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Post Office to Be Dedicated Aurora.-Virtually every town and city in the Ozark region will be represented here for the dedication of Aurora's new $65,000 post office.
To Pay Dividend
Clinton.-The first dividend of 20 per cent will be paid to the depositors of the Clinton National Bank. Receiver J. W. Hanna announced. The bank was closed last January 24.
Violets and Roses in Bloom Clinton.-Flower gardens are blooming in Clinton. Miss Mayme Edmonston gathered sweet violets and Mrs. Valvin Luallin roses from their open gardens.
Fruit Growers to Meet
Monett.-Plans for handling the 1932 crops will be discussed at a meeting of the Ozarks Fruit Growers' Association here January 6.
Made Member of Farm Board Jefferson City.-F. W. A. Vesper, St. Louis, was reappointed a member of the State Board of Agriculture from the Tenth Congressional District for a four-year term.
To Honor Ferguson West Plains.-A banquet in honor of Charles Ferguson of Willow Springs, recently named to the State Highway Commission, will be given here, it was announced by officials of the Chamber of Commerce. Delegations from nearby towns will attend.
Indorsed for Postmaster Mountain View.-Jack Landrum, cashier of the Bank of Mountain View, was indorsed by the Howell County Central Republican Committee for postmaster here. A civil service examination had been held and the committee selected its candidate from the three men with the highest grades. Others are: Raymond Springer, assistant cashier of the People's Bank, and W. O. Duncan, principal of the high school. The committee indorsed A. T. Hollenbeck, present postmaster of West Plains, to be reappointed there.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ITH a few notable exceptions, America has usually waited anywhere from two decades to a whole century before paying honor to some of her Presidents with memorials in keeping with the dignity and importance of the office which they held and with their contribution to the history of our nation. So It is all the more remarkable, as well as all the greater a tribute to Theodore Roosevelt, that within ten years after his death not just one, but several, important memorial projects are either com- pleted or are well under way. A short time ago James R. Garfield, son of President James A. Garfield and president of the Roosevelt Memorial association, announced that Analostan island, in the Potomac river, a tract of 80 acres in the heart of the National Capital, had been purchased by the association as the site for a national memorial to Roosevelt and It will be presented to the nation to be used as a public park and to be incorporated into the park system now being developed along the Potomac by the National Capital Park and Planning commission. Bridges will connect the island with the mainland on the north at Roslyn and on the south near the Virginia end of the new Washington Memorial bridge. Ultimately the association intends to erect on the island an appropriate monumental structure, which will be designed by John Russell Pope, architect of the association, and built under the supervision of the National Fine Arts commission and the National Capital Park and Planning commission. Such a memorial, set in so large an area, isolated by the river from the life of the city yet easily accessible, will be unique. Analostan island lies due west of the White House, between the Francis Scott Key bridge and the new Washington Memorial bridge, within the territorial limits of the District of Columbia. In Its location, Its physical conformation and its heavy growth of timber it is the most picturesque area in the district which has remained undeveloped. The land rises slowly on the northern end and sharply on the southern, some 50 feet, to a wooded plateau comprising approximately 20 acres, with a clear view toward Arlington, the Lincoln memorial and the lower reaches of the Potomac. Toward the north the Key bridge, with the towers of Georgetown university beyond, provides an interesting and pleasing feature: toward the west are the slopes of Arlington toward the east, a tongue of wooded land beyond a small bay, now filled In. ents off completely the Industrial plants which line the waterfront of Georgetown. The island gives an impression of wild country peculiarly appropriate as a setting for a memorial to Roosevelt. The Roosevelt Memorial association was founded immediately after Roosevelt's death In January, 1919, and raised a fund of $1,750,000 popular subscription and in 1920 secured a charter from congress. Its sims are, first, to memorial to Theoin Oyster memorial park Colonel the knowledge spreading the first of Oyster
1. Theodore Roosevelt, author, naturalist, explorer, soldier and President of the United States. 2. Analostan island in Washington, D. c. Proposed site of a national Roosevelt memorial. It is in the Potomac river between the Francis Scott Key Memorial bridge and the Washington Memorial bridge. In the upper left corner of the picture may be seen the Washington monument and in the center at the top the Lincoln memorial. 3. A lookout point on Analostan island with a view across Little Run to the Virginia shore. 4. The Roosevelt Memorial obelisk in Marias pass on the Continental Divide in Montana. 5. The New York Roosevelt memorial, a part of the American Museum of Natural History in New York city.
