Edwardsville Intelligencer, The (Newspaper) - September 24, 1938, Edwardsville, Illinois 225 ILLINOIS PAGES Czechs Are Given Until October 1 to Make Decision 26 BUY PLEAS ARE NEW Two in Strip Bandit Charges and an Associate of Gang are Given Terms in State Penitentiary TIME MONEY SAVED BY ACTS OF PRISONERS Mother of Small Baby is Given Special Consideration Three Make Applications for oles FLASHES Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World Today Jurors Sworn In Pekin 111 Sept four jurors in the trial of James Warren Crabb II 22 small town bankers son accused of perjuring himself in con- with the fatal shooting of his bride were sworn in today Hopkins Takes Charge Washington Sept Ad- ministrator Hopkins arrived here by airplane today to take personal charge of flood and hurricane relief ties Twenty-six pleas including three from men involved in the strip dit robberies obtained Friday by State's Attorney Austin Lewis before Circuit Judge D H Mudge has a new quarter century ord according to records of Circuit Clerk Simon Kellermann Jr and may be an all-time record of the court Court attaches pointed out that a great deal of time and expense have been saved by ing of the charges without jury trials weeks or longer would probably have been required to present the evidence The day's work was completed late Friday afternoon when nine al defendants expressed a desire to change previous pleas of not guilty Earlier in the day 17 guilty pleas were received by Judge Mudge William Craycraft 27 Venice who named in 12 of the strip dit robbery indictments Ralph ders 39 Venice implicated in ten charges and Livio Cometto 30 Benld held in only one case were those who entered pleas Authorities say that Craycraft had a leading part in ing plans to hold up and force to disrobe Craycraft entered a guilty plea to robbery armed charges as a pant in the of Charles Sandy Beardstown and a woman companion on route 66 northeast of Edwardsville on July 4 The property taken in- cluded an automobile valued at worth and in cash 1 The victims were forced from the chine west of Edwardsville Ralph Sanders 39 Venice in whose home some of the stolen articles were recovered entered a plea of guilty of robbery while armed in connection With -a holdup at the Fanny ner Tavern on route 140 near Be- on July 17 in which were The terms of Craycraft and are one year to life They be eligible to a parole in eight years and three months Livio Cometto 30 Benld rode in a machine stolen by the bandits to be- come involved in charges of larceny of a stolen motor vehicle He -ed Madison County on July 23 with others of the gang after a machine stolen from John Miller of near On his plea of guilty he must serve a term of one to ten years Sybill Smith 21 Alton Negress was given a term of one to 14 years on charges of manslaughter for the death of her husband Ernest Smith on 22 He was stabbed to death Mrs Jeanette Spiroff Granite City mother of a old baby was given special consideration when she entered a plea of guilty to charges of petit larceny in the theft of dise from Carp Dry Goods Co It was Her offense and a parole will be asked Three of her associates were given terms of 90 days in the county Jail in connection with the same of- fense William Clark 50 was given a term of one to 20 years for indecent ties with a boy Jacic Harris 19 and Theodore Ar- nold 21 entered guilty pleas to charges of burglary and larceny They will ask a parole on September 30 Mrs Elizabeth tion officer investigates the charges Frank Williams 19 entered a ty plea to charges of larceny of a motor vehicle He will file an plication lor a bench parole to be heard on September 30 Miss Welsch Finishes First Week as Nurse for Smaller School Districts Six children in two Madison ty rural schools are suffering with a contagious skin disease it was re- by Miss Clara sch county school nurse after she completed her first week of making visits Since Tuesday she has called at seven schools Two of the cases were found in one school and four in the other Names of the children were not made public and Miss Welsch did not report the names of the schools Miss Welsch urged that the dren see their family physician It is said the disease is not serious and may readily be cured through proper ment Miss Welsch reported that she found one school with 18 children in which none have been vaccinated or taken toxoid treatment to pre- vent diphtheria In these cases Miss Welsch has sent slips to parents of the children to learn their attitude about treatment to prevent possible contagious disease There is no com- pulsion about taking precautionary steps Miss Welsch said that one of two courses will be followed after ex- pressions are obtained from parents The children may either be ed or vaccinated at the family office or arrangements may be made for a number to be handled at the school or a district meeting Neglect of teeth was noticeable in a number of instances and efforts will be made to have two children with irregular teeth to take ment to straighten them NEXT YEAR 