Biloxi Daily Herald (Newspaper) - March 19, 1928, Biloxi, Mississippi can send a classed ad in The Daily Herald into over 7,000 Mississippi Coast homees for only 50c OF THE Saturday is TO PROGRESSIVE MKV AND WOMEN WHu ARE REMAKING THE MISSISSIPPI PRESS LEASED MONDAY MARCH 19, 1025 DIES WHEN and Mail Clerk Injured as Engine and Baggage Car Overturns on Southern The Associated Mar. 19.Fireman was scalded to death and Fred M. scalded and hurt when the Kansas City special of the Southern northbound was derailed here early The engine and baggage car left the rails when the train hit an open of the passengers The track was clear in a few hours and train preceded to switch had been turned into a spur track and The lock was found intact by The engine and baggage car turned The express car and mail car left the rails but remained R. mail clerk of received a sprained and Parr both lived in 1 BRIDGE ISSUE to One Vote Cast Saturday of New 1300 Votes bond election for the additional funds for the Springs bridge voted by beat number 1 curried by a majority of over two to one with 917 votes cast for and 411 against the with one precinct precinct in the beat polled a large majority for the election with the exception of located just across Back Four votes were for the bridge and 76 against it at this The best vote in favor of the bridge came from east Biloxi where a seven to one majority favored the North Biloxi was two to one in favor of it and West Biloxi and Beauvoir easily polled a majority of votes for the votes were cast as SUBMARINE DIGS 0 OF of Atlantic Seaboard Under Deepest Blanket of Winter as Spring Season Is The Associated Mar. 19.With spring officially but two days parts of the East today were digging from under one of the heaviest falls of the the Atlantic seaboard the storm rodo in on a gale which at Boston registered a blanket of 3 to 17 inches deep over the breaking down and bushes but proving little hindrance to heaviest fall was reported from Ausable N. a few miles south of where 17 inches was hi Pennsylvania the snow ranged in depth from 3 to 14 In Boston there was a heavy while New York city experienced a slight sleet which later turned to snow storm extended into Quebec and Ontario and was held responsible for a collision near between a freight and a train of the Canadian national railways in which four passengers and three members of the train crew were Snow obscured signals set against one Forester of Pennsylvania expressed fear of a serious damage to the fruit crop as a result of the break of tree limbs due to heavy heavy snow fall was general throughout northern New Hampshire and Northwestern had a fall of 101 4 Biloxi West Biloxi North Biloxi bridge will shorten the distance to Ocean Springs several bringing it several minutes running time closer to The bridge will also bring Biloxi proper on all parts of the Old Spanish Trail and will route traffic through the city instead of into Caillavet street and across the on page Killed in Mar. 19.(/P) collapse of one wing of an airplane sent three men to a spectacular death here yesterday and resulted in the injury of two pilot and two 2,300 feet above the right of the plane was seen to give The force of the wind thrust the broken wing against the propeller and the machine went into a nose into the front yard of a home where several children were playing it struck two of them and injured them Jacinto 14, was knocked unconscious and a piece of the plane tore an apron from a little Jack 24 and William Hi Hulbert and Leonard T. were dead lying for three months 100 feet below the surface of the sea off the rammed submarine was raised Saturday by navy rescue This aerial photo was taken by an NEA photographer just as the came to the buoyed by pontoons which divers finally succeeded in The conning tower is visible between the two sets of with the rescue ship Falcon in the Forty men lost their lives when the undersea craft was rammed Dec. IS by the Coastguard cutter TOTE 0 in the Los Angeles Motor Tractors Used to Move Debris in Search for Other Bodies in St. Francis Mar. 19.The total loss of life inn the St Francis dam disaster was today at 449 known dead and 177 missing and believed to have the search for the dead with an army of more than one hundred motor tractors being used to tear through the big piles of authorities in the zone decided to confine their efforts only to Debris on the are occupied by the old bed of the Santa Clara river will be huge fires will serve as funeral removed from the for an unknown number of The authorities said it would i he impossible to put a large enough force at work to recover the bodies on | the unreclaimable land within a reasonable length of and that with the available organization the process require so much time that the purpose of seeking them will be Starts at 2 in One of Denver's Oldest Hotels Sending Hundred Guests Into Mar. 19(IP)Fifteen persons four when an early morning fire destroyed the Colorado one Denver's oldest of upwards of 100 guests believed to have escaped or to been carried to safety by Several received minor injuries I they jumped from second and Than Persons at first believed to have been trapped on the third floor were accounted C. Denver was believed to have been fatally Roy Denver was thought to have