Moberly Monitor-Index (Newspaper) - January 23, 1940, Moberly, Missouri MOBERLY and MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT 8 Pages VOLUME 21 ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE MISSOURI TUESDAY EVENING JANUARY 23 1940 MONITOR ESTABLISHED INDEX EST 1010 MOBERLY EST NUMBER 172 BRITISH NOT SUFFICIENT State Department Makes Triple Reply to Statement Co-operation Is Lacking ARE New Protest Goes to don in Regard to Exercise of Contraband Control WASHINGTON Jan 23 AP Informed of a British statement that American shippers are tant to cooperate in the British contraband control state ment officials made this triple comment 1 American shippers are to an amazing extent to avoid unpleasant incidents 2 They are not obliged to operate at all 3 Possible lack of cooperation does not excuse the British for undue detention of American ships Officials listed cooperation by shippers as embracing application to British authorities for navigation certificates supplying of their fests lists of cargo by airmail r and giving so-called black dia- mond guarantees which are prom ises not to discharge suspected items of cargo until the British have approved The Navicert The navicert certifies that a British officials in the United States has okayed some or all of the cargo of an American ship leaving an American port on the grounds that it is not contraband and is not destined to Germany K The state department has re- fused to give its official tion to the navicert system effect is a form of tish control exercised within the United States Officials refused to concede that Italian ships are cooperating They said there was no excuse cooperation or not for the British ordering an American -ship to go to Marseille for seized items Marseille is a belligerent port and American ships are for- bidden Under the neutrality act to go to a belligerent port in the European area Secretary Hull said in an aide to Lord Lothian the British ambassador that the erican government feels con- strained to express its serious concern at the treatment by the British authority of American shipping in the Mediterranean area and particularly at tar It asserted there had been dis- crimination against American ships at Gibraltar in that were held more than three times as long as Italian vessels and their cargoes were given less favorable consideration This government must expect that the British government will at least take suitable and prompt measures to bring about an im- mediate correction of this Hull's aide memoire said It will appreciate receiving ad- vices that the situation has been corrected An aide memoire is a formal diplomatic communication The document disclosed the United States had addressed a note to Britain on Nov 20 the legality of the inter- ference No further information about that note could be obtained at the state department There also have been notes to Britain protesting against the British blockade of German ex- ports to the United States inter- ference with American mails and forcing American ships into the combat area Gives An Explanation LONDON Jan A spokesman for the ministry of economic warfare said today that the reluctance of American pers to cooperate in supplying advance information and tees concerning their cargoes was responsible for delays in passing U S ships through British con- traband control stations The spokesman said these tional points figured in the tion Italian ships for the most part carry bulk cargoes whereas erican cargoes often include as many as 300 items thus ing a longer time for tion American ships usually touch at various ports all around the Mediterranean whereas the Italians are going only to Italy Annual Clover and Prosperity Conference Expected to Bring Many Farm Visitors Thursday M F Miller dean of the souri College of Agriculture at Columbia arid A W Klemme soils and crops specialist at the College will be principal ers here Thursday at the annual Randolph County Glover and Prosperity Conference Dean Miller will speak at the annual Rotary Club dinner for ence delegates and Mr Klemme meetings Three hundred or more farmers from all sections of county are expected to attend the ing in which exceptional interest has been evidenced so far ty Agent Glenn C said As in years past a capacity crowd at the Moberly courthouse circuit court room is expected regardless of snowy country roads Approximately 125 persons resenting every school district and various farm organizations and the three county judges been named as delegates to the conference These delegates will Rotary Club at the Merchants Hotel at noon a custom the Rotary Club originated several years ago Attention of the delegates was directed today to the fact the dinner will be at the hotel A previous announcement was that the meeting would be at the Masonic Temple That ment was changed i The complete for the conference Thursday Morning Session Call to order Winifred An- drews conference chairman Welcome J W Wight presiding judge of county court Reading of minutes for 1939 Charles Baker tary Report on The County tion and Progress of the Past County Agent Pittenger Soils and Crop A W Klemme soils and crops ist Adjournment for lunch Lunch will be served at chants Hotel dining room with Dean Miller as the speaker Afternoon Session Producing Hybrid Corn for P B Eubank Harvesting ald Edwards Contour Planting of Corn