Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 1

Today Allah, Allah, Airplane. The Feminine Mind. Rules to fie Broken. Summer Goes, Senate Comes. Arthur Brisbane (O.

mo. br Ina.) EVENING (Established January 20,1836) 3c Per Copy Venice Police Judge Loses Vote Contest The Arabs of Hebron offer apologies for klllng forty-flve Jews, twelve of them Americans. That does not do the dead much good, but It is a good sign. Hebron Arabs, bringing vegetables, and cattle to the Jerusalem market Tntnlft Corrprt. But as usual on Tuesday, found no buy- lolal8 orrecl mu era among the Jews and had to sell at painfully low prices to Arabs.

Perhaps that made them apologetic. Also the presence of British airplanes zooming overhead, conveniently close to the holy mosque of Omar, and, delightful Irony, a battery of British cannon located-On the Mount of Olives, threatening the sacred mosque and the Mohammedan quarter, may have a discouraging effect. Wrong Candidates, Court Finds Reversal Complete Final Count Shown Incum bent Has Total Previously Given Rival school sing 1 "The rive Police Magistrate Frank Reldel dise. as they How, murmur, AJlah" ber cr of Venice, 111., seems to Allah! The angels In Paradise, as about to have a chance of losing his Ihnu ttrallr AllttVi they walk, sing Allah, Allah, Allah At present the Arabs are not singing Allah, but talking airplanes, different and painfully real. The International Congress of Psychology learns that married life brings the male mind closer to the feminine mind.

Investigation of "sex' differences primarily non-Intellectual," says Dr. Erman, shows that married life weakens "mental masculinity." Naturally and fortunately, men were once all cannibals, all murderers, all thieves. To meet a stranger was to kill him or run so that he wouldn't kill you. Women had to change that gradually, In their husbands and In their little boys also. They have done it, partly.

Much work remains for the feminine mind. A passenger on the Zeppelin remarked, "Rules were meant to be broken," and secretly smoked, a cigar, bringing flame within touching distance of the Zeppelin's highly explosive gas bag. One spark would have blown everybody on board to destruction. That American passenger's motto ''Rules were meant to be broken," Is American, beginning In respectable quarters with prohibition and contempt for the Constitution, reaching all the to the gunman In the gutter and the fool in the Zeppelin. Summer is gone, the Senate is sitting discussing tariff.

One hundred and twenty million Americans that eat sugar, beet-sugar men, Lou. isiana sugar, men, sugar growers of the whole world, are interested'in sugar. A high sugar tariff really- means protection, a national subsidy of niany millions, employers of Asiatic labor Philippines. In Hawaii and the Sugar comes duty free from those places, belonging to Uncle Sam, Asi- atics do the work. Their employers get the profit.

Not much of it will go to sugar' growers on this continent. Our friend Cuba, good customer and good neighbor, would be ruined by a high tariff, if anything could ruin so plucky a people. St. John Ervine, British, urges fellow Britons, men and women, to come to America, and "preserve the Nordic race." He la afraid of Latin- Slav domination "in the States." There are good female Jobs here, says he, and 60,000 British and northern Irish girls should come, get the Jobs and, contributing Nordic babies, keep this country from becoming Latin and Slav. Mr.

Ervine's plan would Interest Christopher who was not Nordic, but Spanish, partly Jewish. learned Judge Halstead L. from Florida, sitting temporarily in New York, says prohibition Jvlll win in the end, "speakeasies will fclose when public sentiment forces official action." The question Is WHEN. Judge Rltter says Florida, seat of bootleg activities, has a great incinerator Into which is dumped case after case of. liquor.

Bottles break, alcohol spills, "flames shoot forty feet Into the air." "I've got forty thousand bottles of fine liquor waiting for the Incinerator now. It is quite spectacle," The Judge is a dry. Orchard Owner To Mix Tourists, Gas, With Fruit WHITEHALL, Sept. 5. Earl Hicks, who owns a large fruit orchard northwest of the city and has for the past two years conduct" a fruit stand on the hard road lite the Chautauqua grounds of the city, is putting up an- sr 10x48 foot building on the site.

i conjunction with the fruit tad, Hicks will conduct $. filling stlrwon. and lunch counter, and tourVt camp. He expects to build a number of tourist camp cottages next reason on the site, which comprises five and a half acres well shaded large maple trees. Tuesday, while Mr.

