The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 1

Full Eight Hour United Press "Iron Man" Service More Readers Than All Other Jackson Newspapers Combined Established 1891. MURPHYSBORO, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1927. BOUNTY- FLOOD AREA TO SHARE IN R. C. FUNDS Farm Agent Thomas Is Asked For Report on Acreage Flooded, and Owner's Needs New Break in Louisiana Inundates Thirteen Additional Parishes By E.

W. LEWIS ClTniterl Pi-fjBK Staff Correspnr.rtentt VICKSBURG, May A heavy and persistent rainstorm over northern Louisiana today added to the gravity of the situation in territory left open to the'flood the Mississippi river by a break in the -levee at Milliken Bend. Levees, already strained to the limit by high water, were further weakened by softening from the downpour. The rain also pressaged a rise in the water level. Refugees, huddled for safety along levee banks, were unprotected from the rain as they waited for boats to carry them to high ground.

Dawn today found an army of 30,000 men, women and children fleeing for their lives from 100 towns in northern Louisiana following an entirely unexpected break in the levee 10 miles from Vicksburg. Scant time was given for warning as the river wall gave way at Milliken Bend, point, engineers had said was safe, believing all of the danger lay-smith of Vicksburg rather than to the north. Thirteen Parishes Doomed Torchlights, flares and gleaming, automobile headlights lit the way through the night as the thousands hurried from the thirteen parishes doomed by the flood. They walked, many of them. Those more fortunate rode in automobiles or horsedrawn vehicles.

Homes and cherished possessions forgotten as the throng hurried to escape the roaring wall of muddy water advancing toward them. By noon the most serious single, crevasse covered the thriving town; of Tallulah, seat of Madison Par-, ish, with six to ten feet of water. From there, there is nothing to' stop the sweep of the water over. thirteen parishes. 3,000 square milssj of territory win-be added by ne'w break to' oV miles now inundated, engineers said.

Break in the levee at Milliken Bend came with dramatic suddenness. Only a few levee patrolmen were on duty. Suddenly, the muddy torrent burst through the earth retaining wall. Within a tew minutes, ai crevasse 300 feet wide was opened 1 and levee workers saw it would be impossible to check the flood. Report of the break was flashed to Vicksburg.

Major Lee, District Engineer, dispatched two Navy sea planes to the threatened area. Planes To Rescue I The big planes flashed over lulah and neighboring towns as crowds gathered below and read the printed warning slips dropped by the aviators. Refugees were told to go to Vicksburg or to high lands near Delhi. The trek to safety was on in a matter of minutes. Every cornel' of the parishes was covered by the planes and dangerousness of the situation was the valley residents.

Report of the disaster was telephoned to the office of former Governor John M. Parker, State Flood Dictator at Baton Rouge. Orders were issued immediately for boats from Vicksburg and Natchez to go into the flooded area. Seaplanes were also sent from Baton Roiige. Special trains carried most of the refugees out of Tallulah.

Others, farther from the flood, were able to leave by the highways. Towns to be affected most rapidly will be Tallulah, Duckport, Vidalia, Waterproof, Ferriday, Bull- tonn, and St. Joseph. Lake Providence, home of Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, is threatened. Tracks of the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific'Railroad recently acquired by the Illinois Central, are under water.

The river crossing of the road is out. It was the last means of crossing the stream, except by ferries, between New Orleans and Memphis. The United States Boll Weevil Control Experiment Station at Mound's, is directly in the path of the flood waters. The station will probably be put out of commission entirely before the waters subside. The Singer Game Refuge, controlled by the State, is under water.

It is practically the last stand of deer and wild turkeys in the state. Engineers expect, in short, that practically the entire area between the Ouachita and Mississippi Rivers will be submerged. Farm Agent C. J. Thomas indicated Tuesday that he would advise the Red Cross that fully fifty per cent of farmers in the flooded Jackson County area will need Red Cross aid for seeding other provisioning this spring.

Agent Thomas was advised by the local press that .12,000 acres oC land was isubjected to flood north the Bis Muddy by the levee break at Cottonv.wod Tree, and that of this acreage all but 2,000 was in a state of cultivation. That considerable acreage wcs under south of Grand Tower in this county. Agent Thomas estimated that fully 350 farm owners were suffering flood loss and were, in need of aid one way or another to tide them ovnr the year. Some farms in the flood zone may be found deserving of 100 per cent rehabilitation. The farm agent began the work Tuesday of preparing a report of the flood situation here and making recommendations such as a Red Cross wire requested.

