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Today
Hanged By the Neck.
Liver for Babies.
Immortality, Or Noth
ing.
To Enjoin Chaplains.
By Arthur Brisbane
IS2S by Stat Co-
CHAPMAN has been “banged by
the neck until dead,” for kill
ing a policeman.
Capital punishment is out of place
in a civilized nation. But while
capital punishment stands, it should
be applied to such men as Chapman.
His appeal for mercy before the
pardons board in Connecticut was
dramatic and pitiful. Denouncing
the district attorney that convicted
him. he said of his hanging. “I think
it is pretty rotten.” Chapman's law
yer Baid life client, “did not have a
dog's chance.” But killing a police
man doing his duty was also "pretty
rotten.” and that policeman did not
have a dog’s chance.
/CHAPMAN was. in part, the result
of our apparently unavoidable
system of education in crime. He
bad been for years an ordinary sneak
thief, of a mean kind, swindling
women. Then a prison term brought
him in contact with “Dutch” Ander
son, a more desperate criminal, who
explained to him the advantages of
“higher crimes.” Both were in At
lanta’s Federal prison. Both escaped,
Chapman twice.
«TV TUB” ANDERSON. pursued
by a young detective, shot ami
mortally wounded his pursuer. But
as the courageous young man lav
dying, hr shot his murderer dead.
Now the hangman confers upon
Chapman the last and highest “de
gree” of the University of Crime.
WE are, first what our parents
and distant ancestors make us;
wcond. what, our surroundings make
u*. and third, what WE EAT.
TVR. E. H. FISHBERG, from Cer
many, says the new crop of
babies is infinitely .superior to the
war-born babies. The latter, half
starved. now !<• to 14 years of age,
have the minds of normal children
-aged four.
Dr. Fishbcrg’s news is that Ger
man babies, fed on chopped liver,
thrive on it because of its richness
in vitamins. Babies in Berlin's char
ity hospital g*t no milk after the
age of two months, ami chopped
liver makes them grow to la* sturdy
and beautiful human specimens.
But. don’t change ynur baby from
milk to chopped liver without asking
the doctor.
R/fANY clergymen on Sunday
preached on mortality, ns well
they might. EVERY SUNDAY. To
those now living the only IMBOR
TANT question is. "Shall we live I
herba ft er?”
Her. C. E. Wngn«r, of the M. llio
dist Episcopal church, says Iwlicf in
immortality is growing feeble. He
knows, undoubtedly, but the state
merit is amazing.
What is worth while if the bo|ie
of immortality be taken nwnj ? “The
anti-fact ion of providing for your
ebildn n. wbb’h is a kind of immor
tality.” you may say. What satis
faction is that, if children in their
turn are born only to die ami for
ever remain dead?
But Immortality IS nql. Matter
and force are indestructible Would
the wisdom that controls this uni
verse doom CONSCIOUSNESS. the
light nf the soul, to eternal death,
while giving perpetual existence to
force ami matter?
MR. ELLIOTT, of Jamaica. L. 1.,
who represent* atheists, wants
an Injunction forbidding the govern
ment to spend m«mr) on Army ami
Navy chaplains mid chaplains serv
ing in Congnvs. To push this de
mand the “American Association for
the Advancement of Atheism” plans
a banquet in Washington.
T~~ HE Army has 125 chaplains, the
Navy S 4». in the Officers Re
serve Corps agid National Guard.
1200 clergymen, priests and rabbis
bold commissions.
Olio demand of the niheists is silly
and unpatriotic. If anything in this
world needs praying for it is the
Congress, the Army ami the Navy
of the United States—espri ially the
aviation departments. Two chaplains
should pray night and day for them.
INCREASEIN onion
TARIFF ADVOCATED
WASHINGTON. D. C„ April 9.—
GP)—Thr Tariff commission has been
asked by Representative Chalmers, Re
imblirnn. Ohio, to investigate the
condition of onion growers with a
view to raising the tariff on the
product.
THIEF ROBS WOM4N
OF GOLD BAND RING
' A prowler entered the residence of
Mik. W. P. Yeary. 318 Seventh
street. and stole a gold bnpd ring, nc
rording to n rejmrt made at de tec
five bendquartcra Friday.
Scouts May Use Ring
Around Moon to Hold
Keys to 1,000 Locks
Arthur Michael Jr., with more than HMM) keys which unlock the doors
of the new Boy Scout home on Broadway.
