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CARBONDALE FREE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED WIRE THE 8 GIVES YOU THE Blft NEWS BEFORE ANY OTHER PAPER fOLUME 32 CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1935 NUMBER 276 TO DRAW INTO BOYCOTT 'DILLINGER' OF WOMAN GANGDOM SHOTTO DEATH Suspect In Kidnaping August Luer Shot Like -Man Gangster FOUND KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE MANY INJURED WHEN INTERURBAN JUMPS TRACKS Ranked High Among Woman Public Foes K. Police Assert (By Associated Press) KANSAS CITY, Mo. Nov. The bullet-pierced body of a red- haired woman identified by police as Vivian Chase, 34, formerly East St. Louis, 111., suspect in the kidnaping of A'ugust Luer, Alton, 111., banker, was found here yesterday crammed in a.

motor car at the rear of St. Luke's Hospital. Thomas J. Higgius, Chief of Police, said the attractive young woman apparently was killed by a companion in a quarrel. A bullet ranged downward through her body from the back of her neck, emerging from her chest.

Her own. gun, a Spanish type revolver, lay beneath her, unfired. "She was ranked pretty 'high' among woman public enemies of the nation," said W. A. Smith, head of the Kansas City Bureau of tigatlon for the Department of Justice Police Lieut.

Phil Hoyt said the recently had associated with Johnny Langan, bank robbery suspect sought for the wounding of. Ellsworth Edwards, Kansas City, deputy sheriff. Edwards killed Langan's wile, Margaret, in an exchange of gun fire after he had attempted to question the couple. Officers believe she and an accomplice parked on a country road to divide their loot aud an argument began. The woman, according to their theory, reached into her huge pocket-book, jerked out her revolver and was slain by her accomplice be- iore she could fire.

The bullet which killed Mrs. Chase of the same caliber as that which wounded Deputy Edwards, police reported Mrs. Chase's body, jammed in the rear of a stolen, sedan, was discovered by Mrs. Roy Shackleford, who went to the hospital to visit a friend. The hospital, on.

Mill Creek parkway, is flanked by fashionable apartment houses of the Plaza Country Club district. The body was crumpled between the two head on the floor, the woman's limbs extended at grotesque angles. Physicians said she had been dead about two hours. Chief Higgins said fresh weeds entangled in the front of the car indicated the shooting oc- enrred in the country. E.

H. Best, hospital cashier, said the car was not there when he arrived tliis morning and no one at the institution heard a shot. Mrs. Chase had been arrested numerous times for investigation. She sawed her way out of the County Jail, where she held for robbery of the tional Bank and Trust Company in October, 1932.

Luer was kidnaped a. short time later and held for six days in a cave beneath a farm house. He was released after promising $16,000 ransom. The woman's slaying accounted for all but one of the eight persons sought by federal investigators. Five men and a woman are serving prison terms ranging from five years to life.

Lloyd (Blacky) Doyle is the only suspect at large. The car in which the body was found was stolen last September 25 from Lamoni, la. Police said the numbers on stolen Missouri license plates on the car had been reported recently by severa.1 victims of highway robberies. Mrs. Chase was said by officers to have associated with Alvin Karpis, now listed by the Department'of Jus More than 25 persons were injured when a-Lake Shore Electric interurban car jumped the tracks and overturned after striking a stalled automobile near Toledo, 0.

Westbound from Cleveland, the interurban car eft the rails at high speed, knocking down trolley poles. Six uf the passengers critically hurt in tlie disaster. No persons were in the stalled automobile. SEARING NOT FOR SMALL OR ANY OTHER CANDIDATE 'As chairman of the state Republican committee John H. Searing is lot for Len Small or any other candidate, despite rumors to this effect, he said in a which follows: Mr.

Joseph F. McGuire, Editor Free Press Dear Joe: It has been brought to my that a story Is being circulated this county and elsewhere that 1 am supporting Small for governor in the coming Republican primar- es. This is entirely untrue and is unfounded. I have never said I was for Len Small for governor in the coming primaries nor have I any secret agreement or arrangement with Len Small or any other person to support him or any other candidate. I shall be glad if you will run this your paper as a news item or in the present form as you may think it will secure the proper display.

