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206 EDWAEDSVILLE, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBEE 1, 1936 EIGHT PAGES Officials Believe Enrollment May be Increased During Next Few Days; Leclaire Shows Increase of 22. HIGH SCHOOL HAS ONE LESS THAN PREVIOUSLY All Departments Will Take Up Regular Programs on Wednesday; Children Excused for Day. Edwin dsville public schools reopened Tuesday morning with an en- lollment of 28 students loss than last jear. School officials said they believed the smnll shrinkage will bo overcome by additional enrollments i the month. The number will lie affected to some extent by the number of NYA enrollments which aie pci milled during the year.

The high school had an enrollment, of 637 students as compared with 658 lust year, Supeiintendent W. i i said he expects several moie during the year. Alexander, principal of the junior high repotted 27 less than last jeai Thete are 1029 this year as compelled to 1D56 last year. Thcie are no nippled cluklten em oiled this year under a spccul Illinois law, as was the last year. "I he Columbus Building has 383 a i to 409 last yeai.

The fifth nml sixth guides a 23L as com- jxucd to J46 a ear ago. The Junior Jligh School lias 226 as compared to last venr find the Leclauc school has 72 this year as compared to 50 la-it a i The Lincoln school has 117 tis a i to 110 a year ago. i i were promoted from the i High School to the High Shool There were 56 begmneis at the Columbus School; 21 at the Lc- Sihool and 8 at the Lincoln School. The schools dismissed this rooming a tht classes or- and i i teceived instructions. The icgulai program of i i he stalled Wednesday moining.

high ithool Instructots for the i vear and the branches they at Miss Vein Adams, Fiench, algebra a R. Blodgett, vice piincipat, Amoucan i i Miss bot'KKt oping, senior shorthand; Miss A i Cheek, English I and II; Miss Giace Davis, business a business a i i i Miss Claia Dayton, German, English, a i Miss Caila Gewe, a i Julius J. chemistry, i Miss Virginia Hartis, algc- bi.i I plane geomctiy; Miss a i Keougli. i i shorthand and i Kinsel, history, elementaly science; J. J.

Love, advanced algebra, mechanical drawing; Meiril Gibson, algebia I. elementary science; Miss Ilu i ancient histoiy, modern i i Miss Edna Pergrcm, vocal music and public speaking; Miss Marie Qtiemheim, senior and junior typing; Miss Pauline Stcincr, libnuian, Miss Elcnor Stoldt, biology, physical i a Miss Francis Tendick, home economics; Willis C. Varncr, band ducctor; Miss Nigel Voss, sccie- a i to i i i a Miss Isabel Wood, English II and III; Miss Elsie Sloan, dean of gills, English III and IV, Glen Smith, physical education and coaching; W. W. Krumsick, principal high school and supeimtcndent.

I i i of the elementary giades, their branches and subjects me: E. L. Alexander, piincipal; Edna Weii, office sccietary. Junior High School Building: Bess Dippold, assistant to piincipal, mathematics: ElUabeth Curdle, John Dus- knll. English and i i a Lyle Hpndcison, social Ethel Tib- (Contmued on page eight) 9 0 0 0 0 0 RECRUITS ORDERED INTO RUSSIAN ARMY Moscow, Sept, 1--Nine hundred thousand leciults were otdered into the army today in call which, while of routine nature, served to bring the tumy's stienglh to 1,600,000, a net In- ciease of 300,000.

The entire class of 1911--men born In that year--was called to the colors ns a regular seasonal measure. In addition, in keeping with the deciee for army increase, which was issued August 11, half of the class of 1915 was called up. The 600,000 men In the 1914 class will icplace on equal number of the last class, who will be released. The 300,000 men of 1915 will provide the Increase. The official newspaper Izvestia, commenting on the call, warned that recruits must be selected carefully to keep out "class enemies" who might try to carry out subversive work.

A Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today. Seek Brothers' Freedom. Chicago, Sept. 1--Associates of former Mayor William Hale (Big Bill) Thompson said today that Darst of Kansas City, mother of Alfred Jake Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter who was slain in 1930, has joined efforts to obtain the release from prison Leo V. Brothers, serving a term of 14 years for Lingle's murder.

Black Legion Re port, Pontlac, Sept. 1--The Oakland county one-man jury, investigating the widespread activities of the Black Legion, icported today that 86 persons, major officials of city, county and state governments, have been affiliated with the night riding terrorist band. Knox In Bust. Rocky Point, R. I Sept.

