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lmmxixtt Local Spot Cotton Stria Go4 Middling ll.it Middling Strict Lew H-Mling miter The Weather Alabama Increasing esood-haeas aad eaolrr Wftlneadsy-yrebabry sfeewen. ru TOLTJilE CI NO. 99 UONTOOUEBlf.ALA, TUESDAY JIOENING, APRIL 9, 1929 Ik ImiIiIiI I'riM 15 PAG Ed City 3o Elsewhere 5 Two Southern Beauties Father Of 1 6 Children, 8 Twins, DiSuicideTLsks No Prayers And No Minister At His Funeral I 1 'J. I carefully planned the deed. He drove from his home, two and a half mile West of Hartford, to town Friday afternoon and got a shave and haircut From the bar- ber shop he returned home, took a bath and then called all of the children together with his wife, and kissed them goodbye.

The family. It was aald. thought that he was merely leaving home tor about a week or two, as ha had been absent from home several times during the past year or two and his whereabouts were not known. Blalock then went to his garage, where he took two teaspoonsful of poisonous powder. From the garage he returned to the house and The family discovered that he had taken poison about 40 mln- utes later and summoned a physician.

Blalock begged the physician not to help him. He did not want to live, he told the physician. He said he would have shot himself, but did not know that it would take the poison so long to be effective. He 'said that he thought he would be dead within half an -hour. Sheriff G.

a Hughes said that It had been reported to him that Mr. Blalock left a note saying that he eouki not control his family, but Sheriff Hughes said he had not con- finned this report Friends of Mr. Blalock believed that he was suffering from as a result ot the death of his son, Harvey Blalock, who -was slain during the Christmas holidays of 1927. Lee Buffalo was convicted of the killing and sentenced to years by the Geneva Circuit Court Buffalo is In the Geneva jail pending a decision on the case by the Suprenr Court ot Alabama. Blalock had hundreds of friends in this section, where he had lived for the greater part of his life.

He was a native of Abbeville, Ala. THESE two girls are recognised at two ef the most beautiful In the entire South. Miss Carolyn Bradley, ef Bessemer, AU, ahewn on the left, wae selected the most beautiful girl student at the University ef Alabama, Miss Charlotte McKown, of Martinsbarg, W. Va, (on the right) will be ene ef the princesses at the Virginia apple biossom festival at Winchester, VaV daring apple blossom tune In May. HARTFORD.

ALA, April 8. (Special) Lum Blalock, father of sixteen children eight of them twins was buried in the Hartford Cemetery this afternoon, the victim of a poison dose self -administered Friday night, but his dylrg request that no minister be permitted to officiate at the funeral, was disregarded. i Blalock, a farmer, was known In this section a a "square shooter." and a man who met his obligations. As be lay dying in the hospital here yesterday, beloved friends and neighbors gathered In the hospital to pray for his recovery. Tell them' not to do it, please," he aald.

"I don't want anyone to do anything tor me that I have not done for myself." -His wishes were favored and the group filed out. Later, he made the request, ft was reported, to be burled without the benefit of the clergy. He died this morning at I o'clock. Mr. Blalock and the children, it was said, were ot the opinion that the dose had affected Blalock's mind.

Accordingly upon the insist- ence of members of the family, the Rev. Mr. Bush, pastor of the Baptist Church, conducted the last rites at the residence. Blalock, who was 60, years old. Working Man's Need Presented Views Of Labor Board Laid Before Hoover WASHINGTON.

April 8. (JPh-The tariff needs of the working man as interpreted by the American Federation of Labor were laid before President Hoover today in the form of a speciflo program sponsored by that organization. Led by Matthew WolL vice president of the federation, a delegation called upon the chief executive and outlined Its views in detail, recommending the seating of a representative of organized labor on the tariff commission, change in the laws to give labor a hearing in valuation cases and consideration of the cost of foreign labor in the determination of duties on imports. Unemployment Dtacnsied. the day, former Governor Ralph O.

Brewster, of Maine, called at the White House to discuss another subject-close to. the working man, that ot unemployment. He urged particularly that the- task of keeping unemployment statistics be delegated to the Individual states. He the states better equipped for' gathering such data than the Federal After talking with the president, Mr. Woll said the delegation had been received with' sympathy and understanding.

