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VOL. XLII—NO. 348.
TO ARREST NEW YEAR'S DRY VIOLATORS
Albert B. Fall to Resign as Secretary of the Interior on March 4 1
PROHIBITION
REARS CRIME
'SAYS SPROUL
Dry Laws Not Working,
Pennsylvania Governor
Tells Legislature.
MENACE TO COUNTRY
Declares Regulations Harm
ful Because Public Senti
ment Lacking.
BANDITRY ON INCREASE
'‘Fine Brood of Criminals”
Fostered by Illegal Trade
in Liquor.
Harrisburg. Pa.. Jan. 2.—Governor
Sproul told the members of the Pennsyl
vania legislature today that it is patent
that prohibition enforcement laws, fed
eral and state, are not working well
in Pennsylvania and that, in other states
having the kind of laws -which the
critics of Pennsylvania legislation de
mand, the results are, in his opinion,
no better.
‘ In New York and in New Jersey,
jUjrne the type of laws which are de
sired hers have been enacted,” Gov
ernor Sproul said, "the disregard for
prohibition is fully as much in evidence
as in Pennsylvania. Even in states
which have bad prohibition for years,
there has been much more illicit trade in
intoxicating liquors than before the pass
age of the federal enforcement act.”
"This situation,” he Eaid, "is most
discouraging and dangerous, and is par
ticularly menacing to a free lanu.
"Undoubtedly much of the banditry'
and other crimes now harassing the
country have their genesis in the school
of outlawry fostered by the illegal trade
of intoxicants,” the governor said. "We
are rearing a fine brood of criminals,
which it will require stern measures to
suppress.”
"The only way out that is now in
sight,” he said, “is a careful artf] con
scientious enforcement of thel law by
the authorities, under severe penalties
for disregard of duty upon the,part of
officials. Until sentiment supports the
dry laws, their enforcement will be ex
tremely difficult and in general their
effect more harmful than beneficial.”
SIX PRISONERS HAVE
NARROW ESCAPE FROM
BURNING TO DEATH
Keys to Cells Lost When
Constable's Office
Destroyed.
Texarkana. Tex.. Jan. 2.—Six pris
oners, one white man and five negroes,
aiwly escaped burning to death
early this morning when fire destroy
ed a building here, the lower floor of
which was used as a holdover for
Bowie county prisoners. Smoke and
flames made rescuing them from the
inside impossible and besides the keys
to the cells had been lost in the fire
which destroyed the constable's office
on »n upper floor..
The prisoners were finally rescued
when a hole was.cut through the out
side brick wall. Axes were used.
One of the negroes was overcome by
smoke and was carried out by his com
panions.
All other prisoner’ were rescued.
The keys to the cells hnd been left
by Constable Floyd in his office, which
was gutted within a few minutes
after the fire started.
BRIDGE KEPT OPEN
Pasoans Celebrate New Year Juarez
Cabaret.
El Paso. Tex.. Jan. 2.—So many F.l
’a scans celebrated the dawn of New
fear under the bright lights of Juarez
abaret that traffic was clogged at the
ntcmational bridge at 12:30 a. m.. the
isual bridge closing hour. Automobiles
ind street cars carrying revelers were
eturning in such large numbers at
he last minute that the bridge clos
r.g had to be extended to 1 o’clock.
Has More Drank Arrests.
Fort Worth, Tex- Jan. 2.—Fort
'orth had 111 more arrests for drunk-
1922 than in 1021. according
report of the police de
irrmeht completed today. Arrests for
is offense in 1922 totaled 1409.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
“DIXIE FLYER” LEAVES
RAILS; TWO SERIOUSLY
INJURED, EIGHT HURT
Five Cars Tarn Over
Near Macon,
Georgia.
Macon, Ga., Jan. 2—Two persons
are reported seriously injured and eight
painfully hurt as the result of the
"Dixie Flyer,” a northbound tourist
train, en route from Jacksonville to
Chicago, jumping the track six miles
from here early today. The injured
have been taken to a local hospital.
Two baggage cars, one mail car, n
day coach and a dining car, turned over.
Ten Pullmans left the track but re
mained upright. The engine left the
rails but did not turn over.