with Albert Norton Harvesting Sweet Clover With K C Lehmkuhl Planting Corn on Contour and Planting of Black Locust Waldo Littrell Resistance of Hybrid Corn to Chinch I G Wilcox Contour Planting of Joe McLean A large number of attendance awards are to be made at the conference but attendants must register by 11 o'clock to be ible to receive an award REFUND OF LUG UPHELD Kansas City Acted Without Authority in Assessing Employes Court Holds TOR PAY UPHELD Big Sum Is Bankrupt City At- torney Says STARK WILL NOT REVEAL INFORMANT Declines to Identify eral Source Who Told Him About Pendergast MAKES JEFFERSON CITY Jan 23 A P Gov Lloyd C Stark today PER MONTH PENSION ASKED John L Lewis and Miners Would Abolish Payroll Tax and Levy on Big Incomes WOULD REDUCE AGE MINIMUM TO 60 23 President John and JEFFERSON CITY Jan 23 A p The state supreme court held in effect today that Kansas employes were entitled to reclaim thousands of dollars in political lugs whacked from their checks through years of- the ad- ministration of former City ager H F McElroy Voluntary leaves of absence is what the McElroy system called the which netted the city in one- five year period But the supreme v court called them illegally assessed against workers on a basis of paj or It seems wrote Com- missioner Laurence M or of the opinion xxx that the amount of these alleged tions and the times when they should be were fixed by the city that they were on the same basis as campaign con- commonly known as the lug enforceable in the same way and that the men should make them or else His Claim Awarded The opinion ordered the sas City Circuit Court to issue preemptory writ of mandamus in behalf of John C Rothrum er fire department motor driver which will force payment of his claim for deducted from his pay from 1932 1937 In his Appeal Rothrum stated he had applications for i -I jj x Oil I 1 i PROBE ONE YEAR HIS ARGUMENT IN VAIN Continuing Inquiry ter Debate APPROPRIATION TO Committee Both Praised and Assailed May Change Tactics in New Quiz nf of Mine leaves of absence monthly and fro the declined LO of today urged been docked regularly gource he said recently told him that the continuously and Pendergast leaders had sent word from the federal prison cells for machine workers to hold Kansas ity in next month's special tion The governor was asked if he would furnish the name of his federal informant to U S Penal Director James V Bennett I have no comment beyond what already said on the Stark replied Stark made the charge at last week T J gast and several other former eaders of his organization are serving income tax evasion nces in Leavenworth tiary Answers Madden JEFFERSON CITY Jan 23 A Gov Lloyd C Stark said day there was nothing improper or unlawful in any of his con- duct during the time the grand ury which indicted Jackson ty prosecutor W W GraveSs was n session last year John G Madden Graves sel charged yesterday that the had been in contact with rand jurors and said it amounted jury tampering Madden s statement was made during a plea to abate one of the indictments against Graves The prosecutor was indicted by grand jury called by Circuit udge Allen C Southern in 1938 to investigate crime in Jackson The call of the grand jury owed sensational charges of cor- by the had had BIG NEW YORK BUDGET BRINGS ALBANY N Y Jan 23 Gov Herbert H Lehman's posed state budget ing retaining all ent taxes and hiking the personal income levy brought New York legislators face to face today with their most difficult problem Ominous rumblings of tent over the income levy boost were heard among lawmakers Many labeled the recommended new tax unnecessary or feared an exodus of taxable the Vicious Cat Found to Have Rabies The stray house cat which last Saturday attacked Mrs J G Sandison on the porch of her home 623 West Carpenter street was found to have been afflicted with rabies according to tory tests made at Columbia Mrs Sandison is being given a series of serum treatments Police who killed the cat that attacked Mrs Sandison today cautioned persons in the West Carpenter neighborhood to be on the alert for other cats or dogs which might have been bitten by the diseased cat Mrs was resting nicely today but will be confined to her home for several days She was bitten on the ankle and scratched on the legs by the cat which attacked her without ing as she stepped onto the porch after returning home from a grocery ON STATE j s Urban physics Instructor at the Moberly Junior College has beer asked by Byron L fall of faculty of the burg State College to serve on the state curriculum committee on science He will work with the committee on sics studies He received the in- age pensions social security setup be increased to a month from the maximum and that the mini- mum eligibility age be cut to 60 from 65 Social security taxes on pay rolls should be abolished in favor of increased on higher in comes on inheritances and on gifts said the joint report of Lewis Vice-President Philip ray and Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Kennedy to the golden jubilee convention of the U M Under the present taxation method the report said it i obvious the workers pay the whole tax for in addition to their assessments upon the wage employers tax re- sults in higher prices for good which are paid by wage and sal ary workers as consumers Other Suggestions Other That criminal