The Morning Call from Laurel, Mississippi • Page 1

GLHiERS. MEDICINE BEER GAR- 1 '9 Feb. rib: engine was the thou- Ap; Lieutenant.Ralph" S. Bounds. JHy6 over'the Lakehurst 'field, field' twelve more than an intcrost- In of war yTdirigibJes-'ahd other ships off our could launch such lightweight the dozen," aim, to drop 'our: cities, that would not 'be' amusing.

-The'gds would not weigh much. land on roofs arid deposit loads of gas 'drivers, human "Ijibndon' sends word that nine Surviving widbws and thirtceJi chil- Abdul 'Hnmid, former Turkey, have-recovered fifty dollars of, the late sultan's' fortune, -which amounted to fifteen million dollars. The -fifty; million for the. nine widows must have been" deposited bjitfide- of -'Turkey. Mustapha 'Kemal, running the Turkish repub lie very abjy, would send no such those ladies and A archaic as the sultan's wives, "bowstrings, and harem, is news that'the Navajo In-: ate about to-start a dance out" the "death" devil." head medicine man of the Clitsoil is'102 years well and fears he will die 'his 'braves frighten ('death an.

cxtraordiria- Kly vigorous dance. Whirling in frenzy about a great firc'pf pitch braves nearly jinkpd, will spread flaming pitch bvcfi thici- bodies, and the "death's over awed, is expected to 1 Then old medicine man riscvfrom his of Buffalo on. thd iden of dcnth devil. But religion tells: of devils bodies of those i Wo; should 'respect, all rcTfgious, and alKmedicino men. tf 't: says.it is not iajjainst 'the -law- brew beer at ihorrto, Prohibition simply says not transport beer or sell 'Probably some higher authority overrule 'that.

(. -Establish the fact that home rjbrcwcrics uro the brcw- would be stimulated in. the United States. homo with a back yard could ibe'como 'a beer garden, and prohi- jpHioa agents would be compelled iibl'only tb-bbtain beer as evidence, also 'to prove that the beer had Aeen. bought and -paid for.

five years a' French priest, Father Jean enter-' 'a little -cell of the Catholic fchurch- of. St. Antoino, in'Constan- making a vow never to 'JCpme alive. kept that vow. Devout leave food, clothing, nt the door "of He doe's not sec them, and seen trolleys, automo- jDilfesjtalthough he hears the noise 'JW years of -solitude, and fc denial is as the ')id' fatheV believes, to insure an if But even 'then 1' 60,00 feet or xil8, and power.

wo)l'in the'! world less than. 10,000 feet-in depth. what is bc- thousand feet. talk "tflying to the.moon in rockets, for incx- supplies and WVfti'' The, probably j' a 'co -a hundred feet nnd would dollars. 'j'Sv'v'v'J? prospect 'of be ddne'for'the 'present, a whbn government? i cxhaustlni; the supply, as vV.tlW.' worry, how 'cbout exhausting; i su i 1 'g 0 ago anairship.leay- fLAUREL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2,1930 "ONE'DAY Ai ROAD HEADS MAY Committee to' Report Unanimously It Is Said DEMOCRATS JOIN, FAVOR DECISION Counting of Ballots Brings Quickly.

WASHINGTON, Feb. M. Wurzbach, for, years the only Republican in congress from Texas, has won his fight before house Iccctions committee No. 3, for the scat from the San Antonio district now held by Rep. Augustus McCloskey, Democrat, it was indicated tonight.

The. committee will meet Mon- day.to begin writing a report to the house that Wurzbach and not McCloskey obtained the most votes in the hectic election of 1928 Wurzbach up for re-election, charged he. had been The report of th-i committee, it was said, will bo unanimous, with Democrats i i i giving the verdict to Wurzba'jh. McCloskcy was declared winner by 323 votes by the election commissioners and then the Jight.be- gan. Ten Day Fight Ends For ton days the house commi' tec; has been -hear ng both sides present their case.

A sub-committee O'Connor (R) of Oklahoma, cxamir.c dthc ballots in eight of the prctincts. Convinced by the.conflicting returns of the election officials and the ballots that fraud had been committed, the subcommittee stopped its labors. In the first eight precincts Wurzbach gained 390 by upsetting McCloskey's majority on the official returns. The O'Connor sub-committee will be designated to write the report for the approval of the full committee. S'cating of Wurzbach would bring to the fore again the fight between him and R.

