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SEDA1.IA WEEKLY DEMOCRAT Democrat 1868. ol. 65. IGKES OUTLINES A BROAD POLICY OF SPREADING WORK FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE SEDALIA. MO.

jne 23.1933 Kames Basic Requisites Projects Must Have to Get Attention TO GIVE PRIORITY TO SMALLER JOBS to Be Given Areas Where Work Is Needed Most By The Associated Press. WASHINGTON. June broad policy aimed at sprf'ading work as and quickly as possible was set forth today by President Roose-1 cabinet board in charge of pubiic works. In its third long conference, the cabinet board headed by Secretary Ickes, discussed ways of pushing out over the country the $3,300,000,000 construction fund and set forth basic requisites that projects must have In order to be considered. Priority was asked for projects on which work can be started at once and completed with reasonable speed over those that would be spread over a relatively long period.

is in order to stimulate Immediate revival of employment and industrial the board said. Next it ranked: Projects In or near centers of employment as more desirable than ones areas where the problem of unemployment is less Projects are integrated with other projects into a significant as against those which isolated and Two prime requisites written by the board were: project should he socially desirable in the sense of contributing something of value to the equipment of the community and should not be a mere makeshift to supply work. work should be constructed which would require for. its maintenance or operation an additional outlay by the federal Coupled w'ith this declaration of building policy w'as a five-point labor program designed to get as many to work as possible, with the proviso that all contracts must meet the requirements of the national industrial recovery law for short work-1 ing hours and fair scales. Job opportunities, the board asserted, be equitably distribut- ed among qualified workers who are unemployed, not among those who merely wish to change one good job for continuing: opportunities shall be distributed, geographically, as I idely and as equitably as may be practicable.

w'orkers ho, under tlie law', are entitled to preference, shall secure such treatment. wasteful costs and personal disappointments, due to excessive migration of labor to the vicinities of work projects, should be avoided labor required for such projects and appropriately to be secured through employment services, should so far as possible be selected from lists of qualified w'orkers submitted by local employment agencies designated by the United States employment To states, cities and counties eager to share In the w'ork billions, the board said: for federal financing or other aid for proposed projects should not be rushed to Washington. They should be withheld until an organization is in existence and functioning can handle them in an orderly and effective The prevent a in Washington, the board said there must be wide decentralization, it proposed to bring about by state administrators to recommend toj Washington all non-federal projects. Units be set up in Washington: to consider the state projects from these standpoints: General policy; engineering and. technical soundness; legal ity; financial setup; et-onomic de-.

slrability and relation to unemploy-; ment and revival of industry, and from the viewopint of c-ordinated planning. Federal projects will he scanned from the economic and coordination points. All projects and expenditures will be passed upon the cabinet board, subject to the aprrova! of President Roosevelt. The state will aided In considering appli- ations by a technical expert fron. Washington and a state advisory board.

Only projects which this state setup approves will to Wash igton, and the caMr.et ard warii- d- "rntil this orgai izatn it will to- u.s^dess to direct, to up, projects Bothwc 1 Hospital Notes Jar i A 5 -h r. i B. N. I I' Provisions of New Rail Agreement WASHINGTON, June Here is the new railroad wage agreement provides: pjxtension for eight months from Nov. 1, 1933 of the 10 per cent wage reduction of Jan.

31. 1932. Cancellation of the railroads demands for a permanent cut of 22 1-2 per cent in the basic pay of union workers. of the entire question for discussion Feb. 15, 1934.

Placing the agreement into effect as soon as the Railway Labor Association notifies the managers committee that their organizations have approved it in accordance with their Provision that if the agreement is not approved by July 12, 1933, wage conferences may be called In accordance with the Labor Law'. NUMBER 25. $1.00 PER YEAR PRESENT WAGES ON RAILWAYS TO STAND FOR YEAR and they merit the commendation CHAIRMEN nf fVio TO MEET SUNDAY NEGRO CHARGED WITH BURGLARY Agreement By Desire To Help Out In Plan For Recovery DECISION AFTER CONFERENCES HELD Noster, has been admitted for medical treatment. F. M.

