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Full Leased Wire of the Associated Press -ffirflnme FINAL EDITION Full Leased Wire of the United Press VOL. GRADING PROJECT MLTEOJ ROW Shutdown Ordered Until Monday In Effort to Settle Dispute CRISIS AVERTED BY CONTRACTOR'S ACTION Federal Conciliator May Be Called; Board Declines to Spend More JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1938 Officers Owed County $1,975.30 in Fees and Salaries Not Due Them State Auditors Declare, However, That Overcharges Were Made Through Error; Former Sheriff Snorgrass Overdrew $915, But Contests the Finding STATE SUPREME COURT FOR STONE Work on the Junior high ool grading project was halted ay until Monday while contractors and labor leaders attempted to settle a controversy over the employment of three non-union operating engineers. Union, officials indicated they would ask a federal labor conciliator to come here and arbitrate the dispute. The lay-off was ordered as union representatives met-'with the finance committee of the school board to discuss a new that union men must be used on "all phases or none" of the half- million dollar building program. Even as the meeting started; the most serious crisis in the program so far.apparently averted.

Rumors were persistent this morning that labor representatives, said to have come here from out of town, were preparing to halt classes at the Junior high school in an attempt to push through their demands. It was reported this, would be accomplished by shutting off the boilers at the school. A Post-Tribune reporter -went to the school and found several union men in the boiler room. There was no indication, however, that they' planned to interfere with the school. One -of the men told the reporter "nothing violent" was planned.

Demand. Union to'' see that on the school "If put union men to work-on project (the Junior high school jot) tlte w3i i on any; The'same ultimatum was issued by union who met with the school board bers. D. W. Peters, and R.

W. Hedrick represented the school board. Peters and Blair are 'members of the finance The a supreme court unanimously recommended today the appointment of Judge Kimbrough Stone of Kansas City, senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals to a place on the United States Supreme Court. A vacancy in the high court was created by the resignation of Justice George Sutherland, effective Jan. 18.

Judge' C. A. Leedy, said the recommendation had been forwarded to President Roosevelt. Bar associations in St. Louis and Kansas City also have.endorsed Stone for the appointment.

Judge Stone was appointed to' the federal bench Dec. 21, He is the son of the late William Joel Stone, former Missoiiri governor and United States' senator. (M MEET ON PRICE THREE CENTS GREEN ft VOffS NOUSTRf Head of Federation Testifies Before Senate mittee JACKSON ANJTlCKES I SPEECHES FRIGHTEN Cole county collected $1,975.30 in fees and salaries not due them during 1933 and 193S, an audit completed by the state auditor's office revealed today, former Sheriff L. A. (Chick) Snorgrass was charged with owing $915.

The auditor's repor.t declared most of the money came from fees charged illegally, but added that in-most instances the overcharges were made through error. In addition to Snograss, the following officials were listed debtors to the county William 1 1 en Presiaem.oi Tellman; county TM A can Federation, who help- Markway, collector, nie A. Bassman, Guy Sone, circu Henry LePage, recorder, $80.15. Most of the officials returned the money while the audit was in progress, the report declared. Denies He Owes It Says Robt.

E. Wood But Declares Roosevelt Speech Reassuring 'I Jan. 7-- (AP) Wil iam green, president of the i American Federation, help' 6d TM the wage-hour bill in the special sesslo of congress, advo- win- caled in industrial hour regulation employment today as a means ending the slump. Green testified before a senate committee on unemploym President Robert E. Wood of Sears J1TOR I CENTHMUM OFFICE 01 Ft IE Madison Street Building Filled With Smoke From Flames In Basement SAFE IS HALF WAY THROUGH THE FLOOR Two Freak Calls Also Served to Keep Departments Busy During the Day City riremen answered four alarms this morning, one of them to extinguish a fire that did damage estimated at more than $500 to the Central Mutual Insurance company at 309-11 Madison street.

Slight damage resulted in the others. SCOTT P. HAWKINS FALLS FROM NAVY PLANE INTO OCEAN Roebuck and company told the who retired last year, I committee that employment in the aenied that he owed the money, consumers goods industry would increase by March or April. To this, however, he added that He would not elaborate on tlie denial. Snorgrass was listed as exceeding his fee by $10 in ing petit juries.

