Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 2

ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1939 PAGE TWO Enrollment of 200 Expected At Montieello Registration Total Shows Large Increase Over Last Year 81 Girls From Illinois War Cancels Miss Smith's Plans for Study in England As registration began for thei opening of Ihe one hundred nnd second yoar nt Monticello College today, preliminary registration figures show thnl the enrollment; this year will reach totnl of 200' stud-'nts and will represent twenty different states in addition to Canada and the District of Columbia. Illinois heads the list with a representation of 81; Michigan has an enrollment of 15 at the college; Indiana is third with a registration of 14. Missouri has 12 and Oklahoma ten. Registration of students continues throughout Monday and Tuesday; classes open Wednesday morning. College officials pointed out this morning that present registration figures show a substantial increase over, the final enrollment of last year.

Wnr Changes Plan Phyllis Smith of Clarksburg, W. received from Montieello Col- legs at the close of the last academic year a scholarship for the current year at Roedean School in England. Miss Smith had completed plans for spending the present year at the English school, but because of the unsettled conditions growing out of the European war she Is returning to study this year at Montieello. See Wheat Marketing Referendum Unneeded WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, The Agriculture Department today forecast this year's production of corn nt 2,523.092,000 bushels and the total wheat crop at 736,115,000 bushels, as indicated from Sept.

1 crop conditions. Officials said production of that much corn this year indicated that a farmer referendum on marketing quotas probably would be unnecessary. The 1938 crop control law requires such a referendum when the crop, together with surpluses from previous years, are "excessive." Committee Gives County Budget Final Scrutiny Board Acts Tuesday on New Provision for 'Nightriders' Poles Report Repulsing Nazis Near Warsaw Continued from page 1. reaching Germany the Polish government has established its new seat at Krzemieniec, 20 miles from the Soviet frontier In southeast Poland, After a lull in Baltic Sea operations, Mhe communique reported that German land and sea forces had been cooperating since yesterday in what appeared to be an attempt to capture Gydnio, Poland's orily outlet to the sea. With the German navy in control of the Baltic and with northern Pomorze (the Polish corridor) completely shut off, this harbor was not able to function.

By ELMER W. PETERSON SNIATYN, Poland, Sept. 11 (By Courier to the Pollsh-Ruman- inn lightning assault has delivered a stunning blow if the Polish army, but many observers believe there has been no knockout punch. Military reports have been was not even an estimate of Polish casualties but there was evidence the Poles saved thn bulk of their mechanized equipment. The fate of Poland's air force still was in doubt.

Also unknown was the situation of sn estimated 100,000 Polish troops believed caught in a German plncer movement in Pomeranla. An army of 1,000,000 Poles was oelng massed for a stand on the east bank of the Vistula river. Oth ers were preparing a of resistance along the Bug river, marching by night and hiding by day from enemy warplanes. The United States "embassy" here Is a small wooden building. Beds of Ambassador Anthony J.

D. Biddle, and his wife are canvas sacks filled with fresh-mown hay. The first temporary embassy was in south-central Poland, but In the dead of night, 24 hours after arrival, a new request came to move on, and the caravan of diplomatic cars started another lengthy drive. 18 Taken From Thetis LONDON, Sept. 11, teen bodies have been taken from the sunken submarine Thetis, in shallow Moelfre Bay off the north coast of Wales, and divers hoped for good weather today to recover the remaining 81.

Iforner Snts Date of Return HIGHLAND PARK, Sept. 11 UP) Horncr has decider definitely to return to Springfielt on Oct. 1, ending two months of convalescence at his summer retreat here. Breodon Out of Hospital ST. LOUIS, Sept.

11. UPl-Sum Breadon, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball club, was released frwn hospital yesterday where tit had been recovering from Injuries Buffered in a fall from a horse. Henry Buih, of 1207 Seminary street, and George Curding of 563 FJrtt Wood River, were both admitted to Alton Memorial Hospital lor tonslllectomys. Mrs.

