Mexico Ledger from Mexico, Missouri • Page 1

Covers The Field Like The Dew Does Little Dixie "Saddle Horse And Fire Clay Center of the World" ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AUDRAIN COUNTY Road Program Gets Two More Big Boosts Better Roads Committee Announces Added Endorsements on April 4 Vote; Lift Farmer Out'of Mud, Urges Cannon Letter JEFFERSON CITY, March 21. Better Roads Committee said today it has received "two big boosts" in its fight for Gov. Forrest Smith's gasoline tax increase law. The committee announced that Rep. Clarence Cannon, Democrat, sent a letter from Washington asking Missourians to vote for the tax hike when it comes up for referendum vote April 4.

The Missouri Baptists' Association swung in behind the Governor's law, too. the committee said. Official support of the church organization came in its news tumor April 17 Special Session Of Legislature Reliable Reports Say Several Items To Be Taken Up JEFFERSON CITY, March 21. Rumors of a special session of the Missouri legislature climbed yesterday to a point where a starting date was 17. The reports, coming from reliable sources, said the session would be thrown open to much of the legislation that was left hanging when the 65th General Assembly quit last January.

Some of the hotter issues: The bill to permit Negroes to enter the University of Missouri at Columbia. The St. Louis earnings tax bill, designed to eliminate St. Louis' looming bogey ofa multi-million dollar revenue deficit. The compulsory drivers' license examination bilh It died on the vine because the Senate and House couldn't get together on an agreeable compromise.

The perennial small loan interest bill that has plagued Missouri's legislature for years. Last session the Senate stood pat for a 27 per cent top while the House refused to go higher than 18 per cent annual Interest. Meanwhile, the Governor insisted he has not decided definitely that a special session should be called. J. E.

Mosley's Rites Wednesday at 2 p.m. Funeral services for J. E. Mosley, who died Monday morning, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Arnold Funeral Home. The Rev.

G. Clifton Ervin, pastor of the Mexico Methodist church, will conduct the services, and interment will be In Elmwood cemetery. Those asked to serve as pallbearers include George Pryor, Sam G. Emmons, Alva Brooks, Ralph Griffin, Claude Hublitz and Luke Brown. Mrs.

V. F. Wetmore of Denver, arrived here Tuesday morning to be with Mrs. Mosley, her sister. The body will remain at the funeral home.

paper, "Word and Way." The committee said Dr. T. Medearis of Jefferson City, general superintendent of the state association, urged members of his congregation to vote for the law "for the good of all our people "and for better conditions of our country churches." Congressman cannon was quoted as writing that "we have lifted the interurban driver out of the mud and now let us lift the farmer out of the mud and up on the highway with him." The law would double Missouri's two cent gasoline tax, setting aside one cent of the increase for state-built country roads. Hannibal Newspaper Misrepresented By Auto Club News HANNIBAL, March 21. The Hannibal Courier-Post charged the Automobile Club of Missouri today with a "bold misrepresentation" of the newspaper's position on the Missouri gasoline tax increase bill.

The current issue of Auto Club News, published by the Automobile Club, carries a reprint of an editorial headed "Tax or Toll?" and credits it to the Courier-Post. In a front-page editorial carried as an open letter to the Automobile Club, the Courier-Post declared today the reprinted article never appeared in the Courier- Post. "It is manifest from its wording that the quoted article was from a paper published outside Missouri and dealt with issues outside this state," the Courier- Post said. The newspaper cited this as "proof of the outright misstate- ntent and bold mlsrepresenta- tation of the position of the Courier-Post" and "evidence of an effort to mislead the public." George P. Marsh, editor of the Auto Club News, said in St.

Louis the quoted editorial was received from a clipping bureau that indicated it was taken from the Courier-Post. "If we made a mistake in crediting the Courier-Post with this editorial," Marsh said, "it was an honest mistake and now the editor of the Courier-Post is endeavoring to convert it into a campaign issue and distort it out of all proportion to its real importance." ST. LOUIS, March 21. (If) The bill -to double Missouri's two- cent gasoline tax was denounced as a "shakedown" today by Charles E. Albanese, a Republican and president of the St.

Louis Board of Aldermen. The proposal, which will be voted on at a special referendum April 4, was recently endorsed by Mayor Joseph M. Darst of St. Louis, a Democrat. "The proposal is one of the worst shakedowns Missouri has ever seen," Albanese said.

