Springfield Leader and Press from Springfield, Missouri • Page 1

l. Missouri Weather Fair Sunday and Monday, becoming unsettled. Monday In the west portion. IT Ml I 1M' on of ap. is y.

at to nu at 'III of of H. is. I ry n7 or no. ted? wor nr. nu: the up i a id.

tt. vet der the' rlll lngT ng '1 j( I VOL. 55, XO. HIGH YESTEflDAYr SEASON'S RECORD Ch icajjo an Kansas City Swelter. Beneath Intense Heat.

wst the hottest day of thi lummer todato In Springfield. The mercury, which had ban dally lng around tha 30 degret point for torn hour, suddenly took a jump at 4 o'clook to 91. Not satisfied with tall altitude It continued to climb and bt I o'clock It stood at It. ThU la .1.1 degreeg hotter than kwiy previous da thlt turamen. July wa the prerloua high day.

The lowaet temperature yeaterday is at a o'clock In the morning, jfm mat nour tna mercury stead l'y aoarad until I la the afternoon when It reached iu pinnacle and to At o'clock It 1(1 IO. hnrtMnl rArfn.at. Springfield waa more fortunate v.iivr vines, auwever. normal polnta In the middle west, eome of them much north of Jiere, ahowed hotter, Bolae, Idaho, and Chicago Were aa hot aa Spring lld. Kennse City aweltered under aegreee, rort Bmlth had S.

witonita 103. Wichita waa the hot 4et city from which the local bu ru received reporte yeaterday. At iuin tne 0 polnta waa reach J. 8U Joeeph wae aa hot aa tort muuii wiui aa. Curiously enough aoutbern oltlee I kv iiiaiu wore voiHor lain eprlngrleld.

CbarleetOn, S. had a temperature of Kl Paeo, Gelveaton, it; Jacksonville, 0. llcmphla, Mew Orleans, lAt tin Unnlr ei areas are centered thwest and over the and New Kngland areae of high pressure and tne Dakota and aclflc ooant. lUln fell yesterdy in Utah, South Dakota, nuBM, miniiosixa, i cnnrsics, jr lor Ida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and In the New England States. Mo unusually heavy reins were report, ed.

At ji, m. yesterday rain waa fulllpg at Salt Lake City, Utah, and Jark annvill Vis flnplnAll a. Jfcrtd a trace of rain early yester 1 ey morning. GEORGIA RAFTER IS rDECREE OF DlvuRCE i I 4 Georgia Rafter yesterday filed In circuit court her petition for dl vorce from Oeorge C. The wife alleges that her husband la haa a high temper and has made her condition in life Intolerable, The husband Is also charged with speaking disrespect fully nf his wife In the presence of others.

The plaintiff aakt custody of a minor ton, Oeorge Charles kafter, ased T. Jfhe couple waa married In Octo ber. 1U, and separated la I 120. Tbe marital' troubles of the Rafters first came into notice when Mrs. Haftsr last November filed an action.

In habeas corpus for the re covery of the child, charging that he had been abducted by tbe father and John Rafter. brother. By Takes Away. The petition stated that the boy was taken away from tbe playground of the Boyd school In the afternoon of November SL The child was taken Into an automobile, which then hurried away In spite of the protests of two of the teach ers of the school who witnessed the act, but were unable, to prevent U. Hatjcas Corpus pat ers were fi tued the tame day and the sheriff resde a of th.

ly for the boy, but failed to find him, On the tfay or the hearing John Rafter was the only one of the defendants pres ent and the plaintiff mother sought an order compelling him to produce the boy and deliver him to her. The trial tasted two or three deys. uud at the close nf the first day's hearing a telegram was re celved from the father of the boy saying thfy were at Galena. Kas, and that the child was well. Tne boy was taken to Clarenden.

where tbe father has been living fur some time. Petition Was Dlanlssrd. Judge Patterson or the circuit 'court dismissed the habeas carpus suit and Mrs, RaXlac ccLuiccdtu. I'larendon. where she and Hurler hsd reeldcd prior to their st pera tlon.

On January last ho Rafters returned flprlngfleld and the boy was again plnced In the Royd school. It was thought at that time attorneys In the case that the iouplc had adjusted their differences. An action for divorce which the wife had filed fur the January term was dismissed. Rafter Is a minister of the Episcopal church. STAGE IS SET FOR TUESDAY'S ELECTION Kvsrything In readlnoe for' ne election of next Tuesday, Ail supplies are ready and In some In atanoea they have been delivered to the constablel of tbe various town ah I pa Yesterday afternoon the county clerk delivered tha supplies to sev erni officers who came for them from distant nreclncta.

