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Planes Versus Mos
quitoes.
“Comuche is Dead.”
The Murders of 1925.
2,300,000 Always Sick.
By Arthur Brisbane
. ■ -Copyright. 1926 by Etar Co- — ~~
THE marines at Quantico, Va„
will fight mosquitoes this
summer with flying machines.
Commander McLean will scatter
from planes sawdust soaked in wa
ter containing a little arsenic.
It isn't strong enough to hurt
humans, birds, fishes—in fact, it’s
a good tonic for them.
But it will destroy mosquitoes in
swamps, creeks or stagnant watch
instantly, just as a slap that does
not hurt your cheek kills the mos
quito.
THE government ought to be doing
that work everywhere.
To rid the entire country of mos
quitoes would be worth fifty times
the national debt.
It is said that the Rockfeller
foundation, which seeks to PRE
VENT DISEASE rather than to
cure individuals, may try tho flying
machine mosquito attack. If suc
cessful, it would end yellow fever and
malaria FOREVER.
GREEKS now, as in Roman days,
are adaptable in anything, from
teaching and painting to tight-rope
dancing, as a Roman satirist re
marked.
Eugene Cornuclie, called “King of
Deauville,” who died in Paris, ruled
in Trouville and Cannes as well as
in Deauville, and in Paris he con
trolled many important establish
ments.
He died worth at least $10,000,000
—much of it contributed by foolish
Americans at the gambling tables.
PRUDENTIAL LIFE COMPANY
statistics show 1925 the cham
pion murder year in America.
There were 563 killings in Chicago,
374 in New York, although New
York is bigger. Chicago probably
shoots better.
More than 12,000 were murdered
all together in 1920. In these pirns
ant days of Prohibition, bootlegging
sod hijacking, with respectability
making a joke of the law, your
chances of being murdered are a lit
tle better than one in 10/100.
ILJOTV turn to news from Great
IN Britain. There the prison popu
lation has fallen off in 12 years.
Since the wnr 25 jails have been re
modeled for other purposes. Here
ws haven’t jails enough. How do
you explain that?
Easily. Bootlegging, creating a new
crop of millionaires, bringing in hun
dreds of millions every year, has
created a new crop of murderers and
ether criminals.
CHINESE doctors are paid
when their patients are well.
No pay when they are sick. If Un
de Sam could arrange that for bis
children he would save money. Every
day there are 2.300,000 sick people
in the United States. Allow $5 for
each lost working day in these high
wage times, and the total W’oubl ap
preciably reduce the national debt.
Worse than the loss of wages is
shortening nt life. Odds, that people
neglect or despise, weaken the system
permanently, nnd cut so many months
from your life at the far end.
SCIENCE proves that canned vege
tables retain their full quota of
vitamins. This has been known for
a long time to doctors that gave can
ned tomatoes to infants in public
institutions, unable to afford fresh
juice. The juice of the toma
to is rich in vitamins, which makes
it important to include a well-made
tomato soup or canned tomatoes,
stewed, in the regular family diet.
WHEN President Coolidge and
Secretary Mellon decided to cut
income taxes, they were told they
wouldn't raise enough money to pay
government expenses. Now, with
lower taxes, total payments for
March were $54,000,000 greater than
In March last year. The government
will have a comfortable surplus. Ex
cessive taxation is yicvcr profitable
for taxed or taxer. The Turks
learned that long ago.
GOVERNOR NAMES
PRISON OFFICIAL
AUSTIN, April C4>)—S. C.
Cranberry, manager of the Eastham
State Farm, was appointed state
prison commissioner yesterday by
Governor Miriam. A. Ferguson, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
J, A. Herring, who died last week.
JAP POTATO KING
LEAVES MILLIONS
SAN FRANCISCO, April 6.—
The will of George Shima —
"Potato King” of Cali*
at Hollywood recem
probate here todsy
the estate is v»'
000,000 and $B/
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MURDER M
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SEARCHFOR
BUTCHER
S. A. Officers Will Go to
Gainesville as New
Trail Opens.
While officers at Gaines
ville are exhuming the body
of a murder victim buried in
a pauper’s field there, San
Antonio officers are waiting
for word to come nnd identity’ the
body as that of Chris Evers, missing
San Antonian, who mysteriously dis
appeared here n yeaV ago Marell 28.
Evers, who conducted a butcher
shop and owned considerable prop
arty. was last seen eating breakfast
at Frenchv’s Black eat restaurant on
his way to work.
