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Show f ingust 24. 1939 - THE WEEKLY REFLEX The first American gove.i Louisiana, like some of his in Louisiana Chief Executives :(ent Change -- and some of his Some of the Picfuresque Governors' Ruled That Staf T MVAW, .if t . 'u!e-cessor- s siino sors, had his troubles And one of his worst troubles was an In dividual named Jean Lafitte. This first governor was Wilburn Charles Cole Claiborne, bom m Sussex county, Virginia, in 177b calls Spanish-French-Americ- PAGE THREE an In 1801 his ADVENTURERS Pi evident Thomas JefTerson, made him governor of the Territory of Mississippi and two years later he was . appointed commissioner with Gen James Wilkinson, U accept the transfer of the Louisi ana Purchase from the French He was appointed governor of the province of Loufsiana for tluee ears and when it was made a swAbcw feliow-Virginia- In 1810 Claiborne tools possession of Baton "Rouge and Mobile, which up to that time were still held by the Spanish, despite the HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Hello ! 3 recent resignation of Gov. Richard W. Leche of uisiana and the consequent installation of Lieut.-":Earl K. Long in the executive mansion at Baton once occupied by his brother, Huey P. Long, have I another chapter to the colorful, and frequently of the chief executives of the Pelican state. It Louisiana was a French colony, it continued while a ier Spanish' domination and it characterized the early as well as themore recent ones, under the Ameri-Sav. f turbu-Xkisto- ry g. redoubtable King-t,-" replaced it with the Spanish suhe was governor, preme council, or cabildo. He fee when Louisiana tor of a into practice the more like the also putcolonial arbi- trary regulations of totalitarian Spain and decreed a new black than the duly elected code which provided the sever- xtry American eom- - est penalties for all kinds of he was only fol- - offenses. rxgwealth, For a year the people of Louisiin the footsteps of a r ana suffered under his autocratic of jj an an Irish ad-- rule. iecessor zturer who, paradoxically, is the Spanish governor (Louisiana just 170 years T. name was Alexan- - His CO, OReilly. pttiDy was born in the Em--Ji Isle in 1725 and at an early in . the army of p enlisted a fought in He Italy dur-4- e Austrian Suc-- a served in the pa of France and Austria. a he returned to the Spanish 7 nd was made commander brigade. "Next he was sent (Csbi to repair and improve indications of Havana and ha work there he was made War of the and later 1 returned He irid fa 1765, just in time to j? thvart a plot against King HI and aid in saving the Sat monarch who soon had Importunity to show his grati--k to the Irishman and reward or 5 wordingly. 2 Treaty of Paris of 1762---7i France, England and s. France was forced to sur-t- o England not only Can-out also that part of old ana lying east of the ULssia-V,1-? of Then he was recalled to Spain and in 1775 placed in command of an expedition against Algiers which was unsuccessful. But he apparently did not lose the confidence of his monarch for he was subsequently made commander-general of Andalusia and governor of Cadiz. In 1794, while he was on his way to assume command of the army of the eastern Pyrenees, he died and it is probable that there was no mourning in Louisiana when news of his death reached there. Quite different jvas the attitude of the Louisiana citizens, both French and Spanish, toward the man who became their governor in 1777 and their American contemporaries had a special reason for remembering him gratefully, too. For he helped them win their war for freedom from England. Bernardo de Galvez was his name and he was bom of a distinguished and powerful family at Malaga, Spain, in 1756. As a youth Bernardo de Galvez was ambitious to win military glpry and did so on his first expedition. Made colonel of the regi- - exception of the in which was city of New Orleans, Orleans me of the colony. to Spain. 'aland of Orleans Ceded and west of the Mis- 'Waiceded Spain, osten- Uwisiana Rift of the from France. France was course, county to Spain to falling into the English and with the later realized, back again. France thus ceded the Louisiana to it was not until that Don Antonio i New Orleans rwas v. H sa - toe new ex-Ifll- oa, 10 fettarles HI of pain t' determined to h' 'o-p- lor the task. W ' Irishinanhim ' gover-ga- v Picked : 5f 24 an men and a New Orleans and at once which lHrHamation only those who e movement SpanicK against he punished, fee itti (. tuers 12 in number, lisgjJ j'fiac.hed iTnrii1769' -- itave 43 ictfl Z45 y l4 hr themb-it- y . 