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I- 1 I- I i i ft 1 1, 1 AND COMMERCIAL-STAR 0 i No. 02 Entmd ii iprond class mail roatUr at Walloon, Illinois MATTOON, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1D37 rublUhed svery afternoon except Ounday IVic 5 Cents ,11 I i i ml Mime to fcedSfe TO SEEK PEACE 'M ISwvQsm lis E)(S(al8fflfidl 4 The Peace Club SCHLICIIEIMRE TRUCE COMES IN SALEM STATE PARI! SCENE OF CEREMONY "how arc thimcs tea euope?" 'OH, ABOUT THE SAME HOW ARE THlr3S IM THE UNITED 3TATes?" OH," ABOUT THE SAMfL. At Dedication Gov. Henry Horner of Illinois, who made the principal address today at the dedication of the rebuilt Rutledge tavern at New Salem State Park, near Petersburg. PUBLIC DEBT IS Washington, June 17 (INS)-The federal public debt soared to on June 15.

highest In history, treasury statistics revealed today. On the same date a year ago, the debt was $34,331,355,876. Issuance of $800,000,000 in new securities this month coupled with a $500,000,000 payment to the government social security fund brought the debt figure to its all time peak. Wealthy Dodger of Taxes Rapned by Morgenthau Washington. June 17.

INS) Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau today acridly criticised tax evasion schemes of the wealthy and urged Congress to revise federal revenue laws n's a mans of plucglng loop holes through which the government Is losing millions of dollars every year. Appearing as the first witness before the joint congressional committee on tax evasion and avoidance, the secretary mentioned no names, but confined his remarks to a general discussion of tax practices by persons with large Incomes. The secretary told the committer that the most resourceful brains of the. legal world currently are engaged actively in trying to avoid taxes for their clients. Many tax consultants to the wealthy, he added, received their early training in the government.

The schemes devised to evade taxes, according to Morgenthau. ar? utilized principally by individuals with large Incomes. "Practically all the devices would look absurd If applied to persons of small incomes whose activities were necessarily more restricted," he asserted. "They aw Important as tax dodging devices only for the very rich." Chairman Doughton announced it is the purpose of the investigating committee to stop tax He said "honest taxpayers" will be spared publicity by the committee. 9,1 65 CHECK FOR VIA BOARD OF MEDIATION Its Personnel Is An nounced by Secretary Perkins Washington, June 17 flNSV The federal government today moved Into the iteel lUlae ill-uation with the appointment by the labor department of a 'federal steel mediation board which will endeavor to bring peace to the Industry.

Secretary of Labor Ferkini announced the board will be composed of the following: Charles P. Taft, ion of the I late Chief Juttlce. Lloyd K. Garrison, dean of law at the University of Wit-. comln.

Edward F. McGrady, asslst-and serretary of labor, a vet eran conciliator in labor disposes. This three-man board, the secretary said, would be authorised to conduct an Investigation Into the widespread strikes, to conduct hearings, to nuke of fact, and to continue it- self voluntary arbitrator if the parties to the strike wish It. This action was taken with the approval of President Roosevelt. BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Ohio, caught helplessly in the great steel strike's eddies of violence and fear, abandoned Its own fight for a settlement today and went directly to President Roosevelt wlth-an-xtrKent request" for help In the direction of peace.

The strike Governor Davey telegraphed the White House. Is "beyond the powers and opportunities of one state" to Ceal with. And while tb. first ere teel state called for help. Pennsylvania watched for the clouds of new vlo lence at Johnstown.

VIgHantea on Guard. rive hundred armed vigilantes Walked the streets there after last flight's outburst of stabbing. They hunted down marauders who spelled stealthy danger to non-striking families. Officials of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation charged that armed pickets have ruthlessly attacked our employes." Johnstown's mayor, Daniel J. Shields, kept on watch for strangers come to picket the great Bethlehem plant He, too, had called on the President to have "the murderous element that now Infests my city" withdrawn.

In Washington. In Washington, attention turned more keenly on the bloody strife, began the first official investigation In connection with steel. The Senate post office committee gathered to hear witnesses spread the story of an alleged embargo on mail for non-strikers besieged to Ohio steel plants. The committee called officials of Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization, whose members are accused of holding up mail trucks, officials of the Republic Steel Corporation who made the charges, and wives who said Uncle Sam refused to carry food to their husbands. In Pittsburgh, there was a new and violent danger.

