The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 1

ILLINOIS WEATHER Rain northwest portion tonight and probably east and south ppr- tion-tonight and tomorrow colflei tomorrow. THE UAII.Y III I IN INNIIC -cumin official Farm Burenu -weekly: Th IN tie reach en every Biiromi member in Javlvann xnltMcrilierM for fiirrnern xlionld opportunity. Established 1891 (Weekly Edition 1873) MURPHYSBORO, ILLINOIS, tTURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1937 Price 15c Per ISSHAMBLES AFTER More Than Half of 400 Homes Wrecked Some Gone WHO'S WHO IN MURPHYSBORO Sam Kugman, ladies'. furnish- mei chant in the Gai tei build ing neai Walnut and llth "Wmphysboio, lenined Ins 'Three R's" in the schools ami ihen went into Bain at lllmo "Vlo Decembei 10 1910 young ICu-jman soon ulb lemoved to St LOMIS From school he went into the bus-' iness of his father, Isaac Kugman, at Kugman depaitment stoiei Chiiuteau and "Vindeven'-ei He -entered him-1 self in Minphy boio in lO', 1 Hi 1 idea of ihow to gefhnsiness is to us a pi mtei ink and eai a bimle And what is youi hobby' 1 Mi Kugman was asked. "Making new he replied pi omptlj I The- merchant- said he was vm- a I to do about, rehabilitation of "flood-ruined Shawrieetown remains a question today even in official minds.

Rehabilitation the historic town on the Ohio, "evacuated by all! pressed with Miurphysboro but a. handful of residents, can not I wonderful 'town. "Otherwise starf ''now 1 to Majoi would not hive lemained lieie Legion Gommandei yeais MV hope in the fntnie a citizen epmirrftte con is to enlaige mv stole so. that ferring with Maj'. C.

J. Ceachman i I ma canv a moie complete From four to ten feet of water remain in the that was en Mi Kugman is a rnembe of kncun toi his sunny juez highway in a Countei attack' SAM KUGMAST- Where Gun Blast on Wyoming Killed Six, Hurt 11 Government Troops in La Maranosa, 16 Miles South M4DR1D Pel) 1 Loyalist 11 my an the soutli MaetudT fion.tlji.oke thiou or the Jfa-t'on lines j.t La Maianosa today cap tiued the town and toned the in surgents-. to retreat toward Zii'elosi The eminent tioops fought uay into La Mai inosa 16 WttSRE BLAST OCCURRED FANSTEE1 CO. Men Bsc and Cat Call atf the Deputies They Fought All Concerned Hope to Reach a Peaceful Accord BATTLE LINES i pulfed. when the north levee was the Masons Bagleb and dynamited to save, the sea-'l the.

Clwmber.of wall. A graphic word pictui of what remains-at Shawneet'own foi I- I 'ows: The only water outlet, until! Thursday of this week was the gap blown in lev.ee. Recession of the Only two. sewer lines haye been opened date, Rehabilitation can" not start in i less than ten days. plan is to erect a tented at the site of the camp ne-u Shawneetpwn that was razed, i rebuild lhe eamp to iU.

Chamber of Commerce The-town area that has been exposed by receding water is a low of filth. A great many of the people there have nothing to Of the four hundred odd homes and CiVs in the more than halt of them are off and many have turned over or float- He believes in healthful tion allei business horns and is rmiles south of Macltid on the 4ian after gun on the main deck, starboard side, which backfired on the cJemiirtaTized battleship, Wyoming, killing six marines and wounding 11, is indicated by the arrow in this picture. Twenty men weie crowded aiound the nve-mch gun when its chafge of powder exploded prematurely, cut- ng down the crew with torn and iron fragments. Force of the explosion blew bulkheads. disposition, His other name is 'Sammy' County Highway Superintendents Jo Organize Here Fifteen Counties in-District 9 Thus to be Coordinated for Work in Hand after an almost' 21-hour 'Nationalist aitilleiy La Maranosa' is the site of, a recently erected Nationalist chemical 4as factoiy and.

