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Saturday, June 24, 1950. PAGES TODAY. THE DECATUR REVIEW Rare Disease Victim Better, Quits Hospital Mrs. Jane Smith, who has been in Decatur and Macon County hospital with a rare disease. has "shown great hospital authorities say, and left here this morning for.

the home of her mother. Mrs. Hall A. Demmond, in Gary, Ind. Doctors say that Mrs.

Smith has disseminated lupus erythematosus, an ailment which causes widespread damage to many parts of the body including the skin, heart, kidneys, blood vessels and skin. DRUGS FOR the treatment of Mrs. Smith were donated two weeks ago by Armour Co. of Chicago. Doctors had said that the only medicine which help was ACTH, a costly substance which is now available only for research and investigative purposes.

She is now sufficiently improved to be moved. A hospital official said that treatment will continue if needed. Mrs. Smith's infant son has been cared for by Mr. and Mrs.

Raymond Reynolds, 989 North Wilmer street during her illness. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds will drive to Gary tomorrow with the baby. MRS.

SMITH is being taken to her mother's home in a Brintlinger's ambulance. Her husband is Rev. David Smith, a minister and director of the Child Evangelism fellowship. Child Struck by Car, Receives Head Injuries Janet Vallas, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Chris Vallas, 901 West North street, was in St. Mary's hospital this morning with head injuries received at 2:33 p.m. yesterday when she was struck by a car in the 600 block West Macon street. T. E.

Smith; 24, of 1141 North Water street, told police the child ran into the street in the path of his car and he could not avoid striking her. The child was taken to the hospital in a taxicab. Hospital authorities said this morning her condition was "fairly good." Police said there were skid marks 46 feet long where the driver had attempted to stop his car. Mrs. John Holbert, 58, Dies; Funeral in Pana Funeral services for Mrs.

Nora Holbert, 58, of 1121 North Clinton street will be at 2 p. m. Sunday in the Stumpf funeral home, Pana, with burial in Tower Hill cemetery. She died at 7:20 p. m.

in her home after a long illness. Besides her husband John, she leaves a daughter, Mrs. Dona Barkhurst of Lakewood; a son, Harve W. of Decatur; two sisters, Mrs. Artie of Shelbyville and Mrs.

Lucille McCurdy of Decatur. and her father, John Dilley of Tower Hill. She was born Sept. 7. 1891, in Shelby county and lived in Decatur eight years.

She was a member of South Side Nazarene church. Two Youths Rescued After Boat Capsizes Two unidentified youths were rescued from Lake Decatur, south of the east end of the Nelson Park bridge, shortly after their boat capsized in choppy waters at 2:45 p.m. Friday. Dale Collett and Duke Anderson. lake patrolmen and lifeguards.

were near the scene when the boat overturned and rescued the youths. A fire department rescue squad, police and deputy sheriffs started for the scene but were stopped before their arrival when word came that the youths had been rescued. Hereford Breeders Hold Field Day Today The Illinois Hereford Breeders association is holding its annual field day today on the Lawrence Bennett farm near Argenta. The all-day program, which started about 10 included a hereford stock judging contest for farm youngsters and demonstrations of hereford cattle types. Charles Snyder, editor of the Chicago Daily Drover's Journal, was the principal speaker, and several specialists were on hand to conduct the type demonstrations.

Two Decatur Golfers In State Quarter-Finals Two Decatur entrants, Jack Chilton and Jim Finley, were paired today in the quarterfinal matches in the championship flight of the Central Illinois Amateur golf tournament at Springfield. Other quarterfinalists were from Jacksonville and Springfield. The title will be decided on the Bunn park course tomorrow. CHURCHMAN RITES Funeral services for Mrs. Nora N.

