Alton Evening Telegraph (Newspaper) - August 26, 1947, Alton, Illinois River Stages Bureau I m Zero Stage Rise Sen Level 7 Lock It Dam 26 Pool ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH t Sc Established January 191 AUGUST The Associated Sc Per Weather forecast Partly Not So Warm Truck Collision On Route 111 Job oi Moving Levee Tracks to Begin Tuesday Crash Just After Midnight 5 Miles South of Roxana Three men were killed In a colli sion of two trucks a south of the canal bridge on Route just this A fourth man escaped injury in the crash five miles south of Two of the men killed have been identified as Raymond of New and Junior 20 ot The third victim of the crash still was unidentified at midmorn Frank was driving a truck of Frank of New A passenger in the Frank Leonard of Pleasant was He told deputy sheriffs he was asleep at the time the and was unable to give any Drinkwater was driving a truck of the Berger Beards The bodies were taken in charge by Coroner At Mercers office in Granite it was said that a representative of Berger Farms would be there at noon to attempt Identification of the third victim of the The call to the sheriffs office was received at and the night deputies were directed to the scene by They found that the Frank traveling and the Berger going had either headon or in a sideswiping Both cles were badly Officers marveled at Simpsons escape with out Coroner Mercer will conduct an inquest at 8 oclock Kentucky Vets Ask Wives Not to Work of relocating and recon the levee switch tracks to meet the needs of the new Russell Miller Milling mill will be started next accord Ing to notice furnished the city engineering At the outset of the project it will be necessary to close Piasa street at Front for about three It was said by City Engineer and a permit will be Is sued for the necessary During the lime the street is closed by the track work at the Piasa direct vehicle traf fic to the Illinois Terminal station will be cut as was the case during the flood period when the foot of Piasa was covered with pointed that it still will be possible for vehicle traffic to enter Riverside park by way of the Henry street if vehicles will be able to approach close to Whilten the railroad station by a detour through the park from its east erly Closing of Piasa will be brief little work is to be done Most of the track adjust menls are lo be made lo the wes of The rearrange approved by the commerce was authorized under a recent city and will leave space for the McAdams high way in the section west of Whitten Aldermen Ask City Study Of Loading Zones Parking Stall for Mail Truck Proposed by Mayor In order to avoid need for the mail trucks to double park in the West Third business Mayor Wadlow suggested to aldermen at the city finance Monday that it may be expedient to set up a unloading zone to be reserved for the mail Such a reserved parking stall would be available on the west side of immediately north of West he At that point a stall would be available without alter ing the parking meter setup and j SPIRIT OF 76 L New in hence without need of an ordinance jn in which he is making the trip from he pointed Q s La The which Michelson estimates at Effort To End Crisis In Greece Fails Cease Fire i LAKE f r T Security Council Liberal Leader in on the Dutch and in sists That He Be Made Premier Man Found in Parked Shot to Death Buy Horrors 26 Branding the lowered hem line m all fashions for women as a deli aerate attempt to exploit the puo iic I he University of Kentucky Veterans Club has called upon all married veterans to buy the new horrors for their The clubs members have also asked single vets to refuse to date girls who wear the longer A resolution adopted at a meeting of the club yesterday urged all groups throughout the country to join us in this The veterans said their purses were suffering more than their Club president Darrell Hancock said We are deadly serious when we say we think this change of fashions is a deliberate exploitation of the public at a time when our economy demands that what little we can afford to we must invest in rent and the bare necessities of For Indonesians An unidentified man was found shortly before noon shot to death in a 1941 Buick parked on a private just east of Chessen about a quarter of a mile from the East Broadway ex tension leading into East The man was in a car which is owned by Carl 3479 East according to a license plate Deputy Coroner Robert Streeper of called to the scene by Po lice Chief Homer Jenkins of East removed the body from the scene of the shooting and was at tempting to identify the man this Streeper withheld his opinion of the pending disclosure of the angle at which the shotgun pellets entered the able to Postmaster The Wadlow had suggested a reserved space for the mail vehicles because at the present time it has been found the mail truck must stop a at a time lo make deliveries and several trips to the business area are necessary on certain days of the When a mail truck has to for extended periods It creates a traffic obstruction that It is desirable to