Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 1

(Established Jttitury 20, 1831) (Members of the Preit) TEIJEGRAFH RABBI HARRISON TO DEDICATE NEW COMMUNITY HIGH pastor of Temple Israel Will Speak at Ceremony for Wood Alton School. BUILDING ERECTED AT COST $200,000 Institution Is one of Finest In State, Containing clern Equipment, Extensive Courses and Laboratories. Uabfoi Leon Harrison, eminent pastor oi Temple Israel In St. Louis has been secured to deliver the address at the formal dedication of the Wood River and East Alton High school, which WRS recently completed at a cost ot (200,000, acording to an announcement today by Principal li. borne.

The speaker's subject will be Gospel of Hard Labor and How Hard Work Affects Us." Rabbi Harrlspn on of the most eloquent) speakers of St. l.ouiH nnd his addresses are famed for the soundness of their instructions. The school building has been occupied since the opening of the 1920 term, hut the formalities attending its dedication have been unlH'its appointments could be completed and the services of a desirable speaker could be secured for the occasion. Music for the cereiripny will be furnished by the Standard Oil band, under the leadership of Roy Stocker. Students from both East Alton and Wood River attend, institution, which Is one of the most echool hutldtngs In the State.

It comprises fifteen rooms, and Is equipped with extensive manual training and domestic science departments, as well KB completely equipped laboratories and a modern department ot com merc'o. A force of nine teachers Is now in charge of the instruction, and aJbout 100 pupils from the two cities are on the rolls. The school, however, Is equipped to care for a greatly Increased number of students, extensive arrangements for expansion iaving been Included In jts specifications. The Standard Oil Company management of Wood River has been greatly In the accomplishment of the school project, which it has fos- tereil since Its inception, as a means of affording a first class educational within the reach of children of its employees. By reason ot Its extensive properties In Wood River tin- company also 5s one ot the "fief contributors to the support of the school.

ALTON WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 29, 1920. ULTIMATUM GIVEN TRACTION COMPANY. Court Demands Fire to Keep Warm, and Says He Insists On Company "Making It Hot for Trying a case In which the traction eonipuny was indirectly interested, to extent that its claim agent was a daniage BU for $5 1 Yagor of the listening to arguments of counsel. ho listened his teeth chattered li'a body shook with cold.

The of the court chamber "an Mink to such a point that It was ortable to be sitting there in V. nnrt lu could stand It no longer, jti Rarrii ftd urne court, dlsre- nl the high price of coal and the a(1 that the company is In a receives hands and therefore needs to money, dg Yager ordered a the furnace by the havjng the contract for neutliife the city hall. lt the company doesn't make It for mo, win make It hot for the waa the message he sent authority responsible for get- i lie city hall boated. Enllsti Called "Crook," Woman Sues Claim Agent Mrs. Frances Mook was prosecuting in the City court today a damage suit arising from a charge she claims was made by Trevor C.

Nellson that she was a "crook," She asked for damages for'the alleged slander. The trouble arose over the cashing of a check which was issued to Mrs. Mook by the Alton, Granite St. Louis Traction Co. In settlement of a claim for damages for personal Injuries.

The check was never delivered to Mrs. Mook, but it was cashed by someone ond In being cashed passed through the Alton National bank. The traction company held the cancelled check with Mrs. Mook's name on the back. There was here the lawsuit of today originated.

Mrs. Mook hnd never seen the check. Someone, unknown to her, got it ahead of her, wrote her name on the back and cashed It at the bank. Mrs. Mook not knowing of the incident in- slated' on payment, she had conferences with Mr.

Nellson and during one of these, Mrs. Mook declared, Nellson charged her with being a "crook." Many witnesses were summoned Into court to testify on the Rldfi of Mrs. Mook. Some of her witnesses were called for the defense, who. planned to use them in direct, examination in case of failure to get results desired on cross examination.

Mrs. Mook IB the widow of Fred Mook and a lifelong resident of Alton. A motion was made by the defense to take the case from the Jury on the ground that the epithet "crook" which Mrs. Mook used as the basis of her damage suit was not damaging per se, and that special damages would have to be proved. II was 11:30 a.

m. when the arguments were finished and Judge Yager took it under advisement until 1:30 p. m. The defense took the position also that Mrs. Mook would have to show how she haB been damaged by the application of the ep'thetj and set up instances to show damage.

