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Sunday, August 30, 1936.. DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW PAGE THREE Father of Five DEMOCRATS NOMINATE M'GAUGHEY FOR REPRESENTATIVE D.S.M'Gaughey Learns About Baseball at 90 Vote of People Willi fcT i I i Dies Instantly Picked to Run on Recreation Levy Is Asked Petitions to Be Presented Council for Poll on $17,000 Tax Petitions calling for a public referendum on a property tax of in Auto Wreck William Brennan, 36, Killed. Companion Hurt Near LaPlace for Legislature Democratic Committee Names County Treasurer for Johnson Place Visitor From Florida Sees His First Game at Park Here, Goes Back for More. Sidney Bagley, 90 years old, saw his first baseball game here last week. A resident of Jacksonville.

he is visiting in the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. August Knorr, 357 Burtschi court. Mr. Bagley watched an industrial league game at Torrence park, and liked It so well he went back to see others. The visitor's 90th birthday will be celebrated today with a basket dinner to be attended by relatives and friends in the St.

Elmo park. $17,000 annually to support the Decatur community recreation program will be circulated Monday nomination are (left to right) George B. Marvel, Clinton; Miss Patricia M. Hunt, Decatur, and Howard Vaughn, Lincoln. (Staff Photo) County Treasurer Dean S.

McGaughey (at right) was nominated Saturday to run as a Democratic candidate for state representative in the 28th district. Members of the senatorial committee making the Dogs Bite 38 in August to Break Record William Brenner, 36. of 1147 East Garfield avenue father of five children, was killed at 7:30 p. m. Saturday when an automobile in which he was riding with Francis Russell.

Shelbyville, swerved from route 36 one half mile south of La Pace and overturned several times. Mr. Russell, driver of the automobile, suffered a fractured right arm and numerous cuts and bruises. He is in the St. Mary's fcosrital where his condition was j-enorted as not serious late last Bight.

According to sheriff's deputies, Russell and Brenner were driving east on route 36 near the junction of route 32 when the automobile struck the shoulder of the highway and overturned. The machine overturned several times, stopping in plowed field. Was Killed Instantly Mr. Brenner was believed to have been instantly killed when he was thrown clear of the wreck-are. The two men were taken to St.

Mary's hospital in Dobson's ambulance from Cerro Gordo. Mr. Russell. 29. a salesman for the Gowdy Motor Co.

at brought the automobile to Decatur Saturday for repairs. He and Mr. Brenner left Decatur ear-lv last evenng. Russell was in a semi conscious condition at the hospital and was unable to give authorities further details of the accident. Brenner was said to be the operator of a paint shop on North lasrer "street.

Boy, 11, Suffers Brain Concussion in Wreck Dean Seiock. 14. son of Mr. and Mrs. Pelmar Selock of Allendale, was brought to St.

Mary's hospital lr. Decatur last night, for treatment of injuries received when the automobile he was driving collided with one driver, by George Gifford. son of Mr. and Mrs. M.

A. Gifford of Sullivan, three miles southeast of at 5 p. m. Saturday. The bny suffered a concussion of th brain, ruts on the scalp and body and o'hor injuries.

Physicians said he should recover unless develop. The ac-ident happened at the intersection of two dirt roads a mile sou-h of the Masonic home. The automobiles crashed together at rirht ar.s!s on the intersection. Gifford. who was returning home from a Brown Shoe Co.

party, ran a mile to a farm house to call a McMuilin ambulance, from Sullivan, which brought the boy to the hospital. Iron Plant Employe Caught in Belt, Hurt Chve Stewart, 42, 2663 East Eldorado street, was reported last sijht at the Decatur and Macon county hospital to be recovering from a serious back injury he received Friday when he was caught in a moving belt at the Wagner I'aiieahle Iron where he is emniovf-d. Dr. D. A.

Prnce, attending Mr. Stewart, said X-ray pictures are being taker, to determine if Mr. S'ewart's injury is a fractured back. According to hospital authorities Mr. Stewart was said to have fallen into the moving belt while working at the Wagner plant Friday morning.

Sripprinn Fctoto Bank Employe Is Jailed for Embezzlement Harold Craig, 28, Confesses Theft of $12,700, Official Says (Continued from page 1) be bound over to the October grand jury. Undisturbed by his arrest, Craig told Sheriff Thornell: "You won't need when the sheriff produced a pair of handcuffs. President Gregory of the bank said the loss is fully covered by insurance. At the county jail where he was finger printed and photographed last night, young Craig appeared calm and unworried. When his attorney and a Herald and Review reporter appeared he said: "Why I'm not nervous.

