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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-10
STOOD AT FRONT GATE
AFTER DARK AS IF IN
FEARED. NIGHT Alta
Had Cane Gun Which He Said He N
Have Fixed Right Away "
Does Not Know of Message Sent
Unknown Person Routon T|
Bracken Residents That He
tended to Get" Man on Trestle.

There fingerprints on the rusty automat
found in the the skeleton of Richard Routo
United States officer it stated by officer
Tuesday afternoon 1t thought that small finger line
could be when the gun first found, but close
examination has proved that they not sufficient
The number of the automatic has been sent to the
tory its sale be traced The army board of
investigation took evidence all Tuesday morning but were
not ready to report at noon.
That Warrant Officer Richard Routon slain and
thrown in Camp Bulls cave, apprehensive that his
life was sought and feared, after the alleged attempt
his life at the railroad rese that someone might
shoot him from ambush, shown in investigation
made Bracken where the officer lived for short time
before his mysterious disappearance.
Routon had spring gun concealed IN a bamboo cane
and he told friends after the attempt that he must have
it fixed Immediately broken. was learned that
Rouon stood at his front gate in the little village for sew
nights after attempt made his life and looked up
and down the road in the dark if fearing someone was
trying to "get" him.
Mrs. Routon knows of no who might have had q
grudge against her husband and said that she knew not
ing of the message Rouon reported to have sent to
mysterious person after the first attempt made on his ife
Residents of Bracken with whom Routon talked, how-
ever inclined to believe that Routon lived in fear OF
his life. g
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-10
SHOWERS ARE LIKELY
No Dominating Influence ON Weather
Map Tuesday Morning.

Tuesday night and Wednesday will
be unsettled with local rains probable,
according 20 the weather forecast.
Minimum temperatures , "Wednesday
morning will be from 81 to GO and
light to moderate easterly to souther-
ily winds will blow.
A small low pressure area is CEN
tered over Arizona and a "high" ex-
tends over the east. San Antonio was
the 80 barometric pressure line Tues
day morning at O'Clock. No .domi-
mating influence is ON the weather
map. ,- t.
Temperatures at Z o'clock show the
country normal with reports as fol-
lows: Chicago, "a: New York, 40;
Denver. 30; st. Louis, A; Jackson
vile. co., San Diego. IS; San An
tonic. 60, and San Francisco, a..
Weather stations in the South re-
ported cloudy Tuesday morning with
some raias in Texas. Maximum tenn
peratures at Texas stations Monday
were not so high as the days preced-
ing. Encinal reported So, the high
est.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-10
LENIN DYING IN MOSCOW
AND STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL
= OF RUSSIA IS UNDER WAY
Return to the Old Regime Is Impossible. Says Cor
respondent, and Several Groups Maneuver for
Control of Communist Government
When Lenin Dies -

trolled directly by the leaders are
carefully picked and are entrusted
with the safety of the chiefs OF the
state: third. the soldiers Of the state
political police, strong politically,
hand picked and made enthusiastic
deyotees of their cause by the most
intense propaganda. These are under
the control of VI. Dzierzhinsky and
their strength may give him the set
Ting vote in the choice Of Lcnin's
successor.
NJ. Dzierzhinsky is a Pole who has
revealed organizing ability equal TO
that of Trotzky. He is the sphinx
of the new Russia. He created the
cheka, the most powerful and relent-
less political police in the world. He
rescued Russia's' railways from ruin.
Merciless when his political princi-
Piles are concerned. he is yet man
of gentle ways and passionately fond
of children. Formerly men would
have said that he would certainly in
cline toward the left.
Today this is doubtful. all his &C.
tons during the last year having been
along the line of peaceful economic
development.
Probably. the communists will fight
out their difference quietly and among
themselves in order to present united
front against the world. There are,
however. many indications that the
members of the party are more in
dependent and less inclined TO accept
dictation from the leaders. Lenin's
personality held them fast but who is
to hold them when Lenin is gono has
not yet been discovered.
Officials Are Nervous.
Ii is difficult TO understand why
the authorities are so strangely ner-
,vous as though anticipating serious
Developments. Arrests recently have
been very numerous. One evening
last week IS persons were jailed, in
Guiding women who were friendly to
Americans and English. Two British
commercial men arrested recently were
held until morning when they were
released with apologies for the mis-
take. Meanwhile the rooms of one
of them had been searched.
While il has no possible cDnnec-
ton with the above. the correspond
ents own rooms were invaded in his
absence by a mysterious stranger who
took, away some trifling valuables and
left others of greater worth. He
seems to have been much more inter-
ested in studying the correspondent
papers than in looting. @ -"
A very futile attempt at a military
coup d'etat was made recently but was
wiped out by the authorities without
the peoples knowing that it had
happened. A group of officers. led
by members of the general staff,
planned to seize power in Moscow.
This was shrewd move for the en-
tire central organization of the state
is located here. The rising was plan
ned for the Tuesday following the
fifth anniversary. of the overthrow
of CARBON.
On the previous evening several
Officers were individually summoned
to the department Of military justice
A high officer told them that let
ter was Waiting them from Trotzky
which .he could not open until =
permission was given BY tel
Finally the msssage caW(
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-10

