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DAILY CAPITAL" NEWS, JEFFERSON CITY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1939 DAILY CAPITAL NEWS A Democratic Newspaper Day Mondw THE CAPITAL NEWS PRINTING CO. jellerton City. Missouri 1. KEUMt POOL, EdHoi MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press exclusively entitled to tht use tor publication ol all uews credited to It or otherwise credited to this paper also local news published herein.

All rights ol publication ot special dispatches herein are also received. fntacrlptlOD Carrier In Jetf.enoa City Weekly By Mail Ootslde MluonrJ I Uonth, in advance 6 Months, In advance I Months. In advance H.25 1 Year. In advance $5.00 By Mall In 1.50 6 Months, in advance $2.40 tl.25 1 Year, In advance 1 Month, in advance Months, In advance Entered at the postolllce at Jefferson City, Missouri, as Mall Matter under the Act of March 8, 1878. WOO THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1939 Our Cardinals did not do so well at Brooklyn, but then neither did the Reds do so well at Philadelphia.

It still looks pretty good for the Cardinals to grab off the pennant. New York's two billion dollar dairy industry is suffering from a strike that has paralyzed the milk business in that state. Mayor LaGuardia of New York City is trying to settle the strike. Here's hoping he succeeds speedily. And now North Dakota bobs up serenly with a favorite son for President in the person of Senator Gerald P.

Nye. He Is an able Republican and the G. O. P. could go farther and do a lot worse than to nominate him.

Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts of the Supreme Coiu-t has been mentioned as a suitable man for the Republican nomination for President, The Judge vetoes the suggestion, however, saying that he is "wholly unavailable" and that he is "entirely satisfied" where he now is. The Judge carries a level head on a pair of sturdy shoulders. Noted Playwright McKitfrick Sees 'Sinister Forces' as Dies on His Farm (Causing Delay in Some Prison Projects In Tractor Mishap Sidney Coe Howard Unable to Get Out of Machine's Path TYRINGHAM, Aug. 23 under the wheels of a tractor with which he was tinkering, Sidney Coe iu Howard, leading American play- Bejng neither the seventh son of the seventh wr ht and Pulitzer prize winner, son, nor a prophet or the son of a prophet, we died today on his summer estate can not predict when the war in Europe will burst upon the world.

But as we write these lines Wednesday afternoon it looks very much like hostilities will startle the world with the barbarian brutality of a war before the week is possibly before the day is out. The Daily Capital News joins all Central Missouri in welcoming the delegates of the Beta Phi Sigma fraternity to their annual convention The 48-year-old writer had left the tractor in gear as he cranked the motor, and it started up so suddenly he could not scramble out of its path. An ambulance was summoned from Pittsfield, but he was dead before it arrived. Howard was outstanding as an adapter of literature to the stage and screen, as well as creator of original plays. His first play was "Swords," produced in 1921 and starring Clare Jenness Eames, of There is a rumor going the rounds of the sport-writers to the effect that Dizzy Dean may drop out of baseball.

The equanimity with which baseball fans would recieve news to that effect would surprise you. Dizzy is through. Cleveland, Ohio. A year later he married Miss Eames, and in 1925 his serious play "They Knew What They Wanted" won the Pulitzer prize. If the rains keep on coming our way we are going to have a lot' of mighty fine pastures in Missouri this fall.

The rains have made the late corn and added to the hay crops and made everything fine for the gardeners and farmers in Central Missouri. Americans are hurrying home from Europe. Every ship coming this way is crowded. People to get out of a country controlled by three Mussolini and Stalin. They are not only insane, but they are devilish and fiendish with their insanity.

John Cobb of England raced over a mile at Boonevilie Salt Flats, Utah, at the rate of 368.85 miles per hour, the fastest mile ever made on lour wheels. This is a record. The salt flats are said to be the best track in the world upon which an automobile can race for a record. The state fair was dampened somewhat by a big rain Tuesday that washed out most of the races and put a crimp in the enthusiasm of the St. Louis delegation that attended, coming to the fair on a special train.

However, the big crowds keep coming and yesterday there was another fine fair, with Gov. Stark's address the big feature. Unhappy China' Tin the Tientsin vicinity is suffering from war, flood, famine and disease. The great flood now on affects 3,000,000 China- men, It is taking an immense toll of property and human lives, while the suffering from it is tremendous. The war is bad enough, but when flood and famine bring on disease the fate of the inhabitants is indeed deplorable.

While the big nations of Europe are maneuvering for war, seven of the smaller nations are holding a meeting in Brussels at the invitation of King Leopold trying to devise a plan for peace. May confusion attend the major powers, and success bless the efforts of the small powers. Having right on their side, the small powers should prevail in their efforts to prevent a horrible war. Alphonsus L. McCormack, the confessed go- between in the fire insurance alleged compromise, says that the suggestion for the purchase of the compromise came from the then state Insurance Commissioner Emmett O'Malley.