penalties be im- posed on employers who violate the national labor relations act That firms which violate the act be denied government con- tracts That a national system of un- employment insurance be created to replace the various state ups and uniformity of benefits That at least a week in un- employment insurance be paid to all jobless persons until they find suitable payment are now made for a limited ber of That agricultural labor era to agricultural employed special services and casual labor be work m Kansas embraced in the unemployment the time the was m system session That thg g Bureau Of Mines be reorganized and be required to give more attention to the ical welfare of That Congress appropriate more funds for low income ing projects and that the Senate Civil Liberties Committee be con- In Treasury The officers reviewing lems of the industry reported trade agreements with foreign countries had resulted ly for the coal operators and miners The officers reported in the U M W treasury The year 1940 will be crucial for labor the report concluded It is now evident that the ground work is being laid for repressive anti-social legislation Our organization must be in a position to meet every issue and to challenge every adversary Wheat Stores CHICAGO Jan 23 worth more than pawned to the world's most lender Uncle Sam loomed today as a bulky asset on the books of thousands of grain and as an intricate puzzle to many dealers and processors in the grain trade The pawn broker wants his money back and grain men think he will get it with interest But what's to become of the al thus they ask xnay be called at the end of the next two or three months out interruption performed his duties contended the number of days leave designated on cations distributed to all firemen was determined by the city ager and bore the stipulation that any service during the specified time off be wholly voluntary and gratuitous and no compensation shall be paid me therefore It is the opinion said as the city manager ad- mitted the leave of absence ments were not what they say they are1 xxx clearly the arrangement intended was work without pay Entirely Without The court ruled the former city entirely without the power to carry out the tary donation scheme and that the city council could not confer such powers upon him by mere failure to act xxx or even ing to delegate them Present day complexities of government affording public of- greater opportunities for abuse of power make enforce ment of fundamental principles of democratic government more necessary than ever Hyde wrote It is fundamental that a government of laws and not a government of the opinion continued xxx or the people will lose control of their government Government by men who obtain authority of of- fice by what ever whim notion or caprice occurs to them would surely bring about the collapse of free institutions and government of the the opinion said May Bankrupt City KANSAS CITY Jan 23 Frederick B Whitten attorney who carried a fight against the old system of periodic city hall pay cuts to today's successful supreme court conclusions saw in the ruling a possibility of bankruptcy It's too Whitten said It may bankrupt the city But an employee is entitled to his pay arid justice demands that these claims be paid Whitten unsuccessful candidate for mayor in 1938 represented John C former man in the test case in which the supreme court held it was il- legal for city officials to force employees to sign voluntary and go on He said it was his opinion that city employes not be re- for pay cuts after 1937 for in that year the council ed an ordinance the reductions and making the ng of waivers unnecessary MAY WITHDRAW STAND FOR ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON Jan 23 Leaders of the Workers Alliance aid today that since the stration was giving ground on all fronts to the demand of tion the alliance might nullify fs endorsement of a third term or President Jan 23 The House today voted tion of the Dies committee's in- of ties for another year The vote was 345 for continuing the com- to 21 against pi The action came i after two Hours of debate in which the committee was assailed as ing to spread mutual distrust and fear among the common people of America and was praised for its inquiries into various sive groups resolution did not make any funds available for the com- to continue its work That will be handled in a separate measure to be taken up later Up the committee has Opposed Rep Sabath D lead-off man for those critical of the committee said he was opposed because many outstanding men and women have been unfairly sailed criticized and charged with being Communists by the com- The committee headed by Dies D Tex went existence January 3 The resolution revives it until 1941 Rep Allen R 111 was the first speaker for the resolution Dies is ill at his Texas home len declared that during 1939 the second year of the investigation results were and facts were soon out concerning the subversive groups It Can Happen Here Publicity relative to these leaders and their foreign tions their racketeering in money tion of laws were clearly he declared adding that the com- happen here The Senate had under ation meanwhile an emergency defense appropriation which the House and the Senate committee had trimmed to than the ad- original Cuts in other appropriations measures