Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 1

DAILY JOURNAL-GAZETTE WEATHER ILLINOIS: Fair central, south, continued mild tonight. Showers and colder Sunday. -Second Year. No. 236 Member Audit Bureau at circulation.

Seventy MATTOON, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1946 Ail PbODM ISO Price 5 Cent Ifiospi Novo 7 ruoiic WANT ADS Accepted until one o'clock on day of publication. tad. Truman Suspends Lumber Tariffs Scenes as New Lights Take Hold nil) 5U ENGLISH JEWEL THIEVES MAKE 3 MORE HAULS $40,000 Worth Taken From American-Born Lady Hartington BY MA US ALL YARROW (I. N. S.

Staff Correspondent) London London police revealed today a new series of three 'y iv INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE TO TELL FINDINGS Full Discussion of Proposed Plans to Be Welcomed ANOTHER GIFT! Another substantial after ef help toward the construction of a new hospital came to The Journal-tiazette today entirely without solicitation. Dr. W. L. Pedeata, Mattooa dentist, and his sisters, Mrs.

Frank Hickman ef Gallon. 0 and Lieut (senior grade) Violet Fodesta ef the Waves, stationed in Washington, D. authorised this newspaper to anneanee that they weald provide the funds fer entttttlnf a complete and modern dental room In a new hoe-' pita! The cash Involved weald be between and $1,506. The gift was free of all cm-dltloas except that the dental room serve as a memorial to the donors' parents, the late Leafs and Delia Pedesta of Livingston. A public meeting for the discus don of proposed plant for securini adequate hospital facilities for tin Mattoon area will be held at o'clock Thursday evening, Nor.

7, Is the City Hall auditorium, leaden of the movement announced today. Recommendations of a commutes headed' by Fred Kuehne Jr. ot Mattoon are expected to highlight the meettlng, but sponsors told The Journal-Gazette that "fun discus- slon of any other proposals that may be submitted will be equally irel corned." At Work Several Weeks. Members of the exploratory hospital committee, half of whom are from the west side of Coles county and half from the east side, have been struggling with the problem for several weeks. They expect to be LEGION PLANS ARMISTICE DAY CELEBRATION John Stelle Headline Speaker on Colorful Program One of the most colorful Armistice Day programs In local history was 'planned today by the, Mattoon American Legion post, which has invited other Legion units throughout the district to participate in the observance here.

Parade in Afternoon. James L. Warren, who heads the Armistice Day committee, said the program Includes a morning session during which John Stelle, Immediate past national commander of the Legion and a former governor, of Illinois, will deliver the principal address; and a gigantic parade during the afternoon, featuring Legion sponsored drum and bugle corps which will compete for $175 In cash prizes and high school bands which will compete for $75 in cash prizes. Memorial services will be conducted at 10 o'clock In the morning, Monday, Nov. 1J, at the Intersection of Broadway and Seventeenth street.

The program will last one hour with Mr. Stelle's speech as the highlight. Honor Stelle at A dinner for Mr. Stelle and visiting post officers will be held at the Victory restaurant at noon and the parade will get under way one hour, later. The parade will form at the Mat- Barkley, Taft in Word Duel at Close Range Salt Lake Senate Majority Leader Alben W.

Barkley, D) of Kentucky, on a whirlwind tour of Rocky mountain states, spoke here Friday night, charging the Republicans with conducting a "cat and cricket" campaign. Said Barkley: "They can find no real issue to place before the American people. At the same time, less than a half a block away, U. 8. Sen.

Robert A. Taft, (R) of Ohio, predicted at a O. O. P. rally that the Republicans will take control of the House, and possibly the Senate, in the coming election.

