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Pneumonia Fatal To Mrs. E. Smith Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, 232 N. Secâ€" ond street, who had been a resident of Highland Park for the past nine years, died Saturday at the Highâ€" land Park hospital following a brief illness of pneumonia. Mrs. Smith was 77 years old havâ€" ing been born in Logansport, Ind., June 3, 1862. Funeral services were held Monâ€" day afternoon at 2 o‘clock from Kelley Chapel, the Rev. F. G. Piepâ€" enbrock, officiating. The body was taken to Logansport, Ind.. where services were held Tuesday afterâ€" noon at 2 o‘clock from Chase Chaâ€" pel, with burial in Mount Hope cemâ€" Surviving are two daughters Mrs, C. L. Berry and Miss Madge Smith of this city, two sons, Boyd Smith of Logansport, Ind., and Harry E. Smith of Phoenix, Ariz., four grand children and two great grandchilâ€" dren. "Jim" Lester Dies Suddenly Thursday James Lester, perhaps one of the most familiar characters in Highâ€" land Park, was found dead Thursâ€" day afternoon in the basement of Singer Sewing Machine company. Lester, who was an elderly man, did odd jobs for many of the busiâ€" ness houses and citizens of this comâ€" munity. _ For several weeks his health had been failing. THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1940 Funeral services were held Monâ€" day morning at 10:30 a.m. at Kelâ€" ley‘s funeral home. Burial was in Mooney‘s cemetery. Boys and Girls Get Your Hobby Ready for May 11 Rotary club hopes that many Highland Parkers remember the Boys and Girls Hobby Show that was held last year at Lincoln school. Today it announces that another THE HIGHLAND PARK BUILDING, LOAN £ HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION 21 North Sheridan Road Phone H. P. 361 SAVES MONEY SAVES WORRY It is the quickest way to start your home ownership! Without waiting for some distant Home Office OK, your loan application is promptly considered; local money is available almost immediately. If you‘re planâ€" ning to buy, build, modernize, or refinance, test this friendly plan first. What 314 Railway Avenue Home Loan Means to Mm w y SAVES TIME HARDWARE Ufpu similar uz:n is to be held this year at Place school. The date that has been set is Saturday, May 11. So boys and girls of Highâ€" land Park get out your favorite hobâ€" bies and get them ready ‘for that date. Committee chairmen for this Cityâ€" wide Hobby Show are: Contactâ€"Mr. R. H. Price. Publicityâ€"Paul Phelps. Exhibitâ€"Dana Corrough. Equipmentâ€"Santi Pasquisi. Transportationâ€"Ray Grant. Awardsâ€"R, W. Flinn. Arrangementsâ€"Marshall Johnson and R. H. Price. Chairman â€" George Scheuchenâ€" flug (Mr. X.). Next week in this paper the Exâ€" hibit committee will more fully tell about the details and plans for this Hobby Show. The Junior Women‘s Prosperity club will present "The Five Digits" from Kenosha to furnish music for its May benefit dance to be held in the Labor temple at 8 o‘clock on May 4. Junior Women‘s Prosperity Club To Hold Dance May 4th In charge of tickets at the enâ€" trance will be Gilda Dinelli, Clara Ponsi and Delores Fini. Head of the kitchen are Mrs. Edith DeVroe and Mrs. Charles Crovetti, assisted thereby Doris Nanni, Wilma Monâ€" tecchi, Theresa Pignatari, Norma Tosi, Lucille Mancini, Marie Batâ€" taglini, Mary C. Santi, Mrs. Louis Mini, Mary . Santi and Helen Colo. Flower girls will be Leonora Belâ€" lettini, Mary Casario, Camille Corâ€" so, Bridget Mordini, Mary Rosalini and Margaret Pasquesi. Ticket sellers will be