Sedalia Weekly Democrat from Sedalia, Missouri • Page 4

T' BB DEAD FROM COLLISION OF BOS WITH A FLAT CAR Others of Passengers On Well Loaded Capitol Stage Lines Bus Injured At Crossing West of Sedalia Christmas Afternoon. INJURED RUSHED TO HOSPITilL FOR CAREOFDOaORS Miss Mary Griswold, of Fortuna, Died After Reaching There INQUEST WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY Gruesome Sight For Persons Attracted To Tragic Scene Two men were kllteti outright, a young woman fafally injured, and several persons injured, some seriously, about 2:45 Tuesday. Christmas afternoon, when a Capitol Stage Line bus en route from Jefferson City to Kansas City, and physicians and call for ambulances. The police were notified of the accident by Al Gossett, a blacksmith at the Missouri Pacific shops, who is believed to have been in the coupe. He told the police officers he was en route to Kansas City when the wreck occurred, and as Mr.

Gossett is said to be in Kansas City today it is presumed that he was one of the three in the coupe. The other occupants are unknown. Bus Statement Emmet Burge, driver of the bus, stated that the train was moving at the time of the impact, and that he did not see it until it was too late to avoid a collision. To a reporter Burge stated that he had never had orders to stop for that crossing. He has been driving for the company about six months, and passengers stated that he had been very careful to stop for ail railroad crossings on the trip.

He said that when the man in the Ford car ahead put out his hand he believed he was going to pull to the side of the road and stop, and he (Burge) drove around him to pass. The two men on the flat car, he stated, were up near the box car and appeared to be talking to each other. certainly took care of a Missouri Paciflc freight train, collided at the railroad crossing said at the hospital as he broken West Main street, highway fifty, talked of the accident. about one block west of the city know how I escaped as those around me were either killed or The dead arc: Oh, it was Thomas Stanley, Knob Noster. At the scene of the accident John Williams, about 45, Center- Burge, whose head and face were town.

Miss Mary Griswold, 19, Fortuna. All met their death by being crushed about the head and chest The bodies of the three dead are at the McLaughlin undertaking parlors where they were ordered taken by the coroner. The Injured: A. O. Griffith.

El Reno, terday it was stated that his mother did not know whether or not he had changed his plans, but she knew he intended going to Sedalia from La Monte, then returning home on an evening bus. He was 41 years of age and lived at the family home in Knob Noster with his mother. Mrs. Mary I. Stanley and his grandmother, Mrs.

Sarah E. Edwards. He also leaves two brothers, Will Stanley of near Columbia, and Jesse G. Stanley of Kansas City, and one sister, Mrs. C.

B. Cunningham of LaMonte. He was for four years constable of Knob Noster township, but more recently had been employed on a farm. The body will be taken to Knob Noster where funeral services will be held and burial made. Mr.

Stanley was identified by a tom check he had in his pocket. It was pieced together and the name of James Douglas on it caused the officers to call Mr. Douglas. He identified him as Tom Stanley, for whom he had cashed a check Tuesday morning. Later in the day, Mr.

Douglas said, Mr. Stanley came in, took up the check, which he tore up, placing the pieces of paper in his pocket. Girt Died at Hospital. Miss Griswold, who was eighteen years of age, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

J. H. Griswold, of Fortuna, Mo. She was employed as a stenographer for the National Bellas-Hess Company, in Kansas City, and had spent Christmas with her parents and brothers and sisters. The young woman arrived in Fortuna Sunday night, and Tuesday afternoon was accompanied to Tipton, where she boarded the bus, by a brother and sister.

Her face, head and chest were crushed and she lived only about an hour after being brought to Sedalia. It was impossible to identify her in any and physicians and attendants at the hospital were endeavoring to leara something that would enable them to notify her relatives. She was in a dying condition and unconscious when placed in the ambulance. Through a letter found in a grip, thought to be hers, a relative of her brother, Les- Tmg SEDAm-. IBP.

BBMOCnaT. roiMT. nBPKMmiB tw. NEGRO SERIOUSLY WOUNDED AFTER HAYING QUARRE Penn Shot Tuesday Night By Ernest Robinson, Who is in Jail FORMER DRY AGENT THE WINNER INA $30,000 CONTEST ARREST SUSPEQ IN SLAYING OF INSURANCE MAN CLAIM THE DRY ACT HAS FAILED INTIS PURPOSE William Penn, negro, residing near Georgetown on R. P.

