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VOL. XLII—NO. 38.
CHINESE OFFERS
THE SAN Al
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LIGHT
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1922.—FIFTY-TWO PAGES.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
AGRICULTURAL BLOC
TO HELP SOLVE
TAYLOR MURDER
HAS NEW PROGRAM
OF “FARM WELFARE”
Permanent Legislation to
Assist Producer Will
Be Sought.
ANGLO-FRENCH
DEFENSIVE PACT
IS CONSIDERED
NEFF WILL REPORT
ON STEWARDSHIP IN
SERIES OF SPEECHES
Governor Will Carry Out
Promise Made During
His Campaign.
COUNTY SUES
OFFICERS FOR
OVER $75,000
Grant Memorial to Be Unveiled
DUNUJQUEJII
NOW BATTLE ■
GATHER VOT
“I Am Wong Lee, the Man
You Want,” Says Voice
Over Phone.
STORY IS BELIEVED
Washington, D. C., Feb. 25.—The
farm bloc’s next task is to put through
Congress a great national permanent
program of “farm welfare,” Senator
Capper, Kansas, the bloc's new chair-
man, said tonight.
“The bloc,.formed aa a temporary or-
ganisation to meet an emergency, now
British and French Premiers
Take Steps Toward
World Peace.
Austin, Tex. Feb. 25. — Governor
Neff announced Saturday afternoon '
that commencing the latter part of
next month he proposes to deliver a
series of speeches in various portions
of the state telling the people of his
stewardship. When he made the race
for governor, he declared, he promised
Nine Officiali Made Defen-
dants in Suits to Test
Fee Question.
Much Opposition to Propos-
al for Sales Tax Is
Being Found.
Loi Angeles Authorities
Comb Valley in Search
for Drug Ring Leader.
enters the second phase of its life," said
Capper. “Its work from now on will
be to build permanently. Our program
of emergency legislation is about com-
pleted.
"Statesmen and economists have come
to realise that it is not enough to pull
the farmer out of the hole; he must be
set on firm ground and helped to go for-
ward. That is the bloc's job now. It
. . , . t is not a selfish job, for what benefits
Los Angeles, Feb. 25. I am Wong agriculture benefits the whole coun-
Lee, the man you want to question in try.
connection with the Taylor murder. I The bloc program of permanent agri-
culture legislation has not been worked
out fully. The program as it stands:
1. A rural credits bill, setting up ad-
ditional machinery for "personal credit"
for farmers. This is to bridge the gap
between 60 and OO-day paper and long-
term mortgage loans.
2. Enlargement of the farm land bank
system, to make it of greater aid to
farmers in the acquiring and improve-
ment of lands.
3. Transportation. This Involve*
wrestling with the great railroad prob-
lem, the increasing of transportation fa-
cilities where possible through inland
waterways,
4. The truth in fabric bill. This is
to force shoddy to be labeled as shoddy
and wool so that both the producer and
the consumer may be protected.
call on you presently, tell you what
I know about Barry Fields, a.1 Tay-
lor affair."
This calm voice over the telephone,
speaking lu excellent English with but
slight intonation, tonight gave the
sheriff's office high hopes that a real
lead has developed in the movie mur-
der.
The call was put into Deputy Sheriff
Frank Dewar, iu charge of the China-
town squad, which has been combing
the district for two days searching for
the Chinese tung man and dru., ring
leader accused by Harry Fields, drug
fiend, held in Detroit, in connection
with the murder of the film director.
Dewar and his squad had located
the man’s underworld haunt and bad
waited 24 hours for him to return.
They finally decided that he had been
warned by the Chinese intelligence sys-
tem and had fled the city. The phone
call came just as they were on the
verge of giving up.
The informant said he waa on bis
“place" in the San Fernando Valley
and would come to Los Angeles soon
and tell everything he knew in con-
nection with the Taylo tragedy.
He refused to be hurried or cross-
examined over the phone. He volun-
teered what information he wanted to
and then hung up.
Authorities placed much credence
in the call, aa it was undoubtedly frum
an Oriental. They decided not to wait
for the man in question to appear but
immediately began combing the San
Fernando Valley in order to force his
hand.
FOLLOW CHICAGO CLEW.
Search for Slayer of Movie Director
Centers in Illinois City.
