The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 1

Vol. 6 Murphysboro, Illinois Serving the Jackson County Market Area Thursday, June 19,1947 5 Cents Per Copy Senate Okays One Pet. Sales Tax; School Fight Is Final Vole Scheduled On Giving Cities Part Of Utilities Tax SPRINGFIELD. June State Senate today passed and sent to the House a bill permitting cities, upon approval of local voters, to collect a one-half of one per cent sales tax. The vote was 38 to '1.

Under the bill, introduced by Sen. William Knox, Chicago, the tax would be collected for cities artot- ing it by the State Revenue Department. The money collected would be turned over to the State Treasurer, who would return it to the cities, loss six per cent as a collection charge. The bill appropriates $2,220,000 to the Revenue Department to cover collection expenses, but backers explained this was not outside the budget because it would be repaid to the State through the collection charger THE BILL was understood to be (ho Administration's answer to fi-ssure by nnaneitilly-d(stressed for a shave of the State Sales 'ax. Meanwhile, a final vote on a bill giving cities lectei tax was today In the House.

The measure squeezed through the Houne last night by a vote of 77 to during a heated session, but a parliamentary maneuver to postpone final consideration won out on a motion to adjourn. Sponsored by Rep. G. William Ilorslcy, Springfield, the measure would permit cities to collect the three per cent tax. on gross re- of electric, gas and telegraph companies within the corporate iiru-jts 01 municipalities.

The Senate passed a bill limiting tax increases permitted under the State Supreme Court's interpretation of the Butler laws. SPONSORED by Sen. Mcrritt J. Little. Aurora, the bill received a unanimous vote.

The Senate also approved 13 amendments to a House-passed tax limitation 1)10 and Mac Downing, Macomb. the Senate probably would GRADE SCHOOLS SEEK BIDS ON IMPROVEMENTS Almost exactly a year from the time the local $100,000 grade schools improvement bond issue was voted, the Board of Education of District No. 106 which includes the five grade institutions is preparing to accept bids on the entire program. The bids will be opened and read at p. m.

July 15 at the Logan school, the Board has announced. Bids be received part of the state col- scheduled I Ken. both bills and then work out measure with the House. on general remodeling and separate bids on heating and ventilating, plumbing and sewerage. Among the major improvements for all live schools, Superintendent William Carruthers said today, will be installation of stokers, with improvements in heating plants where necessary, new drinking fountains, acoustic-celotex ceilings where needed, new toilets and plumbing repairs, repairs of windows and entrances, lighting improvements, and tuck-pointing where needed, In addition, Carruthors listed the following additional improvements at the -various schools: Asphalt tilo- floors and construction of an entrance from the -cast side Into the basement auditorium.

New and fireproof stairways. Addition in the rear for a music room, construction oC entrance in back of -auditorium for fire safety, checking and repair of Hostile Reception Expected To Greet Program In House, SPRINGFIELD, June State Senate today virtually completed action, on the administration school aid -program and sent it to the House, where the school bloc promised it a hostile reception. By a unanimous vote, the Senate passed a bill providing $5,700,000 for an emergency grant of SG per pupil to school districts. Last night It passed, 45 to 1, a bill raising flat grants payable in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 194S, by per pupil and equalization grants by 510 per pupil. The two measures together would raise school aids more than $10,000.000 over the $55,400,000 originally recommended by Gov.

Dwight H. Green, All that remains for the Senate to 'do now is to pass an appropriation for the increases it approved last night. However, the powerful House: school bloc remained determined to pass its own measures requiring a $33,000,000 increase over Green's original budget figure. Rep. Lottie H.

O'Neill, Downers Grove, chairman of the House Education committee, said a meeting of the House Policy committee including school champions, with the governor last night, had not changed the school bloc's position. Questioned In Baby's Death Barrows 24 answers questions in police station after she told police that an unidentified her, then fled. ws ans heVhome in Chicago, strangled her 3-year-old son, Gerald, right, attempted to strangle (NBA Telephoto) Corn Futures Top Big Produce Jump wiring. ways. e'pfoot' 'stair- Douglas New floors and an addition to the building to provide space for classrooms and an auditorium-gymnasium.

taxes Little's bill would limit property 1947 through 1D52. The I amended Version of the bill passed night would limit tax rates to which would yield an amount to the full cash value of the taxable property for the Inn-rent year, times the lowest of Itlie ratios of asscssde value Ito full cash value, times the maxi- Imtm statutory or referendum tax rate in effect Dec. SI, 1,945. If the 19-12-M ratio was that of the computed percentage coukl be increased live pecent, ENROLLMENT FOR UMMER LISTED 17.5 CARBOXDALR. June Enrollment for the summer esion at Southern Illinois Xor- University today had topped Ihe Hsu re for last summer by ler cent, it WHS announced.