sustained internal and William address was suffering from a fractured Four When Blast Wrecks Three-Story The Associated Kansas Mar. score or more of north side residents aie nursing minor injuries received when an explosion last night wrecked a three-story brick storehouse and large fire Chief John doors were blown from cut and bruised by falling blaze started on the first floor about 2 a. and soon swept through the Several persons jumped from the windows when heat prevented firemen from placing ladders against the Firemen in nearby homes and windows i broken for a radius of more than two no one was seriously ' Kight persons received treatment by ambulance surgeons and many bited cuts from the cause of the blast police were informed i the damage at residents of the that men were seen leaving the j shortly before the it the latest of a series of j 1 12 sions which damaged homes and office buildings and followed within 4R hours a confession from a former convict that he had been hired to lead a to force employment of union in the 500 block of j 11, was killed when the automobile in Holmes was used as a store which he was riding with his house by Mike of brother and struck the adjoining hotel of that Messino and five members of his family were in the living room of their when the blast All were hurled to the floor and suffered slight He professed ignorance of any possible motive that may have led to a Traffic Mar. 19lbOne son was dead and 12 two as the result of traffic dents here Bruce of A. P. who had backed into the main road from a branch was to appear before the parish grand jury other three members of the Scioneaux family were in a serious condition at a hospital here D. Cox Wins in Race for Justice of exact returns are not available on the election for Justice of the Peace held in Beat 2 in Harrison county a tabulation of the vote received from all of the boxes in the beat except Lorraine gives Clarence 1). Cox plurality about 50 votes over his His election is conceded by the other Samuel J. was his nearest competitor in the were A. T. Freeland Judge J. It. M. E. and J. J. BODIES IN RAISED a Morning Pistol Duel Miami Sends Policeman and Two Auto Thieves to Message Yet Found By Investigators Who Believe Members of Submarine Crew Died in fourth annual convention of the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute opened this morning at the Gulf Hotel with about 75 prominent steel construction men In attendance from all parts of the Many important business matters will be considered during the three-day interspersed with varied board of directors began its annual meeting today at 11:30 a. of Pittsburgh after which he became dean of economics at the University of This analysis of what he terms 'The New Business will be of direct value to the executives in attendance at the next session will be held at 10 a. m. Chairman of the committee on engineering F. Zabriskie of will report on the joint building His report was prepared in lasted through The with the American Concrete was enjoyed by golfing on Edgewater opening session of the convention will be in the convention hall of the Hotel at 7:30 President George E. of Chicago opened the meting with his Following the president's address the various committee reports will be address of the opening session will delivered by Dr. John Thorn professor of economics of the University of Miami at Coral on Changes in He was formerly Identified with one of the other committees will make reports tomorrow The unfinished business will be up and the delegates will go Into executive session and discuss the Activities of the Coming This session and discussion will be based upon the present conditions within the ' and directors will be elected tomorrow The session will close with an address by W. E. Hart of the Portland Cement Association of Chicago who will speak on on page for changes and improvements in present Gulfport traffic regulations were discussed by the highway department of the Gulfport Chamber of Commerce at a meeting held Friday Chairman O. T. Palmer of the highway committee stated that the normal increase in motor traffic through Gulfport arising from the growth of the Mississippi Coast end the very considerable influx of New Orleans due to the opening of bridges that it was deemed necessary to make certain changes lighten up the motor traffic regulations of this and to that end highway committee of the of Commerce will make recommendations jo Gulfport city considerable discussion the department agreed unanimously to recommend to city officials that three be made to the present traffic of through thoroughfares on which all motor traffic will have right-of-way and intersecting traffic will be required to to a complete stop before entering these reverie turns zt the more congested intersections of the down town business streets in stop signs be erected at intersection of various streets and avenues with the through is recommended that the following streets be made through thoroughfares upon which vehicular traffic will have the on Page Herald at L. Moran has joined the staff of the at Biloxi as reporter and will handle city and He has been connected with the chamber of staff at Biloxi for two and a half years during which he made many friend among the merchants and