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TWO WELL KNOWN WOMEN TAKEN BY DEATH THIS WEEK JACK RUSSELL GETS [START CAMPAIGN LIFE SENTENCE IN FOR FUlftDS TO BUY SECOND MURDER TRIAL | COUNTY IRON LUNG In the second'trial of Jack Russell, I A movement has been launched by Oklahoma desperado, in federal court | the Woodstock Community hospital BOTH DIE FOLLOWING STROKES Tfie deaths of two of the older J'> ftumen of St. Mary's pariah, McHenry, yCjsjpis week were attributed to strokes. at Chicago, the murderer was again convicted for the slaying of William Scott Hamilton, Kansas flour salesman, whose nude body was found in a ditch near Ringwood in this county, in July, 1939, At the first trial Russell was found guilty and the jury board and many leading citizens of McHenry county to procure an infant respirator, and an iron long for victims of infantile paralysis or other afflictions which it might help. The response to date has been so great that such an equipment for the Recommended the electric chair county-seat hospital is practically as- An appeal was taken to the United 8ured These modern machines have States circuit court of appeals on a n thejr efficiency are a wontechnicality and the court ordered a derfu, &6dition to an ho itaI> sav. new trial. This time the jury found the defendant guilty, but made no recommendation and Russell will receive a life sentence. He is being held ing many lives of babies and proving of great benefit to adults. A modern iron lung can be used for . . . . . .* n u m e r o u s a f f l i c t i o n s a n d c a n b e r u s h - in the Cook county jail, awaiting the ^ location and ated b sentence from Judge Charles E, Wood- any coropJtent nurse underthe superwar ' vision of a doctor. Both the infant and adult iron lungs will be available to patients without charge. The committee is sponsoring a county-wide campaign to raise funds AROUND THE COURT HOUSE THREE DEAD AS I RESULT OF TWO AUTO ACCIDENTS WILL START HOUSE NUMBERING PROJECT ? i>N TUESDAY MORNING According to a report from the chairman of the house numbering committee, A. E. Nye, the aluminum numbers, which will be placed on every residence and business house in town, ______ . „ , ~Zr___ jhave been received and the task of SEVERAL OTHER MISHAPS (putting them up will be started next IN VICINITY j Tuesday morning by the high school boys of the Building Trades class. Auto accidents in McHenry and ! The boys will call at each residence Woodstock caused the death of three persons during the past week, and in jury to several others in the nearby and shop some time during the week and politely ask pel-mission to place the numbers on the building which the vicintiy. The dense fog Sunday night c'ty has assigned for that particular was the cause of a number of mishaps place. The City Council has* authoron the highways around McHenry. *ze<l the boys to place the numerals on William Baer, 24, of 6300 North i t!?e most conspicuous and convenient Hermitage avenue, Chicago, died in plac® on Je f,?nt of the establish- St. Therese's hospital. Waukegan, | "!e"*: so that 11he? ™ay be seen at early Saturday morning as a result [Vght a®wf11 l as in the If of the auto accident which occurred , res^ents hnve not chosen a spot at the Green street bridge in McHenry if th,s so^' thfJ>oys will tack up th« on Wednesday afternoon of last week, ^ they.,thmk th* nu,mber» REPUBLICAN RALLY AT OPERA HOUSE, WOODSTOCK, SEPT. 21 Much interest is being manifested all over McHenry county by the rally to be held at the Woodstock Opera house on Saturday, September 21, at 2:S0 p.m., DST. Two outstanding women speakers will appear, Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank, former Democrat, now associated with the Willkie groups, and Mi's. Bertha Baur, the Illinois National Committeewoman. If transportation is wished, phone your local chairman, Mrs. Harry Durland. A large attendance is expected. Baer suffered a severe chest injury sufficient to equip the hospital, with and a fractured skull, besides other these two types of iron lungs |n its j bruises and cuts when He was thrown hope of saving many lives. through the canvas top of his convert- As there i« now an epidemic of in- • jble coupe. fantile paralysis and a number of , His two companions, Thomas Brown cases reported in Illinois, Indiana, j 29. and Walter McEVilly, 22, both oi Michigan, Wisconsin, and other states, {Chicago, escaped with minor injuries, the committee realizes that there is i They were released from the hospital ! FILES FOR DIVORCE j Bessie Young of Woodstock fied suit j for divorce against William Young in | the circuit court last Wednesday. I They were married October 24. 