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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

RUT many will think that such an
air wing might stimulate faith
in Biblical teachings, concerning
angels, archangels, etc. If mere man
in flying machine just invented can
loop-the-loop three times in success
sion, what can the angels not do,
after flying for endless millions of
years?
And as for the speed Of flying
angels, such as were formerly sent
from Heaven to earth with messages,
it is inconceivable, since it must ex-
coed the speed of light 10000 miles
a second.
Heaven could not be nearer than
the nearest fixed star, which is bill
lions of miles away. Think of that
for speed.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08
BABY ELEPHANT ATTENDS
BENEFIT SHOW AT RIALTO
By BESS CARROLL.

Weather authorities were greatly agtated Saturday.
Some brought in the report that it had rained
elephants on Houston Street. And local. weather men
had heard of it raining frogs and puppy dogs and pitch
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

WHATEVER others may say or
w do, Mussolini, fighting man of
Italy, wants it known that he is
ready to fight, if that seems desir-
able. "Let those who touch our
frontiers beware" says he. He at
tnches no great Importance to the
League of Notions" as it is called
BY Mr.. Brady, head of labor's feder-
alton bank in New York City.
Mussolini blames upon free ma
sonry a recent plot to assassinatc
him. Now all Masonic lodges in
Italy are closed.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08
RECOMMEND
PURCHASE
OF LAND
Sterling D. Freedom Sure
South Texas Property
Values Will Rise.

This advice is given to Texans by
Sterling D. Freedom as a prediction
Of the boom due to sweep the state
during the next few years.
Mr.. Freedom, a former San An
tonic real estate man, speaks with the
authority of one who, for the past four
months, has been participating in and
studying the Florida boom.
$50 say that South Texas will be
the center of the next large develop
ment does not require the vision of a
prophet" he said. "a cold analysis
of facts and conditions show that it
cannot be averted"
ASTONISHED AT PROGRESS.
Mr.. Freedom is spending few days
in San Antonio attending to business
and will return to Florida Sunday %
look after his interests at Jackson
vile and Miami.
II have been gone but four months
but upon my return I was astonished
to note the development that has taken
place in San Antonio" he said.
"New building makes the city look
almost like new place. The atmo-
sphere seems to have changed and is
surcharged with optimism and devel-
opment. The boom is in the air."
Asked what San Antonians and
Texans should do in anticipation of
the boom. Mr.. Freedom said:
VALUES TO SOAR.
"Buy property. 1t is necessary al
most to self preservation"
Using the Florida boom as a basis
for comparison, Mr.. Freedom gave his
predictions of what the Texas boom
will be.
Land and property in Florida that
was almost valueless few years ago.
he said, is now selling for fifty times
and more what it was bought for.
Business property in some of the boom
cities sells for more than property on
Wall street in New York.
While Texas probably will not see
such unheard of prices, Mr.. Freedom
said, Texans can expect to see values
soar.
Telling of the possibilities of devel-
opins the land of South Texas. Mr.
Freedom said that the actual value of
land here at the present time is great
er than in any part of the country.
PLACE TO PLAY.
"Texas has more to offer for the
money than any state in the union"
he said.
Or, in other words, dollar will buy
more actual value in Texas than any
other place.
The foundation of the Florida boom.
Mr.. Freedom said, is the rich tourist,
nothing more.
The monied men of the country
found in Florida a place with the eli
mate and other facilities where they
could play, closer than California, he
said.
PROMOTERS INTERESTED.
On that alone the boom has grown
Texas has to offer practically the
same playground and in addition the
greatest undeveloped industrial and
agricultural area in the United States
Already many OF the leading pro
moters of Florida are showing a live
ly interest in South Texas. Some with
whom he has talked, he said, are well
posted on the possibilities of the state
Their prediction il that the first
CONTINUED on Page Two)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08
Today
Sunday Flying.
Treat Cuba Right.
Socialist Gains.
Don't Envy China.
Rxy A,.&h,Yr Rrievna
By Arthur Brisbane
Copyright. 1925 by Star Co

I--COpyrfgnt, Iszo Uy Stdi %
- ELIGIOUS organizations having
N protested, tho war department
says, there must be no "air cir
cus' by army filters on Sunday. Filters
"looping the loop" turning over
sideways, flying ON the edge of one
wing, etc., make up an "air circus"
This, say the clergymen, is irreligious.
If they say it's so, it is.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

