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THE CHICAGO HEIGHTS STARTHI STAR’ST*f«phon# NumberDial SKyiint 5*616191Luwu ^hSLaisud $swd-it)sisrfdif22 Pages - Two SectionsTUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1953Five Cents Per Single CopyNO. 105Gifts4.000Endheduled officially today, Chi-w to hoe in its $20,500 objects. 'eport issued yesterday, haveHearing TodayOn Smash-UpIn Police ChasePre-EasterServicesTo BeginBernard Manns, 46, of 15 State street, Glen wood, will be accused of causing the accident in which Policeman Romeo Carducci was severely injured late Thursday afternoon at Halsted street and Glen wood road.The motorist is scheduled to face a hearing at four o'clock . this afternoon in the courtroom of Police Magistrate Robert A. Meier. City Attorney Harmon Spina is expected to ask for a continuance if Carducci is unable to lea\e St. James hospital to testify.“He did It on purpose.” Carducci told fellow policemen when he regained consciousness a few hours after he struck two cars and was hurled through the windshield of one of them.Iraqn^st in ponng Gunmen steelworkers' Club'ifDeathbyTodayElude Police AfterWeeping and near hysteria, a young mother sat in the Chicago Heights police station yesterday morning and sobbed out the story ol how she drowned her seven-month-old daughter.Mrs. Harriet Annunziala. 28. of 1920 Circle court, Chicago Heights, told how she placed the child. Harriet Lynn, in a wash-tub half filled with water and left, her there 20 minutes.Noon-Hour Stick-UpTonight will mark the start of he pTe-Easter sen ices scheduled it many Chicago Heights •hurches. Others are planning ttaundy Thursday rites and spe-•tal services on Good Friday.The Rev Roger Jones will de-iver a sermon at St. Agnes 'hurch at 7:30 o'clock tonight flowing the rosary and benedie-ion. Confessions will be heard it St. Agnes tomorrow from four o 5:30 and 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. On Holy Thursday, communion will ue at 6:30 and 7:30 am. and at jight a.m There will be high mass. Adoration of the sacrament will continue all day and light.At St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed church communion will oe celebrated at 7:45 p.m. Thurs-iay.Tins Rev. Gee Killion, a theo-ogical student of St. Paul’s Lu-heran congregation, will deliver lie sermon at Maundy Thursday •ites in St. Paul's at 7:30 pm.San Rocco ChurchConfessions will- be heaid at San Rocco church tomorrow from :hree to 5:30 and seven to. nineBased on Carducei’s statement is a charge of assault with a deadly weapon on file against Mannsj He is also charged with leaving Ihe scene of an accident, reckless driving and disobeying a police officer. Manns is at liberty under S3.000 bond.Caught After Chase The Glen wood man stopped bis vehicle after the policeman struck the two autos, then he drove off, it was reported. He was apprehended after a 90-mile-an-hour chase bv Motorcycle Policeman Frank Grupp _Carducci was pursuing Manns north on Halsted street The latter made a right turn into Glen-wood road and swerved to ihe right, according to police, as though to stop on the shoulder of the road.The policeman, who had sounded the siren on his cycle, pulled alongside of Manns’ car, which then veered to the left, police say, causing Carducci to strike a machine driven by John Qru-bio 177 East Fourteenth street.Grtibio and Charles Presspndo. 289 West Fifteenth place Chicago Heights business man. were facing south on Glenwood roadHIS FACE BATTERED ALMOST bevond recognition, Motorcycle Policeman Romeo Carducci is recovering from severe injuries at St. James hospital, where he was reported in “good” condition yes-, terday. The policeman crashed I into one car and was thrown 'against Ihe windshield of an-' other vehicle Thursday while chasing a speeder. _ProgramCrowd AttendsMeeting On PollutionSummarizing key points discussed at a standing-room-only meeting on stream pollution m the South Cook area at the Thornton village hall Friday night, Arthur W. Sprague, representative from the Seventh Senatorial district, proposed a five-point program aimed at ending the nuisance.Sprague recommended that: —The Illinois state sanitary water board issue a formal order at once directing the-Bloom township sanitary district to abate pollution, of Thorn creek.—The Bloom township sanitaryChief Philip W. Howard said she would be booked for murder.Fred Annunziata, the child's father, a construction worker employed in Park Forest, collapsed when he was told what had happened.Mrs. Annunziata twice left home after the couple’s only child was born seven months ago yesterday, it was reported. For the past few months the baby’s grandfather, Clarence Meyering, 18018 Highland avenue, Homewood, and his wife had been caring for the child. Returned to Home Sunday night the mother told her husband she wanted the child back home. They went ' i Homewood and returned with their baby,Annunziata left for work at 7:45 a. m. yesterday. According to the story she told police, the mother then went into the basement to get the washtub. She half - filled it with water and placed the child in it.Twenty minutes later she returned. lifted the child out of the water and placed her in her crib.Later she called her minister, the Rev. Byron Carmony, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene in South Chicago Heights, and told him what she had done.Pastor Calls PoliceHe called police. The Rev. Mr. Carmony and his wife then went to the Annunziata home. When police arrived, they accompanied Mrs. Annunziata to the policeDriving at breakneck speed, three bandits fled in a hail of police bullets Friday after a daring daytime stick-up at the CIO club room. 307 East Fourteenth street, Chicago Heights.Delayed by a freight train, the bandits raced down Halsted street at almost 100 miles an hour to elude a pursuing squadcar.EARL W. MANDELKO, CENTER, WA5 INSTALLED AS COM-immder ©! Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2825 Saturday. Carl W. Rosenbaum, state commander, left, was the installing officer. At right is Arvin Hjemvick, retiring commander of the post.Election Next TuesdayIncrease Tempo Of Campaign For Bloom VoteMerchantNabIncreasing in tempo, campaigning for the Bloom township election next Tuesday will include a candidates tea and a neighborhood meeting, in addition to huddles of political party stalwarts and precinct workers.Mrs. Wesley Dixon of Lake For-SuspectsChicago Heights merchant police, who frequently range into the thief-catching field, appeared ] m another “above and beyond the I call of duty role Saturday morning-Donald Burgess and Harry Bern e n t, merchant policemen,The men took $310 in cash and a revolver from Vincent March-lonna, bartender at the club, Friday noon.‘ The three bandits were Negroes.One of the hold-up men vaulted over the bar and stuck a gun in Marchionna’s face. His two accomplices herded three customers into a washroom.As they ran to a car outside, Marehionna telephoned police. Policemen Joseph Cianeanelli and Jack Zeigler, who were in a squad nearby, drove to the scene of the crime and were told the gunmen had just left.Racing west on Fourteenth street, they spotted the getaway car, blocked by a passing freight train at the B k O railroad crossing. But as police neared, the train cleared the crossing.The pursuit continued on Fourteenth to Halsted street. There the fleeing bandits turned to head north. Cianeanelli, driving the squad, began gaining on the gunmen.Police opened fire on the other car, but were forced to stop shooting when a line of autos approached from the north. Then the police car was slowed by northbound traffic.1The bandit ear turned' off Hal-sted and raced into 159th street.Their auto had disappeared by the time Cianeanelli was able todrive out of the traffic conges
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