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ThcFREE PRESS GIVES YOU THE BIG NEWS BEFORt ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER CARBONDALE EE PRESS MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED WIRE THE PAPER WIT.H A QUALIT.Y. PURCHASING POWER FOR THE ADVERTISER VOLUME 32 CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY; NOVEMBER 17, 1936 NUMBER 306, SENTENCES PALS OF KILLER BATTLING FOR POSSESSION OF CAPITAL CITY Artillery, Tanks And Planes Fight In Madrid GENERAL REFUSES TO TESTIFY AT SLAYING QUIZ KILLING AND WOUNDING MANY! Civil Strife Appears! In Its Decisive I Stage (By Associated Press) MADRID, Nov. attack- i ers anil the government defenders o). Madrid threw the full strength of i their -air forces, tank corps and ar- i tillery into a ferocious battle for i session of the oily today. i Four months old tomorrow, thtt Spanish civil war appeared in its decisive stage.

The thunder of artillery boomed louder and the chatter of machine gun fire filled the center of the city as the government militiamen hurled themselves against insurgent armies filtering across the Manzanares river and into Madrid proper. They turned close range artillery fire on the Moor and foreign legionnaires who held doggedly to their battle won positions in University City, inside the northwestern limit? Madrid. In successive waves, Fascist fighting planes droned over the center of the spilling bombs anci killing and wounding an unestimatod number of persons. University City was battle ground. Its buildings, many A view of.

the inquest, Brig. Gen. H. H. Denhardt, center.

Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt, arrested on a murder warrant signed by a brother of the slain Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor, LaGrange, Ky.

socialite, is shown above, center, at New Castle Ky. as he refused to testify in the inquest into the mysterious slaying, 'Denhardt, fiance of the slain woman, was her companion on the night of the fatal automobile ricfe. The general, former lieutenant governor of the state, was quoted by officials as saying he believed Mrs. Taylor killed herself because her two teen-age daughters opposed her prospective marriage to Press. MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN IS LEGION PLAN Turkey Shoot Sunday At Thompson's Lake 52 DIE WHEN BLASTWREGKS POWDER PLANT Many Missing Following Explosion In France At the meeting last evening, tin? (By Associated Press) American Legion post decided to I SAINT CHAMAS, PRANCE, Nov.

launch a membership, drive, set Sml death, toll in powder filled day as the day to hold a turkey shoot ai. Thompson lake and discussed who dug through the twisted ruins expressed fear the wreckage hid more bodies. Some of the factory's FIVE AFTER THE EGYPTIAN IRON WORKS WAGE BOOSTS FOR WORKERS DOWN SOUTH I DRIVE TODAY TO COLLECT CM'al other activities. It is the intention to make n. thorough drive for 1927 membership, details to be arranged.

Indications are that the number of members in good standing for the coining year will be equal to or somewhat, larger than that for the year which is drawing to a close. The Legion has been having a series of turkey shoots each year just before Thanksgiving, usually one on a Sunday afternoon, "with others on Monday and 'Tuesday nights. This year it was decided to have one shoot and it to be held this coming Sunday afternoon, Nov. 22. Commander Chas.

Easterly of the Carbondale post is planning to set 1 together all the records and documents of the local post and appoint a historian to look after them, as from its foundations. Since the Egyptian Iron Works plant at Murphysboro was destroyed by fire last week several southern Illinois towns have set out to induce the company to locate in their cities. Representatives of the Carbondale 'Business Men's Association 'visited Textile Mills Employing 30,000 Raise Wages (By Associated JPresa)-. CHARLOTTE, N. Nov.

17 Following a luncheon last evening. a committee went forth today and raised this city's quota for the C. it was stated early this noon. I Present at the A. it.

Freeman, state secretary; John LIFE TERMS FOR SLAYING OFZEARFOSS Several Plead Guilty At County Seat Monday THROAT CUTTER IS SENTENCED blasts which wrecked one of France's largest explosive manufacturing plants here last night was set officially today at 52 persons. i Many of the injured employees of the government plant were in critical condition. Soldiers and gendarmes! Clifford Press and Herman Swerin- Negro Killer To Have Hearing Prior To Sentence ger entered pleas of guilty before Judge Spann in Jackson county cir- 500 workers still were unaccounted cuit collvt yesterday afternoon and. for. Building No.