1936. j Extreme cruelty is charged in the !an immediate need of an adult iron [after their cuts and bruises had bgw complaint. lung as a vital necessity to the county treated. w 1TTOV and community. This dreaded disease j Baer apparently lost control of the HELD TO GRAND JURY shows immunity to no one, regardless car as he wa<? driving north on Green Four youths taken into custody on <*f Istreet at a high rate of ppeed and the Monday of last week at Cicero and | Citizens of McHenry county may car climbed up the railng of the bridge charged with stealing a car owned by help personally, in this humanitarian and landed about twenty feet from the William Cowan of Crystal Lake on I project by purchasing one or moreinlnce where it hit the bridge, rolling flip nrovinns SiinHav niirhfc. Patron's Reserve tickets which will over a few times in front of the Emadmit them to the benefit entertain- pfre theatre.. ment and iron lung demonstration to ! The accident occurred as the three will be most easily noticed, but it would save the boys some time if yo& selected a suitable place beforehand. A number has been assigned to each lot, or to every sixty-six foot frontage. The boys will determine the exact number by measuring the distance from the corner. ^ If certain home owners desire to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Conway and Mrs. Laura Kent left Tuesday morning on a trip to Michigan. INTERESTS NEARBY NEWS If you think a horseshoe is good luck, don't tell your beliefs to Arthur Fritz of Coral township, near Marengo. While filling silo at the Fritz farm Monday of last week, a horsesho* went through the filler, and it literally blew up. Mr. Fritz said the machine MARK CENTENNIAL WITH PONTIFICAL MASS, PROGRAMS FORMER PASTORS TO GIVE ADDRESSES . •'$ -1 & ;•* | •;S|ill lirjM J"' |• *' .'it • 5$ * > '"A Patrick's parish of McHenry i» cel;-*>! :'v : ooniine Sunday. Seppurchase more expensive numerals raised off the ground a foot and stoptkan the aluminum ones which the city dead. Pieces of metal were thrown is supplying, they may do so by first UP the P'Pe ttnd int<> the silo. MRS. MARY KAY STEF^ES Mrs. Mary Kay Steffes died Sunday morning following a week's illness, having suffered a stroke on the previous Sunday. Mrs. Helena Degen passed away early Tuesday morning -after having her «a&re side paralysed by a stroke Sunday of this week. .Mrs. Steffes, widow of Math Steffes, • ft mason and contractor who died April 28, 1937, was born in the vicinity of Volo, the fifth oldest of the fourteen children of the late Simon and Agnes Weingart, on May 24, 1874. Following her marriage to Math Steffes on October 29, 1903, at St. Peter's church, Volo, the couple made their home at Johnsburg. Twenty-nine years ago they moved to McHenry where they resided the remainder of their lifetimes. Surviving are: two daughters and a son, Mrs. A. M. Budler, Herman Steffes. and Mrs. A. M. Freund, all of McHenry; six sisters, Mrs. Margaret Pftzen, Pistakee Bay, Mrs. Elizabeth Schneider, Mrs. Catherine Rosing, Mrs. John Oeffling and Mrs. Wtilliam Etten, all of McHenry, and Mrs. J. Schlau of Chicago; and three brothers, Nick, Frank and Peter Weingart, •n of McHenry. She is preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 10:00 at St. Mary's church, with interment in St. Mark's cemetery. Mrs. Helena Degen The second to go to her eternal reward, Mrs. Degen, was born in Ken* osha, Wis., on January 10, 1863. On her tweniy-nrst birthday she was married to Henry Degen at Kenosha and they came directly to a farm near Johnsfoirg. They resided on a number of farms in