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Funeral Thursday For Pioneer Bank Leader, H. M. Smith
Funeral services for H. M. Smith. prominent Springfield business man and civic leader, who died . yester- day, will be held at 2:30 o'clock Thursday- afternoon .at the .Alma Lohmeyer Funeral home .. . The Rev- erend' Frank Neff. pastor. of i the 'Grace "M. E. church, will officiate. Burial will be in Maple Park ceme- tery.
Mr. Smith died at his home at 695 East Elm street following an iliness of pneumonia. For the past few years he has been engaged In the real estate business. He was wwD throughout inis puit of the . as one of the pioneer bankers. started the first bank In"Pulaski ty. and established the Met- ts National bank at 330 South pbell avenue. He was a mem- of a large number of civic or- zations. He is survived by his two daughters, two brothers. astera, and four grandchildren.
EVANS FAMILY REUNION WILL BE HELD: TODAY ..
A reunion of the Evans family. pioticers of Springfield and vicinity. will be a feature of the Yuletide celebration at the home of Mis Alice Beiderlinden, "~ 1108 . Oberry street," today and tomorrow. The children and a number of the. grandchildren of Mr. and Mra. Martin J. Evans will be present They are: Mrs. Mattie J. Beider- Minden of Springfield; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pachihoffer of Chicago; Frank Evans of Texas; Mrs. Neva Brown. of Central, Okla .; Henry Evans of Nixa, Miss .; Ora Town- send of Webb City,-and Mr. and Mrs. William Delasmit of Spring- field.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1929 -- LEADER
Page 1: Mrs. Clarence L. Akerley was killed .**
Page 8: J. Warren Swift committed suicide .**
Page 14: Gilbert I. Butterfield died .** H. M. Smith died .**
Joseph B. Nugent died .** Mrs. Maude J. Payne died .**
Page 15: Card of thanks .**
Page 16: Miss Hortense Stone and Mr. Kirk Truess [Pruess] were married .** [Dim and difficult]
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ThatHe that when here! Meleke fas is years old het huis. ! more des estedah Grove High school moren aumentamout that advantage of tarm !: le :23m' kowin-life's As she had lived all nl .. her life on a larna, she took the farm side of the gar tion nud wro!r An Article "Our Side of it" which
Farming Magazine Mr. Firirke mother read the artifin and whole In the nombre command her The two corresponded for mer a peut and a half. then the Minnie+
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The coupir tamr to Springfield after the marriage and Fraisterre a. the canta Hotel as Mir and ,of the traditional diamond.
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i niece Mias Hortense Bione. , come the bride of Mr. Kirg.T The Anden. the daughter of
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winter-in-law, Mrs. Studie, a : Aelig her: 'Mr. Edward Stone was to per!" Mr. Toutes ne brat man Little-Bever :: (Inti ( ...
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keeping with the holiday Arewith wild . langs and costone of Christmas "teens
phung with kelley and bells. An III .. provided alter ace mult In the din- : Ing: room with palins and terna. A: lamp burned "on either. Alde of the ;
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The terms couple plan in make their home at $1100 West Nichols street. 1.
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bry wanted a tral sing corrmet! FAL 11:30 o'clock last night. they. apt to the home of Reverend.(I. Drake,accompanied by the ide's Brother. James Nicholson."
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. Mra. Lessly Fleleke, : formerly Catharine Nicholson of Ash Grove. lørlas had been married a second tane while still on her fire: honey- inoon. On Friday, December 20. Wiss Nicholson became Mrs. Lenty Rolf, when she was married to Mr. Rolf. of Momener, Iii., at the Carthage marthouse.
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MAN'S DEATH HERE PROBED
Relatives of Ullbert I. Butterfield. $2. of Lebanon; who died in a box- pital here December : 20, after he Had been found Itt"th'his roomny The Hullinnere hotel. were here to -- the molesting the man's death. '
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Butterfield, who was believed by authorities to have been penni- Te3 at the time of his death. had an estate amounting to $10,000 or $12.000. the members of the family sald. Those who were here today were a lotlier. J J Butterfield. and a spoor. Mrs Jessie A. Luther of Coolidge, Ariz., and Mrs. George, ! W. Timmons, another sister. of ; Colorado Springs. Col. The But- terfield family had lived in Isba- ' tion since 1904 and was well known in Laciede county.
