The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 1

The Day's Log WEATHER ILLINOIS: Fair tonight, Saturday, and Sunday; mild temperature. Temperature today at 7 a. m. 41 degrees. Maximum temperature Thursday, 64 degrees.

DEATHS Martha Grissom, Oravilie, III. BIRTHS and Mrs. Ernest Wilks of Du Quoin are the of a nine-pound daughter born yesterday afternoon at 1:25 o'clock, at St. Andrew's hospital. LATE WIRE BULLETINS LONDON, Dec.

British submarine Truant torpedoed and sank a convoyed enemy supply ship and possibly another vessel on the night of Dec. 13-14 off Cape Spartiventon, South Italy, the admiralty said in a communi- que today. 1. C. AND CONDUCTOR DEi WRECK Trains Catch Fire After Rear-End Crash Today itatli The Jackson County Daily Dally eurlen dl.tribntc I papen Im CTCTT evening That between mmi In the city alone.

The tlon In than half the total count? circulation. -vrhy It la a "Jackaon County Dally!" MURPHYSBORO, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1940 Price 15c Per Week BRITISH FLEET RAIDS ADRIATIC DEEPER INTO ITALmiBYA Torbuk, Main Italian Base Believed Latest Objective Bardia Holds Out But Under Withering Shell and Bomb Fire Engineer Louis Alstadt and Fireman Ed Vaughn, both of Centralia, were killed in a rear-end collision of I. C. coal oar trains near Tamaroa, seven miles north of Du Quoin, at a. m.

today. Engineer Alstadt of" the train drawn by engine .1328, was crushed in the cab when his engine rammed the caboose ol the forward train, both southbound in a fog. Engine 3,000, pulled the forward train. Almost immediately after the crash thirty-five coal cars in" the trains and the caboose of the forward Strain burst into flames. Conductor Vaughn was trapped in the caboose and died there.

Fireman Wayiuan Singleton of the w-a's "sculded- 1 but managed to get out of the wreckage. His condition was reported critical. Dir Quoin firemen were called to extinguish the train fire. A ivrecker was dispatched north from Carbondale. Traffic over the main line was halted.

While no! official explanation was immediately available after the crash, it is reported that the train got together through block signals in a heavy fog. LONDON, Dec. fires are burning at Bardia, on t.Iie Libyan coast, after five days of merciless naval bombardment, tile admiralty announced today as British tanks were reported moving westward in preparation for a new British offensive aimed at Tobruk, Italian naval base SO miles west of the Egyptian frontier. Light units of the British fleet, forcing their way into the inner harbor of Bardia to come into such close range that they were under heavy machine gun fire, sank three Italian supply ships the admiralty said. It described constant and complete cooperation with the British.

Report Circulates Halifax to be U. S. Ambassador LONDON, Dec. report circulated today that Foreign Minister Lord Halifax will be named British Ambassador to the United States and that the' Government will be reshuffled following his appointment. It was reported that War Secretary Anthony Eden may take over Halifax's Foreign portfolio and that David Lloyd George, World Prime Minister, might enter the cabinet to relieve Prime Minister Winston Churchill of much responsibility for domestic affairs.

This, it was said, would allow Churchill to devote more attention to the strategy of defending Brit ain and planning offensives against Germany and Italy. Rumors circulated that Eden might be replaced by Robert Hudson, present Minister of Agriculture. BULLETIN BULLETIN LONDON, Dec. 20 (UP) Waves of German bombers hurtled over Great Britain tonight, breaking the long respite from blitzkrieg tactics with an attack that brought reports of Nazi raiders in almost all sections of the country. London had a night alarm scon after dusk and a little later there were reports of Nazi warpianes operating over the country at almost all points of the compass.

A little later an East Midlands town reported that raiders were roaring over a great height at intervals of about a minute, apparently headed farther North. Other raiding reports came in from a West British town, East Anglia, Wales, a Southwest British town, Liverpool, Northwest British towns, the West Midlands and North England town. London's alarm was the first of the day. Court Gives Go- Ahead Signal for Black Diamond County Judge Fred gave what amounted ahead signal for completion of the Black Diamond highway south out land force, as part of which fleet of Murphysboro Thursday when he WOMAN DIES IN CAR CRASH Several Persons Injured in Three Wrecks- Over "When two Chevrolet pleasure cars crashed headon at the junction the old and new highway routes 13 west of Carbondale at 10:45 o'clock last night, Stella Tippy of Carbondale was thrown through a windshield and' killed instantly. A large splotch blood on the a new route 13 remained today to mark the spot where she died.

