Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 1

-ri- now nnn nnn r-a FULL LEASED WERE TELEGRAPH REPORT BY THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE One and four-fifths Ml-. lion cublo feet of wood are destroyed by fires and Insect la this country annually, i J. AND COMMERCIAL STAR xt First Year, No. 4 econd m4tter PUnoU MATTOON, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1935 CALE i OUKNAIi-GrAZ TT 'CVJSH'-' if Published every afternoon except Sunday nee Cents HULL WAGg AMDE Benin TO SLASH Drastic Military Conscription Order by Floods Rip Huge Gap in Levee HUGE STOtlES OFI BIG INCREASE VWN vwr. h.

i 11.1,1 i.w,...w,.,,m..,,whJv Xot 3itill! ACTION IS DUE TOTURBULEtfT SITUATION" Order Is Issued Af ten France Lengthens Army Service Term By International Newt Servlca. Berlin, March 16. JTlid German government today; ordered immediate general military conscription. The order is effective in stantly. Follows Move by France.

The conscription order was Issued less than 24 hours aftee France increased her term of mill tary' service and while Great Britain was proceeding with detailed! plans for augmentation of all branches of her national defensa forces. Under the terms of the order the new German army will con gist of 36 divisions and 12 army corps, an estimated 320,000 men. Under the treaty of Versailles, the reioh was granted only si standing army of 100,000 men, witbj no military air corps and a vastly restricted navy. i Within the past week; however. official acknowledgment has been made" that Germany now possesses a -''military air orce.

slthougK lt4 numerical strength is not known. An official proclamation an nouncing conscription- ascribed the) step to the "turbulent international situation," declaring that In view; of rearmament by other powers, "Germany must have an adequate) national defense." An official char acterized the measure, one of the most sensational undertakings of the Nazi regime, as "unaggressive la tendency and necessitated solely; by the inadequacy of the relch's) national defense in view of British) and French rearmament; PARADISE TOWNSHIP YOUNG WOMAN DIES Miss Vivian Waggoner, a young Through great gaps ripped in the rents roared to cover thousands points In the floods that are sweeping eight states, a snore oisiance center, another hole has been cut. Hundreds of cattle were trapped JORK RELIEF osiawm I resident's Wage -Viewy May Prove Cost-Otherwise WILLI AM K. HUTCHINSON (L N. S.

Staff. Correspondent) Washington, MrircU 16. curious coalition of con-rvatives and laborites unit- 1 ttulnv in HPnnte drive to jash President Koosevelt'H work relief ill to a merq i the wake of his smashing at costljr victory on the pre-uling wage issue. The President's victory last night ft bad feeling In Its wake. His jaders defeated the McCarran wage Jnendment, endorsed by organized fbor, by a vote of 60 to 38, and lopted the Russell substitute by vote of 83 to 2.

This was ac-mplished by a bolt In which six rmer supporters of the McCarran Ian ditched it and switched weir btea to the substitute. The bolt-fs were led by Senators Robert F. agner of New York and Robert jusroucuo of Wisconsin. Senators Lewis and DIeterlch of linols voted against the McCar- an amendment. Merely Shift Attack, The outcome merely transferred attack to the Presidents whole rogram.

Conservatives la both 'irtles Immediately made overtures the laborites to join 111 slashing bill. The argument was ad-Wed that the only method left protect the prevailing wage scale as to cancel the whole work reset program and limit the appropriation to the dole and such made-i-orfc -as is now being performed inder the FERA. There was con-iderable response, among the llb-rala, although the admlnlstraUon irobably will defeat the drive. I Senators Adams of Colorado and "Jyrd of Vh-glnia led the fight 'or a smaller appropriation. Both 'ssailed the Fresidenfs program as asteful and dangerous to the gov-'rnmenjt's credit, They proposed a 11,880,000,000 limit and abandonment of the more costly construc- 1jion May Form AUlance.

Two groups also were seeking an illlance either on the Inflation or 'm forcing the; administration to balancing the budget. One enator proposed to finance the program by iew U. S. Treasury notes, to oe etlred over a thirty year period. Senator Townaend of Delaware of- iercd the budget providing that none of the $4,000,000,000 Work appropriation, can be spent Wfore the administration imposes taxes to amortize the debt It was aifflcult to foresee an alliance be-Eween these two apparently con-pctlng camps.

