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Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

Members of the Independent OIL
and Gas Association of Louisiana,
acting through Judge Emile God
chaux of New Orleans, their repre-
sentative. have filed with Governor
Pleasant statement Of their griev-
ances, in which they charge that tbs
oil pipe line companies are delibe-
rately pursuing plan to destroy and
annihilate the small producers so
that the large corporations may get
control Of the Pine Island oil field.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10
NANsEN TO FEED STARVING. RUSSIA

DR.. Fridtjof Nansen of Norway.
head of the commission appointed by
the peace conference to feed Russia.
is famous by reason Of his arctic ex-
plorations and experiences. His FAR
thest North" (1897l, which tells of his
drifting for two years on the Fran, is
his best-known book. Doctor Nansen's
letter to Wilson, Lloyd George, Gle
1nenceau and Orlando, suggesting the
commission, reads in part:
''The present food situation in
Russia. where hundreds of thousands
Of people are dying monthly from sheer
starvation and disease, is one of the
problems now uppermost in all mems
minds As it appears that no solution
of this food question has so far been
reached In any delegation, / would like
TO make a suggestion from neutral
point Of view for the benefit of this
gigantic misery, on purely humans
tarlan grounds.
IT would appear to me possible
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10
LOUIS ]. sTAsKO, DOUGH" BOY

The United States army points
with pride-though individual soldiers
at times viewed with alarm-to Private
Louis ]. Stasko, champion crap Shooter,
A. e. F. He has been nine months in
the army and now he is going to Joliet
with $4,000 in his clothes, all of it
won at craps. No; not to the peni-
tentiary-Joliet, H., is his home.
And no man can win $4,000 with
''phony" dice in the A. e. F.; there
are too many quick-eyed and hard
listed players in the game.
Well, Private Stasko was born
twenty-eight years ago in Joliet of
Slav parents. He was earning $40
week as machinist in rolling mill
when Uncle Sam put him on his pay
roll at $50 month. Stasko had
rolled the bones" at home; after en-
listment he spent his leisure and the
other doughboys spent their money
shooting craps.
From Joliet Stasko went to Jeffer-
son barracks, Missouri. His first two
weeks at Fort Leayenworth yielded ar
embarkation camp on the edge of New
nings were large. At Hayre, France,
Knotty Ash, Liverpool. England, distl
@~.--r. -.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

Further reports from the Seventh
Ward received at Natchitoches show
that nine Vats have been totally de-
stroyed or injured. Inspectors have
turned in names of those who have
failed TO dip and District Attorney
J. F. Stephens is filing bills of in
formation and warrants are being
placed in the hands OF the sheriff sor
service.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

Major Charles Miller has been in
yited by the Jennings parade COM
mittee to help arrange plans for the
parade at Jennings which will well
come the First Louisiana Cavalry on
its return. The troop was the Louis
lana representatives in the Rainbow
Division and served with distinction
on tbs French front.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.


United States submarine chaser No,
IS was heavily damaged at Charleston,
S. c., Friday by fire following an ex.
plosion of gasoline aboard the vessel,
which resulted in injuries to 13 city
firemen and the commanding officer of
the chaser.
Roberto Gayon, secretary to Gener.
al Aurelio Banquet, who was killed
recently in Mexico, was arrested
Thursday in New York City by Agent
Charles Scully of the department OF
justice, charged with conspiring to
start a revolt in Mexico from within
the United States.
An unidentified man was killed by a
detectives bullet, eleven policemen
were shot or badly beaten and about
a hundred persons wounded. many
seriously, in general rioting which
brought dramatic finale Thursday to
the socialist Mayday demonstrations
ut Cleveland, Ohio.
Fire of unknown origin Thursday
damaged the business district at Will
lis, Montgomery County, Texas. caus-
ed property loss estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000.
-
Six soldiers of the Eighth United
States Mounted Engineers, are under
arrest at Camp Newton d. Baker,
Fort Bliss, Texas. charged with send
ing a telegram direct to the adiutant
general Of the army asking that the
men in the regiment who enlisted for
the war be discharged and sent home
as soon as possible.
o
The worlds most powerful battle
ship, the superdreadnaught Tennessee,
was successfully launched Friday, slid
ing down the ways at the New York
navy yard
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10
TOLD m A FEW LINES.

