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Low tonight mid 20s. Higrh Wednesday low 30s. Low Wednesday night low 20s. VOLUME XXXVI NO. 115.

MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1956 25c PER WEEK BY REDS NOW INVINCIBLE-KRUSHCHEV CASE CASE IS UP BEFORE GRAND JURY Federal InvesHgaHon of $2,500 Donation Senator Case Rejected Starts in Washington. OIL COMPANY'S LAWYERS CALLED Neff, Who Offered the Mortey, and Potman, Who Forwarded It, Summoned as Witnesses. By Askociattd Prtss WASHLN'GTON A federal grand jury embarks today on an investigation of a campaign donation vojcctcd by Sen. Francis Case (R-S. during Senate debate on the natural gas bill.

The grand jun' summoned before It John iMl Ncff, Lexington, and Elmer Patman, Austin, Te.x., both of whom testified before a special Senate (jommittee which would up public hearings on the incident -Monday, Neff and Patman arc lawyers for the Superior Oil Co. of California. The Senate committee was told that Superior's president, Howard B. furni.shed the $2,300 Neff left in Siou.x Falls, S. as a contribution to Case's campaign.

Neff and Patman, who forwarded the money to him, swore that no conditions were attached. Both said, however, they would not have been interested In contributing to Case's campaign if they had known he was going to vote against the bill to natural gas producers from direct federal regulation. The bill is before President Eisenhower, who discussed it with his Cabinet Monday but reached no decision. Bill Deadline Saturday The bill becomes law Saturday, even without Eisenhower's alfnwture, unless ho vetoes It in the meantime. Keck and Patman testified the $2,500 came from Keek's personal funds and was not offered in an attempt to influence Case's Case has said he was originally inclined to favor the bill, but changed his mind because it appeared to him that someone thought big profits for oil companies would result If the bill became law.

14 Legislators Call For Lower License Fees By AitoclXfcl SPRINGFIELD, Illinois House members today formed an organization with the purpose of campaigning for a reduction in license fees on automobiles and light trucks. The group applied to the secretary of state's office for a not- for-profit charter for the "12-35 Club," taking its name from House Bill 1235 at the 1955 legsi- lative session which sought to lower license charges. The legislators organizing the club included nine Democrats and four Republicans. The legislators incorporating the organization are: Reps. Paul Powell (D-Vlenna), Clyde L.

Choate (D-Anna), Oyde Lee (D-Mount Vernon), Carl H. Prcihs (D-Bana), Paul A. Zeigler (D-Carmi), Joseph P. Stremlau (D-Mendota), Leo Pfeffer (D- Seymour), C. R.

Ratcliffe (D- Beardstown), George L. Saal (D- Pekin), Charles Ed Schaefer (D- Nokomis), J. Lisle Laufer (R- Hampshire), WaiTen O. Billhartz (R-New Baden), John E. Miller (R-Tanmis), and Gordon E.

Kerr (R-Brookport). How About- Russ Slave Laborers? By Aiioclatid Praii MOSCOW The Soviet Union plans to shorten the working day to seven hours after 1957, Communist party boss Nikita S. Khrushchev said today. The eight-hour day and six- day work week are now virtually universal throughout the U. S.

S. R. A seven-hour day would mean 42 hours of work a week. Youth Killed By Truck At Sesser By Prtn in. Bllly Austin, 20, of Whittington, was fatally hurt Monday when struck toy a truck while walking along State Route 183 hear the nelgh- town of Sesser in Franklin County.

BALLOON'S RADIO, THEY SAY THIS PHOTO from the Bast German newspaper Zcntrablld in East Berlin purports to show the radio transmitter from a U. S. weather baUoon found In Soviet air apace. (International) FALLS 35 FEET IN SNOW; ESCAPESINJURY Four Also Unhurt in Oregon Snow Troctor Mishap. By AsioeUtcd Prns TIMBERLINE LODGE, Adlai Stevenson, no stranger to cl06V calls, escaped injury Monday' in the 35-foot plunge of a snow tractor that crunched through a snow cornice and toppled over.

Five others aboard also were unhurt. In previous brushes with danger, Stevenson a helicopter craqkup and an auto accident. And lightning struck an airliner carrying the Democratic leader nearly two years ago. The plane landed safely. Stevenson, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, was spending a brief holiday here while prepni-ing an address for delivery at Seattle tonight.

