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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
LOVE LORN YOUTH
TAKES POISON, NEAR
DEATH AS RESULT

Love for girl that he had never
met caused San Antonio high school
boy to attempt to end his life Satur-
day, when he drank poison and laid
down in deserted house to die.
He probably will die, attending ply
sicians said Saturday.
"Father, forgive me for this-it is
the only and best thing to do" said
the farewell letter that was found
clasped in his hands.
According to letters he left as al
explanation for his act, this 19-year-
old Main Avenue High School sopho-
more tried to die because he thought
he had offended the girl he had wor-
shipped so long from afar-and be-
cause he loved and was not loved In
retur-U
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
SON, ON WAY HOME,
HEARS SHOTS, FINDS
: HIS PARENTS DYING

CLINTON. Ind, Nov. 2s.-Mr. and
Mrs. Willard Clinton are dying in a
hospital here from bullet wounds be-
lieved to have been inflicted by Mrs.
Clinton, who is said to have been men
tally unbalanced.
Paul Clinton, a son, returning to
his home today after a visit to De-
troit, heard the shooting as he neared
home, and on entering he found his
father shot in the head and his mother
with a wound in her chest.
Physicians are said to have warned
the family that Mrs. Clinton had be
come dangerous, leading authorities to
believe she shot her husband, and
then turned the gun on herself. Gin
ION is believed to have been attacked
while sleeping.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
MANY LIVES LOST
AS FLOODS SWEEP
THROUGH PORTUGAL

LONDON, Nov. 2s.-Great loss OF
life and enormous property losses are
reported to have taken place in Por-
tugal as a result Of torrential rain
fall all over the country, according to
a Central News dispatch here tonight
from Lisbon.
In Lisbon and other populous cen
tiers, grave fears are expressed that a
plague will ensue. The floods came
so quickly and to unexpectedly that
the whole country was taken I'M
aware. Relief work will be under
taken at once.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
CRASH AND WHOOPlE,'
PATROLMAN ASSERTS
is CAUSE FOR ARREST

Crash! whoopie! Then she back
cd and crash again"
That was the explanation PATROL
man A. Zapata offered for dragging a
pretty young woman into police head
quarters while he clutched two bot
ties of home brew in the other hand,
Saturday night.
She told officers she was the wife
of Tilden ranchman and also had a
North Flores Street city residence.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
TRAVIS GRAND JURY
IGNORES HIGHWAYS

AUSTIN, Nov. 2s.-Contrary to
general expectation, the Travis coun-
~ grand jury, which spent several
weeks investigating state highway az
fairs, adjourned Saturday without
making any report on the result of
the investigations, but passed all state
matters to the next grand jury, which
conyenes Monday, December z.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
VICTIM OF CRASH
REPORTED BETTER

Miss Zenolia Gilmore Of Itasca,
Texas, who was seriously injured in an
automobile crash on the Sutherland
Springs road Friday, was reported
well on her way to recovery Saturday
night by attending physicians at the
Robert ID. Green Hospital.
Her two companions at the time OF
the accident were killed. They were
Martha Austin, IS, and Mrs. Fl. +.
MCGEE, GO, both Of Nixon.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

Never in modern times has man
kind had stronger advocate than
is DIR. C. l.. Goodell. world famous
evangelist, who is conducting services
at the First Presbyterian church. DIR.
Goodell believes in man, believes he
is primarily good and believes God
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
HECTIC WEEK
IN POLITICS
CLOSES
Mas Offer Of Rewards for
Liquor Violators
Stirs Capital.

