIISHER
Expected Gas Pressure Not
Encountered and Oil Not
in Paying Quantities.
TO DRILL IT DEEPER
Company Official Says Work
in Hole Will Be Con-
tinued to Lower Strata.
Benaiides Tex. Feb. 4.—The Em-
j pire’s test failed to secure oil in com-
J merci al quantities when the sand was
■ drilled into late Tuesday. There is lit-
tls prospect that this hole will make
■ a producer but the Empire officials
■ have not abandoned the test and state
it will be drilled deeper.
W. F. McMurray superintendent nf
L 7 development for the Empire with bead-
ouarter> at Bartlesville ami C. W.
Hears general manager of the Texas di-
vision who superintended the drilling
in operations made the following atatc-
iMßt to the staff correspondent of The
Light:
“After bailing the hole down to 2uoo
feet Monday night and making a water
test we found the water couipleetly
shut off. We drilled out the bridge
1 and cleaned the hole to the bottom.
With 1000 feet of water standing in
the well it showed some oil but not
in paying quantities. The remainder of
the water is now being bailed out. Aft-
er thia is done drilling probably will be
I resumed.”
People Are Encouraged.
Whjle there is some disappointment
among the people in this section be-
I cause the well was not a gusher they
feel confident the showing In this well
at such a depth will materially aid in
! getting more development and that gush-
er oil will be struck eventually. There
is already a profitable shallow poo)
I here.
As a precautionary measure the Em-
pire had erected RHMhbarrel storage
here and hooked up with a pipe line to
Noleda.
1 After the water test Tuesday the
bailer was run n few times from the
I top of the fluid after the drill had stir-
red it up and considerable oil was
’ brought out. The crowd of operators
and lease buyers around the well was
I greatly excited and predictions were
freely’made that the well was going to
he a good one. When the tools had
been put iu the well and the bridge
drilled out it was decided to run the
| bailer. Oil again came up but not ku
' much probably as at. first. Very little
ga« was found however and ns the nil
men learned this hopes of a gusher be-
p can to wane.
To Drill Deeper.
Tlie bottom of the hole was thoromb-
I |v cleaned balling continuing to mid-
night. Operation* thru were suspended
to make repairs and bailing was not
| resumed until Wednesday morning.
1 There is Hill a remote possibility that
Ilie well may conic In when drilling is
< resumed nt the bottom but this is not
mnsidered probable by many of the vet-
| .rans in the game here. A sand may
be found lower down however as the
I well quit in gumbo. It seems tnirly
[ certain now that if production is secured
| Il will have to he from n lower sand.
| Geologically it is considered that the
I Empire stands a good chance of getting
a well by continuing drilling on this
1 Whether or not this will terminate
one of the most remarkable wildcat lease
.peculations in the history of South
Texas remains to be seen. Leases near
Hie Empire well were practical y on
the market." Sales were reported for
near-in acreage ns high ns S-Xt an m re.
while leases were being held ten and
twelve miles away at as high as ?«> an
I ncre ' - a
FABELA TO GERMANY
'^^eported Carranta Ilas Kcnigniied
1 at Government of Ebert.
fnofficial advices received here arc
flint President Carranza Ims recognized
the Gorman government. appointed
Isidro EabMn a* minister to Germany
and is sending no autograph letter by
messenger to Spain to bo handed Ebert
br Fabela when he presents his creden-
tials.
Isidro Fnhela is nn agitator whom
Carrania hns used in Latin An.crii nn
countries with Santos Chocnno to spica I
the so-called Carranza do.- rme. \\ h k
on his way from Argentina to Spain
during the war ho was taken off a Span-
ish steamer hr an English war h p -in I
searched n' he was thought to be 11
German agent.
START PRO CAMPAIGN
"Pussyfoot" Johnson anti Assistant Be
gin Opertations in Copenhagen.
Copenhagen. Feb. " illinm E.
i Pussyfoot"l Johnson of the American
Anti-Saloon League and the Rev. Ila-
(id Oestlund yesterday inaugurated a
prohibition campaign at a public meet- ।
ing here They met with a mixed re-
ception but the hostile clement pre- 1
pmidernted and the heckling was of a
aeiere nature.
> The National Tidendc says that the
ym-eting was by no means "a fol
X start for the American agitation.” The
- Kobenhaven declares the agitation lias
hern started for “American money” and
asks "for what purpoxe?"
HOLY WAR PLANNED
Yeung Turks Red Army Will Attempt
Overthrow.
[>ndon. Feb. 4.—A dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company from
Constantinope today says:
^Flie young Turks Red army will
in the nenr future reach Constantinople
t„ throw out the Turkish enemies. The
Turkish Bolshevik) announce that a
holy war against Gnat Britain will be
undertaken in the spring."
