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of VOLUME 17 CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 1920 NUMBER 151 SEE LOWDEN IN GREAT AT LOCAL POLLS Lowden Forces Here Active In Getting Out. The Vote In Primary Today Is Expected To Poll Very'Small Carbondale Is A Lowden' Stronghold. WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH IN BAD FIELD FIRE Was Watching Her Husband Bnrh Out "Fence Row" When Her Clothing Caught Fire, Burning Her To Death With Licking Indication's -iir presidential I primar'y election that Gov. Mrs. LePere, Ora FRENCH TROOPS TO QUIT RHINE Will Evacuate Frankfort' When Supreme Council 0.

Germany's Act. BLACK TROOPS ARE REMOVED Frank O. Lowd.cn Will carry the township and city overwhelmingly. Up to noon today little Wood- opposition was felt, while Lowden supporters were out rolling- up flje votes as a part of the ''big victory which Illinois will its great Governor. A number of farmers who would have 1 been in today were kept away -account of the bad roads and cool vicatber.

It was 'also feared San Rerno Meeting Expected to Officially Allow Germany to Maintain a Certain Nrjmbcr of Extra Troops in Purls, April vin i le 1 and other Cormim township is dead of burns 'and-her (owns badly-' burned about the" is soon the supreme its rot-Humming and legs -as a result of session nl San ISmno sitnctluns Gcr- uuiny's yesterday that the Lowden forces one-of the most horrible accidents in that, part the county in many years, says the Republican-Era. Mrs. LePcre's clothing ignited accord i while she was watching lius-j band on farm and 12 o'clock I Saturday morning', and she died at 5:45 that All hcr clothing-j burned off skin and flesh was literally Hcr husband would fail to corner out as stroiij, i was burned- while trying, to extin- as tibey should, believing -Gov. Ei'iish hcr flaming clothes. Lowden would clean up and She in the field near the wouldn't be any necessity for them I LePere home where Mr.

LePere to come -This, is not tlie way burning- fhe fence row and she to look at it. local Lowdci'i men i v-as' putting, out burning gras say, because the idea of the Illinois i .0," one side, of tlie fire while iid primary is' to the nation that husband' was on the side Illinois believes to the utmost- iu "''put twenty feet-, away. Thi smoke smoke blowing in ihi- (lirection, his view where site intent 'was Mrs LePere vyith the putting out of the grass fire that she 'did not notice lie.r -'dress 'ha'd ignited, and when she make tlie discovery was all aflame. She threw; hcrsilf 01 th'c ground and-began screaiinnp flesh. Hearing the screams, Mr.

LePere fence roiv iaai.cajx'i'cSh'er,,. where she was rolling forts to smother out-the fire in hcr over and over 'for a. distance of -I thirty feet in these-efforts. The dry grass where she was rol- Reports- ShoWS Association'' 'f ignited- from dress Had Most i tluis she was ot ny ng nao hcr flaming but by llic History of Or- ass tb al catlght hcreh-6m. Mr ganizatlOn The Capital in his attempts to aid his IS wife fight the fire, went -into NOW Three' 'Times AS flames and his trousers' legs caught fire and burned to the knees, badly burning bis legs and Feet while l.is bands were also badl hun.ed as he tore at the flaming garments bis wife- its chief executive' and desires to say to the.

nation "Elect this uiau President of the United States" If the rest 'of was as much Lowden as Carbondale it would nearly be 100 per cent Lowden the. state over. LOAN ASS'N .1 Reports of the year's business of the Carbondale 'Loan and Improvement Association indicates one of the most prosperqxis years the history of the association. The report was made at t-he meeting ol the officers stockholders of the at the Trust and Savings last -night. The stock the association was authorized to be increased from Her clothing all burned off, leaving nothing but hcr cooking the flesh in shoes, and a horrid manner.

So terrible was her pain that while rational she begged- that death relieve hcr of her suffering. Mercifully, became- uncon- cimis. $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 ami MEN ARE -by-laws passed with reference to the single, payment of 'stock plan. The association now issues single payment stock wihich pays six. per cent interest, 'an attractive The stockholders' meeting reelected E.

