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Coles $565,000 WPA Project Approved in Washington Farm Income fo Despite Smaller Be Higher Export Demand Maniac Kills Itinerant In Road Battle Columbia, S. C. (AP) An elderly, crippled itinerant was beaten to death in a terrific fight near here Sunday, Sheriff T. Alex Heise reported, with a "raving maniac." A newsboy reported to officers Chicagoan Captures Lincoln Midget Race Lincoln (Staff) AAA Finds Fewer Signers In Dewitt Clinton (Staff) Only 72'-4 per cent of Dewitt county crop land has bpen enrolled, in the 1940 AAA program, com. pared to 80'-z per cent enrolled Ut year, according to Gordon -V.

Day secretary of the county agricultur! al conservation office today. May 1 was the deadline for signing ap. plications for committeemen 13 measure crops. Effingham Schools Busy Effingham (Staff) Effingham public schools calendar of events for the rest of the school term is full this year, according to Mr. E.

R. Britton, superintendent Today the junior-senior high school music department and the girls G. A. A. group will give their annual music and dance festival in the new high school gymnasium.

Spring registration is scheduled for Friday. Mav 10. as well as Hunt Sex Fiend After Slaying Of Factory Girl Bellefonte, Pa. (AP) Fay Gates, a pretty, 25-year-old brunet match factory worker was brutally slain and criminally assaulted Sunday only 12 miles from the spot where five weeks ago college co-ed Rachel Taylor was similarly killed by a person still at large. Investigators said they believed the same person, whom they describe as a sex fiend, killed both young women.

Gagged By Slayer mother's parties for elementary were recorded for Dewitt cnun-y school summer round-up. Saturday, and 1,122 of them were signed up May 11, the G. A. A. Class will have the pr0ram' a picnic with Miss Golda Brooks,) instructor, in charge.

The band goes iTuSCOlC! Funeral Home Wally Zale of Chicago won the feature 15-lap midget auto race which headed the card at the Log an county fairgrounds here yes terday. Cowboy O'Rourke of Chi cago was second and Bob Muhlke was third. In the four heats, Zale, Easton, Mike O'Halloran and John Rogan triumphed while Zale also won the handicap race. i Altamont Shorthand Team in State Contest Altamont (Staff) In the sectional commercial contest held at Bridgeport, the Altamont community high school won the right to compete in the state finals at Champaign, May 11, in the 90 word shorthand division. The successful team consisted of Gehl Tucker, Nadine Burrow and Catherine Koeberlein who were first in this event with a transcription rate of 43.9.

Oakland High to Have New Home Ec Teacher Oakland (Staff) Mrs. Buelah Walker of Loving-ton, who has been filling in as a supply teacher in home economics at the high school here will not return to teach next year, according to school officials. Mrs. Walk er was secured on a temporary basis when the regular teacher resigned last year. to Battle Creek, for the na-j tional contest May 15-18.

Summer round-up's and dental clinics will be held May 16, 20, 21, 23, 24, at the various grade schools. The band will be given a banquet in their honor on May 20 in the high school gym. The annual open house and exhibits of high school students will be held this year in the new high school May 23-24 as well as baccalaureate service on Sunday, May 26. Final examinations will be given May 27, 28, and high school commencement held in the new building at 8 p. Wednesday, May 29.

ASSEMBLY PLANT BURNS Hopkins, Minn. (AP) The Har vesting machirre assembling unit of the Minneapolis-Moline power implement company burned Sunday. George L. Gillette, vice president, estimated the loss at "more than one quarter million dollars." Hindsight and Foresight CfUOl ADCUIP EXAMS JUNE 1 Clinton -(Staff) Examinations for- University of Illinois scholarships will be held in Clinton June 1, according to Mrs. May' Porter, county superintendent of schools, who will conduct the exams.

Three scholarships will be offered, one general, one in home economics and one in agriculture. Five Clinton high school students already have indicated they will write on Last Confederate Veteran Dies Bement (Staff) Marion C. Phillips, 96, Piatt county's last Confederate Civil war veteran, died at 2:30 a. m. Sunday in his home here following an illness of six weeks.

Born in Cedarstown, April 26, 1844, he served during the Civil war in the 33d Mississippi regiment. He came to Piatt county soon after the war and worked as a farmer. His wife and a son preceded him in death. He loaves six children: A. B.

and Otha Phillips. West Los Angeles, Mrs. Mae Elledse and Mrs. Myrtle Garver. Visalia, Calif; and Walter Fairbanks and F.

J. Phillips, both of Bement. Funeral services will be conduct-jed at 2 p. m. Tuesday in the Be-jmcnt Methodist church with Mason- ic honors.

