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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-30

manner that they can be made to slide
into the water by the force of gravity.
IL the slope is steep enough the tree,
in falling, will jump and slide long
distance and may reach the sea with
out any further effort on the part of
the loggers. In most cases, however,
the tree will stop before it reaches
the "salt chuck" or ocean, and then
it becomes necessary to help it along
on its downward course by means OF
jackscrew.
Travels BY Gravity.
When once it gets good start
there is nothing that will stop it, ex-
ccpt n depression in the slope, and
it will cut clean swath down the
hill by its own weight, sweeping away
all obstacles. uprooting stumps and
SCATTERING good-sized trees. In the
process of sliding the tree effectually
limbs itself, ut least on one side, and
all that remain for the handlogger
to do when it reaches the water is
tow it TO the booming ground and
"buck" or cut. it into log lengths.
Should a tree slide into a depression
in the surface of the ground it will
either be smashed or will bury itself
some distance in the soil. BY judi
cious bucking and lifting with the
jeckscrew, it may be possible to
save such n tree, but in some cases
the work necessary is not worth the
result and the handlogger lets it go
to waste. spending his time on an
other tree.
Trees and Water.
The great size of the trees grow
ing in British Columbia makes them
Of considerable value, often as high
as 800 for n tree in the boom, and
n large percentage that the handbag
gers put into the water are worth
from $50 to $50 each, depending on
the grade and species. A handlogger
can afford, then, TO spend considerable
time in getting such trees to the sea.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-30

lar in shape, others have variously de-
signed sides and front edge, but all
have cutoff corners and, in general,
one front supporting leg and two rear
legs. While many persons like to have
them match the rest of the furniture
in the room, they may be of any wood
that harmonizes as they rank wit. .t>
occasional chair" and the carved
chest which are part Of no set and
need only harmonize in general eff
feet. End tables of mahogany, circas.
sian walnut, painted wood, and even
Of wicker are chosen for rooms of more
or less formality.
These end tables may be used in
very narrow halls to lake the place of
a console, and in small sunrooms they
are very handy for putting close up
against the wall, where they take up
little room. An end table standing
at the head of chaise Tongue pro-
vides a convenient place to lay book
or magazine during restin; hour and
they are particularly pretty at either
end Of day bed.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-30

ms as lagoons and the mountain tops
as islands, writes George Payson Mel
rose in the Boston Transcript.
Between the mainland and Van
couver Island lies a vast archipelago
of steep-sided islands among which the
restless water is forced by the ocean
tide. The inletS, outrivalling the IA
nous fjords of Norway in their depth.
stcepness and the wonderful grandeur
of their scenery, pierce the heart of
the coast mountains with their sharp
ly inclined sides clothed in a thick
stand of heavy timber.
Handlogging. as the word implies.
is the process of taking out logs from
the forest without the aid of machin-
cry in fact the laws of the province
under which the handloggers operate,
prohibit the use of any kind of ma
chinery other than that propelled by
muscular power. As the steepness of
the country where handlOgging is car
ried on prevents the use of animals,
human muscles alone are behind the
output of timber from the handlog-
ging areas.
What HandlOgging Means.
What makes this form of logging
unique is the contrast with the
usual steam operations of the Pacific
Coast, where the enormous size of
the trees requires some extraordinary
form of power TO take them from the
forest.
On some PERCEPTIONS mountain sides
Of the British Columbia coast it
would be impossible to Use any form
of machinery, but still the hardy frs
and cedars gain foothold and at
tain merchantable size. Where they
are within reasonable distance of the
water. the term reasonable" being
relative, depending in most cases on
the state of the market for logs, they
are handlogged.
In handlogging, the trees on the
sleeper slopes are felled in such
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-30

Six thousand miles of forested
shore line are contained in the con-
volutions of the British Columbia
coast, and every mile il tributary, by
direct towage, to the great log mar
kets of Vancouver and Puget Sound.
The capital required to start handlog-
ging is very small compared to the
steam operation, the total being any
where from $500 to $1,000. This is
invested in a floating camp, jack
screws, saws, axes and food supplies,
with boat to move around in, and
as the camp can be moved from place
to place by tugboat, there is no sue
cessive investment on that score.
These conditions have made British
Columbia alone the home of the hand
logger.
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Giant Trees Are Sent Roll
ing Down Sides Of
Mountains.
COST is SLIGHT
British Columbia Has Many
Miles of Coast Lined
With Timber.

what is handlogging:" and "Why
are handloggers peculiar to British
Columbian"
Along the deeply indented shore
line of Canada's western province is
one of the most intricatcly channelled
coasts TO be found on the globe: it
is a coast of submergence. where
mountains have sunk into the ocean,
leaving the valleys as inlets, the bas-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-30
DeMherrY Crnn Good.

