The Daily Independent du lieu suivant : Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 1

i- -T A 'ft I ILLINOIS WEATHJ5B occasional anotv In portion tonight and tomorrow. Cloudy to partly cloudy south portion. Colder Slightly warmer tomorrow south portion. on the that It a larger paid clreulatlov; than all other newspapers In county, dally and weekly, Established 1891 MURPHYSBORO, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBERJ.jM.934 Price 15c Per The Captain Announced 2 Hours Ahead He Would 11WM, United "Trent) ABOARD S. S.

NEW YORK, AT The legislators expected to be qEA Doc life boat enroute- home tomorrow after ea- KINGFISH WATCHES AS 33 NEW LAWS EXTEND HIS POWER Louisiana Legislature J.ifmps to Set Crown on State Dictator' BATON Dec. enactment of-33 new laws which will set the dictator's Louisiana more securely on Senator Huey P. 'Long's-'brow, was just a question of time today. The Senate, which received the bills the House last night, prepared to rush them through today, and hare them ready for final passage tomorrow morning. iiJSnbnrg-Amerlcan liner snatched ge natorj an ftyed in a bri 1C members of the crew of the blue su t) jjhirt and ac- sinking freighter Sisto from death cessories, heard himself praised as early today, in a dramatic, breath-- "Louisiana's greatest benefactor, car nftim ep -and a tl on6 ot America's butstanding taking exhibition of coinage and hl the genate last nlght seamanship.

previously, however, he had While a gale piled up moun- ugteued to a Representative de- tainous seas, the little craft pro- nounce him as a "political mad- nfilled. by ten oarsmen fought four man," who treated legislators like 0 main lifltlne faced hours to gel. to the blsto, listing wh DftylH) ft heavily and in sinking condition. Ldn -g" rol oweri praised the King- Time after time it seemed about flsh for Ili8 "greatness," the Sento craaih against, the steel deck of a tor smiled broadly, waved'to his friends, and. delivered several the freighter.

Twenty times or th. amatol a the open sea waves within boat's crew and safety. reach that followed the of the life' was hauled to wako. Apparently determined to throt-, the heavy seas, the gale, tie all revenue sources the New to s'now' Orleans city administration, Long wualhud prepared an amendment to- The 16 from the'day to be offered in the Senate, wee semi-hysterical when which -prohiWU the city fr- 'liat was hoisted up the levying an ezetoe tax on 1 quor loit or lifeboat of this liner. Their ship hud Mayor T.

Seinmes Walmsley, a l- Long's outstanding foe, had hoped raise $400,000 through the th'pv" expected to be hurled Into! measure. a tiSenraeas All day yester- With passage of the new laws I na Lfy wat ch ed of- Long Intends to broaden his activ- to itles, he said today. He will become the world's greatest edu- day they despairingly forts of the tanker Moblloll effect a rescue by pumping thousands of gallons of fuel oil into the flatten the waves. Standing by and forming a lee for ilia', was the North-German Lloyd liner Europa. Her powerful searchlights Ilium-' mated the sen.

Other ships standing by were the Cumir'd-Whlte Star liner Aurania. the Arnold Bernstein liner, Gerolsteln, and the Moblloll. The lifeboat was commanded by Second Ofllcer Weiss of the New York. After It had returned to the ship, Captain Fritz Kruse, commander of the New York, was at the davits to congratulate his officer and crew and welcome the rescued men. The New proceeded.

The Sisto remain- 1 afloat, a menace to navigation. The New York, east hound from New York, will "reach Cherbourg- Thursday and Hamburg Saturday. The SIsto, a Norwegian tramp freighter, was Norwegian ports with. a. cargo of.

lumber from Quebec. Previously she had called at Montreal. Cleveland and Detroit. She was 26 days out. The SIsto ran into the same storm area where tho British freighter Usworth went clown last week.

Seventeen men were lost in the rescue of her crew by the S. S. Jean Jadot. The SIsto flashed her first SOS late Monday. The Mobllotl arrived alongside early Tuesday.

The New York, fighting through heavy seas, believed the SIsto's rescue was assured, But late yesterday, her operator intercepted a message from the cator. "I'm gonna.give every man an education by radio," he "and we're have the finest medical the air. All a person will have to do Is to have a pencil and a piece of paper and take what's said." He denied, however, that he would billed a powerful radio station at Louisiana State University, but declared he would use a national radio hookup of 'stations. "They'll all be glad to get our programs," the Senator added, "we'll have the university of the air." Traffic Impeded and Severe Weather for Holidays Predicted CHICAGO, Dec. swiling snowstorm, whipping off the, northwest prairies, struck the west today 'and swept to-: ward the eastern seaboard -with'a growling warning of blizzards and gales.

