The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 1

Vol. 251 Murphysboro, Illinois Serving the Jackson County Market Area Friday, April 4, 1947 5 Cents Per Copy Egypt Toll Service Will Still Function If Strike Comes Off SHIFT DAY FOR CITY CLEAN-UP, PAINT-UP DRIVE Duo to the inclement weather and tho prolonged flu epidemic, the Spring clean-up, paint-up, plant- up campaign scheduled for April 10 will be postponed until the latter part of April, it was announced today. The date the campaign, to he sponsored the Murphysboro Woman's Club and other local civic organizations, will be definitely set Search Mine For Cause of Blast ICT Employes Not Involved! In Dispute, Official Points Out and announced later. The Woman's Club Is planning a When or if the nation-wide telephone strike, scheduled for Monday, becomes effective Murphysboro area phone users will find themselves virtually isolated 1 from the world at large but still able to make toll calls to almost any point! in Southern Illinois as well as i enjoy uninterrupted local service. E.

J. Boles, mule driver, examines lunch pails found in section of Centralia Coal Company Mine No. 5 where 16 bodies were found. Boles was with party investigators who toured the mine at Centralia, 111., in an effort to determine the cause of last week's dis ister in which lll'miuers were killed. (NEA Telcplioto) Such was tho information gleaned from the Illinois Commercial program with 'a Speaker Telcpnone Co wllose Jackson coun tion, to augment the playground exchange manager, Thomas plans of City Superintendent Grant at Carbondale today Deceived Schools William Carrutbers and instructions by which ICT em- the, city Board of Education.

ployes are to be guided in the event the strike against the Illinois Bell Co. and the other Bell Telephone i systems throughout the comes off as scheduled. TRAIN WRECKED PEOPLEKILLED DOWNERS 7 April country A sec ond victim of the I freak wreck of a Burlington rail- EMPHASIZES 1C, SAFETY GOALS ICT officials point out that its road streamlined train died today 'employes are not involved in the as i nves tigators began a three-way proposed strike In as much as they uil into the cause of the acci- aro affiliated wHh a. different union dent which i njured 34 others! Mrs. Edith Helland, Minneapolis, 1 died at the Hinsdale International Brotherhood of Electrical that union will not strike in sympathy with sanitarium Knd hospital after, am- Russia Says Greek Aid Constitutes Meddling By Press Russia, went on record declaration that'President Truman's new foreign would prove a doubtful aid to 'democracy in Greece and that-it" Constituted "foreign interference in the internal affairs" that troubled land.

This first, formal statement of State Responsibility Admitted By Medili In Correction Of No. 5 Mining Hazards At Centralia JACKSON SHAFT CENTRALIA, April 4 i M. Medili, resigned director of the Illinois Department of Mines and! TUT; it JclOUSc' Soviet position on Mr. Truman's stop-Communism ft a for Greece and Turkey was contained in answers, to written Questions submitted by an American news- i the A letter received by Mr. Grant from the ICT main CAUBONOALE, April office that his company win con clubs and any other group pive uninterrupted local and toll i which iould be induced to listen serv i co within its own operational I have been told recently about the i area s.

Only emergency calls and safety program of the Illinois Cen- ca affecting public welfare and tral System. The 1C Is proud of its top employe safety rating and is striving to reduce railroad cross- iiiK Now. through a press release, the JO reveals how they make and keep their employes safety conscious. safety will be handled by Bell System employes. Long Calls Taboo Molotov's declaration was couched careful conserative terms.

putation of a foot crushed in the He said that he "doubted very wreck. The train, the Chicago. Burlington Quincy's Twin Cities Zephyr, hit a tractor last night as it. sped through a Chicago suburb. Engineer Clarence C.

Thurston told rescuers he saw the -tractor topple from a westbound freight, close to his PRESIDENTP SEIZE PHONES, CLARK THINKS APPROVAL OF INPECTORS a x-Traer Burning Star Mine Plans Reopening Monday The sole Jackson county coal mine whichtwas among- those ordered closed' imtil union committees determined'them safe by Secretary of, Interior J. A. Krug Thursday was given a clean bill of health yesterday afternoon and will resume operations' Monday. Superintendent Fred Huff of the Truax-Traer Burning Star mine in northwest Jackson county said the nave, taken steps to prevent dis- mine's safety 'committee inspected the diggings Thursday after the government's order was Teceived, and pronounced, the mine safe. The safety committee is made up of miners" representatives, Huff said.

