Alton Evening Telegraph (Newspaper) - September 3, 1942, Alton, Illinois ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER J mm 3 Judges of Election Held In Contempt Certified Wrong Man Had Been Named GOP Committeeman Fined Each Judge Trares Delivers Severe Lecture to Offenders 3 Spe three men who served election judges In Precinct 5 at the April 14 primary were held in contempt of court late Wednesday by County Judge Wilbur who Imposed fines and assessed each one third of the court costs after a finding that election laws had been violated In the Contempt proceeding against the three men were Initiated recently on behalf of George defeated candidate for Republican in the and ballots cast for the party of fice wore recounted during the court hearing Instead of being defeated by Al len Claus by 23 votes as an by the precinct was actually elected to the post by a 45 vote examination of the voted Republican ballots yester day The three precinct officials found in contempt of court were Otto Democratic judge and father of the Republican commit Fred Borsch and Louis Republican Basis for yesterdays hearing was a filed In County Court in which as his claim to election after examination of the precinct bal lots during the recent Straube primary As re quested in the filed by the states attorneys Judge Trares Issued a contempt of court citation and the three men were required to appear for the hear ing Results of the are not changed by the courts finding In the since no election contest over the office was filed within requir ed In his Judge Trares rep the three election holding that they conduct ed the primary In a negligent man ner and violated lawi by their methed counting the vote and by admittance to Am or other watchers while they counted the precinct According to their the judges divided the voted bal loti Into three piles to expedite with two judges and a clerk calling off the votes In the separate No check was made on results given by the Indi vidual tellers to the two clerks and judge tallying the it was brought in taking the witness testified he was refused admittance to the polling place while the votes were In the courts Judge Trares the election lawi had been violated and whether through wrongful intent or negli a candidate rightfully elected was deprived of office as a of the me thod used In counting the Criticizes Method The court also criticized the trading of duties by the judge and clerk in counting the asserting that it was the duty of the judges alone to count the bal all of them together and not in separate Criticism was also leveled the judges for de nial of a candidate to be present during counting of the Judge in Imposing thp pointed out that if this case goe unnoticed and if punishment not meted it will serve to open the door to wholesale viola tions by precinct officials In the Asked for a recommendation to the before passing on the Assistant States Attorney L asked that fines be Im posed so that In the future all other judges and clerks of elec tion will know they must fulfill the duties of their office in an orderly or punish ment by the The action was he in the In terest or fair elections anc accurate counting of the results Before passing on the case Judge Trares spent two hours In cham bers examining Republican ballots cast the precinct at the pri which he ed In court that he had discovered evidence in at lenst 28 specific In stances that ballots had been tam Markings on the bnl lots ho showed that a person or other than lht voter had placed In some of the squares evidenced by con trast In size and Intensity of the Immediately after ho courts Borsch tendered his res ignation to Judge Trares ns an election judge In the Tha three judges of election de clared there had been no willful wrong doing on their part and were unable to explain the dis In the precinct vote Each gallons of paint are used in the United States to keep motorists on the right of the All Britain Joins In Victory Prayer Britains war industries were silenced for 15 minutes today as workers and clerks and statesmen joined In prayer for victory on the third anni of Britains declara tion of Services were held In churches and in chapels of the armed The BBC broadcast a prayer and sacred The London in an editorial typical of the British press said The long fight for survival li ending the fight for victory must soon Women Do Work On Farm to Meet Needs for Food BMd Wut Adi Hamburg Wife Among Those Carrying on the Joh Thousands of farm women are hardening their hands on pitchfork nnd tractor wheel this summer In the unremitting battle of Unsung for the most they arc helping to meet U challenge of an acute rural labor which coincides with an dented demand for food production for America and her Uni formed only in the unglamorous of field and kitchen they have stepped up to the agricultural front to keep the vital items of sustenance moving to Johnny Doughboy at home and and to his friends in Chungking and A glimpse of the way women In the farm belt have laid aside the old tasks of making pretty and doing club work in order to take on the sturdier menfolk is provided in an Illinois survey by the regional of fice of the Department of Agri Typical cases for ex ample Rural Auxiliary Alvin who used to be a schoolmarm and who knew nothing about farming when she and Alvin were married last But she learned when fall came around without adequate help on their Clalr County She mastered a tractor in time to the ground for wheat and n the spring prepared lands for oats and Tetter she help ed get the corn cut all their wheat and 30 acres