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1909, at Monroe Post Office THE MONROE (LA.) NEWS STAR, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1929. Published Dalle (Except Sunday) By hewn Star Publishing Ltd. PRICE FIVE CENTS LONG OFFERED HIM JOBS. FERNANDEZ 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 Spectacular Fire Follows Derailment of Train rteninn; nn Fugitive Drops Dead JRFPnRlflnrc Will Erect Rio VFCfMFN ARE 7 Marries Heiress n'Tcne unncc 'REEDBLOCKS AND RAILROAD CARS ARE LOST Blaze Causes Estimated Loss of Half Million Dollars. TRUCKS DESTROYED Cause of Accident Not Known; Explosions are Felt.

By ST. LOUIS, April oil and merchandise estimated to have been worth $500,000 were destroyed in a 5pcctacular fire accompanied by a series of explosions after an inbound Frisco freight was derailed in South Kirkwood, St. Louis suburb, early today. No loss of life was reported. The wreck and fire completely tied up Friaco train service on the main line west and it was not expected that it would be restored until late today.

More than 10,000 gallons of gasoline. and oil, 12 railroad cars, a storage tank and two motor trucks were burned. Fire companies from St. Louis and several suburbs prevented a heavier The cause of the derailment was not definitely known, hut trainmen believed one of the oil cars dropped a brake beam which caught in a siding switch and derailed the car. ACT PROPOSAL Will Erect Two Big t(Booster 99 Stations At Perryville Soon Five-Point Program of Hoover Receives Setback.

Plants to Serve St. Louis and Birmingham-Atlanta Gas Line Projects. REPORT ON FARM BILL David Steinhardt, fugitive bankruptcy lawyer of New York, long sought as an embezzler of millions, dropped dead at Philadelphia, i just as he was about to give himself BURGLARS SET I' FIRE TO STORE AFTER ROBBERY i Sheriff i Posts Reward for Capture of Thieves. OVER 5,000 ARE HOMELESS AFTER BREAK IN LEVEE By Associated Press- SNOW LAKE, April than 5.000 persons in Phillips and Desha counties were homeless today and at least. 14,000 acres of rich farming lands were inundated, the result of a break in Laconia circle levee and high water around the main Mississippi river levee at Landing where a force of workers was waging a winning fight to prevent a crevasse.

High water from the White river, banked against the circular dike for several weeks, yesterday forced a gap in the levee more than 200 feet wide. Residents after receiving by telephone and farm bells quickly gathered part of their belongings and hurried to safety. No loss of life was reported. All livestock was saved. The onrushing waters today had inundated Snow Lake, the only village within the proUcted area, water in some places being nearly 110 feet deep.

The Laconia section, low-lying area at one time, was believed to have been a lake. There is no levee protection for the White river and the region around it had been under water for several weeks. The refugees have been housed in box cars and on a string of flat cars belonging to the Missouri Pacific railroad. For several days the railroad has kept a train near Snow Lake for such an emergency. Special to The News-Star.

I RUST ON, April Thig- oen has announced a reward of $100 for the arrest or for information that will lead to the arrest of the party or parties who Monday night robbed the John Aller. store four miles car.t of Dubach in the Fellow- i ship community. Gooda consisting of flour, sugar, shirts, underwear, and cigarettes valued at several hundred dol- i were taken after which the building was set on fire. Ed Colvin, living near the store, I discovered tha blare nnd extinguished I it with only small damage to the building. The loss from fire and theft was placed at from $750 to $1,000.

o------------COURT OF APPEALS REFUSES TO GRANT SLAYER REHEARING By Associated Press- NEW ORLEANS, April United States court of appeals today refused to grant a rehearing in the rase of Horace Alderman sentenced to hang for the murder of two coast guardsmen on the high seas between Fort Lauderdale, and Nassau, i Bahama Islands. The decision upheld the district court and left the United States su- preme court as the only tribunal that i can save Alderman from the gallows. More than a year ago Alderman i shot to death two coast guardsmen and a secret service agent after the coast guard vessel CG-249 had captured a rum runner and arrested i Alderman. While being brought ashore, Alderman got a revolver and opened fire. He was brought in in irons charged with murder.