"It would drain thousands of dollars out of St. Louis and the city would not get back a dune of the tax money." Under the bill, one cent of the tax would be used for development of rural roads in the state. Ask Witnesses For Hospital Trial April 5 MD Defendants File Application For Subpoenas Application for subpoenas duces tecum for seven individuals for the trial here April 5 of the Audrain hospital trustees' suit has been filed. The application, by the MD defendants in the case, seeks to the seven individuals and their records summoned for the trial. Witnesses sought in the application are: Crawford Harris, Fulton, business manager and superintendent of the Callaway County Hospital at Fulton; Mrs.

Bertha Hochuli, Columbia, superintendent of the Boone County Hospital at Columbia; Mrs. Lucille Neely, Mexico, record librarian at the Audrain hospital; Clifford James, Mexico, part owner of the Lawrence Drug store, Mexico; Drs. W. H. McCormick, D.

H. Johnston, Benjamin S. Jolley, doctors of osteopathy, McCormick Osteopathic hospital and Clinic. (The application lists them as residents of Mexico. There is no McCormick hospital here.

There is a McCormick hospital at Moberly, and osteopathic physicians of those names at Moberly). The trial is that of the suit brought by the trustees of the Audrain hospital to secure a declaratory judgment declaring exactly what kind of doctor is entitled to practice in the county hospital. The defendants who have filed the application for subpoenas are the MD's residing in Audrain county and the Missouri State Medical Association, named as one group of defendants. The other group includes the DO's residing in Audrain county and the Missouri Osteopathic Association. The trial date was announced recently by Judge Sam C.

Blair of Jefferson City, special judge in the case. MEXICO, MISSOURI, TUESDAY AFTERNOON MARCH 21, 1950. WEATHER COLDER TONIGHT LITTLE WARMER TOiMORO Kills Her Twin Sister Spring Is Really Coming At Rate of Hundred Miles A Week Spring is here, on the calendar, no matter what it looks like outside. But don't be downcast, because spring-weather is coming the rate of a hundred miles a week. Spring is not quite the fickle lady she's been painted, and experts actually can predict fairly accurately how far and fast she'll travel north.

The modern Nostradamus who calls the turn on things verdant uses a comparatively simple for- Remember Me? is I llth put by Dick Tracy. Thirty of w- lum com. and fow. oo coold- tft the of Prune- face, could you? I wu No. 12 on Dick list.

All told, 30 of 01 (track out Soon will b. SM thii IDAC. to- mula. Spring travels north at the rate of approximately 100 miles per week from early March through May. However, due allowance must be made for some variations season to season and other considerations.

These include altitude, proximity to shoreline and location in city or countryside. In effect the seasonal seers' crystal ball is a living frequently the red maple. That is because the red maple is one of the few trees that grows all the way from Miami to Quebec. Fred Powell Charged With Molesting Minor Fred Powell is charged with molesting of a minor, in a complaint filed in magistrate court. He waived preliminary hearing on the charge Tuesday, and is being held in jail to await triaL Powell is charged with indulging in a "degrading, lewd and vicious habit" in the presence of a young girl, March 11.

Powell is about .46, and has been an unemployed resident of southwest Mexico, of- I ficers said. Beef on Horsemeat DALLAS, March 21. (ff) charges were Hied in Dallas today in connection with three shipments to Texas of horse meat labeled as beef tenderloins. Omelets for England WASHINGTON, March 21. (IP) The Commodity Credit Corporation today sold 31,818,000 pounds of surplus dried eggs costing about $40,000,000 to the United Kingdom for $7,000,000.

The sale disposed of about 37 per cent of the corporation's stocks of dried eggs bought under a farm price support program during 1948,1949 and this year. Fulton Plants Shut FULTON, Jlarch 21. The International Shoe Company's two plants here will be closed all next week, the superintendents announced today. Overproduction on the type of shoes manufactured here was given as the reason for closing. The two plants employ about 800 people.

VOL. 42 Alice Richard, 14, left, killed her nirhi sister, Sally, right, with a .22 rifle at their Fresno, home. She laid the gun across Aer sister's body and told the sheriffs office all about the slaying except her motive. "Just try and find out why I did it," was Alice's only explanation (NEA Telephoto). Ag Lab for New Community High School Is Proposed Plan With 80-Ac re School Grounds at Scott's Corner, New School May Use Fields For Demonstrations by Vocational Ag Glasses A project for better agricultural" student facilities, with a laboratory suitable for actual demonstrations, is one of the proposed plans for the recently voted Community High School at Scott's Corner, 13 miles east of.

Mexico. Ex-Unioneer Goes Armed Threatened By Swerving Car, Says Former UMW Officer CANTON, March 21. An ousted United Mine Workers officer armed himself today and said he is prepared to meet any against him by union threats men. Lloyd H. Sidener, ousted president of the UMW local at Canton, declared last week that John Lewis sent secret signals down the ranks of the miners to con- tinne their recent coal strike.

The FBI is investigating the report. Sidener said he was driving down Canton's main street yesterday when a car driven by a QMW member charged toward iis. He said he narrowly escaped a collision by swerving sharply. 'I know it was a threat," Sidener said. "I know the individual who was driving the car, and I had two witnesses with me." Sidener said he expected further incidents.

Jury Returns Verdict For $1000 Judgment After Nine Minutes A jury took only nine minutes return a unanimous verdict, Monday afternoon, fintiing that Mrs. Ruth O. Graham is entitled the S1000 she sought to recover from Almond R. Nolting. The case was heard Monday in the Located in the east central part of Audrain county this new high school building will serve as a community center for the entire district.

The school grounds will include eighty acres in all. Part of this will be available for use in school agricultural projects, an outside laboratory for the work in this field in class rooms. One of the school's departments will be the Vocational Agriculture and Home The 80 acres purchased by the school board can be used for demonstrations in newer farming methods, building of terraces, new crops, use of various kinds of fertilizer. Much of the fertilizer and seed may be furnished by large companies who desire to supply the material for advertising. John McClure, Audrain county agent, when asked about the demonstration plan ma'de this statement: "Developing the area into a demonstration unit would be most valuable to the farm people who live in the area as well as others.

Many times a year, various fertilizer companies, machinery- dealers want to demonstrate their products. There isn't any place except on private property where such demonstrations can be arranged. This area could be developed with these demonstrations. A good demonstration will take a lot of thought and planning. We will be glad to work with the school in setting up units and assist in carrying out the plan." Audrain county circuit court, and submitted to the jury whose prompt return is believed to be without precedent in the court.

X-Ray Days In County Begin Tomorrow Committee Lists Hours for Mass X-Ray Project X-ray days for Audrain coun- tians begin tomorrow, as the mass X-ray project of the Audrain County Tuberculosis Association begins. While the X-rays are free for high school students, the association cannot finance grade school and must charge a 75c fee for any grade child whose parents wish it to have an X-ray. The Christmas seal funds being used for the project will include only high school students this year. Perhaps future funds will permit grade X-rays, committee members said. Adults too will be charged 75c, although other arrangements may be made in advance if necessary.

The detailed schedule: Wednesday At Laddonia High School, 9 to 11 a. for Laddonia and Martinsburg high school students; and for adults of communities. At Vandalia High School, 1:30 to 4 p. for Vandalia and Farber high school students; 4 to 5 p. m.

for teachers and public; 7 to 9 p. m. for public. Thursday At Mexico High School, 8:30 a. m.

to 1 p. for MHS and St. Brendan High School students. At Garfield High School, 3 to 5 p. for Garfield high school students; and from 7 to 9 p.

m. for adults. Friday At International Shoe 8 to 10 a. for employes. At McMillan school, 1 to 5 p.

m. and 7 to 9 p. for public. Lock Parked Cars, Mexico Police Urge Mexico police today cautioned motorists against leaving doors to parked cars unlocked, after recent incidents of property stolen from automobiles. Saturday night, items including a camera were stolen from one unlocked car, and another was searched although nothing was taken, police reported.

"Property taken from automo- bilts is the hardest type to identify and recover," Police Chief A. H. Gill stated. "It usually consists of such items as sunglasses, driving gloves, pipes, compacts, and other small belongings that aren't ordinarily connected with serial numbers of disting- guishing marks." $29 Billion Budget Voted by Committee Congressman Cannon's Appropriation Committee Puts Federal Expenses Into Single-Package Bill for First Time By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON.