Nancy Santi. Mrs. Amedeo Menoni and Isabelle Acello. At the door will be Ann Tamarri, president; Mrs. Ernest Santi, vice president; and Mary I. Santi, secretary. This is the first social venture for the club, which now has 50 members. Phone H. P. 2041 Promises Varied Concert May 5 at H. P. High School It evening and committees were desigâ€" nated to form plans for the event by the social chairman, Helen Minâ€" orini. several months ago. Tickets for the concert of the Chorus and Orchestra to be given by the Highland Park High school Music department Sunday afterâ€" noon, May 5 at 3:30 in the High school auditorium on Vine avenue may be purchased at Gsell‘s, from any member of the Music committee of the P.â€"T.A. as follows, Mesdames Robert Bryant, Daniel Cobb, Lee Supple, Clarence Schaaf, Kar] Wagâ€" ner, Ernest West, J. E. Flanagan, Arthur Raff, or the P.â€"T.A. presiâ€" dent, Mrs. Henry Hawes or at the door for a very small sum. It promises to be a most delightâ€" ful and varied concert, with some very fine orchestra and chorus soloâ€" ists. The chorus which gives such attractive and musically charming renditions, will give "Climbin‘ Up the Mountain" by Wm. H. Smith, and "My Prayer" by George Boulâ€" anger, among other favorites, and the orchestra will play the enjoyâ€" able "Semiramide" by Rossini and the Intermezzo from "The Jewels of the Madonnna" by Wolfâ€"Ferari, with other welcome numbers. The full program will appear in next week‘s issue. The personnel of the chorus is as follows: Sopranos â€" Helen Abram, Mary Louise Ball, Marian Berg, Pauline _ Blume, Phoebe Brooks, Marion Deweyer, Helen Eitel, Marâ€" ilyn Francisco, Winifred Glover, Pat Goodreds, Betty Jones, Marion Kerrihard, Betty Kloepfer, Shirley Kreuger, Shirley Krumbach, Mariâ€" lyn Lautmann, Mary Jane McFadâ€" den, Ethel Marshall, Mary Lou Montgomery, Helen Neel, Bereath Nelson, Natalie Olson, Ruth Peddle, Installation of officers took place THEHIGELAND ‘PARK PRESS cided inst the cemetery. Then the com'eu;y apâ€" penled.t?e case to the next higher Pennsylvania court. All of the testimony was again gone over and the judge in the lower court was one of the three judges which constituted the intermediate court. Many cemeâ€" tery superintendents of extensive experience {ufllod that repeatedly they had seen steel vaults removed from the ground after being buried a comparatively few years and that at best a lead pencil could be pushed thru the sides of them because of the rust which had ruined the "vaults." Others testified that they had actually seen such steel vaults collapse or "u{aeopo" under the pressure of the earth above. All such evidlenee ;vu' lo‘.onfl;l'uminl that the b;urt agreed unanimously in favor reâ€" fusing to enrh the from nm the rule which it had adopted. The of the lower court was a member of the court thum-hlebm- dered that decision and he reversed and joinâ€" ed the other two to make the decision unanimous. If the decisive legal battle between modern cemeâ€" Wymn{:nentmdh.nulnnhmhdmt been fought in Pennsylvania, it would have been fought in the courts of lilinois, as the initial trial have cccurred in Lake County against NORTRHâ€" ;l?g‘“GARDINOFmgmM in line with this and educated ."m“v'm burial vaults m-‘"bfl-docfl used with the intention of providing enclosures which would hold up the carth on the top of said enclosures fir-hld.zufluh?u:‘:dl h.’h- pursuance of this aim, the drift has been toward the tories located in southern Ohio citiesâ€"applied to a court in Reading for an injunction which would