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Page 2 JEFFERSON CITY POST-TRTBUNE Monday, October 15, 1934 Isolation of Stoll Home Makes Kidnaping Easy Smilingly Refuses to Discuss Terms of Agreement; Deans Expect No Trouble Agreeing on Pay, ST. LOUIS, Oct. 15--(AP)--Frank Frisch today signed a contract to manage the world championship St. Louis Cardinals again in 1935. Frisch signed aftar a short conference with President Sam Breadon.

Terms of the new contract, -which is to run for one year, were nob disclosed and will not be disclosed, Frisch said. The old Fordham flash emerged from the conference smiling, declared he was vei-y much pleased with winning the championship and proud of his baseball team. 'Very Big Man' Breadon said he thought Frisch a "very big man in baseball" and that "he has stepped into the place left vacant when John J. McGraw, former manager of the New York Giants, died." Frisch. came to the Cardinals in the winter of 192G-27 in the famous deal which sent Rogers Hornsby to the Giants.

He relieved Gabby Street as manager of the Cardinals in the middle of the 1933 campaign. After the conference with Breadon, Frisch departed for his home in New York. He plans to return to St. Louis in January to make preliminary plans for the training trip of the Cardinals. MS WAY 200 YARDS TO MAIN ROAD BEATEN AND CARRIED FROM THIS ROOM, WAS LEFT BOUND AND KIDNAPER THPOUSH FROM POSING TELEPHONE Hauptmann Grows More Haggard Deans Will Sign CHICAGO, Oct.

15--(AP) --Dizzy and Paul Dean, pitching heroes of the world series, expect no troubles or hitches when the time comes to talk 1935 contracts with owner Sam Breadon of the championship St. Louis Cardinals. In fact, Dizzy says both he and Paul hope to spend the rest of their baseball days together in St. Louis and in Cardinal uniforms. BERTH S1FILI MS (Continued from Page 1) Isolation the estate from which Mrs.

Alice Helen Stoll, wife of a wealthy Louisville oil official, was abducted made the kidnaper's task easy, with telephone wires cut and no other homes nearby. This picture, taken from a plane, shows the wooded nature of the region, with the Ohio river, affording countless hideouts alone Its shores, only a half; mile away. Wants Chance to Revive Convicts Killed by Gas Scientist Who Resuscitated Dog in Laboratory Asks Governors of Three States tor Opportunity of Experimenting with Human Beings ICE CLOSE IN ing. Poincare, deliberat and hare headed, was sure he had taken only course. He won.

He took of fice when the republic faced by fa its worst monetary crisis, and befor long Frenchmen were calling him the saviour of the Franc. He built for Prance a financial bulwark which made her the envy of almost all the world, and the most potent economic force in Europe. It was because of his work that Prance was able to stay on a gold basis when other currencies were being inflated. French Grab Suspect, Swiss Report Trace of 'Mysterious Doctor' By the Associated Press Police of two nations closed in today upon missing' members of the Balkan Terror gang, believed to have planned the assassination of King Alexander and Foreign Minister Barthou at Marseille, announc- ng the arrest of one at Melun Prance, and picking up the trail of another at Geneva. Find Clue to Swiss police announced the mys- BERKELEY, Oct.

15--(AP) --A request that he be permitted to attempt to resuscitate execued crim- nals in the! iiterests of science was made today to the governors of Arizona, Colorado and Nevada by Dr. Robert E. Cornish, who successfully revived a clinically killed dog in experiments to restore lifs. Doctor Cornish, who put a mongrel dog to death in his laboratory last April 13 and revived the animal asked the governors' cooperation in carrying out his proposed experiments. Should such permission be granted the convict if revived, would be free but he added the prisoner probab! would consent to serving a life tern In his letters to the governoro Doctor Cornish declared he woul not proceed without the consent the prisoner, his attorney or rela lives.

General Will Rest in North Carolina, Then Return to Washington Brothers, 16 and 19, Fatally Seared -in Cousin's Home at Bolivar BOLIVAR, Oct. 15-- (AP)-Two brothers were fatally burned shortly after midnight in a residence here when the lamp they had by mistake with gasoline exploded. Parker Higginbotham, 16, and Travis, 18, had returned from a picture show and filled the lamp, using a can of gasoline they had for cleaning purposes. They were sons of the late Bumey Higginbotham, janitor of the Polk county courthouse, and had been carrying on his work since his death six months ago. Use Wrong Fluid Parker fell before reaching the door and Travis, his clothes aflame, managed to run into the yard.

