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I I J.I.J. AI ID COMMERCIAL-STAR If if 5 1 Circulation oooooooo i 1 I C'J CS Sixty-Fifth Year. No. 222 Entered as second class mall matter at Mattoon, Illip MATTOON, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1933 Published every afternoon except Sunday Price 5 Cents i7i L-H-! IlliJffll I I Jo mm i r. -r-s b-i sm-i'" -i r- 'v I A "II -I 1 II II- I 1 I I I 1 I I.

I I I I fW -x 1 II II 111 1 I A 1 I I il 1(ER BIG Ml Is This So Difficult to Learn? SOVIET VOULD PRESIDENT IN HIT BYTRAIII Had Been Dead Several Hours When SENATE VOTES LATE TODAY Oil NEUTRALITY BE CUSSED AS CITY TO BUY POWER STREET SWEEPER Commission, in Special Meeting, Vote to Call for Bids The-City Commission, "at a special meeting Thursday evening, voted to, purchase a power-driven I Vvl-rt, AVOWAL OF NEUTRALITY Says U. S. Will Not Send Expeditionary Porce to Europe BY GEORGE DURNO- N. S. Staff Correspondent) Washington President Roosevelt's flat assertion there is not "the remotest possibility" of sending another American Expeditionary Force to European battlefields held the country's attention Jtoday.

Timed shortly before the administration's neutrality bill comes to a vote in the Senate, Mr. Roosevelts renewed pledge that the' United States will not get Involved In war was calculated to raHy wavering legislators in favor of the meas ure. See Senate Triumph. The White House was confident of a 2-to-l success in the Senate today, but House leaders have reported privately that the vote in that body will be close next week. Therefore, particular significance was attached to the President's address last night to the Forum of Current Events in New York in.

which he slapped at Communism, Naziism and Fascism and proclaimed that his own course 'domestically would continue to be "Just a little bit left of center." Assails Isolationists. It was the bold thrust at congressional opponents of arms embargo repeal which attracted most notice rem capital observers, for Mr. Roosevelt said these breast-beat-tng orators were guilty of "shameless and dishonest fake" in arguing that the sons of American mothers were again in danger of fighting abroad. "The simple truth is that no. person in any responsible place In the national administration in Washington, cr in any state government, or in any city government, or in "any county government, has ever suggested in any shape, manner or form the remotest possibility oj sending the boys of American mothers to fight on the battlefields cf Europe," declared the President.

"The fact of the international situation the' simple fact, without any bogey in it. without any appeals to prejudice is that the United States, as I have said before, is neutral and does not Intend to get involved in war." The press got praise from the President for its handling of war news and its-sifting of fact from propaganda. MRS, ARTHUR DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Mrs. Cora May Arthur, residing in the vicinity of Mattoon 49 years, died at 1:35 o'clock this morning at her home two miles north of Mattoon after an Illness of eight months. Death was due to a complication of ailments.

Mrs. Arthur was 65 years old. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Methodist church, with Rev. James M. Lively officiating.

Burial will be In Dodge Grove cemetery. Mrs. Arthur, as Cora, May Davis, was born Aug. 27, 1874, in Chester-ville, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs J.

P. Davis. When about three years eld she moved with her parents to Areola, where she attended school In 1890 she was married to Aaron Arthur, who resided near Humbcldt They moved to a farm near Mattoon. Mr. Arthur died in 1937.

Surviving are two sons, Fred Arthur and George Arthur, both of Mattoon; two daughters, Mrs. Helen Sutton and Mrs. Lillle Drake, both of Mattoon; two sisters, Mrs. Levlna Key of Areola and, Mrs. Ida Hendrlckson of Arthur; a brother, Frank Davis of 19 grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Mrs. Arthur was a member of the Methodist church. CHEVROLET OWNERS The same money, maybe less, might buy you a Pontlac. Why not get the best. Let us show you.

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Tickets at door. 10-27 ll-NEUTRAL- Action Awaits Con firmation of News on City of Flint BIT ERIC FRIEDHEIM (I. sN. S. Staff Correspondent) Washington The United States government is prepay jed to denounce Russia- as baying leutral" act if unofficial re-iortsLaretrue that the Amer- can freighter, City of Flint, las been turned over to Ger- any, it was lea rndd official ly today.