An aide said the speech would deal principally with foreign policy matters. Following yesterday's mishap, the shaken tractor riders clambered nearly a half mile uphill through snow to this Mt. Hood lodge. 0 Driver Cuts Ignition Stevenson said that as the tractor started to go over, he braced his hands on its metal sides. John Macone, the driver, cut off the ignition, and Ralph Wiese, district forest ranger, said that prevented a fire.

The party, Wiese said, was "very lucky." Steven appeared shaken up at the moment hut, back at the lodge, said, "politics keeps me busy and interested. I have crashed in a helicopter in the Malayan jungle, been in an auto accident on the Equator and now have turned over in a Snow-Cat in .50 feet of snow." A Stevenson press conference was scheduled at noon in Seattle. Benton Visitor Robbed In Chicago By Aisociited Prist CHICAGO Police say two men have admitted abducting a Benton, 111., visitor and fobbing him of $2 in cash and a watch valued at $300 Saturday night. Held on robbery charges are Frederick Dortmann, 23, an AWOL Army private, and Harold A. 22, a millhand, both of Chicago.

Charles Jones, 46, of Route 1, Benton, said the pair and a third man held him prisoner for three hours in his car, took his money and the watch, and released him on the West Side. Suburban Westchester police said they seized Dortmann and Sawyer while they were attempting to ttrip Jones' auto. The third man is being sought. NAVY BALLOON GETS AWAY; OVER SIBERMTODAY Gianf Gas Bog Broadcasts Information from Forbidden Red Skies. By TOKYO A U.

S. Navy weather balloon was weather infoi-mation from 30,000 feet over Soviet Siberia today after "wild and unpredictable" winds over the Aleutians reversed its course. The Navy said the 40-foot plastic gas bag, which headed east across the Pacific after its launching Saturday night, now was traveling westward toward Russia at 100 miles per hour. Because the high altitude jet stream in which the balloons travel almost always moves east, this was the first of 12 weather balloons launched by the Americans from Japan to go the wrong way. The Air Force suspended similar launchings from West Europe last week erfter tlie Soviet Union and other Communist countries complained they were being used to spy on them and were endangering thoir aircraft.

Tracked into Soviet territory over the Kamchatka Peninsula at 7 a. m. today 5 p. m. EST Monday.

A Navy spokesman said the balloon was radioing "valuable" weather informatiB on an area, which "has hitherto been a blank to countries outside the Iron Curlain." But he added that the information was "not what we wanted." Loving Patient Extracts Dentist's Purse With $160 By Astociatsd Presi LONG BEACH, Caiif. A woman entoi-ed Dr. Linus West's office and told him she wanted her teeth pulled. The dentist said he didn't extract teeth but would recommend a colleague who did. Then, he told police, she threw her arms around him and said, "What I i-eally need is affection." Dr.

West, who is 75, disengaged himself and told her, "I'm afraid I'm not interested." He gave her his colleague's name and she left. A few minutes later he found his wallet, containing $160, was gone. Dr. West said' the woman was about 40. He couldn't give a detailed description of her except that had six teeth in her upper jaw and eight in her lower.

Tillie Out Of Jail; Had Wonderful Vacation By AtMcliUd Prtit MILWAUKEE Mrs. Tillie Hansen, 58-year-old housewife who said she had a "wonderful time" during a week's "vacation" in jail, was released Monday. Mrs. (Hansen was jailed Feb. 6 when Mrs.

Alvin Harry invoked an old Wisconsin statute to compel payment of a $50 judgment awarded her 15 years ago after a Parent-Teachers Assn, quarrel. A settlement was reached Monday and Mrs. Hansen freed. The amount of the settlement was not made public. Costs and interest had increased the $150 figure to $295.

"I had a wonderful time here," Hansen said as she left jail. "I wouldn't mind staying longer." Mr. and Mrs. Harry paid Mrs. Hansen's $23 jail board bill.

The couple's attorneys said the bill was taken into account in the final settlement. Tlie PTA dlsputi? that started the trouble allegedly occurred because Mrs. Hansen and her husband had not voted for Mrs, Harry's husband when he ran for clerk of tihe school district. lost the election. C.