Yours truly, JOHN H. SEARING. COURSE IN MARRIAGE MAKES BIG HIT Mrs. John Biggs Is Dead From Child Birth; Baby Lives Mrs. Ellen Shaclcelton Biggs, wife of John Biggs of this city died at Holden.

hospital Saturday afternoon from uremic poisoning after giving birth to 3. daughter Saturday morning. The baby is getting along satisfactorily. She was 19 years old and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

J. N. Shackel- toii who live two miles south of here. The funeral service was held at the Grace M. E.

church of which she was a member, this afternoon at 2:30 and burial was at Oakland cemetery- She was' a graduate of the Community High school class of 1934 and the pall bearers and flower girls will be members of the class. Besides her husband she leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.

Shaek- elton and the following brothers and sisters. Mrs. Thelma Cripp of Grand Tower, Mrs. Agnes Cheek of Rockport, Dorothy at home and Delmar and Max Shackelton of Carbondale. Iowa University Finds Young Women and Men Anxious For It (By Associated Press) IOWA for a "course in 'modern marriage" jumped 325 percent over last year.

Prof. Mose Jung of the University of Iowa said When the course was tried, out last year under the title "religious and social problems," 40 students enrolled. This year the course was opened to juniors and seniors only as "modern marriage" and has been elected by 130 students as a course. They expressed the opinion that a discussion of marriage relation might be too delicate a subject for co-educational institutions, but students have nothing embarrassing or objectionable in discussions designed to show the way to happiness and success in, marriage. Letters have been received from parents, ministers and educators throughout the state approving the program.

WATCH SOUTH ILL. ELECTION FOR "STRAWS" V. Of F. Wars To Meet Tomorrow The Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet at the Armory tomorrow evening at 7:30. Members and those eligible to who have had foreign service are urged to attend.

If Americans do not appreciate conversation, it is because they have learned that so much conversation is merely wind. tice as No. 1 Public Enemy, and the notorious Barker brothers. (By Associated Press) CENTRALIA, 111., Nov. observers will watch closely the results of the election in several counties of this section tomorrow when a commission will be elected in all counties under the commission form of government.

Political trends in the various counties probably will be indicated by the results. Counties holding the" elections are Williamson, Perry, Wabash, Alexander, Pope, Johnson, Hardin, Union, Randolph, Pulaski and Edwards. In Williamson county there will be a referendum on changing the form of government from the commission system to the township system. ROOSEVELT AND RUIN, FATHER COUGHLIN SAYS (By Associated Press) DETROIT, Mich. Nov.

3. Charles E. Coughlin, opening a new series of radio addresses, declared' today "the slogan 'Roosevelt or ruin must be altered toi. read 'Roosevelt and'Turn" "-unless next election public opinion has removed Congressmen "who have lost sight of their duty as representatives of the American people." Father Coughlin insisted that "at no time has it been or will it be our desire to establish a so-called third party," but in the name of his National union for Social Justice, declared "the hunting season for members of Congress is on. We are compiling the record every Representative and Senator either to applaud him as a patriot or to lash him as a Benedict Arnold.

This written record will be placed in your hands some time after the next session of Congress," he said. After reiterating the 16 principles upon which he founded his National Union, Father Coughlin turned ab- rupty to the present international situation involving League of Nation sanctions and the Italo-Ethiopian ar. "Whether yo.u know it or not," he said, "the stage is being set for our entrance into another world war. "Whether you know it or not. we are preparing once more to become the catspaws for saving the international bankers of the Empire.

Our formal entrance into the next war may be postponed until 1B37, but today and tomorrow the of the international chessboard are- so arranging and planning their various mov'es that there will be nothing left for our nation to do except sound the call to arms and duplicate the horrors which stultified and disgraced us in 191G. We being trapped by agreeing either directly to the iniquitous sanctions devised by the League of Nations." REPUBLICANS TO NOMINATE HORSE' i. O. P. Leader Predicts Repetition Of Harding Nomination TELL QUALITIES CANDIDATE NEEDS Vlust Be Unbiased and Unattached to Cliques, Says H.