He was tried only for the murder of the guardsmen and was sentenced to death by the district court. Senate Passes Its First Legislation of Session. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, April 23. carrying out of the five-point legislative program favored by President Hoover for the special session received a setback, at least temporarily today, with decision by the senate immigration committee to postpone indefinitely consideration of a bill to repeal the national origins provisions of the immigration act.

Either repeal or postponement of this section, which under existing law becomes effective July 1, was listed along with farm relief, tariff revision, reanortionment of the house and provision for the 1930 census as the aim. Nye Move Defeated After the decision the senate committee an unsuccessful move was made i.n the senate by Senator Nye, republican, North Dakota, to discharge the committee from jurisdiction over the immigration bill. move was blocked by Senator Reed, republican, Pennsylvania, who favors retaining the immigration act in its present form. During the day a formal report on the new farm relief bill was placed before the senate by Chairman McNary of its agriculture committee with the statement that those opposed to the debenture plan would support the position taken by President Hoover who vigorously has declared against the proposal. Debate on Farm Bill At the house side of the capitol, general debate was continued on the farm measure pending there.

This bill is similar to that before the senate except that it does not contain the debenture clause. During the house debate Representative Kincheloe, democrat, Kentucky, served notice he would object to any move to extend the time for discussion and would seek to have consideration of the bill started tomorrow under procedure permitting the offering of amendments. Meanwhile, the senate passed Its first general legislation, enacting several bills to provide funds to defray the expenses of the special session. The little hamlet of Terryvllle, 16 miles out of Monroe on the A. A.

L. M. railroad, in Ouachita parish, is soon to see much construction with the operation of two large stations. One of these will serve for the St. Louis natural gas pipe line while the other will be for the Bin mingham-Atlanta line.

Definite figures of the cost of these two projects is not announced but it is reported that the St Louis station will cost nearly a million dollars while the Birmingham-Atlanta station will cost $500,000. Perryville was selected as it is conveniently located in the heart of the old Monroe gas field and will be the location of the first of a series of stations that will be required out of Louisiana for the Missouri and Alabama-Georgia lines. Much Secrecy Much secrecy has marked the survey and initiation of work on both lines that are to convey natural gas to serve these two distant areas. Information is not forthcoming in Monroe, where all inquiries are met with the reply that the head officers of I the pipeline project are in St. Louis information must originate there, i Similar information is vouchsafed in I connection with the Alabama-Georgia line, as the head offices of the Nat- 1 ural Gas Engineering corporation, in charge of the construction, are located in Birmingham.

However, it is learned authoritative- ly that the sites for the two YEGGMEN ARE SENTENCED TO PENITENTIARY Joe McElroy, Rnv Russell and Justin Street Admit Charges. GET SIX-YEAR TERMS Series of Robberies and Safe-Brcakings are Solved. TELLS HOUSE OF PROPOSAL MADE BY GOV. Legislators Demand Huevj Prove Charges Made in Speeches. DUPRE FLAYS New picture of Thomas A.

Gorman, 26-year-old Port Washington, N. real estate agent, who secretly married Natalia Guggenheim, heiress, now en route to Europe. (CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE) Arguments in Free Text Book Cases Begin Today Lawyers From All Over REV. ANDERSON 8tate Present TQ Bv Associated ORLEANS, April in the consolidated free text i book cases opened in the state su- iprem.e court today with prominent attorneys from Shreveport, Alexandria, Baton Rouge and other citiea present. Injunction suits to prevent the use any of the severance tax money for the purchase of free school books on the ground that the McClanahan free school book act was unconstitutional were brought against B.

Conner, state treasurer, L. B. Bayl nard, state auditor and Thomas H. Harris, superintendent of public education. The cases were consolidated for the convenience of the court.

