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The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 9

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The Timesi
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Shreveport, Louisiana
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Thursday, Jonwory 12, 1950 THE SHREVEPORT TIMES 9 Court Hears Story of Child's Starvation Death Hearing Held for Accused Parents Approve 1950 Budget for Union County El Dorado, Jan. 11 (Special) The Union Countv Qua rum Court Pearl River's High Waters Due to Recede Jackson. Miss, Jan. 11 VP). The weather station today forecast that high waters on the Pearl river will recede downstream beginning Jan.

15 unless excessive rains occur. The station said the crest will reach a stage of 34 to 35 feet. about Miss. Plans Bonus By Cigaret Taxes Jackson. Jan.

11 W). A $1,000,000 a year veterans bonus bill to be financed, by the state's cigaret smokers is scheduled for jthe house hopper soon. i Six representatives are prepared jto introduce the measure, author-i iaed by Rep. Maurice Flack of Carrol county. I Sen.

Cornelius Ladner of Bav St. Louis is seeking senate approval of a bonus bill ha thinks will cost $50,000,000. The proposed house bill would submit the whole idea to a statewide referendum. If it passes the without bail for a hearing Jan. 16.

The prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney George P. Monaghan, told the court the parent lavished everything on two children, "caring little for the other two." "The room in which this little boy was found was infested with lice, Monaghan said. "For weeks before little Guy was found he had nothing to eat but a little water properly, but he could do nothing about it. "Yesterday Monaghan said, "when detectives went to pick htm (Scielzo) up. he spent almost an hour fancying himself with toilet water and hair-do.

"He admits that for four weeks he never took the trouble to look at his dying son. "When he died he weighed only 14 pounds. In contrast, the cat weighed almost as much as Guy." Authorities yesterday quoted the mother as sayjng she tried to feed the children and when they wouldn't eat she gave the food to the cat. Assistant District Attorney Karl Grehow told the court the mother admitted the boy had teen neglected for weeks; He said she told him. after seeing a picture of the emaciated body in which the spinal column could be seen through the stomach, that the child had taken no food.

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later this month. 2 Negro Schools Entered, Looted Thieves who broke into two negro schools, one in the city and one in the parish, on Tuesday were still at large late last night, police reports show. The parish school, located at the intersection of the Dixie-Sentell and old highway 71 at Dixie, was entered by breaking the bottom panels out of the door and using a pass key or soma other instrument to open the lock on the pantry. The pantry door was re-locked. The negro training school at 2115 Milam street was entered some time Tuesday night.

Quantities of food and cooking supplies were stolen from both schools. Anciently, among the Saxons, the mark of the cross was an attestation of the good faith of the person signing and was required to be attached to the signature of those who could write as well as to stand in the place of the signature of those who could not write. Expert PICTURE FRAMING and MATTING One-Day Service DARBY BUILDING SUPPLY CO. 117 Kings Highway Phone ft-1292 Time rou HOT 416 MILAM New York. Jan.

11 A sobbing young mother and her husband, "both well dressed, stood in court today accused of starving to doath their three-year-old son. The prosecutor told the court that the charge against Guy and Mary Scielo, each 29, "equals any horror tory coming out of the concentration camps of Germany." The son who died was Guy, Jr. Another child, Vincenza. four, is uffering from malnutrition. Two other children were well fed nd well treated.

They were Michael, one, who. died Jan. 3 of acute appendicitis, and Nicolette, five. Bow with an aunt. The parents, arrested last night, were taken before Magistrate Ambrose J.

Haddock today on charges of homicide. The mother, short and stout wore a green cloth coat trimmed with fur. The father food at her side. After the session they were held State Calls Witnesses in Rape Trial Orange, Texas, Jan. 11 ().

The fate called a number of witnesses today in its effort to convict Paul LaFieur on a charge of raping a 'teen-age girl here Dec, 4. The 30-year-old Houston ex- convict also is accused of shooting and wounding the girl's companion. Don Hulsopple, 18, when the youth tried to protect her. Dr. Malcolm E.

