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A Gentle Gold Rush.
Listen to Ford.
When Mussolini Says It.
Building the Earth.
By Arthur Brisbane
L~- . Copyright. 1526 by Star Co.
• seRAMER HILLS, near Barstow,
California, ia enjoying a baby
Sold rush. Solemn investors
are there waiting to get rieb, or be
victimized, wild stories of wonderful
“strikes'’ fill the air, nnd in various
shafts, optimists are sinking more
geld than they will ever take out.
TWO things are missing that
you expect In every gold rush,
the dance ball and saloon. It is a
picturesque crowd that gathers near
Herkclratb's strike, a few miles east
of this point. Eternal hope, dis
appointed 100 times in the effort to
get something for nothing, is here
Jo meet disapinintment number 101.
Thousands will come for gold, and
leave disappointed, that might get
all they need from grapes, pears,
chickens. DON'T INVEST.
THERE ia a good newspaper in
the new gold field. It is the
KRAMER HILLS NEWS. You cau
get it by addressing the “Barstow
Printer.” The editor says the Her
kelrath brothers have sold their gold
land, the original discovery, on a
tract of (10 acres, for $lOO,OOO. Very
wise Herkelraths.
IF you want to get rich, and stay
rich, read Henry Ford's series of
articles, written in collaboration with
Samuel Crowther, now appearing in
the San Antonio Light and other
newspapers.
Ford, who has 000.000 men and
women now working for hith. starts
in exactly the right way. He says
that for hundreds of years, he might
have said “thousands of years,” men
have been talking about laek of op
portunity, and the need of dividing
up things already in existence. Yet
each year has seen some new idea
brought forth and developed, and
with it a whole new series of oppor
tunities.
WE have enough new ideas, not
yet developed, says Ford, “to
take the world out of its sloughs
and banish poverty, by providing liv
ings for all who will work.’ For,
when young Ford used a buggy, he
did not think the buggy maker
ought to divide with him. He built
up bis *wn gasoline buggy business,
and put the old buggy factories Out
of business forever. That is the new
idea.
YOU are told that only private en
terprise can deal successfully
with railroad management and simi
lar problems. Mussolini, Italy’s new
dynamo, docs not think so. His iden
is that government—which means
Mussolini —should coinptd private
enterprise to do something. He tolls
Bradford Merrill that the railroad
time from Naples to Rome will be
cut from five to three hours, and five
mountain* will be tuunelled for a
shorter route.
THE Italian train will average 50
miles an hour. If trains from
Chicago to the Pacific would average
as much as thirty-seven and a half
miles, which they do not, they would
make the run in 00 hours, instead of
08.
If they cut off 40 per cent of the
running time, as Mussolini will do,
they would make the run in 41 hours.
AND THEY COULD DO IT.
WHY DON'T THEY DO IT.
AND PROVE THAT PRIVATE
ENTERPRISE CAN DO THINGS,
WITHOUT ANY MUSSOLINI TO
KICK IT ALONG?
MAUNALOA great Hawaiian vol
cano is showing us bow those
islands were built up, from below the
sen. From the top of Maunaloa,
melted rock once more comes rush-
Ing down, burying under lava 50 feet
deep, the native village of Hoopu
loa, hurrying the inhabitants to the
Hawaiian heaven,'causing the ocean
to boil several hundred feet out from
shore and destroying, of course, mil
lions of fish, ns well as the one srna'l
native village.
Thus, for hundreds of millions of
years old earth has been shaping it
self. from the inside with volcanos
nnd upheavals indescribable. All of
England was once at the bottom of
the sea. Tiny marine creatures
built Britain's chnlk cliffs, when
those cliffs were at the ocean's bot
tom. For millions of years more the
work will go on. It is evident to
science and common sense that while
the earth rnay have been created,
roughly speaking, in six days, it
was not quite finished in that time.
