The Wichita Beacon from Wichita, Kansas • 1

-1 i IT A EVENING i NUMBER 247 Ca PAGES WICHITA KANSAS MONDAY JANUARY 11 1937 VOLUME 10 PRICE: In the City 3c Outside the City 5c BROO? STATE HELM SLATER AND VICTIMS HUX1AN ASKS FOR G0PAID BITI II CODE VERY ANCIENT BOOK DASH TO SPAIN TURns UP WICHITA IN WAR CRISIS Loyalists Prepare for Bitter Street Fighting as Insurgents Drive in WHICH PROVES A Heirloom of Mr George Belshaw Shows Thai Is a Progressive Development in the Art Singing By VICTOR MURDOCK Mr George Belshaw the Packard Wichita Motor Co shows me Edson Billings Johnson and Reed none of whom knowledge survive in MAD PATIENT KILLS DOCTOR ATTACKS WIFE Deranged Man Then Calls 1 Up Judge Reports Accident" POINT! There of Popular Takes Oath at High Noon as Thousands of Kansas Demos Cheer CIVILIANS FLEE HOMES WRECKS HOME IN FIGHT FAREWELL BRIEF Brownson to my present-day hymnals The book came directly to Mr Belshaw his mother Laura Melissa Brooks Belshaw who received it from her father a Kansas pioneer who settled at Kelly Kansas in an early day He came from Illinois and was a cousin of Abraham Lincoln The Belshaws also Kansas pioneers were of a colony of English who came to Kansas from Petersbrough in an adventure distressingly distinguished by Great Grandmother Belshaw who at the prospect of life in the wilderness iof the West lost heart and just as the expedition was about to set out ranged herself TANGIER NORTH AF-IRICA Jan It was reported today that 10 German submarines were lying at Cueta Spanish Morocco Two came to Tan gier yesterday to refuel French and British warships I cruised off the Spanish Morocco I coast Three French warship maneuvered off the Atlantic coast between Arzila and Larache yes ter day afternoon A British seaplane I from Gibraltar at the same time flew over the neighborhood while three British warships cruised past Cuetal very old American-printed chor-ster which is convincing testimony me that congregational singing a comparatively recent accom-illshment The hymnal contains he of and is In the main made up of printed musical scores of Psalm tunes This book is 150 years old probably more It came down to Mr Belshaw through his family the Brooks of Nemeha county this state They were very early Kansas pioneers The hymnal was printed by and Green for Simeon Jocelyn and Amos Doolittle New Haven Connecticut who were its distributors The date of publication is given as 1782 and a bit of newspaper pasted inside the backcover confirms the time of its publication This scrap of newspaper Is part of the New York Packet of the issue of January 23 1789 This date-confirming piece of ancient news-print serves also to point out the comparative durability of rag-paper and leather For the volume was once bound in leather most of which long ago wore away The riaper of the newspaper excerpt as the pages of the book itself look to be good yet for many centuries The generations which have possessed the book have taken most jealous care of it as is evidenced by a fine stitch with cotton thread which once re paired a considerable tear in one of the pages KANSAS CITY MO Jan il (LrR) Langford 41 today fatally stabbed his uncle Dr Nevin Wetzel with 'an ice pick choked Mrs Wetzel into unconsciousness arid then pleaded for a gun that he might end his Own life Langfbrd had been living in the Wetzel home six months while his uncle treated him for a men tal disorder Langford after stabbing Dr Wetzel telephoned Judge Allen Southern of the circuit court and Dr Stewart Gilmore been a terrible accident" Langford told Judge Southern "'Please come Judge Southern Whose home adjoins that of the Wetzels found the doctor dead on the kitchen floor and Mrs Wetzel dazed sitting in a chair There had been a terrific fight in the kitchen and the bath room door was battered down Mrs Wetzel said she locked herself In the bathroom and that Langford broke the door down Mrs Wetzel said the trouble started when Langford wanted to telephone his wife and two children in Salt Lake City Langford was pacing the floor when Judge Southern arrived kept repeating have done what have I done? have hurt them for anything Judge Southern said asked me for a gun that he might take his own Judge Southern persuaded Langford to leave the house with him They drove to Independence where