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â€"Mrs. Durand To Preside At Ravinia Garden Club Vol. 35 ; No. 40 Mrs. Durand To Preside At Ravinia Garden Club place, one of Ravinia Garden club‘s most outstandng members, wil conâ€" duct a round table discussion at the next regular meeting of the club to be held Friday, May 11, at 2 p.m., at the home of Mrs. Claâ€" burn Jones, 199 Roger Williams. Mrs. Durand lectures frequentâ€" ly in this area and is sometimes heard over the air on.a wide varieâ€" ty of garden subjects. . For the past seven years she has written a«eolrcen for "Garden Glories" as north Fegional Writer@or its staff She has also been a member of the board of the Garden Club of MIiâ€" nois as wellâ€"as the board of the Society forâ€" the Preservation of Wild Flowers. - â€" At the May meeting of the club, Mrs. Durand will call on several members of the club to give short talks on victory gardens, flowers and shrubs, with particular emphaâ€" sis laid on the new things in garâ€" dening that have been developed during the past year. during the past year. Final plans for the club‘s annual garden fair to be held on Saturâ€" day, May 26, at the Ravinia village green will also be discussed at this meeting. . Mrs. J. D. Dickinson, Mbm that everything will be in readiness for that day. Flowers for the meeting will be arranged by Mrs. C. Ray Phillips and Mrs. James Barton. Followâ€" ing the program, a tea will be served by the assistant hostesses for the afternoon, Mrs. D. B. Robâ€" inson, Mrs. Stanley Clague, Mrs. Lytle. will.be a short board meeting conâ€" ducted by Mrs. V. E. Lawrence, president. ‘Clean Upâ€"Don‘t Burn Up,‘ Says Chief Hennig _A young man‘s fahey may turn to love in the weeks just ahead, but a fireman sees spring as a season of arduous days and sleepâ€" less nights. . â€" Statistics recently compiled for a tenâ€"year period by the National Fire Protection association ~show that the months of March; April and May have a high record of fire loss. . And the dollar loss for the winter, always the worst time for fires, only slightly _ exceeds the spring loss. * *This is the reason the fire deâ€" partment is urging everyone to join wholeâ€"heartedly in the Spring Cleanâ€"up Campaign, now getting under way," Chief Hennig said toâ€" day. ‘"These figures make it perâ€" fectly clear that we should rid our homes and the community of the hazards which have accumulated during the long, severe winter. "Take the heating plant, for exâ€" ample. Working overtime, there are worn parts which need to be (lil-'w.l-d needs a good cleaning, particularly when much of the fuel is of an erating a dirty furnace just isn‘t good citizenship when a clean heatâ€" "A dirty heating plant," continâ€" ued Chief Henning, is one of the principal causes of fire, followed closely by flammable wood shingle roofs, which are apt to be set afire by sparks spewing from dirty chimneys. Clean the furnace now, from fire pot to chimney top, and similar chief advises. "Charges of poor housekeeping may not win friends, but may stop fll-.'Mll-k-il.M bores, old furniture, and the like, stored away in the attic, basement, not be turned in for salvage. Such debrisâ€"is the largest single cause of fire now attacking homes at the rate of one every 90 seconds. is in charge of the fair this Harvey and Mrs. James Save Your Old Stamps For Gt. Lakes Veterans Members of."Stamps For The Wounded" wish to thank the Kiâ€" wanis club for the generous conâ€" tribution of stamps turned in at the Highland Park Press last week. The stamps were promptly turned over to Mr. Charles Sanborn, presâ€" ident of North Suburban Philatelic society and committee member of "Stamps For The Wounded," who found that some of them are in especial demand by the veterans. Especially appreciated wiere the the flag stamps. * About threeâ€"fourths of the Gt. Likes collectors are confined to their beds, and the stamp collectâ€" ing hobby is one which they can thoroughly enjoy. ra When cleaning your attic this spring, examife your old letters, before turning them over to the wasteâ€"paper collection, for outâ€"ofâ€" theâ€"ordinary stamps, and turn them in at this office to be sent to Great Lakes. Local Scout Patrol Receives High Rating and Lion patrols of troop 19, Winâ€" netka; Rattlesnake patrol of troop 5, and Beaver and Eagle. patrols of troop 2, all of Wilmette. â€" _ Six patrols from four troops of the North Shoré Area council reâ€" ceived top ratings in the l:&id'WESt: ning, April 27. Five other comâ€" peting patrols recéived B ratings for scoring between 80% and 90%. 