Jennie Allshouse of 780 Rice Wood River, admitted today to Alton Memorial Hospital for observation. EDWARDSVILLE, Sept. Approval of regular bills and a final checkup on the tentative 1940 oounty budget by tlie finance committee today completed preliminaries for the county board's September meeting here tomorrow, whon appropriations are scheduled to be made for the current fiscal year, Including a restoration of the "night rider" service. The $663,238 budget, drafted by the committee with the aid of county officials and advice of the state's attorney's office, contains provisions for employing seven "crime investigators," who will serve as night riders in patroling the county at night. The measure also provides for purchase of a new patrol car, raising the number to three for use of the night riders.

General county funds are expected to be appropriated for the hire of night riders through the state's attorney's office, while the sheriff's office has been classified as a "fee office" in the budget. An attack on legality of using county funds for employing deputy sheriffs as night riders through the sheriff's office, instituted by J. O. Monroe, Collinsville, in a suit now pending In Circuit court, led to the transfer of the "night riders" to the state's attorney's staff in the tentative budget. The nvestigators, however, will be under joint supervision of the sheriff and state's attorney, under present plans.

Services of four night riders were discontinued by Sheriff Wittman recently, when informed by the county board that funds for. their hire were no longer available, since appropriations for the 1938-39 budget terminated Aug. 1. E. Hubbard Dies at Age 65 William E.

Hubbard died Sunday at Alton Memorial Hospital where he had been a patient since last, Thursday, after an Illness of two weeks. Death was attributed to lobar pneumonia. He was 65 years old. He resided at 506 Lampert street. A native of Trigg Cotfnty, Hubbard was born May 12, 1874.

He came to Alton 14 years ago. For some time after taking up his residence here he was employed at Laclede Cteel but in the last few years had been engaged in truck farming. Surviving are his widow, Gertrude Hubbard; a son, Joseph Hubbard, and a daughter, Mrs. Virgil Walton, both of Alton, and three brothers, Felbert of Arkansas, Elijah of Trigg County and Moses of Lynn County. He also leaves a sister, Mrs, Julia Brlnley of Kentucky.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2:30 p. at Calvary Baptist Church with the pastor, the Rev. Guy P. Hall, officiating. Burial will be In Onkwood cemetery.

The body will be at Streeper funeral home after 6:30 p. day where friends may call. William Sparks, Hartford, Dies HARTFORD, Sept. 11. (Special).

William Martin Sparks, aged 83, died at 5:30 a. m. today at the home of his son, U. E. Sparks, after a two weeks' illness, Formerly a resident of Bloorhlng- lon, Sparks had resided with his son here since 18 months ago.

His son, Everett Sparks, with whom he had lived In Bloomington, died four years ago. He also had farmed at Beatrice, for eight years. Sparks is survived by three sons, U. K. Sparks of Hartford, Otis Sparks of Wood River and Grovel- Sparks of Bedford, and one daughter.

Mrs. Dora Ulackwell of Indianapolis, 31 grandchildren nnd great-grandchildren. He also leaves a brother, John, of Stanford, Ind. The body will be taken from Strecper funeral home 10 the Sparks residence on West Fourth street at 4 p. today.

Funeral services at the Sparks residence will be conducted at 2 p. Tuesday, by the RPV. B. A. Bonn of the Baptist ChuiTti, Burial will be In Wanda cemetery.

to lU'tiirn WASHINGTON, Kepi. 11, Joseph us Daniels, American ambassador to Mexico, has obtained leave and will coinu to the United States next month. Mrs, Lois McDonald (imdner was admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital st noon today for medical treatment. Mrs.

Gardners residence is 306 Allen ctreet. FDR Ready to Call Congress Extra Session May Give Legislators Until October to Pack Filibuster in Prospect Early Denies Any Place For 'Brain Trust' in New Setup WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 President Roosevelt may announce today the date when he will call Congress into a special session at which he wants the controverted arms embargo provision stripped from the neutrality law. Before he left his Hyde Park (N.Y.) home last night, it was earned ho had determined, despite fears of a Senate filibuster, to issue a summons to the legislators. The date remained indefinite, lowever.

Since Mr. Roosevelt would have to allow time for merri- jors of Congress to pack up and to the capital, some authori- thought the session would not begin before early October. Hope for Short Session Administration officials hoped for a short session, restricted to patching up the neutrality act jlong lines suggested by Secretary Hull. want repeal of the provision forbidding exports of arms, ammunition and instruments of war to combatant countries. The prospect of a fillibuster was described as one of the principal reasons for delaying the summons as long as it has been.

