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1872) HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1937. N'O. 2 Mrs. Crawford Named Head Of Vets Auxiliary Ijf'pillt Women Anniiul Convention in HtileliiiiMin Willi Election of For Year National Leader Here I'ence Prop-am Stressed In AdtlrvM Of Halm; Tremendous Orowth In Year Also Outlined Stygian Darkness Because of an economy program instituted during the depression, early workers nnd roisters have only Hie stars to guide them in Hutchinson, Upon orders from Utilities Commissioner W. C.

Hutchinson, the "White Way" nnd other street lights are turned off before daybreak by the Kansas Power and Light Co. Kach month the schedule is advanced to save the city current costs. An automatic clock switches off the "White Way. This morning, the lights flickered out at 3:20 o'clock. The elcclion of Mrs.

H. Crawford of Council Grove as department president of the Kansas American Leiden auxiliary this afternoon marks the close of the 17th annual convention. Mis, Crawford has served the auxiliary the past year as vice president and membci chairman. Site had no opposition for the office. Other Group Elect Flei'tiun of uHiiers in the allied aroups held today placed the following in office 1 Cluneal (mental.

I-auht in l-'ortv IV nt. Villa New Spread Of Strike Fever Over Michigan Power Disregard Settlement And Paralyse All Industry Missing Beauty Is Found, But Mind Is Blank Scotland Yard To Seek Solution To Disappearance When Diana Battye Recovers From Shock Had Wandered Streets Baby Born In Taxi Los A baby boy was born in a taxicab here last night to Mrs. Harriett Carol, 16-year-old visitor from Augusta, Kas. With her mother, Mrs. Louisa Suits, Mrs.

Carol was on her way to a railroad station enroute to San Francisco. As the cab readied a downtown intersection, the driver summoned Dr. J. C. McDermitt of the Georgia Street receiving hospital, who arrived to find the child already born.

Mother and son were reported "doing nicely" later at the general hospital. Six injured in Hail And Driving Rain lwo tornadoes South of Dodge Beat Down Reno wheat Twisters Strike At Points 20 Miles Apart In South nest And Several Are Hospitals As Harvest Time Nears yslery Heightened Fuel Most Oirl Wore Different Frock When Found iuhtened llv 1 II km. Boys At Two Camps Get A Good Wetting Mrs. It. H.

Crawford Kimmcr, Pratt: first vice, president. Mrs. May Wo liner. Topeka; I second vice president, Mrs, Bcr- 1 nice Crum, Overland Park; his- torian. Virginia Hell, Lyons.

The. secret a 1 and treasurer are appointive offices. Order of the Gold Star; Presi- dent, Mrs. W. T.

Courtney. Lawrence: viee president, Jonathan B. Carter. Wilson; secretary thief Is Doorman Convention Hall had all the swank of a city night club today. To shield members of the Legion auxiliary from the rain, Chief Louis D.

White detailed a squad of patrolmen to park the visitors' cars when they rolled up in front of the entrance. The Chief acted as doorman. Mrs. Sada Long. Lyons; treasurer, Mrs.

Bertha Reeves, Columbus; historian. Mrs. Gladine Harris, Ft. Scott; chaplain, Mrs. Edna Ruble.

Wichita. National President Speaks The lour point peace program of the American Legion auxiliary stressed in the talk made before the convention this morning hv the national president. Mrs. O. Hahn.

Wayne, Neb. First: that the group is lor the neutrality act. favoring the enactment of legislation that will keep this nation out of war. and advocating that belligerent nations be forced to buy only (Page Column 4, Please) Charge Bevlin WithKidnaping Soldier Accused In Abduction Of His Wife Flint, Con- sumers Power Co. employes, dis- regarding announcement of a set- tlcment nnd appeals of labor leaders, shut down all major in- rtustries in the Saginaw valley to- day.

The industrial paralysis became complete when General Motors plants at Saginaw closed at noon. Strikers holding the giant power plant at Zilwatikce allotted Saginaw only 120,000 kilowatts. Saginaw had electric lights, but Hay City, Flint and several hundred smaller coiiimniiitics in KS counties were ithoiit electricity except for hospitals and public services. The General hospital Hay City was without power. Flint die alarm system was inoperative until storage batteries were connected In the circuit.

