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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
Rescue Work
Is Progressing

NEW LONDON, Conn, Oct. L.
R)-Rescue work on the submarine
Sol is progressing as planned, Rear
Admiral Fl. H. Christy reported from
the U. s. s. Camden in a message re-
ceived at the submarine base today.
The weather is favorable.
The message said sings had been
adjusted to the wrecking ship Mon
arch while the Century was getting
into position.
1t will take the two wrecking ships
two or three hours at least to lift the
submarine from the sea, officers here
believed. 1t is quite possible that a
longer time will be required.
The U. S. S. Camden, mother-shil
of the rescue fleet, will return to tic
submarine base as soon as rescue op
erations have been completed or aban.
doned.
1t was pointed out today that at.
tempting to lift the SOL with the
cranes on the Monarch and Century
was somewhat of a gamble. Each o.
these boats can lift only 100 feet al
time. while the submarine lies in
12S feet of water. When the two light
ers get her as far as their hoists car
bring her, one of them will attempt
to hold on and keep the submarine al
the 100-foot level until the other can
take a new grip.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
Attach Sings to Wrecked Sub
Burglar Sails
To Safety Via
Parachute

Converting three stolen silk
dresses into a parachute, burg
lar who was surprised in the
home of H. Undowski, 40S War
rem street, Wednesday night,
sailed to liberty from the second
floor sleeping porch as the family
blocked his exit on the floor be-
low.
Returning from the theater,
the Undowsky family found their
house unlocked and the door
standing open.
The burglar heard them the
same time they heard him.
While they we're barring the
stairway, he fIoated to freedom
ON the silken loot.
The burglar made a safe but
prickly landing in a clump OF
q cactIs bush in the backyard.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
LOVE VICTIM ON GRAVE
BRINK AS VOICE CALLS
Death through whose grim visage the voice of his
dead sweetheart calls hovers too the cot of
Arthur w. Meyers in the county Jail.
"You won't be bothered with me much longer" he

said. "I'm just going to be
with you one more day."
And, because he spoke
with such assurance when he made
the statement, Arthur Meyers, charg-
ed with the murder of Betty Barnes
Gambler, has been taken back TO the
city hospital.
But before his transfer from the Jail
he made signed statement in which
he is alleged to have admitted being
responsible for the death of the wo-
man whom he loved better tb1n life, 5
and of attempting to take his own life.
Full details of the affair are given, il
is stated. e..
The statement was made to Lee
johnson, special Investigator of the
district attorneys office. and was wit.
messed by Chief Investigator John
Long and others.
Although the bullet with which nc
sought to end his own life after he is
alleged TO have shot the woman he
loved is still lodged beneath his skull
Mr.. Meyers was thought to be on tho
road to recovery.
When he had gained sufficient
strength to stand an operation th'
bullet was to have been removed. I'm
ill that time came. nothing could be
done. attendants at the hospital said
so he was moved to the jail.
Thursday, however, physicians de
Pclarcd, the battle for the life of Mr.
Meyers must be fought by others. For
to the wounded man, death is thinI
not 70 fight, but torfelconc. -
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
FEAR DAUGHTER
OF FEDERAL ACE
KEDNAP VICTIM

CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-LP)-Kidnap-
ing was feared as police today sought
Mary, 1o-year-old daughter Of Pat
Roche. ace of the federal secret SER
vice here and active in important
cases.
With Mary Lyons, 10, the girl dis
appeared last night when they went
out to play. Francis Lyons, Mary's
father, met them just before they van
ished and they told him they were 90
ing ito the store for lady" The
indicated store was closed at the time
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
RADIO JAZZ TUNES
CHEER PASSENGERS
AS STEAMER BURNS
BY Universal Service.

LONDON, Oct. 1.-While fire
ragged below decks in the cargo Of
feathers and horsehair aboard the
London steamer. London Mariner,
from New York, in the English chan
mel, d. Donisthrope, passenger
hooked his portable radio set in bis
cabin and invited the other passengers
to listen to Piccadilly jazz music.
In this manner he diverted the fears
of the passengers until the ship ar
rived safely at Gravesend where the
fire was smothered.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
BIG CHICAGO BAKER
CUTS BREAD PRICE
TWENTY PER CENT

CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-R)-The price
Of bread. wholesale to dealers was
cut nearly 20 per cent today by the
Ward Baking company of Chicago,
supplying about % per cent of the
bread consumed here.
Large loaves which sold for ~ IL
cents were reduced to 10 and one
pound loaves from s IL to Z. The
cuts enabled dealers to sell the larger
for II IL instead of 10 cents and
the smaller 10-cent size for s IL.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
BRITISH ROYALTY'S
PHYSICIAN is DEAD

EAST RUDHAM, England, Oct. /.
R)-Sir Alan Reeve Mandy, ply
stefan extraordinary to King George,
and before him. to King Edward, is
dead, aged II. He was the inventor
of various surgical instruments and
the author of numerous papers on
medical topics.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
New Method Of Collection
Eliminates Rush at
Courthouse Office.

For the first time in Bexar county's
history, tax payments have begun on
the first day of the collection period.
With the opening of Collector r.
Neil Campbcll's office Thursday morn
ing, steady stream of taxpayers
began filing past the windows and
payments were coming in at an in.
creasing rate by noon. This means,
Collector Campbell says, that property
owners will be able to pay their taxes
this year without the rush and Jam
which has characterized this task in
the past.
SENDS OUT STATEMENTS.
This was made possible by the fact
that the tax statements were prepared
weeks in advance and were ready for
the first property owner when he
appeared at the office Thursday.
Last year payments did not start until
November IL.
The tax paying period is from Octo-
Der l to January 81.
In addition to having the books
ready on time, Collector Campbell has
sent out statements to all property
owners, giving them an itemized state
ment Of their taxes.
This will enable those who desire to
do so, to mail checks for their taxes
and avoid the necessity of coming tc
the office.
AVOID RUSH.
More than 10000 statements were
in the mail Thursday and an addition
al $1,000 will 90 out during the week,
Collector Campbell said.
The statement includes the state and
county taxes, and those for the indie
pendent school districts. with the ex
ception of the Los Angeles Heights
district, which employs its own col.
lector.
In a circular letter accompanying
each ststenent, Collector Campbell
points out that the mailing Of the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
CHARGE
AIRED AT
PROBE
Officer Declares Pilots
Favor Separate Air
Corps in Department.

WASHINGTON, D.. c., Oct. L.
P)--Naval air officers told the Presi-
dents air board today that there is
| a hesitancy among some junior off
Gers 20 freely express their views be-
fore investigating bodies.
Existence of this condition was
charged yesterday by Colonel Mitchell,
instigator Of the present aircraft con-
troversy. 1t was developed by Sena-
tor Bingham of Connecticut in ques-
tioning witnesses, the first of whom
Lieutenant Commander r. R. Pau
mack of the naval bureau OF aero
! nautics, urged creation of separate
air corps in the navy and recommend
ed establishing an advance school for
training of naval air officers.
FOR SEPARATE CORPS.
About 60 or 20 per cent of naval
flyers. he said, are in favor of a
separate air corps, but the desire for
an independent air service has faded
away" entirely.
Much dissatisfaction exists, he con-
tinued, over the present naval air or
ganization because pilots want con-
troll of the aviation affairs placed in
the hands of flying men.
"Thc naval air reserve force leads
hand to mouth existence and is
short of personnel and equipment, y
he testified.
Although there is growing ten
dency in favor Of aviation among high
naval officers, continued Paunack,
they are careful to see that it does not
"overstep its bounds" at the expense
of other naval units.
READ WILBUR LETTER.
Before Commander Paunack began,
Dwight w. Morrow, board chairman,
read letter from Secretary Wilbur,
made public Monday, calling attention
to desire by the department to have
all officers freely express their per-
sonal views. The ehairman expressed
appreciation for the cooperation ex-
tended the board by the War and
Navy departments.
Returning to the reluctance of navy
officers to testify, the witness said
this feeling was now prevalent among
a great number of officers and that he
believed it to be not justified.
Lieutenant Commander H. 7. Bart
lett, OF the naval war college, was
asked by Senator Bingham;
do you know of any reluctance by
naval officers over expressing personal
views?'
Not before this board answered
Bartlett.
Before other bodies?p
ayes, sir"
OFFICERS DISCOURAGED.
Us this feeling prevalent or confined
to few"
"a small number I think"
"Rear Admiral NIoffett, naval all
chief, has testified" Senator Bingham
continued, that there is unrest in the
service
Il would call it encouragement,
said Bartlett.
"Oycr what?'
"Not progressing as it should"
Commander Bartlett endorsed a SEP
fContinued On psra 1,ro
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
WANT TEXAS SUSPECT.

