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“That Remind* Me.”
Hidden Wealth.
Charleston Hurt*.
The League Again.
By Arthur Brisbane
Cwn.rigat- isn by *ur Co
YOU read John D. Rockefeller
Jr.'» letter to King Fuad, lit.
of Egypt. “I should count it ■
privilege to make a gift of ten mil
lion dollars,” said Mr. Rockefeller,
and told howe be would like Egypt
to use the money.
When the ancient king of Persia
heard that his fleet had been destroy
ed by the Greeks, he said to the aer
rMt at" his table “remind me some
day to destroy Greece."
King Fuad probably said to bis
“royal remembrancer," “remind me
to go over to America to find out
bow much MORE money that Mr.
Rockefeller has.”
IJOW much wealth is there in the
** ground below the feet of 115,-
000,000 Americans?
Oil is taken from the ground, about
2,000.000 barrels a day. One new
well in Oklahoma yields 17,075 bar
rels daily. How would you like to
strike that in your back yard? How
many thousands of millions in wealth
are hidden away in this old earth?
MRS. SADIE COOK, of Balti
more says dancing the Charles
ton “injured the stomach ligaments”
of her ward, Evelyn Turner, 21 years
old and caused the girl's death. She
asks the Family Welfare Associa
tion to help prevent her nine-year
old grand-daughter from dancing the
Charleston. Other grandparents and
guardians might take notice. Danc
ing too long is dangerous to young
girls, often causing heart disease.
AT THE request of Pope Pius,
issued through the Vicar Gen
eral of Rome. Catholics in Rome and
elsewhere throughout the world will
devote one honr of prayer on Thurs
day for the Catholic elergy and peo
ple of Mexico.
Divine power will be asked to in
terrene to prevent persecution of
Catholics in Mexico. All those that
retain their faith in the efficacy of
prayer will await the result with in
terest.
BRITAIN'S independent Labor
party says the League of Na-
Hons is more apt to cause war than
to prevent it. That is for Europe to
decide. All we ask is to stay out of
it.
The same independent Laborites
want to be rid of Ramsay MacDon
ald and his influence in the Labor
Party. Rsmsay MacDonald is a
self-educated man. knows history, and
gentlemen that want to reform the
world overnight are impatient of edu
cated leadership. It doesn't always
say “yes.”
THOSE Laborites decide to abolish
the word “wages.” substituting
“income." That'may sound tetter,
but many a poor clergyman esn tes
tify that he would rather have the
average bricklayer's “wages" than his
own “income.”
MR. JARDINE, secretary of agri
culture, talking over the Gen
eral Electric Company's radio at
Scbneetsdy. was heard by farmers in
South Africa. Because of the dif
ference in time, Africa's farmers
heard on Sunday morning the speech
that Secretary Jardine made on Sat
urday. it’s a wonderful world, and
man is conquering it with science.
Americans wondering how to
spend money, notice. London
now dances on floors made of glass,
and the glass, lighted from below,
is just slippery enough, and rests on a
rubber foundation that gives elas
ticity.
MORE important than glass ball
room floors would be highways
»f glass, for rubber-tired vehicles. A
glass road which needs nothing but
melted sand, made in thick blocks,
should last indefinitely in such ser
vice.
100 Chicks Hatched
From 100 Eggs Here
A 100 per cent egg production rec
ord has been achieved by Edgar Sie
bald of Converse.
Out of a flock of 18 Rhode Island
Red bens that he raised, beffeceived
an eggdproduction of 100 per cent for
a period of 20 days* from March 5 to
24 inclusive, according to O. B. Rol
lins, assistant county agent of Bexar
county agricultural department, who
is in charge of the boys department.
Broadway Comedy
to Be Presented
"Duhf," Broadway comedy, will
b» presented by the Temple League
players at the Alamo Heights High
School Monday night, May 10. Mrs.
fl. M. Griffith, director, announced,
with th» selection of the cast Kstur
diy.
THE WEATHER
San Antonio and vicinity:
Sunday generally fair; moder
ate to fresh northerly winds.
VOL. XLVI—NO. 97.
STATE SAVED $10,700,000-‘MA’
IS V K V K • V M .V. H IS •fe . V
DEFENSE OPENS IN KNIGHT TRIAL
PILGRIMAGE TO ALAMO
TO BE YEARLY FEATURE
OF SAN JACINTO FETE
IJttle Margaret Houston Bush, great granddaughter of Sam Houston
is shown h»lng held hy Major General Ernest L. Hines as she surveys the
flowers brought to the Alamo in San Antonio's firs pilgrimage.
