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Phoenix tribune., 1923-12-15
BurIesque MiIitaris

Burlesque Mlitaris
Friday evening, Dec. 21. the colored
High School boys, under the direc
lion of Prof E o. Knox, will give
play at the Union High School Audi
torium, entitled: "Burluesque Mill
taris." The boys have been rehears-
ing faithfully and Prof. Knox assures
us that on this occasion they will put
their best foot forward. The curtain
will rise at 1880 and those who want
good seats are requested to come
early.
To California
Mrs. Nakomas Smith Green left a
few days ago for California to remain
for an indefinite time.
!: !. :.
Pathological Laboratory in the Good
rich Building. Mr.. Burney is mu-
fician of renown and formerly had
charge of an orchestra in this city.
:: :. :.
Here From California
Mr.. Hannibal White, son of Rev. N.
E. White, of 1888 East Madison street,
is here from California, where he has
been the past year. Hannibal has
been in the u S. Navy most Of the
time and has seen much of this old
world He is an experienced limo
type operator, and several years age
was employed on the California Eagle
the leading Race Journal in the
Phoenix tribune., 1923-12-15

Southwest. He plans to return to the
coast and again will enter the employ
of the Eagle
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
Negro Kills Louisiana Conservation
Agent, Then Engages in Pistol Duel
With Victims Son--Breaks Through
Posse After Dangerously Wound
ing Deputy Sheriff Eludes Pursuit
for Week But Finally Surrounded
in Swamp and Shot.

New Orleans, La, March 19-Wie Johnson, negro.
was shot and instantly killed by farmer at Bowie, La
after being surrounded in swamp by posse of about 500
white men.
The negro had been pursued since last Monday, when
he shot and instantly killed Robert Sellers coEserva
ton agent, at Waggman, Louisiana.
Several days later he broke through posse at Lock-
port louisiana after dangerously wounding Deputy Sher
Tiff Anatole Ago, of LaFourche parish.
The pursuit led by Robert Sellers Jr son the
slain agent.
The negro wounded when young Sellers took the re-
volver from his dying fathers hand and engaged in p
toll battle with him. several times by the posse
but managed to eude his pursuers until today
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
AUSTRALIAN ACTRESS is
NAMED AS CORRESPONDENT
IN FARRAR DIVORCE SUIT
Tellegen, When Off Duty as the Leading Man in
"Don Juan" at the Garrick Theater, Pursued
Love-making at the Seashore and in an
Ordinary New York Rooming House,
Geraldines Witnesses Declare.

about excursions which. he said.
Tellegen and Miss Amber bad taken
in his rowboat.
In August. 1921, the PLAINTIFF
counsel sought to show, the scene
shifted to a rooming house on West
Thirty-seventh street, New York City.
and for two months "the great lover
had to content himself with a shad-
owy vestibule.
Norman Titzsimmons. private
detective. was placed on the stand at
this point and testified that, in
August, Miss Amber went TO live in
a studio apartment in this city. while
the next month Tellegen opened an
engagement. as the leading man in
don Juan" at the Garrick theater.
Talked Over Spaghetti.
At that time,- Fitzsimmon declared,
Tellegen was friendly with another
woman mentioned is testimony only
as a." taking her to her home on
Riverside Drive each night and kiss
ing her good night. After that, Fitz-
simmons continued, Tellegcn frequent
ly would return to the rooming house
on West Thirty-seventh street, where
Miss Amber then was living, meet
ing the actress in the vestibule and
embracing her.
Then they would 20 for walk. the
witness stated. frequently walking fan
down town into the crowded East
Side. Sometimes, he said. they would
drop into small restaurants for late
dinners, often sitting and taking for
hours over their spaghetti. Their
they would return TO the roomine
house and, after a fond farewell
Tellegen would depart in a taxi-cal
for his suite at the Ritz-Carlton
hotel. the witness said.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
STREET RIOTING IN
MONTEREY OVERRAC
FOR GOVERNORSHIP
Citizens and Politicians
Ask Aaron Saenz to
Withdraw.

