Daily Capital News and Post-Tribune (Newspaper) - April 3, 1932, Jefferson City, Missouri A Sunday Combination ot The MORNING CAPITAL NEWS and EVENING DAILY CAPITAL NEWS VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1 CITY MISSOURI SUNDAY APRIL 3 1933 TWENTY PAGES BOYS IN BLUE OF STATE TO MEET HERE Anniversary of Grand Army of Republic Will Be Celebrated in City Next Saturday The boys in blue from all over Missouri will converge on Jefferson City next Saturday in celebration of the sixty sixth anniversary of the Grand Army of the Republic A memorial tablet to the R A R will at the statehouse on the occasion It will be unveiled by H M Anderson of Kan sas City Governor Henry S Caul field is slated as one of the speakers Hundreds of visitors are expected in Jefferson City for the occasion be sides several score of the graying veterans who helped to save the Union from the revolting South Every patriotic organization in the city also will have a hand in the ceremony While the state honors the thinning veterans trim husky guardsmen of the present day will be on hand beside veterans of the World War and their friends Muffled dmms will open the cer emony which will be to or der by department commander P L Swarte of Joplin Musical selec tions will be given by the Jefferson City High School Orchestra direct ed by Miss Daisy Seaber Anderson who will unveil the tablet was one of the heroes of the of Secession He enlist ed at Augusta Maine in April 1861 DRY REFORM WOMEN MEET Public Mass Meeting Will Be Held at Courthouse in the Evening at the age of under the first call of President Lincoln for 75 000 troops He later reenlisted for three years in Com pany Infantry It was the first three years regiment from that state to Washington Anderson took part in the of the Battle of Bull Later when the Arriny of the was organiz ed a the 3rd Anderson in Hrs division took part in virtually all of the great battles of the war Before Anderson left the army at the close of the war he had risen from the rank of buck private to that of captain He was mustered out asan escapee prisoner of war Captain Anderson was wounded in the battle of Fair Oaks Va May 31 1362 and battled Fredericks burg Va Dec Hth 1362 He was captured while fighting in the bloody angle at Gettysburg July 2nd 1363 confined in Libby Prison Rich mond Var ten months He helped dig the famous tunnel through which 115 to 125 officers escaped the night of February 9 About half reached the Union lines Captain Anderson was recaptured and later transferred to Macon Ga Charleston S C and Columbia s pIn over eighteen months a prisoner of War November 20th on page 2 The Missouri Branch of the Womens Organization for National Reform will hold its April executive committee meeting at the Missouri Hotel in Jefferson City Monday April 4th Women from various sections of the state will motor to the State Capitol ar riving in time for a luncheon at The session will be called order by Mrs Clifford W Gaylor state chairman at m The delegation will be received at the Mansion at by Honorable Henry S Caulfield governor of Mis souri In the there will be a mass meeting in the court house to which the public is cor invited Mrs W C Irwin chairman of the Jefferson City unit will preside Mr Henry Asel mayor of Jefferson City will deliver the address of welcome The speakers will be Mrs Clifford W Gaylor state chairman Mrs Frederic Elaine state organiser and Mrs Mary E of the Missouri Branch president of the Joint Council of Womens Auxil and member of the legislative committee of the Missouri Feder ation of Labor Mrs Ryder is being urged to be come a candidate for Congress in the Democratic primaries The following St Louis women will motor to Jefferson city Mrs C C Wolff Mrs Blodgett Priest Mrs B K Leach Miss Loretta Meinert Mrs Bichard Kring Mrs Ernst Zahl Mrs Gilbert P Stre linger Mrs Vertrees Young Mrs Mary B Pollard Mrs Harry Wer man Mrs Scott Porter Mrs John B Jr Mrs Guide Parita leoni Mrs Laura S Edwards Mrs Mary E lyder Mrs Clifford W Mrs Sterling Edmunds Mrs Clinton L Mrs Mrs J How ard Holmes and Mrs Carl Angell Mrs Arthur Garrison and Mrs F O Watts les of Christ of Missouri Meet at 2628 The 95th annual State Conven tion of Missouri Disciples of Christ will be at Columbia April 26 to 28 according to announcement by Guthrie S Birkhead chairman of the Program Committee of the Con vention This convention will also be unique in that one session will be in ob servance of the Centennial of First Christian Church at Colum bia I Many speakers of prominence will be present including Dr Claude Hill of Tulsa Dr W R War ren of Indianapolis Ind Miss Ber tha Clawson of Japan Prof Ver non Nash of Peiping China Dr R H Miller of Kansas City Dr G A Campbell