In the district court in Baton Rouge, Judges Jones and Favrot re- jfused to enjoin the state oficials and dismissed the suits. Appeals were taken but the supreme court by a vote of 4 to 3 refused to issue writs to compel the lower court judges to grant the relief requested by the plaintiff ard case came up on a devolutive appeal. FLORIDA FRUITS AND VEGETABLES BARRED FROM LA. CHARGE Feels That Statement of Governor Did Him Injustice. By Associated Press- ALEXANDRIA, April certain comments made by Governor Long in his address in Shreveport last night which was broadcast over radio station Rev.

J. L. Anderson, of Colfax, representing the parishes of Grant, LaSalle and Caldwell in the state senate, who was Alexandria today, issued a signed stntement for publication in the daily I Town Talk, in reply to the I comments. His statement in part follows: have no desire to project myself into public notice nor to seek undue prominence, because of the position I now occupy as state senator and member of the high court of impeachment, but I feel that it now becomes my duty to the public to issue this statement in answer to the statement made by Governor Huey P. Long in his radio speech Monday night, April 22, at Shreveport.

particular part of his speech (CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE) LONG RALLY IS SLATED AT CITY SCHOOL TONIGHT Ry Associated Press- BATON ROUGE, April Until an embargo enforced today is lifted, receiving into Louisiana of I shipments of fruits and vegetables produced in Florida will ho prohibited as the result of a proclamation of quarantine issued to prevent the spread into this state of the Mediterranean fruit fly. The proclamation issued last night by Harry D. Wilson, state commissioner of agriculture, and W. E. Anderson.

state entomologist, denies entrance of any shipments of Florida fruits and put into transit later than yesterday. All common carriers were notified of the embargo by telegfams last night. -Joe McElroy, Ray Russell and Justin Street each were sentenced to the penitentiary for six-year terms by Judge Percy Sandel in district court at 3 p. m. McElroy and Russell each pleaded guilty to two burglaries and each was meted six-year sentences, to run concurrently.

Streets pleaded guilty to hijacking Tom filling station near Eros and his sentence came under the inrie- I terminate sentence act, being not less than six nor more than nine years in the penitentiary. All three of the are young men, being IS, Russell 22, and McElroy 25. Public the of McElroy and Rusi sell entered yesterday, Sheriff Milton ('overdale made public the written he has obtained from the i pair in which Russell admits to seven burglaries and safe-breakings which occurred in this vicinity during March and April and McElroy to 15. I In of the crimes, McElroy and Russell worked together, in they were assisted by other men who are being sought by the sheriff at the present time, and in several McElroy I and this third conferedate worked to- gether, without Russell. The two confessions clear up 15 of MOREHOUSE RED CROSS WILL AID STORM VICTIMS Morgan Will Call for Yota Tomorrow on Article Four.

Emergency Committee Appointed to Make Investigation. (CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE) JURY VERDICT FREES 5 WHITE MEN OF CHARGE An emergency committee of the Red chapter of Morehouse parish has been named to take action in connection with the need for relief occasioned by the. tornado Sun-1 I day near Oak Ridge and vicinity. The personnel is as J. WT.

Broadnax, T. E. Barham and T. O. Files.

They are instructed to make thorough investigation of cases i needing assistance and to report to Chairman E. L. Gladney, of the Red Cross chapter at Bastrop. Miss Nell Williams, representing the national Red Cross, has been assigned to the afflicted area to I render what aid the national in able to offer. A resolution of sympathy and expression of desire to render any aid possible been passed by the local Red Cross chapter, Dr.

F. K. Hirsch, I chairman, Clothing and some bedding are said to have been received at Oak Ridge for the use of homeless people. Further aid of this nature will be accept- it ia stated. The funeral Mrs.

Fannie Kennedy, aged Oak Ridge woman ki 1 led during the tornado Sunday was held at the Baptist cemetery at Oak Ridge at 10:30 r. m. yesterday, with Rev. Sam Colvin of Rayville, officiating. By Associated BATON ROUGE, April into the fourth week of its investigation into impeachment charges against Governor Huey P.