Churchman, 68, of 1253 East Grand avenue, who died Wednesday at a Minnesota resort, will be at 10:30 a. m. Monday in the Dawson Wikoff funeral chapel. Burial will be in Fairlawn cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

CHECK CHARGE William W. Bennett, 31, of Pana, was in Macon county jail last night, charged by R. W. Shrock, 801 North Water street, with defrauding by check. Justice Bert Weaver issued the warrant which deputies said involved the issuance of a $100 check by Bennett.

Airline On 1st Full Day of Schedule Decatur Pilot Brings 1st Flight in Here By BILL HINDS Of The Review Staff Passenger airline flights through Decatur began yesterday at 3:23 p. m. when Capt. Armond Hinkle brought Parks Airlines, blue and silver "City of Champaign-Urbana" down at the Municipal ain port. Because of the short notice of the inauguration of passenger flights, no passengers boarded the plane here yesterday.

PARKS WAS still making practise runs over the route yesterday morning and word of the first revenue flight was not received here until after noon. The big plane came in here on the maiden passenger run with Captain Hinkle. son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

Frank Hinkle. Forrest Knolls estate, at the controls. Before joining Parks. Captain Hinkle flew for Capitol Airlines of Washington, D. for five and onehalf years.

He has 6.600 hours of flying time. Serving as co-pilot Workshop Group Will Attend U. of I. Meeting Summer workshop members decided today in their general session at Decatur high school to attend the educational conference on Freedom and Human Relations at the University of Illinois next Wednesday, June 28. About 35 of the teachers will ttend.

Discussion of other educational trips the group may take was also held. Paper Drive For Pool Fund Officials of Lincoln Trails Boy Scout council last night announced a waste paper drive for July 16, with proceeds to aid construction of the Camp Robert Faries Boy Scout swimming pool. Details were outlined in a committee meeting called by D. K. Dame, chairman.

The meeting was held at Atlas Waste Paper 263 East Wabash avenue. He said the committee has set a goal of 250 tons of paper. Civic clubs and groups will be asked to supply men to assist in the collection. Fathers of Scouts and Scoutmasters and other Scout officials are expected to cooperate. Funds will be used to buy and deliver materials to the site of the pool for the use of labor.

Building trades are supplying labor for construction of the pool. Excavation work has been done. Cost of materials for the pool is estimated at $10.240. Guy Thompson, secretary of the Trades Labor assembly, said yesterday three of the 40 A. F.

of L. unions have donated $150. Mrs. Carmack Dies in Aurora Mrs. Annabel R.

Carmack, 78. a former Decatur resident and first state secretary of the American Legion died in Aurora yesterday. Mrs. Carmack came to Decatur in 1912 and she moved to the home of her son in Aurora, after her husband, Fred L. Carmack, died here in 1934.

A printer for the Review Printing Stationery Co, at that time, Mr. Carmack fell to his death from a fourth floor window of The Herald-Review building. The Carmack family made its home here at 1360 East Division street. Mrs. Carmack was a member of the First Presbyterian church here, of the Daughters of the American Revolution and of the Order of the Eastern Star.

She also was one of the founders of the American Legion auxiliary. She was born in Vandalia on June 6. 1872. She is survived by a son, William Reed Carmack, Aurora, and a nephew. Frank Reed.

Clinton. Funeral services will be at 9:30 a. m. Monday in the Healy funeral home chapel in Aurora, and at 3 p. m.

Monday at the grave in Graceland cemetery, Decatur. MEET WEDNESDAY The next meeting of the Decatur Social Club for the Blind will be at 7:30 p. m. next Wednesday in the Longview place administration building, according to Mrs. Marjorie Brakefield, president.

PARKS NES Cus. CAPT. ARMOND HINKLE, was Capt. Harry L. Whipple, Charlotte, N.

C. THE FIRST Decatur passengers left here on flight number one at 8:38 a. m. today. An airline spokesman at the airport said that six persons boarded the plane this morning.

