The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 71, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 30, 1926 Page: 1 of 22
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Today
The 1926 Gunman.
By the Electric Chair.
Senator Smoot Says It.
Harvard’s Race Views.
By Arthur Brisbane
— Copyright. 1916 by Star Co -- ■
Historians of the year 3000
writing today's history would
want information about people
not about steel factories or bank bal-
ances.
Friday’s performance in the elec-
tric chair at Milledgeville. Ga.
would interest them. Ted Cogge-
sball in his teens “flipped away” a
cigarette to permit guards to tie his
hands in the electric chair. His
father and younger brother were in
the death room watching.
Floyd McClelland another boy
was executed at the same time. Both
are raid to hare confessed murder.
FUTURE historians will be inter-
ested in the five "cake-eater gun-
men.” Thus police describe five boys
that “swaggered into court grinning”
three of them 17 one of them 18
and one 19 years old each with a
young woman of his age following
him and evidently proud.
These boys are on their way to
the electric ebnir for shooting Angelo
Maharis a restaurant owner. One
boy brushed the murder aside say-
ing “when I pointed my gun at him.
he pushed me saying ‘put that thing
awrty' so I bad to shoot him.”
This crime will not surprise his-
torians when they learn that pro-
hibition has caused Inws nnd the
oonstilution to be treated as a joke
by “respectable" people of the
United States.
HAVE you been buying European
bonds tempted by high rates of
interest?
Those buyers of European bonds
may regret the buying. Washington
and high finance were agitated by
Senator Reed Smoot's statement
rucked away in a speech of 30(KX)
words to the effect that Europe will
never be able to repay the millions
lent by American investors through
American financiers.
Senator Smoot who understands
finance said. “I say without hesi-
tation that the loans which we have
made to foreign countries and that
«e are making to foreign countries
cannot bn paid.”
THAT statement won't help poor
old Wall Street which had nn-
other fit of the financial blues yes-
terday.
Some time ago thia column whs
warning readers against buying Rus-
sian bonds that the czar and bis
grand dukes were then unloading by
the bale in the United States. Those
bonds are worth now whatever first-
class waste paper is worth.
There are plenty of chances to in-
vest in the United States. Invest
here.
THIS country is very rich nobody
drcams the amount of wealth be-
low the ground. Even the Sinclair
oil people several days ago brought
in a sell now gushing at the rate of
1000 barrels an hour. If that doesn’t
start foolish people buying "wild cat”
.oil stocks it is because Barnum was
wrong.
HARVARD limits the next fresh-
man class to 1009 announcing
that “personality and character” will
count in an examination teat apd a
photograph of every applicant mu t.
be sent.
Ulis in plain English means a deter-
mination to exclude Jewish students
above whatever number the faculty
thinks desirable.
A great university would show
more courage If it declared its plan
frankly without camouflage.
Fortunately it doesn't make the
slightest difference to n young Jew.
or Gentile either whether he goes to
Harvard or not.
Nothing is taught at Harvard that
cannot be learned elsewhere in half
the time that Harvard takes to tench
it. What counts is a man's perform-
ance after he comes out of school
not the name of the school that
taught him.
MEXICANS PREVENT
OUSTING OF PRIEST
MEXICO CITY. March 80.—UP)—
Dispatches from Jalapa capital ot
Vera Crus state report trouble in
the town of Chinameca. where it was
ordered the deportation of the only
‘ Spanish priest there. Members of the
congregation surrounded the church
and the priest's residence preventing
the police from executing the depor-
tation order. It is reported that
troops may be required to handle the
situation.
MAN’S DIAMOND RING
STOLEN AT MARKET
J. C. Russell 405 Solednd street.
Wishes that hr too like the little
pig of Mother Goose fame had stayed
st home.
Instead hr went to market. While
fberc a thief stole a valuable dia-
mond ring from his coat pocket h*
reported to the police
S. 1. NATIONAL BANK HELD IF
Grim Death Threatens
To Seal Lips of Only
Hammer Case Witness
Mrs. Mattel Sheridan Longworth only witness to the slaying of Mix Ada
McCobb “hammer victim” is critically ill at her Stonewall street home.
OFFICERS AWAIT RESULT
OF BATTLE WITH REAPER
Will death seal the lips of the only eye witness to the
slaying of Mrs. Ada McCobb?
A battle to determine this issue is now being waged in
a little home on Stonewall street Harlandale where Mrs.
BURBANKGAINS
IN STRUGGLE
TO LIVE
SANTA ROSA Cal. March 30.—
OP) —Luther Burbank world-famed
horticulturist is waging a valiant bat-
tle against a persistent illness which
has confined him to bed at his home
here since Thursday.
Extreme nervousness of the patient
and a seemingly constant desire to re-
turn to his work in the garden com-
bined to make Uis condition "doubt-
ful” last night his personal physi-
cian Dr. Joseph H. Shaw. said.
