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VOL. XLIII—NO. 26.
OLD WAVE BRINGS FIRE AND DEATH
IFST MADE
AFTER fflH
15 ASSAULTED
’. P. Vernon Held Follow
ing Alleged Brutal
Attack.
NVITED FOR RIDE
Complainant Says She Was
Tricked and Mis
treated.
T. F. Vernon, white man about 30
ears old. will be arraigned before
ustice of the Peace Ben S. Fisk at
o'clock Wednesday afternoon,
barged by complaint with a statu
ary offense growing out of an al
•ged attack upon a white woman res
ient of I'rospect Hill Monday af
ernoon. Vernon was arrested by
deputy Sheriff John Cooper and Mo
ncycle Deputy Jack Mynier late
’uesduy afternoon after tile white wo
lan liad reported the alleged crime
) the sberift'p offici. Vernon appear
-1 in Justice Campbell's court Wed
esday morning, his fn<-e in bandages
s a result of an encounter with Dep
ty Mynier. His iienring was post
oned until 3 o’clock in order that
e might secure a lawyer.
The alleged ..ttu-» upon the wom
n, according to the story she to.d
hief Deputy Alphonse Newton Wed
esdny morning, occurred shortly af
•r 3 o'clock Monday afternoon at a
mely spot beyond tbe West End
ike. She had become acquainted with
le man at a ebureh function. Mon
ay atternomy about 3 o'clock, she
eid. she. was waiting for a street car
t the twiner of Medina and West
louston street. Vernon came along
car, apparently bound for town
nd nsked her if she wished to ride,
he accepted the offer and got in the
Says She Was Locked in Car.
Instead of going to town, however,
ie woman told officers, Vernon took
circuitous route and being unfa
dliar with the streets in the city she
id not realize where sin was until
ernon stopped the car beyond West
nd lake. She had repeatedly told
ernon, the woman said, that she was
i a burry to get to town and return
une as die had comi any coming that
eniug.
When Vernon, after refusing to pro
ved to town, finally stopped the car.
ie woman told officers, she jumped
it. He persuaded her ‘to get back
to the car, sbe said, promising that
• would not molest her but would
ke her back to the city. Wheu_be
id induced her to again enter the
ir, however, the woman he
eked the doors of the coupe, drove
irther out of town mid then attacked
T. Chief Deputy Newton described
ie victim as a frail woman and in-
Ipable of much
’After the attack, the woman told
ficers. Vernon permitted her to get
it of the ear and she caught a street
r back to tow n. Her husband was
it of town aud Ims uot yet returned.
The woman and her huabarc. occupy
lhouse belonging to Deputy Mynier
|,d take care of his child. The woman
ported the attack to the deputy and
• nt once reported it to the sheriff's
ifice.
Vernon Is Beaten by Officer.
Search for Vernon at an addrqss
which he formerly lived, officers
id, revealed the fact that he had
(Oved during the night, telling bis
Widlady that he wns moving to an
■artment house on Cincinnati nve
ic. He could not be located there.
• wever, but officers later discovered
had moved*to a house on Warren
reet. It was at thia place that the
, o deputies found the man late Tues
ly. In making the arrest Vernon
is badly battered up when, it is
limed, he resisted Deputy Mynier.
The woman. Chief Deputy Newton
id, was in a hysteric I ondition
len she appeared at the sheriff's <>f
•e Wednesday. It was with diffi-
Ity that she related the story of the
lack. She is said to have borne marks
her throat which sbe sustained dur
t the attack upon ber.
This is the second crime of this nn
re to occur in San Antonio during
e last few weeks, though it is the
■st to be staged in br ad daylight,
ily n few weeks ago a white woman
is abducted near Alamo p.aza and
ken north of the city, where she was
tacked. The man charged with the
"ense was later adjudged criminally
bane.
iASTROP JURY PANEL
.rehouse Parish Citizens Will In
estimate Hooded Band Operations.
Bastrop. La.. Feb. 14.—Twenty
iizens of Morehouse parish, from
ong whom will be selected the
ind jury which will be asked to in
itigate the operations of hooded
Ends in the a parish were namedTnes
y by the parish jury commission
1 the dav the jury is organized Dis
ct Judge Fred M. Odom will select
•m the panel one to be foreman and
cn names of the other eleven mem
gs tvifl be drawn. _ _
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
TIP OF COLD WAVE
WILL REACH HERE
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Strongest “High” of Win
ter Holds Country in
Its Grip.
