The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 6

FrMay, September; SIX Mother, Negro She Paid To Kill Mate Begin Terms LUMEERTON, N. Sept, 24-year-old mother oC two children and. the Negro she paid I "five or six dollars" to shoot her husband as he slept began prison-! sentences today. I Mrs. Mary Edna Currin Miller was sentenced to four to eight years.

Negro farmhand Fred Wig- Vins, three to seven years for the actual wounding of storekeeper David Miller. Superior Court Judge W. S. Burgwyn, who said Wiggins was not "as guilty' as Mrs. Miller, overruled mercy pleas for the young wife by tier forgiving husband.

HUGHES RITES HELD Raymond Hughes, 38, Carbondale man who committed suicide at De Soto last Tuesday when efforts failed to bring about a reconciliation and have his divorced wife return to his home, was buried in Oakland cemetery, Carbondale, Thursday Hughes was the grandson of Aurelius Hughes, a pioneer Carbondale lively stable operator with two stables at Carbondale, who amassed a fortune, including' considerable Carbondale business property, and several farms. Call 35 when you have news Item. Installs Microphone In Ex-Sweetie's Bedroom SPRINGFIELD, Sept. 26 Hartman, I held in $1,000 bail with installing an''open'microphone in the bedroom of his former sweet; heart who married anotheriman. Police said Hartman installed the microphone two months ago-while the couple was.

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Louis Sunday. California MRS. KATE SMITH Mrs." Kate- Smith, former resi-1 dent, died in the San Bernardino hospital- in California yesterday She was': born in Stuart County, and had lived in Murphysboro for many years before 'moving to. Survivors include four children, Mort, Mrs, Telma Gill Snyder, and two grandchildren, all in San Bernardino, one brother, R. E.

Corley of St. Louis, and two sisters, Mrs. Settle. Morris of Herrin, and Mrs. Gay C.

Hughes of Route 2, Murphysboro. Funeral services' will be held in San Bernardino. Los Angeles, Calif. MRS. GEORGE BOUCHER Mrs.

George Boucher, 69, former resident, died at her'home in Los Angeles, Wednesday after an illness of about one year. She was born in- DeSoto arid'had lived In Murphysboro prior to''inby- ing td California in 1935; Survivors include one son, Albert Alice, Texas, one daughter Porter Law of Macon, Georgia, four sisters, Mrs. Schmidgall of Los Angeles, Mrs. John McDonell of Detroit, Mrs. Dallas Gilmore of and Nora of Chicago, and two brothers, joe and Frank Davis of DeSoto.

She was a member of the Eastern Star and the Lutheran' Church. Funeral arrangements are pending the arrival of the body at-the Crawshaw Funeral Home. Red Gross Donor ELECTRIC COMPANY 1015 Chestnut Murphysboro Phone 736 NURSE Kathleen Kirk, takes pulse of singer Florence George at the New York center of the Red Crosa Blood Donor Service. The latter was one of a group of persons who were registered and typed by the Red Cross which la campaigning to'enroU a minimum of 150,000 volunteer donors to provide a steady supply of free blood to meet tha city's needs. (International) Mother Thinks Hypnotist Holding Her Son Prisoner, Appeals To Authorities HUTCHINSON, Sept.

26 worried mother told police today she feared her missing 15-year-old son is being held a helpless prisoner under the spell of a carnival hypnotist. Joe Bartlett left home more than a week ago to go to school. He never returned. His bicycle was-found on the state fair 'grounds. The fail- had closed and the concessionaires had' scattered to new tent shows.

Mrs. -Russell Barlett said she believed' Joe had stopped to watch the hypnotist at work and been -forced -by mental suggestion to join the show. She said Marilyn Bryan, 16, and Lucille Bryan, 14; told her they saw a youth resembling Joe with a hypnotist's act at Pratt, Kans. The. show had several boys, they said, who juggled light bulbs and underwent maulings while under the hypnotist's spell.

