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Em ALU mem THE WEATHER Fair EDITORIALS PAGE 6 Here Is the Opportunity Setting Them Right on Moweaqua Juvenile Hoboes They Should Make It Short 52D YEAR 14 Pages. THREE CENTS Decatur, Illinois, WEDNESDAY MORNING, December 28, 1932 CD) GRAVE AWAITS MOWEAQUA MINE VICTIM TSfS T- CHASE WARNS OFTOORIGIDUSE BODIES BLAST OF 14 MINE VICTIMS MAY SALES TAX IDEA PUT ON SHELF BY DEMOCRATS Roosevelt Attitude Kills House Plans for This Session Garner GOVERNOR 'HORRIFIED' TODAY BE RECOVERED A large grave yawned Tuesday beside the freshly filled mounds of two smaller graves, as the body of Roy Reatherford, Moweaqua mine blast victim, awaited burial. The two smaller graves are those of his two children who died a month ago. i The grave with the tombstone is that of John F. Reatherford, 18 years old son of the dead miner, who died in 1928.

The man leaves a widow and one small child. Herald fc Photo. OF ECONOMY AX U. of I. President Fears Educational Agencies May Be Crippled EDUCATORS SUFFER Springfield AP President Har-y W.

Chase of the University of Illinois, addressed the annual meeting of the Illinois State Teachers' association here Tuesday night, warning them that "in the present bewildered state of public mind, there is grave danger that educational and cultural agencies will be so crippled that a whole generation of young people will be denied adequate educational opportunity. "It is possible," he said, "to do harm in a few yetfrs that these agencies will not recover from in decades." Educators Suffer "It is the literal truth," Dr. Chase said, "that education has suffered and bids fair to suffer at the hands of the public in this present economic situation more than any other type or kind of public enterprise. With the large tax burdens of today there is very real danger that indiscriminate efforts at re-; trenchment under the type of thinking which seems to be prevalent will, damage the fundamental structure of our educational system to a point where recovery will be long and difficult. Already, I think, grave harm has been done to the morale of the teaching profession.

Many a teacher with a devoted record of public service, many men and women who have put their lives into teaching and derived there from satisfactions which came not so much from financial returns as from the knowledge of a socially important service well done, have been bewildered to find that suddenly they were being regarded as tax-eaters who should be gratenil for the fact that they were allowed to operate at all. Favors Economies "I am for all legitimate econo mies. All of our educational and cultural enterprises must be pre pared for lean years. But I am against the growing madness that would slash expenditures blindly regardless of fundamental xalues Any serious attempt to reduce public expenditures must concern itself with graft and waste, with or ganization and co-ordination lor sreater efficiency, it should pro ceed through analysis, not through hysteria. "I repeat, I am for educational economies.

But I am not for any crippling of our system of public education. We are being asked to day to train young men and wom en for a world where the future is far from clear. We know that the difficulties they must face may be far greater than ours. To cope with this they will need all the intelli gence and information they can ob tain. Our schools are our insurance for the future.

"I am convinced that public opinion is for popular education. Bewildered as it is at this moment, it will clarify and assert itself. It is for us in the. meantime to try to hold intact those fundamental conditions and values that will make renewed progress possible when this period of readjustment is over." Peoria County Girl Test as 'Lying' Springfield AP A blonde blue eyed little girl of 13, spelled 283 hard words here Tuesday without an error and Tuesday night was introduced at the 78th meeting of the Illinois State Teachers association as the champion public school speller of Illinois. Doris E.

Cowser of a rural school near Mapleton in Peoria county was the champion. The word that gave her the title was meaning "to recline," which she spelled correctly, thereby winning by one word from Cosie Kutz, a brown haired little girj of 12 years, from Olney in Richland county. Both freckled by life on the farm, the little girls left all other competitors far behind, by spelling such difficult words as "isinglass," "hemorrhage" "charivari," and "geyser," which proved too much for the others. They stayed together through the first 150 words, then 75, and then three sets of ten words each, before Cosie went down at the call for the word Boys were decidedly out-classed as spellers. Only one third of them survived the 75 words given after the first 150.

