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Page 2 OF QEPOTY Man Charged With Crime At Wit. Sterling' Ky. Faces Prospect of Fighting For His Life- MT. STERLING, Nov. 19-AP)--Although Prosecuting attorneys did not ask prospective jurors the usual question regarding their attitude toward capital punishment, the commonwealth plans to seek the death penalty in the case of William Burnett, Harlan County coal miner on trial here on a charge of slaying Jesse Pace, Harlan deputy sheriff.

"No, we didn't ask that question J. B. Snyder of the state's counsel, said before the opening of court to-! day, "but we still have the right to demand the death penalty for I Burnett," Asked if the commonwealth actually would demand it he replied, "Yes, we will." The jury was selected and fourteen witnesses heard at day and night sessions yesterday, leaving only six prosecution witnesses to be heard today. One of these was heard-yesterday, but the state has decided to recall him. Burnett is charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Deputy Pace at Evarts, Harlon County, April 17.

Pace was slain when he and other deputies wenfc to Evarts to arrest several men on charges of banding and confederating. Eleven other men are to be tried here on murder charges arising from a gun battle at Evarts a month later in which four men were killed. JEFFERSON CITY POST-TRIBUNE HOLD SUICIDE THEORY IN PRINCIPAL'S DEATH WINPIELD, Nov. 19-(AP) --Discovery that W. w.

42, superintendent of the Schools, had purchased the revolver found near his body on the high school grounds Tuesday -nighi. led officers today to the belief the school man committed suicide. Identification of the revolver as one purchased by McConncll at 4 P. M. on the day of his death, was made by H.

C. Linekohl, Arkansas City pawnbroker. The pawnbroker said McConr.ell had informed him he was doing much night driving and needed the weapon. McConnell died of a bullet wound in the head. Financial reversed constituted the only motive for suicide investigators could ascribe.

SEC, HYDE M. IMEETING ST HM5SELHLE INDEPENDENCE BANK TO PAY OUT IN FULL KANSAS CITY, Nov. 19--(AP)-The Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Independence, announced today it intended to pay all of its depositors in full and quit business. The liquidation, Walter L. Yost, president, said in a statement is being made because of general business conditions.

L. J. Mulligan of the state bank department, who approved the method of liquidation proposed said the Independence bank is the first in the history of Missouri as far as he knows that has met such a situation by voluntary liquidation, immediately paying depositors. REFUSES ON ROBBERY PROBE LINCOLN, Nov. 19--CAP)-Max Towle, county attorney, returned today from Buffalo and Chicago where he investigated an alibi An excellent program was enjoyed at the annual meeting of the M.

P. A. and the W. P. F.

A. at RussellvUle last Saturday. Miss Kate Lammert, state secretary of the W. P. P.

was speaker for the women's group, and J. D. Schindler, vice-president of the M. F. gave an excellent address to the men's group.

The M. F. A. elected the following officers for the ensuing year- President, P. J.

Opel; vice-president, H. L. Heidbreder, while the women's branch of the organization re-elected Mrs. Grace Wetzel president, and Mrs. A.

A. Raithel vice-president. The resolutions committee, com- posd of E. S. Bond, Adam Jahries, P.

J. Holzer, Mrs. Ethel Murry, Mrs. Laura Kraus and Mrs. Louisa Heidbreder, made the following recommendations: That all possible effort be made to put the Producers Contract, in effect at the earliest possible date; that thanks be extended to the business men of Russellville for their support of the M.

P. A. and to the ladies of the Baptist Church for the use of the church for lunch. Especial thanks was voted to President Opel and Secretary Henry Gratz, of the M. F.

and to Mrs. Wetzel, president, and Mrs Raithel, secretary, of the W. P. p. also to the speakers for their excellent addresses.

The two organizations commended William Hirth, state president of the M. W. A. for his excellent work in behalf of the farmers. Members of the two organizations were urged to make a study of all candidates, county, state and national, and to support such candidates as are interested in the welfare of farmers.

TELLS OF NARROW ESCAPE FROM ELK SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 19-; (AP)--A story of how, pinned to earth by the horns of an 800 pound elk, he lay quietly until the wounded animal bled to death, was relat- Although There Were Fewer Farms In 1930, Report Show 15,000,000 More Acres In Crops. CHICAGO, Nov. 19-- CAP)--Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Hyde opened the Land Utilization conference today with an admonition that the "pathos and problems" in farm lands emphasized the immediate need for a long time program. Called by Secretary Hyde and the Association of Land Grant Colleges the conference was a frank admission that too much land was under i cultivation.

