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KANSAS CITY. DECEMBER 2. PAGES. PRICE: In Elsewhere.5 Cents HIGHEST LIVING IN HISTORY HOOVER'S ANNUAL SHOWS CONTINUATION OF PROSPERITY. Some Farm Depression and BackwardDeNN in Individual Lines of Industry Are the Only Marring Events of the Year.

Since 1889 the per capita output of America has increased 55 per cent. Prosperity characteristic of America the last six years was maintained, marred only some continuing depression for agriculture and some backwardness in individual lines of industry. ton Increase in production had most do with a "corresponding advance in standards of living." With proper effort on the part of American business men "we shall be able to maintain our share of the steadily expanding world commerce." -From the annual report of Secretary Hoover and his aids. perity," Mr. Hoover added.

TRIBUTE TO RAILROAD MEN. (By the Assoctated Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. progress in 1927 brought Americans to the highest material living standard this country or any other country had ever known, Secretary Hoover declared today in his annual report to the President. A situation of prosperity which he said "has been characteristic of American industry six years," was porn maintained, marred only by some continuing depression for agriculture and some backwardness in individual lines of industry. Mr.

Hoover's statistics showed a steady level of wholesale prices, declining slightly in recent months; a maintenance of relatively large building construction programs; an increase in the expedition of railroad transportation along with a bettered service to users; and a year of "sound but uneventful growth" in the banking field. CAPITAL ABROAD NEAR 2 BILLION. Foreign underwriting by Americans in the fiscal year exceeded that of any corresponding period in the history of the United States, the report said. Foreign capital securities privately taken, plus direct new investments abroad probably increased the total to 1,350 million dolJars for the year. Financial reconstruction abroad continued on the whole to be encouraging.

"The value of American exports during the fiscal year 1926-27 was greater than that of any other fiscal year since 1920- 21, and when account is taken of the much lower price level, as compared with the war years' trade, was the largest in our history," Mr. Hoover continued. "The value of imports was about 5 per cent less in the last fiscal year, but here again a fall in prices occurred after allowing for which there is a quantitive New construction undertaken in 1927, value, "amounting constituted to some a 7 powerful billion dollars factor in maintaining business activity and pros- He paid high tribute to the management of American railroads, asserting that "the continued advance in the efficiency of the railways which has been going on since the war" had "reacted favorably upon the entire economic structure." The rapidity of freight transportation in the United States has increased since 1919 by 30 or 40 per cent. In seeking out the causes of the material prosperity Mr. Hoover described, E.

Dana Durand, of the department's bureau of statistical research, laid down the proposition that "extraordinary increase in the production of American industry in recent years" had most to do with a "corresponding advance in the standards of living." "Between 1899 and 1925 the output of agricultural products increased about per cent," Dr. Durand said, "that of mining about 248 per cent, and that of manufactures about 178 per cent, while the volume of railway service increased by 199 per cent. Meanwhile population had grown only about 55 per cent, so that per capita output rose also by about 55 per cent." INTO NON- PRODUCTIVE OCCUPATIONS. "Even that comparison," it was added. "failed to measure fully the progress in production, since larger proportions of the country's population in recent years have engaged in professional, mercantile, and service occupations, rather than in actual production.

"The true causes of the prosperity and economic progress of the country are not difficult to discern," Dr. Durand continued. "At the foundation lie the rich resources of the country, taxed by an excessive population the mold energy, Intelligence and attitude toward work of the producing population. "In our earlier days, advance was in considerable measure attributable to the opening of new resources, but in the last quarter century this has not been a major influence. The principal factors in the recent increase in productivity are what may be called human as distinguished from natural factors.

One of the most profound modern tendencies is the swiftly expanding use of electric current." KLEIN SEES EXPANDING MARKETS. For the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, Dr. Julius Klein, its chief, pointed out that American foreign trade today represented 16 per cent of the world's total commerce, whereas in 1913 it represented only 11 per cent. He predicted that "manufactured goods will continue to gain in relative importance in our export trade," while the growth of population at home will "continue to call for the consumption of a larger and larger proportion of foodstuffs and raw He foresaw vigorous competition for materials produced by our farms." on foreign trade in the future, but predicted that with proper effort on the part of American business men, "we shall be able to maintain our share of the steadily expanding world commerce." A TOWN SELLS JAIL AS JUNK. The Transaction Leaves Clinton, Without a City Prison.

