Joplin Globe (Newspaper) - January 15, 1938, Joplin, Missouri THE WEATHER Saturday and rising ' and In east and south ' fair Saturday and warmer warmer Sunday cloudy and warmer Sunday partly VOL. NO. 136. 111 East Fourth Street lobe FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS SATURDAY JANUARY 15, 1938.-TWELVE Kvery Morning Except Monday PRICE FIVE CENTS HUNT AND SMITH LINKED CLOSER TO MITCHELL SLAYING Farmer Tells Officer He Saw Two Driving Toward Seneca Shortly Before Murder ONE HAD RAY LINTON SAYS Story Regarded as Important Link in Chain of Evidence Surrounding Mystery Special to The Jan. 14.-Constable Roy B. Hance declared tonight that investigators are moving closer toward a solution of the Norman E. Mitchell murder a result of rapid developments growing out of a gun battle Wednesday night in which he killed two men he sought to question in the Mitchell Hance said he learned from a farmer today that Logan E. Hunt and Carl the victims of his blazing were seen driving toward Seneca from their farm house the night Mitchell was December 28, only 40 minutes before Mitchell was shot and killed in the basement of his suburban Lives Near Hunt The Seneca constable said the Ray lives about three-quarters of a mile west toward Seneca from the Hunt He quoted Linton as stated that about 8:10 o'clock the Mitchell was murdered he saw a car coasting down hill on highway 60 from the Hunt Linton according to that the car stopped beside the highway not far honie and that lie went down to see what was going The farmer was and and that Hunt had a Sun. The men were having difficulty getting their old model pickup truck Hance said he was but it finally was started and they drove bii west Investigators fix the time Mitchell was slain as about 8:50 p. Hance he regarded Linton's story an l an Important link chain of Fingerprints on Hance said he and highway patrolmen today had enlargements made of fingerprints taken oi Hunt following his and that the prints were compared with enlargements already made of fingerprints taken from a vinegar jar containing found in a lover's lane close to the Mitchell home the night of the Hance clared that comparisons showed definitely that Hunt's left index left middle finger prints were on the the officer puts Hunt at the scene of the Mitchell A further check of the fingerprints is to be made by the federal bureau of investigation in where the vinegar jar was sent and where are being A report is expected to be made ' tomorrow on a ballistic test by the state highway patrol in Jefferson City of a shotgun shell found near the vinegar jar the night of the Mitchell The shotgun Bhell and the sawed-off shotgun found in the Hunt home have been sent to Jefferson An effort will be made to determine whether that shotgun discharged that particular Bought Gun in Another development Hance was information from an elderly who until recently lived within a quarter of a mile of the Hunt that the sawed-off found in the home was purchased two months ago at by Hance quoted his informant as having said that Hunt told him he bought the shotgun at a sale in Pawhuska while he was visiting Hunt had relatives residing in that Hance said investigators now are inquiring into Hunt's acquaintances and associations in search for a motive to the Mitchell but that little progress has been Investigating officers revealed today for the first time that they been investigating a mystery of the withdrawal of five bills by Mitchell from a Seneca bank only a week before he was murdered and the apparent disappearance of the As officers explained the Mitchell appeared at the Seneca bank and said he wanted 10 The bank had only which he and the following day he obtained two more at the Bills Not A few days according to the the bank received a shipment of including several and telephoned that they had the on Page 2) New Deal Balks Chase Bank Head Charges Winthrop W. Aldrich Says Utilities Are to Go and Would Provide Needed Stimulus to Business if Threat of Government Competition Were Deplores Against Jan. 14.- -A banker and an industrial leader told the senate unemployment committee today that government could hot escape a share of the blame for the business Winthrop W. chairman of the board of the Chase National bank of New told the committee that government's most serious mistake was in offering direct competition to the thus destroying confidence of investors in the securities and cutting their purchases from the durable goods Slump in J. D. A. Morrow president of the Pittsburgh Coal asserted bluntly that depression was made in ' He declared it could be frank acknowledgment that some mistakes had been and by rectification of the If the threat of competition by the government is the utilities are bursting to go Aldrich Their activities would provide a needed impetus to all business because of attendant capital goods he against business by of the have been one of the most unfortunate aspects of the Aldrich He agreed with Senator if there is a of propaganda to discredit tire - as Murray it ought to be Ihe declared In his some administration failed to distinguish business men guilty of and WINTHROP W. mass of business who desired to correct don't think that business should accuse or government should accuse We would be much better off if both sides Aldrich Says Customers Quit Morrow contended the recession was brought about spreading doubt and uncertainty as to the caused the customers of business to quit The Pittsburgh coal man acknowledged in response to questions that his op- on page 2) PROTESTS RY JAPS AMERICAN PROPERTY RIGHTS VIOLATED BY NIPPONESE RAIDS AT Jan. 14.