Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 1

i WANT AM until oM O'elock ay of plication, JOURNAL-GAZETTE WtATHIt ILLINOIS: Clearing and cooler tonight. Generally fair and rather mild Wednesday. ty-Second Year. No. 273 Member Aunt Bureau of MATTOON, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1946 AO Phone 2S0 Price 5 Conts mam DAILY -y II lUmmdant Production9 Farm Goal LIFE GROWS DEARER Gale Damages Luxury Liner in Port MINATFIIAS Cemetery Board increases r-nsf nf inn LA.

O'NEAL '3GES END OF LABOR STRIFE Art ninrPTHDO b. UllltU I UltO The names of eight men nomin TO ASK DRASTIC LEGISLATION BY CONGRESS Hopes to Block Walkouts Which Threaten Nation's Economy BT ROBERT G. NIXON (IN. 8. Staff Ceneapono'ent) Washington President Truman will present the new Congress with the strangest possible requaat for extraordinary powers to cork future strikes that threaten the economy.

mmmmmmm as high $40. While Mattoon ated for four positions aa directors BY JOHN S. MILLER of the Mattoon Association of 8tff Price Increases for certain service Commerce were announced today at Dodge Grove cemetery and wage and members of the organization boosts for employes were approved were asked to select four of them Monday evening at a meeting of the ii Board of Managers of the cemetery. by ballots which must be returned CZT.t. The wage boosts were approved to to the A.

of C. office by Saturday, conform with wage Increases grant-Dec. 14. ed to employes in other city depart-Nominated from the member- menta and service prices were raised hin.f.iar in hoiintinir mnrturt- to meet the Increased cost of ms- 7 IIP? k4eVA.AM.'AW'w NtA BOARD HEARS TEACHERS ON WAGE BOOST Takes Request Under AHvkpmpnt Until AUViaeillciu U1IU1 Next Monday BY E. VIKGIL HFNSHAW Staff Writer) Two sessions of the Board of Education and a delegation of XI men and women from the a ted Teachers of Mattoon marked the regular meeting of the Board Monday evening, with the petition of the A.

T. O. M. for higher salaries receiving a hearing. Seeking an Immediate answer to the request, the delegation was assured that the reply would be given following a special Board meeting set for Monday evening, Dec.

18.. The first session, held in a do- mestlc science room of the Mattoon tuna ouuwi Ul urucr uii tuiipis seating could be provided for all, consisted of the reading of a letter from the A. T. O. M.

Ask $50 Per Month. The letter, read by Oren Lackey of Longfellow Junior School, presented a request for a raise in salary of $50 per month for each teacher in the Mattoon public school system, beginning Jan. 1. The request was based on the answers to a questionnaire filled out by the teachers. "The letter stated that the survey showed salaries in- farm Bureau Leader srns American Way 'of Life on Trial gin Francisco The predial of the American Farm Bureau 'jjjaation today urged an economy 'a ibundant production unimpeded ')j labor strife In order to bring a jghir standard of living.

I uward A. O'Neal, in an addresa inpared for delivery at the open. teuton of the farm bureau's 'onual meeting, warned hla 11s-lloeri that the American way of "3j la on trial. I Opposes Monopolies, O'Neal said: If ao-called free enterprise la be maintained and la to prevail truly free. No monopoliea in biuitry, In labor, In agriculture-'an be tolerated unlesa rigidly con- jtalled." I The farm bureau president pointed out that only through huge enterprise can the nation achieve biLcost nroduction, but added: It does not follow if an institu S) Dig, tnai It la incrciurc Bonopoly." i Strike "Jungle Weapon." I O'Neal declared an "outraged 'public opinion" in this country wlfl demand effective action by 'ftxnnwM tn nritvcnt strikes and permanently in this country.

It must Gemnn.buiit liner Europa, renamed the Iiberte by the French, lies In the mud on a shallow side of LeHavre harbor. France, after she snap- 1 ,4 1 "is, A. vo, Anu Tltpftt (TMri Ntvi Plctmas TmV Army Searches Violators BT FRANCES MUSIC (L S. Staff Correspondent) Washington The army waa revealed today to be conducting an Intensified pursuit of A. W.