D. No. 3 is in a serious ccndition at the Sedalia Hospital No. 2, suffering from a bullet wound in the stomach when he was shot by Ernest Robinson, 21-year-od negro, Tuesday night. According to the boy Penn had been teasing him and calling him names a few minutes before 'while in a soft-drink place on East Main street, conducted by Mace Bird.

left there and went over to a club house to see if there was going to be a dance, but I returned to the place where Penn started to fuss at me again. He started to pick on my brother too and I told him to stop, he started towards me and I thought I would frighten htrp and shoot in the floor but I accidentally shot him in the stomach as he approached. kidded me about his brother shooting at me one time and on how I ran. I mean to shoot him but I going to be teased any After the shooting the wounded negro was rushed to the office of Dr. Charles McNeil and later to the hospital where an operation was performed by Dr.

McNeil. Robinson used a 38-caliber revolver which he said 'was his He is in the county jail in default of a bond, to await the outcome of condition. Fifteen Year Old School Boy Took Award In Enforcement Plan bleeding from cuts and bruises, insisted that attention be given to all others first Prosecuting Attorney I ter Griswold, employed at the Johns Couey wanted to send him to the Lumber Company was located, and hospital, but ho refused until he knew all passengers had been look ed after. Burge's wife was in Sedalia at the time of the accident spending the day at the home of his uncle, E. It was to this home he was removed Tuesday night stop for that particular crossing, Mr.

Petrasek, owner of the Capital for mnnerotis deep lacerations on his E. Woolsley, 307 East Third street, face, and a badly bruised right shoulder. Mrs. H. R.

Homan, 3720 Summit street, Kansas City, dislocated left hip, two fractures of the bone in her left foream, numerous braises and abrasions about the body, a puncture over her right eye, and one tooth broken. H. R. Homan, fracture of the left arm just below the shoulder. Abe Slard and daughter.

Miss Helen, 824 East Fifteenth street, Kansas City, slight briuses. Emmett driver of the bus. 411 East Twenty-seventh street, Kansas City, braises about the face and neck. The above Injured were taken to St hospital, where all were given emergency treatment With the exception of Mr. and Mrs.

Homan and Mr. Griffith, all were dismissed Tuesday night Other passengers on the bus received cuts alid bruises, but not a nature requiring hmipltal treatment Was Hoirlble SIflht The scene of the wreck was one of the most gruesome ever witnessed In this city. The left side of the bus. Just behind the seat was completely torn off and the and injured were thrown together and onto the highway through this opening. The windows on the light side of the Bus wera not even broken.

Dr. A. McNeil. Dr. C.

B. Trader and Dr. John Carlisle were the physicians on the scene, and ambulances from and made several trips taking the injured to St hospital and the dead to the morgue. Miss Griswold was In a dying condition and never regained consciousness. Men and women were 'a'alking around the place with blood streaming down their faces, trying to do something for those more seriously injured.

News of the wreck spread rapidly and there were soon hundreds of who had driven out In cars, all willing to lend asslstmice in any possible way. InquMt Thursday Morning Dr. G. Jones, retiring coroner directed the moving of the bodies, but turned the case over to Dr. W.

T. Bishop, who received his commission as coroner ma Dr. Bishop will be In charge of the inquest which will he held at the court house at 9 Thursday morning. officers were also there assisting the coroner. All baggage was brought to Sedalia, where it wais necessary to open SAme of It in order to find articles or papers that might help to identify the three dead persons.

There were seventeen passangers on the bus, which will seat twenty- four. Witnessad the Accident through them the family were notified, but not before she had passed away. She had attended the Sedalia high school, graduating last and during the four years stayed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H.

G. Triplett, 1901 South Osage. Surviving are, her parents, five Referring to the statement made brothers and three sisters as fol- by Burge that he had no orders to Myron Griswold and Lester i Griswold, both of Sedalia, Mrs. Florence Wilkins, of the state of Cali- Stage Lines stated that it was un- fornia, Gladys, vrho is attending high school in Sedalia; Ocie, James, William Howard and Virginia Gris- 'wold, at home. The body will be taken to the home in Fortuna, and burial made at Mount Carmel.