Hicks' little 12- year-old daughter, Mildred, was playing about the grounds, she attempted to walk on stubs which had been driven In the ground to mark the site for. the new building and fell and broke her right arm between the wrist and the elbow. office because of a remarkable re versal of form shown in an election contest recount yesterday in Count; Court. Last Spring, Reldelberger, an at tractive personality who would Jus naturally be noticed no matter where he was opposed by J. P.

Haley the police magistrate Job. When the Judges of election counted the ballots, they gave a report which read Just like this: Reldelberger, 708; Haley, 099. Margin Slight The margin of 9 votes separatln the two rivals for the office of pollc magistrate was not sufficient to consluSlve so far as the defeatec candidate was concerned. Haley was not at all satisfied. So he filed a contest in the County Court befor Judge Trares.

The case has been dragging along ever since. One legal technlcalit after another was raised. Finally Judge Trares got down, yesterday to the stage where nearly everj point of dispute had been' dispose of and all that seemed to remain was to count the ballots and settli the squabble. The court sped the Job of counting. Here a ballot which had been disallowed by the Judges to one candidate would be in the recount.

There another ballot which had been allowed bo dlsal lowed. It was a regular see-saw game. The gains of Haley were con- slstent, though, and the losses Reidelberger were equally consistent Finally the last vote had been -counted. There had been no error in making the original report so far as the count of the election officers hsa been concerned, except that they hud deprived Haley of Votes wnich should have been allowed to him Judge Trares thought, and they hat allowed Reidelberger votes which should not have been counted. The remarkable situation wa? after the Judge had totalled thfl figures of the votes tor the respective candidates as follows: Haley 708; Reldelberger 699 Complete Reversal That made a complete reversal ol the figures.

Judge Trares rubbed nis eyes, hardly able to believe what he raw, but there the figures wer? In the contest case R. W. Griffith is the counsel for Reldelhergfi and Harold Bandy for Haley. Griffith is inclined to challenge the whole recount on the ground thai the ballots were not kept as prescribed by law, to make them proper proof In a recount. It is said they were kept by the clerk in his own home because ol lack of suitable storage accomoda- tions in tha city hall.

Gets Paving Contract. JERSEYVILLE, Sept. of the contract for paving portions of three Greenville streets been made to tint Nelson Construction of ihla city, who bid low Ion the project. Desire For Peace Solution of Navy Cut, MacDonald GENEVA, Sept. 5 (xP) The tremendous desire for peace shared by 05 per cent of all the peoples of the World will enable President Hoover and the British Prime Minister to solve'the naval power problem, said Ramsay MacDonald speaking today at a luncheon given the council of the League of Nations by the international association of journalists accredited to the League.

Amid the British Labor leader said, "This spirit of peace will support the hands of President Hoover and myself and enable us to settle the question as statesmen" He added his conviction that no considerations of naval interests would dominate them or cause them to risk failure. "We have our difficulties to be sure, there are things intricate In the character to be settled, but the will of the people Is more powerful than all Jacob Merkel Buried At Edwardsville Today EDWARDSVILLE, Sept. 5, services for Jacob Merkel who passed away Tuesday morn- Ing at the home of his sister, Mrs were held first at the hcme of Mrs. Charles Dunn of South Fllmore, another sister, and from there to the St. Boniface Catnoltc church with the Rev.

E. J. Eckhard officiating. Burial was made in the St. Boniface cemetery.

Merkel was born In Pin Oak May 13, 1870 and had attained the age of 59 years, 3 months and 21 days at the time of his death. He had never married and is survived by his mother, Mrs. J. Merkel, and his sisters and brothers. Henry Merkel, Mrs.

E. Turner. Mrs, W. O. Lyncs, Mrs.

Turner Smith of Columbus, Mrs. Charles Dunn Mrs. Max Metz, Mrs, Henry Dohle ALTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1929 Member of The Associated Pi-ess Weather Forecast What Congress is Doing Day by Day Wednesday Amended Republican tariff bill reported in Senate, but debate deferred. Senator Simmons, speaking for Democratic minority, said that lack of minority report was not to be taken as meaning his party was not "thoroughly opposed" to the tariff bill. Senator Elaine, Republican, Wisconsin, introduced resolution to make corporation Income tax returns available to members of congress during pendency of tariff bill.