B. Croagcr, Republican national committeeman for Texas, for the right to dictate federal patronage in the Lone Star state. Crcagcr has fought Wurzbach. Andy Gets in On New Regulation WASHINGTON, Feb. 1--Reversing itself in-the face of overwhelming oposition, the House- cxpendi turcs committee today amended the bill.

transferring prohibition enforcement from the treasury to the justice department, so as -to give Secretary Mellon' a voice in regulations 'governing permits to manufacture and sell industrial alcohol. As originally agreed upon by the committee, the'bill gave Attorney- General Mitchell sole power to driif all' regulations and rules governing of permits. PEGGY JOYCE ILL NEW YORK, Feb. Hopkins who -ruslicd Friday night to'the was fov ippendicitis. HisHogshipto Govern Weather for Six The" prbgnostlcator all prognostlcntors will proceed to according- to'those crediting him with any power along! this'-'line, 'this being the groundhog; and.if there is sunshine, according 'to this theory, this little animal; will 'view a- nllhouette" of unworthy, ler.

his underground' abode. and remain for period of six weeks "continued cold desiring sunshine today, may. well take heed, since it -Is day and remember, should clouds' obscure the entire- dny; they may gain' satisfaction from the iclief that there will be'no such weather. This age-old theory, is credited by and of Ihtf oldest "cltim doldo ANNOUNCEMENT Announcing Laurel 'Leader-Call--the one biff newspaper of Laurel and the Laurel Section. Effective February 1st; the Laurel Daily Leader and the Laurel Alorniiig- Call will be published in combination "as an evening daily The new assumes neither- contracts noi- inctimbrances, nor indebtedness, nor any obligation whatever of the Call Publishing Company--taking over only the circulation lists, advertising and other accounts and good Av.ill of the Morning Call.

D. P. Gnmberry and Jas. H. O'Reilly will serve as liquidating agents of the Call Publishing Company.

Associated in the preliminaries of the combination Edgar G. Harris, former editor and publisher of the Laurel Daily Leader and known newspaperman, and-broker of West Point, and -Jas. H. O'Reilly, 1 well known Laurel broker. Participating in the new combined enterprise are many of leading-'spirits in Mississippi and the south --men have the highest interests of the Laurel community and at heart.

The directorate will include: W. B. Rogers, E. B. Cooper.

L. G. Gates, Charles Green, S. M. Jones, F.

S. Scnton, T. W. Yates, J. H.

O'Reilly, Thomas M. Gibbons, D. P. Cranberry, W. S.

Welch, Fred E. Wankan and Jas. H. Skewcs. Officers will be announced later.

Tho subscription rates of the Lander-Cull i be: By carrier, 15c pel- by mall, in wliero the Lorulcr-Oall has no curriers. per year, payable In ailvancc. All special subscription offcfH arc- hereby withdrawn. J. Fred Price, organizer of the Laurel Morning Call, oh Saturday announced his retirement from the Laurel newspaper field.

Other department heads and employes of the Morning Call have made no announcement as to immediate future plans. The combination, embracing the major strong- features of both the Morning Call and the Laurel Daily Leader and their respective organizations, means one big representative newspaper in the Laurel field. i Larger facilities, higher efficiency, more complete news coverage, larget civciilation, multiplied advertising value, broader service and higher public usefulness. Two daily papers in one. A strong, efficient, clean, newsy, conservative evening daily-r-dedicated to the.

welfare, and of this fast expanding-south Mississippi section- The Laurel be absolutely independ- ent-7-neither purely pftlitical leanings nor mere factional strings; neither axes to grind nor pet ideas to push-except only the progress and development of "its home -community. Free to criticise that which it construes to be wrong; free to praise that which it feels to be right-but ever and always the champion of the Laurel of today and'the greater Laurel to be. The Laurel Leader-Call will endeavor faithfully to mirror local men and events; no mean- petty scandal, no street corner gossipy--stressing the constructive news of planning and working and building and doing. Insofar as in our power lies, faithfully to herald the oppprtunities and blessings of Jones county and section at home and abroad. To the advancement of this community and every worthwhile interest and influence that go -to make community building and betterment, we dedicate our every issue and our every enterprise.

