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Full Leased Wire of the Associated Press VOL. 71, NO. 260 FINAL EDITION Full Leased Wire the United Press OFFERS PUB TO GfiEfllE 1,1 Two to Ten Year Proposal Would Cai! for Investment of 25 Billions FAIR OPPORTUNITY 'ALL THAT IS NEEDED Head of Big Concern Says Mistakes of the Past Must Be Forgotten NEW Dec. 7-- (AP)-- A two-to-ten-year plan to create ,000 new jobs through plan- investment oof $25,000,000,000 by private industry was proposed today by Lammot Du Pont, president of E. I.

du Pont de Nemours in an address at the National Association of Manufacturers convention. Du Pont pictured bringing about of a new era with eventual elimination of poverty and unemployment, through this threefold program: 1. "Development and popularization of new products." 2. "Vastly broadening the market for existing products through lowering their cost." 3. "Maintaining a rule fair return for all effort, not excepting capital effort." Needs Fair Chance Industry can put this plan into effect, he said, if given a "fair opportunity" through a three-fold governmental pledge covering 'these points: 1.

"Stabilization of tax rates over a definite period." 2. "Stabilization of fair laboring conditions over a definite period." 3. immediate stabilization of the "legal rules" under which business must op'ei-ate, subject only to "unmistakable public demand" for amendment. He said the actual rate pf. taxes, or the actual scale of wages or hours, were not as important as stabilization, "What been-done; wisely- or unwisely, 5 is behind us," he said.

STARK FACES BUSY WEEK--TRAVELING Governor Lloyd C. Stark today faced a busy week of traveling. He left this morning for his home town of Louisiana, on a business trip. Thursday he will go to Springfield, for the annual meeting of the State Horticultural Society and from there will- leave for Washington, D. to confer with President Roosevelt and to attend the annual gridiron dinner Saturday.

The governor will be accompanied to Washington by Mrs Stark and Col. and Mrs. Edwin Stark of Louisiana. He and his cousin will be guests of the Missouri Congressional delegation at luncheon Saturday. The President invited Stark to confer with him on the penal system in Missouri.

TIE- SOUTH Otto C. Botz Tells Council There Are No Provisions South of Dunklin us leave it there. fhe for post mortems." It is no While he suggested no detailed plans for a 525,000,000,000 financing program, a task he described as "stagginer," du Pont said "It is neither hopeless nor He began his address by conceding that "the purchase power of a part of our population is too low," that "some parts of our agriculture are disorganized," but GROWTH IS CERTAIN Makes Point While Discussing Bus Service for That Section The school board was charged last night with "ignoring" the South Side "in its $600,000 building program. The charge was made by Otto C. Botz, South Side chicken hatchery operator, wtio appeared before the -city' council to ask that body's cooperation in obtaining an extension of the bus service to his district.

The South Side was absolutely-neglected in the school board's building 1 "No provision for additional: educational facilities; was. matte for that are laying, south street. lt means. more build up the SdulhV.Side '-'than Janyr-'other section of city-- so far we've been- neglected more. The South is.

comparatively virgin territory; It grow for many years. -We. should have had a new. school in that territory Work With Company Speaking on" behalf a committee which presented asking for bus service, Botz said the petitioners would riot be "too insistent" in demands for JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1937 RQZIER FORME CIVItjERVICE Young Republican Legislator Would Knock Out the Spoils System PUBLIC REACTION MIGHT BE FAVORABLE Recalled How Enthusiast! cally People Adopted Conservation Amendment Council Takds First Step In Revision Votes to Match Dollars With C.

of C. In Paying for Survey; Four Ordinances Offered, But Will Be Held In Abeyance Pending Investigation 0 said it was industry alone outin the. new lines, Which rrmiH ti-, have been promised by the Misri Power Light Co. "We want to work with the" could increase the nation's purchasing power, and that industry and science are "agriculture's greatest hope." Planned Research But "new jobs, new wealth, farm prosperity, cannot be picked like dreams and theories out of the air," he said. "They fan be produced only through planned research, planned development, and by planned expansion of plant, sales, administrative and other facilities, which means at.

every step the planned 'expenditure of capital months and years in advance of one penny of return. And this must be intelligent planning." "Obviously, then, wh'en the future is. uncertain, business is uncertain," he said. "Today industry is blanketed by a fog of uncertainty. rules the tax situ- the labor situation, the situation, and practically every legal condition under which industry must operate.

