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Today
Your Rich Uncle.
War Times War
Heroes.
Death Can’t Be Gay.
A Great Miracle.
By Arthur Brisbane
L ■ ■ Copyright. ISIS by star Co
NATIONS and individuals have
financial troubles but not your
Uncle Sam. Secretary Mellon
will sell for him above par fife hun-
dred millions of bonds. bearing 3 3-4
per cent interest. Owning more gold
than all Europe paying his war debt
nearly a billion a year. Uncle Sam
is in “easy circumstances.''
IF only he were allowed to remain
at ease not dragged into tho
I>eague of Nations through the World
Court.
That League of Nations planned
for peace already has a fight of its
own.
Britain wanted Germany in the
league. Germany was willing. France
declared that Poland Spain and Bra-
zil also should come in with a full
vote as allies and sympathizers with
France. Thue a “Latin bloc” would
oppose and outweigh the Anglo-
Gennanic bloc.
r[E desire is to make Uncle Sam
line up in the league with Ger-
many and England against the
French bloc. Wouldn’t it be more
sensible for Uncle Sam to stay over
here pay his debts and mind his own
business?
MEN that should know better say
our entering the World Court
has nothing to do with entering the
league of Nations. But in Europe
where they know all statesmen and
newspapers of importance affirm
United States entry into the World
Court is equivalent to entering the
league AND IMPOSES ON AMER-
ICA THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE
LEAGUE.
A NATIONAL council for the pre-
vention of war asks children to
name the world’s twelve greatest
heroes. Prizes of $lOO for each hem
are open to pupils in secondary and
higher elementary schools every-
where.
Pathetic for the prevention of war
council is this. All young people
will mention military heroes first.
Alexander Caesar Napoleon will be
in every list British boys will drsg
in Wellington. Amarican boys will
choose Washington. General Grant.
Rebert E. Lee. German boys will
put Frederick the Great and Von
Moltke at the top of the list.
Not one child in ten thousand
without prompting from bis elders
would mention Pasteur who gave his
life to science. Galileo who went to
prison and risked torture for the
truth or any of the other real
heroes. We live in a war age so
our heroes are war heroes.
You won't change that in one gen-
eration or with prizes of $lOO each
.unfortunately
WHAT tune would you select for
your funeral? There might be
a thousand answers to that ranging
from the funeral march in “Aida”
to “When Johbny Comes Marching
Home Again."
A. M. Carlisle British ship build-
er who bad his body cremated while
the waltz from “The Merry Widow”
was played wanted a cheerful fu-
neral “nobody to grieve” no hymns
no prayers no religious ceremony.
Carlisle's daughter Baroness Von
Versen fainted when the music
started. No wonder. It is not easy
to make a joke or even a pleasant
party of death.
ADD one to the miracles of sci-
ence. Last Sunday morning
between 8 and 12. men in New York
and London talked through the ether
by wireless. The miracles recorded
in various religions require complete
faith.
Christians question the miracles
performed by Mohammed who threw
handfuls of dust into the air and
changed it into troops of cavalry
and Mohammedans question some of
the Christian miracles. But nobody
questions the greatest of recorded
miracles sending tho human voice
3000 miles across the ocean.
There is something very convincing
about positive science.
BRIAND MINISTRY
FALL PREDICTED
PARIS. March 11.—OF)—A short
life is predicted for the ninth min-
istry of Aristide Briand. It is term-
ed the "Geneva ministry” by the
Hight and Center groups which fore-
cast its early demise when M. Briand
returns to Paris from the League of
Nations sessions.
COOLIDGE APPROVES
RIO GRANDE BRIDGE
WASHINGTON. D. C.. March 11.
OP)—The bill authorizing construc-
tion of a bridge across the Rio Grande
at Presidio Tex. was signed Wed-
nesday by President Coolidge.
Parent Fears Young
San Antonio Bride
Killed in Oklahoma
Mrs. Julius A. Morgan. 19-year-old bride daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. Smithheart of San Antonio whom they believe is dead in Oklahoma.
$7000000 IRRIGATION
PROJECT TO BENEFIT S. A.
