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MONITOR VOLUME 60 ASSOCIATED FREES) FUI.I, LEASED WIRE 815KVKJ15 MOBERLY, MISSOURI THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 27, 1929 MOBERLY MONITOR ESTABLISHED 1S68 I liST. 1JH8 91OBEIU.Y DEMOCRAT EST. 1873 NUMBER HOOVER BANS SCHOOL STUDY AW ----Doctors of Chicago Adopt Installment Plan for Patients Unable to Pay Cash ROAD WORK BEGUN Daring German Who Crossed Atlantic in IN MONROE COUNTY) 18-Foot Boat Shipwrecked on U. S. Coast Himself Intervened to Halt Propaganda Plan, It Is Learned PAMPHLET PREPARED BY WOMAN RECALLED Careful Study Required, Says Commissioner Doran, Denying Previous Knowledge WASHINGTON, June 27 1 (AP) -President Hoover personally intervened to halt the plan of the prohibition unit to use the -public schools of the country for dissemination of prohibition law observance propaganda.

The president's first information concerning the issuing of a pamphlet proposing 'course of ''prohibition study in the' (public, schools was gleaned "from the newspapers. He immediately signified his emphatic disapproval to treasury officials, who said that they 'themselves were unaware the proposed campaign. Pamphlet Prepared. Using proceeds from a fund of $50,000 made available by Congress ior the dissemination of prohibition Miss Anna D. Sutter, of tjja statistical and education divisipu of the prohibition bureau, had caused the pamphlet to be prepared for general circulation at the meeting to' morrow of the National Education Association.

at Atlanta. She also had gathered together other literature in her proposed campaign, of education. Miss Suiter's program was detailed to the newspapers while Commission' er Doraa was out the city "and, according to 'treasury ofiicsals, without either their knowledge or consent. When officials read of the plan, Miss Sutter was. summoned to the office of Assistant- Secretary Lowman.

Denial Ms Issued. soon as Commissioner Doran returned. Washington, late same day, he was rushed from the train to the office of Under Secretary Mills and after a conference issued a state- CHICAGO. June. 27.

(AP)--The i installment plan -has been invoked by the Chicago Medical Society for the benefit of those are sick and unable to make prompt payment. The new. financial arrangement is called "the modern- medical budge't plan." Dr. James H. elect of the society, said 'the plan "simply adapts to the sick the modern method of financing employed by automobile, radio' arid other industries and enables the family of moderate means to arrange for medical or hospital care-on a time-payment plan." Under the plan, the patient summons the physician of his choice, who diagnoses the case, indicates the course of treatment and then esti- mates the cost.

Th; doctor fills.out a card which serves as authorization to finance a loan to the patient at 6 per cent interest for the physician's individual account. As soon as the loan i.s made, the physician is mailed a check for 35 per cent of the total bill. The bal- I ance is paid to him by the finance corporation in installments consisting Grading Started on Project Extending Two Miles East From Madison CONTRACTORS BID ON WORK IN RANDOLPH June 27. (Special to Monitor-Index) Graham Brothers, of one half of all moneys stifl due. contractors for the highway work on principal, and interest, when and as Highway No.

24 began graduing collected. The patient i's completely Tuesday on the road from' Madisoi- financed, Dr. Button said, and the two miles east to the James Me Kinney farm. Work was begun at the physician finally receives 86.37 per cent 'of his total fee- The finance organization retains 13.63 per cent as the doctoi's contribution to the plan, and it creates a special fund against wliich all bad loans are charged. CIRCUIT COURT TO RECONVENE JULY 15 LARGEST AVIATION CONCERN PLANNED Suit Over Insurance, Heard Yesterday, Is Taken Under Advisement Merger of Wright' and Curtiss Interests Proposed to Stockholders of the prohibition the schools for disseminating janda.

"lie pamphlet was withdrawn from sirculation. yesterday by Commissioner Doran. He announced that it would- hot be permitted to 50 out un- Mi he had studied it carefully and de- -whether it was in 'such form iat it 'could be used. Circuit court adjourned late yesterday afternoon until July 15, when the petit jury is summoned. Several jury cases are scheduled for trial at that time.

