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and MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT 8 Pages VOLUME 21 ASSOCJATJED i'RKSS LEASED WIRjffi SERVICJB A TONIGHT Weather Forecast Promises Some Kelief From Heat Scorching Mislbnri NO IMMEDIATE Warmer Tomorrow' Is the Word After Slight From Century Mark Mooerly survived "the worst" night of weather in years last night to be given a weather forecaster's promise today that it should be i but somewhat cooler to- today's temperature, reatttrgs make one mighty skeptical. The mercury climbed to the 100-mark yesterday and was back at 98 early this afternoon after falling to a 75 for awhile early today. The opinion appeared to be Unanimous that last night was one of the hottest here in years. Most persons said they were unable to sleep because of the heat which recalled the drought years of 1934 and 1936 when temperature readings of 100 and above were common. MOBERLY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY JULY 8 1939 Three Diys of Acfiviiy Planned For Sale Convention of Rural Thee big dayaof activity are ily vied with Moberly last year planned for the 000 members of in seeking the 1939 convention is the Missouri RUjl Letter Car-1 believed to be working now for AII Arrirr OIL Orr ICE rierfl auxiliary and who to convene here next Thurscy, Friday and Saturday.

The 27th stateconvent.ion of rural carriers, th sixteenth annual convention the auxiliary and the fourth anal convention of the junior assiation promises to be one of i busiest and, for delegates, oncof the most entertaining in yrs. A local housing immittee. has advertised for a7id3 still seeking room for cosntion dele- the 1940 convention. The drum corps is being sent here at Lebanon's expense. Moberly was fortunate in securing the 1939 convention without expense, "said Final plans for the conventio were made Thursday night Mr.

Buchanan and Axe on Major Officeholder and Brother of Mrs. Huey Long gates and visitorstfany'- rooms in private homes be needed. All hotel accommctions have been taken. 'L Girls Drum Corj Coming- W. C.

Buchanan, jeral chairman of the convem, said he was advised yester-- that 35 additional reservatic will be needed, as Lebanon-sending a girls drum corps members to Moberly. Lebanon, which hatemporar- two Randolph county committee who met here. The carriers' com mittee met in- the office of th Moberly Commercial Club, whic is assisting in making convention arrangements- The Auxiliary com mittee met in the Merchants Ho tel, which will be the convention headquarters July 13-14-15. First Session Thursday The opening session of the convention will be held nex Thursday night at the Junior High school auditorium, but the first social activity of the convention will be held Thursday afternoon. There will be a dinnei and a dance Friday night.

Clos(Continued on Page RELIEF PROQM ISCUTIHALF ST. LOUIS July 8 (AP) ---Mis- flour.ians may enjoy a little more sleep tonight, but no permanent break in the season's first major heat wave which took at least three lives was seen today in the weather forecast. Cooler weather is forecast for night, but warmer temperatures in the West Central and Extreme North portions of the state are. forecast for tomorrow. In Kansas City it was 3 degrees cooler this morning than at the some hour there yesterday.

Above 100 Mark Temperatures shot well above the century mark yesterday. Warsaw reported 106 degrees, Kansas City had 105, Poplar Bluff and Lexington had 102, and ChilHcothe, Clinton, Columbia and Kidder reported 100. Rainfall was negligible. Deaths attributed to heat prostration yesterday were those of Walter E. DeWoolfe, 51, of Kansas City, who was overcome on a WPA project, and John T.

Huffman, 66, of Kansas City, stricken after helping a friend digging potatoes at Atherton, Mo. Alfred Langar, 39 St. Louis baker who was overcome by the heat late last night, died today. Showers this afternoon or tonight in South Missouri may bring some relief to that section of the state tomorrow. Wide Area Affected CHICAGO, July 8.

