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Evening star., 1925-04-02

farmers, consumers, travellers or
those engaged In intellectual and
artistic pursuits comes through Of
fetal channels to the Government
bureaus, commissions and depart
ments, Washington is In reality q
great center for world news.
Only q few years ago 1t took days
and oven weeks to get the news from
Washington, where today 1t Is mat
ter Of minutes-and authoritative
news from the Capital of the United
States Is sent by Navy wireless to
insular possessions and the Far East.
In the Capitol building galleries are
provided for newspaper men directly
above the Speakers seat in the House
and above the Vice Presidents seat
In the Senate. There the reporters
can hear the debates on the floor,
have ready access to the members and
keep in constant and close touch with
all legislation They also attend all
committee meetings where legislation
Is being considered preliminary to
It's being reported to either branch
of Congress. They attend the ses-
sions Of the Supreme Court, hear the
decisions when they are read and
get printed copies of the decisions
When any of the many committees
Evening star., 1925-04-02
YOU AND UNCLE SAM
Series OF Educational articles Telling Hoto Federal Govern
n,ent Is Organized and HoW 1t Functions-Written
Expressly for School Children.
No. 45How Country Gets the News From Washington.

them by wire and by wireless, by
airship, by post and in every conceiv-
able way as quickly as may be possi-
BILE the latest news on all subjects
from Washington.
While laws are being worked out
while changes are being contemplated
In any branch of the Federal service,
while reforms are being discussed
and policies advocated, they are kept
informed, and when definite action Is
taken, rival agencies are fighting
each other to get the news first to the
people. AS news from all over the
world. that is Of vital interest to
American manufacturers, producers
Evening star., 1925-04-02

No city in all the world holds, day
in and day out, as much interest for
all the people of the United States
as does their Capital City, where their
laws are made, where Uncle Sam Is
multiplying his activities in their be-
half, where their rights abroad are
protected. and where they can get
authoritative information on all mat
ters in which they are concerned.
Yet, the people in the big cities, in
small towns, In villages, in isolated
communities. in the factories and on
the farms, do not realize that a
trained army is always on the alert
in the National Capital to fash to
Evening star., 1925-04-02
LOCKOUT is ORDERED.
Belgian Metal Workers Defied by
Employers.

BRUSSELS. April 2.-All employers
In the metallugical industry in Hainaut
fective April 16, in answer to the
Charleroi metal workers threat &c
strike on that date unless their wages
are increased. The Industrial situa-
tion also Is threatened by the possi-
bility of trouble in the mines, as the
mine owners have filed notice de
Eouncing the wage scale that will &C
into effect May l.
Evening star., 1925-04-02

see the Newspaper IueIl, Auu prcoo-
rooms are provided in the various
departments and In number of bu-
reaus.
Press Services Maintained.
In addition to this practically every
important agency OF the Government
maintains a press service" where
articles are prepared setting forth
information that the Government
agency wants to get before the peo-
pie. There are also a number of
Government publications to which
the reporters have access to aid
them In getting all the news that
the people of the country should have
without their impeding the work OF
the Government by many of them in
vading the Government workshops
and offices.
There are actually hundreds OF
trained newspaper men-the best in
all the land-gathering this news
daily from all these official sources
picking up what other news they can
and interpreting 1t for the people
They work for the Associated Press
cooperative news agency serving
some 1900 of the largest papers In
the country; they work for other
Evening star., 1925-04-02

The forty-sixth article in this series
will be on THE Union Of All the
American Republics" 1t will be print
ed In this paper next Sunday.
Evening star., 1925-04-02

without bias or prejudice informed of
what Is happening in the Nations
Capital Of vital interest to them and
their Government.
Copyright, 1925, by VIII P. Kennedy
Palisadian., 1925-12-04
Bergenheld, N. j., Wins
Third Place in National
Better Home Campaign

In the 1925 Better Homes campaign,
headed by Herbert Hoover. Secretary
of Commerce, the committee of judges
divided the first cash prize betwe cen
Santa Barbara, Cal, and Atlanta, Ga.
A special school practice house award
was given to Fort Huron, Mich, win
ner of the first prize in 1928. First
prize for demonstration in a commur
nifty OF less than 10000 population was
given to Roanoke Rapids, N. c.; the
second prize to Gaithersburg, Md, and
third award to Bergenfeld, N. J.
The Bergenfield Better Homes cam
paign in 1925 has crystallized and
dramatized a better type of home and
home building for the community.
Thinking people for the past four or
five years have deplored the develop
ment of rows and rows of houses one
like another and frequently not of the
better kind of construction. The Ber-
genfield Better Homes has given the
community a demonstration of what
can be done in the planning and build
ing of home as well as the furniture.
on limited budget TO meet the res
quirements of the average income of
our type of community.
Palisadian., 1925-12-04
State and County
News in Brief
Continued from Page /