I've been upstairs playing pinochle, and I won, Kefusps to Discuss Details The bank bookkeeper talked freely until questioned about the embezzlement that he would only-say: "I don't care to talk about He was graduated from Argenta high school before coming to Decatur. While in high school, Craig was a star player with the Argenta basketball team. He also has played basketball on Industrial league teams during the last several years. He has been with the bank for 10 years and resides at 528 South Crea street. Craig has been married for seven years and his wife has a baby three months ago.

He did not say in what manner he lost the money taken from the bank, but he was reported to have used most of it in Decatur gambling houses and racing handbook establishments. WITH THE SICK Miss Mattie Calhoun, former Decatur resident, is critically ill in the City hospital at Indianapolis, according to word received here Saturday. Miss Calhoun suffered a fractured hip several months ago and complications developed. She was associated with the Mueller company and the Bradley Brothers company while in Decatur. Survivors of Paralysis to Barter Blood Thirty Decatur persons who recovered from infantile paralysis during the last 10 years have vol unteered to sell a small quantity of their blood to the state health department Monday to be used as convalescent blood serum.

The blood donors will go to the Decatur and Macon county hospital between 1 and 4 p. m. Monday where Dr. Winston H. Tucker of the state health, department, and Dr.

H. J. Burstein will take their blood. The donors will be paid, accord ing to an announcement made by Dr. Frank J.

Jirka, state health director. Dr.Jirka said the blood of convalescent infantile paralysis patients is needed by the state department for serum. He said the state's supply of serum is low because of the increased prevalence of the disease recently. "Six years' experience in Illinois indicates that the administration of convalescent serum early in the course of illness is of great value in preventing paralysis," Dr. Jirka said.

The department maintains supplies of serum throughout the state for' free distribution to any citizen of Illinois who is in need of it. The call for blood from convalescents has been issued throughout the state. Dr. Burstein said the 30 persons from Decatur and vicin ity have volunteered from a pint to a quart of their blood. Decatur Men to Open New Shoe, Hat Store A.

T. Hardin, V. Max McCown Lease Neustadt Site Preparations to open a new shoe and millinery store in the present location of the Neustadt men store at the corner of Water and Prairie streets were announced Saturday by A. T. Hardin and W.

Max McCown, both of Decatur. The store will be operated under the firm name of Hardin-McCown. Mr. Hardin has formerly been manager of the Block Kuhl and the Stewart Dry Goods shoe departments, Mr. McCown moved here recently from Indianapolis, where he managed a Weise-Cramer shoe store.

Remodeling at a cost of about 000 will be done on the interior and exterior of the building. The work will start as soon as the building is vacated by the Neustadt clothing store, which is moving to a new location to 129 North Water street. The announcement said the new store will open about mid-Septem ber. New Type Front The Hardin-McCown store will have a new modern type front. Interior fixtures will be modern in design.

The floor will be carpeted and the shoe bins will be curtained with dubonnet drapes. Taupe, sand color and dubonnet will be the color scheme. The front section of the ground floor will be devoted to the shoe shop and the rear section to the 'millinery shop. The store owners have taken a long-term lease on both the first floor and basement of the building, they announced. It is planned to redecorate and furnish the Dean S.

McGaughey, Macon county -treasurer, was appointed Saturday as a Democratic nominee for state representative from the 28th district, to make the race in the place of the late Verne R. Johnson, whose death occurred after he had received nomination for re-election in the April primary. Selection of Mr. McGaughey was made in a meeting of the Democratic senatorial committee in the home of Miss Patricia Hunt, committee chairman, at 525 Wrest Cerro Gordo street. Miss Hunt, George Marvel" of Clinton and Howard Vaughn of Lincoln, members of the committee, were unanimous in the vote.

Mr. McGaughey conferred with the committee in Miss Hunt's home after receiving notice of his appointment. Hubbard's Running Mate The committee's selection came after a long delay in which committee members and local party leaders were secretive as to the probable selection or the date of the committee's meeting. The selection was delayed for at least two weeks, it was indicated, due to a variance of opinion as to which was the logical selection. Mr.

