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Thursday, March 1928. OPELOUSAS NEWS SOCIAL NEWS ITEMS FROM SUNSET ABDALLA'S "For Years The Best Place To Shop" MOTOR CRITICS CRY TAKE' BUT FIND 'IT WORKS' "There It Is," Is Reply Of Inventor to All Attacks The High School Basket Ball Boys FOR SALE OR TRADE: One Advance Six Nash Roadster in Perfect Condition. New Set of Tires. F. D.

PARNELL Care Powers Bro. Garage Opelousas, La. entered the tournament at Lafayette Saturday. Our boys played good bas 'l I $10,000,000 HEALTH INSTITUTE IS ASKED IN RANSDELL BILL Establishment of a National institute of Health, for which an appropriation of $10,000,000 would be provided, is sought in a bill introduced Monday by Senator Ransdell, Democrat, Louisiana, at Washington, D. C.

The measure would authorize the secretary of the treasury to establish and operate the institute under the jurisdiction of that department and under the administrative control of the surgeon general of the public ket ball and ranked sixth among the many other teams who entered. The Sunset High School Basket Ball Girls won a complete victory Monday when they played the Opelousas Girls at Opelousas. The score being 11-5. Our coach as well as the players are proud of the improvement they have made in the past few weeks. They are expecting to make A are expecting to motor to Church Point to play Wednesday.

Miss Viola Fontenot was in our midst on Tuesday. Messrs. Earl and Guye Gardiner were business visitors at the home of Although his "fuellees' motor has been characterized as impractical and "not a motor at all" but a generator, Lester J. Hendershot. of West Elizabeth, Tuesday stood by his assertion that it works.

The motor, described by the 29-year-old inventor as deriving its power from the magnetic fields of the earth, was said by F. W. Hochstetter, of the Hochstetter Research laboratories at Pittsburgh, to be a "generator and not a motor at all," obtaining "its electricity from a concealed carbon pencil battery." the smartest coats for spring The way to make a beautiful stocking is to follow the lines of a beautiful foot. This was the theory of the 3 artist who designed the V- 4 3 line, an emnoaiment in lio- ry siery of the natural shadows between ankle and heel. Mr.

John E. Dailey of here Sunday. Among those who nfotored to Opelousas to attend the game Monday were Misses Laurie Barry, Ida Savoie, Claire Castille, Shirley Richard, Ed-wina Smith, Alice Guilbeau, Irene Hunt and Marie Louise Mills, Messrs. Theo Mills, Maurice Richard, Lowell and John Sibille and Earl Cummings, Mrs. C.

Smith and Mrs. Felix Guil- beau. Mr. and Mrs. Brice Frances attended the show in Opelousas Sunday night.

health service. The proposed institute would be devoted "to scientific research in the fundamental problems of the diseases of man and matter pertaining to health," and would be located in the district of Columbia. The measure would authorize the treasury to accept, unconditionally, gifts by will or otherwise for study, investigation and research. Donations of $500,000 or more would be acknowledged permanently by establishment within the institute of suitable memorials to the donors. $1270 AMITE BANK L.

P. Sieg, dean of the college and of the graduate school and professor of physics at the University of Pittsburgh, said he did not believe that Hendershot's motor was practical, but added that his knowldege of the creation was limited to information gleaned from newspaper accounts. Hocrjstetter exhibited models of what he said were early phases of the Hendershot motor, declaring that the current was supplied from cells. He said he had negotiated with Hender day as well as for occasions, for it is made in a beautiful C1 quality of semi-service weight as well as in chiffon. The exclusive colors of Miss Marie Miller of Bristol Was the week-end guest of Miss Evangeline Sibille.

Miss Clothilde Cummings spent the day with friends in Bristol Saturday. Miss Henrietta Burleigh was the guest of Miss Helen Burleigh Monday night. Among the Basket Ball players who ROBBERY SOLVED Gordon hosiery are neces sary to the perfect harmony rc I shot some time ago on "what appeared from newspaper reports to have been the same thing he is now trying to promote." When informed- of the statements of Sieg and Hochstetter, Hendershot said he had used carbon pencil cells while experimenting in an effort to take electricity from the air, but that the present motor utilized "the magnetic field set up by the earth" and no other power. "I didn't build the motor that was i sembles. In semi-service 1 1 1 or chiffon, SfLSO.

Values to 39.75 will be ofleredi SATURDAY AND MONDAY AT $19.75 If you appreciate fine quality, if you are familiar with present day style conceptions, if you understand fabrics, surely you will see in these coats values that cannot be matched. Remarkably above the general type of coats offered at these prices. The fabrics are so rich looking and so supple the shades so refined and so typically spring. demonstrated at Detroit," the inventor said. "That was built by army men under orders from Major Lanphier and under my direction and it works.

That's my answer to all critics my motor works." Sieg also commented on the claim that the motor takes its power from the earth's magnetic field, saying there was little there to be utilized and even if the magnetic field were much stronger, it could not be used because an electric current must be used in conjunction with it. NOTICE OF TABLEAU Negro's Purchase of Auto Arouses Suspicion; Confesses, Is Report The robbery of the Amite Bank and Trust Company of $1270 fen days ago was cleared Tuesday by the arrest of Joseph Bahm, 17-year-old negro- from Covington. The negro is said to have confessed to Deputy Joe Mixon and told where part of the money could be found. At his brother-in-law's house $111 was reported recovered. Seven hundred and three dollars used in the purchase of a new car.

