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VOL. XLIII—NO. 29.
CAPITAL BOOTLEGGERS ROUNDED UP
Road Trap Fails and Murder Feared in Case of Missing Officer
ANDREWS WINS
VITAL POINT
- IN HIS TRIAL
Court Martial Cannot Hear
Evidence Submitted in
Federal Court.
CASE TO CONTINUE
Prosecution Fears All Tes
timony May Be Barred
as Result of Ruling.
Virtual acquittal on oue count for
first Lieut. Leland S. Andrews, lie
service, being tried at Fort Sam Mouf
lon before a court-martial for con
duct unbecoming an officii and a gen-.
Hernan, was won by bis defense dur
ing Friday afternoon’s hearing, when
First Lieut. Park Holland, air ser
vice, special counsel for tie defense,
jfter vigorous efforts, obtained from
|he court a ruling to the effect that
the accused lias once been arraigned,
Convicted nnd pubisl.ed for violation
pf the national prohibition net, and
evidence submitted in that trial
pannot be admitted in the present oue.
•fbe ruling was made following a spe
cial plea by Lieutenant Holland that
Jbe defendant, if this evidence were
to be admitted, would twice be placed
|n jeopardy for the same offense.
CoL Beaumont B. Bunk, president
jnd law member of tbe court, first
.ruled in favor of tbe prosecution, but
mi objection was voiced by Col. Pierce
A. * Murphy. The court then went
Into closed session, and lifter approx
imately 30 minutes of discussion epen
<td it.s doors and aufivuoMT the final
f Action in favor of the defense. Th.
puling was with reference to speci
fication one of charge one, which sets
forth the violation of the national pro
hibition act by tbe "’efendant.
Order Trial io Proceed.
Capt. Humphrey Biddle, trial judge
advocate, following the court’: deci
♦ion on the jeopardy plea, asked that
|he trial be stopped and the er.se sub
piitted to tlie'reviewlng authority. Maj.
Gen. E. M. Lewis, comander of tbe
Eighth Corps Area, for a ruling, but
Ihe ffiurt again ruled in favor of the
defense and ordered the trial to pro-
feed without being placed before the
.commanding general of the corps area.
Captain Biddle argued it was un-
Pccehsary to proceed with the trial
pntil General Lewis had either ap
proved or reversed the decision of
jhe court on specification one of
rbargc one, as that charge, he said.
Is the basis for all the other charges.
May Bar All Testimony.
“I doubt very seriously,” the trial
judge advocate said.- “if any testi
( tnony can be introduced to sustain
| the other charges against the defend
-1 nnt if the testimony supporting the
J violation of tbe national prohibition
j'ner is not admitted, and I do not
j gee any necessity in proceeding with
I tbe trial until the reviewing author
j ity either approves cr reverses tbe
puling of tbe court."
J Lieutenant Holland, in reply, said
jlhat the defense bad no assurance
1 that no testimony could be introduced
’to support tbe other charges, and
asked that the trial be continued
■ without interruption. The court
. filled in his favor.
On November 14, Lieutenant An
.ilrews "leaded guilty to violation of
the prohibition act in the United
States district court at Laredo, and
paid a fine of $5OO. Tbe charges
against him in tbe present trial are
'Minder the ninety-fifth and ninety
ijStli articles of war. charging that
illegally possessed and transported
jliquor, conspired with one Earl F.
