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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-18
SAN ANTON|ANS BACK
FROM NIXON MEET

Fred W. MaIley, d. z. Colp. Fred
NJ. Herndon and 7. Rudi have returned
from Nixon where they attended the
annual membership meeting Of the
Chsmber of Commerce of that place
and ate their first barbecued turkey.
All the San Antonio delegation made
talks and took active interest in the
rally which was one of the best Nixon
has ever held.
Prospects for a big crop year in and
around Nixon were never better at
this season. Mr.. Herndon said, and
the turkey supply there this year will
be unusually large.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-18
SNEAK THIEF STEALS
CIGARS FROM WAGON

A sneak thief removed 200 cigars
from a delivery wagon belonging to
the 101 Messenger Service company,
according to a report made Wednesday
TO the police. The theft occurred on
East Crockett street.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-18
ASK CHIROPRACTORS
TO JOIN SOCIETY

San Antonio thiropractors will de-
eide Thursday night whether they
will accept an invitation to become
members Of the National Atlas club.
The meeting will be in the army room
Of the Gunter hotel. All members. as
well as visiting chiropractors arc
urged to attend. according to chair
man of the arrangement committee.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-18

Refinance now with 6 per cent
money. o. p. Schnabel, 511 f. Travis
st. Or. 30i3.-(Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-18
BURGLAR ESCAPES
WITH S BLANKETS

Five blankets were stolen from the
home Of Mrs. Thomas Garrett, 93j
West Kings highway, Tuesday night,
she reported Wednesday TO police.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-18
LADIES TO MEET.

The Ladies' Aid society of the
Friedens Evangelical church will
meet Thursday at 3 p. IN. in the
Sunday school room.
, 1925-02-25
IS
PROPOSED FOR
PRICE OF BEETS
Commercial Clubs Join
Growers in Request
For More Money.

DENVER. Colo, Feb. 25.-Acting
in a mediatory capacity to end the
controversy between the Great
Western Sugar company and the
Mountain States Beet Growers Mar
keting association over the com
pany's 1925 sugar beet crop price
contract, representatives of the
commercial bodies of II northern
Colorado cities early today announc.
ed a compromise plan as a tentative
basis for the settlement of the diff
ferences of the two sugar beet in
terests. The compromise plan came
after a conference between repre-
%sentatives of the three groups which
lasted IL hours yesterday and form
ed the main topic for today's dis
cusslons of the conference.
The mediatory proposals of the
chambers OF commerce representa-
tiyes included an %increare OF 81 per
ton in sugar beet prices which is
being sought by the marketing as
ISOLATION; recognition CT the grow
ers' association by the company
withdrawal of the growers demand
for the sugar content test upon de
livery OF beets and collection OF
dues Of the marketing association by
the company.
, 1925-02-25
V|OLAT0R IS
GIVEN 80 DAYS
BY CITY JUDGE
Police Court Docket
Here Cleared Of
Many Cases.

r. C. Eckert, making his third
appearance before Judge Murray
last night. all on violations of the
liquor ordinance. drew a 3o-day Jail
sentence. He was arrested the last
time at 221 West Railroad avenue.
Clarence Garrett and John Har-
desty, Juveniles. charged with hav-
ing tried to bump the police patrol
wagon off the street last Saturday
night, were dismissed by Judge
Murray after n reprimand on the
evils of mule when 1t is white. The
boys parents appeared with them
and vouched for their future be-
hayior.
Dan Finalson and j. ]. Mckinley.
charged with breaking glass on the
streets. presumably glass wrapped
around liquor. each paid a fine OF
SIS and costs.
The Jess Hatfield Charles Jackson
fighting episode. which took place
on West First street Sunday eve-
ming. ended by Hatfield being dis
missed and Jackson paying a fine
OF SIS. The evidence showed that
jackson was the a~ggressor.
W. A. Bennett and Dwight
Sechrist each paid $40 for speeding
and the charge against Sam w.
Hench. charged with failure to re-
rort an accident. was dismissed.
Thirteen persons paid fines OF SIS
for being drunk. ending a profitable
afternoon for the city Golfers.
, 1925-02-25

the young Chicagoan's bride shortly
after the acid throwing Monday
night and Just before the attempt
ed poisoning.
Miss Lundstrom produced the
note and her explanation of the cir
cumstances under which it was writ
ten when she was brought into n
Beverly Hills police court yesterday.
charged with aiding and a betting
the alleged plot to dlsfigure Day.
She vas released into the custody
Of her mother after promising to
assist in further police investiga-
ton.
The contents of tho note indicat.
ed that Mrs. Day believed her moth
er-in-law's attitude was responsible
for her cstrangement from her
young husband, and concluded with
the words:
'Mother.in1aws shouldn't live
with young married people,"
Mrs. Days chances of recovery
were said to be slightly better early
today than they were yesterday,
though her condition remained crit.
ical.
, 1925-02-25
Wheeler Case
Is Speeded Up

WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.-Govern-
ment attorneys engaged in present
ing to a District OF Columbia grand
jury the new proceedings against
Senator Wheeler of Montana
others speeded up their effor
in an endeavor to close the.
and recess the hearings for two
weeks.
F. NJ. Goodwin. former Assistant
Secretary of the Interior. was among
today's witnesses.
1t was explained that the two
weeks recess would be needed to
review the evidence and consider the
points OF law which will bear upon
further proceedings. At the end OF
that time the government will ask
the jury II further steps are con.
sidered advisable.
, 1925-02-25
Sec. Lucas Wins
NeW Distinction As
Acting Governor

CHEYENNE. Wyo. Feb. s5.-
When Secretary Of State Frank z.
Lucas Tuesday became acting gov
ernor because OF the absence from
the state Of Governor Nellie Tayloe
Ross he achieved the distinction OF
being the first secretary OF state to
have acted In the absence of hus-
band and wife of whom both wero
governors. Secretary Lucas was
acting governor on several occasions
during the term OF the late Cover.
nor William b. Ross and served as
acting governor between the death
OF Governor Ross and the induction
In the governors office of Nellie
Tayloe Ross as governor.
, 1925-02-25
IN
N. Y. ON WAY
TO CAPITAL

NEW YORK. Feb. 25.-Frank B.
Kellogg. retiring ambassador to
Great Britain who will succeed
Charles Evans Hughes as secretary
OF state. is spending a few days here
before going to Washington.
Mr.. Kellogg said he vas convinced
that Europe in the last year had
taken a great step forward. Point
ing out the effectiveness of the
Dawes plan in the Sterilization OF
currency. he said:
There IS nothing OF greater impor.
lance to the American people than
that Europe and, in fact all the
world. should go back to the gold
basis. Fluctuations in currencles
make It impossible to carry on com
merce and as the United States al
ways has been on a gold basis It is
good to have We whole world on that
h aafag
, 1925-02-25

" hbG nhAAA
he was alone in his apartment.
The ~coroner's verdict was that
death had resulted from myocardi-
It's and acute cardiac dilatlon. lie
declared that blood about the mouth
came from n cut on the chin. which
he said probably lad been reopenfd
by a fall just before the senate sut-
fered a heart attack.
DIR. Noble 7. Barnes. who had
made the preliminary examination
had given the cause OF death as gas
trio hemorrhage.
The cut on the senator's chin, mp
parently the result OF a mishnp
while shaving. was plastered over
with tape when his colleagues last
saw him alive at yesterdays senat
session.
The body, clothed in paiamas, was
found in bed. one hand clasped
across the mouth. as though tho
senator had sought to arise when
the bleeding came upon him. and
had fallen back. The physicians
said death must have been .nstan.
famous.
Mr.. Mccormick had been living
alone Mt the hotel. Mrs. Mccormick.
a daughter of Mark Hanna, was In
Chicago where she went to be near
Alice Roosevelt Longworth at the
time of the birth of the Longworth
baby. The two families had been
close friends for many years.
Last night Senator Mccormick
retired early. and as he always slept
lightly, hotel attaches refused to
awaken him when a caller sought
ndmittance at IL y. m. This morn
ing at $3.50 he was heard moving
about his room. but efforts TO arouse
him at II a. m. proved futile. The
door was taken down. Physicians
who were called In said he had been
dead about an hour.
Although Mr.. Mccormick appar-
emily had been In fair health, some
Of his friends said today that he had
been greatly depressed by political
developments Of the past few
months. Last summer he was de-
feated for denomination for the SEN
ate and was to have gone out OF
office March 4. Since his defeat
his name had been brought forward
for o diplomatic post and his conf
dants said no first had hoped to be
named ambassador to Great Britain.
already filled. and then had aspired
to the Enthusiastically at Berlin.
Word bad reached him. It was said,
that the latter post, too. would be
given to another.
DR.. Noble r. Barnes. who made
the first medical examination after
the senator's death had been dis
covered. communicated his findings
Continued or Page Five
, 1925-02-25
MRS. GROVE IS
ACCUSED IN
FRAUD CASE