This purchase aroused suspicion and resulted in Bahm's arrest. The negro said he raised the side window of the bank near an alley and took the money from a cigar box that had been overlooked when the other funds had been placed in the vault. He denies an accomplice. However, Preacher Rodg-ers, his brother-in-law, is held in connection with the robbery. RED CROSS BILL FOR LA.

FLOOD IS $6,000,000 Still Taking Care Of And played in Opelousas Monday were Misses Mary Blanche Andrus, Virginia Gardiner, Bertha Devalcourt, Julia Dailey, Clothilde Cummings, Irene Castille, Elva Bernard, Lucille Smith and Gertie Meche. They had as their referee Miss Estelle Roy of Arnaud-ville. Mrs. A. Burleigh was the guest of Mrs.

John E. Dailey Tuesday. Miss Bertha Devalcourt attended the show in Opelousas Sunday. Miss Lonas of Washington, D. C.

and Mr. Ted Roberts were visitors to our school last week. They came for the purpose of establishing a Junior Red Cross Chapter. Mr. Walton Guidry motored to Lafayette Wednesday.

Mr. J. B. Clay of Vinton visited here with friends Saturday. Mr.

Gaston Sibille of Bristol was a Sunday visitor here. Mr. Willie Sibille was in our town on Tuesday. Mr. Otis Dimmick was in our town this week.

Mr. Ben Devalcourt and brother, Wrilliam, were in our town Tuesday. With the present high cost of labor and materials the Railroads can not be expected to reduce their freight rates. There is but one remedy, the improvement of our inland waterways. Secretary Hoover, in a speech which was printed in the Congressional Record, stated that the barge line operating between St.

Louis and New Orleans reduced down river rates by eight cents a bushel and up river rates by ten cents per hundred pounds. PvZ7raon Estate of Thomas Jolivette, No. 7814 Probate Docket, Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Landry, Louisiana. WHEREAS, Levy Veazie, Adminis trator of the above numbered and entitled estate has filed therein his final account and tableau of distribution of the funcjs of said succession.

NOW, THEREFORE, notice is here Prescott Style Shoppe by given to all parties interested to show cause, if any they can or have, within ten days from the first pub "On the Square" lication hereof, why said account and LOUISIANA OPELOUSAS, tableau should not be approved and homologated and the funds of said Feeding'Many Refugees succession aistriDutea in accoraance therewith. SEE WINDOWS DISPLAY By order of said Court. Opelousas, Louisiana, February 27, 1928. HENRY LASTRAPES, Mar. 2.

2t. Clerk of Court. Tie Bennett's Store Inc Flood relief in Louisiana by the American Red Cross will have cost as the result of the 1927 flood, when the relief work is closed at the end of March, T. J. McCarty, relief director for Louisiana, announced Tuesday.

Many good results came out of the work, Mr. McCarty said. The refugees were taught sanitation and the best methods of dietetics, how to use food to the best advantage," improved agricultural methods and the replacing of poor livestock with thoroughbreds. He said that many of the flood refugees were in better condition now than when the flood came. "The importation of improved livestock to replace much poor stock destroyed, and the introduction of better agricultural methods are two of the bright stars shining in Louisiana as a result of the flood," he said.

"These results were brought about as the result of cooperation of all flood relief agencies." Approximately 71,000 Mississippi val OPELOUSAS, LA. SHOES ley flood sufferers are still being fed by the American Red Cross as the anniversary of the disaster approaches. The destruction of replanted Oops by freezes and recurring high waters are reasons given for the large number still under Red Cross care. Those receiving aid are divided among the states as follows: Louis For boys and girls in Patent Leather, Tan and Champain color, in Pumps, Strap! and Oxford Styles, an all solid leather shoe tliat will give satisfactory! wear, a full range of sizes in each color and style shoe, same have rubber heels. Specially Priced at Here is your opportunity to get a new, beautiful-living room suit, the one you have been dreaming about so long.

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We have just received a new shipment of furniture for the home, pleasing to the most fastidious yet priced right. New floor lamps, smoking stands', wicker sets, and in fact everything for the ideal home. Floor Lamps Special IN NEAR FUTURE Children Sox $4.50 up After adding another victory to their long string by defeating the High School Five Sunday, 30 to 12, the Lafayette Gents basketball team will stage a contest with the Church Point team on the Cathedral High School Pavillion court at Lafayette. The Gents and Churh Point have met before, the Gents getting the big end of a 16 to 10 score. Due to the court being very muddy at that time each team feels a lighter score will be made when they meet again.

At any rate a close and exciting battle is looked for, and a large crowd of fans is expected to be on hand. BATON ROUGE SPAN BILL PASSES SENATE WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A SHIPMENT OF CHILDREN SOX, IN SILK, RAYON, AND LISLE, PLAIN AND FANCY, COLORS IN ALL SIZES. CHRISTIAN RISE1AN "The Store That Keeps Prices Down" OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA 25c to $1.00 The Broussard bill, authorizing construction of a bridge across the Mississippi at Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge parish and a point opposite in West Baton Rouge parish, has been passed by the Senate. k(.