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OK 0 0) Hfltfl GMfi pin UVJ JFtiLL LEASED TELEGRAPH REPORT BY THE ETORNATIONAl NEWS SERVICE THE Tri9Sr41i--Inhabitants of New York City consumed 142,000 carloads of fruit and vegetables, AND COMMERCIAL -STAR Sa Sixty-First Year. No. 278 Entered as second clan mal matter-, VxJon, Illinois MATTOON, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1936 ZZzzSVrtt Sunday Price Cent 65EepFigal Call. 99 Ell MPiTfflU TJT FORTRESS OF Bonus Payment -Precipitates Inflation Battle ItFJlY-NASH TO nasi Milan lAl i I A 1 ON COLLINSWORTH FUNERAL WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON M'CARL MAKES RULING AS TO BOUSING PROJECTS ALLEGED LOEB FISHERS ADMIT LANDOmiSE mma ii Washington, Jan. 30.

(INS) The funeral of Mrs. Henry Col-linsworth was held Wednesday aft Rents on federal housing projects FILLING STATION GIVEN BOOST IN Session to Be in Retal ernoon at the family home, 2808 Cedar avenue. Rev. H. A.

Stemme must show a net return on both the building and the land, and must equal at least the rate of Interest the government pays on its WHHlWtlliHI ft LtAUtliy Wl TALMADGE TO NO ADDITIONAL HAVE III IB? TAX IMS What Is to Be Influ- Budget Catches Many iation for Turndown WAS DICTATOR IN PRISON officiated. George Green and his daughter, Miss Margaret Green, of Governpr ROBBERIES sang, "There Will Be No Disappointment in Heaven" and "Will By tnternitloml Newt Sarvle. the Circle Be Unbroken?" accom Springfield 111., Jan. 30. panied by Miss Myrtle Osburn.

TOPEKASPEECH Kansas Governor Says Change Not Necessarily Progress Topeka, Jan. 30. (INS) public debt, U. S. Comptroller General McCarl ruled today.

The rents must be fixed so that the net return must be equal to interest on the money invested in the building plus, "a fair annual interest return on the value of the Laxity Charges Come all doubt that Gov. Believed Confessions Have Cleared Up Se- Burial was in Dodge Grove ceme ence of the Conven- Members of Con- From Statement of Henry Jiorner aviii can a tery. special reprisal" session of The pallbearers were sons and gress Unawares nes ot crimes Slayer Day sons-in-law of Mrs. Colllnsworth. the general assembly to dy land." tion in Macon? BY GEORGE R.

HOLMES (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) By International Niwi Mrvlet. Joliet, 111..

Jan. 30. INS) Charges Robberies of eight filling namite the Kelly-Xash political fortress was dispelled to- Washington, Jan. 30. that Richard Loeb was a prison LEGISLATION TO Gov.

Alf M. Landon's candidacy for the presidential nomination and his homely prairie philosophy of FRIGID BLAST 'stations which have taken place in Mat toon during the past two weeks are believed Macon, Jan. 30. The sound President Roosevelt request and fury that accompanied Gov. for $2,249,178,375 to pav the dictator, exercising unusual control over fellow convicts by money governmental administration are 'Gene anti-Rocsevelt cost of the soldiers' bonus and influence "up front," brought a three-way Investigation of "prison Aimtantinn AiaA omair fnlatr 1M1V I to have been solved with the now before the Republicans of the SEHERCURY lmr to the nolitlcians the task of precipitated today a new in- arrest-of Otto Fisher, Arn- nation for their approval.