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
REPORT ON WASTE IN
BUILDING NITRATE
PLANT IS RECEIVED
Copy Is Too Volumnious to
Be Read in One Day.
Says Chairman.
Washington D. C. Feb. 4.— Reckless
extravagance in the construction of the
government nitrate plant nt Muscle
Shoals Ain. was charged in a report by
Col. Fred H. Wagner formerly director
of operations at the plant filed yester-
day with the House war expenditures
committee.
Of nil evidence presented since the in-
vestigations was begun mouths ago. the
Wagner charges go deepest into details
filling more than 100 pages and touching
on every possible phase of the building
and Operation of the $70000000 war
project. It was too much for Chairman
Graham to read in a day hut he de-
clared “astounding conditions” were re-
vealed.
Parked away in the bulky document
examined only casually by the rommit-
•tre. Colonel Wagner related what he al-
leged to be the story of Muscle Shoals
built on the cost-plus plan with war-
time speed as the only consideration.
With the bold accusation that even in
a national emergency patriotism at
Muscle Shoals was forgotten Colonel
Wagner told how he had protested
against paying $550 for a portrait of
Frank S. Washburn of New York presi-
dent of the American Cyanmnid Com-
pany the subsidiary of which the Air
Nitrates Corporation had the govern-
ment contract for the actual building.
The biggest chapter was written under
the caption of “Extravagance with
waste in efficiency and irregularities’’
placed next in that order in the whole
sole indictment that included hundreds
of names.
LOCAL REVOLUTION
REPORTED IN RUSSIA
BY AMERICAN TROOPS
Allied Soldiers Protect City
From Robbery and
Murder.
Washington. 11. L'„ Feb. 4.—Another
revolution has occurred iu Vladivustnk.
the Siberian port tlirouitli which the
American expeditionary- forces are re.
turning home. Major General Graves in
a message dated January ."1. received
yesterday at the War Department re-
ported that the outbreak was purely
local in character and the revolutionists
were in control of the city. Allied
troops were patrolling the streets to pro-
tect citizens and prevent robbery.
The pintform auuoum'ol by the revo-
lutionists declares against civil war in
Siberia and for the end of foreign in-
terference in Siberian affairs.
In nnnouucug General Graves’ mes-
sage Secretary Baker said the revolu-
tion would not interfere with the de-
parture of the American troops which
began last month.
SHIP IS SEIZED
Cargo of Whiskey to Be Put in Bonded
Warehouses.
New York. Feb. 4.—The Black Star
steamship Yarmouth which sailed for
Havana last month with a .$4 st HMM 10
cargo of whiskey only to put back here
for repairs was seized by the govern-
ment yesterday. Supervising Federal
Prohibition Inspector Shevlin formally
notified the captain that the vessel could
not depart ami announced that he will
begin unloading the liquor for storage iu
bonded warehouses.
Counsel for the owners a Corporation
composed of negroes announced that he
would apply to the Federal court for an
injunction restraining Shevlin. A guard
of fifteen prohibition agents has been on
board since workmen recently were dis-
covered trying to make off from the ship
in a small boat with 50 bottles of whis-
key.
Captain Cockburn the negro master of
the Yarmouth appeared before Shevlin
to explain how fourteen cases of whis-
key got from the vessel's hold to an up-
per deck under a large tarpaulin where
prohibition agents found it. He said it
had been moved so that a passenger's
baggage might be unloaded. When the
ship sprang a leak off the New Jersey
coast after it sailed a few hours before
prohibition went into effect the captain
said that the 100 eases of whiskey were
thrown overboard to right a heaiy star-
board list. Jie said ho came back to
Now York instead of making for Nor-
folk as he preferred the northern port.
THE WEATHER
TEMEI’KATI KES.
FEB. 3. 2 n. m 52
P- m ...71 3 a. m 60
1 P- in 71 4 n in. »»
•’ l». i*> 69 5 n. m bO
I’ p. m •.61 6 h. in an
7 P- in 62 7 a. in b<>
x P- in 59 K n. in 19
9 P- 9 a. in si
B» p. in 5K io «. in 49
D p. n 11 a. in »2
12 midnight 55 1* n00n... 51
FEB. 4 1 p. in ~5S
1 *• m 63 2 p. m ~..u9
<
WEATHEK FORECAST.
For Sail Antonio ami vicinity: Wednes-
day night and Thursday. partly cloudy
Thursday warmer: minimum temperature
49 to 56; light to moderate northerly to
easterly u inda.
HOME WEATHER FOR TOI KISTS.
Chicago: Tump^raturc 21: cloudy: 22-
mll« wind from the northwest: lowest tem-
perature In last 24 hours 24: hightest 32.
St. Louis: Temperature. 32; cloudy 4-
mlle wind from the northwest; lowest tem-
perature In last 21 huurs. 33: highest. 40.
