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PAGE FIVE THE WEEKLY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA. RAPIDES PARISH, SATURDAY, MAY IS, 1940 BLUE ARMY TANKS UNLOADED AT POLLOCK State Oil Lands Income May Be Greatly Increased Lafayette Clinic Will Memorialize Louisiana Citizen LAFAYETTE, La. (Special) Long Commutes Death Penalty to Life Sentence Governor Declines to Act in Another iraif fSP '--rilMfi iv 3 CONGRESSMEN HERE TO SEE U. S. WAR GAMES Eight High-Ranking Officers Also Arrive (From Monday's Dally) Congressman John Buell Sny der Pa.) of the House military appropriations subcommittee, with Congressman Overton Brooks ot Louisiana and Francis Case (IL, S.

arrived here this afternoon to inspect the maneuvers of th United States Third army In Lou isiana and Texas. Also scheduled for arrival her today are eight high-ranking army officers. They are. Lieut Gen, John L. DeWitt, Lieut.

Gen. Stanley H. Ford, Major Gen. John L. Schley, Brig.

Gen. E. W. Carter, Brig. Gen.

L. K. McNair, Brig. Gen, Asa L. Singleton, Brig.

Gen. John W. Mahan and Brig. Gen. A.

M. Krogstad. Lieut. Gen. Ford is commandef of the United States' big Second Army, with headquarters in Chi cago.

He arrived at Camp Beaure gard at noon. Before leaving Washington Representative Snyder said one purpose of the trip is to determine what additional funds are needed to put American defenses in "first class condition." The congressmen left Washington in army planes yesterday morning and stopped at Fort Ben-ning, where they were guest of Brig. Gen. Asa Singleton. Proceeding to New Orleans, they boarded an army engineer boat, the "Newton," from which they inspected improvements on the Mississippi river as far as Plaque-mine this morning.

They were met at Plaquemine by army officers and escorted here, arriving at about 1 p. m. This afternoon the congressmen visited Third Army headquarter and Fourth Corps headquarters at Camp Beauregard. Tonight they will visit control headquarters the camp. Tomorrow they are scheduled to visit the maneuver area to witness operations of the Second division, the First cavalry division, the Seventh cavalry brigade, antitank units and anti-aircraft units.

While preparing to meet the awaited Red forces, the Blue army tuund its position strciigtlii-iied in the current war games with the first arrival of tanks at Pollock, La. This picture shows 6(Jth Infantry light tanks being unloaded from flat cars lined on either side of the depot. These iron horses will be used to assist the infantry as soon as the attacking Red armies come within striking distance of Alexandria, their objective. The Associated Press. Nazis May Have Used Gas Which Penetrates Masks SHREVEPORT, May A.

B. A. Hardey, Shreve- port oil operator, who will be! conservation commissioner in the incoming Sam Jones administration, announced here that he and the governor-elect had agreed upon plans to increase the state's income from its oil lands which conceivably would amount to "millions" in additional revenue. The plan will follow these three general lines, Mr. Hardey said: 1.

Establishment of a department to perform siesmic work on state lands which will enable the state to obtain considerably higher lease prices. 2. Investigate whether state lands now producing have been properly developed by lease hold ers, probably resulting in more wells and additional oil output from state wells. 3. Closer contact between the revenue collecting department to plug leaks in severance tax.

"The governor-elect," Mr. Hardey said, "feels as I do, that for a very nominal sum we can do some prospecting on our own lands and increase measurably the amount of money we can get for leases." Hardey estimated that the state owned 300,000 acres in south Louisiana which had oil possibilities. The land is for the most part in swamps, bays and inside the three-mile limit in the Gulf of Mexico, he said. Hardey said that much state land in the past had been leased for as little as $1 an acre whereas if the state mineral board, which had charge of leasing land, had had correct information on the possibilities of the land it would have been in better position to I trade with oil companies. It was possible he said, that the state would "hoot" an area, lease a portion of it for drilling, but retain a sizeable block so that if oil were struck the state could obtain still a larger sum for its leases.

"In other words," he said, "we intend to handle the state lands on a good business basis." LPI Head WillTalk at Trout-Good Pine TROUT, May 13. Mr. E. S. Richardson, president of Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Rus-ton, will speak at the commencement exercises to be held Wednesday evening.

May 22, at the Trout-Good Pine high school. Following is a list of the graduates: Wilfred Lee Andrews, Frank Melvin Coats, J. W. Coleman, Milton Finley, Hershcl Floyd, Herbert L. Francis.