-^UP>-The United States has protested to Japan more against of American property rights in The state department announced today that Consul John Allison at Nanking had notified the Japanese embassy in Nanking that Japanese soldiers continued to enter American property there and remove goods and employes of American despite a previous American Give No Allison cabled that the soldiers did this without giving notice or reasons their who was consul at Tsinan and went to Nanking to take charge of the embassy after the Japanese occupied China's cabled last week that there had been considerable looting of American The employes ot American institutions mentioned in Allison's dispatch today were believed to be Informed persons said conditions in and the status of 15,000 Japanese at Philippine probably would be the subjects of a report to the president by Paul V. American high commissioner for the when he returns to tWs country in PRESS SUPPORT ASKED BY STARK GOVERNOR SAYS FIGHT HONEST ELECTIONS AND ECONOMY WILL GO Poison Found in Man's Jan. 14.-UP)- Dr. Harold N. assistant professor of pharmacology at the University of testified in district court that poison commonly used to kill rats and bugs was found in the stomach of Louis a packing house whose Mrs. Beatrice is on charged with first degree murder in her husband's HOURLY TEMPERATURES Temperatures had dropped to a low of 28 degrees at 11 night from a high of 37 at 6 o'clock in the A year ago yesterday the maximum was 52 and the minimum 19. Hourly l a 3 * s 6 7 8 a. a. a. a. 10 U Noon - p. w. m. m. m. m. m. m. m. m. p. m. 32|Mldnlght colter St. Jan. 14.-UP)-A plea for continued co-operation of newspapers toward carrying out the program launched by his adminis tration was made tonight by Governor Lloyd C. The speaking before the Northwest Missouri Press asked continued support for eight major undertakings of this program which all citizens of. Missouri are vitally because it affects every one of regardless of politics or station In Names He named these undertakings as highway liquor honest in elimination of from old-age assistance and re lief war against extermination of and prosecution of progress as has been made during the past year in launching this program and putting It in Stark been largely due to the friendly and helpful co-operation of the newspapers of Without that co-operation we could never have accomplished a It there Is nothing within reason for the public good that cannot be Governor Stark repeated the note of optimism he struck in his Jackson day dinner speech at asserting the business recession would be short-lived we would all talk and think less about hard times and turn our toward the INVESTIGATOR INJURED BY BOMB EXPLOSION Los Jan. 14.-UP)-A bomb exploded today in the automobile of Harry undercover investigator and veteran former police and detective chief in southern California seriously injuring The bomb exploded when he pressed the car starter in his Raymond has been doing investigation work for A. Brigham an attorney In the bankruptcy case of former Police Commissioner Harry Rose also is attorney for the Independent vice investigation called the organized by Clifford E. leader of a minority reform group in the 1937 grand Both Rose and Clinton expressed belief that the bombing resulted from Raymond's connection with the GEORGES BONNET CHOSEN TO FORM FRENCH CABINET Former Finance Minister Will Set Out Today to See if He Can Organize a New WAVE OF STRIKES CONTINUES TO SPREAD Acute Financial Caused by Fall of Watched by U. S. and British Jan. 14'.-CP)-Georges diplomat and financial tonight tried to pull together the shattered remnants of the people's front and form a new government to solve the labor and economic problems that forced out of finance minister in cabinet and like him a promised to give President Albert Lebrun his answer tomorrow to the president's invitation that he form a new Bonnet Bald he would begin Interviews tomorrow in his effort to set up a cabinet to succeed the Chautemps government which re signed early Silent on Monetary The men he mentioned he would are former Edouard president of the chamber of Edouard minister of national defense in the Chautemps Senator Joseph Albert and Joseph Bonnet declined to answer ques on whether he was maintaining a stand against exchange He said they were At least two other persons refused the post before Bonnet accepted the task of whipping the socialists and once again into the people's front that ruled France for 19 The still spreading wave of strikes and the threat to prestige among her already wavering allies in central Europe hastened Lebrun's efforts to obtain a new Guardsmen Patrol In the of northern 10,000 workers demonstrated their and support of the communists outside Valenciennes metal The communist support of strikers and insistence on foreign exchange control was the immediate cause of Mobile whose weapons on riot duty are patrolled the streets of Diplomats of the United States and Great with France in the monetary accord that sought to bolster the falling frano the situation French statesmen feared a protracted crisis might loosen ties and discourage American leaving France virtually Isolated amid western European So acute was the situation France asked the League of to postpone the council session scheduled for The Bank of France suspended foreign exchange trading and WOMAN SAVES BANK IN HOLDUP Sounds Alarms That Locks Vaults and Obtain Only Jan. 14.-(/P)-Last February when the Bird gang robbed the Street bank of Miss Mary 28 years ran into a washroom When robbers entered today she did the saved the bank in An alarm was installed in the room after the other She sounded it locking the bank's main vault and The men obtained only the on the counter and Two of the Bird Frank Bird and James are serving federal penitentiary terms for the Lorain Street bank robbery last Frank Bird's still is at Treasurer J. P. who estimated the said the automatic locking system was installed jj ROOSEVELT FIGHT DIRECTED AT ALL HOLDING CONCERNS President Would Abolish Top Banking and Industrial as Well as Power BERLIN PROTESTS ATTACK ON HITLER HULL REPLIES DODD ENJOYS RIGHT OF FREE on page 2) Jan. 14.