Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 2

ALTON 8VEN1NO TRLSORAPH WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 7 Shot Down In Holdup Try Among WomirlfH NEW YORK Seven men were t-lhot down today a swaggering gunman foitRht a furious gun hatile with police the Times Square area. The Negro gunmim. Clarence O. finally spun to the pavement, hurtly wounded by a patrolman, just as he was about lo make his getaway. Three policemen were wounded.

Three passersby frantleallv hunting cover In the hall of bullets, wore nicked. Police Sims has triggered of holdups In the New York during the past year. Geve- land police want him on an armed robbery charge, He told police here he heads the "shotgun gang" there, One of his pals was arrested in the melee that made Eighth Avenue aa dangerous for a while as a rampaging frontier town on a Saturday night. This, laid police, Is what happened: 4 A. M.

Charles Mason, a 30: year-aM Negro. of (the Wayside Denville, N. got Into an argument in an Eighth Avenue bar near 42nd Street with Richard quilt of Queens. They wrestled to 'the pavement. Patrolmen Roy Cahill and Frank Cblasonno pushed through a crowd watchers and arrested them Then Sims and Cecil Johnson 25-year-old Manhattan Negro swooned up In a snappy convert! ble and swaggered through the crowd.

Heavily Armed Patrolman George McAullffe, 92 up In his radio oar at that moment. Someone in the crowd him Sims was heavily armed. At first McAuliffe thought Sims meant to try to rescue the two men. Later police learned that he and Johnson had planned to rob the bar where the fight 1 Drawing his revolver, McAuliffe prodded Sims to a wall to search him. But at that moment patrot- men Robert Knox, 33, and Richard Conlon, 24, pushed through the crowd.

McAuliffe glanced toward them for a moment. In his momentary lapse of vigilance, Sims whipped .45 pistol from hla belt and whirled, firing from the hip, McAuliffe plunged forward, wounded in both legs and one arm. Sims shot Conlon's nightstick from hit hand at Conlon -tat- The split the crowd of Id- vlera who had gathered to see the Sims and Johnson backed away, 'firing. Patrolman Knox fell, wounded in the leg. Conlon dropped to the -pavement, covering the wounded Knox with his own body, and firming at Sims and Johnson as they and ran in different direct- Seek to Pay Cherhn for Election Patrolman Kenneth Walters com- a taxi and ordered the to go the wrong way along 44th Street, a one-way street.

He cornered Johnson at Ninth Avenue 45th Street. Johnson threw a way a .38 revolver and surrendered Meanwhile, Sims ran north along Eighth Avenue, weaving to duck the firing ol three policemen behind him. Pedestrians dropped to the sidewalk or flattened them' selves in doorways as the chase grew holler. Patrolman James Kane, 39, heard the shooting apd pounded Sims. Draws Second Gun Sim's .45 jammed and he whipped a .38 revolver from a pocket.

lie halted, spun and fired point blank at Kane, hitting him in the chest. David Heiweil, 32, of the Bronx, a motorist headed home, heard '('the crackle of approaching gunfire as he waited at a red light. Leaping from his car, he ran for a doorway. Sims saw the empty car, motor idling, and lunged for it. His hands fumbled at the door.

The, around a coiner, ran Patrolman Cornelius O'Shea, '24. He steadily at Sims as he charged the Negro and Sims slumped to the street, a bullet wound in the back of the head, another in the right hand. Sims and Johnson were hooked on charges of felonious assault and illegally carrying weapons. Sims locked in a hospital prison ward. Then, after questioning Johnson, police disclosed they'd brought a prize to earth.

Johnson told him he and Sims had met some time ago while serving terms in Ohio State Pen" itentiary. They staged several holdups in the Cleveland area before coming here, Leggett said. Passersby nicked hy gunfire in the affray were Henry Cates, 27, of Manhattan; John 26. Of Queens; and Michael Stutz, 47, of the Bronx. The county vill "do nil we to get and clerks of Nov.

4 election paid hy Christmas, County Board Chairman r.us Mailer Mid today, flight now, he Mid, the rmmfy was extremely hard-pressed for money, not only brmuse of the un- nalanrwl budget, hit because of delayed tax collections In at least two large townships The enunly board, however, has allowed the hills for the election officials and as soon as (he funds become available, the checks will distributed, he said, He said Nameokl and Granite City township tax collections still remained to be paid Into the county treasurer's office. Start of collecting these was held up while the county clerk waited for the East Side Levee District rate-delayed beeauHe the St. Clalr County assessment was Involved, and that was late. Meanwhile, Mailer snirl, the regular payrollers In the country wrie being paid. Mailer was informed by the Telegraph that some of the election officials had been complaining about the In payment to them.