At least one ticket had been sold early today for the Chicago flight at 3:23 p. m. today. Air express service will be started here July 1, the airline said this morning. Rates must be established for Decatur and Champaign, because they have never had.

express service. At Springfield, which has air express service from another airline, the established rates will be charged. MISS WSOY-FM HESTER MORRISON Waitress Wins Queen Title Hester Morrison. 21, a waitress of 1605 North Monroe street, will represent WSOY-FM at Radio Appreciation day in St. Louis on July 2.

She was chosen Miss WSOY-FM in a contest on the Lincoln theater stage last night. She received $150 in merchandise gifts. Second and third places were won by Mildred Brink, 21, of 237 South Main street, and Wilma Hassinger, 18, of West Main street. Judges were E. Voris Conner, Jack Powers and Russell J.

Foval. The nine contestants first paraded individually before the judges' table, and later they donned bathing suits and posed in a groups, Louis Miss Morrison will compete with 71 girls chosen in similar contests held by radio stations which broadcast Cardinal baseball games. The winner will be named Miss Radio Appreciation and she and her two attendants will receive watches. If the Cardinals play in the World Series, Miss Radio Appreciation get two tickets to all games played in St. Louis and $100 traveling money.

Miss Morrison's prizes here included a portable radio, orchids, swim suit, dress, necklace and earrings, a beauty kit and five dance lessons. Square Dance Instruction Program Is Announced A program of square dance instruction was announced yesterday by the city recreation department. J. L. Turnell, formerly in charge of square dance instruction in Portsmouth, Ohio, has been employed as caller.

The first dance will be at 7:30 p. m. next Friday in Johns Hill park. Instruction will be given Wednesday evenings at 7 p. m.

in Lions playground by Marjorie Stone, high school physical education instructor. Mae Rupple of Centennial junior high school will give instruction at Hess park on Tuesdays. Dances will be scheduled weekly. Supt. Russell J.

Foval announced. Mr. Turnell lives at 1198 North Main street and works at the Decatur division of Houdaille-Hershey Corp. Fireworks Bring Arrests Deputies Nab Five Youths Early Sheriff's deputies arrested five youths at 3 a. m.

today at Sand Creek bridge on the Moose club road for shooting firecrackers. Residents of the area notified the sheriff's office of the disturbance. Deputies said firecrackers were still being shot when they arrived at the scene. Being held in the county jail this morning on state warrants Man Shot By Stepson After Family Spat Collins L. Cumbie.

33. of 827 North Warren street was in St. Mary's hospital today as a result of a bullet wound which police said was inflicted by his stepson. Police said the shot was fired last night during a family quarrel about 6 p. m.

Being held in jail was the stepson. DeVere L. Jones, 22, of the same address. Assistant State's Attorney Donald Baird said Jones will be named in a charge of assault with intent to kill, pending the outcome of Mr. Cumbie's wound.

NELLIE JONES CUMBIE, the victim's wife was being held in the county jail this morning for questioning in connection with the shooting. Two shots from a .32 caliber revolver were fired by Jones, police said. One of them narrowly missed Mrs. Charles Murray, an upstairs tenant, who had stepped between Cumbie and Jones. a statement to police.

Mrs. Murray said she heard Cumbies quarreling and intervened as a peacemaker. She said the dispute was over the possession of the keys to the Cumbie car. Cumbie was packing his suitcase to leave. MRS.

MURRAY said she saw Jones with a gun in his hand, but thought it was a toy until he fired a shot which narrowly missed her head. He fired again and the shot struck Mr. Cumbie, she said. Police said Jones admitted he shot Cumbie "because he was slapping my mother around," but Mrs. Murray denied this in her statement to police.

She said the couple was only quarreling about possession of the keys. Mrs. Cumbie said that Jones is her adopted son. Police described him as 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing 310 pounds. A physician said that the shot struck Mr.

Cumbie in the upper left chest, above the heart and lodged in the shoulder. St. Mary's hospital authorities said this morning that Mr. Cumbie's condition was listed as "fair" and that he rested well during the night. Police seized the revolver they said Jones used in the shooting.

