Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 1

THE GAZETTE TIME I PITTSBURGH'S ONE BIG NEWSPAPER Founded July 29, 1785 The Weather Rain TuriAi: ctnts a witk. TWO CKNTS A COrY. PITTSBURGH, THURSDAY MORNING, AFRIL 5, 1023. 14 DIE IN LOUISIANA TORNADO; 50 HURT Of TUTS TOiBo WES CARNARVON. DISCOVl VETERAN SHOOTS 2 IN MOVIE THEATER -'DRY' AGENT Insect's Bite Is BULLETS FIRED Four Towns SufferP From BALCONY 1 Heavy Loss To Noted Scientist and Flood Blood Poisoning Develops Into Pneumonia.

Findings in Egypt of Enormous Value. Flood of Rumors, Superstitions and Native Myths Follows Illness. Stomi Fifty to 60 Houses Alexandria Left in Good Pine Cut Off Railroad and Street Sprf-ial Cable to The Oafrlfe Timr. CAIRO. April 5.

The I'arl c.f larnan at 2 clck: this m'Ttiinc lie wa c'-usctntj alm't cr.4. I lis tlcatli was due to I.I.-tI j.i.'mi: ihe iic A an insect with tlic later of POISONED BY INSECT UITE. The Karl Carnarvon fsr.t tit-can inrct l-Ac r.n face Sunday. March It a a Lite. He jail attention to it at Jirt.

l-ut -n t.c nrn-tionvd, an infection an! j-rear raj-idly. Hi whole face and neck hecame ui1en. The jttivin worked inward atvl inolci the tonsils. Within two or thtce after l.c Isad first noticed the puncture, hi hfe was i rl dirrr. Lady Carnarvon, who was in l.rc.me ah.nned reports that, two days after the infection Jirt noticed.

he planned an airplane trip across the Mediterranean, tut th.is had to be abandoned, train1 I By Associated Press to The Gazette Times. NFAV ORLEANS, April 4- A tornado which carried death and destruction in its wake swept over Alexandria and Pineville, directly across Red River from Alexandria, early tonight, killing; at least 14 persons and injuring- others estimated at o0 or more. Fifty to GO houses were wrecked in Pineville and vicinity. Because of darkness and the debris filled streets it was impossible tonig-ht to obtain accurate details as to the damage. The injured were conveyed to hospitals in Alexandria and to the United States Veterans Hospital at Camp Stafford.

The tornado is reported to have passed over Alexandria without doing great damage, with the exception of putting the city's power plant out of commission. It descended, after crossing red River, and swept down the main street of Pineville, Fatal DUa KILLS TWO Miner I nl.illr Shoot Ex-State rollrrni.in. Who Ret unit Deadly lIre. iroi suit: nv sun: T-! To -e 5 I J. ll.Mt I A.

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I I of tin United Army, wlii.h was awarded Pittsburgh last yar by the War Department, it will lie transferred to unbther city, ac-iril nir to statements made at a own ilrnanio hearing yesterday by l.i.tit. Karl W. 1 1 o.i s. attached to the Army Air Service, unci B. H.

Mulvl-Jiill, I' president of the Aero Club Pltt.shurf.li. The field Is one of four nueh fields established in as many iltiea by the Federal government. The. Aero Club, Mr. Mulvihill said.

hnH been unsuccessful In Its efforts to nla it fund by public uubscription for the pun bane of a irite near Ho-iKK'n, fco the club 1h now appealing to llie city to appropriate to to eHtablinh a municipal airdrome and held. The War I epart nient, I.ieut. find, has built hnnjrars at a cost of and has assigned eiitilpment filtltd at tSAi." to the Pittsburgh, field, in. luding airplanes, airplane Kjuipment and radio equipment. Would Be An Air Mail Route.

filt-hurt'h would lie included on the transcontinental air mail route and the national airways route, if the field Is properly established, Mr. Mulvihill said. Air mail, he i.aid. In now carried from New York to Cleveland in two hours and 40 minutes, which would indicate a flying; time of about two hours and 11 minutes between Pittsburgh and New "York. A report he submitted indicated that last year the mail tiew about l.S''0.oOil miles.

l.L':l,.'iO0 pounds cf mail and wers JH per cent on jihiOuIe. Pittsburgh has a bait "00 fnrmn lr si rvi. men anon, its ae-ordin to Mr. Mulvihill, whtli exceeds the number in any ity of the' I'mted States. Thef-'S men.

he saxl. are caper to resume their flying training and if given uti opportunity, will ftimulate intertst here in ii s. The Kaw department Is now pn Cantinn-( on Pane Two. Column Thrw. FIRST THUNDERSTORM OF SPRING HITS CITY Rain and Colder Forecast for Toddy Moderate Weather to Follow.

