Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 1

Today Over the Union Pacific, plenty of Beer. Pigj, Corn, Prosperity. Best Minds Worry. By ARTHUR LYNNDL, Utah, May return trip from the Pacific to the Atlantic Is made over the Union pacific. Its building was authorized by President Lincoln on July 1.1862.

rebuilt, mane one of the greatest railroads, by the late E. H. Harrlman, a constructive American to whom the United States owes gratitude. The first part of the trip by auto from W. R.

Hearst's ranch at San Simeon, along the edge of the Pacific for a hundred miles and then tor two hundred miles across the desert, would pleasfe youth, which wishes to believe that things "wild and western" still exist. They would have seen after dark dozens of tall, ghostly jackrabbits hopping about the desert roads, confused by the headlights, and, lurking at the side of the road, a gray coyote that seized one and darted like a shadow into the desert. Such tragedies establish nature's balance. Without destructive enemies, rabbits would destroy all crops. Beer Invites attention obstreperously everywhere.

Across windows of a lonesome desert gas station you see written with soap in enormous letters "Plenty beer." Five cents profit on a pint of beer Is better than two cents on a gallon gasoline. port of Los Angeles announces heavy gains In Imports, largely beer. In the month of April Uncle 'Sam's customs collections at the port Increased $50,000, thanks to beer from Canada and Mexico. Once bootleggers would have got the $50,000, multiplied by ten, with beer at $1 a bottle. Mexico ships "from the second largest brewery in the world" beer, "Carta Blanca Pilsner Mexicana," and names "Bxqulsltia." it B.

J. Steinheuser of New York and Rockaway Beach, Long Island, who tried the beer when urged by Prank M. Hauser of Santa Monica, says, "It Is equisitia all right." The Union Pacific takes travelers to see many Old Faithful, the big geyser; to the high north vim of the Grand Canyon, or off to Mount Rainier, looking down, forever snow covered. And from Los Angeles eastward you travel through great food-producing regions of the United California; through Nevada, where five thousand sheep bleat and graze beside the track; through Utah, past the Great Salt Lake; on through Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Into Chicago, where the great exposition ns on June 1. eysers that rush upward, Yose- Palls that drop down, grand deep canyons, palm trees and eternal snows contrasted are all very well, but for -the, fields, that prodjieeymir farm crop, and pigs and eat the corn, are the Important: features of this journey.

The Salt Lake Tribune brings the morning news; meets you half a day out of Salt Lake City. There is trouble to the south. Luis M. Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, is assassinated while reviewing 30,000 troops. One man can do what 30,000 cannot prevent.

The murderer was seized, "hacked to pieces," by soldiers and police. But that did not restore the dead President. Gandhi announces a new "irrevocable" three weeks' fast. He tells his son, Devidas, who begs him not to risk his life again, that he is fasting "to purify his soul" and protest against untouchablllty and the caste system. Poor Gandhi, kept in jail by the British, would not seem to need any other soul purification.

He represents pathetically the uselessness of Theodore Roosevelt's "words without deeds." From Washington high finance arns with groans that it is living nder a "highbrow" government willing to try anything once, and listening to a college professor as readily as it would to an experienced political boss. The nation has started many things in a hurry, to be digested at leisure. One of them not so soon Is nationalization of labor. If laws requested are passed the government will have power to raise wages in one place, down in another. force them The Democratic party will have power, if it chooses, to give a good imitation of Mussolini or Stalin.

Arthur Sears Henning 'says the G. O. meaning Republican gentlemen who recently ran the country, are filled with alarm about a "dictatorship" and believe "the Independent authority of Congress is doomed to be snuffed out like that of the Italian Parliament and the German Reichstag." Thera are marked differences between Mussolini, Hitler and President Roosevelt, and, anyhow, many Americans will suggest that a dictator living in the White House might be no worse than a dictator doing business in Wall street. W. M.

A. Has Annual Inspection Government inspection, an an- mml event at Western Military Academy and one that is anticipated during the entire school year was concluded yesterday afternoon oy Major G. B. Terrlss and Major W. Newgarden who have been waking an inspection ot Military Schools in this section of the country.

