The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 272, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 18, 1927 Page: 1 of 6
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NUMBER 272
ORANGE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18,1927
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75 REPORTED KILLED IN SCHOOL BLAST
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In* state hizhway commissioner:
year.
Thin company
probablv will be adopted
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Price
Senator
conference with
is now a good
resolution, pro-
the
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Public Hearing On
Neche# Bridge Plan
Set For June Third
BLAST REPORT
ON ROAD FILL
expected to hold a
local officiate and
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the
CHILD SWALLOWS
THERMOMETER
e
TWOKILLEDIN
RAID ON BEGGS
BY NOTED GANG
> the dirt to settle but thehizh-
department ha* not nuthorinei
TAKE PICTURES
AT SWIM PARTY
the
the
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mite
cn use
value
state
The
In
tor*
nloyed aa reneral purehaning agent
for the company.
Campbell, who to a native of Or-
Ange, has been one of the mont nnh-
lie spirited citizens In the citv sinee
br-
and
ateh
| ly
WRECK SCHOOL BUILDING AND
TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF LIVES
RAIL BRIDGE
WASHESAWAY
AT MELVILLE
of
ner-
with
MOVE SEEKING TO ABOLISH
FIVE STATE DEPARTMENTS
REJECTED BY LOWER HOUSE
HOW NEWS OF THE WORLD COMES
TO THE LEADER
Mrs
stander,
was the
f nal
was .
n ha
meen
daht
MELVILLE* SCENE OF FRESHDISASTER
rushed
Doc-
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Campbell Leaves
After Long Period
With Orange Firm
now
wich
Ex-
■ a
Photographer And Load
of "Suckers" For
Swmimers
r
and was leaving
school.
There were at
Erroneous Talk Comes
From Dynamite
Report
Battered Down By
Floods
"NEW WILDCAT
INCOWBAYOU
Nine BanditsLoOt Town in Oklahoma
yenra. the last meven venra
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nuses and ambulances speeded
Tiller Comnanv Drives
Piling For New
have not gone down
producer.
Manager Tiller Mated that he did
not expeet te MbH drilling on the
now location right away.
u akp --
year prior tn March of this
was stationed at Palestine.
or the departments to
Charles Campbell a
witnessed the acene
Eva which is operated het ween or-
first to give the warning
f -
west bank creva
hibiting any state official from using
money appropriated for traveling ex-
ptnses, poetage. stationery or tele-
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Campbell and family are preparing
tn nay "good-byel" to them on next
Tuenday when they move to Boga-
|umi La . where Mr. Campbell will
ansume his duties aa general pur-
chasing agent for the Greet Routh-
em Lumher company and the Boga-
luna paper mill. -
Campbell resigned his ponition with
the Lutcher & Moore Lumber com-
most of them pupils in th* school
house when th* explonion occurrr"
it to believed in addition to th • 26
bodies broucht from the ruins mny
more will be found.
As fart »» the injured were taken
nutomohiles to Lansing.
In the nenate.
branded the Wirtz
3 Cow Bayou-State.
recently brought In
Bayou-Mate which I
qualify for Red
NEW ORLEANS, Ia., Mny 18-
With • thunderoua roar, the wet
-pan or the Texa- • Pacine rau-
rona bridge M Melville «ave. way
iday and nank into the nlood wa-
ter- Ome man wm drowned.
BEGGS, <*»•■. May Inone
of the mo- men-attonal bandu
rid. In the rcent hitory of Ok-
iahoma, nine men to two "ooT
cm swooped down on Begg« here
today, heia up two bank- *imul-
tnneousis. killed • <* mamhai.
aho a woman by-tander and e.-
cped with an anwount of ‘oot be;
Nieved to he enormous, although
yet undetermined.
Pacific Bridge Is Kime.-Terrell Outlaw.
Held Responsible
ter They are
der Instructors
piers.
Leaving Paton Row hhortly be-
. _ --- -- - iinnodr nna a pa ny, by whom he had been em-
portynoq "national Red Cen pmdietf Pioyed "ontinuouriy for the nae 15
and federal engineers traveled by
ACTOR DIES
NEW YORK, May 18 —Sam Ber-
nard. 54, famous comedian, died at
sea from a sudden attack of apo-
pitxy test night, according to word
received by his family and friends
today. Bernard was aalllng for Ru-
mps for a pleaaura trip after finish-
ing an engagement with "I Told You
Ho."
Countv Judge DeWitt " Hennef*
nerformed th* ceremonv that united
The many triends of Orion H.
