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THE DECATUR DAILY REVIEW YEAR--NO. 23. DECATUR, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 23, 1937. 10 PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS. Farmer Slain; Wife, Friend Being Quizzed Noble Landowner Missing Week; Planned Oil on Land By Staff Correspondent OLNEY-Held in jails here and at Lawrenceville.

Mrs. Ira Hanna and Max Edwards, both of near Noble, were being quizzed by Richland and Lawrence counties today in connection with the death of Mrs. Hanna's estranged husband. Hanna, 55, apparently slain with a corn knife, was found lying in a ditch alongside a country road three miles west of Pinkstaff and seven miles north of Lawrenceville early yesterday. Authorities said the man had been dead for a week.

Missing Week Hanna had been missing since a week ago when he came to Olney to arrange to lease his 40 acre farm, a half-mile west of the new Noble oil field. for oil drilling. Inquest into the death was opened late this morning by Dr. C. G.

Stoll, Lawrence county coroner. Persons living in the vicinity of the spot where Hanna's was found recalled that one night about a week ago they saw two cars standing at that point, but thought nothing of it until the discovery of the body yesterday. Quarreled With Wife Jado Hanna, a grown son of the dead man. reported several days ago that his father was missing. When Sheriff C.

H. West of- Richland county learned that an unidentified body had been found, he went to examine the body and discovered it to be that of Hanna. Hanna was reported to have been at odds recently with Max Edwards, whom he accused of "keeping company" with Hanna's estranged wife. He was reported also to have had quarrels with Mrs. Hanna when she refused to give him a quit-claim to enable to give an oil lease on his farm, now held under joint tenancy.

Served at State Farm Whether or not he had completed the lease and had obtained a considerable sum of money. as was rumored early today. has not been definitely established. Hanna formerly lived in Olney for about 20 years. He served at the Illinois state penal farm at Vandalia from 1932 to 1935, returning to his farm west of Noble about 18 months ago.

He had been twice married. His first wife died in April 1926. and he married the present Mrs. Hanna in November of the same year. It was her third marriage.

Hanna leaves children, Mrs. Inez Brown and Jado, and Russell Hanna. all of Noble. The body will be brought O1- ney Sunday morning for funceal services and burial. Unidentified Man Found on I.

C. Track Mangled Body Discovered Near Magnet. South Of Mattoon By Staff Correspondent MATTOON -The body of an unidentified man was found along the Illinois Central railroad tracks at Magnet just south of here yesterday evening. apparently run over by a train. The body was badly mangled.

Coroner F. S. Schilling reported He said one arm was entirely cut off and both legs were severed. Schilling said the man appeared to be about 32 years old. There were no identification papers, other than an I.

ticket from Vandalia. Schilling said he learned the man bought the ticket yesterday in Vandalia. He described the man as sandyhaired. cleancut, with good clothes No date had been set Saturday morning for an inquest. Recess Taken in Tavern Slaying Trial By Associated Press.

ALEDO -The trial of Riley Miller of Millersburg in Mercer county circuit covet for the murder of Joseph Willits of Joy, was adjourned over the weekend after two witnesses had testified for the state Friday. James Griffin. an Aledo bartender. the first witness called by the state, told of the meeting between Miller and Willits in the Calderone tavern in Aledo a few hours before the shooting occurred in the Miller residence. Omer Willits.

of the slain youth, the only other witness called, said he last saw his son alive at 7:30 a. m. the day of the fatal shooting. Wilkins on Way to Renew Arctic Search By Associated Press. CLEVELAND -Sir Hubert Wilkins.

arctic explorer, took off from Cleveland airport today for Chicago and Minneapolis on his trip to Alaska to renew a search for five missing Russian transpolar fliers. Wilkins left Floyd Bennet Field. L. I. yesterday and stopped here last night.

