San Antonio light. [volume], April 07, 1926, HOME EDITION, Image 1

About San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993

Image provided by: University of North Texas; Denton, TX

                
Pin J
loday
Suzanns’t Family.
Easter in Jerusalem.
Much Beer, No Liquor.
Practical Japan.
By Arthur Brisbane
1 Cotyyrigr.t. IIZ6 by Etar Co
SUZANNE LENGLEN is to be
married and every stirpicultur
ist, convinced that the race can
be improved by scientific selection of
parents, will be interested in tLe
French champion's children.
The happy husband-to-be is Jac
ques Brindejones Offenbach, grand-
Son of Offenbach, who composed the
music for the “Tales of Hoffmann,”
including the “0 Belle Nuit, O Nuit
D’Amour" song.
Madame lenglen’S young
man, inheriting his grand
father's talent, is a poet of ability,
fiuzaune Lenglen, with her marvel
ous co-ordination of mind, nerves and
muscles, and her ardent tempera
ment would have wonderful children.
With the right father.
On the other hand, the children
may not even be able to play tennis.
You can't breed humans by any
known rule.
PpHESE nre exciting Easter days in
I* Jerusalem and the Angel Gabriel
i keeping track of us all, hns one of
his usiest weeks.
i Mohammedans are there, praying
; where Mohammed prayed, .Tows re
turned to Jerusalem to weep over
' vanished glories at the foot of the
great wall, Christians of all kinds,
Protestants, Catholics and Greeks
gathered in memory of the cruci
fixion. Tn former days Turkish sol
diers worked hard to keep Christians
| pf different kinds apart, that they
A plight not slaughter each other.
CONGRESSMAN CAREW, Demo
crat, from New York, intro
duces a bill to prohibit manufacture,
bale, importation and exportation of
distilled liquors and legalizing beer,
wines and other beverages not ois
fillcd. That is exactly what Thomas
Jefferson advised.
Not everybody realizes that distill
ed spirits are a recent invention of
JBatan, like cocaine and other drugs.
Whiskey, which is a habit-forming
drug, was unknown, except perhaps
to a few chemists, in Shakespeare's
day, and all the way back through
Antiquity.
MI7HILE others talk, the practical
I” Japanese go straight ahead.
Recently they completed a gigantic,
long distance bombing airplane, so
big it took seven railroad cars to
harry it.
Yesterday Japan added to her pow
erful fleet a huge submarine 0f.2000
|ons, with all the latest devices, in
binding heavy guns, a war submar
ine able to cross any ocean, able to
harry and release flying machines.
While the United States solemnly
discusses beer and the right of citi
pena to select their beverages, Japan
attends to things more important.
SAN DIEGO reports that a Japan
ese offer to colonize and develop
8,000,000 acres in Mexico has been
rejected. Public sentiment in Mex
ico. as in Canada, the United States,
pud all North and South America,
Would oppose Asiatic colonization and
domination.
This means no lack of respect for
Jhe Japanese, competent intelligent,
determined and industrious. It
tneans, rather a frank confession
that our average inhabitant could not
■successfully compete with the aver-
Ige Japanese.
CARL RUSSO, sophomore at
Rochester University, thinks be
Is an atheist and is viee president of
a childish college society called “The
Dnmned Souls.” He is suing C. N.
Howard, chairman of the United
States prohibition enforcement com
mittee, for £lO,OOO. saying Howard
libeled him.
How eould you libel a self-con-
Ceased “damned soul?” How can a
man who calls himself an atheist
believe that be has ANY kind of
Boul, damned or saved?
No God. no soul, surely.
THE House of Representatives vot
ing 306 to 60 to impeach Judge
Rnglish. indicates that the Ku Klux
Klan is less powerful in the House
than it was. Representative Graham,
head of the House judiciary commit
tee declared that the klan was back
of Judge English. Evidently the
House is not, as was once stated,
“one half Ku Klux Klan at heart."
CHICAGO'S PAVING
WILL BE CONCAVE
CHICAGO. April 7.—OPT—Street
pavement constructed hereafter in
Chicago will have a concave surface
instead of <-ouvcx, the board of local
improvements has decided. This means
that the center of the roadway will
be lower than the surface at the
curbs.
• John J. Sloan, board president said
that the center draining pavement i*
more sanitary over all conditions of
weather, more desirable from a traffic
standpoint and costa less than the
convex type.
