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News Notes Of Local Happenings The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune VOLUME XLVI DAILY EDITION CHILLICOTHE, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1935 SIX PAGES No. 150 Harry Penland of Springfield IN CHARGE HERE BLACK RUST IS Friday night to take charge of came the tire department in the basement THREATENING THE at Montgomery Ward Company. ENROLLS AT C. C. WHEAT ACREAGE Charles Rockhold, son of H.

K. Rockhold enrolled at the Chillicothe Tre Nation's Granary Is In DanBusiness College in the Peu Art ger of the Dreaded Depariment, Friday. He will begin Plague. his studies Monday. BIG REDUCTION IN YIELD 'CLARKS TO MINNESOTA Mr.

and Mrs. B. T. Clark will It is Estimated the Crop Will Be leave Monday morning to spend two Short 30,000,000 Bushels months at their cabin near This Year. Minnesota.

Mr. Clark is manager of the Leeper Hotel. MISS KIRBY IMPROVING Miss Harriett Kirby, who underwent an appendix operation at the Chillicothe hospital Friday evening, today. 1s getting along satisfactorily Miss Kirby is a daughter of T. J.

Kirby. TRIP TO THE OZARKS Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Foster Mr. and Mrs.

Louis Parker will leave i for a vacation at the Lake Sunday of the Ozarks. They will be accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Norman Craig, of Hiawatha, Kansas. They will return the latter part of next week.

MRS. PALM IMPROVING Word has been received here by C. W. Palm that Mrs. Palm, who Dr.

underwent a nasal and sinus operation at the Deaconess hospital in Iowa Thursday, is Marshalltown, improving nicely. Her daughter, Miss Colleen Palm, is in Marshalltown with her. VISITING IN CHILLICOTHE Miss Helen Maher of Grand Junction, Colorado is the guest of Mr. Mrs. J.

G. Mergenthal. Miss and. formerly attended the ChilliMaher cothe Business College and while made her home with Mr. and here For the past six Mrs.

Mergenthal. she has had a position in the U.S. Bank at Grand Junction. VISITORS HERE TODAY Grace Hogan and Miss Rita Miss Pete Barbee, employes in Phode and of the Metropolitan Inthe office surance Company, farm loan division, at Ft. Dodge, are spending here on business at the the day office.

Barbee is a brother of local Ted Barbee of this city. John E. Long and Mrs. and Meredith Ruth, will Jerry Don leave tonight for St. Joseph to join for a permanent residence.

Mr. Long has a position with the Mr. Long Floral Company in that Stuppy city. Mrs. Long, who Citizens has been ployed in the Nationeil effec- Bank, resigned her position, tive today, TO RESIDENCE IN ST.

JOSEPH! 'FRACTURES COLLAR BONE who stepped off the L. M. Kilburn, board of a moving car and his right shoulder, suffered running fell on of his right collar bone, a fracture night. His home is near Thursday The fracture was relocal physician. He is Farmersville.

duced by a resting caster today. AGEE'S LAST VISIT DR. of Columbia, dean Dr. Carl Agee Bible College at the Univerof the of Missouri, will fill the pulpit sity First Christian Church Sunat the Sunday will be Dr. day morning.

Sunday here and the Agec's last of the church, Dr. C. L. new pastor Stauffer, will be here next Sunday. speaker Dr.

Agee has been the guest Christian for several weeks. at First VENOY SKINNER AT HOME Skinner. A member of the Venoy Passion Play cast which has been southern and western touring states, arrived in Chillicothe Friday six weeks' vacation with night for a his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Omer Skinner.

Young Skinner, who plays role of the Christus, joined the the troop last March. The company closed its engagement at Temple. Texas this week due to the extreme heat and other Texas engagements been postponed until after the have six weeks' vacation. After complet(Continued on Page 4) THE WEATHER MISSOURI: Local thunder showers probable tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature. Friday's Temperatures Maximum 88 Minimum 66 White Elephant Stampede Monday But this won't be a stampede that will crash a path through the jungle and destroy colonies of African Pigmies.