The-fee charged for Council To Discuss Proposal at Special Session Tonight HOPE ACTION Open Meeting ToJFbllow Caucus; South SjeJe Invited was $18.40 in each case, the audit said. State law provides a fee of only for the service. "It was explained," said the auditor's report, "that the excess in each case was allowed as a provision for mileage. No doubt the sheriff is entitled to mileage in performing the service provided in this section, but because of the variable mileage in each case, we recommend that such bills be allowed only when the sheriff presents an invoice itemizing the service the number of miles necessarily traveled," Much of'the former sheriff's overcharges were in the feeding of prisoners, the audit said. "The excess of $580.85 due the recent sneeches Robert Ickes, Tiie "City special meeting tonight 'con- sider a new bus franchise.

It will meet first as a committee of the whole for a caucus in the i office. it will James T. Blair', adjourn to the chamber to hear interested Capital Citians discuss the franchise in open' ses- committee, to "sit'' in' They invited Hedrick sion. county by Mr. Snorgrass for board of prisoners is the.

-result of his haying charged and'collected direct 'fronv the on his regu- day in some while'the rate fixed by the county court for both the years 1935 and 1936 was sixty-five cents," it continued. "In was i a many instances.the rate of $1.25 significant, however, that ay was ch day." he asked not for fixed minimum The ydU said to "In- pSfnt adequate records," the fees-col- 1 Alderman Chester. Stewart said ILICH.L J.C wal. oalU on the session. of the all union was represented by George (others interested in the proposal Clark, head of the-building and I would be given a chance to voice their opinions.

Caucus Scheduled The caucus will be necessary because the council is studying the franchise as a committee of the whole, he said. The caucus is scheduled for 7:30 o'clock and the open meeting will follow shortly thereafter. Stewart expressed the hope the problem can be worked but satisfactorily at tonight's meeting. "It looks like the longer it is deferred the more involved it becomes," he commented. "I hope construction, trades "council, and Frank L.

busirffes's" 'agent for the council. The school board committee turned down flatly a union proposal that the board make up the difference between the scale Lee VanHorn, contractor for thr grading project, pays his men and the amount demanded under the union scale. Eddington proposed that VanHorn fire the non-union workmen and hire union asked the school board to pay the difference in the scales for the time already'we can get together and decide on the best kind of franchise to spent on the project--about 300 hours--and to pay the contractor amount he would adopt." It is possible the routes for the the additional have to spend work if union workmen were-hired. Thus about $255 would be paid to the union, and the addi-i formed recently to take over" the A iv. vi it- I i a JLUL Hit; to complete the new South Side bus service will be established finally at the session.

The new bus company tional cost to. the board in all would be about $610. "We can't do it and we won't the board members said. Won't Pay Half The union men then proposed that the board pay half of extra cost and the contractor the other half. Again, the directors shook their heads.

In opening the meeting, Peters said the board was represented at the recommendation of the contractor and the union representatives. He said the board was interested only "indirectly" since the contracts had been let and the labor controversy was out of its hands. Peters asked Eddinglon what the union men wanted. "We want to get union men on the grading job," Edington answered. properties of the Missouri Power Light is understood to be willing to give an auxiliary line a trial service.

South Side "residents insist the line can be made to pay if satisfactory routes and schedules are established. $4,045,000 TO THE AGE BENEFIT FUND Blair asked what would taxcs if Van Horn failed to hire union) labor. "If union men don't work now, they don't work from now on," Eddington replied. "Is that final?" asked Blair. "Yes, that's final." No Engineer's Local Eddington said that "We all KANSAS CITY Jan.

7--(AP)-Western Missouri's 64 counties yielded $4,045,000 in federal returns for the contributory old age benefit fund from employes and employers last year, the office" of the collector of internal revenue announced today. Fred Chambers, assistant collector to Dan Nee, said the employers alone paid $2,178,000 as unemployment. compensation "abuses" by some business interests had been "frightening" to business generally. But he called President Roosevelt's recent message to congress "reassuring." 7 Point Program Green offered a seven-point program for recovery. Despite AFL opposition to wage-hour bill as it was drafted for the special session Green advanced today no 'specific plan for putting a "roof over or a floor under present wages." He said merely that "labor maintains that the shortening of hours of work is an essential prerequisite to the reduction of unemployment.