Paul Greer, Charles H. Harris, Iba George Hassen, Robert Grady Higdon, Fred Hindman, Haskel L. McBroom, Milton B. Miles, Warren Price, Lawson A. Stringer, V.

L. Tarver, Ira A. Thorla, James Ed Turnley, Conley O. Waggoner, Loy Dell Berryman, Verdia Faye Cureington, Sylvia Elizabeth Furr, Delia Ruth Has- Margery iravis hcumcj, Maxwell, jane Price charlotte Irene Simmons, Chee Cecil Taylor, Sadie Ma rie Turnley, Bessie Luiiene wag goner, team Jane wnauej. Juanita Lea White, Annie Bell Windham, Iva Lena Windham, Verna Mae Windham.

3IIDWAT MIDWAY, La. (Special) Mr. and Mrs. B. W.

Phillips of Hack-berry spent several days last week visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Smith. Mr.

and Mrs. Elzie Summerlin and son of Alexandria visited relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Smith and son and Mr.

Ivy Smith of Shreve-port visited relatives here Sunday and Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Voyle Floyd and Miss Cleda Floyd of Alexandria were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.

H. Flcyd. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bell of Alexandria visited at the bedside of Mrs.

Hanes Sunday. Miss Lois King spent the weekend in Shreveport visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. R.

L. Holiday returned home Saturday after spending several days in Port Arthur, visiting relatives. Mrs. Buster Tucker and daughter of Rayville is spending a while with her mother, Mrs. Callie Smith.

Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Gancy and son and Miss Lena Ganey of Yazoo City, spent Sunday here relatives.

V. L. SIMMONS SIMMS, May 13. (Special) A pall of gloom was cast over our community Tuesday evening about 8 o'clock, when Mr. L.

Simmons, better known as Uncle Bill, passed out of our midst. This was a shock to his many friends for his passing was sudden. Uncle Bill was 81 years old but despite his age he was never heard tc complain or burden anyone with his feelings, but instead he ahvavs had a smile, and time even for the smallest child. He was widely known throughout several parishes of the state and has teen a resident at Simms many years. He was a devout Christian, active in service till the end.

He was a member of the Methodist church. Besides a host of friends and other relatives he leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, seven children. 20 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. FUNERAL OF MRS. NORA STRANGHAN Funeral services were held the Bethel church at 11 a.

Friday for Mrs. Nora Stranghan with Rev. W. D. Sherwood, pastor of the Sardis Baptist church of near Winnfieid, officiating.

Interment was made in the Bethel cemetery under the direction of Hixson Pall bearers were: Herschel Fralick, Leo Futrelt. Antowine Sandifer, J. W. Fralick, A. A.

Johnson and Otis Senquefield. The new clinic and infirmary, which was erected on the Southwestern Louisiana Institute campus to guard the health of the sons and daughters of Southwest Louisiana and will be dedicated May 18, will memorialize a prominent Louifiianiaa whose humanitarian instincts and civic consciousness endowed him to thousands of persons throughout Louisiana. Dr. Merrick Edmond Saucier was born in Marksville, where he spent the early part of his life. After graduating from Tulane medical school he practiced medicirie here In Lafayette and in the succeeding 17 years of his residence here, he became a central figure in business, professional and fraternal circles.

Throughout his life he was continually striving to aid in the welfare and growth of Southwestern. No more appropriate name, therefore, could be applied to the new edifice than the Merrick Edmond Saucier Memorial Clinic. Dr. Saucier was an ardent lover of children and because of his efforts in their behalf he became the organizer and founder of the Rotary Band. He was an active member of the Rotary Club, and upon hearing the Memphis Rotary Boys Band at a convention, he conceived the idea of the Rotary Boys Band of Lafayette, which stands today as a monument to his memory.

The clinic to be dedicated in May at special Dedication Exer cises on May 18 is quite worthy of its name. Built at a cost of it is a brick building, modern in every detail. Avoyelles Parish FFA Banquet Held MARKSVILLE, May 10. (Special) The second annual Avoyelles parish F. F.

A. father-and-son celebration held at the Marksville auditorium-gymnasium for the 563 Future Farmers of America of the parish, their fathers and more than 110 guests, was acclaimed a "most successful" event in the history of the twelve Avoyelles F. A. chapters, which were the first to organize a federated group in the state of Louisiana. The program opened with the federation officers presenting the opening ceremonies.