"Are taxes to go higher, lower, or stay where they are? We don't know. Is labor to be union or non-union, is the A. F. of L. or the C.

I. O. to dominate it, and in any event what will be expected of the employer? It is impossible even to guess the answers. Are we to have inflation or deflation, more government spending or less? Industry is without a scrap of knowledge of either subject. The whole future is one gigantic question mark.

1 Stabilization of tax rates over a definite period, plus a simplification of the tax structure" may be almost more important than the actual level of taxes," he pointed out, adding: threat of Laws "Strikes, broken contracts, wars within labor's own ranks, the constant threat of sweeping new laws, have reduced industrial planning to the category of a gamble. Stabilization of fair conditions over XContinued on page 9) (Continued on page 2) Unsettled, Snow, Colder Tonight and Wednesday nscl(tcd tonight and Wednesday. local snows. Colder in north, and north-central portions tonight; much colder Wednesday, with moderate cold wave in north portion. Temperatures: 32.

Low, 13. RIVER STAGES Kcokuk (minus) 1.3 Pall 0.3 Kansas City 3 5 pall 0 1 Wavcrly 3.5 Risc Boonville i.s Rise 0.2 St. Thomas 0 Hermann 0. 0 Fa Union Y0.5 0.0 IV--Indicates data for yesterday). Lake of Osarks seven and three-tenths feet- below lull reservoir.

OLD IGE PENSION PHYMENTSINCREUSE But They Are Far From Stark's Average Old age pension payments' are increasing, but they're still far from to $20 a month average suggested recently by Governor Lloyd C. Stark. For December, the social security commission announced late yesterday that 76,365 recipients State Sen. George A. Rozier young Republican legislator from Ferryville, set the politicians of both parties thinking today as they read of his demands for abolishment of the "spoils systerri' in.

Missouri. Little enthusiasm for the idea was heard at the statehouse, largely staffed with 'Democrats, while former G. O. officeholders viewed none too friendly the possibility of losing patronage, if they ever return power. difficulty of instituting a state civil service program was admitted, but all recalled how overwhelmingly the voters adopted the conservation amendment last November, a proposition designed to take the game and fish department out of politics.

On Merit Basis If a proposal to place all state jobs on the merit basis was raut on the ballot, it might be adopted as -easily as the conservation amendment, some observers said. In an address last week at Caoe Girardeau, Rozier, one of the three Republican senators, advocated civil service for all employes of the state. "The practice of turning off all or a large percentage of state em- ployes with each change of the administration is too costly," he declared: "Certainly, a business nian would not run his business that' couldn't affprd to and neither: can "the state." Rozier, generally at odds with the. "old guard" of both parties, vernor i i a merit system for penal hqweve.r, plain meant a bipartisan merit system. rather than a-non-partisan civil The Perryville senator's speech was interpreted by; some observers here as-' a bid for support should tie seek a office.

Rozier has been as a possible, senatorial candi a against Bennett C. Clark next oi- as ah aspirant for the governorship. Real Campaigner Considered by friends and foes alike as an able debater, Roziar, Perry 'county prosecutor for would make an aggressive-'campaign, his legislative friends believe. In the last session, he won attention for his social security leg- council finally was something about it. When the council Safety leaders who have urged a revision of the city's tangled traffic code for the last several years were convinced today the going to do voted last night to "match dollars" with the Chamber of Commerce in financing a traffic survey next March; safety enthusiasts said it marked the first serious attempt at getting at the roots of a problem which has vexed city officials and civic leaders alike for a dozen years.

