Daily Capital News and Post-Tribune (Newspaper) - March 13, 1932, Jefferson City, Missouri A Sunday Combination Of TlM MORNING CAPITAL NEWS and EVENING DAILY CAPITAL NEWS VOLUME 1 NUMBER 50 JEFFERSON CITY MISSOURI SUNDAY MARCH 13 1932 PRICE IS SAFE SAYS SECRET AGENT Morris Rosner Continues Negotiations But Says He Cannot Talk Too Much A HOHENSTREET NAMED TO HEAD Republican City Committee Held Organization Meet ing at City Hall Yesterday By MORRIS WATSON A P Staff Writer NEW YORK Mar it might speed the Lindbergh babys return to its parents Morris Ros ner undercover man announced today he had definite knowledge the child is alive and safe He said he was not able to reveal whether he had had actual con versation of other direct communi cation with the kidnapers but his statement the baby was safe and well and would be returned was not in any way a mere matter of ion He indicated police were in no way concerned with his activities in the case Lieutenant Walter J Coughlin of the New Jersey state police at Trenton N J said in response to inquiries Col H Norman Schwarz kopf state police head had de clared regarding the story of Ros ner There is absolutely no truth in it Coughlin said Schwarzkopf stated he was speaking on behalf of police and the Lindbergh fam ily At his apartment as he returned from Hopewell N J after 103 hours on his feet to bathe and relax before undertaking a very delicate task Rosner made it plain that to talk was to break a rule of a lifetime On the basis it might be to the interest of the missing baby he used the interview to assure the kidnapers they need not fear to rush Arthur Hohenstreet of the Third ward was elected chairman of the Republican City committee at a meeting at the city hall Saturday afternoon Mrs Forest Erhardt was elected vice president Mrs Agnes Jones secretary and Charles O Muenks treasurer Chairman William Kruse of the retiring committee called the meet ing to order and presided until the new officers were elected and in stalled Plans for the campaign were dis cussed and it was indicated it would New State Reformatory at Algoa to Be Managed Without Any Guards be the purpose of the committee to put a full ticket in the field A committee composed of Mon oe Fink George Luce and Mis James Bacon was appointed to con sult several Republicans suggested or the nomination for alderman from the second ward One group urged the nomination of Anton B Richter who for ten years served the city as chief of police and later was elected sheriff If Richter can be induced to accept the nomina tion he will have the unanimous ap proval of the committee Hohenstreet the new chairman is a comparative new comer among the leaders in Republican politics in the city but has been an active party worker for several years Missouris new intermediate re will not have guards The men whose duty it will be to enforce discipline will be known as of Instructors John Thornberry young Joplin attorney recently named superin tendent of the institution explained that the purpose of the new in will be to instruct the in mates not to harden them He said the new institution would not have the same type of inmates as the Missouri State Prison The young men who will be sent to the intermediate reformatory will be elected after exhaustive mental and capability tests he said Our idea is to rehabilitate the boys who will go to the institution and make it possible for them to go out of the institution just as they would out of a school We want to train them so that they can pur sue the same type of vocation for which they were trained while in the institution Each inmate will be given in dividual study and treatment Each boy will be treated as a separate problem There will be no mass reatment such as is found in pris ons The first group of prisoners will taken to the reformatory about March 15 Thomberry said At present 73 young men between the ages of 17 and 25 sentenced for terms have been segregated in a separate building at the prison here and are being given psycho metric tests He estimated that possibly slightly more than half of the group would be assigned to the new institution after the tests Before leaving the institution discharged inmates will be given a series of mental tests to determine what they have learned while in The several miles east of here will not have walls or fences BOYS ATTEMPT TO SET FIRE TO WATER ST HOME Mrs Mary Knight Files Com plaint With the City Police Model Dairy Herd Led Cow Association During Last Month The Model Dairy herd owned by Herbert Glenn headed all others in the Central Missouri Herd Improve ment Association for February to prevent a serious fire Mrs Mary Knight 514 East Wa ter complained to the city police last night that a gang of young boys residing in that vicinity attempted to set fire to her home early in the evening The boys according to Mrs Knight gained entrance to the basement and set fire to an old coat Smoke from the burning gar ment into the upper stor ies of the house and the source of the blaze was discovered in time COLE DEMOCRATS WILL MEET HERE NEXT SATURDAY Ward and Township Gather ings Over County to Be Held the Night Before WAR ON TAXI SPEEDERS IS OPENED HERE Four Arrests Were Made Last