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Govern Draws Large Crowd At Carbondale More Readers Than All Other Jackson Newspapers Combined "Iron Man" Service United Press Full Eight Hour Established 1891. Price 15c Per Week-l ENGLI, POINTS TO Lost? Found! with Western Jackson County Voters Participate in Welcome to Party Governor Len Small, addressing voters of Jackson County and adjoining counties at Carbondale, Tuesday night, pointed to what he declares was the economical cost of administration, and impartial extension of the biggest highway program in America as causes why, in chief, a safe and sane, administration should be prepetrated through another term. Governor Small gave $6.04 as the per capita cost of administering the affairs of Illinois as compared with per capita costs running as high and higher than SS in some other states that have not entered into anything like the public improvement program Illinois has undertaken during the Small administration. The executive pointed to what ho said.wasi fair.distribution of. the highways system; thai Illinois had received completed highway mileage that compared most favorably with completions in northern Illinois, despite the centering of population in the Chicago area.

platinum bar pin three diamonds. ladies' white gold wrist watch, oh white gold band. These ads appeared in the Daily Independent Classified within the past week and" in both instances brought back the valuables to the owners. The diamond bar pin was, lost by Mrs. K.

B. McAlpin of ISIS Walnut street. The wrist watch was the property of Rebn Butcher of Elm street. Both were delightfed to have back these keep-sakes. They'll tell you so.

They'll also tell you that they highly recommend the Classified page whenever anything is lost. HUDSON-ESSEX CAR SHOW GOES BETTER DAILY W. J. H. Arbeitsr Proud of Old- Line Agency and Fine Record of Production.

Unusual interest is being shown in the Hudson-Esssx automobile show being held this 'week in the showrooms of the Arbeiter Motor Sales, Eighth and Walnut streets. The show a joint celebration of the Twentieth anniversary 'of i.he Hudson Motor Company and the Report of Special Committee Approved Unanimously By Supervisors -late Tuesday afternoon went into regular March session and unanimously adopted the report of the Special Court House Committee, thus contracting with prominent firms for court house and jail furnishings and equipment as follows: Monroe-Benbrook furniture, 516,000. S. G. Adams St.

Louis furniture, S4.900. Fries Son, Covington, Ky. equipment, S17.221. For the sum of S3S.121, the county board is to appoint the new court house and prison department most substantially, and to a point ELKVILLE'S Twelfth anniversary of the Arbei- ''ordering on sub- ter Motor Sales as Hudson-Essex! stantlally was much more in the mind of the special committee Captain Hinchcliffe TbokjOff From Croydon Airdrome Tuesday Morning (By United Press). The Stinson monoplane or.

in which Captain Walter flifi'ch- cliff and at least one believed to be the sie were to fljVfo North America from overdue at New Foundland today. It has been estimated that' the.j gold'-decorated black airplane ought to 1-e'ach New Foundland by a. E. S. Its was as mysterious as the either the flight.

No certain report had beeif received of the 'plane since if crossed the west coast of IialaiuJ 'at Du Quoin Pair Confess and Hope To Enter Early Plea of Guilty D. Bird and D. Coulter of Du Quoin were jailed here over for the burglary of the Elkyille High School Sunday. The -pair was arrested at Carbondale on suspicion Monday. According, to sheriff the prisoners confessed and expressed the desire" to plead' guilty and take i their sentence, the sooner th3 better, to Chester penitentiary.

Th high school reports the loss of scores of fountain pens and other property belonging to.pupils and Many of theYpens were recovered when Bird and Coulter were arrested. a MELLON TELL OF OIL BONDS BYPAUL R. MALLON (fnlteil Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, March un Iii, I A j.a liam er was reported in mid-ocean vitho, conflrmation, as havlnl "seen the I 6 tO Ul Plane veWvrtav i Donie Committee tod plane yesterday. At 11:30 tire been gone 31 3-4 hours slnp. tne Republican National Commit, revealed to the Senate Teapot "ay that Will Find Drugs In Body Exhiune By Coroner's Order Relatives Ordered To Inquest Prbfae in Death of Mrs.

Dickinson CHICAGO. March (UP) Quantities of a sleeping potion suC-j flcieht to havo caused deatn were! found in the body of Mrs. Mary Dickinson Chicago! widow, Div William D. McNally, "coroner's 'chemist, reported last' night. i Oscar Wolff, who last! week ordered Mrs.