McGaughey will be a running mate of Representative Nicholas L. Hubbard of Mt. Pulaski in the party's effort to retain two seats in the general assembly for the 28th senatorial district. Representative Hubbard, strong supporter of Governor Horner, is completing his first term in the House. Until one year ago, Mr.

McGaughey took little active part in politics, except in his home community of Mt. Zion, where he was cashier of the Mt. Zion State bank. Last August he was appointed county treasurer by the board of supervisors to fill a vacancy caused by the death of the late J. M.

Eyman. He won that appointment as a compromise candidate, after the Democratic members of the board became deadlocked over the candidacies of C. H. Grady and Earl Walker. Term Expires Soon Mr.

McGaughey's term as treasurer will expire the first Monday in December. He was not a candidate for nomination for a full term as treasurer at the April primary, and apparently had planned to retire from political activity as a candidate until his political associates and friends advanced him as an available candidate for the legislature. CCC Camps to Have Services for Dern Memorials for Secretary of War Will Be Held Today The 400 workers at Decatur's two CCC camps, commissioned officers and members of the camp staffs will pay tribute to George Henry Dern, secretary of war who died Thursday, in special memorial services at the camps Sunday morning. The services will be held at 8 a. m.

at Camp Lake Decatur and at 10 a. m. at the Camp Macon. Lieut. Theodore V.

L. Harvey, assistant district CCC chaplain, will conduct both services. Camp workers, officers and staff members will assemble on the parade ground at each camp for the memorial rites. Following an address by Lieutenant Harvey a wreath will be placed at the flagpole and taps will be sounded. During the next 30 days flags at the two camps, as at army posts throughout the country, will be at half mast.

Commissioned officers of the camp will wear mourning bands during the period. The services at the two camps here are open to the public. Junior A. of C. Men on National Committees Two members of the Decatur Junior Association of Commerce have been named to national committees of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, according to an announcement Saturday by Walter Holman, national president.

Sari Richardson, director and last year's president of the Decatur association, is a member of the American committee; C. M. Nicholson, a director of the local organization, is a member of the Get-out-the-vote committee. ty or being convicted in the Macon county court would be admitted to probation. After the legislature fixed a jail sentence as mandatory, judges have been more disposed to hear probation pleas, although in the last 20 months, Judge J.

H. McCoy has granted probation to only two defendants according to cxmrt records. Need Strict Proof Trial courts require exacting proof of a drunken driving charge. A policeman may find a drunken driver in a car immediately after an accident. If the policeman has not seen the defendant actually driving the car, his testimony is insufficient to assure conviction.

In a recent trial, a defendant's car had swerved from the highway and-crashed against a filling station. The defendant was acquitted when ho testified a hitch-hiker, whom he had given a ride, was driving the car. None of the prosecuting witnesses was able to testify to seeing the defendant driving Lbe ajAchiue. mm Shoe Fund Gets Check for $100 Donor Remains Anonymous Girls' Home Needs Used Shoes A gift of $100 to the school shoe fund of the Decatur Girls' Welfare home was made Saturday by the same anonymous donor who earlier in the summer gave a like amount to the penny ice fund. The donation, announced by Mrs.

Cecil Jack, chairman of the welfare home board, was for the amount that the board had asked for the purchase of shoes for children of the home who soon will start to school. Need Second Hand Shoes Still needed, however, are second hand shoes. They should have moderately low heels and in sizes up to No. 7. The shoe campaign opened yesterday, but none had been left at the Herald and Review office by mid-afternoon.

The donor of the $100 entered the Herald and Review office this morning and asked for the place to make his contribution. He wrote the check and noticed the surprise upon the secretary's face. "Wrell, that's what you wanted, wasn't it?" he said. He refused to allow his name to be published. JOINS WARD FIRM Edward F.

Stapleton, 909 East Prairie avenue, associated until Saturday with the Gebhart-Gush-ard company here, will become manager of the shoe department of the Montgomery Ward Co. retail store in Clinton. basement later to house a low price shoe and millinery department. 12 To Be Employed The sales staff of the new store will include 12 persons and about 15 more persons will be added to the staff when the basement department is opened. Remodeling of the exterior of the store will include, besides the new front, repainting and installation of new awnings.

Neustadt's Remodeling Nears Completion Neustadt's clothing store will move to its new location at 129 North Water street within ten days, David Neustadt manager, said Saturday. Remodeling is neaiing completion. Work is being delayed awaiting the arrival of curved plate glass for the new front. The. store will occupy the three floors and basement.

