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of of of of of of of of of of of of DIVISION UNIV.OF ILL. LIBRARY 4-21-48 JG600 URBANA, ILL. JOURNAL-GAZETTE TE and ILLINOIS: Sunday. Fair and warmer tonight Seventy- Third Year. No.

153 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. MATTOON, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1947 All Phones 250 Price 5 Cents U. S. Production at High Level City's Zoning Ordinance Drafted Family Reported Held By Soviet Mrs. Valdermaras Carneckis, 55, formerly of Worcester, and their five children (above) were identified Friday "prisoner" in the Soviet Union.

Front row (left to Lucia, twins Peter and 6 ARRAIGNED IN CIRCUIT COURT Six persons named in Grand Jury indictments Monday were arraigned in the Coles County Circuit Court Friday. Thomas Edward Carlyle, 20, of Mattoon, named in two indictments charging statutory criminal assault and taking indecent liberties with a minor, pleaded not guilty and was released on bond. His bond previously was fixed at $5,000. Norman Donald Waltrip, 23, of Mattoon, named in two indictments charging him with being an accessory after the fact in statutory criminal assault and with taking indecent liberties with a minor, also pleaded not guilty and was released on bond. His bond previously, was fixed at $5,000.

James Edward Eaton, 34, of Charleston, named in indictments charging forgery and passing forged instrument, pleaded guilty to both charges and asked for probation. He was placed in the county Jail in lieu of $2,000 bond. Lyle Vernon Brown, 15, of Toledo' charged with grand larceny in connection with a bicycle theft, pleaded guilty and ask for probation. Marvin Walker, 58, of Mattoon pleaded guilty to four charges, two on forgery and two on passing forged instruments, and ask for probation. William Rentfrow, 25, of Beecher City pleaded not guilty to a charge of receiving money for property by falsely impersonating another person.

He demanded a trial. BABY BURNS TO DEATH IN HOSPITAL INCUBATOR Toledo, Defective wiring was blamed today for an incubator igniting in Toledo Robinwood Hospital Friday night and burning to death a day-old infant girl. The victim was the tiny daughter Mr. and Mrs. Beryl G.

Schowler of of Toledo. The baby girl, prematurely born, weighed only one pound and eight ounces. She had not been (AP Wirephoto) her husband, an ex-premier of Lithuania, by the Worcester Telegram as the family reported held right); Buwa, Mrs. Carneckis, and Arda; (back row); Paul, and Carneckis. U.

N. Takes Up World Trade Problems KILGALLEN (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) Lake Success, N.

"Greek case" having been put off until next week for solution, the United Nations today turned its attention to world economic problems. The Economic and Social Council was scheduled to discuss 39 items on its agenda. It will delve into a wide variety of topics, Including international control of oil resources and the establishment of- an economic commission for Latin America. The powerful Security Council will not reconvene until Tuesday when it will take up a paragraph by paragraph discussion of a United States resolution calling for the establishment of a semi-permanent frontier commission in the Balkans. General debate on the "Greek case" has come to an end after a fortnight of acrimonious discussions.

Before the Security Council are two resolutions -the one offered by the U. S. and a counter- -proposal by Soviet Russia. The U. S.

resolution will be considered first, inasmuch as it was the first submitted. Russia's resolution calls upon Greece, on one hand, and the Soviet satellite states of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania on the other, to resolve their differences among themselves by concluding new bi- PRODUCTION OF EGGS SOARS IN JUNE Springfield, -The StateFederal Departments of Agriculture today reported Illinois farms produced 262 million eggs during June, 16 million more than the total outbut for the same month in 1946. The figure marks a sharp increase over the 223 million eggs for the 1936-45 average and was the result of a four per cent increase in the number of layers over last year. Production for the first six months of this year totaled one billion 682 million. PETER EDSON Believes Love on High Levels Would Solve Everything BY PETER EDSON they announced the engagement of (NEA Washington Correspondent) Princess Elizabeth to Philip MountWashington The half -dozen batten.

