Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 1

THE WEATHER FAIR, WARMER DECATUR HER EDITORIALS PAGE 4 Some Will Lose Jobs More Durable Stockings No Longer Feared Very Common Disease AID 10 Pages DeAtur, Illinois, MONDAY MORNING, October 31, 1938 THE WITCHES RIDE TONIGHT REBELS CAPTURE PEAKS OVER EBRO IN SUDDEN DRIVE WOMEN HYSTERICAL Mars 'Army' Excites U. It's Only Radio Skit Too Realistic a Radio Show for Listeners; Panicky Calls Swanip Newspapers, Police Offices i broadcast by the Columbia Broad-i casting system. But the anxiety was immeasur able. Many In Tears jB-v Associated Press At Fayetteville, N. people! HENDAYE.

FRANCE (AT THE with relatives in the section of SPANISH FRONTIER) Spanish New Jersey where the mythical Insurgents reported yesterday they visitation had its locale, went to a had won a "great victory" in east-newspaper office in tears, seeking 'ern Spain by driving the Govern- mformation. A message from Providence, R. I said: "Weeping and hysterical women! swamped the switchboard of the; Providence Journal for details of i the massacre and destruction at onet point in furious charges which New York and officials of the elec- marked the resumption of the of-tric company received scores ofjfensive on the front Insurgents calls urging them to turn off all have been trying to break for three lights so that the city would be I months, safe from the enemy." I BaltIe na agE gssarig- fSTv Mass hysteria mounted so high in some cases that people told pol-Lr1 adv! sai a -ice and newspapers they "saw" the i MgRfd t3" day' but gave invasion I 1Ildlcatln of the course of the fighting. It was the seventh Insur--ru One 'haw Fire offensive on this front since The Boston Globe told of one i July 25 when the Government sur-woman who "claimed she coutd'nrised the lninntc "see the fire' and said she and many others in her neighborhood i were "getting out of here." It finally got so in New Jer- FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR RAIL CHIEFS MEET TODAY Roosevelt Calls Union, Company Leaders By Associated Press WASHIXGTON President Roosevelt will confer with representatives of railway labor and management today in an effort to avert a strike cf one million rail workers against the proposed wage reduction which his fact-finding board has declared unjustified. The While House gave no inkling last night as to what the President would have to say to the deadlocked parties.

There was some speculation in the capital, however, that an effort might be made at this and subsequent conferences io reach an agreement on recommendations to the next Congress concerning liberalization of government railroad loans and other rail legislation. May Offer Loans Some executives in New York predicted Saturday that the government might offer the railroads about one billion dollars in easy-term rehabilitation loans, as a se-Q'Jel to the presidential board's recommendation that the managements abandon their proposal to r-duce wages 15 per cent on Dec. Existing law forbids tne Reconstruction Finance Corp. to make loans to railroads, except for maintenance purposes, unless the Interstate Commerce commission certi fies that the carriers are not in need of reorganization. In reliable circles here it was said that the roads which could obtain such certification were the ones least in Ed of loans.

Although the President's factfinding board recommended Saturday that the rail managements 'itndraw their notice of a pay cut, the recommendation is not legally binding. Conference Today The managements have not yet toinP' Billie Perkins, 6, and PROSECUTOR DIZZY- suring messages on the state tele-KeDelS Near Madrid type, instructing their officers what; By Associated Press it was all about "TAT-1vJTf, And all this despite the fact that! AUKID Government fliers the radio play was interrupted four they had droPPed times for the announcement: of bombs on Insurgent is purely, a fictional play." ccentrations and batteries Newspaper switchboard opera- 'he Tagus ne the northern tors quit saving, "Hello." front- They said ac- 10ear-OldBrideSt(Ms Life in Kentucky Cabin Bridgegroom, 34, Says "I Love Her Better Than Judge Threatens Action THREE CENTS BAYONET CHARGES WIN VICTORY Six Weeks of Quiet Broken By Attack Near Gandesa ments troops out of the Caballos mountains, key to the Ebro river front Dispatches from Generalissimo Franco's commanders declared many positions were carried at bav- the Ebro river and penetrating al most to Gandesa. Loyalists Bomb 1 Jv iii was oaservea on the in southwest Spain after a lull of about six weeks. CONDEMNED MAN TO BE GUINEA PIG IN DYING MINUTE By Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY A condemned man will join a Utah scientist today in an experiment to determine how long a man lives after a bullet pierces his heart. Shortly, after dawn ir- Utah's state prison yard, John W.

Deer-ing. 40, will go to his death before a five-man firing squad for the death of Oliver R. Meredith. Salt Lake City businessman. He has agreed to cooperate with Dr.

