The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 138, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 1924 Page: 1 of 22
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Today
Shenandoah Passes.
Any Wet Plank?
A Long Word “Eternal.”
Neanderthals Travel.
By Arthur Brisbane
_Copyrt<ht„ 1924 by the Star Co.
A IRSHIP SHENANDOAH sail-
** ing toward Albany above the
Hudson on Wednesday passed the
Twentieth Century the fastest New
Yotk Central train coming from
Chicago. The airship carried 120
human beings the express train
many more. The passengers on the
fast train bent their necks looking
upward and thought bow strange it
was traveling up there in the air.
IJARLY in the last century when
James Brisbane father of the
late Albert Brisbane ran his primi-
tive railroad trains from Rochester
New York to Buffalo passengers
drawn by horses looked in amaze-
ment and tbougbt how strange it
was to be pulled by a machine that
boiled water to make itself go.
IN a few years that well appointed
express train will be out of date
as the stage coach is now.
TfiE young Vanderbilt boys and
George F. Baker real boss of the
New York Central would do well to
begin planning now for transpor-
tation through the air. They have
the terminals can raise money and
should see the warning written in
the sky by smoke from the exhaust
pipes of the big flying ship.
"TT/HAT will tLe big parties do
** about prohibition?” That’s the
question and the surest answer is
that tbey will imitate skaters that
skate around a hole in the ice.
WITH Al Smith of New York of
course his mere nomination
would be an out and out declara-
tion' against prohibition. In doiug
away with the Mullan-Gage acj^
Mr. Smith declared that the Vol-
stead act was “the work of fanati-
cal drys.” When he carried New
York by an overwhelming majority
be ran on n platform with a plank
soaking wet.
Both parties thy away from the
drink question now and Franklin
D. Roosevelt Al Smith's manager
says ‘’certainly not” when asked if
the Democratic platform will carry
a plank for modification of the Vol-
stead law.
MR. RODMAN WANAMAKER
has presented to Ner- York "an
eternal light” to burn "forever” in
L memory of soldiers killed in the
W<»rld War. The light will be an
electric star at the top of n tall mast
• in Madison Square and Mr. Wan-
amak ‘M endow it.
It is a patriotic thought but what
long words those are—"eternal"
and "forever.” 'i’be light that rises
and sets every day as this earth
turns around will go out eventually.
It will not he eternal.
And how long will it be before
L another generation will look up at
4 the eternal light and ask “I wonder
what -Uiat’s for?"
TIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE sheds
a tear because Chicagoans had
to travel many miles to see Carpen-
tier tight Gibbons. Chicagoans hav-
ing supplied Dt^icr cent of the cash
for the fight J^Bribune thinks it
should have bei^Hkuight to their
door.
That’s a mista^. The best thing
for a high intcJß^that demands
the pleasure of prizefighting see-
ing somebody efoe's ^se bleed is
to travel as much-as possible. Travel
opens the nijivl.
'
rE Nfflwerthal cutups of Chi-
.■ngo on their way to that fight
* in a private car doubtless looked
out of the window between “melds”
saw the little birds and perhaps a
darting field mouse living proof
of Providence's watchful care. If
so. they came home better men—-
perhaps somewhere in the Cro-mag-
non division.
LAST night for the first time in
history one million guests were
present at a wedding—on the radio.
A million or ten million might
“tune in” WEAF hear the marriage
service the faint "I do” of the bride
and all the rest including the music.
THERE have 'j*c^'jnany famous
weddings sinceuUiat of Alex-
( andcr the Great who pade so many
of his generals get married on the
same day as himself ^hd for several
days afterwards. Rut this radio
wedding is entirely Hew. It fore-
tells events mrfe important. The
day is coming uften great teachers
of the earth. iW^Gie quiet of their
own libraries will lecture sending
out learning throdftjhe ether to the.
ears of ten million'indents.
That really may b 6 tilled a cosmic
university.
EP. SMITH. New York talking
•to the Baptists in Milwaukee
accuses Dr. Butler the head of Co-
lumbia College of New York of
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THE WEATHER
San Antonio and vicinity: Thurs-
day night and Friday partly
cloudy; maximum temperature 90
to 94; light to moderate southerly
winds.
