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Net Paid Circulation December 1, 1930 10,278 Full Leased Wire of the Associated Press 65, NO. 322 ribune Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation FINAL I I JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1931 BRUNKASKS FOR RESULTS OF CHECK-UP ON STEPHENS Formally Requests Caulfield to Make Public Results of State Investigation of Former Treasure Regime A SHORTAGE OF $45,000 RUMORED Brunk Says He Intends Use Part of Report His Defense in Inquiry Ordered by House State Treasurer Larry Brunk today called on Governor Caulfield and formally requested the governor to make public an audit of the interest payments by state depositories during the administration of O. E. Stephens, former state treasurer. Governor Caulfield said today port would show that approximately $45,000 was owed the state by banks which had state funds on deposit during the Stephens regime.

He said he did not know whether clerical errors or fraudulent withholdings of interest due the state was responsible. Governor Caulfiled said today the audit was NOT complete, hut that he hoped to announce officially tomorrow or Wednesday the result of the audit as far as interest payments were concerned. Treasurer Brunk said he wished to use part of the auditors' report in his defense in the investigation ordered by the house of represen- itives to determine if impeach- ient proceedings should be filed him. He is understood 'to have agreed to wait a few days for the report to be completed. The governor, it is understood, plans to confer with Attorney General Stratton Shartel as to the results of the inquiry before making them public.

An audit of the state accounts in all banks holding state funds during the Stephens administration was ordered by Governor Caulfield following the suspension from office on October 14 of State Treasurer Brunfc. Brunk was suspended for alleged irregularities in the interest accounts with the State Bank of Aurora, but the Supreme Court held the statute under which Governor Caulfield acted unconstitutional and Brunk was reinstated in office December 31. Accountants from the state public service commission were detailed by the governor to make the audits. RICHMOND, Jan. 19--(AP) --From Virginia to Texas, the boundaries of the Old Confederacy, the 124th anniversary of the birth of General Robert E.

Lee was observed today. Probably no more impressive service was held than that at Washington and Lee University which General Lee headed after the war the states. inia honored the memory of famous son with a holiday in and municipal offices, banks and schools. In many parts of the South Lee- Jackson Day was observed, since the 107th anniversary of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson is January 21st.

IS JUT ON TIL MT. VERNON, Jan 19--(AP) 1 N- Snelton, former cashier of the closed Bank of Mount Vernon went on trial today on charges of accepting deposits in an insolvent insult tit ion. Forecast Is Generally Fair, Probably Colder MISSOURI TMnj fair Somc- ivnat colder In extreme east portion tonight and ind north Tuesday. In pot (ions Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; light snow probable in extreme north portion. Somewhat colder.

Bivc; SUgta Kansas City 34. po 7 Wavcrly Y10.3 Ro! 1 Boonvllle RQ. Osccola Y1.7 FO 2 Warsaw Hermann Union CST) Data Jtor yesterday. 0.0 Plan Horse Show Here Next Spring A meeting designed to form an association for a horseshow in Jefferson City this 1 spring has been called at the Madison Hotel this evening. The city's best known horse fanciers are promoting the meeting.

If the meeting develops sufficient Interest the horse Show be held, probably at Reed's White Way Park. It te to be an evening show, the promoters declare. Mrs. Sarah Edna Hull, 27, died at her home 1004 East Capitol Avenue this morning after three years illness of tuberculosis. Mrs.

Hull, nee Lane, was born in Russellville August 11, 1903 and was reared there. She came to this city with her husband several years ago. Besides her husband, John Hull and one little son, Corwin, 6 years old, she is mourned by her mother, Mrs. George Remley of Russellville and two brothers, Ewing Lane and Golden Remley The funeral will take place at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the Russellville Baptist Church. Burial -will be in the Enloe cemetery.

E. s. IT CENTRKL HOTEL G. S. Salley, day clerk at the Central Hotel entered, a plea of guilty in Justice W.

R. Menteer's Court today to a charge of assault and was fined $15 and the costs which he paid. Salley, according to J. L. White, the complaining witness, and a bell hop at the Central Hotel, drew a gun and threatened him.

Salley admitted going after the gun. said White became abusive during an argument and that thought rws.vras vmchiag. in-his pocket for a weapon, whereupon he pulled the gun. The prosecuting attorney recommended a comparatively light fine because he said it was apparent both were to blame. It was the first case tried by Justice Menteer who was elected last November along with Smith and John G.

