Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 2

PAGE TWO EVEN1NO TBJL.JB,OKAPH Russian Battle Soon to Show Secret Power Analyst Says Conflict Has Reached Crucial Sfage H' won Soviets Stiffen Counter- Blow Predicted By Soviet Gen. XJiuralcv Bj DKW1TT MA( Red Marshal Timechonko, wlnl' continuing to u-ive ground south of Rostov on the lower Don, hns nned his defenses considerably along the prc-nt crescent-shap'V) battle front dining the past, days, hut whether tliis represents I.SCOP- Kiisslnn strength or weakening her of of the Njui drive isn't yt. clear. Arm-ii' We ought l.o know soon, however, where the batanro of powr lies in this bloody clash of giants. before Hitler began the offensive upon which nin fortunes depend, this column pointed out that (hero no way of the comparative strengths of forces short of seeing them in action in the big showdown.

First Year During the first year's fighting both sides suffered tremendous losses in men and materiel, and in addition the Bolshevists gave up vast industrial and agricultural resources. Still, it. wns Impossible to estimate tho potential of recovery for either side with any degree of certainly. We had to wait to what the Nazi chief produced In the way of his "sprinc" offensive. Even now, despite the fierceness of the fighting, we haven't, got the answer to our Tho Re.l retirement hasn't given us a gauge, because that was anticipated and It has hern carried out in an manner.

The conflict now has reached a stage, however, when marked weakness on either side will begin to show up. Pravdii Quoted The Communist party newspaper Pravda of Moscow asserts that Germany is throwing Its last resources Into the offensive, and adds that "tho enemy is not so strong as he appears to some panic-mongers," Pfavrta's Information hns been pretty accurate in the past, and present estimate In correct, then the Reds certainly need not despair of holding tho We-get another view from Russian Major General Xhur- avlev, keen military commentator for the Moscow News. Ho declares "the day Is approaching when the Red army will deliver a counter-blow" and adds that while? the German army is still capable of scoring short-lived successes In separate sections of the front, It "will Inevitably be smashed." Ritsourrc-s Witiic Now that, is bold language, but we can't dismiss It lightly, we know that there may be sufficient Russian strength, or sufficient German weakness, to bring about exactly the result the general predicts. Wo musn't overlook that Hitler's resources-arc on the warn which Is precisely the reason he is to break into the Caucasus now. Timoshenko finally appears, to be throwing reserves Into some of the hot spots along the lino.

However, It wasn't until the crisis was sravo that, he resorted to the lion troops which he was known to be holding out. The inrtleatlnns that he is still keeping back la icservcs which ran serve him in ait emergency or for a counler-attai when the Germans are over-ex tended and tired. The Hed Mai.sli.il has been play- Ing a cool and daring game. His strategic withdrawal with an extended line and over stirh a great depth has been earn--'! out i a masterful manner. Only a great general could Juggle thus' with disaster nnd not conic- a terrible cropper.

Tho signs have been that shenko has figured on delivering a heavy counter-blow ul the right moment, presumably against Niwl: General' von left which is anchored near Whether tho mammoth buttle will work out that way remains to l-e, but it still ran said thai thus far the Muscovite position! hasn't become desperate thouch i. i grave. Timoshenko can much more ground without Hiiloi-j succeeding in bre-iklng Into thuj Caucasus. F. Browning, Railroad Man 64 Years, Dies Succumbs at Residence Following Short Illness Funeral Rites Sunday Began Work as a Boy in Railway Express Business Hock 1 truck, who honors in Sons ci rifle ii'i "possible'' pe.riei-1 i kstriK-k is a mem- 1 A It i in Post Sons of I lie Dir.Don't Retreat' Red Soldiers Are Told: Nazis Gain ('(pnllmied From 1'iigo t.

a Red army said. "lii of the fact that the our troops has in- eTcased, i lie Germans have advanced in some sector's." Confirmation still was lacking for Vichy (French) radio broad- east report yesterday that Gorman troops from the Crimea had crossed the narrow Kerch strait to the Caucasus mainland and were Im- perilling the Russians below Bu- talsk. Experiment Kails Front-line dispatches said the experiment with tank-walled lying wedge" attacks ended in snsli'-r for the invaders. Soviet gunnels held their fire'as the phalanx advanced, then wrecked the forward funk wall with vol-, ley after volley of point-blank fire arid lett. the Nazi infantry exposed.