Dickinson's body exhumed for examination, immediately ordered all relatives and' witnesses to the widow's death. January 4, to be an inquest this afternoon. VOTEMSDAY SLOWjNDEED CJiprier, Guiette, Eovaldi' Howard and Rodman Vote Most Interesting Returns from Tuesday's city primary stamp the convention as ono of the slowest in the city's history. Only 053 votes were cast.in,, tile 'five wards with party contests in four of the five. in every ward the Democratic aspirant known to be favored by the present city administration won.

The vote of Robert Clipner in Ward 1, and Thos. Guiette, in Ward 2, both Democrats seeking re-election to the Council, re- confidence of their I covered in the devastated 60-mier i 1 'presence of a sedative drug in laid waste by the amounts such as are found in peo-; 0 the huge storage dam BetweenT to Four Hundred Re ported Jear $15,000,000 BY DAN CAMPBELL d'nitpil Press Coi'i-e'-pondentl March Mrs. Dickinson died two monthsP Vlth death and desohiatiou 1 ago leaving the bulk of a na an army of beaichgcs estate to two nieces. Dispute over) deployed at daybreak today. the woman's will led to an through the ravaged Suita Clara gation based on charges Mrs.

Dickinson's death was hastened by an overdose of drugs. Dr. McNally reported that exam- river basin, bunting the more dead in the St. Fiancis Datn. catastrophe.

At dawn 2S7 bodies had been represent administration. M. C. Howard, Republican aspirant opposing Alderman Walter Holloway in Ward 4, polled 98, one pie dying from a barbitmic acid 1300 and 400 persons still compound. Dr.

Hans W. Nilssen, I ported missing. re- VVJ1 Hays, former chairman had at- la he vo is remarkable of the biggest votes of the day. i attended 'Mrs. Dickinson The extent "of (he tragedy coulcr Shel IaSt 1IlieBS dniltted '-i as weaiv search- 109 against 7 votes polled by Will prescribed an overdose of luminol Pi's struggled in from isolated parts for the '74-year-old woman.

dealer. "You bottom dollar I'm to be a'Hudson-Essex dealer," Mr. Arbeiter told the Independent Tuesday. "Twenty years ago the Hudson Motor Company- was a new industry. Today it is the world's largest builder of s'x cylinder cars.

In 1909 Hudson oc- "That every foot of this floor space is working 100 per cent is shown by the fact that in 1927 a gaging talks. State's Attorney J. H. Searing of Carbondale' presided over the meeting and himself talked for 20 minutes and introduced Governor Small. Theatre Is Packed Barth Theatre was.

crowded. More than 200 persons stood out- of the doors to hear the Gov- ernor as best they could. The American Legion Band and The Helen Stricklin quartette of Murphysboro took part in the program. The crowd was not demonstrative. Only- ripples of applause greeted even the Governor.

The crowd was sprinkled liberally with voters from Mnrphysboro and western Jackson county, the area of the 'county presently depending on Governor Small's, word that road when examining bids. Of all: the furnishing and equipment for. the only used equipment included in the contract was steel filing cabinets almost as good as new, which are to be retouched and replaced. The total ot S3S.121 was less than visors at at the figure they did. The result reflects credit on the Special Court 'House Com- 11 "iii till 1 well airdrome.

-At a rief criiiVino speed of 30 miles an hour tha' En cleayor have New- Foimdland shore' li comment-heard Tues- complete car was for leet ot floor space. This record has never been equaled, even by the builders of the cars. Hudson not only builds its day Probation Officer Asked The board referred to j-aut, uiilj UllllUft JlM-p-. chassis and motors, but bodies also Fl "ance Committee, the appeal of are produced in its own new ten thG Mothers Club of Murphysbpro million dollar body factory an appropriation by super- ing the main plant. visors for salary for a county example of efficiency car building is shown" in the fact that Hudson has no warehouses, carries no accessories in stock and consequently pays no in- bation officer.

Supervisor Charles Johnson bf Carbondale said that the county board already owes Mrs. Minnie It was tempted to get him to take ov 325,000 of Liberty Bonds. Earlier, Secretary Mellon had two hours ragarding 16 -Hays' attempt to get hi-m. to. take ssumed that it would -be i com heard from goonT perhaps we land, if ever was to be 1 -1 a 50.000 in Sinclair bond's and' be- from.

