The Iola Register from Iola, Kansas • 1

STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. COMP. TOPEKA. KANS OIM DAILY REG 4 VOLUME XXXIV. No.

202. Sumhmt to Tb. IoU Dtily Rfiitr, Th. lol. Daily Record and Iota Daily Index.

IOLA, TUESDAY EVENINGr JUNE 23, 1931. The Weekly Register, Established 1967 The Iola Daily Register, Established 1897 SIX PAGES Hays Relives Days When It Was Military Outpost WORLD WAITS WHILE FRANCE DRAFTS REPLY IOLA BUSINESS HOUSES WILL BE CLOSED JULY 4 CITY IS FREE FROM BURDEN OF OLD BONDS Curtis, Daddy of the College, Makes Founders Day Address, Tells How Speaker Asked Him How Much Public Land He Wanted to Steal For Your State, likely again to be placed under the burden of long-time bonds of the nature of those retired today. Methods of bond retirement have changed, and each year partial retirement Is made until the entire issue is paid off at the end of a stipulated period, and the burden is not permitted to drag on with only the interest being paid annually. Lower Seen From now on bonds will be paid a3 each installment falls due, and from time to time as the indebtedness shrinks it will be possible to lower the tax levy, as is planned for next year. Last year the 33-year-old water plant bonds were paid off, and now only the regular Installments, on relatively new Improvement bonds, scheduled In advance, remain to be met, with profits from the city utilities practically adequate to meet them.

The ideal of a taxless city seems to be possible of realization. MERCURY AGAIN INTO NINETIES Thermometer in the Court House Soars To 99 At 2:30 P. M. PROFIT TAKING CAUSES STOCKS TO FALL TODAY Uncertainty About Attitude of France on Debts a Factor GRAIN ALSO FALLS Minnesotan Would Have U. S.

Sell meat To Its Debtors New York, June 23. (AP) Prices closed $1 to $3 lower on the New York stock exchange today, reflecting extensive profit taking from the sweeping rise of Monday and last Saturday. Compared with yesterdays violent advance, the leading security markets of the world were quiet. London showed slight advances, while the Berin bourse, was relatively steady and the Paris exchange somewhat irregular. Trading here was largely influenced by realizing sales on the part of traders who wanted to take quick profits on the recent advances.

The decline was broken by a few rallies, one led by the copper issues and another by the oils, but in general prices were drifting lower most of the day. Some unsettlement appeared to have been caused by uncertainty as to what decision the Paris government would make on President Hoovers war debts and reparations proposal. German bonds were reactionary. ijiilitary camps and forts established within the borders of the state in the days when it was given the name "Bleeding Kansas. Originally established as Fort Fletcher in 1865, it was renamed Fort Hays in 1866, and abandoned in 1889.

Curtis Preserved Land Invited to attend a picnic on the 7,600 acre abandoned military reservation, Curtis learned residents of Hays and Ellis county wanted it for school and park purposes. Interested In the proposal, the then congressman intervened with the secretary of the interior and was successful in arranging issuance of an order withdrawing the land from entry and settlement to provide an opportunity for enactment of legislation turning the reservation over to Kansas for college and park purposes. I was a member of the public lands committee of the house, Curtis said, and it had been my intention to ask to be relieved from further service on the committee, but concluded to remain until two measures had been acted upon one the Fee homes bill, the other the Fort Hays measure. After these (Continued on Page 6, Col. 2) Tate And Toolcy Are On Parole From Jail Kansas City, June 23.

(AP) Edward E. Tate and George Tooley, were back home today after serving two weeks of a six months term in Johnson county, Kansas, jail for possessing and transporting liquor which officers said was intended for a fraternity party at Lawrence. Tate and Tooley, University of Kansas students at the time of their arrest last February 2, were paroled yesterday after it was testified that Tooleys father. Dr. George Tooley, sr, had suffered a collapse and his mother had lost 25 pounds over their sons incarceration.