The train crew said the train was
making about 30 miles an hour when it
left the rails. There were approximate
ly 150 on board the train. Those in the
Pullmans are said to have been severe
ly jostled but were not in need of hos
pital attention.
Those who were injured were riding
in the day coaches, it was said. First
aid was administered to manv of the
passengers having slight lacerations and
bruises from being thrown into a pile
as the coaches left the track and turn
ed over.
The wreck occurred at Rivoli, a flag
station. The train had just completed
pulling a long hill and was bowling over
flat terrain when it left the rails. The
locomotive itlowed up the tracks for
about 100 yards. Rail officials say it
will be several hours before traffic can
be resumed.
Leaving Macon at C :30 o'clock. 25
minutes late, the train proceeded to a
point about six miles from Macon, when
the wreck occurred. Except for the en
gine and the tender, the entire train
of five sleepers.■ dining car. .two day
coaches and the baggage car, left the
track. The cause of the wreck has not
been ascertained.
Those most seriously injured were rid
ing in the day coaches. Passengers in
the sleepers were Severely shaken Up
and jostled, but medical aid was not
necessary except in a few instances.
When the ears left the track the kram
was separated into three sections stop
ping about 100 feet apart. The engine
ami tender were in one section, the bag
gage car. day coaches and diner we?e
in another section, and the sleepers re
mained on the roadbed.
KILLS MOTHER AND SON
Maniac Attacks Ohio Household Then
Slaslies Own Throat.
Canton. Ohio. Jan. 2.—A mother and
her three-year-old son are dead, and
two others severely wounded ns the re
sult of a maniac's attack on a Can
ton family New Year's Eve. The slayer
then slashed his own throat He is in
a serious condition-
The dead are:
MRS. ELIZABETH RICH. 28.
DANIEL RICH. 3.
The wounded:
Peter Rich. 13. shof in left leg: Dom
inich Rich, 45. beaten about iiead with
revolver, and Joe Fernandez. 38.
charged by police with being the slayer.
Edward Rich. 2 years of age, sat on
a stool in the kitchen of the Rich home
while the crazed man ran amuck, and
escaped uninjured. Police sny Fernan
dez suddenly went insane while visiting
at the Rich- home and without warning
drew q revolver and started shoot
ing. , *
Automobile Accident Fatal.
Dallas. Tex.. Jan. 2.—H. Saline, 30.
of Orange, died nt a local sanitarium
early this morning of injuries received
when he was thrown from an automo
bile near here. Mrs. Sarine was injured
in the accident.
THE WEATHER
TEMPER ATI KES.
3 p. ni 3 a. m o<
i p. m 72 4 n. 6S
6 p. m 72 & a. n*..60
6 p. TH.■••••,,.70 6 f.. TH ... g CH
7 p. €7 - 7 a. m 60
8 p. m 65 4 a. ni €G
9 p. m C : 9 a. m 60
10 p. ri f? 10 a. ni.........60
12 mhlnielit 59 12 noon 01
JAN. 2. 1 p. in 64
1 a. m 59 2 p. m *G
FORECAST
San Antonio and vicinity: Tuesday night
partly rioudy; colder with frost: Wednes
day. fair: minimum temperature. 32 to
3S: moderate northwest winds.
East Texas: Partly cloudy and colder;
freezing ir north portion: frost in aoutu
portion except near coast; Wednesday,
fair.
West Texas: Fair: somewhat colder;
Wednesday, fair.
HOME WEATHER FOR TOI RISTS.
St. Eoui*: Temperature. 42: clear: 23-
mtlo wind from the south: lowest tem
perature 1n last 24 hours. 36; highest. 42.
Chicago: Temperature, ’.4; pat*!/
cloudy: six-mile wind from the east: low
est temperature in last 24 hours, 32; high
est. 24.
hxinMi* City: Temperature. 32; cloudy:
sixteen-mile wind from the nort'jwwf;
lowest temperature in last *4 hours, 30;
highest. 46.
New York: Temperature. 36: clear, six
teen-mile wind from the west; lowest
temperature in last 24 hours. 36; high
est. 54.
Washington: Temperature. 28: clear;
five-mile wind from the southwest, low
est temperature in last 24 hours. 26; high
est, 42.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1923.
