Alton Evening Telegraph (Newspaper) - February 21, 1940, Alton, Illinois giver Stages UV 8 Above Below Head ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Established January 1836 Per Copy FEBRUARY Member of The Associated Weather Forecast ALTON snow somewhat colder tonight low cut about Thursday becoming in Admit Theft Of Alton Auto flO After Three Towns Foot geck to Link Two Incidents of Stolen Automobiles held at Thr chase by po have admitted of an Alton 01 notified this car was that of Rob 1005 I w Alton Chase street near Of the three youths began when Chief n of that city sought to He saw the car on 51 and as he walked toward the automobile speeded Brien gave The fug car was driven through three miles from Oglesby two miles farther By the time the car reached wm police of LaSalle and state had joined the At Peru the car was driven in to a The three got scaled a leaped down a Rock Islam rail road and The Telegraph was Informed of the case by a member ot the staff of the Peru Search of the car revealed gas Idine receipts from Alton service nations and the license number I TO that of Robert I of Had Parked Car J who is president Ice Fuel said his car had been stolen Tuesday He had gone to at the Lone and parked his car no Alton just off Broad opposite the Mineral Springs about When he went I tor the before 1 he it theft of his car to police this j Laer the Telegraph was inform al capture of the three between Peru and Spring I Men officers thought the three J hid been Peru police ap from one side and Spring I Valley police from the The three were Peru authorities told the Alton the three had admitted the LHett of the Alton They gave Heir home as When the car was arched at police found food tat apparently had been pur by the A sales slip from filling station also was I found in the Theft at Jacksonville At the time that Alton police in like forenoon today were notified I V telephone of the recovery at I nra oi the sedan and I MO arrest of three young men I mm they were seek a possible connection between of the Alton mans car 7 Die recovery here last evening mans Is coach was found disabled at and Liberty streets and in L repeat suit of were fie and a mans Five were seen to hurry away the disabled two going three in Paul n night desk that the coach recovered property of Nance stolen yesterday aft apparently about three w before it was found The any knowledge of the suit of found in were not car when he had ui tj Continued on page Alton and Vicinity Foiled Again Despite mild weather and gentle skies of tha past two weeks which caused many to begin thinking of ing old King Winter hasnt finished his reign Light snow shown in the picture above taken on Alby street between Broadway and proved his The snow faded to a comparatively light drizzle by Venires Again Sheriffs Office Order to Restore Function Signed by Five Judges New Plan Cost Revenue Blizzard on Battlefront Raises Finnish Hopes as Reds Hammer Both Ends of Mannerheim Line Assignment of Duty to Jury Commission i Revoked Robert Wadlow to Mark Birthday at Bowens Fate Centers Around Woman Patient Defense Traces Her Con tacts With Typhoid Patients By GILES The fate of State Welfare tor on whom Illinoisans are directly or indirect ly dependent for today was strangely entwined around the story of a patient in the Manteno State Hospital whom he never had seen f Bowen Is pri trial in Circuit on a charge of palpably sion of duty in ff typhoid outbreak at the hospital last summer in which 453 persons became ill and 60 died The pa who died was a short stocky woman from Cook Mary She was admitted to the hospital June after a period of parole at Defense attorneys have contend although no official evidence has been that she died of typhoid This is the point where her story meets that of The states completed was to the effect that the outbreak was caused by pollution of the hospitals water Wit testified the fever was Defense con tend it was first introduced in the hospital by a human and have submitted evidence which they claim supports this They have testimony in the record which shows that the first 26 victims of the outbreak to die were in con tact with Ores somewhere in the hospital between June 12 and Bowen has charge of 28 tions in the state with a popula tion of more than a secre tary testified last which with persons receiving old age pensions under his brings to 200000 the number of persons directly or indirectly dependent on him for Officer Sentenced NEW 21 former national sec of the today received an minate prison not to ex ceed three for perjury in the trial of Bund leader Fritz ut on Bond Again Judge Probes Escape from Jail Sentence Orders Inquiry to Learn Why Respon Was Ended After Appellate Court Ruling today 21 UB while Bloff remained at liberty under the which Permitted him to n torm The n matter of court in motion picture labor returned to Chicago Los was w in the and about an 00 was free on John of court agreed to fading a hearing for n writ of habeas days of his was released in t0 tno jubilate The latter tribunal the conviction but a capias for arrest was not Issued until last Judge called for an in after learning from tha petition that responsibility of Bl oils bondsmen had been the appellate court I want to know who in the states attorneys bond department agreed to it In tho face of the rec judge I want to know why it was Bloff is a representative of tho International Alliance of Theatrical und Stage and chair man of the Conference of Studio Unions which Is engaged in wage negotiations with movie HU resignation as chairman of the conference was rejected by the group Robert the tallest man in the will observe his birth He will he 22 years old