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Read the White Elephant conlest rules clsewhere in the Constitution-Tribune today! JAMES RUNKLE A STATE TROOPER? The Chillicothe Young Man Ordered 1o Report at Training Camp at Nevada for Examination. James Runkle, life guard at the Simpson Park swimming pool, has been notified by Marvin Casteel, head of the state highway patrol, report at Nevada Monday morning for training and examination for a state trooper. Mr. Runkle will leave Sunday for the training camp. Jimmy Runkle, as he is known to his many friends, was one of twenty-five young men selected out of approximately 1700 to All the places of twenty-two new troopers to be added to the force.

If Jimmy is successful in passing the examinaition, which' he feels sure he will, he will be assigned to duty by Casteel. The new recruits will be paired with older members of the force unti! they become famillar with the work. This is the first selection of a man from Livingston County for trooper service. George McCloughan, assistant life guard at the pool, will be advanced to Runkle's place and Jean Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Russell Johnson, has been selected by the public works committee to take McCloughan's place. Johnson entered upon his new duties at the pool Saturday morning. Duke Ellington and Band at Windmoore Is One of the Most Popular Colored Bands; Ellington a Great Orchestra Lcader. Duke Ellington, whose 15-piece orchestra will appear at Windmoor Gardens Monday night, occupies an I enviable niche in the feld of AmerI ican jazz as a conductor, composer and arranger and leads an orchestra is the finest of its type in the world." Ellington's band is inimitable. There are many colored orchestras in America, but none can compare favorably with this one.

Ellington at his best is a refined interpreter of hot jazz. When he visited England and Europe last summer he received greater response from audiences than Paul Whiteman or Ted Lewis did when they visited these counNo other band can boast the origitries. No other band can boast the 1 originality and versatility of Records by Ellington's band outsell all others abroad. So great has the demand become for his records that the Columbia Phonograph Company has signed Ellington to make a special series of records to be released only abroad. The management at Windmoor Gardens is making preparations to handle.

the largest crowd in that institution's history, The advance ticket sale for Ellington's appearance closes tonight. Guards Called Out GALENA, June 29-(UP)- National guardsmen were ordered here from Pittsburgh today to dispurse a crowd of several hundred lead and zinc miners who besieged company guards barricaded in the office of the Eagle-Picher Mining and Smelting Company plant. FOOD INDUSTRY IN A REVOLT AGAINST THE PROCESS TAX Reports From Large Milling Center Said it Reached the Proportion of War Today. PLAN MANY INJUNCTION SUITS One Subsidiary Already las Filed Suit and Others Plan to Follow, Report Shows. CHICAGO, June revolt in the food industry against the administration's processing taxes reached the proportion of concerted war today.

Lead by the largest mill interest in the country, an unprecedented number of injunction suits aimed at tying up the tax revenues with which the government pays farm benefits, were understood to be in the making. In Minneapolis General Mills, largest milling organization in the world, announced it would challenge the government's right to collect taxes on the 1 processing of grain. The challenges will be made in court in various parts of the country. One subsidiary already has filed suit and announced a number of others will follow immediately. The announcement gave impetus to a revolt through court action against the agricultural adjustment adminIstration, the New Deal's farm aid program that began soon after the supreme court held the NRA unconstitutional.

The packing industry, it was reported in business circles, also plantoned a wide spread campaign against the processing tax on meat packing which pays the government benefits to stockraisers. Program for the Park and Concert The Chillicothe Civic Band Will Give Its Initial Concert at Simpson ParkSunday Night. The Chillicothe Civic Band will open the season at Simpson park, starting at 8 p.m. Sunday evening. A good program has been prepared, including a medley of sacred numbers.

