The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 7

Tlib KAiSAS 'CITY KrAll IONDAA' OCTOBER' 5 1931 CHILDREN LOSE WRITER FMMMINIMMMMISIEN ri mRS ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON wROTE 'LITTLE COLONEL' SERIES way Will the Lit fla ele Tomorrow---Convincing Evidence of our Dominance MEDICAL TALK FOR CO-OPS Club Will Hear Wenzler Gayier 'Tomorrow Dr Wenzler Gayler St Louis past president of the Missouri Medical Association will speak at the luncheon tomorrow of the Co Operative Club at the Hotel Baltimore Dr Gayler who is one of the distinguished visitors for the Southwest clinical conference Will speak on "Thirty Years of Medical Progress" Officers of the club also will be installed Vernon Gardner assistant Postmaster is the new president chilli Who Operation With oat Anaesthetic on Promise ot set of Books Gave iler Greatest Satisfaction fillvello 01 Nee to ED SCANDAL IN A RECEIVER (py the Associated Press) Lotitsvult KY Oct 5--Mrs Annie Fellows Johnston 68 author died at her home in Pewee Valley near here today after an illness of several months Mrs Johnston suffered a chronic ailment she wrote the "Little Colonel" se ries of books and in the "Land of the Little Colonel" published in 1929 she depicted many incidents of her own We GOVERNMENT SEEKS PLOT BE HIND RAID ON A COMPANY ---proving what' quarter-century or FASHION and VALUE-leadership means to Kansas City! Attempt to Wreck I Mort: go go Corporation Ig Alleged Alter Court Finds the Concern Is Solvent Because child once underwent a InajOt operation without an anaesthetic upon being promised a set or 00 p) cF7 '4'4 DeleV 1 et-17t -1-: ----w- 77 1 -------44 H- 1 0 11 11 1 I ti A 1 iii III illiik it' it i ol 4 1 tilb I ilo KANSAS CITY 4 1 A 0 zi I 54: i '7 ') -z 'w4 i i i 0 1 if 1 II 1 (yi oht -toiy 11 (YI hy P' I Nbeft- 1111 4 --'4 MRS ANNIE rmows JOHNSTON By The Star Leased Wire Seruice3 NORFOLK VA Oct of Justice agents are conducting -an investigation of the naming of receivers for the Home Mortgage Cornpany of Hickory 11 a 10-milliondollar corporation on a petition filed by Margaret Ramsey of Norfolk who said she owned about $3500 in bonds of the corporation The receivers were named by Judge I Meekins of the United Statcs district court of Eastern North Carolina The lawyers representing Miss Ramsey were A Jordan and Clarence Dozier of Norfolk Drewery a Norfolk lawyer also was Involved in the case on reports he endeavored to buy the bonds for Miss Ramsey The lawyers also are being Investigated by the department of justice and the Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association Jordan has gone to Europe The receivers were named last October but were dismissed several months ago On an order from the United States circuit court of appeals after Judge Meekins repeatedly had to dismiss them The higher held Miss Ramsey was not even a bondholder at the time she made application that receivers be named I and did not acquire the bonds until after Judge Meekins had granted her She alleged the corporation was not being operated for the pro- tection of its bondholders but an inveztigation disclosed it was solvent and one of the most reliable of its kind in the country John Davis Democratic presidential nominee in 1021 was employed ly the mortgage company to take its case to the higher court Davis asserted that a 'gang of thieves" were 1 trying to wreck the corporation The records show Jordan and Dozier were appointed counsel for the receivers along with Allen an 'attorney of Kingston The re- ceivers were Bland of Raleigh I and Branham of Durham Miss Ramsey is employed as a stenographer in the office of a Norfolk brokerage firm She is being questioned by government agents and her testimony may be the deciding factor 1 in the case 1 CM fJ I 25 Years in the Future As Envisioned by Conrad Mann President Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Kansas City twenty-five years from now challenges the power of vision Its history one of astounding development it is not difficult to believe that here will be builded in the wake of the Ten-Year Plan the great American City Hub of the Nation by air and by rail in distribution manufacture and population Progress will be measured in terms of transbortaticn and commerce The center of the nation will excel in both Railroads will concentrate more than ever in Kansas City in order to meet increased' demands for the movement of raw materials and finished products Their passenger schedules will be in excess of 100 thiles an hour Airplanes to all parts of the United States Canada and Mexico will be operated at a speed of 250 miles an hour Great cereal factories will take advantage of our immense wheat production and consuming market and local steel mills will furnish the requirements of the Middle West The business district will have towering skyscrapers dwarfing the Power and Light Fidelity Telephone Bryant and other present-day cloud-piercing structures and from their roofs will arrive