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'=*~ Get $476 From the Safe -- at . Waukegan © Lumber * Com-- ~' _' > pany; Foiled in 3 Places. «. : stuat 'all robberies _ were commit. F :'vr e ::a;tu tl' me-- ~---- FOUR SAFES HERE -- _~~-- _ TUESDAY NIGHT __~~-- Bandits succeeded in entering four w.,,.| offices .In , Waukegan . Tuesday fight, _> "eracking the safes . in. each . place. . *+. bat 'so. far as 'known obtained loot *_s enly in one place, the -- Waukegan i follbws: -- > Jamber -- and -- Coct : company," whete they | excaped with $47623 in. cash. 3 Cl » FAILED TO OPEN police are of the opinion (hal {ae robbers made their escape in this machine. All of-- the robberies were within a sbort distance of each ; '-b-.' O-I;""'V"I. of batterimg]*®*'=~ j NI WEPOIEEFIONO PENOWOT off the combination knobs with 'l sumertoummemmmerere heavy instrument, and then driving; M Mrs. Charles Beckman, aged 62. the sition by meass of & cold chisel. |\ Entrance to the office of the Wau-- kegan Lumber company was gained by fmmying a window on the west side of the building. The thieves knocked off but apparentiy _ ine thieves were unable to gain entrance tor the owners were unsable to enter U# this morning and havre sent to LION FAYORS ITS -- ANNEXATION BY 107 TO 7 VOTES 1 against. _ The --council today' placed the fisal O, K. on the ordinance at-- ter re--canvassing tThe vote. ~~~~~~ 160 acres to the south and wost of tho.clity, with 707 votes in favor and on now has a population of 6,240 aocording to the 1925 «chool census. The mg.,.tod-y also sold "the bond issue $30,030 for the new 'mmm&nt(»!m;kr;f-. The on the »well, w j to »% deep n«l"k"_(o tar-- tat and wauter for protection, 48 ty cout $27.8500 and it is an-- Takes in 160 Acres to "the South and to the West of the This extends the preswent city lim-- #s one--halft mile further south on Wheridan road, and also adds proper zcotbom It is planned to sub the land, which was all is the 'old Dowle estate. : ticipated that "sxtras" will bring the SELL THE WELL BO ND S Lion, Tuesday cast 714 votes on an CRACKED THE SAFES ach case the robbers Tuited LIBERTYVILLE INDEPENDENT: LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT entrance 117 N8 city Hm-- ma m Mrs. Claries Decaman, aged v2, rl»o( 806 Belvedere atreet, was killed ay | by a freight train which struck her .".m at the northk gate of the est! American Stee! & Wire Mill, Where ves| ber busband works,. att 5:30 o'clock One Lucky Man taving with. a broken neck is e -::11! rare.. But Normas E. -"'.d-.»n-u:*z » &# . T Siets tn mork ahier Ondtprng -- . * W# poon uy morteey mpve qo xn 3: MRS. BECKMANIS * ~XILED BY TRAIN AT THE WIRE MILL DIES IN OPERATING ROOM Fatally Injured When Engine Hits Auto Driven by Son at North Gate. An inquest wil} be held at 11 w'clock Thursday morning at to 'White & Tabin funeral home. The train crew will be there.» The engineer stated after the a#ident that he saw the car, soudded hbis m_ _'n: kept going. believing the . driver would hear the warning and stay off the track: The driver «aid he did not sea the tr.u'. C & «e .. . Mrs. Beckman was born is Tip perary, Ireland. She came to War kegan 40 years ago. and has been & resident of Waukegan #5 years. Astde from her husband, she leaves the following sons and GéauEnior®. jJohn, Highwood; Charles, who was driving the car; Mary, Margaret, Wil-- tiam and Francts, all ot Waukegan: BANDITS GET $47,000 New York, Sapt. 16--(INQ)--Five bandits this afternoon swooped down upon the Harlem branch of the East River National Bank at 104 atreat and lat avenus ang held up the cashilor at the point of revolvers, making their escape with $47,000 in cash. Deteac tives were rushed to the scene from nearby police stations. ° t('mbflgfi. fl-io't"q MV CC harlgs . W s w emort tus olt"flsrnrd. was sontined to Kis bed-- today with shingles, _ At tending physicians said his recovery ' BECTION TWO UORPUETETY '_-;---.._:'-' STECE ,,,w ¥ :: quite paintal. . Me is 91 years ELLIOTT STILL