-UP)-Secretary Hull met an official German protest against a bitter speech by former William E. Dodd today with an explanation that American citizens enjoy the right of free Hans Helnrich the German visited the state department to tell Hull that who recently resigned from the diplomatic corps after five years as American envoy at had insulted Hitler in an address In New York last Aroused by In he was aroused by Dodd's statement that under Hitler as many personal opponents were killed In five years as Charles H of executed in 20 years of the seventeenth and that Hitler is more absolute than any medieval emperor of Hull replied that Dodd had resigned his was now a private citizen enjoyed the freedom of speech guaranteed him by the The secretary did not imply either that Dodd's expressions coincided or did not coincide with thoBe of this officials At a three-line reference to the German protest was all that was permitted to be printed The item carried by the news the Deutsches merely stated the German ambassador had protested against Dodd's references to Germany and the in New York last don't propose to take further a government spokesman WALL STREET AMAZED AT STAND HE TAKES Executive Refuses to Recommend Modifications of Clause in Utility Act. Given Year for St. Jan. 14.-CP)~Ambro8e Luther 20 years of Jefferson pleaded guilty today to charges of forging WPA checks while employed as a WPA pay roll clerk in Jefferson and was sentenced by Federal Judge George H. Moore to one year and a day In a federal Roman Candles Directed at Sparrows Curious Throng Watches City Firemen With a firey display of Roman city firemen early last night let loose a barrage of fireballs that covered the fronts of hotel ann office buildings at Fourth and Main The frighten all roosting sparrows from their sleeping Ff ft etc went the premature Fourth of July Merchants and pedestrians complain the sparrows are a public members of the city council The council left the matter in the hands of Dr. V. E. commissioner of health and after discussing air rifles and dynamite and deciding methods might break some Shortly before 6 o'clock firemen loaded into booster truck and a hook and ladder pockets filled with fireworks of the Independence day celebration and roared out of Central With firemen stationed at vital Hoseman Fred Wetherell passed out a supply of matches At a set the matches scratched and the display got off to a flaming if the police caught my boy doing that this time of year they'd put him in one earnest but misunderstanding woman declared from her view of the Patrolman Lawrence standing near the at the grinned sheepishly and moved slowly jp the the outspoken critic of the display was not the only misunderstanding spectator among the throng that gathered at the downtown A few were heard discussing the possibility that maybe the firemen were just a little and reasoned standing In the middle of the street waving cars first one way and then the should herd them back Into their fire wagons and out of to me like those boys go to enough fires In a day without getting out here at night and trying to set fire to the Connor hotel and the Joplin National bank said But the moved away on swift by the time firemen were back to central station with their trucks and spent the birds had bringing with thorn countless mora to view the Jan. 14.-UP)-President Roosevelt startled the business world today with an emphatic call for abolition of holding companies in all lines of industry and He told his semi-weekly press conference In unmistakable terms that his ultimate aim was the elimination of such concerns not only among the power as now partially provided by but in banking and other business and Industrial Wall Street frankly was Experts on corporation were quick to say that more than half the companies whose securities aro widely held arc holding in some degree at A Complex Of the they many actually aro operating companies owning outright control of and thus differ from the pyramided type of holding company to which Mr. Roosevelt has objected in the past in the utilities So complex was the question posed by the in that many financial men said they thought there might be qualifications which Mr. Roosevelt had not mentioned at his press Regarding the president's criticism of holding companies in the banking and his attack upon of local they estimated that four companies control banks having assets of When or how Mr. Roosevelt proposed to carry out his idea was left to Some students of political events thought he might touch upon the subject in his forthcoming message to congress on business Others felt specific proposals would not be advanced that The message on business practices may be expected in about 10 the president has Asked if he Intended to use the taxing the president replied that he had not arrived at that point he there were various ways of doing away with holding companies without forcing them into Favors Mr. Roosevelt's views were given in connection with detailed analy requested by of a memorandum left with him Novem ber 23 by Wendell L. president of the Commonwealth and Southern His talk with was the first of a series of so-called confer ences with utility designed to bring about extensive private utility One of requests was for modification of the so-called in the holding company which became effective January 1 and which forbids the of moro than two hold ing companies upon a group of operating Enforcement of the clause has been delayed pend ing a supreme court ruling on the constitutionality of the regis tration The president said that under no conditions could the sen he He reiterated that owners of of electric utilities securities controlled most of the total of of such securities He likened this to a 96 inch dog being wagged by a four inch The president spoke of control of local banks being lodged by holding companies In money centers far He said the little banker was dis appearing as the result of being controlled from New he was a bad In view of ample community funds and federal supervision and deposit he saw no reason why local