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BEST INCENSED
JI REPORTS
OFJWDS
Citizens Deny Published
Accounts of Dry Agents'
Activities.
BEST. Tex.. Not. S.—UP)—Direc-
tor* of the local chamber of commerce
have taken exception to reports of
liquor raids here given ont by prohibi-
tion officials and published throughout ■
Texas. The information published
was to the effect that about 200 in-
dietment* had been returned and the
jails of two counties were full of pris-
oner*.
N A. Collier. M. D B.luzhmnn.
Nash Tucker. Doctor F. E. Gibbons
and J. T. Mace directors of the cham-
ber of commerce ham signed an affi-
davit statin* substantially a* follows:
The town nf Bost was opened July
10. 1924. At that time it consisted of
open country. There are ST business
honse* in the town and though only
15 months old. the postoffice for the
quarter endinx September 30. 192’. re-
port* a business of $51728.17. an in-
creaae of $11154.46 over the previous
quartet.
The population nf the town is great
ly _ under-estimated when placed at
1000. The number of arrests made in
the town during he raids was 17 and
not 200. A large portion of the town
was not in Jail and only four of the 87
business houses were closed as a re-
sult of the raids.
The directors further state there is
only one dance hall here and that it
is an open air pavilion and that no
saloon or gambling hall over was oper-
ated In connection with this dance
han.
PLAN NEAR EASTERN
RELIEF FIELD DAY
Efforts to have a field day in all
the Christian churches of San An-
tonio in favor of the Near East re-
lief work are being made. Mr. Teiss-
ier. agent of the relief work in Texas
announced Monday.
The field day probnblv will be held
the second Sunday of January 1926.
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serving it —you’re sure
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TUESD A T.
HERE AND THERE
BY TELEGRAPH
DISGIBTED WITH SHEIKS.
LONDON Nov. 3.—Real sheiks of
the desert are wearing horn-rimmed
glasses. Oxford bags and loud socks.
A novelist who searched Morocco for
color is back disgusted.
BLAMES SHORT SKIRTS.
LONDON. Nov. 3.—The girls have
-ankle agony" from short skirts anl
damp weather. To prevent such in-
flammations physicians nra recom-
mending woolen stockings and long
skirts.
CARRIES YALE FLAG.
NEW Nov. 3.—The col-
ors of Yale have gone far in other
quarters than the gridiron. Donald
MacMillan carried a Yale flag 8000
miles on his Arctic expedition.
GERMS FOR SALE.
LONDON Nov. 3.—One can buy
millions of germs for a shilling or
two. More than 2000 varieties are on
sale.
BARBERS' CONTEST.
NEW YORK. Nov. 3 —There's a
contest on for barbershop quartets.
A silver cup will be given four sing-
er* of the "Sweet Adelino" or “What
Have You?"
ADDRESSES EDUCATORS.
NEW HAVEN. Nov. 3.—When a
self-styled red-blood Harvard graduate
Asks A. Lawrence I.owcll why the
football team does not win. Harvard's
president recalls that red blood is
most r-d when it has not been th- ;gh
the brain. He told this at a meeting
of educators nt Yale in deploring col
lege students’ lack of desire for intel-
lectual development.
BETTY BALDWIN BUSY.
LONDON. Nov. 3.—Betty Baldwin
the prime minister's daughter drives
her own car. She was very busy tak-
ing voters to the polls yesterday.
CRIME MENACES U. S.
NEW YORK. Nov. 3.—A crime
wave is endangering the country more
than at any time since Fort Sumter
was fired upon in the opinion .of
Judge Alfred T. Talley.
HONEYMOON OVER.
SOUTHAMPTON. Nov. 3.—The
honeymoon of David M. Milton and
the former Mia* Abby Rockefeller is
ending. They arc on the wny home.
ATTACKS AIR PILOT
PRAGUE. Nov. 3.—A government
flier has had an unwonted thrill. At-
tacked suddenly un in the air by an
insane msaengcr he fought with one
hand and with the other guided tht
plane safely to earth.
HELPS VETERANS
NEW YORK. Nov. 3.—One ot
Joffre's taxjs of th- Marne has
wheezed up and down Fifth avenue
and Broadway to heln sell tickets for
a ball in aid of needy American Ex-
peditionary Force veterans.
