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1025. Entered as Second-Class Matter 1. 1909, at Monroe Postoffice PRIOR FIVE CENTS IN BOA SINKING NSASiK 01 HELD IN RAID Negro Used Motorboat, Bringing Tliirty to Shore Safelv. NO WARNING GIVEN Steamer Capsized XVhile Captain Gave Order to MEMPHIS, May 9 Caught in the swirling muddy current of the Mississippi as she attempted to stagger ashore, the United States government steamer Norman, newest of the engineering corps fleet here, today lies in 35 feet of water just below Coahoma Landing, Tennessee. With her in her watery grave lie 20 of a gay excursion party that yesterday went for an outing on the broad expanse of the Among the men, women and children who were catapulated into the turbid stream and who remained there or were fished out with life extinct, were some of the best known in the engineering profession of the South.

The trip had been taken as a side issue to the first annual convention of the Mid-South Association of Engineers just formed here. A list of dead given out today by Mayor shows 22 dead. Elaborate efforts were made thdonghout the night to locate every engineer attending the Mid-South Association convention, which was in session here, and other persons who had gone on the Norman and the Choctaw, another government boat, to Cow Island to view government work there. The officials announced that all had been accounted for except the 22 named in the mayor's list and R. Thornton of Nashville, who bad registered for the convention but who, so far as could be learned, did not go on the trip.

The list given out by the mayor loiiows: E. H. Bowser, Memphis. C. H.

Miller, Little Rock, Arkansas. E. Shearer. Memphis. Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Bosard. Edgar Bosard. Mrs. Lydia Hindinger, Memphis.

Paul Norcross, Atlanta. G. L. Anderson, Memphis. Major W.

W. Gardiner. Memphis. Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Kirkpatrick, Oxford, Miss. William Memphis. T. WatersfoK, Paducah, Ky. Mrs.

J. F. Dorroh, Oxford, Miss. Miss Caldwell, first name and address undetermined. Jack Cothran, engineer on steamer.

Earl Simonson, fireman. Roy Thompson, Stoker. Will Moore, negro deck hand. Tom Plunkett, negro deck hand. Missing: Professor R.

H. McNeilly, Nashville. The Chisca and Monitor, together with other steamers and a number of motor boats, today were combing the banks of the river between Coahoma Landing and Bruins in an effort to find bodies or to locate any living who may made their way to isolated places. Meanwhile government officials planned to send divers down into the hull of the capsized boat and if necessary cut a through her bottom in an effort to reach any bodies that may have been caught in the cabin. The boat is lying bottom up 200 yards below the point where she capsized.

Information from the scene is meager and difficult to obtain due to the isolated position and the meager means of communication. The only means other than by motor boat is to travel across sloughs and primitive river bank roads a distance of several miles to reach a telephone. From out of the swamps of Arkansas, came the hero of the a big black negro Lee. On his broad shoulders and the motor boat of his employers at Helena, fell the burden of life saving. SAVED THIRTY Lee, a slow, methodical man, went about his work as methodically as any of the silent, methodical men who made up the bulk of the party.

He loaded his boat with victims of the disaster. He took them ashore. He went back and got another load. When the final count was taken he had rescued perhaps thirty of the sixty or more persons on board the steamer, including Captain Howard T. Fenton, grizzled veteran of the river, who had commanded the ill- fated vessel.

Dramatic stories were told of the wild staggering of the steamer just before she went down. She listed heavily from an undetermined iause and Captain Fenton ordered the passengers seatterd thinking too many were on side of the boat. Sitting in the cabin was a group of Memphis engineers beut on organization of a local chapter of the American society of civil engineers. the came the order. There was no excitement.

The engineers as a man arose and without haste left tie cabin. Hardly had they reached the deck before the ship wildly careened to the starboard. She refused to answer her Jclm. Three minutes later she was a hulk' lying upsida down in the stream, CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN ROWE ET AL IN DELAY OFTEST OF NEW WELL Was Scheduled for Today But Has Been I )elaved. SENT THREE TO DIE FOR REVENGE HI JACKER IS ZE1G1N IS HOPEFUL Going Ahead With Ilis Offset XT).

2. News of the Field. Mrs. Helen Hcyworth, divorced wife of Otto Young Heyworth, Chicago heir to $15,000,000, who shocked her acquaintances some time ago when she publicly announced she was engaged to Collins, international crook, was recently arrested in New York City in a raid upon her apartments in By J. B.