The'government order to the Insists Scanlan Had Power Of Closing If Dangers Existed MINES CLOSING ORDER AROUSES OPERATORS' IRE much. dei" that WASHINGTONt Apri i 4-(UP)Attorney General Tom Clark said cabinet meeting- today tliat lie thought President Truman has the power to -seize the telephone industry in event a strike. Mr. Truman's plans would aid democracy in Greece and. added that renunciation of foreign interference in her internal affairs would prove Greece's best path toward democracy: Repercussions Mount Debate in-' OK- 518 mines specified that they were to "remain closed indefinitely' until union committees determine they are safe." "As we understand the order, the inspection by the safety committee and its decision that the mine was safe enable us to so ahead and open on Monday as planned," the Burning Star superintendent said.

About 350 men are employed at the 225 working underground and 125 in the strips. All the coal Minerals, today admitted it was responsibility of the state' to correct hazards in Centralia Coal Mine No. 5, where 111 miners lost.their lives last week. Medili, who quit his job' after the disaster occurred, testified before a subcommittee of the U. S.

Senate Public Lands Committee. During the course of questioning, he said he considered "it secondarily the responsibility of the U. S. Coal Mines Administrator" to aster. U.

S. Senator Henry C. Dworshak Ida.) interrupted the testimony to ask Media whether, the State De- Is Moved By Lewis' Plea For Safety PITTSBURGH, April Mine operators today bitterly assailed Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug for closing 51S mines, the names of the mines were "pulled out of the hat" by someone in Washington.

The bitterness was heightened by the closing of many mines operators considered among the safest in the nation, having exceptional safety records, and having p.assed rigid state inspection. In Chicago, Fred S. Wilkey, sec- partment or the coal mines ad- of the Illinois Coal Opera- ministrator should have talcen steps tors Association, said Illinois' coal to improve conditions in the mines, roduct i on will be cut in ha i by At that point, the witness admitted it was primarily the responsibility of his own department. 4 I Jobless Pay Available To Idled Miners UUUilU U1UOC iiio UHUciLy IU- TV o.OlliU^.l.w.u- accortnn speeding engine' to let Truman's plans was. -scarce but that business and social calls to i such places as Cairo.

St. Louis, Springlit'Id, CentraHa, ML Vernon, ami LUC Obj-Ajja. -n-n v.wa.i Clark said, however, that -lie- was i is prei ared at the Burning Star not any seizure machinery pi New usides the safety courses carried Chicago and all other places in the on by experts, and providing all i nation will be taboo for tho dura- sorts of safety gadgets, the railroad tion of the strike. However, busl- does it. with certificates and folding money.

Just recently A. Button, S02 N. Bridge an extra track sang foreman, received one oC the covet- certificates and $'10 for suggesting a safe way to hang tie tampers ness men whose operations are pretty well confined to -Southern Illinois can be reasonably certain of continued communication. down. Smashes Into Depot The engine of the Zephyr jump cd iho track and passenger cars smashed into tlve Downers Grove depot.

Railroad spokesmen said that the tractor, part of an. International Harvester Co. shipment destined Tho county ICT Exchange man-1 for Chile, toppled into the path of interprets emergency calls as i the Zephyr about 10:40 p. m. GST.

They said it weighed IS tons, and tool houses. A tie tamper, be 11 known, weighs about a 100 those used for police, fire, ambulance, disaster and other similar that the flat car on which it was cases. Calls by and for physicians riding had been pulled out of the ancl if it falls on a person's i as wel1 Physicians' calls Coot it might crush it. At best it medicines, also will bo lion- the sick list I OI ecl )y tllc said. for I freight train near Aurora for ex- Indications that a reasonably large but scattered segment of llli- I nois will be functioning telephonlc- are contained in the fact that there arc 150 independent systems downstate which will not be affect- amination.

Lloyd W. Wright, -IS, Chicago salesman, riding in the third car of the train, died in the crash. Trips "Dead Man's Pedal" Thurston being- thrown from his seat released the "dead man's pedal," an automatic safety device to might put ii worker on for week or so. "The men had been accustomed to stacking the tampers against the tool house walls," Mr. Siitl.on said.

"One day I went into a tool house and a. tamper foil over and missed my shins by inches. I de- cidt'd then they should bo hung and i a rack was designed for them. I wasn't thinking about a reward; I just wanted to keep myself and others from getting hurt by one of At the" time Mr. Stilton received BY CARBONDALE THIEFj his award from Truck Supervisor nnrAVC 1 ATFT A.