Leslie "PROTEST" MEETINGS IN'TOLEITED OKLAHOMA CITY Jan. 19--AP) --Stating large sums of money will be made available within a few days by the state and charity organizations for relief of the needy of Oklahoma, Governor W. H. Murray today warned sheriffs, mayors and police against permitting mass protest meetings. "Everything that can be humanly done to relieve distress is being done by the agencies of government and the proper welfare organizations, and any attempts to hold mass meetings to goad men, women and children into the use of force to compel others to submit to their demands must be watched for and met by the civil officers with a stern and effective enforcement of the laws againt unlawful assembly," the Governor said.

"It is not necessary to let mass meetings be led by acknowledged communist leaders to invoke the right of petition." SENIITE WHS RELIEF PBOPOSUL WASHINGTON, Jan. Senate today approved the Democratic proposal for a $25,000,000 appropriation to the Red Cross for relief work. The decision came after the Senate had rejected a proposal to withhold the fund if the Red Cross drive for private subscriptions was successful by February 9. The federal appropriation was sponsored by Democratic Leader Robinson and Senator Black, Democrat, Alabama. 10 PAGES HURT BY TRUCK Miss Elsie Vetter Is Believed to be Seriously Injured SCALP OPENED BY IMPACT Head Is Struck by Plow Carried In Back of Machine Miss Elsie Vetter, stenographer at the State Highway department, and daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Andrew Vetter, was knocked down and seriously injured this morning by a plow handle extending from the back and side of a Kelly-Dempsey Construction Company truck. Miss Vetter was walking from her home in Vetter Lane along the pavement of Highway 50 toward the city and the truck, driven by A. Dawson was traveling east. The driver saw Miss Vetter and swerved the car sufficiently to avoid her but apparently did not calculate the plow, the handles of which projected from the truck about two feet.

The handle struck her on the side and top of the head and all but scalped her. The driver felt the force of the impact and stopped his car. He said he was not driving at a fast rate of speed. He and his companion placed Miss Vetter in a car and carried her to -a doctor's office where she received emergency treatment and later was removed to St. Marv's Hospital.

Her condition this afternoon was reported as serious. OFFICERS EECTEO BY Musicians Protective Association of this city elected officers at a meeting held yesterday. O. H. Petry was elected president for the ensuing year.

Other officers elected were Charles E. Warner, vice president; Oscar P. Muck, secretary and treasurer; Victor Lyon, Clarence Blume, Charles Gaither, Edward Perry and Herbert Buner, executive committee; William P. Flake, sergeant at arms; Herbert Bruner, Carl Smith and William P. Plake, legislative committee.

The musicians completed arrangements for a dance Thursday, January 22, the proceeds of which are to go to the relief of unemployed musicians. The dance is to be held at State Park. SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 19-(AP Thirty-seven Greene County physicians were granted permits to issue whisky prescriptions and eleven druggists were given permits to sell whiskey on prescription today by the county court, reversing the policy of the previous court, which made no grants. Permits, issued for one year, allow one hundred prescriptions each ninety days to each doctor.

Mrs. Nell G. Burger, state president of the W. C. T.

led an unsuccessful 'fight to obtain continuance of the old policy of the court in refusing to issue liquor permits )Y OF MISSING THCEB IS Fl MORGAN, Jan. IS-(AP)-- The body of Miss Enid Marriott, 28-year-old Wiggins, school teacher, who has been missing since last Novemer 16, was fount! today. The body was found under the ice of the Bijou Irrigation Canal five miles west of Fort Morgan. The canal had been searched for the last two days since the arrest of Harry E. Moore, a road worker, who has been charged with abducting the teacher.

