The Sedalia Democrat from Sedalia, Missouri • Page 1

EDITION 4 P. M. THE SEDALIA DEMOCRAT Democrat 1868. Vol. .58.

sei ON COMPENSATION BODY BY BAKER FUIX PRESS I.EASED WIRE SEDALIA, CITY EDITION 4 P. M. Alroy S. Phillips Appointed to Serve as ('hair- man of A(T ADOPTED AT ELECTION NOV. YEGGS DAFFLED IN HOHBERY ATTEMPT iatf-fi BI.TFF, Mo, Nov.

16. ijgmon fijrcofi tln'ir way inio Hank of Harviell, milos of horo, soiiip time last night but failod open the bank vault. Tiip combin- aiion was knocked off with a hoavy iron. (). t)sborn, cashier i diiicovered the bank 'd when nt to open the door.s this morning.

will be used in an effort to run the t-andits. RELIEF PLANS TO AID THE FARMER WERE DISCUSSED NUMBER 271. PRICE FIVE CENTS NO CHANGE IN PRICE FOR PRIvSONERS BOARD Mrs. Brown Improved Farm Orjianizations Representatives to Formulate Demands The county court in session today made an order for the payment of si.xty-five cents a day for the board of prisoners in the couiKy jail, for a period of one year, the order to become effective on January 1 1927. The amount is the same as last year.

Mrs. Frank IBrown. of West I'ourth street, ho has been critically ill at St. hospital, continues to show some improvement today, which news will be with great pleasure by her many friends. BRIEF SERVICES AT DANVILLE TO JOSEPH CANNON at Gentilly Bayou De La Croix Island, today.

The fight marked a renewal of the trappers war which has been waged annually through several trapping seasons. Official Count Showed It To Have Carried By Big Majority By The IVess. CITY. Nov. 16 S.

idiillips of Ft. Loui.s federal prohibition for this district, today wan appointed chairman of the new Missouri Comptrisation romniission by Gov. Sam A. Baker. Grin H.

Shaw, of this city, was named as the second memlier, and Kvert Kiehard.son of Grandy, as the third member. Larry Drunk of Aurora, state senator from the eighteenth senatorial district and secretary of the state publi(; service was seleeted by the governor as secrcdary of romiiensation commission, while Dr. A. Aiierswald, of De- Sota, heiid the state food and drug depart nn-nt, was picked as the advisory physician of the commission. Governor Baker said he had not decided upon successors for Brunk as secretary of the public service commission and Aiierswald as head of the food and drug inspi'ction department.

He added that no appointments to those jdaces would he made for some lime as Brunk and Aiierswald continue in them, since they would not he needed in the new' workmens compensation department soon. The commission will be busy for several months he said The lunv (lepartmont temporarily will he located in one of the rooms of the state food and drug department on the fourth of the caiiitol. Phillips, wlio was appointed for a term of four years, is the attorney member of the commission. He is a republican. Fhaw.

foiaunan of monotype ol the Hugh Stejihens Printing hr re, the stale luinting plant, was appointed for a two year and is the mem- i her of tlie commission representing employes. Richardson, a special agent in the state oil inspection department was nam 'd for a six year term, and represented employers on the commission. He is a republican. ''i'lie three members receive a salary of $4,500 each a year. Briink as si'crotary will receive an annual salary of $3,600 while Dr.

Aiierswald, as tlie advisory physician will get a salaiy of $4,000 a year. The salaries are set at those iigiires by the compensation act, wliich was adopted by vote of the people as by the referendum as an amendment to the constitution at the November 2 general election. It is the act passed by the 1925 legislature, hut which was held up and submitted to the voters by referendum petitions before it could become effective. The official coutiis of the votes east on the proposal, which was Proposition No. 1 on the general election ballot, was late yestiU'day in the department of (diaries F.