Expenditures of $7000000 on a huge irrigation
project in Southwest Texas which would directly benefit
San Antonio and bring in thousands of farmers to develop
the territory’s vast resources loomed Thursday with the
JO OR CHOSEN
IN GRIFFITH
TRIAL
With prospects of great difficulty
in selecting a jury the trial of T.
L. Griffith San Antonio real estate
man. charged by indictment with the
killing of George Mason got under
way in tbe Thirty-seventh District
Court Thursday.
At noon 81 of a special venire of
200 had been examined with only one
juror accepted and tbe state using
but two challenges and the defense
but one. The juror is Alex Grant
carpenter.
NEW VENIRE NEEDED.
Ittwill be necessary to summon an-
other venire at the present rate for
attorneys do not expect to get half
of the twelve out of the present panel.
This is Griffith’s second trial for
the killing of-Mason. A jury in the
same court last summer failed to
agree on a verdict after listening to
testimony during a week's trial.
Mason was beaten to death with an
autoinobilc pump near the Griffith
home on December 8 1023. Griffith
was .arrested the same day by city
detectives.
SELF-DEFENSE.
His plea on the first trial was self-
defense and defense witnesses testi-
fied that Mason bad made threats
against Griffith.
As in tbe former trial Mrs. George
Mason the widow will be a witness
for the state.
WELL HINTS NEW
TEXAS OIL FIELD
FAN ANGELO. March 11.—G«n —
Hershenson No. 1 of the Dixie Oil
Company Inc. in Pecos county 32
miles west of Fort Stockton near tbe
Pecos and Reeves j county lines is
standing 800 feet in 43 gravity oil
with the pay barely tapped at 3805
feet. Well-defined structure indicates
that an entirely new field has been
opened.
LEAGUE HOLDS WILD
GAME CONFERENCE
A meeting of the Izaak Walter
league organized for the preservation
of wild game was held at noon Thurs-
day at the St. Anthony hotel. Stata
President Nesmith addressed the meet-
ing.
•arrival of T. M. Phifer New
York capitalist.
Mr. Phifer who repre-
sents 'large fiuanciAl interests in New
York accompanied by a corps of en-
gineers. has just completed a survey
of the territory around Cotulla in be-
half of the $7000000 Cotulla irriga-
tion project.
DECISION NEAR
“I am in conference now with com-
missioners of the project to dam the
Nueces river and some definite de-
cision as to whether the deal goes
through will be reached iu a few
days” Mr. Phifer said.
He would not reveal the New York
interests he represents except to say
that his offices are on Wall Street.
“I was agreeably surprised I might
say astounded at tbe possibilities in
the way of development of this coun-
try. The proposition of damming tbe
Nueces is a sound one. After the
project has gone through it won't be
long until a string of up-to-date thriv-
ing little towns will spring up till
over that section.
INCREASED VALUES.
“Increase in the value of property
will be enormous. Your climate is
great for attracting tourist travel but
it is the possibilities of your natural
resources that interests capitalists of
tbe North mostly.” he concluded.
FIRE CREDIT GIVEN
TO ALAMO HEIGHTS
Alamo Heights was one of 24 Texas
towns granted the maximum credit
of 15 per cent on the final rate of
fire insurance by the state commis-
sion on account of good fire record
for the past three years. Nine ether
towns were penalized because of bad
records for the same period the com-
mission announced at Austin Thure-
day.
JAIL REMODELING
TO START MONDAY
Actual work on tbe remodeling and
const ruction of a two-story addition
to the county jail will be started Mon-
day. The foundation will be strength-
ened preparatory to the erection of
the additional stories. .
EDICT RULES HORSES
MUST DISPLAY LIGHTS
CHICAGO. March 11—OP)—There
will be tail lights on horses in the
bridle paths if the recommendation of
an aldertnanie sub-committee made
yesterday prevails.
DALLAS EX-OFFICIAL DIES.
DALLAS. March 11.—0P>—Dallas'
first water commissioner Dan F.
Sullivan 67 died here early today
at a sanitarium where he had been
ill for several weeks.
<T~ ANTQNI.Q—-J
PER
VOL. XLVI—NO. 52.
