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Evening star., 1925-02-27
BROOKLYN TIMES PLANT
DAMAGED BY FIRE
Paper Will Be Printed Today on
Presses of Others in City.
Damage Near 100000.
Y The Associated Press

BY the Ass0Cla led Press.
NEW YORK. February 27.-Fire yes
terday partly destroyed the editorial and
composing rooms of the Brooklyn Daily
Times with an estimated loss of S100 600.
John Harman, editor-in-chief, an
nounced that he had accepted the offer
of other Brooklyn papers and would is
sue today's editions of the Times from
their presses. He said he hoped to re-
sumo publication at the Times Building
by tomorrow
Evening star., 1925-02-27
Last Day! Special
Engraving Prices

Cards and Plate. Your name
engraved in Old English, Modi-
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shaded type; copper plate and
so cards, $3.50. Your name en-
graved in script type
on copper plate and CT Al
so cards ......... CI.EU
From Your Own Plate. Re-
printing from your
own plate, so cards, Ct On
zoe; 100 cards .... Sx.kV
We use only Cranes best
quality cards.
STREET FLOOR
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
AIR MAIL LINE
TO OPEN IN
z WEEKS
Service to Be Inaugurated
,. Between Chicago
and Detroit.

Air mail service, backed by Henry
Ford, and which will radiate in all
directions from San Antonio, is to
begin within two weeks, it was an
nounced Wednesday following a con-
ference between the automobile manu-
facturer and Postmaster General
Harry S. New.
The first lines to start will be be-
tween Detroit and Chicago, where the
Ford Company has conducted express
air routes for more than six months.
As quickly as the Ford plant turns
out more planes the lines will be ex-
tended with prospects that several
services will be flying out of Sar
Antonio before Christmas, it is pre-
dicted.
About S1O,0OO,OOO already has been
subscribed by Ford and group OF
California capitalists as the initia
capital with which to finance new
air mail lines.
Immediately upon completion of the
flying arrangements from here, the
Mexican government will establish @
liasion here with its lines which will
extend to Central America.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
u. S. Refuses Fords
Free Air Mail Offer

WASHINGTON, Sept. 0.-P)-
Postmaster General New said today
the air mail service between Detroit
and Chicago, utilizing the present
Ford air service, would have to await
formal advertising and award of air
mail contracts for the route.
1t is understood the Ford interests
were DESTROYS of furnishing that sery-
ice Immediately and at no cost to the
government, but the postmaster gen.
eral was unable to accept any such
concession.
Opening Of bids for contracts for
eight new air mail routes will take
place here September 10. 1t is ex-
pccted proposals will be received from
a number of new air service enter
prises.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
HOPE FOR RECOVERY
OF PAINTER DESPITE
FIVE-STORY FALL

Max PorteIl, apprentice painter
who fell five stories from n Scaffold
Tuesday. fracturing his skull and
breaking his hip, has a slight chance
for recovery, according to attaches Of
the Physicians and Surgeons Hospital
An operation, performed upon the
youth soon after the accident, ply
sicians declare, may save his life.
Police are continuing their inyesti-
CATION to learn who removed the eouu-
ter-balance weights from the scaitold
which resulted in Portell stepping into
space and tumbling to the concrete
alleywsy below.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
PHILIPPINES OPPOSE
PROPOSAL TO EXTEND
DRY LAW TO ISLANDS

MANILA, Sept. 9.-R)-The pro-
posal made by some persons in the
United States that enforcement of the
Yolstead act be extended to the Philip
pine Islands today met with opposi-
ton from Governor General Leonard
Wood and leaders in the Philippine
Legislature.
The government leaders asserted
that any attempt to apply the Vol
stead act here would be an interior
ence with the general legislative pow
er of the Philippine government IN
matters Of domestic concern, granted
Filipinos under the Jones law.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

had believed to be a soldier
wishing a ride to camp, COW
cred him with a revolver.
Get out and be quick about it, 81
the bandit ordered.
A second bandit, unmasked and
likewise well dressed, appeared from
the side of the road, when the victim
complied with the order.
Put your gun up and search this
bird" the second bandit said as h
approached Sergeant AShby.
His companion hastily complied
After the money had been taken from
the sergeant's pocket. one of the ban
dts counted it in the CLEAN of tn,
victims automobile lights.
pretty good for one night h
commented.
After ordering Sergeant Ashby bael
into his car, the pair backed ava!
and escaped.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
AUTO HEADLIGHT
ARRESTS TO START
THURSDAY MORNING

