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VOLUME 56 ['HENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8,1931 NO. 3$ ••Si. CARROLL *9 TO SPRINIJIELD iM'HENET OO0NTY WILL REPRESENTED " LEE KIRCHER BUYS BERNER BUILDING Barber Shop of Kircher & Dreymffltf Will Be Moved Proa There In Near Futare Lee Kircher, Green street's ^bpolar barber, has purchased the Bemer building, where he will move his barber shop as soon as the building is in readiness. It is now undergoing repairs and improvements and is being redecorated throughout. Mr. and Mrs. CITY COUNCIL IN L JANUARY MEETING fl[ What's It Going to Be? ID SUPt. DUKER ATTENDS STATE TEACHERS MEET Time Since 1880 That • Has Sent Representative Vi* 1 To Legislature if,. * We told that Mrtory rite. •»-, Kirrhcr ^ the n.t „„ the •r , peats itself and so aram this week _ A „--. „JtVl ^ ww '•'* ^ Rafter half a century has elapsed, Mc- Henry finds itself "With a represents 1 V* tive in the Illinois state legislature when the state general assembly con- **'*•- Evened on January 7. k ' %C»:; McHenry's own son, Thomas A. Bolt ger, bom and raised in this, vicinity and educated in our local schools, left §13 Tuesday morning for Springfield, rv where he will be one of sixty new faces to appear on the floors of the II- & linois state legislative houses. Of this sixty, fourteen are senators and forty-j^;1^ new ^ ^ furniture and as six are representatives. Mr. Boiger1 r ^ ^ goes as a representative for the Dem- •Jj ocratic party. ; w William Carroll of Woodstock is ansecond floor and with the barber shop in one of the store apartments on the first floor the adjoining room will probably be rented to some business concern. The building is a modern one and will be a desirable location for the shop of Kircher & Dreymiller. . According to reports the former i Pries building now owned by a Wau- | kegan man in which Mr. and Mrs. I Kircjier have lived for several years, will be opened as a furniture store SUIT THREATENED ENGINEER8 a furniture repair shop. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heimer, who are occupying the upper flat in this . . , , „ # I building, will move to the Jacob Justen other new member, who leaves for,^ ^ ^ Bo)«er drag /I Springfield this week, representing the Republican party, while Richard Lyons of Lake county is the third representative from this district. Ray Paddock of Lake county goes as a senator from this district. In his initial trip to Springfield as a representative of this district Mr. Bolder was accompanied by Henry Greeley and John O'Keefe of Highland | store. FOR BETTER HEALTH Smallpox vaccinations will be given in the School Nurse's office at the Community high school at 1 o'clock on Monday, January 12. , Parents are urged to bring young Park,' dhairmen of the McHenry and' children of pre-school age tb the clinic Lake' county Democratic Central com- j *or vaccination. mittee. They left Tuesday morning, The charge will be fifty cents per arriving in Springfield in time to at- child. If reason can be shown that tend the caucus meetings of both! parents cannot pay the fee, kindly parties Tuesday evening when the candidates for speaker of the house -were selected. On tlje following day, Jan. 7, the House and Senate convened, the sessions for the first week probably taking only two days. On Wednesday evening Mr. Bolger attended a Democratic banquet given at the St. Nieiiolas hotel in honor of Jackson Day. The affairs of the state will requite \he greater part of the representatives' time until June 1 with the legislature in session four days of every week. Mr. Bolger will spend every -week-end at his home in this vicinity. McHenry Again Represented Net since 1880 has the city of Mc- IKmry been represented in the state legislature when F. K. Granger was elected to his fourth term as a member of the house of representatives at ^Springfield. In the fall of 1872 the Republicans of McHenry and Lake counties elected him their representative to the legislature and to this office he was re-elected three times. Duripg his last two terms he was speaker of the house, having the honor of being the first to preside, in the new state capitol building. His course, while speaker, was such as to win the praise of the press and the people and from many tributes, one selected from an editorial in the Sunday Telegraph of Chicago dated May 11,^1879 reads: "Mr. Granger, who is now in his fourth term, keeps a better run ef consult Mrs. Rulien, School Nurse, and the necessary arrangements will be made. - The following article was taken from the Illinois Health Messenger,' of the January issue: "One of the finest demonstrations of perfect control over the spread of communicable diseases which has ever beea recorded in Illinois took place last fall in Evanston when the captain of Northwestern University •football team came down with smallpox. He had the only case that developed although a large number -of unvaecinated people were exposed. "Preventing the