"I know no more now than I did
when it all began" Mrs. Richard
Routon. wife of Warrant Officer RousI
ton, said at her home Tuesday morns'
ing.
Mrs. Routon declared that she knew
absolutely nothing about any mes,
sage having been sent by the war;
rant officer saying, you had bettefj
make a better job. of il next time.
Such message was never sent, sne
said. and that she was still at q loss
to know where the report originated.
Mrs. Routon further said that she,
knew nothing about her husband hav<
ing stood at the front gate at his
home in Bracken for some time on
the night their car was caught in
some tar poured in the. ruts of thq
road under a railroad trestle.
Il could not tell what the man on
the bridge looked like" she. said. y
was so nervous that Richard took me
and the baby back to the house. he
said il he could have stayed there
then he could have made the man
come down." a
The warrant officer. his vile ex-
planned, always carried a gun with
him when travelling in the car, just as
most people do, but that he did not
go armed when about his work or in
town. He had a mania for guns, she
said. and had all sorts of them She
said he never had a % automatic
pistol. the kind found in the cave
with his body. but had several other
pistols and rifles. They are all at
the home, 1926 Nolan street, now,
according TO Mrs. Routon.
The walking cane gun. she said. he
always kept as a souvenir, and not as
a weapon.
So far as Mrs. Routon knew. no
one had called her husband az homo
on the night or morning before he dis
appeared. He had no business en-
gagements. but went TO town to de-
post some money and pay some bills.
He was last seen at the Dixie Fur
niture Company.
: 1T was his PLAN she said, TO 20
to the station hospital at Fort Sam
Houston, 10 have some dental work
done. proposed to 20 with him but
he thought il best that ! remain ss
home. as the work on his teeth would
be very painful and he did not Want
me to see il. BE neevr Gang w.
after that. -
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-10
WOULD FIRE PREACHER
Church Demands That He Affirm Be-
lief or Resign.

New York. April 10.-Five men To-
cally prominent in the Presbyterian
Church are preparing today TO call
upon Rev. DIR. Harry Emerson Eos
dick. special preacher of the First
Presbyterian Church. and demand that
he affirm his belief in the Westmin-
ster confession of faith.
Should he decline TO do so. the First
Presbyterian Church has been re-
quested TO sever its contract with him.
The five were named as n commit
tee for this purpose yesterday by the
Presbytery Of New York. in answer to
an overture from the Harlem, New
York. Presbyterian Church.
DIR. Fosdick, as Baptist preacher.
preaching in Presbyterian pulpit,
has been a storm center since last
May. when he preached sermon en-
titled. "Shall the Fundamentaliists
VIM,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-10
NATION MUST WORK
Transportation in Quantity Crying
Need, Vauclain Says.

st. Louis, Mo-, April 10.-The pres
cnt situation in which the country is
doing every dollars worth of business
which the transportation system can
care for. is alarming and the country
is approaching crisis, Samuel Nj.
Vauclain. president of the Baldwin
locomotive works. declared in an adj
dress here yesterday.
He departed for Dallas, Texas, last
night.
Vauclain said that business prob
lens have been distorted by demago-
CUES and efficiency men," and he ad.
vised business men TO takr charge OF
conditions.
"What is needed" he continued,
ais transportation in quantity. In. the
South and Southwest business is
mounting up, and the movement of
crops TO be expected soon will make
even greater demands on the railroads.
and the manufacturer may find him
self sitting on cake. OF ice"
He added that there is no room
for worry, but lot of room for
work,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-10
Index to Advertisers