WILLING TO
CUT GERMAN
REPARATIONS
Poincare Offers to Reduce
Amount to 50 Billion
Gold Marks.
2-YEAR MORATORIUM
Would Exact Guarantees to
Insure Resumption of
Payments Later.
PREMIERS AT MEETING
Herrick Heads U. S. Delega
tion Which Will Watch
Developments.
By the Associated Preu.
Paris. Jan. 2.—Premier Poincare of
France, offered at today’s conference
of Allied leaders a proposal for a reduc
tion of German reparations to fifty
billion gold marks.
The French plan offers a two-year
moratorium, but it exacts productive
guarantees to insure the resumption of
payments later by the Germans.
Under tli* French plan the ( lass C
bonds would lie used to extinguish the
inter-Allied debts.
The Ulas* C bonds mentioned in the
French reparations plan are part of a
series provided for under he London
illtinixtum to Germany issued by the
Allies on May 5. 1921. when the total
of German reprations was fixed at
132,00(1.000 gold marks. It was pro
vided that Germany create three classes
of reparations bonds, based oil tiara
graph 12 of annex 2. of part .VIII of
the treaty of Versailles.
The first class of bonds, or Class A.
for 12.000,000.000 gold marks, were to
be delivered by July 1-
The diplomatic barometer seemed in
clined to take an upward spurt today
as statesman of Great Britain. Fmnce,
Italy ;md Belgium gathered for the <on
ference of permiers. which will grapple
once more with he reparations prob
lem. The atmosphere was much loss
pessimistic than after the termination
of the London conversations last month.
Herrick Arrives at Paris.
Although there was a wide divergence
of viewpoint, particularly between the
French and British, as to how and
when Germany shall meet her obliga
tions. the first signs of a movement to
bring them into harmony nepeared to
be the result of what Le Matin calls
“the invisible pressure of American
opinion.”
Myron T. Herrick. American ambas
sador to France, arrived in Paris from
Cannes and. with Roland W. Boyden,
the American representative with the
reparations commission, will watch de
velopments closely during the premier's
conference and keep Secretary of State
Hughes well informed of the progress
made.
A LAND OF PARADOXES
Financial and Economic Condition of
Germany Told by Actual Figures.
Bv PAI I. SCOTT MOWKEK
By OII.LIAM K. SAMI
Special Cable lo Tbs San An’onia L.zh
and the Chicago Daily Nevs.
Copyright. U!s.
Paris. Jan. 2.—By courtesy of the of
ficials of the reparations commission we
are enable to make public on the eve
of the important meeting of premiers
in Paris the following summary of the
status of the complex and confusing
refutations question -
The total German reparations debt is
132,900.090,000 gold marks, which fig
uring tin. mark at its par value of 23.8
cents, amounts to $31,416,000,000. Of
this si.th France it to receive 52 per
rent. Great Britain 22 per cent. Italy
10, Belgium 8 and other nations 8
per cent. Germany up lo now has paid
a total ci 8,500.000 000 marks sub
divided as follows: Cash. 2,100,000,000
marks: in kind. 3,700,000 000: prop
erty transfers connected with ceded ter
ritories 2,500.000,000.
These payments have been distributed
among the Allies as follows: Cash to
Belgium. 1.500.000.000 marks: Great
Britain. 140,000.000: France, 140,000,-
000. In kind France. 1.800,000,000 marks
mostly in armistice delievrit* and coal;
Belgium <50.000.000; Great Britain. 400,-.
'000,000; Italy 150.000.000. Property
transfers. Poland. 1,700.000.000 marks;
Franco 250,000.000: Great Britain 60,-
000.000; Japan 60.000.000.
Paid for Occupation Armies.
Certain sums in both eart and kind
arc still undisturLec. Ou Belgium's
cash priority 500.(2 0,000 marks re
main due. In eddition. Germany has
paid toward the cost of the armies of
oreunatin.' "."(Mi (KM! 000 marks, of
which slightly more tlinn half has come
(Continued on next page.)
Victims of Mer Rouge Mob
F. Watt Uanid (above*. one of th
two men whose bodies were recover?
from Lake La Fourche. Morehouse Par
iah. La.
Thomas F. Richards (right i, skill
together with Daniel supposedly by ;
body of marked men.