In Unanimous Accord The council voted unanimously to cooperate in the traffic survev The investigation may cost as much as $1,500, but officials agreed it would be worth it; The survey will be the first step in a long-range program calculated to put City's traffic ordinances in a workable condition. Out-moded statutes will be lopped from the books, and in their place will be substituted a model code already enacted in a score of the nation's leading cities new, code will be patterned after a set of laws compiled by the national safely council. It will take into consideration Jefferson City particular needs. When it is enacted into law, it will make Jefferson City's traffic ordinances greatly similar to those in other leading cities. Four traffic regulatory ordinances were offered last night, but all were referred to the council as a whole to await the outcome or the traffic survey.

Then they will be embodied in the new code. bafely leaders from the Chamber of Commerce appeared before the council to emphasize the need lor long-time planning of the revised code. Plan (or Future Jefferson City is growing; we must plan for the future," said Carl Lane, who long has been active in local safety work. To prove his noint, he cited a recent safety engineer's report on traffic conditions on McCartv street. "That traffic artery even now is carryingji load twice as heavy as Near Zero Temperatures By Nightfall Wednesday, Forecaster Says SNOW Latest Blast From Old man Winter Comes Out of Canada new.

cold hit this section tomorrow, bringing near- zero temperatures nightfall, the ve ather warned today its-dive forecasters added, reaching a minimum cf. 15 by.Morning. Then- cold winds will sweep out of the northwest and the temperature will; complete its drop to the lowest levels of the season. the-cold wave Forerunners of were 'occasional snow, flurries islation. With Reynolds, Sen.

Allen Mc- Carthage, Rozier (wrote the unemployment compensation act that replaced the administration-sponsored house bill. Rozier also 'helped draft and sponsor the social security act that merged relief and old age pension activity and was drawn to eliminate politics from public assistance. He was a leader in the fight for criminal code reform bills and opposed other lawyer-members who a paid, a average of $13.52, or an increase of 35 cents over the previous month. December payments totaled as compared with November payments of for (4,354 persons. George I.

Haworth, state administrator, said the department had estimated that from 10 to 15 per cent of the persons on the pension rolls were shown to be ineligible, as a result of reinvestigation of the cases, and would be removed as soon as possible. Stark also recently demanded a purge of the pension lists citing cases of persons good incomes whose parents were receiving assistance. fcught Sen. Paul substituting death for hanging. C.

Jones' by lethal bill gas Rozier has not announced wha- ther he will seek re-election from the 26th senatorial district which he has represented since 1934. Claims Confession KIRKSVILLE, Dec. 7-(AP)--Charles E. Miller, Adajr county prosecuting attorney, said today that DeGard, 20-year- old coal miner, had admitted he struck and fatally injured Fred Powell, 44, in an argument over a drink' of beer Saturday night. Big Inheritance Check Ah inheritance tax of $6,816 was-paid to the state treasurer today by the estate of Fred Kramme, St.

Louis, who died March 26, 1937, leaving a net estate of $121.572. Recipe for Happiness for Four Youngsters by Alias Santa Club Recipe for making four Jefferson City children; happy: Two dolls, a toy airplane and a tricycle. necd not be the lif e- fine shops, an arm or sized, silken dressed ones of the They can even lack a. leg. The airplane needs no expensive mechanical mpior and the tricycle can be slightly scuffed and minus a wheel or two.

The city's firemen will fix them up, and on Christmas morning scores of "Alias Santas" will Jthat the re 'P aire toys go to children who appreciate them. ir lnen workshop in the West End fire station far. from resembles the- same scene a 'year ago. In 1S36, more than 1,200 toys had. been presented to the firemen for repair and repainting, This year, they have fewer than 800 pieces.

"And some of them cannot be repaired," said Fire Chief Ferd Robertson. "That means that unless more toys are given to us in time for repairing them by Christmas morning, at least 500 needy children may go without gifts on Christmas." The demands of the Alias Santa Claus Club clients are few. Toys that long have been discarded in most -Jefferson City homes would be, received with shining eyes by the needy children, Robertson said. Anyone with toys of any description can place them in the hands of firemen to be repaired by calling 3607, thc Alias Santa Claus which shifted down on this section today. The current cold wave yielded slightly, but the weather man said the return to abnormally low temperatures could be.

expected soon. To 13 Above Today's minimum was 13 above, recorded at 7 a. m. The mercury started climbing early in the day, however, and by noon it had ascended to 32, the freezing" mark. The weather man saw some possibility of snow tonight, but the fall probably would not be great.

