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Home Edition 12 Pages 4 O'CIock and MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT Home Edition 12 4 O'CIock VOLUME 12 IHKMBUU ASSOCIATED I'RKSS FULL. CEASED I SERVICE MOBERLY, MISSOURI WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1930 MOEERLY.SlOJflTOtt ESTABLISHED UVDEX EST. 1918 JttOBERLV DEMOCRAT EST.1ST3 NUMBER 143 CAPTURED BANDIT MAY HAVE LIVED INMOBERLY Robber Held in Bank Holdup Said to Have Formerly Resided Here GIVES NAME AS WILLIAM LONG Police Have No Record on Him, but Another Man Named Long is Recalled One of three bandits captured Illinois yesterday after a bank robbery in Clinton, has been identified as William Long, 32 formerly of Moberly and Kansas City, it -was announced today by officers investigating- the robbery Long was one of five men who took part in the robbery. One committed suicide when trapped another was shot by a posseman, and a third -was seriously wounded in the fighting. A deputy sheriff also was fatally wounded in the chase.

While police have no record-of a William Long having frequented thl-; city they do remember a'man by the name of Long "who was in and. out of the city frequently some months ago. This man was thought to be a narcotic addict, bet was never Others Left Suddenly. Other suspicious looking characters who made a rendezvous here some weeks ago because, it is said, police -were watching them too closely. It is quite 'possible, 1 it is believed here, that Long have been Moberly under a different name.

Suspicious characters often frequent Moberly for a day or two and then pass on. Excellent tram service to the larger cities in most all directions' is said to make this a. favored place for a hunted Senate Lays World Court Aside Until Next December WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 CAP)-The senate foreign relations Committee today voted to defer "consideration of the world court until December. The vote was ten to nine.

Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania, made the motion to postpone consideration. Republicans, including friend and foe of the court, joined him almost solidly. Democrats voted unitedly against the postponement. Chairman Borah of the committee, an opponent of the court, and Senator' Gillett, of Massachusetts, an advocate, were the only Republicans' to. vote against deferment.

By this move, the Republicans forestalled any chance of the court Issue becoming involved in this short session. They, feared its discussion might lead to an extra session. It was agreed there' was no opportunity to vote on the court at this session which ends March 4. to "Jay low" for a day or 6 ESCAPE FROM JAIL AT FULTON CHARGE ON LINDSEY IS DISMISSED Judg-e Rebukes Him for Interrupting- a Church Service, However To Parole Man Who Forged Check to Feed Family COURT OBJECTS TO PAPERS FILED Asks 'Church to Make Complaint, but- Nobody Comes Forward One Bank Robber, Under 14- Year Sentence in Group-Outside Aid Charged 6 OTHER PRISONERS REFUSE TO LEAVE FULTON, Dec. 17.

(AP) -Six prisoners in the Callaway county jail, including Fred Van Noy, sentenced 14. years in the penitentiary for robbery of the Guthrie Bank near here recently, escaped this morning. The other five who escaped are: Jim Day, being held on; a liquor manufacturing charge; A len, charged with highway roo- bery; Frank chargec! with highway robbery; Churles Menteer and George Robbing, charged with stealing; parts; Six other prisoners, including Sari Duncan and Leonard of Jefferson City, charged with he attempted robbery a gen-, cral store near here recently, re- NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (AP)--A charge of disorderly conduct against former Judge Ben Lindsey was dismissed today by Magistrate Dreyer. The court dismissed the- complaint made put by.

a police officer charging the Denver jurist with interfering with a religious ceremony when he interrupted Bishop William T. Manning's assault' on companJonate marriage the Cathedral St. John Divine a week ago last Sunday. Then Magistrate Dreyer, ordered a new complaint drawn to be signed by a representatiye of the church, and when nobody came forward to sign it, he threw the case out court. He rebuked Lindsey, however, in dropping the charge.

"You are a man of gence, you are a are a- judge, you knew you were in church and you "knew the law," Magistrate Dreyer told the proponent of' companionate "If you felt you were maligned you had your remedy. I always say if. a ni'an "hurts my feelings 1 1 have the courts to go to. A-church- has a right to hold a. divine service without interruption.

