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HE DAILY I If I VOL. 57 278 5c A COPY MURPHYSBORO, ILLINOIS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1949 CLUTTERED ROADSIDE TRAFFIC MENACE I I I I I I I I i I 1 1 I 1 I 4 I rJ II till j. i I I I I HELICOPTER SAVES MAROONED HUNTERS Plan Provides breeding1 in Atomic Field Washington, Nov. 28 (AP) The Atomic Energy commission disclosed today that it has worked out scientific designs for a plant to "breed" precious atomic materials: If the plan works as anticipated, it will be of momentous importance in supplying atomic materials for such peacetime projects as atom-powered ships and aircraft. The announcement was made in connection with a news conference held by David E.

Lilienthal, the retiring A.E.C. chairman. Dr. Lawrence R. Hafstad, sitting in with Lilienthal, told about it.

Hafstad is director of theA.E.C.'s "reactor development" program. HAFSTAD CALLED it "the biggest forward step in peacetime ap --v ft ft-' A ss Freeway Law Has Already Saved Lives By O. T. Banton Of The Southern Illinoisan Staff Springfield An unknown number of lives has been saved on the highways through application of the Illinois freeway law, passed in 1943. The law Is designed to indiscriminate entrance at any point along the main traveled routes, particularly from small roadside business enterprises catering to the traveling public.

Many other states have similar regulatory statutes. THE FREEWAY LAW operates by limiting access to arteries of heavy travel, keeping them as free and open" as possible. Under it, the state Department cf Public Works and Buildings, the county board of any county, or the authorities of any city, village or incorporated town may declare any existing or proposed highway a freeway. The department or municipality then is authorized to acquire access rights all along the route, and limit entrance onto the highway to designated points where safety of travel is best served. HEADACHES of many kinds have been encountered in applying the law, and some of these are costly to overcome.

ttands and other roadside merchandising and service establishments tend to spring up along any heavily traveled highway. Knowledge that a new important highway is to be built prompts acquisi- i xion in aavance 01 sues ior ue-velopment of roadside businesses. When land is acquired by state highway authorities for a new read or widening of an existing one, the farmers and other owners of abutting properties must be allowed access to the highway from their property. Usually this can be at a designated road intersection or other reasonably safe place not inconvenient to abutting property owners. With purchase of the land needed for the road or for widening a highway right-of-way, the state, county or municipal authoritier also acquire access rights.

The owner of abutting property then is unable to ell access rights to anyone else. This effectively prevents roadside business from being developed along the road except at inter- sections or other points of general access. A hot dog stand or other business along a highway would be worthless without access to ihe highway for prospective customers. ACCESS BIGHTS, according to the state highway division officials, have been acquired along much of routes 66 and 40, two of the state's heaviest traveled highways. Access rights the state has bought on other routes bring the total to abcut TOO miles.

Most of this purchase has been by the state; counties and municipilaties so far have made little use of the law. In a statewide drive being conducted by the Chicago Motor club, the cities and counties are being urged to use the freeway law much more extensively, to clear up bad clutterments of roadside businesses that provide serious traffic hazards cn and near the fringes of many municipalities. Much money is spent on building and maintaining the ma.n ar teries of travel, and for expedit-i ious handling of this traffic it is necessary thet relatively high speeds be made possible; concentra- lions of roadside business stands tend to slow tranic to speeds that would safe in passing through villages, and thus defeat one of the principal purposes of these extensive pavements. ROUTE 66, Illinois heaviest traveled highway, offers many good examples cf this. Land for widening this pavement was acquired by the state before the freeway law was enacted and the state at that time did not have authority to acquire access rights.

It has been necessary for the state to go back since and try to acquire these access rights. But in the meantime many flourishing roa ide bus nesses sprang up along the road, and they are proving difficult to dislodge. i This airview of the west edge of Litchfield shows the extremes to which highway builders must go to make a freeway really "free" from roadside es- Report 2,000 Fatalities in Uranium Mine Berlin, Nov. CS (AP) The British-licensed newspaper Telegraf said today 2,000 persons perished in a uranium mine fire in the Soviet zone last Thursday. The paper said it was one of the worst mine disasters in history and charged that it was due to negligence.

In an early edition, Telegraf said 400 German miners died in the blaze, which occurred in a mine in the Erz mountains, on the Saxony- nesgcorgenstadt. In its evening edition, it said later reports had revised the casualty list upward to 2,003. Only 300 miners were reported rescued. The bulk of the workers, said Telegraf, were political prisoners. Telegraf said the blaze started when worn insulation on mine electric cables caused a short circuit.