100,000 Made Idle Nearly industrial workers were idle. At least 400.1100 residents of the valley were in- convienccd. The strikers' negotiating committee was flying home. from Washington to transmit In the strikers terms of a settlement which, according to reports, railed (or a wage increase of five cents an hour. The strikers had demanded a 20-eent increase and some of them declared they would not go back to work for less.

Murphy Finally Governor Frank. Murphy, in Pittsburgh to deliver a commencement address, declared that "matters of this nature exhaust all patience'' and indicated the state wuuld act unless service were restored by nightfall. CI. Oberhauscr, superinton- dent of the Consumers Power company's giant power plant at Zilwaukee, between Saginaw and Bay City, said the power load there had been reduced 80 percent. That is the principal source of electricity for the valley.

Sinkers were picketing the plant. There were unofficial reports of dissatisfaction among the strikers with the wage increases the com: pany agreed to make. In Washington, representatives of the power company and the Committee for Industrial Organ); nation said only that a "substan- tial increase" had been granted, along with time and one half for I overtime and double time for Sunday and holiday work. Tlu agreement would be retroactive to Mav 10 and would be effective until March 1, 10.18. A survey of die Saginaw Valley at noon indicated that practically (Page 6.

Column 8, Please) Ford Car Destroyed Farmer Injury In Accident At Medora A 193-1 Ford V8 sedan owned by C. C. Booth, seven miles west of Moundndge, was destroyed by fire about 9:30 o'clock last Inight after it went cut of control and turned over in a ditch two I miles east of Medora on highway Booth, who was alone in the I ear, escaped injury, A passing motorist reported the I burning ear to sheriff George T. I Allison. Going to the scene, the sheriff found the car still burning but Booth had departed.

London. June Vard sought today to learn Diana Battye's own story of her strange eight-day disappearance that ended in sobbing collapse on a London doorstep. The wealthy 21-year-old society girl was found early today, slumped on step next door to the home of her Oxford undergraduate finance, Michael Asquith "She was not able to give an account of what had happened to her," said a friend of the family in relating that "Didi," as her intimates knew "England's most Heavier Clothing Sent To Scouts Who Suffer Most Discomfort (ihurrh, Parsonage Hit Wife And Bahy Injured; l-arge Dwelling Near Moscow Hazed And Hurt Find Long Los I Plane Dodge City, June twisters that struck 20 miles apart in Southwest Kansas last nignt injured six persons, one critically and wrecked a Nazarene churcn, i its parsonage and a farm ho', I A ten months old baby, daugh- ter of the Rev. and Mrs. Gerald Walters, and Mrs.

Walters were taken to a Liberal hospital after one of the tornadoes demolished the Bethel church and parsonage near Big How, Kas. Rev at a neighbor's home, saw the storm smash his church and house The child suffered severe head bruises and the mother several cuts. Mrs. Church Bible was in a crit- tical condition in a Dodge Ciiy hospital today from injuries suffered when the other twister destroyed their ten room farm house near Moscow, Kas. Mr.

Bible and their daughters, Viola, 21, and Katherine, 18, are in the hospital with minor injuries received when the blew them 200 feet from the house. Katherine walked a mile for help. Radio Photo Of Diana Battye photographed beauty," seemed on the verge of a nervous collapse. She was placed under doctors' care in the home of Michael's mother. Lady Cynthia Asquith.

Diana's mother, Mrs. Leonard Hackett, well-known airwoman, said: Hutchinson mothers today hurriedly assembled bundles of winter clothes for their sons who were washed out of their tents into the mess hall at Camp Pawnee, Boy Scout reservation near by a torrential downpour of rain last night. 1 nod communications this morning informed a few parents of the 00-ocid Hutchinson scouts at camp of a need for dry and warmer clothing, and that the entire contingent numbering nearly 101) boys had been taken to the Lamed community building for hot showers as dawn brought surcease from rain today. No Casualties Telephone lines crackled, across town early this morning after a first report that the camp had been "washed out." Then mothers, among them Mrs. F.