Dr. T. E. Purcell, Kansas City dentist, promised Judge G. A.

Ro-berds, the trial Judge, he would find employment for the young men and would see they did not violate their parole. Counsel for Tate and Tooley said their fines of $300 each as well as the costs of their cases will be paid in a few days. WORLD FLIERS START JOURNEY Post And Gatty Meet Ilil-lig And Iloiriis At Harbor Grace Harbor Grace, N. June 23. (AP) Wiley Post and Harold Gatty of Oklahoma City, Okla, hopped off for Berlin.

Germany, from the flying field here at 4:57 p. Newfoundland daylight time. The fliers took off but a few hours after they had flown here from Roosevelt Field, New York. Their take-off was without event and they soared off ocean-ward with Berlin as their goal. The circumstances surrounding their arrival and take-off made the flight one of the most hasty in the history of transoceanic flights.

German Officialdom Is Marking Time on Reparations Move LONDON CHEERFUL French Cabinet Drafting Message Relative To Hoover Plan i FRANCE FEARS LOSS June 23. (AP) A statement issued by the finance ministry tonight in explanation of the French understanding of the Young plan In relation to President Hoovers war debt proposal, declares that the application of the Hoover proposal would make it difficult to resume the Young plan at the end of a year. The statement says that the Young plan was carefully worked out and is in continuous operation. It is not possible, it adds, to cut out a solid year and then go on without loss. Rome, June 23.

(AP) A note accepting with reservations President Hoovers war debts and reparations suspension plan will be sent to Ambassador De Martini late tomorrow, possibly in time for presentation the same day. Berlin, June 23. (AP) German officialdom declared a one day moratorium from overwork today with the realization that Paris not Berlin or Washington is the hub of the universe In respect to the Hoover debt proposal. The whole world waits for Paris, Mlttagzeitung announced in a banner line. Ambassador Leopold Von Iloe sc h.

who hastened to Paris when Iresl- dent Hoovers proposal regarding inter-government debts was announced, has been in continuous touch with Chancellor Bruening and Foreign Minister Curtius, advising them as to what Germany can do to make Frances acceptance of the plan easier. Until Paris makes her decision the German government is marking time. Paris, June 23. (AP) Not before tomorrow will France write her reply to President Hoovers proposal for a one-year postponement of inter-allied debt and reparation payments. The French cabinet was unable today to reach a decision about the nature of the text, which will be drafted at a special cabinet meeting to be held tomorrow.

It seems clear that France does not wish to be rushed into dealing with the Hoover proposal. While there is no indication that the nation wants to reject the American plan it is apparent that time is desired that the government may reflect upon it and fully understand its effect on the future economic, financial and political situation in Europe. May Have Another Idea. It is even deemed possible that France may have another idea about how the German question should be handled. The cabinet has examined the proposal of Mr.

Hoover, President' of the United States, tending to the deferring of inter-governmental payment of debts and reparations, said an official communique issued by Premier Laval. M. Brland put before the cabinet the conditions under which the French government has been approached with this proposal. Minister of Finance Flandln and Budget Minister Pietri set forth the consequences which the American suggestion would entail for French finance. Reply Tomorrow.

"The discussion will be resumed tomorrow morning during another cabinet meeting which will decide upon the text of the reply to be sent to the President of the United States. By coincidence Premier Laval Just after the close of the cabinet meeting received an important delegation from the International Association for peace based on respect of treaties. Included in the delegation were citizens of France, Poland, Rumania, Czecho-Slovakia and Ju-go-SIavakla. They congratulated the premier on a recent address in which he said that France would insist that treaties be respected. London, June 23.