A passenger elevator is being installed, and new store fixtures of modern design will be used The arrangement of the store in the new location will be: basement, work clothing, first floor, men's furnishings, second floor, men's and young men's clothing, third floor, children's clothing. The children's department will include apparel for both boys and girls. Girls clothing is a new line for Neustadt's. Its addition will require an increase in the number of clerks. SENATOR BARKLEY under the sponsorship of the Com munity Recreation association, Horace B.

Garman, president, announced Saturday. The petitions will be presented to the city council late this week with the request that the referen dum be called some time this fall, Mr. Garman said. Decision to cir culate the petitions this week was reached in a meeting of recrea tion officials Saturday. Recreation officals hope to raise between $17,000 and $18,000 yearly for the support of the recreation program if the referendum is suc cessful.

2,60) Names Required Mr. Garman said approximately 2,600 names are necessary for the referendum petition but recreation officials expect to get twice that number. Such a petition will make it mandatory for the city council to call a special election to decide the issue. Officials of the Community Re creation association explained last night they are asking the tax levy to insure the future of the local recreation program which is now financed by the Decatur Commun- ty Chest and the Works Progress administration. "Leaders of the Community Chest have asked the association to seek a public tax levy for support of the recreation program," Mr.

Garman stated. He said the recreation program has outgrown the support which it receives from the Chest and the program may have to be curtailed unless finan cial assistance is obtained through taxation. Supported by WPA "The program is practically sup ported by the WPA now and if the government drops its program in the future, as we fear it may. the Decatur recreation program would probably have to be drop ped, the association president declared. He said the tax levy is sought as insurance against the time the government assistance may be stopped.

According to law the city is al lowed to tax up to a maximum of two thirds mill for such a recreation program, Mr. Garman pointed out. Plans ask a special elec tion to have the people vote on such a levy have been discussed for several weeks by recreation officials. When plans for the action were first announced several weeks ago city officials failed to comment on the proposed move. Under the current plan the peti tions will be offered to the council within a week and then the coun- cilmen will have 30 davs in which is issue a call for a referendum.

The question will be placed on the ballot as a "yes" or "no" proposition allowing voters to signify if they wish the tax added to the city levy order to support the re creation program. Sunday Liquor Sales Vote to Be Oct. 13 Resolutions officially setting Tuesday, Oct. 13 as the date for the referendum on Sunday liquor and beer sales will be adopted by the city council this week. Mayor Charles E.

Lee announced last night. The resolutions will also make appointments of election judges and clerks for the special vote Oct. 13. The date for the referendum was selected by the councilmen several weeks ago but the official referendum call has not be issued by council vote. The special election is being called as the result of petitions submitted fo the council several weeks ago by the Decatur Retail Liquor Dealers' Protective association.

The question to be voted upon will be whether or not Decatur taverns shall remain open on Sunday. If the taverns are allowed to remain open they will sell liquor as well as beer. Mrs. Verne R. Ross Dies in West J.

M. U. Alumna Word was received here yester day of the death of Mrs. Verne R. Ross at Covina, Aug.

20. Mrs. Ross, formerly Isabel Bum-garner of Decatur, and a member of the Millikin university graduat ing class in 1907, died of pneumonia that developed after a fall she suffered several weeks ago. Dr. Verne R.

Ross, surviving husband of Mrs. Ross, graduated from Millikin in 1908 and they were married in 1909. Dr. and Mrs. Ross have lived in California since that time.

Mrs. Ross was a teacher English in Los Angeles high school and her husband is vice-principal of Covina high school. Besides her husband she leaves two children. Dr. Joseph F.

Ross, and Virginia Ross. Burial was in Covina. Band Concert Series to End Today in Park A concert by trie Goodman band, beginning at 3 p. m. today in Nelson park, will be the last of a series of 10 performances sponsored jointly by the city and the Decatur park board.

Both popular and classical numbers will make up the program. Several thousand persons attended each of the concerts during the season. 41 Arrested as Tipsy Drivers; 3 Sentenced Records Show One Out of Four Defendants Face County Court Here Only one in four criminal actions involving drunken driving reach the county court trial docket, a survey showed Saturday. Of those that are docketed for trial, acquittals, orders of probation, and continuances greatly reduce the number of defendants who finally are called upon to serve jail sentences or pay the amount of fines fixed by statute for the offense. Since Jan.