'Evans to banl liquor, made a false
'Official statement with intent to de-
“treive his superior officer, and used
government airplane for bis private
'"use.
hf Many Cases Are Cited.
en| Lengthy arguments were engaged in
M*y counsel for defense and prosecution
” tbefore tbe court ruled on the jeopardy
at |dea. Lieutenant Holland, for the
te lefense. clung to his contention that
ur if tbe evidence submitted at the La
me redo trial is admitted at the pres
:t« ?nt trial in support of specification
ah »ne of charge one. that the defendant
ifti would twice be placed in jeopardy for
Vt tbe same offense. He cited case after
■n’ ase in support of his contention
। t, Stress was laid on the ruling in Win
Fthrop's Military Law which provides
nthat where tbe same evidence is neces-
Thary to* prove separate charges, al
:i hough they may be described dif
y erently. the charges constitute the
?ame crime and one cannot twice be
>n l ried for it in either civil or military
murts. He also cited tbe decision of
Ine United States Supreme Court in
S. vs. Grafton. Tbe case was just
। . Jhe reverse of the Andrews case, an
I tifficer first being tried by a military
j ( ]p t *ourt and later bv a United States
Hssf'vil court. The Supreme Court de
n..|Hsion in this case was handed down
1907 hi favor of the deefndant.
. 1 Claims Conduct Is the Issue.
„ J Both Captain Biddle. an,d Lieut
Kil Gsss. assistant tntu jnoge advo
< * argued against the contention
■•Hf the defense counsel. Captain Bid-
ni (Continued on next page)
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
RAIN IS OVER AND
PARTLY CLOUDY IS
SUNDAY FORECAST
Warmer Weather Is Dae
and It May Be Clear
Next Week.
The. rain is over for tbe time be
ing, although Saturday night and Sun
day will be partly cloudy, according
to the foreast of Observer J. H. Jar
boe Saturday morning. Saturday
night will be somewhat warmer, the
minimum temperature before day
break Sunday to be not lower than
40 to 44 degrees. Northerly to easter
ly winds will prevail.
The huge area of high pressure over
spreading virtually the whole United
States was losing its strength some
what Saturday but was still power
ful enough in its eastward progress
to cause the forecast of a cold snap
to the tip of Florida during the night,
with temperatures through tbe East
and Middle West remaining extreme
ly low. Snow is expected in the Up
per Ohio Valley, the lower lake region
and on the Atlantic seaboard as far
south as Virginia. In the confines
of the “high,” which just tips Texas,
fair weather is generally forecasted
at other points east of the Mississippi.
The outlook next week in the Gulf
states, which include Texas, is for
generally fair and cold weather in the
early part, with unsettled and warm
er. and probably rain again, in tbe
latter portion.
San Antonio had a total of 2.04
inches of rain in tbe steady drizzle
since 2:20 Wednesday afternoon. Ac
cording So a dispatch from Browns
ville. tbe rainfall in the lower Rio
Grande Valley in the last 48 hours
brought the February total for
Brownsville to five inches, San Benito
to six and Harlingen to seven. Hidalgo
and Willacy counties reported five to
seven inches in all. This surpasses
all previous February records, it is
said.
Tbe entire country, except some
points in Florida. the Seattle. Wash
ington. neighborhood and Centra! and
South Texas, was clenr Saturday
morning A low to the Southwest
kept TtxaT cloudy.
From' San Angelo, in West Texas,
comes word that telephone and elec
tric light wires Snapped early Friday
night under tbe weight of ice formed
in a second day of general rains but
that rising temperatures relieved fears
of stack losses. The moisture, it i«
said, insures fine Spring crop and
range conditions.
San Antonio's lowest temperature
in the last 24 hours was 38 degrees
at midnight. The coldest in the United
States was 12 below at Williston. N
D. New York had 14. Washington IS
nnd it was freezing all along the At
lantic Coast early Saturday, with a
killing frost at Jacksonville. Fla., and
24 to 26 degrees across Georgia. Snow
and a temperature of ten degrees
made life miserable in Chicago.
NEVADA “WET” AGAIN
State's Prohibition Law Repealed
Over Governor’s Veto.
Kcno, Nev., Feb. 17.—Nevada was
back into the “wet” column today,
the Legislature having repealed over
the governor's veto yesterday the ex
isting prohibition laws. Tbe Legisla
ture passed the Whiteley prohibition
law adopting the Volstead law as the
law of Nevada, but until tbe gover
nor signs it. no state law will pro
hibit tbe liquor traffic.
