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HE" River Stages felling- Pool 41850 Tailwater39t.73 'Barr Named as Candidate For State Senile food River War Veteran Picked by Democratic Committee and oneof the area's out, war heroes, today was Democratic candidate for to fill the vacancy tiled by the resignation, of 0. Monroe of Collinsvllle, Barr received a unanimous vote members of the Madl, Members of the committee which JSed Barr at afternoon's meeting are Carl Johnson of Greenville, chairman; FranK Kei- delberger of Venice, secretary, and Mayor Charles Vanpreter of East Committee Statement The committee announcement; "The Democratic Senatorial Committee for the 47th District of Illinois has unanimously selected Joseph J. Barr of Wood River as the candidate for state senator on the Democratic ticket in the November, 1946, elections. "The withdrawal of James O. Monroe as candidate for Senator after the primary made this selection possible.

The committee feels that Mr. Barr's candidacy will more than fill the vacancy. "He Is a young man with an enviable reputation as a citizen and a soldier. He was born and has lived in Wood River all his life, where he is now a practicing attorney, associated with Francis Manning. "Joe Barr enlisted in 'the U.

S. Marines on Oct. 9, 1942. He trained at Quantico, with the famous 2nd Marine Division -under Gen. Julian Smith, and went overseas to the Patciflc Theater on July 1,1943.

"At Tarawa, as an infantry platoon leader in the first assault' wave, he was shot and wounded. Hospitalized, he returned to his outfit in time to lead his platoon in, the assault and invasion of Saipan On June 15, 1944, Tinian on Aug. 9, 1944, and Okinawa oa.April 1, He holds, the Navy Cross, the Pur- itlon, ribboii with three -starsiu' "On returning, he married Mary Louise'Dahm, completed-hts legal education at Notre Dame University, and was admitted'to the practice of law in Illinois in February of 1946. "In addition to his record as a Marine, Joe Barr has a fine reputation as a citizen in Wood River, Is an able young lawyer, active and interested in community affairs." JULY ,29, W46 Member of The Associated Press Sc Per Copy Weather Forecast Little Change Racer Fa Bidault on Peace Parleys DOES FUtL TIME'WORK AT Metheny, 90, was called back to his work at the-Internationa! Shoe company tannery at Hartford af-ter retirement six months ago. He' is shown here on the packing floor at the Tannery where he is employed'on the midnight (Additional Picture on Page 5), Young Folks Don't Know How To Says Laborer, 90 GuardHeirens After Finding Hint at Suicide "CHICAGO, July 29, Off 1 The jail.cell over "William.

Heirens was intensified today after Sheriff Michael Mulcahy reported finding of a note indicating' the 17- year-old student two brutal killings was contemplating suicide. As new being taken, State's Attorney William J. Tuohy awaited, first official notification that Heirens is ready to con- killing an, Frames Brown Josephine RoSs, a Towle'of defense counsel said he and Heirens' four other lawyers would; with Tuohy sometime today determine procedures both when Heirens is arraigned in court and for the proposed confession." The sheriff said a note addressed to "Dear Mom and Pop" had been found Friday in a regular inspection of county jail cells. It was hidden in a mattress, Mulcahy contained references, to how he felt whjie.fn custody and Committee of 5 i Named to Pick GAAC Secretary a few details pf history. The Chicago Dially Times said To a committee of five was delegated this noon the task of making final selection of a secretary- manager of the Greater Alton As- relation of Commerce.

The committee was to be selected this afternoon by president I. H. Streeper, under a resolution adopted by the association's board of directors this noon. It will meet this evening to interview three applicants for the position who have been invited to appear before the group for discussion of their abilities and accomplishments. The three were those; left after the personnel committee, headed by Walter Stobbs, had completed two months of receiving applications, investigating the applicants, going over tne Information received on them.