There are other measures and many
details to be worked out, Capper said.
MILITARY RULE WILL
END NEXT WEDNESDAY
IN UMESTONE COUNTY
Governor Neff Makes No
Decision on Freestone
County Action.
___the people of Texas that if elected
PI TEN YEAR TRICE he would later tell of his activities
TLAN IEN-IDAN IAUCE while in the office and now he is
I keeping that promise.
I "Beginning the latter part of next '
month, it is my intention to make a
thorough speaking campaign of all the
state," said the governor. “I shall
speak four or five times a day as 1
did during the campaign of-1920. My
subject will be ‘the Texas government,
its perils and possibilities.’”
"Among other things," continued
Governor Neff, "I shall discuss with
the people, the necessity of working out
a plan for more efficient rural schools
and a better marketing system for the
various products of the farm and the
Lloyd-George Seeks Euro-
pean Agreement to Limit
Land Armament.
Boulogne, France, Feb. 25— Impor-
tant steps toward world peace and
European rehabilitation were taken by
Premiers Lloyd-George and Poincare in
a secret conference which adjourned
here this evening.
Besides postponement of the Genoa
conference and a start toward a work-
EX-OFFICERS TO BE SUED
Proceedings Intended to
Determine Who Gets
Back Tax Fees.
IS POLITICAL PROBLEM
Farm Bloc Members of
House Favor Using Pro-
ceeds of Bonds.
Chicago, Feb 35. Search for the
slayer of William Desmond Taylor,
Los Angeles movie director, centered
in Chicago tonight.
Five detectives rushed here from Los
Angeles, together with Chicago detec-
tives, were “working on important
clews,” it was announced at police
headquarters.
Although the nature of the clews
was not divulged it was believed that
the Investigation concerns search for
missing jewelry of Taylor’s. The fart
that Detectives Patrick O'Brien aud
Leonard Burch, "loop pawnshop ex-
perts,” were assigned to aid the Los
Angeles detectives, led to this belief.
It was stated unofficially at head-
quarters that the investigation here
may be for the purpose of locating
the headquarters of a “dope ring"
thought by some to have been back uf
Taylor’s murder.
FIELDS FEARS HANGING.
Spectre of Gallows Closes Mouth of
Dope Fiend in Detroit.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 25.—Martial law
in the Mexia precinct of Limestone
county will be lifted either uu the
night of February 28 or on the morn-
ing of March 1, Governor Neff an-
nounced late Saturday. The procla-
mation renewing Mexia of the militia
will be issued Monday, he said.
No decision had been reached Satur-
day by the governor as to whether
martial law now in effect in all of
Freestone county will be lifted at the
same time. His decision on this mat-
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 25.—-Fear of
hanging has closed Harry N. Fields' tional liquor raids.
mouth tighter than all persuasion of A week ago _____..... .,
police and sheriff’s endeavoring to add dressed citizes of Limestoe
to his tale of the murder of William
Desmond Taylor at Hollywoc I Cal.
In a last attempt to obtain addi-
Washington, D. C., Feb. 25.—The
bonus question tonight had resolved it-
self into a political problem—how to
get the soldiers’ vote—according to pro-
bonus, pro-sales tax men. There was
a further indication of this in a let-
ter sent by Representative Frear and
30 other farm bloc House members to
Chairman Fordney of the Ways and
Means Committee.
This letter, advocating paying the
bonus with proceeds of expected Brit-
ish war debt bonds, contained the
broad hint that a sales tax would do
some "sweeping here next fall" just
as that issue "swept the conservative
party out of power last December in
Canada." Further, it approved the
bonds not merely because they "will
remove a grossly unjust proposal" (the
taxi, but because they will “prevent
political overturning of Congress.”
Are "After Soldier Vote."