THE WEATHER
TBMFERATVRES.
TEB. 16.
2 p. ni 41 2 a. m 29
3 p. in 42 3 a. m 38
4 p. m 43 4 m. m 39
5 p. m 42 5 a. m 39
6 p. m 42 6 a. m... 39
7 p. ni 42 7 a. m 39
8 p. m 42 8 a. m 40
9 p. m 12 9 a. m 40
10 p. in 42 10 a. m.. 41
11 p. m 42 11 a. m 43
12 midnight.... 41 IS n00n........ 15
FEB. 17. Ipm 47
1 a. ni 40 2 p. m 49
FORECAST.
San Antonin mid v trinity: Saturday
night and Sunday, partly cloudy; nome
what warmer Saturday night; minimum
temperature. 40 to 44; light northerly
to easterly wind*.
Texaa: Saturday night fair In
north portion: partly oloudy In south
portion*, probably freeling on east <oast
if clear; Sunday, partly cloudy and
somewhat warmer.
W?*t Texan: Partly cloudy: some
what warmer in southeast portion Sun
day.
BOMB WEATHER FOR TOI RISTS.
St. Too in: Temperature. 20; dear: 22-
mile wind from the northwest; lowest
temperature in last 24 hour?, 20; High
est. 30.
Chicago: Temperature. 10; snowin;
aixteen-mlle wind from the northwest:
lowest temperature in last 24 hours, 8;
highest. 11.
Kansas City: Temperature. 16; clear;
eighteen-mile wind from the northwest:
lowest temperature in last 24 hours, 16;
highest, 30.
New York: Temperature, 14; partly
cloudy; ten-mile wind from the west;
lowest temperature in last 24 hours, 12;
highest, 26.
Washington: Temperature, 18; cloudy;
ten-mile wind from t»ae southwest; low
est temperature in last 34 hour* 11;
highest, SI.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1923. —TEN PAGES
USED MILS
TO DEFRAUD,
JURY FINDS
“The Wolf of LaSalle
Street” May Go to
Prison Again.
ONCE IN SING SING
Indictment 9 Years Old;
Ingenuity Balked Law
for Years.
Chicago, Feb. 17 John W. Worth
ington. former private banker whose
financial flights have several times
been under scurtiny of state and fed
eral authorities, today was found
guilty by a jury in federal court of
using the mails in a scheme to de
fraud.
Worthington, some times called the
“wolf of LaSalle street," formerly
operated the American Banking As
sociation. a private bank which went
into bankruptcy. He hns operated
investment and brokerage offices here
and elsewhere and in connection with
securities sought by police and pri
vate detectives, has several times been
tbe object of raids and charges.
Another case involving the posses
sion of stolen property, $4OOO in
bonds alleged to have been stolen
from the Union Pacific railroad at
Omaha. i« pending against him in the
municipal court.
Found Guilty on Two Counts.
Worthington was found guilty on
two counts. Under the verdict he is
liable to a maximum sentence of ten
years in prison and to pay a fine of
$211,000 or both. His eMnMi has
entered motion for a new trial. Until
that is disposed of formal sentence
will not be pronounced.
The conviction is the first either
state or federal authorities have
obtained against Worthington here in
the more than a dozen years of
his financial operations in Chicago,
which have been interspersed with
banking and investment ventures in
other cities.
Served In Sing Sing.
Worthington, now 68, served a term
in Sing Sing prison 30 years ago for
fraudulent operations in New York
but, since then, has successfully evad
ed nil efforts to send him to prison.
His ingenuity and almost never
failing resources aroused a guarded
admiration of the num's ability among
financiers and prosecutors. While
his methods have been under fire
numerous times and he and his wife
were many times forced to exert
unusual efforts, he never has failed
to provide bonds and usually was
ready for oiierations the next day.
it is said. •
Several hearings in tbe state and
municipal courts ended in acquittal
or dismissal for Worthington. To
day’s verdict failed to shake his com
posure.