Lake City Man Hurt In Attack by 2 Men Carl Lane, 29, of Lake City, was treated in St. Mary's hospital Thursday night for injuries received when he was attacked by two men on his way to the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Emma Long, 1203 North Thirty-fourth street. Mr. Lane told deputy sheriffs that the men fled in a car as Harold Taylor, his brother-in-law.

came to his rescue. Deputies said Lane could give no reason for the attack. Several stitches were required to close a wound above his left ear. Henry J. Heil, Newsman, Dies Henry J.

"Jerry" Heil, 47, a native of Decatur and a Chicago newspaperman for more than 25 years. died at Billings hospital in Chicago today. Hospital authorities said his death was caused by internal hemorrhage. Mr. Heil began his newspaper career with the City News bureau of Chicago.

Later he was employed on the morning Chicago HeraldExaminer, which has ceased publication, the suburban Evanston News-Index, and most recently on the Chicago Sun-Times. Mr. Heil and his brother. John S. Heil.

own a 17-acre tract of land which was considered and eliminated by the Veteran's administration when a site was being chosen here for a proposed veteran's hospital. In January of 1946 the brothers urged a congressional investigation of the matters connected with the location of the hospital. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon in Chicago. William H. Kossieck, Lifelong Resident, Dies William H.

Kossieck, 75, died in his home at 568 South Webster street at 5. p. m. yesterday. He was a native of Mr.

Kossieck was born here June 26, 1874, son of Henry and Bernadine Schumberg Kossieck. was married in 1900 to Mary Metzger, who died in 1945. A lifelong resident here. Mr. Kossieck drove the horse-drawn chemical truck at No.

1 fire station before going to work for the A. E. Staley Mfg. Co. He retired from the Staley company in 1940.

He was a member of the First English Lutheran church. He leaves a daughter, Mrs. Ruel Garey, Decatur: two brothers. Louis and George, Decatur; two sisters. Mrs.

Albert Ammann, Decatur. and Mrs. Charles Ott. Quincy and three grandchildren. Services will be at 1:30 p.

m. Monday in the First English Lutheran church, with burial in Greenwood cemetery. Friends may call at the Brintlinger funeral home from Sunday noon until Monday noon, when the body will be taken to the church. Friends may call there from Monday noon until the time of the service. Workers Get Nickel Boost At Union Iron A strike which started May 2 at the Union Iron works here was ended yesterday with the signing of a new contract which provides for a five-cent an hour "package" pay increase.

Production at the Union Iron plant at 600 East William street will begin Monday morning, company officials said. Terms of the settlement were announced last night in Peoria by Commissioner F. L. Sheridan of the federal mediation and conciliation service. HE SAID THE agreement will provide a three-cent hourly pay hike across the board.

The other two cents will come through addition of a sixth paid holiday, revised working hours and changes in the insurance plan. About 65 union members had been off their jobs since May 2 in the contract dispute. The union originally asked a 10-cent hike, which the company claimed would be injurious in a competitive market. Local 896 of the U.A.W. withdrew picket lines yesterday after ratifying contract terms Thursday night.

Members of another union, the International Association of Machinists, had refused to cross the line. A SPOKESMAN for the company said yesterday that contract terms were presented to the machinists in a meeting yesterday. The union will consider them Monday night, he said. and the machinists will return to their jobs Monday. Neither management nor union spokesmen were available for further comment today.

The contract was signed yesterday by President Roy Hamilton of the company and Ralph Strahle. president of the local, and Fred Eaton, chairman of the bargaining committee. Busy Week In Play Program Next week's playground movie will be "Yanks Ahoy." with "Andy's Blacksmith Shop" as the comedy and "Calgary Cowboy Stampede" as the short. The free movies will be shown at sundown Monday Hess Park. Tuesday at Garfield park, Wednesday at Johns Hill park, and Thursday at Mueller park, Friday Galloway park and Saturday at Torrence park.