The deaths were said to have been caused by fire, smoke and gas. The paper said rescue teams from nearby cities in Saxony were at the scene and that up to Friday night, 963 bodies had been recovered. The paper also reported that 300 miners were Srowned several weeks ago when another uranium mine was flooded. Uranium is used in the production of atomic energy. Conference Tomorrow On Labor Dispute Milton Talen, attorney for the National Labor Relatons boprd of region 14, St.

Louis, today announced a conference in Harrisburg tomorrow among officials of the Triangle Construction company and Rosiclare local 402A, United Construction Workers affiliated with the United Mine Workers. Triangle filed charges of unfair labor practices against the union. Howard W. Kleeb, regional director of the N. L.

R. B. said ntly the union allegedly stopped the comnanv from doins: street work twice, "with the object in mind of getting members of their union on the job instead of hod carriers and other crafts. Harold Greenberg, field examiner of the N. L.

R. was sent to Southern Illinois to investigate the charges Jasi. week. A Dec. 5 hearing was set following the investigation.

Talen said an attempt would be made tomorrow to settle the dis pute Fair and Mild Generally fair and mild tonight and Tuesday. Low to night. 42 to 46. fligb Tuesday, CO tc 65. Temperatures Low Sunday 34 7 a.m.

today 53 High Sunday 52 Noon today 67 6 p.m. Sunday 43 Humidity a.m. today S2 per cent The sun rose at 7:01 a.m. today and will set at 1:34 p.m. 29 miles of wind were recorded from 7 a.m.

yesterday to 7 a.m. today an average of 1.2 miles per hour. Precipitation from 7 a.m. yes-teraay to 7 a.m. today 0.

Crab Orchard Lake Spillway level Sunday Little Grassy Lake i4 feet below spillway Sunday. Mississippi Hiver Grand Tower, six feet this morn ing. (Additional weather on page 11) TODAY'S INDEX Area, national Local news Editorial Society Sports pages Comics Markets page 1 page 3 page 4 page 5 7 and 8 page 8 page 11 Classified ads pages 10 and 11 Pictures page 12 tablishments. Senice stations, eating places and homes line the old route 66. Traffic had to slow down to city speeds.

To keep the new route 66 pave Pilotless Plane Flies 100 Miles to Flora From Mount Olive Mount Olive, Nov. 28 (AP) A plane took off without its pilot yesterday and flew 100 miles before it crashed. No one was hurt in the freak take-off and crash. The light plane was owned by the Curry Flying Service of Galesburg. Arthur' Mayer, In charge of flights for the service, said Jack Hallas of Galesburg landed the plane at the Mount Olive airport and went around the wing to look at the propellor.

As he touched it, the motor started with a roar and the plane moved forward. Hallas scrambled aside. The plane took off, climbed rapidly in a bank to the left and sailed out of sight. It crashed in a field on the Frank McGrew farm about a mile from Flora. The farm is about 100 miles from the craft's starting point.

LEldorado Trio Enter Pleas in Stickup Three Eldorado. 111. youths were arraignea in neiuon tuuuy ior me robbery of a West Frankfort service station Sept. 7. F.

Owen Benson and Alfred Cok-er pleaded guilty and asked the court for probation. William Stevens entered a not guilty pie? stating that he waited in an automobile while Benson and Coker held up the service station. The trio was arrested here about 20 minutes after the holdup. A grand jury returned indictments Nov. 7.

"Take hat," says pie-thrower Bill Becher to Ke Williams. He Wouldn't Pie Throwing Makes By SAUL PETT Of the Associated Press New York How does it feel to get hit in the 'face with a pie? "It's like pushing your face into a feather bed, says Bill Becher. "Like being licked all over your face by a cow Is it pleasant? "It's not unpleasant, says Becher, whose specialty is throwing pies. However, he knows what it's like to be on the receiving end. He has been hit several times.

In the radio business, this is lovingly called a "switch." Becher throws pies once a week on the "County Fair" an audience participation show which proves that people will do anything for prizes. On this show, they have sat on "hot seats," jumped into tanks of mud, bathed in tubs full of egg dye and, of course, have been hit by pies. BLXIIEK, a tall dark, former artillery captain in World War II, says his maximum effective range is nine feet. He uses a sidearm delivery. "You can't lob it," he reports, "or you'll lose your aim and the meringue.

