The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 1

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PRICE FIVE CENTS PER COPY VOLUME LVHI NO. 178 SHREVEPORT, N'ONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1930 BEATEM MAN FATALLY ED, Ewe THREE FAMOUS GIRL TRIPLETS AND TRIPLET OF FAMOUS WONDER DOLLS SECOND FATAL FEUD FLARES IN RED RIVER, MAN IS SLAIN SEVERE GALES CAUSE DAMAGE IN 5 NATIONS BRUTAL CRIME YET UNSOLVED Night Watchman Is Waylaid While Making Rounds at Lewis Tom Sheppard of East Point Fatally Injured in Fight; Three Men Arrested Three Great Rivers Overflow; Situation Grows Worse As Dikes Break rmH yml 4-a vw Os In the second brutal fatal assault and robbery of the past two weeks la Caddo parish, A. R. Horn. 64 years old.

night watchman at the Thompson and Weaver mill at Lewis, J9 miles north of Shreveport. was clubbed to death and robbed at late hour Sunday night. Horn was carried to Trl-8tate hos pttal here about 3:30 Sunday morn ing In a Rol' Osborn ambulance and died at 6:30 without regaining con-sciousness. Dr. Willis P.

Butler, Caddo parish coroner, declared that Horn's death was due to head wounds Inflicted by some blunt Instrument. Workmen on the night shift at the mill found Horn, who had fallen eight feet from the runway to the ground. He was lying between the runway and a lumber stack. His lantern was extinguished and the oil In the container had been spilled. Deputy Sheriff Will George of OH (Continued On I'ate Twelve.) Coushatta, Nor.

24 (Special). In a renewal of a year old dispute over two bales of cotton, Tom Sheppard, bout GO years old, bachelor farmer residing one mllo south of F.ast Point, was killed Sunday night. Three men who are alleged to have attacked him were captured late at night and lodged In the parish Jail here. The suspects are: O. B.

McCoy, 28 years old, his brother, Barney, 28 years old, and Martin Conly, 22 years old. They were arrested at the McCoy home at Alabama Bend on Lake Bls-tlneau, whence they fled following the fatal altercation. According to officers here, the trio went to East Point Sunday to renew nn argument with Bheppard who, it Is said, last year sold two bales of cotton which he an O. B. McCoy had raised together, without first getting McCoy's permission for the sale.

The men stopped their car In front of Sheppard'a home and O. B. McCoy (Continued on t-mtr Twelve.) London, Nov. 23 Floods and severe gales caused serious damage In five European countries over the week-end. Three great rivers, the Scheldt, the Rhine and the Seine have overflowed their banks owing to recent heavy rains, while destructive gales lashed other parts of Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland and many districts In England.

Material damage was heavy and six deaths, five In France and one Germany, were attributed to the game. Belgium so far has been the principal sufferer with the Scheldt breaking through Its dikes at several points and overflowing the countryside. In the Termonde district thousands of acres have been submerged and troops have been rushed to the affected area to repair the breaches In the dikes. In southern Germany, with the KJnminued tie l'ae Twelve). CONVICT TRIO, ESCAPES FROM ANGOLA, TAKEN TWO GIRLS DIE AS GANGSTERS RAID CABARET POLICE CATCH BANK ROBBERS IN HOT CHASE Above arc shown Arigella, Cluudine and Claudctte Man by, famous triplets of Qulncy, who on a rerent visit of the Doll Lady to that city, became the proud possessors of three A'onder dolls, that speak, Ring, pray and walk and which are now being shown to the girls of this city at Felbleman's and Kubensteln Rrothers stores.

Girls of Shreveport and vicinity, who visit the Doll Lady at her headquarters In these two stores will be told how they can get one of the Wonder dolls for her very own. POLICE GUARD Holdup Men in Panic as Lights Go Out, Fire Wildly Into Stampeded Crowd Arrested in Chicago Following Long Record of Holdups; Explain Getaway Bandits Get $7,500 in Orleans; Three Officers and Citizen Wounded TEXAS CHURCH NEGRO KILLER BARELY SAVED FROM BIG HOB DAM BREAKS, FLOOD ROARS ACROSS TEXAS DOLL LADY TO GIVE THEATRE PARTY AT STRAND SATURDAY FOR GIRLS WHO JOIN CLUB AFTER THREAT Cliff Temple Baptist Preacher Receives Letter Demanding $2,500 Payment Corpus Christ! Water Supply Pours Down Neches River; Embankment Gave Way Lynching Averted When Officers Find Negro Who Killed Young Policeman By THE DOLL LADY. After getting rested Sunday from the Saturday work at my two headquarters, where I greeted more than 2,000 children of Shreveport and vicinity on Satur Dallas, Texas, Nov. 23 (JP). Police guarded the Cliff Temple Baptist church and the church parsonage here Sunday night after the pastor, the Rev.