of St Louis Dr C M Chilton of St Joseph and anany others A radical reorganization oi the organized work of the Christian Churches in Missouri will be pro posed Certain modifications will be proposed for the sake of more efficient work and because of econ conditions According to Mr Birkhead Mis souri Christian Churches reported a membership of over 150000 last year with a net gain of 2378 mem bers It is expected that the Co lumbia Convention will mark the beginning of an aggressive promo tion of this very important organ in Missouri Church life INDIANA COUPLE Because the laws of Missouri on marriage are different than they are in Indiana one young couple from Ind almost got into difficulty after they had made up their minds definitely to have the knot tied Under Indiana law any girl 18 years old or over can wed without the consent of her fattier but in Missouri it is different she has to be 21 here This was the informa tion Pauline Hermann learned from County Recorder Henry LePage when she accompanied by the pros Howard Dau applied for a license The young lady was not to be foiled in her plans however She immediately had Mr Lepage call her father at by tele phone where he gave his consent and promised to make out an af to that effect and mail it to the office here The two were married later by the Rev Thomas B Mather Mr Daudistel and Miss Hermann apparently were from families of some prominence The society editor sent a telegram to Recorder LePage yes asking confirmation to a re port the license had been issued SET The State Public Service Com mission yesterday set forward argu ment the application of the city of Mexico for an order compelling the Missouri Power and Light Company to supply it with natural gas with out granting the company a fran chise The franchise of the com pany has expired The case one of the first of its kind in Missouri has attracted widespread interest COUNTY TO MEET r at oclock in the Cole county WEATHER and somewhat Sunday Monday cloudy ii Iud is one CI rnp showers and somewhat warm portant things for a livestock tx to livestock Cole County livestock men attend a smoker tomorrow evening will courthouse Cigars will be passed out to all who attend as compli ments of the Farm Bureau The two principal speakers will be Charles Helm and J W Burch of Columbia The value of pasture in cutting down production costs will be the topic of the evening Pasture T R Lueker points out ought to be worth just as much acre for acre as any other land and It requires less care How to get the most out of pasture land he believes is one of the most im Cities of Fourth Class Cannot Impose Tax on Any Foreign Corporation cities to whose Missouris statutes do not give of the fourth class authority impose a tax on corporations manufacturing operations are wholly conducted beyond their ter limits division No 1 of the Missouri Supreme Court ruled yes and ended a long legal bat tle which started over a fine The case which began in police court at Ozark Mo was earned to circuit court the Springfield Court of Appeals and finally to the Su Court Everett Hammond an employe of 10 Nafziger Baking Company with headquarters in Springfield was arrested and charged with violating an Ozark ordinance by delivering bread to dealers in without r ying a tax provided in the ordi nance After being fined in police court Hammond went to circuit court where he again was fined and then to the Court of Appeals Because the court of appeals was unable to unanimously the Supreme Court took jurisdiction language of the ordi nance Judge William T Ragland wrote in the decision today is very broad in so it includes a business such as the baking com pany was doing it is void The decision reversed the judgment of the circuit court and ended the pro longed litigation FORMER RESIDENT BURNIS CASE IS FOUND DEAD IN AUTO Leon L Baird Was Manager of Bolivar Street Shoe Factory COLUMBIA Mo April AP Leon L Baird for more than ten preliminary hearing of Burn years manager of the International West End Shoe Factory here was found dead at the wheel of his au at St Petersburg Pla a week ago according to word received here today Mr Baird who with Mrs Baird was spending the winter in Florida was the victim of a heart attack He was 52 years old and besides hiswidow is survived by one daugh ter Word of his death was brought here by F N Chandler who spent several weeks in Honda Mr Chandler said he called on his old friend and they spent many happy hours together He took me on an automobile trip through the city said Mr Chandler asked his old friends and tances Three days later I read the story of the finding ofthe body of a man believed to be Baird The body was taken to Elyria O where the Bairds have been making