Riff Warrior Runs
70 Miles in a Day
OUJDA. Morocco, April 36. —(X s )
f Imnmouch Bru Budge, m Riffinn
warrior, 67 years old, inirhaps could
bhow hiy her!* to .Johnny Miles. Bos
ton runner. The Riff trav
eled 76 niiks on foot between sun*
set nnd Min rise to deliver n mrsMigr
to peace n<wtiat*’rs from AhllJ
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S. A. OIL OUTPUT INCREASES
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Axe Hovers Over Roosters
BURGLARSGET
ELECTRICAL
GOODSAND
TOOLS
Supplies Valued at $5OO
Stolen From Adjoining
Establishments.
Working in the heart of the down
town aren. "aerial” burglars parly
Friday robbed the Wright Brothers
store room, 267 Market street, of elec
trical supplies valued at more than
$2OO, and the Tips Hardware Com
pany. adjoining concern, of approxi
mately $366 worth of tools.
By climbing the fire escape, the
thieves gained the top of the struc
tures and effected their entrance
through upper windows and skylights,
according to police.
It is believed the loot was hauled
away -in automobiles.
Owners discovered their establish
ment s had been burglarised upon
opening for business Friday morn
ing.
A hurried check of their stocks in
dicates that a total of $5OO worth of
electrical fixtures and supplies and
carpenter tools was stolen.
Police started a search for the
"aerial” thieves.
Last of Villas Dies
for Train Holdups
By I nhrrMl Scr.le.,
MEXICO CITY. April 30.—Hip
polite, the ln»t of the Villas, faced n
firing squad at Durango yesterday,
paying tbe penalty for a long list of al
leged train robberies, according to a
report tonight.
The report says he was given a
formal court martial ou a charge ot
train robbery five years ago. Villa
did not flinch when placed against
the wall at dawn.
16 Dry Measures
Pending in Senate
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 30.—
G^)—The Senate prohibition commit
tee will meet next Wednesday Io take
up the sixteen pending bills nnd reso
lutions relating to the wet and dry
question.
Seven are administration measures
for tightening up enforcement, and
tbe others range from an amendment
to the Eighteenth amendment to a pro
posal for a 2.75 tier cent beer.
Senate Dismisses
Contest for Seat
WASHINGTON. April 80.—OP)
The Senate today unanimously dis
missed the contest of former Senator
Holm Bnrsum. Republican for the
-eat <>f Smitor Bratton, D nw-crat.
V.w Mexico.
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<<IUOTI<ING can atop Ma Fer
-1 ’ guson in the next election,”
proclaim* Judge James W. Swane,
Fort Worth, chairman of the State
Accident Board, staying al the Gun
ter hotel. Accidents are on the in-
erease, according to the judge. One
hundred thousand accident claims
were filed before his board during
IKS. Judge Swans is in town on
legal business. .
MORE foreigners register a| San
Antonio hotels from Paris
than probably any other foreign
city. A. van dcr Plas, Paris,
France, was registered at the St.
Anthony hotel Friday. M. van dcr
Plas said: “With the number of
American tourists growing greater
and greater each year, Paris is
swiftly becoming Americanized.
American slang is about to take the
place of the French language.”
Rum Plants Use
Huge Corn Supply,
Statistics Show
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.—
usr« for corn account
for relatively little of the total produc
tion. the Department of Agriculture
announced today, placing the commer
cial consumption at 225,000.000 bush
els annually.
The amount used for glucose, and
corn starch, the department found, de
clined last year to 70,000.000 bushels
art compared with 75,600,000 in the
preceding year. Only 3,020.006 bush
els were credited to production of dis
tilled and fermented liquors in 1923.
as compared with 5,908,000 in 1919.
This included the manufacture of in
dustrial alcohol and of cereal bever
ages.
Rockefeller Plays
9 Holes Golf Daily
LAKEWOOD, N. J.. April 30.-
<^) —John D. Rockfeller. in improved
health, is shooting nine holes of golf
daily, beginning at 8 a. m„ daylight
time. His average is five per hole,
which would please many young
duffers. It takes him much longer
to play nine holes than it did a re
lay of golfers, including Bobby Jones,
to play 18 holes in a freak speed
record at Ardsley, N. Y. Their time
was 19 minutes.
