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umsw i I aMuniimjini REG I TKo Weekly Roftotar, Eitobliehed 1807. The lelo Doily Kegieter, Eetobliohed 189T. VOLUME XXXVIII. No. 236 Saeccuor to Tbo Iola Dolly Rjiiter, Tho Iola Doily Roeord.

and Iolo Doily Index. IOLA, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1935. SIX PAGES ROBINSON OF CIRCUS FAME IS DEAD CITY CONSIDERS PRICE for-Water. Coffins Piled High on Banks of Yangtze River Carpenters Unable to Build Boxes Fast Enough to Care for Victims of Flood Which is Known to Have Claimed Tens of Thousands of Persons in China. Morgenthau Will Explain New Tax Measure to Senate Secretary Also Will Be Asked Why Graduated Levies Are Out Program for Fair And Exposition Is Arranged by Board Three Days of Harness Racing and One For Auto Competition Free Grandstand Shows Trained Horses to Perform and Balloon Ascension Included the coffins in the huge number needed Every corpse must be encofflned in accordance with the Chinese belief that the spirits of the dead are doomed to eternal restlessness unless their bodies are decently interred.

Hundreds More Needed. Already 1,500 of these unpainted wooden boxes are stacked along the banks while hundreds of other bodies await the construction of their last receptacles. Hie bodies recovered are believed to represent only a fraction of the total loss of life in the floods as it is known that tens of thousands of victims were trapped inside the walls of cities and behind dikes or swept seaward. Although the peak of the floods was definitely believed past today and the waters were receding sharply, the details of the devastation are only beginning to filter in. Hie Rev.

Adolph Koehler of Nico-lett, returning from a 70-mile journey up the overflowing Han river, said he encountered only one town in that entire distance which escaped inundation. High spots on the dikes and other patches of dry land were literally black with humanity, said the Rev. Mr. Koshler. When we stopped, they crowded around by the hundreds pleading for medicine and food.

"Many of them are subsisting entirely on the occasional watermelons which are floating down the river. Hundreds are ravaged by dyssentery, typhoid, and other epidemic diseases. Deeds of missionary heroism are frequently told by the flood victims. At Chung Hsiang, north of here, an avalanche of water poured into the city with such violence that one survivor thought the end of the world had come. Missionaries saved scores of lives by rescuing victims from treetops and the roofs of submerged houses.

May Call G-Men To Find Missing Power Trust Man Lobby Committee Threatens to Get Hopson at Nearly Any Cost $791,000 Against Bill Fee of $25,000 Also Is Given Patrick Hurleys Law Firm By the Aiaociatod Prwa) Washington, July 30. The senate lobby committee today threatened to arm every United States marshal and federal agent with subpoenas for H. C. Hopson, dominant figure in the Associated Gas and Electric system. Earlier, the committee received evidence that the Associated system had spent $791,000 opposing the utility bill, including a $25,000 fee to the law firm of Patrick J.

Hurley, secretary of war in the Hoover administration. Doesnt Know Whereabouts. The threat was issued by Chairman Black as Fred S. Burroughs, $60,000 a year vice-president, testified again that he did not know Hopsons whereabouts. It would be impossible that a man could be in the United States and not know that the committee wanted Mr.

Hopson, Black said, referring to the widespread publicity given the committees search for the official. "I agree, Burroughs replied. "Somebody can get in touch with him, Black said sharply. If we dont get in touch with him we are going to turn over a supbpoena to every marshal and every other agent of the government. Want Hopson in Person.

Black added that there were some questions that only Hopson could answer, adding emphatically We want him here. Black said Hopson couldnt possibly be ignorant that we wanted him. It puzzles me, Burroughs replied. but I cant understand why he doesnt come because there is nothing to hide. Burroughs protested that the committee agents had not at first attempted to serve a subpoena on Hopson, but had merely asked to see him.

The vice-president said he could give any. information that Hopson could, but when Black asked if the latter had any contact with newspaper publishers or writers. Burroughs agreed he could not answer. He testified, however, that he knew Hopson had sent a telegram to William Randolph Hearst congratulating him for his stand on the administration attacks on all bigness. The figures were presented to the senate lobby committee from a list cf the system's expenditures drawn up by company officials and committee investigators.