Identify Third Victim. It w'as not until late Wednesday that the third victim, John Williams, Tvas fully identified. His home Is in KansKS City, at 1107 Splitlog avenue, the home of his daughter, Mrs. Letha Goodwin. Williams was 53.

Surviving him, besides the daughter, are his widow, Mrs. Myrtle Williams, 1308 Argentine Boulevard, Kansas City, another daughter, Kathryn Williams of 1214 Hasbrook avenue, and three sons, John Phillip, and Glen Williams of the home. Funeral services will be held In Kansas City. Williams had been employed on a farm near Centertown where he had boarded the bus Tuesday for Kansas City. Escaped Without Scratch.

One of the passengers on the bus was Miss Ruth Cain, a stenographer for Montgomery-Ward, Kansas City, who had spent Christmas with her parents near Clarksburg, Mo. She boarded the bus at Tipton, first sat down in a seat on the left side, then changed her and moved across the aisle. It was this move that probably saved her life, for she was not even scratched. Miss Cain remained in Sedalia until evening when she was taken to her home in Kansas City by former Sedalians who had spent the day with relatives here. derstood that busses stopped all railroad crossings.

John Vouk, in charge of the Capital Stage Lines garage in Kansas City arrived on the first bus headed east after the accident and took charge of the work of returning the wrecked bus to Sedalia. It was covered with canvas and brought to the Flannery garage. Say They Saw Bus Coming. E. L.

Hodges was foreman of the Switching crew, members of which were H. H. Ward and A. W. Goldsmith.

J. E. was the engineer with Louis Rast, fireman. The track is the main lead to the Missouri State Fair, and while it is seldom used, it leads to the Missouri Pacific stock yards and is regarded by the railroad as any other crossing. It was marked with the railroad crossing sign and the state highway railroad crossing sign.

Tuesday afternoon two box cars were being loaded with stock. According to the railroad men there were two cars ahead of the bus, one a Chervolet coach, the other a Ford coupe. Both, they said, stopped for the crossing. The bus behind, they said, had been sounding the horn for some distance, and at the crossing turned to the left to pass the other cars. The railroad men state that they saw the bus coming and had stopped the train, the rear of the flat car extending part way across the highway.

They claim that the bus struck the corner of the flat car as it was standing still, derailing it. the impact wrecking the bus which swerved to the right side of the road. Passenger Tells of Accident. Mr. A.

B. Siard, of Kansas City, had been in Sedalia to meet his daughter, Helen. 15, from whom he had been separated five years. The mother is dead and the girl resided with her grandmother here, Mrs. Jane Rogers.

I was sitting in the rear of the bus and saw we would be hit, said Mr. Siard. I covered my face. bus pulled the flat car from the track and Ihen rolled clear of it The side of the truck struck was torn open. The dead evidently rolled out the opening.

screaming was terrible. My daughter was unconscious. Only one other man was in the bus as 1 carried her out. He asked me over and over bow badly hurt he was. crowd gathered quickly but everyone seemed excited and I had to get Helen out by myself.

Dr. Charley McNeil, an old friend of ELI MOORE FOUND DEAD IN BEDROOM Eli Moore, about 55 years old, was found dead in a bedroom at 102 West Pettis street about 10 Tuesday morning by Robert Farris and Charles Dick, who reside at the place. According to a report at police headquarters by the two men, Moore called at their home earlier in the day and asked if he could lie down. They found him dead several hours later. Death was due complications and alcoholism.

Dr. W. T. Bishop, coroner, stated Wednesday. No.

inquest will be necessary. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Nora Engholn of 1517 East Fourth street, and Mrs. Lenora Gavaway of Kansas; and one son, A. E.

Moore, residing In Oklahoma. The funeral will be held at 2:00 Thursday afternoon at McLaughlin Chapel. Rev. Ralph Emerson Hurd will officiate. Interment will be in Crown Hill cemetery.