Convicts Go Free by Foiling To pnd Naval Treaty That Restricfed Building of Huge Fleets TOKYO, Dec, Japan opened, the Svay for a world naval armament race today by clenounc-? A half dozen central states'were the Washington naval limita-' blanketed with two to seven inch- tion treaty. e.9 of snow. Two or three -more in a session that lasted'only Inches were predicted by nightfall' minutes the Privy'Council, with a sharp drop in temperatures, advisory body in the Nippon Along tlie Atlantic coast the pj.re, sealed the doom of the 'five-, approaching: bad weather was her- power pact by approving, the aldde by sfffrm warning displayed inet recommendation that Japan, from Boston to Jacksonville, Fla. withdraw, A gale sweeping from Georgia There reraaiued no only formal merge with the mid-western storm, notincatlon of abrogation to end the Weather Bureau said. the treaty which or 32 years Traffic was impeded in Chicago restvlcted or of the Pa A and cities of the northwest.

A fl(J ftnd lh(5 5 3 motorist was killed and his passenger injured in 'Chicago where Unlted streets were made slippery by Japan the soggy snow. A woman slipped nage ratio on of thfc and and fell beneath Her arm was so aiv- automobile. badly crushed The action made. necessary a naval treaty; in-whicli Japaii that amputation-was will seek. to.

achieve-equality, anil dug out end. to the exploratory 001 under seven inches of snow: when held in Londo they awoke looking toward the revision oi The temperature in. Chicago was Washington pact a 1935 confe 30 degrees before noon but was ex pected to drop 10 degrees, by night- eace Although the. -Privy CounoT fall. At St.

Paul, where light snow turned a momentous page in fell, the mercury fell 5 degrees world history there was nothing and zero weather was reported at here' to 'Indicate awaraneap Fargo, Duluth, Bismarck, and of the fact. Newspapers headlined Canadian points. the news in editions', The heaviest snow of the season but none issued The. move Approached Swiftly and Speeded Away 8 to 10 later; JMiad Man's Son Testifies Father Did Not Pass Night in Basement of Old Home BULLETIN J. E.

Willouglihy, a tie plant foreman, swore in S. Scott inquisition at Carbondale today that he saw. a large cft-r speed from the west to the Block House of the tie plant at the "crack of dawn" Sunday morning, and then speed away to'the west -'8-'to 10 minutes later. It was Ms opinion he swore that persons in the car could have had time to carry the Scott body from where the car- stopped to the place where it was found. He said the car left j'aster than it'had arrived.

Stanley Scott, son of the dead man, said his father not recently passed a night in the basement of the Pardee such a report was untrue. He said he had recently talked with his father and had aided him financially in a small said he knew of no 'reason why anyone should have killed his father. Mrs. Neoma Bracey and Mrs. Callie Cantrell spoke of having rented rooms to the deceased who later roomed at the CrandeH home.

W. A. Campbell, a good friend of Scott's said he had discussed political and economic conditions with Scott last Friday "morning and that Sc'ott seemed in fine spirits. T. C.

Ellis, manager of the eating concession at the I. G. Depot said Scott ate there Saturday morning and expressed a desire to talk with him later. He said Scott said, "I'll Staking their lives in a perilous medical 1 experiment for hope uu- theory and to have a "lead" in the case. Officers however then "millions of the disease germs injected Into their ere mdisp'osed to Commit themselves.

fell throughout Wisconsin with had been expected. temperatures ranging from 16 to The 'council meeting was a mere 32 degrees above zero, 'More than formality to give official three inches of snow covered Mil- to a plan long considered by thj; waukee, Madison, Green Bay and military class which controls' the the Pox River valley. Japanese, empire. Moderate 'temperatures 'pre- The council left to Premier vailed 'In the east with, rain and Keisuke. Okada and his cabinet the snow forecast 'during the next 24 next step, which will be formal hours.

Skies were notification of Japa'nte. withdrawal. More than an inch and a half -This will -be 'taken the" months of experiment, they were pronounced In perfect condition Above, an orderly is shown giving the last "shot" to Mike Schmidt, while Warden Roy Governor Johnson, and Carl Ericbsbn, the other look on. Left, below, is Schmidt: right, Erickson. fRESDENTiSEEKS UP OF snow- fell at Kansas City during -ot the night and -continued today.

Salto will' deliver the formal notice WASHINGTON, Dec. Temperatures were below tho to the State Department of the Roosevelt, today dis- HEAVIEST SNOW IN ST. LOUIS IN ST. LOUIS, Clans'will be able, to use The inquest was adjourned to December 27. Was Edgar S.