Spangler (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, 111., Nov. director of the Republican niddle-west campaign, in an- interview today that the ion might name another dark horse candidate like Warren G. Harding in 1920. There are numbers of able men vho have already received mention as Republican presidential timber, according to Spangler. It may' be, however, that the man vho will be selected by the conven- has yet received He gave no reason for his Asked to describe a perfect Repub- ican presidential candidate, Spangler shied away from specific references such as the age, section of residence or political experience of such a man but said: must be a maa who thoroughly jelieves and our American system; who looks after the welfare of all the people, unbiased and -free from influence of any clique, special interests or minority groups; who will do what is right without regard for political expediencies." Labor Union Meeting Here Wednesday Night There will be a union labor meeting at the Odd Fellows' hall on Bast Main street at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening.

TJ. S. labor representatives and state men will be present, according to those in charge of the meeting. The meeting will be conducted by local 227 I. H.

C. B. and G. L. U.

of sponsored by various trades councils in the county. Members of the trades council at Murphysboro are also expected to attend. It was said the meeting had no bearing on the college tieup in itself and there was no advance knowledge as to whether it would be discussed. Mother Of H. H.

Wallace Dies Word was received here today H. H. Wallace, owner of the Down state Chevrolet that his mother died this morning at her home at Burnt Prairie, between Fairfleld and Carmi. Mr. Wallace and family let for Burnt Prairie shortly after word was received.

She was 62 years old and leaves her husband and four children, Oscar of Detroit, Elmer. of, Carbondale Mrs. Mary Vaughn of St. Louis and Mrs. Madeline Simpson of Burn Prairie.

The funeral arrangements had not been made today. WEATHER Cloudy. Rain in south portion Colder tonight. Tuesday cloudy Colder in southern portion. HURRICANE IS WEAKER AS IT HITSJLQRIDA Sleeps Out Of Atlantic This Afternoon; Velocity Diminishes STORMY SEAS BUFFET SHIPS EMERY CORGAN MAKANDA FARMER DIES TODAY Emery Corgan, 62, died at 10 o'clock this morning at Holdeu hospital following a surgical operation a few days ago for a ruptured appendix.

Het had lived on a farm near Ma- kauda all his life and was a member of the Zion Methodist church. His widow aud the following brothers and sisters survive: Carl Corgan of Marion; Jas. CorganJ Carbondale, route Mrs. Martha Winn Anna; Mrs. Sarah Lindsay, Gorham aud Mrs.

Minnie Phelps, Seattle, Wash. Two sons, James and Paul are deceased. The funeral will be conducted from the First Methodist church here Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, witli Dr. Cameron Harmon, pastor, in charge. Burial, w.ill be at Alto Pass The body will lie in state at the Carbondale Funeral Home from 10 o'clock Tuesday morning until o'clock Wednesday afternoon anc then will be taken to the First Meth odist church and will lie in state there from 1 o'clock until time foi the funeral.

W. W. Reynolds, I. C. Operator Dies Sunday W.

W. Reynolds of this city died yesterday at 1 o'clock at the Illinois Central hospital at Chicago, after.be ing patient there only a few days He was 40 years old an'd took sick Tuesday and left here Friday to en ter the hospital in Chicago. The body will arrive sometime to night and will lie in state at his home, 510 South Beveridge street He was employed as chief operate at the Illinois Central division office here. Besides his widow he leaves on daughter, Miss Wilma, and two sons Russell and Billy. A funeral service will be held here sometime Wednesday morning, the time and place has not been decidec as yet, but will be taken, to Rey noldsburg, in Johnson i county, nea Vienna, for a funeral service to held there Wednesday afternoon.

Burial will be at Reynoldsburg. Residents Evacuate Keys Where Storm Took Toll Last Sept. (By Associated Press) MIAMI, Nov. hurricane which swept out of the Atlantic passed over the southeast Florida joast and Miami at 1:15 p. m.

this ifternoon (EST.) The wind had diminished to 3.4 niles an hour. The highest prev- ous reading had been 72 miles an lour. There is always a lull as the cen- of a hurricane passes a given spot. The freighter Florida of the Recrod iteamship line being buffeted by high seas" oft the coast hove to ive miles south of Jupiter Inlet and anchored there, officials at the New York office reported. Evacuation of residents of the Flor- keys, small Coral islands stretch! along the east coast south of Miama to Key West, went forward It was keys- than 400 war veterans and other persons were drowned during the Labor Day storm.