7C bUt that ne already died on a The others were and found guilty tedy,- - King. AttoW VS.iUisiana' and Milhet, sSChant bl NCW I COunci1 dissolved the old of Louisiana and float know, sometimes Old Lady Adventure puts you the through paces in a second or two, and then lets up on you. Ive told you boys and girls a couple of yarns, at least,, that didnt last more than live or six seconds at the most. But there are also times when the old girl with the thrill bag seems to take delight in teasing her victims, as a cat vvould tease a mouse tossing one bit of hard luck after another at them, until she has them worn down und ready to quit. Floyd Smith of Chicago could tell you a yarn like that. A tale of terror for hours on end, And as a matter of fact, Floyd will tell you that story. Fob weve gothiin here with us at the Adventurers campfire tonight and hes all read? to go. Itrs a story of the World war und, incidentally, Floyd wants me to announce that if any of the three fellows who K Beautiful Crocheted Doilies for the Tabic went through It with him should rend this story well-- hr sure hopes a him line. thcyU drop The scene of this yam is Brest. France, where Floyd was attached to the U. S. naval air station. He was one of a crew of four on a speed boat the type of craft that Is known os a gig in the navy and it was one day In August. 1918, that the gig and Its crew was sent out for an battle with Old Lady Adventure. all-nig- n pt to-Th- Nee-dlecra- e How Women men-of-w- in Their 40s . Can Attract Hen ar 1 ap-- rao-r- al La-fitte- s. INDIGESTION utaaaant-lutbi- S ar-rest- ed hmrt-aar- especially revolution rulers. In Oc-superior council decre the who fled to . ha-- a transfer of their DON BERNARDO DE GALVEZ ?utthelrconstand was !, ? nt frc m,. La-an- d . I al Aubrey, the French the inhabitants of n his troubles began. The source of these troubles were two brothers, Pierre his younger brother, Jean two Frenchmen who hnd come to New Orleans by way of the West Indies. At first they acted as agents for a colony of smugglers living in the Bay of Barataria. Then they became their leaders and moved their lome from New Orleans to the sland, Grand Terre, in the Bay of Barataria. From that time on the record is not entirely clear as to the Wild iSiiiht everybody: it? declared war on the EngThe following July Galvez received permission from his king to seize the British forts in AlaMen Ordered Taken Ofl Pensacola. bama, Mississippi and West It waa about eight o'clock In the evening when the officer of the day Florida. Galvez called a meeting of the brought their order. The U. S. S. Pensacola had weighed anchor a short detail time before and was putting out to sea. Aboard her was a French inhabitants of New Orleans in the historic Place d from the air station, which had been helping to unload the ship. They Add that touch o( luxury that were to have been taken oft before the Pensacola sailed, but the orders marks a well-keArmes and as a dramatic gesture home. Crochet had been mixed up, and there they were, getting a ride they were never announced that he would relace for a center-piec- e doily nounce the governorship if the Intended to have. The gig's orders were to catch the Pensacola and a large and two medium-size- d take the men oft. natives would not support him in ones for buffet set three his expedition against the EngHays Floyd: We took out after, the ship, which was already sizes for a luncheon setl repeated In the narrow channel that leads from the bay to the open sea. In lish. Since France had already The measures 18 doily large about 10 minutes we were a hundred yarda astern of the Pensajoined forces with the Americans, one 12 inches the medium inches, since there were in New Orleans cola, when suddenly our motor quit. Well It goes without saying 6 inches. Pattern and small the Aa lurk would have It that we did not catch the renaaeola. many Acadian refugees, who had 1933 contains directions for makthe tide was going out, and It swept na out to sea. good reason to hate the English, ing doilies; illustrations of them and since the boyish Spanish govThe water out there waa too deep for the anchor line, so they kept and of stitches; materials reernor had endeared himself