Before Congress decided to postpone action on neutrality legislation at the last session, legislators were in agreement that scrapping the arms embargo would permit 3reat Britain and France to obtain munitions In this country and virtually stop German purchases, by reason of the fact that British ind French sea power generally has been acknowledged to be superior to that of Germany. Emergency Agency The chief executive returned to a White House whose staff he had converted, in an executive order issued Saturday at Hyde Park, into an agency designed to provide a smoother and more effective flow of work. The order made provision, too, for the establishment in the executive off ice, of a division, which would supply, "in the event of a national emergency or threat of a national emergency," an agency for "emergency management." Stephen T. Early, a Presidential secretary, said he could see in the new arrangement no place for what frequently has been termed a brain trust. He said a brain trust, as it was known In the New Deal's early had been non-existent sometime.

Names Unmentloned In response to questions of whether the "roving commissions" of Benjamin V. Cohen and Thomas G. Corcoran have been withdrawn and their work assigned to others, Early told newsmen today that their never had been me'h- tloned in the present setup and he never heard the President speak the names of either in that con nection. "Corcoran and Cohen are not in the White House," Early said. "They never have been, and one is employed by the'RFC and the other by the National Power Pol icy Committee.

"I see no change In their status, except that by executive order, for the first time the President definitely has assigned prescribed duties to his office staff and secre tarlat." Some one noted that under the order, Early and Brigadied Genera! E. M. Watson, another secre tary, were assigned to handle con tacts with Congress. It was sug gested that fact might provide the answer to whether the work of Corcoran and Cohen, outside their official duties, had been handed to someone else. Koxana Woman Given Anti-Rabies Treatment ROXANA, Sept.

11 (Special) Mrs. Ed Westhoff of Rome street wns advised to take anti-rabies treatments last Friday by East Louis Department of Public Health authorities after she had been scratched by a pet cat late Thursday. Mrs. Westhoff had suspected the cut of being rabid and was in the Hot of putting it in a sack for Chief of Police Herbert Murphy when it turned and scratched her. lif cat wns destroyed by police nnd its head sent to Bust St.

Louis. authorities, after examining it, sent It on to Springfield for still further examination. They were not sure of their findings but advised Mfg, Westhoff to take treatments which she began Saturday morning. Mrs. Westhoff became the fifth person in Roxana this year to re- cdve treatments and each of the five esses has been in the Rome street neighborhood, War Uumml WASHINGTON, Sept.

11, Treasury experts said today the neutrality iiml Johnson Acts for- nny of Europe's warring countries from borrowing any money from any individuals or firms In this country. The ban, also, applies to Canada nnd the other Brit- dominions or possessions which have entered the war. Cassius Driscoll's Rites at Son's Home Funeral services for Casslus Drlscoll, whose death occurred Friday, were held at 2 p. m. today, at the residence of a son, Melvln, 207 Monier street.

The Rev. C. E. Shepard, pastor of First Chriatian Church, officiated at the home and at Oakwood cemetery where burial was held. Greenfield Civil Wat Vet Who Cat Rails fat Lincoln Passes His 96th Birthday French Claim Gains Despite Counter Attack Continued page 1.

of the Saar basin. Fifty miles to the southeast, according to a general staff communique, they were staging a fresh advance. Military experts meanwhile ex- aressed gratification over the French capture Saturday of Warndt Forest. By gaining possession of this piece of high ground, hey believed, the throat to railway communications between Metz and the frontier had been removed. Double Purpose to Thrust At the same time they recognized the dangers to the French campaign that would result from success of the German counter-attack on the northern flank.

Not only would this threaten the Maginot Line at a vital point, but would block the French drive to win the west bank of the Saar running north from Saarbruecken to Mer- zlg. All this activity, however, was held to be in the nature of "spade work." The French were not expected to launch a major offensive for at least several days. On the economic home front, the big event was the broadcast by Paul Raynaud, minister of finance, explaining the exchange control and other war-time financial measures. Less Able Than Before Renoud told the nation that, in 1918, "The issue of war did not hang on the position of little flags stuck on a map. German armies still occupied five French dep'art- ments.