Resolutions seeking negotiation a new peace treaty, additional Hood relief for southeastern states and investigation of method of selecting Federal grand jurors in South Carolina introduced by Senator Blease, Democrat, South Carolina. Investigation of activities of William ship builders agent, at unsuccessful Geneva naval disarmament conference At 1827 promised by Chairman of Senate Naval Committee. Nominations of eight-members of Farm Board and three new diplomatic officers submitted to Senate by President Hoover along witH batch of other appointments. Chairman McNary called meetr ing of Senate agriculture committee for Friday to take up Farm Board nominations. Thursday Senate meets at noon to begin debate on tariff bill; no committee meetings scheduled.

Swindle 6 Banks Out of $450,000 By Clever Scheme Two Men, Operating In Denver, New York, Are Sought DENVER, Sept. 5, pair of bunco men; one, working in Denver and the other in New York, swindled six New York City banks 'out ol $450,000 last Saturday, police were advised today. The six New York banks" were correspondents of a like number of Den ver banks. Each of the New York institutions contributed $75,000 to the scheme of the swindlers. Through the use of telegrams, the Denver member, of the swindle team York correspondents of Denver banks to deposit $75,000 each to the credit of the bank of Tellurlde in the Chase National Bank of New York City.

Each of the telegrams bore the Unauthorized signature of'an official ot the six Denver banks. All of the wires were in code of the American Bankers' Association. They were sent from various branch offices of Western Union Telegraph Co. by the Denver member of the bunco team. Saturday In New York City, the New York accomplice of the local swindler appeared at tha Chase National Bank and presented a cashier's check for withdrawal of $450,000.

The cashier's check is supposed to have been a forgery. Swindle Discovered Discovery of the swindle was made when the Denver banks received from their New York correspondents the usual charge slips. These showed the Denver banks had "authorized" the transfer of $75,000 each to the Chase National Bank for the account of the Bank Telluride. The president of each of the Denver banks Immediately notified offi- clals of the New Institutions they had not authorized the transfer of any the Chase National Bank for the account of the Bank of J.H. Mitchell Pound Shot, Dies in Hour Succumbs at Hospital Without Regaining Act Unexplained' Was Well Known Athlete; Long An Employe of Glass Works else and In the end It must have the ab ck Bill.

Willis Davles. last word," said MacDonald. Frankic Genaro. Joey Ross, Steve Plans Invitation Tournament For Flyweight Glass TORONTO, Sept. Brown, Toronto' boxing promoter, has a new idea for settling the Involved matter of the world's flyweight champ onshlp.

Brown Is planning an "invitation tournament" In which the winner will receive official recognition as undisputed champion. On the list to receive Invitations are Corporal Izzy Schwartz, Willie Lamorte, Midget Wolgast, Speedy Dabo. Black Bill. Willis Davles. Rocco and Prency Belangcr among American claimants and Johnny Hill, the British champion.

Brown announced the plan yesterday, saying he Intended to apply to the Ontario Athletic Commission ant! Canadian Boxing Federation for iiclal recognition of the tournament as a championship elimination series and through the Canadian body to Max Metz on Cherry street, were and the Canadian body to held this morning. Short services pn al to tne leading commissions in were held first, at r.f Mr 0 the United States for their co-onern Grafton School Faculty Announced at Opening ORAFTON. Sept. of the faculty were an- wunced at the opening of schools lere Monday. They are us follows; R.

M. Lacy, principal: Ninth grade. Hiss Mable Cope; Seventh and Blghth grades, Miss Freda Schroeder Filth and Sixth grades, Miss Ethel Jenkins; Third and Fourth grades illss Gleuna Simpson; Second grade, Hiss Opal Walker; First grade, Miss Irvine, wwa wppi vyciiKGr; grauo, Miss George and Frank Merkel, all of Uls Lena Seamen; independence Mhool, rtlss Alice Redd. J. H.

Mitchell, 61 years old, several years ago a well-known amateur baseball player in this Motion, died at 7 today at St. Joseph's hospital, an hour after he, Was found shot in the right temple at the home of C. E. Kuhn, '3717 Brown street, where he made his home. circumstances of the shooting were not known, as Mitchell was alone In his room at the time.

