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To Report Daily To The Contest Manager Means Loss of Daily Honor Roll Votes 175,000 Dally Honor Roll Winners To' The, Public 3 Candidates Are Trying and Succeeding Most $1,000 and $5000 Prizes Just W.hich TJl IJpton Sinclair i Is Vdte Victor Southern Illinois to Ask Shortcut to the A southern Illinois delegation go to Springfteld and for the extension of the Diamond trail from Plnck- south to Murphysboro by State Route 13, and thence, south to Cairo. From Murphysboro to Cairo the trail would use Route IX to a point near the Phelfer dairy farm, thence south by way of Btherton, Pomona, Alto Pass, Jonesboro, Millcreek, Elco, Tamnis, Hodges Park and come to State Route 2 at Cache. Tliis proposed highway was originally named the "Fruit Bell. Scenic Trail" because of the beau-, tlful orchard and Ozark DAILY SUBSCRIPTION HONOR The following contestants who turned in the number of subscription collections today up to 9 m. t'o headquarters either in person or by phone, have the distinction of oeing on the Honor Roll for Wednesday, Aug.

29th, and receive lOO.OOd, 50,000 and 25,000 votes respectively in each district. DISTRICT ONE DISTRICT TWO Rachel Wynn. Rose Lewis. B. Worthen, M.

A. Guetersloh, Keller Highway Deeds Re leased Froni Aa WHO IS WINNING-? Who is trying hard enough? Sincere, willing, determined contestants who place on the Honor Roll'each day will answer this question- in The independent $5,000 Subscription Contest. Follow this each day and you can surely pick the ultimate and deserved winners Oct. 6th. 2,000,000 Gold Certificate Votes Count Big $9 a day average sales for the 18 days of the Second Voting Period will net a Gold extra votes.

These are the necessary winning ones and will be secured by those who are trying for nothing less than the $1,000 and $500 prizes. Contestants who Intend to win the major prize will set. a goal-of not less than the average amount of sales necessary to reach this' certificate and without fail or excuse reach It each day, They should plan their next day's work the night before and systematically-work this business proposition with business hours. To slacken now is but to give way to the more to lag is but to lose the good standing of votes gained during the First -Period. Don't, make the mistake that many do in similar on the oars of success of the 1st period; To feel secure when there is Part.

of the deeds have been re- i leased for the proposed Kent E. Keller federal highway, Ava wes.1 Austin Hollow I'oad to State Route 150. Carbondale highway division office is working hard to complete remaining deeds for release, but finds', itself snowed under at the moment by increasing demands on Its' field and office engineers. Ava In the meantime' is turning-j Intently. to of at least gravel surface' 'highway through the isolated tryside either to; Route 144, or into Murphysboro by way of --State Aid Route 7.

In this connection, the I. C. be i East aM West Wee Challenges the Foes Who! Would Tear Down Work Done unknown amount of votes that is' but foothills to alli Keep busy every minute is the advice of the" manager, and country it serves as both trunk-1 every vote is a vote that Is needed and closer the prize one most Hue and farm-to-market highway, desires and is working for. The highway ha been Contest Needs New Entrys-Who Want To Work onsored for three years" by! Where prizes such.as $1,000 or $50.0 are involved and where every by! Postmaster Charles Ethertou, Carbondale, and prominent town and couniryttide groups between Mur- phyyboi'o ami Cairo. Assured extension of the Black Diamond Trail, Carlyle south to Pinckneyville, suggested the ex- to Cairo.

Tlie whole would serve as a shortline between Cairo and Springfield, and clear the winding, truck infuatecl State Route 2 of much of its passenger car traffic su long endangered truck freight movement north south. The utiW route would touch the federal conservation seat near Jonesboro and intercept Route 1-10 there for its use into Jonesboro, nth dollar Is GUARANTEED a cinch for someone who needs Quick and ready money. There are still outstanding thousands of subscriptions in Jackson comity that need collected. This list of prospects in any vicinity is gladly ftiruishe'd by'the manager. 'Fall of'the year when many expirations are due The Independent and with nothing invested save one's of $4 to $5 a really worth Awhile.