Previously company officials had asserted the expenditures against the bill were $700,000. Senator Schwellenbach (D. emphasized the payment Hurley. Replies Tartly. He is the man who is so outraged about what the government is doing, isnt he? Schwellenbach asked.

"I don't know, Im not Mr. Hurleys brother, O. E. Wasser, comptroller of the system, who was testifying, replied tartly. "If you got $25,000 you could be outraged against legislation, couldn't Schwellenbach asked.

You could put on a pretty good show couldnt you? Drouth conditions once more have forced the city to consider the question of what to charge farmers for water they obtain at city mains and haul to their farms for stock and drinking purposes. A delegation of farmers was present at the commission meeting this morning to plead for a return to the 1-cent-a-barrel rate that the city charged during the burning months of July August, and September last year. The commission" took the matter under advisement, promising that they would reduce the price from the present 5 cents a barrel to the lowest price possible, but not promising the 1-cent rate of last year. This figure, they pointed out, was less than the cost of pumping and treating a barrel of water and the city is prevented by law from selling at less than cost of production. They admitted, however, that 5 cents a barrel showed a handsome profit" and indicated the new price would be considerably below that figure.

They plan to announce the new price within a day or two. Iola Movie Houses May Open Earlier Owners and Business Men Protest Sunday Rule Before City Commission The possibility that Iola picture shows may be permitted to open earlier than 9 p. m. on Sundays In the future is seen as the result of discussion and action which took place at the city commission meeting this morning. The subject came up when Ira D.

Kelley explained that last Sunday evening he had felt obliged to start selling tickets about ten minutes before 9 oclock, even though he did not turn on his lights or start his picture, in order to relieve the Jam of about 250 people who blocked the sidewalks in front of the Iola theater and give them a place where they might sit down and be comfortable. Mr. Kelley was accompanied' by several drug store and other business men from around the square who protested that the whole business of making the picture stay closed until after evening church services was nothing more than an annoyance to those who wish to go to shows on Sunday evenings and who do not wish "to stay up until midnight in order to do It, a handicap to their businesses, an irritation to farmers and others in the trade territory. They opined that the religious life of the town was entirely unaffected by whether the shows opened at one hour or another. General discussion among the commissioners and others in the room developed an apparent unanimity of opinion that the present regulation should be liberalized.

Mayor Perham promised that he would put the matter up to the new board of public welfare, which will be organized for action within the week, and ask them to consider a new regulation covering Sunday hours of picture shows. Warren Goes After Brown. Sheriff Clarence Warren went to Mound City today to return Loren Brown, wanted in connection with the robbery June 15 of the Scarborough drug store. Brown was to be turned over to Allen county after witnesses of the $5,000 robbery of the Farmers State bank at Blue Mound failed to identify him as one of the bandits. People Will Decide Upon A Pool Again City Must Decide Whether Or Not It Will Use Federal Grant The much-discussed question of a municipal swimming pool for Iola will immediately be placed squarely before the citizens of the town again, it was decided today at the regular meeting of the city commission.

Citizens will be asked to say whether to give up the $8,200 PWA grant tetill ear-marked in Topeka for an Iola swimming pool and abandon the idea altogether or whether to hold a new bond election that will make enough money available to build the pool with the aid of this grant? The city found itself this morning under the necessity of deciding between these alternatives. A letter from the PWA office in Topeka definitely demanded to know whether Iola is going to use the grant or not. If the city is not going to use it PWA wishes to recind it officially so the money may be allotted elsewhere. Must Have New Bonds. The concensus of legal opinion-the city has received indicates two things: First, the city, absolutely cannot buUd the swimming pool with the present issue of bonds and the present PWA grant.

The two do not equal enough money and even if they did, the validity of the bonds would be open to serious question. Second, a pool can be built by a new bond election without legal strings attached to it and this is the only way' it can be built. The commission hesitated to make the decision between these two choices. In view of the fact that the people of the town at one time did indicate that they were willing to have bonds issued in order for a pool to be built, the commissioners felt they would be arbitrary in telling PWA to take their grant back and thus definitely put an end to the whole thing. On the other hand, they felt that they would be equally arbitrary in spending $350 of city money for another special election on the subject unless they had at least some reasonable assurance that such an election was desired by the people.