A total of 1.S49 students had re, tored up to Ibis- morning, us com- larod with 1.37::. for last summer. Enrollment fur the spring term was 'egistration will continue this Of those si-ned up. are veterans In increase of nearly U5 per cent the 1579 ox-CI's enrolled lust limmer. The Day's Log WEATHER nr tly cloudy in (jrth portion and loudy with oc- sional -thunder- orms south por- ons tonight.

Lit- changc in tmpcraturc. Fri- SHOWERS mostly cloudy with scattered lowers south and west portions. jmcwhat warmer south portions. James Preston Grif- 81. died at his home on South St.

in Murphysboro yester- ly morning. MARRIAGE LICENSES army E. Capps, Carbondale and Lima J. Armstrong, Uarkm. CRISENBERRY'S BILL APPROVED SPRINGFIELD, Juno State Senate today passed and sent to the House a bill prohibiting the use of black powder in coal mines after June 30, 194S.

The vote was 2S to 4. The bill was introduced by Sen. R. G. Cris- cnberry, Murpbysboro.

The bill was opposed by the Progressive Mine Workers of America on the ground that It would force some mines to close. Lust night the Senate turned down an. amendment which would have permitted on-shift shooting with "permlssable under other proposed new mining laws. Sen. Clyde Trager, Peorla, who offered the amendments, said it was backed by the State Mines and Minerals Department He said the department estimated that mines employing 7,000 miners would have to close if tho proposed law prohibiting on-sMft blasting in coal mines were adopted.

However, Sen. Berritt J. Little, Aurora, said the amendment would "ruin" the bills drawn up by legislative committee that investigated the March 25 Centralia mine disaster. Sen. D.

Logan Gililn, Springfield, said that "not a mine will close" under the proposed law. THE SENATE adopted several other amendments, all backed by the Mines and Minerals Department. One would eliminate the proposed mine research laboratory. Trager said Mines and Minerals Director Harold Walker believed the University of Illinois could handle mine research. Another amendment accepted by the Senate would postpone until July 1, 19-IS.

tho proposed requirement that face bosses be qualified mine examiners. Trager explained that this was to give face bosses time enough to study and pass examinations. Still another amendment would keep the number of inspectors-at- large at the present two, instead of adding a third. LOCAL ANGLERS fflOVINCMWRTH Rods and. reels have been prepared, lines have been tested, wives have been "bought and all is lir readiness for the departure of the second group of local fishermen into the wilds of Canada's' fishing grounds.

The first group, led by "Rip" Hagler, left yesterday for their vacation at Lake Ottocomomone, near Fort -Francis in Manitoba. Comprising the- group were Dr. Al Stoelzle, Baiaie'y-, Williams, Harold Grob and Grover CHICAGO, June the Corn Belt sent corn to within less than a cent of their high on the Board of Trade today. CRAWFORD PAID HIGHEST IN '46 PHILADELPHIA, June Movis Queen Joan Crawford was paid $400,000 by Warner Brothers Pictures, last year, while Comedian Bob Hope got $275,000 and his side-kick Bins Crosby $250,300 from Paramount Butter and shell egg futures also Pictures, the companies' an ANNOUNCE PROGRAM IN SEASON'S FIRST SHOW AT LOCAL PARK SHELL The program for Friday's opening! show of the season at Riverside The Saturday group, led by Veru shell where the first summer band- Grissom, will include Sam Martin, concert will be presented tonight, Dr. H.

L. O'Connell, F. Bastlen, was announced as follows today by Director Willie Smith. Chinese Faigin, Judy Genovese, Catherine Smith, Mary Dot Hoifecker, Virginia Carruthers, Sandra Wise. Over the Phil- Tap Brannon, Marilyn Fern David.

Toe Hart. Street tap Rose, Patsy Stevenson, June Quiun. Ray Chancey, Dr. E. K.

Ellis, Dr. E. R. Rosenberger, and Ray Crawshaw. This group will go to Delaney Lake, the property of Jerome Lutz of Anna, Delaney Lake is 11S2 miles from Murphysboro and can be reached only by boat or airplane.

The group leaving hps The group leaving Saturday will drive into Canada, take a short train ride and then transfer to boats for the. final lap of the trip. The trip will take almost three days, with the sportsmen -figuring Song trio Kathleen Hanson, to an ive at the camp site late i Monday. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE BARRIERS TO PRESIDENT WASHINGTON. June threats of a velo, the Senate today passed and sent to tho White House a wool price bill authorizing higher trade barriers on forelsn wool.