It would be highly advisable to nave a secretary-manageriselected ana on the job when a representative of the American City 'Bureau here next month to begin groundwork for the association's membership campaign, President Streeper pointed 'out. This would enable the secretary- mi to make himself acquainted with the community, de- wus of the local organization, and other facts he would need to know order to guide the local assocla- in a copyrighted story that the brawny defendant twice had attempted to end hi incarceration in county jail Mulcahy said, however, that when Heirens was placed in cell his shoelaces, necktie, handkerchief and other possible suicide instru ments were'taken from him. Heirens has been under a 24 hour guard since he was jailed Mulcahy said guards have been sta tioned a foot from his cell bars with no duties other than to watch for any suicide attempt. Award Contract, To Erect College Veterans'Homes William Metheny, Ayho cele- rated his ninetieth birthday June told a reporter at. a birthday elebration for his wife at the lome of her daughter, Mrs-.

Clarnce Hale, 2302 State, that tlie ounger generation doesn't know low to work. Metheny, a carpenter by retired some yelars ago. When Uncle Sam needed men to work during the war period, Metheny went to the Illinois State Employment service and applied for work. He was sent to the International Shoe Co. at Hartford where he started to work 'September, 1943 arid was off Jan.

15, 1946. Because of his good at Tannery, when a' man was needed the dry mill department, was called back to work StrikesiTree Accident Near Jerseyville Inpfred Whew Scooter Overturns Anson H. jSf Si touts, died at 5:40 p. m. in Alton Memorial Hospttffl 'following fatal Injury an earlier, during a itibtorcycle race In American Legion Park, near JerseyVffle, al Which his wife, Turner, was among the spectators.

Turner was said to have; suffered a skull fracture when the motorcycle he was riding left the course and collided with a He was brought to the hospital here In a private ambulance. 'The injury rendered him unconscious. His wife and a group of friends came to the remaining Until his death. Turner's bo'dy was removed from the Staten funeral to the Hoffmelster mortuary, 6464 Louis, today. At; the of Deputy Coroner Staten it was said that time of an Inojuest remained to he fixed.

Exact cause of the fatal mishap had not been determined from the information immediately available, it was said. From initial statements, It appears that Turner was participating in a race. While his motorcycle was to the rear of a low hill which concealed a portion of the track from direct view of the throng of spectators at the park, something occurred to result Mn the racing vehicle going out of'the driver's contr6l. When persons watching the race fatted to "see Turner's To Abolish'Plague of War I Reftt Session Undecided Oa Whether to Act One Dead, 10 Missing When ferry Boat and Barges Collide tlon to an active start once the membership was complete, he said. The contract for erection housing units for veterans a Shurtleff College has been award ed to the H.

B. peal Co. of St. Loul and today that company had me in Alton starting work on the con piers on which buildings ar to stand. R.

R. Construction Co. has part of the contract awarded by Shurtleff In advanced state, laying sewer and water mains, preparing streets In preparation for the main construction work to be done by the B. Deal which holds a federal contract. The housing units are to be erected at the foot of Leverett avenue, corner of Worden.

There are to be five buildings with five family-units in each and an additional building for housing single veterans attending the college. The buildings are to be of frame with asphalt shingle siding. Man Injured When He Saves His Nephew From Drowning While ui ng hu ne ew, Carles Boschert, 5, from the water "i Alton Jake Sunday, William fcchroeder, 40, a station proprietor jnctirred thnt required hospital ttDh'. 2 la a Patient in St Jo- "Phs Hospital. ichroeder with a family group Dimming Alton take, on SS url slde when hl nephew, Callow water, the surface of the his Jar.

left leg A deep was inflicted by the glass, the gash reaching almost to the bone. After Scroeder had gotten his nephew to shore he was found to be Weeding profusely, and a tourniquet made from a handkerchief, was applied by Paul Tuepken and Patrick Maher, members A swimming party, and he was brought to the hospital. The of Mr. and Mrs. Horner Boschert, did not suffer any 111 effects of his brief stay under the water.

Schrbeder said he was watching his nephew and saw him just as he went under the water, and he reached him eJmost Immediately. from Marietta, O. In 1908 and said he helped build the town up from a' watermelon He 'built the home where he. Is living, in 1908. He said when he was seven years old he attended a party for his grandparents.

