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SAN ANTONIO
MVUfflUS
City Menaced By Disease in
Wake of Havoc—Relief
Work Under Way.
PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY
No Attempt Made to Estimate Lots,
But It Is Certain It Will Run Into
Millions—Wreckage Impedes
Recovery of Dead.
San Antonio, Texas—With the
known list of dead standing at
47, police o*"icials believe an esti
mate of 100 lives lost as a result of
the flood which struck this city early
Saturday, to be a conservative one.
No attempt has been made to estimate
the property damage, but it is certain
to run into millions of dollars.
The work of recovering bodies is
progressing slowly. Great piles of
driftwood have lodged in trees and
against bridges over the flooding
rivers and creeks. These, when re
moved, it is feared, will reveal addi
tional dead. Many bodies also are be
lieved to have floated downstream and
never may be found.
The waters of the San Antonio
river, the Alazan and San Pedro
creeks are back in their banks. Re
lief work and sanitary precautions are
WPII under way. An organized relief
committee has begun caring for flood
victims, and city health officers are
engaged in rigid clean-up of the
city to prevent an epidemic of any
disease.
Houses Are Piled Up.
""Reports gradually trickling in from
outlying sections of the city confirm
the belief that the flood is the worst
in the city's history. Streets adja
cent to the three streams, have been
swept clean in some instances.
Houses in the southern portion of
the city were piled one on another,
or, in some cases, driven entirely
through adjoining buildings. Dead
animals line the banks of the streams.
The flood waters from the San An
tonio river and from Alazan creek
and small tributaries inundated an
area approximately two miles long and
a half mile wide, including the busi
ness district and a portion of the resi
dence district along River avenue and
adjacent streets as well as the thickly
populated West side, where thousands
of Mexicans are homeless.
Caught Without Warning.
During the night civilians and sol
diers braved the current and floating
debris, to carry women and children
to places of safety. Thousands of
families along the river were rescued
before daybreak by men who worked
neck deep in water, risking their lives
almost every minute.
There were many tragedies. Babies
were swept from mother arms and
lost in flood waters. Mothers were
carried away and children rescued.
Fathers were lost saving little ones.
Many persons do not know whether
they are widows or orphans, pending
the search for bodies among the
debris-strewn streets and river banks.
The people of San Antonio were
caught without warning. The rain
which actually caused the flood fell
after 8 p. m. Friday in the hills along
the Olmos creek. The electric display
was most vivid ever seen here. While
torrents of rain were still falling in
the streets of San Antonio and the
residents, unable to get out because
of the downpour went to bed early,
the flood waters broke on the town
with terrific force.
'FATTY' ARBUCKLE IN PRISON
Famous Movie Actor Held for Causing
Death of Virginia Rappe.
San Francisco—Rigid investigation
by the police, the grand jury and the
coroner was begun into all of the cir
cumstances surrounding the death of
beautiful Virginia Rappe, the moving
picture actress, following the wild
drinking party given by Roscoe (Fat
ty) Arbuckle at the St.. Francis hotel
last Monday.
Almost with her dying breath the
beautiful actress accused Arbuckle of
having been the cause of her injuries.
This assertion.yras tnade to the police
by Mrs. Jean Jamieson, the nurse who
attended Virginia Rappe at the St.
Francis..bote) «i&:wbo
was a
during .her Jast moments.
bier side
..Admits Slaying Daugherty.
Chicago—Harvy W. Church, the 20
year old youth accused of slaying S.
U. Daugherty and Carl Ausmus to ob
tain possession of a $5,400 automobile,
broke down after twelve hours of ques
tioning and made a complete confes
sion, according to the police.
Food Train Wrecked in Russia
Moscow—Seventeen carloads
American relief administration sup
plies were damaged and delayed by
freight train wreck between Riga and
Moscow. The amount of the loss is
unknown. The shipment consisted
chiefly of rice and flour.
of
Auto in Canal, 4 Dead.
Buffalo, N. Y.—Four persons were
drowned when a closed automobile in
which they were riding went into
canal on the river road, about a mile
bevond city limits.