Champaign Opens Vice Drive President Willard Demands Cleanup After Expose by Student Paper, Survey by Health Official By Associated Press. CHAMPAIGN-Officials of Champaign and Urbana ordered a camtoday to close vice and gambling resorts in the two cities, after a conference with President Arthur Cutts Willard of the University of Illinois. The campaign was based on reports published in The Daily Illini, student newspaper, that many frequenters of Champaign's "red light district' were university students. President Willard appealed to the Champaign and Urbana officials to help the university "protect and maintain standards of student good conduct off the he campus." After a meeting last night with mayors and police chiefs of the two cities he said in a statement that they had agreed to co-operate by "closing and keeping closed all Japanese Push Near Shanghai Contending Armies Battle in Moonlight Northwest of City By Associated Press SHANGHAI--The great battle for Shanghai swayed madly back and forth in the moonlight tonight in a maze of small creeks and meandering canals north of Tazang. six miles northwest of Shanghai.

Both sides admitted severe losses as the Japanese fought desperately to smash the Chinese lines and open the way to Nanking. Just as desperately the Chinese battled to hold Tazang. loss of which would compel retreat from Chapei and Kiangwan, their strongholds on Shanghai's northern fringe. Claims Threat Checked A Chinese army spokesman declared the Chinese had definitely checked the Japanese threat to Tazang after 70 hours of combat. A Japanese spokesman asserted details did not matter, because the Japanese were slowly but surely pushing the Chinese back and gaining their general objectives.

North of Shanghai the center of fighting shifted from Tazang, where Japanese were trying to cut off Chinese communications about five miles northwest of the international settlement, to Kwangfeu, well the rear of the Chinese 25-mile front. Twelve More Executed In Soviet Plot Charge By Associated Press. MOSCOW-Twelve more death sentences were reported today in the Soviet rural regions. Seven persons convicted of "undermining" collective farms in the Volga republic and five convicted as "destroyers" of cattle and grain in Sverdlovsk, in the Urals, were given the supreme penalty. Under the recent decree providing longer prison terms for SOcalled wreckers, courts have been imposing more prison sentences.

Eleven defendants in the Volga case were given prison terms ranging from seven to 25 years. One on the Urals was given a 15-year term. Unidentified Man is Auto Collision Victim By Associated Press CANTON- man identified tentatively by police as George F. Fisher, about 45, was killed last night when his car and another machine sideswiped south of here. Police said papers in his pockets indicated the dead man formerly lived in Comfort, Tex.

His car had Arizona license plates. SELFISHNESS BOOMERANGS MINNEAPOLIS- The "no zone Lyle Wright, manager of a skating rink, had established outside the arena proved a boomerWright was arrested twice for ang. parking in the zone. gambling places and houses of ill fame, raiding promptly all such places, imposing full penalties on all proprietors and inmates. furnishing the university with names real, not fictitious of any students found in such places." Articles in The Daily Illini offered proof that at least 14 places of shady character were operating openly on one street in Champaign.

The newspaper reported Champaign was among five cities in the state showing a prevalence of veneral diseases. The cleanup campaign got underway at the conclusion of a 30-day survey of conditions in Champaign by Dr. David C. Elliott, assigned by the United States public health service aid Illinois in ing syphilis. Dr.

Elliott did not comment on his findings. Seeks Shelter in Railway Car, Held Prisoner Six Days By Associated Press ELKHART, in a box car six days without food or water, Clarence Neu, 39-year-old wanderer, was found half-starved in railroad yards. He told detectives he crawled into the car Sunday to get out of the rain and went to sleep. When he awoke the door was locked. His cries brought no help.

Yesterday he found a loose board in the car door, kicked it out and fell to freedom. Loyalists Mass In New Defense Rush Reinforcements to Teruel and Aragon Fronts By Associated Press HENDAYE. FRANCO-SPANISH FRONTIER -The Spaish republican government was reported today to be rushing reinforcements to the Teruel and Aragon fronts to meet assaults of vastly-strengthened insurgent forces against either Valencia or Catalonia. Government ministries at Valencia, temporary capital, awaited an order to move to Barcelona, capital of autonomous but allied Catalonia, following affirmation of an accord between the two allied regimes. the insurgent chieftain.