Langford was jailed Special to Tlie Essie TOPEKA Jan Walter Iluxman the Hutchinson lawyer launched a wave of democracy over the Kansas prairies -at high noon today while thousa nd of the adherents to Ihe New Deal yelled full throated approval Nattily clad with the face often wreathed in Smiles during the morning bearing a solemn look of determination Mr Huxman raised his hand -and took the oath as it was administered by Republican 1 John Dawson soon to become chief justice of the supreme court Here to lead the cheering as Mr Huxman took over the governorship of the Jayhawker state was Sen George McGill from Washington Secretary of War Harry Woodring Guy Helvering commissioner of internal revenue and scores of others high in the ranks of the New Deal Scores from Wichita Wichita sent scores of her leading Democrats to the scene The Wichita entourage was headed by Fitzwilliam state chairman who lifted a siege laid down by of- ficeseekers to dash out to the high SMALLEST TURNOVER THREE OTHERS INJURED KK'TiSStoTaK I McKee former county treasurer i -cv ro ivmcrn Charlie Lewis Harry Castor Helen Little ado marked the SAN FRANCISCO dan jHouston and dozens of other passing of Sedgwick county 11 (UR) Three persons wichitans were on hand taking a offices into another term at were killed and three were i prominent part in the ceremony suspect what a vocal doesjnooi) today as only four new' injured one seriously today Political medicine was piade on every hand Sunday and today Moving Civilians I Out of Madrid Now MADRID Jan (UP) I their backs to the wall after bloody week-long battle the Madrid garrison prepared today for street-by-street house-to-house de fense of the capital Evacuation of the civil population which started yesterday cleared the (Continued on Page 3 Column 5) My chief interest in the book was its revelation of the strides the whole population in America has made in the art of singing in the last century and a half It is almost unbelievable that day before yesterday in the country's history the art was so embryonic That a people is not just naturally bom with the gift of song but must acquire it by experimentation through trial error and correction I have long suspected And my suspicion has been confirmed by ipy own observations here in Wichita during a lifetime If the recording phono graph had come earlier and the choir and congregational singing of familiar hymns sixty years ago with that in any Wichita church yesterday could be compared the contrast would be startling testimony to the fact that singing is a matter of progressive development through generations This fact is emphasized in the instructions to singers included in this old chorister These instructions tell the reader thereof how to the He is warned' against his nose and his teeth He is advised against vocal vigor and counselled to attain if possible ease of seeming i The counsel continues good even' to this day No singer can ever! I i I- i i 1 REPORT JAPS AIDING REBELS 3000 on Way to Spain Geneva Hears The print of the musical scores themselves is exceedingly crude If this is not the first it is certainly among the first attempts by an American print-shop at a musical score All printed music used in America was long imported This production may have been by gra vure on wooden blocks LENN PURCELL Rush county farmer and his attractive wife whom he allegedly has confessed strangling to death at their home near LaCrosse last week TOKYO DENIES RUMOR in the first fatal crash of the San Francisco-Oaklantl bay INTO SANITY FR RAPS LONG OF STRANGLER WORKING WEEK Rush County Farmer Slew officers The little more Sheriff Frank Boone and his deputies waited the tick of the clock that would set them free from of- took over sheriff office was only a crowded than asuai as bridge since it was opened two months ago The dead: Frederick Meyer 87 Currie Minn EL Dc Golia Jr Oakland Miss Agnes Healey Oak- Only occasionally are the printed notes accompanied by the words of the song When the words do appear they are unfamiliar with one notable exception This exception Is in the stanza: from ye tombs a doleful sound My ears attend the cry: living men come view ye ground where you must shortly In a majority of instances the names of the creators of the tunes are given and the American composers