Stephen H. Beesley, state prison physician, in the experiment Beesley believes is the first of its kind. A device called an electro-cardiograph will take a moving picture of Deering's heart before, during and after the signal has teen given that will send four 30-30 caliber bullets crashing into his body. Only four of the five guns will be loaded so that no man may know for sure that he fired one of the death-dealing bullets. Test Theories "The primary purpose of the experiment is to see the action of the sity of Utah: his eyes to anyone who might want them for their cornea.

When he is strapped into the on a table. Nearby will be Dr Beesley. Each beat of Deering's pulse will shoot electrical impulses down the wires into the box and actuate a tiny beam of light which plays on a roll of sensitive film. The film will record each beat of the heart until it stops. Italian Guilds to Fix All Prices in Country By Associated Press.

ROME Tne central committee of Guilds has been empowered to fix all prices in Italy "to avoid market disturbances and unjustified rises in the cost of living." merely plugged in and said: "It's just a radio show." Children in Car One telephone informant said he had loaded all his children into his car, had filled it with gasoline, and was going somewhere. "Where is safe?" he wanted to know. A woman ran into a church in Indianapolis screaming: "New York's destroyed. It's the end of Decatur Radio Fans Excited, Too The Herald and Review switchboard was kept busy for nearly 45 minutes last night by persons calling in asking about "invasion" from Mars. One woman said a girl was hysterical and under the care of a physician as a result of the dramatization.

Telephone operators in surrounding towns also were rushed. The Hillsboro operator said could not handle all the calls for a time. the world. You might as well go home to die. I just heard it on the radio." Services were immediately.

Five boys at Brevard (N. college fainted and panic gripped the Spirit of Halloween Photo-Art by Les ANNA FIGHTS EVICTION Indian's Widow Held For Resisting By Associated Press LOS ANGELES Kicking and screaming, Anna Laura Barnett, 57, widow of the wealthy and eccentric Indian, Jackson Barnett, was led yesterday from the gas-filled Wil-shire boulevard mansion which he built, but in which the government has ruled she is no longer to live. United States Marshal Robert Clark and more than a dozen deputies, moving on the white Colonial home from two sides in the quiet of a Sabbath morning, dragged her and her daughter, Maxine Sturgis, off to the county jail and booked them on suspicion of resisting Federal officers. Armed With Hatchet Their removal followed a tear-gas attack during which Marshal Clark said Mrs. Barnett, armed with a hatchet, stood at the top of a flight of stairs, daring officers to come up and get her.

Two deputies said Mrs. Barnett had hurled the hatchet as the officers clustered at the foot of the stairs. But Clark said she was overcome by a tear-gas shot and dropped it as he led his 12 men and two women up the steps. It was the last stand of the embattled widow, who lived with Barnett for 14 years before his death, but whose marriage to him was annulled by Federal courts in 1934, three weeks before he died. Bar-nett's oil wealth accrued from Oklahoma tribal headrights.

By Associated Press' NEW YORK Hysteria among radio listeners throughout the na tion and actual panicky evacuations from sections of the metropolitan area resulted from a too-realistic radio broadcast last night des cribing a fictitious and devastat ing visitation of strange men from Mars. Excited and weeping persons all over the country swamped newspaper and police switchboards with the question: "Is it true?" It was purely a figment of H. G. Wells' imagination with some extra flourishes of radio dramatization by Orson Welles. It was TRUCK KILLS BULPITT BOY; GIRL DIES Bicyclist Is Victim Harvel Miss Succumbs After Crash Bv Staff Correspondent KINCAID Harold Warren.

13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo E. Warren, Bulpitt, was killed and his companion injured when the two boys, riding double on a bicycle, were hit by a truck on route 104 near here about 7 p. m.

Sunday Warren died instantly from a fractured neck and crushed skull and Bobby Stover, Bulpitt, suffered concussion of the brain. The bicycle was hit by a truck driven by Pow- i ell Gregory, Pawnee, between Kin- caid and Tovey near the C. I. M. spur crossing.

Bicycle Without Lights Gregory said the bicycle, without lights, was in the 'center of the highway when he swerved in a futile attempt to miss the boys. Warren's sister, Mildred, 18, who was walking along the road nearby, said the bicycle was off on the right shoulder. An inquest will be conducted at 7 p. m. Tuesday by Coroner Gilbert Nolan.

Besides his parents he leaves a brother, Donald, and four sisters, Mildred, Marjorie, Betty Jean and Rosemary. Harvel Girl Killed in Crash By Staff Correspondent. RAYMOND Miss Lorraine Todt, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Todt, of near Harvel, was killed and three others were injured at 4:30 p.

m. Sunday in a headon automobile collision on a dirt road a mile and a half south of Raymond. Miss Todt was killed instantly and two fellow passengers, Louis Beeler and Jeanette Kelmel, both of Harvel, were taken to a Litchfield hospital with serious injuries, Deputy Coroner Drexel Gordon, Hillsboro, reported. Also injured was Harold Anderson, Harvel, driver of the other machine. He was taken to the Litchfield hospital.

