The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 317, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 2, 1923 Page: 4 of 68
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FRANCE MAKES
I OVERTURES ED
CREATBRITAIN
Renewal of Franco-British
Entente Is Object
Is Belief.
CONCILIATION GESTURE
Military and Naval Rivalry
Only Controversial
Issues Left.
By TAIL SCOTT MOWREF.
Special Cable to The San Antonio Light
and the Chicago Dally Newt
Copyright. 1923.
' ^aris Dec. I.—France is formally
proposing to Great Britain a renewal
of the Franco-British entente on a
new basis for the preservation of
European peace the furtherance of
the economic reconstruction of Europe
and the protection of French and
British interests.
It is now generally realized in
Europe that unless France and Great
Britain succeed in composing their
quarrels the danger of an open break
with incalculable but certainly omin-
ous consequences for all concerned is
hkely to reapear at any moment.
Gesture of Conciliation.
1 M Decision of the reparations com-
mission to appoint two expert com-
missions one to study German re-
sources abroad and the other means
i. of balancing the German budget and
stabilizing the German currency rep-
resent a gesture of conciliation by
Great Britain toward France.
Premier Poincare apparently has
Solitely agreed to do nothing to em-
arrass the British foreign office un-
til after the British elections Decem-
ber 6. Discussion of the contro-
versial question of how the payments
now beginning to flow in from the
Ruhr shall be apportioned has been
deferred.
It is pointed out that opposition of
French and British interests in the
Near East and other questions which
complicated the situation a year ago
no longer exist. The only remaining
controversial issues are military and
naval rivalry centering around the
question of air fleets and submarines
and the German question including
the problems of reparations France's
war debt to Great Britain and the
status of the Buhr and the Khine-
land.
What France Wants.
What France seems to be proposing
is first that Great Britain should join
France and Belgium in exploiting the
occupied regions and participating in
the administration of the so-called pro-
I Zone Plan Takes Flood Prevention I
1 1 Out of Politics I
H Read Opinion of J. T. Sluder Recognized Legal Authority |l
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■■ •T \ £ . November 26. 1923 valuation of the real property of be placed on the ballot except la
■ ' * such district or territory • ♦ • the heading "Official Ballot." l||
■ Mr. D. D. Harrigan for the following purposes to wit: • 38
HI The improvement of rivers creeks In the latter part of Section 9. of
H Ban Antonio Texas. .and streams to prevent overflows said act we also find this provision: ♦ KS
H — • • • or in aid of such purposes." . . u „
U Dear Mr. Harrigan: (Constitution of State Art. 3. The court shall also canvass
M t. . .1 oo j • . Sec 52 declared adopted Decern- I* l * for directors and de- ]
In your letter of the* 23rd met. b er 09 1904.) dare the election of the five per- M
you inquire whether or not in the “ ’ nons receiving the highest num- Bh
■ From the verbiage of the eonstitu- h" of vocs for ""i* l 81
M be created a district covering the tional provisions above quoted you And lur her down „ n(lpr Spction
H ‘ndud^’th^araa^A^ «“'h^ty U a lev ^district or " 57 ’ o£ thc BCt we find the *>«<»’««: H
H San Pedro creek and Apache crack' might be termed a V ater Improvement ‘ After the canvass of the vote
H together with the flooded territory of District could be carved out running and declaring the result aa pro- ■£
II the Sai Antonio riw and bonds is- through the city without any regard vided for in the preceding sec-
II mied ta such district fo? t^ to city limits including all of the tion. the directors for such dis- ■ 1
H of protecting such area from overflow • "w'Oon of the city includ- trict will make nnd enter an Hi
H «n<l whether or not such bonds are nK i Alazan. Olmos. San Pedro order directing the issuance of al
11 mIb.M. and Apache creeks or any other trib- bonds.” ' 2?!
3S utary of the San Antonio river and /
11 j—..: i—.v- _ xv including any water shed that might In other words when under the >
II t.w 2 > nfhnri»« > rhl "t D< k direct water into the San Antonio law a Levee Improvement District ^| i
II 1 b< ? nrd river in case of heavy rains. is created under thc constitutional 3?
19 voters to levy . . provision herein r-ferred to (Art. 3.
