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Saturday, November 25, 1916. THE SHREVEPORT JOURNAL PAGE THREE ELECTION FRAUD CHARGE IS MADE Governor of West Sends Special Message Regarding Corruption. Charleston, W. Nov. Charging that large sums of money were improperly, used 7, in and the that general there election were gross violations of the election and registration laws of the state, Governor H.

D. Hatfield has sent a special mesage to the legislature asking that a special committee be created to conduct statewide investigation of alleged election frauds. "If something is not done," the message says, "the high water mark of corruption in 1916 will be the lower water mark of corruption in 1918. It is no secret that thousands of illegal votes were cast on November "I call your attention to the fact that in many instances those charged with the duty of enforcing the law are beneficiaries of illegal votes cast at the recent election and that it is too much to expect of them that they will prosecate their AT THE GRAND 'Very Good Eddie." Of "Very Good Eddie," which comes to the Grand Sunday night, the New Orleans Item has the following to say: "Within two minutes after the rise of the curtain on the first ac tof 'Very Good at Tulane Theatre Sunday night it this safe to predict the very animated and melodious entertainment would be the musical comedy hit of the season. It is not difficult to understand how Broadway took the production to its stony heart and made it its first love for over a year.

"'Very Good Eddie' is a musical comedy of the new school. It has nothing in common with the old Casino type which we are accustomed to and of which we are weary. It sounds a new note in the musical scale. "The Marbury-Comstock company, who are producing 'Very Good have spent money lavishly on it and with good taste. One has to go back to the days Henry W.

Savage was at the height of his glory to recall any company which possessed so much talent as the organization which was greeted at the Tulane by the biggest audience of the season. There are no widely known personages in the cast; no worn-out old stars who should be in the old men's or old ladies' homes. Instead, its members are young and women who are as ambitious they are able, and men, most satisfactory results are obtained." "The Lilac Domino." "The Lilac Domino" will be the attraction at the Grand Thanksgiving matinee and night. Of this play, the New Orleans American says: 'The Lilac with which the season opened at the Tulane last night, drawing a appreciative audience, is opera as arcomic musical as the best pieces which bear that title, and as amusing as the most excellent musical comedy. It is a fine show.

"Eastern critics have approved this work of Charles Cuvillier, presented by Andreas Dippel, which has also been favorably" received abroad, in Vienna and Paris. But its success elsewhere would not assure its wet come by the critical New Orleans public if it did not have genuine merit. The score is such as to appeal to the musical connoisseur, it is filled with delightful gaiety with airs like the sunlight on the sea waves, there being only a touch of sadness at the end of the second act to give relief. Matnly it is joyful. Rarely is there staged a production like this of the standard whose tastes are for classical music and at the same time containing popular MARSHAL'S SALE.

No. the City Court of Shreveport. Louisiana. City of Shreveport vs. J.

M. Wheelis. Bv virtue of a writ of fier facias, issued in the above entitled and numbered suit by the Honorable David B. Samuel, Judge of the City Court. Shreveport, Louisiana, and to me directed.

I have seized and will sell at public auction at the Texas street front door of the court house of Caddo parish, Louisiana, tween the legal hours for sales, on Saturday, December 2, 1916, One davenport, one office table. The above property seized as belonging to the defendant and will be sold to pay and satisfy the amount of writ. $20.00 and all costs and attorney's fees. Terms of sale cash, with benefit of appraisement. W.

W. OTTS, City Marshal. November 21. 1916. THANKSGIVING SERVICES BY LOCAL CHURCHES AT THE CENTRAL CHRISTIAN Dr.

McCall of Texarkana to Preach Sermon--Offering for Four Charities. AT THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE AVE FERGUSON AND THE "VERY GOOD EDDIE" Tigers Play Rice 7-7 Tie, Saving 'Lost Game' Baton Rouge, Nov. -After being outplayed in the first half by Rice institute, the Louisiana State University football squad came back strong Friday and through the aid of a 30 yards forward pass, Baird to Floyd, tied the score in the third peroad and held the Texans to a 7 to 7 tie. Vance of Rice accounted for the visitors' touchdown in the second following a series of end runs. Both sides kicked goal.