BATH, Michigan, May 18.—(INS)—Fifty to sev-
enty-five persons are believed to have been killed here
today in the consolidated school when dynamite, sup-
posedly planted by a Maniac, wrecked the kindergarten
wing. Twenty-six bodies have been recovered and res-
------------------------- cuers are searching the
Th* men were positively identifed
to* bystanders an member* of the
Matthew Kimes-Ray Terrill EanK.
most notorlous of the present-day
Oklahoma outlaw. Both Kimes ana
Terriu are at liberty with heavy
prices on their head*.
The banaits entered Begga abort ly
before 11 o'clock and ewept down
upon the Flrat National bank and
the Farmer* National bank, two of
the city-* three bonking Institution*,
at the aame time. Kime*, according
to police, was positively identified as
one of the leaders in the holdup of
Filing are being driven at the
present time by the A. C are!arlane
forces in Cow bayou channel for a
new well location for the I. 3. Til-
lery Oil company.
The new well will be known aa No
I
r
tn visit anofher
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j
Gates resolution requesting
special train to Torras, where thev
boarded a coast guard vessel for an
inspection of the rescue Beet sta-
tioned in the Old river. The party
will return to Baton Rouge this
evening. and tomorrow Secretary
Hoover will leave for New Orleans
Afttr a few hours there, he will go
to Alexandria. the principal refuge*
camp in the western section of the
gtate .
ange and Johnson’s bnvon The con-
tracting parties are resident* of the
Jennson’s Ryeu ronntry and made
th* trip to (range by host. Judge
bennett admtted that he had never
before performed a marriage cere-
mony on a boat.
BRADY. Mav 18 — (INS)—
Residents of the M reury com-
munity near here have added
a new dish to family menus.
At least this assertion to home
out by the fact that one of the
medical instruments was ex-
tracted from the stomach of
Irdell Garrett. eight year old
son of R«v K B. Garrett
The child swallowed the
thermometer 51 days before
the operation while sick with
measles and pneumonia
Ben K Bering and Miss Alma Chap-
man
The picture man was out at 5
o’clock today when th* class opened,
to get a picture of the swimmers for
publication In Sunday’s Leader, to-
gether with the names of those who
tractors, before leaving
night.
A score of workers were laboring
on the bridge to secure it against
the terrific current, but all fled to
satety except one unidentifed wo-
man.
While the Inland Hood waters roll
southward over southern Louisiana,
the main channel gauges of the Min-
sinsippi remain virtually stationary
between Natehez and the gulf
Weather bureau bulletins for three
days have predicted a rine of from
two to four inches daily in this
stretch of river.
The steady stand of the gauges
indicates to army engineers that th*
force of the back levee current is
eo great that the river has made a
new channel temporarily through
Rushing to a nearby billiard parlor,
she notifed City Marshal W. J Mc-
Nally of the raid.
As McNally rushed fnto the street,
the bandits were just beginning their
flight. The marshal fired, and was
shot down dead to- the robbers.
Then they turned their fire upon
Mrs Campbell and killed her
Various reports placed the amount
of the loot from $4000 in $10,000.
ATSTIX, Texas. May 1%—The
lower houne today, hr a decklve
vote, rejerted a revolution hv ReP,
Mom. of Oli* ami Res ran of
Beaumont, calling on Gmernor
Moody to snbmit • hill aerking tn
abolish fve state depertment".
The authors of the resolution
stamped the state honrd of health
department of agriculture, livestock
sanitary commission. and the gam*,
fish and crater commission as "un-
ruins for more. The injur-
ed number 50 to 100.
A farmer whose home
and barns were destroyed a
few minutes after th
school blast is sought.
Among the dead in Superintendent
E. E Muyek. He had junt ellmbed
into his automobile when a dyna-
mite blast under his car lifted him
through the roof and blew him to
bits. Huyek had opened the school
bridge con-
town to-
Wednesday was an "extra special"
dhy for the one hundred and thirty
hoys and girls between the ages of
s and IS years who are the guests
of the Dender. Red Cross. Boy Scout
and Camp Fire orxanizatie ns at th*
o-s-r pool free swimming si hool.
To hegin with, the classes were
getting under wav in good shape
and scores of the youngsters were
showing considerable improvement
in their technique when in the wa-
reaching the age of manhood He
has taken an active part in all nub-
ile matters serving on the board of
directors of the chamber of com-
merce. as president of the Younz
Men's Buniness league, prenident of
the Rotary club and manv other
places where h* was permitted to
render real nervice tn the town and
communitles.