Day campers will leave at 9 a. m. from these playgrounds on the following days of the week: French, Dennis, Woodrow Wilson. Fairview; Tuesday-Hess, Lincoln; Wednesday Torrence, Jasper; Thursday- -Garfield, Oak Grove, Monroe; West. A song fest will precede the movie Wednesday at Johns Hill and Thursday at Mueller.

The city-wide track meet will be Friday at Garfield park. Playground dances will be Tuesday evening at Torrence and Wednesday at Garfield. Johnny Moreland's orchestra will play at Torrence and Ben Bradley's orchestra at Garfield. Handicraft activities this week will stress clay molds and spool dolls. U.

B. Pastor's Daughter Dies Suzanne Cotherman. 11-year-old daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J.

D. Cotherman of Bloomington, died at 11 p. m. yesterday in Mennonite hospital in Bloomington of injuries received when her bicycle ran into the open door of a car Thursday night. Rev.

Mr. Cotherman was pastor of Third Evangelical United Brethren church in Decatur from 1940 1945, when he was transferred to First United Brethren church in Bloomington. The family made its home here at 1144 East Locust street. The youngster was taken to the hospital for treatment after the accident, but was returned to her home a few hours later. Early Friday morning she became ill and was taken back to the hospital.

The body was taken to the Beck funeral home in Bloomington. Funeral services will be at 10 a. m. Monday at the First United Brethren church, Bloomington. Mrs.

Louise Galka, 83, Former Resident, Dies Mrs. Galka, 83, of Chicago, who lived in Decatur for 62 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Luiz, Chicago, at 11:30 p. m. yesterday.

She moved to Chicago five years ago. She was a charter member of St. John's Lutheran church here. She was born in Germany on Dec. 11, 1866.

and she was married to William Galka, who died Dec. 31, 1835. Mrs. Galka leaves the following children: O. F.

Fred W. and E. P. Galka, Mrs. Alma Besalke, and Mrs.

Lydia Stern, all of Decatur; Mrs. Helen Guth, Danville, and Mrs. Margaret Jannush and Mrs. George Lutz, Chicago. She also leaves eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

The body will be brought to the J. J. Moran Sons funeral home. Funeral arrangements are incomI plete. AN UNSCHEDULED STOP Vernon Manes, rural route 8, out of Manes' truck as he and a fellow driver for the crossed North street at Main Meadow Gold dairy, Charles yesterday.

The two had the Albright. Macon (right) clean glass cleared away in 15 minup broken glass after seven utes. cases of empty milk bottles fell (Herald and Review Photo) Stray Scraps DO OR DIE While performing his first marriage last week, a young minister glanced up from the ritual book and saw the bridegroom slump to the floor in a faint. After the bridegroom had been revived, he leaned against a wall until the ceremony was completed. The marriage took place in a home.

BIG LILY Mrs. Elsie Welch, 305 West Green street, is proud of this lily, which stands four feet high and has 12 large blossoms, each of them more than six inches long. It is the second year the plant has bloomed this way. EARLY OR LATE? Two Herald and Review reporters riding along the 300 block West Grand avenue Tuesday did a double take when they came upon a Christmas tree lying in the middle of the street. LAST COUNT The Association of Commerce would like to see Decatur's population hit the 66.000 level, and District Census Supervisor Robert D.

Ferguson is willing to help. Mr. Ferguson said he has forms available for anyone who might have been missed during the regular count, and urged any missed during the regular count to be counted before the census office closes Friday. Navy Summer Program Needs 100 Young Men Decatur youngsters can get a free plane ride and an eight weeks cruise with the inactive reserve at the Naval Air 'station, St. Louis, if they show enough interest tomorrow.

The navy, pressed for 100 young men for its airmen recruit summer program at Lambert field. made the offer today. The eight weeks duty period starts Monday, and at the conclusion of it the boys will be offered a chance to take a two weeks cruise if they wish. They'll draw $75 a month. Lt.

