San Antonio Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 288, Ed. 1 Monday, October 18, 1920 Page: 16 of 16
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SAN ANTONIO FYPRESS: MONDAY MORNING OCTOBER is, »920.
MORTGAGE LOANS
On Improved City Property, Farms
and Ranches
Investments Made for Individuals
e. B. CHANDLER
THRIFT
Self Protection
demands that you SAVE MONEY today, to live on when yotir income
stops! »
Start your first SELF-PROTECTION DOLLARS working now, by
depositing them at Our Savings Department at 4.38% intereitt.
The mote dollars you set working the more SELF-PROTECTION
you have.
THE SAN ANTONIO LOAN & TRUST CO
(Incorporated 1892 Without Banking Privileges)
215 W. Commerce St.
GROWTH
The growth of this Bank is not due to Luck nor
Favor. It is very largely due to our Depositors. It
is due to the fact that it has been our aim to mal;e
this Bank all that a Bank ought to be.
We solicit your account and assure you of the best
possible service.
Total Resources Over EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS.
■ros^National^Ban k
OF
SAN ANTONIO
SAN ANTONIO NATIONAL EIANK
CHARTERED 1866
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF THE UNITED SlikTES.
DIRECTORS:
F. Herff, President
M. E. Brackenridge
Walter Nolte
Floyd McGown
G. A. Duerler Sr.
HIGH GRADE 7% INVESTMENTS
If you are looking for loans that will pay a substantial und steady in-
romr, that arc free from rare and worry, where the moral risk in exrellent,
and where the aeeority In solid and dependable, we can usually furnish
•hem in multiples of 91,00(1 Jo net 7%, payable semi-annually. Collections
and remittances made without charge.
TERRELL & TERRELL
STOCKS AND BONDS
LIBERTY AND VICTORY BONDS
STAGE IS SET FOR
THREE-DAY EXHIBIT WILL BE-
GIN THIS AFTERNOON AT
CAMP TRAVIS.
Horsemen and motorists are all set for
the staging of the 2nd Division Horse
and Motor Show of 1920 this afternoon
at 2 o'clock in the Camp Travis stadium.
The show will extend through Wednes-
day. , , ,
Lieut. Col. Frank I\ Adams, who is in
charge of the show, has made arrange-
ments to take care of an attendance of
10.000 persons. Bleachers have been erect-
ed on the east side of the grounds and
booths for automobiles to be entered by
San Antonio dealers have been construct-
ed.
One of the best showings of fine breed
horses anil what they can do with good
riders astride them will i»e witnessed
when the big event opens this afternoon.
Intended participants are confident it will
Ik? the biggest event of the year. More
than 100 of the army's best equestrians
will give exhlblitons of fancy riding.
Men and Women to Tak^ Part.
Roth men and women will take part
in the contests. Among the former will
be MaJ. Gen James <1 Harbord, com-
manding the 2nd Division, with his favor-
ite mount, "Sandy McO.ee."
Women from the army posts as well
as from the city are entered. The wom-
en's jumping class starts at 4:2."» o'clock
and is one of tho features of the show.
There also will be another riding class
for women over three and a half foot
obstacles. An obstacle jump is scheduled
for the officers' mounts.
The automobiles will have their time
when they parade around the ring each
day after the riding events. Practically
every kind of automobile sold in the city
will be on exhibition at the show in the
different booths There will bp a tire
changing competition in which a number
of entries have been made.
Trophies on Display.
Winners in the different events have in
store for them more than 30 cups and
trophies now on display at Joske's. Flags
and other decorations have been placed
on grand stands and emblems of the dif-
ferent organisations of the division are
to be seen around the stadium
Judges and officials are all ready for
the contests Final details of the con-
tests were arranged at a meeting of Col 1
Adams and his assistants yesterday morn-
ing. It is planned ,to make the horse
and motor show an annual affair.
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Original Prices and Values Guaranteed—Otherwise Your Choice of the House Free of Charge.
