The Opelousas Herald du lieu suivant : Opelousas, Louisiana • 1

vfr pn KiVy Tuest'ar and Friday 1 Tt $UD Tuesday Edition Published Monday Evcnlngi 'LOUISIANA'S GREATEST SEMI-WEEKLY VOL. NO. 9 OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1938 NO. 71 XV ABOARD DOOMED SAMOAN CLIPPER FLASH KILLER READY DOHERTY.HEAD WASHINGTON DAYBOOK OFL! VISIT POST 10 45, DR.PERRAULT National Commander Will Come to Opelousas After! State Convention Meet in1 Alexandria Daniel J. Doherty, Nation Commander of the American Legion will visit the Opelousas lost Sunday night, February 6, reported Dr.

A. J. lerrnult. Commander, Monday morning. It will be the first time in history that the National Commander has visited Post 45.

National Commander Daniel J. Doherty of the American Legion 13 1 coming to Louisiana on Sunday, Feb- ruary 6th to attend the Annual Con- ference of Legion Officials at Alexa- lly 1KESTON GKO VICK Wash inert on This little playlet Is entitled "Much Ado About Nothing, or a A Day In the Life of a Filibuster. Scene; The senate chamber. A dozen senators are sitting about, maybe two dozens at times, Romo listening, some just sitting. The senate Is debating the anti-lynching bill.

Kcd-nnd-wliite-whiskerod Senatot Lewis of Illinois has just proposed to remove a pnragiaph which exempts gangsters and labor demonstrators from the gilp of the bill. The argu ment seems to be that the bill exempts gangsters or labor demonstrators withtout the need of saying so in special paiagiaph, lro And Con Senator Lewis: "Mr. President, I have moved to strike out of the bill the provision I have read touching the question of exempting gangsteis fiom the provision of the bill, and also those Involved in labor disputes. Here are 'two of the seven men who met their death When the giant Samoan Clipper crashed in the Pacific not far from Pago Pago. At is Cecil G.

Sellers in Memphis, who was fhst, officer aboard the doomed ship. James Findley (right), 28, was the Sadio operator. Findley was the son of a Little Rock, accountant. announcement of Legendre made niuue by American Legion Malcolm would Senator Barkley of Kentucky: do not believe there has been any crit-1 State Commander Alcee S. icism of the wording which would eliminate labor disputes.

Senator Lewis: "Mr. President, I am pleased to infoim the distinguished leader, the senator from Kentucky, that I am informed by the senator Irom New York (Mr. Wagner) that upon information from sources, it is both desired and consented to that this reference to labor disputes be eliminated. I do not know for whom he speaks, but of course, I take his word. Senator Connally of Texas: (Note He hates the anti-lynching bill as offense against southern state 'ljandrla, according to of New Orleans.

Announcement was also xviiiiuuiieeiiieui -was aisu State President of the Auxiliary, that Mrs. Douglas, National President, also be in attendance. She ed on Saturday, the 5th, tend both days of the The Annual Midyear State and Post Officials erica Legion is expected unusual importance and a ering of both men and Legion Is expected, said The total A 1 is expect- TVTQ'T TT? A TIFTT and will at- JL1 3 0 XVjrVJL 31 two-day meet- i State Bureau Head of Old Meeting of of the Am- i to be of large gath- women of the Commander Legendre. membership of entitled to old age insurance benefits, OLD AGE BENEFIT 0 the two organizations in the state at i reported Wayman E. Register Monday the' present time exceeds.

15,000, the a visit here. He based, his nsser-Commander said. tlon on the law of averages, accord- On Saturday, the program will bejngto population. Mr. Register 's inating the senate without disclosure to a study of child Welfare Manager of the Baton Rouge office of who they aic or where they Cj M.

Mitchell, Department Child 0f the Social Security Board. Lewis: "I have none of that occult 1 Mr npgister is here t0 ovei' power to detect such influences. I am compelled to Bay my Information Is (that his present visit had nothing to sovereignty! Illinois mind telling me who these mysterious, occult, insidious, and influential interests are which are dom- front the two senators, Mr. Van Nuys lAirio PnPlimnnil Services Held Mon. "Would the senator from of Indiana and Mr.