Becker, secretary of state, secretary of state certified the result to the governor and that made it immediately effective. The official count showed tlie act was adopted by votes. RENEW ACTIVITY FOR A PERMANENT EDUCATION FUND SENATOR CARAWAY GAVE AN ADDRESS Asserted Farmer Should Have Same Chance Industrialists REUNION MONDAY NIGHT FOR THOSE IN WORLD WAR Body of Noted Statesman Laid To Rest This Afte'noon Proposal of Amusement And Tobacco Tax Probably he Presented By The Pres.s. JFFFFRSON CITY. Nov.

16. Renewed activity for the estab forniulatt lishment of a permanent school fundi grf'ssioiia in Missouri, lead by Gov. Sam Baker, indicates that the proposal will be jdaced before the coming session of the state legislature, whieh meets here next January. Gov. Baker has announced he will ask the legislature to take a step toward the estahlishment of this fund by a tax on cigar and toliacco, amusemrnts and all minerals mined in the state.

The governor said the bill was being drafted for presentation to the general assembly by Assistant Attorney Gen one of the four speakers on measure cent tax would pro. I on amuse- also a 10 per-j In addition itj insurance tax the educational H. formerly ernor's (Towder, general. The proposed vide a 10 per ments, tobac(U) and cent severance tax. said the foreign would he placed in fund.

Charles A. Lee state superintendent of scliools, in a recent address before the stale teachers convention at Kansas City asked for the establishment of a permanent school fund. Ho said a permanent fund should be created which would (a) place the state educational institutions upon a solid financial basis. (h) enable the state to assume from thirty-five to forty per cent of the cost of public education, and (c) provide an equalizing of two or three million dollars, so as to guarantee, proper educational facilities in each district in the The educational fund was first proposofl by Gov. Sam Baker last year, but was dropped after several By The As.sociated Press.

ST. LOriS. Nov. cotton growing soiiih and the grain producing middle west got together today for a two days session through the medium of representatives of farmer organizations of 11 states, six of them to joint demands for coii- relief for agriculture. It was the first time that the two gia at agricultural sections ever had reached the point of sitting together, and the niovM was Iniliienc- largely by the condition in which the south finds itself tlirougii a heavy over-production of cotton, which has sint jirices tuniblin-i.

Goverinental favoritism was termed the cause of the farmer.s predicament in a speech prepared lor ue- livery by Thaddeus Caraway, Cnit- ed States senator for Arkansas, Slate Chaplain Fox of The Legion Spoke on Doughboy Memorial BRIEF SESSION OF CITY COUNCIL ON MONDAY NIGHT MCE PRESIDENT AT LAST SAD RITES Contractors Asked For An Extension of Time On Davin, Park i Service PREACHING SERVICE WEDNESDAY NIGHT FIRE PREVENTION EXPERTS MAKING INSPECTION HERE Rev. G. A. Hester, of Warrens- hurg, will preach Wednesday evening 7:30 at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Sixteenth street and Harrison avenue. All are invited to hear him.

K.x-s< O. Harrowood, was: program. The others wtre: Frank a seci'iTary in the gov-' (). J.owden, former governor el 11 office, aivi Georfre linois; Dr KiU'ore, of JVileik-i another a.ssistant attorney; chairman of the ijoanl of I the American Exchange, and A. D.

Waldauer of Memphis, attorney tor the 'I'ennesssee Cotton Cooperative Association. speeches, with tlie selection of a jiermanent chairman and the appointment of a resolutions committee, completed today's jirogram after the meeting v.as called to o-'der by Wm. llirth, of C''olumbia, Mo. farm paper inihlisher and a nation ally known leader in agricultural organizations. is no mystery as to the cause of the collapse of agriculture said Senator Caraway.

iervico and Legion men from all over Pettis County met Monday! time, night ill the Legion Hall on South Ohio avenue for a county reunion. Nearly one hundred attended the festivities. Several addresses opeiiftd the meeting which was afterward turned over to social pleasures. iMayor J. L.

I.iabcock, in a welcom-1 ing address, discussed many topics of interest to Sedalians and was followed by Jj. C. Bryson who told tlie and Ex- Service Can Do for Symbolism of the Doughlioy was told by Rev. C. (I.