Drafting of the call was understood "to be under way today at the executive mansion, where the governor, ill for the last 10 days, is denying himself to callers. Retaliatory Session. The session, If called, will be In laxity" today. SUPPLANT AAA ISPLAB old Fisher, Kichard Prather, The charges arose from the statement of James Day, 23-year Dale "JimP I'ygott, Paul TO II BEIOIV old convict, who slashed Loeb to Keynolds and Itennett liar- the sunflower state's chief execu- death with a razor in a furious bat assaying Just how much importance flation battle in Congress in terms of 1936 should properly and threatened to provoke a be attached to the surprising go- political row. ings-on here in the heart of Demo- Wlth the maklng no cratic Dixie.

recommendations for new taxes, "Nominated" Vor president. Democratic leaders turned a deaf Georgia's governor was "noml- ear to all suggestions for additional nated" for the presidency against levies for this purpose. din, 31 at toon voiing men. tive, in an address here last night. tle Tuesday.

retaliation for the action or the Kelly-Nash group in rejecting the State's Farmers Draft Fisher Boys Confess. scored the Roosevelt admtnistra- Police announced today that the I tion for creating new problems in- Loeb and Nathan Leopold, both governor's bid for re-election. scions of wealthy and socially prom Fisher boys, brothers residing at stead of solving the country's dif A permanent registration bill. AH WPA Projects Are Still Idle Because of Severe Cold Resolutions at 21st Annual Meeting inent Chicago families, were sen 1101 DeWitt avenue, confessed late ficulties, and warned: aimed at "honest elections," and an tenced to prison for the "thrill Franklin D. Roosevelt by a Demo- Over Idle Gold and Silver, cratic mass-meeting that was as Representative Patman of Texas, Wednesday afternoon that they occupational disease act, to replace Change May Not Be Progress.

murder" of Bobby Franks in 1924, robbed the Super Service Station at the' one knocked out by the State "Change does not necessarily Decatur, 111., Jan. 30. (INS) brutal, cold-blooded crime that Fifteenth street and the Big Four mMn nrtwrres A social nhilnsnnhv Supteine Court last year, as well as Militant Illinois farmers today strange and unusual as any that author of the Patman bonus infla- ever gathered under one roof. The tion bill which was blocked in this "tender" of the nomination was session, announced that a fight made by those who claimed to be for payment of the bonus by is- Mat toon folk got another taste of sub-zero weather Wednesday night when a drafted resolutions for legislation to bills for elimination of the gold redemption clause sections from the railroad last Saturday night. OttoU not aiways bad because it is Fisher, it was stated, named the nor ff0od because it i.

merelv supplant tho defunct AAA. uiucr jour as accomplices ana ar new arctic blast swept from state securities act, reputedly will be the chief ingredients of the legis Unemployment relief, an exten rests of the others were made early Proof that the prairie governor slve soil conservation program and Wednesday evening. lative bomb for the anti-admin the northwest. The mercury plunged to 11 degrees below is more than a "native son" candl control of commodity exchanges Prather. Pygctt.

Reynolds and date is seen in the presence at were among principles proposed zero by fi o'clock this morn Rardin disclaimed any knowledge of the robberies. Prather, the police in the resolutions which are to the Kansas Day banquet here last startled and horrified the nation. Charges Made by Slayer. The state legislature, by A. L.

Bowen, head of the State Department of Public Welfare, and State's Attorney William K. McCabe of Will county, will probe Day's charges. These charges are: Loeb offered to get him a Job in the prison office; Loeb told him he had procured such jobs ton other convicts and had even helped one get a "Job after he was paroled; Loeb promised to pay him from a night of Republican leaders from ing, according; to The Jour nal-Gazettc'H recording ther be placed in their complete form before a meeting of the Illinois stated, has served terms at St. Charles School for Boys and the a half-dozen states who led large mometer, a drop of 1'9 de istration group. May Veto Pension Act.

Rumor had it today that the govT ernor may veto House bill, 32, which sets machinery for old age pension administration downstate. The measure as passed permits county judges toppttnfc totaty pension administration boards. Governor Homer favored appointment of Agricultural Association resolutions non-Kansan delegations to hear his appeal for a return to constitution Pontiac reformatory, while Reynolds has "done a stretch" at St. committee this afternoon. The as grees irom ca nesday al government and a termination soeiation is holding its 21st annual maximum of 18 above.

Out at Lake Mattoon this morn convention here. of the squandering of the-nation's Questioned at Length. conservative constitutionalists, by suance of money against idle gold those who carried aloft the share- and silver would be started, the-wealth banner of the late Huey Necessity for submission4 of the Long, and by those who rejoice in presidential supplemental budget a good political fight Irrespective estimate was questioned by Re-of labels and banners. publican Leader Snell of New York: Governor Talmadge did not "ac- In view of the language of tli cept the nomination." Neither did "baby bond" bonus bill. -he decline it.