H. Bobb. 430 East 12th received telephone calls from their sons, appeasing fears. "Frank told me the boys were all right, but that they were all 1 wet and needed more clothes." Mrs. Bobb said, after talking to her son, a member i sponsored by Trinity Methodist i church.

"He said their beds and boxes were mostly all right." Mrs. Bobb continued, "except in one of the tents that leaked badly. What they needed most were warmer ones they took along i were loo leather jackets instead of their thin sweaters, and rubbers and coats." Large Bundle Mrs. Chauncey L. Veatch, Davis, Okla.

Mrs. Bearden, told East 30th with three boys at i Dunn her sister was only 13 years ramp, assembled a pile of 12 pairs of age. of trousers and other garments, Justice of the Peace S. Mr. Veatch reported, and man- set Rucker's bond Faces Perjury Charge Farmer Accused In Oklahoma Child Marriage Sulphur, Rucker, 40-year-old Murray county farmer, faced a perjury of Troop" har today in the marriage of! his 16-year-old son to 13-year-old Dorothy Lee Thomas of Corsicapa, Tex.

Rucker pleaded innocent to a charge that he swore Dorothy was 18 years of age when he obtained a marriage license last Wednes- day for the girl and his son, Thomas Rucker. Jess Dunn. Murray county attorney, said he filed the information on complaint of the bride's sister, Mrs. Lorene Bearden of Dust Bowl Now Quagmire With Good Soaking More Than Inch Of Precipitation Ocneral Over Kiitire State l.asl Night And More In Sight Hail Here Heavy Many Complete KfMilt Of Ire Pellets; Dry Weather Vital To Fulfil Wheat Promise Melvin Devey (left) and Reed Carter (right) were members the party which located wreckage of the Western Air Express transport plane which had been lost since last December near Alpine. Utah.

Bodies of the five men and two women occupants were sought in the glaciated mountain snow. Heavy rains snaked the entire state last night, pounded the southwestern dust bowl into an marsh and converted the late drought into a dusty memory. Hail damaged several sections of wheat ill Reno county, while high winds lodged some grain in southeastern Kansas. A small twister caused minm' damage in the west end of the county. The storm, which put the soil in Ihe best condition in vears.

delayed the shut of wheat harvest. Hutchinson received 1 .13 inches in an all-night fall, and a drir.r.le No Wide Open Only Intimates Publicity Last Rites Large IncomesFor Film Star Senate Agree To Nelson Eddy And Jeanette House Modification Of McDonald Sing Favorite 111 TCHINSON HUN Inrhfi (.19 1 'i nvni'lc 'l 1 1 iti A PI lint ft 11 11 i I 1 I in 1 10 Inquiry Resolution At Service Washington, leaders ost decided today to accept the com- $1,500 and promise resolution passed by the "The main thing is mv daughter 'Kod to hold a Lamed bus several preliminary hearing for Saturday. house for a congressional investi- safe. The doctors say she suffering from a severe nervous breakdown." Remembers Nothing minutes until she could get the bundle to the downtown depot. A.

Lewis Oswald, scoutmaster of Hutchinson Troop 1, with nearly I Frenchman Is Elected 50 boys in camp, called his office al Her step-father, Leonard Hack- secretary, Miss Kathryn Weesner MeBds International ett, said "Didi's" mind was a early with a report the youngsters "complete blank" and she could i would stay at Lamed all dav. offer no aid in solving the mys-! playing basketball and finding tcry of her disappearance. He other entertainment until the w.i- said she "remembers nothing at ters subsided. all." i Later it was decided to return Asquith kept a constant vigil' to camp, after the boys were given at iter bedside as she lay in his hot showers and allowed to drv mother's home in a profound themselves thoroughly, it was re- sleep. ported to Roy D.

Ridgway. scout Ytiling Asquith, grandson of executive. Mrs. Ernest Diekerson. Britain's famous premier, the late scout office secretary, said.