to the right on drifting. It was growing dark by that time, so no one ashoro quired; photograph of doily. French in many ways, the young saw their predicament. With no means to stop the boat from drifting, Send 13 cents in coins for this men of that city didnt hesitate ft Sewing Circle pattern long before volunteering to acDept., 82 Eighth Ave company him. New York. Rejecting the suggestion that he wait for reinforcements from Absence as a Wind Havana, Galvez, with 670 men, Absence diminishes little pasSpanish regulars, French Creoles, sions and Increases great ones, as Acadians and American volunthe wind extinguishes candles and teers under Oliver Pollock, seized fans a fire. La Rochefoucauld. the British fort at Manhuac, captured Baton Rouge and received the surrender of Natchez. The exact nature of the Lafittcs acnext year Fort Charlotte at Mo- tivities. Jean Lafitte always insisted that it was privateering bile fell. and that they preyed only upon In 1781, by a fleet and army from Havana, Galvez ships carrying enemy flags. But attacked Pensacola. When the historians are pretty generally it was piracy and it attempted to cross agreed that the bar, however, the San Roman is as Lafitte the Pirate Utat Sm'i (oil idvl lor a aroma Suriac W chans (ucuailr from SS Is SZ), h laar ran aground and the commander he has come down In history. WU In bar appaal to sms, who worrtas The people of New Orleans of the fleet. Commodore Calbo de about hot Baabaft In of padiasj spall ad atoody ll upaat Irazabel, declined to risk any were inclined to view these acGot Bora Iran air, S bra. alsap sad V yo We were a hundred yards aatera of the renaaeola. whea anddenly tivities leniently they enjoying more of his frigates. ' , Bead s rood ayateia tonka taka Lydia L PlnkhamTa VacaUbla Compound, mada being able to buy all sorts of cor motor quit. A Bold Exploit. for mu. It bolpa Nature build at a lower price than that those four ladi worked frantically, trying to get the motor started again, acpaaially goods rasiatear. thus balpa five mo to phyaiaai Up imwho the realized Galvez, vivacity to anloy Ule and aaalat aajnlna more ethical vend- but by down charged and tho ran batter worse. They Jittery aorvaaand f dlaturfainf aymptonis that they only mad matters portance of having the fleet to be ers of merchandise than the omnany ana then they were left without lights. assured of arms and food on St. WOttTU TU VINCI But Governor Claiborne Rosa island, his base, resolved was not inclined to wink at such The Gig Drifts Slowly Out to Sea. to shame the commodore into co- goings-o- n within his jurisdiction. this says Floyd, It was pitch dark and It had started to time, "By A Loving Thought operating. He embarked, thereThere was nothing to do but drift, so w drifted." rain. he on So 1813, November 24, of gem or even a flowInstead comon the brig Galveston, fore, there lie a world of terror. casual And statement, that wider his famous the cast proclamation er, gift of a loving thought manded by Rosseau, a Creole, posted a Those four lads every one of them knew what It meant te for the reward of a friend. George capinto the heart offering and raised his pennant on the drift out to sea. U they were lucky they might he picked up by of Jean Lafitte, pirate. ture McDonald. Followed a schooner by brig. a passing steamer. But on the ether hand. It waa aQ too eaay Jean Lafitte, clevand two gunboats, he boldly en- Two days later t drift unsighted for days oa end, and finally perish of thirst sad as same the language tered the port and acted with erly using executive of the state, exposure. such valor that the main squad- the chief We drifted until about 2 a. m., Floyd says, and then the sea began a a offering proclamation posted ron followed the next day and were to the of for get rough and we really had something to worry about, for there reward $1,000 delivery we we had and of harbor the safely crossed the bar. entrance figured the of Governor Claiborne at Grand mine fields aQ about below 12 the After several months siege. Terrel moored surface, were feet mines The them. Into drifted Thereupon New Orleans we stood a good chance JUST A Fort George and Fort Red Cliff shook with laughter. But not but with the high swells bobbing us up and down, DASH IN rSATHfRS were taken and the, way to the Governor Claiborne. our breaths We of them. of hitting one began holding of was Pensacola the main defenses About an hour