Also you have to do it upstage with the contestant facing the audience. "Pies have a terrific spray. I learned my lesson when blobs of custard ended up in the trombone, on the drum, on the piano and elsewhere in the orchestra pit." Becher has thrown pies in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Man- I avV A. i I'M w. J- ri Vessel Hit 12 Times Off Shanghai Washington, Nov.

28 (AP) The American merchant ship Sir John Franklin reported today a Chinese Nationalist warship fired on and hit it 12 times off Shanghai. The message from the vessel's skipper was relayed to the State department by the American consul general at Shanghai. It said aU aboard. the Sir John Franklin escaped injury. The skipper said his ship was proceeding to Woosung, below Shanghai.

The Chinese warship presumably was enforcing the Nationalist blockade of Shanghai and other Communist-held ports. The United States and other maritime nations have refused tc recognize the blockade as valid. The Sir John Franklin is operated by the Isbrandtsen New York. The circumstances of the inci dent were almost identical with the recent attack on another Isbrandt sen ship, the Flying Cloud. Communist Troops At Chungking Outskirts Taipeh, Formosa, Nov.

28 (AP) Chinese Nationalist sources here tonight said Communist troops had fought their way to the outskirts of Chungking, provisional capital of China. These sources said they got their information by long distance telephone from Chungking, where Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was reported directing the fighting. The Red vanguards reachec South Springs, 12 miles frorr Chungking and a suburb of th city, Nationalist sources said. Soutl Springs is on the Yangtze river. A Nationalist counter-attack at 9:30 p.

m. local time recaptured South Springs, these sources said. State Approves Added Williamson Port Work Approval of state participatior in second stage development of thf Williamson county airport at Marion was announced today by Joseph K. McLaughlin, state director of aeronautics. McLaughlin said construction work contemplated under the new project includes drainage, grading, surfacing of an east-west runway, entrance road and parking area, and certain electrical ducts.

The work is being sponsored jointly by the state department cf aeronautics, the federal civil aeronautics administration, and the Williamson county airport author ity. Use of state funds is authorized under the program to give financial aid to municipalities in the development of modern airport facilities. Plans for the project were drawn in 1947 by the state agency. Preliminary work included grad ing and site clearance. Approval has already been given the project at the level by John J.

Hogan, Springfield, CAA district engineer, contingent upon a commitment of state participating funds. Tractor Overturns, Kills Boy, 16, Near Harrisburg Jerry Lee Waite, 16, was killed at 11 a.m. yesterday when a tractor he was driving for the L. M. coal mine, one mile east of Crab Orchard, overturned on him.

Waite died en route to Har risburg hospital. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Waite, Big Four street, Harrisburg. The youth was employed as an at the mine.

His father the operator of the drag line at the mine, sent the boy afte gasoline on the tractor. He was found a short distance from the mine, with the tractor overturned. There were nc ivnown witnesses to the accident. Funeral services will be held in Harrisburg tomorrow. The biy will be taken to Aimsworth, Iowa, for burial.

No date has been set for the inquest. Edinburg Man Heads Plant Industry Unit Springfield, Nov. 28 (AP) Henry H. Chamberlain of Edinburg today was named superintendent of plant industry in the state Agriculture department, effective Thursday. Roy E.

Yung, department director, appointed Chamberlain to succeed Charles II. Keltner, who iiiii ment free of such developments, a service drive was bunt between the two, opening onto the new pavement only at principal intersections. Jury Selected For Trial of Rep. Thomas Washington, Nov. 28 (AP) A jury of six men and six women was chosen today in the trial of Rep.

J. Parnell Thomas (R-NJ) on charges of defrauding the government through payroll kickbacks. It took little mre than an hour to select the jurors, plus a man and a woman as alternates. The trial then was recessed until afternoon. The 54-year-old former chairman of the House un-American activities committee is accused in federal court of padding his congressional office payroll and taking kick-backs from fictitious em ployes.

HIS FORMER secretary, Miss Helen Campbell, is jointly accused with him on one of four counts of an indictment returned Nov. 8, 1948 by a federal grand jury here. Thomas alone is accused in the other three counts. These allege he collected three vouchers totaling TQ. -n the name of Jacqueiine B.

Hill, listed as a clerk-typist for the un-American activities committee. The indictment alleges these claims were "false, ficticious and fraudulent, in that said Jacqueline B. Hill had rendered and would render no services" to the committee. THOMAS WAS indicted after a long, bitter dispute between him and U. S.