Lord of Oxford and Asquith, had disclosed to police that he had received a letter containing a threat to "remove" Diana unless he took better care of her. Had Walked Streets Apparently the socialite photographer's model, who had aspired (Page 6, Column 2. Please) Kannans At Pittsburgh Cottonwood Falls. O. Bevlin.

soldier formerly stationed at Fort Logan, was held in county jail here today on a warrant charging second degree kidnaping in connection with the abduction of his college girl wife, Mrs. Frances Crook Bevlin, last April 2. Bevlin, arrested at Council Grove, also is charged in the warrant with assault and attempted assault in commission of a felony. The complain( was signed, County Attorney H. C.

O'Reilly said, by Guv Crook, the girl's father. County Attorney O'Reilly said Mrs. Devlin, whose divorce action against Bevlin was pending at the time of her abduction, since had been granted a diwirce. Mis. Bevlin was abducted near her home at Saffoidville while she waited for bus to take her to Emporia where she attended Emporia State Teachers college.

On April 8 she appeared in Boulder, and told authorities she had been held in a mountain cabin near Caribou, Colo. Later she returned home with her father. O'Reilly said no date had yet been set for Bevlin's arraignment. Weather Kansas. Mostly cloudy tontcht and Thursday, showeri probable; slifhtlv cooler in southeast tonight.

More raip and continued cool weather were forecast today by S. D. Flora, federal meteorologist, as a faint drizzle continued here this morning following a 1.3.1 inch downpour last night. With the state snaked, sunshine is now needed as much as moisture was three weeks ago. It was still misting at mid- afternoon and the mercury was dropping to sub-normal levels.

The hail storm west of here caused the temperature last night to fall from to -'7 dcKrees. It rose to 58 at noon and then slumped back to fiti degrees In set a new minimum for the day, H4 points under the reading this time last year. Pittsburgh, Kansas business men were to inspect steel plants at nearby Homestead and Trafford today. The louring Kansans will be guests Thursday of the Chamber of Commerce and Mayor Cornelius D. Scully of Pittsburgh, will he host to Mayor Philip Schmidt of Pittsburg, who the tour.

Wet On The Smoky The heaviest rain in several months also fell at Twin Elms. Y.M.C'.A. camp where 55 Hutchinson boys arc spending the week outdoors on the Smoky Hill river near Marquette, but tents staved in place. The water drained from the camp site rapidly and the boys were quickly dried beside a hot cook stove, it was reported. Stalin'g Mother Dead Moscow, Geor- guvna Djugashivili, 77-vear-old mother of Joseph dead at her home near Tiflis.

The death occurred June 4, but the made by the Communist parly of Georgia in is making the Tiflis newspaper Dawn of the Orient, reached here only todav. For Next Year Nice, France, (A') Du- perrey, president of the Rotary club of Paris, was elected president of Rotary International today. He will preside over the 29th annual convention of the order, which will be held next year in San Francisco. Duperrey is a world traveler, well known in the United States. He is 59 years old, a native Parisian, and the founder of an important chemical products indus- try.

Maurice W. Jencks, Topeka. I and Fred Coulson, Abilene. were among those who acted as chairmen of meetings of delegates from their industries. Medical Profession Will Seek To Better Regulate S.

Baby Crop Girl Quarrel Fatal Man Seeking To Wed Maid Kills Step-Father Paducah, A quarrel over a 14-yoar-old girl was blamed by a coroner's jury today for the fatal shooting her stepfather, Davis Coi neli.son, 40, allegedly by Dclmar Vaughn 30. Both were strawberry pickers. Ration of tax evasion and avoidance The decision was made so as tn speed start of the. inquiry next week. After conferring with other leaders and treasury officials.

Chairman Harrison (b-Miss. of the senate finance committee said he would move tomorrow that the senate concur in the amendments added by the house to the senate resolution proposing the investigation. The house amendments restricted publicity to be given the inquiry. The senate had voted fur (Page 6- Column (i, Please) Diz Outpitches SouthpawRival Defeat In Famcnif St. Louis Game New York, Dean nut- Ditched his southnaw rival.

