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FERGUSON IS
FOR STRIKING
mn Bras
Candidate for Senate Dis-
cusses Railroads and Fed-
eral Reserve System.
SCORES THE DRY LAW
Says Bootleggers Against
Him Because He Is
Against Them.
A lot of people came away from the
political rally on Alamo I’lnza Friday
night with the conviction that former
Governor James E. Ferguson can cer-
tainly make a red-hot campaign talk
and doesn't try to dodge a single is-
V sue. He devoted the greater part of his
’time to deriding the Federal Reserve
system and upholding the idea of union
labor and his light wine and beer plat-
form.
“Since it is the custom" he began
“I will briefly report the progress of
the campaign. Bob Henry and Cullen
Thomas are going around the state and
saying things about each other that
can't be repeated in a Sunday school
room. Mayfield is knocking Ousley
and Ousley is knocking Mayfield. Then
there is Culberson up in Washington
who don't know what is going on
while Beriy Miller is cam|>aigning for
and throwing more mud than the
whole bunch of us.
"First let me defend my political rec-
ord. These Texas politicians say I left
the party. Well what of it? Let me
tell you that Sam Houston fought
ugainst bis party three times before he
was elected ami finally' had to resign
because he wouldn't yield to the Dem-
ocratic fashion of the moment. Roose-
velt—you all respect him—left bis
party and returned.
Cut Out Beer Plank.
“Well that was the howl they raised
against me at Austin. But they couldn't
put my name off the ballot because 1
had the law' to back me up. So they
cut out my light wine and beer plat-
form because a lot of politicians told
them if I were put on the ticket and
given beer as my platform the brewers
would come into Texas with a $25-
000000 slush fund and elect me.
“I remember there was one fellow nt
the convention who got up and said:
'I want to tell you people that $25-
000000 would help this state along a
good ways and all that beer wouldn't
hurt ns.’
"I am allowed to run only for a na-
tional office. Yes I left the party
but never the old-time Democratic prin-
ciples. ”
Here .the candidate referred to the
"holier-than-thou witch-burning crowd
up at Austin.”
Ferguson spoke in favor of the free
ballot and said he wanted to stop “a
Jot of useless bell'' being raised about
religious questions in the senatorial
eambaign.
"I belong to no ebureb but probably
would be a Methodist if they would kick
the politiicans out. I am opposed how-
ever to any intoleration.'’
Says Farmer “Squeezed.”
Ferguson next directed his speech
to money questions and accused the
Federal Reserve system as being the
cause of the country’s ills today. He
said the German kaiser never had half
the power of the imperial currency as
the Reserve Board over American
money.
"We went broke in 1920 because of
this damnable system. When money
got a little tight the board at Wash-
ington sent out orders for all its banks
to bring in every outstanding loan and
the farmer facing only a month or so
until his crops came in couldn't bor-
row enough money at his bank to buy
tobacco with. He couldn't extend a
note 60 days.
"It was the big banks of the East
that got all the money. They said
'there was none for the farmer and
they shut off his credit. It was a great
conspiracy. What they wanted among
other tilings was the people's Liberty
bonds supposed to be worth 100 cents
BP ihmulollar. They forced these down
VPHRVnts at one time and later they
settled around 85. When Mr. Farmer
wanted to borrow the reserve said ‘No
money.' So he sold his Liberty bonds
for what little be could get for them.
But there was plenty of money. The
big Eastern banks got it. 1 know of
one bank that borrowed $130000000
from the reserve during the hardest of
times put it into Liberty bonds nt 85
cents that are now worth over par—a
profit of $20000000 made on a govern-
ment privilege to make money.
James More Lenient?
“1 want to tell you and I want
these newspaper men to get this that
Jesse James was n conservative Sunday
school teacher by the side of these
bankers. And I am not excepting the
Dallas Federal Reserve either.
“The trouble with the country then
and the trouble now is that there is
not enough money in circulation. You
know that there are three billions in
gold lying idle in the government
vaults. I would put $7501X10.000 of
this aside and issue three billion in
paper currency against it. And to get
money circulating again the first thing
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Stomach Troubles?