1, 1936, police records show 41 persons booked at police headquarters for drunken driving. In the same period only 11 cases are shown docketed in county court, which the court of jurisdiction for that particular offense. Three are Sentenced Of the 11 cases on the county court docket in the eight months period, three defendants have been sentenced. One got 10 days in jail; one a six months sentence and S100 fine, and the third got 90 days in jail and a $100 fine. One was acquitted after a jury trial and six cases are still on the docket.

In the 12 months from Aug. 1, 1934, to Aug. 1, 1935, six cases were placed on the county court docket. One defendant in that year was fined $100 and sentenced to jail for 30 days and one was granted probation. Four are still waiting trial, and are free under bond.

Law enforcement officials say they have difficulty in reaching convictions in cases of this character. Procedure Explained In the first instance, a person is arrested for drunken driving on a warrant issued by a justice of the peace. The justice of the peace does not have jurisdiction to fix the penalty, since the statute provides a mandatory jail sentence of at least 10 days upon a plea of guilty or conviction. The justice is without authority to impose a jail sentence for that offense, and consequently he may only bind the defendant to the action of a grand jury. The ordinary procedure is for the state's attorney to file an information in county court and dismiss the charge in justice court.

That procedure causes delay, and a custom has arisen under which the justice of the peace frequently takes a plea of guilty to disorderly conduct or some lesser charge, collects a fine and releases the defendant. In this manner a drunken driver receives some punishment, although the fine does not show as a penalty for driving while drunk. Cash Cools Witnesses Frequently, also, prosecutors face difficulty in securing proof of the offense after an arrest is made. Most of the charges of drunken driving arise from auto mobile accidents. The owner of a damaged car is quick to ask a warrant, but often is mollified after receiving pay for the damage to his car, and then is reluctant to testify for the prosecution.

With out a willing witness, the prosecution collapses and the case never gets beyond the justice court warrant stage. Few drunken drivers are releas ed however, without some measure of penalty, it is claimed, although it usually is not as severe as the minimum 10 days jail sentence technically required by law. Of the 25 per cent of cases which reach the county court, one of the chief handicaps for the prosecu tion is the fact that a few years ago the legislature amended the law to provide the mandatory jail sentence upon- a plea of guilty or conviction. Few Guilty Fleas Now So long as it was possible for a defendant to plead guilty and receive only a fine, guilty pleas were more common. But the jail sentence operates against a guilty plea.

Only defendants who are flagrantly guilty or have little objection to imprisonment in jail are ready to plead guilty. Before a jail sentence was made mandatory, it was considered certain that no person pleading gui'- City health department records showed Saturday that 38 persons have been bitten by dogs during August, an increase over the "one a day" record established in June. Three new cases of dog bite were reported Saturday. Mrs. Anna Willis, 418 South Webster, was bitten on both hands and on the abdomen by a dog owned by her granddaughter.

Mrs. R. E. Willis. 426 South Wrebster.

A physician treated the wounds. M. W. Ayers, 1220 East Vander-hoof street, a city mail carrier, was bitten by a dog at 1624 North Union street. A physician gave treatment.

Mrs. Addie Holloway, 1002 Tuttle street, was bitten by a dog owned by E. H. Dansby, 524 South Ha-worth. Dog Pound Overflowing Bill Harris, city dog catcher, is faced with a problem of how to care for the dogs being held for observation at the city dog pound to determine if they are effected with rabies.

With all the observation pens filled he had no place to confine animals picked up in any new dog bite cases. Theft of one of the dogs being held for rabies observation was reported. Saturday. The dog, a toy rat terrier, owned by Joe Stroucher of the Stroucher Brothers, florists, 347 North Main, had passed all but one day of the required 14-day confinement period. Vandals cut the wire in the door of the confinement pen at the pound to steal the dog.

City Official's Sister, Former Resident, Dies Mrs. Emma Gresley, former Decatur resident, died at the home of her son. L. E. Gresley, in Port Huron, late Saturday.

She lived most of her life in Decatur until nine years ago when she moved to Michigan. Besides her son she is survived by five sisters and two bro'thers, Mrs. Eugene Head, Mrs. Hugh Vaughn, Miss Justine Wetzel, all of Decatur; Mrs. O.

B. Mueller of Port Huron. L. E. Wetzel of Port Huron, John A.

Wetzel, city plumbing inspector, of Decatur and Mrs. B. W. Conklin of Decatur. Euneral services will be held in Port Huron on Monday.

and Review Contest "Jane MRS. JETA BARRETT tablespoons of salt and two of vinegar have been added, for about two hours before cooking. "Slice onions, fry till brown in plenty of bacon fat. Do not let them burn. Add celery, apples sliced, carrots cut small.

