Hutchinson News (Newspaper) - May 21, 1924, Hutchinson, Kansas READ NEWS WANT ADS EVERY THE HUTCHINSON NEWS Final Edition TWELVE July MAY 1924 MUST WORKOUT THE PROBLEMS WITH FARMERS and Mm Mutt Pull With America Not Want a Peasantry and Farm Will Not Submit By Tho Associated Press Kansas May tor closer cooperation be tween business man and farmers and tor greater on the part of bankers to stabilize sustain agriculture was made be lore the convention of tho Missouri Kansas Bankers Association here today by Meredith ot Dos former secretary of agri Bankers and business Meredith should meet the farmer on a business take him into their coun cils and work out solutions to problems that the coun trys basic Must Stabilize It Is true that the farmer should practice diversified forming and he is rapidly learning hla Meredith Farmers and farm organizations are demanding of congress tho government take steps to MEREDITH stabilize agriculture and thinking men aro giving at tention to agriculture and Its inter We not want to drive onr farming class into peasantry as has been done In Russia and other The American will not submit to such In dignity mid I want to add my voice in protest to present conditions that confront the producer of near ly all of our new RAILROADS ARE NOT GETTING FAIR RETURN Kansas claring the outstanding problem of American railways is that of and that this on an ade quate return from Presi dent Car of the Union Pacific told a joint confer ence of Missouri anil Kansas bank ers here that in no year sinco the transportation act has been In effect havo railroads earned the fair return establish ed by tho interstate commerce Transportation rates cannot safely bo reduced so tho railroads cost of living remains at tho high nor arc wages unduly high when compared with wages for In other he BEN AS BANKERS Kansas May Kansas Bankers Association which hold a business session here yes met in Kansas today with Missouri bankers Ben president Wilson County Bank at was elected president of the or Charles Carey of George Rogers of Abilene was elected vico Perry of and Bowman of REJECT MUSCLE Committee Turns Down the Ford 10 to May motion to report the Ford providing for leasing of Muscle Shoals was lost by a vote of 10 to 6 today in the senate agriculture Afte tho vote indications were that the committee might report the Norris government ownership In this If the Ford Is brought up In the senate It would bo In the form of a tute for the CATCH A Admitted Had Looted Four Banks In alias wanted WEATHER AND ROADS Kansas roads roads Clear roads roads Arkansas roads S roads roads roads roads In connection with tour robberies of banks In was arrest ed early In his possession they found In bills with the wrappers said to be part of the taken from the Police said Webb admitted he robbed the Merchants and Farm ers Bank of Tulsa State Collins State and another bank in the JUMPED ONTO THE FARM LOAN BOARD Senator Howell Referred to Chairman Fund Slush By The Associated Press May ac count maintained by Former Chair man Charles Lobdell of the farm Ion in a local bank was used at times as a slush Senator charg ed in the senate in continuing his opposition to confirmation of four pending nominations to the To Grease Senator Howell explained by a slush ha meant a fund used to grease the wheels so as to smooth things a fund expended when you to be generous with those who could be Helpful to your This fund so used at he I hold such action should be severely con when taken by any gov Senator Howell obtained the floor as soon as the senate vened and resumed his elaboration of criticisms enumerated yeiter day against the board selection of Lobdell as fiscal agent with n salary of loose hand ling ot public money and cation oE funds were included In the charges he Favorable report has been made by the senate banking committee on all four of the who are Lewis Kansas Elmer Ohio Merton and Edward Chairman Is a Kansas his horne in where he formerly was judge of the district Low who is nominated for appointment to the Is also a home 1n Dodge He formerly was 27 GRADUATES AT BRESEE COLLEGE i TKe Commencement Exer Will be Held Tonight at The class day exercises of the academy graduating class of Bre see Theological College were given last night to a large audience that filled the seating capacity of the There are 27 members ot the class this year which represent eight different Tonight the commencement ad dress will be given by Chapman ot Kansas president ot the general board of education of the Tho school this a very good year with an average en ot one The New College 7 I ho present presi dent has resigned to accept a place as head of Sunday School depart ment of the head quarters at Kansas Lon has been secured to take the place made vacant and will bo hero with his family in a few The Class1 The graduating class Is com posed ot the following Hoy president vice president Fannie Maude Hertha June Al fred Walter John Hazel Mario Drue Essie Philip Belle Phyllis Wag Floyd Sarah Kerne Emma Pauline Ralph Morrell Ralph Arthur Clara Wilma Florence Domilo Matilda Italy Is May shock was felt on Tuesday at Pie and other daces In the region southwest of No harm was TAKING THE CORPSE IN HIS May 8 Traveling by automobile with two little children and the corpse of bis six weeks old twin boy from White arrived in last S Hastily disposing of at Saturday White was on the road before noon with the dead baby