Hurricane warnings were flying from Palm Beach around the tip peninsular to Naples, about 30 miles south of Fort Myers. COALJR STEEL League of Nations Subcommittee Approves List In Principle BOYCOTT TO BEGIN NOV. IS Non Members States Needed to Make Boycott Plan Effective C3y Associated Press) GENEVA, Nov. League of Nations sub-committee on economic sanctions approved In principle today addition of petroleum, coal, iron and steel to the list of products on exports Italy would be prohibited. The Canadian proposal for such addition to the chief products embargo becoming effective Nov.

18, with the boycott by league states on purchases from Italy, was introduced to the committee of 18 for "immediate sanction." The sub-committee's discussion, brought forth the possibility of extreme difficulties in applying such an embargo, the consensus of meeting that the extension the boycott to these products could only be carried out if non-member states followed the same policy as league states. Officials said it. meant that some negotiations would be necessary with' to determine their attitude. Technical experts will study further the expansion of the embargo. The of copper to the list, was also suggested but not approved.

U. S. TO CLEAN THOMPSON'S LAKE HERE Funds have been allotted for the malaria control program which will furnish employment for over 2000 men in the 17 southern most counties of the state. Work is expected to begin about Nov. 12.

Work at Thompson Jake7 one of the projects for Jackson county, will begin in about ten days and will employ 75 men. Other projects in this county will follow and will necessitate the employing of 125 additional men. The lake as it stands now contains only a tew acres of the normal 40 acres or more of water. The basin now dry will be plowed and vegetatiooii destroyed beyond the high water line to eliminate breeding and hiding places for mosquitoes. E.

M. Richardson, assistant state director, who is supervising this program, states that all laborers and foremen on these projects will be assigned to the jobs, under the present plan, by the WPA from newly compiled county work relief rolls. They will be paid with WPA funds aud will be kept on the job until such a time as the WPA work is scheduled to be concluded. District Supervisor Earl F. Snyder Negro Lynched in Slapped White Woman, Is Charge (By Associated Press) WHITE BLUFF, Nov.

Negro accused of slapping a "white woman was lynched in open daylight near here today by a group of white men, who had wrested him from officers. The Negro, Baxter Bull, 45, was seized in the business section of White Bluff, about 9 a. driven Eour miles into the adjoining county and shot once through the chest. The body then was tossed into a thicket. Sheriff Ed Hutton reported that, a short time later live white men came to the jail here and surrendered in connection with the killing.

placed no charge against but said they would be held. Deputy Sheriff Robert H. Williams said as Mrs. Luther Dotson alighted from a bus last night near Kingston Springfield "this Negro cs'ne up and slapped her." will have charge of the work be done in this county. to Kills Husband Over Cigarette Girl CSy Associated Press) MEMPHIS, Nov.

Alexander Root, pretty 30-year-old blonde, tossed on a jail cot, facing a 'charge of murder for the slaying of her husband. Brenton Root, over his attentions to a red haired cigarette girl. All Injured In Auto Wreck Improved Dorothy Grimes and Pat Alden continued to recover today and are qut of danger as a result of injuries in an- automobile accident a week ago Saturday night. The other four victims, three of whom are young men, have all but recovered. Senator Smith Talks Here Tomorrow Senator T.

V. Smith of Chicago will be a guest in Carbondale Tuesday when he comes here to address the American Association of University Women at the Delta Sigma Epsilon tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. Senator Smith, who received a leave of absence from the University of Chicago, where he was professor of philosophy, to take his place in the state Senate, will speak on Illinois legislative problems. Members of the local group have invited guests to this meeting, for which the hostesses are Miss Lucy K.

Woody, Miss Ruby Van Trump, and Miss Gladys Williams. AJ1 women eligible for. membership are also invited to attend. Senator Smith is one of the outstanding personages in Illinois politics. Business Men To Meet This Evening Several reports will be made today at the meeting of the Business Men's Association at the.

James cafe at 6:30. J. D. Dill will report on the State Chamber of Commerce and Col. Robert W.

Davis on the armory..