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XX NO. 103. Published Pally (Except Sunday) By News-SUr PubHshlnf, Ltd. MONROE, LOUISIANA, THPRSPAY, MARCH Jl, Entered as Second Matter June I. 1909, at Monroe Post office PRICK FIVE CENTS AMERICANS FIRE 0 0 0 0 ON U.

S. ZONE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A At A. 0 GIRL IN CHATTANOOGA KIDNAPED DAUGHTER OF COMMISSIONER TAKEN TODAY Child Vanishes During Night, Brother Not I listurbed. WIDE SEARCH STARTS School Pupils Kulistedgl In TTuut; Parents Hurry Home. elated CHATTANOOGA, Term March Josephine Frazier, 2, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Fred B. a i commissioner of schools and mayor pro-tem of Chattanooga was kidnaped from her bed in the Frazier home sometime between 11:30 Bv last night and six o'clock this CARBON TESTS, NEW PROCESS, ARECOMPLETE Records Are Already On Way To New Orleans Office. MURDER VICTIM SECRECY PRESERVED No intimation Is Given As To Success Of Outcome. latfd I'regs.

March morning. Mr, and Mrs. Frazier spending a vacatici and Mrs, T. D. Benham, a in charge of th ing their ab sene The child wa six-year-old bi was not disturbe nurse put the 11:30 last nigh thing as have been in Tampa, mother, Mrs.

r.ur*e have been izier home dur- uleeping with her ther, but the boy or awakened. The hiidren bed at and found every- At s.x o'clock th Roy A acting commissioner of prohibition. Appointment was mrade by Secretary Mellon after a fight made by the Anti-Saloon league and other dry organizations in behalf of the Ohioan, who nominally has been holding the post of commissioner or the old organization plan of the prohibition unit. morning the girl had vanished. Mr.

and Mrs. Frazier are rushing home by automobile from Tampa, livery city and county police officer is engaged in a hunt for the id and a description of baby g.rl ha? been broadcast in every school and 19,000 school children will aid the MONROE BOY IS WITH U. S. NAVY IN WAR REGION Rich Colors Of Rainbow Glorify City Last the whole a glorious the leaden a rainbow, shedding i By FV llli g- at the twilight hour, world seemed bathed in 'tis symphony of color when clouds drifted apart and umnhant ode to beauty, hung in the eastern sky radiance over the city The tests of a new process for the manufacture of carbon black from natural gas which was started on March 1) at the carbon Black experimental plant of the New Process Carbon Rlack Company, at Guthrie, by representatives of the state conservation department, have been completed and the papers and records forwarded to Dr. V.

K. Irion, commissioner of the Louisiana conservation department at New Orleans, it was announced today at the Monroe offices of the mineral division of the state conservation department. It is not known here whether tests were successful or not as offi 1 cials of the mineral division of the state conservation department here declined to discuss the tests, with the statement that informatioi regarding them must come from Hr Irion. C. A.

Harbour, who, to gether with his associates, own the patent rights on the new anr claim that it will produce from to five tim the amount of carbor Black from a given quantity of gas than under the old method. According to officials of the state conservation department, carbon manufacturers and others, the tests, I if they prove successful, will revoiu- tionize the carbon black industry in I and the world as well and will have an important effect upon! the eonservaG of gas in this Chemical tests have shown that a thousand feet of gas contains from ds of black carbon runds of gray car- )ld process about an being recov- NOT TO TAKE HOUCK EAST FOR INQUEST i Of Time Must First Rc Established. CHEMISTS IN ANALYSES Tissues Of Body Found In River To Be Scrutinized. r.nv pon in.M. t.

He 1 unto of with a li on the so inghai, it rents are 4 IS years of mils Mill of 1922. int junior destroyer Hilton among the men now i was stated today. If Mr. and Mrs. H.

T. Calypso strc age and a gr: tary academj He is at this grade, and He has been in Asiatic waters much of the time since he graduated and since last Christmas has been in and around -Shanghai continually. mother stated today that had letter from him, the last one so far, that was written on January 29, last, it was received in Monroe six weeks later. She is now eagerly a her r.tws from him. Cianci ting streets, Heaven of man) ing the night shelteri Irai di loriess from souls doo mire.

A gr bicycles st heavenward an for an instant ip ne bu; jped )W inevitably wHo were last rain drops in paused to ad- boys short to look forgot nit of pass- gazo at the of New Or- gineer of Tulane the tests, as- itives of the state apartment. The tests Prof. Will rvation depart for ra Thinks Alleged Slayer Of Daughter 1 heart. NEW YORK, ir. Xnna re regards Walter Mayer, on trial slaver of her daughter as gentleman in kissed him in court after testifying as a witness and saying would have welcomed him as a law.