Burial will be in Bement cemetery. Springfield Man Faces Charges in Lincoln Lincoln (Staff) William L. Lehman. Springfield, was brought to Lincoln from Springfield Saturday by Logan Sheriff Walter Bauer, to answer the charge of theft of a car and two front wheels and tires from a pick- UP truck. total value.

$200, on the complaint of L. A. Dawson, Lincoln. Rev. Davis to Fill Oakland Pulpit Oakland (Staff) Rev.

R. B. Davis of Chicago. has been named to fill the Presby- terian church pulpit for the next six months. Mr.

Davis is a student at the McCormich Seminary in Chi cago and will continue his studies there, preaching in Oakland every other Sunday of each month. Dewitt 8th Grade Pupils Get Diplomas Tonight Clinton (Staff) Fourteen pupils in Clintonia and Harp township schools will be presented eighth grade diplomas by Mrs. May Porter, Dewitt county superintendent of schools, at commencement exercises Monday night in the Prairie center church. Exercises will begin at 8 p. m.

Oakland Pastor to Talk At Oblong Exercises Oakland (Staff) uev. u. G. Hall, pastor of the church here, has ac-invitation to speak at Methodist icopted an commencement exercises at the Oblong grade school. The exercises will be held late in Mav.

By HOLGAR J. JOHNSON President, Institute of Life Insurance Miss Gates was gagged by her slayer with a part of her own bras siere. Like Miss Taylor, her head was bludgeoned unmercifully until she died. Coroner Charles Sheckler said Miss Gates had been criminally attacked, possibly by the same kill er as Miss Taylor. Sheriff Ed Miller declared without qualification, however that he believed the same individual killed both the factory worker and the college student.

"The crimes look alike to me," said Miller, adding grimly: "I hope there aren't two fellows like that in this (Centre) county." Five Skull Fractures "It looks like a sex fiend did it, although the body wasn't mutil ated as much as Rachel Taylor's. Miss Gates was beaten on the head with a blunt instrument, possibly an iron bar found in her car," Sheckler added. Dr. William Schwartz of Belle fonte, -who performed an autopsy. reported the young woman died of five skull fractures.

Miss Gates body clothes and hair disheveled and bleeding pro fusely at the head was found beside her automobile on a muddy detour about a mile from her home and nine miles from this Central Pennsylvania town. She was attacked and slain in a section known as "Spook Hollow." Sals Tax Suits Filed in Montgomery Hillsboro (Staff) Two suits were filed by the state department of finance in the circuit court here on Thursday against the following parties: E. Masters, doing business as Maters Tavern of Butler, for unpaid retail dealers sales tax from September, 1936, to October, 1938. amounting with costs and penalties to $109.03. Rex Gilly, doing business as "Rextons'' at 313 North State street, Litchfield, for unpaid retail dealers sales tax from January to June.

1939, amounting with penalties and costs to $226.77. Former Cerro Gordo Butcher Killed in Indiana Cerro Gordo (Staff) Hugh Ragland, 47, who was in the meat business in Cerro Gordo until about eight years ago was killed in an accident Sunday in Ft. Wayne, where he made his home, according to word received here. No details of the accident were received. He leaves his wife and a son.

Harold, both of Ft. Wayne. The body will arrive at the Dob- son funeral home tonight. Funeral services will be held Tuesday. Washington, D.

C. (AP) The agriculture department pre-1 dieted Sunday that despite restrio tive effects of the war on agricultural exports, the income of American farmers would be higher during the first half of this year than in the corresponding period last year. Domestic demrnds had been more than offsetting losses abroad, the department said, adding that prospects pointed to further improvements in the home market this summer and fall. Prices Better Better prices prevail than a year ago, with wheat making the best gain. Other products drawing better prices include cotton, feed grains, and vegetables.

On the other hand, hog prices are lower because they are burdened by supplies disproportionately larger than the increase in consumer demand. As farmers, employing 2.500.000 hired hands at wages higher than a year ago, moved ahead with their planting, the department issued this general summary of agricultural prospects: A smaller world wheat crop indicated. Feed grain supplies in the United States expected to be smaller this year than last, even though the surplus of old corn on Oct. 1 may be 100.000.000 bushels larger than the 573.000.000 bushels on that date last year. Lareer Soybean Crop Larger crops of peanuts, soybeans and flaxseed expected this year.

