Joplin News Herald (Newspaper) - December 20, 1929, Joplin, Missouri 1 Snow Hall at the University of Kansas Is to Be Occupied We Have Been Occupying Ours for Several Days THE probably fol lowed by snow Saturday not quite so slightly warmer to night and probably some what warmer tonight Saturday probably JOPLIN NEW ERAL Exclusive Day Dispatches of the Associated Press DECEMBER PRICE THREE CENTS MILK RATIONS FOR LOUIS DOE Snow and Ice Prevent Usual Deliveries to City by Illinois Temperature Near Zero Over the The temperature hovered near the zero mark throughout Missouri again last night and then started climb ing today as a moderation set in from two days of intense cold which came in the wake of a The bureau somewhat warmer weather but said the mercury would re main far below the freezing The state remained in the grip of a hard freeze that made high way travel and still was under a heavy blanket of The lowest mark recorded in the state last night was zero at Columbia had a low read ing of 4 above 2 above Kansas 4 above 2 and 6 Missouri Kiver The Missouri river was reported frozen at blocked with heavy ice at Joseph and con heavy floating ice from Kansas City to the Mississippi Louia wenton milk as the result of roads that prevented usual deliveries from southern Drifts on highways over which trucks op erate were expected to be opened No milk deliveries were made by the Highway Dairy Farms Com pany yesterday except to homes in which there are babies while the Pevely Dairy Company cut its de liveries to 70 per cent of The Louis Dairy Company re its shipments by but trucks were several hours late and many were without The smaller dair ies were not hindered to a great Nation as a Whole Knee Deep in Winter By the Associated America was knee deep m win ter save only California and which were knee deep in i Fog along the Atlantic communication lines in subzero cold in the and snow robing entire tiers of middle western these represented the weathers Even Dixie shivered and shook snow from her The worst blizzard middle Amer ica has experienced since 1918 had forged snow shackles which bound transportation and chained the for ward march of Christmas Even more snow the middle west but nothing to compare with the midweek storm which he Chicago weather bureau alluded to as almost one in a life Death List A complete list for deaths for which the cold and ice were to was not with many sections cut off from the world by drifts in highways and broken telephone and telegraph wires but nearly two score had been more than half of them in the Chicago metropolitan Shifting winds lifted the fog which had cost a heavy price in New York Shipping had been almost at a and one vessel lay at the bottom of the har bor in sixty feet of The money loss attributed the fog reached into the The passenger ship Tourist was gripped in the Lake Erie with her passengers safe This was the only lake shipping report ed in the Goodrich steam er having docked safely at Grand after being missing several hours in rolling Lake So far south did the cold extend that one death from exposure was reported in a state to which snow and killing cold are in frequent The sweeping did heaviest damage in New rain and sleet playing havoc with Contrasting with the 18 below zero at last night was the plus 74 at which was only four degrees warmer Los TEMPERATURE RISES ABOVE FREEZING MARK Bright Puts End to Gold Wave Which Had Hovered Over District Since Aided by a full the weather moderated rapidly here today and rose above freezing early this after noon for the first time since Tues day when snow and sleet ushered in atures which caused suffering among the disrupted street car service and slightly impaired and electric power serv Striking Joplin with full force early Tuesday the cold soon dropped the mercury below freezing and carried It yes morning to a new seasons minimum of 6 degrees above which was but 12 degrees above last winters Todays minimum was but 12 de Moderating somewhat yes the temperature was 16 de grees at At 6 oclock this morning the temperature had reached the days minimum of 12 degrees and held at that point un til after 8 In the next hour it rose two degrees and from then until noon moderated at the rate of four degrees an The thermometer registered slightly above freezing at 3 oclock this YOUNG HUCKINS Man Charged With Fraud Is Confined in Hotel Room at Excelsior with his Elmer had evaded arrest on a fraud charge by disappearing from Cedar technically was under arrest but remained in bed in his hotel room while a deputy sheriff paced the hall who registered in the hotel a week ago under an assumed unlocked the door of his to accept service of a warrant for his His phy said he would be too ill to move for several days and Deputy Sheriff William Payne agreed to leave him under cal arrest in the Huckins and his father are charged with obtaining money un der false pretenses by several in to they had promised returns of from 26 to 52 per cent on investments made with The elder Huckins disappeared Tuesday and is believed to be in Sheriff Manchester of Cedar Rapids was expected here today to take charge of the younger but Huckins physician said he would recommend strongly that he be allowed to remain in bed several davs DRYS DEMAND ENFORCEMENT REPORT SOON Open Hearings by Law Commission Also Are Sought Under Threat That Appropriations Will Be TOTS GET HAIRCUTS WHEN THEY THE DENTAL CLINIC The Joplin dental clinic in the administration 827 Pearl which formerly was devoted to the care of chil drens now has become a gen eral outfitting and child welfare John Thorn clinic said Many of the little tikes the clinic scantly some wear ing wornout shoes and stockings and insufficient outer garments to keep them When these cases they are turned over to At Officer through cooperation with the Health and