Russian troops dashed into the blench, dlspalchcs said, killing many Germans and routing the others In hand-to-hand fighting. Red Star said the invaders fell buck over steppes littered- with bodies and smashed machines. BIO III German tyfi Rumanian and Slo.vak troops have, crossed tin' lower Don river on a front ami already have thrust miles south of (Me stream, the high command declared today. Fighting is. in progress for the town of a junction point on the railways from the Caucasus to Stalingrad, .100 miles southeast of, Rostov, communique said.

Speed troops and advanced Infantry divisions are pursuing the Russians closely'and have further ivttjwrt "fit several points' by the disorganized fugitives, tho command stated. An infantiy division has occupied ftusehevka, nbout 50 miles south of Rostov on. the railway to the Caucasus, it added. 'Booty Increases' The number of Russian prisoners and amounts of booty are increasing continually, but no estimates yet are available as the German and German-ulllikl forces advance, the communique declared. -In the big bend of the Don northeast of Rostov, dermaii and'Ru- manian troops have Russians across the river, mid tlall- un forces have repulsed local tank- supported Soviet attacks, if was asserted.

Soviet attempts to break off an encirclement and to relieve en- rlivlcd troops from the outside cost tin-in tanks suetrs.x, the reported. Strong Russian altaeks were Hckiiou In the north, around miles west nf and on tho Volkhov front and oul- side Leningrad. All were reported I repulsed, however, with the Ru.s- skins losing '10 tanks at H.chev and seven bouts on the Neva river- near Frederick Baker Browning, 75, who had been in the railroad business, or associated with it, for 64 years, died Thursday at. m. al his home, Aberdeen avenue, after a short illness.

lie began hi.s work as a boy with the railway express business, which was associated with the railroads, and he continued In the express companies connection 1-2 years until lif; began his connection with the Illinois Terminal where he remained for 29 1-2 years, retiring with the close of the year 1939 at tho age of 72. Older people lif business in Alton remember Fred Browning when he went to work for tho United Stales Kxpress Co. us a boy. For 12 years he -drove the horse-drawn express wagons for the United States Express Co. and continued with the company, becoming the local agent for six years.

He also worked for the VVells Fargo-Co, when that compftny for a brief period succeeded United States Express That was before the World War days and the subsequent merger 6f express companies Into the one' which now covers the country, the American Railway Express. Returned to Work Death came unexpectedly after Browning, who had retired a few years ago, been called back into service of the railroad company to serve as relief man while regular employes were on vacation. He apparently was in good health at the time he was recalled to work July 6 at the freight office of Illinois Terminal, and had been happy In being able to return to his old job as rate clerk, relieving em- ployes there so they might have their vacations. Ho had worked last Wednesday, but became ill during the night Wednesday? and a physician was summoned. His condition took an unexpected turn for the worse Thursday afternoon resulting in his death a few hours later.

Browning wns horn In Godfrey, but had resided'nearly all his life in Alton. He and his wife, the former' Miss Lelia Murphy, had observed the forty-sixth anniversary of trleir marriage last month. Valued Kniplnyc During the long period ho lived in'Alton Mr. Browning was known for his friendly ways, his fine char, acter, and his ability to get along with people. He attended strictly to business In the years he worked for express companies and railroad and was one of the most valued employes of those corporations when ho served them.

Surviving are his widow and two daughters, Mrs. Frank M. Campbell of Toledo, and Mrs. Charles t-ahlein of Alton. He also leaves two sister, Mrs.

Jane E. HubbeH, Alton, and Mrs. Martha Miller, Fosterburg, and three grandchildren. Mr. Browning was a member of Twelfth St.

Presbyterian Church nnd funeral riles Sunday at 3:30 p. m. at Streeper funeral home will be conducted by the Rev. Paul S. Krobs, pastor of the church.

