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Chemists FORTY HOMES FOR CHRISTMAS More Families Af 'Adopted' i Yulcday by' Spring ficldians GENEROUS. PLANS MADE: Church Classes. Among Oth xrsrWitt Hclp to Pro vide Cheer Bv (Kill RAY Is astonishing the ninny lovely thtns.i. arc thinking of "tills Chrwmas to make the day happier nr "Ih Only about .10 nl Ihe SO "neediest" 'families rrmain unadopted: Those; prcbably will tv taken. by the time: ihf: day 'la Tint means that hn'jiplncwt will r'eisn supreme In homes on ir.as day Mi homes wnirn "30 MADE HAPPIER othrrwise would be bleak and cheerless lor aged men and women; pnv vrrty stricken fathers and mothers and" wistful boy; and girls.

Girl Will Get Her Doll In addition to the adoption" of the families for the day. many special little pleasure ere being brought to the needy A woman i ii ill i Tulrii IV remembnane that day." Which me Jovaly thing; to oo. i Another woman had doll which I she wanted to give to a little girl'; who has none. She will dress the! doll In pretty new clothese that would delight the heart of any child I Ii Just happened that the morning! I received her letter. I found out a tiny little gtrl a midget I 10 years old who weighs only pounds wnn is lernniy aiiam mh yill rrcrue ri'j deii lor Christmas.

So now. of course, the cniia win her w'sh gratified' and won't it a nice Christmas" lasses Adopt Families the rhilrir' In grade four of 'Viiirh MiwLcts Cnnnady is teach It at McGreor school are to give 11 emgonus Christmas surprise to' fnmilv. "Tliev will send their. Christmas tree to the home after thrtr pmram Friday, afternoon and al.n will give some plft.s to the chll riren. The 'SO SO class of the Campbell A "inie Methodist church will three families.

The Queen's Daushicra of the Stj cnes church also is preparing to look1 after a family. i (( nnttnnril on r.ije rmir) Mostly "Cloudy Forecast for Springfield and vicinity: Mostly rloudy tonight and Sunday: slightly cooler tonight; lowest temperature 40. qulshed pugilist. 07fliks continues as May, and the coldest anticipated i I about 40. The lnuaf night temperature at this season is 26 Springfield has been running to 30 degree above normal dur Weather in the almost as mild iiiff the Dast four days, and there is Cloudy no indication of abnormally cold wea'her for us now.

The atmospheric deadlock. In the north seems to be broker temporarily with a aioricrnte cold wave reported In lmnesota. Northerly winds will down theOrarks a little tonight, but not to Ihe freezing Moderation in the Canadian north Test seems to eliminate the danger' of severe weather hrrc for the next; day or two. flying renditions are had in the and eastern ftai. becaute of persistent foggy weather.

v.u i THE SPRINGFIELD LEADER PRlNGFIf PUBLIC LIBRA! PRICE 3 CENTS VflT YTTT VD Enltrtd it nitoltlM, 8prmifll4, Uluoorl, i yJlJ. 'JO acruna CUu Miller. Ondtr Act ol Uaicn I. laig SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1929 12 PAGES. laUmMt tt Tht AueettUd Prtul IMI Ul Ul ru AAA A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A innn Discouer Fatal 1 PRISON GUARD RESCUED ii mm mm if a rni i 1 i il ii i i ivf i in mm ii ii I I) 1 i vJk II I W5l I 1 hi i vvr 111 II 111 Photo shows Oeorte E.

Atkins, troopers routed prison mutineers who 'u ndeulfel to ElopingFffest By Young Wife lie Deserted her. husband deserted "her In De Mo. xA ro uolt, a few weeks after they were mnnce wmni ij iinin ialiit, young Catholic priest of Marccline. forsook his parish and eloped to Chicago with Miss Maudie Myers, has ended here with the granting of an uncontested divorce to Mrs. Downey.

Judge Paul Vanosdal of Ihe conn ty circuit court late yesterday granted the decree by default, Left Town Stunned Nearly two years aco the. little town of Marccline was stunned by news of the elopement The bride town's younger member of the Father Downey in a brief period as priest of St. Bnnaventure Catholic church had made marjy friends. Mrs. Downey.

In her petition, said European Programs For American Radio Fans on Christmas NEW YORK, Dec. 14 An attempt is to be marie to give radio America Viuniliinj itiiriii iiuiii nunmu, Plans are being perfe ted by the National Broadcasting company to pick up programs originating In England, Germany and Holland on Christmas and rebroadcast them through its entire network. In addition NBC will make available to the world via short waves on Christmas eve. a Chrls'mas carol to be picked up from Madison Square Garden. New Ycrk.