Discuss Complaints In connection with the parking stall Wadlow reported that the special delivery letter car riers car recently was given a parking ticket for an infraction of time It was he that the only designation of the vehicle to show it was in use for postal service was a sign on a wind shield The carrier had chanced lo turn the visor upward so the sign was and the traffic policemen thought he was lagging a private Wad low said he had asked the ter to have the carrier provide some sort ot lettering on his truck so it will at all times be able by the Several aldermen at the meeting said they receiving com plaints of late as to the allocation of loading also on the use of sidewalks by merchants for dis play of and one alderman added he was in receipt of a com plaint lhat a business man had painted himself a no parking zone without a city permit for his ac on Boat Trip Down the Mississippi Ordinance Provisions City Counsellor Middleton Duck Stamps Needed For Shooting Doves Crossed tongues might be an coat of arms for post office clerks selling Fed eral Migratory Bird permits to It so happens that the dove season opens locally and a Federal stamp is sary to hunt Add the fact that a Federal permit is commonly referred to as a duck and pity the poor postoffice clerk who must attempt to carry on a conver sation without crossing up him self and hunter on the subject of ducks and Exiled Ecuador Chief Still President asked as was to ordinance provisions By HARRIS JACKSON 26 newest suspended by an uneasy truce between Dutch and Indonesian forces has fied problem of displaced persons in Indonesia and to meet it the Re publican government is using a system at work for the last nine The swift advances of Dutch troops in the last month threw new and greater loads on the sys and disrupted it but Republican officials say it still Republicans have had a refugee problem since last year when the thousands transported by the Jap anese to labor for them in other countries began to come For these the Republican ministry of social affairs set up a loosely or network of camps and feed ing centers where repatriates were helped along to prewar homes or Streeper found a discharged shot the barrel against the back of the front A shotgun case was lying on the rear On reaching the Streeper was puzzled over the apparent cause of the shooting and called Sheriff Dallas Bob Wuthenow and Hugh depu also were The shot had entered the left side of the mans between the shoulder and the The body was in a sitting position when and showed apparent shock accompanied the Two Alton on their way to spend the day had arrived in lane about 11 and be gan digging north of the spot where the car was Themen then crossed the railroad tracks and came upon the They notified the East Alton The discovery was made by Walter 602 and John Rey 603 Deputy on arriving at the said he had seen the car parked in the lane between 9 and today as he made a trip to The lane is posted as a private road near the and no trespassing signs are spaced along the and warned that dealers have no legal right to display goods in such way as lo infringe on sidewalk space reserved for He further warned that the city might be liable for damage claims should pedestrians be caused to fall by any such Because of one such apparent to he re the streets department a few days ago sent an admonishing notice to a merchant where com plaint been made a walk was dangerously Urges Immunization Before School Starts UP should be immunized against whooping cough and smallpox before school opens next Roland stale health said Pastor Faces Murder Warrant In Poison Death of Farmer 26 UP Gordon Miller read his Bible and quoted from Mark to pass I he time before his hearing today on n murder served one his flock drank poison Ho prove his faith and They shall take up the minister read to Sheriff Glenn last and if hey drink nny deadly thing It shall not hurt Sheriff Glenn said he Miller was arrested at tho side of Ernest who died And that he preacher later observed to The killed must not have had enough Dr Hyden of at Davis death to Strych nine and other poisoning and added He never had a the sheriff The charge against who described himself as a minister lor the Free Church of was recommended by Assistant Solicitor General Sheriff Glenn The hearing before City Judge Rivers and Justice of the Peace Brown will be to de termine what part the minister played In the death of the Taylors Miller told newsmen that Davis quaffed the poisonous draught of his own taking three swallows after mixing It at the open air church last The minister said he also took a adding that In previous faith tests both he and Davis had taken poison without 111 The dead mans Sam said his son drank the poison and then Just sat around playing his guitar and Jim Head to said he took him to a hospital over Mil lers protests and Gods will be Lost of Revenue Some further study of loading zones was suggested by Alderman Alderman Timmer meier developed that removal of any parking meters means an aver age loss of a year in revenue and that this was a factor to