The program: 1 On the Mall--March 2 PanoramaBarnhouse 3 A Day in (a) Dawn (b) The Gondoliers (c) Venitian Love Song (d) Good Night 4 Lucy's Sextette-Novelty. Alford 5 Olympia Hippodrome March Alexander INTERMISSION 6 Power and Glory-Grand March Cobb 7 When Love Shines In -Medley of Sacred Songs 8 Over the Waves-Waltz 9 Popular Numbers Selected 10 Robinson's Grand King John A. Pepper is Honored by Masons Presented Gold Pin in ation of His Fifty Years Servicc as a Master Mason. John A. Pepper of this city was presented with a gold Masonic button by the Masonic grand lodge at a regular communication of Chillicothe Lodge No.

333, A. F. A. Friday night. The presentation was made by A.

H. Huggett. Mr. Pophas been a member of the per Masonic lodge for fifty-six years newly elected officers of The Lodge were inducted into Chillicothe at last night's meeting, A. H.

office being the installing officer. Huggett The officers are John R. Blackman, Earl Bowen, S. Okie W. J.

F. W. Cornue, secreAustin, Barney, treasurer, and W. tary; R. E.

Walsh, tyler. Refreshments were served followthe completion of lodge work. ing 19-Pound Infant Born HENRY, Ark. nineteendaughter has been born to pound and Mrs. Everett Yates.

The Mr. baby girl was their seventh child, six of them living. Wages Raised Despite Kuling FINDLAY, O. (UP)-Two department stores here raised wages after the adverse supreme court ruling on NRA. One increased salaries 6 per cent.

the other 5. BROOKFIELD SEEKS REVENGE Chillicothe Golfers Go to That City for Game Sunday. The Brookfield Budget says of the coming visit of Chillicothe Country Club golfers to that city Sunday: "A group of Chillicothe golfers will come to Brookfield Sunday to meet the Brookfield players in a match beginning at 1:30 o'clock on the Country Club course. "Chillicothe took Brookfield for a genuine trimming last year, and all local golfers who can turn in a reasonably good score are asked to turn out for the contest Sunday. A 'reasonably good' score is understood to mean a total of something under ninety strokes for eighteen holes, including weed-chopping and snakekilling." GREAT BRITAIN FACES BIG TASK Present Situation In the ItalianAbyssinian Trouble Is Alarming, London Reports.

LONDON, June 29-(UP)-Great Britain faced the choice today of giving its approval to an Italian war on Abyssinia or envisaging collapse of the League of Nations. Italy's apparent determination to declare war on the ancient Ethopian empire has brought about a diplomatic situation whose developments have almost incalculable possibility. Utmost pessimism is felt here regarding the Italian-Abyssinian ation. Anthony Eden, minister for the League of Nations affair is understood to have made a most gloomy report to the cabinet of his talk with Premier Benito Mussolini at Rome. So seriously is the Abyssinia situation regarded that the League of Nations will close the Suez canal.

Key Brothers Are Still Aloft Fire In the "Ole Miss" Early Today Came Near Causing Trouble for the Endurance Flyers. MERIDIAN, June 29-(UP) -Defying the elements from without and fire within their plane, Al and Fred Key fought gamely today to keep their endurance monoplane "Ole Miss" aloft until Monday. A new and more serious threat than any heretofore came near to stopping the endurance flight this morning when a short circuit caused fire to break out on the instrument board shortly after the second and last refueling contact was completed. Al immediately shut off the motor and the fire was put out with a hand extinguisher, but not before the plane had dropped periously to the tree tops near the airport. Bill Ward of the refueling crew said smoke burst fro mthe plane and that he was "scared to death" that the motor would not be restarted in time to save the plane from crashing.

It zoomed back to a safe altitude, however, and later the flyers radioed "all o. For two hours last night the flyers rode through a thunder storm which caused slight damage to the planc's rudder stabilizer. Duel Fought Near Paris Early Today Jean Chiappe, President of the Municipal Council, Wounds His Predecessor. PARIS, June Chiappe, president of the municipal council and Pierre Godin, his predecessor, fought a duel with pistols at dawn today in greatest secrecy. It was believed that Godin was injured.

Four shots were exchanged. Both refused to be reconciled. Seconds announced they would issue a communique at noon. In the clear early morning light Godin and Chiappe, each with his second and a surgeon, motored out to the wooded park at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne, a famous dueling ground for centuries. Coldly the parties bowed and the seconds arranged details.