The alternative plane had the was that thai come a "dummy" subscriber for that amount. Presumably, the bonds offered Butler also were from the S160.000 campaign contribution of Harry ii.au juineci tns on I wn that ever had got a Sluciair m(1 icted oil millionaire. distance Bu 8alhe rtid not kno away trom the Ii-'sh o- coast on a westward north Atlan Slncl a1lr bonds tic flight-the French White Bird I ayS Said .,,,,1 -r, itJJiLG Oil ofntjanuante- iimim and. the British St. Raphael Neither of these planes- and Mellon's statements were correct, and attempted to explain why he has not reported after leaving- thp nv the-committee about it earlier; 1 111 'JlllU IIT CM rl Ctt-Oll -if i.

1- "I considered it irrevalent," he declared. "I take the responsibility for so- nresum licitins Mr Sinclair," Hays ed companion, MrssEls'ie" Mnr-lnv'i" 1 there was money still to be were regarded todav ov ralsed out of 192 I'gness-I would pean side JOHN -S. NEW POUND- -March Walter Hiuchcliffe and his terest on investments of this kind. Tires, batteries and other acces-1 Smith of the Illinois Childern's Home and Aid Society something i like S4no.OO and has no available sories are unloaded from freight I funds to meet the debt at the mo- cars which have arrived during the ment. He advised that before tak- i night, for the following day's pro- buildmg will be expedited west- Auction direct tc- the assembly-line ward of Carbondale.

I These are only a few of the reasons A canvass of automobiles parked in the region of the theatre indi- rated that delegations came to meeting from a distance of perhaps 25 miles around Carbon- why yon.get more dollar for dollar value in. a Hudson or Essex than any other car made." ercltte here. No word had been heard of -them from ships at s-a and. no reports had been received ot their being sighted overland It was without confirmation today that an unnamed man bad seen an airplane pass westward three miles south of Harbor 'Grace airdrome at 5 a. m.

today. The report was not credited. There have been similar false re- be out raising it." Hays said he did not know of anyone who gave as much as Sinclair. "Do you associate this Sinclair contribution with the fact that Sinclair obtained the Teapot Dome lease from Fall?" Walsh asked; "No," replied Hays. like Mellon.

I don't." "I'm 'just Hays said he had bought and sold in that both candidates are M. O. shopmen. Ward returns follow: Ward W. S.

Chrisinan, 35-; Will McDonald (who withdrew the day before the primaries) 5. Robert 86: Ar.ch McDowell, 10. Ward Joe Eovaldr (without opposition) 5S. considered a very complimentary Democratic: Alderman Thos. Guiette, 74; Al Ozburn, 40.

iMrs. E. B. Hunter of the basin, bringing bodie, of victims to be placed in aheady crowded morgues. As foothill towns awoke to another day of sorrow, Funeral Tlllircflav friends ami relatives searched up rtWClal llUUbUdy and down the atoot, on horseback and in automomles, foi missing persons.

A constant procession of frantic The funeral of Mrs. E. B. Hunter, aged SO years, who passed fathers and mothers o-v old age, will be held Thursdav aM OIKueB to Vlew the Wjll Little, RPV V'T 1 Many the bcilie weie 18 Democratic: Ben Smith, 2S. ffficSt The body will be etl that the cur- Ward W.

R. Hoi- omcla -Ine body nil! be rent had Inn-led them against LU.I, M.T.-3UJ ju ui jjiiy aiJOIO i 1 liiut; open park band" concerts dur-1 Hani, Catherine, Effa Mae, Hei ing-the summer only an Mrs. Medora Hunter Davis, increase taxation hoiiies -all. deceased. The following cbild- 2 cents the year.

-Much favorable I ren survive: C. J. Hunter of Her- comment is heard as to this proposition, the beiug that the rin, Mrs: W. B. Horstman East St.

Louis; J. F. Hunter and S. W. city's women and children', espa-j Hunter of Mtirphysboro, and her deserve this splendid form I husband, E.

'B. Hunter; 12 grand el tainmel (Il ln the open children and 21 great grand chikl- ren. She united with the Baptist church in, 1S67 at Makanda, 111, sihle to provide the money tor a probation officer at this time, and 'should pay the honest debt to Mrs. remainder of the week and foi- the 4- -JiiwLmi vay me iluimbl, UeUL LU IVll'S. Sm th Supervisor Castletcn spoke 'United Press mutt Correspondent) LONDON, March A American made mon- mittee he knew nothing whatever about the 8160,000 Liberty bond contribution.