Staff photograph taken Dec. 30, 1939, when he retired from the freight department of Illinois Terminal. William J. Clark Dies at Age 81 Soldiers' Ration Books Must Be Returned Board Keutly to Accept New Jr. Huildiii So near to completion Is the ne junior high school building th.i stepw towards final uceepluiu nmy be taken at the next meeting of 'tho Board uf Education.

The building is reported virtually ready for a final inspection, mid Building Commissioner plans to begin moving equipment AMo the next week. A meeting of school board planned as soon us ol nun be had, the object being to canvass the votu ai thi lust election and formally wat the new ft. H. Uirimrdp. and tht new member, W- W.

Wood. It Indicated today that the meeting might be held before end of the current week. of of from the city thus far huf prevented a meet- Mothers ot men in the mined rvitvs have been U-d to believe that Ihev may continue to, use llu'li sons' lation books in Alton, oliler In to bake pastries i to to tb'-ir sons in (be sen Ire; tune been el mneously to a by the! Alton lahoinnj; ult'iec this iiiornuix, us man called inloj siM'vn-e. rolativi-s must turn in his ratlin book to loL'iil offiv-e with slHinjis HMUnvi'd the i-x-'eptioii uf thoM- used by the man in tore IMS induction into the ru'iny. tiiiMMunit-ill regulations ru- ijinie Dial these books be returned.

NIJ autoniobili-s are allowed Alton lolling boaiil in the August quoin by the board this Kurty bu-yi-les, 10 oiiKer inrs, pnssenger tubes, 50 Intel; tires and 5(1 tubes, n-trt-iuls, (id truck re- Ircads, nnd uiiiili'- '2 tires are allov.itl Hie Alton bonrd for August. In Tninsilay Moinl-weckly met'tinj; of the Alton bounl UjipUc- atioiu iui I pasnejiKer tire, 57 tubes, 12 truck tirej and I) tubes, 43 pawKfiiger a-tu-uds, -'5 truck re- trrad.s, and -I xiadu I' tires were allowed. No or tiulomo- wcix- by the board. After an ill-ness over a period of years, William J. Clark, 81, died Thursday at 2 p.

m. He had hren a hospital patient the prist four months. Mr. Clark, born in Bet hallo, had lived all his life in Alton with exception of the first year or two. In Alum he had been employed by several of Hie industries In former years but had boon with the Illinois Terminal railroad a numbers of years until retirement.

Ill health in the last ten or 12 years had disabled him and he bud not been active In that lime. His wife died three years ago July 10. He Is survived by tour sons and three daughter. George Hus sell one of (he sons, resides at Edwards street, Albert and Clark me residents of while Walter Clark resides tin- MirKlnli-y The daughters ate Mis. O.

K. Porter, Mrs. l.uke Kistiici and Mrs. Pauline Rowers, all of Alton, body is at Slrcepei funeral home where friends may view it this evening. Funeral will be conducted at 10 m.

Saturday, by the Rev. Rubetl C. Kempor, pastor ol the Congregational rhurrh. at Streeper (uncut! home. Umiul will tolliiw In the family lot in Onkwood cemetery where Mrs.

Clark was burled three wears ago. Frederick B. Browning Former Monticello Teacher, 'Miss Mac; to Head WAVES j' Executive Board i Named By County Defense Chairmanl Selection Approved By Control Committee; J. W. Kelly Member H.

T. MimtKoiiiery in Irdunil Harry T. Montgomery, loimerj Alton man, now a private tirsl; dass In the U. S. army, is thought to be stationed in Europe.

He relatives in Alton he Is tonllwulng his study of thoj omit" In a thirteenth century Cn-1 thedral and an assistant to an army chaplain. Montgomery was well known in Alton for his rnu- slcul Khjllty. Montgomery's letters commend the work of the Red Cross, EDWARDSVILLE, July 31. (Special) Organization of a Madison County Civilian Defense Council, rapidly taking shape, advanced nearer completion Thursday even- ing at a meeting in the court-1 house here, attended by members of the newly-created central trol committee, being set up to coordinate all civilian defense activities throughout the county. Following discussion on the purpose and duties- of, the control committee, to a nucleus in Storming the county defense body, George Hawes, alternate member representing the Edwardsville Civilian Defense Council, was elected secretary of the committee.

