davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1925-07-16
More Farmers Own Homes.

4 much larger proportion of farm
than town homes are owned by the oc
cupants, according to the last census.
The actual figures are; Families in
villages and towns under 100, 900 pop
ulation, 4431 per cent: families in
cities of 100 900 population or over,
28.77 per cent, and white farmers OVID
ing their farms, So per cent?
Evening star., 1925-07-16
Conference Called.

A conference between the receivers
Of the St Paul and executives ot
other northwestern carriers will he
held here shortly in an effort 10 win
support to the rate increase plan.
Hale Holden, president of the Bur
lington, is already here for the CON
ference. He remarked yesterday
that the Potter plan confiicted with
the transportation act. and that the
remedy for decreased passenger earn
ings was supervision of interstate
bus traffic, with equal rates for steam
and motor carriers.
Western carriers as a class are now
preparing a petition to the Interstate
Commerce Commission for a fat in
crease of 5 per cent on freight rates.
Evening star., 1925-07-16
10000 Join Belgian Strike.

BRUSSELS. July 15.-Twenty thou
sand metal workers in the Liege dis
trict today Joined the general strike
of metallurgical workers, making the
total number of strikers 65 900. The
strike was caused by an attempt to
decrease wages per cent.
Evening star., 1925-07-16
Destroyers Back From Cruise.

NEW YORK, July IS GP).-SiH de-
stroyers of the Goth Division, the
Flusser, Converse, Billingsley. Wor-
den, Dale and Reid, arrived here to-
day, after "A years cruise in Euro
pean, ports. They will remain here
for two weeks, later going TO the
Philadelphia. Navy Yard for overhaul
ing and retitting.
Evening star., 1925-07-16
Police Chiefs Elect Head.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, July 16
P).-The International Association of
Pdlce Chiefs decided today to hold
their next annual convention in Chi
cago. S. J. Dickson, chief of police
at Toronto. Canada, was elected pres
ident for the ensuing year,
Evening star., 1925-07-16
Static Mystery Fading.

A, G.. Simpson Of the United States
Forest Service at Stabler. Wash, be-
lieves that the presence of static as a
radio hindrance may be put to good
use in locating areas of low humidity.
He mainssans extremely dry atmos-
pheric conditioSc are indicated by an
excess of static. and with increasing
humidity static decreases and fades
out in the course of continued rains.
Evening star., 1925-07-16

Since the advent of the military
directorate Spain virtually has been
deprived OF political parties. The great
Liberal party has disappeared; the Con-
sarvatlves are split, ana all the minor
parties, the Socialists, Syndicalists and
Republicans, have been inactive for
some time.
Gen. Primo de Rivera organized
the patriotic union in order, as lie
explained it, to develop leaders cap
able of taking over the reins of gov.
ernment when the directorate decided
to withdraw
Evening star., 1925-07-16
SPANISH ROYAL|ST
PARTY IS FORMED
Political Group Is First Since
Directorate Killed
System.
By the Associated Press.

Dy IIIt AssOClateu Press.
BARCELONA. Spain, July 16.-A
new political party has been orga nized
under the name of The National
Regionalist party" The leaders. mem.
bers of the monarchic and autonornist
federations, are aiming to bring about
a reunion between the policy of the
military directorate and regionalist
aspirations. The new party is expected
to work independently of the patriotic
union sponsored by Gen. Primo de
Rivera, head of the military direc-
tOrate
Evening star., 1925-07-16