OF C. MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN IS OPENED Civic And Fraternal Croups Form "Teams" To Conduct Campaign In The Interests Of Making Mt. Vernon A Better Community. Plan To Wind Up Drive This Saturday. Mt.

Vernon's civic and fraternal organization kicked off an unusual drive last night for the good of their community. It is an intensive one-week membership campaign for the Chamber ot Commerce. The usual method of conducting the Chamber of Commerce membership drive is for business and industrial firms to form teams and select their drive chairman. The campaign this year is an unique one. leaders of civic and fraternal groups are taking full charge of the campaign, with Art Laird, C.

of C. president, sennng as drive chairman. Fourteen organizations have joined together to build the membership of the Chamber to what they hope will not only be an all-time high, but will give the Chamber -the necessary finances to do a thorough job for Mt. Vernon, not only to maintain its standing as the King City of Little Egypt but to develop and produce new job opportunities for those presently unemployed. The drive got under way at a meeting of campaign "teams" at Hotel Emmerson last night.

Community leaders said they hope to finish the drive this Saturday. Following completion of the campaign a meeting will be held of all new members and the workers. At this time a program will be presented which will give new members a closer look at the operations of the Chamber of Corrimerce. They will be shown how their ideas and opinions can goverii what can and should be done" to make their community better. Bill Greene, Chamber manager, said the program will be different than any other ever presented in Mt.

Vcemon. At a a later date it will be presented to the older membership. Greene revealed that the U. S. Chamber, State Chamber, Illinois Federation of Retail Associations, Illinois Chain Store Council and other trade associations will be watching Mt.

Vernon closely to learn the results obtained by civic and fraternal organizations. Officials of the.se organizations said the Mt. Vernon campaign will be the first of its kind in their memory, where the Chamber of Commerce membership program is taken over as a community-wide project. List Ot Teanus Jaycees Alve Gutzler, Dale Andrews. Wood, Jack Benton, Bob Fretag, Jack Garrison, Oiff Fields.

Warren, Virgil Bailey, John Manion, Fred Kinsey. Ward, Jack Sotze- korn, William Moore, Tom Morgan. Amvets Howard Phillips, Gene Boswell, Bob Tucker. Federated Civic Club Jean Koziara, Genevieve Laird, Delie McEfee, Ruby Savage, Virginia Spillman. American Legion I.eo Morgan, Clatide Schoch, Ray Hefley, Everett Jones, Harry Henn.

King City Retailors George Heidenreich, Obe Grant, Glonn Dollons, Franz Sablon, Elsie Rash. Elliott, Virgil Pulley, George Garrison, A. H. Williams, Dewey Morgan. B.

P. W. Dull, Hilda Huston, Leah McPherson. Optimists Bob Krebs, Ray Benoist, Norman Murphy, Jim Trammel, Winston Browning. Jefferson Co.

Bar Frank Allen, John Jacobsen, Demetri Hassakis. Junior Women's Slivka, Pat Leltzell, Joyce Gatewood, Dorothy Bradley. Mt. V. Federated Women's Ray Tjbbs.

Mrs. Max Hunt, Mre. Lee Badgctt, Mi-s. Aubrey Watson, Mrs. Norman Moss.

Ten Ford Plants Run Four Days By Associated Prsas of the 16 assembly plants of the Ford Division of the Ford Motor Co. will operate only four days this week, shutting down from Thursday until Monday. Two of Chrysler major plants also will operate only four days and the company it planned layoffs of an additional 4,300 workers. The new layoffs will, bring to approximately 43,000 the number cut from auto industry payrolls in recent weeks "to hold production line with demands." NIXON HAILS MAGNIFICENT GOPJECORD Soys He Never Called Truman Traitor, Only Questioned Judgment. By Associated Prtsr NEW YORK Vice President Nixon claims a "magnificent record" tor the first three years of "what all of us hope will be eight years of the Eisenhower administration." Nixon told the National Republican Club in a Lincoln Day speech Monday night: "Our Republican administration is now proving, for the first time in nearly 30 years, that we can have prosperity without war; full' employment outside of uniform, and security without regimentation and controls." Speaking at the club's 70th annual Lincoln Day Dinner, he said the greatest advances in the nation to end racial discrinuna- tion "since the emancipation proclamation itself" have been made during the Eisenhower administration.