500L WEATHER1S TO FOLLOW HEAT WAVE 'Chicago, March 16. ins) Chiny ireather la scheduled today to supplant the March heat wave -that Sent the i mercury soaring to a frecord high of 73.2 degrees here Yesterday, The previous all-tlnie high record for this time of the Vear was 71, recorded on March 8, 1879. I Cold rains were predicted Jor of Illinois today. i SI-AYERS TARS BY THE CELL Or BRUNO TO CHAIR Trenton, N. March 10.

Walking one by one past the cell of Bruno Richard; Hauptmann, three 'convicted murderers mef death In the electric chair last night, Michael fule, 24 years old; Con nle- Scarpone, 26, and George- de Stefano Jr 23,. three like Hauptmann, convicted of murder in the commission of tI felony paid with their lives for the holdup slaying of John Szczytkowski, 37. Hauptmann shook hands with each of the men as they passed his cell 'Pray to aod," he was quoted by a "prison official as saying to each. 1 nEHDEzvous Dance tonight orchestra. Lou, -12U FEAR BREAKS IN LEVEES OF ST.

FRANCIS RIVER Families Fleeing Be fore the. Rising Flood Waters Sprlnrfield. HL, March 16. (INS) The followtog report on flood conditions affecting 'Illinois highways has been issued today by Ernest Uebermsn, chief state highway engineer: TJ. 8.

Route 45 Open to traffic. U. 8. Route 1 Shawnee town to Harrisbnrg open traffic. U.

8. Route 13 East of Mur-phyaboro 12 inches of water over road; traffic going through. U. 8. Route 145 Wet of Joneaboro; one way' traffic.

TJ. 8. Route 150 Clear. Bosses going through on U. S.

Rente 45 to Kentucky. Monette. March lw (WS) With government engineers momen tarily exoectlng breaks in tne tsi, Francis river levee number four. three miles west of Cardwell. on tne Missouri-Arkansas line, was feared ioday that 100,000 acres of land win be flooded.

Two thousand families reside In the area expected to be flooded. The water will be a toot higher than in 1933, It vrss predicted. Residents In the flood area were warned, yesterday and immediately hewn to move out of the district, getting their on higher ground and moving feed to barn lofts. John Hancock, chairman of the relief committee of Monette, de clared that it was impossible to estimate the number of families that will need aid and will be des titute. 1 Hancock described the situation as being serious.

Efforts are being made to. secure tents and food for the needy. 13,000 Persons Homeless. St Louis. March 16.

insv-Ao estimated 13,000 persons were homeless today In the flood regions of Arkansas and southeastern Missouri a swirling, tributaries of the Mississippi threatened fresh havoc. Having broken through levees near Kennett. inundating a wide expanse of land, the St Francis river threatened to sdUI its waters over Sentatb, and the neighboring town of CardwelL Residents were prepared to flee as the river rose steadily. While the danger lessened in southern Illinois, where thousands of acres of fertile land lay under water, predictions of rain In the upper Mississippi basin carried the threat of a new rise. In awSurvey- the flood.

Missouri and Arkansas the Red Cross and Federal Emergency Relief workers estimated that 13,000 refu gees had been driven from their homes. SAILING VESSEL STRIKES A MINE BLOWN TO PIECES Athens, March 16. (INSV A mine laid In Salamis Strait during the recent Greek revolt was struck by a small sailing vessel today and exploded, killing all eight members of the crew.v The little ship, bound for Loutrakiwas blown to pieces. ACCEPTS PASTORATE Shelbyvllle, March 16. Rev.

Arthur Foote of Belmont, will succeed Rev. Joseph Barth as pastor of the Unitarian church here. 'Rev. Joseph Barth, the retiring minister, has accepted the pastorate of" the First Christian church in Newton, "Mass. GILLESPIE GARAGE ROBBED Thieves broke into the garage of Earl Gillespie, 1617" Piatt avenue, Friday night stealing a motor block a radiator.

The was taken from a bench where it had been mounted. SEED OATS We have some extra oats shipped from 50 miles north. These oats test 35 pounds and are) offered while they last at 65 cents 'per bu. BIO 4 ELEVATOR CO, IS SHOVH IN IH TAXES Boost Said to Be Due to Rise in Buying Power of Masses Washington, March With early returns showing nearly a $400,000,000 increase over last year, the Internal Revenue Bureau today was busily engaged in compiling income tax receipts. Early reports' from the March tax collections, the first real reflection of 1934 calendar year business, indicated about $250,000,000 would be received for the month, as compared to $232,007,000 for tho same period last year.