(AP) Confidence that the interested govem-( Con tinned on Page 6, CoL 3) WEATHER and ROADS FOR KANSAS Mostly fair and continued warm tonight and Wednesday. Temperature Highest yesterday, 94 at 4 p. lowest last night 72 at 6 a. normal for today 76; excess yesterday excess since January 1st, 272 degrees; this date last year highest 93; lowest 69. Precipitation for' the 24 hours ending at 7 a.

m. today total for this year to date 12.86; deficiency since January 1st 2.86 inches. Relative humidity at 12 noon yesterday 48 per cent; 7 a. m. today 77 per cent; barometer reduced to sea level, 9.98 inches.

Sun rises 5:00 a. sets 7:48 p. m. Kansas Weather, Dirt Roads. Topeka, Emporia, Manhattan, Ottawa, Coffeyville, Pittsburgh, clear, roads good.

Salina, Arkansas City and Wichita, clear, roads good, 1 But Shoppers Will Have Opportunity To Trade Friday Evening CELEBRATIONS Holiday Trippers Will Have Long Week End For Visits FIREWORKS WARNING. Chief of Police Thos. I. Christy today issued a warning to the youth of the city against shooting firecrackers or setting off other fireworks within the city limits. He called attention to the general ordinance No.

1084 which says: It shall be unlawful to discharge fireworks, firecrackers or afiy explosives in the city limits Chief Christy, in an effort to obtain reasonable enforcement of the ordinance, today asked all dealers to cooperate with the police department by refraining selling fireworks of all sorts prior to July 1. Already this week youngsters anticipating July 4 have been exploding firecrackers uptown, causing considerable annoyance. The police department hopes to be able to put a stop to this without recourse to stringent methods. Although the' majority of Iola stores will be closed all day the Fourth of July, shoppers in this territory will have ample opportunity to do their buying on Friday, July 3. Stores will remain open in the evening until the regular Saturday closing hours, thus giving townspeople and those from the farm the advantage of night hours for weekend shopping.

Nearly all surrounding towns have announced a complete closing for the Fourth. Patrons, particularly those from the farms, should bear this in mind and do their shopping before the Friday night closing, C. A. Dorsey, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce suggested today. Town residents will confer a favor on both the clerks and themselves by doing their buying during the day, thus helping to reduce the rush at night.

Drug stores will be open the morning of the Fourth and be closed from noon until 5 p. m. Stores included in the all-day closing are all groceries, dry goods, department, clothing, shoe, jewelry and furniture stores. The Kress and Scott stores, lumber yards and machine shops will also be closed. The Register will suspend publication for the day also.

No celebration or program of any sort has been planned for Iola this year. Towns in this vicinity have made no elaborate preparations, although Moran will have an all-day community picnic and ball game in the Moran city park. Shoppers are requested to make especial note of the hours of closing for stores, as there will be no opportunity for trade at any time on Saturday. As the holiday comes on Saturday, holiday trippers will have an extra 24 hours in which to go wherever they decide to go. Late today Secretary Dorsey announced all filling stations would remain open all day, the garages will be closed from noon on.

and barber shops will be closed all day. Stimson To Explain War Debts Position Washington, June 23. (AP) Secretary Stimson plans to broadcast tonight in a joint hookup of both the National and Columbia networks and explanation of the administrations position regarding war debts and reparations. The secretarys statement will include a summary of the critical financial situation in Germany and the reasons behind President Hoovers move for a one year moratorium on government debts. His speech will be for a fifteen minute period, beginning at 10 p.

Eastern standard time. Wales Congratulated. London. June 23. (AP) The Prince of Wales, Englands royal bachelor, awoke today with the realization that he was 37 years old and that the world had beaten a pathway of congratulations to his door.

Thousands of telegrams and messages of felicitation were heaped on the table at York House. Among the first personal greetings he received were from King George and Queen Mary and other members of his immediate family. He treated the anniversary like an ordinary day. Over all the land and to the utmost reaches of the British Eknpire the day was signalized by the flying of flags from government and public buildings. Frank Ryan to Speak Frank J.