Of course, O'Malley denies this. Between two common crooks you can take your choice, always with the understanding that you do not have to choose either of two-evils. Great Britain has called Parliament in session and is mobilizing her armed forces to go to the aid of Poland if that country is attacked by Germany. France is also bringing her army into line for action. It would appear that Germany with the aid of Italy will have Poland, England and France to fight if she starts a drive upon Poland.

The war situation does not appear so good this week, and no one knows what a day may bring forth. The Missouri Farmers Association will hold their annual convention at the state fair ground 1 at Sedalia next week. An interesting program has been arranged for Monday and Tuesday. Among the speakers we note President William Hirth, Senator Burke of Nebraska, J. E.

McDonald, Texas commissioner of agriculture, state senator Phil M. Donnelly of Lebanon, and others. The organization has a large membership among the farmers of central Missouri. Uncle Sam warns Americans to leave Poland and not be caught in the meshes of a war that may begin most any day now. There are said to be 6,000 Americans in Poland, the great majority of them of Polish descent.

Very few American tourists are in Poland and it is not thought a great many Americans will want to leave, but those contemplating doing so should get out be- in this city. Delegates here from the states are spending the day at the Lake of the Ozarks. A barbecue is planned for tonight. They are a fine group and we are glad to have them as our guests. An interesting program has been prepar- Critics at that time hailed the play ed for their entertainment.

as a indication American playwrights had outgrown a 'self- conscious" stage. The play was. they said, neither arty nor highbrow. His first wife died in 1930, and in 1931 he married the daughter of Walter Damrosch, New York conductor and music educator. One of Howard's most recent successes was "The Ghost of Yankee Doodle," a play he wrote for Ethel Barrymore.

i The rather thin, high-should- fore hostilities break they do break out. red playwright was engaged in recent years in screen adaptions but was quoted recently as saying than 29,000 people paid $137,925 to see a light weight championship fight in New York Tuesday night in which the best fighter lost because of his low punches. Henry Armstrong was penalized five rounds of the fifteen because he threw his punches low into Lou Ambers, otherwise the Armstrong fistic artist would have won. These lightweights will fight again as there I "I don't like Hollywood you become part of a manufacturing process." He was born in Oakland, June 26, 1891, and was graduated from the University of California in 1915. He did special dramatic work under George Pierce Baker at Harvard's "47 Workshop" and joined the staff of the old Life seems to be plenty of money waiting for them magazine in 1919 after returning to pick up.

John J. Nangle will soon return home from England where he went in quest of claimants to the $2,000,000 Campbell fortune. It will be recalled that Hazlett K. Campbell died in St. Louis some years ago, leaving a fortune.

He did not leave a will and had no near relatives closer than a cousin once removed. Up to date more than 900 persons have made claims to a portion of the estate. Mr. Nangle found 100 in England. It will be another year before it is finally decided to whom the estate goes.

Dr. Gallup figures that President Roosevelt still has the support of 56.6 of the voters of the country, though his popularity has steadily declined from 58 per cent in January this year. On election day in 1936 he polled 62.5 per cent of the major party vote. Dr. Gallup says that though the President has the allegiance of a majority of the voters today, yet only 40 per cent of the voters want him to make the race for a third term.

Many Democrats who are for the President are opposed to the principle of a third term for the President. We are told that the stories of crime are nearly all one and you have them all. Crime is organized. Crime depends on two sources of gambling and prostitution. The ABC of crime are larceny, burglary and per cent of crime falls under one of these three heads.

In five years there have been "765,524 larcenies committed in this country, averaging $29.56 each; 296,768 burglaries, averaging each; 62,045 robberies, averaging $88,95 each. There are 4,750,000 lawless persons in the United States living off of the public. Great Britain has served notice on Hitler that an attempt to take Poland will result in England going to the aid of Poland and means war. France has also said the same thing to Hitler. The Dictator of Germany says that the proclamation of the two Democracies will not cause him to change his plans, which are to dismember Poland if war is necessary, or to establish a German protectorate over Poland if that country yields without a resort to arms.

It begins to look as though Hitler will not be able to get away with his bluff this time and will have to fight. And the war, if it comes, will be a greater tragedy than the World War. from World War service. Man Who Started Baffle Of San Juan Hill Dies PARSONS, Aug. death of Ralph Baker, 65, the man who reputedly started the battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American war by accident, was reported to friends here today.

Word was received here that Baker died in the United States veterans' hospital in Wichita. He was taken to the hospital Aug. 8. John Schoenboard, historian of the Parsons Spanish-American war veterans camp, brought to light in January 1938, the story of how Baker accidentally blew the call to charge on his bugle July 1, 1898, and initiated the action that started American troops to victory. Schoenbard's account recorded that Baker, serving as a substitute bugler, misinterpreted a signal from his commanding officer and blew the call to charge while the American soldiers were waiting at the bottom of San Juan hill.

Other buglers down the line took up the call and the Americans swept forward up the hill to victory. Baker afterward related his commander sharply reprimanded him, but it was too late to stop the charge. Attorney General Roy McKittrick yesterday ascribed delays in finishing some prison phases of the $17,000,000 federal state building program to a "sinister force" which he said should be exposed. A federal inquiry now in progress, which may result in grand jury action in Kansas City, is "warranted" for several reasons, Mcittrick said. His main concern was the state prison power plant, contracted for in 1936 and still to be fully equipped although it is operating.

"My department does not have the money to conduct an investigation on a scale as great as that launched by the federal government," McKittrick told a reporter. Wants Prosecutors to Act "But if the federal grand jury indicts any of the individuals responsible for delaying construction of the prison power plant, I would favor and. urge state action by officials who have the power to establish cases on the basis ol the federal investigation. Those officials are the county prosecuting attorneys." McKittrick's was the first statement by a state official since reports were heard of a sweeping federal inquiry, reported here to include FBI activity. The attorney general, along with other elective officials, was a member of the state building commission in charge of the program.

McKittrick was unwilling to name specifically the "sinister force" to which he referred. Since last September, investigators for the federal public works administration, which cooperated to the extent of $7,000,000 in the program, have been combing records and talking to persons who had a part in the huge program that extended throughout the state penal and eleemosynary systems. Gov. Lloyd C. Stark, it is known here, has been giving the agents information from time to time.

MccKittrick recalled that he urged more than a year ago that such an inquiry be held and said he had cooperated in the present one. Much of the investigation has been in connection with Kansas City engineering and construction firms, some reportedly among those favored by ex- Boss Tom Pendergast, whom Stark helped send to federal prison. The state issued $10,000,000 in bonds for its share of the program. McKittrick listed these two subjects as being sufficient to 'warrant the Two Big Reasons' 1. 'The use of employes of the Kansas City power and light company as advisors in the construction of that plant (the power plant) while they still were on the utility's 2.

"The asignment of work let to the Wm. D. Weidlein company, to the engineering service company without the knowledge of the state building commission despite a specification in the state contract forbidding such Some members of the commission, McKittrick said, were "un- the main prison are not being used to supply power for Algoa (reformatory) farms instead of the present method of purchasing power from a local utility." Commission Disagreed The commission split on these points. The attorney general's reference to the Kansas City Power and Light Company employes was based on reports of work allegedly done on contracts obtained by the Weidlein Engineering Firm of Kansas City, which was succeeded by the Engineer-: ing Service Company. The Weidlein Firm was given the contract to design the $510,000 power plant on Feb.

19, 1936. At that time A. E. Bettis, vice president of Kansas City Power and Light, was a member of -the bi-partisan advisory board, an agency composed of interested citizens and set up by the commission to handle much of the administrative detail in the program. However, there was considerable delay in the final letting of the construction contract.

By the time the work got to a stage where this could be considered, the Weidlein Company had ceased to exist except in name to cary out the one contract. Weidlein had been bought out by a partner, Lee Riley, for $4,750. Riley was an employe of Kansas City Power and Light. The new firm was called Engineering Service Company. About $17,000 in fees was realized from the power plant job, and $30,000 additional by the new company in fees on sub-contracts for work at nine other projects, most of them connected with the prison building.

The United Press learned that N. R. Bevington, a special agent for PWA, investigated whether the two firms were registered under the state fictitious name statute, as required by la w. Neither are registered, the state corporation department reported. Says Charge Ridiculous KANSAS CITY, Aug.

23 C. Smith, president of the Kansas City power and light company, today described as "ridiculous" implications his company was interested in the engineering firm which held the contract for con- a power plant at the state prison near Jefferson City. Replying to a statement by Attorney General Roj McKitrick, Smith also denied any en- firm had benefited because A. E. Bettis, a company ice president, had been a mem- of the Missouri bi-partisan advisory board, supervising the state's building program.

Slaying of Girl in Kentucky Puzzles Burned and Bruised Body of Young Woman Found on Her Bed COVINGTON, Aug. mysterious death of 22-year-old Anna May Bishop, whose nude, burned and brusied body was found on her bed yesterday, furnished a puzzle for polic etoday. Coroner James P. Riffe, who first suggested the girl might have fallen on an electric hot plate near her bed, said close examination nisclosen cuts and caused by a her legs, as wess as a large burn on her back. Detectives Leroy Hall and Albert Sieter sian the girl's wrists and ankles also showen evidence she may have been bounn with rope or a cord- The coroner withheld a verdict pending further investigation.