MUSSOLINI SHOT BY WOMAN
| Black Shirt Dictator :
i Wounded as He Walks j
: With Cheering Crowd]
ASSASSIN’S BULLET HITS
ITALIAN PREMIER IN NOSE
ROME, April 7.— (ZP) —An attempt was made to
assassinate Premier Mussolini this morning A woman
fired a revolver point blank at him but he escaped with a
slight wound.
Mussolini was shot
the nose.
The shooting occurred
while hr wan leaving the session of
the Congress of International Sur
gery in the Place di Capitole to cnt°r
bis automobile.
The detail* of the attempt on the
premier ns given out by the semi’
official agency, follow:
ACCiaiMKO BY CROWD.
After the inauguration of the In
ternational Congress of Surgery-the
premier came out of the rapitol, ac
companied by several doctors, among
them the famous Italian surgeon,
Guiaeppe Rnstianclll, and other
members of the congress.
The crowd acclaimed the premier
and a group of foreign students sang
the Fascist hymn. Mussolini respond
ed by smiling jnd saluting with his
hand. He walked toward the middle
of the square to reach his automobile.
WOMAN FIRES.
As he was crossing the square, sur
rounded by crowds, a woman of about
50, dressed in a, dark gown, drew a
revolver. Stretching out both arms
she pressed the muzzle against Mus
solini's face and fired. The bullet
struck the lower part of his nose.
The police prefect and a captain
of Caribinicri and a policeman seized
the woman just as she was about to
fire again, and took her out of the
crowd, which threatened her.
Mussolini dapped his hand to his
nose and drew it away covered with
blood. Dr. Bastianelli immediately
placed his handkerchief over the
wound, holding it in such a way as to
prevent a hemorrhage.
PREMIER CALM.
Mussolini and his entourage re
turned to the vestibule of the capiUd
where the surgeons dressed his wound.
The premier lost none of his calm and
reassured the notables who quickly
(Continued On l’age 2.)
Premier
Mussolini
of Italy,
wounded
by an
assassin’s
bullet
Wednes
day.
Inter
national
Newsreel
photo.
*
lI7ORLD travelers sooner or later
” make San Antonio a port of
call. Its romace. its colorful his
tory is carried by them to the far
corners of the world. John E.
Cook, globe trotter, his bags stamped
with such names as Singapore, Cal
cutta. Port Said, and Paris, stop
ping at the Gunter hotel, looked out
of his room Wednesday morning at
the bright * sunshine and exclaimed
"good. 1 ’ "And charming," added he
who is familiar with the interesting
places of the earth.
IF collect ions are good that is a
mighty good indication of busi
ness conditions, says N. Fleisch, cot
ton fabric man of New York, regis
tered at the St. Anthony hotel. "So
business must be good down here
for the merchants tell me that col
lections are coming in with more
than usual promptness," he de
clared. "I am a conservative busi
ness man and I don't believe in
rash sattements, but in my opinion
1928 will be 1000 per cent better
year for this country than 1925
was."
General henry hutch-
INGS, former adjutant gen
eral and now vice president of the
State Mortgage Corporation, lives
in Fort Worth, has his office in
Dallas and comes to San Antonio
whenever he can get the opportun
ity. “Dallas folks ean't help- talk
ing about San Antonio's develop
ment program, in fart the whole
state hi talking it,” the general de
clares.
<7- san
. Sition
Member of The Associated Press.
VOL. XLVI—NO. 79. Comp “ r
BUCKNER BARES 11. S.
COURT CORRUPTION
Duncan, Brooks Chiefs Relieved
RALPH ROYCE
ORDERED ID
VIRGINIA
Major Frank D. Lackland
to Be Shifted From
S. A. Command.
Two of San Antonio's aviation
fields will have new commanders aft
er July 1, it became known Wednes
day, with the announcement that
Major Ralph Royce, commander of
Brooks Field, and Major Frank It.
Lackland, commander of Duncan
Field, will be relieved of duty here.
Major Royce will be succeeded by
Major James E. Chaney, who will
take command upon the completion of
his course at the Command and Gen
eral Staff School at Leavenworth.
ROYCE TO VIRGINIA.
Major Lackland, who was Eighth
Corps Area air officer before going
to Duncan Field, will be relieved by
Major John H. Pirie, who also will
come from the general staff school.
Major Lackland came to San An
tonio in 1921. After a year as air
officer at corps area headquarters, be
was placed in command of Duncan
Field.
