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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
More Truth Than Poetry
BY JAMES j. MONTAGUE
THE FLY
BY JAl


The rattlesnake plays fair and square;
He bids the whole wide world beware
That he delights
In murderous fights
And homicidal battle.
He always gives his human prey
A decent chance to get away
When from afar
They hear the jar
And rasping of his rattle.
The fly seems kindly and well bred
But he Will kill you just as dead.
The tiger does not hesitate
To show that he is filled with hate
He roars and growls
The while he prowls,
Which noises so alright you
That, with palpitating heart
You somewhat hastily depart
And circumvent
The brutes intent
To leap on you and bite you,
The fly seems meek and mild and
tame
But he'll destroy you just the same.
The shark lives always in the sea
Where people have no call to be,
In his damp home
Beneath the foam
He has small chance to meet them.
And though he very often feels
That he would like them for his
meals,
He looks on men
But now and then,
And rarely does he eat them.
The fly, however, day by day
Goes round collecting human prey.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
Cherry Alley Love

Love you, honey? co'se I do!
But amt got no reason to:
You Jes' kinda happened long,
Den knowed twas sump'n wrcng
Down inside dis nigger's breast;
since den l amt had no rest.
cain sleep no mo- at NIGHT
BOSS he thinks I aint jec' right;
Maybe so, but 'taint no hahn.
You look lax you bout to fain'! j.
CAL come git inside my aim.
You might fool me, but you ain'tl
Wash. Cougars Paw.
Teacher: Name an organ of the
body.
Boy: Teeth.
Teacher: What kind of an organ
is. it?
Boy: Grind organ
what did you learn at Sunday
school, Betty?"
God made man and then he took
the backbone out of the man and
made the woman"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
Abe Martin

TIL time consumed in gettin' t. th'
next world is sOmethin' else that's
been reduced almost T. nOthin' durin'
th' last year. Mrs. Ike Lark says
she'd love T. 30 t. Paris fer di-
VOrce even if she didn' want one.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
PLUCKED FROM THE PLAINS
HEP,

ftE4.P.
A little mite of a man applied to
the foreman of gang of stevedo~es
for a job.
"Aw, you're too sman,. said the
foreman.
GIVE me chance" argued the lit
tie fellow.
"All right" agreed the foreman,
were loading three e-hundred- pound
anvils in the hold of that ship. Get
to work"
Everything went all right until ten
O'Clock when the foreman heard a
loud splash and yell for help.
Running to the gangplank he saw
his newly acquired helper bobbing
up and down in the water.
Help" yelled the wet one and
under he went.
He came up sputtering.
Help" he gargled and again he
went under.
he came up for the second time.
Help! he yelled, "if someone
doesn't throw me rope I'll drop
this darned anvil."-Brown Jug.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
STEWARDS WASHINGTON LETTER

BY CHARLES r. STEWART
WASHINGTON-Se William e.
Borah, chairman, and his fellow
members of the senate committee on
investigation of the alien property
custodian's office seem to be in for
a busy summer.
The alien property custodians rec
ords never have had a thorough over
hauling and their volume is tremen-
dous.
If there has been graft, as Borah
expects to show, it's quite on the
cards that it was on record scale,
for the sums the custodian has
handled have been comparable to the
boards in the United States treasury.
millions" is Borah's rough esti-
mate of the amount he believes stuck
to somebody's fingers. For legal adj
vice alone $S,OOOOOO appears to have
been spent. This may or may not
have been too much but Borah thinks
it was.
Ex-Custodian Thomas w. Miller
and ex-Attorney General Harry M.
Daugherty probably will have to bear
the brunt of things when the in
vestigators really get down to cases.
Both are under Indictment in New
York in connection with one of the
custodians turnovers, but that was
just a single transaction. Borah ex-
poets to dig into thousands.
Even if the explanations are all
satisfactory there will have to be
great many of them.
Borah doesn't like the idea of an
alien property custodian's office, any
way.
He doesn't consider it right to
seize private property even in time
of war, and, with billions of our own
invested abroad now, he ventures the
guess that, the next time we get into
one, we'll wish we hadn't set such
precedent.
At any rate, he says the seized
property ought to be returned, now
the wars over, and he adds :, ost
emphatically that the custodian and
his friends ought not to have gobbled
any of it 'up-if they did-while it
was in the governments possession.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
BSlAiNR|5

