Morning Call, The (Newspaper) - May 17, 1929, Laurel, Mississippi A M Edition EIGHT HOUR LEASED SERVICE THE MORNING CALL The Weather Friday generally fair with con- cooler warmer Saturday Vol 48 LAUREL MISS FRIDAY MAY ONE DAY AHEAD Business Men cent City Guests of Laurel IS IN THE PARTY Visitors Entertained at Y W C A Last Night Nearly fifty of New Orleans leading business and professional men including Mayor O'Keefe arrived in Laurel day afternoon at 4 o'clock to spend Thursday evening and night here forming acquaintances with local people and visiting various points of interest in the city Upon in- the city the New Orleans good will tourists visited acquaintances here were driven about the town in automobiles and given an ex- of Laurel hospitality un- til 8 o'clock when they gathered at the Y W C A for an mal meeting with local people Every visitor expressed com- over the appearance of Laurel commenting especially on the beauty of local homes Mayor O'Keefe was profuse in his praise of the residential section The party will leave Laurel Friday morning for Hattiesburg Citizens of Laurel extended a hearty welcome to members of the New Orleans booster trip last night at the Y W C A W H Smith secretary of the local chamber of commerce and A D Peden of the Laurel ture store made appropriate ad- of welcome Mr Smith dealt in his talk with Laurel as a city of institution business and otherwise He gave Laurel in way of manufacturing enterprises Mr dealt ness and friendly relationship ex- isting between New Orleans and Laurel J L chairman of the New Orleans Wholesale Merchants reau was Introduced and asked to act as toastmaster for the New Orleans delegation His to the words of welcome were cheered by the audience A J O'Keefe briefly of New Orleans as being the metropolis of the South as well as the financial center of the South He extended to all an in- to visit the Crescent City George B Thompson vice ident of the Trust and Whitney Savings Batik paid high but devoted the major portion of his interesting remarks to the wonderful strides Mississippi was making in the dairy industry He sad that the state was to be con- and emphasized the fact that New Orleans was the greatest consumer of milk per capita than any other city in the world He stated that New leans imported more than worth of dairy products per year and that she could use all that Mississippi and Louisiana both could produce Mr Thompson spoke of the opportunities that South Mississippi had with references to canneries Robert D Sullivan vice dent of the American Paint Works referred to Mississippi as being a big town in a great locality and urged the best of feeling between the cities of New Orleans and Laurel George M Carnes secretary of the Wholesale Merchants bureau was introduced as the originator of the trip Major Archie McCormick of tooth paste of Laurel made an enthusiastic talk urging cooperation P Willie roster is Hard at Work Spirit Told Graf Break May almost uncanny prevision Sir Hubert Wilkins had confided to me just before the start of the Graf Zeppelin in its now troubled flight that he had received a letter from a teller the spirits telling him that the Graf would have ble enroute to America I am not Sir Hubert said to me but on several occasions whose advice I had not sought have ten to me voluntarily Whoever they are they have predicted several events which have come to pass For example one occultist predicted the death of one member of my frist ern airplane expedition This prediction came true Several hours before the ship left Sir Hubert and I made a trip to the Hangar of the Graf where Sir Hubert out of ty because of the letter which mentioned the for- ward starboard left Gondola as the bad one looked about ing the motor I 1 Ji 0 Bodies Four Deep Are Found by Firemen on Floor MYSTERIOUS GAS STILL BAFFLING Details of Horrible Affair Cause Probable CLEELAND 0 May the death list now at 129 it is believed the death list from the Crile clinic ex- plosion will reach 140 or more since many of those who inhaled that mysterious dark brown gas that has not yet been fathomed give way to death and expert chemists have thus far been unable to fathom it That it was some chemical there is said to be no question Machinery Break Has 111 Effects Upon Patrons Aboard the Graf Zeppelin May Graf Zeppelin twelve hours out on its second flight was forced to return to Friedrichshafen tonight by tor trouble in the rear gondolas We hcd already passed over the Iberian peninsula and over the At- ocean when Dr Eckener made the announcement As he quieted the passengers had qualms fearing for our lives as the sky After he said quietly after ner that have to turn back unless we wanted to make the trip with this risk ever ent we all went into a huddle around the tables of the dining room and all cast our votes with the old the hope we would be on the Graf when it was repaired and started for America The shock of the announcement was distinct At first Dr ener did not tell us we had motor trouble only making a soft ment that we were compelled to turn back As Dr Eckener tried to quiet our we instinctively felt that something had gone the drone of the motors sounded At that time the two rear motors had been shut down and we were just creeping through the air Then the commander with Cap- tain Lehmann told us not to ry but that the crankshafts which controlled the two motors in the rear had snapped and that we not