their home almost continuously ince leaving Jefferson City Baird was the predecessor of J RNolan as head of the Bolivar Street fac ory He had a wide acquaintance ui Jefferson City Voting Places for City Election Have Been Chosen The voting precincts in Tuesdays election will be the same as the places of registration in each ward with one exception and that is in he fifth ward second precinct The precinct voting place of the fifth will be at Pratts barber shop instead of at John place The barber shop is at the corner of Clark Avenue and Dunklin street The polls as designated andap proved by the city council are as follows 1st Ward 1st precinct Kafe 620 East High St Kaye 1st Ward 2nd precinct Fairview Hotel corner Ash and High Sts 1st Ward 3rd precinct H Schaefer Store Benn Addition 2nd Ward 1st precinct Central Hotel 2nd Ward House 2nd Ward 3rd basement 3rd Ward 1st precinct Dr Taylor Garage 308 Mulberry St 3rd Ward 2nd precinct C W English Motor Co 208 Bolivar St 3rd Ward 3rd precinct Mrs W 2nd precinct Court precinct Missouri Frankes residence 1225 W Main St 4th Ward 1st precinct Ross Bros Cleaners corner of Jefferson and Dunklin 4th Ward 2nd precinct Paul J Goller Garage 818 Jefferson St 4th Ward 3rd precinct Martin Becks Store St Marys Blvd 5th Ward 1st precinct C pensee Carpenter Shop Madi son St 5th Ward 2nd precinct Pratts Barber Shop comer Clark Ave and Dunklin St IS CONTINUED University of Missouri Stu dent Is Charged With Carrying Concealed Weapons is Frederick University of Missouri law student charged with carrying concealed weapons was continued when called before W H Tandy justice of the peace here today The charge was filed after Fred erick shot three students in the college of engineering eleven days ago when a dozen of them attempt ed to haze him for his part in the kidnaping if Miss Mary Butter field of Kansas City who has been elected the engineers St Pats queen Prosecuting Attorney Franklin E Reagan said the hearing was post at the request of Fredericks attorney former state Senator Nick Cave because of the inability of the defendants bondsmen to be here Reagan said that indicated he would waive the hearing when it is called within the next few days and that the case would be certi fied to circuit court and be tried during the April term Frederick was one of four law students who kidnaped Miss But and prevented her from be ing crowned queen at the St Pats ball last March 19 When arraigned after the con weapon charge was filed Frederick through his attorney en tered a plea of not guilty Freder ick who suffered a Read injury when he was attacked was dis charged from the hospital last Monday Farm Bureau Would Share Offices With Official Officers of the Cole County Farm Bureau and the County Court held another session yesterday at the courthouse relative to finding a suitable location for the Farm Bur eau offices The representatives of the farmers still are hopeful of finding room on the first floor of the building Yesterday the Farm Bureau sug gested that a change be made in either the offices of Probate Judge Dunn or some other office on the first floor so that room would be available to the bureau It was sug gested that a partition be put in the reception room of the county recorders office Although the room would be narrow there would be one large window at the end and it was believe there would be ample room Recorden Henry however to giving up part of his office room GRAND LEADER HAS I Moulton manager of the Grand Leader store here which has been closed for several days has made an assignment to creditors in the Cole County Circuit Court Assets of the Grand Leader were listed as not to I exceed Ward 4th precinct State 5th Park These same places will be used for regular City election on April 5th GEORGE D CLAYTON FILES FOR SENATE George D Clayton Jr of Han nibal yesterday filed with the sec of state his declaration as a candidate for the Democratic nom nation for state senator from the 13th Senatorial District now repre sented by James H Whitecotton Whitecotton is ex a candidate lor re Dem of Paris man peeled to be election has Sam C Blair local attorney been assignee and will take charge of the Grand Leader properties for the benefit of Mr cred He gave a bond for or twice tiie amount of tangible as sets Joe Feinstein and Tom Norman have been named to make an ap of the Grand Leader prop erty FORD BACKER BANKRUPT BAY CITY MICH Apr Robert R Pointer fanner who in 1923 tried to persuade Henry Ford to become a candidate for president iho hn become a candidate himself filed bankruptcy petition here today He with listed liabilities no assets TICKLING POWDER RESULTS IN A POLItE CALL Officers Also Answer Call of Reputed Wife Murder in the her roe cries