davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
XII kLUX CLOSES
WASHINGTON
CONCLAVE
Two-day Session Ends With
Initiation Of Group
Of Candidates.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1O.-The
white robe Of the Ku Klux Khan had
disappeared today from the streets of
the national capital.
With the burning of a monster fiery
cross on the Virginia hills last night
the two-day gathering of the organiza-
ton came TO a close and visiting
klansmen today were on their way
home.
TWO ARE ARRESTED.
The cross, eighty feet high, burned
for more than an hour, Illuminating
the grounds of the Arlington Horse
Show Club where the concluding cere-
monies were held for the conclave that
was featured Saturday by a parade
down Pennsylvania Avenue.
While the meeting was in progress
last night two men who gave their
names as G.. l.. Williams of Califor-
MIA and Morris Afternoon of Cincin-
natl, were arrested and escorted from
the grounds by Arlington county off
cials for the distribution of anti-klan
literature.
RELIGIONS ATTACKED.
Several speeches by khan orators
preceded the initiation of group of
men and women into the organization.
The speakers assaulted the Catholics,
Jews, scientists and newspapers. The
Rev. John f. Gu.:edge. of Columbus,
Ohio, at one point in his address
charged the newspapers with printing
unfair accounts of the khan and its
activities.
The Rev. Mr.. Gullcdge also said
that "the difficulty with the world is
that it is cursed with too many relig-
ions and lacks the faith of the Lord,
Jesus Christ"
Earlier in the day small group
Of kansmcn placed wreaths of roses
on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier
and the grave of William Jennings
Bryan.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
FORFEIT GIVES CATS
JUNIOR LEAGUE FLAG

Frenchy's Cats congregated ut Lions
Field Sunday afternoon and tossed
the ball around long enough to collect
a forfeit from the Southern Steel
Juniors and the championship of the
Junior League. The forfeit puts them
out of reach of Joske's Panthcrs, with
whom they play their last game Of the
season next Sunday.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10

the ccaseless wagging of tongues ere.
ated a prejudice against a well mean.
ing, self-sacrificing doctor and robbed
him Of his chance for happiness with
the girl he loved and finally reused
the populace TO the point of mob vio-
lencc against him.
Percy MarmOnt plays the part of
DR.. Nye, Doris Kenyon, as Katherine
Minot, is his sweetheart.
Edna Marian in After a Reputa-
ton" n comedy. helps make you for
get the hot weather.
Fox News and the Pathe Review
and scenic reel completes the pro-
gram.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
j. S. TRACK STARS
WIN IN DENMARK

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug. 10.
The American athletes, members of the
Illinois Athletic Club, Harold Osborn,
p. w. Jones, II. H. Schwartz, George
II. Stevenson, Ray Dodge and H. t,
Evans Jr., were easy winners in all
the events in which they competed
here Sunday, except the pole vault and
weight-throwing contest. In the pole
vault Jones finished second and in
the weight-throwing contest Schwartz
was fifth.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
Credit Men
Exchange Data

Confidential information pertain
ing to credit accounts was exchanged
by thirty members Of the San An.
tonic Credit Mems Association at their
regular meeting in the Guntcr Hotel.
Monday at noon.
General conditions of credit also
were discussed.
s. B. Weller presided over the meet
ing
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
LEGALS
Bids and Propose Is
:2,CI1
BIDS WANTED

BIDS WANTED
Sealed bids addressed TO the Hon. Au-
gustUs McCloskey. County Judge, will
be received In the office OF the County
Auditor until IL o'clock a. m., Friday.
September I, 1926. for the surface treat
ment with limestone rock asphalt one
~ inch In thickness and i6 feet in
width Of the Somerset Road from the
end OF the present treatment to the
BexAr County line In County Commits.
sloners Procint No. : Of Bexsr County,
Texas. In accordance with specifications
on file in the Bexar County Highway
Engineers Office A certified or cashiers
check IN the sum OF five 80 per cent
Of the amount bid must accompany each
bid
The county reserves the right to reject
any and all bids.
W. S. KENDALL, County Auditor
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
KANSAS FOUR WINS

