Alton Evening Telegraph (Newspaper) - February 5, 1947, Alton, Illinois Predicted For in afternoon renort East area 1 back the 1000 been laid that its em for their regular first group to re tonight Western to Resume appeared unlikely all d resumed be a Western spokes those employes whose urs still were down would n other work until full op Kn was likely Thurs Kh of wave that struck Mon afternoon caused a shutdown gas in the Alton lit pipelines of the Fuel are not large to carry an amount to heat homes and supply in the same time when the drops to an extreme In order to supply do the Industries lent At Laclede Steel Alton the 400 laid off when the gas IMS stopped remained off work to normal number of is about t Glass arid oard conversion to fuels made layoffs off work at western litre trim about seven or eight the company spokes Departments in are ones which and such as lind which requires i In the Louis gasless laid off some 5000 Alton Is Undergoing Economic And Social Changes of Peace K 14 Off M Train Wave of illness that crippled tw Alton and a late mail further complicated matters caused additional Postmaster t Off work of illness Tuesday the assistant four and as was able to return to work as well asone of the clerks and two The staff was still short two three and five carriers At last the reduced postoffice staff was working its way through stacks of up Sparks Fire Roof On Myrtle Street Sparks from a chimney at the residence of Frank 1808 set afire wood shingle roof about Firemen of 1 and 2 engine companies extinguished the blaze with booster after it had burned triangular hole about 3 feet wide In the The fire was discovered by the Springman fam alarm was lie 42nd of year last year on this date there had been a total of 62 alarms an swered by the Alton fire depart Prior to the Springman residence last four fire calls re from which to day brought an gaming from Fire The grass fire Lewis stated start t to urge the public to observe caution in burning grass purposely and to practice fire prevention where there is danger of accidental said he has in the last several the public in general is practicing more wide fire J J By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Winter kepi its relentless icy rip on the eastern half of the na i today as subzero blasts in the spread into the east and Dixieland was Temperatures toppled as much as degrees in some of the mid and Eastern Seaboard cit mercury tumbled to be llow freezing in parts of Mississippi and The strong winds which for two s buffeted the carried rigid blasts eastward and as south as Tne Federal Weather Bureau in reported sharp drops in temperature in eastern Federal forecasters predicted a moderation of tempera today and hiss Demobilize f More Groups The Mos tt eo that lawn a ordered de six men paper as well as a wide fire department prevention pro gram and the fear effect of na news of disastrous fires this fall fnd Talks Crime Prevention pn Crime sponsored by the Illinois Department of Public Safe ly through its division on crime Mayor made a address at at East The based large ly on the results ob which he as city He whet he believes aTe the pri mary conditions now which may be for remedial f Playful Dog Blamed In Death of Owner playful terrier was blamed today for the asphyxia tion death of his Medical Ira Richardson said that the dog ironically named Lucky so hard on a rope at to a gas that it entwined and two It had been a custom to tie the dog tp the sum by neighbors who smell her dead on the kitchen fipor where she col lapsed after being partly over while dozing in a bed Splash i in Polar Seas to Test New Rubber Swim Suits wits and swam oday in the ice ees of the to test new rubber all They ask socks the Elsber and AU As it was showed no slight Some had eet and Awarded with lo two close to the flagship Mount Olympus and an attending boat with ropes attach to One ate Ice cream while lolling in the Four men had to leave the water within six to 15 minutes because Icy water entered their suits through rips or face The team was divided into three The first group stayed in the water 21 35 seconds the second exactly 21 mln and the third 21 min 10 The air tempera ture was 27 Underwater are swimming explosives experts train ed for reconnaissance ot enemy for clearing ob stables to beachheads or Binder water and tor attaching mines to enemy They learn to swim without The coldest any 18 terming the operation a field said more needed to ac are the signs of the times and social tjie Alton area are Indicated by these current trends The gold rush Is beak of a buying wave that over Alton stores at Christmas has subsided and merchants tare generally seasons shelves are cleared of Old stock as new for five for The great change from war scar cities to peacetime plenty is actual ly under way in many fields of The heavy pressure on restaur ants has per sons seeking meat dishes crowded restaurants which struggled under with most short ages the housewives can pre pare adequate meals at