An executive committee, composed of five members of the control group, authorized by motion, was also appointed by County Defense Coordinator Leland Smith, who presided as chairman of the meeting. Named on the committee were J. W. Kelly, East Alton; William B. Reither, Edwardsvillc Mayor Earl Shepard, Marine; B.

E. Hohll, Granite City, and County Highway Superintendent Harry A. Kluge, Collinsville. Plans for an executive committee conference within the next two weeks, to be followed by a meeting of the entire control committee, were outlined before adjournment. Official Okuy Official designation of committee as the county's civilian defense council, will be sought through a resolution to be presented to the board of supervisors at its Aug.

12 session. An appropriation to defray any necessary expenses oC the council, entailed in carrying on Its function ns a coordinating agency, will nlso he requested at the board's September meeting, when the annual county budget Is adopted. Duties of the projected counly defense council were outlined at the meeting by A. L. Sargent, special representative of the Illinois Council of Defense.

They include coordination of communication, training programs and emergency services. Selling up of sub-control headquarters for the Alton and Granite City areas has been suggested by army representatives, it was pointed out, with both to be keyed Into the central eounly control station. Karh of I IIP sub-stations would be linked through communication systems with local defense headquarters in their areas, making it possible to jjivp Immediate warning to all areas over the county from the control center in event of air attack or emergency. The sv.siem would also operate effectively in flood or storm disustors, or In cases of extensive from sabotage, It was pointed out. SaiKent sticsscd that local defense councils should continue to develop their tniinlnt; programs and services.

The county cunt 10! i.etup, he cmphR- will in M-I way hinder local defense acliuties. but merely serve a cuonliiiMliiii' agency In knit- ling together all rural townships and communiiii for mnxlum mutual protection ami service. Until the tli-funsc organ- uiition Is ted, spealiers stressed, mine of the several hundred uf civiliiin defense equipment now in in Chicago may ihsliilr.ited in this area. Mt'iuburn uml Members and ultei nates named to dale on the counly control committee as representatives of By RUTH COWAN WASHINGTON, July 31 It's Lieut. Crndr.

Mildred H. McAfee, U. S. N. if you please.

Within the next few days Secretary of the Navy Knox is going to let out the secret that he, the admirals and commander-in-ehief Roosevelt have agreed on Miss McAfee, Wellesley College's 42- year-old president, as head of Uncle Sam's sailorett.es. President Roosevelt yesterday signed into law a bill creating a feminine naval reserve, designated as "Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Servise" and promptly dubbed the to release men for active sea-duty. Have Choice So now Uncle Sam's military- minded nieces have a choice of volunteering to be A "WAVE 1 or a the feminine equivalent in the army. The new naval service will Include 1,000 commissioned officers and about 10,000 enlisted menibers. The corps will be shorebound sailors and the law prohibits th)tir be- Injjsent outside the country.

Reports from Wellesley gratis p.re "WAVES" have drawn, in "Miss a ship-shape choice as director. Miss Mac, in addition to being scholarly, witty and human, is very good-looking. Of medium height, she wears her crisp dark hair clipped in loose curls about her head. Sanctioned Shorts She was 36 when she became president of Lellesley. For the first three years, she was conservative.

Then one day she sanctioned shorts instead of bloomers for gym. She wtyit about the campus bit ahead of wearing a sweater and skirl. A native of Parkvllle, she was graduated from Vassar at the age of 20. She sandwiched In teaching at Monticello College in Godfrey, the Francis Parker School in Chicago, Tusculum College in Greenville, Bryn Mawr. Center College in Danville, and Asheville, N.

Normal School. Hed subjects ranged from French to Sociology. Inquest Verdict Verdict of death from natural causes was returned Thursday by the jury at an inquest conducted by Deputy Coroner Klunk in Hie death of Allie Lofts, 5,1. of the Melville vicinity, fatally stricken while at work in a field on a Godfrey township farm, Wediu-sday. The jury ascribed his death 10 an apparent acute heart attack.