Victoria, Tex. March 29.-The dew
berry crop Of Victoria county this
spring promises to be a bumper one
as the vines are covered with an un-
usually large amount Of blossoms. The
wet weather of the last several weeks
has helped the vines materially.
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Gets Suspended Sentence.

bToWHsNlle, IeA., Mdfcn 23.-
Auustine Reyas, charged with bur-
glarizing a home at Los Indios nearly
two years ago, was convicted Monday
and given four-year suspended SELL
tence. At former trial, Reyas was
sentenced to three years in the peni-
Tertiary, but the case was appealed
and new trial secured. He has al
ready served nearly eighteen months N
Jail.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-30

Mr.. Jingleby is angry with me" THE
poet? Yes. I'd forgotten he wrote
verse, and when he asked me who my
favorite poet was. I told him Shake
peare.'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
zIHLMAN DECLARED
GUILTLESS OF BRIBE
investigator Committee Head
Says Charge Has Been Found
Unjustiied.
DEPL0RES PRESS RI
REPORT
Burton Seeks to Do Justice Before
Primary.

Representative Fred n. Zihlman
was exonerated of the charges of
bribery against him that have been
under investigation by special
House committee in a formal state
ment given out late yesterday by
Representative Theodore f. Burton,
Republican, of Ohio, chairman of the
special investigating committee.
This statement was issued in view
Of the fact that Representative Zihl-
mans primaries for reelection come
tomorrow, and the committee felt
that a grave injustice had been done
him through articles in a local morn
ing newspaper which led many of the
voters in that district to believe that
the House committee report would
find the Maryland member guilty.
Deny Newspaper Report.
The statement given out last
night by Representative Burton was
sentative Fred s. Purnell of Indiana
and Representative Earl C. Michener
of Michigan, the other two republi-
can members of the investigate
committee. A statement given out on
Friday denying the truht of the
newspaper article was concurred in
unanimously by all five members of
the committee.
The formal report to the House on
the Zihlman investigation will not be
made for several days. The state
ment authorized by Chairman Burton
is as follows:
THE nomination for member of
trict is a matter for the voters of
that district to decide, but in justice
to Mr.. Zihlman 1 feel impelled to
make a statement upon my own re-
Sponsibility as one of the members
Of the committee having in charge
the investigation of an accusation
against him that he received i'm
properly sum of money in the sum-
mer Of 1921.
IT find no evidence to justify the
conclusion that he received any such
sum of money. and 1 am especially
a baseless article has appeared in a
newspaper that the report of the
committee would contain something
sensational against Mr.. Zihlman and
that the matter was regarded of such
Importance that word had been sent
of the probable conclusions of the
committee to the White House.
There is absolutely no foundation
whatever for this article. The repor,
will not abound in sensations. and
there has been no communication by
any member of the committee with
the White House. The report has
been detained by the fact that the
testimony, which is quite voluminous
has not yet BEEN printed. 1t will be
forthcoming at an early date, but in
justice to the voters Of the district
as well as to Mr.. Zihlman am giving
this statement to the press at this
time"
Evening star., 1924-05-04
SOVIET ENVOY QUITS
BERLIN AFTER RAID
Returns to Moscow Following
Search of Russian Trade
Commission Building.
POLICE DEFEND ACTI0]
Bolshevik Ambassador Takes Pro-
test to Stresemann.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 3.-M. Krestinsky,
Russian soviet ambassador to Ger
many, left for Moscow tonight. His
departure is sequel to the action, of
the Berlin police in entering the
building of the Russian trade dele
cation, and searching the house from
roof to cellar for communist
against whom warrant had been
issued
The greatest excitement prevails in
Russian circles over the police search,
officials of the Russian embassy stat
that the leaders of the Russian trade
mission. which is supposed to enjoy
extra territorial rights, were inter
fered with. The police made several
arrests and took the prisoners, hand
cuffed to the police prefecture.
NJ. Krestinsky called 1T the foreign
office and made energetic protests,
He succeeded in getting Foreign Min
lister Suesmann TO order the search
stopped at once.
Call Act Unparalleled.
IAN unparalleled violation of extra
territorial rights" is the way the
Russian embassy regards the police
action. 1t has ordered the trade mis-
sion to cease it's work and all COM
mercial activity will be suspended.
The trouble started when two Swa-
bian policemen, bringing a communist
leader, BotZenhardt, wanted by the
Pomeranian states attorney for al
legged treason from Stuttgart to Star
gard. were duped into believing that
the Russian trade delegation build
ing in Berlin was a restaurant where
they might have lunch while making
a change in trains.
According to the police, Botzen-
hard was surrounded by COM
munists and in the shuttle his escape
was made possible. The police then
surrounded the building and went
through with their search despite the
protests of the Russians until ordered
by DR.. Stresmann to cease.
It is claimed by the Berlin chief of
police that a search of extra-terri-
torial property is justified if the cul
prit is caught in the act and in fight.
The German government has lodged
a protest with the Russian embassy
against the conduct of the employees
of the Russian trade mission, charac-
terizing the conduct of the Russians
as a gross violation of German law,
and pointing out that the mission
does not enjoy diplomatic immu-
nifty.
The German version of the trouble
is that Russian employees aided in the
escape of the German communist
leader Botzenhardt.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
G.. O. P. TO FORCE BREAK
EARLY If ONE PLANNED
To Ask for Unanimous Nomination of
Coolidge After First Ballot-Smith
Picks Up Speed.