(AP)--A heat wave in which a large part of the nation's population suffered continued today with a death toll ci at least 45. Forecasters, of the i a Weather Bureau said relief in the Allotments Are Trued 50 Per Cent in Attjot to Within Loweirant JEFFERSON CITY, 8. The state's hard presiirecL relief program went onjf rations today. FLIER CONTINUES Missouri and Illinois Officials on Watch for Will- o'-the-Wisp Pilot CHARLESTON, July 8. -A will-o'-the-wisp aviator who left his blonde girl companion be- iiind as he eluded officers seeking THE DISMISSAL Federal Grand Jury Turns Out Indictments in -Probe of WPA Activities BATON ROUGE, July 8 X---GOV, Earl K.

Long- today ordered the dismissal of a major state officeholder; Dr. J. A. Shaw, head of the minerals division of the State Conservation Dr. Shaw, who holds the important job of drawing each month the oil allowable which- sets the amount each well in the state may produce daily, will be succeeded, Long said, by David NUMBER 6 SITE FOR CHARITON COUNTY OIL TEST GOV.

STARK TAKES OVER K.C. POLICE Signs New Police Bill and Four Men to Oversee Department SHOOK IS NAMED BOARD CHAIRMAN The first drilling for oil in the Moberly area is to be made in Chariton County Tuesday on the McConnell, head of the Shreve-j Vance farm near Forest port office of the Conservation Green ajld in sw SW 35-53-18, ac- Department. Long did an-. cordhl to today. The site Unable to maintain iients to question him about ownership to the needy at present i i view of.

a short legislativipro priation, the Social Securi'om mission decided last night rim allotments 50 per cent fort to spread the dwindling ey. Relief expenditures so. year, have been by a special resolution which permitted million dollars a month purpose. However, final appropriation bill wa ed relief had only last 18 months. "This will necessitate a.

ly reduction of direct relief of his small plane was the object of a widespread hunt today in Southern Missouri and Illinois He was flying a silver 'plane bearing- the same identification numbers as one stolen last week at Frankfort, Ind. Officers believed the plane had only enough gasoline to keep it aloft three Meanwhile Gehrken, back at her Vernon, 111., home told of spurnin- the love of the barnstormin -ing pilot with whom she away last Monday, She knew him as Larry Thompson, about 24. The -girl's mother, Mrs. John Gehrke.n. said she and her hus- -J iJAJ, A 1 I 7 ments to the counties band were re file Louis City eg a the per cent," said Social Secu fc nounce the reason for nissal.

McConnell is a brother of Mrs. Huey P. Long, wicjgw the late Senator, and of Gilman McConnell, manager of statehouse here. Earlier this weekV the, governor- used the executive in two directions. He dissolved the state publicity bureau established by his predecessor, Richard W.

Leche, discharging 'five of its em- ployes and placing; five others in other jobs, and announced that a man and his wife: could not both hold state jobs if they drew minimum of $100 per month pay each. Facing Forgery Charge NEW ORLEANS, July 8 2P --Charles A. Byrne, -Orleans Par atU.rney,-. said Dr. James M.

'Smith, jailed ex- president of Louisiana State versity, be-: charged next week with forgery and operating a confidence game. and its owner, J. O. Vance, are shown 1 above. Repairs on a road leading to the site were being completed today.

It was found necessary to strengthen the road when machinery was brought in, but TREASURY AGENTS Commission Chairman icic 1daughter Uook such good care of our Cave. 'He begged me to marry Gehrken related, The relief agency sent its county units that so Vould not do it." as possible all employable Thompson escaped yesterday in sons and families of persons will be removed from for direct relief rolls," thus the cash grants for cases actual need. Gov. Lloyd C. Stark warned a i Instead' of re- recent legislature of the ap ning ther he landed in an proaching relief crisis i Discharged his passen- an appropriation of Vand took Q00 when the final winter or spring to find more; money, but today's decision to spread available funds over the full period indicated the commission would try to stretch its cash 0 last until the next regular session.

DEMAND DEATH FOR DEFEATED LEADER examinations for the op- form of showers or cooling tior Qf 6i wag made talk fi was moving into some Middle West, developed that a special areas but, they said, "warmer to- morrow" was the prospect for even those localities. They foresaw no immediate general relief. Midnig-ht temperatures mdicat-, ed how oppressive was the heat. It was 93 at Phoenix, Tucson reported 88; St. Louis 87; Kansas City, 86; Dallas, 84; Chicago, 81.

