The News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana • Page 1

THE WEATHER LOUISIANA Fair cooler, frost in north portion; Tuesday fair. ARKANSAS Far, cooler in and south frort tonight; fair. READ DIFFERENT yOL. 236 MONROE, LOUISIANA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1939 8 PAGES wi nvo; THESE PROJECTS FOR MONROIt Adequate Sanitary StoHI Restocking Plahtag Strsoaao Municipal Center City BsauUfleatton Prografll PRICE FIVE CENTS SANCHEZ PROTECTS CHARGES SIX CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR HURL EPITHETS Louisiana Politics Settles Down To Round Of Speech-Making PROBE FRONT QUIET Only Indictments Returned Over Week-End At Harrisonburg NEW ORLEANS. 30 After American Vessel Quarry In Grim Chase At Sea THEIRS WAS WAR-BORN ROMANCE "Even if f.VI* tl K' cannot free i tv fr him with selfish Governor Ixug said Jones rr marv, the oh defeat the train eu the practice he and i the I from Dck bon! Noe in a (, and Or le.i a el.ir 'i' Morrison, apeako fa fire i.f over to the eie te i.aeie guvrriv out complete partmei I v.

te re On t) it i' the indictn i tie weekend ie par.ah grand jury Hnrrsonburg Representative er of rd Not ail the ar id the hurl on Wars force Dan up to and here are pris-n neis he toek while death rainei rr 'he P' r.i The are the forme PrKKv Thompson i fti id nre Ai exandfi Hohenlnhe Ingelf, mgen of P-. and. pictured at A idor William Builetts in Paris fo ilowtr.g the ir recent marriage soon a f1; together from The bridets a daughter of to and tl Dm Kf. w.fe of the United Sta trs ambassador a that if er into second pri- to i it He defend. i off the I made ft to, charged that Le ne M.

of New to at I fmm as 11 Je refused, If Joi e.a, 'itch M- i ad nit of if turn the st.oe if j.e I ta pi the i. h. er platter with. i state 1 1 an i id I to CHEST WORKERS CITY ELECTIONS ACTIVE AFTER NEXT WEEK TO WEEK-END LULL STIR INTEREST Indicators In Campaign Most Unorthodox May- Thermomctcrs Mount oral Balloting Will Oc- To $10,000 Mark cur In Memphis ontr.butod in the Monroe Community heat drive In The World, NEA Sen e. and the Hoople boarding house.

Workers in second arm ia! fi- -1 Kn i the Twin City Commur ty resumed activities with vmi and following Ihe usual week end lull. Every one fr A ui general chairman. on down, wav striving to the utmost to n't on $29 500 set in the hi! ration for human needs Monr and Monroe. r.nor the in the ther- set up in the streets of (he Twin Cities to keep the public adv the progmas of the campaign had moved up a notch from to 10 Me.i iwhile Chest headquarters Motel Vug nia released a list of additional who had contributed the sums et for them by the rating of the Community Chest. Listed vvete Jai Se: and Son empltv.es Hs) pet cent.

Standard Office Supply company employes 100 per rent, employes in the off.ee of the let of court of Ouachita parish 100 cent Bernhardt Realty company. Bancri Bug factory. Bancroft Paper company, Missouri Pacific Women's club, Harper's Truck line, dall garage Odom Hardware company, Gus Kokinos, Dnnnas Beer garden. New York Hardware and Furniture company and Southern Furniture stores, Paul 1 Collens Five Point Watson and Aven Re Cream company. Trousdale Printing company, Trousdale company employes 100 pei iContin tfil on Tl rd Pagri DEATH TA i DAY OFF IN KENTUCKY I OUISVU.

i Oct. it was death day off in Kentucky yesterday. A passenger tram struck an automobile near Harrodsburg, but three occupants of the car suffered only minor injuries. At Irvine, a speeding motor car left a highway, leaped ovet a 35-foot ravine and a four-foot fence, and landed right side up. Four persons riding in it needed only slight medical attention.