But the German morale was broken because the economy, finances, and money of the enemy were literally exhausted. This time, Reynaud stated, "Germany already has been used up to a large measure by the gigantic effort she made to prepare for war. Economically and financially' Germany already very vulneijable. On this front Germany has no fresh troops." He said that France, in contrast, had gone into action "under economic conditions very superior to the enemy." He urged the people behind the lines to fulfill two duties: produce as much as possible; consume as little as possible. Mrs.

Mary Andrews Buried at Greenfield GREENFIELD, S'ept. Funeral services were conducted for Mrs. Mary Andrews, 74, at the Methodist Church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. C. W.

Hamand officiating. Mr. and Mrs. H. F.

Greer, accompanied by their daughter, Mary Jeane, sang. Pallbearers were F. J. Meng, Albert Meng, J. C.

Hall, Clayton Ford, J. E. Kincaid and Harry L. Shields. Interment was In Oakwood cemetery Social Events GREENFIELD.

Miss Marie Yaeger was hostess to a group of friends at a picnic supper in Jacksonville Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. C. C.

Secor entertained at a family dinner at their home Sunday. Mrs. Olive Green went to Peoria Tuesday to attend a get-together of the state deputies of the Royal Neighbors of America. The group will be guests of Miss Ena Barthel, supreme recorder, and Dr. Ada M.

Carlson, supreme physician. The Greenfield Farm and Home Bureau Community Club met at the home of Mrs. G. Burns Friday evening for a program and watermelon party. Martin Burns Family Reunion at Medora MEDORA, Sept.

A reunion of the Burns family was held Sunday at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burns, east of town. The presence of Mr. and Mrs.

Gene Powers and family from Dearborn, occasioned the gathering. Surprised on Birthday MEDORA A surprise party was planned and carried out Friday evening for Mrs. Nellie Barnes, In celebration of her birthday. Ice cream and cake were brought by the guests. Mrs.

Barnes received a number of nice gifts. Class' MceU boys and girls class of the Summerville Presbyterian church met Friday evening at the J. M. Kitzmiller home, north of town. About 25 were present.

Games were played and refreshments served. Attends Birthday Party T. T. Eddleman and son, Darrel, and Mrs. W.

D. Gil worth went to St. Louis Thursday to attend a birthday party at the home of Mrs. James O'Hara. Mrs.

Isabella Dlllow, mother of Mrs. O'Hara and Eddlcnmn, the honored guest, was 77 years old. Read Telegraph Want Adi Dally, Made Presentation of Timber That Branded Campaign GREENFIELD, Sept. 11, I. Williamson, Greenfield's only surviving Civil War veteran, observed his ninety-sixth birthday anniversary here Saturday with a dinner for members of his immediate family.

Williamson was born Sept. 9, 1843 west of the Morgan county fair grounds In Jacksonville, the third son of Samuel and Cynthia MulUns Williamson. When 15 years old, he rode an Indian pony with his father to what is now Sedalia, and drove back 300 the trip taking six weeks. When not quite 19 years 01 age he enlisted in the Civil War with Company 1, 115th Illinois Infantry, at Springfield, where he was stationed for two weeks. He was then sent to Alton, where he took the Big Four for Cincinnati, crossing the Ohio on a pontoon bridge at the, Covington, Ky.

He was In the service for three years, firing his last shot on Christmas Day 1865. He was honorably discharged and returned to Jacksonville where he resided until 1890, when he moved to Greenfield and continued farming until he retired several years ago. Williamson recalls that in 1860 his father sent him to Riggston for a load of clapboards and Murray McConnell, an old time Jacksonville lawyer and Intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln, asked him to bring him two sassafras rails that had been split by Lincoln for a fence near there. On delivering the rails to McConnell, he presented them to candidate Lincoln at the state convention in Decatur, May 9, 1860, hence giving him the name of "rail candidate." Williamson is still alert and keen in his mind, reading his doily paper and keeping abreast with the times. He enjoys visiting his friends and neighbors, often taking a ride and making an occasional, trip to town.

He is a great lover of horses and enjoyed a daily canter on his saddle horse until five years ago. In the last few years he has made several trips to California and Texas. His wife died 15 years ago; he has two children, Al Williamson of Wood River, and Mrs. V. A.