Kanaan City: Temperature. 30 raining.
4-mllc wind from the north; lowest tem-
perature In last 24 hours 30; highest. 36.
New York: Temperature. 26. snowing.
18-milu wind from the northeast; lowest
temperature in Inst 24 hours. 32; highUst.
40.
Washington: Temperature. 32. raining.
21-mlle wind from tho northeast; lowest
temperature in last 24 huurs 33; highest
46.
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4 1920. -TWENTY PAGES.
WIN S. COBB
FAVORS DRAFT
OmOHIBITIDN
Would Eliminate Those Not
Worthy and Save Liquor
for “the Rest of Us.”
THINKS ALAMO ABASED
Writer Humorist and Lec-
turer “Just Drops in” on
San Antonio.
“The great question which is now
stirring the public is not the high cost
of living but ’Will prohibition slick?’”
.solemnly declared Irvin 8. Cobb humor-
ist Saturday Evening Post writer and
popular lecturer. With his eyes roving
over the crowd which was assembled for
the Pershing luncheon which the Rut ary
Club gave Wednesday at Muon iu the St.
Authony Hotel Mr. Cobb stood iu the
hotel foyer looking and talking for
half an hour.
The famous Kentucky humorist just
“happened by’’ Wednesday tu spend the
day with Macklyu Arbuckle and other
friends in between lecture dates at
Houston and San Marcus.
Caught ou the fly at Doon he stopped
for a chat but talking without inter-
ruption was an impossibility iu that
bedlam uf moving figures milling
around waiting for General Pershing.
Out uf the crowd an admirer wuuld
catch sight of the familiar Cobb count-
enance and wiggle through to introduce
himself so that shameless eavesdropping
became a stern necessity.
“Arc you there Honey?’’ The big
man would whisper with a grin every
so often. “Honey” was.
Eliminate the Unworthy.
“Well to go back tu this paramount
issue” he .-aid as a lull came
“Yessir tho public anxiously wants tu
know if prohibition will stick. Now 1 j
gotta remedy—like colds y’know every-
N^dy offers you free advice. But my
idea is the selective draft on prohibi-
tion.
“Yessir ttork it as a selective draft —
eliminate those who ought D««t to have
it and those not good enough to have
it and leave it for the rest of us!” and
he chuckled.
“Mr. C<bb. I want to meet yuu”
came a voice suddenly breaking in.
“I'm a great admirer and reader uf
yours. I read everything you write.
Think I've got great literary tastes”
said the man proudly.
‘‘Well. J d»u't know” drawled Cobb
' I'm rather inclined to think you have
great endurance!'’
Turning his back a moment tu the
cruwd he started talking again.
Alamo Setting “A Crime.”
“This is a great town here” Mr.
|Cobb began again. “l*ve passed
through here half a dozen times. But
this is the first time I was able tu stop.
Beautiful!
“But the worst crime I ever saw
las been perpetrated in this town! The
first thing I did was to go to the Alamo
and after searching around under ad-
vertisements of road lice and Some-
body’s tires I find the wonderful little
shrine and those lovely gardens uf the
mission.
“My Lord what has happened to
Texas and San Antonio that you let
such a thing happen? Every building
around it should be torn down that
America might find its shrine uf lib-
erty I It’s a holy of holies that
Alamo” he said with vehement earnest-
ness his eyes snapping.
“I’d expert it in. New York but I
thought that Texas would have more
veneration for that soul of patriotism—-
ami dammit ! I couldn’t tell whether it
was a tractor or a quick tire service
that I was being led to until I got right
on the place.”’
What else hr might have said was
lost just then by a wave of humanity
hero-worshipers who almost engulfed
him for the time and with a wave of
his cane and “good-bye” he was off
with Mr. Arbuckle after making en-
gagements to see friends before his train
left Wednesday afternoon.
WEATHER TO BE FINE
Forecast is Uarmer for U nlnesday and i
Thursday.
•Continued fair weather with moder-
ating temperatures is the forecast for
Wednesday ami Thursday of the Weath-;
er Bureau station here. A storm area
which continues to hang over the south-
ern Atlantic keeps the skies more or |
Jess cloudy hen. but as it moves still j
farther eastward that tendency w ill les-1
sen so that the weather here should be!
fair ns it was Wednoolay for the next*
da a or two.
There is high atmospheric pressure
| over practically the entire country and
j atmospheric conditions show no indica-
-1 tion of rain.
THREE AMERICANS SLAIN
Relief W orkers Murdered in Syria State
Department Informed.
Washington D. C. Feb. 4.—The mur-
! der of three American relief workers in
! Syria was reported today to the State
| Department.
The Americans were part of a convoy
for American relief supplies and were
killed by brigands on February 1 near
El Mali north of Aleppo. The names
of the Americans were not given in the
dispatch.
