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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-10

como from All walks Of No, crlpplct
aud ufIrm Just TO iron out fow
OF the curoworn wrinkles we have
Tor tho pust two years arranged for
wcokly entertainments Tor them. A
more apprfcntiye people have
mover found ON rcyrHi occasions
$50 hnVc had moving pictures for
Them ana found TIT form or enter,
hinment was the most enjoyed by
tho greatest number
The portable safety booth boz.
rowcd from one of the schools. a
too much trouble. and not practical
far III" dining room. County funds
Ere not available for putting In n
permanent ono requested by law, 80
we nro going dopr friends, 10 40.
point sou committee OF one 10
be governed by your conscience 10
help these good but unfortunate
ones, u ln't tho amount 80 much
HB the members that count. we
want everybody In on H. By koeg.
inv tN'm cheerful aud happy we
arc giving them courage to meet
their troubles with smile. Send
checks or contributions 10 r. II.
l7opc, 1885 ~ Bolyston ave, So
attic. Washington.
GRAND BALL FOR MRS. DAVIS
Any little person can smile In
nuccefs, but II takes big one 10
face Encouraging vcfdcta, unrlinch.
inRly and carry on,
Such one is the brave little
Violet Davis. who has just read
tho verdict OF tho Mayo Brothers.
that they cannot help her. she
suiilca. shrugH her shoulders and
says, II viii walk again" Cnn
you bent that?
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-10

strangers wolcome shutinn notify
lCA pitliG20 II you need car.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-10
THANK YOU

We are very grateful TO DR.. Frank
l. uoHfall for Ills quick response to
tho appeal OF the sick lady giyon ~
our column last week.
VIC also wish to thank George
Grant. optieiuu. for fitling the shut,
IN lady With glnsBcs,
MOVING PICTURES FOR TIE
COUNTY HOME
out M the county home there are
$40 elderly men mud women, They
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-10
MORE n0NNTIONs NEEnEn

Phtlllp Phillips reports that he
hasn't quite enough funds tu pay
for the artificial leg for r. stroma,
tog, the Alaska miner hut meu.
surements have hecn mado and tho
lex ordered Checks addressed TO
Phillip Phillips. Elks club. Seattle.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-01
SOLDIERS COMPLAINT
CAUSES OWN ARREST

There are times when the aid OF
policemen should not be sought.
A six-foot soldier learned this Mon
day night and now awaits the discre-
ton of military authorities as a re-
suit.
With blood streaming from a
wounded scalp, the soldier encountered
Patrolman Garcia and Eichhorn at
Commerce and Laredo streets.
Declaring that he had been attacked
and slugged in bootleggins joint, he
asked for the arrest of his assailants
and medical attention.
Detective Hartman and LittlepaSe
took him to the place TO identify his
attackers.
Once in the place again the soldier
was identified as the man who had
beaten woman over the head with a
chair and had received his blow IN
return.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-01
S. A. MAN IN CHARGE
OF EXHIBIT AT FAIR

G. NJ. Knebel of San Antonio, men,
Der of the Texas Manufacturers As
ISOLATION. will be- in charge of the
Texas Industrial Exposition in Dallas
October 1925. where more than 2OC
Texas firms will be represented.
Manufacturers of Fort Worth hav;
taken 20OO square feet of floor space
for group exhibit and San Antonio
manufacturers also should be repre-
scented by a group showing what ouT
factories are doing" Mr.. Knebel said
More than 100000 people are cx
pectcd to visit the exhibits which will
be housed in the manufacturers build
ing at the Dallas Exposition Park.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-01
DEATH HOVERS NEAR
TEXAS GIRL, VICTIM
OF TRAIN COLLISION