W. M. Odam of Centralia and St. Louis, presumed to have been at the wheel of.the car headed for Carbondale, and Walla Neal of West Frankfort, were injured, not seriously according to hospital re ports. The other car, occupied by three boy students of the Southern Illi- inqis Normal University, headed B.

Herbert out of Carbondale on the old route, and the death car, crashed head- on at the junction point. A car driven by James Duke of Murphysboro, crashed into the.rear Traffic Violators Bring Presents to Victims to the go- EMPLOYMENT IN STATE INCREASED CHICAGO, Dec. iu Illinois during the seven-month period from April through November ganied 10.4 pel- cent over the 17-year average, the State Department of 'Labor, an- nuouced today. Payrolls in the state for the corresponding period were 13.2 percent. An increase of 2 per cent in November employment in manufacturing plants over October's level brought total industrial jobs within 3 per cent of the September, 1937, pear, the report said.

November payrolls were one per cent below the 1937 peak. The labor department reported average weekly earnings of if27.65 by the state's 6S3.S392 industrial employes during November. Trays- portalion equipment plants, wood and allied products and metals and machinery concerns showed the greatest employment and payroll, gains during the month. arm planes joined with the Royal Air force in attacking land objectives and warships evacuated thousands of prisoners whom the British had taken. More than 20,000 Italian troops had been trapped in Bardia, the fall which was expected at any time under the constant attack by the air force and navy.

The. Italians'" were--cut', off and- were under constant fire from land, air and sea, with fires in the town adding a further menace. British reinforcements were reported pouring across the desert from Egyptian bases for a new attack to be launched from Sollum and Bardia, both ports at which British warships can supply a army. The admiralty, in a graphic com- munique describing its own operations in Libyan waters, said: "A communique issued yesterday afternoon gave an account of naval operations in cooperation with our victorious army in the western desert to Dec. 15.

Reports since received make it possible to carry this account some days further. "Both heavy and light.forces of the Mediterranean fleet carried out bombardments of the Bardia area at frequent from, the evening of Dec. -13 to noon Dec. IS. "These bombardments played an important part in harassing the enemy and containing (trapping) defeated troops in the Bardia area.

"Ou the afternoon of Dec. 16, one of our heavy bombarding units was unsuccessfully attacked by enemy torpedo carrying aircraft. During the whole period our units were- repeatedly engaged by enemy shore batterieg. No hits were sustained by any of oiir forces. "Extensive fires have been burning in Bardia since the afternoon of Dec.

15 and they assumed very large proportions on the 17th. "In the early hours' of that clay one of our light units carried out at very close range an attack on the port of Bardia, penetrating into the inner harbor under heavy machine gun fire and sinking three supply ships. "The task of evacuating prisoners from the battle ground continues -and aircraft of the fleet air arm continue to cooperate sttc- 'cessfully with the royal air force and our bombarding farces. "Naval operations in support of our army are continuing." British Attack Derna CAIRO, Dec. bombers operating with the Army in Libya have extended their attacks to Derna, Ualiaii base 150 miles inside Libya from the Egyp- tion frontier, a Royal Air Force communique said today.

New shattering attacks on Bardia on the night of December 1S-19 and a heavy raid on Derna were described in an RAF communique while.British general headquarters said there was no change in the situation around Barclia. "Great damage was done Derna where military buildings were set, afire' anfl great explosions ocurred- -as- direct- hits' whipped through a hearing the'of a truck stopped at the scene of case of title clearance necessarily i the wreck. The hood of the pleas- to be made of court record. Construction of the highway had long been held up by a group of objectors, the last of whom signed right of way deeds for a consideration early this week. The most obdurate group of objectors owned lauds ni the Etherton Switch sector of the- Mrs.