They had been planning on using the money for CMHutmas shopping. Heirens Loses Plea for New Murder Trial CHICAGO Slayer William G. Heirens, 24, has lost his plea for a new trial on 194B convictions of the murder of a 8-year-old girl and two women, Heirens Is serving three consecutive life sentences at Statevllle Penitentiary, Jollet, III, Judge Harold G. Ward In Superior Court ruled Tuesday that Helrens'a constitutional rights were not violated when he was tried six years ago for three of Chicago's most infamous murders. Heirens told reporters after the hearing: "We'll appeal." Heirens had spent his free hours at prison drawing up his 24-page petition for a new trial, based on the Illinois post-conviction law.

The ictition charged he was held too ong by police before a charge was filed against him. Other charges ware that he had been beaten by police and that the truth serum, sodium pentothal, had been given Mm against wnl. In 1946 Heirens confessed, re-enacted and pleaded guilty to murdering 8-year-old Suzanne Degnan, Mrs. Josephine Ross, 43-year-old widow, and Miss Florence Brown, 33, a former Wave. The crime that shocked Chicago was the one in which Heirens confessed killing the child.

He said he crept into the Degnan girl's bedroom on Jan. 7,1946, strangled her, and then took her body to an apartment basement. It was there, he said, where he hacked the body to bits with a heavy knife. The head and other parts of the girl's body were found in sewers in the neighborhood. Judge Ward, who also sentenced Heirens in the 1946 trial, held Tuesday that the five-day custody of the prisoners before he WHS charged was not an excessive time period.

He snid Heirens' charges ol police brutality were not supported by evidence, nnd held that the truth serum given the killer before his Aug. 6, 1946 confession did not affect his guilty plea on Sept. 4 of the same year. The court hearings last 10 days and Heirens took the witness stand several times to tell his side of the story. After Tuesday's session, Heirens was handcuffed to two guards and taken to a waiting automobile under heavy guard.

The car returned him to Stnieville, some 40 miles southwest of Chicago. CMC finding Up Year's Work Final 20 Pays of 1952 Find New Proof For Dr. Einttein't HelotivityTheory and members of hoard of dim-tors of the Alton Association of Commerrr will time litlln respite during the Christmas holldav nonvm. William V. Stork president, nnnount-H this morning if pored over the flnwl 20 days of work.

Tvio legislative committees will hold their final meetings for 1952 within the two weeks to prepare rough agenda for 1053: th" hoard ol directors will hold final meeting with the nnwly pled ed hoard taking up their duties and electing officers. The other committee chairmen will also he rounding up their work for the year. Stork advised. John J. Springmnn, chairman of the state legislative committee said members of his rommlttee will hold a final meeting at Hotel Stratford, Dec.

18 at noon. The Madison County Tavern Owners Association has asked to meet with the committee and point out to them alleged Inequities under the Illinois Dram Shop act. The committee will also hear a report from Walter T. Woodcock, executive director of the GAAC on Integration of minority groups into Industry. He will fly to Chicago Friday to cover a statewide meeting on this subject sponsored by the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, The national affairs committee, Paul E.

Shortal. chairman wl'l hold Its final meeting at Hotel Stratford Wednesday at which time one of the principal topics will be further discussion on the West End seawall and the report received from the Army Corps of This evening at, the Mineral Springs Hotel members of the transportation and rates and tariffs committee will hear an ad dress upon the American trucking Industry by V. C. Kloepper of Detroit. His topic will be "America's Vital Motor Truck Joint meeting of the new and old boards of directors will be held Tuesday, Dec.

30 at 6:30 p. in the new Union Electric Building when the hosts will be Union Electric officials. At this meet- Ing the new board of directors for 1953 will elect a president, vice president and treasurer and also hire an executive director. Stork said this morning that he is appointing a committee to count the ballots for new directors. The group will meet at the GAAC offices Monday at 3 p.

and for a preliminary tally of the score. Mrs. Olive Mae Diller, Rites Set for Friday Funeral rites for Mrs. Olive Mae Diller, 73, of 713 Park who died Monday at 10:10 p. m.

in St. Joseph's' Hospital, will be conducted Friday at 1:30 p. m. at Lahey funeral home, SOI Madison Madison. be in Sunset Hill cemetery, near Edwardsville.