Night by Officer Bosch and Others Will Follow Traffic Officer Bosch last night declared open warfare on speeding car operators in Jefferson City es taxicab drivers Four arrests were made during the evening and in every instance the motorist was traveling in excess of 45 miles per hour on a busy street One of the quartet is a taxicab driver They will be arraigned be fore John G Leslie in city police court Monday morning Officer Bosch asserts that he has received numerous complaints against speeding cabs here and ex to curb the speed maniacs at the wheels of taxicabs even if he has to arrest every violator each day and night He declared that the drivers re a certain percentage of their total fares and that under the 10 cent system they are compelled to travel at an excessive rate of speed n order to earn a sufficient wage That fact does not excuse their FIRE DAM AGES DREDGE BOAT OF SAND COMPANY Sparks From Acetylene Torch Causes Blaze Fire Trucks Make Quick Run SIX ARRESTED BY FEDERAL OFFICERS IN SERIES OF RAIDS Iam nothing will done to harm them he said Behind that guarantee is my this is all over they know where they can find me He referred once to the kidnapers as family That family made a mistake he said they never make another one We all make mistakes All we want is to get our baby back Americas baby Col Lind bergh will do nothing to prosecute them I guarantee they will not be as I said before my life is behind that guarantee Rosner said he was formerly a government agent and that he was recommended to the by Senator Elmer Thomas of Okla homa and others high in the po life of the nation He arrived at his apartment in a limousine belonging to Douglas of 111 Park Avenue at oclock bathed and lounged in a dressing gown for about three hours Then he was off again in the limousine for the delicate work which he declined to reveal Rosner laughed when he was asked why he was using Craiks car Thats how busy I have been he said I didnt even know whose car or whose chauffeur had until my wife told me a few minutes ago His wife a comely blonde sat in on the interview Rosner is swarthy stocky man who appears to be of Latin extraction He say little about himself except have served my country as much as any man in uniform has ever done Let me repeat he said as a final word Whoever has our baby need have no fear In Washington Senator Thomas said he thought Rosner will help Col Lindbergh I know of no one I would rather trust the Senator added He explained he became ac with Rosner in the capital while the latter was seeking a po sition as a special investigator for the department of Justice The two underworld characters originally named by Col Lindbergh las his gobetween Salvatore Salvy and Irving Bitz were acquitted by a jury in Brook lyn Federal court of a charge of violating the Prohibition laws The jurors deliberated only 30 minutes Yesterday counsel for the pail had said Spitale as soon as the trial ended was going off to inves a clue In the Lindbergh case which he termed pretty good At Trenton Col Schwarzkopf Is on page 2 also placed five cows that were among he ten ranking highest ranking in dividual producers There are 42 cows in the Glenn herd that averaged 766 pounds of milk and 31 pounds of butterfat during the month Good feeding and the use of a high production bred sire are given credit for the success of his herd by Mr Glenn The prison herd which was first during January ranked second with 286 pounds of butterfat Glenn announced the rations which he used and which he be ieves is one of the first importance n herd care as follows roughage jer day 12 pounds of alfalfa and 35 pounds of silage grain mixture of 1000 pounds of cob meal 500 pounds of bran and 500 pounds of 34 per cent commercial tre attempt at arson was evident ly prompted by spite as she had reprimanded boys playing in that neighborhood on numerous occas ions She was unable to identify any of the responsible parties however and no arrests had been made late last night BISHOP WALDORF WILL DEDICATE LINN CHURCH EMIL SCHOTT TAKES OFFICE OF TREASURER Emil Schott the new treasurer of Cole County formally took over the office at the courthouse yes after arranging a bond to talling a hundred thousand dollars that was satisfactory to the coun ty court Mr Schotts bondsmen are Thorpe Gordon Dr M R Al dridge and J D Reed Mr Schott contented himself with looking over the records re arranging the office and familiar izing himself with the various ac counts On Monday he will be on the job and ready for business Rev Max Barnes of the Linn First Methodist Episcopal Church announced last night that Bishop Waldorf would dedicate the new Linn Creek Methodist Episcopal Church this morning Bishop Waldorf will speak on the morning services in the initial ded services and again in the afternoon at 2 oclock Rev Barnes says it will be the last time for this community to hear Bishop as he will be transferred to another district in May In a letter to Rev Barnes Bishop Waldorf asks that all Methodist churches in this section be repre sented at the dedication services Ward and township meetings for the purpose of electing delegates to the Democratic County Conven tion will be held at oclock on Friday