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PAGE FOUR MONITOR-INDEX AND DEMOCRAT, MOBERLY, MO. SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1931 MOBERLY MONITOR-INDEX and Mobcriy Evening Democrat Dnily Except Sunday MOBERJLY MONITOR. MOBKRJ.V MOBEICLY DEMOCRAT. E.tnb. 1873 Meznber of A.n«oclated JPreim The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for re-publication ot all news dispatches credited to It or otherwise credited In this paper and also the news published herein.

All rlpnts of re-pub- Ucatlon of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Itibllabed try Moberly Index Pte. Co. 218 X. Moberly, Mo, Bntorcd at Poai Office at Moberly Missouri, as Second Class Matter.

JAMES TODD. PrcKldent TV. T. VAN CX.I3VE, Vlce-Prenldent K. VAN CLEVK.

Ilu.lne.. Manager Dally by Carrier, per .60 If paid at Monitor-Index office In advance, three 1-25 If paid at Monitor-Index office In advance, one 6.00 By mail, per .50 By mail, three Ey rnall, six 2.20 By mail. Sinsrlo Copy 6 cents WHAT IS TO BECOME OF THE RAILROADS? The Wabash railroad further curtailed its passenger service west of the river this week by taking off four more trains. Two of them, Nos. 28 and 29.

are the fast trains that run through Paris between Kansas City and Detroit. They were taken off Tues" day and there now remains only two mixed local trains on this end. The north-bound train to Hannibal goes through. Paris at 7:25 each morning and returns to Moberly at 12:15. There will be 24 hours between mails and it places banks and business men at a big disadvantage.

Still, the railroads can hardly be blamed. All of us are riding in busses and shipping'in trucks, believing wo are saving money, while at the same time maintaining highways for these vehicles to use with orOy a nominal license charge. The two Wabash fast trains were running empty each day. This means more men laid off, crews and operators and a further dislocation of business. It also means in the end a loss of the huge tax incomes counties like Monroe receive from the railroads.

As matters stand you can't get anywhere from Paris on the railroad. If present conditions continue every railroad in, the United States will be a streak of rust in another ten years. There are 1 now only three switching crews In Moberly where formerly there were nine. No raise in freight rates should be tolerated at this time even at that--especially co.il rates. The cost of coal at a ton --is already three-fourths freight and the local conjumer, as bad off as the railroads, cannot pay more.

Even present charges are too high and works a hardship. This country needs V. Bodine in the Paris Mercury. THE MAN PAYS Twenty-one of 26 men in the deathhouse at Sing Sing are facing death, according to their own stories, because a woman demanded in exchange for her love more clothes, jewelry and parties than the lover could provide honestly. They killed to meet the whims if a wife or sweetheart.

Here is a major cause of Uie crime wave which the Wicker- shamers and the rest of the pack of crime hunters overlooked. They seem to have uncovered every "cause" but the right one. Perhaps the sex side of the crime question was purposely overlooked because there is no cure for it. As long as there are vampires of the gold-digging variety they will find foolish men to steal and murder for tham. Kipling's "rag, a bone and a hank of hair" can either make or break a man.

Weak men are made weaker; strong men stronger. The soulless woman who sheds crocodile tears over her fallen lover while she snatches his poke from his shirt belongs to all ages. The pity of it is there is no pity for the man who lets a woman 1 make a fool of him. He also ceas- es to be a hero in the eyes of the woman as soon as the money stops I or another sucker with more mon- ey comes along. This is one case where it is man who pays and pays and pays.

BARGAIN DAYS If the world doesn't come to an end in 1935, as Wilbur Voliva predicts, he probably can think of another date. The quickest way to' straighten bowlegs is to go out riding with three in a flivver coupe. The cost of living, it is announced, has gone down 13 per cent in one year--if you can call it living. A pocketbook factory in Massachusetts reports more orders on hand than it can fill. Just another indication there Is plenty of money but it isn't being spent.