Scott murdered in a home at Carboudale, taken by car as far as possible in the dreary region east of the tie plant, and dragged the rest of the way to the spot where his body was found Tuesday? Did he kill himself? Was he irninn imbibe, wander to the isolated fall and crawl to the 10 YEARS TODAY I 5lac wrller the bo was-frozen to the ground? Did he seek. divorced and im- and succumb attack? Physical evidence answers "No" to each question, and the mystery the death of the former niau of affluence deepened White 1 ca Ui 13 uoiu LHV LU LUC? Lcti-a -j IK mo L.IJ.Q; i.w* HI-WA. jrv rf freezing point as far south as Dal- United States at Washington. The patched letters to the Governors' his- sleigh and reindeer Bne lffs and state's Attorney Edgar Whi las. Christmas holiday period, with of 44 states calling for state legis- Christinas.

The, anowjail taklng an papt; investigation. RELIEF BURN MAN'S HOME; HE CANT COLLECT The Franklin county board of supervisors Monday heard a Warning of severe holiday many- officials absent from their lation to help, speed recovery weather extended to New Orleans offices, may delay its delivery. where frost was predicted. The Weather Bureau reported the heaviest snow in the middle west in Illinois, Missouri and Indiana. CHICAGO NEWS SAYS DILLINGER BOUGHT WAY OUT JACK MCCARTHY DIES SUDDENLY through the housing program.

Mr. Roosevelt suggested to the executives amendments to existing State laws in order to make titles on.a farm three miles northwest of-Zelgl-er, for the restoration of II and II of the National Housing Act' more effective. This section TAI CfhW II If deals mo! 'tS'ase guarantees AI I'ULdvJWj ILL and new construction. The President wrote the Governors on Jack McCarthy, night machinist recommendation of Housing Adfor the 0. railroad at Tolson, ministrator James A.

near St. Louis, and brother of Charles McCarthy, M. 0. eu- ginear of Murphysboro, dropped CHICAGO, Dec. Fed- dead last night on duty.

A message 'to Mrs. Charles Mc- that John DI1- Carthy hert early today announced of the the sudden death. Mr. McCarthy March was on night duty from 11 p. -m, I Commendation by Jackson i County officials.

in ten years, 6.8. Inches, descended i A past niDrtem i uc t6d. last night revealed that Scott's stomach upon the city last night. Traffic contalned nelther alc'ohol nor the tell-tale signs of poisoning. Nor was impeded, but snowplows were fast sjgns of rial thorouhfares.

clearing principal thoroughfares. The snow is the heaviest since March 1924 when S.G inches fell. BROOKLYN POLICE QUESTION BURNS Markg Qn lh body were conl i ne to abrateed knees wit hsmall splin- wopd in the knee woulUls; scra tches on the backs of the hands; a below the right eye. No evidence whatever of violence sufficient to car.se death was found on the body, possible death from shock, or exposure. Money in- a.

small amount left in his pockets was taken to discourage a '-theory of -robbery unless the $3 found was purposely left'- in the pockets. It wa's doubted if Scott had more. Absence, trapes of violence, however, much it may discourage the of murder, likewise discourages the. theory of Poli-I-cL, 3, the Chicago Dally News' said to 7 a. m.

today in a copyrighted story. He is survived also by the bro- Lewis Ebb' Etherton, County Tlie wooden gun used by thp ther, Jerry, Cairo, and the sister, Superintendent of Schools, C. Ed- since-slaln outlaw was merely a M'rs. Wm, Davis, Murphysboro. gar White, States Attorney, Fred ruse to distract suspicion, the story Mr.

McCarthy was assistant ma- B. Herbert County Judge, and chlnist foreman in the Murphys- many other citizens very highly The News said that the Inform a- boro shops for years prior to the the excellent care be- provlded by tornado. He removed to St. llg given to the homeless chil- hls home which was burned as a result of a- bonfire built by relief workers. Parkerson, who is GO years old, told supervisors that the relief workers were emp oy ir ibe was provided ay lorimuo.

Jie ramuvau tu mg given to uie nomeiess cnu- hlgihway project near his la Arthur Q'Leary, former Louis from here and was shop dren of Jackson county by the home on June 20. He la that the men built a and that the blaze spread, destroy. Ing bin home and other farm build- for Louis Piquett, huge flje foreman there for a time. now under Indictment on He was about 62 years old. ings.

