Daily Capital News (Newspaper) - November 8, 1938, Jefferson City, Missouri DAILY CAPITAL NEWS Jefferson Citys Leading Leased Wire of the Associated Press and United Press PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK DAY MORNING EXCEPT MONDAY VOL XXVII NO 184 JEFFERSON CITY MISSOURI TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8 1938 PRICE THREE CENTS Wafer System Bond Election To Committee Ordinance Fixing Dec 7 as Date Referred by Council to Committee of the Whole Routine Matters Are Taken Up at Session Complaints Over Impro vised Driveways in the City to Atten tion of Councilmen The fhe city council last night re ferred to the committee of the whole an ordinance which desig nates Wednesday December 7 for a special election to determine whether or not Jefferson City shall purchase the Capital City Water Co It was that the commit tee of the whole will meet No vember 14 to deal with the pro posal During the regular session the dealt with a number of routine questions which had ac cumulated during the week It was decided to remove a fire plug at the corner of Church and East High streets in order to en able residents in that vicinity to lay a new sidewalk The plug in its present location interferes with the proposed sidewalk Complaints on Driveways Several complaints concerning improvised driveways throughout the city had been brought to the attention of the council It was pointed out that in order to facili tate driving into garages from the street many residents have placed iron pipes parallel to the curbing and poured cement over the pipes The council agreed that such prac tice represented a general hazard and the matter was referred to the committee Requests for installation of lights at the corner of Ben Miller streets and in the 1600 block on W Main street were heard and approved by the coun cil The J C Penney Co was grant ed permission to cut through a partition between the city hall basement and the Stone and Ward billiard parlor in order that they might reach a storage room loca ted in the basement of the Stone and Ward establishment To License Photographers An ordinance was passed by the council pertaining to licenses for photographers The yearly license was established at to be paid in advance by both resident and nonresident commercial pho The ordinance also specified that canvassing photog be assessed a license of per day or per year An ordinance was to the street committee concerning the parking of cars on State street at the prison It was suggested that cars not be to park on the north side of the street for 167 feet All members of the council were present at the meeting Predicts 2500 Majority for Democratic Ticket in Cole Cou nty in Election Today Ed Arnett Member of Executive Committee Makes Forecast as Campaign Is Brought to Close With Rally on Lafayette Street Robbery Is Solved Shortly After Cops Obtain Wind of It DULUTH Minn Nov truck theft solved it self tonight about half an hour after police got wind of it Officials of the West End Iron and Metal Corp reported that their panel truck had been tak en from its parking place In the rear was a box of skunk furs from which the police radio broadcast of the theft said the odor is very noticeable With none of its odoriferous contents missing the truck was found an hour later about a block away from where it had been taken Resident Engineer Is Named to Supervise New Ashland School A 6 Leavens Appointed by Regional Director Will Live Here A majority of 2500 for the Democratic ticket in Cole county was predicted last night by a member of the partys executive committee as Democrats of the county wound up their campaign with an election eve rally on La fayette street We predict a majority of 2500 votes for the Democratic in Cole county said Ed Arnett That prediction is based on the sentiment and turnouts at the va rious rallies we have held in the county during recent weeks Our organization has function ed perfectly in the campaign and every effort will be made to get all eligible voters to the polls Tuesday The committee has been hand because of the illness of Chairman James T Blair jr The loss of his leadership has been felt during the campaign but every effort was made to conduct the campaign as he would have want ed it Arnetts statement was made Appointment of A B Leavens as resident engineer for the Fed eral Public Works Administration on the PWA financed school building in Ashland was announced yesterday by Regional Director R A Radford of Omaha Nebraska Construction on the school made possible by an outright PWA grant of was started on November 2nd 1938 and is sched uled for completion by September 1st 1939 Mr with hirn on other undertakings to aid the Consolidated School District No 2 of Boone County Missouri and the contractors in meeting PWA Administrator Ickes demands for speed in order that the commu may have the new school building by the opening of school next fall and so that men will be put to work It will be his duty Mr Radford announced to see that the new school is built in accordance with the plans and specifications which have been prepared by John M Schaper of Jefferson City He will see that the quantity and quality of materials being used meet requirements that workmen are paid in accordance with the wage scales and that they are adequately protected against accidents as prescribed by PWA regulations Leavens