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FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT BY THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE makers is getting bedTHE DAILY JOURNAL GAZETTE board feet of lumber AND COMMERCIAL-STAR THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1930 Published every afternoon ALASKAN to Gold Star Mothers "Relic" Suggested for the Smithsonian Institution! BUT WHATS THE USE OF GETTING PREHISTORIC A NEW CAR AS I LONG AS THIS RUNS I I PETRIFIED THIS FISH RESERVED SPACE U.S. CONGRESSIONAL C. ROADTO GO AT AUCTION Wilmington, Dec. Residents of this village, in the heart of the Illinois corn belt, will see today the Chicago and Alton Railroad, a 000,000 public carrier, sold at auction on the depot platform. The Alton road has operated 1,028 miles of track in Missouri and Illinois since the Civil war days.

The railroad, commanding a rating as a first class property, is to be sold at two p. m. today in foreclosure proceedings of the federal court. An eleventh hour 'attempt of stockholders to forestall what they described as confiscation of their $64,000,000 equity in the road failed. The railroad is to go under the hammer.

The depot platform at this town 1 was chosen for the auction because it Is the first station out of Chicago which the railroad owns, the system having operated its trains over tracks of another road between Joliet and Chicago. The Alton properties are expected to be sold to the Baltimore and Ohio Railway at today's sale. POSTAL EMPLOYES. MAY SEE HOURS CUT Washington, D. Dec.

11. The house late yesterday passed a bill providing a forty-four hour week for 000 postal employes. The bill, sent the senate, grants a Saturday half holiday to post office employes. Provision is made that if service requires employment on Saturday afternoon, the employe shall be given compensatory time the following week. Cost of legislation is variously estimated at $2,000,000 a year upward.

SHOPPING DAYS TILL XMAS Once upon a time there was a man who kept saying, attend to my Christmas shopping tomorrow. He really meant it, too. He meant it so much that he said if every dayuntil, finally, it was the 24th of December. Then he had to hump himself. He lost his temper, got all hot and bothered, had to pick out his gifts in a hurry.

and made things tough for the weary sales girls. Do Your Christmas shopping now annually. at Mattoon, Illinois MATTOON, IN Memorial EINSTEIN AND WIFE GREETED BY NEW YORK World Famous Scientist Met by Battery of Newspaper Men. BY DAVID P. SENTNER.

(L. N. S. Staff Correspondent.) New York, Dec. Albert Einstein, the world's foremost mathematician, ran into a new experfence of "time movement and space" when he arrived here today aboard the Red Star liner Belgenland.

The brilliant German scientist, perfectly at home with the mysteries of the universe but shy and baffled in the presence of reporters, was pursued from one end of the liner to the other by newsmen and photographers. Not for Simple Words. With a merry twinkle in his large brown eyes, Professor Einstein wittily parried attempts by reporters to get him to expound in a few simple words his complicated theory of relativity, "Can you explain your theory simply for the masses of America?" he was asked. "No," he answered, running his fingers through his shock of greying hair, "it would take me three days to do 1t." The German mathematical wizard, whose trip to the United States is being made for the purpose of comparing his relativity data with that of a few American scientists who have been able to grasp and work upon his vaulting thories of the universe and its unfathomable structure, was corralled in the writing room of the liner. His devoted wife sat beside him, her arms about his shoulders, and as the army of newspapermen and photographers pressed around the chair where he sat, a babble of questions was fired at him.

Reminded of Childhood. "This reminds me of the days of my childhood, with its Punch and Judy shows," he said with a smile. "You remember Punch asks: Is everybody and Judy answers: "Yes, everybody's here" This prompted a reporter to ask: "Is space here?" "A newspaperman," replied Einstein, "will have to judge that for himself." Professor Einstein spoke almost entirely in German, but the questions and answers were translated for the benefit of the distinguished and reporters by a number of interpreters, official and volunteer. The scientist was asked whether he had anticipated the interview would be such a trying ordeal as it turned out to be. "I never think of the future," he said.

"It comes soon On Economic Situation. While the professor thus turned away lightly questions regarding his experiments, he spoke with utmost gravity on a more material subject, that of the world economic situation. In a prepared statement issued to the press, he said: "America has already given us that perfection in methods of production with which we are all of us becoming increasingly familiar, and now have reached a point where we dare hope it will And ways and means overcoming the existing economic crisis, and, furthermore, that American genius may be able to devise a definite formula which will allow this world establish a more lasting and satisfactory balance between manufacturer and consumer than any that has existed so far." The economic situation he defined as "the most important issue facing the people of the year 1930." Professor Einstein is the absolute antithesis of the average conception of a stern, forbidding scientist. medium height and rather stocky build, his kindly eyes are criss-crossed with "laugh wrinkles." A little black mustache adorns his lip, and his flowing. grey hair curls in ringlets at nape of his neck.

