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Wi)t jUarylitlle iforuoi Many Entertaining Features Procured For Fall Festival Best Program Ever Is Assured by Committees For September 25 to 28. Several Bands Engaged For Four-Day Program Visitors to the Nodaway Fall Fair in Maryville on Sept'tuber 25, 26. 27 and 28 are assured of one of the biggest end beat programs of entertainment ever produced here in connertion wtth fair events, it was stated this morning by the committee in charge Some extraordinary high pro- feKMonal acts have been engaged for the Fair and will appear each afternoon and evening All acts, Harry McDaniel, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, said this morning are of state fair calibre. Included in these are the Hendrix Scotch Kilties, a troop of five lads and who will entertain with Scotch and dances. Another act engaged Is that of Ed-i ware Leroy, high wire artist, who will walk a tight wire stretched at any height across the street without the use of any safety devices A third act Is the Stevens Brothers FAIR AND WARMER Mlssoi Rl: Fair night and rinrsday.

Slightly warmer fan and north-central portions tonight, and In east and south portions Wednesday. (Other Weather on MXt LOCAL OBSERVATIONS Reading at 1 today Rending yesterday, 7 1 Reading today, 7 a. 50 Highest yesterday. 77 Lowest during night 49. Highest year ago 80 Lowest yeai ago 80 Highest on record 98 degrees, 1931 Lowest on record 40 degrees 1929.

cipitatlon up to 7 a none Precipitation year avo today 12 Sun set-s tonight 6 33 Bun rises tomorrow 8:00 Comment, on Death DeaJ Political Ship Left Rudderless Albany, Charles Coughlin was quote by the Albany News today as saying Senator Huey death wav mort regrettable thing In modem history." Clarence Darrow, noted lawyer and admired Huev in many ways. 1 knew him and liked him. As a man. he stood for what was right in political life. It was an unfortunate affair and I feel very sorry about death He WIS a man of great force of character, ani a valuable libetal." tyorman Thomas Socialist leader who had planned to invade" Louisiana's Politically Louisiana in Whirlpool as He Left No Outstanding Leader.

Gov. Allen to Retire After Term Is Out Enrollment in Public Grade School The end of the first of school at the Eugene F.eld school rhowed -i total enrollment of 410 pupils, ar 3 rd- ing to an announcement made by Sup, erintendent 8 Thomas today This with an enrollment of 357 at the end of the first month last i Fear, Mr Thomas said there were ''till a few who would enroll in the Seekers of Truth Enroll at College Freshmen Attend First Assembly as College Is Officially Opened. And the truth rhall make you free fluence spread far beyond the border of his native state, and who was ire qu'-ntly dteeuaned as a presidential being planned. body, however, will lie In the new 000 sky. era per state symbol of his political greatness.

The senator, in a coma, died quietly. He was 42 fears old. Battled for 31 Hours. battled for 31 hours to save the political life, they TT performed one operation, five blood under this motto, carved on stone transfusions and administered artificial over the tront entrance to the admin- oxygen to no avail Death came at 4 06 and their trained wreuling bear This the Star Teach- central standard time scon, of The widow who married him 22 school graduates of Northwest Missouri ago after her alibi testimony and Southwestern Iowa to enroll for him from charges In a shooting their first studies in the search for was led dry-eyed from Cur Lady of the Lake hospital She had The 9 o'clock as -embJy, the first sa-' the bfdside in constant vigil lute honoring the presence of the 1 tlnce Sunday night Bullet Ends Life of Long 4:06 This Morning Louisiana Senator Succumbs After 31-Hour Battle Dies in Coma. Body to Lie in State in Skyscraper Capitol ton Rouge, La.

Ring ter flUSfj Long builder of a political empire fan campaign Ametlean history, died to- Huey death removes the a ablest and colorful forerunner of i Sunday American Fascism The food for a 77, in Loui- mUCh thought that In LouUana there. no direction, mna It 4 06 a. m. standard 1 time), Funeral service for -whose In-1 7 "U1(( IPU to long lire When Huey tton, decreed today that Jewish school .0 l.r bflrond the bort.n 1 Blythedale Robber Makes Confessimi Charles Abrogasi Names Four Who Held Up Conception Junction Agent. Charles Abrogasi age 18, of Kansas tuuu wwj Eugene Field school.