INDER such conditions the Cuban
~ grower cannot live. Leaving out
any question of decency it is against
the interest of this country to destroy
Cuba's sugar industry. A little while
ago Americans were eagerly buying
for $50 a bag of sugar that can be
bought now for S. to 80.
Unless housewives want to see the
price of sugar go up again they will
do well to lay in a supply and help
get rid of the present surplus.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08
ONE HUNDRED SEVEN pounds

0NE HUNDRED SEVEN pounds
~ of raw sugar makes 100 pounds
of graduated sugar. 1t costs
about / cent a pound to make raw
sugar into white sugar. The Cuban
sugar grower, after paying freight,
lighterage, warehouse, railway tax on
industrial process and other costs,
gets less than one-half a cent n pound
for the raw sugar refined and re-
tailed here at cents.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

COME scientist observes that the
- human race talks too much about
pain and too little about ~absence
of pain"
We think too much Of pain or an
ache, too little Of the fact that Of
eighteen hundred million people on
earth, about seventeen hundred mil
lion live free of pain and think moth
ing about it.
Forty-eight states of this nation do
not half appreciate their freedom
from the trouble Of China, and
hundred other countries.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

7 ABOR Socialism made enormous
IL gains everywhere in the British
election Of borough councillors. This
interests and frightens conservatism,
first because it may mean another
labor ministry, and second because
labor councillors, whenever they are
in power, increase taxes, taking from
those that have to hand something to
those that have not, or that think
they haven't enough.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

THE American tariff on sugar is
- running Cuba, n friendly neigh
Dor to which we owe, at least, friend
ship and decent treatment.
Cuba's commercial balance Of trade
with the United States has fallen in
the last year from $167,000,000 to
$s5,OOO,OO0.
Cuba, with commercial generosity,
continues buying in our markets,
while, we, with our cut-throat sugar
tariff, are doing all we can to stran-
gle the prosperity of Cuba.
The tax we inflict on Cuban sugar
amounts to more than 100 per cent.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08
THE WEATHER

San Antonio and vicinity:
Sunday, partly cloudy and
colder; lowest temperature
As degrees; light to fresh winds
shifting to the northwest.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

(HINA'S thickly-populated Shan
~ tung province is being flooded
at the rate of 10000 cubic feet a
second, because of two breaks in the
bikes of the Yellow river.
That great river is called "China's
SORROW, because of the calamities it
inflicts, had made 100000 homeless
this time.
One thousand villages are mum
dated.
What with Yellow fever, pestilence,
bandits, Christian and Confucian gen.
era,s fighting, European nations in
terfcring, taxing, and bullying, you
need not envy the poor Chinese.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

First Section of
Local. State and
World NeWs
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

Continued On Page Two.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

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Evening star., 1925-06-24
KLAN MAY invite
COOLIDGE REVIEW
Considers Bid for President
to See Great Parade
in August.

President Coolidge probably will be
invited to review the great national
parade of the Ku klux Klan in
Washington on August s, 1t was said
today by a high official of the organi-
zation Although a formal invitation
has not yet been sent to the White
House, such a move is contemplated,
it was said.
Arrangements for the ku kluX pro
ceSsion are progressing rapidly, 1t was
indicated at the Washington head
quarters. In addition to the parade.
an elaborate religious service is
planned as the climax on Sunday.
August 9. The place for this gather
ing has not been selected.
Khan officials are confident that be.
tween 10000 and 2O0.0 900 Klansmen
from virtually every section of the
United States will come to Washing
ton to participate in the demonstra-
ton. Railroads have agreed to give
special rates to the Klansmen, as is
done in cases of other national or
ganiZations, 1t was announced
Not all of the Klansmen in the pro-
cession will be on foot if the present
plans of those charged with the ar
rangements are carried out. To give
the parade a more realistic touch, il
mounted on horses, which, it is un
derStood, will wear masks, although
their riders will not.
Evening star., 1925-06-24
Text of Wilbur Wire.
PEARY REACHES PORT.
First Ship at Sydney, Waits Arrival
of the Bowdoin.