5 A ratings were received by the following: Raven patrol of troop 30, Highland Park; Flying Eagle B ratings were earned by the Plyirg«â€"Cag» patrol of troop 5 of Wilmette;}Fox and Explorer paâ€" trols of troop 4, Wilmette; Silver Fox patrol of troop 2, Wilmette; an dthe Eagle patrol of troop 19 of Winnetka. f : The meet was operated under the direction of Theo. Hall of Wilâ€" mette, chairman of the health and safety committee of North Shore area council, Boy Scouts of Amerâ€" ica. ‘ He was assisted by the folâ€" lowing: J. E. Jacobs, Winnetka, reâ€" corder; Robert Levings, Winnetâ€" ka, timekeeper; Louis Flinker, B. B. Bassler and Craig Stoddard, Winnetka; doctors. geson, < Highland Park;. Robert James, Evanston ; C. C. Branscome, The following served as judges: Mrs. Frank Dowd and C. J. Moliâ€" tor of Winnetka; KennethH. Marâ€" Pfc. Robert Turelli Walter Cleace, ‘Stuart Fox, Ward Lowe, Charles Taylor, D. C. Leach, Frank Boardman and Roy Kroes chell of Wilmette. _ _A cable from her son, Pfc. Robâ€" ert Turelli, 24, the first message received from him since he was reported taken prisoner, January 6, in Luxembourg, leads Mrs. Olimâ€" pi Fabbri, 125 North, Highwood, to believe that he has been liberatâ€" ed. The message states that he is well and safe and hopes to see in June, 1944, and left for overâ€" seas the following December. He college at Waukesha, Wis., for one is a 1938 friction of rubbing a dirty spot out of the miaterial may cause a spark which will explode naphtha ideas to add to the list of ‘must‘ jobs," Chief Hennig concluded: 1. Make sure gas and electrical equipment is clean and operating properly. Have frayed and worn 2. Keep matches out of reach of small children and in metal conâ€" tainers.â€" Be carefol, smoker! Do not smoke in bed. 3. Extend your cleanâ€"up to the yard and alley. Burn leaves and The Higbland Park Press Pfc. Turelli entered the service aid finals held at Howard of Highland Park‘s NEWS Patper for 33 Years Three Local Groups Join To Celebrate Baby Week Our youngest citizens, the baâ€" bies, are asking for a special place in the headlines during this week (April 29 to May 5) along with news from the battle fronts and the peace deliberations at San Francisco, for it is National Baby Week. Baby Week, founded 31 years ago by the Infant Welfare society of Chicago as a. local affair, has now grown to national â€"dimensions and is anâ€"annual event in connecâ€" tion with : National Child Health Day which falls on May 1. In Highland Park, Baby Week is observed under the auspices of three centers of the Infant Welâ€" fare society, the Highland Parkâ€" Ravinia junior group, senior board, and the Infant Welfare ‘Wing. These three groups are headed reâ€" spectively by Mrs. Ralph Archer, Mrs. Edwin Hadley, Jr:, and Mrs. Joseph H. Myers: Special events in celebration of Baby Weekâ€"this year in Highland Park have been the Infant Welfare society‘s annual. poster contest among high school students, won by Portiaâ€" Allen; the Baby Week display in the windows of the Pubâ€" lic Service Co., which includes the posters entered in the contest as well as a display of _ children‘s clothing made by Infant Welfare members; and the raising among the members of the Infant Welfare groups of a special cod liver oil fund to benefit the underprivileged children now cared for by the Inâ€" fant Welfare society. * Baby Week lost any significance as a fundâ€"raising event years ago, So Mussolini is gone . . . gone the shameful, the ignominious way of the coward. And yet ... Who can say that had the Facist leader stuck to the methods of the first years of his regime the end might not have been different? Certainly the man must have had something â€" something that en« abled him to lift his countrymen MUSSOLINI‘S MENTAL .QUIRK from the nation of beggars which the first World War made it to selfâ€"respectingâ€"though regimentâ€" edâ€"millions. What strange quirk in his naâ€" ture cropped up to throw him? Probably his pitiful susceptibility to fiattery â€" the quirk that showâ€" ed itself in his absurd little strut. ‘The Napoleon complex. Or that Hitler that resulted in his crying ‘No, no‘ to his assassins." For the lawlessness which Dictator No. 1 instilled into the government of his country was the Frankenstein that turned upon him in the end, meeting out justice â€" without the law, denying him even the dignity of death. A bad man â€" a weak man â€" a crazy man â€" or all three? What does it matter? He is gone. And if there be a moral, may it not be that we of America want none of his kind of government â€" call it what you will. _ ~ ASCENSION DAY SERVICE AT REDEEMER LUTHERAN congregation will observe the traâ€" ditional annual Ascension Day with vesper service at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 10. The pastor the Rev. H. K. Platzer, will speak on on Mark 18:14â€"20. UNITED STATES@WAR BONDS Highland Park, Illinois, Thursday, May 3, 1945 its purpose now being to educate the public to the health needs of little children.