RESTAURATEURS BANKRUPT. Pana, Dec. 11. Marie Large Charles Large, Para, restaurateurs, filed voluntary petition Ir. bankruptcy in the District Court yesterda, They listed labilities of $24.000 and assets.

of $20,000, with $17,000 realty mortgages protecting creditors. LOCAL MINSTREL SHOW Muste, laughter, color and galety at the Neoga High School Thursday, December 11, at 8 p. m. Plenty of seats. 12-11 STEIDL BROS.

MARKET REPORT. Dressed hogs, 12c. 11-180 except Sunday WASTES of MISS BRANDON TESTIFIES AT SHEPARD TRIAL Government Claims Major Killed His Wife for Her. Kansas City, Dec. 11- (INS) Grace Lee Brandon, Brooks Fleld, stenographer, for love of whom the government claims Major Charles A.

Shepard killed his wife, Mrs. Zenana Shepard, took the witness stand In federal court today to testify for the government in Major Shepard's trial for murder. Five minutes later Miss Brandon, asked fewer than a dozen questions, was sobbing in her chair and it was necessary to call a halt in the proceedings, until she regained her composure. Second Morning Witness, Miss Brandon was the second witness of the morning. The first was Mrs.

Jane Leader, stenographer in the Department of Justice office in Denver, who took the statement made by Major Shepard to Department of Justice agents at the time of his arrest. She, however, was not permitted to answer a single question. Miss Brandon told the crowded court room in a weak voice that her name was Grace Lee Brandon, that she had lived in San Antonio for five years, and that she had been a stenographer at Brooks Field since July 25, 1928, and still was employed there. Her parents, she said, at the time of her employment, lived in Midland, but now were residing near Dallas. Met at Dinner.

She said she met Major Shepard at dinner at the home of Mrs. Charles Wylie, where she boarded and that at that time he asked her for an engagement but she refused. She said the first time she went out with him was ten days. later, "Did you know he was married?" she was asked. "Yes, but I had asked Mrs.

Wylie's advice about going out with him," she said. "When Major Shepard took you to the show and dinner, did you have any conversation with him?" "Yes, he asked me how I liked army life?" "Did he mention his wife?" "Yes, he intimated they were not happy together." M. CUMMINGS OF I. 0. O.

F. HOME DIES Patrick M. Cummings, member of the Old Home colony, passed away this morning at 7:30 o'clock in the Home hospital. He had been confined to the hospital for a short time on account of pulmonary tuberculosis. The funeral will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Home chapel and the body will then be taken to Sparta for burial.

Rev: Horace Batchelor will officiate. Mr. Cummings was born in Scotland on March 1, 1842, and came to this country while young. He came to the Home from Sparta on May 31, 1921. He leaves three sons, R.

W. Cummings of Billings, Rubert W. Cummings of Bonne Terre, Mo. and Gordon Cummings of Valdosta, and a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Nelson of California.

WEATHER Chicago, Dec. 11, -Following are the weather Indications for Illinois for thirty-six hours ending at seven p. m. Friday: Generally fair tonight and Friday, except mostly cloudy in extreme north portion. Somewhat colder Friday and in southeast portion tonight.

LOCAL WEATHER AND TEMPERATURE. p. 3 3 p. m. 6 p.

.50 40 9. p. 46 11 11 p. .45 1 p. .54 Weather conditions at noon: Clear.

Barometer reading at noon, 29.80, Sun rises at 7:16 and sets at 4:33. Moon rises at 10:38 p. m. Minimum temperature today, 37 at 8 a. m.

Maximum temperature yesterday, 54 at 2 p. m. Price 5 Centi Fifty-Sixth Year. No. 217 2 PLANE'S PILOT IS DEAD FROM HUNGER, COLD Two Men Saved After Being Lost in Wilderness Two Months.

By International News Service. White Horse, Yukon, Dec. 11. -Suffering from hunger and exposure after their rescue from the frozen Yukon wilderness, Emil Kading and Robert Marten today told the details of their two months' fight for existence which brought the death of Captain F. J.

A. Burke, Vancouver flyer, Captain Burke, pilot of the plane in which Kading and Marten rode, was forced to land his plane in the heart of the upper Laird, river district October 10. Unable to get the plane into the air again after it was damaged in a take off, the three men set out to find food and shelter. Burke Dies Nov. 20.