One of the strongest and most far
reaching "highs” in several years
overspread the weather map Wednes
day morning and with the northern
part of the United States already in
its grip, is expected to reach southern
Texas Wednesday nigbt. Minimum
temperatures far Thursday morning
will be 34 to 40. according to fore
cast. Fresh northerly winds will blow
and it will be cloudy.
The North, East and bioutbeast is tn
for the severest cold of the winter, ac
cording to J. H. Jarboe, meteorologist,
who says that freezing temperatures
are more than likely to come well into
Florida.
Cloudy weather and a "low” bang
in- over Lower California has de
laved the southward progress of the
"high” to a certain extent. It will
come down Thursday and, although
no forecast has been made for Thurs
day and Thursday night, it appears
that it will be colder than Wednesday
night.
The center of the "high is still in
Canada. The zero line had pushed
well down into the United States,
however, entering in the east over the
Great Lakes region, running south
west through Chicago, lowa, extending
into northern Kansas, through Colo
rado and then swinging northward to
the Canadian border through Wyom
ing. This zero line by Thursday
morning is expected to extend far east
ward, and southward as far as the
I’unhundlc.
Extreme cold weather wns reported
within the zero line, with strong
winds, in some sections reaching a
veloctiyi of 80 miles an hour. The
freezing line had extended as far
south ns Memphis. Wednesday morn
ing and by Tbun-lay morning, when
the "high” swings eastward, the en
tire southern part of the United States
will be cold. A "low” which moved
out of the Gulf of Mexico during the
last void 'wave, ten days ago. saved
the east Gulf states and Florida from
low tcmperataies. but the weather
map shows no promise of saving them
from tbe present "high.” .
The area of high barometer Is. nt
its center, the highest that has ap
peared in the United States for sev
eral years, the pressure being up to
31.1. Nothing, like this has been
known ia a long time.
In St. Paul and vicinity they were
having a real blizzard, the mercury
being down to 12 below zero with a
gale of 44 miles an hour sweeping
amiss the country. Conditions all
over the upper lake region must be
very severe and they will continue un
til Thursday or later.
Although it is too early to make
f recasts as to possible relief from
tbe cold it would seem that the tem
perature, in this part of the country,
should begin to moderate by Friday.
This is a wild guess however and too
much reliance should not be placed
upon it. _
VESSEL RUNS AGROUND
Tug leaves Key West to Aid Ship-
ping Board Boat.
Key West. Fla.. Feb. 14.—Tbe
Shipping Board steamship Carolinas,
is ashore*three miles off Jupiter light
house, according to a wireless message
received here today from tbe vessel
asking for assistance. The wrecking
tug Relief left here nt 10 o'clock
to go to the vessel's aid. (
THE WEATHER
TEMPER ATI RES.
FKB. 11— ..
• P. m TS - «•
3 p. ni I» 3 «■ “
4 p. « « •- ?•
5 p. m.•••••••"• 5 a. ni & 3
« P. m 71 • "• ”
7 p. m 70 • *• m
8 p. in 67 S a. m 49
9 p. m 6* 9 a. m 51
10 p. m 63 10 n. m M
11 p. m 6° II •• m... .....*>
12 midnight... .57 12 noon
TEE. 13— I P- «n s*.
1 a. m 55 2 p. m 5«
• f
WEATHER.
Son Antonio and vicinity: Wednesday
night and Thursday, cloudy: much colder
Wednesday night: minimum temperature.
34 to 40: fresh northerly winds.
East Texas: Wednesday night, cloudy:
much colder with cold wave in north por
d€n with temperature, 12 to 24; Thurs
day. cloudy, colder in southeast portion.
West Texas: Wednesday night, cloudy
and colder: cold wave In north portion
with temperature. 10 to 23 degrees ex
cept zero to 10 in the Panhandle; Thurs
day. cloudy and colder in south portion.
HOME WEATHER FOR TO VRI STS.
St. Louis: Temperature. II: clear; 14-
mile wind from the northwest; lowest
temperature in last 24 hours, IS; highest,
54.
Chicago: Temperature. 2; clear; 28-
tnlie wind from ths west; lowest temper
ature in last 24 hours, zero; highest,
38.