White of Orange testified he 'examined the girl at a hospital alout 4:30 a.m. the day of the crime. He said she "definitely had suffered an injury within 24 hours preceding that time." Joe Cam pice; owner of a Houston sporting goods store, testified that on Nov. 30 he Fold a chrome-plated Smith Wesson revolver to a man giv-the name of "Herbert Over-turff." Campice said he could not "positively identify" the purchaser as LaFieur but said he believed he was the man. Overturff, a roommate of LaFieur at the time, "testified he did not buy the gun from Campice and aid he knew nothing about it.

The state introduced as evidence a revolver of that description. Prosecuting Attorney W. E. Lea contended it was the one used by SMART SHOPPERS ASPIRIN AT ITS BEST St Joseph Aspirin is to fast-acting, ao dependable. It's as pure as money can buy.

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MYATT BOX 1760 SHREVEPORT quzusd STATE KM0T0R OIL todav approved an operating budget of for the year 1AV). increasing the budget committee's recommendations by $30,000. The appropriation Is some $15,000 less Jthan expeditures for when $0.000 was used for the purchase of new road equipment. A hike in the appropriation for roads and bridges was responsible for the S30.000 increase." The committee had recommended an appropriation of $40,792.80 for road work in the county but the justices added today for a total of $70,000 hen a treasurer's report showed the county closed 1949 with a balance of $00,000. Only $20,000 was appropriated for road work last year.

J. A. Lauterback was elected road commissioner for 1950. Other increases included $1,800 to the county health unit to be used for malaria and fly control work. JSfiOO for hikes in county library salaries and $1,600 for juvenile work.

The court set aside $1,000 for land markers over the county, $3,000 to complete a special land survey and $10,000 for courthouse repairs. County Judge Frank Hudson presided at the session and W. H. Hall-burton was chairman of the budget committee. Salesmen Jailed For Persistency Tyler, Texas.

Jan. 11 (Special) Tyler housewives refuse, to accept magazine salesmen with the comic strip style of penacity. One insisted salesman was jailed by city police after two indignant Tyler women filed complaints. They said the man forced his way into their homes and refused to leave without making a sale. The man's boss posted his bond.

the reasons For movtnir up With IT 8 SB 8GT. JOHX.VY GAULT Reburial Held For Sergeant Killed in War Services for Sgt. Johnny C. Gault, 34, formerly of 407 67th street, who was killed when his plane was shot down in action over Germany dur ing the war. were held at 10 a.m.

yesterday at Jefferson Barracks National cemetery, St. Louis. Mo. Sergeant Gault served in the Mediterranean theatre for 20 months. He was a chief clerk at the base operations office a 12th AAF B-26 Marauder headquarters.

tie was awarded the good conduct medal, the African-European-Middle East campaign ribbons with one star. Prior to entering the service in August, 1935, he was a student at Byrd high school. His body was returned from Achen, Germany, for burial. He is survived by a son, James Rodney and a daughter, Lillian, both of Shreveport. Spanish studios are rushing completion of 24 new feature films, because qf import restrictions which have greatly reduced the number of United States pictures brought in.

in a Short to "TT A 4 America's most renowned Marine Leader Due Here Today Col. E. L. Hutchinson, USMC, director of the Eighth Marine Corps Reserve district with headquarters in New Orleans, will inspect training facilities and personnel of the local organized reserve unit tonight. Col.

Hutchinson was scheduled to arrive here by plane this morning. He will inspect the local unit, Company "10th Infantry Rat-talion, organized reserve, at the training center at the State Fair Grounds. During the day Col. Hutchinson will confer with Capt. Enock T.

Nix, commanding officer of the and First Lt. C. V. Farmer, inspector-instructor of the unit. After the inspection Col.

Hutchin- aon will le honored at a reception by the unit's officers. In radio a "wave trap" Is a de vice to prevent unwanted waves or signals from reaching the receiver. I 1950, fJV my if bonuses would be doled out on a pay-as-you-go basis as tha pro. posed new cigaret tax mad the money available. Veterans would draw 25 cents a day for domestic service and 50 cents a dav for foreism rtutv an.