The Laurel Leader-Call will appear each day--ex-- 'cepting- only Sunday. Your newspaper--at the Laurel Leader Building, 540 Central Avenue. Drop around and see us. Wife of Inventor Is Burned When Kissing Electrified Hubdnd Japanese Gome in For Big Attention In- Plea Feb. cry for peace, from 6V 000.000 American women and 180,000 Japanese, will soon be laid before naval conference.

A'Japanese straw trunk containing the signatures of peacc'-lhvfrig and stamped leather Tiortfolib.pbind- ing the joint resolution of eleven women's organizations throughout the United States, will be placed iny the hands of'Prime Minister Ramsay MticDonnld, as chairman of tho conference. Heard This is.tho.avowed intention of Edgerton (Parsons, Miss Josephine' nnd Miss Caspar of" the American and Mi's. T.tunc Gauntlctt, of an English Miss "Uta the Japanese delegation, arriving in yesterday. "We have ho criticism to make, and no demands," said Par- gons. wc'focl usolcss.to'bear and raise and educntc children for Our memorials, say we are ready-to.

port tho i effort 'to-o IIL-naval Will Cut Naval Work One-Half at Once Is Report LONDON, Feb. die- closure that Britain will cut by half her naval program for bringing, her cruisers built and building to. tho figure set by Prime Minister. MacDonaid a President Hoover at the lattcr's Rapidan camn. tonight is taken as a positive signal of further successes at the London naval conference.

Two have been popped offline naval building program, it is one of them In tfic the other of 7,000 tons. Other cancellations, consisting of four'destroyers, three and a net- bring'the cancellation total tons. This besides the recent arinounccmcr.ti'hat the cruisers Surrey North umbcrlanfl. would not be built. England The heavy cruiser fleet of Bri tain now stands nt fifteen, the parity figure agreed upon by prime minister and tho president these.

11 arc in service, ami arc building. 'The one heavy Icriilser Xyhlch was'- cut' 1 fronK'tho badibonn.nuthbr-- Sparks Fly When East Gets Under Way In Scrap LAW VIOLATION IS CLAIM MADE Challenge Issued To Drys and Answered Promptly. WASHINGTON, Tcb. 1--Representative Fort, of Mew Jersey, drew fiix; from prohibitionists and anti-prohibitionists nlike in congress for his declaration thiit home brewing of liquor is ICKM! and not immoral. Representative Lchlbacli, anti-prohibitionist of New Jersey, on the floor of the house took sharp issue with port and challenged prohibitionists to prosecute drinkers.

Asserting the intent of the 18th amendment and the Volstead act is to "impose a moral reform" and prohibit drinking, Lchlbacli defied the prohibitionists to "drop shams and subterfuges, declare the user of alcoholic bcvcrngcs a criminal and turn loose your enforcement forces against him." Shows the Wny This is the only honest and sincere way to attempt to enforce prohibition and the sooner it is done the quicker will come the showdown on prohibition, Lchlbacli declared Prohibition cannot be snccossfuf- 'imposed on the country, he said. Representative Crisp, of Georgia, outstanding dry, branded Fort's speech as "insidious." He added: "I differ with him as a lawyer that the- people have riflht under the law to brew intoxicating liquor in their home. If the courts should hold this view, congress will very promptly maKc nn amendment making it unlawful." Wets Applaud Dcfi Foes of Volstcadism applauded vigorously when Lelhbiich defied the prohiliitipni.sU to try to enforce the against drinkers of liquor. While Fort had said the law was aimed only at the snlc and traffic in liquor, Lchlbach insi.itcd that the enactments against manufacture, sale, transportation and possession of intoxictihg liquors were designed directly to slop their use. "To deny it is to evade the crux of the controversy, to beg the whole question," should! I.chl- bach.

STATEMENT To Laurel, Kcrunry 1, I'JJiO. my friends and the thousands of friends of The Morn ing Call: In the consolidation of this newspaper with the Laurel Daily Leader, 1 have deemed it advisable to sell my interest in the bupincss. The excellent support which Laurel mid the Laurel territory have given to The Morning Call since I established it in March 1920, obliges me to express my sincercst appreciation. The Call, first as weekly, then as a daily, was founded upon a policy of news told in interesting style and a constant striving to print all things of interest to the territory which Tho Call was proud to claim as its home. This policy has won success in Laurel as it has won succcs? in every city worthy of the name.

