The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 338, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 23, 1923 Page: 4 of 54
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4-A
CCI. CONGER
IS ASSIGNED
TO RESERVES
Colonel Involved in Suit
Here Stationed at
Fort Hayes.
HAS BEEN AT SCHOOL
Junior Officer Capt. E. H.
। Randle Now Before
“B” Board.
Cal. Arthur L. Conger who last Feb-
ruary was sued by his junior officer ।
Capt. Edwin H. Handle for $lOOOOO.
claiming defamation of Mrs. Handle’s
character hns been assigned to duty
with the organized reserve corps at
Fort Hayes Columbus Ohio accord-
ing to army orders issued from W ash-
ington Saturday. The Conger-Handle
suit created a stir in army circles and
was not hushed up until Captain Han-
dle withdrew his suit in the civil
courts. Since that time Captain Han-
dle has been placed on a class “B"
status b> the army "B" board til
Washington and has appeared before
an army board of inquiry at Eighth
Corps .Vett headquarters to show rea-
sons why he should be restored to a
class "A” status.
At the time Captain Handle entered
suit against Colonel Conger he was on
duty with the Twentieth Infantry. Sec-
ond Division. which regiment was com-
manded by Colonel Conger. Following
a public reprimand by Colonel Conger
before the Twentieth Infantry. Cap-
tain Handl*' jointly with Mrs. Handle
filed suit in the civil courts for
(HKI against the regimental commander.
In the text of the suit it was ilaimed
by Captain Handle that his command-
ing officer lm*l made damaging state-
ments against Mrs. Handle’s character
in the reprimand.
Suit Was Withdrawn.
So much publicity was given this un-
usual affair between the Twentieth In-
fantry commander and bis junior of-
ficer. that army officials at Fort Sam
Houston finall; refused to give out any
information or make any statements
regarding the conflict.
Much to the surprise of both the
army and civilian followers of the case.
Captain Handle suddenly withdrew his
suit. A short time after this move he
was transferred to a negro regiment
Stationed at Nogales. Ariz.. and Colo-
nel Conger was temporarily trans-
ferred to the Field Artillery and or-
dered to Fort Sill to take a course in
the Field Artillery school there. He
has been at that post since leaving
Fort Sam Houston.
The appointment of Colonel Conger
to duty with the organized reserve
corps came as a surprise in San An-
tonio as it was supposed he would be
assigns*! to some ^held Artillery unit
as there is a shortage of officers in
that arm of the service at this time.
Transferred to Artillery.
He was transferred to the Field Ar-
tillery for a period of six years at the
same time with a number of other high
ranking officers. All these officers
were sent to Fort SHI to the Field Ar-
tillery School and it was the expressed
purpose at the time of the transfer
that these officers were to help fill the
gap that exsits among field officers of
the artillery.
Fort Hayes the station to which
Colonel Conger has been assigned is
the headquarters of the Fifth Corps
Area.
CHRISTMAS SEALS
BRING $5OOO UP
TO SATURDAY NIGHT
About $2500 More to Come
in Mail—Booths Open
Sunday and Monday.
Proceeds from the sale of Christ-
mas seals now total approximat'ly
$5OOO. according to Ralph H. Dur-
kee of the Chamber of Commerce.
Booths will remain open Sunday ami
Monday.
Morris Stern chairman of the wel-
fare department of the Chamber of
Commerce states that he is well pleas-
ed with the response with which the
seal sale has met and that he hopes
the same generous attitude will be in
♦tvidence for the remainder of the sale.
The weather has been so bad that the
sale has ^lot been as heavy as it
would have been he said.
Of the letters sent out by the mail
sale* committee more than 4000
have not yet been answered. If these
bring the same returns that others
have brought about $2OOO more
should bo realized from this source.
Three thousand letters were return-'*!
with the seals and 2500 letters with
money.
The Mexican and army committees
have not yet rendered a report nor
have the drug stores made an account-
ing of the seals that have beep dis-
posed of by them.
OFFICER SENT HERE
Colonel Pierce A. Murphy Is As-
signed to Fourth Field Artillery.
Col. Pierce A. Murphy who for the
last few months has been attending the
Field Artillery school at Fort Sill.
Okla. has been assigned to the Fourth
Field Artillery according to army or-
ders issued from Washington Satur-
day morning. The Fourth Field Ar-
tillery is one of the attached units
of the Second Division.
Colonel Murphy is an infantry of-
ficer but is serving a temporary as-
signment if six years with the artillery.
Before going to the artillery school
he was in command of the non-divi-
•ional group organized reserves with
headquarters at Fort Sam Houston.