Wagner of New York, who, I assume, have had their Information front a proper and legitimate rne senator from Illinois ought, to unmask himself (laughtei), legislatively at least, and tell us who It Is who can pull a rtring in some daik chamber in the city and immediately have the senator from Illinois pop up in his place in the senate and his amendment. Lewis: I have never met them; no NJrg Harold BdlSOn Wasand they Btarted a toui of Opelousas VTT A 'fT'lTT'VTV 18 QUALIFIED FOR ido old aSe assistance but came 'under the head of old age insurance. The Manager paid a short visit 'iff the Chamber of Commerce 1 office where he met J. G. Lawler, Secretary, business houses.

Questions regarding old age insurance will be answered by Mr. Registers office in Baton Rouge. OUTLINED FOR PARISHES OROADERLINE -r variety of Vegetables In-1 eluded in Recommendations State Authorities Here Friday The brightest hopeO for Louisiana groweis of vegetables and potatoes is a breeding program now being car- lied on that will put these crops on a c0mPeting basis with California and other producing states, said J. D. Ri- chard, assistant horticulturist of the Louisiana State university agricultur i AIN spy 4 US-' Nassau county police were investigating the slaying of Jean Schuel-lain (above) 19, and Mrs.

Lenida Waite, 59, who were found bludgeoned and shot to death in Mrs. Waite's home InElmont, N. Y. Authorities surmised that Miss Schuellain interrupted a burglary when she dropped in to visit her friend. LUMBER ADDS MACHINE iODEL BRICKS Concrete Used With Special Spraying Apparatus Turns Out Modern, Ever-Lasting, Products Ope.lousas is going to haye a new industry in the next two or three weeks in the form of a concrete brick-making machine.

Peyille and Nicholson, building mateiial firm of West Vine Street, ordered three new machines Saturday night to manufacture the concrete' type of modern bricks and blocks. Clayton DAvy, widely known brick mason in the city and St. Landry, will manage the new unit. Machinery was ordered Saturday and delivery from Fletcher Equipment Company, Michigan, is expected within the next 15 days. One machine will have a capacity of 8,000 bricks, measuring eight by two and one-quaiter by three and three-quarters daily.

The block machine will turn out 500 blocks, measuring eight by eight by 16 daily. The new bricks and blocks are partlculaily economical in all types of construction work. In connection with the new manufacturing plant, which will be located at the building material location of the company, is a Texcrete spray, which, by a secret formula, on the surfaces of the finish product, renders the surface waterproof and gives it a color that is said to be everlasting. Any color brick or block desired can be ordered. Mr.

DAvy, In discussing the price of such bricks, said that In ordinary building construction, the I concrete bricks and blocks would prove more economical than the pres- ent clay bricks in common use. SIX NEW ILLS AT TATE COVE EDOLED IN NEXT 90 DAYS $300,090 Expenditure Due From Conoco in Developing Field Located Near Ville Platte Six new wells are expected to be link in the Ville Platte field by Continental Oil company within the next three months, it was learned here la3t week, but the source of information was unable to say whether diill-ing would begin after or before com-i pletion of Haas No. One, present pro- iject now at a depth of about 8,000. Thick shale foimations, almost rocklike in toughness, have slowed jdown operations in the Haas well. Taking 0 cores, which began at 7.500 feet, alsJ impeded speed.

Three new wells, two offsets and one new rig on the Folanie Tate tract, are considered absolutely certain and will materialize shortly. An appropriation of $300,000 has been set aside by Conoco and will be used for pipeline construction after the present experiment proves to be successful. BRUTA I perfect health and apparently without a worry in the world, I-et Benoit, aged about 35, took his life at 3:20 Monday afternoon at his home near Leonville by putting a shotgun to his chest and pulling the trigger. The load went through his heart. Benoit, father of three children, had gone in a room just after the noon hour and the only pre-knowledge Mrs.

Benoit had of the shooting was a muffled report from a nearby room. She entered to find her husband dead, his body across the bed and a shotgun by his side. Funeral services had not been announced yesterday. ST. LANDRIANS CONTROL MEET AT U.S.