The line up: Rice. Position. Louisiana. Brick Floyd Left end. Kalk Rice Left tackle.

Fulweiler Walker Left guard. McFarland Jones Center. Potts Herbert Right guard. Dain Cooper Right tackle. Rudd St.

Diziere Right end. Fripon Baird Quarterback. Vance Lewis Left half. Brown Flannigan Right guard. Fendley Bernstein Fullback.

Score by periods: Rice 0 7 0 0--71 Louisiana 0 Referee Smith, Missouri: Umpire Bridges, Shreveport; lineman, Manship, Mississippi. of periods head. 15 minutes. Rice Scoring--Touchdown, Vance; goal from touchdown, Brown. Louisiana Scoring Touchdown, Floyd; goal from touchdown, Baird.

Substitutions: Rice -Darling Gripon; Jackson for Vance: Fendley; Dellefor. valle for Brown. Louisiana- Himes for Baird; Rodrigue for Lewis. vices to be equally divided among the four above mentioned charities, any person may designate to which institution he or she wishes the contribution to go, and those in charge of the collection will see that the distribution is made. Wonderful prosperity has blessed the United States during the past year, and more than that, the country has enjoyed a reign of peace.

The people have many things for which to be grateful and -at the services next Thursday it is expected that the big auditorium of the Central Christian church will be crowded with citizens gathered there to participate in the great Thanksgiving. CENTENARY NOTES Messrs. Burke Stansel, Jeff Herd and James Cutler were visitors at Centenary this week. All three are rice planters from Gueydan, La. Rufus Forsythe of Dalby Springs, Texas, has taken up his abode in the dormitory as a student.

Mrs. L. Hayden and Mrs. Annie Cox of Shreveport are sisters of Mr. Forsythe.

A forty-five foot flag pole has been set up on the campus. The military class will use pole for their ceremonies. The Centenary military company is panning to take a hike Thanksgiving Day and will practice skirmish drills and fight a real sham battle. The company went out for a four mile hike Friday evening. The Union Literary Society had the pleasure of receiving two members Thursday night.

These are Robert Kimbridge and Kay Redditt. Both give promise of becoming efficient society man. The regular program was rendered Thursday night. Dr. J.

K. Smith, the pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city, talked to the boys at the Y. M. C. A.

service Sunday afternoon. Dr. Smith is a staunch friend of the Y. M. C.

A. and is a delightful speaker. His talk Sunday was helpful and inspiring. The theme was "Service." The boys are always glad to have such good friends visit and talk to them. CITY OFFICIALS ARE INDICTED Malfeasance in Office and Misappropriations Charged at Hibbing, Iowa.

Des Moines, lowa, Nov. county grand jury has indicted the mayor of Hibbing, D. D. McEachin, former village 1 treasurer; W. J.

Rider, Rupert Swinnerton, R. J. Burrows and H. P. Curran, members of the Hibbing council, and Albert Dickson and Jacob Nessner, officials of the township of Stuntz, for alleged malfeasance in office and alleged misappropriation of public moneys.

C. M. Atkinson and R. W. Hitchcock, newspaper publishers, were named for alleged complicity in obtaining public moneys fraudulently.

The indictments are the result of an investigation by the state examiner's office. SPECIALS FOR SUNDAY. Angel Sherry, Angel Cherry and Marshmallow Shreveport Ice Cream Factory. Order your Personal Greeting Cards for Christmas, now. Our designs are original and rich.

J. A. Styron Engraving Co. London's Body Cremated; Secular Services Held 6 GIRLS, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, SUNDAY, DETECTIVE PRICE BACK FROM ARKANSAS AFTER SOLVING MURDER CASE Shreveporter Reports Confession by Negro to Slaying Mother and Babe. The murder of Mrs.

