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TEMPERATURE 7 o'clock 50 la o'clock 30 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS-LEASED WIRE THE WEATHER Pair tonight and Saturday. iH'ot so eooi tonight; somewhat banner VOLUME 30 CARBONDALE, ILL. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,1939 NUMBER 21 MRS. F. D.

R. First Lady Visits Crab Orchard Lake Project MAKES BRIEF TOUR OF C'DALE Mrs. Roosevelt Leaves Early Today For St. Louis In spite of tho air of socvocy maintained in regara to thf arrival of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in Carbondale, a crowd of f)00 people packed the- station platform to got a look at.

tho First Lady as sho climbed from tho train way rapidly moved through tho crowd to a waiting automobile for the short trip to tho Roberts Hotel, The crowd rushed across tho I. park and was again on hunfl to seo tho Prcsldont's wil'o emerge from the far. stiiilo. nod at tho enthusiastic group and dlsappw behind tho hotel A small group of Curbonclalo citizens wero introduced to Mrs. Roosevelt in the lobby sho and hor parly were guided to their A 1'ew momonts later, tho manager of tlit; Resident Training Project and friend stopped by the hotel and picked up the i''lr8t Lady for a tour of insppctioii of the project.

At tho olr! Dowdoll house noar the college, Mrs. Roosevelt way presented to thirty boys, the cooks, and tho attend- on td as sho was shown how tho project operated and exactly what was being don P. to help the young boys. Next on the tour was a brief trip through tho Xoruuu campus and then her own mjuost, the two men drove to tho Crab Orchard Lako Project. The First Lady seemed very inlc-rosied in what WHS being clone tho clam, a coord ing to hm- two guides.

(At an interview with Mrs. Roosevelt after tho evening program she was asked the any o)' the farmors In the cmnmimily approach answered (he First Lady. "I was handed letter which tiiIked about the water covering in the community but that is likely to happen on any The party then discussed the present controversy between the farmers in the area and the federal authorities and then returned to Carbondale ami stopped at the hotel where Mrs. Roosevelt again returned to her suik. After a short rost, the First Lady on tared the main dining room for dinner with her party amidst a group of sightseers who packed the hotel lobby wucl walk In front of the building.

After dinner she returned to her room to wait until time to drive to the Armory for the evening program. 1500 Attend Opening. The huge crowd started gathering shortly after 7 o'clock at the armory and from then until shortly after o'clock, a continual stream of people packed the entrance trying to get their seals before Mrs. Roosevelt arrived on the scene. The National Guard patrolled the area around the building and with tho aid of state patrolmen directing traffic, the crowd was handled in the most efficient and orderly manner.

A large group clustered around the side entrance to the building for a glimpse of Mrs. Roosevelt when she arrived from the hotel. Exactly at 8:15 an automobile eroepod through the crowd and the First Lady stopped to tho ground, posed briefly for photographers, and then entered tho club room of the Armory where sho was presented to Judge and Mrs. Paul Farthing and the other occupants of tho room. After a short conversation the party entered the stage as the hall was filled with a hearty welcome for the Fsrst Lady of the land.

William McAndrcw, president of the Business Men's Association, (reduced Judge Paul Farthing who (Continued on page two) MRS. ROOSEVELT MOST GRACIOUS AND CHARMING (By Lucille Galnes) Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, stopping from the train arriving in Carbondale yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, was wearing a rose and black figured crepo two-piece with black accessories and sablo choker, "I never had a nicer guest than Mrs. Roosevelt," said Mrs. S.

D. Sinnott, manager of -the Roberts hotel. "She was moat charming and gracious and wanted to be just liko the rest of us." When asked if she would like her dinner served in her room, Mrs. Roosevelt "I want to go down to the dining room just like everybody else." Hnr dinner dress was of rose- colored loco, made on tailored lines with short sleeves. The skirt was floor length and at her waistline sho wore a corsago of red roses presented to her by the Girl of this city, She wore a largo diamond brooch and diamond dinner ring as well as other diamond rings and a necklace of several strands of pearls.

On her arm she had a gold wrist watch and a gold bracelet. She woro Colonial pumps with silver buckles. She wore the same dinner dross find accessories to the Armory for her address. Her hair, which is light brown with considerable grey, was softly rolled about her face, parted on the right side and rolled at the back. Sho had no ornaments of any kind in her hair.

