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L. XLIII—NO. 32.
BANDITS LOOT BANK; TERRORIZE TOWN
ETHOURFOR
KEGUTIDNOF
[vernor Refuses to Inter
pfere in Hanging of
Apolinar. •*.
ILL DIE FRIDAY
me Is 11 O’Clock But
live Minutes Grace Will
Be Allowed.
Respite announcement from Austin
■ Governor Neff baS declined to
Rrfcre in the execution of Clemente
Rlinar, convicted of the murder of
Bodorc Bernhard and sentenced to
K next Friday, an additional five
lutes will be allowed him after the
K* for execution arrives. This will
■lone. Sheiff John W. Tobin said
Bsday so that a last minute reprieve
B should come, could reach the jail
Bro the death trap falls.
Eleven o’clock has been decided
Kn as the time when Apolinar will
Bed from the death cell to the third
Br of the county jail where the
■ ution will take place. Following a
L-old custom, however, the sheriff
I, a few minutes grace will be al
Bed, so that the execution will not
L place at the exact moment des
lited. It might be, he pointed out,
| last minute efforts to save the
■i from hanging would be success-
I and that the governor even as
I us 11 o'clock might grant a re-
Bvc. A few minutes, therefore,
Bild be sufficient to save the life ol
I condemned man.
R Will Have New Clothing.
Lsyigemcnts were made with
Knty' Auditor Walter 8. Kendall
Esday for the purchase of a new
B of clothes for Apolinar. His jail
|b. which he has worn for many
litbs will be discarded and when he
laid to rest he will wear a neat new
I of clothing.
Maintaining the same stoic attitude
Ihas borne since a jury in the For
rifth District Court several months
I pronounced him sane and thus
led the doors of legal recourse in
I attempt to save his life, Apolinar
Isday appeared as happy as an in
lent child. He ate a hearty break-
It and eagerly acepted fruit which
Iriff Tobin has ordered furnished
h daily. This is paid for out of
Ipriff Tobin's own pocket.
Recording to Jailer John Wiatrek,
Inlinnr seems perfectly reconciled to
I fact that the gallows awaits him.
wiriest who calls on the condemned
fn erey other day. the jailer said.
Ils satisfied that Apolinar is pre-
to go. The prisoner seems to
llize that his end is only a few
Is off. but at the same time recog
les the fact that he fs not being un-
Itly punished. Whether the man
Illy is a stoic, however, or whether
I does not fully realize the situation
I is in. is n matter of conjecture
long court bouse and jail officials,
povernor Neff's announcement late
Inday that he had decided not to
lerfere ia the Apolinar case but to
I the law take its course. All agree,
kt the governor's position that the
In had been adjudged sane by two
ries is well taken.
Many Want Passes.
[With the hanging only three days
I. Sheriff Tobin was besieged Tues
k- with applications for passes to
Itness the gruesome event. Only a
[v passes will be isued. however,
loriff Tobin said, because of the
kited capacity of the jail which is
UM** filled with prisoners.
p? W. Stephens, the other mnn in
k Bexar county jail given the death
pteuco and awaiting bis execution,
visibly affected by the knowledge
kt Anolinar is to hang, jail officials
nd Tuesday. Ho has become ex
kmcly restless during the last two
ys and whereas he formerly paced
k cell deliberately, he now moves
kund like a caped anima). Stephens,
il officials predict, will colnpse bo
ko the date of his hanging. March 9.
Athough Apolinar appears docile,
spite the fact that he knows he is
die. Jailer Wiatrek said Tuesday
at he expects trouble when it comes
I leading the man from the death
II to the gallows. The condemned
an is powerful physically and it has
ouired as many as seven men to sub
in him on at least one occasion. Tt is
tremcly likely, the jailer said, that
■ will make a bitter fight at the last
ament.
SIX DIE IN WRECK
mash tip Occurs on Lehigh Valley
Railroad in Pennsylvania.
lElmyra. N. V.. Feb. 20.—Six per-
Ins were killed in train wreck this
lorning on the Lehigh Valley rail
lad at RummorfieW. Pa., about ten
Hies south of Tonawanda. Pa.
French Ambassador Recovering.