home the character of res crowds has A general spending spree of the Alton loaded with warin flated has Competition among has largely subsided end competition among sellers is In the char acter of public information and entertainment has changed with the spirit of the The accent on patriotism and war ex has faded from the news the movie maga and Local interests have Education has taken a sudden upswing In the Alton Shurt is loaded with service veterans In the public new efforts ore underway to ob tain more Teachers salaries have been More automobiles are on the Labor la becoming in Prices are Wages are generally A new civic conscientiousness has been born in Alton in recent in the organization of an Association of Commerce and in renewed activities of clubs dormant on civic projects during the early Grocers sell Life in general has expanded the spheres of during ident dur Elected River Its ing the president W Regional Commu began Chests annual meeting YWCA Tuesday The annual members In the form wall at tended by more than 100 to Chest Elected as to the board were Horace 7 and Tur nominated by the member institutions Victor and Theo nominated by the Itself and Julius Schaeffer and Paul nominated from the floor by the membership at Holdover members of the boarc are Jacoby Lawrence Keller Fred and in general 1 we the signs of the 2 Cars Scorched As Garage Fire that destroyed single frame garage behind the Carl 854 damaged two automobiles parked nearby shortly before noon Fire Chief Lewis said the fire probably started when be ing burned In a container near the set fire o grass which in ignited the discovered the blaze and notified who called the fire Engine cOm 2 and 3 responded and ex the blaze with water from a line to a plug at Sanford and The fire chief said the fire had gained so much headway before it was reported that the garage could not be One of the damaged automobiles was a new model owned by Albert The paint on one side of the body of Sweats car was scorched and the heat the fire had cracked The other owned by Lena was extensively damaged in the front hood The Mitchell car had been parked with its front end at the closed doors of the The Sweat car had been parked at the rear of the burning Postpone Bell Rate Hearing Illinois Commerce Commission has post a hearing on motion of Illi Bell Telephone for a tem rate The originally set for will be heard next week in it was Application at the Bell for permanent Increase in rates now is before the Cross ex amination of company officials on exhibits In the case was opened and is being conducted by government attorneys and counsel for 32 Illinois Attorneys in yesterday that will continue all this and may be continued when commission next week in Mayor and City Coun Monday in Springfield unending the in They my the next week at which the motion for a temporary rate II Wad low U lumber of com pf named to direct the representation of municipalities before the Walter whose terms ex pire year and President Hol Wi Percy F Mrs and Paul Shortal expiring in for Unity A plea for continued unity among Chest affiliates a pointed warning that unreasonable de mands of any individual agency in the name of expansion car wreck any Community Chest and reminder that any agency car prosper only as all can was left with the banquet guests by Donald head 01 Shurtleff Colleges department of Journalism and who evenings himself a former chautauqua circuit speaker and welfare fund campaign organizer drew from In in relating pf private welfare His appeal was twofold He stressed Jhe advantages of combin ing all agencies under the Chest been ai ance programs civilian Under the Chest kins pointed one finance cam Wests les to liht more reaches tors never would reached with individual agencies conduct ing their own By relieving individual directors of the need fot Ing their own the Chea program it possible for them to achieve higher effectiveness in the other branches of their Directed by Bethuel Gross head of the music the Shurtleff an girls chorus from the offered a group oi Miss Shirley Jaeger as An Old Slogan Still Retailers The Commerce Department dust ed off a prewar slogan today The customer Said a is always statement by the de office of small business In time customers will forget the shortages and privations they have suffered as a result of the but they will not continue to patronize stores whose employes are unskilled nad dls i Seeks to Return Portal to the Supreme Court uman Again sks Speaker tin Line President Ask Law that Would Give lican Truman today asked for legislation which place Republican Speaker first in line of succes slottiio the in a letter to Senator Vandenberg president pro of the renewed his appeal for a change in the traditional line of Secretary of State George Marshall currently would advance to the White House if a vacancy should Occur prior to the 1948 elec first proposal that the speaker of the House be put in line after the vice president was made shortly after he succeeded It was