If you med amounts like $1,000 or $500 The Independent needs you! Call 25 for an appointment at your-home or spend 10 minutes of your iime tonight talking over the money making possibilities of this affair. It's still the best business proposition in. 'Jackson County. A running on November oloctlon Upton Sine-km. noted nuiimr.

above, rolled up Hea majority ovet two opponents'to wiii thp nomination, receiving HIP larp'-'si priinao ever ji'ivt'u'a Democratic candiflaie hi California. by and i(v i It's advocates representative of .15 to semi-isolated communities, duclace would win great distinction as a- development project for rich, but isolated region of hundreds of thousands of acres in the heart of the down open to the great traveling public the grandeur of Ozark scenic reaches, and exploit untouched southern illniois natural resources in horticulture, clays and minerals. Tentative plans of the delegation are to go to Springfield a week fn-nn next Friday with its plans. MURDER LEADS AS DEATH AGENT IN ALL ILLINOIS W. FRANKFORT STORES ASKING CODE CONTRACT A Iso Homicide 'Record for Last Year, Statistics Show Georgia Lou Curry Passed Away in West Frankfort Funeral survices for Mrs.

Georgia Lou Curry, grand daughter of Mrs. Dan Anderson of Murphysboro, were held at the First Baptist church at Johnston City Wednesday at 2 Burial' was made in the Johnston City cemetery. The following Murphysboro people attended: Mrs. Mary Anderson, Mr. und Mrs.

Dan Anderson, Mr. uud Mrs. Joe Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. John Hale and son, -Mr.

and Mrs. Harold File, Mr. and Mrs. Blaney Miller, Miss Pauline Anderson, and Mrs. Mayme Powell.

Mrs. Georgia Lou Curry of John.s- toh City, daughter of Mrs. Blanche Miller, died iu a West Frankfort hospital, Monday at 9:45 p. m. She was born June 29, Marlon, graduated from id" grade schools and school.

July 21, married to James E. young miner of Johnston Wan.t- -Sat Incf In Dealing With The Clerks SPRINGFIELD, Aug. West have county with, elev- en murders had the worst homt- tract with the nv ay. The forestry, 1914, at the Ma- attended 1929, she Curry, a City and to this union were born three children, Patsy Ann, -t, Shirley Mae, '2, and Edward, 7 months. In September, Mrs.

Curry joined the First Baptist church and remained faithful to the end. Besides the husband and children, ahe leaves her mother and Ktep father. Mr. and Mrs, S. B.

Miller; two sisters, Mrs. John W. Hale and Mrs. Harold File, Murphysboro; two brothel's, Blaney Miller, Murphysboro. and Walter Miller, Johnston City; two grand mothers, Mrs.

Dan Anderson, Murphysboro, and Mrs. Missouri Miller, Marlon. cide record in Illinois last year, according made public today by Dr. Frank Jirka, director of the state department of public health. The eleven murders gave the iounty a death rate of 48.7 per population from that- cause compared with a rate of 25.G in St.

Cluir county, the next highest, und 11.2 iu the state as a. whole, Eight other counties had unenviable distinction of ratea in excess of 15 per 100,000 people. These include Saline, 24.3, Perry 22.0, "Union Franklin 2U.O, Johnson 19.5, Christian 18.4, Ogle 17.i), find Madison 1515. There were 1 thirty-five counties which reported no murders in 1933. These Include Bond, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clark, Clinton, DeWitt, Douglass, Edwards, Efflng- ham, Fayotte, Ford, Henderson, Iroquois, Jo Davless, McDonough, 'Marshall, 'Mason, Menard, Morcer, Monroe, Moultrie, Platt, Pope, Putnam.