CLINTON, Dec. is now without a city jail. The jai! has not been used for time and the city council has sold it to the Cohen Junk Company of this place. The wooden building adjoining the jail will be used to store the street sweeper. Don't miss the Business Professional Women's Bazaar, Dec.

3rd, Levit2Lyle. -Ady. NEW FORD ON EXHIBIT TODAY. The Display Will Be at Convention Hall and in Kansas City, Kansas. The new Ford motor car will be exhibited today and tomorrow in Convention hall.

Doors will be opened at 10 o'clock this morning and closed at midnight.lers of Kansas City will provide 100 salesmen to explain the car and take plays. The not be operated; orders in the arena, while an orchestra they merely will be displayed and lectured about. Motion pictures of the car in operation and of the Ford plant at Detroit will be shown. The car will not be exhibited Sunday. Beginning Monday it will be exhibited in Kansas City at 2421 McGee trafficway.

After a week of exhibition there, dealers will be supplied and each will conduct his own exhibit. Exhibits today will be only at Convention hall and 744 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Dealers will have only pictures for exhibition. COMBS SEES TWO BIG ISSUES. A Place on Rivers and Harbors Committee Sought by Kansas Citian.

WASHINGTON BUREAU THE KANSAS CITY STAR 610 ALBEE BUILDING (By The Star's Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 1-Tax reduction and waterway legislation will be the most important subjects to come before congress this winter, in the opinion of George H. Combs, new representative from Kansas City, who arrived in Washington today. Mr. Combs will make an effort to obtain a place on the rivers and harbors committee, although he recognizes the difficulties in the way of a new member and a Democrat obtaining such recognition.

He has taken offices at the capitol and will confer tomorrow with Democratic leaders regarding committee assignments and the legislative program for the forthcoming session. NO CLEW IN ROTHMAN SLAYING. McKee and Frank Wilson Still Helen. Held In Bootlegger's Death. Detectives last night said they were without a clew in the slaying of Harry Rothman, bootlegger, who lived at the Commonwealth hotel.

Rothman's body was found on a road with federal highway No. 71, nine miles north of Kansas City, early yesterday. Helen McKee and Frank Wilson, arrested yesterday, still are held. In Rothman's room, which had been occupied by Helen McKee also until they quarreled Thanksgiving day, detectives found three dresses, identified as having been stolen November 23 from the I. Rubins women's tailor shop, 1112 Baltimore avenue.

STILL GET RADIO SQUEALS. Some Believe Latest Wave Allocation Does Little Good. The long looked for adjustment of radio broadcast waves, with the expectation that it would eliminate the heterodyne whistle that results when two stations are working on the same wave length, failed to perform last night, several observers reported. Some noticed that the squeal was less noticeable than previously, however. The federal radio commission really located the waves lengths of big broadcasting stations, expecting that the separation of stations to different wave lengths would clear the air of whistles.

However, it was reported, the whistle still lived when stations two or three meters apart were on the air. TO PROBE AUDITORIUM NEED. Judge McElroy Names a CommitteeBuilding May Be a Bond Item. The city's need for a municipal auditorium, a fund which may be included in the proposed bond issue be submitted early in the spring, is to be investigated by a committee named late yesterday by H. F.

McElroy, city manager. The committee: Cusil Lechtman, chair- Fred M. Lee. man, Frank J. Dean, Samuel J.

Whitmore, A. P. Rothschild. Joseph M. Robinson.

Judge McElroy stated in his letter to the committee he had nothing in particular to suggest, except that he believed the city plan commission should be consulted on the location. A DINNER BY THE COOLIDGES. The White House Social Season Opens With the Event. (By the Assoctated Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. traditional formality, the White House winter social season was opened tonight when Prestdent and Mrs.

