Moody Helped Guests Escape In Hotel Fire After being called to Alton yesterday to: meet an elderly friend, Rueben B. Franklin, 67, Walter Moody of Springfield, former State police superintendent, stopped at the Telegraph office to praise the work of the police department in recovering Franklin's $3234.90. The elderly man, a former resident of Roseville, had appealed for police help early Thursday morning after he had tossed his billfolds Into the weeds near Front and Alton because he suspected two men, who, seemed to be following him, might be bent ch robbery. Policemen at daylight billfolds and were astonished at the sum they contained. After Franklin told Police Chief Barkley he had como here, from Carolina to seek Moody.
thinking he still resided in Alton, police made a series of phone calls by which Moody was finally localed. Moody, now a state investigator for the department of registration and education, and who has been stationed in Chicago, drove at once to Alton and said he would take Franklin, a relative by marriage, to Springfield. He said the elderly man, in frail health due to a peralytic stroke, had just arrived by interurban when he experienced the robbery fright Moody, who has spending five days a week In Chicago on' official duties, was a guest of LaSalle Hotel at time of the fire. His. efforts in aiding guests to leave the hotel duting the upper floor panic was mentioned in news dispatches.
floor room was little damaged by fire although I was driven out by smoke," said Moody. "When I subsequently returned to it, alter the fire was under control, 363 I had left under. a pillow was gone. Here in Alton an elderly man lost more than $3000 but the police recovered every cent of it for him." Moody Franklin carried the large sum of cash. because he had planned to buy a business, the deal falling through.
Petrillo Speech Examined For Sedition Threat ST. PETERSBURG, June 7, -The threat of arrest under Florida's sedition law hung over James C. Petrillo as he. discussed with the American Federation of Musicians today the disposition of $2,500,000 collected annually from radio stations which broadcast recorded music. State Attorney Chester B.
McMullen Indicated he would determine today whether Petrillo violated the sedition act in a speech at the opening of the AFM. convention here Monday, The Inquiry was based on Petrillo'8 statement that if the United States' Supreme Court held the act constitutional, network broadcasting would end by change of union policy. Petrillo was the target of the Lea act, which curbs union's power to call strikes in radio stations over the employment of persons the station considers needed. A test of the act is shaping up in Chicago. Recruiting Office Sends.Nine from Alton Area more men from the Alton area left Tuesday for the East St.
Louis processing station, the Alton Army Recruiting office. reported today. Those leaving were Louis. Oehler and Willis' Strong of Alton; Fred Heck, Gilbert R. Gibbons, and William E.
Green, of Gillespie; Charles B. Imming of Hardin; Kermit W. Bell of Batchtown: John R. Poore of Hamburg, and Robert L. Johnson of Granite City.
The recrulting office has announced that June 30 Is the deadline date of the perlod when er service men, who have. not been out of the army more than three months, can enlist at their former grade. Vets Get Bar Certificates CHICAGO, June 7, UP) Certificates of award were presented by the Illinols State Bar Association to approximately 900 members who served in World War II at Its 70th annual meeting yesterday. Faculty Leaders Laud Willard URBANA, June 7. UP)-RetIring President Arthur Cutts WIllard the University of Illinois has been commended by the uni.
versity senate, a body of top facultymen. Program at St. John's St, John's Baptist Church will hold a Children's Day program at the church Sunday at 3 p. m. The handle of the "Big Dipper" points toward the star Arcturus.
"MAKE IT A MILLION!" ENLIST IN A GRADE WITH: YOUR ARMY MOS. 'GOOD 108 FUR YOU U. S. Army FOURTEEN Group Here on History Tour Students and Teachers on Study Trip Teachers and student teachers. seeking knowledge of on-the-spot Illinois history, were scheduled to arrive in Alton at 10:30 a.
m. today RS stopping point in their 13-day tour A Illinois historical spots. Mrs. Harry Meyer, 7 Elm, president of the Madison County Historical Society, said this morning she was meet the group at Delmar and State and help conduct through the city. She said the is made up of teachers and group student teachers from Monmouth College and Augustana College In Northern Illinois, grouped with members of the Illinois State Historical Society and the Illinois Council for Social Studies.
