Alton Evening Telegraph (Newspaper) - July 26, 1940, Alton, Illinois River Stages f m Head ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Mercury Tops 100 Insects Besiege City Maximum Temperature of 103 Recorded at 3 Thursday End Deluged by Big and Little Ones of All Varieties Bugs one section of Al ton henl settled down on all ol and tho night was so un comfortable for sleeping that mem were revived of those record breaking heat waves of 1934 and mercury Thursday reached a new 1940 high of 103 degrees at 3 m The day the temper ature reached an even The lowest temperature during the period from 9 m was 76 at 5 A reading that high at 5 in the morning is eloquent evidence Of hot night of fitful This mornings temperature in todays maximum might ex ceed At 9 the temperature was two de grees higher than at the same hour The foregoing figures are from laboratory of American Smelt ing Refining at The thermometer at the Telegraph of fice where readings are variable because of the position of the sun at different did not reach 103 maximum Thursday but showed a higher reading at 5 then Came the Bugs When the street lights went on last night swarms of flying bugs of all kinds took possession of the Willow bugs had been coming i in great drifts and everyone was thankful that they neither bite nor Their harmlessness was the one even though they did But there were many other varieties of bugs great and small brought in by the breezes after covering screens of houses where they chanced to be a light to attract and spread ing Where the little bugs could make their way through screens or around they would enter houses by the thousands and for was the homo with some insect spray to dispose of them The worst infestation by the bugs was in the West End of city nearest to the groves of willow trees on the opposite side M the Carried by the willow bugs and others lodged gainst houses on the bluffs and at the bluff Workmen engaged Thursday on the WPA recreational highway project above the Norman place Mid the bugs could be scooped up by the where they had fallen and that the air was full of so much so that it kept the batting them out of their wes almost Todays forecast again carried we promise of relief from the itat Fair tonight was pre with Saturday partly cloudy fnd possibly an occasional is sweltering in the which came aft i rl period tne tempera do not compare with those In 1934 the i t IAA temperature l 00 or and on July 24 of mercury reached an On Established January 1836 Per Copy The Old Its New Coat of Paint JULY 1940 Public for Its Tribute to Son Member of The Associated Press Weather Forecast ALTON Fair day partly cloudy and possibly an occasional thunder The which has been leased from the city by the Teamsters Chauffeurs un has been painted with a green Also in the building is the Deport which has been conducted for more than 50 years by the Gallagher Staff Guides Runaway Automobile Into Post Storm Lashes North Illinois Cool Spreading South and Reach Midwest of all a the temperature was out of 70 saw degrees on July and I In 1938 three in a maximum of 106 on days saw the r and the In 1937 the sum Continued July led power and communication lines uprooted and various othe property damage trai today of high winds which through northern Illinois last night bringing relief from a scorching heat Coastguardsmen were kept busy along Chicagos lakefront las night when the reaching velocity of more than 40 miles an tossed small craft about on Lake Sev eral boats had to be helped to har but no casualties from this source were In the Rockford area much dam age was done and tele phone In the city proper lights were out for some Of reported 1500 breaks in pow er lines in that area and Don C president of the Centra Illinois Electric and Gas Company pictured the damage as the mos severe in 25 He said at least two days would be required to re pair the damage At the SwedishAmerican Hos pital in Rockford two babies were born and two appendectomies were performed by lamplight when the power 150 One house was unroofed anti nearly 150 other residences were Two persons were killed near Ga in an automobile acci dent attributed to the two colliding after one of them was whipped out of control bythe The dead were Hugh and both of Du Five other persons were Temperatures generally tumbled In face of wind and scattered In for the Continued on page BKA Aid for State July Federal Rural Electrification Ad ministration has earmarked for construction of lines in Illinois in thn fiscal year that be gan July Secretary Walter Marquardt oi the state rural committee said Com Party Attorney Beaten After Losing Defense in Vote Case Downstairs in Court Followed Out of Town by Caravan 11 he July 26 attorney for national Ill lor of men yesterday lhc of Sheriff the Attorney h then fol l as one Com Milo was fined and sentenced to 90 days in jail on a of voting in the May 14 pri mary after signing a petition to place Communist Party on the November He was one of several hundred persons similarly indicted throughout the Signers of the petition were leg ally barred from voting in the pri whose case was delayed on was named in nine charg ing him with obtaining signatures to the Communist peti Crumpecker expressed