Fox of this city, state chaplain of the Legion. concrete foundation represents the Constitution of the United Slates, which assures us against instability. The red granite on which the names are inscrilied represents the red-blooded community from whicli the men came. The bronze doughboy on top signifies victory through sacrifice and death. perhaps may think the expression on his face is not artistic or beautiful, we must consider the situation in which he was placed and the thing he represents.

With the coming of cooler weather, the Monday night sessions of the city' council are becoming sliort- er and shorttT. The session last night took up twenty-one minutes; which was sufficient to trans-j act all official husiiu'ss and to hear citizens who miglit liave some grievance to hare. The session last night opened with a query by City Counsellor At Cemetery Siiortridge as to whetlu-r the large intra-state busses passing through Sedalia should he taxed by the city No definite a-Uicn was taken. (uty Clerk N. L.

Nelson then read a letter from Berfman and Meriefee. asking that their contract for the paving of Park avenue from 5Tain to Second he extended some time, as liad weatlier liad liindered operations, council, in answer, passed an ordinanc'e allowing the contractors six months additional time. I City Clerk Nelson, before read' ing ordinance, told Counsellor Shortridge tliat he had written the ordinance in the absence of Shortridge, and that if, in the opinion of the counsellor, it was not in proper shape, that he should voice an objection. No objection was heard, which led Mayor Babcock to tell a joke about two brothers, writing essays on a dog. Tb.e teaclier, so, the story went, found the two es -1 He represents a soldier in the were exactly the same, and in midst of suffering and death, sur- to her query, the lioys de- roiinded by barb wire entaglements, SISTER SAYS SHE SAW MRS.

MILLS KISS REV. HALL Fire Drill Held In The Various Schools After Gongs Sounded TALKS WERE GIVEN TO THE STUDENTS By The DANVILLE. 111 Nov. from the halls of state, where Joseph Gurney Cannon write his name indelibly into the history of a nation, friends of the former speaker of tlie house conv'ened today to commit his body to its resting place. Under a wintry sky, only of men of state and a few flags in the church gave token that the rites honored a man who serv'ed more years in the nation's congress than iin.v other, and who for eight years ruled that body with a mastery it never has known since.

Less than an hour of obsequies markud the services at the church and at the grave. A hymn, a prayer and a five minute talk by the Rev. T. N. Ewing of the St.

James Methodist Church to which Uncle Joe belonged, constituted the church ceremony, and at the cemetery Kniglits Tomplars and Boy Scouts stood at attention as the casket passed between them and was low- ered to the grave. Vice President Charles G. Dawes, Governor Len Small of Illinois, Senator Charles S. Deneen and others who arose to Declared Mrs. Mills Sat On Knee at The Time By The Associated Press.

SOMERVILLE. N. Nov. Justice Charles W. Parker, presid- scorejing judge in the Hall-Mills murder trial, this afternoon granted an adjournment until Thursday morning at 10 to give the state an opportunity to call Mrs.

Jane Gibson on that day. Inspectors Here On Invita' tion of The Chamber of Commerce To Use Star Witness. SOMERVILLE, N. Nov. Simpson, special prosecutor in the Hall-Mills case, announced this afternoon that he has the assurance of physicians that Mrs.

Jane Gibson, expected to be his star witness, will he able to testify Thursday morning at 10 COURT HOUSE, Somerville, N. Nov. she saw her sister, Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, kiss the political eminence during Edward W.

Hall in 1918, but tmlilic life stood with the throngs J. Burr Taylor, secretary' of the Missouri State Fire Prevention Association, and a squad of thirty inspectors this morning began an inspection of schools, churches and public buildings, for the purpose of pointing out fire hazards. They are here on the invitation of the Sedalia Chamber of Commerce. The men, who are in teams of two each, are accompanied by a Boy Scout, and are making an inspection of the buildings as they are assigned to them. Today they visited the schools and the business houses in the outlying districts.

Wednesday they will complete their work in the down town business houses. At each school visited today talks were made on by ITreman B. White, president of the association, or K. O. Woodsman, chairman of the speakers, committee.