AUSTIN, Nov. 2S.-Statements Of
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, and
her husband, ex-governor James II.
Ferguson, Saturday brought 10 o
close a hectic week in Texas politics,
week in which much action, but
little progress was recorded. 8,
A statement from Ferguson, in
which he denied he told New York
newspaper correspondents. he, and not
Mrs. Ferguson, is governor of the state,
and which he ended by emphatically
letting it be known there would be
no statement from the governor re-
ga riding either special session or the
naming of highway commissioners to
the two vacancies now existing.
brought the week to a close, and left
followers of the situation guessing as
to the probable future action Of the
states first woman governor.
PROCLAMATION HIGH LIGHT
A proclamation by Mrs. Ferguson,
in which she attacked the manner in
which the liquor laws are being en-
forced, was the high light of the
afternoon, and for the moment caused
many to lose sight of the major ques-
tion-the pending call for a special
session of the Legislature to investi-
gate the various offices and depart
ments of the state.
The woman governor offered $500
rewards for arrest and conviction OF
any person owning as much as $4,000
worth of property, violating the Vol
stead law. THE poor DEVIL she saidi
serves a term for "having a mere pint
on his hip" while the "well-to-do
gets away with it." +
SEE SIGNIFICANCE /;
Political observers professed to see
significance in this official action, but
Mrs. Ferguson mentioned no names,
if she intended IL as such.
Other developments Of the week in-
clude the signing Of a petition by 90
members of the house, in which Gov
ernor Ferguson is given until Deem
Der 10 to call a special session; decla-
ration by Governor Ferguson that the
special session talk is a move by the
Ku Klux Klan TO discredit my ad-
ministration"; a statement from
Speaker Of the House Lee Satterwhite
that Mrs. Ferguson could expect no
immunity from the Legislature be-
cause of her sex the offer of the Hoff-
man Construction company, to refund
$25O,O00 to the state, and the report
of the Travis county grand jury In
which no mention of highway mat
tiers is made.
OFFERS $500 REWARD.
The governors proclamation fol-
lows:
II, Miriam A. Ferguson, governor
Of this state. charged with the en-
forcement of the laws of the state,
do hereby offer reward of $500
for the arrest and conviction of any
citizen of this state who is violating
the liquor laws who is worth in
property or money as much as $4,000.
The funds at my command are limited
but ] will use every cent available
to continue this reward.
"The enforcement of the liquor laws
in Texas has become the enforcement
of the law against the poor and for
the rich. If a big newspaper pub
Usher in a North Texas city can dis
pense pints of liquor by the dozen and
under the influence of liquor display
himself in a public place just be-
cause he claims he has million dol
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
| Evils SUSPECTS FRANTIC IN net
Brands Old Days as Bad
Mow He Eauors
Turbans
For Women

r. +. Johnston, Az Camden
street is q confirmed advocate Of
turban bonnets for women - or
hatless women, according TO
police.
He announced his conclusions
to officers following . 10-foot
plunge into San Pedro creek
Saturday, caused by a gust Of
wind catching a woman's hat.
Driving East on Euclid ave-
nue. Mrs. j. T. Harris, All Cam
den street released the steering
wheel to right her hat. The ear
veered to the right, missed the
bridge and plunged to the creek
bottom. He was in the car. That
is the story told police.
Both occupants escaped unin-
jured.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
TWO HELD IN ROBBERY

SIOUX FALLS, s. d., Nov. D.
Seven hundred pennies, changed in a
local department store for paper mon
ey today led Mrs. Catherine Rogers,
40, and her daughter, Sera, 10, to a
cell charged with holding up the First
State Bank of Renner, S. D., yes
terday.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
v. R. HEARST
SEESHUMAN
PROGRESS
Publisher, in Answer to
University's Query Says
People Happier.