SIDNEY, n. s., June "a R.-
The Peary, first of the Macmillan
Arctic expedition ships, has arrived
here after a foggy three-day trip
from Wiscasset, Me.
The Peary is awaiting the arrival
tonight of the Bowdoin, in command
of Donald B. Macmillan. Both ships
will take on fuel. The departure for
the expedition base at Etah, Green
land, will depend upon the time re-
quired for fueling.
The Peary is carrying Navy Off
GERS and the three amphibian air
planes with which the Arctic will be
explored. The expedition left Wis
casset last Saturday. The Bowdoin
stopped at Monhegan Island, Me,
and followed the Peary last Sunday.
A pigeon study contest has been
organized among the children here
by the Peary's officers. To the child
who demonstrates the best knowl-
edge of pigeons will be awarded
three eggs laid by Navy carrier
pigeons aboard the Peary on the
trip from Wisca asset. The crew Is
preparing to listen in tonight on a
radio concert broadcast especially
from Chicago.
The area between the Pole and
North America in which Macmillan
hopes to find another continent is
also to be explored by Roald Amund-
sen. Undaunted by his recent failure
Continued on Page .. Column l.
Evening star., 1925-06-24
ASSERTS SHEPHERD
CONVICTED SELF.
Prosecutor Says Testimony
Is Tantamount to
a Confession.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 24-Indirect con-
fessions he attributed to the defendant
were the burden of the jury address
today of George f. German, first as
sistant States attorney, first speaker
in the Shepherd murder trial. In
opening late yesterday German de-
manded the death penalty for William
d. Shepherd for the "coldly calculated,
brutal murder" of Billy McClintock,
his millionaire foster son, by admins
tering typhoid germs.
Mrs. Shepherd, who burst into tears
yesterday when German said she had
been used as a tool by Shepherd in
keeping Billy from marrying before an
opportune moment for Staying him
arose, was not in the courtroom today.
She was in the building before court
opened. but would not listen to Cor
mans arraignment of her husband
German referred TO text books to
cite to the jury the legal phases of
indirect confessions.
Says Alibi Is Sought.
Shepherds statements TO various
persons that Billys own diagnosis of
his illness as typhoid prior to a dag
nosis by physicians were called the
voice of guilty conscience" and IAN
alibi for himself by German.
So he begins to build up an alibi
for himself, shielding himself" Cor
man roared.
Conscience. it was a guilty con-
science talking"
Many pieces of evidence about
which Shepherd was not questioned
yesterday were held up by German as
''uncontradicted evidence in this ca Sc.
Shepherd did not deny them when he
was on the witness stand and was
given an opportunity.
The Shepherds visit to friends at
Albuquerque, \. NJ. shortly after
Billy's death was termed by Gorrna n
as flight inspired by guilty con.
science"
He wanted to put as much distance
between himself and the scene of his
crime as was possible" Gormap
shouted. Shepherds conversatidi
with Miss Isabelle Pope, Billy's fiancee
about Billy's late hours and it's effect
upon the youths physical condition
was the voice of a guilty conscience, -
declared the assistant states attorney
why else should this old man sit
ting here be discussing such a ques
ton with that innocent young wo
man." demanded German.
Says Evidence Complete.
Through the other phases of the
case German talked on, picking up
pieces here and there that he held
before the jury as firm links in the
unbreakable chain of evidence he as
serted the case has forged.
"Faiman came to realize that the
game was not worth the 10000
promised" German said, concerning
| the States chief witness and confessed
accomplice of Shepherd.
1T was his guilty conscience which
| prompted him to change his denials
to an admission of the facts-that he
Continued on Page 4, Column ~
Evening star., 1925-06-24
ONCE WORTH $2O,O0O,O 900,
DIES WITHOUT A NICKEL
Thomas w. Lawson's Estate" a
Possible $4,000 Liability,
Probate Court Is Told.
Ry the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, June 24.-Thomas w
Lawson, financier and writer, once
reputed to have a fortune Of $40,
900 900, died without a scent piece,
counsel for his two sons announced
today in Suffolk Probate Court. Law
son died in Boston February s, last
leaving no will.
\. Counsel for Arnold and Douglas
Lawson. sons of the former financier
asked the court to appoint them ad
ministrators of their fathers estate
The daughters consented to the ap
pointment.
James E. Cotter, representing the
Federal National Bank of Boston, tol6
the court that the bank held $49 ,O0t
in notes of the Trinity Copper Co
indorsed by Lawson.
Arnold Lawson resides in Milton
and conducts a bus line between Bos
ton and Newport. Douglas is head
coach of the Williams College foot
ball team.
Evening star., 1925-06-24
Indian Forces Go to Canton as
Precautionary Measure.