Mayer, accused of murder in the first that the girl rejected him because hr was slow," that he displayed a pistol to provide excitement enough for and that it was accidentally discharged in a scul- fie. int sky. could almos farmer standing nt the harrowed turned earth, drinkii deur of the revel ympho res sualize the plow among freshly up- the gran- 1 Nature's 1 to have chord in every three to five pout and about seven bon. Under the one pound of car! ered. Prof.

C. S. Will leans, chemical university, superv sisted by represen conservation were made 1 the state eonservauor Recently the New Process company filed applicat with the state conservation department for a permit to manufacture carbon black at the.r plant, claming that the plant was to make from three to five times the amount of carbon black from feet of gas as possible under the old process. Dr. Irion held up action on the request unt.l the c.

p.my prove that the new process is all that is claimed for it. If the tests prove the claim Above is Albert Snyder, New York art editor, who was slain in his apartment. His wife and Henry Judd Gray, corset salesman of Syracuse. N. have been indicted for the crime.

Pictures of Mrs. Snyder, of the family group and of Gray will be found on page nine of this issue. TELEPHONE CO. IN RECORD MONTH; 93 NEW PHONES art. the Cities, rapid the If we could only look into the hearts of those who paused last evening in their various to revel in the transformation of earth aid sky, one wou! 1 find there a story of some kind not one of selfishness, ma'ce, envy or greed, but one of prayer.

In a mysterious way these wonders are sometimes it connes of a rainbow bringing brighter days, fairer glimpse of the beauty i the rainbow for those who seek. Yesterday leaden sky held no promise of blue skies today until CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE erformed the nature promise of ther and a the end of of officials of the New Process company, then Dr. Irion is disposed to JNTINUED PAGE I 1Y F. GUIDANCE, THEME OF COURSE GIVEN HERE BV L. S.

U. Largo Number Attenti 1 Avtiuvs By Dr. Kreacrer. indicative growth of the Twii record month's installation of telephone-, tin reported today by J. W.

Marron, local manager. From the of February 21 to March 21, there were installed just 93 new telephones by the Southern Bell Teie- is phone company of Monroe. Never previously in a period have there been so many installations reported here. In the month immediately preceding the there were 89 telephones one Haberdasher, Once merchant Prince, Scales Divorce from Young Wife Associated FNS.U March 24. Henry Siegel, one-time merchant prince is seeking a divorce from his third wife, naming a 23-year-old former clerk as co-respondent.

Once it had feat the suit, was discharged by Siegel a few ago. took him in when he did not have a Siegel said, when stores in New York. Chicago and Boston. 'v nt i' nftrr a Meet ocular failure, trying to come back by running a haberda hery here with one employe, Her tta Strulde Siegel, the wife, is 40 years and met Mr. Siegel in 1915 in when he was being tried in the Monroe county courts on ut of the failure of Ins i enter She was then a telegraph operator.

They were married in rant in in 1918, after hu bad ned a divorce from second wife, Mrs, Mane II Ugh a Wil.le 11- Wife, Julia Rosenbaum Siegel, die I in Jessie Zimmerman of Rutherford, named in The largest that thus far been present at the opening of course in this city by Dr. rank O. Kreager, was in attendance at the city high school auditorium last night. The theme of this course, given by the S. U.

extension department, to vocational and other guidance and is in direct accord that are now being exerted by other activities here. le the keynote of probably the most mportar.t matter consideration, was the of the doctor. This guidance should he vocational, i sexual, political, civic and otherwise, he assured. He urged that a local ation Be formed that will have tailed. The local company its business on the 21 of each th same date on succeeding months.

Manager Warren believes that Monroe has never grown faster than right now, if the telephone are to be taken as a criterion. MRS. 1 ANT DIES MEMPHIS, March 2 4. Mrs. J.

C. Fart, w.fe of the president of Mississippi State College for Women, Columbus, died in a hospital here today after ten She was 45 old. Burial will be in Columbus. UIBONFS MEDITATIONS By J. P.

unl ow its RAIN en Knock u5 outen work -HUH PAT WHUT I CALLS TO I he was taking Siegel of a guidance activity cut on automobile rules, 1 decided for younger generation of the Ito discharge Twin Citieo. complaint charges that Zim- i jo be properly qualified i 1 merman visited Mrs. Siegel in her knowledge is required, he i Rutherford apartment while he was ghowed and he also showed that any I av. ty from the store, supposedly far peraon or set of persons can lunch, stores and private not easily quajify for all guidance inks, which had 15,000 do- work. For example, a teacher of positors and were operated in eon- Latin may be first teacher junction with the stores, collapsed fi-i but if a boy wishea to pursue an ineially in 1913.