Chaney, postmaster at Longw'ood, underwent an operation this morning. Mrs. Fdarl Sappington, of Knob Noster, qs admitted for surgical treatment. Roads Drop Their Demands For Added 12 Per Cent Reduction L. P.

ANDREWS BACK FROM CONVENTION By J. H. JENKINS Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June railroads and their employes last night agreed to set aside for the time being their stern dispute and let present agreements stand until June 30, 1934, as a means of helping the administration carry out it business recovery plans. The understanding cancels a notice given by the railroads June 15 of a 22 1-2 per cent wage reduc- 09 jtlon Nov. 1, and continues a 10 per i hearing late this cent reduction effective for the last I day before Judge Trailed to the Liberty Park carnival grounds through a tip to Officer Cecil Glenn, Otis Hill, Kansas City, Negro, was arrested Wednesday night as the burglar who robbed the home of Willis Arnold, 1600 West Main street, Tuesday night.

The tip came from an unnamed woman said she saw the negro drop a shoe as he made his way back to the carnival grounds, where he had been w'orking at one of the attractions. The manager of a show officers he could point out a Negro w'ho had been suspected of previous thefts. A few minutes later Hill was arrested by Officers J. L. Brooks and Tom Moffitt.

Hill would not admit the burglary, but Officer Glenn said he had found the person to whom the stolen articles had been sold. These con- slsted of a .22 calibre pistol, a pair of house slippers, a set of silverware, two pairs of pumps and six shirts. Hill was charged this afternoon in the court of Judge W. L. McCutcheon, sitting as ex-officlo justice of the peace, with burglary and larceny.

He will be given a evening or Fri- McCutcheon. By The Associated Press. JEFFERSON CITY, June Prof. Walter Burr, director of relief for Missouri, today called a conference of relief chairmen who have been aiding in the local administration of relief funds In Missouri to meet here Sunday. Burr said he expected approximately 60 local relief chairmen to attend the conference.

The purpose of the conference is to discuss the immediate future of relief administration In Missouri and its relationship to the public movement. relief chairmen in many counties have rendered splendid vol- told i unteer and it the facts L. W. BALDWIN IS ONE TRUSTEE FOR MISSOURI PACinC FINES AND DAY IN JAIL FOR RIOTING Been In Charge of Operation of Road After Bankruptcy Petition HISTORY GIVEN ON BUYING TERMINAL service for several months To Railway Alleged IS their right to know' all that can be known concerning the entire relief and recovery Burr said. In addition to the county relief chairmen, county leaders who have recently made Inquiry concerning relief and reconstruction funds, w'ill be Invited to attend the conference.

By R. F. C. In Excess of Market Value JOBLESS IN THE UNITED STATES BECOME FEWER By The Associated Press. ST.

LOUIS. June W. Baldwin, president of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and Guy A. Thompson of St. Louis, former president of the American Bar Association, were appointed trustees In federal court today to operate the road under the amended bankruptcy law.

Baldwin had been left in charge of operations after the railroad filed a bankruptcy petition March 31, stating it wished to reorganize under the new law'. Last mouth the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, By The Associated Press. PRIMGHAR, Iowa, June Earl Peters today sentenced 20 northwest low'a farmers to one day in jail and a fine of $50 for participating in a riot during a farm mortage foreclosure sale at county court house here, April 27. Some of the 20 admitted during iheir trial tw'o w'eeks ago before Judge Peters that they also members of the group which on April 27, w'ent to Le Mars and dragged Judge C. C.

Bradley from his court-room, carried him Into the country and choked him into unconsciousness with a rope tether. The 20 were charged with tempt of court and were tried without a jury. Judge Peters this morning granted a change of venue on charges of conspiracy still pending against the group. The trials on this charge will be at Orange City July 10. Judge Peters refused to suspend sentence and insisted the farmers begin at once their 24 hour jail terms.