Repifta from outin the 'county are that but little interest Is manifest In the election. It appears tnet the proposition for a mew con ttltution la regarded favorably in most parts of the count In Bprlngfleld the main Interest centers on the local aleutlon in which the matter of the operation pf the jitney lines Is be decided. 1 Low pressure ovr tha south I Ortet Lake states, with over Montani (along the x. a. Younger Sister of ErieMullicarie Banker "H8 Used to CaU Her Up Every Day," Clara Bays, Keferrlng to Elmer McComb Matter of Oirl'i Acquittal Is Quartion of Hour.f ,1.03 ANOELEa.

July SO. Erie a.iwiino, gin motner accuara or murdering her few hours old baby, must spend another week end In prison. Krle's freedom Is conceded to be only a matter of days. The seate la making no effort to convict her. But the prosecution haa started andj develop Clara' testimony regarding the red tape of the law defttftdsTblm.

if that must build up Ita case and finish before the Jury can formally free the young woman. The state haa paused In Ita perfunctory prosecution on several oc casions la ask the court to dismiss the Will GO to Jaw. Superior Judge Kouser. however. hat held that It la the province of the Jnry, not the prosecution or the court, to hold the girl blameless.

Dr. Lewis Webber waa on the witness stand at the court closed Ita session today. Dr. Webber testified aa to the young woman's physical condition at the time her child waa born. All symntsnna, he declared, were to Insanity.

ine name or w. Elmer MoComb. Whom Krla alleges to be the father Tif ner dead LaW; wes'brousnT Into the ease but once during the course of the trial when Clara Mulllcane, "tha little sister" waa on the stand. Clara, who haa been adonted bv Mia. Angela Kaufman.

Erle'a wealthy benefactress, said that Erie went to Los Angeles, aya Bete Leved Hlae. Erie loved Mr. McComb. I know," Men Will lie Added to Mechanleal Depart ment Between 150 and 100 former em ployer' of the mechanical depart ments of the West shops of the rriaoo win be recalled to work Monday morning, according to an nounccment mad'ni. the general miXrW With the return work tomorrow, a total of between I.ooo and l.ion m.n will Jve ret turned to work' in the Weet shope here after having been laid off for a period of approximately tlx months.

July t. approximately tOO men returned to work at the Wst thopa Last Monday morning, IK men were returned to work In the Frisco repair yards. The order for the men to return was made public last Saturday night by J. E. Hutchison, general manager of the Frisco, A majority ef the men being returned to work at the West thops of the railroad are in tha locomotive thopa.

It was announced here. It was understood that the men would be employed at full time, although some of the former employes of the railroad wbo have been returned to work have only been allowed to work part time. It was understood that the return of the men formerly employed In the West shops of the Frisco would not mean that all of the men affected by retrenchments of the railroad effective some time near the first of.tht year would be returned to work at thit time. Retrenchments affecting the West shops of the Frleco here first be came effective about alx months ago. Since that time only a few mc hjive work, for full time each week and only a few have been returned for part time; The retrenchments were made at that time, officials said, due to the fact that the railroad was experiencing a lull In business which waa expected to be only temporary.

oss Shoe League to Be Eorm'ed 'Hick" Pan time to Invade Big Cfities Advocate Say. COIAMMIS, 30. The "hick" pastime of the country cor neit Is coming to town to vamp the fickle American sport public. The tneffwaiilve amusement of horseshte hurling will win the love of rsbld baeebnll fans, golf enthusiasts and tennis fiends, and thousands of frensied worshippers wilt get as many thrills na the boxing publlo docs now. C.

Davis, world's rhamplon shoe pitcher, who sdmlts.it Is the "hiirdest gains In the world." predicted tonight that the evolution, revolution and reformation would come in the nt'Xt two years. He told of plans now being mad to organise "big league" circuit of the pnstlme within the next two years. "There were, only 000 peoplo out to see the Columbus bnsebnll teem last Wednesday and we had 1,000 at our match thnt Davis snlri iu support of his version. "There are more horncsnoe pucn eis now than buschall players or boxers." Pevlii ha a record of S3 ringers In a ten game match and haa tossed 80 doulilm In the euroe nuqiber of garnet Us figure! It wat the asm at hurling 1,100 poundt of steel I mllea. MMES AT FRISCO SHOPS TO RETURN TO WORK I i I 8PRIN0FIELD.