Instead of appearing before Chan
cellor Walker and asking for a new
trial William A. Wachenfeld, counsel
for Harrison w. Noel, the youthful
Montclair slayer, now in the death
house, went before the Court of Par
dons, sitting at Trenton. and pleaded
for clemency for the condemned man.
The court will render its decision
later. Noel is sentenced to die in the
electric chair during the week of jan
uary 10 for the murder of Raymond
Pierce, negro taxi driver, of Montclair.
Senator Alexander Simpson of Hud-
son has announced that unless the Re-
publican members of the legislature
take the necessary steps to allow the
voters of the state to express their
opinion on the sale of beer and light
wines he himself will introduce a bill
he has drafted calling for referen-
dunn on the subject. Republican lead
ers in the state, pointing to their three
defeats for the governorship, have
been quietly pointing out the folly of
being classed as dry" and playing in
with the Anti-Saloon League.
To Bergen county has been allotted
the appointment of five attaches of
the house of assembly when it assem-
Palisadian., 1925-12-04
Main St. Property in
Fort Lee Sold Recently

The home of Charles l.. Bender,
borough collector of Fort Lee. which
is situated on the northeast corner of
Main street and Center avenue, was
sold during the past month for a fig
ure in the neighborhood of 100000.
The sale was made through George
II. Schlosser,. real estate broker, Of
Main street. James ID. Moore, In
heritance Tax Collector and County
Traffic Judge, was the purchaser The
property was in the name of Clara
Bender, the borough collectors wife,
and has frontage of 100 feet on
Main street and 100 feet on Center
avenue.
For some time past it has been
understood that Anderson avenue will
eventually be extended through the
undeyeloped property at the end OF
Center avenue and will connect with
that street at it's southern end.
Palisadian., 1925-12-04
PAGE FIVE

members of the county board OF cleo
tions on the grounds that the dead
man, the late Assemblyman Lindsay,
had received a greater vote than
Schroeder, who received the highest
vote OF the Democratic candidates for
the Office.
AT caucus of the Democratic mem
bers Of the coming house of assembly
Assemblyman Morris E. Barison OF
Hudson county was chosen to lead the
Democratic minority in the 1926 house
of assembly, which has but three
members outside of the Hudson coun-
ty delegation.
One result or the vote in Bergen
county at the recent election is that
eleven new voting districts will have
to be created next year, necessitating
the appointment Of forty-four new poll
clerks, each of whom receive $75 per
election from the county, as well as
the designation OF the new polling
places.
ern part OF the state to cope with the
deepest drifts that may be encounter
ed. All plows and equipment have
been stored at convenient places on
the twenty-one state highway routes.
Marion Brazier, who made her es-
cape from the Bergen county Jail some
weeks ago, is said to be plying her
trade again in and about Boston. The
Brazier woman's specially Is passing
worthless checks, as several Bergen
county merchants can testify After
her departure from Hackensack she
is said to have mulcted the Pennsyl-
vania hotel in New York before de-
parting for the Hub, where her pic
ture has been identified as Bergen
county's escaped prisoner by several
merchants she fleeced.
Continuing their Investigations, the
Bright legislative investigating COM
mittee have declared that the cost df
maintaining state institutions is ex-
cessive. The maintenance cost fdr
each inmate has increased 113 per
cent within less than ten years, it is
declared. Current operating costs in
maintaining state institutions for the
past fiscal year ate up almost one
third the entire current expenses OF
New Jersey. The investigation dis
closed that in practically every case
the maintenance cost in New Jersey
is considerably higher than in other
states.
The post Office department has is
sued notice calling attention to the
fact that many residents of northern
ing cards with postage short. These
require 2 cent stamp under the new
postal law, although many are still
marked in the corner place l cent
stamp here" Only the government
postals with the printed stamp there
on can be mailed for l cent.
Palisadian., 1925-12-04