Nixon's speech contained barbs for three Democratic presidential nominee E. Stevenson, Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and Gov. Averell Harriman of New York. As he arrived here by plane from Washington late Monday.

Nixon denied he ever had called former President Harry S. Truman a "traitor," as Truman had complained: "I did not call Mr. Truman a not," Nixon toTd newsmen. Nor did he call the Democratic party "the party of trea.son" or question the loyalty of any of its members, Nixon added. "I have always said that there Ls only one party for treason in the United States, and that is the Communist party," he said.

"In all my public speeches and private talks I have always said that the loyalty of Truman, Stevenson and all the leaders of the Democratic party should not be their judgment. The Alger Hiss case speaks for itself. Mr. Truman called it a red herring." Up until the airport interview, Ni.xon had kept silent publicly on the political controversy stirred up by Truman's recent accusations that Nixon called him a' traitor in 1952 campaign talks "all over the West." Leaders of the Republican party had denied this. Nixon declined to speculate at his news conference on whether President Eisenhower will run again.

He said, however, that "the optimism is higher now than at any other time." After addressing 1,500 members and guests at tlie National Republican Qub the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Nixon was driven to the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, where he spoke at a dinner of the Kings County Republican organization. He made somewhat the same speech, in shortened form. At the Waldorf-Astoria dinner, Nixon received the National Republican Club's second annual award for "outstanding service to the nation." The bronze head of Abraham Lincoln presented hy former Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey, who won it last year. Nixon said Stevenson and Kefauver, both announced candidates and Harriman, who says he is not an "active" candidate; are "three candidates in search of a crisis" in bidding for the Democratic presidential nomination. Calling Stevenson the leading candidate, Nixon said he "'lately shrinks at the suggestion that the U. S. may have found it necessary to be on the brink of war in order to keep the peace." Adlai "Hair Splitter" Nixon also said it begins to appear that Illinois, "which gave the nation Abraham Lincoln, the great rail-splitter of 1860, has produced in Adlai Stevenson the great hair-splitter of 1956." Nixon added: "He says we are too strong and too weak, too fii-m and too flexible, too belligerent and too timid," On the brink of war angle, Nixon declared; "Tlie test of failure or success of foreign policy is whether it results in war or I am sure 165 million Americans will agree with me when I say it is a lot better to he on the brink of war than in the drink as far as war is concerned." Nixon called Harriman "an expensi political accident temporarily occupying the governor 's mansion at Albany." Nixon said the only hope for continued progress for Negroes Is in the election of a Republican president and Congress.

Where Explosion Rocked Downtown Toledo, Ohio WARNS-PICK COEXISTEHCE OR WAR ROAD Detnolighed building is where explosion occurred Feb. 13 in Toledo, Ohio, do business area. A three-block area was rocked by the blast. Three persons were reported killed. (AP Wlrephoto) SlU STUDENT IS HEIR TO MIAMI AUMrSFORTUNE Edward Jay Allen May Inherit Half Million; Wife Is Waitress.

By Associated Presi MIAMI, million dollar estate an elderly woman built up in Miami real estate is all going to a niece and nephew, the latter a Southern Illinois University student. Filed for probate Monday was the will of Mrs. Edna Allen Rickmers, who died Jan. 31 at the age of 93. She came here from Pittsburgh 52 years ago when Miami was a village.

Her estate includes the Olympia Theater site in downtown Miami, under 99-year lease at a year; other Miami and Miami Beach properties and securities without specific appraisal values but estimated at upwards of a million dollars. Named to share the estate are a niece, Mrs. L. W. Cahill, 27, of Miami, and a nephew, Edward Jay Allen II, 29, student at SIU's college of business administration.

Mrs. Cahill is Allen's sister. The will, dated June 1, 1950, stipulates that the two shall receive the net income from the estate until they are 30 years of age when they shall receive one-half share each. Attends Night Classes Edward said he will to attend night classes while working days as a time and motion study man in a washing machine plant at Herrin, III. His wife, Maiy, works in the university restaurant at the student union.

Mrs. Cahill is the wife of a salesman and mother of a small child. The will "gives her, in addition to a half interest in the estate, all of Mrs. Rickmer's personal property, including jewelry, antiques, furniture and an automobile. Mrs.

Rickmer's longtime attorney, F. M. Hudson; another nephew, F. Winthrop Allen of Louisville, and the First National Bank of Miami were named trustees of the estate. They are to administer it until Edward Allen and Mrs.