Francisco, mopped up Northwest in a victory that Spain, liberate most of 100.000 soidiers for a tremendous drive at either the present or future capital of the republic, other developments added grim drama to the 15- north conflict. Government sailors, taking refuge at Arcachon, France, reported insurgent bombing planes sank the government destroyer Ciscar in Gijon harbor Wednesday, the day before Gijon capitulated to the insurgents' seven-week northwestern offensive. Dewitt Farmer Kicked In Face by Horse By Staff Correspondent. CLINTON Ralph Feicke. al farmer in Santa Anna township, while attending a horse sale in Bloomington, received a deep gash on his face when he was kicked by a horse.

Three stitches were required to close the wound. Stroke Is Suffered By Illiopolis Woman By Staff Correspondent ILLIOPOLIS--Mrs. Charles Secrest, of Illiopolis, suffered a paralytic stroke Tuesday morning. She is unable to talk and her left side is paralyzed. Mrs.

Archie Dickerson has been confined to bed for the past few days because of sickness. Jury Exonerates Roy Garr Slayer of Brig. Gen. Denhardt Wins Freedom on Plea of Self Defense; Doctor's Case Postponed By Associated Press -Roy Garr, who a month ago shot to death Brig. Gen.

Henry H. Denhardt when they met on the main street of this little bluegrass town, went back to his bird dogs today, a free man. A jury of 12 tobacco farmers acquitted him of a murder charge last night amid wild applause. Jack Garr, 37, youngest three brothers indicted for the slaying of the man who once was tried for the fatal shooting of their sister. Mrs.

Verna Garr Taylor, 40, was acquitted earlier on a directed verdict. He was with Roy and Dr. E. S. Garr when Denhardt was shot.

but was not armed. The case of Dr. Garr, the oldest brother, was postponed to February. The jury which freed Roy, 46, School Bus Hit By Streamline Train; 10 Die Three Teachers, Seven Pupils Killed by Rock Island's "Rocket" By Associated Press MASON CITY, persons, including seven high school students, were dead and 19 injured today in the wake of the Middle West's most disastrous streamlined train accident. Besides the students, two teachers and a bus driver lost their lives when the glistening new "Rocket," three-car streamlined passenger train of the Rock Island railroad.

plowed into a school bus on the outskirts of the city yesterday afternoon. The bodies of dead and injured were scattered 500 feet down the right-of-way as the wooden bus burst open under the impact at a private crossing inside the yards of the Mason City Brick Tile company. The pupils, all members of a Renwick, commercial class, had been visiting industries here all day as a requirement in their course. They were preparing to visit the brick yards. Vern Mott, of Mason City, who saw the accident, said: Struck in Center "The Rocket hit the bus squarely in the center and the big vehicle.

of wooden construction, popped open as if it were a watermelon being dropped on the groun'd." George Simpson of Des Moines, engineer of the Rocket train, was reached at Manly, where the train changes crews. Shaken and grief-stricken over the tragedy, Simpson said his train was traveling "not more than 20 or 25 miles an hour." "I whistled for the crossing. It is a private crossing and is protected by big signs which say 'No "I suddenly saw the bus keep right on coming from behind piles of brick and tile, but it was much too late to stop the train. "Terrible Accident" -Engineer "It was a terrible accident, and I am badly shaken up over it." Simpson said that his engine was not damaged mechanically, and that no one riding on the train was injured. The accident occurred at 4 p.

m. The dead: Rex Simpson, 28, driver of the bus. Miss Dorothy Ross, 25, Renwick high school English teacher. Loren Morten, 26, Renwick high school commercial teacher. Lillian Cedar, 14.

Hardy, Ia. Don Amossen, 16, of Goldfield, pupil. Patsy Turner, 14, pupil. Norman Eggerth, 16, pupil. Lowell Kelling, 15, pupil.

Jimmy Bell, 15, pupil. Albert Siemans, 16, pupil. Four Critically Hurt The most critically injured are: Connie Block, 15, pupil, fractures of both legs and teeth knocked out; Mildred Whitsler, 15, pupil and daughter of Frank Whitsler, internal injuries; Clarence Hefty, 16, pupil, internal injuries. Eighteen of the injured were in hospitals here. One girl, Pauline Durrett, a pupil, evidently was not seriously injured enough to require hospital treatment.

She had not been located late last night, but no fear was held for her safety. The bodies of the dead were badly mangled, and only after M. K. Sperry, Renwick superintendent of schools, arrived here with a group of grief stricken parents could complete identification be made. Sperry said there were 28 pas- (Please Turn to Page Seven) Two Killed in Lincoln Crash St.