Index to principal advertising In to-
days Light. for guidance Of shoppers:
Advertiser rage
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-10
Nv r. A. MKESZIF.
Special Cable TO the San Antonio Ign
and the Chicego Daily News.
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Special Cable TO the San Antonio Light
aad the Chicego Daily News So
Copyright. 1923.
Warsaw. April f0.-Nikolai l.enin
lies in the Kremlin at Moscow dying
and nothing but miracle can save
him. 1855.
More than once in the last anxious
weeks the physicians hastily summon
ed TO his monastically simple apart
ment have declared that he could not
live another As hours Each time he
has rallied but the end cannot be
far off.
What will happen when Lcnin is
gone? Those who anticipate no
change and those who gleefully pre-
diet the return az the old regime to
power will both be disappointed. The
old regime stands no more chance of
returning to power in Russia than
the Hanovarian kings have of ruling
over Washington. Exiled Russians
living in Paris and London and en-
couraging conspiracies in Russia, are
guilty Of criminal folly.
During Lenin's illness the govern
ment has been directed by NJ. IA
minev, Trotky's brother-in-law. He
has done much better. even on the
admission of his enemies, than anyone
expected, his training as an organic
err of big business in the days before
he adopted communism serving him
well in his present duties.
Two Groups Seek Control.
Bolshcvist difficulties will come
through differences in the. ranks of
the communist party rather than
through a reaction. The decision con-
corning Lenin's successor will be
made by committee of the com
mupist party. which is now meeting
every day. What il decides all Rus
STA must accept. Directors will have
no chance of appeal against its YER
dict for it controls the most perfect
political machine in the world and is
backed b. army, courts and execution
yards to enforce its will.
But the heads Of the communist
party are not yet fully in agreement.
IL is an open secret that, behind the
scenes, two main groups are emery
ing from the struggle for leadership.
rallying respectively around Trotzky
and NJ. Rykov. The latter, an old
rcvolutionist and formerly president
of the council of national economy,
is one of Lenin's immediate deputies.
the other two being Kaminev and
Stain. Rykov is a new member OF
the party. He creates more intense
admiration and sharper repulsion
than any other man in Russia. His
Jewish descent counts strongly against
him in the battle for leadership.
NJ. Stain is the mystery man OF
communism. A Georgian by birth,
secretary. of the communist party,
stunning publicity and working hard,
he is favored by many. He controls
the machinery Of the communist
party and his following is great. Many
believe, however. that he will prefer
to be the power behind the throne.
Red Army Is Divided.
No survey of the Russian situa-
tor. in view of the impending death
of Nikolai Lenin. can be complete
without reference to the disposition
of the red troops. Russia's military
forces are divided into three groups
first, the regular army under Trot-
zky; second, two battalions of com.
munief Kremliu cuards who are co.,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-10
IRISH CHIEF CAUGHT
Rebel Lea,isr Captured After Sustain.
tanning Serious Wound.
By The ..sociated Press.

Dublin, April f0.-Liam Lynch.
chief of staff of the Irish irregulars.
has been captured. it was cffjeial.y
announced this aftes5no
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-10
BLACK TRIES TO NAME
| ELECTION JUDGES AND
! LAW SUIT MAY FOLLOW
Iayor Vetoes Resolution Selecting
\ Election Officials and Says He
! Alone Has Appointive Power.
Would Override Will of Council But
Fails to Tell Why He Objects to Men
Named.

contest between Mayor Black and the city commls-
,r the appointment of presiding officers for the
and general election, which may eventually be
the courts, doomed Tuesday morning as the result
kyors action in vetoing resolution adopted by
sson Monday afternoon. With Mayor Pro Ten
fieffer in the chair, in the absence OF Mayor
resolution naming the election officers intro
mmissioner Phil Wright, was adopted unanl-
vas later signed and approved by Mayor Pro
eek, however notified the members Of the
day morning in writing that he had vetoed
lie gave as his reason provision In the
ne claims vests the authority of appoint
Ulcers solely in him. The contention,
both by Commissioner Pfeiffer and
with the city charter.
letter. quoting from Section IL,
the provision that such au-
shall appoint the presiding Of
FINISHES his authority. 1t was
ion calling the election.
ragraph of the same section
put he would have found this
elections after June 1, 1915:
sioners in open meeting, and
id city = =" This prov-
the naming of all election
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-10
FORMER CASHIER OF
BANK PLEADS GUILTY
TO TAKING 1917, 00c
Sentence Is Deferred in
Big Embezzling
Ss# Case. :. ,*!

