The Iola Register from Iola, Kansas • 1

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73. SncceMor to Tbo IoU Daily Register, The I ola Daily Record and Iola Daily Indeg. IOLA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2t), 1932 The Weekly Register, Established I88T The Iola Daily Register EsUblisbed 1897 SIX PAGES Fire Loss Drops Due to Better Prevention Work CHARLES WITT IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF KILLERS LEGION OFFERS TO GIVE WORK TO UNEMPLOYED Nation Wide Movement Will Be Carried Out To Aid Local Men WILL BE NOTIFIED Despite Christmas Hazards, State Suffers From Fires in December But Little More Than Half the Total For the Same Period During Year 1930. HIGH FINANCE May I look at some roller i skates, please? The little girl who had. just entered an Iola hardware store examined several pairs before she finally made a selection.

Will you please charge these to Eddie Cantor? directed the little girl. Im sorry, but Mr. Cantor doesnt have an account here, replied the. clerk. Well hes a relative of mine, and he'll pay for them.

Related or not, "Mr. Cantor was not charged for the roller skates, and the girl departed without them, A day or two later the girl came to the same store and was waited upon by another clerk. She selected a pair of skates and handed the clerk a check. The girl received a small amount of change and left with her newly acquired skates under her arm. Today the check was returned to the merchant by a local bank marked no funds.

It was signed by Eddie Cantor. damage of $78,748. The next largest Iogs was caused by chimney and flue fires resulting in damage of $26,005. There were four incendiary fires causing damage of $1,250. Dwellings were the heaviest sufferers during December, there being 138 dwelling fires causing total damage of $106,662.

There (were 13 store fires with damage of $12,445 and the same number of garage fires Vith loss Of $10,393. Labette county with eight fires causing damage of $12,545 lead the fire losers for December, the report shows. Sedgwick colinty was second in 'the list of losers with 35 fires resulting in total damage of 11,485. There were fire losses reported to the state fire marshals office from 60 of the 105 counties in the state. Lyon county reported only one fire during the month, the total damage being $5.

MILITARY CEREMONY Seventy-five Legionnaires of Allen county yesterday after- noon took part in an impressive military funeral ceremony at the grave of Francis M. Twine ham, 33-year-old ex-service man who was buried in the Moran ceme- tery. The funeral for the Moran merchant, who died last Friday was held in the Methodist church, which was crowded with his friends and relatives. The Legionnaires marched the mile and one-half to the ceme- tery with the muffled drums of the Legion drum corps sound- ing. At the grave eight buglers sounded taps In unison, Ira F.

Kerwood, chaplain of the Leslie J. Campbell post, recited the service, and an 8-man firing squad gave a rifle salute. LANDON COMES OUT FOR OFFICE Oil Man Starts Ball Rolling for Republican Primary Campaign Topeka, Jan. 20. (AP) Alfred M.

Landon put the Republican gubernatorial primary campaign into motion with the formal announcement today of his candidacy for the partys nomination for the office now held by Harry H. Woodring who hopes to lead, the Democratic ticket again. The Independence oil and gas producer and former chairman of the Republican state committee, is the first man to formally announce for the Republica nnomination at the August primary. Others May Run. His possible opponents for the nomination include Roy Bailey, publisher of the Salina Journal; Lacey Simpson, McPherson; Cal Ward, Salina; Ewing Herbert, publisher of the Hiawatha World.

IOU AWAITING RESULT SUNDAY OF MOVIE DEBUT If Show Opens, Authorities Are Ready To Arrest Gettier CITY OR COUNTY? Which Group of Officers Will Act Is Not Yet Determined Proponents and opponents of Sunday moving picture shows for Iola today were awaiting developments, each with one eye fgcused on the local situation and the other fixed upon the progress of litigation 'In ether Kansas communities where theatres are operating on the first duy of the week. The lines were drawn here yesterday when Vogel Gettier. manager of the Iola Theatre, announced he would operate on a commercial basis next Sunday and the Iola Ministerial Alliance moved to oppose him. Uncertainty Remains. Today it was still uncertain what official action would be taken when the theatre Is opened Sunday.

A. R. Enfield, city attorney, took the position that time and money would be saved if the county officers made the first move, pointing out that police court prosecution would result in an appeal to the district court, anyway. A conference this morning between County Attorney Frank W. Taylor and members of the Ministerial Alliance resulted In a decision by the alliance to seek an injunction against operation of the theatre on Sunday after next if Manager Gettier discloses an inclination to shoeing on the Sabbath.