A fire drill was also held in each school by the inspectors, who walked in unannounced rang the gong and inspected the drill. Working with the out of town men today are the following local (Continued on page three.) ACCIDENTAL WOUND TO YOUTH FATAL By The As.sofl.Mted I KANSAS CITY, Nov. Finney, 15. who was shot accidently at a Jiotel here, died early today from his wounds, 'file mother accused Frank conferences here. Representatives.

7 1 X- 7 C) Doiso, at whom F. Ledtord. educational institutions, business 7 7 r- 1 manager oi the hotel was shooting with having used her son as a shield. and civic organizations, and interests that would have been affected by the tax attended the conference. Ahandoment of the plan to put the estahlishment of the fund up to the people of the state in the form of an amendment tc the constitution is thought to be responsible for the forming of the new plan for legislative action.

FIFTIETH BANK TO CLOSE THIS YEAR She said the shooting was accidental I so far as Ledfoni was concerned. lanlford told the police he was trying to keep bootleggers out of his hotel and that lie found and I another man in the basement. He forced them and told Paul to call the police. Then reached for his hip pocket and pulled ond the boy in front of him just as Led Refreshments of doughnuts and ford shot, according to cider were served by the Ladies of story to the police. rushing forth to victory even though the victory cost him his life.

Uonstitution of the United States, the memories of comrades and victory through suffering and sacrifices are the message of the memorial aru! fundamental principles of the American The talks vere followed by the drilling of an awkward sfiuad, very awkard and highly amusing. (''aptains O. B. Poundstone and Ed Fischer chose sides for a baseball game, in which there were no runs made, few hits and a good many errors. Dr.

L. S. Geiger was the umpire and Rev. C. G.

Fox, the pitcher. The i)i(ched lialls were (luestions in connection with thu history and management of the American I.egion. When the hatter answered a question he moved to first and when the man behind him answered one, he moved to second. Though no one scored, the game was liighly educational. L.

0. Bryson was winner in a guessing cont( on how many grains of corn a hungry rooster would eat. J. F. Hampton was sec- and Louis Meints third.

wrote aiioiit the dared that same Joe Kain, a Main street merchant, then and brought the crowded condition of the theatre at Sunday night shows to the atten-1 tion of council, citing fire hazards, a.sking lliat the city fath-j I ers lake some action. Tlie matter i was referred to the city counsellor, Notliing further to do. tlie coun- 1 cii to go then pas- sed its own motion. who packed the cluirch, but there was no other flavor of official I tribute, at the request. I As the ceremony at the grave con, eluded the chimes of the first Pres- hyterian Church, nearby, intoned God to Wreaths flanked the casket in abundance, the tokens of a grief.

Two daughters, two grand daughters and an aunt, made up tlie party of mourners. SCHOOL BONDS PAID OFF DESTROYED Twfuity thnii.sand dollars worth of school bonds, which had been paid by the school hoard, were burned Momkty night at a meeting of scliool board. The board also settled the ques- for 'riianksgiving Schools will be Fridiiy of Tba Ilk giving 21th of De January, in- BRIEF ASSEMBLY ON FIRE PREVENTION tion of holidays and Christmas, closed Thursday and next w'ot for tht' holi'Jnys ami from the C'lnber to the 3rd of elusive for Christmas. Marriage Licenses Issued A short assembly was held this morning at the Smith-Cotton High School at wliich time Mr. White, president of the Missouri Fire Prevention Association marie an interesting address to the students on fire lU'evention, and the damage resulting from fires.

Mr. White was introduced by Superintendent J. S. Crocker. Seated on the.

paltform also Fred Hoffman, vice president of the association. At the first of the period a short address was made by William Schein, president of the student council. insurance men, Frank S. Leach, A. was assured by Mrs.

Mills that re B. Potts, R. Bothwell, George C. lations between them were Hoffman, Sam Sprecher, Fred man and C. A.

