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PAGE FOUR ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Published by Alton Telegraph Prlnttog P. a COUSLEY. Entered as second-elan matter at the Alton, act ot Congrees, March 8. ALTON BVBWNd tBLEORAPH at MXUBEB AMOUiATBD fl cantor. at iMtvertpttaB Daily.

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Chicago, Uetrolt. county to Gangsters and Pinball Machines The pintail machine, camouflaged one-armed bandit, is being revealed as the new source of income of gangsters and Madison county might as well get busy and expel the pinball machines from the nty. In St. Louis a gangster killing, supposed have had its origin in rivalry for "spots" for pinball machines, has resulted in the arrest of some old-time gangsters and orders being given them to close their place of business from which they supplied the pinball machines. The pinbali machine was dressed up in such shape that it made it a bit more difficult to detect as a gambing device which would interest the old- time gangsters who are ready and willing for little or no provocation to slaughter their rivals in business But there now seems no doubt that the pinball machine is no better than the old-fashioned one-armed bandit.

The so-called "game of skill which was actually licensed as Such in the City of Alton by City Council ordinance, and has since been driven out of here, is flourishing in Madison County. The Telegraph calls attention to the great number of pinball machines placed in cities and villages and in rural districts in Madison county. If they are allowed to stay, Madison County may again become playground of St. Louis gangsters. The Aluminum Blame Misleads U.

S. National Defense Ideas, David Lawrence Declares slaying of a man in this gang war over pinball machines may have occurred in Madison county. The man who was found dead formerly connected with the Fairmount race track, which seems to justify belief that there was a Madison County end to the killing. State's Attorney Bill Burton and Sheriff Walter Wittman.will win applause jf either or both of them get busy and expel the pinball machines from Madison County. We don't need the machines and we cannot endure having gangsters erigaged in business in the county, operating concessions of pinball machines.

At first represented to be mere "games of skill and that only small limited numbers of them would be permitted to operate, the pinball machines have grown so numerously as to be a real evil in the county. It is clearly time for them to be thrown out of Madison County. The fact that gangsters are in the pinball machine business is plenty of reason for cleaning them out. Juarez and Hitler It worked for Juarez and it has been up to Adolph Hitler. Benito (Pablo) Juarez, Mexico's national hero, employed strategy similar to Hitler's when Juarez President of Mexico declared war on France in at 18(52.

Legend has it that Juarez was pondering military strategy to employ against French troops. A simple shepherd boy gave him the answer by relating a tale how his dogs killed a bear. First, one dog would bite a hind leg, and when bear turned to meet his foe, another dog would bite his foreleg. The bear wore himself out trying to get at his attackers and soon was so exhausted that both dogs could fall on him and tear him to pieces. Juarez' armies harassed the French all over the map of Mexico by spotty attacks at widely diversified points.

With the support of America, he finally drove the French from Mexico and Maximillian, France's emperor of Mexico, was executed. Hitler's strategy has strange similarities to that of Juarez, but there was none of the spirit of Juarez in Hitler's motives. The German leader's stage of military operations is Europe. He hits at Britain in widely diverse areas through allies of the Axis. Right now Hitler's "bear" is the Russian bear.

One dog bites Russia at Finland. Another nips the Soviet at Rumania. Still another ominous growl is heard from the direction of Japan. Meanwhile Italy's hounds of war can be heard baying for Red blood. But Hitler may have attacked a bear that is too large.

People Sour on Communism A woman in Oklahoma City has been given 10 years in prison to keep her Communist husband company. She thinks she has not had her day in court, saying she is a good American and does not believe that lovers of American democracy will accept the punishment being visited on her. She may be surprised to find out just how deep the feeling of good Americans is being made against everything Communist. The Communist activities in some of the labor unions where they have been able to seize concrol stirring Americans up to the pitch of ill will against Communists that doesn't promise much patience with those who try to substitute Communism for Americanism. We do believe in freedom of speech and action, but can't let it go so far as to crush house over our national heads, destroying institutions which have us prosperous and happy as a people.