K. Porter, A. G. Pimly, and Henry Brolim directors. J.

Williams was elected to fill -the va-- canc'y made by R. V. Black. The Board of directors 'then met and organized, electing. John" Miller, president; S.

Johnson, RETURNING ON DIV. With a number lof the striking iiali- men in this section going back, invest- a at the division offic-e thia mcirhing" thinigs.are looking 'better all arouwd. The men resumed -at Du Quoin last evening at a Alt iCentuJ-li-a they have not returned, hut' situation is' con the death of Prof. sWera bly -improved, it 5s Those ion strike are said "be without from offlc-ials and walkout -has btoeled "unauthorized," The situation at Hay's, East. St.

Louis is perhaps (the most vice 'William treasurer; George Schwartz, secre- serious on the division, fiat things tary and Attorney W. A. Schwartz, are beginning to look better and lio-pe serifs of stock fS expressed -that all -the men return shortly. iSiinday -OanUondale switchmen decided not to join the walkout not termed a concerted "lay counsel. The 22ud matured by resolution.

This' was the fifteenth annual meeting 01 the association. Secre- -tary George Schwartz presented the reports, which indicated stock was now maturing in 115 mo'nfills. nrllitary inten-cnl inn in Hu; Ruhr district for the purpose of re-es. riihMsliing order. This decision bus Ihuilly bpeil reached as a result nf the don diplomatic 'excluinges of ihe last few days.

The British mnliiissndor, Lord Derby, linnded I'i-omier Milleriind a nole In Britain again demands that France withdraw her troops from the newly-nocupied Gi-rimm territory. Shrewd It is now evident.tlmt Premier Lloyd sen voyage, Foreign Minister Lord "diplomatic ilness" mid the Instructions to the British sador not to take part in the councils here when they deal with the German question are nothing hut part of shrewd Brilish dlnloinntir "blind" allow time to elapse until.the San lie- mo meetings, when'the supreme council will officially allow Germany, to maintain certain number of extra troops in the Ruhr region until order is Ve- slored without incurring penalties for technically breaking the trearv of Versailles. France it is" understood, will sanction, such a ile'cision by the supreme council which will open a dignified way for her withdrawal of the troops from Frankfort and the other towns. Black Troops Withdrawn. Paris, reports from Germany show-that, tjhe; French have removed negro "troops''from Frankfort, as a result of aij.

indignant outcry from all civilized Kuropp. The French black troops are still -left in Gernmn occupied territory on the lefl bank of the Ithine. however, mid the French are showing no signs intending to withdraw them. i iJnioris" Order Workers Out as Protest Against British. Treatment Prisoners at Dublin Cause of Demonstration at' Gates of Mount i Dublin, April' officials' "of -tritdes- union congress arid the liibor phrty 'issued a to the workers of Ireland for a general strike throughout Hie coiintry today ns protest against, tlie trentmeiit of political i Atti PRESiDENt ACTS G'DALE DISTRICT TO END STRIKE CONFERENCE IS iN SESSION Will Give Senate Names of Mem- bers'of Rail Labor Board.

PAIMFR rHL ICn Fifth Session of Distric Conference of Methodis SITUATION: Episcopal Chnrch in Ses I sion at Grace Church. General Says His Department Knows About Facts Leading Up Have Startling Revelations. the Next minium I'rin resent Great Brirnli n-nry celebrations the Pilgrim Kntlipr States, iu-ciirdiiijf recent informa tion. 'He will proljiibiy spend some time visiting in Canada, find the United Slate.s to present plans his include'a call-nt the While House i.ii Washlrig- ti.ii. prisoners.

A -soldier was snot and The fifth annual wounded of Mount prison, Up to'Walkouts-WMI Have Wstl ict Conference of th where crowds holding demon- Methodisl Episcopal church convene Apri, Monda cidental. Wilson rook action to bring to im evening- and w.ill continue until noo A. huge crowd assembled before the i rlie l)1 1 mlloiad strike which. i Wednesday. The district offices gates the prison at night and re- I sr)ite a fht! fl 16 fW.

T. (Morris, Garbondale, superij cited the rosary In Irish for'-the him- luis 1 to' all purls of tendcnt. gei- strikers. Again hundreds ollnt 'T- hopi be strikers. Again hundreds assem- rollnt 'T- H- WHS announced at tlite (L.

