Alton Evening Telegraph (Newspaper) - December 28, 1946, Alton, Illinois River Stages ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH iii Established January 296 DECEMBER Member of The Associated Press Sc Per Copy Weather Forecast Fair Cold 18 Sunday Armory Site Committee May Ask of Street Crux of the Henry street fiver front armory site problem may not one of but rather one of state after To It developed at a Great Alton Association of Commerce armory committee meeting Friday appropriate state authorities have approved tentatively a pro posal made by City Judge to quiet title to the as far as the legal requirements are con V The would require the state to allow the city to carry out condemnation in the states name against the site once the city had re Its trusteeship under the Easton But the state office years adopted a policy of refusing to take part In con proceedings for any property required President Streeper explained to the committee from his own past observations that the had been adopted after a few years of experience when the Dilate felt it had been unduly dis criminated against in tion State Defers Report Judge Boynton has explained that the city could not carry out condemnation proceedings under tuch circumstances against the property unless for its own The property must be delivered to the state for armory I At Boynton and Streep the attorney generals after a detailed study of Boyntons is deferring its which present con ditions would be possible further Boynton is carrying further his investigation into the which grows out of Ru fus original dedication of the proposed site as a public mons to be used as landing 1 Committee members expressed the the problem is of policy than legality or pressure should be brought upon state authorities to depart from their refusal to become a party to condemnation Discuss Jackson Offer The had been called to discuss the offer of for Western Military Academy to transfer some of its tennis court property 300 by 200 feet on Seminary street to the state for use as an armory The committee discussed the pro posal at concluding its first action should be to seek an ad opinion from the state as suitability and acceptability of the There was little use in even fur discussion of the WM A site it was discovered whether it would be acceptable to the and would meet the committee At the same discussion in that if the site proved ac to the the tee still had further phases of the question to and probably some additional negotiations on at least one other possible site to un before it could prepare any The committee was divided re garding the question of easy pub I lie for any site con One group held any pro posed site should be considered i only utility for military pur Another pointed out that inasmuch as authorities controlling i an armory might permit a certain amount of public the com owed it to the public to all effort behind a site that would be easily accessible to the I Shortages of fa at Western stressed in this U Off ices to Be Filled At April 1 Election file Contest for Seat in House Schuyler who Was a candidate for office of state representative from the Madison Bond saya that he Intends to file a the Illinois Gen eral Assembly The official canvass of the returns counties of trie district gave Vaughan which de Two Democrats were elected and one Republican to the lower House of the Illinois General Assembly and the contest be filed against all can vass of returns by the county clerks of the two counties placed Leland Kennedy of Alton above A legislative recount affect all the three candi dates who were given apparent pluralities over but the one most Interested would be Seventh ward air derman in t Under the Illinois the House of Representatives is vested with power to make decisions as to qualifications of its The solitary Republican elected on the face of the returns is Orville Hodge of Granite The Demo crab who Were given the lead are Leland Kennedy and Lloyd Curly Harris of Granite The canvass returns of both counties of the District gave Hodge Harris Ken Vaughan Mercury Falls 30 Degrees Further From a top of 65 degrees Friday temperature fell to 35 in the West End business district early and a further drop in the mercury is slated for Forecast ofthe Weather Bureau is for considerably colder tonight with lowest Sunday morning about 18 highest Sunday afternoon about 34 The warm wave ending last night was much like one of Decem On 26 temperatuM the next had a top of showrs and wind last eve ning marked the coming of the cool and temperature began a rapid fall after Two Men Injured In Traffic Mishap Theodore of Saw Clark of Glllespie suffered lacerations about their faces at to day when a sedan in which they had started home from work at Laclede Steel was involved in an accident on the Broad way extension at the Maple Ter race hill east of the The two were taken by a passing Maurice Roos of 33 East to Josephs Hospital where they received emergency Alton police depart was Roos said he had not been near enough to observe what but was told that the car of the steel mill employes been struck by another car when it skidded off the highway then over This car was badly dam but the driver apparently es caped without A fender was mashed on the sedan in which Scheppe and Robbins were and some windows were It appeared the two were struck by flying Roos After at tention at the the two let for the accident hopeful ol continuing their drive home de spite the damage to their by Sawmill Engine Ut John died heie yesterday of injuries he received an hour earlier when he was caught in the engine of a sawmill he operated on his farm near His skull was Lawyer Who Won First Portal Case Tells Unions to Go Easy lawyer who set in motion the serins of employe overtime nulls against now anow talled Into an enormous ad vised union