this community until twenty-two years ago when they came • to McHenry to make their home. Death came early Tuesday morning at her . feme on John street. Preceding her in death were her linsband, who passed away twelve years ago, And a daughter. Lucy. She leaves to*mourn: five children, John Degen of Johnsburg. Mrs. William Blake, Mrs. Joseph Blake and Mike Degen of McHenry, and Mrs. John Kueny of Kenosha; a brother, Peter Riemann of Milwaukee, Wis.; sixteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. Mrs. Degen was a member of the Lady Foresters- and the Christian Mothers society of St. Mary's church. There are many to mourn the passing of this kind friend and neighbor who was always on hand when she was needed. Many owe a debt of gratitude % tude for favors received from Mrs. Degen when others were in sickness or trouble. The funeral Mass was read this morning at ten o'clock at St. Mary's church, with burial in St. Mary's cemetery. , the previous Sunday night, were held to the grand jury under bonds of $2,- 500 each last Wednesday by Justice Charles F. Hayes. The youths held {be held in the Woodstock Community I were returning to Chicago following 1fl high school auditorium on Thursday |an afternoon of golf at the McHenry afternoon at 2:30 and Thursday even- j Country club. The deceased, who was ing at 8 o'clock, DST, September 26. "the son of the late Lawrence and are: Harry Sokolowski, 18, Benjamin Pinkowski, 16, Sigamund Grupp, 18, and Walter Kowalaski, 18. All live in Cicero. They are charged with larceny of an automobile. ROB CASK 9EGISTER Some time between five and six o'clock last Thursday afternoon a bold bandit entered the Boyce fttfmg Tjta* tion at Woodstock and robbed the cash register of $34.50, This was disclosed Friday morning when the place was opened for business and the previous sible. These tickets are priced at $1 and are available in books of $5, $10, $25 and $60. Checks should be made out to the McHenry County Iron Lung Fund and mailed to Rev. R. C. Kaufman, general chairman, city auditor's ofnW, i zi vanuuren Street, Woodstoetc. The name of each patron will be listed on the Honor Rpll of citizens making the purchase of these equipments pos- Susan Baer, was born in McHenry on June 23, 1016. The faniily moved to Chic aero fourteen years ago, where inquiring from the committee assigned to this project, the exact number assigned to their house. The high school boys will then attach thaw to the building upon request. 20 PER CENT OF TOTAL TAX BILL IS MAILED TO COUNTY TAXING BODIES day's receipts checked. Fred Boyce, on duty at the time, was greasing a car in the building near the station. The office was left unguarded. Boyce told Deputy Sheriff Harold E. Reese that a young lad about nineteen years old had been hanging around the place about the time and he is sure he is the person who took the money while he was performing the grease job; An appeal is made by the committee for your generous financial assistance, in the hope. that your reward, like theirs, will be in the satisfaction of knowing you have helped in a most worthy undertaking. The McHenry County Iron Lung committee lists the names of thirtyseven leading citizens of the county, many of them heads of organizations. Believed to be the oldest policeman in the nation, August Hendrickson, for twenty years a member of the force at Batavia, 111., celebrated his eightyfirst birthday last Thursday. Hei)- drickson is a favorite with the ehfl-l dren on his beat and the district has had no crime recently. Hendrick«on, an excellent pistol shot, never has had to fire his pistol on the job, and makes few arrests. Samuel Spitz, 17, of 118 South Gretta avenue, Waukegsn, sought to replenish his supply of golf balls last Thursday by picking them up on a driving range at Belvidere street and Lewis avenue. He was asked to apl^ r jn jjeliw court Saturday mornin «- , Mayor Harry B. Warner of Aurora received 'issued a proclamation asking the city to honor last Friday, September 6, the PROBATE $43,000 ESTATE Eleanor Curtiss Corson of Marengo has been named administrator of the $43,000 estate of her mother, Adell 