Both men are graduates of West Point, and this is the first iime they have been ordered to western on this errand by the Adjutant General by the War Department. Inspection of the school began Saturday afternoon and concluded yesterday afternoon. Classes were not held during the morning ani cadets were given uptown leave in afternoon. Sunday afternoon, Colonel and Mrs. R.

L. Jackson entertained with a faculty tea in honor of Major und Major Newgarden. ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH (Established January 20,1836) 3c Per Cony ALTON, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1933. Supply Bill Cuts Veteran Fund in Half Administration Budget Is Reduced To, $535,568,883 Farm Board Slashed Gives Broad Powers to President on Setup Of Employes WASHINGTON, May 2 A half billion dollar supply bill nearly halving this year's huge veteran outlays and giving President Roosevelt sweeping new powers to pare costs was reported to House today by its approprla- committee. It provided a total of $535,568,883, or Just $5,053 more than the budget recommended for operating the government's independent executive agencies In the 1934 fiscal year.

Of the aggregate, $506,838,100 was alloted the veterans admln- stratlon. This sum in the bill compared with current appropriations for the same offices of $1.024,288,041, of which $948,799,000 went to the veterans administration. The independent offices bill of the last Congress vetoed by President Hoover carried Roosevelt Authority. In addition to operating expenses, he bill would appropriate also 179,591,043 for permanent fixed al- otments which compares with $81,070,850 this year. But besides providing funds, the bill contains broad legislative powers to be-exercised by the President.

They include authority; To modify or cancel any government transportation contract. To retire any ciyil service em- iloyee having 30 years' service. There are 21,000 employe as in this class. To increase existing charges for government services or articles. To furlough on half pay at his discretion any officers of the army, marine corps, public health service, coast guard or coast and georetic mrvey.

To" suspend or reduce the extra flight pay in the military services proviso; that pay bHatt- irinually. $4,000,000 or Mer- Fleet Corparatlon funds to the Postoffice Department for meeting foreign mall contract costs. These powers were requested by he President. Retiring Employes. Three important modifications were made by the "committee: The power over contracts was imited to transportation contracts.

The retirement of 30-year civil service employes was made permissive instead of automatic. The maximum flight pay was fixed at $1,440 annually. It now 50 per cent of base pay. The committee also made several changes In existing law. Most important: No new investigations shall be undertaken by the federal trade commission as a result of legislative resolutions unless approved by both Senate and House.

Minimum allotments to states in 1934 from vocational rehabilitation funds fixed at $8,840. Farm Board Salaries. Highest salaries for the Federal Farm Board fixed at. $10,000 for chairman and not over eight others at $8,500. Repeals the one-year sea pay for Annapolis graduates not receiving naval commissions.

Reduces retired pay for federal judges 15 per cent during the fiscal year. Extends the 15 per cent pay reduction to officers and employes of Insular possessions and to pensions not heretofore reduced. Prohibits use of funds to pay any salary increases resulting from higher classifications. The contracts powers for the President were viforously assailed by three Republicans on the appropriations sub-committee which drafted the bill, Representatives Taber and Bacon of New York and Thurston of Iowa. Santa Fe President Resigns.

NEW YORK, May B. Storey today resigned as president of the Atchlson, Topeka Santa Fe railway. Samuel T. BledSoe, general counsel and chairman of the executive committee, was named as his successor. Girl Running Down Hill Hits Streetcar An unusual mishap in which a little girl suffered bruises when she allegedly ran into the side of a street car was reported to a police patrolman Monday evening.

The child, Helen Snyder, 9, of 405 William street, was said to have been unable to stop as the street car came into the intersection ot William and Carroll streets as she was running down the William street slope. She was taken to her home, and, according to a report given Patrolman Schmidt, she received no serious hurts. William Thompson was In charge of the street car. A minor auto crash took place at Broadway and Ridge street early Monday morning, according to a police report, a touring car of B. Andrews of Granite City ami a sedan of Taylor Randall of the Randall restaurant coming into collision, No one was hurt.