Mr. Hoover, be declared, although net committing himself to any of the recommendations made, seemed deeply interested and revealed a minute knowledge 'of the problems presented. The group adoption of the American valuation plan in determining the amount of duty to be levied against foreign made commodities, telling the president it met the requirements' of labor much more equitably than the method now used. At present, duties are fixed upon a basis of cost of material abroad, Woll said, and do not take into consideration the low wage scale of the (Continued On Page Column Coolidge Gets Medal For His Service In Prison NEW YORK, April 8 Former President Calvin Coolidge re- ceived by proxy, today a medal from the National Committee on Prisons and Prison labor in recog-. nltion of his services In bringing about constructive legislation i prison -) The presentation wat made by" Edwin P.

Grosvenor at the commit-' tee's annual meeting at the Colony Club. Representative Frank H. Foes of Massachusetts received it on be-- half ot Mr. Coolidge. "Mr Coolidge's Interest In prison enforcement did not begin when he was called to Washington," Grosvenor said when making the pre- sentatlon.

was during his term as governor of Massachusetts that the old prison system there was reorganized into the department of correction with a commissioner re- jtrvmstM fni t.h mannirf.mpTlt tit the prisons. "Through hb messages to congress and the many bills which he signed he has helped to make progress to- ward the time when the federal prisons will be models tor the nation." 7 Mr. Foas expressed a belief that the prison bill which Mr. Coolidge signed just before he went out of office would break the backbone of the prison contract system. Escobar Named As President Of Mexican Rebels Washington And Mexico City View Situation As Less Alarming Ulles bMts Post American Forces Still Out For Protection By The Associated Press.

With tha situation alonr the Ameri- caa border viewed less alarming by Mexico City mod Washington alike, principal Interest in tha Mexican revolution campaign centered Monday upon tha unexpected departure of General Calles Federal commander in chief, to take personal charge of the Federal campaign on the west coast General Calles arrived yesterday at Guadalajara on his way to Mar-Mian. Eighteen American airplanes are guarding, the border. But with failure of the rebel attack against Naco on Saturday, the Immediate crisis seemed to have been passed here, though con-, centratlon of all the Insurgent armies In the state of Sonora might ultimately maka It affatn. Rebels en Defend re. The" rebels were everywhere on the defensive and slowly withdrawing into Sonora as the sixth week of Insurrec tion oegan.

Rebel sources at the border announced that General Jose Gonzalo Escobu had been proclaimed provisional president of the Insurgents And that he was planning to take over command of the army on the Pacific coast, relieving General Francisco Manio. Six troop trains heavily loaded with soldiers of the rebel, commander Escobar left Juarex for Western Chihua hua, accompanied by all the town's taxi-cabs and most of its Mexican-owned trucks and automobiles on flat cars. General Calles conferred with General Cedlllo and other federal commander organizing pursuit of the guerrilla bands of so-called "Cristeros" on his way to Mazatlan. Cedlllo Informed him that mmr fihnv nf t.rnnna -Vo mwt of the guerrilla forces to take to their 'mountain lairs, and indicated that the campaign which the federals design to put an end once for, all to their ac-, ttvity, would resolve itself into a kind of The railways have been cleared of marauders. In Slnaloa the Federals continued their northward advance with the rebels concentrated at Ran Bias, near the Rnnnra border.

The insurgents were reported by Federals to be looting and, levying contribution on towns during their re-. treat. s' a The federal column under. General Al-mazan continued 'without incidents march on Chihuahua City. The cities ot; Camargo and Parral have been occupied.

Sporadic war activity along the border included capture of the entire rebel garrison of sixty men and tneir com-. mander at Palomas, Chihuahua, by two American cattlemen acting for the federals. At OJlnaga, across the border from Presidio, N. part of the rebel force revolted and took over the town for the government' after killing th HEADQUARTERS SHIFTED MEXICO CITY, April 8 (JPh-Headquarters of the federal armies operating against the Insurgents In Northern Mexico were shifted toward the Pacific coast today as General Calles, the Federal commander In chief, hastened to Mazatlan with the avowed purpose of terminating the campaign in Slnaloa as rapidly as he had achieved a clean-up In Chihuahua. General Calles, accompanied by hit mtaft mrtA a atrnnff nuvwt rt tmnrti ar rived at Guadalajara at midnight and planned to continue to Mazatlan late today or tomorrow morning.