So they decided to put the problem up to the citizens of the town and they will do it in these two ways: 1. The subject will be brought up for discussion at the next chamber of commerce meeting- to which everybody will be invited whether a member or not and a vote will be taken as to whether this body would recommend a special election or not. Petitions for Straw Vote 2. Petitions will be placed in each of the drug stores in Iola with the request that they be signed by all who are interested in the subject. Actually they will be "straw ballots" rather than petitions and will be headed as follows: "QUESTION Shall the city hold a new special bond election, not exceeding $30,000.

to provide enough money to build a municipal swimming pool with the aid of the $3,200 PWA grant now available a grant which will be withdrawn if a new election is not held?" Below there will be columns for "yes" votes and for "no" votes and the signatures of those thus expressing their opinion. Any qualified voter of the city will be qualified to vote on these petitions. The city commissioners feel that within a week enough votes will be registered on these petitions, plus the vote taken at the chamber of commerce meeting, to give them a fair idea of the attitude of the town. If that attitude seems definitely to favor another election, they plan to call one at once. If it seems definitely to favor abandoning the whole proposition, they will give the grant back to PWA and forget about it.

Chamber Meets Next Week. The petitions will be available in all the drug stores tomorrow morning and citizens are requested to make use of them promptly. The next regular meeting of the chamber of commerce will be a week from tomorrow at the Portland hotel, unless the executive committee decides to hold a special meeting sometime between now and then. If you miss The Register call 117 or 520 before 7:00 oclock. (By tha Associated Praia) Cincinnati, July 30.

John G. Robinson, 3rd, 62, who until 1916 carried on the circus established by his family 100 years ago, died at his home here today. After disposing of his circus interests In 1916, he was secretary of the United States Playing Card Company here. His death was due to a throat ailment. In the "John Robinson Combined Shows established by his great grandfather, Robinson learned circus management from his grandfather and his father.

In 1916 he disposed of animals and wagons but kept the four famous Robinson military elephants whose drills had delighted thousands. Gillie, the most famous of the four, died soon after at the age of 110 years, and hundreds flooked to the public funeral given here. Her three companions were kept at times at the Cincinnati zoo and at the Robinson farm in the suburbs, vtTiere children flocked to see Indian elephants plowing Ohio acres. Mother and Lover Die as Girl Sleeps Suicide Pact Indicated, in Kansas City Hotel Slayings (By the Aaaociatad Preii) Kansas City, July 30. While her 10-year-old daughter slept in the same room, Mrs.

Iva Mae Stull, 30, of Wichita was shot to death late last night or early today, allegedly by Frank Bohatch, 39, Great Bend, who then killed himself. The child, Catherine Mildred Stull, discovered the bodies when she awoke this morning and notified the management of the Hotel Phillips in which the trio had registered late yesterday. Police said they found a note written by Mrs. Stull and signed by both her and Bohatch which said: Dont blame it on Frank. I wanted it this way.

I got Frank in trouble and he lost his job. Please send my little girl back to Wichita and bury us in the same grave Mrs. Stull had been shot through the left temple and Bohatch through the right temple. Girl Sleeps Through It. The little girl said she was put to bed shortly after 10 p.

m. and did not hear any shots during the night. Police surmised she had been given a sleeping potion. The hotel management said it was unable to locate any guests who had heard the shots. The couple, it reported, registered as Mr.

and Mrs. F. T. Brown and daughter late yesterday. The child told police they had come from Wichita on a bus.

Police said they learned Bohatch' was formerly a farmer who had been working on a highway Job recently. He was discharged last week, they said they learned. Patrolmen John Quinn and Gilbert Hunt, first to reach the room after the child had reported her mother and Bohatch wounded, said they found Mrs. Stull lying face downward on one bed and Bohatch on his back on another. Divorced Three Years.

The child did not learn until later that her mother was dead. Catherine told the officers her father was Edgar Lawrence Stull of Garden City and that he had been divorced from her mother three years. Her mother and Bohatch, she said, "were In love and planned to marry. Questioned at police headquarters, the girl said Bohatch had told her mother that if she would come to Kansas City with him he would buy her a motor car and Jewelry. They Visited a used car place here, she said, and Bohatch left a check as down payment on a car.