MAYOR FIRM!
ON OLMOS
STAND
Tobin Insists Dam Must
Be Built on Time and
Contract Observed.
Definite action will be taken M»n
dny to comia l th.' McKenzie Construc
tion company to comply with the
specifications in the contract for -oil
strm tion of the'Olmos dam. The dam
must Ik completed within the spec!-
fied time and the conente lx- nllowed
IO set in the forms seven days.
Mayor John W. Tobin made this
announcement when informed that
Robert .1. Cummins, expert engineer,
will not be able »" eomc here f,,r H
conference. Mr. Cummins had been
invited to confer with the Flood
Prevention committee regarding the
swt/nig of concrete when a difference
arose between S. F. Crecoliux. flood
pretention engi and the con
stiucihm company. Mr. Cummins is
on his honeymoon and will not return
until after April 21, the m»s»r was
informed.
mi «•« in’ «•-
t AIJ. COMMITTEE.
.Mayor Tobin immediately made
preparations to call the Fhxxl Pre
vention committee together Monday
when definite action will be, taken.
The committee will meet with the city
rommis.Mion.
Mayor Tubin said hr will confer
with the city cummiMsioiicrM mean
while, and MUggest that they join him
indemnnding that the con/ruction
company comply with the contract.
MI NT COMPLY.
A. J. McKenzie, head of the con-
Ntnu timi «*ompany. told the flood pre
vention committee Tuesday that with
the one steel form now available for
Betting concrete, it will be imiiowiblv
to complete the project by August 13.
the specified time claimed by thr city.
PurchaNing of additional forms. hr
said, would entail an expenditure of 1
$15,000. Mr. McKenzie claimed three
and one half days is sufficient time
for the concrete to set, but thr flood
isrevention engineer held that seven
days is required.
The flood prevention engineer, tn<*
mayor said, will be bucked up at thr
Monday inerting and the construc
tion company required to take th’
necessary steps to comply with tb»
rout rad.
SPANISH AIRMAN
ARRIVES IN CAIRO
(’AIKO, Egypt. April. April It. —
I’nptuin Estcvaz, .sunmundcr of th'
Kpnnish Madrid-to-MaaHa flying ex
iwditfon, arrived here today from
Bcnguzi, rejoining his comrades who
arrived yesterday. •
Lad Valiantly Tests Every
Lock in Joske Memorial
Home for Boys.
There’s a “weighty” problem be
fore the Roy Scouts in San Antonio,
It’s how to acquire a key ring bij
enough to hold nearly 1000 keys t’
doors nnd in the new Josk<
Memorial Scout home on Broadwaj
I.AD TESTS I. 0( KS
Arthur Michael Jr., sou of the
scout rommiwloncr. already has found
what a “burden” they must bear.
When the contractor turned the
keys over tn Smut officials, young
Michael, one of thj smallest and
youngest wonts in the rity. whs «om
missioned to test all locks.
TRYING TASK.
The youthful scout performed hi*
misAion but was nearly exhausted
when the job was completed.
Be Ihin cautioned his pan tits not t”
put on the night lateh at his home as
he doesn’t believe he will he able tv
open another hxk for some time.
SURGEONS EXPECT
MUSSOLINI WOUND
TO VANISH IN TIME
ROME. April 9.- DP) -Dr. Ales
ndr> ami Bastinnelh, surgeons who
ministered to Muesolini when
he was shot through thr nose \Ved
i;es<ray. are of the opinion that he
will not be disfiguml by the wound.
They exjiect the wound to leave n
sear which gradually will become less
and less noticeable.
LENGLEN TO STAR
IN U. S. PICTURES
NIUE. April 9.—OP)—Ja<x|iirs Of
fonbach pmbnbly nerd not worry if
his poems fail to sell wrll. Suznnnr
Lenglen will be Madame Offenbnrh
presumably when she stars in the
movies in'the United States for
'KMI or so.
WOMAN’S BENEFIT
DINNER SCHEDULED
Alamo Review No. 22. Woman’s
Benefit aiwnrintioD. will entertain
with a dinner, honoring thr fathers
and Mons of members, nt the I friginn I
Mexican restaurant nt S p. m.. Satur
day.
17 IMBIBERS HELD
IN LIQUOR ROUNDUP
Police Friday were searching for
San Antonio’s new boose supply. They
believe it is being dispr..sc<l gratis.