Storm in Florida. Damage is es-
timated at $6,OOO,OOO. Must have
blown a limb off tree.
Mrs. Coolidge is padding canoe
Can Cal paddle his?
United States may be a terribla
country, but in Russia they don't
wear any bathing suits at all.
ST. Louis couple have ten boys.
That's raising a rough house
Some husbands are just about per-
feet, except they can't cook.
Twenty years ago today we ran
to see autos, not to dodge autos.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
WITH EDITORS


Republican,
writer
OF
HAIL. and betrayed his
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
The Camels Are Coming

A couple of American students
were in their hotel room in Bagdad
when they found they were out Of
cigarettes One of them grabbed the
phone:
Hello, operator, give me the cigar
counter"
Say, have you any camels?9
"oh yes, plenty"
Are they fresh?"
Absolutely, we just got them in
That's fine. Can you send some
up right away?"
Certainly, how many do YOU
want?"
oh a couple of Dozen"
We haven't got that many"
Well, send all you've got" -,
Say, what are you fellows trying
to run, anyway?"
Hell, isn't this the cigar counter?"
NO. this is the table"-Brown
Jug.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
TTTCKY

Add ell Krim comes out of his war
without any bitterness. Nobody
would lend him any more money to.
conduct it.
Copyright, 1926, Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08

ASK THE HOTEL KEEPERS
No wonder the French don't un-
derstand us. They never let any
body get very far into debt to them.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08

Walter Spence. famous Brooklyn
swimmer. has been cutting quite a
few unusual capers in the water this
summer. One of his most recent
feats was the setting of new world
record in the 44O-yard breast stroke
event in the a. A. U. championships
at Philadelphia He made the dis.
tance in minutes 16 AS seconds, de.
feating no less competitor than
Bob Shelton by three feet.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-08
WORSE AND WORSE

This is getting to be a pretty damp
country. Even the cocktails aren't
dry any more.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
COAL STRIKE
BILL BACKED

WASHINGTON, April 2S.-P)-
Authority for the President to take
over and operate coal mines in periods
of emergency is proposed in bill ap-
proved today by the Senate Labor
committee.
Under the measure introduced by
Senator Copeland, Democrat, New
York, the President would have CON
troll Of, distribution at reasonable
price"
Administration of the law would be
in the bureau of mines. Seizure of
the mines would be authorized only
after efforts at government mediation
and arbitration had failed.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28

ton to the Jail and a huge
road building program were
provided for in a county
bond issue voted less than year
ago.
Contract for general construction
of the courthouse addition was let to
Walsh and Burney, San Antonio con-
tractors who built the municipal audi
forum. The contract price was $685.
SAG.
Although Charles NJ. Schoenfeld,
another San Antonio contractor, sub
mitted lower bid, he was released at
his own request when he informed the
court that be had omitted one item.
Contract for the plumbing and heat
ing for the building was let to Judd
and Ormond. The heating price was
,$91 ,207 and the plumbing $32,66S.
Contract for installing the refrigera-
ton plant was let to Martin Wright
for $2762 and the electrical contract
to Wright Brothers for $21 $40.
The contractors we're allowed 10
days in which to make bonds and file
them with the commissioners court.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
SAN ANTON|AN
To EXPLOIT
OIL FIELD
Mission Grove Resident to
Build Refinery and Dig
20 to so Wells.

Plans to drill between 20 and 80
shallow wells, and build refinery on
his property in Mission Grove, San
Antonio's new residential oil field,
were announced by NJ. II. Davis We'd
nesday, following the bringing in OF
a well on his property on Bonita
street.
Drilling of the 20 wells is now I'M
der way, Mr.. Davis said, and the so
additional will be drilled if oil is
found in paying quantities. The re-
finery will be built as soon as pro-
duction warrants, he said, if the city
will grant permission.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
Special Light Used
to Boost C.E, Meet

Fifteen hundred copies of the tab.
loid edition recently published on the
auditorium by The Light arc being
sent to all Christian Endeavor socie
ties in Texas by the San Antonio
union in order to obtain a large at
tendance at the state Christian En-.
deavor convention here June II to IL
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
, MAY ENTER S. A.

