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Illinois Briefs Highlight Local Deaths and Projects
Bryant J. Yeck, 42, Lake Grain secretary, hanged himself in Peoria. Cowbell maker J Henry Blum, 72, died after fifty years in business. Whiteside County homes show bathtubs and utilities gaps amid a broad survey. Louis Lutz, 30, Chicago, convicted for Morris policeman Roseland’s murder. Maurice Lipman named assistant state superintendent of public instruction. Evanston gains control of Grosse Pointe light house site for park use. Sixteen early WPA projects proposed in Illinois for relief and employment.
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Bryant J. Yeck
The
Lake Grain Company
Peoria
J. Henry Blum
Collinsville
United States
Whiteside County
Louis Lutz
Chicago
Morris
Clarence Roseland
Lutz
Roseland
Gabel
Maurice C. Lipman
Irving School
John A. Weiland
Lipman
University of Chicago
Joseph Gannon
Chicago Heights
Wilbur J. Sadler
Wolf & Co
Sadler
Red Cross
Illinois Emergency Relief Commission
James B. Forgan, Jr
Cook County
Lake and Dupage
Joliet
Des Plaines
Howard L. Scott
Fox Lake
Helmer D. Carlson
Scott
Lake County
Horner
Thomas C. Grubb
Dwight
Diagnostic and Research Laboratories
State Department of Public Health
Grubb
Evanston
United States Department of Commerce
Grosse Pointe
Central Street
Sheridan Road
Lake
Edward Burmeister
John
Tuscola
Herbert Wilson
Edward
Wilson
Clark Edwards
Douglas County
Illinois
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Works Progress
Washington
Robert J. Dunham
WPA
Dunham