COUNTY HAS OLD BRIDGE ON ITS HANDS TO REPAIR A joint meeting of the county court and commissioners of road districts Nos. 1 and 8 to discuss plans for financing the re- Pair of the old combination railroad and vehicle bridge over the Moreau, near Algoa, was scheduled for late today. When the Missouri Pacific built a new span across the Moreau at that point it not only abandoned the old structure but very kindly deeded it to cole County. Now the flooring of the bridge is in a delapi- dated and dangerous condition and it is up to the court to foot the bill. The court that the two districts No.

on weat and No 8 on the east side or the stream should contribute to the proposed improvement. Members of the court frankly state they would like to be rid of the span. They would pass It on to the state just as the passed It on to them it the state would accept it. The state, however, spanned the Moreau very effectively and efficiently on Highwaj 50, and is to no need of another bridge in that vicinity. TI railroad also abolished the tunnel near there sometime ago and some wisecvacker sug- th at the court might it over and make a county FLOSSIE KICKS WINDOWS OUT OF JAIL BUT GIVES "HOT" TIPS AS AMENDS But License a Day Record Is Shattered The record of Kcense a day during January was shot to pieces today.

"Nineteen days and only seventeen marriage licenses and a promising record gone," said the accommodating Henry O. LePage mournfully today. LePage had hoped for enough business Saturday, usually the big license day, to tide him over the dull week days, but last Saturday was just like any other day. TELLS OF SUFFERING IT The members of the Rotary Club heard a story of need today from Miss Marian Keith, field worker for the Red Cross in Missouri. In forceful sentences she told of the distress in Southeast Missouri, where she has charge of relief work in seven' counties.

She stated that the drouth relief work is the biggest task the Red Cross has ever undertaken. This organization is feeding more people than they fed during the Mississippi flood peiiod and the task is bigger than that of the war period. During the Mississippi flood, she said, the Red Cross brought relief to 120 counties; no 340 counties arc in distress. Then there were seven states in need of relief; now there are seventeen. In Pemiscot County the Red Cross is feeding 2,000 families, in New Madrid County 1,600 families and in Mississippi County 1,500 families.

She stated that the families will average five persons to a family. There is great need for both food and clothing. Never before, Miss Keith stated, has there been such desperate need for clothing, especially for children. In. one county over children cannot go'- to school because they have no shoes and clothing, and she is making a strong appeal for old clothes that may be shipped to these destitute people.

Cole County hs a quota of $1,500 for the Red Cross relief fund, and it is hoped that this quota may be reached easily and quickly. Judge W. H. Meredith, member of the House from Butler County, gave a strong appeal to the Rotarians for a return to the Christian religion for the purpose of solving many of the present day'ills of society. He stated that the Christ was being crucified today between two thieves --pleasure and business--and he made a strong plea for business men to support the churches and to return to the teaching of the Good Book.

Miss Agnes crump favored the Botarians with several vocal numbers that were enthusiastically received. She "Talks," and Three Booze Vendors Are Arrested EACH RECEIVE 30-DAY TERMS Police Character Is Determined She Won't Suffer Alone C. SELLING KANSAS CITY, Jan. Albert E. Brunett, Kansas City manager of the Ukiah Grape Products Company, was arraigned today on federal charges of selling and possessing liquor.

He pleaded 000 bond and WaS released Dn Spe fically the government charged that Bnmett sold a quart i I me Containing 15 per cent 0 1 a federal agent. The charges were brought under the Jones Act. Brunett's preliminary hearing was set for Janu- Brunett was arrested Saturday afternoon by federal prohibition agents together with twenty-two salesman for his company The salesmen were released on their own recognizance. It was said at the district attorney office today that Brunett's case and whatever evidence mav have been gathered In the governments raid Saturday would lx placed before a grand jury Si effort to obtain an Indictment charging conspiracy to violate the prohibition law. GfllfllS TO BANKS WASHINGTON, Jan.

Reviews were denied by the Su preme Court today in the following cases, leaving undisturbed the de cision of the highest court prevkuT ly to pass on them: By the Missouri State Bank the Peoples State Bank and the Farm ere Bank all of Bates County contesting decisions holding- liable to the Fidelity Company of Maryland for misappropriated by c. A. former county treasurer. By Carl Hauptman, R. stone, and Clint Griffith, at Kctchlkan, Alaska, in wus 1929, of violating the Alaska BOQe Flossie Hendrlcks, who has frequently defied the law decided today to become an aid to pence officers and as the result three booze venders are in jail for thirty days each.

Flossie's reformation came on the morning after a hectic aud turbulent night before. She had no legal business in town, having been given minutes to leave upon numerous occasions. Jail sentences imposed upon the erring Flossie were always set aside when she promised to leave Jefferson City and never return. Yesterday she found it impossible to stay away from the scenes of her childhood and her escapades. As usual she hunted up and found a place where booze was to be had without too many questions or credentials being asked.

