The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 1

r' 1 s'- 1 i -T ij v' 1 jii -C-: i 4- w-J' 1 i a v' Oa i W2 a yOliUME PRICEs FIVE CENTS WICHITA KANSAS SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 24 1933 1 I FOUR SECTIONS ladiiiac News- SwMf UltwlA Mansiae GlaaKM ul Gmb NUMBER 1811 -t i Pleads Guilty nmn THE EDITOR SPEAKING: iCansas and Colorado are said to have reached a compromise on the pro -posed Caddoa reservoir project The last time Kansas compromised with Colorado on a similar deal Colorado got the water UMf THE LEVAHDS HAVE FAILED TO CATGII THE SPIRIT OF THIS WESTERN CITY Christinas Concert vToday 7 CHRISTMAS i festivities In mchlls wm bo opened this aftemorm at 3 with a free concert at the Fonun in which a chorus -of i voices and Hie Wichita Symphony Orchestra win have part! The music win bo of a sacred character and particularly fitting to the season The chons will be made up of the choirs of Wichita churches and win be under the direction of outstanding musicians The orchestra wfll be under the direction of Duff Middleton Albert Schmuts of the fine arts department of the State Normal at Emporia will be the guest conductor presenting for the first time here his paraphrase of "Silent Night" This one of the series of concerts being given by the orchestra and the American Legion band to keep alive the Interest in good music They an free to -the public nil assisting musicians contributing their services 7 The concert today will be of a high musical character and should be heard by all ldvers of good music i ii Citizens VMtehfng to Sea if It WillJlisfribute Burden andpghtenlt ITS FORMULA SIMPLE -i Difference Betweenthe i 'State Statute and the Federal Law they read in the Levand newspaper cannot help but gain the impression that Wichita as pictured by the Levands Is on the make The most careful scrutiny of the Levands record since they came here fails to disclose a single thing in their favor either as citisens or as newspaper publishers They pay no taxes They lend no rapport to any of the various functions' of government which have been crested for the convenience and protection the citizens of Wichita Briefly the Levands have never been in step with the spirit of this mid-western city They have been selfish -promoters instead of city builders They have placed their own Interests above the interests of the community They have attempted in all cam to skim the cream from a town In which they had no part in building and to which they hsVe fafled to bring even a semblance of support The result has been that the Levand newspaper has been thoroughly discredited among all right thinking persons and has become particularly offensive to those who love their -home town and who resent the -attempts of these itinerants to misuse It for their own profit i Move Brings to Dramatic End Colorful Trial in I Kansas Bond Scandal FACES LONG PEII TERM Insanity Move Is Blocked Emporia Banker to Be I SentencedSaturday TOPEKA Dec 23 (AP) Ronald Finney 34-year-old bond broker and princi- sal figure in the Kansas mil ion dollar bogus bond scan dal brjought his colorful trial toT an abrupt end today by pleading- guilty to 31 counti of bond forgery and sale Defense attorneys entered the plea or Finney only after having failed in an endeavor to show their client was insane and unable to proceed with the triSl which began twef weeks ago A court room well filled- with spectators who had waited all qfterv noon -despite the fact the court was recess all the time saw John Schenck approach the rail before Judge Paul Heinz a few minutes after' There was a tense stillness Then Schenck said: "Youi honor after conferring with the defendant In this case and with -his wife-we desire to enter a plea of guilty We ask that sentence be deferred for a few To Be Sentenced December 38 After -7 receiving idea Judge Heinz set the date of sentencing for Saturday December 30 The jury! which had been out of the courtroom all day while motions werie argued conferences were held ana Finney examined by three physicians to his sanity then was brought in and excused Far from appearing downcast over his future Finney smiledShook hands with a number of persons and exchanged Christmas greetings "Keep a stiff upper someone toM him have a stiff upper lip ha returned Finney said he had no comment to make for publication but chatted with newspaper men and as he was leaving the courtroom approached Judge Heinz with a request thatttie donate $1 to the Christmas fuxujL the -erstwhile band broken has been collecting for his fellow prisoners the past few dayg I 1 Tve been trying to get up enough I -7 (Continued on Page 28 Column 1) PONCA CITY WOMAN IS KILLED IN CRASH Son Dying and Brother Badly Hurt in Collision on Way 'to Visit with Relatives r' TULSA OKLA Dec- 1 -Mrs Ted Clark of Ponca City -was 7-kllled her 7-mpnth-old son injured probably fatally