Doris Cowser was awarded a gold medal and was given a banner to take back to her school. Cosie Kutz also was awarded a medal, as was Dorothy Oathout, of Cissna Park, Iroquois county. Five others were given honorable mention at the teachers meeting, as follows: fourth, Betty Jewell, daughter of Senator Jewell of Lewistown; fifth, Loretta Newton, of Whitehall, Green county; sixth. Forest Keenan, ot Annapolis. Crawford county, the only boy to enter the finals; seventh, Josephine Rowland of Martinsville, Clark county, and eighth, Kathryn Ewig, of Mt.

Olive, Macoupin county. HOLD FUNERAL FOR 8 MINERS Rescue Crews to Continue Search; Joint Services at 10:30 Moweaqua While 32 coffins stood row on row in the Masonic temple- building, closed forever on Oie bodies of the remaining victims recovered from the Moweaqua mine blasts, John Millhouse, director of rescue work in the mine, said lhat he hopes to have the remaining 14 bodies out of the mine by Wednesday night. Funeral services for eight of the men were conducted Tuesday. Nina funeral services, which will mark, the final rites of 30 of the 54 "men killed in the blast, are planned for Wednesday. Find Gas Pocket As arrangements for Wednesday's funerals were being completed Tuesday night, recovery work came to a complete stand still for a time and workers ordered away from the danger a'r when it was reported thut had struck a pocket of gas behind a certain at a heavy fall 800 feet in the entry.

Word of the gas, telephoned to surface, led Mr. Millhouse to order the rescue party out of the entry and far back along the main entry in free ariT while he went below to investigate. Men coming out of the mine reported the gas as very heavy, with considerable heat encountered. Their report and the order for the men to jget out into free air led to the belief that a condition had been met that might make it necessary to leave the bodies and seal the 'mine over them as their tomb for all tim. Some of the men also reported difficulty in maintaining and adequate supply of oxygen in their tanks and had gust enough to make the free air be fore the supply was gone.

In Good Shape After being in the mine about an hour, Mr. Millhouse returned to the surface with word that everything was in good shape and that work was proceeding. He was met at the entrance of the north entry by Jim Clusker, superintendent of mine rescue work, and informed that the amount of gas was not as great as had been thought and that the men could return. No bodies were found during the day, Tuesday, as the men worked into the entry. The onediscovered at midnight, Monday, the 40th so far recovered, was removed early Tuesday morning and was identi fied as Tom Jackson.

At 1 a. m. this morning the teams in the mine had penetrated between 800 and 1000 feet into the north entry where the remaining men of the original 54 miners entombed, were caught by the blast. The largest funeral service will be that of 14 Roman Catholic dead for whom mass will be conducted Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. by Bishop James Griffin, Springfield.

Music will be by memb.rs of the faith from Decatur. The services will be in the gymnasium in Moweaqua. Men for whom the Catholic services will be conducted are: Joe Ju-rick, Max Jurick, Andy Supena, John Supena, John Negrie, Andy Potsick, Andy Smorada, Andy Floski, John Hartsall.a, George Ondes, Mike Krojnak, Joe Krall, Mike Tirpak. Protestant services some singly and some in groups will be conducted in various churches and homes throughout the day. A father and two sons, Andy, Andy, Jr.

and John Corby, will lie side by side in- the Presbyterian church as funeral rites are observed at 9:30 a. m. Wednesday. Services for Jim Birley will be (Continued on Page 2) A Market for Baby Buggies If you glance through the paper this morning you'll find that there is steady cash market through Classified for good used baby buggies. Read the ad which tells of this need, then if you have a buggy to sell, dial 5151.

Decatur Herald Classified Dept Dial 5151 LOAN SOUGHT FROM R. F. Governor Emmerson Promises State Aid in Relief Conference Moweaqua Possibility that through a self-liquidating loan which may be obtainable from Reconstruction Finance -corporation, the town of Moweaqua may rehabilitate its mine and solve per- Mayor Appeals for Red Cross Funds Moweaqua Mayor Charles Howard Tuesday issued the following appeal for funds to carry on the Red Cross relief work among families stricken by the mine disaster: "The distress" that has come to our community because of the disastrous mine explosion which occurred Christmas Eve and brought death to fifty-four of aur citizens, has brought many expressions of sympathy and help from our neighbors. In order that the greatest good may result from the helpful spirit of our sympathizers who are making, contributions to our relief funds, I have asked the American National Red Cross to be the administrative agency to direct and administer all relief funds contributed to the relief of our citizens. An appeal to the public to make as generous contributions as is possible, and give them assurance that all funds contributed to the Moweaqua mine disaster will be administered according to the usual disaster practices of the American National Red Cross.

