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News Notes OF LOCAL Happenings CiriUicotije Congtttutton-tlritiune VOL. DAILY EDITION CHILLICOTHE, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1939 EIGHT PAGES NO. 33 GO HOME TODAY Mrs. B.

P. Brock and her infant son, born February 2 at the Chili- cothe Hospital, will be dismissed today and taken to the home of her mother, Mrs. R. P. Harper, on North Cherry Street.

GAME NEXT THURSDAY The Chillicothe High School basketball game with Milan, i scheduled to have -been played last night at Milan, will be played on the Milan court next Thursday evening. A group of local fans will probably attend. WOMEN ATTENDED MEETING It was a good meeting the child development chairmen, parliamentarians, reporters and reading chairmen of the women's extension clubs of Livingston county held yesterday at the Elm Street Methodist Church. Miss Marguerite Mc- Clellaii, home demonstration agent, ARTHUR SMITH IS BEATEN BY HITCH HIKERjCAR STOLEN JMan Whom He Had Be- I friended Attacked For- mer Chillicothean. BAD SCALP WOUNDS Highway Patrol Have Been Unable to Gel Any Trace of Man or Car.

Arthur Smith of Kansas City, former linotype operator for The! Constitution-Tribune, was slugged and thrown out of his -car on the highway near Mooresville Friday Sought in Killing Of Spinster morning by a hitch-hiker whom he was in charge. TAKES EXAM TODAY Miss Elsie Briner. newly appoint- Highway patrolmen are searching cd clerk-typist in the Farm Security picked up a short distance out of Kansas City. The hitch-hiker escap- ed in Smith's Terraplane coupe. Administration office in Chillicothe, was in Kirksville today where she today for the hitch-hiker, described by Smith as wearing a soldier's cap, a gray overcoat and high laced boots.

Because of the cold Smith befriended SEN. LA FOLLETTE URGED CONGRESS TO ASSERTJTS VOICE Wants United States to Take Hand in Shaping Foreign Policies. GIVES OUT INTERVIEW Does Not Want to Sec a Repetition of 1917, He Stated Today. tl'r WASHINGTON, Feb. La Follette, Progressive of Wisconsin, urged congress to assert its voice in shaping foreign policies.

The legislature could thus prevent the country from following a course "deadly parallel" to that which lead Following ih3 in hzr ivin.c.i.) jt into war in 1917 he declared in an N. hems of Maude Home, 61-; interview. ICE BOX "WARMS" ROOM Proprietor Opens Refrigerator "Take Chill Off." to British Columbia, Feb. the mercury said 27 below. Inside Ray Lynches lunchroom the refrigerator door was open.

Just "taking the chill off." explained Lynch because the ice box temperature was 15 degrees above that in the room. 1WWBA OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED JAPANESE TROOPS LANDED TODAY ON HAINAN ISLAND She Honeymoons in Quarantine Were allv Greeted Enthusiastic- by Japanese Press and the Public. WARN FOREIGN PAPERS Mrs. Mabel Edgerton of Richmond Was Installing Officer Last Night. year-old spinster, a murder warran; was issued for John Howland, above, Ohio State Prison parolee.

The Wisconsin senator, a member The I. O. O. F. hall was filled Friday night for the public installation of officers of the local Review 18 of the Women's Benefit Association of Missouri.

A partial list of the officers fol- of the senate foreign relations com- lows: Mrs. Leroy Mclrwin, presi- Massachusetts authorities also mittee and administration supporter dent; Miss Dorothy Hogg, vice-pres- took an examination over the work which she will be required to do as part of her work under Joe Vale, farm supervisor of Livingston county. She is from Gallatin and is a graduate of C.B.C. WILL ATTEND CONFERENCE I Between Breckenridg'3 and Moor- Reports from over the county I Smith told officers the man indicate that a large crowd of him across the back of his neck farmers will attend the Soils and jand then began beating him over the Crops conference which will be head with an held at Tuesday fcr the man by picking him up as he drove out of Kansas City Friday morning on his way to Brookfield where he worked until recently on the Brookfield Argus. The man told i Smith he was on his way to St.

