Freeport Journal-Standard from Freeport, Illinois • Page 1

85th Pages UiMtigft ASSUOlAfJBtl PftB88 AN1, ITKITBD N. A gRimCf FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1933 or BUEA40 Price FhreeCenti SALES TAX KILLED BY SUPREME COURT Twisters Resume Their Deadly Activities In South i i TORNADO PURSUES DEADLY COURSE ALONG KENTUCKY- TENNESSEE BOUNDARY DEATHS ABOUT EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN STATES Russell County, and Overton County, Are Hardest Hit; Are Incomplete (By the Associated Press) Tornadoes along the border of Tennessee and Kentucky last night brought reports of death to sixty- seven persons and injuries to scores of other persons. Kentucky so far had reports of thirty-three dead and Tennessee 34. They were: In Kentucky: Monroe county 11. Adair county 2.

Russell county 20. In Tennessee: Overton county 32. Wilson county 2. Beaty swamps, in Overton county, near Livingston, was hard hit with 32 known dead. Twelve bodies had been brought from that section to Livingston among them being those of Mr.

and Mrs. Una Cole and their seven children. The report of the Russell county dead came to the Kentucky advocate at Danville through the Red Cross. Glasgow, May persons were known to have been killed in Monroe and Adair counties today and reports were that 20 others were killed In Russell county by a tornado that swept through southern Kentucky last night and then dipped into Tennessee causing at least 32 deaths Jn that state. Several persons also were injured in Metcalfe county, Ky.

In TompMnsviUe, property damage was estimated at $100,000. The wind cut a swath through there some 200 yards wide, blowing down 20 houses in the white residential section and about twice that many in the negro section. Ravages in Tennessee Livingston, May At'least 67 persons were Wiled and an undetermined number injured in a series of tornadoes that swept sections of Kentucky and Tennessee late last night. The heaviest toll of life was taken at the settlement of Beaty Swamps, near Livingston, where, 32 persons were known dead. Near Lebanon, about 50 miles distant, two negroes lost their lives.

Six were known to have perished at Reich Mobilizer Col Konstantin Hierl, above, is in charge of compulsory labor camps for the Hitler regime in Germany and lias proposed compulsory military training for German youths before their citizenship is recognized. TompJdnsviiie, and one at Columbia, Ky. The storm was reported to have swept the.village of Bethsaida, on the Overton-Pickett county line In Tennessee, but all communication lines were down and the extent of the damage could not be determined. At 10:30 a. 12 bodies had been brought to the undertaking establishment of J.

w. Blount here and ambulances were dispatched for other dead in Beaty Swamps. The storm hit first at Tompkint- ville, where between six and ten persons were killed and a score injured. One death occurred at Columbia, Ky. Near Lebanon, In middle Tennessee, two negroes lost their lives in a heavy windstorm.

Returning from a trip to Beaty swamps, C. Gore, a Livingston attorney, decribed the country as being "swept so clean that it looks like the Argonne forest," "Houses were blown away and trees blown down and piled In hfep.ps," he continued. "The country roads are so muddy caw ambulances can't run and the main highways are blocked by trees. Many families are injured so seriously War Is Formally Declared After Year's Fighting Asuncion, Paraguay, May declared war on Bolivia today. It was the first formal declaration of war since Guatemala declared war on the central powers in 1918.

The president signed the decree declaring war under special powers recently voted by congress. The declaration was based on "Bolivian aggression and violation of the territorial Integrity of Paraguay beginning with the i Bolivian attack on Pitiantuta on June 15, 1932" and also in view of the faflure of all peace efforts. Threat to Kill Bolivian Prisoners The conflict was brought to a new crisis in the last week when President Euseblo Ayala of Paraguay, who signed the declaration today, announced that If the Bolivians continued to bomb Para- 'the defenseless sacrifice 'NEW NEWSPAPER' WARRANT IS ISSUED FOR L. BARRETT, ACCUSING HIM OF FRAUD COMPLAINANflsTEAD OF FIRM Check, Tendered for Suit of Is Returned by Bank, Marked S. guayan towns population will those of Bolivian retaliation." Bolivia retorted that if Paraguay killed a single Bolivian prisoner.