O. and suspected war cafetract viola- tors. Secretary of War Patterson and Gen. Dwight Elsenhower Issued new. stricter instructions for appre- henslon of the two widely different types of law-breakers.

Top officials stressed the Importance of prompt reporting by field personnel of suspected fraud in war contracts, asserting: 'AUjJfiSQWLXPncern with the Officers or War Department em- 3 ped her moorings in a gale-driven wave, and stove In her side. The vessel waa assigned to the 'French after World War IL flC MACHINERY U. II. GRINDS ON VITAL TOPICS cost of living. The median Increase bodieo in a presinenua bv needed since last spring was shown the Congress.

Barring a new strike to be $50 per month. crisis between now and early Jan-It was stated that the request for uary, the President does not plan a raise "represents the exact amount to present bis views) on recurring needed and is not an inflated figure threats before he makes bis appear-presented for bargaining purposes." ance on Cspltol H11L The, consensus as stated is strike Acauist Government. their -disastrous disruption of es- Political Committee IFJ- Votes to Recall Amine strike la really a Jungle DaSSadorS to Spain VifotL It savors of the tootn- 'ma-claw philosophy rather than BT GEORGE DURNO toe philosophy of the golden rule. (L n. S.

Staff Correspondent) S3 literally too expensive to the Lake Success, Y. Ponderous 'aiUon to be tolerated In the ex- United Nations machinery was that we have witnessed grinding away today In an attempt Itetag 1946." to aolve some of the world' most the raise should be considered a part of the contractual agreement for the current school year and not an anticipation of the amounts for next years contra ta anouiu 11 -r --z---m nlZ Twer. "Borrow neeeaaary. p- Because the borrowing power of dTS limited, the letter sUted. the group ed last week were: R.

D. Bills, Paul Conway, ton HuLse, W. R. Kimball, T. M.

Nelson, Joe Schilling, C. A. Thatcher and Robert M. Wer-den. M.

S. Engelbrecht, managing secretary of the A. of pointed out that the candidates as listed today were merely listed in alphabetical order and not necessarily In the way they received votes. Ballots for the election of Retail Division officers also were present- ed to A. of C.

members today, Nominees for Retail Division offices are as follow: For chairman, Robert Gibson and W. C. Morse, for vice-chairman, Truman Banner and Leroy B'fehler; for treasurer, Rex Hovious and John Oehl. The candidates as per custom were nominated by the present rSrm tw Jury Fails to Agree in Sales pniiM fnan UUI IV lUOtv An eight-man Jury hearing the trial of C. A.

Lane charged with maintaining a nuisance by operation of a sales barn on the north aide of Mattoon, failed to agree late Monday and was dismissed by Justice of the Peace W. C. Herring, paving the way for a new trial. The complaint against Lane bad a sr TX North, Thirteenth hiirhlv offensive odors and a The cl plans to try the case wJS SorSe Sal has been set It at was underwood ijt. In tha vlrlnft.v ...14.

m. mm 1, etf If until th CAM suit to top of It until the case uw ON GRAHAM'S STAFF SmcM to ma Jiinai-Ba-tT Charleston, Eston ha- peen appomiea wiruaey vi ww i.n Rail has county Jail, and Mrs. Jessie sau naa en retained as cook by Sheriff w. vnil unuua. PAUL MALLON Russ Send Peace I OTIeal denied that the nation's pressing post-war problems.

a IUM L1 1- of contracts snouia. a Montgomery .921 iwbletothatof delegations therefore he cautioned to be on the Nort xnth claim- There is every likelihood that 4 and p. m. while possibility of fraud at fh.t j-tu and liveatock kent at the Bsi otvax rnmna Is expected to ssk JEOoS lteS. ganSSi to handle strike, that mIM; debt A je, that morale of teach- ened or occur In any -Industry that ta to lowered If their would present national emergency.

foinai are full of worries about un- Coal and the railroads ere two of 4 Dlus was Included. the industries that fit Into such ptoyes suspecting the mere poesj- kl50 a nuisance by virtue of bfllty of fraud were directed to re- KunAa both day and night" port the facta Immediately to the Approximately 20 persons testi-general staff. during the trial which was held In the meantime negotiations in Mattoon City court rooms, connection with termination claims Wfflls p. Ryan, city -attorney, may continue, but no payments prosecute(i the case, and Craig Van will be approved until the go-ahead Metw of the Cralg and craig Uw is received from Washington. flrm handled the defense.

