Edwardsville Intelligencer, The (Newspaper) - August 1, 1938, Edwardsville, Illinois Nation pub and 75th 179 HOPS MANEUVER IN Teach Thousands Use of New Defense to Defend This Little Republic tice After Dark TRY TO AVOID POSSIBILITY OF ANY INCIDENTS Sham Battles of Unusual estness Rings Consist of Trenches Under ground Barracks FLASHES Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today Farm Springfield 111 Aug farm income for the first five months ot this year was estimated here today by A J Surratt joint statistician for the United States and the Illinois Department of culture The figure was a decrease ol below the figure for the same five months last year Copyright IMS bj Prague Czechoslovakia Aug Czechoslovakia's efficient army and reserve corps are holding restrained maneuvers In to teach thousands the use of new defense rings to defend this little republic The rings consist of dreds of trenches under- ground gun emplacements and con- crete pillboxes and carefully concealed troop barracks Reservists are called up and trans- ported to maneuvers grounds and the hidden barracks tinder cover of ness in order to eliminate the possibility of any incidents which might offend Germany As the only newspaper ent invited to attend the maneuvers since they began July 3 the reporter understood the seriousness of military preparation yesterday when a pursuit plane practicing aerial machine gun strafing almost decapitated her The plane came out of a low loop skimmed close to the ground and then crashed at lull speed A soldier manning a machine gun was bowled over and received a broken arm and broken ribs The pilot was sent to the hospital with a critical back The earnestness of the sham tle one of many going on quietly throughout the country convinced the Czechoslovakia has one of the most efficient little armies in the world The battle lasted three hours with the attacking forces driving down from a ridge under heavy artillery fire The attackers won Do not think that the winning force the the commanding officer said As ers we realize that to attack is the best defense We are prepared to defend by at- tacking and if ever there is a bomb dropped on Prague it will be good-bye to a lot of cities in the attacking country As a result of several weeks coupled with the maneuvers It is possible to believe that slovakia has under arms the greatest number since the founding of the republic All reservists who can be called to a month's summer training already have seen service and there is a con- overlapping of classes SERVICES ARE HELD FOR HENRY HEUISER Funeral services for Henry Heuiser were held Sunday afternoon at o'clock from the Marks Funeral Home on North Kansas Street Rev L Altig officiated with burial being at Valley View Cemetery Pallbearers were Walter Kolm John Schaefer Charles Reuiler ter Herder Sr Alvin Bohm and liam Helm Mrs Ben F Wood and Mrs F L Allen sang two songs companied Carl L Attig Those attending from out of town included Charles Dietz Mrs Vera Spencer Mrs Edward Schaus and Miss Waneta Spencer of Evansville Ind Mrs Charlotte Davis Mrs Charles Maurer Mrs Henry ber Mr and Mrs William Dietz Mr and Mrs Phillip Schreiber Mr and Mrs Arthur Schreiber Mrs Ferd Carl Mann and Fritz Dietz ol Mt Vernon Ind Mrs Walter Gore of Belleville Mrs Mary Hellwig and Mr and Mrs Krehmeyer of St Louis Others attended from Marine St Jacob and other cities CITY COUNCIL WILL ADOPT RESOLUTIONS Adoption of resolutions pertaining to the construction ot Route 66 through Edwardsville is scheduled Tuesday night at the regular August meeting of the city council One lution will pertain to the wages to be paid workmen on the job The customary prevailing wages for work that nature will be applicable The scale of wages must be filed with federal authorities Other resolutions may be necessary to complete federal records It ii ex- will be taken about August 33 Other regular business will be transacted during the evening SEC Orders Investigation Aug Securities and Exchange Commission today dered a public investigation of charges that Allegheny Corporation submitted false and misleading statements in an- reports covering approximately two hundred million dollars of ties Department Remedies Chicago Aug General Homer Cummings said today the De- of Justice in its current in- of alleged monopolies wants remedies and will go to Con- gress if necessary to get them Declare Dividend New York Aug of Gen eral Motors Corporation today ed a dividend of a share on the common stock Two dividends of a share each were declared earlier this year RURAL rat WEEK Patrons of Edwardsville Office Requested to Co-operate in Drive Patrons on all rural routes out ol the Edwardsville post office have re- circulars from Postmaster bur C Gerke and the rural carriers advising that this is Clean Up Rural Box Week An order from the postal ment at Washington calls attention to the observance as Unserviceable and unsightly rural mail boxes both retard the delivery ol mail and detract from the natural scenic beauty of the highway to be deplored non- regulation old type es as well as makeshift receptacles which expose mail to the elements It is the desire of the Department not only to correct the ed unsatisfactory situation but to en- courage all rural mail patrons ally to possess pride in their boxer both in the manner of