Funeral Rites Thursday for War Hero Crompton
Funeral services for Sgt. John H. Crompton who died in action during World War II will be held Thursday in Jefferson National Cemetery near St. Louis. Crompton, a bombadier aboard a B 24, was killed October 19 1944 over Mainz Germany after sacrificing himself to save the crew. he had entered service in 1942 at age 29 and was a former drama student from Park Crammer Hyde Park and Lowell Indiana.
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John H. Crompton
Thomas Crompton
Cedar Lake
67Th St
Jefferson National Park
St. Louis
Crompton
Mainz
Germany
Charles Holten
War Department
Sergeart Crompton
Air Corps
Bryant Crompton
Parks 9 Crammer School
Hyde Fk
Wen
High Steol
Lowell
Ind
Eotors
Goodman School of Drama
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
Hidden state name in puzzler sentence reveals New York
The puzzler hides a state name in the line the key is worn and the answer appears later in the column. The solution given is New York, tied to a Chicago observance and state facts noted for Illinois banks and Steve Stratton, with the answer stated at column end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
William G. Stratton
Stratton
MEMORY LANE Nostalgia letters invite memories from old Chicago residents
Old Citizens recall Chicago memories in Memory Lane column. Readers sign with full names and share tales from local places and people such as Mike Schoenwald the printer, A T Kerth and Krysters drugstores, fussing women in high hook shoes, Luke Appling as a rookie with the White Sox, and Hahneman Hospital on Cottage Grove Avenue.
Hyde Park Teens Violence Alarm Spurs Police Action
About 100 residents met Monday at the Hyde Park YMCA to press for stronger law enforcement against juvenile attacks on youths. Alderman Bertram B. Moss chaired, with Capt. Michael L. Spatz and others urging more patrols and two roving squad cars from Central station. A second meeting will form a committee to study the issue.
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Hyde Park
O'Connor
Central Station
Moss
Selective Service Tests to Be Given on Three Dates
Col. Paul G. Armstrong announces three remaining test dates for the selective service college qualification test. Students unable to take the May 26 test due to circumstances beyond their control may request a new ticket by writing to the Educational Testing Service in Princeton. Additional sessions include June 16 and June 30 on Saturdays, with an extra Thursday session on July 12 for those with religious convictions.
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Selective Service College
Paul G. Armstrong
Selective Service
Selective Service Examining Section
Educational Testing Service
Princeton
Armstrong
Methodists to Honor Pastor On Retirement
The Rev. Joseph C. Yemm of Vincent Methodist Church will retire after 42 years in the ministry. A retirement program and open house are planned with testimonials from local pastors and a leather-bound book gift. Street lights on Cottage Grove Ave will be replaced with newer refractor reflectors at 25 feet, at a cost under 20,500 construction and 2,050 engineering, with stop signs added on 83rd St.
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Joseph C. Yemm
Vincent Methodist Church
Sist Pl
Langley Ave
Vincent
Southern District of the Rock River Conference
Yemm
Marie
Pleasant Prairie
Kenosha
Pleasant Prairie Methodist Church
Wesley Chapel
Lester W. Copeland
Greenwood Ave
Arpad George I
Copeland
Maurice Young
Vernon Ave
Cottage Grove Ave
Lloyd M. Johnson
CTA
Streets and Electricity Department
Ald
Roy E. Olin
State Highway Department
Illinois Motor Fuel
Olin
83Rd St
Cottage Grove
Dorchester Aves
82Nd St
Walter McGrath Dies at 39 Former City Employee
Funeral services for Walter McGrath, aged 49, of 1508 E 66th St, who died Monday from a heart attack at a store on 6428 Stony Island Ave, will be held at 9 AM at Corcoran Chapel and then to St Anne's Church Garfield Blvd Wentworth Ave. Burial in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. He retired in 1943 from city safety lanes as an automobile checker after 18 years as a bartender. Survived by widow Hazel two sons Thomas and Harry and daughter Mrs Frank Wilson.
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Walter McGrath
Stonysland Ave
Corcoran Chapel
E. 67Th St
St. Anne’s Church
Garfield Blvd
Wentworth
Holy Sepulchre
McGrath
Hazel
Thomas
Princeton Ave
Harry
Indianapolis
Frank Wilson
Evergreen Park 95th Street Shopping Plaza Nears February Finish
Arthur Rubloff announces progress on the Evergreen Park Shopping Plaza at 95th Street and Western Avenue a 23 acre development with 75 shops and a four story department store to be leased by Fair. The project totals 20 million dollars in development and fixtures with about 300000 square feet already rented and parking for 2200 cars.
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Evergreen Park
95Th St
Western Ave
Arthur Rubloff
Rubloff
Forty two Converts Receive Catholic Church Rites
Forty two converts were received into the Catholic faith on Friday May 25 in baptism at Holy Cross church on 65th street and Maryland avenue. Clergy present included Reverends Duggan Mohan Quinn Vonesh Mitchell Ryan Diers McElligott Cardiff Myers and others. Narrator Father Myers with Fathers Diers and Cardiff conducted the inquiry class preparing converts for reception. Msgr. John Schmid and Father Robert P. Doyle welcomed the new members.