Thousands have been cured by
Harris’ Wonder
Health Restorer
The great Herbal Remedy. Why
not you? Call or write
F. E. MASON Distributor
634 Moore Building.
Phone Cr. 6692.
iLHertzberg’s*
I OPTICIANS
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■ Corner 1878
BL »
SATURDAY.
Denies She Is to Wed McCormick
Mrs. Charles E. Counselman of Chi-
cago divorced wife of a broker denies
she is to marry Harold F. McCormick
millionaire chairman of the executive
board of the International Harvester
Company and divorced husband of John
D. Rockefeller’s daughter. Mrs. Cour*
selman who is summering at Hyannis-
I would ‘do would be to pay two bil-
lion to the soldier boys—ss(M) each.
**l would make it a penitentiary of-
fense to charge more than 6 per cent
interest. You know Christ could lead
others by precept and persuasion blit
when it came to the money lenders in
the temple he bad to scourge them out
and this is the only instance the Bible
records of him using physical force.
Is for the Strikers.
“I want to tell you how 1 stand on
this union question. I am eternally
against the open shop and eternally
for the union. I’m for the striking
shopmen and don't care who knows it.
The capitalists tell 10(XX) lies about
the worker but let me tell you that
the railway owners have union just the
same as the worker only they don't
call it a union. But one man can hold
up his finger and all the railways fol-
low—that's their union—but labor is
more democratic. When it wants to do
anything a vote is taken. That’s the
difference. The public* only hears about
what the unions are doing.
“And then I want you to know that
I am opposed to liquor—l mean this
potato licker and i»oißon hooch that
runs around the country killing people
and don't pay nothing for it. I'm for
liquor that pays a tax. I favor the re-
turn to light wines and beers but not
the saloon. I want a place where you
can go and buy your drinks but can’t
drink them there. You have to go home
if you want to get soaked.
A Disrespectable Law.
“You know prohibition isn’t being en-
forced. You can’t expect a respectable
people to respect a disrespectable law.
Let me illustrate. 1 can go up to any
man in this town and ask him to go
steal a horse with me. He is insulted
because he knows it's wrong. If the
law doesn't tell him then his heart
tells him. But I dare say I can’t ap-
proach a man in this crowd and tell
him where we cun buy a quart of good
corn whiskey at reduced rates without
hi» feeling flattered in being asked to
join in such a great social undertak-
ing. His heart tells him that be isn't
breaking any law.
“Down in my home town of Tem-
ple a prominent citizen got pinched
the other day for possessing a 50-gnl-
lon still. We all felt sorry for him
and told him. He laughed nt us. Noth-
ing was going to happen to him he told
us. . He said he had three-fourths of
the bunk presidents on his books half
the cashiers four preachers and
eighteen prominent club women and if
they started to put him in the pen
why he would tell ami take a lot of
company along with him. He wafk wise
to his matter of bookkeeping.
“I read the other day that the case
was dismissed.
“Let me say that I am eternally op-
posed to the bootleggers and they’re op-
posed to me. They know* I’m trying to
ruin their business. And maybe 1 can
beat these other five candidates but 1
sure solicit your support in beating
these 05000 bootleggers in Texas.
“They used to point their finger at
me and sneer. ‘You belong to the sa-
loon crowd they would say.’ I feel lots
more respectable now. I don’t belong
to anything but I ran point my finger
at my enemies and say ’You belong to
the bootlegger crowd’ and that’s ten
times worse.
“One of the main reasons I want to
get elected is so I can run this gung
of 1000 prohibition constables and 10.*
(MM) prohibition agents out of the state.
What do we need them for? Haven't
wo got a prohibition governor?”
Ferguson referred to the university
matter only once and that near the
close of bis sperh when he declared
that he wished he had the opportunity
to veto a university bill every year.
F reight Cars Ordered.