erection neat stenciling and tidy appearance To help accomplish these desirable objectives the Department is ing the week of August 1 as Clean Up Rural Box Week Postmasters hereby are instructed to acquaint the rural mail patrons of their offices with this fact as well as instruct rural mail carriers operate and report results The local forwarded the above to box holders with the fol lowing Ws kindly ask for your sincere and loyal co-operation in fulfilling the desire of the as in the above order from the office ol the Second Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Rural mail boxes should be of the regulation type erected at right height for the carrier to reach into from his automobile located at proper distance from traffic and placed on right side of road as carrier travels Boxes should be placed on strong posts securely set in the ground A little paint will make the post look better It it is desired your carrier wil be pleased to give you further mation regarding the regulations as to the erection etc of rural mail boxes SIX BOYS ATTEND SCHOOL THIS YEAR The names of six Madison county boys have been certified to Spring field as members of the group who will attend sessions of the Illinois State Fair School from Auguse 13 to It was stated at the office o County Superintendent of Schools F M Scott that two additional boys may be included if applicants will en roll this week and additional names will be taken to fill places in even of vacancies in other counties The boys from this county will be taken to Springfield next Saturday morning by Mr Scott and Rural Vis L P Wetzel saving expense They be called for at the end of the here who are Joseph Long Edwardsville Langenwalter Troy Ear Bress Troy Cleo Ed Hamilton VanHorne River and EDW ILLINOIS MONDAY Intervened in Kentucky to Obtain Renomination of Barkley Unusual Contest in Kansas SIX PRIMARIES TAKE PLACE THIS WEEK Others in Virginia Missouri West Virginia Tennessee New Dealers Face the Voting Public Washington Aug testa of both Republican and New era tic leadership will be made this week among ot ilx primary elections President Roosevelt Intervened forcefully in Kentucky to obtain re- nomination of Sen Alberi W Barkley his Senate leader ley is opposed in the Aug 6 primary to Gov A B Happy Chandler a New Dealer in his own Tight until he challenged the senator's position In Kansas tomorrow the nation will watch the progress of ald who if seeking Re- publican senatorial nomination against three candidates and over protest of Chairman John D M Hamilton of the national committee William Allen White Kansas editor and other party leaders Three additional primaries are scheduled for tomorrow In Virginia Missouri and West Virginia The sixth primary will take place this week in Tennessee where the conduct of Democratic campaigns for ial nomination has brought warnings from the Senate Campaign tures Committee Virginia's 8th congressional district is smoking with bitter charges be- tween William E Dodd Jr who Is establishing himself as a New Deal candidate for the seat occupied by Rep Howard W Smith Smith's ord as a member of the House Rules Committee has classed him among Democratic legislators cool or un- friendly to many Roosevelt policies and he has been blacklisted by bor's league political instrument of John L Lewis tee for Industrial Organization Smith made week-end charges that Secretary of Interior Harold L Ickes was in on the Democratic party in Virginia's eighth district observers watch the contest be- tween Smith and Dodd as a possible indication of the effectiveness of party purge tactics The CIO political arm also has blacklisted Rep Schuyler Otis D Va Hamilton jumped Into Kansas campaign last month with a ment repudiating Rev campaign which Is prairie air with anti-Jewish anti-Catholic and issues Winrod is a ful radio campaigner who evidently has alarmed national and state lead- ers They fear that his nomination would give a general election way Sen George McGill cratic incumbent Is up fpr re- nomination and reelection Tomorrow's Missouri primary ably will make for the of Democratic senators who a year thought to have been in political jeopardy because ol their opposition to Mr Roosevelt's judiciary reorganization Sen Bennett C Clark Democrat who was as willing to run without White House support as with It is expected to be renominated easily Of the anti- court senators up so far none has been defeated for renomination ready in are Sen Frederick Van D Ind and Sen Guy D la TWO COURTS HEBE ABE RECESSED FOB AUGUST The customary August recess a the probate court was begun Monday morning under an order of Probate Judge C W Burton and the court Is also taking the annual recess The plan has been in vogue for a number of years the courts ing at a season when most of the litigants and attorneys are on tion Only in of importance will it be possible to obtain a court order The probate court adjourned after a busy July Orders entered In the past few days for hearings during the of September tf the customary plan Is followed the grand jury for the May term of the court will be recalled early in September to dispose of some of the summer violations getting lii shape the work for October term to Bring to WOMAN SEVEN MEN HELD ON OK ran 34 Pages of Confessions Con- Worth and Complete ori Gang Operation r FIVE