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THE DAILY i rvt 'i ir Jl JU)J n'7 VOL. 50 180 5c A COPY SATURDAY. AUGUST 13, 1949 CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS fro IL-J POIROTS OFF TO STATE FAIR ftii wmmi fmSm Probers Check Home Freezers Sent fis Gifts Washington, Aug. 13 (AP) Senators investigating five percent? today sought a motive for the reported shipment of unasked-for home freezers to Mrs. Harry S.

Truman and other Washington i inw i i jm mm i mm jm Polio Deaths Mount; Illinois Toll Now 57 By the Associated Press The fear of polio strucK many hearts in Illinois today. In one city, a mother went to court to make sure her children would not be taken to a danger wmmm mmi it Some Anticipate No More Than breaking Even area. In another, a band gave up the idea of traveling to the state fair at Springfield. hit, t-, at a farm sports festival and brought forth the free orer of plans to a make -hilt wooden "iron lung" which builders called an effective substitute. Meanwhile, the dreaded disease took its unrelenting toll.

By un-. c'p' -nt, 57 peisons have died in Illinois from the disease this year. And at least 859 cases have been reported. IN CHICAGO, Mrs. Mildred T-cice, 40, asked Judge Walter R.

O'Malley to keep her estranged husband, Arthur, from taking their children for a two week vacation on a farm near'Springfield because of the danger of polio. The judge did so after a health officer said it was not in the children's interest to take them into "the worst polio area in the state." The youngsters are William, 10, and Mary, five. BIRTHDAY MONDAY it The governing committee oiine ocean water more than mUe PRESSURE AX 6f00o feet is esti-; A new Illinois la to set up as- inquir by Albert J. Gross, a Mil-Illinois farm sports festival decided mated at 27,000,000 pounds, or cessment supervisors in 100 coun- waukee businessman who testified at Champaign to limit participation Jf aU by nightfaU otis gQQ poun(ja per square inch, com- ties will have an early court test. Thursday tha he shipped a freezer to pirsons 16 and older.

The ies- Barton 4gj of Harvard- pared with 15 pounds per square The Illinois Association of Super- to Vaughan and other prominent tival, scheduled for Aug. 2o-Zbt traiRed marllje explorer, will be inch normal atmospheric pressure and Countv Commissioners, Wajhingtonians. He said all of the usually attracts 4,500 entrants. human in historv to have at sea level. announced plans to chal- units were paid for by the Albert me irnv wx-x shown as they left for the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.

The son, Joe, a National guardsman, waving good bye Ocean Trip Ocean Depth Plunge I quartz 3 inches thick, one 53i inches across, the other 2 inches in diameter. Seals around these! apertures tighten as pressure in- rroncos Two lights outside the sphere il luminate the depths for Barton to see and for a power-driven camera! to take motion pictures. He has a telephone line to the surface will reserve a reco. The cable's entire length has been tested for twice the expected i load. A section of it was tested for! nc nint fniiTifi to.be six times the expected load, Crimen released from a cylinder permits Barton to breatheTCar- bon dioxide expellee from his lungs IS auswucu uy sva TT rnn stflv rinwn as Ions' as SIX Ottawa Family Contest Winner 1 Springfield, 111., Aug.

13 (UP) The Harold Calkins family of Ot- tawa, 111., today was selected as the tvDical farm family of Illinois for 1949 i i i I I did not go with others in the family because of guard activity. (STAFF PHOTO) County Group Plans to Test Assessor Post Rockfoi'd, 111., Aug. 13 (AP) 'lenge the act in Sangamon county circuit court, Springfield The mearure. signed yesterday by Gov. Adlai E.

Stevenson, ap- plies to all of the state's counties except. Cook and St. Clair which eTS James executive sec retary ot tne association, saia oD jections to the law are widespread Swimming; track, physical fit- nes and tumbling contests, the ti square dance jamboree and mod- em swing dancing programs will be cancelled. Dr. Leonard M.