will live in Jefferson ity during construction of the new school where he is now resi dent engineer on the new school program under construction The local will be at the Construction site after he attended the windup ral ly of the campaign at a store room in the 500 block Lafayette street Two Negro N C Bruce of the vocational school at Dalton Mo and Thomas J R Wilson a teacher at the Boonville training ute pleas for support of the Dem ticket Bruce cited the many benefits derived by the Negro race from legislation enacted by the national and state administrations and re ferred specifically to aid to the school and social security laws Wilson devoted his talk to the Democratic state ticket and urged support for all Democratic candi dates Democratic county candidates were introduced and spoke brief ly Party workers were urged to make every effort to get out the vote Polls open at 6 a m and close at 7 p m Final Riles Today For Local Resident Gerthen P Wymore Died Sunday After Illness of Heart Trouble Are Named To Posts With Job Risk Body Remaining 162 Positions in Budget of 202 In clude Employes Work ing on Temporary Basis Eight Jefferson City Persons Are Appointed Joe Mason Hansman Sup Claims Deputy Owners From Here Are Stenographers Clerks Fortyone merit system ap to positions with the states unemployment compensa tion commission and employment service were announced yesterday by Evert Stamback administra tive assistant of the compensation commission The current budget contains 202 positions for which the social security board has pro vided funds Stamback said Fortyone already have been filled from the merit system lists The remaining positions include employees who have been with the agency on a temporary basis and about 30 new positions not yet filled Eight From Jefferson City Those employed with the cy on a temporary basis qualified in the merit examina tions will receive permanent ap by employes examinations Positions occupied who will failed in be filled the by Muench Case Attorney To Prison Next Week LOUIS Nov j United States marshals of today Wilfred Jones at torney convicted of mail fraud in the famous Muench baby hoax case would be taken to the feder al penitentiary at Leavenworth Kas next week to begin serving his 10year sentence JoneSj who has been in the city jail here 23 months fighting his conviction recently was denied a review of his case by the United States supreme court The time he has spent in the city jail here widow does not apply on his sentence Gun Wound Fatal UNION Mo Nov David G Schrader 25 died yes a few hours after he had been wounded in the abdomen when his 22calibre rifle was ac discharged while he was hunting insurance to Son Who Slew His Father ATLANTA Nov The Georgia court of appeals up held today an insurance payment to a son who killed his father ruling the homicide 2 The sovereign camp of the t Woodmen of the World resisted payment of a 52000 claim on the life of A W Everett contending Funeral services for Gerthen P Wymore local business man who died Sunday will be held this morning at 9 oclock from the St Peters Church Mr Wymore died after an ill ness of several weeks from heart trouble He was 55 years old He was an uncle of Prosecuting Attorney Carl F Wymore Wy more who was born Nov 19 1883 at Liberty Mo came to Jefferson City about ten years ago and es a gasoline station at Mc Carty and Boliver streets which he conducted for a number of years Recently he bought a restaurant at 1003 E High Street was operated under the name Petes Place Surviving are his wife Mrs Mary Stadther Wymore to whom he was married about a year ago Matt Wymore of Jefferson City Frank H of South Pasadena Cal George W of Oklahoma City Okla and Fred C Wymore of Kansas City Three sisters also survive They are Mrs W L McGee Mrs H O Huhne and Mrs Melville Paul all of Kansas City persons whose names appear on the eligible lists The appointments announced yesterday included Russell Clark MacMahan of St Louis chief personnel training at a month Joe Mason Hansman Jefferson City supervising claim deputy at a month and the following operators stenograph ers clerks and typists at salaries to a month Jefferson Named Forest Allen Coleman Harold Thrash Vincent Stokes Leona Coppage Eleanor Farris Cath erine Tellman and Dorothy Dean Thomas all of Jefferson City Otto Herman Schulz Lanell Helen Vogl Ruth Whif fen May Browdy Walter An drews jr Harold G Brooks and Roberta Hackman all of Kansas City Violet McFarlane and Flor ence Jane Sweeney of Snow Sleel Rain Drive Mercury to Freezing in Stale Colder Weather Predicted for Early Today High ways Remain Open ST LOUIS Nov Missouri tasted winters first sam ple tonight and found it bitter Snow sleet and rain swept in from he west driving tempera tures to freezing and below in the western northern and central sec tions of Ihe state Even colder weather was predicted generally by morning Kansas City had two and a half inches of snow at p m with a 30degree temperature Total precipitation was 96 of an inch Snow Flurries at St Joe There were snow flurries at St Joseph with the thermometer at freezing and both snow and sleet fell at Springfield The mercury stood at 29 degrees throughout the afternoon at the Greene county seat and the weather bureau pre the minimum there in the morning would be between 22 and 24 degrees Jefferson City Macon Boon ville and Fulton also reported snow The