The group started from Rockford, June 3 on a circle tour of the state. They are traveling "camp sleeping outdoors. The tour is designed to be. a "methods" course in the teaching of history in the public schools and 18 to introduce the teachers to. history through lectures by the accompanying authorities.
enroute and trating through "trends and events in the discussions illusstory of human Mrs. Meyer said she intends to show the group the site Alton penitentiary, which was the first public Institution owned by the state and WAS bought with funds provided by the sale of salt mines in southern Illinois. She intends to conduct the teachers to the Confederate cemetery, to the debate marker on the square, and to historic Lovejoy places, including the office of the Telegraph where the frame' of Lovejoy press Is on display. She group is particularly interested. in the Milton area, where, near the site of the early cemetery, the village has grown.
Some of the men who died on the Lewis and Clark expedition are burled at Milton and there are graves of some of the early ploneers of the area. Accompanying the group are authorities on Illinois history, including John H. Hauberg of Rock Island, director of the tour, who 15 president and a present past rector of the Illinois Society, and an authority on Indian lore. Also with the group is Jay: Monaghan, secretary of the Illinois. Historical Society; Miss Hazel Council Phillips, for presi- Sodent of the Illinois cial Studies -at Springfield, Lynn Turner of Monmouth College, and Fritiof Ander of Augustana College.
Assisting Mrs. Meyer in escorting the tour through Alton were her husband, and Mrs. William H. Gissal. Nine Historians 'On the Beam' in Nazi Forecast to reverse the usual historical process and predict largely on the basis of what had already happened the ability of: the Nazi war machine and the German people to stand up under Allied pressure, The report, presented in January, 1944, WAS described as "a remarkably accurate forecast of.
the things that ultimately, came to pass." Lt. Col. Frank Monaghan, former history professor at Yale, assembled the group, and received a special commendation. Secretary of War Patterson and Gen. Arnold signed certificates of appreciation for the historians.
WASHINGTON, June. 7, UP)Nine historians used the past to make a "remarkably accurate" secret wartime forecast of the fate of Nazi Germany, the War Department disclosed today in an'nouncing official commendations for the group. They were assembled in Octo: ber, 1943, at the request wartime of 'chief Gen, Henry H. Arnold, of the Army Alr Forces, and asked Suspects Foul. Play MONMOUTH, June 7 (P) State's Attorney Henry D.
Lewis of Warren county has expressed an opinion that Eldon Belt, 60, retired Monmouth farmer, was a vic11m of foul Belt's body, rope tied around the neck, was found on the edge of a pond near Monmouth' yesterday. Loy Infant Dies Ruth Jean Loy; 12-day-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Loy of 3317 Franor, died at 12:50 p. m.
today In St. Joseph's Hospital, The baby was born in the hospital, and had been moved home a few days ago. Thursday when her condition became worse she was returned to the hospital. Maine Is the only one of the United States that adjoins only one other state. FINE PROFESSION NO'4! Room 105 City Hall ALTON, ILL.
Dial 2-3314 Postoffice East Alton. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY a a a James W. Green, W. River, Dies Funeral Rites Monday atSt. Bernard's James W.
Green, 65, who retired from work at Standard Oil Co. a year ago because of ill health; died at 2 a. m. today at his home, 252 Lorena, Wood River. He was of a Alton, brother of Walter Green superintendent of the Granite City PressGreen had been employed at the oll refinery in Wood River for 30 and at time of his retireyears, ment working in the heavy oils department.
Previously he had been a stillman, Born in Bethalto, June 25, 1880, he spent his early life in Alton. As a young man was well-known tenor in this area, and sang at Jerusalem Village at the St. Louls World's Fair. He was a son of the late Thomas Green and Bridget Monaghan Green. He had realded in Wood River for the past 30 years and WAS a member of St.
Bernard's parish, Wood River. Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Millie McCollum, and his brother, Walter. A sister, Mrs. Bessie Doughty, died a month ago at Denver, Colo. The body will be at Streeper's Wood River funeral home p.
m. Saturday until Monday morning! Requiem mass will be sald at 9 a. Monday at St. Ber. nard's by the Rev.