Jenkins. (Continued on Page Three) ENTERTAINMENTS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL The Smith Cotton High school, through its principal Mr. Heber U. Hunt, has arranged for a series of four entertainments to be given! election night after leading the timing the winter months at the Clemocratic ticket in Chicago died high school auditorium. These en-j today.

Two hlood transfusions tertainments will he of a made yesterdav in an attempt character, suited to young people to save his life, ebbing away from and at the same time wholesome internal hemorrha.ge.s. and worth while. Mr. Hunt was Mr. Carr was completing his term able to secure artists who wished as treasurer of Cook county (Chito break long between cago).

His election as sheriff by cities and was thus enabledja majority of 125,000 votes w'as to secure high class entertainers hailed by his friends as marking for a nominal charge. The serie.s.him tor the mayor's office. SHERIFF-ELECT OF COOK COUNTY DEAD By The Associated Press. CHICAGO, Nov. J.

Carr, sheriff-elect of Cook county who was hurried to a hospital on of four entertainments is being offered the students for 1 He was first stricken while watch ing the early election returns, but Both lion. men were held for investiga- By The As.sociatcd Press. JEFFERSON CITY, Nov. 16. fifieih state bank in Missouri to quit business since the first of the year, the and Merchants bank of Hunnewell, at Hiinnewell, in Shelby county, was, closed today by its directors follow- of Commerce, Kiwanis and ing a slow run, it was announced clubs, to plan and work out today at the state finance depart- decorations for the business district the American Legion Auxiliary, after which a number of card games were held.

Sylvester Seifert, Sedalia and Nora Lucille Ilallahaii Sniitliton. Emil Arens and Cussie Mohler, Sedalia. DECORATION PLANS BEING SUBMITTED The committee appointed by the WOUNDED DEPUTY TO START HOME TODAY ment. The institution total resources. 7'he hank was ordered its hoard of directors had about 4 iring the Christmas season, met at Chamber of rooms at closed byU yesterday afternoon, and following toade final plans and gave the work- with(irawals, the department last minuto instructions for rais- noiifieti.

B. H. Swan, a state bank ing the money. The cost, as estimat- examiner lias been sent to take ed by the committee, will be sixty- charge. five cents per foot of each business of the bank was 10.000 This is very reasonable, con- Specitil to 'I'he Demotrai.

surplus $.5.000: deposits approximate sidering the decorations they expect DES MOINES, Nov. 16. Dep ly $78.000: loans about andito put over, and can only be accora- niy Sheriff Grovur Brent left bills payable $8,500, according to its plished by letting a contract for the Des Moines at noon today for last statement to the department, decoration of the whole downtowm Ills home in Secialia, L. was president and C. district.

spending the last two weeks in a E. Herron, cashier. I This being the case, the commit- siiccesslul figlit for life and health fpe extremely anxious that their in a local hospital. No Statement to Make. plans be met with the approval of all Brent was woundeil Get.

oO. when HANNIBAL. Nov. (AP) 'of the business men of the city, and he attempti'd to arrest William A. 1.,.

5aughn, of tiiey will do their proportionate Boyd, quadroon, on a charge of Farmers and Merchants Bank of I 10 2 stealing. Deputy Sheriff Dewey Munnewell, last night -Marshall, who accompanied him tojhy tiie p.oard of direi tors liad farm near las Moir.t was stale meiu to he said today regarding tht' action, in as nuu as the institution is now in tthe state di.i-aitiuent's liancis. Vaughn has hi-en nt of the ibaiik since it was organized 16 ago. while P. Herron.