mercury had fallen to 27 degrees at the states capital early tonight Total precipitation there since yesterday was 142 inches Highways remained open in all parts of the state but travel was hazardous Early tonight the state highway department said very little icing on the highways had been reported however St Louis and eastern Missouri was chilled by steady rains and a biting wind Precipitation for the last 24 hours here totaled 206 inches May Change to Snow The weather bureau announced there was a possibility the rain snow before would change to morning Low hanging Wintry Blasts Boost Task of Vote Workers Both Parties to Double Efforts to Get Voters to Polls in Balloting Today Pleas Made By Senatorial Nominees 13 Congressmen School Head 2 Court Judges 17 State Senators 150 Representatives Up ST LOUIS Nov mixture of snow rain and sub freezing poli Demo crats and Republicans alike to night to double organization ef forts to get out the vote in to morrows election As candidates made final bids for votes party leaders sent word down the line not to let the wintry blasts sweeping across the state interfere with the turnout Snow was reported throughout western and central Missouri but fair weather is expected by tomorrow afternoon Climaxing an unusually quiet campaign almost devoid of the healed bossism issue which nearly split the Democratic party in the primary last summer the senatorial nominees made their appeals United States Senator Bennett Champ Clark the Democratic in cumbent seeking reelection spoke at St Charles while his Re publican opponent former Gover nor Henry S Caulfield made a radio talk and addressed a ward meeting in St Louis Every State But Maine Will Hold Elections Today Demos in Randolph To Polls Today by Horse and Wagon MOBERLY Mo Nov Old Dobbin to the shay Rural members of the Ran dolph county Democratic cen tral committee attending a meeting by tele phone hookup made plans to day to carry voters to the polls by horse and wagon over mud dy dirt roads County Chairman C M Hulen said plans to haul voters by auto had been hastily scrapped when the weekend snow and rain bogged the roads too deeply for anything but the old reliable horse smoke resulted in curtailment of some airline schedules here American Airlines cancelled its Chicago and Dallas flights and Southern grounded Us Louis TWA sent two planes eastward from Kansas City but both passed over St Louis because of the 300 foot ceiling Hannibal also reported heavy rains 440 inches since Thursday night Sleet followed four days rain at Moberly Total precipita tion there was reported at 136 inches The mercury dropped to 28 de grees at both Sedalia and Joplin Polls Open at 6 A M As usual the polls open at 6 a clouds fog and m anci remain open until 7 p m Before the cold weather headed dence Alice Baer Charles Brown where rain turned to snow Dorothy McDowell and Abe Trei man of St Louis Florence Witt of University City Estelle Harper of Kirkwood and 1 Farris of Savannah The appointments of Lanell Ridgeway and Witt were described as emer gency appointments due to limit ed eligible lists for their posi tions Skies Clear in West DENVER Nov of Kirkwood and Francis Boyd j cleared and temperatures climbed today in the wake of winters first Thrash j broad onslaught from the Rocky mountains to the Mississippi riv Woman Who Placed On Bed of Coals Insane COLUMBUS Ga Nov Lucile M Adams middleaged widow was adjudged insane today shortly after her indictment for the murder of Priscilla Ann Turner by placing her in a bed of hot coals A Muscogee county superior er he was killed by his son Warren Everett who also was a bene and the agreement was voided when the insured was slain by a beneficiary Mrs Willie Mae Everett the Supporters to Back Democratic Ticket In several western states ice and slush highway coatings threaten ed to curtail general election vot ing tomorrow The storm was blamed for three highway deaths in Texas one in Wyoming and one in Colorado In southeastern Colorados Pe terson Canon country mounted search parties hunted for Harold L Mercer 38 of Pueblo who was separated from hunting compan ions Saturday After blanketing the Rocky mountain region and most of Kan sas Oklahoma and Texas with snow the storm moved eastward today across Missouri where light court jury found her insane in a j snow still fell in western coun brief hearing Circuit Judge C F ties McLaughlin ordered her commit ted to the state hospital at Mil j Two physicians one called e the state and one by the defense testified she was mad when she i for Missouri predictions were that as many ss 1400000 persons or possibly 1500000 would partici pate in the balloting senator they will name 13 con gressmen a state of schools two supreme court judges 17 state senators 150 state Continued on page 2 Well Known Osage o Woman Is Dead Mrs Catharine Schmitz Was LifeLong Resident of Westphalia Mrs Catharina died at her home in Westphalia yesterday afternoon at after a lingering illness of complications She was 56 years old Mrs who was a sister of John F Koester of this city was in the Westphalia neighbor flood March 9 1882 and lived there all her life Her husband Jos L Schmitz to whom she was married at West Nov 4 1908 by Father Diepenbrock preceded her in death five years ago After his death she continued to make her home on their farm at tended only by Miss Hilda Schneider who cared for her