Battle Cry ,of Texas to
Resound at City’s
Hallowed Shrine.
The' battle cry of Texas will, go
down through the yeirs as the watch
word every springtime of a city—for
San Antonio has decided to “Remem
ber the Alamo” every April, with the
sweetest of its flowers.
Foitbwing the first pilgrimage of
the people to the battle-scarred old
shrine Friday, the Texas Cavaliers
association and Fiesta officials an
nounced that a similar observance
will be made every year during the
week of the Fiesta.
Hundreds of Texans from all over
the Lone Star State made their pil
grimage to the Alamo each nook and
corner of tbe shrine was covered with
a blanket of flowers. In front of
tbe doors that a few brave men held
shut against defeat so long ago.
solemn memorial services were held
at 2 o'clock for those who died fight
ing there in '36.
On the spot that inspired a tattered
“army" of Tesans to help Bam Hous
ton win the battle of- San Jacinto,
three generations of tbe famous gen
eral's family stood—Mrs. Nettie Hous
ton Bringhurst. his daughter, nud
her daughter und grasd-daughler. Llt-
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Ban Antonio. Texas.
■N DIES
FROM WOUND
With the death of Mrs. Thelma
Williams, 25,'Beaumont resident, who
was shot in, the abdomen late Tues
day, Deputy Sheriff John Subira left
San Antonio Saturday night for Aus
tin, where a woman charged with the
shooting is at liberty under $lOOO
bond. • She will be returned to San
Antonio. •
Although an operation had been per
formed to save Mrs. Williams’ life, she
failed to rally. She was in tbe. Robert
B. Green hospital.
- At the same time Mrs. Williams was
fatally wounded, E. Overetreet was
shot through the loft arm.
250-foot Stream
of Lava Nears Sea
HONOLULU, April 24 -A new
lava flow issuing from the Kau aide
of Mauna Loa was advancing to the
sea tonight along a 250-foot front. The
flow was following a southwesterly
course and moving at a very slow rate
of speed. As yet it has caused no dam-
according to reports received here
M W K W M W. IS; , W., W ■
Fiesta Brings $1,500,000 to S. A.,
PROSECUTION
WITNESSES
ATTACKED
Testimony of Mrs. Graves
v, and Jess Billings
Under Fire.
With the state victorious in the
two biggest issues raised so far in the
case of Ed Knigbt, former deputy
sheriff on trial in Thirty-seventh Dis
trict Court for the slaying of Tom
Cooper, the defense opened its inning
Saturday afternoon with an attempt
to impeach the testimony of Mre.
Amos Graves, sister of the slain man,
and Jess Billings, giant stockmap.
both of whom are state witnesses.
Transcripts of the testimony given
by these two in the trial of W. R.
“Red" Hamilton, charged jointly with
Knight, and granted a new trial from
a sentence of life, were introduced as
the defense's first move. They were
read to tbe jury which has heard both
testify for the state.
NEWTON CALLED.
Chief Deputy Sheriff Alfonse New
ton was then called to the stand and
testified that on the Saturday pre
ceding the killing Knight had been in
structed to confiscate all punchboards
in his district.
Deputy Sheriff Feliciano Flores,
with whom Knight worked in tbe
Thirty-seventh District court, testi
fied that the defendant had told him
on Saturday morning that he was go
ing into the country.
Several St. Hedwig merchants were
placed on the stand and testified that
Knigbt bad been in their town on
Saturday afternoon and had confis
cated all their punchboards.
The defense has not as yet indi
cated what connection this character
of testimony will have on the trial.
After several character witnesses
testified, court adjourned until Mon
day morning.
STATE WINS TILT.
The defense indicated before it start
ed that it would be Monday before
its rebuttal could bo completed. It
is believed from this fact that argu
ments will start, late Monday.
A two-day battle over the admissi
bility as evidence ot the blood-stained
clothing taken from the body of Cooper
the dny.after the killing, ended in vic
tory for the state, when Judge O. M.
Fitzhugh admitted the garments after
prosecution and defense had disputed
tbe location of a wound on Cooper's
body. Fresetation of the clothes closed
the state's inning at noon Saturday.
CHAMBERS VICTOR.
District Attorney Chambers also
was victorious in the first big issue of
the trial when the defense sought to
disqualify a juror on the grounds
that be had formed an opinion. Two
witnesses one of whom testified that
the juror soon after tbe killing said
he would hang tbe defendant in case
he was chosen for jury service, were
introduced by the defense in an at
tempt to oust the juror. Judge Fitz*
bugh refused to disqualify him after
he took the stand and refuted the
testimony.