Exactly Half Price
TWELVE HUNDRED ALL WOOL SUITS
It's been five years since you have gazed on anything like this, but you know Ransom & Silsbee were the
first merchants in San Antonio to ever have a half-price clothing sale. That was in March 1908 We sold
one hundred and thirty suits the first day. These suits we offer now are not heavyweights, but all have vtsts
and nearly all of them will be comfortable in San Antonio the year around.
We offered the manufacturers half price and they accepted.
Seven hundred new Suits and five hundred from our regular stock.
Here are the prices'
$30 Suits now $15.00
$35 Suits now $17.50
$40 Suits now $20.00
$45 Suits now $22.50
$50 Suits now $25.00
Ransom & Silshce never carry over anything if (he replacement price is an\ •
ways near right.
$55 Suits now
$60 Suits now
$65 Suits now
$70 Suits now
$75 Suits now
$27.50
$30.00
$32.50
$35.00
$37.50
. MEN'S
OUTFITTERS
Ran com
jtOilsbee
TWO CONVENIENT STORES
Dr. Adolph Herff
Thos. H. Fmnk'.in
LeriJy G. Dlnman
T. D. Anderion, Cashier
A Bank's best asset is its record of service to itn customers, based
on sound business principles
AUTOMOBILE LEAGUERS MAY ES-
TABLISH LOBBY TO SECURE
CLEARER STATUTES.
MONEY TO LEND
An Old Line Life Insurance Company has jui-t plated an order
with us for approximately one-quarter million dollars in good farm
mortgages While the funds are available, make aSplication to us at
once for the money you will need to borrow on your farms.
WIMER-RICHARDSON & COMPANY
1101-6 Central Trust Building.
A Mortgage House of Responsibility and Service,
San Antonio, Texas.
There will be many changes and amend-
ments made in both the Highway Com-
mission Law and in several sections of
the law applying to motor vehicles if
the plana ot the automobile owners' or-
ganizations in Texas are carried out, ac-
cording to Secretary Jack Edgecombe of
the Sau Antonio Automobile League.
"The criminal laws applying to theft
in regard to automobiles have proven to
be inadequate," Mr. Edgecombe declares.
The hands of the prosecuting attorneys
of Texas are tied by the laws on evi-
dence. The technicalities of the law now
provide many avenues of escape for the
automobile thief, which cannot l>e reme-
died without necessury Amendments.
Want Terms Defined.
"There is no proper definition of the
meaning: of the word "chauffeur/' nor
is there an exact meaning of what con-
stitutes a -glaring headlight." The speed
law is without certainty in expression
and definition. The law applying to
license number is due for a change so
that the new series of numbers can be
supplied at stated periods in order to
stop multiplicity of public records and
the inconvenience of long numbers.
"There Is every probability that there
will be appointed at the next session
of the Legislature a "Motor Vehicle Com-
! m it tee" consisting of representatives of
i both owners and dealers, so that this
rapidly increasing motor vehicle traffic
may be given the benefit of expert knowl-
edge of men who know what is practical
and fair in relation to motor vehicle regu-
lating
ditknal cities that have applied for char-
ters and are planning to organize u local
chapter in the next six weeks. With this
activity MaJ. Gen. Harries, national com-
mander of the organization, expects to
have at least 20,000 members before the
i.ew year.
The chapters already organized are be-
ing sent copies of the new constitution
and by-laws adopted at the first annual
convention of the organization, held in
Detroit in September, and they will adopt
a constitution and by-laws along the line
of the one adopted by the uationai coti-
llon.
PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN
. RAILWAY STOCK GROWS
I. c. c. Grant of Rate Advance Boosts
Quotations on Leading Trunk
Line Securities.
VI CI TO START
EFORF
PLANS CONTEMPLATE EMPLOYING
OF AMERICANIZATION SECRE-
TARY FOR MEXICAN BOYS.
THOS. G. LEIGHTON
HlW-810 Alamo National flank Building
ban Antonio, Trias
.. onld Make Numbers Thief Proof.