Cheyenne federal officers have re.
ceived a warrant for Sarah A. Grove
formerly associated with the United
Home builders Of Casper. on a
charge OF using the mails TO defraud.
Mrs. Grove left Casper months ago
and is believed to be in Los Angeles.
where the warrant was issued.
William S. Barnes and his ION.
Arthur B. Barnes. OF the same com.
pany r serving sentences at Leav.
enworth Of two years and JIG months
respectively OF similar charges.
They were tried last December In
federal court at Cheyenne.
, 1925-02-25
LUsk LAND PATENT
ANNULMENT SUIT IS
CONSIDERED BY COURT

CHEYENNE. Wyo.. Feb. 90
Judge T. b. Kennedy Of the United
States court Tuesday afternoon took
under Amusement the suit wherein
the government seeks to annul pat
ents to four homestead entries made
by Albert and Eugenia Butcher. of
Lusk, Wyoming. The government
alleges the Butchers committed per-
jury when they swore they had
maintained legal residence On the
homesteads, charging that at the
time they claimed to be living on
the claims they were residing in
Lusk and there conducting a meat
market. The homesteads involved
are original and additional entries
for each OF the defendants.
, 1925-02-25
TWO ARRESTED,
STILL SEIZED

F. II. Scott and II. II. Vogel were
arrested this morning by the sher-
IFS office charged with operating a
still In a dugout II miles west on
the Yellowstone highway. The men
were in n .homesteader's shack
nearby when the officers arrived at
$40 o'clock.
The still was not running and
only Il small quantity of liquor was
found. The men confessed. accord
ing to the officers. that they had
made a run yesterday and had i'm
mediately delivered the liquor in
Casper to prevent hijackers. who
have visited the place twice recently.
from stealing 1t.
Jake Carter. deputy sheriff. head
ed the raiding party.
, 1925-02-25
MAMMOTH OIL COMPANY
TO FIGHT DELAY IN
TEAPOT LEASE ACTION

CHEYENNE, wyo., Feb. Is
Martin w. Littleton OF New York.
OF counsel for the Mammoth OIL
company In its defense of the Tea
pot Dome lease annulment case. is
expected to arrive in Cheyenne
Wednesday night and 10 appear
Thursday in federal court to con-
test the governments petition for
a siaty-day continuation of the trial,
which is set for March Q.
, 1925-02-25
FILM STAR
is BETTER

PARIS. Feb. 25.-Gloria Swanson.
American film star. who underwent
an operation last week. passed an
excellent night, says a report from
the clinic where she is resting. Her
condition this morning was greatly
Improved. her fever having distinct
ly diminished.
A medical bulletin issued this fore
noon regarding the actress condi.
ton says:
Improvement continues. The
patient is out of danger. Tempera
ture 37.2 Centigrade. (9s.9s Fab
renheit)
, 1925-02-25
BLAST KILLS EIGHT
TRIO FREED
OF CHARG

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-Three Of
the fellow defendants of Charles A.
Stoneham and E. d. DER. on trial in
federal court were ordered acquitted
today by Judge Winslow. They were
Horace Stcneham. brother of the
baseball magnate. Fred Andrews.
cashier of the DER Brokerage firm
and August Stroh, assistant to An.
drews. All were charged with using
the malls to defraud.
, 1925-02-25
POLICE RAIDERS
LEV N
Inmates and Alleged Proprietors Fall
Into Clutches of City Squad

Eleven arrests on liquor violation
charges were made last evening by
a squad led by Lieut.. Roy Plummer
recently put in charge of the law en-,
f9rcement work OF the police de.
partnent.
The biggest haul came at 3O7 In.
dustrial avenue where an even
octette fell into the clutches Of the
law. r. \. Lindsey is charged with
possession Of liquor and the others
with being inmates of the place.
They gavo the names of f. A. Nc
Quay. William Tnvis. Ben Bueller.
, 1925-02-25
LEGISLATIVE RECORDS
TO Be COMPLETED BY
END OF PRESENT WEEK