Louis. 1 questioning Aida Butlsr, 15-year-old cousin. MEASURE RESULTS FIRST FIELD WORK Irs ion many occasions, said he thought if the United States supplied war i materials to any group of nations ident; Mrs. Arthur Howsman, past- president; Mrs. F.

C. Fay, chaplain; Mrs. C. A. Fish, financial secretary; Must Abandon the Illusion of Assisting Chiang Kai- Shek, It Is Said.

i TOKYO, Feb. landing of Japanese troops on Hainan island off the South China coast that has besn considered within the French sphere of influence, was greeted en- I thusiastically by the Japanese press and the 2,599 anniversary of the founding of the empire. The newspaper, Hochi, said the move was intended to warn foreign papers to of assisting: Chiang Kai-shek." Other newspaper predicted the occupation would be temporary. Military communique said the landing was so sudden the Chinese lacked PEASANTS PAY HOMAGE TO POPE PIUS XI TODAY Passed Before Bier in the Sistine Chapel Where Body Lie in State. THOUSANDS VIEW BOD "Common Folks" Made Most of Crowd Passing Through Chapel.

it would be placed in an unneutral Mrs. Esther Bellamy, sergeant; Miss I time to apply their "scorched earth" i position almost certain to involve it. I He expressed the opinion congress could prevent this by discussing for- Hslen McElwain, Miss America; Miss Lillian Fish, Miss W.B.A.; Mrs. Ila Summercille, officer of the day; eign policies in a way to fully inform Mrs. Eunice Ormsby, musician; on in Program Committee th Ameri an people fl 0 Commenting! on conflicting ver- Session at City Hall sion of the foreign policy which Yesterday.

i President Roosevelt outlined resent- I Mrs. John Hill, juvenile supervisor, and Mrs. Arthur Huggett, 'degree captain. The program which followed the ing in a compartment back of the I seat and asking him to hand over Livingston county farm program I istration for "shrouding in secrecy" his money. I committeemen, in session French purchase of airplanes.

the City Hall here of next week. Those charge are hopeful of having at least 500 men and women in at- Smith, although partially stunned, at the City Hall, measured the re-j tendance at the morning session. had the presence of mind to drive suits of the first field work that 1S BemiCe Worth the car off the slab and told the has been done in the county to- i hitch-hiker he had no money. Fin- ly, La Follette criticized the admin- installation included a trombone solo policy and abandoned the capital of Newleywed Mrs. Donald Farley of Hutchinson, meant it when she pledged to stick by hubby "in sickness and in death." The 19-year- old bride went through the cere- VATICAN CITY, Feb.

and peasants today joined in homage to Pope Pius XI before his bier in the Sistine chapel where he lay in state. Crown Prince Umberto was es- corted into the chapel by the Italian ambassador to the Holy See and thousands of rank and file Italians and foreigners climbed the long stairs of St. Peter's and passed reverently, around -the bier. Most persons passing the bier were the common folks. Men in all walks of life, small children and peasant women moved in line by the side of trimly uniformed mili- Hanian and the chief port and larg- min do with scarlet fever, set- tied down to a three-week honey- est city at the northern tip of the island.

Meanwhile in Paris the French foreign ministry was reported re- liably to be drafting a formal de- I mand that Japan explain her military occupation of the island. Paul Danielson, a flexitone solo Hain an is in an equally strategic tary silks men and and furs. society women in Many had never moon in quarantine. THE GREEN SCHOOL BY FIRE I location with respect to the British Burned Friday Afternoon I seen the pope alive. The pontiff's death, on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the signing 'of the Lateran accord, which healed the breach between the Italian stats and the Holy See, and only four days after he had marked the seventeenth.