Police Recover Lost Merclutndise The police department is seeking to determine the ownership of parcels of merchandise, purchased at the Snyder store, which were found by boys early Sunday, half concealed near one of the buildings of the Beail Bros, plant at West Fourth and Market streets. Patrolman Harvey Mourning located the boys with the parcels in the East End, and, on questioning them, learned of their find. At the police station, the packages were found to contain a pair of girl's slippers, two pairs of overalls and two men's work shirts. Police Sergeant Scott said today that no one had reported any loss to the police, but that It Is believed articles recovered must have been stolen or lost from an auto on West Fourth street Saturday evening. Farms Bought At Boom Prices Bring On Revolt in Iowa Chaotic State Traced to Loans Based on High Crop Values By DON McGUIRE Associated Press Staff Writer DBS MOINES, May 2, Behind the uprising which sent National guardsmen into northwestern Iowa counties is a story of the post-war land price boom and 15 years of efforts to slow the high speed agricultural machine of the World War days down to a pace approximating consumption demands.

Farm prices for choice Iowa land soared to $200, $300 and even more, an acre after the war. With loose credit and plentiful money, expansion was the watchword and farm owners mortgaged their property as they sought to extend their holdings and to install the latest farm machinery. to a rush that received impetus from the stock market boom, agriculture borrowed on the strength of $1 a corn and corresponding prices for other commodities. The reckoning came with the steady drop in prices which forced farmers to pay off these obligations with receipts from com sold at as low as a dime a bushel. Cattle Test Rebellion Unrest developed.

Organized, protest came in 1931 when farmers massed to- prevent testing of cattle testes Next came the "farm strike" aimed directly at low Mortgages were pending, the farmers said. not They contended, they could pay because of depleted Income, they went on to highways as pickets last fall to prevent movement of commodities to market until prices reached a point that assured cost of production plus a reasonable profit. Outbreaks of violence followed but the forcible prevention of farmers from selling thtir products gradually died after having spread to Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota and other states. Out of this movement rose the Farmers Holiday Association, its aim being to withhold products voluntarily. As the mortgage situ- tion became more acute, the Association organized "councils of defense" in many counties to work out agreements between creditor and debtor.

In some cases conciliation was effective, but in others foreclosure actions were started. At Le Mars, where the picketing movement had started, an attorney representing a foreclosure insurance company, was dragged from the court house steps as he offered a bid at a forced sale. He was forced to make a compromise offer. Similar movements by farmers occurred in other parts of the state, forcing frequent postponements of foreclosure sales. Meanwhile unpaid taxes were piling up and county treasurers found It necessary to call sales to collect the delinquent levies.

The sales were jammed with tight-lipped farmers who refused to make a single bid. After frequent postponements, the state legislature met and postponed delinquent tax sales until Dec. 1, 1933. Among other legislative moves was the passage of laws declaring a virtual moratorium on mortgage foreclosures until March 1, 1935. The outbreak which led to the calling of troops resulted when Judge C.

C. Bradley began consideration of cases brought by insurance companies and land banks testing the validity of the moratorium laws. Farmers dragged the Jurist from his bench and threatened to hang him unless he held the laws constitutional. Varying opinions have already been handed down by district judges, but the Supreme Court has not yet ruled upon the laws. Stocks Advance In Closing Trade NEW YORK, May 2, stock market was pulled up smartly by heavy buying of the rails in the afternoon today, after showing an inclination to react in the earlier trading.

Several issues closed to 5 points higher, and morning losses of 1 to 3 in the industrial were largely regained. The final tone was firm. Transfers approx hnated 3,600,000 shares. U. S.

Comptroller Approved. WASHINGTON. May 2, nomination of J. P. T.