In letter received by William Ran
dolph Hearst from William Il. Duffey
Of Marquette University, Milwaukee,
Mr.. Hearst is asked to contribute
something to the debate being conduct
ed by Marquette University on the
subject:
'Resplyed.: That we pity the grand
children of this house" n 4-
Milwaukee, Wis,
October 17,1925.
"Mr. William Randolph Hearst,
"Tbe Clarendon,
New York. n. Y, +
"Dr. Mr.. Hearst:
II am writing to some Of the no.
table men and women of public az
fairs in this country who are in
fluencing this age and naturally the
coming generation. Marquette Univer-
sity is debating the University of Cam
bridge, England, on the question
Resolved, That This House Pities
Its Grandchildren We would value
your opinion regarding the future
generation from any angle you may see
fit to take.
my request may seem TO be an i'm
position because I realize that your
time is very valuable. However, we
need the opinion of men and women
who are the leaders of the present day.
IL you do not care to express your
opinion, would you be so kind as TO
refer me to any Of your printed ut
terances in which you have given an
expression to your point Of view re-
garding the moral, physical and spirit
ual opportunities of the future chill
dren of America.
Gratefully your,
WILLIAM r. DUFFEY,
Head Public Speaking Department.
Mr.. Hearst's reply follows:
November -, 1925.
Mr.. W. r. Duffey,
Marquette University.
Ills Grand Avenue,
Milwaukee, Wis.
My Dear Sir:
Replying to your letter Of October
II, let me say that cannot see on
what basis this generation is justified
in plying its grandchildren, or its
children, or any of the future genera
tons. ........ ........
Regarding the matter as a general
proposition, it would seem to me that
there had been a constant improve
ment in human conditions and in hu-
manity itself ever since the earliest
records that we have Of our human
kind.
LIFE HAPPIER TODAY.
Certainly, the conditions that exist
today in the world make life happier,
and the people better, than in the
times of our grandfathers and the
people that existed in our grandfath-
er's days were better and happier than
those that existed in generations pre-
vious.
The idea that the less people have
the happier they are, is theory based
on the imagination of those that have
things. and not on the experience of
those that have not.
The comfort and conveniences OF to-
day, the opportunities for enlighten-
ment and amusement, are immensely
greater than they were in the past, and
it seems to me ridiculous to assume
that people have no advantage and no
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
CELEBRATION.
BREAKS Up
IN ROW
Officers, Impressed to Pre-
serve Peace, Involved
in Shooting.

Eighteen persons were shot, one
probably fatally, in gun battle that
continued intermittently for three
hours at a dance hall near Somerset
late Saturday night and Sunday
morning.
a dozen deputies were rushed from
San Antonio TO meet with constables
and deputies at Somerset to form a
posse and close in on the fighters at
an early hour Sunday morning.
The wounded aud dying were being
brought into San Antonio hospitals
at midnight by officers and residents
Of Somerset who returned Immediately
to Somerset to join the posse gather
ing in the Somerset restaurant before
the advance was made on the dance
hall.
FIGHT FOLLOWS WEDDING
A wedding that took place in San
Antonio Saturday evening and ad-
journed to the dance hall for a cele-
bration suddenly turned into a death
carnage, and knives flashed under the
glare of gasoline lights as pistols
roared above the orchestra's melody.
The whirling figures on the dance
hall fell back in disorder leaving sew
eral struggling figures in the center,
according to telephoned reports. Ev-
eryone sought safety and the firing
commenced again on the outside.
Women screamed and then ran back to
drag the wounded from the floor.
Among the first to fall was Pedro
Guzman of Van Ormy, bullet
through his abdomen.
In the midst of the firing the
wounded man was dragged to safety
and loaded in a car by Pete Treyino,
special deputy Of Bexar county, and
brought to San Antonio. Treyino, with
Deputy Mat Flores Of Somerset, had
gone to the dance 10 preserve order.
Attempts on the part of Deputy
Flores to quell the fighters failed and
as he placed his hands on the man
said TO have shot Guzman, he was
felled by blow on the head and once
more the pistols cracked and the battle
was on again.
SECOND BATTLE BEGUN
Outside in the darkness where the
cars were parked and in the nearby
brush, groups of men talked while the
women cowed in places of safety. Then
burst OF firing bespoke a new bat
tie and knives and guns once more
took their toll.
The wounded were carried to farm
houses in the vicinity and calls sent
in for more officers. Telephone re-
ports placed the number of wounded
at Is.
The first contingent of officers 20
leave the court house here was COM
posed of Deputies John Subira,
Woods, Fleming, Crosby and Trevino.
Waiting for them at Somerset was
the town constable and Deputy Flores.
his head wrapped up. Citizens were
rapidly forming at the restaurant
with every variety of weapon, the en-
tire countryside having been aroused
BIZ the fusillade Of bullets.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
PILE UP EVIDENCE.

