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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1939
Page
3
A discussion on a law deemed unconstitutional by the supreme court, with rehearings and reversals. Firemen and policemen face pension and pay questions while taxpayers bear burdens. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company owners oppose a chain store tax, impacting small merchants nationwide.
A Joliet area crime story details an A and P employee who murdered a friend, disposed of the body in the Illinois River, and confessed to kidnapping plans. The suspect faced community disbelief, with psychiatrists noting possible mental illness. He left a wife and a 10 year old son.
Labor organizers from the American Federation of Labor push to sign up clerks in Joliet. After the Will County Trades and Labor council placed the Kline store on an unfair list, deliveries by the American Express were halted. Pickets appeared at Kline’s while owners defend employee choice.
In Joliet the John Ericsson Republican League session at the Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions criticizing the national Democratic administration’s foreign policy and aggressive spending. Prominent resolutions vote were led by Hi mar Rehn and Senator Arnold Benson, with Floyd E Olson presiding as 400 delegates gathered.
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