business men of Biloxi and was a hard worker in the interests of Moran is a having been born and reared in this He attended the city schools and graduated at Biloxi high Later he attended Tulane University at New Upon returning to Biloxi he was employed by the Biloxi Tire Works and the Superior Oil joined the chamber of commerce staff two and a half years ago and has been assistant secretary and manager of the road which information he will have available for Herald Secretary A. V. said it was with much regret that he is leaving the chamber and wished him much success in his new Moran has had about three years newspaper experience and is correspondent for New Orleans Fails Auto March 19. Frank for more than 25 years an employe of the Illinois Central died yesterday at of heart attack when his automobile collided with another going in the opposite At the time of his death Rehorst was agent for the railroad at Law Is Affirmed by Mar. 19. Mississippi statute requiring banks to pay interest funds derived from tax collections was sustained in effect today by the supreme court when the case brought by the Bank of and the Bank of both doing business in that which challenged the validity of the The beach boulevard from was dismissed for want of Bayes' Career Ended After 20 on First Appearance in New Mar. 19(P)Nora Bayes musical comedy died today in a Brooklyn was taken to the hospital last Monday for an abdominal was thought to be on the road to recovery when she suffered a relapse last night from which she did not was born in Milwaukee in She was a star on the stage for more than twenty making her first appearance in vaudeville in New earlier marriages of Miss Bays has been dissolved by these husbands were Otto Jack Harry Clarke and Arthur attaining vaudeville success in New Miss Bayes made her London debut at the Palace Theatre In 1903. On her return to America she appeared in the of 100S and 1509." saw her each year until 1914 when she returned to Bondon to star in the Back in New York in 1915 she continued her successes until in January 1919 the Nora Bayes theatre was opened for the first and in which she had starred for several was transferred to the new final decree of Chancellor V. A. Griffith was affirmed by the state supreme court in the decision handed down today in the case of Biloxi photographer versus Miss Jessie property owner the same city when case was affirmed on both a direct and a cross suit heard here last September was one in which a lessee of two rooms in the Old Biloxi Lank Building on street sought to compel Miss owner of the building to release it to him for a ten-year period and sought in damages for the alleged tearing down by her of advertising signs which he had erected on the decree of the chancellor from which the appeals were taken provided that Dowling should have another ten years lease on the rooms he had been occupying under a lease made with a former owner of the but denied him any damages for the removal of the The Associated March 10.The bodies of the six members of the crow of- the submarine who were imprisoned in the torpedo compartment when the vessel was sunk by the coast guard destroyer Paulding on 17 were viewed by a naval board of investigation this afternoon after the submarine had been placed in the dry-dock at the navy In the first three quarters of an hour of their examination the board found no message or other written board entered the submarine shortly after 1 o'clock and three quarters of an hour later one of its members stationed at a telephone inside the vessel sent up word of its said that the position of the six bodies indicated that all the men had died in their bunks and that Inter their bodies had been washed The body of Lieut. Graham Newell Fitch was lying under a work bench on the starboard side just abaft of the torpedo It was identified by his naval academy ring and a naval bodies were at the foot of a ladder and two in the after part of the torpedo room under All the bodies were covered with were no shoes on any of the the torpedo tutie doors were indicating that the had made no attempt to escape through The torpedo room door into the battery room was tightly closed and down further wedged down with a lead maul and a large porthole in this door evidently had as it had ben covered over with rubber held in place by wooden There was evidence that the men had used the gas masks in the listening through which the rescue vessels had pumped air to the had been shipped and the which had been were found on the bench underneath which Lieutenant Fitch's body By The Associated 1'resO Mar. 1!.An morning pi duel two alleged bandits and Miami Bench policemen sent the two bandits one policeman to the all probably fatally David C. 24. of Miami received bullet above the heart and in the Mike 2-S. of Chicago was dying ' from his hospital attendants said and Tommy Alias of his has two bullet wounds in the pistol battle took place when police intercepted and Nolan driving a stolon sedan from Fort Lauderdale where they had burglarized an automobile agency rifling the cash drawer and stealing a new Names to Be Rumors Parties launch Attacks on R. S. Cloud Rescues Husband from Prisoners Who Became Unruly on Way to Klansman Hurt When Stove Mar. 19(/P)Fred grand dragon of the Mississippi