They would add to already large supplies of edible fats and oils. Corn belt cattle feeders expect better market for beef during the next few months than a year ago. Marketing of hogs expected to reach seasonal peaks this month and next, then decline until the new spring crop begins to go to slaughter in September and October. Milk Code to Require New Bottling Machinery Revision of the citv's milk orriin-1 ance now underwav would require new bottling machinery in all but two of the dairies that distribute i pasteurized milk and in all of the raw milk dairies. Designed to prevent contamination, a new regulation to be included in the milk ordinance provides that the or covers of all milk containers must cover the pouring lip (of the container) at least to its largest diameter." The revised ordinance would become effective this summer but.

according to Dr. P. A. Steele, city health director, sufficient time will be allowed the dairies to change over from the old-style caps to the new ones. Alt changes contemplated in the milk ordinance, including the wider-cap provision, were suggested by the United States public health service in its 1939 list of regulations.

V. F. W. Builds Softball Diamond on Heger Tract i A Softball diamond is being built in the 1200 block of West Eldorado street on a two and a half acre; plot recently leased by the Oren L. Davis post No.

1245. Veterans of. Foreign Wars, from J. J. Heger.

I Mr. Heger is retaining for himself that part of the nronertv at th corner of Eldorado street and Fair view avenue where his service sta-' tion is located. Lighting fr night play is being installed above the diamond, which will be used by the V. F. softball team, which will play: this year in the Cornbelt league, i an organization of Central Illinois tr.ms.

A wire and picket fence is bring btuit around the property, and bleachers, a box office and other necessary equipment will be erected. Tax Collection Ahead in Christian I I HOW long do you think youll live? Ten years or twenty years longer than your father, grandfather, great-grandfather? Your chances of surviving from infancy to adulthood are a lot better than they used to be. But, I'm sorry to tell you, once you've reached middle life your than the improvement In the death rate has reduced it Don't let anybody fool you into believing that the life insurance actuaries the mathematicians of the business are making any mistakes. Competition in life insurance would very quickly turn up a cheaper policy if any change in the average length of life for a group of people justified it. The be it hop for lower insurance costs lis" in increased interest rates, not in increased' length of life.

he had seen two naked men bat tling in the middle of a concrete highway, and deputies rushed to the vicinity. There they found the body of the unidentified itinerant in a wood and arrested a man the sheriff said was Washington Metropole, 22, of Darlington. Metropole was taken to the county jail but was later removed to the state asylum. The sheriff quoted Metropole as saying: "Love rulesthe world. Love told me he was the devil incarnate.

Love told me he was a curse to the world and must be destroyed. I didn't kill him, love killed him," G.O.P.ToMap Platform Early Washington (AP) Republicans will start drafting their platform for the 1940 presidential campaign a week before the June 24 opening of their national convention, at Philadelphia. Chairman John Hamilton announced Sunday that he had taken the "initiative" in assembling the resolutions committee at Philadelphia about June 17. He based his decision, he said, on letters from state chairman and national committeemen in 36 states, the District of Columbia and Hawaii. All of these, he said, approved a suggestion he made on April 20, that state delegations caucus as early as possible to select members for the resolutions committee with view to arranging a pre-convention session of the committee.

By convening the resolutions committee a week in advance of the convention, Hamilton said, the platform drafters would have sufficient time "to hear all those who wish to express viewpoints, to discuss and consider the report of the Republican program committee, to deliberate among themselves and to outline the basis for a party platform. Annual Mother-Daughter Banquet in Villa Grove Villa Grove (Staff) The annual Mother and Daughter banquet was held in the dining rooms of the Methodist church, Friday evening, under the auspices of the woman's foreign missionary society. There were 125 mothers and daughters present. The dining room was decorated with baskets arid vases of spring flowers. Each table was decorated with small paper lace doilies and bowls of tulips and other spring flowers.

Mrs. Sam Thrasher, president of the missionary society, was the toastmistress, and gave a short welcome to the mothers and daughters. A girls quartet, composed of Miss Betty Mcents, Miss Roma Gale Maxfield, Miss Gladys Burnett and Miss Rosemary Farmer, sang "To My Mother'' and "Pale in the Amber Mrs. Ida Capehart gave a toast to the daughters. Miss Marian Cravens gave the response to the mothers.

ders from the mayor, visited all places just at closing time Saturday night and told the proprietors of the mayor's order. of the machines were removed while others sealed the machines with wire and locks. The mayor, refusing to deny or confirm that he ordered the removal of the machines said "wait until tomorrow night's meeting. The whole thing will be settled It was reported that considerable opposition would be evident at tonight's council meeting to the repeal. Many owners of small taverns have the machines in their establishments as rent payers and object strenuously to losing i the revenue they bring in.

chance of living to a ripe old age is about the same as it was a hundred years ago. Why I bring this up is that someone is always asking me, "If we are living so much longer, why don't my premiums go down?" Did you know that the decline in the rate of interest earned on money in recent years has increased the cost of life insurance far more NOTEt In this regular Monday column, paid for at adver tUing rate, the Institute of Life Insurance has asked Ita president to discuss questions of Interest to life Insurance policyholders. Inquiries may be addressed to 60 East 42nd Street, New York City. a total 01 i.Hti "larmmg units' Completes Remodeling luscola (Maff) Tack Green, owner of the War, dington funeral home on South Main street in Tuscola, has just completed an enlargement to ths home, which adds to the exterior appearance as well as providing display room for caskets and vaults. The interior of the new display room is finished with walnut walli and gum finish ceilings.

