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C. C. TEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS MUSCATINE, IOWA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1937 14 Lose Lives in Series of Iowa Automobile Accidents Deg Moines, Ia wAy fatality toll today surged met tragic death. The 14 highway figure to 348, four more than persons were victims of highway -Iowa's heavy week-end highto 14 as seven more persons fatalities sent the year's the 1936 figure. Nineteen accidents during the of highway accidents THE VICTIMS: Mrs.

Jack Gaston of Mr. and Burlington and their four-yearold child. Grace for Backus, the Gaston children. maid employed to Mrs. care: 'Ben H.

Bail of Highland victim of a crash near Park, Grand Mound. C. Coombs, 24, Davenport trucker, burned to death. Mrs. Norman Finnestad, 30, of Graettinger.

27, Whitlemore Peter. Morgen, farmer. Duane Finnestad. 3. Oakland.

Graettinger. Junior George Connett, 10, Indianola. 65, Duane 5, Cedar Falls. William. Buenze, 75, Battle Creek.

George Van Dee, 30, Iowa Mrs. City. Others Injured: Mergen and the Finnestad were killed. in a collision Emmetsburg, Five youngster near other Martin persons died of injuries suffered were injured. he was pinned beneath a when truck after a tire blew out.

The Connent boy was fatally injured and four other persons hurt in a collision on the were southern outskirts of Des Moines. Duane Creighton was struck by machine driven by D. E. Briner a of Waterloo and died Sunday night. Buenze was fatally injured when the car he was driving crashed into a car driven Charles Sharp, 30, a Fort Des Moines soldier.

Sharp escaped with minor injuries, but his aunt, Mrs. Cora Dean of Des Moines. was critically injured in the crash. Van Dee's neck was broken and she died in an Iowa City hospital after the car in which she was riding overturned. There were six other automobile fatalities earlier last week.

week. four passengers in Killed or dying train near DeWitt; a Daventoday were persons, a car. rammed by a death in his cab; a Highland Park, freight port trucker, burned to head-on crash, and a Graettinger, 11., woman, victim of a in an accident near Emmetsburg. woman, third to die Driver Dies When Fire Sweeps Cab Ill. -(P)- A driver, Hamilton, identified as C.

C. Coombs, 24, of Cedar Rapids, died in the wreckage of his large flaming the outskirts of trailor-truck on Hamilton Alone In Cab. alone in the cab Coombs was smashed into the rear of. a and light coupe: which for a railroad: crossing. The truck posi- folded together in a jack-knife.

gasoline caught fire altion and most immediately. and volunteer rescue Firemen forced to wait unworkers. were flames subsided betil the hot were able to lift the fore they from the cab and extricate trailer the trailer was loaded with driver's body. The beer bottles and Coombs empty taking them to was brewery apparently at St. Louis.

A the the of the truck inname on owned by R. J. side dicated it was Minor of. Cedar Rapids. Solomon B.

Smith, of Dallas driver of the coupe, City, he heard a said that he thought train as he approached the crossing and brought his car to a stop. long grade to the The truck, speeding down into the rear of his the tracks, plowed did Little damage to its car but taken 10 his home, driver's compartment. Smith from shock and minor was and bruises. He was also suffering cuts alone in his car. Rescue Efforts Futile.

who arrived at the Persons after. the crash, said scene soon that Smith told them he made. Coombs a futile attempt to free from the wreckage. The trapped driver was conscious and picading for help as flaming spread over the cab, trailer, crushfuel cd beneath the loaded Smith was quoted as relating. Trambarger, who Clarence was in his home a short distance scene.

said that he heard Coombs'. screams. Everett Walker, who was milking a cow in a nearby field, heard the crash and saw 1h: flamer. He called the. Hamilton fire department but efforts to extinguish the fire were useless.

Impaled on Wheel. Paul Hanerhoff. Hamilton Mortician. said. that no medical- examination, had.

been made of the charred body, and that Coombs he died was unable to state flames if. suffocated him. before the Ha said that parts of the steering wheel had impaled the truck driver's left side and that it adneared that both the fire and In: The railroad tracks are in a low juries contributed to his valley at the edge of Hamilton to and the highway approaches crossing are steep grades. Residents coast here say speed that many trucks high down one hill to aid 1be them. other in climbing the 'one on side of the tracks.

