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A Pullman’s Advan
tage.
You Can Look Out.
See Arizona.
Real Promised Land.
By Arthur Brisbane
—7 OffPY ri t nt, is*6 by Star Co —■ ■ I
A SHIP,’* Dr. Johnson wrote
to Mrs. Tbrale, “has all the
disadvantages of a prison, with
the additional disadvantage of being
unsafe.'’
A Pullman compartment in which
this is written has, quite the other
way, all the advantages of a tomb
with two added advantages. Most
important.
You can look out of the window*.
And there are no worms.
IN a Pullman “drawingroom*’ as in
the tomb you have all your pos
sessions with you, all your troubles
far away. No teMphonc rings, no
body calls with a letter of introduc
tion. nobody wants to sell you any
thing, or buy anything.
IN the sleeper as in the tomb yoi
have left one place and are goin;
to another. The inside of the Pull
man as of the coffin, is carefull?
padded, you sleep as long as you
please. The porter, like the Ange
Gabriel, is considerate, and waits.
IN the coffin as in the train you
travel. Our real journed is witt
the sun, through space. Little trip*
going to and fro on the earth do nut
amount to much.
IN the coffin ,\ou travel, with tlw
earth around th” sun about 550.-
00(1,000 miles ever?’ year. And you
travel even further as the sun drags
you and the earth through apafe we
know not whither —perhaps to some
final landing place, where all
earth’s souls are dis<hargo*l at once
as a ship unloads its cargo, gt the
end of a voyage. How welcome will
be the words “ALL Ol T.”
OUT of this car window, on the
Southern Pacific's Sunset Lim
ited you now sec the state of Ari
zona big as New England, with th”
population of Cleveland settled over
vast territory. Wo certain!v
have unoccupied land to spare in our
country. What a pity our dog in the
immigration manger policy should
keep good mon and woman out —the
men and women that came here in
years past and made the country*
what it is.
IN this one*slatc, there is Inalth
room and opportunity for half the
people in the country. Perhaps work
ers for these newly irrigated lands
will b* brought from Porto Rico. a
few thousand of them at least. Tiny
are “citizens’* and can come and go.
even as contract labor. And they
, can be shipped from Porto Rico to
Galveston for $2O a head. lc*s than
the freight on a cow. The human
takes less room. Ix>ads and unloads
himself, and no “cruelty to animals
society” prevents packing him in.
Would it not be better to admit Eu
ropeans brought Ihto by the ambi
tion and courage that brought our
ancestors, rather than bring in. by
shiploads, Porto Ricins that may
not like the climate.
Guess work? No. go to cuii
furnia’s Jmperial Valley and sec.
You could bu.v "worthless." arid
desert land there, recently for little
or nothing. Von cannot buy it nt
d! now. There, 25,000 acres plant
ed with can I eloupes ship oht more
than 20.000 carloads a year and 20.-
000 acres of lettuce send out 15.000
carload'* from what once was called
"worthless desert land."
»pH!S is a hospitable country, and
at each station. Tucson, espe
r'ally, they ask you to stay. because
they have “the finest climate in the
world." It is literally true in each
case, for the climate is perfect, no
climate can be better t hath that.
A T Wellton. Mr. Winsor, protu
* dent of the Arizona Senate and
champion booster for his slate, comes
aboard to tell yon that at Yuma, an
hour away, the chamber of commerce
and the Indian band will be at the
station to welcome you.
yon remember in your illustrated
I Bible, the gentlemen that went
to «py out the promised land and
came back staggering under the
weight of one bunch of grapes. Sen
ator Winsor could beat them. Com
pared with the Yuma mean, that
promised land was just thin soil,
hardly worthy nf irrigation. And
J<>nk how thafr promised land has
tun out. You could not weaken th*
soil of the Yuma Mesa with 5000
years of cultivation. It i.< more than
100 feet deep, to fertilize it would be
to insult it, like giving ten cents to
Rockefeller. And so it is, prettv
much, all over the state. The Yuma
Mum. by th« way. according to gov
ernment reports, is most free from
fTOst of any place iu the United
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AIRMAN RACES GRIM REAPER
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The Friendly Newspaper ★ Member of The Associated Press. ★ A Constructive Force in the Community.
VOL. XLVI—NO. 89.
Straws Grace Manly !
Brows in San Antonio r
Yes, the
men
arc
wearing
hats
adorned
with
feathers
now. So
little •
Anna Mae
Craft
didn’t
hesitate
to borrow
her
father’s
hat to
celebrate
“Straw
Hat
day.”