MORE TROOPS ARE CALLED
TO MOREHOUSE PARISH AS
OPEN HEARING APPROACHES
Three Officrg and Forty Entitled Men Go to Join
Three Other National Guard Units Now Stationed
at Scene of Louisiana Kidnaping Cases —Ad-
dition«l Forces May Be usd in Making
Further Arrests.
Jennings, lau. Jam 2. —The Jennings
cavalry of the Louisiana National Guard
was ordered today to cn train for More
house parish.
Shortly alter receiving the order ,
the troops, under commgnd of Major
Miller, entrained for Bcstrop.
This will bring the National Guard
units in Morehouse to four, the others
being the Monroe and Alexandria in
fanry and the New Orleans Machine
Gun Company.
The movement is in connection with
the investigations and bearings in the
Morehouse kidnaping* and murders.
The troop was composed of three of
ficers and 40 enlisted men with their
horses and equipment. .The men were
expected to reach their destination to
morrow morning, two days before the
beginning of the open bearing at the
Bastrop courthouse.
In the absence of official information
it was understood that the men would
be used in augmenting the forces now
encamped at the courthouse and jail and
probably also in making arrests.
LIDNAPED MAN NOT FOUND
Moi-house Parish Is Faced With Still
Another Mystery
Bastrop. I-a., Jan- 2.—Morehouse
started the New Year with another mys
tery to solve —the disappearance of
Harold Teegestrom. son of a wealthy
oil and gas field iqanator. and time
keeper at n carbon plant at Spyker, La.,
and regarded as a prospective witness in
the forthcoming state investigation into
masked band activities in cuiiuectio
with the kidnaping and slaying of Watt
Daniels find Tuomas Fletcher Richards
of Mer Rouge.
Department of Justice agents sent
into Louisiana to join the forces with
State officials in solving the mystery
of the disappearance of Daniels and
Richards and other alleged mash'd band
operations centereil their energies today
in an effort to lovate the missing man.
Thus far the trail has not been fruit-
One of the investigators who had
charge of the inquiry into the disap
pearance of Teegerstroui stated last
night that he had positive information
the carlion worker was kidnaped.
Disappeared Friday Night.
Teegerstroiu disappeared from the
company plant Friday night immediate
ly after he had responded to a sum
mons from the outside, bunday. accord
ing to information brought to the sher
iffs office here, he appeared at the
home of a friend, Henry Jones, a saw
mill operator, borrowed $4O, left a
watch to be turned over to a brother
who lives at Lamkin, and the keys to
the company's offices, and announced
he was "leaving.” Since then all trace
of his lias been lost.
Tecgwbtrom not toll Jones th?
reason for. his leaving.
The plant where Teegerstrom wn?
working is the *anir °n F # which T.
J. Burnett, now held in jail on a charge
of murder, was employed. Burnett is
alleged to have been implicated in tb?
killing of Daniels and Richards.
Resume of Troubles.
The incident added another chapter
to the book of startling events being
written here which already includes a
masked and robed mob stealing five
men from a public highway : of punish
ment in which two were unmercifully
flogged, and two beaten to death and
horribly mutilated ; of bodies being de
capitated, wire-bound, weighted with
iron and thrown into a lake: of the
governor of khe state personally enter
ing into the investigation: of troops,
divers and volunteers dragging lakes and
swamps searching for the bodies: of
mysterious dynamiters blowing them
to the surface; of arrests of prominent
men and the promised arrest of others:
—EIGHTEEN PAGES.
of alleged confession involving 46 men
and of charges that the Ku Klux Klan
for rcspor.silde for th* d?«l.
NEW YEAR ON
EXCHANGE SEES
BUYING RENEWED
Oil Shares Lead Again
in Price In
creases.
New Yoi’X Jan. 2.—The New Year
<*n the atock exchange opened with an
other brisk buying movement in the
course of which new high prices wore
made in the industrial list.
Nothing of consequence had hap
pened over the holiday, but the market
had evidently not exhausted in Satur
day’s rise the favorable influence of
the year and with its business reviews
with a cheerful forecast of 1923.