More than 15.000 singers will participate, with about 4O0 clubs and societies invited. The prognm also will go to the American network. Tonight Springfield 'J Thr Rrtrrrnd C. Wllhrii. rintf ti t.

win Hirftk ftl Ihr Charrh ThrUI m'lMk MVlJr'M'rhl ns N.iii.1.11 llrrli. lhfl.r frimi tt ibe wrrt. Ptrn rtl wounded guard, rescued after state had barricaded thetnaelvea In the convict durlnt the Hot, Was lorwd to IsrDivorced marriea. nc iihu met wmi success In earning living during their wedded life, she said. On Way to F.urnpe Only once had she heard from her husband since, Mrs.

Downey said, explaining that she received a letter from Providence, It. In which Mr. Downey said he was go lug to Europe and asked yvU he be forgotten. Following the desertion. Mrs.

Downey returned to Marccline I where a baby girl was born to her. 'DEMO' LEADER IS FOUND SLAIN i fM. ivnssi55ippi oiaie unairman Discovered in Drainage Ditch A LEXINGTON. Dee. The hod of Noel White SO i M'iinni miii'miii.

I muuiu irm chancery I clerk of Holmes county was found today In a ditch near his home at Franklin with evidence of foul play." The head appeared to have been crushed with a blunt Instrument and there was a bullet wound In ther temple. The body was discovered by J. S. Owin. rural mail earner.

A pistol was found eight or ten feet from the body. Officers, believing he had been attacked, sent for bloodhounds. WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR COMING WEEK Weather outlook fo, the week be 1 ginning Monday: For the upper Mississippi and lowrr Missouri valleys: Tempera i tures mostly above normal south portions and near below or below normal north portions, but a gen rrai cnange to coiorr oy close of weekj rather fretAient pre clpitation in north orth portians. proo i i 5 PoisonHn Stomachf Slain Widow Takes Ashes By Tin Aelnrialtil Prtl NEW YORK Dec. 14 CarrylnB with her a silver urn containing the ashes of her husband, Mra.

i Henry Grew Crosby sailed for France at midnight on the Cunardl Tiner Wauretanla. Crasby shot and I Blgelow last Tuesday in what police said was a suicide pact. 1 Mrs, Crosby said her husbands' ashes would be placed on top of an old windmill they had converted into a summer home and whirrr they had christened Moulin Du LWlVll II 1 1 1 Ul HIP BUIl )Iir said it was her husband's favorite spot and that he daily spent hours there. Crosby, a socially prominent Bnstonian. had resided in France for several years writing and pub i lushing poetry, FRIEND, LOVER DENY FRANKLIN IS MISSING BOY Balked in Attempt to Identify 'Slain' Youth Positively, State and Defense.

At torneys Must leave it to a Jury MOQNtAIM VIKArkJJa r4 tenpt I ably one or two period por Uiptil after the I tqqv J.erenc. 'staJrtaW beyond dnutf Jaine Trtooner nd to Mentlty ot a youth who says is Connie Franklin, state, and defense attorneys will submit the question next week to a jurys which will hear the case against five men accused of torturing and burning Franklin to death. A term of circtit court has been called for Monday. Tiller Rumlner, Id, who said Franklin was slain by a band of nightrldcrs while she and the farm hand were on their way to be mar ried. and Reuben Harrcll, a deaf 1 mnte nnH renntert eve witness fn the killing, have denied that the young man Is Franklin.

Best Friend Denies Him Th. tatnet aHnmnt at Mftntl 1 i ra ton broucht a den a from Co mBn wn0 SRld he WRSthe frlrnd of Connle Franklin be fore mvsr)nu, disappearance from h. st" communltv. that tw i ve i bv that name. A few hours later, seven persons who' said they knew Franklin before he came to the Sf.

Francis com "munIt Identified the youth as Franklin. Among them were a Mr. and Mrs. Saterlee of fYMr.il npar Franklin stopped on his 1 way to st. James.

Handwriting May Tell Handwriting experts are among the 75 witnesses summoned for the trial of the five men charged with murder. The accused men are Hu Hester. Herman Greenway, Bill Vnnnier White and Alex Flllks. will he ulted to com pair tin; iiHiiuwtitirm in a icufi ritten by a Connie Franklin to the state hospital for nervous diseases at Little Rock and that of the youth i who says he Is Connie Franklin. The writer of the letter, according to hospital attaches, was a former; inmate of the hospital bttt the youth here denies he ever was a patient in the Institution.