The distance was paced and the signal for fire was given. Godin at the second shot slumped to his knees. In token of the bitter emnity that succeeded their one-time friendship, Chiappe Godin fell, walked to his motor as car without the usual handshake, notification to Godin that they remain unreconciled. His Death Sudden FRED G. PETERS Who died at his home southeast of the city Friday night of a heart attack.

YOUNG DEMO CLUB ORGANIZED HERE Harold Way Elected President of the Livingston County Organization; Large Crowd Present. Seventy young Democrats of Chillicothe and Livingston County met in the council chambers at the city hall Friday night and perfected an organization known as the Democratic Club of Missouri by electing the following officers: President--Harold Way Vice-President-Mrs. Nellie mons Secretary--Miss Mary Broaddus Treasurer--Arthur Norman The meeting was presided over by Jack Zwahlen, who was temporary chairman of the organization. French Nelson, state organizer, and Mr. Emglish, his assistant, were here and assisted in the tion of the club.

Mr. Nelson made brief talk in which he explained the workings of the and the mai7 counties throughout the state. that are organizing. Sen. Dale of Marceline was present and made a brief talk.

The newly elected officers will meet shortly to appoint the various committees of the organization. The club is planning on numerous social activities, of which includes a dance in the near future. The club has a membership of 187 and is growing rapidly. Start on Vacation Monday Morning and Mrs. G.

Clifton Ervin to Rev. Rutherfordton, North Carolina For Visit. Rev. and Mrs. G.

Clifton Ervin and their small daughter, Anne, and their niece, Patsy Phillips, will leave overland Monday morning for a two weeks vacation which they will spend with relatives in Rutherfordton, Ashville, Charlotte and Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. At Lake Junaluska Rev. Ervin, pastor of the local Elm Street Methodist Church will attend a conference of pastors of the Southern Methodist Church. During his absence Dr. F.

A. Culmer of Central College will fill the pulpit at the Elm Street Church 7 and the Rev. W. P. Wynn of July this city will be the speaker at that church July 14.

The Ervins will be accompanied on their trip by W. O. Clark, who also will visit at points in North Carolina and will attend a Sunday School conference at Lake Junaluska, and Mrs. Charles Cornue, who will got to Ashville to be a guest of her parents. PICK HIGHWAY PATROLMEN Selection of 25 Candidate for 22 New Jobs Completed.

JEFFERSON CITY, June P)-Selection of thirty-five candidates from more than 7,000 applicants for twenty-two newly created state highway patrol jobs was completed today. Col. M. Marvin Casteel, patrol superintendent, said names of the successful candidates would be withheld until completion of physical examinations. Those selected will undergo 3 month's training at Camp Clark, Nevada, beginning next week.

A statesman who is a real politician lets business take care of itself. A FIREMEN TROUNCE MILLS LUMBER IN TURBULENT GAME Best Efforts of Lumber Team Could Not Stop Onslaughts of Fighting Firemen I ANDERSONS WIN FROM UTICA White Clad Ready to Wears Made a Showing in Their Initial Performance Anderson's 14; Utica Mkt. 4. Firemen 13; Mills Bros. 6.

That is the practical story of the double-headed kitten ball' program that was enacted for the benefit of the cash customers Friday night. Louis Anderson's aggregation of white clad kitten ballers had little difficulty disposing of the Utica Market contingent in the opening game, and the Andersons looked perky at the task. This team is made up largely of young C. C. students with Ray Howard, a veteran, in command, and Shorty Stewart as the official ace hurler, They will be contenders in the league race.

The Utica team looked rather bad against the fast stepping Andersons. But a ready alibi was the fact that of the boys had been working hard in the harvest all day and were really not in fit shape for the game. They promised a better exhibition in the future. But the double bill really featured the Mills game and Fit proved to be a corker from the crowd's standpoint. The touted Mills, who gave early indication of going places in the ten team league, were apparently off fettle last night.