was iepoi ed stiongly toitiflecl, especially with heavy artillery insurgents gave way before the terrific Loyalist counter-attack, ittieatmt, almost due south ttnvudj Joins Opponents of President's Plan Conn ty. Highway Superintend- i ents of of the Highway Department will meet in TuesjUv ot next, ftueuce Wlt L1 Jal ama The Loy Ciempo toui mile- t'icy hid positions. A little to the north: closer to. Madrid the rebels made a strong attack near. Del Rio.

on the Maiizanares river, near jts week to organizeiHil, association. Kngmeei Keen of the Caibon dale office of highways and pos- Eibl'e Chief Baker' of; County Roads i las developed the biggest bat- alist Hues were to "tie holding. I The lighting south ol the capital I Senator Tathill of the Elec- tiens Committee Makes the Count Jackson countv tally sheets in RED MAN (Facts For This Brief Series Were Furnished by Clyde Wisely, Col- lector and Naturalist of Murphysboro 'Injuns! Tlie irreafi alarm common to pioneer days and tales like Custei-'s Last StanclMiave left the American Indian stamped the public mind as vicious savage, always out But undeniable proof has been wi itten into the iccoids ol eight ycais oi lese.iich in the Indian vil Uge and buual gioimds in Jaclc son County that the Man was 1 SPRINGFIELD BE FIRST TO REHABILITATE Flood Loan Offices to be at Cairo and Other Towns Saeets Depaitment ot the Spimsfield mav at I tend WASHINGTON Feb United States Chambei of! -Commerce today joined-the eontro- ei sy ei Pi evident Roosev elt ed away. of some homes Coult leolganizatlon plo most impoitant in that the have been separated and are single Mlth an appeal to the nat ion floating units. I to i esist effoi ts to usuip 01 limit' Insmgent the Semtonal elect on in Jackson reacetul ueioie th coming ot the AVhite Man and that county last November were check- and txnkt, batteied at tho Loj alist ed i lele Fiulay bv Senatoi Tutnill lines in de eimined effoit to iso I Qt the uhnols Dlections The is con lite the capital in this engagement On Route 13 are four large houses blocking the traffic ot any car that might "try' to 'enter the tJSwii that way.

at the tuncfons ot the judicial dumb is revealed. A pig is supported by wires and 01 ganization meant to cooidmate and ideas in load and stieet building thloughout the fifteen H-iipei Sibley piesident made comities the distnct the Chambei flis pionomicement It is expected that offitcis and Kil the issue as a sKkt frmon? con committees will be elected and 01 became'a'maao'i iictfectoiS nr one nactoi the nationwide dispute iay's time. Siblev appeal as published in Highway Superintendent Roy Huffman of lackbon County hap Arthur Melton Dies Early Today committee, Attorney 1 Sullivan for. Ex-Senator Kribbs of Prairie clu Rocher. Ex-Senator Kribbs; Democrat, contesting the election of Senatoi In Cusenbeiiy Republican, Mu: was tree limbs in.

front of the Court I Wasnmgton House. A cow that drifted 01 aged on the fl lcia stand ot the pens to be the host engmeei toi swam in the. flood is dead and bus charnbei ot Commeice It included' tnF rmpoitant meeting Engineer pended from a tree where ihei headj a sxlggestlon that all Clt ens caught, in a fork of the limbs Huffman returned to his office Congress. 'The question is, This sight recalls the trapping of, a bull in a treetop, at in the flood of 1S40. the Supieme Couit be so In harn even in attics ot I undej Ql a homes are bodies of many head ot cong essioual enactment as to ob- livestock driven there, lor a of uec extend only to freeze or.

starve to death rO nsistentH back thiough sen Congestion of human eiatlons and ieaftliraec i unanimous knolls is indicated by the the Sumenle Coult the that S3 persons lived in a four- NRA cage Qf room house. Many cases of ex -These ai should express their views to here Saturday after being ill with I influenza for two da.ys, at his room he declared, Carbondale. Arthur Delano Melton, long -time of (befl nioinmg at his home 417 Luciet The lecount street, at o'clock. in the presence of. Senator Mi Melton natl 1 een ill ith the Ciwenl euy his Oiville flu foi weeks and ji'steidry cle I Pua-h Cai bond-lie and Counts veloped into pneumonia.