reâ€" strain the cemetery from enforcing the rule mentionâ€" ed. In the hearing of the case, one lawyer represented Charles Evans cemehe3 while three able lawyers repâ€" resented the steel vault association. The judge deâ€" of concrete. However, concrete is porous, and :Mhemm'u.'lhlbwh-‘ m b:.h:i-ahndaa receptacles and so z., students of the problem had In our previous article under the above heading, we mere‘% mg_il)'?ed the mbf)ect of burials in water or in EVERLASTING AND DRY TOMBS. the matter of forming a perfect seal between the ARE WE CIVILIZED? Altosâ€"Betty Danner, Diana Deâ€" gennardt, Eva Dinelli, Helen Gherâ€" ardini, Gerry Golden, Grace Herâ€" man, Flora Hoffman, Susanne Howe, Mona Johnson, Beverly Krause Janet Larsen, LaVerne Lichtwalt, Doris Liye, Alyce McComber, €lara Melchiorre, Patsy Nolan, Mary Rugâ€" gles, Marie Saly ards, LaNelle Spaulding, Doris Timm, Jean Vetâ€" ter, Beatrice Walsh, Janice Wilson, Dorothy Woodbury, Nita Zagnoli, Elizabeth Zahnle. Betty Ralph, Marcia Randall, Eleaâ€" ItlA?{emcI. lsv;l:yu 'I‘mn Barbara Sheridan, Mildred Smith, Fedora Tuchi, Eamline Walker, Anâ€" Tenors â€" Betty Brunner, Robert Digges, Frank Ginter, David Harâ€" rington, Ralph Ott, Douglas Smith, Walter Smith. Bassesâ€"Daniel Cobb, Roy Haas, Joseph Irwin, Albert Matthiesen, Russell Mau, James Muzik, Frank Spanc, Nick Valentini, Bruce Van Guilder, Robert Wieder, Alfeo Zagâ€" noli, Salvador Belmonte and James Kilcoyne. The orchestra personnel is as folâ€" lows: concertmaster, James Krohn; principal violin, William Cuffey; 1st violinsâ€"Chauncey Frisbie, Roland Hoermann, Lois Palmer, Paula Raff; 2nd violins, Evan Dever, Norma Meyer, Betty Varner, Artémize Tashjian, Doris Cooksey, Mollie Boyer, Patricia Stern, Lloyd Erickâ€" son, Roger Peddle, Duane Lemm, Shirley Beckman, Lawrence McDerâ€" mott. Violas â€" Ross Harrington and Constance Koeblin. Double bassesâ€"Helen West, Mary Frances Anderson, Margaret Grunâ€" lund, Rose Barrett, Elizabeth Caldâ€" erelli, Dorothy Anderson. Cellos â€" David Harrington, Reâ€" gina Klpn}p, Jean Supple. Oboes â€" David Worth, LaVerne Krause. Bassoonâ€"William Hamlin, Clarinentsâ€"Richard Schaaf, Ira Ritow, Mary Binder, James Lynn, Marcia Holtje, Gloria Segert. Flutes â€" Ray Werhane, Claire Rosen{els. Trumpets â€" Robert Bock, Robert Preus, Ruth Herman, and Elwin Kruse. (No. 2) Meyer, George Weiss. Harpâ€"Berenice Flanagan. Pianoâ€"Marion Sanford, Arthur Dubin, Irwin !Cfl.luhur. Mary Lou Dyer, Virginia Bruce. Percussionâ€"Larry Brown, Irwin Wertheimer, and Arthur Dubin. Newspapers on Wall: Studied by Children â€" In many Illinois households durâ€" ing the early years of the state‘s history, newspapers played an imâ€" portant role in education, one hisâ€" torian has pointed out. After being carefully read by the elders, the journals were saved until enough had been accumulated to cover the walls of a cabin. Then they were pasted up in the manner of wallpaper, says the Illinois Writâ€" ers‘ Project, W.P.A. To them the chiidren often turned during the long periods when weathâ€" been selling those shipping cases under the name of "rough boxes" to their customers for $10.00 to $15.00 each. It has been well known to cemetery managers for many years that those flimsy wooden boxes will begin io colapse in two or three years and that they will collapse on the installment plan. _ _ _ _ It is a sad sight t:‘dgo into any burial place after a heavy and protrac rain, or in the spring of the year, and see from 40 to 100 collapsed graves. That scene will not be