Cambtidgo, Muass., 8 Faka 2 as ioi rebetrr mtc u+ etcmn us ons s on t pha ts ie B in nin s as oA Piemep m etiei n ces ioi en o k s snn snntt dgiet ies n e in se e cce i * > + s i se mt in n mipre n Rept. 16, *-- LIBERTYVILLE, : Royall's wife and d@aughter, Car-- olyn Newton, a graduate of m.:uz kegan Township High School, ar present making home In Chi-- caro . wheme tho 'ma'u attend-- present m»mvll BE upwm'# is attend-- ing cBllege asd ctudying music. They New York, Sept. 16. _Seymour 1| _ wouldn't the North pole be a fit® | ,;;;,; l,,cr-,,;fl,:. Terments areaiden ot g:f sivee Top n aigereined boes rhat | i io lday. He was thrown from a hotse didn't want its natural resources #ob «. ~~. {and imjured a short time: ago,» _ | eat--Duluth Herald, +1>» | is 1 Jeake, 27, Milwaukee. EKimer Wolfe, 38, Rockftord:; Hazel Pilling, 23, Rock{ford. Valentine Kasher, 39, Wadsworth; Belie Meéeyors, 39, Wadeworth. Chas. Randuls, 21. Milwaukee; Freida Zastrow, 22. Milwaukes. Robort Gurettke, 38, MHwaukee; Geo. Lord, 24, MiHwaukee; Mary Wicarek, 31, Munich, N. Dak: Kimer Martin,; 2#5, Big Rock, ML; Winifred Stewart, 25, Big Rock, HII. Alfred Dorn, 27, Wausaukee;" Anna Pteiffer, #%, Wausaukes. Denvrer, Col., Sept. 16 --Raymond Shank, 50, shot to death his wife, Mrs. Marlian Shankt, 49, and their 19 year old son Ps«ul in thdir home heto~this morning --and then --tried +0 dorwn himselt in a bath tub. . TRIES SUICIDE _ IN THE BATHTUB Shanwka has been separated from his family and early this morning froced an Onti'unce to the homa ol his wife and son, killing the youth as bhe slept. A daughter hearing the explosiogt from a large calibre rifle which Jhanks carfied razxbed to the fronmt door and gri with > her father. -- Her m s appeared, and ~Tiring o'lfl"m Shanks sent a bullast through her Emmett Conlon, 23, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1925 -- Take County's Big Weekly ~~ WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN--*-- Circulation Greater than Mrs. Britton I. Budd and her husband,> president North Shore Electric, who has an-- M'DONALD BACK; BELIEVE HE RAN -- AWAY FROM HOME T n n o ies memory: memorial to wife's memory. Police. get Wire From Boston Indicating McDonald is Un-- der Assumed Name. communicated with the police of Boston, Mass. and asked with re-- gard to McDonald as he had said that he once lived there. -- Taday Te lollowing telegram was received. Boston, Mass., eSpt. 15. Advise condition of Alex McDon-- ald, injured in your city Sept. 10. Answers description of Alex Macea-- chern, of 262 Blue 'Hill avenue, this. city. MHis mother's maiden name was McDonald. He disappeared Jan. 2. Used the name McDonald to prevent his father from locating him. Tele graphed Hospital but got no infor-- mation. . His mother is prostrated through worry. _ Was noftili#d by Boston police. JOHN MACEACHERN. Captain Thomas Kennedy of the local police department unngerc is little doubt but that McDonald is the Boston man and he has --tele-- graphed this fact to relatives in -- that city. ; 4 iess rciitscaiiienttee cce iarmmentacge FRENCH CAPTUVRE l_TlO!lG!OLD Paris, Sept. 16. ---- French troops have stormed and captured Bibang Massif, according to a dispatch from Rabat this 'afternoon. This capture gives the Fremch a valuable strate-- gie victory, and may hasten the ln'nchug of a new genoral of{en-- sive. 1 | » He that well and rightly considereth his own works will find litte cause to jadge bardi; of another.--Thomas a FOR THE KIDDIES § Keeps Him Guessing A wise girl never lots a fellow know how much sthe thinks of him--or how Nttle.