He estimated 000 and declared that he had charges of harboring a criminal. Relatives say the body probably "It (O'Leary's was will be brought to Murphysboro for corroborated by a statement from burial Friday. another man who was present Deceased never had married. tercepted a message irora uie 0 00 and declared tnat ne when the money cll a ged-hands. In MobU'oll Indicating the tanker, aura 'nce on the property to tne CrQVfn Polut sa i the-News' IJght ship and difficult to maneuver a heavy sea, would be unable to ta off the men.

Captain Kruse, who Is commo- I' nine, has spent 44 of his 60 years "at sea, wasted no time. He gave "Steam- amount of $2,500 but the insurance company was now insolvent and he could not collect the Parkerson been employee. gai(1 Indlana officials wholesal0 ln Freak Snow Storm in Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society, more commonly called CHICAGO, Dec. (UP.) of' Brooklyn, N. 1 SU jd-e.

police and -Postal. Inspectors Scott was the last time last Saturday night, it is reported, in questioning Joseph a j. linger gangster captured with a-' A-colored nran plant area yesterday looking for a cedar woman companion Sunday in- body. south side flat. it was hatless.

The arms were extended, as they would have re- Chief Postal Inspector Walter. niained' had Scott- died when being dragged to the spot. Johnson announced as he awaited- Hie wore a pair of pants belonging- to his Knights Templar uniform, arrival of Lieut. John Osnata of Tlie: knees, of the trousers were split. Scott's knees were deeply Brooklyn he is convinced abraised with splinters, of wood in the wounds.

Burns had no. part in the This fact give's Vise to the theory that he either was dragged across robbery in Brooklyn last August the. tie plant team-tracks whore his knees came in contact with, a tranr of an armored money truck. Un- track'tie', the way of; tlie grain, or that he dragged himself across the less-Osuata wishes the captive ties'or across -some splintery surface. held, Johnson said, he will be; Law offlcei-s ask, however, why, if he was so dragged to the place turned over tomorrow or Frid-ay to where he was found, cinders were not found in the knee wounds, and Indiana "Burns is tough why the shoes he wore were not scratched.

Did a Targ'e with two tail lights, drive into the area -Du Quoin's Children's Home, ac- Johnson said. "He hasn't told us early Sunday morning, before daylight? Witnesses say that anything of value and as far as after there momentarily, it was driven away at increasing cording to Dan Hopkins, District the Postomce is concerned the speed. There Is no road or beaten path into the area where the body stale can take him-any time." Deputy Attorney General J. was found. If was taken there, the theory is that two persons Edward Barce of Indiana and'his with it, and that "two persons may have carried it, one by tiie the.

case. i "DIHInger was to pay $11,000 Reports, of a freak snow storm for the Crown Point walkout and have to Murphysboro. course of years, lie said, ne H0mething more tlian lm i that sum N. L. Rice said while driving had placed all his earnings in ms tually was pakli the copyright from St.

Louis, at Bell and Zoller 1 at Zelg' lor a number of years. In farm home. I story -said." "I'm ruined if I don't get any- Dim Uept hls pari ot the The snow was so heavy from just thing out of this, it operator this message: wlilp New York. Hamburg-Lloyd, North German Lloyd and Hamburg American are- now operated for economical management as one Hue), will arrive in two hours and take them off." 1 His message left no room for doubt. ln-two hours the New York U111 C1 ta arrived and her lifeboat took off ion and that he -had secured no lnspflctora McW rter an'd that he was nearly last night, snow-bound.

Superintendent of the home. The above state that this society has at this time 34 of Jackson county's children, nine of stenogra phep Qenevleve Roth, and the other by the feet, face downwards. If the'weaker of the two whom were received during mis; a MGun MoU Jn un persons had to be at the ankles, the knees might have ye fj' -n iTr i- T-I- Pon derwoi'ld resorts to get clues to. dragged. Mr.

Dan vv. ucp- Burng Aiding: place, said Burns Sco'bt was known to have been both remorseful and impoverished, resentative, said the State o. ill-1 trvlnff to 'reorganize scattered whereas tew years ago he was happy in his family circle and reason- -Hrlll iMin Job anv IhlR 1 It 1 WfcLS tl-VHIfe LU 1 CUlfeU.Ali^^' 3 I members of Dillinger's' gang and ably prosperous'and held in high esteem. child by sending them to the state schools ol correction, but niakes my life sav fl Bargain'but oue'of his middlemen, out of Belleville he old the lt short automobilea to Coulterville a little 'bit short of money that automobiles, trucks and buses W4. UUlUilJULUlCOt Li LIU IXC? tUAlVl PaTkerson declaied that naci hlmgel and so he held out were forced to stop and Avait for a conferred with every agency con- said evidence of the i t-up.