-I CHAS. HOWARD Mayor manently the relief problem for at least half a hundred miners, was seen by officials Tuesday night. Fearing that the cost of repairing the damage done to the mine by Saturday morning's blast in which 54 miners were killed might prohibit the re-opening of the mine, citizens were grasping at every hope of avoiding this economic disaster for MoweaqvJi, which depends almost entirely upon its mine for a livelihood. May Advance Money "It is possible that the R. F.

may be able to advance money for this project under the self liquidating plan," Albert Evans, Red Cross disaster relief director in charge of relief work here said Tuesday night "Certainly such a plan would offer employment to the men of 50 or more families which have been thrown out of work by the closing of the mine. If a plan can be worked out by which it could be shown that the mine would be able to re-(Continued on Page 2) Wins Spelling Stumps Olney Lass SAVED SLAYER FROM CHAIR; NOW MUST PROSECUTE CLIENT Belleville AP Louis P. Zer-weck, newly inducted into office as prosecutor of St. Clair county, now finds himself in a "position opposite to that held when, as defense attorney, he temporarily saved from the electric chair Elwood Rose, 27 years old negro who was convicted for murder. Zerweck won a stay and appealed Rose's'case to the Illinois supreme court, which last April reversed the conviction and remanded the case for a new trial.

Rose was removed only Tuesday from the death cell tier at Southern Illinois penitentiary, and brought here for retrial. Under his oath of office, Zerweck now must prosecute hie former client. Rose was indicted for killing Elbert Mankin, railroad special agent' in East St. Louis in a robbery in 1931. Redfern, Long Lost Flier May Be Alive in Brazil Pittsburgh AP Mrs.

Paul Red-fern, young wife of the aviator who disappeared five years ago on' an attempted non-stop flight to Brazil, said Tuesday that a report her bus-band is safe is "the mq.st welcome Christmas gift I ever received." Redfern is reported to be living as the captive king of a tribe of South American Indians in the Rio Madeira region near the borders of the Brazilian states of Amazonas and Maatto Blast Shakes Residence on ine Property A theory that an explosion in the room in the Moweaqua mine where fire started Thursday, propelled inflammable gas into the north entry an hour and a half before the greater blast, was given greater credence Tuesday, when it was learned that a residence directly above this room was shaken early morning. Miss Mary living about half a mile west of town and over the north end of the north entry, says that she distinctly felt a sharp shock some time between 6:15 and 6:45 Saturday morning. She was still in bed at the time when the tremor occurred. She says it flash ed into her mind that there had been an earthquake, but as quickly as the thought came she dismissed it because earthquakes do not occur' here. She then thought that something happened in the mine, but the actual catastrophe did not produce the same tremor- The Gregory family is accustomed to hearing explosions in the mine, according to Miss Gregory, because when work is in progress at the north end, the blasting shots fired at the face in the evening could be felt in the house above.

"Mr. Herroitt the mine manager told us that the men were working right under our house," Miss Gregory said. The main explosion that wrecked the interior of the mine and snuffed out the lives of the 54 men who had just entered, was not felt. WOMAN 79 FALLS FROMAUTODIES Strikes Head on Pavement as Auto Swerves on Road Near Mattoon Mattoon (Special) Mrs. Olive Arnold of Jewett, 79, died of a skull fracture at 7:30 p.

m. Tuesday in the Memorial hospital here. She was injured at 1:30 p. m. when she fell from a car driven by her son, George Arnold, of Mattoon, to the pavement on Route 25 between Humboldt and Mattoon.

Mr. Arnold was taking his mother, who had made her home with him since the death of her husband, George Arnold, the first of December, to the home of her brother, Joe Odeli; in Areola. Between Humboldt and Areola they met a truck, which crowded Mr. Arnold off the pavement As- he attempted to drive back onto the pavement he struck the shoulder of the pavement arid the jolt caused the door of the car on Mrs. Arnold's side to become unfastened.