Folks operating automobiles with
headlights not conforming to the head
light law will be arrested after We'd
ncsday night was the decree of ]. w
Collins. auto license inspector.
Days of grace were allowed San
Antonians due to the lack Of inspect
ing equipment. Since its arrival the
light inspectors report but few auto
mobiles having their lights inspected
which brought Mr.. Collins declara'
ton.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
Texas Protests Rate Boost
Woman Asks
For Jail as
Protection

I'D rather 20 to Jail than stay
at home"
A strange preference but the
one expressed by Miss Lois
Henderson, S12 Avenue b, Tues
day morning.
Alone at her residence she was
awakened by a prowler in the
rear yard. She became frighten'
ed and notified detectives.
Captain Harvey and Detective
Harris responded.
81 want to 20 TO jail" she
told them after they had failed
TO locate the prowler.
And this didn't seem strange
to the officers, because Mrs
Maude Henderson, mother oil
Miss Henderson, is police
matron.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
WOMAN is BRUISED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT

Mrs. P. F. Moeglin Of Fort Nc
Kavitt, suffered a sever liberation
above the right eye and bruises of the
body in an automobile accident short
ly before noon Tuesday.
Mrs. A. b. Woodbridge, 400 Babcock
road was the occupant of the other
automobile. She escaped uninjured.
The accident occurred at the Freder-
icksburg road and West Summit place.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
ROADS
WHICH SEEK
INCREASE
Shippers Say Plan Would
Work Hardship
on Them.

AUSTIN, Sept. 9.-Texas railroads
are thriving and any increase in
freight rates is unnecessary and
would work hardships on shippers, ac-
cording to a petition filed with the
Interstate Commerce Commission at
Chicago today.
The statement is in connection with
a plan outlined in the petition to sep
arate groups of railroads in the west
ern territory and allowing an adjust
ment of rates for each.
The document wa signed by mem
bers of the railroad commissions OF
Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, and
was presented in compliance with the
Hock-Smith resolution passed by Con
gress for a review of freight rates on
agricultural products.
The carriers had requested an in
crease in rates while shippers seek re-
auctions.
LOWER OVERHEAD.
1t is pointed out in the petition that
Texas carriers operate at lower over
head and gain greater revenue than
other railroads in the western group
and seek establishment of a south
western group which would have its
separate and distinct rates.
The states embraced in the propose
are Texas, Oklahoma and parts OF
Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana.
1t is also explained in the document
that under the present scheme some
northern roads in the western group
have not earned sufficient income and
that their request for increased rates
to offset this deficit should not intiu-
ence a reduction in rates for south.
western carriers who are earning a
fair profit.
The I. c. c. in 1920 designated rate
groups as the Eastern, Southern,
Western and Mountain-Pacific groups,
respectively.
At that time the carriers designated
in what is now the proposed South
western Rate Group made application
for a separate group but were denied
The I. c. c. did, however, designate
the Mountain-Pacific group, carving
the territory out of the Western dis
trict, and gave as reasons the princi'
nal railroads serving the territory were
in substantially better financial condi
ton than other western carriers.
The commission also said that con
ditions did not exist at that time the
separation of the Southwestern car
ricrs from those of the Western dis
| trict
The commissions filing their peti
ton today eadcavor to show that con
dn.,ns have materially changed 81
that n separation Of the Southwestern
carriers into a distinct group for rat
making purposes is now feasible an'
the purnose of the Interstate Com
mcrcc commission act will be bes
served by such separation
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
BIRDS AT PARK zoo
MOURN DEATH OF
GRANDMA OSTRICH

While the old birds of the Bracken-
ridge Park zoo hang their head in
sorrow, the younger ones of but a sea-
sons age chirp in undertones with an
understanding that all is not well.
Grandma Ossy Ostrich is no more.
Grandma Ostrich, whose age is un.
known, had been a member of the
Breckenridge fcathered community for
more than Il years. She died late
Tuesday evening.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
KIWANIANS ELECT
JUDGE F. W. BAILEY