Police Must Act. It was the general belief that local police will arrest the theatre manager if he operates next Sunday and that he will be prosecuted in police court for violation of a city ordinance. Mayor A. H. He-cox said today the police would have to take action If officers for the state did not.

Kenneth H. Foust, attorney for Mr. Gettier, said the attitude of his client is that the Iola Theatre has as much right to operate on Sunday as have nearly one hundred other theatres in Kansas, or, for that matter, as have drug stores, filling stations, and other businesses in whose behalf the state abor laws are not enforced. Lawrence Man Backs Down. Yesterday in Lawrence S.

E. Schwahn, manager of the Pattee Theatre, voluntarily agreed to discontinue Sunday shows, and "blue law charges against him were dismissed. including his recent conviction. Schwahn plans to await the decision of the United States court of appeals sitting in Denver on February 7. No announcement was forthcoming from C.

J. Topping, manager of two Dickinson chain theatres in Lawrence, who also is involved in testing the state statute. It was pointed out that the Iola Theatre company is a Nebraska organization and that federal court would have jurisdiction in a case involving it. Should Mr. Gettier submit to arrest and prosecution, and appeal to a higher court, it was suggested that he might be able to obtain a federal court injunction to prevent interference until the appealed case is settled.

PROSPERITY OF IOLA DEPENDS ON FARMER AID Speaker Says Farmers Must Be Well Off Ere Iola Can Profit URGES COOPERATION Urbanites Must Help Cen-- ditions Improve If They Help Iola It Is a gloomy moment in history. Not for many years not In the lifetime of most men who read this paper has there been so much grave and deep apprehension; never has the future seemed so incalculable as at this time. In our own country there is universal prostration and panic, and thousands of our poorest fellow-citizens are turned out against the approaching winter without employment and without prospect of it. In France the political cauldron seethes and bubbles with uncertainty; Russia hangs as usual like a cloud, dark and silent, under the horizon of Europe; while all the energies and influences of the British-empire are sorely tried, and are yet to be tried more sorely in coping with the vast and deadly Indian insurrection and with its disturbed relations in China. Troubles No End.

Of our own troubles, no man can see the end. They are, fortunately, as yet mainly commercial; and if we are only to lose money and by painful poverty to be taught wisdom the wisdom of honor, of faith, of sympathy, and of charity no man need seriously to despair. And yet the very haste to be rich, which is the occasion of this widespread calamity, has also tended to destroy the moral. forces with which we are to resist and subdue the calamity." This quotation which' is not from any Contemporary pen but which appeared in Harpers Weekly for October 10, 1857 was used by, Paul Klein in introducing the 'talk which he made before the chamber of commerce at its weekly luncheon in the Kelley hotel today. No Need for Pessimism.

Mr. Klein called attention to the remarkable parallel between the situation as described' in this article and the sitiiation of today despite the fact, that 'just 75 years have separated the two. He went on to draw the conclusion there certainly is no need to be pessimistic about the outcome of the present depression if it was found passible 75 years ago to correct such conditions, as were described in the article in Harpers. Mr. Klein did not venture any opinion as to how long present conditions would continue to be general, but he did assert the definite conviction that they will get better only when agriculture improves its lot.

Agriculture, he said, so undeniably the basic industry of the entire United States that it is hopeless to expect the nation to prosper until agriculture prospers first. Show me a community where the farmers are prosperous," he said, and Ill show you a community where business is moving and where everybody is making money. Farmers Better Off. Mr. Klein admitted that farmers right now are be ter off than a lot cf city tolks.

Eight million of the latter are walking the streets with no roof to sleep under and little if any food for their stomachs. The fanners at least fre able to keep warm and have f-ncugh Tool to eat. On the other hand, he pointed out, no farmer is going to have any surplus to spend so long as wheat is at 35 cents a bushel and hogs at 3 Vi cents a pound. And until the farmer has a surplus to spend, nobody else In a town like Iola is going to make any money. Mr.

Klein emphasized the fact that Iola is, after all, strictly a farm community and not a manufacturing center. The prospeiity of the farmers of Allen County measures of the prosperity of Iola exactly. It behooves Iola business men, therefore, to cooperate with the farm bureau, the farm organizations and the farmers themselves in ev-eiy conceivable way that will bring better production, higher prices, more prosperity into the farms of this territory. Only in this way can Iola hope to make herself more prosperous. December, even with its added fire hazard of Christinas trees and decorations, had a fire loss of only $156,909, as compared, to a loss or $309,148 for the same month of 1930, according to the report of Douglas A.