Due to a shortage of field officers
In the field artillery corps. Colonel
Murphy and five other officers were
temporarily transferred to that arm of
the service. Each of the officers was
•ent to the field artillery school at
Fort Sill for an artillery course.
The nature of Colonel Murphy's as-
•jgnment with the Fourth Field Ar-
tillery was not indicated in tLe order.
SUNDAY.
CALIFORNIA NOW SORRY SHE
HAS WON FIGHT AGAINST HER
ALIEN TILLERS OF THE SOIL
Japanese Last Year Produced One-third of Crops and
Now They Are Moving to the East to Start
New Truck Farms.
By EEE OVERMAN.
Copyright by The San Antonio Light.
Sacramento. Cal.. Dec. 22.—After
twenty-six years of legislative en-
deavor to drive Japanese from Cali-
fornia agriculture anil with those
foes finally crowned with success
through recent decisions of the
I'nited States Supreme Court uphold-
ing the anti-alien land laws this
state today finds itself wondering >f
it has not succeeded n little too well.
First effects of tbc complete oust-
ing of the Orientals from all agricul-
tural activities except as day wage
earners are just commencing to make
themselves felt and already there is
a tendency in many sections to regret
that anti-alien land legislation has
been made so sweeping.
This feeling is rapidly gaining
headway as thousands of Japanese
farmers refusing to go back to their
former status ns wage earning farm
bands are preparing to depart for
states farther east. Something like
50000 Orientals are expected to join
in this migratory movement and
Oregon and Washington with similar
land laws' will contribute many to
the eastward hegira. The objective
points according to Japanese associa-
tions her*' will be the larger centers
of population along the Atlantic sea-
board ami in the central states where
the Japanese x>lan to establish truck
farms.
Hits the Japanese.
The anti-alien land act prohibits
all persons ineligible to citizenship—-
mostly Japanese Chinese and Hindus
—from owning or leasing farm lands
front tilling land on crop share agree-
ments. and also from owning stock
in land holding corporations.
Farming has long since ceased to
attract Chinese in California. Most
of them are in mercantile pursuits
or conduct lotteries. The Hindus are
few and they have always been con-
tent to be wage earners but the anti-
alien land laws hit the'Japanese witli
terrific force for out of the 120000
Japanese in California. 5$ per eent
ar:' engaged in agricultural pursuits
and four-fifths of that number are
"on their own.”
Briefly summarized the situation
here is that having had its anti-
Japanese legislation declared valid.
Hie state is suddenly confronted with
525000 acres of farm lands left
without tenants and an annual in-
come of 573.000.000 derived from
Hie sale of Japanese-grown farm
products in eastern markets is sud-
denly lopped off. Coincidently there
has been a sudden depreciation in
farm land values.
May Never Recover.
The cry for white fanners from
other states to replace the Japanese
already has gone out. But even with
white farmers there is still a question
whether California can ever regain
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the agricultural prestige whbh the
Japanese have hel]>cd her attain. It
is an accepted truth here that
Japanese farmers can make two
blades of grass or anything else grow
where other farmers grow but one.
In 1909 the total value of Califor-
‘nia's Japanese-grown crops was s(i.-
235.000 as compared with $73000000
in 1923. Last year the Japanese
farmed one-eighth of the' state’s
4000000 acres of irrigated farm land
—but from this one-eighth they pro-
duced almost one-third of California's
annual $250000000 crop of farm
products.
Of the various California vegetable
and fruits crop last year. Japanese
farmers produced asparagus 75 per
cent; berries 95 per cent; celery 90
per cent; cantaloupes. 70 per cent;
onions. 90 per cent; deciduous fruits
75 per cent; lettuce. 90 per cent;
sugar beets 45 per cent and potatoes
40 per cent.
Now Want to Change It.
In the Imperial Vnlley where the
Japanese Inst year raised 70 i>er cent
of California's cotton crop 50(MJ0
acres next spring will remain un-
plnnted. Land owners meeting in
Stockton asserted tliar 40000 acres in
that section and 50000 acres in the
rich Sacramento rive" delta region
must be planted in barley if planted
at all.
Already there is in progress a
movement by land owners to have the
anti-alien land law amended through
initiative ami referendum to permit
Japanese farming on crop share
agreements. Unless a special session
of the legislature is called however
no change can bo made for at least
a year ami a half. Even then the
amendment will meet with much op-
position in the cities.
Meanwhile the Japanese declare
they are finished with their long
fight to stay in California. The
East they say offers rich opportuni-
ties for truck farming with no anti-
alien land laws.
