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Ml 'A5 7 TULIi LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT BY THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE nnTTim tt a tt ir TrvTTriTiT a A r7T7ii Nobody ever explained why ft lot, who fa.Ua In ft paddle of water, cries and get that much wetter. Basketball leads Illlnola ugh school iporta in gala receipts, ANDCOM VIE Fifty-Fourth Year. No. 106 Entered at second class mall matter at Mattoon, Illlnola MATTOON, ILLINOIS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1928 Published every afternoon except Sunday Price Ccnta fMi-nn VJ Un mriiLii UlXJUIh I 1 Hi mm n.rn UllNj I .1, 1 II II I I I I I I I I In 7 Mil MM Ml UVUtnlU ww MMb3 kwaaWa CRACK TRAINS IHODVER PLANS LA. DRENNAN The National Roly-Poly 7T 1 KEf A BAP 'Sfftih SIX SPEECHES FOR CAMPAIGN POLISH FLYERS ARE PICKED UP IN MID-OCEAN Men Forced Down by a Leaking Fuel Tank; Now in Portugal.

BULLETIN Paris, Aug. 6. (INS) The Polish government probably will sanction another transatlantic flight to make up for the failure of Major Louis Idzlkowski and Major Casimlr Kubala, according to an announcement made by the Polish embassy this afternoon. The statement follows: "Polish aviators will attempt another transatlantic flight It is believed that the government will sanction such a flight as soon as an investigation can be made into the trouble which caused Idzlkowski and Kubala to ROAD HOUSES ARE HELD UP AND ROBBED Dora Niles' Place, Near Charleston, Yields Much Loot. Special to The Juurnal-Gaiette.

Charleston. 111., Aug. G. The roadhoiiKO of Miss Dora Xiles, one and half miles southeast of Charleston on a road leading off Sta'te Koute lfi, and a similar place conducted by Ilisey Milton, south of Charleston, near the (ice bridge, were held up at midnight Saturday nighf by four unmasked bandits. The robbers lined up the proprietors, attendants and patrons of the places with snwed-off shotguns and robbed them of all their possessions.

The loot is said to have total: ed or more at the Niles place. More Valuable loot Secured. The losses at the Niles place are heavier than reported at first. These Include: George Wanuhath, SL Louis, $1,600 diamond ring, $375 watch, $300 cash, cigar lighter and chain, $75. B.

C. McElvaine, St. Louis, $1H In money and wrist watch, ralued at $35. G. E.

Jours, Mattoon, la money and wrist watch. Miss Dora Niles, $1,500 In money and Jewelry. George Taylor, Oakland representa CLAIM CROWE SMITH CAUGHT OFfMOONIS WRECK VICTIM Express Messenger Iiv stantly Killed in Disaster at Mounds. Lewis A. Drennan, an Ameri can Railway Express Company messenger, living at 2320 Prai rie avenue, this city, was one of the victims of the disastrous Illinois Central railroad wreck near Mounds, carljthif, morning, having been killed in stantly when two crack trains of the road figured in a colli sion.

Just how Mr. Drennan met his delta Is not definitely known at the offices of the Express Company in this city, nor at the offices of the railroad It is said that the body of Mr. Drennan was one of the first to be taken from the wreckage, having, been consider ably mangled. The body of the dead messenger' win be taken from Mounds directly to, Springfield, where funeral services will be held. The time of the ever, has not been decided upon.

-Mr. Drennan spent Sunday with Ml wife at He left on train No. I at 10:20 o'clock Sunday night on his express run, with Cairo as his destl-. nation, and would hare returned to this city tonight at one o'clock. Ex-" press officials state that Dren nan's car was the third on to the rear of the engine.

There were two maQ cars ahead of the -express car. No one was in the car with Mr. t)rennan. He worked alone, Drennan was born About thirty eight yean ago at Chatham, near Springfield, a son of Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas Drennan. On Marcr, 18, JSCS, he married Miss Ethel Clutterbuck of Covington, Ky. she surviving him. He also leaves two brothers, Vincent A. Drennan and Robert Drennan, both of Springfield.

His parent are dead. Mr. Drennan had been in the'eai- ploy of the Express Company tot eight i years. He was held In high esteem by his superiors and fellow employes and had many friends in this city. Last February he was transferred to a run- on trains No.