Supreme Court Associ ate Justice Tom Clark, then attor ney general. -V- Becher declares the is not unpleasant. sesation Hit a Woman Radio Comic's Living Chester, N. Milwaukee, Indianapolis and a dozen other towns. He has thrown them at a police chief, bank clerks, real estate brokers, merchants and guest star actors.

"BUT NEVER at women," he says. "I have some scruples. That would be too ungallant." There is always a pretext for throwing a pie on "County Fair." One of the favorites is this: Two men come before the mike. They profess to be undying friends. So the first is asked: "Would you stand up for your friend?" "Why, yes." "Under any circumstances?" "Under any circumstances." So, friend No.

1 stands before friend No. 2. In front of friend No. 1 a $50 bill is dropped. At the same split second a pie is thrown in his direction.

If he "stands up for his friend," he gets the pie in the face. Otherwise, his buddy gets it. "INVARIABLY, in stunts like this," Becher reports, "the man will reach for the $o0 bill." Becher has been throwing from one to three pies per program for four years. In the beginning, he jused real pies. But now he uses a synthetic laundry starch and coloring plus imitation meringue.

"I've even hit my boss (M. C. Win Elliot) in the face with a pie," Becher says. "This was an audience request. It involved my biggest creation a pie 12 inches in diameter and nine inches high.

Where else can you get paid for this kind of a thing?" A Navy helicopter lowers Hunter Standley Hendrickson to the beach at Port Angeles, after rescuing him from an island in flooded Elwha river, where he and a companion U. S. Mukden Staff Return Expected Soon Washington, Nov. 28 (AP) A new Communist deportation order for Americans in China raised State department hopes to day that Consul General Angus Ward and his entire staff may soon start home from Mukden. Ward and four of his aides were ordered deported last week after a Chinese Communist "peoples court" found them guilty of beating a Chinese employe.

A second deportation order covering the other 10 members of the consulate staff was announced yesterday. It came at the end of a trial in which 10 Asiatics were convicted on charges of being American spies. THE TRIAL'S end also brought release of Ward's chief aide, Vice Consul William N. Stokes, who was seized by Communist police Saturday morning. The state department said that Stokes had been forced to "observe" the trial for seven hours.

The department had feared he might be imprisoned. A report from Ward said that none of the Americans on his staff was named in the spy trial but that even so all were ordered sentenced to deportation. SII Committee Prepares Slate The nominating committee of Southern Illinois, Inc. will draw up a slate of officers for next year at a luncheon meeting today at Motel Marion. A.

G. Hendricks, Marion, is chairman of the committee which will choose a president, four vice- prei-idents, chairman of the board, treasurer, and secretary for next year. The named officers will be voted on at the next board meeting Dec. 4. Candidates for office are chosen -m members of the S.

I. I. board. Other committee members are J. V.

Walker. Herrin; Ralph Thur-man, Marion; C. D. Jacobs. West Frankfort, and Winton Walkup, Carbondale.

Benton Sparta on List For New Post Offices Washington, Nov. 28 (UP) The office of Sen. Scott W. Lucas 111., todav made publi" a list of 13 postoffice buildings to be constructed in Illinois. The projects have been approved by the post office department and the public buildings administration.

The buildings and prop sod limit cost of each: Jackson Park Station in Chica- go, Winnetka, Earlville, Fairbury, Minonk, Mom-ence, Rock Island (exchange of property and new building) Mount Olive, East St. Louis (additional land, demolition, and new building) Benton, Sparta. North Chicago, $415,000 and Breese, $144,000. plication" of atomic energy. He said that while the project still is only a pencil and paper job, the designers are confident that it will work.

The A.E.C. announced that it is beginning immediately construction of a test plant. The word of this "breeder" project was the most important news from the conference but it ranged i over a wide field. Lilienthal simply laughed off charges from Sen. Edwin C.

Johnson (D-Colo) that he is engaged in a "nefarious plot" to give atomic secrets to the British. Johnson made those charges over the week end. THE A.E.C. CHAIRMAN would not let himself be drawn out about a recent telecast Senator Johnson which reportedly led to a presidential order last week for the Justice department-to crack down on anyone divulging atomic secrets. Lilienthal indicated, however, that he believed Johnson was talk ing out of turn when the senator said the United States now has an atomic bomb six times more powerful than the one which blasted Hiroshima.

