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2, I ti UU nk I. (T Mtra. 28, 1814 NEW ORLEANS REMEMBERS 1919 OCCURRENCE Night-Long Jazz Orgy Delays Music-Loving Killer By JACK jammed, and friends and neigh- Not a single attack occurred ORLEANS, Dec. bors gathered in homes to jazz it night. Steamshovels and trip-hammers up.

Joseph Davilla, New Orleans But a few months later the digging into old Basin Street where composer of popular music, wrote killer struck again. Then jazz was born scraped up a the theme song for the night. He he disappeared again, to reappear ory of the weirdest jazz con- called it -The Mysterious Axe- briefly in October for his final cert in nightlong offbeat man's or -Don Scare Me, slaughter in which four persons Baby Is Revived; Then Mom Faints WACO. Dec. 27 month-old Randy Bounds started choking at home today.

His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richards Bounds, brought him to a fire station and assistant chief Les Summey quickly revived the baby with a resuscita tor. Then Mrs. Bounds fainted and Summey revived her, too.

Troin Passenger Runs, Dives Into River Aussie's First Drink Packed Wallop MELBOURNE, Dec. 27 train passenger announced to fellow travelers that had the first drink of my life He then jumped from the car, ran through a Melbourne station and dived in the the river Yarra. His only explanation to rescuers was: argued with my wife because she started Tito To Have Clear Shot If Tiger Seen to appease death The once plush houses of sin along the famed street gave way in the to a modern housing development. And this week, the street where such greats as Billy Bolden. Jelly Roll Morton and Bunk Johnson gave jazz its biggest boost was getting a new lift.

When the widening progress is completed, it will form a major link la the city's newest traffic artery. Although once known throughout the world as the home of jazz and sin. it will always be remembered here for the part it played in the strange attempt to pacify a jazz- loving mysterious killer who used an axe to chop a bloody path of death from one side of the city to i the other and create a reign ol terror. Most Jan Music On that night March. 1919, Basin Street joined with all of New Orleans to give out with the most jazz music ever played in this pleasure-loving city at one time.

No one knows for sure the number of victims of the jazz-loving killer, but they reach into two figures. Scores of others were wounded by the nocturnal stalker whose trademarks were the axe and a chisel he used to gam entrance into locked homes. Even today, police cant say positively that the strange case is closed, although they believe the killer may now be dead. Others srll contend he was a demon from -the hottest and may revisit New Orleans. On the morning of May 23.

1918. Joseph Maggie, an Italian grocer, and his wife were found butchered in an apartment behind their store. Nothing Taken Nothing in the room had been stolen. Valuable jewelry was lying on top of the dresser and money was found under the bloody pi- lOWS Detectives arrested several suspects, but they were released. A month later.

Grocer Louis Bessumer and his common-law wife were attacked in their rooms, Beside them lay an axe. A panel of the kitchen door had been cut out in the Maggio murders. The woman died Bessumer recovered but could throw no light on the intruder. Many neighborhoods organized guards who patrolled the areas at night Male members of other families sat up all night with loaded guns. Still the axeman struck and people died.

On March 13. 1919, a New Orleans newspaper, the Times- i Picayune, received a letter with the dateline of It started -esteemed and went on to say in part: Never Catch Him "They have never caught me and they never they have never seen me. for I am invisible. I am not a human bemg. but a and a demon from the hottest hell.

I am what you Orlean- 5 lam and your foolish police call the The letter said the axeman could be much worse if he wanted to. then added: -Now, to be exact, at 12:15 (earthly time) on next Tuesdav bight, I am going to pass mar New Orleans I am very fond of jazz music and I swear by all the devils in the nether regions that every person shall he spared in whose home a jazz band is in full Most of the city that night tried i to satisfy the killer passion for i jazz Cafes over town were Home Of Littlefield Couple Owl Of Town For Christmas Bums IJTTLEFIFLD (Special)-White Mr, and Mrs. J. D. Hagler were visiting Vernon relatives, their home here was destroyed Monday morning by fire.

Flames leaping through holes In roof were discovered by neighbors. Although the fire department arrived within minutes, the fire had made too much headway to be controlled. Property damage had not been estimated. I-amb County Sheriff Dirk'Dyer said the flames apparently started in the attic. In addition to the six-room house and Its furniture, valuable antiques were destroyed.

Papa. died. A power project a power development pro professional and private. is a reservation of pub-1 ject under the jurisdiction of the Hunters were told to reapply for Venevuela now has 17 airlines.1 lie lands for use in connection federal powder commission. them after President Tito Right at PORTLAND, Me.

UP After a month of carefully watching chimneys in largest city, NEW DELHI of- the advisory board on smoke con- ficials have made certain that by the dty govern- Yugoslav President Tito, if he runs across a tiger in the jungles of the two worst Gwalior, will have no competition against regula- in bagging it. tions. One was a cannery. The oth- FTior to arrival in Gwalior er wag today for a hunt, the government leaves canceled all shooting licenses both One official said the action was security The Yugoslav leader is winding up a visit to India. stata TAKES NO CHANCES CANNES, Dec.

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