Many men engaged in trying to shape
up a bonus have said quite frankly the
past week that they are “after the sol-
dier vote." They make no secret of
the fact that they oppose any plan ex-
.eluding the cash bonus on the ground
To determine a legal point concern-
ing the retention of tees by county of-
ficers in back tax suits and collection
of delinquent fees, suit was filed in
the Beventy-third District Court Batur-
day afternoon by Bexar County against
nine county officials, now holding of-
fice, for the recovery ut approximately
seventy-five thousand dollars. No al-
legations of embezzlement or bad faith
ments can unite in building and main-! are contained in the petitions but the
tinine ..a mana, theaueh. The atara matter is being taken into the courts
4.....as a friendly suit to determine a legal
complication which has grown out of
ranch. 1 shall also discuss the bene-
fits to be derived from a workable,
co-operative method by means of which 1
the county, state and federal gove j- 1
ing agreement for an Anglo-French de-
fensive pact, the premiers were reported taining good roads throughout the state.
to have considered a novel plan of
With good rural schools, good roads,
accessible and equitable markets for
Lloyd-George’s for a ten-year truce in | the products of the soli, nothing can thisesinte see statutes dealing
Europe.
keep Texas from taking first rank in
The British prime minister was said all things, among the states of
to have suggested to Poincare that the Nation.” ...
Genoa economic conference, which they
agreed should be postponed until April |
10, be used to form the foundation for
a ten-year agreement among nations of
Europa to limit land armaments and de-
vote the energies of each toward rehabil-
itation and reconstruction instead of
ter will be announced later. . ______________________,.-,-__
Action by the governor to lift mar- Genoa conference was understood to be
tial law at Mexia followed the receipt
of a telegram from Brigadier General
Wolters, commander of the military
area, in which the latter urged that
the embargo be raised on one of the
dates indicated by the.governor.
The state troops and the ranger force
now enforcing martial law at Mexia
will be withdrawn as soon as martial
law is lifted. Governor Neff added
that in the event martial law is .ot
lifted iu Freestone county at this time,
a plan for holding sufficient troops
and rangers there to enforce military
control will be worked out later.
Martial law was declared at Mexia
and two precincts in Freestone county
at 5 o’clock on the morning of J nuary
11, when Brig. Gen. J. F. Wolters was
placed in command of the state troops.
State rangers were also sent to aid
the militia. Subsequently martial law
was extended to all of Freestone county
and then followed a number of sensa-
A week
ago
Governor Neff ad-
-------J couty
proposing that they either co-operate
in the enforcement of the law or else
the local government would be placed
under martial law. The citizens de-
aided that they would co-operate in
the enforcement of law and the gov-
ernor promised to lift the embargo.
the
NEW SENSATION IN
HOLLYWOOD ARISES
OVER DIVORCE SUIT
competitive armaments.
First Meeting of Statesmen.
This was the first meeting of the two
statesmen since Poincare became pre-
mier, succeeding Briand.
The French premier desired that the
meeting be held in strict privacy and re-
quested Parisian journalists not to fel-
low him to Boulogne. An attempt was
made to keep secret the meeting place,
but scores of camera men and the corre-
spondents were at the sub-prefecture
here when the premiere entered for their
conference shortly before 3 o’clock.
Lloyd-George and Poincare were | ago when Francis Spottiswoode-Aiken,
closeted for three hours. They left white-haired dean of film lands .
their advisers and experts outside, hav- character actor, sued Mrs. Avis Spottls-
ing with them only the necessary inter- woode-Aiken. The first “scandal
preters and secretaries. The ambitious bomb” to be tossed into the affair did
scheme of the British premier to have ... camioue „..,;. iuduy, muwever, wiscas
Europe renounce land armaments for Mrs. Spottiswoode-Aiken filed counter
ten years after the manner of the naval 1 ......
powers under the Hughes' plan adopted
at Washington, was thought to have
: been difficult for Poincare to accept.
The French premier can make no im-
purtant concessions involving reduction
of the French army.
Defensive Part Considered.
Although the agenda of the proposed
Woman Declares Husband
Coerced Her Into Living
With Wealthy Man.
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 25.—Holly-
wood and Los Angeles movie circles
were abuzz tonight with the latest sen-
sation to develop in the “celluloid
belt"—the Spottiswoode-Aitkin divorce.
The action was instituted six weeks
not explode until today, however, when
charges alleging her husband had co-
erced her into living with a wealthy
Santa Barbara resident so that be could
Similar suits will be filled in a few
days against former officers who col-
lected and retained fees which the
county holds should have been turned
back to the county treasury.
Three Fee Bills rassed.
To suits were filed against the fol-
lowing for the amounts stated: Jack
Burke, county clerk, $1,314.08; Tom J.