Later he began to worry over whether he had sufficient money in the bank to cover the check, she said. 'Talks with Mother. Yesterday evening, the child related, Bohatch called his mother twice at St. Marys hospital here and discussed with her the possibility of the check being short. St.

Marys hospital said it had no patients or employes named Bohatch. The girl told detectives that Bohatch had been visiting her mother for sometime and had been sending her money for a year. Her mother, she said, was formerly employed as a saleswoman in Wichita. Bohatch, police learned was discharged Saturday by the district highway office at Great Bend. He had been married and divorced, they said they learned.

MRS. STEWART DIES Humboldt Woman Had Lived In County 70 Years. Special to The Register) Humboldt, July 30. A resident of Allen county for 70 years, Mrs. Lucy Stewart is dead here at the age of 90.

She had been living with a daughter here for the last several years, and the end came at the daughters home yesterday. The funeral will be held at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday at the home of the daughter, Mrs. J.

H. Hindman, conducted by the Rev. J. A. McAfee of Topeka, and the Rev.

L. D. San-borne of Humboldt. Burial is to be made in Mt. Hope cemetery.

Mrs. Stewart, born in Ohio, came with her parents to Kansas and homesteaded west of Humboldt in 1865. The next year she was married to John Stewart, a Civil war veteran, who died in 1897. She leaves her daughter and a son, O. D.

Stewart, of California, and a Edward Stewart, of Savonburg. (By tha Aivxitted Pi-ms) Hankow, China, July 30. A great pile of rude wooden coffins a veritable mountain of the dead is growing ever higher on the banka of the Yanztze river near here. Red Cross workers are pursuing their grim task of reclaiming the bodies of flood victims swept down from the inundated up-river districts A corps of carpenters Is working feverishly In an effort to provide Former Burlesque Dancer Confesses Mrs. Smith Killed Lang Alone and Unaided She Admits (By thi Associated Prut) Chicago, 111., July 30.

Assistant State's Attorney Charles S. Dougherty today said Mrs. Evelyn Smith, former burlesque dancer, confessed early this morning that -she alone killed Ervin Lang, cut off his legs and with the aid of her Chinese husband, Harry Jung, threw his body into a swamp near Hammond, the morning of July 6. Dougherty said he and Lieut. Thomas Kelly of the states attorney police obtained the admission of the crime in his office after eight hoars of questioning during which Mrs.

Smith was twice confronted by Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, mother-in-law of the slain man, and aliened instigator of the slaying. Finally Confesses. Mrs. Smith at first denied Mrs.

Dunkels purported story that she had hired the former to kill Lang for a fee of $500 of which $100 was paid, Mrs. Dunkel was reported to have said, as a retainer. But, Dougherty said, after Mrs. Smith was brought into the presence of her accuser for the second' time, she made what Dougherty said was a gomplete confession. The assistant states attorney said the alleged confession corroborated almost completely the story he said Mrs.

Dunkel told after her arrest July 10 when she was alleged to have admitted hiring Mrs. Smith to slay her son-in-law because of Jealousy of Lang's attentions to other women since the death of Mrs, DunkeVS daughters in 1934. Invited to Drinking Party. -Mrs. Smith, Dougherty said, told him she had not 'seen Jung since a few hours after the slaying during which, the assistant states attorney CONFESSES V'Os.

'hf' -v jr a. MRS. EVELYN SMITH said Mrs. Smith disclosed, Jung sat In a car in front of her place shaking like a leaf. According to Dougherty, Mrs.

Smith said she and Mrs. Dunkel invited Lang, 28-year-old grocery clerk, to Mrs. Smiths apartment on the night of July 5 and that after he became unconscious from drinking whiskey, Mrs. Dunkel left. Then, Dougherty said the woman admitted she strangled him with a rope.

Boys a Hacksaw. She was then quoted by the officers as saying she left the apartment and purchased a hacksaw at a' nearby hardware store, returned and cut off the victims legs. Mrs. Smith, Dougherty alleged, then called Jung upstairs and together they placed his torso In a trunk and wrapped his legs in a blanket, put the load in Jungs car and drove to near Hammond, and dropped the trunk, blanket, saw and Langs body in a swamp. The pair according to Doughertys recitation of the alleged confessJWll, then separated and Mrs.