10 BE IN El This City Selected by Majority Vote of Delegates Attending Present Conference Sessions at APPROXIMATELY TO ATTEND SESSIONS HERE Factor Affecting Vote of gates Was on Desirability of Inviting Meeting to City The 1939 conference of the odist Episcopal Church for Southern Illinois will be held in Edwardsville probably in September This information was contained in a telegram received by the Intelligencer Saturday from Rev J W Cummins pastor of St John's Methodist copal Church who is attending this year's conference now in session at Rev Cummins extended the tation for the next meeting at with the backing of the entire local congregations which had previously expressed themselves as being in favor move The conference is expected to bring approximately Southern Illinois Methodist ministers and laymen to Edwardsville for several days In event of union with the Southern Methodists a move now being con- the attendance would be larger Rev Cummins wired that one o the factors which helped swing the majority vote in favor of Intelligencer on September 1 calling attention to the desirability of ing the conference here The was read before the Lawrence ville conference WOODLAWN DAY TO BE OBSERVED HERE SUNDAY Many former residents of this will return to Edwardsville Sunday afternoon when the third an- Woodlawn Day will be observed at Woodlawn Cemetery The public has been invited to participate in an Hour of Remembrance at when the following will comprise a service of prayer and Fanfare of Norris Charles Harby Edward Jahns Ruth Metzger Robert Runge Ralph lato Robert Blumberg Wesley Seals George Talick H J Bredehoeft Drink to Me Choir Beautiful O Morn of Shannon J W Hildenstein Lesley M Marks mont Edwards B T Chapman Dr H C Tietze J G Delicate E J Harris Moment of Reverence and C L Attig Choir Man Divorce Lee Bond East Alton filed suit for divorce in the circuit court here day against Mrs Irene Bond He Charges cruelty and says that on one she attempted to take his life Various acts alleged in the com- plaint occurred before Mrs Bond was placed in the Alton State Hospital were married on September 21 1914 and separated on June 20 1932 Londoners Shocked But Calm in Crisis Fl Repercussions among the people over the crushing of Czechoslovakia are demonstrated by the huge crowds that gathered in the streets above shows anxious Britons massed in London's Whitehall to find out at first-hand the latest development in the dangerous situation on the continent which appears far from Disaster Now Fully Realized Damage Refugees Copyright 1938 Oy United Press New England's disaster from vote m iu CVT ville was an editorial published in tidal waves and floods came into TriO V P PARADE THEME TO BE SONGS WE SING St Louis Sept celebration in honor of the annual visit of the mystical Veiled Prophet to St Louis on the night of Oct 11 will have as ils theme the Songs We Sing The theme will be illustrated by a brilliant street parade of 20 floats The Veiled Prophet celebration cor- responds to New Orleans Mardi Gras although on not such a scale and opens the winter social son in St Louis The three-hour parade will follow a route through the central and downtown streets of the city and is expected to be witnessed by more than persons The songs from which the floats will take their themes range from anthems to jazz tunes from My Old Kentucky Home to er's Rag Time Band and the Man on the Flying Trapeze The 1938 celebration will mark the fifth time in the history of the Veiled Prophet that a musical theme has been chosen In 1889 the parade theme was Comic Opera In 1897 it was Old Songs In 1913 it was Songs Poems and and Food Music and was the theme of 1914 Hurt In Auto Crash Deputy Sheriff William O'Connell suffered a fracture of the left collar bone Friday night in a crash between the automobiles of Guy and James Owens both of this city The accident occurred at intersection of routes 40 and 159 south of ville Misses Francis and Marciel Thomas of this city were riding in the Owens car The five were brought here to medical attention and after Mr O'Connell received hospital attention he was taken home Others were not seriously hurt Dies At County Home Roy Atkins 52 a life long resident of Alton until the past few years died at the Madison County Home at noon Saturday Death was due to tis He was born on Aug 31 1886 and entered the home on Aug 21 1935 Both his mother and father went down with the Titanic when it sank in 1912 The body has been taken to the Streeper Funeral Home in Alton awaiting funeral arrangements REBELS WOULD FREE ROAD Hendaye French-Spanish Frontier Sept forces struck out from Teruel in three directions today in a designed to free the road A strong air squadron preceded the Infantry and bombarded the Loyalist position for two hours The claimed to have inflicted more full today for the time The dead numbered almost 600 the damages the homeless refugees These tolls were growing rapidly as the first semblance of order was reestablished Already the known dead numbered 583 and the search of a