His grandfather was 107 and his grandmother was 97 and they danced the "old Dutch reel." His grandfather died when he was 111 and Metheny said he may outlive him. Metheny has a complete set of carpenter's tools and is proud of them. He keeps them in excellent order. His hobby is filing saws. Metheny works the midnight shift, six days one week and five the next.

He said he sleeps well In the daytime If It isn't too hot. He is the, father of two sons, Harold who resides at Santa Monica, and Ira of Wood River. Two years Mr. and Mrs. Metheny went to California to visit their son.

HopeVirtually Abandoned for Housing Bill WASHINGTON, July 29. UP) Administration leaders virtually abandoned hope otday for passage of the Wagner-Ellender-Taft long range housing bill at the present session of Congress. Chairman Spence (D-Ky) told newsmen after a closed door session of the banking committee: "I think you can say we have given up hope, If Congress goes through with Its plan to adjourn Friday." Shortly before, Speaker Rayburn told President Truman the House would consider the bill provided the banking committee sent It to the floor. The measure, authored by Senators Wagner (D-NY), Ellender (D- La), and Taft (R-Ohlo), contemplates a 10-year housing program calling for construction of 1,500,000 dwelling units a year, including 125,000 public housing units a year. Glum PARIS, July 29, UP) An unofficial delegation representing Hungary In Paris peace conference circles waited unhappily today for the had news It felt sure was contained In the proposed peace treaty draft for that couritry, "We're here to attend our own funeral," one member of the delegation said, "end it isn't a good feeling." The group; headed by Laszlo Farago, economic expert, has not given a copy of the proposed treaty, but members have a pretty good idea of what will be demanded of them and how the western powers are split with Russia over free navigation of the Danube cycle reappear from in fiacKof the hillock which of the course they hurried tb investigate, and found it had struck the tree.

Turner was said to have been employed of late in a motorcycle establishment 1 in Springfield'but had continued 'to make his home In St. Louis at 2746 Hampton. Many motorcyclists from Alton-Wood River attended the racing card at Jerseyville yesterday. Elmer Marshall, 34, of 501 Brookside Incurred a hip injury and deep abdominal laceration morning when a motor scooter on which he was riding overturned on Route 67, when he swerved to avoid collision with an automobile. He Is patient in St.

Joseph's Hospital. 4 Marshall was on his Boxboard plant at time of the' hap, said his which belonged to a bur Norrls, and was go up Norrls, an employe board after he work. John D. Bauser of 1230 East Broadway, driver of the went to Marshall's home following the accident to notify Mrs. Marshall, arid 'took 'her to the hospital.

Mrs. Marshall recalled today th a year-ago this month her son, Darrell, 6, was injured In an automobile 'accident on East Broadway 1 near the same place where her husband's accident occurred 2000 Miners IdleinProtest Of Living Cost Reinstitution of Federal Controls Leaves Them Up in Air SPRINGFIELD, July 29, With mixed sentiments on whether to enact an eviction moratorium, or to quickly close'shop and go home instead, Illinois legislators reconvened their special rent control session today. The final decision appeared to be up to Republican Gov. Green, who said upon return from a flying trip to California he would confer with his policy makers in the GOP-controlled Assembly. Since the governor early last week summoned the Assembly to give courts more power to stay evictions and to limit rent Increases to 10 percent of June rentals, federal controls have been restored.

Both, of the governor's bills contained clauses that they would become Inoperative when, federal rent controls were in force. This would indicate he would ask for state action. Some GOP leaders, however, and Democratic Minority Leader Richard J. Daley in the Senate, have said the eviction moratorium should be enacted regardless of the OPA controls, to help renters whose" eviction proceedings, begun since June 30, are still pending In courts. Daley has submitted such a bill, without any clause making it Inoperative during OPA controls.

Republican Lt. Gov. Hugh W. Cross, Senate president, said he would rule late today Whether the session legally could consider a Democratic'bill for $46,000,000 In state to veterans housing. The legislation also is pending which will reconvened at 2 p.