ACQUIT MITCHELL ON A CHARGE OF EVADING TAXES Government Loses Against Former Chairman of Big Bank JURY DELIBERATED ABOUT 24 HOURS Had Been Accused 'of Cheating on Over $850,000 In Income Taxes' 4 Mr. L. P. Andrew's, president and general manager of the Sedalia Water is home from Chicago, he attended a convention of the National Water Works Association which concluded a three days session Wednesday. Mr.

Andrews arrived home last night. Mr. Andrews saw the Century of Progress Fair He with others engaged wheel chairs which he says are operated by college serve also as guides so familiar with the wheel and talk and points of interest and they wiieel their passengers to points of vantage as well. Mr. Andrews said usually require a full day to see, was covered in about three hours and a half.

Mr- w'as delightfully entertained and thoroughily enjoyed the experience as well as the de velopment and achievements by science. students w'ho for they are grounds they announce the the house and stole the articles, to Chief J. L. Sw'itzer and Night Chief Jack Tindle early this morning. BACK TO ST.

LOUIS SIDELIGHTS ON WHAT TO EXPECT ON THE STATE FAIR-SEDALIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GOODWILL TRIP Tuesday, June 27 Harry Ram- w'elcomes the J. H. Gunn says hello. Mayor Crammer will also be there. Clerk Miller is in charge of the program.

pj. Messerly, president of the Chamber of Commerce will lead the parade to their city park for brief ceremonies. E. Tleman, presiding judge of Speed events at the fair, Mayor Lee, meet us at the highway and lead us up town. We detrain at court house.

Drum corps march town. We Jefferson in front of capitol 11:50. Met by state and city officials. March to Missouri Hotel for lunch. Many state officials will be presented.

Governor Park Is expected to attend that luncheon. be met on outskirts by president and secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Follow drum corps to their new' city hall for welcome. Inspect their new city hall and mingle w'ith Columbians. visit the famous three deck Show Boat operated by Mrs.

C. W. Green's mother. Met at the railroad station by city fathers. Drum corps marches up Reed street to city park.

The welcome ceremony. Meet Secretary friends. at court house. Tom Patton, livest says greetings. A pretty town.

Tom Gaines and newspaper owner, Wirt Mitchell all enthused about our visit. Lot of publicity there. They greet us on court house lawn. New' by city fathers. to Frederick Hotel from the south for dinner.

President Bolz has them all interested over there. Good turnout expected. only stop, B. W. Laj'ne is master of ceremonies there.

A hospitable community and gotni friends of Sedalia. may be tired, but happy at having participated important piece of Se- State Fair promotion for Seis for your busl- 18 months. The highly important truce was signed in the office of Joseph R. Eastman, federal coordinator of transportation. The agreement carries out the request of the administration con-, veyed by Eastman, is regarded SLAYER SUSPECT as President spokesman in railroad matters.

It followed two days of conferences betw'een the coordinator and the conference committee of managers of the railroads and the Railway Labor Executives Association. The end of the fight, which w'as precipitated June 15 by the notice of another pay slash, came suddenly after the tor had announced that the tlon w'ould be allowed to I for a He spoke at the close of a conference with the union; chiefs which followed a protracfedj discussion with the railroad man-; agers. A. F. Whitney, spokesman for la-j bor, W.

H. Thiehoff, chairman ofj the committee and Ken-i neth Burgess, attorney for the managers, tonight ere hurriedly call- ed into conference and the agreement was drawn and signed shortly before 9 said in making it public, been reached because both the railroads, I and the employes ish to do I ing w'hich would in any ay em-1 I barrass or threaten the present, policy of the administration. They! realize that the government has! now embarked upon a wholly policy to promote business and dustrial activity and to further the general The agreement stoods as the first effort of Eastman as a mediator in railroad problems and al- He admitted that he entered JJundfeds of ThOUSEflds Returned To Work In April and May By The Associated Press. WASHINGTON. June American Federation 22 of JEFFERSON CITY, June A suspect in the robbery of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Mexico and the slaying of tw'o peace officers at Columbia last Wednesday, has been returned to I St.