make speed enough to get to America Sunday as he put it Some disappointment was pressed but those aboard ed in the sound judgment of the commander We expect to reach shafen tomorrow morning though we are not traveling as fast as we were before the dent happened Willie Foster colored youth of Alabama caught in the act of driving away a sedan the ty of G F Rivas night before last was sentenced to thirty days on the county roads after he had told a third and different story regarding his presence in the The police have been especially vigilant since they have been ed upon to recover but few stolen automobiles compared to other cities and it is the intention to treat cm when caught red-handed as was Foster The lad stated that the car was the property of a friend To the lice he said he wanted to rest To Mayor McLaurin he told an entirely different story and was charged with trespass since he was caught before he had an op- to drive the car away Convention of Young Folk to be Held Here About 250 young people from every county in southeast sippi are expected to gather in Laurel on June 11 and 12 to at- tend the fifth district Baptist People's Union convention which will be held at the First Baptist church here Delegates from the convention will include young people from the age of nine years upward as well as a ber of adults Auber J Wilds state B Y P U secretary will be present for the district meeting as will Miss Cecilia Durscherl junior and in- B U P U leader for the state J H Pennebaker tist students secretary of the State College of Hattiesburg is president of the convention Extensive plans are being made by the First Baptist church to re- and entertain the B Y P U They will come from every county in of the state in this COLORED WOMAN DIES Willie Moore well known ed woman of Waynesboro died at the South Mississippi Hospital Thursday morning after an tion She was 23 years old and married The body was taken to Waynesboro Thursday afternoon for funeral services and burial CLEVELAND OHIO May 1C fire door that would not damaged steam pipe that belched forth ening blast deadly gas fumes from the X-Ray storage room and 126 people who were seeking life's greatest gift health were wafted into eternity This was the picture painted day by investigators who searched through the ruins of the Cleveland Clinic Dr George W known medical center in an effort to determine if criminal negligence was responsible for the second greatest disaster in the city's history Stone walls and stairways im- maculate white cots and beading were painted with the cardinal the Hallowe'en season yellow and black by the nitrogen dioxide gasses that from the X-Ray plate store door would not out the hospital to trap doctors nurses and patients While city county state and government officials were ing separate investigations a corps of doctors were making a valiant battle to stay the greedy hand of death that was ing to run the death total to 110 Their lungs the deadly gasses that already have claimed 126 lives more than a score of living corpses are now standing on the threshold of Blood transfusions have been made but the majority of the victims have Tailed to respond Sell Curious Tex Rickard NEW YORK May have lived in a suitcase from the Klondike to the Argentine and now I want a real George L Tex Rickard once confided to Wallace H Day an auctioneer and the fight life long friend Today it was Day who pre- sided at the sale of Tex's hold effects the furniture he had hoped to install in a real home in Florida Tex's famous chair made of twelve steer horns his steel desk made for the late President ing the head of an Amazon hunter and his autographed are some of the items that are to go under the hammer H N A May Revolutionize all Other of Air Crafts With Newspapers Int Paper Company is Report WHOLE SCHEDULE WAS MAPPED OUT Inner Workings Are Given by Officer to Court CARRIES BOMBS AND CAN FIGHT to treatments Patrolman Ernest Staab who rescued 21 persons before he col lapsed is fighting gamely with little more than an even chance for his life Another officer E A Svoboda who recently stopped a runaway horse almost at the ex- pense of his life also is at death s door Fire Lieutenant John Walsh and Fireman Andrew Homrocky George Jusko and Peter Rogers first to arrive on the scene are in a serious condition Coroner A J Pearse has con- curred with other official gators that cause of the disaster was attributable to two reasons It is agreed that the explosion resulted when escaping heat from a pipe left unguarded by a man caused spontaneous tion which films The gasses and fire would have been confined to the storage room had not an obstruction kept the massive door only en- trance to the x-ray room open after the blast The door is gauged by a which releases it when the temperature in the room mounts to a certain point Continued on page five The With Explosives and Other Apparatus Say Experts WASHINGTON May trim looking plane of radically new design which mounts three machine guns and carries a was under close guard tonight awaiting first tests by aeronautical experts sponsors believe It will fill tho hope ol American Military Leaders for a plane which not can fight in the air with the ease of carry heavy charges of it Without trumpeting or the navy department and the Glenn L Martin Airplane Com- pany of Baltimore have ed this new type of combination ship It may revolutionize the whole system of