of ruined shoreline still was far from complete A thousand coast guardsmen the coast where historic ages from Newport R I to Cape Cod were wrecked and famous resorts and landmarks obliterated In the interior rescue and relief workers had begun the tation of Rhode Island Connecticut Massachusetts New Hampshire and Vermont Their first task was the caring for refugees who crowded ar- schools and public buildings National Guardsmen ruled in most cities There were acute shortages of food clothing and serums dangers of disease and of fires breaking out as soon as the great heaps of debris had dried There had been looting near Cape Cod National Guardsmen fired on one gang of looters last night Watch Hill R I still was isolated and a message from the coast guard cutter Chelan said 200 or more were dead there Should that report be verified the death toll would proach 800 Red Cross headquarters in ton announced that their tives H B Atkinson of the ly R I had reported that the 200 death toll report was erroneous At- kinson said that the known death toll in the westerly area which includes Watch Hill was 55 and that 61 others were missing than casualties Reports from Valencia said that Alcoy had been bombed for the third time in two days At least 32 persons were killed and more than 100 wound ed in the three raids ROUMANIA COMPLETES MOBILIZATION PLANS Bucharest Roumania Sept government completed all ments for the immediate mobilization of the Roumanian armed forces today Posters announcing mobilization were distributed to local authorities throughout the kingdom to be put up on a moment's notice A decree permitting the tion of women was published a week ago and It was understood that men were receiving concerning their jobs TWO OIL GAS FIRMS ARE GIVEN CHARTERS Secretary of State Edward J Hughes announced Friday the ance of charters to the AAA Oil Gas Company andl the EBB Oil Gas Company which will haye corporate offices in the Bank of Edwardsville Building The purpose ol the two corporations is to prospect bore dril for and produce oil and natural gas Guy Hardin St Louis one of those interested in the two corporations said the companies have a number of gas producing wells In the vicinity ol He stated there are no prospects at present that the com panies will do any drilling in this county Mine Board Meeting 111 Sept and places for October meetings of the Board were an- today by Director James Me Sherry of the State Department Mines and Minerals the was court house Oct 11 GERMANY'S TERMS Berlin Sept new terms to Czechoslovakia are understood to include the 1 Czechoslovakia must agree by Oct 1 to the immediate of Czech troops and police from the Sudeten areas to be turned over to Germany 2 Immediate peaceful tion by German police and troops will follow 3 All areas containing more than 70 per cent of Germans would be occupied immediately after Czech 4 In other districts containing a smaller percentage of Germans plebiscites would be held An agreement would be made for subsequent exchanges of mans and Czechs to make a population certain 5 The figures on what com- have a clear German majority will rest on the figures of the communal election last May Government sources pointed out that Hitler's latest terms are a modification of his original de- mands HE UNO OWNERS BE DIVIDED U.S NATIONALS Minister Exerting All Efforts to Remove Citizens From Czechoslovakia Washington Sept Minister Wilbur J Carr today ed the state department he is ing all possible efforts to remove United States nationals from slovakia Carr who the state department yesterday revealed is contacting the in the Czech lic to persuade them to leave ed the department he is maintaining his close check with nationals in the country V state department refused to amplify the brief announcement of Carr's activities At his morning press conference Secretary of State Hull indicated that he has no late reports from dors at Berlin Paris or London on the international situation The department announced last night that Carr was urging American nationals to leave Czechoslovakia and advising them of the great risk which would be run by remaining and other diplomatic in- contain comprehensive plans for meeting emergencies and officials have considerable authority to choose their course In case call at consulates for advice sources said they are sometimes told that caution U a good policy and that they should not delay departure until it If impossible to leave Freak James Fagg proprietor of a Main street repair shop was exhibiting a freak radish Saturday which he dug in the It has the eral form of an armless and headless person The radish Is about 18 in- ches In length and has well marked for the body and legs Valuable Tracts Others Almost Worthless are Located Within Area Owners of land in the area about Horseshoe Lake to be beautified il voters v authorize establishment of Madison County Forest Preserve Dis- will be of divided opinions on transfer of property it is be- by Mayor M E Kirkpatrick Granite City who has given able study to the project