Louis after being questioned by officers of the state highway pa-i i Col. B. Marvin Casteel, superin i tendent of the patrol, said the sus- pect would not be released, but would be held for possible implica-. tion in other crimes. The search for the slayers, onel Casteel said today, is continuing unabated.

The Labor went smal- num- BRIEF AND PEPPY TALKS BEFORE THE KiWANIS CLUB says that 629,000 persons back to work in April and a as yet undetermined May. In its monthly survey of business for May however, it added; as this news sounds, there is no evidence yet that it marks the start of Any further progress, the federation said, must depend upon the extent to which the purchasing power of the laborer is increased- In April, unemployment was said to have decreased from 13,359,000 to 12,730.000, or 4.8 per cent of those out of work regaining jobs union reports for May show' another gain, not so large. This is the most significant of all business gains reported this spring; it is the largest since depression began. unless employment gains more than this it will take nearly two years to get the unemployed back to business cannot wait Monthly tabulations of the fed- eration in recent mouths on unem- Administrator ISot Keady pioyment foiiow: ORGANIZATION IS BEING SET UP ON PUBLIC WORKS For Seekers of Funds For Construction -Presi- board 1932 in an Jaba rk. ilia i.e> V.

OHR, Chalrman. though undertaken unofficially and outside his capacity as coordinator it was considered a victory for the I administration in its fight to keep the Industrial situation on an amic- able foundation pending the outcome of the business recovery moves. Although the agreement w'as formally signed tonight, it still is subject to approval of the individual unions represented in the Raihvay Labor Association. This is regarded as a formality but in the event that there is not complete agreement by July 12, 1933, among the unions themselves, wage conferences are to be called. announcement follow's: railroad managers and the railroad labor executives have entered into an agreement under which the agreement by which 10 per cent is being deducted from the pay checks of employes will be extended from Oct.

31. 1933, until June 30, 1934, and under which the date on which either party can submit a notice in accordance the provisions of the Railway LaborAct indicating a desire to change the basic rates of pay will be extended from June 15, 19333 to Feb. 15, 193343. this agreement the rail- roads will surrender for a period I of eight months their right to seek i a further reduction in employes' compensation qnd the employes will appointed. for an equal period of time their opportunity to secure c.uL.iuauon ui the present 10 per, I cent reduction.

notice given by the railroads I June 15 of an intention to seek a 22 1-2 per cent reduction in the ba- sic rates of pay will be agreement has been reach-? ed because both the railroads i and the employes wish to do nothing which would in any way embarrass or threaten the present' policy of the administration. side relinquishes in any: way its views as to what the wqges should be but they have agreed to' a f.os-ponement of the controversy id ference to what they be-1 -It. -desire and policy; of the administration and in the Cl i- i .,:5 acitenie.it Las reached voluntarily in a spirit of coop-' eration and I to express my! very hole apBreciation ot the atti'uie of parties. They 1 have WASHINGTON, June dent public works today informed the nation that are proceeding as rapidly as to set flowing the appropriation for tioii activities by congress. An official statement said efficient to carry out the program for which funds provided in the industrial recovery bill is being set up.

Secretary Ickes, chairman of the I cabinet board, will be in charge while beneath will be the public i works administrator, Colonel Donald H. Sawyer, the present temporary administrator, day moved his headquarters into the I interior department building, and found dozens of applications for jobs and projects in his ante-room. To those seeking funds for construction, he said the administrator W'as not yet ready. The board made clear that the administration of public w'orks would be entirely distinct from the industrial control administration under Hugh S. Johnson.