The public should given-to know that dismissal: of thia complaint does JEFFERSON" CITY, Dec. 17. (AP)--A man who a $12.90 check-to feed his wife and four children was sentenced to five years in by Judge Walter the Cole County circuit court today, but he is to be paroled tomorrow. Unabic. to find employment, B.

Nichols- forged the check with, his. signature. Nichols told prosecuting attorney Nike G. Sevier that he was.guiltj. but that not bear 'his children and' wife -suffer for want of food, with Christmas nearing- JOY FOR WETSINDRY Decision- That Amendment is Invalid Seen -as of Slight Importance NEW JERSEY KEEPS ON ENFORCING LAW NEGRO SENTENCED TO PENITENTIARY Robert Smith, Jail Breaker, Gets Two Years Two Divorces Granted 17 BANK SUITS ARE COMPROMISED not.

make it all right to' interrupt church, services." Robert Smith, Moberly negro, was sentenced to "two years in the state penitentiary at Jefferson City in Circuit. Court, at Huiitsvill'e-to- day Smith fo'rmal arraignment iind entered a. plea of guilty to Jackson was sentenced to a i county jail when he cu'terecT a plea of guilty to a charge larceny; Seventeen suits' to recover deposits placed in the now defunct Huntsville Trust Company were compromised, settled and dismissed nt defendants costs. The suits were' filed against C. A.

Fleming et al. directors of the bank. Those-who ImcT suits were: Cantley, Karleeh Williams, John Duncan, Maggie Raymond Miles, J. B. Hacldcy, Iks Shaw, Koyv Cravens, John T.

Charles W. Eoling, Walter C. Block; Frank M. Raine, W. Robertson, Vanderbeck, J.

W. Sweatman, Drys' Confident; Supreme Would Reverse Case --It May Be Appealed Face Murder Charge. Dec. 17 (AP the Ver jury wi meet" in next wee to consider first degree murde charges against the three surviv ing members of gang of fiv that robbed the Citizens Bank here yesterday. The murder charges' will filed as the result of the death to day at Torre Haute of Joe Walke of 'Dana, who was shot whil pursuing the bandits yesterday The pursuit ended near Sidell, 111.

with two of the gang killed anr the other three captured. One those captured, E. H. Hunter, was seriously -wounded. The two dead bandits have been identified as G.

W. Landley, 65 formerly of Frankfort, and Thomas Bell, 42, of Pittsburgh The surviving bandits are William Long, 32, formerly of Kansas City and Moberly, William Martin, alias Walter Detrick, Chicago, and. Hunter. Seasoned Bandits. SIDELL, Dec.

17 (AP)-The battle which five bank bandits lost yesterday to a posse ol officers resulted in the capture of bigger criminal game than was first indicated, authorities said today. The gang, two of whose mem- were killed, was wanted for series of bank holdups in west- em Indiana, in addition to the i-obbery of the 1 Citizens Bank at Clinton, which led to their downfall. This was revealed by Chauncey A. Manning of the Indiana State Bureau of Criminal Identification, who identified the dead bandits as Thomas Bell, 42 of Pittsburgh, and G. W.

Landley. 65, of Frankfort, Ind. Landley is believed to have killed himself rather than be taken alive. Bell was killed by Ernest Boetto, a volunteer posse- man. One of his companions, E.

H. Hunter, thought to from Terre Haute, was wounded. Two others, William Long, and William Martin, were captured. Practically all the estimated loot recovered. To Start Shaling Park Roads Soon Co-operating In the work of hauling shale to surface roads in Forest Park, Moberly street employes and a part of the force of the Moberly Eight Mile Road District expect to begin work as soon as a sufficient quantity of shale can be made available.