The case of the Fidelity Savings Trust Company'against R. A. Heaton and the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Randolph County, which was heard yesterday by Judge A. W. Walker, was' taken under advisement.

The plaintiff will file a brief on or before July 5 ancl the defendants one on or before July 10. Other proceedings were: In re trust estate of Modesta Green, appointment of John H. Lamb, trustee, by last will of Mildred C. Menke, was approved and ratified. Bond with Mr-, Lamb as principal and the Fidelity Deposit of Maryland as surety, was approved.

The. cause' was continued- State vs. Sam Sumpter, continued. W. C.

Sherwood vs. Sam McCarty, continued. W. A. Day vs.

C. Railway company, cyn.tinu.ed. In re trust estate of Mary. Sparks Young, George W. Sparks, trustee, annual settlement approved and cause continued.

Mother of 3 Sons Gets Degree in Law ST. LOUIS, June 28 (AP)--Mrs. Thomas Walter Hardy of Normandy, St. Louis suburb, was the only woman among 53 graduates of the law school at Washington University this month and probably the only qualified woman barrister who got her s'ducation -while looking; after a househusband" and of the late hold that included a three robust sons. the daughter governor George Newton Tillman, attorney and judge at Nashville, and twice the Republican nominee for of Tennessee.

Upon gradua- from Ward Belmont College at jKA'ashville, she was married and took ap residence here. Household affairs and the care sons, now aged 12, 13 and 15, and gardens and poultry flock pre- Mrs- Hardy from attending dass regularly in the first two years at was with misgivings that she left her vegetable gar' 3en at planting time last, spring to the final examinations. But neither the garden nor the exams slighted; the beans, cucumbers, COMPANY TO MAKE ALL TYPES OF PLANES St. Louisan Kills Brother-in-Law in Sister's Bedroom ST. LOUIS, June 27 (AP)--Samuel Himeles, 38, president of a cleaning and dyeing company here, was shot to death in his home early today by" thorized capitalization of 12,000,000 NEW YORK, -June 27.

(AP) -Creation of 'the largest aviation company in the world, through merger of Wright and Curtiss interests, was pro. posed to stockholders today. Directors of the companies affected have approved" plans for the formation of a $70,000,000 holding corporation to be known as the Curtiss- Wright It will take, over, by an exchange of stock, the Wright Aeronautical Corporation and the Curtiss Aeropalen and Engine Company and 10 affiliated organizations. The new company will bring under one head the concerns founded by America's air pioneers, the Wright Brothers and Glenn Curtiss. Clement M.

Keys, president of Curtiss, will be president of the holding company ancl Richard F. Hoyt. chairman of the board of Wright Aeronautical, chairman of the Curtiss-Wright" corporation. In addition to 'the Gurtiss and Wright corporations, the companies to be taken over are: Keystone Aircraft Corporation of Bristol, Curliss-Robcrtson Airplane Manufacturing Company of St- Louis; Curtiss Airports Corporation; Curtiss Flying Service, Inc-; Curtiss Aeroplane Export Corporation; Curtiss-Caproni Corporation; New York Air Terminals, and New York and Suburban Air'Lines. The new company will have an au- cast and will proceed west to the Melhodist Church in Madison.

This section will be graveled as soon as grading is completed. CHARLESTON, S. June 27.1 (AP)--The Beach at Kiawah Island, twenty miles south of here today held the battered ur.d burned remains of the Aga, eighteen foot boat in which Paul Muller, Berlin grocer, crossed the Atlantic alone. Her skipper, safe here after a and night of exposure, told the story of the disastrous enchof his Hamburg-New York voyage. Beating his way up the coast from Miami, where he first touched the American shore, Muller ran into storms off the South Carolina coast, late Tuesday.