witnessed in any place of human inâ€" terment where wooden boxes or steel vaults are goro- hibited in the future. However, neither of those ROCCSE 2N TW ADCNDW. MIVWETCL HOTVHCE OL LIHOSE classes of outer enclosures are positively certain to exclude tghe water. Tf:tte rfn‘ictty beeomingi well hlownm among the cemetery p ve men commenced the study of how to m«e everlastâ€" in( concrete outer enclosures impervious to water. gmbm.l‘i‘n :u: obtained ;:ry ':::h distribution of hi: vault by ng concrete boxes asphal % of an inch thick. mtmanhum,odtht that asphalt lining of the concrete vault is fastened to the inner wall of the vault only by the use of keroâ€" sene oil. Then the plain ‘gflndon occurs to any thinkâ€" ing person, "How long that vault remain ‘waterâ€" proof ?" If concrete &‘Korou- water will find its vn{flnmeheoncrm s of the vault. That water will push against that thin layer of asphalt on the inside and soon will form a water blister, resembling the blister on one‘s hand. That accumulatino of water between the inner side of the concrete and the thin lining of asphalt will be pushed out so as to almost perfectly represent such a blister. That water will mumite there until that inner wall of plastic asâ€" phd: will burst. Then that vault is no more waterâ€" proof. t cenreine fhroaglh by on on on ie mt of extreme strength m" class concre work for the purpose of producing a massive, solid, TDTC IOF ine purpose of producing a massive, solid, and permanent outer enclosure for the casket. Then two coats of specially Nm«l i asphalt are put on every inch of that to-g. first coat b.géhnwp. oughly dried before the second is applied. While the For many years undertakers have been selling to their customers the flimsy wooden shipping cases used by the manufacturers of caskets to send said caskets to the undertakers. The men of the profession have hiw.Jove uty ind uin ore Aricsacs th: J TUCC. TVTORC CVE mnamthhuhwnfgnw:{:flp%m pared fabric is put on every inch of the and enfillm into the soft t. _ As soon as that co flanhthom(:l.f a third coat of uphflt.i;dpotonvith.m W to dry "cure." As soon as that result :J“mpu.hed.-fmfimtdhmp‘rfl‘ asphalt is & As to seal in the vault, it is rather difficult to vtlnto mwu.-lmmmm Tos of thoo that 2 s1 ahy Uiar Ior maey pooks wieee a from the gr and opened and any water should uwm‘uumuwuqm hlflfi.‘l.&-m'fllhdhfim of the lot in which the tomb has resting. The mnlwbhmw-h.. 6 should be NORTHSH ARâ€" DEN OF MEMORLES sells a sectional yash for only $15 which will hold the earth for untold centuries to come but which is not waterproof. French hornâ€"Robert Bryant. main portion of the vault and the cover after the casâ€" ket enclosing the body is lowéred into the "box." In hundreds of cases it has been found that such conâ€" crete boxes merely served as firmnnent receptacles to prevent the grave from collapsing, but were mot waterproof. flms y nomeleny ocm walin‘ t hi o Slated to reduce the overhead whem Johnnie goes out to play. We have constructed them to take everything he can give them. He‘ll like them too. «No: 1808 CHICAGO AVE., Evanston PooL & PIPEr 2 HOURS FREE PARKING IN GARAGE â€" TWO DOORS NORTH OF OUR SHOP Donald Gault, Steven hel &Mruqu"""_';.'â€" lou"udth M:?Mu: in their study of reading. DAHL‘S Auto Reconstruction Co. Auto Repainting Cold Frame and Axle Straightening Body and Fender Repairing SPRING SERVICE STATION WELDING AND SOLDERING 322 N. First St. _ Phone 77 kept them indoors, and with the SHOES â€" Strong and Sturdy UNIversity 0973 PAGE THREE