and made the eight hours t froni early In the morning late at REDUCES AMOUNT OF INSURANCE Of VETERANS A Mistake Had Bern Made by Government AND CUTS THE AMOUNT Will Not Gel Nearly Much it De By The Associated Press May bureau actuaries informed mem bers of congress today tho first time that tho list of factors prepared by them and recently made public for computing the of insurance duo under the bonus law took into account the extra 25 percent of adjusted service compensation allowed by the on Insurance This means that a veteran in computing tho Value of the Insur ance policy he will receive simply will multiply his credits at n day for foreign service and a day for home service by his which previously has been made The extra 25 per cent Is not to DO added ns heretofore out having reached a decision on any Important An effort to obtain the commit tees Immediate endorsement for the proposal of Presidents Hard Ing and for membership In court with reserva resulted In None of those present would ven ture more than n hope of early action nit any of the bills now pend MURDER CHARGE No Ground for Him for Tragic Death of Wife and By Tho Associated Press May husband of who with heu baby was found murdered anl badly burned In a harn on the Etter farm seven miles northwest of this i city at yesterday and his were re leased from custody at six oclock last there boing no evidence on which to file charges of mur County Berg slated Sum Etter and Gordon met yesterday in ii corridor at the county court bore day and It was n as they wept with their heads on each others for a Both men are and HAWAII WARNED DISASTER NEAR By The Associated Press San May tures danger signals are flying over tho smoky crest of volcano In the Hawaiian Islands and great loss of life may bo avert ed If the warnings are in the of noted volcanologist today before he sailed for The eruption of he portends more phenomena of this Eight years ago I pre volcano disturbances in the Hawaiian The lava in crater has teen subsiding for four years and that a danger I look for more violent It may equal the eruption of 1790 when hundreds of natives were Coleman Is under a pbys Investigation of the triangle angle of the murder was yesterday nnd there is no founda tion for the story authorities The young were on March 1922 the husband being 20 and the wife Both fathers Ravo written consent to the ANDALE MAN IS A SUICIDE Pledged to Against New May resi dents of Suffolk New virtually were pledged to war against bootleggers and liquor run tiers after such action was urged at the funeral of Ferdinand Downs of slain in a while hunting liquor At the funeral of which took place yesterday under the direction of the Ku Klux more than persons assented when four ministers present spoke the pledge to carry on the fight which cost Downs Two of the ministers were klan regalia as were 200 ofk the klansmen ministers nor the klansmen wore Floral offerings were ed around the grave and a blazing cross flamed at the May aged former president of the Exchange State Bank of and treasurer of committed suicide home in Andale today by firing a bullet through his Motive for the killing is Nolan was rushed to a Wichita where efforts to save his life proved Relatives of the banket were un able to explain the cause ot the A BIG BOOST IN RAILWAY VALUES BY THE STATE State Tax Commission In creased Assessment FOLLOWING OTHER HIKES Santa Fe Property Increas ed Neatly Hit May between the state tax commission and public utilities companies threatened following an by the state tax com mission that It had increased the patches from tho eastern regions stating that n robber band num bering 100 well armed men two days ago passed over the soviet frontier and pillaged the village of IS miles from the killing or wounding some twenty of the among them the church and telegraph wire and escaped and wires and escaped back Into SANTA FE NOT SMALL ONE BRITISH FLYER ARRIVES fri I AD IN BURMA FROM Total of 35Z in Hutchinson With Per Month The Santa Fe Is a very import ant member oC the community in an industrial In John attorney for the Santa Fe railway company told the Chamber oE Commerce this As speaker at the luncheon this FOR STANEY TEST IN 21 assessed valuation of railroad noon Simmons gave some rall properties in Kansas 6M5 Recently the commission advances In tha valuation of South per way facts and figures that are very There are employes In he with a monthly payroll of Western Bell Telephone Company The Santa Fe property In Ueno properties and the boost also county is valued at over plied to transmission and the company pays more than pendent wire companies and other i taxes in this and public service During their recent hearings lie fore the state tax the railroads offered more than exhibits in support it thelf conten tion that public service properties aro already paying on a higher as sessed valuation than private prop SantaFe Millions The has over taxes In I 1 interested in checking Hack and comparing the tax paid ten years ago with that ot said The Santa Fes tax here ten years ago was compared with to Couldnt Speak for Simmons said he had authority to speak for the company regarding such matters the now Tho I sums on the this s lies wore increased nearly 000 the Rock Island was grant ed a ten per cent URGES A OF THE RAILWAYS May tion of railway properties as pro poser In a by Senator was endorsed by Secretary Hoover today before the senate