Martha Grissom Died This Morning ure car nosed under the frame of the truck. Duke lost several teeth. Ed Puckett, student reported to have driven the student car, is in Holden hospital with-, the others, for treatment facial lacerations. Mrs. Martha Grissom died this morning at 3:43 o'clock at her home in Mrs.

Grissom, who had been ill two weeks of heart complications, was 75 years of age at the time of death. Deceased was born July 13, 1S65, in Ora township and had resided in that district her entire life. She was married March 11, 1886, in It J-i. Odam car was in the act of turri- ing off the new highway into the old when the cars crashed with great force. Mrs.

Tippy's body ripped through Ciindotr i the wintl shield and was thrown OlUIUdy to the edge of the. highway where she died. Her injuries were described as: Ribs broken; lower jaw bone NBA Telephoto Judge Joan 'Gutkriecht (third from left) with group 'of traffic violators-in Chicago's County Hospital as they save Christaias presents to accident victims. In bed is Eric Steffens'on, whose leg was broken by au to CHAPTER HERE Association to be Nation Wide; Payroll $3,000 Per Month broken entirely in two; upper palate torn loose; nose crushed; skull) fractured in four places; throat cut from beneath chin completely into the Mrs. Stella Tippey of 311 West Sycamore street, Carbondale, will be Sunday afternoon in Murphysboro, to Frank Grissom, I Oakland cemetery.

who preceded her in death. She was a member of the Methodist church in Oravilie. Surviving children are: Mrs. E-uos Imhoff, Vern Grissom find Mrs. Gus Pulcher, all of Murphys- Ijoro, W.

B. Grissom of Carbondale, and Mary Grissom at home. Other surviving relatives are one brother, Z. V. McCorcl of Murphysboro, two.

sisters, Mrs. Herbert Grizzell, Murphysboro, and Mrs. William Oldham of East St. 'Louis, six grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services Mrs.

Tippy was born August IS, 1S92, at Pomona, and had lived in Carbondale for ten years, where she was employed at the American Pants factory. An inquest will be held at 7 o'clock tonight at the Carbondale Funeral home, where the body will lie until the hour of the funeral. Dr. M. S.

Harvey, of the First Methodist church of Carbondale. will conduct funeral services Sunday at 2:30 p. m. at the Carbondale Funeral home. Mrs.

Tippy is survived by: sons, will byfc held, Clifford and Clyde, of Carbondale; Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at I daughters, Mrs. Millie, Murray and the Methodist church in Oravilie. Rev. J. A.

Roberts and Rev. Beck will officiate. Interment will be made at Calnp Creek. The body will remain at the Crawshaw Funeral home until the hour of the funeral. Mrs.

Ethel Woods, of Carbondale; sisters, Mrs. Florence Curry, of Murphysboro, Nettie Moutel, Etherton Switch, Maddie De Hart, Alto Pass; brother, John Lindsey, Murphysboro; four grandchildren. Seeks to Prosecute for Unpaid Taxes on Bldg. Materials SPRINGFIELD, Deo. General John Cassidy today took the first step toward prosecuting sellers of building materials who.

under a recent disputed revision of the State sales tax regulations, have not filed tax returns on their sales. Cassifly, who holfls that the revision, of the sales which exempted building materials from taxation is invalid, today requested that State Finance Director A. Carter, at whose direction the revision was made, lurn over to him the names of persons or lirms who have not paid the tax. At 0 p. m.

Thursday night a car- driven by Fred Pickles of Carbondale, and a car occupied by several colored people crashed in Main street in- Carbondale near the Springer street intersection. No one was injured ser'oiusly enough for hospitalizatiou. The cars were badly damaged. Their car crashed a car driving out of Hits graveled road. The name of the owner of the car On Nov.

(i, the Department of was not obtained hero. With him In a letter to Carter, Cassidy said: Finance announced that, effective November 1, rule six of the department was revised so that persons and corporations engaged in the business of selling material supplies for building and construction would not be subject to the (Turn to -Two, FletM) Retailers' Occupation Tax. At the junction-of the graveled road leading into State 13 a few hundred yards west of the junction the new and old routes 13 west of Carbondale at 7:45 a. m. today, new car casualties were added to Carbonclals's over night list of dead and injured in automobiles.

