Edwardsville Intelligencer, The (Newspaper) - August 3, 1938, Edwardsville, Illinois Al of County State Nation and Accurately 75th 181 WEDNESDAY AUGUST EIGHT PAGES Sen J Hamilton Lewis Mas Announced He Will Resign Next Year With Years Remaining Three CONSERVATIVE NORTH VIRGINIA DEMS BREAK WITH NEW DEAL Kansans Reject Jayhawker Clark of ouri Third Successive Senate Foe of Judiciary SUGGEST HORNER TAKE THIRD TERM Suggested Resignation Comes as Bolt From Blue Says F Lynden Smith Few Suggest Igoe Springfield HI Aug Chicago State's Attorney T J ney stormy petrel of Illinois Committee Charges Conditions imperil Right to Free Unpolluted Ballot Washington Aug Senate committee racy was seen by j campaign expenditures vers today as most likely party broadened its investigation of the tion to succeed U S Sen J Hamilton Kentucky primary today and Lewis who announced in Washington its staff of investigators yesterday he would resign next year there the committee charged were such as to the right of the people to a free and unpolluted ballot Without Lewis announcement that he would i resign despite there would still be three years remaining in his term surprised bolh Democrats and licans with the former reacting in favor of Courtney as the pink one's successor and I mentioning names the charged that the campaign Senate Majority Leader Barkley who is backed by of adding another lor the state's Democratic It's like a bolt out of the blue said F Lynden Smith Pontiac tor of the State Department ol Public Works and Buildings and Gov Henry Homer's downstate campaign I had no idea he intended to resign Smith and off the record comments of other made short work of suggestions that the Governor self might want to fill the post and brought from Smith the revealing that his followers wanted him to seek a third term in 1940 I do not know that the governor would be said Smith Anyhow we want Henry Homer for governor in 1940 I presume that the Democratic candidate in the interests of party harmony will come from Chicago Smith's reaction that a Democratic for its consideration and action nominee to succeed Lewis should be from Chicago was because of er's insistence in the April primary that the party's candidate for a U S Senatorship next November should be from downstate because Lewis is Jrom Chicago Practically all reaction to Lewis Continued on page two ADAM SR DIES NEAR HERE Adam Liebig Sr of Dorsey died at o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the home of his daughter Mrs ward in Ft Russell township Death was due to old age and com- Born in Darmstadt many in 1852 Mr Liebig came to this country when 20 years of age and settled in He lived there for many years and then moved to Dorsey where he spent the re- mainder of his life with the tion of the 10 months proceeding his death when he was at the home of his daughter Mr Liebig was a life time member of the Lutheran Church He had attained the age of 86 years 1 month and 3 days His wife preceeded him in death on Sept 22 1921 He is survived by two sons and two daughters The children are Mrs Thomas Hutchens of Woodburn Mrs Edward Kuethe of near Henry Liebig of Glen bon and Adam Liebig Jr of home A sister Mrs Elizabeth Walters ot Rocheport Mo six grandchildren and a large number of nephews and nieces also survive The funeral will be at the home of his daughter Kuethe on day afternoon at 1 o'clock thence to the Lutheran Church at Dorsey at o'clock Burial will follow at Washington Aug North Virginia broke with the New Deal today as laggard precincts piled up a primary election for Rep Howard W Smith who voted against spending the ment reorganization and other Roosevelt measures Smith's over William E Dodd Jr avowed New Dealer headlined yesterday's primaries In four states voted Kansas Republicans rejected Jhe program of a Nazi in the next most significant re- urns Missouri Democrats Sen Bennett C Clark who sought en alter helping to scuttle the loosevelt judiciary and government reorganization bills Clark is the bird successive Democratic Senate oe of the judiciary to be re- nominated this year Returns from a Missouri judicial contest indicated that Gov Lloyd C Stark had effectively challenged Boss Thomas J authority in state affairs Smith's and Clark's ong foreseen triumph may be straws n the winds of 1940 when either state or both may send to the Democratic National Convention delegations in- against 100 per cent New Deal candidates Both Smith and Clark opposed Mr Roosevelt on issues deemed by the New Deal to be vital Smith member of the powerful House Rules Committee voted often o block New Deal measures He was among 40 representatives blacklisted by labor's league the political arm of John L Lewis Com- for Industrial Organization Lewis is a voter in Smith's district which embraces manor houses ol George Washington James Monroe Thomas Jefferson Robert E Lee and other revolutionary and civil war ures Sen George New Dealer won easily in Kansas principal interest centered there on the losing race of the Rev Gerald B Winrod radio revivalist tor publican Senatorial nomination man John D M Hamilton of the Re publican National Committee ated campaign last month in protest against intolerance in and religious matters Editor William Alien While of Emporia bluntly warned his party that if the revivalist were nominated Republicans woult have to defend the Nazi position Returns