the ion Fleischer WM not With an agility not found in a man of his quick stepping Edward retire jumped upon the running board of his runaway automobil this morning and steered the ca so that he brought it to a sto against a telephone in th hope of preventing worse disaster In the car at the time were Mrs Hall and their Th brakes had loosened after Hall ha stepped out of the car and it start ed to coast down the steep grad on William street toward som parked By managing the steering whee from his position on the runnin Hall succeeded in guidin the car against the pole and there by saved it crashing into parke cars along William street below toward which it was Ha probably did avert a worse disaste but for his effort he suffered knee believed to be a frac which may lay him up in th hospital for weeks to who was married t Edward Hall 51 years ago last Apr and who is escaped with head injury and a possible wris She was given cy treatment at Alton Memoria Hospital and later returned home after surgical attention remained in the The boy Terry son of an Carl escaped un Hall was hurt when sh struck the but did no suffer any abrasions from broken Hall for many years operated a shop on Piasa street in partnership with Joseph Later he wa barber at Western Military Acad In recent years he had retiree and moved to Godfrey where he did truck gardening on a smal Frahm to Face Tax Charges July 26 Fred Detroit police superin tendent awaiting trial on charges of having accepted protect ior money from gamblers during his tenure of was mimed in a federal grand jury in today charging income tax John district at said the indictment al Frahm paid only in income taxes from 1936 to while the government charged he should have paid The charged that Frahms gross income for the four year period exceeded al hough his annual salary during 1937 and not ranged from to Netherlands Committee Reported Seeking Truce July Dutch radio at announced today that a in Tho Netherlands had President Roosevelt a re to arrange a discussion for establishment of an honorable Germany and Eng Both committee find the promptly were disavowed iy in Tho committee was described by he radio announcer as the Neth committee for organization f an international peace confer nce at The It asked the President to do possible in the name of 10 prevent annihilation f either of these brother Motherland sources here said they ever had heard of the committee nd that it WM in no way cori with Ww Dutch govern Union Depot Bright in New Coat of Paint A bright new coat of white paint with green trimmings has completely modernized the long Depot at Front and Today the given to the city recently through a 50 yearold franchise and leased out for union is one of Altons The color scheme of green am white is maintained on the ter adjacent to Front street which is covered entirely with while gravel and spotted with small evergreen The wellknown Depot hotel is still in and occupies the second floor of the en and dining rooms being in the back portion of floor Parts ofthe interior of the train including the neatly furnished office is headquarters for several Alton union in the front part of the first floor have been Jap Reaction to Steel Embargo Very Great Officials Wait ation Churchill Sees Chinese Envoy July 26 reaction to any United States cm bargo on scrap iron and oil ship ments to Japan will be very spokes man for the Japanese foreign said Suma said there was no ition as yet of reports that United States was embargoing such Our reaction Aill he very great if it is he Expresses Gratitude to Business Men and Officials Undecided Between Pres ent Post and Establish ing Own Business Harold Wadlow today ex pressed through tho Telegraph tho appreciation of their and to the public for the tribute to his Robert Pershing who was buried last Wadlow said that he and Wadlow first had planned a private funeral for their famous but later decided to have the young mans body lie in public be cause of his many friends not only in Alton and Illinois but through out the More than persons paid their respects at the bier of Rob ert and the parents of Robert today expressed their thanks for the attitude of respect borne by the throngs who visited the funeral home as well to the or more who heard the services at the funeral home and at the graveside in Oakwood cem Wadlow expressed the fam appreciation for the services of the city and state police to the business men of Upper who had flags at along the funeral tOx business houses throughout the that ceased business at the funeral hour in memory of the young man who had brought fame to the Church groups and fraternal societies were included in the list to which the family expressed gratitude for kindness shown after Roberts death at Wadlow said that while his plans for the future have not yet been completed he is hopeful that the family will continue to reside in because they would be reluctant to leave a city in which they have so many Wadlow and Robert were 1 connected with Louis Speedboats Sink Three Argentina Holds Out Draft Completed Exacts Heavy Penalties For Aid Committee Completes Work It Goes to Senate Next Week Sets Up New Office Director of Selective Serv ice Will Handle Program but Wadlow today was