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Seven Lean Years and Seven Fat Years Bring Emperor of Links to Finish of Journey, and It's a Happy Finish, Says Writer Who Went the BY 0. B. KEELER, Wrillfa or Jitoctalr fnn ATLANTA, Nov. 18 And bo it's "goodbye to all that," for Bobby Jones, and, incidentally, for this correspondent. Bobby's retirement frWcompetitive golf is the end of the trailthe end of a trail that has carried' us together a matter of 120,000 miles; three times to Europe, and across the fields of 27 major championships.

When 3obby told me of his decision, I couldn't say any The eyes that looked down the trail. thing for the moment. I just stuck out my hand, and he shook, perhapsjt bit solemnly. I was happy, in a way, for of course it was the thing to do. And I was well, you don't come to the end of an association of 15 years with the greatest sporting competitor, and the greatest boy, you've ever known, without something that hurts you, a lot.

It was the thing to do, eminently. As Bobby said, whatever he might do, continuing in competition, must be in the nature of an anti climax. He had finished off the "seven fat ysars" of his career with 13 major championships. In the closing year, 1930, he had accomplished the impossible the grand slam of golf by winning all four major titles: Jiad nung an lncomparaDiy Driiuant jnTo tne impres nable quadrilateral Of golf, where his record stands safely entrenched forever. For no one ever will do it again.

In the casual words of an old vaudeville star, "That all there is there isn't any more." But" in the long memories that remain as the glamor fndes, there always will be recollections of the seven lean years; the long pull against fate and fortune and the best golfers in the world, when the greatest golfer of them all played in 11 major championships, and never broke through for a single victory. in some ways, those are the dearest of the "green memo aJL, The form that became unbeatable. ries." Those were the days before we traveled In drawing rooms and private cars; when we were lucky to get lowers and didn't mind if we had uppers; when, in 1921, on the road to the amateur championship at St Louis, two years before Bobby broke through, I sat one night in his lower berth while mine' was being made down, and he said to me: "I wonder if I'll ever win a championship." And I said to Bobby: "Son, you're the greatest golfer in the world, and when you get that conviction into your skull, you'll win, not one, but a lot of them." And Bobby only laughed. But Bobby eventually developed an ambition, which we now can talk about freely and with no special show of mod esty. After he had won the National Open at Inwood in 1923, and followed with the National Amateur in 1924 and 1925.

he said to me one night: "There is one thing I'd like to do, in golf. I'd like to be National champion of the United States six years in succession, either amateur or open. Then I'd be ready to hang up the old clubs, and let them all take a shot at that. But of course it can't be done." And we both laughed, that time. Of course it couldn't be done.

And now well, now he has been National champion of (Continaed eo Page Six) Traders Amazed as Chicago Wheat Sells 20 Cents Above Winnipeg's CHICAGO, Nov. 18 Farm board support continued to bolster the wheat market here today in spite of alarming conditions in ilher world markets and a slump in other grains to new lows. December wheat, receiving the full benefit of the farm boar's support, sold in the local pit for from 73V to 13 cents a bushel while on the Winnipeg exchange it was selling tor around 55 cents a bushel, off more than .7 cents. Without the support of the farm board, the drop in the price of the Whole Route With Him wheat in Winnipeg would undoubtedly have brought a tremendous drop in the price of wheat here. The spectacle of wheat selling in Chicago for nearly 20 cents a bushel more than in Winnipeg was declared to be unprecendented and caused old traders to rub their eyes in amazement and shake their heads with dire All deliveries of corn, except De were down, hitting new lows for the market These grains are not deceiving the support of the farm rjard buying.

mamm, "aw a fee PRINGFIELD AMR Exclusive Dispatches and Features of The Associated Press rl VOL LXIV NO. 227. (2221)' SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1930 16 PAGES. PRICE 3 CENTS Ottmbar at Tha AuackM Prm) HI UJ IE IffiEtW By CTjlTr TUDTC I OIHIl I llllLL II II Missouri Heaviest Loser Un der Reapportionment, Hoover Announces CALIFORNIA GAINS NINE Legislature Will Have to Re district or Let 'Em Run at Large Tft AtitxiaUd PrtH WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 The long awaited conclusions of the census bureau on how representation in the house should be reapportioned among the states, announced today by President Hoover, showed gi is of nine seats for California, fo for' Michigan and three for TeV s.

Tit: report will be transmitted to congress in the imminent short session. It was based on a total population of 122,093,455.. Mitsoari Lea Three Missouri stands tq lose three seats. and Iowa, Xentuck and MPamttylwriia 'rtHi'fwo. New Jersey, New York and Ohio each gain two; while Connnecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Washington add one rtpresen tative apiece.

