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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01
DEATH VALLEY Scene
OF MYSTERY BATTLE
Coolidge Upholds Mitchell
While the Cats
Array, the Mice
Will Play

while the cat is away the
mice will play"
Motorcycle Office Cecil Hook.
err, who is bailiff Of Corporation
court, believes this ancient plati.
tude fits his predicameHt exactly.
Less than two weeks ago n
burglar entered his home at 405
Warren street. A purse con.
tanning 81 and a pair Of women's
silk hose were stolen.
IF j had been at home, this
would not have happened" he
unused.
Wednesday night q prowIer
entered his garage and stole two
spare tires.
Not at home, again." the
officer chided himself.
While away Friday night n
window pepper psyed the Hooker
home a visit.
IF l had been at home j
would have caught him." Off
Ger Hooker feels.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01
KLANSMEN STAGE
BRYAN MEMORIAL
SERVICES IN OHIO
By the Associated Press.

DAYTON. Aug. members Of
the Ku Klux Khan of this and sur
rounding cities held a memorial ser
vice and cross burning for William
Jennings Bryan near here last night.
All attending klansmen we're robed.
At the close of the ceremony a
large cross bearing the inscription {:
an memory of william Jennings
Bryan, the greatest klansman of our
time, this cross is burned; he stood
at Armageddon and battled for the
Lord" was lighted.
The ceremony was witnessed by
hundreds.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01
MOTHER WALKS WEEK
TO SEE DAUGHTER in
ILLINOIS SANITARIUM
Br unIver.nI Service

MOLINE, Aug. 1. = Mother love
prompted Mrs. Mary Haverlick of Chi.
cago, to walk to Moline so that she
might see her little daughter Mary, n
patient at fresh air sanitarium
here.
The mother was picked up by the
police in a weakened condition and
told them her story.
The trip required week, slig
said.
The child had been taken TO Wash.
ington, Iowa, for vacation.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01
RUM runner
WAR limited
BY FIGHT
. IN NIGHT
Wrecked Automobile May
Lead to Giant Brewery
in Bandera Hills.

Grim mystery again has envelopcd
Death Valley, where the unavengel
murder of Ira Lewis took place, anil
officers are seeking to unravel threads
of circumstances that may lead to the
largest illicit brewery in Texas.
With signs of violent struggle on
every side, an abandoned, wrecked su-
tomobile was found just off the Bah
cock road, in Death Valley, by De-
tectives Bartholomae and Grasshoff
Saturday, after they had been notified
of the presence of the deserted car BY
passing motorists. 1t was in a sini-
larly deserted car there that Ira Lewis
body was found.
The car, a sedan of popular make,
appeared TO have collided with another
automobile or to have violently ram
med tree or other object. The axis
was driven back and under the ma
chine.
EVIDENCE OF STRUGGLE.
The ground about was trampled and
in places the grass and turf was torn
up, as though several persons had been
engaged in a vicious struggle.
Broken beer bottles in and near the
car gave mute evidence to substantiats
the theory that drunken jewellers had
passed that way, and deserted their
auto after a collision.
The detectives, however, read diff
ferent story in the bottles.
The car, they believe, was not that
of drunken jewellers, but of gang Of
liquor runners.
LICENSE PLATES SMASHED.
Why, the officers reason, would in
toxicated joy.riders take pains to OBJ
literate the license numbers on the
car?
For that was what was done. Both
front and rear numbers had been prac-
tically obliterated. Practically, but
not entirely so, for with close scanning
the officers were enable to distinguish
the number on one of the disfigured
license plates.
That's not the work Of drunken
revclers," they reason. And if not
joy riders, who did it? Rum rvu-
ners would be the best guess"
EMPLOYS MANY MEN.
1t has been an open secret with
federal. city and county officers that
mammoth brewery possibly the
largest in Texas - is in Operations
somewhere in the hill country west
of San Antonio. This brewery is BE-
licved to supply the bulk Of the BEER
handled BY bootleggers in San An
tonic, Austin and nsighboring towns
and cities.
Many men are employed IN thu
brewery. according TO current fumor.
CONTINUED On Page Tso.l
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01
CATHEDRAL WASHER
CAUGHT WHEN GIRL
APPEALS FOR AID

The cathedral masher," Mexican,
"a, who has been sought for several
days by the police, was arrested Sat
urday after, it is charged, he had
made improper advances to a young
girl who was praying in San Fer
nando Cathedral.
Detectives Ruhnke and Bill Carver
caught the man after the girl had
appealed TO a male parishioner and the
latter had seized the "masher.'
Several complaints had been filed
against the man despite the fact that
he had threatened to kill any of his
victims if they informed on him.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01
PIONEER LUTHERAN
MINISTER is BURIED
BY the Associated Press.