Miss Jewel Bryan of Murphysboro and Miss Helen Lesley the Groves beauty shop-at Carboudale. and Mrs. Joe Bryan of Murphysboro, were in one car, headed for Carbondale in route 13 Charter members of the Independent Association of Retired Railway Employees arid Postal Clerks met here again Thursday to further organize and make plans for a fellowship order that promises to rank high in the lists of America norders. Retired Murphysboro and railroad have 'taken a prominent role in organization activity and the local Chapter of the organization has '13 members. These 43 members receive a monthly retirement fund of $3,000, or 538,000 annually, and each member has made a place for another worker when employment is the outstanding need.

Retired Engineer C. W. (Foggy) Ward, tireless advocate of the passage of the railway retirement act, is Chapter President! Simon Levy, retired railway shop foreman is vice-president and John Essick, retired railway bridge -foreman is secretary-treasurer; Active in the move for an organization destined to become nationwide with tens of thousands of members were retired railroad men in Indianapolis and Terre Haute, East St. Louis and Mlirphysboro, among other places. The district this early boasts of approximately 1400 members.

Although retired on pay; as they are, members are to continue in the railroad business. One of the association's cardinal laws is to be loyalty lo their former employers. They are. asking for gratis transportation for themselves and their immediate families. In return they are to support individual and community support of railroads, the heavy taxpayers, and will spend (Turn t.n Pa.jff*> FIVft.

PlFKUiR) FORMER PRESIDENT OF FINLAND DIES IN ARMS OF CHIEF Death Comes as Hero is Leaving Railroad Station for Retirement BLACK LEDGER JONLAND, Dec, wjer'e in mourning again today. Kyosti Kallio, their president for the past three critical years, in which the war with Russia -was fought and lost and the nation struggled with a gigantic problem, was dead. In circumstances so dramatic that they might have conceived, by a novelist, the 67-year- old Finnish hero collapsed and died in arms of former-military- chief, Baron Mannerheim, in view of a crowd that had. gathered at a railway station to -bid him farewell as -lie went retirement. Five hours earlier former Premier Risto Ryti was elected dent and Kallio was officially retired.

The former president and Mrs Kallio were leaving -for their country home at Nivala to spend the rest of their days peacefully. They rode in. a limousine to the railway station, past crowds lining the sidewalks to cheer. At the station Kallio paused to review an honor his last public act, and Mrs. Kallio board-1 ed the train.

Kallio and tired. Suddenly he Bar-1 on Mannerheim and Ryti, were the I first to reach him. Cabinet mem- helped carry-the stricken man toward the train. As they reached the steps -Kallio murmured a few inaudible words and died in Man, nerheim'sh arms; Believe 2,000 Members on List Are in U. S.

Army CHICAGO, Dec. (UP) Army intelligence officers and G- men today investigated a "black ledger" seized in a raid on German- VITAL ITALIAN SUPPLY PORT Battlers Rove Italy's Lake Unopposed, Seeking Fight Anglo Greeks Raining Blow After Blow Upon Italy RAF in Widespread Attack Extending Deep Into Germany BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Pi-ess Foreign News Editor Great Britain and Greece rained blow after blow on Italy's battered war machine today and pressed a relentless aerial attack on Germany designed to offset a possible early big-seal- by Adolf Hitler. British warsb. i set the pace for the offensive against Italy by a spectacular dash led by battleships into the Adriatic sea (which Fascists call Italy's lake) and bombardment of the Albanian I port of Valona, which is a vital for the hard-pressed Fascist armies in Albania. Royal Air Force planes followed up the attack, it was stated officially at Cairo, and heavily bombed the ports of Valona and Kribnerd, setting fire-to jr.

establishments. The British air and naval offensive extended over a wide Mediterranean area and to the industrial heart of Germany, where the big armaments center of Essen as well as Cologne, Bonn, Duisberg and Duesseldorf were reported effectively bombed. The London admiralty said in a communique that the British submarine Truant had torpedoed and American Bund headquarters to (sunk two and possibly three Ital- determine whether some or all ofjian supply and merchant ships I GULF, M. 0. REBEL TRAINS VERY BUSY Murphysboro Passenger Fares Alone" Reported Tripled Since Coming of "The Rebel" the.

members listed were in, the armed forces of the United States. The ledger was seized late yesterday by State's Attorney's men who sought the Bund's financial records which were to be used in connection with a $380 suit aganist the. organization for delinquent personal prpperty assessments for 193S. The investigators were surprised to find that they had obtained what was believed to be the first Bund membership list ever seized; the raiders found notations writte nin German after the names indicating that they were in the Army, Navy, Marine or Reserve forces, they called in William S. Devereaux, agent in charge of the FBI in Chicago.