Graham, state fire marshal, issued today. There were 221, fires for the month compared to a total of 304 fires for December, 1930, and it is, believed that the special care which was urged by fire chiefs, fire prevention organizations, school teachers, civic societies, property owners and the people in general all over the state were largely instrumental in keeping down the number of fires which usually occur during the month of December when so many hazards are likely to be supplied at Christmas time. There were 57 fires listed as origin unknown and these caused YOUTHS A.V.0.L FROM QUARTERS i i i Prisoners Take French Leave From Home in County Jail The longest way round may or may not be the shortest way home for Alfred Bockover, 20, and Robert Barker, 19, who are now supposedly enroute to their erstwhile home in the Allen county jail. The two youths, trusties at the jail, worked in the court house yesterday under the direction of Geo. janitor.

When their work of sweeping and cleaning was finished, they said that they would like to drop in at a restaurant on the way back to the jail. Have Disappeared They left the court house, and havent been seen since. Bockover and Barker were arrested in Iola Armistice day when Patrolman Chris Troutwine discovered 44 gallon jugs of liquid alleged to be whiskey in the car that they were driving. On November 12 the two pleaded guilty in justice court and were fined $100 apiece and sentenced to 60 days In jail. Their conduct since that time had been such as to warrant their classification as trusties, and as such they had been permitted to do work in the court house and park.

Says Two Will Be Taken. Sheriff Bud Huitey pointed out that the youths had but a short time more to serve, and prophesied that they would be apprehended within a few days. When we do get them, Im afraid we will have to make an example out of them. Three years in the pen will hardly compensate them for the few days of freedom they are enjoying now. DELAY INEVITABLE Britain Thinks Lausanne Parley Cant Meet Until Feb.

1 London, Jan." 20. (AP) The postponement of the Lausanne reparations conference is regarded in British official circles today as inevitable because of the Frehch political situation. With the debate in the French chamber of deputies carried over until Thursday, England considered it, impossible for arrangements for the conference to be completed and allow time enough for the delegates to arrive at Lausanne by January 25. the date set for the meeting. British opinion is Chat the conference should be held a week later.

Admire Bank Closed. Topeka, Jan. 20. (AP) The closing of the State Bank of Admire today by order of the board of directors was announced by the state banking department. Frozen assets and depleted reserves were assigned as the reason for closing.

The banks statement on January 4 showed deposits of $116,000. Men Registered Will Be Called by Post When Work Is Ready Within 24 hours twenty to forty presently unemployed Iola men will have jobs, and thereafter during the remainder of the winter at least part time work will be found for nearly three hundred jobless persons whose names and addresses have been registered with the American Legion. That was the assurance given today by J. L. Hair, second district committeeman directing the Leslie J.

Campbell's post campaign to relieve unemployment, following the working out of plans last night. Local Men Selected Members of the unemployment committee, participating in a nation wide relief campaign initiated by the national headquarters of the American Legion to back up the rehabilitation efforts of President Hoover, were selected from local community and Legion leaders. They are District Judge Frank R. Forrest, F. O.

Eenson, cashier of the Iola State bank, and C. M. Jewett. former president of the chamber of commerce, representing the community, and Commander Robert F. Fife, Dr.

A. R. Chambers and Mr. Hair, representing the post. The first project to provide jobs will be the clearing cf 29 acres, of forested land at Steeles Point, northwest of town on the Neosho The wood was given to the Legion to relieve unemployment by L.

E. Steele, Iola hardware and implement dealer. To Sell Wood. The Legion is perfecting plans to market the wood for fuel purposes to Iola schools, stores, churches, homes, public buildings, and hotels, the money received in payment to be used in paying the wages of the men who cut the wood. Today Mr.

Hair urged everybody with a building to heat to get in touch with the Legion. He said the wood would be cut in any length required, the longer the stick the lower the price. Buy a Cord. Anybody buying a cord of wood will in effect be giving one unemployed man a job for one day. Mr.

Hair said. We have estimated that one man can cut a cord of wood in one day. Mr. Hair said that different projects to provide jobs would be brought up weekly from now cn, with the assurance that the unemployed men registered with the Legion, ex-service men or not, will be given at least part time work during the remaining cold weather months. Big Project Socn.