VOL. XLIV—NO. 138.
BI PUT 111 111 UM CU%
I ALLING SB CB Id) H EUN
Teapot Probe Adopts Walsh Report
OIL LEASES
DECLARED
ILLEGAL
Prosecutor Scores Fall for
Secret Negotia-
tions.
(BULLETIN)
WASHINGTON. D. C„ June 5.
—With all the organizations Re-
publicans on the committee absent
the Senate oil committee today ap
proved with minor changes the oil
investigation report drawn up by
Senator Walsh of Montana.
Four Democrats and two Repub-
licans took part in the action.
WASHINGTON D. C. June fl.-
Flagrant disregard of the law in nego-
tiation of the Sinclair and Doheny oil
leases wns charged in a report to the
Senate today prepared for the oil corn*
mittee by its prosecutor. Senator
Walsh Montana.
The exqyutive order by which Presi-
dent Harding transferred the oil re-
serve from the Navy to the Interior
Department was held in the report to
have been illegal.
The manner in which the leases
were negotiated secretly by former
Secretary Fall was described as an
evasion of the statutes.
The leases themselves were declared
“indefensibly wasteful” and based on
a policy which Congress alone bad
authority to determine.
Fall’s acceptance of s*looooo from
E. L. Doheny was characterized as
"in the last degree reprehensible” al-
though no opinion was expressed as to
whether the payment was in fact a
loan.
DENBY EXONERATED.
Shipment by Harry F. Sinclair of a
consignment of blooded cattle to Fall's
New Mexico ranch and Sinclair's sub-
sequent employment of Fall after he
had left the cabinet were cited with-
out comment.
Likewise without comment the re-
port related how Sinclair expended
SIXK>O.OOO to clear Tepot Dome of
conflicting claims some of which at
least were “shadowy.”
Former Secretary Denby of the
Navy Department and Assistant Sec-
retary Roosevelt were exonerated from
“any part whatever” in the negotia-
tions leading up to the leases.
It was declared that despite dili-
gent inq iry the committee found “no
facts of sufficient importance to re-
port” in support of the rumor that
public officers had speculated in stocks
of the' Sinclair and Doheny com-
iranies.
NO EVIDENCE OF PLOT.
Similarly the report said “the evi-
dence failed to establish the exist-
ence” of any conspiracy between oil
operators and others at the- Republi-
can national convention in 1920 for
exploitation of public resources.
Only a passing reference was made
to the conflicting stateme..ts by which
it had been sought to connect Edward
B. McLean with a $lOOOOO payment
to Fall and no opinion on that sub-
ject was’expressed.
The only recommendation contained
in the report aside from a reference
to court proceedings now in progress
was contained in the following sum-
mary :
"Had the legislation enacted by Con-
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C=r AtjTONIO- 5 '- —
YOUTH JAILED AFTER
KILLING PRIEST AND
WOUNDING OFFICER
DRACUT Mass. June s.—Rever-
end Michael G. Gilbride pastor of St.
Mary's church in the Collinsville dis-
trict was shot to death at the home
of John King Sr. today. Capt. David
Petrie of the Lowell police was se-
riously wounded while pursuing John
King Jr. who was arrested and
charged with the murder.
Father Gilbride had gone to the
Kjng home to make n call. What led
to the shooting is not yet known.
Immediately after the priest wa«
shot young King ran from the house
with n gun in his hand and rushed
into the woods nearby.
As the police approached the woods
there wns an exchange of shots and
Captnin Petrie fell. King also wns
wounded but not seriously and other
officers cantured him
LONDON BOOTLEG
BARONET ACTIVE
NEW YORK. June 5.— Sir Brode--
ick Hnrtwcll. Ixmdon's "bootlegging
baronet.” is still selling liquor to rum
row in defiance of the new liquor
treaty between the United States ami
Great Britain and Prime Minister
MacDonald's protests It wns asserted
yesterday at the customs house by
Edward Barnes assistant solicitor of
the port.
• Mr. Barnes declared that Ameri-
cans who help to finance the British-
er will risk prosecution for abetting
a crime.