HOEFGEN MAY RUN
FOR SCHOOL CHIEF
te V Ite V te W te W IteW :
Willie Vaughn Must Die Friday
te w Ite w-te w te w te v
MISSING GIRL BELIEVED SLAIN
POLICE HELP
ASKED BY
FATHER
Victim of Clubbing May Be
Maiden Who Left Home
Mysteriously.
Fearing that the body found Tues-
day in a lonely pasture near Atoka.
Okla. is that of bis daughter Mrs.
Julius A.' Morgan. 19-year-old girl
bride who with her husband mys-
teriously disappeared from San An-
tonio in January. W. L Smith
heart. 318 South Water street
Thursday appealed to police to aid
him in establishing the girl's identity.
RINGS TALLY
Newspaper dispatches stating that
the dead girl wore two unusual rings
and a cameo breastpin first attracted
attention of Mr. Smithheart since he
knew his daughter always wore two
old style rings and a breastpin which
were family heirlooms. The general
description also tallies with that of his
daughter he said.
The girl bride and her young hus-
band. who had been living in an apart-
ment at South Alamo and Villita
streets mysteriously left San Antonio
early in January.
BEATEN TO DEATH.
The husband's father lived in Okla-
homa according to Mr. Smithheart.
Information from Atoka Okla.
whore the body of a young woman was
found stated she appeared to have
been beaten to death probably ten
days before the body was found. Of-
ficers followed automobile tracks to a
place near where the body was found
and it is believed she was killed in a
struggle in the pasture.
BLOOD TEST TELLS
PARENTAGE RULING
VIENNA March 11.—GB—A
scientific blood test has been acceptcl
by a court as conclusive evidence Io
determining tho paternity of a child.
Accordingly a Vienna judge ruled
today that a young engineer was not
tbe father of the child in a case
brought by an unmarried mother for
alimony.
MODIFICATION ACTS
UP TO COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON D. C„ March 11.
—Bills for modification of the'pro-
hibition law were referred to a sub-
committee today by the Senate judi-
ciary committee. The entire commit
tee will decide later whether public
bearings shall be held. Chairman Cum-
will appoint the sub-committee.
SON OF EDUCATOR
FATALLY INJURED
SAN JOSE. Cal.. March 11.—C4>>
Eric Knight Jordan 22. son of David
Starr Jordan chancellor emeritus of
Stanford University died at the Gil-
roy hospital 30 miles south of here at
5:1O this afternoon of injuries re-
ceived shortly before noon in an auto-
mobile accident.
Member .of The Associated Press
Published by The Light Publishing Company.
San Antonio. Texas.
4tnROMOTERS who put over the
“ big Florida sub-divisions are
looking toward South Texas with an
eager eye.” says U. R. Hatfield
realtor of Palm Beach registered at
the Gunter hotel Thursday. “Your
pumpkin of prosperity is about
ready for cutting and when once
cut the influx of people will be
greater than the rush made into the
Cherokee Strip” he predicted. Mr.
Hatfield is not here for his health.
44CAN ANTONIO is the most
« ideal place in the world to
train a ball player" proclaims J. B.
Foster editor of Base Ball Guide
who is stopping at the Menger hotel.
Each Spring Mr. Foster travels 16-
000 miles in about six weeks to in-
spect all the ball clubs training over
the country so he ought to know.
"How does Florida stack up with
South Texas?” Mr. Foster. "Ha!
Ha! laughs he. (The Ha! Ha! is
for Florida.)
WI. OSBORNE president of
•the Cornel Wood Products com-
pany Chicago probably knows vice
president “Hell and Maria" Dawes
as well if not better than any one
else in the country. Back in 1901
he and General Dawes formed the
Central Trust company in Chicago.
“Is General Dawes the ‘Hell and
Maria’ type of man the papers pic-
ture?” he was asked. “Just about.
Mr. Dawes is a strong-minded
man.” Mr. Osborne declared. Mr.
and Mrs. Osborne were registered at
the St. Anthony hotel Thursday.
DE VALERA RESIGNS
AS SINN FEIN CHIEF
DUBLIN March 11.—W)—Eamon
De Valera ’ Irish Republican leader
has resigned the presidency of the
Sinn Fein following rejection by the
Ard Fheis. or Republican general as-
sembly of his motion favoring Re-
publican representation iu the Dail
Eireann and Ulster Parliament.
