The Sedalia Democrat from Sedalia, Missouri • Page 4

VMIF THE SEUALJA, JJEMUtKAT FKIUAY. 17, 1930 Telephone Your Older 270 for yom prompt deliv- 6ri6s ivill be made of any Goods you may need. Ask for the department you want. Sale Prices in effect on practically all Winter Goods throughout the store. Sedalia.

NEWS BRIEFS FROM OVER THE STATE CLOSING ON LEADDdG STOCKS (Received Over Associated Press Leased Wire) Close Close Test. Today 4 Rumeiy 3 3 JMlied Cremical Dye ...,271 JUlIs Chai. Mfg 4jnerican Can 121 American Car Foundry. 1 265 51H ..13 .226 .178 ..32 34 .212 .117 American Comi. 39 American For.

Power ...9514 American Ice American Locomotive American Pow-er 314 American Smelt. Ref 73 American Fdrs ..47 American Sugar American Sumatra 2 American Tei. Tel 220 American Tobacco American TVooien American Ld Sm. Ajiaconda Copper Andes Cupper Min Armour of IlL Assoc. Dry Atchison T.

A S. Atlantic Refining Atlas Powder Auburn Auto Aviation Corp. Baldwin Loco. Barnsdail Aviation Steel Ad. Canada Dry G.

Canadian Pacific Chesapeake Chic. Mil. SL P. Chic. Mil.

St. P. Pac pf Chicago Northwestern Chic. Rk. Is.

Chrysler Cola Colorado Fuel Coiurn. Gr Columbia G.aphophon© Ooiigoleura Nairn Consolidated Gas Continental Baking Continental Can Continental Motors Corn Products Crucible Steel Cuba Cane Sugar tfUitis Wright Du Pont De Kodak Biectric Power isrle Railroad Vox Film General Electric tonerai Foods General Gas El. General Motors General Railway Gillette Safety Razor CJoodrich Goodyear Tire Rubber Graham Paige Granby Con. Great Northern Ry. Great Houston Oil Hudson Motor Hupp Motor Independent OH A Indian Refining International Cement liiL Combust.

Rit. Harvester Int. Hydro firiL Paper Power Hiternatfonai Shoe int. Tel. Jtehns-Manvllle Kansas City Kelly Springfield Kelvlnator 92 37 100 20 105 6 .91 87 3 10 178 5 21 66 211 117 34 137 40 7.5% 53 6 8 copper Kolster Radio Kresge SS Kroger Grocery .....................45 Lambert Llgg.

Myers Tob. Loe 8 50 Loose Wiles Biscuit Lorillard (Pierre) Louisiana Oil Refining 9 Liidlum Steel 35 Mack Trucks 71 Marmon Motor Mexican Seaboard OH 17 Miami Copper Mid-Continent Missouri, Kansas 53 Missouri Pacific Montgomery Ward Nash Motors National Biscuit National Cash Reg. National Dairy Products National Power A Light. Nevada Con. New York Central N.

Y. New Hav. A Htfd. North American Northern Pacific Otis Steel Pacific 'ias 4b Packard Motor Pan-American Pet. Param.

Famous Lasky. Pennsylvania Railroad 2 34 100 19 20 ..90. ..41 ..75 ..28 ..98 ..33 ..77 60 00 .47 .66 ..54 ..21 5 4 30 180 22 215 90 12 95 54 20 21 Phillips Petroleum Prairie OH A Proctor A Pullman Purity Baking Radio Corp. of Radio Keith Orp Remington Rand Republic Iron and Reynolds Tobacco Richfield Oil Royal Dutch SheU St. Louis San Franc.

Sears-Roebuck Shell Union OH Sims Petroleum Sinclair Con. Oil South Cai. Edison Southern Pacific .32 .58 86 .50 109 22 121 Southern Porto Rico Sug. Southern RaUway Standard Brands Standard Gas and Standard OH Standard OH N. Standard OH N.