Members Eisenhower, at Patterson's dlrec- rf jury were Austin, tion, alerted field personnel In War Ray Reddlngi Frank Tate, Horace Department circular No. 351. Nashi James AUen. M. This document was followed by phurt Christian and Robert Endsley.

charged only 75 cents per cubic foot for Installing concrete foundations In graves, other cities charged at The new price increases approved by the Board for Dodge Drove fol- low: Graves for wooden burial box es, from $10 to $15; graves for vaults from $15 to $25; concrete foundations In graves, from 75 centa to $1 per cubic foot Wage boosts approved by the Board follow: Common labor, from 75 to 80 cents per hour; assistant sexton, from 85 to 90 cento per hour; office clerk, from $20 to $22.50 per week. The Board also recommended that the City commission adopt an ordinance raising the salary 61 sexton from $200 to $225 a month. BLAME CIGARET FOR ATLANTA HOTEL FIRE KIipvaH I nrpPS81V Thrown on Mattress on Third Floor Atlanta, GaWINSJ The death toll of the Wlnecoff Hotel fire reached 121 today. L. W.

Coehran of Miami, Fla, died in. an Atlanta hospital ef Injuries and burns suffered in the holocaust. BY J. ALLEN COMPTON (I. N.

S. Staff Correspondent) Atlanta, Ga. Investigation of the Wlnecoff Hotel fire, which cost 120 Uvea, today pointed toward the pos- stblUty that the fire began when a clgaret was. thrown carelessly on attre Zl irw.y use rnnn. Stairway Like Funnel.

mttrea waa found near a storeroom only 10 feet from the Tne matireas waa iouna near L.Z:.::. elevator shaft of the 15-story build- tag. scene of America's worst hotel fire early Saturday. A. O.

Hutson, sssistant chief en- glneer of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, who is invsti gating the blaze, said the stairway 080165 thr0Ugh f16 UPper of the hotel with Incredible Hutson, testifying before a board of Are marshals and a city council committee Monday night, asserted mere is oenmw evwence Are started on the third floor. Remnant. He also revealed mat remnanw 01 uwi -o tasv wssw Hutgon thera WM doubr that IWUircU UUW miHW th. fir. tn th.

third Boat was re- me mo mj sponsible for the blaze engulfing me upper portion ox vno bow. nBlnt fair. pirst reports that paint ana uir- pentine, recently used in redecorat- ing UlC u-year-utu nmcmu, uj have been responsible for the con flagration were discounted by one of the hotel painters, J.M.Williams. Williams asserted all the paint was "M' ST. PAUL TEACHERS' STRIKE IN THIRD WEEK St Paul, Minn.

(INS) The strike of St. Paul public school teachers was in its third week today after the City Charter Commission indl creaM to school budget. who are picketing 77 st Paul schools will continue, enaorsea oy tne cay oouucu me strikers was aavocatea ny van- ous spokesmen, The charter commission members contended that me proposed amendment would be defeated by the voters because it would be too costly, mey wu vtootm tax increase 01 more man cnt adjourned to TOWUi iiuuiu uuuiuibwuu. BASKETBALL Don Oalnes Reel Este Tersus Windsor Independents Wednesdey p. m.

Phone 13-U reswvauuu. the delegation that "UM" Board is not unmindful of the sit- "JJHIbow for the strike- SUtlng that the Board was curblng legation which it wifl re- not without forewarning of the re- quest Mr. Horsley said that, we, The chief executive win make a personal appearance before a Joint session of the Republican -dominated Congress in early January when the lawmakers reconvene. Lewis' Strike Responsible, Mr. Truman's request for strike-curbing legislation will be a major part of "his state of the union message to the House and Senate.