The body is at the funeral home. Mrs. Diller was the mother of Mrs. Lois Pullen of Alton and of Mrs. Pearl if fen of Granite City.

In addition to her daughters she leaves eight grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Before coming to Alton 12 years ago to make her home with Mrs Pullen, Mrs. Diller had resided for 42 years in Granite City. Three Building Permits Are Issued by City Another business improvemen for the East End is covered by a building permit held by Mrs. Corbett of 831 Spruce St.

for a garage-type building of concrete block construction at Fourth and Ridge Sis. Estimated cost Is $7,000 Mrs. Delores Burjes of 831 Logan St. has taken a permit for general repairs to her residence estimated at $4,000. Allen Davis has arranged for the erection of a 3-room house on Clawson St.

at estimated i cost of $3,000. G. Richard Buys Sixth St. Store 0 Richard of 116 E. JHxth fit.

has purchased the Sixth Market located at Sixth Alby from Ostai McPherson who has cocducted it for the past eight redecorating the and the stock. The foUawtMi will ojttratii the store: Ctrl maty, manager: Mrs Mae GMAMF, ind Pick Turn Your Radio Dial to 1S70 TOMORROW MORNING at 7: IS JAMBOREE Kiijoy Quarter Hour of Fun Wltk UNCLE JOHNNY BARTON DON AUSTIN, FRANK JINNIN8S CLARA MAE to You with the WiskM of Gitely W. 3rd WASHINGTON If New proof horn found for Dr. Albert Rln- nfoln'n theory of relativity, It with gravity, prlipaes, stars and the bending of light rays. The National Orographlr Society reported the news Tuesday, It said field team which studied an llpae of (he sun last winter 'ound the noted physTcist on the beam In his predictions 37 years ago.

As matter of fart, the society said. Klnfttdn was just five-one of a second of arc off his computations. That's a tiny fraction of one degree of a circle, whli-h has degrees. KlnMein said In announcing his heory of relativity In 1915 that the force of gravity can bend ight rays. Thnt bending of light rays came to he known as the 'Einstein Shift." Here's how the theory was borne out, the society said: blnxleln had calculated that a beam of starlight just missing the edge of the sun would bend 1.73 degrees of arc.

Photographs of stars were taken last Feb. 25 during the solar eclipse. The aame stars were photographed again on Aug. 29. The two pictures showed a variation 1.70 seconds of arc In the position of the stars.

It's the pull of the sun's gravity which accounts for the shift, Einstein said. The, new findings, accomplished with precision instruments, confirms earlier proof recorded by British astronomers in 1919. Both sets of photographs of the eclipse were taken at Khartoum in the Anglo-Rgypttan Sudan. That site was selected because it presented the best conditions for the experiment. The researchers waited until August to take the second set of pictures because they wanted to photograph the stars in the same relative position as during the eclipse.

Army Plans Cot In Tank Output Production May Go Down 45 Per Cent Renem Plan for Elected Board of Education The Army said today it plans to cut back production fit medium about 45 cent from original goal set for the xprlng of 1954. An Army spokesman said the move to off production means "no reduction In the total amount hut ratner resrhedullng of deliveries. Thfl fnthark also will nffecf manufacture of 2 'i ton trucks and bring about a 22 per cent reduction In output of light The the new schedule of production will go Into effect at the start of the next fiscal July 1, 1953. Secretary nf Defense Lovett Indicated last September that he thought the time was approaching when the production of some hard poods, inrlurilng tanks, might be leveled off to what he described as a sustaining rate." Some plants will he closed down, the Army said today. Ma.i.

Gen. WilllanX Reeder. deputy chief ot staff in the supply section of the Army, told reporters the announcement today "places principal reliance for industrial preparedness on production in being, rather than on equipment." In general, he added, "as the leveling off time arrives, government-owned plants will be slowed down first, allowing private contract owners to continue production." Reeder said "the stretch-out In the production" program of the two SPRINGFIELD, III. 1111-1 nois Education Association Is re-. mwing its nroposal for an elective i state board of education for public common fchuols.

To feel out sentiment. L. R. Grimm, IEA research director, difcnisset) trie proposal in Education," association official publication. Grimm told a reporter today that a nine member board, elerted on a non-partisan basis for six-year tenures was suggested.