In commerce The plani would Hoover more equitable since the rate structure could hi reorganized without disturbing present earning levels of the permit relief in ae o to cause ot the lower ratea to agriculture j saying that lie had been he by imposing a heavier In fairly good He Is known In the way of rates upon bueu i over a heavy financial loss suffer MAD IU ed wien his bank failed two years i VI J IK A widow and son Hide and Seek in Searchlight Glare Junction May Army flyers and searchlight ex perts played a game of hide and seek over Junction City last hundreds of people witnessing the The Fort Riley filers took the air and were picked one by with the aid of a huge portable the beam of which is so bright that a man rive miles away can read a newspaper by AGREE ON TAX The Simmons Income Rate Schedule Is May Unani mous agreement Was reached today by tho conferees on the tax reduc tion The Simmons Democratic income rale schedule providing for 40 per cent maximum surtax rate and a fifty per cent reduction in normal taxes on incomes under was Senate amendments providing for full publicity of tax returns and u tax on undistributed corporation profits were WHEAT POOL PLEA May an eleventh hour appeal tor the wheat pool Davis today issued a statement urging Kausas farm ers to sign up their acre age for the cooperative mar keting The aim of tho he de had not nearly been and the scheduled to end May The quota set for the pool was TROUBLE IN Insurgents Reported to Have Cap tured May has broken out in northern ac cording to tho Insurgents are reported to have captured Scutari and several other A Belgrade dispatch on May 10 reported armed strife in con sequence of a conflict between the Albanian government in Tirana and a number of deputies who de manded that the capital be trans ferred to another REFUSES TO GIVE UP STATE POSITION CALL IT FRAMEUP AFTER PROSECUTOR By The Associated Press May sen ate Daugherty committee ti told of was president ot tho North Cen tral Missionary So of Christian In con vention here Other officers department justice not only had McPher sought to Senator Wheeler son its but had spied on its Kansas was selected for members and its witnesses and had years meeting spirited the dairies Gaston working with Parlor Lure it as au F anur Too Much for Hubby Rob Bank at May unmasked men today robbed tho Farmers State Bank at an oil town 20 miles west of escaping in a motor car with May storm center of the state board of health at will not vacate his office as registrar next as ordered by a majority of the he said Davles was notified recently of his in spite ot u statute setting his term at four Burt Brown of Lawrence was named to take his DISCUSS But Only Remote Hope of Early Action by May ate foreign relations committee de voted two hours today to a general discussion court proposals but tomorrow with in probably showers In west portion tonight and Thursday warmer In northeast portion Kansas was clear and sunshiny although the farmers would I May Harriet White of today filed a suit In county district court against beauty parlor proprietress charging alienation of the affections of her Lynn White is 50 years old and has one The alleges that Jones enticed White to come from Alva to where It he lived with the defendant aa man and CRASHED IN A be glad to have a little mols I turo just us the wheat and Formei Airplane Altitude Record Holder Killed In Auto corn fields are Minimum temperatures this morning in 45 to Over the grain belt generally lowest this morning was 35 at and at Fair and South report ed killing frost list An by tlw ul 4 0 Jt Tho May Andrew a former holder of the worlds alti tude was killed this morn ing when automobile which He was crashed Into a fence during u dense Lang was driving In a 21 hour lie was a nephew of Andrew English Fe officials always in the highest regard of j They have only the kindest words for this ha Atul they recognize Hutchinson as one ot tlu best their The Railway Simmons address was de voted to a discussion of the rail way problems confronting the He emphasized that the railways could not operate unless they had a return on the invest You cant run a railroad very long without an adequate return to the hu And In figuring railway rates they must bo figured with regard to whether the railway company will get a fair Any attempt to reduce By legislation is bound to be disas The great body of rates cannot ba There may be adjustments made here or but we cant expect much of a general redaction of As to Government said he was not an but he believed the great 03t danger ahead In America Is the danger of the country going Into government ownership of the railroads We had a Irial nf government operation ot the railroads the he And I dont believe people generally are very strong for ha added there are elements that are demanding iov In the place there are tho railroad em and he said he They know what a power and politically they would havo under government owner said Stockholders for there were the politi cians who urged government own to feather their own politic al But more menacing than all was the stockholders of the rail roads themselves wha were clamor ing for federal There aro stockholders on the Fe ho At present their stock is worth around A physical valuation of the property Is around for each of In words the stockholders would set for each ot stock which Is now worth only a A Tremendous It would bo a