AUSTIN, Tex, Oct. 1.-tR-Req-
uisition on the governor of Oklahoma
for the return to Texas of Bryant
Goodman, wanted in Collin county on
a complaint charging burglary. was
issued today by Governor Miriam A.
Ferguson.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
BRITISH PATROL
NEAR EAST WATERS

LONDON, Oct. 1.-CP)-Strong
British naval forces will be maintain.
ed in Near Eastern waters during the
next few weeks under amended or
ders issued by the admiralty to the
Mediterranean fleet.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
RELIABILITY PLANE
OFF FOR ST. LOUIS

KANSAS CITY, Oct. 1.-CF-The
first of the planes in the Ford elia-
bility tour hoped off today from
Richards Field promptly at II a. m.
for st. Louis. 1t was No. 90" a
Travel-air piloted by z. X. Campbell
of Wichita, Kan.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
HER FR|ENI
PROMISES
KEY To
PAST
Two Letters En- Route Will
Cloak Of Hidden Life :,
Thrown Aside.

Efforts to block the probd
into the mysterious life
and death--of Mrs. Ada Nc
Cobb, millionaire hamme
Staying victim, were re-
vealed in a letter from Miss L. swy|
CERT, cousin of the slain woman, Il
District Attorney C. NJ. Chamber
Thursday.
And a second letter, promising Il
furnish the key to the mystery cloaII
ing Mrs. McCobbs life. is speeding d
Police Chief T. o. Miller from La
Angeles. s.
The first letter from Miss j
Swygert, second cousin of the slai|
woman, revealed that an effort is b
ing made to cover the trail leading 4
the mysterious past of the slai|
woman by relatives.
The second letter, from womaI
who knew Mrs. McCobb at the Marth|
Washington hotel, will give full a
tails of her life, according to te',
gram received by the police chi5
Thursday.
II knew Mrs. McCobb and I a,
forwarding by mail full details Of be
past life," the telegram read.
The telegram was brief, but off
GERS hope that the letter will furnis
one more link in the solving Of Mr.
McCobb's mysterious past.
Mrs. McCobb was found, dying, h
head beaten in with hammer, behir
the bolted door of he. room at q
Laclede avenue las Friday. Besid
her lay Mrs. Mabel Lonsworth SheT
dan. apparently unconscious. Mr.
Sheridan has been charged with Il
Staying and according to the distri
attorney has signed a ten-page stat
ment, admitting thes laying.
PROBE RELATIONSHIP.
Miss Swygerts' letter REVEALED tn
brother-in-law and sister of the slai
woman who had denied any relation
ship with her. arc in reality her mex
of kin.
The district attorney Thursds
launched an investigation to find o,
why this relationship was denied. Tl
strangest circumstance in the deni
of relationship was the fact tn;
as next of kin. the couple wcu
probably inherit fortune estimate
to be worth million dollars.
Unexamined baggage in San Frar
cisco, Mexico City and in storage here
and information said TO have been
the hands of federal customs officer
for several years
These are the remaining trsi
that lead to the solution Of the stranl
death and still stranger life Of M
McGpbb. whose body Thursday, D
days after she was dubbed 10 deaf
with a hammer. still remained =
San Antonio mergue. unvisited BY n
atives or loved ones.
FAIL TO YIELD CLUES
In a very hasty exsnination
nesday Of only "a par: e ~ -
truplf and paekaG 61
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
ARCHBISHOP VISITS
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
BY Universal Service.

WASHINGTON Oct. 1. - Arch.
bishop Fumasoni Biondi, apostolic
delegate to the United States, was T.
ceived at the White House by Prest-
dent Coolidge. The delegate called
formally to offer his compliments I'd
the President.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
TURKISH RECRUITS
CALLED TO SERVICE

CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 1.-CP
Four classes of recruits, ranging from
the ages of % to % years, have been
called to the colors. The officers Of
the first and second reserves are to
undergo medical examination.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
TEXAS GIN WORKER
WHIRLED TO DEATH

SWEETWATER, Oct. Nv. G.
Owens, SO. was whirled TO death when
he became entangled in line shaft at
gin at Roscoe, near here. A belt
slipped off which he was endcavoring
to replace.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
ENGLAND SEEKING
TRADE WITH LATINS
BY Universal Service.