Oil shares were in the lead again
beciwe of the expectation that last
wek’a price advances were only the be
ginning of a general upward readjust
ment in the oil trade. Baldwin Loco
motive and Btudebaker went through
iheir previous highs ahd various special
ties of the type of I’. S. Realty. Mal
-lin son's SiHc. Fontinentul (’an, AmerL.
ran LiTiseed aYid Endicott Johnson were
bid up.
Railway slocks were comparatively
neglected while the steels were held in
check by the doubt as to whether the
present very satisfactory volume of
business i«*being handled at least in the
ease of the independents at n satisfac
tory • profit.
TRAIN IS DERAILED
Four Persons Injured When Passenger
Cars Turn O\ er.
Vincennes. Ind.. Jan. 2.--Four per
sons were Injured, one seriously and
a score of others shaken up when
Chicago and Eastern Illinois passenger
train number 93 was derailed near here
last night. Six coaches turned over.
Mrs. Eric L. McKew of Evansville,
Ind., who suffered an injured spine
was the only one seriously hurt. Miss
Ethel Bartlow of Lebanon, Ind., and
two negro porters were slightly in
jured.
NEW SOVIET UNION
Kalinin Becomes President and I>enin
Premier.
By F. A. M’KEXZIE.
.1 Cable to The San Antonio
and the Chicago Daily News.
Copyrigh
Moscow, Jan. 2.—’’rhe new union of
Soviet Socialist republics was formally
launched here Saturday morniiiK at a
solemn gathering. Michael I. Kalinin
became president and Nikolaj Lenin
premier. The different states had al
ready ratified the union-
CALL BANK CONDITION
Comptroller of Currency Asks for State
ment of All National Banks.
Uasliingtoin. D. C.. Jan. 2.—The
comptroller of the currency today is-ued
a call for the condition of all national
banks at the close of business on Friday.
December 29.
INTERIOR
SECRETARY
TO RESIGN
Secretary Fall Will Leave
Interior Department
on March 4.
PRESSURE OF BUSINESS
Declares Personal Affairs
Require His Personal
Attention.
NO SUCCESSOR FOUND
Harding Said to Have Of
fered Him Place on
Supreme Court.
Washington. D. C.. Jan. 2.—Seerc
tary Albert Fall of the Interior De
partment will resign his office on March
4, it was announced today at the
White House.
It was said Mr. Fall's retirement
waa due to the pressure of private
business interests, which he felt should
lie given n greater degree of personal
atieiUipn than baa been possible while
he has been n member of the cabinet
President Harding was said to regret
that Secrctarv Fall found it necessary
to retire, and to have tendered him
a place on the Supreme Court. He re
plied that his decision to leave public
life was unchangeable.
The question of n succeosor to Sec
retary Fall is expected to be left open
for some time.
MANY INJURED WHEN
CANADIAN PACIFIC
TRAIN LEAVES RAILS
Three Coaches of Vancoa
ver-Montreal Express
Go Into Ditch.
Calgary* Alberta, Jan. 2.—Twenty
one passengers were injured. none
seriously, when ihe Canadian Pacific
railway’s train No. 2, the Vancouver-
Montreal express, left the rails one
mile west of Bassano, Alberta, early
today. Throe cars, commerce, first
class and tourist, toppled into the
ditch.
DENIES SHIP SEIZURE
Government Ilas No Report of Supposed
Smuggling by Americans.
By the Associated Press.
Dublin. Jan. 2.—The Irish Free State
government today notified the American
consulate here that there had been nc
seizure of an American ship by a Brit
ish destroyer on orders from the Dub
lin government, as recently reported.
A Queenstown dispatch on December
31 s:iid the British torpedo boat de
stroyer Venomous had arrested an
American steamship which was sup
posed to be trying to land n cargo of
arms and ammunition in Ireland. The
vessel, according to the dispath. was
halted off Castletown Bere and con
voyed to jiort by order of the Free
State government.
Three Brothers Drown.
By the Associated Prem.
Wailulhn. Maui. T. 11.. Jan. 2. —
Three brothers. James. Samuel and
Miguel Konni. wore drowned here yes
terday. Miguel was washed off a rock
by a high wave and Samuel was swept
away in attempting to rescue him.
James, seeing his brothers* plight sprang
into the water to save them. A brother
in-law was preparing to leap into the
water in n final rescue attempt when
Samuel, who was the last of the three
brothers to drown, warned him to re
main on shore.