SUNDAY itORNINO, JULY 31, 1921. Clara "He used to call her up every day when the was to 111 just nerore she left Lebanon." McComb la an official of the lead Ing bank' of the Missouri town and also a prominent churchman. No attempt waa made to demand his presence as a witness, or to It Is expected that the cat will be eonc.ludud next Monday, Court attaches predicted that It would be oerore the, Jury for only a matter pi minute Hten Xrie Cleea Wm LRBANON, Mo, July 10, Elmer Mcuomb. named aa "the man" by Krle Mullloana, on trial In Los Angeles for the murder of her new pern Baoo. was found here today by a correspondent for tha Kansas City Post, according to a copyright siory to oe printed by that news paper tomorrow.

McComb, leading banker of this section and president of the Cham ber of Commerce, tad been reported la MSie IT The banker came Into Lebanon 8aturijayjbaBk.whaU bAdheea done to Miss Mulllcane. He has oeen hiding in the Osarks, according to the newspaper. McComb left Lebanon as mysteriously at he appeared. Me declared Innocence of the charge made against him by Miss Mulllcane, and stated he was ready to face trial, "I hope they free her, for I feel she Is Insane. McComb said.

msm I Pollee Mystified By Kansas t)itizens' Scheme. KANSAS CITT, July 0 Police, answering a riot call tonight suc ceeded after factor threats nf vio lence in dispersing a crowd of man estimated at L500. who atnti.a house in the resldenee section WoJ V'here It had been announced, bttefu) Huutri Adttfnca on construcuon was to have been li declared "by'AHorT soy Orover Chlldera, who itittiud tne moo, to have yr dupe of a master mind" la arranging for about 1.000 men here to take high price! Jobs with a company that uon't exist, was not present, but Chlldera said, was trying to get hit old job aa Jinemaq back today. Ho Legal Offease. Police tonight declared Crlgler haa committed no legal offense In arranging for thousands of mea and their families go to Tontltt, Frenoh Guinea.

Mouth America, to work for tha United Fruit and Industry company In the construction of a .100,000.000 electrical plant. Hundreds of men. however, after hearing Crlgler talk, sold homes and vacated apartments aad told business Interests to become employes of the company, which It declared not to exist, under a four year contract. A $1000 "good faith bond." without any money being put tip. was required of men signing the con tracts.

It was said. Tww Mea Soaaht The meeting tonight waa to have been held at the home of J. Richards, Twenty flftn and Agnew sireetSjRlchardt said Jitihoughti only a few wonld come out to hear about the scheme." Although he eald he was one of those expected to go to work South America he called the police when hundredr of laborers and skilled mechanics swarmed In front of hit place, creating a stormy scene. Police and federal officials art looking for two men who are alleged to have hired Crlgler to unknowingly become an employment agent for the alleged fake DES MOINES TO USE BY FAKE COMPANY 4 'MflTnR IISlVFl frum 3180 to 300 each, 4Mtfr lh. dt th.y were 4r IVlUIUnO CAOlUOlCll to the slxea of the water Since then the county has taken DHB MOINES, July 30 Steps In anticipation of coiiiplnta gnspftln slon of street car service, whereby Dea Molnet will be completely mo torlxed, were taken by authorities here today.

Mobilisation of a majority of the 12,000 motor cars in the city for transportation purposes, under A centrsl directing bureau, was the central feature of plsn drawn up by John lludil, commission of pub lic ssf. I urn. Movnn wiivo hbre. Mrs, Alice Curtis. Moyor WIng, state Industrial Inspector, consulted, here yestordny with H.

Howe, of Springfield. Who rtct ntly was sp. pointed inspector fur a large part of the suite, relative to tho prog rors of work In thle section. "Only routine matters were discussed," Wing Mr. Howe has been ineuectlng factories, stures, theatres, 'and so forth heir for about two weeks and will complete 'his Inspection of the City about Auiriiat 10.

He eulil he lst obtaining splendid ce operution from prrtprietors in Increaklng th. eunllatloii and safety of their es tablishments. VISITS PARENT HKUM. Mrs. Carl M.

Spltxer of Vlnocnnes, Is her purents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Llnney, of 931 Wel ler avenue.