The President's determination to seek a means by which the executive branch of the government can handle effectively strikes of nation- jmpact has been crystallized by the crisis brought about by the soft coal walkout This year's state of the union message will be comparatively brief. It will deal In great measure with the economic forces that have arisen during the past 13 Much of it will deal with the series of major strike threats in industries that control the. nation's economic -life. A good part of what-Mr. Truman planned to tell the nation Sunday night before John Lewis called off the coal walkout wm ne Th nreeldential view of the soft cot WBiwmi is the same be took of threatened nationwide railroad U-iy.

lDring, The White House frmnara as a strike against tne governnifn iv Truman UUem'thel T7.tiir that effect the nation's entire economy cannot TT wumDgu JZZZ appemred today to have thoroughly up8et the edimnlstretlon'. bope tor a speedy end to government management of the bituminous coal ln- dustry. Can't Let lo-. 1 rmm tnn-ranklns of flclal said "It la now Impossible for the govern- ua1 heesrtaaa ment to get oui any time tv- The official said Iwls action to sending the miners back to work until next March SI set a deadline which the government cant ignore. of the mines, be said, would give the appearance that the government wss "running out on the situation" after having' decreed finish fight with tixe U.

M. WJ chieftain. Moore of St Louis after 1 adnunistration.5 Ti-rVann'a for Tots Teens. 1519 Broadway. 13-10 aiAiirT Tltr Tlr llf7 Tl HUH 10 lllL.lls.aL To purchase Aetna Automobile liability insurance.

See J. Logan Onver. 4 12-10 Checker top cbs. 34 hour service. Phone Sll terials.

Board members stated. "Prices charged by Dodge Grove cemetery for sendees were far below those of other nearby cities It waa found in a survey," Alfred M. lister, president of the Board, said. "The survey showed that while Mat-toon charged $10 for digging a common grave other cities charged from $20 to $30, and in some instances Can Inspectors Uncover Germ Warfare? BT FRANK B. ALLEN (I.

N. S. Staff Correspondent) Washington Senator Hatch, (D) of N. said today that he fears even United Nations inspection lahr. aggression-bent nation.

Hatch declared there should be nothing short of thorough world disarmament, with international tribunals to decide disputes between nations on the basis of ah international code of laws. The senator who witnessed the Bikini bomb test as an observer for President Truman said he Is In accord with the efforts to outlaw the atomic bomb "but not at all satisfied with merely doing thai" He said: "I am not convinced that in fc. world, e.mlsMu teria for warfare, or against mak- ing of other agencies of death. Hatch pointed out that vast amounts of bacteria with which a country secretly preparing ior aggression could conduct far-reaching germ warfare could be produced in a laboratory too small to be easily detected. He added that rockets also can be assembled, in small plants.

He Llisnent COmparaUvdy OFFERS HOPE TO VICTIMS OF PERNICIOUS ANEMIA Little Rock, John R. Totter, assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Arkansas, gave hope today to suf- Jti-n-f ur, loiver uikwku wu new WW VCA1A1CU iuuw esiaMt aaewer ment of pernicious anemia. nO UlUluabCU wwv.ww uwrniw, fmmd In rtv.r erowth and ereen iuiuiu iu 'v-" leafy vegeUbles, also may prove auccessiui treating iuh wuui Af Whlta hliwl rnrnwlM raiuvri hv of white BKa corpuscles causeq oy radiation of the type produced in wuiiv wpww-. Hopes Soaring on suddenly her unprecedented Isolation to world inspection on any subject offers the Jbest verbal prospect for peace yet proposed. The common Interpretation here is that as soon as any U.

N. com- sla to find out how much uranium trabie bear mae, niae 11 in nucse in the cellar, say the venture is too or not or recommena ma investigate Spain first, where sne actually claimed atom bombs were hidden not so long ago or the United States which is rumored to have both 69 and none at all. (A. P. says none: better private sources say 69.