The coming cold wave was blamed on a high pressure arid cold weather area which appeared over Alberta, Canada, and-, advanced steadily toward Jefferson City. pressure area Had reached Montana and North. Dakota this morning, bringing a prediction colder" for Missouri tomorrow. Last night's minimum over state varied from 10 to 22 degrees. The mercury was rising, but today's 'peaks were below' Tonight, within a 200-mile radius of St.

Louis, the weather bureau predicted low readings as follows: North, 20 degrees; south 20. STflRT THREEJROJECTS Successful a Promise School Board All Possible Speed NO FIELD Held Up For Present; Kuehn Gets Remodeling Contract 1 for three 'projects to 'uh'der -the city's school program --at-' the West the East t'hd and the Junior- high start before Saturday. -Lee Van who was awarded the contracts 'for the grading work by the school -board late yesterday, informed Mrs. Irwin, president of the board he would be ready to' put his crews to work by Saturday, the deadline under PWA regulations. 'Van Horn's bid was the lowest of a half-dozen offered at yestcr- day's contract letting.

He will oxcavate; the earth' for 19 cents a cubic yard and the rock for 75 cents a yard. Board officials said the grading work would. take from two weeks to a month. Then the way will be open for starting the actual construction of the new. buildings Contract for the Washington school remodeling program wont to Ed Kuehn, Jefferson City contractor for $20,242.14.

Kuehn probably will start on the job within the next two The four, contracts were awarded after all-day executive meeting of the board. After con- PRICE THREE CENTS Gerry Lee Eveler, 6 Years Old Dashed Out In Front of Vehicle WOMAN WITNESS ABSOLVES DRIVER Said Accident Could Not Be Avoided; Thigh Broken, Doctor Says Gerry Lee Eveler, 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Eveler, east of the city, suffered a fractured right thigh when she was struck by a truck in the 1200 block on East Miller street at noon today. The girl, a pupil at the Immaculate Conception school, was to the home of her grandmother for lunch when the accident uc- curred.

The truck, used for deliveries by the Dudenhoeffer store, was being driven by Clem Bcrnskael- tor of Route 4, Jefferson City. Was Unavoidable Witnesses said the girl ran into the street directly in front of the truck. Playing with other children en route home, she apparently did not see the machine coming. Bernskoetter said he was driving the truck east on Miller street at a slow rate of speed. He he saw the girl too late to avoid the accident.

Mrs. J. Harm oi 1207 East Miller street told police the accident oc- ui-red near her house, and that she witnessed it. She said the truck was traveling slowly. Chief of Police Harry Mackey and Traffic Officer Bruce Burchett went to the scene-to investigate the accident.

Mackoy said it apparently was unavoidable. The officers took the girl to the home of her grandmother, then called a physician. The doctor or- taken to the hospital '2tUyas liev more than an on the GAS TAX COLLECTIONS SHOW AN INCREASE Gasoline tax collections for the first 10 months of this year were $496,910 more than during the corresponding period last year, Roy fi. Chorry, state oil inspector, announced today. October collections were $1,048,109, bringing the ten months total to SYMPHONY CONCERT AT JUNIOR COLLEGE The Symphony Orchestra will present its second concert at eight- fifteen tonight at the Junior College Auditorium.

A splendid program has been arranged by thd orchestra, featuring Miss Pattie Dean Schcll as the guest artist, and an outstanding musical evening is assured. Marriage License Edmond Lowe of Boston, and Mrs. Betty Knudtson of Pat- tpnsburg, obtained a marriage accuse today from Recorder Henry LePage and were married a few minutes later at the courthouse by Justice Pros LePage headquarters. A for the toys. driver will call Still Missing TMTE PLAINS, N.

Dec. 7 A p) Tne disappearance of Arthur Fried, New York business men, from his suburban West- Chester county home still mysti- as they iyii Hit. Washington project, the board indicated it might have to ask for Kuchr 's was nearly $3,000 excess of preliminary estimates of the architects. Alter an afternoon of conferences however, -the board decided to award the contract in order that no more delay might be occasioned. Mrs.