spread of this threatened outbreak was* due to the timely and energetic efforts of Dr. John W. H. Pollard, Evanston's efffcient health officer, and the splendid cooperation of the University and others concerned. Every known person who had been in contact with the football captain during the period of infection ,was vaccinated within a day or two after his illness was known to be smallpox. Many other unprotected people ^srho might have been exposed were also vaccinated. Indeed, more than 1,200 vaccinations were done. "Nothing could illustrate more abundantly that smallpox can be controlled even after it. appears in a community if an alert and adequate health department is functioning. To stamp out a threatened outbreak of people are unprotected is a matter worthy of notice. "The city of Chicago ' has been demonstrating this same thing for a long time. In that city which now has more than 3,000,000 people only 738 cases of smallpox have been reported during the seven years ended "with 1929 while in Illinois outside that city where the population stands at something over 4,000,000 there have been 11,431 cases during the same years. The system used by Chicago is the prompt and energetic vaccination of all unvaccinated people in any part of the city upon the appearance of the first case of smallpox. That system works wherever the facilities of the health department permit its A. JOANNE RULIEN, School Nurse. $ the business of the house and knows smallpox in a population where many better how to avail himself of the rules than any other member. He is well posted on every question of legislation: as a speaker he is easy, and clear in his statements, always commanding the attention of his unruly audi- «nce." McHenry Had Two Members For one term McHenry had the distinction of being the home of two of the representatives" for this district as Richard Bishop was elected by the Democratic party in 1872 to serve a term as a representative for the peo-' pie of this district also. By the apportionment of 1872 McHenry and Lake countiejrbecame the eighth district entitled to three representatives. in 1882, Lake, McHenry and Boone counies were made the eighth senatorial district. ' Like F. K. Granger, Mr. Bishop was • "bupervisor of the town of McHenry for many years, both were prominent •business men of McHenry and both were natives of New York state. In the spring of 1844 Mr. Bishop came •west, finally arriving at McHenry while about ten years later, in 1853, Mr. Granger migrated westward, also arriving in McHenry a, few years biter. ~ in 1838 McHenry county chose its ftrst representative to the legislature, electing a Deinocrat by a considerable majority. The county was solidly Democratic from its infancy until 1$56 When the impending crisis tile majority to the Republican side, Habere it has since remained. I At the first election held in this ifcunty the whole number of votes cast 115. j • A s t h e r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s o f t h e t a s t -have been progressive business wen, SO also is Mr. Bolger, who has [ his term before him in which he iwill doubtless display his ability to preside for the welfare and work for the best *v Interests of his district. > . The Democrats are by far the f-eatest gainers in new members in ie present legislature, the J'aqies amilton Lewis, Democratic landslide {ti November having swept mtny . ~ Democratic legislative candidates into -^Ifice. . . ; > Of the new senators ten axe Dfcm- 1 '«crats and four Republicans. In' no Case did any of the new Republicans - Replace Democrats while seven of the "^bemocrats were elected in place, of jpepublicans. ! * i In the house twenty-three of OmmeB Votes To Pay $30t ai* Af rued Interest Or* the Brows . • ' Judgment The first meeting of the city council for the year 1931 was held Monday evening, Jan. 5, at 8 o'clock at the city hall with all the aldermen, the mayor and the newly appointed clerk, Peter Neiss, present. This was Mr. Neiss' first meeting and with a little assistance from the ex-clerk, Ray Conway, acted like a veteran at the job. Most of Conway's evening was occupied in manipulating his new cigar holder, which ^as left him by Santa Claus. The city treasurer's report, showing a balance of $8,565.26, was read and approved. The city collector reported collections of $618.29, which was approved. The city clerk also reported collections of $267.36. The regular bills of nearly $1^00, were read and ordered paid as OK'd by the finance committee, George. H. Johnson was present and asked for assistance in furnishing water for flooding the high school foot ball field for the purpose of making a pond for skating. Sandbags are being used for a temporary dam for the lower part of the field. The matter was turned over to the superintendent of water, who, assisted by Mr. Felta, will see that the hydrant is handled properly so it will not be damaged by freezing. Order Auditor's Bill Paid! The bill from Auditor North, amounting to $75, was ordered paid. This bill was for the checking of the report of Mr. Bonslett submitted to the board at their last meeting. A letter was received from Mr. Wells of the Wells Engineering Co., relative to Mr. Ashley's report of the previous meeting at which Bonslett submitted his report to the board. Mr. Wells easily explained the apparent errors noted by Mr. Bonslett as mis interpretation of the reports used and said that the statements were «o wrong that it appeared as if the author of the report was liable for •misrepresentation of the facts. Consider Matter Closed A motion by Krause, seconded by Doherty, that the report of Auditor North and the letter of the Wells Engineering Co., be impounded with Bonslett's report and filed together for future reference so that the matter might remain closed for all time, was passed unanimously. A letter from the state health department was read giving the city an opportunity to have their water supply tested periodically without expense outside the mailing of samples. The board advised the clerk to send for containers. A bill from Atty. t). T. Smiley for $250 for defending the city in the Busch case was tabled as they were not certain the case was entirely settled. A letter from C. P. Barnes in behalf of the James Anderson Co., engineers, threatening suit for work started by them on the Spencer hill paving project was read and tabled for the present. Mrs. Leah Brown requested part •payment on the judgment held •against the city and it was decided to pay $300 and accrued interest to date. Clarron Eddy was present and spoke in reference . to tree surgery work in the city park. As it was not just clear about what is needed to be done he was asked to meet with Aid. Schaefer and give an estimate as to the expense of putting the trees in first-class shape. / The meeting adjourned about 10 o'clock. Prominent Educators Are O i Program Of Associations Annual Meeting At Springfield Supt. C. H. Duker, in company with W. J. Cclahan of Woodstock and D. W. Ewing of Crystal Lake, went as delegate last week to the seventy-seventh annual meeting of the Illinois State Teachers' association at Springfield. •C' WEEKLY EXCHANGE ITEMS WREST TAKEN FROM COLUMNS Of OUR gXCHAffGES l Work will soon start on the ftrf|1 unit of the new Blumberg building to be erected in Waukegan on ihe site Iof the old Central Hotel building, recently burned, on the corner of Watiir BACK TO BUSINESS FOLLOWING HOLIDAYS FARM BUREAU * ANNUAL MEfflHG Merchants Are Finishing Inventories and Preparing For An Improved Trade In 1931 Well, the holidays are over and those good old days where there are about three Sundays in every week have passed into the history of another year, while the people of McHenry, as well as the entire county, are becoming adjusted to meet the events of the new year 1931. ' The merchants are also busy checking "Up after the Christmas rush and getting their stock back to normal with many of them engaged in taking inventory during the next few weeks. The postoffices are getting back to their regular routine once more after the Christmas season which surpassed all records of previous, years and are catching up on their work, which was so greatly increased during the past few weeks. On Monday the boys and girls started back to school after their holiday vacation and are discarding their j new toys and Christmas gifts for their school books and other interests while the teachers are settling down to the routine which will be uninterrupted until spring. Many of the pretty green Christmas trees are now to be seen adorning the back yards of many homes in our city while mother is busy sweeping and cleaning after the confusion of the holidays, packing away gifts and exchanging duplicates for the family. Father also has plenty to do during these post-holiday weeks, being kept busy receiving bills and writing checks and perhaps snatching opportunities to try out his new pipe or the cigars which will do, although they are the wrong brand. These will continue to be busy days for with the old year and Christmas in the background the events of the future are already demanding Held In Miller Theatre -At Woodstock, Friday, January 9 t Everyone is invited to spend an enjoyable day fit the annual meeting. L^ts of entertainment for all who come. Music by the well known1 "Pawnee Four," best entertainers in Central Illinois. Interesting and enlightening annual reports of the several projects being sponsored by the Farm Bureau before noon. Dinner served at the Congregational church at 12 o'clock, the Pawnee Four entertaining between courses. ^ In the afternoon every farmer and his family should be present to enjoy the address of the day to be given by Larry A. Williams, whom many of, you know. If you have heard him you need no invitation to be present. If you have not heard this entertainer and interesting lecturer you are urged to attend. By your presence help make the annual meeting a success. delivered addresses during