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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1941
Page
7
James J. Doody, acting warden, closes his tenure by continuing the probe into an attempted break where four inmates cut bars in cell house B and climbed toward a 33 foot wall. Edward M. Stubblefield to succeed him and vows full inquiry.
Several hundred people attend the annual pound party to benefit the Guardian Angel home which houses 160 children. Proceeds from card games booths and sales over two days will aid the pantry and help through winter. Mrs S J Harrigan leads activities with department chairmen for bakery fancy work religious articles candy and more. An additional dinner is planned with lunch served all evening.
The American Red Cross will dispatch 200 radios and 3000 small bound novels and mystery stories to British troops in Middle East advanced medical units to cheer the sick wounded and convalescent. A portion has already shipped.
Approximately 2,225,000 dollars worth of hospital supplies for troops and civilians in Egypt. Large food shipments for refugees and items including 22,000 pairs of children's shoes and 60,000 undergarments for children. Also listed are medicines such as ten million quinine tablets and 31 ambulances and related medical assets.
The Elwood Ordnance Plant to hold a mass celebration October 16 for 6500 employees and families. A noon shutdown, flag raising, speeches, stage and radio acts, and a barbecue feast with baby steers mark the event led by Sanderson & Porter officials and plant officers.
Convicts at the Joliet old prison will repair and redecorate discarded toys for needy Joliet children. About 50 inmates work in a special workshop at an industrial building to prepare toys for distribution, a program led by Miss Nellie Gibbons for the fourth year.
Fire prevention engineer J Burr Taylor of the Western Actuarial bureau will lecture tonight at 8 oclock for the men's club at the Universalist church all are welcome including women. He will discuss helping the FBI track sabotage and show films of fires as part of the program expected to interest attendees.
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