The second annual field day of the
local Boy Scouts OF America will be
held Saturday, May 81, at the Tulane
Stadium. New Orleans. The meet
viii last all day. Plans for the meet.
submitted at a recent monthly meet
ing, have been approved, 1t was an.
nounced from Scout headquarters.
Flaws in the indictments issued
against fifty-two cattlemen in the
parish OF Vernon who failed to COM
ply with the dipping law last Noveu-
her IS caused the postponement OF the
case Of the state against ]. Bushby.
NJ. r Shumate Of Shreveport was
elected president of the Louisiana
Laundry Owners Club. which con
eluded 8 two days convention at
Monroe.
The erection Of d new 100000 st.
Charles Avenue Christian Church and
modern community house under the
same roof was assured, New Orleans.
by the raising Of s34.00 in thirty
four minutes by the members Of the
church.
Half OF the $4,000 stock for Nom
roe.s proposed new hotel has been
subscribed, according to Samuel Kap-
plan. chairman Of the soliciting eom-
4,ittee Prospects for placing the re-
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

DR.. Fred j. Meyer, state agent OF
the Louisiana Anti-Tuberculosis
League. addressed the pupils OF the
city high school. the parish high
school at Monroe on methods Of
transmission and the cure for tuoer-
culosis. He suggested that eacn
school adopt patient at the Pines,
near Shreveport, at cost Of $50 per
year.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

Seventeen miners were killed and
seven seriously injured, as result Of
q blast in No. 4 north right entry at
the Majestic mines, % miles north Of
Birmingham, Ala, Tuesday.
Captain Samuel S. Ashe, 80 years
old, a pioneer resident of Galveston,
and for 70 years residing in Houston.
died at his home in Houston, Texas
Tuesday.
The quarterly statement Of the state
highway department for the period
ending March 81, 1919, shows total re-
cetpts of $1,O41.379.18 and disburss-
ments of $251,384.Os. There was a
balance on hand Jan. of 1910, 1926.
The balance on March 81 was $1,700,-
777.91. During the quarter $139, ,433.3S
was distributed as state aid in road
construction and S44, ,906.30 federal aid,
making total of S1S4, 4,339.68.
The Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific
train was held up about five miles
from Monroe, La, Tuesday and George
Holden, a negro, accused of writing
an insulting note to a white woman
at Monroe, was taken from the train
by an armed mob and shot to death.
Texas soldiers discharged from the
military service of the United States,
legal residents of Harris County and
otherwise qualified as electors, may
vote in Harris County in all elections
held this year, according to ruling
announced by Judge J. D. Harvey in
the Eightieth District Court Saturday,
at Houston, Texas.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

committee for the provisioning Russia
wholly nOnpoHical order devoted
solely TO the of saving lfe9
that commission would
rasen question Of political negotiations
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

mpalisc mlaste ministry
which months dsappEa Of the
Siberian adventure.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10
FOREIGN NEWS.