Bolivian military planes would bombard the capital, Asuncion, and that they can't be removed from their wrecked housas," Two Killed in Illinois Storm Mt. Vernon, HI, May Two persons were Wiled when the home of Thomas Cantrell at Dale, in Hamilton county, was blown down in a severe windstorm last night. The dead are Marvin Thompson, 17, and Thelma CantreU, 10, Another child was severely injured. other Paraguayan cities. Planet Have Already Killed Civilians Bolivian planes last week dropped bombs at Porta Pinasco and Casado on the Paraguay river, killing seven civilians and endangering American and other foreign property.

George Lohman, an American, complained to the foreign office yesterday that Bolivian airplanes had bombed his property in the Gran Chaco for 35 minutes, causing much damage. tion, foreign observers here believed, was mainly to force the hand of Argentina and Chile. It was hoped that making the war formal would force both nations to declare their neutrality, thus cutting off exports of munitions and supplies to Bolivia and bringing her to terms. The efforts of the league of nations and the moral force of the Kellogg pact hitherto have kept na- ions from declaring war, despite the outbreak of hostilities, such as between Japan and China, Colombia and Peru, Greece and Turkey, and similar Incidents. The warfare between Paraguay and Bolivia has been In progress for nearly a year, since June 15 last, and been of a most sanguinary na- ure, fought with every device of modern war, including airplanes, 1 anks, artillery and machine guns.

Casualties have numbered many housands. the number never having A warrant charging L. J. Barrett who has been identified with i of men in endeavoring to es tablish a "new newspaper" in Freeport, with uttering and delivering with intent to defraud has seen issued out of the office of of the Peace Albert Lindsey Complaint, asking for a warrant was filed with State's Attorney Louis P. Reinhold by Stennett Hulburt, of the firm of Hulburt Hulburt, tailors, having their place of business at 12 East Stephenson street.

The warrant was placed with Sheriff L. Kalley for service. The sherlf: stated he sent a deputy to the of- Ices of Barrett, 3 West Main street yesterday, but the deputy had been unable to Barrett. According to information' receiver rom the state's attorney, Barrett secured a suit of clothing from the iulburt Hulburt firm. When a )ill for the clothing was presented Barrett tendered a check for $85 tating it was his "salary check' and asked that he be permitted to make a payment of $25 and receive he balance in cash.

Mr. Hulburt accepted the check and gave Barrett $40 in cash, indicating he would give Barrett an additional $20 when the check had been cashed. Check Returned The check was presented for payment through the State Bank of Freeport and forwarded to Chicago. It had been drawn on the Amalgamated Trust Savings bank, of Chicago. It was returned with the notation S.

indicating there was not sufficient funds on deposit, in the account against which the check was drawn, to make payment. Mr. Hulburt was then obliged an additional $2.90 as a protest fee on the check. It was stated by State's Attorney Reinhold that the original check was made payable to Barrett and signed by H. E.

Anderson, as president of the H. E. Anderson Company, Chicago. It was endorsed by Barrett before being given to Mr. Hulburt and the latter also endorsed the paper.

After the check was returned Mr. Hulburt conferred with Barrett and the latter agreed to make good the amount. He failed, however, and Mr. Hulburt then received a second check from Anderson, payable to the firm of Hulburt Hulburt, in the sum of $103, this being to cover the amount paid out by the firm and as payment for the clothing obtained by Barrett. The check was drawn on the same bank, against the same account and signed by Anderson, as president of the company.

The second check was also returned, unpaid. No action has yet been taken as to the second check. Knew of Complaint On Monday Mr. Hulburt conferred with the state's attorney regarding prosecution of Barrett and shortly afterward Barrett appeared at the office of Mr. Reinhold, asking if any complaint had been lodged against him.