TRINIDAD, Colo, Sept. 1.-Ft'
teen of the 90 persons injured when
two fast Colorado & Southern pas
senger trains side-swiped near Maync'
Colo, today, are confined to hos
pitals in Trinidad and Walscnburg.
Only two are in danger. Miss Mary
White. 20, of Victoria, hovers be-
TWEEN life and death, while physicians
wage an apparently losing battle to
save her. She suffered broken neck.
Little hope is held for her.
Judge Wiley Bell of Dallas. the
only other victim critically hurt
showed slight improvement. Physl'
clans expect his recovery.
Official investigation Of the wreck
will begin Wednesday.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-01
Prehistoric
Monsters in
B. C., Report

by tUt assOCihttu fTte>.
VICTORIA, b. C., Sept. l.
British Columbia is interested in
a discussion whether creatures
which lived in prehistoric times,
still exist in the southern in.
terror of the province.
X. Leckie Ewing, an angler
Of the Okanagan Lake region,
las reported to John p. Babcock,
deputy commissioner Of fisheries
that long neeked, rough-skinned
creatures which he believed wOb-
bled across the surface OF the
earth long before man was heard
Of, are living in the depths of
the lake.
Mr.. Leckie Ewing says he is
preparing to go forth and give
battle to the monsters with a
rifle and tow one ashore as
proof of his assertion.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-01
COMPANIES CONFER
ON CONTROL OF WELL
BY the Associated Press.

AUSTIN, Sept. 1.-Control Of the
Heard well No. 1, a gas well now
running wild in Refugio county, will
be the subject of a conference to be
staged Tuesday at Refugio by II. Z,
Bell, chief supervisor of the oil and
gas division of the railroad commits
sion, and representatives of the vari'
Gus interested oil companies. Mr.. Bell
said the well was blowing out about
10000 gallons of sulphur water from
a depth of 300 feet.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-01
DECLARE MARTIAL
LAW IN NICARAGUA

MANAGUA, Me, Sept. MARTIAL
law was declared throughout the re-
public Of Nicaragua today. President
Soloranzo has requested the resigna'
ton of General Alfredo Riyas, who is
in charge of the fortress and garrison
in Managua, in order to avoid rcpe-
tition of dictation TO the president by
military officials.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-01
DALLAS MAN WINNER
OF TULSA AIR MEET
Nv the AssocInted Press.

TULSA, Sept. 1.-Mcrl Brock Of
Dallas, Mac Short Of Wichita, Kan,
and Vern Brown of Perry, Okla, were
announced today as winners of the
Tulsa air meet, an entertainment fea-
turc of the veterans of foreign wars,
national convention.
Walter Beach. Wichita, won first
place in the frce-for-all race over
J0-mile course. His time was 20 min
utcS. &c % seconds.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-01
. STEAL CARS TWICE.

The band operated by stealing au-
tomobiles, changing their numbers and
paint, then securing insurance on
them. Later they again stole the
same machines and marketed them in
Mexico through confederates there.
The gang was uncovered by Detec-
tivcs Bartholomae and Grasshoff who
captured the two leaders in their pa.
latial apartment here.
Operations Of the gang are said to
have covered points between San
Diego and st. Augustine and to have
resulted in many automobiles being
stolen in Bexar and adjoining coun.
ties.
The members of the gang all are
young and claim to be college youths
on vacation.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-01
BEAU bRU|NNEL'
BANDIT HELD
IN MEXICO
Two Youths Caught in
Monterrey With Car
Stolen in S.A.

The Mexican contingent OF the
Bean Brummel" band of automobile
thieves has been captured.
Two American youths were arrested
in Monterey Monday while riding In
an automobile which had been stolen
from T. C. Delgado, 2202 South Flores
Street, here.
This information was announced at
the sheriff's office by A. CaFazos,
traffic chief Of the Nuevo Laredo po-
lice department who arrived here Mon
day night.
SEVEN HELD.
County officers here will immediate
ly investigate the case in the hope OF
recovering more cars stolen here and
in other states by the Beau Brum-
mels,- seven of whom now are under
arrest here.
Two were captured here last Sat
urday after three had been run down
in nearby towns. Nine stolen auto
mobiles have been recovered of the 80
or more which they are believed to
have taken.
The local pair were found living in
luxurious apartment. They were
atttired in the latest mode. The three
subsequently taken and the two ar
rested in Mexico were similarly at
tired.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-01
(Advertisement)

Weak eyes OF children are strengthened
by DIckeys Old Reliable Eye Water. All
druggists 25c.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18
For Whom Are Thew
Working?