Funeral services for Lofts are to be ut 2 p. m. Saturday in Mdville church. their respective communities or townships are as follows, with names of members appearing R. L.

Jackson, Robert Streeper; Edwardsvillc William B. Reither, George Ilawo; Wood River Joseph Hum-, Mayor Charles Baker-; Koxann Garth Cuddy, (alternate to be named later); Hartford o. u. Brunjos, W. B.

Starlnu-k; Marine Walton Falrcs. Major Eiail Shepard; Alhambra K. Apple, R. F. Dauderman; Kasl Alton James Kelly, K.

C. linle; Fosterburg Her ben John Gulp; Madison K. Strange, A. Friedman- l.e--f Hen Trautnt-r, Thomas Kan-ell- Troy E. J.

Wise, W. 11, Worden H. F. Kollnian. Herring; Nameoki -William Don Holloway; Milc hell Roper, Walter Coombs: Ciamie City B.

E. Hohlt, Haiisrh- kolb; Collinsvllle Ceoi i- GIIS-. Hurry Kluge; (iodfre-, land Smith. Committee nu-mbeis n-fiu--. sent community (iefen.se n- iis of Venice, Glen Carbon and Highland are yet to be named, organization is UK.

council will hove of at least 42 membeis ami alternates, representing Hi defense councils and rural IMV, Buy War Bonds uad Stamps. Apathy Shown By Many Voters To Registration Both Parties Plan to Stage Drives Downstate GOP Worried Fears Light Turnout in Republican Areas SPRINGFIELD, 111., July 31. Republican and Democratic party leaders, worried over the prospect of light and irregular voting in the November election, are planning campaigns to pvereome public apathy toward the new state-wide registration law. Spurred by the possibility that many thousands of voters may not cast their ballots at the Nov. 3 election because they neglected to register in advance, the state committees of both political parties are organizing drives in every precinct to encourage registration.

Republican leaders, in particular, have expressed concern that the light registration in the last two months may mean a light turn-out of G.O.P. voters in downstate Illinois, where permanent registration is becoming effective for Hie first time with the exception of a few scattered cities already under the registration act. Democrat Drive Demdcrats also are launching a registration campaign although their chief strength lies in. Chicago and big down state cities such as Peoria and East St. Louis where the registration system has been in effect for years and where normal Democratic turnouts were expected.

Governor Green was reported preparing a letter to all state em- ployes urging them, regardless of party affiliation, to register and encourage their friends and acquaintances to register. State Representative Robert J. Branson of Centralia, former Republican leader in the Illinois House, told a GOP meeting early this week that "if we don't get busy we'll lose the election simply because we don't get our downstate voters registered." Housyr-to-House The Republican state central commiUee is sending instruction to all county chairmen to start precinct committeemen on house- to-house canvasses to encourage registration. Edward P. Allen, state Democratic committee chairman, said that Democratic county chairmen had instructed to emphasize their drives as much as election campaigning.

G.O.P. leaders, in urging heavier registration pointed out that in the primary the downstate Republican, vote was 52,000 while only 313,000 parly votes came from Cook County. Democrats, on the other hand polled 673,000 votes in Cook County and 231,000 flown- state. Close War Plant In AFL-CIO Row PONTIAC, July 31, War production was halted today at the Pontiac Motor division of General Motors Corp. here after pickets turned away day shift em- ployes, and a CIO union leader said the employ.es were joining a mass demonstration in connection with a CIO-AFL organization dispute over retail food store workers.

A spokesman for the management said the plant was shut down when CIO picket lines were established at all entrances at 7 a. m. and the workers turned away. Tucker P. Smith, regional director of tho United Wholesale, Retail and Department Store Em- ployes (CIO), said the Pontiac workers responded an appeal to join a parade designed to convince state and federal authorities that an AFL "blockade" of food deliveries 'to retail stores should be lifted.