to the der he an it Tickling powder resulted in the confiscation of a punch board at Dew Drop Inn restaurant cor Commercial Avenue and Mon Strect last night after excited of the woman clerk had at a large crowd A young man named Pirner went the place and tried his luck on punchboard Alter investing a dollar and a half he won among other things a box of tickling pow Just to see howit would work scattered part of it on the wom Then the fun began and before was all over the police arrived The punchboard was ordered out Pirner said he couldnt see any reason why he couldnt me the powder in the place where it was offered for sale He was not ar rested Earlier in the evening the police responded to a call from Benn Ad dition where a man was reported to be murdering his wife He was gone when the police arrived The wife had not been injured She refused to file u complaint but indicated that if the police threw a cordon around the place for the rest of the night she would feel secure If he bothers you again call us Police man Erhardt advised her She said her husband was a good man ex cept when he was drinking beer She said he consumed a quart and a pint and went on a rampage UPHELD BY COURT Interpretation of Will Is Con firmed by the Missouri Supreme Court The interpretation of the will of the late Dora M by the Buchanan County Circuit court was upheld yesterday by Division No 1 of the Missouri Supreme Court The court held as did the circuit court that tha title and estates of William Howard Saunders and Kathleen Inez Thayer in and to the property and assets held by the American National Bank as trustee are equitable estates for life only should they die without issue Should they die without is sue the estate will go to the Young Womens Christian Association and the sheltering army of St Joseph William Howard is a son and Kathleen Inea Thayer a granddaughter of the late Mrs Dora M Saunders The case was taken to court aft er a dispute arose among the ben as to the proper inter of rs Saunders will and the interests of the beneficiaries in the property held in trust The most valuable property in is a building OR Felix Street St Joseph which is occupied by the Hartmann Furni ture Company and is valued at Strawberry Plank Should Be Ordered Now Says Agent The Central Missouri Strawberry Growers Association has finished distribution of the second 30000 plant order and is now the third At the present time according to county agent T F Lueker there are orders for approximately 22000 plants and the association desires to boost it to the 30000 limit The or der will be sent in Tuesday and those who wish to order arc asked to get in touch with either Mr Lueker or Fred Buehrle president of the organization New Bloomfield has been added to the list of towns in this section that have become vitally interested in strawberry growing according to Mr Lueker Almost 17000 plants have been ordered that com munity WITCHER IS NAMED CENTRAL MANAGER J David Witcher former City As sessor has been appointed manager of the Central Hotel to succeed Frank Evans according to an an made yesterday Mr Witcher was manager of the in Central five years prior to entering politics He received his hotel ex while attending States and failing ster College in Fulton working a a hotel to finance his education Upon his return to this city he was given a position at the Central where he later became manager SERVICE BOARD DECISION STANDS Supreme Court Upholds Com missions Refusal to Issue Bus Certificates The State Public Service Commis sion was upheld yesterday by divi sion No 1 of the Missouri Supreme Court in three cases in which the commission refused to issue certifi cates of convenience and necessity asked by the Alton Transporta tion Company The transportation company is the motor bus ary of the Alton Railroad The transportation company charged the commissions order in the three cases was unreasonable and unlawful but the Cole county circuit court upheld the commis sion and the transportation com pany appealed Todays decision sustained tho circuit court In one of the eases the transpor tation company asked authority to operate a motor carrier between Mexico and Jefferson City The commission found there was no necessity for such service between Fulton and Jefferson City where a line already was in operation but authorized tho company to operate provided passengers were received only at Mexico and between there and Fulton The other cases involved applica tions to operato bus lines between St Louis and Kansas City and between Odessa and Kansas City via Independence Farmers of C o u n t y to Have Opportunity to Attend Large Sales Farmers of Cole county and Cen tral Missouri will have an oppor to obtain high grade