CINDERELLA BRIDE DECIDES
SHE WILL RE-ENTER SCHOOL
NEW YORK, April 17.—(/P) —Preparations for re
entering high school are being made by Mrs. Frances
“Peaches” Heenan Browning between her honeymoon
shopping tours in Fifth avenue to buy gowns and other
— ,
LOST SPANISH
MB FOB
CAIRO, Egypt, April 17. — (A*) —
Both Captain Ebtevez, leader of the I
Spanish-Manila fliers, and his
mechanician. Calvo, have been found.
received here say they arc in
‘‘fairly good condition.** despite their
wanderings in the desert since last <
Sunday, when their airplane was ;
forced down about 100 miles trom i
Amman. Palestine. '
Captain Estevez was found by Fly- ।
ing Officer Cogbill of the British
Royal Air Force. 40 miles from his •
abandoned machine. His feet were i
blistered, but otherwise his condition ,
was said to be fair. He was taken ;
by airplane to Ihe nearest medical sta
tion. i
Mechanician Calvo was found 25 ।
miles further away from the plane. If t
his condition permits. he will lie taken {
by airplane for medical treatment.
Spaniards Prepare i
for Calcutta Hop
• t
AGRA, United Provinces, India.
April 17. —OP) —Captains Loriga and
Gonzalez-Gallarzn, Spanish aviators
who arrived here yesterday from Kar
achi on their flight from Madrid to j
Mamin, have postponed their depar- £
ture until tomorrow. Their next t
Dilation is Uakui'* *
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San Antonio. Texaa.
►fineries which are being
lavished upon her by her
“Cinderella man,” who is a
wealthy real estate broker.
Former high schoolmates stared in
wonder and clustered about the school
girl bride in awesome groups, admir
ing her finery, when she drove to the
school yesterday in Jirowning's azure
automobile and arranged for her trans
fer to the high school at Cold Spring.
N. Y., near the ten-room honeymoon
house leased by Browning.
ADMIRE CAR.
The attention of the boy students
•■entered on the expensive automobile
and the liveried footman outside the
school building. Tv both boys and
girls it was the Cinderella legend come
true.
After transfer of the school papers
had been arranged the 15-year-old
bride, accompanied by her mother and
a friend, drove to some of the depart
ment stores in Fifth avenue.
From the department stores she
wheu to a small exclusive shop in
Forty-fifth street, whore she bought
an afternoon dress, an evening gown
and an evening cape.
BROWNING IN COURT.
This is the same shop where Mary
Louise Spas. Browning’s first “Cinder
*lla," bought some frocks before her
adoption was set aside after it became
known that she was older than she
represented herself.
While Mrs. Browning was dining at
the Hotel Commodore at noon, Mr.
Browning was having a ham sandwich,
a piece of pie and a cup of coffee at
the counsel table in the municipal
court*
SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1926.
Youth Swallows Nails in Fall
Summer Millinery Arrives
With Gaudy Feathers
and Trimmings.
By BESS CARROLL
The last straw —
It has bwti sold I
Don't think for a moment that this
means you'll never again wash your
teeth with shaving eream — it isn't
that kind of a “last straw."
Bnt today every man has purchased
himself a gay new hat, yea, verily,
Milord hath adorned his manly brow
with most radiant millinery!
Following out the educational cam
paign being conducted by the schools,
“lettuce explain" that April 17 is of
ficial straw hat day. And it looks
like a relapse of Easter.
NO ALIBIS ACCEPTED.
The adage that even a drowning
man will clutch at a straw was start
ed ou the first straw bat day, since
no excuse—not even drowning—is a
sufficient alibi for not having a new
“straw.”
Let man never again merrily “haw
haw” at the flower gardens and vege
tables that grow on Milady's cha
peaux; for the new panama is dec
orhted with a red or blue or green
feather stuck coijuettishly in the baud,
and the hat bands are pink anu vine,
and green and lavender —often with
stripes, like a barber pole or a stick
of peppermint candy—running around
and around!
THAT AIN’T ALL.
And that isn't all. ladies —they're
wearing bands made of figured crepe
like dresses are made of; only a little
louder —if you please—than the tones
of the shrillest frock!
You can’t pass the hat of the
stylish man this spring without listen
ing—and it speaks in accents loud
and prophetic. The time was when
men wore plumes, you know, and we
may soon see ostrich feathers on
derbys and gardenias on felts.
And then perhaps you gentlemen
will indignantly protest—
“A man's a men for all ’hat!”
LIQUOR Fill! TOlO
MM 111 FIU
BOY PLUNGES
OFF ROOF
OF HOUSE
Fellow Workmen Look On
Helplessly as Victim
Crashes to Ground.