When the glad tidings were high-minded senators who have just announced, the crowds gathered resolution to aid peace around Buckingham Palace and introduced a by the U. N. are in- were happier than they had been at dubitably in the right direc- any time since before the war. Were strengthening headed tion. But they may be on the wrong the British hungry? No matter, here track.

was love. Were they running out of be needed is an- dollar credits? Who cared? Were What seems to international organization to their clothes a bit on the shabby other EC and SOC side? What of it? Love was still go along with the WHO, and ILO. If this What matter if it would take Council, UNRRA, UNESCO, FAO, grand. ICAO, ITO last-mentioned set of pronounceable year's clothes rationing points to initials not spoken for by the get the princess a new bridal gown? were Organization, it Victoria's wedding dress and International ably Queen Mary's trousseau could International Labor probmight do But. since ILO is be brought down from that old for a new.

suggestion is trunk up in the Buckin'am h-attic. Love Organization. taken, Chinesey, ro- Get them out, cut them down, make the next best UNLO. It has a nice, of sound that is just them over. Nations Love Organi- What Princess Elizabeth here mantic sort right.

the World By proved was that love has a way of United zation. making even world troubles To Unite Love. by what pear. And if there. Is prompted anything the This idea was London week (Continued go Page 2 NEW HIGH IN EMPLOYMENT PREDICTED WON'T CHANGE PRESENT USES PROPERTY -G.

to Publish Preliminary Report and Map BY E. VIRGIL HINSHAW Staff Writer) A preliminary report on Mattoon's proposed zoning ordinance of faraching import as to space, time Ind growth of the city has been re-, eased to The Journal-Gazette after many months of study by the City Manning Commission. The Commission is composed of R. Kimball, chairman, J. StanWeis, H.

R. Checkley, Fred Kuehne Joseph Heiman G. F. Schrader. Working with group were two Indianapolis en, Lawrence V.

Sheridan, a conng engineer, and his assistant, aul Middleton. The "Why" of Zoning. Necessity for adopting a forward oking and sound policy with reect to land use and enactment of soning ordinance by means of which the policy can be put into Elect is brought to the attention citizens in the report. The proposed ordinance will be blished in full in The Journalazette probably late next week, with an explanatory map, acding to the present schedule. The report defines the zoning of a city as a system for the and practical use of all availland within a city, which will the fundamental needs for rous types and intensities of use such land in a manner which promote the economic and sowelfare and the progress of the micipal area.

It states that zonfirmly established procein municipal government and ministration. preserves and protects propervalues by stabilizing predened desirable neighborhood Incteristics," the report is the means for biding overcrowding, for the prosion of light and air to lomote health, comfort and connience in residential neighborlods, and the development of a gical pattern of commercial and dustrial areas." Tells of City's Growth. Pointed out is the fact that "the dinance recognizes the rights of which already exist at the time the passage of the ordinance and nich do not conform to the zoning jovisions of the district in which ey are located." The report declares that Mattoon a begun to experience a period of pid growth and expansion. "In 10 the population was 11,456, and ring the next 30 years the popuincreased to 15,827, representgrowth of 38.15 per cent. 1940 it has been estimated the population has jumped to figure in excess of 20,000, a gain approximately 26 per cent.

If la be true it means that the nuerical 1 growth during the last sevyears has almost equalled that hich took place over the previous years." Six districts recommended to the mission in report are the agle-family residential district, two-family residential district, multiple-family residential dis(Continued on page three) LOSE DECATUR CAFE UNSANITARY Decatur, Ill. -The Kozie Kitchen, South Main street, Decatur, has en closed on orders of City. Food aspector Jimmy Soules and Dr. P. Steele, commissioner of public alth and safety.

Boules and Joe Swisher, assistant and garbage control officer, Wednesday that an inspection the eating place followed nucrous complaints about sanitary puditions. The food inspector said that he pund the place overrun with aches, that grease was spattered the entire kitchen and canopy, place was dirty and there were aces of discarded food and egg hells under the stoves and on the elves. Swisher said that he found the a rat harbor, with large rumber of unwashed milk bottles Pattered about and attracting warms of flies. Failure to wash milk rattles is a violation of the city Me, Mg. Swisher pointed out.

CIRCULATOR FANS Step the whole family cool. Now mailable. Warner's Office opposite Post Office. Family of 7 Existing in Ex-Stable The John Reynolds family of seven wants a home. Mr.

and Mrs. Reynolds and their five children, ranging in age from the baby, Louise, seven months old, to the oldest daughter, Georgia, 11, are living irr a tin covered shack that is scarcely recognizable for its former self, a trailer and later a stable for one horse. The three middle children are Roberta, nine, Johnny six, and Martin, four. Such has been their home since moving from a house at 712 Shelby avenue June 3. Their present home stands at the rear of the 600 Shelby avenue lot.

Nail holes dot the tin walls and roof and let in the rain. There's not a tree for yards. "We burn up in the daytime and roast at night," Mrs. Reynolds, said. "And when it rains leaks like a sieve." The former home was needed by the owners.

Mrs. Reynolds said that her husband, a local factory employe since April, had kept up the rent, but couldn't hold the home. S. L. D.