xvi HEN Congress ordered power survey on
w the Tennessee River, at cost of $500, 900
to the people, was Congress acting solely for
the benefit of private power interestsi
The Federal power commission seems to
have thought So
The survey was made and the information
obtained was, according to Senator Mcclellan,
turned over to the power interests without any
notification to Congress that the work was
even completed.
Congress, in fact, was not advised until
after hearing of petitions for the most valua-
bic power dam sites had already been held in
Chattanooga.
Mcclellan probably will contest the valid
ity OF the hearings before the Federal power
commission finally acts on the petitions. But
even if he protects the people s interests along
the Tennessee River he will be touching only
the edge of the water power problem.
This paper has pointed out how private
power corporations, without paying cent to
the Government, are obtaining options on every
available dam site of any value from the At
lantic to the Pacific.
1t is to be hoped the Tennessee River Incl
dent will cause such congressional row that
the Federal power commission will finally
realize it is working for the people and not for
the private power corporations. The commits
sion is composed of the Secretary of War, the
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary
Of Agriculture O. c. Merrill is executive Sec
rotary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18

~1 HE Mitchell verdict probably surprised no
j one-the Doughty colonel himself least of
any.
Having criticised, and made charges
against the War and Navy Departments abso-
lutely unprecedented in the history of the
armed services of the Nation he admits he ex-
pected arrest at once
! Irrespective of the merits of his case, he
Gould no more escape punishment than you can
stick your finger in buzz saw and hope to get
off without scratch. You who read these
lines, would be fired in a jiffy if you publicly
tweaked your boss S nose and branded him as
an incompetent no matter how much he liked
you.
So it was with Mitchell. He left the jury
no option. He had to be punished. Discipline,
without which the best army in the world
would become only mob, demanded it.
None knew this better than Col Mitchell
himself. Perhaps he even deliberately sacri-
feed himself to attain the end in view-an in
dependent air service par with the Army
and the Navy. We have sometimes seen, or
fancied that we saw, evidences that this was
the case. If so, his sacrifice will not have been
in vain.
Although the spectacular colonel did not
prove all his case, and though he had to admit
that much Of what he said in his charges was
merely is own personal opinion, the hullabaloo
he raised will ultimately work for the good of
our national defense. Expert opinion is against
his project for the present. at least, but the row
has done much to awaken this country to the
vital Importance of aviation. The echo of the
Mtichellesque blasts will far outlive his FIVE
year suspension.
II you started this item prepared to shed
tear for the colonel, save it, He doesn't want
it or need it. He is probably quite happy over
what he has DONE He is reported to be well
TO do and his Army salary means very little in
his young life. AS for the honors he is miss
ing, he has had most of them already. Willie
as for the future-why he is probably the most
popular America hero in the public eye today
the future will take care Of itself. Never fear.
For unless we miss our guess, if you will
pardon the slang, Billy Mitchell has really Just
begun to mitch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18
Beer Sans Rowdyism in Vancouver

assures a clear working majority on
all occasions.
How about bootlegging?
The big. overweening, fiourishing
and corrupting industry of bootleg
ging, such as we have in the United
States. is not to be found here. There
is the shutdown" bootlegger, as in
some of the other provinces. He
deals in the wares Of the liquor COM
mission and caters to the suddenly
thirsty who want to buy after the
stores have closed. Truth to tell,
there is also another bootlegging in
terest in this province getting
stronger all the time, namely, the
man who withdraws liquor from the
bonded warehouses on the pretense
that he is to reship to some foreign
destination. IL the liquor were real
ly destined to foreign port, 1t would
legally go out without paving excise
tax. The withdrawal is not really for
a foreign port, and by fraud and
trickery it gets diverted to the cell
lar of the bootlegger, who can then
make money selling it in direct COM
petition with the provincial Stores"
All that is necessary is the official
label, over the cork, and this is had
either by counterfeiting or by a
bribed purchase Of the genuine ones.
One cutgrowth of the system here
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18