MILK SUPPLY IS Forty Dairies Tnspect ed During Month of July. The report of Ralph j. Brooks, elty bacteriologist, on milk Inspec tions for July show, on the whole. considerably better conditions with regard to the bacteria count than were shown when tbe rr ports began 1 1 be made public about three months ago. During the month the bacteriolo gist tested tamplet from 40 dairies that tell milk In Springfield.

Of this number only ten showed bac teria above lOO.ooo to the cublo cen tlmeter. In three of the oases the count stood at 100.000, while IT fell peiow ipat number. Tift sample giving the highest naciena count wat rrom the dairy of Charles Crowdut. The count on this sample wat 800,000, which Is considered high. The next highest waaTfram "the La fcalle dairy which gave a count of 430.000.

The T. J. Whltlock and Walter Wilson dairies gave counts of 300,000 and 2D0.000, respectively. Munere us Tests Bade. From one to Ave tamplet were tested from the various dalriea, the total auitber samples used In the regular tests being (7.

Aside from these, the bacteriologist made special tests of 30 other eamplea. During tne month 31 dalriea were ailed and Inspscted Attention la called to the butter fat teats an shown In the report. A butterfaF test as low as 3 58 per cent is permitted under the city laws. but In the month tests all except two dairies went above these flgnres. There were but five samples that tested beiow 4 per pent :4mp.rloe ii.ti.ei, Comparing this showing with 41 testa taken recently In another city.

Colonel Finch of the health department said of the 41 teats en the other city 37 fell below 4 per cent of butterfat, Tbe report on the second test of lea cream during tha month la not complete, the growth In the samples not being sufficiently developed for an. accurate estimate. All dairies from which samples Of milk have been tested will re oelve from the health department the full persyt on their dairies. Followlrls. ths list of dairies teeyyfH.

pl July', together with ibVfhe percent I axhlbi in the itiif wife allege I F. (Appleby, 'W Sienl.y ICWo' S.18T 1 low nv i a fRerg Parker 4. l.ili .10 Brown, Jas. F. ss.noo 10 CarrolL J.

D. 44,400 3.J0 4.00 3S Carter, Carter, W. 8... Cloverleaf Dairy Cockefalr Dairy, Cravena. R.

Crowdus, Chaa. Dlpmer. Harry IXirnell. FreI Fielder. Frank Flnkblner Glhso.

Car) Glboney. T. lo.ono 4.30 4.30 4.00 (.30 .4000 J.00 ..,.300.000 ono .33.000 14.000 13.000 ....100.000 1S.0OO 30.000 ....110.000 S9.C0 33.000 30.000 ....430.000 HS.OOO ....100.000 ....110.000 00.000 .100,000 4.30 4.40 4.30 4.10 Oooche. W. Gray, John 4.40 1.00 4 an Hulse.

H. Jones, Ed 4.30 Jones. Wm. 4.30J La Salle 4.30 4.00 4.00 4.10 4.00 4.60 .4.00 4.00 4.10 3.00 4.30 4.C0 4.3B 4.30 I Row La (Vmpte Lynns, D. E.

McClernon, H. A. McTabe. Jas. Mathcrly.

growth unsatisfactory O'Keefe. John 33.0(10 nummell. 1.1.000 Rheedy, Mike 47,000 Sunlight Dairy 34.000 Thiel. John 30.000., Walker Weilnnd. G.

33.000 WllsonWa 4.30 Whltlock. J. .300.000 3.40 7,000 B.OO Workman, Frank MANY MELONS SHIPPED; THROUGH SPRINGFIELD The watermelon season has begun In earnest and many cars are boing moved each day. Tha season will last about six more and about' 3.000 cars will have been shipped by the close of the teaaon, It was estimated last night by member of Hughes Commission company of SprlngHeld. The cars are averaging In value at shipping mniona.

the large ones Bringing hlEherjirfj.esJhan. the small ones. 1 The snipmenis oi wkv ji from Dunklin, Pemlsco and Scott counties. The cars are going to Plttaburgs. Chicago.

Iowa and to other east and north destinations. The cantaloupe season Is still oD nd t.hnnt 10 to 13 cars are moving dally out of Dunklin county, whert practically all tne commercial cantaloupes are produced In this stats. The Hughes Commission company ho charge of all these cantaloupe shipments. I IOHT COMPAWY FORMED. To give electric light service te the district on the South Campbell ttreet roadjnv a distance ot Several miles, the South Campbell Light company haa been tncorpnratnd, with a capltu.1 stock of $3,000, divided Into It shares ot $300 each: The stockholders are: J.