Irwin said bids on (he remaining, projects--construction of the two new grade schools and the Junior high school--would be accepted later. The board took no action on the bids grading the athletic field. re- of in 13 MORE TO DIE IN SOVIET PURGE MOSCOW, Dec. 7 A -Thirteen death sentences were ported today in the "purge" alleged anti-Soviet elements tne Kussian provinces. One of the condemned was a peasant accused of hiring a friend lo kill a woman candidate for thc supreme Soviet "because she denounced his disruptive behavior on a collective farm." The friend, instead of carrying out the alleged iot sakj tft Save denounced JAPS START CELEBRATING; JAPANESE WOMAN PLEADS FOR PEACE Doc.

7 -(AP)--Mrs. Waka. Yamada, quaintly costumed Japanese, iisked American women today through Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt "to cooperate with both Chinese and Japanese mothers to bring the Sino- Japanese conflict to a speedy close." Mrs.

Yamada appeared at the first lady's press conference to tell her that as long as the conflict lasts, there will be many unfortunate incidents to both Chinese nnd Japanese children. Tokyo Indicates It May Withdraw Recognition ofj Present Chinese Government After Capital Falls END OF WAR IS NOT IN SIGHT BUTE MR HOLIDAY Water Company Lawyer: Have Another Case In Washington This Month BOND IS NOT OPPOSED Says Delay Will Give. Additional Time To Prepare His Case broken. brought her said into her parents the city each day to attend school. She walks to her grandmother's home for lunch each day and her parents come.for her at night.

Physicians who set the girl's fracture said her injuries would not prove serious unless unforseen complications develop. The fact she suffered only the fracture led officers to believe she was not run over. SPOKE LIST NIGHT British Statesman's Address Well Received Lord Marlcy, noted British statesman, told 300 members of the Town Hall last night that the world's civilian population will bear the brunt of the next great war. Appearing at the Junior college as the organization's first speaker, Lord Marley saici civilians in fu- turc conflicts would be made to understand the horrors of war for the. first time.

He suggested a re-distribution of raw materials would make for permanent peace, stressing the fact that unequal distribution was al the bottom of most of the world's troubles. Lord Marlcy was introduced by Governor Stark, who was presented by Harry Buchanan, chairman of the Town Following the lecture, members rccpsscd to the school cafeteria for a buffet supper. Sustains Demurrer CHILLOCOTHE. Dec. 7-(AP)-- Judge Merrill E.

Otis sustained a defense demurrer todsy to four more counts in a 14-count indictment against Joseph N. Martin, 44, of Kansas City, former president of the Trenton National Bank, here. on trial in federal court The state public service cor mission announced today it had postponed Capital City Water rat.e hearing from De: to "after the holidays." up isoon'fifter the first of the year, PSG' 1 officials said:" Attorneys for the water company sought the delay because they have another case in Washington, the Post- Tribune learned. City Attorney John O. Bond, who will direct the city's battle for a water rate reduction, said he did not object i.o the delay.

He added that it would give him more time to prepare his case. May Ask Help Bond told the Post-Tribune he may employed special engineers to aid him in his case. He said the engineers would serve as counsel on technical matters involved in the hearing and "try to overcome the arguments made by engineers for the water company." While Bond planned his case, demands that the water company set a price on its Jefferson City properties were made'again in the city council. Alderman F. F.

McCluney of the fourth ward insisted that the company set the price "because under the law we're entitled to it every i year." this is the fifth added at last night's meeting. The city attorney today was drafting a letter to the water company in compliance with a council resolution which instructed hirn to ask the utility to "show why it should not set the price, 'Aiderman Robert E. Dorr said the council had requested the water company to set the price, but so far information had been forthcoming. Dorr said he would ask the council to "force the issue." M.ISSOURI PACIFIC ENGINEER IS DEAD Hunan Province May Become Scene of Fighting With Soviet Lending Aid to the Defenders SHANGHAI, Dec. 7-- (AP) columns of Japanese troops assailed Nanking's historic walls tonight.

