Moberly Monitor-Index (Newspaper) - December 30, 1938, Moberly, Missouri MOBERLY and MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT 8 ASSOCIATED FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE MOBERLY MISSOURI FRIDAY EVENING DECEMBER 30 MONITOR ESTABLISHED 1868 MOBERLY INDEX EST DEMOCRAT KST 1873 Ickes Reports Worth of Projects Placed Under Contract Many More Projects Heady If Congress Decides to Go Ahead With Move WASHINGTON Dec 30 Mayor La Guardia of New York it would be impossible the new Congress to abandon relief program now carried on by the WPA t Work relief is here to stay he declared because it is the erican way of providing relief La Guardia had a long talk witn Senator Norris but said afterwards he was only ing- his respects aad not talking any third-party politics WASHINGTON Dec 30 Secretary Ickes reported to dent Roosevelt today the Public Works Administration had put a program ly under contract in the last six months to the accompaniment of a constantly accelerated recovery in business and industry The report went to the White J ouse amid speculation Mr Roosevelt might support a ment among congressmen to make the PWA a permanent agency The deadline for this year's gram is tomorrow midnight but said Ickes he has an ample voir of applications to start with should the Congress decide at any time in the future to go for- ward with another program of public works Benefits All People PWA he said benefits all the people Already basic tries are busy manufacturing and men have moved back he added even peak of construction will not be attained until next year The report showed construction projects have been put under con- tract in the past six months Ickes analysis took note the President's approval of PWA as they came to his desk placed on the market more than worth of work every thirty clays Several congressmen have gested PWA be made and the Works Progress tration be curtailed and While the President has in the past favored a permanent public works agency there was doubt among informed persons he would agree to abolishing the WPA Difference One fundamental difference be- tween the two agencies in their effect on unemployment is in the way their money is spent Last spring Congress assigned to the PWA and to the WPA The WPA money was to cover the eight months period from July 1 to next Feb 28 Up to Dec 27 approximately of this had been paid out WPA of- said 86 cents of every lar was spent on labor do not expect the to last until the end of February and Mr Roosevelt soon will ask Congress for a deficiency appropriation expected to be to Of its the PWA has allocated to construction projects financed en- tirely by the federal government After making some small tional allocations for other poses it had to spend on in which states and municipalities put up 55 cents of each dollar and the PWA put up 45 cents Other Projects Congress allowed six months in which t0 get such projects ed Secretary Ickes reported to the President construction jobs had been contracted for un- der provision and only a fraction of one per cent would fail to start construction on time The total program according to federal interpretations amounts to more than of construction Of every dollar spent it was estimated 36 cents goes to pay labor and 64 cents to buy materials mainly iron and steel products cement and other durable goods Nazis Resent Defense of Ickes U S Hope tor Better Relations Said to Lack Every Foundation Dec 30 official news agency DNB declared today hope for im- test on account of attacks to the American vice foreign ister Acting Secretary of State lacks every foundation so long as the Washington state ment defends Secretary of the proved relations between the 1 Sumner Welles United States and Germany j The American foreign office however did not as is a matter of self-evident procedure wise in matters of this kind in in- relations ate itself from the utterances of the American minister of the in- but tried to defend them It must therefore be stated that as long as such a procedure which obviously serves Jewish in- and leaves out of account interior Ickes A statement issued by the agency and considered in some quarters as Chancellor Hitler's word to Washington The Minister of the Interior oi the United States Ickes delivered a speech before the Zionist ciety in Cleveland shortly before Christmas in which in connection with thrusts at the Third Reich he attacked its leadership in an unwarrantable manner The speech was made Dec 18 The German charge d'affaires in Washington Dr Hans i sen presented the sharpest the real German-American inter- ests continues in the conduct of relations of the United States of North America with Germany the hope expressed by the can foreign office to the German charge for an ment of mutual relationships lacks every foundation BIG TRI-STATE Eagle-Picher Go Buys merce Co Properties in Deal MIAMI Okla Dec 30 Eagle-Picher Mining Smelting Company seemed on the way day to being the No 1 producer of zinc concentrates in the United States following probably the largest deal in the tri-state dis- history Announcement made late yesterday of chase of all the zinc and lead ing properties of the Commerce Mining Royality Company of Miami in the Oklahoma district While the announcement by John A Robinson Commerce vice- president and general did not disclose the consideration the value of the properties ed was estimated unofficially at Joplin Mo as in excess of 000.000 The Commerce Company re- as the largest independent operator in the