He simply grinned Backers of the bill had asserted widely and let it go at that. Mean- that complete authority and dl while, he criticised the Roosevelt' rection was given In the measure administration, listened approving- for payment of the bonus, and ly to other speakers attack the that no appropriation, except to Roosevelt administration and de- meet interest, printing and person- cided to wait a while before making nel costs, would be necessary. any commitments. Mr. Roosevelt's budget estimate, Talmadge himself said that here therefore, caught many members In Georgia has been lighted the of Congress unawares, torch of revolt (against Roosevelt) Prominent Democratic members that eventually will "engulf the interpreted the President's speed in whole south." submitting the estimate as a clever If the Macon convention demon- political move, designed to place oa resources At an open discussion this after Questioned at length by Captain ing at 6 o'clock, the mercury was 'The (supreme) court's outlaw noon, delegates advocated that the Fred Wampler of the Big Four 18 below.

Unofficial temperatures such beards by the State Welfare Department to insure the state's crop surplus problem be met as a police, Chief Britton Robinson, locally ranged from 11 to 16 below ing of certain measures proved a boon to the nation's economic national social and economic issue, Captain Perry Hardwick, Deputy receiving federal funds for the Outdoor Projects Idle. life," he asserted rather than one to be met by the Sheriff Frank Shirley, Sergeant De- liberal allowance if he would do his bidding; After he got the office work Loeb threatened to have him discharged when he refused to do as Loeb ordered Loeb boasted of influence "up The new cold wave caused all outdoor projects of the WPA to re individual. Threat to Constitution, The attorney general has held the Haven Ryherd and Patrolman Leonard Galey, the Fisher boys, Striking again at the present ad Three-Point Program. bill legal in form and it now is in the governor's hands. police report, broke down and ad- ministration with the declaration In the feature address of the main idle again this morning.

Wednesday's moderation in temperature had instilled hope that work could be resumed this morning and much mitted they first entered the Super that there are "powerful forces day, President Earl C. Smith of the front" and urged Day to join him Service Station alone and secured trying to convince our people that about 15 packages of cigarets from the Constitution is not their in breaking prison regulations, with the -promise he could "have it preparation for resumption of work was made, but the plans had to be a vending machine, then went charter of human liberties," Gov, strated nothing else, it did give an Congress the onus for upsetting -indication that the. oncoming cam- budget by the huge expenditure, paign is to be bitterly fought in the Letter of President. RELIEF BURDEN IS HIKED borne. Later, Otto Fisher, the Landon warned squashed" If they were caught.

Why Did Loeb Have Key? younger of the two. told police he "Should these forces prevail, the abandoned. The temperature fell from 18 de grees above zero at 3 o'clock Wed south, as elsewhere. Seasoned! Mr- "oobcvcb ienr opean- returned to the business district, leaving his brother at home, and Investigators also sought to learn why Loeb had in his possession a key to what he called his "private American government then becomes a source of oppression such as now Georgia politicians predict that lt Byrns of the House, which did will be as rough as 1928, when Al not reach him until today, fol- met the other four said to be lm afflicts various other peoples of plicated. Police say Otto confessed Washington, Jan.

30. A dozen Smlth's candidacy fanned bright ws. nesday afternoon to three degrees above zero at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening. By 11 o'clock, the mercury had slipped down to one degree the world." I have the honor to transmit the flames of bitterness. I.

A. laid before the agriculturalists a three-point farm program embodying the following three principles: (1) An aggresive program to expand domestic and foreign markets for farm commodity surpluses with the use of Import revenues, if necessary, to subsidize such exports; (2) a practical system of farm warehouse loans on agricultural commodities; (3) an extensive program of soil conservation 60 administered as to assist fanners hi adjusting production to demand. Davis Speaks Tonight Tonight's sessions will be head he told these four boys of the robbery and the five decided to return Governor Landon charged the bathroom." It was in this bathroom that the fatal fight took place. Day, in his statement, asserted he met Loeb there to settb differences Democratic senators were Informed at a private conference with Harry Ii. Hopkins yesterday afternoon that almost as many persons are on the below zero, and by 1 o'clock, it Roosevelt administration with to the service station.