of In spare she made shocked and took care of 300 a victory and 27 Theres Stookey of near East Not her chief interests were her attractive the Belleville womens club of which she was the chapter of which she was Her hus a busy TripleA chairman in a rich wheat was away when early June brought cloudy weather and a grave threat to a neighbors ripened Stookey sent a hired man and a combine to the herself manned a mow er to cut the Stookey When the rains barns safely held the barley and Lora Stookey has said solong to club work for the explaining Were part of the fight against Peppers of Hamburg Alfred Peppers of Hamburg has five children between the ages of 4 and Her husband Is doing construction work in so she and the children have taken over this routine milking two feeding 14 taking care of a large poultry a cane pat potato and navy m fields and four acres of the canning of 1300 of fruits and vegetables this Pep pers walks five miles to town with a basket of returning with dry She says Weve been having a swell Wayne Shell is operating 320 acres nt Vernon on woman Shell and their three Molly and the Dolores Ann and Peggy The three daughters have been working since they were able to crawl up to the wagon seat be side their This year the women planted 82 acres In corn 30 In oats and 150 In Rhineland City Bombed By RAF A strong force of RAF bombers ush ered in the third anniversary of declaration of war against Germany with ting raids upon the upper Rhine land centered at the railway shops city of the Brit ish said The crews reported very large fires and a thick pall of smoke up to 8000 feet over the an authoritative statement Eight of our bombers are mis Relays of British dently both fighters nnd bombers thrust explosively at Nazi com nnd defense works In northern First and Smallest was both the first nnd smallest incorporated city In New It was In in 1788 and is the third oldest city in the United An overall goal of tons of scrap Iron and steel has set for collection by the end of this Issue Raised Of Savaging Young Troops Analyst Doubts Wisdom of Spurring Blood Lust Psychologist Quoted Professor Cites Danger of Intellectual Blackout By DE WITT MACKENZIE The happy topic of hanging Herr Hitler was discussed in this col umn Tuesday and I intended to pursue it but Rommels offensive ed and it seemed best to deal with that after we must de feat the Fuehrer and then catch him before we can hang Tuesdays article dealt with the Allied determination to destroy militarism utterly in Japan and This program would mean stripping these countries of every vestige of armament and the means of making Nip pon and the Reich likely would have to be policed by Allied mili tary for many All the mili leaders would have to be liquidated by death or Imprison In connection with British Home Secretary Morrison yesterday declared In a speech that the United Nations would accept no peace offer from Hitler unless It took the form of a prom with guarantees of perform of a collective suicide pact by the whole German I suspect the secretary was in part English friends although theres no reason to doubt that he meant Hitler and his captains must be removed from the Difficult Process with all these things done the Allies must then under take the elimination of militaristic tendencies among the defeated people by a long and difficult process of Our suc cess in this epochal experiment in remodeling the world will depend largely on the attitude in which we approach Are we to undertake it In hatred and bent on revenge Or having meted out just are we to deal with it from the viewpoint of the golden rules Its important that we make up our minds in ad I this Issue because the cultivation of hatred Is being advo In some The idea is not only to defeat punish the but smash hell out of em for all In order to make this spirit those who belong to this school of thought advocate the deliberate creation of hatred in the hearts of our that the savaging of our young of would pave the way for postwar sav agery in our effort to change the Raps Strong Language of the Institute of Industrial the turn on this He says soldiers into whom and hatred are Instilled in training are likely to suffer from Intellectual black He approves the recent or der by British army commanders that the use of strong language in attempts to produce and hate during must be Theres no doubt of the danger of trying to savage Hatred is one of the most unbalancing of primitive Ive seen a mighty lot of killing in and my experience is that with rare exceptions a soldier has a rather impersonal feeling in car out his He dispatches his man as he would a dangerous animal which Is threatening Now of course a soldier must be taught to though ho should be schooled to work He must understand that war lowers the value of human As regards says we can very well stimulate higher mental processes which will help us win the If that is then It strikes me that the stimulation of cool and collected rather than the hysteria due to unbridled will help us win the It will help the other fellows cot rid of the militaristic which has been torturing the And right now is the time to begin to vate that Soldier in His Name on Heroes Board Lifer Leaves Prison to Wed Dying Woman A murderer serving n life term In the Arizona State Prison was mar ried last a woman be to be Brought from the prison at Flor ence by an armed Andres who killed a old hunting companion In stood at thc bedside of Maria Gar while Superior Judge Ar thur La Prade read the mar riage Then Aroz went back to Warden Walker said he permitted Aroz to come to Phoenix