Neighbors, attracted by the boys' screams, ran to their rescue, picked up Travis, wrapped him in a blanket and started with him to a doctor's office. On the way he asked about Par- cer and several returned to the turning house and found the boy, umed beyond recognition, just aide the front door. Travis, before he died at 8 o'clock his morning, gasped out the story how, in the darkness, they had sed the wrong can in filling the amp. Travis had been at CCC camp at Sullivan, for two months ecently. Mother in California The fire occurred at the home of cousin, Mrs.

Lulu Mitchell, not hree blocks from the Bolivar square. Mrs. Mitchell had gone to stay with the boys' sisters, Dorothy, Nancy Jean and Wilma Grace Higginbotham, and the boys were stay- ng in her home. The mother of the boys, Mrs Grace Higginbotham, had been in Ventura, and had sent for the girls. They were to leave the firs of November.

The boys were expect The English House of Lords haj 738 members, including 4 royal peeri 2 archbishops, 24 bishops, 16 Scotl tish representatives, and 18 I representatives. Makes You Forget You Have False Teetll Don't worry about your false teetU rocking, slipping or wabbling. a new improved powder holds them fin and comfortable all day. No gooe pasty taste or feeling. Eat, laugh anj talk with comfort.

Get Fasteeth your druggist. Three sizes, fror) Zino-pads REMOVE CORNSi Cheap Oil Burner Beats Coal or Woo Ends Dirt, Drudgery of Coal or Woo in Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces; Twice the Heat by Turn of Valve, at Cheaper Cost. The strain of the predicament in which possession of Lindbergh ransom money thrust him has exacted a heavy physical toll as this picture of haggard Bruno -Hauptmann, taken in court when his trial in Bronx County, N. on extortion charges was postponed, reveals. A writ delayed bis removal to New Jersey to face murder charges.

ing to follow later in the fall. Supreme Tribunal Also Refuses to Hear Airmail Contract Appeal 'Can Restore Life' Doctor Cornish's letter to the governors read: "Experiments in my laboratory at the University of California, will which I was formerly connected, uue 0 confirmed and amplified the terious "doctor," known as Kvater- vnor mt nt nT nik, supposedly chief ol the assassination squad, had been sighted in Geneva, while Melun police announced the capture of Sylvester Malny, alias Zilni, who had been sought four days in Fontainebleau forest after escaping the day of the assassination. Police of Budapest, Hungary, announced not the slightest proof could be found that Alexander's assassins Vlada Tschernocemskz, alias Petrus Kalemen, had even lived in Hungary or inhabited a military camp RAYMOND POINCAKE there. Dr. Seek Gun Girl Ante Pavelich and Gustav Foincare's name was not dimmed oy 1929, when grave illness forced him to resign.

He underwent operations, but never regaind robust health. His short, stocky, aggressive figure and it was all he could do, working at intervals, so write his autobiography. Funeral Saturday That he did not finish this was one of his few defeats, for he had not been known before to permit a break in the carefully calculatec course on which he would set toward his selected goal. The funeral was fixed for Saturday, in order that President Albert IieBrun and several cabine ministers could attend the funera of King Alerande at Belgrad Thursday. It was decided that Poincare' funeral shoul be one like that giv en President Paul Doumer, who fel victim to an assassin in 1932.

Th body will be placed in the Pantheo for several days, to lie in state. It be taken to Notre Dame cathedral Saturday for requiem mass and returned to the Pantheon for the official ceremony, including a eulogy by Premier doumergue. The body will be buried at Nube- cpurt Sunday, with members of the government and Lorraine peasants attending. Perec, together with the "gam girl," Marie Vjoudrouch, were still being sought. The former two were thought to be leaders of the gang.

In Paris it was announced Foreign Minister Edouard Benes of Czechoslovakia had been psvsuaded to postpone calling a session of the league nations council to hear charges hat Hungary and Italy had harbored Yugoslav terrorists. mm experiments of Dr. 3eorge Crile, which indicated that is often readily possible to restore ife to dead animals, provided the heart has been stopped only a few minutes. To properly perfect the process so it might become a service to humanity, it is desirable to test some of the methods on human beings. "Certain prisoners in your state suffer the death penalty, and I feil that some of these men might welcome an opportunity to do a final good deed for humanity and civilization, in this way also to some extent mitigating a terrible dishonor to their once good names.