SUNDAY SCHOOLS BACK ON JOB Lamentable as it may seem, it is an admitted fact that the Sunday. School has something in common the more worldly affairs of commerce, in that it doesn't do much "business" during hot weather months. So it is that the Bible schools now find attendance and interest increasing after getting along for several months without much of either. Summer attendance never was as large and regular aa that from fall to early spring, but in recent years, for a number of reasons, the disparity has been increasingly pronounced. Chief among tho causes is the automobile.

Hundreds of thousands of adults and once constant members of Sunday school classes, now utilize summer Sundays for motor jaunts. Vacations are another enemy of summer attendance, each week-end finding a new batch of members "out of While some will contend the attendance in the primary and junior departments slumps sadly in the hot weather months, because of the go-much-talked-of waning power of parental authority, it is likely-that this is less true than that modern parents who lose interest in Sunday school on the first hot Sunday in the spring are too lethargic or consistent to "drive" their progeny reluctantly Into the often hot and stuffy churches. However, for the present, these conditions and problems have ceased to be troublesome. That vast army of self-sacrificing volunteers who take upon themselves the burden of the religious education of millions of young and old Americans is back at the post WOULD INTERDEPENDENCE The American consular service reports to the department of commerce at Washington that due to Germany's low purchasing power and prolonged depression that country has virtually ceased to be a buyer of manufactures from the United States. Idle factories and workers in many American cities and towns are the result.

Another group of seeking the cause for the collapse of the demand for American agricultural products, found the roots of the trouble reaching as far as Germany, where the scarcity of money has driven the populace to a diet of domestic foodstuffs; thereby cutting off what was once a large market for the products of American farms. One of the causes for the ruinous surplus of petroleum was' a sharp drop in European consumption due to the depression and high tariffs on petroleum exports from the United States. Here are but three instances where economic conditions in the United States and Europe are mutually dependent. Many others could be added. In fact every economic shift on either continent is felt in the other.

These facts are universally recognized and yet there are nearsighted persons who continue to preach isolation. It is not the business of Uncle Sam to jump into every private war across the way, but it is his business to cooperate with the world at large in any way that promises prosperity for all. Nor can there be world prosperity without world cooperation. Held In Son's DeatK Was Resident of County 88 Years; Funeral to Be Monday What Other Editors Say THE WAY BACK "If you can induce your readers to believe there is nothing wrong with the country except what is wrong with the individual and that real trouble with the United States is a sort of mass fear, you will be doing something constructive toward restoring prosperity. You may not be able to instantly restore the -demand for every kind of goods, but if the people will to supply their every day wants instead of pinching and sav- ng and hiding their money in the family fireplace or an old sock, shall find prosperity on the way back." The above excerpt is from a letter written by a local business man.

It represents what most people will agree is a sane view of conditions as they now exist and suggests some advice that it will be well for most people to follow. The Star has repeatedly referred to this aforesaid "nameless fear." The public seems obsessed with it and it is playing a much larger part in our present plight than most of us imagine. If we can persuade ourselves that the country is not going to wrack and ruin and that the nation is bound to come back, our troubles will soon be Peoria Star. Mrs. Sarah E.

Meals, 92. a native 01 Virginia but for 88 years a Randolph countian, died at 7:45 o'clcck yesterday morning at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. J. P. Bennett, Coweta, after a short illness.

The funeral party will arrive here at 3:15 o'clock tomorrow morning and the body will be taken to the home of a son, J. Marvin Meals, east of town. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 11 o'clock from Enon Baptist Church, by Dr. J. Frank Baker, pastor of the Fourth Street Methodist Church here.

Burial will be at Oakland Cemetery. Born in Virginia, Mrs. Meals came to Randolph county with her parents when she was three years old and liver here continuously until a year ago when she went to visit her daughter. She was a member of the Meals' Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church which is no longer organized. Two of Three Occupants Killed When Lebrix Plane Crashes in Russia Mrs.

Eldridge, 68, Dies at Home Here filled with new inspiration and energy and the flock, which temporarily strayed, is slowly wander- Ing back into the fold, there to regain contentedly until the siren of Nature sounds again next Japanese don't care for dogs as RETURN HOME FROM NORTHEASTERN TOUR Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Wisdom, 914 West Reed street, and Mrs. Rosa Courrier and son, Arthur, have returned from a tour. They stopped at Flint, to visit a friend and arrived in Toronto, in time for an exposition.