He had eaten a hearty breakfast and told Mrs. Mitchell he had forgotten his glasses and must go upstairs for them. A few moments later a shot was heard. Running to his room, Mrs. Mitchell saw him lying on the floor, unconscious, a bullet wound in his right temple.

A physician was called and he was taken to the hospital and died within- an hour without regaining consciousness. Was in Good Spirits Intimates of Mitchell were shocked by the tragedy. Apparently In good health and high spirits last night and at breakfast, this morning, they could assign no reason for any attempt on his part to end his life, and were Inclined to believe the shooting was accidental. Mr. and Mrs.

Mitchell lived In the house of Mr. Kuhn at the Brown street address and Kuhn and his uncle, Lee Belk, made their home there. Mitchell returned Wednesday morning from an automob'le trip to St. Joseph, with Joseph E. Mohr, Paul English and Mcrvlri Drlscoll, on which they' departed last Saturday night.

Mitchell worked Wednesday afternoon and evening at Spaney's Service Station, 1430 East Broadway, owned by Kuhn, and came home at 9 o'clock. With Mrs. Mitchell nnd Mr. BSlk he played cards until 11 o'clock and then retired. He seemed In good spirits and.

although he complained of a slight headache from revolver was one that hi been at the filling station and was of an old manufacture. No one knew, Mr. Kuhn said, that Mitchell had -brought It home. Mitchell formerly had been subject to fainting spells, but had had none for more than a year. He recently permitted his Woodman insurance to lapse, an action which, his friends indicated he had no intention of ending his life.

Henry Mitchell was a native of Carllnville and came to Alton ns a boy 35 years ago. For 20 years he was employed at the plant of the Illinois Glass Co. As a baseball player, ha starred with the old Monarchs, Onion Club and A. C. C.

(Spaldings) and with the crack Har- dln team. He was a shortstop and first-baseman and on some teams played short while his brother, William, played first. To Hold Inquest The body was taken in charge by Deputy Coroner Streeper who will conduct an Inquest, Friday night. He is survived by his widow. Mrs.

Carolina Mitchell, president of the Legion Auxiliary; four brothers, Thomas of Wood River, WlH'am of Alton, Frank of Milwaukee, nnd Walter of Detroit; and three sisters. Anna of Litchfield, Mrs. J. Moore of East Alton, and Mrs. George Weber of East Alton.

Endurance Flyer Dies Earning Honeymoon Money After establishing a new solo endurance flight record In Cleveland, Thomas Reid was killed when he fell asleep at the controls and his plane crashed against a tree. He was earning $100 an hour bonus which he planned to use on his honeymoon. Mystery Shrouds Lost Plane, Eight Passengers Wijc. Scorned 'Hick i Toivn', Asks Divorce Harvey Kline, a travelling representative of the Madison Coal Corporation, residing at Edwardsville, Is suing his wife for divorce in Edwardsville Circuit Court for the reason, he alleges, that she considered Edwardsville a "hick" town, possessed of no night life, no cabarets, no night clubs. She left him, refusing to live with him, and took a job as a telephone operator in a hotel in St.

Louis. After a year of separation Kline induced her to come back to him but again the urge of the city came over her; again she could not resist the call of the. bright lights and the night life. Once more -she went back to the city, leaving without a mistress the pretty Home Kline bad furnished for her. That was the end of the.

attempts at putting the. home tried niceace to live, where he could makje his living, but which she persisted In calling a "hick" u-town. andfhls wife have a I child Is with his parents, and he asks custody of the child. Conflicting Reports Confuse Officials Of Company BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, Sept.

5 The War Department today ordered all available Army airplanes In the southwestern Army air fields to participate In the search for the missing T. A. T. plane in Arizona. BULLETIN.

ZUNI, N. Sept. an all night search, a number of Indians from the reservation here, returned today with tha report they could find no trace of the airplane reported wrecked near Zunl. C. H.

Kelsey, manager of the Zuni Indian training company, said Indians searched the. territory the the plane had been reported to have found no evidsttce of the wreckage. Propaganda Fans Arab Fervor In Revolt Renewal Proclamations Passed To Moslems Call For "Holy" War" Bethalto Paving Project Deferred The hearing of the confirmation of the assessment roll for the Bethalto paving improvement on Prairie, Mill and Third streets, was continued today In the County court when a long list of objectors appeared to enter protest. The hearlnst was set for today but was deferred to September 15. Honors Requisition SPRINGFIELD, 111., Sept.