later, they sighted a blinker light and that He saw to it that all of the opened. A terrific bombardment more for panic. signal for piwas continued until an explosion Baratarians were indicted It waa tee high te be on a ship. says Floyd, ec II must have was Lafitte when and Pierre racy Aiding the Foe walls. in the breach made a great ea a cliff. Were we going to ho washed against this cliff? been New Orleans, he was O men should put an enemy that let and Ufa Then a storming party rushed in caught in oa preservers Wo aQ prepared for tho worst. Wo pnt came he When bail. without held In their of mouths, to steal sway and compelled the surrender out tho anchor. But the anchor didnt hold. Tho boat still drifted. two famous atto however, brains! trial, their his Shakespeare. with see wo General Campbell could garriAfter a while we bad drifted to a place wbero torneys whom Jean Lafitte had J son of 800 regulars. were wo la the bo true It that of $20,000 suclights In the distance. Could As a reward for Galvezs bril- hired for a fee channel, heading back toward Brest? him in ceeded acquitted. getting liant success, the king made him Boat Drift Back to Starting Point. of Louisiana, Soon afterwards, however, publieutenant-generSaosatisaal (Ufcel fcruw Indi(stHa and lic plans changed opinion and and Oa Door frwva It and Just where they were. Die boat had drifted right back West, And that's the Floridas, East V Uw Snt doa aT an ltd were made to wipe out the nest to where it had started. - Cuba. He was also given the royblate aM a t hrtat ym tea laMa and Mt of Barataa Mnd bUa in the Mllaf of ad aimnaw. Bay of yaa worst their anoplua the still had lads pirates Luck? Sure, it was. But those al permission to place upon his bate M and M IHIUKLA MUNKf BaUL ThU Lafitte was again atnante diaaat bnd. laMte hatp U to go through. Beck on shore, someone had spotted them. The venture coat of arms a figure of the brig, ria. Pierrethis mmMm Uw aaa auwwte Suite banal aad tea time he was kept blinker on the cliff was signaling, but In a code they couldnt understand and Uw mwrttela hate ya a d. Far motto tat Yo yaa with the Galveston, by ttte baadate aad aaaau a ah a Thats what wo ma aad aiakin Would they open fire an urn? says Floyd. anaanatawateS'dte ya Solo (I Alone). In 1785 he waa in jafl. ll BU--ON It ol Warns a INhs JTht aite Then came the invasion of the were afraid or. They kept searchlights on ns until wo were half made viceroy of Mexico to sucofvessel ceed his father. He died there in British army, Jean Laflttea of way through the channel, and then wo saw n and of those hundred n with It services of When his yarda fer got 1786 after having been viceroy for 34 39 coming In our direction. WNU W beamed American to the Its men cause, boat was a searchlight his it see that torpedo could no I only a year. on us, sad It came straight for us. The name of Don Bernardo de the effort of British officers to Honest Labor Baraof the services the enlist in the at them It cams full speed ahead, and with no Intention of Galvez lives today great lies in honest toil. Honor Straight and Jean Lafittes clever stopping. It Just grazed the stern of the boat but with a force that spun er Cleveland. city or Galveston, Texas, but tarians of them. He g of Americans have other reasons bit it around and almost knocked Its four occupants overboard. It of news Claiborne Governor sent Not him. only By the Ume we had come to our senses. says Floyd, for remembering rebad turned and waa coming back to take another ram at us. All did he provide the patriot army the British proposition and to serve the four at us began yelling at the top of oar lungs, Americans with. munitions at a time when newed, his offera - result Pierre ,As Americans. but his most Americans!' needed, they were allowed to escape was Lafitte The host esme on. It esme within s few feet of the gig, and in British of the posts conquests Lafittes and the and right n from usjail then, suddenly. It turned sharply aside. The hoyi kepthost the Southeast prevented their Don't Neglect Than! valor-ousl- y came served French Baratarians the from their then torpedo on of attack , Americans, bases as the kidney to do a yelling, Vitm ing them in Jacksons army which fnarvaiooa )ob. Tkair Uak la to kaap lb the answer, Oul, out. the Americans in the old Northblood Ira o an new o atrram Bovins at We told them our engine had broken down. says Floyd, and they west in