DENVER, Colo, Aug. 10.-The
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. army polo
team defeated the Denver Polo Club,
S to ), here Sunday. Major Smith
Of the army four was injured when
struck on the hand by a lifted shot.
Major Wilkinson of the Lcavcnwonth
team was the star of the game.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
PHIL! PIP { 5
MAY SUPPLY
US. RUBBER
Department Of Commerce
Report Says 10000 Tons
May Be Grown.
BY the Associated Press,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. - The
Philippine Islands have given promise
of eventually bringing to the American
rubber user a part of his crude sup
ply. The Commerce Department, in a
report today on an exhaustive inves'
tigation of the potential value Of the
archipelago for crude rubber, ex-
pressed the opinion that profitable
production is possible there.
The report, representing many
months of study, held that under ia
vorable conditions an annual maxi.
mum of 10000 tons could be pro-
duced in the islands, in the southern
portion of which approximately l.
100000 acres are suitable. for rubber
raising.
ENGLAND CUTS PRODUCTION.
The lack Of political disturbances
and the utilization of the present
available labor forces in the islands
were stressed as factors in reaching
this estimate.
The report marks the completion of
another stage in the departments
worldwide survey OF the rubber stu
alton, started eighteen months ago at
the instance of Congress and the rub
Der trade. when it became apparent
that the legalized restriction of the
plantation rubber output in the Brit
ish possessions might menace Ameri-
can consumers. In recent months,
high rubber prices, feared by the
American industry at the outset Of
the British restriction program, have
been realized.
ONLY SMALL PART.
Previous department reports have
dealt with the British program as
now established in that nations col.
onics, while today's report was de,
voted to a study Of the possibility Of
creating competitive plantation areas
in the Philippines. The investigation
is being continued to study the adj
visibility of expanding the crude out
put of South America, Africa and the
Caribbean areas.
The 70-000-ton potential Philippine
output would compare with an annual
import now Of 100000 tons by the
United States.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
Open Shoppers
Discuss Business

Routine business of the Open Shop
Association was discussed Monday at
noon at meeting of the directors OF
that body held in the Guntcr Hotel.
r. A. HQlmgrccn of the Alamo Iron
Work, presided over the meeting.
which was attended by about twenty
directors and members.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
Fairbanks Back
in "Thief of Bagdad"

Douglas Fairbanks in his delightful
fantasy, The Thief of Bagdad" can
never return too often for San An
tonians.
All the splendor and romance of
that Arabian night will be rclivcd
Monday and Tuesday on the Plaza
screen.
The screen production Of Villa
Gathers novel, "A Lost Lady," will
follow for a two-day engagement and
Mabel Normand, in Susanna" will
play the last two days Of the week.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
HIS CRIME TOO PERFECT"
INVENTOR KILLS HIMSELF
By RICHARD J. WATERS
Universal Service staff Correspondent.

OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 1O.-Foiled
in his efforts to perpetrate the TOO
Perfect Crime" Charles Henry
Schwartz cheated justice today by
ending his own life.
Trapped in a hotel apartment in
which he had been hiding since July
20, when a mysterious explosion
wrecked his Walnut creek laboratory
and left behind the mangled remains Of
a man since identified as Gilbert W.
Barbe, itinerant missionary. Schwartz
today sent a bullet into his brain, dy-
ing instantly.
CRIME TOO PERFECT.
His act brought to an end one of
the most intensive fmanhunts of the
West and an investigation in which
science was pitted against science.
An investigator and inventor,
Schwartz. according to police, plotted
gigantic insurance murder hoax,
which failed only because of its per-
fectness.
Schwartz left behind a confession
that he had slain Barbe, claiming it
was done in self-defense.
In letter written to his wife ap-
parently in anticipation of suicide
should the officers close in upon him,
the inventor declared that the muir
dered man came to him seeking work.
An argument followed a refusal to
employ the man, the letter said, then
struggle in which he killed the man
whose identity he later endeavored to
merge with his own in suicide hoax.
SURROUND HOTEL.
Police, however, declared that they
have evidence showing that it was a
case of deliberate murder, that Barbe
was lured TO the laboratory on promise
of employment and slain.
Schwartz came to the hotel in
which he was located the morning
after the explosion at his Walnut
Creek place.
He told the proprietor that "he
was in trouble for bootlegging and
wanted to lay low for few days"
This explanation was accepted, but
comparing his quiet roOmer with
printed descriptions of Schwartz, g..
W. Hayward. the hotel proprietor, be-
came suspicious and advised the police
Early today officers surrounded the
hotel.
They Knocked a. his door.
There was no answer.
SHOT ENDS LIFE.
They started to batter down the
doo-.
a single shot rang out as the door
gave way.
Officers entering found Schwartz
already dead.
The bullet had entered his right eye
and crashed through his brain.
Police declared that information
given them by Hayward. the hotel
man. forged the last link in their
chain of evidence against Schwartz.
He told the officers that Schwartz
arranged for his room in which to hide
the night before the explosion occurred
at Walnut Creek.
This, officers declared. proved con-
clusively that the crime was rs they
have maintained. one of the most clcv-
crly planned and executed murders in
criminal annals and shattered the
claim of self-defcnSe set up in the
letter left behind by Schwartz.
CLEAR MYSTERY.
Schwartz's suicide will probably en-
able his wife to collect 100000 in
surance which he carried.
Police do not believe that Mrs.
Schwartz was aware of the plot.
In n letter Schwartz had instructed
her ''if anything happens to take the
children and go TO England.
Police believe that Schwartz antici-
pated she would collect the insurance,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
Rialto Program
Film With Moral