LONDON, Oct. 1.-The Daily Mail
announces that as result of the tour
of the Prince of Wales there will be
formed an Anglo-American Associa-
ton for the purpose of rccapturing the
Latin-American markets.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
Today
Land Of the Future.
Hand Picked Jokes.
Woman's Plying Heart.
By Arthur Brisbane
Copyright. 1895 by star Co

~ HOULD President Coolidge let
~ Secretary Wilbur go and select
- for secretary of the navy a man
knowing something about the flying
machines, or, at least, willing to
realize that he doesn't know? Yes,
by all means.
Follow Colonel Mitchell's advice
and establish national defense body,
with three departments. army, navy
and air independent of each other?
BY all means. 1t is only common
sense.
But quarrcls fade away, incom-
petcnce dies out, justice is done in
the end. Attend here to something
more important than the chickering's
of politics.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01
LIE TEMPS REPORTER
KILLED IN MOROCCO,

FEZ, Oct. 1.-CP-Reginald Kyin,
correspondent on the Moroccan/ front
for lie Temps, leading Psria IS
pa per iliiIil hs. = r.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01

nNE child, a boy Of IL, says:
~ "Geel These Indians are conf
CAL" A smaller boy, 8, asks hope
fully: do you think that Indian
ever scalped anybody"
The girl, IL: 81 am so sorry for
these poor Indians. Nobody seems
to buy anything from them" And
she goes out to buy.
The plying heart of woman ended
cannibalism and slavery. 1t will in
time end poverty and human misery.
GEE New Mexico, the empire Of n
- future greater race, il you pre-
fer 122,634 square miles Of over
whelming beauty to one page Of
"hand-picked jokes"
This is a tall state, the lower part
to the south; the table lands are
1000 feet high, rising northward to
a height of 5000 feet. The Rio
Grande. from the Colorado line of
New Mexico to the old Mexican BOZ
der, falls $500 feet. Back of the
Rio Grande and other great rivers of
this western country there is wealth,
reserve power for civilization that
dwarfs everything in the East.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01

NEW MEXICO'S county of Colfax
~ alone has coal beds containing
thirty thousand million tons, and al
ready the miners payrolls run up to
100000 a month.
At Lamy, Indian men and women
with faces that never change, beckon-
ing with their fingers, muttering
few words, offer pottery for sale.
Three children, looking from the car
window, remind you that what little
decency we possess we owe to the
influence of woman.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01

THIS is written on the train,
! westbound, heavy engine haul
ing one of two long Santa Fe trains
that every day in the year takes
passengers from Chicago and points
,.east to California, rolls down through
the cold air from Ration mountain,
: 1000 feet up, into New Mexico, a
domain reserved for future race,
that will be more worthy of so mag
nificert an abode, and better adapted
to lofty isolation. No man could de-
scribe the sun rising over the hills
and valleys of this country. Vainly
Dante tried to describe the eternal
light that illumines Paradise. He
would have been no more successful
here.
This land, too good for men now
living. wearies their feeble minds,
overwhelms them. Buckle tells how
civilization developed among little
mountains, bays and rivers in Greece.
Italy, along the shores Of the small
inland Mediterranean Sea.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01

THE mighty Himalayas dwarfed
! mems minds, crushed their
genius. They could not cope with
natures overwhelming grandeur.
This was illustrated just now by
young gentleman who had been adj
vised to see the sun rise over beau.
tiful New Mexico from the observa-
ton car. His hair is carefully oiled
and brushed backward. and as the
sun rises and blazes over thousand
rnountains, hills and rayines he is
absorbed in magazine page headed
- hand picked group Of faHsS.
jokes"
Here is the real "Old America"
The palace of the governor at Santa
Fe was built ~ years before the
Pilgrim fathers landed and fell upon
the aborigines. Wealth unreasonable
is in these lands and will soon bring
here the modern genius that cares
little for scenery or anything that
cannot be added to bank account.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-01

CONTINUED On Pagl Two-)
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-10-01

noring the fact that the wet resolution had
been discarded by an overwhelming vote.
Resolution Denounced
"On the floor of the Convention several
delegates denounced the resolution as
deliberate effort of 1abor's enemies to
stampede the convention on an unpopular
issue, and to thus disintegrate organized
labor in the state. Not single voice was
raised in defense of a wine and beer per-
NIT, and many of the delegates, when in
terviewed after the session closed, openly
avowed their opposition to any change in
the Vo1stead act.
THE action of the convention was not
the voice of the liquor traffic's enemies, but
the voice of American people who are gen
orally classified as neutral and upon whom
the vets base their hopes of ultimate re-
vision of the Eighteenth Amendment
These are the actual facts given for the
benefit of those who read the misleading
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-10-01
MEETING PLACES