. The dead mau, who was an elec- tric lineman, always carried between $100 and $200 with him. but when ar dad he had only a few cents th hus pocket. L. Bartholomew, a guest. at the hotel, told the family today ! that he heard some one enter But - ferfield & room about 2 o'clock the; morning of December 20. and that !. for about all hour he heard con --- ·n'roble disturbance In the room. was aroused
again, at'3 o'clock he entered the Im and food Butterfield In a dazed condition allenipting to crawl Into lite hed. He Fald there were also bottles found in the term whitel. hast been lett, by the Intruder. A're- . ... I. a great of the lintel today.'
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inan arrived OF THE now! Udnight on DecemberKL HO shad driven in un automobile and has . i'll that he asked that his car" lw takry to a Rotace for hon 11. car was not cured lor, however. Ante! Surun solo by another car, whose" frealves my they koon Fand badly - damaged. ; Laler, they W. i was ditven to another carage :
! : 'Throughout" the work-the . man; requested at the hotel. Ill of child and cold. Finally, on Friday namn- Ing. not knowing that he was . called Dr. A. Armstrong, city phụ- sician.
Shortly afternoon, Dr. 8. F. Free- : InAn Was called. He "found the man! of a dothe condition, he said today.
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"""Our' brother stood high in our communally, and we do not believe he was dething " the sisters sal today.
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miss Josephine Vaughan, daughter & Mr& mrs aller T. Vaughan, and mr games Robberson, con 8 hr + mas yw Robberson were married Last Sunday.
12-CARDS OF THANKS; IN MEMORIUM In tret· aifint
BOARD OF THANKS
TwHStar tadmory .of .Mr. snd J Heincon, 'our darling father and .mother; who departed lins bie March 261h -and ANNUAL JUth. 1918
Our hearts'are rad today for our parents
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FORMER BANKER TAKES OWN LIFE
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Reeds Spring Man Is Found Shot to Death in Barn Near His Home
J. Warren Swift, 45, former Reeds Spring bank cashtee who was found shot to death Tuesday in a atall of ! .he barn at his home there, was believed todaj tu have killed him- +11.
. The man had not been known to adler any sharp financial losses. but general depression since the' e'ath erht vears neo of his father. former president of the Kind Spring bank Is blimed br some !os his art. .. .
Borrowed Shotgun
++ wbrother, Brainerd Swift, who is In the United States government ! servire in California, and two sis- ters," including MIM Bertha Swift. ! with whom he lived, and another Ini Idaho, survive. Dr. Carl B. Swift - deatt of the Bible school at Drury conlere, was a cousinL.
Swi !! bacicard a d'run from' Hasmond Swindle. a Friend. on Monday, and informed luts sister' .wit men tha: he was tuing rab)-' bt: hunting. He did not ieturti home Munday night, and a search' was begun Tuesday morning aftre .... . Bertha Awift had given the aiaım.
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Charles B Swift, father of the young man, was president of the . Reeds Spring bank and J. Warren Swift Hs cashier before the institti- "an was fak. ; . Arr by the Shop.
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Funeral arrangements in cha ... 'of. Thornhill.of. Branson. are Indeft- · perding receipt of word from
Ozarks Farmer Fatally Shoots Wifeby Accident
- Mr. Clarence L. "Akerley, 18, of. Mountain Vier, Shannon `county; ' WAS Recidenta'ly shof.and killed oy -- - i her husband at 3:45 o'clock Tues- day afternoon as he was loading A shotgun in their home.
Akerly who is 57, was cleared :( ' all hlame by offvers. He told how ; He had gone inin the house in get a gun-with which to shoot a hawk. As he passed through a narrow en- ! kalased porch adjoining. the kitchen the sun was discharged into the woman's face when she was only i about A feet away. Her neck Tax hinken and death was Instantane.
" Akerly had been married trice and the moon had been mar- ried three times. . No amiall chil- dren survive. -
THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1929 -- DAILY NEWS Page 1: Mrs. Clarence L. Akerley was killed .**
Sam Bartell and Robert Lee Allen were killed .**
Page 2: Mrs. Oliver E. Sewell died .** Page 10: J. Warren Swift was killed .** Gilbert 1. Butterfield died .* H. M. Smith died .** Joseph R. Nugent died .** Mrs. Maude L. Payne died .**
DEATHS
H. M. SMITH Funeral services for H. M. 5mlth. prominent Springfield business man who dled Tuesday, will be held at 2:30 o'clock this" afternoon In the Alma Lohmeyer funeral home, the Reverend Frank Neff. pastor of Grace Methodist church, offl- clating. Interment will be in Maple Park cemetery.