CAPITOL Austin Fontenot Heads Delegation of Four to Discuss Problems of Spillway Austin Fontenot, 27th Judicial District Attorney, headed a committee of four from St. Landry on a trip to Washington, D. this week where flood control matters affecting the West Atchafalaya Spillway Basin, will be discussed. The party, Including Representatives Henry D. Larcade and Anthony 1 J.

Bertinot and Police Jury President John I. Bea-d, left Saturday and will not be back until next Monday. Three problems of vital importance to this section will be taken up in Washington. Flowage rights In the spillways will be threshed out in an effort to arrive at some definite conclusion regarding the matter. The particular feature to be discussed is title to property and the amount of payments in case the flood basin is used.

Completion of the Morganza spillway, located on the East bank of the Atchafalaya and having its origin from the Mississippi, will be pushed to a rapid completion and use in case of an emergency, according to reports backed by committee members. Main lines have been constructed and only a few gaps have yet to be filled. Another phase of flood work to be taken up in Washington revolves around the use of bar pits" on the west side of the west spillway levees of the Atchafalaya River. Original plans of constructing the spillway provided for adequate drainage in these western bar pits but the work has not been carried out so far to the conclusion first planned. WASHINGTON APPROVED BY STATE BOARD 1 x-i Work P'vnprt- vxUIlairucUUII ttUllv DApcti- ed to Start in Short Time After Final OK at Capitol Cost is $88,058 Contractors will go to work on new pubiic school building at Wash according to the setup, will amount (Continued on Last Page) Springs Road Opened to Traffic ping.

The new surfacing was put down from Courtableau Bridge to join the Jefferson Highway four miles west of Krotz Springs. Completion of the route gives Opelousas a paved highway to New Orleans. TO FACE TRIAL FOR JEALOUSY WIFE SLAYING Negro Sends Two Charges Into Womans Back After Finding Love Letter to Another Man, He Says Willie Lee Daurich, negro, about 40, was in the parish jail just after noon last Friday and ready to plead guilty to killing his wife, Cora B. St. Clair, 22, in a jealousy slaying, according to his story of the shooting, that sent two loads from a shotgun into her back and ended In instant death.

Willie, former World War Veteran with 28 months in France and four years as a CCC enrollee, said that he returned home from his job as pipe line worker with Williams Brothers, pipe line construction company, 1 to Cora last Friday. He had been working near Sunset. The negro claimed that he found a letter from Earnest E. Nero, negro man of Iota, in his wife's pocket, the letter asking for funds and pleading for marriage as soon as Cora could get a divorce from Willie. Willie shot, one charge hitting his wife in the back of the neck and the second charge sti Iking her in the middle of the back.

Nero, according to Daurich's version of the shooting, said he had trouble "with his white folks at Iota and was going to Eunice to open up a negro restaurant. He pleaded for $15 in cash to start the undertaking, the story ran. Cora had a 5 year old daughter when she had a former husband and Willie is the father of a four month old baby. She was shot as she attempted to cross a street In front of her home in "Blue Heaven, located In East Opelousas. Her body pitched forward in a ditch.

Daurich, who says that he was raised in Alabama, at the jail Monday was ready to plead guilty to murder, a charge carrying the death penalty. He said that hed rather kill my wife than have her manied to another jman, The negro walked to the city jail and gave himself up after the shooting. EET fltliS IS BIGGEST EVER HELD IN GITY Opelousas Production Credit Corporation, Broussard, Secretary, Makes $107,581 Loans in Year The biggest gathering of farmers ln St. Landry history met Monday morning at the Elementary School Auditorium for the annual membership meeting of the Opelousas Production Credit Corporation, F. S.

Broussard, Secretary, with headquarters in Opelousas. The organization handles farmer credit for St. Landry, St, Martin-ville, Evangeline, Lafayette nad Iberia parishes. It was estimated that 1,800 residents of the five-parish area were present. The following reports were made: I George L.