He was 42 vears of aete at the time 'of death. He was born. August 2G, 1893, in Metiopolis 111 The tamilj moved petition toi a count ot to Maiphvsboio when he was a cmcts in the distnct ILL Feb 20- (TJP)-Plan whe 16 bN Illinois be the fiist state to up a scheme foi and list ot Motims ot the Ohio luei flood' which inundated 2,000 square miles' of southern 'Illinois, were sped todaj Feb. Officials of the Fanste'et Metallurgical Corporation told nie- I diators today that unless "the sher- I iff or the governor" cleais 100 sit- down out of its plant it will do so itself. are- going to cle'an out the plants ourselves if Die sheriff or the governor do not right away," Max Swiren, company attorney, told State Labor Commissioner Jaitin P.

Durki'n. WAUKEGAX. Feb. Company and'. union officials i and state and national 1-iboi con- i who failed in a six-hour confoi-ence to settle the FansteeL 1 Afetillurgical Corp.

sit-down stnke, 1 met again today hopeful of reach- early settlement and i A enting new violence. I "I believe we may get somewhere today," Mayor John. Bromei" ud "We talked it all over last night and I believe the conference 11 8 ce ee al)peai4 but by uo means eless Sh A Doollttle Promised to lefraiii temporarily from further efforts to evict the aptioximately- 100 sit-downers inside the plant. Deputies patrolled the company's DetailsTot the plan agieed soien-'and a half acre.giouncls. ap- eeks and ly cle Pugh Cai bond-lie and Clerk Boy.d Thorp.

The puiposo of the pioreedmg was to determine -whether the-, contestant is to atand on ongmal the pie KENT E. KELLER OF OPEN MIND ON COURT CHANGE child and he liacl made his home here since that time. For several years; Melton was a fireman for the -Mobile and 'Ohio railroad and for the last several years he'had been employed as laborer "with the building trades'in posure were treated among people who lived and even on roofs when the peak of the flood came. REFUGEE INFANTS DIE AT HOSPITAL Joan West, 5 months, daughter of Mrs. Susan Brooks of Cino died of pneumonia at Holden hos-i reported likely to decisions pi the federal power, from leseived in the constitution to the states and the people of the states." The break in the liberal bloc was Sen Bui ton i Wheeler.

who denounced the administration plan and asserted that "if there must be a dictator iii America, I nominate the American With Sen. Gerald P. Nye, pital yesterday. Andrew Gray, four months, Cairo refugee baby, died of penumonia at the hospital this I the court proposals, administration leaders to swing uncommitted Senators and Representa: Lives who 'have been 'generally Burial rites were held at Oa.k- associated with the liberal bloc Congiessman Kent Kellei al a e) as asked Du Call's editorial department to express himself on President Roosevelt's supreme court proposal. Congressman Keller's reply follows: "I find so- much- contusion, lack of'information and misinformation on 'the subject of president's for reform iof the courts any unsupported opinion wliich.

I may exprsss might only add to that confusion. I am pre- is. of obnoxious veiierial. diseases. Heie is the lecoid I 1-MDt the skeletons ot the Red Man resident in Jackson County fiom 2500 to 1000 jeais ago, Mr.

Wisely found only one a.fractured skull. bones unearthed leseivation aiea neai Sand Ridge a few miles west of Mucphysboio, buried aftei the Whiter-Man leyStil sin visitPd upon the tilbnl woWn" pointion, which" -nil! deal ith Noith Chicago City Hall yesterday flood viccims 'Jlieinodn. still faced at least two The area now the C-iU ot Mur call foi establishment of i major stumbling blocks, uhysboio ind most ot Jackson, agencies by the subsidiaiy in five' Stiikers, members of John L. County jjvas inhabited bv the Red cities the flood aiea The cities Lewis' Amalgamated lion. Steel on heie yesteiday at a confeience! 15 instructed only to pre- between Gov Henu Hoinei and' vent reinforcements Joining tha Emil Shi am one of two joint man men within.