On November 20, Captain Burke died of hunger and exposure and his two companions buried the body about forty miles from Wolf Lake. The grave, they said, was marked by a pile of stones and timbers. An attempt will soon be made to recover Captain Burke's body from the wilderness grave, according to present plans. Burke gave up his fight for life while writing a farewell message to his wife and children at Atlin, B. C.

The story of Burke's last miserable days of slow death and their two months of wandering in the trackless wilderness was told by his two companions. Recovering from exposure and near starvation, the two men unfolded the story of their race with death. Pilot W. E. Wasson, one of the searching aviators, rescued the two survivors, returning here with them yesterday.

Both men were given medical treatment upon their arrival. Beyond a weakened condition from lack of food and exposure, they were in fair health. Marten had accompanied Captain Burke as a prospector and Kading was plane mechanic. Wasson, after a long search, found the two men destitute of food and shelter some forty miles from the place where their plane had been forced down. Wasson had discovered the abandoned plane several days ago, and with the aid of his guide, Joseph Walsh, had located the two men.

Lost in Storms. Kading and Marten said they had attempted to walk from the plane to Wolf. Lake, fifty miles away, where Burke had a camp. They had lost their way in the heavy storms and floundered about in the wilderness, living on what small game they were able to capture. Five other men who attempted to rescue Burke and his companions are still missing.

Pilot Robin Renehan, Sam Clert and Frank Hatcher are believed to have plunged into the sea while searching for them. The fate of R. I. Van Der Byl and T. H.

Cressy, who also went to their aid, is not known. They were left at Thutade Lake three weeks ago when the pilot of their plane, W. A. Joerss, was unable to take off because of excess weight. Joerss said they had food and would attempt to make their way back with the aid of Indian guides.

Wife Collapses. Atlin, B. C. Dec. (INS) -News that her husband died of exposure in the Yukon wilderness resulted today in the collapse of Mrs.

F. J. A. Burke, wife of the noted aviator. She is reported to be in a serious condition.

Two small children also survive Burke. Burke had a distinguished career with the British Royal Air Forces, serving with that corps for twelve years. During the World war he was a pilot of a bombing plane in the Mesopotamia sector. He had 9,000 flying hours to his credit. CHAMPAIGN JOBLESS ARE AIDED BY CITY COUNCIL impaign, Ill, Dec.

11. The paign city council has voted to ster $1,000 from the general fund to the public improvement commisstoner for cutting down dead trees in parks and on other public property. Because, the measure was adopted for unemployment relief, only unemployed men will be hired. The trees will be sawed into firewood for needy famIlles. CHRISTMAS BASKETS RESCUED Entered as second class mail matter Unveil Ruth Pleased Nichols Over Famous Flight New York, Dec.

(INS) -Delighted at her feat in establishing a new transcontinental record for women, Ruth Nichols, New York society girl, began today a month's rest from flying. Miss Nichols arrived here yesterday in flying time from Los Angeles of 13 hours and 22 minutes, more than one hour faster than the time of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh in his flight last April. Her record was within two hours of the speed dash of Captain Frank. M.

Hawks. The total time of Miss Nichols' flight was 29 hours, 1 minute and 43 seconds. She spent the night in Wichita, Kan. Lindbergh's elapsed time was 14 hours and 45 minutes and Hawks' time, 12 hours and 25 minutes. Her achievement was hailed by aviators today.

She took off at Los Angeles Tuesday with 400 gallons of fuel and set straight for Wichita, flying at greater height than she had ever attained. Oxygen tanks aided her in soaring along four miles up in the air. She crossed California, Arizona, New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle in seven hours and 1 minute, five minutes faster than Lindbergh. Miss Nichols left Wichita yesterday morning and battled her way through rain and sleet storms until sho had crossed Kansas and Missouri. Fair weather favored her for most of the remainder of the trip.

She figured the total flight as 2,475 miles and her average speed a little less than 200 miles an hour. Miss Nichols now holds the east to west and west to east crossing records for women, formerly held by Mrs. Keith- Miller, British flyer. Hoover Asks Consideration of World Court Washington, Dec. 11.

The protocols for American adherence to the World Court were sent to the senate late yesterday by President Hoover, with a message asking consideration as soon as the emergency relief and appropriation legislation has been enacted. Friend and foe in the senate immediately expressed the view there was little hope for consideration at this session, and Senator Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader, proposed that it be put aside completely, lest it cause an extra session in the spring. Chairman Borah of the Foreign Relations Committee announced he would call it up at the next regular meeting, a week from today. He believed the committee would report the question to the senate shortly after the holidays. Mr.