For the development of this newspaper, I am deeply grateful to all those who have helped mo in carrying out the principles i 1 have strived to follow without fear or favor. To all my friends and coworkers I express appreciation; to Laurel and her great environs I -wish every good fortune; to the combined newspaper which will serve this section I bid Godspeed. J. FRED PRICE Ex-Governor Lowden Tells Percent Paid Taxes Feb. effective aid fg not extended to agriculture at once, a few more years will sec the bulk of America's farm population virtually in the classification of morons, form- er'Governor Frank 0.

Lowden told the nnunl convention of the Illinois agricultural association here tonight. "The time has come when WP must equalize living conditions of farm and town." he declared. "Wo cannot much longer maintain a double standard of living, as we have inrcccnt years. "If the inequalities continue the new generation will witness a farm population largely composed of the physically and mentally un- Farmer Per Cent Farm population, Mr. Lowden sold, is about 25 per ent' of Uic nation's entire population, but receives only 10 per rent of the national income nnd nny.i 30 per cent of its income in taxes.

long can this uo on without disaster," he irouirod. Tho' former governor rccoM- mended substitution Vof aa adequate income tax general property tax nn one njeans of-ra- fBTincr''aftd greater stole" and, federal, nidi for rural Pushes Ahead And MacDonald Leads LONDON', Feb. in the test of strength with lh Iliitisb whose protest prevented the meeting of the special committee to the glob al-categorical tonnage squabble of the naval conference, Prime i ister MacDonald today rides the crest of tho accomplishment wave The whole story of the sh.irr friction between IJritain and tho dominions, settled by a partia backdown on the part of Austra lia, New Zealand and Canada, can now be told. And this weekend, with all the head delegates 01 the conference Foreign Mill ister Grnndi away from London Universal Service can reveal not only the day's sole development but one of the most interesting of the conference. Action of CAnadn After sharp disagreements twecn the Antipodean dominion? and MacDonald, in which Canadu threw her weight to the side of the "down undcrs" when it was most needed, a bargain has been struck wherein the prime minister hap agreed to give these dominions a larger voice in the committee for determining the French transac tiontrt proposal for the limitation of navies.

The prime minister, as his part of the bargain, receives the assurance of the dominion delegates that they will withdraw their protest against his contemplated "sacrifices" of 20 cruisers in order to find parity in the American and British fleets. President Will Come South Soon gcnoojr: anotlior, Feb. Hoover will go to Mexico a Cuba this month if affairs of stnto permit, It was learned today. Plans have been completed for him to go to Miami next Saturday, whore he will board a cruiser for Havana after few days there, Tic will leave for Vcra Cruz, Mexico, going from there to Mexico City! In his good will lour of Latin America while president-elect he did Cuba 'or- Mexico. President Ortiz -Ruble, of.

Mexico, recently guest'of the president hero, extending'him a personal In ROME, Guglielmo Marconi, the famous wireless telegraphy inventor, has, by virtue of his continued experiments in that field, become a dangerous msm to kiss was disclosed today by his wife, the Marchioness di Montccorona. At least that was the explanation, that Marchioness offered today for a wound she has between her nose and right eye and for which she has been visiting the beauty parlors of the capital. The Marchioness explained that she recently entered a room where her husband was conducting radio experiments. "My husband kissed me," she added. "I saw sparks leaping from his body and felt that I was burned under the right eye.

That's the result of marrying a man who with radio and electricity." FU Sweeping- Inspection Coming- Reports 'State WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. A Kwccping probe into power lobbyists in Washington will be inaugurated by the senate lobby committee next'week. The committee will first examine those who have been lobbying for disposition of Muscle Shonls, the government's huge $100,000,000 power and nitrate plant nt Muscle Alabama. One of the first witnesses will be J.