were disclosed when the House Appropriations Com- reduced by the totals of two administration office and a deficiency ure While the House Naval fairs Committee continued its in- of navy expansion Earl Browder Communist leader is shown as he went to court in New York to hear a jury convict him on two counts of fraud in obtaining a He was sentenced to two years in prison and fined on each count Browder pleaded his own case be- fore the jury replacing his attorney George Gordon Battle left REDS TAKE A TERRIFIC DRUBBING Casualties Running Into Thousands Reported as They Again Attack WON'T WAIT FOR SPRING WEATHER Moberly Council to Consider Action as Other Cities Bid Slate Unemployment Offices Ways and means of obtaining the headquarters of the State Un- employment Commission continue to be the main topic before city officials and civic leaders in many Missouri cities with Moberly no exception Chamber of Commerce leaders of Hannibal and Jefferson City met with respective city councils and other officials last night Moberly Commercial Club workers will meet with the mayor arid city council here tomorrow night V Jefferson City the council bond issue posal similar to the voted recently at Sedalia ferson City now has the big com- mission headquarters and is ing every efort to keep the office the capitol city The Hannibal city council Mayor L E Fisher to appoint a committee with power to offer the Missouri ment Compensation Commission a building for a year rental The council agreed the city would provide a building to meet the desires if Hannibal's offer was accepted Necessary funds probably would be raised by a bond issue Discussed By Moberly The directors of the Moberly Commercial Club discussed the question of securing the ployment Commission at a board meeting held bers of that committee presented a report on the visit of Chairman Andrew J Murphy and Harry P Drisler to berly last Wednesday and ex- Moberly plight stand chance if the O'Keefe Building could be offered with the changes necessary to make It suitable to the sion on the same basis Sedalia Jefferson City and now Hannibal are new building with an annual rental oil a year The Commission reported here last week that the O'Keefe ing would serve its purposes with some changes It would take Continued on Page 7 COLD ENDANGERS STREETS ROADS Blisters Already Re- ported in Some Areas No Thaw in Sight gT LOrns Jan 23 need the White disclosed that the prolonged cold weather that President Roosevelt had formed a special mental committee to prevent con- from arising between needs and foreign chases of American military and naval supplies Another Cut Probable The possibility of another tic reduction in the pending fleet expansion program already cut by was raised when Chairman Vinson CD of tlie naval committee asked the navy for plans for a two-year instead of a three-year program He said fewer cruisers and rines would be built if a two-year program wag adopted The House committee the labor board studied the case of one of the review attorneys who said he had tried nothing but an uncontested di- vorce case before he went on the board payroll governors and a representative of the Independent Petroleum appeared before the House Ways and Means tee in opposition to the reciprocal trade treaties Dies Denies Charges A charge that Rep Dies had with a prominent col- laborator of the Christian Front brought prompt denials The accusation against Dies was placed in the Congressional Continued from Page 4 WEATHER f Partly er except in extreme northwest portion tonight Wednesday fair colder Continued cold day and Friday For Central Partly cloudy and colder tonight lowest 4 to 8 degrees above zero Wednesday fair and colder Con- cold Thursday and Friday Local Weather Becord Maximum temperature day 19 minimum 0 Low last night 9 above Temperature at noon 12 Temperature at this after- with heavy ice and snow may result in heavy damage to highways and city streets has been expressed by roaa men throughout the state There is danger of frost ters causing the pavement to buckle whenever frost penetrates about a foot one state highway engineer explained It was said the ground was frozen to a depth of 18 inches some places Some pave were cracked by the action of water which seeped into openings and expanded with freezing v Many large holes constituting St Louis streets Rural schools in Northwest Missouri closed several days be- cause of blocked country roads were reopening this week but the icy weather is still causing woe to farmers in many localities Numerous farms are without water because of frozen ponds and A minimum of 4 below zero was reported at Maryville this morning but above zero prevailed over the re- mainder of the state One three inches of snow fell over the entire southern tion extending from Springfield to Poplar Bluff and St Louis ing the night and it was still snowing this morning The sun was shining over the balance of the state but the fore- cast called for continued cold night and Wednesday with no indication of a general thaw BUYS PARIS PROPERTY PARIS Mo Jan 23 D B Carpenter Saturday purchased the residence property of the late Mrs Mollie Porter on Cooper nue from the estate ter is considering repairs and may later add a basement and CARBON MONOXIDE OVERCOMES TWO Highway Maintenance Em- ployes Found Unconscious in Truck Recovering furnace Daughters For K G Grains