Shew'art Warner Stone Studebakcr Texas Corporation Texas Pac. Land Tide Water Assoc. Timken Roller Tobacco Products Transcontinental Oil Underwood Elliott Union Carbide Union Oil of Calif Union Pacific United Aircraft United Cigar United Corp. United Fruit .136 ..81 2 .104 .218 ..61 ..34 .103 42 74 46 109 53 77 32 50 24 29 74 25 109 22 24 120 6 .131 5 United Gas A Imp U. S.

Industrial Alcohol. U. S. Steel Utility Power 4b Light A Wabash Railwray Warner Pictures Western Union Westinghouse El. 4b Mfg.

Willys Overland Woolworth Yellow Truck A .205 8 41 57 11 3 9 103 80 217 33 101 169 55 145 8 12 At The Close On Curb Stocks Leaders Close Close Vest. Today Hied Power and Light. ..41 jnerican Light 4b 238 Irkansas Nat. Gas rkaiisas Nat. Gas Sfeuc.

Gas El. (2.40G) ..41 viaiion Corp. Amer in States Elec Service Service pf. 6 Service pf Edison 8 Airports Ctfs 237 41 21 28 88 rus Wright War 2 troit Aircraft bmer Conderscr rani Motors 237 2 2 El and Share 83 Fairchild AvlaUon Fokker Aircraft Ford Motor Canadian Ford Motor Ltd 10 10 Goldman Sachs Instill Util ..57 Libby McN. and Mid West Util new 26 National Aviation North Am.

Roosevelt Field 3 Shenandoah Shenandoah pf (3) Standard Oil Ind. Standard Oil Ken. (2.20G)..34% 34 Swift and Co. 8 134 Swift Int. (2) S3 U.

S. Lines pf fc.vmboia: ifc. plus extras; partly extra; payable in stock. KANSAS CITY. Jan.

Mieat receipts 61 cars; tone fft to 2 cents lower; No. 2 dark hard No. 2 yellow nominally S2 to 84; No. 3 SO to No. 2 mixed nominally 79 to 81: No.

3 to 79. to No. 3 II 14 to 11.17; No. Close: May July feard $1.15 to No. 3 $1.13 to P.J.

7 No. 2 red nominally to No. 3. to May July Corn. P.oceipts 84 cars; unto 1 cent iiighei, Nc.

2 white I in I. '2 to 84; No. 3 to vt; Oats; Receipts 7 cars; tone generally unchanged; No. 2 white nominally 46 to 47; No. 3, 46.

Milo nvilze nominaily $1.47. Kafir $1.35. Kye nominally 89 to 9(t. Barley nominally 56 to 60 the Associated Press.) ST. Hutchinson, pilot for the transcontinental air transport, was arrested at St.

Louis field yesterday In connection with the investigation into an alleged $15,000 shortage in a St. Louis loan company. JEFFERSON of telephone systems in 17 Missouri cities from one subsidiary to another was asked in an application before the state public service commission yesterday by the United Telephone and Electric Company under the petition the United Telephone Company would take over the properties from the Midwest Telephone Company. ST. R.

Schumm, 17-year-old slayer of his father. William Schumm, 43, was indicted on a charge of first degree murder yeserday. The youth also wounded his mother when he called his parents out of bed on January 5 to ask them if they believed in God. BOONVILLE. Theodore Ztske, new superintendent of the Boon- vHle reformatory, arrived here yes terday to take charge.

He succeeds Louis Theilmann who died recently. ST. East Hills SHEPHERD CASE WILL REACH JURY THIS AFTERNOON Country Club, formerly the Highlands, was damaged by fire yesterday with a loss estimated at $35,000 with only $25,000 insurance. ST. men and political leaders urged to abandon self-interest in working for a better St.

Louis, by Walter B. 'Weisenburger, president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting last night. Governor Henry S. Caulfield w-ae a guest and his brief address was entirely of a congratulatory nature.