Stir in curry powder, mix thoroughly, add milk, stir well. Put all ingredients in saucepan, add crows which have been cut into quarters, then add water, season according to taste. Let all simmer slowly one and a half to two hours. Stir occasionally. Always serve with boiled ric." tit Tr jjSi mi 1 1 I HI LI.

l.lt, Transferred to Mother 'Curried Crow' Wins Prize Englishwoman, Resident of Macon Home, Submits Due To the fart Ilia their father Patrick Sheehan. Decatur Wabash tmp'oye left no will to dispose of! estate of $9,500 in personal property, sons and daughters of Mrs. Marv Ann Cheohan thp wi-i iow, have signed over to her their! to the estate, they announces Saturday nght The five children are U'lliorvi TD Fmmott T. Gerald A. and Margaret Sheehan Book Keynoter Barkley Kentucky Senator, in Armory Address Sept.

27, to Roosevelt Drive Here Open Best Recipe in Herald Mrs. Jeta Barrett, an English woman residing in the Eastern Star home in Macon, was awarded first prize of $15 in the crow meat recipe conducted by the Herald and Review. Crow meat is considered a delicacy in Sussex, England, where Mrs. Barrett served it often more than 40 years ago, she said. The prize recipe is the one she used most.

It was chosen from a large number of recipes which included crow, crow fricassee, jellied crow, pressed crow and numerous recipes for roasting, baking stewing and otherwise cooking the bird. They're "Kooks" in England The black villain of the Illinois corn fields is known as the "rook" in England. There it not only is appreciated as a toothsome addition to the menu, but because it frees the English fields of insects. The English bird is an insect-eating type while crow exists largely on grain, mainly corn. Mrs.

Barrett was born and reared in London, but went every summer to the home of relatives in Sussex, she said. There she learned to cook crow. Thousands of the birds nested in hedges called "rookeries." They were easily captured while young, and were the main source of meat to the farmers during the season. Proper methods of preparing the birds were taught in. domestic science schools.

Mrs. Barrett's recipe for curried crow follows: Ten crows. Ten medium sized onions. Tnree carrots. Tuo large apples.

One cup celery, cut small. One cup milk. Three cups water. Three tabiespcons Indian curry powder. Pepper and salt to taste.

After rleanine- birds well, let them Ii in water, to which three! and Delen Gralker. Library Will Resume Regular Hours Monday Beginning Monday the Decatur Public library will go back to itJ winter schedule of opening and e.osir.g hours, it was announced Saturday by Miss Minnie A. Dill, 1'crarian. The library will open at 3 a m. and ci0Fe at 9 p.

daily except Sunday. When patronage declined on account of the summer bear, the library closed an hour arher, at p. but retained the 8 o'clock opening hour. Stevens Creek Span Re-Flooring Finished T-'fic over route 36 need not se the detour in effect the last few cays around the Stevens Creek bridge. as the bridge was opened Saturday, Hubert Mills, manager of the Decatur Motor Club announced Saturday night.

The bridge has oen re-floored. ASKS DIVORCE Mrs. Florence Hudson filed suit for divorce from William Everett Hudson Saturday in circuit court "''Offing desertion. They were mar-rd in 1926 and separated in 1928. Thi-y have one child.

KIMBALL-HENDERSON The annual Kimball-Henderson reunion will be held next Sunday in Nelson park. United States Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, keynote speaker at the 1936 National Democratic convention, will speak at a Democratic rally in the Decatur armory on Sept. 27, it was announced Saturday night by Fred M. Whitten, chairman of the Macon county Democratic central committee.

Senator Barkley's address is expected to be the opening highlight of the Central Illinois campaign for re-election of President Roosevelt. The Kentucky orator and statesman will be in Terre Haute earlier in the day, and a party of Macon county Democrats will meet him there and accompany arrive in Decatur. Mr. Whitten said he received acceptance from Senator Barkley Saturday. More complete arrangements for the meeting will be announced after it is learned at what hour the Kentucky statesman will arrive Decatur.

Democratic county Chairman Whitten said he expects to arrange for a Macon county campaign headquarters early this week in order to get preliminary plans for the Roosevelt-Homer campaign JL.