MAKKIAGE I.lt ESSE*.
J. J. Saatlioff and Malinda Ofingnr.
Il W. Bl ck. Booker Tex. and Mar-
garet IL Malone.
Luis Flores an-i Maria Lozano.
I'laxton M'tchell. Houston Tex. and
Mrs. Carrie Stevens.
Manuel Guerrero and Josefina Velas-
quez.
Lorenzo Gonzalez and Stella Guerra.
Earl E. Stoops Lozoya Tex. nnd
Frieda M. GrsMing.
Douglas L. Dunning and Mrs. Margaret
Davis.
Donald E. Zepernick and Mrs. Inez M.
Zepernick.
DIP tries E. Meyer Weesatche Tex. nnd
Carolyn Whitworth.
James Forestier ami Beatrice Mc-
Clure.
Lester T. Sumrail. Corpus Christi Tex.
and Haze! Dean Knuth.
Herbert It. Ziok Burlington Wis. and
Dorothy M. <'oar.
William Paul Tritt and Minerva Well-
ingham.
Nelson H. Cox Jr. and Martha A. Now-
lin.
Alberto Sanchez Jr. and Mary Allee
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
CLEAR DOCKETS
GIVE DISTRICT
CDURTSRECESS
Judge Terrell Only One to
Work Before New
Term.
NO " NEW CASES
Election Contest Case
Comes Up in Seventy-
third January 3.
With the exception of habeas corpus
hearings and other similar urgent
business Bexar county district courts
will be idle until after the new year.
This was determined Saturday when
the district courts recessed until Jan-
uary 7 the beginning of the January
term.
This was made possible because the
dockets of none of these courts with
the exception of the Seventy-third car-
ried any cases which had been set
down for hearing during the holidays.
In the Seventy-third however. Judge
Robert W. B. Terrell expects to take
up the ease wherein opponents of the
bond issue are contesting the validity
of the December 4 election. This is
set for January 3.
In the two criminal district courts
the Thirty-seventh and the Ninety-
fourth. all settings on the docket were
cleared up last week and no new cases
will be taken up until the Jannary
term. The November term of court
expires on January 5 as does the ses-
sions of the Thirty-seventh District
Court grand jury. This inquisitorial
body will reconvene on January 3 and
adjourn finally the Saturday follow-
ing.
Sentence Two Men.
Judge W. IV. McCrory in the Nine-
ty-fourth brought his November term
of <-ourt to a close Saturday after-
noon by pronouncing sentence on two
men who had been tried before his
tribunal. They were Jackson Warf
and Leo Thelmes. Warf was sen-
tenced to serve five years in the peni-
tentiary upon conviction of an assault
upon a young girl. Thelmas had been
convicted of automobile theft and given
two years.
A motion for a new trial in the
Warf case was overruled by Judge Mc-
Crory Saturday afternoon and his at-
torneys Simmons and Blanton gave
notice of appeal. The motion was
based on the allegation that the girl
had made three different statements
concerning the alleged attack upon
her. that Assistant District Attorney
W. I*. Mahaffey had gone out of the
record in his argument to the jury in
order to reconcile these statements and
also that the girl and her mother had
Youngest at Harvard
Norman W. Schur 15-year-old
Boston boy won it is said the
highest grades in tests for entrance
to Harvard University. He takes an
active interest in rowing too.
wept audibly in the court room in the
presence of the jury.
Judge McCrory in overruling the
motion gave thp defense the usual 90
days in which to perfect its appeal and
fixed the bond of Warf at $2500. His
attorneys expressed the belief that he
will be able to give this bond. There
was no motion for a new trial in the
Thelmes ease.
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Never before
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/during the
Christmas
buying season
such unusual
values in Din- /
nerware. /
Imported China Sets
51-piece sets $22.50 to $37.50
100-piece sets $40.00 to $75.00
Always the TF Alway« the
Highest Jj&UtOH V ^.t
Quality THE BIG CROCKERY STORE Prices
DECEMBER 23 1923.
Sale
Beautiful Dinner Sets of every
possible quality are offered at prices
that are far below regular. As a
Christmas Gift nothing could be
more appropriate more practical
and useful. Come in and inspect
ogr most wonderful showing.
American
Porcelain Ware
31-piece sets $4.00 to $5.00
42-piece sets $6 to $10.50
51-piece sets $9.00 to $l5
100-piece sets $22 to $2B
English Porcelain
Ware
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51-piece sets.. .$lB to $3O
100-piece sets.. .$35 to $55
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