Schuman of the 3UiS. ANXIS STEWART state Health department told the on the southeast shore of Santa his entire conversation and obser- already have county-wide asses-committee adults were a "very Cruz island, 25 miles south of Santa vations. An amplifying stem car- ment coordination, minor polio risk." He added that Barbara. his words to observers and! TnE MEASURE was backed by tne Illinois rate of attach for adults I BAKTIN IX this world record crewmen topside. Radio telephones business groups who said it would was one to 20,000 or more persons, dive attempt hoped to open a new constitute communications with the resun jn elimination of inequalities far below the rate of one to 3,000 frontier of scientific exploration mainland.

i rates naid bv local nronertv own- To Celebrate Hold Open House Sunday for Former Slave for all age brackets. He advised against activities involving "ex- trpmp PXPrtion" bv vouths and rec- ho vnirirn nndpr 16 be discouraged from attending he ocean floor's mountains, valleys festival. jand canyons. tuv AFFAIR nonsored bv the1 IIe expected to encounter ice ac-- on is 'water at 4,000 feet and equipped among county boards throughout Another committee member said the state." 'he was told Mrs. Truman" sent a He declared the act is "an inva- thank-you note to Gross, thinking sion of home rule" inasmuch as ne was a donor.

the assessment supervisors would; Presidential Secretary Charles be selected by the state depart-1 i. -A v- TTrirorcitv nf TninniS i uciu aii uiuv notables. Chief Counsel William P. Rogers said the Senate's special investigations subcommittee has a ubpoena out for Harry Hoffman, Milwaukee advertising man whose name cropped up in testimony at the inquiry. Lawmakers hoped he might shed some light on the subject.

A committee member said privately that he has seen invoices showing that a freezer was sent to Mrs. Truman at Independence, and that two were shipped t' Maj. Gen. Harry 11. Vaughan, President Truman's army aide.

THE SENATOR said the invoices also list shipments to Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, Federal Reserve Governor James K. Vardaman, and Presidential Secretary Matt ConneVy. The vouchers not yet in the record ar aated 1945 and early 1946. that time Vinson was first re-j conversion director and later i retary of the treasury.

Vardman jwas Mr. Truman's naval aide. The invoices were brought to the Verley, the Chicago perfume ifirm for which John Maragon worked in 1945. Maragon, who once had entree to the White House, is a key figure in the committee's search for in fluence peddlers. GROSS' TESTIMONY was cut off after he named Vaughan as a recipient of one of the freezers.

Chairman Clyde R. Hoey (D-NC) said the committee wanted to get j311 ine Iac telore putting out tne of the names, He added that one person listed has told him he did not ge one. Bombs Blast Negro Homes Birmingham, Aug. 13 (AP) Dynamite blasts rocked the homes of two Negro ministers early today in an area zoned for whites. A group of Negroes fired several shots at the dynamiters' auto, apparently without effect Eighteen Negroes in the two houses narrowly escaped death or injury.

ocoies oi negroes angry mooa gatnered in the area immediately and squads of police deployed to Most of the windows in the houses were blown out. Neither, any major damage IIOLSEs are only a half lock, fro three others that were hea ly 01byrrlblastS he 24 These other a vacant thv. time. Residents of the hniie enirl fh The houses are occupied by fam- ilies of the Rev MiUon Curry uic iwv. ju ieyampert.

uoin had been warned in recent weeks by anonymous phone callers to m0dC h' ttki reading niS Bible When the first hi act nPPrrH Fairfield GirL 17, Drowns While Wading Grayville, 111., Aug. 13 (AP) Peggy Fitzgerald 17, of Fair 105th Birthday been stolen and put into slavery. Mrs. Stewart, whose high cheek bones, skin, nose and hair seem to confirm her belief that she is part Indian, says her father was the man who stole her mother. She claims the man, known as Jim Martin, later sold her to, Pait Bailey, a wealthy planter in Dale County, S.

C. FOLLOWING ABUSE by the liaiiey cmiaren, Mrs. jstewan was returned to her native plantation and was later wed to a Negro man on the plantation, who came to her with nine children from a previous marriage. To their union were born seven children. According to the best available information, Mrs.

Stewart claims 99 direct living descendants. A special cake has been ordered In Carlinville, the high school, The vchide fop hh descent a hours band changed plans about Paying csst steel sp.leret 57u inches in Barton and Dr. William Beebe at the state fair because of the diameter weighing 7f000 pounds, of New York set a deep dive rec-prcvalence of polio in Springfield. lowered by a stcel cable ord of 3,028 feet off Bermuda in Two polio deaths were reported, Dy a crane from a 100-foot steel 1934 in a bathysphere. The new cne at Elgin and one at Cham- barge.

Its shell is inches thick steel ball is called a benthoscope paign. Mrs. Dorothy Ahnger, 25, of at the thinnest point. It has a 15- from the breek benthos fdepth of Huntley, McHenry county, died in inch door and two windows" of fused the sea) and scopein (to view). Market men and growers In Southern Illinois were baffled by the peach market situation today.

