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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1939
Page
3
A GOP view argues the 3 cent state sales tax should be reduced to curb waste and avoid funding political maneuvers. It cites short term highway payrolls and relief spending, urging Representatives Wood and O Neill to vote to roll back the rate and tighten state expenditures.
The city’s annexation effort stirs conflict with personalities and illicit influence fears. The editorial urges cooperation, condemns tavern operators and gamblers, and praises recent storefront improvements by Reel's, Kresge's, and local merchants on Chicago street.
Coroner Brannon hits Balma quiz commissioner race lively as James Hennessy Herbert Graves and Fred Sehring announce candidacies. Hennessy is son of former mayor. Sehring son of deputy warden and mayor. Graves was corporation counsel under Mayor Jones. Anderson exits race. primary petitions due January 24 with about 50 candidates expected. primary set for last Tuesday in February.
Coroner Brannon probes Balma killing on South Chicago Street. He links Balma to Cicero associates via Charles Barney, a former deputy sheriff, and ties the guns to other gang slayings including Crowley. Sullivan plans deep Joliet inquiry into a Joliet official’s Chicago Heights trip and slot machine ties.
Joliet prepares for a major amateur boxing event February 13 and 14 at Catholic High gymnasium with finals on February 21. The Spectator and Chicago Tribune back the eighth annual tournament of champions drawing entrants from Joliet and nearby counties. Under a new ruling, fighters must box closest to home, boosting local entrants as Joe Roman and Dave Rosen lead Moose gym preparations.
Members of the Will County Teachers Federation voted to support the American Newspaper Guild strike against Hearst papers Chicago American and Herald Examiner. Other Will County unions pledging support include Lockport Oil Workers United Mine Workers Lockport Cereal Workers and Steel Workers locals.
At the annual meeting of the First National Bank stockholders on Tuesday all officials were re-elected. Frederick W. Woodruff again heads the institution as president, with Robert A. Cameron and S. J. Scheidt as vice presidents, C. R. Reardon and W. F. Meyer as assistant vice presidents. The board of directors includes W. F. Barrett, J. A. Bray, R. A. Cameron, W. E. Fay, W. S. Jones, George Peterson, and F. W. Woodruff.
The Joliet Spectator reports the Joliet Lodge of Moose plans training quarters next week for all interested in the tournament. Heavyweight entrants include E. La Rue, last year’s Joliet winner, and Leo J. McNamara, Springfield State Register champion who missed Chicago due to injury. Joliet expects its team to make a history making trip to Chicago.
Funeral services for Douglas J Hynds will be held tomorrow at 9 30 from the Immaculate Conception church. Hynds a prominent Morris citizen died Wednesday after a months long illness aged nearly 80. He ran the Hynds Cigar Co with his brother and sold cigars to Joliet firms. He is survived by his widow Catherine a Joliet native sister and several children including Sister Monica Marie of Notre Dame college. He was a charter member of Morris lodge Knights of Columbus.
Harold Wallace reported a burglary at the John H Barnes home on 420 Whitney Avenue while residents were away for winter. Sgt Maurice Hebert found the house ransacked after breaking a kitchen window to gain entrance. A Yale maid, Miss Anna Pasternak of 359 Columbia Street, said a man earlier asked for the Barnes.
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