Coolidge entertained at dinner for members of the cabinet and their wives and Vice-President and Mrs. Dawes. "DANNY" SHAY IS DEAD. A Bullet Wound in the Head Is Fatal to Ex-Pilot of the Blues. Daniel C.

Shay, former manager of the Kansas City Blues and a veteran sportsman, died late yesterday at the General hospital of a bullet wound in the head. He was found shot Wednesday night in his room at the Majestic hotel, 1217 Baltimore avenue. It is believed he shot himself. Shay leaves a daughter, Miss Florence Havana, Cuba; a son, Daniel C. Shay, Oklahoma, a civil engineer, and two sisters, Miss Sadie Shea, 906 East Thirtieth street, and Mrs.

Bedelia Armstrong, Detroit. Miss Sadie Shea said her brother's name properly was Shea, but he chose to spell it Shay. Funeral services will be at the Sheehan chapel at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning and at the Cathedral at 9 o'clock. Burial will be in Mt. St.

Mary's cemetery. Invites Coolidge to California. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. -Raymond Benjamin, lawyer and Republican leader here, revealed today he recently had invited President Coolidge to California for his 1928 vacation, and said the invitation had been "well received." Let it snow -bolster yourself with Delicious, Steaming Pickwick Coffee.Get your Want Ad in all editions of The Sunday Star by sending it in before 9 p. m.

today. Drop ads in want ad boxes or phone HArrison 1200 and ask for an ad taker. DETROIT SETS THE PACE ALTHOUGH THAT CITY'S CHANCES BOOM, KANSAS CITY GETS A BOOST. Charles D. Hilles, New York Committeeman, Favors the Convention Missouri if San Francisco Doesn't Get It.

WASHINGTON BUREAU THE KANSAS CITY STAR 610 ALBEE BUILDING (By The Star's Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Dec. Republican presidential and convention city politics seething today with arrival of several important committeemen, Detroit surged to the front in the speculation as to the probable winner of the convention city fight. For Kansas City, however, came an unexpected boost when Charles D. Hilles, committeeman from New York, upon his arrival made known that if San Francisco did not land the convention he would favor Kansas City. Western Republicans had crossed the continent nine times to attend conventions since one had been held across the Mississippi, he said.

Expressing the hope San Francisco would win, although nearly everyone else believes its chances have gone glimmering, Mr. Hilles predicted western G. O. P. committeemen and women would unite upon Kansas City if the committee did not choose San Francisco.

SOME SAY DETROIT IS "SLATED." However, the "tip" was being passed assiduously about that the powers that be in the Republican councils had talked the situation over, and while they were not closing it finally, they would recommend Detroit to the incoming committeemen who had not made up their minds. Flat assertions came from several prominent Republicans that Detroit was on the "slate." One story was that several leaders had decided it was unwise to take the convention more than a night's ride from Washington because congress would be in session right up to the convention. That would mean Detroit, Cleveland or Chicago. But whether the majority of the committee will find this a valid argument next week remains to be seen. Presidential politics vie with gossip over the convention city.

Of the ten or twelve committeemen here, about half are for Secretary Herbert Hoover, if President Coolidge is eliminated. So naturally Hoover's chances predominated in the talk. In fact, there was surprise here over some of the committeemen who are lining up for Hoover, as they generally had been counted otherwise. Most of them will wait until after the Republican national committee sessions before making public commitments. But Clarence C.

Hamlin of Colorado is one committeeman who makes no secret of his purpose to support Secretary Hoover. HILLES BOOMS HUGHES. Mr. Hilles brought from New York today, not only the plea for- San Francisco first, and, as a second choice. Kansas City, but the Hughes boom as well.

He said candidly Mr. Hughes felt that Mr. Coolidge should be nominated and favored the President. But Mr. Hilles added the New York delegation to the convention would be for Hughes and predicted other states would support him.

Reiteration by Vice-President Dawes at the White House today that he was not a candidate and his declaration for his friend, former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, was to be expected. The vice-president will continue to play that role up to the convention. But politicians take it with many grains of salt. They assert there is as much work being done in Mr.

Dawes's behalf right now-under cover--as there is for Hoover or Lowden or Curtis. Mr. Hilles, for instance, who is boosting Mr. Hughes so lustily, is said to be "on Dawes" as a second choice. Eastern banking interests are believed to be extremely busy for the vice-president.