(jg) Robert Reed and Lt. Stephen Graliker will be at the Decatur Municipal airport from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m.

tomorrow to talk to those interested, and if enough boys show an interest, Lieutenant Graliker said the navy will send a transport plane here to take them to St. Louis. Boys under 17 years of age need the consent of their parents, he said. City Water Shut Off For Work on Mains City water will be shut off from 8 a. m.

to 4 n. m. tomorrow on some Decatur streets in order to make connections on the new water main. Marvin Cazier, division superintendent of the city department of public property, said water would be shut in the following areas: On South Water street from Wood to Macon streets; On East Wood street from Franklin street to Broadway; On Industry court from Wood to Franklin streets. City Licensing Proposal Hit City revenue licensing powers are hazardous, and such a proposal will be defeated in the special legislative session, but rent legislation for the state will get Senate approval, State Sen.

Elbert S. Smith said yesterday. He also told the Association of Commerce legislation and taxation committee that an appropriation for the Mount Vernon tuberculosis hospital will probably pass the Senate. Senator Smith spoke before the group in the A. of C.

conference room. He said that city authority to license business and professions for revenue and not for regulation "would surely result in taxation where the least political complaint could be made." No financial help for Downstate cities is provided it any bills before the General Assembly, he said, and there seems little chance for a second special session to be called for consideration of other methods of municipal aid. Senator Smith said that, while a one-cent increase in the state sales tax cannot be considered during the special session, he expects it to be proposed next January when the General Assembly convenes. Group Plans All- Night Sing Decaturland Youth for Christ will stage an "all-night sing" in the Decatur high school auditorium next week, according to Rev. O.

R. Bartlett, director of the Youth for Christ group here. The program will get underway at 8 p. m. next Thursday and will continue until 4 a.

m. Friday. REV MR. BARTLETT said it will be second all-night sing held in Decatur. "More than 2,500 people attended all night singing in Centralia high school recently," he said.

Several quartets will take part in the music marathon. The featured group will be the All-American quartet from Mount Vernon, which broadcasts Monday through Friday and on Sunday morning on station WMIX in Mount Vernon. The quartet has appeared on many radio stations in the South and has toured over most of the nation. IT HAS APPEARED in the Baptist Temple in Akron, Ohio, the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles and the Municipal auditorium in Calif. Other quartets scheduled for the all-night sing include the Homeland Harmony quartet of Atlanta, and the Stamps Victory quartet of St.

Louis. Tickets are on sale at Jacobs Gift shop, 614 East Eldorado street. Summer Teachers Will Attend Normal Confab Summer service teachers have been granted one day to attend an educational conference at Illinois State Normal university, according to Murvil Barnes, summer workshop consultant. The conference will run from July 18 through July 20. The teachers will be able tr attend only one of the three days and the date has not been chosen as yet.

Feature of the conference will be a teaching materials display. DISORDERLY CHARGE William B. Hise, 437 South Haworth street, was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge last night. Police said Hise interfered in a discussion between a policeman and a motorcylist cn Lincoln square. G.E.

Plans Cleanup Week The General Electric Co. plastics, plant here will have Cleanup week next week when more than 200 employes go on vacation. A skeleton force of about 80, most of them ineligible for vacations this year, will remain on emergency duty and part of their work will be giving the plant its first annual vacation-week cleanup. The factory will be shut down from Monday, to July 5. Many of the employes, however, are eligible for two vacations this year and will not return until July Schedule Work During Vacation Shut-down 10, John Lucey, personnel director, said.

The plant needs cleaning up a little more than usual this year, Mr. Lucey said. Some disorder was created by the moving recently of a row of injection presses. All the injection presses were moved into an adjacent room. The former injection area now is used for More injection equipment is to be added later this year, Mr.

Lucey said. The Cleanup vacation week is to be an annual event, he said. Railroad News Wabash Posts Perfect May Safety Record Transportation and maintenance of way forces of the Decatur division of the Wabash railroad, along with the Moberly division chalked up a perfect safety record for the month of May this year with no reportable injuries. The Montpelier division had one injury. Despite the goose egg in May, the local division is still in second place for the five-month period to date, with a total of six, reportable injuries.