Saturday additional evidence, cit
cumstantial, but none the less damn
ing, piled up against one of the two
suspects now held in the city jail.
This evidence sent military police sour
rying in search Of one more suspect.
This new evidence further ensnared
the man now held as the principslin
the crime-the man who told his wife
on February 6 that he had had to
kill chsuffeur"-the man WI" on the
night of February handed another
woman a blood-stained revolver saying
this is the gun that finished Ira
Lewis"
Checking on his movements on. Tie
first of February, Chiefs Miller and
Street found Saturday that ON Feb.
ruary 2 he was stationed at Camp
Bulls, which is situated 20 miles he
yond Death Valley on the same road.
WALK TO CAMP.
And on the morning Of February .,
the day Ira Lewis was slain, they
learned that he and his companion
drew their pay and came to San An.
tonic.
They returned to Camp Bulls just
before dawn on the morning Of Feb
ruary 3-the day that Lewis body was
found crumpled in the car where hs
slayers had left him.
Questioned as to why they appeared
back in camp at that time, both mea
declared that they started back to
camp in a service car but got ditehed.
They declared that they had been
forced to walk most of the way back.
TRACE SUSPECT.
This was developed Saturday when
officers of the tank corps unit TO which
the men were attached at that time
and men on guard at Camp Bulls that
morning we're questioned.
One Of the two men who shared thas
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

is working through man for the bet
terment of the world.
"Men are coming to feel" Or.
Gooden said in an exclusive interview
for The Light, "that Christianity is
life and not creedal statement.
They have tried all other roads and
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
THE WEATHER

Sunday, generally fair: not
much change in temperature;
lowest temperature. Sunday
morning about 80 degrees;
light to moderate northeast
winds.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
WOMEN TELL STORY.

For out of the past points the
blood-rusted revolver with which it
is claimed Ira Lewis was shot.
And added to its silent testimony,
is the story of two women, each cor
roborating the others evidence, al.
though neither knows the other.
From these fragments of evidence,
collected through five patient mouths
of endless searching, Chief of Police
7. o. Miller, Chief of Detectives Sam
Street, Military Police Sergeant Ma
loukis and Detectives Stendebach and
kohr have pieced what they believe
is the true story of Ira Lewis, on the
night be was done to death, and his
body left to keep its silent vigil with
the gnsrled huisacne trees that shad-
owed his car.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

NNE HUNDRED AND FORTY
" NINE Alaskan foxes, with fur
OF the fashionable color, are shipped
to Sweden, to be used for breeding.
On the journey they will eat 1.-Two
chickens occasionally, each will have
it's compartment, well looked after.
The animals are worth $4,000.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

TILLING foxes protects better
n animals, and wearing fox skins
is not as bad as wearing the skins
of unborn Persian lambs.
Even the most fashionable female
might sbudder at the thought Of a
savage wearing the skin of an I'M
born human body. What's the diff
ference?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
TRUE STORY
OF KILLING
BELIEVED
Barred
Women, Strangers, Give
Final Clue in Clearing
of Mystery.

Suspected of the staying Of Ire
Lewis, San Antonio service car driver.
whose body was found crumpled in tue
back of his automobile under the lone
ly trees of Death Valley, near the in.
tersection of the Babcock and Fred
ericksburs roads last February 3, two
men watch the pattern of the sun
light. as it filters through San An.
tonio's city Jail bars.
And as they watch the light ebb and
flow as day follows day. police be-
low are watching the light once more
dawn on the 10-month-old mystery
that has baffled them so long.
This time they think the Staying for
which there have been so many near
solutions has been solved.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

OUCH is the power Of fashion. The
- furs, collecting germs, are not
sanitary. A $1,000 fox skin is not as
useful for warmth as so cents worth
of wool, and its purchasers waste
enough money to feed five families in
Europe for year.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

TN heaven where he dwelis, II the
j Homestead killings did not send
him somewhere else, old Carnegie
must wonder. He built and gave
away 1000 or moro libraries, think
that be was supplying the needs OF
discontented, ambitious youth.
He should have endowed cabarets,
with Ziegfeld, Berlin and Dillingham;
on the board Of directors.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

nON'T weep, however. The fox
- dealer might as well have the
thousand dollars as the foolish per-
son convinced that wearing the skin
OF a dead animal makes her beaud-
full.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

NATRIOTIC Italians suggest that
five million each contribute 81
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29