From San Antonio, Major Royce
goes to the Tactical School at Lang
ley Field, Virginia, for a year ol
study. He came to San Antonio four
years ago when the primary flying
school was transferred here from
Carlstrom Field, Florida.
TRAINING EXPERT.
Major Royce, wbo is considered the
leading expert of the army on flying
training, has been in the Air Service
since 1915.
His successor entered the Air Serv
ice during the World War and spent
four years in Italy as military at
tache. Upon his return to America be
spent a year at the Tactical School
and now neaes completion of his
course at the general staff school.
ASPHALT STARTS
BLAZE AT PLANT
Damage was held to $5O when fire
started at the Alamo Paving company
near Dawson and Walnut streets
Wednesday. The fire department ex
tinguished what might have been a
very disastrous blaze when a quantity
of hot asphalt became ignited.
JADWIN NOMINATED
TO HEAD ENGINEERS
WASHINGTON, April 7.—M»)—
Brigadier General Edgar Jadwin was
nominated by President Coolidge to
day to be chief of army engineers
with the rank of major general, suc
ceeding General Harry Taylor, who
retired in June.
SENATE READY FOR OUSTER
WASHINGTON. April
The Senate today .nfortned the House
that it was ready to receive the man
agers appointed to prosecute the im
peachment charges against Federal
Judge W. English, of Illinois.
U. S. BISHOP
OUSTED BY
MEXICO
Apostolic Delegate Given
72 Hours to Leave
Country.
By lnivers.l Service.
MEXICO CITY. April 7.—Bishop
George Joseph Caruana, apostolic del
egate. who recently arrived in Mexico,
has been given 72 hours in which to
depart, according to El Sol, which
quotes the chief'of the cabinet to this
effect.
The bishop is an American citizen,
and is generally understood to have
evaded the anti-foretgn clergy clause
of the constitution by not officiating in
churches or appearing in jniblic in his
ministerjpl garb.
It is known that he was called into
conference by the cabinet chiefs, but
what transpired has been withheld.
MRS. SARAH BYFIELD
DIVORCES HUSBAND
WHO SUED CANDLER
ATLANTA. April 7.—OP)—Mrs.
Sarah G. Byfield was in possession
of her first decree of divorce from
Clyde K. Byfield today. Her suit in
Fulton Count}’ Superior Court was
uncontested.
Mrs. Byfield figured as one of the
principals in a suit for damages
against Walter Candler of Atlanta, in
which Candler was alleged to have
conducted himself improperly toward
Mrs. Byfield aboard the Bercngaria
two years ago. Mr. Byfield subse
quently won a suit from Mr. Candler
for around $20,000 on a note in con
nection with the same affair.
DISABLED VESSEL
BEING TOWED HOME
CORDOVA. ALASKA. Arpil 7.—
—Radio advices received here yes
terday said that, th" steamship West
Niger had taken the disabled freighter
Wheatland Montana in tow and was
bound for Cape Flattery at the en
trance to the strait of Juan De Fuca.
The Wheatland Montana lost her
propeller in the North Pacific ocean
1200 miles southwest of here last week
while en route from China to Puget
Sound.
BOND SUIT DEMANDS
MOODY OKAY ISSUE
AUSTIN, Aril 7.—GP)-The Su
preme Court today granted motion of
Tom Green <-ounty to file petition for
mandamus against Attorney General
Dan Moody to compel him to approve
a $300,0Q0 road bond issue. Motion
to advance was granted. This is ex
pected to be a test as a result of the
recent decision of the United States
Supreme Court in the Archer county
bond case
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1926.
-f‘|
) ! Death Claims ;
I Broker, Pioneer i
; S. A. Resident •
JOHN ZADICH
Aged Citizen Had Lived in
Alamo City for 45
Years.
John Zadich, 84, 203 Madison street,
pioneer San Antonian, died at his resi
dence at 2:10 Wednesday morning.
Mr. Zadich celebrated his 84thbirth
day March 30.
Notification of his death was sent
to a brother and two sisters in Kumpe.
He was born in Hamburg. Ger
many. in 1542, and came to the
United States in 1880. He came to
San Antonio in 1881 and lived here
continuously since then.
At first he was employed in the
firm of A. B. Frank company. Later
he became a member of the commis
sion firm of Guenther and Zadich,
and several years later he established
himself in the merchandise brokerage
business. He retired in 1924.
Ho was an active and honorary
memtier of the Casino club and many
other social and welfare organizations.