Hoover took the opportunity his message to the senate to endorse the revised protocols which were modifled to meet one of the senate's reservations which never was accepted by the other powers. "The provisions of the protocols free us from any entanglement in the diplomacy of other nations," he said. "We cannot be summoned before this court. We can from time to time seek its services by agreement with other nations. These protocols permit our withdrawal from the court at any time without reproach or Ill will." INSPECT SITES FOR NEW U.S.

HOSPITAL Danville, Ill. Dec. Inspection of two possible sites for the location of the new $2,500,000 hospital for defective delinquents which the government will build in one of four states -Indiana, Illinois, Missouri or Iowa, was made Wednesday by Joseph W. Sanford, of the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, Washington. Mr.

Sanford arrived in Danville early in the morning from South Bend, where on Tuesday he inspected a site near that city and another near Walkerton, twenty miles south of South Bend. In company with Harold F. Lindley, chairman of the special hospital committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and George Liese, member of the committee, Mr. Sanford spent the greater part of the forenoon inspecting the 750-acre site, known as the George Wright property, north of Possum Trot, west of the city. In the afternoon Mr.

Sanford was taken by the committee to the Carl Palmer property, comprising 500 acres, about five miles north of the city on the Dixie highway, All calls regarding Elks Christmas baskets should be taken up with the Elks Lodge, Phone 495. 12-13 ELKS COMMITTEE. Open Illinois HIGH TRIBUTE PAID TO THOSE WHO LOST SONS QUACK QUACK LAME DUCK CONGRESS PREHISTORIC CUFF RELICS DWELLER THE EXTINCT) FREED OF TRYING TO SAVE SON FROM CHAIR Chicago, Dec. 11, (INS) William Lenhardt, convicted Cleveland slayer, prepared to go to the electric chair tonight after learning that his mother, Mrs. Julia Glovka, had been acquitted of plotting to aid her son's escape from the county Mrs.

Glovka and two co-defendants were acquitted last night by Jury after thirty-five minutes of deliberation. Lenhardt's mother, also a resident of Cleveland, was charged with having led an escape plot which was: frustrated November 4 when Lenhardt was found with a loaded revolver in his cell. The bars of his cell had been sawed through. Lenhardt was convicted of the murder of a restaurant owner during an attempted holdup. John Preston, the "model husband" who was convicted of killing Agnes Johnson, a stenographer, was scheduled to be electrocuted at Joliet penitentiary tonight.

However a petition in insanIty has been filed in the DuPage County Circuit Court which will make delay of execution mandatory. "BUGS" MORAN SAYS HE OWNS FLA. ESTATE Waukegan, Dec. 11 (INS) George Clarence "Bugs" Moran, one of the few unshot "big shots" of Chicago gangdom, today informed the jury trying him for vagrancy that he owns large estate in Florida and has an income of $25,000 yearly form the Central Cleaners and Dyers, a Chicago concern. Taking of direct testimony was concluded this morning, and the jury is expected to get the case before nightfall.

Throughout the trial the courtroom of Judge Perry L. Persons has been jammed. The apprehension of Moran by federal agents on charges of income tax evasions loomed as the once powerful gang leader piled up proof of his atfluence to prove his respectable status in society, CONDEMNATION SUIT TO GET RIGHT OF WAY FOR ROAD Special to The Journal Gazette, Toledo, Dec. 11, -The Illinois Department of Public Works and Buildings filed today in the Cumberland County Court a suit to condemn part of the land of Melvin Carlen for a right of way across his farm for Route. 130.

The proceeding has been set for hearing December 16 before Judge Connor, Carlet's land lies. just south of the land line, in Cumberland county, and just south of the existing pavement in Coles county. Carlen and representatives of the state and county have been unable to reach an agreement as to the price to be paid for the land necessary for the road. Carlen insists that the land to be crossed by the road is the best on his farm. Official Greetings Extended by Governor Emmerson.

STONE RELICS VIOLATORS OF BOOZE LAW TO PRISON ALONE Peoria, Dec. (INS) Judge Louis FitzHenry today was awaiting news from Leavenworth, to see if there is honor even among violators of the national prohibition act. Aloyes Dekeyser and Peter Van Heck, both of Kewanee, were instructed by the judge to report at the federal prison today, and hey left without any guard accompanying them. The jurist, however, cautioned the men that their bond of $5,000 each was still in effect until they were officially greeted by the Leavenworth prison warden. The pair was sentenced to a year each and Dekeyser was assessed a 500 fine.