FIRST Section OF
Local. State and
World Ne1Us
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-12
THIS SPEECH QUELLED
LOODTHIRSTY MOB
LOLA FISHER,

hand upon the open Bible, called
upon the assembled multitude and
my God to witness that, without
fear or favor, would vigorously
and righteously enforce the law OF
the land, and / am here today as
chief magistrate of this common.
wealth to tell you that meant
what said. Before blackening
my soul with a base perjury and
subm .tting to dictates of n dis
orderly mob, would suffer you
to hang me by the neck until l was
dead or IN your ferociOus wrath
to tear me limb from limb and
feed the dismembered fragments
to the vultures or burn my body
at the stake and send back to my
wife and children the ashes Of a
brave and honest man. rather than
to purchase a cycle of security at
the price of perfidy, cowardIce and
dishonor."
The mob dispersed and the pris-
oner was later given an orderly
trial and convicted.
Senator Stanley has always been
an advocate of capital punishment,
although no has never served in
d CRIMINAL case III the capacity VI
prosecutor. Like Darrow. he has
always been counsel for the de-
Tense. He is a fluent speaker with
a gifted vocabulary and the faculty
Of weaving word pictures that
strengthen his argument. Before
his advent into public life he was
a college professor, and he ranks
as one of the most cultured and
learned statesmen who has ever
served in Congress.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-12
METROPOLITAN
"CharIey's Aunt"

"Charley's Aunt" famous on
the stage for almost thirty-five
years, will have initial local
showings in film form at Gran
dall's Metropolitan as chief fea-
ture of next weeks bill, with
Sydney Chaplin in the title role.
The supplementary comedy, Love
Goofy," produced by Christie,
who Is responsible for the elabo-
rate camera version OF "Charley's
Aunt" stars Jimmie Adams. The
bill. will also include Metro
politan World Survey, added short
reels and a delightful musical
program by the Metropolitan
Symphony, under the conductor.
ship of Daniel Breesi5in. Char.
ley's Aunt" is an hilarious farce
in which Charlie Chaplin's brother,
who plays "Charley's Aunt" is
cast as a college masquerader
pressed into service as cfiaperon
when his classmates sweethearts
plan to visit the university.
Sydney Chaplin does great
piece of work and Is ably sup
ported by a splendid cast, led
by Eulalie Jensen and Ethel
Shannon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-12
Goings-On

NATIONAL - Frank Craven in
New Brooms," a comedy.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." new
play Of the desert.
POLI'S-Eddie Buzzell and New
York cast in 1.-THE Bingham
Girl" musical. Matinee today.
PRESIDENT-"Rain." Second
week. Matinee today.
KEITH'S-Scphie Tucker topping
splendid vaudeville bill. Mat
inee and night.
EARLE-Henry Bergman and
Orchestra topping new "vode"
bill, films and other acts.
STRAND-Jack Powell Sextette
in Watch the Drums"
GAYETY-"Runnin' Wild" with
Billy Foster.
MUTUAL-"Stepping Out" bur-
lesque.
COLUMBIA-"The laundering
Herd" the Zane Grey story.
METROPOLITAN warnings
Pennsylvanians and "Entice-
ment"
RIALTO-May McAvoy in THE
Mad Whirl."
PALACE-Lon Clancy in 1.-The
Monster"
TIVOLI-Von Stroheim's Greed"
AMBASSADOR-Jack Holt and
Lois Wilson in North Of &C."
NTRAL Husbands and
Lovers"
AVENUE GRAND-"The Foolish
Virgin"
YORK-Richard Dix in "a Man
Must Live"
A p OIL LO-Mar Pickford in
Dorothy Vernon Of Haddon
Hail."
SAVOY-John Gilbert in THE
Snob."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-12
THE C ATE-POST
:Bu HurOLd Phillip.

boys deny them GaePo continues to be
printing brdseye view of the accumula
sEs <.t
Polls will have run Of summer opera furnished by the Abor
Light Opera Company.
Arthur Leslie Smith renquished his option on the Ward
glorfy the lower side Of
Pennsylvania vicinity of the President Theate
Subject to new freight schedues) ~ .s
Rolln Bond contemplating run OF light opera at
the Auditorium with resident and visiting artists
Bill derby for straw skinner
the first Tuesday after
stock company will under May 90
with manuscripts of nearly dozen popular plays tucked the
office safe. This is IN acuality; not ruTnor
theaters viii suspension for over
hauling renovating" whereas the truth known
Maisie, usher says:
only difference between and them hooters the stage
that Gt had the nerve to say ran 0Cy from convent