Newton, county attorney , $19,056.79;
Osceola Archer, district clerk, $11,-
722.46; John Tobin, sheriff, $6,164.04;
B. Neil Campbell, justice of the peace,
5739051 Trainer, constable Hi. inte Dr. George T. shrady, was one of the attending physicians upon General ideas.” And that consequently, they
peace 3500.81 • John’ X Bitter Coulte Grant when that famous ex-president died at Mount McGregor. Above is a would “lose soldier votes."
peecen tor A BAR CALRSY closeup of the pedestal and the figure of Grant ou horseback— a pose that will , The farm bloc letter, while profess-
7 X < ^ s-neians Susuistus will readily be recognized. The inset is a likeness of the sculptor. The un- ing to scare bonus advocates away from
**=*-,=tin veung will take Vince on April 27.______________________then EL" a-zm
fees which they collected. Out of hiswould put many representatives in an
salary and fees a county officer was ex-
peeled to pay for his help and keep the
rest.
That year, however, a law was passed
by the Legislature which allowed tor a
percentage uf the fees to be turned back
g to the county treasury. In 1913 an-
‘other statute was adopted which fixed
the fees to be collected with a certain
percentage to be turned back. The
Thirty-sixth Legislature in 1917 passed Charles Culberson his seat in the
the present fee law which provides that United States Senate
in no case may a county officer receive
The newest addition to the notable statues which belp make beautiful. - — — — ,.---
the national capital is the work of Henry Merwin Shrady, whose father, the that it fails to meet "American Legior
late Dr. George F. Shrady, was one of the attending phy sir ians upon General idear,” hes ----------4 .
Grant when that famous ex-president died at Mount McGregor.
THOMAS ENTERS RACE DENISON OFFICERS
Dallas Man Opens Campaign Against
Senator Culberson.
Valley Mills, Tex., Feb. 25—Cullen
HOLD SIX PERSONS
AS BANDIT SUSPECTS
would put many representatives in au
embarrassing situation and would mean
their defeat if they voted for it. At
the same time a vote against the bonus
would kill them, they have said. And
that is the answer behind the latest
switch against the sales tax, accord-
ing to men in the movement.
F. Thomas, of Dallas, was tonight off
on his race to win
from Senator
Thomas was received here enthusi-
astically despite the bad weather. A
extort money from him.
The couple have three children, noted
for their beauty.
Spottiswoode-Aiken some months ago
rescued his babies when his home at
Athens-on-the-Hill was destroyed by
five.
more than a stipulated sum. i
The county bulds in its suits filed crowd of more than 1000 was gathered
Saturday that this last statute, which at the station to meet his train which
lays down a maximum sum to be re-1 pulled in shortly after noon.
ceived by the county officers, precludesThree times this number gathered
them from retaining any fees in excess at the barbecue to listen to Thomas
of the amount allowed them by the address with which he opened the cam-
paign, Many of his supporters had
come from neighboring towns to hear
Four Men and Two Women
Are Charged With Auto-
mobile Theft.
state law.
Three times this number gathered
the first subject discussed by the pre-
miers, it was believed that the question
of an Anglo-French defensive pact waa
not omitted.
In France it is felt that an accord
providing for joint military action in
event of German aggression will do
more than anything else toward stabil-
ising conditions in Europe. French po-
litical observers believe European ques-
tions for many years to come would be
beneficially influenced by such a pact.
It was hoped at the quai d’Orsay that
Poincare would be able to "come back
with the compact in his pocket’" with-
out having made the concessions which
Lloyd-George demanded of Briand. The
treaty as proposed by the British pre-
mier at Cannes, was undesirable from
the French point of view, and the condi-
tions were considered unacceptable.
Objection Is Four-fold.
French objection to Lloyd George’s
draft of a defensive pact was four-fold.
It was for too short a period— ten years.
It failed to specify what “unprovoked
aggression" on the part of Germany
meant. It did not specify the nature of
the aid to be given France if she were
attacked. It did not provide for recipro-
cal protection.
The French looked to Poincare to pre-
tional information as to the actress
named in Fields' “confession” as the
murderer of Taylor, Sheriff Irvin J.
Coffin has wired Los Angeles authori- ...............,„ .... .ue csuurgo. t-.cctuc.t ... ...... ,___..... ... ,..
ties asking that they promise the dope General Wolters had also recommenu- i vacy of the meeting at the channel port
fiend immunity from capital punish- led that martial law be lifted in the today was especially sought by Poin-
went for parts he maintained in the “
movie director’s death.