also in her final illness The funeral will take place i Wednesday morning from St Jos Clark Says Home Construction Is Ready for Climb Senator Concludes Elec tion Campaign Witl St Charles Speech ST CHARLES Mo Nov Bennett C Clarl closed his reelection campaign here tonight with a prediction that home construction will in 1938 reach a new recovery peak as a result oC the new deals nous ing and home legislation I am proud to have participa ted in the creation and the con of this great government al enterprise 40000000 Persons Ex to Cast Ballots in Election of Unusual Importance 32 Governorships 467 Congress Posts at Stake Farley Predicts Democrat ic Victory Calls for Big Vote to Show Nations Faith in Roosevelt which without in put smallhorn building on the soundest basis the nations history Clark said ir a prepared speech The senator called the federa housing administration a unique example of proper and beneficen government aid In Missouri alone he said the F H A has helped 7748 families to acquire own lomes anti 42624 Missouri homeowners and small business men have been enabled to mod their properties To day an average of more than 3500 homes are being financed under the F H A plan each week The soundness of the federa housing administrations ing methods Clark contended is attested by the foreclosure on properties financed under the insured mortgage system Out o more than 240000 home premium paying mortgages only 193 hav been taken by the administrate by foreclosure Ringling Bros Circus Set lies labor T iiii i i JJ church at Westphalia She was on Page 2 a member of Ladies sodality of the church and of the Third Or der of St Francis placed the 3monthsold Turner KANSAS CITY Mo Nov child in a heater at L Sperry home October 29 managed Judge James MrsT Turner told officers campaign for the Democratic ishe kft bab with Mrs nomination for state her landlady at the older and another beneficiary j court justice said today Judge womans request Centertown Woman Funeral services for Mrs B Harvey Stark were held yester day from the Centertown Baptist Church Newspaper Publisher U sued for the claim and damj Billings had written him his pri ages A superior court decided imary supporters will back the eni in her favor and the appellate tire tomorrow LOUISIANA Mo AP I N Bryson ATLANTA Nov John Ringling North president of Ringling Brothers Barnum Bailey announced tonight the cir cus labor troubles were settled and the big show definitely would hit the road next spring bigger and better than ever and Thc youthful head of the Go liath of the outdoor show world confirmed rumors he had tentative agreement with Wil Green American Federation If Labor reopen the II which was closed last June after employees balked at a 25 Nov cent wage cut editor and In an interview in his car at icket tomorrow i M Douglas tire Democratic court affirmed the judgment de Judge James daring the son killed his father Billings for the nomination save the life of his mother is commissioner of the to collect the insurance Kansas City court of appeals Mrs Stark died Sunday She Publisher of the Louisiana to the Al G Ihad been an invalid for several i Journal since 1387 died tonight of i years snd death was attributed to i pneumonia in a hospital here T D r fj I Paralysis She was 53 years old 85yearold editor was se To Be Kioto circus another Ringling en now big shows Parade at Little RocK LITTLE ROCK Ark Nov parade of 500 mounted men women and children tomor row will formally open the six dav Arkansas livestock exposition Steps Planned Toward Reconciliation of Duke of Windsor British Roya Family LONDON Nov 1 Reconciliation tJk immediately and championship rodeo at and Duchess of Gloucester followed 29acre show grounds in North j may meet the Duke and Duchess i Such a meeting would be the Little Rock iof Windsor Friday in Paris as a first the Duke of Windsor has had first step toward reconciliation be any member Weather MISSOURI Generally fair be day not quite cold in central turn to Britain and west in afternoon generally j Windsor fair and warmer Wednesday wife for the British royal family snd since his marriage Mav 3 1S37 the abdicated king the former Wallis warfield reconciliation might would be the second meeting since followed by the abdication Dec 10 1936 His to It Such a of the Duke of ister the princess royal and her and The husband visited hirn st Vienna on whom he abdicated the following Feb 7 WASHINGTON Nov AP against employers for violating the minimum wage and maximum hour requirements of the fair labor standards set will be held confidential the administration said today Administrator Elmer F An drevs has issued a iorm for irc filing of complaints to provide field workers with for investigations Anonymous complaints thc ad ministration said will be if the facts indicate a violation of the law way home from his office He plenty of color theatrical lighting JHc 3 rif f cn oir was a native of Louisiana air conditioning using enthusiastically of 26 1335 near b 3n automobile as he was on his modernize the old grew to young womanhood in Cole county She married E Harvey Stark on February 5 191 J Four children were born Surviving are her husband and four children Mrs Fred Garnett Miss Dorothy Stark both of Harold Stark of Florida nri James Stark of Centertown some of the North spoke his plans to business with Sues Irene Mclaughlin For Criticism of Work High