Two elderly women suffered bruises at Louisville when their automobile went out of control, made a turn, jumped a curb climbed a ten-foot embankment and crashed into a house Fourteen cars of ft eight train piled up at Hopkinsville. No one was hurt. WASHINGTON. Oct 30 IP Municipal contests promised today to put an enlivening punch next week in attered off-vear elections gbhght- ed battles in California and Ohio. The most un rth.ai race is in Memphis, where FI Crump, head of the -county Democratic organ ration, is unopposed as a "proxy candidate Crump has said that he would re- v.gti after taking the oath of office Ja nuary 1 Rnd penmt the Crump- controlled city commission to appoint Repre entative Walter Chandler as mavor.

meanwhile, is remaining here to support the administrations neutrality bill The Memphis election will lie November 9. hut all others will be November 7. At Salt Lake City, Ah Jenkins, speed car driver of Salt Flats fame, is one of five candidates a nonpartisan race for mayor. He has paigned on a safety program. At Woburn, Mass Mayor William Kane, a former marine who won publicity by turning off stieet lights on moonlit nights and advocating a lions cage for drunks, lost Democratic renomination, but will be on the ballot as a Republican.

Connecticut was watching the effort of Bridgeport's Socialist mayor, Jasper Me Levy, to a fourth successive le; There is a scrambled field at Watei bury, Conn where May ot Fiank a Democrat, resigned after he and 22 otheis were convicted of conspiring to defraud the city of more than $1,000,000. The prohibition issue cropped up in icd on Third Page BRYCELAND HIGH SCHOOL, GYM BURN BRYCELAND, lui Oct 30 The two-story high school and gymnasium burned here last night with a loss estimated at $35,000. partly covered by insurance. The fire started in a janitor's closet. J.

A Shelby, Bienville parish school superintendent, called a meeting of school board members and local officials today to arrange for facilities for the 155 Bryrrland students for the i remainder of the term. CITY OF FLINT WHEREABOUTS STILl MYSTERY German Crew Believed Attempting To Dodge British Blockade ALL QUIET ON FRONT Belligerents More Interested In Neutrals Than Fighting STO( KHOLM. Oct. 30 Nnrwav today said the I nited freighter City of Flint released from a Soviet pert to her German had department from Thonivoe. Norway, late afternoon.

BERLIN On 30 The American freighter City of Flint apparently was the quarry todSv in a grim game of somewhere in the north Atlantic, according to the best available information here but German icialdom was silent. al sources said the United government-owned vessel still was ihe hands of a German prire crew rnd attempting to dodge the British blockade on a run from mansk. Russia, to a German port But said that until the City of Fl.nt docks, "there will he no information about this shif The American crew which was taken to the Sov et Russian Arctic port with City of Flint after its cap! the was sa probably to be still aboard, but as "passengers" without any responsibility for navu- gatmg her Bey closure that ship had Murmansk authorities regarded information concerning her as a military secret and took the view that precise information on when she left or her present whereabouts ght invite British attempt to capture her In rmed quarters meanwhile, hints were dropped of an intensified German submarine campaign agamst British sea commerce Gi.e England a taste of what a blockade was a phrase uttered in naval and appearing in the press. Enthus.asm over the successes so far in eipht weeks of submarine war has led manv to the conclu- on that mdersca raiders have discovered the weakest spot in tense and that this is the spot to hit hardest Adi Hdiei newspaper, the Voel- Beobacliter. encouraged this view and supported intensification the warfare by describing the treatment allegedly accorded the captains of German vessels which have been seized hv the British The newspaper charged that the captain and crew of the Poseidon, a German merchantman stopped by a British warship, were threatened with shooting, if thes abandoned their essel.