The enroll- Mo Thursday of laSfc rnent, according to grades to date is Immed'atsTy after he and throe divided follows: first grade. 61; sec-j compehlons had made an unsuccessful ond grade. 64. third grade. 58; fourth! attempt to hold up the Citlaens bank grade.

71; fifth grade. 67; sixth Blyth dale, has confessed to pa 69. and remedial group, 20. tu tn the holdup. August of --------------------------------------------i Rake, station agent, at Conrep- Jewish Children Evicted I 1 ln thto county C.U.L Thl' 8nn(iuncement was made this rrom Dcnools ot Uermany noming by Prosecutor Virgil Rath bun.

spent moot of yefterday In St. was ft sltuaUon which drove a man of The king is dead hut ih.r* I PrUMlan Abrogast Is being held Dr apparent high standing to king lei to lonf i 1 and questioning the Wt King lett to long live. When Huey tlon. decreed today that Jewish school prisoner. In written confession made yester- Ncw Orleans.

death of Senator Huey long at the hands of an avas.in has left his powerful political machine rudderless Politically, Louisiana was In a whlrljiool today. i is a comedy act guaranteed to produce many a laugh. me five or six acts. In all, will make lUPir up this part of the program each dav and night. truth Several Benda Engaged wii For musical ent-rtainment the com-1 on the was held tlnj 2 lo registration of the directed by Hugh, neu-omers The central section of the McNutt, to give concert on Friday; auditorium was weU filled with an at- Bepiember 27; the Grant City tenUve freshman audieMce Of the faculty seated to one local Field Lside listened to the proceedings i- 2 l0t f0ncert 00 President Uel Lamkln of CoJ- viiL 28 The Marv' firsl oi -eireraJ of the admin- viUe high school band WlU play at var-, istraUon and faculty to receive spec rf throughout days Introduction, outlined the policy of the College regarding student life, express- Other high spots on the program liis warm welcome, and urged the entertainment will be; frwshman to make College c3mt f5 Wednerday night, th- moat bv disintcre.steii Judges Irom! "This Is your big opportunity," Mr udv who TV fhr fio lady who will Nor am o.

193 Mlw Nocomo will be selected from a' your opportunity to get something for list of queens previously selected by yourself' ful If he woukl hnve thrown away his owr life if he had had any hope that 1 the ways of orderly Democratic procedure were still open From Cotton Patch Huey Long Became a National Figure Attains Degree of State Control Recorded in American Government. Risine A wound in abdofr.cn" was officially given the catue of the senator's death by Dr Sanderson who said there were "not any complications Dr. O. 8 Long, a brother of the senator was quoted as saying, however that the bullet which entered the right side, puncturing the colon In two places, also penetrated the kidney. The.

senator was 42 wears old. Shot by Pol.tiral Enemy. The guiuhot wound was inflicted by Dr Carl A. Weiss jr of ft Long political enemy, in the corridor of the Louisiana state mpttol at 9 20 p. Sunday night.

rom cotto; as Uni irtal attalru to -d 8 ate if Louisla the hk nations' senator la, Hue- best tate control ever recorded un- r.ca’s democratic form of gov- lady who will be fr35: good yoJ'2dll had from 1 the House after pushing to- ward completion a number of special. litical session acts aimed at the federal ad- He called himself der Am mm nt He was a psychological enigma to many and a political phenomenon to virtually all exports. He conceived and did things which nonf but he thought possible and which none of the "old line" politicians ever tilt'd. His followers him "friend of the and "champion of the An army of enemies, whom he repulsed again atid again at the polls or in the dubbed him "demagogue policies; "madman, destroyer of constitutional government" and worse terms running the gamut from thief to "po- Icft a half dozen political leaders of out of all German schools by Easter, about the- same stripe. None over 1636 shadowed the other.

