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THE CARBONDALE (ILL.T FREE PRESS FRIDAY, JULY 25,1947 PAGE THRO LEGION WOMEN SEW RAGS FOR RUG WEAVERS The social meeting of the auxiliary of the American Legion was Iield yesterday in the home, 500 W. Main- St. The evening was spent tacking carpet rags to be sent to the veterans in the Quincy Hcsnital to be made into rugsT The plastic bibs which have been made by the auxiliary mem- CVrs to be sent to the patient at Hospital were on display. A letter was read by the president, Mrs. Arlie Gent, in recognition of the boxes sent in Januarv and February to two French chlidren being sponsored by the auxiliaries of the 25th District.

Each month a box is sent from one of the auxiliaries. Plans were made, for a public chicken pie dinner August 6. MRS. PEGGY BRYANT HAS BRIDGE PARTY Mrs. Peggy Bryant entertained the members of her two table contract bridge club Wednesday at her home.

308 W. Walnut St. Prizes for hish scores went to Mrs. Bryant and Mrs. George Patterson.

Guests were' Mrs. M. L. Brandenberger and Mrs. Frances Toler both of Chicago.

Members included Mrs. Fred I Riley, Mrs. Robert Safriet, Mrs. Charles Baggett, Mrs. Carl Rhodes, Mrs.

Stephen Holliday and Mrs. George Patterson. B. Chairman Has Planning Session A meeting of officers and com- I mittee chairmen of the Carbondale Business and Professional Women's Club was held last evening in the Egyptian Key office, 204 W. I Monroe with the president, I Mrs.

Katharine Griffith, in I charge. The evening was devoted in I making plans for the year's pro- I gram. Those attending were Mrs. lEvangeliae Settle, Miss Blanche Iwilhelm, Mrs. Roena Stafford, Mary Ina Hall, Miss Alleta I Smith, Mrs.

Roberta Post, Mrs. IZella Cundall and Mrs. Griffith, Mrs. Karl Federer Is Given Surprise Party and Dinner Mrs. Karl E.

Federer. was surprised by friends last evening with ja 7 o'clock dinner party and handkerchief shower at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Sullivan, 509 W. Main in honor of her birthday which is today.

The evening was spent playing contract bridge with prizes for high scores going to Mrs. A. S. Johnson and Erwin Sullivan for first and to Mrs. Harrison Colp and Karl E.

Federer second. Guests included Mrs, Beulah Terpinitz of Mr. and Mrs. Hal Moore of Percy, Mr, and Mrs. S.

Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. E. Vogler, Mr. and Mrs.

A. B. Vancil, Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Sullivan and granddaughter, 'Amy Dickey, Michael Purtill, John B.

Hamilton, Mrs. Lou Ghent, Mrs. Harrison Colp, Mrs. Florence King, and Mrs. John McEwen.

Mrs. C. C. Cagle of Marion visited here today with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs, Charles Etherton.

OLD BEN BLAST (Continued from page one) NOTICE Dr. Moss has moved his office and residence to 204 West Oak cjy 28 Miss Elizabeth Macomber of arrived Wednes- Jday to visit her brother and wife, I Mr. and Mrs. W. A.

Macomber. Mrs. Fred Curl 'of Sullivan and 'i mother, Mrs: Mellie Murphy of danta, visited Carbondale friends en'route to their home aft- ler visting relatives and friends in Anna. They were former Carbon- date residents. HOSPITAL NOTES I BIRTHS Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Schneider I oE Marion announced the birth of I a daughter Thursday, July 24. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lynn of bondale announced the birth of a daughter Thursday, July 24.

ADMITTEp THURSDAY Miss Helen Cook, Carbondale, medical. DISCHARGED THURSDAY Herschel Foshee, Carbondale, medical. Mrs. Ernest Fligor, Carbondale, surgical. Mrs.

Gertrude Upchurch, New Uurnside, medical. M. B. Chicago, medical. Mrs.

J. Neckers, Carbondale, surgical. Kenneth Newbold, Carbondale, surgical. Andrew Rahaw, Chicago, medical. Mrs.

"Felix Bridis, Cartervillc. medical. Mrs. Beulah Terpinitz of Montgomery, is visiting here with Mr, and Mrs. A.

S. Johnson. Wellington of. St. Albans, N.

arrived Tuesday to spend a week here with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Thalman and family.

Mr, and Mrs. Hal Moore of Percy visited relatives and friends here yesterday. NOTICE There will be a benefit card party at V. F. W.

hall Saturday night, 8 o'clock. Public invited. cjy25 COUNTY GROUP ATTENDS OPERA IN ST. LOUIS Among those who went to St. Louis Thursday to the performance of "Sally" at the Municipal Opera were Mrs, R.