She fell from the car and struck her head on the pavement. Mrs. Arnold leaves the following children: Mrs. Lizzie Beals of' Mrs. Rose Andrews of Caledonia, Louis Arnold of Argyle, Iva Arnold of Pontiac, and George, of Mattoon; one sister, Mrs.

Anna Wilson of Tecumseh, and one brother, Joe Odell of Areola; 27 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. The body was taken to Greenup. Funeral arrangements are incom plete. 'KITTY MALM, TIGER WOMAN', OF CHICAGO, DIES IN JOLIET PEN Joliet AP Katherine Baluk, cen tral figure of a sensational Chicago murder case who was sentenced to life in the state penitentiary in 1924 died behind the bars Tuesday of pneumonia. Described to the jury as "Kitty Malm, the tiger woman," she' was convicted of murder in the slaying of Edward Lehman, watchman of the Delson knitting mills, in a rob bery.

She spurned an offer of a 14-year sentence and was convicted, being sentenced to serve a life term. Only last week the state board of paroles and pardons denied her request for freedom. She caught pneumonia Sunday night, prison officials said, and died shortly after noon Tuesday. Offers $1,000 Gem to Boy for Lands in Jail Paoria UP When George Sloan. 22, offered to sell a diamond ring valued at to a telegraph messenger boy for $1.50 Tuesday, the youth agreed to buy and told him to wait while he went for the money.

Instead of cash, the boy brought a city detective. In Sloan's jiockets the ring and other jewelry fstolen from the home of H. M. Rogers were found. Washington AP The sales tax, recommended by President Hoover and again thrust forward in Congress in the past few days, was virtually dismissed Tuesday as a possibility at the present session.

This was clearly indicated after President-elect Roosevelt at Albany was represented as being horrified" by published reports that he had indorsed the general manufacturers sale tax. That Knds It This attitude on the part of the next President, said Speaker Garner, "kills the sales tax this session anyhow." Even before this, Senator Harrison of Mississippi, ranking Democrat on the Senate finance committee had expressed the opinion that the sales tax could not pass through this branch, a view generally held by Democratic leaders. To Study Financing The ways and means committee of the House will begin on Jan. 3 an exhaustive study of federal financing. This is the tax-raising committee and its chairman.

Collier of Mississippi, only Monday said he knew of no means of balancing the budget except the sales tax. However, the views of Presidentelect Roosevelt communicated to Congress have been directed largely at reduction of expenditures, and intensive work along that line is in progress. A study cf fixed expenditures, which do not vary from year to year, and amount in all to more than a billion, with a view toward reduction, was undertaken by a subcommittee of the appropriations commitee at the request of Chairman Eyrns. As Democratic congressional leaders understand -it, the Presidentelect would like the present session to adopt a resolution for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, pass a beer bill, cut expenditures to the bone, and enact a Democratic farm rLiX measure. If all this could be done, Senator Harrison said Tuesday, "we could get along without an extra session until late summer." Mississippi Sales Tax to Be Explained in Chicago Chicago AP How Mississippi's state sales tax has worked out will be.

explained to Chicagoans Jan. 13 by Gov. Senr.ett Conner of that state, attaches of Mayor Cermak'3 office said Tuesday. The mayor invited Governor Conner to speak before a gathering of citizens at the Midland Club. The Mississippi executive accepted.

FRAjrTbWINGa s. 19 MILLION, DEBATES LOAN TO AUSTRIA Paris AP The war debt ques tion for the moment has entered a diplomatic lull but it doubtless will be raised again Wednesday and Thursday when the Chamber of Deputies will debate the issue of French participation in a reconstruction loan to Austria. At the Lausanne conference last July the powers decided to' lend Austria 300,000,000 shillings (about one third of which, or more than 514,000,000, would come from France. There has been some criticism of the government lending money to Austria when it has just refused to pay the December war debt interest of about $19,000,000 to the United States. The finance committee of the chamber voted 10 to 5 in favor of the loan, with numerous abstentions.

HELD OX BRIBE CHARGE Sycamore AP Accused of bribery in the operation of slot machines Deputy Sheriff Leo Fish-bach Tuesday was bound over to the February grand jury and liberated on $2,000 bond. TOE" WEATHER FORECAST FOR ILLINOIS Generally fair Wednesday; Thursday probably rain, warmer in central and east. LOCAL WEATHER 7am 93 Noon 4: 7 p. m. 36 Highest 48 Lowest -T.