3 and No. 23. between Mattoon and Cairo. Mr. Drennan was a member of the Odd Fellow lodge and of the Methodist Episcopal ANTI-SlolTEAGUil DENIES FUND REPOJtTS Washington, Aug.

6. (DCS) The nsviT tonal campaign fund which the AntW; Saloon League will spend in aa effort -to defeat Al Smith has been greatly exaggerated, according to E. XL, Pun-ford, general counsel for the league. "Reports have been circulated 'ilii our campaign fund will reach These report hare no foundation in fact and the fund will not approach. mat ne said.

5 -r The fund will be obtained br Tsnllrlti lng contributions from "people interested In protecting the eighteenth amendment." Dunford declared. The league's national campaign will be directed by a campaign amunlttee; which will be appointed by the executive council. Each state organisation is expected to take care of Its own fight but the central organisation will be active in "doubtful" states, The executive council is expected; to" meet about the middle of August, probably In a mid-western city, to appoint committee. i III COLLISION AT MOUNDS, ILL. Lewis A.

Drennan, Mat-toon, One of Ten or More Victims. By International Newt Service. Cairo, 111.. Aug. 6.

At least ten persons one of them a resident of Mattoon, I1L, were killed about three o'clock this morning when passenger train Xo. 3 of the Illinois divi sion of the Illinois Central railroad, and passenger train Xo. 16, known as the Chickasaw, St. Louis to. Memphis train on the St.

Louis division, figured in-a collision nt Mounds, a few miles from this city. Train Xo. 3 had struck a lead pipe and turned over, side-swiping Xo. 1G as it careened from the track. First reports received here were that between 1T0 and 300 persons were killed and hundreds injured, but this was denied by officials of the road.

Eight bodies have already been re-tovered from the wreck. Several more passengers are believed to have been killed. The known dead are: L. A. DRENNAN, Mafloon, 111., ex-preaa measrog er.

MBS. "BID" SNIDER, passencrr, West Orange, N. J. JOSEPH ZDENCK, patenter, 183 Gregory street. West Orange, N.

J. Two anldentlflod women passengers. Three unidentified men passenger. Thirty of the injured were brought to hospital! here. The exact number of Injured is unavailable.

It is believed some of those Injured will die. When the accident occurred the telegraph and telephone wires along the railroad right-of-way were broken, disrupting communication, making effort, to secure detailed reports from the scene of the accident unusually difficult. Cause of Accident Railway officials said a cast Iron water pipe, twenty feet long and two feet thick, rolled from a loaded flat car and caused the wreck, striking the southward track, which went out of line Just as the New Orleans Limited was passing. The engine of the New Orleans train and ten cars were derailed. The derailed cars of the New Orleans Limited crashed into the side of the cars of the Chickasaw Limited, which was standing on the tracks at the spot.

Seven of the Chickasaw's cars were knocked off the track. Ten pa.wngcrs were reported killed In the New Orleans Limited cars, while more than a score of passengers in the two trains were injured. Mayor J. D. Jones of Mounds, 111., stated this afternoon that seventy-four persons were Injured In the accident.

Mayor Jones said fifteen of the injured were taken to Memphis, lor treatment and about fifty taken to hospitals In this city. Others were taken to St. Louis. A majority of the Injured were not hurt, the mayor said. No.

3 was the crack Chicago-New Orleans train traveling south from Chicago. No. 16 was the fast St. Louis-Memphis train going north. Coaches Derailed coaches of both trains were derailed and thrown from the tracks by the force of the Impact.

There was wild confusion as the passengers, some of them sleeping, were hurled from their berths or seats and dashed against the sides of the coaches. ElRlit or nine coaches were reported by the foreman of the roundhouse at Mounds to be overturned. The foreman said he was unable to estimate the number of Injured. At the yardmaster's office at Mounds, It was stated that most of the crippled and injured were In the day coaches. Both trains carried Pullman oaches.

Doctors and Nurses To Scene. Doctors and nurses were rushed to the scene of the accident from Car-bondalc. Mounds and Cairo, and relief trains were rushed from the -same places. Although It was officially stated only twenty-five were seriously Injured, It was believed the toll would mount much higher when a complete checkup of the passengers was made. Relief trains with doctors and nurses (Continued en page five) JOHN GILBERT In a role you'll rterer forget.