The plaintiff's attorney, W. P. Boynton, opposed the view taken by the defense and declared that anyone calling another a "crook" was ac'iionable per ee. Judge Yager overruled the motion of the defense and after the noon recess the defendant, Trevor C. Nellson took the stand and gave his testimony.

15c. PER WEEK GREAT DEMAND FOR MORE COAL IS RAISED Cold Weather, First of Sea son, Causes Coal Dealer Offices to be Rushed by Householders. ALTON NEED FOUND URGENT Local Handlers of Fuel No Receiving Anywhere Near the Amounts Require for Trade. PRINCIPALS CONFER ON TESTS OF INTELLIGENCE Examination to Determine Mental Standard of Pupils, Will Be Held Throughout City Monday evening eight more men 111 sworn into the National Guard. brlngB the total up to oiie-hnlf required amount necessary for It Is extract' evening have been to Id Intelligence tests of all pupils of the public schools from the third grade through the high school, which are to be given next Monday, was the subject of a conference of principals of the various schools in tho office of Superintendent Roavla Wednesday afternoon.

The tests also will be given In the schools throughout the county. For making the examination to determine the intelligence standard ot the scholar, a battery of seven tests is submitted on the following sub Jects: Analogies, arithmetical problems, sentence vocabulary, substitution, verbal Ingenuity, arithmetical ingenuity and synonyms and antonyTns. These examinations aro equalized to arrive at standard mental norms as well as tho standard mental quo tient for the student. The tost reveals the mental age of the pupil, while the quotient represents the relation between the mental age and tbe chronological or actual age. Determining the capacity for work of the individual as well as the class, the procedure bus proven useful in "Classifying students and in making separate assignments, by reason of the tact that a scholar with a high intelligence quotient can and should accomplish more in tho school work than one with a lower grade, and vice versa.

Tests of this sort are administered tp all pupils entering tho primary grades who give evMtmco of intelligence either above or below normal, and tholr school work is adapted to Hieir special needs. This practice has bi.an the means of avoiding the possibility of frequent (allures, and places Today, the first chilly day of th season, found many Alton homes il! prepared for insuring warmui an comfort. The offices of local coal dealer were being rushed by householder whose orders for fuel have filled because of the shortage of coa here. The insistence of the dealer for greater supplies from the coa mines has not brought the result that could be desired ani many wh' have had orders placed- for a Ion; time are still without supplies It was until today- when the need of some heat in homes becam pressing that the dealers really be gan to see trouble. They Jaye had urgent demands to fill orders th past but the cool started many demands that had not been so urgen in the past and the result was a reg ular Jam of orders.

None of the rniues are shipping as much coal to the Alton district as desired. The Big Pour mines sa'd to be far short in their quota still and while some speeding up Is being done as the result ot urgen representations made by the Chamber ot Commerce and the dealers them selves, the tide of fuel Altonward wll have to be much heavier very soon il 1 the cellars and bins are to be stocked with coal In advance pressing need. CXi.surners of coul are not so much worried now about how much coal is going to cost as they are worrlec about -whether they are going to get It. The local dealers say that they think that the supply will come through eventually, that the warm has been helping out by reducing the consumption of coal, for heating purposes in homes and office build Ings and stores they counsel pa tience. the cWW In the field for which it best adapted.

Is BOY SCOUT AIM IS 20 TROOPS AT CAMP. With an objective of twenty active scout troops by the time their camp ing season starts, members of the Board of Directors of the Boy Scouts of Alton met Tuesday night in the Chamber of Commerce offices, with President Eben Rogers in the chair. Scout Executive C. Stewart gave a brief report of the National Conference of Executives in New York, from which he recently relumed, and routine business of the meeting was disposed of. A project to establish a permanent camp for the boys was advanced, and a camp committee was appointed to negotiate for camp sites, while the executive was Instructed to obtain from the War Department prices on tents for week-end hikes as well as for the permanent camp.

Mrs. Emma M. Borden'g Death a Great Surprise The death of Mrs. Emma B. Borden in Cincinnati, Ohio, a few days ago came as a very great surprise to her many friends in Alton who did not know of her illness.

Mrs. Borden was a Charter member of tbe Alton Rebekah Lodge, and after leaving Alton continued to hold her membership in the local organization, She- became a member when the lodge was organized In 1807. WEATHER FORECAST Official forecast for St. Louis und vicinity: Fair and continued cool tonight and tomorrow; progably llghl frost tonight. Illinois: Fair and continued cool tonight and tomor-, Ralph C.