M 2nd conztitutional provision and See. 52) five directors are elected nt X
■ Ih. k l he llie atatu ‘* a putting it into effect take the same election who are thenceforth
H HUtrto 1 n h precedence over and control any state to manage and control the levving Kg
H law or any local law—lofal city and assessing of taxes the issuance
D 1 nn P rovfm>nt district charter or other general or local law o f bond. tlie making of nil contracts H
M ” reBtea ' —which would be in confhet there- f„ r the improvements and control the IS
M with and when die provisions of the improvements of such district. No S 3
M 1 To "r att '' ntlon o « $o»- acta under this Constitutional amend- question can be raised as to the legalitv
M stitutional provision a part of which ment are put into effect they set o f Bueh district being based upon 2?
SB provision covers the identical ques- aside nnd hold at nnught any general constitutional authority ns nbove
tion under consideration which pnrt or locnl inw in conflict therewith thc * stated »» »
yS having application thereto reads as same being expressly authorized by Ha
B® follows: constitutional authority ns above • • • Such bonds could be marketed
.... stated. . without difficulty ns there have been Ba
jy “Under legislative provision any in the last few years under this con- 5?
g- i county any political subdivision 2: Tn the Acts of the Second Cnllcd stitutionnl provision from fifty to akf
ffD of a county any number of ad- Session of the Thirty-eighth T.egisla- seventy-five million dollars of' the SB
joining counties or any political ture (1923) Chapter 11 which net same character of bonds issued by Bl
Rij subdivision of the state or any applies to such districts created un- such Levee or Water Improvement Mg
•fK defined district now or hereafter der Article 3. Section 52 of the Con- Districts each year and on normnl 2S
' to be described and defined with- stitution. or under the amendment to markets no difficulty has ever been SR
gt) ’ in the State of Texas and which Section 59 of Article 16. of thc con- experienced in the sale of such bonds. Be
• may or may not include towns stitutinn we find in Section 7 of said Bonds so issued by a district with the B^
« ■ villages or municipal corporations act this provision: assessed values and population the dis-* piS
ti|x>n a vote of n two-thirds ma- trict under consideration would have.
i’ ; jority of the resident property “Said ballot shall contain five could be Hohl at a much higher rate
taxpayers voting thereon who are blank lines upon which to write than bonds issued by an entire county. SJ
H;; qualified electors of such district names of persons voted for. for for county purposes where the values l-jS
wji or territory to be affected thereby the office of director with a head- and population were not so large • • • aft
In addition to all other debts mny ing: I Se
issue bonds or otherwise lend its Toura very truly gR
Mg credit in any amount not to ex- “For directors five to be fill
Sr reed one-fourth of. the assessed elected." No other matter shall * J. T. SLUDER. In
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IF SUNDAY?
ductive gages in the proposed Rhen-
ish Bank of Issue and in the allied
railway regime; second that France
should disavow the Separatist move-
ment in the Rhineland but that
France and Great Britain should fa-
cilitate Rhenish autonomy under
the sovereignty of the German Reich;
third that Great Britain France nnd
Belgium should agree ujx>n measures
to protect their respective industries
from resumption of German dumping
and upon a series of commercial
treaties to be negotiated with Ger-
many ; fourth that France and Great
Britain should make n military nnd
naval convention which would free
France from the necessity of building
large numbers of submarines and
would free Great Britain from the ne-
cessity of keeping up great air fleets.
ANOTHER IN RACE
V .A. Collins of Dallas Announces
Candidacy for Governorship.
Dallas. TeX. Dec. I.— Seven issues
in the campaign of V. A. Collins Dal-
las attorney for governor were out-
lined by him Saturday when he for-
mally announced his candidacy sub-
ject to the Dcpiocratic primaries. Mr.
Collins formerly of Beaumont was
twice state senator from the four-
teenth district. He was candidate for
Congress in 1918. opposing Congress-
man John C. Box incumbent in a
three-way race.
Jn his platform he says he stands
for a strict law enforcement: the best
system of public free schools money
wilt buy; such laws and appropria-
tions as will aid farmers in conserv-
ing and rebuilding the soil of the
farms of the state: that the peniten-
tiary system be made self-sustaining
without abandonment of the farming
enterprises; for the lowest tnx rate
regardless of the character of taxes
consistent with efficiency; for the es-
tablishment and maintenance of a sys-
tem of first-class roads and for a lib-
eral policy towards capital invested in
Texas.
TEXAS TO TAKE STOCK
Comptroller to Compile Statement of
State's Financial Condition.