Carl Hubbell, by a wide margin today as the St. Louis Cardinals handed the league-leading New York Giants an 8 to 1 trouncing. Dean allowed only three and fanned six. Score: hits 130 001 000 000 100 1 Dean and Ogrodo- Coffman and Dan- 5 1 r( TEMPERATURES (By Mrs. S.

Plouuhe U. uluerver.) Maximum Minimum inches. A year ago 90; low, 71. Atlantic City, N. The birth control policy adopted by the American Medical association means far more than contraception as this change in medical policy was viewed today by some of the physicians who lead this association's medical thought.

It was a recognition of a change biological thinking, based on many advances in knowledge of, the human body, mind and spirit. It involved saving of life and questions nf how to have children just as much as how to uvoid them. Under the HippoC'ratie uuth, the doctors who talked today would nut permit' use of their names. Wanted To Be Sure, The long delay in recognizing birth control as legitimate and necessary medical practice, they said, was not wholly due to religious objections, although that was one strong factor. There was also conservatism, and especially the wish of some Witnesses testified Vaughn.

St. Louis sought to marrythe girl. New Yory Said Mrs. Cornclison: "We' thouRht she was too young to wski; Hubbell, marry and told Vaughn so. He got niug.

(mad at Mr. Cornelison and got a Hit Huhbell Hard. I 'rifle and shot him." 1 The Cards walloped Hubbell for 13 hits, including Medwick's tenth home run of the season. They picked up two more hits and a single run in the ninth off Glend.ile. ij 'i Willi the 1 alienflancc limited to 250 friends, a brief funeral sen ice was held today for Jean Harlow, the screen's platinum blend ar- i tress, in the "Wee Kirk The I Heather" chajie! In re.

The bronze coffin was covered with 1 ,5 (1(1 hhes of the valley and gardenias, the latter Mrs Harlow's favorite (lower, which her mother. Mis. Maimo and the star's admirer, William' i Powell, pro 1 ided. The Christian Science seivicc was read by Mis. Smith and N'elsrm Kddy and IJeanetle McDonald sang, About 1,000 persons gathered outside and flov, i.

is overflowed the chapel. and Carey Wilson, screen writer, e.rorn the mother from the rhapol tin? end ot the ItO-mmute servo e. The cotlm is removed to a receiving vault to await a dei raon the niotnii as to where it finally would rest, Her Signature on Casket A silver plate on the casket bore an engraving of the signature ot I the glamor girl of the i films, cut down at the very height I of her career by uremic potson- I ing. One of the first to appear in the little chapel was Warner Maxtor. Soon after him came Carole Lombard.

then (Mark Cubic, leading man in her unfinished picture. Next was Nelson Kddy. whose tribute in the simple serwce.s uas (Page 6. Column 3. Please) Holdup Report Sent By Mail continued from lowering skies morning The county was soaked throughout.

Need Dry Weather Dry weather IF now needed if wheat is no I tn lie damaged further, but row cj ops. truck corn gram sorghums are flourishing. The ram is sounding the death knell for grasshopper hordes. No flood threats have, yet developed. Dodge City had 1.60 inches of rain 40 minutes.

Kasements were flooded parked cars along sireets. Some hail fell but apparently caused little damage. Within -4 hours. Dodge City lias received 2. 11! inches.

Krnt in Five Years Meade cemnty had 2. la inches of rain last night, the in five The precipitation increased Die tola) Mnee May to 4.93 inches, Moisture extended beyond Garden City and liberal in lesser amounts-. Great 1 Bend got 1.0a. Wichita 3.2«. Kllis 1.10, Goodland 1 7fi.