swamped Winrod who was in third position from the start with former Gov Clyde M Reed leading the pack for Republican nomination to the Senate Rep William P Lam bertson candidate for in district was blacklisted by the Committee for Industrial re Organization He was apparently re nominated after a close race with James Kelsey The New Deal issue in 8th district was raised by the candi dates and kept aloft by words or ac tions of Postmaster General James A Farley and Secretary of Interior Har old L Ickes Farley gave Dodd a place of honor at recent ceremonies in Va and Ickes charged that Smith was trying to ride into of flee on the coat tails of PWA Northern Virginia voters followed the nags of their two senators Carte Glass and Harry E Byrd both o whom have been sharply critical o the Roosevelt administration neither intervened directly in this pri mary contest senatorial nomination and his ent Gov A B Chandler were ly guilty of improper tactics Chairman Morris Sheppard D Tex revealed that H Ralph Burton com- investigator had employed three or four assistants to extend the investigation Sheppard said that the committee would be on hand for the primary balloting Saturday to watch lor dence of irregularities Six other investigators will watch the Tennessee primary Thursday A committee member described that campaign as gutter politics pointing toward an election contest before the Senate committee said the Kentucky investigation would be pushed in order that the full facts may be de- and presented to the Senate the church body will be at the nearby The until Thursday after- noon will be taken to home of Mrs Kuethe MARINE IS TO ST LOUIS Sergeant Woodrow W Brown of the United States Marine Corps Re- Service establish a Marine Corps Recruiting tion in Room 109 of the Federal 12th Market in St Louis Mo for a two beginning day August 8th end ending Friday August 19th 1938 The enlisting young single men from 18 to 30 years old In good physical condition from 5 ft 4 in to 6 ft 2 in tall and with no dependents or criminal record All men will be sent to the riM Base in San Diego fornia lor training This indicated some observers be- lieve that the committee considered the Kentucky campaign was such that the right of the victor to a seat in the senate would be challenged in body After hearing Burton's evidence gathered over one-third of the state the committee said it was certain that organized efforts have been and are being made to control the vole of those on relief work and that butions have been sought and ed from federal employes in behalf of one of the senatorial Chandler forces charged that ley's backers had sought the help office holders and asserted thai the WPA was working openly foi the senator WPA Administrator Harry L kins said the committee statement did not refer to WPA officials He said he was informed that it was not directed at anyone connected with the WPA but at persons entirely outside thi WPA who sought to get relief work ers to vote for one candidate or tht other FARMERS MADE TOUR OF COUNTY FARMS Sixty-three farmers in twenty mobiles made a trip Wednesday con by Alfred Tate assistant soi employed jointly by soil conservation service and the ex tension service of the United department of over a hal dozen farms in the Edwardsville dem area Most of the farmers came from SI Clair County to see how improvement could be made on their farms with thi proper methods being applied number present from Morr Some were accompanied by According to R F Whitsitt projec manager those making the trip show ed In the work being accomplished a number of them see ing how their own problems could be solved FOR MRS FRED FAUST v Funeral services for Mrs Fred Faust were held Tuesday after noon from the residence to St John M E Church at 2 o'clock Rev Cummins officiated Mrs Richard Wiedey sang two songs Walking in the Garden of and Safe m the Arms of Jesus Burial was In New Douglas Cemetery Pallbearers were John Faust Hen Thomas Emi Henry Bellinger and Jame McNeilly Many and friends tram out of town attended the serv HELMKAMP GARAGE AT MORO ROBBED Moro Aug robbery with an estimated loss of approximately J10C occurred at the Helmkamp Bros gar age in Moro between last nigh and 5 o'clock this morning Count highway workers who passed the sho this morning reported the doors opei but supposed the shop had been open ed early When the garage employees cam to work the first thing they was that the front doors wer splintered and had probably pried open In the office the casl register had been opened but the cas had from it whe the shop was closed In the part room shelves were unloaded the contents strewn about the It is supposed the robbers to find some hidden cash All of the tires on display racks several cans of oil and grease an iome batteries wert stolen The loc on the pump was broke but the amount of gas taken was un estimated The Helmkamp garage was robbed once before County au were notified of the robbery early Wednesday morning Sea Aids i Toronto Onti Aug May belle Horlick William the tit il efforts to obtain court ol Inquest Into her JAPS ME TO lashes Amount to More Than Fight Over Hill Military Defenses Depends on High Ground RAIL LINE THERE IS OF IMPORTANCE Artillery in Hilts in Shelling Distance of Part of Exploitation of Manchukuo Washington Aug and Japanese troops clashing in the ly ol on the border are lighting over