Sc'huyler, Scott, Stephenson, Wabash, Warren, White, Whiteslde and Woodford. In Cook county 5G1 deaths were attributed to homicide, giving that county a rate of 13.4 per 100,000 people, The aggregate mortality attributed to all of the. more common epidemic diph- NRA code be the new agreejafint. The code submitted tKe basis mlliUHH 'Snclnlist' "Mud right of way; to, on a "left -New abandoned by the carrier'south platform will he the Dem- Grimsby, suggests itself tg en-r oorallc Tor novernor g-ineers as an "existing- lOO-foofJ: of California in the right of way and a made for a single guaga through Isolated regions, with outlet into State Route 144 west of-; Murphysboro at a point near where' 144 conflows into State Route The Forestry department time ago approached the I. C.

office at Carboudale- for the use oC this route for a forest road. Elkville, having gained for a market road east jto Royal ton, I now has turned to strike west for: Vergennes with a' paved market road and Vergennes 'is to the point where her men will" aid and -abet the aggressive strip mine center in- her plans. De Soto to the south of Elkville, has weel under way plans for her road to Hurst-Bush, and like Elkville will next turn her eyes west for an outlet route west to state route 13, probably to reach the i where near where' St. Route 151 off for Chester by way'of Ava, Willisville and Percy. Grand Tower 'is asking -'a payed-1 sp-nr.

150. This new con- a fuel tax and work reHef fall and winter. reat winter program for relief Projects Wanted; Big Edu- i cational Plan Forth- retail of by the Na- working from the CCC camp near Pomona, is completing a graveled road to Pomona and thence through the hills west- lional Recovery Admnistration' ward to Rattlesnake Ferry, across permits the merchants their choice of plans in which open hours, working hours and wage provisions The mer- were advised by an NRA official who was in West' Frank- tile Big Muddy from ITowarrtton. In this the forestry is pushing a connecting; road for the intended chain of forestry lands in Jackson County, and a connection with Route 150 by way of the JH.ULII/O IJV tl'J blUi I fort last -week that be ton-Grand Tower graveled road. scarlet fever, whooping theria, cough.

smallpox and infantile paralysis, was leas than the mortality ascribed to murder in Illinois last year, Jirka said. To these seven diseases (iSS deaths were charged while homicide was responsible for 836. expected to notify the national ad ministration not 'than Tuesday concerning' thi plan' under which they chose operate. After considerable discussion on the matter of Saturday 'night closing the merchants voted to adopt Section 1, Article 5, Group oC the retail code and Instructed the merchants' contract committee to proceed with their negotiations with the clerks on the terms'of the plan. The plan would reduce the working time of clerks from 54 to 48 hours per week without a reduction in salary and would increase the business week for stores from, GO to 03, permitting stores the op-! tion of remaining open until 9 o'clock Saturday nights 'but pro-! vldlng.

that no employee shall be required to work more than 48' hours per week. I The section of the code adopted by the mediants and which Superintendent Roy Hoffman, long an advocate of substantial highways serving farms and again today promised every possible moment of his City Councils, Township High- Commissioners alike-are urg- to conceive aEnd-complete work projects for work relief activity this i A is ahead according- to authoritative dispatches of Washington. No official word of a program 'akin to the. CWA has reached county relief committee officials, but such a program is on its way. i The city is known to hurry- 'iug the 19th.

street project and to he considering the widening of 14th street from G-artside norhf to llli- nois avenue. With Avork projects for relief men needed, renewed talk is heard of an outlet, highway from Riverside park north to Route 144, which, would open new suburban areas (Copyright, 1034 by United 1 BETHAN'Y Hugh. S.j Johnson said today that he is de i' 1 termined Lo fight to the finish forj the. 'policies 'which believes! s'houid. NRA "in efforts to restore prosperity.

"I am not' going to allow the progress that has been-made thisj. far be nullified interests -which are opposing me any such silly pretext that my administration 'has been irascible arid intemper- i.ate," Johnson said in an 'exclusive i interview with the United Press. "If the accomplishment of'codi- fying of. millions of separate units to be offset by somebody's, appraisement of my personal ce'r'tainjy con-j veying personality to'an The administrator, vacationing at quiet beach, consented to the interview I only with the express that, he would not be quoted on, controversial subjects-. He said aisd that he; wanted it understood'that he would grant no further interviews while on his vacation, juid that'he was consenting' to, i.h'e "pre'sent' one only felt he' had' beeij mis represented in "some recent Washington dispatches.

