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15 V' River low Full i mt Head 7.7 (E.tibUohed JrfrtUit? 15, 1836) 3d Ptt G.O.P. Couiity Convention To Pick Delegates Committeemen in Session at Edwardsville, Open to Public Chairman Names Groups Move to Name Committees from the Floor Defeated EDWARDSVILLE, March Republican precinct commltteemen of Madison County met In county convention this afternoon, to consider the Indorse- ment of a candidate for circuit Judge at the district convention on April 13. the convention went into rumors were flying, but most of them lacked confirmation, and the question of whether a candidate heretofore unannounced would be drafted was unanswered. The convention went into session at 1:50 and when none it the delegates objected it was opened to the public. Rolla Mottaz, as county committee chairman, presided, Alter preliminaries had been completed, a motion was made that the chairman name committees on delegates and resolutions.

C. G. Ellison of Alton offered a motion that the committee on delegates be named from the floor. This was ruled out of order by Chairman Mottaz. Ellison then offered ah amendment to the original motion, to provide that delegates be named from the floor.

The amendment was defeated by a vote of 3026. The original motion then was adopted, and Chairman Mottaz ap- inted the two committees. On the delegates Committee he named: William Miller of Alton, Charles Thomae of East AHPn, Roy Lynn of Granite City, T. P. Betzold of Edwardsville, George Am- broslus of Callinsville, Nelson Koch of Alhambra, and Fred Herbst of Highland.

0 nthe committee on resolutions; (Mottaz appointed the following: Owens Kinster of East Alton, J. W. Cassidyi of Harmeriing ot Coilinsville, Omphghent, and Louis Schwartz of Saline. After appointment- of committees, at 2:30, a recess was declared while the committees met to prepare their reports, The district convention of 'the Republicans will be at Belleville on April 13. the date having been postponed from April 7 to avoid a conflict with Good Friday.

Democrats Endorse Incumbents The district convention of the Democrats will be at Belleville on April 12. The gathering Is expected speedily to nominate the three sitting circuit H. Mudge of Edwardsville; Maurice V. Joyce of East St. Louis, In St.

Clair county, and Alfred D. Riess of Red Bud in Randolph county. The county convention of St. Clair and Madison, two laige counties of the judicial circuit, well as most of the smaller counties, have endorsed the three incumbent judges. Each of the three judges is completing his first six-year term on the circuit bench, The third judicial circuit is composed of seven St.

Clair, Bond, Washington, Mon- Randolph, and Perry. 'rthur Felsen of. East Sr. Louis, i endorsed by Republicans of ir county, Friday, as their can- Mate for one of the G. P.

nominations at the circuit conventibn in Belleville. The county convention held at Belleville, is a former president of 'ho East St. Louis Bar Association "TO has been a candidate for judge the City Court at East St. Louis. Smell following Ml JDouJh Basement Steps St.

Louis Boat ToRdcePrisco Craft by March 25, C6mm6d6re Edward Koenlgf an- nounced'today Ke had accepted a challenged San Francisco chamber of Commerce to race his steamer, City of St. ttfuls, against-the California-owned Boat, Delta Queen, on April 22. But It will not be the projected race from New Orleans to St. Louis In an endeavor to lower thel record of the Robert E. Lee Which was planned by Koenlg last 'fall.

Thir race' wlll.be run by radio. Koenlg will start at Alton, 111., and come down the Mississippi river to St. Louis, while the California craft will race from a point on the Sacramento river 25 miles from the San Francisco Exposition Grounds where the boaf'will stop, No money is Involved K.qenlg saro. Collapse of negotiations to nave the two speedy craft fight it out on, the Mississippi in a race with all the color and frills of the, historic- contest between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez in.

1872 Was a disappointment to sportsmen between' here and New Orleans. They had raised $45,000 to wager the City of St. Louis, the fastest steamer on the Mississippi. "We still are hopeful of hiving a real "race from New Orleans this Kbenlg explained. "Owners of a Cincinnati boat are considering a challenge.