"I expect to do a prison stretch for
my port in the mess but I won't hang,"
were Fields’ final words to his ques-
Mexia precinct.
tioners tonight.
SLAYER MAY BE INSANE
Kansas Man Decapitates Mother, Then
Kills His Brother.
Burlington, Kan., Feb. 25.—Berry
Wrinkler, farmer-bachelor near Wav-
erly, alleged to have decapitated is
95-year-old mother and then killed
his brother, 70 years old, today was
held for a probate court hearing on an
insanity charge here tonight.
The bodies of the two aged people
were found terribly mutilated. Both
of the brother’s legs had been ampu-
tated.
Furniture in the house was found
broken and demolished and piled on
top of the bodies. Wrinkler was found
wandering about the place.
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Boy Is Killed by Automobile.
Fort Arthur, Tex., Feb. 25.—J. F.
Legate died late tonight at a local hos-
pital as the result of injuries r eived
when he was knocked down by an au-
tomobile at 8 o’clock tonight. J. F.
Rayburn, driver of the car, reported to
the police station promptly, claiming
the accident was unavoidable. The
boy’s skull was fractured. He was 16
years old.
4 + 4
Injuries Fatal to Beaumont Man.
Beaumont, Tex., Feb. 23 — H. C.
Steinhagen, 65, father of M. B. Stein
hagen of Beaumont, died late today fol
lowing injuries received at a local rice
mill yesterday afternoon. He fell
s«. tri a belt and in the accident the 1
tendens of his neck were ent and one 1
arm broken. Funeral arrangements
have not been made.
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A year ago the wife figured in a sen-
sational attempt at suicide by drinking _ .
poison in a drug store at Sixth and | holders could receive more than
Broadway in the heart of Los Angeles.
The Santa Barbara incident is only
one of several assertions contained in
Mrs. Spottiswoode-Aiken’s startling
cross complaint.
DEPUTY IS INDICTED
Officer From W horn Negro Was Tak-
en, Charged With Murder.
Texarkana, Tex., Feb. 25.—Sitting
at Boston yesterday, the Bowie county
grand jury indicted Deputy Sheriff
Will Jordan and Joe Johnson, both
Texarkana men, charging them with
the murder of P. Norman, the negro
prisoner who was reported as having
been taken from the custody of Jor-
dan by four masked men and lynched
near Spring Lake Park, two miles
north of here, on the night of Febru-
ary 11. Jordan was arrested this aft-
ernoon, but later released on $3000
hail by Judge P. A. Turner, Johnson
is out of town, but is expected to be
arrested on his return tonight.
-----------------------------Norman was charged with a misde-
vail upon Lloyd -George during their meanor and Jordan was bringing him
here from a neighboring town when the
killing took place.
meeting at Boulogne to accept French
amendments on these points. The pri-
care in order that these differences
might be ironed out without publicity
being given any concessions he might be
forced to make.
THREAT IS RECEIVED
Woman Who Killed Herself Told In-
visible Eyes Were Upon Her.
Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 25.—Invests-
gation of the death of Mrs. Ida Har-
rell tonight revealed that she had re-
ceived u note which declared “invisi-
ble eyes are ou you."
Mrs. Harrell was found dead short-
' ly after she was arrested in coui.ee
; tion with the theft of $140 from a
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East Texas: Sunday cloudy, with local
rains, warmer; Monday partly cloudy,
West Texas; Sunday and Monday gen-
erally lair.
HOME WEATHIEN FOR TOURISTS.
Chleage: Temperature, 32; clear, leas
than 10-mile wind from the southwest:
lowest temperature In thy last 24 hours,
24: highest, 11.
Kansas City: Temperature, 36; Clear:
less than 10-mile wind from the north-
east; lowest temperature in the last 24
hours, 22, highest. It.
New York: Temperature, 42; clear 12-
mile wind from the south; lowest tem-
pereture la the last 24 hours, 24; high-
ret. 41.
St. Louis: Temperature, 40; partly
eloudy: less than 10-mile wind from the
southeast; lowest temperature in the last
24 hours, 28; highest, tl.