Nashville Tenn. July 15—The man-
agement of the Nashville Chattanooga
& St. Louis railway Friday announced
an order for 1000 new freight cars
fifteen passenger coaches and eight lo-
comotives the order aggregating $2-
000000.
Beautiful Roselawn Cemetery not a
graveyard a beautiful well kept burial
park. Crockett 1088.—(Adv.)
.Chas ;E .Counselman
port Mass. admits that she and M?
Corinick are close friends but that i
all. McCormick has been reported en-
gaged too to Ganna Wahka the Polish
opera star who recently divorced Alex-
ander Smith Cochran multi-millionaire
carpet man and sportsman of Yonkers.
N. Y.
HARDING’S MESSAGE
LAUDS CEREMONY AT
YELLOWSTONE PARK
Anniversary of Founding of
the National Playground
Observed.
Yellowstone Park. July 15.—Read-
ing of messages from President Hard-
ing Secretary of the Interior Fall and
Governor Dixon of Montana featured
the ceremoniese Friday in celebration
ol the fiftieth anniversary cf the crea-
tion of the Y'ellowstone Park reserve
the United States’ first national park.
The President’s message was as fol-
lows :
“With over 7000000 acres of the
choicest scenic areas of the United
States Hawaii and Alaska reserved as
national parks dedicated and set apart
for all time as pleasure grounds for the
people it is singularly appropriate that
persons from all sections of our country
could today assemble in Yellowstone
Park at the site where the national
park idea was born tn celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of its creation.
"We no>v realize that with its estab-
lishment as the first national park
came also the recommendation of the
principle that scenery of supreme
majesty is a national asset worthy of
pl enervation for the use and enjoy-
ment of future generations as well as
those of our time. 1 congratulate the
people on the possession of their na-
tional parks.”
x ’WARREN HARDING.”
M’CORMICK WILL SAIL
FOR EUROPE ALONE;
ON BUSINESS TRIP
Mathilde Will Try to Get
John D.’s Consent to
Her Marriage.
New York July 15.—Harold F. Mc-
Cormick chairman of the executive
board of the International Harvester
Company will not sail for Europe
Saturday with his daughter Mathilde
fiancee of Max Oser Swiss riding mas-
ter.
At any rate the two will not be
aboard the Olympic when she sails for
Southampton at 11 o’clock Saturday
morin ng for Mr. McCormick was suc-
cessful in securing but one reservation
aboard the big liner upon his arrival
here Friday from Chicago.
It is understood that Mathilde is to
visit her grandfather. John I). Rocke-
feller at his Pocantillo Hills estate
and seek his consent to her marriage
to Oser. Mr. McCormick’s immediate
business in Europe it was said will
be in London where he will attend
the much-postponed wedding of Mary
Landon Baker and Allister McCor-
mick.
CHINESE ARE HELD UP
Vessel Stopped at Miami and Captain
Arrested.
Miami Fla. July 15.—Thirteen
Chinese were found last night huddled
In n compartment aboard a schooner
in the Miami river. W. J. Stanford
captain of the vessel is being held on
a charge of conspiracy and smuggling
nnd will be given a hearing today be-
•fore Federal Judge Graham. The
Chinese will be turned over to the im-
migration bureau for u hearing. The
vessel was bound from Cuba to Phila-
dalpbia.
BUDGETCHANGE
SHOWS SLIGHT
IMPROVEMENT
Mayor Restores Offices of
Detective Captain and
Jitney Inspector.
MEET AGAIN MONDAY
Fight Expected When Street
Commissioners Budget
Is Taken Up.
Mayor Black nft<r .nore than a
mouth’s effort at last evidently lias hit
upon the solution of the budget problem.
This was indicated late Thursday win
the mayor and commissioners adjourned
a caucus which had Lern in progress
nearly all day. its conclusion the
budgets of three ..embers the commis-
sion had been gone over item by item
and an almost satisfactory adjustment
made. Two budgets those of Mayor
Black and Commissio-ier Rieden are
scheduled to be taken up at a caucus
next Monday im ruing at 10 o’clock.