"But if they do not accept, the City of St. Louis will strike out alone In an effort to the time of the Robert E. Economy Drive Faces Test In Farm Vote Swap But Party Leaders Praise Security Tax March 25, The congressional drive faced test today when- the House assembled at noon (11 a. m. Alton time), to vote on amendments, to the record $1,067,274,427 appropriation the Agriculture Department Economy advocates concentrated on a proposal to eliminate the measure's provision for $250,000,000 of "parity payments" to farmers).

Thpse payments, designed to raise the. purchasing power represented in farmers' products to the level prevailing in pre-war were not included In President Roosevelt's budget. Some of the bloc working for governmental retrenchment we.te apprehensive that they might Jos? not only this contest but, simultaneously, their struggle to prevent Congress from appropriating the adaitional $150,000,000 Mr. Roosevelt has requested to operate WPA until July 1. Sabuth Proposal Cited This fear was accentuated by an uppeal made to farm state representatives yesterday by Representative Sabath, Chicago Democrat, who heads the powerful House rules committee, In behalf of the relief fund.

If legislators from rural areas "want our help on parity payments." he said, "they should help us on the $150,000,000." Sabath's appeal brought a protest from Representative Tarver Georgia, who termed such procedure "log-rolling." On the Senate side of the capl- tol, where the farm appropriation must be acted upon after Houso Continued on page 2. Tarzan' of Rockies Suicides After He's Shot Trying to Rob Bank Teller He Used as Shield Slain as Citizens Send Hail of Bullets at 'Wild Man" POWELL, March '25, bullet from his own pistol delivered Earl Durand, the renegade "'the Rockies, to his self-assigned "Undertaker's Wyo," office, I. he 28 ve ar-old mountain rftU terror town bank which he tried to yesterday after killing four durln a nlne-day flight the i aw The fante.tle bank bnery attempt also cost the life 20-year-old teller, "urand, who had eluded capture ion V. OMe that rew more tnwn men, was shout to in a hall of bulieti when own th nved wllh ended a blppcjy "-year-old sphool him. Into postscript the hJntorQltJw wlW young by hi, imprtsonroent buU elk oM ol fl broke from the Cody Ja4j 16, killed two officers who sought to apprehend him, killed two more men when a posse tried to trap him In northwestern Wyoming's mountains, and then came back to rob a bank.

Durand, before he attempted a one-man stand against possemen in Clarksfork canon last Wednesday night, visited three ranches near Powell, leaving at one a letter addressed to Sheriff Frank Blackburn pf Park county bearing as a return address: "Undertaker's of flee, Powell, Wyo." The challenged the sheriff to my head mounted and hang up In the courthpuse." The wily fugitive knew, he wrote, that he was for," John Gawthrop, iiO. the slain teller Pf the First National Pank of Pawell, waj one of three men Puraud Bttempted to use as a shield when he stepped to the door of She bank carrying a rifle In one band and a bag cpntainlng more thanSZQOQIn the other letter "Have Member The Associated Press Physician Tells Strange Story of Accident to Gillespie Woman Dr. J. B. Listen, of Cartinville today disclosed the stranga case of Mrs.

Mary Waggoner of Gillespie, who is gradually losing her sense of taste and smell, jifter suffering fractured skull due to it fall down tho cellar of her home a year ago, Shortly after her fall she was taken to the St Francis Hospital In 'Litchficld where she remained for several months, Mrs. Waggoner came home seemingly gieatly Improved from her treatment However, during the past month Mrs. Waggoner lias found It Impossible to taste or smell anything and seems to pe losing both these sen ses. according to her physician, Dr. P.

B. O'Connell, of Glllosple. Dr. Listen making plans to take Mrs. Waggoner to the Illinois Research hospital in Chicago in an effort to aid her to regain her health with the aid of city specialists.