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SYDNEY
ANDERSON
Legislatiou establishing a credit ma
chinery to aid farmers in producing
and marketing their crops through ad
vances ranging from periods of six
months to three years is urged by
Representative Sydney Anderson, Min
nesota, chairman of the joint commis
sion of agricultural inquiry. Mr. An
derson says neither the federal reserve
system, with its short-time credit fa
cilities, nor the federal farm loan sys
tem, with lon^-term farm mortgage
loans, fills the pressing need of the
present situation.
TERMS UNACCEPTABLE
France Turns Down German
Debt Agreement.
Refusal to Accept Allies' Division of
First Billion Foreshadows
New Conference.
London—Another Allied financial
conference seems likely as the out
come of a visit of the French minister
of finance, Paul Doumer, to London.
M. Doumer had an interview with
Chancellor of the Exchequer Home re
garding the disputed question of the
location of the first 1,000,000,000 marks
just paid by Germany as reparations.
By an agreement of the Allied min
isters on August 13 this sum was to
have been divided, 550,000,000 marks
to Belgium, on the basis of Belgium's
priority rights, and 450.000,uOO marks
to Great Britain against the cost of
Great Britain's army of occupation
in the Rhineland. Under this agree
ment it was understood that France
would recoup herself the cost of her
army of occupation by the products of
the Saar mines.
M. Doumer at the time signed the
agreement only provisionally, on the
ground that he must refer it to his
government, which declined to ratify
the agreement and since has pro
tested against provisions by which
France would receive nothing of the
first 1,000,000,000 marks. The news
papers in France also have denounced
the agreement angrily, especially after
publication of an article by Prof. John
Maynard Keynes, member of the Brit
ish reparations subcommission, pre
dicting that Germany willQdefault in
her payments in 1922.
M. Doumer was sent to London to
consult with the British government.
After the conference with Secretary
Horne a communication was issued
saying that the questions involved in
the Paris agreement had been renewed
in a spirit of complete friendliness and
cordiality and that it was agreed that
issues raised should receive further
consideration in consultation with the
other Allies.
TOWN DESTROYED, IS REPORT
Heavy Wind Sweeps Region Near
Sioux Falls.
Sioux Falls, S. D.—A windstorm of
cyclonic proportion? struck a region
from four to ten miles west of here,
killing one man and doing serious dam
age to stock and property. It was re
ported that the village of Hartford,
west of here, had been wiped out. All
wires were down.
Greeks Hard Pressed by Turks.
Constantinople—Advices from the
war zone inr Asia Minor say the Greek
center is hard pressed under renewed
attacks by the Turkish Nationalists.
The Greeks, however, have not yet
retreated, but are sending many
wounded back over a temporary
bridge.
Grain Growers Near 10,000.
Chicago—Membership of the U. S.
Grain Gorwers, Inc., is nearing the 10,
000 mark, field reports received here
at the close of last week's campaign
showed.
Former 8t. Thomas Coach 8lain.
Chicago—Bernard J. Dougherty, for
merly coach of the St. Thomas col
lege football team, and widely known
in the Northwest as an athlete and
yacht racer, was found murdered, his
body manacled, slashed and thrown
into the Desplaines river.
Held in 8hlp Board Graft.
Washington—Charged with solicit
ing a bribe William Jacobs, an auditor
of the United States Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet corporation, was ar
rested by Federal authorities.
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Chester, Pa., Disaster Caused by
Crowd Watching Search For
Boy Drowned in River.
ONLY 16 SAVE LIVES
Victims, Struggling In Water Drag One
,Another Under Horrifying Scenes
Enacted—Rescue Work De
layed By 8ight.
Chester, Pa.—At least twenty-four
persons were drowned, including men,
women and children, when one end of
the footwalk of the Third street bridge
in Chester collapsed, throwing them
into the Chester river.
The disaster was caused, police re
port, by the presence on the foot path
of an immense crowd, watching the
operations of a rescue crew grappling
for the body of a boy drowned in the
river a short time earlier.
Leaps to Rescue Boy.
The boy tipped over in hia frail
boat just below the bridge.
Abraham Asnes of 121 West Third
street, Chester, leaped to the rescue
from the bridge. A crowd quickly
gathered on the paths at the outer
edges of the bridge and this was aug
mented by more persons pouring from
a nearby theater. Without warning
there was a sharp crack and then the
slow, steady splintering ot the col
lapsing wooden path. The shrieking,
struggling mass of humanity was
dropped into the swift waters below.