district owned 15 or more mines and had leases of several thousand acres of mining land in Oklahoma and Kansas which also has extensive interest in the area has smelters at Henryetta Okla lin Galena Kas E S Louis 111 elsewhere in Illinois and in New Jersey Included in the sale were the Bird Dog ore concentrating mill probably the second largest near Cardin Okla a electric plant and a natural air compressor station there and several other mills The Eagle-Picher Mill at Com- merce Okla ranks as the area's largest Produce Office Damaged by Fire NEGRO STUDENT CASE APPEALED Parity With Great Britain Is Goal of Berlin's New Construction ACTS UNDER NAVAL TREATY WITH LONDON Missouri University Asks U S Supreme Court Reconsider Decision Fire discovered shortly after midnight this morning in the of- fice of the Hannibal Produce Company 323 Franklin street wrecked the office before firemen were able to extinguish flames which swept the Interior of the wooden building The flames were checked by the brick wall of the storage building which the office adjoins but ed a wooden canopy connecting the two Origin of the fire is not known firemen said this morning Flames wrecked the interior of the one- room office and its equipment Firemen said the alarm was turned in at o'clock by a frightened householder who ran t0 the fire station believing the flames were coming from house near the produce company office AIR CRASH DAMAGES REFUSED BY JURY WASHINGTON Dec 30 The University of Missouri told Supreme Court today that its recent decision requiring the state to give equal education ages t0 white and negro students had forced a serious dilemma upon states practicing race separation This contention was advanced in a petition ation of the decision Under the opinion Missouri must either ad- mit L Gaines St Louis negro to the University souri law school or provide equal advantages at a negro The university's petition said the Court ruling would require six other states either to admit negroes to sit with white boys and girls in their state tie or to build separate negro uni- within their borders to take care of any demand for higher education of negroes that might These states were listed as tucky Maryland Oklahoma Virginia and West ginia Each was said to have no negro university within its ders AS for the petition said the state must at once in Lincoln University negro school at Jefferson City each and every course of tion available at the University of whether there has ever been any demand therefor by any Missouri negro or not Escape Clause Is Invoked to Permit Program Decided Necessary Now BERLIN Dec 30 intends to up to parity with Great Britain in submarines of the British alty were told today The 1935 naval treaty recognized Germany's right to parity but Germany agreed not to exceed 45 per cent of submarine tonnage An escape clause however mitted Germany to avail herself of the right to build beyond 15 per cent in the event of a ation arising which in its the German government's opinion makes it necessary The ratio for sub- marines was accepted by many fn exchange for her ment to remain within a 100 ratio for other naval vessels Officials declined to disclose exactly what action the Nazi re- gime proposed to take regarding its navy but was dis- cussed today by high German of- and a British naval sion just arrived from London The British officers were Rear Admiral J H D Cunningham a lord commission of the admiralty and two They will fly to London tomorrow to present re- sults of the discussions to their superiors The Anglo-German naval ty of June 18 1935 by which Chancellor Hitler agreed to limit his navy to 35 per cent of gave Germany the right to change the tonnages of certain categories within the over-all limit The second treaty brought the first into line with the 1936 London naval treaty among the United States Britain and France which vided for limitation of the nages and armaments of dual warships THIS WEEK-END McKittrick Asks Restora- tion of Paid to Three Jefferson City Men Iran Breaks Off Relations With France Because of Puns Contusing Ruler With Cats PARIS Dec Iranian Minister Bodi called today at the French foreign office to announce France and Iran sia no longer are related diplo- The breach was over the French word for cat which is and which was used as a pun in three French newspaper articles WITHOUT RESULT Iran's ruler the shah protested through Bodi that he did not like being confused with cats Despite French assurances nothing had been intended his Action Follows by Supreme Court Voiding Allowances cut off relations French officials pondered how to correct what the shah evidently considered an indignity Two ot the puns were recent The other had strained relations between France and Iran before Offense was taken at a line in a Paris newspaper ber 3 in connection with an an- JEFFERSON CITY Dec 31 A of in fire insurance case fees paid three Jefferson City men and voided by the supreme court was asked day in a suit filed in the Cole County Circuit Court The smt filed in the name of M State Insurance Superintendent cat George A S Robertson was pre- recoit en son Majes pared by Attorney General Roy office McKittrick has been an of the fees L H Cook and H P Lauf at- named as custodians and commissioners of impounded funds in the 10 per cent case were sued for each Guy M Sone Cole County Clerk appointed ty the Cat receives in his ing room The shah also considered of f en- sive the title over a layout of tures of the same show also in a Paris newspaper It Quand Le Chat est