They saw all the great lakes except Superior and stopped in the principal cities of seven states. In Tonawanda, N. Mrs. Harper and Mrs, Mrs. Ross, Mast, daughters of Mrs.

Courrier. were visited. They declare Niagara Falls, with its colored lights, the most beautiful sight of all. At Granvjlle, Ohio, they visited the Coopereiders, a family which has lived in the same town thru four generations. Granville is in Mrs.

Sophia Eldridge, 6S, a Moberly resident for the past thirty- nine years, died at 9:45 o'clock this morning at her home, 112 South Clark street, after an illness of one week. She is survived by her T. A. Eldridge; one daughter, Mrs. O.

L. Moeller; two sons, William A. and Robert all of Moberly; one sister, Mrs. Aaron Maxwell, Denver, -two brothers, John and Walter Raugh, of Perry, several nieces and nephews; and two grandchildren. Mrs.

Eldridge was one of the best-known and most faithful members of the Fourth Street Methodist Church. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Fourth Street Church by the pastor, JOr. J. Frank Baker, and burial will be at, Oakland Cemetery. SALISBURY Mrs.

Pearl Gehrlg Mrs. Effie Wilkerson of Ottumwa Towa, is here at the bedside of. her father, Pat Foglesong, whose condition is quite critical. Mrs. T.

H. Edwards and Mrs. Paul Carter were in Kansas City Saturday. A number of young enjoyed a watermelon feast at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Ben Im- gartcn north of Salisbury Friday night. The affair was complimentary to Miss Pearl Wallace and was in the nature of a surprise to her. About 30 were in attendance. Rally Day will be observed at both Methodist and Christian Sunday schools tomorrow and special proriams will be presented tit both places Mrs. May Stafford Hilbufn, Ozark poet and welfare worker, will speak at the Christian church on "What Sunday Schocl advantages means to Missouri's Boys and Girls." Associated Press Photo J.

N. i i a a i i of Rochelle, was taken Into custody on a warrant a i i with the fatal shooting near Augusta, of his son, a i i a a a i in the i States navy. Contractor Sues on 14 Tax Bills The Lunch-McDonald Construction Company filed suit in Circuit Court here yesterday against Nora, Nell, Bell and E. Clarence Deskin for the collection of fourteen special tax bills held by the company against property owned by the defendants. The tax bills being sued on total 51398.12 and the plaintiff asks 8 per cent interest from date of issue of the bills.

The tax bills were Issued against Lots 1 to 14, respectively, in Block 2 of addition to Mobcrly. They were issued, to cover the cost of erecting Sewer District 47 in front of the property. Today. Bert Thieman entered a suit against Archie W. Woods for $60.25 damages to his car, which he asserts was caused by Woods' carelessness and negligence.

The suit is the outgrowth of an accident on the Ho.rrisburg-Fayette MOSCOW, Sept. 12 (JP) Two of the three men in the French airplane Hyphen II which set out yesterday on a non-stop flight from Paris to Tokyo were killed today when their plane crashed near Ufa. Their identities could not be learned immediately nor was the cause of the accident determined. Aboard the ship were Joseph Lebrix, one of the best of the French pilots. Marcel Doret and Rene Mesmin.

Ufa is about 700 miles east ot Between here road last November, driven by Thieman when cars and Woods collided as Woods drove onto the main road from a sideroad. I. C. S. DISPLAY IS EXHIBITED HERE An exhibition of instruction in the various fields of business, science and practical training all kinds, offered by the International of Scranton, together with a display of work done by local students, was placed on display in the building at 535 West Reed street yesterday.

The exhibition is in charge of W. W. Hitchcock, who has been located here since the I. C. S.

Headquarters for this territory house pets, but we can't picture, aa oil field di str i and Mr. Co- fhis as making a good dog so opereider has drilled for oil on his )nad. REV. L. T.