Billeaud, leport to stockholders; Frank Dimmick, report of the executive committee; J. re-I port of the board; F. S. Broussard, report of the treasurer; Mortimer C. Cain, experiences with the association.

There was $50 given away in cash prizes. The first prize, $25, went to J. C. Latour, Washington; second, Wil- (Continued on Last Page) Church Point Will Have Potato Meet On Crop Diseases Farmers ef Section Will Hear Experts Talk on Potato Culture Growers of sweet potatoes, one of (Louisiana's leading agricultural crops, in Acadia parish will gather at Church Point High school at 9 a. m.

Thursday, Jan. 20, for the second annual sweet potato shoit couise at which problems of production and marketing will be thoroughly announces C. A. Brewer, county agent, and B. C.

Meaux, Smith-Hughes teacher. The meeting will be held at the high school auditorium (Continued on Last Page) The Weather Partly cloudy today and tonight with a slight drop in temperature QT. LANDRY 01 TAKE PART RALLY EVENTS LAFAYETTE Opelousas, Sunset, Church Point Represented at Southwestern Meet Lit erary and Athletic Beginning this year, high schools pat ticipatjng In the literary and athletic events at the annual Southwest Louisiana rally at, Lafayette will compete as either class A or class instead of one classification, it was voted at a meeting of members of the Interscholastic Athletic and Oratorical Association at Southwestern Louisiana Institute. Schools which have more than 110 boys will be designated as class A and those with less than 110 boys will be placed in class B. Events will be conducted at the same time but compilation of results will be based upon the classifications.

The rally is set for Saturday, April 23. On the preceding day tennis matches will be staged. On the literary program, declamation contests will be replaced by orations for both (boys and girls and interpretative read-, ing for boys and girls. Instead of gills quartets there will be trio con-1 tests. Competition in English pro- (Continued on Last Page) 0 Man Among Men is the first of a series being written exclusively for the readers of The Herald.

It is a miriute typewriter de- SCi jption of the younger business. men Junior himself of the Dezauche such Influences have approached a pneumonia relapse. Services I say to the senator from Texas were bed at 4 Monday afternoon at that I represent the city of Chicago Lbe Opelousas Church and Interment followed at the Catholic (Continued on Page hour) cemetery. Mrs. Benson, the former Miss Gervis jDevillier, Port Barre, had a pneu-; monia attack 10 days ago and was taken to the hospital for treatment.

An oxygen tent was used two days jand, apparently, she was getting better. A relapse, developing Into double Jpneuiponia, ended in death. I Surviving, besides her husband, are children, Harold, Gerald, on Way to Recovery as Relapse Fatal Mrs. Harold J. Benson, 26, died at 2:10 Sunday afternoon at St.

Ritas I jnfirmary from complications arising Jackie and Virginia. Sympathy of the community goes out to the family in jthe death of a young mother, admired land respected by a host of The funeral was in charge of Lafond and Son. Washington Girls Play Brilliantly lcicai AJ U1 1 IV I and the 8arne waa haid fought from (Continued on Last Page) 1 I FITTmi I I LLft ririLLiv PERCENT IN PH. Farmcis In St. Landry parish who have been using common-run Porto Rico sweet potato seed can Increase their production by some 15 per cent: by growing the Unit No.

1 Porto 1 Rico sweet potato, according to a test recently completed in the parish. afternoon the Washington girls bas- A. C. Moreau, assistant county ketba11 team defeated the strong Bun-j agent, hns announced that results of kio team by a score of 36-30. The a special project, in which 13 4-HiJanrie Proved to be the most outstand- club hovs checked productivity of the I this year.

Unit No. 1 with In a hard fought game Wednesday rhe teams were equally matched al extension division, speaking at the to better acquaint St. Landrians with, agricultural planning program meet- the men of tomorrow, ing of parish committee THE AUTHOR county and home demonstration! agents of four parishes with F. DKZAl'flHE, Jr. J.