Members of the Retail Clerks' Union (AFL) have been seeking to employes of independent food stores in the Pontiac area, and have enlisted the aid of AFL teamsters in shutting off deliveries to all stores whose owners have not signed AFL contracts. Smith estimated that 3000 Pontiac workers would join about 1000 retail store employes In today's demonstration. C. K. Wilson, president of General Motors in telegrams to Sec-rotary of the Navy Knox, members of (he War twibor Board and Donald M.

Nelson, chief of tho War Production Board, described as "more than national disgrace," the arbitrary dosing today of the Pontiac division of the corporation by the "jurlsdictioim! dispute In- grocery clerks. 1 think I can agree with you." he wired a labor hoard member, "that in ihcs- times It approaches Iveason." "The Pontiac division quantity production of ainii'-'ent for the ni.vy," Wilson wired Knox, "was eiosed this morning by picket line ot srocwry. Oneral Motors hus absolutely nothing to do with the jurlsdict'idiial dispute involving trie grocery dorks in the retail establishments in the city of Pontiac. our plum i8 shut and war production is stopped. Something will have to be done about this kind ot activities If ue are going to win the Drowns in River FRIDAY, JULY Dies; Funeral Rites Monday Widow of Alexius Wise Member of Old Family Long in Failing Health Succumbs in the borhood Where She Was Born MISS DORIS SMITH Doris Smith, 19, Drowns; Fifth Victim of Year Continued From Page I.

daughter of Smith, a Standard Oil employe of that city. After the death of her mother eight years ago, she came to Alton to live temporarily with a sister, and attended Alton high school for' a year. Then she went to Stockton, to make her home with another sister, Miss Florence Gertrude Smith, a trained who had entered the drug store business. After completing high school at Stockton, Doris Smith completed about two years of college work, and returned to Alton a year ago spring when her sister, Florence moved to California, continuing' on last fall to Honolulu, Hawaii. On returning here, Doris took employment at Western Cartridge Co, and since had roomed with Mr.

and Mrs. Shake. Besides her father and her sister in Honolulu, she Is survived by two other sisters, Mrs. Mildred Dorworth and Mrs. Marguerite Lamkin of Cottage Hills; and three brothers, Alphonso Byron Smith of Wood River, John Nelson Waldo G.

Smith of Indiana. A cablegram was sent early today by relatives to notify Miss Florence G. Smith at Honolulu of her sister's death. Miss Florence Smith, it was said, arrived in Hawaii three weeks before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and since has been engaged as a mirse in Queens Hospital. Doris Smith had planned to join her sister in Hawaii and lake up the study nursing, but the oncoming ot upset The body off Miss Smith was moved to the Streeper funeral home pending the funeral.

Halloween Fete Cancelled Due to U. S. War Effort Continued From Page 1. Service Organizations, soliciting themselves, their clerks, and other business and professional men and women within their areas. Some believe the government is likely to divide many of its future public appeals into two principal phases that to industrial workers and that to retailers and business and professional mcn.y These prophets foresee that the retailers are likely to be called upon to bring home to the public in their entirety the latter phase of all these appeals.

Finance Own Drive It was pointed out that so far the government has expected the merchants to finance a great part of their campaigns for benefit of the defense effort. A drive within a drive has been under way for some'weeks to obtain from merchants funds with which to meet expenses of the current War Bond sales drive, which is expected to last the year long. Cancellation of the Halloween parade, always an expensive event, would leave more funds in the merchants' hands to meet their defense expenses. At first it was proposed to cancel the parade for the duration of the war, but later discussion brought out the fact that, as conditions changed, it might bo desir- aljlc to resume the festival even before Nie United Nations should win their final victory. So the decision of tho committee -on which retailers and business men's associations from downtown, the East End, North Alton, and Upper Alton all are represented, was merely for this yimr.