idle Tongues" now playing at the
Rialto, wildly portrays the tragedy
that follows gossiping tongues and
how innocent persons can be made to
suffer from them.
1t is a story without words of how
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
MACK. LOYA DRAW

Ell PASO, Aug. 10.-Eddie Mack,
Alamosa, Colo, Southwestern Father
weight champion, and Pete Loyn.
Juarez. Mex. boxed sensational Il
round draw Sunday afternoon in the
Juarez bull ring. Mack weighed l3j,
Loya, 100.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
The Weather
FORECAST.

San Antonio and vicinity: MorIay
est temperature about 9S degrees; l'5nt
to moderate southerly winds.
East TeNasI Monday night and Tues
day, generally fair: light to fresh south
crly winds on the coast.
West Texas; Monday night and Tues
day, partly cloudy; probably local show
ers in the west and north portions.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
SPENCE SETS RECORD.

NORTH BERGEN, n. j., Aug. 10.
Walter Spence of the Brooklyn Cen
trail Y. NJ. c. A., broke his own
worlds record for the 300-yard med
ley swim by winning the Metropolitan
A. A. U. championship at that dis
lance in 4 81 2-5.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
PROBE MAY AIR
SCANDAL IN
c. O.P.
Coolidge Orders Inquiry
Into Alien Property
Graft Accusations.
BY JOHN T. LAMBERT
Universal Service staff Correspondent

To- UNIVERSAL Service starr Correspondent.
SWAMPSCOTT, Aug. 10.-k.
sweeping investigation of alleged graft
and corruption in the alien property
custodian's office, involving millions
of dollars and possibly figures of ma.
tional Importance in the Republican,
party, has been ordered by President
Coolidge, il became known here.
The investigation will be conducted
by Attorney General John G.. Sargent,
He received his instruction from the
President direct during his visit last
week to the summer White House. !,
Facts which may produce a scandal
of national proportions were present.
ed by Sargent to the President dur
ing their conference.
The President ordered him to "clean
up the alien pgoperty custodian's Of
flee and to seek criminal indictments
of any officials who may have been
involved, regardless of their promi-
nence."
SWISS GET STOCK.
One Of the cases discussed by them
was the disposition of the $1,000, 900
American Metals company. ~
1t was seized by the government
during the war.
German interests were supposed to
control 40 per cent of the corpora
ton.
Subsequently, persons representing
Swiss interests started at work in
Washington and the 40 per cent of the
property originally seized from the
German holders was turned over to
the Swiss claimants.
1t is claimed that about SAT 900
of the assets of the corporation have
been traced to the possession of Col
onel Thomas W. Miller, former alien
property custodian.
John T. King, high in the counsels
of the Republican party, received a
fee of 100000 in the case.
JESS SMITH INVOLVED.
About $4,000 of the assets are re-
ported to have been traced to the ac-
count of the late Jesse Smith, pal Of
former Attorney General Daugherty.
Miller says the company bonds
found in his bank account were paid
to him as a debt by Edward A. Thurs
ton, now dead.
Thurston was a former chairman of
the Republican state committee of
Massachusetts.
King admits the receipt Of 100000
and claims it was a just fee for his
services.
Whether the President or Sargent
believes that any corrupt practices
were involved in that transaction was
not stated here.
The alien property custodian situa-
ton was one of the inheritances of the
Coolidge administration.
Hundreds of millions of dollars of
property has been hquidated there
since the war.
President Coolidge cast about for
man of independence and ability to
take charge of the office and he final
ly prevailed upon Frederick Q. Hicks,
who is represented as being man Of
wealth and without political strings.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
SHADE, WINNER OVER
SCHOELL. GOING EAST