tion Of delegates to the national
convention. with Senator Johnson
and President Coolidge closely
contesting for control of the dele
cation. Indiana will also elect
Tuesday, conceded to President
Coolidge. That will virtually end
the interest in the delegate con-
test, for while other primaries are
to follow, they are claimed by the
Coolidge managers.
X X X x
President Coolidge is being con-
graduated by Republicans for the
vigorous stand on party leader
ship which he is taking. He is not
only the titular head of the party
but is the militant leader, giving
close attention to details. He is
gathering about him men of his
(Continued on Page 5, Column 81
Evening star., 1924-05-04
ZAYAR VISITS CIENFUEGos.
President Finds Cuban Revolt City
in Quiescent State.

Ry the Associated Press.
HAVANA, May 3.-President Zayas,
the first Cuban Chief Executive ever
to go to the scene of an armed revolt,
arrived safely late today at Glen
fuegos, where, it was officially ex-
planned, he desires to investigate per-
sonally the anti-Zayas and anti-re-
election outbreak by armed bands.
The President left Havana this
morning on a special train with a
military guard. With him were Act
ing Secretary of War Betancourt, Sec
retary of the Interior Iturralde and
Gen. Herrera, chief of staff. Coinci-
ture came official announcement of
several minor engagements between
loyal and rebel forces and of the
capture of nine rebels, including So
lano Romero, who was a colonel in
the Cuban war of independence
against Spain. Five other rebels sur
rendered and ten rifles and twelve
horses were captured by government
troops, but there is no word of any
casualties.
The entire island is quiet, the War
Department stated today in it's first
formal communique since the out
break started Tuesday.
U. S. Consuls Report Quiet.
That the remainder of the island
is quiet, at least outwardly, was
confirmed by information received
from the American consuls who have
sent reports.
Statements by Mario Garcia Velez,
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column IL
Evening star., 1924-05-04
BY n. D. MESSENGER,

President Coolidge was credited
with having gained the support
of $50 delegates to the Republi-
can national convention up to
yesterday, which is 305 more than
sufficient to nominate. Senator
Johnson has Is and Senator La
Toilette 2S.
Charles D. Hilles, national COM
mittee man from New York esti-
mates that President Coolidge will
have 1899 votes on the first roll
call. The motion will then be
made to make the nomination
unanimous and if bolt is con-
templated by any one it will then
develop.
:; X y x
Next Tuesday the primaries Will
be held in California for the selec-
Evening star., 1924-05-04
ARMS SALE TO CUBA
AUTHORIZED BY LAW
Purchase Now Being Negotiated
Here Specifically OK'd in Act
Passed in 1916.
NO REQUEST FOR PLANES
Material to Be Sold Includes Am
munition and Guns.