"The hypnotist told Joe to go to the rear of the tent when his come, on -act was over," Mrs. Bartlett said the girls told her. Mrs, Bartlett said a man from Great Bend, told her a boy resembling Joe at Oakley, where a carnival concession had stopped-to fix a. flat tire. Dairy Production Dept.

Head Appointed At IT. I. CHAMPAIGN, Sept, 26' of Prof. W. Salisbury of Cornell University to head the new Department of Dairy Production at the University of Illinois was announced today president George W.

Stoddard. 1 Stoddard also announced "that Jan J. Orlin, 33, assistant professor of physics in the Geophysical Institute at Bergen, Norway, has joined the Betatron research staff university for one year. After a year he will return-to Norway where a DC-million volt betatron, first in that country, is planned at the -Geophysical Institute for research in nuclear physics and medicine. BLACK DEATH SWEEPING CAIRO, EGYPT; VACCINE CENTERS BEING MOBBED Sept.

stricken', crowds nearly mobbed vaccination centers today, begging physicians to save them from chol- era-rthe dread black is swiftly in an epidemic in, the Nile river valley. vThere is enough vaccine in Egypt lor only 60,000 people. Jn desperation, the government sent urgent appeals to the United tain'' and South Africa for all the vaccine they can spare. "All physicians, nurses and medical technicians were conscripted and put on 24-hour duty. Soldiers were sent to the infected areas to do what they can.

At least 142 persons were reported 'ill of cholera. Thirty-two persons already have died the horrible, gasping death after their blood turned into a substance like tar and their 'bodies turned black. Officials re- ported'that 42 been discovered since' yesterday. Egypt declared itself a "cholera-infested area" and notified all foreign countries. The infected areas, the government announced, were Cairo and of Sharkia and Ca- l.ubia.

OLDlaNGlOATMAKlNG EGYPT TOUR TOMORROW .) WEST FRANKFORT, King Coal, who this yea? is Gwilym 82-year- old' Christopher miner, will make trip around Southern Illinois family tomorrow. Wjth the King will be Wanda Avary, the 20-year-old Queen of Coal, 19-year-old Gloria Cornia, Princess of Flame, and their attendants, Elinor Jones, Inez Smith and Kathleen Roby. cavaliers will-stop with- the.group at several points ahd tell the'legend of Old King theme of the annual cavalcade to be held at West Frankfort Oct. 2, 3, and 4 in honor of the Illinois coal --mining industry. Accused Forger's Pension Enables Him To Live Well In Jackson County Bastile F.

K. Lewis, 50; weight, 210 pounds; feet, 2 place of abode the Jackson county'jail. The hotel auditor, is doing all right in and did all right in Leavenworth prison, according' to his own admission. He is an intelligent sheriffs- good dresser, and reasonably Well heeled on a month-to-month basis because of a $127 pension from World War Jail prisoners buy extra supplies out of their personal money placed iiiLsafe at the time of their commitment. Yesterday, for example, Lewis ordered Sheriff D.

L. McGregor- to "fetch" him three pounds of sugar, a box of expensive cigars and a Life magazine. Lewis up for trial in October! on a' charge of forgery preferred by the Hotel 'Roberts management at He claims he did not forge a check for $20 and that a war veteran wrote the check and that he cashed it, feeling that the check was good. Sheriffs said the writing on the check was identical with Lewis' writing on other papers. Attorney Wolff his counsel.

Lewis has elected to "call Sheriff McGregor "Mr. Brown." The sllel iff and the real Mr. Brown (State's Attorney), 'suspect this has' something to do with the prisoner's, strong, aversion to the officer of the law whose duty it is to- prosecute the charge against Lewis. Lewis gave "Kid" McDowell, his fellow -prisoner, the name "Junior Crime Wave." Lewis' receipts in jail to have been good treatment- from the prison's custodian, his $127 'monthly pension, extra supplies bought with his money, and one black last from a prisoner his' wisecracking had provoked. THE NEWS (JETS AROUND Executed Today Daily -Independent news stories For Slaying Of Coed get Juee Boyce, here from with 1 Mrs.