Oklahoma Hail Storm Causes Heavy Damage City Virtually Wrecked With Loss Estimated Close to $400,000 TO OPEN F1RBDESTROYS iSALLISAW, May 4 today is virtually wrecked, with small buildings demolished, windows all over the town shattered, trees and shrubs stripped of their foliage and damage totalling $400,000 done by a .20 minute hail storm. The hail struck unexpectedly and with a fury never seen here before. For twenty minutes the pellets, some of them ranging upward in size to as large as a small orange, battered down, crashing through plate glass windows and beating -holes in frame houses. Rain of almost cloudburst proportions followed ten hail, flooding parts of the city. A small creek.

flo.wiiig through the town antl-flowed Ov'tir -a-n area four blocks wide. Hardly a business house or residence escaped damage. Merchants estimated today over per cent of their stocks ruined by the freak storm. No serious injuries were reported. FLOOD AID CONTRIBUTION Flood funds previously reported -L $2,017.00 New contributions: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Coffee Co.

15.00 Akers Co. 10.00 Life Casualty Co. of Chicago (2nd amount S.OO Mrs. E. Alexander Expires In Chicago Stephen Bostick, of Route One, received a telegram recently of the death of his sister, Mrs.

Ellen Alexander, who died recently at her home in Chicago. The body will arrive in Carbondale Wednesday and the funeral will be conducted at the A. M. E. church Wednesday afternoon at 1:30.

The body will be laid to rest, in the Oakland cemetery. Bert Alexander, her son, will accompany the body to Carbondale. New total $2,050.00 Two Held in Slaying of Highway Policeman CHICAGO, May Schobe, 22, a taxi driver, was being held by Chicago police, while Buford Chunn, his friend, is held in Gary, in connection with the shooting to death Sunday- of State Highway Policeman Sam Mates, at Sturgis, Mich. Schobe says he was hired by a "red faced, scarred bootlegger, about 30 years old," to drive an automobile from White Pigeon, to Chicago. Chunn was hired for the same purpose, he said.

Chunn was arrested in Gary, and gave information leading to the arrest of Schobe. Although Chunn's automobile born the license plates seen on the machine from which Mates was shot, both Chunn and Schobe say -that the numbers of two automobiles were interchanged. Police believe that Schobe and Shunn were implicated in the crime, but think that the "red faced bootlegger" did the' actual shooting. Chunn said he followed the larger automobile in a smaller one containing a cargo- -cf Canadian ale. Mayor, Commissioners Take Office Tonight CARBONDALE, May Mayor Bert E.

Hill and Conimis- sioners Ira Spain, Ed Travelstead, Orva Smith and W. C. Fly will meet at -the council chambers in the city hall Tuesday night, this being the last meeting of their term of office, and the new mayor snd commissioners will be inducted into office. The new city officers Mayor, Chas. Easterly; commissioners, L.

F. Renfro-, R. W. Davis, 'Nyle Huffman and J. M.

Anderson. Merchants "Free Swim" Period Promises Popular Kiddie Feature Weekly Riverside Pool at beautiful Riverside Park, will be opened informally Saturday, May 14. witli a children's municipal period from 9 a. m. to 12 o'clock noon, and paid periods in the afternoon and evening.

Formal opening and dedication of the city's new pleasure place will be conducted on Decoration Day, May 30, at which time both pool and gardens will be opened. Weather permitting the pool will be available next Sunday for an "early bird" period, although no attempt to open the gardens formally is expected until later in the month. The season plan of the modern pleasure place is to conduct morning, afternoon and evening pool periods with continuous garden service. John Henry, builder of the pool, announces commercial periods will be of three hours duration, morning, afternoon and evening. Serious consideration being given the idea of a private party period between the afte: noon and evening periods, from 5 to 7 o'clock.

Several persons have already asked for pool party reservations. The pleasure place will be under the management of Frank Henry, son of the builder. John Henry will superintend. Mrs. Arthur Hall of the Pleasant Grove community, already well known to Country Club members for her excellent menus, will have charge of gardens service.

Municipal Period Assured Riverside Park Commissioners last year saw the need of a modern bathing pool at Riverside Park. So courteously did they consider the Riverside Pool proposition that Mr. Henry from the outset was to provide for a free period for 'White children of the. ol the city's "have decided to cooperate with the pool owners to this end. These merchants will issue pool for a children's morning -period once each week.