KING, Staff Correspondent. URANIA, May the past week many unexpected turns have taken nlace in the Urania oil field. The one which has drawn more interest and comment from those interested in the Urania field is the secrecy surrounding the test of the Rowe-Wallace offset Urania No. 1. section 7-10-2E, which was scheduled to be made today but without giving FORMER RESIDENTS OF MONROE DROWN IN RIVER TRAGEDY Federal Officer Shoot in Hold-up Attempt at New Orleans.

CALDWELL PARISH HIGH SCHOOLS IN FINAL EXERCISES ANOTHER IS WOUNDED Needham Defuses to Put Hands Up: Two are Under Arrest. Successful Year Glosed AVith Diploma Awards to Students. NEW ORLEANS, May One was killed and another injured here in an early morning pun battle between a federal prohibition enf officer and half a dozen allege i hi-jackers, when nr, attempt was made to hold up the officer v. ho had been mistaken fcr a rum runner. As Prohibition Officer Patrick which, it was alleged, drugs were any reason the final test of this im- found.

Sho averred a joke must rortant offset has been postponed. have been played upon her. John ('. Yelirimr, Known in South, Victim Heart Disease. postpone Wild rumors are afloat concerning this tost, most of which have nothing to substantiate them.

Many interested parties visited the site fthis well yesterday and when the crew failed to do any drilling that would indicate a test was going to be made it began to be rumored that the crew had drilled the well in on Thursday night, when they went to the well at midnight, and taken several cores from the hole, and had found no oil sand. It had been stated to a representative of the News-Star that a test of th well w'ould be made today but today the final test was held up, giving no reasons. There is much rnys- tery surrounding the operations on the well at night during the past One the best and week, and many are of the opinion highly respected travelling men of that a salt water well was the result, Louisiana nrct almost instant death, out there is no foundation for this shortly after 3 p. m. yesterday, at rumor as there was postively no salt Bqnita, when John C.

Mehrirg, aged water flowing from the hole late yes- 50 years, succumbed to a sudden terday. tack of heart disease. He was in Thus far, to the field the act of closing his sample cas? manager for the Rowe-Wallace com- when he swooned and fell dead to pany, there has been no test made of the floor or the stcre in which he the well, and only those working for was making salts in the pursuit of the company know what has been the his usual duties. result of the night work. Aid was quickly obtained, a Bonita -------------physician being called, but death ZEIGIN WELL came almost im A cai.

IS DOUBTFUL was put in for a Monroe undertaker URANIA, May The George Zei- and the body was brought overland gin well now has three inch tubing to this city for shipment to his set, but this has not helped the salt home city, Baltimore, Md. water situation and the well is now Mrs. Mehring, widow of the de- flowing about 75 barrels of fluid ceased, was informed of her hus- daily with about 75 per cent water band's sudden death, she being at and about 25 per cent oil. The final home in Baltimore at this time, outcome of the efforts to check the An intimate friend, Mose Smith, water flow seems yet to be in doubt of the W. B.

and I Smith Co. of anci the well may in the end have Ruston, was notified, as was Hun- to be abandoned on account of the ter Jarreau, of Alexandria, salt water. treasurer the Town It had been hoped that by setting Both hurred to this city. Mr. Smith three-inch tubing that the flow from is preparing to accompany the body the well would be increased and to Baltimore, leaving on a late along with it a larger amount of oil afternoon train on route by way of would also flow but thus far it has Birmingham, Chattanooga, and the proVed just the opposite and the salt Southern Railway.

water has increased. Mehring had been in his usual jn sonTe few instances the flow of he alt so far as known, but for a a water has been shut off by use number of years he had been un- 0f packer and plugging back in the successful as an applicant for life but when the water once insuianco due to the fact that breaks in it is hard to check and sicians declared that he had an af- t.specia]iy jn the Urania district feci ion of the heart. A year ago he wjjere the sand is very thin. It is had a bad attack of heart troub hardly probably that operators will but quickly rallied. be able to save a well once the Monroe merchants an 1 shoe deal- water floW' has been started, ers.

especially, have known Mr. Zeigin owner of this well Mehring for more than a score bas not let the luck he has had on years as he was a constant caller thig offset discourage him in the in this territory. An v'cre loud joast and he is going right on with their pra.se ot him and ot tie up the development of the leases which character that he possessed. His he hag jn thg Urania field, death was a shock to many in Mon- The Zeigin et al Hardtner No. 1 roe today.