Tuesday. The Senate was scheduled to rneet at (Alton Daley pther Democrats Chigago say" the governor's special Cession call for action on and evictions prior to OPA's return "clearly indicated" something should be done to relieve the housing shortage for veterans. But some Republican leaders said the governor's language specifically disallows consideration of veterans housing aids, and that he is awaiting the legislative soldier bonus commission's suggestions before taking any action on the question. Before the session adjourns sine in lawmakers are expected to appro- Seek Bormann, sDeputy, Following Tip' By THOMAS A. REEDY NUERNBERG.

July 29. UP) American Intelligence officers' reported today that Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputy party leader who has, been missing since the fall of Berlin, was seen In Munich only a week ago and that a house to house search for him is going on. Bormann long was believed dead. He Is being tried In absentia as one of the 22 Nazi defendants by the international military tribunal. intelligence chiefs said a disgruntled of Bormann, fired in a disagreement over stolen garden vegetables, provided them with a tip that started a new hunt for the Nazi party chieftain.

An source said the chauffeur, Jakob Glas, longtime resident of Munich, informed Intelligence chiefs he was "absolutely certain" the man he saw rding In an automobile in a main street of Munich a few days ago was the missing and long-sought Bormann. Glas was Bormann's driver for years until the final year of the Hitler regime. Then, he said, he was dismissed after Bormann accused him of stealing vegetables from the deputy Fuehrer's private garden. Everybody Out To Gouge U.S., Probers Told CARirTHERSVILLE, July 29, muddy Mississippi river, was searched today for the bodies of at least ten persons, possibly were believed to have perished in. the collision of a ferry boat arid two oil laden barges near here.

Thirteen other occupants of the ferry were saved after the flat dumping at least five vehicles and their passengers Into the waters. The accident occurred at 9:20 p. last night 50 yards from the Missouri shore as the ferry neared completion of its crossing from the Tennessee side. One was known dead, jerry Vickers, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Claude Vickers, of Caruthersville died after he was brought to shore, A brother! Larry, 6, Is among the ten missing. Hts parents were saved. List of Missing Also missing are: Jesse Guy, 60, of Caruthersville, ferry boat deckhand, and Mrs. Big 4 Agree tcf Disclose Texts Of Pacts Drawif By Byrnes Urges Bowl'Policy of Open Meetings PARIS, July 29, nation peace conference, convened formally in Luxembourg more than a year after the of the second world war in Eu fi rope, was summoned by President Georges Bidault of France todaJP to abolish "the plague of war." Addressing the- 1600 delegates of the victorious allies on behalf of the host nation, Bidault pleaded: "The long suffering peoples ol the world today look to you. If we cannot get complete peace so- 1 Guy, 50, who boarded the boat with his.

L. L. Green of Caruthersville, circuit court clerk of Term's- cot County. Jim Ed'Kelly, 12, a rider, in the Green automobile. Robert Wood, 22, of Caruthersville.

An Infant child of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Myers, address not glveft.

Janice Eastwood, 21, oflCronan- ville, Tenn. i Robert Lee Eastwood, CronanviUe, Tenn. 23, of priate about $124,000 to cover session expenses. BENLD, 111., July 29. proximately 2000 Progressive.Mlnei Workers (Ind.) stayed away from their jobs in the Benld-GUlespie area today to protest rising living costs.

Four mines of the Superior Coal Co. and one independent shaft, manned by members of the Piror gressives' Local No. 1, were affected by the one day walkout. The action followed a mass meet? Benld yesterday at which PMA President John Marchlandb and Rep. Emily Taft Douglas (D- 111) advocated decreased buying to effect lower prices.

Bikini Targets Still Too Moslems Take Back Approval OfBritishPlan By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Reporter BIKINI, July 29. qn "Test Charlie," when an atom bomb will be detonated far down In the deep sea, already Is starting, Vice Adm. W. H.

Blandy said today as he awaited damage reports from a target fleet still dangerously radioactive after Thursday's shallow blast. Seabees have been assigned to prepare the deep-sea mooring lines for next spring's tentatively- planned deep-water burst. The deadly X-rays barred close Inspection of inner-circle ships in the lagoon again than four days after the harbor-depth explosion. But live animals have been found on at least two ships on the outer circle. The admiral said only that It may be a week before it is safe to go back aboard some of the The Incomplete, tentative damage toll meanwhile rose to 16.