--Portland Evening E(pro-. Makes for Humility CAPT. EVANS TELLS . l WHY U. S. SHOULD _ ----RETAIN STATION Commandant at GreatLakes Points to Wonderful Achieve-- .. ment During War. --: -- IS MOST VALUABLE ASSET thus encourage their.eulistment, but as a means 'of visualiting the Navy and its educational , possibilitles to the people of the great Midwest. That: Great Lakes® hias accomplithed this important mission in an emi-- nently satisfactory magsner is con-- ncinogly attested by the superior class o' young men it has been the means of 'attracting Into the naval service _ and (he _ more --iBUMSIE knowledge the prople o( this section of the country hare gained comcern-- Ing the importance o( the Nary in their politica!l, sociai and economic life. 1t may be added that recruits who havre received their training at Great Lakes bave always been a welcome addition to any ship of the Navy. ® yelopment. -- The téea --of --a saval training station in the interior of the ~country was conceived Ia re sponse to a demand sot omly for an institution to 'train the recruité of the Midwest near their bhomes, and The following . article --on the Great Lakes Naval Training Sta-- t.on written for . Chicageo Com-- merce __. by Captain W aldo Evans, VU. 8. Navy, its Command-- ant, is timely and-- interesting" in view of a report that the. Navy Department contemplates initiat-- ing action to close six naval shore activities, Including the local na-- val training station, as one means of reducing the naval appropria-- tion estimatss to the amount de-- Lakes as the. fi place becaus® a poss »zed * . all ~ ot **me sirable features eS€sential to the cessiul 'wperation of a naval® train-- Ing station.., It was sulficiebtiy far m_tn-ulamdtylohmt from its undesirable influences. The ellmatic conditions for naval train-- Ing wpere for the most par. Ideani. HealtA® conditions were exceillent. Furthermore, the central location of Great Lakes. near the great railroad center of Chicago, gayve it very su-- perior advantages as A receiving n: distributing rendervous (for re craits. ;}i"im, be _ recalled c::: :: tion' was thnm years Budget. Prior to the World War little was known of Great Lakes except a* A purely local institution. It was then. however, that it acquired an Ilte¢~1 national reputation as the world's greatest naval training station. From! a training establishment consisting of fortytwo bulldings and occupying 181 acres, it exrplanded to over 1,000 Wcores largely filled with temporary ,itu'hu erected to meet the in creased demands incident to the war emergency. Some idea of the im-- mensity of its wartime expansion may be gained from the statement that training -- facilities were in-- creased from 1,600 to 45,000 mpl_n. This year improvements have been broagen if made or are nearing completion that afloat <ar will involve a total expenditufe of well as about $250,000. . These include a new | establish concrete bridgo comnmécting the main|that t« and hospita® plateaus, an 1800--Toot be consi extension, fo the present water sup | N°ss to piy intake, a partial reconstruction Assistanc of the fl'"fl!'gfl plant, import-- | whether ant replacements the power plant.|law --and additions and repalrs to the raxifroad l other _ st «v<toth, _@nl _ a recoaditioning _ oi Texsen th ho Jing« ati mdh Wahen all of| sulting | tnis work is gotmplete! Great Lakes disasters The present plant consists of 121 nfi:ufl Fifls'l;'u' eavering 4954 acres of land and representing an in-- vestment ot approrimately $6,000,00. tn additionetbere.is# & recent!ly com-- pleted harbor comstructed at an er-- pense of about $1,000,000. _ Great Lakes gradually resumed its normal size and --activities, though a large part of the land acquired during 'the war has been retained in anticipation of its feed duriig an-- dther emergency. _ e eessation of bostMitlies ek of the Robert LaFoliette, Jr., of Wis-- consin, who has been nomin-- ated by Republicans for U. S. senate seat held by his father "YOUNG BOB" IS improvements for' residents ~of thé new Niles Center territory was seen Another --improvement is transpor-- tation was granted by the city coun-- cll wh'm they agreed to permit the ERranston Street Railway company to extend its line west in Central street as far as Ridge Road. NORTH SHORE.GETS PERMIT FOR BUSSES operating condition. The Great Lakes Naval Training Station represents an asset of the greatest value