Edwardsville Intelligencer, The (Newspaper) - December 5, 1938, Edwardsville, Illinois AD ot the County S i a t Nation ii t h d Speedily and Accurately Madison Intelligencer Daily THE WEATHER colder tomorrow Mr riling Temperature at P M 285 ILLINOIS MONDAY DECEMBER 5 EIGHT Second Unidentified Murdered Man Found in Four Days OFFICIALS ENTER Friends Send Flowers Gather to Extend Felicitations as Men Recently Elected Enter Upon Duties NEARLY ALL DEPUTIES HAVE BEEN SELECTED Sheriff Wittman Given Badge at Republican Victory Din ner Held at Alton Lodge Hall Sunday FLASHES Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today Over Powers Dec over the powers of the stale sing board today arose to complicate expected contests over seats 111 the lower house of slate legislature Democratic charges of voting frauds in counties in four ial districts in which representatives displaced Democratic representatives led to the belief that the Democratic candidates might contest issuance of election by the canvassing board to Republicans Credit Washington Dec M of San head of one of America's largest banking houses day suggested some form of federal tax credit for industrial profit sharing plant expansion expenditures and In- creased payroll Passing of felicitations was the principal order of business when eral newly elected county officials took of offices Monday morning There uas a profusion of in these oft iocs including bouquets of mums roses and blossoms Several of the officials were with gifts by of friends The change of administration was begun us early us Saturday night when the Republicans held a victory dinner at the Franklin Masonic Hall at Alton Nenily oOO weie present for the occasion Dm ing the evening Waller R was pre- sented the budge of his office Republicans and Democrats bled beie Monday the number ot the named pai ly being laiger than usual In many instances the men their parly affiliations lor the clay visiting nenily all of the offices The office of Attorney R W was the scene of with many visitors had Benf their baskets which came fiom individuals and groups Mi announced tin PC of Ills appointees Monday the pointment of he Alton deputy and of- ilce lor a few At- Jesse L Simpson was named as spci ml attorney Uu ol to handle condemnation suits lax and malleis lies is a ol him ol Simpson md Rood Wille uas duel Oil ice and will be the lor the County Venice was also od b with many Ho also man dui the prim dm nig nun mug Jonn in thu auditing ol Steel Company and now a student ol finance and was named Juseph die and Mis Alton named as Mr has bad man experience in maltois and Mis Halloran been with the came anil went at of- fice of Waller Alton Most ol his appointees announced last week were for a pail of Iho day renewing old acquaintances and ing other residents Count a now leim lie an- that Ins pointee-- boon The aie Chnilos J City Miss and Ralph Joseph ingston upon bis now duties Ho and Ins appointees have spent at the clei k's lice to learn something about then Continued on Page Two Procedure Washington Dec supremo today ruled that the National Labor Relations Board employed tout ly procedure in seeking to invalidate a contract between the Consolidated Edison Company and an American Federation of Labor Union Vord Proposes Revisions Washington Dec 5 B Ford president of the Fold Motor Company testifying before the monopoly committee today proposed revision of federal patent laws which he would aid industry Order Liquidation Berlin Dec Funk mill later of economics issued n decree lo day empowering authorities to Jews to liquidate their business veal estate and oilier property 500 APPLICATIONS FOR RURAL ELECTRIFICATION Almost 500 Madison county have now made application lo receive icily from the Illinois Elect i ic the ItKA ative solving faun m this section of the stale it was staled today by Alvia Smith who Is in chat go of Iho extension ol lines in Madison county township the pre- liminary wot k was fust started has the largest ol applicants townships ress has boon made include Ft Foslor Moio and I'm Oak A number ul meetings have boon held in rural to explain the plan meetings will continue dining December ol township committees tiro fat mem to ex- plain the Former Governor Deneen Urge Historians to Expand in Their Activities Al tendance was above at the an- mooting ol Madison ical hold al the couit bouse hen Foi moi Governor Chai S Deneen Chicago a native of Ibis itv gave an He spent evening