Legislative action to make effective this shortening of hours should be item number one on the agenda of this congress." In the special session AFL oppo-' sition was directed chiefly at a provision of the wage-hour bill! giving regulation into the hands of' a commission. It was considered The insurance company fire apparently originated i The basement of the building and ate its- way to the first floor before it was discovered. Firemen believed a gas burner caused it. Janitor Found It A. C.

Lincoln', janitor of the said a burst of smoke I greeted him when he stepped into no. inier- the build this morn ng He said atlacKing fnrtunatr.lv hp a nlirmf an linn- fortunately he was about an hour earlier than usual. A large safe in the south room of the downstairs offices was halfway through the floor when the firemen succeeded in extinguishing the flames. Firemen found the floor a mass of flames when they arrived at the scene about 6:15 tne hose was laid, a. m.

A line cC and water poured into the building nearly an hour before the blaze was extinguished. Fire Chief Ford Robertson said the damage was confined mostly to the floors, joists and beams. Firemen placed the loss at approximately $500, but officials of the company were unable to make an estima.te until the debris is cleared. It was believed that no valuable papers were destroyed. Two of the other calls were Jreak IP-'-which-slight-dara- age resulted.

were lected the sheriff and- amounts paid deputies are not complete. are of the opinion that had all fees been reflected the amount retained by the sheriff would not have exceeded his statutory limitation for either of the years," the report said. It added that the bills against the county for the sheriff's attendance on the circuit court do not bear the approval of the circuit judge. Indications that the wage-hour bill buried last session may be called back to the house again in some form came from Representa- Finds Truck on Fire One came while firemen fighting the insurance company blaze. Virgil McCubbin, operatot of a garbage truck, inadvertently put some live coals in his truck when he carried out ashes.

Ke discovered the fire when he arrived at the (500 block on High street. Firemen extinguished the blaze with slight damage. The next call was to the Mis. TS- no nn; ivi 10 live Dies (Tex) who declared it souri Pacific railroad yards, where could, be revived quickly if a a transient had built a fire in a orcmoi- car. The freight car caught fire and the tramp 'skipped out bc- propcr could reached.

Would Follow Platform He said a small group of proponents had compromise started after drafting a conferences with leaders of the opposition. The report said that actual ex- "We want to carry out the penditures of the county for the! platform of the Democratic par-! Carty 1st ceL tA period under examination were ty" he said, "bv nnWrl that the considerably under the budget for both years. The actual expenditures for the two years were $30,018 under the actual collections, it declared. "We feel that the county court and the other responsible officers deserve commendation for ty" he said, "by providing proper co-operation between the federal government and the states. But a new measure will not be brought to the floor of the house until the president approves it." It was learned that a leader of the drive for the original bill had suggested that wages and Liitit xva aiivj this improved financial condition; hours, in some cases, might be set of the county business," the by particular states, rather than port added.

The report criticized the court's handling of the school fund loans, declaring that "From an examination of the school bonds, it is our opinion that considerable effort is necessary by the county court to prevent unusual losses from loans made in previous years." The report declared that the excess due from Tellman "is the result of his having charged and collected a fee for filing 604 school warrants during the year 1936." by an administrative board or administrator in Washington. Wood said the prospective consumers goods employment increase "would not be sufficient" to hold up employment generally. An increase also is needed in the heavy industries, he said. Under questioning the business man attributed the slump to large inventories; to what he called the "mistaken" action on the federal reserve board in raising its rediscount rates and to general lack nessmen. "Here we have three speeches by two administration men (Robert H.

Jackson, assistant attorney CtL leuman has not repaid the of confidence on the part of busi- He said his deputy, Dick Williams, collected it. auditors said the overpayment to Collector Markway resulted from errors in making subdivisions. The report says several bookkeeping errors wers found. A change' in the books of the county treasurer was recommend(Continued on page 7) know there is no operating engin- (Continued on page 7) Fair With Mercury Down to 12 By Night 'or JeHerson Citj and Vicinity: Fulr Saturday; continued cold h(. Irmr.st' Jbont 12 degrees; cold Saturday.