The relief expedition was under the
auspices of the American committee
for the relief of the Near East.
Official notification of the killing of
the Americans was given by General
Gouraud the French high commissioner
at Beirut to American Vice Consul Mc-
Cutcheon nt Beirut.
Schooner in Distress.
Jacksonville. Fla.. .Feb. 4. — The
steamer Gulfcoust which sailed yester-
day for Purt Arthur reported by wire-
less that an unidentified three-masted
Nchooner was in distress three miles
northeast uf Musquito Inlet.
HUGE GEOMETRICAL
FIGURE ON SAHARA
MIGHT SIGNAL MARS
British Scientist Pooh-
poohs Wireless
Theory.
I Philadelphia. Pa. Feb. 4.—Sir Oliver
1 Lodge the British scientist today added
his bit to the current discussion of the
interplanetary communication and sug-
gested a novel method of attra< ting the
attention of the inhabitants of Mars.
“Nonsense** wag his comment when
a-'ked if he thought it possible to com-
municate with other planets by wire-
less telegraphy.
“It would be possible to describe an
immense geometrical figure say on the
Sahara desert.” ho said "and then if tho
inhabitants of Mars arc of a high order
of intelligence it is possible that with
their powerful means of magnification
they might Im* able t« distinguish the fig-
ure and determine that it had been tho
work of man. Geometry is a universal
science and it is not unlikely that if
they arc of a higher order nf intelli-
gence than wo they would interpret the
gigantic figure as an effort at commu-
nication.”
SOCIALISTS SOUGHT
TO CORRUPT RECRUITS
IN ARMY CHARGED
Defense Agrees to Deposi-
tion in Assemblymens
Trial.
Albany. N. Y„ Feb. 4.—O.uuecl for
the Assembly Judiciary Committee
which is trying the five suspended So-
ealist assemblymen on charges of dis-
loyalty announced at the opening of
today's hearing that they would seek
to prove Assemblyman Louis Waldman
a defendant had made the following
statement on the floor of the Socialist
convention in Chicago in 1019:
"If I knew we eouiu sway the boys
after they get guns to use them against
the capitalistic class I would vote in
favor of universal military training."
John B. btauchficld made this an-
nouncement in connection with his pro-
posal. that a witness iu Milwaukee
identified by opposing counsel as J. E.
Harris formerly city editor of the Mil-
waukee Leader gave his testimony bv
deposition. The witness who is‘said
to have "covered" the Chicago conven-
tion. is unable to travel to Albany be-
cause of the illness of his wife.
M lien Seymour Stedman defense
counsel was informed wlia( the prosc-
cutiou sought to prove he agreed to
taking of the deposition.
A Brooklyn stenographer. Ellen B.
< Inver. IS yesterday testified at the
assembly Judiciary Committee's trial of
the five suNpeudcd Socialist assembly*;
ineii tbnt she htul seen one of them ;
t harks Solomon spit upon the Ameri-
can flag iu 1917.
1 here was a burst of applause from
the crowded chamber when the girl ex-
plained that she had volunteered her
testimony in a letter to Speaker ThaJ-
deus (’. Sweet "because 1 think it is
the duty of any American to take the
stand against om* who has committed
treason against their country.”
Keeping her gaze fixed on Solomon
the girl testified that a few minutes
Inter a band came along and struck up
“The Star Spangled Banner.”
“Mr. Solomon turned up his coat col-
lar put on his hat pulled it over his
ears spat on the American flag and sat
down.” she concluded.
I lee girl « story tonight brought from
.Solomon a statement denying that he
had made the remarks attributed to him
asserting that never in his life had he
shown and disrespect to the Americau
flag.
MAY REACH AGREEMENT
Conferees on Railroad legislation May
Break Deadlock.
Washington D. C’. Feb. 4.—Senate
ami House conferees on railroad reor-
ganization legislation after a deadlock
tor weeks over outstanding features of
tho Gummins and Esch bjlls last night
saw a glimmer of light ahead. The joint
committee nf the two houses made
marked progress at yesterday’s session
through agreement of tho Senate mem-
bers for elimination of the compulsory
consolidation of railroads and cstablish-
। ment of a transportation board provi-
sions from tho Cummings measure.
Several vexing diffiToneos. however
remain to be adjusted. Chief of these are
the labor and anti-strike provisions of
the Senate measure.
In eliminating the consolidation plan
jof tho Cummins bill it was agreed that
it he permissive consolidation provisions
| of the Esch bill would be retained and
| strengthened. Duties which the Senate
j gave to the proposed transportation
। boanl under the agreement will be
placed in the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission which will have two members
added to its present strength.
TO EXHUME BODIES
Grave Diggers Will Semi 17000 Back
Home.
