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TIME TO ADVBRTI8I BABT CHICKS Hatcheries Incited In the territory ierv- by The News and Herald will rind a ready market for their outpnt through the "POULTRY" column In tht want-ad THE HUTCHINSON NEWS Single Copy Price VOL. LXV. (Established July 4, U72) HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1937. NO. 202 "Lady In Red" Pails to Lure Single Insult Lonely Rbmcos al Beer Joint Talks of Sweethearts and Polities De- spile Her Best Efforts Town of Lonely Hearts Reporter's Bait Verifies Recent New York Woman's Statement Loneliness Is Greatest Problem Breeder.Named In Indictment.

Ends Own Life Man Who Often Showed at Fair Here Charged With Mails Fraud By Grand Jury at Topeka JAMES C. ROBISON Body Found By a Son James Robison Had Been Cheerful at Breakfast; Gave No Sign He Knew Of Grand Jury Action (By the Lady In Red) i This is a town ol lonely hearts! Say, how do I know it? Because the boys aren't looking lor a gal to proposition half as much as they, are for someone to listen about the wife and kiddies. Let's get this straight from the start. I'm not a pick-up girl, even if I have had my fun. But the other night a News reporter and I were talking about how you get led astray and the "lines" men use and things like that.

It ended by me agreeing to be sucker bait just for the story. I guess I'm a sucker myself, but I didn't know what nice guy I might meet. Anyhow, I was to plant myself and get picked up. Dons Plenty of Allure I wore that tight red dress with the puffed- sleeves and fixed my eyes up a little. I forgot all Emily Post and mother ever taught me and trotted into one of those roadside beer joints where I knew the bartender was a friend of mine and could double as I did feel a little foolish because it was the first time I had ever been in the dump without a date.

But I mustered a come-hlthcr look all right. I must have sipped about all my beer, when I noticed a man sort of ambling my way. a big, burly brute at all. He was just a well-dressed youngster from the Dust Bowl. A Story Book Lad "I beg your pardon," he said, all politeness, "but would you care to dance with me." He didn't even use the word "Baby." I crawled into his arms, but he held me away from him.

wanted to dance. Then we had a glass of beer and he told me that his father had died and left him to care for his mother and sister and it had been a.tough job since the wheat had blown out so many times. He said he h'ad got a job with an oil company at Emporia and was on his way there. Treated As a Sister When ho opened his pocketbook I began to wonder. But all he Veteran Jurist Dies As Result Of Bus Mishap Dallas Grovcr Had Served 30th Kansas District For 26-Years Newton, Dallas Grover, Salina, died in a hospital at 11 o'clock last night of throat injuries suffered Feb.

20 in a bus-truck accident. Judge Grover was passenger on a Santa Fe bus that collided With the rear of a freight truck during a snow storm on a highway two miles south of here. Thrown forward, he suffered throat injuries which proved fatal. He. was the second victim of (Page 7, Column 3, Please) Would Curtail Tariff Powers Vandenberg and Capper in Vain Effort Washington, (IP)' Proposed amendments to restrict the president's power slowed up senate debate today over extension of the reciprocal trade agreements act.

Administration leaders predicted all the suggested changes, put forward with bi-partisan support, Would be rejected. Similar attempts to alter the measure were defeated by the house. Vandenberg (R-Mich) and Capper (R-Kan) led the opposition with demands that congress exercise more direct control over the making of further trade agreements. asked that any agreement limiting the power of congress to fix internal taxes be prohibited, and that the state department give notice beforehand of all commodities it planned to cover in an agreement. Capper urged senate ratification of all trade pacts and proposed dropping the "most-favored na-r tion" policy, On the Democratic side Senators Pepper and Andrews of Florida and Senators Ellender and Overton of Louisiana asked that the cost of production of American agricultural commodities be guaranteed, i The senate's first debate on major legislation brought frequent clashes between Vandenberg or Capper and' Senator Harrison (D- Mlss), the long-legged leader of administration forces.

Fired, Tries Extortion Negro in a Admits Writing Letter Oklahoma City, A confession by a dismissed Negro woman, of an attempt to extort $5,000 under threat to dynamite a hotel was claimed today by L.E. Kingman, federal bureau agent. Kingman said Armintha Wesley, 24, admitted sending the threatening letters malls to Mrs. Paul G. HUckins, wife- of a hotel' company president because of the dismissal.

She faced arraignment today. El Dorado, The body of James C. Robison, 65, Percheron horse breeder indicted by a federal grand-jury at Topeka last week for using the malls to fraud, was found in the bath room of his home near Towanda this morning, a bullet wound through the temple. A .38 caliber revolver was beside the body. Found By Son.