Swallowing a mouthful of nails
when he fell from the roof upon which
he worked. Frank Hartman, 19. K <H)
South Walters street, was rushed to
the Robert B. Green Hospital in the
police ambulance Saturday.
An operation may be necessary to
save the youth's life, physicians de
clared.
Hartman also received severe body
bruises.
l/oning bis footing and rolling nff
the partially shingled roof while fel
low workmen looked on helplessly, the
lad fell 15 feet to the ground. A
number of nails which he held in his
mouth were swallowed when he struck
the earth.
He was shingling a new house
which is being built on Hammond ave
nue, between South Pine and Olive
streets.
ITALY TO WELCOME
RETURN OF PREMIER
ROME, April 17.— (Ab —Fascist
Rome is preparing a great welcome for
Premier Mussolini, whose tFagsbip, the
Conte Di Cavour, was expected to
reach Gaeta this afternoon, complet
ing the voyage to Tripoli and return.
Weather conditions permitting, the
dreadnought will continue on to Fiu
micino, at the mouth of the Tiber
river, where the cruise started, thus
enabling the premier to motor into the
capital tonight.
BLACKSMITH KILLED
IN KINGSVILLE CRASH
KINGSVILLE, April 17.—E. Piug,
blacksmith, living here, died Friday
evening following an automobile acci
dent earlier in the afternoon.
The accident occurred near Kings
ville on the Bishop road. Ping was
found lying in a ditch, his wrecked
machine nearby. His skull had been
fractured. A hemorrhage from this
wound caused his death.
EX-CHAMP’S WIFE
GOLF GRASS WIDOW
OMAHA. April 17.—UP)—Mrs.
Anna Ethel Hughes is a golf grass
widow today. She obtained a divorce
on the ground that her husband, once
state champion, negelcted her for the
links. *
MILLIONAIRE READS
BIBLE IN BASTILE
ALLENTOWN, Pa., April 17.—UP)
Charles Garland, eccentric millionaire
The warden has noted bis preference
Socialist is reading the Bible in jail,
for it over other books supplied him
TWELVE PAGES.
SHIP RUSHES
SERUM TO
SAVE 2
I
Plane Roars Across Texas
With Lives of Pair
at Stake.
A raw with death, with th** lives of
an army officer and his wife as the
prizes, started Saturday morning
when Lieutenant Glenn L. Davaaher,
Post Field Pilot, took off for Fort
Bliss with a supply of antitoxin
scrum for Fort Sill, Okla.
It will be used in treating the army
officer and his wife who were bitten
by a rabid dog.
None of the serum was on hand
at Fort Sill and a frantic search at
nearby towns failed to yield the need
ed serum. So Lieutenant Davasher
was sent to San Antonio by plane to
get some from the station hospital,
Fort Sam Houston.
He arrived at Kelly Field late Fri
doy, rushed to the hospital and ob
tained th* scrum.
Saturday morning at dawn he hop
ped off on his race back to Oklahoma.
ROADSTER CRASHES
LAKE TOLL GATE
The “pay-as-you-enter” sign was
missing from the Medina Lake toll
road Saturday. And with it went the
gate. Officers are looking for a
roadster, occupied by two couples
which crashed through the gate with
out the formality of having it opened
Friday night, W. H. Furlong reported.
The toll keeper was awakened by
the crash but arrived tooo late to get
the number o f the speeding ear.
OREGON UNIVERSITY
PRESIDENT ELECTED
EUGENE, Ore., April 17— UP)—
Arnold Bennett Hall, professor of
political science at the University of
Wisconsin, was today selected as
president of the University of Oregon
by the board of regents. Salary of
the position was placed at $12,000.
6 DROWNED BY RIVER
BREAKING ITS BANKS
By rniieraal Service.
EDMONTON, Alta., April 17.—
Mr. and Mrs. Ffbd Brestlin and their
four children were drowned today
when the Athabasca river broke its
banks and inundated the wagon Brest
lin was driving. -The horses were also
drowned.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
WILL HOLD SOCIAL
Knights Templar, of San Antonio
Commandery No. 7, and their friends
and families will hold a social even
ing at 8:30 p. m. in the bdllroom of
the Gunter hotel Saturday. The affair
will be informal.
'TMVI'I PI7MTC Per copy in city and vicinity.
1 VV kJ VI-uN 1 O Five cents on trains and elsewhere.
V T ’v Y-ac
th® latest fashions in
men's trousers as dictated
from Paris call for a width of 20
inches at the cuff and the new
trousers will be worn without belt
or suspenders. The pants will be
built to fit the persons and where
the belt should be there is a wide
piece of multi-colored webbing, giv
ing the effect of a toreador sash.