Communism leaves no freedom of speech or action, in any of the countries where it has come into It no longer true that only lome of tiie people "go off to the war to all of the peopJeMl. Civil Aeronautics Au- orlty, SIDE GLANCES at UwnncM By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON, June the American people on the facts of national defense would seem to be a serious matter, and it would be unfortunate if the Senate committee, which has just published a report on the aluminum situation declaring that the OPM had been mistaken, were to be found confusing the facts itself. The Senate committee report says that the OPM guessed wrong on aluminum requirements because it relied on figures furnished by the Aluminum Company of America. Yet not a scintilla of evidence wns introduced showing what estimates of aluminum needed were made by the War and Navy departments which in turn furnished figures to the OPM. The attack on the Office of Production Management is unfair.

The fact is that the army and navy officers were responsible for estimating military netds. The headlines which blame the OPM do an injustice. The Senate committee could have revealed all the facts very easily by getting at War and Navy department records. For some reason not easily explained there seems to be a concerted movement to attack the OPM as in collusion with the Aluminum Company and, of course, the campaign to discredit the latter la getting to be one of the major scandals of Washington. Just what is behind the drive is not clear, but the persistent attempt to argue that the aluminum producers are responsible for knowing military and naval needs before the President himself does is not explained on the simple ground that an attempt was allegedly made to prevent new plants from being built as competition for the major producer.

What It begins to look like Is that persons interested in new power plants in different parts of the country are agitating the aluminum shortage in the hope of getting public funds for more plants with which to generate electricity. The Senate committee report has in it some glaring errors. Thus the statement is made that Germany is producing both in nor own territory and that which she has "occupied apprpximately 915,000,000 pounds of aluminum annually. Yet the United States Bureau of Mines, which is the most reliable source of figures on world production of metals, says in its Review of Metals for 1940 issued a week ago that Germany and Austria combined had an aluminum production of about 529,000,000 pounds and that the subjugated territory has a production of 242,000,000 pounds. This covers Norway, France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia and Hungary, making a grand total under Nazi control of 771,000,000 pounds.

This is a serious disparity. The Senate committee would appear to be 145,000,000 pounds wjpng or an error of 'nearly 19 percent. Now the production of the United States by the end of the present year will be at least 800,000,000 pounds estimated by the Bureau of Mines. The Canadian production in 1940 was about 242,000,000 pounds, so there is a total aluminum capacity of more than 1,000,000,000 pounds available on the North American continent as of the end of this year. But the Senate committee report errs in another particular.

It does not tell all of the story, merely contenting itself with one side. It does not tell the American people that the total consumption in the States per annum from 1932 through 1938'was only about 161,000,000 pounds for all purposes and that the Roosevelt administration which was in- power coincident with the Hitler regime did nothing about the aluminum problem while Hitler was building up his capacity for production. Nor does the Senate committee seems hardly to have been examined carefullly by all its that in 1939 the total American consumption was about 329,000,000 for civilian and defense purposes. Had these figures been revealed the public might have formed its own conclusions as to whether the Aluminum Company was stepping up production 'in accordance with demand or was trying to discourage competition as claimed. Perhaps the most important piece of information, which strangely enough has been omitted from the Senate committee report, Is the fact that last autumn the War and Navy departments estimated that for the calendar year 1941 they would need 17,000,000 pounds of aluminum per month inasmuch as their defense orders for aluminum in 1940 had averaged only 15,000,000 pounds per month.