The budgets o Commissioners
Wright Lambert and Pfeiffe. were
taken up Thursday and probably will
be adopted as they now stand. The
changes effected are comparatively
slight nnd as a rule are considered fa-
vorable to the commissioners as over
the budgets which had been tentatively
allowed them by the mayor.
Restores Captain of Detectives.
In the police budget the mayor re-
stored the office of captain of detectives
at a salary of $155 where he had orig-
inally allowed only a lieutenant’s sal-
ary of $l3O. He also allowed a sec-
retary for the police department which
originally had been discontinue**. The
salary of the building inspector was
raised from $l5O to $175 and an al-
lowance of $l5 per mouth for nn auto-
mobile made. The mayor it is *nder-
stood will furnish the building inspector
with the car formerly used by former
Mayor Bell. The question of trans-
ferring the building inspectcr frou the
police department f o he tux depart-
ment was discussed but not definitely
decided upon Cominissio .e Phil
Wright said. An ass slant to the
building inspector also is provided for
in the new budget.
Jitney Inspector Restored.
Other changes include the restoration
of the office of jitney inspector the
transfer of one park olkewuman from
Commissioner Wright’s to £ommfrsioner
Lambert’s department and provisio for
motorizing the dog-catching equipment.
Commissioner Wright also asked for the
union scale of wages *or mechanics in
the fire and police departments.
While Commiss’oner Lambert left
for Medina Lake shortly after the con-
ference nnd could not be reached it is
understood that the mayor allowed him
additional funds for is park depart-
ment and for the purchase of new’ equip-
ment in the garbage department.
The real fight is expected to come up
Monday when the budget of Commis-
sioner Rieden is taken up. Commis-
sioner Pfeiffer is insisting that this
budget be cut in view of the fac* that
the charter provides fo? permanent
street improvements out of the bond
money and not out of the general fund.
The mayor also may be asked to explain
certain items in hi» budget—sue’. as ap-
propriations for special investigators
etc.
NATION-WIDE SEARCH
LEADS TO ARREST OF
MINISTER FROM OHIO
Reverend Culp Says He
Left Wife for New
Sweetheart.
Port Huron Mich. July 15.—Rev.
Walter W. Culp former Spring Vai
ley (Ohio) pastor for whom a nation-
wide search was instituted several
weeks ago after he was reported to
have deserted his wile and nine chil-
dren was arrested near here Friday
in company with Miss Esther Hughes
19 years of age. They were taken
into custody at a summer hotel.
Rev. Culp and Miss Hughes offered
no excuse except that they had “fol-
lowed the promptings of the heart.”
“What is a man to do when he hears
a call to another woman and how can
he keep a family of nine children on
$l2OO a year?” he asked. “1 was dis-
couraged. 1 love my children dearly
but my home surroundings were not
what they could have been. 1 would
rather remain behind prison bars than
return to my wife.”
“We went into this with our eyes
open.” Miss Hughes said. “We knew
we wore violating the conventions and
1 presume we will have to pay.”
TO PAY WAR DEBTS
British Chancellor of Exchequer Says
V. S. Should Be Reimbursed.
By the Associated Tress.
L n ndon July 15.—The world’s fi-
nancial situation was still serious but
that Great Britain was stronger fi-
nancially today than- any time since
the armistice Sir Robert Horne chan-
cellor of the exchequer declared in an
address in the house of commons Fri-
day. when the finance bills on its third
reading WM discussed. He said at
the present rate of exchange Eng-
land's debt to the United States reach-
ed 938000000 pounds sterling.
“I reciprocate the views expressed
by Mr. Asquith namely that our debt
to the United States is one of the
solemn obligations which undoubtedly
we shall meet.” Sir Robert said. “The
request which the United States made
to us recently to consider the funding
of the debt and to place it as Mr.
Asquith said on stable and equitable
foundations is one which will be com-
pletely met.”
The bill had its third reading with-
out division.
Beautiful Roselawn Cemetery not a
graveyard a beautiful well kept burial
park. Crockett 1688. —(Adv.)