Robison's body was discovered by his son, James, who was summoned to the house by Mrs. Robison when she heard a shot. Coroner A. P. Cloyes termed the death suicide.

Robison's indictment was announced at Topeka last night by S. S. Alexander, district attorney. Coroner Clbyes said Robison's wife and son were not aware of the grand jury's action until reporters told them of the indictment after his death. In Good Spirits.

Robison's son said he appeared in good spirits at breakfast and "apparently knew nothing of the indictments." The grand jury indicted Robison on 17 counts of using the mails to defraud in connection with sales of "grade" horses as "pedigreed" animals through the use of alleged fraudulent records. Alexander said in instances Robison sold colts purportedly sired by a stallion which died 10 years before the colts were born. Robison had many friends in Hutchinson, especially among those connected with the live stock department of the Kansas Slate Hd--exhibited horses nearly every year at the Hutchinson DALLAS QR0VER the accident. Mrs. Isabel Shoffner, Lawton, died of throat injuries soon after the accident.

On Bench 26 Years. One of the deans of the Kansas district bench, Judge Grover had been judge of the 30th judicial district for the past 26 years. Included in the district are Saliua, Ellsworth, Lincoln and Ottawa counties. Before his election to the district bench, Judge Grover served 10 years as Ellsworth county attorney. His record as prosecutor includes a successful campaign against "blind common in Kansas in the early days of Kansas prohibition, and the breaking up of a gambling ring in central Kansas, He was: born at Wilkcsbarre, in'1865.

After graduating from college, he came to Kansas and for 13 years taught school'in Wilson, where he was pririclpal. He left the teaching profession in 1000 to begin his long career ol public 'service. Opposed But Once. A Republican, Judge Grover entered the campaign for district judge in 1910 after the resignation of Judge R. R.

Rees, who sought a congressional seat. Since then he has been so popular in the area that on only one occa- (Page 8, Column 6, Please) (lei Erosion Figures' Fort Scott, Good Kansas soil went down the Marmalon river after the week end; rain at the. rate of 35 tons a minute. Analysis of the water made at the city water supply intake showed .07 pound of silt in each gallon. The rate of flow was amillion gallons a minute.

Water department officials said this was an unusually high silt load. Keesling Faces Assault Charge Farmer Accused By Wichita Creditor Show Is Interrupted St, Joseph. The manager told the amazed ence; "Please step outside the theatre for a few minutes while men blow open the office safe." The audience alacrity, A clumsy burglar had Jammed the safe, leaving an explosive in a drilled hole. Ex-, perts said the only way to open it was to finish tHe burglar's job and there was danger in delay. So the audience was ushered out, the safe blasted and the audience filed back into the show.

"It didn't amount much but my safe sure is ruined," lamented Manager Barney Du- binsky today. Twice Fail to Knockout Child Labor Resolve Motion to Strike Enacting Clause Beaten By Nar row Margin Workers Seize Large Western Aircraft Plant Lewis' Long Hand Reaches Into Industry Engaged In Filling Large Government Contracts Peggy's Balm Suit Is Halted By N. Y. Justice BOSS 'SIT-DOWNER' SETTLES STRIKE Had Made No Demands Minority Group Seizes Opportunity For Holiday But Makes Pledge of No Sabotage The Weather cloudy to cloudy tonight aid Thursday; not much change In temperature. Partly cloudy weather, with little in temperature tonight and Thursday was forecast for Kansas today by federal meteorologists.

Although skies were overcast uml dreary this morning, the sun: is expected to break through' at intervals tomorrow. It was 29 degrees this morning, and 4 5. yesterday. It was and mid afternoon. A year ago day'it'was 84 degrees; the.highest February reading 1 in 40 years.

TEMPERATURE' (By B. Plouibe, H- B.vObMrver)^ r- Minimum i A year ago low, 43, Ivory G. Keesling. farmer of 29 miles west of Hutchinson, entered a plea of not guilty when a'r- raigned in city court today on a charge of assault with intent to kill, preferred -W. Gaston of Wichita.

Gaston told county officers that he was beaten by Keesling when he went to thelatter's farm last Thursday in ah attempt to collect a 5200 note. He said that Keesling asked to see the note and then tore it-to pieces. An argument followed, Gaston claiming that he was kicked by Keesling and beaten with an iron bar. He exhibited a shirt torn to shreds and said he had three fractured ribs. Keesling told Undersheriff George Salmon that there had been trouble and said he had a small wrecking bar hanging on his arm but denied using it against Gaston.