CAGLE TO PREACH AT ENON The Rev. L. Thelbert Cagle, a senior at Central College, Fayette, will preach at Enon Baptist Church Sunday morning and night it was announced today. His morning theme will be "The Unpardonable Sin" and at night he will' talk on, "A Modern Tower of The Rev. Mr.

Cagle, who was ordained into the ministry June 7, has been an outstanding student at Central for several years. were recently moveO from Columbia to Moberly. Mr. Hitchcock lias been a representative of iHe school for the past seventeen vears. The exhibition will be open to i the public for the next ten days.

The display includes a number of exhibits of art and mechanical drawings by Moberly students. Between 55 and 30 Moberly pel sons are studying with the Scranton school the present to Mr. Hitchcock. About 150 from this territory, which includes a cumber of cities in this section of the state, are I. C.

S. students. Moscow, midway and Omsk. Joseph Lebrix, one of the finest fliers of France, set out from Le Bourget at dawn, yesterday with Marcel Doret and Rene Mesmin. The three of them tried a flight from Paris to Tokyo several months ago but cracked up in the middle of Siberia.

They came back to Pans oy plane and outfitted the Hyphen II for another attempt at the long g-ot off the just a few minutes ahead of the famous trans-Atlantic shin Question Mark, carrying Paul Codos and Henri Robida.who were going over the same route with Tokyo as their ultimate destination. The Question Mark was forced down at Nieukirk, near the Netherlands by a leak in the gas tank a few hours after the start. That plans, to go. back to Paris and start over. Lebrix was one of the most famous fliers the world.

was best known in the United States for. the round-the-world flight he made with Dieudonnfc Costs in 1927. distance mark, yesterday they GUARDSMEN GALLED OUT IN CHURCH WAR Following a clash between rival factions of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro, and an encount er between followers of the Rev. Joe Jeffers and city officials, 75 Arkansas national guardsmen were. called out to help maintain order in the town.

Here some of the soldiers are shown blocking the street leading to Jeffers' teat tabernacle, permitting only pedestrians to pass and talcing precautions against further outbreaks of violence. Will Open New Restaurant Here The "Spick 'n Span' 1 restaurant is almost complete and formal opening will be held Tuesday, it was announced today by the owner, M. F. Kirtley and his son, Millard. The new restaurant is located at.

522. West Reed street." On the opening day a three- course chicken dinner will be featured at a popular price. The new cafe will handle a complete-line of foods, candy, cigarettes and soft drinks, besides specializing in waf- fles'and hotcakes. The restaurant win be open for business daily from 5:30 a. m.

until midnight. Shoe Factory Notes Mis. Lee Craig was the guest Monday of her' daughter, Mrs. Olierin. Naomi and Ola Halterman were Special Trains and Cars Will Pass Through Here Next Week 20 Years Ago Earl Bennett has resigned his i position with pritton Brothers and jhas gone to work for the Wabasn railroad as a brakeman.

He enter upon his new duties as as he has learned the road and To accommodate the hundreds of students who will begin their annual trek back to Missouri's seat of learning at Columbia next week, the Wabash Railroad, will operate a number of special cars attached to regular trains, in addition to one special train, it announced today by B. F. Rice, assistant division passenger agent here. Advance indications point to a greater number of students at Columbia this year than ever before, according to Mr. Rice.

He estimates that the Wabash will handle approximately a thousand stu- made all of his student trips. J. W. Norton, writing from Montana, sends $2 for the. great Democratic weekly, says, "I you thought I didn't want your paper and stopped it.

No, brother Norton, you will have to blame Uncle Sam for any irregularity, in getting the Monitor. Your name is on the list and lias been t'or some time. Thanks for the two plunks." James the guests of their parents north- dents through here from through- west of Moberly, over the week- ou( west) addition to hunt-ad. Mr. and Mrs.

Billy Roller be the g'uests of Mrs. Roller's sister of St. Louis over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs.