Lewis threatened to tie up the western Pennsylvania coal fields to keep coal from steel mills still running. Coal operators warned thev would not endure such a "boycott." Elsewhere on the steel front there was momentary deceptive qulGt-rWltlwvlolenc- threatening in every careless club, every stealthy GOES TO PRISON FOR ATTACK ON 11-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER Logansport, Ind.V June 17. Cecil Ledbetter, 43, a WPA worker, was taken to the Michigan City state tfflson-today to serve one to 1ft year sentence Imposed when ne pleaded, guilty to second degree criminal sssault on his daughter, Myrtle. In February, 1938, She was 11 years old. last March, Ledbetter was held for a trial on a first degree charge, carrying a life sentence.

The daughter, now in a state correctional last August married James. Clark. 27, a brother of hef 16-yeaf-oId step-mother, but Juvenile officers had the marriage annulled. PANA CIGAR MAKER HAS BEEN IN BUSINESS 40 YEARS Pana, HiJune ITA-George Zell-mann Is celebrating his 40th anniversary In business tn Zell-nnnn is engaged tn the manufacture of cigars. ENJOYING THEIR EUROPEAN TRIP Go Sight-Seeing Aft er Rotary Convention Closes Mrs.

Ous 8chlicher has received a letter from Mr. Schllcher, who, with his son. Paul Schllcher. is now touring Europe, after being in Nice France, to attend the convention of Rotary International. The convention closed Saturday, June 12.

They plan to sail for home July 1. "We arrived safely at Nice, France, after a 15 day cruise on the S. S. Roma." said Mr. Schllcher in his letter.

"We had delightful weather all the way over, the weather being warm enough at all times to enjoy the deck and swim ming pool. Guests at Governor's Palace. "At Casablanca we were met by Rotarians and motored 100 miles inland to the palace of the governor of French Morocco, and there entertained. His palace and gardens are beautiful. Such gorgeous flow rrs we had never seen.

The Jack aranda trees and the huge palms with boganvlelllas in all colors make a beautiful setting for the many tropical flowers. "We found Gibraltar a very busy place," Mr. Schlicher related. 'Battleships, submarines, cruisers from every place we were very much near the war zone here. That day they were burying the 24 dead marines of the German Deutsch-land, a battleship which had born bombarded.

We saw a war-torn Spanish city where over 4,000 women and children had been killed. Find Algiers Dirty Place. "While our visit to Algiers w3 Interesting it was not so enjoyable. the city being very dirty, and filled with Arabs, peddlers and beggars. However, we found Naples a beautiful city, snd spent a day there Ightseelng.

"Of all the ports visited, the Madeira Islands were by far the most beautiful. From the top of the mountain there we descended a long "slide in bob sleds. "Nice, is also a very enjoyable place. It is a city of 300,000 population and is nestled In the foothills along the Mediterranean. We were welcomed by the TJ.S.

battle ship in the harbor there." USE SNAKE VENOM TO RESTORE SANITY Boston, June 17. Dr. Roy Up- ham of New York' City said Wednesday that "many thousands of women" suffering from mental disturbances as they approached middle age were being kept out of insane hospitals by the use of snake venom. Pains from inoperable cancer, he continued, were alleviated by the venom. Dr.

Upham is attend ing the annual convention of the American Institute of Homeopathy. The venom for mental disturb ances, ne said, was given hypo-dermlcally or by mouth. In the case of cancer, he said, the nerve endings of afflicted persons were paralyzed by the venom so they would not conduct pain. DARNELL- RESIDENCE DAMAGED 11 FIRE Fire believed to have been caused by a "short" In the electric wiring did about $600 damage to the residence of W. A.

Darnel, an Illinois Central employe residing a.t 2312 Shelby this The fire started shortly after 8 'clock, according to Fire Chief C. Weaver, in a partition on the first floor and ate Its wav throueh the partition into the attic. Quite bit of the damage was done by smoke and, water. Firemen fought the blaze nearly an hour before extinguishing. It.

Damage was estimated at $500 to the house and $100 to the con tents. MONUMENT NOW MARKS FIRST COURT IN LAWRENCE VILLE June monument stood today on the lawn of the Elks Club hulldlng, marking thersite of ithe first court held In Lawrence. county on June 4, 1821. The marker was dedicated Tuesday i-i. mt wiu puouc ceremowes.

