The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 1

i n. llprnj The Jackson County i distribute 1,800 Mnrpbyahoro every CTentnv to pnld ratMcrltirrii. Tlint TOcnn. between T.OOO nnd 8,000 readcm, In the city alone. The circulation lin Murphysfcoro len than linlt the total connty clrculntloii.

Thnt'a why is a "Jncfcaon County Bolly!" ILLINOIS WEATHER Generally fair tonight and tomorrow. Slightly cooler in the ex-. treme north-east partion. Established 1891 (Weekly Edition 1873) MURPHYSBORO, ILLINOIS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1939 Price 15c Per VVeSk I Asks Heart Balm From Official Reply Called Ultimatum Tightens Crisis In Europe Berlin Peace Talk Seen As Nazi Blind-Bridle Trickery By JOE ALEX MORRIS (I'nireil StnJT Cr-rrrsponrtcn-JI i Adolf Hitler tightened Enrofe's crisis today with a paradoxical offer to negotiate a settlement if it Tvere agreed in to. meet 1 his demands on Poland.

furthermore, according to some British sources, the Fuehrer said he was in a hurry and ge'ited" in his latest message to Great Britain Poland send an emissary to Berlin within a brie' i period to confirm the surrender OL "Danzig and the Polish Corridor. Some sources mentioned 2J.i hours as the time specified but it I was believed elsewhere that the i time was elastic as suggested in Hitler's latest communication to the British Government and could be extended. Poland's reply firm and of more i specialists and reservists up to thp age of 40 to put 2.000.000 men or more under arms. i The British cabinet maimaineJ close silence as it studied the sage but London sources de-1 scribed She proposals as "a inock-i ei There was no hint, that Brit-! ain or France would weaken their support of Poland but another sage from Britain to Hitler was considered likely. So far as could he learned London, the sudden- -outbreak at' "optimistic" vews among high I Nazis in Berlin late yesteruy was merely a preliminary to another demand by Hitler thai a peace set-! tlement be negotiated on his own i terms.

Except that this time, Fuehrer appeared to have intlieat-l ed that he wanted action at once. I within a definite, In normal diplomatic exchanges such a move would be regarded as an ultimatum from Hitler by way! of Britain to In'fact, one! unconfirmed story in London was: that the British Ambassador upon reading the message said: i I this is an ultimatum!" no." Hitler was supposed- to have replied. "I am proposing ne-, gotiations." Regardless of its accuracy, thej story illustrated the wide gap be- tween British and Nazi methods and viewpoints at the climax of' Europe's wjr of words. I The sudden surge toward an apparent showdown, with time 'limits being mentioned for the first time, came after a series of developments iu Berlin designed to make it appear that Germany was convinced a peaceful solution could reached and to emphasize her strong position if that proved impossible. They included: statement of "information made available to the foreign means it is officially Germany was pleased by the v-roposal of King Leopold of the Belgians and Queen of -the Netherlands "to kjsi'ediate the quarrel.

in the newspaper of Marshal Hermann Goering that Hitler would accept any "half sensible" proposals for a settlement. Nazi press statement' that Soviet Russia, now moving more troops toward her western frontier facing Poland, the Baltic states Germany, had "common interests" with the Reich in Poland. In other words, that Russia as well as Germany seeks partition of Poland. Opinion in Paris was that the exchanges betwe.en Hitler and Britain had not yet entirely closed the road to further negotiations but believed in high French sources that the outlook was very gloomy, although some sources in Washington had been encouraged by overnight developments to believe that there was a better chance for maintaining Europe's eace. I (Turn to P9B9 Five; PieSssj FRANCE.

TAKES RAILROAD FOR MILITARY NEEDS Hitler Puts Germans onThis Diet Charging Edward J. EarrsU, Illinois state auditor, with breach of promise, CamiHe Martinetti hns filed 3250,000 suit in Chicago court. She claims to have been confidential secretary in auditor's office. HEREIN REDUCES RATES ON WATER Net Earnings in Nine Months, City Council Re. port Shows; At the ret-ommendatiou of HIP Water Superintendent Paul Harris and the water'committee, the city council passed mi ordinance reduces the city water rate from a minimum ot to effective October 1st.