Kathryn Crombar, Josephine Crews Webb. Phillips, Charlotte Phillips. Miss Derossett, Saronsen. Rhythm McCoskey. Ann Jones.

Parasol Beth Thorp, Lois Ann Bizzell. Irish tap -Laughman, Norma Jean Eastman. and Virgil Sarensen. Rhythm Hart. Julia Hill.

Can Smith, -Mary Beth Thorp. Lariat Killian. Piano Bradley. Acrobatic Hart. Russian dancs Blankenship, Marilyn Esposito, Ann Finke, Jama Brantley, Carol McCoskey, Judy Webb, Sue Derossett, Judy Lipe.

The program will start at p. m. Already an avalanche of promises, boasts, predictions and threatened comparisons has been set in motion. Both groups have been spinning long tales about "the one's we're going to bring To settle the if that were evenly remotely (Turn to Two. DlPn.pe) stood at new 27-year highs.

Eggs bought for delivery in October wei'e at 50.65 to 50.7G cents a dozen on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. November prices were 50.40 a dozen. Both were SO to 85 points higher than yesterday. June fresh butter jumped 100 points to 63.50 cents a pound. As reports of floods in- Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and other Corn Belt states poured in with monotonous regularity, traders here sent price of" July 'corn futures up -cents a bushel.

Fj55fi.S^Afy'A®'-;t*iie*ioji,i:tii5.;". nual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission declared today. (All salaries and "commissions reported to the SEC are gross figures before Federal or State income taxes. The Federal tax alone runs about 50 per cent on a- $100,000 salary, scaling up to 6S per cent on a 5500,000 salary). Actor Ray Milland, star of "Lost Weekend," also hit the movie jackpot for 194G, receiving $234,166 from Paramount.

The, trip of Hope, Crosby Truman Declines To Hear Group On Labor Bill Action Says He'll Make Decision By Himself; Message Due Tomorrow WASHINGTON, June 1.0—(UP) Trwnan today brusquely silenced a group of Southern Democratic leaders who tried to urge him the GOP labor control bill, Mr. Truman will send to Congress tomorrow a message on the measure. He is expected generally to veto it. But when the Southerners, calling at the" White House, tried to give him their views, he cut them off. The President told the delegation that he is not hearing arguments for or against a 'veto from eithv side.

He- said he would make his own decision. It would be made, he added, according to he thought best for the country. Republican congressmen thought they had enough-votes in both the House and Senate to override a labor veto, although the switch of a few votes could change the situation ill the Senate. WASHINGTON, June BIG THREE CONFER ON ETO ECONOMIC JAM By United The unexpected prospect arose today that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and Foreign Minister Via- cheslax Molotov may sit down, together next week to decide what can be done about Europe's -economic shambles. Nothing was yet certain about the possibility o'f a "quickie" three- power economic conference.

But the prospect was expected to be clarified within the next 4S hours or Jess. There were indications that: the prospect of Molotov joining in the conference caught Bevin and Bidault with their diplomatic guard down. In any event it was plain that the European diplomatic wires got crossed some place yesterday. Bevin promised a report to the House of Commons later today which was expected to cast some Truman is under threat ti, 0 light on the sudden turn of events. cent '-under the ail-time'' record high roll last year to replace Director of cents a bushel reached during July, 1919.

July corn opened at $1.95 a bushel today, top price paid since 1320, It climbed as the trading session wore onward and reports of continuing river floods and. predictions of more rain came in from the midwest. 'Departments of Agriculture, both Federal and State, have warn- 3d for the past two weeks that the planting of corn in flood areas of the midwest was already past the danger limit. Even if fields dry iOon, early frosts might catch the grain at ripening- time in August. NAVY VETERAN, FORMER JAP PRISONER, STRICKEN ON RT.

13 NEAR MURPHY MISSISSIPPI FALLS ONE TENTHFOOTIN16HOURS; ROUTE 3 STILL COVERED A. Berkbigler reported a Mississippi gauge reading of 36.1 at GVajid Tower at a. m. today, disclosing a fall of only 0.1 foot, in 16 hours. Mr.

Berkbigler has read the gauge there lor years and as a result knows much about the big river's characteristics. asked today when he believed the predicted second flood would reach here from the north, he said he doubted that much of it would reach here. The Missouri is in flood for 400 miles and heavy rainfall dieted for today over much of its Robert Mathcney, 47, of Padu- watershed. It is the Missouri that cab, ex-U. S.