E. J. Douglas, pastor. The, rosary will be recited at the funeral home at 2:30 p. Sunday.
will take place at Greenwood Cemetery. Hirohito Shakes Hands With U.S. Army Officer CHIBA, Japan, June 7. -Emperor Hirohito publicly shook hands with an American army officer today. Awed Japanese saw the unusual exchange as the emperor arrived here on the final leg of his longest meet-the-people trip.
Lt. Col. Frederick J. Stevenson, El Paso, military governor a of Chiba prefecture, was waiting at the railroad station when the peror stepped off a shiny maroon coach of his imperial train, snapped his military police escort to attention, saluted the emperor, then extended his hand In greeting. The emperor grasped it.
Earlier in his two-day swing around Boso peninsula- -the "kitchof Tokyo" Hirohito drove along streets packed with banzai shouting people to visit Umekichi Sekine, keeper of Inubo lighthouse Still unaccusiomed to getting out among the populace, he showed less nervousness than yesterday, however, when. he slogged through heavy mud to watch farm workers planting rice sprouts In flooded paddles: Ho Had the Answer BALTIMORE, June 7. UP)-Joseph Zamoiskl of Baltimore says he was driving his car--and fast when Virginia state: trooper waved him down, and said sarcastically: "Let me see your pilot's license." Zamoiski, a pilot, pulled out his alrplane papers. The officer laughed. and let him go with a warning to slow down on the ground.
'Ladies' Shop Store Dally 7 ALTON EVENING. TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1946 $606,677 Taxes Paid in Alton Week More Remains for Collection For the first time since tax collecting was In: Alton two. weeks ago: last Tuesday, the office staft of City Treasurer Krug- was able, Thursday, to catch.up with book workton the rush of payments. "Yesterday was another light day in over-the-counter, payments," said Krug, "but at last we were able to catch up: with book work by entering all payments recelved by mall. All the mail in hand Thursday entered and disposed of.
This. left us ready for an expected weekend renewal of the payment rush at the counter. today and Saturday forenoon." Payments: Thursday from all amounted to: $23,000, Krug. reported, and this brought his total tax collection to date to $606,677.02. Payments have averaged a little more than $43,000 In the 14.
day period the treasurer's office has been open to receive payments. On all taxes paid in. Alton to the. collector, the city is entitled to retain. tea of 2 percent.
From the fees, the expenses of collection are paid, and any -balance earned the treasurer's office goes into the city's general fund Is available: to help pay running. expenses of the city. The city's fee thus far aggregate a little more than $12,000 and this amount will be considerably augmented before the local collection is completed. Last year the total collection here was $678,520, a record figure. Because the total of current.
taxes charged this year is about t-20 percent greater, the collector must take in about $814,000 to beat last year's percent of collection Krug finds the proportion personal: tax payments thus far. received is "satisfactorily "In fact, payments seem bet-: ter than in any other recent he June. 15, a week from Saturday, will be the final day for tax pay. ments, and -Krug sald today that all personal taxes must be paid by that' date or they must be considered delinquent. collector is charged with obligation of collecting all personal taxes," he "and if any personal taxes remain unpaid by June 15 the collector will be compelled to take: action pretion." scribed by law to enforce, collec- Leslie G.
George Rites At Edwardsville June 7. In charge Rev. O. B. Kinsey, of Collinsville Methodist Church, funeral for Assistant State's Attorney.
Leslie G. George, victim of a heart, attack Wednesday, were he at 2 o'clock this afternoon in MarksWeber funeral Members of Edwardsville American Legion Post No. 199 conducted brief rites at Valley View cemetery, where interment was made. Pallbearers were State's Attorney C. W.
Burton and an assistant, Everett D. Dodd of East: Alton; James L. Reed and Perry H. Edwardsville; Ralph 1 Y. Champion and Fred P.