Tlt.ey. ignored tretinent ageis of Coi hoots c.atca|^s,., ol the poration, a J20 000 subsidiai C-oneiliators into the "Wlxjte. Man's of -the 'Reeo nstniaion. finance Ooi of. Man for thousands In fancy shut your eyes, and look years Into-an almost unbroken jfrildei-ness of.

the past. Pic- tule the Bl selected aue Shawneetown What en ens any, veie found CIle Mnddj Hvei the lecount in Jackson a V1 g1 lolest Game rranv Buds too, jesteulay weie not disclosed Tally sheets weie checked and notes made ot findings The results will be known from when the contest is again and aiound Ho-was bi ought up in the Senate No new mained Septembei 10 1917 toi action the ease except Toi cheeik- Forests alive with lite paiadise that was the Red Mtiu's In the piesent Muiphysfcoio uiea weie tluee villages ot reace ful tubesmen and then adjacent 'bunals' One village lose- at the Miss Mary Ebersohl: in Murphysboro. Surviving relatives' include" the wife, and following Ruth' Virginia, Lawrence Arthur, Edwardsville; Hortense Ger tvude, Donald B.ay, Betty Gloria Lee, Henry Gene, -Dorothy Ann, Patrick Louis and Shirley Patdshia, all at home. He is also survived by a sister, Mrs, 'Ruth Allred of Chicago. Mr.

Melton served in -the 70th tally sheets 191 proot is ex olt Piesent Wisely 6 ieen pected within the next two to tluee Houses Anothei stood on the prom Senatoi today Mi Cusenbeiiys teat as llepie contested, some-three yeais ago bv Repi Wai ler, Republican, -Tamaroa. i Riverside Paik Still anothei noiu to the'south, and east Washington school Theie was a bunal grounds at McCord and on the Seventh paring with great care an address Engineering Corps the I being one the. most, active mem on the subject that will be.deliv-' ered on of the house completed hut not do. believe in half baked opinions Repiesentatne Cnsenbenj staged hill, with seveial mounds, lo a "come back" and defeated Waller roundly for seat. Attei sei mg an active tei as Repiesentatne and ciedited with land cemetery this alternon supprt 'of the measure.

They were especially in matters ot vital i ra- the auspices of tWe Jackson Tunei aided by the and Tiim portance al home. er-Labor blocs in the House arid by M. LaFollette, Prog. Jury Orders That Murderers Die rsen. Robert 1 'Wheeler's attack, designed to imustei libeial partic 'The presidents pioposal is a challenge to the best thinking- we 1 jj capable of doing 1 It oullit "to be done quite of party politics.

It is not a. question to World War He enlisted June in the House horn the south 1917, and was tlisdhaigetl Jan 13 eui tne ot districts Repiesentative 1919. Funeral services will be.conduct- ed Sunday atteinoon at 2 30 clock at the Ci shaw Puiaeial home aloi Kribbs even against tha Roos with the Heinppl officiating eveltian ol by a small cated neai the site ot the old 'Gianny' to come latei Still anothei was located just south of Clay stieet, which was cut down with the development ot the Bustei Blown Addition Fiom 150 to 200 Red oecu ran for the'seuate and I Pied each of the villages, almost according to the official count ot the ajways located neai 01 i etm us won ovei Sen and sometime-? on the hills Hamsbmgi, Metiopolis and Gol coniia. Field agents will be signed to each- offi.ce. Tentative "plans provide that flood may -apply the agents' for loans for any amount, and Tin Workers organization, de- manded that the union reebg- as-jiiized as the sole, bargaining cy for its membership.

A corrallavy to. their demand was that the company be barred from dealing with. ijo.n-uniou groups. the loans to 'be over a long -per-1 The company, represented by lod with an mteiest late ot thieeiMax Swiren, has'refused both de- percent. Interest for'the first four mbntlis justifiable: cjses.