Envoy’s Daughter
Thrown by Horse
LONDON. April 30.— UP)- Mias
Matilda Houghton, daughter of Am
bassadbr Houghton, probably will be
laid tip for two weeks as the icsi.lt
of injuries suffered last In ‘-day when
she was thrown from her Horse while
riding on fashionable ilut>n Row.
Mias Houghtons collarbone was
broken.
Her physicians today amid that she
had suffered n«» eouq li -ations and
prog rising well.
FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1926.
[MASKED MEN
1 ABDUCT
; CHILD
Autoist’s Timely Arrival
Saves 15-year-old
Girl From Pair.
Timely arrival of an unidentified
pulsing motorist is believed to have
saved Isabel Mcnjurcz, 15, of 211 Fifth
street, from an attack by two masked
men who abducted her near her home
Thursday night. A
The girl was seized by the men and
thrown into an automobile while she
was walking to a store near Alamo
and Sixth streets. She was blindfold
ed and carried a distance of what she
judged to be about fift<*cn blocks. ac
cording to her story to W. K. Morris.
211 Fifth street, with whose family
she and her mother live.
Kicking vigorously and fighting
against the advances of the abductors
when they took her out of the auto
mobile, the girl was rescued by the
motorist, who took her home. The res
cuer left immediately, without reveal
ing his identity.
$lOO,OOO Postal
Robbery Clueless
LAFAYETTE, Ind.. April 30.—GF)
Exhaustive preliminary investigation
of the $100,600 mail robbery here a
week ago has failed to reveal tangible
clues. News of the robbery became
known last night.
The loot was two pouches of regis
tered mail, taken from a mail truck at
a railroad station platform.
Army Rifle Meet
Abandoned; No Fund
WASHINGTON. D. C., April 30.
MP)—Regular army, national guard
and organized reserve rifle teams, in
cluding at least one from each state,’
have been advised by the War Depart
ment that the National rifle matches
held annually at Camp Perry, Ohio,
have been abandoned this year for
lack of funds.
Constant Slumber
Urged for Nervous
NEW YORK, April 30.—0P1—
Nervous men should hibernate like
bears, in tbe opinion of Vernon
Bailey of the United States Biologi
cal Survey. Impressed by Nnnsen's
almost constant sleep in Arctic nights,
be thinks scientists ought to study
its i>ossibilities.
Lip Cut Causes
Death of Girl, 18
WACO. April 30.- OP)—Picking a
pimple on her lip. which became in-
lected and resulted in blood poisoning,
caused the death of Miss Katherine
Mizell. 18 years old at the Method.si
orphans' home here Thursday night.
PLEA FOR LIFE
DESCENDS ON
DEAFEARS
Chanticleer’s Chances to
Escape Death Fade
Into Distance.
Chanticleer has received kinder
treatment from man than he ever
would have received from nature.
This was the ruling Friday from
the “court of death”; the agricultur
al committee of the Chamber of Com
merce. which pro|N)scs the killing of
a surplus of 16.000 roosters in Bexar
county, over tbe protest of the JSan
Antonio Humane Society.
Tbe society believes the proposed
slaughter of roosters in the interest of
infertile egg production is too drastic
and “the interruption of a process of
nature which is likely io lead to dis
aster/*
DEFENDS MOVE.
If chickens had never been do
mesticated. Tom McCrary, chairman
of the chamber committee, said in de
fense of tbe campaign far less roost
ers under the laws of nature would
survive. Tbe weaker ones would be
killed by disease and mortal combat
with the stronger ones.
With this answer to tbe protest,
Mr. McCrary declared that the cam
paign for the execution would be
waged without dimunition.
CHANCES DIM
Telegrams and letters from vari
ous sections of the state applauding
the campaign and pledging co opera
tion, which Mr. McCrary has re
ceived. hove further weakened chan
ticleer’s chances to escape the death
sentence.
Only a few roosters are needed, ac
cording to Mr. McCrary, for the re
production of fowl life. The surplus
merely interferes with the production
of infertile eggs which keep longer
and are more salable than fertile ones.