It is believed pressure on her brain due to the fracture has paralyzed her nerve centers of smell and taste. 2 Acquitted of Police Job Sales CHICAGO, March 25 Alter man Frank E. Konkowski and his former precinct captain, Stephen Idzikowski, charged with accepting money on promises of police Jobs were acquitted early today. A criminal court jury deliberatec eight hours and reached the agreement five minutes before a deadline set by Judge William J. ILndsay The court had intended to hold the jury until Monday if no verdict were reached by 2 a.

m. Several members of the jury sale 25 ballots were taken and that the jurors divided evenly until the final vote. Thomas Bugan, assistant state's attorney, had asked for a conviction on a conspiracy count 'charging the men with accepting $600 from a candidate for a police job could be-- 5 ski, who is-' Twenty-Sixth Asked if he intended to prosecute the on a similar indictment that is still pending, Prosecutor Bugan said: "If that's way the public and jurors feel, what's the use? It's just a waste of time." Harbors Congress Favors NameokiDraiiiage Proiect WASHINGTON, March 25, The projects committee, qj' the National Rivers and Harbors Congress indorsed 51 navigation and flood control projects, estimated to cost $696,689,946, and urged the organization to seek appropriations for immediate construction of them. Included in the Ust was the Flo- r.da ship canal, and the Ohio river- Lake Erie canal. The committee gave "meritorious 1 rating to 32 additional projects which "with sufficient additional facts" probably would merit complete indorsement by the organization.

Action was deferred on more than 100 projects. The committee reported it. received testimony on 207 proposed waterway developments. The projects on the indorsed list included: Chouteau, Nameoki and Venice drainage and levy district, Illinois. Allotment for Rural Electrification Proiect WASHINGTON, March 25, CSpe- allotments totaling $5,573,000 announced today by Rural Electrification Admlnlstra- tion is one styled Illinois 23, Sangamon county, in amount of $94,000.

This allocation Is for the building of approximately 97 miles of line to serve 217 members In Sangam'on, Christian, Montgomery, and Macoupin counties, the announcement states. The project previously has been allotted $470,000 to build 472 miles of line to servo 1437 members in the four mentioned counties and Morgan county. Would Modernize "75V WASHINGTON, March 25, At the request of Senator Lucas, Democrat, and Representative Johnson, Republican, both of Illl- nola, the senate appropriations committee yesterday restored to the army supply bill an item of $332,480 for the modernization of 40 French 75 guns at the Rock Island, arsenal. Mississippi Valley Faces Rainy Week CHICAGO, March 25, MPK- Weather outlook for the period March 27 to April 1 In the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys: Considerable rain in portion and rain or snow In north portion during the week; temperature mostly near or above normal, except below normal part of the time in north portion. 'ffrp-VT" Several Are of Particular A me 100 Changes In announced by ways in conn iifjDtvlsloiJo ift Wlttt pf the Illinois official highway for 193d Include several of to "residents of area.

One of most int changes is the e'llrrtlnatibn of RSute 109 In the highway markings the replacement-of this designation by an extension of Route 100 for benefit of Perre Marquette Park. The change, by odd coincidence brings Route 100 into Jefsfy" county in the year that marks that county's centennial. State Route 100 has been extended from its. present at Hardin in Calhoun cpunty -over Route 38 to near Fleldon; thence over the new gravel road to Pere Marquptte State Park and Grftfton, and eastward the farmer Route 109 to a junction wfBi U. S.

67 (the Alton-Jerseyvllle toule). This change, the Division pf bulletin points out, provides a continuous numbered state route for traffic to Marquetie Park both from the north and east, and tends to facilitate its being reached by tourists not locally acquainted with its situation. Of immediate interest to Alton is a change in the marking of U. S. 67 by which the official route of this federal highway goes south from Alton to St.

Louis over, the Lewis and Clark bridges. The making of the official U. S. 67 route by way of the Lewis and bridges was agreed to early last summer, It was.said today by E. L.

Curdes, manager of the bridge properties, the new Missouri highway mfjji as well as that IflQ to East St, Louis now "Alternate Route U. S. 67." The Division of Highways bulletin says- "Alternate route U. S. 67 replaces U.