I Washington. I). C- Feb. 20.—Physi
kns attending J. J. .Tusserand. the
rench ambassador, who has been ill
tapebronchitis. -said today he would
I able to resume his duties in four
fire days.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AGED MAN SAYS HE
PASSED BAD CHECKS
AND WANTS TO PAY
Tells Police His Conscience
Compels Him to
Confess.
San Antonio police are holding a
white man, who identifies himself as
E. Moody, 70 years old, at his own
request. He says he passed three
worthless checks in Oklahoma and
Tennessee several years ago and that
be is conscious stricken. He wants
to surrender and pay the penalty.
City detectives have wired the au
thorities at Valient, Okla., Paris,
Tenn., and Jefferson. Tex., where the
aged man declares he passed checks,
two for $5O each and for $35. to
determine what procedure they should
take in the premises.
“I camo in here to surrender,”
Moody told Police Captain R. C. Tre
vino. as he walked into police head
quarters at 4 o’clock Monday after
noon.
"I want to be frank about it,” he
added, when the official asked him
to make himself clear. "I passed sev
eral bad checks and it has worried
me so I just can't stand to be dodg
ing. I want to settle up, pay the
Hfualty whatever it might be. I
want you to put me in jail and hold
me until they come and get me.”
The man then related that from
boyhood be had been engaged in farm
ing. He was born and reared in
Henry county. Tennessee, he said. Due
to crop failures he left his home and
family in Paris, Tenn., 35 years ago.
He was disgusted. Since then lie
worked on different farms throughout
the West. Two years ago he returned
home. The town had changed, though
he met a few of old friends there.
His family had disappeared. He was
heart-broken. His lite had been a
great failure. He could not remain
in the old place, but, because of scant
funds, he could not leave. He passed
a $35 cheek on an old friend and
“skipped out.” At Valient. Okla., he
met another old friend who. in his
boyhood days had been his chum. He
"w'orked” him with a $5O bogus check.
Then again at Jefferson. Tex., when
his funds were depleted be passed
another $5O check and h.-aded for
Mexico.
“Those three acts.” the old man
said, his voice husky with emotion,
“are the only wrongs I ever did my
fellow man. I must pay.”
WOMAN, 113, DIES
Oldest Resident of Corpus Born in
San Antonio in 1810.
Corpus Christi. Tex., Feb. —
Corpus Christi's oldest ‘citizen was
buried Sunday afternoon. Her name
was Mrs Genevieve Cortez Rios de
Riviera. She was 113 year* old.
Mrs. Riviera was born in San An
tonio in 1810 and moved to this sec
tion when she was 17 or 18 years old.
She was a resilient of Nueces county
for at least 1)0 years, according to
members of the family.
It is said that at one time Mrs.
Riviera's family owneil property that
now comprises San Pedro Park in San
Antonio. Six children of a family of
15 survive Mrs. Riviera. Her husband
died a few years ago.
BOY, 13, KILLS CHILD 10
Reporta Say Tragedy Followed Card
Game Quarrel.
Corpus Christi, Tex., Feb. 20.-—
Ramirez. 13-year-old Mexican boy liv
ing in the Bluntzer section was lodged
in the Nueces county jail yu-terdny.
<barged with the murder of l»slro
Rodriguez, his 10-year-old playmate.
It was said that the two boys were
playing a card game, and after a
quarrel the older of the two grabbed
a shotgun and killed the other one.
THE WEATHER
TKMTEBATVRKS.
FEB. 11.
2 p. m......... 60 2 a. m 50
3 P. m 61 3 a. m 50
4 p. m 62 4 a. ni 50
5 p. m 60 5 a. m 41
G p. m 60 6 a. m 48
7 p. m 37 7 a. m 4®
8 p. m 56 8 a. m 51
9 p. in 55 9 a. m 51
10 p. m 64 10 a. 58
11 p. m 52 11 a. m 62
12 midnight. .. .51 12 noon 65
FEB. 20.. 1 p. m 66
1 a. m 50 2 p. ...07
WEATHER.
San Antonio nnd vicinity: Tuesday
night and Wednesday, partly cloudy,
minimum temperature, 4 8 to 54: light
easterly to southerly winds.
East Texas: Partly cloudy: unsettled
on went not much change in tem
perature.