tremendous bur on the government should we undertake government ownership of the added Sim I do not believe tho people would ever want to see it would double the bond ed debt of our adding of dollars to our tax bur and wo would have to raise nearly u billion dollars of new mon py each year to meet the 35 New Members in Just One Hour Now members were enrolled In the Hutchinson Chamber of Commerce this for a at the rate ot one every two A one hour membership drivo was put under the of Will chairman nf the membership Sixty men wnre called er at At tha sixty started They returned at and In with them 35 new In addition they expect to get 35 or 40 moro new as a result of the one hour who will ba signed up STUART MacLAREN fHy The Press May Stuart British aviator flying around the arrived at today from Calcut said a dispatch from tha former puint received here Americans Are May American army aviators flying around tha world are delayed at Hitto Island of In tbo by bad An official dispatch to tba Jap anese department sent from a Jap anese destroyer on duty with tho flyers at 11 said that tha Americans were waiting until the foggy weather To Use Chinese May Pel letter French who his plane In has overcome his dls at the interruption to ils projected flight from Paris to and Is considering seriously the offer of a Chinese plane for of his The offer was made by Ho military gover lor of If Dolsy accepts 10 will proceed toward Toklo with u a Machinery and Tools on Way and Rig is to be Built IN LESS THAN MONTH Todays Games New York 10 Now York 004 13 1 Pittsburgh 012 8 13 8 McQuillan and Cowdy Stilu and Chicago Philadelphia Philadelphia 100 010 t 11 2 Chicago 3500 201 S 10 4 King and Wilson Alexander nnd hit home run in Brooklyn 9 Cincinnati Brooklyn 010 14 2 Cincinnati 000 Oil 2 8 a and Taylor and AMERICAN 5 Detroit 7 1 Boston 400 5 7 il Collins and and All other American League games BASEBALL Baseball fans may receive re turns of games day by phoning a 4day series in today under clear Bartles ville plays twilight xo theres not use before Tho games start at n To days Western Association calen dar Hutchinson at 5 Topeka at 4 Springfield at at p Expected That Bush and Tests May be Down to the Oil Sand The cellar was dug for the test to be drilled by Stamey and la the 1 being 330 feet from ths southeast of the northeast of sec tion Rico The rig timbers have been shipped and are to ba hauled from Carter station on the The machinery and tools will also ba taken out from tha same location by Morgan of Morgan drilling con There will bo activity at thli location In a short time and this IM nearly certain to start something In other projects In that Expect Wells In ot those tho Bush nnd tho boins drilled by tha Hilltop and Kino aro Ing they will come fn around Juna it thoro Is no other trouble lit those tests In the They are down around 2700 or 1800 Activity Around There la much activity around the Welch which ta still ou tho and tho Miller both on Tim Welch Is making a showing as pumping around 1BO bar rels or so dally and tho Miller is drilling ahead at around 1700 la woll on down to 909 feet two atul a half miles the Welch uu section Watching the Stockholders In tha associated with the rje company In drilling tho iiro naturally very much Interested in this tost and the producing tho Welch K thu Miller should come in on a good as everyone in and it will mean more very lu tha 1m mediate vicinity ot these The interests are drill one of new Juat re cently about thro miles north of tho Buah Tho exact has not yet been an Thu other test will likely ba somewhat north oust of this on other recently blocked by Lloyd Brown In McPherson John Motter ot Wichita has heen hen Una week looking into a block of leases of the in McPherson on which Benson and Son ot Independence formerly announced they would drill but there has been nn recent It la that Motter Is arranging to tho block drilled out NEW MEXICAN VOLCANO IS NOT MILLIONS FOR New May has contributed to tho Union Theological according to an an made by William president of the board of directors ot tho An anonymous donation of also was May ports brought by travelers thai smoke and wore heln emitted by Mount an ex volcano at wro proven groundless to Resident of Folsom ridiculed tho idea of any activity In the ex tinct Sheriff Summer of todii declared that tho reports probably were based ou tho fact that the top ut Hi mountain hns boon with i heavy fog for a few days tho sotting Bun giving tho appear anco of un active More Bank May Bank of In west Osage was robbed this morning by two men and a who es caped lu a motor about In THIRD PLANT IS SOLD AT AUCTION May Kansas Jas and Petroleum Company was sold at a public auction hero today to Hay receiver for tho Amer ican on Ills bid of The only other bid for the property was made by a of the Whin Kagle Oil and Refining Com FOLKS WHO PHONED 4400 i poor fili fur the tin Of faithfully One hu tried in Ior wan his right fore hia two His died ami ho kft care bo For who to Uncles ATTACKED BY Newtons Largest 1 May I Pillaged Polish ninety four Newton Killed II M I May is This is the largest dans In tho his in of tbe school Oil Tanks May tanks ot the Humble Oil and Refin ing Company at near A want had him by lightning at midj at last are burning thin mom And tough Inc is a no far Is estimated at of tho The searchlight that the Ara you Insured It batter sea Us it a of trade is the small but News Want