The ri ason for the threat, it alleged, was thnt some German captains prefer to set time bombs and flee with their in lifeboats, rather than permit their ships to fall into enemy hands "If England persists in throwing overboard, one after another, all conceptions of international rules then it must reckon with inevitable intensification of war against its commerce, the Beohaohter declared The last report of Wever's naval almanac indicated that at the beginning of this year 43 German submarines were at sea and 28 others were planned or under construction Informed sources considered it certain that construction had been stepped up and noted that at the en Th.rd Flashes In The Ne ws NATIONAL OFFICER HONORED HERE i Prfsgi EGGED ON TITUSVILLE, Pa-United States Representative Robert Rodgers. Republican Pennsylvania, tells this one on himself With another congressman, he motored from Washington into Virginia one morning for brrakfast at a tourist home. Rodgers called for the bill. "Two at 75 each, $1 50," said the landlady. Surprised at the 1.

Rodgers asked, "Are eggs scarce down "No. was the prompt reply, "but congressmen are DEERSLAYER CHARLESTON. -On four deer hunts Albert Stuhr came back err ntv-handeri. He was determined the fifth would he fferent Hearing a rustling in the bushes, he let go with both barrels The-p was a mournful The cow died. EASY CASF.

VENTURA Calif Police found no need ror sleuthing to arrest this man. Fie CFupf Neel and four other officers by smashing right through the front door of headquarters his automobile They charged him with drunken driving. PIG MISTAKE Earl Carlson been troubled with his hogs getting out onto the highway. When a hit and run driver killed three porkers, Carlson summoned a butcher on Third W.H. BANISTER CRITICALLY HURT IN AUTO CRASH Mrs.

F. C. Shepard, Also Suffers Injuries In Accident The condition of Deputy Sheriff W. I Ban.ster. 58.

of 514 Oak street, was reported critical Monday morning by attending physicians at Riverside lamtarium Mr. Banister, injured in an automobile accident about 7 pm Sunday, was to be suffering from serious internal injuries, a broken i ght collar ne. three and possibly four broken r.bs and numerous and abrasions. Mrs C. Shepard.

Sr 316 boro toad, who also sustained injuries the collision, was reported conscious and in an improved condition by Riverside attendants Mrs. Shepard suffered a bram concussion, painful and abrasions on the body, hut no broken bones. Her son, F. C. Shepard, Jr, driver of one of the automobiles, was treated for bruises on the left knee and slight abrasions.

Driving the other automobile was Neal Fuller, 9d6 South Second, who was treated St. Fiancis for general and contusions, a broken rib and a broken bone in the left forearm. The wreck was said to have occurred when the Dodge sedan driven by Fuller and traveling east on Plum street attempted to cross South Second street in the path of the Chevrolet coach driven by young Shepard and traveling north on South Second The Chevrolet struck the Dodge in the right side, turned the sedan on its side The front end of the Chevrolet and the right side of the Dodge were demolished. ACTS TO AVOID ATTACKS UPON INDICTMENTS Bills Of Information Will Be Filed To Take Places SMITH AGAIN PLEADS Star Staff Mrs LueHa Allen, nf Texas, national president of United Spanish War auxiliary, was guest of honoi at a banquet at Hotel Virginia last Mrs. Allen, right, is shown with Mrs.

Sadie Gossett, of Monroe, Lou- xsiana president of the auxiliary. THREE COUNTIES AUXILIARY HEAD ASK CUSTODY OF HONOR GUEST AT FLYING SLAYER HOTEL SUNDAY Queen To Be Chosen For Little Frolic The mayor elected November 8 will rule over the mythical municipality of Little Chicago for the next year, hut a queen to be elected during the next few days will the center of attention during the two-day Twin City festival, starting with a monster torchlight parade the night of November 7. The election of the queen will be conducted by Paramount theater and any Monroe or West Monroe merchant can sponsor an entry. Firms destring to place a pretty girl in the contest are requested and urged to get in touch with Benny Btcknell, manager of the Paramount, not later than 5 p.m. Tuesday.