1--A government showing partiality "to one form of labor organization or the other is an un-American government," Frank Knox, Republican vice- presidential nominee, asserted today at a G. 0. P. clam bake rally. RciMly for Trip.

Topeka, Sept. 1 -Gov. Alt M. Landon will motor to the Des Momes drouth confeionce, arriving there about noon on Tuesday. He will leave Topeka early that day and will be prepaied to go immediately into conference with President Roosevelt and midwestem governois.

Investigate Deaths. Nelson, It. Sept. 1--Madison county authorities today investigated an automobile crash in which William 42, of Floral Paik, Long Island and Alfred Smith. 12, Evanston, III.

were killed. Landon to Make His Visit to Des Moines as Unostentatious as Possible. Aboard Roosevelt Special, En Route to Salt Lake City, Sept, 1--Piesident Roosevelt will not only sit in conference with his Republican rival for the presidency, in Des Molnei Thutsday, but will have a tcte-a-lete i Gov. Alf Landon, it was learned today. Their talk will be on the chouth situation, hovsever, Gov.

Landon, with the governois of Iowa, Nebiaska, Missoiui and Oklahoma meet with the piesident Thursday--one of a group of conferences the president is having on the drouth situation with stale officials. He plans, it was said, to talk to the goveinors and the United States senators fiom then states one at a time. Putting aside all other considerations, President Roosevelt arrives Salt Lake City today to attend the funeral of George Dem, late secretary of War. Immediately after the service he will return to his tiain. The schedule calls for its depailure at 6 p.

m. (9 p. m. EOT) for Des Moines, la via Julesburg, Colo. The president, because of the solemnity of his mission denied himself callers and to thousands of persons who lined his route from Nebiaska, into Wyoming and Utah, Topeka, Sept.

1--Gov. Alt M. Landon's zoic at the DCS Moines diouth conference called by Piesident Roosevelt appealed likely today to be as unostentatious as is compatible with his job as governor of Kansas. The Republican presidential nominee, agreeing with President Roosevelt's declaration that politics must not enter into the drouth relief program, was believed planning to make his visit to the Iowa capital as brief as circumstances permit and to avoid so far as possible any of the demonstrations which ordinarily accompany the public appearances of a presidential candidate. The schedule for his journey Thursday to Des Moines has not yet been announced and may not be disclosed NEW CHARGES MADE IN NEWSPAPER STRIKE Seattle, Sept.

1--Publishers of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer charged today that the National Labor Relations Board exists in violation of the United States constitution. The charges were contained In nn 11-page report submitted to Charles Hope, regional board director of the National Labor Relations Board. The management denied American Newspaper Guild allegations that it dismissed two editorial employes because of their Guild activities. It Is upon this Issue that the Guild strike, which has caused the newspaper not to publish for 19 days, IB based. Statement Made Tuesday on Various Work Which Has Been Accomplished by Men Employed in Area.

13 LANDOWNERS AID IN WILD GAME PLANS Men Have Planted 643,833 Trees on 29 Farms, Woodland Management in Effect on 400 Acres. Attaches of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Observation Service and employes of Camp Wheeler of CCC workers here embarked Tuesday upon their second year of activities in Madison County. Opening of the second year was featured by a visit to two farms where a group of em- ployes explained the work that has been cariied on.

C. E. Swain, project manager, was in charge. One farm visited is owned by the Bank of Edwardsville and the by L. A.

Smith. Opening of the new year was also marked by announcement that 80 additional WPA vvorkeis have been given employment in the project area, increasing the total to 125. Thete are 157 CCC workers at piesent who are employed in the camp aiea. A few of the accomplishments of the jear were disclosed at the office today. Theie are 35 farms the piojecl aiea under agreement and 36 the camp aiea.

The project area includes all of Edwai dsville township and parts of Pin Oak and Hamel townships. The pi oject area contains 4302 acics and the camp area 5088 acies, total of 9390 acres. In the detailed soil erosion survey tnere are 28,540 acres on which have been prepaied. There are 30 farms i vvoik is completed. Faimeis have agreed to strip crop on 200 acies and owners of 900 acres have agieed to do contour tilling.

Theie are 225 acres piotected by teiraces and the men have built 16 miles of terraces. There have been 7500 lineal feet of terrace outlet con- stuicted and 14 permanent teirace sti ucturcs completed. Under gully control the men have i 41 dams and 2351 temporary dams. Theie have been 281,119 square yatcls of gully bank sloping and 43,000 feet of diveision ditches built. The men used 6850 cubic yards filling dirt dams and 2000 acres benefitted by diamage aiea gully control.