O'Connor of California to be comptroller of the currency today was approved by the Senate finance committee and ordered reported to the Senate. $5000 Suit AgainstLight Firm Heard Plaintiff Alleges Service Was Cut Due Is Defense Member of The Associated Press Weather Forecast Norville Case Ends Defendant Found Not Guilty in 110,000 Damage Action On trial before a jury In City Court today was the $6000 suit of Mrs. Don Mahoney against Alton Power In which she asks damages on allegations that the defendant utility company last Aug. "arbitrarily" discontinued electric service at her home at 201 Oakwood avenue. Most of the forenoon was occupied in securing a Jury, and, when the noon recess was announced by Judge Yager, the attorneys had just completed their opening statements.

V. M. Jacoby is representing the plaintiff, and Attorney Burroughs of Edwardsvllle, the defendant. It was expected the first witness would be put on the stand when court resumed at 1:30. Company Denies Charge.

It Is alleged by the plaintiff that the company cut off service and has since refused to restore service despite all charges for electric service having been paid. In pleadings and through the opening statement of counsel, the defendant however, set up as its defense that there is owing to the power company about $30. It was said "the company proposed to show tfcere was nothing "arbitrary" in the alleged suspension of service at the Mahoney home, but that on the contrary there was cause such that the defendant concern should ftbt be held responsible for any dam- A large delegation of company employes was present prepared to testify in the case. At the counsel table with the attorneys was Mrs. Mahoney, the plaintiff, and T.

as chief representative of the Alton Light Power Co. Prospective witnesses brought Into the court some electrical apparatus fk wa resumed ml be offered In evidence as the trial progressed. Verdict Opened Verdict of not guilty was returned rittl in the damage suit of E. M. Norville, as istrator 'of Mrs.

Cordelia Kelley Borders? The finding of the jury was returned sealed shortly before 6 p. m. yesterday and. was when Judge' Yager opened court today. The suit grew out of a fatal accident at Third and George streets ye B8 lasfc Ma rch 26 when Norville, a Western Union messenger boy, riding a bicycle, came into collision with an automobile driven by Mrs.

Borders. City Ambulance Driver Louis Waller testified that Norvill told him after the accident that he lost control of the bicycle descending the Third street slope and ran Into the side of the auto. Mrs. Kelley, mother of Mrs. Borders, and with her In the automobile at time of the accident, testified Norville had told her his brakes did not hold.

Mrs. Borders, under the law, could not take the stand, but the defense side proffered her testimony if it were desired. Other than Mrs. Kelley there was no witness who had seen the crash until after Norvllle's bicycle had come into contact with the automobile. The bicycle was admitted in.

evidence for Inspection of the jury, and the defense offered testimony the brakes were In functioning condition, Notice of a motion for a new trial was given. Under a separate compensation action before the Illinois Industrial Commission, an award of $1000 was made after Norvllle's death. Car Turns Over, Driver Injured Severe bruises about the back and possible rib fractures, but no injuries of apparent dangerous aspects, were suffered shortly before noon today by a youth named Herring when a roadster in which he was driving south in Belle street ran off the slab and turned upside down in the front yard at the residence of H. L. Bell.

Herring was beneath the automobile when Bell and others of the neighborhood ran to his assistance, but it happened that one of the doors had flipped open as the roadster overturned, and he was extricated without difficulty. Bell took Herring to the office of a physician, where he was given emergency treatment, and then took the youth to the home of his mother in East End place. According to witnesses, Herring met with disaster when he sought to stop the roadster when he found the path ahead blocked by two trucks. The car, he said, was one in which he was driving to town from the place of his uncle on Route 3 In order to do an errand in the business district for the owner. Throat Abcess Suffocates Girl.

CHICAGO, May 2 3 two- year-old Kankakee, 111., glvl suffocated in the Illinois Aesearch Hospital after her windpipe became from an abccss believed to have been caused by a peanut. The victim was Dorothy Musslcj, 222 South Oreenview avenue, Kankakee, and was admitted to the hospital two months ago When May Day Bombings Jatted Qowntown Chicago cloudy rather cool tonight; Wednesday generally fair, somewhat er in west and south. S8Mpl d8I ftgecaused Trees Felled AsMayGale Hits Alton traditional Spring Fetes Interrupted By Storm bombs in Chicago's loop. Thousands of windows were sssTssSMsssfi Rhode Island Is Third State to Vote Ratifying Repeal Only One Community Gives Majority, 310 to 293, to Staying Dry PROVIDENCE, R. I.