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JOSEPH R. NUGENT Funeral services for Joseph R. Nugor 44. of 1239 Boonville avenue, who di Tuesday night at his home following Itmgering illness, will be held at 3 d'ale Friday afternoon in the Klingner fune: chapel Burial will be in Belle VI cemetery.
MRS. MAUDE L. PAYNE Funeral services for Mrs. Maude Payne, 42. wife of D. J. Payne. 2 North Main avenue. who died Tuesc morning, will be held this afternoon 2:30 o'clock at Hamlin Memorial Bapt church, Interment will be In Greenla cemetery under direction of J. KUogDer. 890
SKULLS FRACTURED AS PLANE CRASHES AFTER 'NOSE DIVE'
Sam Bartell, Veteran Springfield Flier Dies in Hospital at West Plains; Mayor Ordered Pair Not to Take Passengers Up After Re- ceiving Reports That Pilot Had Been Drinking.
INJURIES suffered shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday after noon when their airplane nose dived to earth at the west- ern limits of Cabool, brought death to Sam Bartell. 35, veteran Springfield flier, well known in aviation circles here. and Robert Lee Allen, 24, Mountain Grove, who was a passenger, within less than an hour of each other last night. Allen, with the front and top part of his head severely crushed, died at 10:15 o'clock last night in Springfield Bap- tist hospital here. A futile. effort to save the youth's life was made by Dr. Wilbur Smith. The youth's father: Andrew. Allen, Wright county deputy sheriff, and his mother, were here with their aon when he died.
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The youth is survived, besides his parents. by a wife and dos brother. Jesse Allen, all of Moun- tain Grove.
The body was viewed by Dr. Mur- may O .- Stone, Greene county: cor .: ODET, and then takeo to charge by the Klingnet Undertaktry afewbeyy to prepare for burial It
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occurred Ja , TxtMs coudes. Bartell succumbed at 11. In the Christa Hogan hospital at West Plains from injuries which - i mangled his body terribly. The fler, who in years of flying never had been granted a government X -. cense, suffered a-compound frac ... ture of the left leg. a double frac- ture of the left arm. broken left shoulder and a head injury which : alone would have been sufficient. to cause death. The top of his skull had been pierced by some part of the wrecked plane.
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The exact cause of the crash could not be learned last night. It Was believed due either to engine failure or a battle between the two men for control of the plane, which is owned by George ' Hartley. a farmer living about six miles south - west of Cabool.
Hartley had purchased the plane several months ago at Kansas City and retained Bartell as pilot and Instructor of a small flying school which he hoped to establish. The machine. an American Eagle. was considered a trustworthy craft by aviators who had examined it.
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Several residents of Cabool de- clared that Bartell appeared indis- posed. when he and Allen got into the ship, to fly it back to Mountain Grove, where headquarters for it were established some time ago. The plane had been flown to Cabool last Friday. when it had been to- tended to take passengers for short rides.
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"Bartell and young Allen. came to me and tried to buy gasoline about 11:30 o'clock this morning," Ira Bowles, Cabool -garage propri- etor, said last night, "but I wouldn't let them have It because the pilot seemed to have been drinking."
"" zueas they managed to get it somewhere else, because they came back to my place and borrowed a blow torch to heat up the intake manifold of the machine before starting it. At that time I tried to talk Allen out of going up with Bartell."
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Warned by Cabool residents that Bartell was In no condition to be flying an airplane, Mayor H. E. Mc- Kinney went to the flying field and forbade him to take up passengers for Christmas rides.
NOT "WARMED UP"
It was shortly after that when the two took to the air from the field east of the town, ostensibly to go to Mountain Grove. They flew over Cabool only 50 or 75 feet above the housetops, apparently having difficulty in getting altitude, and crashed just within the western limits of the town. The ship nar- rowly missed hitting the home of L. Richardson, near U. S. highway No. 60.
Whether the engine falled because it had not been properly "warmed up" or eccentric flying by Bartell had caused the younger man to at- tempt to get control of the machine could not be learned.
badly wrecked aircraft by persons who saw the fall and then were taken to the Gaylord-Elllott funeral parlors In Cabool in an automobile by two brothers, Verne and Orville Laws. There first aid was admin-
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Young Allen was hurried to Springfield in & Gaylord-Elliott am- bulance, accompanied by Dr. J. T. Cavalier of Cabool. Bartell was removed soon afterward to the West Plains hospital in an ambulance summoned from the C. R. Burns Undertaking company at Willow Springs.