bulls for their beef cattle herds at their own price at two sales one at Boon ville and the other at Columbia next week Any owner of Short horn Angus or Hereford herds are urged by County Agent T P Lueker to rlc JURORS IN SUIT INVOLVING POLICY DEADLOCKED Clark Bidwell Had Asked 51000 on Life of His Father The case of Clark against the Capital Mutual Insurance As sociation still is unsettled The jury was discharged late Friday by Judge Stiliwell after it had been unable to after nearly five hours of del James T Blair Jr was attorney for the insurance association Ira Lahman represented the plaintiff The suit concerned a in surance policy on the life of Clark father Young claimed that the policy had origin ally named lidna his step mother as beneficiary but that his father had a transfer of bene to him The transfer document signed by an Indiana barber as a witness was alleged by the defense to have been forged The barber H IS Stovall that the signature was his It was brought out in the testi mony that the stepmother of the plaintiff had cared for his father a number of years while ho was an invalid and had pale every premium on the policy with the Exception of the last one which became duo the clay he died The Insurance company a local concern acknowledged the liability and was ready to pay the full amount of the policy but dueto conflicting claims it became un certain to whom the money was due The is now living at Win field Kans and the stepmother is residing at Gory Ind Funeral of H B Allen Will Take Place From Funeral Home Today H chief the opportunity rater it the Insurance de Many times said Lueker who died suddenly at his ers stock up their herd with 1205 Lee Street Friday night bulls and cows toke nfc 2 this at only to see the price even for high Lemoon from the Thorpe J Gordon grade stock drop Their profits Rev A B Jackson drop also and they get the idea Church will con that high grade stock is not what the The remains wiil they believed it to be kcn to a vault in While high grade stock always Is cemetery to await remo worth having he said it is in ally desirable at times such as these E Mr Allen was born in Conn and came to Missouri about twenty years ago He was a grad of Yale University and later specialized in Insurance work He was regarded as an expert In rating work He came to this city from St Louis eleven years ago to accept an appointment with tho state in surance department He suffered an attack of pneumonia two weeks ago His recovery was complicated by heart trouble which was the di rect cause of his unexpected death Besides his widow Mrs H Allen he is survived by his aged father Francis 3 Allen of Connec when really valuable animals can be bought for It is es that some of the bulls at the two sales may sell for as low as or possibly less than that Five of such sales In Missouri were arranged through the coOper ation of the Missouri Livestock As sociation and the livestock division of the Missouri University extension service About twentyfive animals will be sold at tho sale at Colum bia on April 8 while thirty will be up for sale at Boonville on April 7 Other sales will be held at Paris Springfield am Bowling Green AH animals are registered ac cording to Mi Lueker and are of such type and quality as to be val for use jn herds of purebred and grade cows to produce mar ket lopping calves The financial advantages are ap parent in having high grado Lueker In a sale of feed er cattle held in South Missouri one load of yearling steers sired by a reg Hereford bull realized a head more than a load of yearlings of nondescript breeding in an ex conducted in Oklahoma there was found to be dif in fat yearlings of good her MISS NINA BENNETT DIESAT ASHLAND Miss Nina Bennett 18 of Ashland community died yesterday of heart disease aggravated by other compli cations at the home of an uncle and Mr and Mrs Price Paul ey at Ashland She had been ill for several months She was the daugh ter of Mrs Warder Bennett Her father died three years ago She is survived by her mother three sisters Mrs Charles Colvin of near and Miss Veda and Miss Ibbie at home She also is survived by three brothers Freddy and Albert at home and Edward also near Ashland Funeral services will be held this morning Burial Will be near Ash land SEEKS PERMISSION TO BUILD POWER LINE The Missouri Power Light Company of Kansas City yesterday asked permission oi the State Pub lic Service Commission to construct and maintain a transmis sion line from Madison to Holliday Dinner Meeting of Boy Scout Leaders at Camp Maries The report of the years work and plans for the future will be made Monday night at the annual dinner meeting to be held at Camp Maries the summer camp of the Jefferson City area council of