Cincinnati. Ohio. April f0.-A. II.
Penfield. former cashier of the Spring
field (Ohio) National Bank, pleaded
guilty to having embezzled more than
S9T7,0O0 of the banks funds in
United states District Court here to.
day.
Sentence was deferred.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-10
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-10
WOUND IS FATAL
Man Dies From Accidental Gun
Shot. -

! Brown. restaurant owner.
est Commerce street. died at
psa hospital Monday night as
# a gunshot wound. Brown
entally shot Saturda' when
Eas playing with revolver
an thought the gun not
, 1923-11-07

ing is now $S5 per 1000 feet, and
shingles IS. Seven years ago | could
buy two plugs of Horseshoe tobacco
for the price of a bushel of wheat,
and have a dime left to go to the NOV
vie; this year l can get just one plug
of horseshoe, and if l want to go to
the picture show it costs me a quarter.
They say that we have grown too
much wheat, and that we should di-
versify. l believe in and practice it,
too, but if each wheat farmer reduced
his wheat acreage ten to 100 acres,
and increased his corn that much,
corn would be cheaper to burn than
coal. Or, if we increased our hogs
and cattle enough to eat that extra
corn, would the market absorb them
at present prices? / say &c.
Some college professors get "all het
up" because the students are not all
going back to farms. Why should
they go back to farms? There are
too many of us on farms now, except
during harvesting and threshing.
, 1923-11-07
five HUNDRED ACRES BETS
FROZEN IN GROUND ON POWELL
FLAT = ONE FOURTH CROP LOST

Harvesting beets with several inch
es of frost in the ground is the I'M
pleasant task that faces many of the
beet men of the Powell flat this week,
says the Powell Tribune. Caught
with o%ne-fourth of their acreage un-
dug, they are making desperate eff
forts to save as much of the crop as
possible. Beets are coming to market
in frequent wagonloads, which indi-
Gates that some success is attending
their efforts, but 1t best the loss will
likely be many thousands of dollars.
L. NJ. Hammond, field man in this
territory for the Great Western Sugar
company, declared that at the first
of the week there were 500 acres of
beets remaining in the ground on the
Powell fiat, and he was at that time
very pessimistic about the prospects
, 1923-11-07
TEXAS FARMER FIGURES A LITTLE
FOR the BREEDERS GAZETTE

In 1916 / harvested our wheat with
S1.50 per day help. 1t tested fifty
nine pounds. For what | sold early
| got 81 per bushel. / got flour for
S1.50 per fifty-pound sack, sugar for
SIS for 100 pounds, a standard wagon
with triple box for S112.50, a binder
for $40, a push binder for $3.50 and
a header for S215. l built a granary.
l got the best grade of drop siding
for $50 per 1000 feet, and the best
grade of red cedar shingles for $3.50
per 1000.
This year / harvested our wheat
with "a per day help. 1t tested sixty
pounds. / got 80 cents a bushel for
what l sold. / went to get a new
wagon like the one l got in 1916. 1t
was 5000. l got a sack of flour which
cost me 50. l bought a sack of sugar
for $I1. A binder is now priced at
$3.50, a push binder at $500 and a
header at $500.
! got a little lumber to enlarge my
granary. The best grade of drop sid
, 1923-11-07
This is the Way They
Fight Duels in Texas

league, Texas, Oct. 26.-In a little
room in a barn at Young, in Freestone
county, shortly after dusk Wednes-
day night two men stood toe to toe,
their left hands locked together, their
right hands clutching smoking revolt
vers which spat bullets until neither
mar could summon strength to pull
the trigger. Dead, with their boots
on, and still grasping each other, they
were found.
The principals in the shooting, n
of the grimmest pistol duels Texas
ever saw, according to Sheriff David
Terry of Navarro county, were: Nor
wood Huckaby, a member of a prom
inent Freestone county family; Chas.
A. Williams, until recently u resident
of Navarro county.
Huckaby was wounded four times,
three bullets lodgin in the chest and
one in the side. Williams was shot
in the forehead, right breast and side.
Every chamber of two pistols, n 38
calibre and n 32 calibre, found clutch
en- the mems hands, had been dis
charged.
, 1923-11-07
This is the Way They
Fight Duels in France