Navy service local valley dwellers watch the man in the two wars, was removed to the Veterans' hospital at Marlon late Wednesday from where he lay on the floor at the Jackson county jail. Mathency was seen to fall at.tlie Pinney on State Highway 13 late yesterday. He was at first mistaken for a drunk, sheriffs said. The Crawshaw ambulance -and Deputy Sheriff Roy Carter removed him to Murphysboro. Sheriff D.

L. McGregor called a doctor. The sick man gasped; "They have never told me what's the matter with me." The physician told him he had a bad heart and might he dead by Matheney. according to Sheriff McGregor, had spent two years in a Jap prison. Matheney said -he had a wife living at Marion.

Hospital authorities said he had been earlier yesterday. closest for effects here. Floodwaler remained 16 to- 20 inches over State Route 3 south of Grand Tower today. By United Press A 24-foot crest rolled down the Mississippi River toward Quincy, 111., today and Army Engineers predicted a "nip and tuck battle" to save thousands of acres of farm lands, safe thus waters. far from liood Famed Educator And Her Sister Are Found Dead PINECLIFF, June Emily Griffith, nationally known educator, sister Florence were found dead today.

Police said that Florence had been shot, but they could not determine whether Emily had been shot 'or clubbed death. COP HURT RIDI.NG BIKE DETROIT, June (UP.) Motorcycle patrolman Roy Grove suffered facial cuts and two pos- Thomas Leo McCarey, Actress Olivia De Havilland and Vice President and General Manager Henry Ginsberg who were paid the three highest salaries in 1945. In that year, McCarey, director of "Going My Way," was paid 4 5938,770. Warner Brothers paid Stanley Actor while Director Michael Curtiz was paid known as Dennis today of vengeance at the polls i he fails to veto the labor bill. The President's tax bill veto doei not seem to have won him any friends he didn't have before nor have persuaded the pressure groups that his heart is in the right place The most aggressive pressure cam paign of his White House experi ence is underway for a labor bil veto.

The President will disclose his decision on Friday. Warmed by the unexpected house vote Tuesday sustaining the veto of the tax bill leaders of organized labor are see labor bil are r'ight, but there are more congres -sional votes to curb. labor than 'there are-to trim taxes. There is a feeling hereabouts that next year's presidential election is being decided now, right here on the banks of the Potomac, If Mr. Truman strikes political pay dirt with a couple -of veto messages a lot of people around here are going to be surprised, but it is during 1B4B.

In 1D45 Ac-1 sible, if not probable. tor Charles was the top- salaried Warner star at $207,500, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT RECEIVES SEVERE BURNS IN ACCIDENT YESTERDAY Bill Caplinger, 17 year old MTHS student, was placed in St. Andrew's hospital yesterday suffering from severe burns to his chest and arms: Bill had been driving a tractor on the" Carroll Sickler farm on Route 4 and took off the radiator cap to check the water. Steam and hot water gushed from an overheated radiator and burned Caplinger's arms and chest. St.

Andrew's Hospital reported this morning that the burns were sible rib fractures when he fell not termed too severe and that his while riding his son's bicycle. condition was satisfactory. Ole Miss Doesn't Scare 90-Year-Old Charley Reed, Who'll Take His Chances In Spite of Flood Threat VETO THE labor bill Mr. Truman must to keep peace with leaders of organized labor. Some of them are going to oppose him next year anyway.

But some.others are to be had if the bait is sweet. Labor leaders'have been making votes(Turn to pace eljrlit, please) HULL, June Levee District. Old Charley Reed defied the Miss- The levee begins 12 miles south of Quincy, 111., and 'extends 54 miles. It was weakened by last week's floods and engineers were piling it with sandbags today to keep it from going out when the new crest hits tomorrow or Saturday. engineers said that if the Charley levee goes, 12J.OOO acres of land issippi river today.

The 90-year-old farmer didn't exactly beat his chest at the mighty stream which threatens to hurl tens Of thousands of tons of water over his, rich bottom land acres. He just'stayed home, while his neighbors moved out. "The heck with it," said. "We're staying right here." will be In the flood of "I member the last time the SS, about 110,000 acres were under flood came over us. That was 59 water.

years ago, in 'SS. I don't think 0 ihs here were' moving their It'll hit us now. That's why we're things upstairs. They weren't ex- staying- "I've got 50 head of fine white- faced cattle in my feed lot. If I move them out they'll -be underweight mid I'll take a loss when I market them." Neighbors were having trouble figuring out ther old Charley actly worried, 'Just cautious.