Ha is using the same train that served as his headquarters during the northern campaign. It provides comfortable living quarters and is equipped with a special radio coach which makes possible in valuable radio 7 In order to reach Guadalajara Geo- eral Calles was obliged to pass througn the heart of country where bands ot Irregular rebels known as "Cristeros" have been harrassing small towns, assaulting trains and carrying on guerrilla warfare for more than two years." At I gos, in Jalisco, where the Crls- tero activity has Been most intense. General Calles stopped to confer with Gen- eral Saturnino Cedlllo who arrived a lew aaya ago iront xorreuu mm column ot eaerw troops cui uj put end once, for all to the guerrilla war-fare. Cleared of Marauders. Cedlllo informed his chief that la most instances the mere appearance ot troops had been sufficient to drive the lairs.

There has been little fighting thus far but the railway line has been clev-I ed of marauders and the campaign henceforth is likely to be in the nature of a man-hunt, with the federals seek tag to rout the rebels out of their hiding places and oblige them to fight in v. UK Cedlllo has several thousand troops, tils force considerably outnumbering the Crlstero bands operating in the territory In which his campaign lies, namely, part of the states of Jalisco, Guanajuato, Aguscalientee and Cacatcaa. Furthermore, the Cristero bands are Imperfectly organized and are uncoordinated. The federal task, however, is difficult, since the mountainous nature of the country gives the rebels an abundance of hiding places, which have proved se-. cure retreats during the past two years and more.

Mo such thorough campaign as the present one hat ever been waged against them, though, and It is Gen. Calles; nope and "firm purpose" as he puts it, to rid the country definitely of what has been described as a thorn in its tide. cavalry ordered out SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. April I. A squadron of cavalry at Fort Bliss, El Paw, late today was ordered by Ma.

Gen. William Lasslter. U. 8. Eighth Corps area commander, to proceed immediately to Hachlta.

N. M. The move- ment was described as a "protective The squadron will be fully equipped. Hachlta is a tmall railroad town In (Continued en Page Column Harry Sinclair To Serve Term ror ms ouence Oil Magnate's Contempt Sentence Upheld By Supreme Court Refused To Talk Js Given 25 Days To Ask For Rehearing WASHINGTON, April I. Har-ry F.

Sinclair under a Supreme Court decision today must serve three months in jail for contempt ot the Senate in refusing to answer an questions asked in the Teapot Dome oil investigation. The opinion of the court was unanimous. The wealthy oil operator will have 25 days in which to ask tor a rehearing before the mandate will be issued but re-hearings are seldom granted. In addition to the jail sentence he must nav a fine. of $500.

Sinclair had appeared several times before the committee, as a witness at the time he was called again on March 22, 1124. The committee, through Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, sought to oo tain miormauon concerning a contract made on Sept 23, 1922. bv Sinclair in behalf of the Mammoth Oil Company, with F. O. Bonflls and John Leo Stack.

Refused te Answer Questioned concerning the contract which the committee had been informed called for a payment ot $250,000 to Bonflls and Stack for surrendering rights they claimed on Teapot Dome, Sinclair refuted to answer. He took the position that the Senate having adopted--a resolution jin Feb. (, 1924, calling upon the president to cause proceedings to be Instituted to cancel the leases on naval oil reserves made by Albert B. Fall as secretary of the interior, the Inquiry had passed beyond the control of the Senate committee. He insisted that a suit having been started charging conspiracy and fraud, he could not be compelled to testify as witness except in tt courts.

When brought to trial Sinclair eon- tended the questions he refused to answer related to his private affairs, and to matter In the control ot the courts and challenged the Jurisdiction of the Senate committee to continue Its investigation in view of the suits which had been tiled in the courts, Justice Butler, who delivered the opinions cancelling the leases on the naval oil reserves, presented the views of the court today, pointing out after a careful review of the case's history, that tt had been held fn the ease against Mai Daugherty that the two- Houses-of Congress "possess not only such powers as are expressly granted to them by the Constitution, but 'such auxiliary pow- (Continued On Page Eleven) Time Extended Oh Rate Option Domestic customers of the Alabama Power Company have until June 1 to exercise their option of electric rates under a supplementary order of the Alabama Public Service Commission is sued yesterday, -i- Its original order provided that the option should be exercised within 45 days after the customer had received his first bill under the new schedule ot rates which the commission prescribed on Dec. 31, 1928. The formal order of the commission said alt customers to whom the original order was applicable shall have the right to an4 including the first day of June to elect to return to the schedule pre viously applicable for his service. If election Is made by the customer to his old rate notice in writing must be given to the commission and to the nearest office ot the power company that he desires to remain on the old rate. A statement of the commission Issued in connection with its order said: "It is to understood that, in case of residential, customers ot Alabama Power Company in the City ot Mobile, the option referred to In the commission's order of April 8, 1929, above re ferred to.