TWO BURN TO DEATH.
WASHINGTON. N. J.. Nov. B.—
UP)—Two men were burned to death
in a ftrt following what police say
was a drunken orgy in the home of
Andrew Gundcrmnn last night. The
dead arc: Andrew Gundyrman. 30.
and Marshall Price 35. George
Gunderman. 00. father of Andrew is
in the Easton. Pa. hospital with burns
that are expected to cause his death.
JAILED IN HOLDUP.
WACO. Nov. 3—Gilbert Tgylor
charged with robbep' with firearms
was remanded to jail without a hear-
ing in district court here. The case
grew out of the attempted robbery ol
the Bruceville State Bank last Thurs
day when the cashier attacked the al-
leged robber and subdued him.
WIN DEBATE.
WASHINGTON D. C. -Nov. 3.—
»P)—The debating team of George
Washington University upholding the
negative side of the subject of recogni-
tion of Soviet Russia triumphed Inst
night over their opponents from
Oxford University. The audience
awarded the home team which includ-
ed Miss Vivian Simpson the laurels
by a vote of 457 to 446.
HAS NARROW ESCAPE.
LOUISVILLE Nov. 3.—Stricken
with appendicitis while working on
the outside of n third-story window
a window washer managed to hold
on until rescued.
ASSEMBLY’ TO CONVENE.
LONDON. Nov. 3—UP)—A dis
patch to the Morning Poet from
Teheran Persia says the government
is busy drifting regulations for con-
vening the constituent assembly or-
dered when the shah was deposed.
The assembly is expected to meet
within a month and it is virtually
certain that Premier Reza Khan will
be elected shah. Finance Minister
Faroughi has been appointed acting
premier.
CITES LAWLESSNESS.
DALLAS. Nov. 3.—Declaring that
be found a poker game in operation
near the mayor's office in the city
hall here W. W. Phare*. Dallas pas-
tor. told the Dallas Law and Order
League last night he would resign
as its president if something were not
done about it. The mayor said after-
ward he would be glad to have a
group of girls conduct the members
through the building on an inspection
tour.
HELD IN ROBBERY.
DALLAS. Nov. 3. —Three men were
arrested here yesterday suspected of
having held up and robbed four men
engaged in a poker game in a Dallas
hotel. The robbers obtained $5BO.
GOVERNOR TO WACO.
WACO. Nov. 3. —Governor Miriam
A. Ferguson her husband ex-Gover-
nor James E. Ferguson and their
daughter Miss Dorrace Ferguson are
in Waco today for the coronation ex-
ercise* nt the Waco Cotton Palace to-
night. Miw Ferguson is the princess
for Texas in the coronation event*
and queen's ball that follows.
RECORD RAIN FALL.
GALVESTON. Nov. 3.—CP)—Oc-
tober. 1925. came near the record for
October rainfall in Galveston with
17.34 inches. Only twice in 55 years
hns this b<*n exceeded with 17.78
inches in 1871 and 17.39 in 1877. In
October. 1924 only a trace of rain
occurred.
VALUATIONS INCREASE.
BROWNSVILLE. Nov. 3.—CP>—
Valuations of Cameron county prop-
erty on the tax rolls just completed
are as compared to $25-
288.413 last year an increase of al-
most $2900000.
PASS BOND ISSUE. .
SHERMAN. Nov. .B.—UP)—Sher-
man's $lOOOOO bond issue recently
carried for street paving purposes was
passed on favorably by the city com-
missioa last night. The new issue will
bear 41-2 per cent interest »nd run
40 year*.
WEST TEXAS RAIN.
SAN ANGELO. Nov. 3.—UP)—A
warm drizzle. reported general over
this section Monday night and con-
tinued here Tuesday will further cure
grass and Improve weeds for livestock
ranchmen said today. Frost has not
yet stopped the growth of vegetation.
The wet spell is delaying cotton pick-
ing and will damage the grade some-
what.
IDENTIFY BODY.
LUBBOCK. Nov. 3.—UP)—R. M.
Kutch who died yesterday of poison
in the basement of the Lubbock court-
house has been identified a* having
come here recently from Flagstaff.
Ariz. He was 56 years old and a
widower. He had been despondent.
