Joplin Globe (Newspaper) - December 24, 1933, Joplin, Missouri THE light in and rain turning to snow flurries In cast and decidedly colder cold wavo Sunday and moderate cold wavo in extreme northwest portion generally fair colder In nnd cast and decidedly colder possibly snow flurries In moderate cold wave lit northeast portion Sunday Monday fair with rising temperature In northwest and north central cloudy to unsettled Sunday and much colder Sunday night and Monday with a cold cloudy Sunday and Monday with a cold VOL. NO. 118. L FULL lobe ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS is a time for understanding and tion DO OUR Publication 111 Unit Fourth Street SUNDAY DECEMBER 24 1933.-TWENTY-SIX Every Morning Except Monday PRICE FIVE CENTS CITY THRONGED BY HAPPY THOUSANDS STATE LAWMAKERS HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Liquor Control nnd Sales Tax Will Bo Taken Up Again Next With Cheery Contrast Sharply With Crowds of Recent STORES ARE FILLED Purchasing Power of CWA Workers Turned as Most Joyous Christmas in Years Happy thousands trod the streets of business section last host of Christmas shoppers laden with parcels of groceries and other articles which will make for a happy The picture was quite a contrast to scenes enacted In recent pre-Christmas there were thousands Main street a year two years ago and but many of them were discouraged men who had sought jobs without there were others more who tightened their purse strings for fear of what might A Different But last night it was a different Many thousands filling the Jostling goodnaturedly into and out of all making nearly all with sound dollars In their Cheerful greetings to friends what'd you think ot the It's sure making a to work Everywhere was heard praise of President Roosevelt's civic works which has made such difference In Christmas Yesterday was CWA pay and thousands of of Joplin and the district received pay In Joplin alone than 2,000 persons received more than while in Jasper more than went to more than 4,400 And CWA money poured into eash registers last night as the workers turned with their purchasing But other more fortunate in that they have steady caught spirit and spent as they hadn't spent in years to make Monday the happiest Christmas in Joplin In District And that Is not Among the host of them eleventh-hour choppers if you but many were without the necessary funds until thousands from district Motor traffic on principal downtown was the heaviest In Hundreds upon hundreds of thorn were cars - from from Oklahoma and from Tired motorists drove homeward last their cars laden with Christmas Street cars and busses brought other hundreds to downtown emptying throngs who came from neighboring Until closing time at fl o'clock last department stores were Groceries and other retail stores were filled until even later ' almost without said they enjoyed the largest Christmas business In Christmas shipping was on a huge scale nil week but the throng yesterday and last night was the banner one of the Sales persons and clerks worked as they hadn't worked In but here's a typical expression made by one of be glad to stay here until Monday if they'd keep on coming Jefferson Dec. 23.-UP)- With tho state's legislative machinery at a standstill after considerable Interest for tho last several the capital city tonight prepared for a quiet observance of Members of the general together with many of tho state officials and have departed for tho home environs for tho The who failed to agree upon liquor control legislation in time to legalize are scheduled to take up the knotty problem again next along with sales tax and other * Governor and Park will observe Christmas in tho returning hero tomorrow night from a week-end trip to whore they visited Their only Mrs. J. Marvin and Mr. will bo here from St. All state offices were closed at noon with business to bo suspended until Tuesday 28 NEW PROJECTS FOR CWA WORK IN COUNTY APPROVED BABY DOE CLINGS TO SILVER MINE BUT IT WILL NOT AID MILLIONAIRE'S WIDOW WHO NOW LIVES IN SANTA WILL RIDE TONIGHT THROUGH BLIZZARD Quota of 4,500 Men Will Be Employed on New Program Get Under Way After WORK IS OUTLINED Nearly All Sections of Jasper County Are Outlined by Mrs. HOURLY TEMPERATURES Last-minute Christmas shoppers were given another yesterday as the temperature climbed to the 69-degree The minimum for the day was only 54 Hourly 1 a. m. 2 a. 3 a. 4 5 a. 6 a. 7 a. S a. 9 a. 10 a. 11 a. Noon 1 2 3 P 4 P. m. 5 p. in. 6 p. m. 7 fi. 8 p. m. 9 p. m. 10 p. m. 62IMidnt6ht Dec. 23.