evening March 18 ac cording to a decision reached yes afternoon at a meeting of the Cole County Democratic Cen tral Committee in the circuit court room of the courthouse here A large number of members both from the city and county were in attendance Chairman Ed J Ar nett presided The ward and township gather ings will name delegates to the con which will be held at oclock Saturday evening Marcl 19 at the courthouse here and th convention in turn will name 28 del egates to the state convention in St Louis on March 28 The county committee at its meeting yesterday recommended that each ward and township be permitted to name a certain num ber of delegates to the state conven tion and that no delegates be nam ed at large The committees rec will be considered when the convention meets next Saturday night however and I intend to pay close attention to the taxicabs n the future Bosch asserted The dredge boat at the Jefferson City Sand Co narrowly escaped being destroyed by fire about 10 oclock Saturday morning when a blaze was started apparently from sparks off an acetylene torch which had been used on board the boat at some repair work The timely ar rival of the trucks and the use chemicals checked the blaze it could get underway The firemen at first found in handling the fire with a hoso and booster pump They found an ample supply of water In the Missouri river but it was im possible to play a stream directly on the smouldering fire due to its For a time it appeared the dredge boat worth thousands of dollars would be destroyed Finally what the firemen call a hand grenade a glass ball containing about a quart quart of liquid chemicals was thrown down a hatchway The boat then was closed up and the chemicals did the rest of the work The fire was smothered Had the blaze gained headway the entire sand fleet might easily have been destroyed A snag boat BRADFORD IS FREED ON DISTURBANCE CHARGE A jury in Justice C A Greenes court at yesterday afternoon returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of Ed Brad ford farmer of the Marion neigh charged with dis the peace of his wife Mrs Bradford attempted to dismiss the charge she had filed against Bradford when the case was trial for trial but ing Attorney Nike G re fused to consent to the dismissal Trial of the case followed and Bradford was released It simply another case of R family dispute which ended in a peaceable settlement the county prosecutor said TWO FARMERS CAUGHT WITH A LIQUOR CARGO Ben Weavers and Anton Van Ioo Arrested With Truck Load of Whiskey Series of Meetings at Christian Church Will Start on Today was tied directly behind the dredge and beside it was the steamboat The water supply on the boat had been turned out dur ing the cold weather to prevent freezing The boat crews hnd nothing to combat the flames The Sand Company officials praised the Jefferson City fire de for their quick work THREE MEN TO FACE TRIALS IN BOONE MURDERS Floyd Brown Ora Lindsey and Roy Cochran Cases Docketed This Week JAS REED TO MAYO CLINIC Senator in Rochester for Op Road to Recovery Rev Arthur Long of Portland I Oregon arrived yesterday at i noori I to begin a brief series of meetings atj Avenue Rev Long is an Evangelist of wide experience who has been very suc in building up strong churches For about twelve years he was a pastor of two large Christian Churches in Kansas He added hundreds to his churches during his Ministry In fact he was so successful that he since then has given all his time to the work of Evangelism He was State Secretary for Evan gelism in Texas and had charge of a series of meetings in the Christ ian Churches of Dallas Texas and was active before that in the same type of work in Oklahoma Recently he closed a meeting in the large University Christian Church at Eugene Oregon Rev Long will preach at the morning services and again tonight and each night this week Mr and Mrs Owen Walker will arrive today to be in charge of the CARROLLTON WINNER OF DEBATE AT WOTS CHICKEN THEFT IS REPORTED TO POLICE NEW JOHNSON COUNTY CIRCUIT CLERK NAMED Gov Caulfield yesterday appoint d Frank M Bailey of Warrensburg clerk of Johnson County A W Jack who died Bailey had the indorse ment of the Johnson county Re publican committee and other par y leaders WEATHER MISSOURI Generally fair Sun day and probably Monday no w cold Jim Carver 1227 McCarty Street reported to the police the theft of six Plymouth hens yesterday The fowls were stolen sometime during Friday night or early Saturday morning I Police found no trace of the miss ing hens It was the first night theft of chickens in the city in several weeks Mrs William Bonnot 1116 East Dunklin Street reported the loss of a Elgin watch from her bedroom The watch she reported to the police had been there a few days ago but was uncertain just when it might have been taken ST LOUIS March The St Louis says tonight in a dispatch from Roch ester Minn that former Senator James A Reed of Kansas City candidate for the Democratic nomi nation for president has undergone an operation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester The newspaper says he is report ed to be on the early road to re covery No information as to the exact nature of Reeds ailment