Long, the house of representatives adopted unanimously a resolution demanding that the governor name the witness connected with his stump speech charges that members of the legislature had been influenced against him. The statement of the governor that members of the legislature were because they did not recall they had passed a bill making the governor a peace officer with permission to carry weapons brought Representative Joseph Hamiter, of Caddo, author of the bill, to his feet. He said the measure provided for a criminal identification bureau with the members extended the powers of peace officers but the measure did not embrare the board of managers, of which the governor is an ex-officio chairman. Qualified Men Turned Down other thing I want to say about the he continued, that the hill provides that the superintendent have four years experience in criminal identification. The man appointed by the governor has had only one experience.

A man who was qualified to hold the position, did not get it because he voted for Wilson for governor. let you draw your (CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE) Girl Faces Death 3 Times in 3 Days Convict Fails in Attempt To Avenge Death Final Details Will be Arranged at Meeting This Afternoon. Arrested Fifteen Minutes Before Slayer of His Parent Arrives. By Associated Press. DAVENPORT, April Tilghain, who escaped from the Tennessee penitentiary a month ago to avenge the slaying of his father, Bill Tilghain, famous fion- ticr peace officer, was on his way back to prison today, quest lost by a scant fifteen minutes.

Young Tilgham, well known hare, was arrested by Marvin Roberts, chief of police, a quarter of an hour before Wylie Lynn, a former federal prohibition officer, who shot and killed his father at Cromwell, five years ago, arrived on a bus. He had heard Lynn was a passenger on the bus and was waiting for him with twj guns. man who shot my father was on that stage that arrived a few minutes after you picked mo he told Marvin Roberts, chief of police. thought perhaps Ud get a chance to meet Under the name of F. B.

Wilson, young Tilgham was serving a sentence in the Tennessee prison for attempted robbery of a Memphis bank when he escaped. The elder Tilgham, known as one of the most fearless peace officers of wild west days, was shot and killed in an altercation with Lynn. It was the first time in his forty-year career as an officer that he had been bested in a pun play. At the time Tilgham was marshal at Cromwell. He had been marshal at Dodge City, and a United States marshal in Oklahoma Territory.

Lynn was tried for the slaying but was acquitted when he pleaded self defense. He was sentenced to three months in jail, however, on a charge of contempt of court, for carrying a gun in the court room during his trial. Final arrangements fcr the appearance of Gov. Huey P. Long at the city school auditorium tonight will be completed this afternion by local supporters in charge of the plans.

The meeting is to start at 7:30 p. m. Governor Long is expected to reply to the impeachment charges which have been lodged against him and it is anticipated that his address will follow the same general lines as others he has given during his present stumping tour of the state. At 3 p. m.

today his local supporters were scheduled to confer to arrange the final for the meeting and at noon today it not definitely known who the presiding officer would he. It is understood that supporters of the governor in this city and from adjacent points will appear on the platform. Amplifers are to be installed at the city school so that persons outside can hear the speakers. The goyernor arrived at 2:30 p. m.

by ctr from Shreveport, where he spoke at a rally last night. BAMBONFS MEDITATIONS By J. P. Alley I RECKhJ SlS MfcLlSSY Long Fine HER NEW MAN 5HE SAY Hfc pp-MCE 1 HER EN SHE PON' R) Ltd Iff My Assoclared ALEXANDRIA, April facing death three times in three days and little the worse for her ex; periences, Meldine McCoy, three and one-half years old, daughter of the Frank near Lecompte, today appeared immune from further dix- i aster. She firRt developed ptomaine poisoning but recovered rapidly.

The next day she fell into a ditch full of water and would have drowned but some one rushed to her rescue. The third day she was struck by an automobile and knocked ten feet but no bones were broken. Were ('barged With Firing Into Negro House; Alibis Claimed. COAST GUARD BOAT FIRES AT VESSEL; MATE ALMOST HIT (CopmtM. ifta tf Ucj NEW! Unkissed Bride Something new in serial fiction awaits News-Star readers when kissed by Berta Ruck, starts next Monday in this newspaper.