It was not recorded by the Senate committee that the Aluminum Company nearly doubled the War and Navy departments' estimates and planned its production on the basis of 27,000,000 pounds per month for defense for the months of January, February, March and April, 1941. Then came the stepping-up of the airplane program by the President, and the actual orders placed averaged 40,000,000 pounds per month or 480,000,000 pounds per year. Naturally, with orders for 480,000,000 and an actual production of about 600,000,000 pounds, the Aluminum Company officials and OPM executives all thought there would be enough for defense requirements and some left over for portion of civilian uses. If a mistake was made, it was in the War and Navy departments, but this fact is carefully suppressed. The truth is there Is not today an accurate estimate of military requirements on aluminum anywhere in the government.

America today could be producing much more aluminum if electric power had been provided and the real person to the real Secretary who refuses to grant the electric power asked for by the Aluminum Company last February. Realizing that he has committed a blunder, the doubtless trying to raise a smokescreen now to avoid criticism. But some day the facts will be revealed by an impartial investigation in Congress and the country will get'the truth about alleged aluminum shortages. The fact it the American aviation program cannot progress as fast as the announced on bomber construction for reasons which have nothing to do with aluminum, and the United States and Canada can pretty well keep abreast of aviation requirements for aluminum from about the end of 1941 and thereafter, (Reproduction Rights Reserved) 125 Years In A bout Alton 50 Yeats Alton "Sorry you won't buy anything, Mr. this weather cools off, it's going to make a big change in your disposition 1" MERRY TMM MARK ROUND REGISTERED By DFEW PEARSON and ROBERT S.

ALLEN Gen. Marshall a Genius at Combating Army Disorder (Editor's Merry-Go- Round's famous Brass Ring IH herewith awarded to General George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army). WASHINGTON. Gen. George C.

Marshall, chief of staff, spends most of his time looking forward to a bigger and Improved U. S. Army. But when he looks backward over 60 years, one of his sharpest recollections has to do with the S. S.

Tenadores, sailing from Hoboken June 14, 1917, loaded with the first troops of the AEF. Marshall was a captain age 36, and his chief responsibility was to keep the soldiers from handling their guns. New recruits, they were so raw and so seasick Myer just across, the river. Here a typical Marshall day: His morning horseback ride is dally ritual. You can A set your vatch by the fact that at 6:10 the General; arrives at the tables of the Tenth Calvary to mount the horse "Trail 50 minutes he rides along the on the Virginia side and to bathe and dress by they couldn't weapons, be trusted with The man who care of equipment in our Army li the man who rldea In it.

In this respect the suparlorlty of the American soldier it Charlea L. Scott, commander, Armored By the tinw war Is over wo may all end up digging (iltchea but, thank God, they will be our own John Bnssett of the Canadian Black Watch. Today, the terrible confusion of those days seems like a nightmare. Marshall wants no more confusion. Since his appointment as chief of staff two years'ago, he has brought an unsurpassed skill to the job of preventing such chaos from happening The President knew Marshall's mettle when, in making the selection, he passed over 34 other officers who were senior In rank.

At that time, the army Cumbered 169,000. Today It numbers 1,400,000 and is going higher. With this tremendous expansion, there has been some disorder and Irregularity, but Marshall has kept it at a minimum. However, it is part of Marshall's genius that when there is disorder and Irregularity, Marshall airs it. The exact opposite of certain brass hats in the navy, Gen.

Marshall never has been known to smother news of a mistake. In fact, he will sit down with newspaper men and be more critical of the army than any of them. Marshall and Congress For Instance, one of the army's severest critics is Congressman Albert J. Engel of Michigan. Engel is the man who accused the War Department of 30 percent waste in cantonment then went out and proved it.

Marshall's reaction to this was unique and refreshing. Instead of going Into a grouch, he declared, "Enge puts ants in our pants, but he's a damn good inspector." Get this picture as an indication of Marshall's caliber. It was Army Day, 1940. Troops were marching by the reviewing stand on Constitution avenue. In the stand, In the full dress uniform of the army's one and only full-fledged general, stood the chief of staff his hand raised in salute as the flag went by.