Treasury officials today, however, said no accurate estimate could yet be made, although it was felt that figures presented in the last budget message by President Roosevelt, indicating a. collection of for the year ending June 30, probably would be reallz Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering notified President Roosevelt that returns up to last night showed a $393,000,000 increase over last year. Helvering attributed the Increase to a rise in the purchasing power of the The encouraging thing about It is that miscellaneous taxes, which represent the buying power of the country, and income taxes, which represent the earning power of the nation, are both up this year over last," he said. President Roosevelt was among the "last minute" ones to file his return; He did not get around to making out his Income tax state' ment until late Thursday and turn.

ed it in yesterday. The President also filed a pink. slip. Whether these will be made public depends upon Senate action on the House repeal measure. Springfield District Increase.

Springfield, HL, March 16. INS) An Increase in Income tax payments of $541,223.19, or 68 per cent was announced by the Springfield district of the V. S. Internal Reve nue Bureau today. A check today revealed that pay ments total tl.35O.077.71 as compared with $819,854.52 In 1934.

Hundreds of tax returns yet in the malls are expected to swell the figure. Acquisition by the Springfield district within the last year of four new counties, Including Peoria, was not the contributing cause to the huge increase in collections, H. D. Lukenbill, deputy collector, said. "The 10 per cent earned Income credit, in which each taxpayer benefited, more than offset any gains thatWQUld ina.deJn Income, tax payments from the addition of four counties to the he said.

Several corporations in the district paid a tax amounting to more than a million dollars. Chicagoani Pay $6,000,000. Chicago, March 16M1NS) Chlca-gqans already have paid $6,000,000 more Income tax than they had at this time last year. Internal revenue officials announced today. Collector Carter H.

Harrison said that $21,978,842.92 had been collected, although only 83,800 returns had been received, 500 fewer than at a similar time In 1934. SIX PERSONS ARE INJURED IN RAILROAD WRECK Rockford, March 16. (INS) Six persons suffered today from Injuries received when eight coaches of the west bound "Arrow, Crack tram, of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul and Pacific railroad, were derailed "15 miles south of here. Twenty-three 1 federal prisoners 'who were being taken from Chicago to Leavenworth penitentiary occupied one of the derailed coaches, but none was Injured, and none escaped watchful guards. The train, bound for Omaha, was wrecked two miles east of Davis Junction, IU.

1 BEEF STEAK MIKE'S Dance tonight tua orchestra. Max Tiirner and 11SKYL0ST Peoria. Hl March Huge stores of whisky were destroy ed today as fire of undetermined ortein completely destroyed the rectifying plant of the Penn-Mary land distillery here, with loss es timated at between $400,000 and $500,000. The main distillery building, some distance away, was not threat ened by the flames. The fire was discovered by watchman, but by tho time fire companies began to arrive the en tire building was a mass of flames as whisky blazed up, spreading the fire throughout the entire three story structure.

Signs of Spring Should Now Be Showing Up Local "groundhog" philosophers were looking around today for signs of spring following the completion of the six weeks' span since Feb. 2 when Old Man Groundhog peeked out from his winter abode. According to the belief, if Mister Groundhog sees his shadow on Feb. 2, six weeks more of winter weather will follow, but If he does not soring Is imminent But the "groundhog" philosophers are still arguing over whether Mister Groundhog actually saw his shad ow six. weeks Friday provided pretty good evi dence that the time-honored weath er prophet didn't cast his reflection hereabouts on Feb.

2. For with the six weeks not qulteaup, bright sun shine appeared and sent the mercury boiling up to the 71 degree mark by 3 o'clock. Then, too, there have been eight other days the past six weeks that the mercury has climbed to 60 degrees or better. Snows have been conspicuous by their absence. The only "fly In the ointment' of Friday's fine weather was a stiff southwest wind, which at times al most swept the pedestrian off his feet The wind continued unabated today, with cloudy weather keeping the temperature In the fifties.

FRACTIONAL GAINS III NEW YORK STOCKS BY LESLIE GOULD (iW. S. Financial Writer) New York, March 16-Stocks opened strong today, with frac tional gains numerous throughout the list All sections of the list were In good demand at the start Utility shares Including Consolidated Gas, American Water Works and Public Service opened with, gains running to a half point Southern Pacific, Atchison and New York Central were strong and fractionally higher. U. a Steel continued Its recovery, but Bethlehem eased fractionally on profit taking.