Paris, Oct. 23.-In a duel fought
Monday over a blow struck in a thea
tire ticket tax dispute, Duke LAMA de
Camastra, Italian nobleman, was
wounded in the arm by a thrust from
the sword of Jacques Richepin, author
and husband of Cora La Parceri. act
r~ess-theatre manager. The wound
was not dangerous. The author was
declared the winner .
The dispute arose ut the Cora La
Parcerie theatre when the door-man
tried to collect a government tax on
a free ticket presented by the duke.
Richepin endeavored to explain mat
tiers, but the duke became offended
and is said to have applied the epithet
"blackguard" to the poet. Richepin
responded with a slap on the ducal
check.
, 1923-11-07

of getting them out. 1t then appeared
that the cold was going to hang on
for a time until the ground was
thoroughly frozen for the winter, but
since, a warmer spell has come and
the activities in the beet fields are
each day increasing. With favorable
weather there yet may be saved a CON
siderable portion of the beets remain
ing in the ground.
The loss can be understood better
by figuring the amount of tonnage
that 500 acres of beets represents.
With an average of ton tons of beets
to the acre, this is 5000 tons We. in
the ground, worth from 100000 to
$4,000 in ultimate returns to the
growers. Every acre of beets sal
vaged from the frozen ground is a
substantial reduction from this total.
, 1923-11-07
Si50,000

Divers are recovering $150,000
worth Of copper lost by the govern
ment in 1919 when a tug on which It
was loaded was crushed in n collision
with the steamship Buford, between
Governors Island and Ellis Island,
New York harbor. The copper was
found recently through n new cleo
trical sounding device after the gov
eminent had searched for II for two
years. II lies in 0 feet of water.
, 1923-11-07

SKINNED milk is being condensed
and stored in sacks for indefinite stor-
age as stock feed. When n 8 to l
condensation is secured, the milk is
mixed with absorbant grains. After
the grains have absorbed the milk
they are dried and sacked.
, 1923-11-07
Why INDUSTRY IS
misunderstood
Geo. E. Roberts Tells How Co.
operative Character of Cor
porations Is 0bscured.
RADICAL AGITATION RESULTS
Maintenance Of Present Industrial Sys-
tenn Necessary to Maintain Present
Standards Of Comfort for All
the People, He Says.

The modern industrial system is at
bottom a cooperative organization, but
this fact is obscured by the complex
ity of huge enterprises, George e Rob
erts, noted authority on business and
finance, declared in a recent speech
before the American Bankers Associa'
ton Convention at Atlantic City, N. j..
The primitive man knew that the
harder he worked the more lie would
have Mr.. Roberts said. when a man
exchanged work with a neighbor he
had the whole transaction under
his eyes. But when a man works
with thousands of others for a
great corporation he doesn't see any
definite relationship between VIA he
does and what he gets. He doesn't
know whether he is getting a fair
share of the industrial results or not.
and he suspects not.
The modern industrial system Is
essentially cooperative, but you can
not have effective cooperation with
oui understanding. Because people do
rot see the industrial organization as
q whole we have the tendency for So
ciety to break up into groups and
blocs and unions and organizations of
one kind and another. many of whom
are trying to advance their W inter
ests at the expense Of society as a
whole. The population Of this country
today could not be supported in the
state OF comfort to which 1t is accus-
toned without the modern, specialized
organization.
, 1923-11-07

Bamboo quail from the northern
provinces of China are to be distri-
buted in the state of Washington in
the spring. The bamboo quail is said
to be n bird of a size between native
quail and Hungarian pheasants. These
birds come from n cold section of
ihina, where the winters r more Sc
we're than in Washington.
, 1923-11-07

One town in Kansas invites tourists
with this sign at the towns entrance:
"This is Lone Wolf. Speed limit $50
miles an hour. Fords do your best.
Watch us grow"