March 21. (AP) A deficit-boosting government spending a $200 outlay for every man. woman and child in the 1 was approved today by the House Appropriations Committee. (Congressman Clarence Cannon, representing Mexico and the 9th congressional district, is chairman.) Grim reminder of the cost of war, more than half of its total is composed ol items for national defense, including charges growing out of II. Tlie bill carries 513,911.127.300 for the Defense Department.

for the Veterans' Administration and S947.970.0qo. for the Atomir Energy Commission. There were no deep cuts in any major programs, the average reduction under President Truman's request being five cent. But there is a move in the House to send the bill back to the committee for a further $1.000.000.000 cut or more. The committee vote was not officially announced.

But Rep Taber (R-N. said all Republicans present voted against approving the bill on the ground it was "too big." He said all Democrats voted for it. There are 21 Democrats and 18 Republicans on the committee. Slated for House debate nt-xt week, bill wraps into a single measure for the first time in modern history the appropriations of more than federal agencies. Not included are foreign ai-1 and military assistance funds and so-called permanent and indefinite appropriations, aggregating $11,592.751.053.

The bill's total is $1,567,900,501 less than the President requested and, if approved by Congress, would result in an estimated federal deficit of for the 1951 fiscal year, starting next July 1. The appropriations provided are for that year. The Army asked'for $500,000 to build a tomb for the unknown hero and $500.000 for entombment and ceremonial expenses. The committee said a suitable tomb might be erected for it said also that no more than Pension Plan Info Effect Af Green Co. $100 Month Minimum At Age 65 With 25 Years Service A pension plan providing a minimum monthly retirement income of including social security benefits, all employees who have completed 25 years of continuous service and have attained the age of 65 was announced Tuesday by the A.

P. Green Fire Brick company here. The provision of the- plan went into effect March 1, 1950, the company said. All men now on company pensions wfll get the new benefits. The company has had a pension plan for several years.

The new plan was first announced in outline last November ami on Tuesday was announc- in final detail. During Tuesday, employes of. the 'company met in a series' of' meetings to hear and discuss the details of the plan and to select an enlarged group insurance plan. The company said the plan decided upon calls for an Increase in health and accident insurance and for both personal and depend- ent hospital and surgical benefits. The companv said both plans o-t-nnnn i insurance and pensions SloO.OOO should be needed for detailed in booklets to travel nnrl neremnn.nl I travel and ceremonial That totals $500.000.

Without further explanation, the committee approved a total of $350,000. A cut in residential mail do- liveries was among the moneysaving measures proposed today by the House Appropriations Committif. The spending figure for the Veterans Administration was listed second only to that for the nation's defense in the huge money bill approved today by the Houso Appropriations Committee. bp stributec to employes in the near future. Taxi License Trial Set for Wednesday John Hoard, charged in city police court Tuesday morning with operating a taxi without a license, pleaded not guilty and his trial was set for Wednesday, March 22.

Bond was set at $100, and Hoard was committed to jail upon failure to post the bond. Columbia Posts $1,000 Reward, Adds Police Car and Men, As Murdered Girl Is Buried COLUMBIA, March 21. (IP) Columbia Junior Chamber of Commerce today offered a reward of 51,000 for the arrest and conviction of the slayer of Janett Christman, 13-year-old baby sitter, here Saturday night. Life In Tokyo for Americans Much Like That Back In Missouri, Reports Bruce, Home From Duty On MacArthur's Staff If you should drive into Tokyo, Japan tonight you might think you were right back in Missouri. That's the way life in Tokyo for the American was described by Lt.

Col. Tom Bruce, who has just returned from 27 months' duty as a staff officer at General MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo. Col. Bruce, his wife and 2 children, have been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Tom Bruce, of 820 North Calhoun street. They left Tuesday for Ft Sill, Okla. "Living is very similar to what we have here," Col. Bruce remarked. lived in a community housing project that was practically self-contained, with schools, commissaries, theatres, and a medical dispensary.

In short, we needed nothing that we didn't hare, other than being: short of doctors, like every community. "We had an active boy and girl scout program, and a very active Parent-Teachers Association. The average attendance for one P. T. A.

chapter at a regular meeting was about 200." (CoL Bruce was a school board.) member of the Living conditions for men in the ranks in Tokyo are also of the best Col. Bruce stated. "There are plenty of recreation facilities, libraries, exchange, theatres, and an active athlethic program," he said. Many contests are held on photographv, handicraft, and other fields, "plus an off-duty education program. There are many opportunities and sufficient spare time for the soldier to do about anything.