Washington: Temperature, tl; clear;
lens, than 10-mile wind from the south;
lowest temperature In the last 24 hours
II; highest, 48.
room in the St. Regis hotel, which she
operated.
A three page reply to the “invisible
eyes" note, and a thirteen-page "fare-
well" were alleged to have been found
A sister arrived from Hillsboro to take
charge of the body which was sent to
Irene, Texas,
MAYFIELD OPENS FIGHT
Railroad Commission Starts Senatorial
Campaign at Waxahachie.
Waxahachie, Tex., Feb. 35.—Ellis
county citizens gathered in Waxaha-
chie today to hear the Honorable Earl
B. Mayfield, atate railroad commis-
sioner, deliver his formal openin ad
dress In the campaign for United
States Senator.
When Mr. Mayfield arrived here
from Dallas he was met by a large re-
ception committee and entertained at a
local hotel. At 10 o'clock this morn-
ing he delivered a short address to
the student body at Trinity University
His address, opening the senatorial
campaign, was delivered at 2:30 this
afternoon.
HOUSTON MAN KILLED
Brother-in-law of Victim Surrenders
Following Shooting.
Houston, Tex., Feb. 25.—Charlie Grif-
fith, 32, was shot five times and killed
almost instantly here tonight.
Willie Williamson, 35, Griffith’s
brother-in-law, surrendered to police af-
terward.
“I had to do it," Williamson told
newspaper men, after the shooting. The
shooting was the result of eight years
of trouble between Williamson and Grif-
fith over Williamson’s wife, according
to Williamson.
During the shooting, which was
staged in the hall of the Williamson
home, Mrs. Williamson was in bed, in
a room a few feet away, with an eleven-
day-old child.
Thousand Cars Pass
Downtown Corner in
Every Hour of Eight
Business is good at West Com-
merer and St. Mary’s streets.
Carl Volz, traffic policeman, stop-
ped in a hardware store Saturday
morning and bought a hand indicator
registering up to 1000—just for cur-
iosity. Saturday be kept a tally uf
traffic at his post, while on duty
from 7 a. m. until hr reported off
duty at 3 o’clock that afternoon.
Every time an automobile passed him
he clicked the indicator. When the
day's work was over he took inven-
torr. Eight thousand and ten auto-
mobiles crossed his corner during
those hours,
"Some traffic," the , stop-and-go
direc tor pronounced at headquarters,
“and a cold and drizzling day, too.’
Officers Claim Right to Fees. j
The legislative trend has been to cut him.: 1 here were many women at the
down every avenue by 1
that, .
maximum, the county holds, and be-streets of the city in a motor truck im-
lieves that the amounts mentioned in I mediately after bis arrival. The pa-
rade ended at the warehouse where the
barbecue and speeches followed.
Although the Waco band was delayed
because of the condition of the roads,
it arrived as dinner was being served
and started in to make up for lost
time.
which office meeting.
Thomas led a parade through
the suits should be turned back to the
county.
The county officers claim that the
fee bill passed by the Thirty-sixth Leg-
islature does not repeal the ether fee
bills which allowed them to keep a per-
centage of all fees collected and that'
the wording of the last fee bill wherein 1 —- - _
it sets .maximum implies that it refers (Mens X^^e^
only to the particular chapter in which
the maximum ia set.
This is the first suit ever filed in
Texas testing the law and is being
watched with a great deal of interest.
An early setting will be asked for by
the plaintiff. The county commission
has employed the law firm of Terrell,
Davis, Huff & McMillan to represent
them in the suit.
The October grand jury suggested
such suits be filed and County Attor-
ney Newton, in a communication some
weeks ago reiterated the suggestion.
OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR
PROMISES STATEMENT
ON OKMULGEE AFFAIR
"I Won’t Be Indicted,” Rob-
ertson Declares in
Interview.
the
R. G. Knowling presided at the bar-
made
short talks, pledging themselves
back Thomas.
to
A large party from Dallas and Fort
Worth accompanied Thomas.
PREACHER HAS LIQUOR
Prisoner Declares Holdup Men Forced
Him to Carry Whiskey.
Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 25. Joe
Seantlin’s story of why he was travel-
ing in an automobile accompanied by
seventeen gallons of “corn" didn't sat-
isfy the police. He is now under a
$500 bond with a charge of transport-
ing liquor filed in the federal court.