ST. ETIENNE, France, July Is CG).
Antoine Durafour. French minister
of public works, addressing a political
meeting here, expressed the firm hope
that France soon would conclude
peace with ADD el-Krim, leader of the
Riffian invaders of the French zone
in Morocco.
Evening star., 1925-07-16
HUGHES TO URGE
RAIL RATE RAISE
viii Offer Unprecedented
Plan for Pooling Among
Weak Roads.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 16.-An unpre-
cedented plan for railroad rate in
creases, involving pooling among weak
railroads, will be urged by Charles i
Hughes before the Interstate Com
merce Commission in behalf Of the re-
ceivers of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul railroad. Hearings win he
gin at Chicago. September j.
Under the receivers plan increases
in Western territory would be pooled
and divided among weaker roads in
proportion to the extent such roads
fall short of earning 5at per cent on
property investment. A prosperous
road would not receive full benefit of
an increase in rates, but a weak road
would obtain much additional revenue.
Some railroad men regard the plan
as opposed TO the principle Of private
operation and some go further in de-
nunclatlon and use the words '.sOv-e-
theory"
Potter Devises Plan.
Mark w. Potter, former Interstate
Commerce Commissioner, one Of the
st. Paul receivers and originator OF
IAlS l'ASllls mas I4itL THESE ALF
statement that the principles which
govern the operation of industrial cor
pOrations no longer hold true on the
railroads as their earnings are re
stricted by the recapture clause of
the transportation act
This clause provides that if any
railroad earns more than 6 per cent.
half Of the excess revenue shall be
turned back to the Government 10
form a fund on which the Interstate
Commerce Commission may draw 70
loan roads IN financial distress
The retaining Of Mr. Hughes, an
nOunced yesterday, was somewhat ot
a surprise, as the investment house
Of Roosevelt & GO, which is opposed
to the reorganization plan of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul Rail
way. recently made overtures to him
with view to retaining him in in
vestigation Of the failure Of the road
last March
Evening star., 1925-07-16
POLITICS EMB|TTER
FIGHT OVER A|RSH|P
National Museums Claim to
World Cruise Flagship 0p-
posed by Chicago.

Illinois politics and the recent
Smithsonian-Orville Wright contro-
versy over the Langley airplane are
two factors which are understood to
be standing in the way of final dis
position by the War Department of
the world cruiser Chicago, flagship of
the globe fight. which has been sitting
in a hangar at Dayton, Ohio, since last
November.
The city of Chicago is not leaving
a stone unturned in it's efforts to get
the worlds most famous airplane in
the Field museum, although the Army
Air Service had recommended shortly
after the completion of the world
flight that the plane be housed in the
National Museum here. The museum,
too, had requested the plane in let
ter to the War Department on April
10, but has heard nothing since.
Politics i'm Controversy
that no action on the matter has been
taken or would be taken today. From
one source it was learned that polit-
ical pressure has played no small part
and that the Secretary of War has
been content to let the matter stand
unsettled and wait until the storm of
enthusiasm blows over"
From another source it was said
that the War Department is watching
the f1nal outcome of the row stirred
up by Orville Wright when he charged
that the Langley airpIane was mutt
lated by the Smithsonian Institution,
and furthermore questioned the ac-
curacy of the label on the machine
Wright, who had announced his in
tention Of giving the original plane
built and flown by him and his
brother to Great Britain. said if this
were done, he could be sure it would
not be removed and experimental
with.
At the Smithsonian institution there
could be no reason found for this
reported attitude by the War Depart
ment, and II was explained that the
transcontinental nonstop To and the
New York to- Nome to- Washington De
Havilland both were intrusted to its
care for posterity.
Army Wants Plane Here.
The feeling in the Army Air Serv-
ice is unanimous that the plane should
be brought TO Washington and that its
sister, the New Orleans, should be
kept in the McCook Field Museum at
Dayton for experts to study through
the years to come. If the Chicago
were given to the city of that name,
New Orleans, which has put up a
game fight for the other ship, would
be entitled TO it also. Further, it was
declared, both planes have no munich
pal value, but are of intense national
interest.
The Air Service with congressional
appropriation bought the Douglas
cruiser for S25, 900 and painted the
word Chicago" on the cowling The
plane, therefore, it was declared, be
longs to the American people and not
the city of Chicago.
Evening star., 1925-07-16
FRENCH BOMB ENEMY.

FEZ. French Morocco, July 16 LP.-
A communique announces that the
French aviators today effectively
bombed assemblages of Abd-el-Krim
Riffians in the Teroual district around
Ain Aicha and near Bah Morou.
(These are important points in the
Fez projections and were attacked
unsuccessfully by the Rifffans yester-
day)
Evening star., 1925-07-16
'sMOTHER' JONES, MINERS FRIEND,
rs PUBLISHING HER EXPERIENCES
,BeIoUed Of Lou and High,
Including Presidents,
* Tells of Labor.
Her Book Is Drama of 40
Years Effort to Aid
Workers.