F. stands for John Felix tural extension staff members in Ope- Gf gt, Landry Parish, and is written I Son made his initial appear-, ington in the next 90 days, according ance in the world on March 23 1911 to indications. Fjnance for the new ln fc1Ievue sectln building is made possible by a Opelousas only lacks the ub-al of approxjmateiy $35,000 and ways Senior waited money reaiized after the until the stoik departed and slipped ihoo, burned November 26, 1936, on the scale he 'weighed arnounti to $6300o. ten and a half pounds the Stork jretiied after the trip. The total cost of the new building.

Young Beridon, By Grit and Determination, TT ays Way to Higher Education With Hopes to Become Beef Specialist-Beiieves in Work LANCELOT BUSBIVK, L. U. Student Past summer he went to summer just a little trick of his With $50 in his pocket, but a de-Fcko' and worked on the poultry hides from his wife teunination to obtain a college ks fieshman year when he.tiicks. 'tion. Geoige R.

Beiidon. of St. (worked on the student farm, he pre-; Dlavthjng Landry palish, came to Baton Rouge pared his own meals on an elcetiic I jurijol. waa a bjg red UniveJrsitvnd Ii.8,ana State stove. 'Wagon now Junior gives himself W.

B. Prescott, St. Landry School mid Ml hi. thtl I he Mr- Peiidon is an outstanding stu- a Studebaker Fiesident each year Superintendent, said that approval in expenses by holding vaii- dent in his scholastic weak and at the dPs not hesitate in getting about in Washington was expected in a short present is a member of the Block and it in the days following the wa-jtime. After this ok is received, con- -that nn yhP tatfd Brldo1' Bridle club and the Future Farmeis gon pei iod John filled his idle mo- tracts will be let.

The new build- wl hlB way through 1 of America. During his first twoment3 with the companionship of R. ing will have a two story front and a broader and be wag a member Cf be e. Montgomery Shirley Littell and' Uv college obtains for the past two years. During the lastingly hiding from his mother now he still full of to $88,058.

The project was approved by the state planning board late last week and announced Thursday. Orig potato that of com-1 mon seed, show an average increase for the palish of 15.2 per cent in favor of the Improved potato. The new potato was recently developed the I.ouisiana Experiment Station. I In the project the club boys planted S. 'ta'prS: WWW tion was shown in the Morrow section wheie potato growing is compar- i atively The increase there was 26.2 per cent.

The Arnaudville and Leonville sections, where have been grown for potatoes longer time. showed smaller increase in produc- tivrlv pei In PCI CCnt nm-tAd fhheoneiW potato Tvas re Mrd MnV.1 1 Alaaudv ville sections was due to the fact that potato growing is an older industry there, and more attention has prob- nhly been given to maintaining good Annlnil Opelousas Boxers Annex i IX-Tl- lx xUCCt Ulth Rayne Lighters The Opelousas High school boxing team opened its 1938 season Friday night with a victory over the Rayne tesm in an exciting card at the elementary school gymnasium. The local boys aie coached by Curly Ccuvillion. 1 iousas Friday at the high school audi (Continued on Last Page) band, tion He pIans to become a beef specialist when he finishes school. He Is interested in livestock and takes part jn aI1 y- in jud' ng contest at the Bei id on was real ed on a fai and finished high school at Opelousas in '1932.

Mr. Beridon says, "I hope to help improve the livestock industry in iLouisiana and hope, to this state! on a par with other leading As a little shaver, John was ever a memory because that night he dreamed George Washington horse-! whipped him. education than one whose ex- benses ai paid by some other means. 1 1 -eFo cr icu 1 1 7 an e. ent time is Uvfnon thAl fa the Louisiana State University.

He gets his room free by doing various. routine jobs around the poultry farm. He piepares his meals on an electric. A stove and works in the main library of the university until 10 oclock at night. This job comer, under the N.

i. A. and the $15 he gets pays all his current expenses. He has been on the poultry farm ttis educational path led from the' Route Seven between Port Bane High school to the Elementary and Krotz Springs was opened to and back to the high school (traffic Sunday morning after being where he cornered the market in closed for 10 days to allow blacktop- I IICI tic bVl IIUI LUC AAA CL A nc A A I Athletics his collection of medals reminds, one of a Civil War hero so many starred in Pole Vaulting and bjh jumping made a letter.