FOREIGN NEWS.
The constitutional committee Of the
national assembly at Weimar has
adopted resolution providing that the
entire railway system of Germany be
taken over by the government and
held until April, 1921. The representa-
tives of Bavaria were the only object
ors to the measure.
The German fleet is not to be de-
stroyed, but to be distributed. Final
decision has just been reached on this
point in the face of strong opposition
to the plan by the American naval ad-
visers, who formulated the policy
adopted and outlined by the American
peace delegation at Paris.
The UB-s8, one of the surrendered
German submarines, is to visit Calves
ton, Texas, following its cruise up the
Mississippi to st. Louis. The boat is
scheduled along the Atlantic and gulf
coasts up to May %, thence to the in
terror points along the Mississippi. AT
ter the visit to Galveston the boat will
go to San Diego via the Panama Canal
Because of the differences, of pro-
visioning Switzerland with meat the
federal council has decided to forbid
the eating of meat from May to May
9 throughout that nation. During this
period the killing and sale of cattle is
forbidden.
The covenant Of the league of na-
tons in revised form, moved by Presi-
dent Wilson, was adopted Monday by
the peace conference in plenary ses-
sion without a dissenting vote. The
presidents motion also named Sir
Eric Drummond as secretary-general
of the league and provided for COM
mittee to inaugurate the league. Thus
one Of the notable works of the con-
ference passes its final stage and is
incorporated in the peace treaty.
American flour and clothing are
saving the lives of thousands of desti-
tute people throughout Roumania. The
United States food administration has
already brought into the country near
ly 10000 tons of flour.
Germany was just about ready at
the time the armistice was declared,
to launch a tremendous arsenal Of
fensive by means of a fleet Of new
airplanes which had been perfected
after months of experiments and
tests. These machines-which today
stand nearly ready for service, in the
near. Berlin-would probably have
caused revolution in flying, for. they
are constructed from nose to tail and
wing tip to wing tip almost entirely of
aluminium, and therefore are immune
to that greatest of aerial dangers,
burning.
The death is announced of the
Countess of Paris, mother of the Duke
OF Orleans, the head of the Bourbon
Orleans royal house of France. She
was 70 years old
Almost 100000 persons have died
in British India from Spanish influ-
enza and fully 100000 others are be-
ieVed to have died in the native
states from the same cause, accord
ing to a report of the Indion govern
ment made public in London this
week
Following period of perfect spring
weather, one of the worst storms in
some time ragged over the British Isles
Monday, covering the country with
from four to six inches of snow.
German soldiers wounded in the
war have begun forming associations
in Cologne and other towns and cities
in various parts Of Germany.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

near Shreveport, at cost Of $50 per
year.
Governor Pleasant will issue call
soon for another cotton convention
to be held in New Orleans May II,
Is and Is. The subject of the con-
yention will be to continue the work
in the organization Of the cotton
fancing corporation which was start.
ed at the Memphis convention and
TO further the cotton acreage reduc-
tion campaign.
The boys membership campaign
for the Association of Commerce at
Lake Charles procured ninety-four
new members for the association.
The campaign was conducted on q
competitive basis between a number
of high school boys and brought .n
1915 in contracts.
The Louisiana Commercial Secre-
taries' Association, which held its
annual convention at Alexandria,
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: R. B. Nibert, Bunkie,
president; A. ]. Boylan. New Or
leans, vice president. Coleman Lind
sey, 0akdale secretary.
Maryland Plantation, about six
miles from Baton Rouge, has been
sold to the Bridge City Realty Com
pany of Baton Rouge by DIR. J. N.
Thomas, superintendent OF the Pine
vile Insane Hospital The land con-
sisted of $3.50 acres and sold for
about s103.OOo.
L. E. Thomas, chairman Of the
Board of State Affairs is In North
Louisiana on two weeks trip. He
was scheduled to talk before the po-
lice jurfes of Union, Lincoln, Chi
borne, Webster and Bienville par
ishes in the interests of the new tax
amendments.
Included in the 1000 officers and
men of the Forty-second (Rainbow)
Division which sailed from Brest
April 1S on the transport Leviathan,
due at New York April Is, is the
headquarters troop, formerly the first
separate battalion, Louisiana Cav
airy.
T. j. Greer of Shreveport has been
recommended for the post of Louis
lana federal director of the United
States Employment Service by the
state advisory board of the federal
service.
Dairy farming in and around Kent
wood has progressed to such an ad-
vanced stage that a good many of
the dairymen are installing the most
up-to-date milking machines and have
increased their herds notwithstand-
ing the shortage of labor.
The own and build home move
ment launched at Welsh some time
ago has taken firm grip on rne
community Several new homes
have been built, few are under con.
struction and many persons have
purchased.
A spirit OF optimism exists among
the farmers near Hammond as re-
suit of the high prices strawberries
are bringing. and the second crop,
which is being marketed now, is ex-
pected to last another three weeks at
least
Governor Pleasant granted extradi
ton papers to Governor Lowden of
Illinois for Fred Wells, charged with
conducting confidence game In CHI
cago He Is now being held IN
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Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

The surgeon general Wednesday re-
ported the total number of deaths re-
ported in the army during the war to
date as 111,179. OF this total, 56.639.
or 81 per cent, we're from disease, 43
per cent in battle and per cent from
other injuries. OF the deaths from dis
ease, about $4,000 have occurred since
hostilities ceased.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