air tactics The first trial flights will be held shortly For years Navy Experts have been seeking the Ideal which would combine in one unit the purposes of the various ing and fighting types The new plane is the outgrowth of these labors If the tests prove the Navy is expected to employ this type extensively throughout the service ashore and afloat The plane looks not unlike the present two-seated fighters In battle it will be able to ascend to high altitudes dive at breathless speed toward an enemy hold and discharge its destructive load of ammunition No bomber yet built has been able to nose over and dive with a bomb Furthermore the plane is de- signed to engage in hand to hand fighting and in formation attack Unlike the present bombers slow unwieldly and vulnerable the plane will require no convoy to carry out its mission If attack- ed it will be able to fight its way to base To accomplish the two-fold pose the plane has been cut to half the size of the existing ers Its speed has been raised by 25 per cent and it can cruise over long distances at 120 miles an hour The bomb is carried under the fuselage Two machine guns are mounted to shoot through the propeller and one is in the aft cockpit The plane has but one Continued on page eight WASHINGTON May Word reached the federal trade commission today that T M Stevens attorney one of three Mobile Ala witnesses in the in- may not appeal tomorrow 1 According to the reports reaching the commission ens left Mobile at 11 a m Monday for Spokane ington Subpoenas for Stevens R B Chandler and D P Bestor Jr are understood to have been mailed by the commission late last week It was not known whether Stevens had received his subpoena before Leaving All three witnesses cwre to regarding the alleged abama Power company tion with the establishment of the new Mobile press WASHINGTON May developed plans to blanket the with newspapers financed by the International Paper and er company and a at wholesale buying of papers m the name of the Insull interests were revealed before the federal trade today William Lavarre and Harold Hall and put into writing a program to buy newspapers in eleven southern cities Papers in nine other cities were to be added if they could be linked with larger properties A appropriation tc finance Hall and Lavarre deals was voted by directors of the in- company last October 31 the company's minute revealed The written program of Hall and Lavarre was submitted to the company 11 weeks later on January 10 Thus far they have bought only four papers The international company supplied all the purchase A offer -as made for the Boston Post il te name of the Insull interests to written evidence introduced The man described as making it Charles O'Malley Boston tising agent represented these in- as intending to round up 50 or 60 of the biggest papers in the country Other developments by Frank D merford treasurer and a vice- president of the international com- pany that it hopes to acquire a monopoly of electric plants in its New England territory that the power interests are linked through directors and life trustees with the Massachusetts utilities associates controlling two other chains of New utilities that the New En- gland Power association tional subsidiary paid tc Thomas Carens state house cor- respondent of the Boston Herald for writing and other services Payments of a month were John Anderson Solves Legal Dilemma Over Tick Injunction Case John Anderson of the Southern Auto company was instrumental in settling a legal deadlock a dipping injunction Thursday morning in Circuit Judge Tom Taylor's court when with the mission of the Laurel Ford er he was named a special officer of the court and ordered to deliver to the premises of J M Adams one mule and two head of cattle which had been seized and dipped by agents of the Mississippi Live Stock Sanitary board and which the sheriff of Jones county did nol conceive it his duty to return to Mr Adams premises believing that it was only bis duty to re- store the stock to Mr Adams il he should call for them at the county stock pen Mr Anderson's timely ance In ending the court dilemma came Thursday morning at the injunction hearing by Judge lor at the Laurel courthouse when the automobile dealer was placed in charge of cow and calf understood had proffered his Mr Adams mule Mr Anderson it is believed to be expedient he would personally bear the responsibility of returning the stock The legal dilemma arose the contention of Jed Collins at- torney for Mr Adams that the animals which had been seized anj dipped should be returned by the sanitary board to Mr Adams home about five miles north of Laurel and the opposing tion of the Mississippi Live Stock Sanitary board and Sheriff M H Freeman that it was the duty ot the officers only to deliver the mule and cattle to Mr when he should call for them at the county pen The hearing which Judge lor held Thursday on the tion question of whether the court should officers to re- store the stock to the premises of J M Adams was a short one As soon as he had called the court to order Judge Taylor stated that he was ready to render his deci- sion on the case and there ed the appointment of Mr erson as special officer of the court to return the seized animals Fifteen Senators Re- fuse Convict Governor BODY ADJOURNS LATE THURSDAY Gov Long's Friends Would Not Regard Evidence ins court 10 return tne seized vices to the court