Dr. Shaw's bulletin issued verbally
at 11:30 p. m. said:
"Mr. Burbank is resting fairly com-
fortable with short periods of refresh-
ing sleep more or less disturbed by
occasional hiccoughing. Owing to his
extreme age and inteuse neurosis bis
condition is doubtful.”
His temperature last night was
was given at 99 pulse 104 and respi-
ration 18. Dr. Shaw said Mr. Bur-
bank was suffering no pain.. Two
nurses are in attendance at his bed-
side.
The plant wizard has recently re-
ceived numerous communications com-
menting on his recent statement that
be was an “infidel” and he attempted
to give these his attention.
RIN-TIN-TIN’S OWNER
SUED FOR DIVORCE
LOS ANGELES March 30.—UP)
Leland L. Duncan who with his wife
owns Rin-Tin-Tin movie dog. is be-
ing sued for divorce on the ground
<>f cruelty—to the "lira.”—not to the
■log.
► Mabel Longworth Sheridan
| lies seriously ill. For five
I weeks she has been stricken
with influenza. Monday her condition
was so serious that she was unnble to
appear in the Ninety-fourth District
Court where trial of the case had been
set.
CONDITION SERIOUS
On that day officers found Mrs.
McCobb lying in a pool of blood un-
conscious.
Her head had been battered. A
claw hammer with which the blows
had been dealt still clung to her hair.
Evidence of a desperate struggle were
everywhere in the room. A few honrs
later Mrs. McCobb died without hav-
ing uttered a word as to what had
transpired.
ONLY WITNESS.
Mrs. Sheridan by her own admis-
sion to officers is the only person
who knows what happened in the
room. She is the daughter of Mrs.
W. M. Longworth proprietress of the
boarding house at which the aged wo-
man had lived for months. Mrs.
Sheridan according to the mother
had taken food to the guest.
The mother had been attracted by
the noise of the struggle in the up-
stairs room. The door was locked she
told officers and when she gained a
view of the room by going out on a
porch she saw her daughter there.
During the state's exhaustive inves-
tigation no witness has been found
with the exception of Mrs. Sheridan
who witnessed the tragedy. So they
depend u]>on her to give the details.
That is why they anxiously await
the outcome of the battle in the Stone-
wall street home.
FRENCH SOLONS SEEK
TO UNTANGLE CRISIS
PARIS March 30.—CP)—The fi-
nancial debate in the Chamber ot
Deputies by which an attempt will
be made to reach some agreement to
straighten out thb financial crisis
will begin this afternoon.
c— —SAN ANTONIO^ -7
ht
Member of The Associated Press.
VOL. XLVI—NO. 71.
BEER-SELLING RIGHT
GRANTED DRUGGISTS
MASKED MEN
FLEE WITH
LARGE SUM
OFCASH I
Four Bandits Stage Bold
Daylight Robbery in
Heart of City.
Rank officials shortly after 1
o'clock estimated that the loot taken
was about $15090 fully covered by
insurance.
Forcing bank officials employes
and customers to kneel at the point of
sawed off shotguns bandits at noon
Tuesday ransacked the San Antonio'
National Bank on West Commerce |
street near the intersection of Na-1
varro and escaped with an unknown j
amount of money. Posses of officer- |
are now scouring the city in searchi
of them.
Excited officials were unable to
estimate the amount of loot taken.
Four bandits escaped through a rear
door while dazed officials and cus-
tomers wore still kneeling.
BANDITS ENTER.
Four men with shot guns and hand-
kerchiefs covering the lower portion
of their faces entered the bank at
12:15 o'clock while it was crowded
Aiming their shotguns in every di-
rection they ordered the officials and
customers to kneel. Some of the em-
ploycg they forced into the vaults.
Scooping up what cash was on the
tellers counter and getting some
from the valuts excited spectators
said they quickly made a dash for
the rear door.
DETECTIVES ON TRAIL
Chief of Detectives Sam Street
Special Investigator Lee Johnson
Chief of Police T. O. Miller and Of-
ficer Harris immediately made the
call.
The bandits had made good their
escape.
During the holdup J. S. McNeel
started into the bank to transact
some business. The four bandits
quickly turned their guns on him and
forced him to join the others who
had been corraled.
Descriptions given of two of the
four men was that one was clean
shaven and well dressed. The other
was described as rough looking. All
four spectators said were young.
WOMAN 36 MOTHER
OF TWENTY CHILDREN
FITCHBURG Mass. March 30. —
CP)—Mrs. Louis M. Cross 36 years
old today is the mother of 20 chil-
dren. She gave birth to the twentieth
child a 12-pound girl here last night.
Mrs. Cross was married when she
was 15. All the children are living.