H. Brow, er, president; J. MoDanlol, secre tnrytrenrurrrs' M. II, Nolsonr, 15. 0, R.

Steury. F. R. Krebs, it. Krebs, B.

tlann, W. Dun ntn.rton, W. E. Folnuh and Mary F. McLane, 'l lie company will own lis equip mi'nt and will obtain elwlrlo current from tho line which serves the city.

DAILY. TO WIKt'ONBIJII. A. C. Dally 'an hit wife will leave today for to spend few daya.

3 31 it it of on a It be" be Is the to all to in up lng the of I 1 I I L' 3 EM RATE Democrats.Charge Dis crimination Against "Little Fellows." WASHINGTON, July 30. The In come tax ratet and other levlet on the "little fellows' must be cut down If any reduction It made In the taxet of the wealthy. THIS waa the ultimatum t.rved today Democratic leaders of tha house on Republican members of the npusa ways and meant commit tee now writing a new tax bill. Tbe other Important development of tbe day In tbe tag revision situation wat the 'definite atatement by Chairman Fordney of the ways and meant committee that he would make every effort to bavt the transportation taxes both freight and patten ger repealed. If thlt cannot be done, he said, he would seek to have tbe rates out In half during the next year and repealed tha fol lowing year, The charges were mad by Rep 1 resentatlve Oidfleld, Arkansas, the Democratic whip, that the Repub ucana wiave decided to lift the tax burdena of the rich, but leave those of people of moderate meant on the war basis.

Ha stated that the Dem. ocratic leaders will, fight to have the normal Income tax ratet, now 4 per cent, reduced to or at least per cent. Keller Tee LIU It FIUwa. "The Republicans have virtually decided to repeal the exceat profits tax on corporations and reduce surtax ratet on wealthy Individual! from a present maximum of 66 per cent to a maximum of 33 or 33 per cent." Oidfleld eald. "A few of the consumption taxet may be repealed.

But I that virtually no con alderation It being made to reduce the normal Income tax rates. "If the taxet on wealthy corporations and individuals are to be reduced. I Insist that the same reduction, should apply to the little fellows. It the surtax ratet are In halt, the normal Income tax rate applying to incomes less than 33000 should be reduced by the same proportion." Chairman Fordney partially confirmed Democratic statements aa to Republican plans, by stating that he believed It, would be dirncult to reduce the normal Income ratet. "But the eonaumers pay all taxes." be said.

elimination tha excess profits levy wt'. mean that win nftod'orr or reduction of trmne Hortatlon tax. wilt he joriected la everything thnt people have eat and t. O. r.

Plum, flag Made. I Oldrtetd countered by asserting that the excess profits levy Is not responaiDie for high prices. Be de ulKicd that before the levy was Imposed in 1313, prices had Increased per cent, and charged that under corporations made greater prof than ever before. The Democrats will fight against tbe repeal the profits tax and In this will be assisted by some of the farmer representatives In the Republican ranks. If the Democrat! can force a vote lowering the taxes on the "little fellows" tbe proposala are virtually certain to pas in the house, but move la under way to force the house by rule to accept the bill virtually as It will be written by the ways and means committee.

C0URT HOUSE BONDS FALL DUE MONDAY i The last of the court house bonds Issued ten years ago to pay for the new court house fall due tomorrow. is believed that most or all of thom will be pi es'enlSid for payment. County Treasurer Dean Wright said yesterday he has been Informed that at least a portion of tht bonds are In ijprlngheld and will presented for payment August 1. Ths amount of the bondt yet to paid It 341,000, all of which is due tomorrow. Treasurer Wright not worrying about that, how ever, as he has sufficient money in "tng box," that la, the bank, pay them ail, even if they should be presented the sams day.

The bondt originally amounted 3160,000. Half of them matured five yean and half In teu years. The bonde maturing five yeara ago, amounting to $76,000, were paid on $34,000 of the ltst $75,000, pay 1 ham off as fsst as they were I presented. By Inducing holders of obligations to bring them In the county court has saved a consider able sum In Interest. There was enough money In the sinking fund lent year to take enre all outstanding bonds and the court made no levy tor the sinking fllR1.

Startinrr in tha henApr Monday, August 1st Virginia Van de New Serial 4HER OWN UAVM 4 a Full of heart interest, lovo and The critics say it is 1ier greatest work. Start readinff "Hcr.Own Monday af ternoon, Autxnst 1. A literal instal ment every day until com pleted. 28 PAGES IN" 3 SECTIONS. Construction Work Expected to Begin Early in August Trt.nk Hermann to Vacate Property on Which Temple Ii to reoted Deoline in Fnc4 of Material May Rednco Cost of Bufldinjr.