The following states lose one seat each: Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Da kota. Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota. Tennessee, Vermont Virginia and Wisconsin. With the membership of the house of representatives remaining at 435. there will be a shift of 27 seats in the next congress, with 11 states gaining seats from 21 other states.

The census bureau In determining whether a state would gain, lose or keep its present membership in the house used two methods of statistical determination. The result was the same in each case. Territories Excluded The total population used for the figuring excluded the counts made last April in the district of Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Samoa. Panama Canal rone, Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and also excluded Indians not taxed. The census bureau statement, made public at the White house, was comprised almost entirely of statistics giving each state's popula tion basis of apportionment and the total house representation to which it Is entitled.

Should congress fall to act upon the reapportionment by March 4 next, the law provides that the house will be reapportioned accord ing the tabulation submitted on the census bureau's calculations and remain in effect until some future congress does act. Little National Effect While the reapportionment show ed a gain of 13 votes in the presidential electoral college for two normally republican states Cali fornia and Michigan these votes will come mostly, from other republican states which lose by the reapportionment. The quick summary of the changes on the basis of the normal vote of the state shows the reapportionment to bring about hardly any net change in the republican (Continue! On Page Two) JURY RULES TEACHER MAYDATE' PUPILS ALEDO, Nov. 18 (AP) It is all right for a high school teacher to "date" a pupil, a Jury In Mercer county court decided today. Miss Ella Dewelller, 22, sued (he board of education for $400 in back salary, charging she was dismissed last December because she hsdlcept an engagement with one of her pupils.

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FINDS MOTHER CHOKED BY GAS AT HOME HERE Young Salesman Discovers Parent Near Death in Fume Filled Bedroom and Saves Her Life: Blame Leak' in Stove err Diowtd lying hi bed near death from inhaling1 escaping gas fumes early this morning, Mrs. R. E. Norman, widow abrtut years old, of 427 Hovey street, was recovering this afternoon. Mrs.

Norman was found lying In her bedroom at 7 o'clock this morning by her young son, Tom, salesman at a downtown shoe store, who had been awakened by gas fumes in his bedroom', which is in an other part of the home. Frand by Son The youth's mother arose about 5 o'clock this morning and lighted a small gas stove in her room' and returned to bed. During the recent (Continued On Page Twelve) MAN GETS 50 YEARS FOR STABBING MATE CHICAGO. Nov. 18 (AP) Mich ael Jakublak, 44, who confessed he walked out to meet his wife as she returned from work and stabbed her to death as he kissed her, was sentenced to prison for 50 years today.

He pleaded guilty. Judge Joseph B. David refused to impose the death penalty. He stipulated that each anniversary of the murder Jakublak must spend in solitary confinement. CATHOLIC MEMBERSHIP PLACED AT 341,430,900 VATICAN CITY, Nov, 18 (AP) Statistics complied seml offlclally but considered by the Vatican as substantially correct show that at the end of 1929 Catholics in the world numbered 341,430,900.

Of these 109.097.000 were in North, Central and South America. European Catholics numbered 208,882,000. Call Commission To Probe Cowboy Owens' Story linnUCD nnnilP lr Trail' Fnrl for Rnhfiv 'PFfKIK 1 1 TnumnT lIl'iflQKinfJflPPn I HOOVER GROUP Trail's End for Oobby Jones CENSUS COSTS TONIGHT Caulfield Denies BADLY DIVIDED Oil PROHIBITION Unlikely Wickersham Com mission Will Agree' to Single Report DIFFERENCES ARE DEEP Some Members Deny Body's Hight to Recommend Statute Changes By GEORGE R. HOLMES ISi Oorrrraowfaiil WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 President Hoover's law enforcement commission is 10 divided In it views, on prohibition it li wholly unlikely tt can produce any Yeport which will not be the subject of controversy among its own members, much less the public.

8ince the commission went into retirement some dsys ago to wrestle with its problem til sorts of rumors have flitted about It has been variously imported the commission ultimately would recommend retention ol the eighteenth amendment, that it would endorse modification xrXhM Volstead act up to 4. percent beer, that it would favor a sort of modified Canadian system of control, and that it would propose a national constitutional convention; to solve the liquor problem. Unable to Acre All of these rumors, have been Rented at one stag or another, and seemingly with some Justice. The fact is, according to the most authoritative sources, that the commissioners are so badly split that tney not only cannot agree on what Changes, if any, are to be recommended in existing law, but they cannot agree as to the fundamental tight of the commission to propose any change In any law. Several members take the view Chat It is not within the province of the commission to recommend changes in the laws; that it is the aole duty of the commission to suggest ways and means of securing better enforcement of the laws now existent.