Parks of Greenfield and six grandchildren; two children are deceased. Relief from the searing heat wave that opened the month of September came Sunday when the mercury topped the day's climb or 12 degrees with a modest reading of 82 at 4 p. m. With one exception, Sunday was the first day of the current month when the temperature peak was under 90 de- NBA Lets Armstrong Keep Welter Title WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 UP) The National Boxing Association unanimously upheld Henry Armstrong's claim to the welterweight championship of the world at its annual convention today.

The question had been raised whether Armstrong, in losing his lightweight title to Lou Ambers last month, also had dropped his welterweight title. Eden Would Banish Naziism LONDON, Sept. 11 (UP) Via Ra Eden, Secretary of State for Dominion affairs, in a radio address tonight said "there can be no peace until Naziism is banished from the 1 The people of Great Britain, he said, were prosecuting the war with Germany "with a clear conscience." "Before war broke out we did all that words could do," Eden said. "For us now there will be no turning back. We have no quarrel with the German people.

But there can be no peace until Nazi- ism with its cruelty and persecution have been banished from the earth." Senior Hi-Y Officers Confer Officers of the two senior Hi-Y clubs met In a retreat at the home of Arthur E. Brubaker, Y. M. C. boys' secretary, 2300 Mills avenue Sunday afternoon.

The meeting was opened with a short devotional period, led by Jim Stallings, president of the George H. Smiley Club. Charles Ryrie, president of the Red-Gray Club, then outlined the duties of officers. Discussion centered around programs at the meetings, as well as suggested projects that might be carried on by the club. It was suggested that the continuation of a varied type of program be observed, and as a means of Increasing interest among the members, and others, regarding the general Hi-Y work, a program for the entire semester be printed.

Five standing committees were planned. These were program, membership, social, devotional and finance. Additional topics discussed by the two centered around club membership, school induction ceremonies, new plan of Hi-Y registration, publicity of the club and financing of the club. Following the meeting, refreshments were served by Mri. Brubaker.

Meeting will be Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock for the Smiley Club, and Thursday evening at 7 o'clock for the Red-Gray, both being held the Alton M. C. A. Mercury Drop Brings An End To Heat Wave September 'Summer' Brought to At Least Temporary Cessation Fall of 41 Degrees Sharp Decline in Temperature in 39-Hour Period Today, the cool wave made itself further evident with a minimum reading of 55 degrees which was 41 degrees under Saturday's top of 96 at 3 p. m.

By 9 a. m. today the temperature had moved up to 72, and coats and wraps donned by Al- tonians in the early part of the day were being discarded. At noon, the reading was 80. Summer resort weather began its return Saturday night the first night in four when comfortable sluep had been possible.

Sundays minimum of 70 was not unusually low, but temperature mounted but slowly despite a hot sun, and the day was ideal for outings and tor trips. Highways were crowded with cars of pleasure riders, and the riverfront and area below the bluf. thronged with hikers. Clifton Bay docks were a center of activity by small boat enthusiasts but a breeze was lacking to provide good sport sailboats. The 9-day September heat wave, following a cool, rainy August, will make the month long remembered.

Average ol maximum readings for the' i.ine days ending Saturday was 93 degrees. The only reading of the series 'below 90 was last Tuesday at t- degrees, while last Thursday's top was 100, and that of Friday, 99 degrees. Trifling showers last Friday night provided the only precipitation of the period, and eased the night's heat but slightly. School pupils today hailed the cooler weather with mixed feelings. It meant an end of afternoon class sessions shortened by heat.

Early afternoon dismissals were general in the final three school days last week. Canada Offers Resources to Britain in War Lorene Lowery, wife of Rubei Lbwery of 123 East Fifth street, had a narrow escape from possible serious injury In an automobile accident Saturday at Salem, as she was returning to her home from Galatla. The automobile which Mrs. Low- pry was Driving was demolished! relatives said, and it was necessary for Lowery to go to Salem and bring his wife 1 home in another car. She suffered Injuries her head, ip and knee, but It was riot thought any fractures were incurred.

After emergency treatment at the office of a physician at Salem she was able to continue on home, The mishap occurred, it was said, when another automobile collided with the car o'f Mrs. Lowery. 1 Nazi Torpedo Boat Hits One Of Own Mines Continued from page 1. London, where it quickly was approved by King George. 8 Dominions Precede Her Upon Britain's entrance into the World War in 1914 the Dominion government merely published the British war proclamation.