-{/P)- Tabor is dead and his grave and Silver Dollar is and Baby Doe is alone at the end of an Incredible alone with the And Bilver is too late for Baby The The Matchless was one of the fabulous silver mines of a fabulous day in giving its owner a day In pale Its owner was H. A. W. and is his Swing back seventy-five to young out to Kansas from then on to Leadville when gold brought men storming to Brought First A grubstake given a pair of shoemakers who found the mine brought him his first A wandering prospector salted a sold it to It was the His star A man of a senator and a lavish He married Baby McCourt Arthur cabinet came to their Life was handsome and Baby Doe was He built an opera still standing in He Invested in mining properties with Marshall Everything ho touched turned to Then ho lost his quickly That was in 1893. But he managed to keep the In they made him postmaster at and the next year he He didn't fit into tho business of sorting and delivering other people's Told Her to Keep And when ho died whispered to his on to the let it That was in 1899 and Baby now a faded woman ot 70, Is still holding on to the She lives in a lonely fash Ion in a rude leanto on hill overlooking the famous She keeps it the and she keeps a it's said Visitors aren't but when they do come she is The mine is owned by a Denver which has given her permission to do as she Tts lower levels are flooded with Its machinery is rusted And the Matchless probably has given up its Perhaps by now some friend has trudged the two miles over the mountains to tell her the news of silver's Is Keeping If it has only strengthened her conviction that untold wealth again will be dug from the depths of the She Is keeping faith with her husband's dying Now she Is for Silver her died In a fire in She doesn't believe It. and looks for mail sometimes from Mrs. Tabor lives in her tiny shack in winter as well as although the rough boards are poor protection against the gales Boots Must Be in His Pack for 5,000 Made Homeless by Floods in Pacific Coast SNOW IN THE NORTH But in Other Parts of Nation Youngsters Will Have No Use for in Twenty-eight new CWA projects for Jasper on which the county's quota of approximately 4,500 men will bo have been approved by state CWA project engineers at and work will begin immediately after Bertha county relief announced yesterday on her return from Jefferson Some of the work was begun Some of the projects are continuation of old and a few provide for clerical One other minor on which data was not available also has been Mrs. Isaacs said Tho The projects are as projects and improvements to public buildings in Carthage and in townships of the eastern part of the with a quota of fifty-one and light department projects and improvements of public buildings in Carthage and also in eastern part of the with a quota of 450 including one four trucks and two and street with a quota of 150 including two and two work in the eastern part of Jasper with a of 303 Including eight twenty-five teams and two Carthage and with a quota of 372 including five and eight 1 to Central curbs and twenty including one Carthage - Investigators and clerical workers in the eastern district with a quota of tank school excavating and terracing school and widening and grading with a quota of sixty Work at of side ditches and making of fence rows within right-of-way on three miles of highway north of a quota of fifty-two including one Joplin district - Sherwood soven miles northwest of Grading and graveling a road for of a mile to rounding up fixing grave making driveway and cutting and burning trees and sawing wood and making with a quota of eight men Central of septic tank ditch from digging of drain repairing drain windows and furnace of school building and with a quota of eight men und one of sewer dls posal plant drainage ditch from B street to Seventh the filling of about 400 shafts and abatement of mine with a of 693 including three foremen Kind ten Oakland school of septic tank for school with a quota ot ten and repairing with a quota of ninety-five including three Purcell and Neck and river road for three miles and grading and graveling two miles of with a quota of 126 Including one work for including ton part-time an disbursing three supervising ten a chief a certifying officer and five with a money quota for the renting of ten five adding machines and for telephone and telegraph Road Work ut blocks of drainage work and seventeen miles of road with a quota of twenty including one for construction Including record By tho Associated When Santa rides his broad circuit Christmas he must come prepared for every trick in the weather man's A blizzard blew down his patch from the north pole to the Montana and zero temperatures put the appropriate Christmas color on Santa's nose like a Cold weather was on its way to the northern Pacific where floods and storms have made 5,000 homeless and taken 13 lives this last Hip boots must be in Santa's pack for his travels in and He'll find it foggy and cold in spots down the long stretch of on Gulf Down around the Gulf coast the fur coat will be for it Is in the pleasant down south of the Mason and Dixon A slicker may come in handy in some southern By the time his team reaches the north Atlantic seaboard the sleigh runners will have to be installed for the dash