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v. Exclusive Dispatches and Features of The Associated Press y0L LXIINQ 339 iVT MISSOURI, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1930 14 PAGES. (UlBba af ImWIK ttmm PRICE 3 CENTS I 0) Creditors of the closed State Savings Trust company will re cctre nothing from the liquidation the company, excepting possibly a very small payment upon pre feifed clalmsT itwaS announced here today following a study of the firm's ondUlon by S. L. Cantley, state finance commissioner.

Mr. Cantley came to Springfield comerrea at lengui wiin omcers and attorneys. In charge of state bank liquidations in this section. He was Informed that the State savings liquidation Is by far the worst problem confronting J. K.

Cahill, regional supervisor of state liquidation work, and that it has proved extremely difficult to make the defunct trust company pay, even the cost of liquidating Its assets: Obligations Pile l'p. Mr. Cahlll declared today that about the only assets of the trust company are supposed equities in real estate, not one piece of which Is free of mortgages and delinquent taxes running' from one to six years. Mortgages on the properties held by the trust company total about $340,000, Mr. Cahill said.

while the "book value" jf the prop ertles Is listed at $102,000 and much of this supposed value has been found to consist of money pa)d out by the company In Inter' est and taxes. ness, while other physicians believed lead poisoning was responsible. Improvement wai.noted.Jn condl tlonj of many 61 lhepallehTsunder observation in hospitals and belief was expressed In medical circles than danger had passed. No new cases had been reported. Frisco Beady To Emerge TJith Rock Island Lines, Kurn Announces MAN SUFFERS AS CAR UPSET Monett Railroader in Critical Condition at Springfield Hospital OTHERS SUFFER HURTS Two Farmer's Injured Here When Auto Is Driven Into Street Car HI" back broken.

Melvin Lane. Frisco railway fireman of Monett, SMASHED BACK today was tn a erltlcal condition St. John's hospital here at the result of an accident seven miles west of Monett yesterday after noon, when his Essex sedan skidded at hlsh speed In loose gravel and turned over twice in a ditch. Two others. Miss Maude Camp tsjbell, sister of Mrs.

Lane, and Camllle Lee Campbell, 5 year old daugnter of Fred Campbell of Monett, are to a hospital at Monett, the child suffering from shock and Miss Camp bell badly injured. The woman tair.cd a fractured. arm, a orushed shoulder and deep cuts about the V.feee when Lane's car lurched int Ui ditch. Ura, Lane and Steele Campbell, TO, her iathsVho also were i.i the machine, were in Jured only slightly. 1 Driving New Car The tragedy came at 1:30 o'clock, aoon after the group had started out from Monett on a Sunday afternoon drive to Rogers, Art, by way of Neosho.

Mr. lack of familiarity with his new car, which recently. his old model Ford, Is believed to have been a contributing factor In the accident. Mr. and Mrs Lane and the Utile guV a niece of Mrs.

Lane, were riding tn the front seat of the car, with Mrs. Lanes father and her aiste In the rear seat. Mr. Camp aald afterward that tane spreo' ed the car up to about 55 miles an hour on a straight stretch of highway. The brakes apparently were applied suddenly as the car lurched In the loose gravel, and it plunged off the highway, rolling over and over In the ditch.

Fear for Recovery Russell's ambulance from Pelrce City took most of the accident victims to Doctor West's hospital at Monett, and Callaway's ambulance from Monett brought Mr. and Mrs. Lane to the hospital. Dr. J.

Ferguson and Dr. J. Russell of Monett examined Mr. Lane there and ordered him brought to St. John's hospital here, where it was feared he has slight chance for recovery, (Continued On Back Page) Mosti? air Forecast for Springfield and Ti elnity: Mostly fair tonight and Taeaday.

Somewhat colder tonight, lowest temperature 7. The weather map shows ery tittle change in the line of march. West winds wlU drive away the clouds and leave the sun In tontrol of the situation for the next day or two. No rain occurred aUanyof the 29 stations on the market page, and only three of the 5 reports received at the weather bureau office show ed measurable ralnfan. A broad Fair stretch of blue sky appeared over the west this morning.

Sunday was an ideal day In the dark highlands. Temperature at Springfield rose to 63 and came within two degree of the high mark at Loa Angeles. Our lowest last night waa but the mercury will be somewhat lower tonight. The coldest weather reported today was 30, tn Saskatchewan and In north era Stlcolsaa. LINDBERGH Scenes at the Llndbergn gilder flight to Los Angeles, 210 miles away, art pictured here.