The Rotary club. the Preshvterian
church and other organisations of
the city have arranged tn give ex-
presmion to th* high esteem in
which Campbell and his family are
held here.
Governor Moody to submit the ques-
tion of imposing a *0 cent tax on
malt syrup was defeated 82 to 12.
The departmental apvropriatinn
bill, carrying a total nf $11,741,875
for the biennium, wss next taken un
by the house Amendments offered
hv the appropriations committee cut-
ting $407,800 from the bill and
ches. This condition, they believe,
will greatly relieve pressure on the
east bank levees of the Mississippl
below Melville, a village of 1500 pop-
ulatlon. which is compittely under
water Every street was flooded
within six hours yesterday directly
from the gap in the Atehafalaya
levee, and today the Tennas basin
waters rolled down from the north
to spread new layers of disaster up-
on the submerged village
Approximately six hundred resi-
dents who failed to heed vacuation
^warnings from relief headquarters
were carritd off by the rescue fleet
without the loan of a single life, said
wirtless reports todsy to Parker
Every public utility plant in the vil-
lage l« under from ten to eighteen
feet of water. Wire communication
has been wiped out. Railroads and
automobile high wavs are closed
The Standard OU pipe lines from
the western Louiniana oil fields to
the great Baton Rouge refinery have
been shut off by the Hooding of the
Melville pumping station. The Toxas
and Pacific bridge acrons the At-
chatalnya from Melville to Red Cros
was still standing against the sweep-
ing river today, but more than fiffy
men are engaged constantly in push-
Ing wreckage and debris from the
meet here at 12 o'clock, but did not
show up at that hour.
The highway representative* are
The date of completion of the
road fill that la to connect the Sa-
hine river bridge with high land on
the Louisiana aide nf the river, la es-
timated at May 25, now. according
to those familiar with the situation
n order not tn take any chances
nn the fill settling and making it
necessary to put nn me re dirt, the
Gifford Construction company, un-
der instruction of the Louisiana high-
wav department engineer ha« nut
about two feet more nn the height
that is required hv the contract
The question that is concernin
the contractors and high wav dephrt-
ment at this 11m* is th* fart that
soveral places due to have settled
under the weight cf dirt on this fill.
Theodore Trnhnn ane Niss Annie
Mav Romeo in marriage at one .. . .
Melock thi nfternonn Th- cere- twelfth dintriet: Thoman —hixh;
mony wa performed ebeura the ,»»• •ngineer ana wilama . . , .
— - highway engineer, were scheduled to
renter life savings badges. There is
always lots' of fun in having one's
pie tor* taken
last but not least, Ahe’s, Inc was
ready to send nut a nice supply of
frozen suckers and give, a little party
on the side Plenty nf fun for all in
this kind of school.
The juveniles are at the pool ever’
day from 5 to 6 o’clock, through the
courtes, of Payne and Smith, opera-
tors of the noo!. An«l when the tests
pre made Friday and Saturday. n
large portion of the "students" hop*
to graduate as swimmers.
this step it is sold that some un-
reasonable reports have been circu-
lated with reference tn the dyna-
miting propomition. which has not
reached a point heyond diseussion.
sn far as known here
ft 1* expected that the matter of
nutting nn hard surfacing nf either
gravel ar shell will be taken up right
nwny hv the hizhwav department in
order that th* fill mav he rendy for
use by the time the gable* river
bridge is complete, which will ilkelv
be from three tn tour months, ac-
cording tn estimates
Grunge countv and city officnls.
and others, were awaiting arrival of
a party of Texas state hizhway rep-
renentatives to inspect the Sabin*
river bridge in the course of con-
struction at 8 o’clock this afternoon
The partv composed of F S Sterl-
ck‘s 4
to
£ :
nn ""attemnt" to
orange county and city officials.
a swell as many other representn-
the citizens here hate been notified
by LJeutennnt-Colonel J. L. Sehley
government engineer In « harge of
the Galveston office, that there will
be a public hearing held in Beau-
mont at 1 o’clock in the afternoon
nn June 1. regarding Jefferson coun-
ty’s proposal to build a bridge across
the Neches river to take the place of
the ferry on the Orange-Port Arthur
highway.
It la also understood that Orange
county official* have been invited to
file briefs setting nut the attitude of
the citizenship nf the county regard-
ing the bridge.
It to thought that Orang* will send
a large delegation to attend this
hearing.