temperature 35 Low he might find some sort A meeting now of the I Precipitation 142 inches RIVER STAGE Kansas City of occupation here The statement was made in a shadow ST Thomas Union 62 02 i quarters so rile of Gloucester a younger brother si rise 041 of the Duke of Windsor and his and the would an eventual welcome of j Alleges Her Husband Failed to Support Her Mrs Marie Allen filed cv LOS ANGELES Nov for SI 50000 damages was filed in su court today against Irene former dann r by Sonya mil Eclipse of Moon While Son Is Shining Seen in Many Parts of United States fBy The Associated i jn the east he eclipse became An eclipse of the moon while just five minutes before the the sun still shone was witnessed sun set at p m The in many parts of the United ended at 607 p m belief the Republicans States yesterday evening eft thc umbra the black would make some gains but dif In some portions notably shadow at 712 p m and on their extent For exam southern seaboard and the mid 1 west clouds and rain obscured the Elections at a Glance To be elected 35 United States senators 432 members of the house of representatives 32 governors many lesser state officials To do the electing It is esti mated 54324930 persons are eligible and 40000000 actually will vote The voting units About 122 000 in 47 states Maine voters elected in September By The Associated Press Some 40000000 more or vote today in an election which is considered of unusual importance because it may and many think it will 1 Afford an uptodate idea of how much support the public is giving the new deal 2 Make or break various political figures who have been under discussion as prime presi possibilities 3 Profoundly affect the whole future of policy The polls will be open In every stale except Maine which voted two months ago At be r senate 432 seats in the house a host of lesser offices and state amendments and initiative proposals Bad weather was predicted last night for many sections of the country Charges Coercion On the eve of the bhn D M Hamilton chairman 1 the Republican national corrl centered attention upon n issue which next to that of he new deal itself was perhaps iven most prominence by Re publican campaign speakers He charged that steps were Deing taken to coerce those on ief rolls to vote for new deal candidates It is perfectly obvi ous he said in a statement that the new deals chief reliance is the belief that it can count on relief workers supporting new deal candidates To Supplement the evidence already at hand of coercion of re lief workers he said he was wir ing all his state chairmen to keep close watch and preserve ill evidence of such activities for submission to a congressional in In order to assure adequate for all in and to relief beneficiaries in their to vote as they please Re are determined to have weeping investigation in next his telegram said Ob ect is to punish all politicians nd relief supervisors who bring on relief workers Farley Predicts Victory Meanwhile Chairman James A arley of the Democratic national prepared a radio ad ress predicting a Democratic and asserting that it must be so decisive as to leave o doubt in anybodys mind that He faith in Franklin Roosevelt is as great as ever e added President Roosevelt will be again The United States enate and house of representa tives will be overwhelmingly Democratic as they are now We will see a few new faces in the halls of congress but the political complexion will not be materially different The governmental pol which stayed the Hoover panic and started commerce and industry on the upgrade will be braced and perfected and the work of restoration will go right on It may be hampered and de layed occasionally by the ents of the small ion groups but the good work will go on just the same leaders in both parties ex Mrs a ugh 1 in the ground senders viev Along from watchers on but airplane pas passed out of thc penumbra the hazy shadow at p m In mort of New England the of tea would see the v n 4 by off on their way home from an African tne back into tre divorce yesterday against Hermar of M circles some quarters believed Anen b nt Failure of the Duke of Kent The petition alleged tne youngest brother to visit Jan 19 1934 snd Windsor in August 1937 ne together until ApU 14 on the i There s one child or styles her criticism obtained a remarkable the Atlantic coast the world authority rosc ri eclipse at p m just seven handiwork before sunset Although her high reputation as a such an eclipse is caused by the spectacle was in clear skies perfectly visible A ground haze Tn of womens hat the suit shadow of the earth passing over moon scientists explained it is the of i v1 possible before sunset be of thc refraction of Ithe earths on obstructed vision from the earth in New York City but a party of scientists from the American Museum Natural History went up in a transport plane to 16000 feet and gave a running tion of the phenomenon by radio Mountains ob the with pie some Republicans predicted the Democrats would lose a half dozen or so senate seats and 75 to 80 places in the house Ridiculing these claims some Democrats set their partys possi ble losses at 25 seats in the house two or three senators and two or three governors To an unusual degree the cam just ended placed a heavy emphasis upon gubernatorial can Of the 32 governorships to be filled today 24 are now Democratic The Republican high j