From a background of two genera
tions of work devoted to the welfare
of the laboring man, 40 years of init
mate association with the labor move
ment, and with the leaders of the Ma
tion since Cleveland, Mother" Jones,
now "a years of age. has written
book dealing with her experiences as
an actor in the drama Of the labor
movement in the United States
Mother Jones, beloved of every
leader in labor circles, a close friend
of many Presidents and an adviser
and confidant Of cabinet officers, is in
Washington at the home of a lifelong
friend, Mrs. Terence V. Powderly, at
300 Fifth street. She has been at the
Powderly home since last February
working on the epic of the labor strug
gle, dealing particularly in her revela-
tions with the history of mining
unions in the United States. The book
his now in the hands of her publishers.
Illness Not Serious.
For several days she has been i'll,
but her illness is not serious, and she
is expected 10 be out of bed within a
few days. Even at her advanced age
Mother Jones is active physically
and her mind retains all the vigor of
the days when she was known as the
stormy petrol in mining disputes 20
and more years ago.
Although denounced as a radical in
some quarters, Mother" Jones, by
the force of her personality and her
answering loyalty to the principles
which she held were right, prevented
many disorders in the unruly mining
communities in which she spent many
years of her life. Imprisoned scores
of times for petty offcnses, the spear
head of organization among mine
workers in a dozen States, Mother"
Jones has had q spectacular career
in her long life of work for the vel
fare of the laboring man and his
family. Most of her life for the last
80 years has been spent in mining
communities, where she consistently
fought for the betterment of the miner
and his family.
aided Coal Miners.
She spent several years in West Vir-
ginia, travelling in bloody" Logan and
kanawha Counties, organizing min
ers and addressing hundreds of min
ers' meetings as a representative of
the United Mine Workers OF America
Her efforts in West Virginia resulted
in a State law giving the miners a
pay check semi-monthly, better living
conditions. better hours and a general
Evening star., 1925-07-16
u. S. CLARIFIES CALL
FOR CHINESE PARLEY
IN NOTE TO FRANCE

Continued from First Pagel
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SEVERAL ARE SURE
ALLEGED MURDERER
FOR THRILL WAS HERE

Continued from First Page.)
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The Tire Shop

One Years Free Service on All Castings
Bought Here
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

I chem INSTRUCTED my assistant to
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20
International Spy Hired by Capital, Probes Wall Street Bomb Bias
Nozovitzly Learns Communists Were Fearful of Ivan"
an mdividuaist and Tried to Stop His
Storing of Explosives.