When is king It was the second time in two years Iran's official displeasure had been aroused by French morous publications relations were badly strained in January 1937 as the result of a quip in a Paris satirical newspaper The Iranian minister was called to report and the shah canceled Iranian participation in the Pans exposition On that occasion the per published a French La nuit tous les chats sont All cats look alike in the dark The French words for cat and FOR ARMIES Battle in Catalonia to Prove Temper of the Government Forces Toughest Troops Wading Into Fray Against Fr an- co's Italian Soldiers of per cent funds was sued for The petition said demands for payment had been made to the three men following the high court but without re- sult Six per cent interest on the money from the date of its re- was asked The fees paid Cook and Lauf were thrown out by the court last April and fees in October The allowances were made by Circuit Judge Nike G Sevier of Cole County Fees totaling paid bert Lamb Salisbury attorney lor Cook and Lauf in the 10 per cent case also were voided by the court Suit to recover this sum was filed previously in Osage County where Lamb now lives T S Mosby Jefferson City attorney for Sone iji the per c eJi t caa e r v ed in fees was not included suit filed today because he has moved to California The if recovered would be restored to the ed 10 per cent and per cent funds for repayment to holders The fee allowances were made from funds the supreme court ruled should go back to the policyholders who paid them in excess premiums New Low-Cost Product to Be Tested Soon by Metro- Newspapers PITTSBURGH Dec 30 GARNER OPPOSES BARKLEY'S PLAN A low-cost newsprint made from i Garner was de- ACTUAL NEUTRALITY Some Businesses County and City Offices office Will Be Closed WASHINGTON Dec 30 IP Rep Maas Minnesota posed today that Congress nate what he a woeful lack of co-ordination between the army and the navy Maas said he planned to duce legislation to repeal the ent neutrality law and substitute enforcement of actual ity My conception of real ity would permit this country to sell anything to anybody except the principals in a formally de- clared he said Enforcement of such a he declared is the only way for us to keep out of war People have forgotten that Britain sanK the first American ships during the World War The allies also prohibited us from trading with neutral countries such as mark When Germany saw Britain getting away with that she began attacking our commerce WILL NOT ISSUE PAPER OVER SCRAP IRON KANSAS CITY Dec 30 The Corporation has sued six railroads and the Western Weighing and Inspection Bureau for damages charging the roads refused to iron intended for the war for less than three times the regular rate The company sought to ship scrap iron from various western points to Houston Tex for water shipment to the Orient It alleged the roads action re- in dissolution of a 000 corporation of which Galamba was a part formed to purchase obsolete tanks throughout the Southwest The suit was filed in federal district court here yesterday LOS ANGELES Dec 30 The airliner crash near here Jan 12 1937 which took the life of Martin Johnson explorer and in- jured his wife Osa was able in the opinion of the super- ior court jury which tried her damage The jury after deliberating most ot yesterday returned a verdict last night in favor of the defendants Western Air Express and United Airport Co JAPANESE BOMB BAPTIST MISSIONS SHANGHAI Dec 30 Southern Baptist headquarters received a telegram today ing Japanese planes had bombed 120 miles north of Canton severely damaging two missionary homes No casualties were reported Americans living in the aged houses were Dr and Mrs R Sunders of Adamsville Term L A Thompson of field Mo and M W Ran kin o ST LOUIS Dec 30 IP The weather apparently is over its case of holiday jitters and may be expected to rise rather rapidly in Missouri during the next day or two The second cold snap since day descended upon the state last night shoving the mercury down to zero in few localities along the northern border At Maryville the low was 3 above and at ville and St Joseph 4 above Other overnight readings Columbia S Kansas City 10 Moberly generally will enjoy a double holiday Sunday and day A majority of business houses here will observe New day on Monday Business will be suspended for the Local federal county and city offices will be closed Banks and the Moberly public library will DC closed The win sue no paper FOR AMENDMENT Senator Frazier to Offer Constitutional Proposal in the Next WASHINGTON Dec 30 Senator Frazier in the face of record re- armament plans to propose in the next congress a constitutional amendment to outlaw war His proposed amendment War for any purpose shall be illegal and neither the United States nor any state territory xx or persons subject to its tion shall declare engage in or f carry on war or other armed a t expedition invasion or un- The postoffice will operate on holiday schedule There will be no J within or without the regular deliveries on either city United States nor shall any funds or rural routes Mail will be dis- patched on all trains from here as usual The postoffice lobby win be open for the convenience oi Diversions for the week-end will include for many an annual round of dances theatre parties private watch parties and family ners marking the conclusion or the Year's iday season Town Handling Its Own Relief Reports Expenses ANTWERP N Dec 30 town of which refused state relief aid under the