Believed Body of Victim Burned After Being Stabbed to Death Moderation League in Survey Says Into: nation Has Increased UniE MO filUi By The Associated Press. MOBILE. Bedwell of Washington county, was arrested Wednesday as the instigator of the slaying November 12 of C. C. Coffee, 73, a retired life insurance agent, and Joseph Phelham, solicitor of the first judicial district, announced thar he had obtained evidence that body had been burned after he was stabbed to death.

Coffee is believed to have been slain and robbed of a valuable ring, his shotgun and money while on a hunting trip in Washington county and eight negro woodchoppers were xrrested shortly afterwards. Percy Lang, who confessed that he was leader of the gang, died later in prison before being tried for the crime. In several statements to officials Lang and other negroes under arrest said body had been sunk in Lake but It was never found. Lang contracted pneumonia while accompanying officials in the search for it. Mr.

Phelan declined today to give details about the new development, but said that shotgun had been found and that a piece of melted gold, apparently a filling from a tooth, a copper cent and other articles had been found on the spot where it was believed the body was burned. He said, however, that recent discoveries had lent a new angle to the mystery. arrested in the case. INHERITANCE TAX RETURNS ARE LARGE ARRESTED OVER ASSAULT ON WIFE HOOVER MAY MAKE VISIT TO OZARKS By The Associated Press. JOPLIN, that President-Elect Herber Hoover may journey to the Ozarks in the near future for a fishing trip was given in a iettw received by the Ozark Playgrounds Association from George Akerson, assistant to Mr.

Hoover, on board the U. S. S. Maryland. Otto Speers, who was arrested Tuesday night at his home, 325 North Summit avenue, by police officers after they had been called there because of an alleged attack on his wife Is charged with felonious assault and possession of home brew.

Speers according to his wife threw boiling water on her and scalded her, as well as threatening her life holding in his hand a 45- caliber automatic pistol. Chief Pfeiffer called and he went to the residence where he found the gun under a bed and found about 300 bottles of home brew, part of which he took to police headquarters for evidence. Speers was later taken to the county jail and last night was released under bond. DIVORCE GRANTED TO MRS. C.

PENNEY, JR. By The Associated Press. MIAMI, Louise Decoudray Penney of Riverside Drive, New' York, was granted a divorce Saturday from J. C. Penney, son of the chain store operator, of White Plains, N.

Y. Penney has filed a petition for divorce charging desertion, but Mrs. Penney filed an answer which denied she was guilty of desertion, and charged that her husband had not notified their parents of their marriage as he had promised and that he had not provided for her support. The court ruled favorably on the cross bill. Mr.

and Mrs. Penney lived together two days after they were married October 29 1924 The Penney home at Miami NEW YORK. N. former New York prohibition administrator and a 15-year-old high school boy from Herbert homo town are victors in William C. $30.000 prize contest for the best prohibition enforcement plan.

Major Chester P. Mills, who resigned as prohibition administrator for the New York City district a year ago last June, won the main prize of $25,000. Malcolm D. Almack, a junior in Palo Alto, which school, won the $5,000 school prize. The boy receives $1.000 and his school $4,000.

More drastic restrictions and closer supervision of the traffic in industrial alcohol to curb diversion into illicit channels were suggested by Major Mills. Education of the people concerning the prohibition law. teaching more respect for the law and a more scientific selection of enforcement officers were the high points in plan. Checks for the prizes were received yesterday by Major Mills at his home in Green Farms, and by Almack and the principal of his school in Palo Alto. Approximately half of the 23,230 plans submitted in the contest sent in by women.

The total number of suggestions offered by the contestants was 64,000. Only 744 suggested modification of the eighteenth amendment while. 5,340 urged modification of the was the first white man Volstead act. Of these 1,536 favored manufacture and sale of intoxicants, and 400 wanted light wines and beer. Better use of federal organizations was offered as a solution by 3,338 while better state and local co-operation was suggested by 2.569.

Recommendations for education and propaganda were made by 19,108. Church training formed the theme of 1,092 suggestions. General education was urged by 2,629. The prize offer which was made by Mr. Durant August 27 evoked replies from every state in the union, every territorial possession of the United States, Canada and many foreign countries.