"There is both dynamite and en! lightenment," the secretary said, "in the fact that there were 84,000 few- i farms in 1930 than in 1925 but a there were 15,000,000 more acres in crops. The 365,000,000 acres more than our cultivated area 1909, and larger than the war time peak of 1919." The need for the conference, Secretary Hyde said, "Lies in the vast waste of human and material resources now taking place in our rural areas." A start must be made some time, he said, and "no program which we can conceive will immediately cure the present emergency. But the present emergency emphasizes the need for a start." Whatever recommendations were forthcoming from the land conference were expected to form the ground work for state and nationa; legislation to remedy over production, farm abandonment and the maladjustment of crops. THE "PEEplfouF CASE TO THE JURY MORGANTOWN, Va Nov 19 --CAP)--The "Peep case' of Professor j. West, 50, charged with misconduct in his associations with Miss Esther Williams, 27 a teacher in the Morgantown High School, was expected to go to the jury today.

The defense rested its case yesterday Miss Williams was one of the last witnesses. She denied she had been guilty of improper conduct Dr. west's office, as testified by Percy H. Smith, night watchman, a state witness, who said he watched the two in the room through a peep-hole cut in the floor of the room above. SEARCH FOR BOY, 15, AND MISSING AUTO ST.

LOUIS, Nov. 19--(AP)--A search was on today by police for Max Hafner, 15, who disappeared yesterday along with a 1918 touring car in which he was lying asleep. The boy is the son of Rupert Hafner, operator of the St. Louis Art Metal Works, and yesterday Max went riding with Louis Rust, a hardware who stays at the i a I AarWc 1 Hafner home. Bust stopped at a i Leaders KfArpi loQ VlMrr 7ST I A J- IX rtf -tic.

iiivcongdicu HH d-llDi tiiiiiiidi. cu UtXiLfll, rcitlL- of Gus Winkler, Chicago gangster, ed here today by W. C-- Bingham. Vi Si vcyjarl tuifVi i-'ho CO Tirnr. charged with the 52,500,000 Lincoln National Bank and Trust Company robbery, who has offered to obtain and return $600,000 worth of bonds taken in the holdup if his alibi is established and the charge dropped.

Bingham was. separated from his hunting partner when he sighted the animal high up in the Wasatch Mountains south of here. He had only one bullet left but he fired and wounded the elk in the neck Towle had nothing to say regard- i It charged and knocked him over ing his investigation and indicated the snow with its horns Btag- he would make no statement today ham protected from injury bv his i- WESTMINSTER TEAM WILL DEBATE OXFORD FULTON, Nov. 19--(AP) -Charles Arbuthnot of Joplin, and Joseph Bachelder of Chicago, members of the debate squad at Westminster College here, will meet the Oxford University team from Oxford, England, which is making a tour of the united States, tomorrow night. The debate will be staged in Swope Chapel at Westminster.

The question will be "Resolved That American Civilization is a Greater Menace to the World Than That of Russia." Westminster will take the negative side of the questions. The regular debating season at Westminster will not open until in March. POSTPONE BARNETT TRIAL AT SAPULPA SAPLUPA, Nov. 13--(AP)-The county court hearing on the apparent attempt of Jackson Barnett, aged Indian incompetent, to give a friend $1,000,000 was postponed for the second time today by inability of one of the attorneys to appear. Judge Carl J.

Hughes continued the hearing "until such time as the attorneys agree" to hear his ruling on a motion to quash the petition of J. B. Walker, Joplin, former Tulsan, that he be given the money His claim is based on a letter purported to have been signed by Barnett with his thumb print. Barnett' guardian has protested the petition SEN, JOHNSoiSTsAYS TO "QUIT KIDDING HIM' CHICAGO Nov. States Senator Hiram Johnson told iterviewers today to "quit kidding' him about being a possible candidate for presidential nomination out He had one definite assertion to make regarding the coming cam.

psign. It was this: "The. decision of Mr. Ccolidge not to become a candidate next year entitles him to the highest praise of the American people. If Mr.

Hoover were to make i like decision he would have the undying gratitude of the rank and file of the Republican he One reporter thought he might have misunderstood. The California Senator wrote it out for him and said "and I'll stand by it," as signed his name. collapsed. the LINDBERGH IN GEORGIA ON FLIGHT TO SOUTH SAVANNAH, Nov. 19--(AP) --Colonel Charles A.