Bar Aliens Vntil July.
Aliens from Italy ami Turke;.- will
not be ndmited into this country until
July 1. 1923. since the annual quotas
fot those countries have already been
exhausted, according tn information re
ceived nt the San Antonio immigra
tion service office from Washington.
Italy with its annual quota of 42.037.
has the third largest quota granted to
foreign countries. The Vnited IKng
dom is first with an annual qvotn of
77.342, and German’’ K seendo with an
annual quota of 67,607.
Woman Justices of the
Peace Ties Knot for
Her Daaghter-Bridt
Pinrkiieyvillr, 111-. Jan. 2.—Will
the announcement today of the mar
ridge of Miss Winifred Kugler anii
Raymond Dausman, it was learned
that the ceremony was performed by
the bride's mother. Mrs. Solon Kux
ler, a justice of the peace here. Mr*
Kugler was the first woman selected
ns justice in Illinois, and the mar
riage ceremony was the first she per
formed.
GRAND JURY TOLD TO
PROBE OPERATION OF
DISORDERLY HOUSES
Coart Cells Particular At
tention to Alleged
Nuisance.
A thorough investigation into the al
leged operation of disorderly houses in
San Antonio will be made by the new
3701 District Court grand jury, which
was impaneled by Judge W. 8. An
derson Tuesilny morning. The district
judge, in delivering his charge, called
particular attention to the necessity for
an investigation of this alleged nuisance
and asked the grand jurors to look
carefully into the matter.
Judge Anderson also charged the
grand jury to make the customary in
vestigation into alleged violations of
the Dean law. ths Terreil election law
and other similar matters. He also
warned the grand jury that only one
copy of its report: should be made and
that delivered to hint. He warned par
ticularly against giving this information
to newspaper before it had been sub
mitted to the judge.
The new grand jury will be in ses
sion during the January term of court.
Judge Andmson informing its members
that they vould serve until the last
day of February. One of the duties
of the new inquisitorial body will be to
examins into the accounts of all coun
ty officials, copies of which will be
furnished. This is a customary pro
<-rdiire for the firs* grand jury of the
new year.
W. G. Higgins was named foreman
of the grand jury, the other members
being George D. Campbell, T. W.
Campbell. Charles Landauer, Norman
G. Bodet, C. H. Jackson. W. T. AA ay,
H. F. Affleck. J. E. Harper, Ed 8.
Fomby, Ambroce Byrne and Franz
Groos.
“COOL SPELL’ ON WAY
Temperature to Drop Below 40 and
Frost Is Probable.
What J. H. Jarboe. local weather ob
server. calls a "cool spell” will set in
Tuesday night and frost is forecasted
for San Antonio and the vicinity early
Wednesday morning. Under partly
cloudy shies and with moderate north
westerly winds, the mercury will drop
below 40 degrees, after having risen
as high as 72 on New Year’s Day.
Mr. Jarboe does not believe the “cool
spell’’ will last long and that rent win
ter weather is still comfortably distant.
The area of high barometer which be
gan to dominate Texas weather Tues
day is not very intense. At its center
in Utah at 7 o’clock Tuesday morning
the coldest weather was twelve de
grees above zero.
To the north, centered over Winne
peg. Canada, was another “high” with
a real "kick" in it—Winncpeg report
ed twelve below —but this was too far to
the north and east to affect Texas
weather.
An area of low pressure appears on
the Tuesday weather map in the ex
treme northwest, reaching through be
tween “highs" into the Dakotas and
bringing some snow with it.
Wet weather continues in the New
York district, through the influence of
an eastern "low.”
TOLD TO “MAKE GOOD”
Boy Tells O(fleers Father Gave Him
Ticket to Chicago.
Chicago. HI.. Jan. 2.—Frank Cube.
15 years old. stepped off a train in Chi
«ago this morning and announced be
had conn* from St. Louis on his father's
orders to “go out and make good.**
Those instructions and a railroad ticket
to Chicago wm all the equipment be
said his father gave him. but the police
thought him insufficiently equippnl tn
face the world alone and telegraphed
the St. Louis authorities to investigate
his story.
BACK TO PRISON
Escaped Convict from Texas on Way to
HuutMilir.
