Biloxi Daily Herald (Newspaper) - April 14, 1924, Biloxi, Mississippi AND MORE FARMING COUNTY'S BY APRIL 14.1924 Annual Session Be The Presbyterian Church Tuesday and mu ' * ' lne eleventh Meridian will convint ion the church here tonight beginning at 7 for a days session of their annual There ingo i Ovid is said to have by several and is believed to have driven the Cadilac automobile M. C. be present during the convention 100 Madison of whom are officially | now in the county authorized by tlie different ' where he is being held for safe remainder being who will { pending 'the investigation to be participate in 11,0 federal grand program will include devotional Madison is held under two serious addressed pertaining to that of having driven a entertainment for the | stolen automobile from one state to John pastor of the j another in violation of the Motor Presbyterian Church ( will open i and with transporting convention with flom one another in al Special music will be violation of tiie Mann Act. His bond rendered the choir under the two cases amount to tion of Mrs. Paul Important i on th addresses will be a talk j Not being able to A. G. bonds in each he was tendent m Sue Gulfport for safe R ASSOCIATED be Tell What Owing to Delicate In 1920.r Campaign Con- and Should Not Preceed in April 1924, of the Mississippi Legislature Procter adjourned sine die at 4:07 o'clock Saturday And the legislators have the satisfaction of knowing have served with the of will also deliver a Tomorrow morning at It o'clock the first business session will he opened with devotional service conducted by Mrs. Henry of Greetings will be given by Mrs. John for the hostess The response will be delivered by L. of This ' will he by roll call of the delegates by Mrs. R. L. of presbyterial and a business session will 11 o'clock an efficiency conference will be led by Mrs. F. G. synodical president of A talk on will be delivered by Mrs. Clarence Herron of A quiet hour study will be led by Mrs. E. L. of Miss. Adjournment for 1:45 the convention will reconvene the session being opened by a Annual reports will be made by the Presbyterial P. of A talk will be delivered by Mrs. S. C. of on will be followed by an efficiency conference led by Mrs. together reports of A report of the young people's work will be made by Miss Annie of E. L. Russell will lead the quiet hour Bible 4:30 tomorrow evening two women in the Misses Selma and Carolyn of whom are said to have been residents of were allowed to return to their homes after having given a signed statement to city and federal officials regarding their part in the escapade with information regarding the men two of whom ars still at Their names are as J. W. Stewart and B. 10. a issued by Madison before local officials he implicated both Stewart and Edwards in the and other violations of the state and federal principally the traffic in between Memphis and Louisiana Stewart is said to have been implicated in different raids in Mississippi which have caused widespread In this respect Madison stated that has hauled more liquor out of Louisiana than anyone has an He said that his traffic had been carried on for some time and confessed before witnesses that he had made this his principal bringing out that lie had to New Orleans for the purpose of seeming a Chandler automobile which had been confiscated by the government which belonged to He said that Edwards and had gone by the names of Martin and Dexter they had been implicated in the liquor traffic both in Memphis and other In his statement he gave the ride will start from the church hi I of bofh men m to aid which delegates will participate as guests of to be driven over parts of interest throughout the evening session at 7:45 tomorrow at which session will be opened with special music by the followed by prayer Mrs. ji pageant will lie presented in a dumber of the Young Peoples of ilie Christian session will he featured liy an address on by Rev. Alva foreign missionary for the began to arrive this and they were assigned to their respective places for the convention by officials of the PAID FOR Poultry Association Known Schedules of Prices to be Paid at Its prices paid for poultry by the Harrison County Poultry Association today at its on 25th avenue in Gulfport Guaranteed dozen per dozen per pound per pound Old per pound eggs handled by the lie stamped with the green Merchants handling products Ideal King Union - Havard M. Powe Bros. Trippe Santa Jersey Ice Cream Splendid Great Southern Berry Boarding E. Dave Smith's Cash J. Law Poultry Sea Foam ' Grocery F. A. Farfell Miramar police in running them to Madison said he knew all of the of New Orleans and his two he claimed to have some evidently made their escape from the city the morning after the automobile was captured by the Biloxi He stated that the wild ride through the city to the Back Bay where their automobile was and when Officers Mon and Grady had taken a number of shots at he remained during the under the shell mill belonging to C. B. Foster until o'clock the morning from there through the outskirts of the city to a point in the western part of the city where he was