Under the third aim the association has established certain institutions and carried forward certain activities, as follows: 1. Co-operated with the Woman's Roosevelt Memorial association in the completion of Roosevelt house, the restored birthplace of Theodore Roosevelt, at 28 East Twentieth street, N. Y., and in its maintenance as a national shrine and point of inspiration for public-spirited citlzenship and sound nationalism. 2. Gathered one of the most noteworthy collections In the United States of memorabilla centering about a single individual and estabHshed at Roosevelt House a permanent museum for its exhibition. The Items, chronologically arranged, cover Roosevelt's entire career. 3. Established, also at Roosevelt House, a Roosevelt library of research and a bureau of information for students, writers, and others desiring information on his career. The library contains approximately 5,800 books and pamphlets, including all the books and articles written by Roosevelt. most of the material written about him, and an extensive collection of books relating to the period (1881-1919) of his public life. It contains, furthermore, 2,500 cartoons. 9,000 pictures, and countless elippings, as well as extensive newspaper files. Every effort has been made to obtain material that Is critical of Roosevelt and his policies or adverse to them, as well as material in their favor. 4. A Roosevelt motion picture library has been established, the first biographical motion picture library in the world. Negative and positive films relating to Roosevelt's career and photographed on four continents have been collected and assembled in ten productions, 5. The collected works of Theodore Roosevelt have been prepared for publication in a limited edition and an Inexpensive popular edition and published through regular commercial channels. 6. Numerous special publications have been issued, Including a collection of Roosevelt's wartime editorials, an account of his life as a ranchman in North Dakota, and a book of selections from his writings for use in schools. 7: For seven years an employee of the assoclation has been engaged in sorting. arranging, and calendaring the Roosevelt correspondence in the Library of Congress for the benefit of future a. Established Roosevelt awards for distinguished public service in Selds associated especlaily with Roosevelt's career. These fields are: Admistration of public office; development of public and International law promotion of Industrial peace: conservation of natural resources; promotion of social justice; the study of natural promotion of outdoor life: promotion of the International the the of youth and the development of American character. Another striking memorial to this many-sided "strenuous American" came into being when the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial obelisk, authorized by congress to honor the President who made forest conservation a national policy, was dedicated at Summit, Mont., last fall. Summit, the apex of Marias pass on the continental divide of the Rocky mountains, is 12 miles west of Glacier park station and 164 miles from Great Falls and the obelisk stands on a line which separates the Lewis and Clark National forest from the Flathead National forest. This memorial is a stone shaft, 60 feet high, standing on a 23-foot base and bearing two bronze tablets. The tablet facing the east has this inscription "LEWIS AND CLARK NATIONAL FOREST. Memorial to Theodore cashier. Roosevelt. This memorial was authorized by a bill introduced in the congress of the United States of America by Representative Scott Leavitt, February 15, 1929, and approved by President Hoover on June 2, 1930." The inscription on the tablet facing the west reads: "FLATHEAD NATIONAL FOREST. Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt in commemoration of his leadership in the conservation of the forests of the United States. "The forest problem is in many ways the most vital international problem of the United States'-Theodore Roosevelt." The memorial stands on the Theodore Roosevelt International highway, extending 4,060 miles from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Ore. The formal opening to motor travel of Marias pass, the last link in the Roosevelt highway. took place in the summer of 1930 with a celebration during which Miss Corrine Alsop. a grandniece of Roosevelt, officiated at the laying of the cornerstone of the obelisk which was dedicated last fall. Last fall also saw the laying of the cornerstone of the New York Theodore Roosevelt memorial which is being erected by that state as a part of the American Museum of Natural History in New York city to symbolize "the scientific, educational, outdoor and exploration aspects of Theodore Roosevelt's life." According to the plans of the architect, John