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Holy Cross Church
65Th St
Maryland Ave
Joseph Duggan
Joseph Mohan
John Quinn
Raymond Vonesh
William Mitchell
Stephen Ryan
Hugo Diers
Francis McElligott
John Cardiff
Edward ‘Myers
Business Men's League names six nominating committee
Earl V. Cates, president of the Business Men's League of the U.S, named a six man nominating committee to select officers to be voted upon July 10. The committee members are James Hanson, Arthur Palermo, Aron le Aronson, Adam Geringer, Oscar E. Bergstrom, and A. G. Kirbach with listed addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl V. Cates
Business Men's League of the
U.S
James Hanson
E. 73Th
Arthur Palermo
E. 79Th St
Aron le
Aronson
Indiana
Adam Geringer
South Chicago
Oscar E. Bergstrom
Ewing Ave
A. G. Kirbach
Cottage Grove Ave
St Joachim Pupils Make First Communion
Third graders from St. Joachim parochial school at 96th street and Langley avenue made their first holy communion in St. Joachim church on Memorial Day. Rev Msgr William H Byron officiated. Children were led to the altar by Celia Ann Murphy Lucille Brtier John Bauza and James Staruck served as ushers.
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St. Joachim’s
Langley Ave
William H. Byron
Celia Ann Murphy
Lucille Brtier
John Bauza
Ellis Ave
James Staruck
Korea Veteran At 19 Is Home On Furlough
Pfc. Ronald Fishman, 19, a Southeast Side Army veteran of the Inchon and Iwon landings, is home on furlough after nine months of combat with the 17th Regiment of the 7th Division. He trained at Ford Ord and Camp Stoneman, and enlisted after graduating from Hirsch High School in 1949.
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Iwon
Inchon
Korea
Ronald Fishman
Morris Fishman
80Th St
Hirsch High School
Hirsch
Ronald
Roger
Los Angeles
Army
Ford Ord
Camp Stoneman
California
7Th Division
Fishman
Japan
7Th
MacArthur
Pusan
Ko Tea
Yalu River
Pfc
E. 80Th St
Fort Sheridan
CTA bids 12066 for propane tanks at 77th and Vincennes
CTA board to decide May 22 bid from Robert Gordon Inc for propane storage tanks to power new buses. Tanks delivered. foundations under way. Installation may take a couple of months if materials arrive. Previous delays cited propane storage limits on South Side.
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77Th St
Vincennes Ave
Chicago Transit Authority Board
Robert Gordon, Inc
CTA
Kedzie
Foster Aves
Cicero
North Waves
Gordon Company
Transit Authority Department of Way and Structure
79Th St
79Th [St
Penny Thought Poll Shows Mixed Views On Understatement
A crowd canvassed by Penny for Your Thoughts shows diverse opinions on whether understatement or overstating a fact better impresses listeners. Interviewees include John McLaughlin and Arlene Goldberg among residents who favor understated accounts, while others admit some enjoy tall tales.
Guard to Conduct Artillery Warfare on Southeast Side
The 210th field artillery battalion of the National Guard will hold simulated artillery operations next Thursday and the following weekend from 7 to 11 p.m. at typical positions on the Southeast Side, with a fire direction center at 13rd Street and Constance Avenue. The unit, largely from South Side, will use nine 13-ton tractors towing seven 145 millimeter howitzers, and will operate in four-hour blocks through the four days, with communications by field wire and island radio.
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210Th Field Artillery
National Guard
Chicago
13Rd St
Constance Ave
South Side
Undivision
Wilson Will Hold Commencement Monday
Wilson City college announces commencement exercises at 8 p m Monday in the auditorium 6800 l Stewart. A class of 258 graduates includes 39 on the honor society roll. Sunder Joshi of the University of Chicago will deliver the address. The college choir and orchestra will perform under Mrs Esther Goetz Gilliland and Lela Hammer. Dean O s Williams will present diplomas.
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Wilson City College
Sunder Joshi
University of Chicago
Joshi
Esther Goetz Gilliland
Lela Hammer
Dean O. [S. Williams
Burglars Take Over $3,800 From Dress Shop
Woodlawn police report burglars broke into Ruth Jones dress shop at 6763 Stony Island Ave late Monday, forcing through a rear wall from a neighboring vacant store. They stole 82 suits and 300 dresses and $3,800 in cash from a tin box in the stockroom.
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Ruth Jones
Stony Island Ave
Woodlawn
Rites Tomorrow for Mrs Lillian S Bennett
Funeral services for Mrs Lillian Seidensticker Bennett who died of a cerebral hemorrhage at home will be at 9 30 a m tomorrow at St Bride's church 78th Street and Coles Avenue Burial will be in St Joseph's Cemetery in Tiverview Grova Survived by husband Robert P two brothers William J and John and two sisters Margaret Q and Jane Residents of Oak Park and nearby areas are named in the notice
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Mra
Tillian Seidensticker Bennett
South Shore
St. Bride’s Church
78Th St
Coles Ave
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
Tiver Grova
Bennett $S
Robert P
William J
Hamilton
John
Oak Park
Margaret Q
Jane, Hot
Oalg Rarky
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Sgt
J. H. Crompton
Kennelly
Stevenson
National Fraternal Congress
Sherman Hotel
College of Jewish Say
E. 11Th St
David Graubart
Leah Romiowsky
Judah Rosenthal
Morris Silverman
Theodore Gaster
Dropsie College
New York
pEemory Lane
Southeast
Economist
W. 65Th St
Chiccago
Scheulin
Mike Schoenwald
Archer Ave
Frances A. Beaubien
A. T. Kerth and
Krysters
Lillian Perry
Helen Bader
Luke Appling
White Sox
Iron Man
Dibbie
Hahneman Hospital
Bertrand Moss
Methodists
New Street
C. Yemm
Illinois Central and Nickel Plate
Hope
Business Men’s League Names
St. Joachim
Pte
North Korea
Johning
Mclaughlin
John McLaughlin
Fitza
Laura Nash
Yates
Beth
Istori Inter
Arlene Goldberg
Oglesby Ave
Paul Ehrenhaft
Halsted Sl
Ehreneaft
Martha Forrest
Morgan St
Cashier
John McDonnell
East
Wilson
Lillian S. Bennett
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