104, one of a I were meted out three sentences each 0ng in connection with the killing of line of low powder mills, was de- Illinois Central Special Officer Roy stroyed in a first terrific blast at Zearfoss at Carbondale last August. dusk The powerful explosion shook the entire town and could be heard for 10 miles through, the countryside. A man more than one mile away was killed by a stone, shot bullet-like from the plant. As accessories before after the fact, each drew two sentences, each carrying from one to two years in the penitentiary, and for robbery of Dr. House's automobile each was of which had just been completed, became improvised fortresses, its campus a no-man's land.

At frequent intervals, the roar of high explosives shook the capital's "loop" section. Windows fell with the iron works officials yesterday at More than 30,000 textile workers in Nelson, its city secretary in Chi- the county seat, and stated today that Carbondale is not trying to bring the concern to this city. Pinckneyville, Dn Quoin, Benton, West Frankfort and Herrin are after clatter into the streets as civilians I it. however. The company owns its huddled in cellars and subway stations.

Some of the bombs dropped in two morning aerial raids and some of the shells which cleared the city barricades fell close to their shelters. Commanders directing the city edge battle expressed confidence their new lines would hold. They urged the city to remain calm and assured civilians the Fascists soon wonlcl be forced out of gun range. the Carolinas had their wages boosted today as the result of a blanket pay increase announced by four cotton mill chains. Cannon mills announced it would boost wages of its 16,000 employee? by an aggregate of one million dollars a year.

Cone mills of Greensboro, with plants employing about 5,000, also an- general increase, the its own site in that city, it was said, amount or wllica was not marte pubic. The Si-win mills at Erwin raised all employees' wages effective Nov. 23. A general increase was also given the 7000 employees of the 14 mills site in Murphysboro. Some of its equipment, the cupola in particular, is believed to have come through the fire without great damage, and the company would prefer to rebuild ou nounce( cago; Harry Seamans, city secretary at Joliet, and the following from Carbondale: C.

W. Blakey, district secretary; J. D. Dill, chairman; A. S.

Johnson, A. D. Brtibaker, Lawson Fore and J. B. Etherton.

This afternoon it was said that the committee had practically completed its work. such records will be of historic value not so many years hence. They will make no little contribution to the data of World war times 'and, the subsequent period, especially concerning Carbondale men who participated in the. war. J.

H. Ketriug, principal of the Carbondale Community High school, is post adjutant This year?" Schwartz is the post's service officer. There was a good attendance at he meeting last night. The members took much interest in plans for the fall, "winter and spring activities ot the post. Before firemen had a chance to sentenced to life in prison, fight the chemical-fed blaze a second "Blackle" Steyer, who was said to terrific explosion lifted the building I llave 1)e eu the actual slayer of Officer Zearfoss, was killed by a Franklin I county posse the day after the fatal shooting of Zearfoss and the wound- Officials said the cause of the explosion was not determined but that they found no ev-ideuce of sabotage.

Re-Employment Office To Open At Post Office Youth Conference Friday To Sunday Something entirely new, a statewide. inter-denominational Youth MORE BIRTHS, FEWER DEATHS IN ILLINOIS wiR be held at the First Methodist church of Decatur, Nov. 20, 21 and 22. A bus is going up from here for the Saturday session's, and individual fares are only $1.50 for the round Registration is 25c a session, Floyd Ramsey is in charge of the arrangements, and any young person desiring to go should call him at 1S2-K before Thursday. At this conference, the great issues facing youth today will be discussed, and plans will be laid for a I permanent youth organization.

The. bus will reach Decatur in time for the forum under the direction of E. Stanley- Jones, the world's foremost missionary and Christian statesman, the author oE "The Christ of the Indian Road." In the afternoon the group sessions will be held, followed by a meditational forum, led by Muriel Lester, famed for her work in the slums of London. E. Stanley Jones will again talk in the evening These speakers, and the other ex- SUPERIOR, Nov.

I cellent ones talking on Friday and bodies of Antone Gtistafson, 40, and Sunday are available through the (By Associated Press) SPRINGFIELD, 111.. Nov. 17 Deaths in Illinois from all causes in September totaled 6149, a monthly low this year and sharply below the 6597 deaths in August, the state public health department reported today. During the first nine months this year, however, deaths totaled 69,735 compared with 63,721 in the corresponding period last year, the. de- creased slightly from S1.60S to 020 -in the same period.