Cahill reaches the ago of 30. Terrorists Kill "Good Samaritan" Yank In Morocco By Aatoclated Preii CASABLANCA, French Morocco A U. S. military police cap- taiti is the firet known American of the terrorism which has wracked this Frcneli protectorate for more than two years. Capt.

Nelson Custer Brown, 42. a native of Green Forest, was shot and killed Monday night as he drove with his wife on the highway to the U. S. air base at Nouacour, 15 miles south of Casablanca. Brown stopped his car to offer help to another car apparently in trouble five miles south of Casablanca.

As he stepped from his car, he was stoned and then shot thi-ough the head. 5-Day Forecast Temperatures will average near to slightly above normal; normal maximum 38 north 49 south; normal minimum 20 north, 29 south; turning colder Tuesday night and Wednesday, with considerable warming trend thereafter until colder again late in the period. Precipitation will range from to V2 inch, to in the extreme south, with rain Tuesday night and Wednesday and again Friday or Saturday, probably mixed wltli snow extreme north portions. BULLETIN! INDEPENDENCE By Associated Prssi WASHINGTON President Eisenhower's physicians told hhn Tuesday he "should be able to carry on an active life" in the presidency "for another 5 to 10 years." This was reported at a news conference by Dr. Paul Dudley White of Boston, chief consultant on the Eisenhower heart attack case, after White and five other concluded a new examination of the President.

All the doctors concurred in the statement that Eisenhower should ht! able to carry on in the White House for another 5 to 10 years. But served as one of the not say specifically he recommended that Elsenhower seek reelection. WALTONVJLLE TO VOTE AGAIN ON ISSUE $125,000 Issue Proposed to Finance New Community- Grade School. Residents of the Waltonville grade school district will go to the polls Saturday, Februaiy 25 to vote on a proposal to issue worth of bonds build a new grade school. Voting at the Waltonville grade school will begin at noon and close at 7:00 p.m.

It will be the second time within a few months that residents of the Waltonville district have balloted on school bonds. Last October -5 they defeated a $275,000 bond issue by a resounding 351 to 68 vote. Propose New Site At the February 25 electiori they vote on a much smaller bond issue and on a different site. In October the proposal was for a new school which would have ten class rooms, a kitchen, caferteria and gjannasium. The proposed school dependent on the election this month would have ei.ght class ixwms, a kitchen and cafeteria, but the gymnasium has t)een ehminated from the plans.

In October the proposed site was across the street from the present school. This time the school will be built on the present school site, if the bond proposal issue carries. One lot, 50 feet by 142 feet, would be purchased to make the school site measure 200 feet by 304 foot. Sciiool authorities said if the lx)nd issue carries, classes would be conducted in the present school while the now school is being built. Under the new propdiod Iwnd issue, the bonds would not to exceed 3V2 per cent interest.

SOUGHT FOR OLD SHAWNEETOWN Six Hundred IhsHe Leree Want to Cut Loose from New By Associated Press SHAWNEETOWN, 111. Historic old Shawneetown has rekindled a 17-year battle for dependence. Recognized as the state's oldest mimicipality, Shawneetown was split in 1938 into sections now known as old and new town. The action followed the dis astrous Ohio River flood of 1937. Federal funds were used to move homes and businessesr who would go to higher ground Only a few "old settlers" stayed along the river bank.

Since the move, these settlers, now numbering about 600 of the city's 1,900 population, have tried to legally cut the tie that binds the two communities. Physically, that tie is a three mile strip of land eight feet wide. Old Town's latest move to that end is a petition asking the city Ihnits established in 1902 be restored. The petition was filed Monday with the Gallatin County circuit clerk. It alleged that the city limits of Shawneetown were determined by City Council action in 1902 and that old and new Shawneetown are not contiguous to lawfully established boundaries.

Among its other allegations, the petition charges that the city's water system was moved to the new settlement, endangering the health of the old town residents. New Shawneetown is now the site of the city administration and the Gallatin County courthouse. Old town still boasts of being the original site of the Ohio River gateway to Illinois. It has a 156- year history heavy with legend and filled with havoc wrought by flood. Russian Boss Says Soviet Grows Stronger, West Weaker, But Wor Not inevitable.