JVt. Died and remained throughout-the day, w)lit( House that the president would ence hoping that the, liunger strikers would Sl ni1 tne s( names of nine 5e released. Chairman Clarke of the of fhe new railroad labor' In- the United board of visiting justicesto the Dublin hoanl: nt the men appninred I pi-Is CALLS AlLElff SKUNK a telegrnni of appeal to hns iifcppte.il ns yet, hut. it is helie'vpil the- viceroy, Lord French, to exercise 1 acknowledgments will be n- The message declared tlmt i elvcrl froin rlll l1 the si-naie some of-the strikers were dying and I on another day's delay 'might mean "an Tlle en 'irp bonrd ju-oceed in once appallinpr tragedy." Alex H'owat Denounce's Kansas Governor From Jail Balcony. Head of Miners' Union' Is Serenaded by His Friends at Girard.

Oirarrl, Mownt. head or ihu Kansas miners'- union, speaking hy permission of (ha sliprin: of Crawfoni county, denounced Allen us of a Chicago to see what it ilo to A reply was received from tn restore order in the ranks of tin- cnsllc ariy modification of the 11 workers. rules; on the ground that the Attorney' General ''Palmer, who hns strikers bad been forewarned of the' 'urned to will seel; Clarke (hen copference with Hie preiidenr, if tlie rpsisned from o'lfifiu. CRASH ON N. Y.

ELEVATED Car Filled With Passengers Falls Tvv.enty-Five Taken to Hospital. New York, 'April on an elevated train remarkable escapes death' when thev were ecu bound for Thn front car orn. i a train was knock- situaliou grows worse. The aitornoy sreneral went over a long series of ports from government agenis i throughout the country, and lunched with Joseph Tumulty, sec-re til ry to I Hie president. Meantiniy.

other agcn- I cios of the government, v'llnlly I pstpd in the developments, were i keeping in clo.se touch with the situ, ittJoij. Up to Army Commanders. Secretary of said (hat he saw no necessity for (lie use nt if (L. JVt. Lyerle, Carbondvle, c'onfei -host.

'hillips, district secretary. J. R. iSLaten, district Epwort League pr-esi-dent. J.

Y. -Keid, superintendent. Cre: Sprirtga iMirs. H. iBrown, president man's -Foreign society.

Mrs. Jo3n Hargrave, president 'W man'is iHome iMissionary society. is for the three days' session: Monday Evening 7:30 Song- service Local Choi 8:00 Opening sermon.O. L. Markma Tuesday Morning 8:30 Sacrament of the Lord's 9:00 Organization and Business 10:00 H.

M. Mrs. H. C. iMitehe-11, Sc Address Snow, arise "Consequences of sand persiiiis, mostly, jiiifu.rs and Ilieir Kinth salherpd ii'front.

of 1he DEMOCRATS NAME 4-WOMEN Two Other Female Members of ec'utive Committee Soon to Be Named. Ex- Washington. April 1.1.—Appointment of four additional women as members of the executive committee wan announced by Chalrinnn Cummins. They are: Mrs. Henry Itlilireley, Rover, Mrs.

Tharles B. Ames Washington: Mrs. H. Otto Jersey City, find lUiss Katherine Fi- Ic-ne. Boston.

Two other members soon will be named. Chairman Cummins 'giving the women equal "representation with the men on the oxecu- tive bonrd. The executive committee will hold ts first meeting in Chicago April 20, simultaneously with the meeting of committee on arrangements for the Snn Francesc convention. for a few NOTICE! Director of Mines Dies i Suddenly Monday A. M.

To anyone wno may have received J- Thompson, state director of permt for hunting, fishing, 1 8 and minerals, died suddenly at ping or other kind of license for 1919- the home of son, Ed Thompson, 1920, and did not for any cause, re- Ward mine near'De- ceive the license can have the same 'Soto. Mr. Thompson was the sue- by caling at City. Hall, pho.rang 01 writing-me for sajne. I have several licenses that-have sol een for.

tooro resirfenit, The body' will-' be 'is-hipped Spring-field today, where. J. BBOWN, City Clerk, i tKe funeral -iwill be lisld Wiednesday. of C. John, for director.