No Confirmation Yet. At the State Department it was 'nnnnnrvri tht nrt confirmation of the reports had been received, and thaf a faint hope was still held that the Soviet government will return the vessel and cargo to its American crew. Although department officials declined to speculate on what action, if any, would be taken as a reprisal measure, they did state that ,11 possible retaliatory steps are tag canvassed. Baals for Denunciation. Basis for a denunciation of Rus sia for committing an un-neutral 'atlf hn.wnuH Article of the 1907 Hague convention at was asserted.

This article states: I "The prize ship must leave as jsoon. as the circumstances which jjustified Its entry are at an end. If lit does neVtil neutral power must order It to" leave at once; should It aau Qoey, me neutral power must employ the means at its dlS' Jposal to release it with Its offi mnA ttranr an4 tn nt-rr tViA riae crew" It also specifies that a prize ship only be brought into a neutral port due to "unseawortniness, stress of weather or want of fuel or provisions." I Berlin (INS) Under command cf German prize crew and with 42 'American seamen aboard as unwilling guests, the Amerloan freighter City of Flint ploughed through iley aea today enroute to a German port following her "release" by 3oviet authorities at Murmansk. I 80 far as is known in Berlin, Capt. Joseph A.

Gainard and the 41 'American members cf the City of Hint's original crew are on the City tof Flint and will remain in Ger- an hands until the prize court at famburg disposes of their case. Authentic quarters declared that th Wnmhtirir nrWti rnnrt would Jianaie tne vuy 01 rant auairs as I i "We see no reason why there should be undue excitement in America," a spokesman said. President Roosevelt, at his press conference, reported that there was 'not enough official information 'available for him to say anything at this time concerning the City of Mint TOP ALL ENDURANCE FLIGHT RECORDS Lancaster, Cat. (ins) Clyde Schlleper and Wes Carroll, Long Seach aviators, kept their light, jentoon-equipped folane soaring monotonously over Rosamond Dry Xake today although they already nad topped by many hours the all-type endurance flying record. I At 3:32 o'clock Thursday afternoon tireless pair had bettered by jone hour the eld record of 653 hours and S3 minutes, but they informed ground crew they would not come, down until 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon If all continues well with thehj ahip.

They have been in the air almost 9 Hoa BOYS AND GIRLS Get your application now at Young's Shoe Department to join Jimmte Allen's famous Flying Club, iearn how to fly airplanes! Be sure to listen to the air adventures of yimmie Allen at 7:45 every Monday, jWednesday and Friday morning 'over Station WDZ. Sponsored by Young's Shoe Departmopt, dealers Mattoori for the "Top Flight Peters Weather Bird shoes for chll-Iren. 10-27 Body Was Found The body of Harry Songer, 1004 Xorth Eleventh street was found about 4 o'clock this morning beside the Illinois Central System tracks a short distance north of the DeWitt avenue sub way bridge. Body Badly Mangled. The bedy was badly Coroner F- S.

Schilling it ap narpntlv "hart hppn rlrntrcrert a mn-m slderable distance after being hit by a train. He said that Mr. Songer had been dead for some time when the body was found. The train which hit him was not definitely known, but Mr. Schilling said it may have been a passenger train, which left Mntfnnn shnrHv Vwfnrp 3 nVlnrlr Mr.

Songer, a laborer in the Big Four railroad shops, finished his day's work at 11 o'clock Thursday night. No information as "to his movements after that time could be found. It is believed, however, that he had been to the Illinois Central System yards, where he formerly was employed, and was returning home at the time of the accident. Mr. Songer was 38 years old.

Funeral Sunday. No date for an inquest has been set by Coroner Schilling. The funeral will be held at the Christian and Missionary Alliance church at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Mr. Songer was born March 2, 1902, in Rose Hill, a 'son of Mr.

and Mrs. A. W. Songer. He spent his early life in" that vicinity.

Late 1922 he came to Mattoon and took employment as a laborer in the Illinois Central System shops. He continued in this capacity until 193fr, when he was cut off as a result of a reduction in the force. He held a position as extra laborer for several years, and about two years ago took employment as a laborer in the Big Four roundhouse. Mr. Songer married Miss Cleo Baber May 16, 1923.

Surviving, besides his wife, are two daughters, Misses Marian and Winona Songer, at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Songer of Mattoon; three brothers, Jack Songer cf Decatur and C.

C. and Orvan Songer of Newton, and two sisters, Mrs. Van Kibler and Mrs, Paul Murphy of Mattoon. Mr. Songer was a member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance church.