Los Angeles. Jan. 2.—R. S. Anderton
starred bark to the Texas penitentkp-.v
at Huntsville yesterday in custody to
I'omplcte a twenty-five yenr sen ten *e
which he interrupted by leading forty
others in a sensational jail break. He
Mas arrested here after six weeks of
liberty.
Amlrrson wa< sentenced to the peni
tentiary on a charge of bank robbery.
Prior to that conviction he escaped from
the Colorado jreniteutiary where hr had
been confined on a murder charge, a r
cording tn the sheriffs office here. Hia
record also iuvtudcd an escape from the
Oklahoma state penitentiary'
CITY EDITIO
TWO HFMTQ r * r c °p» ,b e,l » ,n<
IBU VILIA4O FIV , „ n „ on tr.i n , ,
GEI NAMES
IN HOTELS
AND CAFE!
Prohibition Officers Werg
Present Gathering Evi- M
dence. J
— ■ I
WILL BE QUESTIONED!
Seeking to Find ResponsU<
Parties Before Filing
SAW LOTS OF LIQUOiI
May File Charges Agaiiu|
Entire Party Unless One i
Takes Blaine.
Names at pmminreit husinem and
eiety |»ople of San Antonio are in th'
hands of prohibition officers who allege
that they violated the dry law New:
Year’s Eve and who further say that
charge, are to be filed as soon as re
sponsibility is fixed, it waa lca:ne4
Tuesday. Masqueraded u frotickera.
prohibition agruta vmted hotel* ami
cafes in the downtown saetioa after
midnight gathering information.
So grent was the confusion that ar
rests were not made during the festi
vities but Tuesday from twelve to fif
teen prnminnt people were called be.
fore prohibition officers for question
ing.
"We do not want to file liquor
charges against an innocent participant
at a party where liquor waa found,”
one of the agents spid, “however, tin,
less one of the party is willing to aan
sume responsibility for the present, dt
liquor, charges must necessarily bd
filed agninst all members of the party.”
A prohibition officer who visited bra
privaXe parties at one of the largq
downtown hotels found two bottles con,
taining high grade whiskey in a r-ini
with numerous empty bottles •cttterJ
around. In another room wine wag
found. Several men and women, wm
known in Bau Antonio, were in am
tendance at the two parties, the prohibg
tion agent said.
Prohibition agents are now “ngsge
in an investigation to determine IM
ones responsible for the presence a
liquor at the parties New Year's Evi
No formal arrests were made at til
parties during the celebration. Rargi > 1
will be filed, however, as soon as th
pre«»nt investigation is completed, prj
hi bi tion' iffieers said.
FOUR KILLED, FIVE
HURT, WHEN CAUGHT I
UNDER HEAVY PRESf
Iron Workers Crashed Be*
neath 600 Tons of
Steel.
Sharon. Pa., Jan. 2.—Four men wer<
killed and five others injured at the Pe.
troleum Iron Works at Masury, Ohio,
one mile from here this morning when
they were caught under a 600-ton hy« .
draulie press. Two of the bodies have '
not been recovered.
The nine men were working under th,
press when it collapsed. Five succeed
ed in getting out before the mass of steel
settled. They were injured by falling
debris.
Two of the men were eaught under
the edge of the press and killed. Two
others, knocked down by a steel beam,
were unable to get from under the press
before it crushed them to d-ath.
IRISH FACTIONS CLASH
Adherents of Free State and Repuhli*
can Cau>e Renew Struggle for Conflate
Neu York. Jan. 2.—Force* of th<
Irish Free State ami of ih*» Iri>h Re*
public rh|al(ed in Lower Nassau 4fr*e<
tfxlay in a renewed struggle (or
sion <>( the consulate »urrende»W bv
Ihiniel J. McGrath after his life bad
been threatened by an anonynwm let*
ter writer using the name of the
ReimbKcan army.
Vjefory on the banner* of
the Free Staten*, who gainei posMa*
sion of the consulate and locked about
men and women adherents of Iha
Rentiblican cause out in the balL
The indignant loaera charged foul
play, declaring at least one of tbcl?
number —Mra. ' ’’ - ' *'•
widow of the late lord mayor of Cw*M
—bad been roughly handled hr a city
detective aiding the Fret State »ep«t*
MUtativea,