"However, the American hamburger and Coke still are tops on most soldiers' lists and there are plenty of Snack Shops to take care, of these." Communism A Thorn Conditions in Japan are improving, Col. Bruce said, with General "doing an excellent job." A major thorn to MacArthur, Col. Bruce indicated, was the 300,000 prisoners just returned from Manchuria most of them communists. "General MacArthur has things well in hand," CoL Bruce said, "but he is faced with the same problem as anyone is, who has to do business with them. They're stubborn and unreasonable." Bruce also indicated that it was hoped that many of the returning Japanese commies would gradually "have a change of heart" after being removed from the communist influence for a period of time.

Visits With Mexicoans. While in Far Eastern service, Col. Bruce pointed out that he had the opportunity to visit several Mexico people. "Lakenan Barnes is in Tokyo, serving as general counsel for the civilian property custodian," Bruce said. "That unit is responsible for the custody and disposition of alien property.

Lakenan was recently connected with a unit turned over 80 million dollars in gold to the recently-recognized Siamese government, representing a trade balance favorable to Siamese. "Carroll Ekern is also in Tokyo, assigned to the Headquarters and Service group at General Headquarters," Bruce continued, tiand on our return trip, we visited with Miss India and Sirs. Earl Brown, in Honolulu." Miss Johnson, formerly of Mexico and a sister of Mrs. Norton Melson of Mexico, is connected with the Air Transport Service at Hickam Field in Honolulu. Brown has been visiting with her there.

Islands Have Changed Mexico servicemen who remember Guam "wouldn't recognize the place now," according to Col. Bruce. The Mexico officer recently took a trip all over the Far East Command, including Guam and Okinawa. Sumay, Agana, and other towns on Guam that Mexiccans who were involved in combat operations there will remember as rubble have been largely rebuilt, and "things are in pretty good shape there," CoL Bruce said. Okinawa, however, is a different story, and the city of Naha is still the leveled ruins it was when Japanese guns roared defiance in their last bitter stand at the southern end of the island.

"Naha is still a ruin, but they are trying to get the schools rebuilt," Col. Bruce said. "There are still troops on both islands, but the ones on Okinawa get the worst of the deal. And, too, they still are having their regular typhoons ever so often, which keeps all the temporary structures flattened." Col. Bruce will be assigned to the staff at the Fort Sill, artillery school when he leaves Mexico.

He expects to remain in the United States for "maybe a couple of years." Col. Bruce was assigned to the Sixth Armored Division during World War II, in which he commanded the 128th Armored Field Artillery Battalion in England, France, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium. His decorations include the Croix de Guerre, awarded by the French government, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star Medal with two clusters, and the European Theatre ribbon with five battle stars. He was assigned to Korea as secretary to the General Staff. XXIV Corps and United States Army Forces in Korea in 1948, where he spent nine months "before being assigned to MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo.

Warren Dalton, president of the group, said that the fund is increasing rapidly, and the reward total probably will be raised later in the day. Miss Christmas was brutally raped and slain while taking care of a three-year-old boy at a friend's home. Meanwhile, the City Council in a special session ordered Police Chief Eugene M. Pond to add five men to the police force immediately and to buy another patrol car. A coroner's jury, in a brief in- City, county and state officers were cooperating in an intensive search for the killer.

i The girl, daughter of Charles E. Christman, former Mexico cafe operator, was buried Tuesday what would have been her fourteenth birthday. The Rev. C. E.

Lemmon officiated, with burial in Memorial Park cemetery. Besides her parents, she is survived by two sisters, Reta Mae, 12, and Cheryl Louise. 19 months, and her grandparents, Mr. Mrs. Samuel H.

Christman and quest, returned a verdict that Irs C. L. Hart, all of Columbia. Miss Christman, a junior high (Pallbearers included James Oberle, Charles i Charles Troxel, Tyrst Kirking. school student, was strangled by an unknown person or persons, while she was baby-sitting in a Don Provou, arid Wendell Thorn- home near the edge of the city.

(as). Funeral services were nela lor Janett Chrisman, daughter of former Mexico businessman, at Columbia where she was brutally assaulted and strangled to death Saturday night while babysitting. Rewards topped the S1000 mark today, and Columbia added extra police and patrol car..