This means that the water user who uses less than the minimum and who pays his bill before the 10th of the month will pay SI.25 beginning October 1st. "September bills will be bi'led nt the old rate. Before the ordinance was passed. Water Superintendent Paul Harris made a financial report of the Water Plant operation from November 133S, when the water rate was first slightly reduced, until July 31." 1939. a 9 months period.

He said the revenue for the 9 months period has amounted to $41,416.73. The operation and administrative expense for that period has amounted to This leaves a balance earning of 011X91. To give a clearer picture of the business being done. Mr. Harris explained that the average monthly earning capacity of the department has been $4,601.80 and the average monthly expense of operation and' administration leaving an average earning of Trial of W.

Frankfort Beys Delayed; Two Under Heavy Guard MARION. K.V., Aug. Trial of Floyd Gray and Hiram Perkins of West Frankfort, 111., on charges of rape today had been postponed until Nov. 2. The pair accused of criminally attacking a 21-year-old woman here after she accepted their invitation to go riding was taken to the Eddyviile prison for safe keeping.

Sixty peace officers were stationed around the court house here j'esterrtay while preliminary motions were disposed of in the case. The trial originally had been set for yesterday, but the defense was granted a delaj' in crder to have time to prepare a case. Pleasure Place Goes Back To Old By-Laws And Six Managers The Jackson County Country Inb reorganized at a special meet- ins Tuesday night. The new officers and Managers ire: W. H.

Bigolow, Murphysboro. Pros id en I. Atty. John Feirk-h, Carbondalo, Vicr-Pi'esidunr. Kreimeier, Secretary.

F. IX Mnrphysboro, Treasurer. Board of Managers: Joe, Daniel. Murphysboro. Golf.

W. J. Otterson. Carbondale. Grounds.

Dewey a i Carbouclale. i 1 louse. T. Ahholl, Carbondale, Finance. Fred Wills.

Murphyshoro. Buildings. F. YV. Boriskn.

Murphyshoro. 1 With a business-man staff guide it. tlie Club turned back to its original by-laws calling among other tilings for a Board of six Jl'anasers in whic'Ii the voting power was fixed, with the President having a vote only in event of a tie vote. A committee was appointed In bring- the original by-laws up to date. "The has.

a business basis" new officers Aside from the business of or- ganlxation itself, officers and managers last night confined acliou almost wholly lo a discussion of policies and plans for tile year. Hi this respect I IIP Board will release sometime ill the not distant future a survey of the club policies for the public, in that Ihn club is considered in a sense a public institn- titou that should be continued. One basic policy is reported fixed al the outset, and that is that the Club shall be for the enjoyment, of its members alonp. and that the membership shall be fixed at. intl.

and a waiting list set lip at once that membership is reached. more versatile club appeal will be worked for. The club was organized some twenty years ago by F. E. Robinson and W.

G. Pigolt. It is noted in Hie reorganization completed last night that the Carbondale membership was recognized to the extent of. sharing alike in 'Hoard authority and responsibility. The Jackson is admirably located half way between Murphysboro and Carbondale, a two-minuts drive off the beaten highway, on sixty acres of rolling area with fairways second to none in southern Illinois.

Club President Bigelow, it so happens, served oil the-Board before, in 1B3B, and enjoys in the reorganization the association of a group of men each of whom has successfully directed- his frivate business. PARIS, Aug. (UP) Premier Edotiard Daladier today published a. decree 10- (luisiticming French railroads. The decree puts the -i ail- loads under military authority and gives priority to military transport.