Tho first thunder- storm of spring runibh over Pittsburgh at 5:30 o'rlork last evening- following a day of Intermittent showers and threatening clouds. The was at times Mvrro, but no place in the Pittsburgh district was reported struck. The rain wns the heaviest this year, it was reported at the Weather Bureau. The forecast for today is: Itain and somewhat The temperature will stay- above the freezing point, it was pr-'In ted. and moderate weather follow.

AMIIS PART IN MOVING BEER FROM STORAGE Dome's Affidavit Telling of Presence at Plants Given in Contempt Case. CITES ELTON'S O. Iv. A sworn statement by P.ichard Dome, former Pittsburgh prohibition agent, regarding the alleged removal of contraband beer from Pittsburgh warehouses, was introduced in evidence in the contempt of court proceedings before Judges W. H.

S. Thomson and F. P. Schoonmaker in the United States District Court yesterday. Dome is one of six defendants.

The charge grew out of the alleged removal of over l.ouO barrels of contraband beer from the Standard Ice and Storage Company, Bier avenue, and the alleged attempt to remove several hundred barrels of beer from the Allen Storage Company, Alb street. Dome, according to hi3 statement, was present at the ice plant when a large number of barrels were taken away on trucks and was ajso present at tJie Allen plant when government guards protested against the removal of the barrels until they were emptied. The statement also tells of a met ting ith John Douglas. clerk of courts of Allegheny county, defendant, and of riding with Mr. Douglas in the latter's automobile from the Allen Storage Company-plant.

"Mr. Shield" Declared An Attorney According to the statement. Dome was accompanied by Donald J. Zimmerman, another defendant, in visits to the two warehouses and on trips made in the machine with Mr. Douglas.

Vhe other defendants are William A. Kelton, former group head in charge of prohibition enforcement in the Pittsburgh district: Kenton Wilt, an attorney, and Continued on luc Three, iotnma Tiro. VERDICT QUEER, JURY EXPELLED Deelaring that their verdict have agreed to disacrw" was a "travesty on justice." Presiding Judsre John D. Shxifer of Common Plr.i Court yesterday publicly rebuked and dismissed from all Jury s.rvice tin-jury, composed of nine rii' ti and thr" women, which heard the ra- of Gerald S. M.

Kcnstie airamt the Sun Packing Company, a suit to for injuries all. g. h.m-been received in an au'omola'e e. i-dent. The seal.

I "vr r.l. I r- turned by the jury at 7 p. Tuesday. It wa.s said. tht Ihey would not be locked up over nicht.

Ship to Resume Hunt For Gold at Sea Bottom IjONPOV. April 4 New Tork Times resume fenvrry of gold from th ll-vr I.iurentic, rur.k by a torpedo off whib-on her way to the with a of bullion, the- Admiralty vase ship Barer is fr It More than worth of was FfJlttercd atllt the Oe, -f the sea and of this there had salvaged up to Augn last, when work was stopped on account rouch weather, as much h- 1 The liurentic in January. i'ortrM. lr TnrV ESKIrVlOSHAVE "CRIME WAVE" KG IN SASKATCHEWAN. April 4.

(A. P. An epidemic of violence has broken out among the usually kindly and docile Eskimos, the annual report of the Boyal Canadian mounted pf lice for the year ending September 1 issued today. "At present." the report says, "we have under arrest on charues of murder or related crimes no fewer than nine of these people- three at Honds Inlet ion the northern coast of Baffin Band); live at Hers. -hoi Island, and one at Tree P.ivcr.

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at Murion. o. bfelonc friend of tbe I'n m-ItI, wbo te.l at Ins per Th- wan delivered to Mr. i Vow by I tarry Krifk-son, who has owned the farm lor a number of years. iir.n-v.

pHvef. 1. Good nurwry uck at io prtartm. Wrecked in Pineville. Darkness Boyce and From Communication.

Car Traffic Tied Up. blowing down some buildings and damaging others. Tuny Other Town Suffer. Reports reached here late tonight that the towns of Boyce and Pine, near Alexandria, were damaged by the tornado, but details could not be obtained, wire communications to these places was cut off. Unprecedented rains last night and early today in parts of Mississippi and I.ouisiana put streams out of tteir banks, flooded highways and BIJUE FL000 WARNING OUT WASHINGTON.

April 4. A. The Weather Bureau announced tonieht that "owing to recent heavy rains over the lower Mississippi Valley, flood warnings have been issued for all points on the Mississippi River betn Arkansas City. and the mouth of the river." interrupted railway communication with several points in the two states. At Alexandria street car service was abandoned last nitrht because of flooded streets and stocks of goods were damaged when the water entered stores in one set-1 ion of the city.