Kansas City: Temperature, 10; clear;
16-mile wind from the northwest; low
est temperature in last 24 hours. It;
highest. 40.
New York: Temperature. 33; cloudy;
6-mile wind from the south; lowest tem
perature in last 24 hours. 30; highest.
Washington: Temperature, 40; clear;
12-mile wind from the northwest: low-
est temperature In last 2 4 hours, 38;
highest, 5L
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1923-TWENTY PAGES.
FLIES 15 HURT
■NWIB
IS DEMOLISHED
Lieut. Howard G. David
son Sustains Broken
Jaw.
FINNED IN WRECKAGE
Ship Falls Near Highland
Park at 11:15 Wed
nesday Morning.
Lieut. Howard I). Pavidson. stu-। , ■ , . ■
dent flier nt Brooks Field, narrowly' -— — a wrwa
escaped death Wednesday morning • KAISER’S BIG PORTRAIT
when the ship he was flying crashed, . _ — _ _.
at 11:15 in a mesquite pasture west । SEES STRANGE SCENES ON
of the Goliad road, about a quarter |
of a mile south pf the city limits. Sev-< v I/“’UTT CCC KIT/" 1 1 IT IM CQQITM
eral residents of that section wit- | LlvJll 1 » lllXjrl 1 ill 1
the accident.
The ship buried its nose iu the
ground and the wings were smashed in
the crash. The aviator was helped
from the wreckage by iiersons who
rushed to the scene of the accident.
Lukily the ship did not catch fire.
The flier was taken to the station
hospital at Fort Sam Houston where
it was found that he had a fractured
jaw and arm and minor bruises. It is
nit believed that he has any serious
injuries
Came Out of First Dive.
The cause of the crash is not
known. The ship was flying high in
the air when it started down as if
seeking a landing place. O. S. White,
living on Hnllidny avenue, said that
the pilot pulled the ship out of a dive
at about 400 feet from the ground
but that it appeared to go into an
other.
F. Ji. Reck. 338’ Goliath ruad. first
t»> reneh flic scene of the wreck, res
cued the helpless aviator, unable to
extricate himself from the wredc
age. The plane crashed head-on to
the ground, smashing the front por
tion and shattering the planes of the
machine.
The flier was endeavoring to free
himself from his scat in which he was
trapped by broken parts when aid
reached him. He was bleeding from
lacerations altout the face and body
and had but partially recovered from
the fall, which he said had rendered
hitn in a semi-conscious condition.
With the aid of others. Mr. Beck
carried the aviator to the Goliad rond.
where he wns placed in an automobile
and rushed to the hospital.
Wind Broke Fall.
Many residents witnessed the fnll
of the plane, which they describe! ns
out of control. Starting at a height
of two or three thousand feet, the air
plane is said to have described a zig
zag course, forming giant circles until
it struck the ground.
"It wns evident from the moment I
noticed it that the machine wns out
of control,” said Mrs. Arthur Ward.
S2G Steres street, who sent in the first
alarm to central police hendouarters
of the accident. “It seemed to he
flouting through space fro-n r great
height, except that it’ rourse wa< zig
zagged and continued to form circles,
which grew smaller and smaller until
it dived nose-first to the grtund. The
plane was far to the cast of too spot
where it fell. It seemed to me the
• rong wind prevented it from making
a descent strairb' to <hc gronnd.”
others residing in the vicinity and
*.v1.0 ran to th- seen? of the wreck
utnde similar statements.
The spot where flic machine fell
w is in a mesquite pasture, npproxi
ma’cly 500 feet t*: the west of the
Goliad road, n quarter of a mile south
of the city limits
STILL STILL WARM
Raid Follows Complaint From a
Neighbohr.
Fear that a still operating in a barn
fifteen miles out on the Castroville
road would be the origin of a possible
conflagration, resulted in information
being turned in to the sheriff's office
by a neighbor. Upon information ob
tained from this source. Deputy Sher
iff Diaz, accompanied by Prohibition
Agents Miller and Ray, raided the
barn. Tuesday afternoon, and discov
ered a twelve-gallon still. four barrels
of mash and several gallons of whis
key.
According to the statement made by
the officers, the still was in a barn
and was surrounded by hay. The still
was warm when the officers appeared,
they allege.
John C. McKinney and W. M-
Hearn was arraigned before United
States Commissioner R. L. Edwards
on the charge of manufacture and
possession of liquor. Preliminary ex
aminations were waived, and bonds
were fixed at $5OO ench.