WcW Texas: Partly cloudy; not much
change in temperature.
HOME WEATHER IDR TOI RISTS.
St. Ixiuis: Temperature 30. cloudy, 8-
mile wind from the north: lowest tem
perature in last 24 hours, 30; highest 50.
Chicago: Temperature 30. cloudy; 6-
mlle wind from Jthe nprthweat: lowest
temperature in last 24 hours, 26; high
est. 30.
Kansas City: Tempe 26; clear:
6-inlle wind from the northwest: lowest
temperature in last 24 hours, 26; high
est. 48.
New York: Temperature 24, cloudy.
10-mile wind from the cast; lowest tem
perautre In last 111 hours. 23; highest 34.
Washington: Temperature, 28: snow
ing; 6-mile wind front the southeast:
loweat temperature fn last 24 hours, 26:
highest, 31.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1923. —SIXTEEN PAGES.
'LET I ULF
1 SENATORS
IN FILIBUSTER
McKellar Would Suffocate
Ship Bill With 11-
hour Speech.
SHEPPARD THERE,
Advocates Ready to Turn
on “Hot Air” in All
Night Session.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 20. —Near
ly a dozen opponents of the admin
istration shipping bill were prepar
ed with speeches, the delivery of which
would require upwards of 40 hours,
when the filibuster started last night
against the ship measure was resumed
in the Senate today.
Senator Sheppard, Democrat. Texas,
who at last night’s session spoke
more than three hours on the activi
ties of the League of Nations, still
held the floor when the Senate met.
He at once began to read from n
stack of papers six inches high, con
taining a digest of all actions taken
by the league and its various
agencies.
Meantime Republican leaders can
vassed the situation nnd prepared
for- the all-night session promised by
Senator Jones, Republican, Washing
ton, in charge of the shipping bill.
Bora- , i. Ready. Too.
The ship bill opponents ready to
follow Senator Sheppard, included
Senators Stanley of Kentucky, Mc-
Kellar of Tennessee, Hitchcock of Ne
braska. Heflin of Alabama and Fletch
er of Florida. Democrats, nnd Ln-
Follette of Wisconsin. Brookhart of
lowa and Borah of Idaho, Republi
cans.
“I have n textbook on co-operttiva
marketing and if tbc shin subsidy ad
vocates go ahead with their plans to
hold an all-night session,” said Sen
ator Brookhart. “I am prepared to
conduct a night school on co-operative
marketing, using my book as a text.”
Senator McKellar brought into the
chamber copies of the Congressional
Record containing the speech made
by Senator Smoot. Republican. Utah,
in the filibuster in 1015, against the
bill to organize n government cor
poration to buy and operate ships.
Famous H-hour Speech.
“Senator Smoot spoke for eleven
house then,” said Senator McKel
lar, “and I am ready to read his en
tire speech and. moreover, make nu
merous copients of my own.”
TO BE SPRING-LIKE
Sky May Cloud Up but Temperature
Will Remain the Same.
The sky will cloud up a little Tues
day night and Wednesday, but tem
peratures will continue spring-like,
with a minimum of 48 to 54. and
the winds will be light from the east
and south.
A small area of low pressure to the
southwest, which Observer J. H. Jar
boe considers negligible, will bo re
sponsible for the slightly increased
cloudiness.
Smith Toxas weather stations re
ported cloudy weather early Tuesday.
Climate enn be boasted of again in
most »f the states.
In Southwestern • United States,
however, it has warmed up very lit
tle in the last 24 hours. Killing frost
was reporlcd from Jacksonville, nnd
heavy frost from Tampa. Fla.
The East was due for another cold
spell, probably brief, with the ad
vance of n small “high” which had
caused the mercury to fall early
Tuesday across the Dakotas. Chica
go nt 7 a. m. reported 30 degrees. New
York had 24, while Washington had
light snow with the thermometer
showing 28. Snow also fell at Pitts
burg.
SHOOTS AT BURGLAR
Young Woman Fires When Thief
Awakens Household.
Miss Katherine McCloskey. 23 years
old. employed by the Oppenheimer
Mercantile Company, in Marke' street,
fired three bullets at a thief who at
tempted to force an entrance to the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Eberhardt. UIS Hoefgen avenue, at
3:45 Tuesday moruing. Miss McClos
key rooms at the Eberhardt home.