In the center is the Bowlus glider being catapulted into the air for a trial flight. At the left, Colonel Lindbergh is shown adjusting an aileron, while at the right is Anne Lindbergh a a she watched her famous husband's preparations to ride the air currents for a new distance recor In a motorless plane. The present record 97 miles, held by Erich fcronfleld, of Vienna. KURN DECLARES RISCO'S READY FOR BIG MERGER Consolidation With Rock Island System, as Recom mended by Interstate Commerce Commission, Appears likely ta Be Carried Out Mh Inttrnalitmai Ntu 8m1n ST. LOUIS, March 10 In rnrrinnre with the interstate rom rncommlssion raU consolldam JeBerira lion plan, the St.

Louis San Fran cisco railroad is ready to merge with the Rock Island lines, J. M. Kurn, Frisco president, declared today according to a atory Ui the St. Louis Star. The Frisco and Rock Island are now engaged in working out a merger plan and our directors probably will take up the' matter at the next regular meeting In New York, Aprii 2," Kurn said.

The commission has linked the Frisco and Rock Island as system No. 19 in its general consolidation program. This system would be one of nine major western group and would have headquarters in 8t. Louis. Two other proposed western systems, the Missouri Pacific and Wabash, also would have headquarters here.

Neither of the latter has announced how it stands as to the C. C. program. FAIL TO TRACE POISON IN SAMPLES OF 'JAKE' OKLAHOMA CITY, March 10 Falling to find. any, tracet poison In eight samples of Jamaica ginger, C.

B. Clifford, city chimlst today was Inclined to doubt the theory that use of the ginger as a beverage was responsible for a strange malady which has stricken several hundred Oklahoma citizens. The disease is accompanied paralytic symptoms. Clifford pointed out, however, that his analysis were not conclusive as many more samples remained to be tested. Dr.

D. T. Bowden, director of the state chemical laboratory, reported he had completed testa of two samples of Jamaica ginger without finding any poisonous elements. Dr. Walter H.

Miles, city health director, olung to the opinion Jamaica finger resulted in tha ill ALL SET FOR camp nesr Pebble Beach. as State Savings Will Pay itpm Nothing Belief Official Survey Reveals' Only a Shell, With' Expenses Mountmfl and Eyen Preferred Creditors Unlikely To Regain Anything Greedy Ex Wife Is Trapped With Band Br rrtu i The "easy victim," Theodore i now the sweetheart of one of the) The "easy Theodore now the sweetheart of one of the CHICAGO, March 10 band of extortionists that plied its trade of kidnap and torture from New York to Chicago was believed broken today because of an ex wife's tip that her former husband, a wealthy Insurance company head, would be an "easy 200 MILE GLIDER FLIGHT Colonel Charles A. Llndbereh went forward with hU nlini tn start rHArr Still Notes and insurance charges against the State Savings real estate are maturing every week, according to the liquidating officer, and interest charges amount to approximately $1400 amonth.With no money on hand, and receipts limited to rentals, which are small because of the "rundown condition of the properties and the tincer tainty Tjf tenanry because of flquMhundred and four ijersons were datkm," trust company offers an unusual and extremely difficult problem, Mr. Cahill said. It was agreed at yesterday's conference between.

Mr. Cantley, Mr. Cahill, Phil Bennett, deputy finance commissioner, and attorneys that the liquidation should be hurried to completion 's rapidly as possible. Face Large Losses Unless some revenue Is received from an unexpected source, they said, the State Savings liquidation will be unable to pay any dividends whatever to creditors. An unexpected turn Mn 'the liquidation might mean a small payment upon preferred claims.

Announcement of the trust company's present condition destroys any hope among the firm's Investing patrons that they might collect from the liquidation some of the $72,000 in note payments which the (Continued on Page Two) TALK OF CANDIDATES FOR SANFORD'S PLACE WASHINGTON, March JO (AP) Speculation as to a successor for Justice Sanford of the supreme court is prevalent. Among those mentioned as possibilities are John W. Davis, of West Virginia, democratic presidential nominee in 1924; AttoroeyenejlJMKUj ma Borah, republican. Independent of Idaho: Judge William 8. Kenyon, of the Circuit court and a former republican senator from Iowa, and Calvin Coolldge.

Kopelman, faced a string of prisoners at the county Jail yesterday and positively identified six men as the ones who held him captlte in a lonely lake resort cottage and threatened him with searing Irons until he paid ransom Kopelman then picked out among those rounded up In connection with the gang, his divorced wife, aL a. a. d. 'a. 't'li aai 10U1EET DEATH FiiiE AT W.