Preliminary hearing was set for March 3. He expected to post $1,000 bond this afternoon. Dies In South Africa Topeka, Two attempts to disable the embattled resolution' to ratify the child labor amend ment to the federal constitution were defeated in the house today. One of the attempts, an amend ment by Rep. George Plummer, (R-Jeffcrson) to reject the reso.

lution and substitute an endorsement of a bill now pending in con, greas, was ruled out of "not germane" to the subject be-, fore the house. The second attempt was a motion by Rep. Raymond E. Smith, (R-Marshall) to strike out the enacting clause. It was defeated, 63 to 51, with 50 Republicans and 1 one Democrat voting for the tion, and 17 Republicans and 46 Democrats against.

To Have Scant Margin The closeness of the vote, proponents of the measure indicated that there would be little, if any, to spare when the house votes to approve or reject in committee of the whole. They pointed out that the majority of Republicans voted to strike out the enacting clause and that of the ten house members absent and voting this morning, seven were of thatipolitical Plummer's amendment would have eliminated the resolving section of the resolution. Rep. I. T.

Riftlardson (R-Lyon) challenged the amendment on the ground that it violated a house rule in that it was not "germane." Rep. S. C. Bloss, (R-Cowley) who was presiding, sustained Richardson. Gives Too Much Power In moving to strike out the enacting clause," Smith asserted the amendment gives the federal government too much implied power over children.

Speaking for the resolution which had a narrow escape in the senate on a 21 to 20 vote with Lieutenant Governor Lindsay breaking a Rep. W. H. Reed (D-Wyandotte) said: "If you Republicans are afraid to claim your child, then we Dem ocrats will be proud to claim it, along with the other children of which we are rightfully proud. Would Retain Oil Compact Authority to join in extending for two years the interstate com pact to conserve oil and gas would be given Gov.

Walter A. Huxman in a bill introduced in the house today by its committee on oil and gas. The. agreement will expire September 1, 1937. Originally cuted at Dallas, February IB.

1935, it would be extended upon agreement of any three states of the group including Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, California Wife of Kaiisan Is Buried At Capetown Horace, Returning to Capetown, Africa, after a big- game hunt, H. Wear, Kansas and' Colorado wheat grower, learned today that Mrs. Wear died more than a month ago in a Capetown he advised friends here by cable. The cablegram said she died after an operation and was bur-, ied at Capetown January 22. Unsuccessful efforts were made to reach Wear.

(Page Column 6, Please) Santa Monica. Douglas Aircraft company plant, its $24,000,000 construction program at a standstill, was occupied today by more than 300 sit-down strikers who ignored the president's request to leave and "avoid trouble." Pickets walked outside. A nearby signpost read: "Plant closed until rioting subsides." Circulars passed among ths 5,600 employes after the abrupt shutdown yesterday said the strik ers would ask a pay raise of 15 cents an hour, seniority rights, Ume and a half for overtime and recognition of the United Automobile Workers of America. Urged to Leave. Copies of a letter signed by Donald W.

Douglas, president of the company, were distributed inside among the "unauthorized oc cupants" asking them to stop "trespassing upon the company's property" and leave at once. "We wish to remind you that a large part of the work in progress is for the United Slates govern ment and a large part of the ma terials on hand belong to the United States government," Douglas said. "We wish to advice you that serious consequences to yourselves will result from any injury to property of the government and may follow from a further interference with the progress of this work. "We request that ycu leave at once to avoid trouble arising from any source." Pledge No Sabotage. The 5 1 "The men have been informed of the situation and instructed not to sabotage any material in the plant." The spokesman identified himself as Bob Trochet, publicity committeeman of local 214, aircraft division, United Automobile Workers of America.

He claimed the union's membei hip in the plant exceeded 1,100. Other claims of' the union, a unit of John L. Lewis' committee for industrial organization, ranged up to 60 per cent. Claiming 3,300 members, Newt Collins, president of the Douglas employees' association, retorted: "We are in the majority and we want to stop this." Relatives brought the strikers sandwiches, coffee, milk, blankets, coats and radios. Had Made No Demands.

The union asked the national labor relations board to call an election to determine it or the employees association should be recognized as the collective bargaining agent for all employees. iPlant officials said $19,000,000 of the construction contracts rep- Court Decides Enough Dirt Is On the Record Girl Claiming Innocence Despoiled By RubinofF Found to Have Married Before She Was 12 Walter L. Fry, formerly of Topeka, settled one of the strangest industrial disputes in American joint sit- down of capital and labor, after a four-day strike in his Detroit factory which manufactures automobile seat covers. Here's Fry receiving food from his "cook-secretary," Helen Powell. It was prepared on an electric grill in his office.