In addition to day sessions as previous
ly announced night sessions of Thursday
and Friday also will be held in the Chi
cago Temple. The Saturday night young
peoples rally will be held in the Second
Presbyterian Church, Michigan Avenue
and Goth Street. Sunday afternoon mass
meeting will be held in the Chicago Tenn
pie.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-10-01
NO COMPROMISE POSSIBLE

America
state
The AniSaoo
There
League and the brewers The object
liquor traffic,
object the brewers the liquor
Compih the weakening the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-10-01

All registered delegates will re-
ceive the beautiful souvenir conven-
ton badge and full report of the
convention proceedings, for the reg
istration fee of $100 to cover the
cost.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-10-01
GREATEST CRISIS CONVENTION

Your Church. Sunday School, Young Peoples Society," Tenn
Organization entitled and invited or more
delegates to this rally from all America
Eighteenth Amendment Come, and protest the your
organization and person. against wet propaganda
Join the nationwide perfect enforcement promote
observance of prohibition laws.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-10-01

newspaper reports of the conventions &C
ton, and in justice to the Illinois Fedora
ton of Labor"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-10-01
Stand of Illinois Federation Of
Labor as to Wet and Dry
Issues Grossly Misrepre-
scented by Papers


any other profession and newspaper men
are fair-rninded on all questions, but there
is lot OF wet propaganda going through
some of the newspapers of the United
States even though the stories themselves
are true, sklful headliners often make an
entirely different impression from the
body of the article itself AS an instance
is this report of the Illinois Federation of
Labor Conventions attitude on the wet
and dry issue which was misrepresented
by some newspapers, especially in the
headlines. This proposition of wet propa-
ganda will be one of the subjects of con-
sideration at the Chicago Convention
Confirming the Illinois Federation Will
liam L. Aye, newspaper man of Urbana,
Illinois, writes as follows:
"Prohibitionists throughout the area in
which Illinois newspapers circulate have
been treated to gross and apparently in
territorial misconstruction of the action of
the Illinois State Federation of Labor con-
vention with respect to the wine and beer
issue which wet newspapers continually
agitate with little prospect of success
Outside the convention city, where the
facts were played up in local newspapers
in accord with the stand actually taken by
the convention, the impression was spread
abroad that Illinois trade unionists are
anxious beyond measure for return of
the legal sale of wine and beer. The i'm
preston is absolutely false.
Never Helped Vets
'The truth is that no convention in tbs
state, having reputation of neutrality on
the liquor issue, ever gave the licensed or
illicit traffic such severe short arm blow
as did the 1925 convention of the Illinois
Federation of Labor. But where the facts
were not misconstrued they were general
ly suppressed.
''The writer was assigned to report the
convention proceedings for the Urbana
Daily Courier, and the Twin City Review,
Champaign-Urbana organ of the Fedora
ton of Labor, and is in a position to know
what actually took place.
"A resolution, couched in language of
the vets, denounced the Volstead act in its
entirely and demanding repeal of the mea-
sure, was fatty turned down by an over
whelming majority Not a single speech
was made on the floor of the Convention
favoring the resolution The opposition
was so clear-cut and emphatic that the
vets who had filed the resolution dared
not raise their voices in its defense
President John Walker, in the conclud-
ing speech, denounced the resolution as
ill-advised, a usurpation of the American
Federation of Labor's authority and an
unnecessary rehashing of an old question,
which if persistently submitted, could have
no effect other than to disintegrate labor.
"a compromise merely endorsing pre-
.vious action of the American Federation of
Labor was entered on the minutes and the
resolution was ordered out in its entirety.
The compromise was effected on the
ground that the state convention could not
we'll go contrary to action which had pre-
viously been taken by the national body.
and not through friendship for the liquor
advocates or any consideration for their
wine and beer hobby
The Washington times., 1925-04-14
Kurds in Flight, Say Turks

CONSTANTINOPLE, April IA
Sheik Said and the Kurdestan
rebels following him are in flight,
the Turkish government announced
today.