Paris Feb. 4.—A special contingent
of 40 army grave diggers arrived at
Brest Saturday awaiting the arrival
of the transport with 17.000 coffins
to begin exhumatiou of the bodies of
the American soldiers back of the battle
lines the return of which have been re-
quested by their families.
It is expected that work will begin in
about tm days or two weeks. Each cof-
fin will be draped with the American
Flag.
“TIGER” IS WARNED
Egyptian Leader Telia Clemenceau tu
“Stay Out.”
Geneva Feb. 4.—One of the Egyptian
nationalist leaders here. Dr. Abdul said
has telegraphed former Premier < kui-
euceau of France not to enter Egypt
or else to leave the country as soon as
|M»sible. Otherwise the telegram says
his life would be in danger.
Dr. Abdul accuses M. Clemenceau of
joining the British against Egyptian
liberty.
LERSNER BUIES
RATHER HUH 10
5W PAPERS
Head of German Peace Del-
egation Refuses to Take
Part in Extraditions.
TO RETURN TO BERLIN
Allied Council Holds Extra-
ordinary Session But No
Announcement Is Made.
Berlin Fob. 4.—Baron von Lersner
head of tho German mission iu Paris
has boon relieved uf that office. Baron
vun LersDor it is stated had received
explicit orders to transmit the expected
allied note on extradition de in a mis tu
his government. I Paris advices quute
\<>n Lcrsner ns declaring lie had re-
signed rather than transmit the list of
I Germans demanded by the allies.)
The list of Germans whose extradition
Ila demanded by the allies began to ar-
rive here over the official wire from
Paris nt 11 o’clock this morning. The
first name ticked <»ff was that of Duke
Albrecht of \\ urttemborg.
Paris. Feb. 4.—Kurt von Lersner
head uf toe German peace delegation
here has returned tu Premier Milkrand
the list contaiuing the names uf Ger-
mans wbuse extradition is demanded
i by the allies which was handed tu biui
last night and hns informed the premier
that he has resigned and is leading fur
Berlin by the first train.
Ba run vun LcrnsDcr told the Asso-
ciated Press bis decision was iu line
with the attitude he had maintained
throughout regarding the question oi
extradition. He declared he bad held
that no German officials could be in-
strumental in carrying out the cxtradi
tiou clauses of the treaty and conse-
quently the matter having cotoe up in
• a definite final form there-was nothing
left for him to do but resign aud go
home.
Letter to Premier
Immediately after receiving the list
last night. Baron von Lersner addressed
the following letter to Premier Mille-
rand :
“Your excellency has transmitted to
me a note cuutaiumg the names of Ger-'
mans whose extradition is demanded by
the allied powers. In the course of the
last three mouths f have most seriously
laid before representatives of the allied
and associated goverumeuts ten times
iu writing aud thirteen times orally
the reasons it was impossible to comply
with such a request no matter what
the social rank of the accused persons
might be.
"I remind your excellency of my cun-1
stautiy repeated declarations that uu i
tierman functionary would be disposed
to be in any way whatever instrumental
in the realization of the demand for
their extradition. 1 should be instru-
mentai in it if J. .were to forward to
the German government the note of your
excellency. I therefore send it back
herewith.
“I have made it kuowu to my gov-
i eminent that 1 cannot remain in office
and that 1 shall leave Paris by the next
traiu.
"FREIHERR VON LERSNER.”
Baron von Lersner. it was said early
this afternoon would leave for Berlin
by an evening train.
Council Is Called
The allied council of ambassadors was
called into extraordinary session to
। discuss the situation created by the rcs-
ignaitou of Von Lersner.
The sess-ion was held in the French
[ foreign office.
Hugh C. Wallace the American am-
bassador. who attended the meeting said
afterwards that he had no statement to
make regarding it.
It was made known that an official
communique would be issued after the
second meeting of the council which
was set for 6:30 o’clock this evening.
An official view of the situation aris-
ing from Baron von Lersner’s refusal
to transmit the lists of the accused Ger-
mans to his government is lacking. The
general impression among observers of
the peace proceedings however was that
the action of the German representa-
tives would n<»t influence the determina-
tion of the allies to demand the extradi-
tion.
Won’t Publish Names.
The ambassadors council has con-
firmed its decision not to publish the
names of those Germany is asked to
surrender but it is possible to say that
in addition to those already reported as
being on the list are the following:
Field Marshal Akxanner 11. R. von
Kluck commander of the right wing
of the German army in its advance ou
Paris in 1914; Gen. Baron Kurt von
Manteuffel German military command-
er in Louvain Belgium in 1914; Field
Marshal von Buelow commander of the
second German army; General Stenger
commander of the 53rd German Infan-
try Brigade; General von Tesma for-
mer governor of Luxembourg; the Nie-
meyer brothers one a captain who
were accused in 1918 of mistreating
British prisoners of «.ui : Major von
Goertz and Lieutenant Werner Capt.