PRISON GUARD HELD
FOLLOWING SHOOTING
DALLAS March 30.—UP)—J. T.
Wright prison guard at county road
eamp No. 4 is in the county jail
charged with assault to murder fol-
lowing the shooting early today of
his employer W. P. “^ke” Shank-
lin superintendent of the camp.
Published by Ths Light Publishing Company.
Sav Antonio. Texas.
Pigeons May Lead
To Reunion After
20-year Gap
• Pigeons may lead to the unit- I !
• I I
| ing of a brother and sister who । [
I have been separated more than a {
I score years. • |
} Mrs. M. L. Cordova 152* I
I West Craig place believes she |
I can find her kin with fhe aid of {
I a story of a pigeon rare which |
| appeared in The Light recently j
Albert Atkinson of Whites- I
• 1
• boro owns the birds which won . 1
I the race.
| And that according to Mrs. •
* Cordova is the name of her long i
| lost brother. -
I Tuesday she appealed to Post- }
I master P. G. Lucas to help with •
1 the search
t
The postal official will com- 1
• municate with Whitesboro au- J
| thorities he promised.
| Thus pigeons and The Light I
| story may perform what scores 1
I of letters and inquiries have fail- {
| ed to accomplish.
•X . . r-r -*
S. A. BANDIT MISSES
$50000 IN JEWELS
AS STORM BREAKS
Flashy of lightning early Tuesday
morning through the unshuttered win-
dows of the room of George Scheuts.
New York jewelry salesman in a
downtown hotel are believed to have
routed a burglar who escaped from
the room with $250 in money to
leave $50000 in diamonds in the
salesman's sample case.
Schcutz discovered his loss when
he awoke Tuesday morning. His
trousers wore lying in the middle of
the floor with his empty wallet near-
by. On the other side of the bed.
the bag containing the fortune in
gems reposed untouched.
PRIVATE HOSPITAL
PROPOSED FOR CITY
City officials will consider giving
permission to the Medical and Sur-
gical Clinic of San Antonio to estab-
lish operate and maintain a private
hospital and clinic in a three-story
and basement fireproof brick building
on Camden street between Richmond
and Reynolds streets.
Petition for permission for the
clinic was asked of the commission
at its meeting Monday. It was signed
by ten doctors. .
‘HOT MUSIC LEADER
GIVES ‘HOT CHECKS’
"Hot music” from the baton of
an orchestra leader is excusable but
“hot checks” from the same leader's
pencil are not.
As a result a South Texas deputy
sheriff is in San Antonio looking for
the director who set his town afire
with both “hot music” and “hot
checks.”
YOUTH TRIES TO FIRE
RUSSI HOME CHARGE
A young Mexican charged by com-
plaint with attempted arson waived
examining trial and was remanded to
jail in default of $3OO bail by Jus-
tice of the Peace L. F. Boltz Tues-
day. His arrest followed an alleged
attempt to bum the home of Fire
Marshal H. G. Russi 1419 East
Houston street.
TUESDAY MARCH 30 1926.
V x W Mt W
State-wide Storm
Kills 2 in Texas
FRUIT CROPS
DAMAGED
BY ICE
Snow and Sleet Accompany
Wintry Gales; Oil
Town Destroyed.
The claws of a tiger like March to-j
day sank deep into this state which '
a few dajs ago was warming under a I
Jamb-like spring.
The fangs of the dying month
wreaked vengeance in a storm which
cut through Houston Beaumont Lib-
erty and surrounding towns in East
Texas causing at. least two deaths
bringing Amarillo its greatest snow
in 18 years and playing freakish
pranks throughout the state.
Six persons were injured in Beau-
mont.
The western plains are covered un-
der deep snow and slush while San
Antonio further south basks in the
sunshine.
82-MILE WIND.
The gale struck Houston at 3:44
o'clock and within five minutes had
attained a velocity of 82 miles au
hour. Trees were uprooted plate glass
demolished and lines of communica-
tion crippled.
A. F. Horton brakeman on the 1.-
G. N. freight train en route to Gal-
veston was b'own from the top of a
box car. Crew members saw him fa'l
and stopped the train to piek him up.
The most serious damage was done
in the business district where scant-
ling was ripped from the top of sky-
scrapers and showered on buildings
below. Guests in the Rusk Hotel fie 1
to the lobby when boards began shoot-
ing through the roof.
HEAVY DAMAGE
The storm about Houston and Beau-
mont caused damage which may mount
to several hundred thousand dollars
and it is feared may have resulted in ;
several deaths.
At Liberty two men were killed
and a third critically injured when
the storm swept a path half a mile
wide through the South Liberty oil
fields at 4 o'clock Tuesday morn-
ing. Virtually every derrick and
building in the path was demolished.