CHEYENNE. wyo.. Feb. IS
Chief clerks OF the Wyoming SEN
ate and House and their assistants
expect to complete the legislative
records by the end OF the present
week.
About 100 bills enacted by the
legislature are awaiting action by
Governor Ross. The governor has
until March o 10 consider the bills.
Any that she has not signed or We
toed by that date will become law
without action by her.
, 1925-02-25

dreds Of feet through the air.
The dead include John w. Har-
shaw. of FL Paso, division engineer
for the railroad who saw service at
Dunfmuir. California; Portland. Ore
gon: ogden. Utah and Ell Paso. He
was considered expert at handling
explosives and had made a special
trip to Langtry to supervise some
extensive blasting that was TO be
done.
, 1925-02-25
PRES. EBERT
IMPROVING

BERLIN. Feb. 25.-tBy the As.
ISOLATED Press)EAn official bulletin
this morning announces that Pres.
ident Ebert is progressing normally
( lowing his operation yesterday for
appendicitis.
he president had a good night, the
bulletin says, and his temperature.
pulse and general condition are sat
isfactory.
, 1925-02-25
CHICAGO GOES
TO ID M
Twenty-Sepen Out of SO Councilmen in
City Election Win Majorities

500. 900. and including propositions
for new criminal and municipal
courts and city and county jail
buildings, street lighting. track ele-
walton. parks and a county hospital
addition were carried.
Women Will not officially sit IN
Chlcago's city council for another
two years at least, Three women
candidates received AMY $50 votes OF
, 1925-02-25

CHICAGO. Feb. 25.-Tho demo-
cratic city administration here has
been given renewed life as a result
OF the nldormanlac contests. which
returned "a democrats In 80 council.
men elected yesterday. Included
among candidates for IL seats to DO
filled at n run of election April I.
are 10 more democrats. 10 Of them
present council members.
, 1925-02-25
g. FLAGSHIP
GOES AGROUND
Nary Tugs Rushed from Manila to Point
When Huron Rides on Reef

MANILA. Feb. 25.-(By the As
ISOLATED Press).-The U. s. S. Hur-
on. flagship of the American fleet in
Asiatic waters. is aground off Nal.
nmpaya sound. island of Palawan.
200 miles southeast Of Manila. n
radiogram received here today. said.
Advices from the Huron said the
craft WIS resting easy" and prob
ably would be pulled out of danger
and ~refloated by three navy tugs
, 1925-02-25
PATTERSON JR.
Is DISMISSED
Charge Filed in Connection With Fatal
accident Dropped in Court Here

Patterson's bondhoIders Withdrew
their bonds and he was technically
in the county jail. this procedure
being necessary before the habeas
corpus could be Instituted.
Judge cromer. in reviewing a
transcript OF the evidence presented
at the preliminary hearing, held
that the evidence was totally insuf-
ficient to hold the man on the
charge preferred. The preliminary
was held n few days after the acct.
dent before Justice Edward Barrett
, 1925-02-25

Through habeas corpus proceed
ings instituted before Judge Bryant
s. Cromer in district court yester.
day afternoon. the charge OF man.
slaughter against Charles F. Pat
terson Jr. OF the Patterson-o Oakland
company was dismissed. Patterson
accidentally ran down Lincoln +.
Kelly while driving along East Sec
ond street last October and Kelly
subsequently, died from a fractured
skull.
, 1925-02-25

which left Manila for the scene. The
tugs will not reach the Huron until
tomorrow. however.
The Huron left Manila yesterday
en- route to Java. The flagship prob
ably will return to Manila as a re-
suit o. the accident.
Admiral Thomas Washington.
commander Of the Asiatic fleet. de.
parted for Java about a week ago
aboard the General Alava-
, 1925-02-25
CITY MANAGER
PLAN VOTED AT
kAH SAS CITY

KANSAS CITY. Feb. 25.-The
city manager plan Of government
will be inaugurated in Kansas City
next year under a new city charter
adopted at the polls yesterday.
The charter carried by a vote OF
nearly Al to l. Less than one third
of the registered voters cast bal
lots.
, 1925-02-25

Z. D. Stokes, New York millionaire,
repeatedly piled Frank Hubert,
negro waiter. with gin and moon
shine whiskey while urging him to
refresh his memory. was the sub
ject of Hubert's testimony against
stokes today.
, 1925-02-25

LONDON, Feb. 25.-Details re-
gardlng the outbreak In Kurdlstan.
reported from Constnntlnople hive
thus far been insufficient TO estab-
lish whether a serious revolt against
Turkish rule Is in progress or
whether, as officially represented at
Angora, the trouble is merely local.
sheik said. leader OF an important
dervish organization with ramlfca-
lions in Persia. Khiva and Bokhadn.
is named as the head Of the upris-
Ing. which is reported from Con-
stantinople TO have among its aims
the establishment Of an Independent
Kurdish state,
, 1925-02-25