3. Curtiss, who died July 17. The estate consists of $40,000 in personal property and $3,000 in real estate. # Letters J next Monday the grand jury has been gummone<j report on that day. The SUMMON GRAND JURY, OPEN NEW TERM OF COURT NEXT MONDAY As the new term of court opens daughter Monday in the county court at WWodstock. ROB GAS STATION The theft of seven dollars from a cigarette machine in the Spencer Yovng Ailing station at the junction of routes 47 and 14 was reported to the sheriffs office in Woodstock on Tuesday morning. The burglary took place some time after the station was closed Monday night* RELEASED ON BQND> Edward Willett, confined Th tiKe county jail for the past eighty-five days, was released on his own bond 'Monday by Judge Henry L. Cowlin with the understanding he make ap- 1 plication to join either the U.S. army ! or navy. He is past twenty-one years : of age. Willett was apprehended on June 24 and charged with stealing thirty-six dozen eggs from Ernest C. Lehman. petit jury was not asked to report. State's Attorney William M. Carroll has several matters to present to the grand jury for investigation. Following is a list of local persons who will report on the grand jury: Richmond--Glen F. Jackson. Burton--C. L. Stevens. McHenry--Theo. Winkle and Ella Buss. Nunda -- Kate Wfebfcr and Harry Wright Local members of the supplemental panel follow: Richmond, Margaret Johnson; Barton, Paul Weber; McHenry, Math Welter; Nanda, David Burghraef. ROAD, BRIDGE LEVIES DECREASE IN COUNTY; 20,150 Iwar mother. Five of Mrs. Waidley's 3,400 *sons served in the American expedi- 62,050 j tionary force during the world war. 47^2751 Two were killed and are buried in 850 France. 2,300 j Lloyd Peters, 25, of Wauconda, a in Of the $1,333,337 current tax bill, sixty per cent has been distributed to the various taxing bodies of the county it was announced recently by Coun- Mr. Baer was killed three years ago !*y Treasurer C. Frank Daly. A total in an accident at the Bowman Dairy ,°* 1822,222.20 has been distributed. company, and Mrs.- Bail died three | L**1 Friday the aecond distribution months ago. William had been re- !was m®de with twenty per cent being cently employed by the Bowman Dairy Placed in the hands of the various taxcompany. jing bodies. The amount* He is survived by four sisters arid were 88 follows: , . . . . , ^ w T three brothers, Edward, Raymond Townships ............$18,650 ! ei&ht,eth birthday of Mrs. Lena Waid- Dorothy and Gerald Baer. Mrs. Marie 11011(1 and bridge (townships) .. 13,850 | ley> Aur°l ra'8 ™.st distinguished world Walsh. Mrs. Catherine Barsotti and Corporations Mrs. Elizabeth MacManus, all of Chi- Road and bridge (corporations) cago. The funeral was held Tuesday schools at ten o'clock from the late home to Grade schools St Gertrude's church. Chicago. jMarengo park district Two Die at Woodstock Crystal Lake park district , , Two teen-aged youths died also last The county's share of the distribu-1racer ,n "jalopy sweepstakes" week as a result of an accident which "on was advanced at an earlier date ,st*ged at the Waukegan airport Sunoccurred at 4 a. m. last Thursday |and is not listed in above. !?*y' September 8, by DeMolay, was ^ ^ ,, ui morning, when the car in which they | Th« ^ distribution made Friday .tJr®wn fr0I" ^s vehicle as he tried jA j Neidert Deacon of the Mau; were riding crashed into a tree on |^as <168-525. Checks were placed m *J™*® a sharp turn at the north- ; Rey John p fijak Subdeacon of the South street, just west of the intersec- 'the mai,s la8t Thursday. west corner of the racing strip to tfon of South and Madison streets in Mr- Daly announced a few days ,avo,d crashing into some of the 1,000 Woodstock. Five others were taken Previous that on September 3, $1,121,- spectators at the sweepstakes. Peters to the Woodstock hospital for treat- j705-67 bad been collected in taxes as Iwas thrown ten feet;in the air, landed ment of that date. Of this amount $1,088, jon th« ™cing strip and his car ran The dead are Jerry Sullivan 19,465.56 was current tax; $31,961.48 |over him- He was rushed to the Lake