Wallace Bassett, received a letter signed "hungry men," which New Orleans, Nov. 23 (IP). Reputed confessions of four men and a woman alleged to have taken $7,500 from a branch bank In a daring raid, were Sunday night In possession of police, while three police officers and a citizen were reported recovering from bullet wounds Incurred In a gun battle that followed the robbery. Four men, Austin Hart, George O'Day, Donald Ryan, and Itto Jacobs, and a woman, Edna Hart, believed to be the wife of Austin Hart, have made full confess! jns In the hold-up, police reported. The quintet were captured early Sunday after 40 officers, armed with sub-machine guns, revolvers end sawed-off shotguns, laid siege to and riddled with bullets and slugs a house In the local section of the city to which the alleged bandits fled after the holdup with motorcycle police and citizenry In pursuit.

Meanwhile, Police Corporal Thomas iContlnnrd tn Pare Twelve.) Three Louisiana Youths Are Held hy Chicago Cops day, my opening day here, I decided at once that I was due for a Ions stay In Shreveport, for I know thousands of little girls are going to want my wonder dolls, that speak, pray, sing and walk and are almost human In every respect, My two headquarters here at Felbleman's and at the Ruben stein Brothers stores quarters stores being closed Sunday to arrange my first party for the members of my National Doll club, which started off with a rush here Saturday when around 2.000 girls Joined, and I look for 10 times that number of members by next Saturday morning when my first party will be held. This fflll be Saturday morning at the Strand theatre, when I have arranged with Karry and Simon Ehrllch end Arthur Cunningham, resident manager, for the use of the theatre during the morning hours for a reception to the members of my Dill clubs, while the theatre will also provide ths entertainment for the children with a moving picture. My first party is to be a real doll perty and 1 want every girl attending to have a doll with her. If by that time the has not obtained one of my wonder dolls she can bring any old kind of a doll with her to ihe theatre and we will have a great morning of real fun and entertainment. So remember the date and be there next Saturday morning at the Strand it'nntl ed on l'ae Tneivn.

threatened that both church and parsonage would be bombed unless the church deacons raised $2,500 at the evening services. Police Commissioner W. C. Graves placed the officers on guard after the letter was turned over to him. The church board took no acton on the letter.

Arlington, Texas, Nov. 23 (IP). A lynching was averted here Sunday when officers rushed Sam Lauder, r.egro slayer of James E. Johnson, 22-year-old policeman, to the county Ja'' at Fort Worth for safekeeping More than 100 armed men Joined In a hunt for the negro Sunday, and open threats of violence were thwarted when the negro surrendered to a posse composed mostly of officers Lauder shot and killed the youthful officers, who had answered a riot call at a house In the negro section of the town Saturday night. As he approached the house Lauder fired through the door from the inside, and the officer was wounded in the neck, dying soon afterward.

Citizens Joined in the hunt for the (Continued On Tate Twelve.) Bugler Awarded Medal After Ten Years of Peace The epistle declared that Bassett was "responsible largely for the elec Chicago. Nov. 23 (JP). Three youths who Identified themselves as convicts escaped from the Louisiana penitentiary were under arrest Sunday. One captured In a stolen car several days ago gave Information leading to the capture of the others late Saturday night In a northslde apartment.

Connected with 60 robberies In Chicago, the youths gave names as William Woolforth. 22 years old; William Dupont, serving 14 to 28 years for robbing the Hlbernla bank money truck of $104,000, and Andrew Sanchez, 21, serving a sentence for robbery. Detailing their prison escape the (Continued On Tare Twelve.) John G. Price, Past Ruler of B.P.O.E., Dead Columbia, Ohio, Nov. 23 (JP).

John Price, 59, past grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and former attorney general of Ohio, died at his home here today. Death was caused by cerebral hemorrhage. Price was launched In his public career by his friends. President William McKlnley, who In 1899 took him from his postman's route In Canton, Ohio, to the postofflce department In Washington. He returned to Columbus seven years later to practice law and later he was elected assistant prosecutor of Franklin county.

Price was elected to the state attorney generalship for two two-year terms starting In 1919. Long prominent In fraternal circles, he was elected grand exalted ruler of the Elks at the Boston convention In 1924. He also was former grand knight of the Columbus lodge of Knights of Columbus. AVI ATRIX 'MAKES FAST TIME IN FLIGHT TO N. Y.

and you will find me at either one of the two headquarters at all times during the stores are cpen, while If I am not there my capable assistants will be In charge. I also took advantage of the head- Corpus Chrlstl, Texas, Nov. 23 (U.R). A deluge of water, released by the crash of Lake Mathls dam, roared through the Ncchcs river valley Sunday night, sweeping all habitation In Its path. Reports that many people were trapped by the water could not be verified early at night.