Schuman, Granite City. Telegraph Want Ads LEVEE BREAK FLOODS 8000 ACRES -Stranded by floodwaters, residents of Rosser, Tex, skyline shown in the distance, were unable to return to their homes after Trinity River No. 2, on state highway 34, broke under pressure. Damage was estimated at $200,000. -AP Wirephoto, Stephen Williams to Direct 'Messiah' Again This Year Watch Lost Downtown Has Sentimental Value A watch of great sentimental value has been lost and owner today, appealed to the editorial department of the Telegraph to aid her in recovering It; Miss Nellie McMahon, an employe of Union: Electric Power today said she advertised three nights in.
the Telegraph classified columns for a watch lost in the downtown area: Saturday night. The watch gold and in the back Is engraved the name "James McMahon 1915." The watch was presented, to Miss McMahon's brother by. their mother on the date of James': graduation 1915. James died in 1916 and the watch has been kept in his memory is cherished by the McMahon family. Miss McMahon said the watch was lost with a purse containing about 56.
She said the finder may keep the but pleads for the return of the watch. She resides at 2416 Brown. McManus Baby Dies; Funeral Rites Saturday James Jay McManus infant son of Mr. and Mrs. James Jay McManus of 1211 Pine, died Thursday at 5:10 p.m.
in Alton Memorlal Hospital. The baby was born April 5, 1946 Alton, and -was. one of two children of Mr. and Mrs. McManus.
Surviving in addition to his par-. ents and sister, Mary Lucille, are his paternal grandfather, James: R. McManus, and his paternal great-grandmother, Mrs. Patrick McManus, Alton, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
A. M. Shea, Granite City. Funeral rites will be conducted at 3:30 p. m.
in Streeper home by the Rev. C. V. Tolley, -pastor of Main Street Methodist Church. will be in Alton cemetery.
Friends, may call at the funeral today, Child Pensions Average $28.35 SPRINGFIELD, June 7. UP) -Dependent children allowances paid during May for the care of 52,737 Illinois children: averaged. $28.35 and totaled $1,495,298, the Illinois Public Aid Commission reported today. For Summer Dancing Very sheer cotton in shades of blue, lime, green, red and aqua. 16.98 Third Floor.
9 to 5... Saturday 9 to 9. Hay Fever Reliet Seen in New Drug Called Anthallan YORK, June: 7. UP Roller NEW In a high' percentage of hay fever cases is reported following use of a new drug at Columbia Presby: terian Medical Center. The palliative, anthailan, a nontoxic Dr.
coal-tar derivative: S. Loewe. discover. 61- ed by Walter German refugee, phar macologist now on the faculty of the University of Utah, also prom Ises some aid in. the treatment of other allergies of nose and skin, its sponsors clalm.
Its effects are described: In the June issue of the bulletin of the New York Academy. of Medicine by Dr. Alexander D. Ghiselin Jr. who conducted controlled expertments for a year at the Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital Center.
Ghiselin says that tests and clinical studies conducted in 42 cases indicated anthallan useful drug for obtaining relief a high percentage of cases of season and non-seasonal: rhinitis." He: says "only four cases were fallures." Brooks Urges Volunteer Army AP Special Washington Service WASHINGTON, June 7. UP Senator Brooks (R-1), supporting that higher "When pay the time he for enlisted men, said also would" be glad to vote, to increase the pay of officers." Like other senators who voted for raises ranging from 50 percent. buck privates to two percent for master sergeants and ponding grades other branches of the armed. forces, Brooks said he wanted to encourage 'enlistments, "The sooner we can have a completely volunteer army, the better off the country will be," against Induction of' 'teen-agers', saying "We need men who. remain in the service and into their work their early training; "Thereby we would have much better army than would obtained by taking into service boys of 18 years of age' and then letting them out of the service at the end of 18 months of service." Gen.
Vandenberg To Head Intelligence WASHINGTON, June UP President Truman today appointed Lt. Gen, Hoyt S. Vandenberg director of central Intelligence for the government. Vandenberg, 47-year-old assistant chief of staff G2, War Department general staff, Rear Sydney W. Souers, who resigns to return to him private business interests at St.
Louls: Boston Zoo Bears Feel Bread Shortage BOSTON, June 7. (P)-This bread shortage is getting to be something terrible for the bears at Franklin Park Zoo. Boston Park Commissioner William E. Long reports his supply stale bread, used to feed the bruins, will last only until tomorrow. The bears normally consume 400 pounds dally, Pastels in Woven Chambray Very fine fabric that looks and feels like silk in pastel shades.