Thompson was a former Murphys- SAYS 14-STATES QUIT MEXICO General Pino Declares Thirteen Have Followed Sonora Out of Federation. Apua Prietn, Sonorn, April 13. it. Pino, Commanding the divisional jfrmy or state of Sonorn, announced lie. has received lo'mi-qfficial information that IS addi- ional states of the.

republic hutl voted follow the example of the stale of Sonorn in seceding. Definite details ns o- the. list of grates is kicking; how- over. The state received a-report rom Nngalns that, word lind been -i-e- eivetl at nrmy headqunrters there that was marchiiij; from hihuahua points with 2,000 soldiers. He should reach thp Sonora state.line within the next few wives, "Wp: w'oii't" IwogTrlKe 'this' I-Towat snid, rpferring to the court of relatioiiM which bo refused to appear as n-ilness.

is of three corporation lawyers nppointedby that skunk of governor Allen." Howat dcnouneed over and over in the most hilfr-r retrms he could com- niiind die governor die legislature which enacted the law. Howat spokp for an hour from a balcony of thn He repeatedly cheered by the croiyrt, niohll- izod iwo'or thrpi- miles out of (own and nuirfhpil in. followlns a hnnd carrying Aniprlf-tin lings and hminers. Afler marching a round'the courthouse snuaro, the friends of Howat gnlhered iii front of the-jail. Hownt nlso nnid his rpspet-ts" to Judge Andrew j.

(lurmn of Craw-' ford county district court, who sen- i rnl pn fenced him to jail 'for contempt'. Judge I Cm-nil, lind been'referred to in a newspaper, slory ns'a sturdy Ameri- "They talk about' sturdy Ameri- runs," Hownt. snid. "Sturdy Ameri- 1 crms who send men to jail who have committed no crimp. The men and the women nre going to attend to these sturdy Americans when they bnvp the opportunity." Ninety per cent of the conl mines of Kansas are Idle.

The miners present refrained from such work ns demonstration of' protest agninst the imprisonment of Howat and other district union ofllcinls. avenue line near 'JL'rimtv jail I by. a collision witli nnol'her trail, and. demolished. Tlie wrecknge was in hetween Thvd" the side of brick building' a'dOKen' feet nwiiy.

The 3u persons in the. demolished car sifted through the debris to the street and nhout a them removed to hospitals. be notirled secretary, of. course, each instanc-p. staled by the gov'enimenl: agninsl i insurgent strikers could be looked i He declared it had been noli a quw-( tion of how far the strikersHiail pro- I gressed, of getting the facts.

I These now practically the lianil rl 'e department, ami it GOVERNMENT ARRESTS I. W. W. Is only a matter of W. Tuesday Afternoon 2:00 W.

F. M. -Mrs. R. E.

Pre Wool 3:00 "College Geo. 5 Federal Authorities Take First at Kansas City to Curb ftail Strike, ng in ends," he said. A's to what is the real Step factor behind the strike, Mr. Pnlmcr declared Hint the department, "knows all.about It." He indicated that some Evening j. K.

W. i Wednesday Morning 7:30 -Devotional A. Phelp 9:00 Wi T. startling revelations by the depart- lll: Kansas City. April 'ment in (Ills'connection might, be PX- Committees al ntithorities in-rested.

Pected' at the- time, del'mire. 'ai-lion -to ffqi-mnJ im alleged I. W. employed us a "gainst HIP. strikers is taken by Hie A.

C. Geyer machinist by the Southern Pacific government. lps S. Trit Sliaten. Delation H.

Shumard, C. -Open iConferenc SIMS SHARES OWN CHARGES STRIKE SHUTS ILLINOIS MINES Rail Situation Makes Half the Shafts and 45,000 Men Idle, Says President Farrington. Springfield, April mutely half the coal mines in Illinois are Idle and 45,000 miners have been 1 forced out of employment by the strike' of. switchmen, according to Frank president, of the Illinois, miners. So Says Admiral Niblack in Defending Navy at Senate Quiz of Operations.

AVnshinglou, April J3. Defending Hie navy against Admiral Sims' criticism. Itenr Adinh-iil chief of naval intelligence, told a senate naval investigating committee that since Sims was a member of the navv- general board from 7 to March 2S. IIP shared, with the other men, hers, responsibility for the uiiprpriarednpss lie. charged existed when tlie United States joined the allies.