If one tried to! 8 peeial public schools, restricted to step ahead of the other there was dan- be opened, however, ger of internecine warfare. Rust stated the decree was "carrying Normally the high man would be 811 old socialistic (Nazi! over nor K. Allen but durmg entire political career he has leaned heavily on Huey Long, who was a from the barefoot boy stage in Vitui Pariah. Today Governor Alien aa up over his friend that he was unapproachable. Dur.nf the night, after hope for hk had been abandoned the senator's o.

tical lieutenants held conferences i the future of his vast political or- mization. Inc'uded Governor A' srvm irW Abe Shnshmaa ot the Levee ard A Noe Speaker oi the house of Va.Iace, Long a legis Three Are In ured in Auto Accident Men and One Pron Involved pead-on CoHision. day. Prosecutor Rathbun aaid. Abrogast named Floyd Fletcher, age 33 who died at Bethany Saturday as a result of a gunshot wound received hi an get-away Immediately following the Blythedale bank attempt oi John Langdon and Clarence du.

as his three accomplices in the robbery. tlon with the od robbing the com: and Wa'-ash 1 RaV- Kn If" Ji. own tu 3 W'. and George ivc aide. has never cared much to: iitics The sum substance of cs.me as governor approximated this: Long had to have a t.tular head of the tate government toven.or, Allen last night said he vould retire after the current term.

mi; Arrlv.mr san Coi r- Long leaders 1 A oligarchy, with the lieutenants of the senator carrying on his an automobile wreck bei jrc o'clock yesterday Highway 71, about seven miles south 1 onfe.ssi read, a hut iiie. the station Blum, the least seriously Injured of to see If Rake was Mn he made Allen hf sustained bruises about his. other perrons about the night said hel and ribs and poa- lni they decided to the hold sible internal injuries He was gradu- spent the next couple of hcu ated from Central high school tn St country, a star on Returning to the railway statl There were two courses open to the 1 i leader' I last spring and was of Nodft wn the various townships county. Thursday night. September 28 cor- oiiation of Miss Nocomo.

morning, September 26 horse show. Thursday afternoon. September 26 team pulling content. Puhtir Wedding Iridav On Fr.day afternoon. September 27 there will be a public wedding at which Mr l.amkin humorously nmatk'd that tf he were to set a for the College it would include two things.

Don't bum down the building." and "Don kill the which he termed to mean, College is yours, enjoy yourself, but abide by the regulations" Activities are ministration, and toward consolidating his alreacH tlmoff unbelievable al control of the atiuirs. Dr. i a 30-year-oki eye, car, noae and tlirout specialist pressed a gun into the senator's stomach and fired. His arm was deflected before he could fire a second shot and body gardsmen, highway policemen, killed him on the spot with a The president said that freshmen who not have to work outside of i of nearly sixty Dr. a Maryville couple will be married on classes, should not do so.

He empha- was buried yesterday. plat iorrajust east of the court-i sized that working wav through' Senator Long bw.tmf* delirious at house square The names of the school by outside labor for pay. Is not 1 midnight 1km night, and shortly later ticipants will not be made public un- a virtue and may become a detriment lost consciousness til the march to the altar to progress in attaining an edu- Satutday affrmoon. SejHember 28 ration Mr Lamkm also pointed out judging of 4-H club also a big the importance of taking pan in the kiddles parade extra-curricular activities and in con- Various other contests ami entertain- tributing generally to the spirit of ment features will be Included the campus life four-day program James Miller, dean of the faculty, Among the attractions will be the a brief talk, that teacher's Crowley Carnival company, which, college mv first-love," and told the with its eleven shows, ten rides and beginning class 1 want to be a freah- some thirty-five concessions, will oc- man with you. Consider me your cupy space about the courthouse friend Kingfish It was I a term applied otiginally in sarcastic i vein to an opponent.