Although no traces of blood were
found, it is likely one of the bullets
might have found a mark, as the
man was within a short distance of
Miss McCloskey when the bullets
were fired.
Occupants were aroused when a man
attempted to force open a door. He
had opened a screen. Failing in gain
ing an entrance there he tried to en
ter a window.
Mrs. Eberhardt. Miss Eberhardt.
Mrs. Adele Holloweyy and Miss Mc-
Closkey were alone at the home, Mr.
Eberhardt being out of the city.
The women discovered him looking
through the window. Miss MeClcskey
fired through the window.
Police Captain Brown. Detectives
Green and Harris and Officers Ram
schissel and Meyer responded to a call
but failed to find trace of the man.
Takes Husband’s Seat in Congress
Mrs. John I. Nolan (left) of San Francisco js shown here being con
gratulated by Congresswoman Alice Robertson of Oklahoma after she had
been sworn in to succeed her husband, the late Congressman Nolan.
SENATOR POINDEXTER
IS NOW AMBASSADOR
TO PERUVIAN NATION
Senate Confirms Nomina
tion by President
Harding.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 20.—The
nomination of Senator Poindexter of
Washington, to be ambassador to
Peru wns confirmed by the-Senate
late yesterday in open session. Acticm
was taken soon after the nomination
had been received from President
Harding.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,
chairman of the foreign relations com
mittee. asked unanimous consent that
the Senate take up the nomination im
mediately. He then moved that the
nomination, in accordance with cus
tom and courtesy to sitting members,
be confirmed, und the vote for con
firmation was unanimous. Snator
■Puindcxtes was not present.
FLORIDA PHYSICIAN
SAYS OFFICIALS ARE
MEMBERS OF KLAN
Doctor Charges Ku Klux
ers Whipped and Threat
ened Him.
Tampa. Fla., Feb. 20.—Rj O. Dari
ing. of Kissimmee. Osceola. Fla., yes
terday filed an affidavit with the Os
ceola county court declaring that high
officials of his county were members
of the Ku Klux Klan which attacked
him and threatened to take his life if
he made known their names, accord
ing to an official statement ns pub
lished in the Osceola Daily Times.
The affidavit charged that Darling
as seized near here a klan meeting
was being held on February 8. It
further charges that Darling was
whipped nnd told if he revealed the
names of those he saw at the meet
ing he would be killed.
RUNAWAY, 12, FOUND
Boy Slept Outdoors During Bitter
Cold Weather.
Denver. Colo.. Feb. 20.—0 n a bed
of straw with a threadbare overcoat
as his only covering. Ernest Adams,
12. runaway from Kansas City. Mo.,
slept through the recent below zero
weather that prevailed here nnd lives
to tell the tale. • For ten days and
nights be lived in the sand pits west
of Denver.
He told his story to the police yes
terday after he was seen by a motor
ist sleeping in a crevice in the sand
pits late this morning. He explained
that lie had “over slept.”
Ernest, who was pieekd up by the
police here about a year ago. while
in quest, he said, nf “the Indian sur
vivors of the Custer massacre/’ will
be returned to his home in Kansas
City, from which he fled two weeks
ago. He lived as he could, he Assort
ed. “from the back door of his neigh
bors.”
Oh, Horrors! Dancing
Girls Importing Boa
Constrictors as Pets
London. Feb. 20.—80 a con
'strictors caught on the shores of
the Amazon are the latest fashion
able pets for women. A flourishing
business has been done by a London
naturalist in selling these pets to
dancing girls in England and on
the continent.
The snakes, which are kept in
perforated zinc boxes fitted with
tanks, include every variety of
Brazilian boa constrictor. American
bull snakes are also popular.
“I am importing two shipments
of snakes.” one dealer announced,
“to meet the demand. The smaller
snake* are the most popular and
there is no danger from their bite.
They are easily tamed and make
good pets.”
PIRATES, GAMBLING
AND FILTH THRIVE
IN CANTON, CHINA
Scavengers on Strike;
Garbage Waist High
in Streets.
By JI NILS B. WOOD.