The Pacific Northwest was substantially cooler, however, at that hour. Drought in New Mexico entered its fifth "week, with scattered thundershowers offering scant relief. The weather bureau expected some relief today in Iowa, Wisconsin, Lower Michigan, Missouri, and Southern and extreme Eastern Kansas. La Crosse and Madison, Wis. and Minneapolis, en- -joyed a cooling wind last night but the humidity remained high at Milwaukee.

Temperatures in the 90's were common yesterday and the mercury zoomed to 100 or higher at many points. Swim in Streets Two humans and a score of He and two of his assistants were drafting the charges today. U.S. Jury Acts Disclosure that a grand jury has unearthed federal and state law violations in Louisiana sharply emphasized today the turn taken in the investigations set off by a university sca7iclal. Reports of the jury's findings came from District Attorney Rene Viosca after a third arrest in the inquiries originally centering on Louisiana State Uni- versit3''s former president, Dr.

James Monroe Smith, charged with embezzleing school funds, James Marshall, 42-year-old WPA foreman, was arrested last night in Baton Rouge at the request of the WPA several hours Beck, who then took i after George Caldwell, former Qf officers who were wait- a was in the air with a load I passengers when Sheriff Wal- Officers on Trail of Racketeers Through the Income Records KANSAS CITY, July 8, 2P The of the and Pendergast engaged the attention today of Elmer Irey, Washington, D. head of the intelligence unit of the tz-easury department, and his agents here. Irey indicated agents still were on the trail through income records political and gambling racketeers in Kansas City. He named specifically Charles V. Carolla, collector of a gambling syndicate here, a one whose activities will come under furthei government agents.

Irey pointed out. the presence here of "shock troops" of intelligence agents indicated 'the government's continued concentration on Kansas City as a in a nationwide ofensive against racketeering. 4 Plead Guilty To Charges of work progressed well enough today that it was hoped machinery could be set in place in time to beg-in actual drilling- Tuesdaj'. The Buttram Petroleum, Oklahoma City, which holds leases on thousands of acres in' this section, "is sponsoring- the test. Others are planned later in this section.

This picture is from the St. Louis Post- Dispatch. Selling Narcotics JEFFERSON CITY, July --Four six persons, Assistant U. S. District Attorney Schmid said operated a minor narcotic ring out 'of Columbia, pleaded guilty in federal court here today.

Harry Fite entered a -guilty pica to a charge' of selling narcotics and was given a three- year sentence. CHECK STORY OF TORSO SLAYER Cleveland Officers Say Present Confession Will Not Stand in Court Authorities ordered a lie detector test for Frank Dolezal today in Annabell Jacobs, Gleo C. Ja-! an-'-effort--to close some loopholes said the -PERSON CITY, July 8 (AP) joximately 6,500 applications received fo 50 new state patrol trooper jobs auth- the recent legislature university building- superintendent, was seized. Both men, pleading innocent, were charged with diverting WP- A materials and labor to private use. The warrants for the men declare Marshall's alleged offense occurred "about March 1, 193S" and of Caldwell, 29, 1939, There were no details in the charges against, either but court attaches said the one against the 300-pound Caldwell SOVIETS ROUTED cobs and Prosper Wright all Dleaded to charges of sell- ng narcotics and their sentences vere deferred until August 5.

Roy Reese and Floyd L. Hol- pleaded not guilty to narcotic law violations and their trials were set for the October term of the federal court. The six were indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas City June 29. TOKYO, The Jap- MADIR1D, July (AP) The government today demanded the death penalty tor elderly Hrofes- sor Julian Besteiro, last head of the defeated Spanish republic as he went on trial-before-'a military tribunal on charges of "aiding rebellion." The demand was made by the i prosecutor at the close of a hour speech which followed reading of a deposition by Besteiro in which he told of efforts to end the civil' war early this year "to prevent further bloodshed." pU not be given before involved work on his recently 5 j- completed $40,000 home in the Robert thehigh- itaL a-ol- said today the new caldwell's private activities in- not be added until-' fla a i lati la- nn nnn 200,000 wa.s authorized eluded construction of several the legis- bamg and sraall builclmgs at the Govington estate of former Gpv- to pay and ernor W. The lat- anese army in Maneboukuo tonight announced its forces had routed Mogol-Sovfet forces and captured strategic Balshogai Heights along the Kholstein River in a furious dawn battle today on the disputed frontier between Outer Mongolia and Manchoukuo.