BULGARIA WANTS LAND By Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria Stoicho Mosh- anoff, president of the national assembly, in a speech yesterday said Bulgaria would demand the return of some territories lost in the World war. "We want a Deaceful revision of the Deace treatv." Moshannff said "Let this not frighten cur neigh- bors. It is our right and we will never relinquish our claims. Moshanoff's statement was believed here to be opportune inasmuch as this seems to be the appointed time for settling minorities questions in southeastern Europe, now that the Czechoslovak settlement has set the pace, It has been rumored for two weeks here that Yugoslavia, Rumania and Greece had agreed to revision of their frontiers to satisfy Bulgarian claims for territories lost as a result of her choice of 'the losing side in the World war. Dotson Smith, 1 1-2, watch A stove and a table occupy one room of the The other has three beds, one home-made.

The interior is papered with newspapers. Eight Sleep In Room Archie, brother of Fleming, and his wife once the wife of "Flem" Mrs. Columbus, the 200-pound mother of Rosie, two small brothers of the child bride and her "ail-in" sister, Becky, with Rosie and "Flem." sleep in the "big room" with the three beds. Rosie who weighs 70 pounds and is almost 4 feet, 8 inches tall, said she didn't know what her first grade schoolmates would think of her marriage. Here's how Mrs.

Columbus described to the county attorney the courtship between Rosie and "Flem." "Flem Snuck Down" "Rosie was in the first grade school down in Johnson county when Flem snuck down and brought her and Becky up here. He snuck down at night-time. "I follered them and got the license. Rosie and Flem had been sneakin' around and courtin' for a long time. They just wanted to get married and I couldn't stop them.

"Flem married her right after he had helped Archie build this new cabin and had worked 'a spell in the coal mine." THE WEATHER FORECAST FOR ILLINOIS: Fair, rising temperature central and north Monday; Tuesday generally fair and warmer extreme south, showers central and north portions. LOCAL WEATHER Sun. Sat. Sun. Sat.

7 a. m. Noon 7 p. m. Highest Lowest 40 64 53 67 40 39 Prec.

Mon. Sun. 64 50 Sun- 68 38 Rises 6:27 6:26 Sets 4:58 4:59 TEMPERATURES Colliflower and Robert Walters. Hobgoblins, Spooks Find WeatherOX. Still another hazy, lazy day of Indian summer is promised by the weather man for Halloween festivities today.

Yesterday's highest temperature of 67 degrees made it hard to realize that November is just around the corner. Less than two weeks ago a cherry tree was seen in bloom eight miles northeast of Decatur, indicative of the unusually warm fall. Frosts have occurred several times recently, but only- one light freeze. Yesterday's low was 40 degrees, the same figure still being recorded at 7 a. m.

The noon temperature was 64, and at 7 p. m. the mercury had dropped on to 53 degrees. The prediction for today is "fair and warmer." RETURNS TO PLANE BY CLIMBING ROPE Aviator Climbs Aboard Record-Breaking California Ship By Associated Press LANCASTER, Calif. In another daring maneuver, Thomas H.

Smith, Clarksburg, W. aviator, returned to the record-breaking endurance plane "Little Bear" yesterday, replacing Clyde Schliep-er. Long Beach flier who had been aboard since the flight started last Sunday. Smith, seizing a trailing rope, climbed up a ladder into the plane a few minutes after Schlieper had parachuted from 2,000 feet. RAMON FRANCO "Lieut.

Col. Franco. was chief of the Mallorca base which he organized." He first gained fame by a flight across the South Atlantic, Jan. 31, 1926. It was the first flight from Europe to South America.

the campus for a half hour at the time it is pierced by many students fighting for tele-j the bullet," said Dr. Beesley. phones to inform their parents to! "We do not know, although there come and get them. jare a number of theories, just what Residents of Jersey City, N. happens at that time.

Neither do telephoned their police frantically, we know when sensation ceases asking where they could get gas after the bullets tear into the heart, masks. In both jersey City andjlt might be a shorter or a longer Newark, hundreds of citizens ranjtime than we now believe." out into the streets. Deering, the incorrigible convict In Birmingham, peoplejwho asked to die for the May 9 gathered in groups and prayed, and holdup-murder of Meredith, also Memphis had its full quota of weep-! has offered his body to the Univer- Bv Associated Press PRESTONSBURG, Ky. Authorities shook their heads yester-iday and pondered legal action as Columbus, shown by records to be 10 years old, spent her first Sabbath as the wife of 34-year-old Fleming Tackett. When County Attorney Forrest D.