saying that if I to Mr Adams premises CALHOUN FUNERAL Hundreds of local people paid silent tribute to the memory of J Frank Calhoun when funeral services for the cashier and vice president of the First tional Bank were held Thursday morning from the First church Dr Grayson L Tucker pastor officiated at the services An enormous ar- ray of gorgeous floral offerings attested the grief of Mr Col- noun's friends Business houses in the city were closed during the funeral out of respect to the family of Mr Calhoun Continued on page five Noted Surgeon Could Not Save Wife Who Collapsed CHICAGO May ing here today with the body of his wife who died in his arms on the lawn of tho Cleveland Clinic Hospital Dr William G Epstein one of the best known surgeons in President T Shields Claims He Could Fight MAY GAINST WAYMAN Some Talks Creating Mirth Outcome is Yet Unknown BUFFALO N Y May fore taking the platform at the afternoon session of the Baptist Bible Union of North America convention Dr Thomas T Shields president of the union declared to newspaper reporters he was pre- pared if necessary to make a rious charge against Dr Harry C of DCS St Barnard's Hospital told his tragic angle of the disaster He described how a trip stated as u vacation had ended in the death of the woman he loved How he had rushed into the gas filled Charnel house and carried her limp form to the open air and how with all his medical edge he was helpless to save her life She wai conscious for two two hours I worked on that body strewn lawn to save her he said At the last her lips twisted themselves into a smile I felt her squeeze my hand und looking into her face knew that Florence was dead Mrs Epstein was having her throat examined when the blast occurred Her husband in er building 200 feet away ran like mad to the room where his wife lav There were screams terrible screams people were running like mad and by the time I ed that ZOO feet the rescue work had already begun Continued on page eight Globe Trotter H S Graduate Three Languages at Fifteen A High School graduate at 14 globe trotter stowaway convicted thief master of three languages musician of ability and ian equal to many collegians toter of a big pistol and wanted in many cities for Billy Treveson of New York and New Jersey 15 This diminutive lad for he is so small of statue that he would be taken for a little boy of 12 can tell you how feels to stow away on a great ocean liner later facing the austere captain when hunger drives him from his hiding place he can tell you about South America what they do there about Central American countries and he can also tell you much about what's in the new a copy of which he also carries or did until divested of his effects by J E Brown chief of Laurel police Now that officer returned the small Bible to the boy and ished him to peruse its contents whereupon it was that the youth could quote scripture in a manner that would surprise some of the ministers of today But he evidently did not practice its teachings since within the con- fines of his pockets was a roll of bills taken from a small strong box in the home of Captain Chancey of tho Salvation Army Billy is absolutely devoid of conscientious scruples for he had been befriended by Captain Chan- cey who took him in and fed him gave him a chance and the officer got robbed for his work It was while the lad was in the act of purchasing at a cal railway station that he was discovered by the police who y been informed of the theft He is also a good sprinter however Chief Brown ran him down Billy came into Laurel almost a week ago He was befriended by Cantain Chancey who was taking care of him endeavoring to learn of his parents in order to get him home when the theft occurred Facing Chief Brown the small prisoner simply caid nothing Ho had met the stern arm of the law in too many great cities and in too many countries but he would talk to Captain Chancey and the latter has considerable knowledge re- girding the boy if it can be relied upon Seen at the jail Billy was prised upon being addressed in French He replied and a switch to the Spanish language never feazed him and he speaks English with a slight eastern accent in a very quiet smoothe voice in fact he could easily be mistaken for a real parlor bov so suave and ished ii he Speaking of his travels he was by the writer relative to a certain noted park in Buenos Aires South America He not only gave the right location but added de- tails Asked about British duras the big shipping ports of Tela and Belize he located them also knew of the Guatemalan Bay San had he been there? He surely had But he does not want to go back to New York where he stated to Chief Brown that his mother lived he is wanted there too admitting that he got into a number of scrapes there He could answer many difficult grammatical questions speak Spanish French and very polite English He Is a quiet ing boy and there is not the least suggestion of criminal about his appearance or bearing But he confides in no one He travels alone Works alone and desires to stay alone if he has the money He says he likes to roam that his relatives arc well connected and according to his remarkable cation for one of his age he has advantages of school Chief Brown has made an fort to get into communication by wire with the mother at a New York address with the tion of having Billy turned over to his parent if possible Meanwhile Billy remains that