In charge were Julius Coincon, Moreauville, president; Lance a a 1 a i Simmesport, first vice president; Leon Rachal, Hessmer, second vice president; Alton Rebouche, Man-sura, secretary; Abbie Willis, Cot-tonport, treasurer; John Perkins, Bunkie, reporter; Charles O'Brien, Evergreen, parliamentarian; Alfred Bordelon, Marksville; Emmett Gauthier, Moreauville, and John Gannon, Vick, committeemen, and Superintendent L. A. Cayer, Marksville, federation advisor. The Rev. A.

M. Lhenevert, assistant pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Marksville, offered the invocation, and Mayor Alton R. deNux, Marksville, gave the welcoming address. Julius Coincon, federation president, welcomed the guests to the F.

F. A. banquet and Earl Edwards, Marksville, responded. S. M.

Jackson, state director of vocational agriculture, was the principal speaker. His topic was "Useful Citizenship Training Through the F. F. He stressed the value of the training program in the development of character, citizenship, service to others and thrift. He urged Future Farmers to select as their goal the ownership of farm and home, citing that "reaching such a goal in your life's work will take courage, and require a spirit of usefulness, a confidence in yourself and in others." Reviewing the progress of agricultural training in Avoyelles parish, F.

A. Swann, district agent of the state extension department and former Avoyelles parish farm agent, traced the development ot extension service in this parish, stating that the first 4-H club had been organized at Plaucheville in the year 1916. A brief address was made by William Guidry, assistant professor of animal husbandry at S. L. I.

He praised the F. F. A. work in Avoyelles parish and invited agricultural leaders and others to attend the dedication program at S. L.

I. on May 18. An entertaining musical pro gram was given by the Bunkie high school band under direction of J. R. Sherman.

A quartet was rendered by members of the La-fargue F. F. A. Chapter. Superintendent L.

A. Cayer, who presided during the program, introduced guests of the occasion. Included were the following educational and agricultural leaders: Dr. J. C.

Floyd, professor of agriculture, L. S. J. Lester White, chairman of state planning committee; Superintendent L. V.

Lau-ney, Evangeline parish; A. Larri-viere, assistant supervisor of agriculture; Major Fred Frey, Dean of L. S. Dr. C.

L. Mondart, professor of agriculture, L. S. Dr. I.

P. Foote, L. S. W. E.

Gore, graduate student, S. E. E. Puis, assistant supervisor of agriculture; Jimmie Bachemm, president of the Louisiana Federation of Future Farmers; Dr. T.

J. Arceneaux, professor of agriculture, L. S. J. S.

Slocum, supervisor of schools, Rapides parish; Raymond Aueoin, supervisor of schools, Evangeline parish; G. A. Zernott and S. C. Ducote, supervisors of Avoyelles parish; Roland Roussel.

American Farmer, L. S. I F. P. Bordelon, past presi- dent of the Avoyelles F.

F. A. Fed- eration. i In addition the invited guests in cluded members of the Avoyelles parish school board and police jury, parish and city officials, heads of civic and fraternal organizations, men who head the I various federal, state and parish agencies in Avoyelles, members of I the Avoyelles Bar Association, parish bank presidents, sponsors of the twelve F. F.

A. Chapters and press representatives. I The closing ceremoniei were Case raTON ROUGE, May 13. Al )Gov. Earl K.

Long Lv signed a commutation of Stenceto life imprisonment for Fueene Ricker, under sentence to line, for murder connection the slaying of Douglas VrLh New Orleans States cash-Acomb, ier, a governor declined to take action on pardon board reconventions that a commutation to life SSnmcnt be granted to Peter Gendusa, charged with severely bating Thomas Dupont and his kter Jennie Dupont, in a robbery a 1135 Marais street, New Or-tn on July 17, 1937. Gendusa was sentenced to hang after his case had been fought through the supreme court twice: The governor also declined a nardon for Mitchell Koury, con-Sided on May 15, 1936, for murder and robbery in Avoyelles parish Koury is now serving a life sentence in the penitentiary. Gov. Long, occupying the capi- ml executive suite until his term's end tomorrow, when Sara H. Jones will be inaugurated his successor, said that he was leaving the cases of Gendusa and Koury, along with a number of other cases upon which he has not acted, for consideration by Jones.