The body was being held at the Hanerhoff- funeral- home here vending contact with members of his family. Damage Slight in Blaze at Capitol Washington (AP). -Investigators attributed: to burning cigaret-or fire faulty, in the temporary east. portico wiring of today the capitol Sunday. Nothing burned except a of cork slabs intended for insulating a new aircooling system Four Killed When Train Strikes Car Clinton, -(P)- Four persons were killed and 'one injured about 9 o'clock this morning at Gambril, four miles south of De Witt on highway 61 when their car: was struck by a Rock Island railroad freight train, The dead: Jack Gaston, Summer road.

Burlington; Mrs. Gaston, one. of their twin daughters, and Grace Backus, maid employed to care for the Gaston children. The other Gaston twin was seriously hurt. The automobile was crushed under the train which traveled about 350 feet after striking the car.

Three of thine bodies were mangled beneath. engine and it took more than an hour to extricate them. Er.gineer Meeker of Cedar Rapids said the Gaston car was traveling at terrific speed when it drove in front of his engine. "I never saw an automobile going any faster," he commented. Several persons who witnessed the crash supported Meeker's statement.

Davenport immediate ident-. ification of the small twin girls was not possible owing to. the condition of the surviving girl. in a hospital there. She is sulfering from, a scalp wound, broken right above the knee and severe bruises.

Her condition was reported at noon as Mr. and Mrs. Gaston operated the Curley Inn Beauty Shop in Burlington. The twins were named Jacqueline and Joyce. Had Been on Fishing Trip.

The family left Burlington a week ago for a fishing trip in Minnesota and was enroute home at the time of the accident. The body of. Mr. Gaston, was. still, clad in boots, breeches and jacket: F.

Myatt of Lost Nation, who said he was driving behind the Gaston car and was about a block behind them when" it was struck said the car was traveling approximately 75 miles an hour. Physicians at Mercy Hospital, Davenport, reported at 1 p. m. that the surviving girl had said her name is Jacqueline. She was unable, however, to give any account of the accident.

The twins were 2 years old Aug. 1. How They Talk "no longer-" WILLIAM GREEN "-They are no longer. eligible to membership because of: their association with the CIO." -William Green, A. F.

L. head, reads. American Newspaper guild out of federation. In urging. private employers to: adopt a more tolerant attitude: toward the Mr.

Roosevelt and Miss Perkins are barrassing. this other branch of the rovernment, which seems to feel that public life ends at 45." -The National Whirligig. -0- the sun never sets on the British: empire, the empire suresits on its favorite: son." -Ken Murray. -0- "Where's my baby?" -Mrs. James Welborn, still in critical condition as result of motor.

accident, returns to con-. sciousness for brief interval. "Ossle Solem. new- Syracuse coach, isn't: fooling- -he had the boys scrimmaging the second day out." -Eddie Briets. J.

J. J. J. J. League Turns Down Attempt to Oust Spain (By JOSEPH E.

SHARKEX) Geneva (AP) The League of Nations rebuffed attempt to unseat the Spanish government from its assembly today at the outof a tense, closely guardsession which is to hear Spanish accusation of Italy a Mediterranean pirate power. While the assembly met, France and Great Britain assembled a mighty fleet of 60 men war to drive mysterious raiders from the inland sea. Already were unconfirmed reports. from Spanish Cartagena, on the Mediterranean, that a pirate still submarine, her crew alive, lay blasted and pled under the water. Franco Sends Letter.

The Spanish insurgent Gen. Francisco Franco, in a letter to the league, contended his government was the only one representing the will of the Spanish people. But the league credentials committee decided credentials of the Valencia delegation were in and the assembly seated it. The assembly likewise spiked any' Mussolinian hopes that the league would expel Ethiopiawhich he has conquered--from membership. No voice was -raise dagainst Ethopia during the session of the credentials committee.

Her right to continue membership as an independent nation. although she actually belongs to Italy. was not questioned. Neither Italy nor Ethopia was represented by a delegate but the dethroned emperor, Haile Selassie, sent a letter expressing his continued "faith in the league." Receive Chinese Appeal. The assembly adjourned until m.

(10 a. m. Central Standard (Time) after China's appeal against Japanese aggression Was. distributed to In view of the extremely tense international situation developing. from the Mediterranean problem: the (conflict, the Spanish civil war and other troubles.