U. S. AND CUBA SIGN
SMUGGLING TREATY
HAVANA March 11.—A general
anti-smuggling treaty between the
United States and Cuba known as a
eovenant of “mutual assistance" was
signed today by General Enoch H.
Crowder the American ambassador
and Secretary of State De Cespedes.
IMPOUNDED PUPPY’S
MASTER ARRESTED
“Like master like dog”
The fate of a negro and his dog was
likened unto this when arrested
Thursday by Motorcycle Officer W.
H. Shipp.
Because the dog was unlicensed he
was placed in the pound and the mat-
ter lodged in jail.
SETTLEMENT RULED
PRIOR OVER VERDICT
NEW YORK March 11.—C4>)-
Albert Stone accepted a settlement
of $4OOO from Charles Z. Weiner for
alienation of Mrs. Stone’s affections.
Five minutes later a jury gave him a
verdict for $20000. The settlement
stands the court ruled.
THURSDAY MARCH 11 1926.
BEXAR NEGRO
TO PAY FOR
ATTACK
Request for Reprieve From
Governor Falls on
Deaf Ears.
AUSTIN. March 11.—It was
stated at Governor Miriam Fergu-
son's office shortly after noon that
the governor will not intercede in
the Willie Vaughan case.
Only a few hours stand between
Willie Vaughn and the electric
chair.
Sometime between midnight and
dawn Friday tbe Bexar county ne-
gro. convicted of an attack on u
pretty San Antonio girl must <iic.
And Thursday iu the death cell at
Huntsville penitentiary he was mak-
ing his peace with God.
“I don't want to die please ask the
governor to nardori me” he wrote
Sheriff Jim Stevens a few days ago.
ESCAPE FRUSTRATED.
But Vaughn bad been convicted ty
a Bexar county jury after a legal
trial and Bexar officers declined to
intervene.
Only a resuite from Governor Mi-
riam Ferguson now can save him. And
but. a few hours arc left in which that
respite may be obtained.
Vaughn was taken to Huntsville
three weeks ago after the highest crim-
inal court in the state had affirmed bis
ease. Deputy sheriffs accompanying
him believe they frustrated a last-
minute attempt at escape when the
negro urged them to remove bis hand-
cuffs for a moment.
SPEEDY TRIAL.
The negro was convicted in Ninety-
fourth District court a year ago last
January. His trial required less than
a day and the jury less than half an
hour to reach a verdict.
The attack for which he was con-
victed occurred in December. 1924.
The young girl was.on her way to an
early Christmas church service. The
negro grabbed her as she passed
through Madisou Square park. Her
cries for mercy went unheeded.
Half an hour later neighbors found
her wandering about the park in a
half-dazed condition screaming fran-
tically.
Vaughn was arrested several hours
later immediately indicted and tried.
COMMUNITY INCOME
TAX RULING STANDS
WASHINGTON D. C March 11.
OP)—Husbands and wives in the
seven states having community prop-
erty laws will be permitted to file
separate tax returns on their incomes
as usual Commissioner Blair of the
Internal Revenue Bureau announced
today pending receipt of a ruling by
the Department of Justice.
SLAIN MAN’S NAME
ON JURY; DELAY TRIAL
TACUBA Hex.. March 11.—C4>)—
A woman’s trial for murder of her
husband was postponed today because
his name was on the list of jurors.
TWO CRMTR p '’ r •' vicinity
z. it xy VXJIv AkJ rive cents on train and elsewhere.
i Flivver Chases
; Owner After
< Breaking His Arm '
—
I Rafael Canales. 312 South j (
I Concho street believes his fliv- |
| ver has been keeping coinpans |
| with wild bronros
I The machine kicked him and t
• broke his left arm when Canales *
। started to crank it Thursday. I j
| Then the automobile which •
| was in gear rhased him a half •
I block. Its wild flight was stop- ।
| ped as it headed for a show j
j window’ at the corner of Dwyer !
| avenue and Nueva street.
mother's AVES ONE^
TWIN FROM BLAZE;
BURNS KILL OTHER
George Peters. 3-uionth-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Peters will re-
cover from burns received in tbe fire
which destroyed the Peters residence in
Jourdanton and fatally burned his
twin brother James atteudauts at
the Santa Rosa hospital reported
Thursday. James died Wedensday.