He said there are places in the area where the land is almost worthless due to a low swampy condition unfit for and with insufficient water for fish There are also tracts of very valuable land If the district is established the county will have a right to condemn and interests of owners will be by the courts The East Side Levee and Sanitary District has con- changes in that section of the county and if a large storage basin is established it would probably be more desirable to landowners to see the preserve district established Some of the water is under lease and from three to five hundred pounds of fish are frequently caught from the lake in one night They are sold for commercial If a preserve district is established there are sections of the lake where fish hatcheries could be established and others suitable for propagation of quail and pheasants The section in the vicinity of Elm Slough would be best adapted for raising fish Mayor Kirkpatrick believes that of a preserve district wil make the entire southwestern part of the county much more sanitary Re- forestation with the planting of thousands of trees is possible With provisions for boating baseball golf and numerous other concessions Mayor Kirkpatrick believes the dis- would become self-supporting after a few years Softly East St Louis 111 Sept Loretta Greenhill East St Louis housewife took care to close doors softly today Mrs hill slammed the kitchen door at her home at 3708 McCasland Ave this week and the shock knocked a rifle from its rack near the door The rifle hit the floor was discharged The bullet struck Mrs Greenhill in a rib and glanced away making a wound described by her physician as not serious Confer on Relief About 40 WPA workers from sections of Madison County gath ered here Saturday morning for I conference with J J district representative of The purpose was to discuss slate regulations on ad ministration of relief which is now dispensed by supervisors The tions of the state commission were fully explained Prolong Budapest Hungary Sept Hungarian army which were scheduled to close today were indefinitely PREPARE FOR WAR ALL Diplomats Continue Struggle for Agreement on Solution of Crisis Over Republic of Czechoslovakia CHAMBERLAIN RETURNS WITH FINAL DEMANDS Acceptance of Terms Would Avert Not Troops Will Prepared to Act Berlin Sept Adolf Hitler returned to Berlin this after- noon from Godesberg Berlin Sept D N B dis- patch from Linz today said that two upper Austrian border towns had been subjected to light infantry and heavy machine gun ther details were lacking Berlin Sept Sudeten mans are in complete military control of the Asch district on the western Czechoslovak frontier a spokesman for the Sudeten party told the United Prest y telephone tonight By United Press Europe's fighting forces prepared for war today while diplomats strug- gled for agreement on a peaceful lution of the crisis over kia Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to London with Chancellor Adolf Hitler's demands for the dismemberment of the Czech lic If they can be to Great Britain and France with the Czechs concurring war may be ed If not there appears to be im- minent danger that Germany's will march on Czechoslovakia Both countries are prepared As the British cabinet met to hear Chamberlain's report on his second visit to Hitler in Germany tion orders went into effect in various forms in Belgium and London prepared to mobilize Great armed forces on a moment's notice Major Government orders partial mobilization of army navy and air forces drawing from her trained reserves British high command prepares plans for instant tion of all armed forces by land sea and air Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returns by air from Goesberg to confer with cabinet and present final offer to kia Great Britain sounds out possible allies among foreign gates to the League of Nations Roumanian government completes arrangements for ate mobilization of armed forces Czechoslovakia armed nation with approximately fighting men mobilized Premier Benito Mussolini ot Italy warns lhat Czechs have one week to answer Hitler's proposals Reliable quarters say ler's linal proposal stipulates that Czechoslovakia must indicate by Oct 1 its intention to withdraw Czech troops from Sudeten areas to ceded to Germany Belgium mobilizes tary technical unite of the army and the 1937 militia class of the artillery regiment Official Washington watches tense European with anxiety maintains silence over war moves MBS PAULINE BAUER DIES AT MITCHELL Bauer widow of the late Herman Bauer died at the home of her daughter Mrt Louis Hess at Mitchell 7 a m Saturday She had been living with her daughter for a number of years She was W years 10 months and 17 days of age Surviving are three daughters and three sons One son William Herzog died suddenly two weeks ago Bauer suffered a stroke about a month ago Pneumonia In later with other complications Funeral not been completed though It expected that the will held afternoon from Funeral Home in Granite City