Men, women and children, fighting
frantically for safe footholds as the
structure gave way, were dumped bod
ily from the death trap. A few who
managed to grip the edges of the
bridge as they fell were torn from
their holds by their desperate com
panions and pulled to their death in
the water.
Bridge Drips Humanity.
For a few minutes arter the path
gaive way the bridge literally driped
humanity. Then the struggle on the
structure ceased and the mad fight
for life was transferred to the crowd
ed water.
Frantic in their plight, the drown
ing people clutched desperately at
each other. Many of whom would
have been saved otherwise were drawn
down into the death vortex by those
about them.
Paralyzed with horror at the trage
dy, those on the shores wpre slow in
coming to the rescue. In a few min
utes, however, a score of rowboats
swarmed to the scene and the work of
rescue was begun. Of the sixteen
saved twelve were good swimers.
They said afterwards that the only
w?y they managed to keep above wa
tefc was by fighting off their struggling
companions.
WHEAT EXPORTS INCREASED
August Shipments Largest in Years,
Hoover Reports.
Washington—Unprecedented exports
of wheat in August should react favor
ably on agricultural and business con
ditions throughout the country. Secre
tary Hoover declared. According to
his reports wheat exports the last
month amounted to 33,595,000 bushels,
or about four times the volume of any
pre-war figures for the month of Au
gust.
Increase in the movement of wheat,
he said, should particularly ease the
credit situation through a lessened de
mand on the War Finance Corporation
for advances.
3 HIBBING OFFICERS KILLED
Trio Shot Down in Attempt to Serve
a Warrant.
Hibbing, Minn.—Chief of Police
Daniel Hayes and Chief of Detectives
Gene Cassidy were shot to death and
William Kohrt, a traffic officer, all of
Hibbing, died in a local hospital, sev
eral hours later from rifle shot
wounds, inflicted by John Webb at
Nelson, Just south of Hibbing.
The three officers were attempting
to arrest Webb on a statutory charge.
Webb escaped in a southerly direc
tion toward Wilpin, and is being pur
sued by a posse consisting of several
hundred men.
STRIKES FOLLOW PAY CUTS
Chicago Unauthorized sporadic
walkouts of the various building crafts
resulted from Judge Landis' decision
cutting wages and reforming working
rules.
Despite the efforts of union officials,
hundreds of workers threw down their
tools in protest against the decision
of the arbiter. Both contractors and
union officials, however, declared the
situation will adjust itself in a few
weeks.
Two Negroes Lynched.
Aiken, S. C.—Two colored men were
lynched in a cornfield near here. They
had been charged with an attack on a
white woman. The men were tied tc
a stake'about 200 yards from the
scene of the alleged ^atack and theii
bodies riddled with bullets.
Army Building Almost Given Away.
Rockford, 111.—Buildings which cos!
the government approximately $2,500:
labor included, were 'sold at Cami
Grant for as low as 4 2-10 cents on
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Miss Kliznbeth Brandels, daughter
of Justice Brandels of the United
States Supreme court, who has been
appointed secretary of the District of
Columbia minimum wage board. The
position pays $2,500 a year. Miss Bran
dels succeeds Mrs. Clara Morten
son
Beyer, under whom she served as as
sistant for more than a year.
DELEGATES ARE NAMED
Harding Picks U. S. Representa
tives to Arms Parley.
President Chooses Hughes, Root,
Lodge and Underwood as Mem
bers of Body.
Washington—President Harding an*
nounced the full American delegation
to the disarmament conference. It
consists of four members:
Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of
State, former justice of the supreme
court, one time candidate for the Pre
sidency, and twice Governor of New
York lawyer by profession.
Elihu Root, once Secretary of War,
later Secretary of State, former sen
ator from New York, lawyer, jurist,
and statesman of international repu
tation. The late President Roosevelt,
his close friend and colleague, once
paid tribute to his attainments by de
scribing him as "the ablest man in
public life in America."
Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator from
Massachusetts, Republican floor
leader, chairman of the foreign rela
tions committee, long a student of in
ternational affairs, and author of many
works of an historical nature.