among them are noted to an auditor And a point is emphasized in this ancient volume which to my notion could still be profitably emblazoned on the walls of every place where anybody essays song That point is set forth in the very simple Injunction as sound today tomorrow and forever as it was in that' dim distant yesterday when it was written To wit: solo should be sung soft and BULLETIN GENEVA Jan Reports reached diplomatic sources here today ihat 3000 Japanese volunteers for the Spanish rebel armies are en route and are expected to debark in Spain There are appointments in the offing and the ear of the leaders was being sought Such rumors as Kirk Prather will be warden of the penitentiary were rife Retiring Governor MLan-don was given a rousing send-off by the crowds that watched the ceremonies He flashed the Landon smile that millions had seer from coast to coast during the recent campaign On the stage back of the governor the retiring governor and -other dignitaries at the officers of the Wife Baby HID BODIES IN HOUSE fice and as Joe Bauml sheriff-elect janj an advertising executive in an and his deputies waited to take Oakland department store The injured: Alexander Doonan Aside the office Burlingame Cal Mrs Doonan Attorney Sidney Foulston being spCj32 ancj ieyer-s widow Mrs Amelia and span in prepara ion for depar- 62 Doonan in Sat change Ugplace en'S In the court rooms ve werp Riigm Assails Some as He Seeks LONDON Jan A report from Gibraltar yesterday that a contingent of Japanese troops had arrived at Cadis in nationalist Spanish territory caused international lifting of eyebrows today A foreign office spokesman said the report was known there only from newspaper dispatches where the docket was being assigned Two cars were involved in the Kansas national guard in full uni- new fares appeared for the state crash which occurred on the upper HeLscl and other deputies ol deck of the span the largest the (Continued on page 12 Column 1) Eli Eubanks new county attorney' world One car jvas driven by De-j LINK LAUNCH TO KIDNAPER Abandoned Shack Searched as Hot Clue 10 PERISH IN COAST STORM California Blizzard Loss Placed at $10000000 ASKS FUNDS TILL JUNE golia who was accompanied by Miss' HIKt WAR BUDGET were on hand to take cognizance of proceedings Halls about the county commission rooms were jammed mast of morning giving the only outward the (Continued on Page 3 Column 3) Expenditures Increased 30 Per Cent at Moscow LA CROSSE KAN Jan 11 (UR) Glenn Purcell 45 Rush county farmer held here following confession that he cnoked his wife and their year-old daughter to death last week is to be given a mental examination Purcell a World1 war veteran recently was treated at the Veterans hospital at Wichita where his mother Mrs Mabel Purcell and a brother Walter a pharmacist reside He has other close relatives but mentioned his mother and Wichita brother especially wanting to get word to them The Rash county farmer is said to have confessed to John Chlum-sky deputy sheriff that he MORE COLD SWEEPS IN FATE IN DOUBT WASHINGTON Jan 11 (UR) President Roosevelt today rebuked certain industrial employers for lengthening the work week and asked congress for $790000000 to carry the relief burden during the remaining five moriths of thi3 fiscal year That will increase the 12-month cost to MOSCOW Jan Soviet war budget was increased 30 per cent in the estimates made public today by Finance Commissar Grinko Healey The Meyers and Doonans were riding in the other car The Meyers parents of Doonan had been visiting at the Doonan home for the past several days Close Span to Traffic The collision occurred just east of tic Yerba Buena bore tunnel con-inecting link of the east and west i spans of the bridge during a heavy rain and wind storm which made' traffic conditions on the bridge hazardous throughout the night Policemen closed traffic on the span until the wreckage could be cleared away and the bodies and in- jured persons rushed to the Berkeley general hospital $78134024 GIVEN KANSAS AS RELIEF LONDON Jan (UR) Great Britain has moved to obtain direct reports on alleged German activities in Spanish Morocco which have roused French anxiety to fever pitch it was learned today Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden instructed A Monck-Mason