A TITANIC "VICTIM" APPEARS. English Woman Tells Little of Life Since the Wreck of the Vessel. (By the Associated Press.) COALVILLE, LEICESTERSHIRE. ENGLAND, Dec. for nearly sixteen years as a victim of the Titanic disaster, Mrs.

Robertson walked into her home at this place recently and nearly frightened her elderly mother to death. When she left Coalville she was Miss Wilkinson. She had booked passage on the Titanic, but a. the last minute changed her plans. About her mysterious doings in the long interval, in which her father and four brothers and sisters died, she would say little.

She explained that she had married and done war work in Germany and had been captured by the Germans. The steamship. Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in April, 1912, struck an iceberg off Newfoundland and foundered. More than 1,500 persons perished. DOTY TO BE RELEASED TODAY.

The Commanding Officer of American Announces the Discharge. (By the Associated Press.) PARIS, Dec. J. Doty, American soldier, who went back to Morocco recently to serve the unexpired term of his enlistment in the French foreign legion, after having been released from prison, will be mustered cut tomorrow. Doty's commanding officer sent a message announcing this to the Associated Press tonight from Sidi-Bel-Abbes, Algeria, where Doty is stationed.

The legionnaire will be given his liberty at Oran, and will embark Saturday for Marseilles. TO DISCUSS CEMETERY CONTROL The Next Step to Get City Supervision to Be Taken Up Monday. The board of control of the Union Cemetery Lot Owners' Association will meet at 2 o'clock Monday at 901 Continental building. Henry S. Conrad, attorney, said the board would discuss the next step towards getting the city to assume control of the cemetery.

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Int. Citizens Loan Inv. 10th McGee.Adv. THE WEATHER--SLIGHTLY COLDER. Kansas City--Partly cloudy with temperatures ranging from about 26 this morning upper 30s in afternoon.

The thermometer readings yesterday: p. m. 8 p. 40 p. 43 9 p.

39 m. 44 10 p. m. 45 11 p. p.

m. 44 12 midnight p. m. 42 1 a. p.

m. 41. 2 a. A year ago yesterday: High, 43: low, 25. Precipitation in 12 hours ending 1 p.

0. Highest wind velocity yesterday, 20 miles: south. River stage, 7 a. m. yesterday, 4.0 feet; fall of .3 foot.

7 a. m. Noon 7 p. m. Dry thermometer .27.3 39.4 40.6 Wet thermometer .23.5 31.4 32.5 Relative humidity, per 37 38 THE ALMANAC.

Sun .2:04 a. m. Sun Moon p. 8. m.

m. rises. p. m. phase, full moon December 8.

INSULL IS READY TO ANSWER. Chicago Hears Prosecation In Campaign Fund Case May Be Dropped. CHICAGO, Dec. Insull, public utility magnate, and Daniel J. Schuyler, his attorney, may escape the prosecution for contempt that has been hanging over their heads ever since they refused to tell the names of all the men to whom campaign contributions were paid in the primaries of 1926.

In connection on with the presence in Chicago of Senator James A. Reed, chairman of the senate campaign fund investigating committee, it was disclosed that Mr. Insull and his counsel have made a written offer to come in and answer the questions to which they refused to reply last winter. Whether this means that the threat of contempt proceedings will be dropped is not certain. It is said on good authority that no agreement to that effect has been made.

If their offer is accepted there probably can be no prosecution. But they have not even been given assurances that they may have another chance to testify, it is said. This development puts on an entirely new footing the whole matter of the election of Frank L. Smith as United States senator from Illinois, which is expected to occupy the center of the stage when the seventieth congress convenes on Monday. (By The Star's Leased Wire Service.) A NEW APARTMENT TO KANSAN.

J. North Mehornay Sells Property at 12th and Penn to J. C. Killarney, An apartment building of eighty-two furnished suites, completed six weeks ago North Mehornay at the northeast corner of Twelfth Penn streets, was bought from Mr. Mehornay yesterday by J.