Members oC the board are now negotiating for the shale, which will be obtained from mine dumps not far removed 'from Moberly. During tie winter months there frequently come periods when city and road district trucks are not use and it is planned that at such times the trucks will be useil in hauling the shale. Under that arrangement it is expected auite a bit of the park roads may be surfaced this winter. Sheriff Owen -said 'he "believed the men -outside as tlie bolts theVouter door of tlie jail were removed from the 'oul- side. The inside bolt lock had been sawed through and a lock pried off one.

of the cages inside the building. Officers of surrounding counties have been notified and an intense search was being mude in and near Fulton for the six men. A Callaway county grand jury visited the jail'yesterday, and scheduled to mnke Its report today. The structure been condemned" Ky grand juries for- the past twenty years. PRISON REVAMPED 'Simons Will Be Director After: January 1--Jones to Oversee Industries MAJOR SAYS WIFE DIDN'T LOVE HIM Shepard Testified Any Statement to the Contrary Was an Inaccuracy KANSAS CITY, Dec.

(AP)--Major Charles A. Shepard testified on cross examination today at. his trial for the alleged spfson murder of his wife that Mrs. Shepard had ceased to love him and that his purported statement to the contrary made to federal agents at Denver last spring was an The prosecution, which charges Shepard poisoned Mrs. Shepard at Fort- Riley, a year anu a ago.

so he might be marry Miss Grace Brandon, young stenographer of San Aii- continued its efforts show- discrepancies between he statement and his testimony. Shepard testified that he real- zed at -the time there were inac- uracies In the statement taken at Denver where he was arrested, ut reiterated he considered the matter "none of the ofilcers' bus- ness." "You say your wife didn't lov? ou?" Diserlct Attorney Sardius I. Brewster asked soon after hepard resumed tha witness tand this morning. "She told me so," Shepard re plied. Brewster then called attentiou to the.statement made in Deo- JEFFERSON CITY, Dec.

17 A A reorganization of the Missouri Prison Board, tive January 1, was anno.unoecl. today by Governor. which Delph C. Simons, Republican, 1 becomes director of the penal board replacing Frank B. Jones; also a Republican.

Jones will retire froin the board and become superintendent of in- 'dustries for the-prison to succeed John. I. wuo announced his resignation last summer to take, effect-the first of the year. No new appointments were made by the governor, leaving two vacancies on the board. Jones Has Good Record In shifting Jones to the industrial post, Governor CaulfieW said his service as director had been "satisfactory in which nas shown a great deal of business ability." The post of superintendent of industries, paying 000 a year, is one of the most -iif- ficult to fill, the governor, said.

He requested Jones to take the of his record. Jones came to the prison, board -Isaac Miller and L. C. Jackson and son. divorces, were granted, one to Artie Clark from and her maiden name or Artie Hasar -restored; and the TJ33" Hensley from Fay Hensley.

Mrs. Hensley was allowed, by consent, $40 per month from January 1, 1931, for one year, and $30" per month thereafter for support of three minor children. Stuart Khnbrough, charged with second degree murder, waived, formal arraignment and entered a plea "of not guilty. case' was Continued by RELIEF MEASURE DEBATED AGAIN ANOTHER NEW JUDGE DISAGREES NEWARK, N. Dec.

17-CAP)--Federal Judge William Itunyon, hearing liquor "since 'Federal -Judge William Clark ruled adversely on the. of: amendment, declined to. dismiss a -defendant;" 'charged with liquor law violation. "I am not of necessity bound by the -decision of Judge Clark," he said, "my conception is that the 18th amendment has been passed on by the supreme court and is binding on all judges lesser jurisdiction." Federal Judge Guy. L.

Fake did not sit today. He -said he would withhold legal comment until a- case was brought before -him. WASHINGTON, 1)cc. 17. (AP) --An "immediate appeal" to the supreme'court from the decision by Judge Clark in New Jersey yesterday declaring the ISth Amendment invalid will be taken.

cheers nor groans echoed in: y. at "news that a federal judge tad ruled the amendment invalid. Such opinion-as was expressed here today the decision would uot cutj much ice. The drys predicted the supreme coiiTt, if and- when the comes -up for review, will reverse it. They cited precod- justice department laeii it could not, until after' supreme -affect the 1 Anti prohibitionists Washington had-not summed up tlieir attitude, most heads of national wet groups in other cities were conservative in comment.