Although Bartell had been flying eight years or longer, he never had been granted a pilot's license by the branch of the department of com- merce in charge of aviation. Admit- tedly skillful in handling aircrall, he was not able to pass the written
examination, it was learned from friends here, and was lax about keeping motors in first class me- chanical condition. He was said by many to have frequently taken a ship Into the alr without properly warming the motor, a practice con- i demned by good pilots. This alleged; neglect vus giren as the cause of number of crashes he had had dur- ing the past several years.
- HERE FOUR YEARS Į
Little is known of Bartell here except that he first came to Spring. field from Oklahoma City abou: four years ago when he was em- ployed as a pilot by Carl McCluer, manager of the Springfield munici- pal airport. His connection with McCluer, however, was not for one Since then he had served as pilot for several other owners of planes i here.
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Springfield aviators declared last night che cht crashing licensed pilot should not be held against official aviation, which is under strict government supervi- sion. The Hartley airplane, it was pointed out, could not be' licensed without an approved pilot flying it. although it was a good machine.
Ivan Malone, 19-year-old Moun- ain Grove boy, who was at the Springfield hospital last night with several other friends of young Al- len, said he and Allen drove to Cabool in the same automobile yea- terday morning while Bartell went In another machine. Malone and the ill-fated youth had quite an ar- gument during the drive, the former said, over the question as to which : would accompany the airplane back to Mountain Grove.
Allen's mother, he said, urged ber son when he left home Dot to ride in the plane, but the boy was so :: shout firing that he disregarded her request.
Upon receiving information that Allen was being brought to Spring- field by airplane. the W. L. Starne mortuary sent an ambulance on a hurried trip to the municipal air- port. 'It was some time before it was definitely determined that air -. plane service was not being used i to bring the injured bay bena .
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FUKMEK . BANKEK CALLED SUICIDE
Decide J. Warren Swift 'of Reeds Spring Shot
Himself
₹ A verdict of suicide was returned ba a coroner's jury investigating the death of J Warren Swift, 38. former cashier of the Bank of Reeds Spring. whose body was found Tues- day in a barn loft at his home near Reeds Spring. A shotgun, which he had borrowed Monday to go hunting, was beside the body.
No message was found and his sister, Miss Bertha Swift, could not advance a motive. A search" was begun for him Monday night when he falled to return from the hunt- Ing trip.
Swift and his father sold their interest in the bank several years ago and since then he devoted him- self to farming.
RELATIVES INVESTIGATE SALESMAN'S DEATH HERE
- Not satisfied with the explanation given of the death of Gilbert I. But- terfield, 42, of Lebanon, in a hos- pital here December 20, acialines as- rived in Springfield yesterday to in- vestigate his demise.
Butterfield, after being found ill in his room at the Baltimore hotel. was taken to a hospital, where he died of pneumonia. Conversations and information given by hotel questa have led relatives to believe he might have been robbed after being treated by an intruder. Sev- eral bottles were found in the room.
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Coroner's Jury Absolves Hus- band of Criminal Blame In Accident
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A CORONER'S Jury absolved Clarence L. Akerley, of Moun- tain View, Mo .. of criminal blame : in the death of his wife whom he accidentally shot and killed Tues- day afternoon while loading a shot -. gun in their home.
The Jury, after hearing the evi- dence, returned & verdict that the shooting was accidental. Akerley told how he had gone Into the home to get a gun with which to shoot a hawk. As he passed through a narrow closed porch ad- : joining the kitchen, the gun was : discharged into the woman's face. She was only eight feet away. Her, neck was broken and death was; instantaneous.
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The inquest was conducted by Dr. Houston, coroner. Prosecutor J. P. Moberly and Sheriff J. D. Norton were present.
Mra. Åkerley, who was 48 years of age, had been married twice and the man had been married three times. No small children- survive. | A daughter, Mrs. W. E. Shubert, re- sides In Erle. Penna., and a half- ¡ sister In Louisville, Ky.
The Akerleys came to Shannon county early last summer from 1 Wayne county, Ora.