(Whether this dispatch from Paris, delayed in transit, meant that further mobilization steps were underway was undisclosed. The pace of French military preparations had recently been so fast that experts said any further acceleration would' mean general mobilization in effect even if it were not fonnarrly order- Id). The government had recently urged civilians' whose presence in Paris was not essential to leave for the countryside while it was possible to get railroad transportation and before military movements generally clogged transpoit fa eilitles. The decree issued by Dala- difir stipulated 'that civil pas: sengers and goods transports were suspended totally or partly, depending upon military re- inurements. Trains under way may be stopped at any po'nt and railroad companies will not: be responsible, for arrh'al on schedule of goods or passengers.

COFFEE 2.2 oz. weekly oz. weekly. CEREALS 5.3 oz. weekly MILK pt.

daily MEAT lb. weekly VEGETABLES No limit TEA monthly BUTTER, FATS 2.1 oz. daily MARMALADE 3.9 oz. weekly THIRD OF 1 it VSKJLv fjs German stomachs go on a wartime basis as Nazis ration out foodstuffs uncl limit menus to amounts of food shown above for. each person.

Additional allowance is made for those engaged in unusually heavy work. Welcomes Dutch-Belgium Offer to Mediate But Warns General Mobilization By Poles is Serious Danger Takes Over Railroads, Perhaps For General Mobilization; Rome Editorial Claims One Chance for Peace Foreign Ships Held In Port At New York TRAFFIC DEATHS i INCREASE IN FACE OF SAFETY DRIVES! Li Exceeds i That of Wcrld's Fair Cause Reiman Funeral Tuesday, 2 p. m. I Funeral services for. Andrew Reiman were conducted yesterday at Camp Creek churcb witb Rev.

J. Boatman, pastor of the local First Lutheran church, in charge. Interment was In the Parrish cemetery near Vergennes. F. D.

R. Is Changing WASHINGTON, Aug. Roosevelt, Col-, lowing up his advancement of Thanksgiving by one week-this year." decided today also vance it in 1040 by one week and proclaim (he holiday for Thursday, Nov. 21. CHICAGO, Aug.

National Safety Council reported tortay that death has increased its lead over traffic safely campaigns and said rural areas and increased vacation due to the two world's were to blame. The nation's July death total was 2,750, an increase of one per cent over 2,720 deaths in July last year and a. 17 per cent increase over 2,360 deaths in June. The normal June-July Increase, caused by summer travel, is 13 per cent. Fatalities during the first seven months this year totaled 16,250.

"Once "again," the Council said, "the rural areas can be blamed for the upturn in traffic deaths. A seven per tent July increase in rural fatalities offset a nine per cent drop in city deaths. This was the fourth successive month the death toll has mounted. Figures are not available to determine how much of this increase may be attributed to. an abnormally large upswing in vacation travel, possibly due To the two world's fairs." The Council said pedestrian deaths increased per' cent during the first six mouths this year.

New HampsTiire led the states in percentage decrease of trafllc fatalities. The state reported 34 deaths for the first months this year compared to 54 deaths for the same- 1 period last year, a decrease of 33 petit. Kansas City, led cities of more than 250,000 population with a decrease of 58 per cent. The city reported IS fatalities tin's year compared with 45 last year. Boston led cities of more than 500,000 population with a seven- month death rate (based on the number of deaths per 100,000 population).

Milwaukee 'was second with S.3 and Pittsburgh third. 'XJSW YORK, Aug. The French Line today ordered the ship afloat, to slay here until further notice. She was moored near the Bremen, Germany's largest and ship, which eral authorities were holding in port 1'or another search for arms and contraband. Oi'dfira to hold the Normnndie came from Paris lo the French T.iine offices here.

There was no explanation. She had been scheduled to at 10 A. M. tcflay but was being searched by customs officers, in accordance with a new policy announced yesterday by President 'Roosevelt, for inspecting ships of all foreign nations that might ba- r.ome belligerents, and it had been I expected (hat she would not sail, before this evening. Of S3.000 tons, she would he a magnificent prize for a sea raider.