When advised there had been, Barrett told the state's attorney he would "straighten out" the matter with Mr. Hulburt that day, but has not done so. Whereabouts Unknown Inquiry at the office of Barrett and Anderson this morning brought SLASH SALARIES OF TEACHERS FOR NEXI SCHOOL YEAR BOARD OP EDUCATION MAKES REDUCTION IN PAY FOR ALL PUBLIC INSTRUCTORS POLICY CALLS FOR 15 TO 20 PERCENT DECREASE IN PAY Contracts By Month Rather Than For Entire Year; May Shorten Terms The board of education held a special meeting last night in its offices In the junior high schoo building for the purpose of hearin the report of the teachers' commit tee, making appointments, and fix ing salaries. The total salary re ductions, which have been mad since the beginning of the depres sion, range from 18 per cent to 2" per cent. In making appointments for th year 1931-32, the board of education discontinued that portion of th salary schedule providing; for salary increases based on additional train ing and experience.

This action re duced the payroll for that year slightly over 3 per cent. Salaries for the present schoo year were reduced 5 per cent below basic salary as provided in the salary schedule and paid in the year 1931-32. Salaries for next year, 1933-34, wil range from 15 to 20 per cent below he basic salary as paid last year This is a cut from this year's salaries 'rom a little better than 10 per cent to slightly over 15 per cent. Policy of Board The policy adopted by the board in adjusting salaries is as follows: a $90 per month minimum salary, and taking the for the year 1931-32 as a that salaries less than $2,000 be reduced 15 per cent and that alaries $2,000 and over be reduced JO per cent, with the provision that no salary of $2,000 or more be reduced to less than $167.50 per month. "That the board discontinue for ne year its requirement that teach- rs attend summer school as pro- Ided in the salary schedule, but if ny teacher has planned on attend- ng summer School this summer and entitled to the $50 bonus, the onus be paid." Amount of Reduction The action of the board of educa- taken last night reduces the Boy, 7, Causes $100,000 Wreck ton nnual payroll from $194,751 to $170,95, representing a total cut in the ayroll of $23,856.

The range of the alaries paid teachers for "next year from $900 to, $2,560. Contracts will be made out for so much per month for the school year By this provision, namely, that making the contracts on a monthlj basis, it will be within the power of the school board to reduce th length, of the school year should later developments justify such ac tion. JO LIGHTEN SKY PROSCRIBED VOLUMES COLLECTED ALL OVER GERMANY FOR PUBLIC BURNING SPECTACULARliJFNES SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT Her Law Many American Books and Works of Einstein and Ludwigr In List Marked for Destruction Junior Cardwell, 7, above, wanted to see what would happen when he put a spike on a rail at Stacey, N. C. A fast freight train was wrecked, Its engineer killed, damage of $100,000 done.

Punishment (or Junior was a SIAIE RESTORES VILLAGE OE A. LINCOLN (Continued on Page U) Fuss Over Selection of of Valedictorian and Salutatorian Barrett, Sunday, the information that after a trip to Chicago returned to Freeporfc Monday ning; that since that time he has not been seen and that his present whereabouts are unknown to the office. It develops, according to a statement obtained at the office of the PRESIDENT PICKS BLACK TO SUCCEED MEYER AS HEAD Of FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD Washington, May Roosevelt the senate the today will send to nomination of Eugene R. Black of Atlanta as governor of the federal reserve board. Black, who will succeed Eugene Meyer, now is governor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve bank.

It was understood at the white house that in accepting this position Black would remain only a few months because of pressure of other matters in Atlanta. Champaign, May Because there was "questionable considerations" involved, University of Illinois senate committee on student affairs, has refused to confirm the appointments of Gladys A. Novotny, Berwyn. as valedictorian, and R. w.

A.uten, as made by M. D. Wilber, president of the senior i-lass. Miss Novotny and Auten were selected from among eight students on the campus who had grades ranging from 4.85* to a perfect 5.Q. Miss Novotny's ayerage was and that of Auten, 4.8,50.

ja 4.973. senate committee placed the choice ot the valedictorian and salutator- Jan of the 1933 graduating class in the hands of Q. p. Tuttle, registrar. who will make the selection on the basis of scholarship.