question has not received the close study it de-
serves. The ludicrous thing about this paper
is that it has been harping for years on the
deep insight the public showed in 1920 when
the complex League of Nations was brand
new issue. But today-fve long years later,
and after the much simpler question of the
world court has been debated across the length
and breadth of the land, over and over again
it would have you think that those same people
can't understand it.
If that is logic then Plato was the prin-
cipal exponent of his time of the gentle art
Of the Charleston. 1t is human rather than
good sense: The intelligent are those who
agree with you.
Still and all it is quite on par with the
rest of the argument. The same paper OPP
poses the world court on the ground that it is
a League court" rather than a world court.
The country's best minds have agreed that
the court is about as independent body as it
is humanity possible to make it. But pass tina:
by. Suppose, for the sake of the argum ent,
that it is league court, as charged. Whit is
the league9 The league--good, bad or indiffer-
ent, as it isis the world banded together in
one society. That is, it is the world minus the
United States, Russia and Turkey. 1t is the
whole world, minus ourselves and a country
or two we refuse to recognize.
So if the present world court is not world
court, let's frankly acknowledge Mars as our
God and have done with it. For, in that case,
there can never be world court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18

is the CLUB" These clubs are most
ly veterans Of the war" organlza
tons and are about six in number.
The member deposits his permit"
with the club and in theory has his
liquor kept In a locker. When he
stands up at the club bar and calls
for a drink and gets It. he is sup
posed to pay the bartender for "serv-
Ice" If it happens that the charge
for the service is enough to cover
the cost of the liquor also, that is
not a matter which can be inquired
into under the law.
1t is the general testimony here
that the Act has not increased
drunkenness or restored the we'll
known evils OF the corner saloon"
1t has, instead. wiped out the glar.
ing evils Of the Illicit days of So
called prohibition. II. A. Stein, man
aging editor Of Vancouver's leading
newspaper voiced this opinion:
1T seems" said he, ito be largely
a matter of psychology. Given the
opportunity to get drink, It loses
the interest It had when forbidden.
We have ceased to make liquor and
bootlegging our principal topic OF
conversation. 1t has settled into its
proper place and we are free to give
attention to other things"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18
indianapolis Crime
Record

la being tanned and civil
4. / Lied. 80 far this year there have been
only thirty-two homicides in the city. accord
ing TO detective bureau records while in 1924
there were eighty two killings And, compar-
ing the two years, traffic fatalities have de-
creased an even dozen.
Human life in the city ism t as short and
tempestuous as it was last year.
But that's all that is safer. Burglary,
hold-ups, auto thefts-crimes against property
not Efe-all show marked increase over last
year indianapolis Is not yet rival Of the
New Jerusalem-peopled only by the right
eous Golden pavements wouldn't last long
here: they would be carried away in couple
Of nightA
: A few months ago New York authorities
started q big advertising campaign In that
cisy to check crime. Conspicuous posters, de-
picting covering criminals in the hands Of
burly cops and similar devices were plastered
over the city. lyon can't get away with it,
ahrieked the posters. These were supposed to
scare potential evil-doers into paths of recti-
tude
But such advertising is lie. In New
York and elsewhere the criminal does get
away ,vith Il Ia majority Of cases.
During 1925 in Indianapolis there have
been 26 arrests for homicides and 10 convic-
lions, 1855 arrests on burglary charges and 81
convictions, 189 arrests for vehicle taking
with 90 convictions, 879 arrests for miscelane
GUS felonies and 353 convictions. A total, in
those four groups of crimes, of 1,249 arrests
and 556 convictions.
Does the criminal get away with it? He
does Right there is the answer to the crime
problem in this country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18
Better Business
HIT HE first step toward the establishment

=" r HE first step toward the establishment
III of systematic self-government of bust
ness" This is the language of the United
States Chamber of Commerce in describing a
conference just held under its auspices. The
conference decided to create committee that
will act as clearing house for business and
set up standards of ethical and economical
business practice"
Whether this "frst step'' is a step for
ward or step backward depends on the spirit
which moves the men taking it.
1t by self-government of business they
mean to so regulate business as to protect the
public against unfair practices and unfair
prices, thus making any other control of
business unnecessary, they are moving in
the right direction. If, on the other hand,
they aim to set themselves above any
government control, whether or not the inter
ests of the public require such control, they are
heading for eventual disaster.
An examination of the minds of the
men composing the conference doubtless
would reveal members of both schools.
But there is reason to believe that those
having the public interest at heart ac-
tually outnumber the Others Recent
years have shown them that the path to per-
manent prosperity does not lie in reckless ex-
ploitation of the public. Even the most unen-
ightened of them is beginning to see that he
must help curb other exploiters, even if he,
himself, doesn t stop exploiting
So, concretely, the conference agreed to at
tempt to reduce the number Of middlemen be-
tween the producer and the consumer. The
public has reason to cheer this purpose.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18
| CITY GAS
RATE CUT