Long once assumed it Jocularly for hlmseif. found a ready publicity response and thereaf- ter clung to it. From the time he shook trim his heels the dust of a Hillside cotton farm ln Louisiana Winn parish a a to-j youngster of 16 to be- come a traveling salesman, until a sub -1 servient legislature in 1934 and 1935 passed laws which transfeiTed control of the state every activity the political machine which he dominated, I Long was a law unto himself. In the national field he launched a campaign to restrict big incomes and 2 The designation of one of these leu ten os leader of the ion. Political observers and politicians vondered the 1934 football team.

about 2 he declared, they found McCarty and Blum were on their way Rakf al Abrogast stated in his con- to Quitman to do some repair snd Langdon entered on property owned there by Blum thc dfiXJt office and at the point of a father. McCarty suffered a fractured iorced to Land over his Jaw. bruises, cuts and considerable monev and the money contained about shock as the result of the wreck I the During the actual holdup, this primary Question- ul The third casualty was Ray Burrter the pnma.v question, is ing roo.n and Fletcher tn the car, hi the organttatlon cap- Ob taming the available funds, he the place of the a tn? and lt that both n-1 they forced Rake to lay flat on In addition, there was the possibility nd the floor as they left the station and Jealousy cropping up among the Zs IS XSt their car. a ord V- 8 The four lieutenant', of internal strife in the or- then drove out of town at a speed of ion Such strife in the past has 1 mCn 9 fr 0 X-ray about 20 miles an hour so as not to at- brokcn mam oolitlrai I 1 determine the tract attention, and then drove on Intobroken many political machines The New Orleans situation offered, also, a serious threat. Recently, Long -in fivht against his arch-Foe.

extent their Injuries Both automooiles, late model Plymouths Wwit? wrecked. Mayor T. Semmes won! ThP according to over, because ol his finances Upf of thoa and patronage, many of the district the immediately in the oidline Democratic or- ft-iter' waii Burrier, gamzalion. Eari J. Christenberry, his secretao-, said he exclaimed: "Where are my children?" His children.

Rose. Russell and Palm R. ri iu.sb.ed to his shic, but person in the United States free of I rewarded hi' adherents and waged in-I the Farmers Union to 1 in ut KJJK. lor thf lind Mch MhfMnaI Mjll 00 .1 hk. but jiJS.

S.JST5J? i foHowpd Louisiana sUte enact 1 Joseph. Before leaving the station, dt lared Langdon tore the tele- "re from the wall so that Rake could si read an ai rm pending their get- arch Langdoa, Sparger. Abiogast, who la said to be an eling south, attempted to a ewi in custody, and Fletcher driven by J. B. Shields, also souU.

aurhoriUw aie centering their bound, who told officers that he wh' on an attempt to capture Spar-w "nu Mua omcers tnat ne WH' efforts on an to capture Spar-'. spread the wealth by making every ed talents as a shrewd lawyer, always on his way to a Mate convention of Lit a Langdon who In Jerson in the United States free of rewaided his adherent and wazed the 1 u.u them. Wishes Faenily. Ttie secretary said there were last wishes expressed the wiiator He would not divulge them bcause he said they concerned ihe family and be -g wanted in wvimection with the Uonecption JunctMn holdup and the attempted bank at Blythedale when to when to quote I this county. are als-i wanted tn connection wtth at It is believed that Burrier siiw that least one other robbery St.

Joseph. artt u.tha, 320-arre furm which became part of and rlearh he could not pass the 8 hields car. and the town of Wmnfield, La when the That ulenl was earl i 1 i ro rs. I were private. square and on other principal streets Miss Margaret Stephemon, director Mrs Jaclc a niece, gave of womens actlviUe.s and Hugh another In the business district.

Mr. uuamrw hvuki. Qf womens uctivitic- and Hush 1 version of the senator's last omc.cijui 1 uigu stnooi, McDaniel stated this morning Wale- director of men's activities he l0Rt conecionsiiess He Jnit dW no; flni'h the course. His col- he program in detail will be called upon for remarks, both mvitimz Wnt ior. who had left the coming of a railroad transformed the fields Into citv lots.

He was the seventh child tn a family of nine. He attended Shreveport high school but did finish the course. His col room, she said, and as she walked in in Liie law department of the Univer- In high school he dabbled in track as a mile runner aud he always played baseball at any opportunity, but chiefly lie wos a debater and his won him a scholarship at Louisiana State University. Lack of money for living expenses and books sity of Oklahoma and about seven forced him to forego that opportunity mon us of intcn: oc cramming iiie and he tunust his ready tongue to sel- law school of Tulane University. Then hnK on the admission to the bar.