S. 67 from Alton south to junction U. S. Route 66 one mile west of Mitchell; thence south over new construction to Granite City; thence, south and east through Granite City and Madson to junction City Route U. S.

66; south over City Route 66 to junction U. S. 40 through 1 thence west over U. 'S. 40 through East St.

Louis over the Municipal toll bridga to St. Louis, Missouri and junction U. S. Route. 6Y and St.

Louis City Route 67. S. Route 67 eliminated from Alton south to the Municipal toll bridge between East St. Louis and St. Louis, Missouri.

S. 67 is now marked in Missouri, instead of in Illinois, from Alton to St. Louis." An extension of Illinois Route 3 in the East St. Louis-Tri-Clty area is announced. Route 3 is extended from 'Bond and Eighth street in East St.

Louis northeasterly through National City, Brooklyn, Venice, Madison, Granite City, arid Nameoki to a connection with City Route 66 and Alternate S. 67. The new Illinois route map gives recognition to completion of the nesv pavement between East Alton-Wood River and Edwardsville. Route 159 has been' rerouted over new construction, the Bulletin says, this providing a new pavement and better alignment on the "permanent location for this route." U. S.

50 has been relocated over new construction from French Village eait, and eliminates. mark- Ing of U. S. 50 over the oid location. Off Baseball fields ALTOftt mild: Suhday.

day, is being laid to the Cherry street sewer with that on Monument nue. TKe Cherry duct now has no "outlet, and causes overflow to create a pond. A pipe connection will carry ordinary while a rip-rack ditch shown in tentejt foreground will carry stor'in water. Staff photo. Cite New York Magistrate For Malfeasance Mark A.

Rudich moved From Bench Re- NEW, YORK, March 25 UPl City Magistrate Mark A. Rudich, cited by Special Assistant Attorney General. John Harlan Amen- for alleged malfeasance and misfeasance in office, was removed: from the bench' today by unanimous decision of the appellate division, Jws'to approye improper MBatt onds and 'of using' his influence fellow in one case of attempting to persuade Magistrate Anthony F. Burke to suspend sentence on charges against a prostitute. TAmen's charges were brought in course of a sweeping investigation pf alleged official corruption Jn.Brppklyn.

It was not known immediately whether the magistrate whose term was to have expired Dec. 31, would be. automatically disbarred for practicing a 'an attorney as well as ousted from the bench as a result of the appellate division's ruling of official misconduct. Charges against Rudich' 'were sired in a presentment Feb. 15 by the first extraordinary grand jury working Prosecutor Amen in his many-sided probe.

During the four-day hearing which ended Thursday, v. itnesses testified that Rudich accepted $100 in the prostitute case and another similar sum in one specific bail bond. case. Rudich heatedly the accusations, testifying he "Never took cent from anyone." Scot' To Pass Through Alton March 31 The "Coronation typifying the last word in a British streamlined train, whlchi was sent to this country for the York World's Fair by the London Midland Scottish Railway and unloaded at the Baltimore Ohio Locust Point Terminals on Feb. 27, started on its pre-Fair exhibition tour of 38 east ern cities from Baltimore, March 21.

According to its Itinerary, the luxurious English streamliner will be on public display when it passes through Altonj'-at College avenue station about 9:40 p. m. on March 31. of the, most ndlUbned, stream- the L.M.S.'railroad spanned the' Atlantic and -put oh American rails Its messenger of good-will to show their in transportation to the American public. Officials of the English railroad, who will accompany the train on its.

tour, explain that the normal formation of the '''Coronatlo'n-Scpt'' is nine cars, including diners'; For the American tour and the World's Fair exhibition; however, there will be 'eight cars, one of which is a first-class sleeping car. The "Coronation Scot" is a day train, in 1937 to commemorate the Coronation; The sleeping- car does not belong in its regular consist, but for this special occasion, it is included to show the latest type of accommodation for night travel provided in Great Britain. Excepting the sleeper, the exhibition train is one of three new ones designed for "Coronation Scot" service. Probe WPA Man'i Slaying HARRISBURG, March 20 Agents of the state bureau of criminal identification went to Benton today-to aid Franklin county officers in their investigation of the death, of A rile Sanders, 50-year-old WPA worker of Logan, 111. With skull fractured, Sanders' body was found across a campfire List Monday.