Under present plans the southern
terminus of the mail planes will be at
Dallas, flights TO be made daily to
Chicago where connections will be
made for the East. Due to close rail
connections, however, San Antonio will
enjoy the same service as Dallas.
Mail leaving here at night will arrive
in Dallas in time to catch the morning
mail plane for the North.
Later, if the amount of mail justi-
fies, officials of the air transport COM
pany have said they would inaugurate
the plane service in San Antonio.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
Spanish Airmen
Reach Indo-China

HANOI, French Indo-China, April
2S.-CP)-Captain Loriga, one of the
Spanish Madrid-to-Manila filters, who
was obliged to come down at Vinh for
gasoline yesterday, arrived here at
) 80 O'Clock last evening. Captain
Gallarza, his companion. arrived from
Saigon Monday. The next stage of the
flight is TO Canton.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
Jail Term
Given in So Theft

MENA, Ark, April 2S.-CP)-oue
minute in jail was the sentence i'm
posed on Lee Hall, charged with en-
bezzling five dollars from a neighbor
after jury in circuit court had found
him guilty here yesterday. The SEN
tence is regarded as the shortest ever
given by a court here
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
SIX A|RPLANES
ARRIVE IN
CITY
Mayor Plans Elaborate
Ceremonies to Mark
Christening.

Attended by Mayor John W. Tabin,
the city commission and officials of
the Chamber of Commerce. elaborate
ceremonies will mark the christening
Thursday of Miss San Antonio" one
of the six airplanes which will inaugu-
rate air mail service between San An
tonic and the East.
The six planes arrived in San An
tonic Wednesday afternoon and will
remain here "a hours, according to a
telegram received by the Chamber of
Commerce from the National Air
Transport Service. The planes are
being sent here, Chamber of Commerce
officials said, to stimulate interest in
the new air mail service which will be
inaugurated MAY u.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
Woman Robs Man
of $50 With Pistol

Confronted by a large negress who
welded a pistol, Frank TafoIa, 1913
West Houston street, was robbed of
IS on Cameron street near Travis.
tuesday night, he reported to detec-
lives
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
Mexico to Expel
Divorce Seekers
by Universal Service.

MEXICO CITY, April 2S.-Frec
love has come under ban by the gov
eminent with an official order. The
order declares that several colonies
are known to exist, composed mainly
of Americans seeking divorce and OF
European immigrants of advanced
thought"
Police have been ordered to arrest
all parties and have them expelled
from the country.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
Factory Damaged
100000 by Fire

WAUkEGAN, III, April 2S.-LPl
The principal building of Johns-Man-
Vile, Inc, manufacturers, huge
structure containing the plant offices.
was swept by fire today with a loss
estimated at S30OOOO.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
PROSECUTOR SLAIN BY GANG
TWO-YEAR-OLD CHAMPION

Little Madelyn May Horner, only rs months old,
holds the record for being San Antonio's most
photographed youngster Twenty.four photos,
one-a-month since she was two months old, are on
display by the Fox Company on Alamo Plaza.
Madelyn is said to have all the poise of movie
queen before the camera.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
25-BARREL WELL.

Davis, who has 10 men digging
wells now, brought in one Wednes-
day which he estimates will make %
barrels a day. Oil is standing in il
several feet deep now.
One block from Mr.. Davis well.
and bringing the shallow field nearer
the business section of the city, S. J.
Mcfarland brought in well Wednes-
day at Is feet which he estimates will
make from three to five barrels a day.
More than a score of other wells
also are being dug in the vicinity, in
addition to deeper test being put
down or city property several blocks
AWAY
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
MAYOR TO OFFICIATE.

Upon receipt of the telegram. Cham
Der of Commerce officials Immediately
began preparations for the christening
ceremonies which will be held at Stin-
son Field on the South Loop at 10
o'clock Thursday morning. Officials
of the air transport company previous
1y had agreed that one of the ships
shall bear the name Miss San An
tonic"
Mayor Tobin has agreed to take
charge of the ceremonies and provide a
pretty and popular San Antonio girl
to break the bottle of artesian water
over the new ship. The mayor also
will officially welcome the six pilots
to San Antonio and speak briefly on
the advantages to be derived from air
mail connections between San Antonio
and the East.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
7 ON COOPER
LEFT TO DIE.
SEEL|GSON
CHARGES
Defendants Friendship for
Slain Man Argued by
Opposing Counsel.