On the second visit, he is reported to have told was down to three below. It moved DECATUR CHIEF "abysmal waste through changes the nolice. thev carried awav the of policy, maladministration and dole or work relief as a year ago. on down to 7 below by 3 o'clock, and recorded Its low point between 6 o'clock and 7:30 o'clock this herewith lor the consideration of Congress, for the purpose of carrying out the adjusted compensation payment act, 1936, supplemental estimates of appropriations for the veterans' administration, fiscal "years 1936 and 1937. $2,242,500,000, and for the treasury department, fiscal years 1936 and 1937, $6,678,375, vending machine and Its contents.

ruthless partisanship." The relief population reached an arising out of his avoidance of Loeb's advances, that Loeb locked the door on the Inside, removed his clothing and ordered him to Prather. according to the younger Declaring that relief appropria OF POLICE QUITS morning. Fisher boy. had in his possession a tions had been ample but funds all-time peak of more than last January and Hopkins was reported to have said today that while there had been a "slight" 38 caliber revolver and stood watch had been eaten up by administra- Mercury Climbs Somewhat. Bright sunshine this morning en while the robbery was being com-I tion cost he pleaded: i do likewise, and threatened him with the razor.

Day related how he wrested the razor from Loeb, Decatur. Jan. In- amountlng ln to $2,249,178,375. abled the mercury to recover its mitted. I "We need desperately a cheaper.

Improvement, the relief load was dieted for malfeasance in office, equilibrium rather quickly. The "The details of these estimates, lined by speeches by national agricultural leaders including Chester C. Davis, AAA administrator and All six young men denied any simpler and more responsible relief aboul the same now. Chief of Police Jack S. Cooper re temperature climbed eight degrees the necessity therefor, and the.

knowledge of other filline station administration throughout the About 1,000,000 "unemployable" to four below by 9 o'clock, and by robberies, according to police. I union." Representative Marvin Jones of heads of families, however, now are 11 o'clock had reached two degrees No Preliminary Dates. I Governor Landon declared re Texas, chairman of the House com signed today and Henry J. Schep- reRSOns for thfilr tranon et per, police lieutenant, was appoint- tWs are Mt forth the et. ed acting chief by the board of fire ter of actlng dlrector of and police commissioners.

bureau of the budzet transmitted being supported by state and local above. The two Fisher boys, Prather and lief funds are handled "in familiar mittee on agriculture. They are ex governments rather than through Today was the seventh in the last pected to Inform the farmers of Reynolds, have been taken to the 'pork-barrel' fashion" permitting "a federal relief. The board threatened thev en- herewith, and with whose comments county jail at Charleston and I party machine to spend the greatest a detailed account or tne govern The worjc relief program, sub nine days that the temperature has gone below zero. The record for tire police force with dismissal and observations thereon I concur." ment's new farm program.

Slashing him in self-defense. Prison officials appeared to place credence In Day's statement concerning details of- the murder, but denied that Loeb or Leopold en-Joyed prison privileges. Leopold has steadfastly refused to give any details concerning events leading up to the slaying. Abnormal Conditions. State's Attorney McCabe, who has charge of the prosecution of Day, declared today that he would question Day further and indicated he might demand the removal of stituted for direct relief Dec.

placed in separate cells. Pygott and I peace-time fund in all human his Rardin are being held In the city tory." the season was 16 degrees below unless it severs itself from all po undcf the $4,880,000,000 work relief zero, recorded a week ago today. litical connections. jail. No date has been set for their If there is to be no hunger," aot na provided employment for WILL STATE AWARD preliminary hearings.

he said, "it is imperative ad The entire police department is 3,500,000 employable heads of fami ANOTHER SUSPECT IN BURMEISTER GRIME ministration of relief be purged of still on. probation until April 25," STEPHEN D.GURRY lies and single persons. MRS. SAGE the board warned. waste and partisanship." The WPA program, however, will SPENGE'S NIGHT CLUB "Clinching proof of the New hvi' exhausted its funds, totaling DIES IN MINNESOTA ine UUMIU muiceu no wuiua Vaat ot Tiil.