Butler said he declined to fol- i against such an appropriation, say- low Hays' recommendation because Small's Itinerary 'March 14, Red Bud (Randolph). March 15, noon, Bloomington; p. Peoria. March 1C, Rockford. March 10, 1:30 p.

MaComb; 8 p. Rock Island. BROKEN ON N. Y. EXCHANGE, i would be back at every meeting to NEV Mav.

an appropriation" for the offl- nation. Supervisor Castleton held to his first expression of opinion. Mothers Club members reminded mysteriously yesterday morn- on the Board on departing that they may have bad the -pretty package of valuable papers to would see me Mel- SOMERSET PRIMARY Republicans in Somerset township, Precinct No. 1, Tuesday, vot- brought into Newhall from the surrounding country. Evidence of the meirvnaktnsp scenes to which the hall customed furnished a 1 contrast.

At one end of the huge strips lure wreaths of holly from a Chust- ed as follows: For George Smith 130; Ed Brantley, 88. Highway Commissioner Sherman Lichliter, 104; John nine's 64; Raymond Janes, 43; Ben Evans Town F. Conner, 103. and titled English 0 A close relative of Lord Inch- The New York Stock Exchange I cer sought." Mrs. Minnie Smith I De ear 'y today was quoted 11 March 20, Last at.

Lou's (road broke all trading records today spoke of the when more than 4,000,000 shares changed hands in five hours of frenzied o'clock until o'clock Wednes-1 day morning for. committee work. Total sales were 4,057,930. Radio, which made a spectacular gain overnight, closed 140. Macon Co.

Grand Jury Farmer Fatally Burned When Fire Destroys Home SHELBYVILLE, March 13 i ane En evor Ie A-I 0 "'Shi, it developed. meeting). March 21. 1:30 p. Cairo: 7:30 p.

West Frankfort. March 22. Springfield. Haprieburg Meeting HARRISBURG. Mar.

13 into Saline county- on a flying trip through southern Illinois, Governor Len Small, S. Senator-Designate Frank L. Smith, and State Senator John Dailey addressed a large overflow meeting here today. Lend speakers were installed to care for the persons who could not crowd into the auditorium. The Governor promised comple-, TTT ticn of the road building program! rm nil within the next five years, and' u1 ile Smith said his candidacy offered I raet in special session today clow when their home near West'er- the people-of Illinois an o'pportuni- i to consider the case of Cecil Miller h'elt burned to the ground, ty to vindicate the principle that i aml llis wite Ruth, charged with Reichart was not satisfied with no state shall be without repre- the murder of Ithel Eager, taxi'the way the lire in the stove was ill the senate.

driver whose body was found in burning: and poured kerosene on Da'iley said that if elected At-1 fie 'd near here two years ago. I the coals. The contained exploded, lorney General his office would not! Miller, a Greenup shoe factory I setting fire to tha house and eused for pc-litical preferment or i employee, is said to have confessed I ing the farmer so badly that he for persecution of any indicidual his part in the slaying last week. I died. from the highest citizen to the i and yesterday his wife admitted I lowest.

firing two of the four shots, which 'T fl 1 A rf IJ JJI JJ i caused Eager's death, according to fliLJlb The first battle between iron-j police. For Illinois: Mostly cloudy to- clad ships in the civil war! Miller was jealous of Eager's at-'night and Thursday "probably rain When, the Monitor was sent ddwn tentious to his wife, and enlisted by Thursday; not "much change in the navy to combat the her aid in "taking the cab driver temperature, lowest tonight sliglit- Merrimac. for a ride," police said. ly above-freezing. Mellon received the package, but forget about it until the next day when he opened it and found $50,000 in Liberty bonds.

"The next day," he continued, "Hays didn't appear and I took the bonds home for safe keeping. Later, when Hays came and explained the Senator Scores Judge Who Issued Injunction WASHINGTON, March judge who woultt sign an" injunction like the one agai'iist the United Mine Workers in Ohio Hays in is "unfit for the federal mas celebration were wall, spelling the word More than 1.000 men were- mass? and has been a in valle towns today to begint. TJhysboro, since 1882 fhe systematic search hundreds still missing. In this, army were deputy sheiiffs Los New Hampshire Selects olice a clU7en it a i I It was believed many of those nOOyer-Omilfl llelegateS no missing womd lepott safely when the contusion in the- MANCHESTER. N.