be kept in mind in any loading zone Late last the streets de undertook replacement of three meter standards in the West End business area which had been so loosened or broken from fastenings they had been arily The replacement was All had to be taken out again being found again City Engi neer Whitten said steps arc being taken to find a suitable way of an choring them and that they will be suitably replaced in a few Fire Chief Lewis briefly discussed with the committee the need of early action to provide steel lockers for the Northside hose The provided for under the re conditioning are difficult to obtain in the prevailing steel he pointed and pro efforts should be under taken lest they be unavailable at time of the hose house opening in War Brides Must Pay Own Expenses UP army told war brides overseas today that in the fu ture they must pay ow expenses journeying to the United States to join their hus Only those brides who al ready have signified their in tention of doing so mny be brought to this country through army a Wai Depart m ent announcement The army said the program to transport about 1260 war brdles and children remaining in Great Britain is moving U added that num erous brides apparently con their own convenience have turned down reservations mde lor 26 Maria Velasco Ibarra re today his resignation as president of Ecuador and charged that the regime of Carlos Mancheno who engineered a blood less coup Saturday was founded in violence and with out legal The exiled who fled after Mancheno proclaimed him self chief ot the government in Quito declared in an in at Call last night that his resignation from the presidency was meaningless because it was executed under compulsion and be cause he had been deprived of his liberty at the time it was Its taken him about 60 but Michelson of New has realized a childhood am though now he isnt positive it was such a good after 76 years was scheduled lo leave Alton sometime today to resume his motorboat journey from to New He has been tied up at Alton since last when he pulled in for to get his laundry and to get some rest after two weeks on the Back when he was 15 or 16 years Michelson says he thought n trip down the river to New Orleans be the most wonderful thing in the But at after two weeks of the hot sun on the Michelson is ready to sell his 14 foot boat and motor and stay And on the matter of staying Michelson has found so friendly to that he wouldnt mind settling down right His wife dead and his only relatives are two sisters in a retired store owner and figures his trips all over distance should be about 1600 His only aids to navigation are a standard road map to help him identify towns he and a chart of navigation marks to keep him in the His boat makes 20 to 30 miles per His trip is a leisurely and on his way downstream he has no particular preference in where he may spend a few In work ing his way he may pass a pretty decide he would like to look it over and put per haps for a day or Its not a vacation and theres no limit on the time he may spend making Michelson is just out for a good and lo realize that old childhood yearning for a long river can efforts to mediate the deadlock In the Greek government crisis failed today when Themistokles leader the main branch of the Liberal ed that he become j premier had been trying for three days to form a new had been one of the main obstacles to success because of his steadfast refusal to enter a coalition cabinet to solve the cur rent Ambassador Lincoln Mac Veagh had conferred with lis during the Tsaldaris said after leaving the mediation conference that he had proposed a neutral politician for but that rejected the pro posing instead that he assume leadership of the state and that his party take the portfolios of justice and public Tsaldaris said he would proceed with his own plans for forming a Dwight administra tor of the aid program in Greece called on at his home last night and an tive said he had stressed the need for political unity if the Amer ican mission is to This informant said no pressure was put on but that Gris wold urged him to help achieve some solution of Tsaldaris In the informant So phoulis intimated that he would be willing to give Tsaldaris 1st party most of the cabinet posts if himself were named The government of Pre mier Demetrios Maximos collapsed last Reds Seek Ban Op Opposition In Bulgaria He and his wife have been granted asylum by the Colombian In Mancheno last night appointed his new cabinet and declared Ecuadors interna tional relations would not be changed by the overthrow of Vel He said there were no political prisoners and that life in the country was The Wisconsin man cant get used to the weather below his home Up in Wisconsin theres al ways a cool feeling in the air Michelson And on the subject of the Mis I wouldnt eat a fish out A to dissolve the Agraria chief opposition to th Communistdominated Front was introduce today in The part is headed by Nikola nov under sentence of death on charge of plotting against the govern The British foreign office an in London that Sovie Russia has