today to proceed cau Edward Lamb said that the union leaders and their attorneys not risk restrictive action from Congress by asking fabulous and reckless amounts in i ine pay who obtained from the Supreme Court a decision that employers must pay for all time a worker spends at site of work at an said in an Interviews Attorneys filing thew suits for pay shouldnt try to name the they think is duo the work Such a suit itself is only an asking say how Rut It not I necessary jt fo unwise to urns frighten industry may Ur Congress to adopt restrictive legislation in the coming He described it as the biggest and most Important the Supreme Court ever made he the deci sion did fine a work He added All industry and labor know ruK are now People need not be hysterical about The ruling upheld the Toledo at contention in behalf of workers of the Mount Clemens Michigan pottery who Is also a radio station owner and newspaper took the Mount Clemens case to the district court in Detroit discovered In tho company records a very strange demand on request for them to be on the Job 14 minutes ahead of official starting time w th no pay mentioned for that extra time He asked an accounting and and the back and forth through lower courts before reaching the Supreme Continued on rage Si CpL To other offices previously list ed for inclusion In the call for the election of April City Clerk today added the position of One constable to a must be named to fill an unex he The vacancy arises from the death of Harrell Leonard who died shortly after his election to the office of constable In The township has a five said that he has pe tition blanks in readiness for any person who may desire to seek nomination to the vacant township The list of officers to be filled at the April l election how stands as follows police one each of seven three assistant and Regu lar terms are four but be cause vacancies exist by reason of on magistrate and constable each will be two Filing time to the election opens the city council is scheduled to a formal call forthe election at Its first meeting in In addition on the several elective township and city offices April voters will on two propositions for bond of for stor age garages forthe streets and refuse disposal departments the other in of for re equipping the refuse disposal de City Council enacted the two bond issue ordinances last making them subject to referendum at the spring elec Sue Bethlehem For 200 Mil lion Cff More than a score of CIO United Steel Workers locals filed a portal pay suit today against the Bethlehem Steel for largest among the ava lanche of such actions over the The proceeding is m behalf of employes The amount In reach half a billion attorneys when 000 other of the national union join in the The petition filed in dis court said each employe spent between ah hour and an hour and a half each since ef of the federal wage and hour law in to and from his punching time clocks and performing other tasks not computed previously as work ing The petition also asserts that three minutes of the lunch period for workers engaged in continuous such as around furnaces were off each day and that workers who were a minute late had to work an extra six minutes as a Workers who were five to min utes late lost compensation for 12 v The Includes for actual overtime due the employes the other is in liquidated damages for alleged failure to pay workers in full under pro visions the federal Claims are retroactive to when the law went into Allis Chalmers Sued SOUTH WPI Allis Chalmers ing was named de fendant today in an pay suit filed in northern Indiana district federal court The suit was filed by Oliver attorney for the United Farm Equipment and Metal Work ers on behalf of 3400 union members In the plants at La and Early in November the Porte plant resumed production after a strike of more than seven Legion Post Gets Authorization for Alton Post 126 of the American Legion authorization from the Civilian Production Ad ministration for expenditure of In making additions to present Legion Sixth and Legion plans as approved by the OPA call for extensions of the present both the ground and top The additional floor space will measure 20 by 48 The addition will be made to the west side of the pres ent Object of the addi tion U to enlarge both the meeting with grade entrance on and the lower floor recrea tion room which will hove en trance Sixth and full window lighting due to the drop In grade of Robert chairman of the building has de scribed the addition OR a temporary to provide facilities until a new building U tf In Small Loans of Opinion as to Trends Effect On Future Ah increase in the small loan business in the Alton rise of about 33 not seen as a portent of a depression by some Alton Some are borrowing to make ends meet due to the higher cost According to Clyde in charge of small loans at Alton Banking Trust the upturn In loans In this well as the nationwide trend as reported in the Wall Street due to the fact that a huge backlog of private capital has been by spending that the public has failed to acquire the consumer goods they have cause of high Said Its a fallacy to believe people are going broke be cause of the increase in the loan business The loan business follows general business and is good when business is In Alton the loan business is according to au The overall picture finances In area in that the increase this year is about last year If one draw a graph of financial conditions in the he too much error indicate a rise of 33 percent in i money 2 credit in 3 the number of lending The Alton Banking Trust small loan department be taken as a general loan business for the reason that it has increased about 50 due to advertising and promotional ef In a poll of several persons en gaged in the moneylending busi ness in the Telegraph was told by most