(Associated Press Photo) Many a Hat Is Teetering On Edge of Ring Two to Four New Candidates For Mayor Expected to Announce Soon Must Take Ads From Billboard Stop Markers Attorney General Threatens to Cite Commission For Contempt Long-Lived Charity Philadelphia, Samuel Scotten gave thought to hunger and the poor before he died in 1810. Through a provision in his will, loaves of bread were given 145 needy families, a custom on his birth anniversary each year for more than a century and a quarter. At first the money provided bought $12 worth. Now increased income provides $18 for the charity. Plight of Pantless High School Band Brings Ready Response Here Seared by the shame of a pant- less band, Hutchinson boosters this noon had contributed $127 toward a fund to buy uniform trousers for the 75 members of the, senior high school organization.

-Director Alan Watrous estimates $600 will be- needed. The trousers will remain the property of the high school will- be redistributed to the "young musicians each year. Watrous' believes they should: last at least a decade. Business men organized the pants fund drive when the high school band was criticized at Manhattan nararia because nether, garments were of varied hues and clashing with neat uniform, coats and caps, The money is being collected at the high school principal's office, tlie Chamber of Commerce and The News and Herald. Today's contributors: aferlden Creamery Hulctilngon Foundry a.

UlUon r. W. cooler Cull O. O. Uelnley Tint National Bank A.

M. ami. Dillon Mercantile Co. DavU-Chlki Motor On. Chamber at Commerce Newi-Heraid .1 6.00 15.1HI 1U.0U 10.1111 f.

nil lo.ou lo.ou iii.oii 10.00 ....30.00 iai37.mi (Page-8, Column 5. Please) Retirement Act Vote Prevented Two Senators Interpose Objections Two and possibly four; new Hfdales for mayor are expected to announce within the next ten days, it was understood this afternoon as political rumors seethed on the street corners. None of the reputed aspirants has declared himself, but friends are mustering support and arguments. The men said to be po tential candidates are: W. B.

(Billy) Greenwald, head of the Nation Center Broadcasting merchant and former NRA official. O. (Lefty) Williams, former county clerk and a Legionnaire. Carl Hippie, oil operator and former president of the Chamber of Commerce. Max Wyman, member of the law firm of Wyman and Wyman and former county attorney.

Others Mentioned Among others mentioned for mayor are W. MY (Bud) Detter, Charlie Ragland, 1 Jesse Stenge and Judge Ed J. Whalen. Mayor D. J.

Wilson, who has announced for re-election, has petitions in circulation as has Roy Hill, candidate for mayor on the "People's" ticket. Last day for filing nominations and also for registration at the city clerk's ofSice is March 18. The primary will be held March 29 and the election April 6th. Eleven To Be Chosen Voters will.select a mayor and four commissioners, three school board members, arid judge, clerk arid marshal of the city court. W.

H. Stitt, 828 East Sixth filed nomination papers for mar- shall of the city, court yesterday, He is the fifth aspirant to announce for the job. Prosecutor May Move Minutes Involving ed Denial of Marriagri Turned to District ncy By Judge New York, Garcia $500,000 breach of promise suit against Dave Rublnoff ended abruptly in supreme court today when Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo granted a motion to discontinue made by her counsel, Bernard Sandler. Sandler's decision to drop the action against the radio violinist occurred while Peggy was on the stand relating the details of her marriage in 1925 tp Taylor Vance Guinn.

Justice Cotillo broke in and said: "There is no desire on my part to continue this trial and drag in dirt and have the names ot innocent persons dragged into it. Why doesn't counsel make a motion to discontinue';" Prosecution May Result In discontinuing the case, Justice Cotillo said that the minutes of the testimony would be sent to Washington, by Senators King (D-Utah) and McNary (R-Ore.) blocked action in the senate today on legislation which would permit supreme court justices to retire voluntarily at 70 with full pay. The retirement bill; which already has been passed by the house, has been approved by President Roosevelt although it is not a part of his broader program for putting "new blood" into the high tribunal. The measure came up during consideration of bills on the calendar, requiring unanimous consent for their approval. Both King and McNary objected.

King has expressed opposition to the president's program. A moment later, Senator McCarran (D-Nev.) attempted to move to take up the bill, but McNary, the Republican leader, contended the motion was not in order. The Nevada senator Is expected, however, to get the court bill up tomorrow or the next day. Senate opponents of President Roosevelt's court program said today, after Senator Tydings (D- Md.) joined their ranks, that "enough votes to defeat Uie bill are in sight," They did not claim sufficient votes already were committed, but insisted they had enough to "stop" the bill by holding it up in the judiciary committee or preventing a final sonata vntav An order citing the Hutchinson city commission for contempt in disregarding an order of the Kan- sas supreme court directing removal of the city's "billboard" i street signs will be sought it all advertising matter is not removed by March 12, Clarence V. Beck, attorney general, warned today in a letter to City Attorney Alva L.