The indictment jmder which he was
found guilty today was returned by
a federal grand jiing nine years ago.
YOUTH KILLS FATHER
Drunlien Parent Was Attacking
Mother With Knife. He Says.
„ Center, Ala., Feb. 17.—Bert Lolen.
30. was shot and killed by his 14-
year-old son. Heron, at his borne a
few miles from here Friday after
noon. acerding to local officials. The
son. who, was lodged iu jail here is
quoted as saying he acted in protec
tion of his mother and himself.
The youth declared that bis father
came home drinking and attacked his
mother with a knife. When he eamt
to her assistance, be states, bis father
turned on him and chased him through
the house with a drawn knife. It was
then, he said, that he seized a pistol
and shot.
Nolen died almost instantly. He
was tbe father of eight children and
had been a farmer in this section for
a number of years.
BACK IN DEATH MINE
Workers Resume Labor After Prom
ises That Orientals Will Be Replaced.
Cumberland. B C.. Felt. 17.—Thir
ty-three miners killed in a fire damp
blast that occurred February 8 in mine
No. 4 of t z Canadian collieries
(Dunsmuir) limited, near here, m c t
death "as a result of the explosion
of gases, the cause being unknown,"
according to tha coroner's jury. Em
ployes of the company reversed their
decision not to resume work in the
mine. The new decision was made
after premises had been giveo by the
company that it would eliminate tbe
long wall system and would employ
orientals only until they could be re
placed by white men.
Thirty Are Injured. —
Connellsville. Pa., Feb. 17. —
Thirty persons were hurt, two seri
ously. when two cars of a train on
the Indian Creek Valley Railroad
jumped the track in the mountains.
ENTENTE BREAK-UP
NEAR—ENGLAND AND
FRANCE CAN’T AGREE
500,000 Children to Be
Sent Oat of Ruhr;
Bomb-throwing On.
By HAI. OTI.A HERTY.
Special Cable to The San Antonio Light
and the ChicaaA Dall:* News.
Copyright, 1113.
London. Feb, 17. — Great Britain
has warned France in most emphatic
language that the two countries are
drifting far apart: that either the
French must change their policy or
the entente will be broken.
Divested of official sugar-coating,
reports of the conference between Pre
mier Bonar Law and M. LeTrocquer
mean that Great Britain has refused
to permit the French to extend their
occupation of the Ruhr to the Brit
ish area around Cologne.
British opinion is hardening
against what is termed tbe "French
frenzy of fear.” Several newspapers
urge the government to intervene be
tween the French nnd the Germans,
either with or without American as
sistance.
Cut Off Ughts at Essen.
By the Associated Press,
Essen, Feb. 17.—The employes of
the municipal electric works have de
cided to cut off Essen's supply of
electricity as a result of the imposi
tion of the fine of 5.000.000 marks
on Director Buszmann, of the local
plant.
Five hundred thousand children are
to be sent out of the occupied terri
tory by the Brandenburg people's al
liance.
Tbe French bold on Essen was
tighter today in consequence of the
shooting of two soldiers yesterday.
Infantrymen occupied the police bar
racks throughout the night and mem
bers of the force were deprived of
thgir weapons. The chief of police
is under arrest.
Bomb-throwing and serious cases
of sabotage occurred in the Huhr val
ley during the night. A bomb was
thrown In a street in Essen near tbe
Kaiserbof Hotel, the French en
gineers' headquarters, where Chief En
gineer Coste and 3(1 or 40 other civil
engineers are lodged. No injuries re
sulted. The windows of tbe hotel
were broken by the explosion. The
bomb-thrower escaped.
KILLED BY POSSE
Lunatic Attempts to Persuade Indian*
to Go on Warpath.