Sale of a quantity of American war
material to the government of Cuba,
which is confronted with a revolu-
tionary uprising, is under negotiation
here.
Such a transaction, unlike the re-
cent sale of arms to the Obregon gov
eminent of Mexico, is specifically au-
thorized under a law passed in 1916,
and there is every expectation here
that an arrangement for delivery to
Cuba of the munitions requested will
be perfected within a few days.
The material for which application
has been made is worth about $780,
600 and includes 10000 rounds of
rife ammunition and about thirty
machine guns, all of which would be
supplied from surplus materials now
in Army depots.
No Request For Planes.
No request for purchase of air
planes has been made by Cuban Off
cials, and reports from Havana that
a shipment of planes is on its way to
the island republic were interpreted
here as indicating that the Cuban
government may have made such a
purchase from some private concern
in this country.
Under the 1916 law airplanes are
not included in tho materials which
can be sold to Cuba, but under a
general clause in an appropriation
bill already passed by the House and
pending in the Senate. the sales to
Cuba could be extended to include
other war material than ordnance.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
SEEK PRESIDENTS AID
IN PRICE-BOOST PLAN
McNary- Haugen Bill Advocates to
Send Petition to the
White House.
HIT BY FARM ECONOMIST
DR.. William M. Jardine Says 1t
Would Do More Harm Than Good.

Advocates of the McNary- -Haugen
agricultural export bill decided yes
terday to seek the aid Of President
Coolidge in their fight to bring about
enactment of the measure.
In the House leaders of the farm
bloc began the circulation of petit
tions which will be transmitted to
the White House early this week.
They point out the need for leg1sla-
ton along the lines of the McNary-
Haugen bill, set forth that there is
overwhelming sentiment in the farm
ing regions for it's passage and urge
that it's enactment be facilitated.
Seek No-Veto Assurance.
Those back of the movement de-
clared they not only were seeking to
lay their case before Mr.. Coolidge,
but were hoping he would give some
indication that he favored passage of
the bill. Reluctance of Republican
leaders to give the measure right OF
way in the House until convinced 1t
would not be vetoed and the opposi-
tion to the measure evidenced by
members from : eastern states only
served to spur the bills friends to
action.
The petitions declare that the de-
preston in agricultural states is not
confined to farming alone, but is
gradually affecting every line of in
dustry and commerce.
General Support Claimed.
Bankers, business men and farm
"are requesting an equality for all
our interests. After more than two
years of careful study they have ap-
proved and are supporting the Nc
Nary -Haugen bill as amended by the
agriculture committee and reported
to the House. Our people have con-
fidence that this measure will 50
direct economic progress as to re-
store agricultural and allied inter-
ests to an equality with other in
terests"
Chairman Haugen of the agricul-
ture committee, joint author of the
bill, intended to visit the White
House yesterday to discuss it's pro-
visions with Mr.. Coolidge, but as the
committee report on the proposal, a
lengthy document, had not been
whipp edn into final shape, he deferred
his call until this week. The COM
mittee chairman plans to leave with
the President the report to enable
him to make a detailed study of the
bill and of the arguments for its
enactment.
Supporters of the measure hope to
bring the bill up in the House within
two weeks and to rush it to the Sem
ate in time for action by that body
before adjournment.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Fights Sharks % Hours With Knife.
Melancholy Sailor Rescued Unhurt

of a sailors jack, until the steamer
Dorset picked him up. He had eaten
no food and had had no sleep. He was
rescued unscratched.
Staden's shipmates and officers said
he was inclined to be melancholy, which
they assumed was the reason he jumped
overheard. Their belief was that once
adrift fear of the sharks dethroned any
other thought he may have had and he
desperately slashed and stabbed at the
encircling fms. The story was told by
Capt. Purdy.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
SAW PLANE WEDNESDAY.
Natives Say Aircraft Was Going
From Chignik to Lakes.