Work on the mosque which the Abou Ben Ad hem shrine will erect at the northeast corner of Kim brough and St. Louis streets at an approximate cost of 3300,000 will begin shortly after August 1, when the plana are scheduled to be com pleted" by Heokenllrely 4b Mark, according to A Dally, secretary of the board of directort. The house at 307 8C Louis street will be vacated tomorrow by the Frank Hermann family, which will move to a house owned by Mr. Hermann ou South street. The prop rty on which the house standi and where the mosque will be located was purchased sareral months ago by the Shrine for 330,000.

Blda for the excavation work will be adv.r ritea about August i When the' campaign to raise the 3300.000 wst begun laat fall It wat estimated that the proposed build ing, will one of the finest Shrine mosques In the middle west. would cost about' that Since that time material! have declined In price and It is estimated the proposed building can be erected for about? zSOvopO. although the original' amount may be expended. Large Fend Bebarrlhed. More than 3173.000 of the 3300, 000 has been raised and the goal Is assured, Mr.

Dally taid. The Shrine haa about 340,000 of additional money In Its treasury and can ute Rodents and Any Kind of Vegetation Eat en Kavenoiisly. REVAL, July 30. Starvation has drlvyi famlne ftlrtckcn Russians to eating netd rodents and any vegetation that promises the least nutriment, according to diapatcbes re ceived here tonight. The great farming, region of the Volga river naa Become a vaai.nouse or aea vv according to.

tnone FAMJKE STRICKEN i RUSSIANS REGARD RATS AS DELICACY L' hr JM at a t'iiW, at I 1 I tO.fi Ich ay. can use to hRnrt. be' brought fl MJ0 HIM, a tiny animals wh ustain life. Rats are eaten ravenously. Acorns are prised nnda One district re port! the Inhabitant! trying to eat sawdust which they mixed with a handful of flour whea tha latter could bt found.

Most and root! were eegerly sought. Death aa Kverr Bead. From several districts. It waa re ported that hunger stricken men and women were eo weak they could walk only a few steps without collapsing. Some recovered and atag gered on.

Others never arose. In the districts where obolera hst broken out death waa so common as awaken no emotion. cierfoon colonists In the Volga region appealed to their former homes for aid. Conutless caravans ars tottering out from the farm region to the boundary country. Thousands pitifully begged for food at the occasional towns, but found that the placet had been twept clean of food, oven the horses sacrificed.

In some of the larger cities, especially in the west, where there are alight food stocks, rationing still exists. Work wst laid to have ttopped practically everywhere. Farmers saw no good In continuing in tbe fields work In the cities brought no more food. In Petro grod the food allowance wat said to be a pound of bread dally, a quarer pound of sugar monthly, a pound of dried fish monthly, while no potatoes are available, Prloes were reported to be enormous. Butter wat priced at 33.000 roublet per pound: tugar, j.uuu rcubles and thoet 300,000.

BAPTIST ASSEMBLY WILL CLOSE TODAY The. annual Southwest Missouri Baptist assembly, wblch waa In session all laat week at Otark, will close tonight. Tha attendance has broken all records and because of this negotiations are" under" Wa with the Osark Commercial club whereby (ained for a long terra and suitable buildings erected. About 400 persons', many ot them from Spring Held, were In attendance up to last nigi.t. Attendance at the classes was as follows: B.

P. Ill; Women's Mlsslanry Union, 133; Sunday echool, 77. About towns were represented. Attendance from Springfield churches up to last night was about as follows: First aHp tlst, more then 100; Orant 8tre.it Baptist, about 30: Hamlin Momorlal, about 33; Mast Avenue Baptist. 16 Iu 30: Robborson Avenue Baptist, about li Officers for the entiling year were elected aa follows: C.

E. Higgins, Osceols, president; W. A. Crumley. Springfield, vice president; F.

O. Hartley, Otark, seoretaryi K. L. Hutkell, Springfield, corresponding secretary; Rev. Co ft man, Bpringflold, chairman of the executive committee; Rev.

C. B. Miller. Hnrinrhnld chairman At tha DrO grem committee; II. Turner, Springfield, chalrtnan of tne nnance commuter; Rev.