Mighty drama, thrills, spectacle and love. This picture Tia3 them all. "The Cossacks," at the Mattoon 8-8 2 Bumps, Then Pandemonium, in Wreck Cairo, ni- Aug. B. (INS) "There were two bumps and then pandemonium." This was the way Sam Millslrln, dealer in women's ready to wear at Jackson, described the wreck of two Illinois Central trains near Mounds, 111., today.

Millstein wu enroute from Chicago to his home in Jackson. "There was a terrific Jolt," Millstein told International News Service. "The Jolt woke me up, then there came another bump that almost knocked 4ft out of the car. "We all realized immediately that something terrible had happened. We rgshrd out of the car.

Two ears Immediately ahead of the one I was on had turned over. "We started digging into the ran to take out the Injured and dead. The screams of men and women Injured could be heard on all sides, and we worked frantically. ''Before the wrecker came we had taken a few-of the dead out of the wreckage. There were a number of injured that we had pulled out of the wreckage, waiting to be taken to hospitals.

These Injured were put oh the relief trains that came from Nominee Puts Ban on Any ''Barnstorm-ing" BY WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON. (I. N. S.

Staff Correspondent.) Stanford University, Aug. 6. Herbert Hoover's personal campaign for the presidency. If he has his own way, will consist of six major speeches In as many secttons of the country with use of the radio to broadcast prepared addresses from Washington, It was learned here today. The Republican nominee definitely rejected all proposals for barnstorming trips on which he would be expected to make a scries of speeches.

The nominee told his friends that such a campaign would lower the dignity of a presidential candidate, and that he would not agnfc to it. This decision followed a similar one, that he would participate no longer In "ballyhoo stunts," such as his friends sought to make out of his recent fishing trip to northern California. Want Dozen Speeches. Party leaders, however, will try to persuade Hoover to make a dozen speeches. They believe his personal appearance in that number of cities will be of greater service to the cam palgn than speeches broadcast from Washington.

Hoover announced he would make but six speeches if he had his way. Two of them already have been fixed. In the first, he will accept the Republican nomination at ceremonies next Saturday. In the second he will discuss the farm problem before a crowd of farmers August 21 at his birth place. West Branch, Iowa.

Then he expects to return to Washington before accepting any further speaking engagements. Under present plans, he probably will speak in Boston, Chicago and either Detroit or a city in the border states. He will make his most Important speech In New-York City at the peak of the campaign. This will conclude his personal plan for campaigning, except for speaking over the radio from Washington, Including a windup speech on the last night of the campaign. "I do not Intend to make more than three or four speeches after gettiw? back to Washington," he told his friends.

"I think I will be able to put the issues before the people in Just a few speeches." The nominee will see Ernest I. Lew-Is, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Dwtght Davis, secretary of war. during the day. His conference with Lewis will carry some significance, as Hoover is seeking means of reducing transportation costs for farmers. He has a belief that improved marketing conditions will reduce transportation costs.

Hoover has under consideration a trip to yosemlte Valley in eastern California. He may leave here tomorrow afternoon, motor up to a hotel In Tuolumne Meadows, near Yosemlte, and spend Wednesday viewing the natural wonderk there. He will return if he makes the trip. CHARGES AGAINST SHERIFF DISMISSED Special to The Journal-Caiette. Charleston, 111 Aug.

The charges of disorderly conduct which were filed against Sheriff Stanley Moore and Lon Armstrong of this city In the court of Police Magistrate LauRhlin were dismissed late Saturday. Further steps toward the prosecution of the sheriff and Armstrong, if any, have not been made public. Sheriff Moorp and Armstrong were arrested when Charleston police, headed by Patrolman ShefTer. made a raid on the home of Mrs. Zliia Queen of Charleston, finding a quantity of home brew on ice and In the making.

Mrs. Queen later pleaded guilty to a city charge of possessing liquor and was fined $100' and costs. She Is now facing a state charge of violating the liquor law, Information having been filed agalnst her by the state attorney. The charges against the sheriff and Armstrong were filed by Patrolman ShelTer. Moore and Armstrong claim they went to the Queen place to obtain evidence against her.