With no apparent strong factors to affect price, the market was surprisingly low, even for the best grade Elbertas. Yesterday's prices at Alto Pass, Cobden, Anna, and Metropolis ranged fro 1.70 a bushel to $2, mostly $1.80 for the best grade Elbertas. The same peaches sold last year for $4 a busheJ. The market situation was described today as "not good" by R. S.

McBride, manager of the Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange at Carbondale, who said that growers were "just about breaking even on the current prices. McBRIDE SAID that although shipments have been small, consumer interest has been weak, while competition from other areas has been strong. The heavy shipments are expected to begin the first of next, week when growers and market men hope that consumer interest will be increased enough to pull up the slumping market. Growers are basing their hopes for at least a $2 average next week week on sales and advertising campaigns of merchants. McBride explained that some retailers were wary during the first week because of an overload of green peaches that had gone to market from earlier harvests in Georgia, the Carolinas and Arkansas.

He said orchard men in this area, however, had been careful to avoid sending green peaches to market. I SHIPMENTS yesterday were cut to 66 carloads because of rain. A full crcp of 2,000,000 bushels is expected to be picked by Aug. 23. Today's Southern Illinois Prices: Elbertas, weak; U.

S. No. 1, 2" min. $1.70 to $2.00, mostly U. S.

No. 1, 134" min. 90c to mostly U. S. No.

2, 111. utility. 90 to $1.50, mostly $126; orchard run unci. $1.00 to $1.50. mostly $1.25 Total reported shipment Anna, Alto Pass, Cobden, Metropolis 20 carlots rail, 46 equiv.

carlots truck. Cool Hir Mass To East Coast By the Associated Press A cool air mass out the Hudson bay region has punched a deep, wide wedge in the week-long heat wave over the tern half of the nation. The cool front had extended as far southward today as the Ohio river valley and from the central Great Plains eastvard to Ohio. Temperatures throughout this area generally would go no higher than the 80'- today. Hot weather continued, however, in the central Easter States, the southeast and western plains where more 90-plus readings wer in prospect.

Scattered showers occurred in the northerr and central plains re gions and from th- entral Gulf coast northeastward to the Middle uau 6Cl- Ovp0m a Unntino. ton, W. whic? reported 2.04 In Western Massachuetts, a storm described as of cloudburst intensity forced thi evacuation of several families in Chicr pee. Rain U7c ral th-nimKmit fho tnt to cuuuig a xoiesi naxtuu. Jn Idaho, a heavy rain aided fire fighters battling a timber blaze in the Salmon river area of the Payette national forest.

Short $7,400 Lothario; Mystery Ends i I. I The Alex Poirot family of Oraville, winners of the Farm Family contest conducted in this area by this newspaper, Mile Deep Scientist Ready for Smuggler's Cove, Aug. 13 (AP) Man and science were ready to- day for a dramatic attempt to con- nnor fVio rrnchinfT nrocciir rf pcrej jnt0 the icy depths 6,000 eet down where unknown, pre- sumabiy weird creatures live and sunij(ht never penetrates. The location for this colossal dunking venture is near this cove studies of possible food and oil re sources in the ocean depths, un- derwater vecetation. information (h.

W1U1 WOOlCH tlOUUIlg aiiu hlr.nl.otf Rail Freight Increase Opening Set for Sept. 1 Washington Aug. 13 (AP) The nation's railroads announced today that the new four per cent general freight rate increase will be effective Sept. 1. The Association of American Railroads said notices have been prepared for filing with the Interstate Commerce commission and at freight stations throughout the country Monday.

This will fulfill the I. C. C. requirement of 15-day publication before the increase au thorized by the commission last Thursday can be effective. The increase is expected to add about 203 million dollars a year to railroad freight billings.

It will go into effect on the same day that the rail industry extends a 40-hour work week to its non-operating employes. Thundershowers Cloudy tonight with scattered thunder showers Sunday scattered (thunder-showers, little change in temperature; low tonight, f8 to 72; high Sunday, 81 to 88. Temperatures Low Fri. .70 7 a. m.

today 81 High Fri. 87 Noon today 86 6 p. m. Fri. 75 Precipitation from 7 a.

m. yesterday to 7 a. m. today 0.12. The sun rose at 5:07 this morning and will set at 7:02 tonight.