The telephone number of the theater is 1567. Another entertainment feature in connection with the festivities attending the annual political burlesque was announced Monday by Jack Allen, the energetic chairman of the Little Chi- tago executive committee. It is a song title contest. Participating Monroe and West Monroe merchants will decorate their display windows to represent a song title. The first person to guess the title will be awarded a prize by the establishment.

Meanwhile, with Earl Speights of No 4 fue station in charge, asisted by G. Rowe, manager of Sherwin- Williams, the torchlight parade plans were shape Apy merchant and individual can enter a float. Monroe and West Monroe firms anti individuals aie earnestly urged 1o be represented in the procession, which usually is the largest and most entertaining seen in the Twin Cities Merchants and individuals desiring to place floats they need not he elaborate- in the parade are requested to communicate either ith Mr. Speights or Mr. Rowe or call pharmacy.

the telephone number of which is 2333. While all this was going on. the 18 amateur politicians seeking offices in Little Chicago were busy electioneering. The aborigines of Little Chicago are represented by the Plutocrats; the people of Monroe, by the Autocrats; (Continuefl on Third Earnest F. letch Confesses Killing Companion In Mid-Air MACON.

Mo, Oct. Missouri counties sought custody today of Earnest P. Larry Pletch, 29- year-old barnstorming aviator and confessed slayer of his companion in a dramatic mid-air struggle. Pletch, who told Indiana authorities he fatally shot Carl Bivens, 38- year-old Brookfield, Mo, flying instructor after they quarreled while in a plane over northeastern Missouri, faced possible charges of first degree murder, kidnaping and airplane theft by Macon, Linn and Shelby counties. Prosecuting Attorney Fred C.

low of Shelby county said a conference was planned by prosecuting attorneys of the three counties to decide which would prefer charges against the youth. Bellow expressed his belief Bivens was killed while in the air over Macon county, although body was found in a thicket near Cherry Box, in Shelby county. Flying alone in a yellow monoplane, Pletch was arrested when he made a forced landing at Bloomington, iCont.nufd on Th.rd Paizf' BISHOPDESMOND K. OF (. GUEST Delivers Sermon At Catholic Church; Banquet Held At Hotel The Right Rev.

Daniel Desmond, bishop of Alexandria, delivered the sermon at St. Catholic church, at the 10 o'clock mass Sunday at which Knights of Columbus attended en masse The occasion was "The Feast of Christ the King He said in "Christ the King manifested in the early history of Christianity. The wise men came to Herod the king and proclaimed His coming and politically-minded Herod urged that he might have more information so that, as he professed, he might worship Hun. But Herod was bitterly opposed to Christianity and began the purge of all Christians. As many as 2,000 innocent children were The bishop then showed how down through the ages has come the attack on Christianity, seen in our time through communism and anarchy.

These movements are determined to undermine and destroy all that deals with Christ and His church, he said. Into this world, he traced, that is fdled with attacks on all that is good, the Knights of Columbus have stood for the opposite ideology. They are determined to wipe out hatreds and iContmued on Third Pagei PRENDERGAST INDICTED KANSAS CITY, Oct. Pendergast. one-time boss of the Kan- sas City Democratic machine, and R.

Em mett O'Malley, former state in-1 suranee superintendent, were named today in indictments returned by a county grand jury investigating settlement of the Missouri fire insurance tate case. 1 Mrs. Luella Allen Fays Visit To Spanish War Group Here Mrs Luella Allen of Ennis. Tex national president of the United Spanish War auxiliary, was guest of honor of the local organization here on Sunday. A luncheon was held at noon to honor the guest of the day and at night there was a banquet given in the Cameo room of Hotel Virginia.

At the night banquet, there were members of the local United Spanish War Veterans' group and the women auxiliary in attendance. Officers of the auxiliary who attended included Mrs. Sadie Gossett, Louisiana state president of the auxiliary; Stella Courtney, past state president; Mrs. Mamie I Arnett, department chaplain; and Mrs. Alma McKee, Monroe aux- diary president.