HOLLIDAY Mo Jan daughter was born last night to Mr and Mrs R G Grain at their home in the Turner district northwest of here Mr and Mrs Grain have six other noon 10 above girls and two boya Carl Null and James Lusk state highway maintenance em- ployes here are recovering at Cormick Hospital today after ing been overcome by carbon oxide gas fumes about o'clock yesterday afternoon They ably will be hospital patients for two or three Other employes found the two men sitting unconscious in the cab of their state highway truck near the Highway 22 and 63 in- south of Clark They had been engaged in snow al work there yesterday Rushed to the hospital here they had re- gained consciousness by the time they reached the hospital but were still very ill Other workers said they had experienced some trouble from monoxide fumes in the truck in which the two men were working Repairs had been made however and it was believed the trouble had been remedied at 320 Farror street and Lusk at 535 Vz West Reed street SMUGGLED DRUGS WASHING JN Jan 23 Smuggling narcotics have be- come so weak because of promoted alertness of foreign border officials Congress was ad- vised today that many addicts tre unknowingly walked off of the Testifying before a House subcommittee at hearings made public today H J Anslinger commissioner of the narcotics bureau declared that the purity of narcotics today had been reduced to 4 per cent Narcotic addiction has been re- from one person in 400 in 1880 to one in now An- slinger added Losses in Men and Arms Mount High as Finns Beat Off Every Attack By WADE WERNER HELSINKI Jan 23 sian troops trying to break through Finnish defenses east of Lake Ladoga are a terrific punishment Finnish army communique re- ported Casualties were reported to have run into the thousands At one point alone the com- said at in the district the left upward of a thousand dead in the past two days On the Karelian isthmus front artillery action from both sides continued and the war was brought again to Helsinki this afternoon with the approach of Russian bombing planes The planes were driven by Finnish anti-aircraft fire Members of the American gation staff at nearby Grankulla heard the bombers pass but no bombs were dropped there Rovaniemi in North Central Finland an air raid alarms about noon Reports from ern Finland cities are not yet available Red Fleet Damaged According to dispatches from Latvia published in the pers the Russian Baltic fleet has taken heavy punishment in the first eight weeks of the war especially considering the fact that naval activity has been practically frozen up during the past two weeks The Red fleet has lost three a number of ary dispatches said and the October Revolution was damaged in port and the cruiser Kiroff was put out of commission at least for several months v In addition two submarines and four minesweepers are reported to have been sunk by mines On the other hand the fleet has sunk two German and two Finnish vessels one ian merchant ship and also al Estonian fishing boats Russia Won't Wait Cost what it may Soviet sia apparently has determined to crush Finland this winter de- spite springtime promise of easier going by land and air Impelled by a desire either to save military face or win before Finland can get great aid from the west or both the Russian command is risking costly ment on mid- win ter bombing raids and appears to be pressing to at- tach in force on the Karelian and north of- Lake Ladoga Although longer daylight hours and better flying weather is just around the corner such as would serve both land and aerial offensives better than the present bitter cold and short days Red strategists seem unwilling to sit back and take gradual of Russia's numerical ity The Leningrad military quarters last night announced new reconnoitering general skirmishing by land patrols and in a number of areas artillery Dispatches from Estonia across the frozen Gulf of Finland from this beleaguered country also in- the Russians are tvery nerve to before winter CONTINUE FIGHT FOR W W GRAVES KANSAS CITY Jan 23 Attorneys for Prosecutor W W Graves today continued their at- tempt to show outside influences were brought on the grand jury which indicted him for neglect of duty New air bases it was reported lave been built hastily to Red bombers to fly to Finland and back several times daily A Finnish tabulation shows the Russians last week dropped bombs which killed 18 civilians 109 and demolished al hundred buildings mostly dwellings Costly For Observers calculate the cost of he bombs as about equal to the property loss Finland suffered at the out- side But the Russians are said to have lest 36 bombers that is two for each civilian reported killed Moreover the Finns say that in the same Russia lost 108 airmen The Finns announced officially that unfavorable flying weather Monday reduced Russian air ity to relatively feeble efforts in the interior of Finland They said that altogether 400 bombs were dropped in 10 or more localities and that ing to reports thus far only three persons were injured these ly and 10 buildings damaged The most heavily bombed spot was on the northern shore of Lake Ladoga where of- said three bombs fell in the vicinity of a hospital To See Ice Carnival Mr and Mrs Roy Fletcher Mrs Stella Gosney and Clyde Collough will go to St Louis Thursday they will see Sonja Henie in the Ice