"I am not engaging in a row t- Ct 600,000 Workers Affected in Call to 500 Mill Unions Action Labor Challenge Administration's Set- dement Efforts -'Kipling AyaV East and West have met and a September wedding' in Shanghai, China, wi'll be the outcome- Ro- of. Karin Broem. of Lacluc, 'jf'iid Robert 'Horiguchi began th.ey attended Missouri University. The bridegroom- to-be is a of a former Japanese miiitster to.Brazil. They'll Jive- ju Shanghai.

with anyone," he said; job to do. and 1 intend to do "it. 1 will not Jet that work be undermined by any shoutings about irascible adniinistratiou 'or other petty for oiie, have rio-'pollticavras- going to carry out my administration as I think it am not given 'to suspicion of oKier peoples' motives. -you know, the shadow of a "man's own "If there have and implications of'bad do not come from me," Johnson's: cheeks have ruddled from clays in the sun. He appears vigorous and' strong.

He intends to hold himself to two -weeks' vacation and wilt be ready to re-; NEW EDICT AIMED T0 ISOLATE JEWS Order Believed in Retaliation and So'unte'r Against Boy- BERLIN, Aug. or- WASHINGTON, Aug. Lloyd K. Garrison, the Natolnal Labor Relations board, today accepted to confer with George A. Sloan, head of, the; Cotton Textile Institute, on the textile strike.

Sloan offered to come to ington to confer with the an "inlividual." Garrison will confer with him on that basis. The conference was scheduled for 4:30 p. m. EST. WASHINGTON, Aug.

nasliea across, the country today a call for up- i wards of workers in textile industry to leave their at m. Saturday in gest Ktrike since President velt inaugurated-the new deal. The strike 1 affected only trie cotton texMle workers. Gorman, strike! chief, wool, Rayon and yarn members would for further The'strike was called when mill owners rejected demands 1. A 30-hour week.

The the' stand By- '-j I'have a any rela- week is 40 hours. vi tionship between members of Maintenance of pay at Nazi-party and, Jews lias been pre- 40-hour week level. 'pared by Rudolf Reichsfueh-. 3. Union recognition.

rer''Adolf Hitler's deputy leader of Francis J. Gorman, 'the. pavty, and-awaits distribution, of the special strike learned dramatically utilized a Three -million- of order, wire in his office to begin it wa.s learued, have 'bepn; printed, ing out promptly at noon the 1 proclamation to 500 local ty affecting from 3..150 to 3,300 It the order WSLS the throughout the country, result of resolutions dpassed World Jewish 1 at eva and intended as a ing against au intensification to bring about a settle- boycott goods yesterday, leaving' Only yesterday the Nazi cliurc'li' dim possibility of'last- strike call G'e'iif -'e i an unparalleled labor the administration. Government. government decided to extend the "Aryan, paragraph" of-church laws', i by.

providing that evangelical pas-j minute intervention RooseVelt. by President por.t' to President 'RoisoeS'elt, ancl that, pastors deemed time, and every ounce of his of city for improvement, fluence, in the widening road b'uild-l A project to impound Big-Mud- ing plan. Unsold on some money-spending projects within towns, the official from the outset has- been for "more miles of good roads as something- to show for the people's money." B. P. W.