LAGRANGE, Tex, Aug. 1.-The
funeral of the Rev. G. P. A. Schaaf,
prominent pioneer pastor of the
Lutheran Missouri Synod was held
today. He was so years old and at
the time of his death was pastor of
a larger congregation at William
Penn, near Brennan. At one time
he was n member of the faculty of
Lutheran college. Two weeks ago
be attended the synod meeting at
Walburg and took an active part.
His death was sudden and unex,
pected. -
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01
SAN ANTONIO BANK
CLEARINGS IN JULY
TOTAL $37,357,712

Bank clearances for the month of
July, 1925, were $37 ,357 ,711.07. an
increase over those for July, 1924. of
S5,S14, 069.22 according to figures
given out at the close of business for
the month, Friday.
Clearances for July 1924 were
S31 .543,6 42.7J.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01
MINERS OF GERMANY
THREATEN TO STRIKE
BY the Associated Press.

ESSEN, Germany, Aug. 1.-The
miners unions have given notice that
they will terminate their present wage
agreement with the mine owners ON
August 81. The men announced the
Sction will be taken to secure higher
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01
KAT0 AGAIN HEADS
JAPANESE CABINET
BY the Associated Press.

TOXIC, Aug. barron Kato, who
resigned with the cabinet after a
split OYER new taxation proposals,
was rssppointed premier today.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01
ADMITS j. s.
AIR DEFENSE
IS WEAK
President Says Attempt to
Discredii General
Was Failure. "
by Universal Service.

SWAMPSCOTT. Aug. 1.-The
anti-aircraft demonstration conducted
by the War Department last spring
in an alleged attempt to discrcdit
Fighting Billy" MitchelIs expose of
the country's aircraft weakness was
n failure. according to formal admis-
sion made today at the summer White
House.
War Department officials have WED
with each other in making counter
claims of the weakness and effective
ness of the test but it was stated in
the Presidents behalf today that he
regards the test as mot satisfac-
tory"
The test was staged by the War
Department for the benefit of tn.
congressional committee which was
investigating the country's ineffective
ness in the air.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01

at is well known all over the
world that no defense from the ground
can stop aircraft" declared Colonel
Mitchell Saturday, commenting OIL the
Presidents admission.
IAN air force is the only defense
against a hostile air force.
"The recent tests that have been
made by the War Department are
nothing more than kindergarten stuff.
IF they want to devise an adequate
defense against aircraft. they will
have TO turn to people who know
how to fly
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01
|(1ay
|'ord's Birthday.
Words-All
bout Air Fight
lur Brisbane


FORD, e. years old
lay, in mind and body as
y as at 50, thanks TO
ntal activity, and tenn
sends out this birthday
Ing in today, not tomor-
erday."
,essage, only nine words,
'ng.
is living in tomorrow,
tomorrow Of a thousand
For where we work we
prd, thanks to his indus
and economic wisdom,
world ahead in its great
Transportation, is work
f3r the centuries ahead.
I'd is 'liting in the past
ON THE PAST.
is writer last had lunch
fr. Ford and a few Of his
kmen and managers, there
than a dozen kinds of
he table. Just then Ford
nenting with bread. The
hich all those breads were
wheat in Ford's bones,
blood, was developed from
of slight value, BY THE
OF THE STONE AGE,
JARS AGO.
YES and eats with those
women with red hair all
bodies, big chins sticking
ne noble, valuable impulse,
,cency into their husbands
lily out of their sons.
IVES in the past, so Ford
RKS in the past, the past
days, when the first man
re discovered that a heavy
be dragged more easily by
Yer it a round log and let
y roll under the load.
lat came the first wheel,
one slice cut out OF the
afterwards came the two
ling on an axle dragged
,yeral Of the women, later
ne buffalo.
came the four-wheelcd
the light four-wheelcd
d then the four-wheeled
FORD'S giant factories,
10000 workmen, his mil
apitaI all work with the
the savage who discovered
nan could pull an aurochs
ton, if he put a round log
auroch's body.
e in the past. Mr.. Ford,
your dividends and powers
work from the past. Be
, it.
an excellent example be-
fellow men By working for
ire will be grateful to you;
st be grateful TO the man
tied the wheel, the first
melted iron ore into iron,
thousand others, every one
art of your work today.
USEFUL and therefore
TURNS of the day.
RNED gentleman, DIR.
/, teaches geology at the
of Wisconsin and tells
fic world: Japan as n
is a myth" DIR. Leith is
ologist, but as a war ex-
wells in the Paleolithic
avs "Tokio lacks iron ore
What of that: Japan
e resources of China, and,
-tant, modern warfare can
without iron, except the
tity needed for flying ma
'ar will never again be
shooting away masses Of
machines, high explosives,
gases will mean defeat in
ar. And in their manufac-
possesses experts as able
he world, and, incidentally
EN- at work. That's more
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01