Whether Ed Knight was a friend
of, Tom Cooper was the principal
point argued by attorneys for thu
state and defense Wednesday mora
ing in Thirty-seventh District court
in the trial of Knight for the Staying
of Tom Cooper in soft drink stand
on Apache street, year ago last
January.
Gal&ar Seeligson for the state told
the jury that if Knight was a friend
of Cooper he would not have run
away from the scene of the shooting
but would have gone back to help the
wounded man.
r. r. Smith for the defense said
the evidence showed that Knight had
been Cooper's friend. that he had
taken him home on many occasions.
that he had "buddied' with his
brother on the detective force
CASE NEARS CLOSE
"He was but an innocent bystander
and happened TO be there when the
trouble occurred" said Smith.
Louis Schlesinger for the state
will be followed by the two closing
arguments and the case win go to the
jury.
Arguments began Tuesday night,
after both sides had closed prcsenta-
ton of evidence early in the after
noon and Special Judge o. M.sFitz-
hugh had prepared and presented his
charge TO the jury.
ACCUSES HAMILTON
Tuesdays session of court was feat
ured by the testimony Of Knight, pho
took the stand in his own defense
shortly after 10 o'clock Tuesday
morning, and was not excused until
noon.
"W. r. Hamilton fired the shots
which killed Cooper, he declared from
the witness stand, after he had graph
cally related events leading up to the
shooting. He testified he was friend
of Cooper at the time and that he
tried vainly to prevent trouble between
Cooper and Hamilton.
This trial Of knight has teen one
of the longest drawn out and most
bitterly contested legal battles that has
been staged in a local criminal court
in many months.
The case went to trial Monday,
April 10, when selection of jury
from a special venire Of 300 men be-
gan. Ten jurors were chosen that
Monday, but the veniee was exhausted
and 80 talesmen we're summoned to re-
port the following morning.
Then came the first prolonged de
Continued On Page ~
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
FOUND DYING.

Three men who found Duffy lying
MORALLY wounded near the scene o.
the Shooting were held carly today loI
further questioning.
McSwiggin and his companions
were driving toward Chicago when tn,
car which had been following them
drew alongside to place the machine
gun in range. After the first volley tn,
occupants of the attacked car desertcG
their machine and as they ran away
we're sprayed with bullets. Duffy tel
and died several hours later in hos
pital. The other three staggered bach
to the automobile and sped away.
A mile and half from the scene,
the bodies of McSwiggin and Doherty
were found. Folio believe the flee.
ing car was overtaken, but whether the
victims were given their death wounds
in their own car or In that Of the
attackers was Il matter of speculation.
Indications were that MeSwiggin had
put up desperate struggle to escape
or OYVrpower biz cs.ptvrs.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
U. 5. OFFICIAL QuITs.

WASHINGTON, April Esp
Allan Curry, district attorney at st.
Louis, submitted his resignation today
70 President Coolidge.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
OIL SCOUTS PRESENT.

Announcement of the new find
brought hundreds of spectators flock
ing to the new Mission Grove field
Wednesday and excitement was run
ming high.
Several big oil companies, it was
reported, have sent men to in inspect
the field with a view to buying ug
acreage and making tests.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
CONTRACT FOR BEXAR'S new
Sl,00O,OOO COURTHOUSE IS LET

Contracts for the 81 100000 Bexar county court
house, which that construction will begin mmedi
atey let by the Bexar County Commissioners court
Wednesday, Construction of the courthouse an add-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28

tSCAN ANTONIO has a charm
- for citizens of Mexico like no
other town in Texas" DIR. NJ. +.
MadrasOn, physician OF Mexico
City, registered at the Gunter hotel,
declares. MIR. Madrason has just
returned from Dallas where he at
tended the medical convention last
week. He is visiting in San An.
tonic with old friends.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28