At Amarillo the greatest 24-hour
snow in 18 years spread over that
section of the Panhandle. The tem-
perature was 15 degrees and the city
was snowbound. Eleven inches of
snow was reported by the weather
bureau.
At Wichita Falls the temperature
dropped to 28 and remained at that
mark at 9 o'clock this morning. It
is feared that the freeze has finished
off the fruit crop and garden crops
are blasted in Northern Texas.
Cloudy weather with frost and ten 1 -
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BEM TELEPHONE COMPANY
will spend something like $39.- |
000.090 in the Southwest this year
according to E. D. Nims president
of the Southwestern Bell Telephone ;
company registered at the St. An-
thony hotel. "San Antonio and
Southwest Texas will got a consid-
erable portion ot this" he declared.
"This country is making such rapid
strides it is quite a Job for us to
figure and make our plans 15 or 29
years ahead” he added.
WC. PRESTON traffic man-
• ager of the Frisco Lines was
stopping at the St. Anthony hotel
Tuesday. "When do you people ex-
pert to build a railroad that will
connect San Antonio with the Pan-
handle country?" he was asked.
“Son. that question.was asked be-
fore you were bom." he replied.
“I can’t answer it just now bnt I
will say this.” be grinned. “San
Antonio and the territory north-
west of here look mighty good to us
at the present.”
HERE is a story that is beeoming
more and more common. “I
had been to Florida and I knew
what it was like. Having heard
that San Antonio was a great place
to spend the winter I jumped on
the train and came down" says
Arthur J. Wylie banker of Rome
New York registered at the St.
Anthony hotel. “I am not sorry
that I came" and hr concluded with
a big smile “I’ll be back again
next year.”
TEN PASSENGERS DIE
IN COLOMBIA WRECK
BOGOTA Colombia March 30. —
UP) —At least ten persons are known
to have becu killed and 20 injured
in the collision last night of an ex-
press train bound from Bogota for
Girardot and the coast and a freight
train. Two first class coaches were
thrown into a river.
MEXICANS SCOUT JAP
LAND CONTROL RUMOR
MEXICO CITY. March 30.—OF)—
The Mexican minister of agriculture
and development. Luis Leon today
emphatically denied the report pub-
lished in the United States that the
Mexican government was selling a
concession to a Japanese syndicate
on Magdalena Bay. Lower California.
MEXICO CITY AUTO
SALES ROOMS CLOSE
MEXICO CITY March 30.—UP)—
Almost all of the foreign automobile
sales rooms are closed. They were
shut up in protest against attempts
of automobile salesman who are em-
ployed on a commission basis to
form a union and force recognition
of their unionized status by the au
tomobile agencies.
EDITION
TWO CRMTR Prr n el'yand vicinity.
A Sv Vr VJUIX AO Five cents on trains and elsewhere.
MALT lONIC
GIVEN TRIAL
BYO.S.DRY
MONARCH
Pabst and Anheuser-Busch
‘Health Booster’ to Be
Sold Over Country.
WASHINGTON March 30.—UP)—
Medicinal beer. comparable in alco-
holic content to the pre-prohibition
beverage will be acceesible to the
public for the next six months at
least.
The new “health booster" which
Anheuser-Busch Inc. of St. Louis
and the Pabst Brewing company Mii-
waukee have been given permission ti»
manufacture is expected to be acces-
sible to the public nt drug stores about;
the time the Senate judiciary com-
mittee gets under way qpth its 1. r-
ing on bills designed to release the
old-fashioned beverage from present
Volstead law restrictions.
NO PRESCRIPTIONS.
The only restriction on sale of ’ha
malt tonic will be the number of cases
drug stores may handle. The per-
mits granted the two brewing com-
panies by Assistant Secretary An*
draws of the Treasury allow an alco-
holic content of 3.75 per cent by vol-
ume.
From five to 25 cases may be fur-
nished drug stores weekly according
to their size and no prescriptions will
be required of consumers who feel the
need of more and better health.
The "joker” — from the healthy
wet’s standpoint—lies not in the alco-
holic content but in the warning that
the tonic won’t behave pleasantly if
treated as a beverage. Instead of 7
to 10 per cent of malt solids as in
pre-prohibition beer it will contain 25
per cent
DON’T DRINK TOO MUCH
As a result officials explained ex-
cessive drinking of the tonic will pro-
duce illness. The difference in alco-
holic content is much less pronounced
pre-prohibition beer having contained
from 3 to 6 per cent by volume.
The permits for manufacture aud
sale of the tonic were issued for six
months and provided that the brew-
ers should assist the government In
keeping it- out of the bauds of boot-
leggers. Wholesalers already ba-e
lieen asked to assist in the enforce-
ment of this provision.
The wet and dry leaders mean-
while are marshaling their forces for
the modification bearings which ’he
Senate committee will begin Mender
and continue for two weeks with the
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