Recover Bodies Of Two Miners of the Marshall Field Co. chain. It was estimated the boost would add $7000 to $10,000 weekly to the company pay roll. The management oC the Hampton group of Pacific mills at Columbia, S. said the four plants there, employing 2200 would also pay higher wages after Nov.

23. '(By Associated Pi'eess) GRANITE CITY, 111., Nov. 17 General Steel Castings Corp. announced today an average wage increase of 10 'per cent became effective yesterday for 1100 hourly and piece workers at its Commonwealth plant in Granite City. Shoe Factory At Murphysboro Reduces Force The Brown Shoe Co.

yesterday made a drastic reduction in the number of employees in its Murphysboro factory, where 740 men, women, boys and girls were on the pay roll with a daily capacity output of 5000 pairs 01 shoes. The reduction amounts to close to 50 per cent in all departments, it was stated last evening. The daily out- jput is cut from 5000 to 2500 pairs daily. It is reported that orders contracted for until along in January call for the smaller number of shoes, and that rather than work the full force part time the company decided to work a reduced force from four tc five- days each week. The number Youth Dies When Car Hits Culvert jot employees to continue, on the job is about 375 to 400, it was stated.

The order to reduce the working force was received last weelc and put in effect yesterday, with the result that more than 300 workers were (By Associated Press) Oscar Gervart, 45, gold miners buried in a. slide at the Windfall placer mine near here Saturday night, were brought from their mountain tomb i "today. Trapped in the narrow tunnel under the bed of Dry creek, the mer, found on. top of the slide near the end of the 100 foot bore. National Preaching Mission.

APPOINTS ILLINOIS WEATHER. Generally fair tonight and tomorrow, except cloudy and unsettled in (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. Roosevelt today appointed Chas. Edison of New Jersey, son of the inventor, as assistant secretary of the navy. He will succeed Henry L.

Roosevelt, who. died last winter. Charles Goddard, 20, formerly of Marion, employed at the Conant coal laid "off for an indefinite period, mine in Perry county, was killed Saturday night when Dave Ely's car hit a concrete culvert near Cutler. Ely -was injured about the face "and head, though not dangerously so. It was said the men were returning home from Willisville when ths wreck occurred.

Goddard was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goddard of near Marion. He leaves his parents and five sisters and brothers. His funeral occurred this afternoon.

Burial in Lake Creek cemetery. TO COUNT NOSES. Oust Inspector John Grubmeyer John Grubmeyer of Mtirphysbovo has been, ousted as oil inspector for Jackson county and the job turned over to man from outside the county. Grubmeyer is secretary of the county Democratic central committee. His friends believe he will be reinstated.

Democrats discussing 1 the matter deny that the inspector was fired because his county failed to go Democratic in the recent election. They say Grubmeyer worked hard for the ticket throughout the campaign. Jackson county gave Republican majorities all. the way flown the line on. Nov.

3, with the exception of the O. P. candidates for circuit clerk and coroner. Political gossip at the county seat has been revolving around possible changes in other appointive posts held by Jackson county men as a result of the Republicans carrying the county. However, seems that the removal of Inspector Grubmeyer is the only change actually made thus far.

Schumann-Heink Critically 111 (By Associated Press) HOLLYWOOD, Nov. Schumann-Heink, ringer, was critically ill today. The noted contralto, 75 on her.lasl dame noted Honey bees weigh about 5,000 in- iiortheast portion; slightly warmer in dividuais to the pound. So the aver- extreme south portion. Colder in extreme north tonight; row.

colder tonior- age weight would be a little less than one three-hundredths of an 1 ounce. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. of federal relief and a systematic "nose count" of the unemployed through self registration were disclosed today as being included in the government's future relief program. birthday, is suffering at her Hollywood home from a blood ailment. It recurred Saturday with hemorrhages of the throat and lungs.

Immediate transfusions were necessary, Dr Samuel Alter said, to save her life. "Her condition is still serious and we are watching her carefully," physician added. "She has rallied since the transfusions." Mongrol horsemen wear boots far too large so they may be padded with wool in winter. More Fatalities Along Highways Violent deaths along the highways of southern Illinois included the fol lowing: Ed Greer of Eldorado drove up jusl as a bus from Carrier Mills stopper at Harrisburg Sunday afternoon. Eight-year-old Woodrow Shaw jump ed from the rear of the bus, rar around the vehicle and was killed bj the Greer car.