Sopynsn- isss o{ ssar %
~oLONEL MITCHELL knows
flying, his record as flying
officer cxccls that of any other
man of rank in the United States
army.
Those that know nothing about
flying and kicked Elm out of tie
army, rendered unintentionally a
great service to the United States.
For Mitchell today is telling the poo
pie, without interference from swivel
chair "hig1er ups" truths that the
people should hear. u
1t is a pleasure 10 give to an audi
ence of a gooi many millions few
extracts from Colonel Mitchell's re-
cent talk in Pasadena. The Pacific
Coast, facing Asia, and deeply in
tcrested in flying machine protcc-
ton, welcomes Mitchell. Let the
people consider these statements from
! competent man.:
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
S. A. to Christen Mail Ship
KNIGHT SC(0jR { ! D
AS Trial ENDS
He'::i!!jNlid2,!
laGS>>S

SNHANY a husband has prevented
AVA divorce proceedings by the
timely presentation Of box Of
candy TO friend wife," declares
Dwight l.. Moody, candy man Of
Chicago, staying at the st. Anthony
hotel. And many a boy has won
a wife with a package Of sweets,
too. So you see. the candy bust
ness is a sweet and romantic one"
he smilingly added.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
OFFERED BRIDE.

In connection with this theory, the
Chicago Tribune said that only two
days ago McSwiggin had told a re
porter for that paper that be had been
offered $4,000 to neglect his duty and
aid the two gunner in gaining their
freedom.
Search for the slayers began i'm.
mediatcly under the direction Of
States Attorney Robert Z. Grove
who declared he was astounded at the
temerity of the killers. A conference
of state, county and city officers was
called TO lay plaus for rounding vi.
gangstcrs who might furnish clew,
leading TO the identity of the machine
gun crew.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28

0yNEVE made this trip down
" here in order that we might
talk intelligently of Southwest
Texas TO prospective tourists" says
ID. ]. Lister, Missouri Pacific Off.
cial OF New York who is making a
tour of Texas in company with
about $50 other Missouri Pacific
railroad men. "After travelling over
Southwest Texas we have seen
enough TO talk about for the rest
Of our lives, and believe me, we are
going to talk"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28

MEANWHILE, President Cool
AVA idge and Postmaster General
New are developing a real pcstcffice
flying service, encouraging private
enterprise to build ships and put
them in the air.
II this policy continues. as it un.
soubtedly will while Coolidge is
President, the nation win have.
essntusiiy, in the postoffice service
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28

UWE are so far behind the
w times Colonel Mitchell as
serted, "that we don't even know
what IN honest goodness sirplane
locks like. Despite the fact that we
have spent 100000 in the
United States since the World War,
just playing around with aviation,
our people have no adequate con.
ception Of what air powef means.
Competent officers are resigning
from the air service CT the army
and navy, Disguised by their in
ability TO get anywhere with con-
structive program. The United
States today has not more than
$50 first class air plots. despite
The large number Of well trained
men available here at the end Of
the war"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28

AT the earliest possible moment,
"A the Fords will put these
THREE-MoToR machines ''in pro-
duction," which means they will turn
them out as fast as anybody will buy
them.
And within three or four years the
Fords hope to produce in quantities
"a three or four-passenger airship,
reasonable in price"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28

THE fault Is not with this coun-
try which invented the asins
machine, and not with American
fliers, or American manufacturers,
but with official indifference. Lis
ten to this from Colonel Mitchell.
PLANES are being built today in
the outskirts Of Los Angeles cap
able Of making a nonstop flight
10 Hawaii and back; Of flying
from this city to New York in 20
hours; or Of mailing . nonstop
flight from New York City to
Psking. China. That is the an
swer As 10 what air power could do
in this country were 1t not throt.
lied by TIE army and navy"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28

THIS writer is able to state. with
authority, that Henry and Ed
sci Ford are working cnergetically
on new three-Inotor airship, as
nearly fool-proof as possible. In such
machine, the pilot would have two
engines to rely on if one went
wrong, one TO rely on, and able to
keep the ship going if two went
dead"
The chances are thousand to one
against all three going wrong at the
same time.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-28
FOURTH DISAPPEARS.

The fate of the fourth member oil
the McSwigsin party is a mystery and
tine automobile has not been found.
McSwiggih left his home last night
with Duffy, telling relatives he planned
to go to BerSyn, another western sub,
urb, for a game OF cards. The two
entered an automobile und drove away.