K Patten district engineer of
NFW w. r. OPERATOR
W M. Hunt, who tame here from
a post at Ron Benito, Texas, aa an
operator for the Western Union Tel-
egraph company, has succeeded F.
M. Doane for the same company un-
der M. A. Bravo. Hunt, for two
Not the least among the.real won-
ders to be found in a modern news-
paper plant is the amazing auto-
matic printer telegraph which help*
fill the columns of The leader with
the latest news transmitted from
many parts of the world via cable
and telegraph through International
News Herve.
Here to a clear and simple de-
scription of this marvel among news
transmitting machines:
The fascination of printer tele-
graphy comes with a realizntion that
the human hand has nothing to do
with decoding and transcribing a
typewritten sheet—accurate, punctu-
ated. paragraphed and ready for the
type-setting machines in a newspa-
per office.
ELECTRICAL TYPEWRITERS
An installation Includes two ma-
chines. one for regular operation
and the other for emergency pur-
poses. They are electrically control-
led typewriters operating from what
is known as tht "opening and closing
of a wire by magnet ”
in Morse telegraphy the operator
uses dots and dashes in his alphabet
code. Printer machines use only
dots. The sending machines are
Identical with receiving machines
expect that they have. In addition,
sending keyboards, with the keys in
almost the same arrangement as on
the typewrifer.
"THE MAGICAL TYPE"
A narrow, especially prepartd tap*
of waxed nr oiled paper pnsnes
through a tiny perforating apparat-
us When the sending operator
presses a key of his "typewriter"
thia little instrument perforates the
tape with the dots necensary to rode
that particular letter and so on
through she word and the paragraph
and the complete story with all the
rapidity and nimblenega of his fin-
gers. The tape passes on a few
inches farther to a delicate lttle in-
st ru ment which "open* and closes
to the scene from nearby towns fol-
lowing the explosion.
A farmer at whose home another
dynamite blast exploded about the
mme time to being sought by author-
ities
No reason for enmity on the part
of the suspect has been learned.
Several sticks of dynamite were
found in the street after the blasts.
The entire countryside heard the
blasts One destroyed Hu De ri nt end -
ent Huyek. another blew the school
apart, and a few minutes later the
farmer-suspect's home and barns
blew up
The town was thrown into a panic
by the explosions. The residents did
not know where another blast might
be expected. Within a few minutes
however, rescue work was under
Alt telephone wires wore com-
mnndeered and Lansins was asked ot
send all possible relief.
As word of the disaster spread, po-
lice from Lansing. St. Johns, the
county seat of Clinton in which Bath
is situated and other nearby towns
raced to th* neene.
The countryside was jammed with
automobiies which carried the curi-
bus here Hath a town of lt<.
persons on the Michigan Central
railroad
The Michian Central’s telegraph
onerator left his key after notifying
his superiors nf the explosions and
Mating he was going to learn the
fat* nf his four children in the
we hool.
Th* school is a three story brick
structure The wing that was de-
stroyed was almost entirely filled
with kindegmten pupils.
Kehoe, the insane farmer, during
the last year was treasurer of the
school hoard. Persons who knew
him saf he developed an obsession
that th* school board was extrava- l
zant This led him to hnte every I
m*mh*r of it, his friends may. and
especially Huyek They say he was
deranged for several months.
The tale of today'* tragedy was
told by three section hands. They ।
were working at a point where they -2
could see both the school house and
Kehoe’s farm, which are about a
quarter of a mile apart.
They said they first were surprised
to see one nf Kehoe's barns burst
into flames a boat 9:15 a m. Imme-
dintely they saw Kehoe drive from
his home toward the school houer.
Five minutes later, they said, they
heard the blast which wrecked the
north wing of the school building.
Thev ran to the scene.
As they ran around a corner of
the school building, they said, they
say Huyek getting Hno his automo-
bile parked about 100 feet from the
rinse the mouth of Governor Monds
by preventing him from discussing
measures which ought tn he passed
by th* legisiture
A bitter ficht during which Senn-
tor Tom tove shared in the fieht
neninst the measure while Senators
Lewis. Moore and Wirtz led the
forces fighting for its adoption en-
sued
The departmental hill finally was
passed earning the amendment in
a modified form. Senator Witt’s
amendment changing the rending of
the Witrz amendment, was adopted.
less and offensive!’ burdens on
taxpayers Thev challenged
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The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 272, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 18, 1927, newspaper, May 18, 1927; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1443886/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.