The dam formed Lake Lovensklole, source of water supply for the town of Corpus Chrlstl, and the break threatened to leave 50,000 people without drinking during the night. The Corpus Chrlstl pumping station lay In the direct path of the gigantic waves. Reports to the sheriff's office here said that the water was due to reach the pumping station at midnight. The break In the dam occurred In the dirt embankment at noon. Other sections of ths dam gave way quickly, releasing a gigantic volume of water from the 7.000-acre foot reservoir.

A new 50-foot spillway crashed at 5:30 tn the afternoon Members of the sheriff's department mounted horses, commandeered automobiles and 6ped afoot over the I nllnurd On I'ncr Negro Attacks Man, Robs Fun of $5 of Home tion of President Hoover and that Hoover In turn brought about unemployment and now, thousands of men were "starving to death," "Your church has been assessed and unless It Is raised Sunday night, we will bomb your church and Chicago, Nov. 23 (JP). A gang of young robbers, panicked when lights were whisked off during a roadhouse holdup early Sunday poured a shotgun volley into a crowd of frightened victims huddled In a corner, killing two women, critically Injuring another anl wounding three men. The robbers, described as youths of about 13, took $200 from the patrons and had started to take their leave when the place was suddenly plunged Into darkness. Fearing a trap, tht bandits, eight In all, blazed away In the general direction of the group which was Jammed In a space ot less than 18 to 20 feet.

Wounded and dying screamed (Contlnned On Page Twelve.) Falls to Tracks Under Long Train, Boy Is Still Alive Fort Worth, Texas. Nov. 23 Thrown from a moving freight train, run over by a string of cars half a mile long, his clothing torn to shreds by car rods that scraped his body, Charles Willis, 19 years old. was alive Sunday night. He nursed only a few scratches on his back as a result of his experience.

Willis was riding on a Texas and Pacific freight train, and was attempting to move to another car when he fell to the tracks, prone on his stomach. He was dragged a few feet. He clung to the ties, and the rods of very car that passed ha.lt an Inch over his head tore Bits of clothing from his body. One piece of metal tore a handful of hair from his head. When the train passed over him the youth was taken to a hospital, but he was found to have suffered no serious Injuries.

FIGHT IS FATAL TO BOOTLEGGER; WIFE IS INJURED Seminole. Nov. 23 L. "Blockle" Younger, admitted bootlegger shot Saturday night by Seminole county deputy sheriffs as the aftermath of a liquor raid in which Younger's wife and aa officer were wounded, died Sunday. Younger's wife, an arm and leg oroken by the fire of Deputy Sheriff Fred Hanner during the raid, was In a honpltal.

Deputy Sher.ff Frank Loftus was stabbed In the face by Younger, but was not seriously wounded. home, with you In It," the letter said. The missive was written In longhand, was three pages long and was mailed at a downtown Dallas postofflce Youth Learning Carpentry Falls in County and City Officers Guilty inVhiskyRing One Man Killed and One Injured as Train Derails Miami, Nov. 23 (U.R) A liquor ring, described by federal officers as one of the strongest In the southwest. Chicago, Nov.

23 OJ.ra Three youthful bandits, all of whom escaped from the Louisiana state penitentiary a month ago, were held In detective bureau cells here Sunday night, charged with robbery of about 100 chain stores and gasoline filling stations here. The prisoners were William W'ool-farth, 21 years old, Andrew Sanvhez, 20 years old, and William DuPont, 17 years old. They told authorities that they escaped from the hospital of the Louisiana prison October 20 and that they eluded bloodhounds there by putting oil of mustard on their shoes. Woolfarth and Sanchez were arrested early Sunday upon Information supplied by DuPont, who was apprehended several days ago with a revolver In his pocket. They said they all were serving sentences of from 14 to 28 years upon conviction robbing a pay car of 104,000 when they escaped the Louisiana Institution.

Washington, Nov. 23 (Universal Service). Walter B. Jones, former bugler of Company One Hundred Tenth Infantry, Thirty-eighth division, Sunday was awarded the distinguished service cross for extraordinary heroism In the second battle of the Marne, July 14 and 15, 1918. The award states that after all officers of the company had been killed, wounded, or taken prisoners, Jones found himself and his company cut off from their own lines.