Crab Orchard Lake One inch below spillway Sunday (latest available reading). Little Grassy Lake 15 feet below spillway Sunday (latest available reading). No reading available for Mississippi river at Grand Tower. Todays Index Area, national page 1 Local news Editorials Society news Sports Comics page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 and 7 page 7 Classified ads, pages 10 and 11 Births deaths Marriage licenses page 11 Markets page 11 Pictures page 12 -Jj ment of Revenue from lists of three candidates submitted by each couity board. The association plans, he said.

to ask the court for an injunction to restrain the state Revenue de-i partment from putting the law into effect December 1. VALIDITY 'OF the new law wilK be attacked, Cannell said, on grounds that it is not precise in defining the powers of the asess- ment supervisors or the responsi- bilities of county and township of ficials. In addition, he said, the $632, uO appropriation ior ais mem u-j pervisors pay, will be attacKea on the ground tha ts passage pro- n.J 1 for the occasion of the 105th birth-was! day party Sunday. The cake was n. i.0j cedure the Legislature was un- keep traffic moving.

The Calkins family was picked n'IT, 4, '-t constitutional. ONE NEGRO was arrested. The over 11 other district dinners. The Canncl said the sal propri. arrcSli officervSaid he refused family was presented with a new 1.

in mot to mQVe Qn when ordered car as first prize. uel tax appropriatjon bill after The Negro Horace Moore, 32. The family has four members. that measure had passed the Sen- was taken to the city jail, where Calkins is 45, his wife is 49, their ate and was on second reading in he was booked on charges of re-son Charles Is 19, and their the House. jsisting arrest and refusing to obey daughter Mary Lou is 15.

AAfrvnFn mntnr fliel taxjan olficer. was men auopieu uy me nuuat 4. emu cuiiuuiicu' in uy mc: ocuaic without urther reading hc said The appropriation biL was passed on the final day of the legislative session. Cannell said that the state con. I stitution provides that all Residents of the Mt.

Carbon area east of Murphysboro are planning a birthday party Sunday for Jackson county's acknowledged "oldest resident," Mrs. Annis Stewart, who will be 105 years old Monday. The party is scheduled to be more of an onen house affair than a conventional birthday celebration It will be held at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Jennie Turner, who lives at the intersection of Ritter and streets in Mt. Carbon.

At 105, Mrs. Stewart is still "up. and going" every morning. She does her bit around the Turner home, often helping in the household duties. She gets around as well as any "youngster" of 70, and thinks nothing of walking, several blocks to visit.

To the best of her knowledge birth records were practically un known back in those believes that she born on an Alabama plantation on Aug. 15, 1S44, to an alleged full-blooded Indian woman who had Hoover, HI. Continues Trip Ogden, Utah, Aug. 13 (AP) Former President Herbert TToover was stricken bv a gall nt nhrH uiuuun bound train today but continued his trip after medical treatment. Dr Keith Stratford boarded the train as it stopped in Ogden and examined the 75-year-old former chief executive.

tt nnin nA nf- xior. rrt on to New York The physician said Mr. Hoover reported he was ifppiinc mnrh hpttrr ieenng mucn oeuer. ARRANGEMENTS had been made to hospitalize Mr. Hoover bere, but the physician advised it unn ressary.

Mr Hoover was aboard the of San Trancisco, troncforrincr horn frnm Smithprn iraLinu to rdtini. uauns continue the eastbound journey, Mr Hoover was enroute east aft-' er celebrating at his former Cali- "fornia home his 75th birthday an- niverary last Wednesday. ainined the former president, then advised him to continue on to Ogden. Dr. Hadfield gave Mr.

Hoover emergency treatment but said immediate hospitalization was not necesary. THE FORMER president was en- route to New York City after spending several weeks in the West. He had been vacationing at the famed Grove, on the Russian river north of San Fran- Cisco. He spent last weekend in Utah, inspecting mining properties and conferring with mining executives. I Mrs.

it Calkins onerates a 200-acre farm1. He owns 100' of the acres. He raises mainly corn, oats, soybeans, hogs, sheep and cattle. Calkins, who lived in Illinois all his life, has operated a farm for 23 years. He also is a seed corn uc-aici.

Calkins attended business lege for two years. His wife went to a normal school for one year. Charles has just been gduated from high school, while Mary Lou is a sophomore in high school. (measures snail receive mietr icau- in each house of the General to be made at the Lipe Pastry Shop, and to be exhibited in the shop's window today. School Units Laws Signed Springfield, Aug.

13 (AP) Governor Adlai Stevenson today signed into lav a series of bills designed to step up school consolidation in llinois. One of the main ones abolishes non-high districts by June 30, 1953. Another requires an average of 15 pupils per grade in high schools to obtain state xrrants. This change also eoes into effect June 30, THE BILLS are all part of Stev- pnsrm's nropram to cut down the enson program 10 cui aown ine of school districts, now totaling around b.uuu. Qther of the newly en.

u.c. A district failing to maintain' schools two consecutive years will be dissolved. Districts which do not operate eV. ntTMo rrnc. "ifoi "luot ponaiion ana xuiuon lor us uigij 'school students after June 30, 1953.