The biggest project, not yet fully developed according to Mr. Hair, will call for the expenditure of around fourteen thousand dollars for labor. He said more information concerning it would be forthcoming for publication soon. The Legion is asking everyone with timber to be cut or land to be cleared to get in touch with Mr. Hair, as the more that is offered the more jobs the committee will be able to offer.

Mr. Hair said that the committee will notify the registered men when to report for work. He asked them not to call in person before being notified as that would lead only to confusion and interruption. Today the Iola school board made the first offer to take, wood cut, 50 cords of it. Watch the list grow," Chairman Hair said in reporting the boards agreement.

COURT CASE BLOWS UF Judge Says Cvil Suit Should Be Tried Without Jury. A jury of twelve men was picked after due deliberation in district court this morning, and settled back into its box to hear the evidence presented in the case of A. H. Ensminger vs. Phillips Petroleum company.

The opening statements were made by attorneys for both the plaintiff and the defendant. Judge Frank R. Forrest heard the statements and the case blew up then and there. The jurors were dismissed, and the case will be heard before the court or a referee. Judge Forrest adjourned court until Friday when the state will attempt to convict Alex Taggart of criminal libeL TRANSIENT SENT ON WAY Heads South After Resting in Jail Overnight.

Prosecution Draws Case To Close With Testimony of Victims Son IOLANS TRIAL NEXT Witness Says Hamilton Was Actual Slayer of Chain Grocer Lebanon, Jan. 20. (AP)- Presentation of evidence intended to send Charles Witt to the electric chair as an accomplice of Louis Hamilton, 26-iyear-old resident of Iola, in the slaying of Lafayette A. Jackson neared completion today. The prosecuting attorneys, defeated in an attempt to place in the court record an alleged confession, called Chester Jackson, son of the.slain chain store president, among the last the witnesses.

Confession Under Duress. Judge John Hornaday ruled out the alleged confession yesterday holding that the continual questioning employed to obtain it constituted undue influence. Witts refusal at first to answer questions put to him by Indianapolis detectives indicated, the judge ruled, that he intended to stand on his tutional rights not to give evidence against himself. Chester Jackson was in his fathers office, located in one of the chain of Indianapolis stores, on the day the elder Jackson was killed by one of the two bandits who attempted to rob the establishment, He identified Witt as one of the robbers and described the scene. Witt Stood Guart He accused Witt of having guarded several spectators while Hamilton engaged in a gun battle with Jackson.

Hamilton will be tried Following the close of the states case, defense attorneys indicated that they will attempt to establish an alibi for Witt. Relatives of Hamilton, they said, will testify that both thg accused men were at the Hamilton home in Kansas last May 27, the date of the, killing, Otis Lambeth, undersheriff of Allen county, and two Iola women left Iola today for Lebanon, to act as witnesses for the state in the trial of Witt and Hamilton. It is understood their testimony will tend to refute the testimony which will be given by Hamiltons parents In their attempt to prove that Witt and Hamilton were in Idla on May 27. FONTAINE CAPTURED Canadians Hold American Wanted For Smuggling Windsor, Ontario, Jan. 2Q (AP).

Harold Fontaine, charged by United States authorities with smuggling guns and ammunition to seven inmates of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth on December 11, is held by Ontario police. He was arrested Tuesday night, but his apprehension was not generally known until today. He was a former inmate of the Leavenworth prison, having been sentenced from Detroit for smuggling aliens into the United States. He was released a month before seven convicts escaped, three of whom were killed and four of whom were recaptured. Windsor police were asked to begin a search for Fontaine three days ago.

Federal authorities said that Fontaine was employed in a prison shoe factory while at Leavenworth. He was in a position to know that large cans of paste were shipped to the factory and opened without inspection by the guards. Prison authorities believe that the guns were smuggled in one of the cans. Fontaine, who elaims to be a resident of Canada, said he would fight extradition to the United States. Crumb Funeral Tomorrow.

Funeral services for Mrs. Mattie B. Crumb, 78, who died here yesterday after a long Illness, will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Sleeper service rooms, the Rev.

W. P. Wharton, pastor of the First Methodist church, officiating. Interment will be in the Iola cemetery. Mrs.

Crumb was the mother of Mrs. L. E. Steele, 815 North Jefferson. WEATOER and ROADS FOR KANSAS Generally fair in west, increasing cloudiness In east portion tonight and Thursday, possibly with rain in extreme southeast portion; no decided change in temperature.

