Word: shreveporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that public enemy Al Capone's old armored limousine was junked in Moab, Utah, after a wreck. Last week I paid 5? to see "Al Capone's $20,000, bulletproof, V16 Cadillac limousine" which was in a side-show at the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport. I don't begrudge the nickel, but I would like to know if Al had two such automobiles or if what I saw was just another Fair farce...
...rushing in men and equipment, changing the small town of Rodessa from a sleepy whistle-stop to a booming paradise for real estate swappers. A townsite lot in Rodessa lately sold for $30,000 cash. Population has climbed from 135 to 4,000. Baptist Preacher John W. Wynn of Shreveport came out of retirement to minister to Rodessa's needs, says he has worn out three cars burying and marrying people and has "struck it rich...
...spent his spare time accumulating a fabulous number of leases on land in Caddo Parish. As far back as 1922 this country attracted oil companies to test drilling, but they all eventually gave up. By 1930 Dick Norton had collected mineral rights to about 26,000 acres. Thena young Shreveport geologist encouraged Norton, who was down to his last dime, to borrow money and finance his own drilling. A well in the north part of the Parish turned out to be a gasser producing 50,000,000 cubic feet daily...
...Charles Jaynes, pastor in Detroit of a foursquare Gospel Church affiliated with Aimee Semple McPherson's organization has a chubby 6-year-old son. Charles Jaynes Jr. eats spinach, practices on his violin, cannot read. In Shreveport, La. last Sunday night, Preacher Jaynes wiped his small moppet's nose, led him out before a good-sized congregation. Not the father but the son began beating the pulpit with a childish fist, pointing a small finger to heaven and piping in a clear treble : "Man has a two-fold nature. He is both a material and a spiritual being...
Thus Evangelist Charles Jaynes Jr. led off a week of services in Shreveport, culminating a tour which began three years ago when he could scarcely talk sense. Having preached in 70 cities in 13 states, small Charles Jaynes Jr. will go to Detroit for a well-earned rest and some education. Called by his parents no prodigy but "the result of proper training in a Christian home," the child has heretofore been too busy for schooling, will get a tutor next autumn...