Smith went by bus to New York where she was arrested last Saturday. She was returned here by plane yesterday after waiving extradition. Motive Is Suggested. Suspicion was first directed in the case to Mrs. Dunkel by Lang's fiancee who after identifying his body, said that the victims mother-in-law had long been jealous.

Arrested in a hospital where she had undergone a tonsillectomy, Mrs. Dunkel accused Mrs. Smith, Dougherty said. The assistant states attorney would not explain a mystery witness, Andrew Culler, 52, who was taken into custody Just prior to his announcement of the alleged He said Culler, who was questioned for a half hour, was an important material witness, and the key to the case. Hopes to Pass It Saturday Daughton Hopes to Bring Bill Up for House Debate Tomorrow (By the Auociited Pri) Washington, July 30.

The senate finance committee today called Secretary Morgenthau to appear tomorrow to explain the new 275 million dollar tax bill and tell why it docs not contain President Roosevelts suggestions for new graduated corporation income levies and higher surtaxes. This action was taken a short while after the house ways and means committee had formally approved the measure. Chairman Doughton (D-NC) said he hoped to bring it up on the house floor tomorrow for debate. Hearings Started. The senate committee started hearings today.

From L. II. Parker, chief of staff of the Joint congressional committee on taxation, it developed that the house bill measure narrowed the limits of the graduated corporation levy suggested by the executive and contained an excess profits tax because it was thought this was a fairer test of ability to pay. Parker said the surtax increases had been started at $50,000 net income Instead of the 1 million dollar example suggested by Mr. Roosevelt because only around 5 or 6 million dollars in revenue could be raised if the boosts started at the higher figure.

He estimated the yield would be 45 million dollars by lowering the brackets to $50,000. Hopes, for Quick Pasrage. Doughton said if he failed to get the bill up for debate tomorrow it would be taken up "Thursday at the latest. I hope we can get it passed by Saturday, Doughton added. If we dont, we certainly can get it through by Monday.

The bill includes recommendations outlined by President Roosevelt in his message to congress June 19 advocating a "wider distribution of wealth. It embodies new taxes on inheritances and gifts, in addition to those already levied on estates and gifts; Increases taxes on individual incomes and corporation excess profits and graduated levies on corporation net incomes. Republicans Oppose It. Indications were that Republican members of the ways and means committee would file a minority report criticizing the bill because of the contention it would do nothing wofth while toward balancing the budget. Although less than a dozen committeemen were present when the vote was taken, all but one of thq absentees left a proxy.

The resulting vote was 17 to 7, with the Democrats agreeing solidly to approve the bill and the Republicans to oppose it. The only mekiber not recorded was Representative Lamneck (D-Qhlo) who is ill. Effort Fails. There had been forecasts that an attempt would be made in the committee to permit corporations to deduct from their taxable Income gifts made to community chests and charitable organizations not operated for profit. This did not materialize.

Todays committee session lasted less than 15 minutes. Committee Democrats, however, already had spent about two weeks working on the bill in secret sessions from which the Republicans were excluded. GARNETT CCC IN REVOLT Men Balk at Diptheria Quarantine Because Their Officers Do Not Observe It. (By th Auociited Pri) Garnett, July 3C. Revolt flamed in a CCC camp here today as 150 workers broke a diphtheria quarantine because, they raid, their officers got away with it.

Only the pleadings of three county officials at the outskirts of Garnett last night prevented the youths from descending upon the town, bearing the threat of epidemic. County Attorney Merle Lough-ridge agreed with the revolting group that camp officers and men should be treated alike, and said the next officer to break quarantine would be arrested. Eight youths have been arrested for violations. Seven were released under suspended 60-day sentences, but the eighth, who left camp to play centerfield on the Garnett baseball team Sunday, still was In Jail, awaiting hearing today. Loughridge planned to confer today with Dr.

Earle G. Brown, secretary of the state board of health, in an effort to segregate possible diphtheria carriers and lift restrictions on others in camp. County Clippings Savonburg One of the largest crowds was In Savonburg Sunday evening at the union services that we had seen lately. The music was grand. The special numbers were very much appreciated by the audience.

Maple Grove The E. O. West family is moving to the E. T. Max? well farm this feek, A program for the Allen County free fair and Southeast Kansas exposition was outlined at a meeting of the board of directors of the fair association last night.