Abrogast was captured by a hastily in dropping back to take the right side formed posse near Blythedale while thfl r-KO i I at-- a. 1 that the program in detail will be called upon for remarks, both inviting 1 ready for announcement within the their charges to feel free at all times: wxt d.jrs. lo om, wlUl prob-' In th, oflinaL, ol th, lems. invited (h. Chamber of Commerce and heads ol to enter into the social and extra-cur- 2 1,, 11 special examination for ad-j After winnin committees are busy making arrange- ricular phases of the College.

i IT WBS thr bar Emitted to he hung out a shingle in Winniieid menus ior two booster trips, which will Miss Bauer, shaking for the 011 1 Vem I Lynched himself SS poES? 19 3 include in their itineraries, practically student Senate invited the freshmen t- every town in Northwest Missouri 1 i senate, invited tushmen FipIH -T A fn When he 19 old. he was ar advert the Fai membors of lhe 10 a wat- 1 resU'd at Shreveport, accused of being Fair. ermelon feed this afternoon on hese trifvs will be held on Thursday campus between the administration and Friday of next week. building and the gvmnaMum witli the IB and 20, and it is quite likely that senate as the host. first meeting of the school vear at 7 1 V( He related in his autobiography tha.

out ot more other short advertising Alex Sawyer, president of the Stn-1 3:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the u-crl ma-r Wmnfield attorney he had ac- os September I dent C. extended an invita- auditorium oi the Eugene Field school of JdV rtock In several independent oil 1 1 ssn sz jsjts 1 oiiening 01 the fair. mid men hi thp faniitu nttnnH orrsirienr ai.ni.iuiu 1 1 uom clients, in of the pavement behind the car, hooked rear bumper with his front bumper and was thrown out tn front of the oncoming Blum car. After reporting the wreck to Sheriff hiding in a corn field a short time after the bank attempt there, but Langdon and Spargur. who have been Implicated in the bank attempt by Abrogast, made good their escape In an automo- Meet Thursday Afternoon involved in a scrape An alibi, ocean ms 101 SJK- McCoimeU tes- with the Standard Oil comjmny.

The F.ugcnc Field A will have t0 a Lines Ruin Long's Oil stock. theater that cvenmg and producing the Blum, the only one of the men who could talk last night, said he he was elected state railroad commis- did not know how the wreck happened. Sinner for the north Louisiana district. He told relatives at the hospital that pnatmcvcl ka Ed Wallace, Shields left Maryville pre- bile. After his capture he was taken to sumably for the St.

Joseph convention, st. Joseph for questioning- He could not be located there last night Prosecutor Rathbun stated this to give his version of the accident. He morning that he Intends to file charg- believed to be the only eyewitness. es against Abrogast, Langdon and changed his residence from Winnfield to Shreveport, and began his long fight Clip and FORTY FREE THEATER TICKETS AVAILABLE Get the page advertisement from Saturday, September 7 Daily Forum and then read the advertisements in today's Daily Forum. In each advertisement you will note a special labeled "Dodo Special." this special from the paper paste In one of the boxes on the advertisement, writing ln the name of the merchant where it may be purchased.

Or if you prefer you may write it in one of the other words do the contest, as you prefer. REMEMBER THERE WILL BE FORTY MIGHT AS WELL BE A IN YOUR ENTRIES! the At 25 he was elected to the state board Shreveport he buiTa iSSbo home anS Hi Uu in a fair way to becoming a millionaire" when the big companies, eon- and men of the faculty to attend the president of the association 111 i "Freshman Mixer." a social which will spring, will preside. of railroad commissioners. He run un- be held at 7 o'clock tonight in Social I There is to be a prize award for the successfully for governor when he was Hall. room tiaving the largest number of and Attained that office four years Upperclassmen to Help present and another for the The assembly was presided over mtmbor him.

hi Cooper, ireshman advisor, who whose I A dues are paid. and won thp 1930 fpdoral M.naloria] closed the program wutli instructions program Is to include a xylo- primary and election from the veteran phone solo by Billy Tebow and a talk, Joseph E. Ransdell. Finding that his "The Child Centered School" by Su- planned to acquire the governor- he retained that office until January 25, 1932, when he took his seat in Washington. That same year he helped he "Just looked up and there was the other car in front of him." Further than that he could give no particulars.