Carnival Attracts a Large Crowd Opening Eve The opening of the Business and Professional Women's Club carnival, which, was held at Danceland park was attended by cataulpa trees which are available measles, typhoid th will ask the clerks to include tllB ar es opening on in the county. in the new contract which expires a flrst-night, Workers for the new CWA proj- October 1, is as follows: 'pi ie parade attracted a large eel, would he drawn from the local establishments may elect r.ov/d of people and following this, federal relief office list of unem- to remain open for business G3 the American Logino drum and ployed. bugle corps under the direction of. The CWES program is coming Sherman S. Can 1 gave a drill at through, This is an.

eudcational Danceland. The floor show under program available to. those whose dy. river by means of a low dyke at a Murphysboro shoals point above the line of sewage spillways for a more" constant and better domestic 'and industrial water supply here might receive Federal aid and approval. A cesspool project under which owners pay for materials and re- llief funds pay-for the labor might rid'many parts of the city of obnoxious open toilets and add to the community's health.

Carboudale is making much of this project. Street beautiflcation and the restoration of shade trees hi the vast storm area would occupy relief labor at transplanting maples or recommendations for the future of clouded in. and Hyde Park on September Johnson is enjoying -a leisure he has not: known' in the M5 months of his administration, of Bethany Beach is a quiet resort, eight miles south: along the Atlantic coast from the populous Rehoboth Beaclv. It is a resort of cottage homes with frame- structures sprawled along a mile's length of sandy shore. Not given to such sport-as golf or tennis, Johnson is enjoying 'his vacation by, fishing and roughing it in old clothes.

Despite supposed freedom-from official worries he cannot--separate, himself entirely- from the' doings in -is-'-in -daily telephone communication with the capitol. "I have to go-to Rehoboth Beach to telephone," laugh. "If you Hie said with a talk on the tele- Anticipating: rioting and other' tors married to Jewesses must be violence, Gorman cautioned workers not to begin uirreliable" might be re- before the actual hour set for the 1 strike. The executive committee of United Textile Workers of Amefi- ca, after conferring all niorniiig decided Satur- day night as a pecrMm-ly appro-. priate, time to close They will be closed i Sunday and Labor Day Monday 'N-o- Jew may be given a letter that the workers of-introduction or a recoinmeuda-j Maine to Alabama will have 'three; tion by a party member, to govern-; days of inactivity to strengthen; their organization.

The walkout thus begin Tuesdays Gorman said the' telegram would call at leasj: half a million ers to the strike lines. ne had. estimated: that would walk out "The stretch out, which adds to the machine load per worker until relationship 'with; an ykind of Jews. he can bear no more has robbed It was relTably reported yester- thousands of their chance to day that be named as'! said Gorman. "But every man and.

Hitler's deputy, to assume his will.rally to the strike "nAtionally tired'. order, it was learned, coh'tains five strict prohibitions. A by forbid," aiid following- are the restrictions as nazi party member shall be. represented in court by a Jew- isli officials or party, function- money will bei accepted ment ar'ies. 3.

No from iii.party -collections. 4'. No Nazi 'shield or symbol shall be displayed in a Jewish store. No party member may be seen in public places -with Jews and members must avoid private the EVEN THE HUSBAND CAN'T HEM HIM NEW YORK, AUK. new deal for city sleepers was in the- offing today.

$Jt uoisolofls milk wagon, equipped with balloon tires and drawn by a horse shod with rubbers was demonstrated before the New York noise abatement commission. Free Band Concert at Menard Prison A free public, band concert will ho given in the Menard prison chaple, Sunday, September 2, at 2 p. R. A. Robinson Sparta, band master.

Program March, Attorney L. King. Overture. Comedy. Clement.

hours per week; no employees such, establishment shall more than 4S hours per week, nor more than 10 hours per day, nor more-than days'per week." The code provides a minimum scnle of $11 per week but, since it also stipulates that wages cannot b'e reduced, the present scale of per -week stipulated, the clerks' contract could not be lowered. Discussion of'the closing hours" brought out a diversity of opinion concerning the merits of remaining open on Saturday nights. One merchant declared that 9 o'clock closing on Saturday night would mean year added to his ssaless, while the propietor.of one' the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Smith was indeed good, An even larger crowd is expected to attend this evening as it is at that-time- the drawing w-ill take place, education has to 'those who been neglected wish, to round phone here you have town listening to Johnson was dressed iu a blue shirt without necktie and open at the throat, a pair old blue trousers and white shoes; no socks.