that the Increase in the small loan business be regarded as a caution From the lenders caution would mean a more thorough an of the responsibility of the person who seeks to borrow A summary of of busi in diverse occupations in Alton could be in the There are that Constellation Crashes In Eire 12 11 Injured Outlaw Veto or We Keep Atom Secret Baruch Senator Bilbo Senator Ferguson re ported today that a majority of the Senate war investigating com approved a report critic izing Senator Bilbo for his relations with war Ferguson said the ten members of the committee were being poll ed on the report and six of them already have approved He said he could not divulge the names or party affiliations of these six until the entire committee has been polled and the report filed with the secretary of the At the same time Ferguson said it would be impossible for the war investigating subcommittee to hold additional public hearings on Bil bos affairs the new Con gress Ferguson had asked reopening of the public hearings by Chairman Mead DN Y of the subcommit tee but learned today that Mead could not attend a hearing before the day that Meads term as senator Senator Ferguson de clared he still favors trying to pre vent Bilbo from taking the oath and will cany his fight to a con ference of all 51 GOP senators and next Most of his seem to feel that delaying tactics are In Two Fires Friday Cause Alarms But No Damage Two fires resulting In alarms Friday caused no In the early forenoon fire com pany 3 made a run to Marie and Highland to extinguish a grass At an oil stove flash in the apartment of and Roy 1238 caused an alarm answered by companies 2 and The fire caused no Fire Chief Lewis Wont Ask Senate OK tin Plan Is t Approved By LARRY HAUCK LAKE Baruchs sharp warning United States could not bomb secrets to the World Unless the veto was ruled out of any international con trol play sent United Nations del egates room conferences today seeking agree of the 12 na tions tn the Hi atomic energy commission until Monday body goes Into session for to settle this critical which generally asthe key to the basic arms reduction down by the wV strong speech was made at a of the commis sion last the midst of bit ter debate over inclusion of the veto with regard to punishment of violators of a control The American delegate made it clear that he not Sen ate approval of any plan including the Delegates little chance for immediate in the faca of Russias continued silence and new opposition to Baruch by France and and postponed the issue until The early part of the meeting had been harmonious with the remainder of the Baruch plan being adopted without Even this was far from how in refusal delegate Andrei was tersely told he was occupied with Alexandroy sat through the whole meeting without speaking but near its end advised the chairman that he wanted to be considered present but abstaining in Declaring that it was yes or Baruch said I cannot recommend to the people of the United I can not advocate before Senate of the United that this coun try surrender this potent weapon and dedicate to mankind its tre mendous knowledge in the field of the production of atomic in the belief that they are outlaw ing the use of this weapon for war and opening the gates for the use of atomic energy for the good of all any system which is open to nullification of punish ment by what can be called a sub All we have asked you to do is to vote in favor of the tion that it should not lie within the power of anyone to determine by his own veto whether he or a friend is guilty and should be pun it is Either you agree that a criminal should have this right by voting against our proposition or you fall to take a stand on the question by refraining from or you vote for this sound and basic prin ciple of enduring justice and plain common The American delegation later Indicated that should Baruch meet defeat in the the United States probably would file a minority report and its fight to the parent Security Coun A spokesman said could count on solid support from Mexico and Austra The others were classified as doubtful or Accident SANTA A call that there had been an acci dent brought police on the double to the teenage With long poles patrolmen Man ual Moya and Pete re moved a dead IN PLANE CRASH Mrs Edith Delaby French and Charles were seriously injured in TWA plane crash Jn Eire while ensure to join Charles Waterbury at New ark J Youths at Cage Reece Rejects Stassens Offer Of His Republican Forums By HAROLD A polite no thanks from GOP Chairman Carroll Reece Harold Republican Open Forums on their own without finan cial aid or direction from the na tional In rejecting an offer by Stawen for the national committee to take over the Reece said it would cost too much money and might create intraparty the only announced for the Republican nomination In the forums lost April to de possible planks for the party Ho U chairman of their advisory Replying to turndown the said the forums will continue to cooperate with the committee and will be willing to be taken over at any Henry director of the told newsmen the or will expand operations 1047 as an independent lican activity working in close co Operation with the Republican na tional Wild in Hotel A band of overenthusiastic girls and boys ran wild In the hotel here last leaving wake of knot wa manager said tod th t of them have checked out since the holiday high school basketball tournament they were attending ends Peltier said the arrival of police and Oscar dent of city ended a corri dor battle between youngsters using feather a woman entered the com plaining that a from a third floor almost hit Maids found air cocks missing from with steam and water escaping into guest The manager said he broke up a boys game at 4 An officer was placed on duty for a said but as soon as he a table