on the Robert will spend his birthday Harold at a hotel in Fort No special plans for the celebration had been made a few days his mother except that Wad low would have the hotel bake a birthday When Robert reached his major ity a year ago he was 8 feet Inches in his bare feet and weighed 491 Wadlow said today her son had not been measured or weighed and she did not know his height and Robert has gained in both height and weight during the When he became a member of the Ma sonic his height and weight were entered and showed a gain during the Wadlow and his famous son pre making a of states They left on 5 and will be home about the middle of They will have visited in Florida and They are travelling in a automobile from which the side seats have been re moved to provide more room for Robert Robert has been in excellent health and is enjoying his tour of the Wadlow Wadlow said the new chair ordered for Robert is expected to reach their home on ave nue within the next few Chicago Roads Finance Plan Ruled Illegal The Illinois Supreme Court today knocked out the proposed 000 Chicago superhighway financ ing The plan contemplated issuance by the city of Chicago and by Cook county notes to be retired from gasoline tax shares within 20 for the purpose of constructing a metropolitan trunk highway sys The city and county each get onethird share of the Illinois three cents per gallon gasoline Holding this would create a state debt without a the court found the plan tional also because it attempted to authorize state officials to pledge state funds for the thereby restricting powers of the The financing proposal was con in legislation passed by the Illinois General Assembly last An attempt to override Gover nor veto of the stale em ployes pension by having the high court direct authentication of the measure by failed when the court upheld the governors The pension was sponsored bv Representative Benjamin Adamowski of Chicago and would have set up a system of annuity payments to retired employes and benefits lo their Hearing on Census Questions 21 Senator said today that a Senate would hold hearings on pro tests against census questions on personal Senator New has termed the questions unauthorized Inquiries into the private affairs of Britain to Resume Tobacco Buying 21 Empire tobacco Interests were un reliably today to bo con ferring with the government on tho question of resuming buying of American leaf halted 8 to conserve Sheriff Walter Wittman was less worried today as he resumed serv ing through his office the venires for all juries in Madison The Madison County jury commis sion had been serving the jury ven ires of late by sending out regis tered letters notifying those se for jury instead of following the long established statutory procedure of turning the jury names over to the sheriffs office for The change to the registered mall system of summoning Jurors had a grave aspect for the sheriffs of which is dependent upon its earnings and must be The loss of credits for earn ings to the sheriffs office by the change in the method of summon ing jurors would amount to about a Already the sheriffs office had been getting down nearer and nearer to the point where there would be insufficient earnings to provide funds to run the and pay the absolutely essential The loss of would be a crip pling The sheriff has only four deputies regularly and must police the county with while 80 percent of the time of the depu ties is occupied in serving court So it was apparent there could be no way of giving tory service to the judges of the various courts under the new ar Signed by Judges The order changing the service of jury venires from the sheriffs office to the registered mall plan was signed by five three circuit Joyce and Riess County Judge Trares and Probate Judge The three circuit judges who had signed the order in Madison County der Sheriff Wittman of the right to serve the jurors had signed In Clair County an order the sheriff there Judge Mudge of the Madi Court called Sheriff Walter Wittman into his office yes afternoon and in the pres ence of the jury commission execu told him that beginning at once there would be resumption by the sheriffs office serving all jury Statement Judge Mudge told Sheriff Witt man that he had had no intention of crippling the sheriffs office but had given the order as he had be cause he had believed he was sav ing money for the It turned that the saving to the county was going to cause injury to the efficiency of the sheriffs office by forcing the necessity of reducing the force below the minimum num ber of deputies absolutely and crippling the sheriff in his service to the The state law provides that the sheriff shall serve jury venires and there has not Court decision been a on the Supreme question whether permitting jury lo serve jury venires through the mails is legally The raising of the question of legality of jury service in Madison County will be avoided by resum ing the statutory method of serv ing all jurors in the Heads Inland Press new president of the Inland Daily Press Association is Clinton of the Beloit Wis Explosive Plant Blast Kills 1 man was killed and at least 13 per sons injured today when a powder magazine of Triumph blew selling afire small buildings Spring Styles To Be Shown in Altons Stores A flurry of snow doesnt hide the twinkle in her as she looks in anticipation at the lush display of Spring clothes in the show windows of Altons downtown Merchants are now completing their stocks with the latest of styles in fashion and fabric for wear this This Miss Mary Manne quin is planning her wardrobe with an first of to color to fabric and to Her most puzzling decision will be to