The men have quarried 2870 cubic yards of lock. They have planted 339 acres in trees with a total of 643,815 trees on 29 farms. Woodland management is being conducted on 400 acres of land. There are 13 cooperators on wild life projects and plots have been seeded on 10 of these farms. Rodent control is being cairied on at 435 acres of land.

Theie have been an average of 19 technical men, nine of whom do district work, in the project area and 16 in the camp area. There has been an average of 150 CCC enrollees and 102 WPA men engaged in the activities, Spain Warned After U.S. Ship Is Bombed American neutrality was menaced in Europe's armedcrisis when a Spanish military plane, off the Spain coast, rained six bombs near the U. S. destroyer Kane, left, commanded by J.

B. Alvin, right. The Kane replied with shots from her anti-aircraft gun. Formal warnings were sent to the Spanish government and the rebel general, Francisco Franco, by the State Department. NYA IN $1206 Available to Assist 201 Children Obtain Education.

REQUEST MADE FOR CHILDRENS CLOTHING Mrs. Max U. Colbert, president of the Edwardsville Parent-Teachers Association, issued an appeal Tuesday for clothing for use of needy girls and boys. Mrs. Colbert said the request is a special one, coming several weeks earlier than the customary collection later in the fall.

She said that the articles of clothing are limited at present. While garments for both sexes of all ages are necessary there is special need for garments for boys of high school age. Peisons with articles may leave them at the Columbus Building any day between 8 and 4 o'clock. No plans have been made to make a collection at this time. FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR FRANK McKITTRICK Final rites were conducted Monday afternoon at one o'clock at the Marks Weber Funeral Home for Frank McKittrick, Rev.

C. L. Attig, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiated and burial was in the Oaklawn Cemetery. The pallbearers were Joseph Barnett, Robert McKittrlck, William Homan, William Krome of Edwardsville, Carl Von Brock, South Bend, and William Gray of Morrisonville. Friends and relatives attending the services from out of town were from Kansas City, Mexico, South Bend, Assumption, Tower Hill, Farm, Staunton and Alton.

During the next three months funds available for NYA projects to help children leceive high school education in Madison County schools will be S1206 for 201 students, as compared to $1036 for 181 students at the beginning of school a year ago. During the past year the original amount was inci eased on two occasions to a total of $2166 for 361 students. Notices of the current amount was Tuesday through County Superintendent of Schools F. M. Scott under instructions of Wm.

J. Campbell, Chicago, state NYA director. All hlfch schools of the county, excepting Alton and Granite City, are under supervision of Scott's office. Cities with a population of 25,000 are under direction of the state office. Under the legulations each child taking advantage of the plan is allowed $6 monthly toward the expense of high school education Following are high schools and allowances to be made during the first days of fall.

Collmsvllle Township High School, 32 pupils, $192; East Alton-Wood River Community High School, 12 pupils, $72; Edwardsville High School, 20 pupils, $120; Edwardsville Lincoln High School, 8 pupils, $48; Godfrey High School, 4 pupils, $24; Highland High School, 5 pupils, $30; Livingston Community High School, 15 pupils, $90; Madison High School, 50 pupils, $300; Madison Dunbar High School, 10 pupils, $60; Marine High School, 1 pupil, New Douglas High School, 4 pupils, $24; St. Jacob High School, 4 pupils, $24; McCray-Devvey Township High School 6 pupils, $36, Venice High School, 30 pupils, $180. NEW INVESTIGATORS BEGIN COUNTY WORK Two new investigators of old age applications appointed by the Illinois Department of Public Welfare began their work Tuesday at the office of Superintendent W. F. Niehaus.

Each was given 18 cases on which they will report Friday. The investigators are required to complete an average of six cases each day. One of the investigators Is Mrs. Adele Schoettle, Collinsville, widow of the late Henry Schoettle, assessor of that township for many years. She is working in Venice.

The other is Dr. W. J. Kolb, Alton, whose first work Is in that township. Truck Caught Fire.

A large truck operated by J. J. Beckley, Chicago, caught fire here Monday night while the owner was driving it down Tan Yard Hill west of this city. Brakes which had been adjusted too tightly are believed to have caused a blaze at the rear wheels which caused one of the rear tiVes to blow out. The Edwardsville fire department answered the call.

The damage was about $60, Granite City Fatality. Granite City, Sept. 1--Delbert Daniels, 27-year-old WPA worker of Granite City, died at St. Elizabeth's Hospital here early yesterday of injuries suffered Sunday night when he cither jumped or fell out of an automobile in which he was riding near the Intersection of Fifteenth street and Madison avenue, Granite City. He suffered fracture of the skull, left arm and right leg.