Taking command, he led the company In a flank advance, through the German lines, and succeeded In getting It back Kansas City. Nov. 23 (P). Patrick A. O'Dell, 14 years old, who moved recently with his family from Detroit to Kansas City, was given a chest of carpenter's tools by his father, Charles O'Dell, a contractor, that he might learn the trade.

Saturday Patrick attacked with augur and saw a square of massive planking in the back yard of his new home. He was missing Saturday night. Sunday his parents found him drowned In a disused cistern the mutilated planking had covered. Man Sees Bride Die in Automobile Wreck was broken up Sunday after 28 defendants, Including county and city officials, had been brought to trial. Nine of the defendants, charged with accepting bribes from bootleggers, pleaded guilty.

Eleven more were convicted. Five of those. Including Joe Nolan, Plcher, police chief, were sentenced to six months In Jail and fined $250. Federal Judge Franklin A. Kennamer deferred sentencing the other six.

Indictments were returned after federal officers spent six months Investigating operation of the ring In safely to the remainder of the regi Roosevelt Field. N. Nov. 33 (JP). Ruth Nichols, widely-known avlatrlx, Havana, Nov.

23 (iP) One man was dead, another Injured and a third was missing following the derailment of a Rock Island freight train here late Saturday. Munroe Nash of Athens, was killed; Frank Rodriquez, of Mason City, Iowa, suffered minor Injuries. Nash told Investigators before he died that a negro was riding beside bim on a coal car at the time of the accident. Search of the wreckage failed to reveal body. Ten cars were derailed when the freight struck a damaged switch at Danville, 10 miles east of here, the result of what railroad investigators believe was a dragging brake beam.

landed here Sunday after flying the 160 miles from Mlddietown, in exactly one hour. She said she was forced to land at Mlddietown because Oklahoma's lead and zinc mining dis Beaten over the head with a stick until he was unconscious and robbed of $5 and a pen knife, L. W. Barrow, 2537 Kings Highway, is suffering at his home from the wounds resulting from an encounter early Sunday night with a negro hi-Jacker. After driving his car Into the garage Mr.

Barrow was met by the r.egro as he walked toward the house. When he regained consciousness Mr. Barrow told Patrolmen Morris and Plalsance of the Jordan street substation that l.e had observed the negro carefully and would be able to identify him. At Barrow's home It was stated that his physician had not determined the extent of his injuries. Police said that the hl-Jacklng was one of the boldest crimes attempted In many months.

Throat Cut, Man Writes Name of Assailant, Dies ment, although he constantly was exposed to the utmost danger from rifle and machine gun f're. He lives in Somerset, Pa. Marshall Youth Falls Into Well But Is Rescued of heavy fog after she hopped off Saturday from Mann's Choice, near Bedford. Pa. She was met at the field by Clarence Chamberlln, trans-Atlantic filer, and her mother.

A representative of Miss Nichols tricts near here. HOTEL ROBBERY THWARTED, FOUR HURT IN FIGHT said she was planning a long distance Uvalde, Texas, Nov. 23 (JP). Mrs. Ralph Harris, of Uvalde, bride of three weeks, was injured fatally Sunday when her automobile overturned near here.

She lived only 10 minutes after the accident. Her husband was following closely In another car and witnessed the fatal mishap. flight, but refused to give details. KELLOGG PLANT SHORTENS HOURS AND RAISES PAY STAFF ANNOUNCER THOUGHT DROWNED AS SKIFF UPSETS Battle Creek, Nov. 23 (JP).

The Need For Money The W. K. Kellogg company, manufacturers of breakfast cereals, announced Sunday adoption of the six-hour day with an Increase In hourly rate for employes. Cannibals Lived in Southwest During Prehistoric Time, Says Explorer Delving in South Texas Detroit. Nov.

23 (iP). A patrolman, robber suspect and two employes were wounded In an attempted robbery of the Briggs hotel here early Sunday. Patroimtn Francis Murphy had been stationed In the hotel because of a warning from Cleveland police that 12 hotels there had been robbed recently, and the robbers were believed to have moved to Detroit. The robbers were accosted by Murphy Just ts they ordered the night clerk to hold up his hands. They shot the patrolman In bcth legs.

He wounded one of the men as they fled. Mack Wald, bellboy, and Michael Zelekln, newspaper vendor, also were hit. Ihe company has been operating several years with three eight-hour shifts and will change to four six- Labadiaville. Nov. 23 (JP).

His throat slashed and weak from loss of blood, Junior Conclenne, 34 years old, a merchant, Saturday night wrote out laboriously the name of a negro he said attacked him, together with details. Conclenne died later In a New Orleans hospital. Before his death he committed to writing an account of how a negro entered his store under pretext of wanting buy a pair of shoes and then struck him over the head with a piece of iron and cut his throat with a cheese knife. The negro then fled with $400 from the cash register, he said. It was necessary for Conclenne to write his narrative, as his throat was cut so badly be was unable to speak.