A squall struck the Aga, tore her sail to bits and tossed her on.the Rocky Kiawah shore. "The Aga began to break said The work of. graveling from the McKinney farm. Stone farm, five miles, is in progress I and will be completed in about two to Mp Graliam tle FORD LINE SOLD wasjeft of my lamp's petrol over the decks and touched a match." When no help came, he related, he began swimming for Johns Island, seven miles away, where he could see a house. When lie.

had covered part of the distance, Fritz Stroebcl, of Charleston, drawn by the fire from Johns Island, picked him up in a rowboat. The sea had grown rougher and they could niake their way only to Snake Island, which is uninhabited. Shivering in a blowing downpour, the two men spent the night 'there. The next day they made thicr way to Charleston. The grocer-sailor was heartbroken at his voyage's unhappy ending.

He told of a. girl waiting for him in Berlin 'and of how he had FARM BOARD POST OFFERED TO 1H. LEGGE International Harvester Presi dent Confers With HoSver at White House 1 I decided to set her afire, hoped his daring w.ould tring him as a signal for help. I poured what money enough to marry her. Division Engineer Harry of Hannibal, will be in Madison this week to land owners and citizens for a settlement of the highway from Madison west to the Randolph county line on Highway No.

24. Money will be available for the building of this five miles this year if of the right-of-way can be accomplished. The Randolph county road, from the Monroe county line, west to Mo- bcrly, is ready for gravel. Graham Brothers have bjd on the job but have not been awarded the contract. They feel reasonably, certain of beinj; awarded the contract and will begin work as soou as possible after receiving the contract.

J. A. Injured in Accident, Dies Mrs. Waldo Holman of Huntsville received word today of the death of her nephew; James Albert Carter in Nashville, Tenn-, at 5:30 o'clock this morning. Mr.

Carter was injured in an week ago. Run- eral services will be held in Nashville Saturday afternoon. TO PENNSYLVANIA Purchasers of D. T. I.

Believed to Represent East- 1 ern Railroad WATER COMPANIES OF 2 CITIES SOLD MISSOURIAN AMONG OTHER MEN PROPOSED Delaware Corporation to Pay Big Price at Sedalia and Jefferson City. Dr. Dixon to Take CMss on Outing Dr. H. Dixou will take his class of boys from the Sunday School of the Central Christian Church to Allen Creek Sunday fo'r an all-day outing.

Dr. Dixon's pupils have an ouc- ing every year, and they have gone on several interesting trips. They or( bought the line for but DETROIT, June 27 (A. Ford has sold the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad to an undisclosed group of investors believed to the represent the Pennsylvania Railroad. The sale was announced late yesterday by officers of the First National Bank in Detroit, through which the sale was made.

Ford- officials had announced Monday that negotiations for the sale of the line to the Pennsylvania Railroad were "almost completed." Purchased in 1920 to round out the Ford program of controlling every step in production of his motor cars, the Detroit, Toledo Ironton was so renovated under- the motor magnate's administration that it became a paying business in its own right. Instead of inaugurating a policy of economy, Ford radically increased expenditures for improvements on the road. The wage scale of his automobile plant was brought into cabs and much to the dismay of other railroad owners who subsequently -fought him at every turn, and employes were permitted to obtain certificates which have paid' 12 per cent- annually. The announcement of sale of the railroad did not mention the price. OF COMMISSION SAYS will meet at 9 o'clock Sunday morning at the Central Christian Church.

his brother-in-law, Franklin Weiss, 30, who then surrendered to 'police. Weiss told officers he killed his brother-in-law after the screams of Weiss' unmarried sister sent him hurrying to her bedroom, where he iound Himeles. Himeles was shot five times and died immediately. Several weeks ago, according to Weiss, he had his sister, Miss Clarice Weiss, 24, temporarily moved to the Himeles home to be near their sister, Mrs. Himeles, who has been ill.

It was learned today that Himeles had been pronounced mentally unbalanced by his physician -and that rel- only Monday applied, to Probate Judge Hodgdon at Clayton, St. Louis suburb, for his commitment to a sanitarium. This action was pending. Himeles was the father of three from attending children. His had been an invalid for some tinm.

Weiss also is married and has 2-year-old daughter. He: said his sister had complained to him that. Himeles had been -making improper advances recently. Weiss was being held in jail today 7 -tc are growing nicely and inside the lome hangs the certificate showing Hardy is an LL.B. Mrs.