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He certainly Is well fed, and It is obvious that she is overfed." Mrs. Scielzo burst into tears. She sobbed, "It wasn't my fault; he didn't want to eat." Police -quoted the father last night as saying he knew his wife was not feeding the two children the girl's attacker to shoot Hulsopple in the. stomach when the youth sought to protect the girl. The state also introduced a receipt given at the time the gun was bought.

Earl Webb. Houston cafe owner, testified LaFieur left it on the counter at his cafe. Mrs. V. A.

Strange of Houston identified as LeFleur's a be), used to tie up the rape victim. Howard C. Hebrt of Liberty testified he saw LaFieur in Liberty on Dec. 2. He said LaFieur told him he was going to Orange to "patch up some domestic trouble" with his wife.

Irwin Jacobs, son of the operator of a Beaumont hotel, testified LaFieur spent the night of Dec. 2 at his place. Testimony got under way after two days in selecting a jury. Communists Eye Tibet London, Jan. 1l W.

The signs grew more ominous today for Tibet, the cloud-wrapped land in central Asia ruled by the boy Dalai Lama whose astrologers have warned him against foreigners. Reports from Bhutan State, on the main route from India to the "lost horizon" country, said a Communist puppet government for Tibet has been formed in the neighboring Chinese province of Tsinghai. The Bhutan reports said four divisions of Tibetans are being trained for the service of the puppet government. A treaty with the regime provides that Chinese Communists, upon "liberation of will administer its foreign affairs and be given sole rights for mining its minerals believed to include uranium, the dispatch said. At the same time a report of the official Chinese Communist news agency broadcast from Pei-ping renewed threats to invade Tibet.

The broadcast said the war on China's mainland fundamentally was at an end "with the exception of Tibet, which has jet to be liberated." Miss. Planning Cat Fines of $25 Jackson, Janl 11 VP). Cat lovers, you better watch out! Treat that tabby right, keep him home, or a $25 fine might be in the offing. At least that penalty is proposed in. a bill introduced in the legislature today by Sen.

Frank Smith of Greenwood. The act would make it a misdemeanor to abandon house cats or permit thejn to run at large. "They're killing too many quail," the senator asserted. To opera these beautiful deluxe overhead type doofs Even a Child Can Use Them IT'S SO EASY to start your car on a cold, wet or icy morning when your garage is kept warm and dry with these doors. And It's So Easy to Have Them INSTALLED IMMEDIATELY JUST CALL US FREE ESTIMATE FHA TERMS Radio Controls Also Available service call as soon after IT'S SO EASYy motor car builder unveils its offerings for the ensuing year.

You will see four wholly new series of cars all with entirely new bodies and all so gorgeously styled that they are destined to change every existing idea as to how beautiful a motor car can be- You will see cars whose performance is so outstanding that to drive one of them for a single hour is to want it forever. The advancement embraces every phase of perform-, ance power, quietness, smoothness, safety, and handling ease. To drive a 1950 Cadillac, is to have the motor car thrill of a lifetime. You will see scores of advancements and improvements which add to quality, endurance, economy and dependability And, finally, you will see all this in a car whose lowest-priced model will actually cost less than certain models of numerous other makes of cars! Yes you should see the new Cadillacs before you act in 1950. They will not only give you the new yardstick for motor car quality but they will give you the new yardstick for motor car value, as well.

It won't be long! So please stand by for the presentation date for this communityt Cadillac will become so great, and so manifold, that if you are contemplating the purchase of any car outside the lowest-price field you should see the new Cadillacs first! Cadillac's new cars will have their initial presentation at the General Motors Mid-Century Motorama at the Waldorf, in New York from January 19th to 27th. As soon after that as cars are available, the new Cadillacs will be placed on display for your inspection in this community. In the meantime, here are some of tht things you may look forward to seeing when W. M. BAILEY SONS Crawford Doer Div'n 11 Patron Phone 7-6776 ATTENTION SHREVEPORT TIMES SUBSCRIBERS 4.

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