Ben Diles, wife of a railroad section foreman, and her baby, of Ashdown, November 3, for which John Hawkins, negro, was recently arrested, and rushed to the Arkansas state penitentiary to prevent mob violence, was the most heinous crime that ever received the attention of T. D. (Teddy) Price, a Shreveport detective, who was hastily summoned to work on the case, at first shoulded in mystery, and whose efforts resulted in Hawkins' capture and confession. Detective Price, formerly on the city force, but now conducting an agency of his own, is back from the Akansas job, one of the most successful he ever handled. "The negro, John Hawkins, was arrested at the spot where he killed Mrs.

Diles and the baby," said Deteo tive Price. "District Attorney-elect DuLaney and Jim Sanderson worked day and night with me. until the case was completed. This was the worst. crime that I ever had anything to do with.

We trapped the negro and got him to get the pocketbook that he took when he stole the money. He had concealed the pocketbook. in a block of the house. grill him three hours before he would admit that he was the guilty party." Hawkins worked for the murdered woman's husband. He had been at the Diles home and knew that considerable money kept there.

He had laid off a few days before the crime was committed and is believed to have used some of his time in planning his visit. Upon conviction of the negro, those making the arrest, Messrs. Price and Sanderson, will receive more than $1,000 in rewards. The Negro's Confession. Detective Price reports that the following statement was made by Hawkins, in admitting and describing how he committed the double murder and robbery: November 3, 1916, about 3 o'clock p.

I. John Hawkins, went to the residence of Mrs. Ben Diles, the wife of a section forman, at Ashdown, for the purpose of robbery. I entered the house by the way of the front door, and was searching for money when Mrs. Diles.

who was washing in the back yard, heard me and came in the house. She saw me and recognized me as she was acquainted with me. She asked me what I was doing there, then she screamed and ran out the back way, taking her 18 months old child with her. I grabbed a single barreled shotgun that was in the house and fol lowed her. "She ran out the rear gate by the chicken house, continued running for Oakland, Nov.

body of Jack London, author, who died suddenly Wednesday night, was cremated here and the ashes, in accordance with his wishes, will be scattered over his Glen Ellen ranch which made known to his readers as "The Valley of the Moon." Mrs. Charmion London, the author's wife, was unable through illness to attend the funeral services, but his first wife, Mrs. Bessie Maddern London, and their two daughters, Joan and Bess, were present as was his aged mother, Mrs. Flora London. The services were strictly secular in compliance with London's ex-1 pressed wish.

Before the body was consigned to the fire N. Nakato, for many years London's body servant, laid on the slip of paper on which he had written: "Your words were silver, Your silence now is golden." PRESIDENT'S COLD BETTER. Washington, Nov. 25. President a 1 NOVEMBER 26.

Twenty-Nine Cross the Hot Sands of Shrinedom The conclusion of the annual reunion of the Scottish Rites bodies of Masonry was followed Friday night with a Shriners' ceremonial at which twenty-nine newly made thirty-second degree Masons were very much in evi dence, wails from the city hall bearing out this fact. The twenty-nine added to El Karabah Friday night bring the total membership of the temple to 708, quite some roster for a three or fouryear-old organization. Following the ceremony the initiates and their erstwhile torturers reassembled at Noble Fred Scheer's and partook of a wellprepared dinner. It was the opinion of those present here that the ceremonial just held was one of the most satisfactory the Scottish Rites bodies of the Valley of Shreveport have held since the consistory was established her. Those who weer conducted from the outer darkness across the hot sands to the light of the shrine are: M.

L. Bass, Joaquin, Texas; Bonner and R. H. Hays, Grand Bayou; Robert Brown and George S. Jacobs, Lenzburg; 0.

S. Coates, George E. Dougherty, D. L. Cornelius, Philip Lieber, A.

P. Gardner, August Goldstein, L. M. McFarland, J. S.

Meriwether, George T. Martin, C. W. Owens, Dr. L.