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10.-Dave
Shade, Concord, Cal, outstanding chal'
lcngcr for the wclterwcight title, who
took a 1O-round decision Saturday
night over frankie Schoell. of Buff
falo. n. Y, plans to return East at
once.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
- Sg ~
t:iilNI1Ii.slNElalS,

Plumbing, tile and electric. work.
Kirkwood & Wharton, 456 Main Ave.
Or. 1S4S.-(Adv.)
DIR. Il. f. White has resumed prae-
tice. Hicks Bldg (Ady.)
DIR. Thad Shaw has returned frnia
European postgraduate study ari
opened offices 230-23l Moore build-
ing. Residence 81. Anthony hotel.
+ Hertzberg, Kercheyille 4 Thompson
lawyers, COS Brady Bldg tAdy.)
YeOman danee-woodlawn Lose
pavilion. Music furnished BY new iess
man orchestra. Tuesday, Aug. ~,
l02J.-(Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
NeWYOrk Curb Transactions

NEW YORK. Aug. 1O.-Foliowing is
the official list Of transactions on the
New York Curb Exchange giving all
stocks and bonds traded in:
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10

/ proceed to England and there he could
rcjoin her.
"My last kiss for you Alice" was
the closing phrase of the letter.
Along with the solution of the baf
fling mystery through Schwartz's sui
eide, came a clearing up Of the iden,
tity of his alleged victim.
Barbe, a university graduate, Wit
accumulated large fortune in the
brokerage business, according to Cecil
Parker, Placerville, Cal, his best
friend, cast it aside to adopt the role
of a wandering missionary, working
among the great hobo army of timer.
ant workers and living among them in
the ''jungles."
SERVED IN ARMY.
In Schwartz's room, officers found
many OF the records which were mis-
sing following his disappearance.
They found he had married in Eng
land the first time under the name of
Cyril Warden.
He had discharge papers from the
French army, having enlisted as Henri
Charles Schwartz in an artillery regi-
mcnt.
He also served in the Red Cross
and carried an English "alien" card.
Mrs. Schwartz, who had maintained
a firm belief that 1t was her husband
who had lost his life in the explosion,
was Frustrated by the news OF her
husbands suicide and did not view his
body.
her attorney T.. ;. Bell Dr. a. h.
hucdy' famliy physician ana ii. X.
hIeihsung' president OF the company
employing schwartz, ldentltied the
Dolly.
Inc letter left by the suicide fol-
lows:
TEXT OF LETTER.
MY dear wife and children:
II am writing you without making
any excuses, but one thing | will tell
you, / am not guilty of the crime they
accuse me of. Last Monday or Tues
day a man called at the factory for
work. / was in the lab. He came
straight in. We talked to each Other
for % little while. when suddenly the
man told me if | won't give him work
| would have to give him money.
"He attacked me. gave him a
blow on his head, He fell. gave
him another. never thought for a
moment 70 LET il go. hut | could not
mako nm NV mind 70 20 70 Rell and
foil him
81 decided m run owov hut made n
Jirtr i,b Of II nrt tbe man In tbc
nioso, oot rnodr Gov con ;ma,inc
bow fcIt I'll * TIM fscI;rs 7 had
- L. w., ond ,Lo door horsS
~ ION .S ' I'd az" %nr ~" Snffcrod '
.It "' ia nv, +bil d.mrod emit
~ - NJ rii,shotb hIon,I !
The Republican., 1925-05-28