CHAMPAIGN "BOOKIE" PLEADS GUILTY Champaign, 111. Paul Melahn pleaded guilty in the Champaign County Circuit Court Thursday to charges of violating the Illinois law against operating oif-track handbooks on horse races and was fined $100 and costs. Arguments for new trials in the cases of Fred Klemlck. Ben Durman and Glen and Lloyd Pitcher all convicted of running gambling houses at trials resulting from an investigation of conditions in the vicinity of the University of Illinois were continued to Nov. 10.

Chlc'go, Oct. 27. Following are the weather indications for Illinois for thirty-six hours ending at seven p. Saturday: Fair tonight and Saturday; much cooler to night, and in south and cxtrsme east portions Saturday. Outlook for Sunday Fair witb moderate temperature.

LOCAL WEATHER AND TEMPERATURE (Temperature from 11 a. m. Thursday to 11 a. m. today.) 11 a.

3 p. .76 6 p. 72 9 p. 72 11 p'. ra 72 1 a.

3 a. 74 6 a. 74 9 a. 74 11 a. ,70 Weather conditions at 11 a.

cloudy. Barometer reading at 11 a. 29.33. Sun rose today at 6:30 and sets at 4:58. Moon sets at 5:42 m.

Minimum temperature today, 70 at 11 a. m. Maximum temperature yesterday, 76 at 3 p. m. Rain fall last 24 hours, .3 of an inch.

Prevailing wind today, southwest. Expected to Overwhelmingly Repeal Arms Embargo BY EDWARD B' L'OCIETT (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent Washington Barring a major tip set, the Senate late today will vote, overwhelmingly, -abanden the oyayeaj-n'd of this country's neutrality law for a cash-and-carry measure opening the rich war markets of Europe to American industry.

The vote will give President Roosevelt a decisive victory In the Senate over a well-knit partisan minority cf "Isolationists," who have tenaciously battled New Deal foreign polices for two years. Beat Down Amendments. The Senate convened at 11 o'clock before packed galleries and with House members lining the walls for the wlndup of the long Senate fight over neutrality legislation. Powerful administration forces resumed the relentless process of beating down amendments to salvage scraps of1 the embargo, and swept debate along under an lrcnbound time limitation calculated to bring a roll call on the arms ban late this afternoon. Opponents of the administration embargo repeal bill expect to muster a maximum of 31 votes on their amendment to retain the embargo, approximately half the 63 ballots counted on by proponents of repeal.

Senator Clark, D) of Missouri, is sponsoring the. opposition's em bargo retention amendment, Final Pa'ssage Tormallty. After the vote cn embargo repeal final passage of the neutrality bill put forward by the President's supporters will be little more than a formality. When the record has been made on the arms ban, issue, some of the lepeal opponents are expected to come over and vote for final passage of th administration bill, accepting it as better than no legislation at all. Senate leaders expect to finally dispose of the measure and send it to the House before adjourning for the week-end.

FlrtD NO TRACE OF WINNIE ROTH JUDO Phoenix, Ariz. (INS) Winnie Ruth Judd, the notorious. Arizona murderess, continued today to elude officers throughout the southwest who have been searching for her since she escaped from the state hospital for insane in Phoenix early Wednesday. Sheriff Lon Jordan of Marlcop; county believed Winnie Ruth was close to Phoenix, but he admitted she had baffled his deputies thus far. Twice condemned to death for the murders of Hedvig Samuelson.

a school teacher, and Agnes Ann Lerol, a nurse, in Phoneix in October, 1931, Mrs. Judd was found legally insane In 1933 and had been confined to the hospital since then. Rumors were current that even though she had been confined to the asylum for the past six years, Winnie Ruth had engaged in a love affair with an unidentified man, who may have aided her in her escape or to whom she may have fled. MIXED TENDENCIES MARK N.Y.ST0X New Mixed tendencies ruled in opening stock market dealings today, with small gains and losses offsetting each other. Trading was slower.

After initial sales, the general list slid backwards and most leaders dropped behind minus signs. Gains were shown at the start by General Motors, U. S. Steel, U. S.

Rubber, Allied Chemical, Kennecott, United Aircraft, North American and' Texas Corporation. Bethlehem, Chrysler, DuPont, Douglas Aircraft, Sears Roebuck, Pullman and Ameri can Smelting dipped fractionally. WHEEL TAX NOTICE Licenses for the fiscal year, May 1, 1939, to April 30, 1940, are now available and may be purchased at City Clerk's office. E. GUY MILLER, 10-28 City -Clerk street sweeper' and authorized City Clerk E.