Wilber, in making his choices, had considered campus activities in addition to scholastic merit. Reduction of Diploma Asked Urbane May petition asWng University of Illinois authorities to reduce the diploma fee assessed all graduating seniors from. SJO, to cost Qf the Sheepskin was sent officials today by several hundred students, The petition was drawn up at a protest (Continued.on Page ID Flashes FROM THE WANT AD SECTION highest cash prices. CUSTOM per egg, any quantity, good hatch guaranteed. ELECTRIC B.

C. For sale, reasonable, LOCAL and long distance hauling, quick, careful service. FLY TIME WILL SOON BE carry a large stock of full length screens and now is the time to put them on. BARGAIN fruit trees, shrubs, evergreens and evergreens for rock gardens, AWARDED OF I'S BIG TEN CONFERENCE MEDAL Champaign, 111., May Illinois youth, Dean Woolsey, of Maquon, a senior at the University of Illinois, was awarded the university's Big Ten conference medal on the basis of his record in the classroom and in sports. He maintained an average grade of better than for his four years and is captain of the cross-country team.

More Showers Are Forecast mm mestiPJf last nlbt. The weatber forecast (or Freeport and vicinity: Showers tonight and Thursday; not much change IB Sun row at Local temperature at 7 45; at 1 p. 97, HJfh tempera- tare 96, at Foil Worth and Sap HAINOIS PLANS DEDICATION OF REPRODUCTION EARLY IN JUNE Petersburg, May Dedication of Abraham Lincoln's ome town, the village of New Salem, will take place some time in June. nclement weather has hindered the restoration of the cabins, delaying dedication plans. It originally was planned to hold the dedication May 7 because tha was the 100th anniverasry of Lincoln's commission as postmaster New Salem.

Thirteen cabins are being restored. Oak logs have been glazed, notched and preserved. Efforts are being made to secure furniture and articles that were owned by residents of the pioneer village, or that belonged to the 1830 period. Interiors of the stores and shops including counters, shelves, cracker barrels, ginger snap kegs, bolts of calico and old-fashioned candy jars will be replicas of those of Lincoln's time. Plans are under way to have the United States postofflce department designate New Salem as a postoffice on the day of dedication and to issue a memorial stamp for the occasion.

If official approval is given for reopening the old postomce, an impersonation of Lincoln distributing mall Is planned. BY TOM WILHELM (Associated Press Staff Writer) Berlin, May 1 books from private as well as public libraries were piled high today on "kultur's altars" throughout Germany for public burning tonight. Schoolboys enthusiastically rushed final preparations for the huge bonfires. Nazi student committees of action have been working at top speed more than a week arranging for the great purging of the libraries of "un-German Influences." Government Recognition. Government recognition is to be lent to the occasion In a rallying speech shortly before midnight by Dr.

Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of public enlightenment. Works of many American authors Keller, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Ben Lindsey, Franz Boaz, Morris Hillquit and are among the proscribed volumes. Some 20,000 books are collected for the big fire to be set off at 11 p. m. in Opera square in Berlin, and Dr.

Gobbels will speak. Substitutes That An Advised In place of the proscribed volumes, students advised such books as "The Crime of Free Masonry" by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler's newspaper, the Voelklsher Beobachter and head of the new Nazi foreign division. Among books compulsorily introduced Is Chancellor Hitler's "Mein Kampf" There must be two to ten copies in each library. Others on Index Expnrgatorius Other books being burned are works of Dr.