MING machines, high explosives,
deadly gases will mean defeat in
le1t war. And in their manufac-
Japan possesses experts as able
hy in the world, and, incidentally
has them at work. That's more
you can say for this country.
~ United States some day may
get a fearful lesson through the
The blow would strike the East
first, probably, destroying the
ma Canal. That as a prelimin-
1t may be noted, to teach this
bn, its rich men afraid of taxa
its dull-minded uniformed
tesmen," its sloppy pacifists and
Ter missionaries with their SYM
bette tales Of "kind hearted" Asia,
you can't win wars or protect
rself with sentiment, or howl
6-my brother" buncombe.
INTELLIGENT people on the Pa
life coast should not wait for a
Iygish government to wake up after
or two American cities shall
se been wrecked and ransomed.
e West Coast should have its own
lection in the form of a great in
state flying militia, self-supporting
/, r?eGcc, carrying passengers and
iShabIe products, ready in war.
OR every flying ship built in
Asia, the West Coast should build
,; for every fast flier built the
st should build one faster. For
ny well-trained Asiatic fiier the
st should have two. 1t has the
ing men of courage, it has the
uey.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-01
GUARD WOMAN
WARNED BY
LIGHTS

Mysterious lights, silent warning C
a San Antonio woman to leave tht
neighborhood,' which threw her into
panic when they cleaned from
neighbors' windows Thursday night
failed to make their appearance again
Friday. Deputy Sheriff Sam Jones
who kept a lonely vigil at the fright,
ened womans house Friday night
believes she will be let alone now.
Deputy James was sent to the scene
when the woman reported to Sheriff
Jim Stevens that an attempt was be-
ing made to force her to leave her
home through intimidation. She was
assured protection. ..
TELLS OF LETTER.
The first report came ut midnight
Thursday, when eerle lights began
shining from windows of ncighbors
of the woman. A window shade would
be raised slowly, n red light would
appear and then the shade would be
lowered slowly. Then a light would
appear from another window.
The woman, badly frightened, called
the sheriff's office. She was requested
to make her complaint in person.
GUARDS HOUSE.
Friday morning she appeared at the
sheriff's office and told of a threaten.
ing letter she had received week
ago. In this letter she was warned
to leave the neighborhood or she
would hear from the writer. The let
ter set out the reasons.
But to Sheriff Stevens she denied
she had given her neighbors cause for
She was staying at home,
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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-01-15
The Great Question: How to Get Mankind
to Try to Improve Itself"
By ELIHU Root. MiIbank Memorial Fund.

X n HAVE the money spend public enlightenment We
NNV can buy health for the people with ito extent But
before the people benefit medical education
have to get them really want improved health and
heightened life And that discovering be exceedingly difficult
don't know whether people really long life enough spend money
on their health.
think the of coal saved locomotives little less than
and the loss If there that
COAL multiply by 100 order to obtain idea of the losses
which when impress the Importance Of the peoples health
the people themselves We useful words the people
day and by night books and lectures class
and public meetings words upon words fogand there
oneenth of onehunded1 Of them which makes
feet on the minds to which it is directed
The only people who things people
read them The people that ought be affected by speech bored by
it. We keep and again other the things that
but at the people who don't with
Now when humanitarian efforts it is almost impossible
to do anything of value from whouy external forces such
unless sympathy and assistance from the individuals try
help The great question Of all the people who to improve the
condition Of mankind how get raannd itself In
the teach people how avoid the scourge Of tuberculosis
teach them to when begins it, to make it continually
dwndng evil being led by advice undertake that through
something besides wordname through demonstration
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-01-15