H. Pirkle and D. G. Terwilliger, Shreveport; Clifford Duncas, Trees City; Warren Gibbins and H. H.

Huckaby, Vivian: L. Halliburton T. Johnson, Pelican; G. A. Kilgore, and George H.

Stochr. Winnfield; M. Homer; George Kavanaugh, Oxford: W. C. Nabors, Mansfield; C.

C. Rogers. Naborton; J. McD. Reed, Gilliam, and A.

L. Wallace, Goss. about one barf mile. I followed, commanding her to stop. She stopped and begged me not to shoot her.

told her that if I did not kill her that she would tell on me. She said she would not, but would give me $47 if would not kill her. This conversation lasted for several minutes. "I backed off a few steps, her looking toward me and begging me not to shoot her, but I fired and killed her. I then took the shotgun and struck the child on the head with the stock of the gun and killed her.

searched for the money. found a "I returned to the then and house, pocket book on the bed in the Diles home containing about $15. I took the money and spent it. I told my father I had committed this crime on the following Monday. 'The above statement I make of my own free will without promise, coercion or offer.

same being true as to each fact mentioned." The document exhibited by Detective Price states that the negro's statement was made before Charles F. Martin, Jr. That empty room will cease to be reproach if you try a Journal want ad. Wilson, who cancelled his plans ns for attending the army-navy football game in New York, because of a cold, was better Saturday. While he had no engagements, Dr.

C. T. Grayson, his physician, thought he was well enough to take an automobile ride Saturday afternoon. Union Thanksgiving services in Shreveport this year will be conducted at the Central Christian church, beginning at 10 o'clock Thursday morning, November 30, on which date citizens everywhere will offer thanks for the blessings that have come to individuals, communities and the country generally during the past twelve months. The services will be held under the auspices of the Shreveport Ministerial Association, and the Thanksgiving sermon will be preached by Dr.

G. W. McCall (Baptist) of Texarkana. Dr. McCall ranks high among the Baptist divines and his discourse promises to be in keeping with the powerful sermons that have featured similar services here in former years.

Special music is being arranged for the occasion. It will be under direction of Robert Knight, one of Shreveport's leading musical directors, whose association here will soon be severed as he has accepted a position with the First Christian church at Lafayette, Ind. Mr. Knight is giving the program his best attention. Some of the best voices in the city will participate.

The offering at the Thanksgiving services will be divided equaly among the following local charities: Home for the Aged, Training School for Girls, Genevieve Orphanage, and Provident Association. These are all very worthy institutions, and the contributions will be spent for most worthy purposes. The Home for the Aged cares for old men and women who on account of their advanced years are unable to provide for themselves and are without relatives in potime this organization has been consition to take care of For some the ducting the Old Ladies' Home, and recently it has been erecting the Old Men's Home, which is to be dedicated on Thanksgiving day. The training school accommodates scores of little girls whose parents or guardians are unable to give them proper attention. The school gives the little wards a comfortable home and a good education, and otherwise prepares the girls for lives of usefulness.

The Genevieve Orphanage, as the name suggests, gives little orphans a home. Edacation and training in the things furnish- that for good citizenship are ed through earnest, capable hearts and hands. A number of children who had a home in this institution are now industrious home makers. The Provident Association, in which are centered the efforts of various combined of the city, performs numcharities, in taking care of the city's indigent and other unfortunates who must be accommodated by charity. The work is done in a businesslike way and wonderful results are accomplished.

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Grand House Opera Thursday Nov. 30 SPECIAL THANKSGIVING MATINEE 2:45 ANDREAS DIPPEL Presents The Musical Success of Beauty, Fun and Fashion THE LILAC DOMIN? In Three Acts- By Charles Cuvillier BEAUTY Fresh From Conquests in New York, Boston and Chicago. CHORUS LAUGHTER- SONG HITS MUSICAL GEMS -NOVELTY Night Prices. 50c, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 Matinee Prices Adults, Children, $1.00 SEATS ON SALE MONDAY. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26 The tock Co.

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