They expected there would be five feet of water in the streets, if the levee cracked. D. C. Gray, secretary of Hull's was awfully bra.ve or just a plumb fool. them decided to pull A.

Ar-Kowert, Chief Engineer and get out while the getting in the Quincy district said, the crest would hit Quincy at noon tomorrow and Hannibal, tomorrow afternoon. or two or these levees are going to have to go," he said. "It depends upoii which of these drainage districts fights the hardest which will survive. When or two of the the others'will be relieved." was good. "We stand to lose everything if the water does come," oiie of them said.

"If we leave now we can at least save the things we take along with us." Reed's farm is northwest of here on slightly higher ground than most of the other farms. area, is protected by tie complicated 'network of'dikes'-known as the Sny. flood control organization, said "ncrbody can tell when or where or if a levee will break." He was dispatching into the country to aid farmers in moving cattle, hogs and farm' niachiueiy to higher ground. But Charley Reed turned down the offer. "I've watched Ole Miss too long," he said.

"She's fooled me too often, threatening to wash nie out. This time I'll take my chances on the high water. "Right now I-got. to-teed, the hogs." ARMY DOWN TO DIVISIONS MIAMI, June The present strength of the U. S.

Army is only 10 divisions as compared with 300 divisions for Russia and her European satellites, Lt. Gen. J. Lawtou Collins, Army Information Chief, revealed today. In an urgent plea for universal military training, Collins told a national convention of the Reserve Officers Association that forces' in Europe today are so small that they could easily be overrun." "We have 10 divisions in the Army today," he said.

"Russia today is capable of putting 200 di visions in the field, have them in the field right now. Russia's satellites in Europe could put another 100 divisions in the field. "We cannot man 4,000 aircraft today. Russians have over 10,000." Comparative statistics on the armed might of major nations of the world show that the United States is "terribly weak," said Collins, wartime commander of the Seventh.Army Corps that dropped airborne troops into France during the Normandy beachhead invasion. He has been mentioned as a possible successor to Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Army Chief Staffl. The whole sequence of events was touched off by Secretary of State Georse C. Marshall's address at Harvard University two weeks ago. Marshall said that the United States was considering a comprehensive long-range economic program Europe.

But he added that it was up to the Europeans to get together and decide what they needed and what they could do to help themselves oil their own. ON RECEIPTS of assurances that the United States did not object to cutting Russia in on the. rauged to make a quick trip Paris Tuesday for the purpose of drafting an Anglo-French plan for consideration of European economic needs. Meantime, both Britain and France launched feelers to see what Russia thought about the subject. No conclusive reply was received before the Bevin-Bidault conference opened.

However, Pravda, the organ of the Communist Party in Moscow and ordinarily an accurate barometer of Soviet thinking issued an attack on the Marshall pUjn. Provda said it merely was the Truman doctrine of fighting Communism with dollars tricked up in new dress of fancy words. With this apparent indication of Soviet displeasure on record Bevin and Bidault went to work on a joint Before a formal communique could be a surprise message apparently came in from Moscow. Its purport was only indicated but it seemed to give rise to belief that Molotov would agree to sit down with his colleagues next week and hammer out a three-power approach to economic reconstruc- 15 REPORTED KILLED AS PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS PLANE CRASHES IN SYRIA MARINE RECRUITING O.FFICE IS OPENED AT MARION The United States Marine Corps has'opened a recruiting station at the postoffice building, Marion, Illinois. office will be maintained during the hours of 8:00 a.

m. and p. in. Monday through Entrance examinations require that applicants must be betweeu 17 and 26 years of aga, in good iiealth, of normal physique, and of good character. NEW YORK, June 'an American World" Airways- reported today that 15 passengers and crew members were killed today when, one of their airliners crash landed in Eastern Syria.

A report phoned by a surviving crew members, -Third Officer Eugene W. Roddenberry, of River Edge, X. to Pan American's office in Damascus, said that eight of the 27 passengers aboard were killed and that only three crew members including himself survived. He named the other two surviving crew members as the purser. Anthony Volpe, of New York City, and the stewardess, Jane Bray, of Jackson Heights, N.

The scene of the crash was in the Euphrates River Valley near the border of Iraq. Roddenberry made bis phoned report of the accident from Deir-Ez-Zor. Istanbul dispatches to the United Press said tile plane crashed at Meydana. 200 miles northwest of Damascus, en route from Karachi to Istanbul. APPROVE CUSPIDORS SPRINGFIELD, June Illinois Senate today- passed a bill by Sen.

Roland Li- bonti, Chicago, requiring public" buildings to have at least one cuspidor in every room. Libonati' smokes cisars..