The Japanese reported they captured 68 Russians and additional Mongol prisoners and forced enemy to retreat in confusion westward toward the Khalka Riv- Ne Highway 24 Paving: Closed for Completion The new concrete pavement on Highway 24 between Keytesville 'Brunswick, which. wa opened temporarily the Fourth of July to accommodate the holiday traffic, been clsed again in order to complete the construction. The local A. A. A.

offices had not bom notified today when the new section would be finished. The work of grading the clers and painting the center has not yet been finished. Pending completion the present detour will continue to be used. er. A communique also reported a new air battle in which the Japanese downed 25 Soviet airplanes itional men.

ounty fct Halts'-WPA Mo. July 8. -2P- The 69 year old socialist lead- sponsored by Jas- and philosophy teacher was the per and emplO ille about I VV i i i ci.ji-» i i i-v. mules died in Arkansas. The Flor- 5 man whose peace council paved the Wa West Coast had its 16th con- way for the surrender of Mad rid secutive day of rain and children and the collapse of the Spanish S6C WEATHER swam-in the main street of St.

Pet- republic last March ersburg. New England sweltered, the Southwest sizzled and the South had 90 degree heat. An unofficial high of 109 was MISSOURI: Fair and recorded at Altus, Okla. It was 101 Sunday, except thunderstorms at Kokomo, hottest since extreme south portion this after- list, 1937. Kansas Gity report-r on or tonight.

Cooler tonight, 105. It was 101 at Emporia, and in southeast portion Sunday and Springfield, 111. FORMER ST. LOUTSANS HELD "IN. STAYING' LOS ANGELES, July 8.

-Two former St. Louis men, Marvin Michaels and Leo Selvaggi, were held by police today on sus- picion of murder in the Holly wood slaying of Weldon L. Irwin, bookmaker. Ted Lewin, also from St. Louis, and Nathan Blank, were questioned in the case but released yesterday.

Almost immediately they were booked on suspicion of Burglary in a $2500 safe crack- but obtained freedom under habeas corpus writ returnable Warmer in west central and extreme north portions Sunday. For Central Missouri: Fair tonight and Sunday, Cooler tonight. Outlook For Week Weather outlook for week beginning July 10: a coi WPAt ency. The employing about idle today pending Monday between court and district over superintend- shutdo court ordered the era! foi use of the arbitr- of Elmer Trow- and ev- At Cann. John Mc- he had 7 PA director, said i ter has said he paid Caldweir by check and did not know where over Lake Bor without losing a plane.

he obtained his materials or SWANSON FUNERAL bor, 'Caldwell was dismissed from "university, a.fter Governor Earl Long said he had been Friends Aid Boy 'Con' Man Duped KANSAS CITY, July 8 (AP) -A dollar bill, a shiny half-dollar aiid a dime restored the confidence Roy Stevens, 10 year old bootblack in human nature. receiving a two per cent commission on all construction at the school. Marshall was a foreman during the building of the school's agricultural stadium and has been employed by the WPA three years. Roy had learned about the mean Cl Sely uarded a "con" man who duped him of $1.60 a earnings badly needed at home. IN SENATE MONDAY So some of cus- J.IN lYlUINiJAX tomers, mindful of his cheery, faithful service, made up the $1.60 in nig announced confession to the slaying of No.