Ryan, former secretary of state for Kansas, will address a public meeting here tomorrow at 8 p. m. in the Northrop building in conjunction with the showing of an educational film. Gold Mining in Colorado sponsored by the Tri-States Development 'corporation of Kansas City, Hays. June 23.

(AP) Amidst colorful pageantry viewed by Vice President Curtis, this city relived today the days when Fort Hays was a military outpost on the western Kansas frontier. The occasion was the dedication of the Fort Hays frontier park and the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Fort Hays Kansas state college. Vice President Curtis, who has been called the daddy of the college" because of his efforts in its behalf, was the founders day speaker this morning, and Governor Harry H. Woodring was called upon for the dedicatory address this afternoon at the park celebration. A Frontier Pageant Reminiscent of pioneer days, the program included a military parade and maneuvers, a frontier pageant with Indians from Haskell Institute, cavalry from Fort Riley, and a covered wagon train.

There was also a cowboy roundup and rodeo. Vice President Curtis in his address recalled the part he played as a member of congress nearly a third of a century ago in the establishment of 'the college. Fort Hays, he said, was one of 26 PRAIRIE QUEEN CONTEST OPENS Allen County Leaders To Confer in Humboldt Tonight Arrangements will be made for the Queen of the Prairie contest and the arrival of the Beef Cattle Train tonight at the city hall at Humboldt, according to an announcement today by Dan M. Braum, county farm kgent. The train is sent out through cooperation between the Kansas State college and the Santa Fe railroad.

A tour of ten days will be made during which time 21 counties will be visited. The train will be in Humboldt August 26. In connection with iour, a state Queen of the Prairie contest will be sponsored. Girls living in rural districts are eligible, and seven from each county will be chosen. Qualifications include personality, publicity, scholarship and the writing of an essay.

From the seven selected in each county, one will be chosen at the train to be queen of the county. Each county queen will be awarded, a trip to Emporia to compete in the state contest, and the state queen will receive a prize probably a scholarship to a Kansas college or university. The committee tonight will make plans for the county contest and the reception of the train at Humboldt. L. L.

Longsdorf and J. J. Moxley, Manhattan, are expected to confer with county leaders. New Ideas Needed in Modern Economic Life Hays. June 23 fAP) Characterizing present conditions a panic of plenty, Governor Harry H.

Woodring in an address for delivery this afternoon at the dedication of the Fort Hays frontier park said the old remedies cannot longer be applied and that some-thifig new is needed in our economic life. "The experience and ingenuity of America must inevitably be forged into a weapon of defense against the recurrence of this disastrous panic of plenty. We must plan for a better social and economic life. We can not longer apply the old remedies. We can no longer muddle through.

We must have positive and definite leadership and experiments which have not heretofore been tried. We must find a means of leveling the periods of booming industry and lifting the period of depression to that level. Government and business should act to save its citizens from a disaster such as we have lately experienced. The governor said prosperity would be permanent when the skilled farmer of the Kansas prairies can exchange the product of his labor on an equal basis with the product of the skilled laborer in the factory and not be forced to pay an exorbitant profit to the manufacturer and distributor. Another Tokyo Quake.

Tokyo, June 23 (AP) For the second time in less than a week, Tokyo was shaken for about a minute by an earthquake at 3:15 oclock this afternoon. The shock also was felt along the coast line and in Tochici, Ibaraki, Gumma and Fukushima prefectures. Inhabitants of Tokyo, Mayebashi, Konohama and other cities rushed into the streets, terrified, but there were no indications of damage. Parsons Man Killed. Wichita.

June 23. (AP) Taylor Miles. 35. Parsons, was injured fatally here today when he was thrown to the ground while attempting to board a freight train. He died in a hospital soon after the accident.