DEMOCRATIC PLANK
TO GOVERN SMITH
NEW YORK. June s—The view- I
of the Democratic party n« embodied ;
in its platform and not his personal
views will determine the position Gov-
ernor Smith will take in the campaign
if he obtains the nomination a state
ment from Franklin 1). Roosevelt
chairman of the New York state com
mittee. said last night.
The platform will represent the
view of all shades of Democratic
opinion. If a wet plank is inserted it
will be because a majority of the
party members desire it. Mr. Roose-
velt said.
RIO GRANDE RISING
IN LOWER VALLEY
BROWNSVILLE Tex.. June 4.—
The Rio Grande is rising rapidly ac-
cording to reports received this after-
noon from .Mercedes and Rio Grande
City. At the former point the river
is now 12 feet above normal and at
the latter an 18-foot rise has been
recorded.
Reports from Monterey and other
points in northern Mexico indicate
torrential rains the past week and
many of the smaller streams are over-
flowing. Both the San Juan and Sal-
ado rivers which flow into the Rio
Grande are bank full but the situa-
tion is not serious so far as the Lower
Rio Grande Valley is concerned.
WOMAN SHOOTS MAN
WHO ‘BETRAYED’ HER
(
GUTHRIE Okla. June s.—“ You
made me love you and you have be-
trayed me I am sorry but you must '
pay the penalty.”
With these words Mrs. Netta Ken-
ney of Fairfax yesterday fired three ।
shots at Fred Tillman prominent '
Pawhuskn attorney and slightly 1
wounded him. two of the shots taking
effect in his right arm. The woman
was arrested and placed in jail. The
shooting took place on a crowded
downtown street.
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS THURSDAY JUNE 5 1924.
Dr. Herbert E. Bolton
Returns to Texas U
As Its New President
DR. HERBERT E. BOLTON
I The Weather:
TBXPKRATI RES.
JUNE 4. 2 a. m 79
3 p. m ** 3 a. irt «
4 p. m 86 4 a. m ...fit
5 p. ni 88 5 a. in 66
4 p. m »7 « a. 66
7 p. m 84 7 a. m
8 p. in ..82 8 a. m 71
9 p. .’.BO 9 u. in ‘4
10 p. 77 10 a. m 7».
11 r- ’ 73 11 *
12 m’dnißht. .. .72 12 noon *2
JUNE 5-5 1 n/m J;
1 a. m 71 2 p. 84
FORECAST.
EaM Texas: Thursday night and Fri-
day. partly cloudy probably thunder-
storms In northeast portion cooler In
northwest portion Thursday night and
in north portion Friday light to fresh
southerly winds on the coast.
West Texas: Thursday night and Fri-
day. partly cloudy to unsettled; prol»-
ably showers southeast portion cooler
in north portion Thursday night.
HOME WEATHER FOR TOURISTS.
Chicago: Temperature. 58; cloudy; le^s
than ten-mile wind from the southeast;
lowest temperature in last 21 hours. 54;
highest. 62.
Kanans City: Temperature. 72; clear;
fourteen-mllc wind from the south: low-
est temperature In last 24 hours 66;
highest. 80.
f New York: Temperature. 58: clear;
calm; lowest temperature in last 24
hours. 74: highest. 88.
St. Fouls: Temperature. 66; cloudy;
twelve-mile wind from the southwest;
lowest temperature in last 24 hours 64;
highest. 76.
Washington: Temperature. 60; clear;
less than ten-mile wind from the north-
west: lowest temperature in last 24
hours. 50; highest. 74.
Austrian Money Rate Raised.
A fusillade 'of bullets pouring
Van G. Maltsberger. 304 Live Oak
rate from 9 to 12 per cent.
His Selection Meets Ap-
proval of All and Ends
Bitter Fight.
Bor in Wilton. Wis.. July 20 1870.
Dr. Herbert Eugene Bolton whose
selection by the bogrd of regents to
head the University of Texas as pres-
ident has met the whole hearted ap-
proval of all connected with the
institution and ended the strife that
Las surged about the office for many
months is an educator and historian
of national recognition.
Having instructed and assisted in
the direction of many cf the largest
institutions of learning in the coun-
try. Dr. Bolton comes to the Univer-
sity of Texas now for the second
time.