Hardy has been president 'he state anil county leagues of women voters. She intends to practice law if the opportunity presents itsell. "But I have told my friends bring their divorces to smiled. not to she A TO COACH CENTRAL WESLEYAN June 27 A-P.) --Ira N. Chiles, president of Central 'Vesleyan College, today announcea ation committee.

'student at Evansville olaced on the all-state team of Iti- ana two years- He won letters in rootball, basketball, baseball and track. i Mr. and Adkins awaiting outcome of an inquest. DISMISSES ATTORNEY, CONDUCTS OWN SUIT KANSAS CITY, June 27 (A. J.

Vrooman, former judge of the county court and prominent politician, today dismissed his 'attorney and took charge of a $500,000 alienation of affection suit he has.brought against his wife's parents and her sister. The action was taken at a called by William T. Alford, special commissioner in the case'appointed by Circuit Judge Lyon. After Mr. Alford allowed Ernest Poindexter, Vrooman's attorney, a fee $100 the hearing adjourned.

FRANK SNYDER GIVEN RELEASE BY HOUSTON HOUSTON. Texas, June 27. (AP) --Manager Frank Synder of ths Houston Texas Lengue Club, a St. Louis Cardinal farm, has been given his unconditional release nt his own no par shares. There will be 2,000,000 shares of class stock entitled to preferential payment of $2 a share annually and 10,000,000 shares of common stock.

Planes produced by the company will range from small moth type to large Curtiss Condor bombers and Keystone Patrician types ancl Kcy- stone-Loening Amphibians. N. E. Walker Ardent Tammanyite After Visit to New York Mr. and Mrs.

N. E. Walker of Hn- good have just, returned from a two weeks' visit in New York City their son, Tom Wajker, who formerly was secretary to T. J. Jones, when the latter was an official ofythc Wabash here.

Mr. Walker's has made him a real Tammanyite. He says New York is as finely a city as can be found in the land The police, he declares arc a model of perfection and amidst a chaos of traffic congestion handle the people with remarkable courtesy and efficiency- ''You can ride to your heart's content for a nickel in a half a dozen different of transportation." Mr. Walker added. "A taxi carried four more than a- mile, through what TREASURY SURPLUS TO BE $160,000,000 'Mellon Estimates Blance to Be on Hand at End of U.

S. Fiscal Year INCOME TAX RECEIPTS EXCEED LAST YEAR'S 1 WASHINGTON, June 27 (AP) -Secretary Mellon said today.that the latest estimates indicated that the government would conclude the fiscal year on June 30 with a surplus of or $170,000,000. This balance would be on hand, ho said, after the $50,000,000 allowed railroads for the retroactive mail rate increase ha'd been paid. Income tax returns for the present month, up to "vine 24, the second quarter's payment of the 1928 tax have totalled $545,725,098, an increase of over the similar period of last year. Income taxes for the fiscal year on the same date totalled $2,321,180,412 as.

compared with $2,166,600,373 in the period of the previous year. Customs receipts also have shewn an increase this year aggregating on June 24 a total of $592,974,151, an increase of approximately in 1924 It was learned it had earned more than $1,000,000 a year over the four year period of Ford administration and in 1926, before the Interstate Commerce Commission, Ford attorneys argued that the rate setting valuation of the road be placed at MINE REPAIR WORK AGAIN UNDER WAY Work of sinking the new airshaft at mine No. 11, which had been halted for several days, but from what cause we are bnt advised, was begun again yesterday. Mike Wagner, a former fpreman of the mine, who had been engaged to make repairs to the old shaft, which had partially caved in, has thrown up the job, we learn, leaving News. SOLDIER KILLED BY EXPLOSION OF SHELL SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 27 (AP)--Private Daniel J.

Midgeley, ol the 145th Field Artillery, Utah, National Gunrd was killed and three other enlisted men were injured from a gun in artillery practice at a sum- mdr encampment at Jordan Narrows near here today. JEFFERSON CITY, June 27. (AP) The state public service commission today authorized the General Waterworks and Electric Corporation of Delaware to purchase the Capital City Water Company, here, and the Sedalia Water Company at Sedalia. The company will purchase 3,000 shares of the common stock 'of the Capital City Water Company for $700,0.00. This represents, according to the application, all of the common stock of the utility.