These will of necessity be featured each Sat urday morning until schools dismiss. After that date the "Free Swim" period will be optional with the pool management. Names of merchants "in the swim" will appear later with full details. Completion Being Rushed Riverside Pool-Gardens are not completed. Much work remains to be done.

This work is being expedited. By the date of the dedication and formal opening on Decoration Day the pool is to be fully equipped with pleasure devices, bath locker service carried out in full. Attendants will be employed for both the ladies' and men's bath houses. Gardens will be equipped more completely from time to time. The pleasure place will be done in white and lighted both by large shell lights and small bulbs.

Water depths, will boast a new feature for the little tots, providing a 12-inch pool for the kiddies. Pool Inspection Invited Both Murphysboro officials and firms have expressed a kindly interest in the pleasure place. The Mayor Joplin administration gave the investment for recreational purposes its stamp of approval by franchising it for twenty-five years. Just now the pool is being filled w'th new water following a thorough check up of un-derstructure and a 100 per cent cleansing. Water from the city mains and from the pool's own wells is pouring in and is filling into, the shallower levels.

Even the trowel marks in the concrete in 3 1-2 feet of water are plainly to be seen from the broad walks surrounding the pool. "I want a pool as clean as anybody's bath John Henry declared. And whether he got it or hot is subject to- the verdict of the public, which is invited to inspect the pool, see just how has been. The "early, bird" period next. Sunday is the time set 1 for the inspection.

No garden admittance charge will be made for the day. Miss Irene Vastine has accepted a position at the Credit Service Bureau, succeeding Bryan Fults who returned to Ava to spend -the summer. Red Cross Flood Fund Nears $7,000,000 Mark WASHINGTON, May Piling up toward the new goal of $10,000,000 contributions to the Red Cross flood relief fund today erached Students Dismissed CHAMPAIGN, May students of the University of have been dismissed for' infractions of the rules, it was announced today. Robert K. Laughlin and Robert Danly, both were dismissed for violating the no-motor car Three others, whose names were not divulged, were dismissed for drinking while two others had too many class cuts.

WPASTIJRE' Vito Mauzifo Properly Mass of Flames When Firemen Arrive Vito Mauzullo hasn't got more home than a rabbit, to express it as flremen did after an early morning Vito had two homes until 1 o'clock Wednesday morning. At 2 o'clock he didn't have any. But he hart $4300 insurance, and that helped a whole lot. Mauzullo and his good and kiddies went bed in time 'to get a beauty wink, in their little house adjoining their big house in the northern regions of what is known as the "Old Pasture" south of Illinois avenue and east of Seventh street. It was in these semi-isolated regions that murder stalked once upon a time, and a woman's life winked out in the famous "ice pick" killing there.

And the Chiro feud lives. But Tuesday night. the terror was fire. It originated 'in Mani- zullo's little home and spbn haft spread to the larger house'adjoin- ing, occupied by a colored Firemen received the call at They arrived to find the dwelling engulfed with flame and- did not attempt to run a hose jfrom the nearest fire hydrant, nearly 2,000 feet away. Mauzullo was in with a coat over his shoulders when flremen arrived.

He was questioned as to the origin the flre, but replied with words, 'M no Fire Chief Herring states the owner carried $3,000 on, the larger house, $900 on the smaller and $400 on contents. Meet Thursday at Quernheim Home Cairo Protests Vs. Showing Of Flood Pictures CAIRO. May protest to the showing of flood pictures in which Cairo is featured as being overflowed was made today by Association of Commerce. The film was viewed by CairoUes at the Ambassador theatre in St.

Louis day, and- the caption referred to Cairo as the once prosperous city that was overflowed, Where the views were taken were. credited 'to Cairo was not The reel showed views at other points including New Madrid. Secretary Kings'iey in his wire asked an answer telling who was responsible for the reference to Cairo-. Charles Lawder, of U.S.Navy, Here Visiting Parents Charles Lawder, son of Mr. and Mrs.

A. R. Lawder, who is in the United States Navy, is spending his furlough of twenty-one days here with his parents. He has been in the Navy since October 10, .1924, and the following is an account tit his journey since that time. In October 1924, he went to San Diega Naval Station and went aboard the U.