Parker of Bast Alton und row, with cooler in In the late war over 30 per cent of extreme south portion tonight; casualties among U. 8, troops were $1,000 Verdict In Damage Suit For Shooting A verdict for $1,000 was given against Charles Brandt, deputy sher- IfiT for shooting Leland Laux in Upper Alton, following a dlHiulty that arose at a dance where Brandt was serving as a private watchman. During the courne of the trial the Plaintiff's attorney, W. P. Boynton, got from Brandt an admission that he was not acting in self defense, that the boy was, running away froih him and that the shooting happened a black and a half from the hall where the trouble originated.

Brandt has claimed that he did not shoot the boy maliciously, that he had fired into the ground and a bullet must have glanced up and struck the fleeing boy. The Jury cut down the claim for $6,000 to and reported a seated verdict which was opened in court this morning. It was uncertain whether there would be an appeal. This is one of the few cases ot an officer of the law being sued for damages for Wounding someone In a chase. INDICTMENTS IN GREAT SCANDAL OF BASE BALL Revelations Made of Meth ods Used to Get Inside Information of Crookec Deal in Wprld Series.

BUILDERS REACH CLOSING LINK OF ST, LOUIS ROAD Contractors Finish at Mitchell Tonight and Begin Work on Last Break In Route. The Moreno-Burkham Construction Company will finish, the paving of the SS. Louis road at -the south end of their contract in Mitchell tonight, and will immediately, begffn work on the northern section which, with the lay- tag of one mile ot highway at the Bluff Line tracks will link a complete hard road from Alton to St. Louts. Under, their original agreement the company were to build the paving only to the railroad crossing, but an extension of this contract has been reached, whereby the builders will cross the right-of-way laying a concrete bed along the rails and between them, thus affording a smooth crossing at the railroad.

Work on this concrete Job will be- Sin tomorrowT according to E. J. Lockyear, who has succeeded in securing the crushed rock necessary for the work, which the company had experienced difficulty in buying. With the inauguration of operations on the last mile of the St. Louis route, chances for a hard road all the way before winter brighten.

Work on the broken link has been held up over difficulties In the matter of securing right-of-way and other complications, but the contractors promise a speedy completion of the paving, and with its accomplishment, a solid road all the way to St. Louis will be afforded. PLAYERS TOOLS OF BIG GAMBLERS National League Player Involved and May be Sub jects of Further Indict ments by Grand Jury. By Associated Press. Chicago.

Sept. of alleg go-betweens and gamblers, wh bribed White Sox payers, was reveal ed In the confession to the grand Jun today by Claude Williams, who joinei and Jackson in making a clea breast of the 1919 world's series frame up. Williams White Sox true bill true MRS.E.ATCHISON, RESIDENT OF CITY 27 YEARS, DIES Lived on East Sijtth Street, But Moved to Topeka, Two Years Ago. Mrs. Ella Atchlson, 58 years old, led of typhoid fever while on a visit the home of her sister, Mrs.

Wll- lam Atchlson In Granite City, Monay. Mrs. Atchlson. tine wife of Marin C. Atchiaon, was woll known in ilton, having lived for 27 years at 800 Cast Sixth street.

Two years ago the, family moved to 'opeka, and Mrs. Atchlson re- ently returned hero to visit her sons, Buryll and Joseph. She had boon 111 nly a short tilme. Mr. Atchlson, who as summoned when his wife's Illness ssuined a serious aspect, arrived in Granite City, Monday.

are her sister, husbnnd nd three sons. Buryll, Joseph and lordaunt. The funeral will be held from tho omo of her sister, at 2:30 o'clock 'hursday afternoon. Burial wUI be In 3ranltp City. named Gandll, forme player, against whom i returned chief go-between on tbe team and "i Brown and Sullivan, gamWers" from either New York or Boston as go-be tweens for the gamblers.

The jury immediately voted bills for Brown and Sullivan. Williams said he was supposed to get $20,000 and Jackson the same, bu that he received only $10,000, half which he gave Jackson. He said Gandlll told him that Bll Burns, veteran pitcher, and Abe At tell, former prize fighter, -were fixing it for the Sox players to get 000. Williams told the grand Jury "he believed the names "Brown and Sul livan" given by the eastern gamblers were fictitious but said )io could Iden' tify both men If he saw them again. It was intimated at the criminal court building that Assistant States Attorney Replogle was working on tho theory that "Brown" and Abe At tell might be the same person.