Fenn. Gives Until March 12. The communication, a copy of which went to County Attorney Wesley E. Brown, calls attention to the supreme court December 12 ousting the city from permitting private advertising on traffic signs in the public streets. "I am advised that those signs are still in existence and still bear private advertising, contrary lo the orders of the court," Beck wrote.

"In the event that all private advertising signs are not removed from your streets by the 12th day of March of this year, I shall feel it my duty to make application to the supreme court citing your board of commissioners for contempt in disregarding the order of the court." City To Act. City Attorney Fenn said today that police already have removed most of the advertising plates from the street signs. He explained the ice and snow had prevented them from completing the job. The remainder ol the signs will be lifted immediately, Fenn promised. Lindberghs in Bombay Bombay, and Mrs.

Charles A. Lindbergh landed here at 1 p. m. (3 a. m.

EST) today after being unreported for 48 hours on an aerial jaunt over India. Selassie Advisor Dead Washington, A. Colson, Yankee confidant and advisor of Haile Selassie during Italy's conquest of, Ethiopia, died last night. Wally'Gets Privacy Cannes, France, (IP) wasn't the heat, it was the curiosity, for Mrs. Wallis Simpson.

The Duke of Windsor's betrothed dined out at a hotel restaurant last unusually warm the guest of Sidney T. Allen and Mrs. of St. Louis, Mo. Despite the heat, she insisted on having all the windows closed, the curtains drawn and a screen placed'around her table; Other diners complained In vain that the windows should be Mrs.

Simpson wore a black lace gown with a cluster of violets at the waist. Her party included the British author, Somerset Maugham. After Delinquents County Cumpaign to Collect Taxes to Open' Reno county's long heralded drive to collect delinquent personal property taxes will get underway as soon as.alias warrants are received from the county treasurer, which is expected to be tomorrow, it was said at the sheriff's office today. First action probably will be on 1935 taxes. County Attorney Wesley E.

Brown said he had given instructions for the sheriff to proceed on "any and all" warrants at once. Several weeks ago a'drive was announced but failed to materialize. Under the law, the sheriff will levy on property ot the delinquents. PEGGY GARCIA the office of District Attorney William C. Dodge, for Sandler's action followed a digest by Justice Cotillo concerning marriage laws in the state of Virginia, where Peggy, admitted that she wed Guinn in the city of Salem.

The digest reads: "A marriage contracted by a female in the state ot Virginia at the age of 12 years without the consent of her parents, even though there has been no cohabitation and even though after the marriage ceremony the parties separated, is still only a voidable marriage and is binding and conclusive upon both parties unless set aside by a court ol competent jurisdiction in an action where both parties to the contract are parties." Counsel Protests The discontinuance took place Over the objections of Abraham Halprin, Rubinoff's attorney, who said that "serious charges" had been made against his radio violinist client by the Garcia girl and he wanted an opportunity to prove they were not true. In dismissing the jury which had listened to testimony for the last ten days, the justice said that he thought he did the best thing (Page 8, Column 4, Please) Well I'll Tell You By Bob Townsend Is Guilty Convicted of Contempt of The House Washington, Jury convicted Or. Frances K. Towiuend today of contempt of the huuae of repreaenlatives for walking out of a conunlUee'it heaiuuf May. The verdict returned ex- aetly an hour after the Jury received the case.

The United States district court Jury deliberated only 50 minutes, however, before reaching decision II had sent word ten mlnatea earlier that wms ready' ta resort. Even if you have to be a little bit blunt at times, I think in the end it's a whole lot better to come right out and tell a person the truth than to stall 'em off. You'd really be doin' the other person a favor and you'd save botli of you a lot ot time. I've got a poetic Uncle Gladstone Hink, who kept comin' to me with poetry that he wanted me to put in this paper. Of course, I didn't want to hurt his feelings because I knew that poets are awfully sensitive and I Just kept staliln' his off.

Finally the other day, he comes right out and asked me, point blank, what I thought ot his poetry. I didn't want to tell him the truth, so I just told him that 1 hadn't had lime tu read 'em, because his writlu' was a little bad. I says "You could make it a lot easier on me if you'd type these out." He looked at me kinds funny and he says "Do you think I'd be my time poetry, it I could work a typewriter?" Copyright 1937 i'TmturvX'w-.