Welfare Association and kindness of Joplin firms and is able to supply their They are sent away from the clinic sporting new warm stockings and sweaters or over Then there is the business of watching the childrens general ap Some the tots go to the clinic badly in need of haircuts and washing behind the Thornberry takes care of those j The Womens Auxiliary of the Joplin Association of Master Plumbers has supplied Thorn berry with tickets for haircuts at the barber and the kiddies whose hair is getting long are sent there for Going to the tooth repair shop Where Mine Disaster Took Toll of 59 Lives ate drys began a drive today to force an early report and open hearings by President Hoovers law enforcement Two democratic and Vir notice in the senate that not another dollar will be appropriated to the commission un less it submits some sort of report on its first eight months of Senator author of the fund the charged that the commission had shunted aside the original purpose of Dry Blocks Senator Harris said that every enemy of the prohibition wants to keep the commission there without any He said he would propose amendment to the next appropriating money for the commission requiring it to have open it was another Senator Jones of re blocked action today on the ris requesting tc have the commission submit a preliminary report to the senate to be used in connection with dry law enforcement Senator Harris also directed his fire at Chairman Wickersham of the I do not believe the prohibi are going to get any re port from this commission to the congress if the chairman of the commission and some others can prevent he Some time ago Hawes of a gave notice in the senate that he would insist upon an early report from the commission and also for open hearings by 6 WEEKS MORE OF LIFE FOR SNOOK James Howard former Ohio State university professor and con slayer of Theora looked forward to six weeks more of life today following action of the state supreme court yesterday in stay of execu tion until January 31 to permit more time for consideration of his He was to have died to is lots of fun one little boy describes And this because there are usually two or three presents for the When they first go to the they get to sit down and read story books with pretty colored pic when the dentist is through with Thorn berry presents each child a little pocket comb and a with the admonition use them The provided by the plumbers association al ways a cry of joy from the Thornberry and they never forget to say Thank that As the faces of both the little boys and little girls light up at the sight of the presentation of the toothbrushes brings a slightly different Of course theyre glad to get Thornberry but they mean The tots nearly always have I to be reminded of the Thank after receiving the Some of the boys dont look so kindly upon the haircuts Heres what one of the youngsters said when asked how he liked his haircut its I but my heads cold my cap dont fit Above is a picture at the entrance of the Old Town Coal Companys mine at where fiftynine miners lost their lives when an explosion trapped them in the workings of the The crowd at the mine entrance is awaiting identification of the dead Train Buns Into Grounded Third Rail in Tunnel Under East New many of them were injured today when a subway train ran a third rail in the tunnel under the East connecting Manhattan with In efforts to from the train of the more excited passengers broke windows in some of the cutting themselves with When the power was turned off the passengers rushed from the cars to the road bed of the Some walked to Queens Plaza sta tion about half a mile many of them walked to an emergency exit out on Welfare while others were taken aboard a train on the opposite track and taken out of the i Taken From Two more bodies were recovered today from the Old Town Mining Companys coal mine at North Mc bringing num ber of dead in Tuesdays disaster to A mammoth grave today awaited the bodies of thirty of the ex plosion which Tuesday snuffed the lives fiftynine miners in the Old Town Coal Companys mine in North The mass funeral which will be held today under the tion of Father Maurice has been arranged for if not of the Mexican victims of the disaster by of Okla homa Mexican The in a plot of ground provided by the city of was prepared yesterday by fifteen convicts from the state tiary SUPPRESSION LAW IN MINNESOTA IS UPHELD newspaper suppression law was upheld today for the sec ond time when the state supreme court ruled the statute constitution The court reaffirmed its first decision on the appeal of the Satur day a Minneapolis publica from a permanent writ of in Interstate Commerce Body Completes Consolidation New Jones in a copyrighted dis patch from its Washington bureau today states that the Commerce Commissions railroad consolidation plan has been com allocating way properties into nineteen comprising five systems in the based upon the present four and an ad the nucleus of which would be the Of publication of the plan is within a few to the five systems in the two are planned for New the nine for the The dispatch states that is not viewed in responsible quar ters as an ironclad but general impression is that it is in tended as a guide for the groupings and puts the burden of proof on the In the the New Yorl Cen tral and Pennsylvania systems would be left substantially as they The Wabash is scheduled to receive the Lehigh thf Pittsburgh and West the Western Wheeling and Lake Erie and an interest in the Chesapeake Ohio tail way of The Ohio would receive the the Jersey Central and the Buffalo and The Baltimore and Ohio and the Wabash would each get an interest in the Toledo and recently ac quired by the Corpora an affiliate of the vania 1 In the the outstanding provision is the exclusion of the northern group and