Spec Lal Cable to The Han Antonio Light
and the Chicago Daily News.
Copyrlfflit, 1f23.
Canton. China. Feb. 20.—Canton is
in a deplorable condition. Garbage
and refuse are piled waist-high on
street corners and only the cool
weather is preventing an epidemic of
disense. The garbage collectors' strike
has not been settled.
Gambling, which was prohibited
during the regime of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
nnd later of Gen. Chang Ching Ming,
has been revived.
The city has gone gambling mad.
Every vacant building house has u
fantan came and dozens who have
been unable to rent buildings have
erected ilnhienne niati'ovcred gam,-
bling houses along the waterfront.
Thousands of hambicr dice gem's,
with men. women and children acting
as gamekeepers line the streets, wag
ers ns low as n tenth of a cent being
accepted.
Commerce to and from the interior
of China is paralyzed, river junks liv
ing tied up on account of the bandits
and pirates. Standard Oil and other
foreign companies operating their own
boats are no better off, the foreign
flags failing to afford them protec
tion. Present disturbed conditions,
however, have not prevented the con
sul of one South American nation,
who is the only citizen of his coun
try in Canton, from doing a thriving
business in renting the flag of his
country to Chinese boats.
BOTH DUELISTS MISS
Polish Army Officers Prove Poor
Marksmen.
Warsaw. Feb. 20.—Gen. Joseph
Haller and the Radical deputy. Kos
cialkowski. who is also a major in
the Polish army, have fought a duel
with revolvers. Neither wns hit.
After the assassination of President
Narutowiez, General Haller met
Deputy Koscialkowski near the scene
of the outrage and the imfor ac
cused him of being responsible for the
murder. Haller thereupon issued a
challenge.
After the shots a jury of honor
decided that General Haller had ob
tained satisfaction. Tbc duelists then
shook hnnds. The duel occurred last
Saturday.
RUN WILD ON RUM
Inueeased Philadelphia Killings
Blamed on Bad Liquor.
Philadelphia, Fab. 20.—Bad liquor
was largely responsible for the in
creased killings here in 1922. the
coroner's annual report said. There
were 136 killings, the greatest num
ber in history.
TRY FOR AIR RECORD
Army Plane Now Being Built Will
Tackle All Marks.
San Diego, Cal.. Feb. 20. —Word
that the United States army air serv
ice will make a systematic attempt
this year to break every world’s rec
ord not already held by an American
aviator was received here from Wash
ington. Orders for special training of
airmen have been prepared.
Tlte War Department has sent
word that there now is being built a
plane which is expected to eclipse by
more than 40 miles an hour the fast
est time ever made over a measured
course. Local aviators say that con
struction features of the airplane will
be kept more or less secret until
much of the record breaking work ex
pected of it has been done.
Japs Not Going to Brazil.
Washington. D. C., Feb. 20—The
Japanese embassy announced last
uight the receipt of cable advices
from the foreign offices at Tokim
asserting that there was no truth in
a recently published report in this
cc st.tr y thet .’upar. *nd Brazil had
entered into an agreement for the
movement of 500,000 laborers from
Japan to Brazil for colonization pur
poses.
BRITISH WILL
NOT KN O.S.
TO INTERVENE
Lloyd-George Wants Amer
ican Settlement of
Reparations.
BONAR LAW OPPOSED
Parliament Votes Proposal
Down —Won’t Of
fend France.
By-the Associated Press.
Ixindvn, Feb. 20.—Scant hope for
British intervention at this time in
the dispute between France and Ger
many is to be gleaned from Premier
Bonar Law's speech in the House of
Commons last evening. The premier
concluded the debate on the joint Lib
eral amendment to the address in rc-
to the speech from the throw
calling upon the League of lotions,
with the help of America, to investi
gate Germany's ability to pay repara
tions. The amendment was lost by
a vote <>f 305 to 190.
The prime minister, answering some
of the points of David Lloyd-George's
appeal to Great Britain and Ameri
ca to save France from what he
termed a dangerous position, in
formed the House, that intervention
by n league commission, as proposed
in the amendment, would be consid
ered by France as an unfriendly act.
He asserted that the government's
policy was to keep British troops on
the Rhine “as long as possible.”