Lindbergh landed at the Municipal airport this afternoon enroute from New York to Miami to pilot the American Clipper, world's largest amphibian airplane, from that city to South America on its initial passenger fUght. Lindbergh took off at 3:11 p. m. Eastern Standard time, after taking on 101 gallons of gasoline. He said he was headed for Miami and did not announce any other stops.

FARM HAND KLLED IN SPRINGFIELD HOME SPRINGFIELD, Nov 19-(AP)--Lucius Wood, 22-year-old farm-hand, was shot and killed last night during a struggle with Tom Tombro, middle-aged storekeeper, in Tombro's home five miles south of Springfield. Tombro said Wood a former employe, hid in his home and attacked him when he entered after closing his store. County authorities found nothing to disprove Tombro's story of self defense and announced no charges would be filed. GRAPE PRODUCTS CO. DROPS APPEALED CASE KANSAS CITY, Nov.

19--(AP) -The Ukiah Grape Products Company, of New York, dropped its appeal today from conviction on a charge of violating the national prohibitory law in the sale of grape concentrate and paid fine of $700. Leslie J. Lyons, attorney for the corporation, also paid a fine of $250 assessed against Albert E. Brunett manager of the Ukiah Kansas City office at the time prohibition agents seized some of the company's product. Lyons said the company accepted as final the decision of Federal Judge Merrill E.

Otis that the sale of grape concentrate for wine making is unlawful. The formula under which the grape conventrate involved in the charges was manufactured would be abandoned he added. ROBOT PILOT MAKES REGULAR AIRLINE HOP NEW YORK, Nov. 19-(AP)--An air liner with Robot for a pilot was progressing steadily southward today, carrying newspapermen. The flight officially placed the automatic pilot in service on larger planes of eastern air transport The Robot supplements the work of the human pilot, taking over guidance of the plane wherever the pilot wishes.

IS aEse nser plane, which left Newark this morning, was maKing its regular run to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Raleigh, Florence, Charleston, Savannah and Jacksonville. OPEN CONVENTION KANSAS CITY, Nov. 19--(AP)-The two-day annual convention of the Missouri Fraternal Congress representing 21 beneficiary groups selling life insurance in Missouri opened here today. GLORIFYING YOURSELF. BY ALICIA HART CHQ3Q BY NE ERVICE.INC New coiffures bring foreheads into such prominence that they must be fair or not do their bit or your reputation for beauty.

Many women rouge with care and use lipstick with restraint and taste and ever make-up their eyes cleevrly and then ruin it all by neglecting their foreheads. There are new powders made especially for foreheads and chins tones just a little lighter than the cheek powder of the same colo- and make. Before you dust on your powder and pat it in with your-puff, try using a foundation cream that will insure its sticking, If you have wrinkles your torenead, you can disguise them bv cever make-up. The right kind. Of cream does much to fill the ruts even.

By using powder carefully you can achieve a placid brow which these harrowing times it is a distinct asset to any woman ou have a ref ernce for neaitny bloom on your cheeks do not make the mistake of havln? your forehead stony white, it may be improved by the least little bit of rouge itself, along with your cmn, for in make-up for foreheads you should always remember your cnm, too. It needs practically the same effort expended that your forehead does. Be sure to powder your forehead flush with your hairline, if you haven't the wrapped-hair habit making up your face cultivate it. Tie a towel or bands of gauze or some Irfnd of a band around your hair pulling it all back. Then you can be sure not smear your hair with cream or luust it with powder.

Moreover, your whole forehead reveal- you can do a much more thor- i Ol gh job of make-ujo. store, leaving Max asleep on the rear seat. When he came out Max and the car were gone. The boy cannot drive, his father said. No one could be found who saw the machine driven away.

Max is 5 feet, 3 inches tall, 1 weighs 140 pounds, has brown hair blue eyes and a small, scar on his forehead. His clothing included overalls, a blue coat and 'tan cap. CHILDREN By Olive Barton When do you do your best work? When someone says you are no good, or when your sensitive ear catches a little word of praise? A few people work better under pressure, it 15 true, but these are lazy drones who need to be driven The rank and file do better the other way--it is almost safe to say that every one would do so had he not been taught the language of force too soon. Lazy people usually are not indolent from temperament, but because they are discouraged. Praise never interfered with discipline yet, if the discipline was right.

