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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1936
Page
6
Seattle reports Representative Marion A. Zion Kies check tore away from a relative and plunged from a fifth story window dying before his bride of four months. The incident occurred as he wrote an incoherent note at his re election campaign HQ with his brother in law nearby.
Joseph W. Harriman, former president of Harriman National Bank, granted parole from Lewisboro federal penitentiary. He will be freed on August 27 after four and a half years for falsifying bank books.
Anna Kulak 22 of Avenue L was in serious condition at Little Company of Mary hospital after leaping from a moving car to escape a man she met at a tavern. She said the driver Joseph Johnson on a WPA project at 1383rd and Avenue M refused to stop and drove toward open country. She was found in front of West 107th Street.
Andrew Pastor of Roseland flew from Dixie airport Harvey Sunday afternoon. Five minutes after takeoff the engine faltered and he landed in an field near 175th Street and Hazel Avenue in Homewood. He repaired the plane, took off again, and two blocks away the motor died over Calumet Country Club. Golfers fled as the plane touched down. Pastor said he would walk home to supper.
The text notes that King Solomon drew inspiration from the Queen of Sheba to compose The Song of Songs. It frames the event as a traditional attribution within biblical lore.
Two Harvey youths died when an Illinois Central suburban train crashed into a Chicago beer truck at Ashland Avenue and 124th Street. The driver Melvin Goetz, 20, and helper Gilbert Westenburg, 18, were hurled 100 feet. The truck carried beer and air drums and was wrecked against a station platform. Motorman D W Mulvihill, 54, was injured while attempting to stop for the Ashland stop as beer flowed across the tracks.
A Potpourri note lists remarkable maximum life expectancies for various animals. Whales may reach 500 years, tortoises 350, crocodiles 300, elephants 100, big cats and camels about 40, and smaller mammals like cats 13 and dogs 15. Birds like the eagle swan and crow live around 100 years.
In a regular meeting last Wednesday Chicago City Council confirmed Mayor Kelly's re appointment of Edith Joyce to the Chicago Exposition Authority for ten years from August 2. The council also unanimously confirmed Wilfred S. Reynolds and Mrs William H Hermsdorf to the Chicago Recreation Commission. Reynolds is executive director of the Council of Social Agencies and Hermsdorf leads the Chicago and Cook County Federation of Womens Organizations. Both bring wide background and will help survey and optimize Chicago recreation facilities for citizens and youth.
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