years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles iback tax and $1,246.22 in interest. I County General hospital with a frac- Sullivan of Crystal Lake vjho sue- Tax Payments this year compare |tu^d nSht leif and internal injuries. cumbed to a severe brain concussion, |Pretty much with previous years. Ad- Wauke«*n police said Friday that skull fracture arw an injured neck vertisement of delinquent taxes is jthe blazing body of a man which was early Friday morning, and I.iHUw schedulectfor September 26 Urith judg- [found last Thursday morning in Oak- Klatt, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. >ent to be asked on October 7. The j wood cemetery has been identified as |Wiche„ m,y ^ purcha8e<i on the Adolph Klatt of Harvard, who died ,ann^ai *ax is scheduled to start I grounds. The McHenry band and the Saturday morning shortly before nine. ~ * "" """" She suffered two broken legs, a broken arm and bruises and lacerations aboat the body. REV. WM. A. O'ROURKF tember 22, the centennial anniversary of its founding in 1840. The parishioners of St. Patrick's, filled with pride in this hundred years of achievement, are making next Sunday a day of festivity and rejoicing, both in a religious and a social way. The parish has grown fmm the handful of immigrant Irish settlers without a church or resident pastor, to thfs thriving parish of 1940. It takes its place in a growing community as an influence for good, not only in the lives of its members, but through their varying connections making that influence felt throughout the community. The religious portion of next Sunday's celebration is the Pontifical Mass to be celebrated at eleven o'clock in St. Patrick's church by the Most Reverend Edward F. Hoban, Bishop of Rockford. The program of the mass is as follows: His Excellency, Most Reverend Edward F. Hoban, S. T. D., Bishop of Rockford, Celebrant; Rev. Wm. A. O'Rourke, Assistant Priest; Rev. Leo M. Keenan, Deacon of Honor; Rev. Jos. M. Egan, Deacon of Honor; Rev. • . * i v ""•< • ^ : ' v * ~i x "• . i Mass; Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis J. Conron, Chancellor of Diocese of Rockford, Master of Ceremonies; Rev. Wm. J. Donovan, Superintendent of Schools of Diocese of Rockford, sermon. About I County General ho.p.ul »",Ttiht* *.™ ftr"»*c"- 1100 priests are expected and over lwont P J wju pre,^ on >lur. After the Mass the parishioners and their friends are to have a basket picnic in the city park. Coffee will be served to all without charge and sandon October 21. The others^ injured included Lawrence "Tex" Kortin, 20, Crystal Lake, owner of the car, who received a broken leg; Robert Sullivan, 17, Crys A. S. LEWIS, SOCIAL SECURITY MANAGER 8U!>!rVl8; 'Drum and Bugle corps of Crystal Lake or, who lived at 414 Belvidere street, entertain> the former ^ a T J p8., ij and the latter with an exhibition. JVrreH said Friday that he believed Afternoon Activities Decker had taken his own life, con-1 r .. • _• „h „ . • HERE SEPTEMBER 26 trary to the opinion given bat Thurs-"ZnZ hIa' SLi jday by Coroner John L. Taylor, who u h" Lewis, manager of the Social declared it was improbable that it was arranKe(j; !*<*>* tal Lake, brother of the deceased, has Security Board " field office at Wau- |an *ct °* Master of Ceremonies, Rev. Wm: A. a back injury; Vernon Timm, 20 also 'ke*an> Wl11 ** ,n McHenry at the | . Damnge of $5,000 was reported at of Crystal Lake alleged driver of the I Postoffice on September 26 to confer the Spencer gravel pita southeast of 1 vi .it UT n Mt?A t * _ .i. O'Rourke; toast of welcome. Honorable £. 