The identification card system in some
fo«m or other will be applied to the
present registration law, so that it will'
be Impossible for a thief to secure num-
bers for stolen cars, or to sell them with-
out detection.
"The laws ot California and Colorado
provide for this identification card, with-
out which the driver has to prove that
he is the owner of the car he is driving
bv personal identification. For years the
California Motor Club failed to realize
the absolute valuQ of enforcement of traf-
fic law for the benefit of its members.
Now that organization is one of the prin-
ciple factors in law enforcement in that
.state with the result that motorists are
protected in every possible way and at
the same time the public safety is pre-
served
The question of the possibility of pro-
viding special highway traffic officers on
State Highways in now being investigated
by the San Antonio Automobile League.
LOCAL STUDENTS WHO SERVED
IN WAR WILL BE ORGANIZED
WILL ASK GOVERNMENT RATES
ON INSURANCE BE DECREASED
American Legion Quotes Officials Say-
ing Dividends Will Be Declared If
Present Premiums Continued.
Texas pos's of the American Legion will
join the national organization in asking the
I nited States Government to reduce the
premiums clerged on war risk insurance.
Pear tue cost of (he disability feature of
the insurance and pay the mortality loss
cccasioned by injury and disease resulting
from military .service, according to in-
formation > received by San Antonio legion
men yesterdt y.
The legion asks that the Government,
in view of a statement of the war risk
officials that dividends, which will be
eventually declared will materially re-
duce the cost of insurance, shows its good
faith by slicing the premium immediate-
ly.
The Bureau of War Risk Insurance, in
its literature sta.es that "no additional
charge will be made tor the total per
mancnt Usability feature. "The original
war risk insurance act of 1017. agreed
that "the United States shall bear the
excess mortality < ost resulting from the
hazards of war. " As fir ns temporary
term insurance is concerned, the ideas
above named have been carried out, but
this is not being done with regard to the I
permanent forms into which the bureau I
is urging that the men convert the r in
surance. Total permanent disability claims
are paid out of premium funds. The leg-
ion feels that disabled men must be given
the benefits of insurance and that neither
ihey nor their more fortunate comrades
should l>e obliged to carry this excess
b ad which properly belongs to the Gov
Anment
MEXICAN DELICATESSEN
There is a Mexican delicatessen in town,
where you can get all kinds of Mexican
dishes to take home. It is back in
the kitchen at the famous La Casa del Rio.
Mexican Cafe, downstairs in the Gunter
Office lildg. (Adv.)
O
Wall paper and decorations for your
home. Fred Hummert. 204-200 West Com
merce Street. (Adv.)
Fire-Proof Vault Doors
\ jrious styles, from the plainest up to the most magnificently finished, made right
tii Sau Antonio. Let u« quote on your requirements,
SOUTHERN STEEL COMPANY
I BLOCK D:UTH FUESA. SAX ANTONIO. TEXAS.
PHONE MISSION 40.
Men Who Served as Commissioned Of-
ficers in Any Branch of Service
Eligible in Military Order.
San Antonio schools and colleges that
were represented in the commissioned
forces of the army, navy and marine corps
will be requested soon to send names and
addresses oi their graduates and students
who served in the war to the Military or-
der of the World War. headquarters 204
Buhl Building, Detroit. Mich., according
to information received from the organiza-
tion here >«sterday.
Thn first big drive for members in the
Military Order of the World War will
Vtart among the graduates and students
of Yale Co lb ge who served as officers in
the army i avy and marine corps during
the World War. Vale Is proud of the
record made by the students and graduates
during the late unplasantness, and this
educational institution has the right to
be proud.
No less than 5.000 students and gradu-
ates accepted commissions and served in
'be armv, nny nnd marine corps, and
the names of these 5.000 have been fur-
nished the national headquarters of the
Military order of the World Var. Kvery
one of the former officers will !>e sent
application blanks with a request that
they become members of th» only officers'
organization organized since the Civil
War when the Loyal Legion was organ-
ised, . ,,
It 1m planned to follow up these mail re-
quests bv personal solicitation from form-
er comrades in school and at the front.