HIGH SPOTS IN THE OVERNIGHT NEWS (By the Associated Press.) Domestic: MEMPHIS, in Big Lake, levee inundates 170,000 acres. FAIRBANKS, H. C. Deckard calls Moscow report of finding of Eielso another rumor. KEYSTONE, S.

to write 500-word history of United States to be engraved on Mt, Rushmore. WASHINGTON. National Geographic Society makes public radio from Byrd telling of meteorological observations; data may eliminate antarctic as weather blind spot. NEW AValska, wife of Harold F. McCormick, wins customs exemption as resident of Paris.

WASHINGTON. President and Mrs. Hoover entertain Vice President Curtis and Mrs. Gann at official White House dinner. WASHINGTON.

One hundred million in golf shipped from United States in last -two months of 1929. FLAGSTAFF, Arlz. Seventeen persons reported marooned in snow in shack 16 miles north of Flagstaff. NEW E. Hughes in address before City Bar Association says Interest of United States fully protected by world court protocol.

SAN Hickman. Verdict of Murder, Manslaughter or Acquittal Are Permissable dance orchestra leader, dies after operation. Foreign; PLYMOUTH, England. American delegates to naval conference arrive. NCKJALES, Rubio welcomed to Mexico.

open air meetings prohibited in order to curb riotous tendencies of radicals. statement on Hague agreement says Versailles treaty right of sanctions end when plan operation begins. APIA, Samoa. Mounted police capture seven of 78 natives wanted for opposing New Zealand government. TEIENTSIN, China.

Dethroned emperor expects strong man to appear to lead China out of chaos. ARREST DETECTIVE ON LIQUOR CHARGE By The Associated Press. LANSING, Jan. Eastman, former Lansing detective and one of the officers who obtained evidence against Fred Palm and Mrs. Etta Mae Miller, two of the whose sentences recently were commuted by Governor Fred W.

Green, himself has been arrested on a liquor charge. Eastman is alleged to have sold liquor to Robert Zimmerman, a laborer. The officer recently was discharged from the department as the result of bribery charges made by a man convicted of a violation of the liquor law. He now is proprietor of a restaurant. YOUNG BOXER TO GET CHANCE AT TITLE By The Associated Press.

PARIS. Jan. Trevldic, an 18-year-old youth from Brittany, is prabably the youngest boxer in the history of the prize ring ever to get a crack at a title. His chance comes tomorrow night when he meets Frankie Genaro of New York, generally recognized champion in the flyweight clases, at the Velodrome over the 12-round route. By The Associated Press.

PAWNEE. Jan. in court by his mother and his wife, B. O. Shepherd, Tulsa real estate man, today faced the climax in his trial on a charge of murder in connection with the death of Robert Hatcher, of Webb City, Mo.

With arguments of two attorneys completed at a night session of court last night, the case moved swiftly today toward consideration my the jury, and expected to be submitted to that body some time this afternoon. Hatcher, sweetheart of Miss Alice Andrews, pretty stenographer in office, was found shot to death in the apartment of Miss Andrews, August 13. Shepherd contends Hatcher shot himself, during a struggle between Shepherd and Hatcher; the state claims Shepherd killed Hatcher get rid of With evidence all in, Robert Lee Suddath, of Tulsa, special prosecutor, began Interpreting the evidence as the night session opened after a brief dinner hour recess. As he reviewed bits of evidence the state had Introduced, Suddah reached the final visit of Shepherd to Miss apartment. knew Bob was in Suddath said.

knew- Bob had a key to the apartment. He thought: get rid of him. Whenever 1 come out here he bumps in and fnistrates me. I be alone with R. D.

Hudson, defense counsel, denied any inference of a that might have been introduced during the prosecution. he said to the jurors, you are not going to be led astray by the inference there w-as a love nest. There is not a line of evidence to prove Hudson, in his argument, also charged that a blood stained shirt, introduced by the state to show an absence of pow-der burns on the garment such as might have been left if Hatcher had shot himself, was not the shirt Hatcher wore w-hen he was shot. Arguments for four more for the state and tw-o for the to be delivered today before the case will be submitted to the jury, for acquittal or conviction of either murder or first degree manslaughter, the verdicts permitted under instructions of Judge E. R.