A. Witter, a certiticate and $25 VANDALISM BREAKS. GOT award also was presented to Sec- tion Foreman S. K. Hooks of Cairo I CARBQXDALE, April One for suggesting truck changes at house burglary yesterday and three the engine whip-cracked its first abroad the repercussions continued to London reported excitement over the forthcoming- visit of Henry A.

Wallace, a bitter critic of Mr. Truman's new doctrine and many other phases of Administration foreign policy. Interest in Wallace's visit was so intense that it was said to be strengthening the hands of left- wing critics of Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's pro-American, anti- Russian foreign policy and was expected to aid the opposition in a showdown on Labor Party foreign policy. In Moscow the Big Four conference moved toward a new phase New 'Kathleen The House Labor committee be- ViV county by the Union Colliery (Turn page eifflu. lieves that the temporary strike 'control legislation it was drafted to deal with the threatened telephone strike also would give President Truman the power to halt a peacetime soft coa! walkout, it was learned.

The committee this week approved a measure drafted by Chairman Fred Hartly, N. which would, give the President power to seek Federal court injunctions against any strike threatening the public health, welfare or safety. While the bill was designed specifically for the nationwide telephone walkout scheduled for Monday, the committee said in cd by tho strike except that their stop the train in the event some! connections with Bell lines will be thing happens to the engineer. I cut off. Some of these have direct connections with the ICT system.

$29 STOLEN, $133 LEFT With the brakes set, the streamliner left the rails and plowed down the right of way, scattering tracks and ties iu all directions. At the same time, the diesel-oil fuel lines, broken by the collision, shot shoots of wind-whipped flame back along the length of the train, searing paint from the coach sides. Zephyr bumped and rattled more than a hundred yards before LOCAL ELECTION MAPPED BY DEMOCRATS AT CITY HALL MEETING Chairman- Henry Brusatti and North Cairo. Mr. Sutton has huen in the main acts of vandalism Wednesday night' and second cars into the corner of 1 were on the Police Department's leiiancc of way department of the report today.

1C for 1M years a-ud for the last Chief Floyd Jones said that has carried the rating of sometime yesterday the home of I Sam Greer at E. Birch St. was entered and $20 The Chief said that Grccr reported the burg- RU-EL TAX ALLOTTED the depot, broke loose and roared on down the track another 200 feet before falling on its side. lary to him after 5 P. M.

yesterday IS lieii and other members of his family returned from an all-day c-nii 11 ty rucrivvd in the state allotment of motor fuel lax receipts for March, according trip out of tho city. Chief Jones to Mark A. Sauiidcrs, state director: clltnu icc had apparently of finance. The Day's Log WEATHER Cloudy and mild with showers and occasional thundershowers tonight, Saturday cloudy and continued mild with showers and thundershowers in RAIN I been gained by knocking a panel i out of a rear door and then un- locking the door, I According to the police report $10 had been taken from a purse containing $22 and $19 from a mutal cash box which contained about $140. Police expressed mystification at the burglar's failure to 1 take all of the money available.

I The acts of vandalism included removal of a manhole cover from a I coal chute on the Univeristy Ave. side 'of the First Baptist Church. The manhole is adjacent to the sidewalk and created a danger to i pedestrians and children. Destruc- Globe-Girdling- Flight Take-Off Due Saturday NEW YORK. April 54-year-old millionaire, the man who made the fountain pen that will write under water, was ready today for a week-end flight around the world.

Milton Reynolds, of Chicago, manufacturer of the Reynolds ballpoint pen. will begin his globe- girdling flight at 12:01 A. M. to- I morrow when lie takes off from Laguardia Field in a twin-engined, converted A-26 attack bomber, "The Reynolds Bombshell." north portion tion of a trellis it: the rear of the mostly during afternoon, colder by night. DEATHS Mary C.

Rains, 92, Idled at the home of her daughter in Murphysboro this morning after an illnsss of about two weeks. Hughes died today at 11:30 a. m. at Sunset Ha- Ivon, Route 4. Carbondalc.

home of L. Z. Overlurf at S. University Ave. and Walnut and the breaking of a window in the homo of Harry Nicolaiclcs at SOS W.