"If there is popular would expert to work with other legislative groups and to sponsor a bill, for the state board," he said. But he said a bill has not been drawn for submission to the Illinois Legislature which convenes In January for a six months session. The board would be an addition to the elective educational system providing a state superintendent ot public Instruction, county superintendents and school boards for public grade and high schools. It would supplant, in Grimm's view, 'a parade of educational commissions' appointed by the Legislature and some boards chosen by elective officers. Grimm said it would do research, study problems, make recommendations to the governor and Legislature, and set up rules and policies for Ule public common school system.

Many of these functions are now performed by commissions and boards. Grlfflm said the nroposal grew out of the increasing complexities of the state'; common school enterprise, costing 300 million dollars a year to operate. The iEA Legislative Committee recommended consideration of the state board to the School Problems Commission in March this year. and a half ton military cargo trucks will affect plants in Indiana and Michigan "The truck and coach division of General Motors Pontiac, and the Reo Motors Company, Lansing, will continue production of two and a half ton trucks at slightly reduced rates. "The Studebaker South Bend, will discontinue production ot 2'-i ton trucks by the end of 1953." Seeks $25,000 from Alton Cab Co.

EDWARDSVILLE-Injuries ho Incurred Nov. 9 when struck by a taxicab in Alton are the basis of a $25.000 damage suit filed Tuesday in Circuit Court by Rudolph Fischer. 64, of Alton, employed aa a chef in St. Louis. Named defendants were Alton United Cabs, James Newton as owner of the firm and David Lat- lin.

Alton, as driver of the machine which allegedly struck Fischer. In his complaint, Fischer alleged he was attempting to cross Henry at the Broadway intersection when a taxicab operated by Latlln struck him, inflicting a basal skull fracture, brain concussion and other injuries. He asked judgment for $25,000 for injuries and loss of earnings. Graham Chosen By Engineers Altonlifl Hairls County Chapter of Society Malcolm L. Graham of Alton was seated as president 61 the Madison County Chapter of Illinois Society of Professional fen- gineers, at a dinner meeting Tuesday night at the YWCA.

He sue- ceeded C. H. Sheppard of Alton. Other officers installed: A. G.

Adams, of Col- llnsvllle, vice president; H. B. Adams of Elsah, secretary-treas urer; JohnJehle and Lester M. L. Graham 'Meyer of Alton, executive board members.

Holdover officers are George H. Shanahan of Alton, chapter representative, and J. D. Voorhees of Wood River, director of Illinois Engineering Council. The retiring secretary-treasurer is M.

B. lew of Edwardsville. For the after-dinner program, the theme of which was "A Look Into the the toastmuter was Carl Million, Boy Scout utive. McKMejr Mothers to Meet McKinley-Delmar School Kindergarten Mothers' Club will meet at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon at McKinley School for a covered dish luncheon and Christmas party. Fifty-cent gifts will be exchanged.

Altonian Held on Charge Of Indecent Exposure Gilbert J. Stephenaon, 23, of 3519 Berkeley charged in a state complaint with Indecent liberties, was held to the City Court grand jury after he waived preliminary examination In Police Court before Police Magistrate Sohreiber, Tuesday. Bond was set by the magistrate at $2,500, and the defendant later was taken to Edwardsville by deputy sheriffs. The complaint against the young man was filed by the father of a 14-year-old girl, one of a group of three girls allegedly affronted by the defendant on a city bus last it. 25, when they were homebound from the West End shopping district.

Stephenson was taken Into custody Monday afternoon in course of a police Investigation into a complaint of an instance of indecent exposure on a city bus last Sunday afternoon. Police said that last Jan. 22, a somewhat similar charge was pressed against Stephenson because of an incident which occur 1 red in a local public school, and that he was held to the Circuit Court grand jury, but was released on making a heavy bond. $2,000 Claim Denied Against Krug Estate KDWARDSVILLE. Judge Joseph J.

Barr, in an order entered Tuesday, denied a $2,000 claim filed against the estate of Aloysius Krug, former Alton city treasurer who died Aug. 4, 1949. The claim was filed Nov. 14, 1949, by Margaret Booth of Alton for "nursing, companion, board and chauffeur" for a period of eight years preceding Krug's death. After hearing evidence last month.

Judge Barr took the claim under' advisement, announcing his ruding Tuesday disallowing the claim. Formosa, Flans Self-Support WASHINGTON A plan to make Formosa self-supporting with help of a four-year program of 11. S. aid has been submitted to Washington by Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese Nationalist government. The project was designed to start next year, with American aid in decreasing amounts year by year.

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