C. Killarney of Atchison, on a valuation of $265,000. As part of that consideration Mr. Mehornay was deeded two 6-apartment flats at 1325-31 East Thirteenth street. The broker in the purchase was George W.

Tracy, with the F. C. Sharon Real Estate Company. TO PROTEST CODE CHANGE. Building Regulations Should Be Tried.

C. of C. Committee Believes. The building code committee of the Chamber of Commerce will appear before the public improvements committee of the council today to protest against amending the code. That action was decided on yesterday at a meeting of the committee at the Kansas City Athletic Club.

The meeting was executive. At the conclusion, Frank Furgason, chairman. said the committee believed the building code should be given a fair trial before amended. "We spent virtually seven years in trying to draft a modern code." he declared. "It was modified and remodified and finally adopted.

It has been in force about eight months and along comes someone with amendments. We feel it should be given a fair trial." Others who attended the meeting: A. C. Everham. Merle E.

Grant, F. J. Fetter, Hermann C. Henrici, H. A.

Fitch. A. S. Keene. George H.

Gorton, Mr. Furgason. WED SEVEN TIMES IN 20 FEARS. Four Husbands of Pennsylvania Woman, 38, Die Accidentally, (By the Associated Press.) YORK, Dec. husbands in twenty years is the record of Mrs.

R. C. Chronister, 38. who recently was married for the seventh time. Four of her former husbands were killed accidentally, one died and she was separated from the other by the divorce court.

COLDER WEATHER IS LIKELY. A Slight Drop Forecast by P. ConnorIn the Upper 30s This Afternoon, Slightly colder and partly cloudy weather is in store for this vicinity today, P. Connor believes The wind is expected to change to the North this morning, sending the mercury down to around 26 degrees. Temperatures a this afternoon are likely to be in the upper 30s, he believes.

YES, MICE DO CAUSE FIRES. At Least, That is Department's Report Despite the National Board. A mouse, or mice, according to the report of the Kansas City fire department yesterday, put one over on the National Board of Fire Underwriters. That organization, after a research of fifteen years, determined that mice and matches were not a combustible combination; that the two would not start fires. But the fire department report stated mice and matches caused a fire yesterday in the 1-story frame dwelling of A.

Miller, 4226 Holmes street, causing damage estimated at $525. A 43D BUS REPORT TODAY. The Result of the Sarvey Should Be Ready nt Noon, Buffe Says. The resuit of the survey for the bus line requested on East Forty-third street should be compiled at noon today, F. G.

Buffe, vice-president of the Kansas City Public Service Company, declared last night. Join Pioneer's Christmas Savings club for 1928, starting now, 1014 Baltimore.Adv. Kansas City's biggest bargain opportunities are always advertised in The Star. Here are some examples from last night's coats for $58- Christmas cards at shirts for hats for $1.66. HERBERTS.

HADLEY IS DEAD ILLNESS, FORMER FATAL MISSOURI TO EDUCATOR GOVERNOR. AND One of the State's Most Popular POlitical Figures, Health Forced His Washington Since 1923, ST. LOUIS, Dec. Herbert S. Hadley, chancellor of Washington university, died at his home here at 7:15 o'clock tonight after a prolonged illness.

Hadley, well known in national educational circles, and fields of law and politics, suffered a breakdown in August, but recovered in September and was removed from a hospital to his home. When Rebstock Hall, the new building for the department of biology at Washington university was dedicated, Chancellor Hadley had been announced as the principal speaker, but he suffered a relapse a day before and could not be present. Mr. Hadley fought illness even while he was governor of Missouri and after his first term moved to Colorado in the hope of recovering. He had fully regained his strength when appointed chancellor of the university.

He was 55 years old. MARRIED KANSAS CITY GIRL. Mr. Hadley is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Agnes Lee of Kansas City whom he married in 1901, and two sons and a daughter. The sons are John Hadley, a lawyer, with offices in the National Bank of Commerce building: Herbert S.

Hadley, a student in the University of Kansas, and Miss Henrietta Hadley, a teacher. Mrs. Henrietta Lyman, widow of John W. Lyman, 3312 Holmes street is a sister. Mrs.