Greek societies will 1h» asked to nresent
ihis matter to their members, r.nd every
source possible will be used to swell the
membership of this officer organization
so that It will stand second to tb*» Amer-
ican Legion in point of numbers.
There are at present 100 chapters of the
Military pftlet »1 the World War In C.ls
country and there are more than 100 ad-
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—The Railway Age. in
its current issue calls attention to the sub-
stantial increases in tho prices of railway
bonds i. nd stocks, especially the latter,
which have occurred since the Interstate
Commerce Commission rendered its deci-
sion granting large advances in rates. The
facts show, the Railway Age says, that
public confidence in railway securities as
investments has been greatly Increased by
the passage of the transportation act and
the rate decision of the commission, it
shows that when tho transportation act
was passed last February prices of rail-
way securities were very low. They did
not increase substantially either immedi-
ately after the bill was passed or after It
was signed by President Wilson.
"Developments indicated," says the Rail-
way Age. ••tluit investors were 'fiom Mis-
souri,' aud after all the years of unwise
and i nfair regulation had to be shown"
that there wu;: really going to be a
change im.de In the Government's policy
of dealing with the railways. Since the
rate advance decision was rendered on
.Inly HI, railway securities have lost their
sluggishness and have* pretty steadily ad-
vanced in price. There also has been a
large Increase in the number bought and
sold on the New York Stock Exchange."
The Railway Age gives the following
figures showing the increases which have
occurred between July ot) and October 0 in
the prices of th" stocks of a number of
important railroads:
Low price
,1 uly M. ll>20
day before Close week
rate increase ending
Railroads was announced Oct. 9. 1920
A., T. & S. F 79% 88
Atlantic Coast Line .. 85 99*4
Baltimore & Ohio 31 Vs Ww
Illinois Central S3 95
C., M. & St. 1J 32Mi 40Vs
C\, R. I. & P 34Vs 38
N. Y. Central GTVj 79%
Norfolk & Western 88 ft 101
Northern I'a<iflc 70* 89
Southern Pacific 89ft 99
Southern Railway 27 31%
Union Pacific 114% 120%
"The average nigh mark reached in 1916
J by the steels of the 12 trunk line rail-
ways selected for comparison was 1104.
I The average price of the same stocks the
day before the rate advance decision was
I rendered was *07. while the average price
; the week ending October was $78, an av-
I erage inc rease since the rate advance case
was decided of $11 a share, or over 1#
! per cent.
| In difference betweei tirjees o
1910 and 1920 is large, and with the aver-
age of the stocks of these companies only
I |78, and with only three of them selling
I at practically par or better, it is evi-
. dent that these companies could not at
present do much financing by the sale
1 of stocks. On the other hand, the in-
» crease in prices which has occurred since
| the end of July is large enough to be by
no means disc ouraging, especially In view
of the conditions under which it took
! place.
"On the whole, the figures show that
the rate advance decision of the Interstate
Commerce Commission has had a strong
tendency to increase the confidence of
investors in railway securities. If the
net returns earned by the companies ou
the new rates prove to be as large as the
commission estimated when It rendereu
its decision, the advance In the prices of
railway securities should be continued, and
si.ch advance is necessary to enable the
railways i<» raise the capital required to
increase their facilities.
While under conditions of grear
eral business activity and prosperity most
railways cannot hope to earn and pay as
large returns as the more* successful In-
dustrial companies, the rate making pro-
visions of the transportation act should
have the effect of making the returns
which the railways will earn much less
uncertain than the returns of industrial
concerns. Certainty of return is quite as
attrac tive to many investors ss the q>os-
sibilltv of large returns when business
Is good obtained at the risk of receiving
only small returns when business Is bad.
BK1GHTKN UP VOI R HOME
with Harrison Bros.' Town and Country
Paint from Fred Hummert. 204-206 West
Commerce. (Adv.)