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
American Hobo Has Literature
Depicting His Migratory Life
Some Verses Give Outlet
to Grievances and Others
Simply Portray the Care-
less Life They Lead.
Chicago H|.. July 1' —The hobo has
a literature of Lia own. He has his
ballads as well as the cowboy the
mountineer and the sailor. Mucu of his
literature is oral but one hobo organ-
ization has published a paperbound an-
thology of verse and auothcr issues a
magazine.
‘•Much hobo verse lacks poetic quali-
ty because the author Is trying to
present a brief to voice a grievance”
said Nels .Anderson who is making a
study of migstory men under the aus-
pices of Chicago philanthropic agencies.
“In some on the other hand then' is
genuine feeling. The work of the late
Bill Quirke is particularly meritor-
ious.”
The paper-bound anthology bears on
the cover some discriminating defini-
tions: “A hobo is « migratory worker.
A tramp is a migratory non-worker. A
bum is a stationary jon-worker.”
Hobos Are Classified.
“The migrator worker” said Mr.
Anderson is essential to industry.
“Sheep-shearing and salmon fishing
being seasonal tasks can only be per-
formed by wanderers. Occupational
diseases send men from one kind of
work to another. Other men wander
because they lack the backbone to stay
-at one job because they are queer and
fail to fit into their original environ-
ment or because they uave lost out in
the struggle of life.”
One of Bill Quirkr’s efforts contains
these linos:
Have you retted wet in a trading
camp
Or scorched in a desert lino?
Or done your night stunt with your
lamp
Watching the timbers drip with damp
And bearing the oil rig whine?
I do no kicking at God or fate
1 keep my shoos for the road—
The long gray road and I lose it
mate—
Hay-foot straw-foot—that’s my gait
And I carry no other man’s load.
Grim humor characterizes “A Story
of the Jungles.” It relates the boasting
of a genial liar who wa-i supposed to
be cooking “Mulligan stew” for his
comrades at a hobo camp:
Now Checkers he waj a good fellow
As far as good fellowship goes.
But he will never again be a hero
Or kill any more of his foes.
Ho is sleeping at peace iu the valley
O’er his head grow the laurel and
fern;
He shall ride no more rattlers or
ironies
For he let that Mulligan burn!
Hobo Defends Seif.
The “hobo working stiff” uefeuds him-
self from abuse as follows:
When the wheat is ripe iu the field of
grain
He climbs on a passenger blind
And haggard sways on that trembling
train
As it rushes through the rough uight
wind.
On the road he’ a cat a bloody fink
And a scissor-bill to spare
And a biudle-stiff is a gentle link
In the names be has to hear.
And the truth of it is he’s neither a
tramp
A fink or a Johnny Yegg
A fly-by-night a vagrant scamp
Or much of a fellow to beg.
Y’es the hobo worker is the lad that
plods
Up the track as the train goes by;
He builds the road and rides the rods
And his cities light the sky;
But he has never a bed to lay bis head
Or a roof to hide his grime.
He harvests the wheat that the word
may cat
And goes hungry most of the time.
Mr. Anderson defined some <*f the un-
usual terms used here. A scissor- bill is
a hobo who grinds seis ors though the
term has been transferred to apply to
any man who is new to the road a
green horn. A fink or a yegg is a
criminal. A bindle-stiff or bundle
stiff a wanderer who carries his bed-
ding a bundle —a Wolanket stiff.’
Employment Agency Aids.
“The mission and the employment
agency contribute to the lift of the
tramps’ neighborhood.” said Mr. Onder-
son. “So does ‘Paddy the Pig” the
old fat man who sits oa the curb or ar-
gues with street corner idlers assuring
them ‘You’re all ignorant. I used to
be ignorant myself.’ So docs the woman
who goes about feeding the alley cats
for an area of several blocks.