Switzerland took extraordinary precautions to guard the league meeting. The greatest police force league history was assembled guard delegates within. and without the hall. Plain clothes police as well as private detectives, watched over the main figures. China's appeal asserted the Japanese invasion clearly a situation to be 'delt with under article 10 of the league covenant.

(This article is intended to protect league members against any external aggression which would impair. territorial integrity political independence). Seck U. S. In her appeal, China expressed a desire for the United States and -other nations which are not memof the league but are interested in world peace to participate in consideration of her present situation.

British naval authorities were unable to contirm in any way the report, from unofficial Spanish government sources, of the sunken submarine. The reports were that Spanish officials had received faint signals rapped out on the hull of the undersea boat. Spanish gunners said they sank the submarine as a pirate raider. Should the boat be raised it likely would answer the grave question that has caused the most serious European crisis since the outorcak of the Spanish civil war year and three months ago. The Spanish- government and Moscow.

its. ardent supporter, have flatly accused Italian warships of waging indiscriminate war on Mediterranean. shipping. has counter-charged. that Valencia government is.

responsible for the series of attacks that brought about the determined French and British campaign to sweep the menace from -their of empire." Italy, with Germany, recognizes, the, insurgent regime as the de facto government of Spain. Wardrup Child Dies After Short Illness; Rites Are Observed Funeral rites, for Vesta Ann Wardrup, seven-weeks old I daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dial Wardrup 609 Eleventh street, who died at 7.p. m.

Saturday after a week's illness with whooping cough and influenza, were. held at 2 p. m. today at the Hoffman Funeral church. The Rev.

Church; pastor of the Boulevard Bap: tist church, officiated. Miss. Beverly Pollock sang, accompanied by Miss: Eda Critz at the organ. Burial was made in the Letts: cemetery. The child was born July 21, 1937.

Besides the parents, survivors include. the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. Hadley, 609 East Eleventh street, and the puternal grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Bascomb. Wardrup, San Antonio, Tex Ellis Parker Butler Once Resident Here, Goes in Death at 67 Ellis Parker Butler was born in, Muscatine Dec. early 5, 1869, education and here. received his attended Muscatine high school year and following served one, a bill -clerk and salesman for several during the years from 1886.

to 1897, the last eight years -in his a wholesale grocery where father was bookkeeper. Throughthis period, according to an autobiographical sketch. "Authors appearing in a recent issue of Mr. Butler Today and Yesterday." was writing verses and short In 1897, on the advice of three humor. editors, he went Neyork where he continued writing humor and did editorial work on trade papers.

The story which won for him! national acclaim. "Pigs Is Pigs." was published in the American Magazine in 1905 and the book follow- form. year it appeared in The book proved unusually popu-. With the exception of "The lar. French Decorative Styles." made from articles written for mag-1 up azines, "Pigs Is Pigs," was his first Butler established the published book.

Mr. "Decorative Furnisher" magazine Thomas A. Cawthra in 1899 with but sold his interests shortly after moved to Flushing, N. where he resided for many years. The writings of the Muscatine native were voluminous, and for most part were fiction storics the and articles for magazines.

His books were selections from these. with but two or three exceptions. 1917. with Joyce Kilmer, the Mr. Butler undertook a poet, pubJic reading tour.

with the intention- of creating Bill a Nye-James reputation similar to the Whitcomb Riley combination. But the World war halted his the plan. Joyce Kilmer enlisted in. chandoning servthe work: after two years of success-' ful effort. Married in Butler married Ida A.

Zipser of Muscatine in 1899. Mrs. Mrs. Butler and four children, Elsie Walker of Chicago, Mrs. Jan of Yonkers, N.

Miss Chapin Marjorie Butler and Ellis Olmstead But ler of New York City, survive. While it had been years since he resided in Muscatine, Mr. Butler maintained contacts with Muscatine friends. This area provided the locale for some of his writings and he returned here a number of years ago to- spend several weeks during the summer in a cottage on Geneva island, devoting his time to writings. An article by Ellis Parker Butappeared in a recent Muscatine of Jer the annual Auroran, high school publication.

and celebrated another article by the author appeared in The Muscatine Journal on the occasion of the centennial celebration of, Muscatine. When the Ellis Butler Parker home was in the Butler Lived 600 here. block on West street. next to the present Wells Butler, 67, native of Muscatine, and wideEllis Parker author and humorist, died at his summer ly known as an morning, according to. an home in Ousatonic, this where the Associated Press dispatch from Flushing, N.