SUPERINTENDENT OF. ST. CHARLES SCHOOL REMOVED Chicago, Aug. 6. (INS) Major William J.

Butler, said to be an advocate of corporal jwnlshment In reforming youthful criminals, has been removed as acting superintendent of the St. Charles school for boys, according to Roy Ide, director of the state department of public welfnre. Otto A. Elliott of Springfield, Mr. Ide said, will suc ceed Major Corporal punish- inent will be abandoned.

By International Ntwi Service. Portugal. Aug. The Polish flyers. Major Louis Idzikowski and Casimir Kubala, rested here today preparatory to returning to Paris, whence they started out at a.

in. (New York dav- light time) Friday with high TlVnpes of spanning the Atlantic, on lv to be forced to land on the ocean thirty-six hours later eighty miles south of Cape Fin-isierre, Spain. Within less than an hour's flying time of laixl. the flyers were forced down by a break in a fuel tank. In landing, their plane, the "Marzalck Pllsudskl," was badly damaged, Its wings breaking, but It remained afloat.

Idzlkowski and Kubala leaped Into the sea and swam about until picked up by the German steamer Samos, which sighted the plane almost immediately. While boarding the Samos, Kubala slipped and fell, breaking his spectacles and injuring his right forearm. He was at a hospital here after the Samos had brought both flyers to Lelxoes, a little port town near here. The Samos also towed In the remains of the plane. Tomorrow the aviators will return to Paris.

Except for Kubala's slight injuries, they Vere none the worse for their near escape from death. Sighted Three Times Friday The flyers were sighted by ships three times on Friday during their flight. The first time they were sighted at 4:10 a. m. (New York daylight saving time) off France, flying steadily on the projected course, which was to have taken them over the Azores.

Then the Aztec, a Norwegian ship, sighted them at 10 40 m. (New York daylight timc Friday, several hundred miles northeast of the Azores. This led 4o the belief that they had abandoned their plan to follow the Azores route. About two and a half hours later the British steamship Amakura sight ed their plane still further northeast of the Azores, Indicating that thev 1 were heading back for the European mainland. From then on until their forced landing at 12:45 p.

m. (New York daylight timet Saturday, the plane was unsighted. Had Been Fears For Safety. Continued absence of reports of their whereabouts had resulted in fears for the safety of the flyers. It is not known whether they Intentionally headed' back for Europe because of mechanical trouble or lost their direction and decided to return after finding themselves off their course.

It is believed the Polish aviators covered sufficient distance to bring them nearly the entire way across the Atlantic if they had followed a true course. Theirs was the second flight In a week to come to grief because of a broken fuel pipe. Like Capt. Frank T. Courtney and his three companions, they were saved from a grim fate by the timely appearance of a steamship.

FOl'R PERSONS KILLED IN CROSSING ACCIDENT Chicago, Aim. 6. (INS) An inquest was held today Into the death of four lcrsons whose automobile was struck by a fast Chicago and Eastern Illinois passenger train near Stegcr, south of here, last night. Three of the victims wcro'-tvomcn. the bodies were horribly buried when the gasoline tank exploded and set fire to the wreckage.

It Is believed at least two of the victims would have escaped with their lives had It not been for the fire. The dead, all of Chicago, were Mrs. Ell Krga, Mrs. Kate Novak, Mrs. Ida Ponica and the tatter's husband.

Ell Pocuca. One of the women was still living when dragged from the burning wreckagc, but she died soon afterward, i tive of the Tamer Motor Bale Com pany of Mattoon, new Chrysler stdaB, valued at 1,200, and money, amount unknown. Rot Shoemaker, attendant at the roadhonse, $200 In cash, watch rained at $94 and ring ralued at $125. At the other road house the bandits are said to have secured only $90 to $100. At each place the bandits severed telephone communication before they left, thereby making Immediate pursuit by officers Impossible.

Saves Her Diamonds. The bandits went to the Niles place by twos. The first two men, arriving at eleven o'clock, found a fish fry in progress. They Joined the festivities. About -an hour later, when the second pair of bandits arrived, the patrons and house force were ordered to line up and hold up their hands, Miss Niles, before complying with the order, managed to drop three diamond rings and a pair of ear rings Into the saw dust on the floor, thus saving them.