1.-The Citizens Gas Company
has announced voluntary
reduction in Indianapolis
gas rates. 1t is expected that the
cut will amount to an annual saw
ing of $16S,000 to gas users. The
announcement will fall pleasantly
on the ear Of old Ultimate Con-
sumner, who generally gets the gaff
from public utilities.
This is the second time since
Jan. 1, 1924, that the gas company
has made a voluntary reduction in
rates.
During the same period other
public utilities serving Indianapo-
lis have continually sobbed on the
bosom of the public service COM
mission and begger for larger
slices of pie. Notably the Indian
apolis Water Company and the In
diana Bell Telephone Company.
Perhaps It is just a coincidence,
but the only public utility in In
dianapolis that has lowered rates
of its own volition is owned and
controlled by local men, who live,
move and have their being in In
dianapolis, and who are primarily
interested in the growth and de-
velopment of the city.
The water company is directed
from Philadelphia. The telephone
business of the Hoosier metropolis
is owned body and soul by an out
of-State corporation. The only In
terest of such foreign corporations
in the Indianapolis consumer is to
squeeze dividends out of him. TO
them the city only means profit.
The action Of the gas company
is a pretty fair argument for local
ownership of local utilities, and
even for municipal ownership of
such vitality important service as
water supply. A home-bred mo-
nopoly isn't likely to get rough.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18
That World Court Vote

"a MEXICAN editors have just been pains
lxAl takingly polled by Edward W. Box s
peace foundation to find out how they line up
on the world court They voted so per cent in
favor Of joining.
This seems to have come as quite blow
to the ants They realize it indicates that the
country at large favors adherence by approx
mately the same majority. The fact seems to
have left them groggy, that is if one can judge
by their cropping for comeback
One very much depressed Washington
paper, for example, says it is obvious the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18
| MILLIONS
IN 1T

RI GORGE REMUS, de luxe
bootlegger of Cincinnati,
III testifying In Indianapolis
Federal Court Wednesday in the
st. Louis liquor ring case, admit
ted that he had banked nearly
100000 in a Cincinnati bank
in eleven months from his boot
Logging operations.
Shortly after the prohibition law
went into effect he quit the prac-
tice Of law in which he had been
previously engaged and went into
the booze business. Since then he
has piled up a fortune, reputed to
be a multimillionaire, bought a
half dozen distilleries, and has
done business on a big scale.
Regular Horatio Alger stuff.
From rags to riches in five years.
All out of the profits of Illicit
booze.
And in that career Of five years
was an enforced vacation of
twenty months, during which he
was out of business serving a SEN
tence in the Federal Prison at At
lanta.
The sentence has been served,
but he still has the fortune accu-
INFLATED by lawbreaking. No won
der the booze business won't qui-
city die just because 1t Is contrary
to law. There's millions In t
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
-Ry GAYLORD NELSON
BOYS! PAGE
Mr.. HOUDINI

" PUZZLED and indignant
S HERE IN INDIANA the
following plant:
ar. H. 1. l.: Notice on back Of
wrapper in which 1925 automobile
licenses are sent out reads:
"'Rear license tag must be
placed next to lamp so constructed
and placed as to throw a white
light on the plate and render the
numerals thereon visible for at
least sixty feet in the direction
from which the vehicle is pro-
ceeding.'
"F'rinstance, the direction from
which the vehicle is proceeding
Is the east; car travelling west.
Looking east howinyell is Teller
going to see the rear license tag,
especially in bad weather. Howe
going to tell whether he has a
rear license tag or no-'at's what
I'd like to know"
The answer is beyond us. All
we know the Statutes of Indiana
prescribe the rear license tags
must be visible for at least sixty
feet in the direction from which
the vehicle is proceeding. APP
parently Hoosier solons expect pc
destrians will develop long, timber
necks or the license plates must
be more agile than usual.
1t will take magic as we'll as
profanity to affix the rear plate
in accordance with instructions.
Boy! page Mr.. Houdini. We have
a sleight-of-hand job for him.