must begin to resist tendency to live
outside our homes"
The report covers the management
and operation of high-class restaurants
and dance halls, the Broadway dane
ing palaces" the rented hall and the
closed" hall, where commercialization
hats been carried to extremes. 1t ex-
coriates the latter in unmeasured
terms as an iniquity that is both vul-
gar and debaging." The only girls pres
emf are those that are paid on COM
mission basis to dance with men.
Admission charges are for six to
eight dances; thereafter the rates for
dances are 10 cents. and, in some cases.
two for % cents. Both dances and in
termissions are brief. The music is
generally satrocIous." Both patrons
and dancing partners are exploited.
Often a girl must dance as many as
400 times in single week to earn $50.
She gets cents dance, and "the
wear and tear on the ladies' physical
powers Is inhumanly severe.
The club" dancing places, the COM
mittee reports, are patronized by a
better sort Of people. There is much
horseplay, much genuine jollification
and lack Of restraint that is good for
the tired nerves Of the participants"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-01-15
Gotham's Public Dance Halls Crowded

YEW YORK.-Nearly 500 600
IN men and young w wonen. s asnes
every night in public dance
halls. Girls go both for amusement
and for the more or less subconscious
purpose of meeting people and extend
Ing their acquaintance, perhaps even
to the point of finding husbands.
What sort Of places are these7 How
are they operated? What Is likely to
be the result of the contacts made in
such places?
The advisory dance-hall committee
of the Women's City club and the city
recreation committee under the chair
manship Of Mrs Henry Moskowltz has
attempted to answer these questions in
an investigation made under the super
vision of Miss Maria Ward Lambln.
New York has 788 licensed dance
balls, which include restaurants, rent
ed halls and bathrooms, and in Man
haitian alone last year the attendance
at these places was 8,113604, who
spent in them, the report says, prac-
tieally 100000.
Some of thAse places are good, some
are bad, and all are having their eff
fects on young people to such an ex-
tent that the report suggests. "We
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-01-15
Saving 26O-Year-Old Brooklyn House

~ ROOKLYN, N members of
~ the numerous historical societies
in New York city and those who
love to dwell upon the good old
days" of the past are watching with
interest the competition which has
been active for several years between
Manhattan and Brooklyn in the preser-
walton of its old houses. A few years
ago the surviving members of the
Dyckman family in New York city re-
stored and presented to the city the
picturesque Dyckman farmhouse at
Broadway and Two Hundred and
Twenty-fourth street. About the same
time civic pride In Brooklyn concen-
trated upon the Lefferts mansion, one
of the finest Of the old Flatbush homes.
IT was saved from threatened destruc-
ton, but 1t was necessary to move 1t
two or three blocks into Prospect park,
where 1t now stands near the Willink
entrance.
: Brooklyn antiquarians and others
are making drive to purchase the
oldest house In that borough, the John
Schenck homestead, on Mill island, ia
maica bay. This is in the area known
as Flatlands, at about Avenue V and
Sixty-second street. 1t Is proposed to
purchase the house by popular sub
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-01-15
Providence Takes Politics Seriously

~ ROVIDENCE, r. NO more BIT
- ter political warfare has ever
been waged In Rhode Island than
that between the Republicans
and Democrats, beginning In January.
1923, and continuing to the present
time. The Democratic attack is now
stopped as result of their complete
rout on November 4, last, and the fight
is now merely question Of peace ar
rangements.
Filibusters lasting from five to fifty
hours, with senate officers seated for
forty-two hours; crowds of jeering
spectators free-for-aH fight In front
of the rostrum, in which senators,
sherlffs. and even women spectators
Joined, and gas bombing have
marked the meetings
Stsgnation of legislation, blocking
even the annual appropriation bill, pro
longing the 1928 senate session to six
months, and the 1924 session to twelve
months, and the self-exiling after the
bomb outrage of twenty-five Republic
an senators In Massachusetts, have
been results.
Setting loose of deadly bromine gas
In the senate on June 10 .last, after a
Aiibuster of AZ hours without a recess,
was the climax Of the two-year strug-
gle. Three Republican senator's, Ar
thur A. Sherman, president pro TEN :
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-01-15