Louis Man and Infant Die; Waynesville Driver Injured By Associated Press LINCOLN-A St. Louis man and a year -old child. killed in an automobile collision near here. were identified by Coroner C. Hoff today as Frank Benfoniti, 45, and Thomas Bartoletta, one.

Mrs. Josephine Palma Bartoletta, 35, mother of the child. was in a critical condition at a local hospital with skull, leg and arm fractures. Another son, Sam Bartoletta, 12, gave officials the names. He also was reported to have a fractured skull.

The Benfoniti car collided late yesterday with an automobile being driven northward by Arthur Adair. 50, Waynesville, who was less seriously injured. Coroner Goff, postponing the inquest, said Benfoniti and Mrs. Bartoletta were distant relatives. They were driving from Chicago Ito St.

Louis. Deadlock Hits Movement for Spanish Peace Eden Calls Recess in Conference to Prevent Smashup By Associated Press. LONDON Europe's principal powers were arrayed today in a new deadlock over Spanish neutrality, particularly on the procedure of clearing foreign troops from the warring country. The latest of almost countless impasses in this wrangle resulted from refusal of the Fascist bloc--Italy, Germany and Portugal to agree to be bound by figures on foreign soldiery to be tabulated by two proposed international commissions of inquiry in Spain. Would Take Census The commissions would take a census of foreign soldiers and supervise their evacuation under the now threatened plan before the nine-nation sub-committee of the London non-intervention body.

Another was Soviet Russia's opposition to the granting of belligerent rights to the warring sides in Spain until all foreign fighters had been withdrawn. Ivan Maisky, envoy of Russia which sympathizes with the Spanish republican government, heightened the tension in a bitter debate with Italy's ambassador to London. Count Dino Grandi, when the subcommittee met yesterday to put the finishing touches the plan to restore non-intervention. Eden Blocks Smashup Only a proposal by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, chairman of the sub-group, prevented what might have been a smashup of the negotiations. He may only have postponed it.

He called for a recess until Monday, but today the next meeting of the subcommittee was postponed until Tuesday afternoon to give more time to try to obtain agreements from the governments involved. Kerosene Blast Injures Woman Mrs. Irwin Wines of Mt. Pulaski Seriously Injured; Garage Burns By Staff Correspondent MT. PULASKI Mrs.

Irwin Wines of Mt. Pulaski was in a serious condition in St. Clara's hospital, Lincoln, after receiving severe burns when kerosene which she was using to light a cookstove fire in her home exploded at 7 o'clock this morning. The explosion threw the oil over her and the flames consumed her clothing. Neighbors extinguished the flames and little damage was done to the home.

In another fire, at 11 o'clock Friday night, a car and garage at the farm home of Fred Horn, south of town, were destroyed. The damage. estimated at $1,500, was covered by insurance. Texas "Vigilantes" Fight Cotton Raiders Mexican Border Bristles With Guns In War Against Rustlers. By Associated Press EL PASO, The international boundary bristled with guns last night as embattled Texas ranchers fought off cotton raider in a new version of the Southwest's bloody rustler wars.

Paid riflemen and heavily armed officers patrolled the Rio Grande border ranches as they did in the days of the cattle wars-but now they're guarding cotton fields. Several cotton rustlers have been killed. At least two bloody gun battles have been fought within the last 10 days but there have been no captures. Battlefront of the cotton rustling offspring of nearly defunct cattle and liquor smuggling operations-is the Fabens island area along the Rio Grande, 35 miles east of El Paso, and comprising 3.000 acres of rich cotton land which produces nearly three bales to the acre. 25 Egyptian Students Injured During Riot By Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt-Twenty-five persons were wounded today when police clashed with several thousand students of Giza university trying to enter Cairo for a demonstration against the government.

The demonstration was planned to coincide with the opening of a special session of parliament late today. AGED SPECTATOR DIES Associated Press CALEDONIA -William Goold. Caledonia, died suddenly at Beloit, last night while walking to a nephew's home from Strong stadium where he had attended the Beloit-Madison west high school football game. Rail Issues Lead In New Drop In Market; Change In Freight Rates Blamed DIES GEORGE H. LORIMER EXONERATED "Lady in Red" Acquitted Freed in Slaying of Attacker, Margaret Drennan Plans to "Get Away for a Rest" By Preses.