Shram. in the floo'd area today arranging, for- the establishment ot agency offices He plans to isit Kentucky aftei complet ing an 'Illinois setup Attending the conference with Hbrner and Shi am yesteiday weie heads of various state They included W. W. McLaughlin, state director- of agriculture; F. -Lynden Smith state dnectoi of public and buildings, A Bax ter, state director of healtn, and Alexandei Wilson Cai r'o, assistant to Gov- euioi Homei and mtei meut will be in a loc il majoi ulaily bittei against i hat he teim be excited about but one to be ed an effort to cieite a political thought about We must think collrt 1 0111 selves out on all difficulties He wainefl the piesident thH he courageously and to the veiy best INDIA, Feb.

0111 ability Mav I not hope when late consideration CHICAGO, Feb. criminal court jury which deliberated but an 10 minutes should tiust the people an-1 caid dehveied it mar last night found Frank (Doc) Whvte, that the fast Roosevelt selection addiess is dehveied it may and Stanley Murawski, pati oiled to1 attoiney geneial the convicts, guilty of the murdei of Thomas Walsh would Policeman Michael Toth -and 01 have advised his mesident to dered that they die in the electee, 16 supieme couit I His speech followed a Mgoious Judge John Prystalski set defense of the piesidents plan in March 1 as hearing date on a Senate debate yesteidav motion for .5 new trial and de Tne Fedeiation of In layed setting a date for execution vestors denounced the as pending outcome of the '-heaung i ev olutionary' a statement by ffvio'-' nnvnipoo hart its president Dr Hugh McGill to Plead gunty Congressmen debated the issue OialHood, 29 an Intel nationalities at Rangoon aci oss India seiuence of life SmSm last night aftei a defense! shoe plant Anna was whether he intended to pioqeed to btiueiK-e. killed Sargeant of Australia I v. Inch the sub3ect itself 3ustifies' Until my investigation is completed I am i etaining tan open mind 'KENT B. KELLER, M.

Anna Man is 'Car Victim at McClure cemetery LINDBERGH MAY FLY ON TO AUSTRALIA Senator confidence stand. Crisenberry expresses, thit hia election will Chailes A Lindbeig'h and Ins taking off foi a flight over India, indicated today that he might fly o'u. to. Australia. Lindbergh, was secretive- and gave the formal information, required by aviation, and customs au- only after he that he would not to proceed unless he did so.

Then he said that he and his Campbell officiating Riley D. Carr Funeral Services Held Yesterday Funeral sei ices 'foi Riley Carr. father of H-omer Clelaud, "vveie conducted yestei day aftei noon at 2 30 clock at the Crawshaw Funeial home with the Rev The Red Man's hoe wat of skm'i and woven coarse glass The kitchen to the leai of the 'house' was the open Foods weie plaoPd clay pots 01 pans Rocks weie I heated and placed in the pots aud 1 pans to cook the toods Cooking weie never placed on the fire because they were porus Watei in clay jugs would lemain cold by tiie process of evaporation set up by moistuie soaking thiough the v. Red Man i igidan The tndian ate all kinds of game fiuit and nuts Tin ties and the tendei muscle of the 'muscle shell' weie tavoied His biead was Would Prove Peggy, Sueing Rubinoff, Was mauds. 'We are perfectly willing," Swir- en said, "to deal with any one employee or groups of employees but we refuse to deal wtih outside organizers." He Lewis' foi -Organization" wltli wliich the steel and tin -workers are affiliated.

Swiren offered to meet with a committee'of employees chosen by the strikers but 'rejected a medi- NEY YORK Feb were merely on a vacation flight and that he would tell aiithoi- ment. The stste refused the offei the plan on the senate flooi Patrick Infant Buried Yesterday "Majoiitv Leadei Joseph Robin son and Sen. Henry F. Ashurst, ID Rep Ga si'd that the power of the court declare act? ot tutioral is a hanie that was'set up by the fatheis acran and tvipnnous const ess people best defense against th terda-y afternoon at 2 o'clock at tie de poller of ninnan J1KMs Meyer Fnienral homo and mte-ment! Re a Kan d( made in Tower Grove ceme-i proposa i as legu tei'yi (Jriii-n to Fags Threej please) Anna was seriously injured in an automobile collision -in Route 150 near McClure' Thursday night. seant was uislied to a Gape Gnai Lmdbeigh and his wile auived lioni Gwadui, neai the Ban (Per sii) frontier He took off only 55 minutes aft- Interment was made ui Ava ergieen cemeteiy Funeral services for John Pat rick.