Watch for the first installment of this story of two young people who made their marriage a business arrangement. If you are not already a News-Star subscriber, telephone 224 for daily delivery in Monroe and West Monroe. If you live elsewhere in Northeast Louisiana, see your local News-Star agent. i By Associated FARMERVJLLE, April 23 verdict acquitting five white men on of firing into a negro ing wan returned by a jury in the i Union parish district court morning. The were Jim Pope 1 Lowry, Claude Ilattaway, John L.

I Youngblood, Ed Ray and Bud Ray. The rase went to the jury at 4 yesterday afternoon after 15 witnesses had been heard. The defendants were identfied by Will Sutton, negro whose home was fired upon, and other negroes as the men who committed the depredations. Each of the five defendants claimed an alibi, one maintaining he was in Monroe the night of December 5, when the shooting took place, another that he was in Farmcrville and the others that they were at their homes. The went to the jury at 4 p.

m. yesterday hut it was not until ID n. m. today that a verdict was re! turned. The jury which reached the verdict was selected only after 130 'veniremen had been examined.

A iok NEW HAVEN. April A. D. Jones, former head football coach at Yale and president of a coal company bearing his name, has authorized his attorney to protest the firing on one of his colliers by the coast guard cutter Seneca. Captain William Keating, of Bea- eon, N.

master of the collier T. D. D. Jones, reported to his owners that the Seneca fired several shots the bow of his ship 60 miles off the jJersey coast Saturday night, then sent a boarding party aboard the collier. Captain Keating, who served in the i navy in the World war, said there had i been no warning other than the shrieking of the cutter's siren before the shells came hurtling across the collier.

When the A. P. hove to, Captain Keating said, a lieutenant and an ensign came aboard and sub- jected him and his officers to a series of indignities before they departed, warning him not to leave tha spot un- til tho cutter was out of sight. Late News FLASHES (By Associated Press) ROOSEVELT FIELD, April a new solo endurance record for women, Elinor Smith, 17-year-old flier, took the air in a cabin monoplane today. NEW YORK.

April F. Curry, wealthy insurance man, who for many been a district leader of the went side, today was elected chieftain of Tammany Hall to succeed W. Olivany, resigned. CHICAGO. April Chicago Daily News today printed a story that word reached Chicago that the Army and Navy had buried the hatchet and would stage a football game in Soldier field here in 1931.

HOT SPRINGS, April Fred Fowler, city clerk, was arrested and was being held in jail today on a charge of arson after an alleged attempt to hurn the city hall. The city hsll damaged to the extent of about $31,600. An audit of the city been under way several days. RIVER STAGES Chicago Postal Inspector Shot 3 Times in Gun Fight Stage Change St. 2.3 rise Vicksburg 52.6 0.1 rise New Orleans 18.2 unchanged Arkansas fall Shreveport 13.0 0.7 fall Alexandria 0.8 fall Camden 10.4 0.6fall Monroe 25.90.3 fall Cairo fall Ft.

Smith 23.0 2.1 rise Little Koek 0.4 rise Robber Suspect Wounded; Three Others Make Their Escape. Bv Associated CHICAGO, April Jackson, an ace among Chicago postal inspectors, and four men he sought for an $18,000 post office rohbery fought with guns in a room at the Hawthorne Arms hotel early today. Jackson was shot three times, and I may die. Clyde Matkin, one of tha i robber suspects, was slightly woend- add was captured. A woman com- panlon of the four men, Marian Ceurt- ney, leaped from a first floor window and was found, painfully hurt, on the aliey pavement below.

The other three escaped. Lured With the help of Morris Stein, In Whose roome the gun fight took place, Jackson had iured the suspected robbers to the hotel. The postal inspector and a secretary concealed themselves in an adjoining room, tak. ing down the conversation between Stein and the others. Becoming suddenly suspicious, (CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE).