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DAILY CAPITAL NEWS WEEK EXCEPT PUBLISHED DAY MONDAY, EVERY MORNING Jefferson City's Leading Newspaper--Full Leased. Wire of the Associated Press and United Press XXV NO. 173 JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1936 PRICE THREE CENTS 175,000 Hear well in Boston Speech Crowds Gather Along Streets to Cheer, and Cars in Parade Stopped as Throng Presses in 'Recovery Is With Us' The President Asserts Declares that Taxes Shall Be Levied According to Ability to Pay as an American Principle WORCESTER, Oct. (AP)-President Roosevelt tonight coupled an answer to what he called "talk about high taxes" under this administration" with an assertion that the nation, as in 1776, must choose this year "between democracy in taxation and special privilege in taxation." Speaking to a crowd packed into the auditorium here in the jor speech of his swing through New England, the president asked: "Are you willing to turn the control of -the nation's taxes back to special privilege? I know the American answer to that Your pay envelope may be loaded with suggestions of fear and, your dividend letter may be filled with propaganda. "But the American people will neither be bluffed nor bludgeoned.

The seeds of fear cannot bear fruit in the polling booth." Taxed on Ability to Pay The president argued that the new deal had "improved and Americanized taxes," operating on the principle of taxation according to ability to pay. Under the administration, he said, the individual income tax of the average American has been reduced. He added: "Any family head- who earns an income of less than $26,000 a year pays a smaller income tax in; 1936 than he paid for. 1932.: That means that less than one per cent of the' heads of American families pay more than they did; and more than ninety-nine per cent pay less than they did, for more than ninetynine per cent earn less than 000 per year. "If you want the answer to this talk about high taxes under this administration--there it is.

Taxes are higher for those who can afford to pay high taxes. They are lower for those who can afford to pay less." A few minutes before, he asserted: "Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle." He described the principle of the undistributed profits tax of 1936 as "sound" but said that "if in its application, imperfections are discovered, they must be cor(Continued on Page 5) Governor to Make Swing Over State Opens in Sedalia in port of State and National Tickets Gov. Guy B. Park will speak on behalf of the national and state Democratic tickets next week, ing a swing through the state that will find him making daily appearances, the state Democratic committee announced yesterday.

His itinerary opens at Sedalia next Monday, Tuesday, he will speak Clinton, and at ville, Wednesday. The remainder of his itinerary: Dexter, 2:30 o'clock October 29, I and Benton that night; King City, October 30, and Trenton, October 31. The King City speech will be before a three-county rally, with Democrats of Gentry, Andrews and DeKalb county participating. The committee also announced Judge Mitchell J. Henderson, probate judge of Jackson county, will make seven speeches, He is scheduled to speak at Boonville Saturday night, Weather MISSOURI: Mostly cloudy, slightly colder in west and north, considerably colder in southeast portion Thursday; Friday partly cloudy and continued cool.

High temperature, 50, Rainfall up until 9 o'clock last night, .15 of an inch. Missouri river stares: Keokuk 0.6 fall 0.1 City 2.9 0.0 Waverly 3.7 0.0 Boonville 2.4 fall 0.2 St. Thomas 6.9 fell 1.0 Hermann 3.3 fall Lake of the Ozarks, 7 2.9 feet below, full reservoir. Cole County Clerk Issues 70 Licenses to Add to the Horde of 3,000 Hunters Taking Advantage of Deer Season Billy Smith, Who Rarely Returns from the Woods of the Ozarks Without His Deer, Chooses Dent for His Grounds Joints Creak? Oil 'Em! Hip Busted? Nail It Together! PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 21-- (UP)--A remedy for creaking joints, developed by Dr.

M. N. Smith- of Harvard university, was widely discussed today. by the American College of Surgeons. The physician was able to end the creaking by inserting a pair of big hypodermic needles into the muscle around the ball and socket joint.

While a salt solution is pumped into the joint through one needle, it is drawn out by the other. In this way, the joint is washed free from the chalky matter which causes the creaking. The Harvard. surgeon also described a method of nailing together broken hip bones with stainless steel nails. Mrs.

Chas. Becker Announces Support for Dwight Brown Widow of Late Republican Official Asks Friends to Aid Mrs. Charles U. Becker, widow of the late Republican secretary, of state, in a statement issued through the Democratic state committee. last night, announced her "unqualified endorsement" to the candidacy of: of State Brown, Deino cratic incumbent and her husband's successor.

Brown's Republican opponent this served year is state L. D. Thompson, who! as treasurer and state auditor during the twelve years Becker was secretary of state. Mrs. Becker, in her statement, appealed to friends of her late husband "to vote and work for the election of Mr.

Brown." "I have decided to support and vote for Dwight H. Brown for secretary of state in the approaching November election," she said. "I feel that Senator Brown is more eminently qualified for and deserving of the position to which he aspires than his Republican opponent, and I feel certain that if he is elected he will continue to render a great service to the state of Missouri. "Although of different political faiths, Mr. Brown was a staunch friend and enjoyed the confidence of my late husband, Charles U.

Beccker, and I want to appeal to ail of Mr. Becker's friends to suport and vote for Mr. Brown. I am sure that would be Mr. Becker's wish if he were alive today." Receive Bids on Road Project in Mountains PORTLAND, Oct.

21- (AP) -The U. S. bureau of public roads received a low bid of $88,350 today for the 10.1-mile stabilization project on the east side of the transmountain highway in Glacier national park. The bid was made by William Douglas, Kalispell, and I will be referred to Washington for approval. Other bids included: $119,165 by Martin Wunderlich Jefferson City, Mo.

Patrol Trooper Promoted Trooper James G. McCann, connected with Troop in Jefferson City, but assigned to duty at Cowas recently promoted to rank of Sergeant. Sergeant McCann is one of the original members of the patrol. Four City Students on Honor Records Four Jefferson City students at! the University of Missouri were announced yesterday as being included among the upper half of ranking upperclassmen in the college of arts and sciences, for the 1935-36 session. They were: Samuel M.

Bushman, Elmo Bolton Hunter, Forrest McCluncy, and Elcanor Ruth Schaefer, Landon Rides East in Final Campaign Tour Speaking from Rear Platform at Phoenix Candidate Declares for 'American System' Into Oklahoma Friday, Thence Eastward Bound Works on Foreign Affairs Speech During Day and Gives Treatment to Sore Throat ABOARD LANDON TRAIN EN ROUTE TO OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 21-(AP)--Gov. Alf M. Landon declared "my stand on the American system of government against all tonight in attributing to the New Deal "regimentation of the individual, and curb of his liberties." Halting his eastbound presinix, the Republican dential campaign special at Phoenee stood on his private car's rear platform and said: "Today the people of this try have a choice between the American system they always have known and an opposite system. This will determine whether they and their children will remain a free people, of self-government, or be dominated by an powerful central authority.

We have watched this very thing happen in other nations in recent years." On to Oklahoma Landon's train paused at Phoenix long after dark as it chugged toward "Oklahoma City where talk is scheduled Friday morning and thence to powerful eastern voting territory beyond. Gathered about the Kansan's rear platform was a crowd esti- mated at 3,000 by C. M. night, captain of police. Landon was introduced by J.

Reuben Clark of Salt Lake City, Utah, former United States ambassador to Mexico. During a day of traveling across California and Arizona desert and grazing lands, the governor had worked on a foreign atfairs address and treated a slight sore throat which was reported virtually cleared up tonight. He made a few informal rear-platform appearances at railroad operating stops and listened to a radio broadcast of President Roosevelt's Worcester, speech. A stenographer took down the words of the Kansan's Democratic opponent. Saying the supreme court already has ruled many New Deal plans "contrary to our constitution," Landon added at Phoenix.

"Unfortunately, we are left in no doubt that the present administration regards this not as an end to their efforts but only as a minor barrier to be circumvented if it can't be hurdled. "This threatened change in our form of government is not remote. Its effects will strike directly at the homes, jobs and lives of every (Continued on Page 2) Rabid Mongrel Dog Attacks Owner LAMAR, Oct. -Several dogs were quarantined here today after Dr. George Bartholomees, veterinarian, said mongrel hunting dog which had bitten them had rabies.

Bob Thompson, 30, owner of the mongrel, also bitten, is taking anti-rabies serum. The dog was killed. Rule on St. Louis Votes Persons living in St. Louis county may vole in the city of St.

Louis if they maintain a residence there, the attorney general's department held yesterday. The opinion, requested. by George Priest, a member of the St. Louis board of police commissioners, was prepared by Russell C. Stone, assistant attorney general.

Blair Asserts Challenges to Cost Huge Sum Tells Eugene Audience that No Names Will Be Stricken Off in Final Show-down Charges Well Known Citizens Are Questioned Challenges Are but Gesture on Part of Republican Chairman, Speaker Declares James T. Blair, in a speech before a Democratic rally at Eugene last night, renewed charges that the filing of registration challenges in Jefferson City by the Republican county committee was a "deliberate and malicious attempt to disfranchise a group of citizens of their right to vote." Blair's statement followed the filing of approximately 2,500 challenges with the board of registrars in a campaign conducted by Don Purteet, chairman of the Republican committee, to purge, Purteet said, the city's voting lists. Charges Wrong Impression After citing the names of many prominent persons who have been challenged, Blair said: "These challenges are not filed to purge the registration rolls of the city. They are filed for only one reason and I will tell you why, "They arc filed to. leave the impression that these persons who are challenged are attempting to vote fraudulently in the coming election.

That is the purpose of it and that is the only reason for this wholesale challenge." turned The Jeffersn City attorney then to the expense which would be involved through the filing of the challenges and declared the cost would be "more than a thousand dollars." say the filling of these challenges will cost the taxpayers of this' county more than a thousand dollars in postage, stationery, clerical and stenographic hire and in the end there will not be removed from the registration rolls a single 'ghost' or fraudulent votler," he asserted. "The Democratic county mittee in the past six weeks has had 90 per cent of the Democratic voters moving from one precinct to anotlier since the last election transferred on the registration rolls." 450 Attend Meet Despite weather, an (Continued on page 2) Name Receiver in Ownership Contest Newberry Selected in Suit of Goodin Bros. Against Wells John Newberry yesterday was appointed by Circuit Judge Nike G. Sevier as receiver of an apart-! ment-store building in the 300 block East McCarty street now occupied by the Goodin brothers. The appointment of Newberry, whose bond was set at $10,000, grew out of a suit filed against C.

S. Wells by his step-sons, Ben, Fred and Warren Pash Goodin, to determine the ownership of the property. The brothers had asked the ap-1 pointment of a receiver to accept rentals and generally take charge of the property until the litigation is settled, A divorce suit also was filed in circuit court yesterday by Ann Schneider against Paul Schneider. The petition stated the couple was married in St. Louis, Jan.

14, 1925, and separated in October, 1936. Mrs. Schneider asks custody of their minor child, J. P. Schneiander, 10 years old, and $20 a month for his maintenance.

State Safety Council Moves to Secure Passage of Improved Motor Vehicle Law Col. B. M. Casleel, superintendent of the State Highway Patrol, attended a meeting of the Missouri Traffic Safety Committee in Louis, yesterday, when the group recommended enactment of a state drivers' license law, and a cial responsibility law for operators of motor vehicles. Other recommended legislation would amend the state motor vehicle code with the standards of the national conference on state land highway safety, double the Brown Tells Eugene Rally That He and Party Favor Full Pay in Aged Pensions Speaker Outlines Issues in State Campaign and Points Out Accomplishments of Democratic Administration Issues of the present state campaign were cicarly outlined and accomplishment of the stale administration commended Secretary of State Dwight Mi.

Brown in an address last night before a large crowd at Eugene. rally was held under the auspices of the Cole county Democratic committee. Pointing out that the state administration in 1933 had inherited a "Republican deficit of almost two million dollars and from constantly diminishing revenue ordinary sources of state income," Brown asserted the. deficit had been paid, the emergency de- i mands of "unusual times" met, and that there remained "ample assurance that the present ministration will close its books with money in the treasury." The speaker, declaring that the Cole County Jail May Be Completed Within Six Weeks Installation of Cells Slow up Work Contractor Says Cole county's new jail is expected to be ready to receive its first "guest" within six to weeks, Richard A. Schell, contractor on the project, said last night work of installing the cell equipment was expected to slow up completion of the structure.

"We could have our part of the construction fully completed in two or three weeks, but installation of the cells and their altendant equipment will make it impossible to complete the jail in that time," he said. "We expect will be between six and eight weeks before all work will becompleted." Cells on Two Floors Cell equipment has been installed on the first and second floors, but riveting and the installation of various operating devices for the cell doors remain to be made. Schell said the roof had been finished yesterday and workmen are putting the finishing coat of plaster in the sheriff's residence, which fronts the jail proper. Floors and the installation of windows and doors will complete that part of the structure. The electrical, plumbing and heating units, the contractor said, are "right an schedule." When workmen, installing the cells have completed their task, the concrete floor will be laid in the jail proper.

With the jail nearing completion, the county court yesterday made requisition to the PWA for $6,545.33 as a second installment on the grant, leaving a like amount to be paid. The PWA several weeks ago sent the court a check for $16,363. The total grant was $29,454. Milwaukee Woman fo Speak Here Tuesday Mrs. Helen Hoy Greeley, of Mil(waukee, prominent woman lawyer land civic leader, will speak in 1 Jefferson City next Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, instead of (8 o'clock as originally announced.

The change in lime was made lafler the state committee had been (informed late yesterday by local Democratic leaders the first symphony concert of year and a banquet 10. be held in connection with the U. D. C. convention also were scheduled for 8 o'clock next Tuesday night.

Mrs. Greeley's speech will delivered in the courthouse. She also will speak at Columbia that night at 8 o'clock. Hawaiian Clipper Off on Trip to Honolulu ALAMEDA, Oct. (AP)-Trans-Pacific air passenger service was formally inaugurated when the Hawaii Clipper took off here at 3:14 p.

m. (P. S. today for Honolulu. The big ship carried seven passengers besides her crew of seven.

A crowd of 2,000, including the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and other bay cities, witnessed the takcoff. Secure Marriage License A marriage license was issued here yesterday to Thomas Montgomery King and Mrs. zabeth O'Neal, both of Springfield. Relief Head Brands Charge by GOP Chief A large number of Jefferson City hunters will join an estimated 3,000 Missourians expected to stalk the elusive buck: deer in southern Missouri's woodpoint ed areas during the three-day season which opens a half hour before sunrise this morning. County Clerk William Tellman reported last night he had issued 70 deer hunting license tags not only to Capital Citians but to several hunters from outstate points such as Kansas City and St.

Louis. Billy Smith to Dent Prominent among the Jefferson Citians procuring tags was Billy Smith, Madison street restaurant owner, who boasts of seldom returning from the deer hunting grounds without a buck draped over the hood of his automobile. Smith, accompanied by Fred Landwehr, plans to hunt in Dent county. Miss Sylvia Chaudet, an employe of. the state supreme court, also obtained a license and told the county clerk that while she had never.

gone in quest of deer, she had on numerous occasions. bagged quail on her hunting expeditions. Others from here who purchased licenses included Paul Oeschle, Julius Heisinger, W. D. Crump, Glenn Engelbrecht, Ray Schnell, Ralph Hay, George Bryant, Tom Menteer, George Linhardt and two sons, L.

Carnes, Walter Beck, Joe Schrader, Bill Bemboom, Chris Raithel, Herbert Raithel, Dr. R. E. Murrell of the state board of health. The damp, gray weather may.

make spotting of deer more difficult, but it is, not expected to cut down the number of hunters who were. urged by the state game and fish department to wear red caps and coats for safety's sake. Concentrate Joe E. Green, chief of wardens for the state game and fish department, last night said he had concentrated about fifty regular and special deputies in the Ozark highlands and border regions to be in readiness for the opening. Most of the deputies have been sent to Gasconade, Taney, Dent, Franklin, Carter, Oregon, Wayne, Repley, Dunklin, Ste.

Genevieve, (Continued on page 2) Probe Discovery Checks in River Cancelled Checks Belong to Records of State Health Board Attorney General Roy McKittrick and one of his assistants, E. H. Miller, said last night they were investigating "how and why" a bundle of cancelled checks belongting to the Missouri state board of health got into a brief case which was fished out of the Mississippi river by a levee watchman near St. Louis Saturday. "These cancelled checks are a part of important records in the office of Dr.

T. McGaugh, state health commissioner and secretary of the state board of health," McKittrick said. "We are endeavoring to learn why the checks were removed from the office and how the brief case got into the river." The attorney general said the checks represent withdrawals from the Central Missouri Trust Company, some of them for much as $400. He stated the checks were drawn against fedcral aid funds, transmitted to Jefferson City to the board of education and, in turn, delivered to the health board, Reported found in the same brief case were 498 pay roll checks of the Laclede Gas Company, St. Louis, stolen Saturday.

Dr. McGaugh's office reported he is in New Orleans attending a health meeting, His assistants declined comment. Crowd Wrecks Traffic Pole with One Injured WORCESTER, Oct. 21- (AP)-A surging crowd tore. a police traffic pole from its base tonight while awaiting the arrival of President Roosevelt, The 800- pound post toppled into the throng, injuring five persons.

George F. Moriarty, 37, a teacher at Commerce high school, was not expected to live, The other four escaped with minor hurts. state administration had striven to lighten the tax burden of the poople, called attention to the fact! that legislation relieving delin-1 quent taxpayers of penalties had saved property owners 000, and that the state board of equalization, of which he is A member, had reduced the state valuation for taxation purposes $499,000,000, which, he said, "had saved taxpayers approximately $54,000,000." "How different," he said, 'is this action from one taken by a Republican state board of equalization in 1921. That board increased the state valuation from $2,471,746,046 1920 to 965,656 in 1921, the increase per county ranging from 10 to 280 per cent." "In Cole county, the valuation (Continued on page 8) Declares the East Concedes Roosevelt Return Big Business Opposes but Concedes Fight Is Hopeless Ira A. McBride, supervisor of the state bureau of building and loan supervision, who returned yesterday from a two weeks trip to New York, Washington, and other castern cities, declared upon his return that the election of President Roosevelt is conceded by the major part of eastern political observers.

Mr. McBride declared that of the most significant reactions to the election result is found among the heads of big business in eastern cities. Almost unanimously, opposed to the, reelection. of the president, these business moguls are equally unanimous in predicting his return to the White House, he said. The feeling of the larger ness heads has also reacted upon contributions to the Republican war chest, it was learned, and Mr.

McBride said that the attitude is entirely responsible for the fact that the Republicans are having a hard time to secure sufficient donations to complete the huge amount they had budgeted for the campaign. Washington Senses Victory The feeling also exists in ington, the supervisor found, that there would be little change in official life after the first of the year. In the capital, where the political pulse is casily felt, he said, there's a general air of optimism among Democratic leaders, and Republican opponents admit that the optimism is fustified. In Harlem, New York's brated colored section, Mr. Mc-1 Bride said the mast interesting situation obtains that he observed in his two weeks of enquiring about political prospects.

Last week, in company with other who building in and New Ictn supervisors, were York attending a national convention of the group, Mr. McBride said that a tour was made of the celebrated district, and it was observed that the greater part of windows, both residential and business, bore photographs and banners advocating the election of Roosevelt. The changed political sentiment in the colored section was said to have come about by the creation of work projects, and greater industrial and business employment, Charges Dixon Man in Bogus Check Utterance A complaint charging Clint Meyers, of the Dixon community, with "unlawfully obtaining work and labor" from H. J. Vetters, of Jefferson City, by means of a bogus check for $9.74, was filed before Justice John G.

Leslie terday. Vetters, who signed the complaint, said the check was drawn on the State Bank of Dixon. Pay Inheritance Tax The state treasurer's office yesterday received an inheritance tax payment of $48,714 from the heirs of Bernard T. Mesker, St. Louis, who died Jan.

23. The ostate, which went to Frank Mesler, a brother, and Mrs. Anna Schmidt. a sister, had a net value of 721. The payment was one of the largest received this year.

Wallace Crossley Declares that Not One Dollar of Drouth Funds Diverted from Proper Channel Asserts Curtis Attempts to Discredit Aid Program All Accounts Balanced When Drouth Relief Taken to Another Division of Program Wallace Crossley, state relief administrator, denied last night that drought relief appropriations for Missouri apparently had been "diverted into unexplained channels" as charged in a statement issued by Arthur M. Curtis, assistant chairman of the Republican national committee. "There has been no diversion or disappearance of one dollar of federal or state relief funds handled by the Missouri relief commission," Crossley replied in a statement to the press. Attempt to Discredit The relief administrator termed the statement issued by Curtis as "another attempt upon the part of Republican leaders to cast discredit upon the efforts and reputation of those who have conscientiously endeavored to carry out the program that has been responsible for saving people from ruin, disaster and starvation." Curtis said an audit made by Edwin F. Jones of Indianapolis, for a period from September, 1934, to June, 1935, showed that $5,312,317 of drought relief appropriations "apparently was diverted into unexplained chaunels." "I suppose that any so-called expert accountant," asserted Crossley, "can make up any sort of report from records which inclute a number of separate and related.

programs with the multiplicity of figures mounting into millions of dollars, "Mr. Jones, in his report to the Republican national committee, says he 'thought it his duty as a taxpayer to make his report but he fails to explain why he submitted his distorted conclusions through the G. O. P. campaign committee." Balanced in 1935 Crossley said that when the rural rehabilitation program was transferred from his jurisdiction June 30, 1935, to the resettlement administration, all funds and notes and assets and liabilities were balanced.

"So the drought relief program is concerned," Crossley said, "many thousands of farmcrs worked out their loans on relief projects for which they were paid cash, while thousands of others gave notes. "The Jones report says, 'huge sums of money are represented as paid out for the purchase of feed (Continued on page 8) Million Officials Man Nation's Polls Balloting May Run as High as 41 Millions Estimates Say WASHINGTON, Oct. 21-(AP) -More than a million officials and party watchers probably will be required to man the election machinery in about 122,390 voting precincts when the nation elects a president, Nov. 3. Estimates of the vote run from 41,000,000 to 45,000,000.

There are 2,200 more voting districts than two years ago. No exact tabulation of the number of officials needed to see that votes are cast and counted legally has been made. But experts said the total probably would run beyond a million persons. Many of the 122,390 voting districts include several polling places, cach of which requires A full staff of judges, clerks, and watchers. Thousands of other party workers will be busy roundup the voters.

Election officials are busy preparing ballot boxes and voting machines, checking official voting lists and setting up the complicated machinery through which the nation will choose its president, vice president, members of congress, governors and other officials. Most states divide into precincts as units for voting purposes, but others designate their units as districts or vote by counties, by cities, for by towns. manpower of the state highway patrol, provide for compulsory (quarterly inspection by the state of automobile brakes and headlights, restrict hours of service of drivers of buses and trucks, and I standardize signs and signals in cities and towns. The committee, licaded by Oak Hunter, of Moberly, will meet with its 12. subcommittees in Jefferson City, November 9, when its report will be prepared for submission to Governor Park..