and her brother Ted Ward critically hurt when their car driven by Ward collided today with the chauffeur-driven mrhtnw of Leahy of Pawhuska near SUatook Mrs Clark was en route to visit her parents In Foyil for the holidays and-her! husband was to Join her later 7 Jack Bonham county investigator' said the accident was unavoidable 7 TOPEKA KAN Dec 23 individuals are on the brink of a brand-new ex-' perience a state income tax Kansas standing at the edge of the tax adventure is much more: interested in the tax 'developments which will come put of rit than Kansas is 'in' the income tax itself 7 Far the formula of the state ln-C come tax law is quite simple and the revenues it will produce are likely to be quite smalL Hut the part the income tax will play ultimately in its relatlon to other taAs and in the economic life of the state 4s decidedly intripate and for the moment lias the center of the stage because of an exceptional capacity Kansas has' far keeping an eye on all taxes and an exceptional keenness in avoiding manner of self-deception about taxes Through 'long training Kansas' has learned to listen respectfully to claims and counter-claims about taxes and then make up Its -mind by a personal perusal of the tax receipt handed out by the county treasurer Exemptions as Provided The provisions of the new Income tax for Kansas are easily carried in head Exemptions are $750 for a single Individual and $1500 for a married individual the bead of a family In addition an exemption of I $200 is allowed for each dependent i tinder twenty-one years of age Net Income above these exemptions is taxed On the first $2100 above the exemptions the rate of tax la lvper cent on the next $1000 it Is 2 per cent on the next $2000 2M per cent on the next $2100 3 per cent and on all incomes above the exemptions of $7X)0 4 pier cent There are provided of 'course the usual penalties for -false and fraudulent returns and" for failure to file' returns and also Jfine tor not filing the return on time 7 1 "Difference In Laws Those who 'keep their books on a i (Continued on Page 7 Column 4) THROWS VIFE INTO WELL BURNS HOME KAN Ronald finney erstwhile prosperous young bond broker of Emporia who late yesterday pleaded guilty to charges based on millkm-dollar bond forgery scandal Finney Renter of the gigantic fraud faces a long prison term with a possible sentence of one to 21 years each on 31 counts SEC IGKESlTO RULE OIL DEVELOPMENT OF NATION FIRMLY Orders Plans for Drilling Be Submitted to Him for Approval to Prevent Waste of Resources Washington Dec 23 (P) Secretary Ickes oil administrator announced today regulations for orderly development of new oil pools to conserve the petroleum resources and prevent was regulations were issued under code of fair competition for the lustry and approved by the petroleum planning and coordination cpmmittee which represents the industry under the Code Ickes explained -the regulations required that plans for development of new oil fields should be submitted directly to him for approved and become effective by his order To Protect All Parties 'No plan will be approved by Ickes said "which does not adequately protect the correlative rights of all parties having jm interest in the pool New will 'I approve any plan that does not permit full conservation of petroleum resources to prevent the waste of irreplaceable fuel "Production from newly discovered fields or pools will be restricted so as not to interfere with the existing interstate market for petroleum and its products and drilling in new pools will be curbed to prevent unrestricted development of excessive potentials "Provision is made for hearing interested parties In any newly dis covered area for which a plan development is proposed Likewise may in appropriate cases submit any proposed plan to the' plannini and coordination committee or (Continued on Page 28 Column 3) The Yeafher KANSAS: Unsettled and decidedly colder Sunday possibly snow flurries in northeast portion moderate cold wave in northeast portion Sunday night Monday fair with rising temperature in northwest and north-central portions OKLAHOMA: Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday with a cold wave 1 Htisband Jailed After Mate Ts Rescued Woman in' Critical Condition SNQWVILLE ME Dec 23 Rescued from a well as her home burned to ashes Mrs Gertrude IBrown in a critical condition jn a hospital here tonight Her husband James A Brown accused of beating his wife twice throwing her in a web with a rope tied ahoqt her ankle and burning their home was lodged in the Waldo county Jail charged with assault and battery -Authorities said they had learned no motive for the attack kx 7 HOIXYWi Grey Charles film comedian ar-i riired here today to spend Christmas with her mother and two sons She i -will leave shortly after the holidays for London to flU vaudeville engage ments -WIFE