scription and present 1t to the city.
The Schenck house Is worthy of pres
ervation, as it has been called the old
est house In habitable condition in
New York state. Records seem to In
dicate that it was built between 1865
and 1850, giving the house an age Of
more than 200 years. 1t was erected
by Jan Martense Schenck Van Nydeck,
grandson Of noble Dutch family that
came to America from Amersfoort,
Holland, In 1850. His son, Martin Janse
Schenck, inherited by his fathers will
ssthe old land with the small island and
mill" He married the widow Of Domi-
ME LupardIus, and his son was the
Capt. John Schenck from whom the
house gets its name Captain Schenck
was shipowner, and brought many
consignments of goods from old Meth
erlands to the new country.
During the Revolution the house was
the scene of the capture of Maj. James
iMoncrieff, one of the ablest engineers
In the British army, who lived there
for some time after the battle of Long
Island. The capture was made by
Capt. William Mariner. who sailed
across the bay from the New Jersey
shore one night in June, ITS. with %
men,
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-01-15
Chicago's New capitol Of Agriculture

time of railroad "air rights" on a big
scale, similar to the Grand Central ter
minal development In New York, The
five-acre structure will be on steel
stills, most of 1t being over the tracks
of the Illinois Central and New York
Central lines. The erection of vast
suburban terminal In which all Illinois
Central electric trains will be cared
for. The worlds largest convention
hall. 1t will have 10000 to $4,000
seats A commercial hotel with at
least $500 rooms. A tower section
fronting the east bridge plaza will
form the main Boul Mich entrance
to the building. Tentative plans call
for 700-foot steel and masonry struc-
ture, with several hundred feet OF
open steel tower above, capped with a
wireless broadcasting station.
"The building will have $500 900
square feet of floor area, which means
100000 square feet larger than the
Furniture Mart" said Lawrence Whit
Ing. It'll have 100000 cubic feet.
This means It'll be the largest build
ing in the world of any kind so far
as We know. There are now eleven
great trade shows in this country too
large to get into one building. The
big convention hall will bring all OF
them to Chicago. It's expected that
work can start soon enough SO the
entire structure will be completed By
May l. 1927"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-01-15

r. G. McMeehan and Frederick b.
Cole, had to be carried to the hospital.
It was this session in which the
Democratic minority Of 16. backed up
by Lieut.. Gov. Felix A. Toupin, pre-
siding, intended to force the Republic
an majority of % to pass resolution
calling for constitutional convention
for the revision Of the 1912 constitu-
tion.
Whether the "gas bomb" outrage
was perpetrated by Democratic or Re-
publican sympathizers or by some over
enthusiastic practical joker has never
been proven. A grand jury returned
indictments for conspiracy to assault
the lieutenant governor and disrupt
the senate, but all indictments were
dismissed.
The Republican majority fed from
the state on June 20 and left the SEN
ate powerless to pass legislation. They
thus made themselves immune to ar
rest ON warrants from the presiding Of
ficer.
The exiled senator's have remained
at their hotel, forsaking business and
home ties for more than five months.
One has died since he went away.
Eleven Of the absentees sought re-elec-
tion and got it. They with their col
leagues have returned to Providence
for the 1925 assembly.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-01-15

~ HICAGo.-The windy city Is
4 taking on airs just now over
the coming construction of the
American Agricultural Society
building to cost $3O.000000. This, it
is stated, will distinguish Chicago be-
yond dispute as the agricultural and
commercial center Of the Middle West.
It Is to cover a five acre tract abut-
ting on the east the south approach
to the Michigan avenue bridge. I'm
der one roof will be contained con-
vention hall with capacity of 20
GOO, hotel of unrivaled size. huge
office building and extensive exposi-
ton floors all topped by tower
comparable to the Eiffel tower in
Paris.
1t will be a worlds temple to agrl-
culture and is direct response to the
recent resolutions adopted by 500 dele
gates to the American Farm Bureau
federation convention in this city,
which urged the erection of mann
moth structure to be national center
Of farm activities In America.
Former Governor Frank o. Lowden
of Illinois. is chairman OF the group
Of midwest men of note back of this
great project. Associated with him
are William Wrigley, Jr., Robert w
Stewart. Lawrence Whiting and
others.
Briefly, the main features OF the build
ing include Employment for the first