Japanese who announced the attack said a spearhead of their invaders was attempting to climb the city's rmis- sivc battlements with scaling lad- dors-- a maneuver handed dosvn the middle ages. Gates of doomed city were closed. Chinese had sinned a final stand which seemed destined to fail. A Chinese army 200,000 strong massed along the battlements for a stand against 75,000 Jnpnnese. The full force of bnttlc destined to decide fate of the Chinese capital had not yet begun.

Tension increased with the passing hours. Seventeen Americans were believed within Nanking and hundreds of thousands of natives, unab'le to flee, were massed the residential areas. With the fall of their city seemingly near, the Chinese began destruction of military supplies and prevent its capture, and iilso' biirned property considered jof value to the that their main Had not yet reached. the city but adcjed that they were "progressing, satisfactorily and 'according scheduled" Froni Air did not say soon he expected the fall of the one-time fouhtninhead of Nationalist China; Generalissimo' Chiang Kai-Shek, China's leader, had left Nanking' Chinese disclosed. He and.

Madame- 'Chiang, 'head of China's airforce, were said to have departed by plane for capital. of the interior province of Kiangsi. The government evacuated two weeks ago. Meager foreign dispatches trickling through from Nanking confirmed Japanese reports that Nippon's warplancs had pounded the city with bombs. These advices, however, did not mention the ex- ler.t of casualties or damage.

Jspanese had asserted that 00 raided the city in the most intc-iisive bombardment of the war thus rar. In Lower Valley The raids apparently were aimed at military objectives in the city's environs. Japanese claimed their airforce had struck at towns and cities of the lower Yangtze Valley as far as Nanking, deep in A i i province, destroying air- aircraft and military equipment The Chinese boom at Kiangyin, blocking 5 Japanese warships from an attack on Nanking, remained infect. Japanese previously had reported its destruction. Japan's grip on Nanking tightened early today.

Then the Jap- ncse reported they had blocked all exits from Nanking on the south while a spearhead unit thrust toward the Yangtze river which curves around the city's KANSAS CITY, Dec. 7--(AP) western and northern fringes. T. Solander, 51, Osawatomie, a Missouri engineer, died today in St. hospital.

He was husband of Mrs. Patricia Solander, president of the Kansas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs and the first woman state senator Kansas. Starts Celebration TOKYO, Dec. 7--(AP)--Tokyo was in a slate of ecstatic frenzy today, awaiting the fall of Nan- the plotter. BUEHLER AGAIN IS STATE GEOLOGIST Dl rr Rolla, was re-appointed by Governor Lloyd Stark today as geologist for a term ending -Aug.

1941 also renamed Mrs. Christmas Party for Children At State Theater December 24 Arnold Gould, resident Christmas matinee party for child- Manager Gould said the the- P'-nnin. to take care thc lar cst crowd in the his- Br Free Worth of the had into reports I screen idnapped. 2 ncann ren in Jefferson City and its trade i tol 'y of the If the crowd is territory would be given Friday I too large lor the State theater he Dec. 24, at the State Theater.

isaid, one of the other theaters will Thc party will start at 10 a.m. I be made available to take care of All children elementary school the overflow. A crowd estimated of Christinas. Another big party will "The program include the be given Saturday, Dec. 18, by the best comedies, Popeye cartoons, Exchange National Bank.

Child- Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies ren living in Jefferson City and nnd other short subjects released surrounding territory have been Hm-intr 1hr a voar during the last year," he announced. He said that the titles be announced later. invited to the party, which will start at 2:30 p.m. and continue until 5 p.m. Nevertheless, it was generally believed that the capture of Nan- king would not mean the end of thc war.

Japanese thought Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek would concentrate his forces in. Hunan province and attempt to continue fighting with some sort of aid from Soviet Russia. The Japanese government was said to be considering issuance ot a declaration withdrawing Japanese recognition of the Nanking government. (Such a declaration would mean that Japan no longer recognized the regime of Chiang as the true government of China.) Celebration of Nanking's immi-. nent fall started last night.

Police relaxed closing laws and the downtown district of Tokyo blazed with gaiety. Crowds milled, through the streets. Cafes and, restaurants were jammed until well past midnight. Throughout the night handbells jingled endlessly as newsboys (Continued page 9).