"I feel that if we were permitted to try som of our new resuscitation methods, with the prisoner's consent, on a few prisoner simmecUate- ly after thei rlegal excution, rssults might be obtained which would end in the saving of thousands of human lives. "Lawyers tell me that If such a prisoner were brought back to after execution, he would be legally free, and you may hesitate to thus turn a murderer loose. "But I feel that this is only a le- l.gal technicality, and the prisoner I himself might not object to spend- in prison, if his life were thus re- ing the remainder of his second life stored to him." WASHINGTON, Oct. Hugh S. Johnson today leave he national stage of public affairs where tor IB months he has been in or near the new deal spotlight.

In the wings, he will await a call to give President Roosevelt and congress an account of his accomplishments as administrator of NRA. Won't Quit Capital. Johnson greeted the day of his resignation from a hospital cot which ho will leave in a day or two to rest at the North Carolina estate of Bernard Barucn, New York capitalist and Johnson's former business associate. With an administrative board in charge of the blue eagle organization which Johnson made a "one-man show," the blustering recovery officers does not plan to retire from the national captal. After a thorough rest he will come back to occupy an office in a business building not far from the teeming government structure which house the NRA.

His closest NRA associate, Miss Prances Robinson, has charge of Johnson's new office. FftlL 10 GIRL SLAIN To Tell Congress. What Johnson's business will be, he has not announced. He will spend considerable time in New York, where his autobiography soon will come off the presses. He plans to submit to President Roosevelt before long a detailed report on the NRA --past, present and future.

When congress convenes, Johnson will be awaiting a call for his counsel in suggesting permanent legislation to replace the recovery structure. "Who else," argue his friends, "can give congress a real and true picture of recovery administration." KANSAS CITY, Oct. 15-(AP)--James McCrea, a farmer of near Lavaca, who yesterday iold police he was "almost positive" bhe body of a young woman held here since October 6, when she was found shot to death in rural Wyandotte county, was his missing daughter today viewed the girl again and said she was not his daughter. The farmer's final decision came as Kansas highway patrolmen had launched a search for Claude Burt, 30, an itinerant moving picture machine operator, who was wanted for questioning. Willie Mae McCrea left her home about three weeks ago.

Major Wint Smith, head of the patrol, yesterday said the girl had called at the oflice of Sheriff John B. Williams of Sebastian county, Arkansas, recently and told him she was to become a mothei-, naming Burt as the father of her expected child. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15--(AP)-1 The government succeeded today in the supreme court in turning back an attack on the constitutionality of the cancellation of airmail contracts last February. The court refused to review a case brought by Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc.

Lower courts had held it must be dismissed because the government could not be sued without its consent. Their decision stands. In addition, the court refused to aid Alphonse Capone, convicted LEAVES HOLLYWOOD, MAKES GOOD IN EAST HOLLYWOOD, Oc. 15--(UP)-Iris Adrian, who reversed the usual procedure by leaving Hollywood to make good elsewhere, was back home today, prepared for her first venture in motion pictures. A graduate of Hollywood High school, she went to New York four years ago and attended success on Broadway, part of the time as a dancing partner of George Raft.

She was lured home by a fat movie contract. COOKS A MEAL FOR Ic A simple oil burner which sli in any old stove, range or furna in a few minutes and beats an thing ever gotten out for low co perfect performance, burns che oil a new way without generating clogging up. Anyone may try of these amazing burners for 30 da at the manufacturer's risk by writ! United Factories, 469 Exchan Kansas City, Mo. They, also making a no-cost sample to one person in each will demonstrate and take orders. Ic postcard sent them today shou enable you to be first to learn ho to make real money now, spare full time.

of lower courts to release him. The court also affirmed an injunction granted by the lower court against a section of the New York milk; control act which prohibits milk dealers from selling their product purchased outside the state for less than the same grade produced within the state. Chicago gangster recently removed A special three-judge federal to Alcatraz federal penitentiary, had held the section uncon- his effort to obtain freedom. Istitutional and enjoined its en- It declined to review the refusal forcement. TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO INSTALL YOUR! i TELEPHONE CAPITAL CITY TELEPHONE CO.

PRESENTS SUB! (Continued from page 1) REPORTS FUND SEEN IN TOPEKJ TOPEKA, Oct. 15--(AP)-Gordon Clark, attendant at Gage park reported to police today he had seen a man he believed to be Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, southwestern outlaw, in an automobile bearing an Illinois license plate at the park entrance about 10 a.m. A warning was broadcast by police and all roads on the west and south sides of the city were blocked. two introduced in evidence and was dated March 31, 1932, drawn for 36.67 on th: Reliance Property Management corporation, evidently he owners of the Majestic hotel. The second check was dated Apfll 5, 1932, and was for $6.67.