BASE Film Celebrating Russo Japanese War Anniversary Bursts fnto Flame and Hundreds of Japanese Are Fa tally tv Tht Auoctaltd rrtu SEOUL, March 10 One killed and more than 100 injured today in a fire which broke out at a motion picture show at the Chlnkal naval base (ln southern Koera. Most of the victims' were Japanese naval men and their wives and children. The show was being held In a warehouse at the naval base. Anniversary Celebration The film burst Into flames during a special motion picture exhibition celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of the battle of Mukden during the Russo Japanese war. The anniversary "was celebrated throughout the empire today.

The film which Ignited and caused the fire waa a patriotic reproduction of scenes in the Russo Japanese conflict About 600 persons were In the building when the film burst Into flames and fired the structure. Children Chief Victims Most of those who perished Were trapped in the building. The blase broke out at o'clock In the afternoon and raged far two hours. The majority of the victims were small children. Flames from the warehouse for a time threatened to spread to a nearby ammunition magazine.

The blue Jacket fire fighters barely managed to prevent this. PRICE AOAIX CCT NEW YORK. March 10 (API The American Smelting and Refining company today reduced the price of lead from. 5.60 to SJO cents a pouid. ring leaders.

In addition to the seven leaders, seven men and another woman are held as witnesses and two more are being sought Patrick Roche, chief investigator for the state's attorney's office, said, the' ring's operations netted a yearly average of $35,000 for each member, while on of the me he NATION READY TO GIVE TAFT FINALHONORS Services Tuesday at Capital Will Be of Impressive Simplicity HOOVER WILL ATTEND Only Chief Executive to Have Resting Place in National Cemetery By Tht Aforiotfd Prt0 WASHINGTON, March 10 The body of William Howard Taft lay today in the still serenity of his home while a great nation prepared to confer upon him' Its highest honors. A profusion of floral tributes crowded the lower chambers of the house of death and testified to the respect and affection of the people for the genial, friendly, man who alone has served In the two highest offices of the government. The quietude of the pleasant old house yon. Wyoming avenue waa un broken eave or the occasional ar rival: of solicitous friends bringing expressions of sympathy to Mra. T.

ft mi At tnn.miriin with tnfuw from the 'great or uus ana other natlona 'V. Servtcee im Be Simple ''From White house to the most far flung outpost of the military and naval services, Hags stood at half staff. Congress met only to adopt resolutions of sorrow and then adjourn as a mark of respect Coolidge to Miss Funeral of Taft March 10 (AP) Calvin Coolldge, now the only living former president," told newspapermen this afternoon: "I do not expect to attend the funeral of former President Taft." Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge returned borne yesterday after a six weeks' trip thai, took them across the country.

for the former president and chief Justice. With impressive services of dignified simplicity, the nation tomorrow will heap Its honors upon the memory of Mr. Taft. For three hours, the body win lie In state beneath the rotunda of the capltol. Funeral services af All Souls' Dnl tarian church, where Mr.

Taft worshipped for many years, and interment in a wooded slope of the Arlington National cemetery will follow. and Lowly to Attend A caisson will bear the body from the Taft home to the capltol, escorted by a squadron of cavalry. The members of the supreme court over (Contlnaed on Page Two) MARRIAGE LICENSES T. B. Wlnburn, 22, Canon City, CoL, and Grace Swearengin, 21, Douglas county.

Archie Gllsson, 21, and Dorothy Smith, 17, both of Springfield. MINERS iILLI LONDON. March 10 Thirty miners were killed 'and eight Injured when an elevator dropped In a shaft of the Crown mine near Johnannes burg. South Africa. of Kidnapers said, had confessed his share last year was $75,000.

He said the operations of the ring were widespread throughout the east. Assistant state's attorney Charles Miller said he would ask the grand Jury to indict the seven leaders, on charges of conspiracy to kidnap for ransom, and. added he would seek tha maximum penalty In this state 4eata in the electric chair. Hoover to Attend Boy Scout Dinner; Speech Broadcast WASHINGTON, March 10 President Hoover will attend a' dinner tonight celebrating the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America because the late William Howard Taft was greatly 1 Interested in the movement. Although the president has canceled all engagements In respect for the former chief Justice, he feels Mr.