Talks were made by guests present, among the number being one delivered by Colonel George Hardy of the United Spanish War group in Shreveport. Mrs. Allen was the principal speaker and in her talk she outlined some i of the of the past and urged the auxiliary to reach forth to greater goals in the future through a cooperative effort that would make success assured. There was an informal meeting, at w'hich plans for the betterment of the work of the auxiliary was discussed, held at 2:30 m. in Hotel Virginia and following this the party proceeded on a sight-seeing trip in the Twin Cities ending at the G.

B. Cooley sanitorium at Pine Top. NEW IBER i OTHER, TOT FATALLY BURNED NEW IBERIA, Oct. Mrs. Whitney Broussard, 22, and her year-and-one-half old son, Darryl, lost their lives early this morning when the rooming in which they were sleeping was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin.

Ivy Louviere, brother of the dead woman, and Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Erwin, also residents of the rooming house, received injuries when they jumped from a second story to avoid the flames. According to firemen, the building was enveloped in flames when the alarm was turned in around 3:00 am. today.

Mrs, Broussard, who. with her infant son, was sleeping in a second- story room, was probably overcome with the smoke before she had a chance to escape, firemen stated. Her body and that of her son were found among the building rums this morning. Ivy Louviere, who was severely burned, stated that when he discovered the flames he attempted to awaken the woman but found her room door locked. Before he was able to break in the door the flames had reached the second story and forced him to jump from a second-story window with Mr.

and Mrs. Erwin. At the local hospital today it was stated that Mrs. Erwin was suffering from internal injuries and Mr. Erwin received a fractured ankle.

The boarding house which was owned by Mrs. Alcide Louivere. mother of Mrs. Broussard, was completely destroyed. Assorts Innocence When Old Charges Made In New Form BATON ROUGE.

La Oct. Revernerations from the ouster of David M. Ellison as Louisiana attorney general appeared today as District Attorney Dewey Sanchez said he would replace all indictments returned by the parish grand jury w-ith bills of information specifying the same charges. State police troopers ousted Ellison from office a week ago on orders of Governor Earl K. Long based on the executive's assertion Ellison was serving illegally.

Motions to quash indictments Dr. James Monroe Smith, former Louisiana State university president now serving a federal sentence for mail fraud, and George Caldwell, former S. U. construction superintendent, were filed in court by counsel for the two former school officials. The attorneys argued Ellison and hie assistant.

J. Fair Hardin, while both serving illegally, participated in secret grand jury investigations from which the indictments were drawn. District Attorney Sanchez immediately nolle prassed the indictments against Smith and Caldwell, to which both previously had pleaded innocence and on which both were to go to trial next week. Four of information, threo charging forgery and one charging embezzlement, were filed against Smith and he reentered his innocent plea. The bald educator was brought up from the New Orleans federal prison and his trial on one of forgery charges was again set for Monday jn district court.

The district attorney said ths two against Caldwell that he embezzled L. S. U. construction would be filed again as bills of information and he would be rearranged Friday. After his arraignment on the indictments his trial had been set for November 9.

Sanrnez revealed informative bills, similarly, would be filed against aQ persons under indictment here, with the bills containing the same charges as those specified in the indictments. In addition, the district attorney announced that other cases investigated by the grand jury in which no indictments as yet have been returned, would be revealed also in bills of information. In adjournment for nearly month, would come to light through bills of information filed by the district attorney's office. Hardin was appointed by Ellison as a special assistant in aiding the grand jury probe here. It was contended na was serving illegally in this capacity since Ellison, as illegal attorney general.

lacked authority to appoint However. Lessley Gardiner, named attorney general by Governor Long after Ellison's removal, said he had leappointed Hardin as a special assistant. Mr status as attorney general has been questioned," Sanchez said this morning in a prepared statement. I anticipated that the indictments found by the East Baton Rouge parish grand jury would be on Third Pag?) COMMUNITY CHEST THERMOMETER.