Austin. Tex. Dec. I.—Plans are
under way by Comptroller Lon .4.
Smith to make a complete annual
statement of the financial condition
of the state which will be the first
time in the history of Texas that such
a statement is made. The last Legis-
lature authorized the comptroller to
make a monthly statement and the
comptroller has decided to also make
an annual statement. Some interest-
ing facts concerning the financial af-
fairs of Texas are expected to.be in-
corporated in this statement.
At the present time there is no
system by which can be shown the
exact worth of the state because
there has never been an inventory
of the state's property.
Prisoners Get Turkey Dinner.
Cuero Tex. Dec. I.— Cuero turkey
was served the inmates at the DeWitt
county jail Thanksgiving day. A ne-
gro held on a gaming charge plead
guilty in the morning and was told
he could go if he wished but de-
clined his freedom with thanks until
he had a chance to partake of the tur-
key dinner.
Beautiful Roselawn Cemetery not
a graveyard a beautiful well kept
burial park. Crockett 16S8.—(Adv.)
Hectic Days in Lil’ OF N’ York
Roughly Speaking and It Was Pretty Rough Ev-
erything’s Happened.
By JESSIE HENDERSON.
Copyright by The San Antqnlo Light
New York Dec. I.—lt’s just been
one of those weeks when you couldn't
think up any other calamity or dra-
matic event unless you thought it up
with the nid of tr hypodermic needle.
Roughly speaking and it was
pretty rough everything's happened.
Thanksgiving which usually makes
a dent in any week in which it oc-
curs was only an incident. The poor
had their turkey at 25 cents a pound
or free. The rich had tbeir's at
anywhere from 55 cents to 75 cents.
But by and large the whole citizenry
got theirs in more ways than one
from the beginning of the week to the
end thereof.
The complete absence of a crime
wave and possibly also the complete
absence of the police commisisoner
who is on vacation in Bermuda was
accountable for a plethora of hold-
ups You didn’t put your head around
a corner without running it into the
muzzle of somebody's revolver or hav-
ing the top of your new winter hat
blown off by stray bullets. By the
way. perhaps as a bit of protective
coloring the men nre wearing their
hats । la gunman at the moment thc
brim rolled up on one side and
turned down on the other an effect
supposed to be exceedingly Ritzy.
Ouzht to Stop ’Em.
Seven bandits recently seized by the
police are supposedly responsible for
twenty holdups in addition to « $43-
000 bit of highwaymanry with two
murders attached; and the imprison-
ing of the seven ou^ht to tone down
the present high spirits of the other
yeggs a trifle. On the other hand
while everyone was rejoicing that the
police had actually caught seven bud
men. there was another $17000 hold-
up job pulled right under their noses.
And it seems that federal prohibition
agents — at least they had all the
credentials —are now shooting at the
innocent bystander from rampaging
motor cars.
It may be noted in passing that if
New York's Thanksgiving was a dry
one. then the Atlantic ocean is a Sa-
hara. A stroll up Broadway on the
festal night proved that there were
just as many people hilariously happy
over the landing of the Pilgrims at
Plymouth Rock as every there used to
be in the supposedly wetter and wick-
eder daxs.
All's going to be well pretty soon
however. The music school settlements
who nre having a drive to raise
money for the maintenance of schools
for music are going to set everything
right. No less an authority than Otto
Kahn has come right out to declare
that music lessens crime. If that's
the case for nny sakes let's have the
police band playing roundabout Hell's
Kitchen these nights.
Facts Worth Knowing.
If you really want to know what
you’re worth look up Kronradt Lea-
ner. the Swiss telepathist who goes
In for auto-suggestion and reading file
human mind if any. Why is it that
the psychics mnke such a bee-line for
New York City? It can't have any-
thing to do with our sordid material
~ THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
prospehty. because the psychics frank-
ly admit that money means practical-
ly nothin- to ’em. Anyway the town
was just recovering from the nervous
apprehension into which it had been
thrown by the Viennese handwriting
expert who could reconstruct a crime
by reading your name when here
comes this Swiss who by merely
shaking your hand can tfil you your
character your politics your business
the state of your health or your bank
account and whether your iienchaut
is for the ministry or bootlegging.