McClintock, head of the United Charities, first brought the case to the attention of The Journal-Gazette. She has furnished milk and clothes for some time to the family, but said Friday: "Those people must have a home. They can't possibly stay in that place. It's bad enough in the summer, but what will they do when winter comes?" Some of the Reynolds furniture is stored, and Mrs. Reynolds' better clothes have become mildewed in 8 trunk which must be kept outside the trailer because there is no room inside.

Mrs. Reynolds has no washing machine and has no sheets or pillow cases. "We've looked all over for house," she said. "I walked two miles out in the country this morning to see about one, but couldn't get it. We almost had another house, but when the landlord learned we had five children he wouldn't let us have it." Water for the family comes from a well some distance away, cooking is done on a small kerosene stove, and all seven sleep in one bed and a cot.

"It takes a lot of money to feed us all, and only one store allows us credit," Mrs. Reynolds continued. "We pay the best we can, but still owe some grocery bills and doctor bills, People think we don't want to pay. It would be different if my husband drank and gambled his money away, but he doesn't." Mrs. Reynolds has tried to shut out flies and other insects by covering the windows with mosquito netting, but she naturally meets discouragement in most of her efforts to "make a home" for her family.

Mrs. McClintoock is anxious to find more suitable living quarters for the family, and anyone willing to help should call her. Her telephone number is 1953. DEWEY ON DELEGATE HUNT IN NORTHWEST BY LEO W. O'BRIEN (I.

N. S. Staff Correspondent) Enroute with Gov. Dewey--New York Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey was enroute today to Bozeman, where he will meet with northwestern Republican leaders from Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and the state of Washington. The meeting, like others which have preceded it in the last 15 days since Dewey left. Albany, N. is linked with his unavowed drive for delegates to the Republican national convention next year. Reports that Dewey's talk with Washington State Republicans might lead to a vice-presidential boom for Movie Czar Eric Johnston still persisted.

However, it was not believed that any commitments would be made at this time. Reaction among the few Republican leaders contacted by the Dewey party during the last 36 hours to the. Johnston-for-vice-president suggestion has been mixed. Some believe the dynamic former president of the U. S.

Chamber of Commerce would swing business solidly behind the Dewey candidacy, Others say it would be unwise for Dewey to make too close an alliance with a man tied so closely to big business. ARE YOU INTERESTED in a new conventional built home in an excellent location? We have one almost completed located at 321 North 35th st. The special features include fireplace and forced-air gas furnace. May be seen by appointment. Kent Lumber and Coal Co.

1-19 Secretary of War (AP Wirephoto) Kenneth O. Royall (above) was named new secretary of war by President Truman, to succeed Robert P. Patterson, who resigned. Royall, now undersecretary of war, will take over July 24. BRITISH SHIPS AT ATHENS BY ALKAIOS ANGELOPOULOUS (I.

N. S. Staff Correspondent) Athens--A British naval flotillacomprising five warships- arrived in Greek waters today as Athens government forces continued to badger decimated Communist guerrilla units in the mountains of Epirus province. Among the vessels of the British Mediterranean fleet which dropped anchor in Phaleron bay, easternmost of the harbors of Athens, was the flagship H. M.

8. Liverpool. It was accompanied by four escorting craft. In northwestern Greece, meanwhile, Greek government troops continued attempts to again encircle elements of the guerrilla force which -Athens officials insisted- came from the Soviet satellite of Albania. Low-flying aircraft again strafed the split-up rebel units which apparently were trying to regroup in the mountains between Ionnina and Konitsa-two prime objectives of their abortive assault earlier in the week.

The guerrilla offensive was known to have been extremely costly. Known casualties include more than 800, with more than 300 of these listed as dead and as many more captured. Officials have placed the so-called "Invasion army" at around 3,500 men. Thus the casualty ratio would approximate 25 per cent. WALKERS' BABY GIRL DIES; MOTHER CRITICALLY ILL Word has been received by relatives here of the death of the infant daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. F. E. Walker of Kankakee, former residents of Mattoon Mrs. Walker 1 is said to be critically 111 in St.

Mary's Hospital there where the baby died shortly after birth. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have six sons, the baby being the only daughter born to them. Mrs.

Walker is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Outhouse, 2616 Marion avenue, and Walker 18 a son of Mr and Mrs. D. H.

Walker, 720 South Twenty-seventh street. AFTER A CHARMED LIFE FOUR INJURED IN THREE -CAR COLLISION Merwyn Young Still in Serious Condition at Hospital A three-car collision at the intersection of North Fourteenth street and De Witt avenue about 9 o'clock Friday night resulted in serious injury for Merwyn Young, 32, of 2917 De Witt avenue, driver of one of the machines. described his condition in Memorial Hospital this morning as "indeterminate" and said that X-ray pictures would be taken Monday. Also injured quite seriously was Erbon Doaks, 26, of Gays. He suffered a severe scalp wound, but was able to leave the hospital after recelving first aid.