undecided whether he would con In that connection or estab lish a business of his Jury Gives No Hint of Its Progress July fed eral court jury in the perjury trial of Frank former execu tive of the Union Electric of went to lunch today without giving any sign of when a verdict might be Consideration of the which has attracted national to be resumed by the jurors after a They had jeen deliberating approximately 11 The perjury charges on which was tried were based on al eged false sworn testimony before agents of the Securities and Ex Commission conducting an investigation of political and busi ness practices of the July The first peacetime conscription in American history was com today by the Senate mili tary committee for consideration by the Senate early next Chairman Sheppard said the committee would vote officially on the legislation Tuesday and predicted there would be no dissenting One of the final sections ap proved by he committee would impose penalties of five years in prison and in fines for draft dodgers orf those convicted of aiding The committee also authorized creation of the office of director of selective service to handle de tails of the vast proposal for reg all men between 18 and 63 years inclusive and training part of This official would get a The agreed oh language for a section designed to retain jobs for the thousands of conscripts drafted for military by making it an unfair labor practice for an employer engaged in interstate commerce to fall to reemploy a conscripted man who has completed his train Trustee Plan Hits Obstacle By STARK July 26 Argen tina was a holdout today proposals before the conference of the 21 American republics for Pan American trusteeship over Euro pean possessions in the western The southern nation took a de termined stand against any gen eral commitments or immediate asserting it was impos sible to delegate powers in antici pation of hypothetical situat Argentina recommend ed use of regular diplomatic chan nels for consultation and rapid ap plication of measures which might be required for defense of the Americas in any situation that might Leopoldo head of the Ar gentine delega declared last night the future status of the foreign possessions should be de Continued on page Nazi Raider In Guise of Swede Ship of f Indies Sinks Two Vessels After Loosing Crews In Rowboats NEW July 26 Mem In President signed an order requir ng licenses hereafter for export of oi and scrap Japan be ng the largest foreign buyers of he The order does not shut off such en ables the American government o watch them closely and shut hem off whenever it IE deemed Informed Japanese quarters ex ect Japan to attempt to increase Continued on page Minor Collision Called to police attention at fl today was a minor collision n the on East Broad way in which a coach driven by Bertha Capehart of 3509 Oscar street became involved in ing to pass a truck just as a motorist to the rear like wise swung out to to Represent July Attorney General John Cassidy announced today that he would represent Governor Homer at the conference on law enforcement problems of national defense to be held in Washington 5 and Court Holds Radio Stations Meed Not Pay Artists Fees Record Broadcasts Legal July 26 The Circuit Court of in farreaching tins ruled hat radio stations are entitled to se phonograph records without the of the manufacturer or of the The National Association of took a part in tic lest case initiated alter the Manufacturing and Paul obtained n injunction against I hi operat rs of Station The wan enjoined from us recordings because use allegedly violated a ban on which appeared on the ace of the and d that broadcast of I he recordings which was demand for competition kley to reduce the original playing by the person r group whose work recorded and they should be paid for tin privilege of broadcasting the Colonel Joseph Hart field ar gued for tin broadcasters that the radio were bound to pay only the regular copyright fees to the composer and publisher of re corded The court agreed and the injunction holding that the ban on which ap on I lie fact of recordings had no legal Colonel explained that the effect of the decision is to say that when n rudio station buys a it has the right to play it When a radio station or net work a phonograph the fee covered by the blanket license broadcasters obtain from the American of Com and no between recorded and live Although the national labor re lations act was not specifically mentioned in the conscription Senator Sheppard said the Labor Board machinery would be used in these Mayor LaGuardia of New York pleaded for compulsory military training today as the only means of keeping us out of war and Socialist Norman Thomas attacked the idea as the basic principle of Both testified before the House military committee which is con a peacetime conscription During the day President Roosevelt said he would leave to morrow on his first inspection defense in the Nor Having decided to recommend passage of the compulsory service in the committee devoted its session yesterday to the question of job security for conscripts who would be called to the colors for a years Would Protect Civilian Jobs Three amendments were agreed on to protect