to the Midwest in geéneral and to Chicago and the North Shore in particular, and it should continue to receive the inte} ligent faterest -- and whoichearted support that bas been given JIn the past. To the people of the interier of the country, far removed from the coasts and our ships, it furnishes a means of contact with the Navy and of -- stimulating and maintaining @ sustained interest in the country's first line of defense.. It bas also been a most effective ald to recruit-- ing, baving attracted Into the naval seryice thousands of desirable young l--n trom the farms, villazes and will (me trouble with the world !s that larineas is #o seidom fatat --D3ioth Herald . . ROUND ONE clties of the interior states. It is to the people of Chicago and tire North Shore, however, that Great Lakes Nas a more intimate appeah They visuallze it as an institution where young Americams learn the fundamentaiprinciples of character, patriotism, and good citizenship. As such it has been a sourcé o[f ever increasing-- interest and inspiration. But it is more than that. The Navy believes that it has a constant!ly broadening spher» of usefuinegs both afloat and ashore, and in peace A* well as in war. It is therefore an estabtished tradition at Great Lakes that It¥--rmew--ahd equipment are to be considered as in constant readi+ ness to jlend prompt and effective wssistance in time of, emergencty, whether it be in the -qhnhnu of other strife is threatening, of t% fsuwepw the hardship and suffering 'to-- have been placed in first--class traMLTires, _ {10088 in the -mhtan}o of c _ when vatrial . of $1.50 PER YEAR,. IN ADV ar ~other PROBATE COURT . Judge . Martin C. Decker, in --p bate court, Mondgay heard~ an -'. sually large number of cases, > ing. in the following matters: .. Sidgey' M. Heyman, Waukegan _---- Trans{er. of stock authorized,_ UH report 'approved. um-& Yered.: ° ~ ~ -- -- s nc Stanley Raudonis, w.u'i& ters of adminitstration issued to Jula Raudonts. Bond .of $206.. Real e# tate only. nog., ho is Sn 0 NE MA T T E R..CLOSED Tillie M. Kiest, Dmfl.u--th.' ve tory approved. a _ "tty* 8 lnventory -- filed. a --~~: 4 ~gat * S aat Sylvia Burkenbeim et ai, a Waukegan--Inventory . approved.. . _ Albert Burkenbeim, Waukegan ---- Report --of distribution filed.-- . _ Michael Dobner, Town of Fremont --Fina} report 'approved. Distribution ordered. *" _ --4 T¥ Florence J. Druce, Wll? es Hearing on Tinal report cont aed to s.&: 26. . > PDavid Moore," Lake Forest--Heatr-- ing on petition for probate of will continued tm. 28. 19%. s o o in esn en '? of certain legatees * Sohn S. Thayer, Antioch--WUI ad-- mitted to probate. Legacies of from $5 in $150 given to relatives and friends: rae\ estate and residuge g en to aepbews,. Eari Thayer. wades Through. big:Docket, -- Delavan Smith Case up., ~« LOCAL PEOPLE SEE --_ _ POST OFFICE SAFE _ BLOWN AND ROBBED waiting--automobite.--A .checkup. yéated --that :u:; in stamps :b "beekh HdKk. _ --~~--_ * * / The robbers failed to l..--uu-i-fl!ul"!« registared®" matl." _--_. Lawrenca Keanedy, Lake Forest~-- Mr. and Mrs. George A. McCiain of North Chicago and Mr. and ° Mrs. William McCarthy of Lake YHia, who returned from a long vacation trip in .Wisconsin yesterday, were accord-- ed the thrill of their Iives while vis iting relatives in' Prairie du Chien, Wis.,. last Saturday when the post-- office, across the street from whare they were staying, was entered be fore their very eyes, the safe was blown, and th robbers escaped amid man standing in Troat of the post: office buat had no idea the import of McClains and McCarthys Vis« the man's presence there. The¥ Weard a territic cxplosion and saw two men U@ragging a mail sack out of the munu.."n That time police arrived @A q"i plstot «hots, the '&0 ram the postotffce again, jJumped through a back window and escaped in # SAFE BLOWERS ESCAPE The McClains were watching ® iting at Prairie du Chien as Robbery Takes Place. | . Ore. -- > ----Lik») +:=-- m "\' ve i~ es----,. _ ¢£ ns us