To handle applications on state, county and city projects, there wdll be a state administrator and state advisory board to be appointed by President Roosevelt. The federal board, through Ickes said it hoped to submit to the chief executive on his return from his vacation a list of state administrators from which he could choose. correct some erroneous current the board added, may be said that not a single state public works administrator has Month April May Jufie July Aiiguit September October November. December 1933 January February March ...............................13,359,000 April ................................12,730,000 Unemployment 10,496.000 10.818,000 11,023.000 11,420.000 11.460,000 10.875.000 10,875,000 11.589,000 11,969,000 12,821,000 12.988.000 BELIEVES FLOYD IN SPRINGFIELD CAFE By The Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD.

June Strength to the belief that Charles Floyd visited Springfield Tuesday night given today by the report of Mrs. Winifred Lippert, ow'ner of a restaurant here, who said she saw a roan closely resembling the bandit in her restaurant. Tw'o employes in the restaurant also expressed strong belief that they had seen in the place. Mrs. Lippert said the man entered the place w'ith two companions.

Floyd and one of the others drank coffee, while the third man ate a sandwich, asking that It be speedily prepared. Snatches of conversation overheard by the added to their belief that it was Floyd and tw accomplices. They heard the m'en speak of someone as being a squeal- er, and one of the men was heard to remark that they had been travel- 90 miles an hour into Springfield. I Mrs. Lippert said she w'as certain BOLIVAR HIGH SCHOOL of the men was Floyd.

have SUPERINTENDENT DROWNS seen picture.s in the she like to the Missouri Pacific, asked for the appointment of a disinterested trustee or trustees to investigate financial transacions between the Missouri Pacific and he Ven Sher- ingen companies controlling it Judge Faris today named Marion C. Early, former president of the St. Louis Bar Association, as special master to head evidence concerning the transactions mentioned by the R. F. Judge Faris said he had hoped in the interests of economy and speedy reorganization that trustees would be unnecessary, but he had no personal choice and was acting in w'hat he believed to be He W'as making the appointments, he said, in view of the fact that counsel representing holders oi about $350,000,000 of the out-standing bonded indebtedness of the Missouri Pacific were in court in a very kind the nomination of trustees.

He added, however, that tlie appointments were entire-1 ly discretionary under the law'. he said, it is the! contention of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that the contracts between the Van Sw'eringen and the Missouri Pacific in the purchase of the North Kansas City and St. Joseph Terminal properties should he investigated by trustees, a 1 w' i because of his connection with the making of the contracts, would not be the one to make the Judge Faris said that if the road were to be found insolvent creditors should receive first consideration, since in that event the stockholders would have lost their interest in the properties. Edwin S. Sunderland, representing the Guaranty Trust of New' York, and Lloyd Kitchell of New York, representing eleven insurance companies owning about $90,000,000 in Missouri Pacific and subsidiary bonds, had told the court they were not asking directly for trustees, but on the other hand ere not opposing the appointment.

The R. F. C. was represented by Max O'Feil Truitt. Thomas T.

Hailey, an attorney for the Missouri Pacific, gave of the purchase by the Van up I Sweringens of the terminal properties for a stated consideration of $19,179,514 and their sale of the Missouri Pacific for $20,334,262, a price alleged by the R. F. C. to be in excess of the reasonable market value. Details of Good Will Tour For Next Tuesday Were Announced The w'eather being very hot, Judge E.

W. Coney, w'ho was in charge of the program for the Ki- w'anis club meeting, decided not to have any speaker wiio w'oiild give a lengthy talk, but arranged for a series of short, w'itty talks by a number of club members, asking each they do if they were members of the board. Some of the replies were serious, others witty, and all were brief. The speakers Walter Bohling, Ed McLaughlin, Clyde Heynen and Rev. A.