section 19-10F, is now' down to a Surviving is a wife but no depth of 500 feet and during the dren. A brother and tis.er, coming week casing will bo ready to SUR VIVORS PR A AS RESCUE SHIP TURNS BACK WITH BURDEN One of the most astounding con fessions on record is that of Luciano, who following is capture in Newark N. declared that, because of his hatred, had perjured against the Diamond brothers and caused their elo -troeu tions, es well as the electrocution of John Farina and the sente nee againat Anthony Panta io. The four were charged with the tr.urde of two bank messengers who were Needham Frann; lesi a frui' shot in a holdup. dealer were returning to Now Or-------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------le ans they were stopped on the outskirts of the city and commanded the hi-jackers to hold up the bands Clesi, who had volunteered a in his automobile to Needham, following a breakdown of the machine, complied with tha command.

Needham, however, drew his gun and fired on the robbers, killing one. Cbesi was wounded in the arm in trm exchange. Needham had completed an assignment in the southern part of the state and was returnmg to this city when his machine broke down. Rather than try to repair it, he asked Clesi, a fruit dealer who was passing, to bring him 1i New Orleans. As the two crossed the industrial canal outside the city, the hi-jackers commanded the to hold up their Clesi, unarmed, obeyed but Needham, after explaining he a prohibition officer, opened fire, killing one of the highwaymen.

The man killed was identified Robert Killian. 25, owner of automobile in which the alleged I. jackers were riding. Two men were arrested later and police said they expected to arrest the remain soon. The men arrested gave their names as Albert Belandi, 2L and August Maurer.

25. Police Kv. and Belandi had police MEMPHIS, May By A. The calmness that survivors said marked the sinking of the steamer Norman in the Mi- -issippi river 16 miles south of here night, with a possible life loss of 19, continued as they were being brought back to Memphis. As the steamer plowed it? way along the path over which they had gone gaily a scant ten hours be- fore, a sudden hush came over the.

crowd. A. M. Lund, of Little Rock, Arkansas, called the group together, for prayers. Prayers of thanksgiving for th elivcs of those saved, and a prayer for the life of little Edgar Brosard were said.

But the prayer! for the ten-year-old boy, whose fath- 1 er and mother are among the missing, was fruitles. He died after reaching a local hospital. with the government nine years. The steamer Mississippi, which brought the survivors to Memphis, was dispatched to the scene from Landing, a long distance telephone message stated here, but it was said that the first intimation of a disaster the government fleet had was when Captain Itoss of the Mississippi, saw chairs and port hole covers, followed by a film of oil, float by. The steamer Gulfport en route up the river from New Orleans aided in the rescue work.

who did not come back this morning will not come T. A. Allen, commissioner of fire and police cf Memphis, who went with the rescue boats, said on his return. The preponderance of Memphis people on the ill-fated boat was due to the fact that the Memphis engineers all had gone on one boat to discuss forming a local chapter of the American society of civil engineers. This discussion was going on when the boat overturned.

Captain Howard T. Fenton, commander of the Norman, is 55 year- old and had been a river pilot for 31 years. disaster was the first time anyone had lost a life on a boat handled by him. He has beea Strong men of comparatively few years could not breast the strong current of the Mississippi at the scene, but an unnamed man of 60 years, according to one survivor, stripped off most of his clothing when the Norman began sinking, dived overboard and swam ashore. Still Lots of Room for Entrants; Don Forget inner Gets Beach Trip in the East, survive.

First Dog Is Shot By Dr. Moore set on this well. Derrick is up on Zeigin et Urania No. 1 A section 16-1Q-2E and the rig from the first offset will be moved to this location. LINER STUCK IN URANIA CO.

HOLE URANIA, May 9. All efforts to The first mad dog has appeared on the streets of Monroe for the season of 1925 It was quickly dispatche i the Iiner from the of thc with a buliet fired by Dr. covTiVT'cn inr.f cfirrM Moore, veterinarian. Eurly today, Dr. Moore received a telephone call from a person living near the corner of Sixth and Oak streets to the effect that there was a dog suspiciously acting in front of the house.

Dr. Moore responded promptly and quickly diagnosed the case as one of rabies. The animal was a fox terrier and, although it had been on the street fill night, it is not thought that it had bitten anyone. CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN MEN INJURED AT WORK ON WELL AT FAIRBANKS Worthington to Attend World Ad Club Meeting J. W.