Hadley and John Hadley, the elder son, were with the chancellor at his death. They said he apparently was much better this morning and his condition was reassuring. Early tonight he weakened visibly and a physician was called. The end came quietly. Members of the university corporation called tonight to pay their respects, as did Dr.

George R. Throop, who was recently appointed acting chancellor. Funeral services will be at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon in Graham Memorial chapel at the university. Classes at the university will be dismissed and the university flags will be at half staff. Burial will be in a vault at Bellefontaine cemetery, pending decision as to a permanent resting place.

TOLD BEACH HE EXPECTED TO DIE. (By the Associated Press.) ST. LoUIs, Dec. Chancellor Hadley did not expect to recover from his illness was indicated by a remark he made while talking to Mayor Beach of Kansas City. Beach and Hadley were cousins and spent their boyhood together.

When Beach sat down by his bedside, Hadley turned upon his pillow and said: "Bud I am going to die, but I am going to fight right up to the shore." "Oh you'll pull through, I'm sure," Beach told him. "I saw you in worse condition than this out in Colorado." "I know," replied Hadley, "but this is different." Mrs. Lyman and Herbert S. Hadley, left for St. Louis on a Missouri Pacific train at midnight last night.

They were accompanied by Mrs. A. Ross Hill, 800 West Fifty-second street, an intimate friend of the Hadley family. Herbert came to Kansas City from Lawrence by bus. A FOREMOST KANSAS CITIAN.

The Presidency, Itself, Once Was Not Far From Mr. Hadley. Herbert S. Hadley probably could have had any public office within the gift of the people of Missouri had his health permitted him to remain in politics. Some of his admirers have frequently said he might even have been President of the United States.

In fact one of the political questions in Missouri has been whether Mr. Hadley might have had the Republican nomination in Chicago in 1912 instead of William Howard Taft had he consented to a compromise between the Taft and Roosevelt forces. Four years after he retired as governor, when in the height of his popularity, ill health forced Mr. Hadley to abandon his law practice Kansas City and move to Boulder, where he was a law professor in the University of Colorado until 1923. In that year, after rejecting a tentative offer of the presidency of the University of Missouri, he returned to become chancellor of Washington university at St.

Louis. In that place he served until his death. Although forced by his position to take no active part in politics, his influence in state Republican politics continued strong to the last. Mr. Hadley has ranked as one of the foremost public men produced by Kansas City and this state.

He was quiet, dignified and always suave -a born diplomat. His friends and admirers included leaders of both political parties. When virtually the only Republican state official, he was able to combat successfully with legislatures of opposing political faith. Democrats as well as Republican leaders went to him for advice. Herbert Spencer Hadley was born at Olathe, February 20, 1872.

His grandfather, Jeremiah Hadley, had been the head of a Quaker mission school at Shawnee, Kas. His father, Maj. John M. Hadley, was 3 Presbyterian Quaker. After attending the public schools at Olathe young Hadley went to the University of Kansas, where he was graduated in 1892.

The next two years were spent at Northwestern university in obtaining his law degree. Many Kansas Citians remember the tall, dignified young man who came here fresh practice from law. college In in 1894 1898 to he enter the appointed to his first public office, that of assistant city counselor. In 1901 he drafted, then elected prosecutor of Jackson County. In the prosecuting attorney's office, Mr.

Hadley, one of the youngest to hold that position, began to attract public attenion. His record for convicions paralled that of Senator James A. Reed. In the first year in office Mr. Hadley obtained 206 convictions in 208 cases tried in the criminal court.

young prosecutor, two years later, failed of re-election. It was the only time he was ever defeated for a public office, which did not prevent in later years, however, the coining of the famous political phrase in Missouri, "Hadley luck." In 1904 the young Kansas City lawyer decided to go to the Republican state convention in Jefferson City as a delegate. He was about as much surprised as anyone when the convention by acclamation gave him the nomination for attorney general. A Republican nomination for state office to that time in Missouri had amounted to little more than a political gesture. But that was the year of the "Mysterious Stranger," when Roosevelt swept Missouri into the Republican ranks.