Guy Miller to advertise for bids. Specifications for the machine were submitted by John R. Owen, superintendent of the Street Department. His recommendations were adopted by the commission. Follows Demonstration.

Thft ant- stration of a power-driven sweeper given Monday, and Tuesday by the Austin-Western Road Machinery Company of Aurora. In his recommendations, Owen set forth the size and capacity of the various units of the sweeper. The cost of the machine demonstrated here this week, it is said, was between $3,500 and $4,000. Bids on the. machine will be opened Tuesday, Nov.

7, at a regular meeting of the Commission. End Labor Question. The commissioners also heard a report by City Attorney O. F. Schoch of a trip to Decatur and Springfield to confer with Works Projects Administration and state officials in regard to the controversy over the establishment of a prevailing wage scale on the North Twenty-seventh ftreet paving project.

The controversy came up Monday when William Murray, an tor vestigator from he Illinois Department of Labor, came to Mattoon to investigate three -complaints- filed with the state. The complaints charged that the city had not complied with the state law which requires that a prevailing wage scale be established and followed on all public projects. Mr. Schoch said that, he and Mr. Owen talked to Harold Pogue of Decatur, district WPA head, and that Mr.

Pogue told them he had informed Mr. Murray that the matter was not in his Jurisdiction. "We conferred with several officials in the Illinois Division of Highways," Mr. Schoch said, "and all of them said they saw no reason why the( city should be forced to publish a prevailing wage scale on the project. The city advertised for bids only for materials and equipment, as all labor will be paid by WPA.

"Officials in the office of the attorney general expressed the same unofficial They said Mattoon's case comes under an exception to the law plainly set forth In the statute itself. This exception provides for projects on which labor Is furnished by the WPA or any governmental agency. They agreed that there was no reason why the city could not enter into the contract as awarded to the Walker Construction Company. "Assistant Attorney General James Winning told us that the case clearly comes under the provision of the law which says that it is not necessary to publish a prevailing scale of wages when WPA labor is used on a project." PUBLIC DEBT NOW $315 PER PERSON Washington (INS) The public debt crossed the $41,000,000,000 mark today $315 for every man, woman and child in the United States. Treasury Department figures revealed that the debt totals nearly double Its size when the present administration came into power 1tl 1933.

A year ago the abt aggregated $38,424,932,579. The 12 months' increase, totaling $2,598,739,855, comprised chiefly transfers to trust accounts by the treasury rather than new financing. The per capita public debt compares with $12 in 1917, a few montlis before this counry entered the World War. At that time the gross public debt was $1,282,044,346. tn 1930 the per capita debt was $129, when the pest war debt reached Its lowest point, $16,026,087,087.

Nation Wide Market, fresh fries and bakers, dressed, 18c lb. Open Sunday morning, 7 to 12. 2117 De-Witt avenue. 10-27 LandonSays Rights Must Be Preserved Mount Vernon, Iowa (INS) War and unemployment have put democracy into the greatest retreat in history, and it is up to America to stem the tide, former Gov. Alfred M.

Landon of Kansas told a Cornell College audience today. Speaking at the Inauguration of B. Magee as president of the Iowa school, Landon declared that "somewhere In the world the rights and graces of life must be preserved." He added: "We cannot go to war and keep these values, for they are the first casualties of war. We must keep out of war, at every cost save that of the security of the nation itself." Landon painted a dark picture of enslaved minds in Germany and Russia and. "to a lesser degree," in Italy, and of unemployment at home.

Stalin has perverted Marx-Ism, he said, and Hitler has partially adopted Spangler'S' idea that the human being Is a creature which thrives on conflict. "Fear and cynicism engendered In the masses explain the success of Hitler and Mussollal and Stalin," he continued, "and until unemployment in its present magnitude in this country is cured our own country is in mortal illness." While attention has teen rocused on the care of unemployed, too little attention has been given the cause of unemployment, according to Landon. Pope Pius XII Asks World to Return to God BY CECIL R. BROWN (I. N.