because he understood the dying woman already was the prisoners When the guard learned the two were the parents of a child and wanted to give It a he con sented to the Call to Youth By President in World Address Continued From Page It is a pattern devised by Hitler an upon youth by a form of mental forcible feeding diet of false and backed up by the guns of the Any who wonder what the de cent youth of Europe think of he have but to consider the brave young men in occupied countries who prefer firing squads to lifelong slavery and degrada tion under Head by Soldier Throughout the men in Americas fighting forces were listening to their Much of the address was directed specifically to them and he gave assurance that We here at home are supremely conscious of our obligations to now and in the and we will not let you The United Roose velt have the technical cour vision and will required to and sustain the kind of world order which he can justify youths But we must keep at must never never never we must keep at he We must maintain the offensive against evil in all its We must work and we must fight to insure that our children shall have and shall enjoy in peace their in alienable rights to freedom of freedom of free dom from freedom from Only on those bold terms can this total war result vic We Roosevelt in the thought that the free men and women of the Na tions and not the robots of the slave states will mold the shape of the new Ferguson Of Kemper Dies Bridget widow of David died at today at where she had been 111 a Ferguson was born at Kill on April a daughter of nnd John An She came to this country 50 years On she was married to David who tiled several years Sho is survived by throe daugh Miss Hazel Ferguson at home Henrietta Kemp er nnd Evelyn Grizzle of Fi The body will be at the home of Grizzle this 3 Spe cial wife of Henry died Wednesday at the family 604 Hillsboro following a two months She was born at New a daughter of the late Peter and and her marriage to Henry Dressier took place at Now Athens on June Thn family has resided in Edwardsville the past 20 Surviving besides ihn husband are a Miss and a sis Lena Hoist of New Dressier was a mem ber of the Christian Science Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 from Marks Weber funeral with Inter ment in Sunset Hill Read Telegraph Wunt Ad Livestock Prices At Louis NATIONAL of Ag HOGS 7000 open ed 1015 higher on good to choice 180240 pounds at top a few 140160 pounds sows 1525 higher at CATTLE 3000 1200 steers In unusually light supply a few good steors nnd heifers strong common nnd medium kinds steady other classes unchanged small lots of good nnd choice steers common medium kinds good mixed year lings nnd heifers medium common nnd medium i cows medium nnd good sausage hulls good and choice medium and good and nominal slaughter steers slaughter heifers stock er feeder steers SHEEP 3000 no Sergeant Cummings Staff Sergeant Victor Cum Is in the Pacific He is the son of and Roy Cummings of and for merly resided in He has been in the serv ice since March A former assistant theater man ager who Insists on remaining a burk private in the army because he wants a vacation from respon will have his hospital bed cheered this Hell get a message that a friend here has bought a War Savings Bond as a salute to one of Al tons But that wont be Hell be leading the list luted heroes whose roll Is being posted on Square to form a backdrop for the huge rally centering around Sundays visit here of Edward Arnold and Francos movie Clarence until he entered the army a year served as assistant manager of the Princess He worked his way up to that post from an ushering job he took as a high school When he was on the noth inc was too big or too shiall for him to attend One time dur ing thls last summer here both his superiors in the local Great States Publix were away from one on the other at a That left Gulp tem Ip big There was plenty desk and supervisory work to But one dny his friends found him attend ing the popcorn stand at one theater while the employe who regularly watched It was Not the but one of the employes with whom Gulp formerly has purchased the bond that puts him on Altons list of saluted according to last word re by friends was In a 14 Teachers Appointed in Alton Schools Pacific coast hospital from suffering Salutes to Altons heroes can be purchased through any War Bond sales Including banks and building and loan associations and at or from a booth which Is to be set up on Square beside the Salute to He roes Sundays rally at which two movie stars are honor guests is expected to produce a heavy har vest of Though it is necessary to buy a bond to gain admission for the Sunday dinner attended by Ar nold and Miss bonds of any denomination will be accepted as salutes to Aid Pacts Signed With Four Nations The United Great New Zealand and Fight Ing France concluded today a se ries of reciprocal aid agreements designed to clarify the principles of mutual assistance com mon struggle against the Signed on the third anniversary of the French and British declar ations of war against the agreements specify and for the principles and dures covering aid to the armed forces of the United States by the other parties to the agreements on the same terms as those under which the United States supplies aid to Such reciprocal aid already has been furnished to the United States also by the other signatories with out conclusion of formal agree ments a state department commentary points this aid is rapidly increasing in import ance as the Intensity of the Amer ican war effort increases