5, papers for the return of Frank Opalewski, wanted in Milwaukee on two charges, assault and abandonment of wife and children, were honored today by Governor Emmerson. Opalewski is held in Chicago. JERUSALEM, Sept. 5. Arabs throughout the Holy Land and the bordering, states are called upon by highly inflammatory propaganda to revolt and move against the Government of Palestine.

Floods of this propaganda material were said here today to have emanated from Jaffa, Haifa, Egypt, Damascus, Beirut, and Aleppo, and have been instrumental in the smouldering of renewed discontent. Proclaim Holy War One of the proclamations In circulation among the Arabs heralded "Fighters' Koly War" and called upon all Arabs to help Arab insurgents In Palestine, whose condition was described in the blackest terms. Although Jerusalem was quiet to day British troops continued their incessant clashes with bands of tribesmen who have penetrated the Pat tstine borders. One automobile which yesterday attempted to cross Allen by bridge from trans-Jordania to Palestine was found to contain 14 rifles and 1.000 rounds of ammunition. British military authorities Imme LOS ANGELES, Sspt.

and mystery drew a double veil today around the facts concern- Ing the transcontinental Air Transport's lost air liner City of San which previously had been reported by company officials to have been found wrecked in the wilds of tha New Mexico-Arizona border region and its five passengers and thrsc crew members dead. The inability of ssarchers to locate the plane, which disappeared Tuesday while on its way Irom Albuquerque to Los Angeles, together with alleged denials of Santa Fe railroad agents that they had circulated reports of the wreck being found, further complicated the situation this morning. Deny Reports. The chief dispatcher of the Santa Fa railroad here declared, however, that the Santa Fe telegraph operator at Perea, had not denied having reported reports of ths supposed finding of the City of San Francisco, in tha Black Wash country. Informed of these details, H.

W. Beck, western traffic manager for the Transport, told the Associated Press that the official statements of his company saXng the liner had been wrecked and its passengers and crew killed had been based upon information from Santa Fe. In the face of the conflicting statements from the various Santa Fe agents, and another from the postmaster at Gallup who denied that any i of his mail carriers had reported sightiiiR the wreck, Beck announced that he would make "no change for the pressnt in our previous official statement quoting this (the Santa Fc) report until further investigation establishes whether there is any basis for it." Beck declared, however, that "we are beginning to doubt the autlftntl- city of the report given us." He re- Nicaragua Canal Survey Battalion Ordered Selected Gigantic Task "Will Take Two Years In Jungle To Accomplish sept. 5, picked engineering battalion numbering 400 officers and men today was ordered by Secretary Good to duty in the Central American Jungle to survey the route of the proposed $1,000,000,000 Nicaraguan canal. Upon the report of these engineers largely will depend the decision of the American government as to whether it shall undertake the stupendous task of constructing a canal stretching 183 miles through tropical mountains and forests from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.

Government engineers estimate it would require ten years to complete the project, which would give the United thec-'Panama two of the -rribst' Imp'ortant In the World. Selected from the best of the Army's engineering forces, units that go to make up the battalion being outfitted to rema'n in are the Jungle region for two years, the estimated time needed for the work. The survey was approved by Congress last spring when it was brought to its attention that the Panama canal with its present facilities probably would be overburdened soon if the annual tonnage continued to 'n- crease. The commercial tonnage that passed through the canal in 1928, exclusive of government vessels amount to 29,000,000 tons, while the capacity Is not greatly In excess of 30,000,000. The work will be supervised by the Interocean Canal Board, consisting of five military and civilian engineers appointed by President Hoover.

The board members are Lieut. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, retired, former Chief of Army engineers; Sidney B. Williamson of New York; Dr. Anson Marston of.

Ames, Frank M. Williams of Albany, N. and Major Ernest Graves, retired. diately-dispatched armored cars into iterated that company officials hsre Amman an attempt to cut off the' llad no de Information from Us Palestne Arabs' souorce of arms and i own senrch for the facts ammunition. Skirmishes Continue Woman Saw Plane.