AUSTIN, Sept. 9.-Judge Frank
NJ. Bailey of Chickasha was elected
governor of the Texas-Oklahoma Dis
trict Kiwanis international here.
Muskogee was selected as the 1875
convention city without opposition.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
DALLASITE GETS 10
YEARS FOR ROBBERY

DALLAS, Sept. 9.--Roy Biekle of
Dallas was sentenced today to ten
gears in the penitentiary on a charge
of robbing tailor shop here May 10.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

THE good missionaries in China
i find dissatisfaction among con-
verted Chinese. The psychology of
the converts" seems to be still Chi
nese. not christian" and students
at Christian missions are organizing
anti Christian demonstrations.
This should not surprise or dis
courage good missionaries. Scratch
a Christian Chinese, and you find
Confucian or Tasist, without going
very far under the skin. 1t is easier
to change a mans nominal religion
than to change his character or
thought.
History teaches that Asia does not
take to Christianity or its teachings.
Christianity originated in Asia, but
Paul had to take it to Europe to
establish it as the dominating reli-
gion. 1t has never taken hold in any
part Of Asia, where it was born.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
POLICE SEEK
GIRL FENCE:
IN CASE
Leader Of Dope-crazedR Ring
Tells Details of
Robberies.

San Antonio's "River Rat" gang
has been broken up.
The leader of the dope-crazcd gang
which has been responsible for a Sc
ries of downtown robberies, netting
thousands of dollars in loot, is under
arrest and has admitted to participa-
ton in three robberics.
A "perfumed woman" believed to
have acted as a fence for three youths
who composed the gang, is being
sought. 1t was she, officers believe,
who disposed of expensive perfume
stolen from San Antonio drug stores.
Officers are seeking two other men,
bers Of the gang, one who escaped at
ter arrest and another who is known
to have associated with the River
Rats"
RECOVER LOOT.
Detectives predict their arrest dur
ing the day.
Meanwhile detectives have recov-
cred more than 5000 worth of mar
cotics and several hundred dollars
worth of jewelry and clothing taken
from downtown stores and apartment
houses.
The leader of the gang was arrest
ed in front of the postoffice Tuesday
after Detective 2. II. Fox had trailcd
him for days.
Wednesday morning the leader OF
the River Rats" admitted that 1t
was at a Soledad Street rendezvous
that he met two companions and fired
by frequent "shots" Of morphine,
planned the burglaries that have baf-
fled police for so long.
IDENTIFIED BY WOMAN.
He admitted, officers said, to hav-
ing participated in the burglarizing of
the Bingers Pharmacy, $50 South
blackberry Street, August 81, where
more than $1,000 worth of narcotics
and perfumes were stolen.
He was identified by Mrs. w. A.
Conroy, 647 Soledad Street. as the
man who Tuesday morning entered
her apartment and stole $191 worth
Of jewelry.
A quantity of loot stolen from the
Worthwhile Clothing Company, 2O3
West Houston Street, was recovered
by officers. A partial confession to
the robbery of the Voight Clothing
Company, los West Houston Street,
where more than 60 shirts and other
clothing was taken, also was obtained
from the youth.
Chief of Detectives Street and De-
tective Fox are still grilling him, in
efforts to connect him with other
burglaries.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
SAMARITAN ACT COSTS
SERGEANT $3.50 ROLL

Stopping to pick up neatly-dressed young man
Wednesday morning cost Staff Sergeant Walter G. Ashby
of Kelly Field $3.50.
As SERGEANT AshbY stopped, the Young man. whom he
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
NAVY PILOT KILLED
IN SAN DIEGO CRASH

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 9.-R)-Avia-
tom Pilot John G. Stinson, was killed
and Aviation Bigger Samuel II. Lyon
slightly injured when the seaplane in
which they were flying fell from a
height of several hundred feet into
San iDiego Bay. Both men were at
tachk to the North island Naval Air
stadb
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
SAYS TRUTH
Of CHARGES
ESSENTIAL
PO|N I
Coast Artillery-Air Service
Fight Seen in Sending
of Officer.