bles on January ~ as its share of the
patronage. The places allotted to Ber-
gen are supervisor of bills, the second
most important post among the Off
GERS, carrying salary of $1,000 for
the session; one assistant journal
clerk, $500, and three pages, 5000 each.
AS is usual with a Republican legisla-
ture, no patronage was awarded to
Hudson county.
AT a meeting of the New Jersey
State League of Municipalities to be
held this month recommendation is
to be forwarded to Congress asking
for state control of interstate buses
Motor Vehicle Commissioner William
l.. Dill is said to be in favor of such
control. Commissioner Dill recently
stated that New York Philadelphia
buses were in the habit of speeding
along the state highways at fifty-five
miles an hour, competing with steam
railways and ignoring state and mu-
nicipal traffic regulations. AS a re
cent United States Supreme Court de-
cision held the interstate vehicles sub
ject only to federal control, Congress
is to be asked to remedy this condi-
ton.
Chief Justice Gummere of the Su-
preme Court of New Jersey has given
it as his opinion that dead man can
not be elected to Office and that Ed
ward A. Schroeder, Democrat. of Glen
Ridge was entitled to a certificate of
election as member of the assembly
from Essex county. The certificate
was refused to him by the Republican
Palisadian., 1925-12-04
Plumbing Fixtures in
Many New Local Homes
Being Installed by "Bob"

Robert S. Davidson, plumber, of
Grantwood is right now in the midst
of a very busy season. He is kept
busy on many houses that are in the
course of erection in many parts of
the county and particularly here in
Palisade and Grantwood. He is in
stalling the plumbing and heating sys-
TENS in the newly erected house on
the cliff in Palisade and several other
homes in West Grantwood.
Davidson's shop is located on Rey-
nolds Lane, Grantwood, and has sew
eral men steadily employed on new
Palisadian., 1925-12-04
Writ Granted Restraining
Erection of Garage

George Boye of Fort Lee on Monday
afternoon obtained an injunction from
Vice Chancellor Fielder in the Jersey
City Chancery Court restraining Har-
ry d. Schall of Palisade from erecting
o garage on Bergen boulevard and the
state highway.
According 10 Bove, Mr.. Schall Il yio-
lating the restrictions placed upon the
property when he purchased the land
and is menacing the value OF adjoin-
ing property. The order Is returnable
on December Z.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-07
CITY COMPLETES
NEW S. A. DRIVE

A new drive for San Antonio tour
lists was formed Wednesday when the
city finished paving Cincinnati avenue,
between the Woodlawn lake pavilion
and the city limits, Paul +. Stcffler,
street commissioner, announced.
Workmen also are finishing i'm
provement of the half-milc stretch be-
tween the city limits and the Bandera
road, which Cincinnati connects.
This also provides nearer and
more convenient route to Medina lake,
Commissioner Stcffler pointed out.
Beginning at Zarzamora street, the
new loop for autoists follows Cincin-
matt avenue to Woodlawn lake. Here
the avenue branches off into Bancroft
street, which forms portion OF the
lakeshore drive. On the far side Of the
lake Bancroft runs into a continual
ton Of Cincinnati.
Leaving the city limits Cincinnati
runs into the Bandcra road. Here
the autoist can continue TO Medina
or swing to the left, returning towards
the city. Coming back TO town, Ban
dera road leads into Culebra road.
The latter will take the driver into
Zarzamora street again. The distance
of the drive is nearly 10 miles. =.
The street was paved at an approx
mate cost Of S7121, according TO CITY
Engineer ]. Ewig.
The rock base was put down by thu
city sometime ago, however, and il
] not counted in this sum.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-07
GONZALES FAIR
OPENS WITH
PARADE
Centennial Celebratio n
Brings Out Record
breaking Crowd.

GONZALES, Oct. with a rec
ord list of entries and one of the most
gorgeous parades in its history, the
Gonzales county fair, marking the
Gonzales centennial, opened here yes
terday. The weather is ideal and pro-
motors predict the breaking of all at
tendance records.
A parade, headed by the marshal,
county and city officials and partici-
pated in by the fire department, Amer
lean Legion band and civic and pa
triotic organizations, formally opened
the celebration.
1t was school day and all pupils and
teachers in the country were guests of
the fair association. 1t also was Yoa-
KUN, Flatonia, Sinner, Cuero, Lock
hart and Moulton day and visitors
from these. cities thronged the grounds.
At 80 o'clock Hiram Craig. pony
express rider, en- route from Galveston
10 San Antonio for the Old Trail
Drivers convention, was the guest of
honor at the fair grounds. He was
welcomed by w. NJ. Atkinson, men,
Der of the Old Trail Drivers associa-
ton. and Gonzales citizens.
Motion pictures of the express rider,
and scenes on the fair grounds were
made by Paramount.
The exhibits this year exceed in
number and quality those of former
years. The racing program also is
particularly good and draws large
crowds each afternoon.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-07
BIG COAL COMPANIES
COMBINE IN MERGER