S. S. West Va. In December 1924 he went to San Pedro, and in January he went to Guadalope, where he met the East Coast Fleet coming to join the West Coast Fleet to go on an Australian cruise. He then left San Francisco for Hiawaii in April remaining on the Islands three months; and making, three ports, Labonia, Hilo and Honolulu.

From there-he left for Pago Pago which is one of the South Sea Islands. July 7, he crossed the equator and was initiated into the Dominion of Neptune, Rex. He left Pago July, for Sydney, Austria and after spending fifteen days in Sidney left there for Auckland, New Zealand where he spent twenty-one days and (rom there went to Apia, another South Sea Island, arriving in Honolulu, September 10. He left there September 20, for San Calif. Between September 28, 1925 and February.

15( 1926 he was on the West Coast and mafle Ports, Frisco, Seattle, Port Angeles Vancouver. In February, 1926 he left for Panama for three' months and made Balboa and saw Panama City and Colon and arrived back in the States July 1926, making the on the West Coast and spent two months in the Navy Yards at Bremerton on the Puget Sound. February 18, 1927, he left San Pedro for Panama and went through the Panama Canal where he saw the famous Gatun Locks and Great Culebra Cut and arrived in Colon March 5, for G.uatanamo Bay, Cuba. Then arriving in Gonowes, Hati, March. made the Kingston, Jamaica.

Then going back to Cuba.and left Cuba for New York. April 23 arriving in Brooklyn, New York, April 29, 1927. After enjoying a vacation, with his parents he will go back to the West Coast June 4, and) make New Port R. and Norfolk, before going back. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of tfie First Lutheran Church.

This group will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Henry Quernheim at 507 North Street. Those in the picture reading, left to right, are: BACK Louise Wieneke, Mrs. Sadie Murphy, Mrs. Geo.

Penrod, Miss Nora Boucher, Mrs. Henry Quernheim, Mrs. Zoe Held, Mrs. Geo. Boucher, Mrs.

R. H. Beattie. Mrs. Geo.

Furness. Mrs. Stewart Huffman. SECOND j. L.

Perry, Mrs. Phillip Fager, Mrs. P. W. Griffith, Mrs.

Fred Boucher, Mrs. M. Hewitt, Mrs. Fannie Neal, Mrs. Maud Rust, Mrs.

H. O. Finkeldsy. Mrs. Catherine Glasser.

FRONT Bateman, Miss Elizabeth Boucher, Mrs. Alice Fox, Mrs. Ann Decker, Mrs. L. Lee, Mrs.

Phil Armm, and daughter Phyllis Jean. i Mo. Pacific Gets Gale-Ware Lines Open; Back to Normalcy The Missouri-Pacific has come back -with normal train service through the Gale-Ware sector of its bottoms lines, recently inundated." The Mo. a 100-road train -over its single -track, line through the Gale-Ware flood area at 4 o'clock. Tuesday and will have both lines operating at once, it is announced at the Murphysboro depot.

at Bush Tuesday that had been ordered detoured via the C. lines, were shot through the and West branch to Gale late O. "Highballing" Almost unprecedented volumn business activity has come to the M. O. Railroad Co.

The rush of business is principally out of the southland and consists of perishables, shippers of which are heavy consigners over the "hot shot" line to St. Louis. The system boasts a day and night period early this week of 45 trains through Murphysboro in three time shifts: Crews were so hard put during one period that a "take out" for rest was ordered. The system has for days concentrated motors and men on what is said to be one of the biggest freight movements northward in 'years. Elation is heard expressed in Murphysboro at the road's business and the manner in which its officials and men are shooting trains through.

Berry and vegetable trains are being iced by the Anchor Ice Packing Co. here. The Illinois Central continues volumn business through the Mounds rail center, after maintaining train service through the flood area, Mounds to. Cairo. Douglass School Aid Sufferers In The South Douglass school has contributed to be given to the Red Cross "for the flood sufferers of the south." The contribution was made through Fire Chief Albert Herring for Red Cross distribution.

The note accompanying the contribution said in; part: "It is We only wish that we could give more; but we assure you that it 5s given with sincere I See By Today's Classified Ads ID The Independent THAT a high grade player piano in good condition is for sale, cheap. THAT a lot on Herbert St. is for sale. THAT a five room modern house, all conveniences, is for sale reasonable. THAT furnished, rooms are for rent.