Liquors, building and specialty shares were strong at the start "EC Chicago, Mar. 16. Following are the weather indi cations for Illinois for thirty-six hours ending at seven p. Sunday: Rain and much colder tonight; Sunday generally fair. LOCAL WEATHER AND TEMPERATURE (Temperature from 11 a.

m. Friday to 11 a. m. today.) 11 a. I a.

F7 3 p. 71 3 a. C7 6 p. 6 9 p. m.

60 9 a. 56 il p. 1.1 Weather conditions at 11 a. cloudy. Barometer reading; at .11 a.

29.68. Sun rose today at 6:11 and sets at 6:08. Moon sets st 4:39 a. m. Minimum temperature today, 55 at 6 a.

m. Maximum temperature yesterday, 71 at 3 p. m. Pre- yaUinj- today, southwest ri I woman residing with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Waggoner, lnt -Paradise township, southwest off Mattoon, died about 2 o'clock this morning in Memorial Hospital Ml levee of the St Francis river, as of acres of land north or Kennett tne thousanas maae nomewgs ny in ASHORE MAN DIES lil OITCII Special to Th Jourl.0aeo. Ashmore. 111., March 16. Charles F. pierson, 70, a prominent Ash-more township farmer, ws found drowned In a small dreage ditcn south of his home at the southeast edge of this village about o'clock this morning.

Indications were that he had suffered a stroke of paraly sis and had into toe ditch. Mr. Pierson, an early riser, left his house about 5 o'clock to do the customary morning chores, When he did not Teturn for break fast, a search was instituted. His lifeless body was found lying face down In the shallow water. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 o'clock Monday morning from the -Presbyterian church, with burial foUowlng in-Mt Tabor cem etery, south of here.

Mr. Pierson Is survived, by his wife and a grandson. ATTEND MEETING OF MEDICAL SOCIETY A delegation of Mattoon physi cians and dentists went to Charles ton Friday evening and attended the March dinner meeting of the Coles-Cumberland Medical Society, Dr. L. A.

Neal of Mattoon, president of 1Kb socTeTy, presided. The speaker of the nming was Dr. Carroll W. Stuart of Chicago, a nationally-known lecturer for the American Society for Control of Cancer. Dr.

Stuart showed the phambers films, the newest moving Dlctures which show tne actual growth ofrancerr hr the human body. He also discussed malignant tumors of the head and neck. Inasmuch as Dr. Stuart college degrees In both medicine and dentistry, dentists of Coles and Cumberland counties were Invited guests. Those in the' Mattoon delegation were Drs.

C. E. Morgan, W. J. E.

E. Richardson, L. A. Neal, Ed Summers, J. F.

J. G. Baker, J. J. Link, D.

Baugh-man, H. A. Baughman, R. B- Burke and H. C.

Lumpp. ALIMONY PETITIONS DENIED Judge John TKUncald of Charleston, sitting for Judge H. Douglas in the Mattoon city csmt Friday, denied both alimony petitions in the case of Harry Parker against his former wife, Mrs. Clara C. Parker.

Parker had asted to be released from paying bas former wife $30 a month and jr4Parker had asked to have her auJocatioh boosted from $30 a montis $75 a month. CASTLE ItlH TOiilGHT up shown In the right foreground, tor Mo, one oi uie majw 0' me urvw, and valley resident forced to nee. uuuk. POST'S TRIAL IS A FAILURE is Cleveland, March 18. Wiley Post's second attempt to rocket through the substratosphere from coast to coast in seven hours ended in a forced but safe landing here last night.

The one-eyed Oklahoma flyer I skidded his veteran 'round-tne-world monoplane, "Winnie Mae, to a dead stick landing on Cleveland Airport at 4:29 p. nu 8 hours 13 minutes after zooming off Union Air "Terminal. Burbank, Cal. He waa 55 miles off his straight-line course to Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, and had doubled back 60 miles when he ran out of oxygen -and his Ignition coll froze when 34,000 feet up. Post today announced his intention to make a third assault on the transcontinental speed record.

Undismayed by his failure yesterday to hang up a new mark, the Oklahoma pilot said he would make, his third try as soon as his backers give their approval. Post said it was a foregone conclusion that airplanes soon would be able to span the continent In seven hours, but be added that areneral aviation equipment and particularly propellers, would have to be Improved before stratosphere flying became commonplace. CUSXtOYD DIES AT HIS HOME IN CHARLESTON Special to th JourftaUGaiett. Charleston, March 16. Gus Lloyd died Friday night at his home here.