The Dominion followed Great Britain by just a week in going to war with Germany. Three other Zealand, Australia and the Union'of South Africa Canada with war declarations. India was considered automatically at war with the Reich upon Britain's declaration. The Prime Minister said the Dominion's first contributions to the will be to safeguard British and French possessions in the north Atlantic, train and send Canadian airmen overseas, and dispatch food and munitions to the allies. May Send Forces Over The question of sending an in- expeditionary force to Eur ope to be decided, he added.

During the World War, Canada enlisted 619,000 men for service and the expeditionary force eventually reached 450,000. The nation's casualties were 55,634 dead and 149,732 wounded. World War costs to the Dominion were estimated ni $3,000,000.000. Statesman's Yearbook for 1939 indicated Canada could raise a military force of 90,000 men and of- ficerswith military training within .1 time by calling up the permanent and non-permanent militia. In addition, there were 745 officers and 6500 airmen in the permanent and non-permanent Royal Airforce.

The yearbook lists naval strength at six destroyers and several minesweepers,) Harvey Beltz of Shipman Dies SHIPMAN, Sept. Beltz, 42, of Shipman, died Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the home of his mother, Mrs, L. M. Beltz, In St. Louis.

The body was taken to the Provost Funeral Home at 3710 North Grand avenue In St. Louis, where funeral rites will be conducted at 1 p. m. Tuesday. It will then be brought to Shipman for burial at 3 p.

m. Tuesday, under Masonic auspices. Beltz, who formerly resided in Shreveport, Is survived by his mother, his widow, one son, Harvey, of Shreveport, and three listen, Miss Elizabeth Beltz of St. Louis, Mri. Archie Cunningham of Houston, and Mri.

G. W. Miller of Shipman. Auto Wrecked, Woman Escapes Serious Injury Continued from page 1. been sighted yet and some believed she had headed for Germany without calling at Montevideo.

Despite an all-night fog which was Ideal for blockade-running, all the German vessels loaded with wheat and beef were still at anchor this morning. Included in the group of'German vessels were the Gonzenheim, Patagonia, and Anatolia. Rescue British Freighter NEW YORK, Sept. 11 The United States Lines today received a radio saying that the British fraighter Blalrlogie was torpedoed today off the Irish coast but that the 32 members of the crew had been saved by the United States liner American shipper. The message said the crew reported "all well" and that they were treated with consideration by the submarine commander.

The American Shipper turned back 150 miles on her course to make the rescue from the sinking 4425-ton craft. Captain R. J. Sullivan of the American Shipper radioed the, report to his home office. The United States Lines said that from the message it was apparent the submarine gave the cfew 15 minutes in which to send an SOS and get into lifeboats before firing the torpedo.

Lloyd's register says the British ship was owned by the Clydesdale Navigation Company, with Glasgow the port or registry. She was built in Rotterdam in 1912. The American Shipper left Belfast Saturday with 146 passengers for Boston and New York. Intensifies Sea Drive LONDON, Sept. 11, Britain intensified her naval and economic warfare against Germany today, having lost 12 merchantmen in the first eight days of what the cabinet regards as a war -that will last three years.

Public opinion also seemed inclined toward preparations for a long war and scorned what were presumed to be German intentions of offering peace after a lightning conquest of Poland. The press almost unanimously backed up the cabinet's decision to base its policy on the premise of a three-year war, regarding the announcement as Britain's "withering" answer to a "peace feeler" in German Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering's speech Saturday. The twelfth British ship sent to the bottom was the 8640-ton Mag- dapur, Goodwood Lost, Too The ministry of information announced her last night with an undisclosed number of casualties, but did not announce how or where she was sunk. The 2796-ton Goodwood was reported by the British Press Association yesterday to have been sunk in the North Sea, and the information ministry added the name of the 4086-ton Rio Claro, sunk yesterday, to the official list. A fishing vessel was said to have rescued the crew of the Gopdwood, many of whom were reported hurt.