Matlo I K. Herron, was i.iVt'red suffie- i's fii'm ting time until his Boyd's farm near killoil. Bivd after an tight day man hunt surrendered and is awaiting trial. Although wo'Uiided head, leg and arn so ser- th.A at first his was des- of and later fear para- hv physi- in the iously pairtni w.as lield f. no hi ved ick- iu and o.i'/’y St.

wid return iw iter Herron ian-, F.rent fas ietAlv To to Tuesday. RR'ath about a year 1. for his 1 His sight at fir- fly Iv slo who a riddit 1 ids wdl I rn: D- Mi Boyd a I part financially. I The committee respectfully calls the attention of the business men to the fact that the money solicitation for the viecorations is directly in interest of tlieir own business, and not for a remote return as is the case in many of such soIiciTations. The solicitors are now' out doing tin ir work.

all give Tlu-m our heaity cooperation. ATER COMPANY CHANGES ITS NAME The name of the City Water Company has been changed to the Sedalia Company, according to Articles of Agreement filed in the county office this afternoon. The filing of the articles of agreement is the first step tow'ards a reorganization of the company, in conformity with the order of the public service commission recently given on the increase in water rates. A meeting w'ill be held in the near future, at time a permanent organization w'ill be formed. KILLED HEN TREE FELL UPON HIM By The Associated Press.

MOBERLY, Nov. Ellsberry, 36. of Middle Grove, near here, w'as instantly killed late yesterday w'hen a tree he was cutting fell on him, breaking his neck. ago. when named.

the MEXICAN IS HELD FOR E.AIBEZZLEMENT MURDER TRIAL WAS POSTPONED i)i n( ruC'b -a "It a thu ANGFLF.S, N- I id Lii'gi-- it em- i.i'. 'L t' i I'i .1 lo'd a d.er By iaed ST. JOSEPH. Nov. i Hal How cird of Lt uox.

Iowa, I ani Luton, of Jiseph. i with I'm- Pansy D. ii- 'TuJ Ii'iV liool 27. I "tiO'u I Aci. leb- N- tlu BURNED BABE TO DEATH IN STOVE Ey The Associated CARUTHERSVILLE, Nov.

Lillian Moore, negro, was held in the county jail today after linrning her IS months old baby to death yesterday by putting him in the heating stove. Testimony at the coroner's inquest indicated that she had been Insane for the last six WILKERSON MAY REACH HERE TODAY Somewhere out west a car is its way east lustily, it is said, bringing Claude Wilkerson and family back (o Sedalia, where the attorney will give himself into the hands of the law to face charges of complicity in the robbery of the Pleasant Green Bank. No word has been received from Claude, for several days, his father N. Wilkerson said last night, 'fhe elder Mr. Wilkerson added that he thought Claude enough time to reach Sedalia yet, but surmied that sometime Tuesday or Tuesday night that he would arrive in the city.

Mrs. Wilkerson is said to be returning with her husband in the car, instead of on a train as prev'- iously reported. The first of these entertainments refused to leave headquarters unUl will he McDonald Birch, magician, late at night. Several days ago who will appear on the evening of jit became apparent that his con- Saturday, December 11th at 8 p. ra.

jdition was serious. McDonald Birch is said by the press and the public to be able to'TWO tTTT take the place of the famous Hou-j dinl. In addition to an entertain- MYSTERY ment of clever magic using lavish scenerv' and stage effects there isj added a psychic phenomena demon-1 stration in which tables float, hands knock and w'riting appears on slates while held in hand by members of the audience. fail to see McDonald Birch when he 11th, at the high school auditorium. ancient stone reduction west Auto Supp Co.

'c p' lccs. NUd f-OM Fred Harvey Sedalla-Sprlngfield Bus Line, via Warsaw, Buffalo and Springfield. Leaves Sedalia for Springfield promptly at 12:30 also 8:00 m. from Eiattermans Cafe, l.eavc-s i TAon Bus Station 7:30 a. m.

Bus for Warsaw only, also at 8 a. and 6 m. dauy Ride comfortably in new 7 eng- ks an-d 05i; Waicaw lantern, seven feet high has been presented as a good-will memorial to the School Of Journalism of the University of Missouri, Uolumbia, by Tsuneo Matsudaira, Japanese am bassador to States, in i Ey The A b-halt of the Auu-rirau-JapHn So-1 NEW r-f bow? i Gne Ambassador Mat- n'ht DINNER TONIGHT BE HELD BY THE C. OF C. The regular membership dinner of the Chamber of Commerce will be held at 6:30 tonight at Hotel Liberty, at which time a program of great interest to Seda lians, will be given under the auspices of the Missouri State Fire Prevention wliich as sociation is conducting a fire inspection campaign in this city.