son of Mr. Mis Lewis Patrick, were conducted- dean In the car also er his asking author- weie Edg'v Cochian of West Vi- ities about seveial alternate loutes and Mildred and Anita Dam- across India. He he a eion isteis Anna none would spend little time in India: It is the seiiously hint There was a dust storm as the plane took oft, ended the an drome and dipped in farewell. It was npted that the. plane's, equipment contained a small tent and a cllapsible boat Mrs.

Philip Florio of Utopia Annex has in St -Audi hospital fr treatment and" probable operation; Ashby Funeral Friday Afternoon Funeral services for Everett Asli- by Alton, 111 son of Mis Bernice Ashbv of Alurphysboio weie con ducted Fiidav aftei noon at one clock at the Funeial home. Rev Wmaiis pastoi of the Fust Baptist church officiated at the services and inteiment was made Pleasant Gtove Memorial cemetery, acorns the lattei consideied I poison nowj The law mateual juas giound in" hollow rocks, and I the gialn beaten and lubbed into I E. course flour to be bated on hot i flat locka I Stalling a file was quite a choie in the Red Man A stick would be whnled between the tribesman hands one end of it setting up fiiction in a hole in a "fnestone" Glass or punk would be placed there finally to be fired fiom the fn esticV smoking hot fi om fric turn with the rock So why bothei to stait a file eveiytime one was needed Answei the Indian kept his lyes buinmg in pits in the giound Foods weie stored on plat foi ins under giass and skins Tribesmen made their impli- (Turn to Pags £iv2j biease) While David Rubinoff letuined to his violin, Justice Salavtoie Co tillo sought today to leant moie about the pmpoited mamags ot Peggy Garcia, wha is d'e- $500000 fiom the ciau, in Roanoke Va, 12 yeais ago Defense attoiueys pioduced a maniage ceitificate which they siid showed that the foimei night Jacobs, C. I. O.

attorney, act for them as legal counsel. 'Jacobs does not represent the men in the he sa'd. "We- will not meet with outside izers." Union were equally Meyer Ad'elman. 1 0. orsan- izer, conferred with state and.

fed- I oral mediators.and replied: i I am 'the workers' representa-. here just as as Mr. jSwuen is the company's gpokes- 2Q (UP) man Human rights are just -as im- portaut in this dispute as rights are prepared to fight for them." The conference -was attended by Swiren," Dromey, Jacobs, Adelmaii, Pilkington -and O'Connor, TJ. Department of. Labor coiiciliato'rs, Leo Krzycki, C- I 'representative, Patrick Cullen A.

'L. Mclnerney, state concil 1 iators, and Frank M. Opeka, North. club hat check gul became a biidei Chicago City Attorney. The Maich 6 1925 and that hei steel' plants are located in North.

Chicago. "Speed is essential in these negotiations," Op'eka said "We are. afraid that the S'ager Lock mothei and tathei had signed the document But Peggy indignantly deuced It, deciding that the Roanoke wedding involved a cousin of the same name The only rnaruage ot hei life she piotested, was the one she made six months ago in New' aftei she said Rnbmoff. won her love in a Philadelphia hotel and jilted hsi Justice Cotillo the tual until Tuesday when £he defense hoped to have "Peggy father and uncle in court to bolstei its charge It was announced that an effort also would be made to produce the husband case, the minister -who performed the ceremony and. the -who acted.in the subsequent divoice and Chicago' Foundry (plants near Faiisteel), ill go down in sympathy.

"If that happens there really will- run out there." At Springfield, Goy. Henry Hi uer, watching situation, iously, announced that Martin lin, State Labor Commission! ould arrive today' to ta-ke ah the conference, and if go Only one incident inst the night. A crowd of about onlookers heckled six deputies' as they marched hapik'; (Turn to-Page Two,.