Dairy farming in and around Kent
wood has progressed to such an ad-
vanced stage that good many OF
the dairymen are installing the most
up-to-date milking machines and have
increased their herds notwithstand
ing the shortage of labor.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

Official advices reaching Washing
ton through a neutral source said that
the bolsheviki leaders Lenine and
Trotzky were seeking refuge outside
Russia, fearing a possible overthrow
of the soviet government.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

Governor Pleasant granted extradi-
tion papers to Governor Lowden Of
Illinois for Fred Wells, charged with
conducting a confidence game In Chi
cago He Il now being held In
Shreveport
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

The own and build home move.
ment launched at Welsh some time
ago has taken a firm grip on the
community. Several new homes
have been built, a few are under con.
struction and many persons have
purchased
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

A spirit OF optimism exists among
the farmers near Hammond as re-
suit of the high prices strawberries
are bringing. and the second crop,
which is being marketed now, is ex-
pected to last another three weeks at
least
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10
HOME And ABROAD
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TO OUR READERS. ...
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important News of the Week Gathered
for the Busy Reader-State,
Domestic, Foreign.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Determination of President Wilson,
indicated by press advices from Paris,
that no American troops shall continue
on German soil for longer period af-
ter the signing of the peace treaty
than may be necessary to embark
them for home, is borne out by present
plans of the war department, which
contemplate the return of the entire
American expeditionary forces by
September Because of this, General
March, chief of staff, is making every
effort to speed up the demobilization
In this country.
American cable lines taken over by
the government in November were re-
stored to private ownership and opera
tion at midnight Friday by direction Of
President Wilson. The turnback was
without ceremony or formality, the
wire control board of the postoffice de-
partment having arranged details OF
the transfer on April 29, at which time
the government made known its in
G61tfOu " IStlANu1SA SOAtLO1 va IhC
properties.
Increase of intrastate toll rates by
the postmaster general was defended
In brief filed by the government Fri
day in the Supreme Court in connec-
ton with pending appeals from South
Dakota and Massachusetts, courts. The
government in its brief declares the
suits instituted by the South Dakota
and Massachusetts authorities to re-
strain the postmaster general from in
creasing the rates were in reality
brought against the United States
without its consent, and should be dis
missed. The government also con-
tends that In taking over control of
the telephone systems Of the country
the president placed them in the
hands of the postmaster general as
his representative, under the broad
power given him by the resolution to
manage as he saw fit, and they thus
were in effect added to the postal serv-
ice and became as much part of the
means of conveying news or commune
cation as the mail
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

The constitutional committee of the
national assembly at Weimar has
adopted a resolution providing that the
entire railway system of Germany be
taken over by the government and
held until April, 1921. The representa-
tives of Bavaria were the only object
ors to the measure.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

TT. Greer of Shreveport has been
recommended for the post of Louis
lana federal director of the United
States Employment Service by the
state advisory board of the federal.
service.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

III. +. shumate of Shreveport was
elected president of the Louisiana
Laundry Owners Club, which CON
eluded & two days convention at
Monroe.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

Included in the 1000 officers ana
men of the Forty-second (Rainbow)
Division which sailed from Brest
April IS on the transport Leviathan.
due at New York April Is. is the
headquarters troop, formerly the first
separate battalion, Louisiana Cav
airy.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

The German fleet is not to be de-
stroyed, but to be distributed. Final
decision has just been reached on this
point in the face of strong opposition
to the plan by the American naval ad-
visers, who formulated the policy
adopted and outlined by the American
peace delegation at Paris.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

L. E. Thomas, chairman Of the
Board of State Affairs is In North
Louisiana on a two weeks trip. He
was scheduled to talk before the po-
lice juries of Union, Lincoln, Chi
borne, Webster and Bienville par
ishes in the interests of the new tax
amendments.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

The UB-sS, one of the surrendered
German submarines, is to visit Calves
ton, Texas, following its cruise up the
Mississippi to ST. Louis. The boat is
scheduled along the Atlantic and gulf
coasts up to May %, thence to the in
terror points along the Mississippi At
ter the visit to Galveston the boat will
go to San Diego via the Panama Canal.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-05-10