Reports received in thiS city from
Monterey are that the business inter
csts of that city are viewing With
alarm the intense political excitement.
which has been occasioned By the en-
try OF Aaron Saenz into the race for
governorship against Gen. porfuiO
Gonzales who has been Il candidate
for some months. and is boxed upol
as the favorite native SON candidate.
The following telegram sent 10
Aaron Ssenz signed by political par
ties backing the candidacy of Gen.
Porfirio Gonzales and nuniesvusly
signed by business aud manufacturers
interests. has just been mace public
i'll the Mexico City pres.
From the text u, the telegram II
appears for the first time that thC.c
has been disorders in the c1mpaiga
and that there has been some street
rioting.
IN text of the telegram Is as FOL
lows:
Recognizing the fact that you are
IL VI hNhNAs anu
of serving rs an inctrument--so that
the sons OF Nueyo Leon shall DC
forced TO enter into cruel and bloody
civil strife. which would be blot on
the escutcheon of our state. We taSe
the liberty ot requesting You to Iui-
mediate ely withdraw your candidacy.
for same has occasioned a spirit OF
unrest, intranquility aud bitterness,
which are altogether foreign in this
state in political campaigns.
Last night in the central aid
business part of our city our hest
families and business elements were
forced to close their doors. when q
group of citizens parading as a pro-
test against your candidacy. were al
tackled by certain armed elements AMI
shot ct by these same elements who
are your portisans. The situation Il
intolerable. due TO the impopularisg
of your candidacy and the general
dissatisfaction with shame by the safe
and sane business elements Of NuevO
Leon.
Therefore. in the name of the
state of Nuevo Leon, we address yO1
as an honorable person: we bee Al
you not TO come from Mexico City To
Monterey with paid and snarchist,e
agitators. TO break our family har-
mony. by mail we are sending YOU
full details and have knowledge q; Toe
fact that your candidacy will brins
and cause bloodsbed among people WIN
ought to continue as fraternai friends.
(SignedJ Party Live Forces OF Nuevo
Leon: Constitutionalist Party Of
Nuevo Leon: Independent Party ami
Campaigners Of Nuevo Leon Party.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
HOME WEATHER. FOR TOURISTS.

een-mile wind from the northwest; low.
est temperature in the last "a hours. D
highest, SO.
Kansas City: Temperature. 4: clear
less than ten-mile wind from the north
west; lowest temperature in the last 2.
hours, ?; highest, ..
New York: Temperature. 40; raining;
twelve-mile wind from the southwest
lowest temperature in the last "a hours,
IS: highest. a..
st. Louis: Temperature, 6: partly
cloudy; eighteen-mile wind from the
northwest; lowest temperature in the
last ~ hours. - highest. 50.
Weshington: Temperature. 50: cloudy;
less than ten-mile wind from the south
vests lowest temperature in the last 81
hours. A.; hlGhest. IS.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
SUSPECT SOUGHT IN
CONNECTION WITH
MURDER OF MODEL
Believe Thief Chloroformed
Pretty Woman in Or
der to Rob Her.

New York. March fs.-Funeral
services for Dorothy Keenan. artists
model. who was chloroformed in her
apartment early last Thursday were
held Sunday at the home OF her
mother.
The police worked on a new theory
yesterday in their search for the mod
els slayer. a Philadelphia detective
arrived in New York and started q
search of the white light district
for a man who is believed to have
robbed many wealthy women of that
city after he had made them uncon-
scious by giving them a sleeping po-
ton.
Circumstances surrounding these
robberies were said to tally closely
with those connected with the rob-
berry and murder of Miss Keenan,.
1t was also said that the man was
sought in Kansas City for jumping
bail of $4,000 after being held for
robbery,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
ALLIES STUDY U. S.
REFUSAL TO ALLOW
DEBT DEDUCTIONS
Will Try to Euolue Anoth-
er Rhine Army Bill
Proposal.

Paris. March ia refusal BY the
United States to accept any reduction
of lis bill for the expenses of the Amer.
lean army OF occupation. by the value
of the German ships seized in Ameri.
can ports. was presented today TO the
Allied representatives in conference
here on the reimbursement question
Eliot Wadsworth, assistant secretary
Of the Treasury. delivered the note.
Reimbursement of the S25,.00O, 00C
expense in twelve annual installments
ont of possible German reparation pay.
ments. which the Allies proposed, was
accepted in principle, it was stated
Mr.. Wadsworth made it plain that the
American view was that the bill should
be paid and it should not be the con-
Germ of the United States whether II
was met out of German payments oil
otherwise.
The Allied representatives called a
separate meeting for tomorrow al
which they will try TO evolve another
proposition which will be given Mr.
Wadsworth Thursday.
The French semi-official version Of
the present stage Of the negotiations is
that the proposed twelve annual in
stallments will be paid out of future
possible reparation funds ahead of any
other division among the Allies. but
whether this priority should apply
only to future German cash payments
or should apply also TO merchandise Is
still an unsettled point.
Mr.. Wadsworth also raised the
question as to what would be done II
a moratorium were granted Germany
and whether the Allies would arrange
TO make the American army payments,
even il German payments were not re-
ceived or were insufficient.
Mr.. Wadsworth, it was added, made
certain reservation regarding the
method of reimbursement proposed by
tine Allies and asked for certain guar
antees.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
ROPE ON ITS WAY
Will Be Used to Hang Harvey Hughes
in Brewster County.