Taft said a Republican victory is essential to "take the country out of the P. A. philosophy now controlling the administration." He added: "This appears to be America's last good chance of breaking the steady Increase of regulation by federal bureaus." Barkley, in turn, declared: "The Republicans chant about breaking up the so-called Democratic bureaucracy, but they cant seem to let us into their confidence on which bureaus they would do away with. Will they kill the Security Exchange Commission, which protects Investments, or will it be the Rural Electrification Administration which has brought progress to thousands of farms? "Or will it be the Farm Security Administration, which has brought a stable credit condition to agriculture?" The Kentucky senator termed the Republican fear of Communism "cowardice." He declared that there It Lru i Tir ii 1 iiMui ir wStfif 11 NMtM for Th JoitrMl-GautU by luml Power was cut Into the third project lines of the Coles-Moultrie Electric Cooperative a few days ago and scenes occasioned by the move are shown in the pictures above. At the top Fred Edmonds of Whitley township: Moultrie county, consigns an oil lantern to its grave while Mrs.

Edmond and their children, Roger and Myra. look Ofi as jlohn clpsed during the one-hour me-Waeeoner. manaaer of the "Co-od" performs the finai ritefcThe letters' mortal service in the moMngVlnit ready to make public a full report of their findings at the meeting. No inkling of their decision baa been given The Journal-Oasette. 2 WMieceileeVlMwever, that therr vera appointed as, the result of a resolution passed at a meeting jtf doctors and a number of lay citizens of Coles county In the Hotel U.

g. Grant At that meeting, Dr. Henri etta Herbolshcuner, ehief of the division of maternal and child hy-fiene, Illinois Department of Publib Health, and Stewart HummeL dl- rector of the widely known Sliver Cross Hospital In JoUet, were the on the headstone of the lantern's grave mean "rest In peace," it was explained by the Edmonds, the first family to receive power from the new lines. Grandfather and grandson the old and the new are shown in the bottom picture. Timmy Lee Gass, 3, stands on a chair to operate the switch starting a new E.

B. Patterson, watches the operation. The old pump replaced modern electric pump may be seen said, "I have spent more money last March than the entire new Mrs, Pandit Steals Show at U. N. Assembly BY DROTHY DOAN (I.

N. 8. Strff Correspondent) New York Mrs. Vljayalakshmi Pandit, who sat on the sidelines at the San Francisco conference because she could not get accreditation, is today among the foremost delegates to the United Nations assembly and may be India's new ambassador to Washington. The small, shy Indian woman, sister of Nehru, plainly stole the show when, in an addres.

to the assembly Friday night, she denounced imperialistic exploitation, demanded removal of British troops from India, and said India intended to have "a more effective part" in the United Nation. A well-informed Indian spokesman said it was "quite possible" Mrs. Pandit would replace India's agent general as ambassador to the United States when the present diplomatic post is elevated to ambassadorial rank. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, In answer to a note asking her to comment on Mrs.

Pandit's speech, sent back this word: "A very flnj speech." Of her valedictory effort, Mrs. Pandit said: "I am very happy about it, I feel I had instant response when I was pleading the cause of my country and all countries like mine." Mrs Bodll Begtrup, delegate from Norway and chairman of the U. N. Women's Commission, saw the ovation that greeted Mrs. Pandit's speech as a clear triumph not only for the speaker but for all women.

ROGGE FIRED BY CLARK Washington UR O. John Rogge, special assistant to the attorney general, was fired today for allegedly violating a promise not to discuss publicly a report involving two persons In the government's mass sedition trial. Attorney General Tom Clark announced Rogge's dismissal In a statement Issued shortly after midnight in which he specifically mentioned Rogge's references to the two defendants in a speech Tuesday nfght at Swarthmore, Pa. The cases now pending In the U. S.

District Court for the District of Columbia Involve Gerald P. Win-rod and Joseph Mc Williams. The report was filed with Clark on 8ept. 20, 1944. Clarke said that Rogge had recommended In the report that both cases be nolle prossed.

The Swarthmore speech was highlighted by Rogge's description In detail ot what he termed Nazi plans to prevent the. election of President Roosevelt in 1936, 1940 and 1944. In the speech, Rogge also mentioned John L. Lewis as among those he said the Germans sought to use to defeat the late President. Rogge's report on the Nasi plan was circulated by a Washington columnist prior to and after hi! speech.