3 of 12 "torso murder" victims. "We're a long way from case that will stick in court," commented Detective Harry Brown, "We're far from satisfied with his signed confession," supplemented Sheriff Martin O'Donnell. "We; want an air tight story and we're going to question Dolezal on every angle." He quoted Dolezal as saying he hacked off the head of Mrs. Florence Polillo, 42, dismembered her body after a fight over money, and threw the head and limbs into Lake Erie. Dolezal later said he did not throw these parts into the lake, and O'Donnell described this as one of the "lies" he wanted to clear up.

A few hours later O'Donnell announced Dolezal had told him of taking the head to an inland spot and burning it. Taken to the vicinity, Dolezal pointed out the spot. County deputies unearthed several; small bones and one AVhether the bones were human was not immediately ascertainable. Whlie Dolezal told of friendship with two of the other "torso" killing victims, his questioners postponed quizzing him further concerning- them until the story of Mrs. Polillo's death became "satisfactory." The 52-year-old suspect was Three Other Business Men, One a Republican, Chosen: Pledg-e Best Efforts JEFFERSON CITY, July 8.

JP --With a pen stroke Gov. Lloyd C. Stark took over control of Kansas City's police today and "drafted" four Kansas City business and professional men to head the department under state supervision. The governor signed the bill at 12:50 p. weeks to the day after it completed its stormy; trip through the legislature.

Three of the new commissioners were with him and received their commissions nere. The board, however, must be sworn in to'of- fice' at Kansas City. Shook is Cliairman Placed on the board as chairman was Edgar Shook, until today a member of the Kansas City; election board. Shook will serve for four years. The other members, all Kansas City business men, are Russell a Greiner, three years; George Fiske, two years; and M.

Schweiger, one year. Fiske is a Republican, the others Democrats. "You have great opportunity," the Governor said aa ha handed the commissions to Greiner, Fiske and Schweiger. ''i have every confideilce you will forever break the vicious alliance between crime 'and politics in Kansas City." Pledge Shook was unable to be Accepting- his commission for Greiner. told the Governor WASHINGTON, July S.

JP--A would p. Vthe- removals but reasons to discuss his day with conference "Mon; County officials. Children's Visit To End Monday The two weeks' summer holiday of 62 orphans fro the Christian Orphanage St. Louis, visiting 1 in homes in Moberly, Centraha, Mex- i and vicinity, will end Monday afternoon at 1:55 o'clock, flags on all federal building's and state funeral was arranged today for Claude A. Swanson in the Senate chamber where he represented his native Virginia for 23 years before President Roosevelt made him secretary of the navy.

Charles Edison, the assistant secretary of the navy, who automatically became acting secretary yesterday at the death of Swanson, announced that the services would be conducted at 1 p. m. (Eastern Standard Time) Monday. Burial will be in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond; that afternoon. President Roosevelt ordered national mourning and directed that and sent it to him.

The youngster's pert face broke into wide grin. Meeting Called "I desire to pledge ou best efforts in, carrying out your program. We are possessed with the feeling all the good people of Kansas City will' back us in. our efforts to carry on." The Governor appointed Paul G. Koontz, Democratic lawyer, to place on the election board.

used three pens to sign the bill. He presented them to. W. B. Weakley (D) Pike County; representative who authored and piloted the bill through the House; House Speaker Pro Tern, Ed Caldwell (D) Rails County, and to Barton, representative from Montgomery; County and Republican minority leader.

Thus Stark brought to a climax ni long and bitter fight against the forces of BOSS Tom Pendergast--a fight that brought head- shakings of ridicule when it began two years ago. State control of police bill was the outstanding unfinished business of the "Pendergast purge." Still Pending Still pending: in the state supreme court, however, is the administration-directed drive to oust w. W. Graves, indicted Jackson County prosecutor and Sheriff James L. Williams.

Neither case has yet been heard by, the court. Stark tossed his police "bill into a dumfounded legislature last March after a series of rectories over the Pendergast forces--but even then capitol observers gave the measure little hope for life in a general assembly liberally sprinkled with Pendergast friends. 1 In the final showdown the 50 solid-voting Republicans i the House gave Stark his victory. Without their votes the bill would have been defeated, it had a WASHINGTON, July 8. The Works Projects Administra- ess boisterous but equally tion announced today that all Lhr Sh.