TO EUROPE )D CAIfc Dec (ff) iplln former wife of I r1m One of the most serious crimes which may be charged against the chlseler in business is the harm he does the community in which he operates No city can grow and prosper unless Its business men have the respect and confidence of those who contribute to their support And the chlseler in any line lessens that respect and confidence to a degree far greater than is often suspected' The Levanda have been known as ehiselers ever since they came here They tried' first to chisel In on public affairs to bluff public officials into doing their biddlag They have kept up an incessant tirade against -sufh officials because they Ignored the bluff putting it down and rightly so as Just so much hot air Chiseling tactics of the Levands have dipped into other lines They have promoted only those civic movements which seemed to offer them a profit in advertising They have Ignored any and all endeavors which were purely of a civic character and (or the good of the community only Because of their tactics Wichita has been put in a bad light with Its neighbors Those who form their opinions of thiJ city from what POPE VISIONS PRAYER IS MEANS TO SOLVE WORLD DIFFICULTIES Pontiff Blasts German Plan to Deny Parenthood to Those Suffering from Incurable Ailments VATICAN CITY Dec 23 (ff) Pope Pius today assailed a German program for the sterilization of the unfit and exhorted those who seek the peace and welfare of the world "to pray and persist in their prayers' In his account of the Joys and sorrows of the past year he described as "inconsistent" the proposal of the German government to deny parenthood to thousands of persons suffering: incurable ailments He listed as one of the Joys the success so far of the hrty-year 'hnd as one of the sorrows a world sttua tian characterized by "conflicts and and bound up "with uncertainties and distrust by the clashing interests of fruitless ne gotlatkms" Addresses Prelates -His holiness dad in shimmering white gave his annual Christmas address to the richly-robed college of cardinals and the Roman prelates who gathered in the consistory hall to wish him "multos and many years of life 'All he said "who wish for the welfare peace and concord of the world and the general good of the whole Christian family but who are in the same situation as are we namely obliged to judge events by that which is done or better said that which is not done far all those our word Is this: "They must firstly pray secondly pray and thirdly continue to pray There are other things Pius went on "that we feel in our heart but cannot and explained that the attitude on the German sterilization program was clearly set forth In a papal decree of 1931 and In the encyclical Before his speech Cardinal Pig-natelli dl Belmonte dean of the College of Cardinals felicitated Pius on the completion of another year of work as head of the Roman Catholic church and declared that the holy year has "been a magnificent Pius spoke of "fruitless to solve world problems and said his best comment on the out' come was "Nobody KANSAS Y0MAII IS DEAD AT AGE OF 1 02 OTTAWA7 Dec (P) Mrs Martha Branam 102 said to be Ekanklin Oldest resident died this afternoon at the home of her daughter Mrs A Stanturf four miles northwest of Ottawa Mrs Branam was bam in Modena MO November 24 1831 Her husband died in 1870 She is survived by three sans and two daughters -a I £J- I I I- lr-- i i I '7 I- i At Least 280 Are Injured in Rear-end Collision of French Carriers DEATH TOLL MOUNTING Locomotive Goes Through Four Crowded Cars as Fog Blots Signals i i LAGNY FRANCE Dec 24 (Sunday) AP One hundred eighty Christmas travelers were killed officials estimated today in a ghastly train collision near here last night 15 miles east of Paris The fast' train to Strasbourg an hour late Nunged through a thick fog at 50 miles an hour into the rear of the Nancy Express which had halted Both trains were carrying merry students and their relatives and Mends from Paris into the country for the holidays The wooden coaches of the Nancy train were smashed to splinters strewing the tracks with dead and dyibg Many Die in Hospitals The death steadily mounted as scores of the more than 280 injured died in hospitals or en route to them The Nancy Ekpress was standing still behind a -suburban local tallied in an impenetrable fog when the fast train suddenly out of the mlUty mist terrifying the helpless passengers before striking them dead The engineer and fireman of the Strasbourg train told investigators they could not see the signal lights or hear the torpedoes placed on the tracks because of fog and frost The four rear cars of the Nancy (Continued on Page 28 Column 4) YOUTH 15 ROUTS PAIR IN ROBBERY i i Stages Gun Duel Saving His Grandfather from Thugs Invading Grocery KANSAS CITY KAN Dec VP) Defending his grandfather Charles Ragan 15 engaged in