inscrutable unconcerned dent mysterious little boy who has within the -ast year crowded into his lify an experience that would do justice to many who have followed the road that leads to for a decade Chief Brown admits that Billy is one of the shrewdest he has ever had to deal with and Chief Brown has had some ence Jjr would not divulge the nature of the charge During the morning session Dean Earl G Calloway ative of the faculty-student body of the university dramatically rose from a scat in the rear of the First Baptist church and I demand the floor to present my side of the controversy Following a short conference between Chairman Max Shrimpf and Dr Shields permission was granted Calloway to come to the platform and his side of the row The promise of a clash between Dr Shields and the two Dr Galloway arid Dr Minor Stephens was the result of a bal battle in the lobby of the hotel Touraine In tho hotel Dean loway accost d Dr and said he would take the platform today in defense of the students and faculty of the university The two were conversing in low tones when suddenly Dr Shields raised his voiced and said I challenge you and your whole crowd Dr Shields turned away only to confront Dr Stephens against whom ho has brought charges of calumny and deliberate instigation of the student riot at Des Moines As Dr Shields and Dean way parted Calloway shouted If I am not allowed to take the form at the convention I'll deliver a speech in the dining room of this hotel tonight to which all will be invited When Dean Galloway appeared on the platform he was introduced by Dr Shields A large crowd was seated in the church to hear the proceedings Several times during the early part of his speech tha dean was interrupted by members of the board who were seated on tho speakers platform Chairman Shrimpf then ruled that no interruptions wf to be permitted Let Dean Calloway finish his talk before questioning he ruled Galloway's speech was more of an educational nature than the championing of a cause He ended by asking Dr Shields several technical questions were answered by the latter amid laughter by the audience The dean ended abruptly and sat down with scattered BATON ROUGE LA May Huey P Long today beat ment pending against him Following a meeting at which IS Senators taid to have refused to vote to re- move the youthful Governor no matter what evidence may be produced the leaders of the Senate agreed to ad- journ the trial line die of this place voted bond issue for in- of sanitary sewage tem BATON ROUGE LA May 1C Senators just two more than one third of tho State Senate today blocked and brought to an end the impeachment trial of Governor Huey P Long The Governor's first maneuver to avoid trial came on the ing day when he presented a demurrer asking a quash on the grounds that the house was ting illegally when the ments were returned After u lengthy debate this demurrer was overruled un a vote of 20 to 19 the Senate Court thus establishing the House Sessions as legal However when the Court re- convened this morning fifteen Senators who have been close to the Governor presented a written motion to adjourn the Court Sine Die declaring that they still believed the House Sessions ir- regular and therefore vote to convict the Governor re- of what the evidence might be This move throw the chamber into confusion and a brief recess was taken to allow the other 24 Senators to study the situation These held n caucus in an ante- room and returned to tho ber after an hour and half to pre- sent a resolution condemning in the strongest terms the stand of their 15 colleagues but adding that since more than ono third of the Senate necessary to had reached an unshakable conclusion in advance of the trial further procedure would be in vain The Senate then adjourned Sine Dip at o'clock ii I'm by linn the chamber smiling when the motion to adjourn was presented He left however during the caucus of the 21 and was not present when the adjourned His wife kept to her reserved scat among the tors nnd smiled nnd shook hands with friends when the trial was ended Today's adjournment leaves the Governor in office with seven indictments charging bribery of legislators embezzlement and misuse of public funds oppression in office general incompetence nnd temperamental still lodge against him Big Estate Left By Oklahoman CHICAGO May will of the late Fred H Wickett a widely known attorney who died in New York Tuesday was filed for probate today and showed an estate of Under the terms of the will the widow Mrs Alice Wickett will receive a month for the rest of her life On her death tho estate will be divided equally be- tween two daughters Mrs thy and Marjorie both of A son neth of Tulsa Okla received un outright bequest of Three grandchildren received each Fines Piled Up For 2 Negroes Eugene Lloyd and Curtis strong negroes sworn enemies and fellow prisoners at the city jail were fined for various tions of the law Thursday ing in city court The men ing late Wednesday were fighting it out with knives when the police interfered The men were charged with in public assault and battery and ing deadly weapons and they had a conglomeration of fines piled up against them when the case ed Neither was seriously ed although both shrived the of encounter In court they apparently i forgot their grudge since they negotiated gether and maneuvered about un- lil they were able to pay most of the fines assessed