The booze she got was horrid stuff. It made Flossie not only drunk but violent, too. She gave the arresting policeman a tough time conveying her to jail and once safely under lock and key she broke loose again and before her rampage subsided she had kicked all the windows out of the women's department of- the hoosegow. Usual Remorse This morning she suffered from fche usua! remorse which was accentuated by the knowledge that besides being drunk and disorderly she was guilty of malicious destruction of property, to say nothing of the promise she had made the to stay out of the city. "If I've got to suffer why can't you make the guys that sell me the stuff suffer, too?" she asked city Attorney June.R.

Rose. i 1 said the city at- seiid you to the prosecuting attorney and you may tell him your story." Then Flossie revealed the location of the booze emporiums and the names of the owners. Sheriff Prenger, Deputy Dave Wright, Detective Vandament and Policeman Roark formed the raiding squad. They first invaded the premises of Laurence Hcttinger, rear East Dunklin Street where they found one-half gallon of beer just as Flossie said they would. A Gun Stopped Him From there the raiders sped to Lafayette Street and entered the premises of Frank Porter, rear Lafayette Street.

Porter saw them coming and started out of the back door with three pints of whisky. He had the bottles raised to drop them and destroy the evidence when he looked into the menacing barrel of a six shooter held in the steady hand of Vandament. "Just hold that stuff and don't drop it or I'll lot day light through you," said Vandament. Porter held it. While this bit of comedy drama was being enacted Wright and Roark dashed across the lawn and into the home of James Mosely who was caught completely by surprise.

They found two pints of beer and a half pint of whisky there. The three plead guilty before Justice Menteer and were to thirty days in jail. "And," commented the prosecuting attorney, you're going to serve it." Thus Flossie the breaker of laws became the avenging angle of the law. Incidentally Flossie besides breaking windows, broke a record. She was the first drunk in four years to remember where she got the booze.

WEll-THO DEHiyiliS SELF SPRINGFIELD, Mo. Jan 19-- (AP) --Gaston Muns, 53, of Clarksville. Texas once a well-to-do stock dealer of Clarksville, committed suicide in a hotel room here yesterdy by drinking poison after bringing two carloads of mules for sale at the local market. Tns coroner's Investigation today revealed Muns had made elaborate preparations to make his death appear natural in order not to affect large Insurance policies. The body was sent this morning to Clarksville.

Muns had suffered reverses after failure of a Texas banking associate. WHEN MONEY IS LOW SPRINGFIELD, Jan 19-(AP)-'Coon and 'possum hides are being used instead of money by citizens of Marion county, Arkajjsas, where bank closings and drought losses have reduced the cash supply. One man, regwded until recently us poverty stricken, under the new monetary system is classed among the wealthiest residents, he possessing forty coon akins and 325 'pos- jwn hides, State Officials and Representatives of Press Invited HUGH STEPHENS TO BE SPEAKER Guests to Attend Party Following Dinner on Tuesday The Chamber of Commerce will give a dinner for the members of the legislature at 6:30 Tuesday night at the Missouri hotel. Other invited guests are the state officials, elective officials of the house and the senate and press representatives. The program for the dinner will be tin address of welcome by Hugh Stephens, president of (he Chamber of Commerce.

Greetings will be extended by Governor Caulfielfl, Mayor Jenkins and Representative Blair. The press bureau spokesmen will be called on for a short talk. Responses will be given by Senator Lon. S. Hnymes and Speaker Eugene W.

Nelson. Musical numbers will be given by Mrs. Wilheirm Bettis, Mrs. Rodger English and Miss Irene Slate. Lieutenant Governor Winter will be the toastmaster.

Following the dinner, all attending the dinner will be guests of Barney Dubinsky at the Miller Theatre at the 0:15 showing of "Reducing" and other attractions. In addition to the large number of special guests there arc about seventy-five members of the local Chamber of Commerce who have made reservations for the dinner. OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 10 -(AP)--For the first time in Oklahoma's history women have become colonels on the governor's staff. Governor W.

H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murry announced today he had given commissions to Miss Maud O. Thomas, Republican, Beaver and Mis. D. W.