TWO C'DAIE MEN INJURED IN CAR WRECK J. R. McGinnis And G. Vardas Treated At Hospitals J. R.

McGinnis is a patient in the Holclen Hospital in this city and Vardas is under the care of a ihyaieian In Harrisburs this morn- suffering from injuries received night when the car they were idlng In left the highway and over- urnod near Harrisburg. It is re- )orted that another youth was in the and was injured but this could tot be verified here. The extent of the injuries suffered by tho Carbondale youths were nought to be of a minor nature bin X-rays will be taken to see that jones are fractured and that there ire not internal injuries. According to attendants at a. loca: savage, McGinnis, driver of the car, attempted to pass a highway but just as truck on the he started to causing the driver to The car turned ovei pass, the driver of the truck pulled to pass another machine, forcing the Carbondale machine to leave the 'lighway and lose control.

several times but the occupants were thrown clear on the first turn, probably saving their lives as the windshield was pressed against the stear- ing wheel. Grand Exalted Ruler Of Elks To Be Here At Noon Tomorrow Henry C. Warner, Grand Exalted Ruler of Elks will visit the Carbon- dalo lodge at noon tomorrow and then will go on to the Fall Conference meeting at Marion. A caravan of cars from Carbondale will travel to MaricV with Warner. MA, PLANS TO INCREASE COUNTY ROLL Quota Raised To Put 33,200 Workers In District W.

P. A. Area Engineer Kleszewsei of Murphysboro was au thorized by District Director, A. Foote, in a conference of State, am! District W. P.

A. executives on Thursday in Herrin to add as many workers to projects in Jackson and Union Counties as can be used within the limits of good construction practice provided certifications are made by the Illinois Emergency Relief Cqm- mtssion and the workers are not needed in private employment. The authorization by District Director Foote was made at the close of a conference of the Herrin Office with Slate W. P. 'A.

Administrator, Charles Miner, of Glen Ellyn, -bu Page County; State Director of W. P. Employment, Earl W. Clark, of Chicago; Mr. P.

C. Will of Oak Park, State Director of Operations and Mrs. Mary G. Moon of Evanston, State Director of Professional and Service Projects, These officials 'discussed with Dls trict Director Foole and his staff the additional employment just authorized and reviewed the'effect on W. P.

A. projects of Increases in industrial employment and better prices for farm products. The district officials were advised to plan such adjustments of W. P. A.

projects is might be necessary to release labor to private -Industry. State Administrator Miner authorized the employment of 1,000 workers, of them women for the Hot Lunch for School Children Project in the Counties in the recently District No, 5. Mr. Miner said, "Wo must do everything possible to bring sponsors share of project cost to the re- liiired by the present Act, We are confident sponsors will do everything nosslble to meet this requirement. We realize-that In some counties-this will be very difficult.

We must not ilose any project because of limited sponsors participation until after everything possible has been clone to meet the requirements of the Appropriation Act." Mi', Foote announced to the Area Engineers at the close of-the conference that incerases in employment continue until the district total reaches 33,200 and that any further ncreases, if they were to be author- 'zed, must be supported by convinc- ng vidence that unemployed needy have not been employed in irivate industry that projects neeting the requirement of the law ire available. State Department Ask To Search Europe for Old Normal Teacher Assnclntrrt Prnse. BLOOMINGTON, Sept. Manned at not hearing from her luce August 6, friends of Miss Mar- 7aret Peters, assistant professor of ionrmerce at Illinois State Normal University, have asked the state de- mriment to search for her In Europe. Her last letter was mailed from Bombay, India, and she intended tc to the United States through and southern Europe, sailing 'rom Le Havre September 6, Classe' the university began last Monday.

I. C. Report Shows Decline In Revenue Over Last Year By Associated Press. CHICAGO, Sept. Illinois Central System today reported that iet railway operating income during Vugust totaled $873, S13, a decrease if $594,867 compared with the like '938 month.

For the eight months ended August net operating income was a decrease of $698,020 compared with the corresponding period laet year. COURAGEOUS SURVIVORS, RESCUER -Central Press Radiophoto Two of the 6S1 survivors of M. S. Courageous, torpedoed British aircraft carrier, chat with a member of the crew of a British warship which rescued them, The exact locale of this picture was not revealed.J?y_,;tbe,British,censor. Congressman Keller Returns To United States From Europe By Associated Tress.