Conclenne was married and had four children. Often Induces people to sell good real estate at bargain prices For Just sue!) attractlvr buys, make It DAILY habit to watch Times "Real Estate" Want Ads. hour shifts. The change will make possible employment of 25 per cent additional men. It was announced.

The hourly wage will be Increased 12 1-2 per cent, making a minimum wage $4 a day and the average $5 40. Ttvv.k nnrt. Texas. Nov. 23 (Universal Service).

Evidences of a pre-historlc Marshall. Texas, Nov. 23 (UP). Dragged alive from the recesses of a 30-foot abandoned well, Parker J. Wendell, College of Marshall student, was suffering from numerous bruises and a possible fractured foot Sunday night.

A party of 30 companions, members of the First Baptist Young People's Union, on an outing at Hynson Springs, worked frantically Saturday night to rescue the youth. Once he wa3 dragged nearly out of the pit when a rope broke and he tumbled back to the bottom. A hurried search of the neighborhood produced another rope and he was hauled to safety. Air Passenger Service Oklahoma City, Houston Oklahoma City, Nov. 23 UP).

Dally air passenger service between Oklahoma City and Houston was established Sunday by Bowen Air Lines, which has operated en Oklahoma City-Dallas and Fort Worth line. The Oklahoma City-Houston schedule calls for three and a hill-hour trips. THE SHREVEPORT TIMES PHONE 68 1 1 Tankton. S. Nov.

23 W). Herbert Lembke, radio entertainer and a staff announcer for Station WNAX, Yankton, was believed to have drowned Sunday In the Missouri river nea here when a motorboat struck a snag and upset. A companion, William Boos, barber of Yankton, also was thrown Into the water but he clung to a log for three hours and was rescved by Glen and Floyd Brewer, who were In another motorboat. Young Glider Dies in Fall as Parents Watch Chicago, Nov. 23 VP).

Apparently losing his balance while releasing the tow rope from the plane that had pulled him into the air, Brlce F. Halper, 22 years old. pitched from his seat In a glider over Eagle airport near here and tell 180 feet to his death Sunday as crowd. Including his parents, watched. Halper was a licensed pilot and had organized a glider club among youthful aviation enthusiasts.

SON IS KILLED BY FATHER WHO FIRED AT BIRD coveries have been made both In graves and In kltchei middens. In the latter, where remains of feasting are to be found, boner deeply hacked by tomahawks have been recovered Usually these "kitchens" with their food refuse yield human arm or leg bones, all bearing marks showing how these cannibal people attempted to reach the marrow with sharp flint tools. President Henry Fairfield Osborne, ot the American Museum of Natural Hlsto.y, has said that "no such min GRIM REAPER IS HOVERING NEAR "MOTHER" JONES Washington, Nov. 23 Mary "Mother" Jones, 100-year-old crusader for the laboring man. Sunday con tlnued In her long fight against death.

Her physician said Saturday night death might occur at any moment cannibal clvllizauon have Deen uncovered here by Cfeorge C. Martin, one of this country's leading geneologists and archeologlsts, he announced Sunday. Martin, who is known In Boston, Philadelphia and New York as an authority on heraldry, has discovered on a group of desert Islands near the Gulf of Mexico the lost mystery of the Karankawa, only cannibals ever known to have Inhabited this continent. Mineralized bones, showing a low skull one-half an Inch In thickness, of the same type as the Plltdown men of Europe, have been found by Martin along the Texas coast. His dis Stillwater, Oklahoma, Man Heads A.

P. Group Stillwater, Nov. 23 (JP). Leon R. CaJonke.

managing editor of tba McAlestcr OkIa.) News Capttal. vm sleeted president of the Oklahoma members of the Associated Press at their annual fall meeting here Sunday. He succeeds N. G. Henthrone ol the Tulsa World.

eralized bones have been found be Wichita Falls, Nov. 23 tepplng in front of a line of hunters, Elmer Poskey, 15 years old, was shot to death by his father Sunday at Lake Wichita. The lather, E. Poskey had accompanied his son and four othex boys to shoot Jack Snipes There were in" at the edge of the lake shooting birds, when the boy stepped In front of the line Just as his father lired at a bird. fore tn America, a pronouncement 2 from the ravages of old age Her that lends weight to the theory that the "new world" may have been Inhabited long before the first Euro- iCraUnued On face TwtlveJ condition wa: reported Sunday as.