Says France Blundered.
Replying to Mr.
enutentioa tb.it Fnmee had blunder
ed seriously and that America and
Great Britain were called spoil to
net, Mr. Bonar Law «aid that he. too,
did not approve of the French step,
but that opposition apparently could
accomplish little or nothing, tpasinuch
as the pride of France in forcing the
Germans to terms hnd been aroused.
He pointed out that France already
had refused to look kindly on inter
vention by the league and suggested
that she would hardly be amendable
to such a step now.
Mr. Lloyd-George, whose sojourn
“in the wilderness,” has resulted in
no impairment of his parliamentary
presence, declared that the French
action was both shortsighted, unfor
tunate and unwarranted, nnd that the
way was open to disaster. He as
serted that the collection of repara
tions was evidently not the only ob
ject France 1 ad in view.
“Wealthy” America Involved.
Arguing for the motion, the former
prime minister said he was asking Mr.
Bonar Law to take iinediately. and
with the co-operation of the United
States, a step calculated to save the
situation.
Wealthy America, he declared, still
had a share in the responsibility for
present conditions, because morally
it had accepted the entire situation.
Mr. Lloyd-George expressed the opin
ion that France, confronted by I lie
I'nited States and Great Britain,
could not fail to listen to nations that
had put her in the position of a con
queror.
He entreated the go.crnment to
take the initiative, first by approach
ing the United States and then with
that country approaching France.
Although the sentiments eiittsidied
in the joint amendment undoubtedly
were approved by a majority of the
House, its passage would have repre
sented censure of the government and
would, therefore, have meant the gov
ernment s fall. Hence it was voted
down.
SCHOOL ON THE SEA
Candler's Son Has Ship Fitted Ont
as Ocean-Going College.
Baltimore. Md.. Feb. 20.—Trans
formed into a sumptuous see-the
world-as-you-study college for boys,
the former army transport Logan will
set sail next September 15 on her ini
tial cruise, if the plans of i G.
Candler Jr., of Atlanta. Ga., ssn of
the multi-millionaire beverage mnmi
faeturer are carried out. The slop
will have accommodations for 400 pu
pils. a large faculty, managers and
clerks <>f Ine mrious departments.
Mr. Candler snid yesterday that the
school is not a nhilantbrophic founda
tion. It is a purely business I oposi
tion and only men of means can af
ford to send their sons through such
a course.
“My own son.” Mr. Candler said,
“and the son of my brother Howard,
will go on the 'first cruise. This ex
presses my confidence in the scheme.
"The view I take is this." Mr. Cand
ler continued. “There nre many poor
boys who attend schools and buckle
down to their work in earnest be
cause they have no other interests.
Rut there are many sons of rich men
who have their enrs and their clubs
and find too much to do other than
study. If the mens* mhmi are wr,r
to my school, they will rnjor tliem
selves. but at the same time tliev will
see that' thev must concentrate on
tbe'r studies.”
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FRIGHTENED INHABITANTS
WATCH ROBBERS CUT ALL
WIRES AND BLOW OP SAFE
Gang of Six Leisurely Loots Institution
and Escapes With $5OOO After Vault
Blown Through Brick Wall, Land
ing on Restaurant—Helpless Resi
dents Frightened Into Homes By
Sentries—Fusillade of Shots Fired
on Departure.
Springfield, 111., Feb. 20.—Terrorizing the inhabitants
of the little town of Easton, which lies half way between
Mason City and Havana, and cutting them off from ap
peals for help by severing all telephone wires, a gang of
bank robbers leisurely looted the Furrier State Bank at
Easton last night and escaped after firing a fusillade of
shots as a farewell.
This morning the little bank is a partial wreck. The
bandits, inhabitants say. fired six charges of explosives.
One shot blew the bankk safe through the brick wall
and landed it in the restaurant next door.
About $5OOO in cash was secured.
The robbery was carefully planned and executed.
There are no street lights in the town, and all tele
phone wires converge at the central office.
By one operation these wires were cut? Easton was
cut off from use of its local artd long distance wires.
One woman whose window faces the bank watched
them 45 minutes.
Those who attempted to leave their houses went
scurrying back at the sight of the watchers whom the
robbers had placed.