nl Alton ho er al the Victory of licans Mi Helicon talked about many leal in es of Madison county m fed tho lo on the woi in for Iho and the residents to lake pail in the activities lie a angle lo his talk urging to bo moio to then count rj and lomain away from those things ing disloyally Mi aimed at Alton nt noon lie was mot by Attorney Blown They dune to the home ol N 0 Flagg after which the throe silo of Iho city's firs I homo and seal ol justice on Main Sheet Mr said be thought Hie state should mark the site lie was then lo dence at I Hi Kandle SI reel In which ho u as hot n After the mooting Mr spent two boms inspecting Hie society's ex- hibit al HIP com I house He ed interest in many of which have boon assembled Tho other speaker of the was Mis Olive K Slallings Granite Her subject was Granite City's Place in Oui She ed bow the family Iho oily to make il one of tho important Industrial of Iho stale Six selected as for the ensuing leim of years Mrs Mail Henson Dr George M Toller Alton Mis Ella Mis Jennie L Kaiser land E C mid Fiank E Culp Officers for the ensuing year are W L Walois Godfrey H P S Smith vice- pi Mrs Maik viilo second vice-president Douglas K Dale K W Ellis SI Jacob treasurer Mrs Annie C W Burton historian Mrs C C Corbel I Norman G Moio and C committee Dies of Injuries III Dec 5 Mrs Earl Fairand lied today ol In- juries w oil SKULL Hotel Guest is Sought by Police for Questioning in Connec tion With Robbery at Col HARRY SODINI BEATEN ON HEAD WITH PISTOL Night Clerk is Forced to Turn Over More Than Cash Then Escorted Bandit to Second Floor Harry Sodini proprietor of the Hotel fll Collinsville was beaten on the head with a revolver Monday about 3 o'clock while he fought a holdup man to save proximately the week-end re- At SI Mary's at East St Louis it is said he had a slight fracture of the skull Before the thief attacked Mr Sodini something in excess of in cash was taken from Edward Manning the night clerk Police are looking for a man who registered at the hotel under the name of Courtney Collins St Louis The man spent Friday and Satin dii nights at the hotel and was about the place Sunday night Manning told Hie police tie is the person who took the money from him and then at the point of a gun forced him If accompany the bandit to the room of Mr Sodini on Iho second floor Mr Manning said Collins remained in the bur until it clowd and then sat around the lobby of the hotel until n friend of Mr Manning left Collins wont to the basement when the night replenished hopper of a coal stoker As the two walked back to the main floor Manning was in- formed of the robbery plans being warned to remain quiet as a revolver was thrust against him Tho bandit obtained Hie money and then told Manning that he knew Mr had additional funds A fight ocelli rod between two after Mr Sodini opened the dooi Other guests weie awakened as he two struggled while Mannnig ran to summon the police The thief ran fi om the ing and the police ai i hod So fai as known al the hotel did not have an automobile Mr Sodini operated the hotel about two ago Tie to early in November and chased the business Special is being provided and about wore present Salm day night In Promised Land HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYERS TO BE GUESTS Approximately M high school football players and managers will bo guests of a number of businessmen al a to hi given Wednesday night nl o'clock ill I IIP high school The have nil ol lo buy food and will soil kets lor con Is each They have asked the of the boys to help ami serve tho food The dinner will be for men only tickets for which may be chased from William Marhn nl the Hank Should of tickets amount If moru than Hie cost of I he dinner then il is understood Hie extra money will be turned over to I lie school Don University of been secured as speaker SERVICES ARE HELD FOR CHAS GERLING services weie held al o'clock Sunday afternoon for al I ho Funeral Home Church services weie held nl 2 o'clock at Hie Trinity Lutheran Chinch with Rov K VV Jahn ing Burial was in Valley View tery Pallbearers were Herbert Leuschke William Kails ler Gelling Alvin Emshausen Waller Schneider HELD ON CHARGES OF LIQUOR VIOLATIONS Michael 2516 Gland nue Cii anile Cily provided bond of Monday before U S Robert W Tunnell on charges oi violation of federal liquor lows He is charged with possession of a still mush spirits and ure lo give bond for operation of a distillery The charges wore made