“This particular woman dislikes for-
eigners nnd prides herself on being an
American but the has a k^nd spot in her
heart for homeless min ns well ns for
homeless cats. She says ’The city
could give work to nil you boys if ii
would set them to cleaniug chimneys
nnd the roofs. TLe soot on the roofs
blows on the clothes when they’re
hung out on the roofs to dry.’ She does
her own part by scouring the foun-
tains on the street regularly gratis.”
SCHOOL JANITOR SHOT
11. N. Boyd. Charged With Assault to
Murder Makes Statement.
Pedro Rivas. 45. Bonham school jan-
itor the police say may die as a result
of a pistol bullet which entered his
back and pierced his left lung at 7 :33
Friday afternoon. H. N. Boyd 74. No-
galitos street grocer accused of having
fired the shot is charged in an affi-
davit in the justice court with assault
to murder.
Boyd's statement to detectives when
taken to central headquarters the offi-
cers say is that he fired upon Rivas to
protect his wife who he says is 66
years old and in frail health.'
The wounded man resides at 300 Big-
foot street. Boyd told officers that lie
had previously warned him. Friday
afternoon. Boyd said he put his pistol
a 38-caliber weapon in his pocket. He
feared Rivas he said because the lat-
ter was a younger and more powerful
man. It was in a mesquite thir" t a
short distance from his home and off the
highway h« said that hi. confronted
Rivas. The shooting followed. Two
shots were fired in rapid succession one
striking Rivns in the lower region of the
back ranging upward.
When Acting Police Chief Van Riper
Detective Captain Street and Police-
man Scbarfenburg reached the scene
they found Rivas they say. suffering
from a wound that will probably cost
him his life. The bullet entered near
the spine causing that portion of bis
body below the hips to be paralysed.
He was rushed to the Rober': B. Green
Memorial Hospital i the police ambu-
lance.
Boyd was detained «. detective head-
quarters during the night transferred
to the county authorities Saturday
morning after a formal charge had been
filed and then released ‘ from custody
on a nominal bond.
YOUTHFUL ANARCHIST
DETAINED IN PARIS
FOR ATTACKING RULER
Assassin Suffers From Tu-
berculosis and Awaits
Verdict of Jury.
By the A»»ociatcd PrrM.
Paris July 15.—Gustav Bouvet the
young anarclu.st who yesterday fired
at Police Prefect Naudin mistaking
him tor President Millerand. presented
an unprei»ossessing appearance in his
cell this morning as he awaited ar-
raignment on n charge of attempt to
commit premeditated and wilful mur-
der covnictiou for which carries the
death sentence.
The assasain is a tall skeleton-like
figure and in an- advanced stage of
tuberculosis. He was employed as a
draftsman in an automobile factory but
himself printed the weekly AMarchiat
Youth which he founded as well as
writing it.
The keeper of the hotel where he
loomed gives him a good character ref-
erence declaring he was always quiet
and regular with his payments. He
lived alone receiving neither visitors
nor mail.
HARDING HOPEFUL
RAIL STRIKE’S END
WILL BE EFFECTED
Cabinet Discusses Means to
Keep Open Arteries of
Commerce.
Washington D. C. July 15.—De-
sp<te the apparent lack of progress in
efforts of members of the railroad la-
bor board to effect a settlement of the
shopmen’s strike administration offi-
cials today still were hopeful a solu-
tion of the problem would be found
before any situation arose which might
force drastic action by the government.
With evidence accumulating that the
administration intends to utilize every
force at the government’s command to
insure maintenance of necessary inter-
state transportation the rail strike is
understood to have been discussed at
length at yesterday’s meeting of the
cabinet in the development of the ad-
ministration's attitude in the event of
certain contingencies.
While government operation of the
carriers was understood to be viewed
as in no way a probability at this
stage it was said to have been dis-
cussed at the meeting on a hypotheti-
cal basis and President Harding was
said to hold the view that should this
course become necessary it would not
abridge the liberty of railroad work-
ers to be drafted for service irf posi-
tions in which they have had experi-
ence.
Reports of interference with train
operations by strikers or strike sympa-
thizers have continued to reach the
Postoffice Department in the last 24
hours.