HONGkONG, June "A LP).-A de
tachment of British Indian troops left
today for Shameen, the foreign section
of Canton, as a precautionary meas
ure, following yesterdays outbreak.
Carrying about $50 women and chill
dren, refugees from Canton, the
steamer Honam arrived here today
At Canton the crew of Chinese stokers
deserted and were replaced by men
from the u. S. S. Asheville, a gun.
boat stationed off Shameen, the for
eign settlement at Canton.
A British gunboat, the Moorhen
conveyed the Honam as far as Wham.
poa. The refugees included a score
Of Americans, mostly missionaries.
The government has reQuisitioned
river steamers to accommodate refu-
gees from Canton.
British residents employed during
the present emergency on the Chinese
section of the Canton Kowloon Rail
way. running to Hongkong, have been
privately warned by Chinese friends
to leave their employment immediate.
lN. is the Chinese are determined to
kill one foreigner for every Chinese. ~
Refugees who arrived here today
included 3. T. 3. Boothby, engineer.
in-chief of the railway: H. p. Harris
chief accountant of the road. and In.
spectors S. NJ. Bander, J. T. Smith
and their families.
A. II. +. Edwards. who was shot in
the right knee yesterday when Chinese
demonstrators fired in the direction of
the foreign settlement; V. c. Murrell
who was shot in the right shoulder.
and Mrs. Charles Lammert, who was
injured in the left foot
The refugees state that Yesterday s
demonstration at Canton was intended
as a show of military preparedness
:ts Chinese in the procession were uni
formed and carried rifles and machine
guns.
Warned by British.
The British consul general at Can.
ton, it is learned. sent note to the
Canton government on Monday, prior
TO yesterdays shooting incident warn
Ing the Chinese authorities that anv
attempt TO penetrate Shameen the for.
eign settlement. would be resisted by
force and that the government would
he held responsible for the conse.
quenCes.
The consul general said he was
drafting the document because he had
learned that, during the planned
patriotic demonstration, student ele.
mentS intended making martyrs OF
themselves by attacking the bridges
leading to Shameen."
Precautions were being taken to
guard against acts of mob violence
the consul general said, and con
cluded
Il write this in serious strain sc
that 1t may not be said hereafter that
brutal imperialist rifles wantonly mas
sacred unoffending Chinese youths"
DECISION is SEEN.
Evening star., 1925-06-24
Amundsen Narrowly Misses
Death With Coal Near at Hand
Defectiue AirlerOn on Plane Breaks rs
Miles From, Land-Earlier Swapping
Would Haze Forced Crash.

ing through the bottom. Shall we
make it? Will the machine rise?
were the anxious queries which flashed
repeatedly through my mind.
Even in SO short "A space of time
there were moments of elation and
moments of madness. Life balanced
death as we raced over the white sur
face. If the plane rose foot from
the ground life was given back to us:
if it failed to rise we must stay in the
awful polar waste to face madness or
death by drowning, hunger or ex-
poSure.
Just as the end of the course was
reached we felt the motion alter.
We We're aloft. God seemed very
good.
Almost in the twinkling of an eye,
all our anXietieS We're in the past.
We We're sailing smoothly, far above
the level of the ice. Then came the
flight back TO Spitzbergen and safety.
RiiserLarsen piloted, and Dietrich
son navigated. Their work was as
fine a feat as ever performed in flying.
At the start it was so misty for
two hours that we were obliged to
use the magnetic compass instead of
the sun compass. Although this
Continued on Page 3, Column p
Evening star., 1925-06-24
S150,O00 TO 100000
TAKEN IN GEM THEFT
Bandits Enter Broadway Store,
Bind Clerks and Empty
Safe of Jewels.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June 24-Two robbers
held up the diamond store of Marcus
F'eldman, on Broadway in the theatri-
cal district, today and escaped with
diamonds said to be worth between
s150,000 and 100000. The robbers,
with pistols drawn, entered the store
and tied up two clerks on duty They
then ransacked the counters. piling
diamonds and jewelry into a bag
The hold-up occurred shortly after
1890 o'clock, when Broadway was
crowded. The Feldman store is be-
tween Forty-fifth and Forty sixth
streets.
The robbers also emptied a safe.
Marcus Feldman, the proprietor, en-
tered a few minutes after the robbers
had escaped and released the two
clerks. Police were given descriptions
of the robbers and a general alarm
was sent out
Evening star., 1925-06-24
BY ROALD AMUNDSEN.
Special Dispatch to The Star and Nortl
American Newspaper Alliance.