Oscar W. Underwood, Democrat,
senior Senator from Alabama, leader
of his party in the Senate as he was
in the House of Representatives, re
garded by colleagues of both parties
in the Senate chamber as "Safe and
Sane," lawyer by profesisdn and in
public and political life since 1892.
He was for the treaty of Versailles
and the League of Nations covenant,
with or without reservations.
The selections of Secretary Hughes
and Sen^gor Lodge were first made
known some time ago.- The selection'
of Mr. Root was forecast after his
conference with President Harding
Thursday. The selection of Senator
Underwood was forecast when the
President made known his intention
to give representation to^he minority
/party in Congress.
IRELAND ACCEPTS INVITATION
De Valera Will Head Sinn Fein Dele
gation to Inverness.
Dulin—Sinn Fein's reply to the Brit
ish invitation to a conference at In
verness on Sept. 20 was forwarded to
Premier Lloyd George, it was officially
announced here. The note of the Dail
Eireann accepts the British premier's
invitation.
It was reliably reported here that
Sinn Fein's delegation to Inverness
would be President Eamonn De Va
lera, Arthur Griffith, Robert Barton,
Professor Mac Neil and Erskine Chil
ders.
The presence of De Valera at the
head of the Sinn Fein plenipotentiaries
occasioned surprise in view of the fact
that he was authoritatively reported to
have ceded his place to Griffith.
The reply of the Dail Eireann ac
cepting the British invitation to the
conference Includes a reservation re
garding the allegiance of Ireland to
the British crown, it was stated.
SEA GIVES UP HUGE MINE
Portsmouth, Va.—A giant mine three
feet in diameter, coated with bar
nacles and oysters and provided with
an electrical firing device, washed
ashore at Ocean View, near here, has
given rise in marine circles to the
theory that a number of ships re
ported lost off. this coast recently
might have met their end by striking
one of these explosive derelicts.
Tunnels to Connect Banks.
Chicago—In order to frustrate ban
dits who lately have waylaid and fob
bed a number of bank messengers, the
Chicago banks will construct under
ground tunnels connecting all loop
banks with the Federal Reserve bank.
2 Killed In Auto Crash.
St. Paul—Two persons were killed
and a third seriously injured when an
automobile in which they were riding
collided with Soo line train No. 63
about one mile east ot Withrow, near
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Family Exemption Increased by
$500 by Senate Finance
Committee.
FINAL VOTE ON FKlDAY
Draughtsmen and Experts Will Thin
Put Tax Measure In Shape Fcr
Presentation to 8enate When
It Reconvenes Sept. 21.
Washington—Two of the four major
provisions of the House tax bill were
approved by the Senate Finance com
mittee. One fixed the maximum in
come surtax rate at 32 per cent as
compared with the present 65 per cent,
and the other increases by $600 the
exemption allowed to heads of families
having net incomes of |5,000 or less
and by $200 the exemption allowed on
account of each dependent.
Chairman Penrose announced that
the committee would vote soon on the
effective date of the repeal of the ex
cess profits tax. Even those senators
favoring Secretary. Mellon's proposal
to make the repeal retroactive to last
January 1 were of }he opinion that
the committee would accept the House
provision for repeal as of next January
1, 1922.
Tax Repeals Foreseen.
Should the House date be approved,
it was said the committee probably
would approve repeal of all of the
transporation tax a3 of next January
1, and most of the other tax repeals
provide^ for in the House bill. Secre
tary Mellon's proposal for retention of
the transportation levies next year at
one-half the present rates and the res
toration of a tax on cosmetics, per
fumery and proprietary medicines
were predicted upon retroactive re
peal of the profits tax.
In voting to reject Secretary Mel
lon's proposal that the maximum in
come surtaii rate be reduced to 25 per
cent, the committee took under con
sideration a treasury, plan to reduce
the rate in each of the income surtax
brackets by 1 per cent.
Final Vote Friday.
Chairman Penrose said it had been
decided to have a final vote on the t(ix
bill next Friday. Draftsmen and ex
perts then will put the measure in
shape for presentation to the Senate
when Congress reconvenes September
21.