Earl Willis and daughter, Earline, accompanied by Beanie Hardwick, motored to Koscoe, and spent the weekend. Bennie attended the State Convention of the American Legion this week at Joplin. Glen Eurton and Miss Hazel Sellers weri? married last week. Gien is an employe of the M. Bottoming Department, while Mrs.

Eurton is employed by Mrs. R. M. Johnston. The young couple will resicie at S26 W.

Rollins street for the present. Biliy Miller of the M. Bottoming Department reported Tuesday for work after an absence of several dreds of others who will return by way of St. Louis and will not pass through Moberly. Foremost of the "student specials" will be a ten CEV Stephens College train leaving St.

Louis Monday morning at 9:15 o'clock. That Stephens College enlists students throughout a wide territory of the country is shown by the original of the cars composing the special. To assemble at St. Louis, the train will include special cars Sandison has returned. from Colorado, where he has been operating a gold mine belonging to him.

Mr. Sandison will return to the' West after, a short visit with his family here. Mrs. S. Martin and granddaughter Ruth Martin, have gone to St.

Louis for a short visit with friends and relatives there, Brakemen W. M. Murphy, Sam Fisher, E. W. Elliott, and E.

L. Herritor have resumed work after a brief lay-off. 30 Years Ago fl September 13, 1901 All previous records on the T. M. C.

A. bowling alleys were broken- yesterday by G. W. Mudd, who made a score of 256. J.

O. Heara. of Ohio, is here vts- itingr his mother and sister. Mr. Mr.

and Mrs. Sam Earsom and daughter, Hazel, of St. Louis, were the week-end guests of his brother, C. H. Earsom and fajuily.

They were accompanied by Carl Earsom. I Maurine Straub to Head Story Telling Club Miss Maurine Straub, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. M.

Straub, has been chosen instructor for a Junior Shakespeare Story Telling Club, to be organized here soon, it was announced today by Mrs. Jollie Speakman, of Chicago, division manager for the Shakespeare Story Telling; Club. Similar clubs have' already been organized Mexico, Columbia, Fulton and several other Missouri towns. Miss Straub attended Christian College at-Columbia one year and was graduated in 1931 from the Moberly Junior College. She did private tutoring this summer'and worked last year with the Junior Music Club.

SHOWERS FORECAST FOR NEXT WEEK Mr. and Homer Bailey of The Monitor-Inaei gets the news. Dayton, Ohio, arrived here today for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. W.

1 131 Thompson street. Mrs." Bailey is a grand niece ot Mr. and Mrs. Oxley. For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys: Scattered showers with moderate temperature over north portions, mostly fair and continued warm over south portions first half of week.

Some indications of showers and cooler latter half. Mr and Mrs. Wayne Shaw motored to Louisiana, Labor and spent the day with i White of Vincennes, was the guest of Ms mother. Mrs. Ednn, White, over Labor Day.

Miss Lorine and Burnice Halcsr- man visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Halterman, near Ca.r:.

over the week-end. MIPS Marjory Earsom of ingtc.n, was the week-end g-uest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O.

Earsom. Mr and Mrs. Frank Toalson and R. H. Earsom of Sturgeon were" Sunday guests of Mr.

ana Mrs C. H. Earsom and family. Mies- Mary Bolten was calletf to Jefferson City Friday on account of her father's illness. He is a patient in St.

Mary's Hospital in that city. "Dcra Mea was the guest ol friends and relatives of Kansas City over Labor Day. Mis Loretta Ewend spent Labor Div with Miss Delia Falmp.tory. Louie Ewens of the W. lasting department is absent on account ot" illness.

Mr and Mrs. Ralph Morrison and Mrs. A. K. Bristow spent Sunday in Columbia.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Broaddus, Mrs. Ben Davison and Mr. and Mrs A Summers spent Labor Day in Minburn, Iowa.

The army contract is under way and everything moving along nicely under the able leadership of Daniel Ford, chief inspector for the government. Mr. Ford oas Ins assistants Les Haskins in- pecting the upper leather ment. Tom English and J. Dunley inspecting sole leather department and Charles Niles, final inspector.