W. Worthlnglon, of Tennessee. Later the committee will probe the activities of lobbyists in connection with other legislation involving the federal governments altitude on electric power. Itcincmbcr Tariff ncfore turning to the power qncslion, the commillce will first conclude its four-months examina- lion of a i lobbyists, one of Ihe most SLMirching inquiries of (his kind ever umlerlakcn. One or two lariff wilnesscs may be heard nn Tuesday.

In probing the power lobbies, the committee will confine its investigation to lobbying activilic.s carried on here without duplicating the general inquiry inlo Ihc power industry now being carried nn by the federal trade commission. a Couzens' Daughter Weds In East WASHINGTON, Feb. of America's richest heiresses, Miss Margaret Couzens, 19, daughter of Senator ons of Detroit, eloped to Baltimore today where she was married to a young bank clerk, William Jeffries Chcwning. First inkling of the marriage was transmitted to Miss Couzens' parents when reporters telephoned the house that the couple had taken out a marriage license am 1 had been married in the rectory of the Sacred Heart Church by the Rev. Mgr.

Louis Stickncy, Baltimore. Mrs. Couzens at first reports of the marriage until she received a telephone call from her daughter at Baltimore. "Mother, William and I have been married," said the bride. Mrs.

Couzens. then telephoned tho senator at tho capitol calling him from a committee meeting. Ho later confirmed the announcement of his daughter's marriage, adding that he had had no previous knowledge of tho couple's intention to LEEDS, England, Mr. George-Bernard Shaw-puzzled or Leeds wonders. Whcri tho civic playhouse decided, dlice Shawls play.

"Back to Mcthu- saleh," tho' producer sent ft post; card to G. B. Ing It MAYP1 Must Break Deadloti Between Gbv. ari(J Opponents'- NOT CONFIRMEEl LATE SATURDAY Senate Holding' up Prblf i Monday. i JACKSON, Feb.

-'-Yi There nrc persistent dilating here in political. circli that several members of the staf highway commission may tcridi thoir resignations in an break tho deadlock between crnor Bilbo nnd the Mississippi Ic; islaturc, if such action suit in the enactment roi paving program. Tho rumors persist in the fa( a denials on the Chairman Roberts nnd Commit sioncrK Denmnn and Boone.Vt) three remaining veterans commission. That they any such movement being on' foo "They must investigate and; vli dicntc me before they can til resignation to me" missioncr Denman. Chairmfl Uobcrt3 announced that ho be in Jackson Sunday eycnlni There is no meeting of tho: cor mission for more than wccl however.

Probe 1 Delayed The day Senate committej originally scheduled to jrcsUW its highway next Monday, now announces tfi the investigation will Ino.t -stia before Wednesday. Eych'th'i date was tentative, it sal 1'roviously it had been announce that Commissioner Denman woU: be next to lake the witness'stani "I have not been subpocnw nnd all I know about nn invest gallon Is what I read in the nowi papers," declared Commisalone Denman tonight, Charlie J. Moor nnd Carl D. Marshall, accountan and attorney, have been in Me Comb, off and on, almost sine the sudden resignation of inissioncr Uobins halted thc'Dl committee probe ten days The House will take th Stansol committee "pay as yo go" bill on special order of buX ness next Wednesday. It provid cd for the clcclion of thrco nov commissioners who, the ol-j commission expires January 1 1 would then become the ftf.

highway commission, resignation of the old commission, would haslcn the reorganization Ocean Flier is Taken to M1NEOLA, N. Feb. Bert Acosta, the flier, was put in a cage, in Jaj here today. He was paroled ten on hla wife's chnrgc of non-sup port when he told the court Charles A. Lcvinc would give work in Levinc's airplane Today Bert confessed the 'job' not materialized.

XV. County Judge Lewis j. Smjjtl told him: "Well, I'm not going to fool witjj this thing any longer. You. mni support your wife and chlldrpJuxM go to.jail.

I remand county jail unlil.ncxt for sentence." Boy Captures Bird Note on Bane A blackbird. with ft we band about ono of caught, by residing at Stringer, the instr tions on tho band-being as4 lows: Biol Siirv. D. C. 1 The-youth was.gnrpriio4Â¥,: the 'curious ho ha'd caught andlij oh' examination, there was an Inscription the band." Ho' tUted.

would follow orders tho finding of The.United,' survoy Is work' for th4 Ing about thh: I.