rejected a British American request for on death hold ing that such consultation woul be interference in Bulgarian in ternal A British foreign office spokes commenting on reports that the Bulgarian Agrarians would be said it would seem to be a good example of the Gleisch today for the second lime to cease fire in the East Indies The vote was 10 to 0 with Britain ab The action was taken as a result of violations of the orig inal United Nations ceasefire requested 1 and ordered into effect by both parties on midnight Two other colonial powers France and join ed Britain in abstaining on the 1 request for a cessation of LAKE Shaken by its first veto in 14 the United Na tions Security Council was called back into session today in an at tempt to wind up action on the turbulent Indonesian The delegates agreed last night on resolutions calling for situation from career consuls in avia and for the council to tender ure ts good offices to the Dutch and ndonesian How ver France invoked the big pow r veto to kill a d Russian plan for an commission to Investigate of the 1 ease fire order In the East In Topping the calendar for todays were a Belgian proposal to isk the international court of ice to rule on the Councils right o act and a Polish resolution calling upon the Dutch and Indo to comply with cease ire Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has bitterly attacked the Belgian proposal and some observers believe he might go so far as to veto Gromyko contends it is really a Dutch plan and would cast a shadow on every Council decision taken so far n the Sutan former premier of expressing disap pointment last night at the Coun cil said after the meeting that his government would abide by all decisions and would ask for the Eelco Van Kief Dutch ambassador to said his government might request the good but he ed instructions from The The Netherlands has contended throughout that the has no jurisdiction in the case and Van Kief fens said the Council de presuppose some measure of The Council was to meet again to vote on a Brazilian proposal that Britain and Egypt resume direct negotiations in an effort to settle their Indications were that the motion had a good chance to muster the necessary InterAmerican Group Receives Defense Plan Alaska and Greenland In cluded in Proposal Backed by 26 UP The InterAmerican confer ence received today a backed by the United to defend the entire Western Hemis phere from the Arctic to the Ant arctic as a security region with military forces of all American Alaska and Greenland were In cluded in the The subcommittee which drafted the measure was composed of Vandenberg RMIch and repre of Peru and A larger subcommittee of 14 nations quickly approved the Under the any attack on the vast area would invoke defense measures under the proposed hemisphere treaty of mutual Obligated to Aid An armed attack by any state against an American nation will be seven but of course was subject to Russian Planes Carrying DDT To Be Used in Polio Test UP equipped with spray gear will be used to deter mine whether infantile paralysis is being carried by houseflies in this Delaware city where four new cases of poliomyelitis today raised considered an attack against all American states and each one of the American states assumes the obligation to aid in facing such an exercising the individual or collective right of self defense by Article 51 of the United Nations the agree ment The agreement on the security zone specified The region refer red to in the treaty includes the geographical area defined by the Panama Declaration of the North American Conti Alaskan and the area lying between one and the Formal agreement by a five nation subcommittee on measures to be taken against aggression and Argentinas acceptance of the two thirds majority rule In invoking those measures came In quick suc cession yesterday and reports im mediately began circulating that the conference would finish writing the treaty by the were cur rent in conference circles that President Truman might advance the date of visit now scheduled for He is sched uled to close the conference for Agree On Treaty A drafting subcommittee com posed of delegates from the Peru and Bolivia four days of work last night in full agreement on 12 main clauses on which one delegate called the very heart of the The text of these clauses was to be presented to the parent sub Uti it i forcing into line the years total to 69 Three per nique of which there have been sons have died of the several examples in Germany since Public Health Service said three converted army training planes will be used to spray DDT on the city once a The which also would abol i HC w w of that river if you paid me the youth organiza Michelson The fish in the tion would deprive the Agrarians river are soft while the Qf seats in the pi ones we take from the Wisconsin The law comes up for i 1 Cb lakes are firm and i discussion and probable But regardless of tho fishing conj passage Missouri Officials to Return Fish to River Leo president of Alton Wood River Chapter or Illinois was CUnous to know what