Physicians said his skull and one leg were fractured. John Miles, brother of Taylor, said they were en route to the harvest fields in search of work. Commissioners Vote To Retire 5Q-Ycar-OId Railroad Issue DEBT IS SHRINKING Goal of Taxless Municipality Seems To Be In Sight Released finally from the last long-time bond burden placed upon it by the fathers of early days, the city of today was prepared to meet the future with brighter financial prospects than have obtained since the municipality was founded. Thi3 afternoon in meeting the city commissioners voted to pay off a bond issue that was voted 50 years ago, the last old time issue to be retired. Back In July, 1381.

the city council decided to pay $26,500 to induce tb old Fort Scott. Wichita and Western railroad to lay its tracks through Iola Instead of through Humboldt. City warrants In that amount were issued for a year at ten per cent while efforts were being made to seU the bonds. The issue finally was floated at 7 per cent, the 53 five-hundred dollar bonds to mature July 1, 1901. Refunding Bonds Issued On July 1.

1901. when the valuation of the city was only $1,022,491 about one fourth of what it Is today the municipality could not retire the bonds and a refunding issue was sold. The refunding issue, with $500 lopped from the original, was for $26,000 to mature in 30 years, paying 4 per cent interest. The principal of that Issue, after payment of Interest over 50 years totaling $69,095, was paid today. Together with the old railroad bonds $15,070 in internal Improvement bonds, falling due this year, aho was paid.

As provided in the 1931 tax levy a total of $37,921. 63 In bonded Indebtedness will have been paid off by the city at the end of this fiscal year. i No More Refunding if City Clerk T. E. Shanahan Is working on a schedule of bond payments for the future, the policy being to pay off all bonds as they mature and never to Issue another refunding bond series if possible.

Next year the city will pay off $70,065.66 In bonded Indebtedness which, with this years payments will reduce the total bonded indebtedness of the city from as of January 1. 1931, to $290,342.14 at the end of 1932. With slmiliar reductions of the debt, made possible from public utility profits, planned for succeeding years, the time will be not long coming. Mayor A. II.

Hecox said today, when Iola can hope, like to Chanute, to be freed from a municipal tax levy. Mr. IliU Promoter The history of the old bonds which finally were retired today was gleaned by the mayor from the minutes of council meetings of 50 years ago. A Mr. Hill, a promoter of rare ability It appears, was the author of the old Fort Scott, Wichita and Western railroad.

Mr. Hill was a small town merchant In Fort Scott before he became a railroad Mr. Hill would obtain bonds In various communities bidding for the toad, build track until the money gave out and then obtain more bonds. Becomes Gould Line" Eventually the road was extended to St. Louis and for a time was known as the St.

Louis. Fort Scott and Wichita railroad. Long before the turn of the century the road was acquired by Ihe Missouri Pacific and extended to Denver in the days of Jay Gould, when the MOP was known as the Gould line. It was a day of public gouging by the railroads, an art at which Jay Gould was one of the most expert. It was a day of small costs and easy money.

The minutes of the council meeting at which the railroads were voted reveal that the city disbursed the sum of one dollar for four loads of gravel, hauled at a yard a load, purchased for some improvement. The city marshal, W. O. McDonald, received one dollar a day for his labors in behalf of peace and law enforcement. City Hall Rent $3.75 While the council was considers the erection of a new city hall it was meeting In a building for which the municipality paid from its treasury $3.75 a month, which included rent, fuel and light.

Members of the city council whih Issued the bonds were Will Richards, mayor. R. B. Stephenson, city clerk, and Councilmen W. L.

Bartels, S. T. Ellis, Doctor Gillihan and Monroe Goforth. -John A. Christy, was police judge, a fact which may Jbe considered illuminating on the fubject of heredity, as the present chief of police is Thomas I.

Christy. Bartels Becomes Mayor The succeeding administration was composed of W- L. Bartels, mayor, and Councilmen George W. Apple, S. T.

Ellis, H. L. Henderson, W. P. Northrop and W.