temporary emergency relief ad- ministration a few years ago ana later turned down WPA help day reported relief expenses for 1938 of Dr W S Perrigo town super- United be raised appropriated or ex- pended for such Associates of the senator who is in Florida said today he be- unsettled international conditions and consequent fear of war would contribute to port for the resolution presses soon Dr F W ter said today The research chemist who de- the paper last spring ter months of experiments dis- closed straw pulp would be made a Pittsburgh plant next week and trucked a Tarentum Pa paper mill Approximately 10 tons of isbed paper be Pennsylvania wheat straw will j authoritatively today as taking an active part in efforts to give local communities more control over expenditure of WPA funds Garner is understood to have told close associates he believed the problem of keeping politics out of relief could be met at least ins part by setting up non- partisan boards in each county These boards would examine misuse of relief mon of discrimination against relief applicants He has told his friends these boards should be purely local agencies appointed by local of- entirely free from WPA control This view differs sharply from that of Senator Barkley who said yesterday he believed if such boards were set up they should be appointed by the WPA Barkley the Democratic floor leader said he never had favored the current practice of having a local certifying agent appointed by a local official accept the re- sponsibility for designating those eligible for relief He said he be- WPA should accept this responsibility Garner Sees Byrnes After hearing of Barkley's Statement Garner conferred with Senator Byrnes floor manager for WPA appropriation burgh newspapers for tests oi tensile strength inking and re- action under speed runs Can Use Other Materials Straw for the pulp was chased from a Pittsburgh grain dealer but Hochstetter said other farm wastes Florida grass seaweed cotton plant stems and a hundred other products could be used satisfactorily As we see it the ist explained A ton of newsprint from straw and similar materials will cost about or a ton That will be I am informed about to less than the lowest prices for wood pulp newsprint Envisioning a new industry from his secret process Dr stetter predicted the manufacture of straw newsprint would con- serve forests by reducing con- sumption of wood pulp help ers dispose of wastes profitably and make available a large ply of cheap newsprint and book paper The Inventor's Flan Hochstetter who is credited with several inventions and ical processes proposes making the pulp and paper in established mills located in belts where waste products are available in cient quantities In his laboratory he converted straw into a snow-white flexible paper in a few hours with simple GENERAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE SPANISH MENT ARMY Dec 30 Government army's first major shah are pronounced and against the Iranian government protested gents was since Sie play on words was launched today a powerful thrust insult by Iranians south of Lerida in the center or fa the aimed at Sarroco three miles behind the enemy lines The wag led by some of the government's est troops and was directed against a sector which is believed to be largely held by co Francisco Franco's Italian troops Government officers said that if the drive reached 12 miles south of Lerida the gents would be compelled to don a large area The drive was watched ly for indications of relative especially of the temper of the Government army now lacking its brigade of in- shock troops Insurgents Smash Through France at the Spanish Dec 30 Spanish Insurgent forces smashed through Government lines today in the Camarasa zone north of the sector on the Lerida front in Catalonia Reports reaching the border said the Insurgents had occupied Camarasa and continued their push toward the village of Cubells in an effort to both highway Vice Favor of Local Control for WPA Expenditures WITH SEN BYRNES WASHINGTON Dec 30 bills Byrnes said later he had not made up his mind on details of relief legislation He called a meeting of the senate relief com- for next Wednesday Byrnes has said previously he believes some specific tion against political coercion of relief employes would be and water communications of troops Military observers said they be- the northern column was attempting to establish contact with the central column which last night blasted its way through the Balaguer Generalissimo Francisco co's troops pierced the strong Camarasa line after 24 hours of hand-to-hand fighting on a yard stretch of frozen land Far to the south however resistance braced after the fall of and border dispatches said Insurgents had been northern province Most closely watched by tary observers the Insurgent column advancing on Artesa in an attempt to join the forces at Camarasa They said fall of Artesa a key industrial village might open to Franco a network of highways far behind the Government's main defense of Eastern Spain slowed down along the borders of Tarragona All Men To Front The Government rushed all available men and guns on the Northern Catalan battlefront to ed in the next WPA the defense of the strategic Artesa tions He also has been ing on a formula by which relief might be apportioned to states PAY COUNTY TAXES Phillip transferred 24 pounds of hard money o County Collector James F mer Tuesday as payment on a current tax to Monroe County Appeal The money neatly put up in rolls consisted of