Temperatures: High 19. Low IS. RIVER STAGES Keokuk (minus) 1.0 Ri se 0.5 Kansas City 3.2 0.0 Waverly j.9 o.O Boonville 2.2 Ri sc rj.l St. Thomas 1.7 0.0 Hermann 1.0 Rise 0.1 Union Y0.5 B.O iY--Indicates data for yesterday). Lake of ozarks seven and eight-Unlhs Itet below lull mervslr.

Snorgrass Has Paid No Rent for County Building He Occupies Former Sheriff L. A. (Chick) Snorgrass has lived in the old county jail building the last year without paying rent, a state audit of Cole County books revealed today. The auditor's report said the building is "rented as a residence, but no rent has been paid." The audit recommended "thai a contract be entered into for possession of this building, and' if ho rental is to be charged, the contract should so. specify." Members of court, who have charge the were not in session today, but other county officials said no contract existed between.

Snorgrass and court They there was about the building whereby Snorgrass would occupy it. Snorgrass denied he had been living at the jail free. "I pay rent," he told the Post- Tribune. Informed that the audit made no mention of his payments, he said, "Well, I haven't paid it yet." He explained that he had agreed with the court his rent should be paid "at the end of the year." He was reminded it had been a year since he moved into the jail. "Well, I just haven't paid il yet, that's all," he answered.

Snorgrass would not reveal the amount of rent he was paying. fore officers coul'd place him under arrest. Damage to the cat- was negligible. Shortly before'noon, companies were called to the home of Tom Zimmerman, 716 West Mc- burning flue had house would catch fire. There was no damage.

MRS. SHELEY DIES OF ILLNESS Wife of Prison Farm Manager Was 50 Years Old Mrs. E. L. Shcley, wife of the Church prison farm manager, died esrly today at the Boonc coun'j hospital in Columbia following a long illness.

She was about 50 years old. Mrs. Sheley was treated for seme time in the St. Mary's hospital here and later transferred to the Boone county hospital. She was a member of a known Callaway county family.

She moved to Columbia only recently from Callaway county She was well known in Jefferson Spent Some Time With His Father, A. L. Hawkins of Midland Company BORN AND REARED IN JEFFERSON CITY general, and secretary of interior City. Her husband has been man(Ickes) that are calculated of the prison farm the 'ast frighten business. The president's I four years.

statement was more moderate, but In addition- to her husband, she what is business to expect?" Undergoes Operation Anthony Hopen, 927 West High, who underwent an appendectomy at St. Mary's hospital yesterday, is improving. KIDDIES REVUE IS RESUMED ON KWOS The Dubinsky Bros. Capitol Kiddies Revue will be broadcast tomorrow by KWOS from the stage of the Capitol theater. The program is a renewal of the Children's Program which has not been presented the last two weeks because of the holidays.

The program is presented by children of Jefferson City and vicinity. It will start at 10:05 o'clock and continue until 10:45. The theater will be open to the public and no admission will be charged. Reviews of movies also will shown. i.s survived by her aged mother, Mrs.

Belly Clatterbuck of Columbia; two daughters, Mrs. Anne Alexander, chief clerk in the state department of budget in Jefferson City; and Mrs. Mary Redmond, Louisiana, Mo. The funeral will be conduced tomorrow at Columbia. After Finishing College He Was Associated With Local Printing Company Word of the loss of Scolt Pope rlawkins from a plane during naiieuvers off the California coast was received here this morning by his father, A.

L. Hawkins, president of the Midland Printing company. According to the message received from the navy department Hawkins fell from the rear coclc- pit of the plane which was engaged in a routine flight. San Diego official advices failed lo explain how the accident oc- cured. The navy said Hawkins, naval reserve flyer, was piloting a scout observation plane from the cruiser- Chicago.