story was complete in detail and it will probably be the means of implicating the other two men for whom the police are searching in New In his story Madison gave the name of a Crescent City whose home he claims to have stopped while in New together with other information of value which makes the search all the more the city have turned Madison over to federal they are aiding in the search for the other two Will Not Oppose Adoption Dawes April 14.If the Dawes report is acceptable to the other allied governments it may be taken for granted that no are likely to lie encountered here on the question of its This is the nearest to an official expression obtainable regarding the progress the British treasury officials have made in their examination of the reparations Point To Boom for April 14.Indications that n presidential boom for Governor Smith will be launched at the state convention here tomorrow were given today in talk at the 1 i BILOXI CALENDAR 7:45. Regular Fellows Man Life Passed a Drum Was Lodge No. 120, F. A. 7:30. Benefit Association of 7:30. TUESDAY Elks 12:05. - High School athletic 3. * Meridian 7:45; R^fpath 8. Clinic Biloxi City Hospital 2 fa 3. Shot in When Policeman's Pistol April 14. : Jariies M. 17-year-ohi son of J. R. a fanner residing several miles southwest of died in a local hospital bite Sunday night from the of a pistol shot wound in the The it is was accidentally discharged when Special Officer L. Z. Monette of police fell to the pursuing a car occupied by the and three HALTED AS RUM AGENTS SEARCH April 14.The eral of L. F. of held here was slightly delayed members of the Natchez through seized the car of the Reverend P. M. Methodist minister of who was coming to conduct the a the and three friends established their identity they were It was stated that the mistake occurred on account of the similarity of the minister's to that of the supposed liquor CALENDAR of Pythias Preaching at Methodist church Mary Pickford in - Joe Graham Post Eastern Pickford in legislature to sit in the Magnolia state in many may be said of this legislative the charge of insincerity cannot be made it. There were sharp debate grew tense many times in the three months of but on the many big measures the ' conflicts were on honest opposing There of that blind following of leadership so common to many outstanding features of the session additional revenue for the state increasing taxation on real the operating expenses of the but conservatively and in general appropriations for the 1924-3925 under the 1922-1923 thus living up to the pledges of most the legislators to economize if many of the laws which prohibited outside capital from investing in thus speaking to the world that Mississippi is friendly to capital and not as the repealed statutes a state income tax ranging from 1 to 5 per 75 per cent of the program suggested by the TAX ON DOGS Enacted a levying a tax of on male and on female Increased the tax on gasoline from one to three cents a gallon and will use all of this for highway dividing the revenue half to the state highway commission and the other half back to the the tax laws on motor vehicles to levy it on a combination of weight and horsepower instead of the present horsepower This may result in a slight increase in the total revenue from this It decreases the tax slightly on small cava and increases it on larger cars and A charge also Was made in the distribution of the revenue from this all of it being returned to the county in which In the the state highway commission has been receiving a large share of this the law making stocks and bonds of corporations domiciled outside of subject to the ad valorem which is as much as mills in. some which amounted virtually to and caused owners to refrain from tax returns oil it. Enacted of a tax of one-half of one per cent on par value of such and provided a penalty of 25 per cent for failure to return such property for the inheritance tax with an estate tax which is expected to produce approximately additional annual The income tax is expected to produce annually after Made an approximate increase of 25 cent in privilege license Passed bills providing for a stricter returning of for much of which is said to now be escaping a law permitting corporations to purchase stock in other also passed another measure enabling railroads to purchase or lease other Under the first lumber mills will be able to consolidate in the construction of paper mills to care for the timber waste which is now of no The latfer will serve to enable big railroads to take over smaller As an illustration a number of logging railroads which have been abandoned could have remained in service as feeders to trunk lines if the latter had been allowed to take over the control of The possibility of the Gulf Ship Island runs from Jackson to by the Illinois Central was suggested in The discussion of this measure before the zoning law which will permit municipalities to preserve and develop their beauty and protect the sanctity of residential sections against the encroachment of business a novel feature of this testing of the constitutionality of which will be watched