Georgia and the Carolinas. whipped Pakenhams ofredcoats toste imparities. Th act ol livinf 1A Orus back New towed historic Battle iutlfio eonauatly producint araata said they thought we were a German submarine. They When the Revolution ended, the matter tb kidney nud remove from 8, 1813. Asia to our station, and when w were ashore again we .11 agreed It was one on leans January the tb blood il (nos health ia to andnra. Mississippi had England held of this patriotic service Whan tb kidney fail to functiaa as result would long remember. we Lawrence the St. night the as well as Katun In tan dad. there Is retention of his . followers Onion.) and Western Lafitte by (Rclaasad Jean Nwpapr dw d waat that may aauaa boundaries of the new nation, as vrere traaa. On may suffar nantinf backache by the fedforgiven legally well as its future destiny, might parantent twadaeba, attacks ol diranam. eral government and reinstated Setting np eights, aarallmg, putfinwa Least Effort the have been far different from to American citizenship. Pleasures Require Best under th yw (art tired, nervous, all Simplest worn what they became. Spain later eat. The best pleasures are first, the ures are what we might call Presumably they were forgivscanty er burning pamagw frvqumt, ceded Louisiana hack to France may b further evldeac oi ludnay or pleasures; that is, the pleastoo. simplest pleasures which require Governor Claiborne, en by soldjlt Bonaparte tor d bladder and Napoleon banc. he was troubled no more least machinery least effort on the ures of mind and spirit If we test 1 h racogmard and proper treatment to the United States. England At least laws exas such our a to help the kidney diuretic medicine these. ti by the who pleasures established a leyt part of others; second, by the Lafittes made one more effort to gain powonou body araatm get rtd el will take us outdoors instead most near accessible; they had mots the aa Galveston, third, colony Lula. l Hasn't ofThey have pensive; foothold on the Gulf of Mexico pirate ar proval. A wideof Indoors; to nature, and not to artithan forty year most be can puttie the ruled then that those Spanby fourth, of Texas, War end the e, L- - S O an domed toe nntry when, toward the ficial things; to wholesome exercise, 1816 Governor Claiborne Xteoa'a. gold at d ly shared; fifth, those that can be of 1812, she landed an army nekr ish. In Idle to and hot just United States sena- most often repeated without doing entertainment; New Orleans. What happened to was elected to music, friendship, and books rathor New Orleans in died on sixth, soul; but mind, to tor body, barm Gen. Andrew it when it attacked er than to excitement and things 23, 1817, before he was those that call Into action the highJacksons army on January 8, November that are artificial best Ufa. The office. to take of pleas able est qualities 1815, Is history. 1779, lish. (Ralaased by Western Newspaper Union.) ROLLS DEVELOPED ftiifc I niMrrnawrrt. or four fholrr of It Driitit without Ibe ratio nlkrtfaRMnui Hepnnu flea. NOtTNWtIT PHOTO fVRVICI n ftftntft fart iic:, - PHOTOGRAPHY n, territory m 1804 he resigned control of Mississippi Territon to govern the new one. PP'al for French volunteers to enlist f the BriUslu CSC;,V'; madearehV.tirrln , sgalnst (left to right) the Cabildo, the St. Louis cathetht 'or"round is j,ck5on s,"" jess; CLUB swift-movi- ment of Louisiana, he went to the and colony in America in 1776 had who when Don Louis Unzaga, succeeded O'Reilly as governor, asked to be recalled, t Galvez, through his familys, influence, was appointed to that post, although he was then barely --years of age. The young governor promptly restored to the French colonials the right to trade with France, gratitude. thereby winning their followed s His predecessor had benevolent neutrality" policy of toward the American colonies who were then in revolt against continEngland. Galvez not only went farther, but ued that policy In 1778 the continental Congress sent a Captain Willing to New Orleans to get munitions which the Patriot army so sorely needed and Galvez not only permitted the sale of arms and ammunition to to Willing but contributed $70,000 cause. American the The king of Spain had offered to mediate in the dispute between colEngland and her American war offer the onies and when Spain followed the ox --- spumed, -- on May ample of Frasce and 8, ng I double-crossin- M4 body-en- , top-flo- or 1 a. |