FOR IOLA -Increasing cloudiness possibly with rain, tonight and Thursday; no decided change in temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday 54, at 3 p. lowest last night 41 at 7 a. normal for today 30; excess yesterday 18; excess since January 1st, 130 degrees; this date last year highest 44; lowest 20. Precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 7 a.

m. today, total for this year to date, 1.43; excess since January 1st .57 inches. Relative humidity at 12 noon yesterday, 46 per cent; 7 a.m. today 61 per cent; barometer reduced to sea level, 29.97 inches. Sun rises 7i36 a.

sets 5:31 p. m. FARM WEEK TO SEE TAX TALK Pleasant Will Speak Before Allen Countians At Manhattan The several Allen countians who are planning to attend the annual Farm and Home week program at Manhattan February 8-12 will have ah opportunity to hear Walter Pleasant, chairman of the state tax commission, discuss Kansas tax problems, acording to L. C. Williams of the state college, who is in general charge of the Farm Home programs.

Mr. Pleasant will go to Manhattan after he has been present for the public tax hearing in Fredonia February 3, and which the county commissioners of Allen county plan to attend. It Is not known whether the commission will have reached any definite conclusions relative to a possible reduction of tax assessments in this part of Kansas, but his speech will doubtless be of interest to landowners. He will speak on the night of February 9. Breeders to Convene During the week, major dairy breed associations of Kansas will hold their annual meetings at Manhattan on February 10 In conjunction with Dairy day of the Farm and Home week.

The Kansas Jersey Cattle club will hold Its annual meeting on the night of February 9. Breed associations which have scheduled meetings for February 10 are the Hol-stein-Freisian association of Kansas, the Kansas Guernsey attle club and the Kansas Ayreshire Breeders asociation. Another livestock association to hold its annual meeting will be the the Kansas Bluestem Pasture association, members of which will meet on February 19. A feature of the weeks program will the announcement of the names of five Kansas farm women who have been added to the list of Kansas Master Farm Homemakers. At present there are only 20 women in the state who have been so honored.

Homemaker award recipients first are nominated by five of their neighbors and they then fill out a questionnaire covering more than 500 points. Must Hare Ability Included in the farm achievements of most of the women sp recognized is the ability to boost the family income through enterprises of their own. Some can and sell vegetables and fruit and nearly all have poultry flocks. All have taken active part in farm organizations and in school and church affairs. The names 6f the five will be announced at the special recognition services.

ENROLLMENT DROPS Early Check Shows Fewer Students Than for First Semester The Iola Junior college enrollment for the secohd semester was almost complete today with 140 students enrolled. This is a little less than the enrollment at the beginning of the first semester. Of the 152 who enrolled at the beginning cf the first semseter, 142 made credit for first semester work. Seven students dropped out before the semester was completed, and three failed in more than 50 per cent of their subjects and will not continue their work through the second semester. Five other students will not continue into the second semester for various reasons.

Two were graduated from the junior college at the end of the first semester, one has taken all the work in his course that he can In junior college, one has moved away from Iola and one will go to another school for the second semester. Six students who did not attend the first semester have enrolled. J. A. Fleming, dean of the junior college, said that he was well pleased with the work of the first semester.

We have had fewer failures, he said, than in other years. Grades have averaged higher than usual, and the general attitude of the students has been more serious than previously. Examination January 21. Examinations will be held at the chamber of commerce rooms in Memorial hall for the granting of milk and cream testers permits, at 10 a. m.

January 21, according to the announcement of County Clerk W. D. Clark. LEGION POSTS-FUSS OVER PIG Local Legionnaires Claim They Won Porker From Lawrence Boys Plenty of ex-service men can remember when a 50-pound pig would have represented a fortune to hungry soldiers in France. Perhaps some of them could redall going to considerable lengths to acquire a squealing porker from some Indignant French womans parlor pen.

It appears that Legionnaires havent outgrown their penchant for pork, and at least two posts in Eastern Kansas are on the verge of fighting the war over again to determine the ownership of one grunting innocent now growing fat in a pen at Legionville. Officers Exchange Notes. The Leslie J. Campbell and the Lawrence posts are the near-belligerents whose officers recently have been exchanging notes the politeness of which was a trifle strained and the meaning a little too clear for orthodox diplomacy. Last fall the local post got itself embroiled in two membership campaigns, one with the Lawrence poet, the other with the Miami county Legion.