By the Associated Press.
BREMERTON, wash, May 3.-An
Improvement in radio communications
with the north was noted at the
Puget Sound naval station here to-
day, but messages in the afternoon
by the western end of the Alaska
peninsula and the eastern end of the
Aleutian chain of islands continued
to report that Maj. Frederick l.. Mar
tin, American globe flier, had not been
found.
From Chignik came news that
while a quest of waters and islets
south of the peninsula continued, a
party with dog teams was going
across the portage from the Chignik
lakes to the Bering Sea to hunt along
the northern coast of the peninsula
CONTINUED on Page IL, Column A.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May ,3.-Eight girl
students at the University of Wis
consin will don the aprons and cuffs
of eight working girls in order that
the latter may take special summer
course at the university at Madison,
IL was announced at the National
Student Assembly today. The ex-
penses of the girls who will abandon
work for study will be borne by the
Florence Simms scholarship, estab-
Evening star., 1924-05-04
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 3.-Tc the list Of
plain men made heroes by caprice Of
the sea was added today the name of
Clarence L. Staden, erstwhile able sea-
man on the tanker Frederick w. Weller,
which arrived this morning from
Panama.
Staden, adrift in a life belt in the
Gulf of Panama, alone except for
sharks, fought the man-eaters for
tventy-three hours with the long blade
Evening star., 1924-05-04
DENIES FARMERS WANT BILL.
Kansas Agricultural College Head
Sees Disaster in Price-Fixing.

Members of Congress who are sup
porting the McNary -Haugen bill,
which aims at higher prices for farm
products through a scheme of gov
ernment price fixing, under the i'm
preston that American farmers de-
mand this measure are the victims
of misinformation. Members Of Con-
gress who are supporting it in the
expectation of political gain are
bound to have their expectations dis
appointed. So asserts DIR. William
NJ. Jardine, president of the Kansas
State College of Agriculture, who is
in Washington attending the annual
meeting of the American Council of
Education.
Even were I insincere enough to
CONTINUED on Page Z, Column SD
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Italian King Given Degree.

NAPLES, May S.-Delegates from
ihe United States, Argentina, Chile,
8olivia and Peru were present today
At the celebration of the Centenary
Of the University of Naples, which
was attended by King Victor En-
manuel, who received the honorary
degree of doctor of philosophy and let
!arx
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Girl Students to Exchange Places
With 8 Workers Seeking Education

lished as a memorial to Miss Simms.
late secretary of the National Y. w.
c. A.
The working girls chosen are two
maids. a clerk in a store. two shoe
factory workers, a cafeteria waitress
and two Office workers.
The Industrial assembly of the Y
W. c. A. elected officers as follows:
President, Bertha Z. Pabst, Washing
ton, d. c.; vice president, Mildred
Vurson, Baltimore; secretary. Isabelle
Dress, New York.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Coolidge Gets Bonus Bill.

The soldiers bonus bill was sent to
President Coolidge late yesterday
from the Capitol, where legislative
action was completed with the sign
Ing of the measure by President Cum
Minis of the Senate. q
Evening star., 1924-05-04
conference DEADLOCKED
Russians and British Fail to Agree
on Debt Problem. :.

LONDON. May 3.-The Anglo-Rus-
sian conference. which began about
two weeks ago in London. has reach
ed a deadlock on the question of the
recognition of debts, according to
]. j. O'Neill. national liberal. address
ing his constituents at Lancaster to-
day He declared that the confer
ence was doomed to failure unless the
debt problem was solved.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
TODAY'S STAR
PART IA Pages.

General News-Locai, National, For.
eien.
National Political Survey-Page 4.
Schools and CoIIeaes-Pages 22 and q.
Parent Teacher Activities-Paee IS.
Boy Scouts-Page IS.
Girl Scouts-Page 26.
Radio News and Gossip-Pages 40
and Al.
Army and Navy News-Page AZ.
Spanish War Veterans-Page ~.
At the Community Centers-Page ~.
Reviews of New Books-Paqe 43.
Veterans Of the Great Wa~Page a..
Evening star., 1924-05-04
OHIO MAYOR OUSTED.
Canton Official and Brother Re-
moved for Misconduct.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May &C. c.
Curtis, mayor of Canton, and his
brother, E. E. Curtis, safety director
under his administration, were re-
moved from office. today by Gov
Donahey on charges of malfeasance
nonfeasance, neglect to enforce pro-
hibition laws, gross neglect of duty
and misconduct in Office. The gov
ernor recommended grand jury in
vestigation.