March 1-1 Solid Hooves and Smith delegations were selected by Xevv Hampshire in the first of the pre- sidental primaries. Tabulation of 250 out of i valley subsides. But the rescue work directors: were certain scores of additional" bodies would be recovered before the search is ended. Doran Storey. Deputy Sheriff, -05 lo W0 rhed in the stricken town: and city wards today gave; was ot such JU11UU clear- majorities to delegates) "Only bodies in plain sight have pledged or known to favor the I secretary of commerce or the gov- been recovered," be said.

saw bodies in some places which conlti not be reached and un- ernor of New York mentioned as possible co- was missing as well as the Honorable Elsie Mackay. 'Both Sincla.ire and Miss Mackay were at Cranwell Airdrome when ft record of the bond numbers. Senator Walsh asked if Mellon knew where Hays got te boncls. "Oh, from said, "but he said it was -not all to be a subscription from Sinclair. "I had no knowledge of the- Teapot Dome lease at the time." Senator Wheeler told the Senate coal investigating committee today.

Judge Benson Hough of the U. S. District Southern Ohio issued on September 10, 1927, the injunction to. which Wheeler referred. S.

H. Robbins, president of the Ohio Coal Operators' Association, testified that the Injunction" was is-j United States Senator George H. Moses was high man on the G. O. delegation, polling.

21,074 votes to Governor Huntley N. SpauldJng's 20,211. Storey recounted scenes of lior- ror. He said bodies had washed into isolated canyons along the valley. Some were found -'in Republican, 'delegates at large trees and others beneath We are to favor Secretary wreckage of homes.

Hoover The llst Hoover Democratic, delegates are ed to Gov. Smith compiled by the pledg-! Sheriff's office here early tcdayr he assumed sited to protect property after ri sibility for raising for the jn in party in Pittsburgh and "the re- staying with-- Mrs sponse exceeded the quota." This the belief that Sinclair was Hirich. I effort was undertaken at Hays' re- cliffe's reserve pilot. quest, he said. JURY HOLDS BANKER Hinchcliffe told the "Hays told me," he testified, "theI WEST FRANKFORT JLL that slie hafl not the been subscribed orl March 1 jury called by loaned.

did not mention the amount, but I thought it was something approaching $300,000. He said he intended to return the bonds later." slightest idea Miss Mackay was to go on the flight. "There is stil mvatery somewhere," she. said. Sinclair was to "accompany my husband wherever he flew.

Now both he and Miss Mackay are missing. I believe they both are in the machine." Sighted at Sea cipal or other debts, and has.nev.-l Walls came to -his death 1 as The NEW 1 rajsed a loan either at borne orn-esult of gun-shot wounds infliet- arl l-tv Coroner Joe Hill of F'rankliri county recouinieniietj- that Bea.ueard Baker, West'-'Frankfort miner, be held for action of the grand j-ury for tbe murder'of Walls, fel: low miner, slain in-a sun-fight at Fez, the Holy City of Islam in union hea'dauarte'rs Sundav Africa, boasts of being, a eity'niglit. which nobody; has no muni-. In its verdict the jury held (Turn to page two, please) abroad. ed by Baker.

I SEE BY TODAY'S CLASSIFIED COLUMN THAT a party wants to rent four rooms, neatly furnished w.ith exclusive use of -kitchen, to a party without children. THAT a modern fi room centrally located, for rent. THAT a company wants to buy good used lumber and corrugated sheet iron. THAT a. party wants' an experienced girl for general housework.

follows: Newhall. 4(j. Ventura, Oxnard. 4. Santa Paula, 3(5.

Fillmore, 47. Moor Park, 40. Camarillo, 9. Pirn, 61. Saticoy.

5. Bodies being brought to Nywhr.ll' or awaiting transportation, 30 I Many of the bodies may never be recovered, it was said, -is the force of the flood may have ried them Into the sea or bulled them deep in mud carried down the" I river banin by the rush of watar. Several investigations to de- termihe the cause of the' disaster were planned. Reports had been current for I days among ranches living below i the dam that water was seeping through, beneath the giant con-' (Turn to paue two,.