Reno. Nev.. Feb. 17.—J. Perry Ty
son. formerly a practicing physician
here and later an inmate of a New
York asylum for the insane was shot
and killed Friday at Wadsworth. Nev.,
after he had eluded nnd repulsed a
sheriffs posse for almost 24 hours.
He had tried to persuade the In
dians on the Pyramid Lake reserva
tion to start on the wnrpath and when
efforts were made to arrest him he
escaped to the hills.
ASLEEP 48 DAYS
Toxle Meningitis Victim. Fed With
Tube. Still Unconscious.
Chicago. Feb. 17. — Joseph J.
Wright, said by physicians to have
been asleep foi 1 48 days, today was re
ported to be recovering, although still
unconscious. Dr. A. J. Parker, who
diagnose*! the disease as toxic menin
gitis. said be expected Wright to come
out of his sleep within ten days
Wright's physician said lie was fed
daily by tbe means of a mouth tube
and that the sleeper had gained suffi
cient strength to move his hands.
Honor Chicago Astronomer.
Chicago. Feb. 17.—A. A. Michel
son. professor of the University ot
Chicago, has been awarded the gold
medal of the Royal Astronomical So
ciety for “application of the interfer
ometer to astronomical measure
ments.” Its use by Professor Michel
son to measure Betelgeuse, a reddish
star in the constellation Orion, was
declared of special importance. e
Another “Little Men” Puzzle
in The Sunday Light
Sharp wits will be given a more difficult test in the
“Little Men’’ code which the puzzle editor has evolved after
a week or so in seclusion and he is going to offer cash prizes
for solutions. Also in Sunday’s Light the winners in “The
Ploughman” contest will be announced.
Ring Lardner has visited a county fair in Florida and
comments amusingly about it. George Ade has another fable
on “The Off-Year Candidate,” and O. 0. Mclntyre writes
interestingly of Greenwich Village, the Bohemia of New York.
There will be a fashion page in Sunday’s Light and in
addition there will be an article of interest to every woman—
an article in which Julie Beauregard, writing from Paris,
tells of the gorgeous colorings and materials that will be
used in summer gowns for all occasions.
In addition there are many .other carefully-chosen fea
tures in The Sunday Light designed to meet discrimianting
and intelligent tastes.
A special feature of The Sunday Light is its comprehen
sive chronicle of world events through the best cable news
service printed in the Southwest. O
Be sure and order yout copy today.
This Is Kemal
This is the most recent photograph
of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, heed of
the Turkish National government. In
European costume, Kemal might be
easily mistaken for an America* busi
ness man.
ILL HEALTH FORCES
GOVERNOR OF PORTO
RICO TO QUIT POST
Resignation of Reily Wi/Z
Become Effective on
April I.
W ashington. D. C., Feb. 17.—Presi
dent Harding had before him today
tbe resignation of E. Mont Reily. as
governor ot Porno Rico, an office in
which be was inaugurated in July,
1021. The resignation, cabled from
San Juan and assigning ill-health as
the reason, was received at the White
House last evening without com
ment.
It is believed in administration cir
cles that President Harding will ac
cept the resignation which suggested
April las the effective date Among
those mentioned as possible successors
to Governor Reily have been Maj.
Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, retired,
nnd Representatives Towner of lowa,
and Campbell of Kansas.
POSED AS LANDIS
Justice of Peace Found Guilt}* of Im
personating Czar of Baseball.
Chicago. Feb. 17.—Fred Beisswan
ger, justice of the peace of Niles, a
suburb of Chicago, today faced a
prison sentence or payment of a fine
or both, for impersonating former Fed
eral Judge K. M. Landis, now com
mihsioner of baseball. He anil three
members of the state constabulary,
Donald Somerville, Walter Gnatt and
Eugene Marchese, were found guilty
by a jury yesterday. Witnesses said
that Beisswangrr posed as "Judge
Landis” in a private federal building
and fined a foreigner for alleged vio
lation of tbe prohibition laws. The
others were charged with impersonat
ing government officials.
