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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1939
Page
3
A voice extols the Council of Protestant Church Women as a growing force capable of mobilizing church women to influence public office and civic projects. The piece envisions expansion beyond Protestant denominations to unify women across churches for moral health and community betterment.
The editorial lauds Supervisor Hendricksen and committee courage for halting high county supply prices and rejecting excessive claims. It praises Joliet’s new members and Dr. Bloomfield for cost cutting at the Tuberculosis hospital, calls for an investigation, and notes changes led by Stephens, Bloomfield, Zalar, Hendrickson, and Conrad toward economical spending.
Beverly Pace, seven, of 966 North Chicago Street was struck and run over by a car on Jackson Street at Chicago. Driver Helen Gerhart, twenty, of Lemont, said she had a green light and the girl darted from behind a west bound car. The girl suffered a bruised knee and face but is expected to be released soon from St. Joseph's Hospital. Witnesses Le Roy Nagel and Rudy Stark gave statements.
Frank Delcourse thirty three of 1601 State Street Lockport faced a police report after he cashed two bad checks for eighty and sixty five dollars. Morrison supplied the checks and Delcourse spent the proceeds then confessed to Boston store and Goldblatt’s cashing incidents leading to arrest by Captain Ervin Boe.
James Williams a roving farm hand with a prison record and an injured brain in the background was sentenced to a 99 year penitentiary term by Judge Edwin L Wilson for the murder of Elsie Lichtenwalter on a Will county farm near Manhattan in September 1956. He pleaded guilty and said to have fled to California before being captured and returned to Joliet for trial. The case ended after mitigations were heard and the judge declined the electric chair noting the killing occurred in a fit of madness rather than premeditation.
The body of William Cordt a 42 year old from Frankfort was found in the Fox river northeast of Ottawa. Police recovered the corpse after a witness reported an object floating near his home. The missing man was last seen Feb 13 walking toward the river with red ears and a caretaker reported hearing a drowning call nearby.
Ray Meyers reported crowds of about 25 bums at 400 S Rowell Avenue. Deputies ordered the group to leave town after an overnight disturbance in the neighborhood.
Sixty seven vehicles from the 161st field artillery unit of Fort Sheridan will parade through Joliet Saturday around 2 15 p m. The unit specializes in anti air craft maneuvers and carries the latest equipment. The parade route goes from Troy Road along Jefferson and Chicago to Jackson streets and ends at the Armory with a police escort clearing the way. Similar outfits have passed Joliet before as the Fort Sheridan unit returns from a tour of the middle west.
Mrs Edna Kreimeier of 418 Third Avenue reports her black and white bird dog Rex missing for several days after departs from home.
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