Worthington, business manager of the News-Star, vill leave late today for Houston, where he will attend the sessions of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, gathered there for annual convention. Mr. Worthington will be present at all of the sessions lasting until next Saturday. The gathering attracts advertising men from nl- most every country iof the world and will be addressed by advertising specialists and leaders. Houston was selected os the 1925 convention city the 1921 meeting held in England.

Victor Sackett and Claude Mullius Badly Hurt in the Field. Victor Sackett, ejjed 30 years, and his assistant Claude Mullins, aged 28 years, employe of the Southern Carbon engaged in a drilling operation near Fairbanks, this morning were tieriously injured when a blow out occurred. Mullins the more seriously injured after his removal to St. Francis sanitarium, feared to have sustained internal injuries possibly if a fatal nature. Sackett bad his left side crushed and several ribs broken.

He also is at the St. Francia This is almost the last call for entrants in the Monroe Beauty Contest which result in the selec'ion of to represent tb city in big Galvestbn Bathing Beach Revue and Beauty Pageant, which will be held at the famous Gulf resort May 16, 17 and 18. The winner of the contest here will receive a cash prize of $100 to pay her expenses in making the trip and will also be awarded the following articles of bathing wear by Monroe merchants: Bathing Cap Chase-Amman Drug Co. Bathing Palais Royal. Bath Bag Levi Stationery Co.

Dress Slippers Shoe Co. Bathing Stocking Selig-Brooks. and A. Jewelry Co. The entrance list is rot near full as yet and many girls are overlooking an excellent chance to win a free pleasure vacation.

Don't forget that you can wear whatever you wish at. the contest here. A simple party dress, a sports suit -you can pick whatever you desire. As official photographer, Griffin's Studio has been named. Pictures of the winner here will be dispatched immediately after the contest is concluded for appearance with other entrants at Galveston.

Send your name in now, as all must be received by Monday night. The entrance coupon is on page five of this issue. Those who had entered up to Saturday noon are as follows: Mies Smith, 308 Stone avenue. Miss Lillie hite, 23V De- Siard street. Miss Juanita Ober, 206 Texas avenue.

Miss Mabel Thompson, West Monroe. Miss Juanita Coates Folk, 502 Mississippi street. Miss Paula Finley, 1015 North Fifth. Miss Hattie Cox, 613 Grammont street. Miss Louise Hunter, Monroe.

1 Miss Era Hodges is not entered in the contest. Her name which appeared yesterday, was sent in anonymously and without her authority. TWELVE PERMITS TO DRILL TAKEN OUT IN LA SALLE Conservation OffUe Supplies List, of New Opcrat ions. A total of twelve drilling permits have been issued to oil companies and operators in La Salle parish since the bringing in of the discovery well at Urania. Seven of those receiving permits have already started drilling while five have located their prospective wells.

The company and locations of those already drilling follows: Gulf Refining convnany, Urania No. 1, location 22-10-2E; Haygood- Jones, Kees No. 1, location 7-10-3E; Heard et al, Boyd No. 1, location 29-11-2K; Helm Burch, Urania No. location 28-11-2E, Rowe et al, Urania No.

1, location 7-10-2E; G. Zeigin, Urania No. 1, location 18-10-2E; Zeigin et al, location 19- 10-2E. The company and locations of those that have located wells follows: Columbia Oil and Gas company, I Urania No. 2, location 16-10-2E; Alexandria-Urania, state No.

1, location 26-10-2E; Davis Trustee, Rus- jsell No. 1, location 24-10-lE; Ford; Banner. Tullos No. 1, location 10-1E; Imperial Oil company, Urania I No. 1, location 10-10-2E.

A well is also eing drilled in the Urania field in Winn parish by the Gould-M nroe company. The well, as Harper No. 1, is being idrilled in auction 23-10-1E, Grayson Oil Station Burns; Blast Throws Tank High Into Air Special to the News-Star COLUMBIA, I.n., May 9 An oil distributing station located at and owned and operated by the Louisiana O'! Refining Comp: containing 200 barrels of oil and an under-ground ga 'me tank containing 27 thousand gallons of gasoline caught fire at an early hour Friday and was still burning late in the day. A cotton gin owned by McKeithen brothers situated just across the of the Missouri Pacific railroad from the ing station wight fire from the flames and was totally destroyed. Traylor Cloyd, who operates a motor truck, saved two freight cars of the Missouri Pacific railroad company by hitching his truck to them and pulling them down the track out the burning oil station.