Seventeen drunks were booked with
In two hours Thursilay night. Among
them were several women.
2 BOYS RIFLE CASH
BOX, WOMAN CLAIMS
Police were quizzing two boyi Fri
day in eonnwtion with the theft of
Sl3 from n eaeh register of Rebecen
Galloway. 614 Main avenue. The wo
man furnished police with the uamee
of the si:»i>e<'<(.
Labor Heads Demand
Dry Law Referendum
Hn
- tulTluN
Member of The Associated Press. ——
VOL. XLVI—NO. 81. Pub "* b ' d b M:•A^L^ u •. h L , .T , con ’ p,n7
IIFQOT WELL YIELDS
DIL IN HEART OF COY
Hotel Guest Plunges 19 Stories
MAN LOSES'
GRASP ON
WINDOW
Trapped by Flames, Radio
Corporation Official
Perishes in Fall.
By l nhrr>al Nervier.
CHICAGO. April 9.— Trapped by
fire that broke ojt when a cigarette
guite<l bed <h»thing in his room. L.
I. Aimvworth. president of the Ains
wortb Radio Corporation, of Cinein
lati, and founder of station WMH.
'dunked from the nineteenth floor ol
Ihe Morrison hotel early today and
was (•rushed to death.
Ainsworth made a desperate strug
Je for life. Be clung to the window
ledge screaming for help for fully
five minutes before bis failing strength
comjielled him to loee his hold. Scores
on the street below saw him go down.
A score of hoi el guests beat at the
closed door trying to get into the
room. The door was locked. Hotel
attaches said n pass key failed to
work. A telephone girl who is said
to have received the first call for
aid from the occupant of an adjoin
Ing room believed it a joke and de
layed turning in a fire alarm.
HEARN SCREAMS.
E. P. Ebrite of Philadelphia, oc
cupying an adjoining room, said:
“I heard cries and looked out into
the hall but could spc nothing. When
I returned to my room 1 again heard
the screams of a man. 1 thought it
was down on the street.
“1 threw the window open. I was
horrified.
“Clinging first by one hand and
then by the other Ainsworth was bidd
ing to thr ledge. Smoke was com
ing out of the window just above his
head and I could sec the flicker of
the flames.
“I could do nothing from where
I stood. 1 rushed into the hall and
(billed out. Others were there then,
trying to break in the door. But it
did not budge.
SEES HIM FALL.
“I rushed back to the -window.
Ainsworth was clinging desperately
with our hand. He looked over his
shoulder to the street below. The
smoke wao coming strong.
“His grip loosened. Hr shot
downward. 1 heard a sound like that
of a bursting automobile tire. It
came from his body striking the ce-
ment sidewalk.”
Firemen reached the scene ten min
utes after Ainsworth had fallen. They
burst through thr door and into thr
smoke and flame-filled room. The
fire was extinguishrd quickly.
It was thr theory of the authori
ties who made the investigation that
Ainsworth had fallen asleep with a
lighted cigarette in his hand and the
bed clothing caught fire.
A packet of cigarettes was clutdiv«l
in Ainawortb s hand when he was
picked up from the sidewalk.
I ■ V-/W
■JkUL'llli 'S' V L.'«kl»4kl Ik u:.
JOSEPH T. LEOPOLD, division
manager of the I nited States
Chamber of Commerce, after spend
ing more than 200 nights in Pull
man cars while traveling oeer the
Southwest during the past 12
months has this to say "You folks
have more to go nutty about than
did Florida. Bui I don't believe that
a boom ‘madness’ will be rxperi
enced down here for the simple
reason that you have something on
which to base a great development."
•Mr. Leopold is registered at the
Gunter hotel.
I EOPOLDO Fl MM, Italian
consul general at Chicago, is in
San Antonio to recuperate from an
attack of pneumonia. "Friends in
Chicago told me of San Antonio's
marvelous climate and recommended
that 1 come here to convalesce."
says .Mr. Funini. "So here I am.
.My friends did not overrate your
climate." According to .Mr. Funini.
San Antonio is a favorite winter
resort among Chicagoans. He is
staying at the St. Anthony hotel.
A MERICA is the cleanest nation
on earth and with all of her
cleanliness she is getting cleaner,
declares J. B. Green, official of the
soap company that advertises a
particular brand of its soap to be
99.44 per cent pure. “IVe are pull
ing for the advancement of South
west Texas because development
brings more people and the more
people there are the more ears there
are to be lathered." he added.