H. Rich ards. Present city officials today pointed out that the city was hardly The temperature of 96 degrees registered by the weather bureau thermometer at 3 p. m. today was the highest for any June 23 since the bureau was established in 1905.

according to Meteorologist M. Wright. For the sixth successive day the mercury today soared into the nineties. the kiosk thermometer In the court house park at 2:30 oclock this afternoon registering 99 degrees, the highest yet recorded this Meteorologist M. Wright could see no relief from the heat In store, his forecast today being Mostly fair and continued warm tonight and Wednesday.

Maximum Is 94. The maximum temperature recorded during the past 24 hours by thermometers at the weather bureau, which do not reflect the concentrated heat of the uptown areas as do those In the court house park kiosk, was 94 degrees at 4 p. m. yesterday. The minimum was 72 degrees at 6 a.

m. today. The excess since January 1 was 272 degrees this morning. Despite the heat of the day, excessive for this time of year, the nights have been for the most part livable, with cooling breezes springing up after the earth has lost most of its absorbed 'warmth. Heat Elsewhere.

parts of Kansas, too. are suffering from Intense heat, according to Associated Press reports. At Topeka this afternoon the mercury moved up to 98 degrees, the highest temperature for the year and the highest on record for a June 23. The old Topeka record, 95, was established last year. At Emporia, too, the temperature was 98, the highest of the season for the Lyon county seat.

The heat ripened grain and the harvest was in full swing. The first Lyon county oats threshed 41.8 bushels to the acre. Oklahoma City, June 23. (AP) One death from heat and one serious case of sunstroke were reported in Oklahoma today as temperatures continued their daily rise to levels of a hundred degrees or higher. Oscar Stehr, 20, died near Clinton as a result of collapse from heat while working in a wheat field Saturday.

Martin Blair, 26, gravel company worker, was in a hospital here, suffering from sunstroke. Mine Riots Result In Death of Another Man Arnold City, June 23. (API-One man was killed and four others were wounded, two critically, today in the second fatal battle within two days between deputy sheriffs and striking miners and their sympathizers In the strike-troubled coal fields of southwestern Pennsylvania. Mike Philopovich. 40.

Arnold City storekeeper, was slain as he ran to the porch of his store this morning when deputy sheriffs fired upon a group of pickets at the Arnold City mine of the Pittsburgh Coal company. Witnesses said Philopovich ran out of the store and shouted at the officers that they would break the windows if they continued firing. The shooting was said to have started after a boy had hurled an egg that struck one of the deputies guarding the mine property. The wounded men, John Brown and James Davis, were reported in a serious condition. They were taken to the Charleroi hospital with James Galoavavo and Mike Sovko.

One man was killed and 12 were wounded early yesterday In a battle between strikers and deputy sheriffs at Wildwood. Combine In Glffert Wheat. It was reported today by a Humboldt man at the court house that the first combine to appear in the Allen county wheat harvest this summer entered the fields of A. C. Gifflert.

northwest of Humboldt this morning. The man said he had heard that the Giffert wheat was yielding around 35 bushels to the acre. Allen Countians at K. S. C.

Two students from Allen county are enrolled at Kansas State college for the summer session. The enrollment figure reached 1.053 early this week, the largest number enrolled at the college since 1925 when 1,120 attended summer school. Allen county students are Maxine Fleming and Christine Troutwine, both of Iola. RUBIO KILLERS GO UP TOMORROW Severance To Be Sought In Trial of Oklahoma Deputy Sheriffs Ardmore, June 23. (AP) J.

B. Champion, of counsel for the defense of former deputy sheriffs William E. Guess and Cecil Crosby, charged with murder in the slaying of two Mexican students, said today a severance be requested at the opening of the trial tomorrow. Guess, who accepted full responsibility as the actual slayer of Emilio Cortes Rubio, kinsman of President Ortiz Rubio of Mexico, and Manuel Gomez, will be tried first. Champion said, assuming that the severance will be granted, i Crosby Didnt Shoot.