Seantlin said he was a Baptist
preacher.
Seantlin told the officers he was on
his way home from church when three
men held him up at the point of a gun
and ordered him to “take the liquor
and drive north" until they met him.
Police met him before he drove far
enough north.
Denison, Tex., Feb. 25.—A “tip" on
a stolen automobile lead to the round-
ing up of four men and two women
here. They are believed to be mem-
bers of a gang of bank robbers which
has operated in this section of the state
for several weeks.
In the house where the sextette was
arrested, was found complete sets of
burglar tools, sawed off shot guns, caps
and fuses and electrical curds and flash
lights.
A sack of pennies, said to be part of
the loot obtained by the bandits who
blew the sale of the Ravenna, Tex.,
hank last Wednesday, was found in un
automobile in a garage behind the house.
A gunny sack with several hundred
dollars in silver was also found buried
underneath an outhouse. This money
is believed to have been stolen from
the Weston, Tex., bank Friday,
The automobile in which the pennies
were found was identified as one stolen
here several weeks ago. It was a tip
officers received of this car that led
to tiie arrests.
Pistols identified as those stolen from
the Ravenna bank were also found. A
large stock of groceries and a closet
full of new and unused women’s and
men’s wearing apparel were discovered.
The six under arrest refused to com-
ment. A charge of automobile theft
has been filed against them. The as-
sistant county attorney declared other
charges would be filed Monday.
Would Let Treasury Pay.
Such is the atmosphere surrounding
the bonus. Its proponents have now
reached the stage where they are fig-
uring on a bill without a specific
means of raising the money. Instead
they would simply give an authoriza-
tion to the treasury to pay the bonus
out of available funds there, or from
proceeds of available securities (mean-
ing British bonds when they come).
The Frear letter argued that the sales
tax would make soldiers themselves
help pay their gratuity and would be
slow in coming into effect, compared
to the bonds.
Frear holds that $125,000,000 semi-
annual British interest will be avail-
able June 1.
Opposes Obnoxious Taxes.
“The bony ." says the letter, “should
be passed without any obnoxious tax
and should be passed without delay.”
An analysis of the United State*
Chamber of Commerce bonus poll
shows a big majority against any cash
bonus desuite American Legion cam-
paigns for it. In the East, only Ver-
mont and Massachusetts voted for the
bonus, while in the West, such states
as Texas, Utah. Arkansas, Idaho, Mon-
tana, and California showed majori-
ties against the bonus.
WILL WAIVE HEARING
KU KLUX CHALLENGED
Oklahoma City, Okla., Feb. 25.—"I
won’t be indicted—I have done noth-
ing to be indicted for,” Governor J. B.
A. Robertson declared here tonight
when interviewed in connection with
the grand jury probe of bank failures
in Okmulgee county.
- Robertson returned here tonight from
a two weeks’ trip with an Oklahoma
party into Mexico.
Other than the brief statement, Rob-
ertscn refused to discuss the Okmul-
Can a Woman
Love a Coward?
SHE was the pretty daughter of a
wealthy engineer. HE was the
young engineer upon whom she had
been asked to keep an eye by her
father, who had detailed him to an |
almost hopeless task in Cuba so as
to awaken his flagging ambitien.
HE had confessed himself "arrail
1 j-__i of taking a long chance.” Wh-n
perior Judge Christopher. He promised I his deadliest opponent disdainfully
to issue a statement oon both tomorrow. 1 cut him with his riding whip while
SHE looked on, be merely turned
his back and walked away.
Was he a coward? Or was he sim- i
gee situation or the resignation of Su-
Mart Minister Invites Klansmen to Tell
What Order Stands For.
Mart, Tex., Feb .25.—The Methodist
pastor at Mart, Rev. J. W. Mayne,
has challenged the Ku Klux Klan to
tell in his church what the Klau stands
for, whether for mob violence or for
law and order. And the challenge has
been accepted.
The Methodist pastor published the
ehiallenge in the Mart paper Thursday.
Friday he received a letter of acceptance
saying that a representative of the or-
der would be present at the time desig-
evening, which will probably be Sunday
evening, March 12. The invitation was
first issued for Sunday night, February
26, but was postponed on account uf
the inclement weather.
The klan speaker will appear at the
service, which has been designated a
law and order program, and announced
as a "Mystery Service.”