Among other of the week's discov-
eries nnd inventions were the facts
that if you find some woman’s elbow
jammed in your ribs during the sub-
way msh she’s a police woman and
she arrests you for getting fresh;
you can’t push a man out of a third-
story window and not be summoned
to court even though he isn't hurt
and two ladies in evening dress may
pull each other's hair on Fifth ave-
nue at 1 in thc morning nnd get
away with it. What would you?
Ladies must love.
RAILROAD HEARING
TO BE CONTINUED
UNTIL WEDNESDAY
Applicants and Opposition
Heard—lntervenors
to Be Heard.
Austin Tex. Dec. 1. — Hearing of
the application of the Texas Panhan-
dle and Gulf Railway for a certifi-
cate of public convenience and neces-
sity for the construction of a new rail-
road through the plains country of
West Texas which has been in prog-
ress before the Texas railroad com-
mission since last Tuesday was not
concluded Saturday when the commis-
sion recessed until next Monday morn-
ing.
The hearing is now scheduled to be
concluded by next Wednesday. The
applicants and the opposition have
been heard but now the intervenors
who are also ngainst the proposition
are to be heard.
This application is being heard by
the Texas commission for and on be-
half of the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission. and when the hearing is over
the record will bo prepared and for-
warded to the Interstate Commerce
Commission without any recommend-
ations be the Texas commission it
Was stated.
During the progress of the henring
this week the proponents pointed out
the necessity for the building of the
new road because of lack of railroad
facilities through the section of the
state in which the contemplated line
would traverse nnd would result in
building up that section. Statistics
were produced tending to show the
eost of ordinary commodities of life
in the plains section without railrotwl
facilities and more favored portions of
toxas which in certain instances were
over 100 per cent.
The oppostion to granting the cer-
tificate was that the construction of
■the proposed road would not be justif-
iable as the country which is to be
traversed is too sparsely settled and
such a rond would suffer the fate of
the Orient which is now unable td
mnke operating expenses.
Hale Holden of Chicago president
of the Burlington system who op-
posed granting the applicantion told
the commission that the Burlington
system planned to extend its line
through a portion of the section of
Texas proposed to be covered by the
new line while the proponents insist
this would not relieve the situation.
WILL TRY BANKER
Both Sides Announce Ready After
Two Continuances.
Fort Worth Tex. Dec. 1. — The
case of H. E. Byrne former presi-
dent of thc defunct Security State
bank will be again called for trial
Monday in Criminal District Court.
It was reported that both sides will
announce ready for trial. Two con-
tinuances have been granted.
Byrne was indicted on charges of
embezlement and of knowingly assent-
ing to the reception of deposits when
he knew thc bank was in failing con-
dition.
The Security Stale Bank closed its
doors last winter.
Directors Are Re-elected.
Dallas. Tex. Dee. 1. — Two directors
of the Eleventh District Federal Re-
:erve Bank. Howell E. Smith of Mc-
iinney and J. J. Culberson of Paris
vere re-elected to their respective po-
sions by a vote of member banks
through the groups they represent here
Saturday. Their new terms run for
three years beginning January 1
1924. There are nine directors of the
Federal Reserve Bank their terms
overlapping so that elections fall due
every year.
A Real Christmas Sale of
Detroit Jewel Gas Ranges
In this sale we will include every pattern of Detroit Jewel we carry from the
modest 3-bumer cooker to the full White Enameled Range.
Elevated Oven Ranges will be on sale from $54.00 up.
A FREE Kitchen Set goes with each Jewel Stove you buy.
fl || Cash is all you
IU U need as we
will allow you
easy monthly payments on the
balance and take in your old
stove besides. -
Ah! Such a Gift!
So thought-expressing so last-
I
ing and so easy to buy.
3 times a day 1000 times a year your wife or .
mother has cooked on her old stove. Give her I
a DETROIT JEWEL—she deserves one.
We will hold them for Christmas or deliver now that Christmas cakes may be baked in the
finest Gas Stove made. The DETROIT JEWEL. “They Bake Better.”
Sale starts Monday morning Dec. 3rd. Buy early and be sure of yours.
xPraeger Hardware/
Company
>X32O-322 E. Commerce St.
X\ Phones Cr. 1461-Cr. 1462 X
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“HELL SHIP” PRINCE ALBERT
IN FOR IT NOW PACIFIC
CABLE HAS BEEN SEVERED
Nobody Got Much Excited About Murders on Board
or Rum-running Beyond Twelve-mile Limit
But Now Some Action Is to Be Taken.
By MEI.VILLE EDMONDS.
