The Big Lie and Lindbergh's Fort Wayne Speech
The piece analyzes the big lie tactic in Lindberghs Fort Wayne address claiming 1942 elections would be canceled. It traces origins to The New York Daily News and The Washington Times Herald and notes Arthur Krocks Times piece on suspending elections.
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New Republic
Hitler
Goebbels
Lindbergh
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Roosevelt
Joseph Medill - Patterson
New York Daily News
Congress
Washington Times-Herald
Patterson
Eleanor
The
News
Chicago Tribune
Arthur ‘Krock
New York Times
Elwood Ordnance Plant Feast Marks New Loading Line
Nearly 7 000 people including employees officials and dignitaries attended a Sanderson and Porter celebration at the Elwood Ordnance plant. Col Leslie Groves and Maj W H Hobbs spoke as workers quit at noon for a flag raising and ceremony. A barbecue dinner followed featuring baby steer and Idaho potatoes. The event also opened the plant’s third loading line.
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Elwood Ordnance Plant
Sanderson & Porter Company
Joliet Township
Washington
Col
Leslie Groves
Ordnance Department
Washington, D. C
W. H. Hobbs
Chicago Ordnance Division
Idaho
W. E. Canniff
John J. Cole
Harrison Smith
T. Gerber
C. A. Nelson
Joliet Officers Earn Diplomas At Illinois Police Academy
Desk Sgt. Gus Anderson and Patrolman Matthew Hartford received diplomas after completing a six week national defense course at the Illinois Police Academy. The FBI conducted the program with the Illinois Police Association across Chicagoland. About 150 Illinois officers attended with Anderson and Hartford the only Joliet representatives. The curriculum covered sabotage espionage national defense laws plant protection bombs and other explosives.
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Gus Anderson
Matthew Hartford
Illinois Police Academy
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Illinois Police Association
Chicagoland
Anderson
Hartford
Joliet
Illinois
Stateville prison break thwarted as three convicts halted
Warden Edward M. Stubblefield announced a general shakedown at Stateville and Collins Street prisons after a planned escape was stopped. Long-term inmates Walter Boreman Louis Tipescu and George Pucci dug through bricks in cellhouse D using improvised tools. they were placed in solitary confinement for up to 21 days.
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Collins Street
Stateville
Edward M. Stubblefield
Stubblefield
Stateville Prison
Walter Boreman
Cook County
Louis
Tipescu
George Pucci
Boreman
Pucci
Marsh Mills
Quick Change No Profit: Woman Fined for Refunded Suitcase Theft
Police arrested a 29 year old Cleveland woman who called herself Mrs Geraldine McGonnell when she tried to obtain a refund on a suitcase she allegedly took from a loop store. She was intoxicated and fined 100 dollars with costs by Police Magistrate William E Meade, the fine suspended if she left the city.
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Geraldine McGonnell
Cleveland
Ohio
William E. Meade
Will County Football Forecasters Contest Draws Big Turnout
Will County readers enter the football forecasters contest with over 800 entries. The top 21 selecting 21 winners tied, and six prizes were drawn by Briese Florists. Prizes include cash to Earl J Karstens Mabel Bartly Mervin Spicem Victor Galli Charles Stober Joe Stengele and Lester Brown with the out of town winner from New Lenox.
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Will County
Barquette
Michigan
Michigan State
Lot
Briese Florists
Earl J. Karstens
9Th — Street
Lockport
Mabel Bartly
B. Clinton Street
Mervin Spicem
Third Avenue
Victor Galli
Lester BE. Brown
Cedar’ Street
New Lenox
Commerce Group To Hear F B I Men
Joliet Association of Commerce members will hear R. P. Baldwin of the Chicago division of the FBI next Wednesday noon at the Woodruff hotel. His talk titled What F B I is Doing to Prevent Sabotage in National Defense Industries explains FBI campaigns against sabotage, timely for Joliet with defense plants nearby.
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Joliet Association of Commerce
R. P. Baldwin
Chicago
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Woodruff Hotel
Baldwin
Joliet
Defense Industries
Township Officials Meet In Joliet To Plan Peoria Convention
Will County association of Township Officials held its quarterly meeting at 12 30 today at Little Jack's on Plainfield road. Emmett McGuire Joliet highway commissioner and chairman scheduled it later than usual to boost attendance at the state convention in Peoria next week.
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Will County Association of Township Officials
Little Jack’s
Plainfield Road
Emmett McGuire
Joliet Highway
Peoria
Roomers vanish after leaving home with bad rent check
Two occupants staying at Mrs. Mary Walker's 361 Western Avenue home vanished suddenly. Police report they left with a worthless check for payment of rent.
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Mary Walker
Western Avenue
Fight At Mingoks Tavern Ends With Fine
Ernest Sharp of Mingoks was involved in a tavern fight at 109 Bluff Street last night and was locked up. This morning he paid a fine.
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Ernest Sharp
Mingoks
Bluff
Desidewe
Police hunt two suspects in Joliet bogus check ring
Police seek two colored men who passed worthless checks at three Joliet firms after small buys yesterday. Victims include Howard G. Virgo of 71 North Chicago Street, Thomas Kokas of Paradise Food Mart on Cass Street, and Kaffer Bros. Hardware at 83 West Jefferson Street. Checks drawn on First National Bank of Joliet and issued by Riverside Foundry. signs show Lem Johnson and L. W. Sandberg. Captain John Graham suspects two men and possible printing press.
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Joliet
Howard G. Virgo
Chicago Street
Thomas Kokas
Paradise Food Mart
Cass Street
W. Jefferson Street
First National Bank of
Riverside. Foundry Company
Auto Thief Sentenced to 1 to 10 Years in Prison
Joseph H. Kelly, 28, was sent to the diagnostic depot to begin a one to 10 year sentence imposed by Circuit Judge Roscoe C. South after pleading guilty to 10 automobile theft indictments. He will undergo exams for about two weeks before transfer to Collins Street or Stateville prison.
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Joseph H. Kelly
Sheriff's
Roscoe C.south
Kelly
Diagnostic Depot
Collins Street
Stateville
Rev John Paul Stafford Marks 30th Anniversary
Thirty years ago on Sunday October 19 Reverend John Paul Stafford preached his first sermon as pastor of Trinity Methodist Church. The same day his son was born and named Paul Stafford. Recent notes mention his assignment to Joliet church after serving at Oninit district.
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John Paul Stafford
Trinity Methodist. Church
Stafford
Paul Stafford
John Stafford
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Commerce Group
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