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TIMES FOR LABOR WORK INCREASES ROAD AND AND VICINITY. CITY Conditions Improve, Deof Labor partment Kansas, City, Kansas Jobs Aid. WASHINGTON BUREAU KANSAS CITY ALBEE BUILDING May 20.-ImproveWASHINGTON, labor conditions, both in Kansas in confarm work and was noted in the and the department of report of which found in some considerable Kansas City, the report says: "Some improvement developed in employment in this city d vicinity in April, due to the openfarm work and construc- labor for highway euirements improvements and municipal activities. for farm help shows demand volume as the season increase Major building projects include office way postoffice, bank buildadditions to telephone ofcorn products refinery. were that resident Indications will be well tradesmen the season. Railroads gains in employneed for men for maindue to Moderate increases of noted in the biscuit factank paint and plants, candy and confectionand cement plants. some increase in activity but employment in will not materially industry June. Clerical and facwere in slightly better workers increase employment has been the extensive Re-elected Hadassah Regional President. Mrs. W. P. Witschner, 340 Benton boulevard, who Tuesday was elected president of the Southwestern region of Hadassah at its convention in St. Joseph. The district 18 made up of five states. ment now under proximately 12,000 men were reported as already employed and this work Employment in and normal seasonal reduction forces curred the flour mills and meat. houses maintenance crews increased additional expected employed in the repair few The demand for farm help below the for this but additional are pected May considerable under way with no evidence of building River improvement projects ABSENCE OF GOLD A DEFENSE POINT OF ROY E. JOHNSON. absorbed many unskilled laborers. SHOWS TEETH FOR JURY gains forces were nounced the shoe drug and chemical shops, wholesale hardcar assembling order houses. Male and clerical and factory workers were in better demand. FOR Approximately million dollars' new highway has Miss Helen Cole Testifies Interbeen started in this furnishing to more than 2,000 State Bandit Was Conspienous noted in the Because of Dental Workrailroad Industry, but some shops were still operating part Does Not Identify Alton. Employment gains in the flour mills expected in The demand experienced farm labor A recess in the stream of alibi witfurther gains are expected May Building was dull but the nesses in the case of Frank Alton surplus resident building tradesmen and Roy E. Johnson, charged with was not large Seasonal dullness prevailed in the participation in the holdup of the packing houses and coal Inter-State National Bank December was considerably below normal oil producing industry 10. was taken yesterday for the inKANSAS In addition to public troduction of the testimony of Miss to approximately $400,000 Helen Cole. 3419 Baltimore avenue. the further which cost Miss Cole testified that neither of Curtailed the bandits who guarded her the in the meat packing houses, activity employment morning of the robbery was Alton nor Johnson After going to the bank at recorded the railroad there 40 o'clock she was held with large was workers the close April group of persons near the consultaEmployment increased the tion room while the bandits waited Little was for L. R. Davis to unlock the vault. the plants, iron and steel or Miss Cole explained that her job Seasonal as employee of a livestock commisdullness the flour mills. help was skilled should be in better demand May railroad and other work The tradesmen was sufficient supply for building requirements. sion company has trained her to remember faces when any importance is attached to them. She was able to identify the first bandit to guard her as Clyde H. Nimerick from picture. The bandit who took Nimerick's place guarding the prisoners, she said, was small. but she asserted positively he was not Johnson. HAD THREE GOLD TEETH. "He stood facing me a few feet away. I noticed then the man had three gold teeth. I said to myself that would make him easy to identify." she told the jury yesterday. Johnson's mouth was opened for the benefit of the jury. There were no gold teeth visible. Miss Cole said she could not have looked at anybody as long as she looked at the bandit and not recognize him. Johnson had been identified previously as one of the bandits who guarded the prisoners in the corner of the bank the day of the robbery. TESTIMONY STIRS COURTROOM. Miss Cole created a stir in the courtroom when she said representative of the prosecutor's office after her first failure to identify Alton and Johnson had said, "But you won't testify for the defense, will you?" G. A. Gresier, a carpenter at Macksville, Kas., testified to seeing Alton there the afternoon of December 10. A long list of depositions was read by Ira B. McLaughlin, defense attorney, to further establish the fact that Alton was in Macksville the of December 10, and in Dodge City December 11. Miss Juanita Ford, Alton's step-daughter, testified that he had not been away from their home in Wichita between Thanksgiving day and December 9 for any extended time. The case is expected to be argued before the jury today. A Wulfekubler Bank Receiver. (BM The Star's Own Service.) LEAVENWORTH, KAS., May 20.-Robert H. Thomas, deputy bank commissioner, was appointed assistant receiver of the Wulfekuhler State Bank today by H. W. Koeneke, state bank examiner. T. Homer Davis and John J. Glynn. lawyers, were appointed to handle legal matters incident to liquidating the bank. The depositors sought to have local man appointed without success. Crosby School Field Meet Today The annual field day of the Crosby school will be held this afternoon at the school, 4241 Harrison street. Tomorrow night the students will present two plays, "Through the Looking Glass" and "Bete Noire." the latter in French. The school term ends June with the graduation exercises for the seventh grade