I anniversary of his elevation to the HOSPITAL PATIENTS ings by Mrs. F. C. Fay, a dance by 1 Jean Alice Mendenhall and LaVonne Pittman, an acrobatic dance by Miss Mrs. Jessie Epperson underwent a ward signing-up members of the aly the stranger got out of the car, 1939 Agriculture Conservation Pro- tO Livingston Martha Meek, a solo by Miss Helen Meek.

Mrs. J. J. Shy and Mrs. Herb major operation at the Chffiicothe (H Hospital this morning.

C. O. Taylor, Route 2, will be dismissed front the hospital today forllowing a recent operation. Smith out by his feet, and ileft him at the side of the road. In a few minutes when Smith was able to walk he started into Mooresville.

A passing truck driver, seeing PauTBowles, 'son 'of Mr. and Mrs. John Bowles, Route 3, will be. dismissed and return to his home today. He underwent an operation at the hospital last week.

his conditiok.v4pok-hinvto Mcores- ville for medical care and highway patrol was called. Patfolmeii Named Home Management Supervisor for the FSA in This County. brought Smith to Chillicothe and se i ec ted at random from all parts gram and found that they expect I approximately 79 per cent to the farmers to become participants. The reports turned in by the committeemen showed that there were i40 farmers 'interviewed relative to the 'nary class 6f this year, has been day" of work and of that number, colony of Hongkong and Singapore. Former Resident in Montier Storm Shortly After School Was Dismissed.

Danielson were accompanists. Officers were installed by Mrs. Mabel Edgerton of Richmond, managing! deputy, and the Brookfield degree staff of which Mrs. Mayme Miss Bernice Worth, graduate of curria is leader. Mrs.

Arthur Hows- the MissouruUniversity: in the Jan- past president; Mrs. Nettie Butcher Was Injured in Wind Storm Thursday Night. he is now at the Leeper Hotel. made the Home Management Supervisor for the Farm Security Admin! of the county, exactly 100 have jstration Livingston County to opening prayer was made by the Rev. La Verne L.

Rudolph. Charlotte Dupy and Betty Duncan acted as flower girls and presented ANGEREKS i illiUCU 0.0 ci 1 1 A11 A 1 He suffered five bad scalp wounds completed plans for tne 1939 crop succeed Miss eraice McVeigh whoj red roses to each officer as she was LEAVE alld was weak fr the loss of so Which will bring them squarely in- win now work only in Grundy coun- mstalled They a lso presented flow- miMlh blOOd. but hiS Condition tOday i tr, fha fai-m nrncn-arvi fnr t-hp full T.iiHnn-- I Mrs. Angerer and" her daugh- i much blood but lis condition today to the farm program for the full ty and not that county and Living- is satisfactory. tcr and son, Elizabeth and Alden, will leave during the week-end to join Mr.

Angerer in Stilwater, for a residence. Mr. member of the M. and A. A Community faculty there.

The Angerers haSce Clllb Is Organized i benefit payments. Eleven others 0 as she has Tjeen doing in the ers to Mrs. Dee Belch, deputy state field 'director of Kansas City, Mrs. Edgerton and Mrs. Howsman.

In Smith is a brother of Mrs. Lee made plans hi will bring them uas 4-1 't- I iJUgCl UW11 cmVI J.r,LiO. J.i.v^ it jMerrickandD. O. Smith of ths city.

partial ben efits while the other Mss Wor th is from Carrollton and a pretty ceremony Uley interpreted has her A. B. degree from the uni- the ow Fashioned found that they were unable to go into the program for various reasons. versity where she served for sometime as the secretary to Miss Minnie been living here with her mother, while Miss Helen words. Charlotte Meek sang and Betty the are Mrs.

H. W. Lee, for the past several months. Previously they lived in Jefferson City. Was Perfected at Meeting of The one hundred and eleven who L.