May 2, W) Island, third state to vote on repeal of the 18th amendment, today stood firmly in the anti- prohibltloh column. Wisconsin and; Michigan already have voted in favor of repeal. Only one Rhode Island community, the town of Hopkinton, voted to retain the amendment as the to named 31 repeal-pledged delegates to the state convention May 8. Hopkinton voted 310 to 293 against repeat. Rhode Island, which never ratified the 18th amendment and was commonly known as "wettest of the states," had state prohibition for years.

Repeal voted in. ipeaT votes piled up rapidly as yesterday's election progressed, with the heaviest polling coming during the evening hours just before dosing time. All of the state's cities showed large repeal majorities with the prohibition group drawing its slight strength from the rural communities. Providence cast 60,662 repeal votes to 6,758 retention ballots. The 14th voting district went anti- prohibition by a majority of 1645 to 11 and in the 17th district the repeallsts ran amuck 1563 to 4.

Rhode Island's other five cities repeal majorities as high as 9 to 1. I. C. C. to Ask Wider Utility Rate Powers CHICAGO, May 2, F.

Lindheimer, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, said the state legislature would be asked to pass new laws this week expanding the powers of the commission in regulating public utility rates. Armed with the proposed legislation Lindheimer left for Springfield. II concurrence was given by the state assembly as he said he expected, the commission among other things would have the power to enforce reductions in rates pending litigation. In other matters he said the commission would exert the power of approval over all proposed Investments, loans or cash advances to any firms, persons or groups, and would have jurisdiction over all transactions between affiliates of utility concerns and holding companies the right to set rates for an entire community served by a single company also would be sought, the chairman declared. Chicago's Sixth Bomb Of May Day Explodes CHICAGO, May 2, sixth In less than 24 in the Chicago area.as May day drew to close and caused police to blame gangsters engaged in a war to gain control of the Teamsters' union.

The scene of the day's final blast occurred last night at the home of Arthur Metzger, business agent of the Lake county local of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs and Helpers, In suburban Lake Jflorest as officers of the association were holding their monthly meeting. The bomb was tossed at the front of the Metzger house and caused considerable damage, but no one was injured. Metzger and other officials of the union said they had been repeatedly threatened by an "outlaw" Chicago teamsters' union and the police asserted they were convinced the five bombs that exploded in the Chicago business district early yesterday were the work of gangster and not Communists. Sauvage Selected as Repeal Delegate Former Mayor William M. Sauvage of Alton was selected as a repeal candidate for delegation to the state convention to consider ratification of repeal of prohibition, by political leaders who named a bi-partisan slate today at Springfield.

Sauvage and Bruce Campbell, Democrat, are the candidates named for the Twenty-Second congressional district, by repealists. Delegates will be elected at large, with 50 to comprise the convention. Delegates will be named at the June 5 Judicial election. Belleville Girl Wins Wellesley Altar Race WELLESLEY, May 2, 3 Is not strictly an engagement announcement but Doris Gundlach of Belleville, 111., will be the first member of the Wellesley College graduating class to wed, if there Is anything to a time honored Wellesley tradition. Doris, with her own gown sewed up to her knees to prevent tripping and her mortar board cap tied on with a bit of ribbon, yesterday won the aniual senior class hoop race.

According to tradition, she Is fated to be the first of the class to win a much smaller hoop for the third finger of her left hand. U. S. Public Debt Billions jn Year Income From Beer Taxes Not Computable Until May WASHINGTON, May 2, nation's public debt has increased three billion dollars in the last year. On April 30 it stood at $21,441,209,176 compared to $18,596,695,430 on the same date a year ago.