SEARCH FRUITLESS.
A search for him was
fruitless.
The trail was picked up here Mon
day when Sheriff M. E. Elliott of
Gainesville, sent word he had infor
mation which would lead him to the
murderers of the man buried in a
pauper’s field, whom he believed to
be Evers.
What tho clues to the murder are.
Sheriff Stevens does not know and
Alfonso Newton, chief deputy, bus
sent the Gainesville sheriff all the in
formation he has and has asked for
Ihe facts.
FACTS UNKNOWN
Deputy Newton does not know
when the alleged murder occurred iu
Gainesville, but it is supimsed that it
happened recently.
Officers here believe the East Tox
as sheriff must have some startling
evidence to connect the case with
that of the missing San Antonian mid
a deputy sheriff will be sent to tho
scene as soon as word has corue that
the body has been exhumed.
STILLMANS STUDY
‘MIND HARMONIES’
LONDON, April s.—OB—Mr. nnd
Mrs. Jann's A. Stillman, who recent
ly came across the ocean on a “recon
ciliation honeymoon,” after the 'ail
ing off of divorce proceedings last
ing several years, arc said by the
Daily Express to he in London nt
present making daily visits to the
office of Dr. H. G. Baynco, “where
the fundamentals of psyeo-analysis arc
being applied to help them retain
harmonious minds.”
DOLLAR BOOSTS SHIP
BID TO $5,000,000
WASHINGTON. April 6.—OP)—A
of $1,500,090 for the five liners oper
ated out of Seattle by the Admiral-
Oriental line was submitted to the
shipping Board today by R. Stanley
Dollar. The figure is an increase of
$1,500,000 o -er his previous offer.
MITCHELL EXAMPLE
BARRED BY ORDER
WASHINGTON, April B.—oP»—
Secretary of War Davis is having a
plan drawn up to prevent another of
ficer following Colonel Mitchell's ex
ample in making 37 flights in one day
in order to collect flying pay allow
anccs.
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San Antonio. Texas.
Missing San Antonian !
Believed Slain and Body :
Buried in North Texas!
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Chris Evers, missing San Antonio butcher, believed to have been m
tiered, is shown holding his twe-yenr-eld daughter, Bernice.
TOBIN ASSURES COMPLETION
OF DAM BEFORE FALL RAINS
Additional money will be expended and expert engi
neers called into conference to insure completion of the
Olmos dam before the fall rains set in, Mayor John W.
Tobin declared Tuesday. •*
Thomas J. Cummings of
Houston, one of the four out
standing engineers of the
State, has been asked to come here
for a conference, the mayor said, and
will be asked to pass on the length
<»f time required for setting concrete I
in the forms.
SILENT ON ( OST
Additional forms must be purchased, ■
the mayor declared Tuesday, but d•- (
dined to say who will pay the bill, j
the contractor or the city.
Mayor Tobin’s annouic <*m ent Tues
day followed a meeting of the flood
prevention committee Monday when I
it developed that > the present rate
the dam will not be finished in the
specified time. The limited supply
of concrete forms, it developed, tbren:
ens to cause the delay.
MAY BUY FORMS.
Completion of the Cam by Septem
ber 1. should be accomplished even
if it is necessary for the city to re
imburse the contractor for purchas
ing inure forms, according to the con
sensus of opinion at the Monday
meeting.
The meeting was held in the
of Mayor John W. Tobin, ■ 1 j
by Colonel 8. F. me» r, ;
nn progres*
u. ti r company. '
is «s that
en (lays,
■ uch the job
mid be Novem-
GRASS cuvrrs Southwest Texas
ranges and Ilic northern stock
; yards know it- I). V. Scanlon,
traveling representative of the Kan
sas City Stork Yards company,
staying at tiie St. Anthony hotel is
enthusiastic over livestock prospects
in this district. "Will the cattle
man get a better price for his stock
this year?" he was asked. "That 1
can’t say, because I am down here
to buy cattle, but believe me the
pientifulness of green grass on the
ranges is not going to hurt the
ranchers any." he answered.
AW. MILLS, real estate man
• ot Pine Bluff, Ark., stopping
at the Gunter hotel after a trip
di.itu to Corpus Christi says: “The
well known star boarder can show a
lot uf speed in asking for a second
heiptOC. About the same speed is
'boon iu the way Corpus Christi
real estate is changing hands. 1
v ent down there to investigate with
I a view of making some invest
ments." "Did you nuke them?" he
was asked. "1 can’t say,” he smiled,
hut in doing so he left a lot of room
for imagining.
TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1926.
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Ministers Will Ask Oil
" Companies to Close
on Sabbath.
Complete Sunday obserTance in San ।
Antonio of the state blue laws may
be sought. ♦
Th?h was brought out at a meet
ing of the San Antonio Ministerial
Alliance at which the alliance went
on record a< opposing any change in
the present j|ry laws, declaring the
straw vote of no significance, and
appointed a committee to visit the
heads of the oil companies in an ef
fort to reverse the decision to keep
gasoline filling stations open on
Sunday.
AGAINST GASOLINE SALE.
Recommendations to dose (he fill- i
ing stations brought out the fact that '
members of the alliance do not favor j
making a target of them but consider
that all other business should come
under the same rule.
The Kev. M. H. Keen, pastor of
Alamo Methodist church and secre
tary of the alliance, in a statement
following the meeting said:
“Chief objection to the decision of
the oil companies to remain open on
Sundays is in its violation of the
spirit of the Sabbath. I believe the
churches should take the broad and
magnanimous stand that the oil com
panies are no more reprehensible than •
drugstore and movjug picture theaters ।
and that they should not be made a
target of.
FAVORS CHANGE.
“Laws of the country,” he said,
‘‘arc based on the Bible and only
such things ns are needed for the
actual relief of suffering should be
sold on Sundays.”
While he does not consider the na
tional straw vote taken by the news
papers on the subject of repeal or,
modification of the present laws a*
important, the Rev. J, L. Yclvington.
pastor of the Baptist Temple, ami a
leader of the alliance, said a modifica
tion of the law would be a good thing
for prohibition.
ATTACKS POLL.
“If the law were repealed or modi
fied,” he said. “prohibition would
show its real strength. It would* do
the prohibition forces good for the
reason that they are now resting on
the laurels of their groat victory and
need to be awakened.*
Church members ami prohibition
ists, however, he said, are not wor
ried by the present situation as the
poll does not represent the majority.
More than 10,000 of the most ardent
prohibition supporters did not vote
in the poll, he said, ns was illustrated
at three of the largest church meet
ings held in the city since it began.
TWENTY-TWO PAGES TWO CENTS
‘CINDERELLA’
WEDDING
FOUGHT
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Effcrts Made to Take Girl
From Custody cf Her
M o t h e r.
NEW YORK. April W»)—Ef-
forts are being made to take 15-year
old Francos Heenan, self-announced
fiancee of Edward VC. Br >wning,
wealthy real estate operator, from
the custody of her mother.
Vincent T. Pisarra, superintendent
of rhe Sock ty for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, plans to appear
before the children's court with af
fidavits to show that the mother is
an unfit guardian.
BERN’S INVESTIGATED.
He began an investigation into life
relations of the high school girl ami
■ Her 51-ycar-old admirer that she bad
I been burned mysteriously with acid
; ami that she expected to marry
Browning shortly after her sixteenth
birthday in June.
Pisarra’s complaint is based large
ly on evidence given by Mrs. Mary
Conlin, rooming house keeper, who
said she ousted the Heenans as “un
desirable tenants.” Mr. Pisarra
she told of parties in the Heenan
home, of which the neighbors com
plained.
LN C(H KT BEFORE.
Browning's earlier “Cinderella” en*
ture also ended in court. That was
• last summer, when he advertised for
1 a 14-y ear-old girl to be a playmate
* to his adopted daughter, Dorothy Sun
shine Browning, 11 years old. Mary
Louise Spas was selected from 22,000
applicants, and the adoption was an
nulled in the surrogate's court after
investigation by Byrd S. Color, com
missioner of public welfare, had
shown that Miss Spas was 21 years
uld. _
PLANES IN AFRICA
ON MANILA FLIGHT
FRENCH NORTH AFRICA, April
G.— (AU —The plane piloted by Cap
rain Estevez, leader of the Spanish
Madrid-to-Manila flight, landed at the
Maison-Blancho flying field here at
2 o’clock this afternoon. The two
other Spanish planes continued their
flight to Bengasi, Tripoli, without
stopping her. The three planes took
off from Algiers this morning.
DECLARATION OF WAR
9 YEARS OLD TODAY
By Universal Service.