Irons, head of the education de- i members the Junior Review. Mrs. The Green school, located two miles north and two miles west of i papal throne, thrust upon the shoul- ders of Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli the temporary admjinistration of the; church of Rome. Cardinal Pacelli ceased to be papal, secretary of state and became cant-i Mrs. Nettie Butcher, mother of: were saved Fred Butcher of Mrs.

Oren Butcher, her daughter-in- Avalon, burned to the ground Fri- of the Holy day afternoon shortly after the Roman which position he 1 teacher, Miss Emma Dent, and the will guide the government until the seventeen pupils left for their i 262d occupant ot the throne of homes. Most'vof the furnishings is selected- law, were severely injured in the i Before she left 'the building, Miss i chosen by the' college of numbering sixty two raem bers vvtit owvtitij HJ.JLU.I.V4 AJ.J. i ft. i to see if there 'was much fire left cyclone which struck and almost i in the bowi. There was not and her contention was proved later when the man who discovered the blaze went into the structure and earned out the stove, along with every- completely destroyed Montier, Thursday night, according to word reaching Mr.

Butcher yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Nettie Butcher, who was for a long time a resident of this county and who left here to go to the home i of her son, Oren and Mrs. Butcher i in Montier just a short time ago, on I was on a sleeping porch when the Miss we storm struck. Mrs.

Oren Butcher scen it: in a secret conclave. (Editors Note: A dispatch to the New York Times from Vatican City stated that Cardinal Pacelli had decided the conclave will begin setting March 1, making the period the thing else except the slate black- longest permitted by the papal bull. boards. "The building must have been burning in the flue when we 18-day period will allow all cardinals to reach Rome.) Meeting in the Sistine the New York Extension Club. signified their intentions of join- partment of the Home Economics ing the program represent 79 per division of the school.

She came cent of the 140 interviewed and to Chillicothe yesterday and is rnak- Priday gn t. She is recovering from John Hill, juvenile director, was un- I wcnt there to brto her the able to be present for installation nousc and was Joined.by her bus- band. As they were carrying the have i taking only two votes a day, the was burning other i Cardinals will ballot until stove could not traditionally one of the have started the fire after that." receives a two-thirds majority. Maynard Sloan wfcs the one who (Two of the three United States Henry Karst Dies i at the Age of 70! the twenty-nine wlio will remain outside the program represent just A Community 4-H club was or- 1 21 per cent of the 140. ing her home in the apartment of i a recent operation.

Frank Hoyt. Precedin the meeting at the I. O. The addition of a Home Manager- I hall ganized last night. north of These figures are almost exact- ment Supervisor to the F.

S. A. mj was hcld at the Lecp er Hotel. Mrs. elderly woman down the stairs, the i discovered the blaze while working i cardinals, Dennis Cardinal Dougjh- i wind whipped the roof and the on the adjoining farm which be- erty of Philadelphia and George p()rch Qf the house and one longs to Will Beever.

He and others i Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago, were in the New York Community by the ratio which the committee- (Livingston county, along with Howsman also presided at this ban- 1 fTTf.nTr 011 Passed Away at Home 6 2 As istant County Agent Don school- men expected to find, they declar-! addition earlier this J1 i rt i-fTC-f Pill IIP' week of an! Miles North of Chilli- colhe Last Night. after the meal, was an, er and the home demonstration i ed in a vote, and the report was assistant Farm Supervisor, greatly, led by Miss Helen Meek A toast to i agent of the county, Miss Margue- most encouraging to the County rite McClellan. who cooperated Agent, Eugene Lee, and the state i with the members of the New York representative, Paul Weinand, who of the rafters fell and struck Mra. carried the desks, piano, chairs, expected to sail for Italy tomorrow Oren Butcher on the head. The in- cases, and other furnishings afternoon aboard the liner Rex.

jury thus inflicted proved serious from tne burning, one-room struc- William Cardinal O'Connell of Bosand her condition is improved now ture but she is not out of danger. The death of Henry Karst, 70. occurred at his home six and a miles north of Chillicothe Friday i night at 11:30 o'clock after an ill-i ness of more than three -years. He community leader of the club which committeemen Lines of communication to Mon- Green district school board. tion here.

