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PARSONS IN SUIT FOR $30,000 TAKEN BY OFFICIAL Court Rules Bonding Company Liable in Shortage of Treasurer. KAS., Sept. municipality today emerged victorious litigation which the city sought collect more than $30,000 lost through manipulations of W. W. invalided banker and for twenty years city treasurer. who committed suicide July 20, 1926, few days after the shortage was disin his The government filed suit in district court to collect its losses from Cavanagh's bonding company, the Fidelity Title and Dospit company Baltimore. later the federal court where Judge John C. Pollork assumed jurisdiction. Judge Pollock's decision was against the city. It was held city had not met its own responsibility having regular audits made of the City Pushes Fight The its legal battle and appealed to the United States court appeals. That court's decision. made public today, reversed Judge Pollock's verdict. circuit court appeals decided that the bonding company must pay the city the $30,000 loss plus interest. Cavanagh was under $50,000. of Sixth. Cavanagh for years was probably mainland in the form of contributhe most pathetic figure in Parsons of $15,000 from the American as well ne the most respetced Red Cross, cabled here. Superstitious members of the fire department are responsible for the fact that the fire came and passed new station on the side of Oak just north through the hall but always the DEMOCRATIC CLUB TO MEET. of last Sixth Friday. street trafficway. will be opened omorrow instead of bank cashier remained the Fifteenth paralyzed as originally planned. with never question club, Johnson, director of fire. said yesterday tha twhen he noof his integrity. held o'clock Tuesday tified No. 25 fire company. now located the city hall annex. that Treasurer Was Invalid. the roms at 4820 Prospect would move into its quarters last Friday he received immediate proFor the last twenty of his nuet. meeting was called by tests from firemen, who asserted Friday unlucky. and life Cavanagh virtually was carried George Harrington, that to move on that day invariably brings misfortune or death. his desk the Parsons State from the ward. Dr. Johnson at first ignored the bank by devoted son. who worked and preparations in the institution. for the but finally fire stations also are to be erected post- When the city treasurer took his the moving day until with bond money in the near future. fact was kept secret AUCTION when large of fireOne, at the northwest corner of for several days the advice him and made town business the Eleventh and Campbell streets, will plea bank, due avoid run on the State No. 25 company, which been take the place of two present Furniture for Storage Charges Tuesday. the fear located in the city hall annex since tions Sixth street and Virginia September 9th, at 10 A. M. that any in the city's acwas erected years ago, avenue and Eleventh street and would have to be borne by Furniture Every Selling will move its equipment at Troost avenue. new one on the the institution. M. Flynn, presi- Piece for o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Mayor side Troost avenue, just dent of the bank, spent anxious Bryce B. Smith is scheduled to drive south of street, suffered hours as the community Co. Monarch Storage the first fire truck into the station. replace the station at Sixtleth street from uncalled for hysteria. but The building. constructed and Troost avenut. third station bank emerged from the crisis after 31st and Michigan Kansas City, Mo. of was built with pro- erected at the west side mobilizing its assets and bearing ceeds the fire bond GROSS AUCTION CO., Auctioneers Trost avenue, between its name one strongest inissue voted in 1925. Three other new street and East Gillham stitutions in state, 706 Victor Bldg. Kansas City, Mo. road.