Arraigned upon the charge of pur
chase, possession and sale of mor
phine, Mary Spells and Elizabeth
Kelly, demanded a hearing Tuesday
afternoon. After the bearing they
were held over for action by the fed
eral grand jury under bonds of $lOOO
each.
Bishop Address 2500. ■
Mercedes. Tex., Feb. 14.—Twenty
five hundred people heard Bishop J.
E. Dickey of the Methodist Episcopal
church. South, at Harlingen Sunday
afternoon. He delivered an inspiring
sermon at the large tent tabernacle,
where Rev. R. L. Flowers, evangelist,
is conducting a revival.
Guarding Wealth of Tomb
Day and night. Egyptian troops guard the wealth in the tomb of h
Tutankhamen. Already, objects valued at more than 540.000.000 have I
removed from this 3000-year-old resting place of the once mighty potem
of the Nile.
Even Bellhops Join in German Boycott Against In
vading Frenchmen, Who Are Forced to Com
mandeer Reataurants and Prepare Their
Own Meals.
Bi 4. K DECKER.
Special Cubic to The Han Antonio Light
and tho Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 19tJ.
tssen. Feb. 14.—Kaiser Wilhelm's
life size portrait in the Hotel Kaiser
hot here has looked down upon mauj
strange scenes, from coal barens sup
pers tv tin- communist meetings when
the Bpartarists brid lesson tor a brief
period, but the* portftit never before
saw htruugei ciguts tha«klt witnessed
lost night undid- the French occupa
tion. the hotel was in almost com
plete darkness because the boycott
against the French includes light. The
electric light cable had been cut some
where and the French engineers and
also the neutral guests in the hotel
were forced to wander about with
candles and to attend their wants
as best they could.
The flickering light of ihe candles
threw strangely shaped shadows on
the walls. There, were officers in
uniform and soldiers with fixed bayo
nets guarding other soldiers peeling
potatoes for the next meal. Newspaper
conferences were held in the darkness
and news reported were intermingled
with orders trom the French steward
to the soldier cooks.
Kaiser's Picture Untouched.
Rut the kaiser never changes bis
expression. He is safe for the French
have given strict orders that the por
trait is not to be touched. The French
have ordered the city authorities to
turn on the electric current under
penalty of shutting off the power
from the entire oily. Possibly as in
the rase of Oberhausen the mayor
will be arrested. General Fournier
has issuer) an order to close all shops
refusing to sell to the French nnd nu
thorizjng the nsc of force. The sup
plies in the hotels and restaurants
have been requisitioned t« permit the
French to organize their own messes
In Beckllnghaiisen the boycott lias
been settled by the French agreeing
not to purchase food or other neccs
cities except in small quantities. The
shops there are reopening.
The boycott in Essen began in earn
est jesterday morning when the res
taurant* refused to serve tbe French
In one hotel the French took over the
entire plant. orgariized the kitchen
nnd closed the restaurant to Germans.
In the Hotel Kniserbof. the French
headquarters, the entire personnel
walked out carrying away their be
longings and also the silverware and
linen. Even the barber packed up
bis tools and left the hotel. At noon
many who came to the restaurant
went away hungry for the waiters
had deserted early in the day. Final
ly even the bell boys shook hands with
the manager nnd left.
Soldiers Cook Meals
The hotel being left entirely in the
hands of tbe French they quickly
improvised a kitchen. Soldiers brought
two taxicabs full of army bread nnd
a van brought meat and tinned
goods. Soldiers were detailed to pre
pare tbe meals.
Trouble began Sunday night, when
Germans molested French soldiers in
the enfes and restaurants. There were
several rows and finally French sol
diers patrolled the streets and scat
tered the crowds. A number of per
sons were prodded with bayonets, but
no one was seriously hurt. At one
time two mounted German policemen
led a detachment of French infantry
along the principal street. Shots were
fired but no one was hit. Last night
armored cars with machine guns wore
guarding the station square nnd the
‘Talk Title Talk’
Hundreds of
Dollars
To be awarded to
best “Talkers”
For particulars tarn to page 2.
number of sentinels has been doubled.