A. Stanley, Mrs. Frank Grady, Mr. and Mrs, John Chadwick, Mrs. Robert Chadwick, Mrs.

James F. Rosson, Misses Mildred and Alberta Benz, Mrs. R. Jean Fligor, Mrs. Lester Stanley and Mrs.

Clarence Chadwick. The trip was made from Murphysboro by chartered bus, under the auspices of Jackson County home bureau, BIBLE SCHOOL FILMS TO BE SHOWN SUNDAY AT FIRST METHODIST CHURCH The 2 reels of colored film that were made, of the children who attended the Bible school at the First Methodist church in June will be shown Sunday night, July 27, at 7:30 p. m. in the Sunday School assemble room. Preceding the films the young peoples department will present a brief worship service entitled, "In My Name Build." Mrs.

Harold McLin and sons, Leon and Garry Allen, came from Waukegan Thursday afternoon for a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Allen and other relatives here and at Makanda, I concussion and the others had died from gas. "It's rough down there," he said, "Some of those men were smashed against the wall so hard they were crushed. We had to crawl on hands and knees to reach some of the bodies." Asked for his opinion as to the cause of the blast, Kranko said that it was anybody's guess.

He said that part of the men were working and part were eating lunch at the time of the explosion. He said he had finished his lunch period and had started back to work when the blast came. (Miners stagger their lunch period so that the operation below ground is continuous throughout the shift,) Proof of the damage the explosion did to the bodies of its victims was evident at the school building where Coroner D. J. Clayton of Franklin County, assisted by morticians, established identity of the bodies.

Many of the blackened, burned corpses could only be. identified by the brass check tags which each miner carries below in his pocket. These were removed from the tattered clothing of the men, compare with' the check list supplied by the mine office. Names were then written on tags which were tied to the ONE BODY, so mangled that il was brought to the surface ped in burlap, had to left un til last when, by what the coroner called a process of elimination identity was established. As darkness settled over the mine head those waiting for word of the fate of their loved ones slumped dejectedly against the ropes which kept the working area clear Mothers with children clinging to their skirts and grim faced men kept their eyes glued to the cage shaft up which the bodies must be brought.

Backed as close to the shaft possible was a truck laden with sandwiches, doughnuts and coffee Ministering to the needs of the workers were women wearing the bonnets of the Salvation Army, Beyond the ropes and handy to the area where mothers, wives, fathers and other relatives waited' the local Red Cross women set up their table of food and drink. HOVERING -at the mine head a Catholic priest, Father Bernard CROWDS GATHER AT MINE DISASTER Families of miners crowd around ambulances at Old Ben Coa! Co. mint; No. 8, West Frankfort; scene of an exolo- sion (AP WIREPHOTO) GETTING UP NIGHTS GETTING YOU DOWN? Hero's good news for you folks who have to get up at night to pass water, have backache, too, because of minor functional kidney disorders. Throe generations ago, a famous doctor developed a medicine for this very trouble.

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And as each burlap shrouded body, Protestant or Catholic, was carried frorn the cage the priest made the sign of the cross over it and murmured a prayer. State highway police, sheriffs deputies from Franklin and Williamson counties and West Frankfort city police joined forces to handle the crowd which gathered at the mine as soon as word of the explosion spread. The state police also moved its portable short wave radio plant to the mine to assure rapid communication. Mine Victims West Frankfort, Juy 25 (AP) The Old Ben Coal company today posted' the following list of 27 miners who were killed in an explosion in the company's No. 8 mine yesterday: Benton Carroll Stevens.

West Frankfort Curtis Arthur Fritts John Yattoni Boyer Adolph Nichlevieh James Wilson Gus Gaubatz J. M. Cnilders Dominick Pacentini George Raymond Bob Wicker Don Griffith N. Walton Clifford Summers Pete. Dejulius Don Bidwell Thomas Paumer.

Johnston City Willis Billiard Hiram Chitwood Lewis Owens John Sedden Gus Grant Tom McPheron. Herrin Louis Marlow Celeste Berra. ThompsonvUle W. R. (Sam) Smith.

William W. Lament; manager of the United Mine Worker's hospital, announced that the following miners, suffering from burns, fractures, and other injuries were in) the hospital: Charles Smith, 36; Thomas Kirby, 41; John Banicky, 40 and Frank Casper, 43. The treadmill was a penal appliance introduced in England in 1818. -Prisoners walked up a never-ending series of steps which in turn revolved a mill. Among the Anaamanese, men and women dying in the prime of life are frequently given the most honorable form of a platform placed in a tree.

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