Beside Marshall was that Re publican gadfly, the fat little Con gressman from Michigan. This was the first time Marshall had seen Engel since Engel complained to Harry Woodring, then secretary of war, about the excessive cost new officers' quarters ($17,500 in stead of $14,500, the limit set by law). The troops kept marching by and a man to do two jobs at his eyes on the troops, but out of the corner of his mouth, he said candidly to Engel, "I sent an engineer to inspect those officers' quarters you complained about There was a lo of waste, no doubt about it, and the terrible part of it the money's gone!" If you ask Gadfly Engel what he thinks of the chief of staff, he "I swear by Marshall works at a terrible pace, but he keeps bimself in trim. There are no late parties in the home of the chief of staff at Fort 28, 1916 Ray fitfgen, Fred Glassbrenner, Chris ftein and Robert McKiMock were injured ift an automobile Occident on Mllteh Road heal Milton schbol. ElfgWlwas seriously injured, Gen.

Trevmo, whose had captured Sffl American soldleti in didn't nunca about what wouW happen to them if American forces made in, attempt to the men, They be shot at once, the general said. He added that were determined to defend Mexico said few other things that caused Congressman Smith to shake his head dolefully and aver an Arhericatt declaration of war was but a few days it was salu in a dispatch from Springfield that unless tho order were countermanded the first regiment of the Illinois National Guard would 4eava f6r the Mexican border tonight The Rev. Irving Uoff, McCann, pastor- of the Congregation church, Was a chaplain with regiment, Chief of Police J. 3. Mullen issued the warning to youngsters not to shoot off fireworks until July 4.

A basement was being dug under the College Avenue Baptist church and members of the building committee said that since the Shurtleff college boys who had been donating labor had gone for the summer, men would be hired to rush the work t6 Completion. The Stolze Brothers, who came from Edwardsville, were erecting a huge lumber shed at Wood River. Already they had entered the Wood River lumber field. Ruth Sloman, Stella Milford and Bess StalUngs, Shurtleff college girls, left for Michigan to work as waitresses at, a summer resort which employed only college girls. Another group of Shurtleff girls had gone several days previously.

Weddings announced for week were those of Miss Claire Herzog to William Ldndley, Miss Berrilce Gillham to, Herbert Armstrong, Mis? Mary Edna Wardermann Miss Blanche Cartwright to I. Foulon of East St. Louis. A niarriage license was issued June 27 at St Louis to Burda of Alton and Lillian A. Peters of St.

Louis. Licenses to wed Were issued in Alton to Roy E. Thompson and Miss Esther Neuhaus, both of Fosterburg, and Carl R. Johnson and Clara W. Weishaupt, both of East Alton.

A party on the twelfth birthday of Anna Klabolt was given at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Klrbolt on East Fifth street on June 27. Prizes were awarded to Catherine Uhl, Rosalie Roller and George Flackeneker. Fred Gissal, son of Mr.

and Gissal, was to be married on June 29 to Miss Rose Miller of Lannon, the ceremony to be 'performed at Lan- Jane 1891 Seven young men had finished their prentleoship with ending ot the year's fire glass wortoi and how were to rate as lllvm They Were Louis Walter, Henry Fecht, HenrTa! defbeck, George Bennes, John Sudbrock, David Fetrldge, and John Demuth. In celebration of attainment of full-fledged rating at their trade group gave a party for their friends in Paul's i Hftl nail A yotmg team of horses of Christopher Walter Coal Branch took fright when a member of hn fttmiiy riding in the vehicle raised an umbrella their Ifitt nome. The team ran as far as David iich'J lit North Alton where Walter, son and Weri thrown but, escaping with bruises, as the wagon' overturned; Edward McGwire of Springfield, a on the 'Bluff Line was killed, when a freight car which he was riding was derailed at Apple Cr bridge, near Waverly, and he was thrown off. a'ht Roadmaster Brady of the C. A.