He had recently returned home from St John's Hospital in Springfield, where he had been receiving Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Christian church. Mr. Lloyd was about 45 years old. Surviving; are his sister, Miss Lillian, and seven children, all at home. His wife died about a year ago.

mi 1 1 ir TWO CHICAGO FIRE FIGHTERS ARE KILLED IN WRECK Chicago. March 16. (INS-Two fire fighters were killed early today in a collision of two fire trucks speeding through the loop to a downtown blaze. Eleven other fire men were thRB ot thenr seriously. Capt Frank O'Connor, depart ment veteran, was pinned under the wreckage of his engine truck and killed outright Plpeman Law-rence O'ConneU died later at Ct Luke's HospjtaL v.

TABLE BOUQUETS Made up of i sweet peas and Ice land popples or Gerbera daisies, for 50c. At Edwin Outker Son's, Western Ave. thane 20.72, 3-16 adding to STROHL GUILD I Gene Franklin Strohl. six-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Vemon Strohl of Magnet Hill, four miles south pf Mattoon, received fractures of both thigh bones and a bad cut on the forehead and the right side of his face late Friday afternoon when struck by an automobile driven by Miss Anna Mary Bayne of Sullivan. The.chlld also suffering from loss of blood. He is in Memorial Hospital. His hurts are serious. The accident occurred In U.

S. Highway 45, at a point about two and a half miles south of Mattoon. and Just south of the Mound School, while Gene, a sister and other children were enroute home from school The children were walking south on the west side of the slab, and Miss Bayne, who was northbound, was on the east side of the slab. Gene, it Is said, suddenly darted across the slab when Miss Bayne's automobile was only a short distance away, the lad being attracted by a piece of old Inner tube lying at the east side of the pave ment The automobile was so close to the child that Miss Bayne could not avoid hitting him. Gene entered the Mound School in January and had been attend ing regularly; 48,107 INMATES IN ALL STATE INSTITUTIONS IN FEBRUARY Springfield, 111., March At the close of February there were 48,107 Inmates in all the institu tions of the state, according to a report of the Department of Pub He Welfare.

There were 32,849 in the state hospital for mental disease; 11,565 In penal institutions This is a net increase of 904 for the year in all the institutions. The net increase for the prisons was 424, and a net Increase in men tal diseases of 768. The total inmates of the Joliet prisons were 5,906 and the total number of employes in the institutions were 6,601. There seems to be a constant in crease in the mental Institutions and prisons of the state. LAUREL-HARDY FILM TEAM HAS BEEN.

PARTED BY TILT Hollywood, March 16. For seven years Oliver Hardy, screen symbol of a grown-up kid caught with telltale jam on bis face, has been venting his pent-up wrath "on slight Stan' Laurel, his film partner, the kid who didn't mean to do' It but did. Today the "team is split "Lau rel and Hardy1 two names that were like one to the niovle-going vorld pgala are Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. SBADLYHORT 1 Death was due to complications) arising from an appendicitis oper- atlon performed about a week ago, Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Schilling funeral home, with! Rev. R.

A. Evans of Lerna offi elating. Burial will -follow hi Camp Ground cemetery, southwesfl of Mattoon. MIsS Waggoner was born Sept 13, 1911, In Paradise township. She) spentherentixellfe in that xom munity.

Surviving are her parents, three) sisters and three brothers. Heq brothers and sisters are Walter W. Waggoner and Mrs. I Fuller off Mattoon; Mrs. Jesse Dally of Windsor, Mrs.

Irvine Thomas of Glenn Waggoner Of Paradise and) Phillip Waggoner, at home. YOUNG MEN ARE TO BE GIVENf HEARING NEXT. WEDNESDAY Smith Ahnan, Paul Walters, Har old Decker and William Reynolds, who confessed to stealing the Wal lace Kilman automobile last Sunday night, will be given a hearing in the county court Wednesday, March 20. Xn the meanwhile, the) four young men will be left in the) custody of their parents. A decision to hear the case Wed nesday was reached late Friday lit a conference between County Judge) John T.

Klncaid, State's Attorney "parents of the!" young men. Judge C. H. Douglad will preside. Ike who was implicated bv Decker- in the robberv of al store" at -Bradbury and a store ad Coles, has been turned over to the) sheriff of Moultrie county.

CHILD LABOR BILL LOSES INf GEORGIA'S LOWER HOUSE Atlanta, Ga. March I6w The) Georgia House late yesterday tabled, 88 to 29, ia proposal to ratify the naJ tlonal child labor amendment. 3-13 pill Taylor and his mnaan..