Moberly plant is fortunate in having men who have had many years experience and who are fully qualified for the posi- t'on they hold. Each of the above named men is a gentleman ot the highest type. from Chicago, Detroit, EvansviJle, Hearn-is now a a s. me- T-- and 1 clianic of a railroad, in. Onio.

He learneo the machinist's trad? in the Wabash shops here. While here be is supervising the rebuilding of a couple of engines for his road at the shops in Moberly. The shops on his railroad are not big enough to do as much rebuilding as has become necessary. Johnny Hunter, another former Moberly boy, is a division master mechanic on the same railroad. Miss Ora Elliott, of Wray, Colo.

was the guest of the Misses Maude and Clara Galbreath. yesterday. Miss Elliott was on her way to Fayette where she will attend' the Howard-Payne College this year. There is reason to believe that, other anarchists stand ready to complete Czolgosz's recent unsuccessful attempt upon the life of President McKinley should the president recover. This fact would be established if all the ramifica- tions of the conspiracy to ld.ll the president could be brought to The authorities are already In possession of evidence pointing 5n this direction, but there is nothing yet to indicate who the men are that are to make the next I attempt.

It is to be hoped that some of the men now under arrest will- reveal some clew as to tlieir identity. Indianapolis, Cincinnati Shreveport, La. Additional special cars of.girls enroute to school at Stephens are three coaches from Kansas City to be attached to train No. 12 -Monday afternoon, and two on train No. 14 from Omaha Monday night.

Two other coaches will be attached to No. 14 from Des Moines Monday nigilt with girls enroute to the same school. Christian College students will go back to school over the Wabash on two special coaches from Kansas City on No. 2 Tuesday, one from St. Louis on train No.

3 on the same date and one on train No. 14. from Omaha Monday Students enroute to Lindenwood College at St. Charles will be carried through Moberly on two special coaches attached to train No. IS from Kansas City Tuesday morning and one.from Omaha on No.

14, Monday night. A number of other special cars will be attached to all trains through Moberly Sunday fflid Monday to students returning to the.University.. Twenty Grand Wins Again NEW YORK, Sept. 12. JP--Mrs.

Payne Whitney's Twenty Grand, co-holder of the three year old turf title, today added the Lawrence realization to his long lost of stage victories, finishing four lengths in front of Mrs. Katherine E. Hitt's Sun Meadow. The Belair Stud's Sir Ashley was "third with the Wheatley Stable's Blenheim fourth and last. The Monitor-lnoes Has all the MISSOGRI POWER SEEKS NEW LONDON GAS JEFFERSON CITY, Sept.

12 Missouri Power Light Company todav filed appli- cation with the state public ser- vice commission for permission to establish a natural or artificial gas distributing system in New London, Rails County. "MHXIONAIIvE BOOTLEGGER" GIVEN IS MONTHS, $7500 FINE Sept. 12 by KANSAS CITY, Ray Broom, once the district attorney's office as a "millionaire bootlegger," was sentenced a to eighteen months in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fined $7,500 upon his plea of guilty to a liquor conspiracy charge. The sentence is to run concurrently with a two-year sentence he now is serving for sale and transportation of liquor. WOMAN, 81.

DEBS; HAD NEVER RIDDEN ON TRAIN SPRINGFIELD, Sept. 12. TP--Mrs. M. E.

Fedder, who had lived all her SI years in Greene County and never had been on a railroad train, died today. Mrs. Carrie E. Wood, SOO Union avenue, has returned from a three months visit in the east, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Josie Burrell, 85-year-old blind woman, who wiE live in the Wood home Mrs.

Wood visited in Washington, D. Arlington, Mount. Vernon, Philadelphia, Mount Valley Ford, Atlantic City and Wild- TVT Tclnrtn. wood, Bayside, Long Island, N. Y.

She visited the Betsy Ross home at Valley Forge. TONIGHT Sale of New Fall Printed Crepe 200 Dresses Placed on Sale at 7 o'clock, values ranging up to $8.50 some with coats, specially offered at rj fir" 2.S5 am HATS TONIGHT Values up to $3:50, specially priced, for Moberly's Foremost Store.