by I F Musi SI Louis gator lor the Alcohol Tux Anxiously clutching their luggage four In a contingent OH 200 German In tears at Harwich England NBA refugee children arrive Miss Clarine Leonard Made Queen at Ceremonies Miss Clarine Leonard daughter ol Mr and Mrs N J Leonard was crowned queen nt the second annual football dance Saturday night at the high school gym before ly 300 students and 100 adults latter standing in the balcony at the rear of Hie gym The dance was sponsored by the cheer club of High School and was under the supervision of Donald Wilson Before the niony took place Coaches C Smith and William Wolf were pre- sented watch chains and knives by Superintendent of Schools E L Alexander The gifts were fi om members of Hie football Following a talk by Mr Principal K Blodgell and Coach Smith made short talks Hilly Wolf Bang a song Summer Souveniers Next came the grand march and the coronation of the queen Maids of honor and entered from the renr of the gym in collides being an- as they Next was the queen and her escort Robert Preceding them were jorie Love daughter of Ml and Mrs J J Love and Scofl Smith son of Coach and Mis Smith Acting as train bearers were Joan Kinsel of Mr and P II Kinsel and Barbara Blodgell daughter of Principal and Mrs Blodgell The queen marched to stage where the crown was taken from I he head of the retiring queen arine by Coach Smith and placed upon Miss Leonard's head Following the ceremonies those present danced to music of win SI orchestra The wus decorated with orange and black paper with a white walk fi om the rear of to singe where a goal post had been erected of honor Ruth daggers Virginia Helen Christy Donna Hulli Brew Louise Hammer Mary Ellen Simons Hulli Greenwood Marie Ax Gloria Ladd Mary Lou Francis ly Bayer Virginia Jones ter Rose Mary Campbell Jane and Myrtle Gillig hey were accompanied by football Mike ios Logan Bayer Robert Berry ust Bellman George Blume Melvin Ronald Cooper Frank Ferguson William Edgar Fred Marks Leonard Wayne Frank Howard Rogers ton Southard Gene Webling Frank Kolesa Reject Berlin Bee 5 Council of Brothers of the Confessional Church which Ims resisted efforts the Evangelical rejected in a rend in Confessional ches yesterday the demands of the Teachers Association that its members cease to give religious In- struction SPECIAL Springfield III Dec former Northwestern football star was listed as a cial deputy for county today as Harry son a former gridiron star was installed in office attended the western criminology school and Ellson said he had agreed lo aid in crime detection work The pointment carries no salary Ellson won fame as a football star at Great Lakes Naval school during the war and has named several athletes as deputies One a wrestler is his chief deputy A boxer is assistant chief deputy Chamberlain Tells Commons Demonstrations are Detrimental London Dec 5 has warned Huly that recent colonial tions against Fiance aie to dis- rupt the new Is ut friendship be- tween Britain and Italy Prime ister Neville Chamberlain the House of Commons Chamberlain said further that Count lokl Lord Perth that the Italian government does not itself with the demonstration and does not recede Irom the under- takings il has given Chamberlain said Lord Perth Brit- ish Ambassador has been lo tell Count Ciano Italian Foreign Minister that tho In the Italian Chamber for Italian annexation of French Tunisia Corsica Savoy and Nice must have n on the of collaboration Chamberlain announced that ing in I bo New Hi ment which is of his plan for European appeasement has British obligations lo France He thus served notice that Britain will stand will France in resisting any attempts to change things in thu Mediterranean While Tunis Corsica and Nice are not especially mentioned in the Chamberlain said they are covered by the provision the status quo in Hie Mediterranean In Paris Premier Dula- dier announced that France will de- fend the integrity of all her sions FRANCE WILL DEFEND INTEGRITY OF POSSESSIONS Paris Dee Premier replied lo Italian for possession of French Tunis in northern Africa and the island ol Cor siea a today declaring Hint France will defend ol all her possessions said In n communique thai has received thousands of tele grams of loyally from Corsica Tunis Yesterday's demonstrations against Italy in Corsica and Tunis were Hie best reply to Italian manifes ami proved that be French are ready o hold their wherever tricolor floats the