The Fren II have started requisi
tioning automobiles, quotas being de
manded according to the size of the
districts. Thus 30 watt demanded ik
Dortmund and 72 in Esscg. The
French close the roads until tbe deliv
erie arc made or enough machines
are telked. U yM thill inoke thul led
to v Neukirchen,
where one Girnae p«r»-. i»on wns
•killed and two French gendarmes se
riously wounded. The gendarmes hud
requisitioned an-automobile nnd were
hurrying through the city without tail
lights on the machine when the po
liceman whistled for them to stop.
The gendarmes climbed out of the
car. nn altercation ensued and tbe
shooting followed.
Fine City 100,000.000 Mark*.
In consequence of this battle, the
city of Gelsenkirchen, which has n
population of more than J 50.000 was
find 100.000.000 paper marks. Tbe
punitive expedition ngainat the town,
marching in with tanks, machine
guns, mine throwers, artillery and
cavalry. Two thousand soldiers oc
cupied the public buildings including
the police barracks. Guards were sta
tioned at tbe street crossings and traf
fic wns suspended. There wns some
shooting when the French entered the
police barracks nnd ordered the men
there to throw theig bands up. About
forty of thgm,, w rn> disarmed and led
a wav between jtnftds The mayor,
chief of police. upA/the manager of
tbe Rep hsbaljk were arrested. Hav
ing completed their a the French
evacuated the chy'a • 1 returned to
their own quartets.
STATE SENATOR IS
SUMMONED BY JURY
IN TRAVIS COUNTY
Other Members of the Leg
islature Called to
Appear.
Austin. Tex., Feb. 14.—Senator W.
E. Watts of .Cleburne stated today
that he has been presented with two
summons to appear before the Tmvla
county grand jury in connection with
certain investigations being carried on
by the jury.
Several other members of the leg
islature have appeared and others have
been sumomned to appear before the
jury, it is understod.
Watts denied reports that he Ims
refused to go before the jury. He
stated that both summons were pre
sented during a session of tbe Senate
and that be stated he could not leave
the Senate. He also said he was
threatened with an attachment. Watts
said he knew nothing of tbe investi
gation being conducted by the jury.
MABEL WEARS RING
"Don't Be Silly; I'm Not Married,"
Actress Tells Reporters.
New York. Feb. 14. — Mabel Nor
mand. movie star, denied today that
she was married but declined to ex
plain her diamond studded wedding
ring.
She arrived last night on the steam
ship Baltic after several months
n Broad. There was gossip among tbe
!>«ssengers that she had been mar
ried last December in London, but
when newspaper men asked her about
it. she said:
“No. boys, I’m not married. Don't
be silly."
But in an unguarded moment, ebe
drew a glove from her left band and
disclosed tbe ring. She smiled when
she was naked about it and repeated
her denial. ... 1
BRITISH MW
REMOVE ■
FROM RHINE
Not Possible to Remain
There Long, Bonar
Law Declares.
TALKS TO PARLIAMENT
Does Not See How French
Are Going to Get What
They Want.
By the Associated Press.
London. Feb. 14. —Although tbe ad
dresses of Premier Bonar Law and
Foreign Secretary Curzon at the
opening of Parliament added little
to whnt was generally known concern
ing Great Britain's policy in the
Ruhr question, the British public
today that both statesmen have
their doubts as to the success of
France's venture.
Mr. Bonar Law said that he did
not see “how the French are going
to get what they want."
Irnrd Curzou expressed much the
same opinion, pointing out that
France and Germany are engaged
in what might be termed an endur
ance test.
In the address of each there was
voiced the feeling that the position
of the British troops on tbe Rhine
was at beet uncertain.
“I fear,” the premier said, “that
the result of occupying the Ruhr and
the left bank of the Rhine has been
to intensify the feeling of the Ger
man nation and that danger will come
Igter. We •till have our troops on
the Rhine. I do hot know whether
it will be possible for them to remain
there Jong."
SEIZE RUHR MOTOR CARS.
Telephone Girls Walk Out When
French Operalor Brought In.
Gelsenkirchen. Feb. 14. —It is re
ported in French circles that severe
penalties are to be imposed in con
sequence of acts of sabotage which
have caused an interference in tbe
telegraph and telephone communica
tion with Paris.
Similar penalties, it is said, will
be effected at Bochum because the
fused to permit the French to requisi
fused to permit the French to rquisi
tion motor cars. A threat to murder
tbe chauffeurs if the automobiles arc
taken over has come to the attention
of the occupation officers.