something more ant than merely a hill or series of hills on the border They are battling for possession of strategic ground which assumes the proportions of a mountain in the lary and economic defenses of the two nations it was revealed today in a of new detailed topographical maps of the area just received in Washington The whole matter of the military defense of and Siberia and the economic domination of eastern Asia is bound up in possession of the strategic hills rising out of swamp land bordering on Bay topographical experts declared The hills are only about six and a half miles from the strategically im- portant railway running the newly developed port of Rashin just south of Bay to Kirin and to other important points in northern Manchukuo Modern artillery pieces located on these hills have this im- portant rail line easily within shelling distance The rail line is importance to Japan It was built as part of pan's economic plan for exploitation of Manchukuo It provides a short haul for military supplies to troops stationed in northern and tor transportation of the products of Manchukuo and the whole ern area of Asia for export to Japan Observers recently returned from that area declare Japan has spent lions of dollars during the past five years in development of the port ol Kashin into one of the finest cial shipping ports on the north coast of Asia Japanese engineers have only recently completed construction of a railway tunnel through the hills just back of the town connecting the rail line with the road running down the east coast ol Korea Feeder lines been built but from Kirin lines to serve and to tap the great Hinterland of northeast kuo The port of Rashin WM developed expert believe deliberately lo kill the importance of Vladivostok territory as a ciS- port Vladivostok Is part of the year except for lanes kept open by icebreakers Rashin is open lo shipping the year around ers familiar with the area believe this Continued on Page Two FLASHES Leased Wire on Latest World News Today v WO Workers Strike Detroit Aug strike of 80 workers in two plants of the McCord Company was called by the United Automobile Workers Union today in protest against movement o the company's machinery to London Ohio CIO Protests Alleged Aug Commit tee for Industrial Organization protested to Harold L alleged police brutality in a strike of dock work ers and seamen at Hilo Hawaii I S TVA Grants v Tenn Aug Ten Valley Authority to date has contributed to land gran colleges J C director of the relations testified today before congressional in committee Martta of Flat Detroit Aug United Automobile Workers officers accused by Homer Martin of -a plot to the union today that him had an alliance with Joy of New York To BW U Sky WPA Have Set Time Have Contract For Improvement Which Wi Oost ITY APPROPRIATES MOTOR TAX The baby Clipper shown In top photo on a flight from Miami to Seattle Is soon to make test flights between Seattle and Juneau Alaska preparatory to Inauguration of regular service to Alaska Members of the crew shown in lower photo are left to Com- Officer Earl Martin Engineer John Donnelley First Flight Officer Norman Gentry and Capt John Mattis Captain will direct the survey flights Coal Falls Upon Fred While at Work in Mine Kunz Staunton Aug Kunz 53 a loading machine operator was ed Instantly Wednesday morning caught under a fall of coal in mine No 2 of the Mt Olive and Staunton Coal Co Mr Kunz had teen working but for a short time this morning when the accident sometime before 9 o'clock Hugo Lalowsky deputy coroner of New Douglas will conduct an Inquest at noon Wednesday The body was taken to the Huntman Funeral Home to await funeral plans Mr Kunz was born in the south on Dec 25 1884 While in Kentucky he married Misn Lena Hofer They came to Staunton about 30 years ago shortly after their marriage She died In 1921 married Mill Riddle She survives as do Dye dren two from the marriage Fred Kunz Jr of East Chicago Ind and Carl of St Louis and Leonard Eugene and Annette all of Staunton A sister Mrr Ernest Hofer of ton and three brothers Charles and Walter of Staunton and Henry ot Ky also survive He was a member of St Paul's Evangelical Church and Local Union No 87 of the Progressive Miners of Work at- the mine has been limited to several days a week day morning Mr Kunz was called on for an extra day His father was killed by a train in Kentucky 40 years ago and his mother was also killed by a train In Staunton 12 years ago HARTFORD PARK TO BI ACTED UPON SATURDAY Action on a petition of 234 residents of Hartford requesting County Judge Wilbur A Trares to call a special tion on September 10 to vote on a posal to create a park district to em- the entire city has been de- if erred until Saturday At the con- of evidence heard Wednesday Judge Trares requested that attorneys submit authorities Saturday to lish whether it is mandatory for court to call the election Several months ago residents voted similar question with tory embracing a large area along the river and It was a vote of 273 to 143 the say that proposition was objectionable owing to tha tract on the river The area M now proposed will contain 1180 acres Promoters plan to ask tor federal funds and attempt to pasi a bond sue to erect a community canter Nine persons have filed petitions dates for the park They art Kenneth Frank Dotson J -a Sow Jones M V Walter Con- rad