Knights of the Ku Klux was seriously injured this afternoon when a gas stove exploded at his right leg was almost severed at the knee and he was burned and He was rushed to the infirmary and immediately placed on the operating FOR Mississippi Coast was fast becoming the amateur golf capital of the Mississippi Valley and adjacent regions today when a vanguard galaxy of stars from St. New Orleans and many other cities arrived for the first annual Pan-American amateur golf tournament starting March 21. Chicago delegation of players whose names are legion around the Great Lakes arrived with Arthur B. captain of the Chicago which will meet a New Orleans aggregation in a competition in connection with the qualifying Chicago team is to be composed of some of the best golfers of the Windy Gus the amateur star of Edgewood who captained the Illinois University golf team in 1923, and was runner-up to the conference title that will be a member of the Chicago Gus had the honor and distinction of shooting one of the lowest cards over recorded over a regular eighteen hole course a 62 eight shots under par over the liks of his home He is known around Chicago as one of the longest hitters in golfing who also arrived with iB a sensational who last year won the Illinois the Chicago city was a member of the Chicago Public Parks He capped a of wonderful play by qualifying in the National Amateur championship at Minneapolis in his first He carried Roland the Washington youth who was a in the event and who was a memBer of the 192G Walker Cup team and is a sure selection for to the 19th hole before he gave up the Thomas is considered by all the leading golf authorities of as the most promising youngster that lias been developed in Chicago since Chick Evans came to the front twenty years Chicagoans here include John former club Don present Gulf States Don one of the leading lights at Olympia Frank former corporation consul of Roy Henry and Elmer the king from G. Fred captain of the New Orleans also arrived He will be assisted in the Chicago battle by several prominent New Orleans players including Jake La Jules Lassard and Le Roy The Associated Mar. 19Effective use of a has enabled Mrs. R. S. Cloud to rescue her husband for the second time this winter after he had been overpowered by convicts he was escorting to the state Mrs. wife of a state penitentiary probably saved her husband's life was revealed when they arrived here yesterday en route to the prison at Huntsville with twenty of the twenty-one prison ers they were Cloud was driving one of the three machines used to carry the when the four men in her husband's car attacked The prisoners apparently had planned the attack and waited until the cars reached the arid country near Marfa when seized pistol and attempted to shoot Finding he had removed the cartridges the men beat him with with the weapon and when he produced a they took It from attention attracted by the shouts of her Mrs. Cloud leaped from her spraining her As she approached car she opened fire with a pistol on two of the men who started to She wounded one and he surrendered as did two One Cloud was first credited with saving her husband's life about two months ago when they were transporting three prisoners from a jail to the penitentiary at On this occasion the prisoners also selected the sparsely settled district near Marfa to attack the was chained to a tree and was being beaten by the men when Mrs. entered fray and routed the Mar. 19.(/P) as to a hitherto unnamed higher up who might have been involved in the Teapot Dome scandal vied for uppermost attention in the Latest disclosures today with sharp attacks from both Republican and Democratic sources on F. Sinclair's contribution to the Republican party in 192.S. Senate investigating committee will not meet until it is expected to make far reaching inquiry into reports it has received intimating that a high official or leader in American yet to be mentioned in the five years of investigation connected with the oil cases in some questionable new attack by the committee probably will determine whether it will call F. L. of a witness who respond when called Saturday in the subcommittee inquiry there into the distribution of of the Sinclair bond contributions which were handled by the late Fred W. treasurer of the republican national REVELATIONS North chairman of the Senate Teapot Dome with Senator South conducted the Chicago indicated in that city that Siddons was expected to tell a rather startling Last night in where Senator Nye stopped off en route to to on page Unconcerned Over Resolution Calling for End of Session Money Yet to Be By The Associated 1 a ion for next t Mississippi labors today r the and with ready to adjourn thN or is a means securing an additional seven million dollars per to meet increased with two avenues suggested for the raising of sales tax and an increase in the ad valorem tax today withdrew an fi measure seeking for Mississippi College fur Women and entered in place another measure calling for permanent improvements ami remodeling M. S. C. 10. seeking to create a state department of printing lo do all state printing and provide for tin* of school hooks was introduced in the Senate today shortly before that body recessed Senator is the author