Sam Sachs, clothing man staying
at the St. Anthony hotel is respon
sible for this information.
OIirHAT attitude is North Texas
" taking toward development
in Southwest Texas?" J. D. Parnell,
business man of Wichita Falls,
staying at the Gunter hotel, was
asked: “Well, I come to San An
tonio quite often and each time I
come down here I see numbers of
North Texas people,” he replied..
“They surely are not all down here
on pleasure trips. We can't help
but realize that this country is com-
ing to the front because so many
folks pass through North Texas on
their way down here.”
JE. SMITH, representative of
• a nationally known magazine.
registered at the Gunter hotel, be
lieves a great deal of national ad
vertising will be done when the
people of Texas wake up to the
fact that Southwest Texas has
more to advertise than any other
sections of the country. “Take
for instance, your grapefruit and
figs. None finer are raised any
where, and your winter climate
should be told to the whole world,’’
he pointed out.
BETROTHED COUPLE
FLEES EXPOSITION
RUMFORD, Me.. April 17.— W—
A timid young swain and his girl
are missing today and the city’s home
exposition is minus its big feature.
Arthur Trenwortby and Alice Russell
were to have been married at the
.show and to have received manf gifts.
The police scoured the town in vain
when they failed to show up. They
had stage fright, presumably.
WOMEN CLAIM BODY
TO GET INSURANCE
NEW YORK, April 17.—Two
widows went to court today in a fight
over the body of a man they both
claimed was their husband. They arc
known in the records as Mrs. Tnmleis
and Mrs. N.ibarowski.
But why should they quarrel over a
corpse?
Oh, because an insurance company
will not pay on a $2OOO policy until
the argument is settled.
BORAH URGES PROBE
OF PASSAIC STRIKE
By I nhrr*al Service.
WASHINGTON. April Jl.— Unless
the Senate committee on manufactu>
era immediately reports the LaFol
lette resolution calling for congres
sional investigation of the mill strike
at Passaic, N. J., Senator Borab of
Idaho will ask the Senate tn dis
charge the committee and adopt, the
resolution, he declared today.
BOOTLEGGING
FLOURISHES,
WITNESS
CLAIMS
Beer Parlors Used as Blinds
for Sale of Whiskey,
Dry Declares.
WASHINGTON, April 17.— UP)- ,
The Senate prohibition investigator,
were told today that legalization ot
beer lias not solved the temperance
question in Canada.
Devoting an entire session to the
testimony of a former attorney gen
eral of Ontario, W. E. Raney, the in
vestigating committee was advisyd
that the bootlegger still alwunda in
the C'nnndian provinces, where bone
dry prohibition has given way to sale
of light alcoholic drinks under govern
ment control.
The witness 'was called by the Ami-
Saloon League and he I
directly some of the statements tuud p
before the committee earlier in tho
week bjT Canadians put on the stand
by the wets.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
For the second time since the in- S
quay began two weeks ago, the com*
miti.-e called an afternoon sessioa tn
order io hear other witnesses sum
moned by the dry leaders. For the
most part, these witnesses were called
to testify regarding conditions iu thi“
country since the dry law was passed
After an argument, Seuator Rty'd.
Democrat, Missouri, the only wet
member of the committee of five, had
bis way about rebuttal arguments ou
the wet side of the coutroverey. Wets
and dryx have been given an equal
amount of time, and under the decMn
reached lodav, the wets will nsc their
two remaining hours in closing argu
ments after the case of tie drys is
complete.
ANDREWS NOT MENTIONED.
With the testimony at the morning
hearing confined to conditions in Can
ada, there was no mention of one ot
h, piineiual storm centers of the eOU.
tri-MTsy, l/rigadier General Andrewq.
Late in the day. however, the prohtbi-
-hi ehj/f was t । h.-come th. subject
nf a diticussioii by the legislative com
mittue of the Anti-Saloon
sotM of whose members want-to i
for his rexignatioit ' ’ r fl
bl ’■ 1 - the SQMtt
>i:h ttee several days ago, in which I
iic i-onceihd that goveniment restrict- •
I sale of non-inloxicating beer might
help eoforerni* ut,. will be .
carefully by the Auti Salooa Leacu.
officials before they annonuc their J
decision. 81
Describing the general’s teatimony -fl
a» “based oa no facts whatever, butt -X
on the flimsiest kind of guess work. ?
Wayne B Wheeler, general counse'
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