directed to a Congress by his own Democratic party and would have made for mer Speaker Sam Rayburn dent in the event of his own in Truman wrote today I said and I repeat that in a democracy the President should not have the power to nom his immediate Biernt Named Head of Poland who had headed the provisional Polish was elected president of Poland for term by the trolled Parliament The only candidate lor the Bierut received 408 Deputies of Polish Stanislaw Peasant which has contended that the elec tion forming the Parliament was neither free nor cast 25 negative Four votes were invalid and seven deputies were Alton in Building Estimates During 1946 Aggregate estimated cost figures on building wOrk in Illinois cities during the year of 1946 were an today by the statistical division of the Illinois Department of Among 107 downstate cities and Alton stood in thirtieth place with a 1946 total of compared to in Its 1946 of building activity was same as that of its population where estimated cost of all pro was total was to for the year of Capone Buried in Simple Rites As Icy Wind Sweeps Cemetery WI Ca his gangland days buried friend and enemy alike during with al the pomp and ceremony of a Roman was buried yes in a graveside An icy wind swept across Olivet at the can vas of the huge canopy over the grave and chilled a small group of relatives and friends of the na tions 1 There were no The who a few hours earlier had dug his grave in the frozen carried the casket from the cemetery vault to the The brief ceremony for Scar face Al In complete contrast to the funeral services for gang sters In the prohibition There no motorcycle escort no and whereas carloads ot flowers ac companied the processions of the killed when Capone held a of white with WBS only placed on h There than twb persons at the Including few curious who and sev er Identified as members of the old Capone Wi Mae his only his Ralph and stood at the side of the grove during the Inside the tent ft wo man want to be with The committal rite was conduct ed by chap lain of the Chicago Fire Depart whose services were request ed by He was her pastor several years ago and the Chicago Catholic Church chancery granted her No requiem mass was allowed for but he was burled in the family plot in consecrated ground alongside the bodies of his who was slain by police in and his Gorman said the brief cer emony at the grave was to rec his penitence and the fact he died fortified by the sacraments of the The Ro man Catholic Church never con dones nor the evil in any mans The casket was placed in tho vault last Saturday after the body of the onetime gang leader was brought here from Mi ami where he died on 25 from pneumonia efter suf fering apoplectic The mourners in 15 limousines arrived shortly before casket was removed from the vault and stayed in their cars while the cas ket arranged at the grave At the conclusion of the service the mourners returned to their cars and drove Workman the grave lowered the on which was Rest in EXPLOSION KILLS explosion of nitroglycerin in stantly killed four injured a and destroyed a truck and two passenger cars at an oil well 10 mijes from Wichita A derrick and drilling platform also were damaged This view shows the wrecked truck and Move by Truman Judge Delays Action For 24 Hours t Testimony of Some Employes Absurd In State Vet Housing Asked UP proposal that the state to provide per manent housing for veterans has been placed before the Illinois The proposal was made by Sen ator Chicago Dem in a introduced yester day with three other housing Marovitz recommended that thi Republican dominated legislative establish a moratorium on new state building projects to mak materials for He ex from the proposed lum construction work on hospitals and veterans Institution Governor Green has th new pr vate The other bills woul speed up condemnation of vacan and tax delinquent an permit local to assemble land for pro Also new measures to Require wardens of coun ty and city penal institutions to notify the state department o public safety 30 days in advance of the release of sexual psycho pathic persons completion of their Permit cities to levy a three per cent tax on gross revenue of car riers transporting persons or com on city Create a legislative commission to investigate violent deaths ol of state institutions and report findings to the 1949 General Regulate the sale of sleeping Make punishable by a fine up and imprisonment for a year failure of parents of boys un der girls under 18 to exercise reasonable diligence in heir Provide after July pay scales for women teachers equal o those of men teachers of like qualifications and assign similar British Flying Civilians Out Of Holy Land More hen 150 British civilians left Pal stine the British Armys Operation Polly taking off rom airdrome in Royal Air orce Halifax planes bound for A later dispatch from Cairo said lie planes engaged In evacuating British civilians from Palestine anded there shortly before noon nd that the occupants