gun fight with two robbers in his grandfather's grocery store here tqnlght driving the mm off without obtain' ing any money The grandfather Trank Mathes 65 was shot in one shoulder Two men with handkerchiefs over their faces entered the store Mathes was ordered to hold up his hands Eugene Ragan 11 Charles brother was in the store He ran to the rear where the family's living quarters are and told his older brother of the holdup Charles obtained his re-volver and running into a passage way between the front part of the store and the living quarters he fired five times at the robbers one of whom fired three shots at him in return The men ran from the store after firing one shot at Mathes Police said they believed one of the robbers was by a shot frdm revolver They said they found bloodstains on the sidewalk in front of the store All hospitals were requested to report the appear-fuoce of anyone seeking aid for a gunshot wound Defies Yrath to Name 10 Brainiest Women In Movieland Hollywood Dec 23-(AP) Perhaps the bravest man in Hollywood Maxwell Araow casting director for Warner Brothers studio made his selection today of the 10 brainiest women in the movies His selections: Helen Hayes (MGM) Kay Francis (Warners) Ann Harding (RKO) AUeen MacMahon (Warners) Diana Wynyard (MGM) Miriam Hopkins Paramount) Katharine Hepburn (RKO) Jean Muir! (Warners): Karen Mosley (MGM) Mary Boland (Paramount) Air Araow gives this reason for this choice: "They know what they want they know hew to get what they want anil they know what to do with what wanted when they ret it!" The fact that Mu Arnow is the youngest! easting director in point of service sets him up as somewhat of tan authority in this delicate matter because as he says he meets the stare only on a business basis He has been in Hollywood ozdy a year and a half Most Other easting directors who have bora at their desks long enough to make the outspoken -Mr Araow 00k like a novice pieet the stare on social as well en business ground Mr Araow admdta without- fear of eonsequen that he has omitted several Important names These include Mary PIckford Both Chatterten (of his own stadia too) Mao West and 'Joan national of Charges Congress Is Abusing Levying Powers RAPS INCOME TAX AIMS Leader Claims Punishment for Business Methods Is Not Proper Motive WASHINGTON Dec 23 (AI) The Chamber of Commerce of the 'United States the largest business organization today challenged the right of con-ress to attempt to correct social defects or economic abuses through taxation 1 Fred Clausen Horicon Wls manufacturer chairman of the committee an federal taxation- of the chamber today submitted this belief to the house ways and means committee as the "business on taxation Before stating the opinion on specific points opposing additional taxes on dividends maintenance of depreciation deductions and reduction of capital gains and losses rates among other things Clausen said: "The object of taxation is to pro-duce revenue The penalizing of particular methods of doing business or the accomplishment of social reforms are not within its legitimate sphere or should it be Influenced by prej udice or a spirit exf punishment "Abuse of Rights deviation from these fundamental principles not only an abuse of a sovereign right that carries with it the power to destroy but also operates to defeat the proper purpose of tax legislation namely the production or revenues "The correction of economic abuses or social defects should not be sought through a revenue measure and since the war the ln- Continued on Page 28 Column 6) SANTA DOWN ROPE ENDURANCE SHIP! i Women Hoping for a New Mark from St Nick as They Start on Fourth Day MIAMI FLA Dec 'Claus will come down a dangling rope in a tin can to Ranees Marsalis and Helen Richey who have asked St Nick to bring them a new endurance flight record Although the fliers will not hang up their stockings Santa Claus will send their Christmas packages in a tin can down a rope from their refueling plane the same way they get their food water and other mall The fliers began their fourth day in the air at 1:03 and as the plane swung in large circles over the city they neared the half-way point of the eight days hnd four hours record they seek to break Monotony of thq flight was broken for the women today rs they played a game of hide and seek with a plane carrying aerial photographers while Miss Richey was engaged in taking a sun bath minus her flying togs Miss Richey hurriedly donned her clothes and the cameramen got their pictures GOVERNMENT SUES KEATON FOR TAXES LOS ANGELES Dec An income tax lien seeking $13774 was filed today against Buster Keaton film comedian by the government which claimed the returns far 1932 were insufficient A lien also vtas filed against Sally actress' asking an additional $149 on her 1931 earnings llip Bools as Well as Fur Goat An Needed by Santa In Big