Edward Beckman and r W Jones The will of project to finally ried 001 BO FOR STRIP OF UNO City Council Transacts Monthly Business During August Session An application of the Edwardsville board of education asking city officials to give the board a strip of land or the north side of the Lincoln schoo grounds will be passed upon at the August 16 meeting of the city council The strip was once a street but has not been used for yean The schoo district will need the land in the fu ture when an addition to the building is necessary The legal and ing departments and the street and alley committee are to make gations lo determine how the transfer may be legally made A score of residents on Franklin avenue filed a petition with the coun cil alleging insanitary conditions due to an overloaded sewer The petition states the pipe handles 23 service connections 47 three-inch down spouts and three catch basins The petition was referred to the fed eral project committee which is con a program to take care of number of council received a report tha Noah Hall employed in the street de suffered a laceration of the hand while cutting brush The injury was riot serious Superintendent of John Faust reported that recent rains have caused him considerable work in keeping operation He stated that plans are complete for beginning the city's road oiling pro gram Chief of Police August Soehlke ask ed city officials to co-operate with the department in promoting a dance to raise funds for the purchase of a receiver set to be used In con with the county radio station He Mid Joseph Ladd's orchestra hat offered to donate the music George Cathcart request for a permit a erit ranee under the as The request was re to the alley coin The ordinance committee was gran ted additional time before submitting proposed new one pertain ing to traffic other granting permission for the fire department tc answer calls of departments In othe The Illinois Terminal Railroad tern re within the next 3 workmen will remove structures on property recently transferred to of the cHy Wabash Commerce Commis sion will meet here Friday to consider changes In street at Park and Monroe railroad hat abandoned service Mayor Wm C and Ctty Clerk Edward a new PWA application a Washington in with the municipal here previously TO BY AM Resolution Adopted Providing minimum Wages Paid Men as Guide to Contractors Figuring on Job Reconstruction of U S 66 through Edwardsville will be under way by August 23 if a request of WPA at Washington it met and Bfr note division of highways does its part Tht state division may low a federal grant of if it fails to have a contract awarded within three v City officials completed their part of the preliminaries Tuesday night Tht council adopted a resolution at he August meeting appropriating of state motor fuel refunds ta a part of the expense wys about The work com plete will cost something like more than over the original estimate The improvement ning at the bottom of West street passes over portions of St TOM la Vandalia St Andrew's AIM and Hillsboro road City neer W H Morgan estimates a length of 8120 feet or 1 miles Tho present route is followed the distance lines of West street be set back a distance of six feet oil each side Retaining walls will ba constructed where needed St Louia street must be widened three feet os each side and St Andrew's and dalia will be widened 18 inches each aide The new street will have a minimum width of 36 feet while be- tween Buchanan and Main streets the width is 41 feet The present width is more than minimum requirements The council adopted a resolution setting forth the minimum wage scale the amounts to be considered by tractors in figuring their bids Fob lowing are various trades and hourly bricklayers carpenters cement finishers common laborer sewer teamsters out teams truck drivers caulkers mason tender laborer pipe layers plumbers Operators of various equipment win be paid as blade grader bull dour crane conn finishing machine mixer small mixer oilers and firemen roller 30 shovel 30 tractor and M tractor CALL MORE BIDS TOR MEW HIGHWAY County Superintendent of Highways Harry Kluge received notice Tuesday that the Illinois Division of will receive bids Aug 12 for new tions of The first for a section between Mitchell and ford will be received on Friday of week Plans are now completed for bridges over the Wabash tracks near Mitchell over Cahokia Creek sion Channel north of Mitchell and Cahokia Canal in the southern part of the county Members of the right of way com- of the of were here Wednesday They havo temporarily abandoned the right of way for the road between East Altos and Alton The committee It con- lading landowners way for the next few days Iterator iUs fc court house committee of board of supervisors meet oh August 9 to receive for pairs on the two elevators at tht court house An insurance firm lie supervisors on July 25 thai improvements will be needed In tha future Various will ba considered Bids will be taken toe entirely new equipment recondition big present cages using parts that art still serviceable and providing new cablet which art aary John of the T E Boulot Track Lines of St Louis war final IS and Tuesday when tempted to move a track that baan puked on of Honda Monday at p m- A driver pany bad parked the track thorn Monday unhooked toft trailer Both state prohibit such SPAPERI