They point to the name of the body itself, as given kt by president Hoover, "the national commission on law observance and enforcement." There is nothing in that title, they say, that suggests ny law revision. Differences Are Deep A majority of the commission, however, does not agree with this view. But even in. the majority that does not agree there is no Unanimity of opinion as to Just how Car the commission may go in proposing modification. (Continued On Page Twelve) Clouds Increasing Increasing cloudiness with pos slbly showers late tonight or Wednesday.

Not much change temperature. Lowest Only .13 of an inch of rain has fallen here In the last 26 days. An average dally potion of one half of rone hundredth vf of an Inch may 'seem dry to some but the cat has gotten a mighty big kick out of it. South "east, winds are padding a little 'shower comes to morrow it won't Onnd nunanyirung. The weather chart shows low pressure over New Mexico and southern Colorado with heavy snow In Utah and zero temperature In Montana.

Snow fell today at Sheridan, Sapid City and Denver. We are likely to wake up in some win weather one of these mornings before the week is out But there is no danger tonight. Otkaf Stall BU IhW Pas liny mviini uu BY GAMBLERS, BJLLYjNSISTS Probe Into One Phase of Boxing 'Racket' Here Gets Well Under Way HOW PROMOTERS WORK Four Way Split of Ring Profits Included Two Sport ing Writers With the arrival of "Cowboy" Billy Owens, negri heavyweight of Guthrie, to tell Ben Harrison, secretary of the state athletic commission, the sensational story of his kidnaping by gangsters on the eve of his fight with Tiger Fox a week ago, the Investigation of one phase of the tming "racket" in Springfield got under way today. Owens, In company with Ed Murphy, registered local promoter, who, armed with a warrant charging obtaining money under false pretenses had gone to get him. arrived in 8pringfleld this morning.

Almost Immediately the negro went into oeWerenoe behind closed doors with' Mr. Harrison and Dan Nee, representing the American Legion. Billy Owens Story To them Owens told his story which he later repeated to a Leader representative. And this is it: Owens, about supper time Monday night a week ago the night of his "runout" went to his room to get bis bag and then was driven li the Yellow Cab company headquarters, 301 West McDaniel street, only a short distance from Convention hall, where the night's boxing card was held. Owens left his car about a block from the cab off ice why, he doesn't say and as he walked to the stand a man whom he knew hailed him from an automobile.

The fighter calls the man by name that of a weU known gangster and racketeer in one of the larger Missouri cities. Owens, in answer to the bail, went over to the automobile. The racketeer said: "Get in a minute, Bill, we want to talk with Offered Bribe te Lay Down got in. "We've got a proposition for you where ou can make some money." the gangster said. "You're In the fight game for the money aren't you?" "Well," Owens replied, "I'm not in it for my health." They then told Owens says, that they had bet a lot of money on Tiger Fox to win ancf that they couldn't lose their bets.

"You lay down to Fox and we give you $250," they said. Owens declares he told them that he would not do It. "No, sir," he said, "I wouldn't do that for a thousand." Finally they raised the amount to 8350 and Owens still refused "Don't be a damn fool, BUI," those in the car said. "It's easy money. You're (Continued on Tage Two) and was later a detective for six years on the staff maintained in Chicago by the Illinois Central railway.

Both as a police chief and railroad detective Dean said that he clashed many times with the Chicago underworld and had many times engaged in running gun battles. Today he exhibited bullet holes In' an old coat he said he used in police service. Many criminals received long prison sentences after, their apprehension at the handsof Dean, he said, and It is believed that the attacks 'are being made upon his home by some recently released convict The attack niade Bunday night again rendered Mrs. Dean unconscious, he said, after the gas was shot through a kitch en window. Dean Fears Gangster After Him, Revealing Hew Attack On Home Voicing the opinion that he had been "put on the spot" by Chicago Roy Dean, former Illinois police chief, today revealed that a second mysterious gas attack was made Sunday night on his home at 871 Prospect avenue.

Early on the night of November 11 Dean notified police that he had found his wife unconscious when a spraying sound and presence of gas fumes in) their bed room awakened The woman recovered under the care Of Dr. Henry Knabb, end the attack was believed to have been made by neighbors with whom the Dean family had bad a quarrel. Was Police Officer After the attack Sunday night Dean disclosed that he once served a two year term a police chlei at Haseicrest, ausura cruet, He's Responsible For Firing Women Sy Aaroriafra1 Prim KANSAS CITY. Nov. 18 Governor Henry 8.

Caulfield, spesklng before the Women's City club here last disclaimed responsibility for the state highway department's action discharging married women employee. "I proudly disclaim responsibility for that action," he said. "I do not believe It was sn action against married women only; it was a move against women." Mentioning the election day kid naping of Rex V. Hedrlck, chairman of the Jackson county election I board, Oovernor Caulfield termed) It "an assault upon the liberties of our people." "The people here should feel outraged." he declared, "and they should never stop until the perpetrators of this crime have been brought to Justice." W.C.T.U.ASKS DRY PLATFORMS, MOVIE CENSORS dent or union as Resolutions Warning Both Parties and Hitting as Film 'Prop aganda' Are Adopted Bu rrir Attwlt Trrw HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 18 Mrs.