© The Infant Welâ€" fare society believes that what it is doing for the health of children in the poorest sections of Chicaâ€" go_could be accomplished for all children, given sufficient ‘public interest. wom The Infant Welfare society maintains 21 stations in the overâ€" crowded â€"industrialâ€"areasâ€"of â€"Chiâ€" cago where doctors, nurses, nutriâ€" tionists and a mental hygiene suâ€" pervisor provide regular medical examination of expectant mothers, babies and children up to six years of age. Conferences at the staâ€" tions are followed by homeâ€"visits to teach the mothers how to keep their childrenâ€"well. In 1944, 11,â€" 311 expectant mothers and chilâ€" drep received this service. = > One of the stations, Alice H. Wood, 1964 N. Halsted, is supportâ€" ed by our three Highland Parkâ€"Raâ€" vinia centers, which contributed $3,900 to the work last year through the Comgmunity Chest. In addition to this gift in money, the center members gave 258 hours of volunteer work in the station, weighing the babies and doing clerical work to relieve the nurses; and.made 593 garments for the baâ€" bies. * In all the North Shore suburbs from Evanston to Lake Forest, are Infant Welfare groups which supâ€" port a station of the society. In Kenilworth, . Wilmette, Glencoe, and Winnetka, as well as in Highâ€" land Park, the contribution is made through"a Community Chest. â€" Deerfield Veteran Missing in Action and Mrs. Harold O. Plagge, 519 Elm, Deerfield, has been officially Park high, Pfc. Plagge has served for 28 months in the European theâ€" ater in some of the bloodiest enâ€" gagements of that area. Hospitalâ€" ized for wounds received in the North African campaign, he recovâ€" ered to take part in the invasion of Siclly, Italy and Salerno. Again he was hospitalized in March, 1944, for wounds received at Anâ€" zio. Formerly a driver of amphibâ€" fous ducks, unloading supplies in beach lanlings, he was transferred to the infantry. His younger Pfc. Leland H. Plagge, 22, the elder of two soldier‘sons of Mr. reported missing in action in Gerâ€" many since April 8. d brother, Raymond, is fighting with the Marines in the Pacific area. Posthumous Award For Pvt. Duchane The Purple Heart, posthumous ly awarded Pvt. John Duchane, 38, lost in October at Leyte, was reâ€" ceived recently by his widow, Mrs. Helen Duchane, 322 McDaniels. She was notified of his death in early March, after trying for four months to trace him through the erseas for two years, taking part in the invasion of the Aleutians and later that of the Marshalls. He is survived, also, by his son, John, 14, a sister and a brother. ble source of calcium and vitamin C, is plentiful in the markets now. larger quantities, also. A former student at Highlan! Pvt. Duchane served served ovâ€" Auxiliary Women To Sell Poppies for Vets May 28 Highland Parkers Are Among Liberated Yanks Among the 300 Chicagoland prisonerswho were delivered from German prison camps this week were four boys from this vicinity. The knowledge that their boys are free, cared for aÂ¥Wd wellâ€"fed, was almost‘ too ‘joyful to be borne by their anxious families. * Mr. and Mrs. Russell Gilbert, 909 Taylor, are kept busy answerâ€" ing telephone messages of congratâ€" ulation. . "I am so happy that peoâ€" ple take such an interest," says Mrs. Gilbert, "but, of course, Stan was born and raised here, and was one of the first â€" if not, the first â€"to be taken prisoner from this tow1t. > ~ And now," she~ adds, "I know he won‘t be hungry. â€" You know how boys of that age like to eat." . Stan, known to his overâ€" seas buddies as "Richie" spent his 24th as well as his 23rd birthday anniversary in prison â€" April 18. A bombardier navigator, he was taken prisoner in February 1944, when his plane crashed in a mission over Germany, and he sustained injuries to pelvis, back and face. Mrs. Betty Kuge! Hansen hopes that her husband, Lt. Harry Hanâ€" Sen, navigator , whose parents are Mr. ard Mrs. H. S Hansen,, 645 Chicago,.will arrive home in time for his birthday, the 23rd of this month. She has the oak leaf clusâ€" ter awarded him before his"last trip, which resulted in his imprisâ€" onment in May, 1944. Although Lt. Robert L. Weinâ€" berg‘s name was misspelled, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob S. Weinberg, 225 Cary, are convinced that he, also, is among the liberatâ€" Pfc. Donald Templeton, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Templeton, Sr., 1565 S. Linden, anl husband of the former Barbara Pierce, 1131 S. Linden, has been officially reâ€" ported as missing in action since April 7, at which time he was serving as combat scout in an inâ€" fantry division in Germany. Lt. Richard ‘Thompson, coâ€"pilot in.a bomber, whose father, Roy ‘Thompson, lives. in. g‘erfield, is also among those freed. He was taken prisoner in a mission over Germany in April, 1944.. Pfc. Donald Templeton Missing in Germany