Others Injured. Harold. D. Galey, 5 Brown Court, a Swift and Co. salesman, driver of one car, and Mrs.

Charles Hemminghous, Western avenue, driver of the third machine received slight injuries. Mr. Galey suffered a bruised left elbow, and Mrs. Hemminghous a cut on her right leg. Mr.

Galey told police that he had stopped his southbound company, car for the De Witt avenue stop sign and saw Mr. Young approaching from the south. He and Mrs. Hemminghous said that the Young automobile was struck in the right side by the westbound Hemminghous car and was thrown into the front end of the machine driven by Mr. Galey.

The crash threw Mt. Ana Mrs. Doaks onto the pavement, All three automobiles were damaged extensively. The Young car is thought to be a total wreck, while the others received. damages of proximately $300 each.

Mr. Galey was bound for the post office to mail his nightly sales report, he said. ALVA L. RUTAN OF NEAR LERNA DIES Special to The Journal-Gazette Lerna, L. Rutan, 78, retired farmer and prominent leader in Democratic political circles, died Friday afternoon at his farm home two miles southwest of Lerna.

Death resulted from a heart attack and was sudden, although Mr. Rutan had been in poor health for the past six years. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Lerna Presbyterian church, with Rev. Charles Grimes of Grandview officiating. Burial will be in the Janesville cemetery.

Mr. Rutan, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rutan, was born Dec. 10, 1868, on the Snowden farm mile north of his present home.

He had spent his entire life in Pleasant Grove township. He was Democratic precinct committeeman for 20 years and had served two terms as township supervisor and three terms as road commissioner. He married Miss Amanda Furry of Loxa Sept. 30, 1892. Survivors include his wife; daughter, Mrs.

Iva Whicker of Vandalia; five grandchildren; three great grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Maggie Reid of Neoga and Mrs. Myrtle Clay of N. and stepsister, Mrs. Charles Breedon of Spangle, Wash.

Mr. Rutan was a member of the Lerna Presbyterian church. Gold Rush Maisie, Jim Clay's Famed Fiddle, in Mattoon Mattoon is the home of Gold Rush Maisie. Gold Rush Maisie 1s a violin and probably the only violin in the world to have been decorated with the ETO ribbon, the Purple Heart and four battle stars. The fiddle 1s the property of former Army Sergeant Jim Clay, 30, of Ft.

Wayne, a native of Neoga and a former Mattoon carpenter, The ordnance sergeant picked up the fiddle in Ireland and named it after his favorite Irish colleen, one Miss Maiste. He had fiddled since he was six and he liked the mellow tone and workmanship. He was a little impressed, too, with the label: Antonio Stradivarius, Cremona, Italy. Gold Rush Maisle went to North Africa with Jim and they were popular entertainers. An ammunition dump explosion broke Maisie's -case and chipped her fender board.

Tunis glue fixed her up, desert Continued Rise in Cost of Living Also Forecast by BLS YANK KILLED IN SEA BATTLE BY BENN FELLER (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) Jerusalem The usually tense Holy Land was particularly taut today after a violent battle aboard an intercepted Jewish blockaderunner brought death to three young Jews, including the vessel's American first mate. In Haifa, where deportation of the 4,554 Jewish immigrants was being rushed, the dead were identified as: Joseph William Bernstein, 24, of Los Angeles, the mate; Hirsch Jacubowitsch, 15, and Polish-born, and an unidentified German in his mid-twenties.

At least 19 other persons, including three British marines, were wounded seriously when the uncertified immigrants -largest group yet to defy the naval blockade battled frantically to repel a 50- man British boarding party on the ship, "European Exodus 1947." The vessel formerly was the American "President Warfield." The fighting featured use of boiling oil streams, live steam, tear gas, smoke bombs and other weapons. It lasted almost three hours, and was unprecedented for savageness. Bernstein died at the government hospital in Haifa shortly after he and other members the crewthe majority of whom were reported to be Americans were brought ashore. A former merchant mariner, Bernstein was making his second voyage aboard a Jewish refugee ship trying to run the Palastine blockade. He was on the Latrun, which was captured some time ago by the British.