the sessions and election of asociation officers was held. Among the" speakers were Governor Emmerson, President Chase of the University of Illinois, Judge Florence E. Allen of the Ohio State Supreme Court and the only wbman supreme judge in the United States, and Major Robinson. One of the features of the opening program qf the meeting was the annual state spelling contest, in which McHenry county was represented by Elizabeth Hudek, 13-year-old Fox River Grove school girl, who was accompanied to Springfield by her teacher, Miss May Desmond. Awards to the winners were made by Francis G. Blair, state superintendent of public instruction. Several allied organizations, including the State Attendance Officers' association, the County Superintendents' association and the City Superintendents' association met in connection with the larger group. Problems of school finances, larger school districts, | teachers' pensions, social and professional training of teachers, probation and advanced educational ideals were treated by the gathering during the three days' session. NEW LICENSE PLATESf- Mariy of the 1931 automobile ffeeftse plates are now in evidence and are quite attractive and easily read their new colors of green and black. From now on the new plates will increase rapidly as applications in large numbers are being made daily. The Illinois law provides that application shall be made on or before January 1 for new plates and that the car may be driven until the plates ar rive, if the owner shall carry proof that he has made such application. In Indiana the law differs .somewhat and as a result several arrests are made every year. The Indiana law provides that no car shall be driven in the state unless plates for the current year are attached. The fact that one has ap- CAR FAILS TO MAKE TURN AND SKIDS INTO CURB A Ford coupe skidded into the curb on the corner at Routes 61 and 20 Sunday night, turning over, badly wrecked. The dense fog and slippery pavements made driving a hazardous undertaking over the week-end and many accidents through the country resulted from the very bad conditions. The driver of the Ford coupe evidently did not see the curve in time to slow down sufficiently to make the turn on the icy pavement and the result was the wrecked car although he escaped with minor Injuries. The driver comes from Michigan. /, A plied for a license but not received it ourl has no effect on the authorities in attention and our thoughts and ef- j that state. % forts are bent on making a success of the present and hoping for the success of the future. '5 ANNUAL IflXETIliSr The annual meeting of the McHenry Country club will be held at the city hall in McHenry.;Sunday, Jan. 18, 1931, at 9:45 a. m. 32-fp-2 COUNTY SCOlfr MEETING The County Area Scout executive meeting will be held at the Court House at Woodstock on Jan. 15. 8COUT MEETING The meeting opened with ctfi b> colors. Mr. Schoenholtz then gathered the boys in a group and told them about Scout anniversary week, February 7-14, during which week, all Scouts having uniforms will wear them. The Scouts are planning to have a big rally for this anniversary of the Scout movement. Watch for further news about the big week. Songs were sung, after which the boys went into their patrol corners. First aid was practiced during this changed j ^jme an<j dues were collected. The boys played a few games and were then dismissed with taps played by the two buglers, George Johnson and Richard Vycital. There were twenty-three Scouts and officials present Monday night. This was a very good representation considering the bad weather and it shows the interest of the boys in their organization. This troop is rated as one of the best in McHenry county, although a good many people in McHenry would not realize it. LOWELL NYE, Reporter. ihe are Republicans a^d an equal number are Democrats. The present makeup of the legists* ture finds the Republicans in complete control of the senate, with 33 to 18 Democratic senators. In the house the situation is different for though the Republicans have the majority a switch of five Republican votes would jeopardize that control. The house membership is 168, with 81 Republicans aad It Democrats. AMONG THE SICK Mrs. Mary Smith is recovering from a two weeks' illness at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Nick Freuad, on Waukegan street. James Frisby has been confined to his bed at his home on Green street for the past week on account of ill ness. Michael Knox has been ill at his hone near Terra Cotta for the past week. Mrs. W. Bonham of Chicago, wife of Rev. Bonham, pastor of the M. E church in this city, has been a patient for the past week in the Wesley Memorial hospital, Chicago, where she re ceived treatment. Jack Thies, wholesale candy dealer of McHenry. went to St. Joseph's sanitarium at Weddron, 111., near Ottawa, Tuesday, where he will receive treatment. He was accompanied to the sanitarium by his