The crew of the Rio Claro was said to have been landed In the Azores.by a Netherlands vessel. The government's answer was two-fold. It swung Into a "unremitting" campaign of "attacks and counter-measures," and, secondly, extended machinery for its "contraband control" through stations in Gibraltar and Alexandria, at both ends of yie Mediterranean and on Ceylon In the Indian Ocean, No details were given In a laconic communique which said "It appears that German submarines are now operating far afield." But the ministry of Information said the Admiralty had received "num- arous reports" of operations against German submarines and "ome have been successful." Belgian Reservists Begin Training BRUSSELS, Sept. 11, undisclosed number of Belgian reservists reported today fpr training as the permanent committee of the seven small neutral nations known as the Oslo Group assembled for 1U second meeting. Belgian officials said the meeting would be limited to discussion of food and raw material problems.

Americans on Swedish Ship NEW YORK, Sept. 11, OB-With 84j jubilant American citizens aboard, the Swedlih American liner Kungiholm arrived from Europe today after the iub- marine-Infested North Atlantic. 7 Alton Plants On U.S. List for An 'Emergency' Would Carry Part of the Industrial Load in Crisis Survey by Army, Navy Lined Up as Part of the American Plan of Mobilization WASHINGTON, Sept. manufacturing plants In the Alton area have been selected to carry a part of the industrial load in the event of a national emergency, it was learned today.

They were selected following a survey by army and navy officials and are lined up as a part of the industrial mobilization plan. War Department officials refused to give out the names of the plants selected, nor would they indicate what products were to be manufactured on grounds that It would lead to the identity of the establishments. Selection was made following a survey in which present plant production schedules were studied and managers were asked to state what their capacities would be in the event of war. In many instances, war-time production would represent a change over in articles made by the establishments, it was said. In this connection, the War Department Is spending part of a $10,000,000 experimental appropriation in buying gigs, dyes and tools, which are being turned over to various manufacturers who are experimenting in production of war-time products.

The program is designed, War Department officials said, to spread the nation's war industries throughout the country, rather than having the load concentrated in limited locales, as was the case during the early months of United States participation in the World War. Allocation of a part of the war load to the seven Alton area plants does not mean, it was explained, that these are the only local ones which will participate in the program. Survey of industrial establishments in all parts of the country is being continued, it was said, and the current list will be added to from time to time. Arrangements for war-time assignments have been made with 843 plants in Illinois, 47 of which will serve the Navy, while 796 will supply Army needs. Of the plants in the Alton area, two are within the city, two are in East.Alton, and three in Granite City.

'''No division between and Navy service was Ex-Deputy Sued In Auto Crash EDWARDSVILLE, Sept. 11. Suit for $5000 for injuries alleged received in an automobile collision was filed today in Circuit Court against Walter Schreiber of Alton, a former deputy sheriff, by Albert Reister and Rose Reister. Each of the plaintiffs asks $2500. Cited as basis of the suit was an automobile collision at 6 on Aug.

11, the last day Schreiber had served as a "night He, with others, had been dismissed by Sheriff Wittman because funds for their salaries had not been appropriated. The suit avers that Reister driving and had made a left turn onto Route 67 off Bowman avenue, East Alton, when his car collided with Schreiber's. In the collision, as told at the time, Schreiber suffered a lacerated lip and other Injuries. Wood-Hartmarf Contest Suit to Open Monday EDWARDSVILLE, Sept. 11 After delays and continuances, the Wood-Hartman election contest suit over the 01- flee of county treasurer is scheduled for next Monday, Sept.

In County Court, attorneys for tne litigants said today, Pleadings in the suit, brought by Ben F. Wood, defeated Republican candidate for office, nave been completed and hearing testimony is expected to Monday before City Judge Ralph Cook, East St. Louis, selected to hear the case by mutual agree ment of litigants, Official canvass of the NOV. election returns, showed Hartman, Venice, Democratic can dldate, to have a 120- mar gin, and he now flJUUie office. Mrs.

Harriet Paul Buried Streeper Many and frlendi tended the funeral services tor Harriet Heskett Paul at eper Funeral home Sunday o'clock. Services were couuJ. four ed pastor by sang of lot Ir Three Richard way, Schaeffer 'Anleep In Jesus" and theHeskett City cemetery, Mn. Alton Toledo, Ohio..