The program will follow the same general pattern which has proved most successful In years past, and It should be as great a drawing card as any ever offered here. There will be three days of harness racing and one full day of automobile racing with running races added. In addition. there will be a balloon ascension on two and possibly three days, and free entertainment will be offered during the last three days of the fair in front of the grandstand. Entries on Aurnst 26.

The first day of the fair- August 26 will be devoted to making entries and putting finishing touches on the many exhibits. The next three days, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday will be given over almost entirely to the harness horses, with the balloon ascension and parachute drop of Wednesday and Thursday, and possibly on Fridav. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, those in the grandstand and quarterstretch will also be entertained by an exhibition ffancy horsemanship and trained horses which will be staged by a company from Tulsa engaged last night. Auto Racing Friday. The last day of the fair, Friday, will see a full afternoon of automobile racing wiht a number of running horse races interspersed between the motor events.

Paul Klein, of the board of directors, said today that although the automobile program had not been absolutely decided upon, he had every reason to believe that it would be, and that It could be announced. Bill Krause, local automobile racing enthusiast appeared before the board last night and guaranteed to produce at least ten racing machines at the designated time. Today he said that, contrary to procedure in the past, the race meeting will be open to anybody and that the purses will go to the drivers with the fastest time. It has been the custom in other years to contract with an automobile racing syndicate to bring a given number of machines here, hold a given number of races, all given amount of money. Such a course was found necessary at one time due to the fact that it usually produced the required number of cars, although it did not necessarily mean the races were particularly good, since all the cars and drivers came from the same stable, all were paid fixed salaries by the stable owner, and there was no individual incentive to win.

Best Man Will Win. This year, according to Krause, the story will be different. Anybody who can post the necessary entry fee can compete for the prize money, which will be a percentage of the receipts coming from sale of grandstand and bleacher seats, plus Infield admissions. The result will be, Krause said, that there will be more machines and drivers and the races will be faster and more thrilling because each driver will be here to (Continued on Page 6, CoL 2) day. For the past few days Bertram hasn't appeared to be feeling so well.

He has remained Vith his head in a corner. He was off his feed. And then this morning it happened. Bertie crawled right out of his hde! He hunched his back, shook himself, and roared yeep-yeep. His epidermis is now on display at The Register and is causing even more Interest than Bertram himself.

Bertie went into training for the Friday fight Immediately after his transposition from a brown fu7f fellow to one with a rather pretty but hoary pimple outer covering. Manager Bragg went in search of a cockroach for Bert rums mid-day meal. After a long, fruitless hunt he returned to The Register and right in our own back room he found one. Such ignominy! High Class Tarantula. Bertram would take nary a bite at The Register roach, however.

He needs hash fed Insects. The latest entry in the insect display we have here is a youngster brought in from the Steel Products company. He is a long stream-lined exhibit with bullet-like body. He is quite agile but light. He would make a good second for Bertie or he mght be placed in one of the preliminaries to the big battle.

The Iron Works Flash is as nimble as he is speedy. He can do anything from stand on his hind legs to scratch himself under the chin with any one of his eight long legs. He could probably outrun, if not outfight, any similar beast in the country. Remember! The battle of the century will be held Friday in The Registers Long Island sugar bowl. Any and an contenders wll be welcome.

The only strings attached are that The Register win not be responsible for articles left in cars, stolen from coat racks, or from people fainting from excitement. Bertie Will Fight Any And All Comers Friday End Comes for Noted Educator And Journalist (By tha Associated Press) Columbia, July 30. The long, brilliant Journalistic and educational career of Dr. Walter Williams has been ended by death. Dr.

Williams, 71, president of Missouri university until Juiy 1 and founder of its widely known school of Journalism, died at his home here last night after a long Illness. The funeral will be held Wednesday morning, with burial in Columbia cemetery. With Dr. Williams at the time of his death were his second wife, Mrs. Sara Lockwood Williams, author DR.

WALTER WILLIAMS and former journalism school instructor; and two children by a former marriage, Edwin Moss Williams, New York, and Mrs. John F. Rhodes, Kansas City. Dr. Williams career was bound by close ties to journalism from the age of 15, when he obtained his first newspaper Job at Boonville, Mo.