Notice to Public—Plumbers are now
charging *2 per hour for repair work
Our rate is $1.U0 per hour. Open Shop
Plumbing Co.. Inc., Travis 4220. (Adv.)
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Fred Hummert. 204-8 West Commerce—
wall paper and window glass—painter'*
sud papcrhanger's supplies.-— (Adv.)
In order to meet- a deficit of $30,000 in
the annual budget for the maintenance of
the City Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion in this city, a campaign to raise the
required money with which to finance the
association during the coming year will
be inaugurated at a supper to be given
at? the local "Ot" on the uight of October
23, This year's budget calls for $51,<130.
of which approximately $24,000 will be
derived from the estimated revenues of
the central department of the city associa-
tion. The balance will have to be met by
private subscriptions.
Denver Man to Take Charge.
According to the budget prepared by
W. E, Hearon, secretary of the financial
service bureau of the International com-
mittee of the V. M. C. A., who arrived from
Denver last week to take charge of the
local financial campaign, $18,000 of the
money to be raised here will be appro-
priated for the operation of the central
department. It is estimated that the re
ceipts from junior and senior member-
ships will net this department $13,200, and
that dormitory rentals will bring a reve-
nue of $0,000. It. is also estimated that
fees from the association's educational
c lasses will bring $2,0U0. and miscellaneous
revenues are estimated at $2,800.
It is planned to enlarge the program of
activities for the central department and
the budget includes an appropriation for
the employment of an additional secretary
for the boys' division. The East Side com-
munity work c%lls for an expenditure of
$4,(NX), this amount being required tc con-
tinue the association's work among the
boys in that section of the city. It is pos-
sible that a small building of the com-
munity type will be erected in the Fast
Side later. At present the association is
using church and school properties for the
carrying ou of its work in this field.
A mer iron tuition Secretary Planned.
Au appropriation of #2,300 will be made
for the employment of a secretary to con-
duct an "Americanization" program among
the Mexican boys in this city. This phase
of the association's activities will Include
U'ctures in sanitation and hygiene, kdu-
ci.tional classes will also be conducted. The
extension of the association s activities into
the Mexican boys between the ages of 12
and 18 years, recently completed by Roy
Dickersou, secretary for the international
committee. It is probable that the asso-
ciation will employ a Mexican as secretary
of this phase of its activities.
Other items in the budget include: $ 1..VM)
for the payment of old indebtedness of
the association; $500 for equipment for
the boys' division; $500 for educational
equipment: $300 for offiee equipment; $.>00
f<;r gymnasium and baths; *800 for dormi-
tory; $500 for sidewalks; $400 for an addi-
tional tennis court, and an expenditure of
$54)0 for general repairs to the central
building.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD
The above amount will be paid for
Information leading to the arrest
and conviction of any person for
stealing a copy or copies of The
Express or The Evening News from
the premises of any subscriber, or
from the premises or delivery vehicles
of the publisher. This is a stand-
ing ofler of reward. Phone Circula-
tion Department. Crockett 6*3 or
Crockett 6277.
Subscribers will confer a favor on
the publisher by reporting, through
these telephone numbers, every time
LxTkkss ^bushing COMPANY.
TO HOLI) STORY HOUK.
Curnfgle Library lo Entrrtttln Children
Twice a W
Story hour for San Antonio children will
begin at tho Carnegie Library in the nea:
future Misa Henrietta -Altgelt librarian
In charge of the i-Uldren's department, has
""shortage of workers in thin department
haw ueceaaltnted a alight delay In :hegln_
nlng the work. The hour will be held at
4 o'clock each Tuesday and Jrl<lny
noon during the winter months with Miss
Altgelt and Mlaa Eleanor Schmidt In
chsrge.
The program for the younger children
includes fairy tales, folklore and animal
stories and will be conducted by Miss
Schmidt. A series of stories including
tales of the Blue llird and Peter Pan con
stitutes the program for the older emi
dren. . .... , .