WARFARE OF Instead of Slashing Public Works Bill, They Add $170,000 Springfield. June 17. (INS) A truce apparently has been called In Democratic legislative warfare. Instead of adopting its sub-committee report, the Senate appropriations committee reported out for pa-ssage Director F. Lynden Smith's biennial appropriation bill for the State Department of Public Works and Buildings without reducing it by a single penny.

The sub-committee had recommended slashing the bill by $8,000,000. The full committee actually added $170,000 more to the bill than it listed when handed to the committee. The sum of $150,000 was added at the request of Lieut. Gov. Stelle to buy the present site of Shawnectown for a state park, in the event the town is moved to higher ground, as planned.

The remaining $20,000 was added at the requrn of Senator GeorRe Maypole to dredge out channels in the northern Illinois Chain of Lakes. The committee's action apparently wrote finis on the battle that broke out In the Senate following Smith's statement that National Committeeman Patrick A. Na-sh is blocking drivers' license legislation. No mention of the row was made at the committee session. Salary Boosts Provided For.

The House of Representatives was tn a pay-raising mood last night, the members first approving a measure boosting salwics of county probate Judges and then pavilng a measure to Increase the salaries of state legislators. Each member of the assembly must be re-elected to benefit under the law if it l.s approved by the governor. The boost for the assemblymen is trom $3,500 to $5,000 for the bi-ennium. As for the jurists, they will receive salaries based on population. To Recodify Election Laws.

The House passed a bill by Senator Harold Ward providing for appointment of a commission to recodify the state's primary and election laws. Other measures approved were bills making state and federal conservation laws conform; bills licensing horologists (persons engaged In watch and clock repair ing) and a bill appropriating for a cast figure of the late former speaker of the House, David E. Shanahan, to be placed in a niche in the state house. Representatives of labor and industry today have agreed to an amendment to the unemployment insurance bill by which the pool system is agreed on. with a merit rating for individual employes.

As the bill passed the House it provided for individual reserves for each employer, only one-sixth of whose payroll tax would go into he pool. Amendments provide for the pooled fund with each employer to get a merit rating if his employment is stabilized, however, permitting his payroll tax contribution to be cut. Other amendments are to be offered saon. The House appropriations committee approved a bill for expendi ture of $100,000 for purchase by the state of radium and radium equipment for treatment of cancer, AMELIA ARRIVES AT CALCOTTA, INDIA Calcutta, India, June 17. (INS) Completing a 1.400-mile hop from Karachi, Amelia Earhart arrived here at 3:46 p.

m. today on her equatorial globe-girdling flight. She made the trip la, eight hours and 21 minutes. Miss Earhjl proposes to hop off for at dawn tomorrow. She spent part of this afternoon at the Dumdum airdrome here her plane.

J. A. SCHICK DIES AT HOME OF SON IN CHARLESTON Special to Tht Journal-Giett. Charleston, 111., June 17. John A.

Shlck died early today at the home of a son, Robert Shick, in this city. Hq was 80 years old. Mr. Shick leaves four sons, Fred Shick, Will Shick and Charles Shick of Casey Rnd Robert Shlck of Charleston. DEMOCRATS Gov.

Horner Says "No Finer, Truer Lincoln MemorialThanThis" BY JUSTIN IL FORREST (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent)' New Salem State Parle; 111., June 17. Time turned back 100 years here today back to 1S37, the year Abraham Lincoln, on a horse borrowed from Bowling (Ireene, left for Springfield, Congress and the "White House.

The occasion was the dedication of the rebuilt Rutledge Tavern and the cabins of Isaac Gullher and the Trent Brothers, New Salem merchants In this recreated town which Lincoln described to his friend Jack Kelso, as: "My home town, and the peopla the friendliest on pod's Sixteen of the original 25 buildings In the town have been repro duced in this, the only memorial of its kind in the United State planned to perpetuate memory and good deeds of just one man. His Formative Year There. It was here, In the village found ed In 1828, and which died In 1837, that Lincoln spent the formative years of his life and metamorphosed from an uncouth flatboat man 22. who had leu than nine months' schooling in four different schools. Into the man who became the idol of humanity.