"I can't say a kind word to Tommy because if I advantage of rne' do he takes Something wrong here, I should say. To begin with, a little child only learns by trying himself out. He does nearly everything wrong, but that doesn't matter. What needs praise is the effort to attempt it at Sill. He builds an awkward house of blocks.

It has no meaning or design, just two or three blocks jumbled in a heap. X)on't say, "No no, Tommy, that's not the way!" and take the blocks and build a spanking ship castle yourself to show him how. If you do he may not try again for a long time. Spurred On by Praise. Instead say, "That's the boy! What a nice house! You must build another and show daddy what is boy can do." Or perhaps he wants to give a mend a present, for strangely enough there is a period in Jate babyhood when generosity suddenly sprouts without any urging Per- a Cracker Un Thomas finds and gives to his little friend.

rt, Uel or spiUs cr all over the floor and Tommy drops SSv. are 00 "Why don't you say 'That was a good boy, son, to Jimmy a nice cracker," instead of shouting, "You bad boy, making so much airt all over my clean floor!" As Tommy is bound to do almost everything wrong and very little right-- according to your point of view-- he won't hear much good of nunself. His days wiffl be filled with bad boys!" and "dont's!" By the he is ten, he can do the things he couldn't manage at m'p' I 6 of course Bu here life hands him another blow He cannot get his lessons right he Cl Se doors he ties his He learnta orderli- of course, but such a little bit at a tune. Like the block house it wont come all at once. A.re his days still to be filled with "dont's and you bre True he is old enough to reason sant fTT; nagging Md con stant fault-finding are not the right sort of help to give, praise where praise is due and often where It te not is a far better plan.

He will keep his seLf respect and try to Hve up to even a fictitious reputation. BILL ACCEPTABLE WASHINGTON, Nov. 19--fAP)-- ering At Kansas City To Perfect Missouri State Organization. KANSAS CITY, Nov. 19--(AP)-Talk of Theodore Gary as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Missouri was heard here today as party leaders gathered in the interest of organization.

Although the financier made no comment, it. was indicated by prominent party members that he had been "felt out" and had not decided against the suggestion that he become a candidate. Dr. E. B.

Clements, Republican national committeeman for Missouri, of Macon, Mr. Gary's home, and Arthur Curtis, Springfield! chairman of the Republican State Committee, said they were here solely in the interest of party organization and that candidates had not been discussed formally in conferences. In addition to Dr. Clements and Curtis, prominent Republicans present in Kansas City during the past twenty-four hours include Arthur M. Hyde, former governor and now secretary of Agriculture; William Fhares of Maryville, member of the State Highway Commission and former chairman of the state committee; Joseph B.

Thompson, state superintendent of insurance; Philley and Grant Althouse of St" Joseph; T. J. Brown of Jefferson Cjty, former chairman of the Public Service Commission, and C. P. Anderson of- efferson City.

FARMERS UNION FOR FARM BOARD PROBE DES MOINES, Nov. 19--(AP) --An immediate inquiry into the activities of the Federal Farm Board was asked last night by the National Farmers Union. The request was made in a resolution adopted at the union's convention, which adjourned early son of Oklahoma City as president BASEBALL SALARIES BEING THREATENED CHICAGO, NovT 19--f AP)--The opening shot of Hie long feared campaign to trim oaseball salaries nas been fired on the American Association front. Taking the initiative of the Movement, club owners of the American Association coday considered of the most drastic wage cuts years. Several others, including the major leagues, were expected to follow suit in greater or lesser degrees.

Under the present American Association proposal, the maximum player salary would be limited to' a maximum of $600 monthly. For years scores of former major leaguers roamed around the Class AA league with salaries close to the ones they received for big time baseball, 1MHN KILLS LOTER NICE, France, Nov. 19--(AP)-The greatest temporal and spiritual houses in Islam were welded today with the wedding of the two sons of the Nizam of Hyderabad to the daughter and neice of the banished Caliph of Turkey. Prince Azam Jah, eldest son of the Nizam and heir to his enormous fortune, was married in a religious ceremony to Princess Durai Shehvar, the former Caliph's daughter. The younger son, Prince Moazzam Jah, was wedded to Nilu- far Hanin Sultana, the niece.