In the various theaters of Concluded at Capital The Australian and New Zealand agreements were ed ihi Washington by exchanges of notes between Secretary of State British Ambassador Lord Australian Minister Sir Owen Dixon and New Walter The agree ment with Fighting France was concluded in All of the agreements size that the general principle governing mutual aid is that the war production and war resources of each of the signatories be used in ways most effectively utilizing the available materials production facilities and shipping They further specify the elim as far as of mon That maximum of the articles and ser vices provided by each party to the other shall be in the form o reciprocal aid In services or ma thus reducing to a mini mum the need of each for the currency of the Board Approves Naming of New Instructors to Staff Interne Plan Okayed Shurtleff to Take Over Music Program at Horace Mann Appointment of 14 new only two of whom had been previ was approved by the Board of Education Wednesday Those with annual salaries and schools to which they have been assigned by are Florence class Mc Betty Ann Marie Alexander and Salva tore High School building and Aimer coach Roosevelt Nell East Elizabeth and Bertha Lincoln Helen Irene Clara Barton Helen Mattle Sam Washington Helen McKinley and Alma The board also accepted the res of nine present ed by the list Includ ing Thelma Fletcher who had been assigned to Clara Barton Velma Humboldt Irene Irving Hazel Lincoln Alice Clayton and Isabel Milton East James Lovejoy and Louise High Report on Enrollment Reporting briefly on the reopen ing of Ewing told the board members that the total open ing enrollment was 6302 as of yes a slight decrease as com pared with last September when the figure was The day did not include the full kindergarten Ewing and will be increased after kindergarten classes at Lin coln and Milton buildings are fully Organization of school for the year is not the super intendent but adjust ments are being made as rapidly as It is likely two or three additional teachers over what had been anticipated will be More kindergarten classes than last year seem and here and there some congestion in classes and difficult instruction al situations must be One building where adjustments are going on to avoid classroom congestion is he and space acquired there through transfers of upper grades to new East Junior High building not only makes it possible to reduce the teacher load to a normal point but also to assign a room for a Milton had no kindergarten last year for lack of Interne Plan The board approved a project of Ewing for an interne ship plan for about six educationally but with out previous teaching These internes will be paid and the difference be tween that and the usual starting salary will be applied to super vising their work and providing added professional While the plan is experimental It has been tried in other large dis of near states with he Also approved by the board was a project asked by Shurtleff Col lege whereby It will take over instruction for the full music pro gram this year at Horace Mann school under supervision of the superintendents The pro ject had Swings full Merchants Balk Resurfacing of Weigler Street Continued From rage their bumpers and fenders against the high Other items of business transact The agreements formalize the ert at SePtember meeting by obligations of the other parties to thc East Enders included endorse furnish the armed forces of the ments of the Chamber of United States with military sponsored benefit pn STT r lenders and Al West End have been designated as trustees for the funds coming Yanks Down Nazi Plane in Iceland army in their first combat with hostile aircraft after a year In shot down a German Kurler plane near Reykjavik The bomber exploded before crashing and the crew was One American plane In the en counter was damaged and all returned to their bases The army said this was the first German plane shot down Amer ican fighter pilots in the European theater of as the vic tory occurred last Stiff Spending Levy Proposed By the Treasury Continued From Page OPA Charges Violations of Meat Ceilings To File Federal Action Against Packers in 11 Cases in Lou Two Illinois Boys Among Casualties in Plane Crash BATON 3 i 00 Two Illinois youths were j seven Harding Field filers killed In I n a crash of a bomber on an operational mission near the state penitentiary at Tho plane crashed night In from the life expenditures for the purchase of bonds or other capital payment of taxes and Increases in bank He said that a tentative tax would be collected at the source on salaries and dividends In the same manner the now contemplates collection of the cent withholding Paul added that the spending tax return would be made a part of the regular income tax the amount of spendings and the lax being computed on the same re The total of the and the spending tax would be ascertained by deducting their income tax and the spendings tax already collected at the he If the amount collect 1 at the source exceeded the com tax the excess would be promptly repaid to the He explained that great ma of would be eli gible to file a simplified refund able spendings tax which would be a supplementary part of their simplified Income tax re Increase Cut Tax The refundable part of the spendings tax would be levied at a rate of 10 per cent on the payers total he An individual with an Income of for who spent would pay a tax If tye increased his savings and spent only the tax liability would be reduced to Supplementing the flat 10 per cent tax in the