Seen As Unsound The their position in expressing that the grounds Short Cftange Artist Caught As He Trades Ones' for Baffling Local Merchants Accused of having plied a variation of the change'' game, old time "short 3. man giving his name Albert White 'was arrested yesterday afternoon by Sheriff 'Albert Fleming, Assistant Chief of Police Buckner and Police Officer-J: OB; McAdams-after several 1 business. complained that White had- either defrauded them-or had made an-Attempt to do a stranger here, is being held by county officers ing filing of-charges against' him. Varying-his: somewhat each instance, White is -declared to have entered several stores and to have made small purchases, for which he tendered a $10 bili to tiie Given his. change, consisting $5 bill-and the'rest "in $1 bills and silver, the man.

would say, "Why, I give" you, a $10 bill? I thmight.it was. for $1. I had just the two My Then he would place-the bill he had in his pocket witty-tie four that had been him as part. of. his change and ask the clerk, to give.him.

a- $5 bill for the bills. Retaining the $1 bills until, the salesman''brought- the $5, would keep up a running conversa- 1 tion the $5- bill was given him. -Then he would pick up the 1 put them the just handed" ihim and -ask be given a 510 bill.for the ones and In a few instances that was done, and man walked Out of the store with five dollars more than he" had when he When searched fter. his arrest $35 found in poses- sion, about $15 of which -he is alleged to obtained here through his "short change operations- method of oper- would seem easy to detect" but of, those who dealt'with Jiim, at least one had' information- that he was working a "racket' 1 and. yet was fooled into giving him the $5 excess When, the proprietor a store the -man.

White at first insisted, that the S5 bill given.him to: take up his five $1 bills was- his' own, but finally agreed it was again his "mistake'' and quickly got' away from ths store. Another man arrested and. suspected of being-a confederate White was. later -released when -police became- he did not know White and hatl n'o connection with' his fraudulent MILITIA IN HUNT FOR SLAYER OF TEACHER Girl Criminally Attacked, and Beaten to Death School Near MaryvUle' PEAR MOB VIOLENCE IF SLAYER IS CAXTGHT IDENTIFIEEAS JAILER'S KILLER Albert McCann in Kansas City, Murder Named as Carthage Slayer BELIEVE HE TRIED TO FREE PRISONER CARTHAGE? Dec. 17 (A.P.V --Albert McCanh.sought in connection with a-recent murder in Kansas identified from- a said here today, as -the slayer of E.

Bray, special-Sunday an attempted jail'delivery here last Sunday. Identification made.jjy^Jota Dyer, son jailer, Bpecial- Officer Jesse' Dome and who the- man the jail; wrest Bray's -pistol from and, shoot man and his woman, companion, fled after tailing to open any 'cell. Officers to release Raymond Jackson, Bunder a prison sentence'for-robbery. S. Pinegar, a was sliot to death in the 1 Kansas City CAPEOMRDEAU DENIES FRANCHISE Rejects'rProposal of Private Company to Build New Water Sell Electricity CLAYTON VOTES BOND ISSUE FOR SCHOOLS ST.

LOUIS, Dec. 17. (AP)-One bond: issue was approved, another? bond -issue proposal was defeated, renewal-of a. utility franchise was refused' and the city manager -plan ot, government scored a victory in "-elections in, Missouri Climaxing a bitter Cape --Girardeau: a proposal; JMissouriy, Utilities to renew; its-water and; electric light franchise for a 20-year per-, iod. The vote for renewal of-the from Stott City as farm commissioner, but director oi the board folldwiug the tragi: death Col.

A. H. Harrison in, an automobile accident a year ago. Simons, former Grant- City ver. in which Shepard was asked whether his wife loved him and he was quoted as replying, "This," Major Shepard responded was another of several inaccuracies." Mrs.

William wife Sam Mrs. wife. piiper publisher, first joined'- the administration's official "family as state game and fish, 'commissioner, resigned last Aug. 25 tp tales a prison board appointment. He has been unassigned since that, time.