Sept. 'Boyoeito relatives for several Columbia picked up a copy of the! Negro handyman convicted of the Daily at, rape-slaying of. pretty Stephens a little College graduate, calmly' to story dateiined Murphysboro, 111., i his death today in the state's-lethal -under One gas chamber. Barnyard-?" I The. 35-year old Negro, was exe- 1 "Anybody Hines' cuted shortly after midnight, yard," and.told howl He neither admitted nor.

denied Hine's' barniot went down the Mis- the killing of 20-year old Mary Lou sissippi river when the recent flood but readily confessed scooped it out like, a giant shovel murder of his wife. and took it a-waY7 Boyce -for years was the Independent's- make-up man at the Cochran died quickly. Dr. Wil- Ham McKnelly, prison' said he was dead at IGHUGIlt IIlaAO'UjJ Jlitui v-if atliu. JJ.C stone." several years he about one and one-hak.

minutes has been -employed in a general store between Tucson and Nogales, Maine was the first state to 1 appropriate money for tourist and vacation advertising and it 'is the only eastern state with an trade mark to distinguish its pro- after the hydro-cyanic gas-enveloped him. ducts. The longest subterranean water tunnel in Sweden is being excavated. Built to receive the waters of the Nasseforsen river, it will measure over tour miles in' length and be equipped with three giant turbines. PUBLISHERS, ITU CONFER INDIANAPOLIS, Sept.

American Newspaper Publishers Association and International Typographical Union confer again-today in an effort to solve the bargaining problems created by the union's new "no contract" USE YOUR CREDIT For Those Little Things To Brighten Up Your Home OUR USUAL LOW PRICES Lace Panel and Tie-Back Curtains Custom-made Venetian Blinds Blankets Shag Rugs Bed Spreads Table Lamps Floor Lamps Small Radios Electric Used Heaters DRAPER FU! New and Used Furniture COURT SQUAR'E PHONE 17W Keep In Touch With Patrons, Boardmen Told from pass The following members were elected to the executive committee oC the Egyptian division: Ernest HicG, Tamaroa; L. K. Bestow, Pair- field; John L. Kagy, Salem; Dan llaloney. Ridgway; C.

Marshil- don, Thebes; William Lockman, West Reinhard Wilson, Centralia; Lee Jones, Hoyleton; Dr. W. S. Rains, West Frankfort; Robert Krebs, Mt. J.

D. Knodell, Fairfield; Earl Throgmorton. Frank Denny, Vandalia; and Forest Lloyd, Ashley. APPROXIMATELY 75 county superintendents, board members, and school administrators met at the Carbondale Community High School earlier in the for group discussions 'on problems of school reorganization and board administration. Robert C.

Krebs of Mt. Vernon, Chairman of the Egyptian Division of the Illinois Association of. School Boards, presided at the dinrier meeting last night. The spring World -War II meeting was set for next April. manager of the new airfield.

Renews At 'War Mongers'; John Bull Leaving Palestine page one 1 Then it neces- "sary'-to' provide for" some alterna- tive'to it." "His--Majesty's government are not tixemselves prepared to undertake the' task of imposing a policy in Palestine by force of arms," Cree'ch-Joiies, declared. "-LIKEWISE, in considering any proposal.to the effect that His Majesty's government should participate Vi'tlv others in the a settlement, they must take iiito account both the inherent justice, of the settlement and the extent to which force would be re- quired'to give effect to The British declaration in effect, that, the enforcement of any UN-plan for. settling the Palestine problem -would have to be carried out by a combination of forces from members-of the United Nations or by an- international -force established especially for the job by the General Assembly. Either alternative major complications. AIR FOR SATURDAY REGULAR 53.49--VALUE J'S OVERALLS -ully sanforized shrunk.

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