OIL TANK EXPLODED
BY LIGHTNING BOLT
SAN LUIS OBISPO, April 7.-
GFl—Explosion of a Union Oil Com
pany underground storage reservoir,
near hero, which was struck by light
ning today, broke hundreds of win
dows here and rocked the city. Three
other tanks caught fire and work
men constructed barricades to pre
vent the oil boiling over and spread
ing through the field.
2 SPANISH PLANES
ARRIVE IN BERGAZI
BERGAZI. Cyrcnaica, April 7.—
Two of the Spanish airplanes flying
from Madrid to Manila, commanded
by Captain Loriga and Gonzales-Gal
larza, arrived here early thia after
noon from Tripoli.
mum ft?\TTC Per cjpy In city and viclmt,
IWU VljiNlO rive cent* on trains end elsewhere.
N, Y. FEDERAL RUH
BARTENDERS’ PARADISE,
SENATE INQUIRERS TOLD
WASHINGTON, April 7.—(/P) —An intimate picture
of the trail of lawlessness and corruption uncovered iri
prohibition enforcement in New York was given to a
Senate committee today by Emory R. Buckner, federal
district attorney for the metropolis.
An “atmosphere of colln-J
sion” in the federal building
was described by the wit
ness. He told of finding a
seething mass of "fixers," bootleggers,
waiters and others in the building
when he took office 13 months ago. '
JIROKS BRIBED
Jurors were bribed even in the ;
federal building itself, Buckner said, ;
"but these conditions are now im- j
proved and the courts arc catching up
with their dockets.
Alcohol diversion was described by
the witness as the major difficulty in
enforcement. Diversion now amounts
to 60,000,000 gallons a year, he said,
over the entire country.
“You mean 60.000.000 In one
year?" asked Chairman Means.
“Yes, one year,” Buckner said.
There appeared to be no falling off
in the interest in the prohibition hear
ings. the committee room again being
crowded with an overflow into the
halls.
NIGHT SESSION.
To speed up the proceedings, the
committee decided to hold a session to
night. That will take up the unused
hours the wets now have accumulated
to their credit because of the failure
to hold afternoon sessions as origin
ally planned. They arc to have the
equivalent of six four-hour hearings
this week, and next week a like
amount of time will be set aside for
the drys.
District Attorney Buckner proceed
ed most of the time, in his own way
with Senator Reed. Democrat, Mis
souri. the one wet on the committee,
putting in an occasional question.
WRONG MACHINERY.
“T regard the prohibition law as a
declaration of war on the liquor traf
fic." said District Attorney Buckner
at the outset of his testimony. “It
seems to me too many people regard
it as a treaty of peace.
“I have no doubt the prohibition
law could be enforced in my district
if we had the right kind of machinery.
It has never been tried either by the
state or the federal government, be
cause with the kind of federal courts
we have, where jury trials are neces
sary, police law cannot be enforced
in auch a congested district as New
York City.”
Describing conditions in New York
when be took office, Buckner said
state and federal officers were arrest-
(Continued on Page 2)
BODY FOUND
BELIEVED
EVERS
With the identification of a man
murdered at Gainesville la*t Monday
ns Chris Evers, missing San Antonio
butcher, Sheriff Jim Stevens Wednes
day believes the mystery surrounding
his disappearance here a year ago
will be cleared and the guilt? brought
to justice.
A telegram from the sheriff of
Cooke county says the description of
Evers tallies exactly with that of the
man found slain and that the move
ments nf Evers checks with those ot
the victim.
A gobi tooth in the right side of
the mouth of the victim may be the
means of positive identificatioa before
relatives and officers leave for the
North Texas city where the body will
be exhumed.
Evers conducted a butcher shop
here and owned considerable property.
He was last, seen on the morning ot
March 28. 1925. when he ate break
fast in the Black Cat cafe.
AVI A TOR ORDERED
TO DUTY IN NEW YORK
First Lieutenant C. M* K. RoWn
son, operations officer of the Third
Attack Group, Kelly Field, ha* been
ordered to New York for three months
duty on detached sen ice.
During his absence First Lieut*
ant R. C. Zettel will art as operation*
officer for the group.
22 SECOND TREMOR
ROCKS AZORE ISLE
I.ONDON. April 7.—OR—A dis
patch to Lloyd, from Horta, I.land
of Fayal, in the A sores, reporU that
an earthquake waa felt there yester
day evening, causing some damage.
Tb<- shock lasted 22 swonds.
The Cape Ilinho lighthouse was
slightly damaged.