By Associated Press. Chicago, confessions by some of the seven White Sox players who, with one former player, were indicted yesterday in connection with the alleged throwing of the 1919 world's series baseball games, will be made within a day or two, Alfred S. Austrian, attorney for the ball club, announced today, it has been rumored that at least two of the seven were anxious to supplement the confessions of Eddie filcotte anc Joe Jackson with their statements. True bills naming three ballplay ers not members of the White Sox and three gamblers are expected to be voted today by the grand Jury Members of the Jury said this morning they had sufficient evidence on which to base indictments. was reported that true bills against two National League players are being considered.

Evidence already placed before the grand Jury, it is known, involves Abe At tell, former prize fighter; Lee Magee, Hal Chase and Heinle Zlm- mermann, former member of the Giants; Eastern gamblers whose names have not been divulged, and at 'least two National League players. Hartley Replogle, Assistant States Attorney, who today cou firmed these facts, admitted that 10 or 12 Indictments were in prospect. "Tools of Gambling Ring." Tbe eight players Indicted are "apparently only tools of a gambling ring," according to Harry Bringham, foreman of the grand Jury. The ramifications of. this ring, he said, extend everywhere that professional baseball Is known.

"A Load On His Chest." William "Kid" Gleason, manager of the White Sox, revealed today tho march of events which culminated In Clcotto'8 confession and tho voting oil the indictments. Last Monday, according to Gleu- son, ho bad gathered enough evidence to know that some of the players had been bribed to lose the scr- ies. Clcotto came to him Monday night, he said, and declared he had "a load on his chest," and wanted to Local Gamblers Played Hunch In Base Ball That some of the betting fraternity in Alton made money a year ago on the scandal in the base ball worlds series was declared today by one of the best known of the local men who delight In taking a chance. It wasn't quite a chance they took for, though they were not on the Inside of the ring, and merely acting on suspicions they had from what they heard, they plnyed their hunch and they bet so that they cleared up quite a sum of money on the outcome of the game a year ago. One man who in the past ran a game in Alton and who has always been openly ready to wager on almost anything, said today that did not believe that the gamblers Jid the right thing when they debauched the base ball game by ouy- ing up players.

He was as strong in his condemnation of them as the strictest opponent of gambling could be. Speaking of the winnings made by the local men, he said that It Is wrong when it is said thai. Matthew Keefe lost so much money on the base ball game a year ago that he Worried himself Into a mental collapse. Keefe was with the Telegraph's authority in betting and both won. He Raid that Keefe's trouble came from other causes, not from loss of money.

The local betters in the ring big fellows who made money a year ago disclaimed having any direct knowledge but there was so much talk of crookedness in the series they Just took advantage of a chance that there was something" wrong and played It to win, and they won. BLIND TIGERS IN LINE FOR A HARD FIGHT Women Declare War on Bootleggers and Will Interview Public Officials to Bring About Change. W. C. T.

U. PLANS U. A CRUSADE Admit That Liquor Sale is Greatly Decreased But Declare There are Violations of Volstead Law. ENROLLMENT IN 18 SCHOOLS IS LESSJHAN16 Supt. McCrea Shows That 215 Pupils In Madison County Cost $10,808 A Year to Instruct.

A list of the enrollment of schools hroughout Madison County, compiled by Superintendent of Schools Hugh P. McCrea, shows that eighteen schools in the county have enrollments of not more than fifteen pupils, with an average attendance of considerably less than that number. Totals of the figures reveal that In hese districts, 216 scholars are beln? educated at an annual cost, not Including allowances for new buildings of 110,708.46, or slightly under $50 per student. The smallest class Is that of the jman School, near Bethalto, with an enrollment of 9, a dally attendance if 7 pupils, and an annual cost of 844.81, the highest of any of the eighteen. Superintendent McCrea'g list Is as ollows: School and P.

O. En't. iedgemound, Highland ..15 'Indel. Highland Worden 16 Joxey, Alhambra 12 Alhambra Qui Vive, St. Jacobs 7 Bond, Worden 12 'ralrletown, Worden 14 jllead, Troy 13 prlng Valley, Troy 11 Ilckory Grove, Dorsey ...11 immermnn, Bunker ohm, Edwardsvllle 12 Alton, R.