Is the option given under our order of Dec. 1928, namely: The option or right to have the company apply the so-called Montgomery rate for residential customers in place of the standard rate prescribed under order of Dec. 31, 1928." As ot March IS, a total of 8,433 cus tomers of the company. It was stated, had exercised their option to return to the old rate. Thirty-seven of the num ber, it was added, later decided -to be charged under the new rate.

Tennessee G. 0. P. Votes Confidence In Taylor NASHVILLE, TENN April 8. 0P) After voting a confidence in Congress man J.

Will Taylor, the Tennessee State Republican Executive Committee today elected Maj. Howard B. Shofner, of Nashville, chairman, and Mrs, Ruth Morris Short of Oakdale, vice chairman. The committee meeting was harmonious and resolutions were adopted praising work of Congressman Taylor, who was charged with patronage abuses before the Brook hart Investigating committee. Taylor In a brief address said that the charges were "absurd." Five-Year-OId Child Struck Down By Auto Jsmet Johnson, five-year-old 'ton of Mr.

and Mrs. J. -A. Johnson, of 110 May Street suffered severe lacerations of the face and hands when struck down b. an automobile in front of Down's Drug Store, 814 Bell Street yesterday afternoon.

The driver of the automobile, whose name was not ascertained last night reported to have stopped, picked ut the child and rendered all aid possible. The youth wat carried to Bt Margaret's Hospital Leak's ambulance, where hi injuries are not considered serious. X-ray pictures will be token today to determine the extent ot his Injuries. No report of the accident was made to police. Fonville Shoots At MorgarrBut Misses His Mark Clerk To Secretary Of State Attacks Service Body Member Creates Sensation Cause Undetermined; Follows Difficulty An unsuccessful attempt upon the life of Frank Morgan, associate member of the Alabama Public Service Commis sion, was made yesterday afternoon by W.

P. Fonville, chief clerk to the secretary of state, in front of the commission offices on Dexter Avenue. Fonville tired two shots at the commissioner but both missed their mark. He Being held by the city on a blanket charge of suspicion. Although no warrant has been sworn out he Is charged with assault to murder and traced in the county Jail, where he remained until 10 p.m.

when he was released under $300 The commissioner said ht had not determined whether or not he would prefer charges against him, adding that he was to consult an attorney today. He agreed to Fonville's release, he said, on the assurance that he would "be let alone The shooting followed a personal difficulty between the two on the steps of the building and trouble which was said to have been brewing since the Legislature met about two yean ago. The nature of the "trouble" was not learned. Fonville and the commissioner both declined to discuss the cause ef the disagreement Created Sensation The shooting occurred about 4 o'clock and created a sensation about the capitol. Fonville was reported to have come to the building and asked for Morgan.

They met on the front steps and Morgan, who charged Fonville with being intoxicated, stated that he began to curse and abuse him. The commissioner said he struck him once and as he regained his balance hit him again and knocked him off the steps. As he arose from the ground. Morgan said he saw the pistol flash and darted inside the building just as Fonville fired. One bullet struck the side of the building, deflected and shattered a window pane in the front door.

The other wa somewhat lower and hit the edge of the door about a foot from the floor. Called Him Over The 'Phone The commissioner added that he waa not sure if Fonville had the revolver ta his hand when he struck him or if it was called him over the telephone several times during tha afternoon but that ha declined to talk to him and told member of the staff to say that he "was out Morgan also said that he and Fonville had not been on speaking terms for soma time. A few minutes after the shooting, Fonville is said to have walked to his home on Monroe Street in the rear of the building occupied by the State Department of Education. He was arrested there shortly afterwards by Detective Scott and Davis, of the Police Depart ment At headquarters he was docketed as a suspect and placed in the county jail. He declined to talk to a newspaper man.