THAT pictnres. of the news house are for sale, 3 for 5c, at this ofHce. Speed Completes His Week Here (BY SPEED) During my week here found just one home in Murphysboro that was not getting the Daily Independent. This is a remarkable record. When the editor told me before I to work here that the Daily Independent was gping into practically every home in Murphysboro I could hardly believe it, but I certainly found out that he was right.

Everywhere they seemed to be waiting for me, Daily Independent in hand. Some folks will say, how does he make all those homes.and get by without getting caught more often. Here is the secret of my work. When they come to the door and start to say the slogan 4f I can get them to look at me they never will say it. It is just one against the other while aF tlf(H same 1 time the one mind is unaware of the fact, as the mind of the woman is absolutely on the slogan.

like the Oakland car. Despite its low price, it is of splendid appearance and it wins a lot of favorable comment on its satisfying performance, beauty and comfort. No one was successful in getting the Victrola, which I would have bought' from Harris-Price House Furnishing Company, local Victor dealers. It is a dandy of the best money can buy. I want to thank Mr.

Marlow of the Hippodrome for furnishing the theatre tickets and Phil Cline of the Rexall Drug Store for the cigars which I gave away during my calls at the various, homes. I gave White Star gasoline furnished by Julius Wides a real test and I found it just as good as any I have ever used. In leaving Murphysboro and Jackson county I wish all the people good luck and prosperity and I hope to come back again some time and give you all another chance to get my free gold coins. I consider the Daily Independent one of the finest and most complete small city I have ever worked I have' been in this game nine years I. can see why it is so widely read and so well liked in Jackson county.

Tuesday I visited the following homes, but I didn't have to give away any more, of my gold. Rev. R. B. Guthrie, 182G Spruce.

G. M. House, 2122 Walnut. W. Daniel, 2117 Walnut.

Roger Kimmel, 2103 Pine. L. L. Jenkins, 1908 Spruce. M.

M. Moralee, 1S05 -Edith. H. W. Cleland, 1827 Hardy.

H. L. Farrar, 2002 Walnut. H. Birkbigler, 2009 Gartside.

J. Hasie, 2011 Gartside. P. Marver, 2021 G-artside. Mrs.

McDaniela, 2025 Gartside. R. Turuage, 2035 Hortense. Lee Marshall, 2029 Hortense. M.

Cripps, 2112 Hortense. Wm'. Swafford, 2210 Hortense. Schimpf, 1919 Walnut. C.

193:4 Walnut. B. Newman, 723 9th. M. McGinnis, 407 Normal.

Elkville Calls -Geo. A. Holliday. Geo. Cope." Alice Schmidt.

B. E. Piper. 'E. J.

Harris'. H. Craig. Roger Crews. Or Hellell.

Cecil Brayshaw. C. J. Kimmel. De Soto E.

Demm'ing. W. S. Woody. R.

Smith. O. E. Cochran. A.

White. A. Duncan. B. O.

Elkins. Mrs. William Glidewell Gorham was a Murphysboro business visitor Wednesday. GRAY RELATE Tells of Plans of Co-defend-, ant to Cause Death of Her Husband By PAUL W. WHiTE (United Press StalT Correspondent) COURTROO'M, LONG ISLAND CITY, L.

1., N. May Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder motored through New Yoyk State las-. Pctober. an. what, she "My first real honeymoon;" her husband, Albert, ill at the Suyder home, Gray Testified today.

"I told her she'd better leave me and return to. her husband," Gray continued quietly. "But she said 'No, let the old crab' Gray, continuing his direct testimony, devoted much time to telling of this clandestine honeymoon, relating incident after incident, most of them at least risque. He also told of Mrs. Snyders' quietly planning to bring about the death of her husband.

Once, he said, she gave Gray sleeping powders when he reported to her that they "worked" she revealed to him that she was using him for a "guinea pig" to test the powders because she might have use for them. Another time she hinted hpr husband "might drown in the summer" and in another instan.ce told of attempting to asphyxiate him, according to Gray. As the corset salesman brought his testimony 'to the matter of Snyder's illness, Mrs. Snyder suddenly straightened and stared wide-eyed at her former lover. Then she bowed her head and appeared to be weeping softly.

Gray suggested the "honeymoon," he said, to take Mrs. Snyder's mind off her troubles at home after she had made plans to kill her husband. Mrs. Snyder was in a "highly nervous state," Gray said, and responded eagerly to the idea of a motor journey. Snyder thought his wife was visiting a friend, Gray testified.