He was accompanied by John M. Mack, a radio opera lor, nr.d was traveling at an altitude of about 2,500 feet when he fell al 2:44 p. m. In falling Hawkins struck the leading edge of i the navy said. His paruch'ute opened at about 2,000 feet, but he was lost after landing in the sea An accompanying seaplane failed to find him.

Search continued today. Scoll Pope Hawkins was born in Jefferson City October 23, 1908. He attended school here a short time and the went to St. Louis where he attended County Day school. Later he went to Princeton, then Boston Tech and i a graduated from Washington U.

With Father Here For several years he was associated with his father i the Midland Printing company here. His early ambition to become an aviator persisted, however, and he determined to join the aviation branch of the U. S. navy. He spent some lime al Lambert Field and from there went lo Pensacola where he won his wings.

From there he went to San Diego anct was assigned to the Flagship U. S. S. Chicago. Gov.

Lloyd Stark recalled this morning that Hawkins was attached to the U. S. S. Chicago on which the governor made his trip to Alaska earlier in the summer. The governor expressed deep regret.

"He was a fine young the governor said. He was named for his grandfather, the late W. Scott Pope, foi many years one of central Missouri's most prominent lawyers His mother, Mrs. Winnie Pope Hawkins resides al present in Long Bead), Calif. She made hai home for many years in St.

Louis It was recalled today that when Scott Hawkins was 9 years old he missed a citation for a Carnegie medal only because of his age He and a boy Uvo years his junior were al play opposile Ihe dock South Haven, when the companion fell into Die water Without a moments hesitation Scott leaped into the water anr after a struggle brought his play- male to safety. The boys father cited Hawkin for the Carnegie medal bul it not considered because of his age The story was one of many lolc here today to illustrate the daring. Hope in Error Hawkins visited his father here THE mm LOST SEC. WOODRING TO VISIT THIS CITY Secretary of War Harry F. Woodring and several high military officers in this section will be dinner guests of Governor Lloyd C.

Stark Sunday night. Woodring will stop overnight at the mansion (Continued on page 7) Barn on Mueller Farm Near Honey Creek Burned With All Live Stock LOSE HORSES, CATTLc Neighbor Saw Flames and the- Telephone Exchange Operator The ringing of telephone was credited today i probably saving the lives of John Mueller and members of his family after the barn, GO yards from the house, caught fire and destroyed all their livestock and equipment, 11 miles southwest of Jefferson City early this morning. Mr. Mueller estimated his loss al about $8,000. In addition to UK; ijarn which he built len years ago lie lost Iwcnty hoad of catllc, Uvo Worses, three mules, a Chevrolet truck, Ford roadster, 1800 pounds of seed, harness and equipment and a large quantity ol corn.

The origin of Ihc fire is unknown. Seen by Neighbor The fire which occurcd shortly after midnight this morning, was first observed by a neighbor two miles away. He waa of the impression that il was the homo of his son-in-law Fred Hirschman. He managed lo rouse Mrs. Tillie in charge of the switchboard ill the Brazito exchange.

Mrs. Popp called the Hirschman home which is on the same parly line wilh the Muellers. This aroused Mrs. Mueller. Neighbors soon gathered al the home but the roof of the barn caved in after the fire May Have Dropped From Ship In the Vicinity of Long Beach NO WORD FROM 7 ON HUGE AIRSHIP, Was Equipped With Radio and Was Not Believed- More Than 200 Miles Off SAN DIEGO, Jan.

7-(UP)--The disappearance al of a huge bombing plane with a crew of seven men today caused an exciting turn in the naval maneuvers thiil have proceeded off Ihe coast in secrecy for almost three xveeks. "7-P-4," the newest and mosli type of i i was lost somewhere about 200 niiles off the coast. It engaged in Ihc maneuvers, cloinu wluit navy officers described ily patrol," Every resource of the vy v.v.s tin-own into the search which was interrupted early today by ihu loss of a young cadet who fell from a plane into Ihe sea in the nrca where the scores searching planes and ships were congregated. Occurcd Yesterday The loss of Cadet Hawkins occurred about 3 p. m.

yesterday. Cadet John M. Mack, piloting vri. open cocHpil seaplane from the cruiser Chicago, landed at tha Long Beach base yesterday owning. Hawkins had been wilh.

him, and when he landed, il was discovered Hawkins was gone. He might have fallen out anywhere on the sea between Beach and where the Chicago was slationod, off Sari Clemcntc is- Innd and near the scene of the search. Mack said'ho had been flying at about ii.oOO feet. Hawkins 'wore a parachute carried a life a which also were missing. It was had plane assumed that Hawkins bounced out wlicn the struck an air pocket.