TEXAS WRECK FATAL
Expressman Is Killed and Several In-
jured Near Wharton.
Wharton Tex. July 15. —Jake Her-
man expressman. was killed and seven
passengers injured when a Gulf. Colo-
rado & Santa Fo passenger train was
wrecked eighteen miles north nf Whar-
ton Friday. Tim wreck is believed to
have been caused by spreading of rails.
The injured were brought here for
treatment.
The baggage car. a passenger coach
and a box ear left the track. The train
vas carrying a mixed passenger nnd
freight service.
The passenger coach which slid down
a six feet embankment was filled with
children and several women. A panic
nearly resulted before male passengers
obtained the release of the women nnd
children. Five men nnd two women
wore only slightly in in rod.
SEE KLAN INITIATE
Thousands View Public Ceremony at
Dallas.
Dallas. Tex.. July 15.—An audience
(■stinwtod bv officials in charge nt more
than 20.000 Inst night witnessed what
'‘•as ronnrto'l fo bo the first public ini-
tiation in the Southwest of candidates
’’nto the Knights nf the Ku Klux Klan.
Officers of the klan announced thnt
5000 would bp initiated. Robot 1 figures
comnletely filled the playing field of the
stadium. Men from surrounding com-
munitie® nre said to have been among
the candidates.
College Head Elected.
Atlanta. Ga. July 15. —Dr. M. L.
Brittain state superintendent of schools
was elected president of Georgia Tech
Friday.
OUR
SUBSCRIBERS
do us a favor when they report Io
our Circulation Department any
irregularity experienced in 'he
San Autonio Light delivery service.
Cal! Crockett 1742 and ask for the
Circulation Department.
FASTS SIXTY-ONE DAYS
Kentucky Man Weak But Says He Is
Fed at “Spiritual Fountain."
Nada Ky.. July 15. —So weak that
he is unable to leave his bed but stead-
fastly refusing food in any form Wil-
liam Rice of near here ha* completed
his sixty-first day of continuous fast-
ing. His strength is declining rapidly
nnd death is said to be a matter of only
a few days unless he accepts food.
Rice declares ho receives food from
a “spiritual fountain” and says he is
tempted constantly by Satan to make
use of earthly sustenance. He drinks
considerable quantities of water.
The fast was begun May 13 when
Rice asserts he was told by God in a
vision that ho should show bis neigh-
bors that they should nuke j/ersonal
sacrifices if they expect heavenly re-
ward.
ASK HUGHES AGAIN
Tacna Arica Delegates Want Advice on
Problem.
By the AMociatrd Press.
Washington. July 15. —The Chilean
nnd Peruvian conference again sus-
Xnded negotiations Friday to seek the
advice of the American State Depart-
ment regarding the final form of the
Tacna-Arica arbitration agreement.
Confidence in a final settlement with-
in a few days remained unshaken.
The clause about which advice is
•ought informally from Secretary of
State Hughes is that prescribing the
procedure to bo followed in case no
plebiscite is held in Tacna-Arica.
GERMANY IN DOLDRUMS
Economic Situation Bad While France
Is Marking Time.
Washington D. C. July 15.—Ger-
man economic conditions an* bail.
France is marking time while Austria
shows some signs of improvement ac-
cording to rejiorts to the Commerce
Department from its representatives in
those countries.
Failure of plans for foreign loans has
brought about the new period of cur-j
rency depression in Germany it was:
reported but German industry in gen-
eral is profiting by the decline ns it;
gives a new opportunity for dumping
abroad and Tor increased inland sales.'
Many industries are hampered by lack
of coal nnd rising labor costs. French
excahnge was said to be steadily de-’
dining but employment increasing.
Slight improvement in the Austrian
economic situation was been. The se\
rloua conditions arising in ‘June on
account of the exhaustion of British’
credit ami delays in other credits has*
not materially improved but exchnnge
is coming back slowly ami the situa-!
lion is clearing up slightly with the
final granting of the French credit nnd
the actual receipt of 2(UMM).(MM) francs. ।
TO START LONG FLIGHT
Army Airship A-4 Ordered to Belle
vllle Illinois.