Five Ridgway youths injured two critically, when their car collid ed with, another near Eldorado Sun day night. Benjamin Addison, S3, and Samue C. Willett, 71, living together nea. Centralia, were -fatally injured Sat urday when their car hit the side of a freight train of the Southern railway in that city. Addison Saturday night and Willett died Sun i day morning.

ing of his companion officer, Earl Wilbanks. The Franklin county officers captured press, who hailed from Belleville, and Sweringer, originally from Pecria. The shooting of the two special ieers occurred after they had pre-. vented 1 A branch office of the National beating their way on an Illinois Cen- imployment Administration is to tral passenger tram. The trio ware pen in the Carbondale postoffice to-, loiterms railway property in the north part of the city when the The purpose is to register all per- offjcers approached them with orders ions seeking employment, and lecially young persons, altho'ugh here is no age limit.

Edwin Etherton of Carboudale will in charge. The office will be in he basement of the postoffice build. Se is connected with the office Murphysboro. Mr. Etherton states hat many requests received by the to move on.

Steyer killed one officer and wounded the other, then the three men commandeered Dr. House's passing auto at the point of the gun, and drove away, only to be trapped by the posse near West FranlTfort that night. Lee Ernest Jones, Negro, made a pica of guilty in circut court yester- ffice in that city from employers for day in connection with the killing of workers call for skilled labor, ex-j another Negro man in Murphysboro Jerienced workers in various lines, several months ago. ilerks and stenographers. Anyone vanting employment is invited to whether unemployed, desir- ng to change employment, or tem- on some pay roll, Mr.

Etherton states. Office hours will be from a. m. to 4 p. m.

the first five clays of the and a. m. to 12 noon on Saturday. Rotarians Hear Education Talk At the regular meeting of the Rotary club today, Allen Edwards, principal of the Marion Township High made an interesting talk on "Industrial Education in High Schools," stressing the need of such a plan in all high schools. He told of various lines of work such as beauty culture, agriculture, machine shop and auto mechanics, where industrial training may be applied.

He said the Marion high school offers a course in practical nursing: for girls. A. R. Freeman ot Chicago, state Y. M.

C. A. secretary; John Nelson, city secretary in Chicago, and IT. R. Seamans, city secretary at Joliet, were guests of the club and Mr.

Nelson and Mr. Seamans made short talks concerning their work. Rev. W. G.

Winans, Sam Ross and Lawrence Glenn of Murphysboro, Clarence Cagle of Marion, and Leon Zwick of Herrin were, guests. New members taken into the club were: E. R. Blades of the Economy Auto Store, George Hays, manager of the Gem theatre, Paul Gittleman, manager of Zwick's Ladies' store, and Bernie Lowe. Judge Spann set 1 o'clock this 'afternoon as the hour for bearing sopio of the evidence in the case before making a decision as to the penalty to be carried in sentencing Jones.

The shooting took place on a stieet in the Flats district at the county, Pleas of gTiilty also were made ye.lerday by Wm. Rednour, forgery; ,702 Schwartz, burglary; Wm. Good, ault to kill. (lood, a Murphysboro man who slushed his wife's throat when she home late at night, or later thr.n Good approved of, then cut his ONV.I throat, was sentenced to do nine mcnths on the state penal farm at Both he and Mrs. Good hare completely recovered from their wounds.

Uednour was sentenced to do from to 20 years in the penitentiary. Schwartz is to be sentenced this aft 21-110011. Young pigeons feed on a -milk Elks Initiate And Eat Tonight The Carbondale Elks will have in- itirtion tonight. First, there will be a big feed at 0:30 this evening. After the food has been disposed of a class of 10 to 1.2 will be initiated.

FRED D. MILLER ABLE TO HOSPITAL Fred D. Miller, general passenger agent for the Illinois Central System, was able to leave Holder, hospital yesterday and go to Chicago. Mr. Miller suffered a heart attack one night last week while on an I.

C. passenger train near Curbondale and 'which conies from the crop of both i was taken off here and pluceil ir the male and female parents. the hospital..