after that were fruitlcss. ! did learn,
however, that he had gone abroad
inter the explosion. saw Marsh.
Woods and Hoover and they gave me
$500 more to continue work. II
was decided that 70 abroad and get
into Russia or Poland, 10 Russia was
not possible, and then work from Po-
land. When I left Hoover particularly
asked me to look up a certain radical.
Two years later I learned that this
radical was the man whom William
Burns had accused Of committing the
Wall Street outrage, but against whom
Burns was never able to produce any
evidence.
SPY GOES TO POLAND.
arrived In Warsaw. I was travel
ing on my English passport, which
would not 60 tine into Russia. / de-
cidcd I would have to continue pre-.
tending to be 4 British subject be.
cause II I were Russian ! would have
to present credentials which ! did not
possess.
Once in Warsaw I found myself
limited In my actions until I could
get my passports properly visaed By
the police. It cost me exactly $4,000
Polish marks to get past the police
officials. At the prevailing rate Of
exchange this was about $3.50.
Immediately I forwarded a guarded
letter to one Of my former assistants,
who was then in Moscow. This had
to be vague and indirect because there
was no certainty that 1t would get
into his hands unread or that he would
get II at all. ! made 1t clear to him
that 1 was looking for Moscow"
which would enable him to make some
inquiries before he came to see me.
Twelve days after I posted the let
ter my assistant arrived in Warsaw.
He reported to me that moscow" was
nj that moment chairman Of a shop
committee in a clothing factory in
The Province of Mogilicv.
ARRESTED AT BORDER.
He also said that, although "Mos.
COW, was held in high esteem BY his
comrades, he was already beginning
to regret that he had returned to
Soviet Russia, where there were 90
many Soviet rules that individuality
of action was killed.
than inStructei nv assistant to
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q There was a man named Ivan ".
who had been an organizer in Newark
for a certain group Of Russian radi-
Gals. I will not mention his name,
because even at this moment there is
no proof that he had anything to do
with the Wall Street explosion. For
purposes Of this narrative I will call
the man Ivan Moscow. ..
1t appears that. this man had been
very open in his utterances against
capital and that in 1913 he had been
saying that he intended to return to
Russia as soon as possible, but that
before he went he intended to do
something 60 big that American cap
italists would remember 1t forever
and ever.
When asked what he meant to do
he said he intended to apply the same
methods Of class struggle as had been
used in Russia. You know what ex-
IRENE Of terrorism that means. All
of this I had reported to Raymond
Finch, then head of the radical d.
vision Of the secret service in New
York.
Moscow" was so terroristic in his
talk that some Of his comrades began
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move into the same town with Mos
COW" and keep in close contact with
him. Toward this end I gave him
what was to him q lot Of money. l
said l would return to the United
Statcs and get all the information
l could. Ny assistant was at all
times to keep watch on "Moscow"
and let me know where he went.
On my return was arrested at
the border Of Germany, where ESQ
golden roublcs were confiscated. This
was because I was unable to account
for possession Of the money. was
released and continued through Eng
land to the United States.
INDEFINITE RESULT.
The details would prove uninterest-
ing. It was step By step that I
worked. One man who was supposed
TO know Of -Moscow's" activities was
traced to Alaska In the salmon fish
cries. Another trail took up to
Western Canada.
And then found a cousin Of
Moscow" living in New Jersey.
watched him carefully and finally
intercepted two letters to him from
Russia.
turned both Of these letters over
to Mr.. Hoover in the Department Of
Justice. .
In one Of the letters Moscow" said.
that conditions in Russia did not suit
him because personal initiative was
impossible under the Soviet laws and
that he would gladly leave Russia
for any other country where he could
apply all of his energy and even give
bis life for the revolutionary cause.
In the other letter Moscow" said
he had no regret for what he had
done and that, although innocent pco-
pie suffered from his act, he would
gladly repent it over and over again,
as he always believed II justified.
What act did he mean? Was 1t
the Wall street bomb explosion? j
don't know. I gave to the heads OF
the Department of Justice all the
information had been able to get.
Only they can tell how 1t worked
out. told them how they could
keep in touch with my man in Rus
sin. I told them where the man who
had refused to harbor Moscow" q
few nights before the explosion could
be located.
Copyright. 1898. by y. 7. American. me-
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fore the less we knew about it the
better off we would DO.
While all Of this might not be con-
elusive it was certainly something
worth trying to work out, and the
day after began serious work on
this phase of the case with my two
assistants.
Sensational details began to develop
quickly. Tracing Moscow" We
learned that a few days before the
explosion Moscow" had appeared at
the home Of q friend in Passaic, N.
J., and asked permission to remain
over night. He said he wanted TO
put his heavily laden suitcase some.
where in the cellar because II con-
tanned explosives.
HOST FRIGHTENED.
His host became frightened and Ne
fused to let him put the case in the
cellar. In fact, he refused to harbor
Moscow" ut all. Moscow" left to
70 to another little town near Pas
sale. There he remained day or
two.
All efforts to trace his movements
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20