W. Kokendoffer. The club had as guests Jack Truitt, of Kansas City, a former Sedalia theatre man and David Platter, of Texas; Mr. Saunders, and Cline Finnell, secretary of the Sedalia Chamber of Commerce. Philip McLaughlin, vice-president, opened the meeting in the absence of William Courtney, president, was detained until the lunch well under Wayne Orr, chairman of the State Fair good will tour mentioned the plans for same and introduced Cline Finnell went into detail as to the plans and program.

Announcement w'as made by Chas. O. Botz, of next program, will be a night meeting, Thursday, June 29, at Hotel Terry, w'hen the entertainer be Jules Brazil. Those who w'ere fortunate enough to have hear Mr. Brazil on his last visit to Sedalia are not going to miss his entertainment next week.

MORE FATALITIES IN THE HEAT WAVE (By the Associated Press) Another day of scorching temperatures and mounting death lists led many sections of the nation to anticipate with fervor today piom- ises of relief from the heat wave. New' fatalities were reported yesterday to bring the Wisconsin total to 14 and other states reported deaths as follows: Michigan, 14; Pennsylvania and Ohio, three each; Missouri, and Kansas, one. In addition, seven persons reported prostrated as mercury climbed to 98.3 at Wash I ington, D. C. By The A.ssociated Press.

NEW YORK, June Mitchell W'as acquitted today OQ.iiU counts in the indictment wiiRjh charged him Income tax eras- ion. The jury which had heard the I government charges that I former chairman of the National I City bank, had cheated the govern- jment in 1929 and 1930 of more than $850,000 in Incomes taxes, toolL the case at 11:25 a. E. S. It returned the verdict more thaa 24 hours later.

Charges against Mitchell, who for many years w'as one of the powerful figures In the banklxtg world, W'ere briefly that he had illegally failed to report a payment of $666,666.67 from the National City Company in and that he had made sham stock sales to make It appear that he had suffered such heavy income loss that he owed no tax in 1929 and 1930. The stock sale dn 1929 was to wife, and the one to 1930 to W. D. Thornton, president of the Greene Cananea Copper Mitchell leaped to his feet heard the words, pronounced in a low' voice by James K. Campbell, foreman, and grabbed hand of Max D.

Steuer, his coiinseli His face w'as firey red, his eyjM filled with tears. With left the court room while the were still in the box. Federal Judge Henry W. Goddard requested the jurors not to discuss the case publicly and dismissed them. talk too tnoV- Mitchell said as the crowd pressed around him as he left the court room.

With Steuer, he In tits ante-room where he had spent ths hours waiting for the verdict Steuer made this statement: verdict proves that in thS State of New York justice can still be had by the verdict of a jury; that neither mob psychology nor emotion will enter the final determination. Mitchell w'as absolutely innocent of the accusation made against him as a result of what w'as deemed popular demand. a prosecution which followed a most exhaustive search and the exercise of the greatest diligence on the part of the prosecutor who presented his case with as great ability as I have ever witnessed, the jury nevertherless saw the truth and decided INQUIRY LETTER NOT YET RECEIVED Railey said the Van Sweringens Out in Nebraska they were aban- boiight the properties from Armour i donlng the heat to talk about the JEFFERSON CITY, June Col. B. Marvin Casteel, superintendent of the state highway patrol, said today he had not received Rep.

K. Armstrong's letter requesting an investigation of the actions of highway patrolmen and other officers 111 connection with tjfe kidnaping last Friday of Sheriff KilUngs- w'orth of Polk Counjy. The patrol chief said he might Issue a statement when the letter COLUMBIA MAN GETS APPOINTMENT CAMDENTON, June Melvin Wingo, 30, Bolivar high school superintendent, was drow'ned in the Lake of the Ozarks five miles southwest of her Wednesday while swimming. Leaving his w'ife and small son on the lake bank, Wingo, a good swimmer, swam out toward an overturned rowboat. After 30 minutei he was missed by those on bank and a search for him started.