But do not be tod sure of Russia mt waiauis pui uu least not until she puts our bombs under international, management Wna. A few well advised people say Rus- sla has no bombs ana wnet is worse ew nlanes sufficiently efficient to r.rrv tnv if aha ever cot one. Her scientific experiments in atomic energy rievelwn typically Russisn, thet ta to unsuta. purge ana reorgamaiuuu uc (Continued on page two) taction, because organized agricul- aembly could act early in the war insisted that Wont Break Relations. provide stop-loss leglsla- jq a lut-mlnute compromise, the Ition to furnish a cushion for farm g-member poUtfcal and security Prtces at 90 per cent of parity." committee voted to pull all ambas- said Congress must pro- udors and ministers out of Franco rkle money to carry out the orlg- Spain but not break diplomatic taal Steagall amendment, but, that relations nor -apply an economic farmers, too, must do their part in quarantine, carrying out the program by co- United States delegation, operating in acreage adjustments, which previously had announced it What Farmers Want would not sever relations, was ex- The arm bureau leader In ad- pected today to advise the com- Srwslnf delegates representing more mittee how Washington felt about than a million farm families In 45 puUing out our ambassador until tates and Puerto Rico, said the juch time as Franco's Fascist regime jroup will insist on retention of the replaced, jwer-nortnal granary, commodity similarly, the approach to world loans and price stabilisation fea- umj reduction including prohlbl- tures.

He said: tlon of the atomic bomb and all "They have proved their value fa 0ther weapons capable of mass de- We and in war." struction-had bogged down some- I At the same time, O'Neal said the vnat federation will oppose government widely Divergent Views, tan susldies "for they savor too nwM meiy an overall agreement much of putting the farmer on on this score could and would be Jwpetual dole." reached today, but there still were O'Neal called for P10 some highly divergent' viewpoints to Tuns such as soil conservation end compose. 'ins and marketing research. He The social, humanitarian and that farm technology "must be cultural committee was still atrug- jwcentuated so that the worker in -nM with creation of an lnterna- V. X.r.tina out." Calling for more observations Um anyon. given next Monday evening.

I- return to me -regular tnlttArf fc th. rt.liwatlon and other towns MUon ana otner towns Tne regular meeting corauwu th reals. lnotUrTvnit'cAmv ttotntinnnA nn nam six) JAMES N. OUINN DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Jurtenlture may not fall further tional relief organisation to replace the Industrial worker n. N.

R. R. A. In tnia connecuon, Wings of Stratospheric Words James N.Quinn,T7,e retired labor CONDEMNS M0 CASKS i)F contractor, died Monday evening at BEEB AT ST. LOUIS his home, 713 Prairie avenue, after gt than 1,000 an Illness of several months.

''-asesi of beer were for de-Funeral services will be held at tnicUon- todey. 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning at The WM 'condemned in an the MitoheU funeral home. Rev. Federal Judge the United States stood adamant that it would furnish food relief only on basis of agreements with the individual states needing such aid. 9 FINED IN DEATH OF NEGRO IN EDGAR GO.

nanvllle. BllnoU farmers, charged with conspiracy to iniat a civil riahts sUtute in the ivolume of production." SLAUGHTER TO URGE ROBE BE CONTINUED BT RAYMOND WILCOVB JTI. N. S. 8Uff Correspondent) washlnsrtnn wnpMntative hter, (D) 0f Mo, declared to-that he would urge the new Re-nillcan-controlled House to con- "lue and exnand the invest! BT PAUL MALLON 'Copyright 1946, by Ring Features Syndicate.

Reproduction in whole or in part strictly prohibited). Washington The peace has suddenly turned a phantom of de- light No one here knows what it means at least no one with any instructions from the army chief of staff for rounding up soldier absentees. It was revealed that personnel reductions in the army have resulted in inadequate guard and detention facilities at many military installations." CATCHES FISH WITH mm AND TEETH New Tork-lHS-Capt Bill At- Kins OI U1B iisuuia uuuw C. had a fish story to tell today and more than that had the fish to prove his statements. The fish wss caught off Ambrose lightship Sunday and Atkins des- 11 it half fmt lTJXr.

mouth the sire of a football, flippers like a seal and two feet It also had an antenna a foot long protruding from its forehead and "beautiful green eyes." A check at the American museum of natural history showed that Atkins description was fairly accurate and that he had caught an "angler fish" also known as a "gooseflsh" or "the fishing frog. The museum added me xormai The museum added the me iu mer and two-by-four club and mat it was still alive after being out or the water 34 hours. fiPPHIWR nilN Ul LIllllU OUUI1 L. L. Walker's food store in the Lh 1 nmia.m baudmg et 1807 Broadway.