He from Pinckney- i nected with the 1 relief ailministia- Hjery in of postal vme tp Murphysboro in a hard I'or the Slsto's crew. Once hove to at the scene, he asked for crew volunteers and received so inany he had to select the best oarsmen, The boat was put over the side without haste or excitement. No man seemed to have the slightest doubt of success against seemingly Impossible odds. Three minutes after the boat returned with the rescue men, tlie New York got undyr way. Captain Kruse is one of the veteran masters'of the North Atlantic.

He apprenticeship on windjammers. During tho war two yshlps were torpedoed under him. Ho made cruises around the world as commander of the Hamburg-American liner, Aesolute, A celebrated splkkor, he also is a celebrated spinner of sea yarns. satisfaction regarding his age. rain.

Attorneys had advised him that Jolm gtege of Chlcag0i J. McCarthy as well as Indiana au- Ri A Crawshaw said that, en- thoritles and Captain of Police rou home from Mt. Vernou, 111., no effort to prc child from becoming Mr. Hopkins "sales tax or relief (under existing laws) cannot be used for the care of these, little sufferers. A child whose par; ents are dead or in prison are deserted and entirely dependent on 'local charity' The question is when will our citizens provide for by Roger of northwest-' Qt KJ 0 lc Cllt LltlUllfjil Vt a the highway commissioner or bix, McW horter refused to discuss the heaviest down-pour of snow he had he went through two hours of the thls most worthy torm I charity.

Mile township had signed up for the relief project and was therefore the employer of the men allegedly responsible for the burning of the home. The towns-hip is an Involuntary organization and cannot he sued, it was stated. case. seen in years. flatly denied the story.

ONE MAN KILLED Mr. Murphy Reaches Century Mark SHBLB7VILLE, Dec, National Guardsmen 'of. Dec, congratula- 1, dwcrlbed by lied one man and wounded two, tions poured in; from scattered ihaid orking coitient today when a mob stormed the Parts of the United States today being shunted around from one courthouse here in an attempt to to Alexander Murphy, who will depwtoent to another in his search reach a Negro oh trial for alleged- be 100 years old tomorrow. He is or some agencv that will assume ly criminally attacking a 14-year- a former resident of Geneseo, 111, J.DI auuiu vifViaiin IIQ -nraa toonViPT 1 A responsibility for his loss. It was the I old girl.

where he school teacher. A The dead man was tentatively total abstainer from liquor and to- among the supervisors that the' identified as one Edwards. He was. bacco, Murphy boasts- of avow Will you rescue them now or will you send -them to penal institutions and to the bread line in after life." This is the known evidence of suicide to date, Scott is reported to have grown more remorseful following family ern Cook County. trouTiles that finally led to his divorce and to a life comparatively alone Barce said he did not believe, to himself.

His against his former wife and her nsw however, -either- Burns or Tommy husband, a collfege professor, is said to have grown likewise. Touhy took part in the Brooklyn There is no eMdeuce to -date that- he had ever offered' to harm Roger Touhy Is in. State-. them, or them. Kis reputation was good.

He had been eeking out a living most recently as a salesman from house to house. No suspect had named as the investigation wa-s renewed early today. ville Penitentiary, serving 99 years for kidnaping. FIVE YEARS IN PEN FOR "CRIME, INC." ST. LOUUIS, Dec.

"Crime, will cease operations for fiva years, Circuit Judge Hogan ruled in sentencing Clifford Juber IS, and Charles 18, -A prisoner suspected of murder -3 PRIMER CONFESSES SLAYING LOUIS, both of Chicago, to prison. in' California Defied St. Louis de- The two boastful youths who tectives-' Efforts to wring robbed motorists as traffic light 'stops, when they, were they made on ou mi although a com- having from Reserve Eugene Black Dies at Atlanta ATLANTA, Dec. (UP) Eugene K. Black, liaison man be- their partnership Jn crime resulted the Roosevelt administra- -in formation of "Grime, tion and the nation's bankers, and "We're, of; hplder former Governor of the Federal'uppers going to'the big house to Rose as saying he i wno inA -nTifioner.

uamon n. panoi arrested with him implicat- A Uhlted Press dispatch from damage. Ital. died of a heart at-, get our' higher education, they was wf.th' i Pease, 2lj shot M. Malloch, University of California student, to death; A staff correspondent of the United Press sped to the detective headquarters with the dispatch.

Chief J. Carroll confronted Pease with the dispatch. While only "ah hour before Pease had declared:" "I ain't never killed nobody," he then admitted: "I never killed nobofiy In blood. It was nie or him, so; I let him have It.".