Clark, however, made no mention In his letter of dismissal about the Nazi scheme discussed in the Swarthmore address. RELIEfFOODSPOILS DUE TO SHIP STRIKE San Francisco Carloads of relief supplies were reported spoiling today in Pacific coast warehouses where they are held up indefinitely by the maritime strike. The supplies, including barleyseed, foodstuffs and other relief supplies are destined for Greece. U. N.

R. R. A. representatives said they do not know who is to blame for, the situation and West Coast maritime commission officials said the matter has not been brought to their attention. The committee for maritime unity, predominately a C.

I. O. organization, in a telegram to U. N. R.

R. A. Chief Fiorello LaGuardia and Secretary of State Byrnes, placed the blame on the waterfront employers. Frank P. Poise, president of the Waterfront Employers Association, condemned the M.

U. telegram as "part of a shabby scheme to use the miseries of the world to attain public position and to smear a responsible industry." ELKS Halloween dance Saturday evening, Oct. 36. Members and invited guests. M-M returned to their home the other night to find the surprise electrification move.

LOANS FOR PRE-FAB FIB Twin Action Taken fa Effort to Speed Housing fro Diem Washington The government to-gsv launched a new two-pronged attack on the nation's critical bousing ahortage. President Truman authorized the Importation of lumber temporarily fret ol all tariffs, and Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt recommended that manufacturers of prefabricated houses be granted $54,000,00 on federal loans. Both moves were taken, high officials laid. In an effort to speed the completion of homes now under construction and to improve the nation's chances of meeting a goal of 1,500,000 new dwellings in 1947. It was conceded that construction )a 1944 will fall to reach Wyatt's goal of U00.00O.

"Political," Says Reece. Republican National Chairman Carroll Reece saw Mr. Truman's move as a political one. In a stale-Bent Reece 'Considering the fact that the building season In many parts of the country has about ended for the inter, It may be that Mr. Truman's order Is designed to have more effect upon the construction of political fences than the construction of bouses." Premium for Nails.

Wyatt announced a "premium payment" subsidy of $20 a ton for extra production of nails, a prime building bottleneck. Nail production bad pledged, he said, to boost their output nearly 25 per cent by December. The President Issued a procla-jhatlon declaring an emergency and authorizing Secretary of the Treas-iry Snyder to permit temporarily the Importation of scarce timber, lumber and lumber products dutyfree for housing construction. The waiver will apply to any such products certified by Wyatt. The duty-free privilege will af fect mainly imports from Canada.

The flow of Canadian lumber was Jeopardized in July by the revaluation of the Canadian dollar. This action cut the revenue of Dominion lumber men by 10 per cent on sales to the United States and made it likely that much of the 1.000,000.- 000 board feet Imported by this country annuall would go elsewhere. BULGARIANS TO GO TO POLLS SUNDAY BY JOHN A. BEICHMANN (I. N.

S. Staff Correspondent) Washington Bulgaria's Sunday elections today were regarded by diplomatic observers as furnishing i new test of western versus eastern democracy in the heart of territory regarded by Russia as her own. An the past week the State De partment has placed heavy emphasis on its interest In this smallest but Boat strategically located of the Balkan states, It is the nation considered more closely knit to Moscow than any other in the ares. tate -Department experts were re-Ported to feel that, in spite of this com allegiance to Moscow of the Present regime, fair elections would bow a substantial majority favor -tag the western democracies. this deduction was based largely en the arraarent reluctance of the heal government and Soviet repre-entativea on the Allied control (ouncU to allow1 an open campaign bd certainly honest elections.

IVE FACE MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES AT JERSEYV1LLE Jerseyville. HI. (INS) Five persons ere charged with manslaughter toby in the death of James Crull of "oeedale township. Crull died Oct. im St.

Joseph's Hospital at Alton Injuries received in a tavern awl Bound over to the grand Jury bv of the Peace Arthur Thatch- Were Richard W. Barnes, George lovins and his wife, Mary, ot weh, Robert Scott of Fleldon, and toy Detherage, Barnes' housekeeper. but Barnes were released on od ranging from IfOO to $10,000. CAPEGODCOTTAGE Opens today at 4 p. m.