So far 140 rars have been appro
priated. The French are paying the
drivers 33 francs a day.
Dusseldorf has been considerably
inconvenienced by the patriotism of
German telephone girls who walked
out rather than work with a French
operator whom the officers brought
to the exchange. Service was imme
diafely stopped.
The expulsion of German function
aries for refusing to carry out the
orders of tbe French has extended to
Vohwinkel. The burgomaster and the
chief of police have been forced to
leave town.
BOGGED IN THE MUD
Martin Bomber Held Prisoner in Il
linois Field Until kYeeze Comes.
Ending a flight of 21 days crowded
with troubles, the worst of which
was being bogged in an Illinois mud
hole, the hig Martin gomber which
left New York January 23, arrived at
Kelly Field Tuesday afternoon. Lieut.
Delmar 11. Dunton. Capt. A. R. Me-
Daniel, both of Kelly Field and Lieut.
F. M. McKee of Scott Field, were in
th* ship.
The ship encountered rain, snow,
sleet, fog, cloudy weather, cold and
mud. Tbe ship left Chanute Field
near Rantoul, Illinois, and started
westward when it ran into a fog
and was forced down near Shattuc,
The wheels sunk into the noft mud of
a field. All efforts to free it failed
until a freeze came and tbe ship ran
over the hard ground and took the
air.
Four other Martin bombers are in
the East for delivery to Kelly Field,
tut it is thought that they will not
be brought until spring.
ANOTHER CHURCH FIRE
Fourteenth Canadian Catholic Insti
tution to Be Destroyed.
Montreal. Feb. 14—Trinity Church,
the oldest Angelicau Church in Cam
ada which recently passed into the
hands of Syrian Catholics, was de
stroyed by fire early today.
Tbe cause of tbe blaze has not been
determined. The church was the four
teenth Catholic institution in Canada
to be destroyed by flames within the
last year.
WANT BLUE LAWS
Arir.nsas May Stop Sunday Golf.
Tennis and Fishing.
little Rock. Ark.. Feb. 14—The
Arkansas Senate had before it as a
special order today, a House meas
ure making It unlawful for “any
club, person or persons to fish or en
gage in anv game of baseball, golf,
tennis or any other like game on the
Christian Sabbath or Sunday."
TWO CENTS
INTENSE SUFFERING TOLD
IN REPORTS OF SEVEREST
BLIZZARD OF THE SEASON
Armour Plant at Omaha Bums While
Firemen Handicapped by Strong
Wind and Zero Weather — Dozen
Engines Plow Up Mountain Inclines
to Rescue 40 Passengers Marooned
Under Snowdrift — Another Train
Frozen to the Rails.
Sweeping southward, with a 50-mile wind piling snow
up in the gulleys and sending temperatures down to zero
and below zero in many localities, the coldest wave of the
season—some say in many years—holds the northern cen
tral and northwestern states in an icy grip.
Reports of hardships and death are carried in Asso
ciated Press dispatches coming to the offices of The Light
Wednesday.
Transportation is tied up; trains are marooned and
buried under snowdrifts in mountain gulches while long
caravans of engines plow their way through deep snow to
the rescue.
Every city in the North has its potential fire menace.
Fanned by the wind, the flames are uncontrollable.
The largest blaze was reported by Omaha, Neb., where
the nine-story packing plant of Armour Co., was a mass
of flames Wednesday morning. Two other buildings have
been attacked and there seemed little hope of holding the
damage as low as $500,000, the estimated loss when the
last report reached here. Twenty companies of firemen bat
tling against the blaze are handicapped by a high wind
and sub-zero weather. One thousand employes will be
thrown out of work temporarily.
TURKISH GUNS SINK
FRENCH WARSHIP AT
SMYRNA,SAYS RUMOR
Paris Hears That Moslems
Fire From Shore
Fortifications.
Paris, Feb. 14.—A French warship
was sunk in tbe barber ot Smyrna
today by fire from Turkish fortifica
tions on the shore, according to an un
confirmed rumor reaching Paria to
day.
TO EXACT PENALTY
Will Pay for Crime Another Negro
Admits in Alleged Confession.
Austin, Tex.. Feb. 14.—Tbe life
sentence a-ainst Bennie Y'oung by
the McLellan county district court
was afifrmed by the Court of Crim
inal Appeals today. Young was con
victed of murder in connection with
the killing of Homer Turk, 13-year
old hoy. on February 11,1922. The
court also overruled motion for re
hearing in the case of Cooper John
son. sentenced to death for the murder
of Louis Barker of McLennan county.