New York State with 2,104 plans led in the number of contestants. Pennsylvania "was second 1,455, California offered 1,128, Massachusetts 732 and Missouri 673. Among the foreign entries was one from a general in the Brazilian army and one from a Chinese official. The plan offered by Major Mills, he says, follows closely the policy he pursued during his administration of the prohibition law in New York, a policy not consummated when he resigned. In the handling of denatured alcohol, Blajoh Mills urged closer scrunity of persons and concerns to whom permits are Issued and declared for the elimination of the independent denaturing plants, which he says have no economic place in the business and are forced to divert their output bootleg channels to make a profit.

Stricter supervision of perfome plants and similar concerns which flold permits for special denatured alcohol to prevent them disposing of the alcohol to bootleggers through is urged in the Mills plan. Major Mills was appointed prohibition administrator fof the New York district in February, 1926, and resigned nne 27, 1927 after an nouncement of his transfer to the position of eastern supervisor. He is a graduate of West Point and served as a member of' the general staff in the world war. At the time of his resignation and in a subsequent series of magazine articles Major blamed the activities of politicians in the selection of prohibition officers for the lack of enforcement. The communication said, in part: you know, Mr.

Hoover is fond Beach has been chosen as the resi- By The Associated Freaa. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. State inheritance tax collections for 1928 total $2,533,975 to date, which is the greatest amount ever collected from this source in Missouri in any year since the inheritance tax law was put on the statute in 1919, Treasurer C. E. Stephens, has announced.

Payments on several additional estates will be due before the end of the year, which will add probably several thousand dollars to the total. The largest previous annual total for the tax in one year was In 1927 when $1,960,553 was collected. The tax collected so far for the biennial period starting January 1, 1927, amounts to $4,494,528, almost double the state tax estimate of $2,331,000 made in preparing the budget at the beginning of the two year period. The bulk of the record tax ic'itions was from estates of St. Louisians in 1927, when estates from the eastern metropolis paid $1,260,649 of the $1,960.553 collected.

Treasurer Stephens estimated that approximately seventy per cent of the 1928 collections would be from St. Louis estates. A tax of $532,820 paid last July on the estate of the late Paul Brown, St. Louis capitalist, was the largest of the year, also the largest ever paid in Missouri. The second largest payment this year was $269,702 upon the estate of Henry W.

Peters, St. Louis manufacturer, paid in October. In 1927 the largest inheritance tax paid was $443,179 on the estate of James Theodore Walker, St. Louisian, killed in an airplane accident in New Jersey. By The Associated Press.

NEW YORK, N. survey by the Moderation League, made public Wednesday, says that police records in 388 cities show that arrests for intoxication rose from 235,612 In 1920 to 557.369 in 1927. The fourth annual report of the league, which has for its announced aim restoration of declares that the figures have brought the organization to the conclusion that Volstead act has failed utterly to do what It was intended to do. namely, promote temperance and Tables of total arrests by years in the 388 cities as compiled in the report indicate a decline In arrests for drunkenness beginning in 1914, when the figures stood at 530,367, to 235.619 in 1920, the year national prohibition went Into effect. An exception in the decline is noted in 1916 with 559,364 arrests, which is explained in the league report as the result of the pre-war prosperity boom.

Beginning with 1921 the table shows rapid annual increases in the number of arrests from 319,528 to 557,369. The report declares that a marked increase in drinking by minors has been noted throughout the period. The increase in arrests for intoxication in New York the report says, has been at a slower rate than in other centers from which figures were drawn. Birmingham. Ala, and Atlanta, both show increases of 500 per cent for the period.

The figures the report goes on, indicate a greater jump In states which were dry before national prohibition than in the so-called wet states. Police reports from 268 cities where liquor was sold legally prior to 1920 gave 424,295 arrests in 1914 as against 423,042 in 1927. In 120 cities in states that had dry laws before the passage of the eighteenth amendment the league says the figures show an Increase from 106,072 in 1914 to 134.327 in 1927. Chleago Live ttoetc CHICAGO, Dec. Department of 000: opened 10 to 15 cents tower; mostly 25 to 35 cents top early for load of 200 peauid medium to choice 250 to 800 to 200 to 250 pounds to 160 to 300 pounds 4f packing sows $7.60 to Ipi Pigs, medium to choico 90 to pounds $7.25 to $8.50.