capacity Federation of j mili Michelson is pleased with i The nOw have 64 seats the town of and viewing the I in Milling from the parliament last night approved hi marveled at the structure and Station of 3 Guns M Thieves broke into police ters on busy Flagter street here sometime last night and robbed it spot where ho had docked his unanimously the Bulgarian peace revolvers valued at Ai Jji J alt Ui said today that the local club has contacted Missouri conservation of and steps are being taken to care for fish crowding ponds on Missouri and the fish will be returned to tho Michelson had no affiliation with any river though he flies a Coast Guard Auxiliary flag at the stern of the He carries three Continued on Page Breeze Brings Relief From Heat High of 85 Forecast unfamiliar experience highest In the afternoon treaty drafted at although both government and opposition speakers called it hard and un 3 Suits Seek Found In Stored Fur Coat Inspector Redman report ed to Police Chief Frank Mitchell that someone pried open a window on the street floor close to the main broke into his per sonal filing cabinet and escaped with the committee Foreign Minister Ricardo Alfaro of who served as chairman of the said the draft included The branding of aggression as such wherever it Collective measures to taken against Establishment of a hemis phere security zone which would call for common defense measures against attack from the Arctic to the Is to be invited to participate in hemis phere Settled by Compromise Alfaro said the controversial question of whether distinction should be drawn between aggress ion from without and from within was settled by the following com promise formula Collective armed action may be taken immediately against an attack from outside the hemis In the event of aggression Continued on Page That which residents of Alton area had By Tilt ASSOCIATED PRESS Farmers in the nations main NEW lu coat placed In summer storage had 50 bills up its and court are on file hy claimants of the Baby Sirens Legion Arriving in New YorU Monday night is what was known 1 j for In spell days as a as i riev NEW 26 coconuts and bugle corps added evidence today that the Am nights Temperatures fell late Tuesday and a prevailing breeze gave and neighboring communities the finest sleeping conditions theyve had in the past For the low tem brought some elief in I orlcan Legion opening Thursday may combine many of the features of election Mardi a football game heal Although the rains across the corn belt inst temporarily a he lining of the turned H and the required six this morning was 72 deI ony which corn has i with no one claim iv post and proved capable of causing a near traffic jam on Eighth ave checked at n recorded at High reading Monday WHS R 94 at making il the thirty first day in the last 32 that the mercury had eased itself the 90 The reading at 11 today was Forecast for the Alton nren pre dicts only a slight increase in tem The fore cast calls for partly cloudy skies this tonight and Wed temperatures not so warm today with the highest vending near It will he moderately cool tonight antl with the lowest temperature Wednesday morning 88 and the suffered during the protracted hot weather bureau officials said which yesler soaking rains needed to retain Samuel Dickstein yesterdays No general for permission to he made a de for the region predict jn cri As rain fell from India to corn futures prices on the Chi cago Board of Trade plunged eight the maximum permitted In one days while cash prices dropped several Temperatures dropped sharply In thu midwest heat belt but tho cool will not extend over tho eastern states until Continued hot weather was forecast for the southeastern stales The store I J contends lie owner of the coat am not claim the money when notified it had been Sadie the coats Ameri can of an whose attorney filed suit against the police property clerk for the return of Die He said Ullman now Is in try ing to repossess property left there when World War II broke Justice of state su reserved Thirtynine soaring and baby gators 5000 coconuts for for civic pride came along with a Florida It also brought the standard equipment of a drum and bugle from wears Indian While the first few thousands ot veterans already were making themselves known on Manhattans Fifth where as many as a million members of the legion and auxiliary march Sat officers of the veterans groups held two public meetings The Legions national housing committee opened a re view of yie housing and preparedness was considered by the security committee and the national defense Political implications of the Legion gathering were underlined by the In addition to many high federal officials who will the governors of many states will be on Reservations have been made for the governors of New North Caro New New Illi Ne South Virginia and While stale tomorrow probably will open formal bidding for Legion several avowed candidates for Commander Paul Griffiths post have been in the running for some Four of James police chief Perry Benjamin and Martin of held conferences