Dr. Bolton first came to the Uni-
versity of Texas in 1901 ns instructor
of history. He remained until 1909
at which time he had risen to the
office* of associate professor.
His career as an educator was
started in the schools of ^Fairchild in
lspl. Since he has been connected
with the Milwaukee State Normal the
University of Texas the Leland
Stanford Junior University and the
University of California and has
written many notable books on the
early history of Mexico and of this
country. He is considered one of the
best authorities on Texas history.
SENATE REFUSES
GERMAN FOOD LOAN
WASHINGTON D. C. June 5.—
The Senate yeeterday rejected • pro-
posal to loan Germany 525.000.000 for
purchase of foodstuffs in this coun-
uy.
MARRIES AND
WIFE CAN’T
TESTIFY
Defendant in Murder Case
Wedded to Only Wit-
ness to Shooting.
A marriage ceremony performed in
the Bexar county jail ^nay have an
important bearing on the fate of C. H.
Wiley charged by indictment with the
killing of Muureeio Sedillo. Wiley
wns tnnrried to Mrs. Norn Grier on
May 15'five days after the shooting.
Mrs. Grier was present at the Wiley
home when Sedillo was shot. Under
the Texas statutes a woman cannot
be forced to testify against her hus-
band.
Wiley with his brother Wick ap-
peared before Judge W. W. McCrory
of the Ninety-fourth District Court
on habeas corpus proceedings. He was
held in the sum of $5OO bail and his*
I brother in $5OOO.
WIFE OF DEAD MAN TESTIFIES
Sofia Sedillo wife of the dead man
pointed to Wick Wiley sitting in th"
courtroom as the slayer of her hus-
band.
She and her husband had stopped
at her father's house across the street
from the Wiley home on May 10 the
woman said. Mrs. Nora Grier she
said called her husband over to the
Wiley place. She followed him.
C. H. Wiley she said started to
abuse the Mexican race when her hus-
band entered the house. Wick Wiiey
she said was intoxicated and her
husband hclpeil him to a chair. As
her husband straightened up. she tes-
tified Wick Wiley shot .him twiee
After he had fallen she said Wiley
shot him a third time. Wiley then
attempted to strike her with a pistol
witness said.
DEFENSE MAY CLAIM THREATS
Deputy Sheriff John B. Subira tes-
tified that when he responded to the
cull at tbc Wiley home on Oelekers
street he found Sedillo lying dead on
the floor.
Defense attorneys indicated that
they expect to prove that Sedillo had
made threats against Wiley.
OBREGON AND HUNT
TO MEET ON BORDER
MEXICO dITY Mex„ June 5.—
President Obregon will meet Gover-
nor Hunt of Arizona at Nogales on
Saturday according to a telegram re-
ceived last night by El Universal. It
is probable that the governors of other
American and Mexican border states
will hold a conference in Nogales at
the same time the dispatch adds.
SURGEON AND WIFE
DIE IN AUTO CRASH
CAIRO. Egypt. June s.—Dr. Macy
Brookes an American surgeon prac-
ticing in Alexandria who was in
charge of the American base hospital
at Cannes. France during the war.
and Mrs. Brookes were killed in a
motor car accident today.
HERRIOT DECLINES
TO FORM CABINET
B the Associated Tress. _ >—
PARIS June s.—Edouard Herriot
radical leader hag declined to under-
take the formation of a ministry to
succcd the Poincare cabinet it was
anuounced this evening.
TWO Prr copy la city and vlct-^y.
—’’ kJ VUjXs 1 D Ftvo cent# on trains and eUewhsr
“MURDER TREE”
FRIGHTENS
NEGRO
Shades of Will Brawley negro I
tied to a tree and left to die in a
lonely spot on the Gonzales road
n year ago. came back to frighten
one of his race Wednesday.
A large mesquite tree trunk to
which Brawley was tied stands in
the office of Mrs. Ellen Pyron.
grand jury secretary. It is “evi-
dence" in the case.
Wednesday a grand jury bailiff
invited a negro porter at the court
house into the office. He sat fac-
ing the blackened tree trunk. Sud-
denly it begin to move.
“Ghosts bowdye do” exclaimed
the i>orter as he went through the
door.