PLAN CELEBRATION.
LUBBOCK. Nov. 3.—(^)—Mem-
bers of the American Legion and the
legion Auxiliary here are planning
the grntest Armistice Day celebra-
tion in the history of the South Plains
Commander N. L. Peters said to-
day.
TOUR OIL FIELDS.
AMARILLO. Nov. 3.—UP)—A long
caravan of motor can left Amarillo
this morning beaded for the I’anhau
die oil fields. It was the annual
Skeptics Oil Field tour staged by the
board of city development and tbe
real estate board to familiarise per-
sons with the Panhandle field.
MITCHELL TO EXPOSE
0. S. AIR SERVICE
(Continued from One.)
ognisod by the White House and the
departments conce/ncd remains undit-
• closed.
A trial running into several weeks
now certain and as a result tb»-
debate over the pwrnment’i aircraft
program doubtless will be carried over
into tbe Beaidon of Congress which
gins early next month. The Presi-
dent’® air board* which already ha*
b*en over much of the ground to b f
covered in the Mitchell defense ha* ।
under consideration a report which
it bad hoped to submit before Con-
gress convene*.
DETROIT TOO WET
DRY AGENT RESIGNS
DETROIT Nov. 3.— CP) —A. B.
Stroup resigned today as deputy ad-
ministrator to churge of the federal
prohibitis-ti f-ree* here coupling hi*
resignation with a statement in which
he declared “Detroit 1* the wettest
I city" to which be ever has been «s-
-cigned. _
(Advertisement.)
You Know a Tonic Is Good
when it make* you eat like a hungr;
l»y and brings back the color to yonr
<-heek«. You can soon feel the
Strengthening. Invigorating Effect of
GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL
i TONIC. 60c.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
DEATH CLAIMS
PROMINENT
POLITICIAN
Attorney Once Groomed
for Mayor Succumbs
to Short Illness.
Edwin Routledge. 57 San Antonio
attorney for 30 years publisher of the
Commercial Recorder died at the Santa
Rosa infirmary Tuesday morning. He
was taken ill at 11 o'clock Monday-
night and rushed to the hospital for
.-in operation but died before it could
bo performed.
Mr. Routledge came to San Antonio
with his parents from England when
a small boy. He took up his fath-
er's profession that of a printer and
worked for him until death. He also
studied law in the meantime and was
admitted to the San Antonio bar in
1900. He was considered one of the
ablest civil lawyers in the city al-
though he engaged in active practice
for only a short while.
Mr. Routledge was a keen political
student a lifelong Democrat and had
been closely identified with politics in
Bexar county for the last 25 years.
At one time he wns groomed for mayor
but declined tbe honor.
Surviving Mr. Routledge are his
widow one son and one daughter his
mother Mrs. Mary Routledge and two
sisters.
Funeral arrangements have not been
made.
MINISTERS OF S. A.
HEAR OR. GOODELL
Members of the Ministerial Alliance
met in regular session Monday nt
the assembly mom* of the Y. M. C. A.
The Rev. Patrick Henry of the
South Side Christian Church presid-
ed.
Dr. C. L. Goodell of New York
member of the executive committee
of the Federated Council of the
Churches of Christ in America spoke.
Through a motion presented by H.
G. Huey chairman ot the steering
committee. Mr. Leissler. agent for the
Near East relief work in Texas spoke
briefly in favor of the cause before
the session.
J. K. Beery secretary of the gen-
eral committee rcjiorted on the men *
Bible class rally to be held at the
First Baptist Church auditorium No-
vember 15. at 3 p. m.
BOULEVARD SYSTEM
MAY BE GIVEN TRIAL
ON CERTAIN STREETS
The junior chamber of commerce's
plnn-for a “boulevard system" in San
Antonio vetoed by the city commis-
sion recently may be realised in part
soon.
Replying to the city'* request that
tbe I-G. N. railway construct a
crossing where its tracks intersect
with West King's Highway. P. J.
Neff assistant executive vice presi-
dent of the company asks that auto-
mobiles come to a dead stop before
passing over the rails.
Street Commi«*ioner Paul E. Stef-
fler will discus* the advisability of
the request with the city commis-
sion.
you don’t have to
run home to keep warm
when the sun sets—get
a sol saper overcoat
and you are prepared
for any weather.