Crosby, who was with Guess when the youths were killed, testified at the preliminary hearing that he did not shoot. Previously prosecutors had indicated they would seek to try first the murder charge in connection with the death of young Cortes Rubio, since they regard this as the stronger case. Forces of the prosecution, under Marvin Shilling, county attorney, were to confer today in preparation for the trial. They include W. If.

Brown and J. M. Springer, personal representatives of Governor Murray and F. M. Dudley, assistant attorney general, who was expected later in the day.

Says lie Wants Justice. We merely want to see justice done, said M. C. Gonzales, attorney for the Mexican consul general at San Antonio, another member of the prosecution. Consul H.

Valdez, at Oklahoma City, who reported to his embassy that Guess fired without warning and in fear of his life when he believed he faced armed desperadoes, was to arrive late today. Boynton Is Asked For Sunday Law Statement Topeka. June 23. (AP) George L. Adams.

Sedgwick county attorney, has asked Roland Boynton, states attorney general, for the latters opinion as to whether a wide range of business and amusement activities constitute violation of the Kansas Sunday laws. The Sedgwick county attorney, in a letter received today by the attorney general, said the greater Wichita association was presented approximately 100 complaints Involving alleged violations of the statutes. Asserting there was a considerable diversity of opinion among county attorneys as to what particular occupations and businesses constitute violations of the Sunday laws and that it was his view the statutes should be uniformly interpreted throughout the various counties in the state. Adams asked for rulings on the following: Sunday newspapers, cigar stores, drug stores, filling and service stations, confectionery stores, miniature golf courses, municipal golf courses, swimming pools, drive-it-yourself garage systems, barber shops, fruit stands, grocery and meat markets, cleaning and pressing establishments, furniture and baggage moving, sale of dry goods. Attorney General Boynton said he would answer the letter later.

Fire In Topeka. Topeka. June 23. (AP) Fanned W7 a high wind, fire destroyed a vacant two story frame building and damaged two adjoining structures only a few blocks from the main part of the city here today. Early estimates placed the damage at $100,000.

Two firemen. Marion Elliott and James Schrader, were slightly burned when paint in one of the buildings occupied by an auto repair company exploded. Mrs. Ida N. Ayers, who occupied the second floor of one of the buildings, was rescued by firemen.

One of the structures housed a dog and cat hospital but all of the animals were carried to safety. Kansas City, June 23. (AP) Prices of wheat for future delivery declined here today about 1 to 2 cents reflecting the rapid spread of harvest in Kansas and the weakness of securities. July delivery closed at 51 cents here. Sixty cars of new wheat were received with demand only fair and prices showing further losses of 1 to 5 cents.

The sale of new wheat ranged frrm 62 to 63 cents. Washington. June 23. (AP) Suggestion that the United States dispose of its surplus wheat by selling it to debtor countries in return for suspending interest payments on the war debts was made to President Hoover by Representative Andresen, Republican, Minnesota. In an open letter to the President, Andresen proposed that the farm board sell wheat now held by its agencies to Germany, France, England and Italy at the market price and that Interest payments due from these countries during the next fiscal year be suspended for ten years.

Commending the Presidents plan for suspending payment on all intergovernmental debts for one year, the Minnesota representative said the plan should be carried a step further in order to give relief to the American farmer. Washington, June 23. (AP) President Hoover today continued sounding the sentiment of members of congress toward his proposal for a moratorium on inter-governmental debts while awaiting Frances decision as to her attitude on the plan. The White House disclosed that the President is making a systematic attempt to communicate with the members of both houses, using the telephone and telegraph where he cannot obtain personal contact. Replies from Half.

He has asked them if possible to give him their reaction and it was said over 50 per cent of the members have replied. The attitude of many of the leaders has been described as favorable. Congressional approval Is necessary. The French cabinet today postponed action on the plan until tomorrow. From Belgium, which has asked an Interpretation of important creditor powers as referred to by the President, came the suggestion that there might be a conference of interested powers on the proposal.