21 Sun rises 7:15 Sun sets ..4:49 TEMPERATURES 7 High Low p.m. Tues Mon Boston 42 44 32 New York 42 46 38 Jacksonville 68 76 4 New Orleans 54 68 58 Chicago 36 42 30 Cincinnati 34 38 30 Detroit 32 42 30 Memphis 46 48 3S Kansas City 40 48 34 Oklahoma City 44 52 32 Minneapolis 20 32 32 Omaha 32 38 30 Heena 34 38 22 San Francisco 46 48 40 GREEK COURT FREES 1NSULL Holds Ex-Utility King Had No lntention of Embezzling Funds Athens AP A Greek court Tuesday refused to sanction the extradition of Samuel Insull to the United States "to answer Chicago, charges of mismanagement of the funds of his utilities companies. The court found that depositions brought. to Athens from Chicago did not support the charges against the former utilities operator, and let him go free. There were extraordinary scenes among the large crowd which had gathered for the verdict and shouts of "long live Greek justice!" Echoed through the building from which Insull emerged something of a hero.

"I owe thanks to Greek justice," the Chicagoan said. The charges against Mr. Insull in Chicago are grand larceny and embezzlement. They involve payments of $66,000 and $104,000 which, according to a deposition made by Oliver McCormick, treasurer of the utilities companies, were made to brokers for Martin Insull, a brother. The prosecution contended these payments constituted The court held they were ordinary business transactions, that they were loans made for the purpose of saving the price of stock in which companies were greatly interested.

Mr. Insull had no fraudulent intention, the court decided, and he committed no offense. The tribunal held that none of the charges made against him had been backed up by the depositions presented in court, and that there was no justification for extradition. 500 Chicagoans Seized Each Month in Rum Cases Chicago AP About 500 arrests were made in Chicago every month in 1932 for liquor law violations, M. W.

Harney, prohibition administrator for the Illinois district, said Tuesday. The rate of arrests was about equal to that of 1931, Harney said. RE-MARRY Washington UP Lina Basquette, stage and motion picture actress, and Teddy Hayes, who trained Jack Dempsey, were re-married here Tuesday by Municipal Judge Robert E. Mattingly. Girl Promises to Fugitive Gives Up Sterling AP Howard Middle-tqn, 23, of Walnut, 111., Tuesday completed a hitch hiking trip to re-enter the state penal farm at Vandalia and finish a sentence he i was serving when he escaped a short time after his incarceration.

Middleton surrendered here and explained that he had been per-sauded to return from Rochester, by- the parents of his fiancee, to whom he had confessed his past. The girl, he said, promised to wait for him until his release from the farm, scheduled for next September. The youth was sent to the institution on May 2, 1931, on a larceny charge to serve one year. He escaped a short time later and fled West, he said, visiting Los Angeles, Seattle, and Rochester, where he was befriended by a family with whose daughter he fell in love. He told her of his imprisonment and escape, he said, and she told her parents, who advised him to return to Illinois.

INSANE WOMAN K1LLSM0THER Former Dix'on Inmate Slashes Own Throat, Wrists in Evanston Evanston AP Miss Anna King, 42, former inmate of the Dixon state hospital, who fatally stabbed her aged mother and fled from their home brandishing a butcher knife, was found Tuesday night, her throat id wrists slashed and the knife in her chest. actors said she likely would die. Police, pushing an intense search for the demented woman since the killing a few hours eailier, found her lying at a street intersection. Miss King's victim was Mrs. Jane King, 73.

Mrs. John B. King, a daughter in law, said she heard the aged woman scream and ran to the basement to find her dying. Police posted guards over other relatives of the slain woman and Kept close watch on the lake front, fearing that Miss King might attempt to drown herself. She made such an attempt a few weeks ago, relatives said, and Christmas day repeated threats to end her life.

Miss King was discharged from the hospital in February, 1931. Ker brother, John, however, made application for re-entry recently, stating- that she frequently displayed rage and a violent temper. VIOLENCE FLARES IN ORIENT; MINER SHOT INU.M.,P. M. A.