As attorney general Mr. Hadley soon attracted the attention of the entire country by his ouster proceedings against the Standard Oil Company. He went to New York and put the high officials of the company on the witness stand. His prosecution re-established competition with a great saving to consumers. That was before the day of the motor car.

His fight the insurance companies brought another annual saving to policy holders of $800,000 a year. He forced a recognition of the new 2-cent railroad fare law. The youthful attorney general enforced an anti-pass law by taking advantage of a constitutional provision. He also forced the Delmar Jockey Club to forfeit its charter, aiding Governor Folk in his fight which stopped race track gambling in Missouri, and put the Sunday lid on the saloons of Kansas City and St. Louis.

He proceeded against the so-called harvester and lumber combines. After the record he made as attorney general, it was only natural the Republicans of Missouri would look to the possessor of the "Hadley luck" to lead the state ticket in 1908. Mr. Hadley was opposed for the governorship by another Kansas Citian, William S. Cowherd.

Mr. Hadley was successful. At 36, he became the thirty-third governor of Missouri, for the first time breaking the hold "rebel Democracy" on the state 'capitol since the Reconstruction days following the Civil War. There had been previous Republican governors, Joseph W. McClurg, who was elected before all the ex-Confederates had been enfranchised, and in 1870 B.

Gratz Brown, a Liberal. But after that time came a solid line of Democratic executives. Although two other Republicans, Arthur M. Hyde and Sam A. Baker, have served in the governorship, it was Mr.

Hadley who caused Missouri, since 1908, to be classed as a doubtful or a Republican state. governor, Mr. Hadley began the fight to raise the educational standards of Missouri. He started fight for good roads. He fought for a public service commission and a workmen's compensation law, the latter to become a law only within the last year, and obtained a bipartisan election board for Kansas City and St.

Louis. In Jefferson City, Mr. Hadley made many friends. He was virtually the only Republican state officer, excepting, the lieutenant governor, and to obtain concessions from the Democrats to succeed with his legislative programs. In that administration was James Cowgill, state treasurer, who later became a Democratic mayor of Kansas City.

In Mr. Hadley's administration, in 1911, the state capitol burned. He started the machinery to work and obtained the state's first large bond issue, with which the present new capitol was erected. When the history-making split in the Republican party occurred in 1912, Mr. Hadley was one of seven governors to urge Theodore Roosevelt again to become a candidate for President.

The "old backing President Taft for re-election. Mr. Hadley soon became recognized as one of the Roosevelt spokesmen, and later in the Chicago convention of that year was floor leader of the Roosevelt forces. Many stories are told of the deliberations of this convention, which ultimately made possible the election of a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson. One of the stories was that the Taft forces offered the presidential nomination to Mr.

Hadley. It is understood the offer was discussed in the conferences of the "old guard" leaders, but rejected. Mr. Hadley refused to "bolt" to the Progressive party, and ultimately came out in support of Taft. Governor Hadley was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1892 and completed his law course at Northwestern university.

Shortly afterwards he came to Kansas City and started the practice of law with R. D. Brown and J. C. 1898 and 1899 associated This partnership, was dissolved in with Hugh C.

Ward as Ward Hadley. In 1904, shortly after Mr. Hadley was elected attorney general of Missouri, Ellison A. Neel was made a member of the firm. Mr.

Neel had entered the office a law clerk. Mr. Hadley remained with the firm until elected governor in 1908. At the close of his administration he Kansas City and entered partnership. with as Hadley, Senator A.

Cooper L. Cooper Neel, He retired from the firm about three years later, because of ill health, lung trouble having developed. While student at the University of Kansas lived with his uncle. Prof. F.

Robinson, 5021 Sunset drive, and Dr. David Hamilton Robinson. a Ernest David B. Robinson, 421 West Sixty-first street, are first cousins. In Colorado, Mr.

Hadley lived in tual retirement for several years. However, he served two years as counsel for the state railway commission, and at one time was discussed as a possible candidate for governor of Colorado. While a professor of law he took a a keen interest in the national movement for a revision of court procedure, and in efforts to combat crime through a modernization of criminal practice. His active interest in this work, including aid in the recent Missouri crime survey, continued until the time of his death. Mr.