NASHVILLE. Oct. 7.-@-A
merger Of coal companies involving sp-
proximately S30,0O0.OO0 and backed
By large capital in Chicago and sew
eral Eastern cities, was announced TO-
day in the purchase Of the Bon Air
Coal and Iron Corporation Of the
properties of the Tennessee Consoli-
dated Coal Company and the Chatts'
nooga Gas and Coke Company. .
The price TO be paid for each OF
these big industrial properties will be
81 go. 900. the sale of Chattanooga
Coke and Gas Company being subject
10 ratification by its stockholders be
fore October 20.
Other companies which will form
the giant merger are the J. j. Cray
Jr., foundry, Rockdale, Tenn, already
acquired by the Bonair Company, and
the Southern FerrO-Alloys Company,
owning plants at Chattanooga and
Cleveland. Tenn. The deal for the
latter company has not been coneum-
mated, il was announced, but it Is
expected that its properties will be
acquired.
The deal was consummated by W.
j. Cummins. vice president and gem
eral manager Of the Bonair Company.
In the new corporation, Mr.. Cummins
will be chairman Of the executive com
/ mittee.
Those connected with Mr.. Cummins
in the new company. include William
Wrigley Jr., Of Chicago; Colonel
Jacob Rupert Of New York. and
! John McE. Bowman 81 New York.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-07
GIRL
SERVES TERM
FOR PAL
Pays Penalty for Wrong
Acts Of Double-dealing
Confidant.

2 Marching hand in hand with injus
q innocent San Antonio girl TO serve a
. Jail sentence for cashing bad checks
, while the real forger walked the paths
of freedom. il became known Tuesday
: night when the false friend was ar
Z rested by Detective Hugh Proudfoot.
The arrest, however, came too late
to save the innocent girl. She had
. served the Jail sentence and been re-
9 leased two days before Grant justice
! finally placed its hand on the guilty
Z one.
The second girl is believed to have
2 forged her former friends name TO
about so worthless checks. of total
value between $3.50 and $500. De-
gtective Proudfoot has recovered 10 of
: the checks of total value of 500.
ADMITS GUILT.
The suspect admitted TO the detec-
: tive that she signed the other girls
name to the checks, he said.
For several years the young women,
both about "a years old. worked side
eby side in downtown department
store.
= They were close friends-real pals.
They shared secrets. Each trusted
z the other.
q They resembled one another in ply
z steal appearance. They dressed alike.
> Only an expert could distinguish be-
tween their handwriting.
The innocent girl had a small bank
account, boarded from her monthly
2sslary.
: The friend knew she carried the &C.
count, according to Detective Proud
: foot.
= One day tie innocent girl was ar
I. rested. Her bank account had been
Ioverdrawn. Several worthless checks
rsigned with her name had been re-
: turned to merchants who had cashed
sfhem.
: She was charged with passing
Worthless checks.
= At her trial she protested her inno-
ecence. but she could give no answer
when confronted with bad checks that
appeared to be signed with her sigma
>fure. -
: 1t never occurred to her to suspect
her pal.
She was convicted and sentenced
10 a term in Jail.
Z While she was serving the sentence,
additional checks signed with her
name continued to be presented at the
>bank for payment
CHECKS CONTINUE.
4 Bank officials knew she was in
jail. Evidently, they decided, another
4orger was at work.
= Police were notified. Detective'
Rroudfoot began an Investigation.
= His efforts were rewarded with the
Urrest of the yourg woman who has
admitted her guilt.
1fBut the innocent one had served
.der sentence and been punished for
Abe offense of her closest friend.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-07
CLARKES KANSAS
FRIENDS ARRIVE
ON SPECIAL TRAIN

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. l.
Kansas friends and followers Of FreA
Clarke. manager of Pittsburgh's 1909
National League champions and adj
wiser to this years title-holders. ar
rived today on special train to sec
the opening game Of the world series.
Several hundred strong. the mid
western rooters alighted from train
placarded as Erred c. Clarke's world
series baseball game special. Winfield,
Kan." :.
Clarke left his Kansas farm this
season to come back and help the Pi-
rates capture the pennant.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-07
STEFFLER THANKED L
FOR BRIDGE RULING