The debt increased $78,744,899 In April. The government's deficit for nine months of. the 1933 fiscal year to- talled $1,585,625,498 at the end of April as compared with $2,334,105,142 for the similar period of the previous year. The government's receipts from Income taxes and customs duties continued to decline, the former amounting to $583,168,665 for the nine months as compared with $87,303,905 for the similar period of the previous year. Customs duties brought in only $207,289,317 as compared with $295,375,894.

Miscellaneous internal revenue which includes collections from levies made In the billion dollar tax bill and from beer taves collected during April amounted to $69,310,282 for the month and $657,872,435 for the nine months. Miscellaneous internal revenue brought in only $420,138,151 for the similar period of the 1932 fiscal year but none of the new taxes had been levied at that time. Treasury officials declined to estimate how much tax had been collected from beer during April and said the final figures probably would not be available until about the middle of May. Roosevelt May Open Chicago World's Fair WASHINGTON, May 2. W) President Roosevelt is trying to arrange to get to Chicago to open the world's fair there in June; and he also plans to spend most of the summer away from Washington.

His trip to Chicago fs only tentative at present because he has agreed to go to Annapolis on June 1 to deliver diplomas to the naval academy graduating class. The fair Is scheduled to open that day; but it was said today at the White House that if that were postponed a day or two, the President might make the western trip. His plans for the summer remain unsettled because of uncertainty on the time that Congress will adjourn all hough pressure being brought to got through the legislative schedule during the first week in June. Attend Clinic. Dr.

D. D. Monroe, director of the Madison county sanitarium today held a clinic at the Neighborhood House on Main street. Twelve pa- lien ts appeared at the clinic for ex- amiiKiticii. many of them being former patients of the sanitorium.

preparations are being made at siuiitorlum for observation of national Hospital Day May lli when an open house will be held Cut Edwardsville School Teachers' Salaries 5 Percent Principals, Coaches Are Excepted Under New Schedule EDWARDSVILLE, May 3. (Spe the entire teaching staff of the Edwardsville schools was re employed for the coming year, al who receive an annual salary of more than $1000, with the exception of the school principals and coaches, were made subject to a five percent reduction, under action of the board of education, Monday The re-employment of teachers was agreed upon at a meeting of the school board of directors helc Monday evening. The reduction of and the omission of the office of superintendent, formerly held by Charles E. Ford, Will save approximately $3600 yearly, accord Ing to. President Simpson.

Ford th employed. They are Steve Cole have charge of athletic, and physical education in the hlgl school, and his wife, who will su perlntend the girls' physical educa tion classes in the grade schoo Both are residing in the southern portion of the state at present Charles Edwards will be retained a. coach and supervisor of the boys physical instruction in the Junior high school. The school system in Edwards vtlle employs 50 teachers in th high school, junior high, Columbu Building, and Lincoln School. W.

Krumsleek. was retained as prlncl pal of the high school, and E. Alexander as supervisor of the Jun ior high, Columbus, and Lincoln buildings. Nazis Seize Last Labor Strongholc BERLIN, May 2 W) Chancel lor Hitler's brown shirts, by BUT prise and storm, took the last hurdle today on the road to Nazi domination of the labor movement by occupying headquarters of the free trade unions throughout Germany Socialist leaders of the unions which have 5,500,000 members were arrested. The trade unions of the future are to be made' national rather than international in character Nazi leaders said.

Having previously smashed tho Social-Democratic party, the Nazis realized socialism's backbone the trade unions still moved mentally In ideology of Marxism, even though leaders tried outwardly to swing them into line with the new concept of Germany. In Berlin, the Nazi storm troops, occupied the national headquarters of the unions and the gigantic building of the metal workers union The Social Democratic party's few remaining Reichstag and Prussian Diet members have been lead- Ing a shadowlike existence, totally devoid of the influence which was theirs when they belonged to the dominant party in Germany. Their vast propaganda apparatus, including hundreds of newspapers, already have been outlawed. Queer Quirks Illown By May-Day Winds A slight young woman on Market street between Broadway and Third was standing at the end of the sidewalk when the sudden wind came. Her skirts were ballooned and she was almost lifted from her feet when two men with her held her down.