were taken o British homes In the The shuttle flight system was ex to remove at least 500 Brit sh women and children from the loly Land trouble spot by night More than 1000 others await ng their turn in or Haifa lolding where the army IBS turned military cantonments Uo dispersal points for civilians evacuated to lessen the gov security commitments In There still was no official word to or Dov Bela member of the outlaw d Irgun would but tho respite granted ust wtek apparently still was In Most sources believe that lie execution of Gruner will touch ft a now and terrible I Funds for Vet Bonus Board Voted 145 toO ff legislative sary for soldier bonus payment plans was mapped today by the state service recognition Members a was prepared for House lion transferring money from the Illinois compensation fund in the treasury to the service board which will administer The legislature will return to work i After funds the board may then issue in bonds to finance the Rear 5 UK Tne United States government said to day that wishes to return Clemens Pottery portal case to the Supreme Court as soon as Federal Judge Frank terminating deferred to day for 24 hours a decision on whether the government may be come a party to the portal The court said he hoped to an opinion in the pottery which led to nearly in portal pay by this week John assistant ed States attorney said the government enter the case and return it to the Supreme Court as soon as Earlier Sonnett told the federal judge that this course of had been cleared by every gov Including the President of the United Judge indicated that he is not opposed to the entering the case but that he felt that the national should be given the same Charles general man ager of the testified that not more than one minute daily was thus consumed by an employes testified that they spent up to 20 minutes a in to the time they spent lls time the Sy investigation leases sign About employes will be requited in he Hugh for Green in the laters from the signed the measure providing for the board late yesterday a few hours after House Republicans and Dem joined to pass it by a 145 o 0 The Senate approved it weeks Democrats lent needed for the required 102 pas sage following defeat of their efforts to obtain a hearing which they declared was necessary to clarify expenditure Most of the appropriation is ticketed for salaries of 350 Service recognition board employes in Chi cago and Springfield and or equipment and printing to s time said never asked by the pottery In your first of Judge Picard told Edward Automobile Stolen Through the Wood River de Alton police today were asked to join in search for a 1936 model sedan of William 0 East Wood which was stolen last Theft 1 the car was early Fire Trucks Pursue and Vice Versa UPi Three fire trucks rolled out to an intersection in the business district after an onlooker re ported a car on On arrival firemen learned tlie motorist had leaped into the blazing vehicle and driven off for the fire station after the alarm was In witnesses near the fire station said the trucks almost ran him downas they sped out to answer the The unidentified driver then turned his smoking vehicle and followed the By the time he arrived at the intersection from which the alarm was first the fire men had returned to the sta tion by another The department is still won dering what happened to the Continued on Page Closed Head UP Charles El president of General today told the Sen ate labor committee he never wiH sign a closed shop contract I wouldnt sign a closed shop the corporation head I never will sign When it gets around to that they can make a farmer out of The GM executive expressed his views under question Ing by Senator Morse who told Wilson The thing you are overlooking is that we have to protect working men from employers who want to destroy the right to organize for economic The labor committee is ing hearings on a sheaf of bills de signed to iron out ment One of the measures would outlaw closed shop which required to join a union to get a Wilson also Advocated revision of the Nor Guardia act to what Senator Donneli caned union violence and Declared the United States Conciliation Service had been un successful in handling strikes be cause the service is made up most ly of union officials in office or out of Urged that jurisdiction over labor matters be turned over to stale and local courts to the great est possible Blames RaceTrack Svengali in Forgery tfl A who described as a parttime choir singer ho gave a tenth of her income to le testified yesterday she ayed Trilby to racetrack fig res In forging more than worth of checks In her 85 earold patients Ive never had any feeling pf Bertha Mao Buker told udge Joseph Sherbow In criminal Her was convicted of conspiracy and receiving stolen Sen on both were When Judge Sherbow asked why she gave him she replied Because he would kill Hell kill me now If he gets his hands on The nurse testified had shown her how to forge ture ol William pf ting tissue K