AUTO AND TRUCK, CAR AND BIKE COLLIDE A collision of an automobile driven by Robert Wallace, 2904 Pine avenue, and a truck driven by Roy Ritter, 301 De Witt avenue, at the intersection of North Nineteenth street and Champaign avenue Friday evening has been reported to police. The report stated that no one was injured. Donald Enyart, 11, an extra Journal-Gazette carrier boy residing at 2312 Moultrie avenue, received minor back injury Thursday in the collision of his bicycle and an automobile driven by John Poffenbarger, 18, of 604 Moultrie avenue, according to a report filed with police. The accident occurred at the intersection of De Witt avenue and North Twenty-fourth street. MEATS MEATS Come to Norman Zellers' market for your meat and food.

Open all day Sunday. 2604 Marshall ave. 7 19 TONIGHT TONIGHT Let's make it a date. We will see you at 8. Sheb and Gaylord.

Knight's Buffet. 7-10t BASEBALL BASEBALL Mattoon: Legionnaires vs. Pana Blues. Peterson Park; game time .2:30 Sunday afternoon. 7-18 4P BY PHILLIPS J.

PECK (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) Washington--The nation's economic outlook today was for continued high production, record employment and a rise in the cost of living. This was the analysis of Ewan Clague, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who reported that "downward pressures" of last spring have been eased.

Over 60 Million At Work. Clague forecast continuance of civilian employment at the present record-breaking level of slightly over 60 million jobs through September and said it "may go even higher" in the summer months. A decline is foreseen in the fall when agriculture work drops off and students return to the classroom. The BLS official said "favorable aspect" of the present picture is the capacity output of steel and coal which assures continuous availability of basic raw materials. He said production stability and efficiency should improve as a result.

Clague indicated that the coal price increases resulting from the recent wage boosts to John Lewis' half million will not materially affect the cost of living, Coal accounts for only 2.1 per cent of the BLS index. Food Going Up. However; recent sharp gains in some food prices and forthcoming rent increases probably will send the -living barometer to new peak within the next few months. Clague pointed to a recent five to 10 per cent boost in meat prices 88 a contributing factor. Rents, which account for 17 per cent of the family budget, may go up seven to 10 per cent nationally 86.

result of the new rent control law. The cost of living index reached its previous peak last March at 156.3 per of level and then declined to 155.8 In May. Clague said the "drift downward has now -stopped." The BLS commissioner reported that the nation has "hit or is close to" the economic goals fixed by President Truman for attainment during 1947. Those goals included maintenance of employment at or above 1946 levels, a five per cent increase in total national income, and a five per cent rise in purchasing power. Average weekly earnings among more than 13 million manufacturing workers rose to a new peak $48.91 in June and the full effect of the recent 15-cent-hourly "pattern" Increases has not been fully felt.

Clague said wages now are double pre-war levels, but when higher prices are taken into account, national purchasing power 1s up only 29 per cent. TEACHER KIDNAPED BY HITCHHIKERS Angola, police today investigated the kidnaping of Robert Bunz, 41-year-old teacher of Brookville High School, who freed himself near Angola, Bunz said that two hitchhikers he picked up in his automobile near leash and drove with him to a spot Logansport a bound him with a dog near Angola. Bung said that the youths, who -were about 22 years old, robbed him of $25, a wrist watch and a diamond ring and left him bound in the car after it developed motor trouble. The teacher said he wrested himself free from his bonds and drove to Angola after the youths had fled. EMPLOYES OF NEWTON SHOE FACTORY REJECT UNION Newton, of the International Shoe Co.

at the ton plant have rejected union organization in an election under supervision of the National Labor Relations Board, it was announced today. The vote was 80 against joining the United Construction Workers, U. M. W. (A.

F. of the union asking for the election, and 31 in favor of unionization of the Newton plant. flash flood floated her away one night, but Jim recovered her from underbrush some distance away. More Tunis glue was needed. Plexiglass from a fallen Nazi plane made a tailpiece giving the illusion of suspended strings.

Strandivarius never thought of that. Maisie was even stolen once and recovered. After the Yanks reached Rome, Jim was decorated for a bullet smashed left index finger which curtailed his playing. He received the Purple Heart, four battle stars and other ribbons. After the ceremony company commander called for Maisle, saying, "Jim, I'm going to decorate her, too.

She's been a good soldier." Oh, yes, the fiddle. It is safely stored at the home of Jim's sister, Mrs. Winnifred Dodson, 1817 Maple avenue, Jim's home prior toentrance in the army in July, 1941. Jim hopes to find an apartment in Ft. Wayne for Maisie and his wife of two months, SOFTBALL GAME B.

A. R. E. vs. Chanute Field, 8 o'clock tonight, Peterson Park.

Saturday night, July 19. Black- well's orchestra. Admission by receipt only. 7-19 I wiper.