The governor recommended that the pardon board be abolished and a new system set up. He criticized the practice of large numbers of cases being referred to the governor, who does not have the time or the facilities for making a complete study of the cases. Gov. Long, who has freed more than sixty penitentiary convicts in a fortnight, said it was his opinion that a convict should be required to make good under a parole before he was given a pardon. In granting the commutation to Ricker, Gov.

Long said the crime was committed eleven years ago by five or six persons, none of whom have been hanged. He asserted that several eye witnesses testified that Ricker was not the man who committed the crime and said the trial jury had recommended life imprisonment for Bobby Some, connected with the same oase, and eleven of the jurors in the Ricker case recommended a commutation of sentence for him. In refusing to act on the pardon board's recommendations for Koury, the chief executive said he was well acquainted with this case and did not think "Koury had served long enough for the horrible crime of robbery and murder." In refusing to pardon Gendusa the governor said he had heard the case personally before the board of pardons and "the crime he committed, that of beating two aged people, is one of the most horrible I have ever heard of. The fact that they did not die is through no fault of his." Gov. Long denied that he had thrown open the gates of the penitentiary and pointed out that he did not have the power to commute sentences and pardon people without recommendations first having come from the state board of pardons.

"No governor of this state," said Gov. Long, "in the same length of time has ever signed any smaller number of pardons and commutations of sentence than I have. "The board of governors had three meetings since I became governor and quite a few were left over which had not been acted upon by Gov. Leche. I did not have an opportunity to study these pardons until two or three weeks ago.

In signing them all at one time they have tried to make it appear that it was a wholesale dismissal engineered and directed by the governor's office. "When I was a member of the pardon board and had a chance to hear all of the cases, my record 'as as good as any man who held the similar position in this state. Most of my friends said I was too hard-boiled." The governor spent the in the executive offices. He asserted that he expected to leave oaton Rouge some time tomorrow onung, but declined to state nere he was going. 2 Producers Added to 011a Oil Field cial)LATKS' La" May "-Spe-ta Ivn0 Producers added the oua oil field, LaSalle par- Kc ,10 IIunt's Louisiana -entral snr pres- urern PUn(lf' and tubing condrtl 164? Punds.

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1 Wildcat Well in Rapides Parish Spudded A new wildcat well for Rapides parish has been spudded, accord1-ing to citizens living on highway No. 5, below Alexandria. The Wheelock and Collins No 1 Whittington in section 1, 2 north, 1 east, 12 Ms miles southeast of the corner of Second and Washington streets, was spudded Saturday avening, say persons living in that vicinity. The contact depth on the No. 1 Whittington is said to be 6,500 feet, and according to geologists this should pass through the Cockfield, the Sparta and into the Wilcox sands.

Oil is found in all of these formations in some of the wells in the Bunkie-Eola territory. In the Cheneyville field the Amerada Petroleum Corporation has run and cemented bottom hole casing at 5,755 feet in their No. 9 Weil in section 54, 1-2. The well indicated approximately 35 to 40 feet of Cockfield sand. Sid W.

Richardson is drilling in shale and sand at 1,620 feet in his No. 13 Weil in 55-1-2. In the Bunkie-Eola field Mr Richardson is drilling in shale and lime at 8,183 feet in his No. 12 Haas Investment Company in 8-2-3, and is in shale and sand at 6,438 feet in his B-l Haas Investment Company in 42-1-2. The Amerada Petroleum Corporation is in shale and lime at 5.903 feet in their No.

4 Sam Cerami in 6-2-3; are in shale at .3,616 feet in their No. 4 Irion in 7-2-3; are running surface casing to 1,450 feet in their No. 1 E. Tubre in 45-1-2, and have completed erecting derrick and digging pits on their Dent Martin Unit No. 1 in 1-2-2.

LAMOI'RIE LAMOURIE, La. (Special Mr. and Mrs. John Vcrzwyvelt and Mary Louise of Rapides Station, spent Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs.

Louis Scarbrock and mother. Mrs. Lucy Roberts and Mrs. Maggie Dyer were Tuesday guests Mrs. W.

J. Guy. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rougeou cf Orange, Texas, visited Mrs.

C. A. Dunn and Mrs. A. Moore this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilson and son and Mr. Jewel Fisher visited in Morrow, Sunday. Mrs.

Maggie Carruth and son, Charles and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hess of Glenmora, and Elizabeth, visited in the Hugh Hogan home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs.