ROW Orient, 111 AP Guns blazed In Orient Monday night and four persons were shot as the smoldering fires of a mine union feud flared. The shooting culminated an argument "between Mike Nameth, provisional treasurer for the Old Orient local of the United Mine Workers union and Clyde Perkins, said to be a member of the Progressive Miners union, over distribution, of literature of the latter organization. Perkins was wounded in both arms, officers said, in an exchange of shots with Nameth who escaped injury, but who was subsequently arrested and charged with attempt to murder. He was released later on $1,000 bond. Three bystanders were wounded slightly by stray bullets.

They were Charles Barton, shot in the left elbow. John Halko. wounded in the left arm, and George Michaloski, shot in the left hand. Scatter Ashes of Engineer From Train, Will Directs Chicago AP A peculiar request that his ashes be scattered along the right of way of the railroad for which he worked was disclosed" Tuesday when the will of Charles M. Smith, engineer for the Pennsylvania, was probated.

The will asked that his ashes "be scattered from a cab of a locomotive "at the close of the day as the sun is eo'mz down in the West" I at a point known as the Beverly i curve inside the city. Revamping of Illinois Livestock Laws Urged Chicago AP Reorganization of the Illinois department of Agriculture's livestock sanitation program, with Pennsylvania's system as a pattern, was asked by Representative State agriculture leaders meeting here Tuesday. The proposed revisions will be presented to Governor-Elect Henry Horner Thursday, spokesmen said. BOY DROWNS Janeaville, Wis. AP John Sullivan, 12, newsboy, was drowned Tuesday when he fell through the ice of Rock river while playing.

A companion. Jack' Fox, tried to rescue him, but failed. Will Urge Senate Search for Road to Better Times Washington AP A systematic search by a Senate committee for the road to prosperity was proposed Tuesday by Senator Harrison of Mississippi. The senator, ranking- Democrat on the finance committee, announced he would offer a resolution immediately after the holidays calling for a study "of the whole economic situation with a view primarily of obtaining constructive suggestions from leading economists, financiers and statesmen as to methods and policies to restore economic stability. The Mississippi would include all economic subjects, particularly currency stabilization, inflation and silver on the agenda for committee consideration.

has- discussed the proposal informally with committee members and believes the Senate is inclined to favor prompt action- It was the first proposal in the Senate this sess'on for a general study of the nation's economic ills. SEEK GIRL FRIEND OF 'RIDE' VICTIM FOR CLUES IN MURDER Wheaton AP Another woman was the object of authorities' search Tuesday for clues in the murder of 19 old Gertrude Modrow, whose body was found alongside a country road early Christmas morning. Investigators delved into the past few years of the girl's life, and sought some friend of hers to assist them. "Every girl gives her confidence to some other girl," said Allen Myer, investigator for the Du Page county prosecutor, "and we want to find the girl who knew the secrets of Gertrude Modrow." George Gruerine, of Melrose Park, who had a date with the victim Christmas eve, was questioned by authorities and told them Miss Modrow had been worrying over an affair with a married man. Police still were working on the possibility that the girl had become involved in some manner with liquor traffickers who sealed her lips in the underworld's customary manner to prevent leakage of information concerning their activities.

HOOVER, TRYING TO FIND FISH THAT'LL BITE, SAILS SOUTH With President's Party off Florida Coast AP His fishing plans briefly interrupted Tuesday by consideration of war debts and other government- problems, President Hoover gave orders to hurry on Southward. The President spent moat of the day at a. temporary desk on the yacht Sequoia, giving his attention to accumulated mail and telegrams. The Sequoia moved rapidly southward through the picturesque Florida-waterways and paused early in the afternoon at St, Augustine. The President declined invitations to come ashore for a sightseeing tour at the quaint old Spanish-type community, however.

He was somewhat disturbed by his ill luck in fishing attempts so far and was eager to get further South where he had reports deep sea fish were biting. It was believed the cruise would carry them at least as far south as Miami in the next few days. HELD IX AUTO DEATH Los Angeles AP C. R. Mayes, 35, was arrested Tuesday in connection with the death Christmas eve of Mrs.

Jessie Eddyi widow of W. T. Eddy, former Quincy. newspaper man, who was killed almost instantly when struck by an automobile, tfie driver of which did not stop,.