Copyright by The San Antonio Light.
San Francisco Dec. I.—Somewhere
off the rugged coast of California
the rakish schooner Prince Albert —
known along the water front because
of her lurid reputation as the “Hell
8
Jhip”—wallows low in the waves with
her cargo of rum all unconscious of
the fact that she has at last started
the wheels of justice against her-
The Prince Albert’s crew according
to pretty well authenticated reports
got away with two murders on the
high sea. just outside the twelve
mile limit. But nobody felt very
bad about that because it was a case
of dog eat dog.
Her captain according to the same
reports brought ashore by a rum
smuggler who visited her. tortured
one sailor until he- was driven "in-
sane. And nobody got very much
excited about that.
She has sold a lot of liquor but
as the transactions took place out-
side the twelve mile limit nothing
could be done about that.
After Her Now.
But now her crew has wantonly
ent a trans-Pacific cable and the
Postal Telegraph and Cable com-
pany-. which was the sufferer is
moving heaven and earth to find
some law—national or international
under which they can be punished for
their $lOOOOO act of vandalism.
The Postal's cable “snapped” last
Including a beautiful and useful FREE GIFT
with each JEWEL purchased between now
and Christmas.
The FREE GIFT is a six-piece all white gold
lettered Kitchen Set just like cut consisting
of 1 square Bread Box 1 round Cake Box 1
Flour Bin 1 Coffee Cannister 1 Tea Cannister.
week and the repair ship Restorer
steamed nt full speed from Honolulu
to pick up and splice the broken
strands. The break was found about
25 miles off San Francisco less than
a mile from the spot where the
Prince Albert rode at anchor. The
rum runner lifted anchor and slipped
away.
When the Restorer had raised the
severed ends of the cables from 300
feet of water Captain V. F. Sparks
found that tae cable had been cut
clean with an axe. Apparently it
had been fouled on an anchor hoisted
to surface and ruthlessly cut to avoid
the trouble of disengaging it. Inas-
much as the Prince Albert was- the
only ship in the vicinity nnd inas-
much as none blit a rum runner
would be likely to drop anchor in
300 feet of water the Postal com-
pany is convinced that the “Hell
Ship” did the trir^c.
A Piratical Outfit.
The company is determined 4o make
an example of her if possible because
they point out with the waters off
the coast infested with piratical and
vandalistic rum runners such “ac-
cidents” are likely to happen again.
The theory that the Prince Albert’s
crew cut the cable is borne out by
the general reputation that ship has
won along the water front
The rum smuggler who told the
story of the double slaying and of the
torture of a member of her crew said
that the “Hell Ship” was armed to
F No. 16-402 1
With white splasher back B
white panels in both doors Rl
and white drip pan. w!
$62 00
DECEMBER 2 1923.
the gunwales for protection again
hi-jackers—or revenue men sbou
the vessel ac 'dentally be trapp
within the twelv; mile limit.
Members of the crew told lejw.
.declared that the two murd»
saw were but commonplaces of n vc
age filled with killings brutality ai
wantonness of every description. C<
tainly a crew that would cut throa
would not hesitate to cut a cable.
CALL FOR WARRANT:
Deficit in State Treasury Still in F
cess of $4500000.
Austin Tex. Dee. I.—Another c
for registered warrants was issu
Saturday by C. V. Terrell stt
treasurer there being $194685 in c«
in the state treasury to the credit
general revenue.
All warrants up to and includi
No. 90300 will be paid on preeenl
tion to the state treasury.
This call embraces 1200 warrants.
The deficit in tlfc state treasury
general revenue fund is still in exc<
of $4500000.
Ask Rate Revision.
Austin Tex. Dec. I.—An anplic
tion was filed with the railroad coi
mission by the Standard Gravel Coi
pnny of Houston for a readjustme
of rates to govern transportation
sand and gravel carloads from Ro
gerville a station on the M. K..
Railway to Houston. The commi
sion gave notice that it ill take i
and consider the application at i
next regular hearing. Tuesday. II
cember 11. As a basis for consider
tion it is proposed to apply a rate
40 cents per ton of 2000 pounds
carload shipments of sand and
cents per ton on gravel from Rodger
ville to Houston. Rates at int<
mediate points will not be affected.
Beautiful Roselawn Cemetery n
a graveyard a beautiful well ke
burjal park. Crockett 16S8.—(Adv
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