Dr. J. 17. Cannaday, president of the Charaiier of Commerce, will preside. Music will be furnished by Martin Harmonizers.

Among the speakers tonight will be J. Burr Taylor, who is conducting the campaign here, and Fireman B. White, president of the Fire Prevention Association, who will tell very interesting facts concerning the inspection as far as it has gone in Sedalia. Many members have made reservations for themselves, and a special invitation is extended the ladies to be present at the dinner. GREATER MISSOURI DAY AT EXPOSITION Nov.

By The Associated Press. KANSAS CITY. Greater Missouri Day annually at the American Royal Livestock show here was inaugurated today at a meeting called by the Missouri State Board of Agriculture and the Missouri Association. F. W.

A. Vesper, former president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce said that St. Louis was willing financially and morally to cooperate with Kansas City in w'ork- ing out the problems of the state. Other speakers on the program were: W.

L. Nelson. Columbia: B. T. Cordon, Liberty; Dr.

A. H. Baldwin, Pleasant Hill; Prof. E. H.

Trowbridge, (Columbia; C. B. Meyers, Chillicothe; Otto C. Botz, Jefferson City: Geo. A.

Pickens, Jefferson City and W. O. Drummond, Kansas City, Theodore Gary, chairman of the state highway commission, will make a general address on resources late today at the American Royal Building. By The Associated FTesa. SCO FLAND, S.

Nov. 16. Two persons were shot to death and three others were wounded at the John Grosz Farm near here last night by a mysterious assassin who fired through a window with a shotgun. The dead are Robert Zwiefel, 18, and Mrs. John Grosz, wife of the owner of the farm.

The wounded are Clarence Zvviefel, 15, brother of I Robert; Eimmannel Grosz, 25, and Solomon Grosz, 30. Several other occupants of the room escaped the blast of shot that, swept to be held, Ibrough the window just as the party prepared to sit down to a game of cards. The slayer fired four or five charges from his shotgun w'ithout revealing himself. Rol)ert Zwiefel died at the first shot and Mrs. Grosz was killed when she appeared at the door to investigate.

ONE SLAIN IN WAR AMONG TRAPPERS ociated ITess. ORLEANS, Nov. man was killed and seven injured, in a fight with 'a. WILL ROGERS ON VISIT TO KANSAS CITY By The As.sociatf'd Press. KANSA.S CITY.

Nov. Rogers, wise-cracking cowboy from Oklahoma, New York and points in between, arrived in Kansas City today to throw his lariat and a little at an agricultural dinner to he given to junior farmers attending the American Royal Livestock Show tonight. Rogers, an Oklahoma hat, deniz'd today he was serious when he broadcast last night over a chain of radio stations and called Kansas new Liberty Memorial a He said he THE WEATHER X'nsettled probably rain beginning late tonight or Wednesday, no decided change in temperature. Sunrise and Sunset Sunrise 7:02 a. sunset 5:03 p.

m. Phases of Moon New moon November quarter November 12; full moon November 19; last quarter November 27. The Temperature The temperature at 7 a. m. was 36 degree.s al)ove zero; 48 at noon at 50 at 3 m.

Condition of Roads. Sedalia: Clear; roads good. St. Louis: Clear; roads good. St.

Joseph: Clear; roads good. Joplin: Part cloudy; roads good. Jefferson City: Clear; roads good. Columbia: Clear; roads fair. Moberly: Clear: roads fair.

Hannibal: Partly cloudy; roads muddy. Kansas City: Partly cloudy; roads good. Bluff: Clear; roads good. Springfield: Clear; roads good. Cape Girardeau: Clear; roads good.

1 chine gun, shot guns and pistols as usual. Down in San Antonio a smart newsboy instead ol Its a crime not to know how good and cheap Iloa.st Coffee.