Tl! an Springfield, Jan. 30. (IMS) more than $1,120,000,000, by July 1, tonight. No cover Deal's failure," he said, "is that almost as many persons are out of Dance charge. Whether Mrs.

Anna Sage, the 1-30 Stephen D. Curry, a former resi "woman in red" who pointed out condemning "underhanded con- st fcnd BeUevuie officials nivlng that has gone on during the have out a drag.net to locate term of Chief Cooper" and declared Leonard Moore, 19-year-old Me', such conniving "must stop im- Leansboro young man, the latest mediately or there will be whole- ln th(, Rlftvlni. of Jnhn work today as there were when it first set up shop in 1933." dent of Coles county, passed away John Dillinger, America's ace bad man, to federal officers, is to re Monday, Jan. 20, at his home In Hopkln tpld the senators. we-heavy construction programs ofvPWA, whose funds were cut to $340,000,000 under the program, and of the war, navy, and other governmental ITheWealher South Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, following an illness of AXE WIELDER GIVEN ceive $1,000 reward from the state of Illinois, is under consideration by Leopold and Day from the penitentiary and the presence of penitentiary officials for questioning.

Shocking conditions of abnormality within the penitentiary walls, blamed by Day ts the cause of Loeb's enmity which culminated in the fatal fight, will also be Investigated. In his statement to the prison several months. Gov. Henry Horner. sale dismissals.

Burmelster and Edward Burmeister; Cooper, with Mayor H. E. Barber Tuscola brothers, July 13, 1935. and State's Attorney Arthur Frazier, Moore is believed to be In St.vClair was Indicted by the grand Jury county now. Burial was in Minneapolis.

Chicago, Jan. 30. TERM IN PRISON Governor Horner has received a Mr. Curry was born Feb. 16, 1860, Following are agencies, will not reach their peak until July.pr Augustand they cannot take up the slack of employment when WPA has exhausted its funds, officials said.

letter from Governor Olson of Minnesota in which Governor Olson two miles west of the Little Wabash after a long Investigation of vice Albert "Blackie" Ross, who was' wio weamer mai- Mt Vernon. Jan. 30. Mrs and gambling conditions in Decatur. cations for Illinois RUth Laird, 34, was sentenced to seeks to determine if Mrs.

Sa church, southwest of Mattoon. He spent his early Jife in that com psychiatrist Day declared: "I haVe been here 18 months and should rsceivel $1,000 2 from that State. Governor Fitzgerald of munity. The family moved" -tot ror i y-s i 0ne to 14 years in the women's re-hours ending at fofmatory at Dwlght by Circuit seven p. m.

judge W. Joe Hill late yesterday for COMMUNISTS MAY sentenced to serve 150 years in the state prison at Jollet for the murder of William Ziems, a Kankakee gro-s cer, Is said to have named Moore as an accomplice in the Kankakee crime and Is believed to have lmpli-' Minnesota in Last year Mr. CHAMPAIGN AFTER during this whole time I have been bothered by Mr. Loeb." and Mrs. Curry observed their 50th jrriaay.

the axe wounding of her sister, Michigan yesterday Indicated his state woyld- pay her $1,000. Mrs. Sage has $5,000 due her from five wedding anniversary. uenersuy fair Manraret Cummin. 17.

SLOT MACHINES Surviving are his widow, Mrs. CONSUL DONOVAN VISITING FATHER IN WINDSOR i tonight and Frl- cated Moore in the Tuscola slaying. Mrs. Laird, a widow, had entered States which offered $1,000 each In Nancy Curry, two daughters and a fay I Springfield. Jan -W- Previously Ross implicated Robert, invoke the law continued a pjea of guilty to a charge of as the Dillinger chase.

Comrmmists may son, Mrs. Phleta Snyder of Owaton cold. Windsor, Jan. 30. Howard Kennedy, an Iowa convict, as the sault with intent to murder when 1,," Champaign, 111., Jan.