A vote OF. thanks to Street Com.
missioner Paul E. Steffler and other
members of the city commission for
their stand on the revoking OF per-
init for a bridge across the San An
tonic river on Temple street was re-
ceived in a communication Wednesday
signed by more than 25 residents.
Protests coming in after the San
Antonio Belt and Terminal railroad
was authorized TO erect the bridge re-
suited in the city reversing its initial
decision.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-07
SUSPECT TELLS
Of DANCE HALL
SH0O TING

Confessing his part in the quarre
that led to the shooting of Migue
Rivas last Saturday night. a man held
in the city Jail identified the slayer
Wednesday.
I'VE were Quarrelling, and ducked
wnen be shot," the man who con.
fessed told police.
Rivas was killed by the stray bullet,
and while Patria and Paulita, his wife
and 17-year-old daughter, wept by his
side, the crowd danced on to tn
strains of "All Alone"
MY wife and / recently were di.
yorced,' the man held by police de.
clared. And ever since that time her
little brother has 'balled me out every
time he met me.
HE did Saturday night. when we
met me at the dance and / quarreled
with him.
Then this man came up, and told
me / had no business picking on a kid
that way.
We'll. you're about my size, / told
him. and We started quarrelIing.'
During the quarrel, the prisoner
said. he attacked the other man with
knife.
Then / saw him draw a gum he
told Detective Joe Ruhnke, to whom
he made his confession.
Il ducked my head when he fired,
and Rivas was killed"
The man named as the slayer is
now out on bond and will be rearrest-
ed, Chief Of Police T. o. Miller de-
clared.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-07
TRIO ESCAPE As SHIP
CRACKS UP AT NIGHT

E. d. Hensley. 121 Sycamore Street,
and two passengers returning from the
Gonzales fair, experienced hair
breadth escape in a falling airplane
Tuesday night.
When within sight Of San Antonio
at an altitude of 5000 feet the motor
went dead and the machine drifted to-
ward the army remount station at
Fort Sam Houston. A lone light at
the remount camp was their only
means of guidance. according to Hen
sley.
Soldiers at the station hurried to
the scene when the plane crashed. The
three occupants escaped injury. The
machine was badly damaged.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-07
MOODY PROBES
! bEXAR ROAD
CONTRACTS
Grand Jury Also Considers
Report Of Excess
Profits.

Investigation of firms to whom the
maintenance of Bexar county high
way contracts have been let was start
ed in San Antonio Wednesday by At
torney General Dan Moody.
Jack r. Burke, county clerk, was
requested by Moody to report on the
filed reports of three construction
companies in regards to their COM
pliance with the assumed name" law.
MUST FILE NAMES.
1t is set forth in the law that all
firms operating in the state of Texas
must file with the county clerk a full
report, giving the full names and ad-
dresses of principals involved in con-
Quoting companies or corporations.
The records of the county show that
two of the firms named by the attor.
ney general have complied with the
law and that a third has not.
GRAND JURY PROBES.
1t is the company which failed to
file the required report that was re-
quested investigated by Judge W. W.
McCrory in his charge to the Bexar
county grand jury Monday. Judge
McCrory told the jurors that he had
heard of a road contract for ST. 900
of which 100000 was net profit for
the construction company.
Failure to comply with the @as-
sumed name law" is classed as mis-
demeanor and carries a penalty of a
fine not less than $25 or more than
800 but adds in another clause that
each day on which a company operates
under the name without having filed
the required report, is separate Of.
tense.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-07
APPEAL OF J|M|NEz
/ IS BEFORE COURT

: Oral arguments in the appeal case
spf Santos Jiminez. given the deatf
penalty in the Thirty-seventh District
Court here. were presented to the
Court Of Criminal Appeals in Austin
"wednesday by Dave Watson, attorney
for the defense. and District Attorney
e. NJ. Chambers.
: Jiminez was found guilty by a jury
pf slashing the throat of his wife,
Petra Vargas Jiminez, and sentenced
10 die. He is also under indictment
for the death of Juan Amanda found
shot TO death at the same time.
The case was appealed on grounds
THAT Eulalia Jiminez. 7-year-old daugh'
Ter Of the convicted man was an in
competent witness. She was the state,
principal witness in the case and gave
testimony which resulted in his con
Kiction.