McManama had accumulated at his store in Middle Grove Being quite busy at the time Collector Hohimer took the merchant's word for the number of pennies f i equipment the principal item be- according to need population ing a common household potato area and factors In the house meanwhile members intimated the committee might curb the relief program for the year beginning ricer The straw is treated in a ret way and converted into a ber resembling a fine thread of cellulose of varying lengths en further treatment it becomes pulp which can be rolled made into sheets or slabs preliminary to conversion into paper visor and welfare officer the kept down its he would send them over O Springfield 16 St Loin's 13 and load by having work ready relief applicants In summer said the town offers Jobs West Plains 21 Heavy floating ice was ed in the Missouri river all the way from Kansas City to St Charles and in the Mississippi from Hannibal to Cape Girardeau HIGBEE DOG OWNERS PAY UP CITY TAXES All but one owner in bee has paid the city dog tax on his pet according to the Higbee News A list of all Higbee dog owners who have paid taxes re- cently was filed with the Higbee City Council by Joe Bradley city marshal and the one delinquent owner has been ordered to appear before the Higbee council at a meeting Monday night unless he pays the tax before that time on In winter woodlot op- co-operate by lief labor to cut fuel re- let the cashier Warren do the counting On the same clay a paid his taxes in silver dollars Thus measured in pounds Col- lector Hohimer took in more ey that day than on any other day the entire cost of in many including home relief j A tion and medical He said FOUR TRAINMEN three burials paid for by the town Dr said mcr creased the cost W 1 fA ical aid accounted for one-third of the total REV KEITER TO PREACH AT STURGEON The Rev E Y Keiter will preach at Sturgeon Sunday at the church both morning and evening preaching hours HURT IN ILLINOIS ST LOUIS Dec 30 suffering severe injuries four trainmen were reported re- covering today after a crash late yesterday between two Illinois Central freight trains near issa 111 35 miles east of here A fast banana train smashed in- to the caboose of a halted coal train Six Are Indicted In Election Probe ST LOUIS Dec 30 election officials named yesterday in grand jury indictments ing in connection with the November 8 ballot returns were free on bond today men and two arrested last night and immediately freed on bonds ing from to cers said they declined to make statements All served a-s officials of the 18th precinct of the 21st here The four men all election were named in two indictments charging felonious signing of a statement and sheet prior to completion of the ballot count and with feloniously making a false return Milton Hippler 34 Republican Fred Rehmund 59 Republican Frank Reader 39 Democrat and Loehrer 30 Democrat Their bonds were on each count Miss Elizabeth Berry 44 clerk and Mrs Alvera Republican clerk were with making a false re- of an election were each All were scheduled to appear in circuit court January for ar- July 1 May Order Inquiry Some legislators talked of ting the committee make a discussed investigation of the en- tire relief set-up including any political aspects it may have Such an inquiry they said probably would be delayed until an appropriation to carry relief through June 30 is out of the way Then when the administration makes its recommendations for next year the committee would have to decide whether to con- triangle slowly vanishing under Insurgent Generalissimo Franco's steam-roller offensive The vital road center called a key to lay under the pounding of Insurgent guns from the north and west Pushing slowly across the bloody Balaguer bridgehead tor the Insurgent command sent another column pointing Artesa from the southwest Both high commands appeared convinced possession of the tiny industrial town meant a long stride toward victory or defeat for the insurgents great drive After a day of the terest fighting in the war in which Franco finally cap- tured the southern key town of both forces their efforts on Artesa Throughout the winter night WPA and on what financial the GoVernment launched basis it should operate Some members predicted the committee would surround the re- lief program with restrictions perhaps by earmarking the ey for specific uses and types of projects May Get Right of Way The relief for the er of the current fiscal year may be given right of way over all other legislation in the house Brief hearings are planned as soon as possible after the dent sends up his estimate of the money needed and the sive at Balaguer bridgehead forts wrested from them in the last two days of fighting Early this morning Insurgent advices said the head still was in their hands WEATHER Generally fair night and Saturday Rising Saturday and in west p opr at is and north portions tonight r r I somewhat for the session Committee organization also was a topic of discussion in the senate where the Democratic and Republican leaders Barkley of Kentucky and of Oregon arranged to talk over the tion of giving Republicans in- creased representation on com- Senators and house members are almost every train ready for the opening of Congress next Tuesday day partly cloudy somewhat warmer For Central Fair with rising temperature tonight and Saturday lowest about 16 de- grees Sunday partly cloudy and somewhat warmer Local Weather Data Maximum temperature day 35 minimum 20 Low last night 6 Temperature at this noon