ANOTHER approved school bill limits issuance of emergency teacher certificates to July 1, 1951. Engel's Shorts Jailers Shake Down Aged 'lMeiIlw- dlu dynamite was hurled by an unto procedure in passing the $632,000 ked whUe man who leaned om appropriation were made by Reps, of a SDeedin2 car St Joseph's Hospital, the second polio death in Elgin. The day be fore, she had given birth to a baby while in an iron lung. The child also died. St.

Joseph hospital in Blooming-ton admitted two new polio patients. They are Raymond Hammond, eight, of Bloomington, and Evelyn Miller, seven, of Tolono. DR SCHUMAN, chief of the state's communicable diseases division, said that polio in general 'hits only those persons who have not gained immunity by previous exposure." The likelihood of having been exposed normally increases with a person's age, he said. By 25 or 30, he added, many persons have been given small doses of polio virus without even knowing it because the symptoms were not severe enough to be "clinically recognizable." Polio studies plus experience with diphtheria and measles have ihown this, Dr. said.

a recent study of Il'nois victims ihowed that two of every three cases were under the age of nine, he said. Only about 29 per cent of cases occurred in persons 19 and over and five per cent in persons 29 and over. Schuman said about one of 100 persons to whom the virus is trans ferred actually is taken ill with polio. Du Quoin Girls, Ashley Boy Injured in Wreck Two Du Quoin girls and a boy from Ashley were in Marshall-Browning hospital at Du Quoin this morning after an accident a-bout midnight last night, about two miles, south of Du Quoin. The injured were Jack Kane of Ashley, Pauline Davis and Roberta Pullen, both of Du Quoin.

Their condition was not serious, hospital authorities "ud. The injured people told hospital attendants that the car in which they were riding ran off the road at a curve. John and George Seltia, Bowell brother, were admitted to Marshall-Browning hospital this morning, but were expected to be released after x-rays. They were slightly injured in an accident, hospital officials said. Details of neither accident were teamed.

Betty Wall Anna Fair Queen Coronation Performed at Closing Friday Night field, 111., drowned while she was! The train was halted for 30 min-wading in the Wabash river late 'utes earlier this morning at Elko, yesterday. The body was recovered where Dr. Dale Hadfield ex- Clinton Searle (R-Rock Island) and George Brydia (R-Prophetstown). BETTY WALL The closing of the 70th Anna fair I I i 1 lasi nigni was nignuiueu uy uie crowning of the Queen, Miss Betty Wall, daughter of Mrs. Cecile Wall of Anna.

The Queen was escorted to the throne by James Rich, president of the Anna-Jonesboro Chamber of Commerce, who also performed the coronation. Miss Wall wore a formal gown of lilac taffeta, with fitted bodice and cap sleeves. The queen's attendantsBetsy Bacon, Joyce Cox, Alma Smith and Bett Womick each wore formal gowns in attrac; live colors. At the close of the ceremony the Queen received a $25 bond as a gift from the Anna Fair association. The attendants each received a compact.

Miss Wall will be a member of the Anna-Jonesboro Community high ichool Junior class this year. Aug. 13 (AP) said they found $35 in his posses-Jailers ripped $7,400 out of Sig- sion Jail 'rules limiv prisoners to mund Engel's shorts yesterday but a maximum of Again last did not subtract much from thejThursday. John Donnelly, assist-biggest current mystery at the ant superintendent of the jail, said today. C.

Ingram of Geff, 111., who was with her said she apparently stepped into a hole in the river bed. An inquest was set for later today. Farmer Breaks Hip in Fall from Hay Wagon John Scarber, farmer who lives on Route 3, Du Quoin, fell off a hay wagon and broke his right hip about 4 p. m. yesterday.

He was in Marshall-Browning hospital in Du Quoin, after being admitted yesterday, soon after the accident. Cook county klink. she foun. $134.70 in Engel's posses- Ever since the 73-year-old lo-jsion. thrtrio was arrested June 25, onj Donnelly decided yesterday to charges of swindling widows whose have an even more thorough look, love he courted, jailers have won- He ordered the prisoner stripped dered about his apparent bottom- and his clothes -examined.

The lies source of ready cash. He seams on Engel's underwear seems to be constantly in violation seemed a bit bulky and were of jail rules in that respect. ripped opei. Out came 74 $100 A week ago, for instance, jailers bills..