ISELIN, N. Margaret Drennan, acquitted by a jury, smilled wanly today as she spoke of her one wish -to "get for a rest from this little town where on a night six weeks ago she shot to death Paul Reeves, young father of two children. Sitting in the warmth of her onestory home and surrounded by her family, to which she returned after weeks in jail and five days on trial for murder, the 20-year-old secretarial student declared she planned to pass "a couple of days" here first and then take a trip. "I want to get away," said the "lady in red." "I'm going to rest up. I need But none of her plans is definite.

"Oh, I don't know." she replied George Horace Lorimer Dies Pneumonia Fatal to Former Saturday Evening Post Editor By Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA- George Horace Lorimer, editor who guided the Saturday Evening Post in its rise from a little known magazine, d'ed last night at 10:30 p. m. He was 69. Lorimer, who from the editorship Jan.

had been retired. critically ill of pneumonia since last Thursday at his home in suburban Wyncote. He contracted a cold several weeks ago. Dr. Walter T.

Annon, his personal physician, said the cold developed into bronchit's. which was followed by pneumonia. Began as Clerk. Lorimer. who had passed the crisis several days ago, suffered a relapse early last night.

His physicians said the pneumonia had put a strain on his heart. Lorimer's sons. Burford and Graeme, and his wife were at his bedside when he died. Lorimer made two starts in his career before he joined the Saturday Evening Post. One of those starts was in the meat packing business in Chicago with Armour Co.

eight years later he quit for reporter's job on the Boston Post. Two years later he was on his way to Philadelphia as the result of a letter of application to Cyrus H. K. Curtis who had just bought the Post. Lorimer was born in Louisville.

Oct. 6. 1868. a son of the (Please Turn to Page Three) Louisville Girl Named McKendree College Queen By Associated Press LEBANON-Miss Geraldine Gibson of Louisville, reigned as football queen at the McKendree college homecoming today. The brunet, Phi Lambda Tau sorority member, will be crowned at the McKendree-Oakland city college game.

FREEPORT STUDENT HURT By Associated Press FREEPORT -John Jerusis. 16. sophomore lineman on the Waukegan high school football team. was in a hospital here today with a slight brain concussion incurred last night in the Freeport-Waukegan game. He regained consciousness today and his condition was said to be not critical.

Selling Wave Soon Spreads To Wide Front U.S. Steel Common Down to New Low Level for Year to most questions in the same low. soft voice she used when she told story on the witness stand. "She said she still wanted to continue the secretarial work that was interrupted by the tragedy Sept. 7 when, she told a jury of 11 men and a woman, she shot Reeves because he attacked her a second time.

"Just walked up and down mostly." she answered to the question how she spent the 3 hours and 20 minutes during which the jury deliberated yesterday. A desolate picture of her future was painted for the jury in the summation of one of her attorneys, George L. Burton. "She can't go back to Iselin and make that her home." the lawyer said. "She's got to break away from her family.

In a few months she will have a child." State Rural Youth Conference Opens; 500 in Attendance By Associated Press URBANA- -The fourth annual statewide Rural Youth conference attracted about 500 young men and women to the University of Illinois today for demonstations in agricultural and home economics subjects, group discussions, music. lectures, a banquet and a recreation program. The Rural Youth activities, as sponsored by the extension service of the university's college of agriculture, are planned for unmarried rural young people past the age for -H work. Entire Faculty Out In "No Pay" Strike By Associated Press SANISH. N.

teachers of the Sanish school--the entire teaching force -were on strike Friday, serving notice on the school board they would not resume classwork until they receive their pay checks. The school board, Henry Westby, chairman, said today, is sympathetic, but can do nothing because the district has not received money from the state equalization fund for which it applied on the basis of need. THEFT IN HILLSBORO. By Staff Correspondent HILLSBORO- A shotgun, valued at $36. was stolen from the home of William Dilley here Wednesday during the absence of the.

family. Cloudy Cloudy Decatur and vicinity: Much cloudiness night and Sunday; slightly below freezing tonight; rising temperature Sunday. DECATUR WEATHER Compiled by The ReviewHigh Fri. 43 7 a. m.