The last battle of the trial'began
Friday when tbe prosecution proposed
to introduce tbe blood-stained cloth
ing.
TRACE CLOTHING
Against tbe defense's contention of
non-admissibility under ordinary rules
of law, tbe state claimed that tbe
clothes .should be admitted to locate
a wound, claimed by tbe prosecution
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SUNDAY, APRILS, 1926.
FETE DRAWS
THOUSANDS
TO CITY
City Fulfills Biggest Deal
of Year in Caring for
Record Crowd.
San Antonio has just fufilled one of
tbe biggest business contracts of the
year—supplying 150.00 C visitors with
lodging, food, amusements and access
ories for a week.
In compensation for her end of the
bargain the city received $1,500,000.
These are estimates made by busi
ness men of tbe city and chamber of
commerce officials at the dose of the
Fiesta de dan Jacinto celebration, at
tended by what is said to have been
the largest crowd in the history of the
event.
300.000 SEE PARADE.
Approximately 300.000 persons view
ed the Battle of Flowers parade’, one
of the major features of the week,
according to chamber officials who
drove the entire route and made a
careful survey of thi crowds.
Of this number, they said, more
th*n 100,000 were visitors. Reports
from hotels aud rooming houses indi
cate that an average of 50.000 re
mained in the city through the other
days of the celebration.
From a standpoint of dollars and
cents, chamber officials said, this
means that approximately $1,500,000
of outside money was brought into the
city during the week.
WHERE IT GOES.
Where did it go?
Statistics compiled over a period of
years to show what becomes of the
dollar spent at conventions or simi
lar events reveal that it is not the
amusement bouse owner, nor even the
restaurant or hotel man, but the mer
chant who is the big gainer. ’
Twenty-six per cent of the money
spent, or $395,000. went into tbe cash
registers of San Antonio stores. The
rest of the proceeds was divided as
follows among other businesses:
G ARAGES FILLED.
Restaurant, 23.5 per cent, or
$352,500; hotels, 20.3 per cent, or
$304,500; garages, 11.5 per cent, or
$182,500; railroad, bus lines and other
transportation systems, 7 per cent, or
$105,000; theaters, 8.4 per cent, or
$126,000, and street cars'and service
cars. 3.3 per cent, or $49,500.
A canvass of the city during the peak
of the crowd showed that every garage
and parking lot wituln a :adius of
twelve blocks of the center of the city
was filled to capacity, while all hotels
showed full registers and waiting lists.
All incoming trains, it is said, carried
extra equipment to care for tbe
crowds, and several special trains
were run.
Epworth League
Will Give Service
Members of the Travis Park Ep
worth League will present a musical
program at the vesper service and
f&tlowship luncheon at the Army Y.
M. C. A. at 4:30 n. m. Funday.
Incarnate Word .
to Graduate Glass
Commencement exercises will be
held by the Sisters of Charity of th"
Incarnate Word College and the
graduating class of the Santa Rosa
Infirmary in St. Mary's Auditorium
at 8 p. tn., Monday. May 3.
NINETY-EIGHT PAGES.
Justice Black Commends I
Hearst Editorial on Crime; i
Suggests Jury of Experts |
NEW YORK, April 24.—Supreme Court Justice Wil
liam Harmon Black, who was for five years as
sistant, and for much of that time acting district
attorney of New York county, has written a letter, com
plimenting William Randolph Hearst on his signed edi
torial in the New York American. April 8, “We cannot
cure murder by murder; we must adopt another and
better system.”
In this editorial Mr. Hearst contended that our
whole penal system has broken down because “Founded
on the basis of force and violence instead of on the basis
of Christian care of our fellowman, of moral and mental
development, of the conscientious performance by the
state of its duty to the citizen.” The cure for criminality,
he urged, is. not by punishment, “But only by education
and by a practical application of the principles of Chris
'tianity.”
Justice Black not only intends to make Mr. Hearst’s
editorial one of the features of a lecture he is to deliver
before the bar association, May 20 on “The course of a
criminal case,” but he suggests a plan for a voluntary
commission which, he believes, would give tremendous
aid in reaching a solution of the crime problem. His let
ter follows:
“My Dear Mr. Hearst i
“As a citizen profoundly concerned with the course
of criminal law in this country and amazed at the in
crease of crime. I have read with particular interest your
editorial of April 8.
“I find the editorial very enlightening, and I appre
ciate so much the effort you are making to solve the diffi
culties that I am taking the liberty of suggesting to you
that you enlist the services of one expert in each of the
cities in which your newspapers are printed for the pur
pose of studying the reasons for the increase in crime,
the defects in handling it, and the remedy for it.