The other-two members ol the board, Warden 'Leslie Rudolph, Republican, and Dwight Brown, parole commissioner, were lei't undisturbed-in the shift. The two i vacancies on tha board. All Thought of Christmas Recess Abandoned as Congress Seeks to Rush Bill WASHINGTON, 17 (AP)-The Senate today refused by a yote of 42 to 39 from amendments to the emergency employment appropriation giving funds to Alabama and Georgia for road construction and a deadlock with the House was in prospect. House conferees refused to accept the amendments and Chair-, man Jones of the Senate appropriation committee today asked the Senate recede from them. They would' make available more than for road.construc- tion in the flood '-stricken areas of these states 'without' requiring the states to match tlie appropriations.

"Senators Black of Alabama and George of an all day fight for their retention. The amendments are how up to the the Hindm an's upon which, Tudge Clatk, holdup in which McCann, and his 'wife are believed vo have, participated. Paul Hindman in. a Jbplin hospital, several hours after former, wife, Mrs. Peggy" Moss, who with a companion-took Hindman to hospital, said he had been wounded in an.

of gun shots- wiht Pinegar. Mrs. Moss, who she with other woman while the men staged" the holdup, is in jail at 'Kansas City, awaiting trial on a first degree murder charge as an accomplice in che slaying of Pinegar. McCann and his wife have, been objects of an "intense search since tne.holdup. of New Jersey, against the prohibition amendment, had been held unsound by the supreme court- years ago.

The highest bench has repeatedly. that various attacks on constitutional prohibition along similar lines had ho merit. It-'has refused to entertain several other attempts to break down. the amendment. Those who know, well the workings of the court hold ths view in matters of this sort it is inclined to a liberal.

construction of the constitution's provisions. Tlie justices thus would be interpreting the amendment as an expression of the peoplels will which; should prevail over the narrower technicalities. Tha only direct -effect anticipated from Judge Clark's ruling was a possibility that ill jurisdic- refuse This was when filled, call for one Democratic and one" Republican appointment. The change will deprive Jones of director's residence- at the prison. The salary of director is and a residence.

of an army major at Fort Houston, Texas, testified Shepard was not a loving To "Entertain Governors WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (AP) Baden. Indiana, was today selected as the sice for the 1931 governors' conference. The witness recounted a conversation with Mrs. Shepard when they were at Manila in 1922.

"Mrs. Shenard told me." Mrs. Southard said, "that she had tad a very hard life. She told me she did not love her husband, that she married him as a way to help 1 her mother and younger" brother." Mrs. Southard quoted Mrs.

Shepard as saying "'I thought he was rich but I found he was The witness told of a trip to China with a small party in 1922. Mrs. Shepard, she was drunif In bed three days at a Shanghai hotel. EXPECT REPORT ON DRY LAW SOON WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (AP) -The law enforcement; commission DOW, is expected, a the White House to report its conclusions on prohibition to President Hoover in two or three weeks.

White House officials said today the report wonld be transmitted to congress as soon it has been received and studied by the President. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17-' lunged today into an'ef- fort for immediate, enactment of relief legislation. Republican Leader Watson informed the senate all plans for -a Christmas recess were abandoned, pending, forwarding the emergency construction and drought loan bills to Present Hoover. working, on.

the report adjusting, differences'be- tween it and house on the $116,000,000 public works measure. The house had before it the drought legislation, Only a while before, the house agriculture committee had cut the senate figure in half and-eliminated the. ior loans to farmers for food. Deferment -senate consideration of the world, court issue "for a year was assured by 'the foreign relations committee, which voted. 10 to 9 to that The senate reguested its appropriations committee to invite Chairman Woods, of the President's employment committee, to testify on conditions.

Senator Robinson, the Democratic expressed'the hope that an impasse on the drought bill would be averted. He said ha did not want the impression to go out that the house committee vote of 16 to 1 to report the $30,000,000 measure inflected Urat mucli opposition to the senate bill. The vote 011 substituting the'senate fund for the smaller house figure was close," he said, with all the Democrats voting for the larger fund. tion authorities might act against viilators. entertained by one government official here while, others were emphatic in asserting it have no over the actions of other district judges even in New Jersey, and that it not prevent- -arrests in that state under the National Prohibition act.