Good food Wed service. We've added steaks ear menu, Pronto Pups, too! 10-26 LOUliVjtESlOU the Rendezvous for Sunday Je. noon and evening Excellent tpeclalising In steaks, chicken U-ftt toon High School and move east ward through the business district nt. a rrtwi-w ntnnrt Prts for the best drum and bugle corps will be $100, $50 and $25, while the prizes for high school bands will be $50 and $25. Business houses ot the city will will remain open during other hours of the day.

TOO YlTHS ATTACK EXPECTANT MOTHER Chicago (IMS) Two youths who gpin 24-vear-old exDectant assaulted her and left her bound -hand and foot In a vacant lot were hunted today by south Chicago police and detectives. The assailants, masked with handkerchiefs, grabbed the woman from behind as she was walking (on 88th St. ner Phillips) on the way to meet her. husband, a former G. I.

and electrician who was working on a house the couple recently bought In the neighborhood. The victim was screaming and fighting, 200 yards to the lot. The youths stifled her cries by holding their hands over her mouth But later, she bit one of them on the Up while his accomplice was binding her hands and feet with twine. After the men fled, the young wife hobbled to the home of Emil Butal-la. He cut her bonds and phoned police.

The victim was treated for shock at Jackson Park Hospital PETER fDSON ing rooDeries, in wmcn tne an American-born mar historic St. James residence of a were burglarized. -oner Jewels and furs more than $63,000 were taken by the "big league" thieves who struck scarcely 10 days after some $80,000 worth of gems were stolen from the Duchess of Windsor's bedroom. Jewels worth $40,000 were stolen Friday night from the home of Lady Kathleen Hartington, daughter of the former ambassador to Great Britain Joseph Kennedy. Discovered at the same time was the loss of Jewels worth $3,200 from the bedroom of Lady Legh, also American-born, in the palace residence.

Her husband is. Sir Piers Legh, master of the king's household. The third robbery, also committed Friday night, was at the Bays-water home of J. Harvey where the thieves obtained Jewels and furs worth $20,000. "Cased" for Weeks.

Scotland Yard Intimated- that the Hartlgan home In-Smith Square had been "cased" for weeks by thieves who have plundered wealthy Greater London homes of loot worth several hundred thousand dollars recently. The thieves chose a time when the home was temporarily unoccupied and walked boldly through the front door and Into the marchioness' bedroom where the Jewels were kept In a case in a drawer. Lady Legh's butler said her Jewelry was found missing from her dressing table Friday night. He added that the theft must have occurred within the past few days. Apartment Never Empty.

Lady Legh said that the value of the Jewelry was chiefly sentimental as family pieces. She said: "At no time was our apartment empty. I cannot understand how the thieves got Into the palace bedroom." The missing Jewelry Included a diamond bracelet, a ring and a brooch. There was no sign of a break. The thieves who entered the Hartington home missed Jewels worth even more thin those that were stolen.

The marchiones' maid said, "if the thieves had entered other rooms they could have had an even greater haul of Jewelry." Husband Killed in War. The marchlmess Is a widow. Her husband, Lord Hartington, was killed in action in France Sept. 10, 1944, while fighting as a captain of the Coldstream Guards. The robberies of Lady Hartington and Lady Legh were the second and third affecting an American born woman in England in less than two weeks.

ST. LOUIS READY FOR CAPONE GANGSTERS St. Louis IKS) A thorough investigation of reports that the Chi-caao Caoone gangs were planning operations in St. Louis was launched by Chief of Police James J. rvuicneu today.

"If the Capone gangsters move into St. Louis they'll move right out again, we won't put up with hoodlums like them here," Mitchell said. The Capone gang was reported to have moved Into East St. Louis gambling circles in August. Their activities In St.

Louis consist of an alleged bid to Clarence S. Owen and Paul B. Brown, operators of a racing news service, to share in profits. ANNOUNCING This is to announce the opening of the new offices of Dr. B.

Raymond Cole and Dr. James P. Nolan at the Medical Arts Building, 112 South 15th St They were formerly located at 213 South 17th St. Dr. Lee Steward will be asso- dated with them.