Assist. escaped, injury when he met an extra section ot Train 4 While riding a railroad velocipede near the up. per mlddletown-bridge and had just time to jump safety. The C. A.

nine won a match game of au with, the Big Four team at Wann, io-5, batting and fielding by White for the winners, and all-round playing of Spellman of the Big Four featuring the game; and Mrs. 6. S. Stowell were rejoicing i non. eturns :20.

Then, after a 20-minute break- ost, it is only a seveh-minute drive across the Memorial Bridge to the Munitions Building, and he is at his desk before 8. No Hannibal, He There is no dog about Marshall. The bareness of his office testi- ies to that. He does not strut the visitors with an or- ental fan in his hand, as did Gen. Douglas McArthur, one of his predecessors.

He flaunts no be- medalled bosom. But he has great Imagination. When Under Secretary of State Welles asks him to fly to Latin America on a goodwill pilgrimage, le grasps the political implications and accepts immediately. Admiral Stark, chief of naval operations argued for six months Defore he would Invite Latin American naval chiefs to come to tlie USA, but Gen. Marshall invited Latin American chiefs of staff the minute it was- suggested.

Gen. Johnson Hagood once called Marshall the greatest army officer since George Washington and Stonewall Jackson. But that Is stretching it. Real fact is that Marshall has never been tested out in the command of large masses of troops under fire. During the last war he served on the general staff and performed a masterful job of plotting out the strategy of St.

Mihiel, first offensive In which the U. S. Army acted as a unit. He Is not yet a Hannibal, 'but he is so popular on Capital Hill that many Congressmen would rank him even higher. These days appropriations for defense come easy, but If any peu- suasion were needed, Marshall could produce it.

In the House Appropriations Committee they regard him as the best chief of staff in a generation. Speaking of funds, Marshall himself says, "We used to have all the time and no money; jnow we have all the money and no time." After day of talking with members of Congress, the general staff, foreign military missions, Marshall goes home to Fort Myer and yields to Marshall's suggestion: "George, you look tired. Let's pack a bile and go down on the river." Sd the chief of staff and his lady, like 'any bank clerk and his sweetie, hire a canoe on the Potomac and paddle down the river to a quiet spot for a plcnjc supper. A colored man, found engaged in a brawl, was taken to jail, then released the following day when it was proven that he had merely entered the fracas in'the role of He had tried to halt a fight between a colored man and his wife. birth of a son, June 27.

L. T. Pates had added a soda fountain to his business place. George Hamilton had resigned his position as an operator for the Bluff Line In order to handle the wires for the Big tour ttJ Its freight house. 1 Bluff City Fishing Club had named Victor Brack I fishmaster for its summer season, and as its other! officers, James Bannon, William Fries, Joseph Pr.ul, John Unterbrink, MaxKu A.

Kremer, and Henry Brueggeman. A smented itinerant had into the home oil James Gillham north of Mlddletown, and after licerhen Brock and Schielle had taken the man Into 1 custody. Dr. Guellch was called to treat him at city jail. Prof.

Strassbcrger's Social Turnvereln of young- musicians from St. Louis had drawn good i houses With their Saturday evening and Sunday! afternoon concerts In Temple Theater. Sarah DeMoss of Alton Junction had been awarded a federal pension. George Lessner and family were to spend the summer in Pennsylvania. A group of glassblowers composed of F.

M. Cousins, Charles Wiibert, Thomas Molloy, and Albert Penning, had left for New York, thence topsail for pool on a tour of England, Ireland, and the nent. HERE3T TO HEALTH McOOY PUBLICATIONS, fWUSHKS Of THE FAST WAY TO HEALTH" All queftloni regardtnj MealU) ana Diet will be answered. Large, Kit- addicued. stamped envelope miut be Write on one side ot papei only.