The Perea operator communicated Raspberry Plants Bearing In Godfrey Eldon Beuttei of Godfrey, a student at the Brown's Business College, brought to the Telegraph office today a bunch of branches from red raspberry vines, all of them heavily laden with green fruit. They were picked oh the place of his father, Carl Beuttei, from plants which two years before were dug on the place of Curl Beuttel's father in Godfrey township. It Is believed that they may be a species of ever bearing red raspberries though It was'not known they were such when they were planted, it is believed that from the plants which are on the Beuttei place 'nore can be developed next year. The plants all bore a crop at the proper lime earlier in the summer, between strawberry and blackberry season, so it was a great surprise when the patch of ved raspberries bloomed heavily a second time and began producing Reports persisted despite official tfay with Superintendent Collins of denial that skirmishes with Bedou ins had occurred near Beersheba in yauup, which six native Christians were kill led. Jews, who haled the first procla mation of the High Commissioner, Sir John Chancellor, as aiding their cause, were not so joyful today over a second proclamation by the High Commissioner, which announced constitution of special courts presided over by British Judges to try criminal cases unions both Jews and Arabs growing out of the rsccnt distui bancts.

Boy, Shoots Man DANVILLE, 111.. Sept, confessed to shooting Alfred Sheese, 22, "because he teased me," Dean McAllister, 14-year-old Chrisman boy, Is in custody of Edgar County authorities today while Sheese Is in a hospital here with a .22 caliber revolver bullet in his left Icsr. Shoese would not tell who sliot him, and the boy at first denied doing it. He confessed today, officers announced. The two wore seen scuffling In front of a Chrisman cafe a short time before tha shooting.

spatcher said, and reiterated that he yesterday had passed along a report, for delivery to T. A. T. officials that the plane had been seen. The dispatcher quoted the Perea man as having told Collins that the report first was received by his wife, from a driver of a school bus in the 2unl Indian reservation.

The woman, who was in Gallup, N. transmitted the information to husband, the dispatcher suici. T.A.T. officers here also announced that information had come to them from Gallup that Hie Perea operator had reiterated his story. Fair Committee Confers With Wood River C.

of C. Mrs. O. O. Tiplon and Mrs.

M. F. Manning, representing the Wood River Community Fair committee, conferred with members of the Wood River Chamber of Commerce when the Chamber held its fu'st meeting of tho coming season Wednesday noon. No speakers were present at the meeting. Calhoun Apple Crop a Fourth Ol' Normal Size HARDIN, Sept.

5. (Special) Harvesting of Calhoun county's 1929 apple crop got under full headway this week when crews in practically every orchard began the season's labor of gathering the Grimes Golden and Jonathan varieties. Normally Calhoun county produces nbout 800,000 barrels each season, but this year the crop will -be approximately one-fourth that size bc- enuse of the unfavorable weather conditions prevailing during the blooming period last spring. Almost nil the fruit within a radius of six miles of Hardfn 1ms been sold to Chicago and St. Louis fruit dealers at high prices, averaging around $2 per bushel, to the producers.

Almost all of this fruit will be shipped to Chicago by way of the Chicago Alton railroad from its East Hurdin terminal. The quantity of later varieties is small compared with former seasons but the crop of earlier varieties was heavier than in the past and the prices secured by orchardists was for above the average. The bulk of the county's apple crop will have been harvested by Sept. 15, this year Hol Here? It's Hotter In Texas, Grason Says Lew Grafcon, former partner in the Alton News Agency, who recent ly moved to Dallas, where he has opened lunch room in partnership with Leo Welnrlch, left Alton In time to miss some of the hottest Al ton weather, but apparently has found an even hotter variety In tha Lone Star State. He has sent an Alton friend a let tt-r in which lie encloses a newspaper cllpplns about popcorn popping in th- fields from heat of the sun.

Grason vouches for the newspaper story but doubts Alton friends will bs ready t-j believe the corn poppln? incident. His business venture, Grason says has ttaited off well and he and Weinrlch are thus Iw well satisfied. COOltf tonight with showers In southeast portion; Friday portly cloudy and cool i ihisaaaaag S. T. Cotter Drops Dead At Telephone Missourian, Visiting Hero With Sister, Suffers Heart Attack Had Colorful Life Had Been Custodian Of Famous "Old Mat" Cabin In Ozarks By a queer trick of fate, today, thv death summons to her brother, with whom she was talking over the phone, was made audible to Mrs.