They will occupy th entire KTOund floor of the Medl cal Arts Building. M'29 STEWART HAS BEER Phone 765 and order a your next party. case for 11-3 principal speakers. Spoke Frankly, Both speakers startled their audience with many, frank statements and recommendations. They contended, for example, that neither Mattoon nor Charleston should attempt to support a hospital alone uut one mould brlrallt both cities plus an the small towns and the rural areas, in this section.

the question of traveling several miles with patients was raised, but both calmly pointed to the fact that residents of large cities such as Chicago frequently travel as far at 39 miles to a hospital and consider It no undue hardship. Asked about the eases of accident victims, both speakers pointed out that automobile crashes are Ukely to occur as near a hospital located a few miles Outside the city as one inside town. It would be Impossible to locate a new hospital convenient to the scene of every future acci "if I were afraid of so small a minority, I wouldn't admit it" U.A V.T0 ASK The United Automobile Workers (O. I. announced today that It will demand "about a 21 per cent" wage increase for its members in Chrysler Corporation Plants next Wednesday.

A union spokesman said the U. A. W. would go Into the negotiating room asking a "substantial" pay hike. He said It will be armed with Bureau of Labor statistics "showing that living costs have risen 21 per cent" since the first blanket raises were negotiated this spring.

A 21 per cent Increase would add' more than $2 a day to each worker's pay. The Informant said that the union will do an in its power to win a "Just Increase" without striking. One U. A. W.

official admitted, however, that he is "being kept awake night" worrying' about a small band of "agitators" who want to strike to gain the wage demands. This official said that such "minority" bands are cropping up throughout the U. A. ranks and admitted that it is difficult to hold them down. and you can insert them where they belong.

P. A. C. salesmen will then know how to sell the new lines dynamically. Why don't the Republicans and Democrats think up things like this? The Idea of a loose-leaf political platform Is certainly something the major parties could use.

When one issue becomes worn out like meat price control, for Instance you simply tear out the Issue you don't like and put in a new one. They may laugh when you sit down at the political piano, but at this point it would probably be Just as well to explain that the manual for this home laboratory course on "You Too Can Be a Politician," will cost you $3. The price of later lessons Is not given. Editors of the work are Lew Franks and Ralph Shlkes, with the collaboration of a dozen political action specialists. Franks Is the smart young Detroit advertising man who first' thought up P.

A. College of' Political Knowledge. Shlkes Is a P. A. C.

director of information. The manual Is really a perfect companion with which "to be cast away on a desert Island particularly if there are natives who need to on page twol PAYBOOST dent, and for this reason one site ,7 would be as acceptable as another, the speakers explained. 1 Both experts agreed that If a hot pltal Is to attract outstanding doc, tors and surgeons and specialists it must have an extensive patronage, P. C. Tells How to Become Real electric pump as his grandfather, in the background.

Mr, Patterson for repairs on the old pump since electric pump cost." The Pattersons current on, in a start the current to his home and premises. When Mr. Edmond had made the connection and light shone everywhere the neighbors sent up great shouts," After leaving the Edmon residence, the surprise party moved along to the home of each family on the two-mile stretch first given power on the new project. Similar scenes were enacted along the route. The energizing of the new project "missed just one day of falling on the seventh anniversary pf the energizing of the co-op's first lines," Mr.

Waggoner said today. The new line makes a total of 626 miles of electric lines now in service and when project three is completed the total will be 860 miles. Lines in operation now give service to approximately 2,000 members of the co-op in Coles and Moultrie counties chiefly, but with some members on extension lines in Douglas, Piatt. Edgar: Shelby, Clark and Cumberland counties. bed by toe pTect which will be placed in service as rapuuy as each section is completed.

The federal government through the Rural Electrification Administration has loaned the co-op a total of $1,206,000. The co-op Is paying this money back each month through interest and principal to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. FEMININE TOUCH ADDED TO JAPAN'S LABOR TROUBLES Tokyo (WS) Japan's current labor unrest moved into the field of entertainment today with a strike by the nation's traditional dancers More than 1,000 girls of the Takarazuka troupe known in America and Europe voted to strike for more pay and more face powder. TRAILER CAMP LICENSE Due Not. 1.