ROBBERIES ARE SOLVED BY OFFICERS Howland Spencer left above importer heir ot a wealthy family and connected by marriage to the and British nobility said that he virtually gave his estate or the Hudson to followers of Father Divine so they might establish a farm colony directly across the river from President Roosevelt's estate of Krum Elbow Divine adherents immediately began renovation of the hothouse right which dominates the three-mile waterfront of the Spencer estate on which Spencer retained a cottage and 15 acres Father Divine's economic Ideas are more economically sound than said Spencer as he gave his blessing to the agricultural experiment of the Negro cult leader Believe Fate of 15 Aboard Will Never be Determined Search Continues Manila P I Aug ly was abandoned tonight that the fate of the Hawaii Clipper and its 15 occupants ever would be determined V Army and naval authorities although they had not given up the search believed that if the Clipper had not crashed into the sea it would have been found today during the in- tensive search by 14 vessels and seven airplanes From the spot given In the last dio message that came from the giant flying boat at p m Friday nila timn a m Friday the sea craft and planes conducted a systematic search They followed the general course that Capt Leo and his have been expected to travel toward the pine coast for the oil slick which the U S Army transport Meigs found Saturday there was no indication ot What might have happened to the Clipper Preliminary tests made by the Meigs showed that the oil con- gasoline making it unlikely that the oil had come from a er It was Improbable that the Clipper was afloat and escaped observation of sailors and pilots In hunt The vessels and planes were routed toward the mainland course was mapped so carefully that it would riave been almost impossible tr have missed the Clipper had It been on IU regular course Pan American officials were tant to admit that the flying boat apparently had crashed at sea They still held hope that the Clipper was said perhaps its radio would not work and it had been un- able to make known Its position There seemed little to substantiate that theory Since search began day morning the area around the Philippines particularly the vicinity of the last reported position of the Clipper has been hunted thoroughly At the time of its last radio report the craft was 585 miles out from nila and was In no particular trouble The plane had encountered a rain storm but no mention was made of having difficulty If the Clipper did crash into sea there Is little chance that the wreckage will be found The sea Is almost three and one half miles deep where the Meigs found the oil slick By Plane V Winthrop Me Aug ter he pushed his wife Into the water to safety Walter McCarthy of Chelsea Me was decapitated by an airplane as he sat on a pier at Lake The couple and eral other persons were on the wharf when the apparently In trouble swooped down but McCarthy took Urns to shove wife Into the lake Before he could follow a the plane struck him In the back oi the neck MARGARET MITCHELL VEXED Atlanta Ga Aug Mitchell who wrote Gone With the today was extremely vexed because Kornia Shearer had rejected the movie role of Scarlett O'Hara tempestuous heroine of the civil war novel Have we got to go through with that again T said chell She explained that up Miss Shearer was selected for the part innumerable young women with drawls and tempers had pestered her by telephone telegraph and letter to use her Influence In ting them consideration as lett I wouldn't care who they put In the role of Miss chell said as long they would cast someone and with it JAPS REPULSED HEAVY L Communique From Clash Frontier on Moscow Aug official com- asserted today that ese troops had been repulsed with heavy losses In an attack on Russian troops on the frontier Japanese allegations that Russian artillery In a separate clash fired on two Korean towns was dismissed as propaganda The official communique Issued through the Tass agency On July 31 Japanese militarists violated the Soviet frontier on the hills west of Lake Opening unexpected artillery fire the Japanese troops at night suddenly attacked the Soviet frontier guard troops stationed oh the border The Japanese occupied Soviet to a depth of four kilometers 214 Fighting which lasted several broke out on the hills west of Lake Khassan The Japanese militarists met a strong rebuff and the Japanese suffered great in men and equipment Losses of Soviet troops are being investigated It was said in official quarters that details of fighting on the frontier had not been received but contrary to Japanese it was asserted that Russian troops remained in possession of the hills west of the whose recent occupation by Russian brought a Japanese protest The Incident was treated with re- serve In official quarters Perhaps not than two down in no side the far eastern that anything at all had happened People generally devoted selves to working awl discussing the heat degrees with humidity high f I ArtM Newcastle N H Aug 78 artist died summer horns today 10 GET Claim for State Aid Completed Ten Districts are Paid Special Sums dalm for att In the tion of elementary schools in this county for was completed Monday at the office of County of Schools F M Scott The claim will be taken