Russell Pope, (designer of the memorial to be erected on Analostan island in Washington), the facade of the New York city Roosevelt memorial will be patterned after the triumphal arches of ancient Rome. The entrance arch will rise 60 feet above a base reached by spreading stairs, and is to be flanked by huge columns of granite. On the solid parapet which is to surmount It will be cut the following inscription: "STATE OF NEW YORK MEMORIAL TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A great leader of the youth of America, in energy and fortitude, in the faith of our fathers, in defense of the rights of the people, In the love conservation of nature and of the best in life and In man. The man himself will be visualized in the heroic equestrian statue to stand on a granite pedestal thirty feet in front of the archway, It is to come from the studio of the famous sculptor, James E. Fraser. The figure is to be in the hunting garb of the west, and mounted on a horse of the type Roosevelt usually rode, especially when he was on his North Dakota ranch. On either side of the horse and on foot will be the figure of a gun bearer: one a native African, the other a North American Indian. These figures typify his deep interest in two aboriginal peoples, members of which accompanied him so often in his hunting both in the New World and the Old. Four men who in character suggested the ideals of Roosevelt, and whom he greatly admired are represented in statues of herole size which are to cap the four classic columns of the facade. They are "Dantel Boone, John James Audubon, George Rogers and Merlwether Lewis. trance arch In niches on either side of typical will be the sculptured figures specimens or American big game," the buffalo and the bear. The bear was chosen to typify courage and strength; the bisen, romance, hardihood and andurance, outstanding characteria-
Sampsel Bank Closes Jefferson City.-The State Finance Department was notified of the closing of the Farmers' Bank at Sampsel, in Livingston County. The bank's last statement showed loans totaling $39,495. resources $46,292 capital stock $10,000. bills payable $16,326 and deposits $16,810. No reason for the closing was given. E. T. Messenbaugh, a state bank examiner, will take charge for the Finance Department. W. J. Wilson was president and Bryan Tout
Rolla Petition Presented Columbia.-A delegation of forty persons, headed by J. W. Armstrong of Richland, State Representative from Pulaski County asked President Walter Williams of the University of Missouri that steps be taken to continue the 1932 summer session at the Missouri School of Mines at Rolla. Next summer's session at the Rolla school, a division_of the university, was suspended recently by the university Board of Curators as a part of its retrenchment program.
Lake Dragged for Body Warsaw.-The Lake of the Ozarks near here was dragged in an effort to find the body of an unidentified man which John Brown, trapper, discovered Saturday and tried to tow to shore. Fishing cord attached to an arm broke loose and the body sank. Brown said there were three bullet wounds in the head and the throat was cut. Sheriff John Allen expressed belief the man had been slain and the body dumped into the lake. Brown said the man was about 25 years old and 6 feet tall.
Former Arson Ring 'Torch' Slain Kansas City.-Tony Micelli, 49. a former convict, was found fatally wounded In vacant lot near his home, which he had left a few moments before to go to work as a laborer in the employ of the city. Micelli died without making a statement as detectives questioned him in an attempt to learn the identity of his assailant. Micelli was convicted of arson 16 1929. At the time of his trial he was described by prosecuting attorneys as the "torch" of an arson ring operating here. PoHee expressed belief he was slain by enemies made at the time of the investigation of the ring's activities.
Bandit Gets Ely's Book Springfield.-A hold-up man bid for a purse, but went set with one of Ely Culbertson's books on contract bridge. Miss Ida Forester, school-teacher, and Miss Frances Gearhart, librarian, were walking to the home of a friend to play bridge. When the hold-up man accosted them, Miss Forester held her purse under her arm and handed the man the book on bridge, while her companion screamed. The robber fled. The book was found near the hold-up
Aurora Dedication will speak at the dedication of Aurora's new postoffice. St. P. & K. c. Proposes Issue Jefferson City St. Paul and Kansas City Short Line Railroad Company filed application with the State Public Service Commission for authority to Issue $11,357,000 of its first mortgage bonds. The Chicago and Rock Island and Pacific Rallway Company is to assume liability as guarantor of the payment of the principal and terest on the bonds.