Grant Beats Budge. Forest Hills. N. M. Grant, the pintsixed Georgia "giant turned In the biggest upset of the national singles tennis championships today by defeating the highly-favored Don Budge of Oakland.

for enrollment in the library. A group of faculty members were designated to serve as to the freshmen, the class being divided into small groups. About fifteen upperclassmen were appointed to act as "big brothers and sisters," as Mr. Cooper expressed it, in helping freshmen get around. 1 8 Thomas.

HOPKINS SCHOOL OPENS. his political ally, John Overton, Thereafter he shuttled between the Enrollments in is 148 and High Kehooi 124. tJ I Freshmen go to class in the mom- national and state capitals, defending ing. The sophomores, juniors and sen- students Thi enl'on)mPnt organization against iors report lor registration readv tn hlRh schiX)1 rc 8 and reinforcing it until his personal M.n SSr Thuro.lv H8 iTtT. trolling the pipn lines, refused to take cahf in fourseta 6 4 6 4 6 tTVT' oil irom wells.

"My shares four sets, 6-4, 6-4, 3-7, 8-3, ln became worth less than 40 cents over; match. he said. Long manipulated a finding favorable to the independents through the public commission and later the legislature declared the pipe lines public carriers. When elected governor in 1928, Long went after his political foes, clearing and Orace them out of various state offices and! Brooklyn, Cincinnati, 4th In Baseball Scores National League. New York.

4-10-1; 3-8-1. New York, Pittsburgh, 4th. Schumacher and Mancuso; Birkofer VSV4IZ vtli ftiai in ln Clark and Hollingsworth and I irom rxiwm Broutard. 1929 when lie called a special Lombardi. Five were injured near Dal las, when a motor bus ran over that a cow, 1 start their class work morning.

Campus activities will be in full swing by next week. Dean Miller, president of the Student Senate, said the of the legislature to enact a tax of 5 cents a barrel on crude oil, the storm broke. The house of representatives presented articles of impeachment containing 7 i 7 wi.uc Ul TO arucies ot impeachment containing Opening of the Hopkias school was Washington he kept himself In the 19 charges. Among them were accusu- postponed from September 2 until bv bitter attacks upon the tions that he had attempted to bribe terday because of the illness of Charles administration. legislators, used the appointive power Wallace, superintendent, making it im- Although Longs opponents dubbed to influence the judiciary and flaunted passible for administrative details to oomUtutlotial limitations on the student governing body be taken care of until the superintend- i discredit him by pitiless; governorship, that he had told a body- No, 1 on Page Six) I ent had fuiiv recovered of personal scaadal, he went! guard to kill an opposition legislator reco'erfd.

blithely on his way. He had undteput -1 (See No. 2 on Page Seven) Boston, Chicago. 4th. Cantwell and Spohrcr; Root and Hartnett.

American League. Detroit, Washington, 2nd. Rowe and Hayworth; Newsom and Bolton. St. Louis, Philadelphia, 8th.

Andrews, Van Atta and Hemsley; Turbeyville, Caster and Richards. Clift homer 3rd. Cleveland, New York, 6th. Chicago, 3-10-0; Boston, 4-9-Q. Spargur tn connection with the Conception Junction robbery but that none of them likely will be brought to trial here if sentenced for the Blythedale bank attempt.

Mr. Rathbun stated this morning that he had been Informed by Mr. Rake that the bandits obtained approximately 360 in the conception roMtory. Bank WB Pay 10 Per Got Dividend A 10 per cent dividend on common claims will be paid the Vfcrmert and Merchants bank of Hopkins, It was today by W. A.

Staff, special deputy finance oommlastaner. Thta will be the first common dividend end will amount to I 8 JMB. AH preferred have been paid. The order authortataf the sioner to pay the dividend wee signed today at Albany by Judge T. A.

Cummins who is holding court there. Mr. and Mrs. F. C.

Bek of Stamford, who have been visiting here at the home of Mrs. parents. Mr. and Mrs. J.

J. Hell, left leal week for their home. Mr. Bek will begin hie fourth year es principal end ooaeh of the Stamford high sohodL lfte. Beta who was formerly Mias nog Hall, wUt teach physical education In the mum school.

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