A burgun. dy colored carpet covers the floor and the windows have Venetian blinds with drapes to match th carpet. Ten Flourescent ceilirg lights of modernistic design, provide light. PRISON MOVIE Atwood The Atwood P-T. A.

ar.d Lions' club is sponsoring a motion picture on Joliet prison life at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Atwood high school gymnasium. ndtbc motor. .1, sumw" nt. you we not sol' buy em can even ot SZTtoM tin yw Wl" u-A Mattoon (Staff) Approval of the Coles county wide WPA project, calling for an allotment of $565,432, has been giv en wasmngton, according to word received here from Cong.

William H. Wheat yesterday. The project, sponsored by the Coles county board of supervisors. was submitted for WPA approval more than a month ago. The pro gram, a consolidation of work within the county, except for spe cial city and drainage district proj ects, including Mattoon's sanitary sewerage project, includes a con struction and improvement of county roads, township roads in the 12 townships, and some city streets and alleys.

Along with the road work, the project provides for clearing, exca-'ating, grading, shaping, surfacing, paving, landscaping, seeding, pulling removing and planting trees, changing channels, and rip-rapping ditches. Construction in various parts of the county of sidewalks, storm sewers, manholes, catch basins, drainage structures, bridges, culverts, curbs, gutters, street markers, sanitary sewerage lines, and water mains is also included. Where construction is to be done on private a property, easements and rights-of-way must be obtained. Pafoka Druggist 50 Years Dies Patoka (Staff) S. E.

Alton, 68, veteran businessman of this community was found dead in bed Sunday morning, the victim of a heart attack. Mr. Alton, a native of Patoka, had been a druggist here for 50 years. He was born Oct. 31, 1939 and leaves his wife, Olga Alton; a son.

L. D. Alton: a sister, Mrs. Josie Vallow, and a brother, Thomas Alton, all of Patoka. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.

m. Tuesday in the Patoka high school gymnasium in charge of the J. C. Berry funeral home. A coroner's jury verdict said Mr.

Alton's death resulted from natural causes. Mount Auburn Seniors To Give Play May 17 Mount Auburn (Staff) The senior class of the Mount Auburn community high school will present a comedy play with mystery, entitled "Pleased Ta Meet-play, in three acts, is written by cha," Friday night, May 17. The play, in three acts, is written by Bernard Chichester, and is to be directed by Miss Eleanor Wolff. The cast is as follows: Betty Bixby. the daughter, Mable Williams; Elmer Hicks, fresh from the country, Charles Knowles; Martha Bixby.

the mother, Eileen Reed; Henry Bixby, the father, Victor Barnes; Binks, the butler, Sherel Nutt; Marie, the maid, Betty Pierce; Beevy. a detective, Bill Reeter; Archie Pomeroy, one of Betty's boy friends, Merris Maxwell; Andrew Grimes, who claims to be a detective, Zinn Crain; Helen Maxwell, girl friend of Betty's. Mary Catherine Hohenstein; Ruth Adams, another girl friend, Verda Mae Bot-trell; Howard Wills, a boy friend, Wayne Barnes. Mrs. C.

E. Cole amazing or all, can now enjoy every mouthful of food I eat, be cause the old distress simply seems to have forgotten me! Every time I eat a meal now I thank goodness that I found Natex. A special Natex Representative invites you to come in to see him personally at the Rambo Pharmacv. 125 X. Main St.

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Credits Natex. "I'm recommending Natex at every chance I get now because I know how really good a medicine it is." declared Mrs. C. E. Cole, Route 5, this city, in a recent conversation with the special Natex Representative at the Rambo Pharmacy, 125 N.

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Now, I never even OurpcesJ in 4e in out store. Ownlou town' fi.iiurajy tnat me collection amounted to $204. 126.56 for the period at compared wish S187.S42. 12 for the same month last year. Tolhvcr said that most of the big tax payments from the railroads and larger business interests in the county were still to come in.

Operettas at Oakland Postponed to Wednesday Oakland (Staff) Two operettas. "Why. Garden Quarreled." to be presented by the children of the first six trades, and "Tommy Jo." by seventh and eighth grade pupils, will be given in the Oakland grade school Wednesday night. The affair was originally scheduled for Tuesday night but had to be postponed because cf a Rotary club meeting. Before the operettas, the rhythm band of the second grade will play.

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