W1H Publish Tax IJst. County Treasurer Peter Fitzgerald announced Tuesday that after September 10 his clerks will be unable to remove names of persons from delinquent tax lists which will probably be published the following week. Jarvis Township Approves Levy at Special Meeting At a special Jarvis town meeting at Troy Monday afternoon residents authorized a special tax levy of 30 tents on the $100 for relief until after the regular meeting next April. There were 106 voters at the meeting. They authorized the levy by a vote of 55 to 51.

It was the third time a special town meeting was held to act upon the levy. At the flist meeting on July 2 the 25 present voted unanimously against a levy. The second meeting was attended by 99 voters and 83 voted against the proposition with only 16 favoring it. An opinion by Attorney General Otto Kernel in which he upheld the legality of the law was read duung the session. Supervisor Emery Kimberlin said Tuesday that if the full amount of taxes is collected the receipts will be about $5900.

He is carrying on the work at present with another town fund which has a balance of $2250 at present. Democratic Leaders From Over Illinois Will Greet Chief Executive. All Springfield, 111., Sept. 1--Democratic leaders from all sections of Illinois are expected to come here Friday to greet President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who will confer with Gov.

Henry Homer and agricultural leaders. Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago will head a large delegation of Cook County Democrats to Springfield, Other leaders in various sections of the state will also head groups coming to the capital city for the occasion. Definite plans for the president's visit have not been completed, but he is expected to spend several hours here, arriving shortly after noon from Hannibal, Mo, where he is to dedicate a bridge over the Mississippi river Friday morning. The conferences are expected to be held In the executive mansion, although if the weather is extremely hot they may be held on the president's special train which Is air conditioned.

If the conferences are held at the mansion Mayor Kelly will go there for the first time since his break with Gov. Horner several years ago. The two are still at odds as a result of that break. Horner is expected to head a group of Democratic leaders to Hannibal, Mo, to accompany Mr. Roosevelt to Springfield.

The party will include U. S. District Attorney Howard Doyle, Decatur; F. Lynden Smith, Pontiac, the governor's campaign manager, and U. S.

District Attorney Michael Igoe, Chicago. SMALL DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. R. LEONARD DIES Dixie Lee Leonard, two year old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Ray Leonard, died this morning at the home of her parents heje. Death was due to acute lymphatic luekemia and pneumonia. The funeral will be Thursday at 1:30 p. m.

at the Fred Klaustermeier home, 906 Ruskln Avenue. Church services will follow at the First Christian Church at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in the Valley View Cemetery. The child was born July 26, 1934 In Edwardsville, She is survived by her parents, a brother Gayle, three grandparents and three great-grandparents. Mrs.

Leonard before her marriage was Miss Frances Klaustermeier, Soft Ball and Horseshoe Teams are Going to State Meet Over Week-End. Madison County will be represented at the State Farm Sports Festival at the University of Illinois Friday and Saturday, by softball and hoiseshoe pitching teams, it was stated today by the Madison County Farm Bureau The affair is being sponsored by the Illinois Agricultural Association About 2,000 plajeis and performers from 73 counties are expected to participate. Twenty-eight softball games played simultaneously will open the program at 10 00 a m. Friday. Friday afternoon two baseball games featuring four Farm Bureau champions will start on the Illinois field.

Second round Softball games will be played Friday afternoon, followed by a tour of the agricultural experimental station for visiting farmers. Friday evening a musical and dance festival will be held in Illinois Memorial Stadium. Final rounds in baseball tournaments will be plajed Saturday. Horseshoe pitching, a checker tournament, a horse pulling contest, track and swimming meets and vaiious other contests will also be held Saturday. The Ft.

Russell township softball team, wmneis the Farm Bureau tournament at the annual picnic, will lepresent Madison County. Members of the team are: Havelka, John Havelka, James Morrison, Howard Morrison, Clifton Henke, Albert Henke, Paul Albers, Erwin Plegge, Edw Plegge and Johnnie Krouse Regulations permit the selection of three additional players from other teams competing in the county tournament The three chosen by the Ft. Russell team to accompany them to the state tournament are Cletus Nungesser, Orville Rutz, and Feid Giffhorn, all of the Highland team. Madison County representatives in the horseshoe pitching tournament will be John Watsek of Edwardsville and Edwin Kunz of St. Jacob.