was thrown from the mezzanine into the lob In each Instance of they always managed to disappear just before police or a hotel employe reached the Aides to Join in Probe of Butter Market W Attorney General Tom Clark has directed his aides to look into the New York butter price to determine if there have beep any of the antitrust Recent transactions on the New York butter leading up to Thursdays sharp price are already being investigated by the Agriculture Secretary Anderson ordered this Inquiry yes A Justice Department official said today that Clark acted on request from the Consumers Coun cil of New Andersons inquiry was under taken after New York consumer groups complained that prior to the break In bulter prices the market had been bolstered artificially by traders seeking to prevent a de cline in producer milk prices for A joint marketing program provides that producer prices of milk for any month Is tied to the price level for butter and some other dally products a previous period ending on the 24th day of the The at New York oc curred on the first trading day after the end of the ining Distinction Lout NEW was wellknown in his lower east side neighborhood for His distinguished Van Dyke beard and but no He dozed over an early morning awakened lo find the beard was burning briskly and had ed tho bedclothes and Five fire engines and 20 firemen answered the alarm neighbors Kent The board was a total the mattress suffered minor damage and Malina was treated for first and second decree A Bus Accident In Missouri bus sty truck tralle eft bringing d 9 3 Of Crew Perish Blinding Explosion Seen At Moment Airliner Hit Bog By ROBERT HEWITT 28 The explosion and crash of a TWA Constellation killed 12 persons to day and left U seven crit The Trans World en route from Paris to New ex with flash ap at the moment it crash ed into the mud of a grass covered Island about two from the Shannon The Herbert Tansey of Falls was injured so seriously that Investigators could not talk with him Immedi ately to what might forced down the giant named the Star Nine of those killed outright were passengers and three were Allbut two of the 12 were The Miss Vina Ferguson of Jackson said the crash occurred out She and the passen gers had no Impression that any thing was wrong as the plane started down for a landing In fdg and drizzle at 2 8 Among critically injured were Charles Bruce Delaby Waterbury and his Edith Delaby who was on the way to join her husband Charles Waterbury at 1 The baby suffered a fracture of fe accident bridge five miles north the truck trailer into the side of the Fe The impact tore a section from the left of the passenger but it remained upright under the skillful handling of driver Max who retained control of the bus though The dead Marjorie Jerry Lee her three Kenneth Clifton Clarence Spring James Keytes The driver of Kansas City suffered lacerations of the left forearm and chin and The Ashley boy was seated immediately behind The driver of the Morris Jefferson escaped Canon said the was sweaty with moisture and truck approached the driver appar ently applied the causing trailer unit to skid and jack After the the bus con to the end of the careened across a ravine and was brought to stop in an upright po FOR QUAKE RELIEF today thanked Mac Arthur for the magnificent speed and generosity of and Brit ish occupation forces in rushing re lief to earthquake and tidal wave Official casualty figures re mained at including 1321 The brought the Island in little Were taken to Johns Harrington hos at Limerick and the com munity hospital at Investigators of the Eire depart of industry and Commerce were on t neocene but could get little conclusive information as to the cause of the From the observation tower at the the flash of the ex plosion was seen at the spot where the wreckage later was The impression of several persons near the spot was that the took place at just about the mo ment of the Only a portion of the rear fuse lage where several of the injured were remained Mo tor parts were strewn for several hundred yards and the wings were The plowed 500 or 600 yards across the grassy surface of the Shannon river and the grass on each side of the furrow appeared The plane burned fiercely for many and some passengers were hopelessly Some of the survivors apparent ly owed their lives to the The plane was ripped apart and they were thrown While the flash of the blast was seen at the Shannon it was hours before rescuers with adequate equipment could get to the inaccessible One of the first to arrive was an Irish servant Michael I fell over bodies of dead peo ple as I ran in the direction of a spot where I heard the cries of a said The child was lying In rushes by the As I approached the hostess Miss Ferguson took the Continued on Page Col Ever Lapse Into Itty Bitty Goo This Article Is Meant for You By ARTHUR EDSON Do you have a little in your house freely means Does anyone around your go in for talk talk appar ently is almost old us Thats what Allen Walker said today in a speech prepared for delivery to the Modern Lan guage of Back In Read Sir Thomas Elyot complained of this foule Sir Thomas blamed It on who teaches English nt Columbia pointed out he isnt blaming the Hypocorism is the goo spoken lo Only after It has been them is it by Bead The first record of hypocorlsm In America came In A fel low mimed Webster referred to the silly language called baby Things got pretty bad by Thats when Joseph Field ort a character who gushed at some defenseless Has and lasers and fasers Bui Head says Isnt exclusively for It also is used 1 by 2 to 3 by 4 when one tries to or 5 when one wishes lo bo An example of You cant bo with big Read says can bob up in the strangest Alexander for plo was a savage critic of hypo But even Woollcott once was heard lo sing my I I leurn my He was talking ton