It also will purchase 11,807 shares of the' common stock of the Sedalia Water Company for $470,725. This is all but about tliirty shares, which cannot be' located. The plants will be operated separately, according to the commission's order. In issuing the order the commission commented on the price, to be paid C. B.

Denman One of Five Said to Be on Preferred List for Appointment- WASHINGTON, June .27. A place on the federal, farm board. has been offered to Alexander. H- Legee, president of the International Harvester Company. Mr.

Legree called today at 'tha. White- House and conferred with Mr. Hoover for nearly half an hour upon the possibility his accepting membership with the board. It was said later at the Whfta( Souse that definite conclusion hatj been reached and that as yet the president has made no definite api pointments to the board- Mr. Legree has been rccoinmendecl to the president agricultural organizations, as the member of tho board to represent general business, Besides Mr.

the following five 'men are considered to be on preferred list for appointment to tha board. Carl Williams of editor the Oklahoma Stockman. C. B. Denman of Missouri, presw dent of the" National Livestock Pro ducers Association.

Charles C. Teague 'of California connected with the California citrui league. F. B. Wells, vice president F.

Peavey and company, grain Minneapolis- Major Arthur P. Knapp of Lak Charles, a banker experienced in financing exportation of rice. i for the two wn.tcr. saying the prices were "excessiveV when' measured by the values of. 'the assets of the two Audits and appraisals were recently made by public service accountants.

The book value of the combined companies is shown to be $35,666,967.63. Commenting further, the commission said "these prices cannot ancl will not be used as a basis for rates to be charged or securities to be issued in the future." The usual safety clause that nothing in the order shoul'd 'be construed to mean the commission was determining the value for rate making purposes also was included. Tnc General Watcrwoks and Electric Corporation owns public utilities in Idaho. Arizona, New Mexico Texas, Qklahoma; Louisiana, Indiana, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. PARSONAGE NOT YET READY FOR OCCUPANCY Dr.

Crayton S. Brooks will be unable to move into the parsonage, provided for him by the Central Chrii- tian Church. a few days, because of delays in some improvements to the house. His household equipment it, here, and he will occupy the parsonage as soon as the improvements are finished. The Rev.

and Mrs. J. W. Kimbrel and- sons, Robert and Joe, Monday for a two weeks' visit with relatives in Callaway County. appeared to be almost impassable 000 over the same period of 1928.

congestion for 31 cents." dau-hter. Irma, left today for a visit in Macon County before returning to rc Ues and the veteran outfielder. their home at Rapid after has been -named tcmpo- a weeks' visit here. The Ad- j-ary manager- President Fred Anken- kins family fomicrlwy lived in Mo-! man said Bailey's position as manager nsizht be made perm? Madison Man Sells Mare for $1,600 JIADISON, June 27 (Special to the Meals has sold three-year-old saddle mare to Charles Adams of Denver, for $1,600. The mare was bought as a two-year-old from J.

L. Conley and was trained by H. Clay Bryant. She is a Grand McDonald Peavine and one of the best three-year-olds developed by the Bryant stables. U3fEMA3f ELECTROCUTED ST.

LOUIS, June 27 (A. W. Webb, 21, a lineman for the Laclede. Gas Light was killed late yesterday when hit, arm came ia contact with a wire carrying 4,400 volts THE WEATHER MISSOURI: Generally fair tonight and Friday, preceded by thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight in east and south portions. Not much change in temperature.

State Koad Report (Compiled for the Associated Press by the Automobile Club of Missouri): CAPE GIRARDEAU: Cloudy; roads fair. COLUMBIA: Cloudy; roads fair. HANNIBAL: Rain; roads slippery. JEFFERSON CITY: Cloudy; roads fair. Cloudy; roads faff.

KANSAS CITY: Cloudy; roads 'fair. I MOBERLY: Cloudy; roads soft. POPLAR BLUFF: Cloudy: roads while he was at work on a-pole on a fair. street here. Inhalators were used for five hours in a futile effort to resus- cU a 1 ST.