Taft would have wanted htm to be present at tonight's dinner. Mr. Hoover does not consider the dinner a social function but one that requires his presence. President Hoover's address will be heard by the entire nation. Both the National broadcasting and the Columbia broadcasting systems will link together the stations of their chains for the talk, starting at p.

m. central time. START CAMPAIGN FOR FilLLIIIGTOtl AS A SCHOOLER 1 sett is With Former Democratic Chairman Reported Considering Running Rumblings of aa Independent re volt against the nomination of Mrs. Harry Bissett to succeed herself as a member of the board of education In the school election April 1 today appeared to be growing The 'persistent rumors appeared likely to take the form of a definite announcement 'within the next few days that a "citizens' commit' tee will place a one man' independent ticket in the school board election field. Asks More Time, Report Selection of M.

T. Fulllngton, for Mner chairman of the Greene county democratic organisation, as the independent candidate was predicted should the "citizens' comnjlttee" movement materialize with the support of P. T. A. and labor union forces.

It is understood that a group of citizens conferred this morning with Mr. Fulllngton, suggesting that he enter the race, but It also was reported that he asked a few days to think it over. Thf Independent revolt, if it cornea, Is certain to be directed primarily against Mrs. Bissett. Before the city democratic committee met at the courthouse last week and nominated Mrs.

Bissett. and Tom Watkins, 8r to succeed themselves at the April election, there had been considerable talk that friends of Mr. Fulllngton would seek Mrs. Blssett's place on the board for him. The meetllng.

of the democratic committee was called suddenly while Mr. Fulllngton was out of the 'city, and this left his supporters in a difficult situation'. After the meeting already had been called, Mr. Fulllngton sent word to party ttwtthex. shoultLnot conr.

sider his name in preparing the party nominations under the democratic republican "gentlemen's agreement" No Display of Discord Some sentiment against Mrs. Bissett developed among the democrats prior to the nominating sessions, but It was smoothed over after Mr. Fullington'i attitude' was revealed and the nominations of Mrs. Bissett and Mr. Watkins were voted with every show of harmony.

There appears no likelihood qf any Independent fight against Mr. Watkins and E. P. Bin man, the other member of the school board whose term expires this spring, and who was nominated by the republican' city committee and endorsed by the democrat to succeed himself. a JUDGE AGREES TO LET BANDIT PLEAD GUILTY i Farmer School TeactierV Sentence 'Unusually Light, Court Comments HE PLANS TO STUDY LAW Will Be Taken to State Pns on This Week to Begin His Sentence Sentence of 12 yean In the state penitentiary was given Leroy Bur former Pennsylvania high school and college professor, for hi part In the robbery of the Bank of Rogersvllle last January, by Judge C.

H. Eklnker at Marshfleld this morning. The Judge accepted the agreement of Prosecuting Attorney Edwin W. Mills of Marshfleld and Gene Q. Dlemer, of Springfield, attorney for the accused man, that punishment be 42 years.

Request of Dlemer that Burdlck be given credit tor the time he has spent In the Webster county Jail waa denied' by Judge Sklnker, who declared the sentence was 'unusu ally light for the crime committed. nana to Stady Law The scholarly bandit confined to Dlemer that be plana to take Ithe 'study of and askea "the (attorney to help hln obtain the taken before the eoorl thta, atominf. Burdick anierod A.tonnaf plea of guilty Several weeks ago the prosecutor agreed to recommend a year term if Burdlck would; plead guilty, thereby avoiding a costly and lengthy trial. Tha. penalty provided'' by law is from It yean' Imprisonment up to death.

In a short plea, Dlemer told. dick's story that he waa forced by R. R. David of Springfield, who was ItinedJir posse several hours after the holdup, to take part in the robbery. The court was told that dick's life was threatened If he refused.

Judge Eklnker, In passing sen tence, urged Burdlck to. forget his troubles and "brace up and be a man. Sheriff J. M. Poyner will take tha prisoner to the penitentiary at Jef, ferson City the latter part of tha? week.

SMITH AND RUDLEY wlrwTH 12 UP.i MIAMI. Florida, March 10 AP) Horton, Smith, Crags tan, N. and Ed Dudley, Wilmington, Del, scored an impressive 12 and 11 vie tory over Leonard Schmutte, Lima, Ohio, and Clarence Hackney, Atlantic City, in the second day of the International four ball tournament. Eleven up at the twenty third hole, the youthful favorites closed out their match on tht twenty fifth green. ROBBERS TAKE COCAINE The drug store at Walnut Grove belonging to Dr.

L. E. MqClure waa burglarized last night, according to report received in the office of tha Greene county sheriff this morning. Nothing waa missed from the store except some cocaine. Tonight Jn Springfield Chamber Caiird AgbtMMWt prf r.M wtfk esatlaaei with ctrta elwt eiaawr at 'tlatk la tb tnlml Aral, 4lnlar rw, Salary.

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