The parents were in the yard when
the fire started. Mrs. Peters rescued
the tots but they were severely burned
before the mother emerged from the
flamgs and smoke.
NEGLIGENT DRIVING
FINES TOTAL $7OO
Not only arc brakes being lightened
as a result nf the new negligent col-
lision law but the city's purse is
bulging as well.
More than .<7OO was collected in
fines in corporation court Thursday
according to Dave Gottlieb clerk.
Most of the fines were for careless
driving.
AX SLAYER RECEIVES
SUSPENDED SENTENCE
DEL RIO. March 11.-(^—Plead-
ing guilty to killing Ed A Taylor.
05. of Knox City by chopping him
to death with a hand ax William M.
Geyer 29 «of Houston was given a
threc-year suspended sentence here to-
day. He claimed self-defense.
The killing was last December.
COOLIDGE RECEIVES
KANSAS GLEE CLUB
WASHINGTON. D. C„ March 11.
(>P)—Tbe Glee Club of the University
of Kansas now touring the East was
received by President Coolidge Wed-
nesday. Senator Capper presented the
singers. President Coolidge later posed
with them for photographers.
IMPERIAL CORSETS
FOR SALE BY REDS
LENINGRAD Marc“h 11.—C4>)—
Corsets once worn at the Imperial
Court are offered for sale by the So-
viet —124 pairs of them. A market for
this rare article is expected among
souvenir hunters.
MARCONI BETTER
AFTER OPERATION
LONDON March 11.—GP>—Wil-
liam Marconi the wireless inventor
who underwent a minor operation here
yesterday passed a satisfactory night
and his - ondition is not dangerous at-
tending surgeons said today.
□mon
FRIENDS ASK
OFFICIAL ID
OPPOSE
HAINES
Majority of Board Members
Reported in Favor
of Move.
W. 1.. Hoefgen. rice president of
the board of education is a i>otential
candidate to succeed President Frank
S. Haines at the election of officer
to be held Tuesday. March 16. it wa
learned Thursday. It. is understood
Mr. Hoefgen will have the support of
a majority of the hoard memhera
Mr. Haines also is a candidate fof
re-election. Mr-. W. U. Quirk it ig
understood is slated to be named
reta ry.
“I have been as^ed tn accept tbe
presidency oi th:* of cducrtioii/’
Mr. Hoc •’gen said Thursday. “Mau/
friends -have urged that ’L take the
office and I have been assured tbs
support of a majority of the membra!
of the board. I rtn eriously conoid*
ering the mutter but have ursMog
definite to state now."
FENTIMAN Oil OF RM'L
Charles E. Wynne Jr. while "Oi
commiting himself to an- candida^
said in bis opinion Mr. Haines bad
made an able president and it wag
the custom to continue the president
in office. • Mr. Wynne said he would
support Mrs. Quirk for secretary.
John F. Fentiman .it is understood!
will support Mr. Hoefgen. Mr. Fend*
man was out of the city Thursday.
He has declined to become it >an<lidste
for the office on account of tbe pre#
sure of business matters friend
said.
SUPPORTSHOEFGEN.
“I wUI support iind'vote for 'ln
Hoefgen." dcylared Mrs. C. W. Sat.
tcrfvld Thursday. Asked as M
whom her candidate for the secretary*
ship was. iirs. Satterfield said sha
had ijot decided.
Friends of J Mrs. W. H. Quirk say
she favors Hoefgen for tbe presidency
though Mrs. Quirk was silent. Mrtk
Wheeler B. Pettus the other member
of the board is ill at her residence
and could uot be seen.
Mrs. Quirk will be sworn in at tha
meeting of the board Friday and take
her place on the board at the Tue*>
day meeting.
SUSPECT FACES 2
ATTACK CHARGES
Charged in two cases with asmutt
to murder a man is being held it
default of $lO9O bond which was m*
in the justice court of Anton Ada*
Thurwdny. The man waived prelim
inary bearing. He is charged with ae»
aault to murder on Snuetino Suits md
Fermin E pino.
The same man charged with carry
ing a pistol will go on trial in tha
County Criminal court Friday.
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