Moberly, which i is in first place for the period, not only had perfect slate for May, but did equally well in the five months from January to May, coming up with no reportable injuries. The record for the month is identical with the record last year in the same month. Moberly and Decatur, no injuries; Montpelier, one. Comparing for the five months, last year in the same period Moberly and Montpelier each had four reportable injuries while Decatur had a total of 11. IN THE MECHANICAL department the record for May shows Decatur locomotive shops and the Moberly roundhouse having no reportable injuries and the Decatur and Montpelier roundhouses each having one.

This compares with a record of reportable injuries each for the two Decatur groups in May last year, one for Moberly and none for Montpelier. For the five months of the year already completed the Decatur locomotive shops are on top of the race with no reportable injuries as compared with nine last year in the same months. Next comes Montpelier with one injury, compared With. two last year; Moberly with compared with three last year; and the Decatur roundhouse with three compared with six. This is a total reduction of 16 in reportable 'in- juries for the year to date.

MAY FOUND the Decatur store department and the Moberly car department having no reportable injuries while the Decatur and Montpelier car departments had one each. Last year in the same month the company's supply and car departments had a clean slate on all three divisions. In the January-May five-month period Decatur store department has had no reportable injuries compared with two last year; Moberly has two and had two last year; Montpelier had two compared with three last year; and the local car department had six compared with seven last year. WITH A FLURRY of stock buying in the market centering around C. E.

I. common stock, rumors are starting once more that a group is buying the road for. a merger proposition. Linked several times in the past with merger rumors, the new story on the road is that much of the stock is being purchased by a Kansas City group which has its eye on joining the forces of this road, Chicago Great Western, and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas road. Also the rumor is afloat that the road may merge with the Monon.

The Wabash railroad, along with the village of Morrisonville, the Christian county highway superintendent, and the state highway division, has been ordered to appear before the Illinois Commerce commission July 19 to show cause why the road's five crossings in' Morrisonville should not be adequately protected. LOCAL WABASH people report that rail travel is beginning to show signs of a boost from the vacation trade. This movement is reported to have begun a little early this year. Yesterday an extra car was used on the northbound Banner Blue to handle the extra customers. The following men have been set up to the engineer's extra board on the 9th districts: C.

W. Neal. C. T. Polk, and V.

N. Breuer. Brakeman J. F. Yobski who has been working on the 9th and 13th districts at the Wabash, has resigned from service.

Emma J. Frushour has been assigned position No. 40, timekeeping machine operator in the centralized accounting bureau at the Wabash offices here. Bids will be received from north end conductors to June 30 for position as passenger conductor on the Banner Blue between Decatur and Chicago. In an assignment of firemen in the Wabash's Hannibal yards W.

H. Schuessler took the 8 a. m. job, C. Hendricks got the 4 p.

m. assignment, and D. E. Weiss took the job on the midnight engine. On account of Fireman W.

H. Schuessler bidding out of Quincy yard service and into the Wabash's Hannibal yards, his Quincy yard job is open for re-assignment of fireman. Bids will be received for this job to June 27. Plenty of Gay Nineties Garb Now Available charging disorderly conduct were: Chester Hite. 19, Carlos Wayne Tackett, 19.

Jack Hise, 21. Jack Oliver, 19, Shirley Thompson, 20. Deputies said Jack Hise had firecrackers in his pocket and there were more in the glove compartment of the car the youths were driving. Churches and schools which have long deferred Nineties plays and skits because of putting on Gayinability to get the right clothing, can now borrow all sorts of old stuff from the recreation department. Recreation Supervisor Freda Combs announced today that she has received both men's and women's turn-of-the-century (or older) finery.

Recent acquisitions include two men's dress suits and several 50 to 75-year-old dresses..