McNeill, hearing the case. Would You Take a Chance On Breaking Your Neck (or something) If Still In E. The doors are unlocked as usual and we are invoicing and smiling. Our Telephone Girl Is Right On The Job and Our Delivery Bus May Stop at Your House from force of habit. If you a on slipping slip while you are shopping with us.

Just Think Of Buying A Beautiful Coat you at HALF VALUE i AND A NICE WARM BLANKET OR ROBE i PROPOSE SHIFT IN PHONE OWNERSHIP By The Assoicated Press. JEFFERSON CITY. an. United Telephone and Electric Company, a Delaware holding company, Thursday applied for authority to transfer telephone properties in seventeen Missouri towns to an operating subsidiary company, and for issuance of $329,300 in additional securities against the properties. The telephone exchanges now- are operated by the Midwest Telephone Company and the transfer would be by exchange of stocks and bonds of the United company for securities of the Midwest company, and cancellation of the outstanding securities of the latter company.

Exchanges to be transferred: Bunceton, Butler, California, Clarksburg, Dearborn, Edgerton, Fortuna, Odessa, King City, Weston, Hopkins, Otterville, Platte City, Sarcoxio, Smithton, Spruce and Syracuse. The United also asked authority to acquire exchanges in Rolla and Salem. CANZONERI TO BOX JACK BERG TONIGHT By The Associated Press. NEW Jan. Canzoneri, erstwhile featherweight champion, and Jack (Kid) Berg of England tangle in a 10 round bout in Madison Square Garden tonight with a shot at Sammy lightweight title perhaps awaiting the winner.

Present plans of the garden are to match the winner of battle against A1 Singer, Bronx idol, the ultimate survivor to meet Mandell for the title in an outdoor show this summer. OPENING GAMES IN KEMPER TOURNEY AT LESS THAN THE RIGHT IWCE Bargains Galore All Over The Store and our clerks are Christmas? I said the parson to a small boy who was digging, you that it is a sin to dig on Sunday except In a case of replied the youngster. why you stop asked the good man. this is a case of replied the young philosopher, feller fish without 0 u- SEDALIA Queition: your husband much of a provider, Answer: nothing else, gwine get some new furniture he gets the money; gwine to get the money he goes to work; gwine to work the job suits him. I never see such a man in all mah hi I DENIAL BY JUDGE TO KILLING CHILD By The Associated Press, CAMDEN.

N. Jan. Joseph A. Corlco, of Atlantic City, took the witness stand today in the trial of Gladys May Parks charged with the murder of two children, and made a complete denial of the statement that he had slain one of the children. Earl L.

Farr of Philadelphia, husband of Miss sister, took the stand. In one of her statements Miss Parks is alleged to have said that Farr came to her home in Camden the night of the day Corio visited her. Farr, she said, saw the dead child. She told him what had occurred and he suggested she bury it in the country. Her statement then said he LEGAL SKIRMISH TO GET ACCUSED LIKELY By The Associated Press.

PHOENIX, Jan. police officem en route today to Harrisburg, to secure the signature of Governor John S. Fisher to extradition papers for Mrs. Irene Schroeder and Walter Glenn Dague, held here, may have to engage In a legal skirmish for custody of the pair, accused of Ing a Pennsylvania state highway patrol officer near Newcastle last December. Still declining to admit definitely that she is Irene Schroeder the w-oman last night refused to talk to her 4-year-old son, Donnie, on a long distance call from Newcastle, Pa.

She was called from her cell, and TO CHARGE ST. LOUIS IS STRONGHOLD drove her with the child In a suit! voice on the wire. mamma. How are case to Absecon near Atlantic City, here he waited for her while she the child asked, threw the body of the child In a i Mrs. Schroeder thicket.

called. Farr made a complete denial of is Donnie, mamma. Where the charges in the statement. are Mrs. Schroeder backed away from CAMDEN, N.