Wrapped securely in an ordinary
express package which in no way re-
vealed its gruesome contents. the rope
with which Clemente Apolinar was
hanged was shipped to Alpine Mon
day morning. 1t was consigned to
Sheriff Townsend of Brewster coun-
ty who requested its loan for use in
hanging Harvey Hughes, sentenced to
death following his conviction for
murder. Hughes is to hang early next
month.
Sheriff Townsend's request that he
be loaned a black cap was not grant
ed as there was none available at the
Bexar county Jail. Black caps are not
used here. Whether the rope will be
used after Sheriff Townsend receives
it is a question becaul law was
passed recently providing for the cleo
trocution of condemned men instead
Of hanging.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
GOING TO ISLAND
Sixtietli Battalion at Galveston Or
dered to Philippines.

The United States army transport
st. NIihiel. which brought the last of
the American troops back from
Europe. will furnish passage for the
Sixtieth Artillery Battalion. now sta
toned at Fort Crockett. Texas. from
Galveston 70 New York. according to
official orders issued at Eighth Corps
area headquarters Monday. The Six
tieth battalion. an a2ti-aircraft or
panization, will transfer at New York
to the United States army transport
Grant. and will sail for Honolulu by
way of Porto Rico. Panama and San
Francisco. The battalion will olsen.
bark at Honolulu and later proceed
TO Manila on the United States army,
transport Thomas. The battalion will
have permanent station in the Philip
pines.
Leaving Galveston on or about
April Z. the snti-aircraft troops WIN
snil for New York and depart fro.u
that port on or about April ~. No
further schedule was announced.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
TRY RIEDEN TUESDAY
Call Score Of Witnesses for Street
Department Case.

More than a score Of witnesses who
will be called upon to testify in the
trial of Street Commissioner William
O. Rieden were summoned by Deputy
Sheriffs Lambert and Peters Mon
day. Trial of the street commission
er on an Indictment charging him
with misapplication Of city funds is
set for 0 80 o'clock Tuesday morn.
ing in the Thirty-seventh district
court.
Selection of jury to try the street
commissioner. in case he goes TO trial
Tuesday, is expected to consume the
greater part OF the day while the tax.
ing of testimony may consume several
days. Commissioner Rieden has de-
MED that he is guilty of the charges
contained in the indictment.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19

New York. March 19.-Lorna
Amber, an Australian actress. today
was named as the correspondent in
the divorce suit which Geraldine Far
rar is pressing against her actor-hus-
band, Lou Tellegen.
Miss Ambler's name was brought
into the case by Samuel Untermeyer,
counsel for the diva. in examination
of witnesses before Referee Thomas
Mahoney.
Miss Amber was described as %
years of age and strikipgly beautiful.
She spoke with a decidedly English
accent but in q pleasing tone, wit
nesses declared.
Witnesses testified TO a summer al
legged to have been spent by Tellegen
and Miss Amber at Long Beach,
followed by love-making in an ordin-
airy New York rooming house. nightly
walks through the Ghetto and long
tete-a-tetes at midnight suppers in an
out-of-the- way Italian restaurant.
w. F. Beers testified that late in
June. 1921. he rented bungalow at
Long Beach to a man named Rankin.
said to be Tellegen's secretary. RAN
kin, he said. spent several days there
and then Tellegen, whose identity then
was unknown TO Beers. arrived with
woman of striking appearance.
Leading Man In "Dou Juan"
Beers identified photograph OF
Tellegen's alleged bungalow mate and
then described how the couple had
bathed, fished and boated together
for a month at the seashore.
Then Louis Malthaner. an attorney
associated with Mrs. Farrar's coun-
sci, and owner of bungalow near
that alleged to have been occupied by
Tellegen, took the stand and told
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
Ki5LS DAUGHTER
WOUNDS ANOTHER,
BROWNS HIMSELF
Covered With Blood, Girl
Tells of Fathers
Attack.