SAYS HE WANTS U. S. FRIENDSHIP Khrushchev Cheered At He Outlines 5 Point Foreign Policy to Soviet Communist Congress. By AsseelitW Preu S. lOirush- chev told the world today are only two roads, peaceful coexistence or war," and declared the Communist bloc is now invincible.

The Soviet Communist party boss pictured the tion as weakening the Soviet Union and its Red associates grow stronger. But the warning was accompanied by a statement that war ii not Inevitable. Khrushchev spoke cheering delegates at the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist party in the Kremlin, the, first such gathering of the post-Stalin era. He laid down a tive -point foreign policy in which improvement of relations with the United States, Britain and France was one key point. Maintenance of the "defense potential of the Soviet Union" was another.

u. s. WON'T EGYPT. Hitch-Hiker Is Knocked Down By Truck In Mt. V.

A 58-year-oId hitchhiker was injured at the southeast edge ot Mt. Vernon before daylight today when he was struck by a truck. Townsel Davis, of 315 Wind- worth street, Evansville, told city police that he was struck by a truck about 3:00 a. m. while he was trj'ing to flag a ride.

The accident occurred on Shawnee street, just inside the city lipiits. Davis told officers that the truck kept going after knocking him down. He was examined hy a physician, wlio said his injuries were apparently minor. Expect 200 To Enroll In Mt. V.

Community College Mt. Vernon Community College may have an enrollment of 200 students! when it opens next September. This is a prediction made by Howard Rawlinson, acting director, who bases his eslmatc upon pre-registration data and upon letters and calls of inquiry from persons outside the district. Pre-registration or adults is continuing and all interested persons are urged to register by February 24 in order that the planning of courses may be started. iis may be done In the high hool office between the hours of 8:30 a.

m. and 3:30 p. linson will be available to give information and suggestions. Among the adults registeredj thus far, more than 50 per cent' arp between the ages of 30 and 50 with a slightly smaller group ranging between 18 and 29. Since tuition isfree to residents of the district and it is convenient to attend college at home, several adults of varying ages are planning to enroll.

Just how many students outside the district will attend here is uncertain at present. Information will be sent to nearby towns within a short time. WASHINGTON The State Department served notice today the United States and allies do not mtend to i let a Soviet veto in tlie United Nations Security Council block action by Western powers to save or restore peace in the Middle East. Russia stated Monday night that it would consider the dispatch. of British and American troops into the troubled Middle East a "flagrant violation" of the U.

N. Charter and rights of the countries in the area. Khrushchev said Russia must not lag behind the Western powers in armaments. "The principle feature of our epoch is the emergence of so- cilism from the confines of one country and its transformation into a world system," Khrushchev said. Capitalism "Impotent" "Capitalism has proved impotent to hinder this world historic process.

The simultaneous existence of two opposed world economic systems, of capitalisni and socialism, developing ac- cordinj; to different laws in the opposite direction has became an irrefutable fact." He said the violent revolution is not necessary now to bring about a socialist state. 5-Polnt Policy The five principles of Soviet's foreign policy outlined by Khrushchev were: "1. Respect for coexistence. "2. Strengthened relations with the people's democracies (Soviet satellites).

"3. Strengthened friendly re(Continued on page two) Wife Of Governor Candidate Will Speak In Mt. V. Mrs. Herbert C.

Paschen of Chicago, wife of the Democratic candidate for governor of Illinois, will be the principal speaker at a luncheon in Mt. Vernon on Monday, Februaiy 27. Mrs. Ti-ma Igo, state Democat- ic chairwoman of the southern Illinois district, said the luncheon will be a "kick-off" of the women's activities in the 23rd Congressional district for the primary election. The lurueheon, which will held at McLaughlin's Glaai House, will begin at 1:00 p.m.

Wives of other state candidates who will speak aire Mrs. Roscoe Bonjean of wife of the candidate for lieutenant governor; Mrs. David MaUett of East St. Louis, wife of the candidate for secretaiy of state; Mrs. James P.

Alexander of Lawrencevllle, wife of ihe candidate for clerk of the supreme court; and Mrs. Albert Imle of HiUsboro, wife of the candidate for Congress from dlvtriot. Democratic women from 15 southern IlUnois counties w4U tend. Advance reservatloni oan be made at tht offioe of Oounty Judge in the court house hert..