A bandage covered a wound on his forehead and he paced the cell nervously. John Brandon, secretary of state, said his chief clerk came to the office about the usual time Monday and said he was ill. He left the office and Mr. Brandon added he had not seen him since. Serving Of Kidnaping Warrants Is Delayed a-a---- ELIZABETHTON, TENN, April 8.

fP Serving of warrants on men said by labor leaders to hsve been implicated In the reported kidnaping last week of two American Federation of Labor rep- resentatlves was delayed today pending further conferences with law enforcement officials and attorneys retained today by the union. W. C. Blrthwrlght, secretary of the Tennessee Federation announced that the organization had retained a Nashville law firm and that the attorneys' advice would be obtained before action was taken against the tlx men already arrested and some 15 or 20 others whose names have been given labor officials. Flying Publisher Plans London To Japan Flight LONDON, April Van Lear Black, Baltimore publisher and aviation enthusiast who completed a round-trip flight to Capetown, South Africa, today plans- to leave London at the end ot April on a flight to Japan and to be back here tor dinner on the Fourth of July.

The last lap of h'j African flight was made today from Le Bourget France, to Croydon in a commercial plane. His private airplane now is undergoing repairs at Ventemlglla, North Italy, where, it wat forced down in the narrow beach. Mr. Black will use the same crew on his Asiatic flight that manned the ship on the African voyage. He believes the soviet authorities will grant permission ror his return flight from Japan to be made by way of Siberia and Russia.

MUROGERS New York, April 8. Editor The Advertiser: It looks like the rebels in Mexico ought to win a few battles in the press. They through all the towns first and get the first crack at the telegraph offices. Steamship Paris stuck In the mud. Somebody happened to think of opening the bar, and in 30 hours the passengers had it light enough to float Babe Ruth finally hit a home run, so the Hoover administration has been vindicated Farmers get out your sense of humor.

Congress meets to relieve you next week. Yours, WILL. Florida Sheriff Tired By Delay Alleged Slayer Of Foster Given Ultimatum ALA, April 8 0P In an ultimatum Issued this afternoon. Sheriff M. 8.

Penton of Escambia County Florida, declared that Barney J. Wig gins deputy sheriff ot Baldwin. County Alabama, would be iven until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning to appear at Pensacola and make $3,500 bond In a second degree murder warrant for the alleged fatal shooting in the back of Monroe Foster of PlnevlUe, Fla, on March 8. The raid was participated in by Alabama and Federal officers over the Florida line. Wiggins, according to the Pensacola sheriff, promised to surrender one week ago and make bond.

Day after day passed and the deputy failed to appear. Continued procrastination ot Wiggins resulted in the declaration of Sheriff Penton this afternoon. Monroe Foster was fatally shot in the back during an alleged liquor raid near PlnevlUe, March 8. Following an intensive investigation by Florida officials the warrant charging the deputy with the shooting was issued. The alleged moonshiner died In a Mobile infirmary several days after he was shot.

No report was made of the occurrence, news of the shooting leaking Officers on the raid were: A. W. Hargett, deputy prohibition administrator of Mobile T. C. McMillan, federal prohibition agent Carthis Irwin, sheriff of Baldwin County' and Wiggins, SKIPPER WANTS HEARING NEW ORLEANS, April 8 (Ity Counsel for Captain John Thomas Randell, skipper of the ill fated British rum schooner I'm Alone Will insist upon preliminary hearing tomorrow for Randell and his crew of seven, Edwin H.

Grace, the captain's attorney said today. The hearing was continued a week ago. "We had nothing to fear from continuances," Grace said "but the expense ot holding Captain Randell and his crew is substantial and should not be borne further, simply to delay the certain, outcome that the men will be freed of what was after all only a holding charge." Edmund E. Talbot, United States attorney, indicated he would personally attend the hearing before Commissioner Reginald H. Carter, Jr.

He said hit office had no announcement to make today. The schooner was sunk by the coast guard boat Dexter in the Gulf of Mexico last month with its liquor cargo and charges of conspiracy to violate the pro- (Continued On Page Eleven) Journalists Will Study Conditions In Orient i NEW YORK, April 8. (JP) The Carnegie endowment for International peace announced today through its president Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, that a delegation of 12 American Journalists would leave San Francisco April 24 to observe conditions in Japan, Korea, Manchuria and China. They are scheduled to return Aug.