Case of Girl Charged With Killing Al-
leged Betrayer Creates Interest.
Waco, Tex., Feb. 25.—Hundreds of
curious persons today visited the county
courthouse here to see the spot where
Marcie Matthews shot her alleged be-
trayer to death.
In the meantime Marcie and her
counsel had decided to play a waiting
game. According to present plans when
the preliminary hearing is called at 10
o’clock Tuesday morning, Tom Hamil-
ton, Marcie’s attorney, will waive his
right to the hearing. The case will then
go to the March grand jury, which
meets in two weeks.
The many friends of the girl here
declare that the grand jury will not
return an indictment. Others assert
that the grand jury will be technically
forced to indict her, but that it will be
a mere formality. In the meantime the
state was preparing its case.
Records of the first trial of J. C.
Crosslin, the alleged betrayer, were
brought to light today. At this trial
Crosslin was sentenced to nine years
for the alleged assault on Marcie. The
case waa later remanded on a techni-
cality. ___
PLOT IS SUSPECTED
after, be said, he had an opportunity 1
to talk with friends.
Declining to make a statement to-
night, Robertson pleaded be was not in 1
touch with things in the state because
of bis absence.
PROBE BANK FAILURES
Grand Jury Investigation Will Start
in Okmulgee, Okla., Monday,
Oklahoma City, Okla, Feb. 25— Eyes
of Oklahomans were turned toward Ok-
mulgee where a grand jury tonight is
preparing to assemble in District Judge
Bozarth’s court Monday to investigate
state bank failures of that county.
The probe will be the second, the
first—undertaken by the superior court
— being halted when Judge II. H. Chris-
topher held the jury had been drawn
illegally after it had prepared 21 in
dictments involving high state officials.
County Attorney Hepburn tonight
«ald the same evidence as given the
Christopher jury will be given the dis-
trict court.
ply a strong man who controlled
himself in order not to be turned
from the big task ahead of him con-
fident that in the end he wouldi win ,
the heart of the girl he loved?
The Answer is Given in
"Dreams Afire”
By Loring Brent.
A fascinating-story of love and In-
trigue, of the matching of American
wit and enurage against Latin eun-
ning and duplicity, which will be
published.
Complete in Sir Installments.
Beginning Monday, February 27, and
ending Saturday. March 4.
In The
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
Be sure to get THE LIGHT Mon-
day in order not to miss thia ab-
sorbing tale.
GRAIN ALCOHOL SEIZED
Raids Net Officers 100,000 Galicia
Intended for Bootleggers.
Chicago, Feb. 25.—Federal authori-
ties tonight instructed prohibition
agents in cities over the middle west
to dam up the deluge of grain alcohol,
out of which bootleg whiskey is made.
Ned J. Burns, who was arrested
here following raids in Chicago and
Ohio cities, in which 100,000 s ons
of alcohol were seized, was quizzed in
attempts to get additional detaila of
rum plots.
Burns said he represented the Con-
solidated Drug Company of Columbus,
Ohio. Federal agents stated the alco-
hol was purchased from the government
to be denatured, but instead, the con-
cern tried to sell it to saloonists.
One carload of alecbol waa seized
in each of the following cities:
Chicago, Wheeling, W. Va., Cleve-
land, and Covington, ky.
Dynamite Blast Believed to Be Due to
Labor Troubles.
Chicago. Feb. 25.—The explosion of
50 tons of dynamite which caused $1,-
000,000 damage to a quarry of the Con-
sumers Company at McCook, III., was
the result of a plot, R. M. Perbohner,
state fire marshal, charged •. night.
Perbohner intimated the blast was
the result of labor troubles. The offi-
cial and residents of McCook saw lights
moving in the direction of the quarry,
an hour before the explosion last night.
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CORN MASH EXPLODES
Police Find Large stun and Whiskey
In Kansas City Home.
Kansas City, Mo.. Feb. 25.—An ex-
plosion heard several blocks and which
was followed by fire brought hundreds
crowding about a house on East Tenth
street late today.
Police and firemen found a large cop-
per still, 20 barrels of mash and RF-
eral glass jugs of corn whiskey on the
second floor.
Fumes from the mash, ignited by
fire under the still, was said to have
caused the explosion which all Lut
wrecked the place.
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