The librarian reports the children s de-
partment is in need of funds with which
to buy new books, demands of the school
children being especially large.
-Qy—
Dr. Dewey, dental diagnosis and pyor-
rhea, 801-2 Gibbs Bldg. Crockett 5000 (Adv.)
—conscientious banking
IT IS the desire of the officers of this bank not only to
offer every facility of banking, but to give customers all
possible assistance and advice in successfully conducting
their personal and business financial affairs.
This is a friendly bank.
Texas State Bank & Trust Co.
A Guaranty Fund Bank :: 335 W Commerce
!
Shelley Undertaking Co.
.JOE SHELLEY, President and Manager
Funeral Chipel— Ambulance Service—Funeral
CORNER MAIN AVENUE AND TRAVIS
PHONE CROCKETT i>71
rcwnr'Bww iHiuDHBMMnai
200 MESSES
F
TRIAL OK DIRECTORS OF DE-
FUNCT INSTITUTION TO
BEGIN TODAY.
More than 200 witnesses from all parts
of the State have been summoned to tes-
tify in the trials of three former officers
in the defunct Federal Hank & Trust Com-
pany, which are to begin In the 3ith
District Court today. George K. Cuam-
bers, president, and E. C, Noble and X#
F. Mossop, directors of the bank, are the
officers to face the court*.
Charges of accepting funds on deposit
after they were aware that the bank was
insolvent were preferred against the offi-
cers following the closing of the bank.
Indictments were returned by the grand
jury in 48 cases in 191«. Of these, orte
against* Chambers was tried in the •»'tn
District Court subsequent to the findings
of the grand jury and resulted in acquittal.
Ills defense was that he was in New lorn
at the time the deposit was made and was
unaware of the transaction.
Sixteen Indictment*.
Sixteen indictments were returned
against eac h of the three defendants. I he
cases have been continued in the court
from time to time, their last setting hav-
ing been during the special August term
of the District Court.
Among the witnesses are a large num-
ber of depositors in the bank which
said to include persons of relatively small
means who suffered serious financial set-
backs because of the failure of the in-
stitution. . , , .
The prosecution is all ready for the trial,
according to the statements of Kd Dwyer
Jr and W S. Anthony, who are to repre-
sent the District Attorney's office.
Other Cases Set.
Routine business will occupy the atten-
tion of the other district courts, jury
cases being heard in three. In the
45th the suit of Ysida Leyja against the
Medina Valley Irrigation Company for
damages for Injuries alleged to have bee I
received when the plaintiff, a minor, was
thrown from a wagon alleged to have be-
longed to the company at the site of the
dam. is expected to be brought to a close.
Special nleadings in a suit over a lease
on a soft drink stand on Military Plaza
will be heard in the f»7th District Court-.
NEGRESS BADLY SLASHED;
HUSBAND IS ARRESTED
Mattie Kerkendoll, negress, was severed
ly cut about the face and body In an af-
fray at her home, oil' Callaghan Avenue,
Sunday afternoon. Oscar Kerkeudall, hus-
band of the wounded negress, was arrested
on a charge of assault to murder.
According to n report given the police
who responded tc) the call to headquar-
ters, the negress was returning from the
home of a friend and was attacked as she
entered her yard. The cutting was done
with a razor and a pocket knife, accord-
ing to the report. The negress was taken
to the Robert B. Green Memorial Hos-
pital, where her condition is said to be
serious.
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Henry T. Phelps
architect
S19-52S HICKS BUILDING.
PHONE CUOCKiST'i ZiU.
SAN ANTONIO. Xh..X-AS.
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The better care you give your eyes,
the better the service they will give
you.
When thev pain you of feel strained
it's a sign that something is wrong with
them.
Have one of our experienced optom-
etrists examine them at once. If you
need glasses, we will prescribe the cor-
rect lenses to relieve your eye trouble.
KDW. T. JENISON OPTICAL CO.
232 E. Houston St. San Antonio, Tex.
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