Joe Vale, as supervisor, Huggett and has charge of the A to Extension Club which is sponsoring was present. i The reasons for not joining the Brookfield made the response. third floor oftheederal building. had been confined to his bed since last Easter. the group.

Mrs. John Lawler was elected the i program were enumerated by the who had talked 1 will start with two projects; one in ith the men who had found A NCW Manager Senti- iingston county and Summerville made the toast to I he group are offe.00^ the ye nejr I tier are down and the only informa- tion Fred Butcher has been able to i the storm is that which receive I clothing and one in agriculture. She the men who themselves unable to had join. both the New York City Clubs tance telephone call of this city and Brookfield were intro- near West pi ams I duced. They are women invited to Montier is ton, who was at Nassau, Bahamas, Sam Jones is president of the! booked passage on the Saturnia, which sails from New York Wednes- Iday.) I Soon after his election, the new Season March 15 i Pope wm be handed the ring, symbol of papel authority and of the end of the widowhood of the Lansing Hatfield, Baritone The body was taken ta the Gordon i I will lead the girls which will make ment seemed to enter into the non- Funeral Home to remain until the time of the funeral.

The service will be conducted by the Rev. B. S. Owens from St. Columban's Church i clQ and Steve Bogger- participation as greatly as any jj Heatherly Arrived Yes- terday From St.

Louis to Take Up Duties. for WoolWOrthS their city at the Woi Ids Th Fair in New York City in the sum- AUC JT lUaCCUUUll I Rests Hines Case! staff will lead the agriculturists. 1 other one thing but some have a Tuesday morning 1 at 9 o'clock. Bur- Lucille Timmons was elected pres- desire to replace small grain and ident of the club, John Lawler was grass failure with corn ana excess ce president Mary pran-j crop land for which there is no Lawler, secretary; Howard i base. Some objected to the small Will Appear at H.

S. on That Date. church. The ring that Pope Pius XI wore was taken from his hand this morn- ing and giver to Cardinal Pacelli. The last concert of the Chillicothe The ring will be broken and the 1 ces R.

A. Heatherly today took over I F. ial will be in the Catholic cemetery, the special'depict-I the managership of the local Henry Karst was born in Switzer- reporter; Jeamie Timmons, song ing basis and general depleting W. Wcolworth Company store land May 26, 1858 and came to this legder an(J game lead- basis, country with his parents when he i was five years old. Since their mar- er.

Other members are Austin Big- to! succceed C. J. Gaunce whose resig- nation took effect two weeks ago tonight. i Insurgent Planes Bomb Valenciai i i Dropped Over 200 Bombs; Causing Heavy Damage on Water Front. Adjournment Taken to Per- Co-operative Concert Association's seal in a new ring will be handed mit Counsel to Prepare Opening Talk.

1938-29 season will be that of Lan- to the new pontiff by the camer- sing Hatfield, baritone, who is rapid- ingo to show that the temporary I ly rising to important heights among sovereignty of the sacred college has young American singers. His con- ended. I cert wiU be March 15 Specuation on which cardinal most NEW YORK, Feb. 11-The pros- Miss Sofia Pimsleur of he service ukel would receive the required ecution rested today in the retrial depart ment of the Co-operative yotes frem co princes the of James J. Hines, Tammany dis- Concert Service wrote the following cnurcn cen tered upon Alfred Ude- Mercury Goes Below 1 rii' VALENCIA.

Spain. February trlot leader, on lottery conspiracy letter to Dick chairman of fonso Cardinal Schuster, archbishop years spending the last few years ff ths Valenc i a wa ter front section I Schultz. as manager of a store in St. Anna Starkey, and these sons and daughters: Chris Karst of this city, Frank Karst, Minbur, Arthur Karst, Kansas City, Ray Karst, St. Louis.