lower brackets of the treasury proposed a spending surtax with rates gradu ated up to 75 per cent in the high er For a single spendings up to would be taxed 10 per from to at 20 per from to at 30 per from to it 40 per from to at 50 per cent and all 000 at 75 per A would be put on a per capita giving a married couple with one depen dent an exemption from this sur tax of If this family spent a total of or in excess of Its ex its surtax would be for the The treasury recommended mak ing the spending surtax effective as of Paul said it was essential this be done to prevent large scale buying and hoarding of consumers goods in anticipation of the enactment of the spending He said the refundable part of the spendings the 10 per cent flat could go into effect on Paul said the proposal to lower income tax exemptions to ior single for married couples and give only credit for dependents would bring an ad persons into the federal income tax paying over and above the number pre included by Senate Finance Committee changes in the House He cited these examples of po increases in individual In come taxes The tax of a married person without dependents having an in come of would be increased from to while a married person with dependents and the same income would pay a tax of whereas he would pay none under the pending Illustrating the effect of the spending combined with the income he cited this example A married couple with two de pendents having an income of would have an income tax liability of If their spendings amount to the spendings surtax would be and the refundable spend ings If their spendings were only the spendings sur tax would be reduced to and the refundable spendings tax to Their combined tax would be in the first case and In the second Of these or would be refunded after tbe In flames In a heavily wooded iust across th Une In Wilkinson Among the bodies brought out of the woods on pack horse were those of Second Lt Louis pilot son of James Oak Park Second William Evans co son of Evans His Alice resides In Baton Northern detained scores of persons last night In a roundup of political suspects growing out of disorders which accompanied the execution yesterday of Thomas member of the outlawed Irish Republican for the slaying of a Northern Ireland otherwise re mained and no ad demonstrations were re ported in Quarantine on Dogs in County JP of rabies have led to dog quarantines in nine and scores of diseased dogn have been the state depart ment of agriculture announced to chief state vet said that 50 dogs were killed In a single day in Ottawa and that 280 dogs were vaccin ated in a day at Coun ties In which quarantines have been Imposed are LaSalle and IS Move Follows Complaints of WideSpread UpGrading 3 The Office of Price announced that it would actions in federal courts in cities today In connection with campaign against alleged violaL of price ceilings on More than 100 meat packers wholesaler distributors are ln Most of the OPA said in volve socalled upgrading Oj beef although m were concerned as well with and simple P The packers and also will be charged with fog correct and failing issue as provided fof by OPA said y OPA will seek to compel compliance with Ifc Cuts n all parts of the country OPA sa d that packers and whoS sale distributors were price regulations and are palm ing off inferior cuts above OPA The OPA defined upgrading as stamping and selling meat ol Inferior grades at prices estab for higher Under the all carcasses and wholesale cuts of meat must be accurately stamped and sold at prices not exceeding the legally established maximum prices for the particular Standards set up under the OPA grades of maximum price regula tion 169 are substantially the same as those established by the Department of OPA said the present drive was the outcome of a nationwide in by its inspectors work ing In with inspectors for the agriculture List of Cities Cities in which actions were listed and the number of named defendants In each Boston Cleveland Detroit Los An geles Des Moines Indianapolis Cincinnati New York Chicago Sari Francisco Port Milwaukee Louis Paul Omaha Kansas Suits will be filed the OPA against firms in Baltimore and It did say who the defendants would be in these two The OPA announced that In junction suits were being filed in cities including the with the defendants named for each city Siegel Weller Packing Swift Wilson Lincoln Meat Giaver Illinois Packing and Empire Packing School Board Approves Tax Levy for Continued From Page These made a part of audit the first time and gave the board some figures it has not previously had put be fore it in a definite The audit on the funds was made a sort of appendix to the customary audit of regular school Bonded Debt Bonded debt of the school of the current date was shown as this including the East Junior High issue of With no the bonded debt as now amortized would pay off by the Schlosser report The report of the finance com and of Treasurer Yungck showed receipts in August of considerable sums in Wood River township tax installments for the education and for the building Net balance in the educa tional fund 31 was shown as and In the building report of di rector for and its arch the boaro approved a payment ol to Williams Construction as general contractor on the new East building final payment of to on the plumbing installation and to Fleming on i heating also a item on equipment for the new Private Bouillon Private Donald who re cently visited his Birdie Bouillon of 2905 Brown He Is In the air stationed at Jefferson Bar where ho has been in train Ing for