“These experts should be men who have been dis
trict attornej’s or judges with criminal jurisdiction.
They should study the subject without over-sympathy
and without an undue bias of severity. They should
constitute a voluntary commission of men who should
give their services for the common cause. Their con
clusions should be published as they are reached in
your twenty-three newspapers, and if this is done I
know of nothing which could so effectually arouse the
interest needed in this vital question:
“The conclusions of these experts on crime could
be embodied in a pamphlet or book, which should sup
plement the 20,000,000 daily circulation of your various
newspapers. I have noted with deep satisfaction the
start that has been made in Chicago.
“I do not believe even you fully realize what a
tremendous aid this would be in a solution of this sub
ject, which is vexing the minds of the best experts,
both in England and America.
“In my lecture before the association of the bar on
May 20,1 intend to bring to the attention of my auditors
the suggestion I have made.
'’Again assuring you of my appreciation of the
work you are doing and with very kind personal re
gards, I remain,
“Very truly yours,
“WILLIAM HARMON BLACK.”
Pool Well Flows
at Woodlawn Lake
Water, which heretofore was pump
ed from- the artesian writ at th*
Woodlawn Lake Park swimming pool,l
began flowing Saturday, according to :
Commissioner of Parks Ray Lam-1
bert.
It is believed the well will flow
throughout the summer, keeping both -
■the pool and lake filled with fresh ’
n*** 1
“April 20, 1926*
Dry Agents Seize
Liquor in Cellar
A substantial haul made by Federal
prohibition agents Saturday in a cel-
I lar on South Laredo atreet, netted a
: 20-gallon still. 300 gallons of whiskey
i mash, seWn and a half gallons of
; whiskey snd 40 gallons of be-v mash.
: One man is under arost. Officers en
tered through a trap door. Tbe still
J was in operation at the time of the
, raid.
LATE MORNING [
First Section of
Local, State and
World News /
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PLEDGE ME
TO PEOPLE
KEPT. SHE
AVERS
Governor, Issuing Platform
for Campaign, Stresses
Economy Record.
AUSTIN April 24.—Accomplish-
ments of her administration are care-
fully reviewed and recommendation*
for the future are given by Governor
Miriam A. Ferguson in a statement
outlining the platform on which the
proposes to stand for re-election in tilt
July primaries released Saturday.
The governor warmly defends her
pardon record and her action on the
highway commission and each govern
mental department is reviewed and
recommendations made for the future.
“This discussion necessarily in
volves the statement of past perform
ances and future promises" said th«
governor. “What has been done and
what will be done. Tried by this rule
I am willing to be weighed in the bal
ance of public opinion and abide tht
consequences."
SAYS PROMISES KEPT
Governor Ferguson says she prom
ised the people “if they would elect
me there would be a reduction in state
taxes and that appropriations would
not be allowed to exceed tbe constitu
tional limit." She declares she has
kept this promise, that the Thirty
eighth Legislature appropriated for all
purposes, $46.855 772,” “and tbe pres
ent Thirty-ninth Legislature appro
priated for all purposes $36,095,803.
or a reduction of $10.759,968 —yes
more than ten and three quarter mil
lion of dollars for the first two years
of my administration."
It is pointed ont that when she be
came governor the state was practie*!-
ly on a deficit. “Seventy days after I
came in office.” says the governor,
“there was to the credit of general
revenue $676,551 while on April 1.
1926, there was to the credit ot th«
general revenue fund after paying
March expenses approximately $5,000.-
000 or a gain of four and * quartet
million dollars.” ‘ '■'U
She points to the fact that “while
the tendency would appear that crime
is on the increase” her admiuistru- '
tion “would justify the hope of eotne
reform," tncre having been no riots,
strikes or insurrection during her ad
ministration.
DEFENDS PARDONS.
“I have been misrepresented by
many and misunderstod by artsy.'
says the governor in defense of het
pardon record. “I invite the full in
spection of my official pardon record.
I do not claim that my pardon rec
ord ia perfect, but I thank God that
regardless of those who have so
viciously condemned me, my pardon
program has been one actuated by
merey and forgiveness,”
The statement shows that the gortr.
nor issued 1715 clemency proclama
tion* up to April 6 of thia year. Illi*
included 251 full pardons, 647 condi
tional pardons. 129 paroles, 6 tsmßU
ration of death sentence*. 15 remiastou
of jail sentences. 251 furlough* sed
236 restoration of eit senship. Of U»
total pardon*. 157 were to person*
convicted of murder. 29 of man
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