German operators protested angrily against the Bremen's de-' tention and Coast Guard boats moved alongside to see that she did not slip away without clear-' ance papers. The Cunard White Star Liner, Aquitania, scheduled to sail nt noon, also postponed its departure- Line officials said they hoped the bis ship would be able to leave by 6:30 p. m. tonight, lint that tlie actual time was still indefinite. No reason was given for the postponement, but a search of the ship bvj customs agents was still in progress at mid-morning.

i The North German Lloyd Liner. Columbus, on a 12-day cruise of the, Dutch West Indies, left Curacao early today for New York with S50, Americans aboard, the line ed: Officials said the ship, due here Saturday night or Sunday morning, had been held "a day or so" at Curacao, "supposely 1 as a result of ordors. from Berlin. I Mother and Son Killed In Plane Crash Near Croydon CORYDON, bodies of Jack. Ramsey, 30, and his mother, Mrs.

Ollie Ramsey, 58, killed yesterday when Ramsey's new plane crashed and burned miles southeast of Corydon, were returned lo Granite City, 111., today. in his father's shop at Granite City, was taking- his mother 'to a camp meeting at Sheperflsville, when the accident occurred. He had been forced to land at a field near Laconia southeast of here for gasoline. He was taking off when the plane struck telephone wires, nosed over and crashed to the ground. By WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Ccrres-pondent LONDON, Britain tonight seat a r.eply to Adolf Hitler's message repeating- his demand for return of Danzig and the Polish corridor to the Reich.

Tfee Fuehrer Trad offered to accept the sood offices of the British Government in negotiating with Poland if such territorial concessions were made in advance. According to a high British source and three diplomatic sources, Hitler's written and oral communication to this Government asked that Poland send a plenipotentiary Berlin immediately to negotiate'on what ths Ftshrer de- I scribed as a "basis of equality" but which British sources said included his demand for cession of Polish territory. Hitler first asked for a British reply in 24 hours and askeS that the Polish emissary reach Berlin by Thursday, it was reported, but- when British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson raised that point in talking with Hitler, the Nazi Fuehrer waived any time limit. The Hitler message was understood to have drawn an immediate reuly from Lord Halifax through diplomatic ehan- i nels that Britain declined even to transmit to Poland any i proposals for Polish emissaries to go to Berlin u.nder suoh i circumstances, hut the cabinet drafted a formal answer de-, Heeplh'e'exchanges going. 1 This message, which Hitler had emphasized was in no wav even "when he had asked hat Britain 34 hours, was written in a friendly, reasoning giving British sources the imnrcssion that the Fuehrer was than over convinced of (he justice of his aims.

Hitler not mention in ths message his desire for re- 'urn of Silesia to Germanv, but r)W refer to that obiective in his conversations with the British Ambassador, was understood. Mrs. Ollie Deascn Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Ollie Deason will be held Thursday afternoon "at 2 o'clock at Zion church, Levan township, with the Rev. 'W.

.1. Boatman officiating and burial will be in Zion cemetery. Mrs. Deason is survived by the husband, Ed Deason, and other relatives. She was a highly esteemed and home-loving woman, and the Deasons are wall known in- Murphysboro.

At present they are residing at the old home place in De Soto township. More WPA Dismissals Expected Thursday CHICAGO, Aug. than, half, the 54,000 dismissals from WPA. rolls in Illinois under the new Federal appropriation's 18-month anti-career rule were! complete a week ago, State Admin-! istrator Charles E. Miner reported today.

Miner said 30,473 were removed; from the rolls up to Aug. 23, of, which 18,030 were in the district, and that' an additional 23,527 would be dismissed by the congressional deadline tomorrow. I Mississippi's Next Governor New Dealer JACKSON. Aug. next Governor will be Paul B.

Johnson, attorney who favors the New Deal, it was indicated today in returns from a run-off Democratic primary. With l.nSa of the state's 1,640 precincts partially reported, Johnson had 118,466 votes to 9,309 for Martin S. Conner, former Governor. Johnson devoted much ot his campaign to praising President Roosevelt and charging that Conner was unfriendly to him. Butcher Funeral Tuesday Afternoon Funeral services for Rhineas Butcher were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Meyers' Funeral Home with the Rev.