After Wade Com mins. Excelsior Springs. June 23. (AP) Wade Commlns. about 45, a patient at the United States veterans hospital was arrested today upon request of Sheriff Newt Purcell, of ElDorado, who charges him with the robbery of an Augusta, bank May 24.

The arrest was made at the government institution by Deputy Sheriff Joe Brock upon information from the Kansas officer that he held a warrant for Commins charging robbery. Commins was admitted to the hospital from Wichita. Kan, June 4. Brock said the accused man informed him he would waive extradition and return to Kansas voluntarily to face the charge against him there. Used Two Spotted Cubes Evanston, 111..

June 23. (AP) Dice rolling has gone Intelligentsia. The employment office of Northwestern University, in publicizing today the method of students working their way, cited: One student used two spotted cubes, which when shaken and tossed upon a flat surface cause money to change hands. Another male earned his way as a nursemaid. Bankers Sentenced New York, June 23.

(AP) Bernard K. Marcus, president of the closed bank of United States and Saul Singer, executive vice president, were sentenced today to three to six years in state prison following their conviction on a charge of misapplying the banks funds. Herbert Singer, son of Saul, was given an indeterminate sentence. Harbor Grace, N. June 23.

(AP) Wiley Post and Harold Gatty landed their plane on the flying field here today, ate a hasty lunch and immediately prepared to hop off this afternoon for Berlin, Germany. They left Roosevelt Field, New York, at 3:56:10 a. m. Eastern standard time and landed here at 1:17 p. Newfoundland daylight time.

The fliers who plan to fly around the world with their first stop in the German capital, joined two other fliers who are contemplating the long flight across the Atlantic, Otto Hillig and Holger Iloiriis. Hillig and Iloiriis have their plane fueled and are awaiting weather reports before taking off for Denmark, but the impatient new arrivals said they were in such a hurry to get off for Berlin they did not have time to pose for photographers. The Oklahomans, Post and Gatty, swooped their plane "Winnie Mae down onto the field seven hours after they left New York. They climbed out hastily, sought the executives of the flying field and asked that they be given immediate aid in fueling their plane. Both then turned their attention to what they hoped would be their last meal of the day on North American soil, and then hastened back to the airdrome to tune up the motors of their plane.

New York, June 23. (AP) X-ray pictures today revealed that two vertebrae of Ruth Nichols spine were cracked when she crashed yesterday at St. John, N. B. Her doctor reported by telephone, however, that while the injury was painful it was in no way serious as the cracked vertebrae were not dislocated and would mend easily and quickly.

Despite Miss Nichols assertion she Intended to continue plans to fly the Atlantic, mechanics said her plane appeared to be definitely out of commission. Curtis Is Grateful To People of Kansas Hays, Kan, June 23. (AP) Vice-president Curtis is "deeply grateful to the people of his native state, Kansas, for the honors bestowed upon him in nearly half a century of political activity. The people of Shawnee county, he said today in an address at the Fort Hays Kansas State College 30th anniversary celebration, elected me as their county attorney, the first native bom of the county to be elected to a county office. Then the people of the old fourth district sent me to congress, giving me the honor of being the first native born Kansan elected to congress; a little later the people of the state elected me the first native born to the United States senate, and in 1928 I was the first native born Kansan to be elected to the vice-presidency of the greatest nation in the world and I am deeply grateful to the people of my native state for having helped me secure these great honors.

And now the vice-president by his own admission, is undecided whether he will seek nomination for another term or his old seat in the senate. Die in Explosion Ware ham, Doreset, Eng, June 23. (AP) Three persons are known to have beenjdlled and eight others. It is believed practically certain, were blown to pieces, as the result of an explosion which wiped out several buildings of the naval cordite factory at Walton Heath today. Nineteen persons were injured, most of them not critically.

The explosion which shook the country for miles around, destroyed the washing house, distributing house and paste mixing room of the extensive plant. JF.