Chairman Dies SPRINGFIELD, 111., July ru, upi B. Hawthorne, IMper City, 47, chair-man ofMhe Ford County Republican central committee, died early today in Springfield hospital of injuries received Monday when his automobile collided with a truck near here, Funeral services weic scheduled for Sunday afternoon at the Piper City Methodist Church. OUK Demand 1'p TULSA. July 31, tire and gasoline rationing, the demand for petroleum Increased 2.8 percent In the first half of 10'IL', the Oil and Gas Journal says in its s9inl-niinunl review number. Total demand for all oils in this period was estimated at barrels, or 4.287,000 barrels dally, ingluding exports, Mrs.

Bridget Wise, Thursday evening at 9:35 at her home, 1118 Slate 1 after in failing health for two years. Mrs. Wisp died In the neighborhood where she was born. She had belonged to one nearby church all her life, oitK Cathedral, where she was diris." 1 toned, was married and where her funeral services will be held. Mrs.

Wise was the widow of Alexius Wise who died Oct. 5 1921. She was the daughter John Mary Ryan who were 1 among the early settlers of Alton, Her parents lived on Bluff street when Mrs. Wise was born, April 16, 1857, just a short walk from tho home in which she was ti close her life. Her mother was well known woman about town, being a much depended upon nurse 50 years ago and more.

gi tcred nurses were unknown in Alton in those days and it was upon Mrs. Ryan, and others ilk. her, who had skill everyone re. quiring a nurse depended then. Married in J882 Mrs.

Wise educated in the old Ursuline convent on the site where Marquette High School 'no stands. She was married Feb. 14, 1882, in the Old Cathedral to Alexius Wise, member of a prominent family in Alton and owner of large holdings of rich farming land on Missouri Point, Alex-! ills Wise was a well known figure" in his day and a successful, pro gressive farmer. When no one else would have the forethought and the vision to build levees to keep off floods of the Mississippi) and Missouri rivers from the rich' farms 'of the delta across the river, Mr. Wise pioneered in the buildini of levees which saved many a fine crop of wheat and corn, would have otherwise lost, saving his crops thereby at times his neighbors were losing their every time their unprotected farm were invaded by the floods.

Mrs. Wise supported her hus band in his progressive views on farming and' the couple passed 01 knowledge and zeal fo fawning 'to their daughter, Miss Anno Wise, who took over ths responsibilities of the Wise lands after her father's death. The daughter had the same sympathetic support from the that the husband; had been given. She wns a woman who was loved by many friends and neighbors. Last of Generation Mrs.

Wise was deeply interesi-1 ed in various societies in the SS Peter Paul's Cathedral, and continued that interest up to the time failing -strength compelled her to yield place to others. Until, just a few weeks before her death? she was able to be up and about her home and would sit out on the porch. She read constantly and kept herself informed on all cur-' rent events. Her last illness was, of three weeks duration. A ago her condition had become so bad her son, Peter Wise, wai summoned from Kansas City and he, with his sister, had been In attendance on the mother up to, the death.

The last of her generation, Mn. Wise leaves no brothers 'or sisters. She leaves two children, Miss Marie Wise and Peter Wise. The body may be seen nt Wise home after 1 p. m.

Sunday The funeral will be held MonW morning, services being set for a. m. in the Old Cathedral, burial will be in Greenwood cemetery. The rosary will be rcclW Sunday at 8 p. m.

at the residence) Challenge Judge's Kight To Set Length of Term I CHICAGO, July 31. first legal challenge of the Illinois law giving trial judges) right to set maximum and mum prison terms, Federal JudlM Michael L. Igoe has granted writ of habeas corpus in behalf oil a man convicted of larceny. It was granted for Daniel Bar-l dell, 26, Chicago, who wns tenced July 1 to minimum teinj of five years alter a Inn-my vlclion, and was returnable 31 before Federal Judse Jolm Barnes, Bardell's attorney, derso, contended the sentence prived Burdell of his liberty out due prpcess of law. Says War Rustru'tions Should Cut Roud SPRINGFIELD, 111., -Inly -War-time restrictions Ing materials and use roiw should result In lower '-oun township and roud diMnet I levies this" fall, the Federation of Illinois "This forced reduction Ing should be reflected in taxes when county bw" lis township highway adopt county highway ami road and bridge tcmber," said Thomas executive secretary of atlon,.