Declaring that if an inves-
tigation of his charges of in
competence of war and navy
department administration
was to be made, it should be
made on the merits Of the case. and
not merely on a question OF insuh
ordination, Colonel William Mitchell;
released his third interview since the
Shenandoah disaster to the San An
tonic Light and the Hearst news
papers here Wednesday.
A queer angle Of the investigation
which has been ordered by the War
Department became apparent Wednes-
day, with the announcement that Colo
mel George A. Nugent, of the Coast
Artillery, was being sent here by thei
Inspector Generals department to in
vestigate Mitchelis charges.
START PROBE AT ONCE.
Colonel f. D. Scott, a Field Artil-
lery officer, also attached to the In
spector Generals department, is al
ready at Fort Sam Houston, where
he could conduct an immediate inves-
! tigation.
Friends of Colonel Mitchell see in
the sending of a Coast Artillery off
Ger to investigate Mitchell's charges,
another effort to discredit the Flying
General" because of the bitter feeling
now existant in the Coast Artillery
against the Air Service.
This feeling has been engendesod
because of coast defense tests of anti
aircraft guns, in which the air service,
has proven its superiority, according
to airmen here.
SUBORDINATE SENT.
\ Colonel Scott, who is already on the(
ground and could get in Immediate
touch with Colonel Mitchell, il hd
wished. outranks Colonel Nugent. o.
the Coast Artillery, who is being sen
here, by 159 files on the Army Regi-
ter, officers point out. They declart
themselves at loss to explain why d
subordinate officer should be sent|
when the Inspector Generals departE
mcnt already has Colonel Scott on the
ground. unless il has been influenced
by the Coast Guardian Service COM
troversy.
Let every American know abso1
lutCly that we are going to better our|
National Defense, that VIC are on the|
warpath and that we are going to stay|
there until these conditions are rene
died." declared Colonel Mitchell We'd
uesday.
EVADE TRUTH.
"The barking of the little dogs-tha
follow the main pack should not ID
lude any clear-thinking person as "A
the object of our chase, so while % 4
6ureaucrats and non-flyers indulge in
mental gymnastics in Washington, in
an attempt to evadc the truth by
whitewashing boards, alibis and sug-
gcstions for fixing the blame for dis
asters ON the dead commanders, when
they know they themselves were fc.
sponsible, are not worth the time
taken away from teaching our people
what our National Defense should \!
and telling them the truth about Il
General Mitchelrs statement WI
nesday follows:
PROBE PROPER
Again I have been asked to expt q
my opinion on the so-called disci D n
airy measures that are being taxed q
my case BY the War Department
far, all I have to go on are the 4
: paper reports, II is entirely right y
, proper than an investigation shou
. made BY the War Department on
CONTINUED On Page Two.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

JENRY L. HUNTINGTON, of
i i California, pays more than 2
million dollars for four paintings by
Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romny, and
Constable. You are glad that Hunt
ington will have these pictures to
look at the rcst of his life and glad
that he has the money to buy them.
These portraits. with all his other
magnificent paintings, his magnificent
library, and the house in which he
lives, have already been given away
and are now the property Of the peo-
pie of California. When a man gives
what he has to the people, the more
he has the better.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
~HIEFJ POLICE SURGEON

NHIEFV POLICE SURGEON
~ OWEN, brings from Europe to
Philadelphia, this statement:
'yhen i asked them in London
and Paris about drunken policemen.
firemen and taxi drivers they laughed
at me. There simply aren't any.
The solution over there is, give the
police and firepen their light wine
and beer. It's cure for drunken
ness. There is no prohibition to
interfere with their imbibing Of wine
and beer and there is no drunken
ness.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
PROBE PROPER

Again I have been asked to expt
my opinion on the so-cailed disci D
airy measures that are being taxed
my case BY the War Department
far, all I have to go on are the ~
paper reports, II is entirely right I
proper than an investigation shori
made By the War Department on
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

IF Saklatvala tried to PULL
i DOWN the union jack, they
would put him in Jail quickly
enough. The queer British, although
they haven't any Constitution with
free speech in it, seem to take free
speech seriously. We, presumably
more enlightened, have free speech in
our Constitution, but forbid 1t In
practice.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

THAT statement, shocking to good
L rrohibitionists, confirms what
Thomas Jefferson said more than a
hundred years ago. He urged Con-
gress to encourage light wine and
beer in order to get rid of whiskey,
which, said he. kills half Of our men
and ruins their families. Prohibition
has succeeded in getting rid of light
wine and beer, not of whiskey. But
it has been on trial a short time only.
PROFESSOR PRICE, who teaches
i geology in Nebraska, is angry at
the British who shouted him down,
when he spoke against Darwin. Says
he: ten millions in America are
against Darwin" The professor
might also say, EIGHTY millions in
America don't know anything about
Darwin, and don't, therefore, know
really whether they are with him or
against him."
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
Today