Latest addition was the submarine Dent.ude, beached with her forward torpedo room flooded. The latest box score of the shallow-depth bomb test showed the single blast crippled a fifth of the 75 target vessels. The Jap battleship Nagato, list-. Ing badly and with decks awash, probably will be towed to sea and by gunfire BOMBAY, July 29 Moslem League's policy forming council of action today withdrew its acceptance of the British cabinet mission's proposals for granting India Independence and in bitterly phrased instructions told the League's working committee to en- volve a program of "direct action" to achieve an independent Moslem State (Pakistan). The council of action declared In a resolution that "Moslem India has exhausted without success all avenues for peaceful settlement" of demands for safeguards In writing a constituiton.

It accused Britain and the Congress Party of collaborating in a "breach of faith" to the League. Mahomed All Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, told tlie cheering assembly that events that had occurred since the League accepted the cabinet mission's proposals were a "blessing in because from them Moslems had learned "a bitter lesson." The council's decision followed a three-day round of speech making In which Moslem the council that Britain had "betrayed" the League by not insisting on adoption of the mission's interim government plan despite Congress Party opposition. The British cabinet mission's plan for independence was approved June 6 by the League and July 7 by the Congress i'arly, largest political organization in India and chief rival of the League. The plan calls for the creation of a federated union of India and the drafting of a charter by a constituent assembly, elected by provincial legislatures. Escapist UNIONTOWN, July 29.

UPi Detective Lawrence Haggerty has never seen so many movies In his life. Haggerty is assigned to serve a Warrant on an alimony dodger who boasted he was going to hide in a Uniontown movie until officers tire their search WBRSON Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren "told Senate Investigators that "it has looked as if everybody and his brother were out to get the government during the lush war years." Warren made this statement to the Senate war investigating committee. At the same time, he appealed for greater powers for the General Accounting office as "the last bulwark for the protection of taxpayers of this country against unbridled and illegal expenditures of public funds," Some high officials of government, he said, accepted entertainment, Including cocktail parties, hotel bills and even travel from contractors" while at the same time drawing travel expense and per diem (dally allowance) from the government." This practice, he added, was "the rule rather than the exception," Warren was called before the committee, which.has been investigating war profits of a mldwest- ern munitions combine, to give his advice on possible new anti-profits legislation. Last week the committee asked the General Accounting Office to go over all transactions between the War Dept.

and a midwest munitions combine relative to renegotiation and 'termination of contracts. "The committee Is also anxious," a statement by Chairman Mead (D-N Y) said, "to ascertain what audits are being conducted for the protection of the public in payments to war contractors on the part of the General Accounting office and what deficiencies exist in the operation of existing statutes and regulations designed to insure the proper expenditure of public funds for national defense." Before hearing Warren, the committee announced that It would not make public at this time an additional War Dept. report on malfunctioning of 4.2-lnch chemical mortar shells. A statement termed the matter too important for release of "piece-meal expressions of opinion." Mead added that "considerable confusion" had arisen as the result of conflicting testimony on the subject of the shells, some of which caused loss of life and injury among troops at the front through premature explosion. "Although the committee," the statement said, "In Its Investigation of the Erie Basin case, was primarily concerned with inordinate profits, it views the matter of shell failures and losses of life there-from as a matter of even greater magnitude than excessive profits." Mead urged on behalf of the committee that "condemnation of any individuals or companies, in- eluding those associated with the Erie Basin case, be withheld." reference was to the Erie Basin Metal Products 111., one of the companies In the munitions combine under Investl- gallon.