the civilian jobs of men in The first provides that any em now subject to Wagner labor relations would be guilty of unfair labor practice if he will fully refused to reinstate a de mobilized Under this a convicted employer could be compelled to reinstate a con script with back A second amendment inserted for employers engaged only in in it to be the sense of Congress that nil conscripts should he hark their old The third concerns federal em and provides thul they be restored to the payroll after their years military As these amendments were be ing the compulsory train ing legislation come in for cism in the Senator Wheeler Mon Continued on page bers of the crew of a Norwegian ship which rescued 25 survivors of the British freighter de clared today that a new fast ton German raider disguised as a Swedish ship and named the Narvik was operating in the West She carried disappearing six inch Survivors of the said their ship was at tacked July 10 about 240 miles east of the in the American neutrality Gunner Killed Captain Holm of the rescue the Norwegian freighter said survivors of the told him the German raider threw a piece of canvass bearing the Nazi swastika over her side and started firing from two guns which appeared suddenly from side The replied with her single hut a blast from the raider wounded gun ner and four and the was forced to The Germans took the Berlin Reports Mosquito Units Added Tons to Toll British Admit Sui cide Squadron Attack Thursday Sent 5 Down Battle Off Ireland Italian Bombers Gibraltar Four Killed 37 Wounded French 2B JPt The state of has existed since Italys enti the war ended A French committee h formed to meet with an committee at to armistice General rep the French ed to arrive tomorrow to civil and military Continued on page Finds Monroe Document ELGIN UP While rummaging through some old John Mc found a land grant which bore tho signature of President James author of Mon roe Executed HIP grant gave 160 acres in tho Illinois to who fought in the war of July 26 plies at six points In set afire by out extern over a wide the nightly Air H THE ASSOCIATED A blazing shipplane battle raged off the north coast pf Ireland to wars first action and flashes of gunfire between the surface vessels and Nazi could be seen from the In another slashing raid ish as reported by Hitlers high Nazi speedboats sank three merchantmen totalling tons near English south coast The battle in north Irish waters apparently started when German roving far from their home attacked a British fighters raced to the The British admiralty acknow ledged today that a German plane and torpedoboat attack yesterday on R convoy in the English channel sank five and damaged five merchantmen and two British de The Admiralty also announced loss of the trawler Fleming in a clash with four German dive bomb The Admiralty challenged the German high commands claim that 11 ships totaling tons in the convoy were The Admiralty said the Germans attacked tho convoy in successive waves of 30 planes and that as a five small vessels to taling 5104 tons were The damaged ships totaled 5133 of which one ship had to be A fleet of nine German mosquito boats also approached the to attack the the Admiralty but was driven off by two destroyers and two motor torpedo The mosquito boats escaped in a But as the destroy ers were returning from the at they twice were subjected to Continued on page President Says May Ask for Pledges British Legislation Pending in Congress to Allow American Vessels to Aid in Rescue Work Charges Dropped Against 15 in Cases July W At lie governments Federal judge today dismissed lax and lottery halves ami chaises of a grand Jury 15 Individuals wit and to ness four indicted after an investigation of the An The dismissal the govern ments part of mi agreement under pleaded guilty to Mir i mint of income tnx now In herving a trim in pin foi the All oilier indictments were dropped to Uays July 26 X Asserting that the United Stales had H deep desire to do everything possible to help remove children f i oni President Roose velt said today the administration eventually might ask for reasonable assurances that refugee children could safe passage to this Thi Hist he told a press involves providing per Imps children in Britain with The next he would be In find out what the British gov would be able to do about sending children to the United or perhaps in Brit ish A little later the President the Kluge might he i cached when the United States would auk for reasonable ame if American went to evacuate there would he no asked for comment on legislation in Congress to permit the use of American vessels In war to bring he there is I ho alli of then our own desire to do every thing we anil linally there It the safely of Die to con The lie is the ci nx of mallei Roosevelt called to reports ol I lie sinking ot a French vessel Inking Frenchmen homo from The lie i thai the hud been tint he said they had no such Informed that reporta were cir that of British blockade activities the United Slates wight extend the combat from which American vei are to the Iberian Spanish Roosevelt re that wax about I IK channel of communication and Them three to the it would bo kept open us long tha President on being