JOSEPH: Cloudy; roads fair. ST. LOUIS: Cloudy; roads fair. SPRINGFIELD: Cloudy; roads fair. Huntsville Boys Set Sail for Harvest Fields in 'Ship' of 1924 Henry Fprd Vintage The again.

"Mayflower" It spread its a set sail wings" (four i ttling g6od cylinders) on Monday morning of this week and headed foi a view of the harvest fields of western Kansas. Ensconced in the cabins of this good ship of 1924 Henry Ford vintage) were four of set. As is often the case 'with our young people, especially when the spring and summer vacation season nears, the pastures far away are greener. So it was with these boys. The "green" is the golden glow of wheat in the plains of Kansas.

Work is plentiful, and work was what they wanted. Costs Them 815 Herbert Halliburton, John Wayland, J. T. Hunt, and Roy 1 ') Dale are the boys who were called by the lure of these greener pastures. Finding it impossible to resist the call, they parted with $15 their hard earned capital and acquired this rattling good Ford.

Another $10.50 tent, cooking utensils, pots, pans pipes wero piled into thi "ship." At 9 o'clock they gathered in fron of Roy Craven's Friendly Inn to receive and make fond last farewells and gather in the many shouts advice brave and encouragement for the adventure that was befor Employes of Light Company Have Picni 'Tlie office employes of the Missouri Power and Light and theij friends hud a picnic-at Forest Parl( last night. The employes had a picx nic luncheon after many of them ha had an evening swim, and others spent their time boating. An entert tainment is held once each month bj( this group. Those who attended the picnic lasi night were: Mr. and Mrs.

George and Mrs. F. D- Mr. and Mrs. A.

W. O'Quest, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Casto, Mr. and Mrsj Jack Maupin, Mr.

and Mrs. Adrian Gulick, Mr. and Mrs. R. R.

Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Reynolds, Mr- and Mrs, D. P. Rickard, Royce Dawson, Spaunhorst, Elvadine Precht, Beulali Lowry, Elizabeth Lewis, Ruth Curry, John Gulick, Helen Hunter, Irwin Umlauf, Louise O'Quest, Leslie Brown, Elda Hedges.

Mrs. I. E. Preclit, Dallas Hitt. H.

C. Huntsville House Burns to Ground A house- belonging to and occupied! by Mrs. Ike Jackson, colored, on South Depot street in Huntsville wu3 burned to the ground at 10:30 o'clock this morning. It is thought; the fire was caused by a defective flue. Part of the furniture in the front room of the house was saved.

Mrs. Jackson was not at home at the time and the fire gained considerable headway before it cd. When the fire department arrived they found it' impossible to save the house so efforts were made to save the property of Luther McCanne, a few rods away. them. Then, when the last word was said, two turns of the handle anc the motor was started.

Amid the rattling the good ship's motor anc the numerous pots and pans, and with the shouts of about twenty-five persons who had gathered for the sendoff, ringing in their ears, the sails were spread and the journey was on. Storms Encountered At ML Airy the boys with their first serious storm came in the way of a blowout. With that fixed, the "screw" was set again. Roanoke was the next port and hero again dame fortune frowned on them, and brought more tire trouble. Since 11 o'clock Monday morning To Vote Saturday on Higbee School Levy HIGBEE, 27 (Special special schoo( election will held Saturday tcj vote a of 100 mills on the dollar for school purposes.

The levy is the same as voted at the school election last April but on account of the consolidation of thig school district- has to be again voted on. went for the license. Then a raid was the ship ha been, among the miss- made on mother's pantry. Grui, a i PAULINO TO HAVE 5-POUND ADVANTAGE NEW YORK, June 27- (AP)--, Paulino Uzcudun had an advantage of five and one half pounds over Mas Schmelling when the heavyweights weighed in this afternoon for theiif 15 round fight tonight. Paulino's weight was our while Schemling tipped the scales at 187.

Both were declared by 'State Athletic Commission doctors to be in perfect condition. Monitor-Index Want Ads always get results. Try one aad.be.