Jan. the telephone, and dropped the re- Joseph A. Corio, of the Atlantic I She could not be pursuaded City commons pleas court, is to 1 take the w-itness stand at the trial of Gladys May Parks to deny her statement that he w-as the slayer of 2-year-old Timothy Rogers. That was the jail matron told her. you talk to know who It the 4.1 nu 1 woman answered, I feci Miss Parks is accused of killing 1 talking By The Associated Press.

BOONVILLE, Jan. fourth annual invitation basketball tournament at Kemper mllitary school opened here shortly before noon today, delayed by snow- and impassable roads. All but four of the tw-enty entrants had reported. The California players experienced an accident en route. round; Fayette 30; Moberly 19.

New Franklin 2S; Cole Camp 12. Land Bank Attorney III ST. LOUIS, Jan. S. Hale, attorney for the Federal Land Bank here, is seriously ill from blood poisoning in the Missouri Baptist liospital where he was taken last Friday.

His condition today was somewhat improved. SECURITY BENEFIT ASSOCIA. TION PROGRAM POSTPONED Fidelity Council No. 53, Security Benefit Association, has called ofl its program and meeting that was tion of a scheduled for this evening and an- 1 Lewiston, Timothy and Iiis 4-year-old sister, Dorothy. The tw-o children had been left in her care by their father, Alan N.

Rogers, Woodbury, N. after the death of his wife. In one of five statements obtained by Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin shortly after she surrendered to the police in New-ark last November 9, Miss Parks w-as quoted as having said that Judge Corio had come to her home in Camden, seized Timothy by the throat, choked him and held him under the running w-ater in the kitchen sink. The statement said that the jurist had declared she was trying to disgrace him through the child.

In another statement. Miss Parks was alleged to have said that Earl Farr of Philadelphia, her husband, had come to her house and after learning what had occurred, drove her to Absecon, N. in an automobile with the body of the boy in a suitcase and waited while she disposed of it in a thicket. Farr also is expected to take the stand to deny these allegations. Prosecutor Baldw'in said today that the Camden county grand jury had investigated the statement implicating Corio and that he had been exonerated.

He also said he personally had investigated the Farr allegations and had found them to be untrue. His purpose in introducting the statements, he said, was to establish that the defendant had told different stories on different occasions. It was learned that Judge Corio had through a photograph taken at a SALESWOMAN DIED OF INJURIES FROM FALL By The Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Jan. Funeral services will be held at Lebanon, for Mrs.

Martha Hoover, 66, St. Louis real estate saleswoman, who died here last night of injuries suffered in a fall while visiting at the home of a daughter in Lebanon. She operated a hotel at Lebanon before going to St. Louis about five years ago. Acquire Road By WASHINGTON, Jan.

acquisition of the southeast and St. Louis railway under lease by the Louisville and Nashville railroad was approved today by the Iter- state commerce commission. for the Sick Bright, cheerful plants, in full bloom. Prices at $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 and up. much happiness in flowers these Wintry Days.

Archias Floral 4th and Park. Phone 421-W. DEATH DUE FORCEPS BEING LEFT IN BODY By The Associated Press. RICHMOND, Jan. James N.

Whitfield said ta day following an inquest that evidence showed that the death of Mrs. D. W. Timberlake, 28, of this city, who died in a hospital here established a complete alibi Tuesday, came as a result of the presence of a pair of surgical foi- prize fight in Atlantic City, August having been left in her lower 22, the night Timothy Rogers was following an operation in killed. This photograph w-as said to Washington, D.

three years show- Corio at the ringside. ago. REFUSAL FOR ORDER TO CONSTRUCT RAIL LINE By The Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. interstate commerce commission refused today to order the construc- new railroad line from Idaho, to Holmstead, nouncement will be made later rela-j Oregon, or from Lew-istown to jciarkston, Washington live to its presentation.

SHARP SAWS sci. and better. Hand set 50c. Hand aawa retoothad and f1. dell ilmberge 009 E.