Collcsu St. completed the vandalism budget. "It looks as though we have some young people prowling the streets who need our attention," Chief Jones said in commenting on tho property destruction, "We can't sucn things going on." the bill the President would have power to initiate pro- to enjoin, and a District Court would have jurisdiction to enjoin, a nationwide coal strike." To Be Considered Soon The Hartly bill is not.expected to be considered by the for members of the-Democratic City Committee met at City Hall Thursday night in a pre-election session. The committee is composed of 10 precinct committeemeu in Murphysboro proper and one from Somerset township No. 2.

Candidates were asked to attend and to speak. To elect April 15 are aldermanic aspirants and a police'magistrate. Democrats have a candidate in each of the five city wards. Democratic Party Fletcher Lewis could not attend the meeting because of illness, he said. Baseball Schedules The way things stand now, John L.

Lewis cannot call any strike un- 'til July when the government's Cutlel Wallace Coal Co. of St. Louis, was also listed among the 5lS mines which received "shut down" orders from Krug. Other Mines Listed Among other Illinois coal mines which Krug ordsrad to remain closed until they have been made safe were the following: Craine mine, Craine. Coal Percy; O'Kay mine, Smith Coal Marissa; Kuhn mine, Bois Coal Dubois: Glenridge.

mine, Marion County Coal Mining Centralia; Beveridge No. 2 mine, Bev- erdige Coal Sparta; Lemon mine, Lemon-McKelvey Coal Sparta; Moffat No. 2 mine, Moffat Coal Sparta. Orchard mine, Blue Hill. Coal Marion; Freeman, mine, Freeman Coal Mining Corp- of Chicago, Moren mine, Moren Coal Mar ion; No.

15 mine, Old Ben Coal Corp. of Chicago; Zeigler No. 1 and 2 'mines, Bell aud Zoller Coal and Mining Co. of Chicago; New Orient mine and New Orient No. 1 mine.

Chicago, Wilmington Franklin Coal Co. of New Wilson mine, Cutler Coal CHICAGO, April Samuel C. Bernstein, commissioner of the Division of Placement and Unemploy- men't Compensation of the Illinois State Department Labor today ruled tliat -Illinois 50ft miners- draw' unemployment compen- satoin for the time thai, they cannot work until their mines are declared safe. The ruling applies to the 49 shaft and slope mines in Illinois ordered closed by Krug, but not to strip mines. The closed mines employ about 13,000 miners.

There are about 350 shaft and slope mines in the state and about 40,000 miners working in them. control of the soft coal industry' (Turn to oaco eisht. please 1 will end. OFFICERS INSTALLED BY LOCAL ELKS; HERMAN C. IHLE IS EXALTED RULER Murphysboro Elks' lodge No, 572 held a business meeting last night en jj a "is an official in the lodge room and newly elect- Grocery The full National League baseball schedule for the coming season, and the Amer- can League's night schedule appear on the sports page of today's Independent.

The American, League day schedule will be published soon. ed officers were installed. The new officers are: Herman C. Ihle, Grand Exalted Ruler; John S. Esteemed Leading Knight; Chester Loyal Knight; Frank C.

EOvaldi, Lecturing Knight; A. W. Lucier, secretary; B. Stoelzle, treasurer; Omer W. Jones Tiler; Charles W.

Stricklin, trustee. Following the installation ceremony, members adjourned to the club basement for dinner; Membership In Jackson Club Takes Hike To 190 Jackson Country Club membership took a sudden 'jump from 90, the number reported at the weekend, to 100, with additional applications on their way to the Board through Secretary Guy Kuyltendall, 2217 Clay Murphysboro. Kuy- with the Thirteenth and Chestnut Sts. Club officials believe last year's membership may now be surpassed, with the penalty date for nonpayment of dues for the new club year, 1937-3S, extended from April 1 to April 15. Golfers are beginning to- appeal- Secretary of the Interior J.

A. Krug's order closing 4S mines iu the state. Wilkey said 13,000 of the United Mine Workers (AFL) 20,000 workers would be idle by the closings. The 5,000 others and approximately 10,000 members Of the Progressive Mine Workers (Ind.) will continue to work, he said. LEWIS GETS SUPPORT In Washington a grim and bitter John L.

Lewis saw hope of victory in his long campaign for ironclad Federal mine safety laws. Lewis' dramatic de-. facing the men who dig coal, influential members of the House Labor committee pledged themselves to "all neces- sary steps" to prevent a-repetition of the mine disaster at Centralia, 111. To get government recommendations, they agreed to invite Secretary of Interior J. A.