along the Canadian The middle and eastern states generally will have colder but little snow for the In the southeast and the lower Great Lakes regions Santa Claus will need umbrella and Back along the however Minnesota and the white Christmas is in Snow fell and more was anticipated Sunday to smooth the way for Santa's glide back to tho The sudden gale that came howling into Montana sent the mercury scurrying down into the the temperature dropping 25 degrees at Great Falls in ten Tho j passenger train of the Milwaukee was marooned near Drexel in western Montana by a washout In front and mud slides and food had to be packed to the isolated passengers from fifty-three miles Electric motors warmed the 150 or more on many of whom will have belated Christmas Floods Halt Record-breaking rainfalls and floods effectively stopped the movement o f transcontinental trains out of Seattle or and many cities of northern Idaho and neighboring Washington were isolated and inundated wind and Stormy weather had abated in British but anxiety for the sixty residents of Wales forty-five miles north of Prince No word had come from there since the first wracked the coast three weeks nor has the weekly supply boat returned since early From came word yesterday of an avalanche of snow descending on several houses and farms from tho mountains above the of There was no report of lives Chicago yesterday enjoyed a freak and almost springlike The jumping 16 degrees in 4 hit 56-one degree beneath the all-time set in 1877-and made It the warmest Dec. 23 since 1904. 134 LOSE LIVES CRASH ON CURVE Christmas Many of Them Students From Among Victims in Rear-End NUMBER 280 Express Traveling 50 Miles an Hour When It Plows Into Deputies Seriously Elaborate Programs in Churches General Yule Observance Planned Elaborate programs of music and pageantry have been prepared for the congregational services in most Joplin churches for in observance of the most important holiday on tho religious have been at work for several preparing their Christmas sermons to be delivered at today's Choral dramatic productions based on the children's programs of readings and will have a place in the Christmas observance in the churches For many of the the services will bo the occasions for presenting their at the of food and given in the true Christmas spirit for the aid of those who are belabored with misfortune and Program for today's Christmas services have been outlined by pastors as FIRST Ago in a colorful directed by Mrs. George will be presented at the night service at the First Methodist Episcopal Fourth street and Byers The Rev. Glenn A will n Christmas sermon on Overture to the New at the morning Each department of the church school will conduct Its own celebration with an appropriate program at 9:30 a. m. Epworth League members will leave tho church for a caroling tour of the city at 5 o'clock Christmas The program for the Sunday morning beginning at 10:50 will bo as the Nina the Herald Angels Virgin's All Ye Overture to the New The Christmas pageant of the Ago in will begin 7:30 has its setting in medieval The remainder of the play takes place in Bethlehem of Judea in tho days of King Principals in the cast include a RONALD FINNEY PLEADS GUILTY CENTRAL FIGURE IN KANSAS BOND SCANDAL TO BE SENTENCED Dec. 23,-UP)-Ronald central figure in the Kansas million dollar bond forgery Interrupted trial charges of forgery and selling worthless securities to plead guilty late action came after a comml sion of three physicians reported young Topeka was on Page 17) on page 4) Danger of Losing CWA Support Spurs Joplin Bonds Proponents on page 4.) Cold Stems Dec. 23.-(JP)-The weather man brought the perfect Christmas gift to the Pacific northwest temperatures to stem the floods which have caused thirteen deaths and made thousands General relief was felt in Oregon and British although traffic by rail and motor was still almost paralyzed in western Fifteen cities and towns were inundated in whole or in scores of others were isolated except to airplanes as some rivers kept on adding to flood damage already of tremendous All rail traffic Into Puget on pace 4.) Spurred on by definite word from the civil works administration headquarters in Jefferson City that Joplin must provide some locally financed public works if it is to be eligible for further federal labor the sponsoring nil bond issue for sewer construction und Market Square last night marshalled its forces for an intensive publicity campaign to continue until the election next If the city votes the in the public works administration will loan It that amount at a low interest rate and contribute an additional to complete the required for the two Joplin on Mrs. Bertha county relief returned from Jefferson City yesterday with the Information that acceptance or rejection of the bond issue will be regarded us indicative of the city's willingness to help solve its own She learned also that great