was thrown back and forth in one hour
than in all the wars in which America
has ever been engaged.
"They Shall Not Pass!"
1t was in and around Nerdun, over
mountain peaks and in valleys, from
airplanes 10000 feet in the air, in sub
terranean caves, trenches and dugouts
man contended with his fellow man
You count your possessions in acres,
but as Death rides his white horse
over that domain he seems to say:
The world is mine. The world is
mine.! For there are miles covered
with the graves of human beings
bones bleaching in the sun
Verdun was made glorious in the
Franco-Prussian war of 1870. Immor-
tai in 1915 and 1916. 1t was here that
the Frenchman said: Ills ne pas
serOnt pas" And they did not pass.
But in the winning of that mighty
struggle the remnant of the Old First
division daily grew less and less. The
remaining shadows are rich in the pos
session of undying loyalty and tender
est recOllections. Five thousand five
hundred and eighty-six names are
written in bronze. Thousands lie on
beds of pain. All, alike will await our
next reunion in glory, around a m0nu-
ment not made with hands
The Republican., 1925-05-28
GENERAL LEE READY
TO RENDER ANY AID
Would Try to Find Wom-
ans Missing Son Dolly"

ITO AN old New Orleans newspaper
woman who met Gen. Robert E.
Lee on his last retreat from Richmond
to Appomattox contributed some in
teresting "reminiscences of the famous
Confederate commander. The army
had halted two miles from Petersburg
on the road to Appomattox, she writes,
and General Lee and his staff were
asked to dinner at the house of an
old friend who lived in Summit. Iced
mint julep was the favorite beverage
of Virginia gentlemen in those days,
and when the staff and guests had as
sembled just before dinner was an
nOunced the glasses were passed.
General Lee was in conversation
with a young woman. He offered his
glass to her after the old style and
then, barely raising it to his lips, set
1t down untasted. He took up and
drank instead glass of water
AS he rode away from Summit
toward AppomattoX on his favorite
horse Traveller he passed the house of
a poor old woman who had sent her
three sons to the army. The youngest,
whom she called Dolly, was her spe-
cial pet, Like every poor southern
woman she believed that General Lee
was the personal protector of her son.
When she saw him she rushed out and
caught his bride.
20, General Lee" she cried, whats
become Of my Dollyr
Although he was then almost with
out hope of saving his army and was
engrossed with plans for making
last desperate stand, the general, d.
vining at once that Dolly must be
soldier son. replied In his gentlest
manner:
MADAM, if you will tell me Dolly's
name and the name of his company
and command, l will try to find out for
you"
The Republican., 1925-05-28
SATURDAY,
The 9th Day of June, 1925,

at the hour of II o'clock a. M, in
front of the Court House in the town
of Oakland, Garrett county, Mary
land, offer and sell at public auction,
to the highest bidder, the following
property:
l. All that lot, piece or parcel of
land situate in or adjacent to the vii
lage of German, in Garrett county,
Maryland, the same being part of
Military Lot No. 1886 and containing
one acre, more or less. This being the
property which was conveyed unto
the said Guvari ]. Lee by deed from
Jacob j. Lantz, bearing date the 4th
day of November, 1921, and recorded
in Liber E. 2. T., No. 80, folio 525,
one of the Land Records of Garrett
county, Maryland.
This property is improved by a
small dwelling house.
2. All the coal underlying all that
part of the tract of land called "Addi-
ton to Paradise" containing 13 1-2
acres, together with all the rights to
mine and remove the same and the
other rights in reference thereto as
set forth in a deed for said coal from
James Noah Lee to the said Guvari
J. Lee. bearing date the 5th day of
March, 1921, and recorded in Liber
E. q. T., No. 80, folio 526, one of said
Land Records of Garrett county. This
said property is located in Garrett
county and adjoins the property of
the late Elliott c. Harvey and Frank
Wilderson.
The aforesaid lot of ground will be
sold separately from the coal and
mining rights.
TERMS OF SALE-Cash on the
day of sale, but more liberal terms
may be arranged with the undersign-
ed by a responsible purchaser of the
property.
ERNEST RAY JONES,
Assignee for the purpose of Fore
closure.
Oakland, Md
The Republican., 1925-05-28
ROAD PETITION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
thirty days after the first publication
hereof application will be made to
the Board of County Commissioners
of Garrett county for the appoint
ment of viewers to view and locate a
proposed new county road beginning
for the same at or near Charles H.
Barr's farm on the State road and
running through the lands of said
Barr and others to intersect the old
road at or near the Rock Lodge on
the F. F. Nicola farm, a distance of
about two and three-quarter miles.
SAMUEL GLOTFELTY,
H. M. SKIPPER,
JOSEPH ASH, and others.
Published first time May 7, 1925.