Butlers reside. of ailments, following gradually failing A complication years proved fatal, Miss Marhealth Butler, over the the last humorist's daughter, reported. several jorie Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. at Funeral services will be held N.

with burial in the Flushing cemetery. Flushing, ELLIS PARKER BUTLER Japs Bomb Mission in China, Claim Hongkong -P- P. V. Thomas. head of the American Seventh Adventist mission hospital at Waichow.

charged Japanese today the apparently deliberate combing of the hospital despite the prominent display of American flags. Thomas, who arrived here today wounded members of his Chinese staff, said Japanese warbringing planes bombed the hospital for 15 minutes Sunday. American flags, he declared, were prominently displayed over Chinese Communists War Against Japs Sianfu, Shensi Province, China -(A)- The leaders of China's powerful communist armics, now incorporated into the central government, announced today their troops were already on the march arainst the Japanese in North China, Their armics are estimated at from 000 to 200.000 troops, seasoned by almost uninterrupted battle for the last five years. the mission and the attack was apparently deliberate as there: were no military objectives near-: by. A barracks, two miles away.

he. said, was bombed later and was subjected to a new attack this morning. Several of the six Chinese members of his staff were placed in a hospital here suffering from shrapnel wounds. Waichow is some 50 miles up the Canton river northwest of Hongkong. "Ignoring big American flags in the hospital compound," the Council Bluffs, mission head said; Japanese aviators repeatedly bombed the hospital and nearby airport.

"Several members of my Chinese staff were wounded. I have brought two of them here for treatment." Applicants for Firemen Posts to Be Given Test Examinations for men seeking positions on the Muscatine. fire department will be held in thic council chamber in the city hall at- 7:30 Tuesday night, Since the examinations were postponed several days ago hecause- of lack of applicants, five men have filed intention of taking the tests and several are expected to turn in their names before Tuesday night, it was revealed at the city recorder's The Police and Fire Civil Service. commission, which is 'conducting the examinations, certify a list of the 10 men making the highest grades from which new members. of the department may be selected.

The list will be turnted over to Fire Chief J. J. Browner who will make any appointments needed to bring the department up to its full strength of regular and extra men. Meetings of the finance committee of the city council. and of the board of health also will be beld Tuesday night.

The -regula: meeting, of the: city council is scheduled for -Thursday night, Schools Shut As Paralysis Cases Appear an set ed 8 88 p. Des Moines, Ia. -4P)- Dr. Carl F. Jordan, staff physician, today the state health department advises against closing of 'infantile schools.

in an effort to prevent paralysis if the schools have, health the "advantages to give children daily inof public nurses spections." At the same time, however, schools in six. Iowa cities and towns remained closed today as health officers 'sought to arrest the spread of the epidemic. Can Detect Symptoms. Dr. Jordan, head the state health department's preventable disease division, said the department believes it is easier to 'keep a close check on children it they keep the schools He said the teachers and the nurses can readily detect symptoms of the disease in pupils.

Dr. Walter L. Bierring, state health commissioner, said today 96 cases of the disease have been reported FO far this year. This month's total to date was 42. He said seven persons have died, victims of the disease this year.

Bulld Up Serum Supply. Dr. Paul Stephen, department assistant director, said the department building up its supply of preventative serum made from the blood of paralysis victims who have recovered. He said he has held several bleeding clinics here, one- at Sioux City and plans to hold one at Burlington Wednesday. The serum supply is stored here and rushed to physicians caring for patients suffering from the disease.