pressure Is being brought to bear on Wallace state CWA to cut down Jasper county's present ment of 4,500 jobs and distribute them in other districts which have gotten no such amount in propor Hon to population or the public works bond issue failed the first were assured that It was local and fall ure to arouse the and that they would cany the next Wo have put Joplin on probation with that assurance in if some petty or factional differences prevent we must consider that your city Is not deserving of further consideration in distributing gov That's the whole he concluded The same mandate has been received by E. C. chairman of the Jasper county committee on relief and and William H. CWA director for in letters from Despite tho many activities of Christmas backers of the bond Issue intend to overlook no opportunity to interest every or group in the city in getting out a favorable Kelsey chairman of the last night reported notable response in getting speakers The physicians found Finney was not an not and that he does what is going on and that ho is capable of comprehending his position in making his Sentence Is Under a Kansas not involved in tho sanity the defense could raise a question of sanity at the pleading that the defendant was insane at the time of the commission of the alleged The jury would decide the question of sanity on such a Sentence was deferred until next Finney was accused in the indictment of forging and selling in municipal which were manipulated through the state Tom former state and Leland Finney's also face charges in the Warren W. 60, banker and father of the has been sentenced to from 36 to 600 years imprisonment for embezzlement of from insti he He has Head of Three The father was president of three all of which closed soon after Governor Alt M. August 7, ordered prosecution of the son on charge of uttering forged municipal Forged bonds secured some of the Finney Investigation by Fred M. special counsel for the disclosed tho scattered throughout the totaled more than At least in spurious securities were found in the state Thirty of the counts to which Finney pleaded guilty carry sentence of a year to twenty-one years in the The other count carries a sentence of six months in jail to five years In the Dec. 24.-(Sunday)-(IP)-More than 130 happy Christmas many of them students from homeward were killed last night in a collision of the express and a local night train in a heavy At 3 a. m. a announcement said 134 bodies had been while the injured numbered 280. The an hour crashed at a 50-mile-an-hour speed Into tho rear of the which had come to a halt close to near fifteen miles due east of Tho four rear cars of the local train were telescoped and crushed to splinters by the onrushing Nearly all tho occupants of these cars were killed Senator and Two Deputies Two members of tho chamber of Henri Rollin and Gaston were among the seriously Senator at first announced to be among the was found later to be safe in not having taken either of the two All the inhabitants of Lagny hastened to the scene and aided in rescue In a field near the ghastly local doctors and others who had hurried from Paris first aid to the injured while the dead were laid out in silent rows beside the The local train had stopped on a curve in answer to a semaphore Its roar light was said to be invisible to the engineer of the onrushing blinded by Wood fires lighted by rescuers along the tracks to provide illumination revealed a fantastic shrouded by the heavy By midnight 100 bodies had been laid beside the wreckage and workers were still looking for Most of the victims were passengers on the local train which had also delayed its departure from Paris because of the fog and stopped about two miles from The express crashed into it at 8:15 p. m. p. m. Eastern Standard Gravest In Tho accident was ono of the gravest in the history of French Seven curs were entirely The wreck was far more serious than the one at last October in which thirty-five persons wero killed and fifty injured when the rounding a curve at high hurtled off a thirty-foot viaduct into the Rouloir Four coachee piled into the river and were ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK THURSDAY AT DINNER Dec. 23.-IIP)- President Roosevelt again will speak to tho next Thursday evening when he addresses the First National dinner of tho Woodrow commemorating the war president's birthday Tho address from Washington will be carried over hookups of the two leading broadcasting systems beginning at 10:30 p. eastern standard Simultaneously with tho Washington 124 Woodrow Wilson clubs throughout tho affiliated with the will meet to honor the late president and listen to President Bonus Checks Given 550, Dec. 23.-(fP)-The Houston Electric Company today distributed in Christmas bonus checks to 550 Three hundred bus drivers and street car operators and 250 employes of the mechanical department received tho ft ills mmm 13273552