While the fire was at its height Friday morning an explosion took place which blew one barrel of cylinder oil a hundred feet into the air. The work of Tom Jourdan, negro employee of thc saw mill there, stood out above all others in the fight against the fire. This negro wrapped himself in we: and fought the fire with a high pressure steam hose and probably kept the fire from catching adjoining buiU- I ings across the east side the high way which were threatened several times. The Louisiana Oil Refining Company stated that they were serving their customers in this terri my from stocks at Monroe and that no interruption of service will result. They will begin at once to rebuild their supply and warehouse station which serves the filling stations in this territory.

RayviHe Negro Gels Heavy Bootleg Penalty Special to thc News-Star RAY VILLE, May 9 f. C. Chambers, negro, who operates a store and restaurant in Rayville, was landed in the meshes of the law Thursday and charged with violation of the liruor law. Court being in session, at thc time. Chambers plead guilty and pulled a 60- day jail sentence and $500 fine.

Officers Roy L. Pinion and C. J. Gillis received a tip and went to place and found 15 gallons of liquor under hLs store. When confronted with the danrp evidence, he readily acknowledge 1 that it was his and said that when he decided to go into the bootlegging bu ine-s he wag impresser idea of deni mg in large (Special to the News-Star) COLUMBIA, T-i.

May closing exercises of the Columbia high school were held here last night. After an invocation by Rev. S. S. Bogan, of the Columbia Methodist church, Jennie Ray, one of the of the graduating class, delivered the address, Irby Lea May read the class prnhecy, Grace Wilson sang a solo, Crissie Davis read the class will, Irby Lea May rendered an instrumental solo and Lily McKn rht delivere i the valedictory address.

This wa followed by a quartet composed of Lily McKnight, Grace Wilson. Onita Traylor and Lois Ewing. W. B. Hale, of the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute of Ruston, delivered the address, and at its conclusion the graduating class sang a song, after which E.

B. Cotting- h.nrn, parish superintendent of public education awarded diplomas to the seventeen graduating pupils whose r.antes are: Crisse Davis, Lois Ewing Courtlar.d Flu it Reggie Gates. Gertie Gregory, Alford Hendricks, Clayton James. Guy Lively Ray, Milton Waiters, Traylor and Grace Wilson. The closing exercises of the Kelly school were begun Friday after- on with an invocation by Supt.

E. B. Gottingbarn, after which Bryan Nethery delivered the salutatory address, which wns followed by a piano solo by M.ary Louise Humphries, a reading of the history by Lessie Belle Gough, the class prophecy by May P. we! and the cass v. .11 by Odell Banks.

The senior class then a mg, School of Long Agwhich was followed by the delivery of the valedictory dross Morris Jones. Suot. E. B. presented the diplomas to the graduating pupils, are as follow-: Grady Adams, Odell Blanks.

Sam Brad lock, Cecil launch. Clay Collins. T.cssie Belle Gough, Henry Hall, Morris Jones, E'hel McDaniel, Bryan No hery, Janie 51.10 Roberts, Edna Reiizel! and Pauline Tarver. Friday's class song, by the graduating class; roc'am at ion by Frank Robinson; class inventory by Dtto Ferguson; class history, by J. B.

Meredith; instrumental do, by Sibyl Sv-iler; class diagno is, 1 y. -e then; lamentations, by Rankin Roark; class poem by Isabelle Broadway, claas prophecy, by Willie Nell Stallings; cl will, by Ivpy Corrells and class yell, by the graduating pupils. The concluding exer of the Grayson agricultural i school wall be cnducted Saturday ight when the following program will be carried out: processional, by the seniors: song by the seniors; salutatory add re- s. by Anna Davis; quartet, the Hills ct Breik of by Frank Robinson, Georgia Lee, Mildred Sorrells and Isabelle Broadway; valedictory address, by Ray Grayson, baccalaureate address, by Congressman Rilev J. Wilson, and presentation of diplomas by Supt.

E. B. Cottingham. The names of the twenty-four pupils who received high school diplomas from the Grayson agricultural high school are as follows: Isabel le Broadway, Kathleen Cruse, Anna Davis, Claudia Elliott. Otto Ferguson, Ray Gray-- tvde Horn, Maud Humphries, Cecil Humphries, Clyde Johnson, J.