By The Associated Preas. ST. LOUIS. Jan. charge that St.

Louis as a is prejudiced against Heber and Gus O. Nations, and that Heber therefore could not be given a fair trial on a liquor conspiracy charge here, will be renewed in Heber appeal from his third conviction this week, defense counsel revealed today. Nations was convicted Wednesday for the third time of a conspiracy resulting from the alleged protection arrangement under which the Griesedieck brewery of St. Louis made and marketed beer in 1923 and 1924. He was sentenced to 18 imprisonment and to pay a $2,000 fine.

The appeal to the United States circuit court of appeals, which reversed his two pre'vlous convictions, will state, according to the defense, that Federal Judge Charles B. Davis should have granted request for transfer of his recent trial to Hannibal, Mo. The application for a transfer was denied. INQUIRY UPON BOOKS OF CHURCH By The Associated Press. LOS ANGELES.

Jan. District Attorney Daniel Beecher, in charge of an investigation of financial affairs of Angelus Temple, said today that an audit of the books of the mother church of the group headed by Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, warranted which probably would result in a grand Jury probe. there should be an indictment for mismanagement of funds, there certainly will be some sensational disclosures, and even if it does not come to an Indictment, some of these disclosures probably will be made he said. MORE DRUG STORES TO CROWN COMPANY By The Associated Press. KANSAS CITY.

Jan. of 13 Kansas City drug stores operated by Paul J. Mason. with the Crown Drug Company, operator of 39 stores, was completed today. Mr.

Mason will become vice-president and a director in the merged organization. The merger increased the yearly business of the Crown company to approximately $5,000,000. BUSINESS MEN TO THE HALL OF FAME By The Associated NEW YORK, Jan. business man is finally to be honored with a place In a hall of fame. Plans for perpetuating the memory of the pioneer men of business were disclosed last night at the second annual dinner of the Hundred Club, an organization composed of representatives of firms that have been in existence for more than 100 years.

Details are still to be worked out OPERATORS INJURED BY FALLING CEILING By The Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. telephone operators were slightly Injured today when an antenna mast that was being removed from the roof of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company fell and dislodged a portion of the ceiling on the seventh floor, plaster showering on operators who were working below. 1 Sell Homes At Auction. KEMP HIERONYMUS CEDARDALE FARM IOWA TRACK TEAM MAY BE BARREb By The Associated CHICAGO.

Jan. University of Iowa track team, annually one of the strongest in the giate field, may find Itseff barred from every Important meet In the country this year because of ouster from the western conference. Under conference rules, no member Is permitted to compete with a suspended member. Thus, directors of such meets as the Peniiy Texas, Drake and Kansas relays appear certain to meet with the alternative of inviting Iowa and losing the entries of the Big Nine or banning Iowa and inviting Big Nine teams. COL.

GLENN TAKEN TO SANITARIUM By The Associated Press. LOUISIANA, Jan. Ed A. Glenn, well known democratic political leader, was removed yesterday from his home here to a sanitarium in Jacksonvllle. 111., for treatment.

His condition is said to be critical. Colonel Glenn was In charge of Champ campaign for the democratic presidential nomination at Baltimore in 1912, and took a prominent part In the campaign of Senator James A. Reed for the same nomination at Houstmi. in 1928. LOSS OF $50,000 IN CARTHAGE FIRE By The Associated Press.

CARTHAGE, Jan. today succeeded in placing a fire which did $50,000 damage to the J. N. Taylor Furniture store under control, the battle against the flames being waged in a zero teim perature and driving snow storm. The blaze apparently caused by an over-heated stove, was ed about 2:30 a.

m. It was feared for a time that the fire would spread to other nearby store buildings on Main street. Other store buildings were damaged slightly by smoke and water. Insurance of $25,000 was carried oa the building which was destroyed ARGUE ON REGULATION OF BROADCASTING TIME By The Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan.

over the right of the federal radio commission to regulate broadcasting time, raised in a case brought by the General Electric station WGY at Schenectady, was made the order of business for late today in the supreme court.