It was here he was clerk, post master, merchant, student of sur veying and of Blackstone, and it was irom nere ne weni uio Blackhawk War, to become a cap-, tain who declared he disliked war. Governor Horner Speaks. Governor Horner was the prin cipal speaker at today's dedicatory exercises, which aroused more Interest than any state park structure dedication in the history of tht state. And. as the governor pointed out: "There is no finer, truer Lincoln memorial than this little rebuilt Illinois town of the thirties.

"New Salem when, rebuilt In Its entirety, and its cabins furnished completely with relics from th formative period of Lincoln's life, will exert a greater Influence on future generations than any other memorial shrine to Lincoln In all the world." Interest In the Rutledge Tavern home of Anne Rutledge, sung for years as the sweetheart of Lincoln, was what drew the crowd to this -little log cabin town, which owes Its existence to the loving labor of the Old Salem Lincoln League, Its chalitauqua and William Randolph Hearst, who, in 1906, when lecturln here, became so Interested that he purchased the land and donated It for park purposes a goal for which the league long had been striving. Another Ann Rutledge Present And believe It or not one. of the day's speakers was a Rutledge. None other Ann Rutledge herself, a beautiful 18-year-old girl, daughter of Don Rutledge, great-grandson of James and Mary Ann. Rutledge, parents of the Ann "of a thousand romatlc stories and poems and who lies buried only a 'few miles away in the Petersburg ceme- tery.

$750,000 PAID T0 15 INSULL CREDITORS June 17.Flfteen. cred -Itors to whom Samuel Insull owed $19,089,000 received $750,000 Wednesday by an order entered by Circuit JudgeXornelius 'J. Harrington, The distribution was made front the (2,000,000 closed trust fund established by Insull and his This $750,000 payment brings claims down to $17,650,000, It was revealed by attorneys. The claims had prevlousjy' been reduced to $18,400,000 when claimants who held Insull collateral were enabled to apply them on' the debts. BIQ FOUR AGENT IS HELD ON EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE Urbana, June 17.

Isaac B. Schlosser of St. Joseph, Big, Four railroad agent, was' placed under a $3,000 bond on a charge of embezzling $287 from the Rallnay Ex-' press Agency, 1 i 3 STABBED AT BV JAMES L. KILGALLEN (I. N.

S. Staff Correspondent) Johnstown, Pa June 17. Ten sion was drawn to a liner edge here today following the stabbing of three men last night, two white strikers and a negro worker, in a fight at the time gate of the Bethlehem Steel plant at Franklin Borough, a suburb. The city of Johnstown, population 116.000, was meanwhile in an agitated frame of mind with about 500 armed vigilantes cruising the streets hunting down marauders who, they say, have been Intimi dating families of non-strikers. Several hundred state and local po licemen were In evidence on all sides, patrolling the city and the seven-mile steel front.

An official statement issued by S. D. Evans, representing the Cambria plant of the Bethlehem company, rejected the suggestion of Philip Murray, chairman of the Steel Workers' Organizing Com mittee, that an election bo held in 11 of the Bethlehem plants with the stipulation the company sign an agreement if it develops the union has a majority. Evans, in a telegram to Murray, declared Bethlehem Steel has not been convinced that a signed agreement will be of advantage to its employes, the community or the company. SENT TO PRISON FOR ELECTION FRAUDS Chicago, June 17.

A woman election judge and four men jx -ateliers were sentenced to from one to five years In the penitentiary by-Judge Rudolph Desort late yesterday for conspiring to make fraudulent election returns in the April, 1936, primaries. Four other women clerks and judges, convicted on a misdemeanor count -In the Indictments, were fined $200 each. LITERARY DIGEST IS SOLD TO REVIEW OF REVIEWS New York, June 17. The Literary Digest, weekly, was sold outright Wednesday to the Review of Reviews Corporation, headed by Albert Shaw. The Digest had been virtually owned by R.1 J.

Cuddihy, publisher, and Wilfred J. Funk, editor -iu- cluef. OHNSTOvN WPA WORKERS TO GET WPA workers In Coles county will receive checks amounting to $22 989.35 on their next pay Sen eca M. AbelJ. projects supervisor nnnounred today.