Hail, that menace worst I'eared by wheat farmers, apparently chopped many bir-hels from Reno county's po: leniial yield IHM night. Rattling down at seattcted pomis. the white pellet-, did the mosi damage in northern Reno county. Area Ravaged From 50 to 100 per cent loss was reported in an oblong strip, roughly (i by 18 miles, starting; eight miles west of Hutchinson and extending from a point north of Partridge within (our males of Sterling. High winds accompanied hail north of Abbyville to smash wjjjdov.

and overturn a gram bin. at the farm of Simon Kainey. i Farmers in the neighborhood re- ported a 40 to 50 per cent loss on heat fields. Wind Kazffi a Barn i A mild twister whipped near trie we edge of the county A large barn on a farm by 8, Column a. Drys Are In physicians of influence to wait until public opinion had entirely crvjtallized in favor of birth control.

The first principle adopted in the association's new birth control policy aims to meet conflicting state laws and the fact that court decisions from time to time change the legal status of contraceptive um Georgia practices. A tabulation at 1:35 p. east- The association will attempt to cm standard time, showed: inform the doctors of their legal For repeal Bl.ltifi; against re- rights and privileges under the peal 82.1181. practice ill contracep- This tabulation, based on re- be left to their own I turns fiom llhlB of approximately gave 1,715 Nickf 'rMon Man Saw For Hurry Well Til Tell You BT Bab law. Their turn is to consciences.

Into i Method! The second paragraph of the new code is aimed at inveMijjation of contraceptives already available. Some of the instruments used 17UP precincts anti-iepeahsts votes. the state lead of Maybe They're Blind. Glenvil, Walth- huve been held indirectly to cause i el's, farmer near here, has a new cancer by irritation. Other contraceptives have sent their users to doctors with membranes burned off by the drugs (Page 6, Column 2, Please) drought story.

He said it has been so long since corn has been growing in his fields, some nf the young gophers he is trying to poison don't know a kernel of corn when they see it. Rural Vote i Di( coffman I Dean should have had a shut- Wet Leaning A two-base wild throw by; Atlanta, anti-repeal e0 "urocher of a grounder by voting in rural counties today took Lou Chiozza put the batter on the lead awav from repealists in from where he scored on, yesterday's prohibition referen- George Davis single. Davis got two of the three hits Dean allowed, the other going to Jimmy Hippie. A crowd of 50.000 saw the battle, fust game of a double hill. Siiuuml.

The victory enabled Dean to square tur se.e.uli I With HtlMiell. The ace earned a 4 -1 decision over the 1 Cardinals' right handcr in a not- ous game at St. l.ouis May 111. It was lluhbell's second defeat of the campaign against eight victories. Dean has won eight and lost four.

The score of their "hfe-timc" National League series now is five victories for Hubbell to four for Dean. Not easily rushed is CI. W. Todd of Nickerson. Held up and robbed on a road north of Hutchinson Monday, lie sat don and wrote Sheriff George Allison a letter about the occurrence.

The sheriff got the letter today. "I was held up this Monday morning about 10 o'clock four or' live miles north ot Hutchinson by Isvu men about 3a years of age," Todd wrote. 'Pai one car and he jumped on the rimmicd board. ilall III small me. a V.MSI w.iti and pocket containing $10 hill a hule Chanel- a ti u-ud To'lil cn tu idate that tin- bandits Uriive ill the dlifctiuti Saxman.

They v.ci driving a ne.v Kurd but the license were covered with mod He said the men were well dressed. Todd concluded with the explanation that he did not think it necessary 0 make a special trip to report the holdup. Some people have an idea that in order to a lot of friends you have to be a talker. It's true that a good talker usually a wtde acquaintance, hut if yuu want to have real close friend-, you have to be a good listener. Anytime you see two wuiui'ii who have struck up a beautiful and lasting friend hip.

yiai wil! nntice that une i.f dm- all tlu- t.1 1 r. 1 11' While the ullur i-lle h-tens Sutu- t.eithetter Hrnlge flub iir tune, and -he attftiiU-il she inIUH- thuioughlv She "I ji-liKd tile club to pi.iy hi wine, but nil tht.m v.o- inen talked about w.i-. opei t'ncle Hink "Writ v.h-.' von tell 'em abi.ut appendicitis And Aunt Sofie says did. 1 led with that." 111 si.