The girl's father, Herman Bishop, a huckster who operates a small store in the same building in which he and his daughter lived, told police he found the body after rethrning from week-end trip to Brookville, where he has another residence. Detertives also qhestioned two unts but said they were unable to give any information to ilear up the mystery. Cffirers said a neighbor re- KWOS Program 1310 Kilocycles Thursday, August 24 Yesterday the Macon County Herald, a newspaper owned and published by state Senator Frank P. Briggs, ran an article favorable to I Senator Phil M. Donnelly for Governor.

The i Herald editor says that Senator Donnelly is a man of the highest integrity, capable, courageous, and with positive convictions. Should he consent, to make the race he will have the sup-! 1 2:1 1 1 "JI.T« vt On Birds (KWK) on the Air (KWK) Cantrell (KWK) 'n Shine 'n Shine Bells Tunes 8:30 -Morning devotions on the News (KWK) Ames Time With Singing: Sam Ma and Pa Bites Dog Club in the Car Almanac and Pencil Club Broadcast 11: -Accordiana aware of what was He charged "their going on. own em- ployes" had "kept them in the dark." "The delay in construction the plant cannot be attributed solely to 'mistakes on the part of engineers and McKittrick asserted, "Some sinister force was behind that procrastination. An investigation is needed to expose that force." He also suggested inquiry into the following: "Why, when the now completed power plant has the capacity to supply power to the auxiliary prison, a separate power plani is being built at the auxiliary prison (a part of the building program; erected on a farm eight miles west of Jefferson City). "Why the discarded boilers at A "Negro Stark-for-Senator Club" has been crganiz-ed in Jefferson City and headquarters opened at 529 Cherry Street.

The Colored Democrats from several counties met here and organized the club by electing William E. KirkPatrick, of Fulton, as leader. The object is to have two thousand pledged members of the club within the next few months for the purpose of urging Gov. Stark as the people's choice for United States Senator. on the Street and Encores port of practically all of the Democratic senators and a host of supporters throughout Dave Wright Sings Senator Donnelly is well and favorable known in I' 00 Central Missouri and would have the enthusiastic support of the Democracy of his Senatorial district should he decide to make the race for the Democratic nomination for governor.

Matthew S. Murray, state administrator, of the WPA, asked for and received a leave of absence from his job yesterday because the federal authorities are investigating his income tax. His assistant Ei Max Basye takes his place temporarily. Murray's of absence was granted "without prejudice." He desires that it be understood that he is not being fired and is not quitting, and that his leave of absence is in no sense a departure. He says that he expects to be back on the job as soon as the FBI gets through examining his income tax record.

His leave of absence granted by Howard 0. Hunter of New York. Paul Vories McNutt is a handsome man who has a handsome chance of being the next Demo- I cratic nominee for President. He is 48 years of age. has an engaging personality and as the head of the Federal Security Agency, with 805 million dollars to spend, is in an advantageous spot to meet a lot of worth-while people and to develop a lot of political strength.

Many astute politicians think that President Roosevelt has selected McNutt as his successor. It is evident that the President has placed him where he can show what he can do. If the Hoosier makes good, he will probably be the Democratic nominee for President next year. If he fails to attract popular favor. he will fade from the presidential picture.

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Crude indeed was the equipment with which they first broke the soil. But soon, as the new country progressed in the arts of toward better living standards they needed new tools. More modern farm machinery was called for. Nails, bolts, locks and other hardware supplies were required for more substantial homes and farm buildings. The growing demand for machinery, fencing, tools, hardware of all kinds, soon brought a specialized merchant into service of Missouri.

Thus was born the great hardware business as we know it throughout Missouri today. J. HE hardware dealer helped make Missouri. His merchandise made better homes, made it possible to replace the rough log cabins with frame dwellings, then provided them with comforts in keeping with the progress of the times. With the development of rural Missouri there came the need for new and more efficient farm equipment.

The hardware dealer was quick to recognize and to meet this need. too. A ODAY, as always, he is an important aud valuable business man in every community, furnishing an indispensible sen- ice. Missouri now has more than 35 recognized wholesale hardware firms, many of which have served as many as five and six generations of Missourians. And the needs of city and farm dwellers in every corner of the.

state are served by more than 1.500 retail hardware dealers. OUR hardware dealer has grown with your State and helped your State to grow. In this way he is like your long- established tax-paying utility companies which supply you with water, gas and electricity. Like your utility companies, he has pioneered in service in Missouri. Like them, he has provided means for making our homes comfortable and convenient and in making our lives happier and free from needless drudgery.

He has, indeed, placed in hundreds of thousands of homes the very equipment with which you use electricity, gas and water. Both these great businesses those furnishing utility services and those which provide the tools by which men pledged themselves, through individual initiative and by common action through their associations, to maintain ever higher standards of service to the people of Missouri, Missouri Association of Public Utilities 101 WEST HIGH STREET JEFFERSON CITY. MISSOURI.