18. The' announcement said the party would consist ot Francis W. Clarke, representing The Atlanta, (Ga.) Constitution; Paul Wright, Chicago Dally News; Judd Mortimer Lewis, Houston Post-Dispatch; Fred Hogue, Los Angeles Times; Harry B. Waketlejd, Matthews, New York Times; George S. Johns, St.

Louis Post-Dispatch; William Philip Slmms, Scrlpp-Howard newspapers; Frances E. Regal, Springfield, (Mass.) Republican; Gideon A. Lyon, Washington Star and George A. Finch, assistant secretary of the. Endowment Highway Bond Case Appealed High Court To Decide Contractors' Liability The Supreme Court of Alabama will soon be called on to decide one of the most Important legal questions that has yet arisen In connection with highway construction In Alabama.

This question it whether recovery can be had from the surety company furnishing the bond to the State Highway Department tor the principal contractor, by material men who sell labor, material, feedstuffs and supplies to a tub-contractor, when these things are used by him in completing the highway project undertaken by the principal contractor. Yesterday, In the Circuit Court at Prattville, Judge George F. Smoot made a ruling on this question, holding that the concern furnishing the bond tor the principal contractor, could not be held liable for failure ot a sub-contractor to-pay just claims for labor, material, fesd-stuffs and supplies entering into the work contracted for by the principal contractor. 4 This decision was In the case ot the Autaugaville Oil and Supply Company vs. the Southern Surety-Company as alleged surety for Cozine and Coiine.

iub-contractors under Cox and Bryson, In the work of surfacing the Prattville-Selma Road. The suit is for recovery for gasoline and tires said to have been furnished the sub-contractor and which have not been paid for. Notice ot appeal has been given In the case and this appeal will be formally submitted in due time to the Supreme Court tor final decision of the point involved. Rich Gold Strike Made In Tunnel Of Aqueduct MANILA, April rich gold strike was made today by workers on a tunnel of an aqueduct to bring water to Manila from the Angat River 25 miles each of this city. A vein 9,000 feet long assayed as as $2,500 to the ton and it was estimated that at least 120,000,000 worth of ore was in the ground.

Officials and employes of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company, contractors, halted a possible gold rush by staking claims over a wide area. They said they were preparing to develop the project Mocking Bird Target For Rocks Thrown By 'Disturbed' Sleepers Since publication of the letter written him by a group pt students at Tuscaloosa, asking his advice as how they could rid themselves ot the presence of a nlght-slnglng mocking bird, which they declared, disturbed their slumber, and his reply containing a warning that the killing of a mocking bird In this state Is punishable by a fine and a hard labor sentence, T. Qulnn, commissioner of game and fisheries hat received a number of letters ot 'Commendation. One man, writing from Tuscaloosa, said he lived near the complaining students, and had Observed them throwing fire crackers and rocks at the mocking bird. He added he had told them if they killed the sweet-voiced songster, he would, personally, have them ar- rested.

stifled as he talked. Of a rest and gazed at the river. "After this maelstrom I over," he said, I'm going to take a rest I have not played since, I was 14 years except several years ago when I went home and sawed some wood and played baseball in the back lot." He did not say what kind of rest he would take, declaring golf had no appeal, but showed interest at the mention of fishing. "You know," hq said, "I have not fished since the rod and reel was Invented. I used to take a line and pole and dig my own worms.

The last time I started to go fishing, I looked up the law and found te season was closed for everything but catfish. Well I didn't go. How was I to know whether a catfish would get on my hook or not" he Chuckled. He was asked when he would go fishing again. He got up, stretched his arms and started away, but turned about and tmtled.

"1 have still got three more years." he answered. "And you can also take that for an answer at to how I feel about the Impeachment" 'Hand Picked' Juries Charged Innocent Men Jailed As Result Of Corruption BIRMINGHAM, April g. (Special) Testimony to the effect that Innocent are behind the bars in Jefferson County through the medium of what was termed "hand picked juries," is scheduled to -be presented to the Grand Jury, it was learned authoritatively by The Advertiser Correspondent Monday. It was also learned that the Grand Jury will hear testimony to the effect that Jury control exists not only for the selection of grand juries but for the selection of petit jurymen on both the civil and criminal side of the Circuit Court, and that It Is possible to control the selection of juries for any type of case that is called for trial. High court officials may be named In the testimony to be offered to the Grand Jury Tuesday, it was said.