No announcement was forthcom-
ing from prosecution or defense to
the probable part of the young man
who vas mentioned in the defense's
opening statement in the present
trial and who was sued by his step
mother in 1923 after a letter alleged
to have been written by him in
revelation of intimacies with Mrs.
Stokes was read in the first Stokes
divorce suit in New York-Mrs.
Stokes suit. for 81 900 900, alleged
character defamation. 1t never has
been brought to trial.
Stokes, Jr.. vas not quoted. but
the Chicago Tribune today said that
he had a heated interview with his
father upon arrival yesterday. and
there is every indication he will
take an active. IL not sudden part
in the trial, presumably to
clear his own name of any alleged
misconduct with lis stepmothcr."
STOKES AGENTS Piled
WITNESS WITH LIQUOR
CHICAGO. Feb. 25.-By The As
, 1925-02-25
IS FOUND DEAD
IN HOTEL ROOM
At WASHINGTON
THIS MORNING
Physicians Disagree on
Cause of Death Of
Illinois Scion, Due to
Retire Soon.

WASHINGTON, Feb. %.
= Senator Medill McCor-
mick of Illinois was found
dead in his Hamilton hotel
apartment here today under
circumstances which led
physicians to disagree as TO the
cause of death.
, 1925-02-25
Thrower Blames
Her Mother in -Lau
Mrs. Darby Day, Jr, Says EsrangementC Caused by Interior
ence of Husbands Mother Led to Her Attact.
Poison Draught May Be Fatal

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb. 25-Though Mrs Bence L. Day still hoveredb between
life and death here today, as a result of what police say was an attempt to kill herself
with poison after hurting acid into the face of her husband. Darby ay Jr. of Chicago
her alleged explanation of thu affair was n the hands Off investigators in the shane of n
farewell note addressed to young Darby.
This noe, according to Miss Carlyn Lundtrom, Mrs DAYS SISTER wasv write nv
, 1925-02-25
Bodies of Victims BloWn to Bits by
Dynamite Explosion in Railroad
Rock Quarry at Langtry

LANGTRY, Texas, Feb. 25.-A premature explosion of
dynamite at the Southern Pacific railroad rock quarry here
yesterday caused the death of eight men and injuries to sew
eral others.
So powerful was the blast that the bodies of some of the
victims were torn to bits, while others were hurled hum
, 1925-02-25
The doctor who

The doctor who
made the first ex-
animation OF the
body issued n cer-
.~tificate giving in.
, 1925-02-25
PRIVATE STOCK
OF OFFICERS IN
CABINS TAKEN
Marine Raiders From
Naval Base Garry
Out Cleanup.

NORFOLK, Va, Feb. %.
"A raiding party of marines
boarded the navy transport
Beaufort when she locked
here last night from the
West Indies and seized sew
eral hundred gallons Of liquors.
Some of the liquors. the raiders said
was taken from the state rooms OF
officers ranging in rank from pay
clerks to L~ieutenants.
The raid was conducted under d.
rection of Captain Wi.bert Smith, as
sistant commandment of the naval
base here. Orders for the action
were issued by Rear Admiral Roger
Welles, commandant of the fifth
naval district.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.-Viola-
lions Of the law as well as of navy
regulations apparently r involved
in the case of the navy transport
Beufort which transported liquor
into Hampton Roads. it was pointed
out here today by government Off
cials.
1t was said that those found guilty
might be tried either by a federal
court for violating the prohibition
laws or by court martial.
, 1925-02-25
UPRISING In
asia MINOR
is REPORTED

CoNsTANTIoPLE. Feb. s5. By
the Associated Pressl-Kurdish In
surgents r reported to have cap.
tured the city OF Kharput in eastern
Asia minor.
, 1925-02-25
Young Stokes
Will Testify
Arrival in Chicago Signals New Deuel.
opnent in Trial of Millionaire on
Trial for Defamation

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-The trial of w. E. D. Stokes, New
York hotel owner, and three co-defendants charged with
conspiracy to defame his estranged wife, Mrs. Helen FL
wood Stokes of Denver, received increased attention today
after the unexpected arrival from New York of w. E. D.
(Weddie) Stokes, Jr.
, 1925-02-25
WEATHER

Mostly fair tonight and Thursday.
Colder tonight in east portion. Ris-
ing temperature Thursday north
portion.