Cattle calves steers slow, except meager of choice offerings; light steers Tliil yearlings along with fat she bulls strcmg to 35 cents higher; era $1.00 up; specialty yeariings heavy steers $16.00 to ively. Slaughter classes, and choice 1300 to 1500 pounds to 1100 to 1300 pounds $11 616.25; 950 to 11(H) pooiHta $13.1 common and medium pounds up $9.00 to $13.35. Fed lings good and choice to 316 pemMi $12.75 to $15.25. Heifers, good choice 850 pounds down $11.06 common and medium $3.66 if $11.35. Cows, good and choice to 611.25; common and medium 3i-7f to 68.75; low cutter and cutter to 66.75.

Bulls, good and 69.50 to 611.50; cutter to medium to 69.50. Yealers (milk fed) choice 614.50 to 616.50; medium to 614.50; stocks and feeder ethers, good and choice (all wetghts) to 612.00; and medium to 610.50. Sheep early unevenly light and moderately sorted limSi 614.75 to 615.00; closely sorted 9AM 615.25; extreme top 615.56; top fat ewes 68.00. Lambs, good and chdlel 92 pounds down 614.15 to 115.56; dium 612.50 to 614.15; ewes, to choice 150 pounds down tC 68.00; feeder lambs, good and 613.00 to 614.50. imon wc to 61 WHEAT AND CORN BOTH DECLINED Breast Hearing Continued The hearing of Tom Bresse charged with having in his possesaoln a car with mutilated numbers was continued several days by Justice of the Peace W.

H. Leslie, upon the request of the attorney and Prosecuting Attorney E. W. Couey. Bresse at present is being held in the county jail.

By The Associated Press. CHICAGb, DC. taking sales broadened out on price advances in the com market today, and gains failed to hold well. Upturns, however, carried com to a new high price level for the present movement, with distant months rising to within a fraction of the topmost quotations yet reached for he crop. December com showed relatively more strength than May, notwithstanding that total deliveries today cn Chicago December contracts amounted to 720,000 bushels.

Corn closed irregular cent net lower to cent advance, wheat to cent down, oats varying from cent decline to cent gain, and provisions unchanged to a rise of 35 cents. Opening at cent off to cent up. com subaaquently at times showed gains all around, wheat started at cent decline to cent and afterward held near to initial figures. Oats were firm. Provisions kept about steady.

Bulls in com had the advantage much of the time today, but the market was by no means altogether sided. A house with export connections sold December delivery of com and bought May. Meanwhile, deliveries on December contracts here were at a minimum, arrivals small, and the country reluctant to part with headings. Some aggressive selling of wheat was done here today apparently for Winnipeg account. Bears put stress the fact that the domestic visible supply is the heaviest ever known, 50,.000,000 bushels more than last year, and that prices here are above world parity.

Kansas City Llva iteek IGVNSAS CITY. Dec. S. Department of slow and uneven; mostly tc 25 cents lower; top 68.65 on 190' tc 230 pounds. Butchers, medium "tc choice 250 to 350 pounds 18.15 to 200 to 250 pounds 68.15 to 18.65; 166 te 200 pcmnds 18.65; 130 to 160 pemNhi 67.75 to 68.50; packing sows 67.1% 67.85; stock pigs, medium to cheiCO to 130 pounds 66.65 to 67.85.

Cattle calves 500; fat stock stmng to 25 cents higher; othox classes steady; slaughter clasaoii steers, good and choice, IlOO to llif pounds 612.00 to 613.75; 1100 to pounds 611.75 to 616.00; 650 to llQt pounds 611.75 to 616.50; common medium 850 pounds up. 68 (H) fed yearlings, good and choice 7i(ii tc 950 pounds 611.75 to 616.25; hfSXfAt good and choice 850 pounds deem 611.00 to 614.00; common and 67.50 to 611.00; cows, good and cbMoi. 68.25 to 610.50; common and medliAr 66.75 to 68.25; low cutter and cutte! 65.25 to 66.75; vealers (milk fed), nftb dium to choice 69-00 to 614.00; cull JUlt' common $6.00 to Stocker feeder steers, good and choice, (at weights) 610.50 to 612.25; common ahd medium 67.25 to 610.50. Sheep lambs steady cents higher; shcp steady; topfar lambs, 614.85; lambs, good and (92 pounds down) 614.00 to 614.85; medium 612.75 to 614.00; cull and common. 69.00 to 612.75; ewes, medium tc choice (150 pounds down) 65.75 tt 68 00 St.