1. Overton, Mayor of McHenry; SEEK CRASH DAMAGES car, suffered a back injury and badly Pewonally. with employers and wage , the Harvard city limits (former Back- „0 ^ly Ni?ht' » by Mis^ lacerated thigh 0 last Sunday after- j Adele Froehlich;'"God Bless Amerxx, x, Schulz, 15, Harvard, received a bad s'3tance and information relative to noon, September 8 when six storage i jca audience. greetings. Mr. Peter TNCRPASF TN- MrTTF'NHR.V lcontusion of the lower left leg; Wanda their socal security problems. He rill bins containing about 300 yards of Doherty Mrs Jack Walsh and the IJMOKJLAbE IN MCHENRY Renn 16 Harvard hag cuts and be available between the hours of 1:00 ^ayel collapsed. Cause of the acci- 'Honorai)le Thomas A. IMjrer: "Prava i * « J 'bruises on her head and face. |and 3:0°. P- m- for such conferences, ident has not been determined by Vm- |pr- (from Hanse, and Grpte]) b j. A levy of $1(W,107 for road and , Apparently the car got out of con- 'Announcing the establishment of this cent Spencer of Belvidere, who pur- Humperdinck. and "Finlandia" by Sibridge Purposes have been filed with | troI and crashed head-on into the service, Mr. Albert S. Lewis, phased the site five^ years ago. Steel belius St patrick-s choir; ?reetin?9 , j un y Clerk Raymond D. Woods for .tree. Screams from the injured as manager of the board's Waukegan supports were twisted, heavy wooden from former pastors. Rev' Walter K. TT^tKnno !eVe"^n •tOWn!h,p8 ,n we" as the crash were heard for fieId offic,e- said he wi" ** ^lad ^ as- timbers shattered and machinery Conway and Rev Edward A Cobb. *^5,000 suit for personal injuries county. This is a decrease of $1,917 j blocks. :®i»t employers, employees and others dumpd mto a heap by the weight of "Where the River Shannon * Flows," It was disclosed bv George Ehlert, who wish to ask specific questions, or . Earl Conwav: address. His Excellency. Crystal Lake police officer, that Timm ,who des,re information on the filling 1 Edward E Willkie, 220 South Wai- Most Rev F Hoban; "Auld was to leave for the west coast last °ut of forms obtaining account num-j0l« avenue LaGrange, at the ureent Syne» and "Wearing of the Friday where he had been aecepted bers' or establishing claims for old-, Request of his brother, Wendell Will- Green » audience. in the United States coast guard. a«e and survivors in^irance. Those i k»e, has severed his business connec- | ^ committees in charge of the Likewise the Sullivan brothers had Persons wishing information or a fu- lon®, ,n or er to devote all his time 'centennial celebration have worked to been accepted in the U. S. army and ture appointment who are unable to the campaign for the next tw. 'make the day one jong to ^ rememwere awaiting call. jsee ^r- Lewis when he is in the com- m°nths. A few weeks ago he resigned bered. The members are as follows: Head-on Collision ;munity. may write or call the field of- ! as v ce-president of Libby, McNeill Altar and Rosary Executive commit- Six persons were rushed to the which is located in Room 4, Post- *n 1 by. He had been with the food ; tee. Mrs. John A. Bolger, chairman, Woodstock hospital following collision ^'ce . ®ui'd'ng- Waukegan. Phone Pa® seventeen years but it Mrs, Clarence Martin, Mrs. Ray Mc- Mr. and Mrs. Peter Riemttmr ef Milwaukee are spending a few days here this week where they were called by the critical illness of Mrs. Helena Degen on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Vales attended the funeral of the former's uncle, An. ton Linhart, in Chicago last Thursday. IZl. and Mia. John of Lake Villa were guests in the Peter Diedrich home\Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. Winkelman of Arlington Heights were Sunday guests in the received in an accident on March 21, 'over last year, 1940, was filed by G. Ray and Marie | Six of the townships showing higher Brady and Anna Roth against Leopold levies are McHenry, Burton, Green- Benecke Tuesday in the circuit court, wood, Coral, Chemung and Riley, while G. Ray Brady seeks $2,000; Marie others show slight decreases. Brady, $2,000 and Anna Roth $500. I All but three of the townships lev- All seek the damages for injuries re- ied the full thirty-three cents on the ceived in the accident. The accident dollar provided by law. The three not took place on route 67*at Zickuhr's j making £he maximum levies include corner in Seneca township. It is Marengo, Coral and Algonquin, charged that the defendant was op- | The comparison of levies for 1939 erating a car . with a trailer and that and 1940 in 0e surrounding townships as the two machines met on a bridge , follows over the Kishwaukee creek the trailer ' 1940 swerved into the plaintiff's car. All Richmond 4,943 three plaintiffs were injured in the Burton ...... 