Kighty acres of the farm of, the Ijousiana State Asylum for the Insane at Pineville were fi.xdel by the breaking: of a Bayou. Washou's on the levee on Kocky Illinois Central and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroads were reported south of Jackson, severing rail communication with that city from the South. Several other railroads in Mississippi annulled on account of washouts. Eight BoJie Found April 4 A train bringing the bodies of eight persons killed by" the tornado at Pineville and a sawmill settlement a mile east of that town, arrived hcrv to-niehJ. Search wa.s being made tonight of ntino-H on Puce Jwthi, Colnmo Foor.

$100 FINE FOR DAYLIGHT TIME HAUTFORI). April 4-( N'ew York Times Serviee.) The Conenetieut Assembly totl.iy, by an overwhelming viva voce vote, passed an anti-daylight saving measure, which defies Wall street, the New Haven Bailroad. the postal service and the states of and Rhode Island. Ten days in the hoos'-gow. plus separation from JlOO is coming to anybody wearing a wrist watch or allowing a clock to be displayed in public indicating daylight saving time.

TRANCE DRAWS FLIER TO DEATH LONTON, April 4. (New York Times Special.) Watching a revolving propelier of an aeroplane engine under test at a distance of a few feet an airman apparently became hypnotized. He walked slowly to the propeller and was killed. Medical opinion attributed his action to hypnotic attraction. This story is told in a report just issued on the health of the Royal Air Force for Braw bnr-hen.

fruit tre. irmpe Tioea. Forest Isurscry. OT Penn and ftcamcr, l.oucxcr. arrived at Cairo- March The nudden Ulnesn of Iord Crn-r-von nd lt curloun jrlctn.

immediately urrfi In makirc what if probably the m-atrpt arcbaeolotficil d.scorr-- la ni.l-fO limes, wua una id.b!y ry a flood of nimorn. nup nnd old wiv. tate of v.irtoii. rn The moriiti. u4CordtiC to riitti" I pTts.

wan the jincer of Tutankhamen li -t ni" of tomb undu-turl-ed SI riHio-ji tnythw Oat It1 -f th" dea pin-tsi-ed invade of It- I- rjil Htm or 1. Claimed foinee ammn. Marie CoreHI out wOt romantic lti-rv. original' il in a nrc-e. I rwn r4l of I I rr en net asr l4i human l.i.

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Sti.nio of t' -e ar I ih" la -nc I in Mir it .1 cr ir. I- ir n. the eld. si 'f whom at r-" h4tl ndroa. Torrai Court 1A Pair Kidnaped Horsewhipped, After Divorce 3Ian and Woman Named As Co-Respondent Taken From Auto.

LAN'S HAND SEEN Br Associated Pms to GAzrrr Timks.1 MACON. April 4. Mrs. Fred-ericka Pace of New York and Lyn-wood L. Bright, -were horsewhipped by kidnapers, believed by police to be members of the Ku Klux Klan, on a country road near here late tonight.

They were picked up by sheriff's deputies who were scouring the roads and taken to police headquarters at midnight. Bright yesterday was awarded a divprce in a local court after a sensational hearing. His wife contested the proceedings, naming Mrs. Pace as co-respondent. According to the police.

Bright and Mrs. Pace were in an automobile on one of the main thoroughfares here when another automobile drove up and several men junipel on the running board of the Rritrht machine. A struggle is said to have taken place. When the police arrived the Bright machine was empty and eye-witnesses said the other automobile made a dash for the city's-outskirts. Deputy sheriffs in automobiles and policemen on motorcycles were sent out on all roads around Macon ta seek the couple.

police say the kidnaping tonigni a even bolder than that of Ir. William Schreiber of Boston, which occurred here several months ago. Mrs. Pace, who is reported to be wealthy, arrived here Monday from Palm Beach. Kla.

tn Tlie Cavrtte Times. I.ogan physicians were unable to fnlve the case, a fid after a consultation between lr. A. lv. Smith.

Dr. B. A. Kanncls and Dr. V.

O. Allen, and Health Officer Sho'en. it was decided to br ing her here and place her under expert care. Prior to the "talking spells." Mrs Montgomery had a severe case of and I.ogan doctors said they it had attacked her brain. anting the malady.

l.ogan doctors said the patient "would curse and pray, aud at tunes become very vlo lent." in i t. -i t. -t- 4 i it i-i A 4) 1. 1 a 1 ta 14 '4: eJ. TAXI COMPANIES MERE BAN WOMEN DRIVERS INCESSANT TALKING FOR SIX DAYS PUTS WOMAN IN HOSPITAL j.

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l.tt to; 1 i Ry Associate! Press pn, MIll April Talking Iv Miie last Thursday, according to attending ph vsicia us, Mrs. M.iiitKmer.v of I.ot-an. was today admitted to a Columbus sanitarium, wh. re her case will be diagnosed by tomorrow, it was said. For Mime days pnor to 1 Montgomery "I short polN talking.

AM'r that date they be. looker until the conversation At the 1 r-anilari-urn, it was sail, h.M a 'hli'h finer" find Is "re tb-ss." have no effect on her, ph; skiana viid..