Applications now available at city clerk's office for one or more units. James L. Warren, city piers. 10-28 NOTICE Frank O. Thompson, director of Education and Registration, will be the principle speaker of the Republican rally at the Court House in Charleston.

Ill, Monday, Oct. 28 at 8 p. m. Welcome. 10-26 ana inererore must serve a wiae jj.

ia a. 1 Politician in Easy Lessons BY PETER EDSON be comulatlve." That Is, as new poll- Washington Correspondent) tlcal action techniques are drvelop-Washington The C. I O. Political ed, supplements will be mailed out difficult for a hospital with a limit- I ed staff, inadequate equipment and The first few homes served by the third project of the Coles-Moultrie Electric Co-operative today are using electricity as a result of a surprise energization of five and a half miles of lines. The project, planned and preliminary work started prior to the war, will serve, several hundred families when completed, but through a decision reached by the "co-op" board, electricity will be furnished to families along the new route as soon as the contracting firm in charge of construction completes each section.

The first section into which power was turned was only two miles long. The second section covered three and a half miles and included three extensions to serve 11 customers. The entire project when completed will cover 240 miles. Mr, and Mrs. Fred Editions, residing in Whitley township of Moultrie county, northwest of Mattoon, were the first to receive power on the new lines.

Friends and neighbors of the Edmonds, along with John G. Waggoner, manager of the "co-op" and "co-op" workmen staged a surprise party when the current was first turned on. Mr. Waggoner said: "All was in readiness when Mr. Edmond was called from his home and asked to tura on the switch which would FIRE CAUSES 10,00 LOSS AT CHICAGO HOTEL Chicago Damage from a fire in the elevator shaft of the Hotel Sherman, that forced several guests to seek safety down fire escapes, was estimated today at $10,000.

The blaze, believed caused by spontaneous combustion or friction, broke out late Friday and snarled traffic throughout the north Loop area. More than 10,00 spectators gathered at the scene. YOUNG G. 0. P.

CHILI SUPPER The Coles County Young Republi- rn will orlv a. fro rhlll tninriw at the chami of Commerce rooms. Charleston, 111., Monday, Oct 28, 1946, in connection with Republican Day festivals of the Home Coming Week. All members are urged to be present and bring a friend. Public' cordially invited.

Lanceford Prultt, chairman, 10-26 a small area of service to earn enough Income to be self-supporting. Township Plan Hell Up. The meeting at which Hummel and Dr. Herbolshelmer spoke was called Just as a local committee was' preparing to file a petition, calling for a vote on a plan to build a Mat toon township hospital. Following their frank talks, the county-wide investigating committee was ap pointed and the township hospital plan was held in abeyance.

Interest Grows. No Information about the findings of the committee has been disclosed during the weeks it has been at work, but community interest In the hospital project has continued to grow. The Mattoon post of the Amerl- can Legion voted at its' meeting Thursday evening to donate $1,000 to a hospital fund, and four Individual members pledged personal contributions totaling $2,450 more AH these gifts, however, were made conditional upon the construction of a hospital inside Mattoon Action Committee has published book. It Isn't a book, exactly. It's looseleaf binder that looks like a machinery salesman's catalogue, and It's called "Manual of Practical Political Action." It measures nine inches by 12, and it weighs one pound and 11 ounces, net.

It Is index-tabbed on the far side, and you can run your thumb down the chapter tabs till you come to something that looks like Jack Horner's plum, then dig In while yelling, "What a good boy am II" No foolln', this Is the works. It reduces political pressure to the exact science of super -salesmanship No more reliance on Old Glory, the Declaration of Independence, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Bunker Hill, Ban Juan Hill, hill of beans. They aren't mentioned once. In their places are graphs, charts, forms, cartoons, picture stories, dramatic presentations, eye appeal, ear appeal, sex appeal. The whole thing is modern, streamlined, handler than a woman's purse and Just as full of strange tissues, keys, deodorants, small change, mirrors of public opinion, and assorted red smears, smells and white nin' Page one, under "How to Use This Manual," says, "This manual will attfmtwm Mnnii Initiation Sunday, October 37 at 3 p.

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