Mr. McCrary said.
America Accused
of Plot in Erin
CORK. Ireland. April 30.—W>—
An American, giving his name as
Patrick Garland, has been arrested
on a charge of assisting in the organi
zation and maintenance of an illegal
military force and with conspiring
for the overthrow of the Free State
government. He was taken before
District Justice Patrick O'Sullivan to
day for arraignment.
Garland was arrested Tuesday
when he arrived at
aboard the steamship Adriatic.
Prince Napoleon
Still Unconscious
BRUSSELS. Belgium. April 36. —
(^)—The condition of Prince Victor
Najadeon. Bonapartist pretender tv
the French throne, who suffered a
stroke at his home here yesterday, re
mained stationary today. He was still
unconscious this morning.
THIRTY-SIX PAGES. TWO CENTS
POWER OF SUGGESTIVE •
HEALING EXPLAINED AT |
CHIROPRACTORS’ MEETi
Dr. J. R.
Drain,
greeting
Mia* Edna
Rollin*
of
Yoakum,
at Chiro
practors*
conven
tion.
Speaker Tells Delegates
Use of Medicines
Harmful.
Suggestive healing, the chiropractic
conflict with.,medicine, nnd » n address
on the X-ray, occupied the morning
session Thursday of the’national Chi
ropractic 'convention in session at the
Texas Chiropractic. College.
"Treat the patient instead of the
disease.” Dr. S. A. Weltner of the
Weltner Institute, Nevada, Mo., de
clared. speaking on suggestive heal
ing. “This axiom,” he added, “is th<-
whole foundation of suggestive heal
ing.
“Make the patient. believe he is go
ing to get well.”
He spoke in place of Dr. J. H. Dur
ham, whose illness prevented his at
tendance.
Tbe internal use of drugs, which he
termed poisonous, is the conflict be
tween chiropractors, and medicine, ac
cording to Dr. C. W. Maier of Hills
boro, president of the Texas Chiro-
practic Association.
Chiropractors are not opposed to
surgery or-the use of antiseptics,” he'
said. "The use of medicine externally
applied, is sanctioned by the science,
but with the internal use of drugs the
medical profession and chiropractors
part ways. ”
Once he had defined the differences
of the two, Dr. Maier denounced the
present medical aet of Texas. "In
its failure to define what composes a
bona fide medical college. ” he said,
"the aet makes no recognition o( tbe
chiropractor."
UNFAIR TO SCIENCE.
He declared that this was unfair to
a science which has proven itself ib
31 years of life.
“The X-ray has proven tbe right of
the chiropractic science to exist,” Dr.
H. E. Weiser, manager of tbe Texas
Chiropractic College, declared.
"It is on the use of the X-ray »hat
the science has advanced and it al
ways will remain one of the largest
factors in the development and prac
tice of the profession,” he added.
Dr. Weiser advocated an education
al campaign for ’he public on the use
of the machine.
Two major addresses on
Thursday’s program after adjourn
ment at liini b. 3’bey are: the addros
of Dr. J. R. Drain, president of the
college, on his new discoveries in the
Kticnce and the h of Dr. W. H.
Dunn, secretary of the Kentucky
board uf examiners.
BAN DRUGS.
SOLDIER FOUND
SHOT TO
DEATH ■
Death snapped twice at the heart
of Charles Berry,. Brooks Field sol
dier, Friday.
The grim _ reaper was cheated for
a moment when tbe first cartridge
failed .to explode. The pistol -was
snapped a second time and 'the bullet
entered ■ Berry’s breast directly above
tbe heart. It passed through his body,
coming out underneath bis left shoul-
der. Berry, who was a member of the
quartermaster detachment, was found
on South Presa street in Hot Wells.
Berry died before the arrival of
the police ambulance. He was found
by T. S. Stilwell, ' who operates a
cafe at 5704 South Presa street, and
Constable E. J. Ginder, ot Precinct
No. 7.
The pistol found was identified by
W. C. Hogg, garage owner, as one
kept in his garage. Berry was well
known to Hot Wells business men, at
one time haring worked in a garage
there.