The elite of the Riviera's moslem colony was in attendance. The rites occupied only ten minutes. The Princes, arriving in luxurious motorcars and accompanied by six Indian officers, went to the second floor of the Carabacel Palace and descended arm in aim with their fiancees. The aged ex- Caliph read two prayers before the kneeling couples and the bond: were" tied. Another and more elaborate cere mony will take place in India some.

time this winter. ATTORNEY APPOINTED TO BANK RECEIVER SEDALIA, Nov. 19--(AP) Alfred L. Shortridge, Sedalia attorney, today was appointed attorney for the receiver in charge of the Cfciizens National Bank, which has been closed since November 2. Edwin S.

Coombs is receiver. IE I ID THE Thursday, November 19, 1931 1st Anniversary Sale -at THE LOUIDA SHOP 310 Jefferson KANSAS CITY, Nov. he threatened to take her -et Pekingese "for a ride" police Milton Smith, 28, was shot to death today by his 21-year-old weetheart. Hazel Blacketer. Miss Blacketer quoted by po- -ice as saying Smith accused her of loving "Snooks" more than she oved him.

He started to leave her apartment, she said, taking the dog which he threatened to kill. With Snooks cuddled under her fur coat, Miss Blacketer, sitting at police headquarters said: "Im sorry I shot him. But he nad no business threatening my dog that way." Smith was shot after he reached the entrance of the apartment house where Miss Blacketer, known to police as "Bubbles," said they had lived together for eighteen months. She was quoted as saying the quarrel over the dog started after she had taken a pint bottle of whiskey away from Smith and broken it, after his early morning return to their apartment. Smith's home, the girl said, was latan, in Platte County.

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MINNEAPOLIS. MINN, ST. PAUL, Nov. 19--(AP)--Executives of three railroads serving this area today said efforts were being made to have employes accept a voluntary reduction in wages until business improved. Representatives of the' Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Chicago, St.

Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha lines said workers organizations would express the sentiment of employes before action was taken. DOMING" FREE Rinso Lifebuoy Soap and valuable coupons KR An N) -NATURE'S RENEDT i Tablet--will promptly start the needed bowel action, clear waste 'and poison from yone eye tern, and bring welcome rslief at once. The mild. cafe, all-vegetable lasa- tive. Tryit-25c.

ALRIOHT. The All' Vegetable Laxative glV Quick reViel WAKE UP YOU! LIVER BILE-? WITHOUT CALOMELJ And You'll Jump Got of Bed in' the Morning Raria' to Go If you BOUT and sunk and the worid looks punk, don'fc swallow a lot of salts, mineral water, oil, Ia3cative candy or chewing utuauicii uu, ur gum and expect them to make you suddenly sweet and buoyant and full of sunshine. For they can't do it. They only move the bowels and a mere movement doesn't get the cause. The reason for your down-and-out feeling is your liver.

It should pour out two pounds liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It iust decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You a thick, bad taste and your breath is icml.

Bkia often breaks out in blemishes. Your head aches and you feel down and oat. Your whole system is poisoned. It takes those gooci, old CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you feel "up and up." They contain wonderful, harmless, gentle vegetable extracts, amazing when it comes to making the bile flow freely. But don't ask for liver pills.

Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills. Look for the name Carter's Little Liver Pills on the red label. Resent a 25c at all stores. C. M.

Ca. tax me frame by the House Democrats In expressing this belief to' the Watson took into consfdera! on the fact that revenue legislation must originate in the House probably be co trolled by the Democrats while the ffir h3Ve a scant ma jonty in the Senate. A A OF COMMERCIAL APPEAL NASHVILLE, Nov. 19(AP)-- Approval for the sale of all the outstanding capital stock of the Memphis commercial Appeal inS to federal receivers for the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company of Minneapolis, was given today by Chancellor James B. Newman POPE'S FOR CUT RATE DRUGS Cut Rate Every Day Phone 34 Free Delivery Hawes tjoal Co.

Better Coal for the Money Phone 1255 "Office Over Radke's" COMPANY $-10 EAST HIGH JEFFERSON CITY, MO. 308-10 EAST HIGH THIS AUCTION IS SALE Yours, because you don't pay any particular price set by the mer chant, but positively select the pieces you desire. Then buy them for the price you wish to pay. Come! Attend every auction. Hundreds of our friends have purchased the pieces they needed at ridiculously low prices.

You too can supply your own needs at the lowest price of your So don't delay but at tend this Great Auction at once. FREE GIFTS Walther-Wpore.

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