Masters for Will County State's Attorney
A letter from a Layman's Law Enforcement League member endorses Frank H. Masters Jr. for state’s attorney of Will County. He highlights Masters’ four and a half years on the Will County Zoning Board of Appeals, his honesty and impartial law enforcement stance, and asserts broad support across the county against political bosses backing a rival candidate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will County
Frank H. Masters Jr
Zoning Board of Appeals
Frank Masters
Sheriff Overbey
Masters
Joliet
Schupp
Iasters
Stratton
Republican Central Committee
Hersebach
Morris
Shich
Grundy County
Will County Republican Central Committee
Schedule Army Physicals For 57 Inductees In Chicago
Thirty five men from city draft board 211 will receive pre induction examinations in Chicago March 10. Twenty two men from county board 212 slated for March 13. A re-exam for those previously rejected set for March 20. Yesterday 14 from board 212 and 37 from board 211 were inducted amid band, Cantigny post, VFW, and Red Cross volunteers offering gifts and refreshments.
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Chicago
Mary Meyers
Board 212
Jths Band
Cantigny Post
William Bollig
Harwood Post
American Legion Auxiliary
the Red Cross
Women to rule city tomorrow in Leap Year drawing
Representatives of 19 women organizations will draw lots at city hall to assign which city departments they will run tomorrow Leap Year day. Slips with office names will be drawn in alphabetical order. A squad of women police will patrol the city and arrest all bachelors. Unattached men may donate five dollars to the Heart fund or give a pint of blood to a Korean fighter.
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Heart Fund
Will County Republican leader heads home from Florida
A. F. Charlie Schupp, head of the Will County Republican Central committee officers and executive committee, returns from Florida after a frenzied appeal from Carl Henning Peterson and the executive committee to rush back to restore a creaking party machinery.
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A. F
Charlie” Schupp
Will County
Republican Central Committee
Florida
Carl Henning Peterson
Despondent man shoots self after illness in Will County
William O. McMahon 45 of route 30 near New Lenox died at 5 15 am from a self inflicted chest wound fired with a .32 revolver. Coroner Willard G. Blood said Mrs McMahon Schupp woke and found him in bed. Inquest planned next week. Surviving widow Clara two sons William Dale a daughter Anita Lila mother Mrs D C Odel sister Mrs Bradley Whitfield Franklin Tenn brother Omar L McMahon Navy in Japan. Body to Burr Oak Mich for burial Sunday.
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William O. McMahon
Route 30
New Lenox
Ernest McMahon
Fokena
Willard G. Blood
Swift and Company
Chicago
Clara
William and
Dale
Anita
Lila
D. C. Odel
Bradley Whitfield
Franklin, Tenn
Omar L. McMahon
Navy
Japan
Citywide paving program announced with five year plan
Mayor Arthur Janke disclosed a citywide paving program to run five years funded mainly by the state motor fuel tax. Scott street is slated for asphalt from the Rock Island viaduct to Columbia street and North Raynor avenue will be widened to 40 feet. Bids for Scott street and Faynor avenue work will come soon with work starting by early spring. The state highway department will repair waterway bridge floor holes in the coming weeks.
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Arthur O. Janke
George Vollmer
Scott Street
Rock Island Viaduct
Columbia Street
Raynor Avenue
Vollmer
Faynor Avenue
State Highway Department
Three Joliet Postal Substations Open Saturday
Three new Joliet postal sub stations will open Saturday to serve residents. They are at 412 N Center St in Marie Erickson's cleaning agency, 409 Collins St, and 1327 N Raynor Ave, both for Lee Lawson's Ridgewood cleaners and dyers. Each station offers stamps registration parcel post money orders and hours align with the downtown post office.
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Joliet
J. Walter Lowrey
N. Center Street
Marie Erickson
Collins Street
N. Raynor Avenue
Lee Lawson
Ridgewood Cleaners
Dyers
Lowrey
Boston
Meeker Avenue
Midland Avenue
Rowell Avenue
Wheeler Avenue
Weather outlook cloudy and cold with light snow flurries
The forecast from the weather bureau calls for cloudy and colder conditions tonight with a low around 24. Friday will be cloudy with occasional light snow by afternoon or evening and a high near 33.
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Fol Weather Bureau
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George M. Albright
Charlie
Gun
Seo Long
Walter O. Herschbach
Executive Committee
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