S. Staff Correspondent) Castel Gandolfo, Italy In a ringing denunciation of Communism, Totalitarianism and all forces which make the state supreme to the will of the people and the. teachings of Christ, Pope Pius XII today called upon a war-torn world to return to God for divine aid in ending "strife and selfishness." His "heart torn with anguish" by the war and the "spiritual and moral bankruptcy" of the times, the pontiff directed against dictatorship and unfeeling state supremacy the strongest indictment in the history of the church. It was contained in the first encyclical of his reign, titled "Sum-mi Pontificatus" (of the supreme pontificate). He paid Inferential tribute to President Roosevelt and Premier Mussolini for their attempts to stave eff war before it began and expressed deepest sympathy over the fate of Poland.

But in his condemnation of apostasy, anti-Christ and limitless power of the state he was unrelenting. For the inroads of the state upon the "higher authority" of Christ he had bitter words, and the "tendency of a return to paganism" in the world moved him to eloquent protest. The war, said the pontiff on the eve of his return to the Vatican from his summer villa at Castel Gandolfo, rages "despite all our efforts to avoid it," and he expressed grave fears as to what yet may come "from the baneful seed of violence." HOLD FUNERAL OF T. J. BUCKLER The.

funeral of T. J. Buckler was held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the residence, 201 Wabash avenue, with Rev. John Codd officiating. Mr.

and Mrs. E. Guy Sutton, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Ben F. Uran, sang "Sun of.

My Soul" and "Heme of the Soul." Pallbearers were Harold V. Tolle, J. I. Dilsaver, S. L.

D. Mc-Clintock, William B. Hamel, W. II. Mlesse and Fred P.

Steinberg. Burial was in the mausoleum at Dodge Grove cemetery. IS1T SMOOTH? Like spreading Jelly with a hot knife, describes the ride of the new 1940 Olds, on display now at ALLEN AUTO SALES 206. N. St.

HlkTWAITRIPniPQ. LUIVI. Iinblllll UIMJ ILL 9 WEEKS Luke Waltrip, a life-long resident of Mattoon and vicinity, died at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon at his Tiome, 2720 Marion avenue, after an Illness of nine weeks. Death was due to a heart ailment. Mr.

Waltrip was 78 years old. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Schilling funeral home, with Rev. S. A. Hughart officiating.

Burial will be in Camp Ground cemetery, southwest of Mattoon. Mr. Waltrip was born Nov. 30, 1861, on a farm near Mattoon, a son of Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Waltrip. He received his education in the Coles county schools and while still a young man began farming, an occupation which he followed until his retirement a few years ago. He married Miss Mary Lippcrt of Coles county in 1885 and she died a-number of years later. On July 10. 1917, he married Mrs.

Anna Thrasher of Mattoon. Surviving besides his wife are three sons, Charles Waltrip and Morton Waltrip of Mattoon and Harry Waltrip of Decatur; a daughter, Mrs. Bernice Austin of Manitoba, Canada, and two brother John Waltrip and Edward Waltrip, both of Mattoon. CHARLESTON BOY HURT Charleston, 111. Mllo Howard, 10-year-old son of Huey Howard of Charleston, suffered cuts on his scalp and bruises Wednesday when hit by an automobile driven by D.

C. Freeland of Charleston. The boy was taken to Charleston Hospital for treatment. The accident occurred at a street intersection as the boy was going to school. CUSTODY TO FATHER Toledo, 111.

A hearing to settle the custody of the 12-year-old son of Rcss Hill and the former Mrs. Hill was held before Judge Ben F. Anderson In the Cumberland County Circuit Court a few days ago. After hearing testimony in the case Judge Anderson granted Mr. Hill custody of the boy.

CALLING ALL HORSEBACK RIDERS Ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls get on your horse, pony, or mule and ride with the bands and drum corps in the big Dokey parade. Collect for formation Saturday evening between 6:30 and 7:00 m. on the east end of the'Stop Swap, used car lot, at the corner of 15th and Richmond, Saturday evening, Oct. 28. 10-27, TURNER PURVIS, INC.

50 DEAD GERMANS TAKEN OFFSUB London (INS) More than 50 dead Germans have been taken off the wTeck cf a U-boat found on treacherous Goodwin sands near Deal, it was understood today. Whether the submarine was a victim of this notorious graveyard of ships, or whether she was disabled by British war vessels, was a mystery. However, gunfire was heard off Deal Wednesday, but the reason for the blasts was uncertain due to a mist. Late yesterday Deal boatmen sighted part cf the U-boat's conning tower protruding above the water, and salvage vessels and divers went to work at once. FRESH SHOULDERS At 11c lb.

Boneless fresh hams, 19c lb. STEIDL BROS. 2200 DeWltt Ave. 10-26U.