Dr. Stephen said use of the serum is proving effective when administered to patients before paralysis sets in. Blanket Quarantine Applied at Village Marcus, la. --(P)-. A blanket quarantine as a precautionary measure against infantile para: lysis was in.

effect here today after. a 5-year-old boy was found to be suffering; from the discase, The quarantine order, issued by "the board of closes schools, churches, the one theater: and cancels all public meetings .20: James Bork; son of and Mrs. Alfred Bork. became ill from the disease last Tuesday and after receiving serum injections at a Le. Mars, hospital.

returned home Saturday apparently out of danger. It was the first complete quarantine in the state, but schools at Cleghorn, a community of 238 persons in Cherokee county, were closed last Friday when a case of the disease was suspected. They were expected to reopen today, however. Marcus is located, six miles west of Cleghorn has a population of 1,138 persons, Another School Closed, Grand Mound -(P)- Schools were closed today for fumigation as a precautionary measure (ollowing the infantile paralysis death late Sunday of Jane Ellen Doescher, seven months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

August Doescher. There are no other cases of the discase in this vicinity, Boone, Ia. -(A)- Serum was brought here today from Des Moines for the treatment of Aileen Roberts, 7, who developed infantile paralysis Sunday. She is the daughter of Cleo Roberts, Boone high school football coach. The case is the first on record here, authorities said.

Des Moines: -(P)- Des Moines recorded today its fourth infantile paralysis death in eight days. The victim was Miss Merle Annis. 18, of Corydon. a maid at. Mercy hospital, who was takill last week.

Burial will be en in Corydon. Iowa. City, Ia. -(P)- Announcement was made here Sunday of donation to the 1937 senior class. memorial committee by Weaver of Cedar Rapids, for construction of a proposed hydrotherapy pool in the children's hosiptal here.

The donation swells. the total Goal contribution for the campaign is to almost $4,000. The pool be for curing cases of infantile paralysis and spastic paralysis. The Weather warmer Tuesday. Mississippi River Stages.

Hastings 0.4. Dubuque F0: rise: 0.2. Jowa -Fair in central unsettled and east in extreme portions, west portions, not so cool somewhat tonight. Tuesday generally unsettled fair in southeast, somewhat in west and north portions; warmin east arid, south portions. Illinois.

Fair, tonight and Tuesday; not so cool in northwest tonight; and west-central, portions Davenport C.4: no change: St, Louis 0.1; fall: rise 0.1, 0.2: K. Pippert, 17 Critically Hurt As Car Upsets Kenneth "Sammy" Pippert, 17, Muscatine high school football player, was reported slightly. improved: at Bellevue hospital afternoon where he is receiving treatment fcr. a fractured skull and other major injuries suffered. in an automobile accident on No.

6. near Atalissa, Sathighway urday: night. Pippert was hurled out the car and into a field when the car in which he was riding with two other Muscatine youths, Robert Brocket, 1-9. the driver and Warren Terry, alse 19, went out of control and overturned in a ditch. Biowing out of a tire was blamed for the accident.

The car was badly wrecked. The football. player, who had been riding between the other two youths was unconscious condition when found by passing motorists. Ho is a son of Mr. and Mrs.

Conrad Pippert, 107 Bridgmar. street. Brocket, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie I.

Brocket, 319 Clinton street. sustained a scalp wound and bruises, while Terry. son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren H.

Terry, 603 East Ninth street, escaped injury except for shock and bruises. The three youths were picked by Lindlcy Birkett, West Libup erty, who was enroute home from and taken to the office of Dr. Moline, where he is employed, A E. Ady in West Liberty for The Pippert youth was brought emergency treatment. back to Muscatine in a George Wittich A senior in high, played in.

the Lone Tree pert football game here Friday night. Mrs. G. B. Birch Succumbs After Extended Illness residence.

Mrs. Butler was a cousin of the late Edward L. McColm of Muscatine. During his years in Flushing, Icader N. in Mr.

Butler was a affairs, serving as treasurer the hospital, vice president of a of bank and president of- a savings and loan. association. He was al founder of the Dutch Treat club. of. the 'Authors' lcague and of the Authors' League fund and many other prizes: His writings, which were first others, published "Pigs in Is Pigs," "Perkins of 1904, included among Portland." "The Incubator Baby." "Confessions of a Daddy." "Great American Pie "Cheerful Smugglers." "The "Mike.

Flannery on Duty and Off." "The Thin Santa Claus," "Water Goats. and Other Troubles," "The Adventures of a Suburbanite." "The Jack-Knife "Red Head and Whistle Britches, Dean," "Phila. Gubb. CorerspondenceSchool Detective." "Goat Feathers, "Swatty." "How It Feels to Be Fifty." "In Pawn," "Jibby Jones." "Jibby Jones and the Alligator." "Many Happy' "The Behind Legs of. the: "Pups and Pies," "Dorna." "Dollarature." "Jo Tomboy." (with L.