The body has not been recovered. said, he looked exactly Suit To Quiet Title and Swift interests, believing them humidity, but even so it was plain! from Armstrong, a Green County necessary to their railroad hot at Lincoln yesterijay when the 1 Republican, is received, at a time when they were buying temperature to 92. into the Missouri Pacific unknow-'n. Kansas had a maximum of to the Missouri Pacific management. but in Mattoon, 111., it went to 103 Baldw in, on being informed of the and an even 100 at Blooraburg, purchase, assigned a traffic expert and Frederick, Md.

Detroit to investigate the value of the had a top reading of 96, but Chi- properties, he said, with the result cooled off to the before that the investigator reported the and it w'as comfortable in properties would greatly increase along the shore of Lake Erie Missouri Pacific freight traBic. Elsewhere in the state readings in The expert reported, he said, that common. the properties would net the Mis- soiiri Pacific about $1.000,000 an- poplar Bluff mially, which is more than interest poPLAR BLUFF, June 22. on the purchase price for the first temperature dropped to the five years- He conceded the eighties here today as scattered i brought some relief to parched crops. The maximum temperature yesterday 101.

souri Pacific had paid more than the appraisement of the interstate commerce commission, but said the Missouri Pacific had offered I the physical value for other rail- I road properties because of the i traffic Edw ard general counsel for the Missouri Pacific, said he did I not oppose the appointment of trustees, although he felt they w'ere Tv The Press. JEFFERSON CITY, June B. Hopper, Columbia druggist, today W'as appointed state grain warehouse commissioner by Gw. ernor Park to succeed Ralph Brii- senden of Kansas City, Republican holdover. Hopper is a business associate of Searcy Pollard, mayor of bia.

He W'as indorsed the Boone county ganizatlon, headed Columbia lawyer Central Missouri cles. for the post bf Democratic by Ned Bogga, and leader in Democratic filr- A suit to quiet a title filed in the circuit court Thursday by Paul W. Sterling and Marie Sterling, against the unknown heirs and devisees of P. Pow ell, not necessary, and was that deceased, the unknown heirs and controversy the R. F.

C. WAGE INCREASE AT BRICK PLANT plan CELEBRATION i HERE ON FOURTR devisees of Hannah A. deceased and the unknow'n heirs and of William Lester, deceased. AdmiTistrator Appointed Letters of administration on the estate of the late Sallie N- Pace been issued by Probate Judge J. E.

Smith to Ira Pace. Released On Paying Fines Underwent An Operation Mrs Humphrey, of Windsor. ent an operation at the been reasonable and tospiiai Monday. be referred to a special master. President Baldwin issued a statement in which he said the appointment of Thompson as co-trustee w'as to him.

I Missouri Pacific lines are a important factor in the welfare Mort Dodson and Ora and future prosperity of the great negroes picked up by the police and I am quite sure Mr. failure to pay an old fine were Thompson and as trustees, will questioned by Chief of Police J. L. i tlnd a real and mutual interest in Switzer Thur.sday morning, and up- managing the affairs of these prop- I on payment of the remainder ofjerties to the best interest of all the iine they were released. By The As.sociated Press.

FULTON, June Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, which operates large firebrick plants here and a Vandalia today announced a wage increase of approximately 20 per cent for all ployes effective as of June 16. All former employes of the plants have been called back to Several hundred workmen will be affected by the increase which w'as put into effect in line with the national industrial recovery act. The Harbison-Walker Company operates 25 plants in various sec! tions of the United States. Employes in all plants ill benefit by the increase. The merchants of East Sedalfb are sponsoring a Fourth of Jtiiy celebration at Washington Tuesday, July 4.

They are cooperating with bers of the park board and planning athletic contests, community singing, an ill the afternoon and fireworkt at night. Marriage Licsnsts Ittusd Milton H. Wahl, St. Louis, and Elsie A. Brandhorst, Asa F.

Chambers and Dale, both of Sedalia,.