The checks will be delivered by mail, probably Fri day. The distribution will be $201.10 less than two weeks ago, whdn the payroll was $23,190.45. Checks will be mailed to approximately 1.100 persons In the county. RAINS HELP IN CHINCH RUG WAR Mattoon's rainfall for the month of June was boasted to 5.53 inches early today by a heavy thunder storm which brought .7 of an inch precipitation. The storm, accompanied by quite a bit of wind and lightnUip.

came about 2 o'clock and lasted more than an hour. Although they have had morr rain than needed, farmers regard the downpour as helpful from the angle of killing chinch bugs. Jt was damaging, however, to corn and beans growing in low fields where mall lakes of water are beginning to form. The rain had no effect on Lake Mattoon's tfater level. The Okaw river at Cooks Mills remains at flood stage.

HOLIDAY MEASURE IS KILLED BY ILLINOIS HOUSE TODAY Springfield. 111., June 17. (INS) The House today killed a measure by Majority Leader Benjamin Adamowski, providing that when a holiday falls on any -day except Sunday -or Monday, the following Monday shall be celebrated as such holiday'. Object of the bill Is to create two-day week-ends. Facetiously Adamowski killed a companion bill by asking that the same 'roll call be applied.

It was done." RULING IN STATE PARK CASE REVERSED BY HIGH COURT Springfield, 111, June 17. (INS) A decree of the Jersey County Circuit Court that Alfred W. Schwing of Peoria could foreclose on 120 acres of land, in the heart of Pere Marquette State Parle, near Grafton, was reversed today by the Elinois Supreme Court. Schwing's suit, the high court held, in effect Is a cause or action a gain the state and the state can not be sued. a RELIEF Speclil.to Th Journl-Giiett.

Chariefton, 111., June 17. A check for $9165.60. representing 72 per cent of the states allocation for June relicY purposes In Coles county townships, was received today by County Treasurer Lew Wallace The other 28 per cent of the allotment, $3,564.40. was received earlier this month. The check received today will be divided among the townships as follows: Mattoon S3.497.04 Charleston 3,306.24 Ashmore 367.20 East Oakland 741.60 Humboldt 193 44 Hutton 197.23 Lafayette 323.28 Morgan 190.80 North Okaw 184 32 Paradise 37.44 Pleasant Grove 120.16 Total $9,165 60 "ROYS' STATE" IS TO HAVE 7-DAY OUTING.

Springfield, 111., Juno 17. (INS) Over 1.000 Illinois youths, ranging in age from 15 to 20 years, will take over the state lair grounns nere Sunday for a seven-day outing at the annual "Boys' State." Organization of cities, counties and townships, primary and general elections and the setting up of a model government will feature the gathering which is sponsored by the American Legion, civic clubs and other patriotic organizations. Various problems of government will be placed before the youths for solution during class periods, which will be interspersed with athletic contests. Tours will be marie to Lincoln shrines and the state capitol. Gov.

Henry Horner and prominent members of the State Bar Association will address the "State." SANGAMON STATE'S ATTORNEY AFTER SLOT MACHINES Springfield, 111., June 17. (INS) Six members of an alleged gambling syndicate operating and owning slot machines In Sangamon county were named today In informations filed- by State's Attorney W. P. Roberts. Those named are Frank Zito.

Pasq'uale Aiello, Isa-dore Barrad, Blister Dinora, Leo Ciaccio and John Sieber Their bonds were set at $1,000 Wh. UN TheWeafher Following are wlrvFV tne weatner mal" ji cations for Illinois HtT for thlrty-slx dyV hours ending at CS iVv seven p. J2 Friday: fi -Partly cloudy tonight, and Frt- Aday; probable showers Friday in extreme northwest portion; somewhat warmer Friday in central and north por tions. LOCAL WEATIIE AND TEMPER AT (Temperature from IV a. m.

Wednesday to 11 a.o. today.) 11 a. T. 3 p. ..70 ji a.

68 6 p. ,13 6 a. 66 0 p. 1y 9 a. 70 11 p.

11 a. Weather conditions at 11 fair. Barometer reading at TI a. 29 87. Sun rose today at 4:28 and Sets at 7:33.

Moon sets at 12:30 a. m. MinimuRTtemperature 6(! at 6 a. m. Maximum temperature1 at 6 p.

m. Rain-' fall last 24 hours, .7. of an7 Inch. -a.