O. H. Sweitzer in charge. Interment was in Tower Grove cemetery. Centralia Building Company Organized A building company has been organized at Centralia and stock is being subscribed to put Centralia on the march again.

The organization's first project is 125-room "smart" hotel, to he "tops" among hosteleries in all southern Illinois. The plan 'will then be extended to the buiding of apartments and a municipal. airport. Oil greased the Svay: Springfield Invites Grand Army for 1940 PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30.

them that "we shall take fond care of you," State jSen. Earl B. Searcy, Springfield, 111,, today invited the Grand Army of the Republic to', hold their 74th national encampment in Springfield in 1940. Searcy appeared before the GAR at their 73rd' annual encampment eing held here and explained that the Illinois General Assembly appropriated $12,000 for next year's encampment if it is held in that state. Searcy sponsored the appropriation in the legisature.

"Springfield wants merely as the capital city, but as a typical center of Illinois patriotism and culture," Searcy said. Young Tamms Girl Automobile Victim Rose Nell Thompson, 17, of Tamms, 111., was killed Monday afternoon when a car belonging to Bass, B. O. railroad man, turned over on loose gravel on the Tamms-Ullin road. The girl was pinned under, the weight of the car crushing her.

Bass and another girl, riding with Miss Thompson, escaped injuryi Bv FREDRICK O. OECHSNRR United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, t.onin-hf. waT'mlv welcomed the offer of Dutch and Belgian- Germany's dissuite with Poland but warnefl that "general mobilization" of Polish armed forces created serious danger. The' attitude of official made known through the customafy "information available to the foreign press." said that "there is no doubt the full seriousness of Polish general mobilization has been rerosmized in Berlin." "It is emphasized here that while an exchange of diplomatic opinions on the Polish-German problem and, beyond that, otr tKe new Eurooean is still to be carried on, Polish chauvinism has finally ureeioitated a measure of danger which is recognized unequivocably even in Warsaw." "Political circles here," the statement continued, "emphasize the responsibility is on those who, in recent months, intsead of putting the brakes on this alleged Polish chauvinism, have constantly urged it on by recognition and prais? lor the Polish attitude. "Poland's measure (mobilization) today is considered in consequence a blank check to her by Britain, the far reaching consequences of which Germany pointed out repeatedly while the, British and French devoted their attention to cort- vincihg Poland of the unlimited nature of this blank As the latest British communication was dispatched to Hitler, many high Nazi officials-were around him at the Chancellery but it was officially stated that no formal cabinet meeting had been cahled.

Information in Nazi official circles approved of the Dutch- Belgian mediation proposals. Opinion nere was that Hitler, while offering negotiations, has ruled them out by the heavy sacrifice which Poland would have to make in advance. The said reliably to have decided to maintain a firm line and keep the diplomatic ball rolling. Therefore it may send a further message to Berlin to gain time. Although Hitler reserved his refusal to negotiate, as contained in his" recent letter to Premier Edoua'rd Daladier of France, his reported request for a Polish representative to come to see him, diplomatic eiioris to gain time, ther was fear that diplomats may soon be out of the picture.

It was pointed out that Germany has been ready for several days and it was feared her military leaders, who take only a technical and military view of the situation, may urge Hitler to strike instead of. spending further time exchanging. messages designed to pin respon-- sibility on the other party. BULLETIN. WARSAW.

Poland, Aug. 30 Polish radio warned all vessels approaching the Polish coast at the mouth of the Gulf the Czech Premier did last Sep- of Danzig today to beware tember, was regarded with misgiv-1 "danger point" about three miles off the coast. The warning was sent both verbally and in Morse code in French, English, German ing. Poland would be expected to refuse such a request and Britain and France undoubtedly would support and Polish. her.

Therefore, despite Berlin's optimism over German initiative, tine situation was considered here as aldrk as ever. Although the British will try (Turn tb Three; The ships were advised to request the services of Polish pilots from Gdynia in approaching the coast. It was assumed the warning meant the Poles are planting.