Manager Rinehart started a number of his "second string" athletes but after the Firemen had uncorked three scores in the first two innings he bolstered his crew with the best talent he had--which was not good The pesky Firemen were out for a big evening and the crowd, apparently, was with them. VanZant, 2 new recruit, started on the mound for the fire fighters but he was woefully out of class and Dizzy Lionberger, also familiarly known as was called into the breech in the third inning and the silence of Mills bats from then on was deafening. Eratic fielding on the part of supporting Firemen gave the splinter boys encouragement at times but their rallies were short lived and productive of exactly nothing. On the other hand the Firemen fell on the offering of Joe Burruss with a vengeance and drove him from the mound in the fourth inning. Charley Slater was called into pitching effort and suffered considerably himself from Fireman bingles before the hopped up firemen were finally retired after scoring seven runs in the fourth inning, which ran their string up to 10.

The bombardment continued in the fifth and sixth inning until the Firemen finally quit with a grand total of 13 scores. JUST BALLING AROUND- Poston, hard walloping Fireman, has the honor of cracking the first ball of the season over the fence. He scored Lawhon ahead of him. Poston was stopped at second base under the 1934 rule that a ball over the right field fence was good for only two bases. But the announcement followed quickly that the new 1935 version made such a blow a homerun.

Charley Slater, the swatsman for Mills, socked a run into deep center field in the second inning and scored Burrus ahead of him. Bowe of the fire crew joined the home-run club in the fourth inning, Potts trotting in ahead of him. Dizzy Lionberger received the enthusiastic plaudits of the crowd when he to the pitcher's mound to relieve the fast fading VanZant for the Firemen in the third inning. The official recorder of kitten ball statistics chalked up the first triple play on record in the fourth inning of the Anderson-Utica game. An Anderson sticker flew out and the ball was quickly relayed to first and second bases for force plays, making a triple play.

The crowd hardly knew what was going on, the Andera sons were completely in the dark, (Continued to Page 5) SUDDEN DEATH FRED G. PETERS FRIDAY NIGHT Heart Attack Fatal to Head of the Peters Prodace Company of Chillicothe. DEATH OCCURRED AT 10:39 Came to Chillicothe in 1921 and Organized the Producers Produce Company, KANSAS CITY, June 29-(U. P)-Black rust, dreaded plague of the wheat country, today threatened the nation's granary. Prevalent in fields from Texas to the Dakotas, the parasite fungus which kills the growing grain, bei came a menace as sinister as last year's drouth and dust.

Private and official estimates indicated that the winter wheat crop in America's "bread basket" would i be reduced by nearly 30,000,000 bushels because of rust and excess moisture. Throughout the south and middle west the wheat harvest was weeks behind schedule. In thousands of fields in Kansas, Texas and Nebraska the wheat lay beaten to earth by rain and hail and wind. Red rust, the equally feared cousin of black rust, invaded many Kansas fields. On ground too sodden to support tractors, combines or binders, the grain rotted before it could be harvested.

Pessimistic reports from the wheat states sent prices of the leading markets skyrocketing. In Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis and other exchanges futures jumped the limit, 5 cents a bushel. Supporting reports of damage and delayed harvest were skimpy receipts of the big market. Only 48 cars of wheat reached Kansas City yesterday. A year ago receipts totalled 556 cars.

A similary sharp drop was recorded in practically all markets. Grain experts estimated yields considerably below those of the department of agriculture which placed the total yield for all wheat in the United States at 670,000,000 bushels. Many From Here To. See Ball Game Chillicothe To Be Well Represented at the Blucs-Indianapolis Game at K. C.

Those who have not yet purchased, their ticket for Chillicothe Day at the Blues-Indianapolis double-header in Kansas City Sunday may still do before ten o'clock Sunday! morning. Tickets, which are only 90 cents for Chillicothe's reserved seat section, may be purchased the desk at the Strand or from any member of the Chamber of Commerce committee promoting Chillicothe Day. W. F. Atkisson is chairman of the committee.