Ann Hopson, 21, of Cronanvllle, Tenn. The pilot of the ferry, Charles Edward Hendrix, who was saved when he was tossed on a barge in the crash, was quoted as estimating that there were between 20 and 25 persons in the five or six carsv on the flatboat. Other estimates ran high as 30. One trtirvlvor said 'the ferry carried four and one Big lutions, I hope that at least we will get reasonable.ones." In an apparent reference to the United States and Russia, Bidault said that whatever blame could be attached to the failure to keep the peace after the first world war, a "fundamental cause of that failure was that the two great powers who had taken a decided part in the conqueut of arms remained on the' sidelines during the solution Of peace." ot Plain Men' "The hopes of plain men are turned toward.us today," he said, concluding his 10-mlnute, spoken speech. Bidault was.

then named provisional chairman of the conference on the motion of Secretary of State James E. Byrnes, Today's session began 4t 4:14 p. (11:14 a. m. Alton time) and suspended at p.

m. An American source and sunk, by the impact of the'-tvif) oil barges; linked 'together pushed by two tugs In a single train. The ferry overturned arid floated down the river. The two barges, carrying 48,000 barrels of oil upstream from Jennings, were bound for Mount Vernon, Ind. Gave Signals E.

W. Rogers, Vicksburg, the pilot on duty on the tug, said he gave blinker signals that he was going to pass upstream on the left or Missouri side. He said he saw no answer and that when he saw how close the boats were approaching it was too late to stop. Rogers said he held his barge against the ferry for a few moments after 'the collision hoping that some of its occupants would leap to his craft, but that in their panic those on the ferry were too excited to take advantage of the chance before their boat overturned. The barges then backed downstream, Rogers and Pierce throwing out life preservers and aiding in bringing the swimming barge occupants to shore.

River authorities from Memphis notified authorities here that they would be here at noon today to conduct an Investigation. British Agree On Unification Of Reich Zones WASHINGTON, July 29, Iff) The State Dept. announced today Britain has accepted "in principal" this government's proposal to unify occupation zones in Germany. The department's announcement reiterated the hope that Russia and France likewise will accept. Despite thl shope, the expectation among diplomats here is that the United States and Britain at once will work out details for unifying their own zones economically, that France probably will join promptly and that Russia will refuse to cooperate.

The announcement which may mark a step In the hardening of the great power split In Germany come as Secretary of State Byrnes met with Prime Minister Attlee and Foreign Ministers Molotov and Bidault in the first day of the Paris peace conference. plete, texts the treaties', Romania, Fiiilaftd thst.have been prepares by, the foreign council. These drafts, which be mltted to the peace conference, will be released for publication at 11 p. (6 p. Alton time) Tuesday.

The texts will be accompanied by statements from each of the foVr foreign ministers giving their attitudes on the disagreements that still exist. Most of the terms of the treatielj already have become known unofficially. Release of the full texts simultaneously in Paris, London, Waashlngton and Moscow had been advocated for several days by the United States and 'France, but the British and Russians had differed on how much should be made public. Byrnes was disclosed to favor a "goldfish bowl" policy at the peace conference. If this proposal for open meetings is turned down, the American informant said, Byrnes will propose that representatives of various commissions of the conference be appointed to keep newspaper reporters informed of what goes on at closed meetings.

Map to Be Changed It was known that the proposed treaties would change the map of Europe, list reparations which the five defeated nations must pay, and outlaw militarism. U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, who arrived here yesterday, conferred with British Prime Minister Clement R.

Attlee In an attempt to break the publication deadlock. The two also discussed various aspects of the Palestine problem. Is here in place of his foreign secretary, Ernest Bevln, who is ill. Byrnes lisclosed that he would urge the delegates to allow former enemy states, as well as any Continued on Page 2, Column 2. Snakes Alive CHICAGO, July 29.

UP) The giant Anaconda at the Brookfield zoo has been called El Diablo, Spanish masculine form for "The but zoo authorities today had 21 reasons for changing the name to La Diabla, the feminine form. The big snake, which everyone at the zoo had thought was a male, gave birth yesterday to 21 live anacondas. N. Y. British Consulate Guarded After 'Phoned Bomb Warning NEW YORK, July 29.

cars, detectives and the police bomb squad were sent to the building at 25 Broadway, in which the British consulate has offices, this morning on reports the building would be bombed. Police said they were advised that a telephone call had been made to the building by a person who said: "Clear out. Your building is going to be bombed In 17 minutes,.