the boy scouts At least fifty coun cil members and others arc expect ed to attend Officers for the com ing year also will be elected W B Malone a member o the executive board will be the princi pal speaker of the evening j Special reports will be made by art E Schultz E C Moerschel council treasurer Supreme Court judge Frank E Atwood chairman of the court of honor W B Ma one chairman of the troop organ nation committee J F Brenneisen William Tollman chairman of acti L E Glingman scout ex A general discussion of scout ac will follow the special re lorts All those planning on attend ing are urged to notify scout head quarters early Monday HEAD OF MO INSURANCE CO Executive of Pet Milk Com pany in St Louis Is Elected by Board ST LOUIS April liam T Nardin vice president and general manager of the Pet Milk Company St Louis was elected president of tho Missouri State Life Insurance Company by the board of directors today Federal Judge Charles I Dawson of Louisville Ky elected lust December declined the The company the largest life in surance firm west of the Mississippi River had been without an active president since December when Judge Dawson was elected Upon petition of a stockholder the firm was thrown into temporary receiv this week but the proceed ings were stopped by the Missouri supreme court which will hear the case May 14 Judge Dawson conferred with the board of directors lor two days and then announced his intention to de cline the post nnd retain his judge ship in Kentucky Nardin was unanimously elected by the board He will not devote full time to the position for be will remain in the Pet Milk affairs He is also a director of the First National Bank here His sal ary from the insurance company will be a year Judge Daw son it was understood had been of for fun time The po sition formerly paid Members of the board of tors said they regard elec tion as settling the reorganization begun last December Nardin was a director last December be Jng ot those picked in uf Dawson in thV of a factional quarrel between large stockholding interests that had brought about the retirement of Taylon former president In a statement K D chair man of the executive committee said Judge Dawson had stated the receivership had nothing to do with his declination The state ment said His to accept the presidency was due to the fact that certain details which Judge Dawson deemed essential to his coming with the company could not e satisfactorily worked out Nims Indicated this referred to the arrangement for putting the 29 per cent of Missouri State Life stock held by the Life Insurance Co of Louisville into a voting trust to assure the dents tenure J B Thompson state superin tendent of insurance In a confer ence at Jefferson city last night with Judge Dawson Nurdin and Thi of Cincinnati chair man of thu board had urged Daw son to assume the presidency at once stating it was imperative the presidency be settled today Harry S who was sec of the Security Life Insur ance Co of Chicago and who had heir the new position of executive vice president of Missouri State Life today His salary was a year A com of state insurance commis recommended abolition of the position six weeks ago THREE STUDENTS ARE INJURED IN WRECK COLUMBIA Mo April CAP students in the University of Missouri were in a hospital here today suffering from injuries re in an automobile collision early this morning The were Harry H Trice of St Joseph William Sanborn of In dependence and John F Porter Jr of Muskogee Okla All were badly cut and bruised j ill Vl in Monroe county and to make but their Injuries were not believed rural Une extensions from the line to be dangerous Life and Writings of Mark Twain to Feature Exposition The life and writings of Mark Twain will be featured in a pho pageant of Missouris not ed characters at the Chicago Worlds Fair next year O K Armstrong executive secretary of the Missouri Progress Commission announced here The noted humorist who spent his boyhood days in Hannibal and on the Mississippi River as a steam boat pilot has been selected as Mis souris best known character among all the statesmen writers business men and others who have made their mark in the history of the state and nation We find from an sur vey in which a number of histor ians teachers writers and men in public life were questioned the ion is unanimous that the name of Mark Twain Is known more widely than any other Missourian Ann strong said His fame is apparently more en during than that of any others Armstrong recently visited Hanni bal and conferred with officials of chamber of commerce and with George H Mali an lawyer and sponsor of Mark Twain lore rela tive to representing the writers and work in the exhibits of this state