MRS. OLIVER E. SEWELL DIES AT WALNUT GROVE
Mrs. Oliver E. Sewell,, 89, pioneer Greene county citizen, died shortly ! after noon yesterday at the home of her por, I W Sowell, At Walnut Grove. Mr. Sewell died in October. She is survived by the son and a sister, Mrs. W. R. Armstrong, of Morrisville, Mo.
Funeral services will be held at the Luck, Mo., Methodist church at 12:30 o'clock today. Burial will be made In the Hickory Grove ceme- tery under direction of the Brim Funeral home. 1
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THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1929 -- LEADER
Page 1: Ed Waddle and Miss Jewell O'Kelly were married .**
Sam Bartell and Robert Lee Allen were killed .**
Page 4: Phyllis Barbee sues to divorce Joe Barbee. They have a child. They have been married five years.
Page 8: Joseph R. Nugent died .*
Mrs. J. H. Fulton died .**
A daughter Norma Deolores Kennemer was born December 23 to Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Kennemer, 1236 St. Louis street.
Daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. R. L. [illegible]
Page 10: Frances Jane Rosback and John Pickering are engaged to marry.
Miss Pauline Fults and Mr. Joseph Yakey were married .**
Page 11: Miss Harriett [?] Eugenia Prescott and Mr. Vincil Westland were married .**
Auto Avoids Dog, Dives Over Cliff
AHU Manto Killed
L-JOPLIN, Mo.,-Dec. 26-Death.to={ av cisipied Frank Phillips of Norl. Ma. one of five Christmas excur- simists injured yesterday when an automobile plunged over a 100-foot Lcluff near. Noel .after the driver swerved the machine to avold strike ing a dox.
1 The accident occurred on High -.: way 71 a mute south of Noel, while the party was en route to Gravette, Ark., to attend a Christmas dinner .. After crashing down. the cliff the i automobile came . to rest on the bank of a small. stream.
Richard Gatton, 20, of Gravetted - was the driver of the car.
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Home Wedding
1. An attractive informal home węd ding took pince Sunday afternoon when Mise Pauline Fully, daughter of Mr. Att. Mr& William Fulls. West !! the city, became the bride . of Mr. Jeseph Yates of this city. The single mag corriam; was dead by the pres- erend De Forth Armstrong. under an Improveand niels of holly and mistletoe. Other decorations of the entertaining rooms were carried out in the Christ- mno motif.
of shell blue, aser pink, Miss Intalar Davidson was mald of honor and wore a helge crepe dress. Mr. Paul Fu!ta. brallies of the hilde. was heat man. -
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Following the marriage ceremony . luncheon was arrved the brida! party
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Ed Waddle Wed To Everton Girl At Mount Vernon
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Ed Waddle. police sergeant who has been named to succeed G. C. Pike As chief of police and who will take office on January 1, was mar- ·ed Munda. nicht December 27. to Miss Jeuril O Kelly, 25. of Ever- ton, Mo .. I WAS Icarned today!
The ceremony was performed a! Mount Vernon by Justice of. the . Prace R. C. McCorthill of that city. ! The and where to the martian were R. N. Brookshire, motorcycle' .There and members of the Me-
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"Sam- Bartell -Spamgifteld her, and Mountain co Man Dies
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Quarrel in Air Is Pictured' Before Machine Falls Crazuly
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.Thus did Mrs. Gene King, 1000 . East Chestnut street, former wife of Sam Bartell, 35, world war filer And aviation instructor of Spring field. today give perhaps the explanation of the crashanear Aus I book in which Barten That youa' chul- pupil ; were injured fatally you. terday. ..
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Their' skulls crushed" and suffer- ing other internal injuries, Bartell. and Robert Lee Allen. 24."aviation' enthsulast of Mountain Grove, Mo ... died several hours after the Amer .: Ican Eagle plane in which they took. aff at Cabool yesterday afternoon limped across the town and then crashed in a nosedive just inaide the towns line
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No Inquest Planned
Bartell had lived in Springfield! ! for four years, going recently to, Mountain Grove. He is survived by his father. S. E. Bartell of Okia -. home City: two sisters. Mrs. Matt . Muller of Oklahoma City and Mrs. B. Hinegen' of Los Angeles, Calf - and one daughter. Evelyn.
Apparently convinced that Christ. mas drinking was at the bottom of the fatal crash, officials of Texas ¡ county today made no move to con. durt an inquest Into the accident Uniras relatives of the victims re- quest an inquest, it Is likely no official Investigation will made by Doctor L. M. Eden of bool, the Texas county coroner. .
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