D. it. Howerton, Springfield, platform manager. If the negotiations for the grounds succeed, the Osark Commercial the assembly and various other organisations will use them at various times each year. Several Springfield churches will probahly erect additional Tbe tabernacle on tha ground la 30 by 34 feet A bathing pool will alto bo constructed.

on Shrine Mosque 115.000 of thlt at once If It It found advisable. Mr. Dalley said. The building will be 100 feel high. about aa high aa tha Woodruff and will be 400 feet by 143 feet, with the length extending on Benton avenue.

Tha mosque will seat about persona and will be available for grand operat, ceremonials of the largest kind and for community gatherings. The acoustics will ha perfect. It Is planned. Hack Stack Said. For many months L.

B. Walton, chairman of the board having the building In charge, haa been devot lng al of hit time to raising tht money, He has sent out thousands of letters and visited hundredt of tow no, obtaining subscriptions of stock from 100 per cent of tht Masons In many of tht towns and In most of the firms In Springfield, The remainder of tha board of director! for tha building betides Mr. Dally and Mr. Walton, is: Clarence B. Randall treasurer; J.

T. Duckworth. Carl O. Mil Paul Oliver and A. B.

Wyman. It Is planned hold the corner atone layln 4 Ootobe, whei Imperial Potentate Ernest C. Cutts of Savannah, Go haa promlsed be present and when a big ceremonial will be Next year, at the dedication, the Imperial potentate, three past potentates and the bands, patrols and nobles of about ten Shrines are expected her. Warns Black IIandc)rs of Result If lie Is i Slain. KANSAS CITT, July 10 "War to tbe hilt" with the Italian Mafia was proclaimed here tonight by Chief of Pollee Edwards, whose lite had be.n threatened, when he bad ten Italians brought Into his omce and lined up against tha wall while delivered tha ultimatum, me desr or allve hoije'trier are dead, Edwards told tbe mfn.

"My life haa been thratenl and my men know that the Mafia lis shadowing me, but If I am killed, the American Legion ana ties tku Klux Klen wll hang every Mafia member In 'Kansas City to lamp postsseparately or collectively, wesaaaa Are tila. In addition to guns which ha said had been taken from blaok handera Kdwarda threw on the table two drawers full of "elephant gun" but leu which ha eald were being mounded by tho thousands feert for Mafia "do among the 13.000 Italians In Kansas City and tell them what I Id," Edwarda commanded, A report was out tonight In Lit tle Italy that a reward of 3300 each hsd been issued by tha Mafia fur Kdwarda' stool pigeons 'dead or alive. fOUIlf TO, KIRK. DIKS. WASHINGTON, July 3D.

Henry C. McKenney, acting clerk of the supreme court of the United Stalest! end In Its employ for years, duo In a hospital hfre at toda lal lowli an operation ror eiomaon trouble. McKenney was Tt. years old. Baseball todar.

White City. 3 Admission. $0e and Advertise ment Only Miss I Modesty Is In Demand Frisco Teachers Must; Get aoITlo Simple Standards' Dram, SAN FRANCISCO, July JIL Olrli hoping to teach school In San Francisco will kindly roll up their silken hosiery above tbelr knees and lick any surplus carmine from thslr lip's. Mrs. Helen P.

Sanborn, president ot the San Francisco bokrd of education, Issued edict tonight, when she laid down theee plans and specifications for proper dress for school teachers: No lip for "they ere the last word In bad taste." No band painted eye brows, for "they are ellly." No beauty windows, for 'they art "acandeloua" No rolled down hosiery, for they are "Idiotic." No Jt ear 'rings, for a teacher must hot posa as "an amateur Carmen." i No wasp waists, for they are unhealthy and "Insane." And don't Wear too short a skirt too low a waist or bobbed hair for Mrs. Sanborn' said tht had no words to describe them, Mro. Issued her warning that violator! of these rules could not hops to pass teachers' examination! after a country school district wrote to the state board of education asking help In finding for them a teacher who "was clothed below the knot! and above tha wataV I IFF THHPATFWFn MIHr 4IIIIMIiMIMrr CHIEF OPEHS 11 ilTALilFIA PI? 13 3n.T tt tnrwoAT at A iVAJJJ ON TRAINS, mil. aitwmv BIG WHEAT SALES LOOSEn FLOOD OF 1 WCUlEfl Financial Tension in the Southwest Is 1 1 Broken. i KANSAS CITt.