Roy Mitchell, accused of five Waco
murders, has stated in his alleged con
fession that he was the slayer of the
Turk boy. Attorneys for Young
claim that the alleged admission ex
onerates their client.
FIFTH FIRE FATAL
Victim Fell Into Flames Five Times
During Life.
Brownsville, Tex., Feb. 14.—Trini
dad Serguro died today from burns
sustained when be fell into a fire
during an attack of illness. It was the
fifth time he bad fallen into fires.
Several years ago he had a bend
burned off and on another occasion
lost part of a foot
RESULTS IN PROTEST
General Cronkhite's Discharge May
Lead to Investigation.
Washington. D. t - Feb. 14. — A
recent War Department order retir
ing from active service Major Gen
eral Adelbert Cronkhite. who com
manded the Eightieth Dinsion in
France, has resulted in a protest from
die general and his friends, which in
the opinion of some members of Con
gress. may lead to a publie investi
gation.
(Yusbed by Coat
Breton. 111.. Feb. 14.—A W. Mil
ler was killed nnd five others were
injured, when coal fell on theuii m the
colliery of the Franklyn County Coal
kowpany here today.
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A message from Canada say» that
one of the worst blizzards in tbe his
tory of Saskatchewan indirectly coat
the lives of an elderly woman and a
little boy in an uncontrollable fire.
Two business blocks at Wilcox were
destroyed and the railway station at
Colgate is a mass of ruins. At Lang
bank, the message says, a passenger
train ran into the rear of a stalled
snowplow. Fire men were injured.
California reports say that a vio
lent snowstorm in the high Sierras
damaged the towns of Independence.
Keeler, Lone Pine and Cartago. Cot
tages were damaged and wires torn
down.
While attempting to thaw frozen
water pipes, a resident of Seattle in
haled the smoke of a torch. It cost his
life.
Battling against the snnw piled
deep in the gulches on the Continental
Divide in Colorado, twelve locomo
tives. carrying snowplows, are fight
ing their way up the mountain slopes
to the rescue of a train carrying 40
passengers, marooned under a pile of
snow. Onlj- the top of the smoke
stack can be seen over the top of the
snowdrift, tbe train crew reports.
Live stock in open-sided cattle cars
perished Tuesday night.
Practically all transportation is tied
up or delayed around St. Paul and
Minneapolis.
Shippers are warned fo expect 10
to 30 degrees below zero in the North
Wednesday night. Forecasts say that
nil sections of the United States will
feel colder weather.
Train Is Released
Denver. Colo., Feb. 14.—A Denver
A Rio Grande Western pasrenxer
train which was snowbound on Mar
shall Pass, near the top of the Con
tinental Divide, was released lint
night as the result of the efforts of
twelve locomotives which were rent
from Salida. The train continued it’
journey 24 hours late.
Index to Advertisers
Index to principal advertising in to
day's Light, for guidance of shopper*
Advertiser— Faxe-
Alamo Foods Co.
American Sugar Refining Co. ... IJ
Banks. Insurance, Investments ...
Blum Co. Emil
Boston Shoe Store
Classified and Real Estate IS ”
Crockett Automobile Co. (Hudson)
Doyle Decorating Co -•
Fomby Clothing Co. 4" A* > •
Fox Co
Frank Bros j Y- -
Friederick. Ed •' -J
Goggan A Bros.. Those . ♦
Guarantee Shoe Co. .•• • *>
Hass Bros. (Mexican L .revere*
Cigars)
Jamison Auto Supplies -•
oJske Bros. Co. t-IJ
Ka rot kin Furniture Co
K. a M. Shoe Store 3
King's Food Products Co. T <
King Furniture
La Mode Millinery J
Newton * Weller Co. l>
| Poetum Cereal Ck (Postum) J
Quaker Oats Co
Railroad and Steamship Lines... - »
Rees- Optical Cs . H. C >3
Richter's Bakery U
R. A. Public Service •
S. A. Retail Credit Men'a Aaa*» .. 3®
I Sole Serve
Stein A Co. A. (Hickory Garten) •
Victor Talking Mackhie Co -
WUitams. John /1
I Wolff A Marx C«. . <•’