Albert Einstein, Emil Ludwlg, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Nikolai Lenine, Leon Trotsky, Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Emil Vandervelde, Bertha von Suttner and Thomas and Heinrich Mann. A priceless collection of medical books from Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute were seized but may be saved. All books of a socialistic, Jewish When officials of the state of Washington want advice they look to Miss Dorothee Scarbrough, above, new assistant attorney general. Graduated from law school last June, within three months she had argued before the state court. su- 3 PER CENT LEVY ONSALESISNOI HIGH COURT RENDERS OPINION IN CASE AFFECTING EVERY PERSON IN STATE UNANIMOUS DECISION IS ADVERSE TO SALES TAX Prevents Continuation of Collection Of Estimated 560,000,000 a Year for Relief FarmReliefand Inflation Bill Passed At Last May cost of production or pacifist trend are marked for destruction.

especially WILLIAM BURT Of THIS CITY IS STILL IN RUNNING IN EXTEMPOREJPEAKING RACE Wooster, May only five of the original field of thirty-two remaining, the debating contest in the national high school 'orenslc tournament today drove toward close. Meanwhile, forty-three youthful contestants continued in the individual contests in dramatic declamation, extempore speaking, oratory, oratorical declamation and humorous declamation. Debate teams still in the contest included Mendota, 111. The remaining contestants in the ndividual events included: Dramatic Reid of Peoria, Howard Stark of Granite City, Betty Paul of -'eorta, pi. Extempore speaking William Hurt of Freeport, 111.

of Loda, Illinois. Oratorical declamation Raymond Ljppens of Kankakee, Harold Stark of Granite jil, Humorous declamation Mary elUy of Bajxkln township, ill: Florence Murer of Granite pity, JJJ. THOUGHT HE HAD DOLLAR IN CLOSED BANK BUT FINDS IT TO BE $340 Springfield, 111., May Seeking to file a claim for $1 In defunct Ridgley Farmers' State bank here yesterday, John Friedman, a laborer, learned to his surprise that he had $340 on deposit in the institution. After filing the claim, Friedman expressed a hope that the bank would pay out fifty cents on the dollar. "If It does," he said, "I'll have one hundred and fifty times as much money as I have now." FRIGHTFUL SIGHT FOR FATHER TO WITNESS Worden, 111..

May Ulas Lavenre Tweedy crawled away from his home and on the tracks of the Illinois Central terminal railroad where he was killed by a train. His father, John Tweedy, saw the accident while searching for the baby. THREE OF FOUR YOUTHS CONFESSING CASHIER Chicago, May (ff) Cook grand jury was reported to iave named four youths in true bills for the killing of Harry Mueller, Niles Center National bank cashier, during a robbery last month. Police said three of them were under arrest and had confessed. MARKETS AT A GLANCE New York Stocks strong; business news market.

Bonds strong; all groups advance. Curb strong; industrials and oils jjimb. Foreign exchanges firm; changes narrow. Cotton higher; unfavorable weekly weather reports; higher Sugar weak; Wall street liquida- ion. Coffee irregular; steady Brazilian markets.

Chicago Wheat higher; price-fixing elimination. Corn strong; unfavorable weather. Cattle weak to lower, stow, fuUy active, top Washington, Norris-Simpson amendment to which the administration objected was stricken from the farm bill by the senate today, sending the bill to President Roosevelt. The bill Includes a section which gives President Roosevelt wide powers to expand the currency. Cost 1 Clause Comes Out The Norris-Simpson cost of production provision, opposed by Secretary Wallace, came out as the senate yielded to house insistence that It be removed.

This, together with an earlier vote of 52 to 28 approving the report oi senate and house conferees, who previously had agreed on every section except the production cost plan, automatically sent the bill to President Roosevelt. Dietrich, Illinois Democrat, was recorded as favoring the elimination of the amendment. The vote of Senator Lewis was'not recorded. In all 30 Democrats and 18 Republicans voted to eliminate the amendment, while 21 Democrats and 11 Republicans were Joined by the Farmer-Labor senator from Minnesota in voting for its retention. President to Sign The president' is expected to sign the mammoth bill without delay, and arrangements are being made to put the credit inflation provisions into effect by purchase in the open market of up to three billion dollars in federal bonds.

CHICAGO SKYSCRAPERS HAVE ATTRACTION FOR SUICIDES Chicago, May loop skyscraper was chosen for a suicide leap by a woman again today, the second in 24 hours. An unidentified woman about 40 years old jumped to death from the floor of the Lake Michigan JUilding at Lake street and boulevard during the mid-morn- ng shopping rush. Her body fell 20 stories, landing on an abutment. Yesterday a girl about 16 leaped 'rom a 10th floor window of the Boston building, her body narrowly missing a pedestrian in Dearborn itreet before it struck the sidewalk. ler body lay in the morgue today, still unidentified.