and depart trans-oceanic passengers Street cars will have disappeared underground along with transmission lines of all kinds Radiation of electrical energy will be a dominating factor and the telephone will make way for individual telephone lines which with television will do away with all alibi A great city is in the making? $12 -4 11 $12 $12 LI 1 '12 1 A Fashion and Value I Silk or Waco-tea (4110414 -014 rocks "OUTDOOR A FALLACY" I II Practical Sports Coats Copies of the season's most successful higher-priced frocks Especially purchased in New York for this exciting Jubilee Sale! "Little Colonel" books Mrs Annie Fellows Johnston author of the series of Juvenile stories often expressed the feeling that her work had been worth while Among Mrs Johnston's cherished possessions were hundreds of letters which she received from children and adults in many countries who had delighted in reading her stories One of the letters was from a woman residing in the East who wrote that her daughter underwent an operation without an anaesthetic on being promised a set of Mrs Johnston's books The nature of the operation as such that an anaesthetic could not be administered and with the life In the balance she submitted patiently when promised the books Mrs Johnston spent her declining years at "The Beeches" her home in Pewee Valley near Louisville Ky She did practically all of her writing standing for hours at a specially built desk similar to a bookkeeper's Mrs Johnston was born in Evansville Ind May 15 1863 Her parents were the Rev and Mrs Albion Fellows After attending the Evansville public schools she studied at the Univerity of Iowa in 1881-1882 She was narrid to William Johnston in 18E8 lit EvansvilleoHer husband died In 1692 leaving three children John Mary and Rena by a former marri84e Only one of them Mary survived Mrs Johnston Beginning her literary work shortly before her husband's death Mrs Johnston wrote almost continuously until 1929 when she finished 'Land of the Little Colonel" In which she depicted many incidents of her own life Her first book was "Big Broth- er" a children's story in 1892 Prior to that time she had contributed to magazines and had written many short stories Her frequent dsits to friends at Pewee Valley gave Mrs Johnston the material for her "Little Colonel" series The heroine whose name gave the title was Hattie Cochran later Mrs Hattie Cochran Dick of Louisville granddaughter of Col George Weissinger of Louisville The title was evolved from a fancied resemblance of Hattie Cochran's ways to those of a southern gentleman of the old school The series attracted attention in America and abroad and were printed in several languages including Japanese The twelfth and final volume of the series was published in 1921 In the meantime Mrs Johnston had written many other stories including 'Georgina of the Rainbows" "Miss Santa Claus Of the Pullman" "Joel a Boy of Galilee" "In League With Israel" "Georgina's Service Stars" end a book of poems entitled "Songs Irsanne" The verses were written by Mrs Johnston In collaboration with her sister Mrs Albion Fellows Bacon of Evansville Although she had no children of her own Mrs Johnston was a favorite with the younger generation Her home at Pewee Valley known In her stories as "Lloydsburg Valley" was a Mecca for scores of children In World War days when Mrs Johnston wrote "Georgina's Service Stars" she was visited by hundreds of soldiers from Camp Knox Kentucky KEMPER 8AMESINEW OFFICERS Exceptional Jubilee Values at vertion Hill says It Is No Benefit to Health (ay the Associated Press) CHICAGO Oct 5--Take it from Dr Vernon Hill fresh air isn't fit to trethe "The idea that the more outdoor air we breathe the healthier we are is a distinct fallacy" he said yesterday "If more people had more outdoor air the death rate would be con- siderably higher" Dr Hill who is former chief of the division of ventilation and bureau of sanitation of the Chicago health department said he had come to the ccnclualon after considerable re: search and study that fresh air could I be greatly improved "There is an erroneous impression" he added "that air conditioning simply means the cooling of air That is not so for the term implies the control not only of temperature but of humidity and the cleanliness of air as well Later perhaps the control Of air pressure too will be widespread The day is coming when houses will be built without windows and all ventilating will be done through a plant In the home" The doctor said he had discovered that a temperature of from 75 to 80 degrees of heat is the most conducive to sleep "This applies to a person sleeping without covering which is the logical way to sleep" he said "After all the skin must breathe too once In a while" Women who know quality who recognize Kline style prestige who know value and who know the fashion-dominance of this store will recognize in this event a truly unusual offering! 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