A Dry's View A suggestion was advanced by one dry leader. Oliver W. Stewart, president of the Flyinj foundation, that 1C the Squadron ightoenth amendment were held the Kiwanians Hear College Quartet Kiwanis Club members were entertained today with two selections by the male quartet, of the. Moberly Junior College, composed, of Eddie Kellogg, first tenor; Raymond- Swetnam, second- tenor; Frank Wright, first bass, and: Mack second bass. -They were accompanied by- Miss Jean Curtis.

The speaker was'L. B. Conner oE Quincy, 111., field representative of Gem City Business College; who mingled anecdote.and poetry-In an entertaining address on "The Phi- bsophy of the. Common Folks." Van- Buskirk of Kansas. I --UUilUll.

must also fall. It too. vas ratified City, associated wu.h thei JDascomb- franchise was 31S. The Utilities Company had promised to construct a new water plant" and; street, lighting system, and proponents of the franchise re- mewal argued such construction would reduce unemployment in the southeast' Missouri city. Oppon-: cnts of the.jfrancliise brought.Dan- iel C.

city attorney of Fayette, here for two -speeches. Excelsior Spring likes city manager form of An attempt abandon the present government in favor of the aldermanic form was defeated, 901 to 450. Citizens of Clayton school district, in overwhelmingly approved a $325,000 -bond issue to-finance six school projects, while voters" at Willow Springs, in Southwest Missouri, defeated a proposal a $18,000 bond issue'for a and a fire truck. CHRISTMAS SPIRIT TAKES POSSESSION Terrific Struggle Preceded. Killing Late Yesterday-- Bloodhcrands TTsed by-Posse MARYVILLE, Dec.

17 --A detachment militia- guardsmen joined a posse of civil-. ian, officers and citizens in comb 5ng this region today for the slay-' er of Velma Colter, teacher who was criminally attack- ed'and choked and beaten to death; late yesterday in her country school rooBi near'here. Bloodhounds brought into the search apparently were -unable pick up a definite -Captain. Ed Condon "of'Maryville commanded the National Guardsmen who were enlisted in. hunt by Sheriff Harve England.

feeling running high among" the' many acquaintances of Miss Colter, the sheriff, said he it best to'have the aid of the soldiers to prevent possible mob vio-" leace in case the slayer is captur-." ed. Had JTo JSTeir JFriends Friends of the sal'd so far as they knew she had no- men' friends who were -particularly Search the school premises failed to produce the weapon used in the killing. The school room gave evidence' Miss Colter had put up a ter- struggle with her assailant. Most-of her clothing had been-torn. from, her body.

She liad beat- en Several- strangers in. munity arrestecL-lor ing, but- saift-JlUMUBjiig haid no evidence against the- prisoners. Find Snde Body! The nude body oSthe about the head, was discovered -at dusk by T. Thompson at whose home she resided. He said he wents torthe school when the girl failed to arive home the accustomed time.

The young teacher's bloodstained, clothing was heaped beside Jtier" body. Dr. C. D. Hurnberd, said she had been.attacked.

The coroner said he had discovered fingerprints which he was investigating. Sheriff Harve England was in- formed by school children that Miss Colter had remained alone in the building to read examination papers, after dismissal-of school at 4 o'clock. He said that "Will New, a farmer living adjacent to the school, reported noticing a stranger loitering oa, the grounds. Later th'e farmer said, he saw Miss Colter enter Miss Colter was the daughter of Mr. and Colter," who live eight miles south of This was her.

first term as a teacher- She attended the State; Teachers" College here one year following her "graduation from the Marwille High School. CContinued on Page 11) INJURY IS FATAL TO SALISBURY MAN Joe Lynes Dies After Acci- den Near Trenton--Has Sister Living Here SALISBURY, Dec. 17, (Monitor-Index Special Service) -Joe Lynes, o'f Salisbury, brother of Mrs. 0. R.

of Moberly, died at Trenton late yesterday about two hours after he had sustained injuries while working on the Rock Island railroad out Trenton. He is survived by his widow, one son and two daughters. Mr. Lynes was working on a track-laying machine at Trenton, according to word received by his sister here. He had formerly, been, employed at Salisbury as a section laborer for the Wabasb.