WaUiindon. July 15.—The army
airship A-4 under orders issued Friday
directing her to proceed from Langley
Field Virginia to Scott Field Belle-
ville. 111. where the new airship school
of the army is located will make stops
at Bolling Field Washington. Mound®-
vHle W. Va. and Akron and Fairfield
Ohio.
The flight to Scott Field involves
traveling a distance of 1100 miles the
longest distance ever attempted by the
army lighter-thnn-air branch of the
service. Photographs ami sketches of
possible landing fields will be taken
on route to furnish data for commercial
flying.
TESTIFY FOR MADALYN
Defense Staris Placing Witnesses on
titand.
Los Angeles Calif. July 15.—Offcr-
■ng of testimony for the defense com-
menced Friday in the trial of Mrs.
Madalyn C. Obenchain charged with
the murder of J. Belton Kennedy here
last August.
Mrs. Zelma Cullender who-said she
was an old friend of Mrs. Obenchain.
testified that Arthur ('. Burch code-
fendant had called on her in Evanston
Hl. stating that he had received a mes-
sage from Madalyn asking her (Mrs.
Cullender) to come to California.
The Rev. William A. Rttreli father
of Arthur C. Bnrch testified that he
assisted his son in packing for the lat-
.crs trip to Los Angeles in July. 1921
and that his son did not take’a shot-
gun along. He said that the only fire-
arm in his son’s possesssion was a re-
volver. .
POTATO MARKET GOOD
Argentina May Become One of World’s E
Surplus Spud Countries.
Washington. D. C„ July 15.—Argen- -
Ima has good prospects of becoming =
one of the world’s surplus potato coun- =
tries according to a report to the =
< ommerce Department today from =
trade Commissioner Brady at Buenos E
Aires.
The Argentine potato industry. he'E
said has developed on a large scale =
since the war and there is now a’E
strong effort apparent t.o export ex- =
tensively. The two English owned rail- ~
roads of the country he reported have =
recently made a mutual agreement to =
import selected seed potatoes from Eng- E
* a J*u ami the United States for dis- =
tribution throughout the three potato E
districts of Argentina. While the sys- =
tern of land rentals and poor seed se-’E
lection have been a deterrent to the in- =
dustry. he declared it is declared that E
• Tenr w »l produce overi^
500000000 pounds of potatoes. ’
NO INTERRUPTION OF SERVICE
Trains Discontinued Excepting
'MJ Vtßt Georgetown Branch
All Trains Moving On Regular
On-Time Schedules
I. & G. N.—SANTA FE
Through Sleeper to Denver
e Leaves 8:30 P. M.
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CITY OFFICE
615 Navarro St.—Phone Tr. 568.
JULY 15 1922.
TULSA MAN SEIZED
AFTER HE ASSISTS
THEFT DEFENDANTS
Masked Men Take Former
Justice of Peace From
Home.
Tulsa Okla. July 15.—S. E. Hall-
man. former justice of the peace was
seized by three masked men in front
of his home here Friday night and
borne away in an automobile. Late
Friday night he had not returned home
and nothing was learned of his fate.
It was reported that Hallman had
been accused of being a professional
bondsman. Investigation at the court
house revealed thnt he had signed sev-
eral bonds since he gave up bis posi-
tion as justice three months ago. His
name appeared on two bonds perfect-
ed Friday for defendants in automo-
bile theft cases.
8. K. Lesky a bondsman was tarred
and feathered and thrown from an au-
tomobile on n downtown street her
Thursday night.
Texas Bankers Elect.
Wichita Falls Texas. July 15.—W.
R. Ferguson of this city was elected
president of the State Bankers' Asso-
ciation for the twenty-fourth district.
J. M. Grews of Childress was elected
i ice-president nnd M'. M. Covington
of Alvord secretary and treasurer. The
officers with W. L. Rush of Decatur
.'•nd F. L. Massie of Vernon will serve
as the executive committee.
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