A member of the 1944 graduatâ€" ing class, Pfce. Don entered the service a few weeksâ€"later, and left for overseas last February. He is the father of an infant son, Donâ€" ald Jr. 5 A brother, Pfe. Frank, in service since October, 1942, and overseas 18 months, is stationed in France with a ground crew of the AAF. T/SGT. UGO AZZI WOUNDED AT LUZON Official notice has been received by ‘Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Azzi, 245 Burchell, Highwood, stating that their son, T/Sgt. Ugo, was slightly wounded on Luzon, April Four years in the army, Azzi has served two years overseas in New Guinea and the Philippines. His brother, Pfe. Guido, is staâ€" tioned in Germany. Pfc. Charles D. Maley Wounded by Bazooka wound from a bazooka shell in Germany.â€"â€"â€" A letter received by Mr. and Mrs. Lyle W. Maley, 281 Prospect, from their 20â€"yearâ€"old son, Pfe. A 1942 graduate of Highland Park high, Pfe. Charles studied for one year at the University of Iowa before entering the service in April 1943, and has been overseas since April 11 he suffered a slight thigh last October. Lake Forest Man ‘The afterâ€"dinner speaker at the. Kiwanis club on Moriday at 6:30, at Sunset Valley club house, will be Raymond Moore, principal of Lake Forest high school. A graduate of Highland Park high and Lake Forest college, Mr. Moore received his master‘s degree at Harvard. His subject will be announced later. UNITED STATES WAR BONDS Veterans of World War I and World War II are expected to be among the first to buy a poppy on Poppy Day next Saturday, accordâ€" ing to the commanders of Highâ€" wood and Highland Park posts of the American Legion. _ In their statement, John Pasquesi, Highâ€" wood, and DeWitt Manasse, Highâ€" land Park, said: "Today as in 1917 and 1918, our men are again fighting overseas, giving their lives that we may be safe.* These boys are our rélatives, our neighbors, our friends. < It is grievous to us that they must sufâ€" fer, and who better appreciates the amount of suffering they en; dure than the veterans of this war and the last? ‘Those on the home front wish to show that they remember and revere those who died in both wars and to do this, they wear the popâ€" py. This little flower expresses for us feelings that are too deep to put into words. It is one way of telling the heroic dead that we will do our best to ‘keep up the good "The women of theâ€"American Legion auxiliary will be on the streets all day Monday, May 28, ofâ€" fering the poppies made by disaâ€" bled veterans to the public. We are sure that veterans~ and civilians alike will be eager to wear the litâ€" tle red symbol of sacrifice. Weâ€"of the American Legion should be the first to wear the badge as none know better than we the heroism of America‘s dead soldiers." _ > fight.‘ Starts Monday, May 7 "Highland â€"Park must come up to the record waste paper collecâ€" tion made in other towns of this area last week. A pile of paper at every house will do it," said Mrs. Nathan Corwith, Jr.,saivage chairâ€" Pickâ€"up Schedule 1. Monday, May 7â€"Central and north to city limits, east of tracks. 2. Tuesday, May 8 â€" Central to Beech, east of tracks. ® 3. : Wednesday â€" Beech to County Line road, east of tracks and Berkeley road. Thursday â€" Central and Berkeâ€" ley to County. Line road, west of 5. Fridayâ€"Central and Berkeâ€" ley north to city limits, west of To Prepare Paper 5c a copy; $1.50 per year Newspapers and magazines, tied in bundles. P dak ‘Wastebasket paper, including all scraps, in box or bag. Catholic Woman‘s League Holds Spring Luncheon The annual spring luncheon of the North Shore Catholic Woman‘s league will be held at the Georgian hotel, Tuesday, May 8, at 12:30 After luncheon speakers include the Very Rev. Magr. Reynold Hilâ€" lenbrand, pastor of Sacred Heart church and spiritual director of the league. Also Miss Helen M. Ganey, president of Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women. Mrs. Wm. 8. Allen, financial secretary, states that approximateâ€" ly oneâ€"third of the entire revenue of the league for the year was disâ€" ::udforwmc-: luding generous donations various war activities, scholarship funds for National Catholic school of social service and Loyola uniâ€" versity school of social service, etc., this having been made possiâ€" Supt. E. C. Reichert Will Talk to Rotary After luncheon cards will . be played with a prize for each table. On Monday, May 7, Mr. E. C.. Reichert, superintendent of 0 district 107, will address | of the Highland Park Rotary s His subject will be " the Modern School." ‘In a girl sextette from Elm school will sing. Oren Go music instructor, will musical program. _‘ io Visitors to the ed Sgt. Warner Turriff, US Bob Wolters, USA; mark and John Blandahl Empty cartons, fiattened. and CLAIRE S. ARENBERG. various committees in