Both will compete in the doubles tournament, with Kunz pitching in the singles. All the attractions at the sports festival are free Farmers wishing to get free reserved seat tickets for the Friday evening program may secure them at the Farm Bureau office. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE 83.4 IN HOTTEST SUMMER St. Louis, Sept. 1--The summer of 1936, which ended yesterday in the records of the United States Weather Bureau, was the hottest in the 99 years for which the bureau has records.

The average temperature for June, July and August was 83.4, exceeding by .01 of a degree the average for 1934, previously the hottest on record. August, with an average temperature of 85.6, was the hottest August on record, and July, with an average temperature of 87.4, was the hottest month ever recorded in St. Louis. June's average was 77,2. Rev.

O'Reilly Not So Well. Rev. C. A. O'Reilly of St.

Mary's Catholic Church was reported not so well Tuesday at St. Elizabeth's Hospital at Granite City following a surgical operation Sunday night. It was stated that his condition is normal for the second day after an operation and that he Is holding his own. City Council to Meet. The regular monthly meeting of the Edwardsville city council will be held Tuesday night at the city hall.

Consideration of a special election to vote upon establishment of a municipal electric plant will be the principal business. SEVEN BY LOYALISTS, REBELS Madrid Bombed Early Today as is Burgos, Seat of Provisional Government; Four People Killed. SEDITIOUS MOVEMENTS REPORTED IN MORROCO Rebels are Reported in Need of Money; Rebel General. Said to Have Moved Quarters to Caceres. Lisbon, Sept.

1--Spanish rebels and loyalists alike unleashed in its fullest fury today the most terrible weapon known to warfare, the bombing airplane. In less than 24 hours seven cities and towns in which seven weeks ago millions of people were living normal have felt the blast of aerial bombs. Madrid was bombed this morning by rebel planes. Loyalists in retaliation for the bombings of Madrid, bombed Burgos, seat of the rebel provisional government, late yesterday and killed four people. Six rebel planes opened an attack of Irun, in the north, and the smoke of fires could be seen rising from the center of the town.

Two rebel planes bombed the loyalist of Bilbao vesterday and killed one person Loyalist planes bombed Avila, the rebel advance headquarters in the sectoi uest of Madrid, and killed one peison. Rebel planes had bombed the tiny towns of Villalba and Escorial in the Guadarrama Mountains. It was the town proper of Escoria that was bombed, particularly the rail- vvay station--not the world famous monastery which is one of the architectural gems of the country, a mile outside of the Evidence piled up of the terrible situation to which Spam in its ex- termity has come. The rebels announced that unless Irun surrendered, it would be blasted from the earth. The loyalists announced that hundreds of hostages would die in any such bombardment.

At Barcelona in the northeast, the official newspaper organ of the powerful syndicalist labor unions demanded angrily that the government, in retaliation for alleged rebel atrocities, wage war pitv or mercy and that all able-bodied men between IS and 45 years of age be mobilized and fotced to fight. Pierre Pigeaire, United Press correspondent at Casabalanca, Morocco, reported what was perhaps the really giavest immediate news of the day-that reports of seditious movements among the natives of Spanish Morocco are true and that they are reaching the danger point. Many people have predicted that the rebels, in making the Moors fight for them, would cause an uprising that might drain Spam out of Northern Africa. Reports from all over rebel territory--official announcements--indicated that the rebels are desperate for money. In addition to semi-forced collections of money and gold, they have resorted to new means.

Strong rebel forces are advancing still on Toledo and Madrid from the southwest, though they have met government forces now and must fight their way. The battle of Irun, long drawn out, seemed nearing its close with today's bombardment. The capture of Irun by the rebels would open the way to San Sebastian and would lead to their control of the entire corner of the country bordering that part of France. WILLIAM GOEHE DEES AT HIS HOME IN STAUNTON Staunton, Sept. 1--William P.

Goehe, 57, died at his home here unexpectedly Monday afternoon. He had been ill for about two years. Funeral services will be held Wednesday from the Carleton Funeral Home to the St. Michaels' Catholic Church at 9 a. m.

with Rev. P. H. Masterson in charge. Burial will be In Memorial Park.

Mr. Goehe was born May 18,1379 hx Germany, coming to Staunton at the age of two years with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Goehe, Sr. He was married to Miss Mathilda Brown on Oct.

15, 1903. Surviving are his widow, a daughter, Mrs. O. L. Couch of Bloomington; two sons, John W.

and Eugene Goehe of Staunton; four sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Schumacher, Mrs. Pete Muentnich, Mrs. J. Tranter, Staunton; Sister Anthelma of Chicago; five brothers, Benjamin Goehe, St.

Louis, Jacob, John and Henry Goehe of Staunton and Ferdinand Goehe of Mt. Olive..