MEXICO TO HONOR
AMERICAN VISITOR
By lnivrn»Rl Scrvirr.
MEXICO CITY. April The
Mexican government today engaged a
private ear from the National rail-
ways. to lx* placed nt the dis|»osal ol
Former Governor Sweet of Colorado.
together with a party of friends who
are coming to Mexico to investigate
religious conditions.
Orders have been given, to border
officials to expedite the passage of the
visiting part.V.
WOMAN, 74, KILLED
WHILE SLUMBERING
PHOENIX. Aria.. April 9.—<*>—
Mrs. N. F. Hale. 74. was slain as
she lay asleep in her bed at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Chamberlain,
last night while they slept in an ad
joining room less than 15 feet from
the scene of the crime.
The woman was stabbed through
the left eye, apparently with a small,
sharp instrument, after being gagged.
RIFF-FRENCH PEACE
PARLEY CITY PICKED
PA KIS. April 9.— (4*) —Another
stop toward peaceful settlement of the
trouble in Morocco was taken today.
The town of Oudjda (also spelled
I’jdat near the Moroccan-Algerian
.’rontier, was chosen as the site for
negotiations between the
P ran co-Spanish delegates and repre
sentatives of the Kiffian tribesmen.
FRIDAY. APRIL 9, 1926.
UNION CHIEFS
URGE WINE
I ANO BEER
Wets Hurl Challenge for
National Vote on
Liquor Issue.
WASHINGT(IN. April 9.—(4>)-
Challenging the prohibition legions to
a show-down at the ballot box on
modification of the \ idstead Act.
siMikesmcn for the American Federa
tion of Labor told the Senate Liquor
commit teb today that the working man
wants beer and wino, and would be
better off if he had them.
Galled to tin* witness stand by the
wets, as they mured the end of th«*
week allotted them for presentation
of their testimony, a succession of offi
cials of the Federation and several
of its departments pronounced the
present law a failure. declared it fav
ored the rich at the expense of the
poor, and predicted that a national
referendum would show a majority for
a change.
WIDE RANGE
Their testimony ran a wide range,
it touched on the ability of Governor
Smith to get himself re-elected on a
wet ticket in Now York, on irregulari-
ties in prohibition and inditics in
Ohio, anil on the condition among
seamen in Portland, Ore. Some of the
labor spokesmen opposed the return
of the saloon, but they united in ask
ing for beer and wine.
A picturesque chapter of the testi
mony was recited by Andrew Furu
seth, veteran chief of the seamen's
union, who said that he himself had
been a prohibitionist but had taken
to wine after he reached 90. L’ndoubt*
edly. he said, the “takings and scrap
ings of hell and bedlam.” that make
up the rank and filo of “us seamen"
would be better off with wine and
beer than they are with “jioison grog.”
FIGHT REFEREMH M.
William Roberts, speaking as the
personal representative of President
William Green of the Labor Federa
tion. said the pendulum of public opin
iou surely was swinging away from
the bone-dry policies inaugurated dur
ing the war. The drys, he said, are
fighting a referendum because they
are afraid of the reault.
Ninety-five per cent of the work
ing people in New Jersey favor modi
fication of the Volstead Act, the com
mittee was told by Henry F. Hilfcn,
secretary of the New Jersey State
Federation of Labor, the last witness
of thd day.
lAW BLAMED FOR ( RIME.
“The Volstead Act has been the di
rect result of more crime in New
Jersey than any other thing,” Hilfers
said. “Before we had prohibition,
they say, we had a saloon on every
corner, now we have a still or brewery
ir. every home. They even have com
munity stills. The people in a hotel
will chip in and make a miss of syn-
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TWO CENTS Tr CJP5 ’ ,n eltyand elelan,.
z ’’ V’ viaiiu Mve cents on trains and rl.ewhrr.
; 10,000 Witness
; Wedding of j
! Midget Couple
SAVANNAH. April W— I
* In a bridal suite at the Geiger ,
| hotel fitted with juvenile fur- }
| niture for the especial occasion. •
I Mr. and Mrs. Mattius Mattina I
I were “at home" today.
| Ten thousand persons packed j
[ Forsythe park where yesterday •
t in the handstand Mayor Hall I
I officiated at the wedding of the *
I couple, members of a troupe of ।
| midgets appearing at a local j
I theater.