with interest by every state in the is a section extending the city's zoning jurisdiction some discussion and for a time seemed liable to but on was 15 to 12. STATION CHANGED The final measure by Senator Love from the finance committee was House 998, providing for of the name of the branch agricultural experimental station in the pine This has been always officially known and designated as McNeill branch but having been transferred from McNeill to the name of South Mississippi branch experiment station had been The House had passed the and this was concurred in by the 14.William and several others who have been subpoenaed by the Senate oil arrived here today and conferred with Senator Walsh of the committee Walsh said he desired to ascertain just what these witnesses could tell the committee with reference to campaign contributions in 1920, and gossip of oiL deals at the Chicago committee is to resume public hearing but Senator Walsh has not decided whether he will call Mr. who financed the previous convention campaign of Leonard Qualifies As Chairman of Tax April 14.Captain Cecil the new chairman of Mississippi state tax took the oath of office today and furnished the bond He has been the private secretary of Governor resigning from the office of IT. S. Collector of Internal to accept the state The new tax commission will have charge of collection of new income taxes imposed by the cent motion of Senator Republican senate went into executive session today to consider the Japanese exclusion of the immigration of the delicacy of involved the leader took the position that the should not proceed in Club Women to Meet Court Allows Buy No Bolshevik Propaganda Will Jackson Wednesday for 20th An- Who Claims tq ite Son lo j - Tolerated In England During event of more than passing in J April 14.-Harry-K. j April 14.The to the women of Thaw today lost first skirmish in Russati conference was has made a protest against exclusion provision couched in unusually terms but senators generally appeared to that an Exclusion clause would be The house approved a similar provision Saturday JUy it tote of more than 4 to 1. was only a brief exchange on the subject galleries were cleared and the senate doors Senator Lodge said in making his motion the question that should be considered for April 28 April 14.The trial here of Representative John W. Langley of Kentucky on charges of conspiracy in connection with liquor withdrawals was fixed tentatively today for April 2S. GUILTY April 14Mrs. Myrtle Hayes pleaded guilty in general Basions court today to a charge of for endorsing the name of Charles M. to a Her trial was to have been resumed SENATORS CONFER ON April 14.Senate Republicans spent so much time in a controversy over immigration quotas they failed in their party conference today to reach the Japanese exclusion feature of thg pending immigration Lodge announced that members wete free to vote as pleased on the exclusion which has been offered by Senator Short and which is similar to the the passed by the house no formal announcement was senators said the conference had gone in favor of one per cent on the 1910 It also approved the amendment by Senator which would make the quotas based on origin of - nationals of the whole and limit the yearly total to 120,000. the is nfe way on the senators who They numbered 41 of al members of the None of the Republican insurgent group Whitfield Fails to Sign the April 14.Governor Whitfield has not signed the which passed both houses of This shelves the for years session of. the Legislature convenes which time the governor may sigh or veto EXPORT OUT OF EGYPT cotton exports out of Egypt totalled 11,539.000 pounds against 57,586,000 pounds for March totalled pounds and stocks were 145.411,000, the respective figures for February being 42,031,000 and ABROAD NEAR eight overseas cemeteries where American soldiers were buried during the war will be by Memorial May 30. There are 30,304 American dead in the six cemeteries in the one in that in CARRIAGE DRAWN liY of the Roman Catholic church in arrived at Warsaw yesterday from on his way to Rome to report to Pope Pius regarding conditions in He was met at the station by prominent churchmen and various The took the horses out of his carriage and dragged the carriage to the palace of Cardinal where Monsignor is a YORK LABOR BANK WILL Amalgamated Banking established by a labor celebrates its first anniversary today by announcing plans which mark a radical departure from orthodox Co-operative purchase and distribution to its ice and other necessities been initiated with a purchase of 20.000 tens of It started with subscriptions of and now has assets of with more than 8,000 It established the Amalgamated Clothing of CONSIDERS ARMY Swedish government has proposed to parliament the reorganization of the defenses object of obtaining the greatest efficiency within tie limits of the present The in cuts the number of officers and though it retains the six A new corps will be organized and a 62 airplanes will be The naval program provides for four destroyers or 950 tons and three submarines in 1924-1929. * > signed decree Saturday