decide whether she will re main true to the navy in an im peccable blue or she will let the army whether steal a and burst forth in a smart Miss Mannequin will further pro claim her patriotism by selecting American neutrals of biege and soft and will start things moving fast by accenting her monotone costume with stop red or scanda She will also be smart enough to employ the ladylike device of flat Bering pastels in her sports clothes and in her and of put ting plenty of frills under her For the Miss Manne Continued on page House Debates Farm Benefits Of Trade Pcts Democrat Charges GOP Uses Statistical Leger k i 21 UP Republican opponents of the ad ministrations trade agreements program were accused by Repre Cali today of using statistical legerdemain in their effort to show that the program had been injurious to beginning the last days debate on legislation to continue the trade treaty system for three years from June said Re publicans had contended that 1932 and 1933 were good years for agri culture because farm products constituted about 50 percent of all United States But the real test regarding Buck was found in other statistics he showed exclusive of benefit the agricultural cash income rose from in 1932 to in Shows Imports Dropped The speaker cited other statistics to show that agricultural imports dropped in 1929 to last While the House moved slowly through debate and the Senate was in recess several committees were The special House committee investigating the Labor Board re testimony from Benedict former secretary of the that in 1938 he conferred with two board mem bers before undertaking a cam to convince Congress that Wagner act amendments supported by the of national lead did not have rankandfile Board Stayed Out The board Chairman Warren Madden and Edwin refused to participate in this he but made no objection to anything which he might He had left the boards employ before the con Continued on page Cautions Against Bribing Educator Says It Encourages Cheating v For High Study Grades 21 Americans were cautioned today by a university educator to stop bribing their children to win high scholastic The advice came from Whit professor of education at Northwestern who re ported he had found that prac tice of parents in giving dimes promises of vaca and other minor bribes was one of tho single causes of cheating in Brogan said an Investigation of a school with 500 that 200 oi them Imd sort of reward or punishment varying from the threat to stop an allowance for low to a the youngster receiving a camping trip if he made a certain average and was sent to summer school If he The grading system or normal ly set up in our Bro Ask Crafts Cut Scale on Homes Ask Hour for Skilled 75 Cents for Laborers Association Organized River Group Names Paul Wooster President The Master Builders Association of recently organized to in clude master builders in Alton and Wood River has elect ed the following officers Paul Wooster of Wood president Anthony treasurer Leo Klein The first important matter of business of the Master Builders at their meeting Monday evening was to send a communication to the Alton Building Trades Council re questing a uniform reduced wage scale for skilled mechanics of per and for common laborers of 75 cents per to apply on single family residential work re of size or It is re quested that the same wage scale apply on For all other work not included in this bracket the request wos that the wage scale be held down to a minimum that would not exceed the wage scale in the Louis A reply was requested from the Building Trades Council to be in the hands of the Master Builders not later than March The theory of the Master Build ers is that the cost here for sorrie There is a recognized scarcity of houses for residential purposes in Alton and vicinity and the blame for It is being laid on the high cost of who is spokesman for the Master said today that the cost of building in Alton is higher than it is in Louis and that there is necessity for some prompt action to change the situa Nothing can be he with the Alton building trades wage scales much higher than those of Louis wage The scales in Alton are In some in stances higher than they arq In al most any city in the It will be said to get our building construction active in Alton and vicinity unless recognition Is taken bf the fact that it is under present high building to induce peo ple to spend money in building res houses with hope of receiv ing returns on their Reduced would stimulate building of would give employment to more mechanics more days in the year and yield more annual earn ings than is done under existing wage Grand Jury Head Charges Attorney Eased Over Cases Prosecutor Made Them Appear Small He Says 21 a former assistant district was accused in federal court today of presenting liquor cases to a federal grand jury so fasl thai the jurors could not judge whether Indictments should be With another former prosecutor and three additional Glasser Is on trial on charges of to fix the cases of more than 22 charged wilh liquor law violations Charles an insurance agent served as secretary of the grand testified that in a case involving Louis Ed ward and Victor said discourages those Glasser gave the jurors the who need encouragement and 81011 weh small fry and those who would learn Denied the case in such n man nas ly Giving nickel or ner tnat they were in doubt ribout a or a now bicycle for brine voting an ms homo good accentuates Kaplan is on trial with this with being n Tho practice of giving grades tho reason ana pur related that to present the case a see City Postoffice Will Close Thursday Mayor Struif being in Florida on a short vacation the tra