I The bridegroom is "Ike" of t
। the team “Ike and Mike." and is ।
| a native of Budapest. Hungary. |
• The bride, known O' Princess I
I Marguerite Nickloy. is the daugh- I
| ter of a Gloversville. N. V.. (
J woman. Both bride and bride- {
| groom are less than three feet |
! tall. I
LEGION BACKS MOVE
TO DRAFT INDUSTRY
DURING WARTIMES
WASHINGTON. P. C. April 9.—
OP)—The American Legion drive for
a universal draft of industry as well
as man power in event of war. began
today before the Senate military com
mittee with proponents of the Cap
per hill urging its enactment as “n
peace plan as well ns n preparedness
measure."
John Thomas Taylor, vice ehairman
of the Legion legislative committee,
declared the measure would prevent
delay in mobilization in case war were
declared.
••There will be another emergency.”
he warned, "and we need not blind
ourselves to that.”
BURBANK UNCHANGED,
PHYSICIAN REPORTS
SANTA ROSA. Cal.. April 9. —<*>
Dr. Joseph G. Shaw, physician at
tending Luther Burbank, ill here, gave
out the following bulletin at 11 o’clock
last night:
"The general condition continues
unchanged. Elimination continues
satisfactory. The day has been gener
ally restful with long periods of nat
ural sleep."
LIVESTOCK BOYCOTT
ORDERED DISSOLVED
WASHINGTON. April 9.—W)—
Secretary Jardine today issued an or
der requiring the American Live Stock
company and 19 other eori orations
and individuals of the Oklahoma stock
yards to refrain from boycotting the
Oklahoma Producers' Commission as
sociation and the Bollinger and Silen
cer Live Stock Commission company.
THIEF VENTILATES
HOME AFTER VISIT
The "Ventilating Vandal” is the
latest San Antonio police character.
After robbing the home of Miss Ge >rge
Paul. 230 Slocum place, of he
left all of the doors and windows
BLACK ‘GOLD’
DISCOVERY
CREATES
FURORE
Grayburg Officials Think
‘Find’ May Be Seepage
From Pipeline.
Oil sopping into a shallow well ull
th«* pnqieny of A. Hearne, 2 IM
Weaver street, in rhe city limits !»•
tween Roosevelt avenue ami Concept
eion rond at the rate of several gah
lons an hour, created intense excito*
ui< nt in that neighborhood Friday#
Property owners, confident of an *ll
PO’I underlying the area, were pre
paring to dig wells, q he all
struck 11 feet below the surface in
a black sand carrying wuer.
A joy killer in <he ‘iuipe of a stale*
n.ent from the Graybar*; Oil company#
that in all probability, the oil wn<
comuig from a leak in its pit*-’ Itffr
into the San Antonio r rr bed faud
tr convince the embryo oil dovelopt <
that they had not found a new oil
Leld right in San Antonio immediate
ly adjacent to street .nr line* pavv4
boulevards and tr iffi • signals.
TESTS RtN
Just where the oh is coming troi<
-in be determined cuiy by further <*•
plorations. E. B. Gorsuch. who owns
property adjoining the oil well, made
several tests of the oil Friday morn*
ing ami removed bucketsfnl from thd
hole, carrying the oil up a ladder and
separating it from the water in a
crmle settling tank.
Although the pijieline runs abouX
VMM! feet from the well, he expressed
the opinion that the oil was cominf
from the earth and that a leak in the
line would drain into the river. At
1 o'clock, no leak in the line had been
found but the inspection was continue
ing.
“LIVE” (HL
Several oil men who viewed the well
Friday morning were agreed that it
was “live” oil. It was full of
bubbles as it seeped into the hole
and the gas odor |»ermeatrd the air
for nearly a block. This precludes the
possibility that it escaped from stor
age ut the Grayburg refinery, one-ha It
mile distant, but the pipeline oil u
direct from the Somerset field and
would be “live” oil. oil men said.
Should no leak be found in the line,
••very indication points to an unusual
oil discovery. ।
It has been kr I
that a sma • ■ ■ ■ J
across the »4, t
towards the 8 5
this st rm tun Sl.€s I
berry street C "
\ e«rx ago ui ’ ’ * ’ ‘ * ’ ’ * ’ I
itrap i
The well B
water. «-ai*d * ■ —v| i i
was e*t>rnal
4 or 5 barq EUH I=3