Uie before it state administrators had been Ilnall a adopted 26 to 7. "Say, I sure do thank you. Geo, summoned a two-day confer- this is swell! Wait'll I give this to ence at Chicago nexl Wednesday I I mt CJLEABJBD OF FKAUD and Thursday. Confirmed Snook's position as a member of the election board--to which. FJLAG STAFF The flaT WANTON Upper Mississippi and Jbowerj 4 Moberly post- Missouri Valleys--Generally fail 1 moderate temperature'.

first. week: warmer, followed by shower period middle; generally fair and cooler toward close. Lo cal Wea th a ta Maximum temperature yesterday, 100 degrees. Minimum temperature yesterday, 75 degrees. Temperature at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, 98 degrees.

"tSTafWrM na- Swanson, for CJaude of the navy, here this afternf 6 fourth aa.i-. eral, that gen- at haif-staa hould remain the you'ngsters. reiurn to St. Louis ion Wabash train No. 22.

Mr Roy Hampton and Mrs. Forrest Clare.j will accompany the children. The visit of" is an annual project of Women's Council and Sunday School qf the church here. is unusually large and many home necessary to entertain even of the inmates. The two weeks of the visit have been filled with picnics, parties.movies and the pleas- naval craft everywhere, be lowered to half staff.

ure of living in a real home. Claims a---JBecbrd" Gain POPLAR BJLUFF, July Mr. Farley. There is one po-stoffice which has shown a gain in business despite conditions, Dr, Z. Lee Stokely, postmaster at Poplar Bluff, revealed today the local office had an increase of six per cent in business last year, "I doubt," said Stokely, "if It will be A nset Mollday All hojft are urged to have-their you'll find another ppstoffice in morrow.

aalf-staff to- guests at the station here in time for departure Monday. CAPE -GIRARDEAU July 8 (XP) A directed verdict late yesterday freed Sheriff G. D. (Dewey) Miles of Dunklin county of federal charges of selling- crops on which the government had a lien to secure a loan. United States Judge George H.

Moore ruled the indictment against Miles was in error. The acquittal order was not given, however, until after both the government and the defense had rested. Miles contended he ma.de no attempt to defraud the government and testified he paid back the the loan. confirmation was consider- a Sfcark victory in itself since The purpose of the meeting will he was named over the bitter ob- be to go over the new relief actV jectlons of OSS" Tom Pender- The administrators are expected a was confirmed by; to devote considerable discussion th Senate, to the provision requiring WPA workers to put in 130 hotirs month, which has caused wide-j nsas Clt organization Democrats had indicated they would C. Harringlon.f tr Woc the- approval.

works projects commissioner, and A a has ion been active in Howard O. Hunter, deputy com- Amenc an Legion affairs. He is missioner, will attend the meet- mana fi' r- a Kansas City JSlec- spread protest walkouts. A similar conference was trie Company. WOMAIS IS DROWNED IN WASHING MACHINE GERALD, July 8 (AP) When her hand was caught in the morrow evening, wringer Mrs.

Addie A. Gehlauf, 36, fell headlong into her washing ma- held last February when a defic- Greiner is an independent Dem- iency appropriation was enacted ocrat identified as. a bitter, with new WPA regulations opponent of the now-crumbling Pendergast organization and a Koosevelfc On Potomac close friend of the Stark adminia- ANNAPOLIS, July 8 -P-- He is president a President Roosevelt left the kval Kansa City lithographing corn- academy dock aboard the Yacht pany I Potomac this afternoon for a Schweiger of a con- cruise of Chesapeake Bay. He tra cting company, took an active hoped to get in some fishing be- art in the National Youth Move- fore returning to Washington to- rnent which tried unsuccessfully our classification with such an to unseat the Pendergast organi- In the party were Jesse H. zation at the city hall in a muni- Jones, federal loan administrator, cipal election several years chine and was drowned.

and Mrs. Joses, and Stephen T..