Max Valcntiner and Captain Forstner.
submarine commanders; Baron von der
Laneken former military governor of
Brussels; Admiral von Capelk. former
head of the German admiralty and
Field Marshal Liman von Sanders. Ger-
man commander of Turkish armies.
DVTCH BLOCKADE THREAT
Allies May Vse Stern Measures to Force
Surrender of Wilhelm.
Paris. Feb. 4.—The entente rejoinder
to the refusal of Holland to accede to
lie allied demand for the extradition
of former Emperor William is immin-
ent according to tho Petit Parlsieu.
The newspaper says that while the note
will be generally conciliating toward
Germany it will consider in case of a
new refusal by Holland measures going
as far as the breaking of diplomatic
relations or a naval blockade of Dutch
ports. They will insist it says on tho
surrender of the ex-emperor but will
not accompany the repetition of the
demand with threats.
AVIATORS FORCED
TO LAND IN MEXICO
STILL BEING HELD
Dispatch Say They Were
Absolved of Blame of Fly-
ing Over Territory.
Douglas. Ariz.. Feb. I—Lieutenants
L. M. Wolfe and G. L. Vshor or the
Twelfth Aero Squadron captured by
Mexicans after a forced landing in their
airplane Monday at La Noria sixteen
miles south of Nacozari. Sonora had not
boon released late yesK’rday.
Late arrivals today from Nacozari
aid it was believed in Nacozari they
would be released as soon a« they had
returned from the scene of tho airplane
accident where they x\pre taken today
by Mexican officials for examination.
Two telegrams addressed to Col. Man
uel Mesa commander of the state police
in whose rust<»dy the Americans arc
have arrived since their departure yes-
terday and it is believed one of these
may contain orders for their release.
Lieutenant Wolfe's home is in .Attica.
Ohio and Lieutenant Usher gave his
residence as Now York City. A dis-
patch from Nacozari indicated the avi-
utors had been absolved of blame in flj
ing over Mexican territory.
Says Placed in Jail.
I^nedo. Tex. Feb. 4.—El Universal
a Mexico City newspaper declares the
American army aviators Lieutenants
Davis and Grimes who were forced to
land near Guerrero. Mexico were
"placed in the municipal jail at Guer-
rero where they explained the cause of
their descent on Mexican soil.”
The newspaper quotes Luis Cabrera
minister of finance in the Carranza cabi-1
net. as sa>ing tho "invasion of Mexican
territory by American nxiators is becom-
ing too common.” and that "this viola-
tion of neutrality always was excused by
tho offenders’ statements that the gaso
line gave out. or engine trouble caused
thorn to desceiMl.’*
When Lieutenants Davis and Grimes
returned to La redo Ja^t Sunday they de-
clared the treatment given them in Guer-
rero was very friendly and said they
had not been under arrest or in confine-
ment at any time.
Asks for Details.
Mexico Citj. Feb. 4.—Details con-
cerning the landing at Nacozari Sonora
of Major Walton and Lieutenant Wolf.
American aviators have been requested
by the foreign office fnr the purpose of
framing ami forwarding an energetic
pmtost to tho United States government.
Data has already been collected regard-
ing previous landings in Guerrero and
it will bo claimed that they have boon in
effect invasions of Mexican territory by
armed American forces.
MEXICANS ACCOUNTED
FOR WHO KILLED SON
MAN TELLS COMMITTEE
Revolutionists Told Ameri-
cans That All Would Be
Driven From Country.
El Paso Tex. Feb. 4. —Additional
stocies of murders plundering and other
lawlessness said to have been perpetrat-
ed upon Americans iu .Mexico were re-
vealed to the Senate sub-committee in-
vestigating Mexican affairs at the com-
mittee’s first bearing in El Paso yester-
day.
E. E. Enkc formerly a contractor
employed ou a Mexican railway told
of the murder of his sod and added that
the men responsible for the murder had
been "well accounted for.”
S. H. Veator El Paso police captain
testified concerning the devastation of
the five Mormon colonies in Chihuahua
and W. A. Schultz formerly of the
Blaylock colony in Tamaulipas testi-
fied regarding murders which had come
to his knowledge and personal indigni-
ties suffered by himself. Senator Mar-
cus A. Smith (Democrat) Arizona pre-
sided nt the hearing.
Schultz gave corroborated testimony
regarding the dual role played by Luis
de la Rosa who others have testified
was a leading actor in the attempted
execution of the Plan of San Diego.
General Nafarrette’s connection with
the anti-American outbreaks was indi-
cated by Schultz’ story of the killing
of an American named Sawyer. "Saw-
yer” said Schultz “was an old man.