F. Bethalto, R. K. 9 Valnut Grove, E. Branch, Godfrey, R.

R. aberet, Granite city .13 .14 Cost. 473.78 529.0.1 793.80 536.39 442.45 461.25 455.59 591.00 625.76 504.13 720.24 690.5S 59971 844.S1 617.f>7 718.05 674.22 A party of members of the Upper Alton W. T. U.

called on Mayor Sauvage and Chief of Police Fitzgerald this morning to take up the mater of bringing about a better observance of the prohibition law In Tho women said that particular offense was being given by one Upper Alton nian who had persisted In get- ing drunk and was causing much trouble for his family. The women declared their Intention of taking the subject up with (he prohibition enforcement agent at East St. Louis andjnsist that something be done to suppress the illicit sale of liquor in Alton which, they are assured, whKle not of tihe proportions of the olden days, is still considerable and they are insisting that it be stopped. The attitude of the city administration Is that ((here Is Inadequate support being given, by the prohibition enforcement authorities In this district. They cite Instances of failures to take sufficient acllon in cases that have come up.

The general impression prevails that the prohibition enforcement in this district is more or less of a burlesque, because of the character of some of the men engaged In the enforcement business. There are charges being made that some big business interes'e in the liquor line have been doing a very nice business in Alton. True, the volume Isn't as great as it used to be, because the price Is so high it only a man with lots of money who is desperately In need drink who will pay it. Charges have also been iptfe that "raisin" whiskey inwni" some of the fore'gners iti 3ast. EnA place and is being sold.

There is a charge that there is a still In operation outside the city of Alton, near the city pest house farm. The of the W. C. 7. $.

com- mit'tee Bald that they retlfovVl that there had been a great decline In drinking booze since prohibition wont into effect and that those getting it are ch'efly "old soaks" who would go through alrr.nst any hardship to get a supply of liquor. The ladles said '(hat they ri'an also to take the matter up with States Attorney Streuber and they may go further than the prohibition enforcement ageni In taking up with Federal authorities. They have a strong conviction that by hearty coopera'Jon between local, county and Federal courts, much could be accomplished toward further diminishing the Illicit sale of liquor. Indications are tha'i there will bo troub'e in store for illicit sellers of liquor in the near future as the women of the W. C.

T- U. aro determined to proceed with an arousing of public sentiment that will give support t'o public officials who are willing to enforce the and will make it hard on public officials who do not perform their duty. They realize that public officers must have public backing in efforts. abe Makes Fans the" Scandal With Terrific Smash That Puts Pill Over the Fence. Philadelphia, Sept.

Ruth cored his fifty-fourth home run 10- ay when he lifted the, Iwll over Bht. Hold in torrlHc mimsh in he game York and hlludelphia. -v. get rid of It. Qleason told him to see A.

Oomlskey, owner of the Sox. Comlskey heurd Clcmte'n story, which tallied with tbu evidence by his private detectives, and then called Austrian and told him trv take the ullcher to Judge Mo- Donald. Justice of tho Cook County Court. The confession and Indictments followed. of telegrams sent prior in and during world uoi'ien byjtalnod by President MeyUlpr of ihr Hal Chase and BUI Burns, foruuv National League for i pfc I'hi; tu-awl 1urv.

An ancient church, dating from tho fth t-entunry, him boon il'ticnvimid be- eath tho foundation ot flic Uhuiuiu I athedral. Henry Maxeiner to Undergo Operation. Henry Mcxeincr. who war, hurt a fow years HBO by a fall at the plant of tho Standard Oil Co. will bo 'o the hospital again tonight to undergo a surgical operation on his skull, to relievo all conditions which havo developed.

Mr. Mexelnur was believed to bo fatally hurt at first Imt surgical Bklll saved him. A silver I'luto Inserted In his skull and It WHS believed he would got filonjr all Of Into ho ban boon showing ii'dirat'ons of IIITKHUTO on tho Chicago siii-goon was railed in and 1 thought ho could giro rollef by operation, and Mr. Mnxclnf-v to undergo It. it.

A. I'fuff IB recovering from in injury to hi.s limit Willie ho uud I'lirly (it friends worn f-njoyiug a t.iM Sumliiy, Jir. IV'ttff slipped ici-ls, (ting liiu.