McDonald, wife of Representative McQougal, Creek Coun- "I want to try the women out on the staff and see how they act in military jobs," the governor said He was asked if they would ix- issued any certain type of uniform, They'd wear bloomers, I guess" he said. SIX PRISONERS FLEE 1L MEffllLLE GREENVILLE, Jan. 19-(AP)--Six prJsoiiers, aided by persons on the outside, escaped jail here last night after an outside door was forced and the cell door opened by the use of a screw Jack. Pour prisoners remained, refusing to leave with the six. Sheriff Frank C.

White said following men escaped: Walter Webb, Eugene Kcllctt and Robert Harrison, all charged with robbing two men in a blind baggage car of a Missouri Pacific train between Poplar Bluff and Piedmont recently- William Roberts, who with two girls, is charged with robbery; Almon Gray, accused of stealing a horse and shootting at the sheriff and Milum McAllister, charged with theft of cattle. I SERIE OFFICEHSMLL RERE ST. LOUIS, Jan. 19--(AP) -Twelve officers of the 35th division air service, under command of Maj Philip R. Love, visited Jefferson City and Columbia yesterday after- noon, flying in six Douglas observation planes.

Each plane took a different route to the capitoJ, its occupants performing mapping, photography and radio missions on the way. The officers met in the air above the capitol and in formation Hew to Columbia for luncheon. Throe Flue Fires With Little Damage Three Hue fires, all without damage to the property, sent the nre department record for the present year to 27 runs and kept members of the department on their toes on a gloomy and uninspiring Sunday afternoon. The fires were at the homes of Paul McCall, 928 Fall-mount Clay, 400 Vista Road, nnd to a residence, 1228 Madelene Avenue hi Stonevillc, all in a few hours. Richard Thesscu, of Taos, was fined on a charge of careless driving as the result of a collision at the corner of East Capitol Avenue and Monroe Streets, Sunday.

Thcssen also agreed to pay the damages to M. C. Reed. St. Louis, whose automobile he damaged In the collision.

Thcsseu's fault iay In the fact that lie cut the corner and apparently was not watchful of where he was going. It was the only auto accident cnse reported to the police yesterday. LHCUE D011S WILL MET ST. LOUIS, Jan. ID-- fAP)--The League of Women Voters will unveil tablet lit Jefferson City Wednesday to Missouri pioneers 'in tins women's movement.

The unveiling is one of a series of events in the celebration of the tenth anniversary of women's suffrage The tablet the names of fifty-five women pioneers, with the inscription: "A tribute to those women in Missouri whose courageous work opened the opportunities of complete citizenship to all women in the state." Tlie League of Women Voters of St. Louis will participate actively in the ceremony, and ft special train will leave St. Louis at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, bearing some of the women honored on the tablet, or their near relatives, members of the league here, and friends of women's suffrage The unveiling ceremony will begin at 2 p. In the State Capitol The unveiling will be open to the public. In St.

Louis the women's suffrage anniversary will be observed with a luncheon Wednesday noon at the Missouri Hotel. Ralph Douglas, president of the Missouri League of Women Voters will preside. Gov. CanlfiGld, Edward Goltra, former Democratic National Com- mittceman, and Rev. Clifford Titus, State Senator from Joplin, are to speak at the tablet unveiling and dedication.

At 3 p. m. Circuit Judge Henry A. Rosskopf of St. Louis and Mrs.

Roscoc Anderson, second vice-president of the National League of Women Voters will address the Missouri House of Representatives on "Shall Missouri Women Serve on Juries?" PRICE TWO CENTS CAPJTATOF OKLAHOMA SPRAYED BY WiLDOILER Blows Out of Control in "Doorstep" Field Adjacent tc Fashionable Residential District TRAIN SERVICE BEING HELD UP Troops Are Called Out and All Fires In Neighborhood Are Ordered Extinguished by Police fF REPORT IK U. S. OPTIMISTIC WASHINGTON, Jan. 10-- (AP) -An optimistic report on employment conditions through the southwest was presented today to the president's special employment committee by J. F.