Hadley, while in Colorado, made (Continued on Third Page.) OTHER STATES GET ROADS BUT IOWA, FOR EXAMPLE, DIDN'T WHEN IT USED KANSAS'S PLAN. Word Reaching Topeka Indicates Sen. timent in Kansas Rapidly In Ing Toward State Control of Highways. TOPEKA BUREAU THE KANSAS CITY STAR (By a Staff Correspondent.) TOPEKA, Dec. difference bee tween the Kansas system of road control and the system of state control as adopted by other states appears to be that Kansas does not get the roads.

For instance, Iowa, which last year discarded the system under which Kansas now is working, spends more money than Kansas spends on its roads. But Iowa now is being given roads for its money. According to the records in the office of the Kansas state highway commission, Iowa's county and township road funds amounted to 18 million dollars last year. The Kansas county and township road funds amounted to 12 million dollars. But last year, Iowa, with its 18 millions, constructed 4,298 miles of paved or surfaced county and township roads.

Kansas, with its 12 million dollars, surfaced and paved about 300 miles of county and township roads, according to estimates made by the Kansas highway commission's engineers today. At the beginning of the last year Iowa had 743 miles of township roads surfaced and 770 miles of county roads surfaced. In the year, Iowa's road building enterprise jumped from 743 miles of surfaced township roads to 2,588 miles. Its county road mileage jumped in the same year from 770 miles to 3,323 miles of county road. WISCONSIN ANOTHER EXAMPLE.

Take Wisconsin as another example of the difference between state control and the Kansas system: Wisconsin has constructed, in the last ten years in which Kansas has been struggling to obtain roads, 9,922 miles of highways -paved or surfaced. Kansas, with its headless system, has paved or surfaced in ten years 1,554 miles. That is the grand total of the improved roads in Kansas. Wisconsin last year, under its state system, paved and surfaced 1,072 miles of new road. Wisconsin spent only 15 million dollars for the construction and maintenance of roads.

Kansas, under its present system, let contracts for the building of only 546 miles, paved or surfaced, last year. It cost Kansas 27 million dollars to get one half the mileage of new road last year that Wisconsin obtained for 15 millions. Iowa trailed with its headless system of road control for many years before it threw it into the junk heap and adopted a state system. WHY IOWA CHANGED. The Iowa plan was almost identical to the present Kansas system.

Iowa rejected its old system because it was not getting roads, although it was spending money, according to the statements made by road officials of that state. It is stated that the objections urged in Iowa against the rejection of the old system and the adoption of the state system was the fear that under the state system the county and township roads would be neglected, while the state system would "build roads for tourists." That the same objection, and the chief objection, made again changing to the state control system in Kansas. The result of the change in systems was, however, to multiply the road mileage on Iowa's township roads by two and a half times, and to multiply the county road mileage by more than three times in a single year. The mileage above mentioned means paved or surfaced mileage. The above figures deal only with the county and township roads in Iowa.

In the state at large, Iowa, entering the work of building roads in earnest, reports that it spent last year 84 million dollars on all its roads. But it received in return for that tomoney nearly 5,000 miles of improved THIRD SPENT, TENTH RECEIVED. Kansas spent more than one-third the amount of money on its roads last year that Iowa spent in the same period and received for its money only one-tenth the number of miles or improved highway. Sentiment in Kansas rapidly is changing to demand the state road system, since the disclosures made in The Star in the last week as to the vast amount of money the state is spending. This fact is made apparent by the expressions of Kansans coming to state capitol in the past two or three days.

R. O. McBurney, the new president of the state organization of county commissioners, in consultation with the state highway commission this week, announced that the commissioners would make a complete change in policy as an organization, under his administration. Mr. McBurney lives in Kingman County.

He has announced that the policy of the county commissioners' organization this year would be that of close co-operation with the state highway commission to obtain connected highways. MORE FOR SPECIAL SESSION, The talk of a special session of the legislature to make a change in the road system appears to be on the increase as the people of the state analyze the amount of money expended as compared to the returns being made for the money. Governor Paulen, who has insisted the beginning of his present ad..