Ueule Live Stock EAST ST. LOUIS. Dec. S. Department of market 10 to cents lower; pigs about steady; twUI of 170 to 265 pounds 66.80 to 63.65 top 68.90; 150 to 160 pounds 68.50 68.75; 130 to 150 pounds 68125 to 90 to 130 pound pigs 66.75 to 63J15 bulk packing sows 67.65 to 67.75.

Cattle calves TOO; run most killing classes about some strength on better cows, light mixed yearling! and fieff ers; low cutters steady to weak; veal ers 25 cents to 75 cents higher; sales common steers to medium heifers 68.50 to 610.75; mee sows 67.00 to 68.50; low cutters ly.65.00 65.25; few shelly down to 64.75 or below; medium bull 68.75 down; good and choice 616.75 to 617.25. Sheep few opening about steady; few fat lambs to pad ers 614.25 to 614.50; culls 6H.0t 611.50; fat ewes 64.60 to 67.00. THIRTEEN DEAD IN AUTO ACCIDENTS Mr. and Mrs. Carl Van Ardsale ours, arrived and treated her.

She and two sons, of East Tenth street regained consciousness at the hos- were In a Chevrolet coach just ahead of the bus, Mr. Vauarsdale. 1 Miss Siard received cuts about who is employed at the electric. the face and a broken left hand, light plant of the City Light and She and Mr. Slard both went on to Traction Company.

stated that Kansas City in another bus. was a Ford coupe that pass -1 No one at the scene of the acci- his car, and as it neared the dent blamed the driver. Mr. Siard racks the driver put out his hand said. ind stopped.

The bus, Mr. Identified By Check. Ardsale said, passed both Thomas Stanley, one of the two Chevrolet and the Ford. He stated men instantly killed, left his home iat the bus was going at a rapid in Knob Noster Tuesday morning, of speed, and that the train walking to Monte where he ex vas moving. of fishing and looks forward to fishing for bass in the Ozarks in the near future.

Just when he be in a position to do so, cannot be determined The letter was in response to an invitation sent by the association in convention here several ago, urging Mr. Hoover to spend his first vacation as president in the Ozarks. KILLED WHEN FIRE TRUCK HIT A POLE By The Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Arthur Stansbury vras killed Wednesday when a hook and ladder truck skid ed into a trolley pole, pinning Stansbury against the pole and crushing him to death. The fire truck was on its way to dence of President-elect Hoover during his planned six weeks stay in Miami early next year.

FIREMEN KILLED SPEEDING TO BLAZE PITTSBURGH. volunteer firemen were killed and eight others injured, five seriously, when their apparatus plunged down an embankment while speeding to the fire in the plant of Carnegie Refining Company at Heidelberg. The blaze, which started early yesterday, was still raging this morning. The loss was placed at 500 000 an east side home where Josepn a man with whom Robinson, II, was probably fatally of the Ford car he was going to the Faulkner home burned when a five-gallon can of (urccd back to Sedalia to notify i to have dinner. At his home yes-inaptha exploded Wed By Judge Yount.

Ray Chapman and Miss Agnes Hatfield, both of Sedalia, were married at 4:30 yesterday afternoon in the office of W. W. Blaine, attorney, by Justice D. N. Yount INQUIRY ON BLAZE CAUSING SIX DEATHS By The Associated Press.

AKRON, investigation was under way Wednesday to detemine the cause of a fire which swept the basement of the Park Hotel here early Christmas morning. resulting in the death of six guests and injuries to seven others. Only one of the injured remains in a hospital. The blaze which trapped 80 guests and attendants, is believed to have started from spontaneous combustion. Five of the fatalities resulted from suffocation.

One man, Charles King 28 a cook, 'was burned to death. Paul Locklair, 40, is suffering from burns. Among those who lost their lives were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Alexander.

aged 67 and 65 respectively. Their bodies were found in the third floor corridor a short dls tance from their room. Investigation disclosed they had attempted to the ground to jump on and hasti ly knotting sheets together to form a rope reaching part way down. The bodies of W. W.