CULBERSON JURY OUT
Little Chance of Arriving at a Ver
dict, Is Belief.
Wichita Falla. Tex.. Feb. 17.—The
jury in tbe trial of Maj, W. L. Cul
berson. ebarged with murder in con
nection with the shooting of M. L.
Lamar, salesman, again was locked
up for tbe night without having
reached a decision. Tbe jurors hare
had the ease since 2:30 o'clock Thurs
day aftcrnootT. and indications are
that tne body will result in a hung
jury, court attaches said this morn
ing. when no verdict had been
reached.
TAR POOL
MYSTERY
UNSOLVED
Richard Routon Believed to
Have Known Strange
Man on Trestle.
SENT HIM MESSAGE
Gone for Fifteen Days and
Wife Prostrated With
Fear and Grief.
POSSE FINDS SHELLS
Trap Fails to Hold Car and
Spotlight Reveals
Man’s Head.
New developments in the strange
disappearance of Richard Routon,
missing San Antonio warrant officer,
indicate that a death trap was laid
for him five days before he disappear
ed, that be knew an attempt had been
made on his life, and that he knew
who it was that made it.
The story, as revealed by Mrs. Rou
ton, tells of au attempt made to stop
the family on a lonely country road
under a railroad trestle, wbirii failed.
Routon left his borne. 1426 Nolan
street at 1:45 Friday afternoon, Feb
ruary -• and noser returned. His wife
is prostrated with grief. Ronton was
a warrant officer stationed at bead
quarters of tbe Eighth Corps Area.
He was on ternftbrary duty at Brack
en, Tex., and on the Sunday prior
to his disappearance, he left here in
an automobile with bia family for
Bracken.
Saes Man's Figure.
Near Bracken tbe road runs under
a railroad trestle. As the car ap
proached the trestle it was growing
dark. The trestle is on a lonely part
of the road. Mrs. Routon thought
she saw a man standing over the
trestle, and looking dloser she did see
a figure dimly outlined against the
sky. She said nothing of it to her
husband. As the car ran under the
bridge, something seemed to hold it
back, tugging at the wheels The car
skidded to tbe right, then to the left
and finally pulled through. Mr, Rou
ton stopped the car on tbe otber side
and turned bis spotlight back on the
bridge. A man's head showed above
the outline of the trestle. Mrs. Rou
ton said her husband reached for bis
gun and started to fire, but she pre
vented him doing so.
He then took Ids wife and child to
the place where they were staying and
with a small posse of men went back
to the scene. Tbe man could not be
found. No indication was given by
Mr, Routon as to why he seemed so
interested in the presence of the man
over the trestle.
The next morning, when daylight
came, Mr. Routon, in company with
several others, went to the scene.
Fresh dirt was seen in the road
way directly beneath the trestle. They
dug into it aud found that a barrel
of fresh tar bad been ixmred over
tbe road, a trap to stop the car. Be
neath the trestle they also found sev
eral shells, although Mrs. Routon did
not know of what caliber.
Later Mrs. Routon told of her hus
band sending a message to some un
identified persons which in effect
was: “Sou had better make a bet
ter job of it than that ” The wife
believes that her busband knew who
it was that, laid the trap.
Think Murder Done.
Latec in the week, the family came
hack to San Antonio. Tliey were
happy and relatives say that there
was nothing to make Routon want to
leave his home. He was bothered to
a certain extent, it was said, because
he bad been advised to have all of bis
teeth taken out and set out Friday
afternoon to go to a downtown furni
ture house, pay a bill and then return
to the station hospital at Fort Sam
Houston where the dentist was to ex
tract all of bis teeth. He visited the
fiinWture house, paid the bill and
then disappeared.
His family fear that he lias been
murdered and his body disposed of.
Officers have failed to find any clews
upon wbieh to work in their investi
gation and the family has offered n
liberal reward to persons who can
give information as to his whereabouts
or find bis body.