Sat. 32 7 p. m. Fri. 38 Noon Sat.

34 Low Sat. 31 Precip. trace Sun rose 6:17: sets 5:09 p. m. Degree days 31; since Sept.

12. 434; same period year ago, 165. Lake level at damFri. ft. above dam.

ft. above dam. Barometer Fri. noon 29.41 Today 29.36 (Additional weather on page 7) By Associated Press. NEW YORK-The stock market swept into another broad decline today as offered shares swamped traders and forced prices down $1 to as much as $8.

Railroad and steel issues were first to feel the selling wave, which, however, soon spread through all divisions of the market. U. S. Steel common dropped to a new low level for the year and Union Pacific. Louisville Nashville, Santa Fe and Southern Pacific suffered wide losses.

Rate Change Blamed Investors' disappointment with the freight rate increases granted the carriers yesterday by the interstate commerce commission, coupled with the fact the market already had discounted them in higher prices the last few days, was said by brokers to have been one of the primary causes of the slump. Volume, as it has been every day during the kaleidoscopic week of breaks and rallies. was heavy, with the ticker tape behind actual transactions by as much as four minutes at times. Buyers were not plentiful. and the frequent wide spread between offerings and bid prices caused difficulty, at times, itt effecting transactions.

Rail Heads Glum Announcement the interstate commerce commission had granted the application of southeastern railroads for an increase in passenger coach fares had little effect upon the carrier shares. More or less pessimistic statements by railroad executives were taken into Wall Street's consideration. Three Hurt in Crash Returning from Dance By Associated Press BELVIDERE -Two women and a man returning from a dance were injured seriously early today in an automobile collision. They were Theresa Zimmerman, residing between Huntley and Union: Jessie Vanlue, 18, residing near Harvard. and Clyde W.

Vehan of Woodstock. They were treated here and taken to Sherman hospital, Elgin. Hunt Bodies of Men Drowned in Watermain By Associated Press -Engineers and workmen joined forces today in a weird search for bodies of two men lost in a mile and a half sewer main. The men, Walter Statz, 44, and Arthur F. Peterson.

30, both of Boston. entered the main yesterday to open a valve controlling an auxiliary flow of water. They were overcome by sewer gas and tumbled into the stream. Seek Blood Donors For Injured Player By Associated Press JOLIET-Volunteers with blood suitable for a transfusion were sought by physicians attending Floyd Stroh. 15-year-old junior high school football player who suffered a rupture of stomach blood vessels in a game Friday.

The boy was reported in a serious condition after an emergency operation at a hospital. Douglas Demo Women To Hear Congressman La Grange. bird dog trainer and farmer, had before it commonwealth evidence that the 61- year -old Denhardt was shot in the back and defense testimony that Roy shot the general when the latter reached for his hip pocket. The defense also presented expert testimony that Roy had been "temporarily insane." Denhardt was shot Sept. 20.

His second trial was scheduled in nearby New Castle the following day. Mrs. Taylor, a pretty brunet widow with two daughters, was shot to death Nov. 6. 1936, on a Henry county side road where the automobile in which she had been riding most of the day with Denhardt had stalled.

Denhardt said she killed herself over family objections to their proposed marriage. By Staff Correspondent. TUSCOLA-The Douglas county Democratic women's organization composed of 25 precinct committeewomen will meet Thursday, Oct. 28. at the Chamber of Commerce hall for a pot luck dinner and to hear addresses by Congressman Hugh Rigney, Mrs.

Louise O'Connor, Galesburg, committeewoman for the 15th district, and Miss Mary Davidson, Carthage, 4th district committeewoman. Miss Nell F. Taylor, Tuscola, 19th district committeewoman in charge of the meeting, said the purpose of the gathering was to discuss tional issues and the national campaign. The precinct leaders will conduct a business session after their dinner and then hear the speakers. The public is invited to hear the discussions.

Mrs. Bertha Smith, Arcola, will preside at the meeting as I chairman of the organization..