was made public the newspaper says but the operation was said to have been considered necessary to re lieve the former senator of occas annoyance with gall stones music for the series of meetings Rev Walker has been detained ow ing to the unexpected death of his father Mr George Walker who was buried near Indianapolis Ind yes The Walkers have been in large meetings in Indiana within the last month Rev Long and Rev and Mrs Walker have been asso together before in Evangelis tic campaigns and it is said make very successful campaigns that build up the life of the whole Christ ian Community They term their Jefferson series The Evangelism of Abundant Life FULTON Mo Mar High represented by Nellie Crank and Jane Ray John son won the final debate today In he sixth annual tournament for high school girls teams held under the auspices of William Woods Col lege Carrollton won by a decis ion of the judges over Marshall represented by Bess Button and Dorothy Davenport The Carroll ton team was awarded the Fulton Womens Club trophy cup for tem possession nnd a permanent cup was presented by the college The winning team debated the affirmative side of the question whether states should enact legis lation for compulsory unemploy ment insurance Individual ratings given the de baters were First Miss Johnson of Carrollton second Mary Ruth Grubb of and third Miss Davenport Each of them was awarded a scholarship to William Woods College Trials of three men charged witl first degree murder are schedule to be held in the Boone county cir cult court at Columbia next week Attorneys for Floyd Brown of Co charged with the killing o whe he Inst her ue when the trial Is called Mon day Ola Lindsey of Fulton Browns companion in his break for liberty who is now serving a sentence In he state at Jefferson City on another charge will be up trial Wednesday morning He is also charged with Cooks murder The trial of Roy Cochran charg ed with the fatal stubbing of Hu bert Cravens Is scheduled for Fri day Both men are negroes Three Cole County were rested by prohibition agents south ast of the city Saturday charged ith violation ol the Volstead act Ben Weavers and Anton VanLoo ere arrested on the Bald Hill road mile and a half from the city hey were driving a truck which among other things twenty or whiskey and ten gallons alcohol The men were placed arrest and the truck and cou confiscated Prohibition men lying in valt for them where the Huegels road intersects with the Bald Till road and signaled them to stop they rounded the curve They were brought to the city and lodged in jail but later in the afternoon were arraigned before Commissioner Duvid W Peters and released on bond each Late Friday night the agents went to the farm of Theodore May ens near Taos where they seized a fifty gallon still 300 gallons of mash and four gallons of the finished product The still and the whiskey were found in a shed about twen feet from the house May on bond forhis In Early Friday Henry nnd Clem i Kerperin were arrested near Taos Two stills were found on the place one of 100 gallons capacity and tht other of 50 gallons capacity They also were released on bond LOW BIDDERS ON St Peters Boy Scout Troop Takes Lead in Achievement Contest Large Number of Bids on New Construction Work Received Friday City the PETTIS DEMOCRATS INSTRUCTED FOR REED ENDORSE EILENBERGER IN THE FOURTH WARD FOR REGISTRAR OF CITY The Democratic City Central Committee at a meeting last night endorsed Paul as regis trar in the fourth ward of the city to succeed Paul Cameron who has moved to another ward A special meeting of the City Council will likely be held early this week to elect Eilenberger so that he may serve at the supplemental registra tion here on Saturday March 19 CARS ARE DAMAGED IN LOCAL ACCIDENT She missed it only yesterday Democrats Will Hold City Mass Meetings and Convention on March 16 The Democratic City Convention of Jefferson City will be held at 8 oclock Wednesday evening March 16 in the circuit courtroom at the Cole County Courthouse according to a decision reached last night at a meeting of the Democratic City Central Committee in the council members at the City Hall Ward mass meetings at which delegates will be elected to the an convention will be held at 7 oclock on the same evening in the five respective wards of the city The first ward will meet at the Fairview School the second ward attended at the county courthouse the third ward at the West End School the fourth ward at the Broadway School and the fifth ward at the Moreau Heights School The basis of representation in the convention will be one delegate for every 50 votes cast for Bassman for city treasurer in the last city elec tion This will give the first ward 14 delegates the second ward 12 the third 16 the fourth 16 and the fifth 16 Ed J Arnett chairman of the city committee presided at the meeting last night which was well Automobiles operated by J K Welch local resident and L T Le bans a resident of Illinois were damaged late yesterday afternoon in a collision at McCarty and Jef ferson streets was traveling west on Mc carty at the time in an Essex se dan and he charges that Lebans who was going south on Jeffer son failed to observe the