30. The slob machine offensive is marching V. Deputies S. Q. Thompson and to secure use of the Springfield I 1av h- nJmot hrnthrm na, Mrs.

Forrest Derr of C. I. P. S. PLANT DAMAGED Donovan, United, States consul at Kobe, Japan, is visiting his father, Dr.

J. H. Donovan, in Windsor. she was arraigned Jan. 14.

She admitted she struck her sister with an axe after dispute over attending LOCAL WEATHER AND TEMPERATURE Minneapolis and Craig Curry of Washington, D. C. There are three (Temperature from 11 m. Wed-' sisters, A. Gailbreath of St.

RoyTCeller Tuesdaynight arrested-Danlel Fountain of Terre Haute, Mr. Donovan has been assigned church on the night of Dec. 28. Schpol for a rally here on Lin- Moore ls S(jn of coin's birthday anniversary Feb. 12.

ft llvcstock buyer wnQ move(, to Attorney H. A. Ruckel said today East St, Louis recently, from Mc- that he may ask a writrof man- Leansboro. damus to fompel the Springfield Board of Education to permit use of GEORGE JENNINGS, CIVIL WAR nesday. to ll a.

m. today.) Mrs. Alice Gray of the position of consul at Hongkbng, 11 a. 13 1 a. 3 EFFINGHAM EXTENDS THE C.

Madison, Mrs. Viola Clark of China, and will sail for that place the first of April, I. P. S. CO.

FRANCHISE ma 4 a aisinouior pi sioc macnines and punch boards, after seizing four slot machines and 24 punch boards. Wednesday Sheriff O. 3 p. 18 3 a. 7 6 p.

1Q 6 a. 11 9 p. 3 9 a. -4 PEAlf the-school if it will not rescind Its ETERAN, IS Effingham, 111., Jan. 30.

The city action denying the high school au 1 THE COLD WAVE W. Roth filed information against council Tuesday night extended the 11 p. 1 11 a.m..... 2 Champaign, Jan. 30j George ditorium to I Earl Browder, general secretary of the communist party, Fountain In the county court, Weathef conditions at 11 a.

m. electric light franchise of the Cen- Shelbyville and a brother, K. C.Curry of Pierre, S. D. Mrs.

John Henley, Thomas Ferguson and Ambrose Hart of. Mattoon and vicinity are cousins Mrs. Curry. In early years Mr. Curry was a contractor and supervised the construction of a large number of homes, and business houses, la recent years he worked for the charging him kith the illegal pos As forecast has arrived.

has arrived. The fair. Barometer reading at 11 a 1 tral Illinois Publio Service Com-- Paxton, Jan. 30. Damage estimated at $4,000 was caused by fire which damaged the plant of the Central Illinois Public Service Company Tuesday night.

finaTglBige1 Great reductions are now offered in this final clearance of winter fashions. sizes for Jun-I tors, misses, women and half-sizes, one-fourth, one-third and one-half Ef. Hats, one-half and less. BRA-LAIt 1-30 122 South 17th Si. for a Lincoln Day address.

clearance 'sale of and wool m. 29.90. Sun rose today at 7:10 pany from 1949 to 1961, and rati-and sets at 5:09. MoonL rises: at fied new 10-year street lighting and Jennings, 91, Civil War died Tuesday at his home here; Death was due to a complication of diseases incident to old age. He served duping the Civil War, and was a member of the R.

dresses at the M. M. Lewis Ready- RENDEZVOUS to-Wear shop Is now on. Any dress 10:23 a. m.

Minimdm temperature hydrant contracts which are estl- session of slot machines. jnieBheriff now has 28 slot machines in his possession, Including two face horse slot Machines, and Is expecting to have double the number la 48 hours. today. 11 below from 6 a. m.

to 7:30 mated to save the cltv aiinualhr formerly priced up to $.17.85 now $17.85 to $19.50, $7.95: $19.50 to $25, kity water 9 department ln Minne a. m. Maximum temperature yester- $3,000 in comparison to former There will be no dance tonight post at Effingham. Besides his wife, because of the President's Ball 1-30 be leaves five children. $25 to $490 now $1195.

1-31 day, 18 at 3 p. m. 1 rates, apolis r. ft. 7.