A few days ago a message was re
ceived from a woman iu Corpus
Christi, who said that she had see"
a man answering the description of
the missing officer, but all investiga
tion failed to find if he was Rou
ton.
Routon would be easily identified
by a tattooed eagle stretching clear
across his breast. He was tattooed
in many ether Be
feet, seven inches tall, weighed about
165 pounds, had gray eyes, dark
brown hair and a ruddy complex
ion.
TWO CFMT? Per °°P» ,n o,t » “d vtetnny
A VV VX-tlv A O jriv. cents on trains and ataawher.
TEXAS CONGRESSMAN
IN NEAR-FIGHT OVER
A DIVISION OF TIME
Almost Comes to Blows
With Arkansas Rep
resentative.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 17.—Con
sideration of farm credits legislation
in the House began today amid stormy
scenes.
htpresentative Wingo, of A.knnsJs,
and .lones of Texas, Democrat?, al
most came to l ions over the division
of time allowed for debate, several
members intervening to preVent a
figbr.
43 SEAMEN SAVED
AS TUSCAN PRINCE
FOUND IN PACIFIC
Shipwrecked Sailors Suffer
From Exposure and
Lack of Food.
By th? A«»ocl»t?d Fr?*».
Seattle, Wash.. Feb. 17.—Under
the open sky on a roek in Barclay
Sound, opposite Cape Flattery, across
the mouth of the straits of Juan
De Fuca, 29 men. the last of the 125
to be snatched scatheless from the
deep in four wrecks were waiting to
be taken off to safety and comfort
this morning.
The steamship Tuscan Prince, for
which intensive search had been
made since she flashed two messages
of distress early Wednesday, was
found last night, a total wreck, on
a small rocky island near Village
Point, Vancouver island. Her crew
of 43 men, suffering severely from
exposure, were huddled on the rock
•v the bnw of the ship.
The wreck was found by the United
States Coast Guard Cutter Hnohonrish
after a 24-bour search.
Fourteen of the Tuscan Prince’s
crew were taken aboard tbe cutter
and the others are to be picked up
today. The Snohomish wirelessed
that, in returning after completing
rescue of the crew of the Tuscan
Prince, she would pick up the crew
of the steamship Santa Rita.
The Santa Rita men, said to be
short of food, have been camped on
Carmaniab Point, Van Corner Island,
since their vessel bit a rock while at
tempting to go to the aid of the steam
er Nika, which burned to the water's
edge.
Tbe Tuscan Prince's crew suffered
severely from exposure, said dispatches
received here from tbe Snohomish.
Tbe Tuscan Prince weqt asbone in a
driving snowstorm, her officers believ
ing at the time that they were south
of Cape Flattery. Her captain was
reported as saying that failure to re
port her position when she sent out
the distress calls was because the po
sition was not known. Heavy seas
soon put her wireless out of commis
sion.
BOOST CRUDE PRICES
Mexia and Currie Oil Again Ad
vance ♦ 10 Cents Per Barrel.
Kort Worth. Tex.. Feb. 17. —
Mexia and Currie crude oil prices
were advanced 10 cents a barrel this
morning by the Toxas Company. The
price is now $2.20 for Mexia and
$2.60 for Currie.
Sixtli Advance of Year.
Tulsa, Okla.. Feb. 17.—The Prairie
Oil and Gas Company today jiostvd
an advance of 10 cents a barrel in
the price of mid-continent crude oil.
This brings the price of oil of 2S de
grees gravity and below, to sl.«>o
a barrel, nnd 41 degrees and above
to S2.<ML 'Die increase is the sixth
this year.
GAS KILLS THREE
Pipe Under Family’s House Is Found
Broken.
Chicago. Feb. 17.—Willuim Lemcke.
64. his wife and 15-year-old daugh
ter. were found dead in their gas
filled home in Dolton. 111., today. A
gas pijie under the house was found
broken.
Artist and Wife Barely Escape.