The tickets purchased here are exchanged at the box office at Muehlebach field for the regular ticket. The game is called at 1:30. Among those from here who will attend are W. F. Atkisson, Ed Switzer, Sam Gorman, Ed Saale, Adam Saale, Clarence Saale, Mr.

and Mrs. Edgerton Welch, Herman Shiflett, Raymond Gladieux, Bernard Klein and his son; C. S. Quigley, Harvey Howell, Elmer Johnson and Brooks Anderson. Anyone wishing to attend the game who does not have a way to 30, should sec Mr.

Atkisson and transportation will be arranged. No Successor to Dr. Walter Williams Nominating Commitice of the Board of Curators Failed To Reach an Agreement Today. KANSAS CITY, June 29-(U P)---The nominating committee of the board of curators of the Univer-1 sity of Missouri, failed to agree today on a successor to Dr. Walter Williams, retiring president of the University.

The conclusion of the committee meeting, preceding the session of the full board, found members un-! willing to make a "definite recommendation." it was announced. Earlier a member of the board of curators told reporters that nominations of Dean Frederick A. Middlebush, acting president, was "not a certainty." Although he said Dean Middlebush "had the edge," mittee members said there were still 12 men under consideration. Fred G. Peters, head of the Peters Produce Company of Chillicothe, died suddenly at his home short distance southeast of Chillicothe Friday night at 10:30 o'clock of 3 heart attack.

The body is ab the Norman mortuary. Mr. Peters had returned to his home about 9:30 o'clock and was reading a paper when he was stricken. Mrs. Peters, who was in the.

room with him, noticed him slump down in the chair and ran to his assistance. He lived approximately five minutes after the attack. Mr. Peters had been in failing health for approximately year. Last fall he was bedfast for three weeks following a heart attack.

While his family was aware of his condition, his sudden death was 8 shock. Fred G. Peters was born on: a farm near Browning, May 17, 1885. He grew to manhood in the community, completing his high school education at Browning. He was united in marriage to Miss Hattie C.

Johns, May 22, 1904. The family resided in that community until 1921 when they moved to Chillicothe, where Mr. Peters organized the Producers Produce Company, of which he was manager until 1933. Last year he opened the Peters Produce Company in the building at the Washington street viaduct which he was operating at the time of his death. While a resident of Browning, Mr.

Peters served terms as 4: of the town. Since being a resident of Chillicothe he was twice elected president of the Chamber of Commerce, making that organization one of its best officials. He was always active in city affairs. In the last city campaign Mr. Peters was the Citizens' candidate for mayor, being defeated by Grover C.

Carnahan, the Democratic candidate. Early in life Mr. Peters united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hattie Peters, and the following children: Elmer Peters, Tyndall, S.

Allen Peters, Effingham, Francis, Sidney and Frederick of the home and Mrs. T. L. Cruse of Chitlicothe; six grandchildren, his father, George F. Peters, Browning; two brothers, Roy Peters and Guy Peters, Browning.

Funeral services will be held from the First Methodist Church Monday morning at 10 o'clock, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Dr. L. M. Potts.

The body will be taken overland to Browning for interment. The body will lie in state at the Norman Funeral Home until the hour of the funeral. The pallbearers will be Henry Haynes, Wilbur Andrews, Dr. Kinnison, Syl Gantner, Ralph Barr, Henry Boehner. The honorary bearers will be selected from members of the Chamber of Commerce.

TO BE GREETED BY POLICE George Fink Will Leave Prison on July 19-Faces New Charge. JEFFERSON CITY. June J)- -George Fink will step from the Kentucky state prison July 19 a frea man only to be greeted by St. Louis police officer in the role of a reception committee Governor Park today signed requisition papers for Fink, who is wanted in St. Louts on a charge of carrying concealed weapons.

Results- Firemen upset things. Food distributors revolt against processing tax. Black rust aids drought and Roosevelt in cutting wheat yield. Science conquers cattle tuberculosis and invades Au territory; army worms attack on several fronts. Keys are found and advertised.

Several -inquire, but there are no takers. What becomes of these extra keys that are lost? Bring them to The Constitution The owner.