Woman Fails to Appear Prosecuting Attorney Hugh Williamson, who announced Thursday thut a Mrs. Clarence Combs of Ox ford, near here, would attempt to identify the youth here as her son, missing for three or four years, said he had heard nothing further from th(, motncr Mr5 ComD5 8hc had a son bv the name of Connie Franklin by iorm marriage, DF.LAY NAVAL BASE ILANS WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 AP The house naval affairs committee fleclded tooay not to consider rrc emmf ndat.inns on the proposed nav 1 iv dirigible base on tne we coast London con i i E' FOUND MOTIVE FOR POISONING Pnimfw Prncpptifnr Learns What Led to Aged Man's Death rntjrreerc WOMAN," SON CONFESSES MlirJnP Ula. pnttpH trt Cover Theft of Money, Inquiry Reveals BIIXF.TIX A larte quantity o( strychnine caused the death of E. E.

Trimmer, aged Pomona watchmaker who died mysteriously at his home Tuesday night, authorities at West Plains were notified today by the Glidrwell Chemical company of St Lonls, which conducted a chrmlrLanalysIs of the murdered man's stomach. A telephoned report aald Trimmer's stomach was lined with the poison. With this Information In their bands, the Howell county officials are expected proceed at ne with the coroner's Inquest Into Trimmer's death. i year old watchmaker who died wd In. toniiuie, hia JutitertiUw, her son; Sylvester Jamea, sought cover up theft of UM Mrs.

Trinv mer had commltteed against her fatherlnlaw. Such was the charge today of H. D. Oreen, with his announce ment that a motive for the poisoning of Trimmer had been more clearly established with a further confession by Mrs. Trimmer.

The additional confession of Mrs. Trimmer, Mr. Green said, was that she and her son entered Into the poison plot to cover up the theft from thej nlrt man Mrs. Trimmer fiflld. ac I cording to the prosecutor, that she had taken money belonging to her 'fatherinlaw, who had placed a part rtf tVin "acVt In a tnnl ebext.

and the remainder in a trunk. victim 'is Burled Mrs. Trimmer and the son had said origlnallv that they poisoned the aced man to obtain his estate. whleh it Hevelonert was verv small. The body of the poison victim was buried yesterday, but completion of a coroner's Inquest today awaited a report upon an analysis of the stomach of the dead man.

Both Mrs Trimmer and her son tare held In jail on first degree mur A.r Thev have not as vet obtained counsel, and Charles Trim i mer hushand of thn ccused woman FORTUN and only son of the victim, has not'527 Pine strect: "nd yet visited them. No dat for Smith. 36, 224 Howard avenue; and preliminary hearing has been set. OfW Marley. 20.

and Jess Bat Bough' Poison Here lies, 23. wgroes. The elder Trimmer was oolsoned Som Advice Tuesday night and died a short time later. Mrs. Trimmer and her son 1 said they purchased the poison In opiuigui'm ana gave It 10 mm in a poached egg.

POLICE STATION ROBBERY! Thieves Take Lock From Municipal Judge's Desk and Rum mage Through Papers After taking a large padlock from one of the drawers of Municipal: nuooaro. ocsk ai police headquarters. prowlers rummaged 1 Mr, and Mr. Henry Grew Crosby an they appeared during their honeymoon several yean ago. The Yora noiet oeaiae mat Mrs.

josepnuie noicn ujeiow, prominmi Boston aoclety Police said iheir death 'resulted aulclde 't 1 H. r'lktnAMA. 1 UIIU Ul 1 UUU 1 I i i 1 1 I Ul I UJIiU I I Jms Good Record of Liquor Vio lator Wins Freedom for, Him; Youth Who Resisted Sheriff Is Refused Plea When Record Is Told Six persons whose ages range 18 10 36 WRre this morning at a hearing before 1 Judges John Schmook and Warren L. While. Five petitions, including for negro youths, were over n0 01 1, 'P0" unt" December 28.

Those pareled today were: Law rence Elson, 19. Bols D'Arc: Marvin Montgomery. i. west Mount ver non strP('t: Herbert Dickey, 18. 2111, Nnrth Lvon avenue; Edward Endi i cotl ls 4,22 McPherson.

St. Louis, Howard Williams. 28. 1221 East Commercial street, and Herschcl ''P. 0Jf 5lrcct fciuions were ocnicQ to i.ne ni lowln: Norman Davis.