The prisoner's alibi was given in FtS TO SET PUNE SPEED RECORD TO Two-Tenths Mile of Paving) to Cost Other State Work OK'tl KANSAS CITY, Oct. Washington, Oct. Maxine Howard, 22-year-old blond bureau of public roads announced aviatrix has failed in her first at- today 13 public works highway proj- tempt to set a new west-east air- ects in Missouri were approved dur- ane spee record, but she is going ing the week ended October 6. The to try again. preliminary estimate of the cost of seeking to beat the record of 10 the approximately 40 miles of high- hours and 2 mintues set last Augus way and bridges was $854,000.

by Col Roscoe Turner, she was fore The projects: ed down here yesterday by an oi Cole county, in Jefferson City, .2 line leak and unfavorable weathe mile of concrete, Jasper after a flight from Los Angeles. He county, Jasper westerly, 6.4 miles, time from the wet coast city wa chats, bridge, Clinton, north 7 hours and 48 minutes, of Perrin westerly, grading, bridge, Mrs. Howard, who was accompan 6 miles, Stoddard, in Bloom- ied by her husband, Ben Howard, a field, 5 miles, grading, bridge, racing pilot, and Gordon Srael, who 000; Butler, on U. S. 160 from Pike helped design the four-place high creek west of Poplar Biuff to U.

S. wing plane, said she would make SALEM, OHIO, Oct. 15-- (AP)-A threat to kidnap or kill the 2- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Greiner, was revealed today when ac American Legion guard was posted over the child.

A note warning the parents to to suffer the heart throbs of losing" the child unless they paid $5000 to the extortionist was received by the parents a week ago. Neatly typewritten, it was found by the family beneath the front door. receipt was kept secret by the pKwnts Mid police, and department- ot justice agents were reported to have been summoned here to Kidneys Must Clean Out Acids The only way your body can clean out Acids and Poisonous wastes from your blood Is through the function of millions of tiny Kidney tubes or filters, but be quiet, almost off-hand manner careful, don't use drastic, Irritating drugs. 67, 1 mile concrete, Jackson, on state highway 24 in Kansas City, .4 mile bridges, Harrison, Gillman city to state highway 4 east of Bethany, gravel, crushed stone, 12.3 miles, Johnson, south of Medford, grading, bridge, 1.7 miles, Butler on U. S.

67 at Poplar Bluff, concrete bridge, 2.8 miles, Audrain, on U. S. 54, east of Mexico, concrete, underpass, approaches, .1 miles Butler, on U. 67 west of Poplar concrete, .6 miles, City of St. Louis, in St.

Louis, grading, highway separation, .4 mile, Cape Girardeau, north of Cape Gir- avrteau, grading, bridge, 3.2 miles, I $20,000. another attempt after more careful perparations. FIVE ENLIST IN NAVY, LEAVE FOR ST. LOUIS Five youths, two from Jefferson City left here yesterday for St. Louis to take final examinations for enlistment in, the U.

Navy. The five, John T. Stone and Wm W. Goodall of Jefferson City, Kenneth W. Sanders of Stahl, Joseph Irey of Fortuna, and Robert Watkins of Watkins, will be sent to the naval training station at Sav (Diego, Cal.

hortly before the recess. Hauptmann could not remember vhether he had gone to the Majestic hotel or to a Sixth avenue labor agency to look for work, but he was sure he had taken his wife to bakery at 1 a. m. after stating he was either at the hotel or the agency until 5 p. the prisoner said he returned to the Bronx.

"I went home," he said, in a soft voice. "I changed my clothes and went to the bakery to get my wife. I got in the bakery between 6 and I had supper at the bakery. Mr. Frederick-sen came in later." "What did you do after that?" Fawcett asked.

"I went "Did you stay home that night and go to sleep until the next morning?" "Yes," replied. "That's 1 said Fawcett. Hear Hauptmann. The prisoner was preceded on the Eland by his wife, who testified the prisoner must have been home the night of March 1, 1932, as it was Tuesday and he always called for ner on Tuesday nights. On cross-examination, she ac-1 knowledges that she had told Inspector Henry Bnicknian, in charge of Bronx detectives, a short time her nusbands arrest that she i know whether her husband was a.

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