The girl and her companions entered their car, which bore Missouri license, and drove away. A man in tlie same block had his hands in his pockets when the gust oi wind 'ilew off his hat. He reached for his hqt, and the change In his pockets camo out with his hands. He pu.sued the luit, then had to hunt for the money. House Is Damaged Maple Cracked by Wind Crashes Onto Rue Residence May Day was marked in Alton iy unlike those In ome cities, Alton's were due to the veather.

A spring that has been uncertain gave further evidence of bstrcperousness by providing a rainstorm that caused onsiderablc damage to trees in various sections of the city. In mid-afternoon the storm broke. A high wind whipped over the city and broke branches from trees and, some instances, felled great trees hat have withstood many storms. The most damaging Instance In which a tree was felled occurred at the residence ot Dr. A.

W. Rue, 814 Grove street, where a. large maple, near the front steps, crashed down across a corner of the bungalow. Fortunately there is a broad porch at the point where the tree came down, this tending to minimize damage within the house. Weight of the tree, however, splintered rafters at the corner ot the roof, and considerable repairs will be required.

Main Street Suffers No one was at home at the time of the storm, but the crash attracted attention of neighbors all about the intersection of Grove and Central. Dr. Rue had workmen remove the portion of the tree on the roof last evening, and the remainder of the damage was being rectified today. The Upper Alton area of the city Is said to have felt the heaviest effects of the blow. Main street, lined on cither side by state shade trees, suffered.

In the IlOO-block a great shade tree fell missing a resi- lence by a matter just a few feet. All over the east side area of the community branches were carried down by the brief gale, and the Alton Light Power Co, had call after another because of service wires to residences being torn away by falling limbs. At Clifton Terrace a large tree fell across the power line serving that community. A line crew from Alton Power Co. worked Soanvsatly rectify the situation.

It was necessary to rig up block and tackle, first to raise the fallen tree and release the wires, then "to pull the tree away. Service was restored as soon as the wires were released. Rain Follows Gale The approach of the storm as it swept across Missouri Point from the Missouri bluffs in St. Louis county was watched with Interest and a degree of apprehension by spectators on the top floor of City Hall. Great whitecaps were raised on the river, but no damage was reported on the levee.

The force of the gale was quickly cut by a downpour of rain. May day exercises of Lincoln grade school in Haskell park were interrupted by the storm at 3:30 p. m. The queen of May had been crowned, and four numbers by the primary rooms, songs and May dances, had just been completed when the storm broke, and forced pupils and spectators alike to seek shelter. There was a large attendance of parents and friends of the pupils on the grounds, and much regret that the fete could not be carried through.

It is. now proposed that program shall be given in connection with the annual school social Friday, June 2, on the school grounds. A fine old tree In Haskell Park, that had been damaged by the wind, Saturday night, had to be cut down by August Dormann, park superintendent. Part of the tree lad fallen to the Henry street sidewalk and It was believed dangerous lot to complete the job the wind lad started. The tree was one that the late Mrs.

Haskell had taken steps to preserve, but It could not vlthstand the wind. Asks $10,000 For Death of Wife EDWARDSVILLE, May 2, John H. Wedig of Wood River, ns administrator of the istate of his wife, Mrs. Addle Wc- dig. today filed suit in Circuit court here in sum of $10,000 against the Kroger Grocery and Baking Co.

because of her death. Mrs. Wedlg, according to the bill, died as the result pf an automobile crash on Route 3 near anal station lust Feb. when she was a passenger in the car of her husband which was wrecked in collision with the grocery truck, allegedly driven by Edward J. Seim.

First Communion Class At St. Mary's Church A class of 34 boys and girls will receive their first solemn holy communion at St. Mary's Church at 0 o'clock Wednesday morning. The young children, of the class will be confirmed by Bishop Griffin at St. Mary's on June 4.

I'arole Chief Named SPRINGFIELD, May 2. Gdprge Scully of Jollet today was appointed state superintendent of paroles, with headquarters at Chicago. He succeeds P. J. Barry, who becomes his assistant Scully's appointment has been pending for some time..