to Springfield Tuesday by Rural School Supervisor L P Wetzel for filing with State of Public Instruction Wieland Payments on this claim will not begin until February after several officials Payments on the previous year will continue until the new one is effective There are 127 elementary districts In the county which will share in the fund aggregating Monthly payment will be made The regular fund is but there are ten districts in the county which will re- special aid aggregating 05 The the year ending in June is based upon an average dally attendance of The payments are figured at per pupil There are 10 districts in the county with a heavy enrollment of pupils and receipts are Insufficient to meet the operating expenses These are the schools receiving special aid TJie districts have a low tax valuation To receive special aid the districts must make a tax levy of on the valuation It the are insufficient the state pays the balance Districts which will receive special aid arid the amount of each is Troy Glen Carbon East Alton Godfrey Madison 35 Maryville Williamson Bethalto ANOTHER RAIN MORE BENEFIT FOR CROPS A late Sunday afternoon rain storm which passed over this county followed by another about dark will be a further benefit to various crops The rain of early spring has been fol precipitation at intervals for one of best growing seasons In yean The Sunday rain began a light shower the precipitation increasing into a downpour for a few minutes The rain was followed with a de- crease in temperature to 65 early Monday morning Faculty Pest C E Stokes formerly of ville now advertising production man St Louis been the faculty of the City College ot law and Finance ing the personnel toUl to He will lecture w merchandising subjects in the night college's School of Using Merchandising Watch Paris Aug Edouard and Foreign Minister Bonnett watched European closely today while leaden in other countries concentrated w their vacations Mrs Meryl Walker Divorcee Rode With Men Admits She Assisted in Looking Over One Job woman and seven men wert held at the county jail here Monday as members of the gang of strip dits who forced victims to disrobe after stealing their valuables State's Attorney Austin Lewis ordered six Saturday night at o'clock in Madison county cases after ing two days questioning the and obtaining sufficient to hold them on one or more charges The warrants wen issued by tice of the Peace Joseph A Walter There are five charges of robbery while armed and one charging ceny of an automobile Confessions made by the defendants contain M typewritten pages or about words it was estimated by Miss Irene state's attorney secretary Questioning began Friday morning at 11 o'clock continuing until midnight and throughout Saturday Besides the charges here the defendants have admitted pation In about IS Macoupin and Montgomery county robberies In the robbery armed charges the defendants may be punished by terms of one year to life and if all ot the cases are they may be held for a long stretch of years Virgil Scott 14 Benld apparent leader of the gang held in this county confessed to participation in IS ot the Attorney said liam Cray craft 90 Venice and Ralph Sanders 39 are each Implicated in IX robberies in the three counties Edgar Edwards 25 Madison is connected with six His brother Russell wards 23 a first timer William man 37 Venice and Livio Cometto 39 Benld arex connected with three and Mrs Meryl Walker 27 la implicated in two cases Mrs Walker is a friend of Scott Craycraft known under the name of Ironhead Craycraft is a brother of Fred Craycraft deputy sheriff The brothers have not been on friendly terms for several years It is said attitude toward his brother was demonstrated Saturday afternoon while he was being asked some additional questions in making his confession He was asked what he would have had he met officer during one of the holdups Craycraft hesitated for a few ments asking the questioner what he would do and then remarked I guess I would have killed him Robberies in which the eight are held victims nature of the holdup and defendants in each case Charles Sandy accompanied by an unidentified girl Beardstown held up July 4 east of Edwardsville on route 66 forced to drive to a point west of Round House on route 66 Robbed ot In cash and a automobile taken Victims forced to disrobe Those held are Craycraft Edgar wards Russell Scott and Mrs Walker R F Recker Chicago accompanied by a Granite City girl held up on July Continued on Page Two MRS FRED DIES AT Mrs Christina Faust wife of Fred Faust of JOS Hillsboro Ave died Sunday morning at o'clock at St Francis Hospital in She had been in poor health for some time and had been at the hospital for the put three She was born at New Douglas on Jan 21 1879 and was 59 years months and 10 days of age Her parents were Mr and Mrs Smith In IBM she married the George who died In Four yean later on April XT she married Fred Faust She to vived by her three brothers three sons daughter and four grandchildren The are P G Smith of Clayton A J and A E Smith both of New The surviving children art ence and Carl Rosenthal Irene and Fred Faust Jr The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at tram the home with services to folloy John's M E Church Rev i W Cummins will officiate Burial wtt be New Cemetery IN FW SPA PERI