IN Scotland the belief exists that to
= drop 4 pair Of shoes before they
have been worn Is sure portent Of
bad luck. Immunity can be obtained,
however, by burning or burying the
shoes. To place new shoes or boots
on a shelf higher than ones head is
also a harbinger Of misfortune. ac'
cordins to a superstition that has pre-
vailed in many parts of England for
centuries.
In Norway. girls who want to make
absolutely sure Of getting married
never put on new shoes for the first
time unless the laces are tied by a
married woman, preferably the mother
Of several children.
Arabs and Turks are always par
ticular to place their sandals and
slippers side by side. They regard 1t
as a sign of impending danger il the
toes are pointing away from each
other.
IL a German mother has the mis-
fortune to lose the heel of her shoe
she believes that one Of her children
will die before the end of the year. In
Spain old shoes nre regarded as mas
cots, and a pair is always kept in the
house for luck. In Belgium the per-
son who puts on the left shoe first Is
held to be lucky In love.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20
Bits of Fact and Fun

Come Into the Garden, Maud" but
how many have stopped to think of
the orchestra that Tennyson de-
scribed? 1t consisted Of flute, violin
and bassoon--an utterly impossible
combination, and In order to make a
rhyme with "bassoon." the poet spoke
Of dancing in tune" thus obviously
confusing "tuneb with slime"
Coleridge made an equally bad blum
der when, in "The Ancient Mariner,
he spoke Of the cloud bassoon," for Of
all instruments in an orchestra the
bassoon with its grave voice, can least
well be described as "loud."
Charles Lamb frankly confessed
that be knew nothing Of music. He
said he could not tell a soprano voice
from a tenor, and only knew a "thor-
ough bass" No one need doubt his
ignorance after reading this statement,
for he had confused the bass voice
with thorough bass" which Is mu-
steal shorthand.
In a once popular novel we were
told that the hero was In the habit
Of bringing out his cello and playing
Beethoven's symphoniesl 1t is not
necessary to be an expert musician to
know that symphony is a work for
an orchestra; while it is possible to
perform a version Of a symphony on
the piano or organ. to attempt to do
so on the cello would be ridiculous.
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Morgan, where / explained, to Woods
my ideas.
l told Colonel Woods that IL was
to do anything / ought to make q
general investigation Of the whole
thing from beginning to end, and that
/ should first have every report that
that the idea was for me to pay no
attention to the crime itself. That
Is, l was not to take the moment OF
the explosion as my starting point
and work in every direction from it.
He wanted that to DO left with Will
liam Burns and the Department Of
Justice. He wanted me to begin
mixing with all the Reds, on the
chance of running across information
which might lead me back to the mo-
ment Of the explosion. / protested.
Woods half agreed with me as to
the explosion probably not having
been an official Red act. In the end
be asked me to 20 to Washington
and talk the matter over with j. Il.
Hoover, of the United States Depart
ment of Justice.
Hoover practically agreed that It
probably was not an official Red act,
but was strongly of the opinion that
some criminally inclined individual
Communists might have committed
the crime. He said that, since all
other ends were being investigated, it
would be criminal negligence not to
investigate among the Reds, and there
fore be favored my investigation be-
ing along the lines outlined by Colonel
Woods.
came back to New York and went
to see Colonel Woods, who asked me
how much l wanted to start work
with. l asked for and got $4,000.
Woods thought / was asking for very
little in view of the huge sums he was
paying Burns. l guess he thought ]
was not very enthusiastic.
is PAID $4,000.
With a couple of assistants / went
to work. We devoted our time to
persons whom we knew as being vio-
lent radicals.
One of the first things I ran across
was shock to me. ! found TINT the
Socialists and Communists had COM
bined to make an investigation of the
explosion. And they were not only
investigating within their own ranks,
but were also investigating a certain
detective agency.
They were under the impression, or
at least pretended to be, that the out.
rage might have been a carefully
planned scheme to work up an nnti-
radical scare. In fact, the radicals
obtained two affidavits to the effect
that this certain 'gency had planned
to send the horse and wagon down to
the financial district to be found BY
police. who would also find the bomb.
II was not intended for the bomb to
explode, according to these nffidayits.
1t was alleged that the whole scheme
was to brighten rich men into spend
ing a lot of money on Investigations.
When told this to Mr.. Marsh 1t
had an unexpected effect .ipon him.