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PIMM meloM ttartt (3) oenti (or reply. Merry -Oo-BomxI Telling newsmen about inspection of a new powder plant in Tennessee, OPM Director General Knudton remarked, "They are turning out the (tuff In great shape," and nonchalantly pulled out of his pocket a stick of dynamite. Most of the reporters, popeyed, nervously doused their Since his split with the administration, John L. has been the virtual dictator of Labor's Non-Partlsan League. But that didn't keep the Philadelphia branch from caustically denouncing Lewis attack on President Roosevelt for using troops against (lie outlaw strike at Inglewood.

Toe accused Lewis of pursuing a "rule or ruin" policy. SHORT WAVE HEALS During the last twenty-five years, great advances have been made the use of electricity, not only-for commercial and industrial purposes, but in the field of the healing art; Not so very long ago, doctors who employed electrical modalities in the treatment ot disease, were looked upon by their colleagues with a certain amount of and the use ot such equipment savored of quackery. Similar criticism has attended pioneers in the healing arts, sometimes verging on persecution, but the doctor who is progressive, will seek out the most, modern and successful equipment and will use it to the advantage of his patients. Possibly one of the greatest advances in electrical treatment, is the short wave, which has now been universally accepted as a valuable adjunct In the treatment of many conditions which were slow to respond to other methods. Dr.

Frank McCoy was one of the first to employ this method of" treatment In pneumonia cases, with remarkable results. Patients wro would surely have succumbed to this disease were saved, and at this time many of the large hospitals use either the short wave or the long wave diathermy as a patients. Any doctor in this country may use this short- wave equipment, which may be purchased from the surgical supply houses, and I often wonder if we realize how fortunate we are to be free trom the impositions wlilch must of necessity be forced upon those living In other lands. It is Interesting to know for instance, that in countries at war, doctors' are obliged to have special licenses for their short wave treating machines, since they may be used for transmitting messages to the enemy. Shortwave therapy Is widely used In the treatment of pain, the heat being of such a penetrating that Is passes right through the tissues involved, often without much apparent heat being In evidence on the skin surface Itself.

Relief may be experienced within a few minutes from the pains of lumbago, sdatjca, neuritis and such like disorders, and it will also aid greatly In the treatment of sprains, wry neck, muscles and so on. Of course it must be remembered that in order to satisfactorily rid the body of these disorders, the cause should bu located and removed, but in the meantime, the patient will experience blessed relief from pain by the use of the short wave diathermy Those readers who would like to know more about the electrical methods of treating disease, are Invited to send for Dr, Frank McCoy's special articles entitled "ELECTRICAL TREATMENT METHODS" and another, Just address your request to the McCoy Health Service, enclosing a largo self addressed envelope and six cents in stamps and both of these articles will be promptly mailed tv you. QUESTIONS AND AN8WE8S QUESTION: Mr. A. J.

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If held fof ten years it will be redeemed by the Treasury Department for 525. Q. Please give an estimate of the war causaltiaj in Great Britain. B. G.

G. A. Recent figures: from Great Britain show thatl in the first 21 months of the war 18,627 members the Army, Navy, and R.A.F. were killed in There were 35,756 civilians killed in air raids. Q.

At what period from, 1917-1919 were there largest number of government employes in Washing ton? C. A. A. A. The' Federal Government employment re at that time was 917,760 on Novembw 11,1918.

Q. Where was the first State Fair held? H. P.I A. The first State fair of continued existen was held in Syracuse, New York, In 1841. Q.

in what murder case In the United States the plea of temporary insanity first made? A. Edwin M. Stanton, afterwards Attorney eral and Secretary of War, made the plea in defeatl ing General Dajiiel Sickles who had killed Key, son of Francis Scott Key, for attentions to wife. Sickles was acquitted. Q.

Are many applicants for the Air Corps fou to have poor vision? Hi P. R. A. Approximately 80 per cent of the appUca for the United States Army Air Corps are rejeew because of faulty vision. Should an orchid be worn with the stem uplj An orchid, or any other flower or should be worn with the flowers up.

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