Lucey, who has been assisting there. Several emergency arrangements may increase cmnloymcnt permanently, he said. Among these he cited adoption of a three eight-hour shift plan by the Mid-Continent Oil Industry. He estimated the Red Cross distribution of garden seed free to farmers in ncnel had resulted since the fall in enabling the planting of 80,700 acres of food crops in Arkansas, with 50,000 acres similarly planted in Texas. "In my opinion there will be a little less of the unemployment problem In Texas after March 15," Lucey concluded.

CHILD OF IIICNKY'ROLLMAN DIED AT Rr.AND. TODAY Word was received here today of the death at Bland of Catherine Marie, thn 18 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bollman. Mr.

and Mrs. Bollman resided here up to a short time ago. The funeral will take place at Bland tomorrow afternoon. CHRISTMAS SEALS DA TING BACK TO 1925 RETURNED Of fiftyfour replies received from letters sent out Friday for the return of Christmas seal stamps mailed out by the Cole County Tuberculosis Society, one contained a safety razor blade and the other stamps for five years back. Officials at the society's headquarters believe the safety razor blade became mixed with the stamps and was not intentionally sent.

Some person saved stamps for a long time before concluding to send them back. The envelope contained seals from 1922, 1927 1028, 1929 and 1030. There was no explanation. Proceeds from the sale today of stamps had reached $1532.12 from the city and county. More than $150 more is needed to at- tam the goal.

Reminders sent out Friday and Saturday were expected to yield the balance needed by the society in Cole County. OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 19-AP)--An oil well blew wild inside the city limits of Oklahoma City today, injuring a workman seriously nnd imperiling the "doorstep" oil licld nnd adjacent industrial and residential districts The well, No. 1, Wapaco or the T. B.

Stick estate, is about a inilo from the city's principal business block. Lower connections were cut by nnd blown out under great pressure as the wcil was being opened for production. When it was completed Inst October the flow was 53,000 ban-els daily. Two companies of the Oklahoma National Guard were ordered out. All city firemen were ordered on duty.

The spray was being blow southeast over the grail oil field. Authorities much chemical equipment was on hand In the area In case of a fire. The injured man was A. Rush, Oilton. He was rcixrtwl struck by a connection.

Fires Extinguished All lives hi a radius of one half mile ordered Wild well scares are not new to Oklahoma City. The last dangerous gusher to blow wild was the No. 1 Stout of the Morgan Petroleum Company, which was uncontrolled for three days, spraying the city with oil and gas and placing a. large area under control of the National Guards to prevent fii-cs. Jim Hewgley, Stick superintendent, expressed the belief that the well will be capped late today or early tomorrow, barring accidents.

A die nipple, used in bringing the other wild wells hnre under control, already has been made and is at the well site. Companies A and of the 179th Infantry, numbering men, were ordered out by Governor W. H. Murray. Because the wind wa.s blowing to the southeast, the executive residential district north of the well, the state capitol and the governor's mansion were sparec.

the oil bath provided when the Stout well was wild in November. AH Trains Stepped Oil and gas formed pockets in low places in the vicinity of the chemical. 1 were sprayed by the fire department to prevent spread of a possible fire. All trains were stopped on the main lines of the Missouri-Kansas- Texns and Rock Island railroads because of fire hazard. A barricade was established to prevent spectators from getting into the danger zone.

Major oil companies operating here sent emergency crews to the well. About 25 men were at work on the derrick floor examining connections to devise means of stopping the flow. It was found that lower cellar connections had been cut. The spray was held low but it was observed that upper connections were weakened and threatening to allow oil and gas to flow over the 140 foot derrick top. NEW MADRID, Jan.

19 A. F. Stanley today had arrested a third person, Red Dunning, 28, of Parma, for questioning in connection with the ieath of R. c. Allen, 63, Parma landowner, who died in a Poplar Bluff hospital last Wednesday.

Stanley said he had not fully decided whether he would formal charges against Mrs. Ida Smith, 20, and Noah Piuder, 30, who were aken into custody Friday night, or whether he would release them. He said he had been unable to any definite information against Roy Smith, the woman's husband, is in Pontiac, Mich. Allen was beaten so badly he died about ten days later. Mrs.

Smith, Pindcr and Dunning are held in jail here. Miss Anna Weed of Freeburg, who underwent an operation at the hospital recently is reported much improved health. Soviet Russia regards Itself as a federation of socialist republics. Sach unit of the federation or union has te essential features of a republic..