SOL SAPER
“Men’s Wear Exclusively"
Commercs at Navarro
25 OUNCES
A 25 cents
Same Price
forever
35
YEARS
WHY PAY
WAFC PRICES?
/he government used
millions of pounds
PIONEER LAWYER
PUBLISHER DIES
SUDDENLY IN S. A.
Edwin Routledge
CRASHES CLAIM SIX
SAN ANTONIO VICTIMS
(Continued from Page One.)
too received treatment at th: Robert
B. Green hospital.
Mrs. Mary Martinez and her 12-
year-old daughter Marie of 944 Ruiz
street were injured when the auto-
mobile In which they were riding and
a West End street car collided near
their home.
Mrs. Martinez received a probable
fracture of the left hip while her
daughter was bruised about the right
arm and shoulder. Her busband Joe
Martinez escaped uninjured.
So easy to get breakfast wifli
SHREDDED
WHEAT
It is ready-cooked—ready-to-eat
Demonstrations |
Daily j
You Are Cordially Invited I
It will take only a few minutes of your time □
to listen to a demonstration of the new ortho- |
' phonic Victrola and in those few minutes you S
* will be surprised beyond belief. As a lover of H
fine music you will be overjoyed at the vision □
of pleasure in store. You will find a new thrill S
in dance music for the jazziest jazz takes on S
* new color and new interest. Or if vocal and S
instrumental solos symphonies and choruses in- H
spire you—then you too have the treat of a g
lifetime in store.
Open Evenings n
The New Orthophonic |
y/ictrola
t Victor Day — Monday November 2nd
TEXAS CITRUS
BAN HELD
ILLEGAL
Agriculture Commissioner
Cannot Put Embargo
on Products.
AUSTIN. Nov. 3.—The ccmmL*-
sioncr of agriculture George B. Ter-
rell today wns informed in a formal
opinion by assistant Attorney General
Clifford L. Stone that he cannot legal-
ly place nn embargo againat the ship-
ment of citrus nursery stock to Texas
from nny other state. The only mean*
he has of preventing nny infected
nursery stock from coming into the
state is to sec thnt the shipper com-
pile* with the inspection law*.
Commissioner Terrell also w«* in-
formed that a county commissioners
court cannot establish and maintain
a quarantine against the shipment of
nny citrus or nursery stock into their
county from points outside of the
state.
It wns explained in the opinion that
the statute* provide a means of pro-
tection to such nursery stock by set-
ting forth rules with which nursery
deniers have to comply before ship-
ping their stock Into Texas.
MACDONNA POSTAL
POST TO BE FILLED
Examination of applicant* for the
vacancy in the office of fourth-cla**
postmaster at Mncdonna Tex. will
be held by the civil service commis-
sion in Ssn Antonio. Application* will
be received until November 25.
Those desirous of trying for tbe of-
fice must be 21 year* of age and must
reside in the territory supplied by the
office. Compensation at Macdonna was
s.’2o for the last fiscal year.
AL SMITH DECLINES
442 INVITATIONS
ALBANY N. Y. Nov. 3—UP)—
The life of New York's governor is
not a happy one.
From July until November Gov-
ernor Smith hns had to decline 442
invitations some of them even run-
ning into next year. Tho governor
Is wanted as n wedding guest a
bazaar patron old home week backer
and official at conerstono ceremonies.
Out-of-state invitation* would have
taken the governor to nearly every
state in the Union.
The world is divided
into two classes—-
those who claim they take cold
showers and wear athletic union suits
all winter
and those who don’t believe them!
Cooper’s Knitted Union Suits
warm enough to save a chill
yet not too warm for comfort indoors
$1.50 upward
NOVEMBER 3 1925.
SCHOOL ORCHESTRA
TO PRESENT CONCERT
The first formal appearance of the
Thomas Nelson Page orchestra will
be at an entertainment given the Par-
ent-Teachers’ Association ’of that
school November 6. The orchestra
is composed of 40 pieces and the
members are practicing daily.
A demonstration of health educa-
tional work will bo given at the en-
tertainment Miss Emma Gutzeit
principal said. Musical number* and
dances by the student* also will fea-
ture tho program.
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