Santa Barbara. Cal.. Feb. 17.—
Priceless rugs and paintings and tapes
tries were destroyed in a fire here
esirly yesterday morning which burned
the studio of Albert Herter. nation
ally known artist. Mr. and Mrs.
Herte". in night attire barely escaped
the flames. No : nsurance was ear
ried.
‘Talk Title Talk’
Hundreds of
. Dollars
To be awarded to
best “Talkers”
For particular* turn to page 2
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DEMON RUM
ON THE RUN
AT CAPITAL
Slick Dry, Hero of First
Raids, Fiddles Way to
Booze.
POSES AS MINSTREL
As Organ Grinder, With
Monkey, He Unearths
Demijohns.
AT TIMES A HUCKSTER
Peddler’s Pushcart Often
Used to Push Away
the Evidence.
Washington, D. C.. Feb. 17.—Police
and prohibition enforcement officers
today launched their second city-wide
liquor clean up since the beginning
of February.
Armed with 50 warrants, they be
gan before noon a series of raids
which reached into every section of
tbe capital. All available detention
space at several station houses was
rapidly filled with captives.
As in the series of GO raids con
ducted February 2, evidence was
given the revenue agents and police
by J. L. Asber. revenue agent from
Kentucky. Asher travelled the
rounds of the capital underworld this
time in the guise of a wandering
minstrel, playing his way into the
hearts of his victims on a violin.
Thirty revenue agents and police
conducted today’s onslaughts on the
rum dealers.
Asber started his latest rounds ot
the capital in quest of bootleggers
within 24 hours after the raids on
February 2.
Disguised as a minstrel, he played
through the city streets and alleys
and dropped into bootlegger's head
quarters entirely unsuspected.
The police have feared for Asher's
safety sinre the announcement was
made of his activities iu the previous
raids, and they summoned a harp
player on the detective force, George
Bauer, to accompany him on his new
rounds.
Part of the time tbe pair assumed
the roles of hucksters, making it con
venient to cart tbeir bottles and
demipohns of evidence to beadquar
ters. At other times they went about
as organ-grinders witb monkeys.
Bauer, to test his disguise, first
went to work in the district surround
ing his home. He sold apples to his
own mother without being recognized.
Yesterday he and Asher worked as
fish and oyster peddlers. They de
veloped a terrible thirst whenever
they approached a suspected house.
They had little difficulty in finding
what they were after.
On one occasion last week, the
two fell afoul of a patrolman and
were tnken to police headquarters.
They were among the men with whom
Bauer had worked with for years.
They kept up their disguise and were
booked on unpronouncahle Italian
names before they reavled their
identity.
CONVICTED OF MURDER
Two Accused Slayers Grt 10 Years:
Another Must Face Trial.
Dallas, Tex.. Feb. 17.—Tbe jury in
the case of Henry Belcher, charged
with the murder of Deputy Sheriff
Toni Wood, returned a icrdict of
guilty last night in Judge C, A. Pip
pen's criminal district court. The
convicted murderer was sentenced to
ten years in the state penitentiary.
The trial opened last Monday and
went to tbe jury Thursday night.
Belcher was indicted with Clnyou
Coomer and Sidney Wells in conn?-' -
tion with the killing of Deputy Sheriff
Wood near Garland on December 21.
when county officers raided a still.
Coomer was convicted of murd r
in Judge Pippen's court last week
and his penalty likewise fixed at ten
• ears in the penitentiary. WetK will
free a similar charge probably ne»t
week.
TAG DAY IS ON
School Girls Out to Boise Money Fer
Attawater Collection.
More than one hundred school girls
were on the streets of San Antonio
Saturday selling tags in a drive to
raise JGfKHi to purchase tbe famous
Attwater collection of natural science.
Report* from the hcedquaners. In rhe
Russell building, indicated that the
tugs were selling like “hot mhn- and
that a record colleo’ion should result
by the end of tbe day.