He had just returned from an outing with the two children of neighbor cottager and talked his. deep TumbJiug bass' as surf pounded- 'into the, shore. The excursion, -with the youngsters had highly exciting one. The boy and girl 'trembled with glee, as they 'reported to their whole'' fices of president and in; event' of liis death or absence from his duties a in the out mother': 1 their education along practical lines, Such schools were conducted in the county last year on a small ocale, This winter, however, this Raymond Bsseick, trumpetist and.program promises to give employ- musician, who played with Ward's ment to a number of unemployed hit. The teachers and orchestra, made a decided hit.

The dance 'floor Avas crowded all disbanding' in. the wee hours of Thursday mornnig. 13th Nazi Hangs tea.chers and With an educational-program in view; Owen Charles of Carbondale was sent to the University of Illinois for one month's training for his work ahead as Educational Counselor of Jacksoft County. He was recommended for the post by "Pop" Etherton, county Selection, II clared Sno'g, Numbers suits' rjl" Davis. S'radkfO'rt merchants, also Mfklly, Down the app'oint'e'd a- Compliance Board Lauro'ris.

'exact code sell NRA Selection, Gems from Maritana' to In the iz'ation a'rfc two speakers who will March, Storm (Turn to Pig'e Tw'o, VIENNA, Aug. of the city's, largest food stores de- Bbner," Nazi, was hanged last night superintendent of clared that "th'e present' contract for participation in the 1 revolt of Applications for access participation in the 1 -reV'blt of Applications ror access July 25. school courses are piling in free" fronv for "He gave me his what, the 'general The sweater purchased, for 'the boy, a lad; of bore some colored; caricatures and the inscription: "Who's afraid of the big bad And the general, boyishly em-. barrassed by 'the children's acclaim; didn't crack a smile whgn. the doggerel, was suggested' as ap-.

to 1 his own situation. Goy. Horher Itmprovinjz r. Henry Horner Luddenman; a Henry D. Meisner, Neunert Merchant, and the great cotton textile try will not move a wheel thread after the hour set to stcpr- the mills." He emphasized the fact that theY walkout was directed against the industry and not against the ernment nor the textile i "I know the American people not allow these mill owners to I their exploitation behind cl'oak, Henry b.

Miesner, 54, passed of governmental protection: If away at his. home at Neunert Wed- mills supported the Wsciay.at' iOYS'O''pi after an ill- policy there would be no jiess of about, Mr. a strike," Gorman continued. Miesnei 5 from heart com- have defeated the plications. purpose in the textile industry.

The decea's'edi liad; made Neunert are striking against his home the last the, and our purpose is to correct unbearable ment." practices of last IS years had been in the mer- cbaiidlsing -business there. Sllesneii'was born Septem-, Elderly, Thomas' ber .27, Perry County, Mis- McMahon, president of the souri, and onV April ,17,,.1910, niar-. Workers, said that the special ried--Anna Miesner, Mo. He was menib'er of belief. Anna cil meeting -held before the went out was able to- do but work because it was "snowed un--: i work it was "snowed der by a flood 'of telegrams from the local unio.ES;'jV^ 'the 13th Nazi to be BJb- the county, been Ve paii-.

n'er had to be dragged td the gal- bringing; new applications. several days wSth-an -at-. lows at' Leoben. Further disintegration of laryngitis me" he cried. strike here came Thursday-morn-, proved pBysi-, man pfficiatlttgV 1 'I 11 A the- and jtwo so all three at one half'brother; John step father and Mrs'.

Xp'f Neunert. jeYyices will- be held. at.tbe.Lutherain. Hill Woman 94, Dies at "Heaven-help me," he cried. strike here came Thursday- mdrn- proved pBysi-, He "was convicted' 1 'of treason and ing when more men declded-to go clans his.

in murder. to work. 'serious. BENTQN, Aug. Harriet Hill, died at the home daughter, Mrs.

Ella Parkhill, night..