Tlie tree was controlled by an
invisible wire in the hands of a
bailiff sitting in the rear of the
negro.
COOLIDGEURGES
REALTGRSTD
DEAL FJIBLT
WASHINGTON. D. C. June 5.—
The real estate men of the country
were urged by President Coolidge in
an address delivered today before the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards to conduct their business with
a view to mutuality of advantage to
both buyer and seller.
“The deal in which one side ‘gets
the best of it' is not good business"
the President said. “It does not pro-
mote more business or produce con-
fidence in business generally. For-
merly there was a curious notion that
if one side in a business transaction
profited the other must necessarily
lose. If that were true all business
would be under suspicion and wise
people would stand aloof from it. The
truth is that when two parties enter
into a transaction by which each ex-
changes something which he needs
less for something he needs more both
sides are benefited. That is the ideal
basis of all trade and commerce.- and
it is the real basis of most transac-
tions.
PREACHES SERVICE.
“It is particularly the opportunity
and the duty of reel estate men to
maintain such a stardard. As a rule
tlieir service ;s that of middlemen
bringing buyer and seller together.
They will in the long run prosper if
they are guided by the aim to render
a real service to both sides. The
transaction whose sole motive is the
brokerage fee whether or not it is
earned by genuinely benefiting the
principals is npt commendable.”
The real estate men bad gathered
on the south lawn of the White
house and in opening his address the
President greeted them as the “pur-
veyors of cheer confidence and sound-
ly-based optimism."
PRAISES GOOD HOMES.
“Y’ou nre in a very literal sense the
sellers of America.” he added. “You
haev sold it so well that it is recog-
nized Everywhere as the best buy in
th? world. Your profession has given
largely to leadership of the better
housing and better homes movement
throughout the eountry.
“Therein it has done much for the
advancement of the community. We
cannot hope that good citizens will
come from bad homes.”
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FLYER LEAPS
FROM WRECK -
1300 EEET
IN AIR
Parachute Saves Life of
One; Other Pilot Pinned
in Cockpit Dies.
Held prisoner in the cock-
pit of his airplane when two
ships collided 1300 feet in
the air near Kelly Reid
Thursday morning Lieut.
Stewart L. Thomson was
dashed to the ground with
the two falling wrecks and
instantly killed.
Jose Maria Ramos 11
years old chopping cotton
beneath the scene of the
tragedy was crushed to
death by the two ships when
they struck the earth with a
terrific crash.
Lieut. W. W. White pilot of the
second ship escaped death by pulling:
the rip cord of his parachute. Ho
was jerked from the falling wreckage
an<l floated to earth as the ill-fated
pilot and the ships fell past him to
the ground.
THOMSON PINNED IN SHIP.
Both of the bodies of the dead were
mangled. The ships were broken to
splinters.
Officers believe that Lieutenant
Thomson was pinned in the fusilage
of bis airplane when the other ship
lodged on top of his plane.
Three DeHavilands were flying in
.1 V shaped formation. The third
pilot was Lieut. L. J. Carr. Lieuten-
ant Carr had been in the lead but
hail given way to Lieutenant White.
While two miles and a half north
of Kelly Field Lieutenant White
ajgualled for Lieutenant Thomson to
take the lead. To do this he “zoomed”
his ship about twenty feet higher
which was the signal for Lieutenant
Thomson to forge ahead and take bis
place. The custom is for the pilot
taking the lead to fly out ahead of
the other. The three ships were even
ly placed about 150 feet apart in toe
V formation and flying at the rate
of 100 miles an hour.
PLANE FELL ON THOMSON.
Thomson flew ahead. Lieutenant
Carr watching the two pilots stated
that he could not explain bow the
accident occurred. In some way he
said the two ships came together the
upper plane settling down on top «f
the lower one the top ship cutting
off Thomson's escape from the
cockpit. The ships remained in this
sandwich position and began to fall.
No sound of a voice from Thom-
son caine above the roar of the mo-
tors. Tbe ships began to fall im-
mediately. Lieutenant Carr circled
the felling Ttps.
Knowing that death impended.
Lieutenant White climbed from the
cockpit of his ship pulled the cord
on his parachute. As the silt chute
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