banks could not support Asked if he considered invest ment trusts in the same category as holding he said not unless they voted the stock they To Squeeze Out He said the water and wind was comparatively small In the capital structure of operating utilities and that in recent talks with the heads of such concerns they had agreed there was some way for squeezing it out without hurting the But it was an entirely different on page Sues for Million The father of Marian 16 years beauty contest Chicago's Ogden Hill Business Men's Association for for and he claims she suffered when presented with a certificate for a contest sponsored by the MAE WEST RADIO SKIT CONDEMNED FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION HITS AND OF PROFITS TAX IS House Subcommittee Heeds Plea of Business In Drafting a New CHANGE IN CAPITAL GAINS LEVY URGED Group Says Proposals Will Ease Load of Small Companies and Stimulate Trade Jan. 14.-UP)- Mae West's recent and radio skit drew formal condemnation today from the federal com The commission said the feature by Miss West and Don Ameche and the dialogue between the actress and Charlie Edgar Bergen's far below even the minimum standards which should control In the selection and production of broadcast No Further Action Chairman Frank R. wrote Lenox R. president of National Broadcasting that view of your recognition of the objectionable character of the program in question and of your assurance that greater care and caution will bo exercised In the the commission had decided to take no further action at this time than the writing of this letter in said when the 59 stations which carried the program apply for renewal of will take under consideration this incident along with all other evidence tending to Bhow whether or not a particular licensee has conducted his station in the public View Not He commended National Broadcasting Company for apologizing for the but are to accept the view expressed in your letter that the broadcasting of these features was only 'a human error in Under the present the commission has no power of this power and responsibility rests squarely and unavoidably upon the Representative calling the broadcast indecent and asked in the house why tho government had taken no action against the stations which used the Representative said tho radio Industry probably should have a board of censors similar to that of the movie Connery agreed and suggested that perhaps the government should censor future programs If sponsors did SEN. CAPPER OPPOSES NEW JUDGE FOR KANSAS Jan. 14.-UP)-Senator termed tonight uncalled for and a waste in public proposals for new district judge for Both house and senate judiciary committees have offered bills which include an additional judge for the Capper asked Chairman of the senate judiciary committee to be heard In opposition to such Car Battery Charles 1308 Pennsylvania reported to police last night the theft of a battery out ot his Jan. 14.-CP)-Newly-completed tax revision recommendations should stimulate business substantially without lowering the government's a house tax subcommittee declared It handed to the full house waye and means committee 63 recommendations for tax including proposals for extensive modification of the two levies which business men have criticized those on capital gains and undistributed corporate Tho full committee arranged to begin public hearings on them when treasury spokesmen are scheduled to Principle Declared The subcommittee contended the principle of the undistributed profits tax was sound and should be that complaints about hardships resulting from it were and that the ot normal Income and undistributed profits taxes on corporations often been But it suggested a multiplicity pf changes in corporate taxes which it. said should some causes of hardships and inequality and ease the tax load of small The subcommittee that the application of Income taxes to income derived from capital gains was on equitable and practical Noting an argument that the capital gains tax had accentuated slumps and it countered with a declaration underlying business situation and tho related speculative temper the times are primarily responsible for and real-estate booms and Alterations Yet tho subcommittee recommended alterations to smoother and more gradual step-down of the percentage of gain ' or loss to be taken into account for tax thus eliminating tha inducement to concentration of transactions at certain with its accompanying accentuation of rises or declines in It suggested that more liberal deductions of capital losses be and that gains be moved out of range of the highest surtax brackets on Individual The latter accelerate dation of large blocks of overpriced give mobility to the capital encourage of capital in new productive the subcommittee Covering what Chairman called whole field of recommendations embodied suggestions Repealing more than half a dozen excise such as those on chewing gum and sporting which yield about but cost about that much to collect and Reducing exemptions from estate and gift Higher Insurance Raising from 15 to 16 per cent the present tax on insurance Increasing from 20 to 22 per cent the tax on foreign tions having places of business in this Virtually none of contemplated for most would be given to a group of firms whose stock is owned by a few persons and whose operations likely to be used for tax the subcommittee They would be subjected to a added to the levies would be imposed on most which would bring their total payments almost to the of those under present The subcommittee's report advocated no changes in the excess profits and capital stock Congressional experts said the new corporate tax through a series of and f would work out practice so that all having annual income of less than would be exempt from any undistributed profits They would pay a normal income tax 12% to 16 The highest effective rate 3jpUc-{Continued. 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