He erved a short engineering subject and to drop the pr -on for obtaining ere 1 stiulj of Latin, the teacher, if con- on false financial statements. suited, will undoubtedly urge that In prime oi.e stores Latin be continued to the exclusion i one did business of $7,000,090 in 1 of the engineering subject. This y- i CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE Alibi Fails, Two Indicted In New York Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 24. -Mrs Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray pleaded not guilty when arraigned before Supreme Court Justice Callaghan of Queens County today on the indi t- ents charging them with the murder of husband, Albert Snyder, magazine editor at his home Sunday Tr.al set for April 11.

They were remanded to the Queens County jail without bail pending Although attorneys for both defendants have repudiated their confes- i sions, Gray told his mother yesterday that he aided in clubbing and strangling Snyder to death in Queens village home early Sunday morn.i'g. Mrs. Snyder, however, stands on the repudiation of her confession. The Prudential Life Insurance company suspended payment of $52,000 en four policies held by pending the end of the trial. Snyder bought insurance in October, I 1925.

the New York World says, at the insistence of Mrs. Snyder. Under New York state if Mrs. Snyder ted tjie Will go to Snyder's estate to be held until. daughter becomes of age, Snyder was buried yesterday.

Mrs. Snyder was not allowed to attend the funeral. TWO KILLED IN GAS SUICIDE AT DESCENT CITY Bv luted WASHINGTON. March 24 Dr. Knute Houck, detained by auth- nt in Albany, will hr ught here for the inquest to I h.

Id over the body of hi- fe found floating with face upturned in th" Potomac river near here. This announcement was made by I S. Attorney Peyton Gordon, wh office cooperated with city in the baffling case, and came after Major Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of ice. last night had said a detective would be sent for Dr.

Houck as soon as he was placed under arrest. Mr. Gordon said that Washington City authorities had no r'ght to tiring Dr. Houck here when there was no evidence that a crime had been I committed. Mrs.

Houck -appeared from her home December 13, after an alleged quarrel with her husband, who then was a psychiatrist at St. hospital, a government i institution. This was the last heard of her until her body was found yesterday. A preliminary examina- tion disclosed no marks of violence and none were found when an autopsy performed later. Further inquest, however, is to be held as soon as a chemical analysis of various tissues I of the body is completed.

This prob: ably will not Be for several days. QUIET PRIMARY PREDICTED FOR CITY APRIL 12 GUNS SPEAK; NA VY SENDS FORCE INTO ACTION British Cruiser Joins With American Craft In Rescuing Civilians Trappe By Rioters Of Canton Army In Foreign Quarter; Admiral Reports Loss Of ife May Be Large. By Associated WASHINGTON, March 21. Admiral Williams reported to the navy department that "a number of American civilians have been killed and wounded today at Nanking. The exact total of casualties was uncertain, added, it is feared that the number is While the U.

S. destroyers Noa and don, with the British cruiser Emerald shelled the aera in for protection of foreigners, landing forces wi re sent ashore and successfully brought off all foreign nationals in the concentration area, including the- American consul, his family and all American naval personnel, the admiral said. During the engagement one American sailor was slightly wounded, while the Noa and Preston were hit many times. Cantonese troops looted American, British and Japanese consulates, wounded the British consul general and were reported to have killed the Japanese consul. Missions in Nanking also were looted.

The fate of the 155 Americans left TONGS IN U.S. BREAK LOOSE; FIVE MEN KILLED Chinese Quarter in N. Y. Seething With Excitement. in a Ad: Two "ommissionerships Are Only Offices ontested.

day March 25, is hich candidates the city spring Indications are period nears its rv vv I sep onlv for offices involved primary may qualii as the qualificatior close, that the prin two contests for the jblie positions which are to be filled. Following are the offices involved in the primary: Mayor; commissioner of finance and public utilit commissioner of parks and streets; four members of the city school board; six members of the Democratic executive committee. There are no candidates for mayor yet qualified or announced, except the present encumbent, Mayor Arnold Bernstein, who is a candidate for re-election, and who has already qualified. For the cffice of commissioner of finance and public utilities, there are two candidates, loth of whom have already qualified. D.

A. Brear i. present encumbent, is a candidate for re-election. ('. Green, Dehi ird street merchant, is the opposing candidate.

The commissionership of park? an 1 is also being contested. Atkinson, present encumbent, is a candidate re-election. Announced in op; tion to is ity Judge Charles Schulze. Mr. At nscn has already i an i Judge Schulze announced his intention of doing so today.

The present city school board is CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE TV As- NEW YORK, March Dead warfare between Chinese tongs in widely scattered of the United States flared up today, resulting in five deaths and three persons shot. The two-year truce between the flip Sing and On Leong tongs, expire! today and shortly afterwards gun play started. It could not determined in the first reports whether all of the resulted from differences between the members of these secret societies. The casualties were; Brooklyn, N. two dead.