its use as the basis of a separ ate The various systems based on the the the the Rock the Southern the Missouri the Union Chicago and Northwestern ant the Great Northern and Northern taken as The Frisco would go to the Rock while the two Steel Duluth Iron Range and would go to the Paul The Great Western would to the and the Illinois Central would get the Minneapolis and The Missouri Pa would get the Western Denver and Rio Denver and Salt Lake and Kansas and In the the expectation are that the Illinois Central will get the Louis Southwestern as well as the Central of is expected to go to the Burlington while the Kansas City Southern would be allocated to the Union The plan also is said to provide definite treatment of terminal facil providing for joint use where DOCTOR PAILS JO CALL HAS PNEUMONIA Committee Member Provides Medi cal Services When County Phy Does Not Harry East Joplin had a bad cold His parents were afraid of At 3 oclock Thurs day afternoon a call was made to who holds the of fice of county physician in At 9 oclock this morning Tyler had not visited the who by that time had This case was reported to a mem ber of the committee who will ask the county court to appoint an ac tive county physician for and the member of the committee authorized the employment of a physician at the In the a Health and Welfare Association nurse had visited the boy and ap plied mustard plasters and other Harry lives at 1721 MARE GOES 70 RESCUE OF HER RESCUERS Police Squad in Pull Her From Drift and She Takes Turn at Towline cold gray mare played and the Lion She rescued her The flivver cruising through the found her snowbound and deserted in a She stood almost unnoticed in the swelling dune of The squad hitched their car to the old and hauled her from the A few blocks from the station the flivver eased into a drift and the cart before the The old grey mare took her turn at the and hauled the stranded coppers Now she has a nice warm berth at the police Oklahoma Bank Fort Citizens National bank hete was robbed shortly after noon to day of an undetermined amount of money by a lone OF TARIFF ASSN Lobbying Activities De scribed as Reprehensible in Highest lobbying activities of manager of the Southern Tariff As were described as repre in the highest degree in the report to the senate today by its lobby The report said that no specific penal in nature had been violated by but it recom mended that the public be protected against such activities by priate No Such Arnold also is manager of the American Tax Payers League and has cooperated with the National Council of State which have joint offices in He has been questioned at length by the Senator Caraway of and was sharply critic by lobby in the course of his The report asserted that the com had inquired the activi ties of the organizations Arnold represented and added that Arnold operated ostensibly to influence congressional but in fact for the purpose of making a living for himself and a small group associated with There is in truth no such thing as a Southern Tariff Association or for that matter an American Tax Payers the report Dies After Miles wife of the former United States senator from Washington und to died unexpectedly here today after a delicate surgical She was 63 years WONT GC NEITHER SHOULD SHOPPING usr FOUR OTHERS KILLED WHEN FALLS Drop of 400 Feet After TakeOff at Boll Near Wash Fatal to All Occupants of including a member of his secretary and three others were hurtled to death today in the worst air crash in the his tory of Boiling Representative William Kaynor of en route by air to his home in along with Stanley his office were passengers in the Harry pilot of the Arthur a ci vilian air and Charles an army others who lost their Information Sources The big had just taken off from the field and had reached a height of about 400 feet when it seemed to hesitate and then turned striking the ground with a tremendous Boiling field officers closed sources of information pend ing ail but news of the accident the Capitol first from a woman who made the trip by She was in a hys state and could not imme identify any of those who were Reports then spread like wild fire over the highly ated in most some of them placing the number of con gressional victims as high as Representative Ketcham of Michi gan was first listed with the but his office quickly disposed of this erroneous who is also a and McGill were re quested by Representative Kaynor to accompany him on the to Kaynor only re cently had been placed on the house military committee and to days tragedy ended his first jour ney in an Captain Dinger was considered one of the most expert aviators in the Representative Kaynor was serv ing his first term in hav ing been elected in a year He was born in in was a graduate of Yale in and was manager of football team The death of Representative Kay the second of a her of congress in an airplane ac cident A year or more ago Rep Thaddeus was in a fatal crash in New York First arrivals at Boiling field aft er the accident were met at the gate by sentries who had orders to allow no one to but these precautions failed to prevent news of the from leaking Conditions The assistant secretary of war in charge of Trubee was the first to be but in the confusion which ensued even he had only In complete Weather conditions were perfect for with hardly a cloud in the sky The cause of the there fore must be attributed to than atmospheric Captain Dinger was a resident of May some ground observers when Captain Din ger attempted to bank his plane with It come down as is such a maneuver was intend ed and then it failed to rise at proper The wrecked machine was a Fokker trimotored known as the These ships have un usual All of those t aboard were LEAD AND ZINC Spot and Zino 6d New Lead steady spot New East Zinc quiet East Louis spot