Naval au- Ihorilies said such Ihings had happened before. Several planes went out to look for Hawkins in the belief that lie had descended in his parachute and was floating on his raft. Ships searching for the last airboat were notified of Hawkins' loss and asked to report any trace of him. Although the plane carried one of Ihe most, efficient radio trans- millers, no message came from Us men. There an a i i a electrical gencralor aboard, to produce power for sending messages in case Ihc plane had landed at sea, and il was capable of coming down and riding out the roughest kind of water.

A fleet of naval and coast gunrd craft, including planes, converged discovered They stood by, how- WM Mueller said thai when he awakened the window panes in the home were "loo hot to touch." His farm i.s one of the best in the neighborhood and his ebuild- ings and equipment were for the most part new. City With a Record HOPEDALR, Jan. 7-(AP)--With the a a closing of the town books. Town Treasurer Alfred A. Love joy, revealed today that this loivn of 3100 never hns accepted penny of WPA money or other i i a federal assistance.

"Wo just don't need it," town officials Sixty Hiccoughs a Minute Land Transient in the Hospital Here Andrew Brelih, 26-year-old I taken to the institution by a txai Michigan native with "no set "driver. residence" hiccoughed 60 times a minute for several hours early today after he had experienced an unusual seizure in an uptown alley. His hiccoughs had been stopped enroutc to Washington after dc- at noon today, but physicians were livcring a Jackson Day speech to-! not certain when the youth could i continue his trip to Dallas, where morrow at Denver. Government Claims Victory HENDAYE, Franco Spanish Frontier, Jan. 7 (AP) The Spanish government army appeared today to have gained a winning he said he had a job.

Police were called to the 300 block on Jefferson street fate last night by persons who reported a man was acting strangely. The officers found nothing. Return- in the most to the office, however, hghjing of the 17-day Teiuel cam- were called to the hospital. There 'they found Brelih, who had been Brelih could hiccoughs, but note to police him: "No parents. Dlleis to work not talk between he scribbled this who questioned I was going to there.

My neck got stiff and rigid while ago. I got off of a car after riding steady all of the way from Bloomington, 111. Ate some chili and pork sandwiches about 4 p. m. I came from Michigan.

I had been working there. I do not have any set residence." Attendants at the hospital reported this afternoon Brelih we? "greatly imprc'ri." Recurrent al- tacks of the hiccoughs were not expected. last reported at 3 p. m. Wednesday.

The navy made 150 ships and 200 planes avilable to the search today. The aircraft carriers Lexington Saratoga were ordered here from San Pcdo at speed, to pick up 50 planes at North island station and slcam out to sea liiey will serve as bases of operations. Drcadnaughts in Search Eighteen huge cireadnaughli slopped gunnery practice off San Clemcntc island and set out to criss-cross the route where the lost plane was on patrol. Cruiscis followed the dreadnoughts and destroyers were called from their tactical maneuvers to rush ahcud of the larger craft. The two carriers were to be stacked full of land planes.

Seaplanes, including bombers of the same type as the lost one, were already out lo sea. Dozens of small surface vessels, tenders and launches, moved out en masse. It was the most extensive search ever undertaken off these shores. In command of the lost plane was Lieut. T.

E. Carpenter, of Possumpsic, Vt. His crew included: Cadet Philip O. Browning, Lees Summit, Edgar Anglin, aviation chief machinists' mate, Norfolk, G. A.

Mills, radioman third class, Prescott, Joe D. Adair, radioman third class, Carruthcrsvillc, C. C. Creech, machinists' mate, third, class, Richland, N. and L.

Peace, chief machinists' mate, Saa Diego. The plane was flying alone, observing ships that passed and making reports on them by radio. (Continued on page 7).