There were no marks in her clothing and the only clues in the purse she eft on the window ledge were three pennies, two keys, a pencil, a comb, mirror, compact and rouge. Springfield, 111., May The three per cent sales tax law was re- iected as unconstitutional today by the Illinois supreme court. The court's opinion was unanimous. In a vacation opinion, the court upheld the injunction by which Circuit Judge Jesse R. Brown ordered state officials not to enforce the revenue law.

The ruling prevents the Horner administration from going ahead with its program of raising an estimated $60,000,000 a year unemployment relief and school funds by tax- ng the occupation of retail selling. Acting with almost unprecedented speed, the court settled the contro- issue before the state had ilanned to make its first revenue on May 15. Entire Court Writes Opinion It was a per curlam opinion, by the entire court, rather than by any single justice. Justices Warren W. Duncan and Norman L.

Jones, however, were listed as especially concurring in the opinion, which was more than 20 pages long. Notified of the death of one of his major projects, Governor Horner said he would not make any statement until he had tune to read the entire opinion. Among other reasons, the court held that the sales tax law was class legislation and uniformity in its application. Opponents of the sales tax were overruled on the first question discussed in the opinion as the court held that the sales tax law expressed only one subject and did not violate the title provisions of the state constitution. Exclusion of Farmers Is One Reason Both federal and state constltu- Johs were violated, however, because the legislature designated but one class of persons, retailer sellers, upon whom the tax was to be Imposed, the court held.

Exclusion of farmers selling their own produce from the tax was held an improper classification and was not sustained. The court further held that the law was unconstitutional in its exemption of motor fuel. Advocated as Emergency Measure Springfield, May controversy over the merits of the three per cent sales tax started with the pre-inaugural promise of Governor Horner to give it administration support as an emergency means of raising funds for unemployment relief. It was debated more than two months by the legislature, became effective April 1 and was almost immediately attacked by injunction proceedings on which the supreme court ruled today. Intended to Raise $60,000,000 a Tear Mr.

Horner made it one of the primary objects of his opening months in office. By the tax on retail selling, he planned to raise $60,000,000 a year to be available for feeding and sheltering the jobless. Senator Francis J. Loughran, Chicago Democrat.introduced the administration bill in mid-January. It spent a month in each house, subject to debate and frequent amendment.

Strong opposition arose from the start and Democratic leaders had difficulty in getting the requisite two-thirds majority to give the sales tax plan emergency status so that collections could start promptly. Enough Republicans and downstate Democrats were recruited behind the Horner program to permit the governor to sign the bill March 33. In Effect Since April 1 On April retail merchants wert required to pay three cents on every dollar of retail sales. The law CContinued on Page Rockefeller Artist Turns Out to Be Red Propagandist and Is Fired New York, May Riera, artist who painted red flags nd a picture of Nicolai Lenin on he great hall of Rockefeller Centre's iggest building, found himself fired oday. Mounted police guarded the RCA uilding, 70-story structure, againit emonstrators when Rivera was dismissed last night.

Managing agents, behalf of John D. Rockefeller, called Rivera down from his caffold, paid him bal- nce of a contract price for three unfinished told him iis work was terminated. Outside 75 or 100 Rivera symps- lizers paraded, shouting: "Save Rivera's art!" Rockefeller Centre officials that "neither in general treatment, nor in detail, will it fit into the unified decorative scheme planned for the hall. In other words, irrespective of its merits as a ing, it is artistically and ly incongruous." They added that the artist had declined to make certain changes. Rivera said objection, was made a figure of Lenin Joining the hands of a soldier, a worker and a negro, which was to have surmounted painting.

In the background were crowds of unemployed waving red flags. Rivera said he was told thai Rockefeller and advisers did not find the mural as "highly imaginative" as expected. 'They objected to its effect as unpleasant, said, awj to the brimaot color.