1- MmM me DuuBiua ui end complete new equipment and fixtures installed. Mr-Walker for- 7 ar.iv.'. merly operated the Welker's gro- eery at 1634 Broadway. Twatcn lor opening. 13-U K.

OF C. Rrvrlal evening. Dec. Utb. it ul of ahatt.

All welcome. r. ij.10 Dale Oliver will officiate, and bun- Quinn was born in jtentucxy worthwhUe official authority, al- there is, the Soviet government teachers' Joint council de-though some suspect a lot In fact, will again cloak herself in impene- clarei the strike of 1,165 instructors tion which hi. tnmin. nrnnertv faUi ahootlns of a Negro war veter- nn.

ronriiw.inir. in 1942. were fined totol of I Tbs committee chairman estlmet- 800 Monday by Federal Judge Wal- name of the inartnenigntmare was Wordsworth to be only "a mo- costly, furnish us some statistics At a two-hour charter commls--4 that his five-member group has ter O. Lindley. "lophlus piscatorius.

ment's ornament" her government considers substan- hearing Monday night pro- nd the fovernment 10 million The farmers entered pleas of no Captain Atkins said he had to nit coma hardly fly higher tial and advise us to believe these posed amendment to the charter April 3, 1869. He and Mrs. Quinn xnspectors said me beer was marl-were married in Charleston Sept ufactured by the King Cole Brewer-H. 1900- les Inc. of Chicago Heights, BL, end Surviving are the wile; two sons, monochlorecetlc add, Ralph and Harold Quinn of this txrfjonou gubstance used as a pre- city; a sister, Mrs.

Share Reynolds Uv6i of Perryville, Ave brothers. The beer was seised by federal Volmer of. Charleston, Elmer of Saybrook, Thomas and John of Bunker HilL Ind, and Oak of this nCniinm C31PCC cityi five grandchildren; one great ntUUULlJ riilULO grandchild, and several nieces end. nephews. Mr.

Quinh wss member Unrestricted choice of all coats, of the First Christian chnrch. Wat mita et ereatiy reduced prices at uars as a result of administrative contest, withdrawing httges mad hv war Assets of not euilty. ounlstration following disclosures Cfcarges-4ainst four others, 4 mefflciency endmftmanage- sheriff and, three deputies, were 808hter said the WAA Themen sll had been charged -Tied with ah adequate end with members of posse ifkient but had word, which reportedly pursued ena snot yaiuiuu mu i nearly evesyone suspects it wui uke apparition of (the altitude ceiling of phraseology being what It is) than Russia's of the veto in dls- armament inspection. Far above lofty was Molotov's stratospheric reversal of position to embrace nnc and actual inspection of armament production uranium armament proaucuon for one thing-everywhere in the 77. worw, inciuaing, swuso a.

Russia. A foreign diplomat P.nnot around Russia 1 to see toe streets, much less anvthiM secret He cannot ascer- t.in fii volume of aav on and wn.rrfta nnuitWimi tn the u. S. S. much Jess the amount ot urenlum production, gold, eir Planes, bomb, or metchsticks.

No one is free to ascertain any- thing aoout Russis.TW ber to open jratoe for its administrator, James Edward. Person, -Gen. Rrt m. Tittle lohn. Netrro from Somerville, Tenn.

once termed the committee's person disappeared after ha was "chickenfeed. fired upon, end his body wss found tongressman termed Little- 44 days later In a corn field in Ed- gar ANTIQUES Unusual Christmas guts, special price Thursday and Friday. Colored IZZ V.T namtt. ehina. lamns Blaaa.

hand Dalnted. chins, lamp. and flgurinea, 1308 Lafayette. Mrs. White.

i5; 13-W SPECIAL NOTICE your Christmas party at the El Rancha' Phone Mattoon 3247, or Charleston 436. V. 1U luaunwrator who was attemptmg ms best with a difficult task. JUST RECEIVED NOTICE Beginning December 19th, Helen anil be with Mildred's St "'Anient of alna-W and 'double Beautv 8hOD. 107 ft.

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