Tour (By ocilated Frau) When Santa rides his broad dr cult tonight Christmas eve he must come prepared for every trick in the weather repertoire 1 A blizzard blew down his path from the North Pole to the Montana gateway and zero temperatures put the appropriate Christmas color on noss like a cherryJ Cold weather was an its way to the -northern Pacific coast where floods and storms have made 5 XX homeless and taken 13 lives this last Hip boots must be tax peck for his travels in Idaho Washington and 1 Hell find It fair foggy! and cold in spots down the long stretch of California South Balmy Down around the Gulf coast the fur coat will be checked for it is mild in the pleasant seventies down south of the Masim and Dixon line 1 By the time -the Donner and Blltzen team readies the North At lantlc seaboard the Sleigh runners will have to be installed for the dash along the Canadian jborder The middle and eastern states gen (Continued on Page 2S Columns) 1 1 xi A 3 1 1 1 "a 7 7774 Sl-r if' 1 I 11 F1-? DEAF MOTE GIRL FOUND BRUTALLY ATTACKED SLAIN Beaten and Bullet pierced Corpse Presents Complete Mystery to Police of Gfrand Rapids Mich: GRAND RAPIDS MXCH Dec 23 VP) Beaten criminally attacked and shot three times through the head the body of Miss Margaret Peevey a 22-year-old deaf mute was found today in a meadow two miles beyond the city limits Identification was made first' cat the morgue here by Patrolman Thomas Marshall a friend of the family and later confirmed by the young father Edward Peevey Her mother died eight years ago The body was discovered shortly after noon today by Frank Zuidema a farmer Apparently it had been lying in the field for 24 hours or more The clothing was tarn two teeth had been knocked out one bullet fired through the forehead and one through each cheek Coroner Simeon LeRoy said the girl had 'been criminally attacked Peevey said his daughter had been missing since Thursday -He said the- girl had been deaf since1 she was' three 'years old and had jhever learned ta talkJIe said She had a number of deaf mute friends with whom She went out occasionally but that he had no reason to believe any of them had been with her since she left her home Although admitting they were without a clue to thq companion prior to the attack officers advanced the theory she might have been accosted by someone unaware of her Inability to talk who becoming angered at her silence struck her and rendered her Unconscious FLIER RARELY MISSES UPSIBE-D0WII REC0RB LONG BEACH CAL Dec Milo Burcham Long Beach flies failed by' 18 minutes to recapture the upside-down flying record of 3 hours 6 minutes from Lieut Tito Falconl Italian ace today He was forced down by oil line trouble Burcham who twice previously had taken- the tSpsy-turvy mark from Falconl said he would try again soon PASSENGER DEADiPILOT DYING AFTER AlR CRASH ALHAMBRA CALt Dec Manx 23 a passenger was killed and Charles Forche 21 pilot probably fatally injured when their iTpiT crashed' into the wing of a ship on the ground and cracked up at the local airport late today concerns for canstructioh under supervision of fLjurmy engineers Options on 60 to 70 per cent of the property that would -be utilized already have been obtained i Oklahoma City has appropriated $1000000 to be used with federal funds on construction of one of the North Canadian river projects and has agreed to take over future maintenance costs Other communities affected have agreed to maintain ects that have been submitted and that we are investigating in the' Ar- (Ctnilnacd i Page 2t Column 7X GOLD BRINGS RELIEF TO FLOOD-STRICKEN AREA IN NORTHWEST Fifteen Cities and Towns in Washington Oregon and British Columbia Under Water Traffic Dead SEATTLE Dec The weatherman brought the perfect Christmas gift to the water-soaked Pacific Northwest today-colder temperatures to stem the floods which have caused 13 deaths and made thousands homeless General relief was felt in Wash' ington Oregon and British Colum bia although traffie fay tail and motor wag still almost paralyzed In western Washington fifteen Towns Flooded fifteen cdtteff'andl6wu 4were in undated in whole or in part scores more were isolated except to air planes and some rivers kept on ris-ixig adding to flood damage already of tremendous extent William Greenwood "the prophet of of Olympia Wash who is building an ark and predicting a deluge that will wipe life from the earth chuckled anenl the inundation of 1 a few hundred thousand acres in the Northwest and said only a A genuine flood will occur in 1938 he declared in warning sinners to prepare for -watery graves- All rail traffic into Puget Sound except from Vancouver and Grays Harbor was blocked by slides and washouts and railroads said they did not expect to operate much between eastern and western Washington for two days In Central Washington traffic was blocked and hundred of travelers