WASHINGTON, Sept, In lis office after a-perilous trip through the submarine-infested Atlantic, rep- Resentative. Kent E. Keller, oC Ava, said he had spent most of the time aboard -ship reassuring more imorous passengers. Keller said his ship sighted two itibmarines, one only 100 yards away, on a return trip from Sweden. lad gone there to study unemployment and other welfare legislation nit sailed on the Swedish-American iner Kuugsholm when the war broke mt.

lie said the ship sighted one sub- narine the night after the British iner Athenia had been torpedoed. "But I had made friends with the saptain and spent considerable time in the bridge with him, so I 'fell iretty certain we wero going to get icross all right," he said. of the jittery passengers did lot know the precautions that had jeen taken, the the Sweden colors along the ship's sides, the all lighting at the illumi- of the ship's flag. "When they learned I had been rith the captain they would ask.me what I thought of our ihances of getting along safely. vould reply that no German submarine was likely to torpedo a Swed- sh ship, because Germany got its ron from Sweden for the war and be shut oi'f, probably would be, it attacked any Swedish shipping.

This seeemed to reassure some of hem." Illinois Parole Board To Meet Next Monday 3y Associntotl Press. SPRINGFIELD, Sept. Jones, chairman of the Illinois Parole Board, today announced that mrole hearings of 586 Illinois prison mnates would begiru next Monday. Testimony in behalf of parole applicants will be heard at the various tranches of the state penitentiary and at the state reformatory on that lay. Hearings of inmates will be taken up afterward by sub-committees of the board.

No Benefits For Those Who Can't Work Full-Time CHICAGO, time' workers who are not available to take full time jobs are not eligible for benefits under the Illinois Unemployment Compensation Act, the State Division of Placement and Unemployment Compensation announced today. This decision was based on the claim of a woman who worked two days a week for a department store. On the other days of the week she took care of her invalid husband. She could not take full-time work with the store, nor could she take any other full time job. The Division decided that she was not eligible for benefits.

"The law clearly states that the person who receives benefits whether partial or total, must be able to work and available for the Division pointed out. "The rule is that a person who is not available for work during any part of a week is considered unavailable for the whole week." In addition to being able to and available for work, persons claiming Unemployment Compensation also must have earned at least $225 in insured employment during 1938. They are required to register with the State Employment Office that serves their neighborhood and to report at 'this office at least once a week while they remain eligible for benefits. Benefits paid to jobless workers vnnge from $7 to $16 a week. The average check for total unemployment Is about $13.

Secretary Perkins Estimates 550,000 Gain In Employment Ity Assneintrrt 'WASHINGTON, Sept. Secretary Perkins estimated today that war Europe and sudden changes in industrial employment produced a gain of 550,000 in employment from mid-July to mid-September. She told a press conference that preliminary estimates indicated that within the past month employment had shot up about 300,000 with only about one-third of it attributable to seasonal gain. "The increase is based largely upon the European situation," she said. "But we do not know to what extent normal recovery factors have been operating." SUBMARINE SIGHTED NEAR EAST COAST Unidentified Boats Reported To Naval Officials By Associated "WASHINGTON, Sept.

President Roosevelt disclosed today that submarines, which he said were not identified had been sighted in waters off southern Alaska and off Boston, The Maritime Commission, the chief executive told reporters, had been informed of the presence of the two undersea craft. The submarines were not American, Mr. Roosevelt said, and they were sighted by ships at sea. He declined to disclose the specific source of the government's Information about their presence, but said those sources were perfectly reliable. The submarine in the Pacific, Mr.

Roosevelt asserted, was off the southern boundary of Alaska, where it joins Canadian territory. That in the Atlantic, he said, was 50 to 70 miles from the southern tip of Nova Scotia, half way between there and Nantucket Shoals. Asked whether the government's "neutrality patrol" was in the vicinity of the submarines, Mr. Roosevelt said merely that the patrol was operating from Eastport, to and including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. There is no regular patrol in Pacific waters, he added.