1,575 crash. ' McHenry .... 13,236 Nunda 10,671 HELD FOR $100 BOND Bdgar A. Johnson, 48, a horseman at the Pine Tree farms. McHenry, 1939 4J959 1*540 12,338 N O T I C E A very important meeting of the could not explain to deputy sheriffs j McHenry Township Republican club what he was doing in a parked auto- 'will be held Monday, September 23, mobile at the Long Lake depot at 3 ,8:30 p.m., in the Buch building on a. m. last Thursday. He could not .Riverside Drive. Everyone interested account for the lack of a driver's li- _in the club is urged to be present as cense and an automobile registration .there are some very important quescard or the presence of strange state , tions to come up. pluies on ttte car. ' -- Johnson was booked at the county Thursday guests in the Peter Diedjail at Waukegan* for operating an .rich home were M[rs. Genevieve Guthautomobile ' with fictitious license rie and Mrs. Bay Smith of Libertyplates. He was held on $100 bond for j ville, who enjoyed the visit with their a hearing this week. . pactsQtl, . .. in the heavy fog at 9:30 Sunday evening on U. S. Route 12, a quarter of a mile west of Spring Grove. ' George W. May, 44. of McHenry, driver of one car. claimed he was blinded by the lights of the car in which Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hielfer, and son, Louis, of 6636 Ponchartoin blvd., Chicago, were ridine and he struck the car head-on. Riding with Mr. May were his wife and four children. Mrs. May, 35, sustained a fractured right hip and left ankle, while her husband received a badly lacerated left hand and arm, and cuts on his face. "Others less seriously injured include two of the May* children, Georgia, 9, who received first aid treatment for a lacerated leg and left arm, and Diana, one year old, who has a long and deep cut on the neck. The .Ontario 6595. LEA TRICE LOCKWOOD. 1ft. DIES IN CHICAGO HOSPITAL Leatrice June Lockwood, loving daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lockwood, Court street, McHenry died suddenly yesterday morning at 7:3(JI/ at Illinois Research hospital, Chicago^ She was born June 25, 1930. The body is resting at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Behrens, at Hebron, III. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon from the home to the Lutheran church it Ilcbruii, with interment in Alden cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Charles StolFel, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Steber of Milwaukee, Wis., were Sunday guests was evidently decided that it would be Gee, Mrs. Richard M. Fleming. Mrs. better for the business to cut off all Clarence F. Anglese; Executive compohtical connections and better for ; mittee, Ray McGee, chairman, Thoe. politics to sever all business ties. ;A. Bolger, Clarence Martin. Robert One who bravely starts his life defy- e, Knox. R. M Fleming. Edward R. ing the Frdiay the Thirteenth tradi- Sutton, Walter J. Walsh Paul J. Dohtion is the small son of Mr. and Mrs. rerty> Robert Frisby. Gerald J. Carey. R^iph White of 17 North St. James A booklet containing the history of Ste^et, Waukegan born last Friday at St. Patrick's parish has been prepared Victory Memorial. This >s the first by a committee. consisting of Mrs. child l>orn to the Whites, and is the j john A Bolger. Mrs. Ray McGee. Mrs. only birth recorded at the Waukegan jThos. A. Bolger Mrs. A. D. Foley, hospitals on that day. ; Mrs. Clarence F. Anglese, Miss Anna While killing rate in his backyard 'Frisby, Mrs. Florence Knox and Miss LndaA^n°.0n' Russe" Thompson, ;Genevieve Knox. 20, of 2242 Dickey avenue, North Chi- | AlthmivK * is a "CSSSsdsF- «go, accidentally shot himself in the' ably short time to the tdatarv of the left forearm. Thompson told oolice 'w<£ld. it is a long time in the" history - .>31 ;*v ' ^ Thompson told police that his 22-calibre rifle had jammed. He had set the stock down on the ground to make repairs when the weapon discharged. He was treated at St. Thereae of> community. It is remarkable to t»ot$ thgit the first church in northern Illinois was founded only seven y«M* •a hut. ^