Newark, N. ong dead. Chicago, one dead. Manchester, Conn, or.e dead. Cleveland.

Ohio, one Pittsburgh, two The truce, entered into on March 24, 1025, after a series of shootings in Chinese sections of the country. expired at midnight. Ne York pol; sent to the Chi- ouErttr re do the district seething with excitement. were established about the tong headquarters and the homes of i prominent tong leaders. Groups of rg figures were reported about the district and fearing a general outbreak, police shed a close watch the entire section.

RIVER STAGES SHELLING PLANT SH tNGHAI, Mi 25. It of- i. that some Ameria; were lei and some wounded firing at Nanking. No details lave been re eived The were killed when mtonese uthern troops shelled i ie irthern part of the 'y where the Standard Oil company nt 11 tv f. The number killed yet to le ascertained.

I Cant who are described irregu irs, began shelling the standard plant shortly before 4 m. The United States destroy- rs Noa and Pre-ton and the British Emerald went into action a later, bombarding the with their main batteries, vn Br American landing were rushed ashore. The landing parties fought their vay to the oil plant and took out at the cost of sorno ves. It not car whether ve or ival men or both. It is believed that all the surviving are now a oard the A rnv A Anglo-A lost.

Ar A icrlcan nival the landing can sailors were Nanking say eroic action by a. es were with Nan- Stage Change Memphis ......................38 rise 0.3 Vicksburg 0.2 New Orleans fall 0.1 Shreveport .....24.7 0.1 Alexandria 3 fall 0.1 OUACHITA Cannicn 25.9fall 1.2 Kil ED IN VSEB Vi I. By As? SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Marvn 24. Carpenter, 10, was killed here late yesterday when he i into third haso H'? ned a sand Lot was broken.

The subject killed in the i Cantonese shelling the foreign nce-t; uk ha? Been i cis Ur, Siitchwdl Smith, whose wife rea bed Shanghai today, a refugee. It uncertain whether the consul reported wounded was Consul B. Giles or the vice consul. Reports received from Nanking do not specify whether there were any Brit -a casualties during the landing ut it is believed CONTINUE I) ON PAGE NINE Man Spanks Daughter, Fined $12.50 Per Spank Associated NEW XOKh, 'Iarch man who thinks he needs to spank a daughter 20 old has failed in his duties as a par- ent in the opinion of Justice Murphv. He fined Abraham Eg- lington, investment broker or 50 per spank.

Gasoline Prices Shoved Low in California Tilt rch Fran-j jma and Paul are dead i of own life. Their i ariv today In a occupied while Polio I elated i NEW OKLEANi I cis Richard, Romagas, of Whiti here today, the re: attempt to end i bodies were found I gas filled room the working in the city. Assistant C. cr lb that i had been lately over the sick re of a sister in a hospital here. His body was found near an opened gas jet, while his was found in bed.

roomer the bouse, said that be smelled gas early today and noticed a rht -c boys room. The door locked he gained entrance to th room through win- low. He found shard's body on the floor. I tt 1 Prt ss LOS ANGELES. March 2s of independent gasoline stations in southern Califor: a were threatened with extinct! lay as motorists reaped the benefits of a price war and big oil companies jammed quotations down to 14 1-2 cent? and 10 1-2 cents a gallon, two cent? state tax included, in the fight for sales.

Two prices for the most popular 1 rands of gas prevailed in most districts. The Par American Retro leurn company sold it? product tor 14 1-2 tx paid, after a second cut since last Saturday, wh: other leading companies held to 1-2 cents, which was posted last tv-'ok follow ing the first slash by VaSif. n.a Petroleum corporation, Sued Thrice by Former Wife, Man Turns Tables In Petition Tiled Here Thrice sued by his former wife, the has Wednesday. Sam Day filed with the oh-rk court a suit against his former wife, Mrs. Archo gm Hudson Day, asking that judgments rendered in two and a third suit now pending against him, be annulled and set aside.

Day alleges that he has recently learned that her marriage to him in 1903 was bigamous. He contends that she was married 1 in t-. John L. Hudson, who the tin; of marriage to her was and yet living. Day further th it Hudson secured a divorce from wife in Clarks county, Alabama, in 1911.

The petitions of Mrs, Day ago u-t Day and vice versa set rth that of i re were born: 10; Gold- 1 neet 13; 11; B. an ar.io, 6. her first suit against Pay, 10, 1924, in the local rich jurisdiction suits in quest were filed. Jay asked for decree of sena- the custody of her seven minor i partition of property and ay ment by Day J50 per NINK.