Short went to the windowless moun tain cabin where his bride, former wife and her husband and Rosie's mother live in -two rooms, he said he was "absolutely amazed," adding "I hardly knoi what course to take." Short said the "affair cannot' be and Tackett had told him "I love her, better than I love myself." Judge Threatens Arrest County Judge Edward P. Hill said he would issue a warrant for Tackett "if it could be that the husband has had improper relations with the girl, marriage or not." The judge added: "I believe there is a basis for criminal prosecution. "An example should be set in this case. It should be an example tfor all the people living in the mountains." The marriage license was pro-j cured by Mrs. Grace Columbus, mother of Rosie.

The child's age iwas given as 15. G-MEN NAB BANK ROBBER By Associated Press CHICAGO Daniel M. Ladd, director of the Chicago office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced last night the arrest of George Slade, 30, whom he described as the last member of the Edward Bentz gang of bank robbers. Ladd said the prisoner admitted participation in 15 bank and three postoffice robberies in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Missouri and Wisconsin. Seized Wednesday Ladd said the robberies in which Slade participated netted $110,054 in loot.

Slade was seized Wednesday by Federal agents in a west side rooming house. He was unarmed and offered no resistance, Ladd said. Two revolvers were found and there was $300 on Slade's person, he added. Ladd said Slade, who bore the nickname of "Spike," was a native of Champaign, HI. Franco's Brother Killed In Rebel Plane Accident ing women calling in to learn the facts.

Explanation By Welles After an introductory explanation by Welles at 7 p. m. CST). an high-backed, wooden chasr near the announcer gave a commonplace1 south wall of the prison, a physician weather forecast. Then, in stand-! will go to him, place a stethoscope ard fashion, came the words: "We to nis heart and then point its po-take you now to the hotel where jsition to a prison guard who will we will hear the music of, etc." IP'n a white cardboard target to After a few bars of dance music the spot, there came "A bulletin from the Wires to Wrist Intercontinental Radio News Bu- Then Dr.

Beesley will fasten reau" saying there had been a gas 'wires to each wrist The wires will explosion in New Jersey. Uead to a small, black box placed indicated whether they will comply. Still tin tr tha rds of one member of the factfinding board, is the problem of averting the- nation-wide strike hich the workers have voted if ie reduction is put into effect. John J. Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads, and George M.

Harrison, head of By Associated Press BURGOS, Spain Lieut. Col. Ramon Franco, brother of Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco and former aviation attache at the Spanish embassy in Washington, was killed Friday in an airplane off Palma, Mallorca, it was announced yesterday. Mallorca is an Insurgent airplane base off the eastern coast of Spain. Ran Into Storm A statement issued here at Insurgent headquarters said, "Lieut.

Col. Franco left Mallorca piloting a seaplane, with another plane following his. "Soon after leaving the base, a heavy storm arose and the second plane was obliged to return to its base. "The bodies of Roman Franco and three other occupants of the plane were found nine miles northwest of Cape Formenthal and were conveyed to Palma where they are lying in state in the town hall. "The body of one occupant is missing.

The watch of one of the officers had stopped at five minutes past six Oct 28. 7 p.m. High Low Boston 50 52 50 Ne-w York 50 56 48 Jacksonville 62 70 52 New Orleans 70 78 60 Chicago 49 49 48 Cincinnati 56 62 38 Detroit 48 52 38 Memphis 70 76 52 Oklahoma City 76 78 48 Omaha 64 72 38 Minneapolis 54 62 38 toe Railway Labor Executives' as- sociation. have been invited to the conference with the President to- After that the bulletins came, more and more ranidlv with "Pro- jfessor Pierson," played by Welles, explaining about the attack by Mars and the little men who were pouring out of their meteor-like airplanes. Germs Proved "Fatal" For some time the Mars warriors drove everything before them.

Mere armies and navies were wiped out right and left and the real (radio audience was as frightened as the actors pretended to be. But then the little men acquired a lot of germs to which we men-of-the-world are virtually impervious. So the little men died and everybody lived happily ever after. i oay. The joint conference commiitee, composed of railroad executives ho conducted negotiations with employes before the wage cut was decided upon, also is to meet here today.

H. A. Enochs, chairman, said this FLAX WOMEN'S RALLY SPRINGFIELD (AP) A statewide women's Democratic rally will be held here Thursday with Mrs. Thomas F. McAllister, director of the women division of tr.e Democratic national committee, as principal speaker.

I 8-oup probably would turn the question of reducing wages back ta the dividual railroads..