The boys membership campaign
for the Association of Commerce at
Lake Charles procured ninety-four
new members for the association
The campaign was conducted on a
competitive basis between number
of high school boys and brought n
-S676 in contracts.
The Washington times., 1919-08-09
AUTOMOTTVE
SECTION
A.E.E. MOTORS MAN
TAKES civic JOB

Lieut.. Col. win H Brown, widely
known In the automobile industry,
who has just returned from France
where he was IN charge OF. all motor
transport OF base section ], AE. F.
has been appointed supervisor OF pur-
chases and material for NOrdyks &
Marmon Co., OF Indianapolis, succeed
ing J. H. o'Brien. who resigned re-
Gently.
Colonel Brown was commissioned
q major In October, 1917. and sailed
for France November Is, 1917, where
he became chief motor transport Off
Ger Of base section /, A. =. r Ap-
proximately one-half OF all OF the
motor transport Of the entire Amer
lean Expeditionary Force passed
through or belonged TO this base,
which was 200 miles square, the first
base to be developed. and which In
cluded two OF the most important base
ports in its area.
In command OF the motor transport
In this territory, Colonel Brown haA
under him 1900, men and 200 Officers.
He was promoted to lieutenant colo
mel and was cited for distinguished
merit ia the performances OF duty BY
General Pershins, and was later ap-
pointed q member Of the liquidatioa
commission Ia Paris, which was IN
charge OF the disposition Of All ma
terial including the surrendered Ger
man material In connection with this
duty Colonel Brown went to all I'M
portant points 10 Germany, and over
q large portion Of France.
He returned home in late June and
began HIS duties with Nordkys q
Marmon Company July Z. Before his
army career "Will' Brown was long a
commanding figure IN the automobile
industry, and since its inception has
been prominently identified with pur-
chasing and management
The Washington times., 1919-08-09
Wv RTRIES TTCFTE IN NFRR ASKA OITCKSAND


cable gave way under the strain, and
the job was finished with chains.
stood "GaR' Well.
( These severe road conditions have
furnished the first real test Of the ca
pacity OF the convoy, and 1t seems evil
dent that both men and vehicles have
stood the "gafT" in creditabIe style.
The men have had to work long hours
and mess when possible, On the run
to Big Springs, for instance. where the
train was held up by quicksand, the
entire personnel were on duty for
seventeen hours straight and did not
ave water from the time of starting
It $3.50 a. m. until D. m. The evening
ness was served at 1880 that night
II this great expedition OF the motor
transport corps does nothing more
han bring to the front the crying ne.
cessity for the completion OF the pro-
posed system of National highways, it
will have served its purpose well.
For from a military standpoint a road
that in one place is described as two
wagon tracks, each about a foot wide.
running through prairie grass, and
another as a bed OF Quicksand, can
not be of much value.
Doos AOOs
In addition to the road troubles, the
operations department has had more
than the usual amount OF work to do
on bridges and other road crossings.
Several had to be rebuilt entirely,
others required strengthening, and
twice trucks went through bridges
that upon examination had seemed to
be sound and strong. In another
place, construction on q bridge was
held up awaiting arrival OF timbers
which necessitated the building OF
sixty feet OF corduroy road. The
only case Of breakage reported during
the week was OF a motorcycle front
fork.
Despite the hard pulling and heavy
work of the week, mechanical trou-
bles have been few, the most serious
being the blowing out of q truck
engine head gasket. One passenger
car developed carburetor trouble,
which was cured by a change Of car
buretor.
Near ogallals, a cArelessly driven
private passenger car broke the
steering wheel in collision with 4
truck. which was unchanged. The
car was towed into town by the mill
tor.
Real 'TWIId West" SeeHePy.
From Omaha, the train has been
passing through a spaPsely inhabited
country, rugged in aspect and redolent
of the real wild West, with purple
sage, cactus rattlesnakes, and cow
punchers, all of them new to some of
the train personnel
Since crossing the Mississippi river,
July 20, it is interesting to note that
the train has climbed nearly $500
feet The ascent has hardly been no
ticed except in some short sharp
grades Of the last two days.
The weather during the past week
has been variable opening with cool
and heavy rain, changes to clear and
warm, threatening and rain again at