Lilienthal did say that the Senate-House atomic committee is "completely informed on progress in weapons development." This suggested that Johnson, a member of that group, had sufficient information to know what he was talking about. Hurst Electing Mayor Tuesday All was quiet in Hurst today on the mayoral election eve. The three candidates for mayor have held no campaigning, no workers have been organized and speeches made. Candidates for the post vacant since the death of Kem.eth Sadler in September are Trecile Hud- dleston, Loren Robison and Brant ley Allsup. Huddleston and Robison resigned their jobs as aldermen to seek the mayor's office.

Allsup also servea as Hurst alderman for four years. Three aldermen are also to be elected, but there is no contest there. Only three candidates have entered the race. The town of 1,000 population has been without a legal government since the resignation of the two aldermen several weeks ago. 150 Rosiclare Alcoa Workers Laid off The Alcoa Mining company closed its fluorspar mine at Rosiclare today for "about three weeks" because of strikes in the company's eastern plants.

Officials said that demand for fluorides was greatly reduced by strikes in nine of Alcoa's plants. Flouride bins throughout the company are full, it was reported. A skeleton force will remain on duty at the plant during he chut- down. the company said, but a-bout 150 men will be laid off until the mine reopens. Ex-Pastor Denies Rape Charge, Freed on Bond The Rev.

James L. Pettit was free on S5.000 bond today after pleading not guilty at Benton to a charge of statuatory rape. The former pastor of thr Thomp-sonville Bapti" church wa arraigned Saturday before Circuit Judge Ben Eovaldi on the charge which was filed at the request the parents of a 14-year-old girl last month. To date was set for a trial. i of had been marooned all night.

Coast guardsmen on the beach assisted in the res me Sunday morning. (AP WIREPIIOTO) Egyptian Powder Co. Workers OK Contract A company official and a. union spokesman said today that workers at the Egyptian Powder Co. plant; located southeast of Herrin, voted to accept a new contract in a meeting Saturday in Herrin.

Both Robert McCutcheon, superintendent of the plant, and Hubert Rushing, field representative for District 50, U. M. W. said workers accepted the new contract proposal. Both declined to give all the details of the contract until it is signed.

The contract now is being print-j ed and signinc is expected be fore Dec. 1, McCutcheon said. The present agreement expires Nov. 30. contract calls for no wage increase and no deviation from the present 40-hour work week.

The plant, which manufactures mine blasting powder, employs a-bout 75 workers. Man Loses Ear In Car Wreck A West Frankfort driver is being charged with reckless driving after an accident yesterday afternoon in which a passenger in his car had an ear cut off when their car crashed into a bridge. Joe Ramsey, West Frankfort, was driving north of Freeman Spur about 5:30 p. m. yesterday when his car hit the right- south side of a wooden bridge over 2 IDmoi Central railroad.

The ear of Robert -mins, a passenger, was cut oil and Tim- mins suffered other serious cuts. jsquirly Crimm, another passenger, and the driver were riot injured seriously. Timmins is in the Union hospital, West Frankfort, where his ear was sewed back. All three men are West Frankfort residents. According to state police, another car was coming from the south as Ramsey appraoched the bridge.

The car reportedly mar room for Ramsey, but he did hot slow up his speed or make any effort to turn onto -he bridge, state police said. Train Kills 3 On Platform Gary, Nov. 23 (AP) Three women were killed yesterday when they were drawn against the side of a fast passenger train as they were standing on a station platform. Two men were hurt. Mrs.

Julia Rubenstein, 42, of Detroit, died this morning of a skull fracture. Mrs. Rose Nagy, 54, and Mrs. Ruby Winters, 36, both of Gary, died almost instantly. Mrs.

Nagy's husband, Joseph, 45, was taken to a hospital with back injuries and shock. Otis Hur ley, 32, of Gary, suffered a mangled right hand. The victims were waiting for another train. A fireman on a train standing nearby told police he tried to warn them they were standing too close to the track. The train involved in the accident was the Twilight Limited of the Michigan Central railroad en-route from Chicago to Detroit.

whose customers leave and enter the highway from a gravel or cinder area in front of the stand refuses to sell his access rights, the state or municipality has the power rf condemnation and can force him to selL But giving up his access rights virtually means wiping out his business, and so a "fair price' 4 -rived at through condemnation iction in the cvourts make acquisition his access rights costly. In some instances, according to the state highway authorities, an nvr.cr of a roadside business has sited his profits of several thousand dollars a year. Over his ex-ected lifetime, the owner figures (Continued on page two).