wife, Mrs. Thies, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Peterson, Father Nix and Father ^ietecamp. TONYAN ELECTED SECRETARY The board of directors of The Farmers Oil Ass'n. of McHenry, McHenry County, Illinois, held their regular meeting Saturday, January 3, and elected William B. Tonyan as secretary, and employed Henry Weber as tank wagon driver and salesman. PUBLIC CARD PARTY The Ringwood Home Circle will hold a public card party at the M. W. A. hall, Ringwood, Thursday evening, Jan. .16, the proceeds to go toward the redecorating of the halL SCHOOL CONVENES AGAIN School commenced on Monday aftet jthe holiday vacation and the pupils jand teachers are settling down to the weeks of study before another holiday. Consent slips were sent out the first of the week regarding vaccination which will be commenced soon. The same plan as last year will be carried out with the school board paying 25 cents and the parent 50 cents for each vaccination. TWO CARS TAKE TO ~ ON ROUTE 61, SUNDAY Two automobiles overturned on Route 61, near the W. B. Tonyan farm between McHenry and Ringwood, Sunday morning when they skidded on the slippery pavement. A Dodge sedan from Whitewater, Wis., turned over twice and landed in the ditch, wrecking it badly, although the four occupants were only slightly injured. The. car was towed to Whitewater, its passengers making the trip in the bus. , A Chevrolet coach skidded on the same curve and landed on its top in the ditch without injuring the driver and only wrecking the windshield. The car was set upright and continued under its own power. 82-ffc V: Loans. &. M. Fri^jHaEMtfc^l Prices Have Hit The Bottom Speaking of prices on all kinds of merchandise, bat*, you been reading the present quotations by the iWfr* chants in their advertisingt The days of war-time prices are over and we are getting back to a normal situation. Now is the time to make your purchases, because it is believed that the bottom has been reached. For instance, in this week's issue of the Plaindealer will be found a full-page ad, which contains dozens of items priced the lowest for several years. This merchant states that the prices have hit the bottom and that the values offered during this sale are,the most outstanding inyeprs. %e hear talk that business is bad. Well, if it is, it is m because the people who could buy now are waiting for better times and lower prices. Better times will come just as soon as tjbe people realize that the prices are down and do their buying now. The news columns of the big newspapers now are bfr ginning to carry stories of the large number of men who are being put back to work. The upward trend in business has started, but it is going to take time--this cannot be accomplished all at once. One thing that will^ help very materially is for those who can buy, necessities at least, to do so now. They will have nothing to gain by W-giting, for the prices are as low as they will be. - Do you want to help.your own community get back on its feet? Then do your shopping at home. Homebuying will kill hard times. Think this over, folks. Give the local merchants at least the first chance. Quality considered, he can and does sell just as low as the city store or the mail order houses. UNDER PEACE BONDS Morris Taxman is Under $1,000 peace bonds, following a hearing in the state's attorney's office at Woodstock last Saturday. Mr. Taxman has staged several pugilistic bouts with McHenry resi dents during the-past several months and his final attempt with Joe Engeln recently, resulted in the notification of the police and the filing of information against Taxman charging disorderly conduct. The offender and his wife signed the bond. SKATING POND The young folks of McHenry will 'soon have a pond for skatiag if Uie plans of the business men, school board and high school pupils materialize. Work is under way preparing the football field at the Community high school so that it can be flooded, making a pond for skating. Sand bags are being filled and arranged s« that the water may be kept in bounds, when it is released over the field. FIRST MARRIAGE LICENSE A McHenry girl, Miss Laura Michels, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Michels of Riverside Drive, and Raymond P. Van Heirseele of Waukegan have the distinction of being the first couple to take out a marriage license in McHenry county in 1931. The license was granted on Friday, Jan. 2, and the marriage will take glace on Saturday, Jan. 10. • ----. , ; . RESIDENCE CHANGW Mr. and Mrs. Nick Adams moved this week from the Brefeld flat on Main street to Waukegan where he will operate a garage. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Freund moved this week from the Jacob Diedrich house on Court street to the house owned by the same man on Ringwood road. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Diedrich and family expect to move some time before March 1 from their farm to their house vacated by Ed Freund. PAY R. N. A. DUES Members of the Fox River Valley Camp, R. N. A., are requested to have their dues paid before January 10 as the books will be audited at that time. Mrs. Fred C. Schoewer, Recorder Mrs. P. Moriarity and daughter of Chicago spent a few days last in the George Worts and Genesee streets. An expenditure of $200,000 will be made before project is completed. " Frank Miliar of Marengo narrodjtjf 2 escaped death one morning last weefci when his car skidded on the icy road and stalled on the track in front of a fast passenger train. Mr. Miller real* ized his danger and jumped out ef the car just before the train hit' it, completely wrecking the Ford. - f. The heroism of Donald Spencer, * 13-year-old Rock Falls boy, who lea#- '* ed into the icy waters of the Henna pin canal to rescue his 9-year-old brother, cost him his life.. He succeeded in getting him safely to shore, and then, completely exhausted, sank to his death. His brother is .in • %> serious condition, suffering fttp pneumonia. John Redecker, 33, a Palatine township farmer, who had barricaded himself in a lonely cabin on the Rosette^ Schaumberg road and alarmed the countryside with threats of Tunning amuck, was captured without a struggle Wednesday of last week when county highway police tossed a tear gas bomb through the window while he slept. > Thieves broke into the safe of Dr. J. F. Bennett's office at Burlington, Wis., one noon recently and stole $40 in cash and a quantity of morphine stored there for safe keeping. They apparently were experts at solving combinations, as the safe was closed and locked, with no damage done to after the theft. Records for fire losses for the fiseail year that ended June 30 last, given in the annual report of the department of trade and commerce, show that there were 9,432 fires in Illinois, outside Chicago, and the damage totaled $12,316,052. One hundred counties reported. Pope and Calhoqp county escaped fire loss entirely, according to the records. The classification of properties damaged by fires shows that dwellings, stores and barns accounted for more than half of the total losses. Fire, breaking out in the factory of G. F. Stiefenhoefer & Son at Barrington at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning of last week, burned part of the office partition, some furniture, a portion of the ceiling, and destroyed a Ford automobile, a wagon, and damaged a truck body, before it was extinguished by the Barrington fire department. Damage was estimated at $2,500. The cause of the fire is unexplained, but the fact that it apparently originated near the electric switch box leads to the belief that it may have been due to defective wiring. Lester Marshall, 20, of Harvard^ a bridegroom of six months, was fatally injured about 10 o'clock Saturday night, Dec. 27, when he leaped through a window at the home of his stepmother, Mrs. Fred Behrendt, at Harvard, severing his jugular vein. Death occurred in five minutes. Marshall's widoy told a coroner's jury that her husband came home intoxicated and later started to leave the house. She urged him not to go out again, and when he persisted she locked the door to keep him home. Marshall insisted he was going out anyway and leaped through the window. Automobile and truck licenses issued during 1930 number 1,638,260, according to figures on file in the office of Secretary of State William Stratton. The figure is an increase of approximately 23,000 over the previous year. Pleasure car licenses totaled 1,429,146, an increase of 18^233 over the preceding year, while truck licenses issued numbered 209,114, an increase of 4,939. The department also issued 6,245 licenses for motorcycles and 7,341 for trailers. Department records show that the 4,368 dealers licensed in 1930 was a decrease of 237 from 1929. Two hundred pure bred Barred Rock hens perished and a newly finished chicken house was destroyed by a fire, thought to be of incendiary origin, at the home of Ralph Brxesinsici at Libertyville early Friday morning, Dec. 26. Mrs. Brzezinski states that she heard a noise on the. rear porch about 12:30 a. m. a half hour after she had retired but thought it to be a ighbor's dog and dismissed the incident from her mind. Later it was revealed that the dog in question was locked up at the time she heard the noise. The entire damage was estimated at $600 by Brzezinski. Coroner John L. Taylor announced Saturday that an inquest held the previous day into the death oi Eugene Lauer, 38, of Chicago, fowl dead in his car near his Wauconda cottage, sustained the report that Lauer had killed himself. A tube so arranged as to pour deadly monoxide gas-fumes into the close J car was found in the car after a coroner's jury had ruled that Lauer had died of heart failure. The same coroner's jury, which had announced the heart failure verdict two days before, decided that Lauer was a suicide victim. After the body bad been removed from the car, a neighbor discovered that the ignition of the ear had been turned SR *>d th* Jft* tank waa emptied. ^3 '^3 " $ ;