Says Lipstick Handicaps Doctors Require Blood Tests to Find Food Needs Medics' Judgment INDIANAPOLIS, March 25, tfl?) Lipstick and fingernail polish make It hard for doctors to tell whether modern women are undernourished, says Dr. Charles C. Higglns of Cleveland. Dr. Higglns told the Midwest Conference of the American lege of Surgeons, which ended a fhree-day meeting here last night that a physician used to be able to determine just by looking at woman whether she was getting enough vitamins.

Nowadays, he said, painted lips and fingernails cause women to appear healthy whether they are or the doctor has to take a blood test to learn the truth. "Although diet fads are usually harmful because the foods included nutrition results," Dr. Higglns said, Is sensible and beneficial to exercise reasonable control over youf diet. 1 Francisco, president of the American College of Surgeons and University of California surgery professor, said the two outstanding surgical developments of the last year were (1) treatment of Infections by chemical therapy and C2) Improvement In the method of treating high blood pressure, Dr. George Crlle of Cleveland expressed belief high blood pressure and other Ills characteristic of modern man arose from conflict between his "animal brain" and his 'civilized brain." He said man Probe 'Poison 'Liquor'- Deaths KEENE, N.

March 25 County Solicitor John R. Goodnow pressed an investigation 1jo- day into what he termed the "poison liquor murders" of Mrs. Julia Wheaton, about 25, and Edgar Smart, 28, at a house party in the Smart home in Ashuelot last night. Th prosecutor said he was questioning Alfred Wojehick, Smart's brother-in-law, in an effort to determine where the liquor came from, Goodnow said he believed the victims got the liquor by mis- lake, that it was intended someone else, but he did not I He said Mrs, Smart told him both her husband and Mrs. Wheaton drank from the same glass and collapsed within five minutes.

The woman died enroute to a hospital and Smart, a stationary foreman, died shortly after reaching the hospital. The prosecutor said he was unable to find the glass from which they drank, and added that Mrs. Smart told him her husband threw the bottle of liquor out arid broke it shortly after both commented that It "tastes like poison." Hungary, Slav Troops Fight in Valley of Ung Danzig Studies Warsaw Berlin Stresses Need for Strong Poland IGLO, Slovakia, March 25, Air and land fighting between Hungarian and Slovak troops was reported today over the Ung river valley, claimed by Hungary as her new frontier line. behind the JSlpvak aviation squau fools off to bomb retaliation foi a Hungarian att- tacjc oh.thls town authpirV, ties said, 10 clvjlians were-killed' and Slovak troops, part pf the trained former Czecho Slovaks army, Were moving eastward'to- ward the Ung river along Slovakia's'uncc-'ain eastern frontiers. Report Armistice Ordered BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, March 25, sources said today that an armistice had been ordered in eastern Slovakia, where Hungarian and Slovakian troops have been engaged in border fighting.

Germany was understood to be trying to smooth out the dispute through diplomatic representations in Budapest. FREE CITY OF DANZIG, March 25, Reports of German and Polish troop movements near Po- morze (the Polish corridor) were studied carefully today by authoritative foreign circles here. These reports asserted the Poles had Increased their military force around Gdynia and that the Ger- mans.were strengthening their lines both on the East Prussian frontier and along the western border of the Corridor. Authoritative sources meanwhile reported a growing tension between German and Polish official circles in the Free City. They advanced the view that while Nazi-dominated Danzig had- expressed an informal Continued on page 2.