The contest, which ended November 28, was on a basis of percentage of membership quotas reported on that date. Pays Off to Miami. The Allen county organization lost to the Miami post and duly paid off, the spoils being a pig from the pens at Legionville. But Lawrence lost to the local post, and to date has refused to pay, claiming victory in the contest. The local Legionnaires, however, have what they claim are irrefutable figures to show that Allen county won, 74 34-47 per cent to 72 2-5 per cent.

Please Remit One Pig. Where the heck is our pig? a Lawrence official writes to ask. You havent any pig, the answer written today states. But you owe us one. Please remit.

GOING AFTER PRETTY BOY. Oklahoma Officers Organizing Man Hunt for Notorious Killer. Muskogee, Jan. 20. (AP) Informed that Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, outlaw wanted in Oklahoma and several other states for murder and bank robbery, was in a veritable fortress in the Ozarks near Arkansas, county officers of eastern Oklahoma were concentrating in Muskogee today.

The manhunt was to get under way soon, although officers know little of the hill hideout except the general location. Floyd, for whose capture rewards totalling $4,000 have been offered in Ohio and Oklahoma, is said to be the leader of a gang of nine bank robbers who committed most of Oklahomas 51 bank holdups of the past year. He wears a steel vest, is always heavily armed and has disarmed a number of officers in Oklahoma. No. 160, east from Montgomery county line, Reed Wheelock, Clay Center, $66,671.26.

Montgomery county two bridges on U. S. No. 75, across Elk river, three miles north of Independence Marsh arch bridge 400 feet long, Tomlinson Bridge company, Wichita, steel bridge 100 feet long, A. L.

Cook, Ottawa, $6,919.25. Bourbon county, nine miles chat surfacing on Kansas No. 3 from Un-iontown south to Junction with Kansas No .39. Thogmartin Reis, Fort Scott, $6,588. Resurfacing Projects.

The resurfacing projects and bidders: Bourbon county, 3 miles chat on Kansas No. 3 north from Crawford county line, Thogmartin Reis, $1,050. Coffey county, 5 miles chat on U. S. No.

50S east from junction with U. 8. No. 75, W. T.

Hole, Topeka, $2,240. Coffey county, 13 miles chat on U. S. No. 50S east from Lyon county line, Hole, $6,084.

Greenwood county, 10 miles chat on U. S. No. 54, east from Tonovay comer, F. H.

Free to, $4,300. Mr. Landon, in a special communication to The Register, states as his aim if elected, first, to make this state materially progress second, to cut taxes. Wants Oil Tariff. He promises to wage a fight for which if successful he claims will the establishment of a tariff on oil, benefit not only the- oil industry in Kansas, but the farmer-owners of leased land.

He wants to accomplish tax reduction by reducing the gross sum expended by state, county, city and township officials, and by distributing tax burdens more equitably. ESAU SOLD OUT Preacher Urges Worshippers Not To Follow Example The story of who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, was retold to a large revival audience the First Methodist church by the Rev. A. V. Howland, pastor of the United Brethren church, last night.

It was young peoples night, with about three hundred youths of school age, including members of the 4-H club, thirty farm bureau and Grange members, and about six hundred others in attendance. A chili supper for the young people preceded the evening service. Text From Genesis The speaker took his text from Genesis, 25-31, which tells the old story of the young man who sold what he could hope never to regain just because he was hungry. Those who have sold out before and since, Mr. Howland said, included Eve, for the forbidden fruit; Judas, for 30 pieces of silver; Henry VIII, for adultery; Agrippa, for political power; Herod, also for power, and Pontius Pilot, who sold the Christ for a little evanescent prestige.

Salvation Sacred From time to time in his sermon Mr. Howland dsked, What are you receiving for what you sell? He pointed out that ones spiritual salvation is too sacred to be sold, that once you sell your soul you cannot regain It easily, that although forgiveness is easy forgetfulness is not and it is mans nature to carry the memory of past sins with him to the grave. The mind retains the impression of past indulgences. There were 20 decisions made following the sermon. Special music was furnished by the Sing Song Girls of the United Brethren church and by Horace F.

Erwin, director of the campaign. To Play Flute Solo. Tonight the special delegations will be members of mens secret orders and business men and their employes. Mrs. Victor L.

Kirk will play a flute solo and the Iola Four will sing. The Rev. W. p. Wharton.