One day the Mexicans came to bis house
and shot and killed him because he
hesitated when they uemanded to know
where he kept his money. I appealed
to Nafarrette. asking him if he would
permit me to join in a posse to run down
his murderers. ‘We don't need your
assistance’ was Nafarette’s reply who
added ‘wc are going to drive all of you
Americans out of here.’ ”
POLICE SEEK SLAYER
Beginning of New Gunmen's War Seen
in Chicago.
Chieagn. Feb. 4.—The slayer of
.Maurice E. (“Mossy”) Enright. Chi-
« ngo’s most notorious gunman and labor
feudist was sought by the police today.
Two men trailed Enright through th»*
streets and fired eleven slugs from a
sawed-off double-barreled shotgun into
his body as he sat at the wheel of his
automobile in front of his home last
night.
Enright's wife and two sons and two
neighbor boys witnessed the killing. A
closed black automobile slowed down
eight feet from the side of the gun-
man’s ear. the curtains parted two
shots were fired and the black car raced
away.
Within 30 minutes scores of gunmen
labor feudists and known enemies and
friends of the gunman had been arrested
by the police. A number of them were
held for investigation.
Enright for nine years was a leader iq
Chicago labor feuds and until eight
months ago was bu-incss agent for the
plumbers' union. A meeting of the
plumbers’ union tried to oust him.
There was a fracas in which 40 revol-
vers were io action and fou” men were
wounded. Enright resigned then.
The (wdiee declared today that it was
their opinion Enright’s murder was “the j
outcome <>f a labor controveray ami that!
it presaged the opening of another gun-1
men's war.’’ I
PERSHING URGES MEN TO
| GET BACK TO CONSTITUTION
AND SOIL TO SAVE NATION
Speaking at Elaborate Rotary Lunch-
eon Chief Who Led American Forces
to Victory Warns of the Danger of
Anarchy and Pronounces It the Duty
of All Organizations to Take the
Leadership in Americanization.
“A democracy like this in the hands of the ignorant is
bound to drift into anarchy and it is time for all organiza-
tions which bind men together to see that the people are
educated whether they be native born or aliens for the safety
of a republic depends upon the educated voter.
“Let us get back to the Constitution” General John J.
Pershing stirringly called Americans to the cause of civil gov-
ernment Wednesday at noon when he spoke to more than
three hundred men Rotarians and their guests who crowded
the St. Anthony Hotel ballroom at an elaborate Rotary
luncheon given by the general's “home club” to honor him.
Flags hung from every corner of the big ballroom and
from a flag pole rearing its height almost to the ceiling in
the center of the room a silk emblem floated its length flut-
tering in a rapid current of air cleverly managed through the
hollow pole.
As General Pershing rose to speak following an intro-
duction by Robert Vinson district governor of Rotary yells
and cheers from the three hundred men and the dozens of
men and women in the gallery gave him tumultous welcome.
Men climbed on the chairs better to see him napkins were
frantically waved in the air and the enthusiasm was v-ocifer-
ouly voiced by the hundreds present as each individual saw
best.
General T^r^hinx silenced the throng
by beginning a talk that crammed ten
minutes with an extraordinarily “meaty”
address which paid tribute tn the farm-
ers of the nation and touched un the
urgency of closer union between farmers
and other citizens; stirringly proclaimed
the humiliation of the nation's failure to
enforce its compulsory education laws
and issued a clarion call to “civic aerv-
iee” and its ramification Americaniza-
tion.
Glad to Be Back. .
In pleasantly informal stylo a* nne ।
Rotarian to another ho expressed his ap-
preciation of the welcome extended him.
recalled the time ho had been elceted to
membership in th Rotary Club voiced
liis pride in that occasion and expressed
his gratification at being once more back
in bis "home club.”
After the amenities of tho occasion
and a tribute to the entertainers to
whom he conveyed his thanks for the
work done by the great group of enter-
tainers in Frame and to American
womanhood in general declaring that
the “American woman is the ideal of
every man worth while.” General Per-
shing suddenly turned grimly serious.
It was the American farmer of whom
he spoke first in this serious vein and
it was to Rotary national as well as
local that he addressed himself.
"We must rouse ourselves to the im-
portance of associating ourselves with
the American farmer.” the great soldier
declared “for it is the farmer who pro-
duces the main portion of this country’s
wealth and it was on the farmer that we
placed our reliance during the war. For
the farmers of America not only main-
tained the American army but practi-
cally all the Allies a« well.
Chaffs Mayor Bell.
*'Wp must not underestimate their
work.” lie said with emphasis. “We
must give every encouragement tn the
farmer and I’m glad to know and to
-ay that Rotary has always a farmer
member.” Then with a friendly grin he
turned to Mayor Bell and said point-
edly. "I moan the real farmer! not the
gentleman farmer who works in the city
to pay for running his farm.”