Washingtons birthday holiday in the City Hall offices and departments has been pro claimed for Thursday by Alder man James Dooley as mayor pro Although Lincolns birthday has only in recent years been marked by the closing of city it has long been the to ob serve 22 as holiday for all city agencies excepting the police and fire departments which know no holidays even In Leap Before leaving last Sunday for Mayor Struif had pro claimed the Lincoln day but had neglected to issue any with respect to Washingtons City Clerk Linkogle then appealed to Mayor pro tern Dooley for instructions as to next and Dooley as the acting mayor then issued the customary annual order for a cessation of city business Thurs City Judge Boynton because of the Washington holiday has set this weeks motion day in City Court for Friday instead of to Banks of the city will close be cause of Washingtons as will also the Rumania Bans Aviation Oil For Germany Paris Satisfied RAF Scouts Helgo land Bight reported authoritatively today to have led to a Rumanian govern ment decree banning the shipment of oil to The reported decree is in direct contradiction with an arrangement made with trade en Karl a few weeks ago by which Rumania agreed to Increase her shipments oil aviation oil provided that in creased export taxes were The decree presumably applies only to refined lubricating oils for Transportation Difficulties 21 tug between the Allies and Ger many over Rumanian oil for the machines of war has been resolved to the satisfaction of Great Britain and an informed source indicated Allied satisfaction was said to spring from assurance that Ru mania would not discriminate in favor of Germany in supplying this vital war It was reported that Rumania told Britain she would allot Ger many tons of oil this but that transportation ties probably would de just as they prevented de livery of some of the tons assigned to Germany in Viorel Virgil Rumanian minister to handed to Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax yesterday the Rumanian reply to Continued on page 800 Planes Set Record for Wai Raids Key Fort Capture Denied Russian Claim to Taking Koivisto Discounted at Helsinki Swedish Seven Soviet Aircraft Drop 30 Missiles City in Flames BULLETIN 21 UP Authoritative sources said to night that the British govern ment had released large quan tities of military supplies to Including 141 both bombers and lighting By THOMAS HAWKINS Russian attacks on both ends of the Mannerheim throwing two Red army divisions against one sector were re pulsed in fighting that lasted far into the Finland reported The Red army smashed at the western end of the isthmus defense line and at the eastern sector where the two divisions launched their The twin offensives meant the Russians were trying to break through across nearly the entire width of the isthmus and that the battle still was most critical for Finnish hopes were raised by onset of a swirling blizzard which was expected to balk the Russian drive and further strengthen the Report 17 Beds Shot Down The Finnish commands com reported 17 Russian planes down in yesterdays widespread aerial Approximately 800 Soviet Rus sian war planes dropped an almost continuous hail of explosives on beleaguered Finland early today in the largest mass bombing attack in aviation The semiofficial Finnish news agency denied a Russian army communique that the Reds had captured the Finnish coastal fort ress of western anchor of the Mannerheim Line on the Karelian The agency said Koivisto was still in Finnish hands and intact despite unrelenting Russian at Apparently attempting a knock out blow from the the Soviet aerial armada ranged southern and central Finland through the night and into the early morning sending bombs crashing onto and Nothing Like It Before Nothing in the worlds wars to date approaches the power of the Russian aerial The World Wars largest bomb ing raid was made by a fleet of 350 allied planes which flew over German lines on the Continued on page Bids on Federal Projects Tumble Before Building Industry Probes AntiTrust Barrage Accompanied by Pronounced Slicing of Proposals in Pittsburgh grades poso of instead of By BAGSDALE 21 The Justice Department figures that the barrage of cases which it has laid down against thf building Industry not only is shelling down the costs of construc tion but is clearing the way to a better svay of An illustration In belore the Inn gov got a low bid ot on a project which It had estimated would cost It twice while the grand jury was going Into and wound up with a low bid of Bids were called for on three low cost hous HJ projects In The grand jury went to got a low bid 11 percent the government wav i the final low In my He did the wit HUM systems of punishment and reward for grades have been tho greatest single cause for ill but in quite the man lier as We didnt feel justified in mak ing a Ellis percent above that tsti The second was dur ing a urging Dm Department to Inves Pittsburgh It got a low bid eight per cent below the government esti The third was advertised aft er indictments hud been The low bid was 10 percent below the government In the charges were that electrical contractors were rigging bids on federal Bid rigging mid collusive through various methods have charged in several other involving various types of So far 394 their cmls or individual business men been along with 108 unions or union After tha and col obstructions have boon re moved from the department officials say important changes be made in building builders aro ready plans to simplify and stand to build houses of to whole wulls and bathroom or oven halves of so that building becomes a matter ot assembling the pa