British consul general at Tetuan (Continued on Page 3 Column 1) THE WEATHER FOR Fair tonight and Tuesday Not so cold tonight Somewhat colder Tuesday FOR Fair tonight and Tuesday Not so cold in east portion tonight Somewhat colder in central and west portions Tuesday Sun sets 5:29 Sun rises 7:45 BULLETIN EVERETT WASH Jan (UP) Chief Criminal' Deputy Ray Ryan of the Snohomish county sheriffs office today said the body of a boy that resembled in some respects Charles Mattson had been found State Gets Share of Billion to Nation OVER 2YEAR PERIOD $2y2 15000000 The president charged that a ten-! Wrangled his wife and daughter fol-dency toward a longer work week1 lowing a dispute over the sale of has had important affects on re-j employment He complained that (Continued on page 13 Column 3) some employers were up SAN FRANCISCO Jan 11 (UP) A blast of Arctic winter swept over the Pacific coast today marooning motorists and mountain residents in heavy snows damaging winter crops and crippling communication arid transportation The new storm brought slightly higher temperatures to most regidns still recovering from effects of a previous' bitterly cold spell but the weather bureau predicted another downward plunge in the mercury later which may break all-time records A crew of 165 CCC men was pre- Con tinned on Page 3 Column 4) STEEL WORKERS END STRIKE BIRMINGHAM ALA Jan UP) The firy strike called by the committee for industrial organiza- KFH HEADLINERS TODAY Herbert Foote's Ensemble 6 to 6:30 Horace Ileidt's Brigadiers 7 to 7:30 pm Radio Theater 8 to 9 George Orchestra 10:43 to II WICIIITA EAGLE NEWS BROADCAST 11 to 11:05 Isham Orchestra 11:05 to 11:30 WASHINGTON Jan The federal government poured $78-13402408 into Kansas for relief and administrative expenditures during! tion in the steel industry ended to-j 1935 and 1936 statistics released day when workers in the American1 here today revealed This compai ed Casting company plant returned to with a total national expenditure their jobs Employes claimed a for the two years of $6121472549 victory for their organization President Roosevelt however hasi Among the points they gained were allocated $8057983578 for a 20 per cent wage increase a 40- hour week and payment of time (Continued on Page 3 Column a half for overtime I TACOMA WASH Jan 11 (UR) An abandoned launch in Puget sound and a recently-occupied shack on lonely Squaxon island 15 miles north of Olympia spurred police and federal agents today in their search (Continued on Page 3 Column 1) NATION STILL GAMBLING WASHINGTON Jan (UP) The Brookings institution nonpartisan economic research organization today advanced a seven point program to further economic recovery Attached was a warning that the nation is gambling'' that national income will increase sufficiently to balance the federal budget before confidence in the government wanes production without an equivalent stepping up of employment" Mr Roosevelt said such employers were working their emplbyes long He complained they were to co- in re-employment with the government and with the people He added that most employers and most Industrie have not (Continued on Page 8 Column 3) FOUR NEW OFFICERS TAKE POSTS AT COURTHOUSE TODAY FOR the tiniest part of a second at high noon today these two gentlemen were Sedgwick county attorney! and both occupied the proper desk A moment later though Eli Eubanks right new A thanked Sidney Foulston retiring attorney for his kind cooperation photo INSTEAD of handing him the keys to office or shaking his hands Frank Boone retiring sheriff presented his successor Joe Bauml left with the official county guest list On it appears the names of all county prisoners and It constituted Bauml's first act of office to read the Staff photo HATFIELD retiring commissioner from the third district enthusiastically greets Henry Peltier of Andale left Peltier who succeeded George Rogers when the Utter resigned last summer returns to the board of commissioners after a brief absence Staff photo ART FRANZ out-going county commissioner from the second district shook hands with Fred LampI left his successor after he had shown Lampl over his spacious 10 by 13-foot office in the county commissioners quarters He shpnned the formality of handing him the keys They work aijyway Staff photo.