of the which seeks a commission of five members to have charge of rhe commission woald be the attorney state superintendent of secretary of the state board of health and a state printer to be is expected to replace a Senate hill seeking the establishment of a state printing which is he'd up in I he House by a motion to indefinite postpone action on Senate introduced today calls for an appropriation of for permanent improvements at the University of KATSE third time the for the state officials and the House of in its third voted to raise the salaries of the secretary of Insurance state commissioner of bind state penitentiary and railroad Indicate Good Attendance at Memphis Gathering Called By Harry D. Star District Meet in Eastern Star School of tion will open in Biloxi tomorrow for an all-day session with representatives of all the Coast chapters expected to be Bay St. Moss Pass and Ocean Springs Eastern Star members will The district deputy grand Mrs. T. H. Gleason of will hold the school and the worthy grand Mrs. A. Rankin of will be Luncheon will be served in the Masonic Temple at noon for the of the Tourist Number of The Daily Herald being completely sold out and were unable to fill the after the regular edition of Saturday's Herald was four of the pages of the Tourist Number were added and several hundred extra copies These papers may be obtained at the Herald office for 5c a The Daily was the vote of one of opponents that passed the Representative Webster changed his vole from to for the purpose of entering a motion to and made the total vote to Had he not changed it would have been a to the provisions of the salaries are fixed as of insurance state treasurer and commissioner of a year land state penitentiary and necessary railroad 33.-000 yearly and each for traveling House concurred in a Senate to a Senate fixing the salaries of county superintendents of education in class four ar 33.000 a year ami in class five at 32.750. WILL March 10! appointment of a successor to W. F. railroad commissioner for the northern who died in Tupelo will be made until after rhe legislature Governor stated this governor is following a fixed of not considering appointments except in urgent while legislative matters are before pressed in a communication from J Buchanan of j The term of the appointment to thor of the congressional which made by the governor will be for the would appropriate 35.000.000 for j remainder of Mr. four of a zone in Attorney General Rush Knox Texas to prevent the spread of the | Mr. Lagrone began a new term when all state officers were Buchanan plan has the en- the first of the and to Governor of Louisiana authorities as Bilbo will be accorded the privilege of only sure and safe for filling an office for almost its entire the Mar. received from agricultural authorities in practically all cotton growing states of the South indicate that a large gathering will the meeting called by Harry D. Louisiana of for March 30 in Memphis to discuss the spread of the pink boll worm in only state commissioners of but agricultural extension and at least one chamber of that of have written Mr. Wilson of their intention to be present or of the meeting was of four WARREN JACKSON Managing Director Mississippi Coast power of organized public sentiment in the interest of the advancement again has been proved most emphatically in the gratifying results which have been obtained in the Springs bridge There is in this a striking example of the fact that plus plus plus plus public plus cooperation equals unqualified belief of the citizens of Biloxi in the future of the Mississippi Coast is demonstrated by their emphatic expression in favor of the of this bridge In the election Saturday authorizing the issuance of in bonds to complete the financing of this Ocean citizens expressed their faith in the future of the Coast sometime when they voted their own bond issue by an to realization the cumulative effort over a period of several years of many diverse interests mass telephone resolutions and formal orders and involving the War the United States Bureau of the Mississippi State Highway the Boards of Supervisors of Harrison and Jackson the Coast representatives in Mississippi delegation in the Congress of the United the mayors and other city officials of Biloxi and Ocean the Biloxi Chamber of the civic clubs of Ocean Springs and the Mississippi Coast the seafood packing and navigation interests of the Coast the newspapers of the Coast and many individual public spirited citizens of both Harrison and Jackson bridge will remove the handicaps of isolation of East Biloxi and this will make this section and Ocean Pascagoula Point the integral part of the Coast region they are in fact as well aa in addition to the practical benefits to the Coast of this new traffic the Coast and elsewhere the re- which will make one continuous of this final barrier standing along our coast the set-in the way of construction of this tling of every question involved in this great causeway guarantees the bridge matter permitting its early ing through of one of the a demonstration to major public development j world that the Mississippi Gulf Coast the fruition of these plans is the is continuing to go forward in. suit ot endless a sound orderly manner and as a