'J. C. Bramhall, when an unexpected click of the telephone told her the connection had been broken. That click of the phone cams when trie brother, Sam T. Cotter, stricken with a heart attack as he talked to his sister, dropped dead on ths floor, telephone receiver in hand.

Having concluded a telephone cfin- versation with his sister, Mrs. Bramhall of 2711 Judson street, at whose home he had been visiting fhr the last four weeks, Samuel T. Cottir of Dewey Bald, Mo a former Al- Ionian, collapsed at 11 a. Wednesday and was found dead In the dining room of Iho Bramhall home three hours later by a neighbor, Urieaiy because she failed to get any response from repeated telephone calls after talking with her brother at 11. a.

Mrs. Bramhall, who was at the office of the Bramhall Press telephoned a neighbor "and asked her to investigate, thus that death of Mr. Cotter was discovered. He had collapsed to the floor; tha telephone receiver in his hand, anl death Is ascribed to a heart attack. Was In III Health Cotter had not been feeling well this and early In August had come to Alton to revisit scenes of his youth believing that a change would be of benefit.

He did not admit illness, however, and told relatives that the primary reason for the visit was that he had become homesick for the city in which he had passed his early years. Wednesday morning, when he arose, Mr. Cotter complained of pain in his back. J. C.

Bramhall said today, and ascribed to having overexerted himself on some lifting the previous breakfast, he secured an -osteopathic turning to the Bramhall home, said that soreness in his been completely overcome. When Mrs. Bramhall called her brother by telephone shortly before noon, she asked him to attend to a household errand, and he prompt assurance, Mr. Bramhall said. Then came a click the phone, and his sister thought he had hung up the receiver.

But, when later calls failed to bring an answer, she become alarmed. Investigation revealed that Mr. Cotter was stricken Just as the conversation with his sister had been concluded. Had Colorful Life Cotter had had a -colorful fife. The son of the late Captain J.

A. and Henrietta Cotter, he was born in Carlinville, but most of his early life was spent in Alton, his father, an early settler in Macoupln county and a captain in the Union army In tho Civil War, having moved here with his family when Samuel was a boy. In 1893, Cotter, then 27 years old, took part in the "run into the strip" as the Indian Territory was opened to homesteaders. With a party ot friends in a horsedrawn wagon, Cotter jumped off at a favorable point during the rush of homesteaders, and staked his title to a 160-acre tract. He farmed the land for several years, then sold out his holdings at a profit.

From this point, which was near what now is Blackwell, Cottar moved to a farm he acquired in Ark- and later farmed in Kansas and Missouri, developing and selling his holdings, until he had acquired a competence from investments. In recent years, he had been located at Dewey Bald, near Branson, in the Shepherd of the Hills country, the area made famous by the novels of Harold Bell Wright and which is rapidly growing in popularity witli tourists and campers. Became Caretaker In the shadow of Dewey Bald in the LaKe Taneycomo region, Cott3r became custodian of the cabin of "Old Mat" character In Wright's "Shepherd of the Hills." Many Altonians have visited this cabin which is a mecca of the Branson district, and Cotter had told relatives here that more than 7000 tourists registered at "Old Mat's" last season. Surviving Mr. Cotter, a bachelor, ere two sisters and three brothers.

The sisters are Mrs. Bramhall and Mrs. O. G. Stelle of Alton, and Prank Cotter of Chicago and Henry Cotter of Alton.

Zan Cotter was ex- peeled here today in response to word or his brother's death, bu6 Frank Cotter's health will not psr- mlt his coining for tli2 funeral service. Carrying out a wish lonu ago expressed by Mr. Cotter, iie will be bu- iied In the family lot in the Carlinville cemetery beside the grave of his mother. The funeral services will bi at 10:30 a. m.

Friday from tha Streeper funeral home in Upper Alton, following which tlie funeral party will drive to Carllnville for burial rites. to be Honored is to be nlven to the Lufthani na's largest now Itohrbach-Romar flying boat as a tribute to his great skill In piloting the Graf Zeppelin around the world,.