There were about fifteen patrons in the place at the time. They were all searched while covered with shotguns. They were held under guard then until the house was ransacked. On leaving the Niles place, the bandits forced Roy Shoemaker, an attendant from whom they had taken $200, a watch valued at $90 and a ring valued at $125, to accompany them to the place of Hltey fc Milton. Thev divided forces on the way.

driving their own ear and the Taylor sedan. There was only one patron at the HJsey Sc Milton place and the loot there was light as a result. Shoemaker was left behind at this place, the bandits saying they had no further use of How Men Worked. "We had been at the NUcs place only a few minutes." said one of the men robbed. "We went there to get a drink of beer.

We hart rot been there long enough to know how many persons were present. "Someone poked a gun In my side and told me to 'Stick 'em up." thought at first tt was'a Joke that was being played upon us. The bandit said to me, Better put 'em up big bey, this gun mltrht go eff I was still smiling and trying to kid the fellow, but I put my hands up as riirerted. They made all of us put our hands up and stand with our faces to the wall while they searched us. They tooR all otmnmiey and every valuable we had, leaving us nothing.

My watch and my money were taken. I guess they must have kept us standlnn with our hands up foriflf-teen minutes. I did not see how.they searched the others and do not know when or how they left the place." In Search of Liquor. The four' bandits are believed to have visited the Wickham restaurant here earlier in the evening. Four men.

who answer the description, of the bandits, entered the restaurant with a request for liquor. On being told that liquor could not be obtained there, one of the men said, "Well, that's all right. VvV are going to have some If we have to hold up some place where they sell tt." The Chrysler sedan stolen from the Nile pfctce was seen in Paris on Sunday. The Paris car bore a dealer's license. No.

235, the license nymber issued to the Turner Motor Sales Co. of Mattoon, IN HEAVY STORM Albany, N. Aug. 6. (lNSr Governor Al Smith returned to the executive mansion shortly before one o'clock this morning after an absence of nine days.

After disposing of some state business the governor plans to settle down to work on the final draft of the he -will deliver on the steps of the state capital on August 22, when he formally accepts the presidential nomination. During the latter part of the week the governor expects to confer with U. S. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, and possibly one or two farm leaders from the middle west.

In a heavy rain and electrical storm the governor motored during the night from the state guard camp at Peekskill to the executive mansion. While crossing the Bear Mountain bridge the governor's car scraped fenders with a machine operated by a woman. Several times during the trip up the west side of the Hudson the gover-1 nor's car was forced to a stop because other machines had skidded into the I ditch. This prompted the governor to caution his chauffeur to take it easy. Soon after the governor left the camp at eight o'clock a severe elec- trlcal storm swept the Hudson valley.

The governor had expected to arrive here at midnight and when he failed to appear attaches at the mansion became worried and made several telephone calls to towns along the west side of tlie Hudson trying to locate the party. SIGEL MAN IS STRICKEN WITH INFANTIIE PARALYSIS Sigel. Aug. 6 Leonarcf Stuckey of Sigel. employed in the Review office in Decatur for the past wo years, was stricken suddenly Thursday with infantile paralysis and has been in a serious condition.

He is reported to be Improving. The paralysis affected his entire body, but he is now able to move his head, hips and one arm. This is the first case of infantile paralysis for some time. POLICE DOG DISAPPEARS. Jack Hart lost a fine police dog Saturday.

The dog had Just been bought of a dog fancier at Paris and brought to Mitt toon. Mr. Hart tied a rope around' the dog's neck and fastened him on the running board of his car while he stepped into a store downtown. When he returned the dqg was gone, but the rope was left. It lspre-sumed the has returned to his former owner.

CARS IN COLLISION. Special to The Journal-Oazette. Charleston, 111., Aug. Automobiles of Vern Elder and William Easter collided here Sunday. Both machines were damnged.

No one was injured. REPORTS SEDAN STOLEN. A. L. Yantls of Shelbyvllle reports to the Mattoon police department that his Buick sedan was stolen from that city Saturday night.

The license num- ber of Uie car is 25-226. LI Chicago, Aug. 6. INS) Howard E. Reddy, said to be a prominent member of the Republican faction headed by State's Attorney Robert E.