Bush Joffrion and family of Alexandria visited Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Burrows, Sunday.

Mr. Odom of Winnfieid, is visit, ng his daughter, Mrs. Wirt Parker. Miss Vernon of Bunkie is the house guest of Mrs. W.

Parker. Miss Marie Smith of Shreveport was the week-end guest of Mr, and Mrs. F. Smith, and family. Mrs.

George Foster and son, Thomas Herman, and Mrs. J. E. Carter and Anne Elise of Simmes-rort. were guests of Mr.

and Mrs. P. M. Hackney, Wednesday. Mrs.

W. J. Guy visited her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Buford Guy of Pineville, Tuesday.

Mrs. F. Smith, Mrs. J. Ver-maelen.

Mrs. F. Smith. and Miss Marie Smith were Sunday guests of Mrs. L.

A. Achee and her guest, Mrs. W. Solis of Meeker Mr. and Mrs.

P. M. Hackney and sons, Percy, and Alan visited relatives in Simmesport and St. Francisville Sunday. Mrs.

L. Bedsole find John Chop. were week-end guests of relatives here. ONE WAR'S ENOUGH BOSTON, Mass. (By A.

William Brown, charged with assault and battery by Ethel Brooks, explained to Judge Elijah Adlow in municipal court that the argument started because he gave an "honest criticism" ol her new hat. he vn tended, she criticized his necktie and grabbed it. This, Brown said, he did not find comfortable so he grabbed the lady. "Not guilty," said Judge Adlow. "There's enough trouble on the other side of the ocean without starting a war here over a woman's hat." Ride a bus to Beaumont.

Winnfieid Planing Ulil! Destroyed by Fire WINNFIELD, May 13. (Special) Saturday night fire completely detroyed the planing mill of the Thomas Lumber Company here along with two loaded railway cars of lumber. The flames were confined to the planer by good work of the fire department and voluntary workers. Damage is estimated at about No information as to amount of insurance carried has been obtained. Bauer Urges Solons to Seek Advice of New Governor BATON ROUGE, May 14.

(By A. R. Norman Bauer, new speaker of the house of representatives, today called on the members to "not only accept, but actually seek" the advice of the new governor, Sam Houston Jones. In a speech denouncing the executive domination of the legislature he said he had battled for eight years under the Long regime, he declared there is "a cm-sible middle course" between be-in gtoo jealous of the house's prerogatives and "servilely accepting" a program laid down by the executive. In carrying out Jones' campaign promises, he said, "we are all a part of Sam Jones' administration." He said the unanimity with which he himself was chosen speaker promised harmony and "constructive legislation devoid of petty bickering." "That the elected governor of Louisiana who served during the past decade controlled the legislature cannot be he continued.

'They merely placed a majority of the members ot the legislature on a pay roll the prime service expected of the employee was to vote as he was He added, "I have no ord of criticism for the members of the present legislature, if any, who have permitted themselves to be used in this manner. They merely accepted a condition tliut the people of Louisiana the -selves made possible by their complaisance. Such members of the legislature were the actual victims, although the apparent beneficiaries of this vicious practices. The state supreme court ruled such employment illegal, ho said, but the decision was ignore Then he expressed appreciation of "that gallant group of incorruptible men who, as members of the legislature, fought their hearts out witl me in an attempt to prevent the imposition of dictatorial, damagogic laws on the masses of Louisiana, laws that made possible the saturnalia of graft and corruption in high places the like of which contemporary history of the states of the union records no parallel. "My election as speaker is their hour of triumph." He said it would not be difficult to maintain the independence of the legislature "with a man the governor's chair as strongly opposed to oppression and dictatorship as is Sam Jones." He reminded the legislato.

the executive's requests and recommendations were proper functions and added that Jones "has a mandate from the people that you and I cannot ignore." SLUGGERS REGIX SERVING SENTENCES NEW ORLEANS, May 13. (By A. Five convicted election day sluggers, who were granted 15-day reprieves by Governor Earl K. Long so they could present their cases before the senate board of pardons, surrendered ai parisn prison Friday to "finish" serving their sentences. On April 25 the fie men.

through their attorney, E. A. Car-amouche. withdrew appeals from their convictions and were ordered by Judge Frank T. Echczabal to begin serving their sentences.