Madrid Franco's Miaja to TUrn Over Ait Force Tonight, as Token Rail Traffic Resumes France, Britain- Over ft Ttriti Sea 3 BIT BERLIN, Adolf Hitter, graphed BeftiW declaration of of Italy Against restrict the living; of to shalte newspaper today the unconditional of Madrid had been' accordance with the. demands Of Spanish Nationalist' Generalissimo' Francisco franco. A dispatch to the. from its correspondent tylth, jfohriV co's Jose hend of- Defense Council, deliver Madrid's; atf- the first act of The, rendered at the Guatro 1 ah? field near the city. It was Skid to consist of 45 warplanes, incltid- bombers.

Delivery of the' planes, the Rome' newspaper, said, 'will be followed' by the disarming of Madrid's militiamen under Republican orders after which Franco's troops -will enter the cltyv It said large' units of Nationalists were expected to occupy strategic points in advance of the remainder of the army of which, the dispatch said, probably will -enter 'Madrid tojnot ShouW'the surrender it added, hundred of 'gulis "have been" ma lans fall! Ite 1 out pi Spain, Nationalist government said today had been Informed that France woujd turn over immediately all Spanish Republican warships which have taken- refuge in the Tunisian port of Bizerte. (Havas, French news ported the French decision was made in concert with Great Britain. It said Britain would turn over to Generalissimo Francisco Franco's government the Republic destroyer Jose Luiz Diez, which at Gibraltar,) A Spanish Republican fleet pt 11 vessels left the government naval base at Cartagena. the first week of this month and was given France's permission to enter Bizer- te for disarming and' interment March 7. Terms' Are "Simple" HENDAYE, France (At the Spanish Frontier), March 25, (JP) Final negotiations for the surrender of Madrid to the Spanish Na- and for peace in the 32- months-old Spanish civil war were said today to be nearly completed, The Nationalist Defense Council, which rules Republican one-fourth of continental Spain- met last night in General Jose vliaja's office to consider results of a peace mission which made a Continued on page 2.

Germany Presses Japan to Enter Military Pact Against Public Opinion Million Troops Fight Bloody Battles on Three Fronts Along Rivers probably would profit from yielding at times to the animal impulse to rest, piny, and get away from civilized surroundings. Dr. Richard B. Cattell of Boston are commonly too limited, and maU-said an ordinary peptic ulcer, in Dr. Howard C.

Naffzlger of SaBvYiecessary, the stomach or upper intestine, could be treated successfully with jflpdlcine and oi)jy when a perfpra- Mon occurred WAS an operation TOKYO, March 25 close to the government said today that Germany was exerting powerful pressure to bring Japan into a military alliance and, while the government was silent officially, belief spread that a pact would be concluded. Public opinion in the past has opposed involving Japan in any commitment to European war TTitlfi- Armlniirla and it was understood the govern- jjiuer Appjaucis Hkewta8i was aUemp 1 lng to American Dance I eatll) avoid entanglements. BERLIN, March 25 Hitler, seeking relaxation, Gcsrnmn Experts Doubt Value was disclosed today to have ap- BERLIN, March 25 Ger- plauded tho American dance team man experts on the Far East to- of Eddie LaVallo and Mai-Kay titi day expressed doubt of the value the Intergarten when he slipped tp Germany of a military alliance into the theater unnoticed last; with Japan, night to see an international' Commenting on Tokyo vaudeville bill. The Fuehrer was accompanied by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbejs, his propaganda minister, but their presence was not made known to the audience and the dancers did not meet them, reports that Germany was bringing press- Besides, it was argued, the United States and Britain quickly could- bottle up the Japanese fleet If ittrled to ure on Japan to convert the Comintern accord Into a military alliance, they pointed out that Japan Is considered fully engaged, prelude ta a resumption of a on land, sea, and air In her in-1 palgu down tjjs Klangsi Fighting Worst SHANGHAI, March 25 (At More than Chinese and Japanese troops engaged today In bitter fighting on three widely- separated fronts along Chinese rivers, and in four other sactorl with a toll, qj casualties, adding to thn mpra than 1,000,000 rolled up since hostilities began more than 90 months ago.

i The bloodiest battles were being fought northern Klangil province, along the 100-mUo Sui front where the were making a general offensive southward toward provincial capital 170 southeast of vasion of China, railway..