Mrs. Irene Childers, Independence, Mrs. Grace Morris and Clarence Karst of the home. Three Degrees Warmer Than Previous Night. Sixteen grandchildren and three; el Last i Guests at" the opening other than the officers and the! members, were Steve Biggerstaff, Mr.

and Mrs. Jack Love, Miss Kin- sella. Lenard Kinsella. Herman The mercury took another Brown. Herman Reich, Mrs.

Arley tumble last night reaching one de- Gertie Beird and Miss Rach- i CT hpinw zero, following a record submerged District Attorney Thomas E. i Choir was received here February election was no excluded. am mdeed glad tnat you all en He went to St. Louis from Okla- 1 235 British freighter Lucky, Dewey wound up the state's case Joyed your concert by tne Moza rt homa, although his native state is Police began a search of the i a climax of the three choir and that your members weeks old second trial of the man jare pleased that they were included Tennessee. Heatherly accompanied her I wreckage for casualties.

yesterday afternoon IO LU1VU L.E.1 fc low reading for the winter month sisters also survive. The sisters are The mee ting date of the club will four degrees below on Thursday Mrs. Lucy Jones, Trenton, Mrs. Mary Cooper, Route 5, Chillicothe and Mrs. Kate Able.

St. Louis. present time they are their home in the Strand FOR DUX BANQUET who is accused of using political I influence to protect the Schultz organization. D. Nott, ad- on this year's series.

"I was especially Interested to hear There are thirty-five Italians among the sixty-two cardianls and. it was expected an Italian would be elected to succeed Pius XI. The first of nine daily funeral be the second Friday in each month. night. Friday's maximum temper- jature was 15 degrees.

Judge I journed the trial over tne wees- been I Since the resignation of Mr. i six C. B. C. faculty members fc CQun Gaunce the local store has been to Kansas City this morning I of your report of Mildred Duong's services in St.

Peter's the late concert in Kirksville. It must have i ntiff be gin Sunday.ending you five after nis the su- to meet with officials of the Kan- i. HITLER RECEIVES THE The cold of last night and this in charge of arkman, su- 10 meet wun umw tt the defense openin Stryker in- REBEL AMBASSADOR morning was not severe as the pre- pervisor for this district, who is sas City Dux Club and make final own chapel of the Popes in the crypt of i the cathedral. 1HE WEATHER night, the first real cold here today helping ly arrangements for the coming Dux tliii tlic Associated MISSOURI: Fair tonight and Sunday; rising 1 temperature. Friday's Temperatures Maximum 15 Minimum -1 BERLIN, Feb.

i accompanied Hitler today received the Spanish west wind. insurgent ambassador who deliver- Today a warm sun is pushing the ed a letter from Generalissimo co ld eastward and much milder Francisco Franco. Contents of the i weather is predicted over the week- letter and matters discussed were end. net revealed. weather of the season which was tQ become situ ated in his new of- I Banquet which will be held a strong north- LU UCUUlilV fice.

Sunday first became legally a day of rest under the. Roman emperor Constantino, the Jewish sabbath ruuary 25 at the Phillips Hotel. Those who made the trip were Misses Frances Ott and Lena Murry, Mrs. Anna S. Hawkins, Mrs.

Imogene Rottler. J. P. Newell and thoroughly enjoyabe if to incude her on your in the future. "Lansing Hatfield has been thej L'Osservatore Romano, Vatican be I singing sensation of this year, so you City newspaper, said today that Pius I aon.

M.UU..UUU. put away all doubts about your jX! gave his health in a struggle for involving one of misdeamor and 12 concert. It will be the climax peace and it expressed hope the sac- felony counts on the charge the your season They are calling! rifice might be effective even after state had failed to link Hines with the Nelson Eddy of death. the crime. i having been observed on Saturday.

P. E. Newell. There are 5,245 national in the United States. banks future in musical circles" In the Califronia gold rush honey pap asked: sold as high as $2 a pound.

Recalling' that the pontiff had offered his life for peace, the news-.