Six hours later they were reprieved and left prison. The sluggers are Eugene Gill, dismissed House of Detei.tion i clerk, and Albert and Jerome, Ralph and John Chong, all former professional prizefighters. The pardon board flsitufd their i pleas for freedom. Fumes Leave Victims 1 Helpless, Unable to Use Muscles BERN, Switzerland, May 14. (By A.

A "nerve gas" which penetrates ordinary gas masks and renders its victims helpless and unable to coordinate their muscles may be the "surprise weapon" which enabled the Germans to capture Fort Eben Emael and thus drive an opening wedge into the Belgian defense lines. That belief was expressed today by neutral military attaches to Switzerland, through whose hands passes a great deal of the war's military information. They said a gas of this type had been developed in Germany and studied in other countries in recent months, and that soldiers inhaling it would be overcome by lassitude and would stagger and fall. (Howard Blakeslee, Associated Press science editor, reports that the American Chemical Society at a meeting two years ago suggested that liquid acetyl choline, if it came in contact with a wound or break in the skin, would make a soldier unconscious for as long as an hour. (However, says Blakeslee, there were no suggestions as to how the chemical, wnich appears naturally in the human body in extremely small amounts, might be adapted to causing unconsciousness through inhalation.) The military experts explained that the gas, said to leave no ill after-effects, to be almost impossible to detect but to smell faintly like geraniums, would be effective against the Belgian garrison at Fort Eben Emael because they were equipped only with standard armv filter masks.

They added that such a gas undoubtedly would be more effective in this type fort than in the better-ventilated fortifications, such as those in the French Maginot line. They also indicated the allies might be studying defense against this weapon, apparently capable of incapacitating entire garrisons. They reported that allied and Belgian autnorities were studying gas masks carried by German soldiers who were taken prisoner. Blakeslee says the function of acetyl choline is not fully known, but that it plays a part in the nerves' work of transmitting impulses to the muscles, and that a few drops placed on scratch in the skin cause unconsciousness within a few moments. Such an application, however, leaves no bad after-effects.

American military gas experts, he says, have discussed the use of gas in the present war from tne viewpoint that variations in some of the gases used in the old war, rather than any totally new product, would produce a "surprise weapon." The surprise element involved would lie in the ability of the newly developed gas to penetrate all present day types of masks. In this connection American gas officers recall an accidental discovery made during the World war concerning blue cross gas, which made men ill but whica could be guarded against by wearing a gas mask. A British soldier, in the spring of 1918, entered his dugout and dropped some blue cross out of a vial onto the top of a hot stove. His comrades, as he had expected, quickly donned their masks. That was all the effect the practical joker had been striving for.

But he got much more. Blue cross is a finely divided powder, and the particles could be stopDed by the fine mesh of the soldiers' gas masks. But dropping blue cross onto the hot stove caused it to explode into much finer particles, and these penetrated the masks with the resuit that the Tommy's comrades became ill and had to take off their gas masks. The accidental discovery was followed up and confirmed by sci-! en'ific investigation. As a result, British army authorities were said i to be preparing blue cross to be fired in shells which would ex-i plode with greater heat and thus 1 penetrate all masks then in use.

Vernon Bordelon to Become Priest; Ordination May 18 Vernon Bordelon, lifelong resident of Alexandria, will be ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic church in ordination ceremonies in New Orleans Saturday, May 18, it was announced here today. The Rev. Bordelon will celebrate his first solemn mass at St, Francis Xavier Cathedral in Alexandria, Sunday, May 26. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

O. H. Bordelon, of Alexandria. The father is a member of the local police force. Rev.

Bordelon attended local public schools and Menard Memorial high. He then went to St. Joseph Abbey at St. Benedict, for further education and later graduated from the Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. The following describes the life of a priest: "To live in the midst of the world without wishing its pleasures; to be a member of each family, yet belonging to none; to share all sufferings; to penetrate all secrets; to heal all wounds; to go from men to God and offer Him their prayers; to return from God to men to bring pardon and hope; to have a heart of fire for charity and a heart of bronze for chastity; to teach and to pardon, console and bless always, My God, what a life! And it's yours, Priest of Jesus Christ." W.

W. Anderson, 95, Dies ar Natchez William W. Anderson, Union Veteran of the Civil War, passed away in Natchez. at 7:15 a. m.

Thursday, May 9, 1940. Mr. Anderson, a native of Missouri, was born in 1845 and would have been 95 years old on his next birthday, 12. Funeral services were held from his late residence, 20fi St. Charles avenue, at 10 o'clock Friday morning.