July 30. Thoun' ands of carlt wls of new grain that' are dally pouring Into markets and shipping centers have broken financial tension In the ton thwest. leading bankers declared here to night "The new wheat crop hat been, moving In enormous volume from, m. great wneac area or thlt dis trict In tin laat 30 days, and tha proceeds of wheat tales are raold ly finding their way Into country nanus, tnus easing up tha financial situation." J. Z.

Miller governor of the Tenth federal reserve jjla trlet, declared. "The statement front tht Federal Reserve Bank of Kansar City on July thowtor the "total "of Ioana to member banka wat down to to 3T4.040.Mu, the lowest for many'' months." 1 William Kemper, chairman of the board of the Commerce Trust Company, declared tht new wheat crop, receipts of which here In tho last two weeks were valued at 311,. 000.000, It enabling farmers tc liquidate their debts, country basks In turn taking up their obligations with larger Institution! hat again rwgflr wttaTree lrnercnnaa of money. Faraeeva Paytaar Vs. Miller's Itttcmeht aald: "While tht country bag'v sweltering and while hnslneee In general haa alowed down to about tha utual mid summer dullness.

It la noted that tbe new wheat crop haa been moving In enormous volume from tha great, wheat area of thlt district In the last 30 day, and the proceeds of wheat eal.s are rapidly finding their way Into country banka, thua eating up tha financial. situation. Farmers paying up tbelr merchants and bankers, and country bankers art reducing their borrowings from the city banka "The statement from the federal Roeerve Rank of Kansas City on July 11 showed the total of loans to memner oanks was down to 373.0OO.0UO, lowest for many months. D.mand for Crfillt cnnUnucfl eironir. for It Oulros a Vast um.Hinl to nnr.

ousine.s or this district, pnr tlcplarly at thlt time of the year h.vo the situation thnr iirr Ao.n,. tlmdl and tney are going to di It with very little out.fclo borrawlna The I agrlciMture and livestock inauetrlot although' sustaining h.avy looses. have been adjusting themselves to the change! and there le lndlratt a decided tendency toward healthy. cewdltions, 'Meewhaata Waytag Mera. 'f lead and alna minlag aad tht petroleum Industries are de 1.

pressed on account of low nricea or products, but operator! ara chear ful In tht. belief that tuck condi tions cannot last long. Coal Bin. lng hero, as It at low'' ebb on account ot lack of r. demand.

Tbe railroad tltuatlon dlcateg Improvement aa eoaeposwd with a rear ago, and there la some complaltt of car short are at many wheat shipping stations." Several of tha leading teats western bankers, when shown Mil lari etatement, readily tdbaetibod) to it The next hank ttatameata la' the southwest art expected to showl further, liquidation! of loana. In. creased deposit! and a substantial advance In cash beldlnga. It Wat), aald. Retailers and wholesalers nra dieted ar healthy normal trad thit fall; buyeri" orders Indicating thatt large, if not larger stocks last fall will be placed to shelve i a by mtrchasta, PORTION OF SCHARFF FARM.

SOLD TO KIBBJ5 An. ll. half acres of a farm near Btraf I ford belonging to the Scharrf com pany haa been sold to Fred KJbb of Chicago for $11,504 and Klblv hat moved on tht farm wlUt. his family. Ninety seven and one half acres of this farm remain In the possession the company, hlch Is 1 composed of Max and Theodore Br harff.

The oou.pany ownt two other tracts near thla farm and all three contain part! of the 333 colonies of honey bees ownsd by the company. The beet produced ltst ytar about 33,000 poundt of it. fined honey, making tblt tbe largest apiary i within a wide radius. The bees oo( the part of the arm purchased by Klbbe will be removed by the' company to one of other farms.1 YOUTHFUL SWIMMER IS DROWNED IN SAC RIVER; After his' father had nearly drowned in attempting to eave Robert Wilson Agee. It years i drowned In the Bae river near Pur cy's cava at 1:30 yesterday after noon.

His mother and father wit nessed the tragedy. The body waa' recovered from the fiver an hour later. i. Several persons were In the: crowd of bathers, who were twlm ming near the point In tht river where young Ages was When It waa noticed that the1 youth was struggling in the water his father went to hla aid and went" down with him twice befort hei. ceased trying to Save tht boy's lire.

Coroner Ull Paxson waa sura i moned. but decided that an lnquent', wai not necessary. Tho body wit taken to the home of tho youth neart II lard Funeral arrange menlt hare not been oompletea. 7 mm 'v: 4..