Chicago Prepares for Massive International Eucharistic Congress
Chicago reads final plans for the twenty-eighth International Eucharistic Congress to be held June 20. Housing for 1.9 million, hospital facilities at Mundelein and Soldiers Field, 4.5 million communion wafers, 89 000 cars, 125 foot altar, and 1 000 priests to hear confessions the week before.
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United Pres
Chicago
New World
Mundelein, Ill
Soldiers Field
Municipal Pier
Mundelein
Detectives Probe Fire at New Wrecking Company Plant
Fire Chief Jesse Hutsell reports two men suspected as fire bugs after two stubborn blazes at the New Wrecking Company plant behind Washington Ball Park and near the Big Four Railroad tracks. One blaze destroyed an old grain elevator as investigators hunt the two men whose names he knows.
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Jesse Hutsell
Washington Ball Park
Hutsell
Multigenerational Family Birth and Missing Car Reports
The article notes the birth of Juanita Cornett to teen mother and young grandmother with four generations pictured. It lists stolen and recovered cars linked to multiple local addresses, and ends with a divorce granted to Ruth G. Rodgers after she testified her husband Charles W. Rodgers was an alleged bandit in a court case.
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Juanita Cornett
Ralph Cornett
Sheffield Ave
Juanita
George Watson
Lynn St
Arthene Smoot
Brownsburg
Ruth G. Rodgers
Charles W. Rodgers
Harry Co. Chamberlin
Circuit Court
Rodgers
Tenth St
N. Emerson Ave
Two boys and man reported missing in midwestern city
Police search for Joseph Downton 14 of 6890 Ferguson St missing after leaving home for the second time in months. Edgar Slawson 17 of 442 E Vermont St Apt 6 also sought. W R Martin 31 of 1210 E Washington St last seen en route to Kokomo to seek work as an auto mechanic.
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Joseph Downton
Ferguson St
Shelbyville
Ind
Edgar Slawson
Vermont St
Apt
W.R. Martin
Washington St
Kokomo
Auto crash damages man as train hits car in Anderson
United Press reports W. R. Rains, 50, injured when his auto was demolished by a Pennsylvania train near Anderson Indiana. Rains was recovering today as authorities investigated the collision and railroad crossing factors.
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United Press
Anderson
Ind
W. R. Rains
Pennsylvania
Here
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