Mrs. Palmer went to Salisbury this afternoon and Mr. Palmer will join her later to go to Columbia" for funeral services. which be at 3 o'clock Thursday aft- Daniels Lumber was a guest of Robert Russell. 12 Italian Planes on Ocean Flight -ORBETELLO, Italy, Dec.

17. (AP)--Twelve Italian seaplanes roared away from the calm surface of Lake Orbetello at 7:45 a. today (1:45 a. m. E.

S. striking into a heavy mist, licade'd for Cartagena, Spain, on the first lap, of a projected traps-Atlantic flight to i Janeiro. Piloting the first-of the planes was General Italo Balbo, Italian air minister and leader of the expedition, which in many ways represents the most ambitious transoceanic flight adventure ey attempted. Fifty-three other men comprised.the officers anii crew of Fascist Air Arma'da. Fayette Man Near Death, Shot Himself Accidentally ernoon from the Wilkes Boulevard Methodist Church.

Burial will be at Columbia. FAVETTE, Dec. 17. (AP) at today heKi little hope for the recovery Of J. Grigler 65, local buyer of walnut logs who accidentally shot him-: self above the heart at 11 a.

m. today while cleaning revolver in the basement of his home here. Kiwanis Erect Crreeting -in Park--Other Organisations Seek to Spread Cheer in, the air--this; Christmas feeling---and St. Nick will be her. day after tomorrow.

One sees confirming evidence of his pending visitr and the mass thought in'Moberly just now seems to.be intent on Just- one thing-making; somebory happy. At entrance of Park the Kiwanis Club has set up an electrically lighted message whicli spreads to; all Moberly visitors anc residents the wish, "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." The Kiwanis Club emblem, 1 surmounted by "the greeting, is bordered by two perfectly matched evergreens, also lighted with Christmas bulbs. Rotary Club also is planning activities to conform to holidays. Elks, Club members are Daunting the club rooms making plans for seeing that nearly a hundred Moberly homes are supplied with a bountiful supply of food for the Christmas -linner food. Clyde Miller of the Recreation Cafe is making.arrangements for his annual for a large number of young folks.

Welfare workers and other organizations are searching out homes that can be brightened. Harry is to act as Santa's guide and sponsor on his visit here Friday afternoon at. 2 o'clock, sends word that 7000 sons welcomed Santa Glaus at Fulton. It took all the police and' part of the Chamber of Commerce to handle the crowd during the parade, he says. 'It is planned to have a band to greet Santa here, pictures will-be taken, and letters-written by Moberly and Randolph County children will be delivered to him in time for him to find out what these children want for Christmas.

SCHMELINa'S'BOSS DECLINES CHALLENGE NEW YORK, Dec. Joe Jacobs, manager of Max Sch- said today that he tot agree now for the German to defend his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Sharkey, as the 3Stew York State Athletic Commis-, sion directed" yesterlay. Jacobs said he was determined to wait until April and then sign Schmeling to meet whatever fighter emerges from the winter's as a logical contender. U.S. ESTIMATES VALUE OF FARM CROPS WASHINGTON, Dec.

17 (A.P.) -The value of the nation's principal farm crops this year -was by the Agriculture ment at $6,274,824,000 compared with 58,675,420,000 year. COMPETITION" CREDITED FOR XrOWER JRtOtDE? PRICE, Dec. ,17 --Increased competition cretl- ited today with causing ail average reduction of 20 cents a barrel in the mill prices of familv patent flour in car lots. Some mills, however, reported. no change in Barrel quotations ranged from.

$5.25 to ALl) JX CLOSE LONDON, Dec. 17 (A.P.)--Ranl- ey Alacbonald's: government escaped defeat by only 6 votes in.the House of Commons tonight. 4 THE WEATHER j. jjf MISSOURI: Fair tonight, except possibly snow flurries in the northwest portion: not quite cold in west and north portions-Thursday unsettled, possibly locaj snows. Weather All points; roads fair, Weather cloudy;.