Asked whether the underwater ships were in the territorial waters of this country, he replied that he would stand on, -his, recent -definition. of territorial waters which was to the effect. that they extended as far as American interests extended. To a question about whether Amer ican interests were Involved as a result of the operations of the submarines, the President replied by asking what kind of submarines they were. He suggested 'laughingly that they might be Swiss and suggested that reporters not get too nosey.

Some one wanted to know whether the sub-surface craft might be Canadian. Again the President laughed and declared they might' be Bolivian or Afghan. BUSINESS MEN PAY OFF DEBT FOR ARMORY Start Plans To Buy Site For State Laboratory A representative of the Carboudale Business Men's Association announced this afternoon that the $2200 debt contracted by the association when they purchased the site for the Armory was completely paid with funds collected from the program held last night. The completion of the Armory deal marks finis to another chapter in the splendid work of the association In bringing beneficial enterprises to Carbondale but has not terminated their program of making our town one of the outstanding business and residential communities in Illinois. Already plans are being formulated to get the state to build a laboratory here.

A committee in charge of the new enterprise has taken an option on a pieue of property 200 and 400 feet facing Chautauqua Street at the southern end of Lake Street for the new building and the committee has been assured that the first of five proposed laboratories will be built in Carbondale. The Armory opening program which was made aa success through the hard work of I. W. Dill, chairman of the committee in charge, and his chief assistant, W. G.

Shirley, will leave a small balance in the treasury of the Business Men's Association as a starter for the $1500 needed to purchase the site for the laboratory. Mr. Dill said today that he would' like to thank everyone for their fine cooperation. In making the program a success, GOV'T TAKES REVENGE FOR ASSASSINATION Iron Guard Members Taken From Camps By Associate Press, (By Lloyd Lehrbas) BUCHAREST, Sept. were reported executed today as Rumania's virtual military dictatorship exacted a heavy blood-price from the pro-jNazi Iijon Guard for the assassination, of Premier Arraand Calinescu, Reliable sources said thousands of members of the outlawed Iron Guard had been taken from concentration camps throughout the country and shot to death to avenge yesterday's killing of the Premier, who was an implacable foe of the Guard.

These sources also said sorna women had been shot. It was announced officially that 44 Iron Guardlsts were executed at the concentration camp while 32 were shot by firing squads at Prahova. Mass executions were said to be continuing-. Reliable sources said a minimum of three Iron Guard members were being taken from each of Rumania's 72 administrative districts for the firing squads. The whirlwind cleanup of alleged pro-Nazi elements was pushed also with widespread arrests by the quick- acting government.

Guardists, whose outlawed organization Calinescu fought, were executed publicly as a consequence of the assassination and King Carol has taken swift, extreme measures to thwart any possibility of a coup. All night long, morbidly curious crowds swarmed in the street, where the bodies lay sprawled on the bloody pavement. The eight of them lay just whore they had fallen from a firing squad's the exact spot where the Premier was slain. As the shots rang out and the men toppled over one by one, a loud cry went up from thousands of witnesses, men, women and children. A short time after what an official announcement called a "public example" to all "who would follow the Iron Guard," police tossed into the macabre scene the bodies of two others who were said to have committed suicide after barricading themselves in a Bucharest mansion.

As dawn cast an eerie light over the death spot, the crowd turned toward the Rumanian atheneum where the body of Calinescu will lie in state until an impressive funeral planned for Sunday. In a trembling voice, King Carol read to the Crown Council last night the testament in' which the assassinated begged his son to think of the "honorable name I inherited from my father" and asked that his body be carried "in a peasant cart drawn by six oxen" to a tomb beside his father at Arges. Meanwhile, hundreds of arrests were made throughout Rumania In a whirlwind series of raids timed to crush the Iron Guard, at whose door officials laid full responsibility for the slaying. King Carol named a new government within eight hours, mindful of the massed armies of Soviet Russia, Bulgaria and Hungary at his frontiers and of the army of Germany not so far away in southern Poland. Bulgaria, Hungary and Russia turned over territory to Rumania after the World War and the return of some of it has been demanded.

Germany seeks more Rumanian oil, thus far unsuccessfully. A mission here has been told the oil already was pledged to British, French and American companies. General George Argesanu, 56, one of Rumania's outstanding soldiers and known as a "tough disciplinarian," became the new Premier. The Ministry of Interior, in charge of the nation's police, was given to (Continued on page two).