com- said IIS ON FRANCE Denounce Insinuations Italian Partnership With Nazis is Strained Rome Dec controlled cist press renewed its attacks on France today and bitterly denounced French insinuations that Italy's partnership with Nazi Germany U be- ing strained Guyda who is close to Premier Mussolini in the that France in- stead of advancing insinuations about tho axis should ber that he i frontier province of ce is inhabited by Germans attack was significant in ol od m that Hie Italian campaign against France came on Iho oven of the signing ol a new Following up Italian de- mands for such Fionch as Tunisia and Corsica Gei many is not on the Italian frontier but on Hie French front ici as well noM lo a under Fionch sovereignty although u is populated bj and is rich m iron and potassium mines Gayda indignantly on anti-Italian demonstrations by thu French In Tunis and Corsica and French newspaper criticism of Those reveal only an incapacity of comprehension and m er- rors to refute any policy of or wrote on Italian consulates and institutions weie he charged merely as a result of shouts of vidual Italians un thi Chamber of which weie ions of mid had not been rial The Italian government has taken the position that the Chamber of De- alion lor Tunisia and was nol ot u policy This moans the raising of fatal burlier between France and Gayda wrote They must know in Paris that they have novel been able to deviate Italy from thu tutelage of Jiei interests unit inspirations 150 RESERVATIONS FOR DINNER SKULL FRACTURED AT VENICE Over 30 Years Old is Believed to Have Strug- gled With Slayers Being Overcome PART OF CLOTHING WAS CARRIED AWAY Officers Unable to Learn tity of Man Being Held at Highland Murder is Jury Verdict An unidentified white man WM found In an freight car at Venice Sunday night at o'clock providing the second murder in this county within four days Deputy Coroner Ferd Granite City said the man was probably a railroad employe but wus unable to any clues lo assist in establishing identity oi the cause of the killing The previous murder victim the stranger found on route 40 west of Highland Thursday morning De- Coroner Orville Koch of that city said nothing has been found to clear up that identity The man at Venice was lying down in the freight car transferred from St Louis Sunday afternoon tor delivery lo Pennsylvania al East St Louis lie had been beaten on the head with an iron coupling pin nearly two inches in diameter and a fool long One of the several bad fractured bis skull Mr stated that the interior of the car Indicated a struggle had occurred the over- powered the man He found evidence of blood at parts of car For some reason the man's trousers shoes and other of clothing were removed after tho man wus lulled Deputy found two caps er they belonged to persons connected with the Killing or someone else not be mined Mr said Hie man had been dead between 8 and houis when he took ol the 1 a m Monday The car aimed liom Kansas City at o'clock and moved to Venice al p in The killing may iti St Louis dining the early and it may been ar- i ival at Venice The two caps were near Tho man a rod and black picket mid woolen A and black blanket was found in Hie car The man was between and years of ago ti loci lull and weighed about ISO pounds Ho had curly hair somewhat sandy in color with a dish tinge Ho woie a upper plate ot false teeth The weie blue The body is at Home al Granite City Mr Koch said the man found near Highland will not be until at least Wednesday Ho is awaiting a report on linger prims sent to on Page Two Tho animal county ner sponsored by I be Madison County Farm and the Dairy Herd Im- provement Association will be held Wednesday evening in the basement of the Evangelical Church at More than men of county have already made reservation it was stated today al the Farm Bureau office and a large at- tendance is anticipated The mam speaker on the program will be C S Rhode ol Iho Hairy De- of the ot Illinois He discuss milk production loins with particular to feeding and improvement of Hie dairy herd breeding E man president of Sanitary Milk and G editor of Hie Journal will also Doughnuts Mrs Kuda ol St Louis a for- mer resident of was a last week of her brother Joseph four Highland Street Kuda recently from Czechoslovakia whore visited her father Joseph Sr agod 93 Mrs Kudu was in Prague during tha Sudeten crisis She said she paid emits for a cup of col fee and nuts in a Prague restaurant