providing for legislative elections on May 11. be the 26th annual convention of the Mississippi federation of Women's Clubs which will meet at Jackson Wednesday for a three-day The program is an extensive one and contains many features that will prove beneficial to the great - Governor Whitfield and Mrs. W. S. Jennings of candidate for the presidency of the General Federation of Women's will be among the main Mrs. J. C. Hardy who has been president of the Fedration for the last two will speak on Place in the Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames a sister Mrs. and Nellie Nugent Somerville are among the On the afternoon of the first day the will be tendered a banquet the Edwards House by the Mississippi Development The Federation has made extraordinary strides under the administration of Mrs. Hardy and the convention this week is expected to be the best in its The more important numbers on the program follow WEDNESDAY * 2:00 5:00Registration on Mezzanine 5:00Convention On mezzanine of Edwards House as announced on Rules and 5:00Executive Board Meeting by Mississippi Development p. m. Wright and Mrs. J. C. H. M. from Federation of Women's R. from City of Mayor Walter J. W. Address Place in the Mrs. J. C. Music Contest by Mrs. Music and Morning to 12:00 Mrs. J. C. of Convention Rules and ' Report of State legal battle to 1' sane today when Premier and freed from the Pennsylvania the opportunity to warn pital for mental and nervous diseases j Soviet delegates against engaging when the common court William be bin 13-year-old to intervene in jury trial to determine John Monaghan Evelyn di on behalf of her to propaganda in prevent negotiations are lo extend over The premier assumed manner after welcoming Russians and bluntly told thein - j government would not who filed the petition | from statement was somewhat and made in the case but as guardian for the j ing the court Tlie of the boy's parentage did when pointed out not up for Miss ( anything from the contends that Thaw is still demand al mission this morning session of the was to settle was to selection of the outstanding question between which was completed shortly after | Britain and Soviet meeting is to lie more or less the actual beginning until No women were The ages range from to 7X. Two are negroes and seven are New York sat in court Their presence gave a report that if Thaw is re- they will have detained to answer New York indictment charging him with whipping Frederick Gump of Kansas City in a New York WEEK Catholic Churches of the Biloxi Will Hold Impressive Services in Honor of Final Week of Method to Destroy April 14. David | 51 years old and employed tlie plant of the Powder Co. committed spicule by tieing three sticks of to and discharging an- electric according to the He was said friends to have been IS dope is a there has been no narcotic addition among people during the past 10 difficult to cure because physicians attempt treatment of addiction cases conflict the a report on the narcotic situation by the bureau of drug sponsored by the University of Southern CHIEF the rebellious Moroccan is reported wounded by a bomb from a The rebels are said to lost 75 dead and 180 wounded in the air attacks recently oyer the regions of Beni and A. R. AT CAPITAL notes of the sounded by marine opened the 33rd. continental congress of Daughters of the American Revolution at today with more than 2,000 delegates in Although an off year so far as elections are the congress will consider an unusually important Law preservation of historic sites and immigration problem and Pan-Americanism are a few of the subjects Hoover told the Isaac Walton League of hooks and lines at Chicago that there was alarming depletion or elimination of shad ind from the Atlantic of salmon from the Pacific coast except and that the latter fisheries will lost in ten years if not vigorously Huge schools of mackerel and halibut have been IN baker at Saturday shot Dr. J. M. Willis times with a shot went into the bakery and shot His and then shot The physician will A feud of Jong standing was the leaving the ' scene of his labors as reparations Rome and seemed pleased after an hour's - conference with Premier ENVOY QUITS named minister to Russia shortly after the soviet was recognized by nas resigned on account of Couzens Taken to April James Couzens of Michigan who has suffering from bladder and intestinal trouble ' removed today to Johns Hopkins at Baltimore for farther HURRY THEM GROCERY - Wholesale Vice President and Extension Susie V. Vice President amt Community { Welfare Nellie gent J. H. oi District minutes Mrs. Byrd Enochs of Biloxi is president of the first to 1:30(Complimentary, to State Federation by Jackson City O. B. 6:00Voting on mezzanine to 4:00 Mrs. Nellie N. Reports of Department Art Session 4:30 to 3:00Auditorium Miss Harriette p. m. Ball J. C. Invocation E. K. Jessie Daniel Challenge to the General Federation of Women's Award of Honors and Forestry and Wild Year Book and Club Extension by winners in Original Composition Morning a. m. Ball Susie V. R. N. N. Eleemosynary Reports Social ad Industrial Miss Ethel Committee * Final