Justice of the Peace J. W. Davis
will hold the inquest.
Russia to Use U. S.
Timber Machinery
WASHINGTON, D. C-, April 30.
(A>)—American methods and machin
ery for the Russian timber industry
will be recommended by H. B. Mazur,
who has been making a study of the
subject ,here for the central timber
exi>ort bureau of the Soviet union,
he announced today through tbe Rus
sian information bureau.
Mazur said he had found the Amer
ican timber industry developed beyond
anything In Europe, with the machin
ery system a "revelation." The Swed
ish methods are now u-scd in Rua
■ia.
ARCHITECT DEAD.
CHICA-GO. April 30.—M* Rob
ert Thorne Newberry. 61. architect,
here since 1888, died today.
DRILLER SUS
GOHL AI 200
BARRELS
PER DAY
M. H. Davis to Put Refinery
on Property to Care
for Production.
Two hundred barrels of
high gravity oil. produced
from sixteen-foot wells on a
four-acre tract inside the
city limits, is the goal M. H.
Davis, a loading operator in San An
tonio's residential oil field, expects to
reach in another month.
Mr. Davis hud brought in four pro
ducers Thursday morning nnd an
nounced that nt least throe more were
digging in and would be producing
oil shortly. Ho expects to drill at
lenst 50 wolls on his tract which is
just off Roosevelt avenue at Benita
street.
Frank Pavelka. who owns prop
erty adjoining that of Mr. Davis, re
ported that a well brought in on his
property late Wednesday "came in
with a roar,” and that when the pick
entered the pay, workers were forced
to abandon digging operations for a
time. It was necessary to assist one
worker in climbing out of the holo
after he had continued digging with
the well gassing heavily.
PRODUCTION INCREASES.
Davis’ No. 1 well is rejiorted in
ereasing It’ production. The owner
estimated at first that the well would
make 25 barrels of oil a day. No. 2.
brought in rarly Thursday and pitied
on the pump at 11 *. m. tbe sain*
day, is reported slightly increasing
it* production.
Mr. Davis stated he would di*
enough wells to produce oil in pay
ing quantities and that if oil refineries
of San Antonio would not purchase
his product, he would build a refinery
himself. The oil is said to test b<>
tween 40 and 40 gravity and one own
er says that he has been offered at
least $2.39 a barrel for all of the
oil he could produce on bi’ land. This
offer, he said, followed a test of a
sample Secured through a one-inch ■
pipe driven into tbe ground.
HLNDREDS VISIT SCENE.
Property belonging to Roy Huffaker,
1122 Garden street, which adjoins the
Davis property, has an oil well ap
proximately 14 feet deep which is
said to have been drilled for water
in 1914 by Adam Fianz. Mr. Huf
faker purchased the property from
Fianz several years ago. He has 9
lots, 128 feet on Roosevelt and 42S
feet deep.
Benita street was having traffic
jams Thursday ns hundreds of i>cople
were drawn to the field by new is ells.
Ho Hum! Old Sol
Refuses to Work;
S. A. Skies Cloudy
Old Sol has spring fever. He doesß%
want to work.
Mostly cloudy weather with prob
ably scattered showers is the forecast
for San Antouio and vicinity Friday
night and Saturday.
But there will be no change iu tem
perature, says J. H. Jarboe, local me
teorologist. Light to moderate south
erly winds will prevail.
Reichstag Raps
Army Duels in Bill
Berlin. April no.—cwi-The
Reichstag today adopted a bill by
which armv officers engaging in duels
on flimsy provocation must be dis'
charged from the service. In case*
where there arc mitigating circum
stances surrounding tbe encounter the
army authorities- are given discretion
as to whether a discharge is neces
sary.
Baltimore to Get
Whittemore Trial
NEW YORK. April 30.—UP)- Di
trice Attorney Bunion nnnounevd
day tbut Riehurd Kre«e Whittemore,
b<»ldup mnn and escaped oMiviet, Would
be returned to Baltimore to *tand trial
for the murder of a Maryland atata
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