Methodist pastor, will preach. The 10 a. Bible classes will be continued tomorrow and Friday. There were no day meetings today. The campaign closes next Sunday.

ALLEN GETS LANDSLIDE. Louisianan Polls Largest Majority Ever in Gubernatorial Race New Orleans, Jan. 20 (AP) O. K. Allen has been nominated as a candidate for governor of Louisiana by the largest majority ever polled by a candidate for that office.

Returns from 564 precincts, more than one-third of the total, in yesterdays primary gave Allen a lead of better than fifty thousand over four opponents. Gov. Huey P. Long threw his full support behind the Allen ticket. Low Bids Submitted for Highway Construction in Eastern Kansas CONFUSION ENDED Anderson Explains Difference Between Organisations Considerable confusion has arisen recently throughout the state as to this year's meetings of the Kansas Republican Women's club and the Womens Kansas Day club, according to a letter received by Wallace H.

Anderson, county Republican' chairman; from John Hamilton. state chairman. The former is a political adjunct of the Republican party, the latter a non-political group. Mr. Anderson pointed out.

The Kansas Republican Womens club meet on Thursday. January 28. but the Womens Kansas Day club will meet on January 29. It Is before the Republican Womens club that Mrs. Dollie Gann, sister of Vice President Charles Curtis, will speak on the twenty-eighth.

as was announced in a recent issue of The Register. Mrs. Gann will speak at a luncheon meeting of the club In Topeka, tickets for which can be secured from the C. A. Wolf Jewelry store in Topeka for SI.

That amount also includes membership dues for 1932. Many women prominent in the Republican party in Kansas have already made reservations for the luncheon', according to Mr. Anderson, who pointed out that there ts a standing invitation to. all Republican women of Allen county to attend. HIT-RUN DRIVERS CAUGHT Anderson County Men Will Pay for Damaged Iola Car.

Sunday in Garnett a motor car in which two men were riding crashed into a machine driven by Russell Boyer. Ellis Motor Company salesman. and tore off the front bumper. The two men left their car and fled on foot. Yesterday evening Sheriff Tom Hurst, of Anderson county, telephoned that he had caught the two men and that they were willing to pay for the damage to the Ellis automobile.

He said the price of a new bumper would be mailed by check. MRS. IRENA WILLIAMS DIES Geneva Pioneer Succumbs at Home of G. Smelser Mrs. Irena Williams, 83, died at 5 p.

m. yesterday, in the home of her nephew, G. L. Smelser, Geneva. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.

m. tomorrow in the Geneva hall, the Rev. A. V. Howland, pastor of the Iola United Brethren church, will officiate and interment will be in the Geneva cemetery.

Mrs. Williams came 'from Arkansas about six years ago to make her home in Geneva. -Survivors are G. L. Smelser, manager of the Geneva Telephone exchange, and his family, and a Mrs.

Wimmer, a sister residing in Iola. EAST IOLA STORE LOOTED Jess Thompson Suffers Loss of Radio and Two Saws. The unoccupied store building on South Kentucky street belonging to Jess Thompson was broken into last night by robbers who made off with a three-tube Kennedy radio set and two circular saw blades. The saws were 10 and 12 inches in diameter respectively. The offers of contracts for state highway construction were marked by unusually low prices, indicating the spirited bidding held at Parsons yesterday by the highway department.

The bids were lower than for similar projects last year and that despite the fact that state specifications require contractors to use hand labor instead of machinery whenever possible. That clause has been introduced by the state in an effort to provide more work for laborers all over the state. V. S. 54 -To Be Improved.

Projects included six miles of grading together with necessary culverts, four bridges, nine miles of new chat, and 46 miles of chat surfacing, mostly in southeast Kansas. One project, the surfacing with chat of eight miles of U. S. No. 54 northeast from Toronto, will eliminate one of the worst remaining stretches of gravel road between Iola and Wichita.

The tentative list of low bids and bidders for new construction projects was announced as follows: In Labette County. Labette county, 5.85 miles grading, culverts and two bridges on U. 6. A man who said that he was an ex-soldier got a good, nights sleep in the warmth of the Allen county jail last night after having been picked up by one of the Iola police force. He was brought before Police Judge Ira Kerwood this morning, but because he was totally without funds, was dismissed with the advice that he should start immediately for his alleged destination of Muskogee, Okla.

Judge Kerwood said that the man gave every evidence of being a dope addict, and was pretty well snowed under even this morning..