B. Meredith, Armetta Mayes, Hazel Mou -er, I.arnar McKeithen, T.i11 i McKeithen, Moise McKeithen, Rankin Koark, Ste. a Monroe, Frank Robinson, Subyl Seiler, Willie Ncl! nil- irgs, Ivey Sorrells, Elah Eunice. Thompson, and Myrdle Tingle. It is generally agreed among the people of the parish that the sessions of the high schools just closed developed more co-operation and Harmony among school officials, t- rons, teachers and pupils than has ever before been known in the educational history of Caldwell The educational advancement which has grown out of this harmony and co-operation has convinced all classes concerned that there is no one thing that can do more for the educational up-hft of the children of the country than this spirit of mutuality end harmony.

They have set a resolu- I v. I patnek, who lost their lives in tho capsizing of the government boat, sixteen miles soutn of Memphis the Mississippi river yesterday, were formerly well-known of Monroe, Mr, Kirkpatrick became city eng.necr in an served in thi 3 capacity for a year, an! a half when the city purchased these pbants and the change, tha contract of Mr. rkpatrick wns nullified, with about and a half years of unexpired time at a salary of $10,000 a Suit was brought against the city and Mr. Kirkpatrick lost his case. Later he appealed to the Louisiana supreme court which six months ag rendered a decision sustaining tha lower court.

There are many in city who remember the Kirkpatricks well and who were today grieved to learn of the tragedy. Mayor Arnold Bernstein stated that he was sincerely grive i at the news and that he had the highest regard for Mr. Kirkpatrick. He added that Mr. Kirkpatrick wns a man of much abil.ty and well-rounded education, Mr.

Kirkpatrick removed with family about five years ago to Mississippi at Oxford. With Mr. Kirkpatrick as superintendent, was assoc ated R. S. Reynolds, as assistant, Mr.

Reynolds remained with the city longer than Mr. Kirkpatrick, resigning only the past year to go to Nashville, Tenn where he engaged in engineering work for that municipality. ONE ARRESTED AS SEQUENCE OF RIOT NEAR EL DORADO EL DORADO, May man is under arrest with a formal charge against him in connection with the riotir.g in the oil fields near Norphlet late Wednesday night. He is G. M.

Duncan and wns brought here late Friday from tho Norphlet jail. Duncan is charged with rioting, which, under the state law, is a conspiracy to perform unlawfully any act against the property of another and is a misdemeanor punishable by a heavy fine and jail sentence. An announcement fn-m the office of prosecuting attorney Walter L. Brown states that charges of night rioting will be placed against those who actually took part in the riot, when apprehended. Conviction on this charge could carry a penitentiary mnter.ee.

Investigation of tho riot continu and it is understood the officers have the names of several irticipants and arrests are momentarily expected. Duncan denied that I knew anything the riot.ng. Duncan says he is Los Angeles and had been in Norphlet only three before he was placed jail. He came to Arkansas from Louisiana, where he ha I been working in a saw mill, hu J. E.

Bottom and George Duncan, the two workers injured in the fishing, continue to hold their own at local hospit. GEORGETOWN IS SCENE OF FATAL TRAIN ACCIDENT Jena Youth Dies After Beine: Kun Over by L. A. Freight. A youth who was fatally injured alighting from a f- tram at Georgetown Thurso today as bvrng from Jena.

Ilis name is sail to be I. Deen, aged 2L years son of I. L. Deen. The young man was rataily injured about 10:30 p.

Thursday night when he fell under a freight tram, west bound on the L. and A. radro 1 from which he was attempting to alight ot Georgetown. Both legs were severed and his right 1 mangled. The station agent and tne train crew removed the mangled bo iy of th victim from under the tram, placed it On a station truck and summoned medical aid.

The youth expired from loss of blood in about two hours. All day ye-terday the body rema lied at Georgetown. Many people of the vicinity viewed the body but none were able to identify it. Late yesterday Dr. Adams of Selma, toe Grant parish coroner, held an inquest over the body.

A youth was in Jena and a relative from 01 a was notified ani went to Georgetown. relative at once identified the youth as being the one missing from Jena, was reported today. The body will be taken to Jena for burial today. of 1925 20, tion that the sessio shall, in educational and civic ac- cc.nplishment. outrank all educational history of the parish, or any rural section of north Louisiana.

The principals of these high schools have won the complete confidence of their assistants, the school officials, the patrons and the River Mississippi: Memphis 15.0; 0 .1. Vicksburg 22.5; rise 0.3. New Orleans 3.6; rise 0.4. Red: Shreveport 16.9; fall 0.5, Alexandria 15.4; fall 16, Ouachita: Camden 5.0; fall 0.1. O.T..