were marooned In north Idaho floods thundered down from the mountains wrecking houses as they came shattered communications and isolated the Coeur mining cities of Wallace Mullen Kellogg and Burke for a time Three deaths from the floods were reported last night bringing the total to 13 dead and many injured KILLED BY TRAIN III WALKIIIG ON TRACKS PITTSBURG Dec 23 (fl5) Irving BoltOn 51 was instantly killed early this afternoon at Minden Mo ten miles northeast of Pittsburg Trisen he was struck by a Frisco passenger train as be was walking along the tracks Coronor Carl Konantz of Lamax Mo who investigated said a bottle partly filled with: liquor was found on body and that Bolton apparently was intoxicated or contemplated suicide as he did not heed the whistle or bell The accident occurred a short distance west of the station at Minden Coronor Konantz said no Inquest will be held erally with writing the epic But descendants of Henry Livingston Jr say it was his lawn 09 which there arose such clatter that he sprang from bis bed to aee what was the matter The controversy: has never been settled The poem was published in a volume by Moore who was bom in 1779 andwas a teacher of theology It was exactly 110 years ago today that the story of Santa tour appeared: in print in the TToy SentiheL The editor commented that its author was unknown to him 1 (Continued en Page 84 Column 1) The Eagle Want Ads Get Quilck Results Volume of classified advertising always foUotft reader preference or acceptance for a newspaper i Reader 1 confidence guarantees maximum a universal and unfailing rule I I Individual classified ads gravitate to the medium that gets results 1 1 Comparative Classified Ads Published Dee 1st to 20th Inc itiUTcninson ammmsas city atid VJinFIELb TO bEAEFIT FQ0T1 ARK VALLEY FLOOD COLITROL PbOJECT Seven Reservoirs and il Systems of Levees Flood Gates and Spillways froi Colorado to Arkansas Proposed to Government at Cost of $30000000 CHILDREN PAY FLORAL HONOR TO NIGHT BEFORE 1 1 Tots Undismayed Over Critics Quarrel About Vho Wrote Immortal Poem Make Annual pilgrimage to Grave of Clement Moore One of Claimants Eagle Lead ads 243 ads 683 ads ads 253 ads' 31 ads 263 ads 782 ads 278 ads 1414 ads 483 ads JL80 ads The Wichita Eagle published) 4473 more classified1 ads' from Dec 1st to 20th inclusive than the Wldhita BeacoQ i -i Te Wichita Beacon has for months bolstered: padded published free ads and full page displays trying retabv want ad volume-with no avafl The Wichita Eagle carried 65 of the Classified ads pub- 7 lished while the Beacon continues to fall behind and lose carrying only' 35 I' f'-'-j- Double tbe Pablie Influence 'I- Announcements Automotive Business Services Emplyoment Financial Instruction Livestock 344 Merchandise 16 13 Rooms and Board 484 Rentals Z18T9 Real Estate for Sale 641 8hoppefs Corner 704 Double the City Circulation The Eagle The Beacon Carried ads ads ads ads ads ads TULSA OKLflL Dec Eighteen river projects to cost an estimated $30294170 and furnish about 4203000 mandays of labor In six states will be presented the public works administration December 26 bearing the approval of the Ar 7 kgnsas basin commission appointed by Secretary Ickes The projects announced by Graham of Tulsa commission chairman consist of seven reservoirs on the Arkansas and its tributaries and eleven systems off levees dikes flood gates and spillways i The Projects are: The Caddoa dam and reservoir 30 milea east of Las Antmai Colo the Conchas dam nd reservoir 30 'miles northwest of TBcumcari Ml three dams along the North Canadian north and west of Oklahoma CUy one of which woald provide the Oklahoma capital with an additional iwater -supply the Great Plains dam and reservoir a Double the Reader Acceptance The Eagle Want Ads 1 Double the' Want Ad Results 4 H( Save Money udTini- x'- i the properties The in the Caddoa reservoir project settled amicably 20 yens of water rights litigation between thestates of Kansas and caioradtv Oraham said 'A reciprocal "agreement also has been signed by New Mexico and Texas he said to prevent disputes over the right of the city of Amarillo and possibly other Texas points to water from the Conchas reservoir near Cherokee Okla and the "These are but a few of the proj- By JAMES STREET (Associated Prase Staff Writer! NEW YORK Critics may disagree even on the night her fore Christmas but tomorrow children will take flowers to the grave of the teacher who some folks say wrote: Twas the night before Christmas and all through the 7 He wrote it for children If the legend is and the story gave rise to a cry and hue as to who wore the and who wore the cap and' who settled down for that long winter's nap Clement Moore is credited gen Hulah dam and reservoir in the Oklahoims Graham said thatr all projects If approved would be let to private 1 7 1 -v r- 4 I A -I 1 i- 4 s- -I V-- JSi 'I- '4- i- JU.