Devereaux and three assistants and U. S. Dist. Atty. Albert J.

Woll immediately began an investigation of the records. Maj. G. R. Carpenter, Chief.

Intelligence Officer of the U. Army 6th Corps Area, said were two Carboudale hitchhikers Wiseman anil Philip Temple. No one in this car was injured. Miss Jewel Temple is m.Holden hospital, Carbondale, for treatment, for facial lacerations. The cars were badly damaged.

Passenger traffic on "The crack Gulf, Mobile Ohio streamliner, is reported increased decidedly since the trunk-line bid for restoration of passenger The marked increase is attrib- uted to the schedule effecting larger cities on the system, courtesy of hostesses and train- employes generally, and food ami-drink rates. 1 An unofficial report said that Murphysboro passenger fares have more than tripled since the new trains went 011. SHARP fit, A DISCORD OELAYeD CHRISTMAS 940PPING TWE LAST 3 SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS The Illinois Central's "City of Miami" went into, service Wednesday between Chicago Allege Violation Of Employment Act County Judge Fred B. Herbert set down for'hearing-February 10 a complaint against. M.

and Mabel Morales for an alleged violation of the employment act. confer early today with FBI to determine what bad been ed from the study of the lists and decide upon any action necessary with respect to a.uy Bund members who are found to be in the Array. Devereaux refused to make any comment on the investigation but he added that the FBI was "not standing idly Seizure of the Bund's records and books was ordered by Municipal Judge. Oscar S. Caplan after Dr.

Otto Willumeit, Chicago leader of the Bund, was accused in court of answering 1 evasively questions about the organization's finances. Sgt. Stetve Leddy of the State's Attorney's staff and Benjamin Eisensteiu, Caplan's personal bailiff, went to the Bund headquarters, which shares offices with the Teutonia Publishing on the second floor of a building on the Northwest side. Ou thu first floor is a tavern, "Haus Vater- The raiders were met by Mrs. Irene Matz, secretary of the Bund, off the Italian The ships included a convoyed supply vessel and a large tanker.

In Libya, Royal Air Force bombers co-operated with the British land siege of the Mediterranean coastal base of Bardia while British mechanized forces that circled the city were reported pushing on in the direction of the main Italian base at Tobruk. The R. A. F. attacks were heaviest against Derna, where great damage was reported as a result of direct hits on barracks, police headquarters, motor transport parks and garages.

Italian forces still held out at Bardia, however, under heavy Brit- tish attack, which included a dash by British light naval units into.l.. the harbor to join the bombardment. The possibility of a new counter-blow by the Nazis was emphasized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's speech to parliament Thursday when he said that Hitler must "do something" soon, and that it would be disastrous to ignore the possibility of an invasion attempt even in mid- winter. Greatest attention, however, centered on a German move -in relation to France or in' support of Italy or both. Although German planes apparently were being used to transport Italian reinforcements to Albania there was still no positive information that German troops had been sent into Italy or to the Albanian or Libyan fronts.

The London press heard reports and speculated on the possibility that Hitler had or would demand permission for German soldiers to pass through unocdupied France and it appeared that the French governmental crisis that ousted Vive-Premier Pierre Laval was still causing concern at both Vichy and Berlin. It was uncertain, however, how closely that crisis was connected with the British blows at Italy. Much attention, however, centered on the exploits of the British who opened the office safe and navy in the Adriatic where, ttic gave them several records, includ- admiralty said, the warships not ing the black ledger, then closed only did not encounter opposition the safe. did not learn by Italy's supposedly powerful sub- contents of the ledger until they marine, torpedo boat or air fleets returned to their office. but failed to find any Fascist sup(Turn to Two, I (Turn to Two..