Ella A. Boole of Brooklyn, N. was reelected president of the National Women's Christian Temper ance Union in fifty sixth annual I convention here today. It was the sixth time that Mrs. Boole had been chosen.

Two nun jwt rmy HrH and nlnrtv. 1a three ballots of a voting strength of 327 were cast for her. The vote tnen was made unanimous. While the tellers were' counting the ballots for the other offices, the convention adopted a resolution asking Mrs. Boole gress to pass a law for federal censorship of mov ing pictures.

Political Warnings Issued Delegates of democratic and republican party affiliations attending the convention issued manifestos today warning that they would not support any wet political candidate. The democrats demanded additionally that the leaders of the party "exemplify their loyalty to the constitution by writing a dry platform and by nomination of dry candidates." (Continued On Page Six) BEANED BY HIS WIFE, HE SUES FORDIVORCE Charging that his wife became angry and threw a pot of beans at him, Robert C. Allen filed suit today for divorce from May Allen. The husband stated that they were married July 15, 1924, and that on December 15 of the same year his wife threw the jot of beans at him and declared "that the would keep company and go with whom she pleased and that it was not any of the plaintiffs business with whom she went." After that, according to the bUvorce petition, the wife left and has remained away ever alnce. MARRIAGE UCENSES Clarence Chastain, 21, and Bessie Cumper, 21, both of Frank Owens, 48, and Dorothy Simmons, '43, both of 8prlngfieldV Paul Gust In, 22, and Arsella Lin bough, 17, both of Springfield.

Floyd Metcalf, 23 and Lata Oamel, 19, both of Buffalo; married at the court house by the Reverend A. J. MnClung. 'SS'J IS STOLEN AS (REITS AGilllELDUP One Gtrf Forced to Open Sato While Other Compelled to Lie on Floor USE FAMILIAR METH0O Accidental Discharge of Shotgun Adds to Excite ment of Robbery The chalk mark which Introduces "nice people" to the bandit and tramp must have been left upon the door of the Nafslger Baking com. psny plant here November 8 when three young bandits calmly held up the place end walkea off safely with $2000.

Less than two weeks after the first bold robbery, the NaWgerv plant at 712 BoonvtUe avenue was the scene of another Caring holdup at 8:10 o'clock this mernlna. Two unmasked bar its. armed with rhotgunt, invaded the second, story Robberson avenue office of the baking company aad reenacted the earlier holdup UDOn a scale, escaping with between 1200 and 8300. according to F. E.

Holmes, manager of the company, Seem ta Knew Today's robbery came before many office1 employes of tho company re. a vra watavja aV SBllaltaeM IV WI ViKJ bandits with the conditions to be expected Just when the holdup was staged Indicated to some officers that the s. gang which engineer ed the first theft was rested in this one. Miss Ruth Kelly and Miss Pauline Orundburg, employes in the Naf tiger offices, had Just come to work and were the only persons on duty in the second floor of the building when the holdup occurred. A slight, dark complexioned man, between 30 and 35 years old, appeared sud denly In a hallway which leads Into the office from the Robberson svenue stairway.

He wore dark colored glasses, and a sawed off shotgun was In his hands. gllpper Clad Feet Pushing open the wooden gate into the office, the man crept In quietly so quietly that the girls noticed be was wearing some sort of leather bedroom slippers. The first bandit soon was Joined by another, short and stockily built, who stood on guard at the doorway, Miss Kelly was ordered to lie down on the floor, while MIsa Orundburg, who happened to have the keys' to the safe during the other holdup, wis instructed to open the safe. This she did promptly, but she, could not find the key to one drawer of the safe and the bandits became angry. Just then a telephone in an outer office rang, and one of the holdup men cursed violently and shouted a threat that "we'll blow your brains out for sounding that alarm." The girls assured him that it was only the telephone ringing, however, and he seemed satisfied.

Accidentally Fires Gun The shotgun carried by the leader was discharged accidentally into the celling Just as the bandits prepared, to depart 'with their loot. Misa Orundburg was frightened, so badly that she dropped In a heap to the floor. The bandits were hardly less scared by their own noise, for they ran hurriedly from the build ing and down Robberson avenue to their car, which had been parked (Continaed on Back Page) TitOEimaeuB All trurtfjj move, vrtd ctavrvc! Wi cKt bold joy or The. trouble, may tw inej The, CjKdne, of. tomorrow.

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