Baltimore. Nd. March 19.-De-
pressed by financial losses and the
death Of his wife four years ago.
Edward Boerner. a. farmer on the
Bird river road. four miles from
Essex. drowned himself in his well
yesterday after killing one of his
daughters and seriously wounding
another with an axe.
News of the ira gedy was carried TO
the home OF Fred Fisher, living 500
yards down the road, by Frieda, one
of the daughters.
Her head and face were covered
with blood from three wounds.
She made her way slowly from the
shambles of her own home. half walk
ing. half crawling. TO Fishers door.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
CAPTAIN SMITH DIES


Capt. Charles T. Smith. IS. died al
a hospital at 10 O'Clock Sunday nigh;
He was native of Pittsburg, Pa.
but had lived in San Antonio for the
last 90 years. He was a graduate OF
West Point and served as city engi.
neer of San Antonio from 1881 to
1885. He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Gertrude Cassianos Smith; one
son. Charles G. Smith of San Antonio
one daughter. Miss Marguerite Smith
of this city. and two brothers. Edwin
y. and Annette Smith, both of Pitts.
burg.
The funeral will be held from the
residence. 1917 Jones avenue, at 8 &c
o'clock Tuesday with services at San
Fernando Cathedral under auspices OF
the fourth degree knights OF Colum.
bus and an escort of United States
government troops. Interment will be
in the family plot in San Fernando
cemetery No. under the direction OF
the (Zizik Undertaking Company.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
HOOVER HAS PLAN
iDmmends Diminishing Government
Construction Work.

Washington, ID. c.. March H.
ietary Hoover has recommended 10
Eident Harding that all govern
It buildings and construction work
Id be slowed down in order TO
a reserve demand for labor and
hrials. when the present high tide
private construction has begun to
/ the country's needs.
Ir. Hoover's conclusion that gov
ibental construction should be
.aj<@lown. at least for several
ais in line with suggestions
ptsH from the national unem-
menf conference Of 1921 thx this
Utilized as reserve demand for
and materials during periods Of
ession. - ---..,-...s.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
Chair Walks at
City Hall But
Ghost Doesn't

A walking chair" which. until
its mode of locomotion was discoy.
cred sent creepy chill up and
down the spines of negro porters at
the city hall Monday, afforded en-
tertainment to a number Of visi.
tors to the registrars office. The
cheir was seen 70 rise uncertainty
from its position in one corner Of
the office and move laboriously. in
a zig gag course toward the oppo-
site side of the room.
Investigation disclosed that q
huge terrapin which had been DO
mated to the Breckenridge Park ZOO
and was awaiting transportation to
the park. bad broken from his
moorings. gotten under the chair
and was attempting TO get out. In
phis meanderings he was carrying a
heavy oak chair on his back.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
End Flight With Practical
ly No Motor Trouble
or Accidents.
OVER LAND AND SEA
Will Go to Washington,
D. c. From Arcadia,
Florida.
by the Associated Press.


San Juan. p. X, Msrc;, f9.--Tbe
six United States army airplenes ar
rived this morning at 10: 80 O'Clock,
completing their flight from San An
tonic, Texas.
Less than sixteen days was required
OF the tlcet OF SIX Dehaviland army
airplanes to make their 30O0-mile
flight across land and sea from the
Air intermediate Depot at Kelly Field
to San Juan, Porto Rico. The flight
was completed early on the sixteenth
day, Monday, the six planes having
taken off from the AID. Saturday
morning week ago.
In that the six big planes, each car
rying two army pilots and heavily
loaded, masle the complete trip with
out a serious mishsp, another remark
able record for cross-country flying
was rung up by the Army Air Service.
The plane piloted by Lieutenant Sci
ger and kirksey encountered motor
trouble at various times durirg the
trip. but in the long run It held up
with the other five.
The most dangerous part Of the
journey was the flight from Arcadia
fla, 10 Havana. Cuba, a distance Of
approximately 800 miles, mVsf q
which was ibtde acrosS the onsn sea-
1t Is not known exactly when the
return flight win be started, but the
same route will be followed MS far
as Arcadia. Fla. from which city the
fleet will go TO Washington. ID. &.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
RESUME 'HERRIN TRIAL
Riot Case Delayed Eleven Days by
Illness Of Jurors Wife.
BY the Associated Press.

Marion, ILL.,, March ie.--Ihe prose
cution in the second Herrin riots
trial. today resumed its presentation
of evidence against Hugh Willis. dis
trict board member of the Illinois
Mine Workers. and five other de
PENDANTS. charged with murder in con-
nection with the outbreak, after an
eleven-day recess, caused by the Ill
ness of the wife of one of the jur-
ors.
DIR. O. +. Shipmsn Of Herrin. who
testified in the first trial. was the
first witness called by the state at
the opening of the morning session.
AT the first trial. he told Of seeing
six of the As non-union workers taken
from the mine of the Southern Illinois
Coal Company last June and marched
through the streets of Herrin by a
mob to an outlying cemetery, where
they were shot down.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
NORTH SH|vERS
WHEN BLIZZARD
| PILES UP SNOW
,Ricago, Three Below
Zero, Has Coolest March
in 81 Years.
|kTORM KILLS FIVE
Trains Stalled "a Hours;
II Schedules Are
IL Abandoned. >$
TORN KILLS FIVE