16.98 can nearly feel the' summer breezes blowing the light, airy dresses we've gathered together Hartmanni Stephen B. Williams will' direct The Messiah" again this yeer. The Monticello College music department facultyman sat In with officers. of the Alton Community Chorus Tuesday night at the home of Miss Vara Jones, chorus president, to discuss plans for next winter's ninth presentation of the Handel Date of the performance was set tentatively for Sunday afternoon, 8, pending further Investigation of college vacation schedules and other factors affecting the event. For Williams, next year's "Mes-.
will be his third major public appearance here 'es director of large chorus organized from singers of the community. Following his directing of last year's he accepted an Alton Choir and Choral Directors Guild invitation to conduct its second spring music festival. Preliminary discussion regarding selection of next year's soloists was begun last night, but the matter was left largely in Williams' hands. Also conferring with the Community Chorus officers were Mrs. Doris Rue, president of the Choir and Choral Directors Guild, which this is year has been invited to collaborate more closely with the Community Chorus in preparing for "The Messiah;" and P.
ley, president of the Alton Community Concert Association, with which the chorus Is affiliated. Mayberry Infant Burled The Rev. Father Francis Lee of St. Bernard's Church, Wood River, officiated -at funeral rites Thursday at. 9.a.
m. in Streeper funeral home, Wood. River, for James Edward Mayberry, Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mayberry of 151 Madison, Wood River.
Burial was in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Alton. Twins Born: at Memorial Three babies, Including twins, this afternoon in Alton Memorial Hospital. All three were The first of the trio, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Leroy Holland of 3018 College, was born at 12:11 p. m. and the twins, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Steel, 960.
Lorena, Wood River, born at 1:20 and p. Ladies' Shop Third Floor. Store Hours: Dally 9 to 5 Saturday 9 to 9. Moslems OK India Union Reserve Right to Ask Secession Later By. PAUL MASON belter grew June 7.
UP. The NEW DELHI, day that the throughout India toacceptance of Moslem the British -by inet Union of Minion' a India, plan has a Federated most formidable barrier to solving the removed India's 150-year-long quest for in-1 dependence on Typical last of night's the press comments council cabinet action in approving the Moslem League ing. the proposals- -while reiterat. alstence League's "unalterable" in. of A separate aventual Moslem state establishment kistan- British owned appeared New be that in the of Paman this morning.
Delhl Stateswhich The claims council to for speak the for League, :000 proval: Moslems last In' night India, of said Its pian was. prompted by Its earnest cabinet the desire for of peaceful solution, it but possible, the Indian. problem." reserved right any secession of Moslem groups from plan. federation resulting from the the all-India Gandhi, a leader of Mohandas K. other Congress Party; India's previously major spoken political party, of the British had approvingly proposals, and the spokesman for representatives of the foremost princes of India, said princes come a also were "quite will.
of ing to. Into the India." framework an Independent Third Permit This Month, for Dwelling Permit: for erection of a new house the third for a dwelling to he Issued thus far this month-has been secured from the city. bulld Ing departurent by H. R. Dickerson of 3114 Mayfield who proposes to erect residence on Wallace, be tween Pleasant and Central, erson plans: a 4-room frame home, with bath and basem*nt, estimated at $6000.
Thus far this year, 4 new dwellings have been projected in Alton, After obtaining city per mits, builders must secure Civillan Administration permits in order to proceed with construct tion, and all city permits since last March have been Issued sub ject to federal I approval being given. 'Where city permits for' homes are obtained, -it is explained, 11 shows the federal agency that all local regulations wth respect 10. the bullding projects have been met, 'and that way Is clear excepl for the final CPA green- light. Miss Martha Holden Funeral Services services for Miss Martha Ann Holden, 92, who died Tues day in St. Anthony's Infirmary, were conducted Thursday at 2 m.
In Bauer Hohn funeral home by the Rev, F. C. Luedecke, pastor of First Baptist Church, Burial war in Alton Cemetery. were Arthur Holden, Zell Shaver, George Ryrle, Dr. Richard.
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