Te Be Completed Today When the Grand Jury recessed shortly after 5 p.m. Monday to reconvene at 9:30 a.m.' Tuesday, it was reported by officials that the investigation probably would be completed by noon Tuesday, C. B. White, announced as "a citizen who wishes to make a complaint," was the first witness called when the investigation was resumed at 2:30, p.m. after the noon recess.

Authorities outside the Jury room were silent as to the nature of his complaint He was followed by D. Posey, clerk of the Jury, commission. Posey was re called after his first appearance in the jury room. he remained closeted with the Investigators almost half an hour, Posey Jbas been clerk of the commis sion since March 20. having been appointed to succeed Charlie Calhoun, George Whitfield, clerk of Circuit Court, also was called- before the in quisitorial body twice during the afternoon.

After being excused the first time, he returned a few minutes later with a sheaf, ot papers which appeared to be court records Then came the three members of the City Commission, J. M. Jones, John H. Taylor and W. B.

Dickson, in the respective order. Examination of the three commissioners consumed only a few minutes. The commissioners hurried to the city hall after being excused by the Grand Jury. Upon his arrival at city ball, a few minutes after he had appeared before the Grand Jury, Commissioner Dickson telephoned the solicitor's office and asked that a statement which he had made before the inquisitors be changed. Corrects His Statement "I have found since returning to city hall that a statement which I made, believing it to be correct, was incorrect1 he told an attache of the solicitor's office "I would like to have It corrected." (Contained On Fag Eleven) "In these extremely provocative circumstances, the Hindustan socialist republican association, in all seriousness and realizing its full responsibility, decided upon and ordered its army to execute this particular action, to that a stop may be put to this humiliating farce and that alien bureaucratic ex ploiters may be brought before the pub-J uc eye in their nazeo lorm.

Dldo Try Te Escape The two men who threw the Bombs made no attempt to escape but surrendered themselves to the police who charged them with attempted murder. They gave up pistols which It was said that they had fired although this could not be definitely determined because of the confusion Into which the assembly was thrown. One of the prisoners, Baghat Singh, of Punjab, wat said to be a nephew of the notorious revolutionary A) It Singh who was arrested a year ago but released for. lark of evidence. The uncle it -till In exile The other bomber was Butukns.

wars Dutt of Bengal. The outrage came at the moment of a serious dispute between the government and President Patel of the assembly (ConUnaed On Page Column Huey Long, Under Impeachment Fire, SitsAnd Recalls His Boyhood Days Indian Drive Against Communism Has Sequel In Bombing Iii Senate NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 8. The campaign ot the Indian government against communist agitation had an ominous sequel in the legislative as sembly today where several members were injurea ana tne omers panic-stricken by the explosion of two bombs thrown from a gallery. Sir Bomanjee Delalal was struck by a fragment of the bomb which made a wound two inches long and half an inch wide. He wat the only one gravely injured although other prominent persons, Including Oeorge Schuster, financial member of the executive noun-cll of the Viceroy, were Injured.

Note Wae Signed The motive of the bombing was disclosed by a pamphlet signed by "Bal-rain, honorary chief, Hindustan oculist republican army." This said: "It takes a loud voice to make the deaf hear, With these immortal words uttered on a similar occasion by a valiant French anarchist martyr, do we strongly Justify this act of ours." After -charging that labor leaders were being Indlsrlmlnately arrested and that the people were quarreling over distribution of "crumbs of reform" from the Bltaon 'commission, the pamphlet said: -BATON ROUGE, April 8. W) Louisiana's' 36-year-old executive, Huey P. Long, under Impeachment fire, sat down on the old steps i of the historic capitol for a few minutes today and chatted about boyhood days when he went fishing and played baseball. The state house, which the past week rang with the shout of legislators debating impeachment I was silent tinder the period" of recess until Tuesday night The capitol lawn was empty of the milling crowd ot spectators. A few hundred yards to the west, the Mississippi River, muddy from the high waters of Spring, caught the governor's eyee.

He had Just come from bis office where during the morning be signed 1.000 of the 10.000 highway bonds. This was the only information he had for newspapermen anxious to learn how he was spending his time. Yesterday he had been home with his family an. Shreveport driving back here last night He was In an amiable mood and looked reted. A perfect Spring day was blsmed by him for a yawn he.

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