He was a member of the board of curators of the university here and editor of the Columbia Herald in 1908 when he was aked to take charge of the infant school of Journalism. The curriculum he devised has been copied widely. He became president of the university in 1930, and resigned only a month ago due to failing health. Author of a half dozen books devoted principally to journalism and Missouri history. Dr.

Williams also was known as Americas ambassador of good will because of his efforts toward friendly international relations In the course of wide travels. GUARDSMEN CAN TAKE HEAT Not One of 1400 at Whitside in Hospital Yet. Junction City, Kas July 30. (AP) These national guardsmen are a husky lot. Although 1,400 moved into summer camp here Sunday in intense heat, not a one has yet been admitted to the camp hospital and so far the training period for the hospital unit has been just a breeze.

The guardsmen, members of the 60th field artillery brigade, will spend five days at target practice, five days on tactical problem and two' days on a brigade maneuver. Brig. Gen. George H. Wark is commander of the brigade.

f. PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED Chanute Band to Play Concert in Courthouse Park Here Totnor-Nlght. The program to be played here tomorrow night In the courthouse park by the Chanute municipal band was announced today by J. V. Roberts, director of the iola band which trill play in Chanute Thursday evening.

It follows: March, The Legions Emblem. Ragged Rozie. Overture, Jupiters Carnival. Popular, Isle of Capri. Trumpet Quartette, Come Where the Lillies Bloom.

Intermezzo, In a Moonlit Garden. Popular, Lady of Spain. Raggy Trombone. Saxophone Quartette, selected. March, Quality Plus.

Descriptive, A hunting soene. Popular, Clouds. March, Home Coming. TO QUESTION BANDITS Wint Smith and Iowa Officers to Determine Future For Three Soapecta. (By th Auociited Preaa) Topeka, July 30.

Wlnt Smith, director of the state highway patrol, and Iowa officers went to the state penitentiary at Lansing today to question three bandit suspects held there concerning a bank robbery at Sergeant Bluff, la: Smith said it would be determined this afternoon at Lansing whether to return the men to Iowa for trial or to hold them to face robbery charges in Kansas. They also are sought by Michigan officers to face a murder charge at Saginaw. The men, arrested at Sabetha, Kas Sunday gave the names of Howard Vernon, 26, Falrbury, John Meade, 19, and lirry Kruse, 21, of Sioux City. Bertie Is ready to fight! The Register this afternoon signed Addison Bragg and Bertram the tarantula to a contract calling for a 15-round battle for the heavyweight Insect championship of Allen county. The fight will take place Friday morning, August 2, in a sugar bowl on a Register counter.

The Madison Square Garden corporation tried to sign Bragg and Bertram for the fight but The Registers promoter had priority rights by virtue of an oral agreement with Bragg and so the battle of the century will be staged right in The Register office in a sugar bowl instead of in the Long Island bowl. No Challenge Yet. There is no opponent for Bertie at the moment. But that problem should be easy. Its a big year for insects.

Bertie and Bragg signed for 40 per cent of the gate receipts and 20 per cent will go to the challenger. Overhead expense and government tax will soak up the rest. Any good and strong, healthy-looklng Allen county insect is eligible for a crack at Braggs Bertram. And, goodness gracious! there are enough of them. Many have been brought into The Register office but only two have survived.

They win be pitted against Bertram if no more formidable opponents are brought in. But search hard and long. For what glory to the winner! Vaudeville performances, movie contracts, advertising contracts, and universal fame! To Weigh in Thursday. Entries must be In by 6 p. Thursday.

Weighing in will be done then. All the reason for Braggs sudden decision to send Bertram to the battle was an incident which took place la Berties place of confinement to The Weather Fair KANSAS Generally fair tonight and Wednesday, except possibly local thundershowers this afternoon or tonight north portion; not so warm northeast portion. Temperature Highest for the 24 hours ending 5 p. m. yesterday, 98; lowest last night, 74; normal for today, 79; excess yesterday, excess since January 1, 478 degrees; this date last year, highest, 99; lowest, '65.

Precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 7 a. m. today. total for this year to date, 28.22; excess since January 1, 5.09 inches. Barometer reduced to sea level, 30.03 Inches.

Sunrise, 5:23 a. set, 7:34 p. m..