boule vard stop The Illinois motorist agreed to pay all damages resulting from the accident SEDALIA Mo March of Pettis county today elected thirtyone delegates to the state convention at St Louis March 28 and instructed them to support former Senator James A Reed Kansas City for the Democratic presidential nomination They endorsed Mrs C B Faris St Louis and W T Kemper Kan sas City for members of the na tional committee and Ira E Mel ton Sedalia was unanimously en for district delegate to the national convention Russell Dearmont candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomi nation spoke saying never before were the Democrats so filled with enthusiasm He predicted a sweep ing party victory next November SCHOOL CUT SEDALIA Mo March board of education today an the budget for the public schools for the coming term had been reduced between and by reducing the force Of teachers and lowering salaries about 15 per cent The action was sary the board said because of lessened revenues Troop No 4 St Peters Church which has Wm F Seeker as its Scoutmaster took the lead in the Jefferson City Area Council Achieve ment Contest according to a report released from Boy Scout ters Saturday Troop No 17 of who held the lead in January slipped into second place While Troop No 1 Methodist Church who held second place last month slipped down into sixth place Troop No 22 of which was in twelfth place came up into third place this month The present standings of all troops of the Council is as follows Troop 4 St Peters J C 427 Troop No 17 Gasconade 383 Troop No 22 Warrenton 373 Troop No 7 Baptist J C 358 Troop No 6 Im maculate Conception J C 357 Troop No 1 Methodist J C 355 Troop No IB Hermann 351 Troop No 2 Presbyterian J C 328 Troop No 5 Evangelical J C 310 Troop No 3 Christian J C 305 Troop No 14 Eldon 300 Troop No 20 California Troop 23 Treloar 205 Troop 21 Iberia 195 Troop 8 Colored J C IBS Troop 19 Mar 185 Troop 18 Tuscumbia 175 Troops are rated on a system which covers practically every Continued on page 2 FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR MRS ANDERSON Funeral services were held yes morning at 10 oclock for Mrs J A Anderson wife of the superintendent of equipment at the state highway department Ser vices were at the Capitol Avenue Baptist Church Large offerings were made and many Jefferson City people attended the service MURRAY CAMPAIGN INTO THREE STATES OKLAHOMA CITY Gov William March H Alfalfa Murray will carry his cam for the Democratic presiden tial nomination to Kansas Alabama and Florida in the next two weeks HiS itinerary calling for eight speeches in Kansas five in Alabama and seven in Florida was ed tonight Tax on Private Railroad Cars of Missouri Would Be Repealed by Thompson L D Thompson state auditor will recommend for the third time when the state legislature meets next January that the Missouri private car tax be he said yesterday Th etax brings about per year into state treasury from a levy upon railroad cars owned by private corporations and operated over railroad lines in Missouri Such cars include refrigerator cars used for hauling meats and fruit dump cars livestock and furniture cars The original law providing for tax held that the money be distributed among the counties and used lor the building of hardsurfaced roads Thompson contends however that most of the counties have merely placed the money in general coun ty funds or the school fund Either the law should be chang ed so that the money from the priv ate car tax would be placed direct ly in the State Highway fund or else it should be repealed Thomp son said I do not think it 5s fair to tax corporations many of which are not Missouri firms in order to get more money for county schools The corporations are too taxed now and this is an on Page The low bidders on of new road work received Friday at the state highway department on 77 projects in 33 counties were an yesterday ns follows Andrew 18 mile graded earth Route 109 to Helena Nevada Const Co Adair 42 miles gravel Route 6 to Gibbs W C Laplata Mo Audrain 51 miles gravel Route SW Martin Wunderlich Jefferson City 122 miles 20 foot concrete Mexico to Scotts Corner Route 54 divid ed into three projects Cameron Joyce Co la 46 miles 20 foot concrete Route 54 Cameron Joyce Co Keokuk la Barry 72 miles gravel Cassville south M E Gillioz Monett Mo Bellinger 6 miles gravel Perry on Route 51 Junnell Mack Const Co Para Ark Barton 47 miles graded earth loute O O Fuller lonst Co Nevada Mo Boone 78 miles gravel Harris urg to Route 63 Martin Wunder ch Jefferson City Mo Camden 25 miles gravel Route 4 to Linn Creek A E Const Co Kansas City Mo 16485 Carter 03 miles gravel Van bridge over Pike Jos Kesl Sons Edwards ille 111 Dent 45 miles gravel Bunker to Hill bridge over River M E Gillioz Monnett Mo 135447 Chariton 85 miles gravel Fellin Brothers Marsh ield Mo Dunklin 4 miles gravel Senath south Bunnell Mack Paragould Ark Cole 74 miles 20 foot concrete 50 Jefferson City to City to California Kelly Underwood Mo New Madrid 06 mile gravel and 10 foot concrete Joseph Kesl Sons Edwardsville 111 Franklin 112 miles 20 Joot con crete St Clalr to Cedar HUTon Route 30 Davis Inc Mo 6 miles foot crete St Clair to Cedar Hill on An