WASHINGTON, April 6. — Nine
years ago today the United States de
clared war against Germany. Ou the
same anniversary 17 years ago, Ad
miral Robert E. Peary discovered the
North Pole
This Cat i
‘Lost’
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j | GREENWICH, Conn., April ]
I | 6.—An advertisement in the j I
• “Lost and Found” column of a I i
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I | local newspaper for a pct cat j I
! which had strayed or been stolen j |
j from its home was reported here | !
| to have been answered by the cat f 1
1 ’ itself.
| The eat appeared at the door |
i ! of the newspaper office a few ]
| hours after the paper had ap- i
i peared on the street, (
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SURE SUMMER SIGN,
JARBOE ON DUTY IN
HIS SHIRT SLEEVES
Summer is now with us. No douht
about i..
.1. 11. Jarboe, official weather ob
server, was working in his shirt
sleeves Tuesday.
Forecasting warm weather for
Tuesday night and Wednesday, ac
companied by probable local shower*.
Mr. Jarboe would not commit himself
except to say that summer had a<tu
ally arrived.
But he could not deny the fact that
a coat was so hot that he had to
work with out it.
POLICE CLUB GIRL
IN STRIKE BATTLE
I'ASSAIC. N. J.. April G.—MP)-
I'ifty Passaic police today battled 1
1000 textile strikers at Wallington !
Bridge, arresting 10 loaders and re
ceiving in ; return a prolonged shower ’
of rocks ami stones.
Police used their clubs on the had 1
ers, who included Nancy Snndowsky.
known as the strikers’ “Joan of Arc.”
She has been arrested several times.
BURGLARS PUT SAFE
ON TRUCK; ESCAPE
HAMILTON. Tex.. April G.—OP)— '
Burglars entered the Texas Company
offices during last night, loaded the
safe on a truck and took it away wit?
them and at an early hour this morn
ing no clue had been found of cither
; the burglars or the safe.
j C. R. Taylor, proprietor of the oil
! station, said the safe contained about
। s<m in cash and checks.
SELMA CONDUCTS
FARM CONFERENCE
An agricultural meeting was belt
at Selma Tuesday under the auspices
of O. B. Rollins ami Miss Ida Rey
nolds of the San Antonio Chamber of
Commerce. Cultivation ami preserva
tion of corn and other crops were dis
cussed.
MERCHANTS TOLD
OF FIESTA PARADE
Trades parades during the Fiesta
will form en Avenue E near Fourth
street, Fiesta association heads ad
vised merchants Tuesday.
REED POKES
HUMOR AT
ANDREWS
ON STAND
Prohibition Head Only
Witness of Day for
Wet Cause.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. April ft—
—By the testimony of General
Andrews, the government's own en
forcement chief, leaders of the wet
cause Fought again today to prove at
least a part of the indictment they
have brought against prohibition.
Resuming their questioning before
i he Senate Prohibition committee, they
asked the general about corruption in
the prohibition forces, diversion of
alcohol, blind tiger drugstores, and
many other elements which the wit
ness conceded to be involved in the
enforcement situation. But he insist
ed that steps were being taken and
would be taken to minimize objection
able features of the dry regime.
BIG CROWD.
A dense crowd again overran the
committee room for the second of the
six days of hearings allotted the wets.
Next week six days will be given the
drys. whose chief counsel. Wayne B.
Wheeler, made his first appearance in
the committee room today while Gen
eral Andrews was testifying. The
Anti-Saloon League official arrived
late and squeezed into a sent near
the witness.
As he replied to the questions of
Julien Codman of Boston, counsel for
the wets, General Andrews slouched
down in the big witness chair and
puffed occasionally al a cigarette. He
answered in a low voice, hardly audi
ble at the end of the room.
uiv in mt: ruu oi me room.
FINED FOK BRIBERY.
The examination went first to the
575 employes of the prohibition unit
who have been discharged. Of these
121 went out on charges of “bribery
and extortion”; SO others for falsify
ing expense accounts and 21 lor mak
ing false statements in applying for
positions.
Taken into the field of akohol di
versions, General Andrew* Mid dut
since prohibition, 30 denature g plant*
have been established.
“I regard these as bootlegging es
tablishments.” he said. “There i* go
economic necessity for them, and it
is from them that the alcohol is
diverted.”
SCORES DRUGGISTS.
He told alao how “so-called dßig
gista” going into the busiuree to sell
whiskey, were seriously injured vbe
business of bote st druggists.
“I am working on a law* now that
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