Krug "as soon, as possible." But meantime, the nation's industrial machine girded itself for the effects of Krug's order shutting down 51S mines as "hazardous." Normally, those mines account for 2G per cent of daily production. May Reopen Soon Government officials suid it was difficult to assess the full impact of the order because some of the mines might be reopened in a day or two, soino in several months and some never. On the other hand, they said, others may be added to the shutdown, list. Those would be from among the 2,000 mines whose operating managers were ordered to survey safety conditions to determine their adequacy. Concerning the mine closing ordered by Krug, John D.

Battle, executive secretary of the National Coal Association, said the owners would "take appropriate and speedy steps" to meet such safety requirements "as may be imposed." "I would say," Medili said, "it lies first with the state. It was the duty of the state mine inspector to close the mine if he considered it hazardous. After that, I would say it was the responsibility, of the U. S. Coal Mines Administrator." Previous.

Attacks Recalled Previously, Medili had launched a scatchin's attack against Driscoll Scanlan, a state mine inspector failure to shut down the mine if be considered conditions sufficiently hazardous. "The State Mine Department," he.said, "is not on the had to depend on the state mine inspector, for its reports on condi-i tions at these mines, "if Scanlan thought conditions at Mine No. 5 were as dangerous as he now says they were, lie had authority state statutes to close these mines immediately. "I heard, his testimony yesterday, that he said he would have been if he had done so. All I can say to that is that if I were a mine WASHINGTON, April Wire Brieis inspector and had the power like he did and knew these men's lives were in danger, I would have closed that mine even if it meant stepping aside and netting someone else take over my job." Letters Repealed Sen.

Joseph C. Wyo.) told the committee' lie had a number of letters from Inspector Scanlan dated back far as 1945 United States today instructed Gen. Douglas MacArfhur to begin parceling out Japanese reparations despite reported protests from France, Australia and India, INDIANAPOLIS, April (UP) An estranged husband who had no "time alibi" was held as a suspect today, while police checked the past the "House of Dark- in increasing numbers, but the fair-j which he recommended over ways soft from rain and the aud a ain that precautions I greens, showing fine early growth, explosive dust hazard murder victim Authorities subject to damage from too much in this mine be taken." the Jiusband, Stanley Grif- traffic. TO this Medili replied: "The conditions he described Heavy Easter Buying Reported By Local Stores have anything to sell -them." I increases in their shoe, stocks. clothing stores 'in Murpbysboro Although Easter trade in some parts of tho nation has shown de- Men's clothing stood head and However, most shopkeepers were said this morning that stocks are shoulders above the field in scar- agreed that things are definitely in much, better shape than for sev- creases, cash registers iu Murphys- I city, certain items of men's ap-j better this year.than.last and that) eral years, and are getting better boro clothing stores have been singing "Jingle, Jangle, Jingle" in a merry manner as shoppers prepare for the fashion holidays.

Some even reported insufficient stocks to 'fill the de-- mands of purchasers. "I've' got plenty of said one mercliant, "but 1 don't parcl being next to impossible to stocks are apparently on the up- obtain. One shopkeeper said, "A i grade. man comes in wanting to buy a size 40 brown sport coat. All I have is' a size 40 green, so he doesn't buy." Men's shoes proved the only item Women's stores were able to offer their customers a better seleo all the time, although some, items of women's clothing are, limited in size and style.

Muvphysboro florists reported tion than in several and the highest of sales in higher prices are boosting the dollar volume of sales considerably easier to buy this year as over those of the -past few merchants reported considerable Proprietors of several women's many years, corsages taking the spotlight, cut flowers and blooming plants- Many shoppers were reported-purchasing Easter Lilies. have existed in this mine for the past 15 years. You will find similar conditions described in reports fin, after the body of his blonde wife, Jeanette, 30, a stenographer, was found on a 'bridle path yesterday with a bullet through her heart. "The House of Darkness," found at her side. from other inspectors all over the der mystery thriller, was state.

Perhaps not quite as severe. "There would be no coal mines at all in operation, were all hazards i to be removed." KILLED IN ACCIDENT STERLING, April Lloyd Gillette, 3S, Sh'nrps- burg, passenger: in a truck driven by Dorance Fendersou of was killed, today in a motor car accident three miles east of. Here. WASHINGTON, April senate today viewed its unfinished debate on the David E. Lilienthal nomination as an anticlimax that would cud Tuesday or Wednesday with his confirmation as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Lilienthal was safely past liis biggest hurdle in the most hectic Senate fight over a nomination since Henry A. Wallace was named secretary, of.