The question of the amount of the
increase to be made in the. corporation
income tax as an offset to the repeal
of the excess profits tax has not yet
been reached by the committee. The
House bill fixes the total at 12% per
cent instead of the 15 per cent recom
mended by Mr. Melon, and the opinion
at the Capitol seemed to be that the
House rate would be accepted if elimi
nation of the profits tax were put off
until next January.
U. S. TO PAY FIRE CLAIMS
Will Settle With 278 ReeidenU of
Cloquet For Losses Sustained.
Duluth—The, United States Railroad
Administration will settle immediate
ly with 278 residents of. Cloquet, at
50 per cent of their actual losses sus
tained in the forest fire of October 12,
1918, according to a letter from James
C. Davis, director general, made pub
lic by local attorneys for the adminis
tration.
The 278 suits were tried before five
district judges at Duluth. In these
cases it was found that fires in the
Cloquet district were started by
sparks from locomotives, and that the
United States Railroad administra
tion was liable.
Payments on these 278 claims will
cost the government $1,500,000, it is
estimated.
UNDERWOOD TO TAKE POST
Democrat Says There Is No Party Po
litics in Arms Conference.
Birmingham, Ala.—Senator Under
wood, the Democratic leader who has
been selected by President Harding as
one of the four American delegates to
the conference on limitation of arma
ments and Far Eastern questions at
Washington, said here that he would
^formally accept the appointment as
soon as he had received the official
notification.
There should not and cannot be any
party politics at the conference, Sen
ator Underwood said.
Bandholtz Quits Coal War Zone.
Charleston, W. Va.—Brig. Gen. H.
H. Bandholtz, commanding troops in
the Southern West Virginia coal fields,
where recently disturbances and
classes occurred between armed' men
on the border of Logan and Boone
counties, left for his headquarters at
Washington.
8enatora to Go to West Virginia.
Washington—The special subcom*
mltee of the Senate education and la
bor committee will meet Monday to
make arrangements for going to West
Virginia to investigate the reecnt
miners' warfare.
City of Quebec Votes Wet 2 to 1.
Quebec, Que.—The city of Quebec
voted Itself .wet by an overwbelmng
majority, estimated at 12,000 in a total
poll of 25,000. The effect of the vot
ing will be to repeal the existing local
option law.
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ONE THIJUG SHE HADNT LOST
Pupil's Statement of Fact Probably
Gave Music Teacher Occasion for
Deep Thought.
A well-known music teacher In At
lanta was giving a lesson to a talent
ed but careless pupil and was rapidly
losing all patience with her. Finally,
at a most complicated part of a dif
ficult piece, the pupil lifted her hands
from the piano and made a wild dash
for her handkerchief to stop a threat
ened sneeze. It was the last straw.
"Was there ever such a girl 1" ex
claimed the teacher^ thrusting her own
handkerchief at the offender. "You
lose your position, you lose your fin
gering, you lose your handkerchief—
you lose everything 1"
"Not quite everything," said the pu
pil with a smile. "I haven't lost my
temper."
The Conference Ended.
"I'm waiting for my wife," said the
bold, bad man to an attractive young
woman he met in a department store.
"Yes?"
"Are you shopping?"
"No."
"Have you any particular place to
go just now?"
"No."
"Couldn't we—er—become better ac
quainted?"
"We could, but I don't think it wlli
be necessary if you behave yourself.
I'm the store detective."
Highly Complimentary.
"We are going to hold you, Mr.
Bagrox for $10,000 ransom," said th«r
leader of the band of kidnapers.
"You flatter me," respondeiFthe vic
tim, bowing courteously. "I am not
Bagrox the banker, but a citizen of no
financial worth whatever. I know of
no one In the world who would pay
10 cents to secure my release.* So
you can imagine how I appreciate the
compliment."—Kansas City Star.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infanta and children, and see that it
Bears the.
Signature of(
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Use.
for
Over 80 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
Dolls for Greenland Kiddles.
Dozens of American dolls are being
taken by Capt. Donald B. MacMlllan
on his present trip to the arctic to be
distributed to the kiddies of Green
land.
When a man's temper Is ruffled his
brows usually knit.
MAN'S
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70 as at 35 if he aids his organs in
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