20, 634 South Dnhhcnn Avunua HnlnH Wo mi Item "ooocrson avenue; uoipn namuion He.rschel Glossip, who lives on street, was serving BO Wpsl plne 1 5 yamCu uy uiiuiji: ounmais (rnnllnnrd on Paje Koiir) as the rummaged papers will, have nn bIottr follows. Hubbard said Can't Find Chief "The burglary might have been commltteed" he continued, "by one of several persons who seem to think It their duty to ransack everything In this court during the night." Chief of Police Pike could not be found to offer his theory of the crime. i I I the legal papers and carried "In ease I find (hat legal in the lock. i formation has been stolen to keep Previous Robberies tne of Mme suspect off police The lock was placed there only records, 111 make an effort to find three davs ago at the orders of I lh(f lhie' that a prosecution Raymond Potter, commissioner of i public utilities, when Judge Hubbard reported that the desk had been plundered and several valu able affidavits and warrant de ounjcui Whether or not a theft, in addl tmn to mat, oi me mcx. was corn mltted last night could not, be de tcrmincd today, the Judge declared, I 1 SUiCIDE PACT FIGURES 1 II i kfrt rrci llll 1 V.

xwooiaiM body of Crosby was found In a New 'r ye it' i Atioriatrti riftis PIloM, Mrs. Josephine Rotch Blgclow, 22, Boston society bride of six months, was found shot to death beside the i body of Henry Crosby, 32. REVEAL 'BERT' HOOVER nCOCIVCU 3fU IVTUIYtTT a Til LITTLE ROCK, Dec. 14 (AP) When President Hoover worked as assistant to the state geologist In Arkansas in 1803, he rc ceived a salary of $40 a month and was carried on the state payroll as "Bert" Hoover. This information was disclosed today in State Auditor J.

Oscar Humphrey's office when a voucher bearing his endorsement was un covered In a search for records of that period. AA Days Guilty; Keeps Job i Twenty two days have passed since Police Chief O. Claude Pike was convicted by a Jury In federal court here of violating the prohibition laws which he is sworn to uphold. Pikes was still in office this morning. Aiioriairii fitts Vholn, I i i I i ALSO GET HOT INNEWYORK Half a Hundred Arrested in Washington' After Demonstration TEN ARRESTS IN GOTHAM Mob Breaks Through Police and Enters City Hall There fly TM )iiior(alf P'eas WASHINGTON, Dec.

14 A sroUp of approximately hall a hundred persons who claimed allegiance to ihe Communist Party "of America were arrested in front of the Whlto house today for making a demonstration against the Hoover policy in Haiti' and the administration's I business conferences. The technical charge lodged against the group at police precinct No. 1 was parading without a per ml. Boos, hisses and catcalli directed at the White house and the Wash ington police resounded among the crowd as the police halted parade, the persona submitted peacefully to arrest, tr" Just 4t mide whlU housa llmousln. roUed.

Into the north g4U ot.tha ground 1 ctoa hurled Jeera at the empty Ami V' NSW YORK. 'Deo. 1 A inteniauonaie, attempted to the dty hall today. Mounted poll charged uie throng to pense them and 10 arrest i Seven of those arrested women. They had broken through, the police guard and entered city hall.

The S0C men and women, carrying numerous banners and distributing, circulars, had taken part In a pa i rade. As they neared the hall they were ordered to disperse. They kept on marching and were charged by mounted policemen. Disorder fol lowed. l.

Their ranks broken, many of the marchers rushed up the city hall steps and swept through a line of policemen drawn up In front of the doorway. i One of the banners carried by the crowd bore the "Hoover Declares War on Workers." Mrs. John M. Sills Dies In New York? To Bring Body Here Mrs. John M.

Sills, member of an old Springfield family and wife of John M. Sills, former division engineer for the Frisco railway here, died this morning at her home In Mamaroneek, N. of a complication of illnesses which developed following a recent operation. Mrs Sills had gone to New York to live a year ago last September, when her husband a member of the. firm of John Mutr and luuiupnj, nUJVK uiujina.

i TO twri 4 werA ireraA that time Mr. 8111s had been for years connected with the Frisco here. Mrs. Sills was the daughter of Joseph Fisher, wealthy lumber s' man of Springfield whe died a number of years ago. In addition to her husband, she Is survived by her mother, Mrs.

Statle M. Fisher, of Springfield; a sen." John Fisher Bills of Mamaroneek. an a brother, Joe Fisher of Springfield. The body will be brought lo Springfield for burial, but funeral arrangements had not been com pleted this afternoon. "vJ Shopping Day? to Chciftma; 6 'i i i 1 1 rf ill I 1.