Washington Will Shud-
der,
Asia Is Not Christian.
What? Beer, Wine and
Sober?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09


- REPARE for first-class shud-
dering in Washington. &.
The Communist member OF
Parliament, Saklatvala, is one OF the
British delegation to the parliament
tary conferences at Washington.
Sakiatvala in public speech said'
among other things, this OF the
British Flag:
"The union jack is the symbol OF
enslayed labor all over the world.
II is the weapon with which the
worker is downtrodden. In the
name of the British worker / de-
mand that the union jack shall cease
10 function. 1 say, let us abolish the
union jack"
Suppose Communist or Socialist
member of our Congress said that
about the stars and stripes. What
would happen to him? Would he be
sent as a member of congressional
delegation to London, or would ne
be sent to the morgue?
THE British are a queer people
i and allow Britons to think what
they like, and SAY what they like.
That's one reason why they go on
adding to their empire, and one rea-
son why King George and his family
still hold the throne. They find it
wise to let men think and talk.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
By Arthur Brisbane

----Copyrignt. 1895 by Star CO.
. REPARE for first-class shud-
= dering in Washington.
, rrL ro,.n,,,;.t rnprnhpr of
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-12-16
RIVERSIDE SHIPS
 MORE CONCENTRATES

Twenty tons of concentrates from the Riverside mine were taken out by the motorship Norco enroute to the smelter.
 The shipment was the second made since the resumption of operations by Messrs. J. D. Littlepage and M. J. St Clair some weeks ago, a shipment of 45 tons having been sent out last month.
 The mine is being worked on a modest scale but is doing ex- cellently, as the shipping rec ord shows. The ores now hand led are said to be of exception al grade, with an increased gold content which addthmth gold content which adds con- siderably to the values extract ed as compared to those ob- tained from earlier operations.
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-12-16

Alaska commodities, exclus- i've of gold and silver, shipped to the States during the month of October, aggregated in val ue $6,938,557, according to the monthly statement of mel> chandise shipments issued by John c. Mcbride, collector of customs. This was $780,082 less than the total outgoing shipments of October, 1924.
 The loss was caused by a heavy shrinkage in shipments of copper ore by the Kenne- colt interests. Last month these shipments amounted to 6,280,- 534 pounds, having a value of $760,567, while the same month a year ago they reach ed 1,651,471 pounds, with a declared value of $1,621,644. Products of the fisheries in- dustry showed a small in- crease. Canned salmon exports were valued at $4,932,573, more than $8O.OOO in excess of the exports for October 1924. Other branches of the fishing industry gained about $20,0O0.
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-12-16
B. C. SILVER
 SHIPPING ORE

The first shipment of ors from the B. c. Silver under the winter operations schedule Is now being accumulated at the Stewart dock for shipment to the smelter.
 The shipment will comprise 50-tons and is said to be made up of ore from the new ore body found last winter by dia- mond drilling and later open- cd for exploration by a cross cut from the main tunnel. A drift run on the ore is said to have disclosed not only a very large body of ore but also a shoot of high grade carrying values in excess of $500 per ton, according to assays.
 The work of hauling the ore to tidewater is being done by the Crawford Transfer.
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-12-16
PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES

The Public Library is open every Tuesday and Friday, af- tarnoon and evening: Hours 3 to 5 and 2 to 8 p. m.
 Among the most pleasing de- velopments of the week was the receipt by the Library Board of a cash donation of $25 from Portland Canal Lodge No. 1218, Loyal Order of Moose.
 The action of the lodge is most commendable and help full and will enable the board to secure a number of works that will form a splendid au- dition to the list of worth while publications now OH hand.
 Technical, scientific and edu- cative works are among the principal needs of the library, as the contributions so far It. ceived have been mainly works of fiction, of which there is now an excellent COZ lection.
 Next week the Herald will publish a list of 100 worth while books which the Library Board is greatly desirous ol securing. The list comprises the selection made by a com mittee of ninety-six men ana women, all of whose names are to be found in Who's Who in America. The list has also been recommended by 94 per cent of the Public Libraries of the United States to their readers and has the endorse ment of the American Library Association.