| Chicago. March REPRODUCTIONS OF
lsing temperature tomorrow in many
Ibints were rays OF hope to cities in
be storm-swept Mississippi Valley,
kday recovering from one of the most
kvere March snowstorms on record,
lid the second within a week to de-
loralize transportation and communi-
ttion.
Five persons have persisted, so far,
kcause of the storm.
The heavy snow and high wind
iorm sweeping out of Alaska anu
lie Mckenzie river basin into the
Itlley Saturday night and Sunday
las exceptionally severe in Iowa, Ne
taska and Southwestern Wisconsin,
nile its force. in lesser degree,
as felt as far south as Galveston,
here freezing weather was reported.
Heavy snow banks in Iowa and
Iebraska, coming on top of the dis
ktrous storm earlier in the week,
fused train schedules to be aban-
kned. Two trains on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad were
I'd up for "a hours in small Iowa
lies, passengers being fed from the
.ners and in the hotels of the
kwns. t-...
1 March Records Broken.
EThroughout the storm area, low
kmperature records for March were
1Ap Chicago, with three below
10 early today, had the coolest
birch weather in 50 years. Seven
bn degrees below at Waterloo, Iowa,
rs the coolest that city had encoun-
red for many years.
Most roadways in Iowa are impas-
BILE today. Iowa has received more
pw during March than the preced-
K months Of the entire winter.
While lower temperatures are re-
rted from Minnesota and the Da-
kas, Indications are that the crest
the storm has passed there and
ht little damage has been done. The
pwfall was about three inches. high
nds blowing it over the roadways
n causing delays Of from six to
Int hours in train schedules.
Fruit Crops Damaged.
y. Hutton of Waukesha, Wis, died
Iheart disease superinduced by cold.
Ter walking a mile from church
fough snowdrifts. Three children
lMr. and Mrs. Allen Evans of Bax-
l Colo, were frozen to death after
~ took refuge from the storm in a
all shelter a quarter of a mile from
Iir home. Thomas Reed. a.. was
ind frozen to death near Hutch,
10. Joseph Sanderas, 81, of Chi
10. collapsed when he returned
he from work. He died soon after.
18th being due to heart disease super
Iuced by cold.
The storm is lessening today in
insas, Oklahoma and Texas. and is
Fling across the Mississippi river
b the eastern southern states,
ere cold wave warnings are out for
Fight.
The fruit crop Of Oklahoma and
1nsas is thought TO have been dam
totton rose 16 to 80 points on the
" Orleans market during the first
+ hour of trading today.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
AYNES ON RUM FLEET
q Flotilla's There. All Right, but
Booze Is Poor Stuff.


Washington, ID. C.. March 10
" to deal with the rum fleets which
Ter off the New York and New Jer-
coasts was discussed today at a
Ference between Prohibition Com
Eioner Haynes, Il. c. Yellowley.
4 of the enforcement squads in the
Iropolitan districts, and New Jersey
hts.
Commissioner Haynes conceded
/ the rum fleets We're n difficult.
blem and one likely TO continue.
The bootleg flotillas are not as
e as sometimes reported. accord
to Commissioner Haynes, and do
carry high grade liquors
Most OF the stuff carried by these
Igglers is synthetic stuff made in
IA and sold under forged labels
Commissioner Haynes.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
M'ADOO In MEXICO
Will Aid Cattle Company In Keeping
1000. 0OO-!Acre Estate.

FL Paso, Tex, March 1o.-Chihua.
hua City newspapers received in n
Paso today report that William G
McAdoo went to Mexico City to help
the Palomas Land and Cattle Com
pany keep intact its 1000, OOO-acre
chihuahua estate.
The estate recently was ordered ex'
propriated by the Mexican govern
ment.
He is accompanied on his trip e
Mexico by f. J. Marshall. president
of the Palomas Land and Cattle Com
pany, according to Chihuahua newspa'
pers.
The comDany's land comprises one
Of the largest estates in MEXICO.
Mr.. MeAdoo will go TO Mexico City
and meet President Alyaro Oregon II
was said.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
$4,000 DENISON FIRE
IS Scantily-clad Guests Flee TO
Street in Bitter Weather.

Denison. Tex. March ia resi-
Dental hotel, two residences and part
of church, were destroyed by fire
here this morning which started when
the boiler in the hotel exploded.
Thirty-five persons were driven,
partially clad, into the street with
the temperature at - degrees above
zero.
The loss was estimated at $4,000.