Credential Committee Report of Tenors Minutes of Afternoon Greater Mississippi Luncheon 12:00 to 2:30(Complimentary to the State Federation by the Clubs of Gov H. L. guest of B. Yazoo Installation of 2:00 3:00Executive Board Meeting Ask Ford to Appear in Person at Shoals April 14.The Senate agriculture committee today directed Chairman to request Henry Ford to appear in or through an authorised agent the hearings on Muscle Shoals and explain some features of his The committed also agreed to extend the April 29 to permit Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania to was observed as Palm i Sunday Biloxi's five Catholic the St. j St. Sacred Heart and Our j Mother of At the Nativity church Sunday tiie order of services were announced for the Keenau stated that the Holy Thursday services would begin at 7 a.m. and would include the procession of the Blessed The church will be open throughout day for adoration of the Blessed being closed that night at i 10 This is the day on which J Christ instituted the Holy Good the services begin at 7 a.m. also and the church will be opened throughout the day for the adoration of the Crucified Between and 3 o'clock Friday are expected to mane The Way of the Cross It. was during this period that Christ suffered and died oil the the Holy Saturday services will be they will begin at 0:30 a.m. and will include the blessing of the baptismal the masses at the Nativity Church will be at 0:30, S and 9:30. A special envelope collection will be up at all the masses in the city for the education of from and for Sunday will also be Communion Day for the Promoters of the Sacred Heart for both holy Thursday and Easter Sunday are to be turned in before noon on the respective preceding Senior name Society went to holy communion in a body at the fi mass yesterday morning FOR to-night and probably Mild report by Biloxi weather observer for 24 hours ending at 72, minimum 0t>, rainfall sun sets today at 0:23 and rises tomorrow at 5:30. The sun at 2 12. m. Sat. S p.m. Sun. S Sun. 12 m. Sun. p.m. 29.98 30.00 30.00 29.92 S a.m. 29.87 0.0 1.4 Keenan praised the 12 m. 29.85 saying that it was setting a splendid signifies not for the Junior Holy Name Society and the boys of the He told of the work being done by Holy Name Society throughout the Following mass the members marched to of Columbus auditorium where a committee the Catholic Daughters j as of America served committee was composed of Mrs. Harry Mrs. C. R. Mrs. Sidney Miss Evelyn Miss Bertha Heights in feet and of from and Geodetic weather outlook for the week which began as viewed by the United States weather is Atlantic and East with probably temperature about CONDITIONS - weather prevails Mrs. George A. Miss Marion Bessey of country no areas of conspicuously high had a pressure of 29.54 inches last A high-pressure movement is Apparent on the Pacific The on the Mississippi coast has since Sunday noon through a 14 to 29.8(5 at nogn Brisk southerly ' winds skies during the past 24 hours were accompanied at 5.45 p. m. and 10:30 p. in. yesterday by the of thunderstorms sonje to the southwestward of the Partly to cloudy and with moderate south to southeast winds is the indication for the next 24 AND BEER movement to amend the prohibition law to permit the sale of wines and beer has been launched by the Southern California Division Association for Modification of the Prohibition which filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of It will carry on air educational publicity and hopes to get the support of state and national Earthquake Shock April 14.A earthquake was recorded on at Georgetown It was of federal dry agent at is held ior alleged padding of expense to order to properly and satisfactorily handle advertising in the Herald and to give advertisers and subscribers a better newspaper it is necessary that we a rule effective May 1, that copy for display advertising must be in the Herald office the day preceding daily newspapers in the State long ago found it necessary to I such a rule and with A gathering of angry PROPHECY DELAYED A the weather man stubbed his toe a Saturday prediction of cloudy weather the prophecy did come true just before after one of the balmiest days of the young Motorists and other excursionists spent the day out of fishermen plied their crafty art in streams and on the open while plants and flowers grew an more or as they basked in the warmth of the It was one of the days in advertising to - rapidly growing circulation it has become imperative that the Herald follow for us to be able to give our advertisers and subscribers the service they are entitled Daily it point to advertising copy in t the Herald office the in the southwest sent people homeward shortly after 5 and the of to the the seemed to foretell a bad wind picked up quite a blowing ' at 25 i mihes an hour for an hoar or and whipping Mississippi ' into Another distant thunderstorm illuminated the sky 10:301 o'clock last bnt ita rumblings were too distant to urge the pulling of light The weather man is dubious in fais promises viewing conditions as In in his he that cloudiness will be considerable daring the entire