Wilson, 28. rubber worker, and Clark Burwell, 44, cook, also were found in the hallway but the other victim, Lucian G. Cutis. 20. was trapped in his room.

All were from Akron. Property damage was estimated at $10.000, Chleago Produce CHICAGO. Dec. lower; creamery extras standards 47Vi; extra firsts 46Vi to 47; firsts 45 to seconds 43 to 44. Egrgs lower; extra firsts 34 to 35; firsts 32 to 33; crdinary firsts 28 to 30.

Kansas City Produce KANSAS CITY, Dec. Eggs: First 29. Poultry: Geese 18. Other produce unchanged. Chicago Markets Open High Low Close Wheat- Dee 61.14% 61.14% $1.14 61.14 Mar 61.18V^ 61.18% 61.18% 61.18% May61.21% 61.22% 61.20% 61.20% July 61.21% 61.21% 61.21% 61.21% July 61.21% 61.21% 61.21% 61.21% Cora- Dee .87 Mar .89 May.91% July Dec Mar .48 .48 May Dec 61.02 61.02%61.01% 61.02% Mar 61.0561.05% 61.05 61.05% May 61.08% 61.07% 61.08 Kansas City MarkeU 1 OpenHigh Low Close Dec 61.08 61.0861.07% 61.07% May 61.14% 61.12% 61.13% July 61.14% Dec May July.55% M3k By The Associated Press.

CHICAGO, were thirteen deaths from automobile accidents in Chicago over Christmas of the death lists from such a cause ever recorded during a holiday period here. The fatalities brought the number of motor car deaths for the year to 1,051, which is a record. Seven of those killed were struck by motor cars while crossing the street One was a boy four years old in his arms, killed as he was being carried from a street car to the curb. Frosty pavements were blamed for the other accidents. The accidents occurred Christmiui eve and Christmas day.

Kansas City Cash KANSAS CITY, Wheat: Receipts 58 cars: cent down; No. 2 dark bard, mm inally $1.11 to 3 61.08 to 61.27; No. 3 hard i 61.16; No. 3 61.06V4 to6 1.11; No. 61.26 to 61.26: NO.

3 61-29GL Close: Dec. 61.07V4; May 61.2m July 61.14H. Cora: Receipts 87 cars; uACbasiW to V4 cent down; No. 3 White, mm inally 80 to 81; No. 3 No.

3 low nominally 80 to 31; No. 3 ftl No. 2 mixed No. 3 78. Close: Dec.

May Oats: Unchanged; No. 3 while No. 3 to 47. Milo malse 61.20. Kafir 61.20 to 61.26.

Rye 95 to 96. Barley 59. rt to Notice of Administratrix With Will Annexed Notice is hereby given, that Letters of Administration, with the Will an- nexed on the Estate of Traugott Jacob Bopp deceased, were granted to the undersigned on the 26th day of December. 1928, by the Probate Court of Pettis County Missouri. All persons having claims against said Estate are required to exhibit them to me for allowance within six months after the date of said letters, or they may be precluded frcxn any benefit of such estate, and if such claims be not exhibited within one year from the date of this publication, they shall be forever barred.

This 26th day of December, 1928. ALVINA SUSAN BOPP. Administratrix With Will Annexed. Attested by me this 26th day of December 1928. ELIZABETH LOBAUGH, Clerk gi Probata Court.

St. Louie Grain Mirtcet ST. LOUIS, Dec. Wheat: No. 2 red 61.37; No.

1 9mm $1.16 to6 1.17%. Cora: No. 3 mixed No. No. 3 yeUow to 86; KO.

4 No. 3 white to NiC- white 81. Oats: No. 3 white 48; No. 4 46.

CLOSE: Wheat: Dec. 61.15%; May fl.Mf July 61.21%. Cora: Dec May St. Louis Produce ST. LOUIS, Deo, lower; fresh firsts 1 cent lower Cheese unchanged.

Butter unchanged to lower; ct ery 1 cent lower at 50; cent lower at 48; firsts seconds unchanged 41. Poultry irregular; geew 26 to springs 1 cent higher at 28; othM unchanged; heavy hens 24; AA 28; turkeys 32; ducks 24, Chicago Poultry CHICAGO. Dec. alive firm; fowls 23 to to 31; roosters 20; 35; ,,241.