Mr. Anderson is survived by three sons and several grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. His sons are: J. B. Anderson, Alexandria; S.

D. Anderson, Shreveport, and W. V. Anderson, Natchez, Miss. Interment was in the National Cemetery in Natchez.

ROCK HILL ROCK HILL, La. (Speci.il) Sorry to hear of the death ot Mrs. Jones of this community. She was the mother of Dewey Jones, formerly of this place. Miss Peggy Bridrr and Mr.

E. Honeycutt of this place were recently married and are at present located in the house with his brother. Mr. and Mrs. John Honeycutt.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Pace of Colfax were Sunday guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Gil-crease, and Mrs.

John Arnold is in the hospital in Pincville and is rcpoitt. :1 very ill. Mr. Stive Honeycutt was a Sunday cuest of Mr. Conely Valentine of Project.

Mrs. J. E. Tion has been ill at her home in this place. Several from here are planning fo attend grnve yard work in? at Serin? on M.iv 11, of May as previously announced by this writer, as she had hem asked to announce in t'r news by the Rev.

Brown, and he 1-nd to ehanae the date to suit more of the people. The first loenmotivp In America was imnnrted from for use on the Cahondalo Hones-dale (Pa.) nilroad. in 1829. They had protected their own men with new masks equipped with a finer mesh. The war ended before the British were ready to test their discovery.

Commercial Bank's Property Valued at $112,437 The experts appointed to appraise the property of the Commercial Bank and Trust Company, in liquidation, which will be sold at public auction by the sheriff on Saturday, May 25, have fixed the valuation of the property at total of $112,437.50. The lot on which th- six-story bank building is localed, has been appraised at $40,000 and the bank building has been appraised at $72,437.50. The lot has a frontage on Third street of 40.11 feet and extends back on Johnston street, a distance of 106.6 feet. The sale of the property wai ordered by the court, upon request of J. S.

Brock, state bank commissioner, in a petition presented to the judge of the tribunal. The property must bring not less than two-thirds of the appraised value. The expert appraisers are: E. K. James, S.

W. Tudor and Fur-ney Adams. Dodson, Gaar's Mill Graduation Planned DODSON, May 13. (Special) The graduating exercises of the Dodson high school will be held on Friday night, May 24, in the high school auditorium, when the following young people will be given their diplomas: Boyd Weeks, Nalbro Frazier, Murry Chandler, Tom Newotn Stovall, Olan Jones, Wilson Stovall, Leon Johns, C. Cockerham, Harold Temple, Gar-lington Feazel, Douglas Rose, Clifford Thompson, Linnie Green, Delia Annie Washer, Jacqueline Taylor, Dora Swartz, Essie Dell Jones, Melva Anderson and Nellie Mae Moffett.

On Sunday evening. May 19, at 2:30 p. Rev. Shirley Briggs of Jonesville will deliver the baccalaureate address to the seniors, at the Dodson high school auditorium. The general public is invited to attend the services.

The following will graduate at the Gaar's Mill high school: La-venia Adams, John M. Branch, Aline Burnette Dark, Alese Barbara Gates, Ruby Nell Hammons, Lillian Dena Malloy, Maggie Parker and Violet Sue Payne. John T. Moseley of Winnfieid will present the diplomas to the graduates at Gaar's Mill high school, Burdette Dark will deliver the valedictory address, while Miss Louvenia Adams will deliver the salutatory address. The entire program will be issued at an early date, it is stated.

Yellowstone National Park was created March 1, 1872. conducted by the federation officers and the benediction was given by the Rev. J. G. Harris of Bunkie.

Faculty members of the Marksville high school, of which Miss Lolita Guilbeau is principal, and girls of the Marksville home economics department were in charge of table arrangements and serving of the banquet meal to more than 1,200 persons. Otherwise assisting were the chapter advisors from the twelve agricultural departments of Avoyelles, namely: J. B. Luke, Marksville; G. B.

St. Romain, Bunkie; A. L. Pitts, Lafargue; John Mayeux, Mansura; Kermit Ducote, Moreauville; C. J.

Robin, Hessmer; Gaston Maillet, Bordelon-ville; J. J. Brackin, Simmesport; Earl Fontenot, Plaucheville; H. E. Dupuy, Cottonport; Ashton S.

PetiUean, Evergreen; Sam Firmin, Fifth Ward..