Occasionally she would telephone hw home but spoke only to her mother and daughter. Mrs. Josephine Brown and Mrs. Margaret Gray, mothers of the defendants, sat in the court room and heard Gray describe the intimacies of extra-marital love that ended in the murder of Snyfler. Road Committee of C.

of Assured; New Hill Gap 1 Is Improved The road committee of Chamber of Commerce is dairy e'x- pectins a highway engineer to Te- port from Springfield with authSr- 1 to start the work of the re- conoisance survey for Route 144, Ahirphysboro to Goriiam. The committee returned froSl Springfield recently with a JHOffi- ise that an engineer would be Murphysboro sometime during present week, or at liabt in AQ immediate future. Route 1-14 and Route 150, the latter from to AVix, Campbell Hill. Ste3levill3 Sparta, are compared lavorably here as pioneer routes iulo heretofore from the city in all but the best of weather. Hence Chamber or Commerce is leading no stone untunieii to get these routes the moment the state 11S ready to concentrate on them Ta addition 10 trade advantages, highways will at once accomnsp- flaie thousands ol' people Jacifr son county who have smaited tvn- dor delays while residents in tne east half of county have joyed concrete roads foi several years.

Murphysboro is elated over the expedition of the improvement of the gap over New Hill by Engineer Lloyd Schwartz at CaibonJaleT directing engineer of slab work ft southern Illinois. This gap been closed. It only remains to let the concrete- season before traffic cau IIP. opened. The fill from tiie new bridge across the f.

C. has been surfaced fli'5 slnipe with rock and cinders. This gap completion will ehra- inate the dangerous winding road' down New Hill and will open. New Hill areas, some of "them beautiful home sites, for men t. This land has already been taken by local investors for -ening and home sites.

The brick road, constructed of Miuphysboro paving brick, is practically as sound as the day it was placed. many years ago, and speaks won- clers for the endurance of tile Murphysboro paving product is declared that replacement of 5 square yard of surfacing at otify four points in the entile sectoi; would be needed. These points show only surface shatteimg, not a half an- inch deep. Engineer Thos. Dunn got to the Chamber ol Commerce" Wednesday that the flood would be out of the bottom lands in, ten days time, and that ing anywhere could be started within the next few days.

Chicago Cat Bandit Adds Three To List EVANSTON, Northwestern University co-ed, a school teacher and a high school girl accosted by "the. bandit who specializes in robbing women, and all of them succeaded in frightening the robber away. Miss Germaine Servais, 20, the teacher, was held up and a sponge soaked with ether held to her face. She struggled and screamed and the "cat" ran. Emily Northwestern senior, accosted a.

few minutes later. The bandit took her purse and fled when she screamed. Emily Lechner, 17, was saved from the robber when an automobile headlight flashed on him as he was struggling to. overpower the girl. WEATHER FORECAST For Illinois: Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday, projably showers in extreme south pcTtiou, Thursday; not much change in! temperature.

Indiana Operators And Union Heads In Session TERRE HAUTE, Mav negotiation parley Indiana bituminous coal opeiators and district number 11, United Mine Workers of America got under way here today in an endeavor to terminate deep coal mining suspension in the state The" joint conference was executive, only the representatives of the parties involved beins eligible to attend. Neither operators nor would comment today on the possible outcome of the conference nor on how long it might last. Strip mine operators, representing 20 per cent of the state's tofc nage, recently signed a contract, with the mine workers' organization and are operating their mJiKs'sr and a number of independent mjfi'e operators are continuing operatBtti of. deep mines under the old Jaefc, sonville agreement pending seti, tlement of the entire situation. Teacher Not Guilty of Telling Naughty StorTefe DES MOfNES, May Florence Cocbranev I Warren County school teacher, is i not guilty of telling her risque stories and is a competSSife, teacher, Miss Agnes Samuelson," state superintendent of public struction, has ruled.

'j School directors reauested Cochrane's resignation on grounds' .3 of incompetency, a month after 1 'the risque stories were alleged fo have been told the students. 'WC C. McGee, county of schools, exonerated the teacbertii of the charges, but the insisted that she be ousted matter then was carried to state headQuarters. The teacher held that the tors' Conspiracy to oast her inated when she refused to mit-to a flirtation witli the son ol the president of the school U. of I.

Close June 13 CHAMPAIGN, May fja will be June 13 at the University of Illinois it was announced- W- day by the council Previously it had been planned -j have the exercises June 15,.