When the men report at Leavenworth it will write finis to the Kewanee liquor conspiracy case which started two years ago. John P. Brady, wealthy. Kewanee sportsman, also involved, was sentenced to eighteen months and a $5,000 fine but was granted probation on account of 111 health. BUSINESS CONDITION IN STATE IMPROVING Chicago, Dec, -(INS) -Business is Improving noticeably in Illinois factories.

This word was. given out today after a meeting of the Illinots industrial Council at the headquarters of the I- linois Manufacturers' Association, at which nearly every one of a dozen representatives of downstate manufacturers groups said: "More men are at' work than month ago, the demand for relief has been much less than anticipated, and business improvement is quite noticeable." COLUMBUS, O. BANKER ENDS LIFE WITH REVOLVER Columbus, Dec. 11- (INS) -Shooting himself in the head with a caliber revolver, William C. Willard, Afty-eight, vice president of the HuntIngton National Bank and vice prestdent and treasurer of the Columbus Savings Bank, committed suicide in a bathroom of the Columbus Athletic Club here today.

Falling health was belleved to have been responsible for the banker's act. POLICE ASKED TO ARREST JASPER COUNTY CITIZEN The Mat con police were asked by the sheriff of Jasper county to arrest Frank Leavitte of Newton, supposed to be in this city. They were not acquainted with the charge pending against the man. -HALF PRICE Your choice of any hat in stock one-half price. By International News Service.

Springfield, Dec. Gold Star mothers of Illinois, nearly 7,500 who lost sons in the World War, were honored by the state government and the surviving veterans when a memorial to them was dedicated in the Centennial Building here today. Two mothers, each of whom 1 lost an only son, represented the American Legion Auxiliary at the ceremony, Mrs. William Mann of Kankakee accepting the statue from the state after Mrs. J.

T. Neilson of Peoria drew aside the veil. Those Who Spoke, Governor Emmerson extended the official greeting, and Harry H. Cleaveland, director of the Department of Public Works and Buildings, spoke briefly, while Capt. A.

J. Poorman of Chicago Heights, commander of the American Legion, presided. Edward A. Hayes of Decatur, past state Legion commander, paid a tribute to the mothers, and Maj. Gen.

Milton J. Foreman of Chicago did also on behalf of the A. E. F. The memorial is a statue by Leon Herman as authorized by the last general assembly, It stands in the north first floor corridor of the Centennial Building near the collection of regimental flags, and represents typical doughboy bidding a sacrificing mother an affectionate farewell.

Memorial Inscription, The legend engraved on its pedestal reads: "In honor of those mothers of Illinois who, in giving their sons to fight on alien fields, for liberty and right, armed them with their own steadfast courage and belief in righteousness." Governor Emmerson briefly recalled another memorial statue to the women of the state -that of the pioneer mother of Vandalia, picturing a mother, musket in one hand, with Infant child guarded by the other, "These two statues constitute wonderful memorial," the governor said. "In one is the spirit of the crusader, braving danger and hardship to conquer a new land in which to rear her family, In the other, mother is offering her sons as a sacrifice in war in order that our nation might be preserved for posterity. It is a picture of sacrifice and bravery, of sublime strength and burning patriotism." Organizations which participated In the unveiling include: Illinois State Historical Society, Veterans of Foreign Wars, G. A. Ladies of the G.

A. Woman's Relief Corps, Daughters of Veterans, Spanish War veterans, American Legion, Legion Auxiliary, Sons of the American Revolution, Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of 1812, Gold Star Mothers, American Red Cross and Springfield Woman's Club. SON OF CARLSTROM IS ADMITTED TO BAR Springfield, Ill. Dec. 11 (INS) -Because his son, Charles Henry, was a member of the small class of men admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court today.

Attorney, General Carlstrom himself made the motion before the justices to admit the applicants. "I deem this a privilege," Carlstrom said, "not alone because of the high type and character of the men before the court, but because Included in their number is my son. "The profession of Jaw opens the door to a service to one's fellow men of the highest possible type and character, not alone in the field of legal pleading and procedure, but in the portunity it affords for leadership in the moral and civic activities of the community and state." -Young Caristrom attended the Untversity of Illinois, where he was graduated in the class of. 1930. DANCE Thursday night, Kate hall.

12-11 ELLIOTT'S evenings till Christmas. AT BERTHA FASHION SHOP. Special prices are being offered on dreases at $8.95, $0.95, $8.88. These will make ideal practical Christmas gifts 13-11 12-8tt.