Special Dispatch to The Star and North
American Newspaper Alliance.
KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen. June %
Thy radio from steamer HeimdaD.-In
my dispatches of the past two days l
have given the picture OF our flight
north and the struggle of the next %
days at latitude S7/44. when we were
repeatedly defeated in our effort to
launch our remaining airplane for a
homeward flight.
We had already failed five times
when, on June Is, we made our final
attempt. 1t was 1890 in the morning
when the plane started down the icy
runway We had so laboriously pre-
pared.
In a moment we knew that our
chances were better than on any of
our previous attempts. We felt that
the plane was gliding easier along
the smoothed surface Of the ice. Riser
Larsen was at the throttle. giving the
engines more and more gasoline as
fast as he dared feed it.
The plane Careened wildly as il re-
sponded. and the lifting hull knocked
so violently against the runway that
we believed the ice would come tear
Evening star., 1925-06-24
Washington Free
From, Smallpox;
Last Case Cured
Washington smallpox siege is

Washington smallpox siege is
at an end.
This was the opinion expressed
today by DIR. j. G.. Cumming,
chief of the contagious disease
bureau of the District Health De
partment, in announcing evacua-
ton of the smallpox hospital.
The last patient left the small
pox hospital today. She is Mrs.
Mary Shurman, 4S years old, of
500 B street southeast, who was
taken June to the hospital.
In summarizing the effect of the
smallpox near-epidemic. DR.. Cum
ming recalled today that the dis
ease in its ravages in Washing
ton attacked 69 persons and caused
20 deaths.
Evening star., 1925-06-24
Newspaper Comic Pages Health Aid,
Convention of Physicians Is Told

II advise neura sthenics to look
for the funny side of life. The
liberal sprinkling of our newspa-
pers with comic strips is a de-
cidedly beneficial thing from a
health standpoint"
Personality is largely a matter
of inheritance, DR.. Seward asserted.
I'VE are largely under the inf1u-
ence of our inherited ductless
glands" he said. But what we
are and what we become depends
greatly upon ourselves. We owe
much to the coming generations.
The gains we make in health,
strength and mental efficiency are
priceless heritage to succeeding
generations.
Evening star., 1925-06-24
DECISION Is SEEN.
Dragon Day Celebration May Have
Important Bearing.

SHANGHAI. June "a LP).-The sit
uation at NinSpO is easier and the
crisis has passed. dispatches received
here today said.
Messages from Ningpo yesterday
said the anti-foreign movement was
rampant there and that rioters had
looted the mess of junior officers Of
the customs service. These officers
are foreigners.
Reports received here indicate that
elaborate preparations have been made
in various cities in China for demon
stration tomorrow, which is the Ora
son day festival. 1t is believed here
that the success or failure Of these
demonstrations by the Chinese will
materially affect the general situation
throughout China.
Martial Law In Shanghai and it's
\ Continued on Page 4, Column 81
Evening star., 1925-06-24
EUROPEANS SLAIN
BY CHINESE IN NEW
! CLASH At CANTON
Many Others Are Wounded in
Recurrence of Trouble in
Foreign Concession.
BRITISH DISPATCH INDIAN
TROOPS FROM HONGKONG
Warn Authorities of Liability.
Women and Children Flee-Dem-
onstration Due Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.

In renewed riotinC at Canton. sew.
eral Europeans were killed and a
number wounded. Women and chill.
dren are fleeing from the city, and
about $50 of the refugees. including
some 90 Americans. have arrived at
Hongkong. The British colony.
Preparations are being made in
many Chinese cities for demonStra-
lions tomorrow, which is the Dragon
DAY festival Shanghai dispatches
say the success or failure of these
demonstrations may materially affect
he entire Chinese situation. Shang-
hai and its suburbs are under martial
law in readiness for possibilities.
Reports generally indicated a con
tinuing grave situation in South
china. although messages from Ming
po where a serious condition was re-
ported yesterday, said the crisis there
had passed.
Reports from Mukden, the Man.
Churian capital. received at Peking.
deny that anti-foreiGn demonstrations
have occurred there, although a Lon.
don newspaper printed reports insist
Ing there had been trouble in Mukden.
KILLED IN CLASH.
Evening star., 1925-06-24
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June 24.-Read the
newspaper comic sections, cultivate
a taste for good stories and look
on the humorous side Of life if
you would be healthy, was the ad-
vice given today by DR.. Frederick
w. Seward, neurologist of Goshen.
N. Y, at the eighty-first annual
convention of the American Insti-
tute Of Homeopathy.
People whose ire is easily
aroused, who fly into a rage on the
slightest provocation, are candi-
dates for nerve exhaustion and
brain faS," DR.. Seward said "A
calm, even temperament is an in
valuable health asset.