SENATE GETS PEACE Resolution Is Referred'to the Foreign Relations Committee Without Debate. Wnsbington. April Republican resolution In end with 'Inst. week by the house, was transmitted to tlie senate and referred to foreign relations committee- without di.scussiqn.. Chairman' Lodge to hnve the committee be-gin-consideration oC the resolution in days, but without prospect of senate debaie before rfert week.

railroad. He was charged with nt- The department already has tempting to foment a' strike among- cient facts to wan-ant it in making a i shopmen in sympathy with the Hwitch-lease of conspiracy, linking up pric- men's strike. It was the "first step tie-ally all the larger strike outbreaks Markni -an. the government to curb the; There is no doubt now in the minds of i Culver the legal officials of the government Ctl uroh Doetrfne tlitif.the strikes are the result of -W. Coontz concerted action and they are Church ing to act accordingly in dealing A Hoar the lenders of the insurgents 'Officials-scout Hie" idea that Scll fer S.

strikes nre merely spontaneous out-I A Kinison. hreaK-s of the men because of iinpn-' Utlons Cummins, J. wl tience over the.delaV of the govprn-T Nei 1L ment to get -the railroad labor hoard in They declared thnt the PICKETS AT EMBASSY HELD Ten "Free Ireland" Boosters Bound Over S. Grand Jury at Washington. Washington, April Irish pickets arrested Just week at-the Britr ish embassy were held for a federal grand jury'by United States Commis- sione.r Itlchardson.

on charges of i sNel11 St JJ. Suilins. lating a federal statute milking it bitting it they van' proc felony to "assault" diplomatic repre sontafive of a foreign government. The women gave bond in the sum'of $1.000 "We are tching Accepts Position In A Local Stcrl iRuby Stephens DEATH SENTENCE REINSTATED German Government Reinstitutes Supreme Penalty for Persons Found Guilty as Rebels. Berlin, 'April German government has reluctantly decided re-Institute the denth sentence mili- liiry courts.

Fifteen yen.i-s in penitentiary death, at the dlscvt-iion of the 1 court, is to be imposed for milaw- 1'nl possession of arms'in all revolting districts, notice, lias 'given that must be -surrendered. developments with interest and investigating i with grent core," Mr. 'Prilmer stnteil. "There is law enough on the stntute hooks to enable us to fully the a osl manager and -buyer interests of, the. people of'the coulnry.

the millinery department of the John 1 111 hns 1 ple powor of son Van: Miss 'eople, nnrl the phens is 'an experience milLiwr jut." The attorney general sought to 0 phnsixe-the fact'that In carrying out the law the government would not WILL NOT BE INVESTIGATED Soviet Russia Declines" to Consider Idea of League of Nations' Commission Probe. a sister of -Mrs. Blaina Elliot, Mr. and Mrs. D.

iLs-e havl siding with either party to the con- also accepted the J. troversy, but would, be, "fighting tlie Co. store will have charge ttnt depart charge Mrs. eminent and the laws, but hesitate to tlo so. iu crisis.

Lever Act Violated. interference with transportn- Attending. Conference' tion tin; attorney general would be violation-of section 4 nf" theHDever act. This is certainly true. I he sairj, distribution of "Adelaide Snow of iFmdlay, Ol necessities, of "life-''to -the-'people of 'Field Worker of the the: country is 'hampered.

Any joint man Foreign JVIissionary Society Here This Weej a Hon the part of. two the Methodist- church; Mrs. Jeal Idea of a League 'of. Nations "sioh going to Moscow to' investigate, the Russian government, except on the condition thnt li definite agreement is reached with the allies permitting soviet 1 Russia to membership in the a fine of $5,000 or two yenrs in prison. The government has-a very clear- cut obligation upon it in ndrtilinn to seeing "that the distribution of mull is not interfered- Palmer pnint-1 ed out.

He culled "attention-'to Hie on fn-Rinn ivlien Presidnnt Cle'velaiK' Ella 'IBateman, superj of i the Slavonic at SJa, 3 st. iljpuis, who appear ol the at the of-thl Carhondiale conference of being held, Grace E. church, (this week, of 1 H. JtCtchell,.