Turning again to another topic with
the surprising changes <*hara< teristic of
his speeches lie addressed Rotary once
more.
“Rotary it seems to me can do a
great deal more from a civic standpoint
than it does” he began. "The youth
of this country is not receiving the edu-
cation it should.
"We boast about our free schools and
the compulsory educational laws which
make this the great commonwealth that
it is. But when wc applied the selec-
tive draft law to the nation's manhood
wc discovered that 30 per cent of all the
man who came to the army were illiter-
ates.
"What a commentary on American
institutions!
A Dangerous Think—llliteracy.
“It is a daugerous thing men" ho
said seriously "to sit passively by aud
allow the voters to grow up iu illiter-
acy. For the safety of a democracy a
republic depends on the educated voter.
And a democracy in the hands of ignor-
ant men is hound to drift into anarchy.
The time has come for the Rotary
Clubs of this country the Kiwanis
Clubs—all those organizations which
bind men together in a common inter-
est. should turn that interest to seeing
that the laws are enforced. And partic-
ularly the laws on compulsory educa-
tion I None should be illiterate in this
country whether native born or aliens.
“There is no better way to American-
ize than through the public schools and
the fault is ours if we carelessly allow
aliens to come into this country aud re-
main here in ignorance of onr language
and our customs. It is dangerous to the
future of this government! We must
undertake in every way to American-
ize. and the way tn begin is to require
that all within the bmiDdarics of the
country shall learu the English lau-
CITY EDITION
CLOSING MARKETS
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
guage.* Here a mad outburst of applause
testified the spirit of his auditors.
Back tn Constitution.
“And then follow it up” he went on.
not noticing the interruption “by in-
struction in that greatest instrument
ever drawn by the hand of man—the
Constitution. Let's get back to the
Constitution on which our country and
uur country’s institutions rest!”
With a decisive motion he suddenly
stopped and his address was ended be-
fore the audience was aware of it. Dr.
Vinson who aeted as toastmaster in-
troduced General Pershing. In swiftly
drawn word pictures be pictured the
battling forces which made the war—the
one which looked on power as the end
and glorified the means and the other
which looked upon power a& the means
to the idealism of America. Using the
surgeon’s knife as a simile he pictured
General Pershing as "willing to strike
and strike hard but hating the instru-
ment with which be had to strike—the
hard instrument of war.”
Enjoys Majestic Acts.
Several of the best numbers from the
Majestic Theater were given during the
luncheon all the performers drawing
warm applause. General Pershing ap-
parently enjoyed the performance im-
mensely especially the songs and paro-
dies lauding the quality of the Ameri-
can soldiers and vigorously applauded
several acts.
The performers were introduced by
Sidney E. Cornelius. William Dowling
and (irate O’Malley "brought the house
down” with several humorous selections;
"Smiles” Davis who served as an en-
tertainer overseas delighted the diners
with overseas favorites and F. Wright
and Lina Dillard rendered several pleas-
ing selections.
Following the entertainment pro-
gram a committee from Cuero headed
by Oscar C. B. Nau was presented to
General Pershing. M. H. Keene acting
as spokesman for the committee paid a
glowing tribute to General Pershing’s
leadership and extended him an invita-
tion to attend the "Turkey Trot Carni-
val” in Cuero —next November.
Promise Biggest Turkey.
The invitation was extended in docu-
mentary form bearing the signatures of
the mayor city clerk president and sec-
retary of the Chamber of Commerce aud
commander of the American Legion Post
of Cueru. General Pershing received
the engraved invitation and promised
t » give the matter serious consideration.
Mr. Keene added a humorous postscript
to the invitation by promising the gen-
eral the finest bird in his county and
pumpkin Die "such as muther used to
make” should he accept. Tom Cheat-
ham. commander of Dinter Post No. 3
American Legion; Herman G. Nami
also of the American Legion; M. D.
Bennett prominent stockman accom-
panied Messrs. Nau and Keene on the
committee.
The votes of San Antonio Rotarians
were pledged to General Pershing—“ R-
otarian John Pershing”—for any office
witbin his desire from sheriff of Bexar
County to the presidency of the United
States by Dr. W. S. Hamilton presi-
dent of tbe club in bis address of wel-
come.
"You already have our hearts gen-
eral.” Dr. Hamilton exclaimed. “We
gave them to you jears ago but today
we give them to you for keeps.”
BANQUET PLANS COMPLETED.
Chamber of Commerce Will Entertain
General Pershing at Gunter.
Elaborate plans were completed
Wednesday morning for the Pershing
banquet <xf the Chamber of Commerce tn
bo given at S o’clock Wednesday eve-
ning in the ballrnom of the Gunter Ho-
tel. The big ballroom has been gayly
docoratMl with the allied colors and
huge American flags.
General Pci hin* mil <taff will go t
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