A. Kent) -and "The Young Stamp Collector's Own Book." Police Launch Drive For Enforcement of Traffic Signals A campaign to promote more general, trattic observance signals of among. stop Musca- signs tine, motorists was launched this morning. by Muscatine police. Chief of Police Ted McGill announced tickets would be.

given: all motorists observed barging through the signs. Forfeiting bonds for parking violations. today: were Thomisson and Fred. Eithenhauer, both of Many Accidents in Vicinity of Clinton Clinton, Ia. (P) City streets and rural highways in eastern Iowa and western.

Illinois became a shambles over the week-end with a toll of five dead, two others probably fatally injured, and 26 others suffering relatively minor injuries in traffic accidents in Clinton, Jackson and neary Scott counties in Iowa. Whiteside and Carroll counties. in Illinois. Mrs. Ben H.

Ball of Highland Park, was instantly killed Sunday afternoon when car she was driving crashed headon with an eastbound machine. on route 30. one mile east of Grand Mound. Mrs. Ball's daughter and three Davenport.

women are in hospitals, the former being in a critical condition. one Four injured persons about were 9- o'clock this! killed and morning when a Rock Island railroad freight train struck a car at Gambril, four miles, south of Dewitt on accidents highway in 61. this area were of a more minor nature. Six were injured in East: Clinton. when a parked car was struck by another machine.

Ninc people were severely shaken up and two autos badly damaged. about 7 p. m. Sunday when a car driven by Kreo Ruus of near. Elwood and a machine driven by Ebwin of Olin collided at the 'intersection of highways 136.

and: 61 four miles south of Maquoketa. Guest at Wedding Party Fatally Hurt Chicago -(P) A gay wedding party. was -brought to a with tragic the; ending. Sunday. Natalie night" Celano, 20: of As the girl and her escort left the party, someone on the second floor opened a window.

The glass. broke a jagged piece struck: Miss Celano on the neck, severing: her. jugular vein. She died from loss of blood; Mrs. Bessie Brace Birch, 55, wife of G.

Bingham Birch, 605 West Fourta street, died at the University hospital at' Iowa City at 9:40 p. m. Saturday. after an extended illness. with internal complications.

Mrs. Birch had been a patient at the University hospital for the past nine weeks. Bessie Brace was born in Pekin, Nov. 1881, the daughter of the late Rev, and Mrs. Chorles H.

Brace of Minneapolis. Her father was a in the Methodist Episcopal church. She was married. to. G.

Bingham Birch on April 1909 at Minneapolis and mace 21, her home there until 1909, when she came to Muscatine, residing here since. Mrs. Birch was graduated from the public schools of Minneapolis and taught in the schools there prior to her special studies in art and music. She was 'graduated from the. Winona State Normal college at Winona, and also from the Thomas School of Art and Music in Detroit, Mich.

Mrs. Birch served as supervisor of art in the Muscatine public schools in 1905 and 1906 and again in the 1925-26 school year. She held. a similar position in the public schools at Birmingham, during the years 1907, 1908 and 1909. She also served as president of the Muscatine Music club.

Mrs. Birch held membership in the Hennepin Avenue church at Minneapolis. Surviving are her busband, daughter, Barbara, wife of. Rex. C.

Conner of Paris, one sister, Mrs. Charles L. Bequeaith, of Minneapolis and three brothers, Harry Brace of Minneapolis, E. W. Brace of Minneapolis: and Dr.

Southwell Brace of Menominie, Wis. Funeral rites: for Mrs. Birch will be held. at St. Louis with Bellefontaine burial in the family at cemetery, there.

The body is at -the Ralph Wittich Funeral home and will remain there until Wednesday morning. when it will be taken to St. Louis. Peace Officers Swap Ideas Upon Law Enforcement Council Bluffs, UP) Iowa peace: officers opened convention here. today to exchange ideas and gain information on law enforcement.

William of Council Bluffs extended the welcome and Carl Higdon of Ottum-: wa, president of: the Towa State: Policeman's association: responded. Police Chief J. 14 Pszanowsk of Omaha was the principal er at the afternoon. session today..