Crowe, is under arrest on suspicion today In connection with -the bombing of the home of William Crippene Wood, blind negro political leader in the Fourteenth ward. Wood was an important witness before -the special grand Jury investigating election frauds and terrorism. His testimony is said to have Involved Reddy and a group of gunmen in an asserted attempt to steal ballot boxes. At the last primary Reddy was Crowe's candidate for committeeman from the Fourteenth ward. Hewas defeated by a narrow margin by James Brecn, assistant corporation counsel.

Wood had been a Breen worker. Wood's home was bombed early yesterday. A few hours later police took Ueddy Into custody on Wood's accusation. Reddy was booked on a charge of bombing a home, a crime which I carries a penalty of from one to twenty-five years in prison. "It's Reddy's work," the blind negro politician told police.

"I expected to be bombed and killed. Brecn will bear me out that I told him Saturday I would be killed, and I hoped he would see that I got a Christian burial." Reddy denied a'1 connection with the bombing of Wood's home. WILL RENEW FIGHT ON REAPPORTIONMENT Washington. Aug. 6.

(INSIThe fight for congressional reapportionment waged by Representative Clarence J. Mc-Lcod. Republican, of Michigan, has eighteen more adherents in the house, according to a statement made public here today. This was determined. McLeod" said, in a canvass he started on July 9 to determine how much support coufd be gained for a reapportionment measure to be introduced during the next ses- sion.

The eigfitecn new house, supporters or the bill "have signified their intention to make reapportionment the first order of business during the next session," McLeod said. Emphasizing that the movement is non-partisan. McLeod stated that the favorable replies have been received during the past week from house mem bers including A. J. Sabath, Democrat.

of Illinois. CHICAGO BARBER SHOP IS DAMAGED BV BOMB Chicago. Aug. 6. (INS) A bomb was exploded today In front of a South Side barber shop, wrecking the entrance, to the building and shattering windows within a radius of 100 yards.

Damage was estimated at $5,000. Police were puzzled over a motive for the blast ii view of the fact that the shop is 100 per cent unionized. EADERB01ER DANCJE AT LYTLE PARK Tuesday night, OUayV Canadian Night Club Entertainers. $-7 Cairo and brought here. "Those of us who were not Injured, but merely badly shaken up, were brought here to be transferred to other trains.

"I believe there are several more dead under the ears, but it will Impassible to tell until the wreckers ran lift them off the ground." COMPROMISE COMES IN WHITTAKER CASE Charleston, Aug. 8. A compromise was reached todav in the dependency case of Harnett Elizabeth Whit-taker, foster daughter of Mr and Mrs. Robert Whittakcr of 916 Marshall avenue, Mattoon. Judge Lane will appoint a guardian tor thchild, but she will remain with 'Mh.

and Mr Whittakcr. This was agreed to by attorneys on both sides. Recently a complaint was filed In county court asking the court to declare the child dependent. It was -aarged that Mr. and Mrs.

Whittakcr were cruel lit their treatment of lie little girl. CHAELESTON MAN FINED FOR ASSAULTING SALESMAN Special to The Journal. Oaetle. Charleston, Aug. 6.

Paul Brandenburg of Charleston pleaded guilty late Saturday in police court to a charge of assault and battery. Albert Marnier, a transient linen salesman, was the prosecuting witness. Brandenburg was fined $10 and Brandenburg Is said to have made an assault upon Marcho because the latter had shown attentions Jo a younu woman friend of rirandrnburiT. The youn woman is si id have ncco-mwilcd Mareno on a 'trip from Charleston another Coles county town last I Chicago, Aug. Following are the weather Indications tor Illinois for thirty-six hours end--ing at seven p.

uv, A Partly etondy to-' night and Tuesday, probably shower Tuesday In extreme aerthweflt wertlons somewhat warmer tonight In Berth sad central portions; warmer Tuesday, LOCAL WEATHER-TEStPERATl-RE. 3 p. 6 ..81 p. p. 3 a.

9 a. a. I p. Weather conditions: Partly cloudy; southwest wind. Barometer reading 50.10.

Suft rise at 8:03 and sc's at 3:00, Moon rises at.