The robbers, believed to number six, left in two auto
mobiles.
MAY ATTACK WARSAW
Polish Frar IJthuanians Plan Attack
Similar to Memel.
Paris. Feb. 20. —A Havas dispatch
from Warsaw says that continued
concentration of Lithuanian forces in
the direction of Vilna indicate at
tempts against this city of the same
character as against Memel. The
troops, supported by artillery, at
tacked near Orany. Among these
troops are numerous Lithuanian-Ger
man volunteers, employed as re
serves.
Fights in Neutral Zone.
By the Associated l*res«.
Warsaw. Feb. 20. —The fighting in
the neutral zone lying between Po
land nnd Lithuania consisted of at
tacks by Lithuanians <m Polish po
licemen. of whom ten were killed nnd
two wounded, acording to an official
statement issued last night.
CUT FREIGHT RATES
Southern Pacific Reductions Meet
Water Rate Charges.
San Francisco. Cal.. Feb. 20.—The
Southern Pacific company nnd the
Western Pacific railroad announced
here today that reduced rates would
be put into effect immediately for
more than 100 articles from Chicago,
and points west to Pacific dial
points ns a means of competing with
water freight rates v*S the Panama
Canal.
In the case of the Southern Paci
fic company the announcement said
the reductions also iwruld apply from
New York on combination rail and
water freight via the Southern Pacific
steamshin lines to Gulf points nnd by
rail to the coast.
Miner KiPed in Explosion
I,ogan. W. Va.. Feb. 20.—Repre
sentatives of Hie state department of
mines went to Holden todav to in
vestigate an explosion there last night
which causctl the death of one man
and serious burns to four others.
Messenger Robbed of SIO.OOO.
Cincinnati. Feb. 20.—William Ober
iabn. messenger for the Pearl Market
Bank, was held up by three bandits
today,* who e caped with money anc
checks amounting to $lO,OOO.
‘Talk Title Talk’
Hundreds of
. Dollars
To be awarded to
best “Talkers”
For see page 1.
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By the Associated Press.
DEFENSE BEGINS IN
STEWART’S TRIAL FOR
TEXAS LAND FRAUDS
Captain Everett Anglin of
San Antonio First Wit
new Called.
Kansas City. Feb. 20.—The defense
in the trial of W. E. Stewart, charged
with using the mails to defraud in
connection with the sale of Hidalgo
county, Texas, land, began the intro
duction of testimonv todav. A de
murrer filetl by R. R. Brewster, one
of Stewart's attorneys, was overruled
by the court.
An argument was started when the
defense asked that a map of the Stew
art lands, exhibited by the prosecu
tion, should be on view during the de
fense testimony. The court ruled
that the map should be placed in
view, but it could not be found. It
had been in custody of J. M. Donald
son. postoffice inspector, assisting the
government, who was ill.
Capt. Everett Anglin of San An
tonio. was the first witness called bv
the defense. He was emnloved br
Stewart in 1929. lie said. He was in
charge of motor car drives for pros
pective buyers of land.
Excursionists usually spent about
two days in the valley,' he iaid. They
were told, he testified, that the Mer
cedes canal was referred to as be
longing to the American Rio Grande
Irrigation Company.
Prosecution witnesses had testified
that, as land buyers, they were told
that the Mercedes irrigation system
was to water their lands, but.‘after
buying, they had i wn f orer d to rp)v
on the Edinburg system, which they
declared inadequate.
PARDON FOR MEXICANS
Juan Galindo and Ten Followers Ac
cept Obregoa'g Amne-4>
Durango City. Mexico. Feb. 20.—
•Tuan Galindo and ten follower?* have
surrendered to accept imrlon** under
the president’s decree giving clear rec
ords to Mo-caHed political prisoner*
and revolutionists, it was announced
today at military headquarter*.
Galindo is the hist of the rebels in
Durango, a state which for years has
been a hot-bed of revolutionists.
Galindo and his men were given
credit for holding several rich per
sons for ransom as well as for giving
the government trouWe In other
wayr.
SnanbJi ( nmpo*er Dir*.
Madrid. Feb 20 —Geronimo. Jim I
nex. n leadin* S’»anirh composer, died
•»dn).
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